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THE coiintbv,
December
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m-tes a ml foreign govern-
" .redicts that good results
the Internationa. Con-
Jfrei 11 ** Chinese question he says:
0# " , r supreme interests demand
*■"" -ln-ion of a laboring element
jp f X !vi.erienee lias shown to be in-
l ' |il \'ii) t‘ with our social life, all
-onipass this imperative need
•ii eompanied with a reeogui-
aim of those strangers now
I0 humane and just treat-
,,-| ie present state of affairs in
t,. the Samoan Islands is en-
P‘ i i’"' , Tiie treaty made at Berlin
riTbraiited to the Senate for its
tions which have r.nsen
1,11 , past few days between
irritant and the United States
6 n '. yance or in course of amicable
111 * A just and acceptable en-
'■ ;!ot Of the list of offenses for
KK extradition may be claimed and
,,V 1S most desirable between this
and Great Britain.
protection will he given
railroad it teroffs in Peru,
i frlendlv adjustment has been con-
pinated regarding the Nicaraugua
“purfriendly intercourse with Brazil
A HANDSOME HOTEL.
BY
Slant ry
Proper
,.-suffered no interuption through her
-volution. The aggregate receipts
" " sources for the year were
EOUR PRACTICAL PI.ANW
tvn.cn IT CAW be iVci ct.
t . Necessity is th. mother or l„v en -
Never was this old and trite
more truly verified th ,n in Se caw *S
the new hotel for Athens. It no^lrani
pires that the long felt need of a new
and better hotel in the Classic Cit? s
about to be supplied, and Athens will
have a hotel superior to any that can
be found in all the cities Its size in the
bouthern States.
We speak definitely about a new hotel
for matters have come to such matu
rity tow-ards its erection that no one can
longerdoubt the fact that it will certainly
*. e b K 1 '-V,- lhare are now f0,,r Plans for
the building of a new hotel in Athens,
all of which are tangible and could be
made successful, were it necessary to
push them through* One of them will
surely be the means of securiug the ho
tel. They are as follows:
First. A number of capitalists are
row negotiating with Mr. J. G. M. Ed
wards, proprietor of the Clavton House
to purchase his hotel. Upon the spot
they propose to erect a building to cost
$50,000 and furnish it in an elejant
manner. Their intention is to build a
little gem of a hotel for Athens and
have it run in a most elegant manner
SIDEWALK ECHOES.
WHAT IS TRANSPIRING DAILY
ON THE STKETSOF ATHENS.
Nkw Crossings.—Street Commission
er Barnett is continueing the good
work of putting down new crossings
on every principle street in Athens,
lhesc crossings are made of granite
rocks ground up, and packed into the
sidewalk,- thus making a convenient
and lasting crossing.
Plowing up Cotton.—Mr. Tom Hud
son was in the city yesterday. He says
he gathered all the cotton he wanted
and then plowed in a good crop of un
opened bolls, so as to sow the land in
wheat. Mr. Hudson depends on grass
for his wouey crop, and only raises
cotton for pin money.
The Corner in Corn.—Speculators
have made a corner in corn, and will
advance the price to $1 per bushel, it is
saul. This does not affect Georgia farm
ers in the slightest degree, as they have
not only enough corn to last them next
year, but some to spare. This is cer
tainly a happy state of affairs.
A Fine Crop Year.—Judge Nichol-
They have the money to back them, so son . 8a y s be is now nearly 74 years old,
we learn, andean make their plans sue- an ‘ “ever kuew so fine a crop year as
Every manner of crop hit, and
A HORRIBLE STORY.
THE SAD FATE OFA DEAF AND
DUMB NEGRO BOY.
Special to Th > Banner.
acgcsta, Ga., December 3.—Dutch
Howard, a deaf and dumb negro boy
who has been employed about the city
for some years as a herder of cows on
the commons, met with a horrible death
in Warren county yesterday- He went
oft’ from the place with a'Mr. Musgrove,
a horse drover, some weeks ago and
having been separated from him on
yesterday, strayed into the yard of a
citizen there and was shot down and
instantly killed.
The gentleman who did the shooting
is of course greatly distressed concern
ing the accident and explains the mat
ter in this way, seeing some strange
person in his yard and suspecting that
robbing was,'the motive, he bailed -him
and receiving no answer he shot him
down not knowing that to the poor
mute knowledge of sound and the pow
er of speech were alike wanting.
REPUBLICANS ROWING.
nerioil were $281,1*96,615.(50; and «<>*» underneath, and will
1 . ,v„ 0 „,UMir 1 s. including f.he Athens with as good a hotel as
gin.
