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ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 8. 1389.
Ure
Iti ATHENS.
of a Stupendous
Farce.
roK
Lug stcrf
OPENLY sold in
OI K CITY.
BAR-ROOM DESCRIBED.
staM )S
dens.
JtND TONIC
I!.
I
men (luring the tournament in Athens
last summer. Of course this was an
«xtiaordinnriljr“unheaUhy”eea«on,but
it is not unreasonable to estimate that
this little business will net its euter-
prising proprietor orer $5,00© per
annum—and all that he is required to
pay for this privilege is his state anil
government licenses, and $100 physi
cian’* Ux to the city.
' • u’t ***
Occasionally our vigilant Chief *f
Police will docket a few cases against
Dr. Set. mup; but. it is a most amusing
legal force. The Doctor employs a
lawyer, the witnesses swear that the
liquor was sold them under prescrip
tion, the Judge charge# the law, and
the culprit is acquitted, and retiecs to
j hi* place of business and continues his
HE J noble work of healing the “sick” and
, satisfying the thirsty. Thus the work
goes on from day to day. Customers
_ _. . multiply and the dollars continue to
<)ur 1 ' ople ° Diges roll into the already well-filled coffers
i of the prosperous physician. The city
Jiioref this paper did every- loses it* revenue from the liquor busi
ness, hut there is no diminuticn in the
number of whisky drinkers or the
amount of liquor sold.
■ 1
Tha next boldest class of Athens
“blind tiger?” is the tonic sellers. They
are as thick as leaves in Va Iambi osa.
You can find them on every cross
street—in fact, all over town. These
men purport to soil a harmless and
healthful beverngo. Ask for a few bot-
' tics to cany to your room, and-they
* * i will wrap up for you a stuff that would
M.nutv abolished the 'Wit a hog. But give a wink and ask
of Lit exhaling hev- fm ' a glaaT'oT^tolite,** and you will
have poured out a schooner of ice-cold
lager beer. It is labelled‘“Tonic,” but
in a prohibition town there is nothing
in a name—or label, if you are known
to the proprietor of one of these tonic
resorts at “true blue,” and want soine-
thiag stronger than beer, ask and thou
shalt receive—only the proprietor will
have to step in a wet comity and
‘‘order the pizen”—but he doubtless
receives this liquor by telegraph, Iron
the short time it takes to reach you
from a drug store or over in Madison
county.
There are four drug stores in Athens
with liquor licenses, but some only
take them out to sell alcohol. There
will 1 c another opened in a Wall
street establishment in a short
time, and, we learn,sp.il two other phy
sicians will move to Athens This winter,
ostensibly for the pnrpqst?. of “prac
ticing medicine,” but reifllyto sell
.Blind Tiger in Gener^J.
TIlK demon either
|. j-i;(>Si:i> OR ENCHAINED
[ jt t.i- power to aid the success of
fi,u: lu-ket in Clarke county,
i • j I it would result in the
i. ;,. V ;tjion of our community, and
,t,. r j,ii;g generation from the
1,11-1 cli t:ce. We did rot sto.
(\!:at . fleet this law would
lin! tlielutsiness of Athens, -?^r
malted and noble work
{I,.- question of dollars and
ret for an instant receive
r u i 1
|trsucii i
i Icrl
)..r .linns
lV ;l lari-e majority, and for sev-
a marked improvement was
,!, j',. «nr people. Wlvile a few
i.;l> reiitinued to send off for
riimid.isky. it was an 1'nconve-
muliotly luxury,’ andthe great
,f our people lead sober, moral
; ,iii.iriuns lives. This era of
and sobriety richly repaid our
• for (loir experiment, and doubt- (
jve*! many men from tilling
aril'? graves. We have no excuse
IgVroi r.-yn-t to express for either .
liiiiluuice we used in behalf of pro-
ptiouo; lor tiie vote, that we cast:
Li the li-pior traffic. If the same .
L;toil.- made over again, under
pjnu.riri-umstanees, we would fol- ,
i ilii* same course.
