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BANNER.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1889.
. -uf/ST GEORGIA STOCK
l,sr show.
f. md Fine Races—How Our
Lra' 3 ' ' n3incmbereC—The
l F»''' er f . „i chicken Exhibit to^
r *** , racial Future.
E * 8 -n
., "fore the {rates of
' (f i 8to.:k ami potl!- j
, aoil it will he the ;
t00 , ever held ill Atli-
It
... i,,,!,! daily meetings to i
' ,,nml are unbend- j
• energies to make the
: ’, ; -S i»,ft premium list as
. Put other prizes and
II !. e added from time to
riits r day.
NllV . i j.—11 a. m.—Open-
il'w. lillAiA".
o’ULOl'K.
_l : y.' minute class—mile
. y. . in live—purse $75.
' rare, half mile
".thret—purs ? $.'15
, ming race, half mile
i—purse $15.
;. A 1) D VY.
.. .. i—11 a. m.—Baseball"
(ieorgia, best two
... < tidy two clubs to
i to he made by com-
. i i.
PACES.
, v r i»iny rare, mile heats,
,!*. i , i five—purse $75.
H.:if mile dash—purse $15.
"7--I iif mile heats, best two
. —Trotting race, mile heats,
in live, Georgia raised—
. DOUBLE team in harness.
Best double team in harness,
sweepstake.
Best mule any age or sex,
JACKS AND JENNETS.
Best jack, any age,
“ jennet, any age’
HOGS.—ANY BREED.
Best aged boar,
“ aged sow,
“ sow, with no less thannve
of her suckling pigs,
“ l>ig, under six months old,
“ pen of pigs, eight or more
“ per of fat hogs, to contain
six or more.
CLASS S.
Saddle ring sweepstake,
Sweepstake,
CATTLE BING—CLASS'V.
East cow,
“ lief Per calf,
SWEEHSTAKE.
Best bull, any age,
cow or heifer, any age,
10.
1(‘.
$10.
10.
10.
10.
10.
10.
10.
oi-
lO.
10.
hire
Till::i) DAY.
a; ; i vxce day.
Xi>v. 14.—Speeches by
i: y > -omen. 10 a. m.
it.istmail. Championship of
spw.
BACKS.
he 'V ,r*
I-I r race, 2:40 class,
; three in live—purse*
; e.r-iing race, half mile
in tiirse—purse $30
Mtting race, four years
idle heats, bast two in
V l.
; ; fining race, novelty
.>ia to winner at each
- $>i(l.
i ina-t i-edieuloiis turn-
i MCRTlf DAY".
r.Mtrn.v la a. 111.—$50. 00% to 1st,
’ * •
: i and 10% to 3d. Three to
11 a. in.—Ihi-nhall. Championship of
RACES.
-Free for all, mile heats,
ot ::ir«v in live—purse $250.
hr iivi K— Running race, half mile
Ibrus. iit*i two in tiirev—purse $35.
| So kah:—Running race, % dash—
Ipcr** $49.
COLT SHOW.
r»T.:ty exhibit. 1st prize $35 2d
POULTRY.
(Three entries or no premium.)
■, CHICKENS.
►*«•** °f American standard of ex-
j; iK- r y :, \ern, except in weight of
■r-irreb and jmllets. In no event will
be permitted to compete with
f uK*kj.
7't trio light bramalis $2.
dark bramalis, 2.
(i " black cochins, 2.
u " white eoeliins, 2.
!• ill eoeliins, 2.
„ “partride cochins, 2.
huigshans 2.
' Plymouth rock, J2.
(< " hrowu leghorns, 2.
“ "bite leghorns, 2.
„ ‘‘ hambnrgs, 2.
" javes, 2.
" games, 2.
„ ‘‘.dordlngs, 2.
l»rti Georgia barn-vard, $2.
TURKEYS.
d P*j r bronze turkeys,
-tiiair white turkeys,
n pair Georgia turkeys,
ducks’
,7 Puiv Pekin ducks,
<, “ Aylesbury ducks,
< ( tmiscovy ducks,
‘ puddle ducks.
guineas.
7 Pair of guineas,
<i P^arl guineas,
black guineas,
n GEESE.
