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ATHENS BANNER t TUESDAY MORNING MAY 26 1 891
THIS NEGRO COLLEGE-
As was told in the news columns I
of yesterday’s Banner, the,Universi
ty tor the colored youths of Georgia
will open its doors in Athens on
Monday, June 1st, for a temporary
course of three months.
Chancellor Boggs, who was made
general supervisor of this college by
the bill establishing it, has perfected
every arrangement whereby the col
lege can "be opened with every ap-
pointment here in Athens for the
first three months, pending tbe pei
manent location of the college in Sa
vannah or Americus.
A complete corps of instructors
have been selected and the college
will open in tbe building of tbe Bax
ter street school ready for all appli
cants for admission who are more
than fourteen years of age and who
can pass a creditable examination
The Commission on the negro cols
lege will hold a meeting heie in
Athens on June 16th, at which time
it Is hoped that the misunderstand
ing between the State and Secretary
Noble can be satisfactorily adjusted,
so that the negro college can be per
manently established in Savannah
or Americus before October, and so
that the State University can get its
share of ths congressional fund al
lowed the State of Georgia.
' Unless this adjustment is satisfac*
orily settled then, thefBANNEB finds
WILL BE FIRED INTO A
FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLAR STOCK OF GOODS II
Last week’s purchase of Dry Goods and Shoes made by me in Baltimore, New York and Boston was immense. ^A.nd why ? This is easily guessed. Cheap was th
chief cause. Many a Jobber of Dry Goods, over-crowded, were compelled to unload to realize ine oara aouars, Who in this country ever had the pluck and coo** 1
to go to the East at this time of the Summer season in search of Bargains ? MIX JO PH. does not fail to invest his hard cash when such Grand Bargains are offif
ed as from the last 800,000 dollar faiinre of Falk & Sons and Levy Brothers and Leon freres of New York. My watchful eye never deceives me. I was right at a*
spot, and my monev did the work, I have bought some goods at 20c. up to 50c. on the dollar,and never more, I will scatter these won ierfnl Bargains, and inorta
to well advertise myself, I will offer Every Day this Week, all day. from the early morning until the sto e closes, as INTBO.HJCTOBY SALE, the following :
All are Fresh and New Goods. Styles the Very. Latest. But Come Early, as some of th«
' BEST BARGAINS are generally taken first by the early callers.
»
Don’t wait, and think later in the week you would find them anyhow,
One case WHITE LAWN at 3 cents per yard ;
One case FIGURED LAWN at 3 cents per yard;
One case FINE SHEER WHITE LAWN at 5 certs per yard;
One case FIGURED VICTORIA LAWN at 5 cents per yard.
O .e case 7-8 yard wide • • OQD BLEACHING, Remnants, 3c. a yard,
One ease yard wide BLEACHING at 5 cents;
One case FINE CHALL1E at 4^c.
One case “ D’Africaine at 5c.
“ “ •* D’Orient at fr£c;
One case Plaid Victoria L WNS at 5 cents per yard.
One case RYSIV1C SUITINGS at 5c. per yard ;
One case al - Wool Challie|at 15 cents a yard.
Oue case B. & W. Challie at 5 cents a yard.
WHITE GOODS.
The Largest Stock of these Goods ever shown
in our city™Tempting Prices for this week
are the following:
All the different Challies are in various colorings, light grounds, dark
grounds, figured or plaid, the new grey grounds with Polca dots black
grounds with high colored figures, or white and black. They are beautiful
it very difficult to see how the negro | aa( j e y er y style imaginable introduced,
college is to be established next fall
at all, for its main hope is the ap
One-case Check Nainsook at 4£ tents per yard;
One case Sa'in Striped Lawn at 5 cents per yard;
One case very Fine Satin Plaid Lawn a’ 6 cents per yard;
One cas- Lace Striped Sheer Lawn at 8} cents;
One case- t-atin Plaid Nai* sook at 7£ cents;
One case 15 cents grade Nainsook at 8 cents;
One case fine Victoria Lawn at 5 cents.
One case India -Linen Lawn at cents;
240 yards very wide dotted Swiss, very fine 30c grade at 15 cent^;
1 JR innk filrivfin/* T.ourn Satin Unwlni* at! WAfhll Bfl
Elegant Dress Ginghams at 6c.
8 pieces Ureylock Side Baud Zephyr Cloth at 81 cents.
8 pieces New Steel Grey Cashmere, 45 cents grade at 26c.
8 pieces B ack Cashmere, 60c. grade at 35c.
800 yards double width figured Suitings at 10c;
Great
:BLE 4CHING SALE
Special of all Specials.
grade at 3c, W
2000 yards Remnant- good 7 8 wide Bleaching, 6c
from 2 to 7 yards.
