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E INSIDE OF ATLANTA.
THB STATE TO BOOSTJ THE
ATLANTA BOOM ?
ATLANTA
amo r That * HIS P»'e» »«■ Bran raid
tb« Technological School Site
tuxta, February 20.-It »u repotted
■ ra*/that the Peters Park Improve-
tfloitpany had made 01,er b J deed to
commiaaion on the School ol Technology
,.Iea of land in addition to the tract
la'ed by the company as* a site for the
'".i that the consideration was $9,000
iS hard cash. The afternoon papers
ied a very brief notice of the convey-
It the (Jonatitntion had any refer-
tbe transaction ot each importance
i been overlooked. Finding it difficult
dittbe report that the commission bad
aoy snch move, yonr correspondent
an effort to interview Mr. S. M. la
tte resident commissioner, on the
it, Int found that be was ont of the
The presumption was when the com-
;ion decided upon and accepted the site
d by the Peters’ Pork Improvement
„any that it was in every respoct auita-
or the purpose for whioh it was to be
i. No intimation wa9 published at the
t that the site bad not a sufficient area
ibe selection of that location would
seitate the purchase of additional land
tl enormous cost, for that locality, of
,1* $3,<SJ0 per acre. The reasonable and
prKunipUon is that there is some mis-
i iu the report. Otherwise the impress-
,„ia be crested that while the Peters
Improvement Company had nominally
ted»site for the school the gift was in
..ysfljKU, as the State had finally to
,'tery liberal price for it. It is not,
■tly speakiDg, a part of the duties of tho
ml,sion to boom the property of the
rs Perk Improvement Company at the
DM of the State, nor to give State aid
be .Visits t o nil which latterly is beiug
ndutriosly and assiduously nnrsed.
snr, tho commission is made
cf gentlemen of high chnrac.
and superior business capac.tji
this item is given msret.v as a part of the
sun cf o i| itol gossip, without vouching
it or entirely crediting it.
is the design of the commission, so far
in be gathered, to begins work just as
n tbs plans and specifications for the
tieg bare been acoeptcd.
WAR ON THB WINE ROOMS*.' "
Kmt.dl House Bar Closed—Tub Wise
Sellers Hold a Meeting.
IOTA, February 19.—When I walked
the Kimball Hongs this morning, the
tiing noticeable was tho smile of Ed
svay, the clerk, which was at half-mast
ism able brow. Before I could ask
cense of gloom be waived his hand in
dinciion of the wine room. It was
si
d inquiry, it was learned that tho pro
tors had resolved to close the wiue
u to avoid trouble. They do not like
idei of being taken hold of by the grand
»nd fiord $1,000 by Judge Van Epps
•llwicg wines, etc., to be drank on the
dies. So there will be no more selling
i* Kimball House by the drink.
•u st first rumored that Chief Connolly
iisurd an order closing all the wine
■\ but of course such was not the ease,
it developed that he had advised sev-
<iu roouists that it would be unsafe
th;m to continue to sell by the drink.
It i: vis ascertained that a secret meet-
of a majority of tho wine roomista was
1 this morning, at whioh it was agreed
to more drinks would be sold over the
dsr, bat in future they will sell by the
l sed not allow any drinking on the
lilts. Tneso gentlemen are certainly
iu taking tine by the forelock before
jrandjaty have a chance to take them
ihs forelock. "Be wise in time, 'lia
t to defer."
5«r» Abbott and Moncrief ran in 0. P.
ason who inns a wino room at 50 Decv
itntt, and he was booked for keeping
"'•“viul sale spiritnous, malt and for-
id liquors.
MB DODD’S VIEWS,
Own T. Dodd caught me by the
11 Was nasaino hia at, rn thlu Binmtnn
camps of tho convicts t nn» T J* inity i. , of tte
county on the At!nni* D ° W .?*™ orb * n Ibis
railroad.* 1 The pbvsi»£n * D , d Hawkin.vill«
John Nelms Sen/e^o the^, 1 ? 18 Dr ' AN
sass’Tsi's^Br
sorted tl,„ "uphatlcally as-
lyone : Captain English mode bis
apologies ard withdrew. Colonel Towers
fhe run?* kseper ’ who waa present, says
nDed hnf f, Iagg u ra ^ 8 what rea »y ‘»ns.
unto Jh?* * prob8b ly substantially repre-
rd t8 Ca W p h .ain P ^?ish betWeen ‘ h8 L '° Lt
Ho (Iambics Away .Honey that Doeiu't Ha-
long to Uira-Tne FoliUr-IInrt Case
at Amerlcna Hettlrd-From
Other Towns—The Press.
The Onitip itaid.
Atlanta, February 18, —The revenue offi-
cers who have been raiding in Spalding
for 'be last two days returned to the
c ty this afternoon. Special Deputy Chis
olm and Special Agent Colquitt, who made
up the Party, report the seizure within five
miles of Gnffin of two copper stills, caps
and worms, which were destroyed. They
arrested David Aiken, os owner of the stills,
and carried him before United States Com
missioner Mills, who placed him under bond.