7 l'®j r Toulouse geese
it ,* binbdcn geese,
Georgia geese,
^ PIGION’8.
display f
$2.
2.
2.
$1.
1.
1.
2.
$1.
1.
V
$2.
2,
2.
$4.
CLASS L.
^ mark and colt.
“ ma!- are ? nd col L suckling, $5.
e and mule colt suckling, 5.
in.Ki.su for all work.
’ 5.
]{,,, SWEEPSTAKES.
an ( V l [ e ’ gelding or stallion,
1 barness comdined, $10.
CLASS X.
Best herd of horses or mares,
consisting of live or more, owned
by one person,
COLTS UNDER IIALTEU
liest stallion with live
more of suckling celts of his get,
REST TURN-OUT.
Best turnout, single team,
MODEL RING.
Best model horse, regardless
of age or sex,
COMMITTEES.
Printing and advertising—Gantt,
Brown, Baldwin, Flanigen.
Railroads—Baldwin, Gantt, Voss.
Invitation—Brown, White, Baldwin.
Music and Decoration—White, Hodg
son, Flanigen, Brown.
Grounds and Privileges—Holman.
Voss, Booth.
Amusements—Ilodgson, Caritbers.
Entertainment of Visitors—Booth,
Baldwin, White, Brown.
r>.
Mr. W. HJonua has Raised a 2:27 Nas That
Sold for S2.C00.
Athens is not far behind when it
comes to line horses.
Mr. William H. Jones, a successful
favme and successful farmer and stock
raiser, who lives near Athens, lias
made a great success with his through-
bred animals. He raised a beautiful
mare known throughout this section by
the name of “Estelle” for which lie re
ceived $425 a year ago selling her to a
gentleman in Gainesville. Since that
time this nag has made a record
Of 2.37 winning a purse of $400.
With such a record she stands among
1 he. most valued stock in this
section and was recently sold for $2000
to a racing man. *
This speaks well for Mr. Jones' and
shows that Clarke county is not to be
downed in the matter of tine horses.
Mr. Jones has full brother of Estelle’s
named Messenger, wlijeli lie says prom
ises to eclipse her and he has refused
$500 for her time and again.
He has many tine colls which we will
exhibit at our coming fair.
THE COTTON CROP-
The Yield Will be About the Same as Last
Yea?-
We have seen and conversed with
representative farmers from various
counties in this section,and they unite
in asserting that the cotton crop will be
about the same as last year There is
a great deal or cotton that did not come
uji until June, and this is very unprom
ising. Most of the squares have fallen
oft'. Early cotton is good, but will not
yield so well as it one time promised.
Col. Smith says his crop will not exceed
a bale to three acres—that at one time
it looked like it would make 2,000
pounds to the acre, but there has been
a great falling off in the profits. Corn,
peas, potatoes, turnips and all manner
of fall crops are unhurt. There never
was such a pea crop grown, but the
farmers are so busy with their cotton
that few will be saved.
Little Ruby Wills.
She was truly a lovely and interesting
little darling. Our rosy laughing bright
eyed Ruby. Always the best child we
evey knew her presence seemed to car
ry with it gladness and sunshine. No
wonder she was the joy and light of her
home, nay almost an idol there, so gen
tle and affectionate so ready to fondle
and caress those who showed her atten
tion. But little Ruby was one of the
lambs of the Saviour’s fold; not long
could He permit her to wonder without
Edens enclosure. A bud so pure so bright
so lovely might not unfold its petals in
earth’s cold climate. She was loaned us
for a time that our affection entwined so
closely around her might with her be
tiansfered from Earth to Heaven. So
one day sad to us on Earth but a joy
ful one in Heaven, a bright-wing Angel
band bore our darling Ruby back to her
Saviour’s arms and now while all is sad
and lonely at the home she has left and
they still listen for the prattle of her
tongue or the patter of her little feet to
break the solemn stillness there. That
Savior is gently bearing her among the
green pastures and beside the still
waters of the better land. There she
joyfully awaits the happy day" when
through the pearly gates she may wel
come the dear ones she so loved on earth
toiler blissful home, where there is no
sad parting, no pain, no sfir.ow, but
where all is peace and love.
