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THE ATHENS BANNER, OCTOBER .Us) OVER THE WIRES. the latest happenings from ALL SECTORS OF TUB WOBLD.io THE JOHNSTOWN JRUINS. by JBrigbt and Newsy Items of Both the Nation and Foreign Countries Condensed The association ef North Ameiican Railroad’Superintendents is in ssssion in New York. v The Knights Templar are haying a great time in Washington. The city is full of them, and President Harrisen will receive them in style. Acting Commissioner of Pensions, Hiram Smith, appears to be recovering Tanner’s liberal peneion policy in as radical away as Tanner enforced it. He cut down the peasien ef a veteran the other day. Wb. McDonald, a highly e*«nected drug clerk in St. John, Neb,, was ar rested for poisoning Mrs. MeRea. He was once in the asylans. Grant Devaull. a jilted lever, in Bel mont county, shot his sweetheart and then blew his own brains out. Pittsburg had a $100,000 blaze Tues day in the Oliver Mill and Car Fac tory. The prohibitory amendment in Cen- necticutt has been snowed .under. State prohibition seems to be getting blaek eyes on all sides. There was a terrifie gale in the Irish channelMo iday, doing much damage to many vessels. Mrs. Francis Hodgson .Burnett, the authoress, is seriously ill at her home near London. * At Mount Yernon Tuesday, George T. Rice, the aeronaut with Wallace’s circus, made an ascension. As ha de scended over the river he became [en tangled in the ropes, and was dragged through the water and drowned. Thi6 was Rice’s 100th ascension. At New Orleans Monday morning the Grand Jury reported to Judge Mai-r that they had learned that $s83,000 of the stolen constitutional bonds had bean turned over to the Attorney General. The bonds unrecovered amout to $70, 000, but it is believed that all will . be finally restored, as most of them are held in New Orleans. A terrible, devastating prairie fire swept down upon Estlierville, Sunday. By heroic efforts the town was saved; bnta. number of farmers’ residences, together with' ' grain, hay, etc., were destroyed. The village of Swan Lake was partially burned, four buildings with all their contents being consumed. On a Serious Charge. Special to the Banner. Atlanta, Ga. Oet. 9.—Deputy Mar shal Newt McDonald was arrested by Sergeant Ozborn and Patrolman Loo ney yesterday and was turned ever to the sheriff of Franklin County... The stery is not a pleasant one for the prisoner if the truth has been told. The sheriff of Franklin county came down Monday to arrest McDonald, and not desiring to be detained in any way, conferred with Captain Couch/?-The Captain put the police on the trail. They captured McDenadl. The warrant on which McDoaald was arrested charges him with having conft mitted an outrage on the young daugh ter of Tom Smith of that eounty. The Coming Congress. Special to the Banner Washington,Oet. 9.—Hon. Roger Q. Mills, of Texas, is in the city. In con versation last night with the Washing ton correspondent of the Baltimore American,'Mr,Mil Is said that though in the minority the Democrats were fully confident of their power and would use It. “We don’t propose,” said he, “that the Republican majority will pass a single measure without our consent. For instance, you may depend upon it that the rules of the house will not be changed by the Republican majority in any essential feature. We do not propose to permit them to be changed, as is wanted by Mr. Reed and others in that party feature. Nor will we per mit any of the proposed legislation looking to a control by congress of the elections, for we see very plainly what the purpose of that is. “The same can be said of the contest ed cases that will come up before con gress. We do not propose to let the Republican majority be increased and libitum by throwing out De mocratic members, as seems to be the purpose. In other words, we propose to exercise control of the house, just as though we were still in the majority,and we know our minority is strong enough to make us the virtual rulers.” How Valuables are Appropriated the Laborers. Special to the Banner. Johstown, Pa., Oct. 8.