Ihej also seized a yoke of steers and a
wagon. This was yesterday's haul. To-
dry Special Deputy Chisholm eiezed, near
Hampton, the mule nnd horse whioh carried
away the three barrels of stolen whisky
from the warehouse of I. D. Crawford.
Tina whisky was already seized by the gov
ernment. The mule was the properly of
Owon,Simmons and the horse belonged to
Lu. Oobb.
Mr. Chisolm also reports that his visit to
tho neighborhood resnlted in accumulating
evidence connecting Crawford with the
breaking open of the warehouse and the re
moval of the whisky.
AN INTEItKHTIN’G CASK.
In Which a Macon Lady Sacs for Firteen
Thousand Dollars.
The Savannah Times has this: The case
of Ellen E. J. Dettre vs. Isaac Beckott,
which came np in the City Court yesterday,
was not concluded. Arguments were heard
on a demurrer, and this morning when the
case was recalled the court overruled the
plea. The further consideration of the
matter will be held on Monday morning
next at 10 o'clock.
The cause is an interesting one in many
respects. The plaintiff sued the defendant
for the recovery of oertain city of Savannah
five per cent bonds, amounting, with inter
est, to fifteen thousand dollars. She alleges
in her petition that on the 4th day of .Janu
ary, 1889, at the request of defendant, she
delivered to him for his nse and benefit
twelve thousand dollars' worth of city of
Savannah fire per cent bonds with coupons
thereon, due No ember 1st, 1881, and hub-
seqnently, until maturity said ora-
pons being payable quarterly. The
defendant then, she stated, under
took and promised petitioner in considera
tion of the loan and delivery to him that
he wonid return the same as soon os he
could and pay interest from time to time
until the bonds should be returned and in
terest paid in fall. She farther alleged that
the detendant has failed to pay the interest
or return the bonds, and that the interest
on the latter now amounts to $2,400, mak<
lug bit indebtedness to her $15,000, .
The defendant in his answer denies the
indebtedness whioh the plaintiff alleges
againat him and says that the instrument
sned on was not exeonted by him or any
authorized agent ot bis as the instruments
originally made by him was changed inten
tionally, materially and frandnlently by
erasing certain words without his knowl
edge or consent. He fnrther said that the
instrument sued on was partly voluntary
on the petitioner’s part and without any
consideration to support it and that it is
“.{ was passing his Here this morning nude pact and not binding in law.
"I learn to-day that Van Eppa He also states that the bonds were given
that he can pat a man in the penlten- ' ....
lor from one to two years for break-
ile prohibition law. I am glad to hear
l Hunk he'll have to put one of these
‘ room men in the penitentiary for at
'*o years before we can break this
I I hope that he will do it.”
belongs to that dyed-in-tbe-
jlMof prohibitionists who believe it
“■at to look at a oow and demijohn at
asms t, me ^ tome p tegt0 veto
i« process the result will be an im-
■Hi Bulk punch.
0‘oaral Drputjr Chisolm Resigns.
j 1 *? 1 *. February 19.—This afternoon
■ bhiaolm, g-neral deputy lor tho
• un,i t r Collector Crenshaw, tendered
“btnation ol that offico. The resigns-
..«*- < l nc ® *°®*P'ed. The following
iuSr 8u cort6l *poudenoe between the
“Huen on the subject:
'"ania, Febrmuy l'J.-Sir: I hero-
my resignation as general dap-
collector of internal revenue for your
«oV° Uk * eff#ct 1,0 m thU Jut •• Ke
ta'-i’S atlotM > Deputy Collector.
«,n rV- Crenshaw, Collector Internal
mua District of Georgia."
i itu*’ F " h,n »»y 19—T O. Cren-
Internal Revenue District
Y-ll'T.. In tendering my resigns-
•towith enclosed, notaithsUuuing
dwlamuons that you bad no com-
a‘° “* k f »B»init my official conduct,
oo£H! i *° “J“' f to »*»'• ‘ h »t by
i 1 daslre to eliminate at onoe,
Btl'h. oontro '»»y between Hsvenne
jv r.» pm w “ d » onn »»W. »ny reference
»Mem 0 Tri( romomee 0 f which inten-
to |2?w P**' 1 have received due notice;
. him and
the Dp ? n . 'beir real merita, be-
^n P ° b ! i °- ,lad . tb » general gove-nment.
fa.ts . ^ wh leh yon have endeavored
«*aTw» .V 6 pu . bUo mind *• Diet my re-
troTB«T h -v, ,oU of tb « existing
hut"/« J° a well aware it
the m?tti^ C d j n u ro ixaoteljr connected
■»iib th*i^*^i *“* nothing to
iifftrlnL » ■ od , mQ r« serious matters
P n b'i<i lnterfat which exbt
“ yourselves. BespecUnlly,
C. 8 i«—_ "J. P. CniHOLM."
>u t ,' b *v»»ci, Coluutob's
ruarv in ®r Gcoboia, Atlanta,
-S7; p ■ t i b ‘ 8 f"“'
>. ~-T* i 0 *' received your reeigna-
i* 8ut». l , d8p ? ly collector for tbs
*t from ihie “me, to take
•^Cf Sw^L*^ rwcancy Mr. L. T.
