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TJIB LATEST HA PPE NINOS OF TO
bay.
'»« Gathered by the Hard Hearth •!
;-■< a Chrauicle Reporter.
Mr. G. Press Elder, of Gould, was in the
city today.
Judge and Mrs. Asa M. Jackson are
very ill at their home.
Mr. Tobe Murray brought a large lot of
mules to town this morning.
Hon. Pope Gholston of Madison county
wasin the the city to-day.
Silvey hauls big loads on his dray
when he moves people.
Mr. John L. Franklin has moved to one
of Mr. McDuffie’s houses, near Mr. F. W.
Lucas’.
Several 3 and 5 room cottages to rent.
Apply to Mrs. E. «C. Colbert, Pulaski
street.
A pleasant sociable is to be given to
morrow evening by Miss Effie Hampton
at her suburban home.
Miss Linnie Blair, who has been quite
ill for the past few days, we are glad to
learn is some better.
Mr. John Talmadge, one of our leading
business men, is highly in favor of a dum
my line, and will do all in his power to gel
the dummy line here. Let others join in
with him. A little concert of action will
do much for Athens.
Mr. L. Schevenell, the expert book
keeper of the Athens Foundry & Machine
Works has an advertisement in the Chrons
icle today, in which all business men are
interested. He will will teach stenography
to a limited number of pupils. Call and
see him.
Mr. Brewer Mathews went down to
Oglethorpe yesterday, in the interest of
Jli? farm.
Mrs. Kenney and her daughter, Miss Ida,
left on Thursday morning, for an extended
visit to the Rev. J. J. N. Kenney, who is
the preacher in charge of the Flovilla cir
cuit. We have no doubt Mr. Kenney will
enjoy the pleasure of a visit from his mo
ther aud sister.
A nicely furnished room to rent- conve
niently and pleasantly located. Apply at
bls office.
We are indebted to Mrs. W. J. Russell
for a very interesting letter, tobe found <
on our first page. It will be read Wjjfo
interest by many of our U
of the Samoan Islands, now .
discussed in almost eiery
We are glad to present to our read Wpm
the Chronicle today, “Slat's” inter
esting letters. We are sorry that he can
not find time to write more frequently. •
Col. Richard Taylor, a former poet mas
ter of this place, and well known in Ath
ens, is now lying in a critical condition at
his home in Wilkes. He was attacked by
two negroes. Hill and Huff, a few days
ago, and his skull was fractured by an iron
wedge in the hands of Huff. The negroes
have not been captured,though the officers
are after them.
If any one wishes to see hats, bags, tapa
&c, made in Samoa, Mrs. Russell will show
them some at Princeton Factory, and pic
tures of scenes and of some of the na
tives.
A blacking factory is the latest enter
prise on foot in Athens. Several gentle
men propose to work up this establishment
and pul arshine" on Athens.
For fine Artistic Photographs, call on
Mills, Broad street.
The display in A. O. Lyndon’s windows
is the handsomest in the city.
Prof. A. J. Cobb, who was to have re
turned from Watkinsville this morning,
was unavoidably detained there, bo the
Law Class didn’t stand their examination
on the third book of Blackstone.
Athens wants a dummy. If her people
wquld stop and think a little while, they
wcjuld come to .the conclusion that their
Wish could be gratified if a few people
here would get some life in them, and stop
acting the dummy.
Ss ‘ A thief walked off with policeman G00..*
Jfiim’s cow yesterday, but the cow got loose,
came pack to her old home.
1 Prayer meeting to-night at Mr. Brad
shaw’s on Broad street, near compress.—
i The public are cordially invited to attend.
Five shares in the Classic City Building
Association for sale ala bargain. For
particulars apply at the barber shop of
Williams & Parnell.
Forth# finest Photos in Athens, call on
C. B. Mills.
A. O. Lyndon is sole agent for the
: Farmer Girl Cook Stove, the only stove
sold in^ e B lale with a guarantee for ten
Mr. J. A. Garebold is now at his place of
business and is prepared to attend to all
orders for work in his line.
