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ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10. 1889.
Their Cotton.
|fj)e Allia nce Men in
1 sion Yesterday.
Ses-
Kill Build a Warehoase in
iMcfc to Store tbeir Cotton.
,. lc t convention of Alliance Men
important Meeting Yesterday
11 ttheCourt-House—Five Counties
1 Represented by Delegates.
accounts a Jrasy one. It lasted from 9
a. m. till late in tlie afternoon. Many]
prominent farmers of the Alliance were
present, and «Tl say it was one of the
most important meetings the Alliance
of this district ever held.
IRREGULAR MAILS-
GONE OFF TO FIGHT.
BOOMING ELBERTON-
THE PARIS EXPOSITION
MR. HUFF AND MR. PATTERSON
MAY MEET AT SOME POINT
INi ALABAMA.;
IriiFY ARE FIGHTING MONOPO
LIES, NOT MERCHANTS*.
^farmers will hold their cotton.
Jes . t t his appears to be the verdict
Uftlivir meeting yesterday.
It was a ilistri«*t convention held in
U <ourtlionse, and was attended by
Legate Rom Clarke, Oconee, Madi-
L Jackson. Walton and Oglethorpe
I counties, ami many other Alliance men
Lho came as visitors interested in the
I peat questions that were to come be-
I loro the meeting.
The meeting was of course held with
I closed doors, and it was impossible to
f et the details of the proceedings, but
a Banner reporter bad a conversation
I with Mr. J. G. Cooper, a delegate from
I Walton county, who gave such
I points as he had authority to give as
I follows, which indicate the substance
I of what was done in the meeting;
I ‘The meeting was held” said Mr.
I Cooper to the reporter, “for the pur-
I pose of entertaining propositions from
I ;he merchants and cotton men as to the
I storage and sale of cotton. We had
I several propositions made to us'and di. -
I eiwed them freely and at length—some
I Wing rat’..»r more favorable than oth-
I rrs. After a long and tedious discus-
I non, however, the sense of the meeting
I pronounced all of the offers and prop-
I osititions unsatisfactory, and the Al-
I liance.settled the matter definitely by
I deciding to
! m ir.D A WAREIIOCSK
hr themselves in this district in which
to store their cotton.”
| "Where will it be built S” asked the
reporter.
“That has not been decided yet, but
the opinion is in favor of Athens I
think. In fact you may rely on this
Wing the place for it, for not only is
Athens about in the center of the dis
trict. but here we have the advantage
of more railroad facilities and compe-
ting freight lines. For this reason and
“any others, Athens is most apt to be
■he town'in which the Alliance ware
house will be built,”
| bn what plans do you expect to
"lild it r” inquired the reporter
h will be built by a stock company
among the Alliance men, and will be
rcrnnieived at once in order to be ready
" r ^ttou when it begins to come
in,"
bave tlle Alliance men accepted the
“''He of the National committee to
tuM back their cotton for 12)£ cents?”
asked?
they will adopt some such
‘‘“ L-ure. They have agreed to put
1 selves in a position
| f , T ° GET l ULL VALUE
r their cotton. You see, they
hot intend warfare against the mer-
ia! ‘ts. They are only fighting the
°hopolies. They recognize themer-
„ mts to be their friends. But they do
'hk that they should not be made to
Mr. Huff Passes Through Columbus—
Mr. Patterson Leaves Chattanooga
Mr. Jackson and Mr. Rbett Ab
sent from the City.
Special to The Banner.
Atlanta, September 7.—It seems
now that Mr. Huff aud Mr.
will fight it out.
Mr. Huff left Atlanta last night for
Macon, having obtained permission
from Mayor Glenn to leave. To-day he
has been beard from in Columbus, Ga.,
where he reached at 10 o’clock this
The Northern mails are also irregular I morning and has gone over the river
and oftentimes it lias been the case that I and stopped at Girard, a station on the
Much Complaintfof the Mails Being Badly
Managed.
