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Ghc Athens Cucning Clironidc.
VOL. 11-NO 2i9f-
OVER THE CITY.
TIIR I tTKHT KAPrRNtNCM OF TO
DAY.
teau Gathered »»y the Hard Mcarch •€
a Uhraaiele Reporter.
Mr. E. Prioleau, of Charleston, is regis
tered at the Commercial.
Mr. C. T, Furg», of Augusta, is in the
city tm business.
Mr. J. B. Moon, of Danielsville is io the
city on business.
Mr. L. L. Ray, of Jackson, Ga., still lin
gers in our midst
Mr. Robert Avery, of Atlanta, is in the
city to-day.
Harbin’s wood yatd is the place to get
your wood on short notice.
500 cords dry pine wood for sale by
Weatherly Brothen?.
s—s.*TJ*eflr ■fe'ortirtvutAM and gfrace about
Miss Chase’s stage methods, and an absence
of the regulation soubrette vulgarity, that
is refreshing.”—Chicago Herald.
Dr. 8. P. Richardson will leave for Jes.
ferson this afternoon, to hold the Quarterly
Conference for the Jefferson Circuit.
Misses Phoebe E<lia and Dorn Raine, of
Atlanta, will arrive in the city so-day, and
will visit Miss Pauline Harris.
Miss Marie Samuels, of Charleston, 8. C.»
who lias been visiting in this city, has re
lurn'ed home.
The dime party to have been given
to-night at the residence of Mr. R. L. Moss
has been postponed on account of the re-,
ception al Mrs. White’s. It will be given
next Friday night
500 cords dry pine wood for sale by
Weatherly Brothers.
Shares in the Athens Publishing Com
pany are only $50,00, payable in twelve
months. Tuc first payment is to be twenty
five percent and each subsequent payment
ten per cent. Let every business bouse in
Athens take from one to ten shares. You
will then have stock in one of the best
newspapers in the State, and y<»u will get
a handsome per cent on the investment.
All the talk now is about the Fair next
week. Nothing else Seems to interest our
mt reliant s and business men to-day. The
procession next Tuesday will be ahead of
anything of the kind ever seen in Georgia.
“Hetlie Bernard Chase is a bright little
artiste of the Lotta type. Always natural
and full of magnetism, she wins her audi
ence from her first entrance, and bolds
them until the final drop of the curtain.”—
- Richmond (Vi.) WLig.
“Miss Chase is one of the cutest and most
fascinating soubrettes on the stage.”—
Richmond (Va.) Despatch.
Leave your orders at , Athens Ice office
for coal and wood, 124, Clayton street.
Orders promptly filled.
Only $3.00 for cabinets, at Mills’ gallery,
Everybody is taking a hand in getting
up the great line of march for the opening
day of the Fair. There will be one hun
dred floats in line and five hundred fan
tastics. The beautiful and the comic will
be artistically blended. All business will
suspend Tuesday, and thousands upon
thousands of vis.tors will witness the great
line of march. Get you a float and add to
the success of the occasion.
The reception to be given by Dr. and
Mrs. H. C. White complimentary to Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Benedict occurs to-night at
their beautiful residence on Miltedge
avenue. A number of guests have been
invited, and the occasion will be greatly
enjoyed.
The candidates are very busy preparing
for the primary election to-morrow. —
Each one seems confident, but somebody
is bound to be disappointed.
Oak, pine and hickory wood,but to stove
or fire place. Leave your orders at the
office of the Athens Ice Works, Clayton
Street.
John L. Arnold has just received a
fresh lot of butter, chichens, eggs, cab
bage, and all kinds of country produce.
Also a fine lot of fancy and family gro
ceries. Remember the place 205 Broad
street.
Miss Coraelia Watkins, a meet fasci
nating young lady from Crawford, is in
the city, and will spend Fair week with
her friend, Miss Eunice Thornton, on Bax
ter street.
The legislature yesterday fired a shot
at] lotteries, making it an oflense for pa
pers in this State to advertise lotteries in
their columns. This bill passed the house
by a large mt joriiy.
Probably the “slickest” and most sub
stantial evidence of Democratic victory
was the rooster printed by the Athens
Chronicle. It was not the trim, gamy bird
of former days, but a solid, striped cock of
the Plymouth kind, well-fed, self-satisfied
and full of meat. It will be recognized at
once as -Judge Howell Cobb’s bird and be
longs of right to the Democratic columns
Augusta Chronicle.
