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ECHOES FROM THE STREETS
AND SIDEWALKS.
I V. HU C. A—
Hon Mimioxaht Sociktt.—The
Home missionary wtltfjr of the First
Methodist church will hold « meeting
immediately after prayer matting this
afternoon at the church. A full attend
ance of the measbm is desired.
ob Steaykd.—A black, butt,
w. Missed on Monday last-
knowing anything of same
at" Chi* otBoe, conferring a
favor on the owner.
. Nonna Moan.—Jones:
i an accident happened to-
isyl
Malth: Tell me i
Jones: The Not
i about it i
Northeastern train ar
rived exactly on time. That’s all.
J New to ATnmrs.—Mich-
aei Bros, were yesterday engaged in
putting np a system of Samson’s bundle
carriers, which does away with the imi-
sance of having oath boys around. Call
and see it. It is worth lookiag at.
Oaa’s Dituo Sroaa.—The new drai
. ■ w drag
store on <pay ton street will be opened
in a few (hys. Dr. Orr, the proprietor
has been thoroughly renovating bis
stand neat door to the post-office and
tbtjNItgm will be as neat aa any drug
sum.—The sound of the
oil is a familiar one in Athens
t auction sides are daily oc~
entrances In the Classic City.
At Auction —Tlie stoves and tin
ware of A. O. Lyndon's most be cloeed
out at oooe. Come and secure bargains
at onoa. J. R. Moose,
Arsignee.
Ay Auction.—Auction sales of stoves
and tinware at Lyndon’s, on Clayton
street to-day. Come and secure the
bargains of a lifetime.
J. R. Hooiuc,
Assignee.
AT -Auction.—Don’t forget that you
van get a lint-class stove at yonr own
price today. J. R. Mooitit.
A Handsome Ofkick.—Dr. James
Bloomfield has rented the store next to
Dornblstts and will have one of the
handddtnmt offices ever seen in Athens.
I>r. Bloomfield is a splendid physician
and the people are fortunate fa baring
him amon^ them.
An OncitXHTiM Club.- Several lov
ers of music in our city have formed an
orchestra club. The club will consist of
throe small violins, a flute, clarionet
and cornet. Some splendid music may
be exjiected.
Still Quits Sick.—We regret to
learn that Mrs. L. H. Cbarbonnier is
still quite sick at homo on Milledge
avenge. She has been ill for quite a
long w hile and bas the sympathy of
many warm friends who hope soon to
see her fully recovered.
A Shooting Club—Messrs. John D.
Little. Allan F. Johnson, and E. F.
Lovell of the University have organis
ed a shooting elub and will make It one
of the most interesting organisation in
the University this year. The members
of the club will give a clay pigeon
shooting match at the fair grounds on
the University's field day.
Quite a large number of our citizens
are anxious to liear the celebrated Mrs.
Scott Siddons next Friday nlgbt at the
ope. a house, and Maaager Haxelton has
arranged to make it quite a society
event. In order that evervbody can at
tend the pnoe of admission bss been re
duced and both the schools will be out
in large numbers. Secure seats at once
at ilazeltou A pozier’s music store.
A Dkuohtful Evaxnro.—A most
charming evening is contemplated by
the friends of Mrs. E. A. Crawford at
the entertainment which she gives to
night. The reception Is complimenta
ry to Mr. and Mrs. Booocic, Mr. aud
Mrs. J. A. Benedict, and Mr. and Mrs.
J. 8. Hamilton. A lecture by Dr. H.
C. White will be a chief feature of the
evening, after whiclr a musical pro
gram will be rendered.
work I
> yet In
up the mail robtere whom
been felt III Atltoof recently.
The Athens orchestra! club tad an
other successful rehearsal oa ’•* 'day
evening. The elub fat getting u. fine
trim.
The future of Athens grows brighter
each day, aud the old town is gradually
growing into a grout city.
The fruit dealers don’t like the idea
of having to keep their goods in doors,
•s proscribed by the recent ordinance «’
Ungers in the
And still tbn
air.
The contracts for building the G., C.
AN. on the Georgia side will be let in
a few weeks.
Co-Id will score spother wedding In
the high social life'll Athens quite
soon. "
Prof. Woodfln goes oat to his planta
tion sacs day.
Ws learns that Prinsstsu factory will
have an office in tbs city quite soon.
Mr. Howell, of New York, who
superintending the Athena water works
is among tbs most enterprising young
men In the city.
The new Baxnkx building is rapidly
being finished on the inside. It will be
brilliantly illuminated by eleetriolights,
and will Indeed be scomplete and mod
ern building in every cense.
Small grain never looked greener or
fresher at tills season of the year than
now.
Milledge avenn* presents a fine ap
pearance at night, when the eleetrio
lights are In full blast.
The society world is gay this week.
