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THAI BAfsJs'UK, ATHENS, iNU V J'J>115KL1 0, 18S'J
WILD WARRIORS.
Til Wild lest Slow lill Come
Gome to Oar Fair,
DIRT .SOOM
TO BE BROKEN
ENS.
IJT ATH-
Th* Lina to be Donated in Athena
Week and Contracts Let Out.
Th
Pawnee Bill and a Host of Big Injuns
will Imde the Athens Fair Grounds
-Crowds Coining.
The Bi£ Injuns are coming*
Athens will greet them with rousing
good cheer and gire them a home on
the fair greunds. Their tents will be
pitched all over the grounds, and the
fair will assume an appearance of an
Indian village.
It Was a prominent member of the
board of fair directors that met a Ban
ns* reperter yesterday with hair on
end and trembling voice announced in
frighted tones that he had just received
n message from Comanche Bill, assert
ing that he would soon fold his tents
in Atlanta and come to Athens.
“Think of it,” said lie, “the Indians
are approaching our buiet town of Ath
ens, and will pitch their wigwams on
the outskirts of the city in less than a
fortnight.”
Many years ago such a message from
st Native AmericanTndian would have
carried a death-like palor to the cheek
of every Athenian, and men, women
and ohildren would have locked and
barred the'r doors or else they would
have “vamoosed the ranch,”as it were.
Quite different now. Athens will greee
the wild warriors ef the west with cor
diality, and will rejoice to see their si
lent march through our classic avenues.
They will draw thousands of “pale
faces” to the fair, and will hold them
spell-bound during the entire week,
with their quaint manners and customs
as well as with their daring feats of rifle
shooting, racing around the ring, lasso
ing oattle. and other performances,
known only to their skill and science.
The Wild West Show will be a draw
ing oard for the Athens Fair indeed.
There are scores of people right here
around Athens who have never seen an
American Indian, and have only a faint
idea of his appearance formad by pic
tures in United State histories while at
school. One cannot realize the deadly
terror inspired by the countenance of a
real Indian until he has seen one face
to face, looked into the depth of his
keen hawk eye, and watched the sus
pecting glance that he costs all about
him. Whet a tale of the sorrowful past
is told by that glance! What scenes
of warfare and dietress; of virgin for
ests and wild hunting grounds rise up
up before one’s mental visions at the
sight of one of these chiefs! Poor un-
fsrtnnate people, what a fate is yours!
Tears ago you ruled supreme the Amer
ican continent and reveled in the soli
tude of your pathless hunting greunds.
Today your race is ebbing to a close,
and with buned hatchets you parade
before a superior race to give amuse
ment by your very sight!
A real Indian is indeed an interesting
sight these days, and the fact that the
Athens Fairgrounds will be filled with
them, and with many long-haired cow
boys from the west is sufficient to say
1 I m
The Georgia, Carolina & Northern
railroad is slowly coming toward Ath
ens, and by next summer the trains will
be running from Monroe, N. C., to the
Classic City. The section from Ches
ter to Clinton will be completed in a
few days—more than a thousand hands
being at work thereou—and so soon as
this is done the entire force will be put
to work grading to the Savannah river,
as the route is located to that point.
This week the chief engineer will be
in Athena for the purpose of locating
the line out of our city, when contracts
will be at once let and dirt broken.
Then forces will be set to work on both
ends of the line, and they will meet at
the Savannah river.
This company has the money in hand
topayfor the grading and equipping
of the entire road, and of course it is to
their interest to hasten the work as fast
as possible, for the sooner the line is
in operation the sooner will then inter
est on idle capital he stopped.
In the next thirty days it is expected
that every part of the route from Ath
ens to Clinton S., C., will be under con
tract.
This will be great news for our peo
ple. They hvae been anxiously waiting
to see dirt broken on the G., C. & N.,
for it means the biggest kind of a boom
for Athens.
people wril flock by the <
-our Fair.
■thousands to
TENTS f ITCHED,
And the G., C. & N, Survey Will b
Commenced.
The surveyor’s tents have been pitch
ed, and the work on the G., C. & N.
will nqw be commenced in Athens.
Yesterday the engineers pitched their
tents at the Lilly springs near the city,
and are now prepared to begin work
This week the corps of engineers will
begin the re-survey of the road from
Athens to the Savannah river, and
when that is completed the construc
tion of this section of tho road will be
commenced.
