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THE ATHENS BANNER: ATHENS, GEORGIA. JANUARY 14, 1S90.
THE PRIMITIVE BAPTISTS.
Rev. Sam Jones has made himself
famous aud rich by saying so'me
very funny and cutting things from
the pulpit, and as his success in
creases he becomes more caustic in
his utterances. Iu a recent “sermon”
he saw lit to go for the Primitive
Baptists without gloves, and took
this worthy denomination as a text
for a prohibition discourse. Among
other haish statements, he said that
if the people wanted to get rid ol
dog fennel all that they had to do
was to sprinkle it with whiskey, and
the “Hardshell Baptists” would soon
eat it up. The inference that Mr.
Jones desired to make --3 that the
Primitive Baptists were a lot of
liquor drinkers, and of course un
worthy of Christian recognition. As
to the statement of their eating dog
fennel sprinkled with whiskey, ol
course it was intended as a modern
Sam Jones parable, and not for any
one to believe in its literal sense.
But we would suggest to Mr. Jones
that if he desired to deal in such
impossible statements that he select
some other arena than the house of
God. People who attend divine wor
ship expect to be told the truth, and
not amused by a recitation of impos
sibilities. It seems to us that a min
ister should try and emulate the
example and teachings of our Lord
and Saviour, and not cater to the ap
plause and risibilities of the worldly-
minded. It is impossible to imagine
Jesus of Nazareth giving utterance
to such silly, meaningless aud hu
morous sentences as characterize
Rev. Sam Jones. Such language
would be more in place in a circus
riDg or before the foot-lights of a
minstrel show, than in the sacred
desk.
We desire to say a word in defence
of our friends the Primitive,Baptists.
We have lived among these people
all our life, and know that there is
not a more moral, upright, sober and
God loving and God fearing denom
ination in existenee. As their name
denotes, they are Primitive Chris
tians, and endeavor to live up to the
Bible in its literal demands. Some
of their practices are different from
other churches, but they have Bibli
cal commands for all they do. As
far from this sect being whiskey
drinkers or encouragers of intemper
ance, we venture the assertion that
there is as little dissipation among
the Primitive Baptists as a like num
ber of any denomination you may
select-. They are not extremists on
any issue. We never knew a more
honorable or just people than the
so-called “ Hardshell Baptists,
' Their creed is to act fairly by every
man, aud this is the only church we
know of that dismisses a member for
not paying his honest debts. Any
merchant in Athens will credit a cus
tomer, it matters not how poor lie is
oa the strength of his being a Prim
itive Baptist. We do not think Mr.
Jones could have selected a more
unassailable church upon which to
make his attack than our Old School
Baptist friends. It is true they are
few in numbers,compared with other
denominations, but wherever you
find them they have the respect and
confidence - of the public. Some of
our best and staunchest friends be-
long to this church, and they are as
loyal aDd true as they are pious and
sincere.
Rev. Sam Jone3 must certainly
have “gone ofT half-cocked,” to use
a common phrase. Did he desire to
hold up liquor drinking in abhor-
ance, he could certainly have found
examples in bis own church from
which to take a text—as no denomi
nation is entirely free from such
members—without going ont of his
way to raaligu and slander a-xespec-
table and pious sect, whose only de
sire is 1 to lead a peaceful and cHris^ u
tian Ufe, respecting alike,the laws of
God and man. No good Methodist
can or will endorse this unjust, un
kind and abusive attack by Rev.
Sam Jones on the Primitive Baptists.
jute bagging on the free list, and
thus remove a tax that oppresses
only one class and one industry, and
enables a few men to form a trust
and extort a usurious price from the
cotton planter ? What reductions
will you help us make in the tariff, so
as to lift a burthen that is grinding
our people iDto poverty ? If you
want an appropriation from the Na
tional treasury to assist the North,
we demand a like sura for the 8oulh
—money for opening our rivers aDd
erecting new buildings. We do not
care a stiver where your World’s
Fair is located, and our votes are for
sale. If you do not care to trade,
we have the power to defeat the
scheme, and will do so.”
The North has for years been get
ting the lion’s share of this govern
ment money, aud used Southern
Congressmen as a cat’s-paw to pull
it out for them. It is time to cali a
halt and demand a more equal divi
sion of the spoils between the two
sections. The World’s Fair scheme
is a good one to begin work on, aud
by a judicious trading of their votes
our Southern representatives can do
more toward defeating objectionable
legislation and seeming a recogni
tion of the rights of their section
from the republicans in Congress
than will ever be accomplished by
speech-making and fillibustering.
The two rival sections of the North
are fighting over the location of the
World’s Fair, and our Southern
Congressmen can name the place.
