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ATHENS 6A., TUESDAY MORNING. MARCH 24. 1891.-8 PAGES
VOL. 59 NO. 18
' ot accidents along the Covington
*ud Macon, serve to show the defects
of these roads, both with reference to
their rolling stock, and their road
beds.
There has been one small wreck
#n the Georgia railroad, tbongh it is
- very ^rne that the road bed of this
line is is far .better condition than
that of the others. The great cause
of complaint with the Georgia rail
road rests with the shabby, dingy
passenger carsHbat have been posh
ed off on the Athens and Union
| Point branch.
What better evidence could be
asked than is to be fiofand with the
condition of Athens* railroads to
urge the appointment of a state rail
road inspector? This is a crying
necessity in Georgia, and the next
legislature should take a step in this
direction. .
A GHOST WAS SEEN
children’s Department.
A TERRIBLE CHARGE.
States the bloody shirt organs at the
North conld not 1st the opportunity
afforded by the execution of the Ma
fia murderers on Sunday pass with
out hitting the South a yap. It
made no difference to them that
there was no politics in it and that,
it was a negro whose willing Arms
wielded the ram which battered in
the prison door. Here was sn op
portunity to raise a bowl against
this section with the lawlessness as s
text and it bad to be utilized. In
deed, in their eagerness to condemn
sn action of Southerners they have
entirely overlooked, and made no
mention of, the insult offered by the
Sicilians to the American flag Fri
day evening. On Saturday morning
the New Orleans papers told the tale
of bow, after the aqnittal of Hennes-
sy’s assassins on Friday, the Dagos
hauled down the American flag from
their loggers and tore, trampled and
spit upon it and then ran it op up
side down obder the Italian flag to
show their contempt for America
and all things American. And this
is the class of people that such ois
gans as the Chicago Inter Ocean are
i raising a bowl over on account ol
justice having been meted out to
some of their number who were clear-'
ly proven to be cowardly assassins.
Tribune-of-Rome lends its sym-
, t be Classic City thus: “Ath-
mvotved in another prohi-
;t. Poor Athens!’*
be the Augusta and
r the Fort Payne and
be safely said that Ato-
And It Was An Indian Ghost—The
Story of a Tragic Murder and How
the Spirit of the Dead Man Walks on
Earth.
They Say He Poisoned His Wife but
the Evidence Does not Sustain the
Charge—The Jury Hung.
4 county in Georgia that
c‘\ enterprising weeklies
- a ith her Echo sod Herald,
*o great trank lioes^now
Athens. the Augusta and
an l the Fort Payne and
•h will he welcomed.
about evenly divided for acquittal and
for a verdict of guilty.
Times and the Recor-
rill be nursed into life
bower both pretty soon,
u Telegraph: Italy has
.vr. made up of 238 yes
es guns and manned by
vo or three of the ves-
■ powerful armorclads
Rut however % great
v be, it is not at all
, f it will be seen on thia
antic soon. The Mar-
wasobliged to protest,
■ c for compensation for
he men killed at New
e knows what the Mafia
v. in his secret thoughts
be mob did a very good
rmntdi^e. idly. His sharp nose and small eyes
appeared to he points in hi* favor, at
h^ttjhqy did not prevent his star from
risiijg and biasing in the ranks of heal
ers.*! His medical skill was remarkable
and patients flocked from tor and near, t
He was raeee&sful, very successful, and ,
weH thought of by all. He promised to
be a fixture and the sick clapped their
hands for joy.
TOST HAXDSOKE Win.
The popular doctor was ac
companied by a dashing blonde,
apparently about twenty-five years old
who efipti rated all by her good looks
and pleasing manners. The geuial doc
tor and the dashing blonde, whom he
introduced as bis wife, took np their
quarters with Mr. J. K. Skelton and
soon ingratiated themselves into the
good graces of their host.
They were loving and paid their
board regularly, ail was quiet and se
rene.
that esm wax.
But a change came over the demeanor
of their friends, they became cold and
hardly spoke to the ungainly disciple of
Esculapius and his beautiful companion.
What caused thia change?
Nothing hot the simple fact that
Glover bad been taken back to Jeffer
son county, mind yon, taken, he hsd to
go for he was arrested. He arranged
the matter in some way and returned,
but confidence in him was shaken and
to crown all this the rude officers of the
law seized his fair partner and himself
and put them in jail. Tbi^ wa*.terrible
hut some of the friends whom the* fel
low bad made stuck by him.