The O. B. German club will soon
give another entertainment.
Mr. BlUupe Phinizy will open sn in
surance office over the Athens Hard
ware company on his return from Flor
ida.
The polioe had but little disturbance
yesterday.
Violets are blooming with abundant
fragrance in every'yard in Athens, and
vegetation generally isouaboom.
WITH THE BLUE COATS-
What Went on at the Police Court Yes
terday.
The police oourt was called to order
yesterday by Alderman J. H. Rucker,
owing to the absence ef Mayor Brown.
There waa a full docket and the court
took up tbo business without delay.
Theftrst case! was that of Dock Strick
land charged with selling whiskey. His
case was continued until the next ses
sion of the ■ ourt.
Cornelia Allmond, charged with dis
orderly conduct, was called but owing
to the absence of witnesses the case wa
dismissed.
W. A. Pledger, Jr., colored, mail
agent on the Northeastern Railroad
plead guilty to fast driving and disor
derly conduct and was relieved $1.20
for tin one and $11.20 for the other.
Adeline Gresham it aeeus’had worn
Arian Johnson’efhat. WhenJ the irate
Arian propounded her the question
“Wbere’d you get that Hat,” a light
ensued. Adeline was relieved of $2.60
andjeosts, while Arian paid $1.00 and
coats.
A number of other cases was con
tinued until the next term of the
court.
A Meeting at the Citizens Win he Called
» Consider the Matter.
Mr. A. K. Stephen has been making
farther investigation* about the estab
lishment of n furniture factory In Ath
ens.
He has been np the Oconee river look
ing after suitable locality for the facto
ry and making every preparation (ready
to start work on the factory so soon as
the capital stock has been.fully subscrib
ed.!
Mr. Stephen bas been talking. np the
factory to oar merchants and they have
unquestionably been convinced of the
necessity of such an enterprise in Ath
ens, ana of the great investment that it
would prove. The furniture factory is
just what Athens wants, and surely
Afloat at Hi dock an.—A private
letter from Mr. Harry Norris, who left
Athens sometime ago for Sooth Ameri
ca, states that at that writing be was at
inid-ocean en route for Buenos Ayres.
The journey will require six weeks be-,
fore his destination is reached Mr.
Norris hat many friends in Athens,
who wish him a bon voyage and success
in business in the subtropical regions.
DrsKRViD Promotion.—Mr. Morague
Fleming, who for several weeks has
served as soliciting agent for the Cen
tral railroad with headquarters in
Athens, has been promoted to a similar
position in Augusta, at a salary uf $2,-
400 a year. His successor in Athens has
not yet been appointed. Mr Fleming
is a young railroad man of great prom
ise, and fully deserves his recent pro
motion.
Whoofino Cough.—We are informed
hya prominent physician that a mild
type of whooping cough is prevalent in
Athens. Only a fow cases arc thus far
reported, however, and it is hoped that
It will not spread,at least while the city
is snbeaing in the dutches of la grippe.
Fib* - ArPAftATUSTOit East Athens.—
Yesterday’s fire in East Athens proved
the need of a fire apparatus in that por
tion of flii' city. The Miggestion that
the city dig a lot of cisterns and buy a
small stoamerfor their use meets with
the hearty approval of everyone.
A Great Social Event.—The re
cital of Mrs Scott-Siddons at the new
opera house will, be the chief event
with the society people of Athens this
weok<. Mrs. Siddons is one of the
worlds’ greatest and most gifted elocu
tionists and her recital at the little
opera house deserves a full house of
Athenians whose, taste for sneb aniuse-
monte is highly cultured and refined.
Through a special arrangement Man
ager Hasolton has given popular prices
of 76 cents to the Athenians.
Capt. Nickerson Caned.—On Sun
day last the Sunday School of Oconee
Street Methodist church presented
Superintendent Nickerson with a hand
some gold-headed cane. It was beauti
fully engraved and carved, and was a
most valuable gift. The cane was pre
sented by Rev. Mr. Quillain in behalf
of the school and it was quite a surprise
to Capt. Nickerson.
A Delightful Evening.—A Urge
number or our young people eqjoyeaa
most delightful entertainment given
lest evening et the residence of Rev. D.
Cron Oliver on Oconee street. None
know better how to entertain than our
efficient chief of police and his excellent
wife, and last night’s entertainment
was in keeping with the reputation for
charming hospitality that they have
among our people.
Joseph-Marxs.—The marriage of
Miss Helen Marks to Mr. Joseph, of
Chicago, on the SUth, promises to be a
brilliant event. The marriage ceremo
ny will take place in the synagogue
held immediate-
and a reception will be held immediate^
ly after in the new opera house, and
not in the Clarke Rifles’ armory, as pre
viously announced. Visitors' are ex
pected from New York, Chicago, Phil
adelphia, and otlior points, and will be
so numerous that it will be impossible
to give names. -jfcVV .• _• ,' r "Xja
ROBBING THE MAILS.