*
|nt tl.ore is no longer disguising the
It limt King Alcohol has been again
liriMud in the Classic Citv. and tha*
in this particular. They have regular
whisky and beer saloons scattered all
over the city—in little stores and black
smith and shoe shops, and even privut *
houses. The owner can make more on
one gallon of corn whisky than he can
by an honest day’s work, and the temp
tation is irresistible. They generally
buy from the Madison county bar
rooms, and a regular line of “jug to-
ters” can be seen at any hour of the
day or night traversing the public
roads. Besides, some of the more en
terprising liquor sellers in the “Free
State” supply their Athens trade by
wagons that make daily trips.
***
But the biggest eotored bar room in
Athens is known as the Athenaeum
‘Club, and is located near where the old
Town Hall once stood. This club is
said to number 200 members or more,
and has as an attachment, a- regular bar
room, that is be.pt open (lay and night.
A new mcmtxfr is chosen to preside over
the liquor department every twenty-
four hours. The law cannot reach th»3
club, as the whisky is bought jointly by
,ihe members, and is said to be furnished
“free” to them. Bnt what would a
fine result in—only 25 cents to each
member ?
We could go on further and tell of
the various social clubs in existence
among the white gentlemen of Athens,
who buy whisky by the barrel and beer
,by the ease, but of course they do not
violate any law. The increased nmu-
of these clubs show, however, that
there is a steady increase In the number
her of drinkers and the amount of
.liqnor consumed in our city. But the
worst feature is, that there was a few
weeks ago in existence—and we . sup
pose it is still kept-up—a club of mere
boys, several under IS years of age. who
will average from one to two barrels of
whisky per week. While the parents
of these children imagine they are at
tending some innocent {gathering, they
are in an up-stairs room carousing over
their whisky.
.
We could goon still further an 1 tell
of other hidden mysteries in our“diy”
city that will open the eyes of our peo
ple to the great farce that is being
played-in their midst, and will do so
from time to tim*. It is argued that
the receipts of liquor by express have
fallen off. This is doubtless true, for
where it onee came in by the jug, it is
ANOTHER RAILROAD.
ATHENS TO CONNECT WITH THE MARI
ETTA AND NORTH GEORGIA.
A BUI for a Charter Before the Legisla
ture—It will Afford an Outlet to the
Western Markets.
THE ALLIANCE.
T!!K THREATEN TO PXJT UT A CCKPS.ESS
Unless the Repacking of Bales In Cotton
Bagging is Discontinued.
A HORRIBLE DEATH.
* — —. • *
r.r::RT wr.-s rAt.LT allee" o:; the
N ORTH EASTERN RAILROAD
TRACK.
The Farmers’ Alliance are aroused
over the report that the compress men
are repacking a great many hales
Athens is sure to be a railroad centre.
Everything goes to show tills, and it, „
really seems iL.t our city is being re-1 !l “ z - v «“«*
garded in |»is aspect by all the capi- : hav « at last devised a plan that they
talists and railroad magnates of the think will protect them in this matter.
South. j Yesterday a meeting of the Alliance was
The latest project bursts forth with !
enthusiastic rumors that Athens will be
connected witrf the Marietta and North
Georgia railroad, thus giving us a di
rect outlet to Tennessee and the West
ern markets.
Mr. Childs informed ns yesterday
that he had been in conversation with
a prominent member of the Legisla
ture who informed him that lie had
placed a bill beforo the legislature ask
ing for a charter of a road to connect
with Marietta and North Georgia at
Tate, Ga., running from there to Dali-
lonega, thence to Gainesville and on to
Athens.
The charter will be obtained, and
then the work of securing the road will
be commatieed; It will be carried
through, for from what we hear Duh-
lonega and the people all along the line
aro clamoring for the proposed; road.
They will.subscribe liberally to it, for
they need it.
So doesAthens for that matter, for it
will open up one of the finest section*
of the South to us. It will develop the
richest mineral section and best agri
cultural regions in the State of Goor-
Andis r -shed to Death by the Soutft-
B unci P*a«*onger Train--Engineer
Moore a-<J Ccnduc •• •
Knew No hiug o, ihc
Occurrence.
gi:i. lt'will do more than this. The
M. & N.G. is a most flourishing rail
road running through the mountain
regions of North Georgia,terminating at
present at Murphy, N. C., but which
will soon be extended to Cleveland,
Tenn., there connecting with Chatta
nooga ami the Western markets. Ath
ens will be opened to all these.