There has been a very great deal of |
complaint of late \vith regard to the
mails.
At is reported by many that they re
ceive letters whose dates . show them to
have been written more that a week be
fore their receipt, and some of these
letters are mailed at places no further
than Madison, Elberton, Atlanta and
various points in Northeast Georgia.
letters have been lost entirely ^valuable
letters at that. It is simply outrageous
that the mails are so badly managed.
A gentleman told us the other day that
he had a letter to come to him dated at
Watkinsville, which was a week reach
ing Athens, and the Bannkk office has
often had an eccasion to observe the
loose manner with which the mails are
handled. Much complaint from our
subscribers shows that they fail to get
their papers quite frequently and often
when they do come they are far out of
date.
All of this is one of the many evils as
an outcome of the recent change of ad
ministration. The ignorant negroes
who have been placed in control of the
railroad mail service know' absolutely
nothing of the routes nor of their du
ties. They are totally unqualified for
th^ir positions and are careless of the
results of their ignorance.
It is a crying shame and an outrage
that the government can’t give the peo
ple a better mail servive than that so
complained of now.
DOWN IN 0GLETH0PE.
railroad. His actions are suspicious
there and policemen are after him.
A dispatch from Chattanooga states
that Mr. Patterson has left that place
for Opelika, Ala. It is thought that he
and Mr. Huff will fight a duel at Un
ion Springs some time during the day.
Both Mr. Tom Cobb Jackson and
Mr. Walter Rliett, seconds of the men
are absent from Atlanta to-day.
Gov. Gordon has telegraphed Gov.
Seay that the duel will probably take
place in Alabama.
The duelists will hardly be able to
meet to-day.
ABULLSUMER.
Our Neighboring City Growing With Re
newed Life.
Mr. H. C. Miekel, of Elberton, who
was in the-'city yesterday,paid our office
a plaasant call.
Mr. Mickle is one ef the most success
ful contractors in Northeast Georgia,
and is working wonders in his line over
in Elberton aud all through this see-
tio.i of the State.
He has lately completed for Gairdner,
Arnold & Co., of Elberton, a very
Patterson J large store, aud has at present several
large contracts to build handsome struc
tures in that town. He has eighty-five
hands at w ork now' on his contracts in
Elberton, and is kept continually busy
with his work of building a beautiful
city of Elberton.
Miekel informs us that Elberton is
growing rapidly iuto one of the finest
tow'ns in this section of the State, and
that the G., C. & N. will give it a rous
ing big boom. lie says that Messrs.
Swift, Willcox & Co. are doing an ex
cellent business in their granite works,
and in fact that every firm in Elberton
is doing an unparalleled trade.
We are glad to hear of such prosperi
ty in our neighboring city, and in
vite it to keep pace with Athens in our
city’s march to prosperity.
EDISON'S WONDERFUL ELECTRIC
PLAY.
DIS-
The EfTel Tower and the Phonograph
Among the Chief Features of the Show
—The Graphophone Attracts the
Crowds.
BACK FROM PARIS.
News Items Culled From This Week’s
Echo,
Mr. James Doyle, a stone mason, is
missing, and foul play is suspected. No
trace of him can be found.
JinijGip and Jolm Hutt, charged with j q'h< ir lands and stock were inort-
being accessories in the killing of Mr* | g ;l g e d, and they had arrived at that
Universal Complaint From Merchants of
HardTimes.
Not only in Athens, but from one
end of the country to the other comes
complaint of one of the dullest and
hardest summers ever known, and even
now .there don’t seem to be much of a
let-up.
This is easily accounted for. For a
long series of years we have had very
poor crops, until the farmers were
trembling on the verge of bankruptcy.
They saw' nothing but ruin ahead of
The Banner Interviews Dr. Chedel—Sights
and Wonders In the Gay French
Capital.
Dr. Bernard Chedel and lady passed
through Athens yesterday on their re
turn from an extended tour through
France and Switzerland.
