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Waynesboro, Georgia, Friday, April 23d, 1886.
Number 51.
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Kreil Freeman, the Bay Slayer.
Autographs lit Auction.
tion to the fact that Michigan lum
bermen had bought many thous
ands of acres of the best pine lands
of Mississippi and Louisiana, at the
government price of $1 25 per acre.
These men have had agents in the
pine districts of the South for sev
eral years, selecting the lands
which contain the best timber, and
they have made their purchases on
the reports of those agents.
The pine forests of the Northwest
show marked signs of exhaustion,
while the demand for pine lumber
is steadily increasing. The Michi
gan lumbermen, knowing that there
are vast fortunes in the pine forests
of the South, have gone quietly to
work to get a monopoly of them.
The time is not distant when they
will begin to realize their fortunes.
Mr. J. M. Weston, a banker at Grand
Rapids, Mich., who has lately in
spected the timber on the lands of
the Michigan lumbermen in the
South, stated in New York a day or
two ago, that by cutting the timber
as much as $25, and perhaps $30 per
acre, net, could be made from
the lands at once. He said, how
ever, that it is not the purpose to
cut the timber now, but to wait
awhile until the demand for it be
came more imperative.
There is considerable idle capital
in the South, and it is somewhat
strange Southern capitalists should
permit such a splendid opportunity
to make fortunes be, to a great ex
tent, monopolized by men from the
Northwest. They need have no
tears that in purchasing pine lands
at $1 25 per acre they will lose any
thing, while the chances are that
in a very short time they would see
the lands worth fully twenty times
as much as they paid for them.
Some of the greatest fortunes in
the Northwest came from the rapid
advance in the value of pine lands,
and it is probable that there are a
few men in the South now who
own so much pine timber land that
they are really poor because of the
difficulty they have in paying their
taxes and linking their living ex
penses, but who will he rich from
the product of these lands in a very
few years.
A dispatch from Greenville, Ga., i Stnv York'iribune.
dated April 15th, srys: On Tuesday i An unusually interesting and suc-
of last week a travel-stained ragged . cessful autograph sale was held re
hoy of fifteen stopped at the house cently at Bangs & Co.’s auction
of Mr. Josie Hamby, a thrifty young rooms, No. 739 Broadway. Two
farmer, five miles north of Green
ville. The boy was intelligent for
his age and very hungry, asked for
employment. Mr. Hamby gave
the hoy work anil food. In a few
dajs Mr. Hamby suspected tHo lit
tle fellow was a fugitive, and asked
if lie was not named Fred Freeman.
The hoy fell upon his knees and
acknowledged his identity begging
that his secret might lie kept from
the public. Fred said he shot his
little playmate accidentally. They
were rabbit hunting. Fred had
cocked his gun, having caught sight
of a rabbit. His companion ran in
front just as Fred’s foot tripped
throwing him to the ground. In
falling the gun was discharged, the
entire load entering the body of
the hoy in front and killing him in
stantly. Fred’s parents sent their
son to South Carolina first. lie lias
been hotly pursued several times.—
Once a party reached the river just
as Fred reached the opposite bank.
The ferryman made an attempt to
detain Fred, hut the boys ready pis
tol was displayed and he left with
out hinderance. A sheriff was paid
$100 at another time to let the boy
go. Such are some of the stories
told of his adventures, lie so
wrought upon the sympathies of his
friend that after a few days stay
Fred was allowed to depart in
peace, notwithstanding tHe papers
state that a reward of $300 lias been
offered for the boy’s apprehension.
It is whispered that some one lias
started from here in chase of the
boy.
Singular Deformity.
Caring fur tiio Fish.
Savannah News.
Ur. II. II. Cary, state superintend
ent of fisheries, arrived in the city
yesterday for the purpose of taking
the necessary measures to inforce
the laws in regard to fishing in
Georgia waters.
l)r. Cary has appointed Messrs.