** Meweeeee’S OflUs.
^“Uiln thrjK^T® 0 ^ 0 " 01 *
• vurreat on is. T ™ 01 ^* 0 ®°* to-day
CTenioe.
''-C4*j 0n .a . - -^a-1 mil OTIOUC.
,Jn g the t' iS*'* lb<1 rrecutive ord-r
.... i*rge of Peni-
1 two and tnree to re-
him by the petitioner, to be used and
employed by the defendant in baying Cen
tral railroad stock upon margins, and specu
lating and betting on fntnres, on joint
aooonnt of plaintiff and defendant as part
ners in tne venture. He says that the
bonds were lost in the speculation, and that
the contract was a gaming one, and void in
law, upon which no action coaid be brought.
The detendant further in hit plea eays that
It was understood at the time the transsc.
lion took plaoe between him and plaintiff
that the latter, ont of eympatby for plaintiff,
would return her other oity ot Bavanoali
bonds cf equal value ot the onee loot in
■peculation aa soon ss be was financially
able and wonid have the means to pnrehaae
snch other bonde, bat he has never been
able since the execution of the instrument
to purchase any bonds whatever. He fur
tber saye that the eause of aotlon le barred
by the statutes of limitation.
M ACON HEAL tSTATE.
The Prices Picking np and Heme Heavy
Transactions Doing Dn,
The real eetate men of the city say there
has not been snob good feeling in the real
estate market aa now in monthe pact. They
are busy all day with offering* and options,
and is esc efflee y««t»nUy thr agent had
scarcely time to eat dinner.
There are no transfers to be recorded,
though several sales have been effected,
and as soon as the titles are passed will be
reported. Negotiations are going on
for several transfers, some of which cannot
be consnmmated until next week and they
will startle the people when made known.
Many options are being bonght ami these
■bow the state of the market to a oertain
extent.
A day or two ago Mr. John U. Ellis paid
$50 for an option on some East 'Macon
property, and in twelve boors thereafter
■old the option for $150.
Ten dollar* per day vu related for
ten-day option on B. L. Henry's Troop
Hill nnrsery property, offered at $6,000
with eighteen lots sold from the property
M originally inbdifidede
Three weeks ago Mr. Elliott Estes, of
Hnguenin A Estee. placed a piece of prop
erty, 75x900 feet, near Tatnafl Square, on
the market. It bae been sold to Mr. Geo.
T. Harris for $1,060, and soon after the
transfer Mr. Hams was offered $250 profit
““aMI on Cherry street, between Fonrth
and Fifth, is to be cold soon. It coat a few
years ago $2,600. It la eoon to be sold at
public outcry, and Mr. 8. Waxelbanm guar
antees that it srill bring $5,200.
It <a said that thera will be several heavy
transfers doting the coming week and next
The grand jury of sooner county baa
failid, after a thorough investigation, to
return a true bill sgalnet Annie Moore, ins
pected of the murder cf Erakine. Iu u.w
Sf this fact. Judge Fort has. «Jn«»d h.r
bail from $l,'.".0 to $2,000, which will prob
ably be given.
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1- 1 - Oil S'*—d ■ 1 —
AUGUSTA MERCHANT GETS
HIMSELF IN A BAD FIX.
Augusta, February 18.—A quite inter-
rating ease was brought up lu the City
°“® Tt . ‘“-day. which is as .follows:
>me days ago Robert Tarver, a young
merchant of thia oity, played against the
faro bank rnn by James Miller and John
p V *r r .* D l ,n< ? oUim ' l0Bt “bon' $1,200.
Eight hundred and fifty dollars of this
money had been entrnstei to him by bis
father, Mr. Roberson Tarver, to pay a note
due in bank for that amount. The pro-
EOT&&*?.** olaimed that ho
only lost $Ki5, and furthermore that he has
been a constant frequenter of gambling
houses for years, and has been lncky enough
to win on almost every occasion be has
plxved.
Whon Tarver notified his father of the
loss of the money entrusted to him, they
together immediately seenred the legal eer-
vices of Messrs. Tntt and Lockhart, who
filed asnit of bail trover against Messrs.
Miller and Warren to recover Mr. Roberson
Tarver s $8o0. The parties were arrested
and have been under charge of a special
bailiff for the past five days. Their attor-
D ', T * ri »'« 9 * “PPiilod to
day for their release from custody, on the
grounds that the money had been lost and
they were unable to give bond for the pay-
mentofiL Judge Eve stated after hearing
the oaso that a decision wonid be rendered
next Wednesday.
The oaee will not be heard until the June
term of the court. At the conclusion of
the evidence Jndge Eve ordered the sheriff
to take in custody Miller and Warren for
running a gaming house and Tarver for
ilayiog in the same. Tarver will probably
be indicted for larceny after trust, as he
acknowledged the game. Thus it will be
seen that larver is losing at his own game
of squealing. He,will most probably not
recover a cent of hia money. There is no
sympathy for him; in fact he is roundly de
nounced.
A squad of five policemen raided a lottery
raab y George Hancock and others on low
er Broad street this afternoon at 6:30, and
captured Hancock and eight participants in
“* A drawing was being oonduoted
at the time the police entered the plaoe.
