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THE ATHENS BANNER: TUESDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 25, 1890.
is TALMAGE A HUMBUG ?
probably the most popular
a sd most distrusted of
YANKEE PREACHERS.
Shrewdly Planning to Gain Fame and
liiche* as the Fruit of a Unique Noto-
riety—Device* for Dollar Getting such
os So Clergyman Ever Before Resorted
To—A Pastor Only in Same—-Hove
Talmage Earns $40,000 <? Year—His
lucent Trip to Palestine—Acts which
in any Other Hen would be Regarded as
the Height of Profamatir Trying to
liny Calvary and Baptizing t Tramp in
Jordan.
Xkw York, Feb. 17.—[Special]—The
Xew York Sun contains a six column
review or licv. T. DeWirt Talmage, the
eminent Brooklyn divine. That paper
announces Dr. Talmage as probably the
most popular and most distrusted of
yatikee preachers.
There is nothing of interest in Dr*
Talmage’s career previous to his coming
to Brooklyn twenty-one years ago. He
liail gained a local reputation in Phila
delphia as a sensational preacher, with
A wonderful amount of energy. The
church to which he came was broken
down aud almost hopelessly disinteg
rated. He put new life into it, and
drew a crcwd almost from the start,
lie got the crowd by very much the
rune methods that the dime manager
uses. He realized that the situation
wss desperate, aud lie adopted desperate
measures, lie seems to have deliberate
ly determined to reach fame by the iad-
dV of notoriety. He made of himself a
p,,|nit mountebank. No clown iu the
circus ring could have been more in-
anions than Talmage in treating his
audience to fresh acrobatic surprises.
Of late years lie has almost abandoned
the gymnastic feats of those early days,
lie gained his object. He got himself
talked about, and at once. The news
papers were full of his performances,
lie was ridiculed mercilessly from one
ei. 1 of the land to the other. But he
eared nothing for that.
Talmage is a pastor only in name.
Ills neglect of pastoral duties is notori
ous in Brooklyn, and many instances
might Ik: cited wherein his wilful and
often cruel failures to perform the pas
toral duties which every clergyman
recognizes as due to the humblest mem-
tiers «f liis (lock have caused poignant
grief and anxiety. It is no uncommon
tiling for him to fail to keen an appoint
ment at a wedding at which he is ex
pected to officiate. **
lie is face to face now with one of the
severest tests of his real power and In-
lluence which lie has encountered. He
must raise funds to build a church
That lie heartily dreads the task is
shown by liis two desperate attempts to
gain his object by a bold stroke and
thus escape the wearing details of a
house canvass. Talmage started for
the Holy Land just after his church
had been burned and when liis congre
gation was struggling with the most
perplexing problem they could iiave
encountered—bow to build a new
church without money. But the pastor
contented himself before liis departure
by resorting to the most audacious plan
for raising money tliat ever was at
tempted in the name of a Christian con
gregation. First lie issued a broadcast
appeal to Christendom to come and
help a poor struggling congregation of
only 5,000 or 0,000 members, and with
an impoverished $12,000 pastor to build
a church to shelter them.
Taluiage’s church has always been
heavily in debt, even in the height of
his |Kjpularity. Nothing demonstrates
m*re forcibly the character and extent
of Taluiage’s inllufcnce than his power,
or rather lack of power, to open the
p rse strings of liis hearers. People go
to hear him as they go to a popular
play.
That Mr. Talmage is the most success
ful money-getter of any man of his pro
fusion, is generally admitted. His in
come is from four sources—his pulpit
(church salary), his published sermons,
his lectur s, and his interest and divi
dend account. The most reliable esti
mate ot liis gross income, makes it $40,-
(MX) annually.
It is probably true that no living
man’s words are so widely read as arc
those of Dr. Talmage. More than five
hundred American newspapers print
his sermon every week, and m England
also a large syndicate of papers regu
larly publish his Sunday morning dis
courses.
The manner of distribution of his ser
mons for newspaper publication is an
i terestiug process. The original copy
is supplied about two weeks in advance.
