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THE ATHENS BANNER: ATHENS, GEORGIA, F .EERfABY 4, 18&0.
A NEGRO’S RAVINGS.
■ The speech of Jackson McHenry
in Atlanta, where he spoke of the
beauties and delights of social equal*,
ity up North, will not be endorsed
by any sensible negro iu our State.
While there are a few insolent and
ambitious blacks who will delight to
mingle on terms of social equality
with the whites, the large majority
of this race prefer to remain to them*-
selves, where they iind congeniality
and pleasure. In the company of a
white man—unless he is ignorant as
themselves—the negro feels like a
fish out of water. Social equality
will nevqr be tolerated in the South ;
and history shows that even where
the races are of the sam< blood and
equal iu intellect, that it requires
centuries of freedom to do away
with the prejudice of slavery. This
was the case with the Norman con
querors of England, and although
the Saxons were in every way their
equal, they were held in subjection
and serfdom by the dominant class.
After a century and a ball of Nor
man rule, one of the ablest among
them attempted to win the hearts of
bis English subjects by espousing a
Saxon princess. But even at that
day, this marriage was regarded by
bis friends as would a marriage be*
tween a white planter and a quad
roon girl in Georgia before the war.
In history, the first Norman to wed a
Saxon is known by the honorable
surname of Beauclerc ; but, in his
time, his own countrymen called
him by a Saxon nickname in con-
temptuous allusion to bis Saxon
marriage, and held him in social os
tracism and contempt. It was/nly
after two centuries that the races
were blended, and this was brought
about by the necessity of coalition to
dispell invasion.
If it took the Saxons and Normans
200 years to biend, what time will it
require two such opposite and con
flicting races as the Anglo-Saxon
and the African to mingle their blood
and become one people ?
The negro will be happier and bet
ter content to remain in his allotcd
sphere, and not try and force him
self where his presence is not wanted
and will not be tolerated. The same
blood flows in the veins of the South
ern whites as coursed through those
proud old Normans, and they wouldf
submit to extermination before being
forced by law to consort with their
former slaves. A white mau or wo
man who consents to do so has in
deed sunk low in the scale of de
cency, and a respectable negro de
bases himself by associating with
them.
We fear a race war in the South
English capitalists,” seeking invest-
ments for untold millions. Onr
people are nibbling at this bait as
readily as they did the tourists
business—and of the two classes of
heats and imposters, we look With
more favor on the old tourist gang.
When an individual or corporation
contemplates making an investment
it does not hire Tom, Dick and Harry
to go through the country with a
brass band, and proclaim their busi
ness from the house-tops, but goes
about it in a quiet manner, with as
much secrecy as possible. When a
man voluntarily tells you that he is
an agent for English or any other
capitalists, and shows a desire to
give the fact as much publicity as
possible, just set him down as a fraud
of the first water. If there are
English companies seeking invest
ments in our State, rest assured that
they are proceeding in a business
like manner, and are not sending
hundreds of men rambling over the
country, like Ponce de Leon in bis
search for the mythical Fountain of
Youth.
We should always welcome stran
gers seeking homes or investments
in our midst, and such parties can
be known by their manner and de
portment. But do not sntfer your
self to be imposed upon and taken
in by every imposter that comes
aloDg.
TELEGRAPHIC SPAMS.
buy the
if an effort is ever made to place
negro rule again upon us ; but we
have no fear of social equality or
amalgamation between the two races
The Northern people look upon the
blacks as martyrs, and there are
many cranks up there who delight
to take them to their bosom, and
shower upon those people every honor
and kindness ; but the great mass
of the North look with no more favor
on social equality than the South
(. and are even more incensed against
' the negro than Ins former owners.
There is a good deal of difference
between an occasional well-dressed
negro—who is a rare sight and some
thing of a show—and having alway
around you a perfect swarm of ig
noraut blacks, who do the most roe*
nial tasks, and in whose society there
is no more congeniality than in
; j plow-stock.
GENERAL NEWS-
"THE WORLD" AND SENATOR BRICE.
