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THE ATHENS WEEKLY BAN
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ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING JANUARY 21, 1890.
VOL LVHI NO. 7
OUR NEIGHBORING COUNTIES
OCONEE COUNTY.
Mr. F..T. Freeman and Miss Mattii*
Griffith. of GreshamweU, arc married.
Mias Lizzie Yearby, of Winterville,
has been visiting in Watkinsville.
Rev. J. S. Cowon, of Watkinsville, is
holding a series of meetings in South
Carolina.
Mr. C. D. Burnett and family have
moved to Athens.
Mr. Bud Wider lost a little baby girl
from croup.
MORGAN COUNTY.
A “gentleman from Athens lias been
in Madison this week looking around
with a view to establishing a large mu
sic house.
The license for retailing liquor in
Madison was raised to two huudred
and fifty dollars per annum. The li
cense heretofore charged was one hun
dred dollars.
Mr.Wiley Allison, we regret to learn,
fell down stairs last Tuesday night, at
his home in this eounty and broke his
leg.
Mr J. H. Hunter, who has sold out
liis large dry-goods business to Messrs.
Bearden <fc .Stovall, will hereafter be
at tbs drug store of Clark &
Hunter.
Messrs, L. H. t F. W and A. W. Fos
ter and W. 1‘oultaiii left today for Flor
ida. where they went on a hunting ex
pedition.
OGLETHORPE COUNTY.
A little negro only 11 years old, is in
the Lexington jail charged with burn
ing two houses.
Mr. Will Arnold had his hand pain
fully cut by a gin saw.
Mr. J. K*. Boggs, one of Lexington’s
oldest citizens, is dead.
M rs. II. E. Roane offers $25 reward
for a runaway negro boy.
Mrs. John Cunningham, of Texas, is
visiting her relatives in the county.
Miss Nannie and Mr. Foster Bauglin
went up to Athens on Tuesday. Their
father, though somewhat improved, is
not yet able to take the trip.
The Oglethorpe Allianoeinen bought
their mules from .Mr. Edward Max
well.
Mrs. Carrie Jarrell has opened a
hoarding house in Lexington.
M r. W. Steward lost a mule for which
lie paid on the day previous, $100.
Mr. Charley W. Bround and Miss
Georgia Faust are married.
There is a denominational split be
tween the Methodist and Baptist jas to
school mutters.
orial staff of the Carnesville Tribune. |
The paper has improved considerably.
The Carnesville railroad seems to |
hang fire.
The school at West Bowersville now |
iiumliers more than forty pupils.
Mr T. R. Check has anew warehouse |
completed at this place.
Mr. W. A. Hilliard has a hog that I
weighs450 founds.
ALLIANCE DEPARTHANT.
GEORGE T. MURRELL, Editoh.
why farming does not Fay.
and some remedy is not adopted to check
the tidal wave from country to city the
rural districts will in tue course of lime,
and a short time at that, be depleted of its
hard-working yeomanry and town “tack-
ies” will be as multitudinous as the sands
of the seashore.
BANKS COUNTY.
NO. 4.
I had intended to devote this column to
the turtuer purpose of showing the op
pressive measures adopted and practiced
by ■ ui R. R. sys'Ctn as operating a gam s’
ihe well&re of the farm by way of contin
uation of the subject left off in my las'
but so much Is being written on tin
ALTON’S RACE WAR.
Mr. M. Davidson will deliver an ad
dress here on Jan. 31st, in behalf of the
Farmers’ Alliance and Labor Union.
Prof. Terrell gave a sleight-of-hand I uses and abuses of railroads iu the period-
show in Homer. I icals ol the day that I have concluded t<
Prof. Alexander has a good school in I « ,r ry oui tin- threat made in the outset, ot
Homer. I coming down to houie l.feon the fa mi and
It is said the health of Tom Langston I see if 1 can possibly enlighten somebody on
is rapidly failing. Langston was jailed j *he subject of home management or rather
here iu November, charged with the I mis-man »gement of home affairs on the
killing of Bill Brewer at the Payne I farm. Some of the evils 1 propose to
grocery. Since that time several re-1 P“* nl out have, overtaken the writor lit
ports of lynching him have been going | gone by and to that extent, at least,
abroad. | <•« “ay he supposed to know what he is
Clayton is again without a school and I •■Ikihg about,
a good teucher is needed. I . “ ** hard to get behind
SHALL COLORED CHltl>REN BE
ADMITTED TO THE WHITE
FOLKS’ SCHOOL.
ve
she I
Miss Blanche Wall, of Clayton, ga
her mother great uticasitiess until s
found her in Toccoa.
While in Franklin county we saw and
talked with Mr. Mike Keutp, a Confed-
man’s expe
rt- nee. Experience is a good Kucher, bin
tne lessons learned in this school become
only profitable to us when there is a pto
poruonaie amount of reformation taking
place as we no along Experience teaclit-s
eratc veteran, who was shot in the fore-1 “B cotton farmers mat there is no mouey
IIA BERS1IA M CO UNTY.
