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THE ATHENS BANNER TUESDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 25,1890.
NEWS BY WIRE.
Dick Haws declares his intention to
coma'it suicide,
Hi New York, Sunday. Herman Itoy-
/m-kr shot ami killed i.«»a< Jacob, se
riously wounded his wife, and then
coin nutted suicide.
Owing to the pressing nrecssities
tin destitute farmers of North Dakota j
t he money lenders charge them CO per j
c ut.interest on the money loaned them
slid the efore while food a d clothing
j, Mcaree, mortgages are. found in plen
ty on real estate, furniture, cattle and
(arm implements.
Napolean Severn, aged If*, was killed
a ,, i .loshua Stephens fatally injured in
a ^.rht over cards at Georgo^ville, O.
A New York merchant yesterday
w.t- married to his own niece.
A pack of 13 ti. e fox hounds were
poi-oned in New Jersey.
The North Carolina negrocscoinplain
that the oh!v office Harrison gives them
j. to clean spit-toons,
A Catholic priest denounced the dress
, oud.u-t of St. Louis women at a
fashionable wedding in that city.
Jimmie Beck, a lad of 11, at T.ong-
T i,.w. Texas, snapped a gun at his lit
tle sifter and a young lady, when the
eun exploded, fatally wounding both.
A gallery in a London cntircli fell.
About twenty persons were buried in
the wreck, and several were fatally in
jured.
A elianipioii skater was denied the
tjot prize by Russian judges because
lie V ar a Jew.
It lia« been discovered that the legal
f, r voted ITesiucnt Harrison by con
gress lias already beeiiipaid by Indiana.
Mrs. William Tapp was burned to
.loath near Athens,Teiin., while work
ing with her husband in the new
ground.
John Henry, near Charleston, W.
Ya.. was thrown from his horse and
had his neck broken.
William Walker, Jr., died in a Nash
ville saloon while the bar-keeper was
waiting upon him.
A (; uerrilla carried off an African
woman and kept her ill a tree several
.lavs before she was able to escape and
return to her friends.
The negro church membersof Marion,
S. ('.. object to being saddled with a
Northern preacher.
A California family ia living in the
hollow of a large redwood tree.
A young man was found frozen to
death in North Dakotu within 10 rods
of his :some.
The remains of an old couple were
f.uimlinurdered in Omaha, Nebraska.
A woman died yesterday in Indian
apolis who had been for twenty years
less. She was only tlnec feet in
length and born with much the nature
of a snake.
Dr. Porn, of Pari*, cured a bad case
of inilnen/.a l>v removing all the bones
of the patient’s face; and made an arti
ficial nose and lip of celluloid.
An l«*wa man refused to educate bis
children because lie said the world was
soon coming to an end.
A bouse anti three children were
burned near Wichita, Kansas.
Secretary Windotn has abandoned
I'astle Garden, N. Y., as a place for
1 Hiding emigrants.
Viss Kate Kane, a female lawyer of
Chicago, whipped the negr • janitor
with an overshoe for running her out of
the court room.
A negro congregation at Richmond,
Ya., ducked $200 from their pastor’s
salary because lie voted the democratic
ticket. He was also made to sign a
pledge to hereafter vote the republican
ticket.
A Belgian noble in Paris refused at
the altar to marry an heiress unless he
was first paid $100,000. The father
fcn.ho liis cane over the fellow’s back.
1'inter the new scheme for redistrict-
ing the State, adopted by the Demo
cratic legislative caucus of Ohio, the
Democrats, who now have live out of
the twenty-one Cougreasional districts,
are given fourteen sure.
Near Cheyenne, Wy., C. D. Bontocon
w as killed by his wife’s paramour.
Mrs Hadley of Dubuque, Iowa, was
choked to death by her false teeth while
under the influence of an anaesthetic.
Miss Annie Gohlbcr, of La Parte, In-
lia. was driven insane through tbe in
human treatment of her father.
A starch trust has been incorporated
in Covington, N. Y.
"Grandma” Carroll, aged 115, is dy
ing at Cumberland, Ind.
Lour persons were poisoned at Up
per Sandusky, Ohio, by eating fish.
The bill for the admission of Wyo
ming wifi bo favorably reported to the
House.
The river at Detroit will be tunneled
f *r railroad trains from tiie United
States to Canada.
I'enry Dozier, a St. Louis negro, was
deliberately shot dead by two negroes,
w bo came up while lie was scrubbing a
sidewalk. Identity and motives un
known.
Louis Bezinah, the pngalist charged
w ith the murder of Tom James, was
discharged at Dallas, there being no
>w in Texas against killing in a li
censed exhibition.
T l,e . expenditures of the London
1 lines in the Parnell case are said to al
ready exceed $1,000,000.
An Indian prince .visiting Halifax,
-V S., after running up debts to the
1 hi* nt ° f jumped bis board
1 lie women crusaders of Lathop,Mo.,
inet and resolved to contitiue tbeir work.
A drug store at Hamilton, Mo., bas
been burned by temperance crusaders.
I lireo sailors were devoured by
•marks off the Australian coast in plain
view of their friends.
N^.--i Un S®* rm * n fpA just landed at
GEORGIA NEWS.
Mulberries arc ripening in Eastman.
Judge Henry R. Fort, is dead.
Incendiaries burned a nice ne^ro
school-house near Fairborn.
Henry Terrell wants $20,000 from the
of ! R. Ac D. roatl for the loss of a. leg.
. F»T/.cr & Pharr, Atlanta ■ clothiers,
have been closed. >»_
Mr. Clark Mattox, of Elbert county,
bas been stricken with paralysis.