^Xhe ordinary expenditures for the
mne period wer
Z iotai expenditures, including the
K* fund, were $329,589,929.25.
recommend a revision of our tariff
• *hntli in its administrative features
ind in the schedules. The need of the
r i< generally conceded, and an
E5*»t ..pon the evil, and incon-
*" i enc e* to be remedied and the best
Lhnds for their correction will proh
ibit not be difficult. Uniformity of
valuation nt all our ports is essential,
.n.l ell'ec ive measures should be taken
olroreit. It is equally desirable
th,t mictions effecting rates and clas-
v]tic'it*o !S should be promptly decided.
He recommends the removal of the
Ux on Tobacco, and upon spirits used
in the arts and manufactories.
There lias been a decrease of $114,-
109 729 in national bank notes.
iie advocates the use of silver in our
currency. Recommends an improve
ment in onr coast defenses.
The improvements of our important
river- and harbors should be promoted
hr the necessary appropriations.
In referring to the assault on Judge
Fid,I recommends that more definite
pmvi-ions he made for the protection
c( Federal officers and witnesses. Re-
comuwmL the establishment of in
termediate appellate courts to assist the
the -uiprenie courts. Recommends that
the salaries cf all district judges be in-
cre.H-i d to five hundred dollars.
Asks congress to consider the ques
tion of restraining trusts and speaks of
their danger. Recommeuds a revision
if onr nationalization laws.
The enactment of a national bank
rupt law is desirable, h avors a more
rapid postal service.
( alls attention to the improved con
dition of onr navy.
Notes tin.* progress and improvement
made by the Indians, and touches upon
this question at length. -
Recommends that provision be made
for the settlement of land claims. Re
commends more and increased pensions
to union soldiers
Speaks of the urgent need of congres
sional legislation for the better protec
tion of railroad employes. Endorses
the establishment of the agricultural
department.
Speaks of the efficiency of the civil
service commission. Considers the
education of the masses of the gravest
national importance. Considerable
space is devoted to the negro question.
Speaks of the wrongs imposed upon
them in the suppression of their votes
in certain sections.
He earnestly invokes the attention of
congress to the consideration of sticn
measures, within its well defined con
stitutional powers, as will secure to all
our people a free exercise of the right
of suffrage and every other right under
the constitution and laws of the United
States. The power to take the whole
direction and control of the election of
the members of the house of representa
tives is eleivriy given to the general
government. A partial and qualified
supervision of these elections is now
provided for by law, and in my opinion
this law may be so strengthened and
extended as * to secure, on the whole,
letter results than can he attained by a
law taking all the processes of such
electiou into federal control. The col
ored man should be protected in all of
his relations to the federal government
whether as litigant, juror or witness, in
our courts, as an elector for members
of congress, or as a peaceful traveler
upon our interstate railways,
Tire message closes with a recommen-
o»tion that the United States should
encourage, by subsidy, a merchant ms-
r, ne that would-equal that of th© first
powers of the world.
cessful in a short time
The second scheme is something like
this, judging from a rumor that was
afloat on the streets yesterday: Two
well known citizens of Athens-gentle-
men whose enterprise was never ques
tioned—arc quietly at work, hoping to
secure a disirable lot in the center of
the business part of the city on which
they will build an immense structure,
covering half of a large block with
furnish
cart be
found anywhere in this section of the
South.
The third plan comes from Col E. C.
Machen of railroad fame, who has come
to be called “Magic Machen” on ac
count of his indomitable en erp i-e It is
this; Col. Machen says that if the citi
zens of Athens will pay him $20,000 for
his land in Athens which he bought
near the old Botanical Gardens for the
purpose of building the C. & M. depot,
he will accept it as a full liquidation
of his claims against the city for right
of way,and will build a hotel in Atheni
at a cost of $75,0000.
The fourth plan originated with Mr.
Voss, our enterprising and energetic
street car man. Mr. Voss has been ne-
? >tiutiug with some capitalists in New
ork about the matter and finds there
will be no trouble in building the new
hotel with their assistance. He says
that the Street Car Company will enter
the undertaking with $2,000, and will
do all in its power to secure the build
ing. He is sanguine of success with
his scheme and says the hotel can be
built on short notice in this way.
All of these means of securing a new
hotel for Athens are feasible and ex
cellent plans. We know that one of
them will be pursued, and feel safe in
this. _ ^ _
the late season threatens to keep onr
farmers picking cotton until time to
prepare the next crop. We have heard
of several planters who will make from
20 to 25 bales to the plow.
