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THURSDAY MORNING. MAY 14. 1891.
A GREAT BIG CROWD
MriLLOO AND 8BBTH8 BALL GAME
SATURDAY.
HOW THEY WILL GO
Special Coaohas Win be Put on the
Covington and Macon and the
Crowd will Only be Gone Dur
ing the Day-Regieter Now.
It will be a big crowd
That will goto Oxford next Satur
day
To tec the game of ball between the
University and Emory.
The best of facilities will be afforded
for taking the crowd and bringing it
back aud it it needless to say that a
large crowd will be in attendance.
Tlie rous'l trip fare will be exactly
two dollar* and six cents. No more, no
less.
Anil that is cheap enough to suit the
pocket books of everyone.
Tlie picked team of the University i
practicing every day and when Satur
day arrive* will be in the best of trim for
fight. The boys are terribly in earnest
aud are going to Oxford determined to
play the greatest game of ball that has
yet been syen between Southern colleges.
They reijognize the fact that there
v UI be good players to meet and that
not>, *ng hut the hardest and best sort
of wnr. will win. They have the honor
ot their a -oa Mater resting upon their
shoulders and will do their best aud do
it with ail the heart and energy that Jr
iu them.
When the last inning is finished on
next Saturday the flag of Georgias best
and greatest University will be borni
by victorious students and cheered by
an eu.husiasttc crowd.
THE TRANSPORTATION.
Next Saturday morning at twenty
minutes to eight o'clock the train will
leave Athens over the C. & M. that will
carry the crowd.
I here will lie three special coaches
attached to this train which will connect
at Madison with the Georgia railroad
fast train and put the crowd in Cov
ington at thirty-eight minutes pastil
o’clock, giving them plenty of time to
reach Oxford, two miles away, by Ilf
teen minutes past 12 o’clock, at which
time the game will be called.
The crowd will leave Covington on
the return trip, at 4 p. ra. and reach
Athens by 8 m. at night.
T1I1£ TEAM.
The team upon which so much
will depend is composed of good play
era all. They carry the hopes of Atb
ens and will doubtless win the all in:
portaut game. The team is as follows:
Wadlev, c itch; U«rty F J., pitch;
Jones, first ba<e; Halsey A. O , second
base; Crumbling, third base; Sitiley I.
shortstop; llalsey E. In, left field ; Nal
ley, right 11-Id.
Substitutes: Sibley A., Harwell
Whclehel.
The team will go down to Oxford
Friday, leaving hero on the Georgia
train in the evening und spend the
night in Oxford so that they will be
well rested and iu good shape for the
game Saturday.
REGISTER—IMPORTANT.
Register aud register today, do not
delay.
Register at Sledge & Layton’s, Mc
Gregor’s or the Jackson A Kurke book
store. |
That is if you intend to go to Oxford
Saturday aud wish to have good accom
modations gulag and coining.
It is important that some estimate ot
tiie number going should be made that
the extra coaches may be provided.
There will be lists kept at the three
places mentioned and all who intend'
g oing are urged to register without
day.
This is very important and should be
attended to at once. Register. Reg
ister today.
it is expected that three hundred cit
izens of Athens will go over, exolusive
of students, and a crowd of 9ucb num
bers and euthusiasm descend upon
Oxford that it will astonish the natives
of that place and he of the greatest as
eist.unce to the college boys.
Everybody .is going men, women and
v children and the students well ha e the
h’> .niest support from all who attend.
It is whispered that the. men who
back their judgement with hard dollars
have wagered large sums upon the suc
cess of the University already and that
they will go to Oxford loaded.
The crowd will undoubtedly be large
and the chances are that on its return
trip it will be happier that when it
started.
For the boys from the University are
sure to win.
Without a doubt.
A GAY COMMENCEMENT.
THE FULL PROGRAMME OP LUCY
COBB’S EXERCISES.
ATHENS WILL BE CROWDED.
The Most Intarestlng Nawa of the
0 Season Is the Detailed Programme
of Lucy Cobb Commencement
Which la Near et Hand.
IT&VERY. VERY FUNNY-
THAT THE GEORGIA RAILROAD
SHOULD CONCLUDE.
TO DO THIS SO BEADILY.
A Hendecme Train Of Peeaenger Catre
For Athens—The Watermelon Traf
fic—Other Railroad New* In
Georgia.
Here it i. in full—
The programme of the Lacy Cobb
commencement, which 1* right at baud.
