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THE BANNKRTATHEyS GEORGIAN TDKER i; IW.
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ANOTHER RAILROAD-
ATHENS TO HAVE CONNECTION
WITH WASHIN GTON.
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Col. James M. Smith Contemplates Ex
tending His Road—A Great En
terprise-
the
7oT. James M. Smith was In the city
5 other clay, and in conversation with
The Banner editor unfolded a great
>rki
railroad project that he is now working
— There is nothing visionary about
up
tnis great farmer, and when he under
takes an enterprise, Col. Smith, like
Richelieu, knows no such word as fail.
This gentleman now proposes to ex
tend his railroad from Smithsouia (his
farm and residence) to ashmgton,
Ga., via Sandy Cross, through the
upper edge of Goosepond district, and
if sufficient inducements are offered to
carry it bv -Ualorysville, in n tykes
county. The distance from Smithonia
to Washington is 23 miles—the same as
from Washingteiu to Elbertou—and by
this former route the expense of bridg
ing Broad river can be saved, and- one
of the freshest and finest sections in
His D-iath Sunday Night at the Home of
His Brother.
J[r 4 Henry P. Christy died Sunday
night at the homo of his brother, Mr.
W; S. Christy, after a lingering illness.
The grim disease, consumption, had
fastened upon him, and for some time
he had been in poor health. He was
one of the founders of the Athens Even
ing Grapido, now the Evening Chroni
cle, and was a clever gentleman. His
funeral was preached this afternoon by
Rev. W. D. Anderson, and the remains
interred in Oconee cemetery.
The Athena Alliance.
A large number of the farmers in
and around our city met yesterday and
finished their organization. Mr. W.
II. Thurmond, the president, who is
heart and soul with the Alliance in
forms us that it was a very interesting
meeting and that the stock and poultry
sohw totake place in Athens in No
vember was considered and that this
Georgia developed and opened up. _ sub Alliance will do something towards
Washington has already subscribed
. ..'ashingWW — ,
between Sap.OOD and *40,000 to build a
railroad to hlbi'Ttonj to tap the G.,t. &
N.,which will traverse a broken country
and be a very eostly. route. Besides the
people of EiOeriou do not want this
ruad,' we learn, and will not subscribe a
dollar to it. On the other hand, Ath
ens will be greatly benefited by the ex
tension to Smithsouia,aud will subscribe
liberaly to get the road. At that point
it would tap Col. Smiths - road, that
will give it connection with the Geor
gia, as also the Georgia, Carolina and
Northern, that will pass that place. It
will put Washington on an air liue
with the West, and al3.o with the Mis
sissippi river country, via the Georgia
Midland, that will be built in a short
Coi. Smith says that if *50,C00 or $60,-
000 is subscribed, he will pledge iuin-
*.elf to build this road to Washington,
and have it completed and in operation
as soon as practicable. He will get
liberal subscriptions from tne counties
between Smithson in and 11 ashington.as
the p.-ople are anxious for a railroad.
A charter has already been applied
for, and will be granted by this session
of the Legislature. This charter is for
ii railroad from Smithsouia to Augusta,
us it is the intention of Col. Smith lo
oveiituallvcar'y his road to that city,
and thus furnish a track for the Au
gusta ami Chattanooga. And this is
another inducement to the people of
Washington to encourage this road, for
it will insure to them tlie Augusta and
Chattanooga, as the two lines will be
consolidated.
Col. Smith i).tends to build up quite
a trading point at Smithonia. 5V ith its
new railroad connections' it will enjoy
as good freight rates as any place in
Georgia, and being surrounded by a
splendid agricultural country, there is
no reason whj it should not be quite a
little city. , . .
Col. smith tells us that Ins railroad
is doing an excellent business. It will
cost him $75,000, and pays « per cent,
net on the investment. This is certain
ly a wonderful showing for a new and
short line. lie intends to extend
branch roads all over his farm, and do
most of his hauling by steam powei.
helping the Fair. They meet again
next Friday when business of impor
tance will be transacted. •
Can’t Smoke.