Oi'ieu Riels, of Habersham county,
has found a gold mine on his place.
Covington is in earnest about build
ing a railroad to LawrenceviLe.
Hall county’s new jail is nearing
completion.
There are eighteen native Georgians
in Congress.
A crow roost was found in Cherokee
county ar.d 188 of the birds killed.
Primus Jones left no will, llis prop
erty is worth about $49,000.
Air. Alfred Livingston, of Newton
county, says his father was a soldier in
the revolutionary war.
^The registered distillery of Mr. M. V.
Teen ie.tr Ellijay, was burned by an in
cendiary.
The best paying investment at Zebu-
Ion is a chair factory with a capital of
only $500.
The citizens of McDonough refuse to
pay their stock subscriptions to the
Georgia Midland and Gulf road.
Miss Minnie Brown, of Brunswick,
now admits that she shot licrself acci
dentally.
Peeples & Co’s, safe, at Butler, was
blown open and about $200 iu cash stol
en.
Policeman Miller, of Atlanta, was set
upon by three men with knives and al
most killed in an alloy.
Through train i- will be run from
Brunswick November 1st to Cincinnati.
O.
The Salvation Army lias reorganized
and is invading the small Georgia
towns.
A negro near Montpelinr shot out
both eves of a white boy. He has been
arrested and claims it was accidental.
The name of Hon. A. D. Chandler,
of Gainesville, is proposed for Gover
nor.
Pat Burre s, a negro boy, was drown
ed near Flowery Branch, while trying
to jump from a boat to a flat.
The State Farmers’ Alliance has
taken possession of its new quaitcrs in
Atlanta.
For over twenty-five years Fletcher
Wright, who lives near Dawson, has
carried a bullet in his head.
There are three grass widows living
in one house in Boswell, and one grass
widowei.
Mr. Jack Hilliard, a young farmer
nesr Cmbtert., was murdered by a ne
gro ! inner.
Mr. Hoke Smith, of the Atlanta
Journal, will stump Georgia against
railroads.
The first car load of Florida straw
berries passed through Macon this
week.
Jim Stee ; , an old negro of Atlanta,
was attacked by drunken white men
and bis bowels cut out.
Judge Newman, the ordinary of
Washington county, says the marl beds
two miles from Samiersville are very-
extensive.
i here c.me near being a very serious
accident on the Law renceville railroad
last Saturday, occasioned by a car jump
ing the track.
GENERAL NEWS-
Newark, N. J., was drugged, assaulted
and robbed of $1,000.
It is stated that Prince Bismarck
m retire from all his Prusian offices.
* llu woman crusaders, of Missouri,
in resist the serving of warrants, aad
,'luou .shed is threatened When the at
tempt is made to arrest thciUT
There was a glass-eating contest be-
tweeii two moil at Rome, N. Y. Only
, ® e . e:t *‘ w hite glass was used. One
• n had eaten ’J ounces, and the other
v„°:r:s. when the contest was ended
> the looser cutting his tongue.
i 2 h *M < \w as a desperate fight between
11,, stallions, at Huntington,
jnred B * th hor8€S were fearfcnlj h,-
er^iPT.*™* l, P™ s n K °t female crusad-
- rK 11 Missouri is net unlikely.
Wi he ^’* uu,n n*ti saloon-keepers bad a
lrlesque procession, in which sport
2L,“. ““te «f the Sunday law and the
police. The Chief threatened to stop
the procession.
mnlk ' R * b< * c » W «Z Taylor, the aged
Taylor,. is
Sm,«" 8 Rt * ler ho,no in Kennett
ojuare, Pa., and her recovery 13 doubt-
W. J. Nelson, deputy sheriff of
Lowndes county, shot, aii.i killed Ed
Wright, a negro w ho had threatened to
murder his w ife on sight.
I he Americas Daily times will made
its appearance to-day with R. H.
Brumby, well and favorably known in
Athens, as manager.
The. company ror erecting a cotton
compress at. Washington has been
formed. "1 lie project called for $21,000,
and $23,000 were subscribed, and now
nobody Wants to give way.
Mr. R D. AL Peacock, near Quit-
man, while cutting briars was taken
with a pain in bis arm, and died soon
after reaching home. . -
Governor Gordon has shipped 48,900
Concord grape vines, and 0,700 Ives’
seedling vines to his Taylor county
farm. •
F. B. Kirkland, agent for the S. F. &
IV. railroad, at Argyle, was shot and
killed by D. F. McDutlie, because be
dunned him for a freight bill.
The location of the road from Machen
to Eatentnn, bas been completed, and
the engineering corps has been with
drawn.
An old man named Hampton is living
in Lumpkin county, who pushed a
wheel-barrow from Georgia te Califor
nia in 1849. . . .. .
Mr. G. W. Mathews, of Ilaggars Mill,
says a cyclone struck his house onJ.be
7th of February, at night, Ilis house
was torn to pieces and furniture wreck
ed; blit fortunately no one was killed.
Mr.W. Y. Harlem, of Hartwell, is
slicing the Richmond A Danville rail
road for $25,000 for iiljnriCs received
in a wreck. The case will be tried in
Atlanta next week.
Gen. Alexander does not think the
Georgia Central can bid for the State
road-under the iron terms of the new
lease. If the Louisville & Nashville
road builds its new line the state prop
erty will be depreciated, lie thinks^
The little eighteen-months-old babe-'
of Mr. Sam Coker, of Hampton, who
lives near town, was accidently drown
ed last Wednesday evening jy falling
into a can of water that bad been left on
the dining room floor.
