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HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS TO
THE COUNCIL
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i council yesterday wa* lull of
wisdom and timely suggestion*. May-
O Blown showed the right *|>irit
inrouglioul, ami those who heard hi*
speech setting forth hi* "plann of pro
mpting the city’* welfare, can but at
test the fact that the affair* of Athens
aroafe in his hamis. Mayor Brown’s
Kpenb waa in suontunre a*follows:
Gentlemen of the Council:
We who are to sRMiine the resjionsi-
blc; task of carrying on the munici
pal government for the next two yearn,
will do well to pause for a moment up
on this the threshold of our undertak
ing, to consider the duties imposed up
on mr; and the way in which we can
fearlessly, conservatively and practi
cally meet them.
« '.The administration of municipal gov
ernment, ordinarily, is of more direct
consequence to the inhabitants of our
town* and cities than the administra
tion of national or state affairs. The
latter are necessarily of a general nat
ure, regulating the interests of Urge
ooinmunitiea and the entire body po
litic.
In view of our powers and responsi
bilities, it is necessary for me to iim
C resa upon this body of representative
usiness non of Athens, that we are
now entering u;»on perhaps tho most
important epoch of our city’s history,
and its future progress and prosperity,
oriu future stagnation and retrogres
sion will depend largely upon the
course adopted by us fbd the support
we receive from our fellow citizens.
Athens is today suffering nigh unto
death for the lack of public spirit.
Cnee infuse this vitalizing essence into
our municipality, and the town wii)
blossom like the rose.
With union of action wo can secure
new factorier, new capital, new citi
zens; without it, we shall fail to secure,
or at. least to retain either. Would
we could impress upon ev jry citi-
sa this thin truth, that the prosperity
id growth of a town means the pros-
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msOKAL AND SOCIAL
perlty and grouth of the pocket book
Of every industrious citizen of that
town. If you retard or dwarf your mu
nicipal growth. Mini yojir citizen of
inrsns has weli nigh gained his finan
cial status, and your citizen without
means, no matter how frugal or indus
trious, will never he other than a finan
cial ruut. N
The Mayor then spoke about the
needs of onr city and had this to say
About sew« r*:
“Whenever sewers are laid,-it should
be done by tho most opproved and sci
entific method. TJie experience of
other cities in this and other states, in
having to take up defective sewers,
and replace them with others properly
cuneirueted,-should lie warning tons
that whenever we do this work it
. should be done well. This can only be
• done, of course, if wo keep the frao-
cbjke, by issuing bonds, and whenever
it is submitted (o the people, doubtless
many tl our worthy citizens will op
pose it ; But all we can do is to appeal
.to the intelligence and good sense of
our people, asking that the question be
considered in its < utirety ami in a spir
it of fairness and soberness, If this is
done, I feel confidout that bonds will
be voted.
We are not overburdened with taxes
nor loaded dowu with bonded debts.
Our taxable property in the year just
closed was iu round figures, $4,000,000,
and our annual increase for a number
ber of years lias been over $100,000. Up
on this as our capital, it would lie a sur
prise to outsiders to know that our to
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now, Is only $82,500, while under the
constitution we could legally issue
bonds to the amount or $320,000. And
the $82,500, most iff which is running
at the high rate of interest of 8 per cent
•is being rapidly refunded and paid oil.
Of the $100,WH) railroad bonds issued
ip, we have already paid $(53,000, and
. tliis' without any heavy tax upon the
v citizens.
But in case of sewers for the business
portion of the town at least, under the
S ian contemplated by our worthy pre-
ecessors, it is estimated that they can
be laid without any final cosi to the
city,the plan being to charge rental for
all connections with the sewers which
it is thought will be sufficient to pny
the interest on the bonds, and furnish a
sinking fund to relieve them as they fall
due, and right here I would remark,
parties have telegraphed; within the
last few days to kuow it the city is pre
pared to receive propositions for the
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_ t of sewers early for the franchise
and without anv cost to. tho city. Ti.N
entire question I commend to the imr
mediate, careful and earnest considera
tion of this council.
Here Mayor Brown took up a discus
sion of the plans for keeping our streets
in neat repair. He showed most clear
ly that paved streets would more than
save their cost in » very few years ahd
' ! urged the advisabi ity of adoptingtbem.
He spoke at length on this question as
—he deemed it one of the most impor
tant of all the questions that confront-
,tlie council.
- - His entire speech was characterized
by sound sense and substantial argu
ment*. It showed an enterprisingspir-
- it such as is necessary to meet the cri
sis that has lately come to Athens. We
have quoted the above portions of his
speech ss valuable pointers for onr citi
zens, which should be considered with
due deliberation. -
A NEGLECTED \sTBEET.
