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VOL. 1. HARAISON ~ BANNER T A — | PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. Anl. FITDS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1884 ' TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : it —— One copy one year,. .............:$1.25 One copy six months,. ..............:09 One copy Ehrce manAths, - o i Lo 40 PROTFESSIONAL CARDS N MDD IARTTINIT AAT J C TRENTHAM | PHYSICIAN & SURGEQON, | PorrAß BpRINGs,. - « GA,, ! Offers his services to the neople o 1 Haralson county. He is also pr(»? pared for Dentistry. Canbe found | at all times at his brother’s [A ]l Trentham Jresidence. ; W P PORINS t W. P.ROBINSON | _ ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, : BUCHANAN ......... (x' _ Claims Collected, Titles to Land | looked after and intruders ejected. | Hfffce in Court house. i L ; mok A ‘ W. F. ROBERTSON, _ PHYSICION & SVBGEON, BUOrANIN o oy Gy Offers his services to the people of| Haralson county. Obstetries and {diseases of women and children a Speciality. § §. i o 1 W. . BROWN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, ?.x};lmmxrqxr N R G ;Wili I'ir:_il(;t\iyq,in Carroll, Haralson ‘.‘mtl(:)l;ifjuinhig‘(‘ri»‘unti(\s. l ‘ollection a speciality. ; _;'- TIATY \“/l (Ia 1114,14\[)7 l ATTORNEY-AT-LAW; lstfY}'l‘AN:A_}i.‘_.._ )i GA, Wil -practice in the Romeé Circuit, and inZCarioll and adjoining Coun- Hes. Also, in the Federal Coutts in * Atlanta. Office in the Court house. W. W, & 6. W. MERKELL, AL ANYERS, CAKROLUTON,, ... ... .GA, will atfend all thie Terms of ithe Supericr,, Court; - for Haralson (ounty, of atiy Where elge, where business miay call them. Equify and Land Titigation a speciality : e oo : e G i J. M. M’BRIDE, _ ATTORNEY-AT-LAW; BodBANAN. L Will Practice m tite. Courts of the Rome;Citguit, and m. Carroll dnd and Douglag Countics. . go i L Jo : i SMITH & RICHARDSON, IPHYSICL\NS & SURGEONS, » BUCHANAN; ..t o B 4 . DLW . PARKER, BRE.\IE.N\.. ¥ G e SO Offers his Services as Physician of many ~years eéxpeiience. Cases treated.at” his Office at _nmderute pharges %’m‘ cash or,, barter. He keeps Medicine and Lingps for sale. Ee o L a 0 S. P. EDWARDS, . ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, i ot . o i BUCHANAN,,. . .2 iveneiinnopn . GA, © Practices in Haralson and adjoiri ing Counties. = ..~ _ Office in Cowrt House. il z 7 ; (st £ e 4o + = :fll o —4481933 41 gsd: :%r - pUE @ é doLyHesal ¥ apat o S, ) :‘ & fl _/; VGRS 6, HARAISON BANNER. GENERAL NEWS, | Near High Shoals, there lives a man who is said to be” the biggest cater in America. At one sitting he consumed two large chicken | pies, an entire hog, a peck of bis cuit, two gallons of coffee and oth er things in proportion. Parties of ten club in and buy food just to see the fellow eat.—Athens Banner. The Columbus papers report the commencement of the work of gra ding the Greenville extension of the Columbus and Rome road. The construction g under the 'chm‘ge of Mr. M. E. Gray, who starts out with a force of 50 hands, !which will soon be increased to one Thundred. As soon as the entire dis= tance is Jocated and side-staked, a harg(rr force will-be put on the crm-—i struction and the work will be rap lidly pushed forward. 1 Jesse D. Gunt, of Monroe, the [slnyer of his father, has been liber- l latcd as a result of the inquest held | yupon the body of his father, W. R. Gunn, the verdict being “justifin ble homicide.” The latter, it scems, ihml a shotgun loaded with buek shot in Madison recently, ‘ and remarked at {the time ‘that he intended to kill his son ‘with it. He upon arriving at the ‘house of Jesse Gunn, called him out of the house with that inten tion, andin coming forth the son shot his father with a pistol, put ting one ball in his shoulder and another between his eyes. The farmers of this section have nothing to grumble 4t so