It is a piece of newa that waa going
astray all of yesterday, and as usual the
Banner gives it to the people before
any other newspaper.
Lucy Cobb commencement 'always
opens the gayest season in Athens and
owing to the very great interest that
attaches to the commencement season
in the Classic City, It is of the greatest
concern to the general public to have as
early as possible the full news and de
tails of the exercises.
Yesterday the authorities at Lucy
Cobb arranged the full outline of the
programme of the commencement for
1891 and the Bankkh’s live reporters
as a matter of course, got the news be
fore the bloom bad left it.
WI1AT TUKY WILL DO.
In briel the programme is as follows:
On Friday evening May. 29th, the
Freicb Flay, written by Mine Mattais.
Iu this play over sixty of her pupils
will take p»rt. This entertainment
opens the Commencement exercises.
Sunday May .’list, the sermon by Rev.
Robert Harris, of Columhiis, a Baptist
minister. Subject—woman, her influ
ence at hqmc, in church and state.
Sunday night, service again iu chapel.
Monday morning June 1st, Elocu
tion contest for younger people. Mon-
dav evening, physical cu-ture exercises.
Tuesday morning June 2nd, Elocu
tion contest for higher classes. Tuesday
evening, annual concert.
W.due-day morning, June 3rd, ad-,
dreaa to Senior ami post graduate class
es, by Hon. John Temple Graves. Sub
ject: “Dora and Agnes” of David Cop-
perfleld. Wednesday evening, graduat
ing exercises.
Thursday evening, June 4th, Senior
ind post graduate reception. Friday
morning, good-byes.
IT WILL UK OAT.
There was never a gayer or hat pier
• nnnn*>ncem«nt known in Athens ut
Lucy Cobb than is promised this year.
Tuere are more handsome, accom
plished and intellectual young ladies at
the school this year th- n have been
assembled there for many years, and
they represent not only the flower of
the Empire State of the South but ol
very ruauy other Southern states as
well.
Many will he the visitors in Ather.a
during the Lucy Cobh commencement
and already the boarding houses and
hotels of the city are engaging out their
rooms in advance, many of the parents
of ’.lie young ladies having written here
io secure board
Very many of the Lucy Cobh girls
will stay in Athens after the Lucy Cobb
is closed.
In truth the city is beginning to take
on the air of commencement gayeties,
and the rush and confusion will soon
be the rule.
An Old Tried Remedy.
Dr. Holt’s Dyspeptic Elixir has been
upon the market five years and has
proven itself a superior remedy for
Dyspepsia and all diseases arising from
a disordered condition of the Liver,
Stomach, Bowels, and, Kidneys. It
tones up and establishes a healthy con
dition of natuie’s three great organs
for eliminating disease from the system.
The skin, kidneys and bowels, besides
it contains a fine nerve Nerve Tonic. It
is through, these channels alone that
any disease is cured. It never falls to
cure Dyspepsia in any of its forms. Try
one bottle and you will be convinced of
its curative properties. Manufactured
hy Dr. Holt’s Dyspeptic Elixir Co.,
Montezuma, Ga. Bottles double former
size. Price $1.00.
Ab! that son ads better:
The Georgia company has at last de
cided to give Athens a better service on
the Union Point aid Athens branch.
And the complaint so constantly fil
ed in behalf of a mueb-a-bused
people brought about the good wotk.
Major Greene was in this way
brought to see that bis .road was los
ing prestige snd favor np in North
east Georgia, and he got scared—
badly scared.
Tbe following editorial in yesterday’s
Augusta Chronicle tells the full story.
It is good reading matter.
Read it:
“There is no part of the line of the
great Georgia railway better managed
ih&n tbe Athens branch. The forty
miles fsom Union Point to Athens run
through a rich part of Greene, Ogle
thorpe and Clarke counties, and control
a good freight and passenger business at
all seasons of tbe year. This is one ot
the best served sections of the line and
best equipped. The entire distance is
steel laid, the work on the section hav
ing been completed sooner than on any
other part of theTine, and thi*: roadbed,
after all, is the first consideration of
railroad- There are three passenger
traius a day, besides an accommodation
rain to and from Athens, ly which
eonneefons are made with the fast
trains, the express trains and the night
trains on the main line. Tbe speed of
the trains on the Athens branch is equal
to those on the main line, ami the pas
senger coaches, while not elegant, are
comfortable, and ruu with the precision
of clock work. We apprehend that the
. atrons of a roa 1 would prefer trains
wnich were •.-••mforteblu and regular, Jo
vestibule coaches which were frequent
ly out of joint.”