The wheel and other effects were captured
at the time and carried to the oonrt house.
Hancock preached at a Salvation Army
meeting on Sunday afternoon. The cap
tured parties will have a hearing before the
recorder in tho morning.
AftlKKICUtl
Ntfra Criminals Dot L .n* S»ntancss-Ths
Faidtr-llnrt case Nettled.
Auinious, February 18.—The Superior
Court this week fits been engaged entirely
on criminal business. Bot few oases have
been tried. Reese Welker, colored, was
convicted of asssnlt with intent to murder
and sentenced to eight yean service in the
lenltentUry. Two years ago he sssanlted
bis wife in this city with an axe, outting
her badly about the head and neck. Ho
fled to Florida, whoro ho waa captured a
few montha ago.
Charley Wiliiama, colored, wai convicted
of mnrder and reoomniended to merey,
whioh Bondu him np for life. He killed hit
father-in-law, Henry Carmao, near Botta-
ford, in thia county, only a abort while
•go.
,. I “‘ b ? °“® Annie Moore, ebarged with
the killing of Pat Erskine, no true bill had
been found up to last night, though the
grand jury had been diligently investiga
the matter.
The oase against Hon. J. B. Feldor,
charged with assanlt with intent to murder
for etahoing Dr. Burt last August, was set
tled yesterday. Dr. Burt declined to prose-
eute, aud nineteen members of the grand
jury and a Urge number of our brat citizens
>etitioned Judge Fort to allow tne oase to
>e settled. Mr. Felder, in his petition to
the oonrt, stated that the assanlt was made
upon the impulse of the moment aud that
he was willing to pay all damages sustained
by Dr. Burt, doctors’ bills, lawyers' fees and
rims lost in reoover njfrom injuries received.
The damages have been paid and general
satisfaction U expressed that the esse has
been settled.
Mr. fieith Rogon, one of the oldest citl-
xens of theoonuty, died yesterday of dropsy.
*“ Utber of Mr. 8. D. Rogon, of Pony,
Mr. Ed Rogers, of Brunswick, and Mrs. L.
U. Baswortb, of thU city.
Tha Cohm stock of dry goods was sold a
receiver's sale yesterday. It vu invoioed
at nearly $7,000, bot sold for $900. It was
bought by Mr. J. B. Hbaw, but the Impres
sion U that he io not the real pnrohaser.
Home say Messrs. Wheatly A Dudley bought
the stock, as they bad a mortgage on it
Forjjth-A Small Cutton Fire.
Fobstth, February 19,-Miss Webster, a
charming young lady of Atlanta, who has
been the guest of Mrs. J. R. Parker, returned
W.“d. t ^h:C. U h.r d e MP r6gret °' th “ mauy
ThU morning fire was discovered among
a number of bales of cotton in Mobley's
warehouse. Only two bales, however, were
burning, and they had evidently been on
fire for hours, nnd were almost entirely
oonsumed. The cotton belonged to W T
Maynard and was insured.
The Gaorzla Press,
$2^00000** n UaConconnl 7 11 “sussed a t
The Clipper reports a great deal of sick
ness at Warrentoo,
Mr. Jack Walton, one of the best citizens
of Haralson oounty, has beoorne insane.
E. W. Glenn, who was tried at Griffin
last week for the murder of Couch, was ao-
quitted.
Many burglaries are reported by the
county papers. In most instances the
amennt stolen waa small.
George Stallings, an Augusts boy, has
been signed by the Philadelphia League
baseball club as one ol its catchers for this
season.
Ha ”y Palmer, a deputy United States
marshal, is m tronbls for tuviog extorted
money under oolor of hU office from a man
Darned 8oailett« in Camden county.
W. T. Childs, a snccessfnl farmer of
Macon oonnty, recently killed a hog that
when drissed, weighed 380 pounds, and
saved from it eleven gallone of lard.
Dr. W. H. Thompson, a yonng man who
was raised at Dawsonvilie, this State, was
shot nnd killed at Waoo, Texas, Sunday.
No parUoulais of ihs tragedy have been re
ceived.
Tho insurance companies have settled
with Mr. Coskery, one of the prinoipal
lOBera by the Angaeta lire, and he is taking
steps tobuild anew 160-room hotel on the
site of the old Globe.
When the old town oonnoll of Valdosta
turned over affairs to its successors the
other dey it wss able to make a fine show
ing of its administration. There are no debts
■gainst the town and $1,900 in tho treasury.
The Fort Valley Mirror is urging Hons,
ton county farmers to make an effort to
oaptnre the $1,000 pnze at the 8tate fair
next fall. There is no oonot in the State
to whioh Maoon people would .ether see the
big plnm go.
A huge torpedo, one of those placed in
the river below Savannah by the Confeder
ates to keep ont yankee ships dnriog the
war, was drawn up by the finks of a schoon
er s anchor one day last week. It was in
good condition apparently.
