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*••'**•• *7? da? MlfSl'-i k i '. : ■ ' } ■ 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.