Andrew JaCksoii, the famous colored
horse trader is in trouble. Be was found
of violating the prohibition laws,
and for the next sixty days will appear on
the streets in shackles. He refuses to
work, but will probably relent.
-• The police will soon make .. raid and
eapfurg,a number who have been running
tigers. The haul Will be a big one.
Baled shucks at Weatherly Bros.
fl 1 J#'!® -L W > « // 1
THS DIRIIY LINE.
Concert •! Actiaa all that ia Neceaaary.
Our business men are thoroughly arous
ed on the Street Railway question. They
want a dummy line, and all that is now
needed to insure success in the enterprise
is a leader. On interviewing them, we
find they are ready to invest, and they feel
.satisfied that the investment would not
only be a grand thing for the city, but that
it would pay the stockholders a good per
cent.
The Classic City Railroad is now in the
courts. A bill asking for a Receiver was
filed in Oconee Court Tuesday. A hearing
will be had at Jackson court on February
7th. There are SIO,OOO worth of first
mortgage bonds past due, and the court
orders that be protected. They are
owned in part as follows: Lampassas
First National Rank, Texas, $4,000, Car
builders of St Louis and Indianapolis,
SI,OOO. In this city Dr. Hunnicutt has
$2,0000 and other stockholders are Dr.
Lipscomb, Miss M 4tutherford, Mr. A. K
Childs, Hon. Y. L. G. Harris, Capt. Jim
White, Mr. W. J. Russell, Jr., Prof. D. C.
Barrow, Mr. JohnJTalmadge and Hodgson
Bros.
We hope in a few days to be able to
chronicle the fact that something tangible
in the way of a dummy line is on foot.
Chandler and Grady.
Os the many brilliant articles that have
fallen from the pen of Mr. H. W. Grady,
that on our editoral page, where he pays
bis respects to Mr. Billy Chandler, is
among the best It is said that Mr. Chan
dler “frowned’' when at his desk in the
senate, he read the article in the Constitu
tion. We feel that we cannot give our
readers anything more entertaining than
Mr. Grady’s article, and”' therefore repro
duce it entire on editorial page.
Bea-val.
Miss E. H. Hale has moved her dress
making establishment to No. 3 Clayton
street, over Whitehead & Co.
Another Meeting.
The ladies bold another meeting this
afternoon at 4 o’clock in the interest of
the Industrial Home. The meeting will be
held at the Episcopal church. The work
pressing nicely, and the interest ffi
should’’not be allowed tojdie out.
I . I
I will receive a limited number of even
ing pupils in Phonqgraphy.
The general use of short hand in the
larger business houses throughout the land
makes a knowledge of the art a valuable
adjunct to a business education.
For terms apply to
L. Schevenell, Athens, Ga.
Dancing School.
Miss Laura Baratta opens her dancing
school at Pioneer Hall this afternoon at 3
o’clock for ladies and children. Lessons
will be given on Monday’s and Friday’s at
reduced rates.
A LABfiEHOG.
Which Falla the Scale* at 786 P«unda.
It was the center of attraction down
town this morning. In front of Booth’s
butcher shop was hanging a large fat hog,
and on each sleek and shining side was
labelled in large blue figures the number
786. Old men as well as young men gath*
ered around to view the great hog, for his
Ike had never been seen in Athens
Hanging erect he stretched out to a greater
length than the average man, and everyone
stood thunderstruck at bis immensity. He
was raised by Mr. David Gann, of this
city.
Now the above were facts at once ap
pearing to the observer, but behind the
scenes it was found that the large blue
numbers were put there to aihnct repor
ters, and that the real weight of the hog
was 365 pounds. The largest hog ever
seen here weighed 480 pounds.
For Sale.
I will sell at a very low price, a splen
did 7 octave piano.