One case Wamsutta Bleaching, Remnants, 2 to 8 yards, at 74c.
One case French Satteens, Remnants, 7}c.
One case fine Cheviots, 10c.
varus very wiuo uuuou oniooj wuv ** v vvuw v •jcu\ j t> o • tr i
1.60 yards 45 inch Skirting Lawn Sa in Border at 15c; worth 35 cents; ^ yards Pongee Suitings, 7^c
460 yards Tissues, 25c grade at K'cents; | Krom the failure a large lot of Embroideries, White V
One case Black Plaid Nainsoo* at 64c; -r,, . , i, P ., , ’’uue oirisj
One case Black (-heck Lawn a' 8 cen;s. | FlouucingS, Black Embroidered Mull Skirtings. j’fii
One case Black Satin Striped Lawn at 10 cents;
One case Brittania Cloth, double width at 124 cents;
"m
436 yards French Ginghams
choice for any in the lot at 8J cents.
j Flouucings, Black Embroidered
are hard to name.
The Grand Exhibition and Fine Display cf
v store will J --“ ** •
of woe for competitors.
36i " c ’' Lla ” # C ' 0 ‘ai-d Zephyr cloth; 12* t. 20c. gmd.- ! Goods at the front of my store will terns 1 ,ail)
propriation to come from the United |
Slates government.
OUR WOMAN’S DEPARTMENT.
ONE GREAT SPECIAL AND EXTRAORDINARY BARGAIN FOR TEN DAYS.
With the next issue of the Sunday | (j ne j ar g e lot of Remnants, all-wool Challie, Mulls, French Satteens, Nunsveilings, Organdies, Zephyr Giaghims. for the nominal sum of FIVE CENTS PER
Banner we will begin to publish a YARD FOR CHOICE. The actual values of the above are from 10 to 60c. qnalities.
Woman’s Department. This i6 a
feature of Sunday newspapers that
is growing in significance every day,
and adds very much to tbe general
interest of every first class paper.
No Sunday paper is complete with-
Respectfully,
MAX JOSEPH.
oat a Woman’s Department, and it
shall be our special endeavor to make I well content for the Southern Stales
this corner most interesting for the to have seceded and carried that is-
ladies.
(Mrs.) Eva Freeman Hart, of this
State, whose contributions to North
ern journals have won for her such
a reputation in the world of South
ern literature will have editorial
charge of tbe Banner's Woman’s
Department, and it goes without say
ing that it will be one of the bright
est pages in the Sunday Banner.
She is a charming writer and knows
jost what pleases the dear women.
Let the ladies keep an open eye
for the Woman’s Department of next
Sunday’s Banner.
As
and
THIS IS GOOD, SURE
TO NAME THE WAR.
Superintendent of education May-
field has written a letter to the pub
lic urging the necessity for Southern
writers to agree on a name for the
war between the States of 1860 —65.
He wants them to take a name that
will convey at once the principles
sue out of the Union with them,
it was, tbe issue was clearly
plainly the right of the seceding
States to form a Government of their
own. On that issue the war was
fought, and it was the only issue set
tied by the result of the struggle.
This, it seem to us, is a true and
plain statement of the plainest fact
of tbe war, and, if so, it would be a
misnomer to call the war“The States
Rights War.” It was a war for the
independence of the Southern States,
nothing more, nothing less, and the
best name for it we think would be
the best name that would set forth
this truth—that is, ‘‘The War for
Southern Independence.
The New Hotel is Tak
ing Shape.
MR.
We think that Alliancemen should
address themselves atresh to tbe
work of educating the people upon
the great questions before the conn
try, says the Progressive Farmer,
an Alliance paper. But tbere should
, .. . _ . ... . _ , be no spirit of intolerance mani*
for which Southern soldiers fought, te8le( j j n work of educating the
He expresses as his opinion that it | people. There are good and true
best be called “The States Rights |
War.”
Speaking on this line tbe Charles
ton News and Courier says:-
We agree hearily with Mr- May-
field in most that he says, and only
men in tbe Alliance, who have opin
ions of their own, aud are honestly
desirous of throwing all tbe light
possible upon tbe public questions,
with a view of'getting at the exact
truth. Let no one read these men
out of tbe Alliance because they
dare to think for .themselves. This
Alliance movement has won its
differ from him materially indeed as present position mainly by eDconrag
to the perfect propriety of tbe name 1^discussion of public ques-
■ r r J 1 lions. Whenever tbe time comes
which he suggests. Our own opinion I that the A-liance throws tbe weight
on the subject of the best name to be I **’ 8 influence against the freedom
. , , . of discussion, the end of its influ-
adopted was expressed yesterday at ence for goo d will not be distant
some length, and we $ee no reason to The people of this country Will not
As we . Ud Uw. toe long |
continued contest for States’ Rights
ended when tbe Southern States se«* 1 DR * J * B> CULPEPPER,
ceded. Tbe war that followed was
not for States* Rights but for the in
dependence of tbe States whose
And his Sermons to Men Only Last
Sunday.