The New York World is making
an attempt to show that Col. Brice
bought the Ohio Senatorehip ; and
this able democratic daily is so per
sistently bitter and vindictive in its
attack, as to impress the reader that
it is prompted more by personal
bate against the new Senator and its
soreness over its inability to defeat
him, ‘than ]by an ‘honest desire
to purify its party. If The World
has proof that Senator Biice secured
bis election through dishonorable
means, it is its duty to publish the
same. But to make such a grave
charge against an honored and dis
tinguished member of its party on a
vague suspicion, is both unfair and
impolitic. It seems to us that The
World can do better service by point
ing out the corruption and trickery
in the Republican ranks,than by thus
assailing its own leaders, and fur*
nisbing ammunition with which to
fight us. Suppose every Democratic
paper in the Union pursued such a
policy, and commenced au unwar-,
ranted fight on party officers who
did not chance to suit them ? Why
we would be torn into factions and
fall an easy prey to the enemy. The
World is not building up any
strength by this war on Senator
Brice—for every fair-minded and
reasoning man looks upon it as the
idle ravings of a disappointed editor,
who failed to carry his point. We
believe Col. Brice to be an honorable
and patriotic gentleman, wbo can do
Ohio and thq Democratic party more
good in the Senate than aay man in
that State.
The Jusuits are trying to
Anthony place near Macon.
Mr.jJohn M. Meyer, of Augusta, is
dead.
The weekly Press Association will
meet at Far; Valley on July 4 next.
Homer Carr, an Atlanta white boy,
crushed the skull of a negro boy with a
rock.
Mr Clem G, Moore, of the Craw-
fordville Democratt, was married to a
Miss Gunn.
The Gate City Guards asked for the
resignation of Capt. L. Hall and elected
Captain Sneed in his stead.
The Grady monument fund now
amounts to $18,000.
The btat* military encampment will
be held in Augusta.
The wild deer in South Georgia are
increasing rapidly.
An Atlanta policeman saved the life
of a drunken man who fell in front of a
moving engine.
A negro Methodist church at Stone
Mountain was burned.
An Alliauce warehouse and oil mill
will be established at Boston, Ga.
There is a field of oats near Pelham
nearly as high as a man’s shoulder.
A dog near Sandersville was rescued
front a well. where he had been five
days.
Two young burglars have been cap
tured in Darien who are only twelve
yvara old.
A safe at Pearson was broken open
and robbed of $1,100.
Fresh strawberries arc selling in Ma
con at 75 cents per basket.
An Americus man has in his employ
five negroes who have been with him
for 24 years.
Seven murders have occurred in
Mitchell county within a year.
The assessed value of Savannah prop
erty will be close on to twenty millions
of dollars.
Thirty-six thousand and one hundred
dollars nave been subscribed towards
the Augusta Exposition.
Gov. Gordon has offered a reward of
$200 for the apprehension of ev*-ry man
who shot the negroes in Jesup jail.
In Lee county, in a spirit of revenge,
a negro set fire to another’s property,
and watched it burn down.
Glanders has broken out among the
stock in Southwest Georgia, and Com
missioner Henderson advises the killing
of all diseased animals.
The negro mail rider who misterious-
ly disappeared between Duoktown and
Parksville, in Fannin county, some
time back, has been found. He was
lodged against a rock in tbo river, not
far from where the horse and cart was
found.
Mrs. Margarett Stewart, of Carroll
county, who would have been 104 years
old on the seventeenth of April, died
on the 9th of January.
The Coweta county Alliance has
passed a resolution boycotting certain
fertilizer and wagon manufacture, be
cause they refuse to sell their goods
though the Alliance business exchange
William Garner, a merchant of Lin
coln county, has kidnapped and carried
off a pretty sixteen-year old girl who
lived near his store.