OCT ok BOND.
These friends rallied to his support
and in a short time both parties bade
good-bye td the prison walls and were
free as air, save for the fact that lynx-
eyed sureties were on the watch to pre
vent their seeking “fresh fields and
pastures new.”
THU EEAL Win COWES.
About three months ago the real wife
appeared.
HOW TO GET A PENSION-
In the interest of all Confederate
widows, The Basses publishes again
the information furnished by the
State authorities instructing appli
cants bow to get a pension. Here
are some valuable pointers :
The pension is only payable to
certain classes of widows.
Those whose husbands were killed
in serv ce.
Those whose husbands died in the
army of wonnds or diseases contract
ed in the service.
Those whose husbands went to the
at my and have never been beard
from since the war.
Those whose husbands were wound
ed io the army and have since died
from the effects ot the wounds.
Those whose husbands contracted
disease in tne service, and who after
the war died of the disease caased
j by the service.
No widow is entitled unless she
was the wife of the soldier daring
the war, and has never remarried.
The law does not provide for any
one living out of the State of Geor
gia, or who did not live in the State
at the date of the act.
The facts to establish a claim must
be substantiated by the testimony
I of three witnesses who personally
| snow of the enlistment of the hus
band and bis death, and the imme.-
| diale cause ot the death.
| Widows who have married since
| the service of tbeir husbands in the
I army are not entitled.
The payments will be made opon
I proper pi oofs presented to the exec-
I ulive department,in compliance with
I the laws and forms to be furnished
I through the ordinaries of the State.
These blanks will be prepared du-
I ring the latter part of March and
I sent to the ordinaries.
The pajments will begin about
made the Spaniards cease their cruel
quarrels with one another, and £pua
bag not been so peaceful prosper
ous for many years.
Would not you little men and women
like to peepatuiis royal little man in
his home—to know just bow be spends
the day?
His home is in Madrid, the capital of
Spain. The little fellow, only three
years old, has the second story of the
royal palace all to himself and his at
tendants. His own rooms are directly
•vi.ie Trioune like theen-
re-pero is j. urtiai that it i»
liouor of St. Patrick’s day
me -tine of green. Miss
,, tne editor of the Tribune
he success that her excel-
achieving.
THE LATE CENSUS-
Like every thing else with which
the late republican congress had
anything to do, the census tarns oat
to be a perfect fraud-
It is, ofcourse, natural to hear com
plaints against the work of the cen-
sus takers in cities and sections that
are disappointed in the coant, and
every one expects to hear these com
plaints aired however careful the
census authorities may have been to
get a fair count. Taking a census
is frequently a thankless task, foi
be actnsl figures often do not quite
come np to what the people of a city j
or section had been led tnexptc-
But, the last census caused such
| universal dissatisfaction all over the
country, io the North as well as in
South, and has been denounced s<-
anamiconsly by the press of the
whole country that it is clear that
there ia genuine cause for complaint.
The methods panned in many lo
calities by the censns department
I were at once open to just condemns,
-mo. In many instances igc rant
negroes were made enumerator’ and
] given other positions in the depart
I meat that teqnired a thorough schol-
I ar to fill it with any degree of com-
The carelessness of the
case built from her own bedroom up in
to his chamber. The least sound, a
cough, a sigh in the siienoe, awakens
her- A dozeu times in the night she
goes to stand upon the little stairs, and
listens to see that all is right.
Tbe little King’s bedroom is bright
and pretty. The carpet is red. iiis
bedstead is bronze; its curtains and
spreads are azure blue. A pretty fairy
lamp burns at night on tbe table.
When he was ill, not long ago, the
Queen slept on a sofa by bis side seven
nights without undressing.
His little Majesty rises at seven.
His nurse and bis governess come then
to dress turn. The first thing he does
is to kneel on bis little bed, and repeat
word by word after bis governess, tbe
Countess of Peralta bis morning pray
er, for his dead papa’s memory, for his
vftjng item appears this i
Dadnonega Nugget:
editor in Georgia who
a free pass and his name
. cai McNelley, oftheDah-
t. During his three years
work .n Georgia be has I
id ,i pass over his local r.til-
u*. one exception, and that
from Gainesviiie to At-
make this statement for the ]
rother Stanton, who, is oft |
irowing out his jokes about
editors and their free passes.
