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V THE .BANNER ATHENS, GEORGIA,, AUGUST 20, 889 A GHASTLY GRAVE 3313 CLOSED NEAR ' VILLE. W ATKIN S- ThcBodyofa White Girl Found Half De- cayed—A Bullet Hole Through the Head-Foul Play Suspected. A startling sensation came fromWat- kinsville yesterday. . It surpassed anything that quiet lit tle Watkinsville has experienced for some time, and a great fever of ex citement and consternation sweeps over the usual calm and peaceful town.' Yesterday morning while some boys were out walking in the grove on the outskirts of the town, beyond the old Fair Gronnds, they found a rude grave Imlf uncovered, which 1 attracted their attention and. caused .them to make further examination of-the place. It was strange to find a solitary grave here isolated, from any burial grounds, so they began inspecting -the mysterious tomb with excitement and apdrehen- sion. Upon digging into the grave, they exhumed a cofHn containing the re mains of a child ten or twelve years old, which proved to be those of a white girl, as near as could be ascertained. The flesh was much decomposed, and the examination was not as satisfactory as could have been desired. There was A BULLET HOLE through the head which creates the be lief that foul play has brought about this strange’inystery. Many of the cit izens of Watkinsville have been to look at the mangled corpse but none can recognize it, and nothing is known at all as to the origin of this great mys tery. The matter will be investigated, and if possible a solution of the stradge and tragic problem will be made. It Js certainly a mysterious affair and one that has created a very great deal of excitement in the vicinity of Watkinsville. LIFE LN UBEKir. Senator Bradwell’s Description of the Negro Orgies. Senator BradWell has just returned from Liberty county, where he went at the special request -of Gov. Gordon to quiet the disturbance among the ne groes. “I was met at the train ,” said he, “by an influential negro, who asked me what brought me there. *1 have come down here to stop this foolishness,’ said I, ‘if it takes all the soldiers and all the artillery.’ ” “That ain’t the way to stop it,” said he. “Just tie ’em to a tree and strip em to the waist, and give ’em a good lashing. Just tell me to do it, and I’ll stop ’em.” Half a dozen of the other negroes standing around agreed to join them, but I declined their assistance and got tlie county authorities together and es tablished a patrol of ten men in the swamp district, where this craze ex ists. “There were about seventy-five of them left, and they were collected at a place called Jerusalem, where they had rude shed of boards, which they called Solomon’s temple. They had lived for three days on nothing but an ear of green corn a day. They were very much emaciated, and the Virgin Mary, as they called her, was sick with the typhoid fever. They thought she was about to be translated. “In the centre of the temple was a dry goods'box covered with cloth,which they called the ark . of the covenant. James had told them that any one who touched it would "be struck dead. When the sheriff kicked the box over they all fell on tlie floor as if they expected a thunderbolt to fall from heaven and strike them. ! “They seemed very much frightened, but dispersed when the sheriff ordered them to do so, saying, ‘Boss, we ain’t doin’ no harm; we’s worshipin’.’ THE PERFECT ORGANIZATION. The Stockholders of the Clarke County Building and Improvement Com pany Held a Meeting Last Night. In accordance with the call, the stockholders of the Clarke County Loan and Improvement Company met last night at the ofHce of E. T. Biown, Esq., for the purpose of perfecting or ganization. On motion of E. T. Brown, Judge S. M. Herrington was callec to the chair, and W. W. Lamkin was made Secretary of the meeting. The constitution was read and unani mously adopted. • The following officers were elected: A. E. Griffeth,president, and L. H. Charbonnier, W. W. Thomas, C. G Talmadge, J. M. Head, A. H. Hodgson and Chas. Stern, for directors. There were 1,400 shares taken, and they will be paid by weekly installments of twenty-five cents. The company will soon be ready for work, and will find much to do. A Talented Musician, Mrs. Ellen Stanley, so well known in our midst, will at an early day, leave for the North to cultivate her voice. Mrs. Stanley has a magnificent soprano voice and with the advanges she will have access to North will no doubt develop into a famous singer. She has had flattering offers from the Boston Conservatory of Music and there are rumors that she may go on the stage. A gentleman who has beard Mrs. Stanley, thinks her voice compares very favorable with that of Patti and other famous