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Th* Hoty of a Boprlon which Den AI moot To* Lot*. Some one tec.ll* this scene ■* Harper’s Ferry in 1865 for the bene fit of a Pitt'bnrg Dispatch corret pomlent. Two Irishmen, John Shea end Michael Doane, had been sentenced to be shot for desertion. There was considerable leeimg in favor of the men. It waa in the time of big bounties, arid the two young men had enlisted lor some thing like ft,000 apiece. In a lew days they were both missing and were not caught for'three or (our weeks. They wet0 drunk and their money was about gone. The truth of the matter was that it was no case of wjlful desertion. The men bad got on-a drunk aud had never sobered up tnough to realize their position. They were badly fro;m«aj'd ^and-were attended by two priests. I can remembei the place well. They were marched up on a little hill on a level plateau, and the soldiers thrown into three sides of a hollow square. The two men, accompanied hy their ptiests and preceded by the band playing the dead march, were marched around the inside of this square and stopped nearly iu the centre, by the tide of their open coffins. The priests were in earnest conversr^. tion with them, and the minutes rolled by till they grew into an hour. Twelve o'clock came, and Gen. Stevenson gave orders for the priests to leave the men. Very reluctantly they did so, prolonging their leave taking upon one pretext and an other at long as they could. Every thing was at last made ready, atiu it was only a matter ot seconds be tween the men and eternity, when the General’s orderly rode up swinging hit hat and yelling at the top of his voice. It was * reprieve from Lincoln. ‘-It seems that the priests had tel egraphed the President the night before, asking lor a reprieve nnd stating that there were mitigating circumstances. Lincoln, who was always looking for an excu-e to save a man's tile, reprieved them. Gen eral Stevenson’s headquarter* were nearly a mile from where we were, and the telegraph office w as at his headquarters. Ue had left a mount ed orderly there with instructions to rush through any dispatch that came. Nothing came until a few minutes before in, nnd the ordcili dashed away, lie had to go up n steep hill, nearly half a mile long. When Ire reus lied the top his horse was ba-Jly winded, and could Irani lygo. He met a cinzen on a good horse, aud wirho.it any eeremonv, pulled the gentle man down and mounted lire fresh animal. Half a minute's delay we uld have been the last of Mes.rs. Duane and Shea. A strnr ge part of the story is yet to come, some three years after ward I met an old telegraph opera tor in Oswego, lie was in VVath- ington in tile winter of ’64 and ’65. We gut to talking over war matters, and 1 to .ml that he remembered the case 1 have told you about. He was in charge ol the wile leading to llarpei’s l-'crry. He had heard of the two men to lie executed there through the operator. They had diacussed the matter over the wires Consequently he remember ed lire case well. Upon the morn ing of the execution at 10 o’clock, thedispa'ch reprieving the men was handed him to send out. He lurried to hit desk, and what was his horror to find that Ire couldn't work the wire. A storm was in progress, or something else was the matter. At any tale the wite would not work. There was no other way ol 'caching Harper’s Ferry. The dispatch he didn't get off until just before n, hut, as it happened, in good tinrs; hut he told nre it was an experiente Ire would never tor- f ;et. It was a pretty close shave or the two Irishmen, ami 1 don’t believe they ever forgot the incident either." DIM* PARTY. ». rh t r< : will be a * dime party at Mrs. John W. Nicholson’* to-night. Refreshment* will be served after the concert. All are earnestly ft-. quested to attend. ATHENS' REAt'tSTAT*. : , t ;;„„. Capt.Williford informs« us that while real estate in '.'Athens tiiver has been flat, that there it 1 now W de mand, and a good, deal of inquiry in regard thereto, and that* prices will coon begin to advancer 1:1 AS BUSY CHAPEL. i I Rev. Amicus Williams, Whbjhaa' beenapending a' conple’ofweeks with hit father-in-law-, t>r. IftpSS has been holding a series of meet-' lag* at Anbury Chapel. - We learn that the altar is crowded, and great interest manifested. I Mr. Jester’s h»s A littlq, baeri.quite.vick? : '. ^Mr-riom BurriK' whet has been quite aiclc, la improving tapir ‘."Mri Ed Smith uml w uV. of Greene county,-sirwMt -through the city yesterday, oh ihVTr way to Madison county, to speqd A atime with Mr. JACKSON STREET. The