Rev. H. H. Parks.—The appoint-
1 ment of Mjr. Parks as Presiding Elder
for the Athens Circuit gives - universal
satisfaction. He was located in our
city soon after the war, and made many
friends here. While in Athens Mr.
Parks met with a sad bereavement.
One of his little sons was drowned
while bathing in the Oconee river.
Telegraph Service.—Athens is now
a city of sufficient importance to have
the telegraph office kept open at least
until midnight, and a petition will be
sent to the superintendent to this effect.
There is no reason why it should not
be granted. When this is done The
Banner will arrange at once for a first-
class special service.
The City Court.—Yesterday Judge
Howell Cobb convene l a special term
of the City court for the trial of tne
case of the State vs. Henry Tolbert,
charged with vagrancy and also with
pointing a pistol at another. The de
fendants’ attorney, Col. E. T. Brown,
demanded a trial by jury, and the case
was postponed until the next session of
the Clarke Superior court.
Increasing Consumption.—Mr. Mur
rell tells us that the Alliance will not
stop with its victory over jute baggin
but declare war against all manner of
goods sacked in jute. The farmers will
next year, in all probability, refuse to
will greatly increase the use of the sta
ple, and would be a wise step on the
part of cotton growers.
predicting that Athens will have a new > Buy grain, goods, or any manner of
and excellent hotel before the winter is goods, unless wrapped in cotton. This
over. It is understood among the agi- “ ‘
tators of the plans that there will be no
conflict among them in building the
hotel. The parties that take up' the
matter first with the means of giving
Athens a good hotel will receive the
hearty co-operation of the other parties
as they arc all working for the good of
Athens, and desire nothing more than
to see the needed hotel built.
At any rate the new hotel project is
under good headway, and the interest
of capitalists has been directed to it.
The undertaking may he confidently
put down in your note book as a dead
certainty.
A UNIFORM TIME.
Cotton Bagging.—As the season ad
vanees the white bales get thicker, and
it really seems that four-fifths of the cot
ton now received is covered with the sta
pie. Even second-hand jute goes lag
ging. Next year a jute-covered bale will
be a curiosity, we predict. Most of the
bales are bound with nine and ten ties
It is now acknowledged that the jnte
trust has lost heavily in their attem;
to rob the farmer, and will make over
tures to the Alliance convention now
assembled in St. Louis.
Uncle Sam’s Ebony Office-Holders at Outs.
A gentleman who is behind the
scenes, tells The Banner that a nice
little row is sprouting in the republican
camp in Atheus. There have not been
near offices enough to go around
among the faithful, and the outs are
now trying to oust the ins, while the:e
is no lovefeast even among the lucky
few. The prospect now* is that there
will soon be a’,regular Kilkenny cat fight
among President Harrison’s followers
in Athens, wlieu several democrats who
were ousted to make places for negroes
will be reinstated.
To add to the trouble, the miserable
mail service has stirred up Superintend
ent Terrell, and he says unless there is
an improvement several of the present
incumbents must step down and out to
make room for better and more compe
tent men.
Complaints about the miscarriage of
mail matter are loud and deep, until
evenThe partisan eare of the republi
can henchmen are opening to the fact
that a great outrage is being perpetra
ted in the South. Sometimes it takes
lays for a letter or paper to reach its
destination, when the point is not 20
miles distant. Yaluable letters are con
stantly miscarried, and checks never
reach their destination. One merchant
in Athens says his credit has already
been injured by the checks he sent his
creditors being lost or stolen in the
mails.
A lot of ignorant and incompetent
negroes now act as postal agents, to
make room for which good white offi
cers were removed.
THE APPOINTMENTS.
WHERE THE BISHOP SENT THE
DIFFERENT PREACHERS.
North Atlanta District.—W F Gleno, P E;
First chttrch, H. C. Morrison; Payne’s, J a
Bryan: Merritts Avenue, C A Evans, IS Hop - -
kins; Grace, B H Sasneti; Hendrix Mission,
M D Smith, Edge wood, A W Quillian, J B
Smith, sun ; Fulton Circuit, J F Balls; Mariet
ta P. M. Kybnra; Cobb Circuit, J D Milton;
Woodstock, W F Colley; Etowah, W J Wood;
Hickory Flat Mission, supplied by J H John
son; Canton, C K Patino; Walesca, R. F.