In fact, all of Dr. Talmage’s Sunday
morning sermons must be composed
sixteen or eighteen days before they
are delivered, lie doesn’t take the
trouble even to write the original man
uscript. He dictates to a stenographer,
and rarely consumes more than an hour
in the process. The copy is sent to the
l’ress Association, and is set up twiee,
in two sizes of type, minion and bre
vier.
Before lie left America. Talmage pre
pared a series of sermons, one for each
Send y during his absence, which he
sriauged should be sent out to live him
<lrcd iicwsp:i|w:is from week to week,
ami should be printed as having been
delivered in the most prominent spot
near which his itinerancy indicated he
should lie on the respectivuSundnysof his
journey. Furthermore, it was arranged
that the papers should print these ser
mons under date of the various places
where they weie supposed to be deliv
ered, and tliat they should appear as
cabled reports. Here, then, is presented
an astonishing spectacle l A minister
of the Gospel, foremost iu the pulpit of
hu ceuntry, in the opinion of many,
becomes a party to a fraud, and an im
position upon the public!
"'hat more hideously impious thing
could there be than this? Going on a
Pilgrimage to the lan '• which the feet
°* Himself bad trod, a preacher
of ILs Gospel deliberately plots a need
less deception upon thousands. They
£ er « 'ess profane who raised the cross
itself, for they believed not. Into Je
rusalem and the piesence of Calvary it
self was the fraud carried. Hundred*
or newspapers proclaimed the news that
*“• u *ble had brought that Talmage
preached Unlay the following sermon
on Mars Hill.” There was great provo
cation for the sacreligious remark of a
Brooklyn man when he read the head-
itnesjn a morning paper:
,, * lucky thing it was for Paul
that he got there first!”
How many of these “cabled” sermons
X*!? "SHi* delivered nobody knows,
except Talmage and those in bis party.
Jt would be interesting to know, for in-
®“J>ce, in what church in London this
sermon was preached. No mention is
°!, u ln «>• “faked” introduction
“N dispatch.
• J™* Sun has Talmage’s own unwill-
■1£j£ mw *i° n that the story, which bis-
n'ti newspapers printed about
. delivery of a sermon in Queenstown,
• ftutoluteljf false, and a fraud on the
readers. Talmage sailed from Liverpool
on Saturday and on Monday following
five hundred American newspaper?
printed what purported to be a cabled
dispatch from Queenstown, which said:
w W ^ lle m t , he 8t ® amer in which the
Rev. Dr. Talmage left Liverpool yester
day was waiungsome few hours for the
mails, a number of the passengers went
ashore with him, and he took occasion
to deliver the following sermon.”
. I>r- Talmage, when closely questioned
by a Sttn reporter on the day of his ar
rival home, said that none of the pas
sengers left the steamer at Queenstown,
and that he delivered no sermon.
The first extraordinary exploit of
winch we have authentic record after
Talmage reached the Holy Land, was
his attempt to buy Calvary for spot
cash.
CAPTURED AT LAST.
FIERCE FIGHT WITH; OUTLAWS
IN THE WILDS OF MIS
SOURI.
Talmage says of his visit to the Jor
don :
“At Jerico I met an American whose
name I have forgotten, who asked me
to baptize him in the River Jordon.
So one fine Sunday morning, when the
sun shone gloriously bright, we assem
bled on the banks of the great river. I
was clad in the white robes of an Arab
sheikh, with a small crowd of interest
ed people about me, some of whom were I, w , .
Americans. We sang together *On ' e * fc tho hotel together and that was the
Jordon’s Stormy Bank I Stand,’ which I last time Thorp was seen alive,
tny daughter had copied from a hymn in the brush on the night of April 12
r.n fltahnnilivl ’>
'Mama* Fee, Wanted far Many Har
der*, Ha* «a Be IVearly Killed Srforc
Overpowered-—The Idnrderrr
W*« Watched aa He Baraed
the Body of a Victim.
St. Joseph, Mo., Feb. 17.—[Special]
—1» the Ozark Mountains, Thomas Fee
a veritable “Rube Burrowr,” was taken
into custody last night by Sheriff Feare,
of Holt county, after a siege of a week.