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Why, how is Ibis, my dear sir t” in
quired the doctor; “you sent me a letter
staiing-ltniryou had been attacked by small
,--p6x, and I find you suffering from rheu
matism 1” “Weil, you see, doctor, it’s like
this,” said the patient; “there wasn’t «
soul in the house that knew how to spell
rheumatism.”
A Rabbit Thief.
Six little pet rabbits (black and white,
and gray and white). Anyone hearing of
these pets, will confer a favor by reporting
the information to Chronicle office. It
is thought the thief got them to sell, and
not to keep.
The Fantawticn.
Every old man, young man and boy, in
the county, are invited to join in the fan
tastic procession Tuesday morning. Come
on horseback or in vehicles. No walking
in the line of march. Meet promptly with
the committee at the monument, at 11
o’clock. C. G. Talmage,
E. H. Dorsey.
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Umbrellas.
line
of Umbrellas aV the clothing hosse of J. J.
C. McMahan, Clayton street; and if you
don’t want a handsome umbrella, call and
buy one of bis new and neat, stylish bats.
A Coming Entertainment
The University German chib met last
night and decided to give a German ou
next Friday night. Card’s band from Ma
con will furnish the music and the affair
will be one of the most delightful of
its kind ever given in this city, as a num
ber of visiting young ladies will grace the
occasion.
BACK TBOLBKES.
A Neasatioa in Madison Cennty—Re>
ported laaurrectioa of the Negroea.
Mr. J. B. Moon, a recent graduate of
the Un»versity Law school and a leading
member of the Danielsville bar, was in
Athens yesterday. He says things are in
a rather exciting condition in Madison
county and that a good deal of trouble lr*
brewing which may result in bloodshed
and genera) collision between the whites
and blacks.
The beginning of the trouble was on
Wednesday, when Mr. Murray David, one
of the wealthiest and most prominent men
of Madison county, received an anonymous
note containing the following startling
statement: “You shill die to-night.’'
Mr. David lives in Paoli, a small town in
Madison county, and he immediately trans
mitted the information which he had
received to his neighbors. They forthwith
formed a garrison and stationed guards on
the oui,posts of-the town. As night ap
proached the garrison was increased by
additions from the adjaceat country and by
nightfal a large and resolute body of men
were assembled in Paoli to protect any
and all of their number from assault on
the part of any of the black race. About
seven o’clock a large body of negroes
advanced toward the town with the inten
tion of carrying into effect the threat made
to Mr. David, but on finding the town so
.well fortified and protected they turned
back. Men were kept on watch all Wed
nesday night for tear of trouble and last
night, on account of the open threats made
by the negroes, the watch was kept up.
It is not knowi? how the matter will end.
Mr. Moon says that he does not know the
cause of the outbreak on the part of the
negroes. There is no personal animosity
between them and Mr. David. The only
ground on which it can be accounted for
is the inborn meanness of human nature,
which is obliged to have an expression in
one way or another. Meanwhile the peo
ple of Madison are in a state of excitement
and disquietude. It is certain that if they
.need aid they have ouly to notify the
people of Athens to that effect and in a
few minutes a large delegation from our
city Will be en route to that cottoty for the
protection of their relatives and brothers
of a common race.
They Speak To-Night.
Two of the candidates for the nomina
tion for Mayor speak tonight. Mr. Ed
Brown will address of the city
on upper Broad street, and Mr. A. L.
Mitchell will bavp a few words to say to
the voters of the Ist. Ward, on lower
Broad street. The primary to-morrow
promises to be very exciting.
The Supreme Court of lowa has recently
handed down a decision to the effect that
a juror would not be disqualified though
he had read all the newspaper reports of a
case, and though these reports may have
made a certain impression upon him, if
he should swear that he would be capable
of rendering an impartial verdict on the
evidence. Thia precedent, if established
everywhere, would remote a formidable
obstruction to the securing of intelligent
juries.
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In 1871 Samuel White was conditionally
pardoned out of the Ohio penitentiary.
He was serving a life sentence. The con
dition of his remaining out was that he
should not take a drink of whisky or any
other Intoxicant. For eighteen years he
abided by the condition, but a few weeks
ago he went on a protracted spree, and
when he became sober he was returned to
the penitentiary, to remain until be dies.
Don’t put off the payment ofSyour city
j tax. Pay at once, and register.’
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ATHENS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY NOV. 8, iBBo.
ALLIANCE DAY.
NEXT THI RNnAY WILL RE THE
GlthAT DAY POBTIIK EAR
IMEBI4 OF TH IM HEAJTIOW.
