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Ml IM4|I CoDaelidaird with the
11 Athena Banner, Bat. 1839.
WEEKLY BANNER.
ATHENS, GA., TUESDAY MOBNING, NOVEMBER 4,1890—8 PAGES.
»^GAME OF BLUFF-
Here* is another card played for
Gordon bv the Atlanta Journal: '
In an enthusiastic crowd of Gordon
in,<n at the Kimball last night, a re-
„!„in-iblr gentleman silenced the only
j.Cordon man in the big crowd by
olfring to wager $50,000 that Gordon
v ,i ; !«• tin * 1 * * * * * * next senator. The gi-ntle-
i. ,ii -aid :
■ Y n may think this is a bluff, so I’ll
jn-t pur up a torfeitof $500 right now
in,I have my certified cheek for ,<50,000
in thi' rotunda by 12 o:o’clock to-
ini' now.” . %
With this he pulled out an immense
roll of greenbacks, when the anti-Gor
don man took water, amid the yells of
iheviowd.
.Instafter this episode one ot the
iiio-i prominent men iu Atlanta worked
liis way through the crowd and said:
1 understand some man wanted to
be; against Gordon. You all know me.
I " i I say this: I’ll bet $12,500 that
(ierdon will be elected United States
•eontor, and if Georgia defeats her
grandest Citizen I will quit the State.”
This was greeted with cheers for Gor
don, and before they died away the lone
jiiti-Gordon man had passed from the
n< wd amid jeers' /
Ylie gentleman who offered to lay the
irs2iT meant business. He is worth at
Jesst $100,000.
We have no doubt but. that th
men who a.e supporting Gordon for
t!ie United States Senate could com-,
bine and * put up - ’ their millions, if
necessary, while his opponents are
pour and humble farmers, who can
scarcely make ends meet at the end
of the year. It is an easy matter for
the capitalists, corporations and mo
nopolists that are backing our Gov
ernor to back down a farmer with a
$<■>0,000 bet, when they know that it
would be a dilllcult matter for their
antagonist to raise $50. And be
sides, the Alliance representatives
are not sports and gamblers, hut
were elected to attend to the busi
ness of the state. Georgia lias al
ready bud too much of this among
her law-makers, and now wants a
change.
But we will say to Gov. Gordon’s
rich and confident friends, just wait
until the Sub-Treasury bill is passs
ed—that your candidate says he will
not support if it costs him forly elec
tion?—and the farmers are paid full
value for their cotton, and then they
will be in a position to meet you on
a more equal financial fooling. Last
year the cotton raisers of Georgia
were robbed of over $10,000,000 by
the speculators, and ifiuis vast sum
was left in their hands they would
be able to cover $50,000 beta.
This little incident in the Atlanta
Journal prove just what Tub*
Banner has been charging all the
tim,— hai Gordon is the candidate
of capitalist*, ami when the Alliance
rice s him t > the senate they walk in
to the trap spread for the farmers by
Wall street
CONVERTED BY A SHAKE OF THE
HAND.
We c ip the following from the Ai-
lanta Journal: /
“The other day coming to Atlanta on
tin- Georgia iram 1 heard an Alliance
in-in to-r of the legislature denouncing
d‘diii It. Gordon, declaring that he
Wouldn’t vote for hiiu under any con
sideration.
" tiler awhile the train reached a
Wat ion and Gen. Gordon got on and
►s«*d through the car, shaking hands
bill the hoys, calling them Bill, John,
« . by name. When he got to the
r„r,*said Alliance member he grasped
h> hand e< rdiallv and passed oh.
“When Gordon .v as out of hearing the
Alliance membt-r >- dd -’
“Boys, 1 bad lolly made up my mind
'ii vote against Gordon; luit there’s no
ve in talking, i just can't do it. 1 take
k*’k All 1 said and am goiug to cast my
vote for John It. Gordon for United
>tat«s senator from Georgia, and don’t
yen forget it 1”
‘This was greeted by a yell bv the
P^engcis, tinu I think ttie changed
in.-iu 1,,-r was the happiest looking man
1 ever saw.”
We cannot believe there is a word
of b uih in the above, but that it is
““ply the ‘-romancing” of some re-
pmicr. If such an occurrence
really took place, why did not the
"(nirnal give the name and residence
°‘ ,!l « representative?
lue idea of a man who has char-
atUr and standing enough in a
entity to elected a representative
01 llls P ei »ple. and who could be so
suddenly changed in his convictions
1 shake ot the hand and free-and-
Us .\ giecting, i 8 incredible and un-
h:asooah|e.
A’« doubt but that the Gordon
c ®'iipaign managers imagiue that the
' u »ee members are such gbllihle
Slid u <L- • i .
ak minded ereatures that
ten hey are brought into contact
1 >"v. G>>rdon and his magnetic
Prts" lce that lln-y will at once ex-
^ a nge their principles for flunkey?