The young boys under twenty-one
years of age are very much distressed
over the recent bill to prohibit them
from the use of tobacco. One young
boy who has hardly been relieved from
long dresses asked Capt. Oliver what
he would do with him if he- caught him
smoking a cigarette. Capt. Oliver in
formed the little boy that he would not
riiake a case against him but would give
him a good spanking. The police are
on the lookout for three young offend
ers against the recent law, and we may
expect to have a large number up be
fore the courts.
BLOWUP SNELSON.
AN INFERNAL MACHINE IS SENT TO HIM.
The Member From Merrlwither Finds
a Box in His Mall That Was Load
ed With Powder, Primed and
Ready to Blow Up.
Major Warner Finally Declines.
Special to the -Danner.
Kansas City, September 24.—Major
Warner has finally and irrevocably de
termined to decline the pension com-
missionership.
Incorporating a Georgia Road.
A special dispatch from Atlanta says
that a petition has been made to the
Georgia Legislature for the incorpora
tion of the Georgia & Tennessee. I is
understood that the new company will
be a consolidation of the Columbus
Southern, Chattanooga, & Columbus
and Georgia, Midland & Gulf roa Is
To carry out the project, the Chatta
nooga, Rome & Columbus would have
to be extended from Carrollton, Ga., to
Warm Springs, on the line of the
Gergia, Midland & Gulf.
THE STREP RAILWAY.
:t Will Do for
What tns New Marigerr.e
Athens.
Yesterday The Banner editor, with
Mr. Voss, examined the new car that
has been rebuilt by Klein & Martin, it
i- certainly a gem, and is named the
Lucy Cobb. This car shows, what
Klein & Martin and Athens can do. j —
Mr. Toss will have painted across the | BU tiSTINGr
sides of each car the streets on which!
they will run. There will be turn ta
bles placed at the end or each line, so
that the cans \\ ill not run backwards:
New runu'ng gear is placed under eve
ry car, which make them a great deal
lighter, amt makes, riding easier. The
former old cars will be entirely rebuilt,
and made better than ever. The two
iu-w cars are now finished, and are
much lighter than the ones now used.
Bells are hung on each mule, and you
can now hear the cars coming for quite
a distance.
So soon as the new cars arrive, Mr.
Voss will engage the brass band of
Harmony Grove and give the. young
ladies of the Institute a complimentary
serenade from the car named in their
honor.
Athens will have the besi street car
service in Georgia. Mr. Voss under
stands his business thoroughly, and liis
company will! spare no money in mak
ing the road and rolling stock first-class
in every respect.
A Lucky Escape.
Special to The B miner.
Milwaukee, Wis., September 24.
A great catastrophe during the national
encampment was averted by mere
chaiice. A sloping hillside at Juneau
park, where 100.000 people were seated
on the night of the sham battle, was
moved six inches, llad it not been for
a stone roadbed of railway at the foot of
the hill the whole side of the bluff
would have slipped off into the lake
carrying the people with it.
OF A WATER MAIX
Much Damage Done to Railroad and
Other Property.
Special ti tli ■ Banner.
New York, Sept. 25.—The Croton
water main at Tremont station, on the
Harlem railroad, burst last night and
the tracks of the Harlem and New
Haven and Hartford railroads were
completely submerged. The gas main
under the New Haven tracks was under
mined and exploded when the train
passed oyer it. The headlight of the en
gine wa3 blown fifty feet. Much dam
age was done to streets and buildings.
UNWRITTEN HISTORY.
-'pecial to Tho Banner.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 25.—Hon. A. J.
Snelson, member of the legislature from
Merriwether county, is a sensation
everery day in the week.
This morning he found an infernal
machine in his mail at the Markham
House—loaded, primed and ready to
blow-up on the slightest provocation.
When -dr. Snelson called for liis mail
at the office of the Markham house this
morning, the clerk handed him with
his letters a small package.
It was addressed to—
Hon. A. J. Snelson,
Markham House,
Atlvnta, Ga.
Mr. Snelson retired to his room, but
in a short while came rushing back into
the office in a most excited condition,
He held at arms-length a small
wooden box, about two inches wide and
five inches long,
It was a little pine box and looked
like a very innocent affair to the clerk.
“Who sent me this?” demanded Mr.
Snelson, hurrriedly.
