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ATHENS, GA-. SUNDAY MORNING JUNE 26, 1893
Vess,
Vonderau
and Co.
It is simply the expensive and un
necessary litigation into wbioh the city
has been drawn against which there is
going np a howl.
It is bat just to Mayor Tack to say
that when the question of making the
city a party in the New York litigation
was sprang, be advised against it in
open council meeting,and that on other
legal advice the oouncil decided to take
CITY NOTES.
THE OLD STORY.
DavisomLowe
PARAGRAPHIC PENCILINGS
THE QUILL DRIVER.
OF
WILL BE GIVEN THE STUDENTS I THE WATERWORKS CASE AGAIN
______ „ » POSTPONED IN NEW YORK.
ITEMS TOO SHORT TOR HEADS
AFTER ANOTHER INJUNCTION
CONTINUE
Which. News When Related that step.
-TO—
MarkDownPrices
Parents Object to Sending]
the Amount of Money Re
quired and Paying Big
Bills in the End—A
» _ New Regime.
In every de-
orB partment this
OFFERINGS wee J c Will be
worth your time to inspect
- S
We intend to car-
white py no thing over in
GOODS this department.
These goods must be sold,
so take advantage of this
sweeping sale and lay in
a supply. v -
to . Council Fell Like a
Thunderbolt—The Case
Continues to Develop
in Interest
The Mayor,Ex-City Attorney Rucker,
I Messrs. Barnett, Rucker, Hodgson,
White and Reaves started for New
| York Friday afternoon.
And yesterday about noon there came |
THAT INDIGNATION HUnKS.
There was some talk on the streets
about a meeting to be held next week
to denounoe this esse and the manner
in which it baa been managed, but it
did not amount to anything.
The people of Athena realise that on
the merits of the case they are right,
that the contract was violated by Mr.
Howell’s company, and that such can
be shown in the courts, that the esse
has been unfortunately gotten into bad
There will be a new and important
regime established among the mer
chants next year, so the story goes.
It is said that the merchants will or-1 Nottaan^ the attorney for the | by being tied *up in the New
ganize, and positively refuse to credit j city Q i Athens at New York, a telegram York coarts, and that the sensible way
students without written orders from to Mr. A. H. Hodgron which simply | to do is to fix the responsibility where
their parents or guardians. | stated that the case hsd been agsinoon-
This will not be done so much on ao- knaed “d that the party need not
I come.
oonnt of the lossea sustained by failure Chairman 8mith> 0 f the finance com-
to collect the aooonnts of the students | mittee at once wired Mr. Hodgson in-
it belongs and qoieUy await the result
at the trial. «
A GEORGIAN’S FEAT-
WASH
GOODS.
but because of the objections of their stractions as to the case, and it ia prob- A Wonderful P^eceofCtvfl^inginoer-
parents. I *bly that the party will go on and in— | “The most successful and,at the same
Several letters have been received by “J* ® n * tnal tomorrow. They will tImej m0Bt unique civil service examin-
fro _ -imminent men who 1 ®* rdly 14 howeTer . ation I know of occurred daring the
merchants from prominent men who i tiBWudthat before the party gets w „ f „ ^ T . c . DeLandf0f theexamin-
have sons In the University, that this baok, an understanding will be reached iDg bo ard at tbe treasury, says the
indiscriminate crediting students will I as to the fee tojte paid the New York Washington Post. “The confederacy
rain the oclleges. These letters state | lawyer in the case. If this postponing was very much in need of a railway lo-
bnsines* goes on much longer the city oomotive in order to operate lU supply
will feel its effects rather severely in | system. It was in 1864, and ft had not
regard to finances.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
The members of counoil all admit that
the case has been gotten into a bad
Bhape, bat assign various reasons wby
it all camp about. Who is responsible f
is a question often asked now-a-days
on this subject.
