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is.' ‘ - .•■ .>■■•*•■ • * S ‘ : ATHENS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY -MORNING, FEBRUARY 18, 1886. WASHINGTON LETTER, A SEVERE ARRAIGNMENT OP THE PRESIDENT. Bow Bo to Diimjmi.riiir th« Semoeratic Tarty-Ha. tko Contoss.pt of the KaputoU. cant and tho Distrust of the Democrats— lubltcly snaerod at to the Botuo aad It nato—Waste to 8a Renominated. [SpMlal CoTraipanduea Bunar-Wataknae ] WaanihOTOtr, D. C, Peb. 13.—Editor Banner-Watchman: At your request, I will write you a abort tetter, firing, you the “true inwardness” of tho political oituation in thie city. You oak whet io thought hero of the President's policy? Well, it io looked upon ee a fatal mtetaku for the democracy, and if a Preeidentia! election came off to-day, the republican party would aweep the countiy like a tidal ware. The damocrata ere hacked and dejected, while the republicana are . inaolent and bouyant They eee the President to afraid of them, and they are making ail tho political capital they caa out of his weak-kneed policy. That lit tle threat in the senate about remorala wad only done for the effect on the pending congressional elections, end be fore adjournment all of ,the Presi dent’s appointments will be confirmed. 1 1 do not aoppoee there ever was a public officer more roundly end unanimously abused than President Cleveland. The republicans bare no respect for him, while his own party looks upon him as a traitor in their ranks, if yea sec a group of half a dosen democratic congressmen together, you can safely bet ten to one that they are engaged in abusing the ' Preeident aad denouncing his policy. Why, even on the fioor of the senate and house he is often held up to censure, and when such denunciation cornea from the republican side, it is sure of applause from the democrats. It is very much feared that the President's milk-and-wa ter policy will imperil the democratic majority in the House, as the party all over the United States Is disappointed and disheartened, while the republicans were never in finer spirits. I was talk ing yesterday with a congressman from Michigan, who remarked to me: “We have now fire democrats In congress from my state, and the party was strengthening daily. But Cleveland's miserable policy will loae the last one of us cur places. Every office in our districts is filled by a republicsn, and we have been able to do nothing for our follow- era, who cro deserting tho party liko rata will a ainking abip. I bad rather sec Maine to-day President than Cleveland.” This is huts sample of the wholesale de nunciation of the President. The North, Hon Hi, East and West unite in theircom- plaints. Every government office in this city iswtiil filled with the most partisan republicans, while hnndreds of true and tried democrats have been walk ing the slrecta far monttu in a fruitiest effort to be hoard. They feel like they have beon betrayed—robbed of their natural inheritance. The truth it, Cleveland haa always been elected to office by republicsn rotes, snd hs feels it essential to conciliate that party. He ie completely under the con trol oft few New York mugwumps, and such men at Curtis have more influence over him to-day than every democrat in congress. Preaident Cleveland la play ing hit canla for a renoraination, but he won't “touch it with a ten-foot pole." Why,hie party would rise in open rebel- lion againat having anch a political rene gade foisted on them again, and the Ureeley campaign would repeat itaalf. My statement of the standing or the Preeident hern in not overdrawn, and by upending n dny or no in Waahington yon can hear enough vituperation ngninat him to hut a life-time. Senator Sherman ie the ablest man to the republican party, and If he rtceiven the Preeidential nomination will bn hard candidate to boat. Giointa. " LOCAD CHIPS. Small Items That a Reporter oanght on ths nr Yesterday Kra. Jack Garrison died yesterday in East Athens Malison was crowded with customers yesterdsy. The Chief of Polica can’t stand n tramp. Hn generally given them good time to leave tha city. Thorn is an Iriabmu in thn city who elairaa to be a relative of Robert Emmett The police were engaged in driving cowe to thn pound yesterday. Turner Moan ie making n success min* tog bon*. Jefferson end southern, end the Rich- Judge Howell Cobb ha. some ehlek- th.titi. very rare. A gen!!™.,, who Eg“ d ®“ T,U »h«,acceding to the that can eat com on* UNe-ftrat had. whole p«k of valuable fo* dogs to' IT ‘ *™i» *“°P* d eng that can eat eon on a thre.