PORTABLE FRAUDS-
This is an age of humbuggery as
well as progress, and tLe South
proving a rich field for such adven
r turers. Our people are a restless
race, and always ready to sell out
and change quarters. Hence a man
coming among them with the ex
pressed desire to invest a few thou
sands in land or manufactures, finds
the fruit ripe to his baud. This
trait is being taken advantage of by
unscrupulous strangers to have a
good time and receive special atten-
• lion without depleting their pocket-
books, or to swindle guileless vie*
tims. A year or so ago the rage was
to bring train loads of hungry and
consumptive Yankees to ouv*eunny
clime, when our innocent and un
suspecting people would “ put the
' big pot in the little one,” and almost
bankrupt themselvcr. entertaining
their distinguished guests, Bui
nothing came of all this. These
Northern visitors, after leaving our
larders in abont as depleted a con
■ dition as a Sherman raider, and
baying a good time free of cost, hied
back home to abase and slander the
very people whose bread they bad
eaten. Our people, after a time,
« caught on”' to this Northern tour
ist’s business,-and the Pilgrims had
to seek new quarters.
The South is now being invaded
a horde of “representatives ol
The Secret of Cheap Human Life.
Another traversity of justice has just
been enacted in the Court at Orange
burg*. Geo. E. Boyet was tried for
the murder of Ace Bizzle in June, 1889.
The defendant's counsel pot up no wit
nesses ; the State put up three,
two of whom testified that two months
previous to the killing Boyet had
threatened to shoot Bizzle’s heart out
if he didn’t stop saving he bad stolen
his cotton. The third was present at
the killing, and testified that Bizzle
was unarmed and on foot, and that
Boyet shot him to death from his horse
The murderer then fled, and was cap
tured by two men. attracted by tho re
ward offeied by the governor for him
and lodged in jail. In accordance
with the evidence given at the trial,
this was a cold-blooded, unprovoked
murder, and yet the jury brought in a
verdict of only manslaughter. It is
not surprising that human life is held
so cheap in the South, when murder
ously inclined men know so well that
they may commit murder with com
paratively little risk to their necks,
they have means to pay the expenses,
the utmost risk they run is from five to
t*n years in the PeQftenti&ry, and even
this risk is not very great u they have
clever counsel who . can secure new
trials. It was the lack of confidence m
the law that such a result as this, Or
angeburg trial creates that was at the
bottom of the recent shocking Barnwell
lynching.—Aiken Rocorder.
TO
PROHIBIT SACRAMENTAL
WINE.
The Effort In South Dakota Rousing
the Indignation of the Clergy.
St. Padl, Jan. 28.—The Orthodox and
Catholic clergy are alike stirred up over
the effort to prohibit the importation
! nto South Dakota of fermented wine,
even when such is to he used for sacra
mental purposes. Archbishop John
Ireland, the noted apostle of temper
ance, Baid this evening: S‘I don’t be
lieve that the South Dakota legislature
seriously conteipplates passing any such
bill as that urged by Buttrlck, the
Methodist elder. If soch an extreme
measure was carried out, it would be
prohibition’s death knell. If the meas
ure should become a law, Catholics
would simply consider it unconstitu
tional, and would, if necessary, Appeal
to the Supreme Court of the United
8tates. The mere
ter has already worked great harm to
the cause of prohibition.
Gov. Gordon has been advised by his
physicians that his health is seriously
menaced by the frequent demands mude
on him for speeches and for that reason
he has concluded to bo more guarded in
future.
Washington is on a regular boom.
The record for ten days shows the or
ganization of companies for making
guano, cotton seed oil, building the
railroads to Elberton and Lincolnton,
the foundry business, a large ginnery,
etc.
The Sparta Ishmaelite says that the
Board of Education of Hancock county
should not allow Yankee histories of
the late war to be taught in the county
schools.
J. S. Wood, who lives five miles from
Richland, brought to that town on
Wednesday a green cotton boll, which
he pulled off the stalk the day before
with some green leaves.
Sam Jones will begin a meeting in
Charlotte. N. C., in April. An im
mense tabinacle is being built for
him.
J. E. Ratteree, of Americus has en
tered suit against the Atlanta Consitu-.
tion for libel, claiming damages to the
amount of $5,000. The suit is based
upon a communication to the Consti
tution by its Americus correspondent
iu relation to a recent marriage in
Americus.
In the fair and cultured citj of Au
gusta, not long since, Rev. R. J. Big-
ham came upon a white woman stag
gering and falling about the street#.