BUT, THIS IS FCSNT!
The abme portion of tbe editorial
tells how Major Green endeavors in an
indirect way to answer tbe complaiuts
of the Baxxkr, and shows how they
scared him.
But the following is too funny for
anything.
Says the Chronicle continuing on this
line:
But Major Green, who is alive to all
the needs of his patrons, has just sup
plemented his rolling stock, w hich has
been heavily taxed by new trains and
large business. Six weeks ago be in
structed his master mechanic, Mr. John
3. Cook, to lit up a train especially for
the fast ihie service on the Athpus
branch. That work has been going
steadily on, with the promptness and
finish for which this department is
noted, and in ten days the new train
will be running regularly between Ath
ens and Union Point. Maj. Green
lu'ly alive to the comfort of the travel
ling public, and the Old Reliable main
tains its name for thorough equipment,
fast schedules and superb train service.
And all of this.; goes to prove that
there is nothing like having alive news
paper in a town to voice tbe sentiments
and complaints of the people.
Tbis a great victory for Athens and
tbe Banner as well as a good joke on
Major Green and thb “Old Reliable
Georgia railroad.”
Come now. Major, trot out the new
cars. Athens is a progressive city.
That she is!
and west by tell.
The greatest takers of Georgia melons
last yaar in tbe west were Cincinnati.
Chicago, Kansas City, 8L Louis, and
Evansville, Ind., the latter being a
great distributing point.
Tbe fr ight rates on melons will be
about tbe a^ne as last year’s which
were very satisfactory to the growers.
Tbe Georgia melon fills the msrkets
of the country now. Tbe Florida mel
ons come on a few dsys earlier, but the
crop is so small, comparatively, and to
soon gone, that it practically cuts no
figure in the melon market.
The new Northeastern schedule works
very well. One by one tbe railroads are
beginning to realise that Athens is no
country village, but a real live, and
progressive city. The approach of tbe
Georgia, Carolina aud Northern helped
to bring about this conclusion, no
doubt.
Good Looks-
Good looks are more than skin deep,
Impending upou a healthy condition of
all the vital organa. If the Liver be in
active. you have a Billious Look, if
S our stomach be disordered you have a
•yspeptic Look and - if your Kidneys be
aflected you have a Pinched Look.
Secure good health and you will have
good look*. Electric Bitters is tbe
great alterative and tonic and acts direct
ly on these vital organs. Cures Pimples,
Blotches, Boils and gives a good com
plexion. Sold at J. Crawford A Co’s
Drugstore, 50c. per bottle.
MINOR ITEMS.
CLASSIC CITY CHAT.
BRIGHT And BREE1EY NEWS-
VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS.
WHAT GOES ON DAY B\ DAY.
The Gossip and News of Athens for a
Day Caught on the Fly by tha
Banner Reporters—Side
walk Echoes. .
Don’t anybody pray for it to cease
raiuing.
Mr. W, S. Holman has a bandsone
home near Rock College.
Judge Hamilton McWhorter went
over to Atlantia yesterday.
You can sec the flowers grow since
the shower yesterday.
Mr. Tom R-knl is improving now, and
ia able u* be out.
The rain yes'erday only settled the
dust, that was all.
J. S. King & Co. are doing a driving
trade.
Dr. Charlie Baldwin’s new residence
out at tbe boulevard park will be one
of tbe most attractive iu that part ol
t •.-city,
Mr. G. Hauser, tbe cigar maker, has
received a larg - quantity of the lineal
cigar tobacco.
The people over in East Athens are
building a perfect little city for them
selves over tbe Oconee. Tbe people on
ibis side of tbe river most hustle.
A splendid time ’ it is to “s|t out”
cabbage plants. The gardens ought to
bave every bit of the attention they can
receive such seasons as this.
This weather will settle the dust, aud
make the trip over to Oxford more de
lightful than ever before next Satur
day.
Several new houses are going up in
East Athens. This part ol atlico. is
keeping up with tbe uicy rnoft luvom-
ingly ia Ueri>rosperity.
There is no holding up of business in
Athens because the summer is coming
on. Trade i, lively every day, aud
thode merchants who advertise in the
Baxxkk are as nappy as the provti biai
sun flowers.
All isQcikt.—The police report ev
erything quieter in Athens now than it
has been tor weeks and weeks.