—Every jean- olad laborer who has worked among the Johnstown ruins will he able to set up a household museum of tiood relics when he goes home. If the value of bis collections should approximate that of the average pawnbroker’s shop it would not be surprising, for a Johnstown laborer is good te himself when it comes te selecting spoils. Ever since people began to recover a little from the daze of the calamity a certain element has been carried away by a greed for spoils,which has recently developed itself mest strongly among the foreign workers. It is so easy for a man to slip a valuable old watch in his pocket which his pick has quietly unearthed, and when the day’s work is over, and he is left in the quiet of the calm, steals away and hide the plunder with more like it. That this sort of thing has been going on under the very eyes of the authorities is an open secret The other day a gentleman in charge of a gang of men called at one of the Red Cross stations aad offered a num ber of ladies their valuable trinkets. Among them were jeweled necklaces and bracelets of rare value. They had all been yielded up by the debris. The Committee on Valuables, which still have op*m their old curiosity shop in Alma Hall, realize that they are now getting but the dross of the valuable deposits unearthed from the wreckage. COL- SMITH’S RAILROAD HIS SCHEME ASSUMES MAMMOTH PROPORTIONS. AN EXCITING ICHASE- He Will Run It Through Wilkes and Lin coln to Augusta—Snch a Road Is Sadly Needed. The proposed extension of Col. J. M. Smith’s railroad is* fast assuming a definite and colossal size and shape. The Baxnek announced the project several weeks ago, bnt since that time much has been done to further the scheme, and it{now looks like Col. Smith is getting down to business in dead earnest- The following editorial comment from the Augusta Evening News serves to show how the new railroad is being re garded by the people at the other end of the line: “Hon. [James M. Smitfi, the great Georgia farmer and an ambitious boss of a private railroad from Winterville to Sinithsonia in Oglethorpe county now proposes to extend his road through Oglethorpe*, Wilkes, Lincoln, McDuffie, Columbia and Richmond to- Augusta. He is asking for a charter for the Sinithsonia, Lincoln, and Au gusta railroad, whose capital stock limit is $1,000,000, but which will begin work as soonas $15,000 are subscribed. Indeed, Col. Smith, with his immense force of conviets, can grade the road all by himself, with a little help fiom the counties, and as he is beginning in a practical way, it looks very much as if They seldom get a gold-watch, arid yet i ] ie w jh succeed. there are dozens of battered tinse-pieees being offered for sale on the streets of Johnstown every day, and the men make no attempt to conceal the fact that they got. their . goods among the ruin*. Down near the Pennsylvania railroad depot there is a regular relic stand,: Nothing of much value is. kept here, b.ut it is not always tlie, valuable things which are most appreciated by. survivors. PBIMABY CALLED- The Democratic Executive Committee of Clark County Recommended It and it will be had, In this issue appears the notice of Dr. E.S.I.yndon, chairman of the Dem ocratic Executive Committee, recom mending a primary election for the city officers of Athens, and we have no doubt but that the matter is satisfacto rily settled and the primary will be held. There e»n be no doubt about it, that the mass of the voters of Atheris desire it,-and this -alone is sufficient to justify the notice published today by the Democratic executive committee through its chairman. So far, there is but one candidate an nounced and that is Dr. Hunnieutt, There is no reason why he should not succeed,-for that section needs,and has long wanted a road, and many lines have been projected through the counties named. Iudeed, the grading from Augusta has been completed into Columbia county, and surveys show a natural ridge through Columbia, Mc Duffie, Wilkes and Lincoln, on which very little if any grading will be nec essary. The Augusta and Chattanooga started out on this line, and who knows but, what Col. Smith’s new road may be a fine link in our great trunk line yet? It may be that Col. Smith will turn ont a bigger railroad man than a farmer and may be his line will swallow the Augusta and Chattanooga; and Smitli- sonia maybe the grand central station between the coast and the great West, and the headquarters of another big system touching at Augusta on one side and Chattanooga on the other.” THE ELECTRIC PLANT. A Hungry Circus Bear Loose On the Streets at Chicago Chicago,Oct.