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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION" ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY JANUARY 19. 1886
GEORGIA NEWS.
*tH B NEWS OF THESTATE BRIEFLY
CHRONICLED,
OdlrtMin Bom*-A Brooks Csunty Murdtrar Absut
■otsBrought tofustloe-Tho Psoslty or 01
tri toiling Obaeen* Matter-An O/pbsa
Boy's Lrncr - Othsr Kiws.
At the suggestion of C.iptaln Jno. A. ('<
One of tbo county tommi-sioner* of Humtcr
county, tbo priaoccn confined In thejail wc
during the past four days <>f extreme vreath-
1hm brought to tbo courthouse each day ami
lu; t l.y a warm fire.
T here la a great den.anti for money in Forsyth
(it Mite. Good farmer, an- offering real estate -
• n ity, proposing to pay «• blah as 20 per cent
t'U.I.
I .avid Ainsworth, a stepson of ilob (spring-
jn! •, a livery atable man of Dalton, bus
|>e« i. miming alnco Monday. He took atrav-
©Hu man over to Armurhec* Valley last Mon
flay ' i a buggy, and was to rotnrn on Toe (day
tuoming, bnt nothing has been hoard of him
nince. On tho 10th Mr. Springfield and an
other gentleman went over In search of the.
young man, hot up to tho present writing
neither has returned nor aont back any report.
Ihnid'a cliaracter, as an upright. Christian
young man, makes hh disappearance or failure
to retorn all too more my ateriou*.
Several years ago a white man was brutally
murdered in Brook county by a negro. They
were in the turpentine wood* and had some
Winds. When the while man turned to walk
tiff the negro drove the turpentine ax up to
the eyeiu his back. The negro escaped. Tho
murderer lias been heard from, and lie will
pc*n be lodged in tho (piitmau jail.
H. Allman committed suicide in South
Dome on the 1 Itli. Mr. Allman was a labor
er. working at n dollar a day. Latterly ho
had berame very much discouraged on acoount
of extreme poverty. JIo owed small dob to,
amounting to thirty-five or forty dollar*,
Which seemed to trouble him very much. Ho
was also in had hraltli. Ho was a married
man, hil family consisting of a wife and six
children. This morning while his wife w.m
tatting break fat. she heard a pistol ahnt an.I
/urning atonnd afie saw her huslsind on the
floor In a dying condition. Ho hail plural the
tdstol to liis heart and fired. The wound was
fatal and be died in a few minutes.
Notwithstanding Ibe defeat of prohibition in
McIntosh countv, tbr Darien Gazetto say* :
"The selling of liquor in Darien is getting to
a poor business. The people have grown
tired of liquor.**
Says the Brunswick Herald: It will bo a
uiand <onsummatiou when capitalist* shall
hr attiacted to Ilrunswlck hud invest horn, as
they are already doing on our adjacent
island*. Carnegie. tho millionaire socialhd,
k» called, was tho tint to l»ehold tho match-
lets beauty of otir Islands, and he made ha do
to at euro Dungrness, tho gitrtleu snot of tho
Cumberland. Since then tbo New York
yacht club hns found that no place surpasses
Ibe lower end of the sumo Island for a yacht
club house; and there is still a prospect tint
that locality may heutiliaed in that way.
Tho erunty commissioners of Lowndes,
have dono.oor thing which is unusual, but
which every good cltisen will indorso. They
meant to offer a rewind for tho capture of
Richard Townsend when tlioy met, hut ho was
rnnght before they came together. The pri
vate eitirena who (lroppod business aud
nt considerable risk, cost and fatigue
went with the sheriff iu pur-
guit of the murderer deserved mine
reward, nml the county rommiisionera at their
matting Monday appropriated $200 for their
benefit. The Valdosta Timet says: “ rhts was
^rrtnfnly a proper thing to do. Men some-
tUinta hesitate about overhauling a fleeing
murderer whan they think thero will be a
chance for n reward by holding buck n day or
two, and (he man eacApcs for good. This step
puts (be county on record. It shows that they
mean to stop so much killing in this county,
mid that they will spend money to do it."
Athens Banner: Several years ago Mr.
HtaJI'ord, the proprietor of a newspaper at
Harmony Grove, wont to Charleston to get a
S r /boot the Orphan’* home and learn him tho
ntcr’s trade, lie succeeded in fiudlng a lad
t tutted him and brought him homo alter
giving boud to the Orphru’s homo that the lad
would be wMI cared (or. Willlio J. Jones was
the name of the hoy. Ills mother and father
!<eing deed, tVillie could not find nut much
about his family relations. He worked with
Mr. Watford and learned his trade, and after
Mr. LI a fiord’s death Jones came to Athens and
commenced work for the Haunor-Watakmau.
24* wrote letters to Charleston and fonud out
that he had one or two relatives In that city,
and liter Informed him that there was some
money left him by Ills mother, but oould not
tell bow much or iu whose hands It wa*. Yes
terday he received a letter from Ids cousin sta
ting that his mother had left with the trustees
«f the Orphan's home a large lot of money, to-
f ether with a box tilled with Jewelry ami a
-ImiimIIo of papora. Tbs money waa deposited
In u savings hank and has boon
drawing interest for twenty years, making
the inteic*t double the principal. Mr. Junes
will be of age, so the letter stated, next No-
veraber, when he will come in possession of a
nice little fortune, lie I* a good printer aud
steady In his baldts. lie has accumulated
•Opto money since he lia* been working m the
llamier-Watchman office, which, lie has
invested lu the building and loan association.
He will quit the printing business as soon os
he gets possession of hi* money and lnty a
Jfann and go into the stock raising buaiucst.
“line Is a bullet that made a tour of Dan
t rko'a anatomy last night.” said Captain
M« s*ly at the Macon station home Fridiy.
"How about it?” “Well." said the captain.