But they will find themselves
Waken. Just because a man
tne ® 1108,1 from the hands of the
. 80,1 ignorant of blarney
.1 fiery i« ho reason why he
t l' u ' d nr >t h-v< much for> t of
‘araeter and determination ms Tk-
* 1*0 icinn.
t . ai8 arl icle ii. the Atlanta Jour-
tVt ls an insult to the intelligence of
^" lan ce representative in the
u "o r| » legislature; and until tl.e
name of the miserable and simple-
minded creature is given, this paper
will labor under the suspicion o.‘
having published a purely imagin
ary iocident in hopes ot turning the
tide to Gordon.
Let us have the name of the tr.an
who was converted by a shake
of Gen. Gordon’s hand. If so im
portant an incident occurred, surely
the lynx-eyed reporter of the Journal
that witnessed it had enterprise
enough to learn the name of the reps
reseolalive.
VOL.58—NO. 49
EARLY HISTORY
OF THIS SECTION OF 6E0RGIA.
Story of the Athens and Lexing
ton Dirt Road.
WARFARE.
Horrible Massacre
Negroes.
of
ALLIANCEMEN ARE DEMOCRATS-
The sole alleged ground of Alliance
opposition to the election of Gov. Gor
don as the successor of Senator Brown,
is bis repudiation of the Sub-Treasury
scheme. But is this alleged reason the
real reason for that opposition ? Evi
dently not—unless those influenced by
it are shamefully unjust and incon
sistent.
Candidates Lester, Turner, Crisp,
Blount and Lawson all stand squarely | . ... . ,
and emphatically with Gov. Gordon in • 11 ant * val * e y a °d without regard to
opposition to the Sub-Treasury scheme, i the topography of country—and was a
and they are receiving, in their respect- j „artof the famous Cherokee Trail, lead-
REM1NISCENCES OF LEXINGTON.
The dirt road from Athens to Lexing
ton, via Cherokee Corner, is a historic
route, and figures conspicuously in the
early settlement of this section. This
road is almost an air-line—passing over
ive district , the warm support of the
men and papers who bitterly oppose
Gordon, in other words, they favor
for the house a candidate who ridicules
and tights their wild scheme, while
making a similar course ou Gordon’s
part the ground of bitter opposition to
his election to the Senate.
’ If, then, they are sincere in their
fight on Gordon, for the reason stated,
they are necessarily hypocritical in
their support of their candidate for the
house.
We copy the above from the Sparta
Ishmadite. We are surprised that
a man of Editor Roberts’ sense
should indite such a foolish article.
If our friend of the Ishmaeluc will
remove the scales of prejudice against
the Alliance from bis eyes, and re»
view the political situation in Geor
gia with liis usual clear-sighted wis
dom, he would discover that the very
arraignment be is making against
the Alliance is the strongest en
dorsement possible of the self-sacrU
ficing patriotism and democracy of
this organization.
Candidates Lester, Turner, Ciisp,
Blount and Lawson are the nominees
of the democratic party. Several ol
these gentlemen were opposed by the
Alliance on account of their opposi
tion to the Sub-Treasury bill, but
the hour that their part}’ brand was
ing from Augusta o Ro s’ Landing, o
the Tennessee river, now the city of
Chattanooga.
For more than a century travel and
traffic have passed over this road, that
often, in winter, becomes almost impass
able. By a slight change a civil engin
eer could plaee it on better ground, but
it has never been done. As this liigl -
way is one of Athens’ most imp r an
arteries of commerce,it seems-to us t»a
the road should be n-uirveye>’.
Bef* re the days of railways, and when
Augusta was the the great tiading point
for all Northern and Middle Georgia,
and even a portion of Tennessee and
North Carolina, this road was covered
with wagons in the winter mouths.
Athens w’as then a small college town,
and far behind Lexington in business
and population. In fact, our citizens
would go to the present capitol of Ogle
thorpe county to buy their fine goods.
Lexington then boasted over thire
stores, and was the seat of wealth and
refinement for upper Georgia. Au
gusta. however, was the great metropo
lis of our State, and a trip to that city
was as notable an event as a town of
Europe in our day and generation.
Tobacco was the principal money crop
—only a little cotton being grown.
Even in the memory of people uoiv liv
ing, a bale of cotton to the plow was
considered a wonderful yield. But our
farmers then ‘‘lived at home and board
ed at the same place.” The lands were
fresh, and guano unknown. Farmers
would not even haul out their barnyard
placed upon them, every Alliance.- “« nure ‘ 1 F*™* were run up and down
* 1 ** lull, and when the soil was washed irom
man, like the true and loyal demo
crats that they are, accepted defeat
in good spirit and became an earnest
supporter of the same men they had
opposed before the nomination.