sidewalks and street on south Jackson street are in a wretch ed condition, there being holes in the sidewalks which are calculated to break the limbs of some one these nights, and cause u large damage suit to the city. Lef this matter at once be attended to. WHITE AND TELLOW. The white and yellow flag* float ed to the breeze yesterday. This indicates that there will be local rains and tower temperature. We would like to see the temperature moderate a little, anil a shower now nnd then would do fall turnips good —d not injure cotton. A EEtOHT ONE. In conversation with a pcr.cn the other day, a remark was made that a sudden our friend, in childish ^ drawback to ppo^brUon in tub aniupr a pit*. Since Bud Fill..ws n tided the public that he h is a pet Ir. g, John Wier, the efficient sheriff, comes up with a frog that inhabit* his dining room, and catche* all the flies that make their appearance. Sberiri Wier keeps a neat many pets in the jail, which he takes especial care of, but hi* frog receives all ot the dainties that fall from the table. Sheriff Wier ia one of the kindest hearted men in the world, and will not allow hi* pet frog molested. Bud Fellows will challenge Sherifl Wier lor a bopping race between their two pet frogs. THE ELEVATOR KILLS. Mr. Smith tells na that the busi ness season of thia enterprise is juat doting, and will Jiot open until aboutthe first of December, when the grain crop will begin to come in. They did an immen»e basinets the last season. OH, FOB A COOLING DRAUGHT. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday have come and gone, nnd rota pound of ice could be. had. We learn that the machinery at the ice factory got out of gear Saturday night, and therefore were unable to make ice enough to supply the de mand. 1 ' Lonb, living onUAtretery street, are quiteislek with 'lever. ! •Messes. Wm. Patrick and Chfa. lewclt/'fwo.of. Batiks.best farmers, went in-the city yesterday. ; Mr; Juid Mr*. F. ,\Y.tuii*, will return froovthe Falls to-day. Judge'Fuller left- for "Clarksville yesterday. Prof. I lagan hat just finished a flue picture of Captain Vincent, 'who went off as Captain of the Clarke county rifle*. Capt G. U. Yancey, who .is spending the heated term on hit farm !n Habersham county, waa in the city'yesterday. Dr. Most and Mr. Dunaton, of Hat mony Grove, were in the city yesterday. Zeke Edge it suffering with neu ralgia. Col. Dobbs it stopping at the Continental Hotel, in New York. Cousin Anr.ie Barnes, of the small Items That a Reportsr Caaibt on th* Fly Yesttrday. Capt. Bradcen is making tome much needed improvements .on Thomas street, near Cooper’s stable. The ward politicians nave com menced “setting up" to lemonades, i There waa a large barbecue * in Oconee county yesterday. Several parties from Athena attended. There will be a change in a bull ness firm in Athena tbis week. There is lest sickness in Athens now than has been known for Ipngtime. A great many fish are being caught out of the Middle Oconee. Lowe & Co i-w* a room on Jack son street to reuL - Zeke Edge has just purchased a fine bammerlets gun. Zeke ex pects to kill birds and sell furniture thia fall. Business was very dull yesterday, but our merchants say it will begin to revive by the first ol September. The people in Cobbham and the balance of our citizens want the street railroad, and want it bad. Our mechanics have kept- better employed thia year than for many years past, which indicates that bur city ia in the front rank of progress. The drays were busy yesterday delivering goods to our merchants, v(ho are laying in a larger stock than ever before. There is no news about the rail Acanthus, is engraving the falls of road. The excitement baa subsided, Tallulah and Toccea. land the prospects are that Athens Mr. Ed Sanford , has returned 1 will still pursue the even tenor of ANHOST A BLAZE. Monday evening, while the Hope steamer was parading on Broad street, a spark of fire from the en: ginc tell on Michael Bros.’ sign and set it on fire, but the. timely aid ot some parries * wifli 4 'the use of their sprinkling hose,'- it was soon extinguished with but slight damage. PROHIBITION. It was asked U* yesterday: “Do you thinks that prohibition prohib its in Athens?” “You should think so,” we replied. “Take for instance, the police courta, where in the his tory of our county, even from its infancy, have you seen' so few ar rests, or so 1 tie meanness done as Inis been in Athens since prohibition went into effect? - Then cast your eye around and. see the -liquor, tip pers?