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ATHENd, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1889.
tABELLE PARIS.
ATHENIANS WAN-
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'll'' riue Skies—-Wonderful
,nd Ir " ie ci Paris and Gnavel
S’-^Aiher Point 8 of Interest
’ q U ;’ Friends Abroad.
1’ahis, August 11th.
received
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Paris very, very
y.-tion in regard to
’■ often I Saave been
K*irr
i.-l
r-iK-
■veii to ra
e notes, and
at uialt too tiivd to attempt
^Vstraiskten : ". v aceownts and
un* <u „. ; i ‘ rea< l my BiHEe in the
-mi- things that I luw® seen
Bj 1 " U ' '■ ‘--ait timl that ,t&le ex-
have contributed
■aril mg
,»f ill
rl,il " yrMuiling of its truth a
fnliv than ever, how
1 n alir.- i
^el«'
■reountm
on Ganih«*:ta?s monument, a* plainly—
more impressively— (and | can far more
easily) in the grofipe of five warble
figures that adorn the front, than from
the long French epitaph on the sides.
Speaking of Venus of Milo I find in
the formation of head and features a
striking resemhlimce.to Gerald Green.
I am oa salt, water again—English
channel, or rather harbor at Dieppe—
in a few minutes l take leave of France.
Glad as I will he to get home I begin to
retrace my steps in that direction'with
many regrets, lam leaving so much
tlui£ I might study and learn to mv last
ing benefit, f
I fear the passage to -New Ua-ven will
lie .rough, and 1 have not yet fallen in
love with seasickness—however the sun
rises on the darkest night.
I wish you could look around «en the
passengers, the harbors, the white
cliffs, «o oddly turreteil, the cathedral
and erucifikcttjie latter life size) iver-
looking] the Voters, and the old' iSort;
yes, and at aim the same old fellow a
little thiii but in good health and spirits.
iti livi
There
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STORY OF A PITCHER.
A STRANGE TALE THAT HR. J.B. TOOMBS
TELLS.
:m-l
g in a God-serv-
>re a few places of
v. that close on Sunday.
'that i lie fact is adver-
jjr,j displayed for the ben&-
Tliu soldiers know uoj
anil sewer work goes
, verv man plies liis trade,
; nmaive of flic command
die djbbath.
the observance of the
eaiitifuJ. The street cars
ill business ceases’ even
i 1 drug stores (with few
1. and there is an
Lauded safely in England, good-bjo.
J. I>. Mobs.
olid run
vsfaurar.lt
tlf'jiiict a:iil dignity that makes the
l, r , w :n truly lull lowed,
jl', Smieli seem a sober, religious,
aJ j v people. Their business hours
jvuiiiversully .-hort, bin as all follow
■ jl Hu one business’s sutlers;
he advantage of others in
suin' i 1
Ill'Vi
•II' of
for.
cen such splen-
c Hash as in rfcot-
sciiihle the people; a.e
rood conditioned,' tre-
iii: and move with a steady dig-
id power that seem irresistablc.
• in j’ iris ilic people (work peo-
■I.;..and, most of the cab
, iiavc a run down appearance, as
^ i l : in our party described
van look like they had slept in
he',..- lie.- night before.”
hiiy \u». king hoars and no Sim-
:'.ien iiieia. Of course climate,
.•^'"--aj.hy of the county have
it bearing on the physical na-
•ut i tiiiiik morality and religion
The, weather
tine. j‘ild tin
is
i * wiriest 'not ihiSWffllff
thi«
1IV,u-
from ail average of about
degrees day or night, until
•h a it fell a liltle. 1 can-
duim* tin; French for drink-
are wine, for although the
cool, it leaves a very
• mouth, and I am told
i' to the system.
Georgia have tlie best
preachers aud the best
net with any where. I
mu- celebrated divines,
> to my humble judgment,
• -‘ i n.on.' you dear home
-•'ling to every Sunday, can
"f them.
ow -a_\'. a fellow that stays
1 his life don’t know how
p’eet-iatv hi- home—that he is too
in.' buiiding (o see it in good per
due. \mv you know l have always
Nund iippreeiated my
lluU o ! ‘ tbii distance has
Nib and park
finds—h.,
Empire
Unrounded it all with an
r " "1 warmth,
I- fail
's Heard
taccordii.i
Ur, who <■
f with any
i'mf. Ban-,
louse all i
home. But
not made a
of the old house and
not transformed the good
•"dale into an Utopia—it
atmos-
love and happiness,
• '•"only fully realized when I
n,! “‘.'ndf out-idc of it.