A very heavy rainstorm passed over
Toccoa Wednesday night.
Tlte new mayor and council of Toccoa
took their oaths of ollice last week.
Sneezing and coughing is the pass
word in Red Creek.
The Toccoa News will shortly send
out. a trade issue for Toccoa.
Carnesville is on a tremendous rail
road lioom.
>V K Brice has been elected cashier
ami Maj. J. M. Freeman book-ke q>er
of the 'loeeoa bank.
The Si msnii House at Toccoa is 1 us
ing enlarged by a two story addition.
Peach blossoms are blooming in this
county.
Measles of a malignant type have
shown up in Toccoa and Red Creek,
breaking into the regularity of the
schools io these towns.
There were three runaway marriages
in one day around Red Creek.
Win. McDowell, Commodore Gibson,
and R. L. Tanner, of Hiwassee, charg
ed with assault with intent to murder
have been tried. McDowell was bound
over for assault, and the others were
releusd.
('apt. E. B. Smith has been elected
Sabbath-school superintendent of the
Baptist school; J. B. Simmons of the
Methodist, and E. P. Simpson of the
Presbyterian—three good selections.
The young son of Mr. John Hol
comb, of Ftanklin county, is suffering
from white swelling of the leg below
the knee, resulting in necrosis, or dead-
eningof the shin bone. Several inches
of this l one were removed this week.
Early in February the Richmond &
Danville will put oit a vestibule train
between Atlanta and Washington, mak
ing three passenger trains daily
head just below the hair, in the battle
of Hoover’s Gap, Tenn., July 14th,
1863. The ball pussed tin ough the skull
and into the brain, and remained there
13 years and 7 days, when it was taken
out by Doctors John and Doyl. He
suffers much on account of the wound
yet.
Rev. W. L.C. Waters, of Franklin
county, is a model farmer. With four
plows he raised last year 11 bales of
cotton, 2,200 bushels corn, and about
100 gallons of sorghum. He killed five
hogs weighing about three hundred
pounds each.
Mrs. B. F. Church, of Clarksville, is
dead.
The new city of Demorere, in Haber
sham county, is fast building up. A
new brick store and academy, library
and church and a number of residences
are going up.
lit a fight in the Tennessee Valley of
Rabun eounty on last Monday between
two North Carolina brothers, by the
name of Foster on one side, and Ike ami
Jess MeCurry on the other, both sides
were badly bruised up. The Fosters
were knocked down with roeks at least
four or five times each, and one of them
received two serious wounds from a re
volver, one in the mouth ami one in tlte
arm. Ike MeCurry was severely stab
bed in the back with a pocket-knife.
WALTON COUNTY.
Marriages: Otis D. Briscoe and El
la M. Black; Osear A. McDowell ami
S illie Prater; Jim Setntnerousand Miss
Fowler.
M r. E J. Bedingfleld killed two hogs
last week only thirteen months old.
Otic of them tipped the beam at lour
hundred pounds, and the other three
hundred and thirty-eight.
Mr. M. V. Treadwell and family came
very near being thrown into the creek
at T. Smith’s mills on last Saturday.
While crossing, the horse became fright
ened and backed oft* the bridge, throw -
iwg Mr. Trvml.weJI out.
The action of tlte County Alliance at
the last ca led-uieeting, relative to the
use of cotton bags for guano, was re
considered at the last county meeting,
owing to the fact that hy ac: uni test it
had been found that cotton hags would
not tiear shipment, and the effects of
sulphuric acid.
Mrs. Dr. Beeves, of Bethlehem, is
dead.
Mrs. Bedford L. Adams died near So
cial Circle
Willis Higginbotham died from the
accidental discharge of a pistol, the ball
taking effect in the knee-joint, trotn
to be umile in the production of cotton at
pn sent pi ices, but what does it all amount
K if they go on planting just the same.
Now stop, brother farmer, ami think a
moment. While you are thinking let me
talk a little ami make some cool mathe
matical Calculations for you. You are in
debt and want to pay out. This is right
and commendable. How arc you to do
this when the more cotton you plant the
deeper into the mire you get? If money is
the thing you are after, and must have,
how can you hope to obtain it by produc
ing a crop, that, while it brings iu money
only returns to you about the amount of
cash that was nquired to produce it aud'
gel it ready for market? Yes, but you
say this is not true—I say it is true, am)
will now prove the correctness of tuy as
sertion.
If you can make any material changes
in my estimates please let niehearfiotn
you.
We will rate cotton at 10 cts. per pound
and employ three acres in producing a five
hundred imuud bale, for live huudred
pounds lint is an avetage yield on average
land under avt rage conditions.
If we own the land each acre is worth to
us just what we could tentit for to some
one else. (Ve will put the land (leaving
out taxes and interest on money invested
in each >cre) at the rale of $25 00 for ten
acres. What land owner would rent tot
less ? What tenant would expect to pay
less than $2.50 per aerc?
Now let us get into the ttgur s.