—9—There was an excit ing scene in an alley, near the intersec tion of North avenue and Larabee sticet about 1 o'clock this morning. The principals were a big blaek bear, a wo man and two police officers.The bear was the property of Noble and Long, who follow up the circus owned by a West- side showman, and was kept in a cage locked up in a barn. The animal, hav ing been confined in the cage all day without anything to eat, began to . get uneasy about evening and broke out of his cage. Several persons knew that the bear had escaped from the cage, but supposed that the barn was locked and that the animal was safe. So ft was for six hours and more,but about 12 o'clock the animal managed to losen one of the boards on the side of the building and climbed down. Then he began a silent tour of the streets in that vicinity. Aa near w can be leamed.bruin went down IIaistead street to North avenue and wandered about these without meet ing any body until it came to Larabee street. As the animal went around the corner a woman came around the same corner, going in an opposite way. The female screamed and ran, the bear roar ed and gave chase. It was a race for life, the woman af terwards told the officers, and it is re asonable to believe that it was, for the animal was hungry and not any too tame at best. Fortunately Sergeant Frenzen and Officer Maloney heard the lady’s screams and they hastened to the assistance, As the Officers rounded the conerr of an alley, both fell headforemost over the bear. The fight that ensued was bloody in the ex reme, and it was not Hntil the two men had discharged the contents of their revolvers, fourteen shots in all, into the carcass of the bear, that bruin was killed. A search for the lady was made, and she was found in a dead faint about a block awav. The Vork of Erecting a-Building Already Commeaead. Superintendent Robinson, of the Electric Light Company, has already who will again enter the race for May- ■ begun tearing down the stables at the or. He has declared himself heartily in favor of the primary. The fact is that every Democrat in Athens is in favor of it most highly, gas works preparatory to erecting a suitable building for the electric plait. He has already received most of the necessary machinery for the establish- and we say by all means let us the primary. A STEAMER BURNED- is The David Clarke, of Savannah, Burned at Fernandina. Special to the Banner. Savannah,October 11.—The steamer, David Clarke, of Savaunah,was burned at Fernantlina yesterday. The loss is estimated at $10,000, insured. She be longs to the Georgia and Florida steam boat company, and was built in 1873. The cause of the fire is unknown. The freight had been discharged. The Mag- gis Belle and Merrimac have been chart ered to take her place. Fire broke out yesterday on the steam- •r, Katie, coming down from Augusta. Seventeen hales of cotton were ^thrown overboard anil twenty-two damaged by fire and water. The boat was uninjur- ed- Tho Alliance Speaking Out. We are glad to seo that tli* Farmers’ Alliances in Clarke county are coming to the front and speaking out about So licitor-General Russell’s insolvent costs bill. Last Saturday the Tuckston Al liance lead off, and it will be followed by the others. This is right. The Al liance is committed to retrenchment and reform, aipl would be false to its pretenses did this organization fail to condemn such measures as this Russell bill. £ The day when one man can assess a whole county to add to his gains is passed. The people have now taken control of the government, and intend to see that they receive full value for the money taken from them in the way of taxes. The Banner will stand by the Alliance in their battle for re trenchment and reform, and call their attention to every raid threatened on the public till. have * ment ef his plant and so soon as the dynamos arrives and the building is completed, he will be ready to put up the apparattus. After this is done most of the work will have been completed and tiie work of putting up the wires will indeed be a small matter. The lights will soon be turned on. Jag Tavern Items. Special to the Banner. Jug Tavern, Oct. 9.—We deeply sympathize with Mr. aad Mrs. June II. Jackson in the loss of their infant son. The burial of Mr. D. R. Lyle, at Mul- bery, last. Sunday was attended by a large crowd. His death is a sad loss to the community in which he lived. Our vigilance committee is composed of young men who combine business with pleasure. They call on their best girls and while talking in the parlor are at the same time listening for the sound of rumbling wagons as they pass through after dark, loaded with runa way cotton. One of these young men succeeded in capturing a bale which was being hauled oil'to Athens late at night to avoid creditors. Mr. W. A. Addington, wife and daughter, of Wisconsin, have been on a visit to Mr. N. J. Kelly. They took the train here for their western home. MUSIC AND MIRTH- : IS iWHAT THE STOCK;AND POULTRY SHOW HAS IN STORE. Amusements of Every Kind Being Added Dally—No Efforts Spared by the IDl- reetors—Everything/Moving on Lovely—The Music Will be a Chief Feature. pieces CANARIAN CANNIBALS. A Traveler’s Horrible Discovery Among the Indians. special to u*nmr. Ottowa. [Oct. 9.