•m-ii'iw ihc effect of this whole trip
jJT 1 . 10 •“•'ike me regret' deeply
■ ">t opportunity in college, home,
" and social life—regret that I
I fol, "' ve 'l my life work—not
■ riish too common with
| U “ :i> » olteM “in the eager pursuit
io>f tearing the fiesli with
l-fuHv bu [ f < f ietl 3G , sensibly,
11 I had stud-
lil-’. , reiK )' "* ,en in college, to my
■ u. '. 01 . s heart’s desire. I could
e * ia ve acquired a fair know-
. Uy o of it during my short
.j’) 1 1 l>ad even studied up on
'oik /"'• U . IK ‘^ for a month or two
t ,. " 1, air iug home, it would have
1 n'-nu benefit; as it is, I can get
err u-.,i i , ’ 1 ^
r ’ ar »d often prefer risking
ih t • " l : ‘ n umlor?t hnding, to the
'• ls dealt out here under the
eli 'V^ nSrI sh *
of .'J 11 . " ouid get a great deal
1 lla » trip. i Ieis
H 0lll ,. • ■ well fitted for it,
of br.'iij HVe ni:u * e profitable in liis
’ ‘H the
^liaenUv
■ 1 am not sufficiently
caLtou business to ques-
“ ci i.' ' 11 '' ’ i lovv ®ver if I can
invh ai T >ltL,ait J’ ils Loudon, I will
•J ligand do my best.
Uf fc j ] or engineering and archi-
rofif SCcn a great deal and hope
^ UlJ,i; 01 \F * l
Truiv ,1° sur passed my cxpecta-
ii,;. i 1 le coltl senseless marble
n,aa e i almost,
cum WITH OPIATES.
A Sick Kan •••iav.es Kls 3ed at the Daad
Hours of Nlshtand Wsnlers Wild
ly Through the Streets of
Athens.
Yesterday morning about daylight
policeman MeKie found Mr: Ben Wil
liams of Princeton factory roaming
though the streets of Cobbham in Ins
night clothing. Mr. MeKie recognized
him, and knowing him to have been
sick for some time carried his home at
once.
He has been given opiates repeatedly
of late to warrant him sleep and rest-
fulness, and it has had more than its
desired effects.
Several gentlemen had been sitting
lip in attendance ori Mr. Williams night
before last, and when they hail fallen
asleep after midnight, their patient
crazed with the effects of an over dose
of opium civ.pt out of bad arid wandcx&l
all over Athens in an insensible con
dition.
He was seen in the back yard of Mr.
John Talmadge’s residence very .early
in the morning by the cook who. was
terribly frightened at his wild appear
ance.
He was fatally out of his mind when
Mr. MeKie carried him home yesterday
but has partially recovered his senses
since then.
b.icTto’thimcells.
r.enry
Koek Have
Their Coioraitial Trial and are Sent
( ba^k (,o Jail.
tYesterday was a busy day at the court
house.
T he oceasion was the committal trial
of Charlie Lester and Henry Bullock,
the Winterviiie murderers, before jus
tice Fuller.
The case was begun promptly at ten
o’clock and lasted until late in the af
ternoon.
The evidence was abundant and had
to be gone through w ill) thus necessi
tating a long and*tedious hearing.
Many witnesses were brought up by
the State, but the defense put forth
note at all, retaining them.for the su
perior court.
Judge George C. Thomas was attor
ney for Sttae aiul Col. K. T. Brown for
defense.
After a thorough investigation and
lengthy speeches were made on both
sides the trial was ended and J udge
Evans ordered the prisoners to he sent
back to their cells in toe county jail to
await a hearing at the Superior Court.
The court house was packed with
colored folks interested in tlie trial of
the two alleged murderers.
A Dirty Trick.
A few- weeks ago a communication
was handed into our office by Mr. L. D.
Puckett, purporting to be original,with
the request that it he published. As
we were not in need of the article at
that time it was laid aside. Last
week, however, running short of other
copy, we concluded to use it, though we
saw no particular merit in it. With
deep regret and to our great mortifica
tion, we have found out since that by
reading it in a certain way a coarse and
obscene sentence could be made of it;
hut this was not discovered until the
edition had gone out and it*w«s too late
to suppress it, which would certainly
have been done had it been in our power
to do so.