Much Complaint in Llneolnton Over Hail
Robberies.
Lincolnton, Ga., Jan. 22.—(Special.)
—Much complaint is made here abc
mail robberies which have been sho
To Lkctuhe Friday Night.—Mr. C.
K. Ober, of New York, one of the col
lege secretaries of the Y. M. C. A. will
arrive in our city in a few days, and
will lecture to th- Y. M. C. A.boyson
the campus on Friday night. 1 he col
lege association here, which was found
ed only about six months ago,is in quite
a flourishing condition. Its officers
are: Walker King, President; John
F.. Coeper, Vice-President; Louis Rus-
eell. Secretary, and Marion Hull,Treas
urer. Mr. Ober will be warmly received
here. He will go from Athens to Ox
ford where he will address the Emory agent at
boy*.
ported by many parties that letters
have been ruthlessly torn open iu
the mails and money taken from them
before they are taken from the post
office here
Letters that come from even as near
a place as Augusta have been torn open,
robbed of their money anil sealed again
before reaching Lincolnton. Within
the past few months more than $1,000
has been stolen In this way by unknown
parties. Many of the letters have been
sent from cotton factors in Augusta to
poor people in this county who can ill
alford to lose their money. The situa
tion is a deplorable one, a'nd there seems
to be no limit to the boldness of these
robbers. Even registered letter* hare
been robbed of their valued contents
and sealed in duplicate envelopes. The
matter has been reported time and
again, but no relief has been granted
by the government.
The principal mail that comes to Lin
colnton is by way of Plum Branch, S.
C.. which leaves Augusta on the Au
gusta aud Knoxville Railroad. Sus
picion rests heavily upon the mail
agent at P l utn Branch or the postal
clerks on the A. & K. Railroad.
What tbt.Co«aan Win X.ka if tt
Faufias r« Bleeirts Light-
The matter of patting lights on Bar
bar and other streets teems to promise
a favorable consideration fiom the
council at the next meeting.
The only question that will probably
be discussed is, will it be gas lights or
electric lights. The ccuncilajcn should
con-kier this question deliberately and
when they do, they will pat electric
lights np instead of the gas. The eleo-
trfa lights have received the
meat of every snneess, and they will
unquestionably be ared altogether in
Athene Within a few yesreT^
Therefore, if the eeancil goes to tire
srESKS&ss:
la.mr -
w a year perhaps, they can see the
great mistake of snefa a proceeding. It
ie a foregone eoncloaloa that within a
fow years the. streets of Athene will be
lit altogether by electricity, end it
would be useless to pat gas lamps up
when each is more then probeb'e.
A* t matter of coarse, the residents
on Barber street would he only too
gladtoget even the gaeHghte on the
sound basis that if they ‘
they would like to have |
electric lights would beof mere sendee,
and that the council would make a mis
take if they do not grant theta is clear
to every eye.
The present council has already
shown iu determination to give their
growing city ell the rope she needs In
Mr progressive march, and they will
when their term expires be proud to
look back over the prosperity of Clas
tic Athens.
THE FURNITURE FAATORY.
Mr. Tom Burney
the Atlanta Joura
Ji
court In Savannah.
The Washington
crowded.
Mr. Dan
his recent illness.
Susie Loess
red from
is
fine girl.
Mr. Jss. C.
Ut to his refetta
Mr. Tota Ki
lanta last night.
Prof. A. L. “
in Atlanta on
relatives
father of a
SPEAKER REED HAS A LITTLE
LIST THAT HE CONSULTS
VERY OFTEN.
Mr. M. A. Myere
sitioe with the Prie
Rev. Mr. Gibson,
in the city yesterday."
Mies CaMe Wilson
in Anniston, Ale.
Mr. H. N. Carti
in the city yesterday
Mr. S. Slom&n,
to Cincinnati.
Mayor pro tem.
er on offenders then
Mr. Peter Bond
moved to the city
Rev. J. G. Gibson
in the city yesterday
Messrs. S. H. and Ji
R. A. McMahan, Robt.
er^came up from Oglethorpe yester-
Mr. Stephens say* that the factory will
infuse more vim into the trade and gen
eral business of Athens than the' mer
chants can realize, and says that the
manufacture of furniture in the city in
stead; of injuring the wholesale trade
will benefit it. With a pay roll of more
than $600 per week, one can easily im
agine the profit to be derived from the
factory in the indirect way, saying noth
ing of tbe'greai inconvenience and need
that it will supply. It is to be hoped
that the citizens win interest themselves
in this important move and will make
every effort to secure tbo fnrnitare fac
tory.