Let them turu their power to the
profit aud protection of their people.
THE'DEMOCRATIC OUTLOOK-
We have not a shadow of doubt
but that the democracy will tiiumph
in 1892, and this time the doom of
the republican party will be sounds
ed. The party now in power feels
the sand giving away from beneath
its feet, and its leaders are resorting
to every means to prevent it. The
great democratic victories in the
West have shown them that the peo
ple are learning the true meaning of
the. iniquitous protective tariff sys
tiin, and will crush out of power the
party that seeks to oppress the
masses,that a few manufacturers and
monopolists may add to their already
enormous wealth. The organization
of the farmers all over the counity
will ^1 o much toward the triumph of
fhe^eaiocratic party, ,and it is the
The Banner to their neighbors, and
when they are through with their
paper to loan it to a non-subscriber
to read, that he may in turn become
a subscriber.
DIDN’T LIKE JAIL.
LET OUR CONGRESSMEN BE FOR SALE.
There is a bitter rivalry between
Chicago, representing the West, and
"New York, the East, over the World’s
Fair. The Northern representatives
in Congress are about equally divid
ed, aud the South holds the balance
of power in making the decision. It
ia a » matter of indifference to our
Congressmen which city captures
the prize, as the fair will be for the
upbuilding and glory ©f the North
and will not help our section. This
seems* to us a most excellent oppor
tunity for our Southern representa
tives to force their rights and a re
cognition of their people. Let them
v to their Northern colleagues,
when approached for Chicago or
ark : “ What will you give us
Will you
assist us to defeat theinfamous force
bill ? Will you vote with us to place
New I
jn return for our support ?
duty of all good citizens to encour
age the advance of the Alliance.
Grover Cleveland will be our stand
ard-bearer again in 1892, and his
election is already assured. The
democracy was never more deter
mined or united—the republicans
are badly frightened and torn with
warring factions. It is destined to
be wrecked in 1892 through its cor
ruption and internal dissensions.
THE - FARMER'S ALLIANCE ;i
We are opposed to a change of
name for the Farmer’s Alliance, and
think it would be a mistake to merge
it into any other organization if
its formidable title is to be drop
ped. The word “Alliance” lias a
deep meaning and power, and before
it has the strongest and most formi
dable trust that was ever formed
trembled and fallen to pieces. It
was the Alliance that came to' the
rescue of our struggling farmers and
saved them from bankruptcy—it is
the Alliance that is both feared and
respected—and it is only the Alli
ance that can complete the glorious
work and'force to the wall rings and
monopolists. It was under this lion
ored name that the battle begun,
and let it so remain to the end. If
other organizations want to comhiue
with the Alliance, all well and good,
but in making this coalition, see that
this all-powerful and invulnerable
name is preserved.
•THE ATh ENS BANNER.
We intenff to make The Banner
not only tjie organ of Athens and
the surrounding country, but for
Northeast and Middle Georgia. Our
daily edition we will send to all the
towns and villages, while we are de
termined to place our mammoth
weekly in every farmer’s home. We
are daily adding Dew names to our
list, and hope by the close of the
season to eutoll 10,000 new subscri*
bers. We want to secure a good,
energetic ageut in every locality, aDd
such a man can do well canvassing
for us. We claim that we are now
publishing the best and newsiest
weekly paper in the South There is
not an occurrence of importance in
the whole world, that reaches the
press, but itris recorded in our paper.
We re-write every article, and by
condensing all the important facts,
ate able togive a great deal of news
,in a small space. This is a conve
nienee, too, to our patrons; as they
can obtain at a glance all informa
tion without- waditig through col-
umus of small print. We ask our
patrons to speak a kind word fo
NECROES AS G. A- R. MEN.
That truly loyal aud patriotic or
ganization, the Grand Army of the
Republic, is now wrought up to the
highest pitch of excitement ever the
admission of a colored post into their
ranks in Louisiana, and one com
mander went so far as to resign soon
er than sign its commission.
This is a nice howdy-do. From
the vituperous utterances of indig
nation by the G. A. R. whenever a
nigger chicken thief is sprinkled
bird-shot down South, we thought
its members were longing to take the
rother-in-black into their arms,
and bedew his raven brow with tears
of fraternal affection—that the odor
of the African would be sweeter to
their nostrils than breezes from
Araby the Blest—that they longed
for the day when they could press
his thick lips, and smooth Ins woolly
head with the hand of utiection—
that nothing would delight this noble
order so much as to gather the dar
key under its wings, as a lien doth
her brood, and rapturously exclaim:
“ Once you was lost, but now you’re
found !”