What a vast difference there is
between tbe conduct ol these Alli-
ar.cemen, and that of some of Gov.
Gordon’s supporters ! We fiud the
farmers accepting defeat like the
brave and consistent democrats that
they are ; while their enemies, when
vanquished iu open and manly bat
tle, rake reluge in the bosom of tbe
nigger and tlie independent, and by
a foul and unholy alliauce, conspire
to defeat the nominees of their own
party. This is the class against
which the Ishmaefite should direct
its shafts, ami cnarge with - incon
sistency—and not against the Alli»
ance, that is accepting, in good faith,
the nominees of their party,and help
ing to turn their own defeat into a
victory for the organized democracy.
There is do analogy between Gor
don’s race for the U. S. Senate and
the contest of the gentlemen named
by the Ishmaeiite for congress. One
is only nominated by his own ambi
tion ; the others are the standard"
be*»rer8 of their party. The con-
gre-sional conflict has already been
waged and won ; the Senatorial con
test is now upon us, and the field is
clear.
For tbe Alliance—that holds the
political power of Georgia in its
hands—to elect Gordou to the Sen
ate would be to repudiate their plat
form and their principles, and sur
render their victory at the dictation
of such, pajiers as the Sparta Ishma-
elite, that has fought their organiza
tion so bitterly and persistently.
a field new land? were cleared. The
wagoners had jolly timescamping out,
and the spots marked by the nightly
revels are still shown by old settlers
The Grier place, in Clarke county, was
their favorite resort, as there was kept a
ro idside <nn.
But we are getting ahead of story,
for it extends far beyond the settlement
of this section by the w hites. Cherokee
Corner, in Oglethorpe county, was then
the dividing line between thePale Faces
and Red Men. All north of that spot
was Indian Territory, and under the
treaty i' was death to any white man to
settle beyond the boundary line. The
Red Skins were then numerous and
powerful, and very jealous of their
rights. Frequent conflicts occurred be
tween the two races, and bloodshed and
outrages were numerous. There is an
old mulberry tree now standing near
rhe Beaverdam road, owned by Messrs.
Nat Arnold and Frank Edwards, under
which a white woman was murdered
and scalped by Indians, as she was re
turning home from a visit to a neigh
bor. There was a chain of forts ex
tending all along the border line, evi
dences of which are still seen, and
many of them witnessed sanguinary
conflicts between the whites and In-
dans.
Before the advent of the white man
the whole country was covered with a
dense growth of stinted cane and grass,
and the trails of depredating Indians
could be easily followed for miles. They
walked one behind the other, in what
is still known as‘‘Indian fllle.”
In the little flat just beyond Mr.,W.
H. Jones’ place, at the first branch and
on the road side, a bloody tragedy oc
curred. A planter from near Savannah
moved up the country with ten negro
men, and not finding a farm to suit
him in the white territory, invaded the
Iudiaus’ country, and begun a clearing
on this spot, under the belief that be
was so near his own race that the Red
Skins would not dare to molest him.
But he was sadly mistaken. Only a few
acres had been cut down, when at mid
day a large band of. Indians attacked
the negroes in the absence of their own
ers, and a frightful massacre occurred,
every one of the poor creatures being
butchered and left on the ground.
An Indian wpuld never scalp a negro,
and the poor victims thus escaped mu
tilation.
This was the last attempt to settle in
Indian Territory, and the fatal spot
was left quiet a9 on. the day of the mas
sacre. I*r. T. D. Hutcheson told us
that his .father remembers this clearing,
and when it was growing up in a sec
ond crop of timber. Men are now liv
ing who can remember when tbe work
A Reward of $500,
Will be paid for any Case of Bheuma-
x- i-I ... w— r>. 1 >°K wuucau rounuuer wnen me worn
tisrn which cannot be cured by Dr. . £ b , be un f ortunft . e hl»<*ks was re-
Drummond’s Lightning Remedy. This | “"g tbe unIortunala blatks was re ‘
ofler is made in good faith by the pro- Tl , e ‘ road leading w the ri|rht> OD
pnetors, and there's no reasonable ex- , of th „ Kin j ust this side of Mrs. Thom-
cuse for any one to suffer , y as’ place, is the one that lead a Cathode
ordinary case will be cured by one hot- priestand his friend w a watery grave .
. dark ’ « tor,n y t,1 'g ht > andb y
fii-ult cases, the money is always refun
ded where the remedy fails to cure.
The price of a bottle is $5, and that is
the cost of a cure. Drummond Medi
cine Co., 48-50 Maiden Lane, New
York.
“Agents wanted.”
trainTTXndkilCed.
In the Western and Atlantic Railroad
Yards # Yesterday.