To rent ot three acres laud, $2 50.. $7 50
To cotnmeicial manure 5 00
To six bushel seed planting at 18 cts. 1 08
To preparing land •••*».... 2 50
To planting anil putting iu fer
tilizers 1 50
To running round aud chopping out.. 4 00
To three plowings, $f 00 csch per
acre 9 00
To two hoeing* $2.25 each 4 50
To picking nut, 50cts per 100 lbs.... 7 50
To toll at gin 2 25
Total $44.83
Cr. by one bale, 500 'Its, lOcts .. $50 00
Gr. by 28 bushel seta!, 18uts........ 5 04
$55 04
To amount received ubovc cost of pto-
duction $1021.
Ten balis to the plow is above the
ernge yit-hl, bill for the sake of figutes we
wm say t n babs.
For the years work $102.10.
Now if tuis is tiie best you can do, hire
yourself ont for $8.17^ per month and get
your board furnished and you will come
near paying out of debt.
You may say my estimate is too high for
you are working your own boys and girK
Well, sir, your children’s work cost yon
which lie suffered agonies tor a month I just exactly what yon would have to give
prior to his death. for the same woik if lh y were the children
Mr. E. 1*. Minor, of Gwinnett conn-1 of some one else
A (lean’* Ruliag Met By a Bela Ap
peal -A Scbeol ItearS’a Pecu
liar Predicament.
From the St. Louis Globe—Democrat
we clip the following account of the
negro’s attempt to force their children
into the white schools of Illinois. It
is very entertaining reading for our
Southern people.
‘ At the first recess the white chil
dren turned upon the colored children
and hustled them out of the inclosure,
the colored parenti haring gone home
supposing their victory won. Thatday
tid night witne-soil many an informal
indignation meeting in Sul 11,but strange
ly enough, the negroes did not take de
cisive action until Friday. By that
time their declared intention to make
another determined effort at the doors
of tiie white school had become thor
oughly advertised throughout upper
Alton, and the lower Jown as well, aud
many citizens were on baud to see the
issue joined. So were the local con
stables. There was a sprinkling of
white riffrall there, too, and they seem
ed almost spoiling for a broil.
It was a motiy lot that came out of
Salu addition that morning. Two or
three hundred negroes, from six to six
ty yoars of age. were in the exodus, and
there was no dearth of stalwart young
bucks, who use a razor as handily as
t. ey do a pair of dice, and both more
dexterously than A sp* *le. In the list
of candidates for tlte admission to the
school were several married women,
from twenty-two to thirty years old.
These, of course, were beyond school
age, and could not claim admission to
any public sehool. The column was
stopped at the sehool door by the posse
of constables, who placed their refusal
to admit them on the ground that such
mixed crowds could not be allowed
withiu the school yard, and by the ex
ercise of great firmness they forced all
the intruders outside the inc osure, ex
cept about twenty-five, who said they
were there to atteud sehool. It was
while this informal process in eject-"
incut was being carried out that the re
lations of the opposing factions became
strained to the last degree. Some of
the colored men made threatening mo
tions, as if to draw weapons from their
pockets, but none were actually shown.
Prof. Powell stated yesterday that it
was liis solemn conviction that the ex
hibition of a single weapon in tiie hands
of a colored man at the time the posse
was clearing the school yard- would
have been followed by the most despe
rate and bloody riot ever known in Al
ton. As it was, the Constables limited
themselves to a hurried search of the
persons of several of the young negro
bucks, but touted 110. weapons forbidden
by law to be coriefcaPHl about the person.
The negroes say that one, Oliver Lowo,
a white eitzen, placed the muzzle of a
revolver against the breast of a colored
youth named Hamilton, who is seven
teen years old, while the latter was be-
in* searched, but this was flatly denied
yesterday by reputable white citizens
thi
NEWS OF THE WORLD-
ty, lia,s a pair of boots that lie ha> been
married in three times. He also has a
wool hat that he has been wearing tor |
twenty years.
Mr. T. L. Cheats has bought the mil-1 side of f»rtu account.
lincry stock of Mrs. Harris and Mrs. 1 T '
Moseley, and Miss Caro Jackson will
take charge of this department.
On Thursday last W. J. Peebles, a |
young man of this county, was arraign
ed before Justices Stone and Durden,
on a warrant sworn out by Mrs. Leila j
Thompson, charging him with rape.
The trial lasted for three days, and re
sulted in tiie vindication of the accused.
If you fallout with my figures disprove
them if you can, and when yon do that I
wiil sny that 1 torgot to place some more
figures than must bu pul no the expense
ELBERT COUNTY.
have
Elbcrton’a cotton receipts
reached nearly 111,000 hales.
Mrs J. Y. Arnold gathered fresh to
matoes from her garden Christmas
day.
A n old negro brought to Elberton
some exee'lent home made cigars.
The Military Fair will open in Elber-
ton on January 28.
Mr. J. E. Herndon, Sr., will move to
Elberton.
Mr. Alfred Cleveland and Miss Geor
gia Gaines are married.