A meeting of those interested will be
called at an early date, and let every
capitalist, clerk and laborer be ready to
take stock
SEES:,
NEGROES ON A. STRIKE,
They are Making no Contracts in Jaeksen
County.
It is said that the negroes around
Center, the first station on the North
eastern. railroad have entered upon a
strike that is serious and threatening
in its present aspect. They claim to
have grown tired of farm work and have
determined to have, “qo more of it in
their’b.” The white people have secur
ed no labor for the ensuing year on
their farms, and the situation is begin
ning to look sqnally for them, as the
negroes say they have no intention of
going to work for the whites, and are
determined in their course. They are
now working about by the day, cutting
wood or doing little jobs, just to the
extent of keeping the wolf from their
doors.
Investigation discloses the fact that
negroes have formally organized a
strike against the farmers in that vicin
ity, and the cause seems to rest upon a
rumor that Messrs. Orr A Hunter, of
Athens, hare received a contract for
gradituc the G., C. A N. from Athens
toward the river and are offering one
dollar per day to hands to work for
them. This, however, is a mistake, for
the contracts for grading have not been
let at all on this side of the Savannah
river. The negroes are laboring under
a great mistake,and are doing the white
people who have supported them during
the past year a grievous injury. We
learn of many similar situations in our
adjoining counties.
AFTER BRER’ BABBIT.
Mr. Blanton, the prOtor of Boggs’
Chapel, who has been quite sick L slow
ly recovering.
Miss Jude Weaver, of Greensboro, is
expected to visit Mrs. F.W. Lucas in
the near future.
Mr. Henry Quattebam, a prosperous
Jackson county farmer, was in the city
yesterday.
Mr. B. D. Oliver, a prosperous resi
dent of Jackson was in the city yester
day.
Miss Sadie Overby, of Meridian
JwniiMj auu ourejjr wnuiu w«ui vj* wt iuci lumu.
then are dtiaens with sufficient enter- Miss., is visiting Mrs. B, E. Overby, of
prise te aid the building by it.;; ,, Watkinsvillc.
Mr. John B. Cocper has returned to
the Law Class after a visit u> Buford,
Ga. ,v i
A young man drove down |Broad
street, Monday, with a flag of truce fly
ing. He was enthusiastically cheered.
CoL E. F. Brown has-been absent
from the city for severanifers on busi
ness. He will return tomorrow.
Mr. Will Grady, after 4 visit to his
mother, Mrs. A. E. Grady on Barber
street, left yesterday for Atlanta.
Mr. R.,L. Maynard has returned to
Miss Carroll Mattox, of Elberton. a
most accomplished young lady, will en
ter the Lucy Cobb.
Mr. Guy C. Hamilton, one of the ris
ing business men of Athens, has return-
from atrip to his plantations id Co
lumbia county.
Mr.Tom Hudson, a prosperous Clarice
county farmer, was in the dty yester
day.
Mr. M. F. Conloni has recovered
from his- recent illness in Augusta and
is now welcomed back in t^e city by his
numerous friends.. ? J v) {
Mr. Mark Cooper Pope, of Washing
ton, Ga., an excellent young man'from
an excellent town, was welcomed by bis
many friends in the city yesterday.
Messrs. Max and Lesser Joseph, ac
companied by Mrs. Isenberg, Mrs. Joe
Joseph and Mrs. T. Joseph are expect
ed in the city from Chicago.
Mr. Will Hemphill is still confined to
his home in Atlanta with rheumatism.
He will not return to the University for
some time.
Misses N. Elkins, Yetta Goldberg
snd Mrs. Dave Wsxelbaum, accompa
nied by Messrs. M. Elkins and Ike Fla-
tou. will be present at the{ Marks- Jo
seph wedding next week from Macon.
Mr. Harry Pbinixy, who bas been
spending some time at Bewanee
Springs, Fla., will join the Athens par
ty on tbeir journey through the land of
nnoeasing summer skies.
WANTS TO FIGHT.
A targe Party of Athenians raise the War
Flag Against the Cunning Hare.
Lee’s birthday was observed in a rou*.
ing fashion by a number of Athens'
huntsmen. They wared a deadly war
fare again sthrer' rabbit and life said
that Lee’s array would not have made
more fuss or caused more terror in the
land than did these festive huntsmen.
The crowd from Athens were CoL
Charlie Baldwin; J. T. Voss and Julius
Cohen who were joined in the chase by
about fifty countrymen. There were
about twenty-five hounds in the field.
tipi. Baldwin covered himself with
undying glory by Ins excellent shots
and was the envied
l hunter of the entire
ingupfor several months. It is nr- 'crowd, although he bad a. close rival in
the person of J utius Cohen. It Is said
that this gentleman has come to be re
garded as a noted Nimrod since the
chase. He made the crack shot of the
day, by blowing the head from a rabbit
that he saw snugly hidden undeir the
grass by his path. He was toasted
loudly by the company for such accu
rate marksmanship, but liss utter con
sternation can be imagined when it
became known that the wild varmint
was dead aud had been hidden there by
one of the hunters.