A Grent Programme to be Presented
at tbe N. E. Gearffta Fair.
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Every farmer in Georgia should be pres
ent at the North East Georgia Poultry and
Stock Fair on next Thursday morning.
It will be the great day of the whole year
for the farmers of Georgia. Recognizing
the importance of the Farnnrs’ Alliance
as a factor in the growth of o»r country,
tbe directors of the Athens Fair have
set aside next Thursday as the day upon
which the farmers of our State wi 1 meet
in Georgia, and celebrate the year &
j’jiHhc apprnprvitJ Tu ue
great cause the farmers represent. To thaf
end speakers whose knowledge of the in
terests of our agricultural population can
not tie doubted, will be here to address the
yeomen of the soil. Practical farmers
from every part of the South will be on
hand to give their views and to imp-nt
such information as their extended oppor
tunities for observation allow. President
L. F. Livingston, the toast of Georgia’s
Ailiancemen, and the conspicuous figure
in tbe great farmers movement, has pro
raised to be on hand. Hon. W. J. North
ern, the practical business man and farmer
of Sparta, as fearless and as honorable a
man as Lacedemon ever produced, will
mingle with the people of the State in
Athens next Thursday, and then there is
Felix Corput, R J. Redding, and dozens
of others whose presence will lend interest
and profit to the great farmer’s jubilee
next Thursday.
Not satisfied with bringing to Athens
the most prominent Alliance men, the di
rectors have secured three Alliance cou
ples who will be married on the grand
stand on Alliance day. The grooms are
men who have walked behind the plow
and haVe obeyed the Biblical injunction of
living by the sweat of their brow. The
brides are the fairest and most accomplish
ed daughters of Banks and Oglethorpe,
and when in the presence of thousands of
spectators, next week this perpetual union
of heart with heart shall be consummated,
the scene will beggar description. Con
gratulations and’ gifts will be showered
upon the contracting parties, and joy will
reign supreme. The fact which will en- |
dear this ceremony ruoie than any other |
to the farmers of the Slate is that the
three couples will be arrayed iu cotton
bagging. No silk polluted by the thought
of monopoly, no autin emblematic of mo
nied oppressors of the people, will clothe
these fair brides. Dressed in the products
of the fleecy staple, and beautified by that
loveliness which has been said “when un
adorned to be most adorned,” these couples
will in their own peculiar way, by the
marriage ceremony, express their discoun
tenance of trust and monopoly, and will
nail one more spike in the coffin of the
jute tfust.
Besides these attractive features, there
will be on farmers’ day the great Wild
West show in operation. The wonderful
feats accomplished by this aggregation of
experts will be tbe wonder of all present,
and will be a memory to be preserved and
mused upon on the return of the visitor to
bis home.
Besides these, tbe balloon ascension by
the Jewel Brothers will be made, and at
an altitude of thousands of feet, the great
parachute leap will lie made. This will be
a most thrilling and wonderful sight, and
any one who has the opportunity of see
ing this great attraction should not fail to
do so.
During the afternoon there will be races
between the finest horses to be found on
the’Southern turf. That these will be ex
citing and close is shown by the fact that
in Atlanta and Macon, where these horses
last contested, the races aroused the great
est enthusiasm and interest. The Athens
public and Georgia in general will have
the opportunity of seeing such racing as is
seldom seen south of Coney Island.
But words fail in attempting to describe
the numberless attractions which will be
presented next week. Suffice it to say that
the man in Georgia who fails to see the
Fair in Athens next week misses the op
portunity of a life-time. We indeed have
had a Piedmont Exposition with its ex
hibits of Northern machinery and North
ern manufactories. We have had a Stale
Fair which presented a great aggregation
of cabbage from one county, pumpkins
from another and yam potatoes from a
third.
But while these are all very good in their
place, it has remained for Athens to get up
a show which will be a Georgia show in
its essential features, and yet discard ail of
the worn out features with which the pub
lic has been afflicted for years back. Such
a great consolidation of attractions as will
bs presented next week, partakes more of
the nature of a half dozen shows, than of
one fair. To use tbe words of the average
circus company—speaking with more
truth, however—we present next week “a
mastodon combination of enormous pro
portions, and of unsurpassable novelty.”
FAIR NOTES. ,
It has b<en Slid by some, that Athens
cannot accommodate the crowds which
will be here next week. The directors
have, however, made ample preparations,
and thrfe will be plenty of room for the
accoßimodation of all.