Mr. Puckett disclaims any intention
of imposing od us, and says lie was not
cognizant of the fact that the article
contained anything impure or unsuited
to the columns of a decent publication.
We have every reason to belive,however
that he did or else he like ourselves
imposed on by some evil minded aud
designing person, and has induced by
that person fix it for the press in
such a way as to carry out and evil de
sign on the editors of the paper and
offer an insult to our entire co mmu
nity. *
We think we have caught on to the
true inwardness of the dirty trick, and
to speak, to that the parties implicated will in due
™ioi I>UlSaie Avith hm^ life I time be exposed; lor,we are not/doiie
“• can read the story 1 with it yet.—Gainesville Eagle.
A Women Killed by Lightning Years Ago
White Drawing Water Near Aiken,
S~ C., and Her Pitcher Still
Stands on the Post Where
She L<3t It.
Mr, J. B. Toomer, yesterday told Tar k
Baxxeu the following? story, ihat is as
singular as it is interesting:
About five miles fn»m Aiken, S. CL,
on tlie Charleston dart road, ami in
sight of the railway, is a little place
that was first clmsfcened “Pole Oar,”
but afterwards changed to Momiuon&n-
ey, the French for /hat odorous littie
animal.
Many years agoay^iing woman caase
with iter pitcher todaaw a bucket -c*f
water from a well^it Montmorency, aud
sat the vessel on a stetne post that some
of the railroad men had moved there.
While drawing the water a fiash of
lightning came, that virdek tlie chain
to which the well bucket was attached
and tlie woman was killed in her tracks.
ller remains were removed,. but the
pitcher was left just where the dead
girl had set it. To this day the pitcher
remains in the same place, and so far
from being removed it is said that no
living hand has ever touched it save its
owner’s, although near the side'of the
public road.
But the most wonderful thing is the
superstition attached to this pitcher.
There is an Indescribable influence sur-
sounding it that prevents its touch.
Hundreds of people have gone with the
firm determination of lifting the pitcher
hut when they approach it a strange
repugnance comes over them, and they
hurriedly depart without carrying out
the object of their visit.
One night a bully in the neighbor
hood, while under the influence of
whisky, made a l»et with some friends
that he would go and bring them back
the pitcher. He left to do so, but soon
returned ;ps pale as a sheet and ernpty
handeil.
“Boys,”he remarked,“no pel sou alive
can lay hands on that pitcher, and I
wouldn't attempt it again for the whole
of Aiken county.”
He refused to tell his experience, and
said he .would not talk about the matter.
Other parties have gone to
see it, but meet with the
i'iimc repulsive feelings. So soon as
they would step off a lew feet the sen
sation would leave them. Parties have
frequently amused themselves throwing
stones at tho pitcher . and when almost
v<> their reueh. tjD». mWil •• seemed, to
glide ar'Oiff.Tttmem.. Mr. Toomer 'teflft
us that the other day when he passed
this spot with his wd'e he got out and
tried his marksmanship with brickbats,
ami w hile a pret ty accurate thrower, he
met with no success—that he had as
well try to knock down a sunbeam with
a rock. Mr. Toomer further stated that
he had been passing tills pitcher for
years, and always found it in the same
place on the post. Before reaching it
lie would firmly make up his mind to
remove the vessel, but when he ap
proached it he experienced the same
repugnance to touching it as an uncan
ny object.
The old well from wich the dead girl
was drawing water lias long been filled
up, and no signs of it remains.
Mr. Toomer is au entirely reliable
geaitleman.
THE HAXKSV1IXE ORANGE.
A Talk With tfio President of an Old and
Strong Farmers Organization.
This week a Bannhb representative
was in Homer, and had an interesting
talk with Col. Tom Neal, President of
the Banksvilie Grange. This Grange
and Tuk Baxxkk have always been
friends, for we recognize the fact that
a more worthy association of farmers
were never banded together. Its mem
ber are all good, sensible men, and
have the interest of the farmers and the
country near at heart.