By resolution of council, this matter
what his ton is oosting him at college | was left in 016 I**® 39 of the finsnoe I an 1 they tore np a section of the Balti-
committee, consisting of Messrs. Smith, more ud 0 jio railway tracks, bagged
Vincent and Welch, the other members I (be next train, and with nothiog on
being interested in tbe case incidental- Mrth ure plent y of rop e.those hundred
ly * „ . _ . „ . men carried the locomotive fifty-two
When it came to delivering the bonds mlles over hills.«,ross streams,through
... , *b°oommitteehad two ways to send bogs and woods, until they struck a line
Still deeper cot ob ,eouon fl* dangers of acquiring JJ5 1119 00nfeder '‘ c y hsd built. Then they
• t»_ 1 “ nd * ' r b«y° hoe ® tOB ® ,ld *f em br Mr run the engine down to Virginia.
ID table Din-1 extravagant habits and tastes. A. H. Hodgson and gave him ins’ruc- “When Robert Garret, then president
ens, Napkins ttnSSdto of the Baltimore and Ohio, heard of th.
_ . _ * - f lr , ., caused some exceedingly unpleasant Hodgson said he did not understand his f#at he couldn’t believe it. He-wen
Towels, OrasneS EDu W nite | oorre8 pondeiic« and feelings between | iMtnmtions as the committee'oon-| oat and personally inspected the scene,
went over the route and declared it the
i m i . . , , , most wonderful feat of engineering ever
wi6e and attend this sale. 1 07er the Hta£e ’ and thore 8oen “ to 1,6 I appear to have been for Mr. Hodgson to I accomplished. After the war he dele-
A | a- f but one elUotove remedy. It to said take the money on the bonds, deposit it gated a man to find the leader of tbe
A1SO an eieganu line 01I the merchants will adopt an exclusive I to the credit of Cashier Jas. White of I band. He was located in Georgia. Gar-
Rngs. Shades. Poles, Lace oaah system with all students next I th ® National Bank, and then notify retc sent for him and on the strength of
We will offer the that the students are sent monthly
entire stock in this “ fflcl “ t “*
- all their college expenses and spending
line thi8 Week money. Bat the merchants allow them
prices that will move them, to run up large bins, covering proba-
This stock consists of
j money is “blown in,” and the»- the
Ginghams, Percales, TlS- bills are sent to parents to be paid,
sues, Battistes, Jappon-1 As » result of this BO parent can tel)
ettee, Foulards, Kmitwe,
Figured and Dotted Swiss, L,^- a™*..
the means to bny an engine, so the in
variable alternative arose—steal one. A
band of 100 men was selected from Lee’s
army and placed under tbe command of
1 a big gixfoot-fpur Georgian, wbo had
| been foreman of a stone quarry, and
was more or less skilled in, the use of
| derriok, etc.
“He took his men up into Maryland
Will
HOUSE
FURNISHING
GOODS.
his living expenses. The additions 1
make a &mount 01 mone y to take the boys
through college to not so mnoh of an
Curtains and Trunk® that | year '
will be offered at greatly
reduced prices.
FOR RENT.
The brick building on Jackson street,
recently oooupied as Council Chamber,
the City Engineers office and the stable
and lot adjoining.
For further information apply to
Thomas P. Vincent,
Chairman Pub. Prop’y Committee, or
A. L. lIiyeiirT.T.
Clark of Council
A large line oi Fans
fans, thrown on the bar-
gain counter, consisting of! Camt m Jnaw _ omea ^
JapS, China Silk8, Gauze | roped in a slick thief yesterday. He
and Feather.
Capt. White. Mr. Hodgson says he
didn’t understand them that way, and
at least when he got to New York, he
ratified an old contract with the Equi
table Mortgage Company, taking so
much of the bond money as it
needed, and did not leavj the matter in
shape, where Capt. White conld get the
money.
To makes long story short, the bonds
were enjoined in l{ew York courts and
this litigation commenced. Where
it will end. no one knows. The
finance committee say they
that single feat made him roadmaster
of his entire system of railroad.
‘Any man that can pick up an en
gine with fishirg lines and carry it over
a mountain has passed his examination
with me,' said he.”
SOCIALLY SPEAKING.
* Q lite a delightful dance was I
given out at the park Friday evening. |
There were present, Mr. and Mrs. Ben
edict, Mr. and Mrs. Gr'llstb, Mrs.
White, Mrs, Williams, Mrs. Rucker
But Long Enough to Interest
the Reader in Search of
News—Every Section of
the City Represented.