Mrs. J. A. Bryant, of Spring Place,
gave birth to three baby boys. Two of
the babies weighed 7)4 pounds each,
and the other 1% pounds, at birth.
Aibert L. Potter and Miss Daisy Ra
married at Sylvania. Mr. Potter i
eighteen and bis bride is only fifteen.
Congressman Blount says Georgia is
not for Hill, but solid for Cleveland.
The citizens of Shady Dale are peti
tioning the Railroad Commission to
force tho C. & M. road to give them a
depot
A negro barber named Rivers, at
Odum, Ga., refused to shave Dinkier,
another negro, who murdered him with
oue of the barber’s razors. The mur
derer escaped.
A crippled negro was carried to Amer
icas, Ga., for treatment and was cured.
His joy was so great over his recovery
that he went deranged.
The fact has been reported to Gov.
Gordon that certain Atlanta people
have been erecting buildings on the
right-of-way of the State road.
A negro woman at Eufauls, Ga,
locked three of her children in her
room to go to the Salvation Army
services, and they were all burned to
death during her absence.
Leary Gentry, an indnstrious farmer
living near Milner, drove his team to
Griffin Thursday and bought his sup
plies and staffed home in the dark
While passing near a “cut out” for the
railroad near Orchard Hill his team
and wagon fell off the embankment and
all rolled to the bottom together. The
mules became detached from the wagon
in their fall and soon found their way
home, but Mr. Gentry was found lying
later in a
Ingalls confesses that his recent
speech was intended to “gull” the peo
ple.
1 he Governor of North Carolina has
commuted the sentence of two burglars
who were to be hanged.
A. S. Babbett, a coroner of Birming
ham, Ala , has been arrested for rob
bing the dead.
A crank in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
appeared in ehurch stark naked.
Six co-operative stores have failed in
Philadelphia.
The national negro convention will
assemble in Washington, D. C., on
February 2nd.
A well known citizen of Salt Lake is
named Bad Cold.
Five hangings will take placeon Feb-
uary 7th in North Carolina.
Belva Lockwood denounces Victoria
Woodhull and Tennie C. Cliaflin for
their immorality.
A Philadelphia syndicate has pur
chased a rich gold mine iu Union
county, S. C.
Frank Curry, the student reported
killed in Alabama, has turned up at
Avondale,
Plunk Parker was induced by two
companions in Warren county, Ky., to
take a walk with them, whe-. they mur
dered and robbed him.
William Kauffman was given $15,
000 damages against the L. & N. rail
road for the loss of a leg.
A disease like minengetis is killing
people be the score in Texas.
George Tobbler, who murdered a ri
val suitor, for the smiles.of an nbnn
cloned woman, was hanged at Fort
SmitluArk.
The Jews of Albany, N. Y., have
boycotted the county bank because a
member of their race was refused pro
motion because he was a Jew.
An attempt was made to blow up the
house of a Catholic priest at Pittsburg,
Pa., with dynamite.
Strawberries are being shipped from
St.irke, Fla., at the rate of from one to
six bushels daily, and the fruit is rip
ening rapidly.
Marquis, a democrat, has been de-
clnred elected lieutenant-governor of
Ohio.
Mr. W. J. Brown, a cotton buyer of
Eufula, Ala., left ten days ago with $6,-
000 for Columbia, 40 miles distant, and
nothing has been heard of him since.
He was probably robbed and murdered.
The president of the South Carolina
Alliance advises his order to subscribe
to and read newspapers.
The late Adam Forepaugh never
smoked, chewed or drr.nk. Instead of
investing his money in those expensive
occupations he put it in real estate, and
whcnhedie-l he owned 200 houseB in
Brooklyn and 100 in Philadelphia.
There is a gulch near Birmingham.
Ala., in which there has been found at
times the bodies of five murdered men
Negroes have a horror of the place.
The earliest known will has been dis
covered by Flinders Petrie at Kahan
or, as the town was known 4,500 years
ago, Ulahun. The di-cument is so curi
ously modern in f irm that it might al
most be granted probate today.
■A «ow on the track threw a train off,
at Seymour, La., and thirteen oars were
wrecked, two men killed and two oth
ers seriously injurned.