Col. Neal is as much opposed ns any
one to the jute bagging trust, hut says
his Grange will not expel a member
for using it, if lie thinks best. He says
it .is a private matter in which the
Grange has no concern to meddle. He
also says that they do not meddle
with politics, but each member votes
free and untrammelled for the man he
thinks wiH best administer the govern
ment. llis Grange, Col. Veal said,
was getting along in good shape. We
asked him if the Grange would follow
the recommendation of the Alliance to
hold their cotton for 12,Vo cents. He
said if his members were able to hold
their crops they would do so, but they
recognized the fact that their debts
must be {promptly met, it matters not
at what personal sacrifice. They have
bought supples at a low, price, and to i
keep up their credit must pay all bills
the day the are dne The Gratfge is
making ho war against any class of men,
but attending to their own business and
working for the best interest, of its
members. • i
High heeled shoes are no 'modern
invention; they go back to the earliest
Henryjand the top piece was often no
bigger than a shilling shaped like a
heart.
THE MYSTERY SOLVED.
The Child Foand'in Watkinsville Thought
to be a Negro Boy.
Sheriff Overby, of Oconee county,
was in the city j esterdav aud stated
that the Watkinsville mystery is about
unravelled.
The corpse found in the woods near
Watkiiisvilie, and was pronounced a
white gill by ail wlie examined it, is
doubtles- the deformed son of a negro
man. in Oconee county, named Freeland
Daniel, who lives near-Shady Dale, at
which place the corpse was interred.
Mr. Joe Dickens, who Jives dear Union
huroli, is confident that lie made the
’coffin,'and accurately described the two
kinds of wood—pine bottom aud popu
lar top—of which it was made. He
also described the hlaek covering ior
the coffin, which was also his work, aud
exactly answers tlie description of the
coffin found. Mrs. Dickens says she
made ihc white gown in which the
corpse was buried, and which caused
the finders to mistake it for a girl.
It teems that the dead hoy had a de
formity about the head, that greatly
puzzled the attending physicians, and
it is thought that some seeker after
medical information stole the corpse
from the grave r and after making the
examination reinterred the body where
found.
It has been proposed to open the grave
at Shady Dale, which will settle the
question, but flip negroes appear too
superstitions to do sO.
HIE OLDEST S0B8CHIBER.
JEKYLL AND HYDE.
Taking: the Banner for Fifty Years—Kind
Words for Our Paper.
“ Here’s a dollar,” said Col. John W.
Pruitt to a representative of the Tun
Baxxeb, “ which pays me up to next
March.” 1 have been a subscriber to
your paper for over fifty years ; when
I went to Athens to buy my wedding
suit 1 subscribed for the paper, and
have continued it since that time and
always managed to keep my subscrip
tion paid up in advance. I know that
the life, of a newspaperman has its up's
and down’s, and unless their subscribers
pay up promptly that they feel badly
about it. i enjoy reading your paper,
nan jv‘-‘ willingtjj pay feryi so that you
wot -i look so A- when’ passing jarouud.
1 am now up in the seventies, and have
had a great deal to do' with the politics
of this county, but the politics of to-
diiy.are not what it was in the days of
the Cobbs, and I have nothing to do
with them. I have been a* life-long
Democrat and an admirer and supporter
of the Cobbs and Toombs.
“You can always count on me as a
subscriber to vour paper, and L think it
lias done a great deal in breaking down
independentisni and radicalism in this
section.'’
The Report Said to Be True,
A gentleman tells us that the reported
outrage by a negro on a little white girl
in a lower county is certainly true, and
there is a good deal of indignation
among the people on acceunt of the fel
low escaping punishment for liis hellish
crime. The negro has left the settle
ment, but was not even arrested. We
shall investigate this report further. It
is the duty of the authorities to look into,
this matter aud bring the guilty -party
to punishment, if they find that such a
crime has been committed or even at
tempted. It will never do to smother
up such cases. Such silence only en
courages a repetition of the offense, and
gives no protection to the women and
little girls of our country.
~~ RUN OFF. '
The Train on the Blue Ridge & Atlantic
Takes aStride.
We learn from a passenger on Judge
Thoma’s Railroad, from Connelia to
Tallulah, that a run-off occurred yes
terday morning a few miles from
Clarksville, on the down train, in
which one of the prssenger coaches was
dumped down au ^embankment, but
fortunately n* one was hurt except
conductor Garrison, who is thought to
seriously injured. The passengers were
badly shaken up. The damage to the
road is considerable.
HON. TOM WATSON.
He
Opens Tlie Congressional Cam
paign.
Special to the Danner.
Thomson, August 31—To-day Thomas
E. Watson fired the first gun i-i the
coming campaign of tlie tenth congres
sional district.
