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E. MERTON COULTER *>:V : ‘ ■r 3 ■ AILY BANNER. TOL. III. ATHENS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY .MORNING, FEBRUARY 25 1882. NO 88 Society Motes. dr Texu Sitting. <CdL 1HII Snooks is looking smiling andltappy. His mother‘in-law Ht yesterday* We were glad to meet lloee Sehwindelmeyer. the handsome drama or. Tjvk sheriff will also be i*tad to see hi o', as ho has a capias against him for not paying his drum mer tax. Hill McShifter, the talent ed horse thief, is in town, en route to Huntsville. He has many friends in Austin who are disappointed at, his not being hung. Judge T. C. Blow* hard, of Bungtown, is once more in our city. Klis visit lias no political significance The giand juiy is in oeasion j-ist now at Bungtown—that’* whit firings him over. The charm ing Mi-s Pussy Kait, one of the so* ciuty belles of Mud Creek, is spend* ing* few week-* with-her uncle. Tom Katt. Mis« Pus')* Katt is an accom plished vcdist. The hen at i/u! Mis* Peggy Priugins u*ft yesterday on the !&40 train for h^r home in Cro«by county. The young men regret her departure, and cspeeially the dry good* clerk who let, her have credit to the mnonnt ol 87 is inconsolable, .is it will he deducted from Ids salary. Power of a Gospel Song. Rath, ran »ffcctingincident occurr ed at the White House yesterday. Ti»e colored Fisk J uhilee Singers, who are'now filling an engagement at the Congregational Chuich, called by appointment, accompanied l»y Rev. Ur. Hankin, for the purpose of pay ing their respects to President Ar thur. The lattei received them in the Blue Parlor, and after introduc tions were over, the visitors sang “Safe iu the Arms of Je.su** uitb thrilling effect, and such pathos, in iaci, that the. Pres!debt was actually moved to tears, and ho turned his head away ai first to hide them. A* the rich melody of the grand old hymn raug through the apartments, however, the President could no lon ger conceal his emotion, and, drying his eyes with his handkerchief, he thanked the singers heartily, declar ing frankly that he had never been sc touched he'.ore. As the little baud of singers and their escort turn ed to leave the apartment, Dr. Ran kin said to a bystander: *1 shall al** t ays believe now that President Ar thur is a truly good man.* 5-ume Good Advice f Ladles. Jiy David Davis. Why do you permit yourselves to lie placed in tile ignominious position of coming here, begging favors of the -governm-Mit, where there are thou* Kind* raady to crowd you to the wall and tight you for every f >vor that yon ask? You all look intelligent. Why do you not go out and learn to become cooks, housekeepers, chambermaids, if you ph ase, and then you will he certain of a good home and independ ence. People will then be running matter you, instead of you running at* ter them, and the position of u respec table servant iu a good family is one infinitely to be preferred to that of hanging to some beggarly oflice, de pendent on the whim or will ol some bureaucrat.” The ladies are said to have ‘flouuced out’ when the old man Jiad got thus far. The Jews. Augusta Chronicle. A Brooklyn preacher declared, last Sunday, that the Jews will one oay jtossess the home ot their ancestors, on which Baron Rothschild already has a mortgage. The question is, what would they do with it if they had it? We do not believe tii.at the Jews, who are scattered over the world, and constitute s uite of the wealthiest and moit important citir. ms of several countries, would consent to tcive up uomioit nud pirnei ity fir Jim sake of a 'barren ideality.’ IIARTRIDUG AND BUTLER. J. E. It. in Augusta Chronicle. Hon. Proctor Knott tells tuo that, during the 45th Congress, he gave an entertainmeut to the nnmberi of the Judiciary committee. Their aesoci- .110, Julian Hart ridge, h •»d Just died, and many pathetic allusions were made about him and universal sor- aow was expressed for bis untimely end. Of that committee no one spoke more feelingly than Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, and when he had con cluded his tribute In- burst iuto tears. Up to that time, Gen. Bullet had been considered a hard-hearted cynic and a man whose fountain of L ars had long since dried up; but, in some way, Julian Hartridge had won his esteem, and the grief manifested was sincere, lifter that, the Democratic members of the committee had a much better opinion of the General thin they ever had before. . rufortiiimte Vanderbilt. Cincinnati Commercial: It is esti mated that William II. Vanderbilt will be a billionaire by the close of lie present centurv. At the lowest figures his fortune is now put at 8165,000,000, or 8100,000,000 more inn it was seven years ago. Piop- ty, over a certain point, accumu lates fast, and it is not improbable Vanderbilt will roai-ze the predictions of those who have made hit progress a study. Enormous as the «mrn pre* lit and predicted is, .Mr. Vanderbilt probably does not enjoy life more ful ly than tens v>f thousands of his coun trymen, who reckon by hundreds where he counts by millions. So vast a property must become a burden to be carried, but not enjoyed With the present number of states the new apjWtionm n nt increas es the total of the prcrdantial elec tors to 401. The m. joritv necessary to elect a president will be 202, which is 17 more than required in the cam paign of 1880,when Conkling, Arthur and Grant saved Gai