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T HE ATHENS BANNER, SEPTEMBER 24, 18S9. SHE ATHENS DAILY BANNER. ^ THE ATHENS BANNER, Published Daily, Sunday and Weekly by T. L. GANTT, Editor and Proprietor, Jackson street, Athens, Ga. The Athens Daily Bannkr is delivered by carriers free of charge in the city, or mailed postage free to any address at the following rates: $6.00 per year, $2.60 for six months, $1.25 lor three months, 10 cents for one week. The Weekly or Sunday Bannek $1.00 per year, 60 cents C mouthfP Transient advertisements will be inserted at tee rate of $1.00 per square ferthe first insertion, and 60 cents for each subsequent insertion, ex cept contract advertisements, on which special rates can be obtained. local notices will be charged at the rate of 10 cents per line each insertion, except when con tracted for extended periods, when special rates trill be made. Remittances may be made by express, postal note, money order or registered letter. All communications, money orders, checks, -etc., should be addressed, or made payable to WHAT THE ALLIANCE IS DOING. There is no longer any doubt about th^fact that the Fanner’s Alliance Is not only surely, but speedily, working out the financial salvation of the agri cultural element of the South. One ~Hsih hut to watch the patriotic and de termined attitude of this organization, and see how the trusts and all manner of opposition goes down before it, to re alize the fact that this Alliance raove- anent is the greatest power ever col lected in America. And while fighting their enemies under the black flag, the Alliance has at the same time proved that it knows how to temper victory with justice. It is not here as an instru ment of oppression, but simply to de mand the just dues of its members— that the men whose horny palms and perspiring brows feed the world shall have their rightful share of the crops that they grow. It is a mistaken idea that the Alli- -ance movement is here to break down our commercial interests. Such a mis sion is not one of their ends—for sinee the world was in its infancy there has been, and ever will remain, a class to conduct traffic. The Alliance does not ^desire to engage in any other than their God-given calling; and will only resort to following other avocations when they feel that such a step is necessary to se cure them in payingonly a justand equit able profit on what they buy. There is nothing wrong or dishonest in an Al- lianceman baying goods and having his cotton handled as cheaply as possible. No clear-sighted merchant ever hesi tates to do this when he buys his stock, and what is legitimate and proper in one class should not he denied the other. There is not a human being on our great continent hut owes his support and his accumulations to the tiller of the soil. You can shut down every factory, 'shut up the stores and stop work en the mines, and the world would still move on and survive. But stop every plow for one season, and famine and bank ruptcy would stalk through the land. Abundant crops and a prosperous ag ricultural people mean business activ ity and plenty. Hence, to secure the greatest degree of happiness and suc cess for any country yeu must have an independent, thrifty yoemanry. The wealthier and more prosperous the far mers become, the better for the country. When he is burthened with debt, and forced to live from hand to mouth—must till mortgaged land with a mortaged mule, and both man and beast depend for sustenanance on food and forage bought at au extortionate credit price, then indeed will the whole country and every class feel the inevitable results of this'misery, in a reduced trade and doubtful collections. Te get good work from a mule or an ox you must feed and care well for the animal ;and to reap the greatest harvest from the honest and bard working farmer you must make him as independent and prosperous as possible. The old fable of the foolish man who killed the goose that laid the golden egg will apply with especial force to to the farmer. The more prosperous he becomes the better for every branch of business in the land. No .great revolutionizing movement has ever been undertaken without some man or class being affected thereby. This will of course apply to the Far mer’s Alliance,organization. But every thing will work out all right. The differences between the buyer and. the seller will adjust themselves, and busi ness glide * TA ng more smoothly and satisfactorily than ever before. While the profits of merchants will doubtless he scaled, this loss will be moie than made up for .by a more settled busi ness basis. The more we see of the Al liance the more firmly are we convinced that it is the