1 & J
nts of Barber Street Complain
to the Council.
There is a very groat deal of just com
plaint now being made by the residents
on Barber street, that they have hitb-
wen ne ? ,e * :t «l by the Council in
distribution of oity advantages.
There, is not a water plug o\i the street,
i it is one of the most important
i the city’s suburbs. The resl-
would. be at the mercy of the
Mr. Gay Hamilton has returned from
a business trip to Columbia County.
Mr, Wilson Morrison has returned
from a visit to Nashville, Tenn.
Mr. W. E. Ware, of MsysviUe, is reg
istered at the Commercial.
Mr. J. W. Arnold, of South America,
is visiting friends in the city.
Mr. F. S. Merchant, at Atlanta, is
registered at tfnvComineacial
Mr Earnest Andrews, of Borne, is
registered at the Commervial-
Hon. G. W. McDown, of Indianapo
lis, is in the city.
Mr. W. M. Tolbert, of Atlanta, is in
the city.
Mr. W. A. Robinson, of Atlanta, re
turned home today.
Mr. C.C. Cram, of Baltimoore, fa reg
istered at the Commercial.
V. E. (Franklin, of Bullock county,
hag returned to the Uuiversity
Mr. R. L. Moore, of Savannah, has
returned to the University.
Miss Mamie Lovell, of Savannah, will
not return to the Lucy Cobb.
Mr. C. W. Morrison has returned
from a visit to Nashville, Tenn.
Misses Maud and Claude Fu11ilove,of
Oconee, will re-enter the Home School
Miss lna Dillard, of Lexington, is
visiting friends in the city.
Mr. T. R. R. Cobb' returned yesterday
from a trip to Atlanta.
City-Attorney Andrew T. Cobb is
hack from a visit to Americus.
Mr. M. W. Garhutt, of Emanuel
county, is back at the University.
Mr.Z.Clnrke Hayes has returned from
a visit to relatives in Lexington.
Mr. Albert Foster, a popular young
man of Madison, was in the city yester
day on a visit.
Mr. W. W. Gordon, Jr., of Savannah,
will not return to the University Law
School for a week or more.
.Mr. Yancey Harris is expected back
in our city today after a very pleasant
visit to relatives in Augusta.
The O. B. German club will give an
entertainment the early pars of - this
month.
Mr Will Reaves returned yesterday
to Madison after a short visit to friends
in the city.
M r. Fred Lewis, of Atlanta, a promi
nent Sophomore, returned to the Uni
versity last night.
Messrs. Anton Wright and Sam Cas-
sels are expected back at the University
today front ThontssviUe.
Messrs. C. K. Russell, Reuben Lanier
and W. R. King returned to the Uni
versity :«st iicght.
Prof. A. L. Franklin has returned to
this city after a very pleasant visit to
the “old folks at home” in Covington.
Mr. John William Barnett is back in
ourcity again after a visit to Atlanta
and other poiuts.
Mr. Adam Boggs has been visiting
his uncle, Mr. Charles Alexander, in
Washington, Go., for the last few days.'
Professor Wilcox has returned to the
city after a short visit to relatives in
Montgomery, Ala.
Miss Lizzie Bacon has returned to
the city after a pleasant visit to rela
tives in Oglethorpe.
Messrr. J. E. [Sawson and W. T Mos
ley, of Atlanta, are registered at the
Commercial.
Mr. John Hinton will leave today to
resume his studies at the Atlanta Medi
cal College.
Mrs. Noble, after a visit ts relative*
in Atlanta, returned yesterday to her
homo in the Classic City.
Mr. W A. Kennon will return to lay
to his home in Brunswick, after a visit
to relatives in the city.
Mr. Charles Cohen, of Montj
Alabama, is visiting friends
city.
Mrs. |Eiigene Evcrette returned to
Covington this morning after a short
visit to relatives in the city. -
Messrs. S. J. Tribble , of Carnesville,
and J,T Bennett, of Camilla, have re
turned to the Uuiversity.
Messrs. H. S. Sims, F. H. Post and
G. K. Vason, of Madison, arrived in the
eity to witness Si Perkins Tuesday
evening.
Mr. Robert Bradberry returns to
Montgomery, Alabama this morning
after a short visit to relatives in the
city.
Mr. C, W. Baine, an old Athens boy,
is again with his friends after an ab
sence of two years in Montgomery,
Alabama
Messrs. Green Johnson. Walter Park,
F. E Calloway and Dudley Young
blood have returned to the Universi
ty.