singers. Editor Shackelford. Editor Shackelford, of the Oglethorpe Echo, was in the city yesterday and paid The Banner office a call. Mr. Shackelford is a gifted and successful newspaper man, and his journal ranks among the very finest weeklies in the State. He is also a genial hearted gen tleman, and deserves all the success he was won. We are always glad to see Mr. Shackelford. i rlatu :e y li yes there on land belonged to Lvmao Hall, one tlie (declaration of independence. “Years-ago that old church was turned over to the negroes, on conili- t ! on that'they-would take care of the cemetery. Sincedhey have worshipped there, aud a northern man by the name of Waite, a.eousiuof the late chief jus tice, wt^ sent down from Connecticut by some missionary society to preach to tlie. negiocs. lie has been there leading them and preaching to them for a number of years, and has a thous and in the membership of his church. None of these negroes have gone into this excitement. The crazy ones came from a section of|tlie swamp where there are negro preachers. They have an other church there, and from its mem bership the false Christs have drawn a good many of their crowd. “The negro preachers are out in my paper in a statement of tlie affair. They estimate that one-twentieth of the ne gro population was in the craze. The best element of the negroes are down on those who were engaged in this affair. They say that the whole negro popula tion is blamed for it, and it has gone out that they are all engaged in it when they heartily disapprove it. “That country drained would be a paradise. Now a white man can’t stay there all night without having chills. It is covered with swamps and stag nant pools of water, but it is as riclT as the Mississippi bottom. They raise a bale of cotton to the acre without a pound of fertilizer. The white people have about all sold their land to the negroes. Col. C. C. Jones is one who would not sell. He has a magnificent place there, and ‘Colonel’s’ island, oft' the coast, which is a lonely spot cov ered with magnificent oaks, is the prop erty of the Jones family/” IN SEARCH OF^HER. Sheriff Weir After the Baby Burner—Talk Of a Lynching Mob. ,. , . . , . Sheriff Weir left yesterday in search The woman they call the A lrgm Q f the negro girl who is charged with Mary is an ugly old negress,the mother of several children, and below the aver age in intelligence. She was rather mild. Her method was to make them bring their children to worship her and make them fall down and kiss her feetP Then she would lay her hand on their heads and bless them. “They have released on bond the men charged with minor offenses, but those who killed a woman at James’ order to beat the devil out of her are still in jail. The man who tried to prevent the murder and to make James put on his clothes, is in a precarious condition and it is thought he will die. “The orgies they went through under that old shed were hideous. They would form a ring of men and women and dance around with torches, making all sorts of hideous noises. As they got excited they would begin to pull off their uppermost garments. Then the burning of the baby on Wednesday night, near Princeton Factory. The coroner’s jury found a verdict against the girl, and Sheriff Weir armed himself with the necessary warrant yes terday and went to scour the country for her. It was also rumored on the street yes terday that a mob of about twenty ne groes were going in pursuit of the ne- gress and would lynch her if she was caught. A Banner reporter over-heard a con versation between two of the vengeance seekers, and if their intentions are car ried out,things will be quite squally for the baby burner. ~ It was a queer case of murder indeed, and the most inhuman act that has come to our knowledge for some time. After the Thief. Mr. T. C. Bowman who came to Ath ens night-oefore-last from Tunnel Hill on track of a horse thief, left the city they would take off another and eon- terd morning in hot pursuit of the tmue taking oft their garments one at a | , time until they were naked. They would get down on their hands and knees and grunt like hogs and make noise like sheep. Then they would get up and run all around with torches crying Area hundred times. All this noise was to drive off the devil. Toney LeConte, who called himself King Solomon, was following the exam ple of his illustrious namesake—count ing out a thousand. “The whole district is now being pa trolled and the negroes are quiet. The day after they were dispersed they met in three separate places in small gath erings. That shows that they are weakening. The only danger of further trouble He was informed by a gentleman from Oconee county that he had met the man with the horse out in Oconee