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VOLUME VIII.
Church Di rec cry.
METHODlST.—Duuolasviixk— First, tb ,
Mid fifth Stfhdnyn.
bALTSprings—Second Bnnd<y, tu <1 Sntnr «
before.
Midway—Fourth Sunday, and Kilnwbu I
fore- W. ICFKH E.l’asiok
Bapi Ist—Doaglanville, first and fourth Sun
day#. Itav. a. B. Vaughn, pastor.
Masonic,
I> uirlaaville Txidgc, No. 289, F. A. Jl.,meetß
on Saturday night before the first and third
Sundays in eurh month. J. 11. Carter, VV. M.,
W. J. Camp, Secy.
County Directory.
Ordinary—ll. T Cooper.
Clerk—B. N. Dorsett.
Sheriff—Renrv Ward.
Deputy Sheriff—G, M. Souter.
Tax R •ceiver—E. H. Camp.
Tax Collector—W. A. Sayer.
Treasurer—Samuel Shannon.
Surveyor—John M. Huey.
Coroner—F. M. Mitchell.
F BUI-KRIOIt COURT.
Meets on third Mondays in January and July
and holds two weeks.
Judge—Hon. Samaon W. Harris.
Sol. Genl.—Hou. Hairy M. Reid.
Clerk—B. N. Dorsett.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
COUNTY COURT.
Meets in quarter)v session on fourth Mon
days tn February, May, August and November
and holds until ail the eases on the dock t are
called. In monthly session it meets on fourth
Mondays in each month,
Judge—Hon. R. A. Massey.
Sol. iienl.—Hon. W. T. Roberta.
Bailiff-D. W. Johns.
ordinary’b court
Meets for ordinary puiqiOMCs on first Monday,
and for county purposes on first Tuesday tn
each mon tli.
Judge—Hon. H. T. Cooper.
JUSTICES COUDTR.
780th Dint. G. M. meets firstThnrsdnvin each
month. J. I. Feely, J. P., W. H. Cash, N. I’.,
D. W. Johns and W\K. Hunt, L. C.
736th Di't. G. M., meets second Saturday.
A. It Bomar, J. I'., B. A. Arnold, N. J’., 8. C.
lea ger, L. C.
784th Disk G. M. meets fourth Saturday.
Franklin Carver. J. P C. B. Baggett, N. I‘.,
J. C. .Inin*, arwi M. S. (lore, 1.. (la.
1269th f» tt. G. M. meets third Saturday. T.
M. Hamilton. M. L. Yates, N. I’., 8. W.
BJggi is. L.C., 8. J. Jourdan, L. 0.
ISCiOih Diet., G. meets third Saturday. N.
irii^'L 11 *'' J i*"' A.
12715 t Dist. G. M. meets flint Saturday. C.
C. Clinton, J. I’. Alberry Hembree, N. P_,
- >L- 0-
1272nd Diet. G. M. race's fourth Friday
Geo. W, Smith, J. I’., C. J. Robins.m, N. E,
1273rd Diet. G. M. meets tliird Friday. Th'*.
White, J. E, A. J. Bowen, N. E, W. J.Jlaibiu,
Professional Cards.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
DOOai.ASVU4.E, G.V.
(Office In front room, Dorsett's Building., j
Will practice anywhere except in the County :
Court of Douglass county.
w. a. James,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will practice in nil the courts, Elate »n i
Federal. Ofllce on Court House Square,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
WM. T. ROBERTS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the Courts. All kga '
DnnineM will receive prompt attention. Ofllce
In Court House.
I > <A M 1».
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
DOUGLASVILLE, GA
Will pra. tiee in all the rotirla. Ah btuhitw i
intuiKhd to him will itxivlveprompt attention. '
8. G. GRIGGS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOU ST. AS VILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts, State and
Federal.
JOHN mTeDGT I
ATTORNEY AT LAW. i
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in ail the courts, and promptly I
attend to all business entrusted to Idaoaro. '
J. S. ■
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practise in ins courts of Douglass,
CWinpbeU, Cwroll, Fanlding. Cobh, Fulton and
adjoining ootiuUcs. Prompt attention given
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DOUGLASVILLE GA.
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FAWNING TO EONE-CH ARITY TO ALL.
DOUGLASVILLE. GEORGIA. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1886-
THE GREAT RACE. j
THE MAYFLOWER WINS THE
AMERICA CUP.
Crowds to Witness !he Great Race—Great
Excitement ut the Finish—Mayflower
Two Miles Ahead.