Hr. Thomas Thornton, of LaG range,
who attended the University last year,
will go to Cornell University in ‘New
York uext tall for a two years course.
Ur. Victor Smith, who is almost as
well known here as in Atlanta, has been
visiting in Washington during the past
week.
Miss Cora Wise, of Shreveport, La.,
has returned to the L. C. I. after a vis
it to Mrs. Charles E. Erwin in Wash
ington, Ga.
Mr. Will Grambling, of Charleston.
S. C., has returned to the University.
He was accompanied by two young
gentlemen who will enter college.
Messrs Preston S. Arkwright, E. F.
Lovell, Jr. and J. M. Thomas returned
to the University from Savannah yes
terday.
Mr. James Tweedy, of Madison, Was
in the city yesterday morning,
turned to Madison ea the C. A
road-
Mr D. O Smith, the popular stenog
rapher of Barrow & Thomas has pur
chased a residence on College avenue
and will make Athens bis furore home.
Mr.and Mrs. Smith have mado many
friends durintftheir stay in the eity anil
will be warmly welcomed as residents
by Athenians
It is with pleasure that we are en
abled! to announce that Mis* Anna
Coates, of Baltimore, will visit Dr. and
Mrs. H. C. White this month. She
visits friends In Savannah first and
will thence come to the Classic City.
She is one of the prime favorites in our
city.
Another pleasant even tin the social
line is the entertainment to be given by
the Athemeum complimentary to Mr,
and Mrs. James Hamilton. This wni
OVER THE CITY.
ECHOES FROM THE STREETS
AND SIDEWALKS.
A Charh.xg EjmtitTArsiixxT.—The
R.P. club will give .one of their delight
fnl_entertahiB*ents daring January. It
Id at the beautiful
’ on Fn-
society event
of importance, ns am all the entertain
ments given by this club,
iui entertainments aunng jsiiu
win probably be held at the 1
residence of Dr Eph' Brumby'
laski street and will be a societ
Turn Rinats* Fair.—The fair to be
given by the Clarke Rifles, the first
week of February, is now an assured
success. The people should consider
wbst»'necessity a militaiy company is
to Athens, and give the Rifles their
hearty support.
A Coming Marriage.—Cards will
soon be ont for the marriage of Miss
Gussie Marks, of Athens, to Mr. Clins.
Joseph, of Chicago. The marriage will
take place in the synagogue, on Jackson
street, on the 29th of January.
It Will Open To-dat.— This morn
ing the college bell will ring out once
more calling the college boys back to
the campus, their cherished home. Tho
session will open with about twenty-
five new students from all over Georgia
and some from other States.
-The
All’s Well that Ends Well.-
new year began with a gloomy day.
Cold drenching rains fell all the day
and the Northeast gale was anything
but cheery. It is to be hoped that a
bad beginning will have a good end
ing-
A Season fob Reform. — Yesterday
was a day of reformation. Resolution*
were made which though, of course
they will be broken soon or late They
u ill nevertheless do good while they
last. But the whole city has entered
upon the new year with.reform. Read
the council proceedings aud Mayor
Brown’s speech, and you will see that
reform is stamped all over Athens’ mu
nicipal affairs.
Tn* Atlanta Journal. — The Holi
day Souvenir sent out by the Atlanta
Journal to its patrons or friends is a
marvel of neatness and beauty. The
souvenir is a handsome pamphlet with
gilt binding, and shows a small fac
simile copy of the Journal. We con
gratulate this enterprising sheet upon
so unique a souvenir.
A Glass Factory.—Capitalists from
another city have fixed their eyes upon
Athens as an excellent location for
glass works, and it is highly probable
that a glass factory will be built here iu
tile near future. This reminds us that
our city would seem to he regarded
more favorably by outside capitalists
than by those within our limits. Why
do the citizens of Athons depend upon
alien capital to upbuild their own city ?
Do You nerd Job Work ?—The Ban
ner job ofllcfc starts with Hie new year
with everything that is necessary to do
as good job work as could be desired.
A new lot of type has been received and
with as good job presses as can he
found we are better prepared than ever
before to fill orders for the best kind of
iob work. Send in your orders to our
ob department.
itgomery
iu the
Th* Committees’ Reports. — The
showing that Athens has made the past
year by the council’s reports in this is
sue is a good one., Any one who reads
the report of the treasurer and the
chairman of the finance committee can
but acknowledge the rapid increase of
wealth and population our city has
made. The reports of the courts too,
show that Athens has had a yesr of
peace, comparatively speaking.