Bishop Beekei-bu issued an order as to
marriages, whioh is ot importance to Catho
lics. In no case will marriage ceremonies
be allowed to be performed after dirk, and
ministers are warned not to make arrange
ments for or perform marri.'ges after night
fall
Mr. R. A. Tilghmnn, of Fayette counfr,
hsa a yearling calf that is a curiosity. It
has no tail, and never bad one. It resem
bles a oow in nothing but its head and feel
On one side of ib back is a large hump like
a eamel's. It baa a long mane like a lion's,
and long hair atl over its body. The ani
mal is healthy and active. The oalf has
several other peculiarities.
Dublin was much excited Thursday b'
SOME PACTS NOT TOLD BY THE
REAL ESTATE BOOMERS.
A Soil Snaked TUI It Is Flabby With Flllli—
A llnlldloK Ilooin That Makes No
Nlfa—Xhe Workingman's
bufferings.
DAWSUN.
Dawson, February 19.—A mass meeting
of onr citizens was held here on Friday
evening last at 3 o'clock. Rev. B. W. Da
vis was called to the chair. CspL John A
Fulton acted as secretary. The object of
the meeting was to appoint delegates to go
to Colnmbna on next Tuesday, 22d instant,
to confer with the executive oemmittee ol
the Columbm Southern Railroad Company
In regard to extending the road to Albany
vie Deeeou. The following named parties
were appointed: B. IL Hood, J. W. F. Low-
cry, John L. Parrott, O. B. Btevens, W. R.
Baldwin, R. L. Melton and J. R. Mercer.
We had a very bard rain here yesterday
morning about 9 o'clock, accompanied with
very high wind. There was a good deal of
damage done near the depot. The large
water tank at Sharp A Baldwin’s mill was
blown down, besides several nnoccnpied
build!ups. The fencing on Ur. K : nnedy's
plaoe, about a mite from town, near the
railroad, waa completely destroyed.
M'hak.
Petal Aeeldtiit to the Foreman of a
Bow-mUL
McRae, February 20.-At 3 o'clock yes
terday evening at Psxion'a saw-mill near
here, Mr. Joel W. Graham, foreman, while
stepping over some Urge cogs connected
with the machinery, waa caught by them
and had ona leg jost above the aokte
crushed and ground to a jelly. Dra. 8wtn-
ney and Blanton, aaeiatad by other physi
cians, amputated the leg at !i o'clock last
night, bnt the shock and loss of blood'was
»o Rreat that he died soon after the ampn-
U I?* ^ r ,' Qraham leaves a wife, several
•mall children and a large number of
fnenaf to mourn Lis saddan and untimely
IJAWKlKhVlLLl-
The Advent of Prol
—A Fir
Moves
Hawxin-.vii.le, February 18.—At
o'clock last night prohibition went into
o°'V kl cou “ ty - Mr J - l: - Daidl .
i<. 1. - ! 1> ir ! tri.e-, r* rM(.de<l th»* %<» 1
!IU
12 o'clock th»t DO n
in Poluiki county hi
MiMn. W
ill b<
y Home,
asuuiiu whs wucy excited iDoriday by
from jail the eight before of /.
M. Wesver, a young white man convioteil
of burglary and sentenoed to the peniten
tiary for fifteen yean. He had been fnr-
nUhed by some outside person with a Urge
anger and a revolver, lie was acoompanied
in hU flight by Jim Reynolds, a negro
charged with rioting on a train a lew days
ago.
Hamilton Journal: Thursday of last week
"Squire Morgan WbiUen, in Whittaker's
district, nntted in the bond* of matrimony
the oldest conpleever married, perhaps.
In this State. The bridegroom, Mr. Samuel
Truett, wu 87 In December last, and his
bride, Mrs. Anne Holing, is sweet 70. They
are both highly respected citizens of UiU
county, both hale, hearty and healthy, with
a prospect of many yean yet of a useful
life before them.
Uillen lie scon: Mrs. & A. Brinson's lit
tle boy, abont seven or eight years old
after having bean wLlpped st school yester-
day, went to D. A (J. Parker's, where bit
mother had been in the habit of sendiog
him for money whenever she needed it, and
asked for $10 In ohanga. Mrs, Brinson has
not since heard from him, and it is sup
posed ha mut have gone off on theeara
Some time ago he told his brothel be would
do that it be was ever whipped at school
Carteravillo Courant-American: A moat
distressing accident occurred on the Burnt
Hickory roed, in Paulding county, abont
ten milca from Oarterevilie, Monday morn
ing, in which a lady suffered injuries that
will in ail probability cost her life. Mrs
Calvin Cochran, at the time mentioned, wu
buy working with a sewing michlnein
front of the fire place, when her drau
oaoght fire. The flames spread rapidly to
other portions of her body, she beoame
panic-stricken and ran out into the yard,
where she met a stepson who threw a quilt
over her. The fire soon oonsumed the
quilt and the poor unfortunate then ran to
a tnb of water and threw herulf in, thu
extinguishing the flames that ban almost
eoutuned enery thing that could be.
Doctors were summoned st cnee, end It was
plain that the bums were fatal Her back
from the crown of her bead to her feat wu
one charred mass, while her front wu ter
ribly burnt The sight wu siokenlDg.