"Dsn had stationed himself in front of
Vamuki'a |last night about II, and Jim
Young, a brother in block, bailed him and
asked to be taken to his home, near the ceme
tery. iu Clarke's hack. Clarke took him
Mlsard and Young being hilarious began
»’ •' ng bis little pistol at various »Uie. t* in
lb. -vet. Clarke told him to desist, or he
*v. i,M have to get out. Til shoot you, you
u . »v*ble puppy,' replied Young, and he tired
•w!«t at the man In front of hint. One shot
t"»k t fleet, entering Clarke's shoulder,striking
II-. bone ami rebounding it dropped inside his
« h thing aud was finally found in his sock.’’
i< crack In the door and he was fired upon, the
bail striking him above the navel and lodging
in the abdomen. The house Kerso lived in was
an old log house, and the door swaggel go that
when it was shut it left u crack largo enough
for a man to get his hand through, and ft was
through this crack that he was shot. After
being shot ho went to the bed where Ms wife
was nod t< h) iicr he was going to die.
The coroner's jury. at the in*
qlicit Saturday evening, returned the f dlow'iug
veidiet; "We, tho jury, find that William
Kem* mir.c to hi* death from a gunshot wottn<i
in the hands of somo unknown jKirty."
HaincsvilicGazette; Sunday night while the
nicitiir.v vra* luuixd down by tho Idfairol to
the lowest |tofnt, the spirit of Joe O'Neal, per
haps the oldest human being'iu this county,
took its flight from earth. The sons of the
old colored man ray be was 107 years of age.
At any rate ho whs a very old negro. He died
in a little house in the yard of his sou Seaborn
O'Neal, and no ouo was present Sun
day night to see the bifavt Dko
away his spirit. Seaborn, the son, I; trd the
voice of the faithful yard dog, perhaps an
swering the struggling agonies of the aged
father, but did not go out to see if all was well.
Monday morning gave the intelligence that the
oldman was dead. His remains were laid at
rest Monday afternoon, it i* openly asserted
’ by somo of the colored people that the old man
asked to remain in his son's house, and was
required to go in tbo littic but in the yard
used heretofore as a potato bouse, and conse
quently froze to death.
An ether murder took place nt Long Pond,
in the lower part of Lawrcns county recently.
For conic tirno there has been an old feud be
tween Mr. Hans McNutt aud his brother-in-
law, Mr. John Conner. Tho two men uict at
Long I'ond, and the difficulty was renewed.
McNstt shot John Conner through the bowel*,
inflicting a wound which caused his death on
Saturday. Warren Conner, the father of the
young man wounded, fired Loth barrels of a
shot gun at McNatt, hut did not hit him. Me*
Nutt has left the county.
Bev. J. W. Bhrke has returned from Orlan
do, Florida, where he went to attend tho
meetingof the Florida conference. Mr. Burke
says the people wero unprepared for the
reception of the hi Ixxard, and their airy dwell
ings, constructed more with a view to keep
ing cool than gotting warm, were exceeding
ly uncomfortable. Fires were built in tho
streets In front of the stores, most of which
were without fireplaces, a*such appliances are
nunccded in that balmy dime.
At ChIJahftn, where bo lay over several hours,
the *toivkcei>ei» hud pine knot fires In tin*
street, and divided their time about oqtially
Ik tw< ( it their customers and their fires.
J. 8. Beall committed suicide nt Albany Sat
urday in bis room in the Westbrook building,
by shooting himself through the heart with a
46 calibre Smith A Wesson army revolver,
dying limtuntlr. Tho deceased was a son of
tho lute .lerro Beall, of Millcdgcvillc, and w.is
about foity-tbrco years of age.
Lady compositors aro employed by tho
Griffin News, tbo Grifflu Sun and the Bartles
ville Gazette. The latter puper gives employ
ment to three orphaned sisters.
Mr. Howell, of Pike, continues his squirrel
biisinetH. Throe hundred and seventy marks
the number bo has killed this season.
Miss F.lla Blokes, of Hmlthvlllc, who mar
ried the bigamist Diems.uowconfined in .Sum
ter county jail, still pays him visits iu Ids voile
Judge Pilsbnry. of the county court of Sum
ter, lias ordered tbo arrest of all organ grinders
aud tramps generally. Ho lins just soul Jacob
Fcraro, a tramp, to the ebaingaug for twelvo
months.
Mountain (vrecti, Jr, who lives near tho oigo
’ Spalding and Pike cou utica happened to u se
mis accident Thursday whilo bird hunting.
Coming to a frozen stream ho started across
and had gotten nearly over when ho slipped
and fell on the ico, discharging both barrels of
Ms gun, which took olivet just aimve hit ankle,
ompletcly severing bis foot.
ALL THROUGH DIXIE.
WHAT THE SOUTHERN FOLKS AR!
SAYINO AND DOING.
ft Hh ■ i-d instruction of tbo rtre Fiend ta Tjxarcsn
- Kmfgrntlen of Kegroet-A Prominent Vlr-
BiBlan Crop* Daad-ATunnell Cares lo
ttos Re-Capture of Bsoaped Convict*. .
Hamilton Journal: When tho new year was
Hit five davs old, Hamilton wartke scene of u
tragedy, which, following to eloooly upon tho
cleeitoti of an anti prohlhltioti council, and
vieweAirom all its oumHinding, looks like a
opodal visilatioo of Provklcufe. Just how the
tragedy oecnm d ran never I* known as all
tbo wittiearns seem to ltave been too druuk to
hiMW what ocevi red. it waa in a barroom.
3km tan out in )i»li merry. h<if nw<i.
dund, they wnOlcd. TV k.iBIr
yw.fcwl.mMi.Utin, Vfct. tho Are wimp.
Mm Vd Iron drtnkTtm nun hiuueir. ITe row
up ted rk.cd In with auc of tho other!, who
MW drew .putol ud Bred two >hoU Ono
of these fhots hit a bystander, a young uegro
inan, silting on a pile of wood near tho lire.
HJc Bfaroman. Jake TVwdolLis still alive.
