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At Vom, Vonderau & Co’a is Doing the
Work. « ■'•■■
Immense quantities of goods moving
oft ever; day. This cut-price, goods-
slaughtenng business will go on
throngh the entire week.
Don’t miss the matchless bargains in
Linens of all kinds.
Vine Lawns, plain and figured,
Dotted Swiss, and every thing in Wash
Goods specially oheap.
A big lot Boy’s Percale and Chev’ott
Waists at prioea unheard of btfore.
Special attention dlreoted to oar stock
of Silk Ribbon*, by far the handsomest
In the city, and prioea greatly redooed.
Don’t miss this sale. We mean what
we say. Oar stock mast be reduced.
We need the money and the room.
Noth!eg in onr stock most go over to
nest season. We have pat ths prioea
down, and the goods will move. Every
article in oar store included m this
sale.
Vasa, Vonderatj 4b Co.
For over rut* Years.
Was Winslows aooranm sravr nas bee*
Med for children teeming. U sooths the ohiu
•often* the gum*, allay* all pain, enree wind
eouo and fa the beat reined* lor Martha*
THE CENTRAL RUINED,
That’s What Justice Jackson Says of
That Proparty.
fUvamtan, Ga, Jane 28—[Spe
cial ]—Judge Jackson made a signifi
cant dellveranoe from the bench this
morning. *He said that the Central
railroad waf" rained and had been
rained much longtr than its fnendt
supposed.
There was no hope absolutely, he
said, for the property ixorpt an out
and oqt sale. Redid not propose to
force the road to the. hammer
In times of financial depression. Hr
would hold ir. back just as long aa it
was In his power of law to do so.
He woold see that the road brought
the best possible ptice and be had in
view the best interests of the stock
holder*, but the road most be sold and
that speedily.
UK. BACON SHOCKS.
Then followed Mr. ▲. O. Bocon in a
strong argument that the Southwestern
railroad was not liable for the mortgage
of the tripartite bonds. Justice Jack-
sonplied him with questions and he
was evidently not tnolined to tcoept
this view. ’
The friends of the Southwestern hope
to save this property, but it now "looks
like it would go down in a general
Wreck.
-WIIXBB SOLD ABOUT VKBBCABT 1.
' On December 1st all the Central pro
perty, including the Southwestern, is to
be advertised for sale for sixty days, so
tbat the sale will take plsoo about Feb
ruary 1st.
The justice also decided that the de
benture holders stood, in the position
of unsecured creditors.
1 MINOR "ITEMS.
For Prescriptions and Reliable Drags
of all kinds go to Jno. Crawford A Co.
J. R. Cobb’s Bottling Works so-
moved to 80 Foundry street.
Telephone No. 48 is at Wingfield *
Co’s store on Prince avenue.
New crop Turnip Seed, all varieties,
fresh and reliable.
Jso. Crawford & Co.
- A tingle lady can secure a situation
by applying at the Hotel Tocmer at
once.
s. Sweet Gam and Mullein is a sure core
for eonghs, colds, croup, consumption,
and all other throat ana lung trouble.
A few Cream Frees vs left at low
prices at “Huggta’s China House.”
All size Fruit Jars and Jt-lly Tumb
lers at “Huggin’a China House.”
Send your orders for Lime and Ce-
to ment “Hnggin's China House.”
Dinner Seta, Tea Sets and Chamb r
Sets at lowest prioe ever known now
on stle at "Hnggin’s China House.”
1.000 dozen Frnit Jars for the whole-
. sale and retail trade at “Huggia’a China
.1 House.”
It you want the finest Mango, mixed,
' and plain pickle, and the finest male
vinegar. AH, for less money than yon
have ever bought them. Go to Wilson’s
Cash store, for they are there.
After the grip, when yon are weak
and "played out,” Hood’s .Sarsaparilla
will restore your health and strength
Second-hand Mower, in fair order,
for sale oheap, at Rock College.
J. B. Hohnioutt
Nowyohr blood should be purified
Take Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the bat
spring medicine and Dlood purifier.
W. C. Wingfield A Co. have a tele
phone at their store on Lumpkin st
is
After the trip,when you are weak and
"played out" Hood’s S*r*apa*ilU will
restore your health and strength.