-foot tatda, There ie going to be a change in one iof our drug atom. Oar friend Veronee is doing a thriving bnainsaa. Hs Is eonsidsrsd one of the most reliable plumbers in Athene. Hie work ie flret-clau snd hie charges res. sonable. Itwse quite cool yesterdsy morning. Property in Athene will ineroese 21 per cent, in value as toon as free schools ere established. The pride of Athens ie the Southern Mutual Insurance Co. Unleaa you pay for your dally prompt lythe paper will be stopped. This rule applies to every one. Cattle raising is getting to bo quite sn industry in this state. No one wo have seen yet ie in favor of crossing the Georgia reed at Covington. Hon. H. H. Carlton haa one of tho handsomest end most convenient resi dences in Georgia. Mr. Griffith, reel estate agent-, seys he hss some valuable property in hand for sale. There ere a greet many appli.tents for teacher’s places in our public schools. If Athens expects to hold her trade we must have another railroad. A railroad to Macon or Coin: abut will force a northern connection. The business man of Athena are get ting thoroughly aroused on tho import ance of a southern connection with Co lumbus or Macon. McIntyre A Heath's minetrafie left on the North-Esatern yesterday foir Greens ville. 8. C. The offices in the McDowell 'building are handsomely fitted up. Athens has jnst putoff her twaddling clothes, end everything now is done in s style becoming e city of her irajpoitaace. The plumbers era putting waterin the engine houses. Pioneer comes ilrat. Watkinsville tent over a good, delega tion to the minstrels. The. Salmagundi club met at tile Lney Cobb Institute last night, The rights of women were diaeunsed. The police are wearing very clerical looking uniforms. SOCIETY AND PERSONAL. Hr. E. M. Mitchell, of Atlanta, who graduated from the Univendty last year with to much distinction, will enter thn law data of the University soon. We are glad to learn that Mm. R. K. Reaves is much better, and is now able to walk about tha yard. Rev. Sam Jones is in Cartersvilln. Mrs. Tom Cobb is visiting her daugh ter, Mrs. Hoke Smith of Atlanta. Senator Brown ban returned to Waah ington, taking with him Mra. Brown. Mita Minnie Edwards, of Athens, who haa been charming the residents ofthe Gate City with her presence, leaves for home to-morrow.—Atlanta Capitol. Bishop Beckwith will not preach here until Sunday week. Min Pinkie Hnnnicntt, of Atlanta, end Min Jennie Yancey, of Talladega, Ala, are thuguests of Mrs. Goodloe Yancey. rOBLTBT AiaOCUTlOg. Mr. S.'M. Herrington is organising poultry association. "Alt the chicken fenders In the dty ere going into tt. Their object is to improro the breed of chickens in thn county, tad to make an exhibit at the coming fairs. Athena hu already a reputation for brooding thn flneat chickens in the country, tad if thn poultry naaociation is organised it wilt enable them to advertise and tall their chickens. ntuflBTT MU. Mr. Bawell has bought Hie old Turner lot, adjoining Prof. Charbonnier’s, and will have the house turned to face the street and generally overhauled. This is a most desirable lot, and there in room for two more houses on it. ran olotbsj. Mr. Raphael, Cohen's artistic cotter, yesterday received orders for eleven flue suits from Madison, Morgan county. Mr. Davidson U on the rood taking orders, nod in doing n good basinets. 7 HYDROPHOBIA. A Tbyslclan Thinks There is Vo Such His. .... to Which Bumen Bela*. eraSne. to. A few days since, in conversation with a veryeminent physician, ire asked him what he thought of Pasteur’s new din. covery? M 1 think it will save a great many lives,” was the rapb* “of people who imagine themselves bitten by mad dogs,’ aa it will sooth their fear*.” “What in your opinion of hydropho bia, Doctor?" we asked. RAILROAD RUMBLINGS. Be port Current In Gainesville That the Gainesville, Jefferson and Southern, . Gaixksvillx, Feb. 10.—Rumor has reached this place that tho Richmond & Danville railroad has scooped the Oainea- vilie, Jefferson and Southern railroad, and wilt toon begin the erection of ahops and terminal facilities here. How the thing got afloat we can’d imagine. If there betruth hi it no one here known it The Macon “I do not think that one dog in ten "A 00 ™** 0 *»• “W «>r Madam Bn- ousted alauvhicrpil for 1,1. n,or ‘*Ii»Te got control of theOaineeville, ___ slaughtered for hy drophobia really has tho diseaso, snd whole pack of valuable fox dogs go mad, had them dissected, and he says that the rabies are caused by a little worm thatgeta under the tongue, and If this can be moored they will recover.' iTto. mistake about n mad dog gtfiag *"”"*<* them reports. FROM SEW YORK. The following to an extract from a tet ter written to Mr. Skiff from a friend in Jamestown, N. Y.:, “Our cold nap that with you went down towro, with ua was 20 to 25 de- s hAIow, hat we passed it very com fortably, u