It was a great old hunt and about
eighty of the cunning hares were
brought back by the Athens party.
Col. Baldwin claimed the lion’s share
and has been feasting on brer’ rabbit
since the hunt most triumphantly.
A Rainy Day.—The rain has come at
last, and winter is apt to follow. Yes-
teiday morning quite a heavy shower
fell in Athens, and rubber coats and
umbrellas came suddenly in good de
mand. It was a rainy day such as bas
not been seen before this winter, and
many were the predictions that cold
weather will surely follow. It U to be
| hoped that such will result,
Portugal Has Blood In Hor Eyes Against
England*
Lisbon. Jan. 21.—{8pecial.]—Four
thousand of the leading merchants of
this city are parading the principal
streets shouting for war against En
gland. The whole country is incensed
at the quiet and almost cowardly man
ner in which Senior Gomez yielded to
Lord Salisbury’s bull-dozing policy.
In case of war Spain is naturally dis
posed to take Portugal’s part,.ana it is
not unlikely that Italy and Austria will
think that Great Britain is great
enough.
But this will hardly be more than
mere moral support. None at the other
powers would care to risk a general
war, iuYolving, as it would, thpsafty
of every throne in Europe for the sake
of Portugal.
They will seek to pacify the bellig
erent Portagnete and avert a war which
could not bo otherwise than disastrous
to Portugal, and the signal for the
tumble of several shaky thrones.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 21.—
(Special}—It is said that Speaker Reed
has a private list of tie members of the
Jfooae in the drawer his public desk
on which he bas marked characters in
dicating the disposition of each mem
ber. He does this, so that in the hasty
formation of committees, he will know
something of the personal charactor-
" on each member, and not put (he
g men in certain positions, or
recognise the wrong men In debate.
He knows the cranks and hobbyists;
who ato for- prohibition, local option,
silver and gold, bi-metal, greenbacks,
and all that sort ot thing. He also
SKfeg'fcSySfef'irE;
as character marks for the kickers,
written opposite each of th* recakritant
raemherr name, a letter indicating tfce
degree of Us general dissatisfaction.
For instance, if the man Is an ordinary
kicker, he marks after liis name on the
private list tbeJetter “K.” If be, is a
bard klcterhe has marked “H. K.” A
friend the other day said that after a
fow members’ names the Initials “H.
H. K.” mark, which he ascertained
meant “bell of a bard kicker ” By the
aid of this'U*t Speaker Reed is enabled
to form committees and recognize mem
bers In hasty debates without making
any errors. ' •
There fire indications that Congress
is about to enter upon consideration of
the Important subject of the public
buildings in. Washington. It is th<-cus
tom of Congress , to appropriate large
sums of' money for public buildings In
other .cities for the necessities of the
Government, while here at the Nation
al .Capital a vast sum of' money is ex
pended each year in paying for the rent
of buildings to occupy such portions of
the various bureaus of the Government
as cannot tteaccommodated In the'pub-:
lie buildings which now exist. Careful
estimates nave been made by the Com
mittee on ' Publfo Buildings and
Grounds, which go to show that the
interest on the fonds necessary to erect
the buildings ' which the Government
actually needs here would be very much
less than r the amount of rest actually
paid to private parties for inadequate!
acoouupodations. The difficulty always,
has beqn, in entering on any such plan,
that the first cost' has been solely re
garded; by some of the professional
eoonomista, particularly those in the
Housei ft is this practice of saving at
the spight while losingxt the bang hole
which the professional watch-dogs of
the Treasury* have fore< d upon the
Government for many, years. The re-
ings of private parties until its rent roll
reaches enormous proportions. Yet
sc me of the small men who practice
this piuchback economy, continue to
pass as great men aud reformers in
their own narrow districts, .while op-
posingthe soundest < principles of pub
lic econpmy in. thfe respect.
The Senate Committee on patents has
ordered 1 a htaoaable report On the meas
ure known as the Chace international
copyrightJaW. andthete la reason to
expectnaipbMylpassAgB’byAheSenaie^
In the last Congress only tea Senators
(all Democrats) voted against'it, and it
failed in the House, not because there
were uPt enough wto in~ lts-favor tcr
pass it but because consideration of the
bill was prevented by the pressure of
other matters.
The pressiire of office-seekers has be
come so overwhelming at the census
office that Superintendent Porter has
been obliged to call ,a halt. Be said
this morning: “I will not see any ap
plicants for clerical positions. I am
absolutely compelled to adopt tills
eourse. My whole time nearly has been
consumed in talking with applicants.
