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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.