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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. ♦» ■»» 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. ■ q»- 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. •— mu e s—ii 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.’ 1 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. \ 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. ——— 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. r . TMe lafataalion as aa Old sfaa Far a Pretty Girl. ■ 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. - « ii Jester says he wants every man in and out of Athens to visit his store during the Winter and spend one nickle. I J"'* f- CK 3 Ww * ' 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.