The business of the office has been neg
lected, and now I am obliged to con
sider the question of appointment of
supervisors. There are 176 to be ap-
K luted, and everyone of them ought to
selected within the next few weeks,
or ait the farthest the next eight weeks.
It is difficult to find the proper men for
these positions, and the greatest care
must be exercised, especially as the pay
is small.! I am expected to know *
amendment will be offered te that ef
fect when the bill cornea up for eon-
lid^ntion ■
Tbeiihirty-nintb degree of latitude
north and sonthof which them
tiariea will be located starts at applet
near Cape May In New Jersey and ends
in Colorado about midway the state.
iColorado about midway the state.
Baltimore, Washington and St. Loots
are in the contemplated southern dtvis-
ion .so Atlanta and Georgia will ham to
hustle to get the southern division.
Senator Colquitt and family have is
sued invitations to a, reception to be
given at their residency on New Jersey
arenue on the evening of the STthi '
Representative George Baree _
safely convalescent, bat is not yet
able to resume hH duties in the house.
Tom Johnson’s com Amotion still
tangs fire, possibly from the prow of
The senate galleries are full df poo-
ple who have come to hear Ur. in nils’
promised speech.
Mm. Hsnle was sick all day yester
day aud toward night she sent to her
daughter, Mrs. Hill for a dose of calo
mel.
Mrs. Hill took from a package what
tKensnarr. 1 . ders
dose given her by her daughter, thi
ing that it would make her feel
this morning.
In ashort whilo MrsIIanio was
suddenly Ul, complaining of terrible
NEWS BY WIRE-
cated as missionaries,> Each of Ahe lit.
tie heathens was plsd in close fitting
Knickerbocker trousers, wlthAbrevP
ated jackets and skull caps. Their faces
were as black $s polished ebony, and
their lArge white eves lolled about in
their sockets,. glistening liko a now
moon between thunder clouds. The
largest member of the quartette carried
on his back the wardrobe of the entire
party, done up in a grass sack., .
Over 16,000 negroes have, recently
emigrated from Month Carolina, and
35,000 more are to follow.
“Jack the Hugger” has appeared in
Denver. He simply grabs for pretty
girls, and hugs and Jdsses them.
A Wilkesbarre mail superintendent
has disappeared with the wife of one of
his workmen. - ■ i ,
Tho Confederate Home. .' . A
Atlanta, Jan. 21.—[Special.]—The
hoard of trustees of the Confederate
soldiers’ home of Georgia met in one of
the committee rooms of the capitol this
morning at 10 o’clock-
Messrs. Calhoun, Howell, Inman,
Spalding, Fox. Ellis and W. A. Wright
were present.
The death of President Henry W.
Grady was announced and on motion
the board went into an election of a
president.
Judge Calhoun was unanimously
chosen as president of the board of
trustees in place of Mr. Grady.
Small Pox in Georgia. 1 £
Grantville, Ga., Jan. 21.—[Spe
cial.]—Wash Ups haw, ex-Uni ted States
deputy marshal, is sick with small
pox, at'Lutherville, seven miles from
here.
The excitement Is intenso. The mu
nicipal authorities here will quarantine
against Lutherville.
about the men selected for thi
tions, so that I can give information to
the President and the Secretary of the
Interior, when called upon.”
TH* WORLD’S FAIB. t
Interviews with a number of the
Georgia Congressmen reveal the fact
that theyare as a whole notbadlystuck
on the World’s Fair project. Dr. H.
H. Carlton of Athens may be taken as a
fair example. a
He la inclined to vote against the
whole scheme. He i$. opposed to the
government embarking in the show
business. He wonld vote for Washing-
ton as first choice for a site. life the
national capital and was the right place
In his lodgment to hold it. How would
aworld’a fair inGrcat Britain do at Liv
erpool or Manchester, or one in France
do at Lyons ir Toulon ? He expressed
himself emphatically against Chicago,
and told a Chicago member the other
day if he would burn. Libby prison and
dynamite one or two partisan Chicago
newspaper offices he would agree to
consider bis town as a proper place in
which the fair could be held.
QUAY ON TH* MOVE.
Senator Mat Quay was on the floor of
the house for an hour yesterday, and
was in close conversation with Mr.
Browne, of Indiana, chairman of the
committee on elections. When Sena
tor Quay eomes over to the the house
wing it is presumably on political bus-
iness. His business yesterday was to
urge upon 3Ir. Browne the necessity of
disposing of thp World’s Fair matter, so
the election case3 could be brought up.