only thing that can and will worktout the salvation of£the coun try. races, he should he utterly ignored hv the democratic press, and thus make him rely upon his gown organs for heralding his doctrines and threats. Such a policy o* the part of our papers would do more to suppress inflamatory and insolent utterances from negro pol iticians than anything else. To copy such stuff as Pledger’s call is simply to gratify him and encourage a repetition of these teachings. We hope that the democratic press of Georgia will refuse to lend its aid to the circulation and in culcation ef such vile and slanderous ravings. If the papers will refuse to print them they will die stillborn. THE BAGGING PROBLEM. A BAD POLICY. We think it very unwise in the Con stitution and other Southern papers to give publicly to incendiary harrangues and utterances like that Pledger’s call. The reproduction’ of snch outrageous articles only serve to gratify the authors and insures a circulation that could not otherwise he had. When a negro wants to make himself conspicuous and gain a little notoriety by abusing the white people of the South or giving utterance to sentiments calculated to interrupt the amicable relations between the two It seems that the Alliance, in spite of every prediction, has badly crippled the jute bagging trust, and if that com bine is not overthrow li,it will hereafter roost considerably lower. A farmer should take the shirt from his hack and wrap his cotton,injit,and sell’to|the near est mill, before using a yard of the trust jute. When this trust was first organ ized the President announced that they had the cotton planters at their mercy, and advocated making them pay forty cents per yard for bagging. But this patient beast of burthen, that had so long and meekly borne the yoke of op pression, at once rebelled against this exaction, and has won the grandest victory America has knowu since the Revolution. The enemy is now demor alized, and will soon he begging terms; but keep up the good fight until he is routed house, foot and dragoon. This bagging trust has bought up all the jute butts in India, and we say let them rot on their hands. But for the Alli ance’s war on jute^cottou growers would not be paying less than 25 cents per yard for their haggiug. They have already lessened the demands of the trust nearly 50 per cent, over prices charged last year, and should show no quarter to these extortioners and con spirators. The Constitution settles the race question in the followining truthful statement: “Wlieneverjyou find a colored man hard at work and contented, you will find a friend of peace and order and one earn est for harmony between the races. Whenever you find a negro who does not work, but stauds around with a big stick under his arm and a cheap cigar in his mouth, you find a firebrand that seeks to kindle the flames of any strife, for it is only in strife and storm that he can prosper.” A PUTMMI7V TJT7P 'TAM'D I C, in Canal street, and liaye them tear A Lrilivmn i nili\ i uiyid down tl)e upper part of the chimney- The undertaker and his helpers then WHILE DEMENTED, A WOMAN ENDS HER LIFE IN A FRIGHTFUL MANNER. Isn’t it a little significant that so many so called race troubles ave taking place in the South just on the eve of 'the assembling of Congress? The radicals will be hard pressed on the tariff ques tion, and will do all they can to direct public attention to other matters, hence the vigorous working of the “outrage mill.” FOUND AFTER ELEVEN DAYS- Ex-Commissioner Tanner says: “I am tired of hearing this talk about my mouth. My mouth has been my best friend.” Perhaps Tanner speaks ad visedly. He was paid at the rate of $5,000 a year, while jiension eommis- er, and it Is whispered that he will be appointed to an office which pays more than that. CENSURING AN EDITOR AND A PAPER. Five thousand children were turned away from the New |York schools on the opening day because of lack of room for their accommodation. R. P. Hutchison, better known as “Old Hutch’,’ the Board of Trade ma nipulator, was held up by footpads at Chicago, who went through him, but got nothing. It has again become the painful duty of the Boston news gatherer to chronicle the fact that John L. Sullivan has started out once more to paint the town red. Possibly Sullivan was celebrating his advent into politics. Ihe action of the Young Men’s Dem ocratic League in Atlanta, in passing resolutions of censure against the Con stitution and Mr. Henry W. Grady for condemning the wk'.pping of negroes at East Point by a masked mob, seems to us a very foolish piece of business. Those resolutions not only place this highly respectable organization in the attitude of