It indeed pains our heart to see.
that we have been laboring under
such a hallucination, and that the
Grand Army of the Republic has no
move hankering after nigger equality
than the veterans ot the Confedera
cy. It seems that the sentiment of
the G. A. R. is that, from a Southern
stand-point, the colored man is a
gentleman and a scholar, and should
receive every honor and recognition—
i. e., from the South. But when it
comes to swallowing a small dose of
the extract of coon themselves, they
are at once taken with a violent at
tack of black vomit.
Well, well, well. This is certainly
a strange aud incongruous world we
live in—especially that little section
of our mundane sphere located north
of Mason & Dixon’s line. Here we
find the greatest lovei ol the nigger—
the only men who claim to have
shouldered their muskets (by proxy)
to set him free—now refusing these
charges admission into their ranks !
These same humanitarians are en
tirely willing to %i>ow their- devotion
to the negro by permitting him to
ride in the same coach with the white
ladies of the South, and they are
also willing to endure him so long as
he confines his depredations and out
rages to his former owner—but never,
well, hardly ever, will they take this
same dose themselves.
We are heartily in sympathy with
the colored troops in their laudable
ambition to become enrolled in the
G. A. R. ranks. If these white sol
diers thought the negro good enough
to risk his life for the North aud
fight by their side, he is certainly
good enough to also enjoy a harmless
little holiday parade with them, now
that the war is over. Let the dar
key stand up for his rights in this
matter, and insist that he be given
all the honors and recognition ac
corded the white pension-grabbers of
the Union army. Let there be a
grand re-union of tbe G. A. R. Let
while spirits and bine* brown spirits
and grey, all meet aud mingle on the
mo3t loving terms of social equality.
SO THEY CLIMBED THE BACK
FENCE AND LEFT FOR
HOME.
Five Moonshineis from North Georgia
hit theGrii in t lie most Approved
Styie.
Atlanta, Ga., January 10.—[Spe
cial]—Five moonshiners escaped from
tlie jail in which the United States
prisoners are confined last night.
The jail building in which the moon
shiners are kept is the new frame struc
ture built by Sheriff Thomas this sum
mer expressly for the United States
prisoners. It is on the same lot as the
old county jail building, and is joined
to it by a narrow passage way.
Iu this new building there are con
fined sixty government prisoners and
five of this number, all young moon
shiners, escaj ed last night.
They were John Brackett, T. N.
Smith, John Hood, T. C. Bryan and J.
C. Saterlleld, of Union and Habersham
counties. Brackett was in lor six
months and had served three of them.
The rest were awaiting their trials in
the United States court.
HOW THEY KSCAl’KD.
The manner in which the escape was
made was at once bold and daring.
They first secured a piei o of iron from
a bedstead, which was used as .a screw
driver. With this they removed one
by one the screws in the hinges of the
large wooden door, which is the en
trance of tbe prison. When the screws
were all loosened and the hinges taken
out, the door was let carefully and noise
lessly to the ground. Creeping out of
the door of tlie prison the five young
moonshiners crept along in the shadow
of the fence until they came to the cor
ner. Looking around them, they found
two pieces of plank, which they picked
up and leaned against the fence. They
climbed to the top by means of these
planks and then dropped to the ground.
They were in the alley at the rear of
the jail. From there they went out in
to East Fair street and for nd themselves
free men, but with nothing except the
clothes they wore.
The jailers think that tbe young
. moonshiners have started out for Hab-
j ersham county, aud that by walking
I they will reach home in a few days.
' The other prisoners could( have es
caped if they wanted to, but werencar-
ly all asleep at the time the five left,
and were not aware of the opportunity.
These are the first prisoners that
have escaped from the new wooden
jail.
Twenty-two of those who were left 111
the jail plead guilty in the United States
court this morning, and were sen-
ernccd. _ _____
AX 11-YEAR-OLD BOY’S SUICIDE.
A STRANGE ANIMAL.
Stalks Abroad at Night and Terror
izes the People of Scott County.
Gkoroktown, Ky., Jan. 9.— [Special]
—The people in the vicinity of White
Sulphur,this county, are alarmed at the
presence of a wild animal of some de
scription in the neighborhood. It lias
only been seen at night, and no one
knows what it is. Some negroes who
claim to have seen it, say it is a hyena,
iomc a tiger and others a wild cat. The
dogs in the neighborhood arc’ afraid to
'vein ure from the house at night, a num
ber of them having been attacked and
torn to pieces. One night last week the
the strange animal bit a number of fat
hogs belonging to Mr. Robert Bratton,
who lives jnst below the Sulphur,
which died of hydrophobia. Two or
three weeks ago the animal was seen on
the farms of Mrs. Alice Brown and Mr
Lawrence Long.