The great Georgia marble quarries ut
Tate, Gu., and surrounding territories
will be brought in direct connection
with Athens, and the road will un
questionably develop in a general way
one of the richest sections of the South
most extensively.
By all means let us have the M. & N.
G. extension.
Special to the Banner.
Harmony Grove. Ga., October 4.
Last night about 10:30 o’clock the
, . i South-bound passenger train ran over a
i held m Athens, and a committee ap-
• ’ H i while man about one mile above this
pointed to wait upon our compress place, llis name was Henry Webb
owners and notify them that if they formerly of Elbert county, but was
living at J . T. Braselton's, two mile?
north of here.
He had been in the viliege a sliot-t
while before the train passed in compa
ny with Janies Humphreys, who lived
near him. Both parties were thought
to be under the influence of liquor.
Webb tried to get the latter to go home
but did not succeed and hence started
home alone. It is supposed he sat
dow n on the end of a crosstie awaiting
for Humphrey^ and dropped off to
sleep. The pilot struck him under the
right shoulder.' it is probable his back
was broken.
Humphreys started borne after the
arrival of the train and was the first to
make the discovery. Inquest will be
held to-morrow.,
Captain , Cox and Engineer Tom
Moore knew nothing of the accident
until this afternoon on their return
from Athens.
persisted in this matter and refused to
compress them just as they were re
ceived ft out the farmers, that the Alli
ance would, in order to protect that
interest of its members, put up a com
press of their own in Athens.
A number of this body tell us that
for $6,000 they can erect a compress on
the warehouse lot near the Northeastern
depot, and have it in operation in a
very short time. Arrangements are
already made to get the mouey. This
same course will betaken by the Alli
ances in alt.the cotton growing States.
So far as the Athens compress men
are concerned, the*}* have always stood
by the farmers against the jute bagging
trust, and have only recovered such
bales as ‘would not stand tlie required
pressure. Where a good quality of
cotton bagging is used, jute is never
put on. The best thing our fai-rners
can do will be to refuse to use that
fiimsy Augusta bagging, as it i,s utterly
worthless.
The Alliance is right in crushing out
the compresses when they repack in
jute, every white covered bale recover
ed.
$ BAGGING PROBLEM*
_
iMihwii, stud now the trade of a
I tiger” is skilfully worked asany i
litimnti- line of business. Where j
pens once had six bur-rooms she. now •
SMxty—or’perhapsone hundred and I
hnwti.i.l be nearer the truth.
***
|A1I iMMier of spirituous and malt 11- ;
ws areas ojienly sold in our city as j
jy were w la-ii we had regularly li- j
“c! Dar-rooms. The ingenuity of j
J: i'--' Devil taxed to discover plans !
by which this traffic ean be j
’ne.l on, and at the same time the j
r r the consequences ol the law |
ptr |>aitie> secretly peddle the ar- i
phait'l any man with fifty cents in j
ppovk- t can have furnished to him ill j
fumiiiite-.' limen quart of whisky or]
'•i th of tlu> money in beer as his ,
li*titc dictates. This is no idle asser- !
N- for any man who is in the habit of
[Ming will tell you it is the truth,
liaii demonstrate the fact to you.
***
r fl Ascribe the various devices by
| M| liquor is sold in our city would
|l»irc 1110 re space than we can spare.
Us ii rii t take up the drug store bar-
l v «. l)r. Seteniup,is a regular practic-
HPhysician, and the law gives him
e privilege to “prescribe and furnish
T'or to his patients.” lie opens a
*t°re, and invests the larger part
. c# P*tal in whisky and beer. Col.
um y fcris that there is a vacuum at-
t0 1'is anatomy, aDd at ence re-
lr * to I»r. 8. for “a prescription.”
