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TilJii ATHENS BANNER: ATHENS, GEORGIA, JANUARY 28, 1890
helping the alliance. '
The action taken by the last Na
tional Convention of the Farmers’
Alliance in St .Louis is beaiing fruit
The Legislature of South Carolina
has enacted the following statute
conforming to the demand there
made, mainly and almost entirely
through the persistent efforts of the
Commissioner ot Tennessee. The
act is as follows;
An act to amend Section 1195 of (be
general staturs, relating to taie on co
lon bale*. Section 1. Tfcn! section 1195
of the general statues relating to tare on
bah a of cotton, be, and the same hereby is
amended by striking out the whole of said
section and inserting the following in lien
thereof, to that said section, us amended,
shall read as follows:
Sec. 1195. The custom of making a de
duction from the actual weight of bales of
unmanufactured cotton, as an allowance
of breakage or draft thereon, is abolished;
all contracts made in relaliou to such cot
ton shall be d.*semed and taken ns referring
to the true and aclnal weight thereof with
oat deduction; and no tate shall be deduct
ed from the weight of such bales of cot
ton except the actual weight of the bag<
ging and ties used in haling said cotton.
Sec. 2. That this act shall take effect
from and after the 1st day of September,
1890.
S>*c. 8. That all acts or parts of act9 i n
conflict or Inconsistent with the provisions
of this act be and the same are hereby re
pealed. And whenever it shall be agreed
between the buyer and the seller to deduct
tare on cotton hales, it shall be as follows
Foi bales of cotton covered with seven
yards of standard cotton bagging the actual
t*re shall be and is hereby fixed at sixteen
pounds; and for bales of cotton covered
with agveo yards of standard jute tagging
and six iron ties the tare shall be ana is
hereby fixed at twenty four pounds; and
when buyer and seller agree to sell at net
weight, and when bales of cotton are cov
ed with seven yards of standard cotton
bagging and six iron ties the actual tare
shall be and is hereby fixed at sixteen
pounds; and when bales of cotton are cov
eredwith seven yards of standard Jute
tagging and six iron ties the actual tare
shall be and ia hereby fixed at twenty-
four pounds.
Now let the the legislatures of the
other ootton states come forward and
back South Carolina in her deter
mination to help the farmers in their
war against the iniquitous jute trust-
There is neither reason nor justice
in the buyer deducting a greater tare
from cotton bales than the covering
and ties authorize. There is just as
much reason in making the planter
lose half of his cotton,
demand 25 pounds tare when the
actual lues does not aggregate fifteen
pounds. It is not right to leave the
cotton growers to fight the buyers
and manufacturers single-handed
and.alone. The legislature of South
Carolina did right to come to their
aid, and if all the other Southern
states will now do likewise, wot only
the jute trast, but the Liverpool dies
tators, will be overthrown.
UNITE THE CONTINENTS.
A grand project has just been per-,
fected that will, if carried to a sue*
ecssful result, hare a tremendous in
fluence upon the destiny of this
country. It is a project to conmct
the two great American continents
by a trunk line of railroads that will
stimulate and make rapid and en*
tirely feasible the much desired
commerce between North and South
America. The company to look into
the feasibility of the scheme has been
organized and a preliminary fund of
$500,000 has been raised to make the
necessary surveys.
The proposed route is through
Mexico by way of the City of Mexi
co, through Central America and
Panama. Then entering South
America, the plan is to go right
through the heart of the United
Slates of Columbia, through Ecuador
to the city of Cuzco in Peru, when it
will connect with the road now.being
built towards the North from the
Argentine Confederation,
_ The charter members of the great
enterprise are men of millions and
enterprise. They expect to eucoun-
ter tremendous obstacles, but they
expect by the aid of late scientific
discoveries, to successfully combat
them. There are huge mountains to
be climbed or tunneled, marshes to
be drained and rivers to be bridged.
A great part of the route will lie
through wilds and jungles, but along
the projected line there is an unde
veloped wealth that will be suificient
to enrich this whole country.
The number of negroes who hate
left Raleigh, N^C. r within the past
few montiis have secured the fact
that the county will go Democratic
at the nekt election. Heretofore the
county lias always been Republican
by a good majority.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Henry Arierhold, a well-known Ma-
conite, has been arrested for tbett.
The Grady monument fund amounts
to over $17,000.
A Macon.man lost $3,000 on a polka
game.
Miss Mamie Glover, of Americas, was
engaged to a young man, but eloped
with Mr. John Hall, a postal clerk
John Green, a negro murderer, re
ceived a life imprisonment ntSumtc
coart. Lewis Moore, another negro
was convicted for entering the bed
room of a young lady in that county
... The farmers of Southern Georgia will
Cody ana Howell, of W&TYenton, had I form a co-operative association, which i
their light over a dog. 1 - 1 ” —— *• 1 !