In April, 1889, Thomas Fee, a man of
forty years, the central figure of many
a desperate battle, fermedthe acquaint
ance of a yonng man named William
Thorp. Together the two traveled
about and finally landed in Oregon,
A BLOODY DEED.
THE MURDERER NARROWLY ES
CAPES LYNCHING.
Hr. John Hood, A{rd 75, the Father of
tbe Sheriff and ot two Prominent
Merchant* of Cheater, Shot Dead
in the Street an Saturday Night
oa hi* Way Home from
hi* So*’> Ilonae.
Columbia, Feb. 17.—[Special.]—Gov
ernor Richardson’s quiet Sunday strug
gle with the grip was interrupted this
forenoon by tbe receipt of the following
dispatch:
Chester, Feb. 17.—To J. P. Richard
son. Governor, Columbia: Telegraph
me order to remove Green Brawn to
Columbia jail. He is in jail for mur
dering my father. He will be lynched
if not removed at once.
W. H. Hood, Sheriff Chester Co.
Mr. John Hood, the murdered man,
was the father of Sheriff Hood and of
Holt county, where they stopped at a two leading merchants of Chester. He
Sj^<S3jZ“£SS£i£££ | SSgjSSifc- I SKfSSSSS 2“ S& SSi&HS
son, Israel Hood, and about 8 o’clock
strolled out Pinckney street towards
bis own bouse. He was not seen alive
after that. At 4 o’clock this morning
his body was found on a side street
leading from Pinckney to Centre street,
and within two hundred yards of
WOOLFOLK AGAIN.
HE WRITES A LETTER TO GOV
ERNOR GORDON PRE
TENDING INSANITY.
we disbanded.
But what are the
a fire. Walking to the spot, he peered ]
facts? The story | through the foliage and saw the body
re^fv belnTn r nrintthSt n thJ n Xiir*TS}‘ of a man l being consumed by tbe flames. Pinckney street, which is the principal
ty native tramp. Recognizing the
striking dramatic power of such an in
cident, it is said that Talmage seized
shot wounds, the mixed bird and squir-
_ , , - rel shot scattering from his neck to his
f hornas Fee. A revolver was in his I knees . A jur y of inquest was sum-
nnrm * nnnr .Htek _ . , < hand. With his foot he kicked the dead moned and evidence adduced which led
sssjisraffisaj tsafe ** „ .m* cm,.* i. w u* “afjsn. -
What greater profanation of sacred his- flames.
tory and of holy ground could there be? I Wilson,.recovering from bis horror,
ing irip for use in" writing his greit I Bpranfi forward with a cr *’ but Fe ®
work, “The Life of Christ,” Be lias not turned » nd P° lntlu K th ® revolver at the
indicated. Even his friends expect the intruder ffred and Wilson fell. The bul-
book will prove a stupendous failure. i et grazed his head and be lay uneon-
Grouping together the strange and I Kllf • ..
antagonistic characteristics of this mod- 8C, ®° aaU night, but in the morning
ern teacher, there is presented a diffi- feeb1 / dragged himself across the fields
cult problem. The question inevita-1*9 a farmer’s bouae. For two months
bio amounts to this : Is Talmage a hum
bug! The indictment constantly,. - ... . ....
horrible crime he had witnessed told.
, „ . .. j
brought against him wherever he is
known contains the fatat charge of in
sincerity and selfishness. That the lat
ter count in the indictment is true
there is no donbt.
Talmage’s career has been one of al
most unbroken prosperity. What would
be the effect on hint of a great reverse?
If his plans should miscarry, if his
wealth should be stripped from him, he
would bear the blow? If tbe stroke
went deep enough it would uncover a
new man. It would make of him eith
er an infidel or a Christian.
ly down upon the roasting flesh was
9 and 10 a. m.
Brown is a negro about 55 years old
and has been employed as a laborer in
Chester. He had separated from his
wife and was very jealous of her. Be
lieving her to b«i unfaithful to him, he
had declared that if any one came near
her house at night he would shoot him.