proceeds to examine the
‘ ° st of his new patient, inspects his
‘ c& iul nose, and decides that he
,y 14 ‘hmulant, and writes one ex-
several months. Armed
: ““ precious document Col. Thirs-
t of K- ibert y t0 draw on the iaborato-
j 4 ) 8 Physician for all the stimu
u *. 18 ^PPetite requires. Not only
jJ kindlypermits his friends
Itnuin' 1 118 nai ne to orders on Dr. Set-
ffiiisk ° r be * n P er s°n for the
W y B thns °^ ten consuming several
n £leday #ri0US ^ n< ^ s ^H nors * n a
’iV- V
Hoe/i ,leW ^oo^r at once falls into a
SUr Prising “practice.” Any
,‘,8afternoon the front of his
18 crowded. Patients come
si both the back and front doors,
windows are sometimes
ice ^Toisition as placcs[of;en-
£*it. And strange to re-
pat * ent «omes out with a
E- a ce or wiping his lips. Report
^ eee “drug stores”
° m a day’s business
jn g .. 'J 1 k*nk—all of tills sum being
Ulwn * furnished to “sick” llre-
monstrated by every rase docketed in
Clarke county.
We have no personal reflections to
east on the men engaged in this bu*i-
ness. If it suits them, and they keep
wiihm the bounds of the law, it is
tlieir own business. But we only cite
to this class to show the most open and
popular of our bar-rooms. Every
man in Athens knows that we do not
overdraw tlie picture. This business
is daily, yes, hourly carried on boldly
in our midst, and is on the increase.
Ask any policeman and he will endorse
what we have written.
The next class of barrooms is the
reported “lunch or oyster stand.”
Here a customer enters, orders a plate
of raw oysteps, for which he pays 50 ets.
and the generous proprietor sets before
him a bottle of Selllitz beer. No charge
is made for the beer, of course. It is
understood, however, that it is a part
of the hill of fare. There are two of
these “oyster saloons” in Athens, and
are always crowded. Then there is the
“lunch stand.” Here a customer pays
25 cents for a sandwich, and a drink of
poor corn or rye whisky is poured out
to whet his appetite. They are very
popular institutions, and it is not
known the number in our city. The
proprietors have learned who to trust,
and it in no easy matter to get a case
again stjthem.
Then there is tiiat vast number of
genuine blind tigers, witfloutany at
tempt at subterfuge. Their name is le
gion. Occasionally, the police will
gather in a dozen or more of them, the
mayor will administer a fine of $50 or
thirty days on the streets—hut this pun
ishment has no more effect than would a
man with a tin cup trying to bale out
the Atlantic Ocean. For every Jone
punished, a dozen are ready to step in
and take their places—and so the work
goes uninterruptedly on. Most of
these blind tigers are negroes and some
of them are in the employ of white
men, who are ready to pay them out
when caught up with. It is even said
that this class of law-breakers have or
ganized a union, by which they are
bound to come to the rescue of one of
their members when he “gets;* into
trouble.” Of this we do not know.
These men have grown too shrewd for
the police and paid spies. It is getting
more difficult each day to entrap them.
Our colored population are not behind
s phy*
We know that wliat we write is an
unpleasant truth, but every word
penned is a fact, and can be established.
It is needless for our guileless people to
longer emulate the foolish example of
tlie ostrich that will stick its head in
tlie sand and imagine that it is thus
concealed from its pursuers. Whisky
drinking in Athens is on the increase,
and is openly sold in our city,in defiance
of prohibition laws. The good and
law-abiding people of this place—pro
hibitionists as well as antis—are sick
and disgusted with the great farce be
ing enacted in tlieir midst. They see
men growing rich from the liquor
traffic without any restraint being
thrown around them, or the city re
ceiving the revenue that this business
everywhere pays. They feel that the
time has arrived when the liquor traf
fics in Athens must either be suppressed
or enchained.
No blame in this matter can be at
tached to our police force or municipal
authorities. They have done every
thing in their power to break up the
business, but it continues to grow and
spread in spite of all they can do.
Chief D. C. Oliver is a vigilant officer
and so strong and ardent a prohibition
ist that he is accused by some of being
almost a fanctic on the subject. With
such an enthusiastic and vigorous head
to enforce our laws, if he can’t suppress
the traffic, no one else need attempt
it.
The writer of this article is neither a
a patron of blind tigers or even a whis
ky drinker. But his business ea'ises
NO ENDORSEMENT.
ky
him to mingle will all classes of people,
and he is in a posi
tion to write authoritatively.