DEFENDED HER YOUNG.
Two Boys Have a Desperate Encoun
ter With a Wolf.
Fort Smith, Aric.,Jan. 9.—(Special.)
Sunday afternoon,in the Boston Moun
tains, some twenty miles north of here,
two boys named Ge rge and Charles
Gray were out in the wo ds and fouud
what they supposed were puppies ly
ing under the ledge of a rock. They
caught the animals, -which snarled
and bit furiously, aud started home.
The supposed puppies were a pair of
cub wolves, and before the boys had
gone far they were attacked by a large
she wolf, mother of the cubs, and both
were terribly bitten and scratched.
The boys drew their pocket knives in
defense, and after a hard fight killed
the wolf.
Kansas burns corn for firewood, hav
ing forbidden its manufacture into
whisky. This is temperance with a ven
geance on the corn raisers.
Tlie' treasury department has decided
to admit round rattans free of' duty.
One more Infant industry will thus be
■ conserved. This will not encourage the
1 rattan raisers to make big crops next
year.
He Saw his Father Coining and Shot
Himself in the Head.
San Francisco, Jan.—(Special)—
Clement Flint, the 11-year-old son of
William S. Flint, attorney-at-law, of
this city, committed suicide this morn-
ing by shooting himself in the temple.
He disappeared frein home sifter re
turning from school yesterday after
noon. Search was made for him last
evening without success, and as ho had
not returned this morning his father
left.tSpftmuae to notify the police. As
he wfiw-p.-Asin? along the street he saw
his’liu.ie boy ou the opposite sidewalk.
The l.oy started to run. and the father
called him, tolling him to come back,
that lie intended to do him no harm
The boy did 11 t stop however, but
rushed into a neighboring house.
When he reached the hallway the
report of a pistol was heard, and when
Mr. Flint entered the house lie found
his only child on the tloor, with a ter
rible wound in the temple. He died a
few hours later. The parents are un
able to account for his act, but suppose
that he feared to return home after re
hiaining away all night. They don’t
know what caused his absence. „
LYLE AGAINST CARLTON
The State Senator IIanker6 After Con
gressional Life.
The following which the Atlan
ta correspondent w rites the Macon Tel
egraph frill throw some light on the
next congressional campaign for this
district. The correspondent writes:
“State Senator J. K. Lyle is in the
city and Says he intends moving from
Watkinsvi’le to Athens in the hear fu
ture An interesting race for the eighth
district congressional chair is in pros
pect, and Senator Lyle will certainly be
in the race provided Dr. Carlton, the
present incumbent, should decline to
run. Senator Lyle says he will not op
pose Dr. Carlton's election, hut he has
been informed that the doctor will de
cline to take the field.”
However, some time ago he is repor
ted to have stated that lie w ould stand
for re-election. Judge Lawson of Put-
nrm is supposed to be another candi
date aud Hon. Frank Colley of Wilkes
has been pressed by his friends to make
the race and may consent tb do so.
A SLICK CITIZEN.
Ho Professes Love for an Old Woman,
Gets Her Money and Skips.
Bloomington, III., Jan. 10—[Spe
ed]—Win. Proctor, a Springfield, ill.,
traveling insurance agent, lies in jail
in this city uilUer serious charges. He
was arrested at Springfield some time
ago. Proctor met Mrs. Elizabeth Tim
merman, ot Bloomington, a widow
nearl/So, years old, bodily frail, and
quite rich. She relates that Proctor
professed love for her, and pressed his
suit so warmly and energetically, that
he not only won her pledge to wed him,
but obtained possession Of well-secured
and traiisferrablc notes for $4,000 and
$200 in money, whereupon he skipped.
She swore out the warrant and had him
arrested by an officer, who learned that
Proctor lias a wife and two children in
Springfield. It has been learned that
Proctor got $200 in a similar manner
from a widow of West Township, this
county.4
GORDON, CLEVELAND, GRADY.
Three New Comers Visit tho Homo of
Mr. Dickerson of Morcross, Ga.
Norcross, Ga., Jan. 10.—(Special)—
Mrs. Dickerson, living not very far
from this place, yesterday gave birth to
triplets, all hearty and hale little boys,
who, as is their mother, are getting
along splendidly.
Mr. and Mrs. Dickerson are in mod
erate circumstances, and the generous
people of Norcross and neighborhood
made up and sent many needed [resents
to the happy family.
Every necessary comfort was pro
vided for them. It has been suggested
that the infant trio be named-Gordon,
Cleveland and Grady, aud they will
probably he so called.