-who/heretofore, were seen on the streets drunk every Saturday afternoon, and you will see that they are better clothed. There are some classes ol our population that will linvo whiskey, btit they cannot get it in Athens, and hence have to send oft'for if. T VV e rpfqr to those that that man ‘Tammany Hail' is some pumpkin on speaking himself.” This reminds us of the “intellectual young Georgian” who never knew tiierc was such a man as Alek Stephens. THSOOTTOH SEED OIL KILL. This flew industry, onepfAth ens’ enterprises, is fast iiea^ne comple tion. The painting-is:'bow being done, the finishing touches' put 011 the buildings, and by the time that cottou begins to come in will be ready for operation. This mill will increase the price ol cotton seed, and will be of considerable. benefit to our farmers. es sit- other counties. Negroes are kept busy going backward nnd forward to these placet for whiskey, and some of our working men visit them fre quently. It it earnestly hoped that these counties will at an early day, clothe themifclves in the raiment of total prohibition. ME. BURBOTS' BURIAL. Yesterday afternoon the remains of Mr. Burruat were followed to the tomb by a large concourse of sorrow ing friends and rcJatjve*. Mr. Bur- ruts bad been in bur citjftor nbt.it- three years, "and had hyhjs upright ness, gathered aroum) him n large number of lriends, with whom, we deeply sympathize in their bereave ment. We learn that hit sister, who was very devoted, and watched over him with the tenderest devotion, during his illness, was prostrated by the blow. ■*'kff*. TESTING THE Assistant Chief of the partment, C. W. Bald; with the steamer Mi testing the new koae recjptiy chased by the city-touncil fc .... fire department. The steamer, uri der the management of Mr. ^tcKin non, put on the iargeitliead of steam that it has ever had beldre and faitly leaped from the earth, a* Me. run her up. The bote stood the teat and the Athens fire departmental* now well equipped with good hose, first claat reels and firemen who are willing to work. THE EOCX|BOUNU WOMAN. A great many . people went out nday, to from the tails. Mr. G. H. Hope, a former resi dent of tbis city, was in town yes- teiJa Allfells by those littlq dogg* ftitecrjilsf acWsr the line- ’ TIIE COTTONCROP. TheiWt drought tha _ . . , _ , »t now per vade., throughout the country, ha* and is working serious damage to the cutton crop. From the tele graphic reports to Bradstreets, it will lie suen that the weed is with ering and the squares and bolls are dropping off, even when nearly mt~- lured. Owing to these reports the price advanced yesterday. A gen- tletnawfrbm Jackson county tells us that this is the cade in bis section, and that'ft shower now would be of inestimable benefit to thia crop; that a two Weeks drqaght at this time would cut i.t.*hbrt aMe*st one-half, aS there’hai’been' to -much rain during the spring and summer, that the.stalk could.not stand the hot sun near as well as if there had been only a small amount of rain during tht earlier months. - ... .... • 1 t j me Mr. r VI V- k Dan, who, some time tome wiles of hit attorney wet kept — ‘ ' ** - m ijw Putol thy lockup,[waryesterda •rested. . Justice Evicts, with an eye single jtb|hl*,eqaf«;;-pad him placed in durance vile, there- to remain •mnPi.u#" u i.4a—- >- ..... STILL IUFFEBZHO. The little ton of Mr. Edward J. Hickey, of Augusta, who was se verely bitten by a flog out In East Athens tome weak* ago, ia (till suf fering fronf the Wounds. Mr. Hickev wasin Athens yesterday. The bite was very severe; the dog liavioK iMMrV * large,«Me out of his Monday, to see the great pheno. mens of stones falling, through the house at the woman om Mr. Math- etars’ place, and watched with all their eye* Irom sun up to sun iJoY.n and have yet to ace swingle rads,- . -^r- - fall The negroes are very #d<h town will soon be Wjf.-jmppliyd. id aav the Athens cannot be beatTorfine cat- .HAISIN0. Several of our citizen*, are now lavestiagAO Boa chicken*, bad our excited over the matteri and say the Athens cannotbe beylTopfine Lord gave her warning some two fie, hor*es, eoW* fad chickens, weeks ago, and told her that the . gnioiout"services. e’WdsatsfigW! vSgst&xs&tA Sr My of the nun who froze to,-the mixtion, at the Old School Baptlat rock when he went fishing on Sun- church In Atbenvon Saturday and day. * Sunday, 29th and 30th of this month. her way*. A merchant said to us yesterday: “I have received a large invoiceof Mack pepper, and found it half peas.” We expressed pur indigo* tion at one of our citizens being im. posed upon in such a manner, when he showed us the box, an