Tho hall struck Miu < cmrally la tho forehead
a»d wav rrnhrd for four incites. Tho hall is
In the bmln now and It is thoaght there is no
]<OMlhle chance for his recovery.
Dooly Vindicator: «»n Friday evening last
CXironer Amorous was summoned to go to the
fourteenth district and hold an iuqurwt over
the body of Wiu. Kene. colored, who had
been shot the night previous and died that
morning. The coroner went down Saturday.
Kerac’s wife swore that on Thuraday
night two men come to tbeir honor, afar they
hod retired, and called Keroc two or three
time* saying some one wanted to see him. It
"•* quite cold, and the negro was rather slow
1n rosMuding to the calls. Finally he got
np and Marled to the door to open it. When
•bout half way between the bed and
was thrust through
is $:i,160.78; amount
on hand $4G8.(fl. Amount of pauper fund re
ceived, $1,264.:!?; amount on hand, $!Mi4.r>|.
Amount of jury fund received $1,hi>;
amount ou hand, $182 41*. Total amount of
funds received, $0,221.1*1; total nniouut on
baud, $1,016.67.
Written for the CoukiltutUm.
Plain Jo Hlmpiioii.
A reply to "8nl fclmpxon’s Hong," in Conitltutlon
of December 90th.
Plain Jo Simpson! Yes. that's my name;
A modest man unknown to fame.
I 'm Haradad.au' a letter gal
Want never bom than my own Hal;
Hho write* poems an'* got sense too,
An' then she's kind an* good an' true
As she can be.
Hal's tot temperance on tho brain
An' * peaks her mind a little plain,
An' uow lakes on a won drous sight
Because the probs. have won the fight;
For she believes a little drink
Will land a uum on shcol’s brink
An’ foam for me.
Somehow I can’t holievo like Hal;
It’* kind o' rough to cro** n gal
I know; still 1 ran't help but think
That wheu « man gives way to drink
That there Is something iu the mail.
As fltr «|iiittlti*, 1 know they can
If they would try.
Votin’ It out may lw nil square,
But pear* to me its hardly fair
To keep h man Bom Mlln' wine
B’hat come* fhmi oft'lils own grape vine.
If men won't stop when lliey'vo a’uuff
Aud Mill will buy the i-Iieeii stud,
Why, let ’em buy
And drink their fill fur when they're goue
Better men'll U- cornin’ on
To till Hit ir places: *o I my
ttx no me votin’ It away.
For some will drink lu spite of laws.
An’ mould help the temperance cause
To make it free,
An’ tbtu unite an* Wml a ban’
To help a poor an* falien man.
An’ lead him back by grace of God
To Virtue'* rath* he should have trod;
For you eau had when you can't drive,
ivrsuasion grow* where force won't thrive
It 'pear* to me.
oxforvt, Ala.. Jan. T. isn;.
MARRIED IN QEOROl A.
•bout half way be
the door a putol
l*r. V R. Royals and Mtw Annie Bell Relec,
Atlevtlh Mr. John IV Potts uad Miss Florence
Hliltlcy, Je.Ter-*>n .... Mr. James J. M.lckelberrv and
MUft Hmte E. Itlackindl. WN Eud Mr. James
M. Wood and Mis* Alice J. Robert sou, Atlanta.
PIED IN GEORGIA.
Mis. P. W. W1Im>u. Wilcox county .Mr. Baniel
T. lhi>h, h.»nkscounty......Mr-. llar<!mon. lUrmeny
Gmve Mi*. Gillespie. Athens... M .Mr. Jonathan T.
Hugf*. Fori Caine* ....Mr. Willie Neer. Monroe ..
Mr. IVRhsh'U lAtnai. Augusta Miss LluU G.
Bllbnrn. Adaimvilie Mr. Jamc» Thompson.
Adalrsvtlle Mr. Mathew Turner Milton county
—Mr. E. W. Grace. Macon Mr. IV T. Bush,
Homer .Mr*. MolUe Uabgood, Fairburn
Mr*, rlem Masterson. Macon Dr. M. R. Bailen-
gcr, Rome Mrs. Be (tie Howell, Jasper ....Mr,
Plunkett, Macon .fin, stummer. Washington
Mr. Tate l'arkvr. Macon Mr, John Roll.
Bibb county Mr*. E. J. While, Macon Mr.
David Langley. Huwanee ..Mr. GtmrlleHudson.
ronyriv Mr*. Motile Richard. Jasper Mr.
Robert h. Davis, Gainesville.
lelrnn' Sorffarr South Wish Dtntirrin.
. enrea gate Throaty Bleating <iura«. Clcem and
Fore Month. Cleans Trcth. Puri Am the Brvwth. Pro-
poredbjr Drs. J. I’.itt. R.Home*.Douit-u,Maeou,
GA For sale by all Drumtisis and Dentists.
t ougli-wkyly
H is l«elieved that Mierman will be selected
as the place for bolding the federal court) for the
northern district of Texas,
Florida.
Fine apple* attract more, attention than any
«tl»er kind of fruit at Fort Mycr*.
Captain Alex 8t. Clair Abrams refused a fee
cf $1 .."do to defend the murderer Carter at Orlando,
•ml volunteered hi* services to the state.
South Carolina.
John Hccseman, a merchant of Chtrle'dou.
died buddeuly ou January 4tb. it wua found
Inter that he had forget! notes on the banks
here for $10,000, and waa a defaulter to that
amount. Ho was treasurer of Hi. Matthews
Lei man Lutheran church, the grand lodge, of
Odd Fellow*, and ecvcrnl other organizations
mid waa short in his account* with all of them.
Mis&lsaippl.
Thursday Governor Lowrey was inaugura
ted us governor for his second term, in the
pmcnee of the two houses of legislature as-
k ridded in joint convention, accompanied by
the judges of the supreme court and the joint
legislative committee, lie was escorted to the
hall of thehouso by the Capital Light Guards.