One of the riders went across, the G.
C A N. bridge on his byoicle.
Col. John W. MeCalla of Elbert
county is in the city.
Mr. Tobe Murry is again on the
gtreeU, greatly to the delight of his
frii *
CHARGING JUDGE EMOKT SPEER
WITH INSPIRING THE
CELEBRATED BODATBEE EDIT.
That Put the Central Into a
Receiver’s Hands Publish
ed—Its Author, Dr. West-
moreland.
The allegation that spread over the
Htate yesterday and created snob a sen
sation to the effect that Jndgo Emory
Speer and Attorney Daniel W. Boon-
tree, of Atlanta, were in oolloaion in
that celebrated Bait inatitated by the
letter that resulted in placing of the
Central railroad in the hands of a re
ceiver, has been sworn to by Dr. West
moreland, of Atlanta.
This will create a tremendous sensa
tion everywhere, and there la little
telling what the f fieots of the discloe-
nre will be. The Constitution says
"But the first announc: ment was
only a preliminary to what is to oome.
The Constitution’s New York special
was discredited in tome quarters.
Right in 8 ivannab, where Henry
Crawford bad a copy of the affilavit in
bis grip, if not In his pocket, the very
existence of such m paper waa denied
and the local.papers there treated it as
a sort'of canard. Mr. Crawford de
clined to show it. Judge Speer and
Mr. Rountree bad nothing to say con
firming the atory, and there seemed to
be no effort to discredit the of
the affidavit.”
Attorney Dan. Rountree in e card
denies that Judge Speer inspired the
original salt that brought so much
trouble to the Central. In » card he
skya be is not on good terms with Dr.
Westmoreland. Here is the affidavit as
follows:
The Affidavit
State of Georgia, County of Falton
—Personally appeared before me Wil
lis F. Westmoreland, who being duly
sworn deposes as foUowa:
About from four to eight weeks before
the appointment of a temporary re
ceiver by the United States circuit
court for the eastern division of the
southern district of Georgia, in tbo case
of Bowen* M. Clarke against the Cen
tral Railroad and Banking Company of
Georgia and o&ers, Daniel W. Boon-
tree, one of the solicitois for the com
plainant in said case, came to the offloe
of this deponent in the city of Atlanta,
and told him that he had just returned,
on that morning, from the city of Sav
annah; that he had been in Savannah
in attendance upon the United States
court there, and when in the offloe of
the Hon. Emory Speer, who was then,
in Savannah for the purpose of hold
ing the cirouit court, said Speer sug
gested to said Rountree that a good op
portunity presented itself for some
brilliant young lawyer to make both
fame and money by filing a bill to put
the Central Railroad and Banking
Company in the hands of a receiver;
that under the rulings made by him in
other railroad oases, upon a proper biU
filed that a judge should appoint a re
ceiver; that be, the said Rountree, was
inolined to avail himself of the sugges
tion of the court and desired to consult
deponent as to the advisability of doing
so.
Deponent asked said Rountree if he
was certain tbat Judge Speer would ap
point a receiver. Said Rountree re
plied that he could not be absolutely
certain, bnt from the suggestion made
he was satisfied he wonld do so. De
ponent then replied, that if he was osr
tain of the judgment of the court, he
Wonld be a fool if he conld make fame
and money out of it, if he didn’t go
ahead. Rountree then said that
wonld be necessary for him to find
client, and he commenced searching
everywhere for some stockholder in
the Central railroad who was not a res
ident of Georgia. He went bo far as to
communicate with Mr. Joe Eddleman,a
friend of bis in Boston, Mass , to ascer
tain if be could precure for him some
stockholder in the Central who would
authorize him to file the bilL Amongst
otfier places visited by said Rountree
in connection with this matter was
Charleston, S. C., where, through i
broker in that city, he was put in oom
munication with one Mr. Lamb Perry,
the nephew of Mrs. Rowena M. Clarke.