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TH® AMERICA’S CUP.
It has been decided upon which side
of the Atlantic the American cup shall
stay, for at least another year. It re
sulted in a glorious victory for the sloop
Mayflower. When she finished, at 6h, 1
m., 40s.,the Galatea was nearly two miles
astern. The course was twenty miles to
the leeward and return from Scotland
lightship. The race was sailed in a
breeze that blew fresh from the north
west for three hours. Then canting two
points to the westward it fell light, the
lust hour of the contest being little bet- i
Cer than a rift The Mayflower only had ;
eight minutes and twenty seconds spare
time when she crossed the finish line, as '
the time of limit of the race was seven i
hours. The Galatea was defeated on ev- |
cry point of sailing by the Mayflower. :
In the run out to the outer mark, with ;
spinnakers set, she was beaten thirteen
minutes and forty-five seconds, and in
the windward work over half an hour.
There is great rejoicing among yacht
men here, while the Bostonians are fairly
wild with delight.
The judges’ boat, Luc kcnbach, for the
third time left pier 3, East river; this
time a half houit earlier than usual, the
committee, Messrs Chase and Robinson. ,
being anxious to start the yachts early
from Sandy Hook. By 8:45 the Luck- i
enback and Scandinavian had taken the
Galatea and Mayflower in tow and were j
leaving Bay Ridge for the starting point.
As they proceeded, the breeze freshened. {
and there was every indication of enough j
wind to furnish a fine day’s sport. Off
Whistling buoy at 10:15 the Galatea was :
cast off. Her crew soon made sail,while
the Mayflower’s crew did the same, both
setting club topsails. When the judges’
boat ran alongside the Galatea, Lloyd
Phenix, representing the New York
yacht club, told the regatta committee,
that Lieutenant Henn was very sick in
the cabin and that he wished the course
to be made fifteen miles instead of !
twenty,'«o as to be sure to finish within \
! a reasonable time. In case it should
1 ('alm, he wished the Luckenbach to tow
j the cutter back, if the race was not com
pleted early, so he could see a doctor.
Secretary Robinson said he would con- j
i suit with General Paine as to the length j
I of the course. That gentleman said be
would leave the matter in the hands of
the committee. They decided that the
course should be southeast twenty miles,
; and steaming back to the Galatea that
1 course was given them. Captain Brad
| ford was sailing the cutter. Beavoir
i Webb looked after the sails, while Mrs.
Henn peeped out of the companion way
! with an anxious look in her eyes, for her
■ husband’s condition alarmed her.
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THZ MAYFLOWER.
At 10:35 Messrs. Hyslop and Olsen, on
board the Scandinavian, were given their
coujse and told to start as quickly as pos
tible and log out twenty miles. She start
ed from Scotland lightship at 10:40. The
| preparatory whistle was given thirty
| minutes later, when she was well down
in the distance. As the race was to be
| dead before the wind and the yachts
would carry all the light sails, the com
mittee thought it best to give the tug a
good start.
A fleet of steam and sailing craft,
nearly as large as that of Thuradav, had
by this time aaaembkxl near the starting
J point.
When the start was given at 11:20. the
Mayflower was in excellent position,
i square to the northwest of an imaginary
line drawn between Scotland lightship
I and the Luckenbaeh. lying a cable s
length to the northward of it. Her
| spinnaker boom was down to the port,
. and thirty seconds after the signal the
great rail blossomed out amid wild cheers
•
from thousands on the Grand Republic.
With her main boom broad off to the
standard, her pyramid of snowy duck
gleaming in the sunlight and a smother
of foam at her sides, the Boston beauty
dashed across the line well in the lead.
The cutter was full quarter of a minute
to the westward when the whistle blew.
She came along with the wind abeam till
she crossed the bow of the lightship close
aboard, then squaring away, her spinnaker
was sheeted out exactly on line, and the
third day’s battle had begun. The offi
cial time of the start was: Mayflower, 11,
22,49; the Galatea, 11, 24, 10. The
sutter was one minute thirty seconds it
the sloop’s wake. With a twenty mile
run before them, there was an excellent
shance to test the speed in a steady
oreeze. That a stern chase is a long one
was never better illustrated than in that
twenty mile run. For about twenty
minutes the Galatea held her own with
the sloop, but after that v r as practically
out of the race, for the Mayflower was
leading her nearly a mile when half the
distance to the outer mark was covered.
Steamboat captains regarded past warn
ings and kept well away.