Mr. T. M. Swift paid $100 for the old
Methodist church building. The Stew
arts of the church has given the Harris-
Alien Library Association; the old
ground—or rather sold it to them for
$1—and in conjunction with the
Masons, this.Association will erect a
building thereon tor the use of these as
sociations. The papers are all drawn
t:>» and a building costing probably
$0,000 will be erected. The building
will be called tlte Harris-Alien hall in
honor of Judge Y. L. G. Harris, of
Athens.
Work on the G. C. & N. Railroad is
being pushed rapidly forward on the
other side of the Savannah river.
While out hunting, Brower Swearen-
gin was accidentally shot by another
hoy named (Hark, but not seriously
" uuuded. Both were Elbert youths,
A fine hotel and many new buildings
arc contracted for in Elberton.
M r. T. I,. Adams and Beecher and
Janies Haynes engaged in a general
fight at Bowman.
J. H. Jones A Son will establish an
other fertilizer factory in Elberton, of
which Mr.T. J.Jllester will be superin
tendent.
The Bowman High Schools has 150
pupils.
There is an epidemic of la Grippe in
Elberton.
BOWERSVILLE.
Mr. William Bowers killed three hogs
that weighed 1,300 pounds.
Mr. R. W. Mnret, of Shoal Creek, was
found dead in his bed on Monday morn
ing last.
The Bowersville academy has opened
up most flourishingly with eighty-five
pupils.
MU» Ellen Dorich ii now on the edit-
The Prise Acre of Corn.
Columbia, Jan. 10.—[Special.]—The
Department of Agriculture lias received
from the American Agriculturist a de
dicate of the report of Mr. Z. V.
Jrake, Marlboro County, upon Uie fa
mous prize corn crop he raised last
rear. The report is made in a bulky
book, furnished for the purpose by the
magazine, and gives the most minute
informations as to methods of cultiva
tion, fertilization, ete, which were em
ployed.
Fr<
rom this report it appears that Use
land was sandy and had been previous
ly valued at only eight dollars an acre.
It you own a tuule you have $100.00 in
vested in him.
Interest ou $100,8 per cent $8 00
Tax on same 1 00
To leedtug same 50 00
To blacksmilhmg 5 00
$61.00
To amount above staled. $102 lo
To balance to yout credit 38 10
If you are a tenant the account will
stand thus:
To rent of mule $25 00
To feed of mule 50 00
To blscksuiitliing 5 00
$80 00
To amount as above ....$102 21
Balance to your credit $22 21
Where is Ihe money to pay off last years’
apes; ibis years’ provision bid; Doctors’
bill; quarterage, and btlter bills. It re
quires twelve mouths of working aud wail-
lug to realize this little balance. We are
told to make our farms wlf-sustaining,
making cotton our surplus crop. This is
lv valued at only eight dollars an acre, uiaaiug umun «**• —“
that thirty years ago the plantation good mivice and wise then follow It .when
u u nliristoned “Starvation Emuire.” I conditions are at all favorable to it. Sup-
was christened “Starvation Empire, > -..11 , -
and that as late as 1887 the prize acre I P 08 ® we do ,lm * <1oe8 11 uk,: ’^ 8S . wor k ” r
‘rdfrrttefeTuiiS Si'S rw sts:
several times during the making of the
erop. The total material used was one
provision bill enters into the calculation.
You may have your supplies given to you
by your merchant or make them at home
and the result is the same.
Why is it that those North Western far
mers who raise nothing hut provisions are
in the same box with us? The answer i.i
the same in this as in the other. Tue cost
of production is equal to or exceeds the
price received.
Our friend W. 8. noltnan, of Athens,
can matte money in the purchase and sale
of Kentucky mules if tie can realize
lfiuhiTl was I $*081 s head above cost and expenses,
G - - * provided he can sell hundreds of mules,
limit him to 10 mule* a
him “Now teed j ourself
thousand bushels of stable manure, six
hundred bushels of cotton seed, 866
pounds of German kainit and cotton
seed meal. 200 pounds acid phosphate,
1,000 pounds manipulated guano, 200
pounds animal bone, 400 pounds nitrate
of soda, the value of the stable manure
being $50 and the cost of the other fer
tilizers $170.
The seed planted was Drake’s im
proved corn, a variety of gourd seed
raised by Mr. Drake. One bushel was
used. The p anting was done March 2
and on June » posts “J year aCd say to him “Now teed j ourself
be put up along the rows to keep the faro , ly ’ nd tw „ extra , iandB aud
corn from falling. ^ h * *1 through the winter’s cold i.n.i Ihe snm-
ternately about three aud six feet apart, |ner . aUeat „„ , n the blessed fall that is
one stalk in » place. , 1Ue :LJ£ coming you can get your money or we will
vested November 25th. The total «» a p ow bjm to double bis sale if be will hire
was $264 52. fl»e product 254 bushels, I ^ more hands." How long would ou
49 pounds, at 75 cents a busli-1, was -
worth $191.10. The fodder, jlj* tons,
was worth $15. 'Iotal $206.16.