Said Rountree told deponent that after
considerable negotiation with the said
Lamb Perry, the latter agreed, in con
sideration that said Rountree would
idemuify bis aunt, the said Rowena H
Clarke, from all costs, expenses of liti
gat ion and attorney’s fees, that she
authorize him to use her name,
nponthe farther understanding tbat
he, the said Rountree, was to share
with said Lamb Perry whatever he
made oat of tin case, and also to mark
bis, the said Lamb Perry’s, name to the
original bill as counsel. Alter making
this arrangement,said Rountree return
ed to the city of Atlanta/and informed
deponent all about the entire transac
tion. Here he employed Mr. W. C.
Glenn, a counselor at law,oi account of
his well-known ability in railroad liti
gation, to help him prepare the bill,
compensating him therefor. Said
Glenn was to have nothing farther to
do with the case, exoept to aid said
Rountree in the preparation of the bill.'
Armed with this-bill said Rountree
went either to Macon or Savannah to
see Judge Speer. Upon his return to
he informed deponent that
Judge Speer declined to grant the or
der appointirg a receiver unless some
changes were made In the latter part of
the bill. Whether these changes were
made at Maoon or Savannah, upon Mr.
Rountree’s first presentation of the bill,
or whether said Rountree returned
with the bill to Atlanta and here' made
changes, and went back to Macon
or Savannah, deponent osnnot swear
positively, bat be ir positive that said
Rountree did make some changes upon
the suggestion of the court. These
changes made, Judge Speer appointed
General E. P. Alexander as temporary
reoeiver. -
Willis F. Westmoreland.
Atlanta, Ga, May 27,1893.
The affidavit was sworn to before Ur.
B. D. Mann, notary public. *.
DAN DENIES IT.
DanW Rountree made an affidavit
yesterday denying the Westmoreland
story.'
’That the statement in tbat tffidav 1
contained tbat deponent stated to Dr.
Westmoreland that Judge Speer had
told deponent tbat there was a fine op
portunity for an ambitious your.g law
yer to make fame and money by filing
a bill to pat the Central railroad in the
hands of a reoeiver, and that under his
railings he would be bound to grant
the prayer of snch a bill, is untrae.
"This deponent says that 'he never
bad such ^—conversation with Judge
Speer as is detailed in the said affidavit”
Rountree gives the details of an inci
dental conversattop with Judge Speer,
remotely oonneottd with the Central
ease, burin noway to the effect charged
in Weamoreland’s affidavit
MR. RUCKER.
GIVES SOME INTERESTING FACTS
ON THE WATERWORKS CASE.
AND TELLS OF THAT
CITY TAXES.
The council has decided it impraoti-
tble to postpone the colleotfon of the
city taxes. If the first installment is
not paid by July 1st, the law requires
me to issue executions for the whole
amount of the tax for the year.
Please pay promptly, as it will be
impossible to collect it all on the last
day. A. L Mitchell,
Clerk of Council.
MADE VICE PfiESIDENT.
Major Johh C. Winder Elected Vice
President of the seaooard Air Line.
Major John C. Winder, who has been
the general manager of the Seaboard
Air-Line railroad for the past fifteen
years, was at Monday’s meeting of the
board of directors of that road held in
Baltimore elected vice president. This
is but a befitting compliment to Major
Windex’s executive ability in the rail
road business, and a wiser or more con
servative selection conld not have been
made. General Manager Winder will
still have his headquarters aj Raleigh,
N. C., and his recent promotion will
not be the cause of .any changes in the
Seaboard’s management.
Major Winder has hosts of friends
and at quaintances in this oity and
throughout the state in and out of the
railroad fraternity, who will be greatly
pleased to hear of this deserved promo
tion. Since his conneotion with the
Seaboard Air-Line he has always given
that time and attention to the manage
ment of the road tbat few m n connec
ted with that line could have done. He
has labored assiduously in making the
road what it is today and no one is
more fully competent to be 'at the
road’s bead than is Major Winder.
Major Winder is the father of Mr.
John-H. Winder, the popular and effi
cient division superintendent of the
Ssaboard Air-Line in this city. Like
his father Superintendent Winder is
coming to the front in the profession
he has taken up, and some day he will
be recognized with ^the some distinc
tion —Constitution. —'
And How it was That it was
Not Pleaded in the New
York Courts—The De
tails of the Matter.
FOR BENT.