Mrs. Ruth Thompson, a daughter of
Captain John Brown, of Harper’s Fer
ry fame, is in comparative want and
movement has been started to Becure
subscription to lift a mortgage from
her small farm at Pasadena, Cal.
A negro woman died in Wilmington,
Del., at the age of 108 years.
Our Government has formaly recog
nized the United States of Brazil.
A foundry man won a $500 wager by
lifting a 1,030 pound weight in the Po-
en
lice.Gazette office in New York.
A Vessel foundered in the Atlantic,'
and a cJew of sixteen were all drowned.
A New York undertaker suicided j
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
ENGLISH
THE D1SBITRSER OF A VAST SUM
VISITS ATHENS.
*« h Feared that n «.acU of .Proper
CoartenT Haa Driwnihe tnveater
to Other Field*.
A seedy tramp, wearing a suit of
i clothes that had evidently been made
by drinking a half pint of embalming ;, lhe tailor to a SC are-crow, and a nose
_ I that looked like an over-ripe tomato,
A well digger at Paterson, N. J., , c-alled on Col. C. W. Baldwin at his
met with his death by being buried i introduced himself by say-
alive in caving sand. jiug: *
While examining a revolver in a Chi- \ I have been directed to you, sir, as
cago court room, the weapon accident- ’ 0 r.e of Athens’ leading and most public-
ally went off and came near killing the; spirited citizens, and am delighted to
. X ! * . \r«t namu fill*
lUfl
I plight. He was fearfully bruised,
1, it is thought, received internal in-
[lgressii
: Demo
: .1
bill
which the Democrats .of the unto Leg
islature want to pass only leaves' the
Repulicans three out of the twenty-one
Congressional districts.
in tbe “cut” several hours
.bad
aiul.
juries. His recovery is doubtful.
Tom Miller, colored! sue of tho riot
ers, and* tho pal of Brewer. the Jesup own
desperado, passed through Waycross
this morning from Jacksonville* where
he was arrested last night, en route to
Brunswick. He talks freely and says
uq .has made his peace with God
does not expect to. have any merey
shown him, and is ready to go any
time. He will be imprisoned at Bruns
wick,
G. Davis williams, a prominent Dem
ocratic politician of Decatur, Mo., com
mitted suicide rather than stand trial for
accepting a bribe when he served on
jury.
News from Honduras is to the effect
that Major Burke, ex-state treasurer of
I.ouisiana, lays his troubles to the jeal
ousy of political enemies, whose con
tinuance in power makes it impossible
for him to return to face his accusers.
Whalebone is so scarce that it now
sells for $32,500 per ton in London
Even snow fi:3Its twenty feet deep
and packed as boys pack snowballs are
compelled to yield to the rotary plow
An epidemic of suicide continues to
rage in New York City. The papers
are filled with accounts of the most
ghastly and horrifying self-murders
occasioned by want, financial ruin
drink and a dozen other causes.
The people of Washington City are
kicking against the appointments
Bruce as recorder of deeds.
’ that
A Catholic priest has been convicted
at Ottawa, Con., of debauching a lot of
young boy8. The revolting offences
were committed in the church vestrey
and tbe evidence went to show that
many of the victims were of more tcu-
der years thau those mentioned at the
trial.
The Morris woman at Reedsvllle, N
C., who was acquitted after killing her
husband, will have to go to law%ith
relatives to get his property. The
Mutual Benefit. Life Insurance com
pany, of Newark, N. J., announce that
they will fight the case till judgment
day before they will pay over the ten
thousand dollars policy.
Hopkinsville, Ky., has a prodigy t
is attracting great attention. It is
colored infant, named Louella Graves,
daughter, daughter of Rev. J.
Graves, that is only three months
age, but can talk distinctly. The child
could pronounce many words before ..
was three weeks old, and now at the
age of three months it can talk plain!
Great crowds have visited the mini.
ter*s house to behold this infant prodi
or.
An appropriation allows every sena
tor not the chairman of a committee the
service of a clerk daring the session of
Congress at a compensation of $0 per
day, Sunday and holidays included. A
year or two ago Senator Reagan caused
his wife to be sworn in and her name
placed on the pay-rolls in the senate as
his clerk, and she has been reappointed
at this session.