Athens has looked a long time for
the coming of the G., C. & N. and her
citizens always had confidence in the
assertion that it would come. It
coming now, and it meausa better day
for Athens.
It will not tike long now before the
whistle of the G., C. & N. locomotives
will be heard in our midst.
Negro Thief Captured.
Officer Lee Goodrum arrested a ne
gro named John Smith this morning
and will hold him until the authorities
of Oglethorpe county speak for him.
He is wanted there for larcency. When
rrested, a pistol wasfouudon his per
and at that time a negro stepped up
an ! -aid that John had stolen the pistol
from him. So it seems he is into two
stealing scrapes.
A SUITABLE FISHWAY.
The Legislature Takes up the Banner’s
Suggestion and Hakes a Law ef It.
It was nothing but a conception of a
just and honest duty that prompted the
Georgia Legislature to take np the sug
gestion of the Bannik that a better
fishway should be established in the
Savannah river at Augusta, and make
that suggestion assume the shape of a
law. This has been done. The com
mittee to whom the bill has been given
have agreed that the measure was a fair
and just one, and have recommended
thaUa committee be appointed with
pewer to inspect the present dam and
make such appropriations as may be
necessary to establish a more suitable
gshway at Augusta.
The people of South Carolina and
Georgia along the Savannah river above
Augusta have long suffered the effects
ef that eity’s fish monopoly, for such it
must be called, and the legislature has
faithfully discharged its duty in de
manding the distruction of this monop
oly.
A fishway ean be constructed that
will notin anyway injure the manu
factories of that city, and in spite of the
Augusta News’ protest, the Fountain
City will submit to such changes in the
dam as the legislature may recommend.
Mr. Fleming, himself, who ably repre
sents Augusta in the legislature, did
not see fit to vote against the bill, tfe
commend his candor and fair minded
ness to the editor of the Evening News.
IT WAS YELLOW JACK*
Death of William Bruns Caused By
This Dread Disease.
Speeial to tke Banner.
Nhw Yobk, Oct. 18.—The case of
William Bruns,a pasenger on the steam
ship Hondo, who dieddnring the pas
sage from Greytown, has been the
cause of conflict batween the health
officers at qa&rantiae and at Sinhurne
island. Bruns died on Wednesday last
& few hours before the Hondo arrived
at quarantine. The health officer at
first thought that he had died of yellow
fever. Dr. Smith, however, after mak
ing and examination of the body, de
cided that the cause ef the man’s death
was not yellow,-but Chagres fever.
be last night n messenger from
Swinburne’s island, where the body
of the dead passenger had been car
ried for disposal, brought to this city
the startling infornation that the man
had not died of Chagres fever, bnt
of yellow fever. An autopsy had
been made which had prov-
this fact. This report
was confirmed this morniug by Health
Officer Smith. Host of the cargo ef the
Hondo has been sold by this time. The
passengers have left the city for their
homes in other parts of the country.
Bruns, the vietim of the yellow jack,
was a rich German,who was on his way
from Honduras to his home in Germany.
His body will be cremated at Swin-
bnrne’s Island today.
AlGALA
Athens Ablaze with Life
and Light.
A Bridal Party from Banks will
Haste to tie Wedding.
A Real Alliance Wedding in which
the Parties will be Robed in Cot
ton Bagging—The Wild West
Show a Chief Attraction—Cow
boys and Indians will Raise High
Carnival in Classic Athens.
A FEAST OF FUN FOR THE FARMERS
The directors of the fair are happy.
They scored a red letter day yester
day, and are rejoicing overht success
of their efforts for the fair.
A postal card from Mr. J. K. Thomp
son, of Banks county, to President Hol
man, yesterday announced that a coup
le from that county had expressed a
willingness to be married in cotton bag
ging at the fair. The names were not
given but President Holman at once
joyfulness in tlie bounties of the year
by joining iu the gay pleasures of our
fair.
The directors expect to see the largest
crowd ever seeu in Athens before, and
the gates of the Classic City* will
almost burst with the vast multitudes
that will throng the citj r limits. Every
man, woman anfl child in Northeast
Georgia will be present, and everybody
will join in the demonstration of glad-
someness and joy over the abundance
f the year s *arv^«.v : , - :
THE ATHENS 1>AV.