Rakes; bougiasvillc, H L Crumley; Winston
Mission, S Leake; Villa Rica, S R Belli; Tala-
poosa, M S Williams; Buchanan, L D Coggin;
Hickory Level, J M Sewell; Edgewood Acad
emy, J R Mayson.
South Atlanta District.—T F Pierce, P E;
Trinity, J W Heidt; Walker Street, J R Kine:
St. Paul’s, M L Underwood; Park Street, J W
Lee; Asburr, W P Smith; Pierce Mission, W S
Stevens: Capitol Avenue, J M Tomlin; East
Point, H L Embry; Bolton, John Speir, B F
Payne sup., Palmetto and Fairburn, J. E
Angland, L P Keesn, sup.; Palmetto circuit F P
Brown; Jonesboro, W T Irvine, Fayettevtlle,
G W Thomas; Hampton, W J Cotter; Morrow
station, W T Keucher, McDonough, J W Stipe;
Locust Grove, to be supplied.
Editor Wesleyan Advocate, W H Potter.
Athens District.—H H Parks, P E; First
Church, W D Anderson; Oconee Street, H M
Quillian; Factory Mission, C A Conway; Ath
ens Circuit, I M Blanton; Watkiusville, A B
Reese; Wiuterville, W F Smith; Lexington. E
A Gray; Greensboro, E K Aiken; Greene Cii-
cuit, JVM Morris; White Plains, C S Owens;
Norwood, R A Seale; Washington, J F Mixon:
Jefferson, W P Rivers; Harmony Grove, G W
Duval; Jeffeisou Mission, S D Evans.
Augusta District.—W P Loveioy, P E; St
John’s, W W Wadsworth; St James, R J Big-
hum; Asbnry, W D Shea; St Luke’s, J B jklleu;
Broad Street Mission, S Shaw; Richmond, A S
Adams; Grovetowu, A Harris; Appling, J A
Reynolds; Harlem, G W Criner, W E Shackle
ford, sup.; Warreuton, J H Mashburn, Thomas
J T Richardson; Mesena, J T Davis; On verton,
W T Caldwell; Sparta, A W Williams; Han
cock, BEL limmons; Milledgeville,. J M
White, Baldwin, J J Ansley, South Baldwin
supplied by J L Ivey; Chaplain to Asylum, T
H Gibson.
Blue Ridge District.—M J Coofer, P E, Clay
ton Circuit supplied oy W T Hunnicutt; Towns
County Mission, C C Spence; Blairsville Cir
cuit, T C Hughes and a supply; Morganton
Mission, C C Fleming; Gaddistown, supplied by
I C Ceutcher; EUijay Mission, J N Myers; Jas
per Mission, D M Edwards; Cherokee Circuit,
J F Tyson; Young L G Harris College C C
Spence, president.
Dalton District.—A G Worley, P E. Dalton,
R W Bigbam, Dalton Circuit, E M Stanton;
Spring Place, F R Smith; Cohutta Circuit to
be supplied; Calhoun and Adairsville, L P
Winter, Fairmount, H W Morris; Subligna, F
Walton; LaFayette, J L Perryman; Summer
ville, J T Lowe; McLeoore’s Cove, W C Dun
lap; Ringgold, J R Speck; Resaca and Tilt .n,
N H Mathews; Kingston, J M Lowery; Pine
Log, W T Hamby; Floyd Springs, D C Brown;
Whitfield, B H Green.
Fiberton District.—J H Baxter, P E; Elber-1
ton, H J Adams; Bethlehem, B P Allen and
SEVEN LIVES LOST.
A HEATER SETS FI RE TO A POOR
LY CONSTRUCTED BAKER
SHOP.
^ Philadelphia,Pa., Dec. 4..[Special.]
Seven lives were lost yesterday morn
ing ip a fire at Second and Huntington
streets,which caused a pecuniary lossof
about $4,000. This time the firemen es
caped, but two families .were almost
wiped out and motherless children of
both are left behind. An over-heated
beater in the cellar of a miserably con
structed baker shop set fire to the raft- •
ers.
W ith all means of escape shut off by
reason of the faulty plan, one woman
was smothered to death, five children
died from smoke and flames,and anoth
er woman in jumping from the second-
story window received injuries that re
sulted iu death a few hours later. The
four men in the building escaped witt*
their lives.
Gustave Gross, who forty-eight horns
ago was the happy and prosperous bak
er at the fatal corner,is now a widower,
and but one of his four bright children
is living. The fire robbed him of his
wife, his oldest boy, just reaching an
age to become a help to his father; his
baby girl and his youngest boy. His
little 6-year-t>ld Freda alone is left to
him. The only consolation that can
come -to him is that afforded by the in
nocent prattle of his little, motherless
girl.