A Fpjknd.
Oar Stock and Poultry Show
Organized.
4 FUSE PREalDEI LIST OFFERED AND
SEW ATTRACTIONS ADDED.
A Series of Base Ball Games
Between Crack Clubs.
THE DIRECTORS FLEDGE THEIR TIME AND ENERGY
TO MAKE THE FAIR A SUCCESS.
The Northeast Georgia Stock and
Poultry show is on the biggest kind of
a loom. All of our merchants and cit
izens are taking hold of the exterprise
in earnest, and will lend the directors
■ill the assistance in their power to
make it the best and most attractive ex
hibit ever held in the city.
The directors and incorporators of
t'ris fair, all men of me uis and influ
ence, and feeling that their word and
reputation are at stake, will see that
there is no failure.
It is true we have only seven weeks in
which to work up this show, but this
is time enough with such gentlemen as
tlu’sc: backing the fair and pushing at
the wheel. Not a man on the board
will allow the grass to grow under his
Sect. Each one ot the ten has his work
mapped out, and stands pledged to at
tend to this business even in preference
to his own affairs. The directors went
to work yesterday, and by to-night the
county will he flooded with circulars
announcing that the Stock and Poultry
show will he held.
Messrs. Holman, Ilodgson and Bald
win will personally visit all the leading
stock raisers in this section with a view
of getting them to exhibit their colts
anu horses. Both Greene and 31 organ
counties are noted for their fine colts,
and t his feature will be made an espe
cial attraction.
3ir. Holman is now in correspondence
.with leading horse men in Tennessee
and Kentucky, and has promise of some
of the finest races ever witnessed in
Athens. But the stakes between Geor
gia-raised horses has always proved
one of tiie most interesting features of
our fairs, and especial provision has
been.made l'orsuch races gt frequent
intervals.
A committee is now arranging for
a match game of base ball between the
iladison club, and also one of the
strongest that can he organized against
them. There will he three games play
ed—on Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day mornings—for a purse of $100 and
the championship of Georgia.
The Alliance rally on Thursday will be
the biggest tliiugof the show. Leading
Alliance orators from the Northwest
will be on hand, also Messrs. Liviugton
and Xortlien are invited. On that day
the city and the Fair Grounds will he
turned over to our farmer visitors, and
to do them mul their cause proper hon
or, every visitor will be requested to
wear a large cotton bagging badge,
with the words “Death to the Jute
Trust” printed thereon. 3Ir. Henry
TV. Grady will deliver the funeral ora
tion over the roll of juta to be buried
in front of the grand stand and with
such a theme the address from this
gifted young southern orator, will be
worth coming hundred of miles to hear.
The ladies’ department will be ar
ranged by Messrs White and Flanigen,
and the names of these gentlemen is
sufficient to insure that it will be a
wonderful success. The flower show-
will be a neat attractive feature, w hi'e
the walls of the building will be de
corated with beautiful paintings and
fancy work.
Already applications from side show?
are pouring In to the secretary, but in
giving privileges care will be taken on
ly to select the best and most creditable
exhibits. The management, feeling
that they will be individually respon
sible for not only the success of the
fair, but also for everything on the
grounds, they will see that their visi
tors are not victimized by skin games
and worthless exhibitions.
Let every person interested in the
prosperity of Athens lend his aid to
ward making the Stock and Poultry
show a success. Talk it up to every on®
you see, and in behalf of the directors
we pledge you that you will not have
cause to regret a single word of com
mendation that you speak.
Dissolution.
I have this day sold my interest in
the livery stable business of Gann, Mur
ray & Co. to 3Ir. Thomas Bailey. All
accounts due and against the late firm
will be collected and settled by the new
firm. Thanking my patrons for their
kindness,! respectfully ask a continu
ance of the same to the firm of Gann &
Bailey. I. V. Murray.
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BREAD CAST UP0& THE WATERS
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Judge Cothran’s Kindness of Heart
Puts a Disabled Soldier on the
Road to Health, Wealth
and Happiness.
AbUeville (S. C.) Press anil Banner.