far. Corn never looked better, and good stands are the universal report. Cotton, while not looking <o well, promises to jump up as soon.as the sun gets a chance. Garden veg ctables.are simply splendid in ev ery quarter. As yet we have heard no complaints abotit labor, but it l'nromiscs to he short during the sumimer monfths. —Jim Robinson, the boss hunter: of the Furlow plaiitation, below iLum:u‘, had a fight with {fwo wild catslast week, fte largest of which weighed 20 pounds. With the aid of bis dog and gun he huntfed them to their. cave, .and after & hard fight killed them. When caught sight of one of them was making way.with the half of one of Capt. Tohb's Lilly goat.—Americus Re sorder, TERRIBLE WIND STORM. . Kaxsas, Crry, Mo., May |.=fhe Journal’s speeial {1 Coffi ville, Kansas says : The most destruetive wind storm vigited this<city yesterday afternoon. The new Christian church nearly completed, was entirely demolished. Its roof was carried upon a dwelling house adjacent, crushing a portion;of the huilding to at oms. A woman with a babe in her arms | narrowly escaped. Hedden & White's store and other buildings were badly dunulg&l.:;}i‘ugn sQr five (l\\"(‘llin;f.s‘ wer unroofe | and ¢hvefal hapns’ were blown down. Rain fellin tor nte during the storm. : WasHINGTON, May I.—The debt state ment, issued to-day, shows the decrease of the public debt during the month of April, tobe - § 5,242,075 00 Decrease of dgbt since June 30, 1383 87,070,474 00 Cagh ingthe Preasury 399.753,206 06 Geld ce tificttes outs standing - 101,116,200 06 #ilyer certificates out: standing 116,374,231 00 Certificates of deposit 5 outstanding 15 13,125;000 06 Refunding certificates 5 outstanding . 208;450 00 Legal tenders oent- o] . standing .. 846681,016 00 Trartional currénicy; fiot - ineluding the amount estimated ay lost or de> Pl gtroyed ; 6,062,107,00 A Pateh That Wil swing . v T Lok R | Fowt By, Ark, April 98.— Thos, 1. Thomson, Dan’l Junes, ‘white mep, Jack Womankiller, a Chetochee, Jonh Davis, a Choctaw, tand Fa’;fitfi; Echols. a negress; con | victed in the U. 8. ¢ourt of murder linthe Indlan Territory dind Mat | Music, a negtas convicted ofape in | the Indias Dexyitorf, were seatanc 'd to be hanied Friday, July 11th eA G Bg S e B R AT e T N B o O BUCHANAN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1884, Hon. J. C. Clements is clearly the choicest of the democrats of this district for reclection to congress, and any man who antagonizes him in the convention or out of it will surely be defeated.-=Marietta Jour nal. Lynched By Negroes. Vickspuka, Miss.,, April 28— Samuel T, Wilson, a convict guard on Richardson’s plantation, on Washington bayou, was lynched by a negro mob last night. The lat ter claim that Wilson made bae convicts beat a negro insensible and then trow him into the river. A posse is still scouring the coun try for Jim Smithson, who murder od his father-in-law, John Blacken ship, en last Tueslay ev nings Blackenship was a poor farmer 60 years old, living 20 miles from here in the mouutiinous section.!Smith son was a trifling fellow, often abu. sing his wife. Blackenship accused him as this and of being untrue jto her. Smithson preduced a pistol, stating that he wag going to kill Blackenship, went to the field where ilie old man was plowing and shot him dead in his tracks. The govsnor willoff era good reward %y hiis arrest. : On last Wednesday, Willie, a son of Mr. Jdames Howel, who Itves tfear Varnell station in the northern por tion of Whitfield county left home for the purpose of returning a bor rowed auger to a neighbor’s. His errand led him through the woods | and calling to his dogs he set off with the remark that he woald re turn shortly. But as the shades of evening was rapidly coming on, and the boy did not make his ap pearance, his parents grew uneasy and a search for the lad was made. About midnight the poor boy was found &tiff and cold in death. The coroner was notified and .repaired | at once to the scene of the tragedy. The hody was removed to Mr. How el's where an inquest washeld. The | verdict of the jury was that tho! youth came to his death by a gun i in his own Lands. It is conjectured | that he was blowing in the gun to ascertain whether or not it wa::‘ loaled, when it firdd and killed | him, Most Cruelly Murdered Des Moine la., April 28.