Thomas IT. Laird and Washington
Creekman, fisfl wardens for Chat
ham county. It is the duty of these
officers to see that the law of the
state is obeyed and to arrest all
violators. “Closed time” in all the
rivers of Georgia in which shad are
caught, of 48 hours, commences at
sunrise on Saturday morning of
eaeli week, and ends at sunrise on
Monday morning of the next week,
during which “closed time” no shad
or migratory fish can be lawfully
caught by nets, wires, pounds or
any other means, and no nets, wires,
pounds or other apparatus can he
left set in the rivers during “closed
time.” The meshes of nets or other
apparatus for catching said fish
must not be less than five inches.
The law says that no shad shall
he taken by any means whatever,
except between Jan. 1st and April
20th of each year, except for spawn
ing purposes.
The penalty for violating the law
is a fine not to exceed $1,000, impris
onment not to exceed six months, to-
work in a chain-gang on the public
works not to exceed twelve months,
and any one or more of these pun
ishments may be ordered in the
discretion of the judge.
l)r. Cary visited tiio murkot yes
terday and found on one stall eight
roe shad. That many roes, it Is esti
mated, contains about’ 750,000 eggs.
The doctor says that it is impossible
to have fish in the rivers if they are
not allowed to run up stream to
spawn. All fishing of migratory
flsli must cease on April 20th.
Ki.miua, April 19.—John Burke
lives with Ids wife and mother at
the foot of a high mountain near
Skinner’s Eddy, l*a. On Saturday
night, about 11 o’clock, a rock
weighing several hundred pounds!
became loosened near the top of the
mountain. It rolled swiftly down I
and struck the side of Burke’s
house. It passed through the house, i
demolishing the kitchen stove, and
grazed the bed in which old Mrs. j
Burke was sleeping. The rock then
dashed through the opposite side of ^ | t ,r j (J0 |,
the house, and, crossing the yard,
struck a well curb, which It knock
ed into splinters, and dropped into
the well, where it now is. It closes
the well entirely up.
Charleston, S. C. April 17.—One
of the greatest physical curiosities
of the age has been found in Lau
rens county. Darwin’s missing link
has been discovered. The fact that
a boy now' over 12 years of age still
wears dresses, has long excited the
curiosity of the Darrah community
in Laurens county. His parents
explained this by saying that he
was deformed and could not wear
ordinary trousers. The boy runs
and jumps as well as other children,
and shows no signs of deformity.
The mystery lias been solved by a
physician who recently attended
him w’hile he had fever, lie says
that the boy’s backbone is prolong
ed into a tail about eight inches in
length, and that it is covered with
a thick growth of hair. The tail
wags just like a dog’s. His parents
made several attempts to make the
boy wear trousers, hut whenever
the caudal appendage is bent to
one side it pains him. The boy is
active and in perfect health.
Jlnjor Ju.-kf.on Horn to the Chain (lung.
Augusta, Ga., April 19—The re
mitter in the case of the state vs.
George T, Jackson was entered
upon the minutes of Richmond
superior court to-day, and the body
of the defendant w r as delivered over
to the sheriff. The sentence goes
into effect immediately, and Major
Jackson left to-night to enter upon
his term of imprisonment. This
ease stands out prominently in
vindication of the dignity and im
partiality of the law, No defend
ant ever stood higher In the esteem
of his fellow citizen; no case of like
importance involving such large
amounts and such woful conse
quence has been pushed to a speed
ier trial and final sentence. While
this vindication of the law inspires
renewed confidence on the part of
our citizens, there is nothing hut
sympathy and compassion in Au
gusta for those who suffer from this
fearful blow. The Old Town con
vict camp, Jefferson county, is the
major’s destination.
New York Sun 20th inst., says:
The body of Leopold Schenek, the
editor of tiio Gorman edition of
Puck, who died in Aiken, S. C., on
Tuesday last, was incinerated at
tiio crematoiy at Fresh Pond, L. T.,
yesterday morning. There were
present about thirty persons, in
cluding representatives from tiio
staff ot Puck. Thfcre wore no cere
monies, tiio funeral services having
been hold in Llederkranz Hall, N.