Lost—Walking cane, dark wood, sil
ver tip, on head engraved T. C. S
Leave at Banner offioe. Reward.
Fob Rmht.—Three convenient rooms
in “Hodgson house” on Oconee street.
Apply to Klein A Martin.
Fob Rbkt —Four room cottage on
Daugherty street. Apply to
G. A. Scuddbb.
Pasture fob Cattsb —Good pasture
for cattle. One dollar per month per
head. Call on " C. L Msu.
Jones WatSISiblohs.—'The Jonee
Watermelons on sale at L. Battling &
Co’s.
Lost.—A box gold breast pin, old
style, containing two piotnres. Finder
will be rewarded by leaving same at
Skiff’s jewelry store.
Old Stamps Bought—I will pay
highest cash price tor Confederate and
old U. S. stamps Far the 6 cent purple
stamp tuned in 1861 by T. Crawford,
F. M , Athens, Ga., I will pay $2 00 to
$3 00 each. All stamps preferred on
the original envelopes. Also Colum
bian stamps wanted. Address Wm. C.
Davie, 1173 Cobb street, Athens, Ga.
Just Rscmvkd.—New crop Turnip
Seed. Fifteen varieties.
Lyndon’s Dbuo Stobb.
One of thk Best.—Captain Cran
Oliver, formerly the chief of polloe of
the city of Athens, and by the way, one
of the most gallant officers of the law
that ever osrried a clnb or sported a
star on his osp, was here yesterday.
He came over with the exonrsiontots
from Athena and spent the day in the
oity.—^Constitution.
Fob Running a Bund Tigbb.—John
Keeie, a young white man, was arrest-
ek last night at his room over Pittard A
Sikes’ store, on the charge of running
at^nd tiger.
Abbbsted A gain —Bnnell Shaw, the
negro boy who was arrested by police
men last year, and who tried to shoot
them, has served out his sentence at
Smith’s convict camp, and. last night
was arrested again to make him serve
oat his city fine of %50 and cost.
An Entertainment Tuesday.—Prof.
Little’s band will give an entertainment
at the Park Tuesday night. If the
people will patronize these entertain
ments by their presence, the band will
Oar annual Stock-taking will soop
boon band, and we are determined to
greatly reduce onr entire atook before
that time. Everything in onr store to
going at s v great bargain for the next
two weeks. Monday the ball opens
with bargaine in every line for every
body. To get the ohoioe of the stock
come right along at once, don’t wait
until your neighbors tell you what we
are doing, then come down when its
too late to get jnst what yon want. We
have the goods now, bat the prices we
have pat upon them will move them off
rapidly... Onr plan to never to carry
goods over from one season to another.
need the money and the
room for other goods, and these
matt go. Oar prices will do the work.
Money to scarce, a dollar very large,but
will bay lots of goads at onr store
this week. Read over again the leading
editorial in last Sunday’s Banner,
(;hanks to the editor for it) profit by it,
spend your money with the psople who
are trying to built up your eity. your
home, yOnr property and . keep the
money here that is going to build up
other cities and other interests. We
propose to give you goods jnst as cheap
as can be bought elsewhere, to say noth-
ng about expense of ordering and trans
portation. A big lot of traveling tranks
at bargain prices to dose out.
VE ?S, VONDERAU & CO.
Ice
This stock
EMBROIDERIES. we ftre fo.
termined to reduce if low | worth of different things,
prices will do it Don’t
fail to attend this sale.
sTve~l °*" th “V 3 ? Ur *Vi n( l Mi “ e3 HoM “Mm, Williams, CWs- continue to give them each week.
StMdtey’i bouse. Several artodes that j aoh says he acted in goto! faith in all | holm Talmadne. I
had been stolen were reoovered and it
to thought many others will be found
Harris has been stealing for some tim
and had stolen over one hundred dollars
A CARD FROM PROF. WURH.
have often beard the praises of the
pounded by City Attorney Moll to 1 •
I nave oxter
Mathushek” Piano, and Being desirous I HayorTuck and an answer by tbe mayor
of testing the instrument, I engagwl that in addition to the question of set-
If you are in I Clo-d it AthoDi, G. I »m now pre-| also devolved npon the citr to wiiw.r
, » . pared to say and do say that I consider the prayer of the petitioners that the
WOOLEN nee ^ 0 f a nice the “Mathushek” one of t!m very beet city be perpetaaUy enjoined from using
. __ _ pianos mode. They are built for tone I.. * J;
AND Wool Or Silk DreSS and durability, and I think they woold | the new 8yst f I “ of watcr WQrka now
last a lifetime. Alfbbd J. Wdbji, being established.