Put in Its Proper Place.—The
handsome iron front of the new Banner
building was put in its place yesterday,
and shows off to fine advantage. It is a
beautiful front, and the building will,
when completed, be one of the hand
somest in the city. The work is being
carried on as fast as the weather will
permit, and the building will soon be
ready for the refining touch of the pa int
er’s brush.
Flowers are Blooming.—The au
tumn weather has been so mild and
beautiful, that the flower yards of
Athens have lost but little of their flo
ral beauty even now in mid-winter.
Chrysanthemums are still in bloom, aud
geraniums have bloomed incessantly all
the winter. In the woods, dandelions
and wild violets are in full blossom,
and the fact is, that we have had spring
ever since •‘September’s blast turned
red the forest’s leaf.”
Speer-Silvky.—The marriage of
Mr. W. A. Speer to Miss Kate Silvey,
in Atlanta this month, is a social event
in which Athens feels considerable in
terest. Mr. Speer attended the Univer
sity for some years, and while here, was
one of the most prominent men in col
lege. Among those who have been in
vited to act as attendants upon that
pleasant occasion is Mr. C. F. Rice,
who will be remembered as having
beeu his most intimate friend while at
the University.
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r, of Macon, have
I. Su-inheimer
of Atlanta, have foM?w
In 1-S3 iu Georgia »S# Mle« of new
railway: were bnilt
Up to date $13,039,45 has been sub-
r process fori
»introduced.
scribed to the
Col. W.H. Willis,of Macon county,
died of appoplexy.
A rich vein of silver has boon found
■ in Catoosa county.
Marietta is to have a one hundred
thousand dollar hotel.
Applications of census enumerators
are pouring in by the hundreds.
Col. E. X>. Graham, a distinguished
lawyr of Carterayilie, is dead.
A four-year-old child was shot and
kilted by John Griggs, in Atlanta.
There are 17a liquor dealers in Sa
vannah. --
The trained seil show has been levied
on by the sheriff of Fulton county.
John Ware and Cope captured a loan
of blockade whiskey and three men
from Unioa county.
Henry Adams, 'a Lumpkin county
moonshiner, went to jail rather than
take an oath. ->
J. M. Edwards, of Catoosa, was
rol/fjixl of two hundred dollars by a high
wayman.
There came near being, a riot at
Leary, the negro* resisting an arrest of
a drunken man.
The contract for building the Georgia
Southirn Railroad to Thomasville has
been awarded. : '
The Georgia Teachers excursion to
Cuba report a delightful and interesting
time.
oJtan Sykes, a young farmer of Bryan
county, was almost cut' to pieces at a
ball by John and Howell Glisson.
Gen. Alexander, of the Central R. I:.,
does not believe the report' that Pert
Royal has been sold to an English syn
dicate. **•
Dr. J. W. Sherrod, of Montgomery
county, is dangerously low from taking
a dose of iode through mistake for par
egoric. >
There is a man in Atlanta who was
cured of the rheumatism by being bur
ied in the ground up to his neck for
forty-eight hours.
George James the negro who assaulted
Mr. aud Mrs. Holtowdil, of Savannah,
was sentenced to pay a fine of one hun
dred dollars.
Wni. Parnell, a tramp from Raleigh,
N. C., was terribly mangled while at
tempting to crawl under a freight car
In the Central Railroad yard in At
lanta;
Mrs. J. W. Ryan, of-Jesup, proposes
to bring suit against the Western Union
Telegraph Company, alleging that an
operator at that place gave a private
message of hers to the press.
Hon. G. W. Gustin, of Macon, has
tendered his resignation as Judge. He
returns to the practice of his profession
in partnership wiih Dupont Guerry
aadJussph U. ihtll. A* 4- ...
Joseph Rulf, the negro arrested in
Macon and vho declares that he has
killed seven men, was carried back to
Crau fordviUe to answer for setting fire
to that town.
A crowd of 23 negroes went to the
residence of Mr. E, C. Vandiver, in
Franklin county, for the purpose of
robbing him, but on learning that the | money.
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has been
Hon.
ter.
Florida has a crop
ready for the market.
A stable anil ten flue horses were
burned in Baltimore.
The public debt has ihereased largely
the past year.
Mr. Parnell says he wishes the O’Shea
divorce suit settled at once.
The 20,000striking miners in Belgium
are starving.
Montana republicans are systemati
cally proceeding to steal two senators.
Ex-treasurer Burse of Louisians; is
mining in Honduras.
President Harrison and Gen. Alger
are said to be very jealous of each other.
Another nihilist plot against the czar
has been discovered in St. Petersburg.
Extensive discoveries of phosphate
has Jjeeu made in Marion county, Fla.