We have not exaggerated, but told the
truth, the whole truth and nothing but
the truth—recited facts that are known
to every man who does not let fanatic
ism close his ears and eyes.
This state of affairs, will not much
longer be tolerated. The indignation
of our people over the stupendous farce
that is being enacted in their midst
under the guise of prohibition
is about to burst loose
They demand tha* some steps he taken
to rout out these whisky dens, or that
the sale of intoxicating beverages be
made under police surveillance and in
accordance with law.
It is a ridiculous farce to arrest a few
negroes occasionally who have sold a
quart or so of liquor, and make an ex
ample of them, when there are respon
sible white men openly engaging in the
traffic and selling by the barrel. Strike
at the root of the evil. Do not cut off a
few twigs from the tree and imagine
' -* —owtb.
gro
it forth.
that you have destroyed its
Other branches will soon pu
Dig up the traffic by the roots, or plant
the safe guard of law around this temp
tation.
Col. A. F. Pope, of the AlU&nce, Intervlwed
—He Says the Faraiers will Win tha
F gi t.
G'ol. A. F. Pope, head of the Alliance
in Oglethorpe county, was in the city
yesterday, and was interviewed by The
Baxxku writer.
Col. Pope says the farmers are not
in the least discouraged ;in their fight
against tlie jute bagging trust, and
while they cannot expect to carry every
point this year, they will complete the j
glorious work next season. He says
the regular Alliance bagging, made at
the Lane and West Point mills, holds
the fort, and is not recovered by jute.
It is this flimsy Augusta bagging that
is giving all the trouble, and he cannot
blame the compress men for refusing
it, as it will not stand handling. ;
Col. Pope also tells us that the in
tention of the Alliance is to generally
introduce cotton' bagging, and will
make it next season to weigh about
one and a half, pounds to the yard. This
will increase the consumpsion ofc^tton.
While the bagging will cost more than
jute it will be about as cheap in the
long run as the bagging can be spun
over into thread after it is .taken from
the bales, being but slightly injured.
There is sound reasoning in this.
The Alliance warehouse iu Athens
will not be ready until November 1st,
owing to the delay in having to blast
out a foundation.
Col. Pope says there is no foundation
in the report that the Alliance will
petition for a suspension of the- laws
against the collection of debts; that
the farmers will promptly meet their
obligations when due, even’if they have
to borrow money on their cotton, which
they can do. It is their intention to
not market all their crop at once, hut
whenever a decline in price sets in to
holdback shipments until the market
needs the staple.
We are glad to know that the fight
against the jute trust is still being kept
up, and that the Alliance is taking
steps to protect themselves against re
covering bales.
The death is announced in St. Paul,
Minn., of Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis of the
United States army, who was a class
mate of McClellan, Stones wall Jackson
Pickett and Stoneman at West Point.
Gen. Sturgis served both in the Mexi
can war and in the late rebellion, and
retired from active command at Fort
Meade, Made, Dakota, in 1886. He had
a son killed in the Custer massacre.
Elbert County Refuses to Stand by
Judge Lumpkin.
Elbebtox, Ga., October 4.—The
^tar of this place, several issues since,
published an editorial scv*H^xcrit^cis
ing Judge SamueL N, L4jmpk^h^ r ’aiid’
stated tiiat the people of Elberl county
were sick and disgusted with him as a
presiding officer.
Mr. Carpenter, of the Gazette, caine
to the defense of Judge Lumpkin, and
called a meeting of the citizens of the
county for last Tuesday, to condemn
the Star’s editorial and endorse the
Judge. There was a good deal of ex-
| citement over the matter and the court
house was crowded. It was at once ap
parent that the Lumpkin men were in a
hopeless minority, hut the antis per
mitted them to organize the meeting by
electing Mr. Lawrence Heard as chair
man. _
honor, and Mr. Bob Wriglit began read
TOO BIG-
Is it Possible and Can !t Be So?.
Talk about your big cotton stalks and
the number of grown bolls on them iu
Texas and Mississippi, but when Clarke
and Banks counties come to the front
with colton stalks, loaded down with
full grown bolls, these two Cotton
States will be considered calf pastures
for the ha I mice of the glorious Union.
