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BANNER-WATCHJaN, ATHENS, GEORGIA, SDAY MORNIN OA UGUSi
, 1888.
-THE MEXICaNAFFAIR,
SO SEW DKVKl.OPMe.NTS.
OmtUxc Tl liks a* Will M tiiwmM
o*ui* txni riK
' W Atm noton, Aa/c. 10,—Noth
inf sew ha* dtreloood today r.l.
live to the CuILuecaic.
•• Major Genoral John G. Wither, ippearmce and introduction into
4W«ft Point graduate, who served socieir ot'• young ladr who bea •,
with diatinctioo In the confederate
arenr, and it now in the employ of
the Indian bareau, glee* intereating
detail*of the- aocial and political
atatua in Mexico. Speaking ul the
rxiating troublea and other outrage
by the Mexican*, be aaid: “Several
yeara.reaidcace in Mexico enaliln
me to date with conviction that
there i* not a Country in the whole
of Chrlatendom wher# the admlni*
- . Iratioo ot criminal justice. ia so cor
rupt, inhuman eAd inefficient aa in
the Male* of Mexico.
“There ia no auch lifeguard
' person*! liberty • In Mexico a» the
• ...Jarrit of habeas corpua, or anythi-1
cor.rcaponding with it,ao that a pri»
• oner, once in the dutchea of the
- law, ia wholly at the mercy of the
- judge in the caae, who may orde-t
<-• the trial the day alter hi* arrest, 01
May keep him in prison for years
, without trial. In all capital cs.es,
, or, in trials for aetioua oBemci, the
■ record of the cat* has to be sent up
totbeeupremecourt for review and
; tMMiaiM or reversal. Here
agafa ib* unfortunate prisoner tails
into thi band* of another act of hun-
gry ‘judges, and unless he can pay
. earlier consideration, hi.
' atMfk} not be reacbtS in twelvr
.indntbs, .
“Among the working classes there
Is not .ape man in ten that will not
. steal, ajgjd among the officials, in
eluding the judges on the bench,
there is,not oue in tilty who does
not take bribes.
El PAao, Aug. to.—During the
afternoon Editor Cutting was called
' before .the court and notified that he
find been granted en appeal to the
supreme court of Chihuahua, and
..that the lawyer who had been offi-
. cully assigned to hls defensc had
forwarded tha necessary paiieta in
. the case. He also fears that he wit,
be assassinated aa soon as lie leavrs
Paso dsl Norte, and the Mcxicun.
thill give as an cxcuae that he tried
to escape. It is learned that Cutting
>*nt the follewing telegram to Gov
arnor Ireland last evtaing:
“As a citizen of the state of Texas
. Iu|l of yon tbo protection that or
friend* ftaiure me you can, and nil
extend to me."
" This advice wet sent against the
must urgent advice ot Consul Brig
ham, and It ia the first time that
Cutting lux failed lo follow implicit
ly the suggestions ol thecousul.who
think* that at the present juacture
dispatches are ill-advised.
The citizen* of El Paso yesterday
formed three volunteer companies
to protect tbit city and guard i’
• against surjoi-dfroin tha other side.
Paso del Norte is loll of Mexicans,
eo'd rumors are ia circulation that
■ are are comings
Cnttmgia stul.i jail, and tie tim>
lor conveying him toChihuahua h o
nut been mad# public. In the ab
sence Ol,spy Washington narvs this
morning, the relative iuternat-on.il
complications cans# great anxiety
/ uassaibbtino ravrinx wan.
Minima*. Tax., Aug. to.—
Kriandx vf Governor Ireland here
art Jubilant ovar the indorsement ol
hie policy by tfaestates, andlhe city
is full of excitement in lavor of the
United States taking a decided stand
against Mexico. There could be
one thousand meu raised here fora
Mexican war. At a mass meeting
last night resolutions were passed
favoring an immediate war with
Mexico. .
1ELEGRAPHIC SPARKS
Catting feste that ho will bo a
sastiuxted by the Mexicans.
A meeting will be held In
Waynesboro Friday flight to organ,
ixe a volunteer military company,
Mil Thursday Hon. W. L. Peek
ad ft
uggests
joined
should
was nominated Tor state senator for
the twritty-seventh senatorial dis
trict ' -
Professor Leon, the men who
“akin* the cat" on a light rope, hat
takeo up hi* headquarters at^Great's
Park, in Atllnta The fercciees
vampire bat is with him.