endorsing and condoning an act of lawlessness, but also of trying to coerce the press into measures. In a free country such conduct will not be tolerated. No good and law-abiding citizen will endorse the whipping of these negroes. If they had violated the law, the courts are open for their pun ishment. But to add to the outrage, it seems that the victims of this mob were at their homes, and entirely innocent of any knowledge of the crime for which a member of their race were lynched. These negroes had no fear of being mo lested, having given no cause for of fense. And yet they were dragged from their beds at the dead hours of the night by masked men, who were afraid to show their faces, and most brutally lashed. The Constitution did right in edito rially denouncing such an outrage, and would he false to our State and its laws had it failed to do so. The negro is completely in the power and at the mercy of the white man and he should feel that so long as he conducts himself properly and respects the laws, that his little cabin is his castle, and he has nothing to fear. His home, be it ever so humble, is as dear and sacred to him as the palace of the millionaire, and across its threshold no one should forcibly pass without the authority of law. These resolutions of censure by that Atlanta league will not injure either Mr. Grady or his paper in the slightest degree v On the other hand, they will elevate Jioth i n the confidence and re spect of all law-abiding and humane men. But it will redound with no credit to he organization that passed that vote 6f censure. In this land and age,a body of men cannot meet and sup pressor bulldoze a public journal. It 'inay’tlulna despotic government like Russia, but thanks to our ^constitution we have and will retain a full and un- traasUgd jH^>.that can ' no t be coerced into measures by any man or set of Montana damocrats -are said to he hopeful and even jubilant. They are I counting on carrying Montana at the • October election. That result would • cause the president to have another bad ! attack of toothache, and would para lyze the President’s young son. Gen. Barnes, Mrs. Langtry’s lawyer in San Francisco, contradicts the report that she has secured a divorce. He also says that she cannot procure a divorce anywhere in this country that would b3 recognized in England. Notwithstanding the assaults that are being made in certain quarters upon the State University, we confidently believe that the people will stand by tills noble Institution and make it the peer of any in the land. The family of the late Dr. H. II. Tucker will continue the publication of the Christian Index. THE FAIR POSTPONED- No Desire to Conflict with the Gainesville Fair. It has been discovered that the date fixed for our Stock and Poultry show is the same as that of the Gainesville Fair, and on learning this yesterday evening the directors met and decided to postpone their exhibition until the following week, as they do not desire to conflict with their Gainesville friends. So our exhibition will com mence on Friday, November 12th, and continue for four daj r s. There will be no change in the attractions ottered. In view of this courtesy, we feel as sured that the people of Gainesville will lend their aid in making onr exhibition a success. A HORRIBLE ATTEMPT- By an men. Nothing that the Democratic League of Atlanta can resolve or do will ever lessen Henry W. Grady in the love and confidence of his State and people. These resolutions of censure will have just about, as much effect as a gnat on a steer’s horn. The New York Herald hits the nail on the head when it says: “To the republicans of the North the negro is simply an element of campaign success. Their chief busines has been to array the blacks against the whites as natural enemies. An opportunity to foment discord is never neglected. The chief peculiarity of every national con gress is the delivery of firebrands into the hands of the colored people with the advice to use them.” Some republican newspapers are ob jecting to these statements, but they know that the statements are true. Oglethorpe Negro. A Whipping Party Organized. A few nights since a negro living in Oglethorpe county, named Jim Sanders, attempted an outrage upon the person of a little sister of his wife, but tha screams of the child prevented the brute from accomplishing his ends. This is one of the meanest negroes in Georgia, and has been the leader in all the dis turbances between the whites and blacks in his county. He headed the attempt ed insurrection a few years ago, and which was nipped in the bud by the prompt action of the whites. This last attempt of ganders was of such a horrible and repulsive