Y., on Sunday. Fifty persons liv
ing near tiio crematory had their
petition presented to the Newtown,
L. I., board ot health yesterday.—
They complain that after every in
cineration the stench is unbearable
for several hours. They want the
hoard to have it stopped.
hundred and sixty lots of letters,
cheques, signatures, etc., by all sorts
of celebrities,-presidents, generals,
statesmen and authors, collected by
Gluts. W. Fredrickson, were bought
for $2,000, about $8 a lot. The auto
graphs of the literary men, as a rule,
brought the highest prices. A let
ter by Iieranger started out at $5.50
Bryant’s MS. address at the unveil
ing of the Morse statue in Central
Park brought $20 50, and a letter of
Carlyle’s followed at $30. A letter
of Samuel Taylor Coleridge went
for $12, one by Dickens, a page and
a half, for $30, one by Irving, a page
from the MS. of “The Life of Wash
ington” for $54, and one of Thomas
Hood’s for $12 50. Four sonnets of
Leigh Hunt’s in autograph sold tor
$7. A letter from Dr. Johnson to
Rev. Taylor brought $20, and one
from Charles Lamb to Mrs. Novello,
$30. A single page written by Le-
titia E. Landon, “Poetess,” sold un
expectedly for $17. Two letters by
Longfellow were bought for $17 and
$18, and Lowell’s MS. of “The Foun
tain of Youth” for $20. Two letters
of Poe’s brought $30 and $45; one by
PoDe, $13; one by Harriet Beecher
Stowe $20, and one by Wordsworth,
an eight-line poem, $28. Two pieces
by Cruikshank went for $130.
Among the generals and states
men, Lafayette and Washington
bore off the honors. Two of Wash
ington’s letters brought $51 apiece,
and three others $20, $24 and $20.
Lafayette in English to Alexander
Hamilton, four pages, went for $101.
Franklin’s Letter to Dumas, Jan.
18,1771, four pages, brought $71, and
a good specimen of Webster $41.
Andrew Johnson script could reach
only $10. Jefferson’s ran up a little
further, to $19 and $19 50. A letter
by Jefferson Davis brought $13 50.
A specimen of Monroe sold for $7.
The signature of “the First Gentle
man of England,” George IV., fell
fiat at $5 50, and Queen Victoria’s
at $8. A letter of Martha Washing
ton’s, on the other hand, ran up to
$151, the highest price of the sale.
A commission signed by the patriot
Warren brought $17, a letter signed
by Thomas Paine brought $16, and
one by John Howard Paine$38.
Val liable VuHex.
Syracuse (N. Y.,) Standard.
A pair of vases which fetched
$27,500 came near being owned in
this city. These exquisite pieces of
pottery were of Cappi di Monte
ware, and had been picked up in
Rome by a connoisseur traveling in
Italy commissioned by several
friends to make some purchases
for them of art treasures. The
vases were bought for I. Forman
Wilkinson, of this city. The cost in
Rome was about $330 in francs.
Anythingof the kind entitled to the
name of Cappa di Monte was easily
worth that amount, and, though the
purchaser felt assured that lie had
not been deceived, he submitted the
vases to leading experts in London
on returning there. The ware bore
every test thought of to ascertain
its genuineness. One of the ex
perts'whose opinion was asked was
so confident-that the vases were a
rare bargain that lie then and there
offered $500 for them. The proposi
tion was tempting enough to bring
about a trade.
The next mail brought Mr. Wil
kinson a draft for nearly $3,000
the profit of the transaction, with
an explanation of the circumstan
ces. The purchaser refused to he
reimbursed for his trouble. With
some curiosity, however, lie after
ward watched the vases as they
came into fame in the circles where
fictile manufacturers of antique and
curious workmanship are sought
for. One day the vases turned up
in the collection of a dealer whose
customers are among the money
kings and blood royal. The owner
had set a price on his treasures
which made the vases the cynosure
of thousands of covetous eyes. It
was not long before a collector, who
never stops to count the cost, walk
ed into the shop and paid £5,500 for
the vases. Six montiis had elapsed
since Mr. Wilkinson’s connoisseur
friend mousing around the neglect
ed magazines of the ancient city
have brought the vases out into the
light of day to piny a part in the
art fancying of the period.