It was loaded* with bomb-shells. A
crowd from several counties, such as
assembles only to a mammoth barbecue,
.were in range, and the result of the dis
charge was astonishing.
MB. DUTCEETT IN CONNETICUT,
MB. DAVIS IN CHATTANOOGA.
A Citizen of East New London, Conn.
With a Grown Up Family, a Citizen of
Chattanooga, Enjoying HisKoney-
moon--Two Currents of Lite
With a Prison Cell as Their
Confluence.
All the Athenians remember Joe
Duchett, who had charge of the water
works in this city. He lived here for
several years, with his family, and
made friends and built up a good credit.
Dueliett seemed to get along well with
his wife, and nothing ever occurred
to make the public think them unhap
py. Mrs. Duehitt was ladylike in her
manners and seemed devoted to her
husband. They were constantly to
gether, and slie spent a good portion of
her time with him at his work.
But one morning Duchett came up
missing, when it was learned that he
owed a great many hills in the city. In
fact, he had strained his si-edit to the
utmost capacity, and wheu-his creditors
•began to press him, settled tlie matter
by leaving for,parts unknown. His
family said they had no idea of his
whereabouts. Mr. J. JI. Dorsey was
employed to ferret him out, but th:#t
gentleman lost track of the fugitive at
Savannah.
Nothing more was heard of him
until this week, when the Chattanoo
ga Sunday Times came out with the fol
lowing article :
John Duchett alias Jos. Davis was ar
rested yesterday on a telegram and let
ter from the authorities of Ease New
London, Gonu-, charging him with big
amy. The arrest was made hv Chief of
Police Aus'Or? and Duchett was taken
to the city jail.
Duchett is a good looking man of
about forty-five years of age, with iron
grey hair and dresses well. When ar
rested he made no attempt to deny liis
identity and fully admitted his crime,
although not seeming to realize the enor
mity of the offense. He talked freely
to a Times repoter with an air,of hones
ty and sincerity very much in his favor.
He has a horror of his Connecticut wife
but is lavish in liis praises of his Chatta-
noaga wife, liis sole regret seeming to
be that she would suffer from his dis
grace. The story can best be told in
his own words, in answer to inquires
he said:
“I was married to my lawful wife
twenty-one years ago .la Uouncetl-mt
and lived with her nearly twenty years.
I have three children by her, aged fif
teen, seventeen and nineteen years re
spectively. During the twenty years of
my married life I have not liven happily
with my wife. Intact I would rather
be in jail thau with her at home. She
has made my life wretched, and no one
will ever know what 1 have suffered at
her hands. If it was not lor the wo
man whuu 1 married here, I would
rather be in jail than at lioilfe as I have
said. I an engineer by profession, and
about five years ago l came South an i
lived in Athens,-(fa., where I had a posi
tion, paying me Sf-1per month.
Through my wife i lost my position
three years ago and came to Chat tanoo
ga, and! worked for the City Water
company. 1 laid the mains through the
Forest Hill cemetery. 1 had sent my
family back to Connecticut. When my
work here was finished I went home,
and came hack here a year ago and
worked for the gas company. I was
married July 21, 1833, to Miss Annie C.
Cobbs, of Seottsboro, Alabama, who
was visiting at St. Elmo. 1 had come
back South to get rid of my wife and
went by the name of Davis. 1 hardly
know why I married again, of course I
kuew it was a misdemeanor, and I ex*-
peeted to be arrested for it hut I thought
that in this way l would get rid of my
lawful wife and that 1 could live it out
and he happy afterwards. I lived here
some weeks and then went back to Con
necticut where I lived with my wife,-
expecting to be arrested and tried there
but this was not done and I returned to
Chattanooga three weeks ago last Wed
nesday. Why did I-uot get a divorce?
I had no chance in Connecticut, my
wife is a cousin of the turnkey, who is a
son-in-law of the sheriff, and they
could use enough influence to prevent
it, the divorce laws of that state being
pretty strict.” At this period Chief
Kilgore appreached and said that a vis
itor wanted to see Davis or Duchett
and the prisoner asked who it was, ex
plaining, “My wife has some brothers
who might come in and pop me over.”
The chief of police promised to protect
him. As the reporter was about to
leave the prisoner exclaimed: “Please
don’t bring my wife here. She has
enough troubles to bear, and a better
woman never lived.”
Upon inquiry it was learned that
Miss Cobb is of good family and sus
tains a character beyond reproach or
even the breath of suspicion. Sue has
the fullest sympathy of ail who know
her present trouble, for she eannot he
blamed even remotely.
