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VOL. 6
ATHENS GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1885
SUNDAY AT TALLULAH.
Doto Picked Up at the Palls and oa the Line
of the North-Eastern.
Crops lit ther mountain* were nev
er finer, an.l e\i:l\body looks* hap
py and pro-porous.
At Tiirnervifie ‘here is * lsrjje
field planted in tobacco Up the
North Eastern is especially adapted
to its gruwtii.
Tom Huggins, at Lula, bus Ihe
finest collection of eggs of all kinds
we ever saw. He has cvery spe
cies of bird and fowl eggs, some of
them coming fiom di tant co. nlrite.
The best railroad eating house in
the south is kept by Messrs Lacy Sc
Gates, at Lula. And by the way,
this house sells the nickel ci
gar we ever saw. ** i
The mountains h eve to depend
on stock raising for money.
The North-Eastern needs another
passenger coach badly.
Misses Mood ami Vernon, two
beautiful and accomplished young
ladies |lrom Charleston, S. C. t are
spending the summer at Tallulah.
Geo. I) Thomas, Esq , delivered
a fine temperance address in Madi
son county, Saturday. It was high
ly coraj. lmented.
Miss Emma Mell, who has been
spending a week at the falls, came
down yesterday.
Charlie Long is rusticating at
Young’s.
Col. Bleckley and family will
leave lor home this week. Miss
Annie Bleckley is an accomplished
and charming young lady, and a
belle at the fall's. A gigantic rattle
snake was killed at Sinking Moun
tain Saturday. There are a great
many of these reptiles in the moun
tains.
Rabun Gap Junction is improving
faster than any station on the
North-Eastern.
Hon. Pope Bariow went over to
Jefferson court yesterday.
A mountaineer walked fifteen
miles, Saturday, to sell two chick
ens.
Young’s fountain will play 50
leet high, if the logs would stand
the water pressure necessary.
There are two livery stables at
the falls, and neither is doing much
business.
Another coach will probably lie
put on the N. E. Wednesdays and
Saturdays. The ladies ollcii have
to ride in the express and baggage
coach.
Mr. Robinson will probably open
a European plan restaurant and
hotel by next season, lie can^ put
16 large bed-rooms over his store.
The skating rink paid very poor
ly this season.
Young has had the bridge
strengthened by large beams put
underneath.
OODfOtOTBS FUNERAL.
A Urge crowd of Athenians will
take advantage of the low rates to
New York and attend the funeral
of Gen. Grant.
THE CITY COURT.
Judge Cobb will have more crim
inal business before his court to-day
tliaa he has had for some time.
There will be five criminal cases
tried to-day.
CAN pS ENGAGED. \
Grady had better strengthen tlie
Atlanta club or they will get left.
Several of the old Pop-and-Go
club are through laying by their
crops and can & engaged to bring
up the finish.
PLENTY Or COURTS.
The Ordinary’s court and the
Justice court were all in session
yesterday. W. H. Fuller, the late
elected justice, has received his com
mission, and dispensed all the jus
tice he could yesterday. Fuller will
make a good justice of the peace.
CORRECTION.
Mr. J. W. Wier informs us that it
is a mistake about Mrs. Youngblood
going into the hall or cell occupied
by Sykes. Mr. Wier is very par
ticularand only allows her to go in
the hall on the outside.
FREE HASH.
A little colored moke was put in
jail yestarday for burglarizing Mr.
J. E Wall’s store. He will have to
remain locked up until naxt No
vember unless released on a com
mittal investigation.
PRIMUS THE FIRST.
Ptimus Jones, the first bale man*
will not he downed. He got left in
Savannah on the first bale of cotton,
but he has made a stand off by send
ing a 73 pound watermelon to a
member of the legislature. It now
lies in state on the floor ot the aome
guarded by three of the pages.
A NEW INDUSTRY.