The sentence of Polk Newton, the
convicted murderer who was to have
been hanged at Morgan, Calhoun coun
ty, on the 28th of January, has been
commuted to the penitentiary for
life.
Four hon-lred thousand miners In
Gr» at J rit in have decided to adhere to
1 iu-ir demand for an increase of 10 per
cent, in wages, it is probable the
men will strike.
By appointment, a Times reporter
met Bob Brewer, the colored desparado
who caused the Jesup riot, on the
hanks of the Satilla river. He acknowl
edged his crime, and threatened that
other men would die if iney interfered
with him.
The Richmond and DanviJle railroad
has carried over 40,000 negroes Lon.
North Carolina 10 Mississippi during
the past six months; and we suppose
it is reasonable to estimate that the
Georgia railroad has carried as many
more from South and North Carolina
A female railroad president has been
elected at San AntoniajJTexas.
A Texan bought 10^)0 hens in one
d»y at Murfreesboro^ Tenu. •
The first train has passed over the
Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley railway.
A lady in Wisconsin gets $2.50 per
pound for her best butter.
Squire Beasley, of Abberdeen, K. Y.,
has married 4070 runaway couples.
An Illinois man got 1,100 pounds of
honey from a single bee tree.
The Missouri women continue to
seek the saloons in the small towns.
Watch chains are no longer fashion
able.
A Boston woman has bad her shroud
made at a cost of $20,000.
A Boston baby has boen named Grip
Ibsen McGinty Robinson.
In Scotland it is said that to rock the
empty cradle will insure the coming of
other oeeupants for it.
The tooth extracted from a thirteen-
year-old horse at Towsontowu, Pa.,
weighed a quarter of a pouijd.
C. M. Crandall, of Waverly, N. Y.,
inventor of “Pigs in Clover,” has now
baited his hook with “Spider and Fiy.”
St. Petersburg has an “Eiffel” ice
tower which is over 150 feet high and is
composed of 10,000 blocks of ice.
There was a funeral in Paris, Ky.,
recently in which eight woman acted
as pallbearers.
Trick Hawes has made another con
fession, and this time says Wiley is in
nocent.
In Memphis, two little negroes Sand
10 years old, robbed a lady in the
streets. " ■ • ■
A young Jew ess in N. Y. struggled
with a buiglar and held him until his
arrest was effected.
A plot was discovered to kidnap Ex-
Senator 'l'abon, of Colorado, and hold
him for a ransom of $50,000.
A bald eagle whose wings were ten
feet across was shot near Louisiana,
Mo.
G. H. Bradford, while riding horse
back in Boston, was killed by a street
car.
The Mofflt family, of America, are
heirs to an English estate of more than
$50,0u0,000.
Capt. Jesse Wise died at Wise’s Land
ing. Saturday. He weighed over four
hundred pounds.
A woman at Racine, Wis., is under
going a voluntary feitst of three weeks,
in order to cure herself of dyspepsia.
After a year of prohibition, the city
council of Plainfield, N J., granted
fifteen liquor licenses.
A mail carrier was drowned while
trying to cross a swollen stream near
Franklin, W. Va.
James Gilbert, eight feet tall, is to
wed Miss Williams, four feet high, in
Scranton, Pa, on the 15th of this
month.
Ephriam Ilillman was hanged at
Camden, N. J., for a murder which his
wife afterwards confessed she com
mitted.
Thd wife of Edward Lippencott, of
Atlantic City, N. J., forged her hus-
band’sj name for a large amount. He
paid the bill.
Mrs. Jessie Haven, the wife of a Bap
tist minister of ludiaiiapolis, eloped
with another man. She was arrested
and is now in jail.
Two little negro children near Ral-
h, N. C., were buried alive ia a sand
bole, where their parents had sent them
for sand.
The distress from famine in somo dis
tricts of China has reached sueli a point
that girl babies are taken in baskets
and carried arouud the cities for sale.
Napolean Lord, of Charleston, S. C.,
fatally shot his wife, from whom he
has been separated, and also Mr. Feld
man, at whose bouse she was living.
Tiie Episcopal church of Charleston,
C., refused to let the diocese meet in
their building, as it laid admitted ne
gro delegates.
Eleven thousand men are at work
cutting the Manchester ship canal. The
^ontracts already let aggregate $35,000,-
A bill before the Kentucky legislature
provides a fine of $20 on every circus
that doesn’t show just what the posters
contain or the advertisements state.
A11 extradition treaty lias been signed
between the United States and Canada,
by which thieves and other criminals
ill he delivered up for trial.
The largest shaft in Africa has just
been opened in the Kimberley diamond
fields. It measures 23 feet three inches
by seven feet nine inches and is to be
,000 feet deep.
EU Circles, of Carroll county, Mis
souri, won a $35 sewing machine by
producing twelve ears of corn that
weighed eighteen pounds eleven
ounces.
Texas is. the paradise of killers
Shooters have never been molested, and
now a court has decided that there is
no law to punish a man for killing an
other in a public exhibition. Hereaf
ter murders will be “conducted” in
public balls at popular prices.
AN AIR-LINE.
Tate and Athens Will be Join
ed bj Rail.
Which Gives the Quickest Line From
KnoKYilie to the Sea.—The Road
a Certainty Sow.
The Greatest Road
for Athens.
THE CITIZENS SHOULD MEE?T>
A WEIRD WITCH.
Henry county, Indiana, in which the
negro Ladd was so brutally riddled
with bullets by a mob, a few days ago,
gives a republican majority of 1,700
votes.