J. P. Wilson, Agent.
No Bail for Echala.
Yesterday at 2 o’clock in the state library
Judge S. W. Hairis refused the applica
tion of Charles F. Echols for bail.
Immediately upon the conclusion of the
argument, Judge Harris rendered Lis
decision in these words:
‘My sense of justice will not allow me to
4rant this application for bail.” —Consti-
tution.
—:
Oconee Court—The Train Wrecker* Ctet
Four Years.
Two negroes were tried for wrecking the
train in Oconee, a full account of which
appeared some time ago. The older oi e
came clear, and th • you .ger was sentenced
to four years in the penitentiary.
Two negroes were iried Jor stealing a
hog from Mr. Syl Branch. Both found
guilty.
ATHENS, GEORGIA* THURSDAY JANUARY
A TRAVELLER’S PEN
TELLS ABOUT HOTELS, DBUB
ffIIRRN, HEATED CABS, Are.
Letter from Stat.”
Jersey City, Jan. 27th, 1889.
Editors Chronicle:—l saw today a
slip cut from yourselves in which you
threatened to advertis efor me if I did not
put in appeacance. I am sure neither
yourself or good readers will imagine that
my silence has been from any want of In
terest in either of you, for I have given
abundant testimony to the contrary in the
past. Really, consideration for you both
has kept me silent, for I had nothing new
to write about. From every section of the
broad land, I have written you; and I have
not ingenuity enough, or sufficiently acute
powers of observation, to imagine or see
something new m old places. If 1 gave
you the details, I should tire you, as they
not unfrequendy tire me.
I have spent nearly four years in hotels
now, and know the good ones afar off, and
the bad ones, I avoid. The best “ all
around” hotel in the country, is the Plank
enton, at Milwaukee. Ido not even make
an exception cf those in New York; the
best in Chicago, are not to be compared
with it. If you reach there at night, and
wear a stove-pipe bat, a,nd your coat looks
well, they put you in a $4.00 room. But
there is a luxury in everything around—a
large sitting room, velvet couches, rocking
chairs, etc,; both rooms attached, and your
bed in the cosiest alcove imaginable. One
night, is enough for glory. If you have
any sense, you will say to the Prince in
disguise—who deigns to act as a clerk—
that $5 00 is very handsome, but a cheaper
room would do you, as you only wanted a
place to sleep. He will then give you a
back room at $3 00; or, if you put on a
very poor mouth, he will send you to the
fourth floor at $2.50; but you must re
member, you have the same chance at the
table as the man who pays $4.00—-better,
perhaps, for walking down the steps gives l
you an appetite. You are not presumed
to walk up, unless you ignore the elevator,
which is not to be despised. I sent a lady
a copy of one of the menus of a large ho
tel, declared it made her feel hun
gry for a month—though I learn she still
keeps it on the mantle-piece, I presume, as
an appetizer^The apatiteVhich’ emtkL
not be satisfied among these viands, must
be capricious and, exacting. The vast ar
ray of French names are very confusing at
first, but if you want to experiment, if you
want to come anywhere near the name, the
waiter will help you out. You see “Pom
mesdetene.*’ It looks foimidable, but,
with a dry swallow, you try to pronouncs
it; the expert waiter catches on, he recogs
nizes the half swallowed and half pro
nounced word, and brings you Irish pota
toes, for that is what they are. I have ex*
perimAited along in my green days, bu f
was often too timid t® eat, it looked like 1
nothing in the earth, above it, or below it.’
The best thing 1 have ever eaten is Prairie
chicken. Sometimes Canvass-back duck
is the best of all eatables—but the next
time you order, you will probably get
“Puddle” duck. But when you travel
long, you will find that nothing goes fur
ther, and is more grateful, than roast beef
and steak. Ido not mean the kind that in
the long past Joe Keno used to vend, nor
the kind that Madison county, I presume
raises now; but beef fed on the sweet
grass ol Montana, then shipped to Chicago
killed, and hung m a refrigerator. Then
when eaten, you will appreciate why the
British are a great nation—they love beef.