the label of which was the word “Pepper." Wc immediately abused him and left The amendment to the-prohibition bill was not stated correctly yester day. It will he found correct in this issue. Uncle Dick Sauiter brought in, soihe fin* fish yesterday. Hirschfield & Blumenthai are get ting in a fine stock of goods. W. H. Jones brought in a bale of cotton yesterday evening. The market reports of the Banner- Watchman will be kept all right tbis season, and can be relied on, as it will be corrected daily by the best cotton man in the city. Bode has quit keeping ice. He has made e foitune and retired. About fifty negroes went out to see the rock falling at the Matthews place on Monday. They returned disgusted. King Marks is hard at work. t Cohen’s Paris store was closed yesterday on account ot the death of Mr. Burruss. BAGGING /Mi ADVANCING <5’n account of the extra lage cotton crop Bagging and Ties aro advanc ing. We have now enrouto and at the factories Ten Carloads of the Best and heaviest ARROW TIES. Twenty ear loads of genuine All Jute BAGGING, all weights. Send in your orders at once and get ad vantage of goods bought before the advance. We will not be undersold. HODGSON BROS COAL! UNTIL SEPTEMBER 1ST. I WILL SELL Best Coal Creek .... Poplar Creek - - Glen Mary - - - Terms Cash on Delivery of Coal. Delivered at your house. Large quantities at lower prices. Send your order by postal card, or leave it at Compress Coal Yard. U 75 4 90 4 90 W. B. THOMAS, Athens, Georgia. auglO-dlSd LETTER FROM APPLE VALLEY. Applb Valley, Ga. Aug. *5th.— Dear Banner Watchman:—I have juit returned Irom Tallulah Falls, and will try to give you a very brief account of my visit, and of wbat I saw and heard while there. I found everything to be pleasant at the Falla. I stopped at Young’s Hotel, there I found everything as trice and comfortable as couldbe. There are about two hundred guests at thia house. We left Harmony Grove at 6 p. in, on Saturday, ar rived at Lula about 8 o’clock where we partook of a delightful snpper, We reached Tallulah Falla about to o’clock. I cannot tell you everything that occurred while I waa there. But I will tell you thi* much. Dr. Mark WUIing- ham, of Oglathorpe can snore Iona, er than any man I ever saw in my life. Larry Gantt has always told me that the room which I occupied (No. 3b) was haunted. Well t am not superstitious at all, but the Dr 1 *, room waa next door te mine; and when hd began that loud snoring I begun at I thought to realise the fact that I was being visited by one o(.Uncle Larry’s ghosts, but upon inquiry I found that Jit waa only Nature baa certainly displayed her work* grandly at Tallulah Falls. On Sunday afternoon I waa invited by a friend to ge upon Hickorynut Mountain with him. Feeling tliatl had placed myaelf- in the hands.ofe number one guide, we proceeded to ascend the moun tain, but we had not gone far before we both were well nigh exhausted. However, we tunnaged to retorn from the mountain without any se rious accident happening to us. When we reached the hotel we beard that the Rev. Mr. Brown of Atlanta, would deliver a sermon in the hotel thtt night. So of course I heard that, but I can’t tell what become of my friend G. I know that he did not hear the sermod. .-Crops don’t look at cl", flourish ing from Maysville to Tallulah, they seem to be weeding rain very badly. R. A. PATTERSON & CO’S. CELEBRATED SHELL ROAD The most popular brand of Chewing Tobacco in the South. TALMADGE BROTHERS, AGENTS, augydjm ATHENS, GA. BEAUTIFY YOUR HOMES WITH—,— WALL PAPER- Ujn lateau aakla* IfnwaeU trials natal*. Ik* unlonUnsd will forstn! you itmplts Latest Style Wall Papers. Wltk aatfcul** east for toy smoost stwort dtstnd. *U work tnul*.iand muistllon si **, THOS. TRACY, House Decorator, Augusta, Ga. TALMADGE BROS Respectfully invite all when in need of choice Gro- ries and Provisions, to examine their magnificent stock before buying. Come and sco, and yon will not rc regret it. 74 &76 CLAYTONST CERTAIN CATARRH CUKE |( a vegetable Spe cific for Ci-ta.-rn Intis various fotm* and Mtps, Ulwr •ltd Sort Threat and all Inflammatory Piw**e*. The only **ft\ convenient, economical’ uim sure remedy m IMIIJ BRII t ieiDVIIirilt| sovinmisso* """ — v, known. Noexjtenslvo and riuniteroua appanutis really ed furilHimf. It oureg where other* (ail loiclve relief, t^ll or writo for circular giving iei»limunl*U and full fSrorination. Price one doll * r per bottle; »ix Uxtlea r»r the rtf*cn dollar* per dozen, wan ured by SO. CO. ATHENS, G> For sale in Athrn* by Jno. Crowd tale and Retail Ihnygists, Cl*}‘ “ ‘