GENERAL NEWS-
The Iowa dead-lock still holds.
Nashville has had a $125,000 fire.
Two children under fifteen years old
ran away and married in Tennessee.
California has snow drifts forty feet
deep.
OHIO POLITICS.
The death of Senator Asburne, cf
Ohio, offers an opportunity to Na
tional Chairman Quay to use bis po
litical methods in Ohio. If a repub
lican can be elected in the vacant
district the Democratic*majority will
be wiped out in the Senate. The
present system of districting tb*.
state for congressional tepresenta-
tion is the result of a republican ger
rymander, and it is well known that
the democrats intend to district the
state at once. Of course they .can*
not do so if deprived of tha majority
in the senate. Once redistricted,
Ohio would probably send fifteen
democrats and fifteen republicans.
This might give the democrats a ma
jority in the next national house,and
that is what Quay and the coal and
iron barone of Pennsylvania are not
going.to allow if their money can
prevent it The republican mana
gers of Ohio have appealed to Quay
an^ the fourth district is to be plen.
ti fully .furnished with the “sinews
of war.'” They are encouraged in
thip.by the fact that ex-Representa-
tive McKeever, who was first nomi
nated last jail, snd on account of an
eecspadewaa obliged to withdraw
from the ticket, will probably try
to secure tbe democratic nomination
to succeed Senator Asburne. He is
reiy. unpopular, snd should he be
nominated a liberal use o! money-by
the republicans might defeat him.
Gen. A*' 1 M. West introduced t
a memorial in the Mississippi legis
latnte asking congress to disfran-
chi$e the negro. It declares that
“nepro suffrage has failed in theory
end practice; that the effort to cor*
relate the races as equals in citizen-
ship J* utterly vain and mischievous
to the last degree," and that in ex*
change for the strife and bloodshed,
the estrangement of the races, the
Intensification of the sectional ill
will and the unequal treatment of
the colored people, the South has
inly received “ the single considera-
ion of a certain increase of Federal
ane National representation." The
memorialists bold that, “as enfran
chisement of the negro has proved
tbe maio cause of the race discord,
we may reasonably expect its abro
gation to lead to at least a partial
restoration of the old time race con
cord," and, therefore, they pray that
tbe Fifteenth Amendment toConsti-
tution shall be annulled.
THE " OPPRESSED NEGROES” OF THE
SOUTH.
The men who are creating the
greatest stir about' the blacks being
oppressed in the South are the idle
vagabonds of that race, who feed on
politics and fatten on strife. The
quiet, industrious class of our col
ored population—who till the lands
and add to the wealth aDd prosperity
of their country—are entirely con
tent, and you never hear of them
going to conventions and passing
resolutions ot censure against the
white people among whom they live,
Neither do they endorse the incen
diary utterances of their self-ap
pointed leaders. It is snch men as
Pledger—who is able to wear Clin-
cbilla overcoats with fur collars,
stop at fine hotels, and ride in palace
sleeping cars—who are stirring up
all the strife and trouble ; and it is
only the poor dupes of snch leaders
who are in danger in the South, by
being drawn into unlawful acts,
Take the country nigger, with his
old sloach wool bat and patch»work
suit; who comes to town with his ox
cart and single bale of cottOD, fol
lowed by the proverbial yellow cur
of low degree; and who eats in his
humble little cabin his slice of fried
bacon and ash-cake, and you will
find him a quiet, contented citizen
who would laugh in in your face if
you told him that his white neigh
bors had designs against his life,
liberty or little property. That plain
country darkey is filling his alloted
sphere in life, and is happier and
better content than the king on bis
throne. So far from looking upon
bis white neighbors as enemies, he
considers them his natural protec
tors, and when he gets into trouble
or needs assistance, he docs not call
on his own race and people, but goes
straight to the “ white folks" to sup
ply his wants or protect him.
A negro who remains in his place,
and does not seek to force social
equality with tbe superior race, or
control affairs of which he is en
tirely ignorant, in the i nterest of vile
and unscrupulous men, is as safe to
day in the South as any citizen of
the North in his own 'house.
The colored people of tbe Sonth
are fast learning the true state of
affairs, and will not longer be blindly
led by such men as Pledger. They
see that he and a few other leaders
reap all the reward and honors, and
leave them to do the work and bear
tbe brunt of the bad blood and
trouble they encourage between the
races. While the rural darkey is
slushing through the mud of winter
or perspiring at bis plow in the sum
mer sun, Pledger and his allie
are living on the fat of the land and
arrayed like princes. These self-
elected leaders of the Southern ne~
groes “ toil not, neither do they spin,
yet Solomon in all his glory is not
arrayed like one of them.”
There are a large number of men
in this division anxious to act as
census enumerators. The position
pays from $50 to $300, and requires
from a month to six weeks to do the
work. The Supervisor says that the
old enumerators will be given a pre
ference, where the}’ proved them
selves suitable men.