Tuesday November 12th will be the
opening day of the fair and has been set
apart for Athens’ great day.
It will be a great occasion, for every
store in the city to be closed and for
every merchant to go out to the fair and
let their clerks and salesmen go, and
pay the just tribute of respect to the
thousands of visitors, and guests of the
city which their presence deserves. It
is to be hoped that Atbcns merchants
will not be outdone in hospitality by
those of Macon and Atlanta, and they
have at their opening days closed]their
stores and turned out en masse to greet
the visitors at their fairs, and bid them
i welcome to their cities. We feel cer
tain that there is not a merchant in
I Athens who would hesitate to close his
[ shop on Nov. 12th, and let his salesmen
: and bis family go out to the fair
I grounds to make Athens Day a fit ope
ning day of the fair.
ANOTHER WEDDING.
It will be a double wedding.
Since the above was written the sec
retary of the board of directors has re
wrote to Mr. Thompson accepting the
Wi l be - a o enu ine | ce j ve( j a telegram from another couple,
Alltance wedding. The bride, and
groom will be robed in pretty garments
of cotton bagging, and Rev. J. R. Ber
nard has already agreed to perform the
solemn ceremonies free of charge. As
an evidence of the enthusiasm which is
felt by the merchants of Athens, we
need only refer to the fact that as soon
as the announcement had been received
of the Alliance wedding ^yesterday, the
live and enterprising firm of Julius Co
hen & Co. came forward and offered to
make the bride’s costume, and a num
ber of others offered presents to the
couple. It is needless to say that an
other firm will volunteer to make the
groom’s wedding suit so soon as the
marriage is generally made known.
Michael Bros, will present the bride
with a beautiful hat handsomely trim
med and artistically designed. The Al
liance wedding will indeed be a chie
feature of the fair, and old Banks coun
ty will be the toast of the day for its
loyalty to the Alliance, and the faith
fulness in its noble work. Everybody
will come to see the Alliance wedding.
I expressing their willingness to marry
with Alliance ceremonies. The direc
tors are arranging to do the wedding
day up to the queen’s taste, and the
merchants of Athens are endorsing the
move with hearty and liberal co-opera
tion. Messrs. Stern & Dorsey will pre
sent one of the couples with a handsome
bedstead, aud scores of other gifts will
be tendered the couples.
The fair is getting a genuine move on
it and promises to be unprecedented in
the history of Athens.
THE MAYOR SUPPED HIS PACE.
Congressman Tarsney Assaulted at a
Public Meeting.
Kansas City, October 30.—Mayor
Davenport slapped Congressman Tars
ney full in the face this afternoon and
in return very nearly received a shot
from the Congressman’s revolver. It
was all on account of the entertainment
of the Pan-American tourists, who-will
arrive here next Wednesday morning.
A meeting was held at the Commercial
Crowds from every section of the State Club to perfect arrangements for the
entertainment of the visitors. The
Mayor had vetoed an onfin-
comiug warmed up, and the merchants f“ ce .. pa8Sed . bj \ J^ e . .
<\f a - Council appropriating *1,000 to be ex
pended for entertain the guests. The
An odd mixture of words, but the
sufferer from constipation, indigestion
impure blood, billiousness, and other
such ills, can be cured if he wills, with
out taking the horrid, old-fashion pill.
These are superseded in our day by
those wonder-working,yet tiny, little
globules, known as Dr. Pierce’s Pleas
ant Pellets,. No griping, no drastic
purging; do not cause costiveuess after
ward^ as the old-style pills do. Onelit-
tle Granule a dose.
Admitted to the Bar,
Mr. T. R. R. Cobb was admitted to
the bar yesterday morning before Judge
N. L. Hutchins. Although Athens has
a great many lawyers, Mr. Cobb is wel
comed heartily by the members of the
bar here, and being a man of fine mind
and much talent, he will succeed in his
c’.Dica profession..
and citizens of Athens are talking about
the wedding on every street corner.
The directors look with pride on their
program of amusements already arrang
ed and are encouraged in their work of
adding new attractions each day.