At 12:50 the outer mark hove in sight,
and in half an hour the fleet of steamers
numbering thirteen in all, had gathered
around it to await the yachts. The wind
had fallen light and had canted a point
to the westward. Down they came like
white-winged birds on wing. The May
flower’s balloon jib topsail came in at 1:41
30. Four minutes later in came her spin
naker, and at 1:53 she gibbed to port and
came for the mark close hauled on star
board tack, luffing grandly around it a
few moments later. The Galatea gibed
at 1:52,30, having housed her spinnaker
three minutes before. The time of round
ing the outer mark, with elapsed time,
was: Mayflower, turn 1:55,5; elapsed
time, 2:32,25. Galatea, turn, 2:10,20,
elapsed time, 2:46,10. The sloop had
beaten the cutter 13:45.
The Galatea made a very pretty picture
as she laid down to her scuppers and be
gan a chase to windward after the sloop.
Both had about all the wind they wanted.
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THE GALATEA.
Captain Stone put the Mayflower about
at 1:55, and • stood to the northward.
Webb sailed the Galatea. Captain Stone
brought the sloop round again. She was
a mile on the cutter’s weather beam. Two
, minutes before going about the sloop
i took in a club topsail. Both the yachts
i went about at 4:20 and stood to the north.
They were off Deal Beach now, the wind
growing lighter. The Mayflower was
lucky to hold light air under land, with
I Galatea almost becalmed twenty minutes.
! As the Mayflower slowly approached the
j finish the excitement was intense on the
i steamers. There was no fear that the
Mayflower would be defeated, but it was
I feared the limit of time would expire;'
and as all hope was dying out,
| the breeze freshened and the sloop
shot across the finish line, close hauled
•n port tack, just as the sun sank to rest,
with but eight minutes to spare. The
cheering and whistling lasted fully ten
minutes, the crew of the victorious sloop,
i waving and cheering themselves, until
the yacht was long past the finish. The
Boston Herald tug, Henry Roussell,with
Stebbins, artist, on board, towed the
: Mayflower to anchorage. The Galatea
finished thirty-one minutes and twelve
■tconds afterwards. As she came to
anchor, the Mayflower’s crew gave her
three rousing cheers, which the English
men answered. The Galatea is defeated
by twenty-nine minutes and forty-eight
seconds actual, and twenty-nine minutes
and nine seconds, corrected time.
Fireworks were displayed on all the
yachts at Bay Ridge.
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CANDIDATES AND VIOLINS.
A Novel Nishi at the Read Hou»e, Chat.
taaoe*a.
A rare sight, which, perhaps, may not
be witnessed again for centuries, was seen
in the Read House, in Chattanooga,
Term., on Tuesday night. Hon. Robert
L. Taylor, democratic nominee for gov
ernor, and his brother, Hon. A. A. Tay
lor. republican candidate for the same po
sition, occupied the same room st the
hotel. About 10 o’clock a crowd of one
hundred democrats and republicans called
on the gentlemen, and after a general
handshaking two violins were brought
into the room. Both Bob and Alf Tay
lor are fine musicians, and when the mu
sical instruments were placed before them,
each took a violin and played a number
of tunes together. It was certainly a
novel sight—the two brothers sitting
side by side—and as they warmed up,
and the violins gave forth their delicious
strains of the old familiar tunes, the aud
ience of the distinguished brothers knew
no bounds, and applauded vociferously.
The music was highly enjoyad by every
i one present.
EARTHQUAKE IN OHIO.
People living in the coal mining re
gions, embracing four towns and quite a
large range of country, in Akron, 0., were
awakened at four o’dock, Sunday morn
ing by a low rumbling noise, accompa
nied by shocks of earthquake so distinct
that houses were terribly shaken, and ar
ticles on mantles were thrown to the
floor. Several years ago the earth set
tled several feet without apparent cause,
in this region, and the people arc badly
frightened, fearing they will be swallow
ed up. To make matters more unpleas
ant a very large meteor Sunday morning
passed over, shaking up a portion of the
country, traveling close to the earth and
thowing off heated particles every few
feet. The meteor illuminated the coun
try for a great distance, and is supposed
to have struck the earth near the eastern
part of the city, and the shock in that
locality was distinctly felt immediately
after the great fireball passed. Sunday
was one of special prayer by a great
many people.
PANIC IN A CHURCH.