Atlanta, Nov. 1.—[Speebi.]—R. L.
Bilburn, a train hand, fell between the
cars iu tbe Western and Atl .ntic yards
t*«iay. ,
His arm and bqt,l^ K-gs were run over.
Amputation was necessary, and he died
unconscious while the operation was be-
mistake they took the wrong road for
Athens, and were both drowned in a
swollen stream just beyond Mrs. Mor
ton’s place. That sad tragedy is yet
fresh in the minds of our ciuzens.
About midway the slope of the hill,
’this sld i of the branch, is where the
line between Clarke and Oglethorpe
counties pass. The original survey
made tbe branch the line, but a dispute
arose and Oglethorpe gained the victo
ry-
The old house in the valley, owned
and occupied by Mrs. Thomas, was once
the leading female college in upper
Georgia, and ranked as the Lucy Cobb
of to- lay. The finest families of Savau-
nnh, Charleston and other seaboard cit
ies sent their,daughters there to be edu
cated. The walls of this building once
echoed with ihe laughtei of gay maid
ing performed. His body v as shipped
I to his home, Tunnel Hill, where he will ens that have long smee pas* <1 awiy.
be burled to-morrow. 1 The next spot >f interns, w nacn
Cherokee Corner, now marked by a
handsome country church. This place
is rich in history, and is the Therinopo-
le of the Indian race in Georgia. As
long as the memory of the Red Men
runs back it has bi en the chosen coun
sel ground, -and even before Co
lumbus sailed from Palos, it was doubt-
less an Indian metropolis for the south
eastern -tate*. Here was located their
great trading point, where the Seui-
moles of Florida sent their tropical
merchandise to barter with the Chero-
kees of the mountains. It was at this
spot that the red men went to celehrate
their victories and to hold their war
dances. Prisoners were brought here
for torture, and all of their great coun
cils convened on this sacred spot.
The early settlers found at Cherokee
Corner a beautiful, carved cedar post,
of gigantic size and painted in the most
fanciful colors. It stood ou the brow
of the hill, and for some distance arouud
it the earth w as trampled as firm as a
rock. It is presumed that this pillar
had some connection with the rehgi >us
services of the Indians. It stood th iv
long after the occupation of the count
by the whites, and was finally, cut up
and burned by some vandal.
It was at Cherokee Corner that the
treaty was made and signed that con
ceded this section of Georgia to the
whites. That conference took place be
neath a large oak tiee that still stands
ou the hedge below the eorner, but a
few years ago some enterprising far
mer, probably not knowing its histor
ical interests, cut around and deadened
the same to save a small area of culture
It is the second large ireeon the left,
just as you approach the hill crowned’
by the church.
Cherokee Corner was once the boon- i
dary line of Washington county. Ii ‘
was afterwards cut oft into Wilkes, and :
on tbe third dismemberment became
Oglethorpe.
Branching off to the right is the j
Greenesboro road, another old Indian
trail It is as straight as an arrow, and
up hill and down. It is over this road
that the soldiers passed who fought and
won the battle of Jack’s Creek, in Wal
ton county. Dur.ng the Indian war,
all important military movements were
directed from Cherokee Corner, and the
old trees still standing were witnesses
to the tramp of many a hostile band of
red men and pale faces.
About two miles this side of Crawfcrd
opposite Mr. Gaulding’s there stands on
the roadside a large oak tree, now dead,
that in the early settlement of the coun
ty was used hs a militia district court
house. This was also the great muster
ground, and a famous resort for fron
tiersmen to meet ami settle their legal
and belicostie disputes.
At Mr. L. M. Johnson’s gin-house a
tragedy occurred in the “days of slav
ery,” while an overseer was weighing
cotton, he was set upon and fearfully
beaten by negroes. Supposing their
victim to be dead, he was carried into
the little bit of woods at the forks of the
road, and his body c vered with leaves;
the would-he murderers intending to re
turn that night and bury the body. But
after supper, while the negroes were be-
ng interrogated by the owner about the
missing man, the overseer walked into
the door, covered with blood and
bruises. The negroes believed it to be
the ghost of their victim, and were par-
alized with fright. The principals were
afterwards hanged in tl.e old Lexington
jail.
The town of Lexington is one of the
oldest settlements in this portion of
Georgia, and as before stated, was once
a place of great importance. This is
the second county site of Og ethdrpe,
and three of her court houses are now
standing—the first aboutffive miles from
town, and is occupied as a residence.
The second one is the old wooden store
building on the corner below Arnold «&
Stew r arts; and the third is the hand
some, new $80,000 edifice—a monument
to the enterprise of the people of this
grand county.
Oglethorpe has grew to Georgia more
great men than any town in the State.