Mr. S. E. Glenn, of Clarke county,
had on exhibition yesterday at the store
of J. 8. King «Sc Co., a stalk with one
hundred and sixty-three grown boils
on it and it was looked upon by all the
cotton-buyers and pronounced the liwst
until Ordinary'Foul Hill, of that glo
rious county,Banks, tlie birth-place of
Hon. A. D. Candler ami several other
good men, said that he was
willing to mak*. affidavit that Doc Gar-
agon living f«.«r mikes from Homer had
u stalk in his patent that had on .ik*
seven hundred and eighty-fiv*> well de
veloped bolls of cotton oil it. Mr. Hill
saysttbat b(f counted the bolls and it
took him se veral hours to accomplish
the job. He will have this stalk on ex
hibition at the Athens Fair. The seed
on this stalk will no doubt sell for
ttm cents each. Banks county is stilt
ahead and will always be. Can anyone
beat it.
A HIGH SHOALS 1.0 ? J I < I
A Runaway Match fct*-«cn Mr. Lilt Ecbb*
and Miss Kealy liooiey.
Hum Suoals, October 3.—Ike old
saying that love laughs at locksmiths,
was verified here Wednesday night be-
This gentleman accepted the j yond the faintest shade of a slut dow, in
tlie marriage of Bill Dolus to Miss Nealy
Dooly.
& For more than a year the. two lovers
have been trying to evade the vigilance
of tlie old folks, but not until last night
were they made happy in marriage.
Bill was to High Shoals what the or
iginal Bill Arp was to his native heath,
He was the wittiest fellow in town, but
when that was said his whole history
was told.
The young lady was a daughter of-
“Judge” Dooly, and a very pretty
young lady.
The old people had foiled them once
or twice before, but the i lovers deter
mined not to be outdone this time.
They arranged for the ceremony to be
performed as soon as the factory turned
out, and as the operators were leisurely
wending their way homeward they ’
were very much surprised to meet on
the way, Justice Jas. W. Lee, who, in
his happiest manner made the two lov
ers one. A cheer equal to the old South
ern rebel yell rent the air when those
present realized what had occurred.
It is to be hoped that the old folks
will receive them kindly, for what God
has joined together let no man tear as-
suuder.
The Cotton Buyers.
Madison, October 4.
Athens Banner: Please publish r v .
following resolution which was a^Pfe
ed in County Alliance yesterday:
Resolved, That Friday be cotton sale
day for the Alliancemeu of Morgan
county during the months of October
and November, beginning Friday. Oc
tober 11th, And cotton buyers from a
distance are invited to he with us on
those days. W, A. Bkoughtox
E. T. Nkwton, President.
Secretary.
datory to Judge Lumpkin,prepared by
himself, when an anti-endorser moved
that the meeting adjourn, which was
overwhelmingly carried and the crowd
dispersed, leaving the chairmen with
his resolutions not acted upon.
It was a severe piece of sarcasm, and
a worse reflection on Judge Lumpkin
than anything that has ever been writ
ten about him—to he defeated in a
meeting called by his own friends.
Mr. Parks Clark, a worthy young
man of this place who lashed W. P.
Henry on the public square in Elber-
ton for voting facJEIarrison and the ne
gro Fleming, has been indicted and will
be tried before the United States court
in Atlanta. Several of our leading cit
izens have been summoned as witnesses.
Nothing will come of the case.
Only one man in Elbert county is using
jute bagging.
Will be Pardoned.
Mr. D. C. Nelms, who was sentenced
to the penitentiary for life for the kill
ing of Mr. Fagans in Banks county, sev
eral years ago,will receive a pardon and
be released on the 14th inst. By his
good conduct he has received his par
don, and it will be good news to bis
friends in the up country. Mr. Nelms
has conducted himself well, and his
friends have worked hard to get him
out. He is a gentleman, and we are
glad to know that he will soon he
free.
McElree’s Wine of Cardui
and THEDFORD’S BUCK-DRAUGHT are
for sale by the following merchants in
Clarke ceunty: E. S. Lyndon, Athens;
G. TV. Rush & Co., Athens; D. B.
Fowler, near Athens; J. TV. Hardy,
near Athens.