As'matters stand, the members whose
seats are contested have votes, and
their friends have votes, to be won for
this or that town, and the astute repub
licans arc not doing any great amount
of bull-dozing just now
T1IE VERY LATEST,
Washington, Jan. 21.—(Special.)—
The Wood-Foraker investigation has
been adjourned for one week. The
Chairman of thecommittee, Mr. Mason,
had to go home to Chicago and ex-
Governor Foraker pleaded yesterday
for time to go to see his family.
Representative Stewart has prepared
John Weyer, aged 84, died at York,
Pennsylvania, while praying.
The unemployed thousands of Loo-
don gave a parade, and it waa difficult
for the police to prevent ah attack on
the mansions of the rich.
Henry. Frcelich secured nearly *
million dollars from Wisconsin farmers
wbo toek risk in an ituuranoe company
which never existed.
A wife in New York had h
arrested for failing to pay $460 which
be borrowed before their marriage,
across the Sahara desert.
The wife of a Pern
ml
SStf*’"' 1
The wife of a Pennsylvania, burglar
fired at the officers Of the few while
they were after her husband.
A pastor at Paunton is being pen*
cuted because he tried to put a stop to
kissing-beCs at eburoh. •
Oo« hundred and'Seventy thousand ating agony,
prople attended the funerffi of a chain- The strychnine which
pion oarsman in Australia. ~ '
The lawyers are all opposed to the
national bankrupt few.
Four little negroes from Central Afri-
a have arrived'Ih Nashville, to be edrt-
clnims to have visited both Heaven and
hell, and saw God and titoDevil'
A jealous rival chloroformed Miss
Lizzie Savage, of Darby, Penn., and
cut off her hair; which Was the envy of
the other girls of the village.
Agnes, Algietva beautiful white girl
of Burlington, Vt., has a strange infat
uation for a negro cook, who has al
ready a living wjre. She gave blrth to
a child and eloped with the negro.
A bOx wasfourtd in an'Alley ifi Cincin
nati that r contained a human skeleton.
The skull and bones had the appearance
of having been rece'ntly dug' up out of
the ground.
A seven-years old girl% Cincinnati
was enticed into a box car and brutally
assaulted by an unknown man.
.. For^aker is no longer a leader among
the Ohio republicans. n
„Otls Gilmore recently died in Bango:
Maine, from a wound received in the
late war.
Robert Garrett, the Baltimore million
aire, is insane, and is kept a close pris-
one r. ( ho
The trains on the Union Pacific are
Bnow bound. The rotary plows are ut
terly useless.
Sad Date of Mre.lanU it Stouo Moan
• a tain.
—, January 50./—{Sj
ctel.]—There was a tragic death hi
last eight at half past seven o’clock,
Mrs. Bessie llaiiiedicl irom the ef-
tocttofadoaaofstrvcluune given her
her daughter, Mrs. MarjhiML.
Dr. Robinaonwas sent for In haft,-,
b« by the time he arrived M rs. Hanie
vfes racked with mo-t excruciating
■fipny. Vigorous remedies wore an-
pBedbut they seemed to have no effect
IT WAS STRYCHNINE.
One of the first things the doctor did
as to inquire what medicine had been
iministered the lady. . ..
MtaJHill, her daughter, replied that
ietad given her a don.- <>f calomel,
he package from whioh it was taken
was procured and given to the doctor.
He examined it and found that It was
rchnine instead of catonnL
rs. Hill was almost crazed with
if at the fearful mistake that ah«
made. a»d then the efforts to save
Mrs. IIo ale’s life were redoubled, but
tono avail, as the strychnine hhd taken
<feo-
If*
, At 7:80 o’clook Mrs. Hanio diod, af
ter thirty minutes of tho most excrucU:
strychnine which caused' lira.
onlqg some dogs which bad been prat*
feg f great annoyance to him at niglife
Mr. Hanie. who is a stone-cutter, wa*
absent from Stone Mountain, being a
work in Lithonia. * He waateleoranbed
Sp&33 llKtB: “
Mrs.: Hanie was;about forty: years
old] and leaves two daughters and two
mu to mourn her tra&ie death.
.flfta aad mistake has cant: • pall 1 over
the little town of Stone Mountain, tnd
the sympathy of every one goes out to
Mrs. Hill, the daughter, wno te over
come with grief at her loved one’s un
timely!
FELL DEAD IN COURT.
John Law, of Rome, New York, shot
and cut his own throat.
A tumor was successfully removed
from a child’s brain at Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania. ,
A Cronin witness is insane in Texas,
and raves about the Ctaiwna-Gael pur
suing him with bloody knives. j.
Winter wheat in Kansas fe in a splen
did condition; and a large crop is antie-
•P»ted. ,(,j nni ,t , ■ »,
Near New MartinsL
mailers compelled air
note by threats.
retteS i to petoons odder 1 dghteeh years
of age.. -ad- j„gsMulw
terrified ■ -* —■ ^
Ji
scratched each other iuatil«« ofiloar/nr _
rested them.,' . .