nature that all classes of people, both white and black, arose in their indignation, and on Thursday night a party was organiz ed to wait upon Sanders and give him a severe chaetisement, with order* to leave the country. He had gotten intelli gence, however, of the contemplated visit, and wrhen the regulators reached his house the bird had flown, and though a search was made of the neighborhood, no trace of him could be found. It is determined, however, that the negrojshall be brought to punishment, and warrants will be sworn out, and Sanders brought to trial for this at tempted assault, which will land him in the penitentiary for a long term of years. There is not a week but that he commits some flagrant violation of the aw, for which he can be convicted. His arrest and punishment by the courts will he much better than mob violence and we hope that the good citizens of Oglethorpe county will 4 take this mode of punishing the negro, She Was Flying from Imaginary Creditors—Where she was Found Dead—She was the Widow of Policeman Jas. Kenny. New York, Sept. 19.—The most re volting case of suicide in the annals of the police was discovered about three o’clock yesterday afternoon; when Mary Ann Kenny, the young widow of the late policeman Jas. Kenuy of the Oak street station, was found dead in the chimney of her residence, No. 173 Cherry street, having committed sui cide in this horrible manner while in a fit of insanity. Mrs. Kenny lived with her sister, Jane Maloy, on the top floor of the house, which is a four-story tenement. She was English by birth and came to this country when but eighteen mo'nths old. About five years ago she married James Kenney, a policeman in the Oak street station. They lived happily together until years or so ago, when Kenney, who had Leona long sufferer from consumption, took his bed, and to make matters worse the wife took sick and a baby was born Kenney finally grew stronger, and went out on post again. Then the baby died, and a few months later the hus band became so ill that the attending physician recommended a trip to Flor ida as the only hope of saving his life Kenney got a leave of absence, bnt the Southern climate did him no good, and he returned on April 30 in a very feeble condition. On the following day he died, and since then the young wife has been insane. Her mala iy took a peculiar phase She imagined she owed $15,000 to seve ral persons, who were continually dun ning her for it. In the middle of the night she would sit up in bed and beg her mythical enemies not to take her to the Oak street station, for her husband would feel the disgrace keenly. Lately she has been making nightly trips to his old post, oirj^oosevelt street and the East river front, looking for him. She would not believe he was dead, and when assisting her sister in setting the table always put a plate on for “Jim.” At onetime she obtained employment in Hall’s cigarette factory on Thirty- seventh street, but owing to peculiar actions there she did not remain iong On September 7th she seemed partic ularly anxious to escape from her imag iuary pursuers, and about 2 o’clock slipped out of the house. Her absence was soon discovered, aud at nightfall the whole neighborhood were hunting hospitals, prisons and lodging houses in this city, Jersey City, and Brooklyn for the missing woman. She had threatened suicide in her went to work, and, despite the protesta tions of Cuningham,removed about fo«r feet of the brick work on one side of the chimney, and when Firemen Higgins and Welsh of truck No. 6 arrived with axes and heoks the body had been lift ed out and laid upon the roof. The whole lower portion of the body was burned as if it had been slowly roasted, and the stench from it was sickening. The green wrapper the woman wore was burned away to the waist, and all the underclothing likewise. The up- er part of body was fairly well preserved, aud the fact is that her death must have been attended with tc.rturing pains. The Deputy Coroner issued a permit, and the body was at once taken in charge by the undertaker. The funer al will take place to day. Mrs. Kenney will be buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, on Long Island, beside her husband. The general belief is that the woman did not contemplate suicide when she climbed into the chimney, but chese Athens Enthnsei o,J . c °ffling ExhiMtie A A Special 'he Ladie, ,“5 n tebb w FOUR DAYS <OF FUN and a«uu';^ Athens is aroused anri the Stock and Poultry s h e 0 "! hl1 ^ person we have seen and influence to make the success. That it will be* ^ who knows the 1 such. I , gentlemen the head of this enterprhe * * 1 hey have already paid in mo^ to insure a first-class