The clerk didn’t know, and box was
placed upon the counter for examina
tion.
The top had been slided open, and
the contents of the box could be seen
plainly.
To the inside of the sliding top a cork
had been firmly glued. In this a match
had been firmly fixed, so that the head
of the match just touched a piece of
sandpaper, pasted to the bottom of the
box. At the end of the piece of sand
paper, where the match pulled toward
you would strike, was a wad of loose
cotton, fixed around one end of a large
powder fuse. This piece of fuse enter
ed a tin cartridge at the end of the box.
On the other side of the box was a small
glass phial filled with little broken bits
of colored glass.
The whole was a formidable looking
affair.
Neither Mr. Snelson nor the clerk
knew the meaning of th« mysterious
box, and they let it severely alone.
But Mr. Snelson did not let the mat
ter drop. He was not to be tampered
with in any snch way.
He carried the box at arms’ length to
police headquarters, and exhibited it to
Chief Connolly. The chief at once de
cided to send for gunsmith and have the
tliiug “analyzed.”
..After leaving the box at the chief’s
office Mr .Snelson wenttothe Capitol,and
was present at the morning session of
the house.
But the infernal machine was still
on liis mind, and he was restless and ill
at ease.
A little crowd of patrolmen gathered
around the box at headquarters, but no
one offered to solve the mystery of the
tin cartridge.
Whenever anyone would touch the
box the crowd would scatter at once.
One gunsmith came, looked at the
box, examined the contents carefully,
but declined to tamper with it.
WHY IT DIDN'T GO OFF.
Everybody who saw the machine
wanted to know why it didn’t go off'.
It was only a mere accident that kept
the thing from blowing up.
The rainy, wet weather made the
white pine box swell, and the match
didn’t quite touch the sand paper as was
intended. And then Mr. Snelson open
ed the box slowly and with great care.
It was due to these facts alone that
the match didn’t go off.
A FISSURE IN THE QITADSL ROCK
A Fr«ik D»|«t Threatens Mine Hnadre4
— Homm at Quet»e«v
Quebec, Sept. 25.—Dennis Berigen,
son of Michael Timothy Berigen, who
succumbed to wounds received jn tho
recent landslide, died Monday. The re
mains of several of the viotims recov
ered Sunday were buried Monday.
The funeral of Thomas Nolan, who was
a member of the Eighth battalion, was
conducted with military honors.
About sixty men. employed by the
city, are now at work with steam en
gines and derricks removing the debris,
and the work is progressing rapidly.
Those well acquainted with the locality
assert that the number of persons yet
missing is greater than fifteen.
Photographers are busy taking views
of the cliff' sides at different places at
the orders of Gen. Cameron and Maj.
Mayne, of the royal engineers. These
gentlemen, in company with several en
gineers and scientific men, have sur
veyed the terrace and adjoining rocks.
They examined the newly discovered
track which rnns 200 feet under the
southeast end of the Dnfferin terrace.
That fissure was three days ago but
three inches wide and is now about five
feet wide and some fifty feet deep. Gen.
Cameron expressed Ins opinion ver,
clearly on the subject.
Not only the houses on Champlain
street, adjoining the heap of ruins, but
both
VUY.L WE/G/fp—-
i PURE h-
CREAM I
all the houses on both sides and on
the whole length of the street, number- j
ing about 900, should be deserted, not I
on account of immediate uauger, but I
because the rocks are daily loosening
and tumbling down, constituting a per-1
manent danger to passers-by. It is the
g eneral opinion that the houses imme-1
iatelv under the threatening rocks I
should be vacated instantly or another
catastrophe will soon add* new horrors I
to the lugubrious train of . woe.
PRICE BAKING POWDER CO., Hew York.
Chicago,
Athens
-AND
^ouudi
MACHINE
ATHENS, -
Burled 108 Hour.* anil Alive.
Quebec, Sept. 25. —At 9 o’clock Tues-I
day morning the laborers working at the
landslide ruins found the man, Joe
Kemp, who was heard on Saturday, b .t
who was again hidden by a falling in ol
the ruins. Kemp was still alive and I
able to speak. Stimulants were admin
istered and the doctors think he will re-
cover. He is 72 years of age and had
been buried for 108 hours. At 10 o’clock
Tuesday morning the inquest into the j
cause of death of the vietiuis was begun.