T. C. Henry will begin soon with 3,000
men to dig a canal fifty feet wide,
reaching from the Arkansas river in
l’ueblo to the Kansas State line, nearly
220 miles.
During a sparring match of Jake
Kilrain combination, at Dallas, Tex.
One of his professionals broke the neck
of Tom James, of Dallas, who was box
ing with him.
A statictician says the corn crop of
the western belt for 1889 amounts to
2,000,000,000 bushels, but that the price
is so low that it does not pay to ship
any distance.
Whalebone has become one of the
most expensive substances in the world,
except gems and some of the rarer
metals. It is now quoted at about $12.-
500 a ton at w nolesale.
Germany is the only civilized country
in the world wherein murderers are
still beheaded with an axe or sword.
J ust before Christmas two were execut
ed. Having been blindfolded, they
knelt down iu turn before a block and
the executioner severed each man’s
head from the body with a single blow
of his broadbladed axe.
The wife of W. E. Curtis, of Wash
ington, D. C., is the possessor of a most
uncanny ornament in the shape of a
necklace made of human eyes.. The
eyes were taken from Peruvian mum
uiies, polished and placed in their pres
ent settings.
Up to Friday night Conrad Peter, of
Canton, Ohio, aged eighty years, was
in fair health and attending to-bis dye
ing establishment. On that night he
dreamed that he was dead, and saw in
his dream his own funeral cortege. The
dream impressed him so that be grew
too ill to attend to business. About
midnight last night, he arose and walk
ed about the house and giounds. Seven
hours afterwards, he was dead. He
leaves a widow and eighteen children.
A STRANGE -STORY
NE3SEE.
FROM TEN-
Another railroad for Athens!
The Classic City will connect with
the west by the Marietta & North Geor
gia.
This connection will be made at Tate’s
marble quarries and will run via Dah-
lonega and Lula. It has been talked of
before in Athens, but has now arisen
again in the light of a success.
A letter was received yesterday by
Mr. A. K. Childs from Mr. Proctor B.
Lawrence, President of tiie Etowah
Valley Railroad, asking for the profile
of the suivey made several years ago
from Lula to Dahlonega. This survey,
it will be remembered, was made by the
Northeastern Railway Company but
was given up for some reason withou
further work. The letter from Mr.
Lawrence speaks most hopefully of tlic
success of the new railroad, arid .lie
seems confident that nothing short of a
grand success awaits the eflorts of the
new company of capitalists that will
enter the project. Mr. Lawrence was a
charter member of the Dahlonega and
Dawsonville Railroad and is President
of the Etowah Valley Railway Compa
ny recently organized. He is a rail
road man in whom the people can safe
ly put confidence and in whose hands
the new project can not fail.
WHAT THE PLANS AP.E.
The plans of the company of capital
ists that have recently taken up the
building of this new road are to this ef
fect : Make a connection with the Ma*
rietta and North Georgia at Tate from
Dahlonega; here take up the survey Of
the old Lula a:.d Dah.oncga road and
connect with tbo Northeastern at Lula.
This would bring the Marietta & North
Georgia iu direct connection witli the
Covington & Macon and assure the
mammoth marble manufactories of
North Georgia a through and quick
transit to the seacoast and shipping
ports. The chief purpose of the capi
talists is to accomplish this through
line simply for the interest of the great
marble quarries, as most of the capital
ists behind the project are deeply inter
ested in them. They arc dead in earn
est about the road as are also the citi
zens of Dahlonega and all along the
line. Tiie letter that was received Loin
Mr. Lawrence states that all the citi.
zens on the proposed route are highly
in favor of the road and will do all in
their power to assist in its aucc-ss. He
says the road will be built, that it is
ouly a question of time, and a very
short time, at that.
THE COST OF THE HOAD.
It will be seen front a glance that the
road as proposed cau easily be obtained
with the fertile country and wealthy
cities to back it. The roatl from Dah-
lonega from Tate is now being survey
ed and it is found that the line can be
run at a much less cost than was at first
suspected. The line from Lula to Dah
lonega being already surveyed will not
cost but a small amount comparatively
speaking, and it might be truly said
that the road is within the grasp of
those interested in it.
The route, as proposed is a most de
sirable one. It will be an air-line from
the mountains of North Georgia to the
sea. It will open up some of tbe finest
and most fertile valleys and throw their
riches into tbe flourishing towns along
its lice. It will be one of tbe best pay
ing roads in Georgia, beyond a doubt.
It has the country to back it, and is in
the hands of capitalists with sufficient
funds to give it the proper start. It is
a cheap route, and a most desirable one
in every respect from Knoxville to the
seaboard.
ITS EFFECT ON ATHENS.
Who can estimate the value of this
line to Athens? It will open up the
fairest country trade of any section in
Northeast Georgia. It will bring the
traffic of the Marietta and North Geor
gia direct through Athens making this
a central point between tbe greatest air
line from the.mountains to the sea. It
will give the quickest line from the
west that could be run, aad would place
Athens nearer to Knoxville than Atlan
ta now is. The rich coal and iron beds
of Tennessee would be opened and
placed almost at our gates. The freight
on coal would be reduced from $5 to
$2 50, which in one year would save
Athens the amount she would be called
upon to pay in the road. The road will
be run by Glade Falls, of Hall county,
and many other resorts in the Georgia
Switzerland. It is the next achieve
ment for the city.
LET A MEETING BE CALLED.