A nice house. Apply to 129 Wash
ington street. 125
THE LADIES.
The pleasant effect and perfect safety
with which ladies may use the Cali
fornia liquid laxative Syrup of Figs,
under all conditions, makes it their fa
vorite remedy. To get the true and
genuine article, look for the name of
the California Fig Syrup Co., pri ted
near the bottom of the package.
Hon T. W. Rucker, ex oity attorney
of Athens, is in the oity.
He did not go to New Yorkwith the
mayor and the committee of oitizsns,
and of course is not coquizant of the
hut trip of the Athens people to the me
tropolis.
Mr. Rucker had a few things to say
on the subject of waterworks yesterday
and to a reporter gave a fall statement
cf all his conneotion with the matter,
saying that. be had nothing in the
world to conceal in the matter and in
all he had done had acted solely for the
best interests of Athens and her peo
ple.
THE FIRST LITIGATION.
Mr. Rucker said: "The first time I
wenton to New York in this matter, I
had an interview with the attorney of
the Equitable Mortgage Company,who
was then representing the city. This
was early in March and Mr. A. H.
HoJg cn vas with men This att me/
assured us that there waa no trouble in
the case and that the injunction wonld
be dissolved. He said it was not neoes-
eaiy for the city to become a party,and*
advised ua to get oat of the oity in or
der to avoid the servioe of papers upon
os, and that he wonld oommonioato
with us if necessary.
"My next trip to New York was late
in March. I received a telegram from
Mr. Hodgson to meet him at the Metro
politan hotel in Washington. I met
him there and we wenton to New York.
Before we reached New York, Mr.
Hodgson told me that he had retained
the firm of Butler, Stillman A Hubbard
as council for the city, which firm by
the way is recognized as one of the
very hat in New York. We reached
New York at eight o’olook and went
over to Brooklyn about ten,o’olock. The
case waato be heard before Judge Cul-
lom and it was on a. motion to dissolve
^the ir J unction and allow the oity to get
the bonds.
The first time I ever met Mr. Nott
man, of the firm of Butler, Stillman A
Hubbard waa in the court room a few
minutes before the jadge come. Me
had his answer prepared and held it in
his hands- Among his papers was a
Southeastern Reporter cantaining the
Cartersville decision. I saw the ded-
flon and called bis attention to it and
told him the point waa one on which
the oity relied.
"Mr. Nottman said that we had bet
ter answer setting forth the merits of
the esse and relying also on this law
p >int as a matt rj of *afety in view of
the damaging charges in Howell’s com
plaint,bnt that to simply plead the Car
tersville decision would damage the
character of the city.
"I did not shrink my duty in the
matter but
PUT HIM ON NOTICE
that the city cared little about such an
idea, and that she knew she was right
and insisted on taking advantage of the
Cartersville decision. 1
"Nottman then went into the case
and made the point that the complain
ant was not entitled to relief. Jadge
Cnllom dissolved the injunction, and as
Nottman told us, denied further pro
ceedings in the matter, after allowing
us to get hold of the bonds.
"Mr. Hodgson and myself then went
to Mr. Nottman’s office on Wall street
and held an extended conference with
him. We told him that we would like
to settle his bill, but he said be didn’t
know exactly what u mVce it, that he
thought the osse was practically at an
end,but tbat he would advise os of any
thing that might occur.
"In Mr. Hodgson’s presence I insisted
on Mr. Nottman pleading the Carters
ville decision and told him that in
Georgia suoh a case wonld go out of
court on demnrrar. I read him the
Cartersville decision ont of the South
eastern Reporter and told him that in
my judgment it constituted an over
whelming defense. On his table at that
time was lying the following letter
from Erwin & Cobb, which I then and
there read to him.
ERWIN A C BB‘S L'.TTKR,
Athens,
March 20tb,
Mr. John Nottman.
61, Wall street. New York
Dear Sib :—We are requested to send
you theenclosed affll avits to be used
in the hearing of the application for
injunction in the case of Smith vs
Mortgage Company,et al. Mr. A, II
Hodgson has banded you the other af
fidavits He has also given you the
pamphlet oopy of the S. £. Reporter,
conta’ning the case of the Cartersville
Improvement and Gas Company, vs.
the city of Cartersville, which shows
that our superior court h&3 decided that
the oontract the plaintiff relies on in
the praent case is void because not
submitted to the popular vote of the
city as required by our State Constitu
tion.