At the close of the war J udg
Cothran brought home with him
wounded Confederate soldier. Tha
soldier was a German. Fired with the
patriotism for which the people of the
Father and are famous throughout all
the world, he en isted iu the war of
the country of his adoption, and
fought her battles w-ith distinguished
bravery and a daring of which the no-
-blqst Southron might web he proud.
We know nothing of the particular
circumstances connected with the
wound which he received, bur we do
know that at the close of the struggle
for Southern rights, he had hut one
foot and still snffiering from bodily
atHiction; while that.great distress of
mind which always follows the afflic
ted and penniless stra-ger i ’ astrange
land, was ever present. Though h:s
condition may have excited the
Sympathy of some who saw him, yet
all were poor in money, a d all had af-
ilicUons enough of tlieir own. Xone
had much of time or of money to
spend on the stranger.
During tiie war. and while the shock
of battle was still on the mind, it was
natural for the battle scarred veteran,
who never shirked a duty nor missed
a light, to sympathise with a comrade
who had suffered even more than he
had him .elf. But it is not always that
the citizen, in times of peace, is will
ing to g ve substantia! aid and cheer
ing words to the friendless citizen, and
the stra ger is sometimes not invited
and made welcome within our gates.
Judge Co'hran, prompted by sym
pathy and a kindness of heart, gave
the disabled soldier a home until lie
had recovered from his wounds. Words
of cheer gave his guest comfort and
inspired him with that re; ewe 1 hope
wh'di inplanted. iu his heart the de
termination to cast off the burden
whi h bore him down and—though
miiti ated in person—to rise superior
to the poverty and socia 1 embarras-
ment which .surrounded him.
When he had sufficiently recovered
his health, he let the fact he known
that lie was a cigar-maker by trade,
and. if he conkl get the tobacco, he
could do something for himself. Judge
Cothran, still anxious to help him who
s 'cnied himself lieip ess, he bought
iu'nrrol>nccoand he went to. work-
in awhile in a spare place about the
Judge’s house he afterward opened a
room in town, and for a time did reas-
nably well, when he moved away,
and our people lost sight of him.
That was more than twenty j-ears ago.
Last week he came hack. The peo
ple did not know him, and he did not
know them. But his old friend, whom
he had come to see, was glad to greet
him, and we presume the Judge had
not, for many a day, entertained a
more welcome guest than Mr. G.
Hauser, of Athens, Georgia, and no
o. e ever experienced more real pleas
ure for having done a kindr.ess to a
stranger than has Judge Cothran.
Since Mr. Hauser left Abbeville he
has prospered well and the world has
been good to him. He has now a pro
fitable business in manufacturing ci
gars, and money at interest help him
to the comforts and luxuries of life. A
good wife and happy children com
plete the story of his success.
His fidelity and unceasing friend
ship to his benefactor is beautiful in
deed, and his success in life could be
more pleasing only to his father and
mother, than it is to Judge Cothran.
While a thousand daily acts of loving
THE ELECTRIC MOTOR
TO PROPEL ATHENS STREETCARS AND
THE BANNER PRESSES.
The Great Power of the Future—What
the Establishment of Electr c Lghta
in Athens Means.
The establishment of electric lights in
Athens does not only mean better illu
mination for our city, but also will
greatly assist and encourage manufac
turing enterprises.
31 r. Voss, manager of our street rail
way, tells The Banner that lie is now
negotiating with the company that will
put down an electric plant in Athens to
rent power from them to propel his
street cars, and by early next year our
street railroad will be operated by elec
tricity.
It will take about $100,000 to put in a
plant sufficient for this and the other
purposes for which the new power will
be required in Athens, but the new
company now owning oar gas works has
unlimited capital, and will meet every
demand.
Electricity is the coming motor power
of this age, and will supersede steam.
'Ye notice that at the next National
F.xposition a railway will he operated,
the cars of which will travel 300 miles
an hour. With this speed, the distance
to New Y"ork will be reduced to a run of
three hours, and our citizens can have
the dailies of that city to read at break
fast every morning.
This is a fast age, and others, as The
Banner, arc determined to keep apace
with the times.
THE ALLIANCE WAR.*
Capt. J. H. Ranke? Say3 the Jute Boyecit
is Winning Cotton Receipts Very Heavily.