nrcJ' 6 gate receipts wore not a doC 11 resolved that they will ^ to make the exhibition a » ^ 8 S r «d this as a hiding place from the imagin ary creditors whom her hallucination led her to believe were pursuing her from j cess, place to place laiming their $15,000. Mrs. Kenny was a beautiful woman, and her horrible death lips not disfigur ed her lovely features. The Deputy Coroner is in doubt as to how long the woman lived after she en- . . r .,„ tered the chimney. The Coroner will wait upon him and ask his Prof. White readily hold an autopsy. DOWN AN INCLINE- An Electric Car Breaks Loose and Sixteen Persons Hurt. Special to The Banner. Chattanooga, Tenn., September 20. A terrible accident occurred this morn ing on the Missouri Ridge electric car line. The electric current gave out, and the car filled with passengers, dashed down the long ineline at terrific and in creasing velocity. The ineline is very steep and the ground rough and broken, In spite of this and the fearful speed of the car the passengers leaped pell mell into the air, falling heavily to the rough and steep slope of Missionary Ridge, rather than risk the awful crash at the bottom. Sixteen of those who took the perilous leap were severely bruised. It is thought that two of them will die from their injuries. It is reported that the two fatally in jured are visitors to the reunion. Their names have not yet been ascer tained. The accident was caused by dew and overeowding, The brakes were turned on, but the car slid down rapidly, and the conductor shouted to the passen gers to jump out. °f the directors At a meeting day, Prof. II. c. University,was chosen a memAj boaid, and a committee IN LEXINGTON JAIL. more sane moments and her relatives feared she had jumped into the East Riverafter failing to find “Jim” on post. Several people met her on her way to the river, and her sister sent out an alarm from Police Headquarters. Since then a constant search has been going on. For the past few days the people living in the big tenement house The Murderer of Mr. Louie Waller Will be Tried by the Courts. Jim Huff, the negro who killed Mr. Louie Waller in Oglethorp* county, and was arrested in South Carolina and lodged in the Athens jail for safe keep ing, ,is now confined in Lexingtoa, where he will remain until court con venes, when there is no doubt about his conviction for this unprovoked crime This forbearance speaks well for the law-abiding citizens of Oglethorpe. It shows that their courts of justice are fully able to vindicate the laws and, in Cherry street have complained of the j Uiay have no desire to take the punish- laek of draught in the chimney, and yesterday Mrs. Kelley, who lives on the grouud fioor, notified the landlord, a Mr. Cunningham, who keeps a saloon at No. 11 James street. In the afternoon Cuuningham sent his bar-tender, Phillip McAllister, to ex amine the flues. McAllister mounted to the roof and tying a piece of cord on a stone dropped it into the opening on tli* chimney top. It Avent down about two feet and then the cord slackened. Pulling it up again, helookod down and saAV a black object, on which he placed his hand. He thought it was a dog or cat. He then took hold of the objeot and tried to pull it out. ‘He Avas horrified Avhcn he drew forth a handful of long, black hair. He had heard of the miss ing woman, ’and, procuring a candle, he looked doAvn the opening and saAV her ghastly face, blackened with soot and half turned up to the air. Under her chin rested her left hand, on Avhieh he saw a gold wedding ring, and then he was sure that this was Mrs. Kenney en tombed in the chimney, where she had been for eleven days with rain pouring down from above and smoke arising from below. The young man notified the neighbors and then the Madison street police cam and sent for the Coroner. In the meantime the dead woman’s sister was told of the affair, and she rushed madly to the roof and began tearing away the loose bricks *n the chimney top. Undertaker James Mo ran, of No. 32 Madison street, was sent for, and he with helpers”tore away the bricks for two feet and dirclosed the dead face. About this time the landlord arrived and instead of sympathizing with the unfortunate relatives, remonstrated with them in very pronounced language for having removed bricks from his chimney. Deputy Cor oner Conway soon appeared and remov ed more of the brick work, which called forth more Avrathy words from Cun ningham. The deputy then sent Avord to the police station to call out truck No. ment of even as horrible and bloody a crime as this in their OAvn hands. They are right. Here they permit to safely remain in jail a negro Avhose hands are stained Avitli the blood