During the celebration of early mass in
Pilgrimage church, in Radna, Transylva
nia, Tuesday morning, a panic wae caused
by the accidental burning of the altar
curtains, which were set on fire by cap
dies. People rushed from the building,
trampling the weak under foot, and num
bers of the occupants of the gallaries
leaped down on the heads of the crowd
below. Several hundred persons were
injured, many seriously.
Later particulars from Radna show
that fifteen persons were crushed to death
and thirty severely and one hundred
slightly injured during the panic in Pil
grimage church, at Vienna.
AN EPIDEMIC IN GAMJNA.
An epidemic prevails among the in
habitants of Avaca, lowa county, Wis.,
which has resulted fatally in many cases.
The disease is of the nature of dysentery,
ending, in cases of children, in spinal
meningitis and death. Thus far it has
been confined to the limits of the village,
and this necessitates the closing of
schools and the abandonment of all pub
lie meetings. The disease is similar to
that w’hich prevailed with such terribly
fatal effect in Galena a few years ago,
and in Spring Green, Wis., in 1884.
Much alarm is felt.
RATHER HALTY.
Hie Canadian government has forward
ed to Secretary Bayard, through the Eng
lish minister at Washington, a demand
for the Immediate and unconditional sur
render of the sealing vessels recently
seized off the Alaska coast by United
States vessels.
Accompanying the demand is a full
history of the case, with the text of the
treaty between England and Rassia, as
well as numerous citations. The docu
ment covers over fifty pages of foolscap.
THE SNAKE AND THE ©HIED.
William R. Dodson and Robert Coch
ran, Jr., killed on Star’s mountain two
. huge rattlesnakes—-one of which had ten
I rattles and the button. It was found
; near a chimney at a log cabin, and a two
year old child not more than a yard away
admiring its beauty. His snakeehip was
in an erect position, the young men say,
and seemed to be admiring the child.
The mother, who was standiug near by,
rescued the child as soon m possibly.
THE OHOLBRA IN ITALY.
The cholera returns from Italy during
the month of July are:
. Ravenna, 8 new cases, 5 deaths; Terre
Dell Annunziata, 15 new cases, 9 deaths;
elite where, 46 new cases, 18 deaths.
Several cases have occurred in Naples
and Genoa. The total number of cases
in Italy since the outbreak of the cholera
is 45,600, and the total number of deaths
14,006.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Miss Mary Anderson announces teat she
will spend the autumn season traveling in
Ireland.
New York Oity pays $18,500 for free out
door concerts in tho various parks this sea
son, and Boston $3,000.
Mnw Julia Wheklbr, late leading lady
with Mlle. Rhea, has been engaged for a like
position with Lotta this season.
Thh Prince of Wales recently attended a
! th< atra in Homberg, and the price of the
seats near his on that occasion were doubled.
It is said that Mr. Wilson Barrett’s scenery
and propertiee, which he will bring to this
country with him from London, win occupy
; a ship space of 250 tons.
Mlle. Fohstrom is announced as Man
! ager Mapleeou’s prima donna for hie English
| provincial aeason, with Sig. Runcia and Sig.
i Del Puente as others of his leading principals.
> j Bernhardt will play but fourteen weeks
( in this country, and will repeat none of her
t engagements. She will present “Fedora,”
“Adrienne,” “Frou-Frou,” “Camille” and
’ - “Le Sphinx.”
’ l Bartley Campbell, the dramatist, stall
- confannes to play billiards with Joe Dion at
s Blooningdale Insane Asylum, New York
e City, and talks in'-oherently about his plays
I ana dramatic company.
. Ojunt Leo Tolstoi, toe Russian novelist,
‘ has just compl ted a plaj' which is based upon
t Ru*>ian legends relating to the invention of
- brandy by the devil. His Satanic Majesty
. plays an important role in the drama.
Mxe. Patti recently rmtertained Henry
’ Abbey, the American theatrical iMoagw, at
r her Welsh caMle. She kept the Ana»rican
flag flying all day Sunday in honor at her
; guest, who says that she lives in royal xtyle
and has over sixty sei vanfes to wait upon
3 bar -
! A unique musical organization will be
heard in Boston this winter in the star
* course. The Alpine Choir and Tyrolese
Company will make their first appearance in
? j America and present one of the peculiar and
fascinating pr -grammes that only the people
of can devise.
NUMBER 33
RELIEF FOR CHARLESTON
Help from the Grand Army of the Republic.
Ex-Governor Lucius Fairchild, of Wis
consin, commander-in-chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic, and Colonel E. B.