That the question was not submitted
ie shown by affidavit of A. EL Hodgson
which yon have.
The case made by the complaint of
Smith would be demmred out of court
in Georgia very speedily, and we be
lieve it will meet the same fate in
inNsw York.
Assuming that the Athena water
Works Company, or the New York
Water Supply Company, (limited) have
a valid oontract with the city, and that
the oity violated it (neither of which is
true) we do not see how the plaintiff
can stop the isene and sale of the bonds
he has impounded. So far as the
plaintiff is oonoerned, the oity of
Athens may issue and sell bonds ad
libitum for any purpose. The tax pay
ers and the proposed purchasers woold
be alone oonoerned.
Yours very touly,
Erwin A Cobb.
’’’In June I waa notified that the oase
wonld come np again in Brooklyn. I
went to New York with Messrs. Took
and Hodgson. We went over to
Brooklyn and found Mr. Nottman with
Judge Bartlett <who was to try the case.
Mr. Howell’B attorney moved to con
tinue on the ground that he was en
gaged in another court, and over onr
protest Ju'ge Bartlett continued the
case until Jane 26th.
"We went back to New York and
went to Mr. Nottman’s offloe where we
held another conference. Hodgson left
after a while. Tuck and I remained.
Mr. Nottman asked us to get out onr
interrogatories, and then in discussing
the matter of oompsnsation stated that
the town woold get out well by pay
ing 12 600.
"1 found that Mr. Nottman had not
plead the Cartersville decision and
called his attention to it. He aaid that
he waa under the impression that the
illegality of the oontract could be set
up under the pleadinga in their then
shape, but that he was not sure about
it. Ho said the statutes of New York
were very liberal in the matter of
amendments. At my suggestion an
amendment was then made pleading
the invalidity of the oontract and the
farther defense that the city could not
grant an exclusive franchise to any
corporation.
"Mr. Nottman said he would file the
amendments if on investigation he came
to .the conclusion that the Cartersville
deoision couldn’t be used exoept by
special plea. He kept the amendments
and said he wonld file them if th&NeW
York practice required it. When 1 got
back to Atlanta I received a telegram
from Nottman asking whether or not
file amendments. I replied telling him
to file'it necessary to plead invalidity
of oontract. The first intimation I had
of the disallowance of amendments was
a letter from Mayor Tuck a week ago,
he having learned it from Mr. Morris,
the Athens attorney.of Mr, Howell.
"That ie all of my connection with
the matter and Messrs. Hodgson and
Tuck will £ear me ont in what I have
said.’
WHY DON’T YOU
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF
PRICES AT
LOW
IICIIIEL BROIBEBS
■y
Take Hood’s
spring medicine and
purified
Sarsaparilla, the bat
blood p
1 purifier.
WHY DO WE DIE.
Trial statistia classified shows the
respiration organs to he the feeblt
point in man. Diseases of the lung*
are ont of all proportion in fatality.
Take Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of
Sweet Gam and Mullein for coughs
colds and consumption.
IB siLKEN"TIEs"
The Marriage of Mr. W. A. Harris to
Miss Leila May Armlstead.
Yesterday morning at ten o’clock,
the home of Mrs. M. F. Armistead, of
Crawford, was the scene of a happy
wedding, the contracting parties being
her lovely and accomplished daughter,
Miss Leila May and Mr. Walton A.
Harris of this oity.
The maraiage was quiet, beautiful
and impressive. Rev. J. F. Cheney, of
Crawford, in a most impressive man
ner, performed the ceremony that made
them man and wife. The happy
young couple were the recipients of
many hearty congratulations on the
part of their many friends.
They came directly to AthenB where
in the future they will reside. Mr.
and Mrs. Harris will leave to day for
the mountains where they will spend
several days, being at home to their
friends after Only tenth.