A'partial foresight of the fair may be
imaged from the following main fea
tures that nave thus far been secured:
The finest races of every description
will be seen each day. Trotting
races, runniug races, foot races,
mule races—every kind of race ever
seen on the ring will be had each day
during the fair.
The Wild West Show will trausform
the fair grounds into a vast prairie in
the wild and distant west and will hold
the thousands of visitors electrified
with thrilling excitement every day of
the f tir.
The trained seals that attracted so
much interest at the Piedmont Expo
sition have been secured for exhibition
at the Fair.
The death of General Custer on the
Little Big Horn, a beautiful represent
ation in wax, has been obtained for ex
hibit.
The Balloon Ascension and daring
leap of the aeronaut will he a sight most
wonderful to be seen.
The ladies’ department including their
chrysanthemum show will he a most
beauteous array of loveliness. The la
dies will display a number of speci
mens of art and handiwork and a superb
orchestra will discourse sweet strains
through the hall during the entire day.
The promenade concerts by Card’s
elegant military band of Macon, will be
charming and the music will surely be
a chief feature of the Fair.
The Military day will draw crowds.
The prize drills will be close and most
exciting while skirmish drills will be
full of interest to everybody.
The public speaking will be a great
event of the fair. Every class of peo
ple will assemble to hear the eloquence
of the South’s most noted statesmen
in the discussion of great and living is
sues of to-day. The directors have al-
readv secured many of the most prom
inent statesmen in this section of the
South and will have several others
before the fair opens. Hon. Fleming
DuBignon has been asked to address the
people during the fair.
The fact is that there was never such
a feast of rare amusements in this part
of the State as the directors have ar
ranged for the coining fair. The peo
ple of Northeast Georgia will turn out
en masse each day and will show their
ON TO ATHENS.
THE GRADING FORCE PUSHING THE G.,
C. & N. RAPIDLY ON.
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Th3y Have Finished their Work to Clii ton
and Contracts are Let to t!;e Savannah
River—A Proposed Extension.
The G., C. and N. is moving on.
FHch. rtagii pi.Vsji’ th. a i u w-m-
(..! > r - ' -• ! •< * *- J’f* valleys
if owing near
tlie Savannah river with amazing pro
gress.
A gentleman from near Monroe,N.C.
who has just come from the locality in
which the hands are at work, informs
us tha* the grading has been completed w ’ "“** o? pad5j£j*Jb«J
from Chester toClinton, S. C., and that F ° rsaleby L * »• Sledge
by Nov. 21 that section, of the road will
be ironed and ready for running trains.
The contracts from Clinton to Savan
nah river, he says, have been let and
the work of grading has already been
commenced. The distance between
Clinton and Savannah river is fifty-five
miles, and when that section is finished
the contracts from the river to Athens
will be let, and the grading will con
tinue to be pushed forward as rapidly as j
possible. The road will be finished to !
Atlanta and will be in running order j
by the fall of 1890. j
We learn that in the meantime quite
an important extension of the G., C.and
N. is being contemplated at the other ! rppc —*
end, which will give a still more com- j ** 11 om T q ^P fl a th | «Chem^
plete through line to the great metro- ;
poli tan cities of the Northeast. This'
extension is from Monroe, N. C„ to
Henderson, N. C., and will develop
one of the finest sections in the south- j
ern states. The fact is that the Geor- j
gia, Carolina and Northern Railroad is !
already being looked at as one of the
most important routes in the South,and .
breakfast.
wMf&gOTcnuiS operation*
° : has provided our breakfast tahuJ 003 ' Mr. f.«2
- | cately flavoured beverage whto? „* lth »<Ie8!
‘ many heavy doctor's bills it u »»ve *
t Gaxette,
milk
itte. 'Made sigply "wi3T'iJ[iii i i vu Swricil
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its early completion is anxiously looked 2 V photogtaph U ^
for.
THE WILL OF F* PHINIZY.
f FBwigiayu yonrseu or any member o.W
family, we will make you a lull life-size
portrait free of charge. The only con.iriS*
Imposed upon yon will bo that you I
yourfiienb* as a sample of our'work,id£
slst US in securing orders; also that you p rom £
it frameasuitably so that the work.m
to have it trained suitably so that the wort SS
showto advantage. Write your funname ?d
] address on bac of photo to secure its
: We guarantee its return. Our offer is £
I a few days only, and the sample portrait h
j worth $30,being as fine as ean be maifcu AMraj
American Portrait House, 5 and 6 WashiaS
It will be Proved in Solemn Form at
the Ordinary’s Court.
