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VII ATHENS, A SUNDAY’S ROW. CLINT COCHRAN AND JOHN AII8T1N ON THE WAR PATH. Pistols snil asst Flourished, But Blood shed Prevented—Besistlnj the Police and Outrageous Conduct—A Horse Baoo or six Tears Ago the Cause o: the Trouble. The peaceful Sabbath in Athens was disturbed by onu of the most disgrace ful rows that has ever occurred in 'our city, and for a time it threatened serious g. trouble. It seems that John Austin and * Clint Cochta , both colored rai n, had wager of (5 as to which hone won in race made between Randall Brown, well-knbwh ebony sport of Athena, and a white man from tower Oglothorpe named Goolsby, that took place sixycars ago. The bet was made three days be fore'the difficulty, and the part es met at the house of Cochran, roarb! Hr. J. II Rucker’s, to decide it. Austin claimod that he won, and a dispute followed, that resulted in John accusing Clint of being the lineal descendant of an unreg istered canine. Uoohran gathered his pistol, and was preparing to bore ' an uugcr hole through his insulter, when he 'Austin) left for home, but soon returned with a double barrelled shot-gun on his shoulder, loaded with buckshot and ms't- ing the most deadly threats. Mr. DaTe Kenney, who lived near, had his atten tion attracted by Ihe row, and telephoned to the police. Capt. Oliver and Officer Goodrum hastened to the scene of tho disturbance; When Austin saw them coming ho hid his gun, and took refuge in the house of I'henia Thomas, near at hand. He was arrested without resist ance. The prisonor was then left in charge of Policeman Goodrum, and Capt. Oliver went on to Cochran’s house and - arrested him. Cochran was quiet, -ami readily submitted to the officer. In the meantime, Capt. Oliver was notiHed that Austin was resisting Mr. Goodrum, and leaving Cochran in the hands ,of Mr. Kenney, be ran to tho relief of Mr. G. He found them insido of I’henia Thomas’ lot, and Austin was trying to get into tho house to. secure his gun, that he had secreted thcro. As soon ns Capt Oliver reached ths scene, ho grab bed Austin by ono ann, and with the assistance of Mr. Goo Irani, dragged him out into the street the prisoner resisting the while with all the strength at his command. The prisoner was then car ried to the calaboose, with considerable trouble, as Atistin was fronzistl with li quor, and fought to ,ho end. Not con tent with for. ible resistance, tho fel low used the most vile and abusive lan guage to Capt Oliver nnd Mr. Goodrum, and refused to be quiet even while ladies were passing. Yesterday morning, how ever, ho was very pouitent, and said he did not know wlmt lie was doing the previous evening, as he wa3 beast’y drunk. The cases will be bopkedagainst him, and the extent of the law doubtless meted out by the Mayor, as his conduct was most outrageous. Cochran gave bond and was released. He was very- quiet and orderly, after the appearance of the officers. The cases will be heard this afterndon at 3 o'clock. After ’the city is through with Austin he will be turned ovqr to the State to be dealt with, and the probability is that he will be elected to*s long term in the chain gang. SOCIETY AND PERSONAL. POLICE PICKINGS. Cases Booked for the Mayor s Matinee this Afternoon. ' Mr. Wallace came into the city, Sun day, and had a case booked against Mr. John A. Carithors, who keeps a store and wqgon yard at the fork of the Islington mad, for cursing out and abusing him. It seems that Wallace rented a bouse from Carithera, and refused to vacate the same when ordered, hence the row. Laura Burch, a colored datpsel, pre ferred charges against a white man named Grier, who does business at Mr. J. H. Dorsey’s old store in East Athens, for using profano language to her. It is rumored that there are some naughty disclosures connected with this case, that are not very creditable. All will probably come out to-day. Jim* Johnson, a colored Jehu, had hia name enrolled at the police barracks for disorderly conduct on the street Sunday afternoon. AH the abow cases will be tried this afternoon at 3 o’clock. No extra charge for reserved seats. ' Mr. Sam Hunter and family attended camp meeting at Bethlohem, in Wilton county. Rev. Simon Potor Richardson preached s lively sermon Sunday morning. Danc ing was his them). | Miss Gipsey McDaniel was at Bcthls- hem camp gto and on Sunday. She has many admirers everywhere she gees? Mr. Allen Arnold, from Monroe, prominent lawyer in Walton, is attend ing Bethlehem camp meeting. A. P. Henley, Esq., has just retarded from a visit to Greene county. He visit ed the Pork section of that grand old county, and says the prospects were