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H»\™ \ ■ 7:->•* ■* S '. :- r V f 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. tito. When the system Is rtin do wn or over-wrougnt, u> uii means try Calisa- ya Tonic. Then, too, it is an unfailing remedy in malaria) districts, being a sure anti-periodic. For -sale hy L. D. 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! » Bail.J.4 Murray, rrr-T- Bucklen's Arnica naive. The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and &U skin eruptions, and pos itively cares piles, or no pay requited. It is guaranteed to give perfect satis faction or money refunded. Price 25 — ai -• .. •- - ’ •’ -'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. * uo '» ~ri-.—i ia shipped nortH U. v T. C, Dxlony. . -v j 1 ’*'• ’ - ■M sale br all dealers. 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. * ami Travel 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 .■oo-m BOUGH ON TOOTE Ve. BOUGH ON salve, 10c m m