The Chicago Herald
that Mri. Cleveland bavin
toe church, Mr. Clevelam
join the democratic party.
Rev. Edwin U. Weed,lateof An-
gus's, will .he contecia ed Bi bop
ot Florida in Jackaonvi.:o to mar
row. .
Jackson, Miss, Aug. t»—The
election to-day in this cite ga- e 3 >o
majority against prohibition, but the
county waa carried by the prohihi
tiealats by 800 majority.
Cincinnati, Aug. to.—Ex-Gov
eraor John W. Stexenson, of Ken
tucky, died thi* morning nt hi* re*-
idenca nt Covington, allot a ahcit
iilncu, «*etl 73jre«r».
A nugget weighing ihirty-icveu
Mund> and valued at $7,000 wa»
found »o a drift mint oe»r Sbrra
City, CiU leceotly. TWtit OM.of
i*• - Urge»t»pect«eoi#W found in
thf »UU. ; J£bn) .
BLUK on AM BOUIIBOXS SHOCKED.
AM Alltfed Octoroon Introduced lata Arts*
tocratlc Xontaekf Otrelct.
Louitvu.M, Aug. 1.—A*«ocicty
oenaation which hat convuNed the
little Blue Gra«r t »wn of Veraail'e*
and the ptovincially aristocratic
county of Wodrlford has ju»t i««U»
ed Louisville. It it the Jesuit of the
claimed, the unmistakable
marks of an octoroon.
Two years ago, Mist Susie, daugh
ter of Mr». William Hart, a rich
v% ido w of the highest social status |
who lives in a castle on o<ie of the
fittest estates in the famous Blue
Gia*» land, attended a fashionable
boarding school in New York. lies
room mate was a girl from Albany,
.N. Y., and the warmest sort ot a
school gid attachment quickly
sprang up between them. Soon,
however, it was whispered that the
tteaunful Albanian was an octoroon.
But this did not lessen the attach
ment of the high bred Kentucky
girl for her new friend.
Soon after this the Ilatts went
abroad and met the r Ibany girlund
her wealthy father in Paris. Mrs.
Ilart lound h m an intelligent gen-
tit man and his daughter a beautiful
and highly accomplished young
lady, showing little evidence of a
taint in her blood. Mrs. Hart also
became warmly attached to the
young ladv, and joined Miss Susie
in an invitation to visit Kentucky.
About three weeks ago the North
ern girl arris c i and the Harts in
troduced her into society-
Many ol the Woodford county
people weie already aware ol the
school sCUndal. and were juick to
dt*"cver the lair Albanian’s identity
wit* (lie school gill octoroon. The
‘•best’' |'?"p!e of Woodford county
arc Kentuckian* with the Bourbon
streak, and neither the good breed-
ng, the niodcNiy, nor the many ac
complishment of the beautiful young
vikitor could reconcile them to the
(act that she was believed to be an
octoro n—that there was “nigger”
blood in her veins. But the people
of Louisville nre more liberal in their
view*, and have not joined in the
sttiptutes that the provincialists ot
the bio.: prana country have deaped
upon the H-tris and their liieud.
!n die meantime the visitor re
mains .it Spring Hill and has been
kindly received by many of the best
people. This perhaps is due to
their curiosity and to their desire
not to offend the Harts, who are the
sOkial lenders of that place.
It is raid, however, that two ma
licious persons attempted to Lave
two mulatto housemaids call upon
the young lady, but the housemaids
were too well bred to essay the in
sult to Mrs. Ilart, and declined an
ofTer of $5 apiece to do it,
The visitor is a charming girl,
with a rich complexion and beauti
ful dark brown hair and eyes. She
is sufficiently accomplished to make
a striking impression in any society.
Her age is abo^ twenty* It is said
the it well known in Albany.
KMitiKT COUNTV
Mis. L. Y. A. Blackwell and
daughter, Mis. Hodges, of Athens,
ate 111 Kiheibin.
Mr. J. G. Sanders spent Isst week
n hlbcrtun. He it making arrange
ment* t j move back to this place.
Crops have been doing finely for
the past two weeks, and the pros
pect tor a cotton crop continues to
get brighter. The farmers are in
b» tter spirits.
Prof. W. J. Noyes itjon a visit t
relatives and friends in Cedartow
where his family prcccJed him some
time ago.
^ Mr. W. C Petty, of S. C., was in
Elberton a few days ago looking
around with the view of locating
v e lor the put pose ot buying cot
ton. He represents the house of
uinan, Swan & Co., of New York,
and if he does come, will make the
coitun market lively.