n ver bettor for a great yield of cropa. Jug Tarern bad a full quota of peopio at thecMup-meeting, Sunday. - Bob Crawford, who has returned from Walton, says thst crops all along tho line are excellent. Cotton is in fine con dition and corn is about insured. Miss Lucie Winter end Miss Lula Al- esniidvr, of Augusta, passed J through Atlanta Saturday, en route for North Georgia, wWe they will visit Miss Josie Martin, of Clarendon, the lovely summer home of Mrs.LOcas. Rev, David R. Butler died in Madison, Sunday morning. He had been promi nent i.t state affairs and had many warm friends. Mrs. Walter M. Jackson, of Augusta, is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. W. Thom as, of Atheis. J. B. Holiingsworth, a popular Augus ta boy, passed through tho city yester day on his way home. Professor W. W. Lumpkin, of Means high school is expected norac in Atlanta in a few days from Martha'a Vineyard, Mass., where he has been for a couple of months attending the institute of elo cution, held by teachers of elocution throughout tho United States. Talk of a flue hotel at .Jpg Tavern is heard in that section. Capt. Norman’s school there is the pride of the country. Rev. Robt Adams, of Eatonton, the Presbyterian evangelist, preached in Augusta on Sunday. Mr. EFT. Shubriek, deputy superfn tendent of tho state penitentiary, passed through Athens yesterday on his way to Smith's convict camp. He is one of the state's best officers. Mr. L. W Scoville has retired from tho Kimball Uouso management. The tirm now is iteerman, Thompson & Co. Mr. Joe Orr, who baa been North on business for two weeks was back at his office yesterday. He is one of the solid men of Athens, and represents the bus iness outlook u first class. Yesterday's rains wore refreshing and serviceable. Come aga'n s’mofhcr day. Mr. 8. Elliott Moore who delighted bis friends with his genial presence, left Ath ens yesterday afternoon. He is doing some fine work on tho Mississippi levees nnd makes a success of his calling. lie behoves with hundreds of others that thcro is no place like Athens. Mr. John D. Metl his returned from A t'anta, where he tcok prominent part in the annual convention of - the S. A. E. Fraternity. Master Clarence Rowland, of Augusta, who has been spenuingsome weeks with his friend, Master Nesbit Wright, in Ma con, left yesterday morning for Athena, to visit his brother, Mr. William Uow- iand. GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, ’AUGUSI AN OLD MAN TALKS i COLLEGE BOY & LIFE. Death of Frank Bryant In the Oconee— Washed over the Factory Dam and Dash ed to Death «i the Presence of a Vast Concourse of Paopto-A Darla* Attempt, Equal to Swimming the Whirlpool Kap- lds. A BOSS It) BOYCOTTED. A OOWABDLT ACT’ Turo of the train hands on Capt Cos's train on tht North-Eastern railroad bad a difficulty, and while ono Whs stooping down to pick up a piece of waste tho other struck him several severe blows - over the head with a conpling pin. Trouble In th • Weaver Boom In Princeton Factory. Rumors rcochcd the city yesterday of trouble among the hands of tho Prince ton factory. Inquiry showed that it was not a strike, as the wages were not in volved, nor was it a Knights of Labor complication. It seems thst some .differ ences arose between the hands in tho weave room, and the boss of that room. That peigon declared that if a majority of the weavers opposed him he would leave. Yesterday morning a vote was taken among ths weavers, and a majority, it is Slid, sustained the boas. Later in the day, howerer, hands in the other room took up the trouble, and declared thst if the weaver boss was retained they would leave the taetcry. Dr. Hamilton heard of the trouble and went out to prince ten yesterday after noon. It is not yet knoarn what will be the outcome of the trouble. Princeton factory employs about 90 hands, although a much smaller number is concerned in these differences. The first trouble cropped out on Saturday. Tho other day the conversation turned on the whirlpool cranks at Niagara, where a man, for tho sake of notoriety, risked his life. An old citiaen remarked the some thirty years ago ho witnessed in this city, a feat as hazardous as any over attempted at other places, and it re- salted fatally to the daring adventurer. Heavy reins had raised the Oconee river to an unusual height, and it was far be yond its bounds. The water swept over the factory dam with fearful force; and the timbers floating down the fiver were handled like straws by the angry torrent. Tho velocity and farce of the water were so great, even in ths usually tranquil pond, that it aeemed impossible for any living thing to exist in them without