Atlanta, Ga., May 22.—[Special.]—
Rev. J. B. Culpepper, the evangelist,
rights were no longer respected. The I and soma of the preachers qf Atlanta,
South was invaded and ravaged for are < out8 ;” ®°® e 9t the mini8tere
took exceptions to the manner in which
four years not to overthrow the doc- | he spoke at his meeting for men only
trine of States’ Rights but to re
store it by force to the Union from
which it sought to escape, and it |
waged war on its part solely to repel
tbe invaders and to free itself from a
Government whose changed charac
ter and attitude were best represent.
ed by the invading armies.
If States’ Rights had been the on
ly issue, the contest would have been
tinued in the Union, or tue
States would* have been
last Sunday, and claimed that be used
wordB and expressions unbecoming
minister.
To this Dr. Culpepper replied last
night very strongly and bis remarks
were endorsed by almost every one
witbln the hearing of bis voice.
The 1890 club also endorsed bis utter
ances. He said he would refer the
whole matter to Dr. Hawthrone for
decision after bearing from both sides.
Dr. Hawtnrone in an offhand opinion
stated that he did not approve of the
style of Dr.Cnlpepper’s preaching.
Dr. Cupepper will have something to
say tomorrow night on tbe snbject.
TOOMER’S GREAT
OFFER.
HE MEANS BUSINESS AND WANTS
A $ 1 OO.OOO.BUILDINQ
for it is paying ten per cent, on every
dollar I have put in it.”
His PLAN FOB THE UU1LDING.
“What are your plans, Mr. Toomer?”
asked tbe reporter.
'Here they are in a nutshell. “Take
tbe site upon which my hotel is now
built, for It is the best to be found in
Athens. I give it to the hotel fund for
what it is worth. I also give $1,000 to
the fund as stock; then let us get other
capital interested both here in Athens
and away from Athens sufficient to se
cure $75,000 or $100,000 and then let
tbe company be organized, the plans
mapped and the contract given to a first
class architect.”
|ft“Tbe hotel ought to be four or five
stories high, and ought to cuntain 150
or two hundred good rooms. It ought
to be furnished elegantly, and we
ought to make it the nicest, though not
THEY COME ON
University of
STILL FEOM ITALY'S WROUGHT-
UP AND WRATHY L/ N D.
TH0US\NDS ARE SAILING.
His Hotel Site Is Given to the Move- the largest hotel in the Southern States,
The United States Consul at Glbralta
Says In a Report That Italallan Im
migrants are Coming to the United
States by the Thousands, and are
Boycotting Italy.
ment and he Will Take Big Stock
Besides—Great News for
Athens.
LET OTHERS FOLLOW SUIT.
There's good news.
Athens is going to have the' long
needed new hotel. , y , :
If she goes without it any longer,
this much is at least certain—it; will not
be Mr. J. B. Toomers fault.
Mr. Toomer wants to see Athens with
a better hotel. He is a hotel man him
self and his ideas are worth a great
deal.
But better than all Mr. Toomer has
started to work to secure the new hoteL
He has taken the lead in this all impor
tant matter just as he has taken the
lead in many important matters in the
growth of this,live city.
Mr. Toomer will give his hotel site,
together with all the furniture in the
building towards building a new hotel
for Athens. He ha* also headed the
list of stockholders by subscribing
$1,000, iu cold cash which he is ready to
plank down at any minute.
is that all?;
Not a hit of it. Mr. Toomer has been
communicating with Northern firms
about this matter, and has secured the
promise of a great hotel furnishing es
tablishment in Chicago that ifi t secures,
tbe contract to furnish tbe new hotel
it wifi take $5,000, or $6,000, stock.
“Now offer this,” said Mr. Toomer
to a Bannhr reporter yesterday, “sim
ply as a starter, for I know the people
of Athens need a new hotel more than
they need any thing else and I know
there are capitalists here and elsewhere
who will set about building
tae hotel yrith this as &
feasible nucleus.