Two rascally negroes in North Caro
lina collected $2,000,registering negroes
to move to Arkansas free of charge, •
GENERAL NEWS-
The brick wall of a church is New
York fell aud wounded several people.
A falling wall at Long Island City.
X. J., buried three men.
A lineman was killed in St. Louis
while repairing an electric wire.
Senator Blackburn was re-elected sen
ator by the Kentucky legislature.
The debt of New York city is $9S,-
653,072.
The sub-Tropioa’- exposition at Jack
sonville, Fla., is now open.
A large number of negroes are leav
ing Kansas for Oklahoma,
The Montana democrats elected Clark
and McGinnis as United States sena
tors.
The women of Milton, Oregon, have
put in nomination a full set of women
for tlie city election.
A female lion tamer in Paris was las-
cerutedby an enraged beast before she
was gotten out of the cage.
Two young Virginia negroes caught
in an attempt to stea , chose to receive
thirty-nine stripes to going to jail.
A11 English syndicate, proposes to
parallel the S. G. road from Augusta
to Charleston.
14 men were killed out in Kentucky
by the collapse of a carson in the Ohio
river.
George W. Cable dined in Nashville
with a negro.
In Lenair county.N. C.,75 percent of
the negroes are emigrated and tho poor
white people arc glad of it.
The democrats carried Memphis by a
majority of 250 votes.
Two sons of the Prince of Wales are
mixed up in a disgraceful scandal suit
in London.
Dr. Kniffen and Miss Bersell, of
Trenton, Ky., who were arrested for
killing Mrs. Kniffen are out on bond.
The Sub Tropical exposition at Jack
sonville, Fla. opened on Thursday un
der favorable circumstances.
John Wheeler, a discharged convict
guard in Randolph county, N.jC., shot
and killed George Lemmon another
guard.
A pile of timber in Chicago toppled
over on four workmen and crushed two
of them to death.
B. O. .L ukins, the owner of a distil
lery in Cleveland county,N. C., was
mortally wounded by J. H McNcely.
A bill has been introduced in Con
gress for the election of postmasters by
tue people.
The first year of Air Harrison’s ad
ministration will cost the government
$51,000,000' more than Cleveland’s.
1 hete is said to be a large mulberry
tree iu Girard, Ala,, filled with fruit—
the second crop within a year.
Henry Ward, a negro murderer, was
taken from a jail and lynched in Louisi
ana.
The Federal marshal in Florida told
his deputies to put only true and tried
Republicans in tbe jury box.
Ice has been found on Mount Mc
Clellan, California, which is computed
to be 80,000 years old.
Dr. Bell, of Washington, D. C., was
sentenced to a six month imprisonment
and a $400 line for robbing a grave.
The tobacco and rice growers have
been before a congressional committee
for protection.
The Western Union office in Loujs
was destroyed by fire started by a
crossing of electric wires.
Gov. Lowey, of Mississippi, has not
forgotten the*SulUvan-Kilrain fight and
has just had Aiuldoon and others arrest
ed in New York.
The fashion of powdering the hair is
re-establishing itself with the Paris
beaux, and is expected to show itself
again in Loudon.
The four negro murderers of Mr. J.
H. Brown, who were the cause of the
recent lynching in Barnwell, 8. C.,
were remanded back to jail.
Mrs. Jane Oxford, of Shelbyville,
Ill., lias been sent to jail because she
was too poor to send her boy to school
under the compulsory Jaw.
Mrs. South worth, of New York, who
shot Stephen Betters, died'in the
Tombs prison Her death ends a sen
sational murder trial.
Gen. Bartlett, of New Orleans, re
signed rather than sign the charter for
the colored post of the G. A. li. sanc
tioned by Commander Gray.
Pataka river, Indiana, has risen at
an alarming rate during the last twen
ty-four heuis. A tract of country
twenty miles long by three to four
miles wide, is inundated.
W. P. St. John, president of the Mer
cantile National and vice-president of
the Southern Society, resigned because
of the action of that society on the death
of Jefferson Davis.
A telegraph message costing $2.37
per word was reeen ly sent from Port
land to Hong Kong, and un answer re
ceived in twelve hours. It was first
sent to New York, thence to London,
across the continent to Yokohama.
Gov. Hill, in his annual message to
the legislature, advocates the registra
tion of voters, a secret ballot, and a
polling place where ballots can be pre
pared free from public observation.
Miss Fannie Keener, a beautiful and
wealthy white girl of Jacksonville. 11.,
has bean too intimate with her colored
coachman, who has left the place. On
Tuesday he returned and seriously
wounded Miss Keener and a young
White man who was with her.