Card’s Band, which will be pn«ent
during Hie Fair, played at the J-wish BpII
on Tuesday Ajght It is the best in the
State.
The University cadets were busy on the
campus firing blank cartridges. They are
for the great skirmish drill
whict 4hey will have at the Fair Grounds.
They will be oposed lu this by the Indians
and Cow Boys of the W’ld West show
and it is certain that the combat between
tbe pole races and the warriors from the
far West, will be thrilling.
Renivnaber that Athens Day is next
Every public spirited citizen
hjjjjJacc of business.
For the Chronicle.
If ■ Lawyer la Elected Mayor.
If a n ember of ihe Athens bar is elected
Mayor, we sincerely trust that be will not
hide his professional light under a bushel.
He should give the aldermanic Sanhe
drim tbe benefit of his legal acquirements.
It would be well for him to address the
City Fathers somewhat after the following
fashion :
I sympathize most heartily, gentlemen,
in your ardent desire to improve the side
walks of tbe Classic City. Some of them,
on Broad stn et and College avenue, though
often paved and re-paved with brick, are
the worst in tbe city. It is hardly extrav
agant to say that they are perhaps the
meanest on the North American continent.
The fault, gentlemen, is not in our soil, it
is in our brick. When first laid down*
they look reasonably well; but they are
speedily disintegrated by the rains and
•frosts, and worn threadbare by the attri
tion of passing feet. In a few monthsi
they are uncomfortable; In a few more,
they are dangerous. A citizen cannot walk
from McGregor’s book-store corner to Jes
ter’s restaurant without incurring the risk
of breaking an astralgus in one of bis feet,
dr straining the phalanges of both of his
great toes.
That such pavements ought to be reme
died, goes for the saying; but how is this
to be done? In answering this momentous
inquiry, I beg leave to say, as a lawyer, as
well as a Mayor, that you cannot improve
the pavements of the city, or the mcrals of
I tbe city, through the instrumentality of a
bogus law. By bonus law, gentlemen, I
mean a and passed tbrongh
the General Assembly of Georgia in a man
ner contrary to the provision of the Con
stitution of the State.
When you adopted your paving ordi
nance on the second of September, with
such prodigious unanimity, and pressed it
into, and through the House of Represen
tatives in less than fifteen days, you were
evidently not aware that by such celerity,
you were violating tbe State Constitution.
You had never lenrned, or you had for
gotten that the Constitution, the supreme
law of this great commonwealth prescribes
a thirty days notice to the people of any
locality before a local law affecting their
rights can be admitted into the General
Assembly. This notice, gentlemen, due
to the people of Athens, not merely as a
legal right but as a sacred Constitutional
right, you failed to give, and as the natural
and inevitable fruit of this failure you
have on your hands a law, so called,
which your people cab defy and which
you cannot enforce. To convince you,
gentlemen, that I am correct, allow me to
read to you a few lines from the Com
mentaries on American Law, by Chan
cellor Kent.
“To contend,” says the Chancellor, “that
the courts of justice must obey the requi
sitions of an act of the legislature when
it appears to them to have been passed in
violation of the Constitution, would be to
contend that the law was superior to the
Constitution. There can be no doubt,that
every act of the legislature contrary to the
Constitution, is null and void.”
Such high authority is conclusive. Your
law is a nullity. You may threaten with
it, and frighten the ignorant, the timid,
but your threats will excite the derision of
———“High minded men
With powers as far above dull brutes
endued,
In forest, brake, or den,
As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles
rude,
Men who their duties know,
But know their rights, and knowing dare
maintain.” ,
If you attempt to coerce such men with
a bogus law, you will not only have the
costs to pay, but you expose the city to
damage suits for what is termed “vexatious
litigation,” and there might be nothing
left in the treasury to pay the salaries of
either Mayor or Aidermen. In view of
such an alarming possibility, I hope you
will join me in laying this unconstitutional
nullity on the shelf; and as we do so, let
us say in the words of the wise, the witty,
the honest, the valiant Jack FUstaff, “O
Lord 1 what; fools- we mortals be.”
Tax Payer.
NOTICE.
Having withdrawn from the firm of Lowry
&■ Co, I can now be found ut the drug store
of Dr. E. 8. Lyndon. My office hours will be
from 7 to 11:80 a. in. and 1:80 to 9 p. m.
W. G. Lowhy, M D.'
Athens, Ga., Nov. 6th, 1889.—1. in.
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KILLED IN MADISON.