—Infor mation has been received here of the brutal murder of Hiram Jeller- | son, ncar Anderson, in this Statc, Tellergon was 65 years of agé, and fived with his wife on their farm. Saturday niht four ren entered their bedroom, dragged them from bed and pulled the old man's hair and whiskers out by the roots. They | then wrapped his shirt about his| head, dragged him naxed Lo a tl‘m-‘ and hanged him. Mrs. J. came to the door and tried to .alarm the neighitidrs, the neare ¢ of whem liv ol 400 yards away, but the murder ers, who had finished their work and started to ride away, I‘sl'cx'cnt-! od her by threatening to hang her| also. There is no clue to the perpe trators of th” erime, as the night was too dark for Mrs. J. to distin guigh their features. There are strofig suspicions of some of his family are mixed up in the n.nrder.‘ His daughter’s " husband, John Smyth, a hard character, is fi'ce]yl charged with the crime It is also suppesed {hat the old man’s son Cicero, is one of the party wHo ditl the banging. DASHED TO DEATH. ‘ e I, ~ PrrrsßUßG, PENN.—A few nights' azo, while tetnporarily insane, the | wife 6f Hon. Robt: B. Carnahan, of this city, el'u:d;ed the ' vigilence of her watchers and escaped from her home: While wandering ainlessly about in the fdetftfknessgffiw stepped oveithe edgé of Rock Bluff, almost 100 foet h;&g-emhem e e ghany tiver; near Briliant £dation ei e et ke e S AR Her body was found by anengineer on the Alleghany Valley Railroad, at about midnight. The deceased was 20 years of age ! Fiied Dynamites Orticaco Int.—A dispatel to the Daily News, from Blooming, Ind, says: Karly this mornig a fire broke out in a frame dwelling, near Elletsville, Monroe. county. Adjoin ing the burning building was a‘ gmall frame structure belonging to the stone quarrying company, in which was stoved a large quantity of dynamite for Ylasting purposes. The fire reached this building aml} caused a terrific explosion killing Wi, Williams and wounding 13 others. Among those wounded is, Peter Mattlicws, one of the owners of the stone works, | AN EX-GOVERNOR DEAD. Cuarrestowy W. VA, Ex-gover nor Henty Mason Matthews died at Lewisburg lest hight. ~ The news has just been received here of the killing of Sheriff Adkins, of Boone county, who was waylaid, murdered and his body horribly mutilated. There is little doubt but that the deed was committed by an organized band of outlaws “James gang,” as Adkins has been zealous in hringtiig ti offenders to justice, An armed [posse are scouring the country in pursuit of the assassing. AcwortH, Ga.~Yesterday during noon recess of the Acwortd high gchodol several or the boys went (o Proctor’s creek, bathing, among them LeeZAlien, son of Mr. J. B. 4l len, one of our substdntial farmers. After they had been in the. water but a few minutes, Lee was seen siuking to rise no more alive. The Boys made heroic efforts to save him, but made the discvoery ov his danger too late. Before assistance could be rendered and bis body fished for from the bottom he was dead. Dr. James McConnell did all he could to restore him, but noth. ing would avail anything. The shock wes 4 terrible one f© the whol% contmunity, especially his pa rents. He was about 16 years of age. He wasa good boy and loved by all who knew him. The entire commu nity sympathizes with th? bercaved famils HLYDROPHOBIA. On Friday afternoon a young col ored woman, named