The lady was a daughter or niece of thel ate
Mr. Hiram Goodwin, of Kingston, and waa
a good, Christian lady. This la a very sad
occurrence, made more so by the fast that
three little children will in probability lose
a noble and good mother.
Oglethorpe Ocho: We have it from good
suthority that several yean ago a promi
nent dliitn ot thia oonnty wu tricked in
tha most brazen way imtgioabla. This
e ntleman had a gin houe abont a mile
>m town In whioh wu atored a couple of
bales of cotton. This cotton bad no mark
by which they coold be distinguished from
other baits. Ha also owned a small one-
boru wagon. Ona dav a colored man by
the name ot Jack earn# into the gentleman's
•tore and uked him for the loan of his
wagon, aa he had a couple of bales of cot-
ton ha wanted to haul to town the next
day. The gen tie a an obliged the darkey,
who start doff with the wagon. The next
day, bright and early, here ume Jack with
two huge balsa of cotton in the one-horse
wagon- Driving np to tho ger.tLiu m's
“® M fc*d him tobuytlim. They
y * Agreed on a price, the gi-ntLmtn
p , ? J- ,b ® m <> nt y for the oottoti, and
told him to drive the wig.n on to lis
bonre, leavlog the cotton on it. J.ck ri.l
ao, and then pnt out. Inter in the day the
gentleman discovered that Us pin h.,n-s
hnil Wn broken into ind hi*i cotton Mtolcn.
lnve-'ipsijon developed the fact list tie
two uales which hehal brnplt from J«ek
in tie morning wu the identic*! cotton.
The gentleman had loacad the tlieft.L
l*.t wagon to ste*] In own . ,tt n, ku 1 had
[>»id ont S good round sum in cn.n for wh.t
rtr-j | whA fclrwulj hi* own I'ropcrty.
If«w York Timet.
BiBsiihoiiAM, Ala , February 10.—Having
gained some idea of the vast extent of the
mineral reaonrcea of this region—too vaat
for ftill information; having notedB:rming-
ham’a proximity to coal and iron ore and
limestone, all the needed ingredients for
rig iron making; having aeon not only the
, nxtai osltlon and the abundance of thiB raw
■uaterial, hot the substantial richness of it
also; having followed the plaus aud the
wonderful financial realization of the syndi
cate that seooped in these original aores and
convened barrenness into "choice building
sites," let na glanoe now at what Birming
ham u a oity—as a plaoe to live in—hu
oome to be. To tell the truth of Birming
ham town won’t beall oneatrlngof dittery.
Unvarnished fact, howevor, isn't a drug on
the Birmingham market just yet. The map,
all gaudily oolored; the pamphlet proepectn*
with its wealth tf superlatives ana sky-high
adjectives; the abundant real estate agent,
liutlng in declamation and deep-luuged lies;
the syndicate man, the apoetleof a hundred
interests— the boomer universal; these are
the deecribers of Birmingham that Birming
ham herself provides. The man who be
lieves ail they say, nr the half of what they
uy, ought to get a guardian at ouce; the
man who pats cat money on their say-so
merely, that man was made to monru; it
were base fl ittery to call him an ata; he'll
always be lonesome outside of a lunatic
u.vlum.
Yet there are such men, hosts of them,
with never so much u a thought of in
vestigation, with apparently no ears what
ever as to the sense or the nonsense of
the stories they hear, who are sending or
bringing thousands and huudreda of
thousands of dollars here daily for "in
vestment." If signs do not fail they'll find
all the judgment dey they want in this
world without waiting for tho next.
Now, here is a good, straiglituut, honest
statement to begin with: Birmingham
is not a safe plaoe to live in. "Birmingham
is sitmted in a valley nndnlstory and
naturally drained." That is what tlie
prospectus says. Well, there is no ertifl.
oust drainage, that is sure. And it the lack
of sewers, the atisenoa even of rude gutters
to dispose ot slops and filth, the utter care
lessness ot every sanitary need—if tais
means "natural drainsge" then natural
drainage is just what Birmingham has and
has abundantly. There is no river, big or
•mall, no water course here at mlL Simply
de-mibed, Birmingham town Is just one
flat stretch of god hemmed in by mountain
tidra suddenly rising from her limits. The
mountains drain on Birmingham; Birming
ham drains on herself. Were there even eu
insignificant oreek at hand sanitarv necessi
ties could be readily attended. As natural
conditions do not exist in this fist territory
anything akin to a satisfactory sewerage
system will require the expenditure of im
mense sums ol money. One or two pnny,
oheap aud abortive schemes have railod.
Birmingham ao far has been too muoh on
the rash, too muoh given over to booming,
to ttiiok or oare apparently for tiival things
like this of making her homes habitable.