This house is a short distance from the
side street where Mr. Hood’s body was
found. It is believed that Brown was
he lay ill and delirious and not until he 1 1 3 riu « in ftmbush .» nd the ° ld
regained his reason was the story of the gentleman when he was strolling along
..vim. Lori unsuspectingly. The shots were heard
BRAVE BABY SAID “ESS.”
A TOUR TEAR OLD CLUNG TO A LINE AND
WAB SATED.
Burlington, la., Feb. 15.—[Special]
—A plucky four year old baby lives in
Okaloosa, la. It is the child ef Mrs.
Wilson, and while playing about the
mouth of a deep well, covered by loose
boards, fell in. The well is thirty feet
deep and contained ten feet of water at
the time. The mother saw the child m t
uX an ilJ”“^ al, ^S. ra ^L nS „ a n 0tb *X: I flcersVndVo they decided to _lay siege
to the cave and starve out the crinu-
line, lowered it into the well. The
child grasped the line, but of course
could not held on tight enough to bo
drawn out, so the mother tied her end
above.
“Will pot hold on tight till mama
runs for papa?” tremblingly ened tho
mother to her little one.
“Ess,” came a brave little sob from
below.
Tbe mother hurried away and soon
returned with the father and several
other men who, after much difficulty,
rescued the child from its chilly bath.
unsuspectingly
b 7_ a number of people,
When arrested Brown had a double-
barrelled gun, both barrels of which
had been recently discharged. Other
bits ofjBcircumstantial evidence were
offered, but the inquest had not been
concluded when Col. McFadden' left
Chester.
Upon the negro’s arrest and the rev
elation of the charges against him there
were immediate demonstrations leading
to the belief that tbe man would be
lynched. The murdered man had many
relatives and they were nearly all in
clined to lynching. His son, the slier-
swsas*—»4< ~ i
Col. McFadden sent the Governor the
telegram quoted above. He was almost
unnerved by the murder, but was deter
mined that the negro should have a fair
trial. He deputized Col. McFadden to
protect him and take liim to Columbia.
When the guard were about to leave
the jail for the train the Governor’s
dispatch authorizing bis transfer was
received. The negro was taken in
carriage to the train and no attempt
was made upon his life. At one time,
however, it was in great jeopardy, Col.
McFadden says, and only strenuous
efforts prevented a daytime lynching.
The people of Holt county were aroused
and every effort was made to capture
the assassin. Special officers were sent
out, and liberal rewards offered for him
either 4ead *>r alive. It was then learned
that Thomas Fee was wanted in a half-
dozen different counties of Missouri
aud Arkansas for murder, and the au
thorities of each county offered similar
rewards, but uot until weeks ago was
any information received as to his
whereabouts. Then Sheriff Feare, of
Holt county, learned that the man was
hiding in the Ozark Mountains near
Galena, Stone couuty
lg
found that Fee, with a companion, had
taken up his abode in a cave at the fort
of a tall peak. The cave was difficult
of access, surrounded as it was by dense
foliage and heavy timber.
Organizing a force of six men, the
Sheriff of Stone county attempted to
capture Fee last Saturday, but tbe out
law, armed to the teeth, stood at tbe
entrance of the cave with his compan
ion and bade defiance. To advance
would have been sure death to the of-
He Want* to be Moved—Hi* Ntory la Not
Credited at tbe Sxecative Office—A
Most Wonderful Epistle.
Tom Woolfolk has written aTetter to
Governor Gordon begging to be moved
from the jail iu Macon.
The story he tells is one worthy of an
author with a distorted imagination and
if it is true Macon jail would be noth
ing less than the most iniquitous place
on the face of the earth.
The story, however, is not credited at
the executive department, as it is writ
ten in a wanderiug way toward the last
part of the letter, although the first
part is coherent enough.
After begging to be moved Torn says:
I could give you a dozen reasons for
this but one will do.
In the cage below my cell are be
tween fifteen and twenty prisoners. 1
don’t know for certain, but I earnestly
believe it, that white people, men, wo
men and children, have been trapped
by the jailer and some of his assistants
and tortured.
‘1 believe these people trapped are
my witnesses and fnenus.