No other meat is comparable to it, and you
would not know it, having eaten Athens
beef all these years. Cattle must be raised
for beef, to be good. An old cow may do
to sell as beef, but will never do to eat. An
old gentleman, years ago, in Athens, hav,
ing lost fcria molar teeth, “ bad some made
of zinc,” as he expressed it, “to chaw beef
steak,” and it showed what a level head he
had. The best $2 00 way-house in the
United States is the Philips, at Dayton,
Ohio. In nothing is it wanting, except
that the menu is not so elaborate; but
everything is just as well prepared as any*
where. If you tried many hotels, you
would wonder bow it is possible, with.the
ffline facilities, there can be so great a dT*
serer ce—one so perfect, and the other so
execrable. But I have learned the ways of
them, and I only go to a poor one when I
am obliged to do so. I was at one in Al
bany that trad nothing good about it ex
cept the price, $3 50 per day; and the pro
prietor sports a broad-cloth coat, a silk hat,
and a Pug dog, and well he may. A Euro
pean hotel is a delusion and a snare. Don’t
you go there, unless you can “feed ovV
1 among your friends. It looks very inviting
to see on your door “SI.OO per day,” but
when you try the restaurants, you will
find where the fun is. A steak, rolls, cup
of coffee, and buckwheat cakes, will cost
t you 80cls. to $1.00; and if you happen to
want a little variety, a mutton chop will
c >st you 50 cents; any ordering dinner,
i! will cost you at least $1 00. Tiue, the slice
i of beef they bring you is large enough for
i a small family, but you must really pay for
i a can to get it. Those are jour first meals'
Now, just let me whisper, give the waitei
, $1 00 to pay for your first breakfast. .He
[, brings you 20 cents in change on a silvei
| waiter; you divide with him, leaving ten
cents for him, and don’t forget to leave it
every time, and. you wilt be astonished to
see how ucAicb cheaper your meals come.—
The waiter has the pricing, and he remem*
bers your thoughtfulness. My breakfast
cost 80 cents, and for the waiter, 10 cents ;
my dinner, including apple dumpling,
(baked elegantly) cost 65 cents—a clear
i saving to me of a quarter. I have that
j much of ths mule about me, I have learned
t by experience.
r You do not see here, in full career, the
t Chicago drummer. As he gets East, if he
, comes, he i? like other mortals—he dwarfs.
t But put him out West, where he breathes,
. and talks—(Chicago, in fact, lives in an
! atmosphere;charged with Chicago, which
r he creates) —then you see him, and he is
> sui generis. He rushes into a hotel, slams
. the front dorir, wants a sample room, and
j then, in a lower voice—the only time he
. ever speaks low—says, T want a $2.50
t rate." It is the only time in the day when
. he descends*to the plane of morals. He
will orders at a table, keep
, more than a table full of New
York drummerl-thus out West. I was in
doubts at first who these were, thinking
possibly the proprietor, or maybe the chief
clerk of the jiotel, had forgotten his dig<-
nity and was dining with common folks.—
But soon you would hear ‘‘Chicago,” which
made his status as plain as the ears on the
donkey. But-there is no harm in them
only their noi ,e, but it runs in the family’
You have never traveled in a steam
heated car—p’jje wood and coal too cneap
in Georgia— I have often read of ac
cidents, and man being pinned down by the
overturned seats and then being burned to
death. That was, of course, more horrible
than being mashed up. Now, the princi
pal roads are heated by steam from the
engine, with, of course, perfect safety from
burning. But how about being par -boiled
while alive? I presume in intensely cold
weather, they would be most agreeable;
but in the moderate weather we have had >
it is almost insufferable. I fanned, just as
I have done in Summer, except that the
car was fiottei than any weather I ever
felt. I hope I shall find no more of them.