A Kelli* ot tlie IVnr.
Atlanta Journal.
A son of Mr. E. T. Horton, who
lives on Marietta street, near the
Exposition mills, while plowing in
a field near there a few days since,
found near the breastworks a ring
carved out of canncl coal and hand
somely set with silver. A silver
nlate is set in the ring upon which
is the inscription “C. Mattix, Co. F.,
Ark.” The initials “W. D.” are also
set in silver in tiie sides of the ring.
The ring was broken, hut all the
pieces were found and it will be
restored. Rings of this kind were
very common during the war, the
soldiers taking much pride in their
ornamentation. Should the owner
of the ring learn of its having been
found he could undoubtedly recov
er it by addressing Mr. Horton.
The Petitions of Colored People.
Savannah Morning News.
It is said by some of the Washing
ton correspondents of Republican
papers that since the shooting of
the colored men at the Carrollton
court house, Miss., a few weeks ago,
a great many petitions have been
received liy congress from colored
people in different parts of the
South, asking all sorts of impossible
things. Doubtless the correspond
ents have exaggerated the number
of the petitions and the character
of the requests made in them.
One of tlie petitions is worth more
than a passing notice. It prays for
a separation between tlie white
and colored races because, as tlie
petitioners allege, the two races
cannot get along together peacea
ble. The petitioners say that they
don’t want to revolt against the
government, but will have to do so
if they don’t get some relief from
tlie wrongs they are compelled to
endure. They think they would
like to have a territory to them
selves, iust as the Indians of the
of tlie Indian territory have.
Tlie petition is doubtless, the
work of some negro politicians
whose object is to gain a little noto
riety with their race. While tlie
Carrollton, affair is indefensible
front any point of view, it doesn’t
follow that the negroes are badly
treated in the South. In fact, there
is no class of working people in tlie
world who are so independent and
well treated as the negroes of tlie
South are. They do just about as
they please, and work only when
they want to, which is about half
the time. The idea of having a ter
ritory of their own is good enough
in theory, hut would hardly do in
practice. If the negroes were crowd
ed together in a territory they
would doubtless recede towards
barbarism rather than advance to
a higher civilization. While the
South would he better off without
tlie negroes, the negroes wouldn’t
he better off out of the South.
lie Won lit Like to Know.
The Catholic church of Athena
was robbed last Friday night. The
the silver candlesticks
and vases, which were made a pres
ent to the church by some friends
in Atlanta and Augusta.
Augusta Neivs: “On Saturday
afternoon, about 4 o’clock, George
Anderson, a negro hoy about 14
years old, was walking on McIntosh
street, between Ellis and Greene,
with a dead rat in lus hand, and as
lie passed John Wall’s Chinese
laundry he threw the rat into the
Chinese’s office, Lee Sing, an em
ploye of Wall, saw the negro and
made after him. A hot race took
place, the negro in the lead and tlie
Celestial in close pursuit. The race
terminated in front of tlie James
A. Gray building, on Broad street,
by the swift-footed Asiatic catching
George. He carried his prisoner to
tlie lock up, where lie remained all
night and came before tiio Recorder
for trial. When the Recorder asked
who captured Anderson, Lee Sing
waltzed up to the stand and ex
claimed: “Mo catcheo him for
floweo dead ratee inee my store.”
The Judge then fined Anderson
$6 50. The Chinamen grinned and
no doubt telt quite happy at his suc
cess in having tiio Meiican negro
punished.”
The Athens Banner-Watchman:
“One of tlie students of the Univer
sity wears a diamond that lias a
history. The grandfather of the
student was a dealer in slaves, and
seeing one of the young girls with
a diamond pin, asked her what
slio would take for it. The girl in
formed hi in that she had picked it
up on tiio streets of Montgomery.