But it is estimated that the land it
good for a hundred dollar crop for sev
eral years to come, not considering the
one thousand dollar prize which the
fnerd stick to the business? Why he
would lake to the woods before Siiunlny
night, and never be heard of more, aud no
sensible man would blame him for it, and
yet when a farmer fails lo make ends meet
for (be same reason everybody says be is
a poor manager or too l-.zy to work and is
crop of 1889 has unquestionably won. a f(M ,j fo j wanting to exchange the pure
Mr. Drake’s report is carefully and min- salubrious airs of the old country hotne-
utely made, and thoroughly attesteu. stead f or t) ie j^g healthful atmosphere of
It is a marvelous demonstration 01 tue 1 ^ already over-crowded city, where he
possibilities of intensive fsinning in p jc jj up a more crumbs for his
South Carolina. The American Agrt- I wife and j iu j e one? . Whm the truth is
culturist will, in a few days, telegraph l fcnown this is about the size or it- The
the department the official announce- ,. x -o ne horre farmer prefers a $5n per
ment of the result of tb9 contest News month
who saw the searching. No one pre
tends to deny, however, that dozens of
white men cunied loaded weapons
where they could bo reached with the
least possible waste of time, anu this
statement does not apply exclusively to
the white hoodlum population of Unpsr
Alton, but is intended to include some
of the heaviest taxpayers and promi
nent business men of the town.
After ihe ejectment of the non-eligi-
bles, Principal Powell admitted about
twenty-five of the applicants tor admis
sion to the school into his private office,
and for awhile he attempted, in a con-
cieutious manner to examine them f* r
admission to all but the three low r est
grades. liis office is so small, lion ever,
that there was not breathing spnee for
a crowd of that size and character, and
the bt ss schoolmaster, though a man in
vigorous health, soon became deathly
sick, and had to adjourn the inquiry
lie promised, however, to wait upon
the colored people at their own school
whenever they should notify him that
they had candidates ready for examiua-
to the five upper grades,
The threats of violence Rtill continu
ing to come from Salu addition, Pnnci
pal Powell on Saturday night applied to
the Town Council of Upper Alton for a
guard of special officers to assist in
maintaining order about the bcLooI in
closure. Six reputable citizens were
appointed, and were instructed by the
council not to permit any gtotip of
grownjpersons of any race andjeithersex
to loiter about the approaches to the
sehool yard or in the street in front of
it, This order they obeyed yesterday
to the letter, and sent all loiterers
away as fast as they appeared. Colored
children were permitted to enter the
school yard, but they were met at the
door by the Principal, who refused to
admit them until they had passed ex
amination in the district of their resi
dence. This is in strict conformity
with the statute of Illinois, which per
mits school boards to establish such reg
ulations for the government of their
districts as they may deem proper, only
providing that nothing shall be done
to prevent the full and equal enjoyment
ot sehool privileges they furnish, b
every person of school age under thei
jurisdiction. When- Prof. Powell re
fused the colored children admission
yesterday they marched back to their
own subdivision, but not lo their
school.
Thus stauds the race war at this writ
ing. The colored people have settled
down, apparently, into a submission to
the superior strength and numbers of
the whites, and they created not the
least disturbance yesterday, and they
say they will be satisfied with no other
ultimate settlement than that which in
volves the admission of their children
on equal terms and without special con
ditions to the new school house built by
the whites. The latter are even more
outspoken in opposition to this pro
gramme. The Sehool Board consists of
three Republicans aud two Demo
crats.
went of
and Courier,
salary to a $22 per annum income,
H Ibis ilste of affairs continues to exist
Six Indian murderers were hanged
together at Fort Smith, Ark.
Four little negroes from the wilds of
Africa have landed in New York.
Boston had a $150,000 fire.
E. G. Coleman was killed by W. F.
Barry, at Greenwood, Miss.
Three murderers were hanged in
Louisiana on Friday.
Portugal complains that Great Britain
has violated the Berlin treaty.
A Cincinnati negro died in a fit of
sneezing.
A hostile meeting between Senators
Call and Plumb is possible.
Secretary Noble is rapidly bouncing
Tanner’s pets from the pension office.
The glass manufacturers of America
are now in session in Washington.
It is predicted that there will be 50,-
000 negroes in Oklahoma by spring.
The Ohio River and its tributaries
are flooding the country.
Tiie Cronin murderers are safe in the
Jolictt, Ills., prison.
The White Caps are whipping and
shooting men in Indiana.
A hunter was frozen to death in Wy
oming.
The Sullivan-Kilrain] backers don’t
want to come South to stand trial.
It is now thought that negro burglars
killed Mrs. Klifieu of Philadelphia.
Adestructive explosion of sewer gas
occurred in New York.
The L. & N. has bought the Atlantic
& Anniston road.
A London banking house has failed
for $2,000,000.
Mr. Wakler Blaine,Jeldest son of Sec
retary Blaine, died in Washington of
pneumonia.
An Illinois woman has a scrap book
stolen from President Davis during his
imprisonment.