A-Terre Haute, Ind., boy went crazy
from smoking cigarettes and blew his
brains out.
Two men were crushod to death by a
pair of defective) scales falling on them
in Toronto.
Twenty-four lives were, lost in the
burning of an Industrial school at
Westlmll, Eng.
Congressman Mills made a ringing
speech before the tariff reformers in
Boston, on Tuesday.
There was a collision of railroad
trains at 'Kokomo, 1ml., aud several
persons were killed.
Mrs. Jeffersoq Davis will presently
go to Kansas toxive with ber married
daughter.
In Paris, cab faros are regulated by
a little machine that records the dis
tance travelled.
The first buffaloes were imported to
Australia in 1829, and now there are
great herds of them.
After July 1, tho nationnl flag and
ur.ion jack of the navy will consist of a
rectangular arrangement of 32 stars.
Four boys were* burned alive while
playing under a sand bank at Jackson,
Tenn.
Nearly 100 persons were injnred by
the falling of a platform at a bull fight
in the City of Mexico.
Miss Lucy Wamble, a school teacher
at Goldsborq, N. C., suicided whilo in
sane.
The police of Leavenworth. Kan., re
fused to permit milk punch to be served
at a banquet given Judge Brewer.
Tho Faith Healers at Lovington, Til.,
stole two young girls fropi their homes.
There came near being a not.
A Chicago Judge has decided that the
Western Union must show their tele
grams.
S. J. Wilkerson, a son of wealthy
parents in Baltimore, attempted sui
cide while crazed with whisky.
.. Tho Chicago police rescued a woman
while she was being hanged By her
husband.
Richmond* Va., shows an assessment
of city property aggregating $52,095,-
002.
Mrs. William Weyrick* of Missis
sippi, eloped with a stranger and took
twelve hundred dollars of her husband’s
E REBUKED THE CHOIR
———
A Minister of an Auburn, N Y. Church
Sefnsrs to-b# Disturbed.
New Yobk, Jsu.’ 1.—[Special-]—A
j v special to the Tribune from Auburn, N-
Y., says: When the congregation or
the First Presbyterian chnrch Jof this
city was seen coming from the chnrch
at 11:30 o’clock this morning, half an
hour after the morning service began,
many wondered at the ’cause; Those
who were in the church speedily ex
plained" the matter.
The pastor, the Rev, Wra. H. Hub
bard, had publicly rebuked the mem
bers of the choir for laughing and oth
erwise misbehaving themselves while
the service was in progress, and when
they continued their frivolity, he sud
denly paused in his sermon, glanced to
ward the choir gallery, where the sing
ers were amusing themsems, and ab
ruptly dismissed the congregation. The
membership of this church inoludes
some of the wealthiest people in the
city, aud the incident has caused a sen
sation.
bouse was guarded did not make the
attempt.
The three young white men, Canthan,
Matthews and Brown, charged with
the murder of Pink Lawrence (colored)
at Karnesville on the night of the 25th,
are safely lodged in jail at Zebulon,
Ga.
Old man Jim Bone has made a full
conressiou of killing Woodward. The
jury returned a verdict that old man
Bone did the deed, and was guilty of
murder, and that James H. Bone, Mrs.
J. C. Bone and Mrs. Sallie A. Buck-
alew were accessories before the fact,
and that Jessie Bone and Busbec were
accessories after the fact. Bone says
he kilted Woodward to avenge tils
daughter Jessie’s honor.
-MINOR ITEMS.
Brief News Taken from onr Beporter*s
Note Book.
Athens mud is proverbially inevita
ble
A good deal of cotton and a number
of country people were in the city yes
terday.
Contracts for the new year are in‘or
der, and yesterday witnessed full many
a one iu Athens.
The strange coal miners of Pittsburg
have bought all the masks in the city
to hide their features when they com
mit lawless acts.
Spurgeon, the eminent English di
vine, is suffering from rheumatism, that
has entered his throat aud threatens to
destroy his magnificent voice.
Judge Gresham says that the stand-,
urd of excellence iu the legal profession
is not as high as it was twenty-five
years ago.
Jim Carlisle, while on his way home
from Ochlocknee, Saturday, was taken
from the public road by uuknown par
ties and terrlbiy whipped.
Two horses were killed and the driver
knocked senseless iu Chattanooga by
running into a broken telephone wire
that was crossed by an electric wire.
T. W. Corkey delivered a lecture in
Banham, Texas, in which he said that
Christ’s life was repeated in that of
Mr. Davis. No oath ever soiled his
lips.