H. G. C. Alkire, a wealthy farmer „
Palestine, Ohio, was arrigned before
United States Commissioner Hagerty
Colnmbus recently, charged with open
ing a letter addressed to his daughter.
It seems that the old gentleman discov
ered that his daughter was correspond
ingwith one Ed Mantel against his
wishes, and he resorted^to this means
of putting an etd to it. He was. re
quired to give bond in $300.
judge
A young woman in New York sni- |
cided because she had lost her place as 1
a domestic.
A Philadelphia woman sustained a
fall last August and broke her neck. She
is still alive and enjoys perfect health.
A negro boy in Cumberland county,
Tenn., killed his former master for
mistreating him years before.
A negro boy has been arrested at
Carthage, Mo., for outraging a ten
year old white girl.
President De Costa, of Costa Rica, is
handling with bia wifo incog, iu this
country. i •
69 men have been sentenced to death
by the United Stotes court' at Fort
Smith, Ark.
Virginia Democrat legislators proposo
to tune the Colored Normal School into
a lunatic asylum, on account of their
antipathy to the negro race.
The Democrats of the Virginia Legis
lature intend to pass some law to re
move the five Republican judges elected
six years ago.
The Berling press confirms the re
ports that a coolness has arisen be
tween the Emperor William and Priuce
Bismarck.
Dr. B. C. Field, of Benson, Tex., was
robbed of his pocket-book containing
$190,000, in the railroad depot at Little
Rock, Ark.
Two girl members of the graduating
class of tbe State Normal School at
Bridewater, Mass., were dismissed for
riding a tricycle and^flirting with the
village clerks.
The first anual report of the New
York State Commission in Lunacy
shows shocking ill-treatment of patients
in many of tbe county asylums.
A second call on the banks for sur
render of deposits before March 1 has
been issued.
Charles Rowland, a young husband,
of Sharon, was driven to attempt sui
cide by the action of his neighbors who
pestered him on account of his alleged
cruel treatment of his wife.
A religions fahatic at Fairmoutit.
Inti., poured coal oil over his head anti
body and set it on fire.
John and Frank Wilson, father and
son, former residentsof Cincinnati, met
accidentally at Birmingham, Ala., after
a separation of twenty-eight years.
Mrs. Bogits, of Waverly, Ohio, while
crossing a field on Tuesday evening was
attacked by a vicious sow and so horri
bly mangled that she cannot recorer.
The Rev. John Jasper, the famous
colored clergyman of Richmond, deliv
ered his celebrated sermon, “De Sun Do
Move,” 175th time last Sunday.
Old miners and others are living in
retired plaees in the Sierra Nevada
mountains are dying of cold and starva
tion, occasioned by the snow.
Kenny Graham, near London, Ohio,
shot William Woodhonse, a neighbor
ing farmer and h>s wife, the trouble
growing out of a law suit.
Hamilton Hall, built in Revolutiona
ry times in Saiem, Mass., under the
name of Assembly Hall, and named
Hamilton Hall in 1805 in honor of Al
exander Hamilton* was gutted by fire
Loss $3,000,
An old lady at Jackson, Tenn , had
her exact photograph sketched in some
inaraculous manner on a window pane
where she sat sewing.
Ex-President Cleveland sold the last
piece of real estate he owned in Buffalo.
During the last Presidential campaign
he swore he was no longer a resident of
buffalo and so got rid of a tax of $96.53
on the property just sold.
Edwin Firth, a wealthy inventor of
Troy, N. Y., was shot, m Broad day
light, by a Mrs. Henry Warnecke, of
Chicago, who claims Firth ruined her.
The bullet took effect in the head, but
the doctor believe the man will re
cover.
Mrs Margarette Graham, a fair young
widow, of Kentucky, wants to sue J. R.
Reed for breach of promise. She was
engaged to Reed while his wife was liv
ing, and patiently waiting 7 years for
her to die, when Rfeed married another
woman. Mrs. Graham was informed
she had no case.