Chief Justice Cooper administered the oaili of
office. The governor, iu a brief address, con
gratulated the state on its prosperity find «*\-
puesed gratitude for his unanimous ro-elec
tion, and pledged his devotion to tho state and
Ilf; people. mmmmmmmm
Vug tula.
On Thursday fat the supreme court
of Virginia rendered a decision ... ....
cate of Gletihow, state trcasuior.against Vidmu
in a matter of state debt. It held, first, that
the contract of March .'H, 1^71, under which
tho coupons receivable for tuxes wore issued,
did not have.,tho essential element of valid
consideration, and iu a proper case they would
hold the funding act of March III, infl, invalid
and illegal. Second, that the coupon* could
not bo received in pay m on toft hat portion of
tho state taxes ret apart hy the const itution of
Virginia for the maintenance of public schools.
TllK court of appeals of Virginia has set the
CluvcrJus case for a hearing on h motion for
trial to the sth of Murcli.
Dr. Thomas W. Keen. mernl»er of tho house
of delegates from Danville, fell dead on the
floor of the house a few minutes
before one o'olock on lost Friday
Irom heart disease. He had just taken his
Mat after addressing tbo bouse on a measure
before the body.
Louisiana.
Colonel Edmund Richardson, a good
man, a leading cotton merchant of
New Orleans, tho richest man in tho south
and tho largest cotton planter in tho world,
was stricken with apoplexy at Jackson Miss.,
Monday at midnight, aud died before assist
ance could reach him. lie was a native of
North Carolina, and worth from $10,000,000 to
$I6,OCO,000. Ho waa tho owner of uinetecu
cotton plantations in Louisiana, Arkansas am)
Mixsiasi] pi, covcriug over 60,000 acres.
Home time ago .Too Flowers, a negro
living in Bicuvillc parish, was
attacked by a party of whito nun
and severely beaten. The negro got bold of a
weapon anti killed Dick Hayes, one of bis
assailants, ami escaped to Mississippi. A few
days ago a party or Hayes's neighbors
dlicovercd wlieto Flowers was living, and
went to that state and arrested him. They
conveyed him by rail to Huston, whore they
1cf\ the cars and cut ncross the country for
Vernon, with tho ostensible purpose of land,
iug Flowers in jail. A short distanco from
Rnston, however, they wero met hy another
party of whito meii with a rope, and prepara
tions were made to lynch tire prisoner.
Flowers broke from his captors aud fled,
followed by n shower or ballet*, ono
of which .-truck him in the shoulder and
another iu the band, lie nindo his way back
to Ku&ton, claimed protection of authorities
and was placed in jail. Wednesday it waa ap
parent that an attack would bo made on tho
Jail l»y a mob, aud Flowers was released anil
told to flee the country, which ho did. No
warrant has ever been issued against him, the
killing of Hayes being considered an act of
M lf-dcfcn.se. Much feeling exists among all
classes of citizens against the mob.
North Carolina.
A bouse on the premises of Captain W. T. K.
Bell, at King’s mountain, was bunted before
daylight Tliuisday morning. Three colored
persons, Gertrudo Rindlemun. .1 ulia Karin and
Julius, au eighteen months old child, perished
iu tho flames. Tho fire originated accidentally
from the tiro place, and the wonteu were not
awakcued till enveloped in the flames.
Tbo trial of fecott, a negro aged 18, began in
tbo criminal court at Williuiiigtou Friday
morning. Ho was indicted for rape ou a lit
tle whito girl only live years old. Tho law
yers were assigned by tbo court for his de
fense. The ease wa* given to tho jnrv fast
night. A verdict of guilty was rendered to
day, and Hcott was sentenced to be banged
February 24th.
familiarly cnlied by eyery ono. ITe had reach
ed the remarkable age of 106 years, and hx*
outlived two generations. He was a faithful
democrat, and polled his vote for Cleveland in
Tracy City. His indignation was grind when
te found that the ticket which bad been placed
in his hand by a neighbor was for Blaine. “T#
think,” raid be, and his trembling arm fell
with emphasis, "that there is any otto in my
m ighlorhocd mean enough to disgrace au hon
orable man, old and blind.” His wife, who
survives is ninety-nine years old, still active
iu mind, bnt requiring care. The old couple
have clung to the < omfortlcss surroundings of
tbeir early home, rather than accept the hos-
j ifaMe cncrs of other?, w here comfort might
cott dependence. Aunt 8;ilUo says she had no
d«sire to live, only to care for Billy. His rifle
Langs over the bed where the old man lies,
tl.at forty years ago captured deer for food.
“Wc'vc always bad hard times,” said Aunt
fcally. “Billy and I, aud I have no wish to stay,
now tlist Billy is at rest.” The weather is too
(old f< r tbc preparation of a grave, so the
burial will have to be postponed. Uncle Billy
was a Freemason—a member of Jasper lodge.
With characteristic pride he has concealed
their many privations while living, in tho
purest trustfulness that God would provide
for them.
George F. Akers died Tuesday at the Nash-
vil.c hospital of alcoholism. Colonel Akers,
for a number of years Jnst after the war, was
one of Nashville’s leading tobacco merchants.
He was born in Virginia.
The jury in the ease of Wiley B. Bryan,
< barged witn sending obscene matter into tho
family <*f It. Barman, was charged by Judge
Allen late Friday nfternoon, the charge
being perfectly satisfactory to each side. A
large pnmber assembled in the crimiual court
rctrn Saturday and waited for the verdict.
Interns'; interest was manifested in Nashville
concerning the- result, and everybody
n-ked everybody cist* what would bo tho de
cision. The jury reported a verdict
of guilty wi^b three years imprisonment
shortly before two o’clock this nfternoon. Tho
defendant received tho announcement with
calmness, only n slight tw itching about tho up
per lip being noticeable*.