Joseph Britner is more unfortunate
yet. His wife is.dead and two of her
children are with her. His four sur
viving children are being tenderly car
ed foi by kind neighbors. With his wife
and two of his children suddenly taken
from him and he placed on a pain-rack
ed bed, his condition is truly pitiable
and pathetic.
MARRIED His" WIFE AGAIN-
Noble, The Millionaire, Divorced and Ee-
Wedded in a Month.
New Yoke, Dec. 4.—[Special.]—Wil
liam Noble, the millionaire owner of
the Grenoble flats in Fifty-seventh
street,has married his wife again. They
were divorced last July, and for about
two weeks he was a single man. Then
the couple had a second wedding in Vir
ginia.
Telling the tale of his domestic woe
leading to the divorce which was grant
ed in July last, he said he had discover
ed his wife’s overfondness for a certain
musician, Carl Konig, employed by
him to amuse the summei residents of
f w _ _ his Ashbury Park Hotel. ’Their friend
supplyby J M Wall; Bowman, GT King, J T i ship became t le talk oj the guests, and
Curtis, sup.; Hartwell, W^M Winn, W T Nor- J culminated wheu she made a pretended
. j 'attempt to commit suicide by taking a
KILLED BY HIS FATHER.
MOVING TIE COTTON.
Bte Mayor Issues an Order that Cotton
Must be Taken Off the Streets,
lire complaint made by the lnsur-
ance agents that the merchants were
tedangering their stores by blockading
, le streets with cotton hales has had
•ts effect.
Yesterday Mayor Hunnicutt sent out
* n 0r< ler instructing the cotton men to
remove every bale from the streets un-
5 fcr «ne of $250. Obedient to the
mayor’s order, the cotton men began at
" R ee to have their cotton taken to the
wtnpresses or their warehouses. There
sufficient warehouse room in Athens
I®”® 1 ® the cotton that is brought here,
a< ? neef °rth the cotton men will be
repelled to place the staple in its
Proper place, and not blockade the
Noiirr ^ as they have s r ° wn
^ a M ** se step on the part of
'ayor Hunnicutt, as there were many
a »g<‘rs brought on by filling the
8tf <*ts with cotton.
Athens Should Adopt a Standard Time.
Prominent among the needs of Athens
is a standard and uniform time, _
The situation as it now stands is in
convenient, annoying and unprofitable
to every citizen, and to every visitor
that comes to Athens.^ The railroads
have their time at vaiiance; the city
has its time; the college runs by its
own time piece, and every jeweler
claims the right to set his clocks ac
cording to a certain time.
The Covington & Macon and _ the
Georgia railroads have the Central time,
the city has its time a half hour slower
than this, and the North Eastern Rail
road has its time, which is a half hour
faster than the city time. This is a
puzzling state of affairs, and causes
much inconvenience to the business
men of Athens and to the visitors that
come to our city. A man will come tc
Athens on the Georgia road and make
an appointment with a business man at
a certain hour. By a conflict; of the
times he will be a half hour late at his
engagement, and the business, however
important, will be left undone.
A ml thus it goes. Business is re
tarded, appointments of a social nature
are not met, and general confusion re-
SU The city should adopt some uniform
time, say the Central time, which
Atlanta has adopted, and wtdeh the
Georgia and Covington & Macon Rail
roads run by. This would be a great
improvement, for on^two 8
three times we would have only two,
central and North Eastern, which is
one hour faster than central.
We offer the suggestion as a valuable
pointer, and hope it will be acted upon.
NEGRO STOREKEEPERS.
A Disgraceful Infliction on Oar Govern
ment Distillers.
A negro named Clark has been ap-
EMysarggi.
Athens, and we learn that the-white el
Salk of Lands.—Yesterday there
were several lois of land sold at admin
istrator’s sale before the court house
door. Three lots belonging to the estate
of William Nabors, deceased, lying on
the suburbs of Wiuterville were sold to
Mr. W. I Tuck, for $40, One of the
lots brought $20 and each of the other
two $10.
A tract of land containing eighty-two
acres belonging to Mrs. Louisa Vv urm,
and lying immediately beyond Rock
College, were sold to Mr. Robert Laven
der for $1010.00
John Tugar Crushes His Son’s Skull
and Attempts to Burn His Body.