The Okiaiioma republican convention
has adjourned. The natidnal platfonn
and adiqinistiation were .■endorsed, abd
{JjgMJre, 1 *!*. negroes on a basis of
Senator-elect Brito will build a resi
dent in Ohio. Hftprevented two rep
resentatives, who backed him, a check
for $10,000 each. ' '
Pittisburg.will be the seat of war in
the coming contest between employers
and employes on' the eight-hour move-
Ada Behan’s Father a Victim to la-
temperance.
New York, Jan. 21.—[Special.]—A
sad scene enacted in Police Justice
Tfgne’s Court. this morning, where
re pwBbW fTtHfetaxerewa, a man seventy ynara
of age, and the father of the well known
actress, Miss Ada Rohan, fell dead
while awaiting a hearing on tho charge
of habitual drunkenness, preferred -oy
members of his own family.-
After long deliberation and consulta
tion with the other members of the fam
ily,,Mr. William Cretan, one of thoold
man’s sons, decided to place his father
under restraint on account of his habits
of confirmed inebriety. As a prelimi
nary proceeding, the old man was tak
en into custody by Couit Officer Riley, 1
and this morning wa3 brought into
court. Before his case was reached,
however, the old man was seeri to gasp
and struggle for breath, and then to fall
unconscious from his chair. Every
means possible to restore him was re
sorted to by the court officers, and an
ambulance was summoned. Before it
arrived, however, Mr. Crehan wa3
dead. ,
Mr. Crehan was an Irishman by birth,
and came to this country with his fam
ily in 1867, when his famous:daughter
Ada, was only eight years old. Mr.
Crehan had raised a family 0t five chil
dren—two sons and three daughters.
The-daughters developed personal beau
ty and remarkable dramatic ability.
The youngest daughter is known to the
world as Mis3 Ada Rehan, the accom
plished actress*' and leading lady
of the Daly Company. The eldest
daughter is the wife of the actor and
playwright, Oliver Dond Byron. She
is also an actress of reputation, second
only to her younger sister. The other
other sister is Miss Russell, who was
formerly a member of Chestnut Street
Theater Company. The eldest son,
William, is the business manager for
Oliver Doud Byron, and the younger
son, Arthur, is the manager of the Ar
thur Behan Comedy Company, whieh
plays the Daly comedies throughout
the country. , .
The name of the distinguished ao; ^3
was changed from Crehan to thatTby
which she and her brother Arthur
have always been known by an acci
dent at the beginning of herstage ca-* “
reer. She joined Mrs. John Drew’s
Arch Street Theater Company, in this
city, in 1875; The name on the manu
script bill announcing her first appear
ance, as sent to the printer, was her
own, Ada Crehan; but the compositor
blundered and pointed it Rehau, and
the typographical error has been re
peated, with her consent, upon every
subsequent play bill in which ner name
has appeared. f
.t)f
:u r
io, black-
to sign a
be sale oif cfoa^
)bi
BLY AND BISLAND.
Mrs. J; A. Rainboldt, of Lima, Ohio,
deserted, her husband and child, and
eloped witlf-a hoarder.
John Evans, a convict at Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, committed suicide by
hanging himself with a towel fastened
to a bar of iron in his cell.
Mrs. Julia Kehoe, of Pottsylvania,
Penn., died at the age of IOC. Several
years ago, she predicted the time of her
death. 1 ‘
Tho Grand Lodge of Minnesota has
condemned Cerneaisin. and will have
nothing but straight Masonry in the
future.
Dick Gardner, a South Carolina con
vict, was shot down while attempting
to escape.
Fire broke out in the State Asylum
for the Insane, in Worcester, Mass.
Quick work by the attendants prevent
ed loss of life.
Which will Win In tho Globe-Girdling
Contest? •
New York, Jan. 21—[Special]—In
terest is at white heat here on account of
the race between Nellie Bly and Mins Bis
land in their round-the-world travels.
It will be remembered that the former
went eastward and the latter west- *
ward. The snow blockade in Califor
nia will considerably delay Miss Bly.
There is now a good chance of Miss
Bisland’s winning after all^and had she
caught La Champagne at Havre Satur
day, she would certainly have done so.
The slowness of the Bothnia, on which
she sailed, is greatly against her.
As evidence of the interest here, five
gentlemen have offered to pay a thou
sand dollars each for a swift steamer
from Halifax to intercept the Bothnia
on Sunday, and take Miss Bisland to
Halifax and run her down on a special
train from there to this city.
Betting in the clubs is five to three
on Miss Bly.
Later—Nelly Bly arrived in San
Francisco at 7 o'clock this morning.
8h 3 received a tremendous ovation by
persons interested in ihe globe travel*
ing race.
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