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12 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.