The orange trees of Charleston are
bearing a second crop. The roses are
in bloom. Strawberries are ripening,
and even the fig trees are budding for
the third time this year.
the Michael bu
■I p’
■ildi
mg.
The students are coming back by the
car load.
He re-
M. Rail-
Oub Religious Department.—Dr.
C. W. Lane, one of Athens’ leading and 1
most beloved ministers, has kindly con
sented to edit “The Religious Depart
ment” of the Sunday and Weekly Ban
ner. He will prepare a numferof orig
inal articles for his space. This u ill be
an interesting and instructive feature
of our paper, and donbtless result iu
good. Dr. Lane is opposed to Sunday
publications, but decides that so long as
they are issued, and the people will read
them, that they should be furnished
with literature of a character to turn
their thoughts in a more serious direc
tion. We highly appreciate his yaiuable
assistance, and will earnestly strive to
keep every, department of The Banner
free from objectionable articles.
' —
The OmCER’s Reports.—Owing to
s laclref space we failed to publish in
this issue the reports of the city officers
made liefore Council yesterday, We
will publish them to-morrow.
Mr. Gilleland is an excellent city
officer. He has been clerk of the coun
cil for s number of years.
The women of Athens cannot be ex
celled for their beneficent work, by
those of any other Southern city.
The Industrial Home starts out upon
the new year with the encouragement
of a most successful year just past.
The new hotel is the next thing f or
the people of Athens to have, and so
soon as their business affairs for the
new year are straight let them set to
work aud build it.
The eity taxes from the drays last
year amounted to over six hundred
dollars.
The bad weather has come to stay no
doubt. It is just the weather to scatter
theintluenza.
■**
-The Odd Fellow.,
Clarice Lodge I. O. O. F; held an en
thusiastic meeting last night. It being
election of officers for the ensuing term,
the following were elected:
C. O. Adams, N G.
R. B, Harper, V. G.
. . J.N. Herring, Sr.
and Wl11 »>e T. M. Brooks, ltec. Sec
R. R. Hipkins, Pr. Sec.
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The Germania.
An elegant ball took place at the
rooms of the Germania club Tuesday
eveniug.
The ball was given complimentary to
the visiting young ladies, and was par
ticipated in by tbe following couples:
Miss Rosa Schiudler, of Atlanta, and
Mr. Jake Stern.
Miss Pearl Itosenfleld, of Augusta,
and Mr. Sol Flatau.
Miss Lillie Funkenstein aud Mr. Lee
Flatau.
Miss Eayton Morris anti Mr. M. B.
Scblesinger of Atlanta.
Miss Yetta Phillips and Mr. Sam
Funkenstein.
Miss M. Phillips and Mqfdecai Marks.
Miss Daisy Myers and Morris Jan-
koiver. . _
Miss J. Dornhlatv and H. Cohen.
Miss Sarah Stern and Jules Dorn-
blatt.
In Berkeley county, S. C., Mr. Julius
Taylor was killed and Mr. Welch badly
injured. They tried to fire a piece of
pipe charged with powder, and it ex
ploded. *
In*Darlington county, S. C., ayoun/
man named Windham stabbed toi
heart and killed a negro, Robt. Uon
who persisted in getting into the wag!
he wai driving when ordered not to
do so.
An interesting case is reported from
Jersey City, where Charles W. Bligh
has been convicted of bigamy. He bad
obtained a divorce from his first wife in
Chicako, but Illinoisjlaws are not recog
nized in New Jersey.
A test was mUde yesterday of the elec
trical machine purchased by the State
of New York for patting murderers to
death. A horse was killed in less than
half a minute, and without the animal
struggling.
LaGrippe has actually killed between
200and 300 persons during the year just
closed in Europe, and has laid low some
300,000 fresh victims. One estimate
places tbe total number of present vic
tims at 1,250,000.
Trie longest distance over which con
versation by telephone is daily made is
between Portland, Me., and Buffalo, N.
Y , about 750 miles. There are more
than 170,000 miles of telephone wire in
operation in the United States, over
which 1,055,000 messages are sent daily.
About 300,000 telephones are in use iu
this country.
rescued by atti
and members e
the most Intel
great risk. Twot
«jcapes by sliding
They reached the
Ssmeboye, emt
set by the t
manner.
school exhibited j
peatedly dashed t__
turning each time *
amimate form of some
school contained in all <
THE WAR ON THE TRUST.
Cotton Coven for Cotton Verona Jute
Covers—The Alliance Holding
Its Own.
Charleston, S. C., Jan. 1.—(Special)
—Persistence in any cause is to be ad
mired, but when the cause is a good
one admiration rises to -a height far
above ordinary. During the past; two
months very little has been said about
the Jute Trust and cotton bagging.