It Is here where VVm. II. Crawford lived
arid died. The famous family of Lump
kin’s are from Oglethorpe, and Judge
Lumpkin’s old home is now occupied by
Prof. T. B. Moss. Gen. Gilner resided
in Lexington, and his residence is one
ot the sights of the town. The old
home of Gov. Mathews is now occupied
by Mr. Mike Mathews, in the lower part
of the county, and it was the indignant
and patriotic citizens of Oglethorpe who
provided a rope to hang him for signing
the Yazoo Fraud bill. It was in Lex
ington where Cobb, Hill. Toombs, Ste
phens and other great Georgia states
men had their bustlings, and the grove
once resonant with their eloquence is
shown today to the curious.
On the outskirts of the town of Lex
ington is the famous Shaking Rock—a
boulder that weighs many tons and can
be moved hy a child’s hand. On the
face of the cliff beneath is the name
“Charles F. Goulding, 182S,” painted
by the hand of the author of that de
lightful book “The Young Marooners.”
In this city of granite are large granite
rocks of very quaint shapes-a saddle,
an Irish potato, a snake swallowing a
frog, all moulded in enduring stone by
the haud of the Creator of our Universe.
In front of the old Giliner honse area
pair of pillars, about four feet tall and
formed of such stones as neatly united
as if done by a skilled inason. These
monuments were discovered by Gen.
Giliner in a secluded vale on the hill
side beyond the Shaking Rock, and
carefully removed by this great anti
quarian, and replaced just as they w ere.
They are similar to the Drttidical stone
pillars found in Ireland and England,
and it is thought were used as altars in
their woiship bv some race preceding
the Indians. '
If they have'not been removed in the
past few years, they are on the sides of
the steps of the old Gilmer house
Quite a valuable collection of queer
shaped rocks, crystals and petrifactions,
that the Governor had collected in
his wanderings over the woods and
fields. There was not a finer selection
in the country than Gov. Gilmer had,
and his friends, knowing his craze, sent
him all the goodspecitnens they could
find. There was one crystal with a
drop of water within, aud stones in
shape of every letter of the alphabet.
The last tine we passed these steps, we
noticed a lai^e petrified wasp nest. Bur
of course this vdiianv <-<■.)« crinn, that
if emire, would be. worth quite u sum,
is seal tend now to .lie four winds, lor
since the death of the collectors, none
of the recent owners cf his property felt
interest enough to preserve them.
We could write columns about Lex
ington and Oglethorpe county, but we
fear of wearying our readers.
T. L. G.
SHOT ON
THE STREET.
BALL ENTERS LEFT BREAST AND
WILL PROBABLY PRODUCE
DEATH.
A Serious Difficulty Ends In a Terrible
Shooting Affray—Walker Brown
Shoots John Bell on thS Streets of
Monroe.
BOTH GO DOWN.
An Awfnl Collision a Few Miles
from B&rnegat.
SENATOR BROWN.
Several People Went Down
With the Vessels.
A bloody difficulty on the streets of
Monroe on Fiiflay.
Shot down in the broad day-light by-
a ball from a pistol.
The victim may die from the effects of
the wound.
Information was received yesterday
of a terrible and bloody encounter on
the streets of Momoe in the broad day
• light between two negroes named re
spectively Walker Brown and John
Bell.
There had been a bitter animosity be
tween the two negroes for some time,
and it cropped out Friday in the shoot
ing affray.
Brown shot Bell in the left breast
with a ball from a 38 calibre pistol and
the probabilities are that Bell will die.
There is somi excitement among the
negroes about the shooting, but no fur
ther trouble is apprehended.
AN OGLETHORPE AcLIANCEMAN.
Mr. John Bray Dlcussesthe Senatorial
Question.
Mr. John Bray, a successful farmer
and red-hot Alli&nueman of Oglethorpe
county, was in to see us yesterday, and
said:
“1 am indeed glad to know that John
B. Gordon is defeated for the Suate, for
I cannot imagine a greater calamity to
us farmers than his electiou would
prove. We are just beginning to see
daylight ahead, aud it would set the
Alliance movement back ten years to
now elect Gordon. I not onty object to
him on account of his opposition to the
Sub-Treasury bill—a panacea f r all of
oar ills—but don’t like the way be once
before resigned his seat in the senate;
and then those wild-cat schemes have
never been exnlained to my satisfaction.
With the exception of his war record, 1
see but little in Gov Gordon’s career
to commend. But there were other
brave men besides John B. Gordon, and
it is time that they were receiving rec
ognition. I fully realize the fact that
Gordon imagines that he was the army;
but 1 know of several poor wounded
farmers In my county, that fought as
bravely and suffered just as great ham
ships as Gordon—and yet they are be
ing robbed by the speculators for th*
want of the very bill that t»eu. Goidon
says he will not support.