The Doctor «ays a first-class passage
across the briny deep costs $100. His
lady was very sick during the entire
voyage, but recovered on landing at
Havre, and as this wasjlier first trip to
the Old World enjoyed the sights very
Cable Special to the New York World.
Pari®, Aug. 7,1889.—In the immense
multitude of striking objeets in the
Paris Exposition there are two which
excite the most universal and unflag
ging interest—The Eiflel Tower and
the Pliongraph.
It may seem absurd to compare two
such dissimilar things, but in one re-
iespect they are alike—in the attention
they attract and the w'onder they excite*
One is the work of a French Engineer,
and the other the product of American
genius. Both produce their wonderful
results by the manner in which metal is
moulded to human uses by human skill.
One appeals to the eye and the other to
the ear. The Tower, formed almost
entirely of thin strips of iron, woven
into a graceful fabric, nearly one thous
and feet high, dominates the whole
scene, and forms the prominent land
mark of Paris as you approach it from
all sides. It attracts every eye and calls
forth expressions of wonder from all
tongues. Every day the four elevators
are thronged by visitors eager to ascend.
At the second stage, where the last
elevator is taken,you must usually w*ait
an hour in a spiral quenc, to form one
of a squad of sixty to be carried to the
top. And this is going on every day,
and day after day,without intermission.
It is the great success of the Expoition,
both in scientific and pecuniary point
of view. But down in the great Machi
nery Hall, which looks so small from
the top of the tower, is the other object
alluded to, which attracts scarcely less
much.
The Paris Exposition, he says, is too j attention—The Phonograph. It is made
of metal also, but stands upon a small
table, occupying, for each instrument,
Lourie Waller, were re-committed to
jail under a $500 bond.
Mr. N. D. Arnold sent in Lexington’s
first bale. It brought 9J a cents, and was
shipped to Athens.
A negro boy 15 years old was jailed
for an attempt to rape a little girl of
the same color.
Arrangements have been made to
float all the bonds of the Lexington
Terminal Company.
During last week a report was in cir
culation that a serious epidemic of fever
was raging at Smith’s eonviet camp, in
this country \ that there were in the
neighborhood of a hundred cases upon
Col. Smith’s place, aud thatdcatlis were
occurring at the rate of four or five a
day. Such a report proves to be with
out foundation
In a neighboring town partly situ
ated in Oglethorpe county a cotton
seed war is raging and the price has been
run up to twenty-seven cents per
bushel with a prospect ot going to thir
ty-five. Weheardalady say not long
since that she remembers when cotton
seed were as much in the way around
a gin as saw dust is now around a saw
mill, and equally as worthless. Not so
now by along shot.
THE GROWING CROP.
Dr. Jolm Crawford Tells of Splendid
Prospects of Crops in Surrounding
Counties.
Dr. John Crawford has returned.from
a visit through the county to Ogle
thorpe and surrounding counties
He says that the general outlook for
stage where they had to revolutionize
big a thing to describe. It is about three
miles through the grounds, but all you
have to do is to embark on the car and
stop at any building you want to visit
There is a railroad propelled by water
power, that carries a passenger several
hundred yards before be has time to
turn his head. Dr. Chedel thinks this
railway will come into general use,
aud furnish rapid transit for the future.
He did not ascend the Eille Tower, al
though he had a ticket. It cost $1 to
goto the top, and already has’the builder
scarcely a foot of space. There is noth
ing in its appearance to cause it to be
singled out from the myriads of objects
about it. There are eight of these lit
tie instruments on separate tables in i
portion of the space of 9000 square feet
occupied by Mr. Edison’s exhibits
And around these tables it has been
found necessary to construct long wind
ing guards as at the elevator of the Eif-
ing the Phonograph and the Grnpho-
hone on a large scale for tbr* b«m*flt of
those in America \viio are now engaged
in putting the machine into ] radical;
commercial, anti social use. bnch ed
ucation as is going on hcrelimitcd as it
must be, is a necessary preliminary to
the actual common use of the machines.