Authorities of Russel, Ky., have just
discovered the murder of Richard Bq-
ler by his sou ten,days ago. The boy,
aged twelve, to obtain a few dollars,
smashed his father’s head ar.d then
threw his body in a well. The younger
children witnessed the deed, but were
kept silent by threats.
A Pacific coast paper has this item:
“A school teacher at Kootenay, B. C.,
recently saw a personal m an eastern
paper soliciting correspondence, etc.
lie took a fiver and received In return
a check for $250 to come to Minneapo
lis and get a bride. The day of the
marriage he will also get a bank book
covering a deposit of $10,000 subject to
his order.”
Dumas ills has begun to publish a se
ries of hitherto unpublished maxims of
his. The first is as follows: “When
life appears as God has made it there is
nothing left hut to thank him for bav
in instituted Death.” The last is: “Wo
man, according to the Bible, was the
last thing created by God. He must
have made her on a Saturday night, for
the work shows signs of fatigue.”
A Missouri Judge has made the sur
prising digeoyery th.it in order to be el-
gible to jury duty in Missouri it is not
inecessftry that the Summoned should be
21 years of age A gentleman, whose
son, aged 20, was included in a list of
persons eligible for jury duty, went to
Judge Witiierow in his behalf, when
the .Judge said-that tfbe was but 9 years
of age and possessed ot the requisite in
telligence he would be obliged to serve.
A Chicago negro suggests that the
government purchase Cuba or Hayti vo
move, tbe negroes of the South to.
A telegram received at Lick observa
tory from Professor Burnham, Chief of
eclipse expedition sent from Lick ob
servatory to South mcrieu, announces
ffiat the observation of the eclipse of
the sun, December 22d, was entirely
successful, and the expedition is home
ward bound.
Reports from South Africa say that
the natives there are getting tired of
slavery under the British and Portugese
governments, and are mustering for
“rebellion.”
Old Judge Kelley, of Philadelphia,
died in Washington, 76 years of age.
lie served early apprenticeships in
printing offices aud jewelry shops. Ho
finally drifted info the law and became
a great render and worker. After pass
ing through the lower grades of prose
cuting officer and Judge, he entered the
Thirty-seventh Congress and has since
been in continued commission.
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS-
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A Memphis bar keeper blew out his
brail.s in his room because his love was
unrequited.
Olaf Johnson and wife of Nasliotah,
Wis., tried to cross in front of a loco
motive and were killed.
Two democratic senators were named
yesterday. lion. Calvin 8. Brice, of
Ohio, was elected, and Senator K. K.
Wils ti, of Maryland, was renominated
for his seat.
A band of colored regulators is whip
ping, beating and cutting negroes in
8ou.ii Carolina.
A Newark, N. J., jury originated a
new thing in verdicts yesterday. The
ease was one of wife beating, and “not
guilty,.but we don’t, want him to do if
again,” was the jury’s finding.
A young man in Wisconsin was
chased home by a large rattlesnake.
John Hicks was released yesterday
after a fifty year’s service in the Indi
ana penitentiary.
' Barnuni will erect an immense show
building in N. Y.
Gen. Bonlangeijis said to shamefully
neglect his wife.
Mrs. South wood’s funeral in New
York will be strictly private and floral
offerings will be declined.
Mrs. Langtry is in Paris.
James Carroll, of Scranton, Penn.,
lost four of his five children within a
few hours with diphtheria.
Alice Jackson, the St. Louis heiress,
admits that there is no truth in her ab
duction story.
Two men died in Wilmington, Del.,
from inhaling poisonous gases.
Mary Anderson, the actress, says she
is not engaged.
Tiie nail trust has advanced the price
of nails.
In Summers county. West Virginia.
Cora Warren, a handsome young wo
man, shot and killed herself. Sbe had
been living with her married cousin.
Mrs Louis Bennett. Mrs. Bennett sus
pected that her husband and cousin
were intimate, and drove the latter
from the house. The girl went a short
distance and shot herself dead.
A negro boy was lynched in Louisi
ana for murdering an employe of
French’s circus.
Emigrant agents are at work in S. C.
anlong the negroes.
31 is. Henrietta Bcltaire, the captai
of the Salvation army at Newark, N.J.,
whipped three men for insulting her.
The Empress Eugenia, of Germany,
Was in love with a French nobleman
when she was a princess and never goi
over the attachment.
Mary A. Donnaily, the nurse who
was stabbed by Eva L. Hamilton at At
lantic City last summer, and who upon
recovering from the effects of the as
sault, exhibited herself in a museum on
the Bowery, lias brought suit against
Mrs. Hatniton and Robert Ray Hamil
ton for $10,000 damages.