of one of their best and most popular young men, and not even a threat of lynch law is heard. It Avas predicted that if Jim Huff was carried to Lexington, that he Arould be taken from jail and hanged by the friends of Mr. Waller, but it will not be done. The Premium List. The premium list of the Northeast Georgia stock and poultry show will be printed at the Banner job office and in a feAY days canvassers will call on eur merchants for cards to pay the cost for same. This will be a rare opportunity for our business men to reach the people of this sectien, and at the same time help a great enterprise. This, will be the handsomest premium list ever gotten out by any fair. Incorporated Churohes. Nearly all of the county churches ar< or will be incorporated sooner or later and whisky will not be allowed within three miles of au incorporated church. This means prohibition in wet countier for a few boards.nailed to trees can be incorporated as a church. Chariton chapel wasjincorporated in Banks coun ty before the war, and it is only a big wide spreading oak three. Ac LL L per lulus, Nickerson & Co,, are hereby notified leadily consented stated that he would lend all th» tance in his power to encou ra » et J1 terprise, and suggested seL ? tures that Avill add greatly to the ,t. ure of the occasion. The additiJ Prof. White to the board of dj r J a great thing for the exhibition j better or more useful man could mi J found, 1 In lieu of an exhibit of farm prodj, the ladies have kindly volutteen take charge of one room and hands ly decorate it with art treasury \ other attractions from their home? i make this department one of the i interesting features. Besides,adiq of chryantliemuums and fall all kinds will be made. The ladies seem as much enthai over the Fair as are the gentlea«,i Avill give their aid in making their* partment eclipse the exhibition oni outside. The main hall Avill be cleared out, ( ceiling and Avails festooned withbrn ing and decorated Avith evergreen i flowers, a new floor laid, and a 1 ful promenade formed for the people. Besides the brass band on i grounds, a first-class string band \ be kept in this hall, and ladies and» tlemen will have au opportunity engaging in such sports aud their inclination dictates, when t are wearied of looking at the uuiett rupted aud numerous attractions on«| grounds. But the big feature of the showi be Alliance Day. It is expected l at least 5,000 Alliancemen will be« the grounds, and there will be a r«-uuion of farmers. Audresses will* made by distinguished Allisncewt| from every section of the country, i that this organization can learn they are progressing in the South, East and West. Ia honor fi this occasion, every ^room will draped in cotton bagging, cotton b ging banners will float from every? acla of the building, and the recep# committee will be dressed in full - of the same material. A hears hired to bring in a roll of jute, same baried in a dishonored n raT! front of the grand stand. There will bo a field day for theft] versity boys, and an evening for their athletic sports. The inter-county walking be a great attraction. A lit*™ prize Avill be offered to the nnin > entries will be made of the destrians from every county m . Sion. This in itself will attract croAvd. Messrs. Nicholson and KuoxJ . I be engaged to make their rai , and as these young men are ret as the SAviftest runners > n the contest Avill be agreat at^ The horse races wiUbetbe^ held in this section. * r - had the promise of some fine' , a distance; but it is deternun*, Georgia shall not b® ». rU therefore several premiums w fered for horses raised m ° u Th.c<;u»hbwFill»«£J*i tention, and animals will» * all over the State. YY e wan J Athens Alliance. The following were elected as officer e of the Athens Alliance yesterday: W. H. Thurmond, President. W. G. Woodfln, Vice-President. Geo. E. Heard, Jr., Secretary. A. M. Scudder, Treasurer. C. Benson Voronee, Door-Keeper. A. S. Turner, Assistant Door-Keeper Special Notice. irsons indebted to the late firm of that their notes and accounts may he found for the present with the Athens Hardware Co., at the old stand, and they are requested to call and pay the same. Athens hardware co. septsiwit. We stock raisers represented ia this < tion - Besides ire will have the j play of fine stock of «U * ^ obickens and dogs ever gia. The above is only »synop«“ has been arranged. The dire^, daily, and new features will be from time to time. That the Northeast Gc °^ d sU cc* Poultry Show will be a a and attract a great Athens, is now beyond dispu^ The Banner will kee P. t4 re5- posted daily as to th ® “ e n beofl^ The premium hst wiU«" ,*>■ all the printing matter h»» W dered.