One day last week there was a
tiange dug ca ne to town, and from
his actions was supposed to be mad
A negro boy commenced shootihg
si the dog With a pistol and one 01
the »h( ts accidentally struck auothcr
tile negso boy in the jaw, fractur
ing the jaw bone. The wound is a
very painful oue, but is not suppos
ed to be dangerous. The dog was
killed.
Red river, in Texas, hrs risen
twenty feet, but what the country
wants is lor the Rio Grsnde to rise.
increasing
Cholera seems to be
some pails of Italy.
T. e business of Chicago it said
be serioiisly effected by the labor
>ub!*s.
(t is rumored thst Gen. Black,
It snow* I on Wednesday last at
R -me, NT, and the weather -4*
said to be txt c nely Cold for this
season of the year.
Ga'vcston haa received one hun-
dredjsud thiiuen bales of cotton of
th-* new crop in one day. Verity,
tbv opening of the business season
is nui far away. „ • I
PJIOHIBITIUX IN FLUE ETON.
If prohibition is to be judged by
its operation in Elberjon it ia not a
success. Its best friends there ad
mit that the law is very hard to en
force, and a member ol the town
council, who is a leading prohibi-
liuuisl is not at all hopeful of any
practical benefit to the temperance
came from prohibition as at present
administered. An appeal was made
to the List superior court by a party
who had been lined for selling li
quor by the council and the appeal
was successful, Judge Lumpkin
holding that the jury hud no juris
diction in the case. The town
council admits that under the decis
ion of the court it has no jurisdic
tion in the matter, and the member
alluded, to is afraid now that the
juries will not convict. In the
meantime liquor is sold every day
in town, and the prohibitionists are
despondent. Perhaps a longer ex
perience with the 'aw may show
better results fto-n it* operotion, but
at pie-ent it is almo-t a farce.—
Washn gton Chronicle.
I’rohii/ tionjis a success in Elbert,
so the good People ot that county
tell us. There is not one-tenth the
liquor dr.nkingand drunkenness as
bcfoie the county went “dry.”
AGO.SY OF BEING 8CALTKD.
A sick and sorry looking speci
men of humtnity stepped from the
passenger train last night anil climb
ed into a Waiting wagon and was
driven to the country. 11 is name
was Samuel Neff. He is a m m of
about 30 years of age, and hi* pa
rents reside in Pine Creek. Young
Neff is just home from Arizona,
w here he has been prospecting in
the mines and acting »• n scout or.
the hunt lor Indians. Unfoi tunate-
ly for him, he found the murderous
red devils and they almost made
mince meat of him. One day while
riding through a canon he was shot
through the shoulder and fell from
his hoise. His assailants, finding
that he was not dead, toiturcd him
outrageously. They cut gashes in
liis face and ni» over his body, ap
plied fire to his feet and hand*, and
ended their brutality by scalping
him. - lie suffered untold agon*
him.* Finally he fell into a faint,
and upon awakening lie found hi
self being kindly cared for in
miner's cabin. The miner had pick
ed him up and carried him a long
distance on horseback. Neff sul-
f red weeks of excruciating pain
and raved with a fever, and as soon
as he was able to travel he took the
road foi home.
A repoiter asked Neff how it felt
to have his hair lifted.
“It is a dreadful sensation,” he
said. “One thinks, as the skin is
being torn from the skull, that his
feet are coming right up through
his boJy to the top of hit head. Oh,
it if terr ble. It is to painful th«t
you cannot utter a cry; thousands
ot stars dance before your eyes.
You imagine red-hot needles are
Halting in and out of your flesh, and
you clasp your h^udsHo closely that
iiie linger nails cut into t ie llcMl. I
would rather be run thro gh a
th-eshing machine, ground up in a
w e mill or thrown under a lo
com.dive than to ever undergo such
’mother ordeal. It makes me shud
der to think ol the tottures I have
gone through with, and I never
ward to look upon the face of an
other Indian.” *
“Do many persons survive the
operation?” interrupted the re
porter.
4 No; I have only hear}! of two or
three melt besides myself win have
lost their hair by the scnlping-knilc
and then live to tell of it.
‘•Do you tnink the hsir will ever
grow out agriu?”
“Oh, no; I shall always have a
bald spot up theic. Thc*skin w
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
«* TJX COLLECTOR.