Leader of Warm’s Orchestra, I The council had not hoard of this
least I portion of the case np to yesterday and
Athens, os. Junejl, I it knocbe d the props from under them
6ILR
GPPDS.
now is the time to
buy it. This stock
is bound to go at
prices we are now offering.
.holm, Salisbury, Gerdine.M. Talmadge,
he 1 • Barnes, Gaines, Smith, Stovall and I Trb Lightning’s Freak.—During
▲ thunderbolt c mm. Rucker; Messrs Gerdine, Rutherford, the storm Thursday afternoon the light-
But Friday at counoil meeting, the Kimball, Hodgson, Baifield, Dearing, I ning struck the house of Ur. William
scales were knocked from the eyes of j Camak, Up3on, Charbannier, JLstimer, j Lewis in East A’.hens, running down
the members of that august body, and I phimzy, Lyndon, Cobb, Hardeman and the chimney and thronih the floor. No
it became known in a question pro-1 McMaster. one was irjored in the house, although
The yonng folks enjoyed a de- several of the inmates were shocked,
lightfal moonlight picnic to Mitohell’s After the storm was over one of tbe in
bridge last night. mates looked under the house and found
•^Misses Hope Linton and Jessie that the lightning, when it went
Chisholm aie at Miss Susie Gerdine’s through the floor, had killed fifteen
for a few days. chiokens that had taken shelter under
mim Pauline Harris will In a | the house daring the rain,
few days leave on a visit to Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs, where she will A Wobd to Customers.—We sell ice
spend the summer. tickets for ten, twenty-five, and fifty
* * Miss Clio Smith, who has been ] pounds, but purchasers cannot expect
visiting her aunt, Mia C. J. O’Farrell, to take a fifty pound ticket and buy
left yesterday on a visit to relatives in twenty-five pound each! time t nr
inni. v„iw. two times, at thi
„ This
muslin stock is now
UNDERWEAR. be j„g C l 08e d
out at first cost These
goods aie made of the best
material and nicely
trimmed.
Our entire stock of In
fants Lawn Caps will be
sold legaldless of cost
r aYison 4 Lowe.
HALE A CONAWAY, Agents, . - - , .
Athens, Ga. for a few minutes so to speak. left yesterday on a visit to relatives in twenty-five pound each; time for
— I They were given another round also I ipDle Valley, two times, at the same rate as if they
Visiting his Son.—Judge Howell j jn ^ announcement that the New wf is took the fifty pounds at one time. We
Cobb, one of the brainiest men in tbe York^courts had refused to let in the “| ss „ AtIan “’ must also politely say that onr delivery
State 6f Georgia, and a leading lawyer J Cartersville decision of the Supreme VISltin S “ { g * wagon will deliver Ice to customers bat
entire I of midd l e Georgia, was in the city yes- I co Ur t of Georgia, because Mr. Nottm a * * Misses Symtho,of “ e I that it cumot be delayed at difierent
terday. He waa the gueat of hia bright I and jtr. Rucker bad not presented it in visiting the family of Prof. C. P. Will- p laoe8 u i ong , as it has been in the past.
yonng son, Mr. Thos. B. R. Cobb, one I ttme< I cox.
of the moat promising young lawyers ^ a que ation involved in the * * Miss Lnoile Barnes, of New-
of Atlanta.—Constitution. | first point upon which the lawyers are | nan, will remain several days yet with
CONFEDERATE ' VETERANS BE- not *8^- Some of the lawyers here the family of Dr. James “
UNION BIRMINGHAM *n I are of the opinion that an injunction I * • Misses Lillie and May Comer,or
’ * I issued by the New York oourts could I Maysville, are visiting Mrs. W. C. Ash
July 19th to 20th, 1893. I not be rendered effective in Georgia, 1 0 f this oity.