Ha Has Escaped.—Zack Farmer,
tbe man, who confessed to tbe killing of
young Drake Sunday night in Jackson
county, escaped and is now at large.
Thxt Will All Go.—Never has a
crowd from Athens been as enthusiastic
as will be the one which will leave Sat
urday for Oxford, to see the great ball
game.
Sax Has Returned.—Miss Marie
Thomas, of Rome, w ho has been visit
ing Miss Lucy Griffeth, has returned to
her home much to the regret of her
scores of friends in Athens.
On Saturday Next.—'The Home
School, in a body, will go to Tailulab
Falls next Saturday instead of Friday
as has been published. The happy stu
dents will all enjoy themselvos to the
utmost up in tbe mountains.'
Sunbeam Socibty.—A committee
composed of Mrs. E. R. Hodgson, Miss
es Blanche Liosdomb and Katie Ruth
erford met. yesterday afternoon at Mrs.
Hodgson’s to arrange apian for usocia
bio to be gi veu by the Sunbeam society
uext week.
A Driving fLcn.—'There is little
loubt but that a gentlemen’s driving
club will be organized in Athens in a
short time. There are many tine horse
men and many fine horses in Athens
and a driving club is needtil badly.
They Leave This Morning.—This
morning the young ladies of the Horae
Sehool will leave in a bod}' for Tallulah
Falls to spend several days.
They will have a pleasant trip of it to
tbe Niagara of the south.
It’s A Jim Dandy.—Mr. C. Bode
has started up a new enterprise. He
now runs one of the handsomest deliv
ery wagons with sleigh bell occompa
nitnenrs to be found on the continent
and delivers bread hot and nice all over
the city.
The New Rank.—The contract has
been let for the building of the new
bank in Athens. It will be a haudsouie
and imposing building ami will be beau
tifully luted up with oak and brass
work. Tbe building will begin to go
up within the next few days.
A Japanese Strikes Hla Head With
a Sword With Murdsrotia Intent-
Th* Czarawltch’a Ufa S vad by
th* Thickness of Hla Hat.
Beaux, May 18.—A dispatch received
here from Tuldu, capital of Japan, an
nounces that an attempt has been made
open the life of the esarewitch, but that
the iinperi;il traveler, though severely
wounded, is considered to be in no dan
ger of dying.
Particulars as to the attempt at
ablation received here are very meagre.
The only details given are that the czare-
witch was suddenly attacked by a Japa
nese armed with a sharp sword. The
Japanese, before he could be overpow
ered, succeeded in inflicting severe
wounds u;oa the exarewitvb, who de
fended himself gallantly. The motive of
the attack ia not given in the dispatch
received hum.
London, May 13.—A dispatch received
here from Japan confirms the report
that an attempt has been made upon the
life of the czare witch.
This dispatch, howover, says the at
tempt tipou the heir to the Russian
throne v. :us made Monday, and that tho
scene of the attempted assassination was
at K-oto, n \v officially called Saikio, or
the " vrssteiu c..pixel, tire funner capi
tal of Japan, oa the Island of Hondo,
tweaiy-savets miles by rail northeast of
Osaka, and about 25d*fcn’es southwest of
Tokio.
That Timely Hut!
A dispatch from Shanghai says:
The czarevitch had .gone to a pictur
esque resort known as Otau. on Saute
Biawnumi, six miles from Kioto. There
a native policeman, naino-1 Buda Sanao,
struck the czarewiteli on the head with
his sword, with intent to murder him,
but owing to the toughness and thick
ness of the czare wi ten's sun hat, the
wound inibcled was not serious.
Out Wive for Fanner*.
Kansas City. May 13.—The Trans
Missouri Passenger association has an
uounced that it .will not make the oni
fare fur 1hc round trip rate to the Cin
cinnati Third Party convention. The
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memph:.-
amioimced that it would not Iv bout-
by the action of the association, bu'
would make the one taro race asked io.
by the farmers. This will probabl.
compel the other lines to apply the rate.
The jutv.vjr will bo considered atth
meeting of the association now in ses
siou at Denver.
THE EDUCATION SOCIETY.