A Dakota man has the only herd of
buflalo now in existence—fitcen in num
ber.
A workman on the Central Pacific
railroad was attacked by a wild cat,but
he strangled the animal to death.
It is said Don Carlos will head an up
rising in Spain should the young King
die.
The negroes are in convention in Chi
cago. One of the speakers advised the
blacks to meet violence with violence.
Gov. Hill, of New York will send five
sluggers back to Mississippi for trial
Mrs. Vice-President Morton has or
dered twenty new dresses at a cost of
$1,000 each.
The crop of strawberries along the
South Carolina coast are nearly ready
for market.
There was a slight earthquake shock
felt in Columbia, S. C., on Wednesday
night.
A vestibule train ran into an accom
modation near Cincinnati, and six per
sons were killed.
The Kniekcr Bocker carpet cleaning
works were destroyed by fire in Phila
delphia.
George Sliippley, charged with the
murder of Charles Tannery, is on trial
at Tunckliammock, Pa.
The whole country is expressing sor
row for Mr. Blaine on the death of his
son.
Sant Jon* s, the evangelist, will hold
revival meeting iu Jackson, Tennes
see, soon.
The funeral of the Socialist editor,
Wedde, at Hamburg, yesterday, was
attended by 60,000 persons.
James M. Scott, a grocery merchant
of Greenville, S. C., was drowned in
five inches of water in a ditch.
North and South Carolina are still
being drained of their labor by the exo
dus of negroes to Arkansas.
Four lueu were killed and several
wounded by a premature blast near
Nashville, Tenn.
A Florentine millionare. the Marquis
Carlo Guigneoni, has just purchased
the far-famed island of Monte Christo.
Tlte Sioux Indians are selling all the
clothing furnished them by the govern
ment.
Foraker and Halstead are being
shown up in a very unfavorable light
in the investigation of the ballot-box
forgeries of Ohio.
A Florida cracker claims that he
married a widow with a hill full of
what he thought to be phosphate rock
and found it was only limestone.
Emperor William has under consid
eration some revised plans for a mag
nificent new cathedral to be built in
Berlin.
Whipper, the negro ex-Judge of Pro
bate of Beaufort, S.C., who has been in
jail for a|long time for contempt of court,
in not turning over the books of his
office to his successor, wrote Judge
Talbrid saying that he would be ready
to turn over the books and records 6i
the office,
Major Wissman has telegraphed from
Zanzibar thut in consequence of the
amnesty recently granted, thousands of
Arabs are flockiug to the coast.
The Czar, Emperor William and King
Humbert, each received 10,000 exquisite
cigars as a New Year’s gift from Em
per«r Francis Joseph.
The celebrated Pickeirimer case
against the Richmond & Danville re
sulted iu a verdict for plaintiff for $13,-
000 damages.
Relatives of Mrs. Parks, a New York
er, summoned an undertaker, believing
her to be dead. When lie arrived, she
was breathing again.
John Knox, charged with the brutal
murder of Annie Borden, is now on
trial iu Bridgetown, Pa. Strong evi
dence is brought against him.
A negro named William Baker as
saulted, and almost killed, Martin
Wheeler and his 8-year old daughter, in
Memphis.
A negro who was injured by firing a
cannon at Aik> n, 8. C., on the day of
Mr. Davis’ funeral, died from his inju
ries. t
The Liquor Dealers’ League of Penn
sylvania paid a $500 church debt for a
negro preacher because he stumped the
state against prohibition.
With the first symptons of the grip, if
a bag of powdered allspice or pimento
be worn over the chest and a little sprin
kled in the boots immediate relief will
be obtained.
Mrs. Silvia Rolph, of Alabama, struck
the ministeifcin the face with a hymn
book and hugged a man who was sitting
near her. It was necessary..to bind her
in ropes for safety.
The Governor of Mississippi is con
vinced that, the 4Rate convict lease is a
failure. He recommends that convicts
be hired out to farmers and he used as
ordinary field hands.
An effort to obtain control of all the
western New York cheese factories by
a New York syndicate is believed to
have fa'len through, as none of the op
tions granted the syndicate bave yet
been accepted,
James Barry, charged with & murder
ous assault upon Ann and Sarah Kelley,
has been jailed. The latter, who is an
aged lady, positively identifies him as
her assailant.
Mr. Alexander Craig Sellar, Liberal
Unionist member of the House of Com
mons for chc Patrick division of Lan
arkshire} is dead. He was one of the
most active of the Liberal Unionist.
Sealskin sacques and jewelry valued
at $2,000 were stolen Monday morning
from the store of S. E. Osleh & Co., ax
Minneappolis, The thieves have not yet
been caught.
Two trains collided on the S. A W.
railroad, near Opelika, Ala., and several
hands were injured. A freight train
jumped the track near Goldhili on the
same road.
A Brooklyn, N. Y., negro surprised
the passengexa on a street car hy taking
Iris fare from his ear. An investiga
tion showed that he had both his ears
stuffed full of nickels.