Many persons, while admitting their
great interest as curiosities, seem to
doubt their practical utility, but after
the intelligent and .capable gentlemen
who have charge of them in Paris, have
finished tlioir work, it will Lc easy to
show the public, both in ‘America and
Europe,the vast advantages theyjoffer in
a business and social point of view.
The traveller, to whem letter writing
becomes such a bore, will soon learn to
prize this Invention, when he finds
that at any hotel he can do as I did
through the kindness of Mr., P. L. .Wa
ters, who has charge of the Graphohone
in the Exhibition. He gave me a cylin
der, at a quiet moment, and I talked a
letter of about 100 words to a friend at
home, heard it all repeated accurately,
wrapped it in a piece of thin paper,
placed it in a little wooden box with a
sliding top held fast by a rubber band
sunk in a little groove, put. a two cents
stamp upon it,and dropped it in the P.
O. Box. Thus with no labor win? lever*
I talked to my friend across the acean
at my leisure, and in a week or so lienee
he can simply take thecylinder out of the
box, put it on his Graphophone, and
hear what I have had to say, which was
about as much as is contained in tbi
letter. When the public come to un
derstand that this can be done for all
sorts of commercial and social com
munications, at a cost little greater than
that of our present writing apparatus,
the object of Messrs. Edison and’ Taint-,
er in tbeir long labors upon the Phono
graph—Graphophone will be accom
plished. Certainly,the work of Messrs*
Hammer and Waters and their efficient,
assistants at the Paris Exposition will
do niuch to advance this object.
A. Q. Kkahby.
Mr. Keasby is a prominent leader of
the New Jersey Bar.
their mode of management or consent ma de cnough^ut of the investment to f J\.v 0 ‘ in order to r ‘ lilte the . leceS3
Ymnnnio cArfc frn 1 cruf Iik nmimv Its h.isift covers I * ^ 4 ’
to become serfs to capitalist:
At this opportune time the Alliance
was organized, and planters flocked into
it as an ark of safety. This association
did not countenance the repudiation of
honest obligations, and advised its mem
bers that the only way out of their
trouble was to save themselves out of
debt. This advice has been closely
followed, and as a consequence store
accounts have been reduced from 33}jto
50 % under previous years. Theireason
that trade has been dull is the fanners
have been depriving themselves of every
luxury in order to meet the obligations
already contracted,
But Providence seemed to have smiled
upon their efforts, for the most bounti
ful harvest ever known is now ripening
in the fields. Farmers will not only be
get bis money back. Its base covers
over four acres of ground, and its diinzy
height almost makes the bead swim to
look up to it from the ground.
The Doctor says it is very expensive
living in Paris, for at every turn there
is a demand made on your purse. Du
ring his stay in that city he rented
rooms and kept house, which was much
cheaper than boarding at a hotel.
He visited the town where lie he was
born and reared, and saw his parents.
The place had not changed a particle
and he readily recognized every street
and building.
But the most singular experience was
that he had forgotton how to speak his
native language, aud it was some time
before he could collect words to express
his wishes. His wife, however, made
rapid progress in French, and could
soon carry on a conversation in that
A CONTEMPTIBLE SCAMP.
Left
has
was
able ts pay off many old scores, but will language. In a few days he was all right
Pve
they
the case for
They think they
l, P their cotton for whatever price
can Bet, as has been
^eral years past.
;;° ltld demail <i the full value of it, and
intend to do it.”
] ia W Uat abou t the rumor that the Al-
0 j meu l ,ro Posed to the cotton men
the henS t0 COnsi S n their cotton to
®en *° ^ eo ^ for cents if the cotton
n *onld forward them $875,000 in
meantime?”
lj‘‘ at is * mistake, 1 think. The Al-
I>ro t \ men n0t meet to make
but to hear them from the
be able this fall and winter to make up
for privations iu the past. When bus
iness does open we expect to see every
thing boom. The merchant will he
gladdened by having old scores settled
off and his counter crowded with cash
buyers. Trade this fall will be in pro
portion to the crops, and we look to se
every business prosper,
In spite of the large cotton crop prom
ised, prices for the staple keep up.
and the producer, it seems, will this
year receive some compensation for his
toil.
and could patter Freneh as well
as when he left home.