Worse Than tha Fifteen Puzzle,
In the lights of the Nineteenth cen
tury it sounds queerly io read of tbe
practices ol the anscient physician. We
are told that in the fifth century Sere-
mis, a celebrated doctor, invented a
mystic form of letters called Abracada
bra, believed to be possessed of magical
import, whereby they exercised won
derful healing- powers when used to
permit their free scope. In the Six
teenth century one physician claims to
have cured two huHdred coses of ague
by hanging tbe words about the necks
of patients; while another claimed to
cure toothache by its use, though tbe
patient were ten miles off. In contrast
to tbis, let’s look at the most wonderful
remedy recent medical research has
placed in the bands of suffering hu
manity. Dr. Westmoreland’s Calisaya
Tonic is prepared from toforniula laud
ed by leading physicians. It lends vig-
It Will Hold Its Annual Convention
In Canada This Year.
The Annual Convention of the
National Educational Association of the
United States for the present year will
be held at Toronto Canada July 14th to
17th, and as it will on this occasion be
of an international character, it promises
to be the most successful meeting oftbe
series. Most of the Railroads have
agreed to give half-rates, plus $2 00
membership fee to all who attend tbe
meeting, tbis rate being open to the
public generally as well as the Teachers.
The Canadians are making great prep;
arations to welcome and entertain the
visiting Teachers, aud numerous cheap
Excursions are being arranged to all
important pou t* on tbe great Lakes,
tte St Lawrence, aud the sea side, after
the Convention, which will afford to
Teachers tbe best opportunity for enjoy
ing their summer holidays they have
ever bad. The official Bulletin, con
taining programme for tbe meeting,
railway arrangements, add all other
particulars, is ready, and wiU be sent
free to any one desiring it. on their
dropping a Post Cord to Mr. H. J. Hill,
Secretary Local Committee, Toronto.
tMR. TOWNS FUNERAL
Will
Occur This Morning from Hla
Home on Oconee. Streep
The funeral services.
Of Mr. W. H. Towns will be h< Id this
morning at 10 o’clock.
From his late home on Oconee street.
The funeral sermon will be preached
by the Rev. E D. Stone.
Mr. Towns was well known here and
all who knew him felt for him tbe most
unbounded respect.
. . ._. . _ The funeral services will doubtless be
or to the generally debilitated, restores largely attended by a large body of
impaired digestion, is a sure cute for friends.
dr-per^|*. *”•’ tnn-, „i> a failing appe-
The railroads are preparing to handle
the largest watermelon crop this year
they have ever handled. Advices re
ceived lrom growers and agents show
that tbe sereage this year by about 3,OCO
acres, aud that the total acreage in the
State is between 18,000 and 20,000 acres.
The reports also show that the crop is
iu good condition, and with fair pros-
peels of a good_yield.
Reports received by the transporta
tion department of the Savannah, Flor
ida and Western railway show an acre
age of about 6,000 acres in melons be
tween Thomasville and Albany, tbe
great melon growing section, and be
tween 4.000 and 5,000 acres along the
rost of system, of which about 8000 are
in Florida.
It is estimated that the acreage planted
tbis year along tlie Savannah, Florida
and Western railway is about 1,500
acres greater than that of last year.
The -wop is abont ten days late on ac
count of the late April frost, which
nipped the yo'uug plants. Tbe late
cool spell was of no benefit to the vines,
and a little more rain would be wel
come, but altogether the weather gen
erally has been very favorable - to the
erop-
The Savannah, Florida and Western
railway expects to begin moving melons
by June 10. The first car last year was
moved on June 6. The movement in
creases very rapidly after tbe season
opens, and the shipment* are at their
heaviest by June 20. On June 19 of
last year tbe Savarnab, Florida and
Western moved 133 cars; The ship
ment of melons along the Savannah,
Florida and Western are about evenly
divided between through shipments by
rail and over the Ocean Steamship Com
pany’s line via Savannah.
Supt. W. W. Starr of the Central rail
road estimates that there are about 8,000
acres planted in melons along tbe Cen
tral ’ system, about three-fourths of
which are On tbe Southwestern divis
ion. The remainder are scattered along
the main stem, the Savannah and West
ern, and the Carolina division. The
acreage is a Jarge increase ever last
year.
A PLEASANT DAY.
Will be Spent by the Lucy Cobb Stu
dents Friday.
George I. S nay’s birthday
Will be fittingly observed by the
Lucy Cobb Institute.
Next Friday is the day aud it will be
one that tbe lair students of that famous
nstitution will long remember very
pleasantly.
Tbe da> will be signalized by a pic
nic, at night there will be a dinner that
wilt be as pleasant aud bountilul as it
can be made and after the dinner the
students will enjoy a dance.