Annie Smith, died on the Fill, of hydrophobia. The girl ¥as bitten exsictly hine months ago by a dog which showed every symptom of hydrophobii and both the girl and her parents were in - constant dread that - she might at any time be taken with the terrible malady, mere especial- Iy at sonle specified period after having been Dbitteri—nine days, webld or meiths. She was first taken sick about a week dgo, and as she had been particularly fear fug this time, she &t once conclu. ded that her tronble was that aw ful “iiglady, hydrophobin. She grely rapidly worse and at the sight of water yas thiown inte con vulsions. She would ask for water, and, whed Brought so her would grasp the tuuabler, '10\5,51( at ghe wa ter, then dash lit from her and fall fall bagk in spasms. Dr. Wileox gayw the givl and endeavored to give her soine soothing dese, which she tried to swallow, but failed, -her thigat Peing 48 dry as parchment. She iihgered in this terrible condi tion,suflering great agony, until TFriday after noon she became un congeious and shortly aftérwards ‘died. The girl in hey suffering was sometimes very much excited, but Gffered |no personal injuty to any one. The dog that bit her had beén running loose, exhibiting all the symptoms qgf_‘hvd,'rophobia{.' This is the first cage of the kind occurring in Augus ta for five years and was a clear daso of hydsophobin. Tho gl was for sevaraldays without water and 'ny—Augusta Chronicle, - ~ The Georgia Pacific, | The various rumors concerning the resumption of work on the G. P. railway have lead the people to inquire {or general facts on the subject ; so the Chronicle interview ed Manager Johngston this miorning and elicited from him the following information. Said he: “The board of directors of the Richmond and Danville extention company at tireir meeting in N. Y, last week resolved to proceed at once and build the road from Coal burg to Crain erveck, which isthe unfinished gap between Atlanta and Columbus; Mississippi ” “\What is the lengths of this gap?” inquired the Clironicle. “Only 44 miles, but a rough coun. try it is; rocky and hilly, and we must bridge the two forks of the Warrior river. “What is the centire distance from Atlanta to Columbug,” we ask ed. Atlanta to Coalburg is 177 miles, completed : Coalburg to Crain creck 44 miles, nncompleted ; Crain creek to Columbusis 76 nules, completed ‘This makes the entire length of the road from Atlanta to Columbus 13297 miles.” “When will you begin work?”’ was our next inquiry. : ST am going to lut out ten milex, commencing at Coalburg and going west, immediately, and the othe part a little later; but there will be noneeesfity of work until the gap is filled.” “Is the line frolm Columbus to Cain creek doing any business now?”? 7 “Yes we are running tii-weekly trains out there and are building uy a business. You knoew the Alabawma and Mississippi and the Virginia and Alabama idinide companies are opening mines out there, and we shall comtirence haulitig coal from them next weex. The Virginia and Alagama company are- con strreting a short railroad to con- nect sonte of their mines with the Georgia Pacific near Crain creex.” “What about the Sheflield rond ?» “Well, it is understood that they will connect withus somewhere west of the Warriorriver, I have ne pos. itive information on this Foili.” The Chronicle then asked Major Johnston what was the general feel ingamong the Richmond and Dan ville people in rezard 67 Birming ham which he answered : ‘They believe that Birmingham and this section of Alabama are now ¢oing through a thovongh test, The depressed state of iron market makes the test, ani if your city goes through this she is &ifc i . e . and “ur people wil believe you wilj have; a great. city here, with = growth beyofid the reach of panies oranything else. If they did not have a good deal of faita in the fut ure of your own town and section, it i« hardly reasonable to suppose thal they would be spend ng ro much meney down here. They are putting] down thousands upon thousands of doliars in , the development of this section.”