SILK-WEED BAGGING.
It Is a Suitable Substitute for Jute and
Will Take its Place.
Mr. Richard Boggs is the man who
solved the great question of the suita
ble substitute lor jute bagging.
He is a prominent and prosperous
planter who lives in Clarke county
several nnles from Athens and he has
at last found that jnte has a superior
rival in the manufacture of bagging. It
’ the silk weed.
This weed grows wild in the fields
and lowlands, and is usually found
about waist high when growing wild. If
cultivated there is no estimating what
state of growth it might reach. Mr.
Hoggs says that the fibre of this weed
is superior to jute or anything that lias
yet been known to the world of com
merce. He brought a specimen of the
fibre to the Banner oflice yesterday,
which is indeed of a rare quality. It is
about tho same color as jute, but is
much stranger and more tenacious in a
twist. It makes a substantial and
powerful cord, and will no doubt be
put to use at once. For bagging it
could be made a much cheaper cover
ing for cotton than jnte or}cotton,as the
weed grows on any soil in great abun
dance. This discovery, certainly de
serves the attention of the manufactur-
world, and should take the place of
jute forever afterwards.
Brunswick has an oyster canning os- I rates, and enable them to save som f '
tablishment i »*«—«-
At Opelika, Ala. Reid B. Barnes shot
will enable'them to get mogey at lower i and killed Lon Carroll
The State military organizations are
required to enlist 12 months.
A. A. McMillan was killed by the cars
near Brunswick, Ga.
The thieves attached to Stowes’ cir
etis robbed a store in Americus.
Griffin has received 30,000 bales of I was afterwards captured at his home,
cotton.
.. - . , . Hanson Hill, a farmer of Franklin
thing in handling their cotton. o* >ty, N. C., was killed by an uu-
Tbere was a pitched battle the other I known person while on his way borne,
night in Lumpkin county betweeu Two factious of moonshiners on-aged
moonshiners and deputy marshals, j ; n „ pitch battle in Greenville county,
Christopher Clark, a part Indian, lc .
asssxn&ssrswjs a,,™,
bullets, but no one was hurt. Clark ,
A wild bog hunt will take place in
the swamp near Americus.
An Albany hen lays regularly two
ggs a day
Three brothers were killed in a rail-
ad accident, and all are buried in Ma
con
Walter Akerman, son of A. T. Aker
Some of the Hein Anxious to Renew
Negotiotions for Its Recovery.
Fhw York, January 23.—[3pecial[
One of the results of the settlement ot
the Stewart will case will be the .de ter
mination of wbat is to be done respect-
_ ing the remains of A. T. Stewart. It
man, has taken charge of the Carters-1 has been supgosed, and some efforts has
ville postoftice. been made by those in authority to
An old negro woman, an inmate of I cauue credence to be given to the report,
the Cobb county poor-house, was burn- I that the mutilated body of Mr. Stewart
ed to death. reposes in the crypt in tho Garden City
rp. _ . . ' - . „ ... Catheral. The story has circulated
Th<-re was a fight m _ a Cartersville I ^j ia ^ ^j, e heirs, or one of them, or a rep-
court between Warren Akin, J. A. Bar-1 reden tative of them, on one dark :night,
ker and Charles Jones, three lawyers. met a in an ’ a)ley in tllis eity
There is a sensational seduction case I from whom he received & sack said to
in Americus. Both parties stand very contain the remains oi Mr. Stewart,
iiigb in social life. I and to whom he gave $25,000. It was
The negroes around Cassville are in 1 also put in circulation that these bones
state of terror oxer the appearance of I were subsequently placed in the crypt
wild man in the woods. and so securely sealed and guarded as
The gallows on which the two Perry I to P rovent any further Mchering of
murderers are to be hung is now being!
built.
Governor Gordon has offered a re- j
ward for the apprehension of the Jesup
rioters.
Several new kinds of sewing machines
have been placed on the Georgia market I
tliis year.
Dr. Henderson, of Morgan county,
will be carried back from his home in |
Atlanta and sent to the asylum.
The Southern Alliance farmer, the
official organ of the Georgia State Alii- j
ancc, changed hands.
SIMMS THK SEDUCER.
He is Brought to Taw and- Asks for
ConTpromise.
The case of Chas. Simms, for the se
duction of his niece, Miss Lord, was
tried in Mays ville Tuesday, kiss Lord
xvho is Simms’ sister’s child, is about in
ber seventeenth year, and was raised in
Maysvilie, where her parents reside
Her uncle and seducer was also raised
there under the protection of a wid-
owed mother, and has several brothers,,
who. also reside there. Simms is about
30 years old, a young man of good ad
dress, and for some years has been
book-keeper in the large firm of Comer
Bros. He is srid to have been a Sun
day school teacher, leader in public
prayer, a member of the church—in all.
seemed a‘ Christian gentleman. His
non-appearance at the ease caused his
brothers to forfeit his bond, which
$1,350. Cols. Brown, of Homer, and
E. T. Brown, of Athens, represented
the defendant. Judge M<*ss, of Homer,
and II. C. Standrulge, of Maysvilie,
represented the plaintiff. The case
has not been settled, but it is likely
compromise will be effected. Though
it is said the father of the girl has said
nothing short of sending Simms to the
chain-gang, would satisfy him.
