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THE BANNKRTATHEyS GEORGIAN TDKER i; IW. S3 ANOTHER RAILROAD- ATHENS TO HAVE CONNECTION WITH WASHIN GTON. _ 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. Write to us or call and see u* f. r anything you mav need about your Grid Hill or Gin ATHliWS FOUNNbK Y AND MACHINE WORKS, Athens, Georgia, GEORGIA SEED COMPANY. MACON, GEORGIA, (SUCCESSORS TO SOUTHERN SEED COM PAN Y(, Wholesale & Retail Farm & Garden NEWS IN BRIEF. 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« Peas, CliuiaS, Field Pens, Milio Ma-ze, Kaffir Com, Pearl Millet, etc. Also Eatteni See>l 1 Potatoes. Onion Sets, etc. Write for price list. Special bargain of 20 narkage.* any rirti Gulden Seed un-i *4 lb. be.-t Geo.-gitt-raised Watermelon Seed, postage paid, for ;i. THEO. MARKWALTER’S STEAM Marble and Granite Work: BROAD STREET, Near Lower Market. AUGUSTA, GA. Garble fork, Domestic and Imported, at tom Pi Georgia & South Carolina Granite Monumeuts made a Specialty. A large selection of Marble and Granite Work always on hand, ready tor letterir* ar.d devil Parties Desiring bknumeits or Work Apply to AHDRW M\ A7 Athens Cfmeterv. Tutfs Pills Is an invaluable remedy for SICK HEADACHE, TORPID LIVER, DYSPEPSIA, PILES, MALARIA, COSTIVENESS, AND ALL BILIOUS DISEASES. Sold Evex*ywhere. WORM Children suffering Iromthcsi! acsltucubl sytes can’t be relieved by so-caded wo™ gers which only tickle the palate. 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