Capt. J. II. Rucker reached the city
yesterday, alter a visit to Charleston,
and gives a most encouraging account
of the Alliance waragainst the jute bag
ging trust.
Capt. Rucker says he visited the coin-
presses in that city, and also the
wharves where the ships were being la
den with eotton for shipment to Europe,
and that the bales packed in eotton bag
ging stood not only the pressure, but
also loaded as well as the jute-covered
bales. lie says there is no truth in the
report that thi compress men are re
moving tiie cotton bagging and substi
tuting jute. .There hales are compress
ed aud shipped just as they are received.
There are some bales packed in cotton
sheeting not stand the pres
sure, and nmYsof course taken olFand
jute substituted. Farmers had as well
use the ju c at once as any of this flim
sy stuff, for it will not be received by
the shippers.
Capt. Rucker says in Charleston that
about 20 per cent, of the receipts are
eotton covered, and in Augusta 30 per
cent. The rest is covered with old jute.
Very few bales are received with new
jute bagging. There is no doubt but
that the Alliance are winning’their figlit
against the jute trust.
Capt, Rucker saj-s if the Alliance here
only sent to England for second-kand
bagging, that they could have bought at
two cents per yard from the monopolies,
that by this time they could have im
ported enough to cover every bale of
cotton raised in the South.
He says the cotton receipts are very
heavy now.
We see from the Constitution of yes
terday that a great many English mills
are closing down for the want of cotton
to run them, and it is predicted that if
firms hold back during October that the
staple will probably command fourteen
cents per pound in Liverpool.
There is no doubt but that the Alli-
kimlness may be forgotten, yet tliel aneeis doin S some splendid work, and
goodness and generosity which the
Judge extended to the friendless sol
dier twenty-five years ago lives as
fresh and green to-day in the heart
of tiie nob e German as it did when
his acts were fresh in the minds of
all.
MORRIS, THE MURDERER.
He is Wending his Way West.
Bob Morris, the murderer of Ben Wil
lis, in Banks county, on last Tuesday
night, has so far eluded the officers, and
it is said by his friends that he is mak
ing his way West. He went to Lula on
Wednesday night and slept under a tree
near the town, and it is thought that
he went down towards Gainesville aud
boarded the train for the West. Morris
is a young man without any heard, and
e 'the Banks county officers will use a
little energy they will capture him.
The good people of the county are very
indignant over the murder, and place
the whole blame on the new peach
brandy being sold at every public gath-
ring.
Chf.wf.rs’ Rf.quest.—I asked for a
piece of Lucy Hiuton. Here is some
thing just as good—don’t have it. The
Lucy Hinton is the best tobacco on the
market. Talinadge Bros., agents,
Athens, Ga. Also for 3fattapor.i, Jay
when they get thoroughly organized
and out of debt, can command their
own price for cotton.
If it does go to fourteen cents, the
South will be the most prosperous coun
try on the globe.
OUR OLDEST CITIZEN
PASSES AWAY YESTERDAY MORN
ING AT FI YE O’CLOCK.
Mr. John H. Newton Dies at the Advanced
Age of Eighty-Nine—A Good Citizen and
TrUe Man Gone—The Funeral To day.
AUGUSTA COTTON BAGGING
purpose of packing cotton, as it is a
coarse osnaburg, and will not; tand the
neeessary strain. A great deal of this
cloth was made to fill an order and sold
at 9 cents per yard, but it was refused,
and is now offered to farmers et 11 cents
for cotton baggiug. Our informant is
reliable. It would be well farmers to
investigate this matter before using the
Augusta bagging, for if the report be
true the compresses will strip it off and
substitute jute. We do not desire to
do the Augusra mills an injustice, but
feel it our duty to expose this scheme
to palm of oft' cloth on the Alliance a3
cotton bagging, if it be true. We will
cheerfully make a correction if we dis
cover that this bagging is what it is rep
resented to he.