Tiie Mayor of Athens should call a
meeting at once. It should be a mass-
meeting of all the citizens to consider
this matter of vital importance to the
town. The citizens should interest
themselves in it at once and Athens
should take steps towards securing the
road. The frequent letters from the
other end of the liue show that enthu
siasm and determination are at a high
point there. Let Athens be infused
with a simitar spirit. Let the old city
awake to tbe full recognition of its pos
sibilities. Let it rise from its lethargic
slumbers and be wbat nature has in
tended it to be, the best and proudest
city iu Georgia.
Wliat say tbe citizens to the mass
meeting? *
A Woman who tihnogi’* Honelf
AairanlM anti Hum an Knlire County
Frisiilt-ncd Nearly to Uratli.
Adams’ Station, Teun., Feb. 19.—
[Special]—For s-verai Gays past tbe
good and quiet people living in this sec
tion have been greatly excited over tbe
uiilieard-of acts of a witch that has
made her appearance among us, and
who assumes all manner of unnecessary
disguises and capers. Last night the
family of Mr. Buck Smith, in th's
county, were talking about the ghostly
m ,ste*ry, when they heard several wra; 8
011 the door. They supposod it to be
some one who had come 10 listen for the
witch. On opening the door they
found no one, but the rapping was
changed to the opposite door. They
went there but could uot see anything.
1 hey bad taken their seats and were
discussing the mysterious visitation,
when a dpg that was lying before the
fire instantly sprang to bis feet and be
gan running around the room aud act
ing as though lie was trying to commit
suicide by butting his brains out against
the wall. The fur was living from him
like cats fighting, but nothing could be
seen. This was continued for ab ut
two mitutes, when the door ilw open
and tiie dog made bis escape. Eveiy-
thing was silent for a few minutes, and
all at mice tiie lire began flying from
the grate over the room as tiiough a cy
clone bad struck it. W heu an effort
was made to remove tbo coals they
would disappear.
The witch did not make its appear
ance any more at the house that night,
but as Mr. Johnsdn started home, and
had gone only a few hundred yards from
the house, something sprang upon his
horse behind him. Lie could see noth
ing, but the horse started.off in a run,
and every time be tried to check him be
could feel something clasp bis shoulder.
It kept its seat until he was nearly
home, when he heard something jump
off in the leaves and apparently go
walking off through the woods.
Mr. Winters also states that last Tues
day he was out on Mr. Johnson’s farm
bird-hunting when a quail flew up not
twenty yards from him. lie took de
liberate aim and fired, but did not suc
ceed iu killing it. lie kept following it
and shooting until he had fired twenty
or thirty times. At last he killed it, as
he thought. After loading His gun, lie
went and found the bird. It was a very
peculiar lookiug one, but, not thinking
anything of it, be put it in his game-
bag ami started for home. He went
home, and, after having eaten his sup
per, thinking I10 would diess his game,
he went to his game bag to get the bird,
when, to his grea; surprise, there was
no sign of any bird there, but a rabbit
in its place. Mr. Winters was looking
at the rabbit and wondering how came
it there, when it disappeared, leaving
him holding the game-bag and wonder
ing where his game had gone.
Mr. Rowland made another statement
this morning that w.-.s quite peculiar
and, at the same lime, very exciting.
He said he was out last night, burning
a plant-bed. About 9 o’clock something
came to him iu the shape of a half clad
negro man, with one eye in the center
of his forehead, and told him to follow
him. Mr. Roivlaud, terror-stricken,
didn’t know what to do but follow. He
had gone about a quarter of a mile when
he came to a large rock. The strange
thing told him to take his pick and dig.
After giving him directions how to dig,
it disappeared. Mr. Rowland dug until
he was so waak from fatigue and ex
citement that he could dig no longer.
The next morning he got Mr. Bill Bur
gess and Mr. Johnson togo with him to
where lie did the digging the night be
fore. They had dug for about half an
hour when they struck something like
a kettle turned bottom upward. They
kept digging until they were nearly to
the bottom of it, when tbo dirt began
rolling back, and as fast as they took it
out, it rolled back. They finally gave
up in despair and left their hidden
treasure for someone else to investi
gate.
l’eoplo are visiting this place every
day and night to see the witch make its
appearance. Anyone doubting the
above statements can come and sec for
themselves.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17,1889.
ABSOLUTELY PURE
GEORGIA SEED CO., Macon, Ga.
(SUCCESSORS TO SOUTHERN SEED COMPANY.)
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN FARM AND GARDEN SEED
We are strictly in the seed business and nothing else. We handle only the
best. Can furnish any quantity South Georgia, Rye, Barley, Seed Wheat Red
Rust-proof Seed Oats, California Burr Clover, New Crop Turnip Seed, Cabbage,
Spinach, and all varieties Clover aud grasses, Onion Sets, etc. We pay strict at
tentiou to freight rates. We advertise no goods which we do not keep in stock.
G eorgia, clarkecounty—to the8u-
pkkiur Cooler ov said Cocstt—.Thepe
tition of John R. White, Jo'uu A. liunulctiU,
Billups Phinizy, W. l> Gritilth, W J Mortou,
*• 8- Uoiiuan. U. 11. Carlton, Unhn
Lilly, M. Myers, F M. Hugnes, aud ;Mver
Stum, respectfully, shows that they desire
a charter Incorporating them and such
other persous as way hereafter be asso
ciated with tlu in aad their suveessors, as a body
politic anti torporutu us tier the i.aae and style
or “Fh i Athens Land Conqiany,” with right
aud power nuder their oorporato name and style
to contract and be contracted with, to sue and
be sued plead and be impleaded, ia aay Court of
Lew or Equity in tlds State; te have and use a
common seal, anti the same te alter at pleaaure,
and with full power and authority to acquire,
buy, lease, hold, improve, rent, sell, ana dispo-e
of both real estate aud personal property; to
adopt suitable Constitution and By-Laws for the
conduct and government of their business, and
generally to (To anything in connection with or
iu furtherance of their business as hereinafter
set fo-tli, not in conflict with the laws of the
United States or of »hc State of Georgia.