From Friday’s Daily.
COTTON GOES DP.
A Shortage in the Crop Causes the Staple
to Grow Suddenly Precious.
The cotton men were all astir yester
day.
Cotton curled its tail and jumped
higher than it has been known to
this season. It rose within a few hours
a quarter of a cent, aud middling
brought 101-2 late, yesterday after
noon. This is decidedly higher than
cotton has been this year, and the cot
ton men xvere.in a gje.it state of excite
ment over the sudden rise.
“What is the cause of so sudden
rise?” asked a Banker reporter of
Capt. J. H. Rucker.
“Short crops is tho alleged cause
There may he some little speculation
behind it all ? though the proper and
chief cause is the fact that the cotton
crop will fall short of the estimation by
at. least a quarter of a million bales
The crop will be about 7,300,000 hales
which is more than for a number
years past, and still the supply is shor
ter than the demand. This accounts
for the rise. The world today \\ auts
more cotton than : has been raised
What the result will be can easily be
foretold. . The South will become rich
our lands will increase in value, anti
Our farmers will get fml value for their
cotton. Untold riches are hovering
over the Southern States to be realized
in the near future,”
• Cotton will continue at a high price
no doubt this season. There is a great
deal still in the warehouses of Athens
A Red Bank, Penn., man was killed
by taking carbolic acid, through mis
take for beer.
Tbe prevailing sentiment of South
Carolina is opposition to Senator
Butler’s bill to colonize the negroes.
It is argued that they are needed in
tbe cotton and rice fields, and no
other labor can be found to take
there places. The race problem is be
coming more difficult every year, but
outside of politics the negro does
very well.
Senator Hoar is at the head of a p’ot
to annex Canada to the United States,
A. T. STEWART’S LOST BODY.
them.
This story has no foundation what
ever. The remains of Mr. St wart are
not in the cryt, but still lie concealed
in a trunk or box at some place within
an hour’s reach of Chicago.
Caesarian Operation.
Naw York, Jan. 24.—[Special.]—The
surgeons of Gouvenour Hospital per-
fotmed tbe Cwsariau operation this
evening to try and save the life of an
unborn babe after the death of its
mother. Only half a minute elapsed
from the time the woman breathed her
A rat and a match set a steamboat on last till the little babe, a boy, was
fire at Brunswick, Ga., the other night, taken away through an incision in the
The.blaze was soon extinguished. 1 T * — J ’—-— “
It is said that Mayor Glenn, of At
lanta, will be a candidate for Governor,
abdomen.' It only lived long enough
to show that it was alive, by a convul
sive fit. Dr. Morrigan tried to restore,
or more correctly to originate respira
tion, hut was unsuccessful. Witli the
death of the mother, the circulation
had ceased. The mot* -t was Lena
Bremer, 28 years of -ge, whose body
had been burned aU.ost to a crisD by
d
A better man could not ho found.
Hon. W. L. Peek, of Rockdale, is
spoken of. as congressman from the 5th
district.
There are 75 cases of meosels at the
Y.* L. G. Harris Institute in Towns I her clothing catch &g fire. She sufl
county. | terribly for nearly six hours,
At Conyers, Friday, while Mrs. Ame
lia Hollingsxxrorth was sweeping the
floor she fell and broke her arm
Senator Brown pays taxes on nearly
half a million dollars’ worth of proper
ty in Atlanta. He is worth two million,
and is the richest man in Georgia.
A negro boy was made to leave Mon
tezuma because he slandered young
white ladies,
The Stab of Bethlehem.—A recent
cablegram from Vienna says the Star of
Bethlehem will again be visible this
year, tbe seventh appearance since the
birth of Christ. According to some
astronomers it comes but once in 315
yean, and is of wondrous brilliancy for
the space of three weeks, and then
waneB and disappears after seventeen
The belief seems, however, to
[ mOnth8 , nu owuis* nv. nviv*, lv
Pledger headed the Chicago negro be pretty well established in the minds
growlers and laid their complaints be- of scientific men that the so-called star
fore the President. of Bethlehem
The Massachusects Press association I a °d h* 8 n °
From Saturday’s Daily.
COTTON FLUCTUATES.
The Prices Were Off a Few Points Yester
day. But the Else is Still On.
Cotton played like a cork upon the
waters yesterday.