I have been writing all this time hoping
to “say something," and if your readers go
through this letter, they will thank me for
my silence of the past two months. Wish
ing you all a h:.ppy New Year, I am,
Faithfully yours,
' ,BTAT ''
A good mule m sale cheap. Apply a
’’’almage & Brightwell’s.
Mr. Sock Pruitt, the clever editor of the
man, says it is a tough job
to walk in froioi Georgia Factory on a cold
dark night. 3e speaks from last night’s
experience.
Mr. Frank Rhodes has shipped some of
his fine chickens to New York recently.
He finds a ready sale for them in all parts
: o ’ the country.
' Mr. W. L A White, of Jackson county,
gave us a pleasant call today. He had a
fine crayon sketch of a young man who
died during the war. Mr White improves
greatly in his work as an artist, and is
constantly receiving orders for pictures.
Baled shucks, at Wetherly Bros.
’ Call at ihe Clifton Gallery and have
i your photographs finished in the most ar
■ istic manner.
t Claude C. Maddox, Artist.
The dummy line grows more popular
, every day. It will pot be long, we believe,
i before Athens will have the dummy line
' I will open a new suite of Photogragh
• rooms over Scudder’s, on Broad street,
1 Saturday, Feb 2nd. C. B. Mills.
i i.
| THE ASSASSIN'S AIM.
i
t Han. John Clayton, of Arkrn«a« Shot
t Dead by a Coward.
' Little Rock, Ark., January 30.
John M. Clayton, brother of Powell
' Clayton, was assassinated at Plummer
ville, Ark , last night by some unknown
’ person who fired a load of buckshot
through a window, breaking Clayton’s
n.ck and billing him instantly. Mr. Clay
ton was candidate for congress at the
‘ recent election against C. R. Breckenridge,
and had served upon Mr. Breckenridge a
‘ notice of content of his seat in the fifty-
P first congres.. Nothing has become pub—
lie any manner explains the
murder. Plummervilie is a small village
in Conway county. The murder occurred
at a hotel.
The remains of John M. Clayton were
brought to this city tonight, and were met
t at the depot by the Knights Templar com
, mandery and a vast concourse of people,
and escorted to the commandery asylum,
’ where they lie in state till tomorrow, to
I be taken to Pine Bluff for interment.
The fatal wound is a very ugly one. A
’ charge of fifteen buckshot, entered the
3 right side of the head, tearing a hole in
j which a man could run his fist.
The Athena Lanndry.
e
r Messrs. Williams & Vines are running a
r first-class laundry on Clayton street, near
’• the postofflee. Here you can have first
r cluss work very reasonable prices.—
e Patronize these young men, and tell them
r you saw their advertisement in the Evt#
a ning Chronicle,
31 1889
ON THE CAMPUS.
Our College Reporters:
W. H. POPE, G. D. ANDERSON. J. M. GASTON.
WHAT HAS
THE UNIVKRMITY BOYS.
It ms Caa%ht on the Fly by the Ever Aiei
College Reporters of the Chronicle.
Mr W J Harris writes that he will return
to Athens on Saturday to enter the Uni
versity.
The Derifosthenian anniversarian invi
tations will be distributed tomorrow. All
members of the Society are requested by
Mr. N. L Poullain to call at his room at
Yahoo hall and get their invitations.
A letter was received yesterday in tL’s
city, from a member of Mercer University
asking how the competitive system of
selecting champion debaters has succeeded
at the University. They are thinking of
• adopting it at that institution.
| Messrs. A.JL Hull, E. C. Branson and
Rev. C. W. Lane constitute the committee
1 appointed by the Demosthenian society to
j act as judges in their competitive debate
in March.