—Birmingham Chron icle. ‘ LYRCHING THE ROBBERS. - CiiarLpsion, W, Va.—Ata late hour last night Seott IHill and Browitow Hilj were I‘r:ln-{;::g(ael_("»_q an, ¢lin tln-c e mile west of the Tolwn by & maob .of ive bun ‘;‘h'ul men, who were unmasked. Thoe nob captured the Tl boys jrom the gnard at the hotel, took théw to the place named; fas.eted a haltinehe colton ecrd: around their, necks, threw the other enl over a convenient limb and sent for Rey . Stumpe, who duestioned the desipera does ilo their crimes. Scott Hill con= dessed that he and Jack. lobsong last Raturday night, visited the home of ex- Sheriff Atking, of Boone county, deman ded his money and were refosed. Hill then shot him and left him for dead. The robbers then wentte Spurleek’s resi dence on Main Mudgiver. The two Hills and Spurlocks then visited Wood’s resi | dence where théy expected to secure | $2,500. They blacked their faces, enter ed the house and deinanded -thie #uey, but wrre refused. One -of - the robbers | wereknocked down by old man Woods, Vwho Was shot Three times. The robbers were then shot at several times b! lflwfi Wonds, who had been attracted gofiq.‘.:».z Lther's room. The villains could notie stand the fire and fled. . They saw youn; v;.' Woods going across a field and believed = he was aftor help. Scott Hill said .v‘fl‘r::'r shot at young Woods fifty yards away, where he was found a few hours ht.e dead with a bullet through his heart and * awound in the mym. After the Qon!eu~? jon Rev. Mpr. Stumpe was asked ta s prav. When the religious services were over several stont men took hold of the : ropes and pilled the bodies of the twe [lil'B three feet clear from the ground and. fastened the ropes. They returned w'h‘y " villave, l(-:n'ing’ tl}c bodies;_,fign lingigt” the air, a_ warning tdevflfi'fi%s . The s Lodies were left hanging two or three ¢ hours, and were then cut down, faken - to the village and placed.in an underta~ kine establishmeut, where they were viewed by hundteds -of people. The moks was orderly. Spurlock was rescued trony the mob and brought to this city thid morning, where he ‘ in jail. Much e=s ¢ tement prevaily hereland in St. Albans, and it is feared the mob will make’ axn effort to take him out and hang him. Tha officers who brought him here, together with the “prisoner; walked twelve miles to reach - the jai's - Spurlock’s confegsion is substantialiy i & saine as Seott Hill’s, but he adds that he did pavrt of the shooting. The band ii composed df over one } hundred [mr:< derers, who are sworn to proteet eacir other. He says that the Hills have been iperating for two years and have. killed. four men and woulded several, He has a wife and children; and hig house was, the meetmg place for she band. oOld man Woods ¢annot recover. The rol.- bers were identified by Miss Woods Spurlovk hag liverl a number of yea & - near Woods, and knew he had money iir the house, 5 Bring you¥ ¢ ocks, Watches & Jewelry to xh I‘IESTERLY, ; BUCHANAN, - - s = GAd and have thein repaived i the best of Btyle. All fvork warranted; ; B MOORE & GR L & Lhotn 1 Al ' BUCHANAN; (it S Willdo all varictics of Buggy & - wagon répairing; Iron and wood work, cheap. Special ~attentiort given to Horsesshoeing, ; R e T R NSS S R S s<. AT NIRRT R (O MDANIEL & CO - . el TALLAPOOSA; 5 « GAS :-—!féiilbrb in— _ Drugs, Puints; Oils, Glass, Books and Statiovnaery, Givethém a call re . : . F. R SMITH, DR.F. R SMITH, Buehndn; - - . Ga —DEALER IN== ' Drugs, Paints, Oils, Glasy, Sta u tionary &e. Dragstose South of Court l.i.ollb;(*»b o L A >N | I YOUARE - \. : : | a oo . | WEEE Q%7 “ i NI TR ! 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