-The business of said ■ them. Land Company
shad l>e to purchase or otherwise acquire, im
prove, rent, hold, and sell a no convey such lots
or tracts of land in said State and count*, and
elsewhere in said State, as said Company may
from rime to time desire, and to that end peti
tioners pray the right and power in their cor
porate name, and in their capacity as a corpora
tion, to buy and lease, and to rent and self, and
convey through the proper officers, aud in ac
cordance with the By-I-aws of said corporation,
auy »uoli tract- or lots of laud, improved or un-
imptoved, as they may acquire, and npon such
terms as to said Company may seem best; to
accept any donations of land or any other prop
erty whim may at any time he made to said
Company, anil to mate any contracts ror the
division, laying off. improvement and sale of
any of the' property of said Company, re»l or
personal; to 1kmrow such money as said Com
pany may need for the improvementof Its pr-.p-
•rty, n ml to secure pay incut of the same by notes
or Ik intis, or bonds secured by mortgage of its
properly, real or petsonal; and to negotiate the
sale of any notes or mortgages issued by raid
Company, or taken by it in payment of any
debts due raid Company. In the improvement
of its property, to buy, hold aud own stock in
any street railway now chartered or hereafter
to be chartered by the General Assembly of
Georgia, and which may he operated in said
State and county, or. to own auu operate a line
of hacks or other vehicles for the transporta
tion of passengers subject to the approval of the
corporate authorities of the city of Athens, In
said State.
. nd generally, that thev mav do such things
in the conduct of their business as are not in
conflict with the laws ot this State and of the
I'nitcd States, and that a natural person might
do iu the premises.
The officers of said Company shall be a Pi-esl-
dent, Secretary anil Treasurer, and four Direct
ors; and all papers, of whatever name or nature,
whether contracts, evidences of debt, or deeds
aud bonds tor title for iand to bind said Com
pany, shall lie signed by the President and
counter-signed by the Secretary and Treasurer
of said Company.
The capital stock of said Company shall be
one huuilred hou-and dollars, which shall bo
divided into shares of tirty dollars each, with the
privilege of increasing the same to two Hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. Your petitioners fur-
t her show that the sum of teu thousand dollars!
lias been actually paid in in cash.
Sai l Company'dcsires to have its principal of
fice and transact its business .in the city of
Athens, said .-tatu and county, aud they desire
o be incorporated for the tei m of twenty years,
with privilege of renewal according to law.
Wherefore, your petitioners pray an order to
be granted by the Court incorporating them
aforesaid in terms of the law.
RUS ELL & HUGHES,
Jau28w5t Petitioners' attorneys.
Big G haagiven univer
sal satisfaction In the
enre of Gonorrhoea and
Gleet. I prescribe it and
feel sale in recommend-
I’j It to all sufferers.
A. J. STOKER, M.D.,
Decatur, III.
PRICE, $1.00. ._
Bold bv
SORRELS & SMITH
and Wludrey Ifr-tt-
Ua cured at home with
out pain. Book of par.
Uculars sent FUSE.
„ B. M.WOOI.LKY. M.Tk
Office SK Whitehall EL
• 1KURUIA CLARKE COUNTY.—OkdinjUIY’S
U OFFICE JANUATV 25th 1S90. Ann* GcaS
administratrix of Nancy B. Uean decease-!, has
applied for leave t s sell the land of said de
ceased, this is therefore to notify all concerned
to file their objections if any they haveou or be
fore the first Monday in March next, else 1c tvo
will then be granted sa d applicant as applied
for. 8. M. HKRRI0GT0N,
j27-Stw Ordinary.
fl BORGIA.
YJT RY’S OFF'
LA. KK COUNiY.-Obdi a-
Offcb. jabuary as h, 1890.—Jere
miah Johnson, Ex.cutor of Allen R. Johnson,
d ceased, has applied for leave to sell the land
of said deceased. This is therefore to notify all
concerned to file their objections, if any they
have, on or befo e the first Monday in March
next, else leave will then be granted said appli-
ca.t as applied for.
5tW
a M. HERf INGTON, Ordinary.
by’s officb, j NUAur 25th, i890—wary
Ann Black. Guardian of Emma Uor Benton,
has applied for leave to sell the land of t aid
minor, his is therefore to notify all concerned
totlethei' objections if any they hava, on or
before the first no.day in ware** next, else
leate will be granted said applicant as applied
for.
Btw 8. V HERRIVGT N, Ordinary.
(jT whom it way Conor n: Andrew J.
Cobb, Administrator ot Marv Ann cobb, de
ceased bas <* due form applied to the under
signed for leave to sell the lands belonging to
the estate of aid deceased and said applica
tion will oeheard on he i.rst Monday in .ill
next. This 15th day of Ja n ry, 1890
• M. 11
2sw4l.
S.
arch
EURINGtbN.Or i ary.
ADMINISTRATOR S SALE.
By vL tue of an order of th-i court of Ordina
ry of Clarke County, Georgia, will l>c sold be
fore the curt house door in a then, iu said
county - n the first Tuesday in March sex,, be
tween the legal hours of sale, the following
property to wit. The vacant lot situated on
the northeast corner of Hull and Wray streets in
said couuty and city of Athens, sold as tbo
property of the estate of f. A. Llpreomb, de
ceased for distribution. This 25th of January,
1890. M. A. Lirsco.KB,
jJ7-5tw Jkdmrx.