Yesterday the will of the late Fer
dinand Phinizy was admitted to probate st"’YiT Latest" WSfigZ
in the court of ordinary in Clarke coun- House in the World.
fc y* *
The testator appointed his two sons,
Messrs. Leonard and Jacob Phinizy, of
Augusta, as his executors. It is un
derstood that the will will be proved in
solemn form at the December iterm of
the ordinary’s court. With the excep
tion of bequests to Boggs’ Chapel,
Oconee street church, and Centre
church in Oglethorpe county, the estate
is to he divided among the widow and
children of the deceased. The legacies
left the three churches are conditional
in that they shall never have organs or
other musical instruments in the houses.
asthma fAS, |?cureS
anyone afflicted. Da. TAFT BRO., Uochectet,B,T
COTTONS!
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At their Warehouse,
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Council, overrode the veto aud then
the Mayor ordered the Treasurer not
to recognize drafts upon the Treasury
for that purpose.
During the discussion this afternoon
Congressman Tarsney referred in terms
not very complimentary to the Mayor’s
action. Davenport started to leave the
room and on doing so said: “If I can
help it not a penny of the city’s money
will be used illegally, but I will con
tribute from my own pocket as much as
Mr. Tarsney or any other man for the
entertainment of the delegates.”
Mr.Tarsney replied: “Ido not care
to resort to pothouse methods.”
This enraged Mr. Davenport, and, in
an angry tone, he defied the Congress
man to repeat the statement. Mr. Tars
ney repeated it. The words were no
sooner out of his mouth than the Mayor
dealt him a resounding slap full in the
face. Mr. Tarsney reached into his hip
pocket to draw his revolver, hut his
friends prevented bim from using the
weapon.
NO WARRANTS SWORN OUT.
Deputy Collector Hurray Hakes a Denial
Mr. I. V. Murray requests us to state
that Hon. Jeff Scott, of Madison coun
ty, came to see him yesterday, stating
that Mr. Bullock has reported that he
had sworn out warrants against Messrs
Fletch Colbert, Sam Ware and Berry
Meadows, three highly respectable cit
izens of that county. Mr. Murray
says there is not a word of truth in the
report, as there is no charges against
these gentlemen. He also says he took
Jim Huggins, col., along with him as a
servant, and to guard his buggy, as the
moonshiners above Gainesville, a short
time since, piled a lot of brush on
Deputy Collector’s buggy and burned
it up. m
Mr. Murray, a few days since arrested
Mr. Jim Lindsey and W. H. Williams
of Madison county,. and they were
each placed under a $300 bond for illicit
distilling. He also arrested several
parties in Hancock county, wl£ had
sworn vengeance against him, and they
were fined from $300 to $500 and placed
in jail from 6 to 13 months each. Mr
Murray has never as yet arrested
person, hut that he was bound over
This shows that he has evidence to con
vict before making an arrest.
Cantwaite: “Say, do you remember
that fire-dollar bill I loaned you?”Owen
Long: “Remember it, sir! I never for
get a favor like that. You haven’t got
another one about you, have you?”
SALE OF A TAN YARD.
Booth Brothers Make a Bis Purchase.'}
The Messrs.^ Booth, one of the most
enterprising firms . in Athens, have
bought ehe Long tanyard of Capt. Wil
liford, and will operate it in a firt-class
manner. These gentlemen will pay the
highest market price for bides, aud in
tend to-build up a business which will
do credit to Athens. This is already
one of the best equipped tan-yards in
the State, but all the improvements
will be added. It was a big thing for j
Athens when the Booths went into j
this business, for they make a success
of whatever they touch.
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accumulations form in the air-cells ol
the lungs, followed by tubercles, and,
finally, destruction of the tissue. It is
plain, therefore, that, until the hacking
cough is relieved, the bronchial tubes
can have no opportunity to heaL
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral .
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wasting process, and leaves no injurious
results. This is why it is more highly
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L. D. Bixby, of Bartonsville, Vt.,
writes: “ Four years ago I took a se
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confined to my bed about four months.
My physician finally said I was in con
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me. One of my neighbors advised me
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