The Doctor also took a tour through
Switzerland as far’as Berne.
Item from Jackson Herald.
J. A. Wood of Harrisburg has a stalk
good crops is marked, and more favora- J ot corn jy f eet 4 i nc h e s high, with ears
ble than for years past
The corn crop everywhere is simply
immense, and the barns will be overrun
with the most abundant harvest ever
gathered in this section of country
The cotton crop is also better as a gen
eral thing than-for years past
The old cotton is excellent, and will
yield a splendid crop everywhere. Dr.
Crawford says he examined a great
many stalks, and found that there were
no bolls rotting at all whereter he had
occasion to notice.
cotton up
THE ALLIANCE AND COTTON*
Many Farmers will Ship their Cotton Di
rect to Europe.
A gentleman who has been among
the farmers below Athens tells us that
he was surprised to see such a deter
mination manifested to ship cotton this
year direct to Europe. Nearly every
man he met said that lie would not sell
bis cotton this side of Liverpool, and
the Alliance is now arranging to han
dle the crop both at Brunswick, where
it will be placed on board of vessels,
and also to receive and sell the same
in Liverpool. It is their intention to
plump out all middle men, and deal
10 feet from the ground.
Bobby Johnson, living 1% miles from
town, beyond Judge Bell’s, has a stalk
of cotton 8 feet 9 inches high, with 25
grown bolls and 161 squares.
Mr. Harrison has a mule that had
eaten the forage of five summers when I the .crop is maturing, they no longer
the guns of the Confederacy were boom- disguise their determination. A com
ing for victory. He is still service-1 mittee has made arrangements with all
a ki e the railroads leading to Brunswick to
will rece * ve an d forward their cotton.
It is even said that this determina-
of the eager crowds. To each of the in
struments is attached a hearing tube
divided into six branches, and an opea-
torsits there ready to adjust them to the
ears of the persons in the line as their
turn comes. And there from morning
till eleven o’clock at night the line is
kept up almost without a break. It is
very interesting to sit within the rail
and watch this line as it passes. It
consists of all classes and all nations, as
chance has thrown in the together. They
wait patiently, gazing at the machine
with varying expressions of curiosity.
When a squad of six takes hold of the
tubes, it maj- consist of a laidy, a work
man, a typical American, a Turk in a
turban, a dark skinned Egyptian in bis
robe and sash, and a little French girl.
You can watch all these faces as they
first catch the actual sounds of human
speech coming from the little instru
ment, and jliey form a curious study of
facial expression. You can see how*
similarly the smile of wonder is formed
upon all human countenances. Few of
the crowds that hear it have any clear
notion of how the sounds are produced,
but they hear human speech from a lit
tle machine of iron and wood and are
lost in amazement. Many of them show
singns of skepticism and peer narrowly
under the table for the man who is
working the trick.
This thing is going on all the time, not
only in Machinery Hall, but in a small
room in Mr. Edison’s part of the United
States Exhibit, and in the room devoted
to the Graphophone, which attracts the
same interest. In this part there is not
the same motley crowd and the exhibi-
Tl,e meeting
was a long, and from all
rainy weather,- and the young
will detract much from the general av-
direet with the English manufacturers,
thus receiving the last cent that their I tions are given more delibeartely,and in
crop is worth. several different languages. The Rus-
The farmers have been keeping this sian,the Italian,the German,the French-
determination very quiet, but now that | man, and even the Arabian can hear his
own language spoken by this narvellous
instrument. It is not to be wondered at
that it should hold the unfailing atten
tion of the changing crowds of visitors,
for to most of them it is a perfectly novel
thing.