While a freight train was passing through the
tunnel ou the Fast Tennessee, Virginia aud (>oorgia
railroad, under Missionary Ridge last Wednesday a
locomotive, which was loaded on a flat car, scrap
ed the arched top of the tunnel and displaced sev
eral of the arch bars, causing a cave iu about thir
ty feet of the arching.
The train was split In twain. The engine
derailed and one car, loaded w ith merchandise,
entirely crushed.
Four Cherokee Indian*’are hunting for a
silver mine on Walden’s ridge near Chattanooga,
Chattanooga has been cxcltred by the arrest of J.
W. Clear}' and wife, a well-known and highly
ester wed couple, charged with robbing Mrs. B.
F. Fancy of nearly ?:u>0 worth of jewelry and a
silk dress valued at 175. The families lived to
gether in tnesnmo house and were on the lest of
tcims. A few nights since Mrs. Yancy dreamed
that her jewels, which were secreted in the bottom
NEW YEAR’S BEAR HUNT,
“ONE-EYED RILEY" BROUGHT TO
^ CHIEF AT LAST.
A Monster Bruin That Defied the Hunters for Bight
Long Tears Befors Ho Was KUled-Trspped
•cd Makes Kia Xacaps-ttnally
Surrounded and Ktlird. •
Gn Thursday a party of live at Salisbury
started out to hunt rabbit*. Olio whs run
into a bole in a stump two miles from town.
Tom Btnwcry sat down bis gun to help dogs,
aud either himself or another of tho party
knocked it over. It exploded and foil aud
shot Mawery’a head nearly off.
The lexodus of the colored laborer* from
North Carolina for point* wen
I* glutting to excite some Interest. (.
lotto i* the railroad center for the state, and it R
here emigration |«rtici>are made and here railroad
agents meet and arrange for their tninsportatkm.
Not less than thiw thousand have left thi« state,
mostly for Arkansas and Kaitsa-. They continue
to emigrate westward, but there seems to be no fur
ther demand for them lu Kau»u«. and they nrv now
filing to California. Last nigh; seventy were
turned over to Ed F. Sisson, of the Santa Ve route,
aud A. A. Gallagher, of the Missouri Paciiie road,
for transportation to California. This natch of erai
grants are lousd for 1.0. Angeles, havtug con
tracted to work In the vineyard* and hop field* of
L J . Baldwin According to the agreement made
with Baldwin with his agent* beftae leaving Here,
they aro to get fl-' per month for the first year with
l**ard and bouse free. Mr. Baldwin advanced
mouev to pay transportation to Lo* Angeles, the
prb efor each Aill ticket being tiU*.;o. The entire
night on their journey
runty people lofl here last n
a California.
TeunoBBce.
At Jordan station, tiear Union t ity, ou the
Mobile and Ohio railroad, a terrible tire ue-
curred on the 11th in whiebtwo lives were
lost, thoee of Mias I’arinnc Miles and a negro
woman. The facts are as follows: SI r. 1 »iekcv,
who lives at Mrs. Miles, the widow of Dr.
Miles, awoke that morulug about *ix o'clock,
and discovered the flames breaking thrfngh
the ceiling of his room. He jumped up and
awoke Mr. Sam McConnell, a Mm-in-Uw of
Mrs. Miles., who aroused the f.imilv. and suc
ceeded in sax iug tnem in their night clothes,
w ith the exception of Mi*.* Miles, the fourteen-
year-old daughter, who was burned to death
with the negro woman. The house, which
is a two story frame, burned rapidly, aud Mr.
McConnell bad to throw
dreu, Mrs. Miles aud her young
lfe. tv\
.■hil-
daughters
>rdor
family has
from the second sto
to save their live-*.
sufl’ered terribly from hunts and the intense
cold weather, and In fact the lives of the en
tire family aro dfapalrtd of. It is certain that
Mr-Met onneli’* legs will have to be ..input ited
iu order to save hi* life, a* they were terribly
frost bitten. Every one i* stricken with sor
row at this terribe calamity to the family. It
is reported the fire originated in the kitchen,
and it ia supposed gained coutrol of the house
rapidly as to make escape impossible.
Many who spend their rammers in the Cum
berland mountains will regret the recant
death, at Mont Eagle, of Mr. William McCoy.
rr 'Tnclc Billy.*' as he was affectionately aud
Oakland, January Wm day before Now
YecFsJamet'Shaftly—one o/JtheShartley family
of hunters and trappers—caused no little com
motion in (bis backwoods village by the news
he brought in.
‘ One-Eyed Riley is back again,” he said,
“and I had a shot at him, but he got away,
usual/*
Eight years ago last November a lumberman
named Daggers shot and wounded a large bear
!u tbc woods, three miles from this place, on
the edge of a thick swamp. Daggers was not
on experienced hunter, and the bear having
dropped to the ground, he ran up to it, sup'
posing it to be dead. The animal was only
wounded in the leg. and quickly regained its
feet as Daggers came up. It turned on the
lumberman and the next moment man aud
bear were struggling together. Daggers struck
tbc bear twice over tho head with his gun, and
then backed away with tho intention of plac
ing a large hemlock tree between himself and
tbc onimai, and then making his escape by
running. As he was backing toward tho tree
his heel caught in a root, and ho fell to the
ground. The wounded bear rushed upon him.
As Daggers fell his right hand came in contact
with a short, sharp stick. Ho closed ou the
stick mechanically, and as the bear placed its
foresaw on Ids breast he jabbed with ills stick
at the animal’s eyes. The stick entered the
bear’s right eye and gouged it entirely from
the socket so that ithuug down on the cheek.
Tlds seemed to craze the bear. Howling with
pain he turned around and limped about in a
circle. Daggers look advantage of the inter
val, and regaining ids feet ran away as fast us
lie could.
The bear did not follow him, and it was sup
posed (bat it bad rcturuedtoits.retreat in the
turamp to die. The next year, in September,
one of tho Shartlcy boys found an immense
bear in one of bis traps, A Philadelphia sports
man wanted, for somo reason, to obtain a live
(tear, and had offered forty dollars for one.