nvnT got the money to
we walk. The blamed
n't honor our request with
and so we have to walk—
We are having our bro-
.,ed now, prepa ratory to de-
tne Georgia Weekly Press
. which .wo propose to join
,e us iu. Then if we. don’t
-ce it »e cau’t induce oar
ors to boycott the railroads,
asn’t for Pat Calhoun for
t that oughn’t to cause us to
k to Atianta every two or
population of three hundred and thirty-
two thousand, and property valued at
two hundred and forty-four millions;
yet Baltimore had no regular system of
sewers.
t In the next place I object to a system
Aldermam: 8top! 'You misappre
hend the question. Tbe question is nop
sewers, or no sewers. The City Coun
cial has resolved to have sewers. If
you do not issue toe bonds, they will
borrow tbe money. Tbe bonds can bo
floated at five per cent. The money
will cost toe tax-players eight per cent.
Freeman: That’s tbe game is it?
So we are to be bull-dozed into the is
sue of tbe bonds by the threat of a big
debt at greater interest, ar.d consequent
ly higher taxation?
Alderman: Tnat is the state of tbe
case, though I would express it in dif-
ferent phraseololy.
Freeman: What are yon going to do
about that provision in toe Constitution
of Georgia, which declares “No County
or Municipality shall incur any new
debt, except to supply casual deficien
cies of revenue.” A debt for a system
of sewers, would not come under
category of “casual deficiencies” would
it?
Alderman: I don’t know, and care;
but I do know that if tbe people refuse
the bonds, toe council will borrow to»
; ATr-EsS WILL ONLY ACT.
I e 'me. isc’, ’-hat every citi-
Athens must see at once if j
tr..:L . is given to it.
I*,- Midland road must
j . ’ from McDonough to Athens*
Jur people can hardly realize the
::u j-oriance of the road to the
> ar t its future prosperity. The
crv ew with Col. E. C. Machen |
Uued in yesterday’s issue of
iz Banner explains itself. It is
splendid argument way Athens
..i have the road. It is only a
estion of a short time until the
a! JcRoanoke system will seek
r:.ruing line from the Georgia,
iro.ina & Northern on to New Or-
ars. If the line is not secured at
th -s. it will be at Atlanta.
The road is bound to have a South
■ -era outlet, and at present the
’■’it feasible oue is over the Geer
s' Midland by the way of Colum-
petence.
authorities has caased tbe censns to
be so seriously defective that it is
useless.
And this is bat another failun
added to the many failures of tbe re
publican administration.
She was a sweet looking
woman about thirty-two years old and
bad with her two fine looking young
sters, one three years old, toe other
eighteen months old. Her erring part
ner was received back into her good
graces, and tbe dashing blonde subsided.
Then the Doctor and his real and loving
wife built a cosy home near Strangers
court grounds, and all was In a fair way
to be forgiven until the Doctor became
brutal and said in the presence of
several witnesses that be wished he had
a divorce from his wife as he wanted to
marry the other woman. Then upon
various occasions toe sharp noaed fel
low rnelly heat his wife, so the
neighbors say and in other ways be
haved so. that public opinion was
aroused about his way of living.
to tbe Grand View Hotel, ask Cal.
Young or Joe Cart ledge to show you
• k. a vi k«..
the grave of Arch Murphey, the IndiaD,
and stay there a few hoars and you’l l
see this is no fictitious ghost story.—
“Pegwood,” in Toccoa News.
Shot His Son-In-Law.
Special by Neva Telegram Association.
Chattanooga, Tenn., March 21.—
[Special.]—Joseph Dobbs this afternoon
shot bis son-in-law, Bud Gossett. Tbe
latter received loo shots in his face.
Both eyes were put out and a probably
fatal wound was inflicted. Gossett’s
wife bad obtained a divorce from him,
and the ex-husband had gone to toe
has been appointed a member of Ut«-
Governor's staff and ex-officio a mem
ber of the Military Advisory Board.
Bbowk.—Senator Joseph E. Brown,
Hon. Pat Walsh and Judge John Brice
were elected as honorary members of
the S. C. society in Atlanta.
Mukfht.—We again take pleasure in
commending Editor Murphy’s bright
paper, The Augusta Evening Herald,
it fairly sparkles.—Atlanta Constitu
tion.
Cabasiss.—In the Congressional pos
sibilities for the Sixth district in 1892.
the name of Hon. Tom Cabaniss, of
THEY ALL LOVE TAFFY.
Under ibis beading in anotbei
column ofTHS Basses to-day wi i
be found an interesting letter fron
New York, the metropolis of th«
nation.