in this city ws one natural gas for healing and cooking, and it to tha nieMt thing ouL They attach it to any store aad let it ran night and dny. It ban not been out in onr stores this win ter, and part of Uw time ham to torn it down, an it haste up too much. It is brought bom Pennsylvania, about 30 miles bom here, in 8 inch pipes, end then distributed all through tho place, name aa manufactured gas, and you pay no much n month. Bo with no fin to'buUd, and no coal norashcu to take care of, it takes off more than half the work of run ning the house, and then it it no more expensive than coal." GOOD BABB*. The brans bends with the lest two troupes visiting Athene were nnnauaUy good. Perhaps we think so because it is so seldom we hearnne theye days. wild end biting everything it meets. Oh thn other hand, en animal than afflicted wants to got off to some unfrequented ■pot by itself and quietly die. If you will let a rabid deg aloqe ha won't bother you.” “How about human beings with thn disease?” “I don’t believe that a human being nvtr bad hydrophobia. When bitten by dog the blunt teeth bruises tha flash aad may give them lockjaw, but thin is all. I do not credit the theory of a par. •on having hydrophobia, and I am back ed in thie opinion by eome eminent au thority.” SOT ON THE BILLS. ■neks and game Vied tt the Open Bonce. At the opera bouse, Tuesday night, af ter the minetrel performance of McEn- tyre A Heath, e fight occurred, which came very near having n serious ending Ths gsiicry wee very crowded, and Messrs. Hugh Prather end Wade Patman wen teasing Bill Reynolds, snd got him so exasperated that he went and inform ed the Chief of Police. Everything went on very well then until after the show. When they came down the steps the trouble was renewed, end Reynolds knocked Prather dotrn with e rock. He bit him every seven blow which stunned him for some time. Reynolds, after knocking Prather down, ran up the street, with Wade Patman after him. Reynolds wee badly cut in the fleshy part of the arm by either Patnan or Rey nold's brother. Patman claims that the younger Reynolds struck at him with e knife and cut his brether. It is not yet certain who did the cutting. As soon ss the knocking and cutting wen done ercrybody commenced trying to get away, end for awhile a regular stampede took piece up end down thn ■tenet by fighters ee well ss outsiders. The police soon came up end arretted ell the parties concerned, sad carried them to the station house. Reynolds' wound wan draued, and though not dangerous, is very painful. Thin Is the first difficul ty that ever happened at the opera hones and Is tohe regretted. AtnJtoAD nt tbi aik. Every tephyr that blowe wafts a rail road to Athens. Thom who am on the inalde look knowingly, and tell ns that there will be a railroad built to Athena from moat of the Important points within fifty mile! of this place. Capt, J. Colder Turner, one of the best engineers in Georgia, in in the city, and is an silent as a dumb man on ths (object He aays there will be something done, bat can’t toll what it in. Thn reporter has worn out two pain of Baldwin A Fleming's 48 •hoe* trying to find out something, bat so far he hu leaned nothing. Wa hop# though, to the near future, to give our readers something definite. A 8A80AIVIV MAI IMAT*. We wish to call thn attention of our nnden to the advertisement of Hr. W. D. Griffeth, nal estate agent, offering for ■alt a desirable home. Wn can state that wa an thoroughly acquainted with this piece of property, aad can say that it fa ell that Mr. O. represents it to be. The owner wsa offered 12,760 for H about IS months ego, end lines that time he hu expended two or three hundred dol lars, adding to the comfort end conve nience of ths dwelling, which is now to perfect repair, snd it in offend at thin low figure because the owner wishes to morn when hs can havn a email farm. this may account for all the current ru- mors afloat The people near the Air- .Line depot raised their right about 100 per cent on property in that motion on — ' ~ ALL THE LATEST STYLES IN STRIOTYFIRBT CLASS SOODB I Just Eeceived in Every Department, at the Shoe Store Broad Street, Athens, Ga. , No Such Stock of VEIT WSAKv Yesterday being warm and pleasant, Mr. Gantt walked out on the piazza of hi* house, but hi* strength gave com pletely out, and he had to be unisted back to hi* room. It took some time to recover hi* breath. Hr. Q. still ha* a very bad cough, and when he fails to taks quinine soms fever in the afternoon, but otherwise he i* improving last It will be a long time before he in able to walk up town, however. THE SPRING FASHIONS FOR 1886. Fens are Of ill fashions apd descrip- cos. Black hosiery ora worn by men, wo