The reenlt is that to-day when an observ.
er goes through the streets he is largely ob
livious to everything save that he has •
nose. Pools of green and slimy water,
nastiness trickling from back yard to bask
yard, Urge tanning loose in every partot
the town (all unsuspicious that they are not
in a fit and appropriate city,) streets that
are only stretches of miry olsy, unsafe for
light wagons, unfit for heavy ones—stoneh,
stench, stench! on the ground, in the air-
stench everywhere, stench eternal I Thirty
thousand people massed In one topsy-tnrvy
community; 99,000 people with no running
water within miles, with no sewerage sys
tem, with a soil soaked till it is ff .bby with
filth, with nastiness accumulated and aeon
mutating in very lakes. This means end
can mean but one thing; end that one thing
is that Birmingham bide dsfianoe to the
sternest of all natural laws, courts disease,
tempts epldemio. The cholera that nipped
the first yaerof her existence, when bnt
2,000 or 3,000 people were here, taught its
terrible lesson in vain. Men tali by scores
in her very streets then, unwarned of their
danger; bat with all that deadly experience
than is no "'ore security against the same
epldemio now than there was then, nor so
muoh, for where there yvas a little comma-
pity at that time, there is at present ■ driv-
ing city of 30,000 eonle. Men overtaxed by
excitement and wearied by trying schemes
of money-making crowd here now, sensitive
to disesM, almost nervously prostrate the
halt of them.
And how do theaa 30,000 Uve? Badly
enongb. New York’* tenement system is
possibly a trifle worse. With her boast ot
30,000 population— and I entertain no donht
that 30,000 is a fair estimate—Birmingham
has not honse room for 15,000. By home
room I mean an aoeommodation safe from
•health point of view. If I meant comfort
able bonse room I would have to eat down
the estimate at least 60 percent fnrther.
There are mighty few habitations here that
may in any sense Uy claim to mention as
homes. Yet, there are some handsome res
idences; the prospectus tells yon quite all
•bout them; they are few; It won't tire yon
to remember the separate description ot
each nnd everyone st them, end yen esa
remember, too, that they have sewers of a
sort, spilling slops on tbs rent of the tow*.
But tho houses where they live who are not
land company princes or financial mag
nates, those houses are not altogether de
scribed aa they might be in the prospec
tus. They are smell, they aro un
wholesome in appeal ones, they are rede.
No; possibly this is not fit reason forspe-
ciai denunciation here. In other towns the
same condition obtains. Birmingham stands
as no exoeption to the rale of poor houses
forthe poor men. In the pig iron town of
Pittebnrgend in FennsylvenU miniogtowne
it U no worse. What is eompxratively new
here U dilapidated there. But hero every
honse, however much e hat it mty be, is t
hotel There U scarcely a room in the
piece that U not crammed, rammed,
jammed to overflowing. And dey by day
this unwholesome condition grows more
offensive. Bo much has real eetate specula
tion monopolized every affair that Birming
ham remains acity without houses. Though
budding lots sell at New York city prioes
and higher, Birmingham is still for the *tr
greeter part e barren field. Buildings ere
- Ottered aroiiL.I, but the "choice building
rites'' it ,i have been built upon ere mighty
f-jw compared with those that have not
been buili opon.
A good deal is heard about a building
boon.. Several oiriimiujc gentlemen havo
assum'd me tb-t that particnUr loom is
ttlrcaly assuming blgproportions. Perhaps
it 1-. tut if it i. I'd like to congratulate the
hponnuni for it upon the exceedingly thor.
oiwh A ay in which it maneges to escaped*.
t< uon. PcrhsDS ■ pretty lair example of
tL* hvicpif this building boom i
bad ■■■■ » I list Stare -it. „t n
t’.nt ; rpspertoa ann-h my friend s
enough to give DA This particular page
Lai the cat ot a building on it. There
something exceedingly magnificent about
that building; it is big, it is ornate. "The
Caldwell Hotel." That is what its append
ed line of tjpe has to say of it. Descrip
tion in words would fall short cf justice.
The engraver’s lines best hint at the glory
of it* Add Borne fcftlcoLio°, a parapet or
if?i ®?d terraoea—odd these to New York's
rifth Avenue H'>t«-l and make the Fifth ay-
ecus anmawhat bigger, then you have un
idea, inadequate, perhaps, but still
“ii tv®* ’ ,hat " Tao Cald-
well IIo ol" is like-in tha pros-
leotna picture before ini. Ah, tho
lirmtnghun of It! "The Caldwell Hotol"
IB yet a mere hole iu the ground. There
are a few stones in the hole and a little mor
tar holds the atxnes together. “We’ve got
tho foundation atl laid already," said a
boomer of this vpioial Birmingham eoter-
pri,e. "How long havo you been building
tbas frti f' I u^ked. “Sioct* 1 HpriLtr." ho
told me, adding: "We would have had it
all done and running by this time, only tho
bnllders could not get matorial fas’, enough.”
I ventured to suggest that they liidn’t
seemed to want things very fast, and tho
gentiemun looked as if he pitied mo. Ho
to d me that the Caldwell Hotel was a good
thing for the city, even if it were never
built; the more di^inRof that hole iu tho
ground had «ant up property ail around it
over 60 per cent. Probably my ability at
figuring is muoh cramped. Anyhow note
is a problem that I cannot make como ont
as Birmingham seems able to multo it oomo
l®i> , " takes from 31 ij to February to
build the foundation of one home, how
long is it going to take to build a whole
city? The right answer—so Birmingham
building or no bullish g, the real estate
boom goes merrily on.