coun ty a few miles below here, and said the horse was much used up from the long travel. Mr. Bowman has no doubt caught him before now. A GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. The Surveyors Pass Through Athens and Do Some Work Around the Northeast Depot. For several days there have been seen members of a surveying party peram bulating the streets of Athens, but little THE MAN ABOUT TOWN. the TALK OE THE TOWN ON THE STEET YESTERDAY. The Boom is Quietly Moving on, and Ath ens Gvows Larger Every Day—A Furniture Manufactory to be Established—Other In dustries Shoken of. “It is simply wonderful how Athens is growing day by day,” said a pronit- nent citizen yesterday to a Banner rep resentative" “I have just been making ajiour of the town, and I find that every where on the suburbs new cottages are going up, and are being built after a pretty style too. These little houses are nicely painted and are wonderfully improving the suburbs with their beauty. They are being filled with energetic labora- ers and the influx of population for tlie past few years would amaze yoti. I counted yesterday,twenty-five new cot tages near the iee works which have gone up within the-past few months, and m every other vicinity of the city it is the same way. One would he surprised to see such a building boom that is going on about the outskirts of Athens.” The reporter was not at all surprised, for he had kept up with the boom of Athens better than to be unapprized of these improvements. Here is one great trouble about the people of Athens. They don’t keep up I phrase that when a person owed money with the progress of their city enough. | money, and did not pay when asked he SLANG AND ITS ORIGIN, . i ‘ , ♦ .——— • ——r*-r—• . f How Some Popular Words and Phrases Came Into Being. > This may be ealledin one seme-an rgj of slang. But after all what is called slang is frequently the giving of a new meaning to old words or the invention of new words from old roots. The slang' of to-day becomes the elegant language of to-morrow. It is interesting to note how many of the commonest words and even prases which were once regarded as slangy and inelegant become’part of the polite language of the times. Words, like lives, have a biography. Many words, indeed, have histories which are histories of important personages and events in the affairs of the world. This makes the history of a word often as in teresting and as valuable as that of indi viduals. Dun” is a word now whose meaning is known to every one who understands the English language. Too many wish thev did not know it. Yet, at the begin ning of tliis century it was unknown as a verb- About that tim6 a constable in England named John Dun became cel ebrated as a first-elass collector of bad accounts. When others would fail to col lect a bad debt, Duu would be sure to get it out of the dtbtor. So well known did this become,, that people from all the surrounding country sent him their accounts when they could not collect them. It soon passed into a current They goon through the monotonous routine of their daily toil never know ing what other people are doing around them, and totally ignorant of the on ward marck of progress that their city is experiencing. They read it in the papers, and either think it is idle talk or else pass it unnoticed by. ■ would have to be “Dunned.” Hence, it soon became common in such cases to say “You will have to Dun so-and-so if you wish to collect your money.” OUTSIDERS AND POLITCAL BOOMS. Until the nomination of Franklin Pierce for the presidency the word “out sider” was unknown. The committee on “The small industries are fast taking I credentials come in to make its report hold,” said a prominent merchant on Clayton street to The Banner man, “and the latest thing out is the estab lishment of a Furniture factory in the city. This matter has taken a definite shape, and will be pushed right through. A lot will be selected, and the building will be commenced at once. It is kept a secret as to who compose the. com pany, but tills much is a certainty, the factory will be built, and a capitalist from a northern city is behind the move with plenty of funds. The factory will supply the town and this section of Georgia It first rate line of goods in the furniture trade, and will give employment to a hundred hands. It is a move in the right direction.” Yes indeed, thought the reporter, and if the move Is followed by others it will be the making of Athens. Build up a town with numerous industries aud the railroads will build themselves. The business of a city will warrant rail- . . roads to be built, and until this spirit of paper took up, and said the third-term enterprise is infused in to a town it will I movement was properly