men end children. Fussy, superfluous trimmings are go ing out of favor. Combinations of silk and velvet form the bulk of the toilets imported for early spring wear. .Cheviots come in checks, bam, and qtripes, and with smooth, bonds and di agonal grounds and aurfnees. When overskirts ore looped at all the drapery la drawn very high around the hipa and made aomewhat bouffant. The neweet hat to Parte Is, “the Lady Doctor," t crush hat with a shaving brash pan pon on one aide or directly in front Stripe* will be again worn, bnt morn frequently for* crosswise trimmings of tip bodies, and for horizontal lined front breadths of plain frocks, than for entire suite. Long kid gloves, which are dtrigucr .with short-sleeved evening dress«, have tope of guipure lace, of netting of silk Jersey webbing, end sometimes of rows of embroidery alternating with ailk gaum puff*. . vo croton*. . Mr. Ous Brightweli, of Msxey'a, was in the city yeeterday, and says there will not be many cyclones this summer, on account of the formers not using u much' guano as to former years, Mr. B. is firmly of the belief that the cyclones ere censed by the too free use of gwtoo. If the farmers would go to work and raise their own meat and com, and quit rate- tog cotton and tiling guano, tho cyclone bueinesa would cease. Mr. Brightweli has a clear headon the hog and hominy' point THE TOWV BALL. Wn do not know whatthe council haa done regarding the town hall, bnt itia to be hoped that it will never be rented to be need for midnight revels, which disturb the quiet surrounding neighborhood. While wn hope tfaktk may be e soured •f rat eons to the city, yet He clou prox imity to onr chnrchce end urns' of onr best dwelling bonus, wonld suggest that it had better remain elonsd than to be need to future an it hu been in thn put 0GB KU8ICSL TALIVT. Athene hu u much real musical tajont end u many goed vocalists as any city of her aixe in the country. That's the rea son, perhaps, that Kellogg did not em ote much enthusiasm here. Thera an female voices to Athens tbit' would please any audience, no matter how crit ical. We have heard the opinions of out- :t , ciders and Judges on this subject, and epeak of it with pride. BOOTS&SHOES Ever seen in Athens Bi}fore,A!ltlic Latest Styles in Ladies’and Misses’ Shoes BALDWIN & .FLEMING. Win VOT IXTXBmi. Judges Btandford A Jackson, of tha tnpnme court, beard the argument yea- terday in the two nut involving the constitutionality of the prohibition elec tion to Fulton county. It to anticipated that they wiU decide ngninat interfering with the affair. IVJUBSD BY WAYIB. A little white boy who wat struck by the stream of water while Oatoeavillo'e new fin engine wu being tented, to in a more eerie on condition than wu at Bret imagined. Be la nqw spitting np blood end undergoing much pain. GRIFFITH & MILL, INSURANCE AGENTS. Uepresent best Companios and insure desirable pro perty in Atbensand vicinity on most favorable terms List or Coxraxm. Asucrs. Georgia Homo $ 750,000 Home of Now Tork ... 7,200.05* Phoenix of Hartford 1,219.700 Liverpool end London endfllnbo... .' ' 14.500,000 Insurance Company ol North America..... 9,037,21* North Britten and Mercantile 3,313,714 Now York Underwriters 8,508,877 German Is of New York 2,5.13,733 Merchants or New Jersey .*.. 1,190,934 Atlanta Heats (Pays dividends to policy hoidrre.) 149,323,48 LONG TERM POLICIES ISSUED ON NOTE PLAN. OFFICE AT BANK OF THE JauUdly. UNIVERSITY. j-^.I . . . • STOCK FEED Made from the very best grain-give it a trial. COTTON SEED MEAL, Splendid for Cattle and indispensible to tho Farmer ns a Guano, OFARRELL & HODGSON f- „ . * ' * 1 l * • ** JaultdlB FOR CATARRH In all ita Stages, snd ORE THROAT “ In every Form, the CERTAIN'CATARRH CURE; *ml th® Quickest retnnlv known. Purely Vezfttabl*. Manuf*utnred by 30, QO, y Athens, G Pries, $1 per bottle; flbnttlts #•’> i»y Jn«. Craw lord Co., wlwltssbiiinri reptil I)ru»«l«U, Atbeni y 9a Information furnished. I.N. SMITH & CO., GRAIN DEALRR8 AND MILLERS TEXAS RUST PROOF OATS -^“5 GENUINE. FOR SALE CHEAP. 0T.5J MERICANAND Rtrert Commissioner Btaaley thinks of putting only three crossings on Brosd street, between Thoms* sml .Jackson, in* stead of the four tbst are doqrn now. We think that the cfoafling from Wall street should remain, as it ha* always been one of the principal crossings on the street T1UF&KAVC& SUHOV. Our people would like very much to hear Bishop Beckwith’s sermon on tem perance. Could he not be prevailed upon to deliver it during •os? ^ -CK 1LVERWARE WISS WATCHES CUDDER’S. FINE STATIONERY Books, Fancy Goods.. Everything in General Station ery. A Fine Stock of PICTURE FRAMES ■ Mouldings, Etc. Omdsr* Promptly Attkndvd To. Athbns G £■ W. BURKE,