“They are first arrested, tied, gagged,
thrown into a bath tub, while one of
the assailants sits on him till he drowns.
“They are then thrown out among
the negroes, while some of the prison
ers put on boiling water, and then all
the hair is scalded off the drowned men
or women.
One of the assistants, who is a
painter, then paints the white bodies
ilack, or covers them over very nicely
with some pieces of seal skin, and when
the officers come, the jailer tells them
a nigger is dead.
He continues, saying that the men
who do this are m a gang together, aud
open all letters sent to prisoners and
take out all money that is in them be
fore they receive the letters.
He continues, {saying that many
drummers and other strangers in Ma
con have been trapped by the jail gang,
which has been organized for the pur
pose of making money. The drummers,
Tom thinks, are carried into the cellar
at the jail or thrown into the sewer,
which opens into the jail and empties
into the river, first being cut up so that
they can be easily handled.
Tom says he is a Christian man, and
hates to see such things going on in a
civilized city, and hence has written to
the Governor about it.
He concludes by saying that he fears
he will be foully murdered and there
has been so much torture going on
around him that he has forgotten about
himself and has resigned to his fate.
He says the officers put it into tho pa
pers that he was crazy because lie told
on them.
There are many other startling tilings
told in the letter, but there will be no
official action t >ken.
TWO FEMALE FENCERS SETTLE ▲ LOVE
RIVALRY WITH FOILS.
New York, Feb. 18—[Special]—Two
girls, rivals in love, fought a duel in
one of the parlors of the Metropolitan
Hotel to-day. The duelists were mem
bers of the Viennese lady fencers’
- —— | troupe, now traveling with the “King’:
The little on* was almost unconsciou* j ra j g ; n er hh rifle to his shoulder he fired I Fool” company. They are considered
from cold when taken out, but bad j at t he Sheriff, but the bullet went wild, I the most expert fencers in the troupe
bravely hun K to the clothes-line »« the L„ d Bpra ’ ng in the care in - »
time, holding its head above water. t j me to escape the leaden messenger
lie happy mother bugged her rescued I Ben , on itB by on «xcited officer.
I Nothing more was seen of them un-
one
bled crowd threw up their hate and
cheered in acknowledgement of thel ba
by’s grit.
STATES
WHO KILLED DEPUTY UNITED
MARSHAL SAUNDERS?
Quincky, Fla., Feb. 17.—[Special]—
There is still ao clue to tbe murderer of
Deputy United States Marshal Saun
ders, and there are no further delop-
epments in the
Saunde
About 3
George Sheppard ii
duced him to tak&him te loo!
na
sals. So the seige began. Four men
stood constantly on guard a f-w hun
dred yards below the mouth of the
enre, and when tired they were relieved
by four others, the force having been
reinforced.
Days passed and it became evident
that the criminals had food within the
cave. Tuesday morning Fee appeared
at the entrance.
“Will you surrender?” shouted Shor
iff Feare.
“No, d you,” replied he, and
FOUGHT AND THEN KISSED.
THERE IS NO CLUE YET.
til Friday night, when driven to des
peration an attempt to escape was
made wbioh resulted in the capture of
both Fee and his companion, "Doc”
Fielding,, another outlaw.
Shortly after midnight, when tbe
inoen was behind the clouds, the mur
derers silently stole from tbe cave down
the mountain side, 100 feet, and there
the officer, saw them. The stiugle be
gan. Fee fought like ’ a madman, but
the officers were upon -him before he
had time to shoot. With bis heavy ri-
tobacco plantations, ana- in company
with William McFarland and Shdppard
started out toward Santa Clara’ planta
tion.
They had proceeded about a mile
when Shepard heard three shots, and at
the second sh»t, Saunders threw bis
right arm *rourid' l ‘Cfii4to*rd and said:
but soon fell across- Shepherd’s knees, j INFAMOUS OUTRAGE,
repeating the remark the “he wanted to
die by his baby,” and in a few minutes
he was dead.
Sii*"lienl testified before the 0;-ro-
ner’sjnry that he saw no one shoot, ami
did no- know who did tbe shooting.