“I want to say to you right here and
now,” continued Mr. Toomer, “that I
am in dead earnest this time. If I had
the moeny I would put it &U into this
scheme and build a $100,000 hotel my
self. But 1 haven’t that much money
I have tried the hotel business in Ath
ens and know it pays. Tbere is money
even in tbe little hotel I am running
and then get some good hotel man to
run it. These are my ideas.”
it \yiLL pay.
;‘There is money in a new hotel,,'
said Mr. Toomer, “lots of it.’,
“The corner store under this hotel I
have mapped out to you will bring $600
rental. I have already bad an appli
cant for it at that price. The other
stores will rent for $500,
“This is saying nothing of what the.
hotel itself will pay. Do' you know,
Washington, May 22.—The United
States consul at Gibraltar has made a
report to the state department in regard
to foreign immigration to the United
States, in which he says that no less
than thirty-one foreign steamships have
touched at that port during the last four
months, carrying 20,055 Italian immi
grants to the United States, and that
several other steamships are expected to
•follow soon from the same quarter with
immigrants in such numbers as to con
stitute a regular exodus from the Italian
kingdom.
The United States consul at Naples
reports to the state department, under
date of April 27, that a vast multitude
of immigrants are leaving that pert for
the United States, every steamer sailing
for New York being filled to its utmost
sir, that the hotels of Athene today are 1 c^P^ity by Italians principally from
crowded to death, and are making
money hand over hand? Its a solemn
fact, and the growth of Athens is ab
solutely crippled 1 because we bavn't
better hotel facilities.
. “Last year I.. was. a delegate to the
Undertaker’s Convention. There were
two places named for holding tbe con
vention this year, Athens and Bruns
wick. Athens was the favorite place
hut the secretary arose and announced
that the hotel accommodations of Ath
ens could’nt meet the demands of tbe
large attendance and Brunswick
got it because of the splendid Ogle
thorpe'hotel just finished down there.”
NOW TAKE IT UP. '
There’s a plain business like proposi
tion from Mr, Toomer.
Let Athens take it dp, and let the
capitalists of this city show their pub
lic spirit, by taking it up in the same
way that Mr. Toomer has given it.
Mr. Toomer is an energetic citizen,
and was never more in earnest. Re
has done much for Athens in tbe past
<nd has succeeded in every thing be has
undertaken.
Let the plan suggested by him find
other such champions, and let the new
“Hotel Toomer” go speedily up.
MRS. EBERHART'S FUNBRAL.
the Provinces Avuri, a very ignorant
and undesirable population. He Bays
the Neutria, which sailed April 23, car
ried 1,055 immigrants; the India, which
sailed the next day, carried 820, and
that the Belgrade, which sails on the
30th, will take over 1,400. Other steam
ers equally heavily freighted with immi
grants for the United States will also
sail shortly.
The consul says he is informed that
certain districts in Italy are nearly de
populated of men, leaving the work of
cultivating the ground to he done by
women altogether.
who graduated from the
Georgia in 1885
He was captain of the Piedmont
Rifles, who entertained tbe Clarice
Kifies at the Gainesville Fair.
He has skipped by the light of the
moon. The Jackson Herald tells the
story as follows:
“W. H. Cobb, a prominent lawyer of
Gainesville, and the captain of the
Piedmont Rifles, has skipped the coun
try. Captain Cobb has been for some
time past agent for a money-loaning
company, aud it appears that he had
been swindling the company, or tbe
borrowere—the law will have to deter
mine which. HU method of operating,
as we have been told, was to loan a
certain amount to a farmer, say
$200, and take a mortgage on the
farm for the amount. Then.he would
raise the figures to say $500. and for-
«ard mortgage to the o pany and
receive the money, and p«, ^00 io the
farmer and keep $300. This was a pret
ty slick game, and has been going on
some time, and the Captain is saul to
have lived pretty high. But when the
inrerest on the loans began to fall due
and the farmer* b ■can to forward it to
the company, the >cheuie was discov
ered. Last Friday morning several
warrants arrived at Gainesville for
Cobb’s arrest He vvas outof towuat
the time, and the officers watched for.
his return. Finally he was sein
coming in a buggy and
the . officers repaired to
the Arlington, where be he boarded, to
await bis arrival. A friend of Cobh’s
immediately warned him, and he went
around back of the court-house and
climbed up into the tower, where he re
mained, with a brace of pistols around
him, until night, when he quietly
went away in a buggy toward Dahlon-
ega.
His friends had raised $50 for him
during the day, aud it is said this was
all the money be had.
There will probably be many law
suits before the notes are collected,
as the money lenders bold the notes of
a large number of persons signed for
larger amounts than they borrowed.
TIRED OF LIFE.
Mr
Isaac Furr, of Banks Countj,
Hangs Himself.