Uncle Dick Saulter has establish
ed a camp about five milet from
Athens on the Oconee river and
put in ii lot of baskets and trot lino.
He bring* in a large lo* of fish eve
ry morning and sells them at ten
cents a poui.d. Uncle Dick says it
heats selling whisky.
A CAM) CiCOM \V. U WOOD.
Editor Banner-Watchman: Mr.
Culp evidently alluded to me in his
last letter about Mr. Black. The
attack i* unlair and uncalled for, lor
the very simple reason that I have
never at any tune had anything to
do with Mr. Black’s articles. 1 nev
er suggested, dictated or advised
one word that he wrote, and had no
intimation of what he was doing. I
have had nothing to do with the
matter, and to drag me into it is un
fair, For Mr. Bloomfield I have a
high respect. I am not unmindful
of a very kind deed done by him for
my fath'er, and nothing bu* the bas
est ingratitude could make me for
get it. As to Mr. Culp, I have al
ways enjoyed his communications,
But let him criticise those who at
tack him, not those who are in no
wise connected with the fight. In
the language ot the great dead, “Let
us have Peace. Resp’y,
Wm. L. Wood.
PROHIBITION IN HABERSAM.
To-morrow Habersham county
will vote on prohibition. A day or so
ago they had a big temperance
meeting at Rabun Gap Junction, a
liquor section, and after the ■peak
ing was over the whole crowd got
drunk and one man was badly stab
bed. The difficulty is making hun
dreds of votes for prohibition, and
it is thought that the County will
vote out liquor.
HEAVY RAIN AND WIND.
The central portion of Greene
county was visited on Sunday las)
by u very severe rain and wind
storm, whico did great damage to
crops. In many places whole fields
of corn were blown down and u
great deal was blown up by the
roots. The cotton crop ail through
Greene county is just as fine as the
land can produce.
LOCAL CHIPS.
Personal Prattla and Decapitated Brleflets
Cats lit on the Fly Yesterday.
Ed. Dorsey has gone to New
Holland springs.
There was considerable wind In
the cloud Sunday evening and sev
eral rotten limbs were blown off.
. The temperature lowered con
siderably yesterday.
There has not been a regular old
time tramp in Athens lor a great
while. Prohibition has worked
wonders even in this respect.
Nicholson, Phinizy &Co. had a
rush yesterday by people wanting
cheap goods.
, Mr. Wm. Brown will commence
clerking for the Mullane Co. this
week.
Jefferson court will last two
weeks. There will be a great deal
cl ctiminal business.
The lawyers ail left for Jefferson
yesterday.
Mr. R. E. Branch will take charge
of the inteiest of the Banner-
WVchman at the courts.
Several new subscribers were
add^d to our list in Oconee.
Mr.i. Ruff Jackson has returned
from a visit to relatives in Atlanta.
Mr. F. W. Lucas aud family leave
for Tugalo to-morrow.
Mr. \V. L. Henley has returned
from a pleasant visit to his home in
Greene county.
Capt. J. II. Rucker left yesterday
lor New York, and will probably
remain a month in that city.
There is a little case in justice
court between two negroes that has
been continued for nine months and
was passed over again yesterday.
A negro preacher now languishes
in jail, charged with illegal voting.
He and the other prisoners have
Tegular services morning, noon and
night,
Mr. George Mabry, of the Jack-
son Herald, was in the city yester
day.
Mr. Albert B. Solomnn, of Mem
phis, Tenn., arrived in the city a
few day* ago to take charge ot the
pumps at the water works.
JEPKKIISON DOTS.
Wc had a heavy rain Sunday
evening.
Master Paul Mathews is able to
get about a little.
Watermelons aie a drug on the
market.
Watson, who is firing the engine
at McGinty’s brick yard, while
running a foot race fell and broke
his collar bone. He was doing very
well at last accounts.
DEAD ON T1IE PAY BOLL
How it Frtvat* of Co. A,. U Oft. RHlment
Dot Oat oftht Army.