Yesterday witnessed the first drill by
j the University corps of cadets. Mujor
Snellings has begun drilling the two com>
panies in double rank, and the difficulty
in executing these movements make the
! the liability to confusion very great. TLe
drill, however, will be a very imposing
affair when it has been thorughly mastered,
i and the cadets hope to see many of their
lady friends present as an inspiration
during the coining summer afternoons.—
Quartermaster, I. 8. K. Axson, was the
officer of the day yesterday and Lieuten
ant Smith officiates in that capacity today.
The officels uniforms were yesterday the
objects of much attention and admiration.
Probably the prettiest is that worn by
Adjutant Rockwell, whose arm ornaments
attracted considerable notice not only on
account of the impoitance of the office,
but also because of their intrinsic beauty.
w. h. F.
—. a i
Be sure and attend the auction sale of
shoes to-morrow at the old Ten Cent
Store, at 10:80.
Mr. N. B. Bradt, of Chattanooga, arrived
in the city today. He comes to take charsie
of the business of Messrs. McGinty & Hun
nicutt. He will be sc.,, .u«. c ndeu u of their
works.
Mr. Ben Dillard, one of Oglethorpe’s
clever young men, was in the city today.
Our cotton buyers tell us there will not
be a thousand bales here in thirty days.—
Cotton is going up, and it will sell rapidly*
The Candy Factory and wholesale
Crockery Store.
This morning a Chronicle reporter met
up with Mr. Hartsfield, the gentleman who
has been looking over the city with a view
to locating here. He infoi med the writer
that his mind was fully made up, and that
he would certainly open a candy factory
here at an eaily day. He is now on a trade
for the building formerly occupied by
Johnson & Moore, Clayton street. Mr.
Hartsfield will not only have a candy fac
tory over this store, but will fill it with
crockery, and tun a first cless wholesale
business. He is an experienced business
man, and in his travels has found no city
more inviting than Athens. We wish him
success.
The Auction Sale of Shoes
has been postponed until to-morrow at
10:30 on account of a delay on the railroad.
They will be sold to>-morrow positively,
and will be sold regardless of cost. It
will pay parties in need of shoes to attend
this sale as they will be sold in lots to suit
buyer. Do not forget the sale to- norrow
at 10:30. A. Coleman, Auctioneer.
THE WOOLFOLK CASK.
la Taken up in the Supreme Csnrt.
The celebrated Woolfolk case came up
in the Supreme court yesterday. It will be
remembered that Woolfolk received the
sentence of death, and upon application
for a new trial was refused it by Judge
Gustin. The motion for a new trial came
up yesterday before the Suprems court and
a great while was taken to read the evi
dence. Capt. Rutherford reviewed the
tacts in the case, and advanced the theory
that one man could not have killed so
many people with an ax, but that negroes
killed them through revenge.
He asked for a new trial for Wool folk
®n the grounds that the jury were influen
ced by the tumult in the court room on
the day of the trial. The case will bfc
concluded in a day or two. Capt. John
C. Rutherford and Col. Frank Walker rep
resented Woolfolk, while Attorney Gen
eral Anderson, Ex Solicitor General Har«-
deman, an<Bolicitor General Felton rep
resentefi the State.
At Reduced Price*.
A
At Clifton’s Gallery, Cabinet picture,
$5.00 per dozen, $3 00 per half dozen
Cards from $2.00 to $3.00 per dozen. Old
prices, cabinets $3.50 and $6 00. Cards,
$2,50 and $4.00.
Claude C. Maddox, Artist.
TEN CENTS AWE
SAMOA.
A RACY DESCRIPTIVE EETTER
; From a Former Athenian who ha*
been on the Island.
“Where and what is Samoa," is the
question just now ? A few extracts from
letters from a young man, who left Athens
at sixteen, for the Naval Academy in
Maryland, and after his graduation there,
went across the continent through the
Rocky Mountains to San Francisco, down
oui Western coast to Panama, thence to
Peru, spending some time in Lima and
Callas and gathered information and curi
osities, returned to Panama, and thence to
Marquesas Islands and then to Samoa.