The night before it leaped up to 10%,
and the uotton men were much exciter,
at the sudden and unprecedented rise.
Early yesterday morning it began ebb
ing slowly, and by noon New York re
ported one-eighth off, while Liverpool
shoxved about eighteen points off. This
was only a slight fluctuation, however,
and the buyers knew that the rise was
still on, as the crop has nearly all been
marketed. “The rise has conic to stay,”
said a prominent buyer to a reporter,
“and the demand will increase from
now on.”
“What is being done in cotton circles
today?” asked the reporter.
‘.‘Things are quiet in Athens. Very
little cotton is being handled, either by
the warehouses or the buyers. It is a
dull day with us.”
“What are the receipts for Athens to
date?”
“About 70,000 bales. This is at least
15,000 bales over the receipts last year
at this date, as we had only received
about 55,000 then. The crop, though,
in this section of the South is far better
;than that of any other. The statistics
show that the Piedmont section is ahead
of any other in the cotton crop ibis
year.”
It is believed that Athens’ receipts
will probably reach 90,000 this season,
which is an enormous amount of cotton
to be bandied by a town of Athens’
size.
A New Paper—Mr. N. S. Alexander
t contemplates starting a newpaper at ,
' Harmony Grove. It is a live town and and would not be missed if he WAS to
the paper will do well.
think of coming to Georgia soon on a
tou^of inspection.
The’Madisonian is offered for sale on
accopnt of the ill health of the present
proprietor and editor, Mr, Val W.
Starnes.
Mr. W. C. Hunter, a horse trainer,
was bitten by a blaek stallion at Sau-
dersville, and died Sunday from the ef
fects of the bite.
It is announced that Mr. W. A,
Knowles, the able editor of tbe Greens
boro Herald and Journal, xvill marry
an accomplished belle of Rome.
A. C. H. Kopph, of Sumter, S. C.,
committed suicide in Hillis barroom, in
xUIanta, by shooting himself in the
head.
Sheriff Thomas, of Fulton county, is
still receiving letter*, from white men
asking-for a chance to marry the rich
negro girl. • . .
Mrs. Kate S. Stewart, of Atlanta, de
mands $10,000 damages from Mr. Mat
Stewart for alienating the affections of
her husband, Mr. A. T. Stewart.
A little 2-year-old old boy in Ameri
cus is in a dangerous condition from
drinking ammonia that he found on a
bureau.
The Savannah News speaks admiring
ly of Judge Emory Speer, in “velvet
riding suit and light trousers, speed
ing along Thunderbolt after court ad
journs.”
Col. W. E. H. Searcy;' of Griffin,
goes out. The purchasers are President
0. W. Macune, of the National Farm
ers’Alliance; Colonel R. J. Sledge, of
Texas, and Mr. A. C. Soffell, of Wash
ington, D. C.
Gen. Clement A. Evans is often men
tioned in connection with the guberna
torial race in Georgia. He Is a pure,
good man, a warm friend, trained in
public affairs, and numbers his friends
by the score the State over. '
A youug man name Hall and a wo
man with hiui tried to desert their baby
on the Georgia Southern railroad. The
couple was arrested, but tbe case was
Anally settled by one of Cordele’s kind
hearted citizens adopting tbe child.
A parly of hunters in Scriven eounty
kjlled two flue- does. They jumped
seven large deer in all.. A herd of five
ran out by the stand on which Mr. Tom
Griffin was placed and he killed one
with each barrel. After being dressed
they were weighed, one tipping the
beam at 90 and tho other at 100 pounds.
Judge W. M. Reese, of Washington.
Ga, has written tb Mr. Channcey M.
Depew asking his authority for the
statement in his speech at the recent
dinner of the New England club that
Gen. Robeet Toombs once boasted that
lie wonld one day call the roll of his
slavesat the foot of Bunker Hill monu
ment. Mr. Depew’s reply is awaited
with interest.
Fred Haun, a Collinwood, Ohio man,
was taken prisoner at Kingston, Ga., in
’64, and xvas stripped of accoutrements,
among which was a cap box with his
name stenciled upon it. He had escaped
and thought no more of the cap box
until it xvas found by a Miss Kerns in a
coal shed near Collinwood last week.
How it gravitated to its owner during
twenty-five -years wandering is a mys
tery.
Tom Hunt and a young man named
Gordon engaged in a fight at Oxvens’
mill in Franklin county. In the fight,
Gordon cut Hunt with a knife in the
shoulder. Yheymaffe friends, and Bunt
xvent away. After he had been gone
for some time, he came back on a horse,
with his pistol in hand. Hunt fired
several shots, and one shot took effect
in the shoulder of a young man'named
Means. It is an ugly wound. Hunt
made his escape. He is a had character
3m is very largely a myth,
standing in the astronomical
world. Prof. Frisby, of the United
States Naval Observatory, has but little
faith in the manyjabulous stories about
this star.