That is the day’s urogramme and it is
a delightful one, which carried out will
make the occasion one that will linger
for many comiug years as a pleasant
memory with the women who are now
the girls who will enjoy iL
Mr. Seney has been particularly gen
erous to the Lucy Cobb and be is held
in grateful remembrance by all who are
so much interesied in that institution.
He very generously gave them their
handsome chapel, which has been a
monument to his kindly interest, and
many beantiful painting* which adorn
the walls of the Institute are also the
outcome of his big heart.'
It is right that bis birthday should be
made a notable day for tbe Lncy Cobb
and such it will be, not only on the
coming Friday but for all the years to
come.
The Booth Brothers —If there are
any particular two men in Athens who
de-verve praise for their public spirit
evidenced in tbe work of upbuilding
they have done, they are the Booth
Brother*. They are now having a
handsome residence erected on Han
cock avenue, and will have a fine three
story brick business house completed
there too. It will soon he finished.
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over-wrougnt, u> uii means try Calisa-
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remedy in malaria) districts, being a
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Sledge A Co., andB. C. Orr, Manger.
If you want a good bor e and a new
bii"gy. an elegant turnout ^every^ayx
Call!
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It is guaranteed to give perfect satis
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-• .. •- - ’ •’ -'ST \ . . . '
Athens is “in it,” of Course.—Ath
ens was represented at tbe Convention
of the Southern Theatrical Circuit in
Atlanta recently aim will come in for
Uer share of the dramatical attractions
next season. With the completion pi
tbe Georgia, Carolina and Northern
railroad, the opera house of this city
will be more favored than before with
good actors and splendid attractions.
If you decide, from what you have
heard or read, that you will take
Hood’s Sarsaparilla, do not be induced
to buy any substitute instead.
ABOUT THAT MEAT.
Mr. Bertllng Says it Is Good butThere
< la Complaint.
That beef question.
Is attracting a good deal of attention
just no#r.
There are a good many people who
say the beef sold in Athens now is poor,
very poor.
And Mr. Bertling.says that it is good
and as he sells it he is in a position to
know.
He says that he handled western beef
all tbe winter-three times a week, *s
long as tbe price remained so that he
could do so. although he could have
made doable the profit by handling
hoiae|raised beef, and that during tin-,
last two years he has handled more
western beef and mutton than ali tbe
butchers put together ever handled in
Athens sluce it was a town.
He also says that if people want west
ern In of be will secure it for them but
that the beef raised around Athens is
scarce and hard to get and that be gets
the b< st there is in the market.
Mr. Bertling lay a a great deal of the
blame on tbe Athens cooks, who ruin
even good meat he says.
There are two sides to every question
of course and Mr. Bertling puts hi* in a
good light.
Although there is stilt a great deal of
complaint.
Something Yury Fine.—The ever-
hustling, never-tiring, indomitable firm
of J. S. King & Co., now cap the climax
of things by rolling out fresh from the
shops of Klein & Martin a handsome de
livery wagou. The thing is a “plumb
beauty” and is tbe attraction on the
streets wherever it goes, and such a
firm as J. S. King & Co., of course,
keeps it goiug all tbe time, aud all over
the city.
A Conundrum Symposium.—Last
night a delightful entertainment was
given by Mr. and Mra. Oates in - their
new home complimentary to the Ladie3
Literary Club- The chief feature of the
evening was the guessing at conun
drums it being a conundrum sympo
sium. Many were the hard nuts to
crack, and everybody enjoyed the cratk
ing of ’• em meet pleasurably. It was a
very ~aarming entertainment.
The reports show the crop to be doing
finely, and with every prospect of a big
yield: The season is a little later on the
Central than on the Savannah, Florida
and Western, and the first car will
probably be moved about Jane 15.
From then on it will be a rush. The
melon growers always make a point of
stocking the markets by July 4. The
ne^ro mat didn’t eat a watermelon on
i he 4th of July would be ostracised: b;
th.. «*♦. of th* rr-w n ho season
i virtually at an end by Aug. 1. _ _
A Co xbc gtcjuei pvruun ut uio crop along Fob Sale.—Lumber and sawdust.
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An Athens Lawyer.—The Hart
well Sun recently contained the fol
lowing notice of one of Athens’ ablest
lawyers: Mr. McCurry is an able, in
dustrious attorney, aud has been doing
a large and successful law practice for
the last eeveral years. He has for
some time been attorney for the Hart
well Bank, general attorney for the
Geiser Manufacturing Company, and
local counsel for the Richmond & Dan
ville R. R. Co., besides holding other
positions of trust. We are pleased to
know that Mr. McCurry will continue
to practice regularly iu v the courts of
Hart and aurronndivg counties. Our
best wishes attend him aud family in
their new home.