A Shooting Affair Last Night in Madison
Conaly—A Negro Boy Hilled by Bill
Flach—The Affair in Detail.
Reports reached the city this morning of
a killing which occurred in Madison
county, at Fowler’s bar room. This estab
lishment is quite near the line which di
vides Clarke from Madison* and it is a
place which has figured quite extensively
in the eyes of the public since tbe prohibi
tion law went into effect, as it has fur
nished most of the liquor which has been
used in the county since Clarke county be
came dry.
The slayer w«»a nan named Bill Finch,
and the person killed was a nq. \> boy
about fourteen, named Bearfield
a orothei of Brown Beto field, one of the
best known negroes around Athens. Bill
Finch keeps bar for Fowler, and it seems
that last night as usual he closed the bar
about nine o’clock aud went out into the
grove adjoining the bar where several
negroes were playing a game of cards on
which some money was up. In this crowd
was Bearfleld and his brother and a negro
who works in the bar with Finch. When
Finch came up to the crowd who were
playing cards he found them disputing
over the possession of tbe stakes and
finally they began fighting among them
selves. During this lime Finch was stand
ing near the crowd and the negro who
works in tbe bar cried out “Where are
you, Mr. Finch ?” and received the reply,
“Here I am.” Thereupon the negro in 1
question run up to him and began talking 1
with him when he was followed by a.
lusilade of rocks thrown by the other
negroes. Finch called to them to stop,
but instead of so doing they continued
throwing, one of the missiles striking him
in the body, inflicting a painful wound.
Thereupon Finch drew a pistol and shot
at one of the negroes in the crowd who
bad a pistol in his hand. By some acci
dent, however, he missed bis aim and shot
young Bearfleld in the head, killing him
instantly. It is but proper to state that
the above account of tbe affair is the sub
stance of the story on Finch’s side. Sev
eral negroes from that part of the country
were in town this morping aud they do
not hesitate to state that the murder was
in cold bic-oJ. They allege that the ne
groes were quietly playing cards in the
woods when Finch, considerably uuder
l he influence of liquor, came up and a»n
ug at one negro in the crowd missed him
’and shot Bearfield.
THE SLAYER IN TOWN.
Bill FinCb was in town this morning
about seven o’clock. He was seen by a
number of our citizens, and about half past
six o’clock walked down Clayton street in
his shirt sleeves. He saw a number of
people whom he knew, and went around
to see Mr George Booth, to whom he told
his story of the crime. He is quite well
known in Athens, having worked for Mr.
Booth about three months ago. He was
not seen in town after eight o’clock, and
his where-ibouts, as we go to press, are un
known to the police. No warrant has been
eceived from Madison county for his ar
est, and it is for this reason that no effort
r has been made by the police to secure him.
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TMe lafataalion as aa Old sfaa
Far a Pretty Girl.
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John Keel, who lives on the edge of
Tennessee, not far from Hopkinsville, Ky.,
courted pretty Lucy Walker, a neighbor’s
daughter, and married her in 1846.
The couple lived together for thirty
years, and raised a family of four children.
All the children married and moved away..
The couple became lonely, and they got a
young lady named Jane Hunter to come
and live with them.
Miss Hunter is about 20, bright and at
tractive. It was soon evident that Mr.
Keel was much attached to young Miss
Hunter. His wife grew jealous, and ac
cused him of sassing in love with tbe girl.
He frankly admitted it, and said he would
marry her if he 3id not have a wife pl
ready.
Mrs. Kell left her husband and soon
afterward obtained a divorce. The old
man and the young woman were then
married and went over into Kentucky to
live.
They bought a farm about three miles
from here, says a Hopkinsville special,
and lived together apparently very happy
for twelve years. At the end of that time
they disagreed and separated, the second
Mrs. Keel, like the first, obtaining a di
vorce. The old man went back to Ten
nessee, where the wife of his yontb had
remained faithful and alone.
His heart turned again toward her,v<ben
they met, and he proposed that they be
married. She agreed. Last Wednesday
the wedding occurred, and they began life
where they were first married, forty-three
years ago.—Brunswick (Ga.) Times.
At a California fair, the other day, a
Plumas county man ate forty-three eggs
for supper. The next morning for an ap
petizer be partook of nine boxes of sar
dines.
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Jester says he wants every man in and
out of Athens to visit his store during the
Winter and spend one nickle.
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' SSOO PER YEAR
TREY REDEEMED THExTISELVEN
The Georgia Leglalatare Hemembem
the Univeralty at Laat.