THE BONES OF COLUMBUS.
THE REMAINS OF THE GREAT NAVIGATOR
ALMOST SECURED BY AS AMERICAN
SYNDICATE FOR EXHIBITION.
Washington, Feb. 19.—[Special.]—
Ex-Minister Astwood, the colored man
whose presence in a hotel dining-room
recently gave offense to Congressman
Grimes, of Georgia, has a story told on
him in regard to the negotiations once
carried on for borrowing the bones of
Christopher Columbus for exhibition in
1892 Astwood was our Minister to
San Domingo when the celebation of
the quadro-centennial of the discovery
of America was first proposed. A syn
dicate of enterprising Americans was
formed to get control of Columbus’s re
mains, and Astwood’s good offices in
tliis direction were solicited to persuade
the Government of San Domingo to al
low the relics to be brought to the
United States temporarily. The ob
ject was to make money by charging an
admission fee, and this was openly
stated to be the purpose of the syndi
cate. Astwood was empowered to
make any business offer necessary to se
cure the desired result
The President and Cabinet of San
Domingo were willing to loan the in
teresting remains for a consideration
and on certain conditions. The con
sideration was to be $20,000 down and
twenty-five per cent, of the gross re
ceipts of the U. S. exhibitors. Four
priests were to accompauy the remains,
together with a guard of native sol
diers, whose expenses were to be paid
by the show pw>ple. Everything was
supposed to be satisfactorily arranged
when aii unfortunate hitch occurred.
By some oversight one of tiie members
of the Cabinet was overlooked in the
McEIree’s Wine of Cardu!
and THEDFORO'S BLACK • DRAUGHT are
for sale by tbe following merchants in
• E. s. Lyndon, Athens, Ga.
J. B. Fowler, near Athens,
J. VY. Hardy, near Athens.
R. T. Brumby, & Co , Athens,
L. D. Sledge & Co. Athens.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
By virtue of au order from tho Court of Or-
(li- arv of Clarke County, will be sold before tho
courthouse door ia Atluns. Georgia, on the
first Tuesday ia March next, between tho lejjal
hour, of sale, tbe following tract ol land lyxuu
in the county of Walton in said State, and
known as the “Gunter place,” whereon Wil
liam J. Jennings now re.ides, containing 58
acres more or less, sold as the property or Rob
ert Jennings deceased, for distribution. This
January 2Hb 1890. T. D. Jennings,
j2.-4t\v Surviving Ext.
G eorgia clarke county.—ordinary’s
office, Jancary 2&tii. 1890. W C. Orr has
applied lor letters of administration on the es
tate of J. G. Me Lester, deceased. This isthtre-
fore to notify all con.urued, to file their objec
tions, if any they have, on or before the first
MondayJn March next, lsc letters will then be
granted said applicant as applied for.
S. M. HERRINGTON,
J27-ktw. Ordinary.
Gann & Reaves. 1
VS.
The Northeastern Railroad,
Co. lhe Richmond A Danville Equity etc. in
Railroad co.The Richmond & i-Clarke Superior
West l'oint Terminal Railway t ourt.
A Wnvetiousc Company, anil
the central Trust Company of
New York.
I t appeal ing to the coart that two of the de
fendant. in the above stated case to-wit: The
Richmond and West I'omi Terminal Railway
Georgia. It mrllier appearing tbat t.e Storill if
vf*ntnM tuS j jSa? applied to we in term* of the law* to be dis~
la,'I missed anddUchargedfroinsaidadminlstraticn.
i These are therefore to cite and notify all con-
i cemed to shew cause at the tegular term of the
Llflrkc county, CxCorjjia, to be held on the j noni't of Ordiniurv t.n iu> iioid in *mfi toi* siiiit
second MondayJn April lS9u,then aud there..to SSvVX'fSit M^.l^ln Sfkynixt why
answer aud make d- fense to the bill filed by the
complainants, if any defense they have. Or
dered further that this order be published four
times a month for four mouths, before said term
of court, in,the Weenly Banner, a newspaper
published in said county of Clarke, and that
thereupon service of said bill and subpoena
shall be considered as fully perfected on said
delendants. At chambers.
This Dec. 12. Is99 N. L. HUTCHINSJudge
YV.B. BURNETT,
T. W. RUCKER.
J. 11. LUMPKIN,
E. K. LUMPKIN,
Attorneys for Complainants.
Atrue extract from the minutes of < larke Su
perior Court. C.D. V1NOWNT,
(Pl.la IKa Ol —
such discharge should not be granted.
Given under my hand and official signature.
This 2ist day of January 4890.
8. M. HERRINGTON, Ordinary.
ji7-once-a-m-for3m
This Dec. 211889.
W Dec 17-April 1*90.
Clerk.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
G eorgia clarke county.—whi be sold
at the courthouse door In the city of Athens,
County aforesaid, on the first Tuesday in March
1890, within .he legal hours of sale, the follow
ing property to wit. One house and lot on Oconee
street, known as the Sarah P. Seay lot, one
share Georgia Railroad and Banking Co.’s stock,
ten shares of Athens Manufacturing Co. stock,
._u * the state of Sarah
said property belonging to ti
P. Seay, late of said county deceased. Terms
r 5tw
R. M. MoALPIN. Administrator.
CLARICE SHERIFF’S SALE.