field from defeat, and subsequently got rebuff -d for their labor, and also in th*» niemor ble con est of 1876. when Tilden was chosen president, but mus defrauded of the office by Hayes. The President Mashed. A Peoria(Ill.) dispatch to the New York Sun says: A rumor that Mis* Ida Farrell of ihis city, who is viei* ting iu Washington at the tesidence of Col. TZobcrt Ingersoll, i* the res cipieut of much attention on the pan ot President Arthur, is creating a great flutter in social circles here. The 8 ory comes from a personal friend of the young lady’s family, and is generally credited here. Miss Ida is the only daughter of H. G. Far rell, a well-known citizen of Peon's, .She is a blonde of medium height,' fine looking, graceful and stylish, and Well educated. The Ice Bridge. The ice bridge ct Niagara Fails is now the largest one ever seen there. The gorge is packed with huge mass es of ice from close up to the Ilorse Siioe Falls to a point below the swift drift, making the bridge over a mile long. Owing to the action of the swift current, the ico has been crowd ed together with such force that it as* suuies most peculiar forms. Con* smut streams of people, old and young, from far and near, have bean crossing the ice bridge daily. Uer Friend. 'I should think that you would feel badly about leaving this place,* said the laundress to the departing cook. ‘I’m n«>i; Piu glad to go. I ain’t sorry to leave any of you—except the dog-poor old Tiger, lie’s ulwnyi washed the plates tor me,* Darned to Death. LaGrange, February 23.—At 11 o’clock this morning a colored wo man named ICittv Johnson, living in the southern portion of the city, met with a horrible death. While in her room alone It is supposed sh« was 11* ken suddenly with a fit, to which she was subject, Had fell into the fire. The flesh was burned from her faee till her teeth and crisped tongu** could be seen. H»*r eyes were burned entirely out and her neck and breast were burned to a hard crisp. A moie horrrible looking sight cannot be imagined. A family living iu an adjoining room were not aware of the burning till they scouted the broil* ingflvsh. The Angel Fndi. In San Francisco men of sci< nee and the gaping throng have been afike interested of late iu examining an an gel fish caught by Italian fishermen twenty miles outside the Farallone Is lands. It ip the first, of the species ever seen in San Francisco, and a handsome specimen, its wing-like fins, from which it* name is taken, meas uring two feet from tip t - tip. A strange Thing. Three red-head ducks were shot last week in the St. Lawrence river, be low Ogdensburg The red heads mi grate from the Potomac to Labrador iu the spring, and return in the fait, stopping in the St. Lawrence both ways, but it is said to be a very unu sual thing for them to remain through the winter. According to Professor Proctor, the eartli will be a dead world like the moon, just fifteen year* from date; for the comet of 1«80 will dash into the sun in 1897, intend lying the heat of that burning orb to such a degree that all animal mid vegetable life here below will be destroyed. His calcu lations arc based on the theory that the orbit of the big comet is swiftly contracting, and unless something happens to make it spin further oil into space it must come in collision with the great lumina»y in fifteen years. Peace of mind can only be found in the belief that Proctor is a I crank. It is said it.at it you have presence of mind enough to face a raging bull and look straight into his eyes lie i* powerless to do you harm. We tried this experiment once and found it worked admirably. The fie'oe ani mal tore the ground with his feet mid bellowed with all hi'* might; but something seemed to bold him hack like magic and he did us no injury. Perhaps we ought to add in order to bo correct historcally, that the bull was on the other side oi the fence. Wo never tiy a«* experiment without the proper precaution beforehand. A $20.00 BIBLICAL PRIZE. The pubiiliseis ol Rutledge’s Mon thly in the. prize puzzle department of their .Monthly for Ma* «-h oiler th“ following easy w<*y for tome one to make 820.00*: To the person telling us which L the longest verse in the New Testa ment Scriptures (not the New Re* vision) by March 10th. 1882, wo will give $20.00 in gold as a prize. .Should two oi more correct answers be re ceived the prize will be divided. The money will lie forwarded to the win ner March 15*h, 1882. Those who tty for the piize inu-t send 20 ets. in si*ver (no postage slumps taken) with their answer, for which they will re ceive the April number of the Month ly, in which will Do publi-hed the name and address of the winner of the prize, with the correct answer thereto. Cut this out; it may lie worth 820.00 to you. Address. Rut* ledge Publishing Company, Easton, Pa. Jcbl8-2uv. READY FOR KING FROST. M. MYERS & CO., Would atmouuce that the.tfjhaYe ju»t received a full fine of Black & Colored Cashmeres, and Fancy Dress Goods, &Q&M&WS SZLNB C&Qi&KS* Iu New Design*. Full Line ot Blankets, (Quilts, Balmorals and Shawls. A complett line ot WOOLE5N ijndbir.we:ar., new lot of MEN’S NOBBY HATS. MEN’S, LADIES’, AND CHILDREN’S RUBBERS. SHOES, SHOES, SHOES OF ALL KINDS- HANDSOME STOCK OF ’ CBOTTTIlSr: x & OVERCOATS. foiiK-imd ace u« and be convinced. R •spectfully, :U&. ZDVE'SriEIiFS.S 063 OCX COLLEGE AVENUE, ATHENS. GA. 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