called a boom, and could not get into the hall because of the crowd of people who were not members of the convention. The chair man of the convention asked if the com mittee was ready to report and the chairman of the committee answered: ‘,Yes, Mr. Chairman; but the commit tee is unable to get inside on account of the crowd and pressure of these out siders,” The newspaper reporters ever ready to appreciate a good word or phase took up the word and used it. Since then it has been a common word and we could not do without it. “Boom,” in its new sense of ineaning a popular clamor for a man, or for any qncstion or movement, is a recent word—being first used as such in 1880. Grant was being run for a third term. This brought out a bitter op position, even nmtm— tUo One paper said the movement was like a beom across a swollen stream taking in all that was worth having, A St.Louis- t°°, was 'originally fo.weanapi^^ntby of the world used by 8tegrfo r th iri l .,r*^C , S Coppcrfield. But that a persou is i, np , ^ ^ i 8 toofrequentl vt C; ,t0f O K0 *- i.3 comes slang, ^ abty senseless. mea,ii “Tooth^Msa^ 8 ^ heard in all classes 0 f , . jeettonaMe slang; ty k J In the manner wnich » n b * good word. To '«» an action, “Oh, thatY gar slang, because an thin - But to say, w hen a statement which is It »asg.ve„o„ rrcn "My to had hi s remain dead and unprogressive. # # “The park question should not be al lowed to die out this summer,”'said a resident of Milledge avenue, “for if it is established at all it should be done now as it raked in everything on the top o. the muddy stream of politics, mostly trash and scum. Since then it has been in common use as such. HOW chestnuts came into being. ‘Chestnuts.” in reference to repeat- attention was paid to them as survey- will be on August 16, the day they are | ers are common in this vicinity, now to get their wings. Bell said they would {get them then and the wings would drop from the sky. He charged them $5 for men and $4 for women. Later he reduced the price. “James, when he succeeded Bell in his claim to be Christ, tore up the money that came in for wings and scat tered the coin. He was a magistrate, and adjourned his court, telling them that tne next time he held court it would be in heaven, and then he would judge them if they didn’ do just right. “They had everything in common, and brought their provisions together. that the railroad boom is in such full force. Every one believed that they wore members of a railroad survey. But not so. It is the corps of En gineer M. Prickett’s geological survey that has been around Athens for sev eral days, and they are on their way to the Blue Itidge belt of Georgia and South Carolina, to make a survey for the government. A Baxner man in conversation with Col. Prickett, learned that they had come from Scetsville, Ga., and will go from here to Lawrenceville, Ga., and so that the shade tree, might be set out | ing stories which are old, is a new word, and not much can be said in its favor, except that, being a word that is not inelegant either in sound or origin, and expressing so much in two syllables has probably come to stay wjth us. Its origin is not positively known, and on ly two probable sources are given. One is that some shrewd wit, seeing an an alogy between the propensity of a joke to become stale and flat quickly and tlie chestnut to become w'ormy in a few days, applied the word “chestnuts” to a this line of business, and has managed I joke when repeated too often and palmed in the fall. I don’t see why it should die at all. Athens can easily afford to have a park, and the new street car company are in sympathy with the move and will aid us in the undertak ing so they say. Why can’t the people of Athens interest themselves enough in this enterprise to get tlie park at once ? ** The street car line, under the man agement of Mr. Voss bids fair to be come one of the most thorough in tlie South. Mr. Voss has for years been iu t oft’as new on a company which had heard it so frequently as to become bor ed. This may be its origin, but alleged j source, to wit: That a theatrical party, traveling on a train and trying to tel- They let their crops go and let the cat- thence to some point in South Caroli- in to eat them. Now they are in a mis erable condition. “There is one impression about this affair which I wish to correct. I ob serve that some of the northern papers say the trouble is that the negroes are not educated. That is not true. James was a magistrate and wrote a fair hand Tony LeConte was licensed to teach na. It is their purpose to make a thorough survey with geological tests all along the foot of the Blue Ridge through Georgia and Carolina. They will be on the trip all of the summer and wilf make