“I am confident that both Messrs
Pop*- and Faust, our re presen tut ves,
are anti-Gordon men; but can’t learn
how Senator Witcher stands. If he
votes for Gordon, it will be against the
wishes and interests of three-fourths lus
people, and lie must be aware of this
fact. Charlie Witcher is an honest and
honorable man, and I can’t believe that
he would accept an office, and then dis
regard the sentiment of hisconstruents.
He lias never been instructed by his
county to vote for G *rdon, and must
certainly know, if he has talked with
the people, how they stand.
“Like everywhere else, this senatori
al contest with us is ail issue between
the towns and the farmers. The same
men who were for Bacoti four years ago
are now hurrahing for Gordon. It is a
fight of the town rings and politicians
against the Alliance. But we will gaiu
the victory, I earnestly hope.”
THAT STABBING AFFRAY.
Terrible Conflict at Cannon’s Schools.
It' took place at Cannon’s school
house where a scuool exhibition was be-
i ig held.
It was about 9 o’clock at night. A
1 rge crowd of people were preset t to
witness the exhibition. Peter Whit
field went out to see his two chilure.i
asleep iu a wagon.
On his way he was accosted by the
negro, Sam Watkins.
A quarrel ensued concerning the
presence of the negro at a wedding at
the house of Whitfield’s father-in-law.
Whitfield said Watkins was drunk, de
nounced him for being there, declariug
that a white wedding was no place for
a drunken nigger.
The quarrel resulted in afight. Whit
field claims the negro made the attack
and he aoted in self defense, while Wat
kins asserts that Whitfield struck him
the first “lick” with a plank.
The result was, Whitfield was badly
cut by the uegro, a fearful gash on his
left cheek, one across the right side of
his tieck, a stab in the shoulder, his
coat cut in feu places and his shirt in
five. Watkins was knocked down, re
ceived a tew kicks, was hauld oft* by
some one and permitted to escape.—
Toccoa News. ,
The Collision was Terrible, and Both Vi
eels Sank in a Few Mlnatca—Terrible
Scenes of Women and Children Crying
for Help—Spending the Night in the Blg-
ging—Wet aud Freezing.
Neiv York, Nov. 1.—The steamer
Humboldt, from South America, has ar
rived at tnis port, and from her captain
the following terrible news is obtained:
As tlie Humboldt was coming in, a
wreck was sighted six miles east of Bar-
negst. The ship bore down to it, and we
found it to l>e the steamer Vizcaya,which
had sailed hence on the 30th of October,
for Havana. A number of persons were
in the rigging, who were rescued.among
the number being the chief officer, sec
ond officer, the surgeon, one eng'neer
and eight, of the crew. From them it is
learned that on the evening of the 30th,
at 8 oclock, the steamer was run into by
a four-masted coal laden schooner, sup
posed to be bound northward, and both
vessels sank within five minutes. Cupt.
Cuutli, ot the Vizcaya, was drowned, as
were also a part of her crew, in all about
sixty persons, sixteen of whom were
passengers.
Here is another account of the collis
ion:
Lewes, Del., Nov. 1.—The tug Hercu
les has just arrived, and reports that the
schooner Cornelius Hargrove, and the
Spanish steamer Vizcaya, collided at 7
o clock on the evening of the 30th, with
in fifteen miles of Barnegat. Both ves
sels sunk in fifteen fathoms of water.
Ten men from the Hargrove and seven
from the Vizcaya were picked up by the
schooner Sarah L. Davis, and transferred
to the Hercules. The latter proceeded
for the wreck to render assistance, but
at midnight met the tug Battler, which
Iiad been to the scene, and found borh
vessels sunk and all hands gone. They
picked up the body of a woman. Survi
vors report nearly 100 people clinging to
the wreck at one time.
The survivors have been landed at the
Lewes life station, and also the corpse of
the woman picked up. She is reported
to have been a stewardess of the steamer
Vizcaya.
Dr. Rice, who was among the saved,
and who was the ship’s doctor, tells this
awful story:
“The wether was fine, the moon shone
bng.it, and the sea was smooth. The
slap was in charge of the first officer, who
was on the bridge. I was in the saloon
talking with Mrs. Calvo, when suddenly
I heard a stop signal. Before I could
even wonder wliat it was, there came an
awful shock, crashing, scraping sound-
jug on deck over our heads, and the
steamer rolled well over on her port side.
Everybody in the saloon was thrown
down. All was excitement—men, women
and children shrieking for help. I started
up to the deck. A terrible scene of con
fusion met my eyes. The bridge and
deck-house and forerigging were all torn
away. There was a great gash on the
starboard sale, just abaft the coal bunk
ers, and into this opening the water
poured.