Shartlcy secured this ono with ropes, and with
tho aid of one of bis brothers got it to tbc
cabin. In taking It from the trap they found
that it had but one eye, the right one being
goue. They did not doubt that they had
secured the animal thnt Daggers had wounded
and half blinded tho year before. Thoy
C laced the big hear in a log enclosure, freed
is legs from the ropes that bound them, and
tied him by one leg to a post. Word was sont
to the Philadelphia man,who mu staying in this
plate, and he ordered the animal delivered
to him. That very night the bear broke the
rope thnt held it fast to tliepost, got out of the
enclosure and escaped. Three days later it
or her trunk, had been stolen, ^hc again had the I was ®« cn agaiu and shot at aud got away a
same dream and yesterday ascertained that her I third time. Numbers of sheep and pigs begau
dream wa* true. Tonight .)! \Y. Cleary 1 -»* *- —■ - - • p
wife sold their AimJtnrc lo leu “ *'
and Mrs. Yancy had them am*
aud tbc husband committed
It itCbellcved In Chattanooga that Senator Brown
and associate- are preparing to build another large
iron furnace in that vicinity, either in the
Ix-qtmU-hcc valley or at t hatianooga.
Arkansan.
One or the maddest events iu the history of Tex-
arkuna occurred in this city last Tuesday night.
Foon after retiring for the night the Inhabitants
of the city were notified by the whistles of the
numerous railway engines and machine shops aud
the city alarm that the fire fiend-such n terror
to Texarkana for the past year—was again at hi*
terrible work. Springing from their bed* and
rushing to the streets the elegant and costlv resi
dence of Colonel W. L. Whitaker, a wealthy local
capitalist and president of the Texarkana Northern
railroad, wa* discovered wrapped In angry flames,
which lmd already made such progress os defied
the limited facilities of the Arc department to ex-'
tlngnUh. Sympathy and assistance for one of tho
town's best citizens enmc from all sides and strong
nnd ready hands linked their help in every way I XZSET1X7! 1 9°S iacn V wa °V
rouble to save the Airoituro and fixtures, think- | Lntffi'&SSSfiSfs?#?iSSl
iug that property interests alone were at stake.
rasa |
streets, nnd this increased to loud weeping and I «£S?SS5-54lK!«i!4L5*ft » 4
walling when it waslcanrucd that Eicnortt, theonlv
daughter of the household, aged eight year*, and
very pretty and much beloved had been toft behind
in the burning building. The husband in his ef
forts to save all his loved one* had heroically car
ried his invalid wife In otic aim and infant babe
in the other to a place or safety, but wa* unable to
carry the other child. After depositing hi* pre
cious bnnlen at a safe distance the husband re
turned, only to find the roof of tho doomed build
ing falling In and every chance of escape of his
darling cut off. Maddened at ihl< horrible thought
and bereft or nil reason, Colonel Whitaker at
tempted to walk right Into the burning building,
regardless of the demonstration of friends who
were forced to the necessity of restraining him
fifSELfJ 1 ? hl * I *° dis *pr car 1“ various parts of tho region,
BiTCrtwfrnriborobbery «'* tho boar came
L*d to jail. • i I to bo called by tho woodmen, was
1 suspected of being tho thief. Ho eluded
all attempts to capture him, although ho was
reported almost daily as having been soon
somewhere in the vicinity. The last time tho
bear was seen that year was just before Christ
mas, when Jim and Bill Hhaftloy discovered
the monster edging along a back meadow two
miles from Oakland. They followed him four
days, a distanco of over seventy milos, but
foiled to get a shot at him. His into experi
ence with traps also seemed to havo taught
him a lesson, and while other boars wero
caught, ho kept clear of every device that was
put up to ensnare him.
After tho long chaso thnt the Shartlcy boyn
gave this smart old bear nothing more was
seen or heard of him for two years. Every
ono thought that ho must have fallen a victim
to hunters iu somo other neighborhood. In
tho summer of 1881 some children who wore
buckle-berrying on the mountain back of Oak-
Jand saw a big bear enter the berry patch not
more than two rods away from thorn, aud be*
gin coolly feeding on the fruit, paying no at*
tent ion whatever to the children. Tho latter
hastened home nnd awoke interest in boar
psrty started at onco for the berry woods, and
found abundant evidence of a bear having
been thoio, as tho bushes were beaten down for
yards around. But the bear had disappeared,
and tho dog followed the trail into tho swamp,
but could not dialodgo brain. The party deter
mined to station mon about theswamp at points
so that its whole border could be guarded, and
to remain on guard until the bear made its ap
pearance at seme one of the points. The watch
was kept un for two days, and no bear ap
peared. The hunt grew monotonous and the
hunters gave it up. The very next day afar
the siege of the swamp was raised a bear made
a raid ou the Bolton pasture and carried off a
..... w . HMtt alicep. Aa the trail led bock to the swamp, no
from his reckle** purpose hy sheer force. The I donbted that the long head of “One-Eyed
charred remains of the helpless little thing were
bullets were lodged in h is body, and ten of
them were in vital spots. The great carcass
was borne back to the settlement in triumph,
and in honor of the event a ball was give at
Stcll’s tavern New Year*a night. The fastivi-.
ties were kept up until daylight, aud the bear
was roasted whole and feasted on by the re
joicing assemblage. Tbr old animal's skin will
lw> c»nfiT|.d and sent to wome public museum.
Absolutely Pure.
This Powder Urvc; varies. Amarvtio! puiltv,
treegib and vbol««uu**n'-H Mot.» r<*mno n*',
•an the ordinary and eannnt »»• to? * tit
'STQBCtiiipu Will, lilt* 13uitiicudft oi low MSt short
refghtatnm or pbo»phsii to ~ders. nt>io oui* nt
am. Rovai. Baaiko fotvota Co. •' Wall
kreet. Now York.