The Elberton Star.—The first issue
of the Elberton Star, under the man
agement of Messrs. Schevenell <fc
Williams, lias come to our exchange ta
ble. The improvements on the paper
are marked, and the fact is manifest al
ready that these gentlemen will give
the people of Elbert county as good a
paper as can be found in tbe tanks of
Georgia weeklies. The news columns
are ladened with fresh local happenings
and general news, while the editorial
utterances aro ably written, and full of
force and sound sense. We are glad to
see that the peoplo of Elbert are liberal
in their patronage to the now manage
ment.
A Suit fob $10,000.—In the Fulton
enuuty superior ;court Cobb & Harts-
field have brought suit against Well-
houaeJA Sons, of Atlanta, for $10,000.
Tbe plaintiffs claim that their suspen
sion several weeks ago was caused by
this firm suing out a verdict of attach
ment, which injured their credit unde-
dosorvedly as the claim was not due.
The claim was for $179.50, and Well-
house A Sons claim that Cobb A Harts-
fleld fraudulently sent their goods out
of the state before they were paid for.
The latter claim that the goods sent out
were in their nsual course of business-
The case is an interesting one.
Closbd Up.—The stove store of M.
M. Maddrey was closed up yesterday,
tbe entire stock being placed into tiie
hands of a receiver by petition of the
Excelsior Manufacturing Company and
others. Mr. B. P. Upshaw is receiver.
Chahobthe Name.—The people of
Athens would be glad to see the au
thorities change the name of the Cov
ington A Macon R. R., as this name is
highly misleading. The name should
by all means be Macon A Athens, and
this change should be carried before tbe
next Legislature.
A Remarkable Pont.—Mr. Sam
Hunter bought Little Eva, one of the
little ponies that did so many tricks in
Prof. Bristol’s horse show, and has
taught it many new tricks. Mr. Hun
ter says it has more sense than any
pony he ever saw.
The Lexington Terminal.—This
road is doing an immense business both
in freight and passenger traffic. Presi
dent H. McWhorter says the Terminal
is doing a business of $60 per day, and
earned one load of guano last week, tbe
freight on which was $36. The road
promises to pay a handsome dividend
to the stockholders, and is already more
than paying expenses.
Anxious fob a Railroad.—C. D.
Smith, of Franklin, passed through
Clayton on his way to Tallulah Falls,
where he goes to enquire of Judge
Thomas if his, (Thomas') Company
still contemplates the building of a
railroad from Tallulah through por
tions of Georgia and North Carolina
via Franklin to Knoxville, Tenn., and
if the Judge replies in the negative,
to further learn of him whether he de
sires longer to hold on to his right-of-
way through North Carolina. The Rev.
ti. D. says that the people of this coun
ty have become thoroughly aroused
and are strictly in earnest on the sub
ject of a railroad. If they can not get
one from Tallulah Falls they want it
from somewhere else, and that before
they all die of old age.
leave the country.
Five young couples, intimate friends
and neighbors, were married together
in a Catholic church, in Davies county,
Kentucky,
A lawsuit has just
Pesth which began in 1768, 122 years
ago.
Nicholas Mayer, of Chicago, killed
his wife and then committed suicide.
Jealousy made him insane
Steps have been taken in Ohio to
ward the Amalgamation of the Knights
of Labor aud Alli&ncemen.
The negroes of Barnwell county, S.
C., held a meeting and decided to em
igrate in mass.
There was a serious difficulty in
Blanco county, Texas, arising over the
removal of the couuty site.
A law suit is now being tried in
Russian court that was brought up five
hundred years ago.
Secretary Blaine says there has been
an honorable and just settlement of the
Saim-an question.
Frank Nichols, the new postmaster
at Greenwood, S. C., is a straight out
republicansfrom Maine.
Dr. Talmadgc baptised several Amer
icans in the river Jordan aud preached
on Mars Hill.
The farmers of South Carolina will
hold a convention and nominate can
didates of their own.
Dick Haxves. the Birmingham wife
murderer, asked the sheriff for a pair
of suspenders. He is bent on suicide
In South Carolina thousands
pounds of meat have rotted and in
many sections have been throxvn out in
the fields owing to the summer weather.
Rev. W. B. Buckingham died
Barnwell, S. C., and was buried along
side of the grave in which a week ago
his brother Phil was buried
John D. Rockfeller the President of
the Standard Oil Trust, is said to be the
richest man in America, He is worth
$129,000,000.
Who said the English courts would do
nothing in the London scandal case?
'They have put in jail the editor who
told about the crimes of the nobility.
Ex-President Cleveland talks enthu
siastically of tariff reform and is willing
to head tbe National Democratic ticket
if called on to do so
A man in England murdered his bed
felloxv and warm personal friend be
cause because he said he was too wick
ed to live.