The number of dead is now forty-eight.
PENSION COMMISS ONER.
Mayor Warner Can't Afford to Relinquish
HI, Law Buaiuess for It.
Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 25.— Maj.
Warner has announced to a reporter of
the United Press, his final and irrevoca
ble determination to refuse the appoint
ment as commissioner of pensions. The
announcement is made m accordance
WOKRS,
wfalO.V
Manufacturers of Ir 0tUn(lt
Castings, Mill and Mad
Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers]
Baxes, Cotton Presses,
Mills and Evaporators (J
Seed Crushers and Circular!
Mills.
ij^yWe sell tl)6 Atlas Steam Engines, Injectors, Jet Pu
Valves, Piping and Steam Packings, Water Wheels
Pelting Cloth. We have competent mill-rights and
them out and erect mills anywhere in the com
ra.isnn ie'llnd ha nmnnt aiFnnl Cdll TllVlliAl 11 111U
teiisible reason is that he cannot afford
to relinquish his law business.
The Color Line in Arkansas.
Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 25.— A
strong move is on foot in Arkansas just
now looking toward the passage of a
state law requiring railroads to provide
separate coaches for colored passengers,
both by the people and press of the
state, and is said to be even claimed
that the better class of blacks indorse
this plan. The movement is constantly
gaining force, and the indications are
strong that a bill will be introduced at
tho legislature drawing the color liue in
Arkansas with an iron hand.
can furdish estimates.
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THE BASE BALL BKOTHERHOOD.
The Alleged Scheme to Break Away
from the League Not Without its
Skeptics.
New York, Sept. 25.—There is some
thing peculiar about the alleged scheme
of the brotherhood to break away from
the League. Many are inclined to look
upon the whole thing either as a yarn
got ten up by parties in Boston, Chicago
and Sc. Louis as a bluff' by the brother
hood to bring the League to its knees
again. For example, George Wright.
John Morrill and Al. Johnson say a
A Daring Thief.
Special to The Banner.
Atlanta, Sept. 25. — This morning
about 10 o’clock, while Mr.s. Andy
Stewart, wife of the county tax collec
tor, was riiling in a buggy near West
End, anegro jumped into the vehicle
aud attempted to jerk her satchel, con
taining a poeketbook which was lying
oil the seat.
Mrs. Stewart whipped Jup tho horse
and the negro fell backward out of the
buggy before he could secure the satch
el.
The matter was reported at the po
lice station and an unsuccessful effort
was made to capture the thief.
Dr. Linton Says Culion Bagging Was First
Made in 1846-47—Fighting the Trust
With Old Bagging.
Dr. Liuton, one of Clarke county’s
most intelligent and best posted far
mers, tells us that cotton bagging was
made by a mill in Hancock county,Ga.
in 1840-47, and was generally used
The Doctor says it was a great deal bet
ter bagging than that now turned out
by either the West Point or New Or
leans mills. Jute, however, became so
much cheaper that this enterprise was
abandoned.
The Athens merchants are now re
ceiving a great deal of second-hand
bagging, for which they find ready sale
at about one cent a yard less than asked
for new jute. Car* loads of bales of
burleps are sold, as also second-hand
jute in which hogs, beef and other ar
ticles were shipped.
Several large farmers have given
orders for new jute, some ordering con
siderable quantities: but they ave only
isolated cases. Out. of every 100 far
mers about 69 refuse to touch new jute
at any price. There is only a limited
supply of it on hand in Athens.
If you wish to restore the bloom to
your wasted cheek, and so improve your
_ health that plumpness and strength* will
broVhertoodclub'wWcertainly'beTwTr^ I 8Ucce f? emaciation and debility, purify
ed in Boston. Yet John Ward and Wood with Ayer’s Sarsaparilla.
Keefe emphatically declared there is no I , rh,a remedy will benefit you more sure-
truth at all in the story.