W ILL be sold before th • Court house door in
Athens, lia-, between the legal hours of
sale, on lie first Tuesday 11 M arch 1890, the fol
lowing property to wit: an undivided one-third
interest in a lot l the city of At*eu .containing
about ono-elgluh o> an acre, more or less bou - ti
ed north, south and east by property of R. K.
Reaves, and w st by Thomas s reet being the
lot upo which is situated the one story
brick building with basement, known
as the .then* Laundry. Said in
terest levlei on as the property of
the. estate of Jouathan Hampton, deceased, by
vi tue of a Ufa fr in Clarke Superior Court, In
favor ot it. Nickerson, against T. C Hampton
and T. C Hampton K • e utor of Jonathan
Hampton. Tilts January 25th, 1890.
5tw JO N W. WIKR, Sheriff.
/VKORGIA,CLARKE county, Ordinary’s
vYoffice, Deokkbek, 20; h ISSI.—W. M. Colie,
Guardian of J G. Coile and F. W. Colle, minors
represents that. ho has full v dl.-charg.d raid
trust and prays for letters of dismission. This
is therefore to notify all persons concerned to
show cause if any they can on or before tho
first Monday in April next why said guardian
should nut be discharged from said trust.
s. M.ilKRiHnatox, Ordinary.
Dec. SI 4m
DIVORCE.
| ^fJarfo Superior Court,
amount demanded for the whole Gov
ernment in the first place. The syndi
cate could not stand that kind of work
and <he project was killed.
It is said by those who have full
knowledge on the subjectSvhat the San
Domingo Government is still willing to
negotiate with respectable panes on a
basis that will guarantee the acquies
cence of all the members of the admin
istration in power.
Nellie Jane Teasley,
vs. '
Green Teasley. > Oct, term, 18&9.
I t appearing to tbe court by satisfactory ev
idence that the defendant lives beyond this
State, to-wit in the State of Arkansas, it is or
dered that he be served by publication of this
order once a month for four months In tho Ath
ens Banner and tbat he appear and answer at
the April term ls*;0 or Clarke Surerior court.
N. L. HUTCHINS, Judge S C.
A true extract from the minutes of Clarke
Superior Court. c. L. P1TNER.
w lot 4m. Cleric.
negotiations—either that, or becoming
greedy, he set up a claim on bis own
hekth., »». a. Rreat -.tteuai Horses and Mules.
MR. B1GGAR DEAD.
THE GREAT IRISH NATIONALIST PASSES
AWAY.
London, Feb. 19.—[Special.[-Big-
gar, the promieent Irish nationalist
member of parliament, died suddenly
in this city today. Thedeath was the
result of heart disease. Announcemnut
Of Uis death caused a great scusatioa,
I have on hand and wiil keep constantly du
ring the season, a large stock of HORSES and
MULK8 of all kinds and to suit all classes or
customers.
W. S. Holman.
Wm. A. Weatherly, 1 Petition fora-
VS. J ciaa. Scire
1C. A. Lamtikin, and I Tt apppearlng to oyt
■ William SafstSom. f Acourt by the entry (ha
the Sheriff that the defendants in the abF o
stated case are not to be found in said couao
audit appearing by evidence satisiactoryte,
I the court that defendant C. a. Lampkin resides
beyond tbe limits of the State to-wit, in the
State of Texas and tbat defendant William Saf-
strom also resides beyond the limits of the
State, to wit, in the State of California.
It is therefore ordered by the court that said
defendants be and appear in person or by at
torney at tbe nextterm of the Superior court of
Clarice oouuty to be held ou the second Monday
in April 1890 then and there to answer
make defense If any the* have to petitioners
Said petition to revive judgment. Ordered fur
ther that this order be published once a month
| for four months in tb, Athens Bauner, a news-
B«r publishod in said county of Clarke aad
V thereupon service of said petition to re
vive judgment shall be considered as lully per
fected on said defendants.- in open court. This
taut Oct. 1889. Granted.
H N L HUTCHINS, Judge.
LUMPKIN A BURNETT,
Dec 10 lm 4m. Attorneys for Plaintiffs.
Atrue extract from the minute* ot Clarke Su
perior court, c D VINCENT, C. a.C.
Kil.RRMRV WANTED AT OSCE.—A few good
unliuOmuJ) men to sell our gooiis by sample to
the wholesale and null trade. Me are tbe
largest manufacturers in out-line In tbe world.
Liberal salary paid. Permanent position. Mon
ey advanced for wages, advertising, etc. For
full terms address, Centennial Mfg. Co., Chlo-
ago, Hi., or Cincinnati, O.
Bailey. Williams, \ Petiti n to Kstabllah
V8 > Lost Deed in Clarke 8a-
EDa Bell tt. al > perior Court, Oct. Term ’89
L OST DXKD from Uoy Bell, deceased, to Bai-
I ley WiUiamson date • Sept. i9fhi8<2,witaensed
by a. M. Herrington and John I. Huggins, Clerk
>upertor Court Clarke Couuty conveying the
lower end of the lot of land owned and ^ resided'
on by eald Lucy Bell at time of her death, in
Athens, Clarke Couuty, Georgia, containing
one-fourth of an acre, more or less.
Itb-4ng represented to the oou t that said
Ella Beu resides without the limits of this
State, it is ordered that she he served nr.th the
rule nl si by pub is ting the 3ame in somo pub
ic Gazette of this St te for the -pace of three
rnou.hs before the nextterm olsaidc urt.
cct. 30tli 1889. n. L.Hutchins,
K. T. Brown, oa-Uc,
w3ui Attorney for Pe Jt'.oaer,