“Close by on our starboard beam was
a big four-masted schooner, with her
bowsprit aud forerigging gone and her
bros stove m. She, too, was filling rap
idly. Men were running here and there
ail over our decks, shouting all kinds of
° r . de . 1 ' 8 - The steamer was fast sinking.
With an idea of saving ourselves, several
of us scrambled up the port forerigging.
“Down went the steamer, and up we
climbed. We reached the foretop gallant
yard and the hull reached bottom. This
left us j ust above the surface of the water,
but every swell drenched our lower
limbs. There were twelve of us in the
rigging. Some of our crew had tried to
reach the schooner, but she had gone to
the bottom almost as quickly as the
Vizcaya iiad.
“One man said a boat with seven men
from the schooner was rowed away. All
through the long night we clung to that
yard, growing colder and stiffer as each
hour passed.
“Toward daybreak a cold fog settled
on us and made matters worse. When
one of the men on the yard said that he
thought he heard a passing steamer, we
all halloed as loud as our enfeebled voices
would permit. Then a boat made its
appearance, and we were taken on board
the Humboldt.”
CARRIED BACK TO OCONEE.
Mr. Peacock, of the Senior class, lias
recovered from his illness.
Mi«s L zzie Barrow is expected home
from the uorth iu a few days.
EXPOSITION FINANCES.
Receipts and Disbursements During;
the Last Piedmont.
Atlanta, Nov. 1.—[Special.]—Pies-
ident Wylie gives the figures of the re
ceipts and disbursements of the Pie
mont Exposition as follows:
Total expenses including $10,000 im
provements on the grounds within the
past year, $GO,000.
Gross receipts, in round numbers,
$60,000.
The expenses were divided as follows:
Premiums awarded, ,$15,000; miltary
prize, $8,000; balloon a c s on $1,300;
Wild West, $3 000: euctric lights,
$1,500; music, $1,000; machinery,
$4,000: racing, $8,000.
I’ve been a sufferer from rheumatism
for years and have been unable to ob
tain any relief at all. Salvation Oil
gave me entire relief and I heartily re
commend it. HENRY WINKEL, Bal
timore, MJ.
What so wonderful, as a severe cough
cured by, Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup for
25 cents. Try it!
»—
Col. R. H. Russell hijs returned from
a yisit to Augusta, ,
A Wind-Blasted Historical Chinqua
pin Tree.
Mr. W. L. Rothell, one of our best
farmers in the upper Tugnlo valley, fa
vored this office with a pleasant call a
few days ago.
The farm lie occupies was once the
home of Senator Joseph E. Brown.
Near the bouse a chinquapin tree, ven
erable with age. was lately blown to
the •'round. The tree was of remarka
ble size for this dwarf variety of the
chestnut. Ten feet from the ground it
measured, with the bark off, 47 inches
m circumference.
Doubtless the boy Joseph played on
the green grass around this tree when it
too was young, and enjoyed the nuts it
reached out to him from its friendlv
branches. The boy grew to be among
the greatest ol the men of his genefri-
tiou; the tree also grew to be a giant
among the trees of its class. But the
feebleness of age comes to trees as well
as men; lately the remorseless winds
SA-uck th ! s old tree to the ground, and
soon it will be forgotten; the great
man, like this chinquapin tree will soon
lie low in death, and his long, busv life
will be remembered onlv as a faint
fleeting dream.—Toccoa News.
RIOT ON ATRAIN.
A Crowd of Negroes Obtrude Them
selves into a White Train.
Augusta,Ga.. Nov 1.—[Special.]—
I here came near being a serious riot on
the fast train running between Macon
uni Camak this evening. About 150
negroes, who had been attending King
& Franklin,s circus, boarded the train
at parta. There was a white man a-
inong them, and he. together with about
fifty negroes,many of whom were drunk*
scoured seats in the ladies, car. There
were only four other white passengers
on board, two of wh< ra were indies re-
'•ding iu Augusta. When the train was
tearing Covington, the white roan,who
aad gotten on at Sparta,became involved
>n row with sveral negroes.The negroes
Irew their knives, and for a few tniutes
the greatest excitement prevailed The
maddened negroes dashed up and down
the aisles, displaying their knives and u-
dng pofane language.Conductor 'Ahearn
ippeared promptly on the scene, and
maqe a determined eflort to restore
>rder. While thus engaged ,he was sur-
ounded by the negroes, and it looked
•very minuet like he would bepfiashe to
pieces, At thiscritieal period, however,
he two whit; male pasengers come to the
issistance oi the plucky conductor,then
»y persuasion, threats and firmness the
>egroes were at last reduced to silence.
l’he two young ladies who witnessed the
lulling scene were almost hysteical
with fear.
Alliance Department.
GEORGE T. MURRELL, Editor
SWEET POTATOES.
Sheriff Overby Comes After Will Lee,
the Young Negro Murderer.