—A gentleman just returned from an exploring expedition in the wilds of Northwestern Territory, says that he has discovered during his ravels a tribe of Indians who hare practiced cannibalism up to a few years ago, when the country was first visited by French missionaries. In the vicini ty of Abittibec lake he was shown an Indian child whose grandmother had killed and eaten several of her young children, the child’s rather being the only one to escape. He madehis moth er’s terrible deed known to the chief of the tribe, who sent his men to arrest her.On entering the wigwam they found the head of the last child boiling in a pot over a fire. She was ordered to be shot, lots having been drawn to see who the executioner should be. The un lucky straw fell to a* old Indian, who successfully removed the unnatural mother from doing further harm. On the Quinze lake, several rears ago, lie found that a full-blooded war rior had killed and eaten fourof his sons, but was afterward shot and killed by his fifth son. A brass band of fifteen been secured for the Fair. It is the noted Card’s band of.Mncon, and each of the members are soloists and* musicians ef high rank from Bal timore. They will discourse sweetand inspir ing music each day at the Fair both with their brass band and a superb or chestra which will [furnish the ladies department with its lyric strains. The music will be ene of the chief at traetioris of the whole Fair, and every body is congratulating the directors on having secured sqch an excellent and renowned band as is Card’s of Ma con. The directors of the Fair are winning praise from "every side for the wide awake spirit they evince in the man agement of the Fair, and ate the favo rite toasts of the city. They deserve ,it‘ all for their work will be of inestimable value to the city and to the people of North East Georgia. The Fair will do every' class mere service than can at once be imagined Aside from being an occasion of rich and rare amusements it will. be one of exceeding profit to the people. It will bring them all together in one vast[con- conrse to revel in tlie enjoyment of re joicing over the bounteous .year just past. Every class will mingle in the gayeties of the Fair and the speech making and stock exhibits [wilt be in structive to'them - in every line of busi ness. The great social and political questions of the day will be discussed by the prominent statesman who have been invited to speak, and everybody will receive profitable instruction from them. The people of North East Georgia all recognize tire advantage of attend ing our Fair, and. they will turn out Jen masse to see the fun. An agent wil take the road in a few days and will work up Jthe interest of che Fair throughout the entire State. The pre mium lists and show bills will be scat tered broadcast .throughout every sec tion. The attractions of the Fair will be set forth in fine style and crowds will flock to Athens on November 13 to partake of the gay pleasures which the Fair will have instore for them. While the agent* is out of the city working up the financial interests of the show, the directors will be none the less [busy ad ding new amusements each day to the already overstocked program of rare entertainments. The Fair is in fine shape already and the unbounded success of it is no longer questioaed by even the most dubuious crakers. Everything is lovaly and the Fait booms on. want! AT 0NCE~EV!W W *» ft, LIBERAL Pi!. Jpgs tea No mortal yet Has e’er forecast The moment that shall be his last, but Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets have forever settled the question of a com fortable existence until that moment does arrive, and put to flight the melan choly foreboding of sufferers from bil iousness, headache, indigestion, con stipation, and kindred ailments. Me El rec's Wine of Cardui and THEDFORD’S BLACK - DRAUGHT are for sale by the following merchants in Clarke county: E.S. Lyndon, Athens; G. W. Ru'li & Co., Athens; I>. B. Fowler, near Athens; J. W. Htrdy, l near Athen ARREST IN BIRMINGHAM. Of a Young White Man Charged With an Offense in Georgia. Special to the Banner. Birmingham, Ala., October 8.—Wade Hampton Cox,a prominent young white man, was arrested here this morning while in bed, by Detective Geo. W. Shackelford, of Atlanta. Cox is wanted Bryan Court-house,near Savannah,Ga., charged with the betrayal of a highly connected young lady of that village. He will be taken back to Georgia. Through Country Shows. At this season of the year there are more little sliglit-of-hand, punch and judy, magic lantern shows going through the country than was sver known before. The managers travel under the self-styled head,“Professor.” We think while our legislature is in session it ought to pass a law forbidding any one to assume the garb of “Profes sor” without once having received a diploma. Jefferson Dots. Special to The Banner. Jefferson, Oct. 9.