Lima, Ohio, Dec3—John Tugar, a
tramp, a native of Switzerland, yester
day killed his son John, who was tramp
ing with him, and placed his body in
re, which he had built of logs and
brush, to burn it up. He then was over
come with remorse, and attempted to
kill himself by shooting, but will re
cover. A farmer boys, near Celina,
tUiboyeFSTthe man, and carried the
news to that town, and officer c were
soon on tha ground. Tugar was not
dangerously hurt by the shot t and said
he had sent his boy out to get s onie-
thing to eat but he was not successful.
This caused him to fly into a passion
and he pickad up a stick of wood, strik
ing the boy over the bead with it,
crushing his skull, and causing his
death. He then became freightened
and placed the body on the fire, where
it was consumed. Tugar is a man of
about fifty years of age, and claims La-
Grange as his place of residence.
SINGLE ONLY A WEEK.
mam sup ; Koyston and Mission, Ford McRee,
supply by W A Cooper; Lavonia, A D Echols;
Caruesviile, R U O England; Toccoa, C A Jam
ison; Clarksville and Mission, C M Yerdel and
H M Stirgier; Belton and Mission, J H Little;
Homer. T O Ro ie; Danielsville and Mission,
W M D Bond and B H Trammell; Broad River
A J Hughes; Little River, J A Timmerman;
Lincolnton, J W G Watkins.
Gainesville District,-J T Gibson, P E;
Gainesville, J W Roberts, Gainesvi le Circuit,
A A Tilley, Hull Circuit, C PMarchman; Flow
ery Branch, W W Oslin, Lawrenceville, M H
Edwards; Gwinuette, H M Newton; Monroe, C
V Weathers; Jug Tavern, N E McBrayen Nor-
jas, W F Robeson, Alpharetta, T J Ed-
large potion ot sugar and wator. After
wards, he said, he ordered her to leave
his house.
“Why,” he exclaimed, with tears iu
his eyas. “I can never live with this
woman again. I would be ashamed to
be seen on the streets with her. I could
get material foi twenty different di
vorces if I only cared. She can never
come near my children again.”
But about the middle of August last
Mr. Noble bad business which called
. . him South to Red Sulphur Springs,Vir-
wards.and a supply, S H Braswell; Cummiug, j ginia. Thither he went. IBut not alone.
W G Hanson ana a supp y supernumerary, G | for a hand8om e little'woman, dressed in
W. Farr; Suellville, supplied by George Brand;
Cleveland and Mission, J L Ware and W L
Singleton; Lumpkin Mission supplied by A F
Norton; Bablonega, W B Dillard, G. Hughes
apply; Dawsonville, T S Edwards.
Grittin Di trict—S P Richardson,
Judge Thurman’s Daughter, Just Di
vorced, Marries a Clerk.
Special to Banner.
Sandikgo, Cal., December 1.—MiBs
Marie P. Thurman was married last
night to Mr. Thomas S. Gifford, and to
day everybody in town is talking about
Griffin, H S Bradley; Milner, B Sanders, R
Rogers, sup: Orchard Hill, W C Fox; Zebulon
8 R England; Barnesville; J B Johnstone; Up
son Mission, E T Hendrick; The Rock, J B
Holland; Thomaston, T A Seals; Cultoden, T
H Timmons; Forsyth, J C Davidson, Forsyth
circuit, W A Dodge, Jackson, M H Dillard.
Flovilla, JJN Kenny; West Monroe, O B
Quillian; Senoia, J M Bowden; Turin, R P Mar-
tyn; Concord Mission, A B Pope;.
LaGrange District -W F Cook, P E; La-
Grange, A J Jarrell; West Point, J R Parker;
Troup, T D Cantrell; Houston, J S Embry; Ho-
gansvilie, W T Bell, Whitesville and Mission
ary, J H Eakes; Greeceville and Trinity, F G
Hughes; Meriwether, J S L Safington: . Wood
bury, E O H Wood; Grantsville, W W Brins
field; Franklin, A Lester; Bowden, H L Ed-
mondson;Roopvilie and Missionary, J W Baily,
Newnan, C C Cary; North Coweta, J S Askew;
Carrolton, W K Foote; Whitesburg W H
Speer, P A Heard, Sup.; LaGrange Female
College, H M Smith, Professor.
Rome District.—A C Thomas, P E; First
Church, W F Quillian; Second Chtrch, B F
Fraser; Forrestville, T J Christian and sui
for a handsome little'woman, dressed in
a drab trravelling suit, accompanied
him. It was bis divorced wife, Eliza
beth Noble. Numerous telegrams and
messages had been sent to him during
their estrangement and they soon found
their way to his heart.