Clarence McLeRoye, of Co umbia,
Tenn., stole $1,000 from his firm to go
on bis wedding tour.
Ellen, tho young daughter of Secre
tary Bay aid j is to marry a Swedish
Count.
At Austin, Minnesota, twenty-nine
guests are suffering with triconotis.
At a recent meeting of the Masonic
Grand Lodge of Nebraska, a rule was
adopted which prohibits a saloon ke-per
from becoming a Mason, or remaining
m the Order, if iie continues the busi
ness. It has just leaked ont that a Lin
coln Lodge lias lief nil purging in that
business. Charges were preferred about
six weeks ago against the prominent
members of the Order In this city who
were engaged in liquor selling, and at a
recent meeting of the Lodge, after an
ail night session, they were expelled
from tne Order. This is the first case
under the rule. It is un erstood that
like prosecutions will be begun all over
the State.
The Farmers’ Alliance and the
Knights of Labor of Alabama will go
hand in hand in the next campaign, and
will stand squarely on the declaration
of the recent 8t. Louis platform.
Guiseppe Cerrate, an Italian artist of
repute, committed suicide by shooting,
in New York.
In a family quarrel at Tehamo, Cal.,
A. J., son of Judge Clark, killed his
brother Johnston.
John Mylnarck, a school trustee; of
Duluth, being short in his accounts,
blew out his brains.
^ It is charged that $4,000 was paid the
St. Louis Council for passing the union
market arcade bill.
Prof. Hamilton Carter, of New Lynn,
Ohio, has been arrested for burglary,
and confessed, lie made a business of
robbery and Sunday school teaching.
Joseph Bryant, a Texas cattle kin«»
is under arrest for murdering Bob John
son.
Five Italians kicked and beat Isaab
Schilausky, to death, in New York.
Icicles on St. Louis electric wires
have weighed them down until it is
dangerous to pass along the streets.
Tlie people were in a panic all day yes
terday, and even the dogs fled in terror
from the scintillations of death that
flashed from the wires. Two street car
horses ran into a sagging wire aud had
their heads burned almost off".
Ella C. White, the festive female
forger, has managed to escape from the
Chemung, N. Y., jail.
A determined effort is being made to
enforce tbe .Maine liquor law. In Ban
gor tlie saloons have been deserted, and
vast quantities of whiskey are hastily
shipped away or hidden in private
houses.
Diphtheria and black tongue are kill
ing a great many people along Siieep
river, in West Virginia.
Mrs. Nannie Kontz, of Paduca, Ky..
killed herself because she could not aid
her scape-grace husband in his troub es.
Another death through “Christian
Science” is reported from Indiana,
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A BURIED CITY.
DISCOVERED lit' AOEXTLFvJ
IN CENTRAL AMERICA.
Ho is Now Visiting Relatives i n
lanta aud May Locate Htr e
1 the W
selliJ
01 thl
The rui s of a large city, long
buried beneath the earth, have!
discovered in Central America'.
The man to whom belong.-
of discovering this city is .\| r .
Miller, now in Atlanta.' A ' I
He is a brother of Mr. Tom MiilJ
the clothier so well and favorably
lie re. '
Mr. Miller was for years in tj )c n , «
paper business at Indianapolis j ,
but being very fond of travel ],’f. .‘A
eiry last year and when tlienmnnl
J une arrived, found himself in (_• ‘1
America. "
Omf day he saw an Indian
rubber on the streets of one
cities.
Mr. Miller began conversing *|J
him about the place from which he j!|
tamed his rubber, and learned many i]
resting things. ) “|
The Indian told him of gigantic tX
ests of mahogany and rubber whij
were growing upon eithei 6ide of asm j
stream. lie told of ruins in the mjff
of the forest, as if a city h;,d oueestul
in that place.
Mr. Miller employed the Indian *
guide him to the spot They travty
for six d;%s in a boat, down first ( ,,J
river, and then another and up a thirl
to its mouth, when they left the
and cut their way for nine miles throJ
the jungle. There was tlie stream u
Indian had described, in the coat t oil
being a stone idol on a pedes-d, t !a
whole rising eight feet above the \vatJL
The nuihogany and rubber trees wJB
growing in profu-ion all around, sur.jfl
of them appearing to be live hnnOn
years old.
On either side of the stream, beiipjJ
the trees, were broken columns
trading from the ground, stone
tkat had evidently formed a parti
some magnifieant temple, remnants<
elegantly carved tables of stone, idol
and many other relics were found
neaththe ground.