ADDRESS ORDERS FOR
DIAMONDS,
WATCHES fP JEWELRY
TO
J. P. STEVENS,
JEWELER,
<7 WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA, GA.
Mention thl. piper,nor 17 nkjr if lip
LA SAFE FAMILY REMEDY.^
ESPECIALLY SUITED FOR
BABES CHILDREN
EQUALLY EFFECTIVE FORADULTS.
THE CHEAPEST
pttct* AND MOST
Bcol. AGREEABLE
CURATIVE EVER OFrEltEI) FOR
Constipation, BtiioasaeM, sick Headache,
Hemorrhoids. Complaint* of children, and
Li w, Btomachanu houol Ailmtnta generally.
DOGE mi ACTION MOHPl EFfEQT OQHFOBTMO,
Absolutely anfe For ocllenco and qara>
nS eJ/Tdren Tn,<0lJ cri£ t cr{j ’ b *' wfwatB
*/fO!wrfait Laxa 11 ve t ak.-** t b a tdnra o» castor
oil, aathassuua,i»nU.it>utt.u.ii»*tiiaoaii physics.
AVi ICt l.Vt3uiij l Tn(jiT(^TOff
t^%V&¥k cc 8 ” uu »» - ft WM>
diy sat wed aky tow .««: paeon r«
not recovered until later in the day.
Mr*. Whitaker is the daughter of Congressman
pniutdexter Dunn, of Arkansas, having been mar
ried to Mr. Whittaker about nine years. Tho tairn-
ert building ami funilturolscM (mated as being worth
ta.vOO. Both the parents are completely prostrated
ever the shocking oceurrenr
While Matt. Kcys.murdcrcr or W. E. Carroll,
iu Sunflower county, Miss., was being con
veyed on the railroad from Trippe station,
Arkamas, to Arkansas City, ho suddenly
plunged through the windows of the car. head
foremost, struck his head against a wheel bar-
row near the track and (faked out hi* hraiu*.
Keys was formerly a preacher and school
teacher, and had l*ccn a ro fugue for a loug
time.
The immigration «,f negroes from
the states of North and South Caroli
na to this state is attracting attention. The new
comer* have generally chosen Chicot, ltoslia
and Drew counties, iu southern Arkansas, as
places of abode. The negro population Is very
large iu that section, particularly in Dreha
ami C’hlcot counties, where tho republicans
have a majority and choose county officers,
dividing the offices with the black*. Iu
the past three months hundreds
of negroes have settled in these
counties. A gentleman in Helena received a
U tter from Charleston, 8. C„ stating that the
writer, a leading colored man, desired to locate
forty or fifty families, comprising live to eight
Riley” had planned tho raid
The big beat was met fare to face in tho fol
lowing August hy Jim Shaftley,in an old wood
road, mar Spring Run. where Shaft ley had just
finished n day’s trouting. He had no gun, but
he recognized the bear us tho big follow with
one eye. The bear stopped uud inspected Shaft-
ley a moment, and then turned and shuffled
nwn.v into the woods. From that time until
tost Thursday uothing was seen or heard of tho
cunning animal. Then Jim Bhaftlcy brought
In the news referred to at the beginning of this
article, and threw the settlement Into a furor.
A grand Now Year's Day hunt for the old bear
was organized at once, and on Friday morning
every tuan and boy for five miles around who
could carry a gun and got one to carry was on
the way to the vicinity where Shaftley kad
seen the long-missing “One-Eyed Riley/’
SLoftley hud discovered sigiis of brar along
Balsam Swamp, and had gone out on Thursday
to rco If he could find one. He had barely
readied the spot when he saw one hurrying
along to get into theswamp. The hear was
not a large one, but Shaftley put a ball into it
ami brought it down. Just then onc'of his
dog* began to make a great outcry in the
swniuK and a moment later out came an enor
mous bear almost in front of the hunter. The
bear stopped, evidently surprised at coming
out upon Shaftley so suddenly, and the hunter
recognized the lame, one-eyed animal that had
eluded him and others so long. The bear
turned at once and re-entered the swamp,
tightiugthc dog on tho way back. Shaftley
tent the contents of his second barrel after
nersonsin each family, in this state duriug I him, hut the tough old brutekent right on,
January. Other letters from different payt* of I »ud it was not long before Shartlcy s dog came
—1-ji-^ai.. .... . .. .1 howling out of the swamp, badly whipped by
the retreating bear.
There were twenty-three hunters, large and
•mall, in the party that went out on New
Year’s day. They made straight for the
swamp. The dogs were sent in, but after over
au hour's hunting among the thick laurels
and under brush they failed to find the bear.
While the different groupeof hunter* were dis
cussing what they had best do. Jitu Shaft ley’s
mother come rearing In from their clearing and
said that the big hear had passed though
their back meadow, and had gone ofl' toward
the Beaver Dam thicket*. The bear had ne ar-
Ivan hour’s start. The hunters scattered
, ^ , , .... . the woods and hnrried for the Bea*
knon* iheir location, amt he told the officer that I ver Dam, which was six miles fromthe swamp
.o*t5fSf w S2f n,lurn WlUl Borc r ri *° ne " *nd I where Shaftley had seen the animal the day
c.sftn the reward. | t* fore . Bill Shartlcy. Ira Greggs and Mah-
ion Likes made their way along an old bark
read, which follows the brook flowing from
the rurolinas indicate that at Jca.*t one thousand
negroes will conic to Arkansas between this
date and May.
Recently a number or Convicts, employed in the
mine* at«.*»! Hill, cfeaixsl by tunneling An ohl
farmer made nt* ap|K*arancc at rampyc>tcrday and
called for the • captain.’’ He gave hi* name as
James Johnson, and had six ot' the Amative* all
iu a row. with their hand* on each other.*
shoulders. Hcncardof the escape and believed,
oti account of the intensely cold weather, the t
\> otild nek shelter instead oftravi-liug. Uc locate i
t« n of them, and last night when they were *leep-
B»f In a hay stack captured their guard and five
*. The remainder escaped. He t*llcre* h *
During the cold spell hot roup has I men dis
tributed to the |tsr of Montgomery.