having the breath dashed from tho body. The banks of the river were crowded with people who had congregated to see the flood, and stood fascinated by its ■' rrifle grandeur. At this instant the n3ws spread that two young men intend ed to attempt the perilous feat of rowing a boat across tho pond, and when it was herrd that tho daring and reckless Frank Bryant was one, there was no surprise. The pair were urged not to undorbko so foolish and perilous a feat, and the dag ger pointed out. This only seemed to enthuse Bryant the more, and withjqdgn Chariton, of Savannah, then a school-boy, he started on the voyage. This was in May, 1853. The bridges then were not suspended across tho rirer as now, but pillare were built in the stream, did at nearly every high water they were car ried away. The upper bridge had gone, and ita timbers lodging against the lower bridge, had destroyed thst also. It was Saturday morning, and the pair of ad venturous students, by going above the bridge timbers, did manage 4o got nearly across, when a ra f t struck the boat and enpsized it, turning both young men into tho river. They were both good swim- mere, however, and managed to reach tho shore, drenched to the skin. - But they were in a bad fix—with a roaring river between thorn and their landing. id no me-ns of erox ing. Bryant aid not hesitate long, and challenged Charl ton to awim to the opposite shore with him. Cbsrlfon was the most pradont of the two and declined Intake such a risk. "Then I will swim across alone!’’ was Bryant’s reply, as ho proceeded to butte i tightly his coat oger his breast He stood out boldlv. heading np the stream, but tho strong current drifted him down in spite of hia utmost exertions. He made desperate struggles to breast the cureent, but he was carried into the mid- dlo of the stream, and washed against a raft formed from the dobris of tho brid ges and lodged againt a central pier. The spectators with horror saw him sucked beneath this reft, and he next reappeared below; but his movements showed thst he bad been badly hurt or stunned by tho timbers, and was completely at the mercy of the flood. Tho crowd upon the banks were powerless to aid the rash victim of hia own daring, and they could only with blanehad cheeks and bated breath watch him carried onward toward the dam. As this raging cataract was neared, the doomed man realized his dan ger and his every movement showed the fear that was in . him. At last tho dam was reached and Bryant struck the tim bers first with his teat The waters then seemed to lift him up,and headforemost, madly dash him over the brink and upon the rocks below. This was the lest seen of the anfortanate young man that day, as the raging water prevented any search for the body. Sunday afternoon,'whon tho rain bad subsided, the bruised and mangled body of Frank Bryant was found lodged on the little ialand just be- iew the factory, wedged la among a raft of litter. The remains wen carried to the old Newton House on a litter and sent to the home of the unfortunate youth, n Bryan county, Gs. The Colored Population of Athens Close One of Their Own Academies. The Board of Education rented tho Primitive Bkptist oharcii building, in Cobbham, as a free school for tho col ored people, and had gone to somo $50 expenso toward fixing up ths room. The Board had secured consent from tho white officers of tho church, but to their surpriso the colored members notified this body that they would protest against such uso of their church, and posted a notification to that effect and nailed up the door. Tho Board of Edu cation lure dona everything in their power to'secure a*building in which to open another school for the colored poo- ple, but there-are members of this race who aeem determined to prevent it Even a lease of Knox Sohool was frus trated. These gentlemen lay they will not bother any more over the matter, and the negroes Bare only . themaelvea to blame for losing one of their schools. There are reports out that all manner of swindlea have been practiced by these people, in order to get their children free tuition—pupils under and over age having beenontered, and oven children living without the corporate limits. The Board decided yesterday to de mand admittance to tha Primitive Bap tist church, or a return of the money expendod by them in improvements. In the meantime, unless cither the Knox School or A* Primitive Baptist church is turned over to the Board, or’y three hnndrcd ami fifty colored scholars will bo adm’ttcd until the new school bouse is completed, no other space being available. 