Yesterday in the House of Representa
tives the deficiency bill came back from
the Senate, with several amendments,
i Among these was one to appropriate
$4,000 to tbe State University. This was
bittierly opposed, and aa warmly supported
j In several short speeches.
Mr. McDonald, of Ware, was one of the
most ardent enemies of the amendment.—
It seems that a bill which he introduced to
establish a branch of the University at
Waycross fell through, and Mr. McDonald
yesterday made a most bitter speech
against tbe State University. Among
t-tocr things he said:
ont mother too old to
have any mon- chiMren, and wd might l as ’ ■
well lei her die. I’ll never vote another
dollar to the State University.”
It is to be supposed that the people of
his county will not by a re-election give
him the opportunity to do so. The house
refused thereupon by a vote of 60 to 48 to
concur iu the Senate amendment. The
Legislature, however, thought over the
matter this morning, and the following
telegram from Mr. Tuck gives the result.
It is certain that the $4,000 can be most
advantageously spent.
Special to Athens Evening Chronicle.
Atlanta, Nov. 8, 2:30 p. m.—The House,
has reconsidered its action of yesterday*
and by a vote of 85 to 59, concurred in the
Senate amendment to appropriate four
thousand dollars to the University for re
pair of buildings. H. C. Tuck.
Something tar the Cnrlona,
I. Who was an abomination to the Am
monites ? I Kings xi, 5.
2 Who was the father of Micaiah ? 1
Kings xxii, 9.
8 Whose skirt did David cut off while
in tbe cave of sheep-cotes? 1 Samuel
xxiv, 4.
4. Who was the father of Jonttdab?ll
Samuel xiii, 3
5. Who went unto King Solomon to
speak unto him for Adonjjah ? 1 Kings
ii, 19.
6. What is the third book in the Old
Testament ?
7 What was the name of the man that
rebelled against bis father David ?
8. What was the name of Abigails hus
band? I Sain uc! xxv, 3. .
9. And Jair died and was hurried at
what place? Judges x, 5.
10. Who was the King of Tyre that
sent bis servants unto Solomon ? I Kings
v, 1.
11. Who was the father of Bhimei ? I
Kings iv, 18.
12. All the vessels of the house of what
forest were of pure gold ? I Kings x,21.
13. What is the twenty-third book of
the Old Testament ?
14. David arose and went down to
what wilderness, after tbe burial of Sam,
nel at Ramah ? I Samuel xxv, 1.
15. Who was the father of Jonathan ?
II Samuel xxi, 21.
16. Who was the god of the Moabites?
17. Who prophecied of Edom’s destruc,
tion ? Obadiah i, 1.
18. Who was the god of lhe children of
Ammon ? I Kings xi, 83.
19. Who was the father of Sheba ? IJ
Samuel xx, 1.
i The initials of the above answers will
i spell tbe name of a much beloved Sunday
school teacher of the Athens Baptist
church. Estelle Boom.
Gambiiag Garda.
Dr. Morrison in a sermon preached to
the commercial drummers said: “Gam,
bling cards are not the things for a refined
Christian home; they are black in his
tory and bloody in w >rk; they are the
implements of the unscrupulous and toe
black leg; they have gone hand in hand
with the bowie knife, the derringer and
the dirk; they are the furniture of the
low gambling bells; they never do any
good, and the harm they have done eter,
nity alone can tell. If cards are a part of
the education necessary for polite society
then my children will never graduate for
; that society.” Skiff the Jeweler’s Di
-1 amend spectacles should not be used with
gambling cards.
SHR FOUND HER HUSBAND.
A Miwia* Atlanta Man Located bjr
Hfe Wife.
About a year ago J. B. Kerr, a well
known Atlanta mechanic, disappeared,
and his wife, Mrs. Mittte E. Kerr, belli ved
that his mind bad become impaired aud
he had wandered off. Months passed by
and nothing was heard of the missing
husband.
Yesterday afteinooq Mrs. Kerr called at
the Journal office and saiiLshe bad locittd
her husband. He was in Florida and wag
making four dollars a day.
“My husband ran away," said Mrs. Kerr,
“because he wished to get rid of his wife
aud children. lam going to sue for a
divorce because I am afraid he might at
tempt some time to take my children from
me. lam very poor and am Struggling
hard to make a living ”
Mrs. Kerr will enter a suit for divorce
at once, through her attorney, Col John
B, Goodwin.—Atlanta Journal.