Juftt alter the firtt battle ot Mh
nassas, all the available troops were
ordered to Virginia and tent (o
guard 1 the Potomac river, as it wet
not known at what point an attack
would be made. The Second Ge.
regiment under command of Col.
Paul J. Semnen, one of the'moit
gallant officers that ever freed the
Yankees, was sent to Acquit creek
to guard that place. CoL Scemnes
left Brunswick, On, with one of the
best regimen's that ever left Geor
gia. The men were all well drilled
and anxious to tor their metal with
the Yanks. They encamped at
Acquit creek for tome time. Com
pany A. was stationed up next to
the woods and the balance Of the
regiment were out in a large field.
Col. Semmea had employed a farmer
living near where the regiment was
encamped, to have wood for the
different companies, and Captain
Glenn, from Dalton, hail a full blood
ed Cherokee Indian in the company
that went with the wagon to help
load and unload it. There were
several boys in Co. A. that conclud
ed they would would get one of their
company out and see if he would
stand fire and was not afraid of the
Yankees. Tom Dodd, John Ariel
and Jim Smith, the fellow that they
wanted to test, got outside of the
guard lines and started up the road
that ran through a large piece of
woods. Charlie Alien, one of- the
boys that had got up the
fun was stationed about
half mile from camp with a loaded
gun. Dodd and Ariel came on
with Jim Smith, and after they
had reached the vicinity of where
Charlie Allen waa stationed, they
told Jim Smith that there might be
Yankees in the neighborhood and
they ought to turn back. Jim said
he was not afraid of all theYankees
in the world, and wanted to go far
ther. About this time Charlie fired
ofThis gun and Tom Dodd leP and
told the boys to run. Jim hesitated
GRAIN DEALERS & COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
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only aafW convenient, economical ana sure remedy
known, Noexponslve and danyeitHis apparatus requir
ed for Da It oure* where others fid Ho give relief.
Call or write Tor circular giving testimonials and full
information. Trieo one dollar per bottle \ ail' - bottles *
or mo 1 oat the rate of ten tloilais j>cr$lort*n.j Maanlac-
n 1 red by
S C. CO. ATHENS, GA-
„ Fpr sale iu Athens by Vno. Crawford AOn., Whole
sale and Dota'l Druggist*, Clayton St., opposite l'.O,
Respectfully invite all when in need of choice Grb-
ries and Provisions, to examine their magnificent
stock before buying. Como »nd see, and yon will not re
regret it.
74 & 76 CLAYTON ST
a little when the gun went off again,
and Ariel fell. This was too much
for Jim mid he broke for camp. He
rail by where the Imlan we, cutting
woodnnd yelled "Yankee!" The In
dian fetched a war whoop and fol
lowed in Jim’s wake. The wagon
er was notified of the nearness of
the Yankees and he put whip and
followed in tils rear of Jim Smith
and the Indian. About every fifty
yards the Indians would give one of
his blood curdling war whoops,
which awakened the soldiers for
AH EIGHT FOOT SHAKE.
While several gentlemen were
exploring the Grand Chasm at Tal-
• u lulah a lew days ago, they heard a
' seRWade in the bushes, and to their
dismity, found an eight-foot rattle-
snake! coiled up. ready to strike. Mr.
Ruclfer tent two balls Irom his
pistil through the monster’s body,
‘ \the others attacked it with
nissiles. The snake plunged
be river, and by swimming
scceeding in making his es
pying the river and iash-
ater into foam. Mr
. Kuckur toiit-anllMthaJwift
sSgkM^tk»i»8t|i|9|4n>ktTt T wAt
as large as a telegraph pole and
fully eight feet in length. It took
fully eight leet in length, it toon
refuge Ml a den ol rnck«, where it
will doubUeat die from the wounds
it received:%
total depravity;
Yesterday there came down the
North-Eastern a very decent look
ing white woman, with a mulatto
child at hei side, her own offspring.