The buried city covered some tlirJ
miles of ground, tlie stream rutiiiifil
through what must have been the tuf
ter of the place.
Mr. Miller ascended a lofty mom
tain and looked down on the ruin
which had once been a > iiy in this bwrL
tiftdly situated plain, now covered wit]
the inorutrclis 0! the ttopical forest.
Retaining he gathered up a nunilw
of idols and other relics, among thu|
an image corresponding with the Jlii
doo goddess Durga. This image wi
he placed in the Cambridge museum!
It has a horrible, looking face and
arms. The lower limbs hud been hru|
ken off before Mi, Miller found it.
asoon s he returned to ci vilizatioj
the fact of his discovery was puMishtj
in the papers, fie was preparing i|
form a company to unearth the cilf
when a sharp Bostonian stepped
ahead of him and secured this exclusivl
privilege from tlie govern me 11.— Afl
lanta Journal.
OKRA FOR COTTON BAGS.
Another Specimen of the Okra Fibre-1
A Competitor with Jute.
Mr. IV. 51. Cave, of Barnwell, ha
sent to'The News aud Courier a
imcii of okra fibre w hicli is worth UkU
ing a! by those who are fightin
Jure Trust. In the letter enclosing thl
specimen Mr. Cave suvs: “I wcmll
like to have the opinions of tho eottoj
factors of your city in regard to it as
covering for cotton. I have given
careful study for fifteen months, a
feel satisfied that, its production will It
of great value to the South. The.
pies which I enclose prove its value h
manufacturing-course mate rial, ami i:
textile qualities, will introduce il «nl
tlie make-up of tho fabrics. One hud
tired and sixty to two hundred thoussnl
stalks can be grown per acre on
and well prepared . land, sown br
cast. When matured, cut down and li
it dry thoroughly. The. drying proci
enables the fibre to take in the glutei
which strengthens it aud furnishes
rich glossy finish.
Mr. 8udlow is quoted as saying thu
the gluten can be removed by*, a sim|il
process. The gluten is, I think, ver
necessary' to the fibre, for when Hi
stalk has been dried, then wet tinu
oughly, the bark expands, and tli
gluten aids in preserving (lie texture
the fibre, and under slight, pressure tb
separation of fibre from wood is com
plete.” .
THE USES OF OKRA.
An Athenian Tells How its Bi-Prbfiu&i
May be Used.
Sometime ago tbe Banner gayc :i loud
interview with Mr, O. It. 'Thuniion|
about the uses of okra, it was stare 1 *
that besides being a good vegetable f'*|
food the pkra plant was useful for its]
bark. This bark makes an exccHi'iitL
fibre and can be used for making rope.1
bagging, hags or any thing for vliirtl
hemp and jute are now used, it is I
ter than either of these. Besides
the seed of the okra plant is an excel-J
lent article for food for cattle and a vrtjl
useful oil can also be extracted from it[
AI o£this was stated in the interyk*|
with Mr. Thurmond who had' just <lis|
closed these various usages of the eon
bum okra plant. Since then a Sonil]
Carolinian has made the same discover
ies and has been the subject of a loi'J
interview, which appeared in one of ti'f
Carolina pacers. Another man in Ahj
banni has become so concerned.as;to tlif
value of these discoveries: that maebi<i
ery is being invented for introducia
okra bagging and okra oil into thl
world of commerce. I
But still another value is found to lhj
hiddeti it: the okra stalk, and this by i* 1 !
Athens man. Prof, ffchevenell say|
that tlie pith of the plant can be
with but little trouble in the
tore of paper. Ho says that no prepm*
ation hardly is needed to make a supe
rior quality of paper from this part tlj
the okra plant, In this way, }t may
seen that okra has varied and numerous!
uses, and may yet be the greatest j>ro*J
duct for commercial usefulness.
I.ivincglon not to Illume.
In jus ice to Hon. L. F. Livings too I
we publish the following letter fro®l
Capt. K. C. MaelrtSn, uhi'ch-puts tonsij
the charge that Uol. Livingston was to |
blame for changing the original ro«W|
of the Covington Macon railroad: i
Dear Sir :—You say that there a r e 11
few individuals that blame you for|
changing the routc of tbe Covington * j
Macon railroad and ask me to correct!
tbe impression. 1 h 11 hesitatingly s:l I 5
that they are incorrect in their charge,!
and after putting myself upon such in-1
qtiirv as to justify tlie statement, l w 111 1
say that it is unjust to you to blame 1
you for the change of line. I do not v
th nk you are in any way resf*o»g* we [
for it personally. Yours very truly,
E. C,