The Democrats will obstruct legisla
tion if an attempt is made to decide the
contested election cases before the com
mit'ee on rules report.
Five men xvorking on a railroad
Wilks County, N C., were bloxvn to
atoms- by a spark troin a cigarette Bet
ting off dynamite.
George Comstock and xvife, of Wil
son Conn., were fatally hurt by a train
stricking their carriage when return
ing from u funeral.
A riot is momentarily threatened
Apilachacola, Fla. Every white man is
sleeping on his arms. One negro was
shot while fleeing from arrest.
The mayor of Charlotte, N. C., ordered
out of toxvn a mulatto vagabond, whom
he ju iged to be a leper. The negro had
elephantiasis, and his leg xvas swollen
as large as a piano leg.
A Catholic priest at Pittsburg, Pa.,
threxv back into a man’s face a penny
that he had placed in a contribution
box saying: “We don’t xvant auy such
contributions hero.”
The Bank of England is about to ex
ercise Us right, never hitherto asserted,
to use silver to the extent of one-third
of its reserve, and issue £1 notes in sil
ver against it.
Mr. and Mre Bayne, the driver and a
lady were killed by a train running in
to their carriage while on their way to
the cemetery to bury a child in Chica
go-
The five desperadoes who killed Con
stable Robert Long and xvouuded his
wife in Guyandotte county, Va., were
tracked to the mountains and captured
while sleeping.
A negro woman was found in
a ditch in Unioncounty, S. C , with her
throat cut. Investigation showed that
she was murdered by a white man, as
sisted by three negroes.
Ingalls in his speech in the senate
sail the negroes have been very pa
tient and suggests the torch and daggor
as a means to obtain their rights. He
was applauded by the negroes in the
galery.
The late Judge Kelley, it is stated
was like Gen. Grant, a victim to to
bacco. For years he was an inveterate
smoker, and be also chewed. At night
he would sleep with a quid of tobacco
in his mouth.
Mr. Randall is now known as “the
father of the house." The republican
members are likely to be bis most
obedient children, while many of tbe
democrats may be disposed to break
their father’s old heart, by wanting a
reduction of the tariff.
H. M. Jackson, the .assistant cashier
of the sub-treasury, on Wall street,
who stole $10,000 from the treasury iu
October, 1887, and fled from the coun
try, returned to New York, in disguise,
a few days ago, and was detected and
captured.
Representative Robertson, of Louisi
ana, has introduced in the house a bill
appropriating $300,000 to reimburse
the state of Lonisana for the destruction
of the state prison at Baton Rouge, La.,
by fire xvhile in possession of the United
States military authorities in 1863.
A dispatch from El Paso, Texas, re
ports yesterday the keeper of two large
Cinnamon bears in Paso Del Norte got
drunk aud made the bears drunk. The
keeper took off the muzzle of one of the
bears to feed it, when the animal jump
ed upon him and lacerated him so ter
ribly that he died from the effects of
the wounds. The animal is at large,
and the people in Paso Del Norte ar.
greatly excited.
The bouse committee on elections de
cided to report in favor of unseating
Jackson, democratic representative
from West Virginia, declaring Smith,
republican contestant, entitled to a seat. :
This is first of the seventeen contested I
election cases which the committee has
disposed of.
It is said that some two years ago
Mrs. Fanny Coleman, a Northern lady,
went to Mr. John Moulton’s house in
Baldwin county, Ala., for the benefit of
her health. Mr. Moulton found that
his boarder had a large sum of money
with her and some valuable securities.
With the assistance of a female neigh
bor he locked Mrs. Coleman up, and
kept her a prisoner until a few days
*go when the authorities interfered.
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
Vanderbilt has bought the c .
Valley railroad. h 0 Sci «to
Lynchburg offers to build a n#>»
itol for Virginia free. ,uan «»cap.
Tombstone men in New
want protection. En gland
There are no indications of abrev i
the Iowa legislative dead-lock. K ' n
At the annual meeting of the N.n
alDivo.ce Reform League inBo 'w
the secretary’s report that 80.1 nerr^'
of divorces occur in the State in xvhi^
the marriage took place, thus disneii
a prevalent idea that a uniform n 8
tinnal divorce law would remedy the
At Pittsburg a house was destroy.,i
by an explosion of sexver gas. John Sli*
was killed, and eight others more 2
less seriously injured, r
People in nineteen counties of South
Dakota are literally starving 1
Laura Litton was accidentally killed
near Kipton, Ohio, by two friends. ’
A farmer shot himself near Akron
Ohio, and claimed he was attacked bv
highwaymen. He wanted notoriety. 3
A bill to allow women to practice inw
in Virginia courts was reported ad-
versely in the Virginia legislature.
A mammoth light house will b«
erected off Cape Hatteras.
English capitalists will invest mil-
lious of dollars in railroads in the
South and will build a tunnel under
Cumberland gap at a cost of $350,000.