The cotton men have ceased to fear
trouble across the water, and the plant
er, irrespective of tare or no tare, has
to the best of bis ability tabooed the
product of the trust, and has stuck
close by Alliance bagging where he
could get it, aud when the supply at
Ms town was exhausted has used sheet-
Tho
Washington, Jan.
President’s new year
red today. He was ai
Ing by Mrs. McKee and
o', the cabinet with their
rt ception began at elevei
the White House was bemtifully
a ted with flowers. Amt
called were tho members
matic corps, the Pan
grers, the judiciary and both
congress. It took exactly two
the president to shake hands
crowd of visitors which was
than usual. Afterthe
tion, Vice-President Mortort
wife received a number of guests.
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Child Uurdsr Near Bethany.
ing.
Decatur, 111., Jan. 1.—[Special.]—
This morning tbe body of an infant 8
months old was found in the Okavf Riv
er, near Bethany, in Moultrie county,
twenty miles south of Decatur, on the
Peoria, Decatur and E vansviUe Rail
way, and The discovery has awakened
much Interest As yet the child ffiur-
der has not been fastened upon any
body. The coroner bos charge of. the
oase, and will probe the mystery assist
ed by the sheriff of the county .Vi*!. r
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mm
A glance at the drays on the street,
at ’lie cotton in the compress sheds or
ware houses, will show ttiat there has
been no very great diminution of the
amount of Alliance cotton used, and
despite the fact that so much ap
prehension was caused by its
use ■ .11 the early . part
of the season, ne harm to anyone has
yet resulted. The shippers have had
no cotton refused on tho other side of
the water, and while some has bad to
be recovered, the eases were not morq
numerous than ordinarially occur with
jute.
The indications are that the Alliance
is “laying low” for the trust and as
soon as the season of 1890 begins, the
farmers will knock a hole in it as big as
a barn door, and like MeGinty it will go
“down to the bottom of the well,dressed
iu its best’iwit of clothes.”
Leaving Barnwell. , ; ,
Charleston, January 1st, 18(g!.e—
[Special]—The negroes continue much
excited aver the recent lynching; ’ A
county and state meeting have each
been called, when tbe-negroes will take
action as to their future course,
great many negroes are leaving Bare-
well county, and it seems, that they
will all emigrate sn the course of the
next few days. ; i
IODINE FOR PARAGORIC.
C ritlcal Condition of Dr. J. TV. Sherrod,
of Lothalr.
Macon, Ga,, January 1.—[Special.]—.
Nows has just reached here of the crit
ical condition of Mr..#. W. Stem. J, of
Lotliair, Montgomery county, resulting
from taking, by mistake, iodine for
paregoric, he swollowing the entire
contents of a large phial.
He was suffering terribly. Other
physicians were called to his assistance,
but the iodine was doing its work,
Causing intense coughing and the ex
pectoration of clotted blood. Every
thing possible is being being done for
him.
The mistake that may cost the life of
this gentleman is deplored (by all who
have become acquainted with the par
ticulars of the sad occurrence. He was
very low when heard from last.
Big County Fair.
Sander8v:lle, Ga., January 1.—
(Special)—The Washington County Ag
ricultural Club meets here to-morrow
to elect officers and transact other bus
iness.
a>
It is understood that among the bus
iness will be a movement to organize a
grand agricultural fair for next fall.
It is tne purpose to make tbe fair the
very best of its kind that Georgia has
ever seen, displaying prominently the
advantages of this part of the state for
stock-raising.
THE AUGUSTA MILLS.
They Are Not Affected by the New Law.
Augusta,Ga., Jan. I—[Special.]—The
eleven hour law does not affect the Au
gusta cotton mills, which have aU al
ready worked only eleven hours a day,
ir sixty-six hours a week.
Five day8 in a week the operatives
work eleven houre and twenty min
utes and on Saturdays nine hours and
twenty minute, thus giving the hands
several hours on Saturday evening in
which to do shopping.
Hawever, they average sixty-six
hours each week. The system is perfect
ly satisfactory to all concerned, and
tbe enforcement. of tbe law recently
passed by the legislature will make no
change here.
Hotel Arrivals.
At tiib Clayton House.—W. Flem
ing, City; G, W. B^ngton Ga.; Ed
ward Pearson, New York; W, W. Hul-
bert, Atlanta; B. B. Harwell, Shady
Dale; H. M. Strozier, Clarkesvillc, Ga.