M’CARTHYAND NOUN TO MEET*
Bookmakers 'Willing to Back the En
glishman Against the Champion.
Special to the Banner.
New York, Dec. 3.—Several well-
known bookmakers who saw the Cal
McCarthy and Mike Nolan mill on
Wednesday night think that Nolan can.
whip McCarthy, and they are willing to
back him against the Jerseyman for
$1,000 a side. They said they would
make it $2.5000 a side at the Lynch-
Flaherty fight, but when McCarthy’s
backer offered to double them and make
is $5,000 a side and make the
match on the spot, they dropped their
price to $1,000, and very likely a
match will be made this week.
Good judges of fighters who saw the
the wedding/ The bride is the Baugh- gK^ftsm^ go Wednesday night say that it is their
G. Thurman, and ter . c ’ aTe Spring Circuit, CJaokson; Cedar-1 opinion that Nolan can give McCarthy a
Compresses Must be Changed.—Mr.
George T. Murrell, president of the
County Alliance said to a Banner re
porter that all compresses throughout
the United States will have to be chang
ed next year, owing to the change of
the size of cotton b-tles, which the Al
liance proposes to institute. The com
press business will almost be done away
with, a- the baits will be much smaller
than heretofore, weighing about 125
pounds. The Alliance will take the
matter in consideration at the St. Louis
meeting. Mr. Murrell says the Alli
ance in this vicinity is highly in favor
ot the proposed change.
Hamilton McWhorter, Esq.—This
eminent young lawyer of Lexington,
has done as much as any man who ever
lived in Oglethorpe to build up and de
velop his ^county. To his efforts are
mostly due the handsome new court
house, the stock law, Lexington’s rail
road and many other Important enter
prises. Mr. McWhorter is one of the
braniest young men in Georgia,and his
success at the bar has been almost with
out precedent. His county town and
people owe him a great debt of grati
tude, for to his bright mind and clear
judgment are due, m a large measure,
their great success and prosperity.
ter of Judge Allen
figured conspicuously last week' in a
divorce case in which a decree was
issued in the Sandiego Superior Court
severing the bonds which united her
with Lieut. Wm, S. Cowles, of the
United Ststes Navy, now Commander
of the Despatch. Since the divorce
the .bride has insisted on being called
Miss Thurman. It is said that she had
been engaged to Gifford for several
months. Gifford is several years her
junior and is agent at Tia Juana for
Aguirre & Dowell, the Mexican bank
ers. He ia Spanish born but of English
parents,
fUstilleries will also be shortly displac-
2 with nezroes. These gentlemen are
iustlv indignant, and threaten to close
clown their still ’if they must have the
their whiskey carried by ne
groes,* in w hose honesty they have no
C °WP (ton’ot think it will be healthy for
ne»ro government officers to go over to
ss?«!?»: i “ ti,e
city. He is wise.
The Alliance in Oconee.—Col. B.
E. Oyerby, a leading Allianceman of
Oconee, was in the city yesterday, v and
says the farmers in his county are all
bitterly opposed to Col. Livingston’s
proposition to unite with the Knights
of Labor. He says if the coalition
takes place they are hound to admit
any negro Knight to an Alliance meet
ing, and if the Knights of Labcr go on
a strike or get into trouble that the
farmers will have to take money from
their pockets to assist them. Mr.
Overby says the Alliance has done
great things for the farmers already, as
this vear they were able to buy goods
on long time cheaper than they ever did
before-for cash.
MOONSHINERS CAPTURED.
j,
The Notorious Willis Rose and Several
of His Companions Under Arrest.
Special to The Burner.
Somerset, Ky., Dec 3.—General
Deputy Collector F. H. Hawkins and
J. H. Chrissthas, of Louisville, with
a posse and six guards, started Monday
for a raid in Rockcastle and Jackson
counties. They destroyed five distille
ries, captured ten barrels of apple
brandy and returned here last night
with Willis Rose, the notorious moon
shiner, who for many years has been
able to repulse every posse that has at
tempted his capture. He was arrested
after his Winchester was empted at the
officers and he had been badly wounded
in the right arm. Deputy Marshal
Bates received a slight wound in the leg
and his horse was badly shot during the
engagement with the moonshiners. The
prisoners are the toughest looking spe
cimens of humanity that ever entered
our jail.
A FEARFUL-EXPLOSION.
On y Twenty Out of Ninety Fassengers
Escaped Death.
Special to the Banner.