a full report of their work They have one of the prettiest coun- the Macon street railway in a most sat isfactory manuer. We have given orders for several new cars,” said Mr. Harris to The Ban ner man yesterday “and are going to . have the old ones repaired and nicely I stories, bought a lot of chestnuts at. repainted. We will for the present put a station to help pass the time. A mem- on a lot of new mules, and we are deter- I her of the company proposed that they mined to give the people of Athens as tell stories, s^nd that whoever told asto- good a street railway as can be found in ry which had been told recently should any city in the South. We have confi- | be pelted with chestnuts. A little bell school. 1 examined him last year and tries on earth before them, and it is an THE THIRD THIS YEAR. he passed. His examination was very fair. Now he is eating grass. When ever the jailer will let him out he gets down on his hands and knees and eats grass. He thinks he is Nebuchadenez- zar. The real trouble if that the negroes Another Burglary at Fairburn—Court Has Closed. Special to The Banner. Fajrbubn, Ga. August 16.—There was an extensive burglary here last night. The store of Mr. A. B. Chapman, those of Currier & Co. and Dr. J. B. Mobley were entered by burglars, and large quantities of goods stolen from each. This is the third burglary committed here this year. The session of the superior court has just closed. Judge Harris has imposed a number of fines, and there have heen several convictions. Ten true bills have been found by the grand jury for violations of the prohibi- ioa law. opportunity to combine business and pleasure, for it amounts to a pleasant pilgrimage through picturesque moun tains and cool shady valleys. A Snake Story. Here is a rich and rare treat for all live more apart from the white people lovers of a good snake story: than any in the State. It is a low, Yesterday, while Mr. Wm. Fullilove swampy section of the county, about who manages the county convict farm fourteen miles long and ten miles wide. J near Athens, was walking through White people can’t live there, and they ground that was formerly the bed of have sbld the land to the negroes. In flsh pond, he came near stepping upon this swamp country there are not less a.huge moccasin. Seeing that the snake than 6,000 or 8,000 negroes, and there is | was very corporous, he began punch not a white family within five miles of them. The negroes vote 1,000 in that district, and there are not a dozen white votes. They are out of the reach of the white man’s influence, and it looks like they have gone back to bar barism. “At one end of this swampy section ing it with a stick, when to his utter amazement little moccasins began run ning out of the serpent’s mouth in rap id succession. On and’on they ran and darted away in the grass, and Mr. Fulli love,as soon as he recovered from his won derment, began counting. For several minutes the exodus of little snakes from of country is the old Midway meeting their venomous nest went on, and the house, the oldest church in the South, number reached thirty-four, all told There was an association there in 1774, “g”pmulove states this to he a fact anil there L nited States senators and and everybody knows the veracity o governors of the olden time are buried. I this gentleman to be as firm as Gibral Mclver, the colored member of the leg- * tar’s rock. ilence in the Athens boom, and think the investment will prove a good one. *** Anybody can see that it is no empty boom that has struck Athens. The achievements of the past few months are sufficient to show that our city is pros pering with unequalled strides, and with the fall trade that is promised, and the greatest opening the schools of the city ever experienced. Athens will en- I slangy by those who use it indiscrimi- joy a period of unbounded prosperity nately and often times it Is. But, if used next year. _ | in the sense in which its inventor, if I may so speak of a word, Charles Dick ens, intended it, it is a good and forci ble word. In “David Copperfleld” it is first used in the sense of calling a per son a daisy in a way to express admira- in the party was to be rung whenever a stale joke was perpetrated as a signal that all were to fling a chestnut at the offender. This is said to be both the origin of the phrase and of the chestnut bell craze which raged over this entire country four years ago. DAVID COPPKRFIELD CALLED A DAISY. “You are a daisy” is considered ‘very pheus, and the latter wheeled out in the aisle anil " k '\ shrill, piping voice ivlii ch mantled silence: “Ji r S - Vs gentleman’s arguments are^V- H assertions made up of whole cloth, sir, so gauzy and thin th h -" M l not hold water. Iti.enthe,,^ THE MOUNTAipERrEOPlt, Reporter Gets the Wrong~Section 5 » . up, and Does a Clever Gentle. man Injustice. Some time since an articlea» in Ihe Sunday Banner, j a . enterprising shoe merchant Mr n -1 W. Baldwin is reported asmakin.wl comments on some of the Xorthw 1 Georgia people and their mannerS That article not only did Mr. an injustice, but was also a refleeti*! as kind and hospitable a m as the South boasts. It original j, this way: A reporter chancedtifc around at Mr. Baldwin’s place of I*, ness, when that gentleman was teffiw a party of friends about several trip!