At the Commercial.—H. R. Elliott,
S. C. Mo.
The six beautiful lots, 100x200 feet
to be sold at the court house are only a
few steps from street car line.' Jan2-5t
One of the six beautifuUlots to be
sold next Tu€sday air court tfeuse, legal
hours of'sale, has a house, good orchard,
&c. on it. . - Jan2-5t
be given early in January and will be
Miss Norma Marks aad Mr. narry
Miller. 1
Refreshments'were served during the
Price’s [Butter —Messrs. Lowe &
Elder have secured tbe exclusive sale
of tbe Price butter iu Athens aud will
be able in the future to supply tbeir
customenrwith pure Jersey butter in
large quantities. Messrs. Lowe <fc Ei
der are indeed fortunate to secure this
coveted privilege , for no butter is bet
tor known aud has a wider sale than
the Price butter. It is made from the
finest' strains of Jerseys, and Mrs.
Price supervises it herself. 2-3
■— t
She” will be the next attraction at
In tho Gate City. .
Atlanta, Jan. 1.—[Special]—Ex-
Mayor JohnTyler Cooper is pronounced.
worse by his physicians today..
The impression seems to prevail bore
that Nottingham, of Macon, will su'c-'
ceed Gustin on the Superior' Court
bench. 'VI,
The eleven hour law for labor in cot
ton and woolen mills goes into effect ^
througnout the state today.
Dom Pedro's Allowance,
London, Jan. 1.—Special.]—'The ^la-
con tinuanjje of the allowance voted to
Dom Pedro upon his expatriation is -re
garded hero as an indication Of t he ro-
publicis weakness.
For the Suffering Kansans.
Wichita, Kan., Jan. 1.—[Special-]—
A train of eighteen cars left here last
night for the suffering districts-ir. Ste
vens and Morton and IhMigmau. coun
ties; They are loaded with clothing
and food, consisting of-flour, meal. and
groceries.
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White Hen in Jail. ■'
Baknesvilijs. Ga , Jan. 1.—[Special]
—Three young men, Messrs. Cantham,
Matthews ana Bro wn, are held in jail
at Zebulon. ''
They are r~ier arrest f?r the hilling
of Pink LawA»Lce, colored, Christmas
night. • ,
They seeml not , at all worried over
their imprisonment, and are confident
of coming out aU right;
gjsga
(Mis
m
evening and every one experienced a the opera house. “She” will aDDear
delightful time, on January 10th.
Don’t say you cannot And you a lot
to build pn when six beautiful lots will
be sold at the court house on n£xt
Tuesday to highest bidder. The lots
front on Baxter street 100 ft, running
back 200 feet. Only *a few steps from
street car line. Come and buy one.-
• A good investment for some one if
they buv one or more of the six beauti
ful lots that will be sold to highest bid
der ut court house on next
Married rir >1 ston.—Mr. J. W,
BetinetS, of JeSuip, was married bn
Tnesdav night roMisg'Gcrtrude Prince,
of Johnston. The groom will be re-'
metiibered as having graduated in law
from the University last year* ?Hs
early marriage goes to show the en
couraging possibBitiea of the legal pro
fession. . r-
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FALLING FROM BALLOONS,;
The Proport cn of Accidents to Successful |
Ascents. . .
[Prof. R. H. Thurston in January Fo
rum.] f ' -vNxs*''; -..VS
The proportion of balloon accidnatf to
successful-descents has, on the whole,
however, been-probably smaller tiitlx
should have been anticipated. Blawh-
ard, tho first to take up ballooning a* a
vocation, died in his bed in 1809, afur
having made sixty-six descents without
accident. Many ascents have bpen
made in tho cause of science; and the
names of Green, who made over 1,400
ascents; of John Wise, Who made the
distance from St. Louis, Mo., to Jeffer
son county, N. Y., 1,200. miles, in 29
hours; of Gay Lussac and Biot, who
in 1804, made a most valuable series of
meteorological anil phyical observa
tions at the height of 19,000 feet; of
Glaisner, who rose to 37,000 feet with
the aeronaut Cox well: and especially,
recently, of the brothers Tissander—
all these are familiar to.every one.
ln'1794 the balloon was used for mili
tary purposes by General Jourdon, who
secured continued observation of the
Austrian movements, and thus gained
the battle of Fleury. The French are al-
so reported to have w id the same
method" in the battle if Solferino.
A balloon corps was organized by Gen.
McClellan at r,he outbreak {of our qwn
civil war, 1881; anil the use of balloons
—- -"-of the regular and daily riieans
ling information of the move-
of,the enemy. During the siege
_ is the jballoon became the only
means of sending despatches out of the
Ofainhe 1 '
Paris, over
lost;.
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