For the accommodation of those while others believe that it can.
wishing to attend the Confederate Vet-1 The removal of the Cartersville deci
• Respectfully,
L. Beetling A Co.
A MOTHER’S REPORT,
Mra. N. A McEntire writes from
Spring Place, Ga.: “For many years
I have been a great sufferer from indi
ge3tion, sick hadache and nervous pros
tration. I tried many remedies but got
no permanent reffef until I used Dr.
I am now in
THE ICE QUESTION.
Talk
ranged to sell round trip'rickets to fight for the city and throws the Case try
Birmingham at the very low rate of I entirely on its merits.
■ STRENGTH AND HEALTH.
Tf vou are not felling strong and healthy I Mozley’a Lemon Elixir,
y Electric Bin era. If “La Grippe” has | better health than for many years. My
tap
will be on sale July 17th to 19tb inclu
sive and limited to return until July
26th, 1993.
Further information can be obtained
from any agent of the Richmond A
Danville R R. >
Send yonr ordeia to H. B. Bernard’s
or fresh vegetables.
left vou weak and weary, use Electric Bit- daughter has baen subject to chills and
tera- Thia remedy acta directly on Liver, fever from her infancy. I could get
Before the Cartersville decision was stomach and Kidneys, gently aiding those nothing to relieve her; the Lemon
made, the Banner was confident of organa to perform their functions. If you Elixirhas restored her to perfect health.
Da m-rDa arui ia are afflicted with 8ick Headache, you will Sold by Druggists, oOc and $ 1.00 per
winning the case on its mente an d u ^ n e d ^. dy and permanent relief by ta- bottle.. Prepared by Dr. H. Mozley,
yet. The meuts of the case are clear ggL Electric Bitters. One trial will con- Atlanta; Ga.
and there is no mistaking the fact that I vince you that this is tne remedy you need. I
the wafer works company violated the Large ^dea only ^ Bring VOUT job WOrk to the
r* 1 ”" * Banner Office,
guiltless In the entire affair. 1
Dealers and lee Factory
.ar About It- —
There to a alight difference of opinion
between Mr L. Bertling and they Po
lar Ice Works.
Mr. Bertling says they are
giving him only mere shells of ice and «
that the people are kioking about ft.
The Ice Works say that it to simply on
account of their maohinery having to
be repaired and that in a few days eve
rything will fie all right again.
It waa rnmored that the Ice Works
were shipping away their ioe leaving
the Athena consumers the shells. Thia
waa denied by Mr. Johnson, of the Po
lar Ice Works, who declared that he
waa furnishing all rite ice the citizana
wished. He said tile Ice Company was
,ing the people all the ice they
wonld use, and that it would contin'ue -
y>do so, and that there was no danger
of an ioe famine in Athens.
A ROMANTIC MAKRIAGE.
That Happened at an Odd Fellows
Meeting,
A few nights since at Oak Grove there
occurred a romantic wedding
The .Oak Grove Lodge of Odd Fek
lows were in session and Noble Grand
John Smith waa in chair.
There came a curious rap at the door
and the lodge come to a sadden silence,
A stranger had evidently approaohed
the anti-room.
The Noble Grand went oat and down
stairs and stayed a while. When be
came back, the deed had been done. He
was a J P. and he had married a runa
way couple. He would not’give their
bat it was as highly enjoyed by
tbe members as the pranks of their fes-
itive goat.
2J528.67Z
These figurtai represent tbe number of
bottles of Dr. King’s New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds, which
were sold in the United States from March,
’91 to March, ’92. Two Million, Two
Hundred and Twenty-Eight Thousand
Six Hundred and Seventy-Two bottles
sold in one year, and each and every bot
tle was sold on a positive guarantee that
money-would be refunded if satisfactory
results did not follow its use. The secret
of its success is plain. It never disap
points and can always be depended on
as the very best remedy for Coughs, Colds,
etci Price 60c. and $1.00. At John
Crawford & Co., and Palmer* & Kinne-
brew’s Drugstore
Note Heads, Letter Heade,
Blank Forms, eto., in tha
tastiest styles at the Banjos
jJiboilre,