Tbe letter is the first of a scries of
letters from Gotham tha'
The Empress Elizabeth of Anstrilia is
having built on tbe Island of Orfu a
palace that "Will contain 128 rooms and
will cost nearly $1,000,009.
Beverly Tilden, a nephew of toe late
sage of Gramercy Park, has been sold
oat of bis apartments in London by toe
Sheriff. Young Tilden is toe leading
American dnde in London.
Some idea of toe vastness of “Lucky”
Baldwin’s stock farm and vinyard at
Santa Anita, Cal., may be obtained
Freeman: Well they may be willing
to borrow, twentj-five thousand, bat
with that inhibition in the Constitution.
I’ll be hanged if I would lend them
twenty-five hundred.
Alderman: How do yon stand on too
paving bonds?
Freeman: I regard your paring
scheme as for more unequal unjust ana
oppressive, than the sewer project.
Your own street Commissioner, who
seems an honest intelligent man declare#
that to pave tbe two miles of street with
in the fire limits, with Belgian blocks
would cost the tax payers one hundred
and twenty-seven thousand nine bun-
bouse of her father, where be bid him
self, first threatening to kill his wife,
.... .... . . q q ,|, r return
child and father in-law.
of Dobbs from toe city he was told of
goesipv
will be furnished The Baxxek even I
Sunday by Mr. John Paul Bocock > I
i the gifted sketch writer who ba-
aebieved such a brilliant record
with the New York World. Mr.
Bocock is a Southern man, being a
native of Virginia, and bis sketch
es are very eagerly sought after by
all the Southern dailies. He is *>
brother to Professor W. H. Bocock
ot the University.
In tbe letter which we print to day
I Mr Bocock hits opon a most inter
esting topic, and handles it in s
happy, interesting style. It is quit*,
to observe the little weak
the sitnation, and given a double-bar
reled shot-gun. He called on Gossett
to come ont, and the latter did so, bat
bnt with a revolver in his band. Tbe
old man retreated for a short distance,
but finally brought his gun up and
Walsh.—Among the distinguished
visitors in Mac^n yesterday were Hon.
Patrick Walsh, Editor of Tbe Augusta
Cbaonicle, and wife, who were on tbeir
way home from Savannah, where Mr.
Messrs. Morel!, Edmonds, Sherman,
Allison, Stewart, Jones of Nevada,
Mitchell and Ramson are the only mem
bers of toe senate still in service who
were fn toe chamber when Mr. Ingalls
first went there.
Wootton. toe famous'farm of George
W. Childs, lies a few miles from Phila
delphia. near tbe villege of Bryn Mawr.
Tbe estate abounds in magnificent trees,
-omt of which are more than three
hundred years old.
General Mahone is preparing to build
a town at the month of Cove Creek, in
Tazewell County. Virginia. A branch
road will be built from Tazewell Court
House to toe point mentioned and char
coal furnaces erected.
On the 9th of this month his wife
Mrs. Mary E. Glover, was taken sick
on toe 16th, she was dead. Her agonies
at the time of her death were terrible,
spasm followed spasm, convulsion fol
lowed convulsion and when not in these
paroxysims, she was in a stupor. Last
Monday evening at 4 o’clock she ex
pired.
WHAT THE POCTOT DIP.
With toe dead body of bis wife in tbe
home her bounty bad furniShed, after a
painful sickness had ended la a painful
death, this man went off and spent the
night elsewhere. And the next morn
ing he was trying to marry the blonde
woman, who turned out to be Ella Mc
Dowell, before the body of bis wife bad
stiffened in her grave. This made the
people angry and bis bondsmen and’
those of the bloode decided to give them
op. Tbe doctor heard thk and
attempted to get the woman out of the
country, but she was finally caught in
a negro caoin and she and the doctor
both pat hack in jail.
where Mr
Wakh delivered an address at the Hi
bernian banquet.—Macon Telegraph.
HALEY COULDN’T WAIT.
Two Frankfort Youths Found It Un
necessary to Fight It Out.
Special by News Telegram imdKim
Fbaxkvort, March 21.— [Special]—
Pat Haley, aged twenty-three years,and
Aleck Turner, aged eighteen years, got
into an altercation at midnight last
night over a dispute as to which had
toe right to dance with a young lady at
a ball which they attended. They
started to the sandbar ts settle it, bnt
before they reached toe designated spot
Haley attacked Turner with his pocket
knife, and ent him in three {daces
across the face. Tbe wounds are pain-
61 ^ mm mm
Spotted Fover.