The grave of the mother of George
Washington is now being litigated in a
Virginia cour; and recently Doth law
yers and witnesses had a general fight
over it.
The health of Qneen Victoria is again
creating uneasiness. The Prince of
Wales is very unpopular, and there is
doubt about the people of England ac
cepting him as king.
Mrs. N. C. Neal, of Fairbault, Min
nesota, while crazed by sickness killed
two of her children by making them
hike carbolic acid and then shot her 3
weeks old boy through the lungs.
The somewhat celebrated case of
Pickle8inter against the Richmond &
Danville railroad was decided at Dan
ville, Va., yesterday in favor of plaint
iff, giving him $13}000 damages for in
juries received while on the train.
A Berlin professor while dissecting a
shark found in its stomach a dolphin
weighing 128, forty-three fish, a decom
posed seal, a human arm and four hu
man legs.
The property heretofore operated by
the New York Commercial Telegram
Company was yesterday sold out by the
sheriff. It i3 understood tiiat the
Postal Telegraph Company was the
purchaser.
Col. Peter Jackson, from Australia,
is on bis way to meet Col. John L. Sul
livan, of the United States. Colonel
Sullivan says now that he will not con
sent to slug Colonel Jackson unless the
California Athletic Club makes the in
ducement $25,000.
At New* York, Dan Dougherty is at
torney for Miss Caroline J. Camerer,
aged twenty-three, who is suing for
$100 000 for breach of promise Clemens
Muller, a real estate man of sixty,whose
interests are watched hy Bob Ingersoll.
Near Oxford, Ala., the train ran into
the buggy of Mr. William R. Pearce,
killing Mr. Pearce instantly and wound
ing a young son of Mr. Twig Morrison,
who died at 10 o’clock in the evening,
and injuring Miss Morrison and also in
juring a young man by the name of Li-
rou.
Lewes, a post village, in Graves coun
ty, Ky., suffered great loss of property
by Sunday’s storm. A number of build
ings were blown down, but fortunately
no one was killed, though a child died
from exposure. Further reports from
Wieklifie say that fifty-three people
were injured, three of whom were in a
serious condition. '
The Senate Committee on Pensions
has perfected and will soon report an
other dependent pension bill. This is
the beginning of the pension raid upon
which the looters have determined. The
end will come when the treasury is de
pleted or when the raiders are turned
out of power.
Iu the wine cellar under the Hotel
de Ville, Bremen, there are tweive
cases of holy wine. It was deposited
in its present resting place nearly 200
years ago. One case of this wine cost
nearly 500 rix dollars in 1624. Includ
ing the expense ol’ keeping up the cel
lar, interest on the original outlay, and
upon interest one of those exhofts
would today cost about $2,000,000 a bot
tle.
A young lady in the town of Minsk,
-Russia, purchased a pair of gloves a la
Sarah Barnhardt. Immediately after
jutting them on her hands began to
itch. The next day her arms were cov
ered witli sores, and a week later she
died of blood poisoning. The doctors
supposed that the skin belonged to an
animal that had some contagious mala
dy.
In Barnwell county S. C., a negro
boy about 12 years old got possession of
an old gun, and whilst playing yester-
with the gun he shot the brains out of a
little sister about 5 or 6
years old. So frightened was
lie at the accident that he
went and laid down on the railroad
track, and could hardly be restrained
from committing suicide on account
of it.
There is an authenticated case of at
least one colored Republican in Mr.
Harrison’s State who has received a
Federal appointment under the present
Administration. He was given a Dep-
utyship under the Indianapolis Col
lector, much to the indignation of the
white Republicans, who attempted to
freeze him out by unanimously refusing
to go on his bona.
Mr. Almus Gibbs, of Jackson, Tenn.,
has fallen heir to one-thirtieth of the.
Blythe estate in California, which is
reported as being worth $4,000,000.
Mrs. Fannie Nance, of thiB city, is also
believed to have an interest in the big
estate. An English woman tried to get
the estate, claiming to be a sister of the
dead man, hut the Supreme Court of
California has decided against her
claim.
GOOD FOR ATHENS!
DR. CARLTON’S BILL POR HOLD-* |
ING TERMS OF FEDERAL
COURT HERE FAVOR
ABLY REPORTED.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 18—j
[Special]—Congressman Carlton’s billi
for holding terms of the federal court]
at Athens came out of the committee
yesterday with its big blue seal of ap
proval, and is safely on the calendar. I
This is a very important measure for!
Athens, and if it becomes a law that
town may safely count on a federal
building to be authorized by this con- j
gross or the next.
The appropriations for federal build- \
ings of thia nature are always very
liberal, and consequently if the bill
passes, as it will in all probability do,
Athens will have a splendid public
building. The selection of Athens as
the place for holding federal court willl
moreover cause it to be the center of
trade of the whole of Northeast Geor
gia, as people from every portion of
that section of State will go to Athens
to attend court. In securing the favor- j
able recommendation of the bill, Dr.
Carlton has done a great thing for thej
people of Athens.
THE BROTHER IN BLACK.