Mb. P. Benson.—Everybody in Ath
ens knows Mr. P. Benson. This is his
old home, and here it is that he claims
friends by the scores. Mr. Benson is
in Athens today, having been called
here on a aad mission. He comes to
attend tbe burial of bis brother-in-law.
Mr, W. H. Towns, who died night be
fore last. Mr. Benson lived in Athens
twenty-five years, and was proprietor
of the largest wagon shops and carriage
manufactory in the city nntil be sold
out to Messrs. Klein & Martin, and
moved to Atlanta, where be has ever
since befcn prominently connected with
the carri- ge factory of James M. Smith.
Alhof Mr. Benson’s friends are glad to
shake his band again, and pone more so
than the Banneb. He says he is com
ing back to Athens to live some day.
Sickness Amonx Children,
Especially infants, is prevalent more or
8 Huckleberry Gordial Is a teas at all times, but is largely avoided
all Bowel troubles. For. by giving proper nourishment and
aler "- wholesome food. The most succ ssful
Dr. Biggers Huckleberry Cordial is a
sure cure for a“ ~
Shot Aliunt a Coir.
Tbenton, Ga., May 18.—Elisha Smith
sliot and killed Jesse Green on Sand
mountain with a 'Winchester rifle, the
difficulty arising about a cow. Smith
has not yet been arrested. He figure-.;
iu a charge for counterfeiting in Chat
tanooga a few weeks ago. Green is a
nephew of Dr. Green, of St. Payne.
UP IN THE GROVE.
What the Banner’s Correspondent
Finds to Chronicle.
Harmony Grove,May 13 —[Special ]
—Rev. Mr. Dodge, of Atlanta, preacheo
an excelKnt .sermon at the Methodist
church last night.
Mr. Pierce Shepherd made . a flying
visit to the Classic City Tuesday tuoru-
ing on business.
Rev. Billy Brock, a prominent Baptist
divine of Ranks eouuty, was in tbe (city
yesterday morning. s
Messrs. IV. B. Power and T. A. Iuttle
went down to Athens on Monday morn
ing on business.
The changed schedule went into effect
last Mond*} morning on the N. E. R
R. The up train arrives here at i
o’clock instead of 6 o’clock a. m. as in
the past.
A gay party of seiners, consisting of
Messrs. T. E. Key, G. W. D. Harber,
Dolph Little, Wm Thurmond,Jr., C. D.
Stark and Tom Little of this place, and
Mr. Jno. Cooper,of Athens, left on yes-
day morning for Mayfield’s pond in
Madison county, where they will camp
out and spend a few days in search ol
the finny tribe of that vicinity.
OoTOMotsw BT, Pa.. May IS
ty little luidber fanning
tin, Costello, Galetoa and
in Potter county, are on the'
panic, two especially being
with annihilation from fires that seem
to form an impenetrable wall on every
side.
For several days the skies have been
lighted np with fires apparently iu every
direction. but little fears were enter
tained by people living iu the towns, ns
those threatened and in danger were
fanners in the country districts or lumj
ber camps in the midst of the blazing
forests. In spite of every effort, how
ever, the tlautee crept steadily toward
the helpless towns, until it was seen that
the people must fight back the flames or
have their very* iouses burned down
over their heads. .
At Moore's Run, on the Sinnemahoning
road, n train load of soventy-five men,
ant out from Austin had been fighting
back the fire by every conceivable means.
They tun Je trenches, piled up earth and
lighted back fires, but were finally
obliged to retreat. The men hastily
boarded the train aud started to make a
run to another point, when it was found
they were hemmed iu by the forest fire
on one side and a huge skidway of logs
ou the other. It was finally decided to
dash past the burning skidway, and the
engineer aud fire man. with faces covered
with dampened cloths and their hands
and arms wrapped in wool, mounted th*
little engine and pulled through the
wall of fire. The seventy-five exhausted
men gathered in groups on the flats for
irotection, or lav on their faces on the
ioor. As- the biasing furnace of loga
was approaches! the heat became unbear
able and the smoke so blinding and
stifling the men were obliged to cover
their mouths with cloths.