In Orange connty, §outh Carolina
Richard Godwin, an old negro, cut his
own throat in court, while being tried
for rope and incest. The trouble grew
out of the .fact that one of bis daugh
ters swore out an affidavit against him
for rape. None of the bystande'rs in
terfered. with him, or made any effort
to stay his hand. The would-be
make your acquiiitance. My name, sir
is Biggman, from London, England,
and I have been sent to your beautiful;
city by English capitalists, represent
ing nine hundred million dollars, with
a view of looking out some invest
ments,” and the distinguished foreign
er extended a hand that had evidently •
been recently used to shovel up char
coal. ' '* , ‘
Col. B. replied that he was delighted
to make Mr. Briggman’s acquaintance,
and so soon as Beduey.the porter, could
get him a pair of long-handled nail-
tongs he would be delighted,—yea,
charmed, to give him a regular old-
fashioned Georgia La Grippe.
‘What does your company propose to
invest their millions in around here?”
asked Col. B. “In second-handled beer
corks or water powers!”
“That, of course, is a confidential
matter; but I don’t mind letting you
into tho secret, as I expect you to mako
a trifle of ten or twenty millions out of
the transaction. My company is try
ing »o get up a corner on angle-worms,
which will give us a monopoly over the
fish industry of this section. Our idea
is to employ experts, and buy up all the
angle worm pastures to be found, if we
have to pay a thousand dollars a square
foot for the land. But before proceed
ing to busines, I believe it is the custom
in America for friends to take a drink;
so if you hare any Rhine wine-or a
stronger stimulant would do—cons,
quentlyl would.not miud paying you in
a smile. I left some champagne I
brought from England in my room at
the hotel.” .
“I can easily send for that if you
want it,” replied Col. B. Where are
ou stopping, at the Calaboose House?
Jut if you are thirsty thei«,’s a bucket
of prohibition liquor on that box; but
don’t use the dipper—I’ll send and get
a guano horn for you to drink
through,” kindly volunteered Col. B
“ Well, really, remarked Mr, Bigg
man, “I heard you were of a humorous
temperament, and appreciate v<
■ * ' ~ ’d
With the beginning
of a New Year, mer
chants start off with
a new clean set of
Books.
Mrs. Mary Kreidly, of Kentuckv,
finds herself in a bad box. In August
last she laid claim to the body of a man
who had been killed by the cars, as that
of her husband, whose life was insured.
Detectives discovered that she had
brought suit for & divorce and that her
husband had consceded the same
September.
Nellie Bly to Be Married.
Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 29.—[Spe
cial]—The announcement of the be
trothal of Miss Elizabeth Cochrane,
alias Nellie Bly, to Dr. Frank Ingram,
of New York, will soon be made, anti
their marriage will soon take place
in New York.
The 1 story of the love affair is roman
tic. The Doctor was one of the expert
medical men who examined Miss Bly
touching her mental condition at the
time she was seeking release from an
insane asylum, where she had caused
her$e]f to he sent in order to personally
investigate tbe workings of the institu
tion.
Their acquaintance began in this way,
and their, friendship was cemented by
tbe manner in which Dr. Ingram in
sisted upon her sanity. “Nellie Bly
the daughter of Associate Justice
is
Cochrane, of Pittsbu:
was born and raised in
rg. The Doctor
i New York, 1
Bnried Alive.
Nhw Yoke, Jan. 28.—[Special]—Rob
ert McDonald, an Elizabeth graveldig-
ger, was almost buried alive in a
whii *
ch be was digging in Mount (Olivet
Cemetery on Sunday last. While he
was digging the grave tbe earth caved
in upon him and heiwas buried up to
his neck. He remained in this position
for four hours or more, when one of the
other crave diggers discovered him
My stock embraces
everything that can
be desired in
QUANTITY,
VARIETY.
QUALITY,
our
little joke amazingly. But I would not
object to a drink of something strong
this morning, and any courtesy you
can extend me will be appreciated by
my company. 1 '
Col. Baldwin remaaked that he was
not the chief engineer of a blind tiger
and it impressed hint that Biggman was
more auxious to find a still-worm pas
ture than an angle-worm range.