How He Fares at tue Home of President
Harrison.
Indianapolis, Ind., January 18.—
[Special]—Gabriel Jones, coL.hasmadq
bond and qualified as deputy collect*
qualified as deputy collector
of internal revenue for this district, and
there is ended for the present one of the
bitterest fights ever made on a negro
who aspired to office.
The appointment was made most re
luctantly, and when it became known
that the white applicant for the place
had “been shelved tor a nigger,” the
indignation in Harrison’s home was un
bounded. There was kicking and growl
ing on every hand.
Another feature cropped out when
Gabnel attempted to make his bond.
Not a republican in Indianapolis would
go on his bond because they didn’t want
a negro in the place. Some wealthy
colored men here, however, managed to
get his bond made.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
Mr. G. C. Jenner is the new state |
secretary for the Y. M. C. A.
Col. Blount, of Macon, lost $200 by the j
Silcott embezzlement.
Thousands of dollars will be invested
in new land improvements in Macon.
Sueak thieves are plentiful in Sa-1
vannah.
The losses from fire in Savannah for i
1889 foot up to over $1,300,000.
Miss Mary Smith, near Camak, died
suddenly at the breakfast table.
The good order at the Augusta car
nival has been remarkable.
More than 50 dwellings are now in
course of erection in Cordele and lots
bring large prices.
A negro has been arrested in Talle-
hassee, Florida, who is supposed to be
Bob Brewer.
Bishop H. M. Turner, of Atlanta,
says the negro should hare national aid
to emigrate to Africa.
There is an alarming state of crook
edness in handling the mails about Lin-
colnton.
Freeman Thomas was found guilty of
carrying a pistol in Macon and was
sent to jail.
A man jumped from a moving train
near Patterson, Ga., and was badly but
not fatally injured.
Brunswick will probably be the ter
minal point of another large railroad,
the Atlanta and Great Western.
Locke’s confirmation will probably
be made in the senate.. Senator Pugh is
for him.
It is believed that the Ogeecheo ca
nal suicide at Savannah was a Balti
more man named William Rees.
Lieut. Lovell of the Savannah Ca
dets has been presented with a hand-
onse sword by his company.
Mrs. Thomas Sutphin, near Waynes-
ville, had a desperate struggle with a
man who entered her room. She es
caped without injury.
Henry Thompson, a fifteen year old
negro boy, came near losing his life
while boating in the Savannah river at
Augusta.
The winter exodus from the west and
north is beginning, and Savannah and
other south Georgia, towns arc filling
up.
Mr. James Buckley, while preparing
a baloon for ascension at the Augusta
carnival, was killed by a scantling fall
ing on his head.
The department encampment of the
grand army men of Georgia and South
Carolina will be held in Augusta on the
24th of this month.
Col. George L. Cope, deceased, be
queathed in nis will the entire estate to
his widow during her life time. The
estate is said to be worth from $250,000
to $300,000.
The handsome brick building of Mr.
A. J. Akerman, of Madison, was de
stroyed by fire, loss about $5,000. Com
modore Dexter, narrowly esoaped be
ing burned.
Harry H. Samilla, ft New York man
who was wintering at Thomasville,
committed suicide with a S8 calibre
pistol. There was no note or letter left
to tell the sad story.
Charlie William, who stole a hand
cart from an Augusta firm, after serv
ing one year in the chain gang in
atonement for bis crime was taken up
again on the day of hia release for steal
ing a baby carnage.
Major Brown, one of Dooly county’s
wealthiest and most prominent citizens,
was found dead„in the burning woods ;
on his place, about six miles from Cor- ,
dele, about sundown last evening. Con
siderable excitement exists over the
discovery, as it is thought there was
foul play.
The statistics for 1889 show an in- .
crea of receipts for fees and wharfage i
at Savannah of $5,871, and a decrease of I
3289 tons. The American tonnage fell j
off over 80,000, while the British ton- |
nage is nearly double that of last year. s
This, however, does not indicate a* fall
ing off in the commerce, as there were
fewer carriers, with greater capacity,
and while the receipts of northern ice
and manufactured fertilizers has fallen
off, owing to the large manufacture of
ice aud fertilizers here, and no rock was
brought here for jetty work, there ha3
been an increased carrying trade in oth
er article, facts which are dealt with in ]
the report of the harbor master.
50
good mules and horses for sale
by Obb & Hunter.
JI7-w4t-dlw
An Obliging Ledger Keeper.
Tobonto, Jan. 18.—[Special]—It was I
reported here yesterday that a leading I
city bank had lost $100,000 by the crook-1
edness of some of its clerks. This was |
exaggerated, for it was afterwards a:
cer ained that the bank is out $40,00
through clerical irregularities. Owin
to the carelessness of Accountant!
Moffatt, Ledger-Keeper narry Brown’s!
books were not regularly balanced, and!
that young man allowed customers to I
overdraw to the extent mentioned.)
Brown has disappeared and his wife!
does not know when he will return. It!
isnotkuown whether or not Brown |
got any of the money,