It will not be a novelty long at the
rate in which education in it is going
on. Mr. Hammer, who has charge of the
Rev. Dr. Rees of Athens circuit
He says that the j begin a protracted meeting at J tion is so wide-spread that it will se-
„ cotton un in June is not cburcb » tbls county, on Ihursc ay 0 r jously effect the receipts of New York,
good/and what little fruit it has taken I he fore the 2d Sunday in September. | what wiU be the outcome of this step
on is fast being shedded this cloudy and . bere Monday night to take charge I experienced men are in charge of the I whole Edison Exhibibit, gave me some
an le young I 0 f the music department of Martin In- cotton it may workout all right—other- interesting details of their work in
, ... .. stitute. She will find a hearty wel- wise the confiding planters will expe- making the operation of the instrument
erage. For this reason he thinks the ^ ^ rience heavy losses. known. He said that often from 15,000
cotton crodwi no e as argo . | Tfae cage of Rang Duke for stabbing I Guano For Wheat. to 20.000 people have listened to it in one
Bill Watson was caUed in justice court I I have on hand 20 or 30 tons of Am- j day, and that before the Exhibition
The post office at Luvesue, Ala., is I Fr id a y but was postponed again on ac- moniated Cotton Grower and Dobb’s closes the number who have heard it
SSnluSa*^So b being ap- count of the wounded man being unable Chemicals for farmers who want to sow will run up into the millions.
p?int<^post°master 1 ° ° Jein ° ‘ ^ [ to appear. ^ | wheat or oats. S. C. Dobbs. | Thu* the Paris Exposition is advertis-
Wno Taught the Colored School and
Darker Than He Cane.
\V. H. Davis, soil of Mat Davis,
vamoosed. The trouble with Bill
too much lip.
He came here last May tp teach the
colored school, and seemed to be quite a
respectable negro.
Latterly he took to associating with
all sorts of coons, and got to drinking
considerably, and convinced every one
that he was a very no acount fellow.
Last Saturday night the climax came
Bill made a most outrageous aud inde
cent remark about the ladies of Jeffer
son. S.ome of pur citiz.ms soon heard
of it, and went to see the scoundrel.
Jphn Witt, who . had gotten wind of
their intention, ran off and warned
Bill and he could not be found.
About l o’clock at night lie called at
Tom McElliannon’s house, carrying a
large stick and accompanied by John
Witt. The interview'restiited iu McEl-
hannon taking his stick and knife away
from him and giving him a good thrash
ing. Sunday afternoon he again met
Mr. McElhaunon on the street and in
sisted on shaking hands. This Tom re
fused ands administered some em
phatic language to the dirty puppy.
This interview also resulted unfavora
bly to Bill. Tom took him by the collar
and pounded him without mercy.
The whole town was fired with in
dignation, and our leading citizens were
peparing to wait on li m, when lie
shipped out by the back streets and left
for home.
Early Monday morning General Wil
son, our county school
commissioner, went out to the school
house and dismissed the school.—Jack-
son Herald.
~Tsad case. ~
One Little Child Dies and a Wife at
Death’s Door.
One of the sadest cases we have ever
known, is that of Mr. Jim Wills, who
clerks at Jackson & Vincent’s. He had
a little daughter two years old, on a
visit to relatives in Jackson county.
The child was taken with membranous
croup, and the father sent for, but be
fore he arrived Christ had called the
little one to His bosom. To add to his
distress, Mrs. Wills is laying at death’s
door, and her life is despaired of. Mr.
Wills has the sympathy of our entire
community.
An Abundant Yield.
Not only have the farmer's fields
brought forth a bounteous supply of
produce the present year, but the yield
of vegetation generally is in profusion.
The hickory trees in the forests are
breaking down with the nuts, while
the muscadine, scuppernong and wild
grape vines are frought with loads of
their luscious fruit. Every fence cor
ner is black with grapes and musca
dines, and in fact every crop this year
is the most abundant ever known. It
is a year of plenty in the land.