I X.rrtj MBO.M. mjHtt, MlMtHOrTu
CollMlof of Clark. e*.ntr, a&a MX th< MW;
~K.rt.ftta tours. lfilKUd.I pltaf. n;
kIMo tarot.up lust .o.^ta ti.ud a.kloi
th. offlr. a smc.ii, ..I ib. rapt. .Ill ....
*».« cotu. lo ranot Um IruK npoted In na.
J. W. LONO.
A WOMAN’S GALLANT EXPLOIT.
Xanax emus sttboXuxofH«r(rexUf«—
Tk. Details Olr*a la Particular.
Montrkal, Aug. 7.—George
Green, a merchant of thi. city, with
hia daughter and an engineer, left
Morrisburg Park, on the St. Law
rence, yesterday morning, in hit
small ateam launch, for Lachine.
They appear to have luat their bear
ing., haviug paaaed that place, and
were steaming directly into the
rnpida, when the veatel struck ont
of the submerged piers of the new
railroad biidge, ju.t above the rap
id., and sank. Thetriuwerc throw,
inta the water. The engineer suc
ceeded in gaining one ol the pier..
Mr. Green, being unable to twim,
sunk, but came to the surface, when
he was seized by his daughter, who
id h strong and vigorous swimmer.
The brave girl had a fearful battle
with the swilt current, and just sue
ceeded in gaining shore, almost ex
hausted, in time to escape being
carried over the rapids. When
picked up, she and her father were
insensible.
florsford’s Bread Preparation
THE BEST BAKING POWDER IN THE WORLD!
process, th* only procsss that produce* a bakln?
Ia made by Prof, ffors'ord'.
powder of any nutritive value,
nutrition* and strong : phosphate* required by th
pot up t
torn i ff for a space* ol tour inches
square, and I’m afraid will never
heal cntirel). Even if it dues heal
over the bare place w ill always be
so painlul tint I cannot touch it. I
keep my head tied up in cotton and
sweet oil. You can see that my
beauty has been entirely marred.
These frightful gashe* across ir.y
face will go with me to th%grave.”
—Chicago (Cal.) Chronicle.
Edward Bundy, colored, was
hanged at Sp irUnburg for the mur
Her ol Annie Hickman, in March,
1*885.
In a coliisiuii between two freight
trains on the Clies.ipeuke and Ohio,
four persons were killed and sev
eral family injuieo.
Mr. Hinton Wrignt, wno Vccc.it
ly wtote the governor of* Texas of
fering the services of a company ol
men horn Atlanta, received a reply
from him tiiii* morning, thanking
him lor the offer, and stating that
the coir munication had been filed
for future reference.
Queen Victoria is said to emphat
ically assert the divine power of
kings when she walks. Her nose
then goes nn her chin, ol course,
inclining at the same angle, and her
general manner being that ot a wo
man who hasn't a peer in the work.)
Atlanta, Aug. ia—lt has been
decided tcMcarry an aitrs an wattr
pipe into the union depot for the
benefit of the traveling public. Tnc
water could hardly be placed where
il would be more appreciated than
in tne depot.
Capt. R. W. Anuiews, of Sum
ter, S. C., who i* ninety years old,
and is making a pilgrimage on foot
applied at police headquarters, in
Washington, yesterday, for trank-
poit.ition on the cars. He says he
would wa'k, but his money hail
given out. He had a little dog with
him.
Preparations are being made to
blow ip Stone Mountain. A shaft
So lett deep will be drilled in the
side. In this sliatt 14,000 pounds
of giant powder is to be pluced and
iheshallt then tilled with stone and
cement. The powder is t> be ig
nited from a galvanic battery.
When the huge blast goes off, a
young eaithqiuke Will be le t in
t tat vicinity and fr.igmc.1ts of %t>nc
nay he hurlc l tor miles. They ex
pect to loosen up a hu »h pile of
granite, however.
A Land Slide Earthquake.
Mr. J. M. Hurley ami a friend
were out squirrel minting a few
doy* ago in the hills, when they
witnessed spmeihing more like an
earthquake than anything else,
fhey first heard a deep, rumbling
noise, saw the ground crack open,
smoke rise through the aptrture,
and then suddenly a large piece of
giound covering twenty or thirty
yards slowly sand into • deep gul-
ley, carrying huge trees with It.
The ground was not uuusjally iret.
and the presence of gas was very
perceptin'.e. Mr. Hurley describes
it as one of the most remarkable oc
currences that he has ever seen.*—
Lumpkin Independent.
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