She is said to belong to a good fam
ily in an adjacent county. Sha sat
in the white coach and caressed
her brat to the disgust ot the other
passengers. The woman disem
barked at Athens, and did not seem
the slightest annoyed by tlie atten
tion she attracted.
WANTED WATER.
An old darkey, on the subutbs of
Athens, being annoyed by some
bees, that had their hive in a log of
his cabin, concluded he would oust
them, soyesterday be armed himself
with a broom anu brush and after
fighting them for about a live min
utes, two of the little insects got un
der his shirt, when the eid man gave
up the fight, took to his he*,:, and
the last heard from him he was
making a straight streak for the
Oconee river, yelling at the top ol
his voice, “Water! water! water!’’
A storm passed below here last
some distance around. They all
Monday, doing considerable dam
age. A tree was blown on Dr.
i’endergrass' buggy, knocking off
the dashboard and breaking up the
top.
Dr. P. A. Wilhite, of Anderson,
S. C., is on a visit to relatives and
friends in this county.
The reunion the other day was a
success in every respect.. Col. J.
B. Silmp.n delivered the address of
welcome, and was responded to by
Col. Pilgrim in a short and appro
priate address, after which dinner
was announced and all repaired to
the table* which were loaded with
ood things. After dinner the sur
vivors of the 43d Georgia regiment
assembled at the stand and had a
very interesting meeting. They
will meet at Gumming. Forsyth
county, on the 4th Wednesday of
July next. All of the officers were
re-elected for the ensuing year.
Dottkr.
A GOOD BHOWINO.
Mr. John It. Tack has 125 acres
in cotton that will make 75 bales,
besides corn and potatoes to run the
farm for two year*. Mr. Tuck will
make a good profit for the county
this year. He has two fine
carp ponds that will supply the Ath
ens market this year.
came into camp with Smith in the
lead, the Indian only a few feet be
hind and the wagoner bringing up
the rear.
The boys were all out to see the
fun and as thev reachcd£the camp
Jim Smith fell down on the ground
completely exhausted. He never re
covered from the shock. He was
sent to the hospital and went craxy.
He imagined all the time that the
Yankees were after him. He stay
ed at the hospital for a long time,
and was reported by the doctors at
the hospital to the Captain of Com
pany A at having died. This, how
ever, waa a mistake. Jim got home
and was reported dead on the pay
rolls, and could never be contcript-
ed or got in the army again. Jim it
still living in some of the upper
counties, out bis mind is still a little
wandering, which ha attributes tp
his terrible scene. The Indian
served for some time with Capt.
Jesse Glenn, of Dalton, hat when
the marching and fighting got too
hot for him he went back home,
and in all probability is : now in
Whitfield county.
THE CHICKEN THIEF.
Lee Eate, a colored politician, was
arrested yesterday for appropriating
chickens Irom a roost that did not
belong to him. Lee has a hankering
after chickens and many an old roos
ter has suffered from his hands. He
is now in jail and Jobs Tuck will
give him a good chance to show his
Business qualities in picking cotton.
It** KADI.
Last Sunday afternoon one ot the
hardest mins we ever «» fell -
the mountain 1, and it extended
the way down the North-KeMi
to Athens. There wean good deal
of electricity in the cJouds, egd it
/nded the heated atmosphere. It
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OUR COUNTY OFFICERS.
Clarke county has been fortunate
in having the best county officers of
-any county in the siate. The
Ordinary, Judge Asa M. Jackson, is
one ot the clearest headed men in
the stste. He keeps his office nest
and has his business always up.
The Clerk, Cob John I. Huggins,
is a model end his assistant Mr. Si
M. Herrington, knows it ail.
The Sheriffs office is one’of much
responsibility, and. John Wier is
giving ns good satisfaction us Joe
Browning, who wts considered the
best sheriff in the.state. John Wier
iusowe Me duty end fills bis place to
the letter. Clarke county Is fortu
nate in baring such good county
office™.