Pittsburg, March 21.—Superintend
ent Baker of the Bureau of Health, has
said that be had had five cases of spot
ted fever reported to him. They are in
a thickly populated district at toe city
lying along the Allegheny river. Doc
tors say the disease is highly epidemic,
kills in eighty cases out of a hundred
and is more to be dreaded than cholera
or smallpox.
Near Colfax Station, on the West
Pennsylvania goad, three deaths from
the fever have occurred in the family of
Samee Remalty. There are also several
cases at Cheswick, this county.
ot_r euorts. I amusing
I* is stated that if Athens willl nesses, and private fancies of all]
c -arantee through her citizens the meD and won,Pn; a ° d *° diTt J
. ... , . . _ . right into i heir private Ives and
- -of-way through Clarke County L S agh at lheir cnuiky i iu ie motives
s “ d ^ r °P er terminals in Athens there 1# fon enoogh> to be sure.
Be no trocble in having the Think of it, that a nation’a presi-
roai built to this place. dent, the Duke of Marlborough
Bv all means, let oar citizens Count Thomas Edison, Mrs. James
«*•.«. U>U uke U» ■*—■> “’T*. “J r b
I m*-n as Grover Cleveland and bnn-
e: in hand and work for its sue- j dred(| of olhfT8 crmzed with
c * ,i - means a great deal for desire of notoriety that acluh
A‘-~ec«. The Georgia, Carolina &, has been formed among them through
Northern will be a great help to the which they are brought to see clip
tr ‘>> but coupled with the Georgia P^g* each day from the press about
\i. i . , ... . . themselves. What a thirst for
, * 1 “ *>“ ■»*■■**• pniM this world 1. becoming wX-
- . ^creased. dieted with! Wbata vain old world
'tart the ball rolling. Let this | t lt> ;
*»tyec'. be agitated and discussed. — —
and *ef*el as.nred that it will not ATHENS’ RAILROADS.
** l r n b foi® tbe Geoigia Midland All of the railroads now running
be i. nur mid*’. to AUleD • °“* fe ^
fnl and quite ugly looking, bnt it is
thought they will not prove serious.
A Peculiar Succession of Sudden and
Violent Deaths.
Special by News Teiegnn AsMdation.
Columbus, Ind., 21 —Two funerals
today strikingly recall toe fact that
there bad been a succession of sudden
deaths in tbe Howell family of Clark
county, south of this city.
Eight years ago, Mrs. Thomas How
ell was found dead. Some time. after
ward her husband was killed in a rail
way accident in California. Tbe father.
Martin Howell, was seized by neural
gia and died unexpectedly- _ 'i be young
Haley is under arrest, and will have an
wT.minitinn later.
Aa sake tbe angels weep.”
Alderman: Why do yon kick so
bard? Yon are not a let owner and
two-thirds, nearly three-fourths, of tbe
paving tax will fall on lot owners.
Freeman: What of that! It is none
the less my duty to treat all my fellow
citizens justly. I vow, before God, that : .l
not one of the sous or daughters of toil,
who have labored, long and bard to get
a shelter for themselves, and those de
pendent on them, shall ever be evicted
from their homes by a vote of mine.
May my tongue cleave to toe roof of my
month before it leaves to sang toe mis?
erable, selfish son g£
‘WJiTftfcr mill.UK. T torewysttf Ss
child ot 1 hornas Howeil followed, and toe Grove yesterday on bnsiness-
- oaraly tic stroke ended toe life of Wil- Our nroenerous merchants are recsiv-
liina Howell, then living at Edinburg, ing tbrir nSw spring and summer goods
—“ miha. sooth of this city, a few everydav now in car load lots.
2 Mayor T.E.K-y and wife hare re-
deS."hby°alocumotive in Louisvilfe? iKSfc^Cito**"* ^ *°
Today were buried tbe bodies of Mrs. fr ~ cd8 *“ u >* ? lty - J
Martin Howell and her son Robert, Hon.W. A. Quilliaaand son Robert
both of whoa died at Colorado Springs. I returned bom^jesterwj from a abort
Mr. Howell went to Colorado Springs! riay with their many friends in Banks
seeking a restorAtion of health, and ms i county.
condition growing desparate bis mother j Messrs. IF. G. Alexander and R. L.
was snmmone i- She was taken ill J. Smith left this morning to attend
while en route and her death preceled Justice court at Wilmot’s Court ground,
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