In sending $200 to the Secretary of the
Treasury a Chicagoan wrote that it was
. t , „ to be placed to “Uncle Sam’s Kredit,”
rrri ™ an bfactured by a queer message from a man whose cou-
1. C. 4 llliams Co., Richmond, Va. c ie:i3j w as having a good spell. ’i
YesterJay morning at five o’clock,
Mr. John II. Newton died at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Lamar Cobb. ’For
overeighty-nine years he has lived in
t' e Sta'e of Georgia, anil lias been iden
tified with her every interest. Old
age had come upon him, and having
passed the “four score years and ten”
by nearly twent years^ his death was
not unexpected.
For some time he had jbeen gradually
growing weaker, and on yesterday
morning the souk,, weary of its mortal
habitation, took its flight.
In his death, Athens lost her oldest
citizen and one of its most respected and*
true men.
John Hamlin Newton was born on
the lath day oj September 1300 in Ji £-
ferson county, Georgia. He was left an
orphan at the tender age of 12, and en-
gaged in the mercantile business as
clerk in a store in Davisboro, Ga., re
maining there for two or three years.
He then removed to Augusta, where he
stayed about two years. He then re
turned to his native county and clerked
for Ilardwiek & Co., at Fean’s bridge
for some time.
nis natural talent, business capacity,
industry, and economy soon won for
him the esteem and confidence of his
employers.
He married Miss Mary Jordon, of
Davisboro, in 1827.
They reared only four children to the
age of maturity: Dr. E. D. Newton, of
New York, Gio ge J. Newton who died
during the war as Ordely Sergeant of the
Troup Artillery, of this place.
After accumulating considerable of
world’s goods, Mr. Newton, on account
of the unhealthy climate of Fenn’s
bridge removed to Athens in 1337
where he has resided ever since.
3Ir. Newton was a self-made man.
lie has been heard often to say that he
never attended school more than six
months at a time in liis life, for in that
short time he had acquired all that the
“old field” schoolmasters could impart
and he could not be idle and resumed
work.
lie was a man of indomitable energy
and will, and though at no time did ever
weigh more than 113 pounds, yet up to
Dec. 17th 188S, he could be found at his
counting room every day in the week
except the Sabbath, hard at work.
He was heard to remark on one oc-
'caaiHs, when a young lawyer stated
tUfnfS lie had not taken a holiday In
four years', he was going to the court
for a week, that he had never had a hol
iday in his life.
lie held many offices of great trust in
his life. Commencing as Jusice of the
Peace when a young merchant, after
wards director of the Bank of Athens,
director of the Southern ilutual Insu
rance Company for nearly thirty years
and a trustee of the Lucy Cotb Institute
from its foundation to the day of his
death.
He was also one of the first directors
of the Northeastern railroad.
To him the farmers are indebted for
the first agitation of an Experimental
Station, for in 1855, fired by a pamnlilet
of the late Edmund Ruffin on the sub
ject of Marl etc., he introduced a reso
lution, in a convention of farmers of
the three States of Alabama, Georgia
and 3Iississippi that met in Montgome
ry, Ala., in that year,to appoint a com
mittee to take this matter into conside
ration and report the most feasible plan
to project it.
He early embraced the Christian reli
gion, and has been for over a half cen
tury a consistent member of the Metho
dist church.
As long aspie was able to do so ,every
Sunday morning would find him in the
Sabbath School and then the church,
and when in December of 1888 his fee
ble health deprived him of them, as be
justly and truly esteemed,as great priv
ileges, his interest never ceased, for
on the return of his children or grand
children from church he would ask
what the text was and what the preach
er said.
We understand that as long as he was
Said to be Wholly Unit for Bndlngthe
Staple.
A gentleman tells that the so-called
cotton bagging offered for sale by the4 u "™’m w«
Augusta mills is not suitable for the ™ le to doso > be held daily family pray
ers, even after age had so dimmed his
eyes that he was unable to read God’s
word, he would have it read to him aud
then offer up his earnest prayer to his
Maker. He was truly a public spirited
man, and could always be found in the
front rank of all public movements with
his means and energy.
He was a generous man in all that re
quired generosity, being very characta-
ble to the poor.
Tne funeral services will be held to
day at 2 o’clock p. m. at the First Meth
odist church,
Benefit the World.
There are some persons that live not
alone for themselves, but to benefit the
world. Skiff, the Jeweler can be classed
as one of those persons, not expecting
to benefit the whole world, but those-
who patronize him and use his diamond
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