But, my dear sir,” persisted the
agent, “you seem to forget the fact that
1 have come here to build up your city
and to distribute untold millions
English money among the citizens
You are surely not so short sighted
to let all this golden opportunity
cape for one drink! I have my preju
dices, and'carry > ith me carte blauc
to invest Wherever I see fit. It would
be a fatal blow to Athens to arouse tnr
antagonism by a lack of proper cour
tesy.”
Col. Baldwin replied that he fully
realized the importance of the Classic
City’scapuring Biggm.in and his influ
ence, and to show that he was not lack
ing in proper courtesy to so distin
guished a stranger, that he would at
oucc call a policeman and have him es
corted back to his hotel and cham
pagne.
“Stop, sir! Do you real
ize the fact that I am
the authorized agent to spet d $900,000,-
000 in your city? On such a security
cannot you advance me a small stun until
I can get a draft on my London banker
—say fifty cents; or even a quarter will
answer to meet my most piercing de
mauds? Can’t see it! Maybe it’s a
dime—a nickel ”
About this time;the future hopes of
Athens vanished through the store
door on the toe of Col. Baldwin’s boot.
J±3<T3D
LOWNESS IN PRICES,
Inspection Invited
ADRIFf IN A BARREL.
Remarkably Discovery by a Party of
Hunters.
Knoxaillk, Tenn., Jan. 31.—[Spe
cial j—News reached here yesterday
from Jonesboro,*, about one hundred
miles east of this place, ou the Wataga
River, concerning something that al
most rivals a combination of cruel and
mischievous fiction. Last week, while
some parties were out on the river gun
ning for ducks, their attention was at
tracted to a barrel floating slowly down
.the stream. Of course there'was noth
ing remarkable in this, but at some one’
of the party’s suggestion they “made
for it” in their boat, arid on coming
within reach, to their amazement, and
utter astonishment they found that it
contained a passenger. A bright-eyed
three or four-year-old child Was seated
in the bottom of this little craft, seem-
ngly satisfied with his surroundings.
The barrel contained, besides the child
a pillow and quilt, also water and
scanty supply of rations, consisting of a
quart bottle half full of milk, half q
dozen biscuits and some o.ther little
knickknacks. A scrap of paper was
piuned on the little fellow’s clothing,
bearing the nanio “Willie” oa one
side, and the following inscription on
the ether: “My little boy; we now
part forever. ’Tis The work of fate,
iheugh the road you are to travel seems
perilous, to mine it is no comparison
Ybu will never know mo or nothing
about your birth. But, should you
safely reach your journey’s end, con
sole yourself with these words, ‘I was
born honorably.’ May God bless you
forever. Good-bye.
“Mother;’?
The child, from appearances, had
been in tiffs situation from twenty-four
to thirty-six hours. Various are the
stfihnises put forth by the good citizens
of the community in regard to the-
monstrous piece of crime, aqc
\ steps are being taken *by the pi ; J. T. ANDERSON.
i’I A flAS fA law fkn . .w.. % .aff
BEIL
Ha was almost exhaused when be was 1 authorities to lay the erime where
Ue ® athiabom ® iu a h beUmgs. Willie has been cared
critical condition, _ ^ for by one of bis rescuers, and at .]™
Joseph Chapleau was sentenced to be accounts was doing well.
executed by electricity on March 3 - At ^ ■» ■■■—r-
— The Supreme Court .of Montana has
rendered a decision affiirming the legali-
*" Df the Republican organization of
Legislature of that State.
D.I. McGregor
ATHENS BOOK-STORE.
No one doubts that the
Kabo corset lasts a vear
without breaking or kinking
or shifting a “ bone,” because
we refund the money in case
of a single item of failure
in these respects.
And no one doubts that
the Kabo answers its purpose
and suits the wearer, because,
if it don’t, we refund the
money on call within a week
or two or three.
It is the unbreakable cor
set, the Kabo. ... It is the
un-wear-out-able corset, the
Kabo. It is the corset that
suits, the Kabo.
The only question is: Do
you want the Kabo kind oi
a corset ?
We have a primer on Cor
sets for you at the store.
Michael Bros.
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