Tbe affair is al?a mystery.
right arm wa»;broken by a vioioneblow.
But tbe edds wereitoo great-and a blow
on tho head felled Fee to the ground
aud he was a prisoner.
The Sheriff passed through St Jo
seph this afternoon with tooprisoners
and they were sorry-looking objects.
The faoe of Fee was badly bruised and
swollen,.while Feare’sarm wav carried
in a swing. Fee was a member of the
** " ' the re-
ECONOMITES’ ANNIVERSARY.
SIXTEEN NEW MEMBERS, THE HUSBANDS
AND WIVES AMONG WHOM WILL
HEREAFTER NOT
THAT BBLATION.
THE CITIZENS OF SnARON BEING ARREST-
^ * ED BY FEDERAL OFFICERS
Washington, Ga, Feb. 17.—[Spe
cial]—t^ix United States deputy mar
shals are at Sharon,Ga. this morning and
are arresting the citizens of that ptac,
aud taking-tliem to Augusta. Forty or
fifty ef the most prominent citizens’
names are on their lists for arrest, all
giowiag out of the recent post-offict
appointment in which indignation
meetings and effigy burnings figured.
Tbe portoffioe trouble at Sharon has
been a peculiar o»e. Edward L. Duck
worth, who has been installed as post-
a merchant at Sharon
and are very pretty. They poised like
graceful tigresses alert to spring at
each other. No sooner had the referee
drawn her foil away, than tbe rivals
flew at each other. The foils glittered,
struck and flashed fire, as the two
fought. The bell guard on each handle
sounded in quick succession, as taps
were rained upon it-by tbe opposing
foils. Retreating and pursuing each
other by turns, the girls carried on the
conflict. Their faces flushed and their
eyes glittered. They were evenly
matcherl, and their skill provoked ad
miration and even cries of applause
At last the keen point of Amelia’s foil
pierced the white shoulder of Louisa.
quickly that the specta-
iv she was cut, until the
the wound. Herr Con-
ried sprang in front of Amelia, and tbe
entire party' interfered. Miss Engle-
hardt insisted on the contestants put
ting on their masks before the duel
could proceed. Louisa’s wound was
dressed at once and the crimson flow
stopped. Then the contest was renewed.
The second round resulted in three taps
for Miss Bell. “Only a few seconds to
finish,” said Timekeeper Conried, and
the girls flew at each other with re
newed ferocity. For eleven seconds
they struck and plunged at «-ach other
with the cold steel, in a furious.man
ner. Miss Bell was declared the win
ner, and then both girls fell upon each
other’s necks and kissed, forgivingly.
WILL PAY THE STATES’ DEBT.
OFFERING $10,000,000 TO $£fl^)00,000 FOR
A RENEWAL OF CHARTER.
New Orleans, La., Febuary 15.—The
Louisiana Lottery company is making
a desperate effort to retain its corporate
life.
It has failed to secure a charter from
North Dakota and its next move, it is
said, will be an enormous bribe to the
Pittsburg, Feb. 17.—[Special]—The I master there, was a merchant at Sharon I Louisana legislature fora renewal of its
eighty-fifth anniversary of the Econo- I Ho had boen a clerk for N. O. Edwards. I present charter which will expire two
mite Society was celebrated at Econo- Ho premised allegiance to the republi- years hence.
my. Pa., to-day, with peculiar and in- J can parly if he was given tbe position. | Ls proposition will be to pay the en-
tercsting services. Sixteen new mem-1 He secured-the names of a number of I tire state debt amounting to from $10
.»*. .. . . 1 — 1 negroes and other irresponsible parties 000,000 to $12,000,000.
to a petition which be forwarded to 1
Washington, and which secured fer him
here, iwslndine husbands, wives i nnd
children. et ikon into the society to
tter. AB in th* case of the other mem-
‘ era, the conyo.-ts took vows of eelibaey 1 the office,
•nd from turn, lime the husbands anal Sharon
Wi'o* «uaU never more hoar relation
ship to one another.
BURNED TO DEATH.