Mr. Harris is one of our most popu
lar young business men, and by his
During Their Stock Taking
| Money Saving Sale—Eve
rything Going at As
tounding Reductions.
pah-* 3 ' 68 0x,ord Tie8 » Patent Tip 75 0
pa^ ieS Don8:ola Kld Oxfords $126
Children Opera Slippers 50c.'pair.
chuX Q . Embr ° tdered SU * Handk «>
em L b'iid£d! 1 2S. H “ dk£Ichle£8 ’ hea ^
H^Ia Jn3t Eiga]u mado Past Black
Ladiw BUoic silk Mitts 20o pair.
*1 * Tl “ ue h °«m«Gowm,
9126 less than oat of material.
Ltdia Black Parasols 75 j.
Straw Matting to close at
$ 5 T °°» 4® 60 and 67 60 per roll of 40 yds.
Ladia Gauze Under vats 7o.
redurtion MUalln Und “ we " at great
Cut prioa in Ladia Chemise.
Cut Prioa in Lsdia Night Gowns.
Cat prioa in Ladia Skirt!
Cut prioa in Ladies Drawers.
Out prioa in Ladia Corset Covers
IS:
Ladia Shirt Waists at 40e <>-.
75c, $100. a* we, 6Uo, 65c,
Ammonia 8o bottle.
Linen Towels 8o-
Linens Towels 14c.
Turkish Bath Towels, the iar»«t
size made, 25o. largest
MICHAEL BROTHERS.
CITF NOTES.
For Rent.—Three convenient rooms
in "Hodgson bouse” on Oconee street
Apply to Klein 4b Martin.
Jonbs Watermelons.—The Jona
Watermelons on sale at L. Bertling 4b
Co’s. *
o “ j T “ nu »
Lyndon’s Drug Stork.
For Rent—New cottage on Barber
street. Apply to C. A. Scud pin.
A New Way:—One of onr horse
swappers has a way of his own in keep
ing books. He sold a mule to a negro
for seventy-fire dollars and made the
following entry on his book: “A nig
ger” one mu’e $75 00. Heisnowalittle
troubled to find the right nigger as
there are a groat many who buy mules.
A New Store.—Mr. Alph Bailey,the
engineer, has opened a store at the cor
ner of Broad and Foundry street. Mr.
Bailey will do a good business and keep
i nice stock of goods.
Bond Holdens Coming.—All the
bond holders of the M. 4b N. road will
arrive in the oity to-day, to inspeot the
road.
K.or p. Officers —The following
officers for the St Elmo Lodge, Si of
P. have been elected for the ensuing
term: Chancellor Commander, Gaorga
T. Hodgson: Vice Chancellor Com
mander, E. W. Charbonnier; Master of
the Work, A- J. My rick; Master at
Ama^W. P. Vaunderan, Prelate, to J.
Memorial Exercises.—Yesterday af
ternoon at five o’olook the Missionary
Sooletia and the Sunday School of the
First Methodist church held memorial
exercises in memory of Mrs. John W.
Nicholson. Several beautiful tributes
to the lamented dead were road before
that meeting and the exercises were in
every way worthy of the memory of
her of whom they spoke.
She is Recovering —Miss Daisy
Colbert, after quite a spell of sickness,
is recovering, much to the delight of
her many friends.
Glenn Lodge.—At a well attended
meeting of Glenn Lodge IO O F last
nignt the following officers were eleo f -
ed: J E Gardner, N G; T S Mell, V
G; J H Griffith BS; J H Stone and
Rev. D U Oliver representatives to the
Grand Lolge, A H Saye and C W Parr
dternata.
To Play Ball.—Information has
been received to the effect that' At
lanta will send a professional base ball
team down next Monday to play a se
ries of three games, Monday, Tuesday,
and Wednesday, with a picked team
from Athen’s best. , t
marriage brings to th* Classic City I
Mechanics National Bank, Equitab.e most lovely and accomplished bride.
ai.. Should investigate.
Editor Banner:—Policeman Pope
Davis was discharged for making araid
in a gambling den, now is it not fair
for the police committee to take up Po-
licmen Goodrum and Rose for raiding
a den Saturday night. Policeman Dae
vis got knocked down while trying toN
make the arrest, but Goodrr m and Rose
were a little more suocessful.
Citjzbw,