It is claimed, and with app-rtnt jastioe,
that the oity gained 1U.0U0 in population
in the twelve months just ended Where
•re those 19.000 people living? There are
few more houses here now than there were
“8°. A building boom that booms,
that ih what Ilirminqbam Deeds moat, next
to a system of drainage that shu 1 empty
her yards and her streets of nastiness and
■tenohes. And the need is almost aa urgent
on the same score of health’s demands.
People are cooped up here aa no people can
stay oonped np and stay free of disease. Not
in the prospectus? No; but it is true, never
theless.
"Real estate speculators havo ran the
prioe of property up so high," said an in
telligent oitiz >n to me the other day, "unit
a poor nun can’t afford to have auything
like a ceceut bouse unless be lives so far
outof town that he has to ride two mnlcs
to death to get to his work.” I reposted
thia to one ol the controllers of tho land
company and ho pooh-poohed it. I urg*d
him then to give me some figures that would
show Just what a working man could got a
home for. Ho did. Tne illust ration he
offered was more than ordinarially favor
able; he said as much; indeed tho p!;;n ho
described, so he told me, was really tlyo out
come of speoial generosity upon the land
oompany' ■ part, aiming to help tbo work
ing peopio along. His own figures I will
repeat, and so far as I can, hi.s own words.
"We originally laid off oar building bus
in that part of the oity snitnblo for work
ingmen's homes," be ■ dd, "in plotiof 10O
feet by 192 lest. Bat land has gono up so
fast that now such • lot, even iu a c jm-
psratlvely undesirable pxrt of tho city, will
bring $3,000 or $4,000. [ The laud company
paid $25 an acre lor it ] Suoh a price, of
oonne, puts it beyond tne reaob of tho poor
man, for it is nnlhiproved snd ho would
have to pay a pretty steep price to built a
house upon it. The land company has
solved tho problem, thongb, and wo are
preparing to build a large uumberof houses
which wo propose to soil—lot, building and
all—to tbo working people at a very email
price and on ooay terms."
"What prioe? What terms?"
"We will soil a honse and lot together for
$1,200 and^give the buyer four years to nay
for it in." • r 1
“What sort of a honse?"
"W® propose to lake somo of onr lota
UiAt are 100 bj 192 feet And ont them up
into five smaller lots, each 100 feet deep
and about 38 f«et wide. On each small tot
we will build a bouse, and the wholo tiling,
b ?""®»ad lot eomplete, we will sell for
*i| »Wi
"How big will the honse be?"
“It will have three rooms in it."
"How mneb does it cost to bnild such a
non*i«d ?
„ Vl MI abls to pnt them up very cheap:
th ?7 will cost US about $300 apiece/
This u counted generons in Birmingham.
More than one man insisted on that Lit
os analyx# U n little. The house coats
M00; with the lot it oosta $1,200; the ground
IteelfUpat in for $900 Aa there are five
of these smaller lots mode out of the origt-
“ .ai ot '- t ! , !L ori « in,J lot, 100x190 feet, is
■old for $4,000. it doesn’t damage tho land
company much to he gentrona, does it? The
terms on whioh it is proposod to sell these
boaiee provido that $25 must be paid
monthly on the cost, and that 8 per cent,
interest shall be paid regularly on the debt
due to the land company. When 1 looked
around Birmingham and saw some of these
narrow, mean-looking, three-rcom "ont-
I thanked kind heaven that I waa not
deptndent on Uirraingham “generosity.**
Think of it here and hereabout in limitless
scree of land ULimproved, where compare
lively there are no nousesand no immediate
prospect of booses, here it U deemed big-’
bearudocss to crowd and cram five make-
believe homes Into one wee bit of a lot, less
than 100x200 feet in extent Yes, and tig-
hrarted. too. to charge $1,200 for three low.
email, cramped rooms.
"We have very peaceful, law abiding
workingmen here/’ volunteered the same
gentleman, who illustrated this bit of land
oompany liberality. "They du not worry
us with grievances, and I reckon they are
pretty well satisfied" With duo respect, I
mast differ a little with him; it was my
teak to go in among the workers; I saw
them at their work and I sa *r them at their
homes. There U going to be a row down
hero one of these days if affairs go on as
now. Every man now earns a dollar and
spends it in Birmingham to-day is paying
tribute to the real estate boSmer,‘whose
levy of tax is chiefly upon the man who
*•“* ran afford to pay it—no who gets but
$1 or iu lor a whole day's work. It would
be the servioe of x philanthropist to twh
every one of these boomers ont b. yond the
city limits; their presence here is a throat
lhat deserves rank with other evils thtt I'to
told about- But of labor, labor's recom-
Ptnse, of that mors • little later.
A Treasured Bible.
The fint Bible used in the Fir-1 Presby
terian church in 31 icon was laid upon the
pulpit in tece. It hr. me to well worn that
uuhm MW 1ms elMiot tMba$h
had it rebound, and yt-.ter.Uy it was used
iu th- »-rvi • .dm h.g oi US new. The
volume is highly tr. aoured by the congre-
g&tioa.
An Inventor's Advice.
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