Ala., and that she would take a red
handkerchief for tlie diamond. It
was purchased ior $5 and now
adorns the shirt front of the stu
dent.
Name me, and destroy me. Silence
A Montgomery County Bail III Trouble.
Savannah Morning News.
Ralph Morris, a citizen of Mont
gomery county, was brought to
Savannah yesterday by United
States Deputy Marshal Harris. In
the afternoon Morris was given a
hearing before U. S. Commissioner
Locke. Haines Allen, of Lumber
City, swore that about four weeks
ago Morris drove up to his store and
offered to sell a recipe for making
gin, rye whiskey, and rum. Tlie
price wanted for the recipe was $5.
Allen wanted to know how the
recipe worked, and Morris took
three vials of liquids out of his pock
et and made a sample of gin. Two
or three were allowed to sample
the preparation and they pronounc
ed it gin.
Theophilus Rose saw the opera
tion and got a drink. The liquid
tasted like genuine gin, lie stated,
and “would make drunk come.”
Morris stated in his own defense
that lie bought the recipe from a
party in Bullock county, wlm said
tlmt it was no violation of tlie law
to sell the recipe or to make liquor
by it ; but Morris was warned not
to sell any of his liquor. He said,
too, that lie had not sold any. lie
owns tlie right for two counties.
Morris was required to give bond
tor his appearance at court.
A Sudden Death.
Tlie Valdosta Times describes the
sudden deatli of Mrs. Margaret E.
Dasher, which took place in the
Christian church, in that place.
Mr. J. A. Harding, of Kentucky,
who had been conducting a series
of meetings, had just finished his
sermon and tlie last hymn was be
ing sung when those who were near
Mrs. Dasher saw her throw her
hand up to her heart and sink in
her seat. Who was supposed to he
in a faint and a little wine which
happened to be in the building for
sacramental purposes was adminis
tered to her, and wet handkerchiefs
applied to her face, but to no effect.
She died in about ten minutes. Mrs.
Dasher for some weeks had had sev
eral attacks about the region of tlie
heart. Only the day before she told
a near relative that several times
she was compelled to sit up in bed
two hours at a time, and she feared
that she would die suddenly and
anil alone sometime with one of
those spells. Mrs. Dasher leaves
two daughters , Mrs. W. A. Pardee
and Mrs. R. '1'. Myddleton, one son,
Mr. II. R. Smith, of Atlanta, quite a
number of grand children, and nu
merous other relatives.
Macon News.
Police Officer Baughn is very
anxious to unravel an early morn
ing adventure. This morning about
3:45 o’clock, the officer was on duty
at the shed. A carriage with close
ly drawn curtains attracted his at
tention, as being something unusual,
as the night was very pleasant.
When the north bound Atlanta
train came in from Savannah, tlie
officer was standing in the entrance
to tlie shed. Before tlie train stop
ped, a lady so closely veiled that
she ran against a pair of trucks,
knockiug her down, jumped off the
platform and made a break for the
door. She hesitated a second, saw
the carriage, ran to it, when the
curtains were drawn and a man
pulled her in. The driver plied the
whip to the horses, the carriage was
drawn rapidly away. A gentleman
who was present in his buggy fol
lowed the carriage. Then began a
race up Plum street, down Cotton
avenue, down Mulberry, down
Third, down Poplar, when the car
riage with the mysterious occupants
disappeared down a side street or
an alley. Officer Baughn described
the woman as being very fine look
ing and handsome. Diamonds
flashed from her hands and ears,
and she was elegantly dressed.
Conductor Grovenstein stated that
she got on hoard at Savannah. In
conversation she spoke of her hus
band at home, hut did not give her
name. The officer would like to
know what the unusual proceedings
amounted to, and thinks probably
that it is connectjd in some way
with Sunday night’s shooting.
Dili it fur a Joke.
Savannah Morning News.
The residents in the neighbor
hood of Price and Hail streets had
an interesting subject for gossip
yesterday afternoon and it was sed
ulously passed around from neigh
bor to neighbor.