It was said that Mayor Grant and
Postmaster Vancott, were interested in
the scheme. Postmaster Vancott denies
this. Mayor Grant is out of the city,but
Secretary Crane says that he knows pos
itively that the mayor has nothing to do
with the brotherhood scheme, financial
ly or otherwise. The agent of the Lynch
estate says that the syndicate capitalists
that was to lease the grounds has not
yet signed the lease. He is waiting till
they give security for rent.
A gentleman who will not allow his
name to be used, but who savs he is in
daily communication with Al. John
son, declares the brotherhood club will
play on a ground much further down
town than the polo ground
ly andjspeedily than any other.
—The Tennessee republicans have
filed a bill in chancery against two
laws passed by the late legislature of
the state to secure fairness and honesty
in elections, vane is the Dortch act,
prescribing a method of voting similar
to the Australian plan, and the other is
a registration act applicable to the lar
ger cities of the state and Shelby and
Davidson counties.
A Coiulen*:itioi ni lutirjitiii; Ite m oa
Vnrioa* Subject*.
Indiana state fair in full blast.
Mormonism is growing in Wyoming.
Tiie Utah commission has finished its re
port.
Samuel S. Cox left all his property to his
wife.
Salvation Army is to be suppressed in
Kansas City.
Cars killed G -orge Gephart, brakeman, at
Ridgeville, Lid.
Grand jury at Chicago will consider the
smoke nuisance.
St. Louis has raised §3,000,003 for the
world’s fair fu id.
The judze refused to discharge Woodruff
in the Cronin case.
E'.za Thomas, pioneer, died at Moxton,
Iud., Monday, aged 83.
Mrs. O. L. Warbinton died Sunday at
Covington, O., aged 83.
Township treasurer of Bethlehem, Stark
county, O., §4.000 short.
George Latham, rich cattle man, was
found dead near Wicbra.
A National silver convention has been
called to meet in Sr. Louis Nov. 26.
William Ramsby was arrested at Vevay,
Ind., for assaulting a young lady near Dills-
boro.
At Grednsbnrg, Ky., George A Cleyd, a
young merchant, shot aud killed himself.
He was drinking heavily.
George Swauston was arrested at Youngs
town, O.,. for pension swindling. He had
personated a dead man for more than a year.
Tiie report that the Chicago and Alton is
trying to obtain control of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railway, is authoritative
ly denied.
Dispatches from Mount Washington state
that on the summit snow is eighteen inches
deep, and Monday was the first day of sun
shine this month.
J. W. McFeat, one of the state guards sta
tioned at Harlan C. H., Ky., to protect th*
court now in session, was accidentally shot
and killed by a comrade while drilling.
Rev. J. F. Jenifer, pastor of Touro chapel,
Newport, R. I., has resigned to accept a call
to Quinn chapel, Chicago. He will be sue
needed bv Rev. T. W. Henderson, of that
conference.
The publishing house of Belford, Clarke &
Company, at Chicago, ha3 failed. Judg
ments were entered for $12,855, and a re
ceiver was appointed. Assets estimated at
$400,000; liabilities, $3i0 fc 000.
We cost/ a full line of Cotton Seed, Grasse* and Clovers, German Millet, Spanish Gr«
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THE STOBM MOVEMENT.
.It Has Veered Northward and is Now
Central off the Virginia Coast.
Special to the Banner.
WjbhisAon, D. C., September 25.—
The storm reported yesterday morning j promptly rpf ’ n ded.
The street cars are having nice clock** 1 as central in south-western North Car-
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And life’s wan flame goes out. at length,
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pany, of Cleveland, is in jail on a charge oi |
embezzlement. Hi is charged with collect
ing and keep over $1,530 of his employers’
money.
A thorough investigation of the books of
James P. 'Williams, the absconding receiving
teller of the First National bank, of Denver,
shows that he is short $4,256. The bank is
fully protected by an insurance in the
American Surety company, who will make
an effort to secure his arrest.
The details of the mob trial under lynch
law of Alonzo Edwards and his wife, M»*y,
at Rosalia, Kan., are of the most revolting
character, and reveal a story of inhuman
treatment seldom met with. It turns out
that the child they were accused of murder
ing is alive and well, notwithstanding Mrs.
Edwards confessed, when strung up, that
she murdered it.
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