AWFUL FATE OR AN AGED LADY AT DAH
LONEGA.
accused his him, of
underhand w'ork. Duckworth denied i
that he had obtained the signatures of
negroes. Thereupon the people of Sha
ron wrote to> Washington and obtained
I a copy of the petition. It was, as al- |
leged, filled with names of unknown
parties, and the iadignation which fol
lowed culminated! in the people of
Sharon horning Duckworth in effigy
Moonshine Hunters.
Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 17.—[Spe
cial]—The ambush and assassination of
Marshal Davis was one of tbe most ex
citing events in the Tennessee revenue
service. He had placed too much con
fidence in favors he had extended to
moonshiners in the Cumberland Moun
tains. He was led into ambush uncon
scious of impending danger, and was
shot off bis horse, and when lying prone
mnd, he continued io shoot
Dr. Carlton’s Company.—Dr. Carl
ton has succeeded in organizing a South
ern Investment company at Washing
ton that is mommoth in its proportions.
The organization is composed of the
following:
H. H. Carlton, of Athens, G- orgia,
president.
Governor James E. Campbell,Colum
bus, Ohio, vice-president.
D. McConville, Washington, treas
urer.
M. P. Caldwell, Washington, secre
tary.
Directors—Calvin S. Brice, of Limn.
Ohio; General Fitzbugh Lee. of Lex
ington, Va.; V. E. McBee, of Chatta
nooga, Tenn.; John H. Innman, of
New York, aud the four above named
officers.
The capital stock is fixed at $100,000,
with the privilege of increasing to
$1,000,000. The business of the compa
ny is to buy and sell lands in iheSouth-
ern states, or to aot as agents for those
who desire to sell or buy. The com
pany will also make investments, and
its prime object will be to attract capi
tal to the South.
A BIG-HEARTED JUDGE.
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HE RKVURKS TO BRAND WITH SHAME A
WIFE WHOSE HUSBAND’S CRUELTY
CAUSED HER TO ERR.
Indianopolis, Feb. 17.—[Special.—
The most prominent families of Wayne
Township, this county, have been deep
ly interested in the outcome of a di
vorce suit between W. M. Calvert and
his wife, the latter a prepossessing lit
tle woman who had the sympathy of all
her neighbors. The husband’s com-
ilaint charged her with an act in vio-
ation of her marital vows, and in her
answers she admitted the fact, but
charged cruelty on the part of her hus-
bond. On the witness-stand site was as
disingenuous as a child, and it was evi
dent that the Court’s sympathies were
keenly excited.
An effort was made to reconcile the
parties, but tho husband sternly re
fused to have anything to do with his
wife. This forced the Court to make
ruling. The Court said: “If she
erred, he has been much to blame him
self. He left tier alone and unprotect
ed. She has done what I never knew
to be done before; she confessed her
single mistake, and ilid not come into
his Court and add perjury toiler sin.
You cannot tell me she is u bad woman.
I will net. believe it, and tbe records of
this Court shall uot condemn her She
shall not return to iter friends with a
brand upon her. I shall nut give a di
vorce either on the complaint of the
the plaintiff or the < ross-coinplaint of
the defendant. 1 shall enter a decree
dissolving the marriage, and so the re
cords shall show.”
Turning to the only child of the par
ties the Court asked whom it preferred
to live with. “Mamma,” lisped the
little one, and tbe Court entered au or
der making it the ward of the Court till
of age, and giving the mother its cus
tody. He then ordered Calvert to pay
the mother $2,500.
Everybody was astonished at the out
come,and a death-like stillness prevailed
through the court-room during the de
livery ef the judgement.
AT HASiLTON & DOZIERS
MUSIC HOUSE
57 CLAYTON STREET, ATHENS, GEORGIA.
Can be found Pianos, Organs, Guitars, Violins,
Banjos, Sheet Music, and all kinds of
Musical Instruments,
at the LOWEST PRICES. Picture Framing a
specialty. A large lot of frames
now on hand at
astonishingly
‘Feedyour land, andyour land will Feedyou
Ben Franklin or some other “Irishman” was authority for this state
ment, and very true it is. To fatten an animal, give him good, rich, whole
some food in sufficient quantities. To raise a boy to be a stout healthy
mart give him a plenty of good substantial diet that is suited to liis con
stitution, and to raise a good healthy stalk of cotton, or grain that will
produce large returns, feed your land with Fertilizers that are composed
oft.be best elements, mixed in proper proportions. This you will find in our
Magnolia Acid.,
O. EL. LDis.fBonos, .
Matolaless Cotton Grower.