Homer,Ga., May 22,—One<>f the mos!
tragical deaths that has ever
the history of Banks county wufti
of Mr. Isaac Furr on yesterday t»
ing. Be arose early aud went abouih
usual work. Having been absent
the h«u*e several hours, one ofh
grand-children, a little four year oW,
wept to the lot and found hiio in
barn. Seeing that there was somethin
wrong, the child returned to tne bona
and told it« grand-mother. She imw
diatelv went to the barn, fludiugbio
corpse, he having committed suicide
by climbing on the joist, tying s rnp*
around it, and one end around bunvek
and jumping off. Mr. Furr lived t»
miles from Homer, in the direction of
Maysville. He was an old and respect
ed citizen, and many friends will h*
of his rash act with profound regret,
the cause of wbioh is not known. Ssp*
posed to be flnanciv) failure. Beks'*
a wife and tbrei thiidreu. Aoi3 | l Mt
will be held to-day.
AN OHIO MAYOR ARRESTED.
Mayor Abbott of Tiffin, Charged With
Making an Indecent Aiunlt.
Tiffin, O., May 22. —Much feeling re
sulted upon the announcement that a
warrant had been issued for the arrest
of Mayor Rush Abbott op the charge of
indecent assault. -
The affidavit was sworn to by Mrs.
Mary Werner, a respectable middle aged
German woman, who charges that the
assault, preceded and accompanied by
foul propositions, occurred on the occa
sion of a visit to the law office of the
mayor on business.
Abbott denounces the movement as
blackmail, He was elected mayor as a
Republican in April last. The case will
be heard in a day
A QUAINT FUNERAL.
■ or two.
It Will Occur This Morning At Oconee
Church.
The funeral of Mrs. S., P. Eberhart
will occur this morning at nine o’clock.
It will be held at Oconee Street
church and will be conducted by Rev.
J. S. Bryan, pastor of that church.
It was postponed until to-day in-order
to enable some relatives of the deceased
to be present. . • i ... •
The bereaved family have the
thies of large a number of friends and
acquaintances.
A Sure Cure for Consumption.
Hopkinsville, Ky., May 22.—John
Willis, Jr., of Casky, a railroad station
several miles south of this city, attempt
ed siiicide by cutting two deep gashes in
his throat with a razor. His brother
had just died with' consumption, and as
he has the same disease he preferred
death by suicide. His recovery is im
possible. / .
BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON.
Some Curious ; Requests of Old Mr.
Greer.
Mr. James A. Greer, who has Just
been buried, made a curious request
some time since concerning his funeral
and the way in which it should be con
ducted.
Heappointed the pall bearers from
amobg bis friends and elected Messrs
J. C. Orr. J. M. Moore, R. Nickerson,
W. A. Jester, J. W. Martin and Dr.
umpkin.
He then asked that they should have
him buried in a plain coffin and that
the box in which it was placed should
be covered with a slanting Iroof like i
bouse. All the friends were to be in
v>’ed to his funeral, but they were ro
ll ted to follow his body no further
than the train and there to place it by
itself in the baggage oar.
At the funeral of the old gentleman
yesterday all these things were observ
ed.
The body was carried by the pall
bearers to the Georgia train by request
in tbe old mail wagon driven by Mr.
White and in which Mr Gretr had so
often ridden.
The remains were sent to Wilkes
county for interment.
C^RNBSVILLE CULLINGS-
What Is Going on In That HuitW
Town.
Carkesville. Ga. May 20th. !&*•*
[Special] Rev. W. M. R.ohlj*
turned to-day from a protracted v* 1 '!
relatives in Mississippi. „ i
T. M. Carson visited Elhertony*’*;' j
day on important business, p«W|
with a view to locating there «
future day. , J
Mrs. Manley’s condition has nuu’'
improvement. 8he can’t live
very short while at the longest. ,
We learn that there will be a PvJ
ball at Franklin Springs
night and our town will be well r.’i
sented. .
A. W. McConnell is doing »
iness selling sewing machines here. ^
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WITH LATEST IMPROVE* 1 ’”
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SCALES
W. H. Cobb Leaves his Native Heath They Have Finished.—The Seniors
Behind. hav. finished daily recitations and are
Many of the citizens of Athens wi” They will' 1 'V at l?. 1 *®’
Public School
tion of aU applicants for mt
Tbe u ndei signed will meet
tbe Court bouse In Athens on d»y ■*
o’clock, A -
ichew under.centiact_for^Jf?isS
hereby notified to be snd < **‘
from nine to ten, to receive
which here been provided forin
i. BERNARD, Co»»
May 18—td-cdm27
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