Miss Mattie I.igou. daughter of ex-Gov
(inorlv. F. Upon, and one of Alabama’s
l<lle*. was united in marriage to Genera!
George !». Harrixm. one of the nitri promi
nent lawyers in the state, on Wednesday.
BristolGIM*. the negro who na* shot in M.«nt
••cry by Mr. Frank Wilcox. < hridmas week,
died Wednesday The facts in the ca*o are re-
tnarkahk*. Gibb* attacked a colored woman and
attempted to ravish her penou. she m reamed for
heir and Wilcox, a m bite man. came to her.re-eue
The negro then drew a Knife aud attacked Wilcox
a pi-to!. Gibbs was
■te*jfcronfh «* ****** «»(l llnjrervd until today
and died. Witeox sras arrested thl* evening and
gave loud tn the sum of five thousand dollar*.
Beaver Dam, as being the nearest route to the
dnm They had gone half of the distance
when a gun was tired off to .the right, then
another, and then a third, and some one
shouted out:
“Look out! There he comes."
Almost immediately afterward the big and
natch hunted hear came over an elevated
E ieee of ground three rods away, and half ran,
alf rolled down to the old road. When the
brute uw the three hunter* in the road it
tnrned and made all haste in the opposite di-
rertion. The shots and the shout? had called
others of the hunting party to the spoLandthe
hear found himself surrounded. Bullets
were poured into it from all
| sidea and **One-Eyed Riley''
wm at last compelled to tuccmb. Kiactota
S :
Banks has in due form applied to the under-
ned for permanent letters of administration on
tnc estate of Jurdcn Price, late of said county, do*
ceased, and I will pa«s upon said application on
the first Monday in February, 1S8C. given under my
hand and official signature. Thl* the first day of
January, JM6. D. A!. FRANKLIN, Ordinary.
Jan 5 vr4t-12pg.2yl
CiKOTXXSS ts.ooa
CtBCVUKSmSSM
Mwara»BH|4i^
dccl~wkyltteow Up
a iLunuiA, r A I C.1 LUlfli I—MAA1UA A.
U Butler, guardian forucorecW. Murphy, has
applied to the undersigned for toavo to sell a part
or the land belonging to said ward, and I will pass
upon her application on the first Monday In Feb
ruary next. Given under my hand aud ofllctal
\>inj mu, in mi'i i tiimij , cjii lliu ... .
February next, iw«0, within the legal hours of sale, 1
one undivided half interest in the following named
aiul described property, to wit: One undivided ball
interest In six hundred feet of piping and a ten-
stamp gold mill, with all the machinery and fix
tures thereto belonging. Bald six hundred feet of
piping and machinery being cumbersome to move,
will be sold and delivered where they now stand,
to wit: Ou lot of land No. 103, In tho 6th district of
■aid county, known as the Smith raid lot.
Three cots, one pair scales, one ik>x candles, one
bl«t*K and tackles, twelve pounds of nall\ one can
coaltar, four copper plates 1x2 feet, one can ma
chine oil, four gravel forks, one rake, three mon-
key w ranches, one brace, two pipe tongs, four coal
chlrel*. three punches six pieces irou.ouc flask
quicksilver, one Jug quicksilver, otto bar Irou 8 feet
long, three drills, one crowbar, two cranks, three
picks, eight iron bands, two old tin cans, one grind
kteno, two batteries, eight feet rubber hose, seven
collars, three chair*, one table, one looking glass,
one nozzle, two wrenches, one lot bolts, one old
lamp, one lantern, one little giant, one wheelbar
row. eleven pieces piping, extra. Said one undi
vided half interest in said property levied upon
and to be mid as the property or W. R. Cochran, to
sathiy a fl fa issued from the superior court of said
R. Cochran. Property pointed’out l
Tcims or sale, cash.
J. F. GODFREY,
anSwkrtt Sheriff Rabun county, Ga.
EOlUtIA, FAYETTE COUNTY—MARGARET J.
Jones, guardian for K. J. Jones, now
K. J. faiutino. James H. M. F. W.
F. and M. A. Jones, now M. A. Westxty, applies to
me for letters of dismission from mid guardianship,
•ml I will pass upon her application on the tint
Monday In Febraary next. Given under my hand
and official signature, this January 1st, 1886.
jant wk4t l-’p D. M. FKANKLIN, Ordinary.
G eorgia, fayette coiwty-r. r. Rogers
has applied for totters of adiniubttraUon da
bents non, on the estate of KU Edmondson, of said
county, deceased, and I will pass upon said appli
cation on the first Monday In February, lasrf. Wti*
January the 1st, 1880. D. M. FRANKI.lN.
jap&-wky-4t. 12 p Ordinary.
for Ctoero Fincannan, Marcos L. Fincaxwon, Sarah
J. Fincaunon, Mary L Vincannon and Rachel A.
~ " ^vFlii«nnep4de*
Fiucannon, minor neln or
cran'd, ha* in due form app
for leave to sell the land
of saiddcct-ascd toperfec
tton will be heard on the ■■■■■PHI
IT TU ‘ 3ubat * tn *-*%'$:ii%cK'o*.
decggwkft £. Ordinary.
to the undersigued
5 to the estate
•aid applica-
Moudayin February,
ADMINISTRATOR S SALE.
TY—AGREEABLE TO .
t of ordinary of aafll
nil be som on me first Tuesday in Febru
ary. j*™, before the courthouse door in Clayton,
the follow ine described lands, lo-wit: IxX No. iLi
and part or lot No. 1». in the 13th district of origi-
nally Habeohtm. Dow Rabun. In the osta! hours
tb<h<inuul t rcdUor> oTuld ilnowL taw
m.'lc known on d»r of Ml«.^Thl»J.niuLrjr UW.
JuUwkru Adffllal!tniot«( 8*14 VtCCMcd.