Just opposite the millions of feet of
burning logs, where the heat aad smoke
iind flame were the greatest, a terrible
thing occurred. The engineer had for
gotten that such great heat would surely
spread the rails, and he pulled the throt
tle wider in the hope of sooner escaping
from a torment of heat and smoke.
Then there was a lurch, an ominous
heaving and a shriek of despair as tbe
train toppled over in the hell of fire be
neath. Superintendent Badger of the
.Shinneiuanoning Valley road, was in
charge of the train, and had worked the
hardest to wive the proparty of-others.
When the train ditched and rolled over
ho suddenly, lie must have been injured
so as to be unable to help himself, and
owing to the smoke ana heat, he was
not found until too late. Jammed in
the wreck, he hud evidently slowly
burned to death.
At this time it is known that six oth
ers also miserably perished at once, or
died soon after, iind thirty others of the
jarty were badly burned and many pro-
ably fatally. Seven others of the party
are missing and their fate is not known,
though they are likely in the charred
wood of logs or train.
Relief parties started for the scene as
soon as the fearful news spread, many-'
of them relatives of the men injured,
who insisted on accompanying the train,
though they will hardly be able to reach
the place of the wreck unless the fires
have burned themselves out. Owing to
the great devastation done to. everything
in the way of the fire, communication ia
badly interrupted, aud it is impossible
to learn the names of the men burned or
ot those still missing. As to the damage,
it is known 40,000,000 feet of hemlock
logs and timber and 25,000 cords of val
uable bark has already been destroyed
and the fires are still raging.
TEN YEARS AGO.
Father.
Loss of sleep sustained from anxiety
spent over the little one so slowly and
pitifully wasting away froom the effect
of teething, unfits you for business,why
not try Dr. Biggers’ Huckleberry Cor
dial.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
la -d reliable of all Is the Gail Borden
“ r ag Bra d Condens- d Milk. Your
grocer and druggist kpsp it.
Is Ozburn Insane?—Some Alliance
Matters-
Atlanta, Ga., May 13.—[Special].
Edward Atkinson and a parly of New
England manufacturers reached this
city today. They will remain in At
lanta until Friday afternoon and will
be variously entertained during their
stay.
The district lecturers of the Alliance
met here with State lecturer Crfpeland
today to talk over their work. They
will devote all the time possible to
spreading alliance doctrines. All re
port tbe order in excellent condition,
is Osburn insane ? That is the question
now bling agitated by his friends. Dr.
Stiles, bis physician says he undoubted
ly is. This set-ms to indicate that the
insanity dodge is to be.resorted to*
General Carnahan grand commander
uniform rank Knights oP Pythias of
the world will reach here Saturday on
bis way to ■‘Brunswick. He will be
given a reception Saturday.
The Beveridge steam Cooker is a good
thing; don’t pay cauvasera $4:50 when
vou can get it at E. E. Jones & Co for
$o.25.
FOR RENT.—A 0 room house on
Dougherty street between Lumpkin
an I Broad streets. Apply to A. M
judder. \i.
About » Cowardly Murder and the Mur*
deren Return.
Weltston,' O., May 13.—Ten yean
ago a brutal and cowardly murder oc
curred at Washington furnace, near
this gity. Jake Seel and John Cary,
two neighbors, fell out abont some trivial
domestic matters, when Seel, in a fit of
anger, dealt the fatal blow, which end
ed the life of John Cary.. After the
murder of Cary Seel left this section of
country, and every effort of detectives
to locate him had proved a failure. For
ten years he has been a fugitive from
justice and- hunted for in every state of
the Union.
He was captured the other dire at the
scene of the old murder, ana it now
turns out that he has every year visited
that place, aud lived over in sorrow the
deed which blackened his life. He will
at once be tried for murder at this sit
ting of the court.
A STRIKE EXTENDING.
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Fassencer Train Stopped
Completely Blocked.
Indianapolis, May 13.—Tbe strike on
the Midland railroad is extending. A
passenger train was'’stopped at New
Boss, and travel is now completely,
blocked.
Harry Crawford is at Crawfordsville, 1
and has sworn out warrants against tbe
strikers, hut the officers refuse to go out
to arrest the offenders. They claim that:
Crawford has no money to pay mileage, i
and they are not compelled by law to -
serve the warrants unless their actual
expenses are guaranteed.
HI* Last Concert.
London, May 13.—Mr. Sim Reeves,
who has held the undisputed .position of
the first of English tenors ever since
1849, has given his last concert The
great singer is 70 years of age, and has
been singing constantly for 42 yea
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