About the middle of the day the
report was circulated that a young
man named Brown, who lives in
that neighborhood,had swallowed a
bottle of laudanum with suicidal in
tent. His wife alarmed tlie neigh
bors, who suggested stomach pumps,
emetics, mustard plasters and anti
dotes. The determined suicide pos
itively declined to accept the inter
vention and advice of his solicitous
friends, persisted in expressing a
desire for the coroner to sit upon
him.
After waiting a reasonable length
of time for the narcotic to act, and
no signs of death appearing, the
anxious friends became less con
cerned. A little later the supposed
would-be-suicide confessed that he
had not taken anything hut his
breakfast, and he said that lie was
joking and trying to frighten his
wife.
Baltimore, April 19.— George
Coleman, a colored Democratic
ticket holder at the last November
election, was tried to-day and con
victed of having voted illegally in
the fifteenth ward. Judge Duffy
sentenced him to six years in the
penitentiary.
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riage occurred here at tlie Hatch
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Whitfield and Miss Jennie Bass,
botli of Laurens county.
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Tennille with them. On arriving
here, she told iter brother she would
marry or die, and ho reluctantly
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and wetids had grown up over tlie
steps, ns if no one ever visited it.
Peeping in, to their surprise, they
saw cooking utensils and a hod
tumbled, as though it had been
used the previous night. This was
a mystery; they had tried every
means but failed to solve, until at
last they found an old gentleman
who told them, that about two years
before, a man with his wifo and
three children, from, lie know not
where, came there, built the house
and started to work, hut soon after
lie came his wife took sick and died.
He came for us, and we went and
hurled her one afternoon, and the
next iluy he and his children were
gone, and have never been hoard
of since. He left the house that
way, and it has never been molest
ed.
Cedartown Advertiser: The high
waters unearthed opposite town on
Cedar creek a quantity of Indian
relies in tho way of broken pottery,
arrow heads, hones, etc. Among
tiio relics was a sardine box, the
contents of which, it is hinted, by
being oaten Into at night, caused
the yellow chief to succumb to tho
grim monster.
There are 25,000 beer saloons in
I'a r is.
Athens, Ga., April 21.—Billups
Phinizy, son of Ferdinand Pliinizy,
and Miss Nellie G. Stovall, were
married this evening at the resi
dence of tlie bride’s father, Rev. C.
W. Love officiating. The bride is
one of the most beautiful, accom
plished and popular young ladies
of tho city. The attendants were
Misses Morton and Rutherford, of
Athens; Misses Stovall, Craig, Bar
rett and North, of Augusta; Mrs.
Wilkins, of Waynesboro, and Miss
Coates, of Baltimore. Messrs. Sto
vall, Sandford, Stanley, Nicholson,
Scudher and Burke, of Athens,
Washington and Macon; Barrett
and Craig, of Augusta; lion. George
I. Seney and daughter, of New
York, were the guests.
A SIckfialiiK Story.
Chattanooga, Tknn., April 19.—
A horrible story comes from Rising
Fawn, Ga. Three weeks ago, dur
ing tlie flood, the ore mines In Look
out mountain were flooded sudden
ly, and a young miner named
Thomas Ren nett was drowned.—
When tho water was pumped out
poisonous gases arose and no one
dared to venture where the body of
tho unfortunate was laying on u
slope. A few days since all the cats
in tho entlro neighborhood disau-
peared, and yesterday it was found
they had entered tho mines and
were feasting on tho miner’s body.
To-day, by moans of turpontino
halls, It was seen that tho ferocious
felines had devoured tho body.
The (Juheriisturlsl Here.
(Savannah Times Hoeolnl.
Atlanta, Ga., April 21.—Gen.
Gordon is now squarely in the race
for governor, llo has closed the
contract with a lending Syndicate
of capitalists for tho building of tho
Florida road which releases him
from active management. This puts
him in the gubernatorial race. Ho
is the only man Bacon fears.
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