Sheriff Overby, of Oconee county,
arrived in Augusta last night, and he
carried Will Lee, the young uegro mur
derer who was arrested in this city last
Monday, back to Watkinsville this
morning, on the noon Georgia train.
; Lee will be remembered as the negro
who killed Henry Elder at Smith’s dis
trict iu Oconee county, last Sunday
night, and was arrested while escaping
on the Georgia train by Policeman Bas-
ton.
The sheriff says Lee’s story of the
hbmicide differs materially from that of
the witnesses, who deny the murderer’s
justification and provocation for com
mitting the deed.
The Alexander girls, who witnessed
the shooting, the sheriff says, are strong
witnesses against Lee. The girls’ ac
count of tbe murder is that the row
Started at church and Lee followed
Elder to his home five milesoffand pro
voked a quarrel and shot him ou the
roadway with his own pistol and not
with Elder’s weapon as Lee claims.
i he sheriff paid Augusta’s policemen
a handsome and deserving compliment.
He says it is the most efficient depart
ment he ever had dealings with. He
says the news of the arrest was so
quickly received after he had wired the
officers to keep a lookout for the mur
derer that he at first doubted if the
right man had been captured.—Augusta
News.
Another Lynching.
Sp >clal by Ntws Telegram Association.
HAWKiNsviLLE.Nov. 1.—Owen Jones,
c lored, was hanged by a mob in this
county day before yesterday for an out
rage op Miss Howell, a daughter of Mr.
Sanders Howell,' who lives ifi the upper
edge of Pulaski. The crime was com
mitted while the young lad was alone at
the house. The negro confessed. He
was left swinging to the limb all night
tyst night and nearly all day today.
This is one of the most profitable
:rops grown on the farm. No farmer
diouid be caught without a good crop
of sweet potatoes on hand this season
>f the year. What I ata going to say
ibout them is not clipped from some
vork on agriculture written by some
>ne whom we have never seen, away
>ver in Alabama, or some other state,
but'will be a scrap of my own home ex
perience In the culture of the potato.
It is the habit of most people to save
ill the “strings” to bed out. This is
unwise. Eat the strings or give them
:o the pigs. Bed good sized, plump po
tatoes if you expect good results in dig
gingtime. Select good loose grey soil
not too sandy. Break it upcloseand
deep, and the day before you set out,
throw a list on as many four feet rows
as your draining will require. The dry
*oil is better than just after a rain. II
you are too lazy to “tote” water, get
somebody to do it for you. The plants
will live better, and do better with
plenty of water about their roots in dry
oil. Make a hole with the corner of
the hoe, fill it with water and pull dry
soil over. In a week or ten days
break out the middle and work them
enough to keep the grass down.
The time to dig them is is when the
potatoes are ripe. As long as the vines
are green the potatoes will grow. As
long as they will grow you had better
not disturb them. Some people dig
them because it is convenient to do so
having no reference to the condition of
the potato. Break one, if the milk
flows freely let them alone, they will
not keep if banked. This is one reason
why so many rot in the bank. I have
old potatoes when the new crop comes
in. This is the way to bank them: El
evate rather than dig a hole in the
place where they are to be banked.
Spread dry pine strew about four inches
deep on the elevated spot. Place tbe
potatoes in as high up cone shape as
possible throwing out all cut by plow
or hoe. Cover over with dry pine straw
about two inches. Then place corn
stalks or boards. Throw about half
inch of dirt from ground up about
twelve inches. Place a shelter over to
keep rains off and let it remain about a
week if not too cold. Then throw on
one inch of dirt. When the weather
gets to a freezing point put about one
inch more. Never throw dirt entirely
to the top.
Leave about six or eight inches space
with ends of corn stalks lapping. This
is sufficient to let out what heat may
generate within, knd keep tbe biting
cold from entering. When this is done
remove all the shelter except enough
to keep the rain from falling on the top.
If you will follow these directions
you will have a pretty good Sub-Treas-
ury bank to draw from on the south side
about 10 o’clock a. m., in mild, open
weather.
A home Sub-Treasury, that is, so fai
as I know, in harmony with the consti
tution of the U nited States and altogeth
er practicable. I really believe Hon. J.
C. C. Black and the Augusta Chronicle
will agree to let us follow this plan, thej
are interested in no kind of hanking
system and are not strict.lv in the pota
to business,besidi s it would do;them nc
good and the farmers no barm to raise
their righteous protestations against it
notice!
Notice is hereby given of intention t<
apply to the legislature of 1890 for th<
passage of a bill of which the followiiq
is the title, towit: A Bill to be entitle!
I an act to amend an act approved Nov
j 12th. 1889 incorporating the Atheni
I Railway Company, so as to' confer ad
ditional rights and powers upon sail
Company.
The Athens Railway Company
W. 1.1.
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