“Apia, Uportu Island Samoa. Apia is a
small town, but has merchants of many
nationalities. May 26th 1886. This is the
beginning of winter here, but it is never
very cold, and there is not much difference
between the seasons. The njghts are &091
We get milk'here, and a great abundance
of all kinds of tropical fruits, and vegeta
bles very cheap. The oranges and coca
nuts are much nicer than those we get at
home. As to mail facilities, the steamer
from Auckland, New Zealand to San
Francisco stops for a few hours beyond one
of the Pacific Islands, 64 miles from Apia,
and a schooner goes out there from here
and carries mail. The steamer from San
Francisco at an other time stops at the
same place, the schooner meets it and
brings letters &c. Mr. Bates who has been
sent from Washington, to make a treaty
between the United States and the Tonga
or Friendly Islands, aud a protectorate ’
for the Samoan Islands is here; we will
take him on our ship to Nickualopla. Miss
Bayard asked him to take her a Samoan
costume. Though I have fans, hats, bas
kets, many kinds of their “topa” for you,
<>f their make, they do not wear much. A
strip of calico answers the purpose of a
dress
The Crown Prince of the Islands gave a
picnic to the officers and Messre. Baker
and Bates, Thursday. Toe Prince supplied
us with fine horses to take us ten miles
from shore to the picinic. The horses are
small, but movers. The natives gallop
them miles at a stretch. Miss Baker was
to -> with us, she had the PrinStilarge
fin. >rse, I had seen her ride a| Nukua
lopa. (Mr. Baker camejp fehnds
from England
power over the*
money.) >
galloped ahead of every one. She’ Sew
the way to the picnic grounds, so we went
up and down hills, over slippery roads
across ditches at such a rate as I never
went before,and got to the'appointed place
long before the rest of the party. I fa a d
heard of the riding of English women
She certainly was the finest rider f evS
saw outside of a circus. We were splat
tered with mud, but I enjoyed that ride in
Samoa. I for awhile felt some qpmpunc
tious for the horses, but as the customs of
the country permit such treatment, and
the horses are valued at from (4) four to
seven dollars, I forgave myself.
The dinner was fine— served in the style
of the natives, rough, but there were nice
roast chickens as well as pigs, pigeons»
yam , puddings, yaro, cocoanuts, orangtg
and banannas. Afterwards the native
band came on board the “Mohican" and
discoursed music. The leader was a white
man, the rest were natives, they tried
“Hail Columbia," and “Star Spangled
Banner.” They gave us vegetables, fruit,
beef, turkeys and chickens &c, as a pret
<nt from their government to the United
States officers.
A Tiff ar Shark.
Havana, Cuba, Jan, 24—A great sea
monster has appeared near Matanzas.—
The Daily El Correo De Matanzas, refer
ring to it, says: “Intelligent persons who
saw it.calculate that the monster measures
about 150 feet long by 40 feet wide. It is
of dark gray color, with white spots, the
size of dinner plates, all over the back
Its immense head, fins and tail are identi
cal with those of a shark. It was roam
ing around the entrance of Matanzas Bay
for three days and was the terror of fisher
men, who declared that they had never
seen anything to compare with it. This
monster is supposed to be the great tiger
shark, seen several years ago in the Indian
Ocean."
Beating Aged Negroes.
New Orlans, Jan. 30.—The Times-
Democrat’s New Iberia special says that
three negroes were whipped by regulators
last Sunday, and they, with others, were
banished from the neighborhood. The
regulators were organized in town, and
were reinforced by a large number of men
from the surrounding country. Although
a large number of those who p: r icipated
in the attack upon the negroes sre known,
no arrests have been made, nor has there
> been any investigation of the affair. The
T mes-Democrat, in an article headed
I “Regulators Must be suppressed,” urges
t Governor Nicholls to take prompt action
In the suppression of lawlessness and mob
violence in New Iberia.