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THE ATHENS WEEKLY BAN BraffK’ttriasraftM’ 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,