Morryman’s Am. Dis. Bones.
These goods are composed of the very best grades ef Phosphates, Animal
Ammokiites and Potash. Out- Goods are used more extenilTely In this section than any other
which is a guarantee of quality. We meet competition from *ny quarter.
Yours, Truly,
OBB &c HTJHTBB.
tty For prices, &o., call on YV. C. Orr, at Webb & Crawford's. Jan 2i-w2m.
IB.
SEE OUR LADIES 1
KID
BUTTON
Guaranteed, as Good,
AND AS
MEM Hill E
As any Sh6e Sold for 50c. a pair more.
E. I. SMITH ft Co.
on the i
at
the gro .
| his assailants until his body was per- j
burning Duckworth in effigy
An eld lady at Dablonega met a hor-1 and askinr him to vacate tbe office,
rible death Saturday, being burned to • Thera is ■ a terrible feeling aaainst. .
crisp. Duekwc~*h, but he wan In no danger of forated with bullets, dying with his An-
She was almost helpless because of bodily violence unles some crazed per- ger resting on the trigger of bis Win-
old age, and was left alone in her son would attampKhis chastisement. | Chester rifle,
house. J Duckworth leftSharon and sought his
In some way unexplained, her elotto ] friend Edwards in Warrent*n. They
ing caught an fire, and she was terribly J together communicated with the Wash-
burned.
A lady haBBGped to be passing, heard,
her cries, but reached her toe late. ^ f were ordered to conduct Duckworth in- , - . ...
The old lady suffered great agony ferd te office and protect him. Then things party left at once for Alabama, carry-
* f*w moments, when death-’ relieved lagged until today when Wanaraaker >ng the congratulations of hosts of
Her. I shows his hand in a different light from friends and relatives. The wedding
These to whose care she-bad been in-. J heretofore. It is believed the whole 1 to °k place at the residence of the
trusted are being tiDinnd for Iwvlnff Pthing hinged on the adverse feeling to i b ^ d ?' 8 father, and Rev, J, F. Edens
her alone- I Duckworth personally, officiated.
A Happy Wedding;—Yesterday at
Woodville, Miss Georgia H. Durham,
one of the fairest young ladies of the
town, was wedded to Mr. Wade Hill
Reynolds, of Alabama. The happy
Kllrain lacked Again.
New Orleans, February 18.—Cor
bett, of San Francisco, bested Kilrain
in six rounds tonight. Kilrain agreed
to knock Corbett out in six rounds for
a purse of $3,500, of which $2,500 went
to the winner. Oorbett outfoughtKilrain
at every point.
They Are Out Under Bond.
Auousta, Ga., Feb. 18—[Special]—
The Sharon prisoners were up before
Commissioner Irwin Alexander to-day.
They waived examination, gave bond,
and went home. United States Attorney
Irwin is to conduct tbe examination of
witnesses. No cases will be made, it is
thought, against any of the men.
Incendiaries fired a half dozen houses
in New Utrecht, N. Y., in one night.
They scattered kerosine oil over the
buildings, and then fired them. The
Citizens are organizing for protection
Guaranteed to cut 2000 feet Limber per day, vftb 4-Horse Power Engine.
GiNNKllS AND GIN WORKMEN, I now have the Smith Gin and Lin ter Saw Uuramor lor ui*
I will travel this and adjoining noun ties this year, to Gum, Sharpen and repair all kind of
I am agent for the Deloach -aw ani A'JU machinery. For more Information, address,
Jan. 14—wCm.
ft. W. SMITH, Box 288, Athens, 1 .
Or see me a>. tne Vincent Hons
TALMAGE & BRIGHTWELL
LINES.
AT THE
LOWEST MARKETPRI