The last of Cleveland’s appointees in
Indiana is out of office.
The ‘ gold brick” swindle cost Clark
Adams, of Covington, Ohio., $6,500.
Mrs. Day was formerly elected Li
brarian for Kentucky.
The oldest man in the world is a cit-
zen of B-igota, in the Republic of San
Salvador. He is 180 years old.
A Brewer who was expelled from the
Chicago Union for not paying an as
sessment for i he defense of the Anar
chists, was awarded $900 damages.
A French engineering company pro
poses to bridge the Bosphorus.
An aunt in Kansas city assisted her
niece only 13 years old, to elope with a
boy of the same age.
Ellison Mounts, who is to be.hanged
at Pikesville, Ky., for the murder of
Miss Allapha McCoy, has confessed the
crime and professed religion.
S-nator Quay and his son Richard
will leave for Florida on Saturday.
Rev. W. F. Pettit has been indicted
at Indianapolis for the murder of his
wife* A widow who belonged to hit
congregation has also boen indicted for
the same offense.
Kyle Terry, a nephew of the celebra
ted Judge Terry, was killed at Galves
ton by Valney Gibson, while on his
xvay to court to stand trial for the
murder of tbe latter’s brother.
Mrs. William Ryder, of Elizabeth,
N, J., has become hopelessly insane
through brooding over a threatened
lawsuit that would have hurt her repu
tation.
At New Haven, Conn., a young man
married a deaf mute. The bride an
swered the vows of matrimony by
signs.
William Von der Lietli, xvho is in a
New York prison for stealing a set of
tools, while almost starving allowed
the physician to tap his veius 21 times
to save thelives of others
There has beeh a fearful storm on the
Atlantic and a great many xvrecks are
reported.
Michael Schieber, the Bavarian mur
derer, xvho jumped (from |a fast-moving
train at Corfu, N. Y., while in charge
of an officer xvas recaptured a fexv mil-,
from that place. He murdered his step
son and the boy’s grandfather, aud con
fessed the crimes in Minneapolis, where
he was arrested.
A Polish xvoman who has been mas
querading as a man for the past txvelve
years has been discovered at Pittsburg.
She xvorked as a laborer, smoked, and
alxvays insisted on a separate room from
the men at her boarding house.
Mrs. Polly Osgood, aged 100 years,
died of “la grippe,” at Amesbuiy,
Massachusetts.
Bishop Hare, of the P. E. Church of
South Dakota, protests against the
passage of the prohibition hill now
pending, because it denies the use of
intoxicating xvines for sacramental pur
poses.
Ex-Deputy U. S. Marshal William
Day, who killed a prisoner in the Cov
ington jail five years ago, killed himself
by shooting, at Louisville.
Mary Petrikoysky, a handsome Rus
sian girl, was shot dead in New York,
by Michael Popoff, a deserter from the
Russian army, because she refused to
marry him. *
Charlos Weinkle, of London Island
City, N. Y., fell into his mother’s wash-
tub and was scalded and drowned.
A tobacco trust has been formed.
The sexton of a church at Syraeu*;*,
N. Y., has been arrested for committing
an unnatural crime on boys.
A mother in Helena, Mont., locked
np in her room and severely whipped
a young man who xvas courting her
daughter.
The race horse, “Proctor-Knott,” is
in splendid, condition.
Mrs. Margurette Graham, a fair
young widow of Fort Dodge, Iow«, is
suing J: It. Reed for breach of promise.
After waiting seven years for him, he
married anotberiwomnn.
The Polish church war at Wilkes-
barre, Pp., has broken out again. The
graveyard was invaded, the coffins were
broken open, and the bodies dragged
over the ground and then thrown over
the fence. Two bodies were treated
thus, and they were horribly lacerated
by pick-axes in breaking open tbe cof
fins. Three other coffins r. ere taken
out of the graves.
The Bank of England will not issue
silver notes, as reported.
A popular Methodist minister in Iowa
has been arrested for forgery.
Edward Aayman killed his paramour
in Indianapolis, and then attempted
suicide.
A New York man, the doctors say, is
sleeping himself to death.
Four safe robbers were scared away
from their job at Haselton, Penn. They
afterwards fell asleep, and were cap*
tured with their burglar tools.
A brave Pennsylvania womau shot a
man who was trying to force his way
into her house.
A negro xvoman in Barnwell county,
S. C„ stole a child, set fire to a house
and then left for her home with her
stolen treasure, where she disfigured it
in such a way as to try and create the
impressson that she had given birth,
got in bed aud sent for a female attend
ant. She is in jail.
Thomas Rainey, of San Antonio,
Texas, died from La Grippe. Imme
diately aft;r his death his aged father
wsnt into an adjoining room and blew
bis brains out. Father and sen will b$
burled together* .