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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. d w 4t BREAD CAST UP0& THE WATERS - - 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 Sp3JfaClQ3 .