TALLULAH FALLS.
We will write up our trip to Tal
lulah for to-morrow and give some
new dots from this resort.
THAT INJUNCTION CASK
Judge Estes will bear the injnnc-
cate against the city council of Ath
ens on next Monday, either at
Gainesville or Jr fferson. Mr. Ruck
er will go to Jefferson this week,
probably. #
OPENED UP.
Mr. Lowe is again in Athens. He
has opened his bar-room in Ureenes-
boro and i» doing a good business.
Whisky in that town is only five
cents a drink, bat Mr. L. cbi-ges
ten cents.
Tallulah Falls, Georgia.
This hotel ovoi looks tlio Grand Rap
ids und commands a line view of the riv
er, and is located in North-Ka*>. Georgia,
oil the south slopo of the blue Ridge,
aud !ihs a delightful climate, being 1,000
fcctubove the eea; highest temperature
02 degrees. Tlie nights are cool and
refreshing. The Hotel has 2,000 feet of
verandah and 100 rooms, and is supplied
with tho liest freestone from the moun
tains. There are alto mineral springs
of lino medicinal qualities—iron, sul
phur and magnesia—within two hundred
yards of the hotel.
Thu scenery about the fstls and in view
of tfie hotel is si sublime and enchanting
as any mountain scenery in the world.
Five beautiful falls dssli their waters In
piles oi snowy whiteness down -thO icet
of rocks within lew than lltlf a mile.
Every turn in the precipitous paths along
the ildifDttfirgorge through which the
Tallulah river flows, discloses near pic-
tores of sublimity and boauty. One can
stnndfn tbs brink of this miMnif Cur
rent and look up at pines and firs which
have their ruota planted on tlie edge ot
therucky cliff 1,000 feet overhead. KnnnJ
DIED AT MOUNT AIRY.
The remains of Mr. Routxchan,
who died it the Mount Airy Hotel
last baturday, were brought down
the North-Eastern yesterday, en
route to Waynesboro, his home.
Mr. R. spent last summer in 'Ath
ens, and our mineral water and cli
mate so benefited him that he at
one time thought pi moving here.
He was a consumptive, and had
only been at Mount Airy a tew
days. His remains were attended
by his wife and Dr. Sam Lane.
PERFECTION.
Mr. Jester brought to our office
yesterday one of the finest Irish
potatoei that has been received this
season. There is one large potato
in the centre and three prongs at
tached to it Each one of the
prongs is as large as potatoes gen
erally get to tie, and somewhat re
sembles'* human face.
Dr. Sam Lane declined the posi
tion of principal of the Butler col
lege, tendered him by the board of
trustees. He was not en applicant,
and will devote himself to the prac
tice of medicine, his new profession.
Dr. Lane will graduate next year.
talus Inul springs snfjiri*© onii on OWiy
dde. lhe soft etrains \ot uiuttc
sooibootio to slumber at ntyht. Tho
routing of the cataract sounds a plcacatit
lullaby to make sleep secure.
For tlioao who wish cool nights for
sleep, or who, lithe of limb anil full ami
round of lung, like to climb precipices
and romp over mountains by day, this
is file place for them, .{hoy
be slender of purse’or have an eye to
economy* ■ nr. >
There are Billiards and Cards. Horses
and Carriages, Ton pins and 1 Dincing,
nud Doer, Turkey, Squirrels and Qualls
for those sportively incltoad. Depot rad
Telegraph office within 200 yards or fio-
tel. TFnlns arrive and leave dally, mi
king close connection with trains on Air
Lino railroad at Rabuti Gap Junetloh.
Tshms of Bqauo.
$2 per Jay, *10 per w«ek, $.10 to $10
par month. Special rates mails'with
family. Children under 12 years $1#
per month, servants $15 per month. 1 For
iurtbor Information apirfjr
Owner and! Proprietor.
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