San Francisco, Dec. 2.—Yokahama
advices state that the boiler of a passen
ger launch plying between Foochow
and Sharp Peak, exploded en October
10th, and out of ninety passengers on
board only twenty escaped alive,.
great deal harder and longer fight than
he did then. McCarthy is happy at the
prospect of another fight so soon, and he
is confident that he can whip Nolan in
less time than be did before. His
friends will back him to their last cent,
and if the boomkakers want to they can
make the match for $13,000 a side as
easily as they can for a thousand.
McCarthy has just returned from.
Athens Georgia where he had a spar-
ringmatclijvmh Jack Dempsey’s brother
Martin Dempsey.
HANDSOME NEW RESIDENCES.
Messrs. Reaves and Stern Will Build oa
the Carlton Lots.
We learn that Mr, R. K. Reaves wilt
bu Id a row of beautiful residences on
Washinton strefet upon the lots he re
cently purchased at the sale of the
Carlton property, and will rent them
to parties desiring nice homes ip Ath
ens.
We learn also that Mr. C. Stern will
build some pretty houses upon his por
tion of the lots on the same street, and
will rent them. This is one of the
best localities in Athens, and after
Messrs Reaves and Stern have beauti
fied it with handsome residences it wilT
vie successfully with any portion of
Milledge avenue.
for a new trial. If no respite is grant- The houses will be in the central
ed he will he executed by means of part of the business portion of the citv
electricity. The new brick building in and will find ready disposal whether
which the execution will take place —’ “
will be completed by Saturday next.
The electrie chair in which McElvaine
will sit will be erccted|in the centre of the
room. The dynamos, two in number,
have a combined capacity of 2,000 volts.
The wire used will be strung from the
roof down the walls of the building and
connected with the chair.
town, J B Robins, J T Norris, superintendent;
Rockmar, G J Orr, R H Jones, sup;.
Po’k, Miss J A Sewell; Dallas Circuit, W t
Austin; East Paulding Miss., to be supplied;
Panlding, supplied by M T Burt, Powder
Springs, F S Hudson; Corttrsville, H J Ellis;
Acworth,J M Owens, Austell, C L Patillo;
Piedmont High School, E W Ballenger; agent
Orphans’ Home, S P Jones.
Oxford District.—G W Yarborough, P E;
Oxford, M H Eakes, W ACandler Covington, W
H LaPrade, W A Parks, supernumerary; litw-
berne, W R Branham, Jr^ So.iul Circle. R R
Johnson,Shady Date, O A Thrower: Monticello,
O C Simmons; Eatonton,D J Myricx; East Put
nam, W T Hamilton; West Putnam^ E Rosser;
Clinton, E R Cook; Madison, W L Wooten;
Morgan, W Dunbar; Rutledge and mission, 8
W Rogers; Conyers, J L Moon; Lithonia, G K
Quillian; Decatur, L G Johnson; Clarkston cir
cuit, W A Farris; Emory College, W A Cand
ler, M Calloway, J S Moore, and J Magatb;
Wesleyan College, C Dowman; Logansville,
W M Arnold; Ocmulgee mission, supplied by
W A King; missionary to the Hebrews, J M«-
gath.
Transferred.—A G Haygood to North Ala
bama Confeience; Jere Rose to Northwest
Texas Conference: C Keener to Louisaina
Conference, M A Phillips to South Georgia
Conference.
Waiting for the Deqth Shock.
Special to the Banner.
New York, Dec. 3.—Charles McEl
vaine, the condemned murderer of the
Brooklyn grocer, Luca, has only about
two weeks longer to live unless his law
yer obtains a respite pending an appeal
they be offered to rent or for sale.
PARNELL’S SECLUSION.
His Disappearance Causing Anxio
to His Friends.
Special to The Banner.
London, December 3.—The St. James
Gazette says that Mr. Parnell disap
peared several weeks ago and since then
has not been heard from. His where-
1. abouts is a mystery and his prolonged
- absence causes much trouble to his ad-
Result Of a Trivial Quarrel.
Eeminence, Ky.,Dec 3—(Special)—A
misunderstanding growing out of a triv- turns an
ial matter between Tom Horan, white, herents. The Gazette says that though
and Brock Underwood, colored, at New | it has been Mr. Parnell’s custom to oc
casionally seclude himself his period of
retirement has this time been longer
than usual. He has even failed to keep
a number of important engagements,
among which was one to meet Mr.
Gladstone.
Castle, resulted in the death of (he latter
and the serious wounding of tlid former,
The two men grappled when Horan pul
led his pistol and shot the negro, who
had a knife. The negro died. Horan’s
throat was cut.