It is a most peculiar case. From the
statement of Duteliett himself, it ap
pears that after living with his wile for
twenty years he saw no way of getting
rid ol' her except by-serving a term in
the penitentiary for bigamy; that he
then expected to serve his term in Con
necticut; that liis wife then would se
cure a divorce: that he could then con
ceal the real facts from his, Tennessee
wife ' that
he could conic hack arid that his second
mar-riage would in some way be made
valid.
Dutchett'Mll have a heaving to-day
and will he tried in this county.
Duteliett, in the course of conversa
tion with a ’l imes reporter yesterday,
expressed his belief that he would be
convicted and fined, evidently not reali
zing that liis offense is one punishable
by imprisonment in the State peniten
tiary, and not by a mere fine.
It is a case of double life seldom
found. In East New London lie was
Mr. Duteliett with a grown up family,
while in Chattanooga he was Mr. 1 Da
vis, enjoying his honeymoon. He did
not desert his Connecticut wife, but
frhm nisown statement, migrated be-
tvveoa E:ut New London and Chatta-
uoogit.
DrciiExr’s tkial. *’*'
From the Chattanooga Evening News '
we learn of Joe DuetieU’s commitment
trial. The paper says:
A man who is evidently about 50
years old, tall, well formed and rather
handsome, with black eyes, and hair of
the same col -r, stood before the bar this
morning in Mayor Jfiukliu’s court.
Davis was arrested Saturday night on-
a telegram from Connecticut charging .
him with bigamy.
In court this morning he confessed?
his guilt.
He was bound over to the circuit
court for trial.
When Mayor Nicklin had told him
tlie result of the investigation the pris
oner said he had hut one request to
make—that was that he he carried to
Connecticut for trial.
Since coining to Chattanooga Davis
alias Dutehette, has been employed l>y^„
water works and gas company.
PLAY BALL.
Athens and the “Fop euJ G-ots” Cross
Bats at the Fair Grounds.
The game at the Fair Grounds yester
day was a good one.
The game was called promptly at 3:35
o’clock by Umpire Buck Adams.
Athens Mil Reaves and Va on for its
battery, and Mr. 11. H. Dorsey acted as
scorer.
Mr. J. E. Criffeth pitched for the
Pop arid Goes, and' Struck out six men,
while fifteen retired from the hat before
the matchless curves of Mr. Vasou.
The game was lull of interest, and
many rounds of applause rang out from
the grand stand at the good play s made
hv both sides.
At the close of the ninth inning the
Pop and Goes bad made four rounds,
while the Athens team had scored
eight.
A number of citizens were present,
and enjoyed the game in tlie extreme.
Mr. Yason’s pitching was liie toast of
all.
DOWN WITH THE JUTE.
This is the Santencs Pronounced Yy the
Merchants as "Well as the FaiuSei's
and Alliance Wen.
The jute’s death knell is sounded.
The merchants of Athens are deter
mined on this point as resolutely as the
farmers, and will aid in their boycot of
the Jute Bagging Trust. The cotton
men have all agreed to encourage the
farmers in their war against tlie trust
and have agreed to pay the planters
ten cents additional per hundred for
tlieir cotton packed in cotton bagging.
They do this simply for the encourage
ment of the use of cotton bagging, and
will continue to help the farmers out
until the warfare is over aud the jute
trust.is conquered.
There are only a few farmers who
have declared their intentions to use
the jute bagging, and for these Messrs
O’Farrell & Ash had a number of hands
stitching together old bagging yester
day to prevent the necessity of buying
new bagging from the trust.
Everybody is united against jute and
it is thrown over hoard.
Jute Blind Tigers.
Factors or country merchants who
sell jute now are almost in the fix of
the man who sells whiskey in a prohi-
tion town. The purchaser has got to
know the pass wood, give the proper
wink and establish liis right-tactile mer
chant’s confidence before lie can be
shown into the cellar, or in the dark
room where the jute is stored. It is a
regular blind tiger.—Augusta Chroni-
Cle ‘ <81
Boycotting.
The- Alliance men in the different
counties are notifying the public gins
that if they use jute bagging they will
he boycotted, and the fanners will not
patronize a gin nslnp; jute bagging.
The most of the owners of gihs tell the
Alliance men that they will give them
cotton bagging if they want it, <U ute
bagging if thev want it.