* had taken, among them a tour to Fl«. ida and another that lie had recenth made to Rabun county, Ga. Heni describing the treatment and extortios to which a rogue in Florida had ;uV jected their party, and then branch*! off on his mountain trip. The reporter got the two descriptions confused, and made Mr. B’s remarks about the Lin! 1 of Flowers apply to his own State. We know that not only Mr. Baldwin, but all of his friends, were delighted with their expedition to Rabun county, and are loud in their praises ofboth the] county and its people, their party lur ing enjoyed the hospitality of this «fr] 4iuiEjm U - or five years. lit B. has remarked frequently uw Tii Banner editor that Northeast Georgia! would some day be the garden spot of I the South, and that its people are kind and hospitable, and showed hiiuself and friends every courtesy. So far as The Banner is concenti it deeply' regrets that this article ew appeared in its columns, forourpsp* has many warm friends and supporter- throughout old Northeast Georgia,^ we have never let an opportunityesujjf to speak a good word for Rabun, or j vertise their seetion. The above mistake occurred fro®* reporter getting the two trips w* up, and leaving before Mr. Baldwu hail finished his story. The Crops. The heavy rains of a few days sin* did considerable damage to crops very low bottoms, Mr. Marion losing about 60 acres of corn that P ised to make eight bushels per Cotton has been injured ] too much wet weather, bu plenty of time for it to come out. hot, dry weather of the past the making of crops. Business Change. his business to Mr. J. j* popular painter. Mr- - ™ # roon) i crease the stock and cut ^ the rear for a paint shop. - • will go into other business. Mr. Arnold great success- Good and Bad. There is no one living;bid ^,4 and no one ever wiU_ hve,'b t ^ have,both good and bad m want good jewelry , ^the'je^ good treatment, go to . gome -w If you want them bad, g else. THE DISTILLERY VICTIMS. Mr. Jim Ridgway and Mr. Wylie Thornton Recovering. Mr. John N. Ridgway was in the city I tion, and, at the same time, to laugh at a yesterday, and tells us that he saw Jim, one ’ s credulity. Steerforth says to who was so severely scalded by the ex- I young Copperfleld: “David, my daisy plosion of the cap on his brandy distil- 1 lery, a few weeks aga, is now about out of danger, but still suffers considerably Mr. Wylie A. Thornton, injured at the same time, is not doing so well as Mr you are so innocent of the world. Let me call you my daisy, as it is so re freshing to find one in these corrupt days so innocent and unsophisticated. considered dangerous. Ridgway, but his condition is not now | My dear Copperfleld, the daisies of the field are not fresher than you.” Hence, when conveying the idea that a person is artless and innocent amid a {skeptical and scheming condition of society, to say “you are a daisy” is not slang. It is forcible and elegant. The same pas- $500 Reward. For many years the manufacturers of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedies have of fered, in good faith, a standing reward of $500 for a case of chronic nasal catarrh No which they cannot cure. No matter I sage gave us the other {word, meaning how manv h ve1jra sSd?nffTt° vields r i ? n the same thin £’ though sounding a little due time, tl their sk?ll. e, This famous I harsher, “fresh.” We often hear the remedy is sold by druggists at 50 cents. I expression, “You’re too fresh.” This, The New stores ‘ ed in putti* Workmen are now eng fu0 ot« shelving a»d store on Clayton tre^^ I opened by Mr. J-«• * .» ^ placW' morrow the shelving * Elder- W the store of Messrs. Lo tem ber 1st these firmsj«dU_openbepte_ What They D .° a y t l They laugh anil sm B ,» Fall i. And sometimes eat a^ at tUe P> It is said theyP^Y^ the Drinking is f° r ^“ "nn ‘ ’’‘thatwant to ; aleeP *t ^ Those that want i > ^ tbe And occasionally Fa n 5 , Hearts is the game And some go hrohe oa game attbe Ms. ktd , po > As we before played at the at ' t be j Suckers are p entif 1 ^ >c And board bills are J Falls. . i( , k attW F * 11 !> Sharpers are t h ^ acbin g **** Preachers and P - at the Falls- 'that’s liTC ' Such is the l»e. Falls.