—Mr. J. J. Carith ers, son of the late Dr. A. J. Carithers, was buried here on yesterday; also the infant child of Mr. H. H. Hancock. Among the arrivals today for school were Miss .Parker,of Franklin', and Miss Daniel, of Paoli, Madison county. * Judge II. W. Bell spent yesterday in Athens. The people of tbs Martin Institute will petition the trustees and attend the Exposition in a body. THE CHOSEN JURORS. HORROR IN A SAW-MILL The Night Watchman Torn to Pieces by the Explosion of the Boiler. Walla Waua, \V. T., Oct. 9.—This morning at the Baker Saw-Mill at ilia bead of Mill Creek canon, twenty-five miles from the city, the boiler explod ed, tearing Alexander Harding, the night watchman, all to pieces. He hap pened to be the only man in the mill at at the time of the explosion,which blew Harding’s body out of the boiler room and thirty feet across the saw frames up to the main floor, tearing oft” his head, both legs and one arm. One leg was found on a joist above the saw frame. A missing arm was found on a joist found 150 feet away from the mill, but the head and the other leg have not yet been found. The dead man was a resident of Dakota, where he had a wife. Would-be Kidnapers Caught. Special to the Banner. City of Mbxico, October 7.—An at tempt was made late Saturday night to kidnap Emil Schmidt, a rich man of this city, in the Colonia De Industria by two men named Manuel Marquez and Victoria Normsltz. By an anony mous letter Schmidt was warned that an attempt would be made to kidnap him, and by the aid of two police and tw o large dogs the men were ariested soon after they had passed the porter’s lodge of his residence. Two villainous knives were found on their persons. A Chllenge—The proprietors of Dr. Bull’s Ceugh Syrup hereby challenge the Faculty to prescribe a remedy more effective than their’s. Cordially recommed Salvation Oil to all su fieri mr with rheumatism. JOS. S. FOX. cattle dealer, 117, North Broadway, Baltimore, Md. Many case of rheumatism, which have resisted the skill ot the profes sion, have [promptly yielded to that w'onderful remedy, Salvation Oil. 25 eents. Take the news home to Mary, and tell her that myacough has gone, and that a 25 cents bottle of Dr. Bull’s cough Syrup did the bessed work. L Wood, IV W Turner, C G Talmadga, W. It Yearby, It M McAlpin, Robert Yearby, G H Hulme, J Y Carithers, A Bishop, W P H Epps, G n Palmer, J H Fleming, G F Murrell, S C Dobbs. SPECIAL JURORS 1ST, WEEK. A H IVeaks, II J Wages, W J Russell, W C Orr, R L Moss, Julius Cohon, A K Childs, J F O’Kelly. J H Mealor, B !A McDuffie,’ WF Black, • J.G M Edwards, T H Dozier, J W Whit*, J B'Weir, J J Wood, C B Chandler, W W Duncan, J A Patat, J T Pittard, J R Cain, R C Towns, A M Cent*r, W J Bates, J E Biggers, T P Oliver, W A Pledger, J E Pittman, G S Shewell, J H Smith. H A Couch, W C Weatherford, H T Wayn, J F Foster, J BGardner, H M Witcher, A C Rucker, W P Nichols, R S Benedict, M M Maddrey, W J Thornton, W B Adams, R F O’Kelly, F G Ambach, TB Wooten, W A Strickland, M C Pope, • SECOND WEEK. epps's com BREAKFAST. has provided onr hrcakfaH Uhl« Apl cately flavoured beverage which 'I many heavy doctor’s bill*, i; u ions use of suoh articles of dintW. ^ .MAilf.ll n I I ftilt Uli M enough to resist every teiide» CT u Hundreds of subtle maladies arecL.-.T us ready to attack wherever thtrs W point. We may escape many fit«hbiu.2 in* ourselves well foYtided a prcfperly notched frame."-!, vi“il Gaxette. Ma <e sis ply with Ubened S thus°p y ln j,J JAMES EPPS & CO., Honiifopstkiet v] LwidonJ THE GLORY OF Mv strengthmtalit How Lost! How Regain 10WTHML THE SCIENCE OFldFr A Scientific and Stand art' PopttUr MedicdTn on the Errors ef Yomh,I*remauireDscluu.Xe and Physical Debility, Imparities of the r T ie Men Who Will Enforce the Laws and Eke Out Blind Justice to the Offencers. Below we give the names of the jurors who have been chosen for the next term of Superior Court which opens next Monday; GRAND JURORS. Win. R Tuck, J N Thoirip-on, Resulting from Folly, Vice, Ignorance, Ext Overtaxation, Enerra’ing iiirt unfitting tk: for Work, Business, the MarriedorSoculfo Avoid unskillful pretenders. Foium thii woTk. It contains SflO pages, royal tvo. B< binding, embossed, full gilt. Price on'r i mail, postpaid, concealed in plain writer, trative Proa pectus Free, if yon apply now. distinguished author, Win. H. Parker. 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