1 We lesrn iust a proposition will be made from the colored peopio to the city council, that if the Knox Academy is bought, at a coat of $2,500, and a a mall addition made, that they will not ask for any other building. Th s s wilt be a sav ing nf about $3,1X 0 to the city, and will probably be accepted. BOOTS AND SHOES, THE BEST Ms for the Least Honey! ATHENS, GA. THE AUGUSTA STRIKE. Propos'd Revision of tie Far Bolls for the Acoubta, Gs. Aug. 29.—Boforo ths ar rival of Secretary Tumef a committed was appointed from tho Manufactuers’ Association to compare and revise the pay-rolls, and to fix salaries. Tho hitch in the arbitration with Mr. Turte stopped them in their work. Since the agreement was declared off .they have again gone to work. They will finish their work early next week, and will submit the schedule of prices as made out by the Manufacturer’s Association if they are adopted. The manufacturers will advertise for hands of all and any kind-to go to work acco-ding to the schedule of the Manufacturers’ Associa tion. The schedule may be accepted by the present employees. Imperial Bread always on hand at Moore & Elder’s. SELECT SCHOOL- Prof. 8. P. Orr will open his select school for bovs and young men, Sept. 8th. It will be at the corner of Mr. J. R. Crane’s lot, and this well-known teacher will prepare young men for the lower classes of the University. Ho ia an excellent teacher, and should com maud a fine school jQUR STOCK OF FALL AND WINTER SUITINGS, OVERCOATS AND OTHER SPECIALTIES tho ensuing season will bo ready for inspection by SE1TEMBKR 1st derlro very briefly to otatc that it s the Most Complete Exibit for Variety, Extent and.’Ge.ieral Excelence Ever Offered Mvy ask von to reter/s yo-ir drlirt a u.t itll yj.i Inviai i.»p i.-fjaity xaral pe the snipe- Very truly yours, FERRIS & SO; Merchant Toilers and Gen s’ Fhrnisblng Goods. Oar -Mr E. II. Kerris i ent u ip; ouroly with » complete limof esmoli . uri.t* the Ilrst part u prom.her Any orders with wh'ch we in ty be tavorj 1 wl l receive persona,, s E. W. BURKE, The only Regular Music House in Northeast Georgia Instruments bought from manufacturers and only best makes sold. THU HALLET & DAVIS PIANO AND SMITH AMERICAN ORGAN are my leaders. Clayton street, Athens, Ga. PLANTATION ECHOES. Calf and gefT bread tick ets at Moore & Elder’s. • : V- ; ‘ A KCB SHOWS*. - Last evening a delightful rain fell, that cooled the air and-was of inestimable benefit to crops. The seasons have been 1> death. Albert Glenn, son of Margaret and Hh^foreblo as one coojd ask. Thomas Glomi. died in Athens, Ga, Aug/ 23th, 1H88. lie was highly -thought and loved by all who knew him. OH THE JURY. THS GEORGIA MIDLAND FKEIIDENT. . Atlanta, August 28.—Captain Seaton Grantland, president of the Georgia Mid land railroad, was in tha city to-day, and visited the Telegraph bureau. He left on the Air Line this afternoen for New York, tthereT ho goes to look after im portant business tor his road. Ho thinks the road will bo ! Griffin There Is a good stand of turnip* this year, and large patches are town. Cotton ia opening very fast. On red land the crop is evcellent ■ A great deal of nice fodder has been saved, that sells at 80 cents per r.). It is estimated that Mre. Rutherford’s prise ten of corn will make about 75 bushels. Field peas are making very (kit, and a fine crop is promised. A third more small grain will be sow-1 ed this year than formerly. | Cotton has retained nearly s’J th* forms thus far took otte-aomething unusual. ■You can buy good hay on th* itreetat | fonts per 100. TheLespedeza ia being ent for hay [awl it make* a good feed for stock whon cured. In stock law counties th* breed of stock is improving very bat Th* finest atrain* of Asiatic fowls arc being crossed oa our common dunghillr, Ljl over tho countr/.^^^^^^^B Tho ewoct potato crop is only moder ate this fall. There has been too much dry weather for the reoUgjy- LAND TO BEST. Mr. W. :L Jonoz, Jr., offors for rent small tracts some new land in Clarke county. AC A SCUDDER ’5i\A silversmith, Watches Clocks Silverware GRIFFITH & MELL. -INSURANCE AGENTS. Represent best Companies and insure desirable pro perty in Athens and vicinity on most favorable terms Liar or ConranuM. Assam. Georgia Home ♦ 750,000 Borne of Now York..., . 7,280,058 Phoenix of Hartford 4,2)9.780 Liverpool aodXondon and Globe... 14,600,000 InaurancoCompany ot North America. 9,087,235 North Britiih and Mercantile 3,3l:s,7U New York Underwriters Germania of New York 2.53J.7tu Merchant! of New Jersey ? 1.190.KH Atlanta Homo (Pays dividends to policy holders.) 249,328,4 LONG TERM POLICIES I88UKD.ON NOTE PLAN. OFFICE AT BANK OF THE UNIVERSITY. janl5dly. m . below A Miss M. 0. Thurmond will res , »*-— Wednesday, ext ■ lawyer