Gray, arrived at Charleston, S. C., and
spent the day examining the effects of
the earthquake and consulting with the
mayor and the committee on relief. The
object of Governor Fairchild’s visit is to
see whether it is necessary to make an
appeal to the Grand Army of the Repub
lic for assistance for Charleston. The
situation has been fully explained to him.
At a meeting of the relief committee
of the chamber of commerce, held in
New York on Monday, Treasurer John
Crosby Brown reported that he had re
ceived subscriptions to date amounting
to $59,713, and he was authorized to
send a further twenty thousands to the
mayor of Charleston. Letters were re
ceived from the vicinity of Charleston
asking for assistance, and they were re
ferred to the mayor of Charleston for his
consideration. Wm. E. Dodge, chair
man of the committee, stated that he had
received a letter from Mayor Courtenay,
in which he aaid that climatic and san
itary reasons now compelled a return to
such homes as were habitable. They
could live for a time without plastering
and with other discomforts, and the
people were all cheerful and more calm,
and added that the people of Charleston
would hold as beyond price, through all
time, their identification with the com
mon American citizenship, which came
to them in their great trials. Strong to
help, strong to lift up, Charleston would
never forget all that had been done for
her.
Dr. Simonds, president of the First
National Bank of Charleston, suggested
that a building association should be
formed to loan money at a low rate of
interest to the people of Charleston for
rebuilding the city, and the suggestion
was referred to a committee for consider
ation!
Colonel Sinn, of the Park theater,
Brooklyn, N. Y., states that the benefit
performance given at his theater for the
Charleston sufferers, realized the very
large sum of $5,922. Os this sum the
sales of tickets by the police brought in
$928, while the efforts of the firemen se
cured $493.
At Norfolk, Va., an envelope collec
tion was made for the benefit of the
Charleston earthquake sufferers. One
thousand, one hundred and forty-eight
dollars and eighty-three cents were real
ized.
The fund in Boston for the relief of
the Charleston sufferers amounts to $53,-
293. ‘
CONFESSES THE MURDER.
A i’ennensee Man Acknowledges the Mnrde)
of Mayor Bowman.
Arthur Arthbuthurst, alias A. L. Pitt
man, alias Charles Walker, alias Parsons
recently arrested at Covington, Tenn.,
has confessed to the sheriff of that
county of having murdered the latt
Mayor Bowman, of East St. Louis, on th
20th day of last Novumlier. The sherifl
has sent the confession to the East St.
Louis authorities, and it is in substance
•‘That, while walking in the outskirts oi
East St. Louis, Arthbuthurst was ap
proached by the vice president of one oi
the railroads terminating in East St.
Louis, with a proposition to put Bowman
out of the way. The offer was accepted
and the price agreed to was $3,000.
Arthbuthurst says it was not his inten
tion to kill Bowman, but to kidnap him
and lock him up in a private asylum,
with which he had made arrangements,
and use him as a means of extorting
money from both Bowman and his own
employer. He employed two New York
toughs to assist him. Wlrtn they at
tempted to cany out their kidnapping
scheme Bowman raised an outcry for the
police, and he (Arthbuthurst) shot him
with the intention to disable him, and
was surprised to find that he had killed
Bowman. He then escaped, and was
paid the agreed price on the street a short
distance from wnere Bowman fell. He
then went to his employer’s house, in St.
Louis, and spent the remainder of the
night. Early in the morning, disguised
as a woman, he took the first train for
Springfield, Ill.”
The confession then details his travels
through the South, and his final arrival
at Covington, Tenn., and his subsequent
arrest. He states that he makes the con
fession voluntarily, simply because of a
guilty conscience. He knows his em
ployer’s name, his place of residence, and
could easily identify him if he should
ever see him again. He refuses to de
clare the vice president’s name, but
promises to do so when the proper time
shall arrive.
THIRTEEN PERSONS KILLED.
A senbus accident occurred on the
Nickel Plate railroad near Buffalo, N. Y.
i The west bound express train ran into an
excursion train from Erie. Twelve per
| sons are reported killed and fourteen
wounded. The accident seems to have
been caused by a misunderstanding of
teFegraphic orders. The collision was
between a Niagara Falls excursion train
on the Nickel Plate road, from Erie, un
( der management of J. W. Butler, excur
sion agent, and 8 local freight train. It
occurred in a cut on a curve just east of
Silver Creek, N. Y. Both engineers and
firemen saved themselves by jumping.
The excursion train consisted of one bag -
gage car, one smoker and eleven coaches.
Only those in the smoker were hurt, it
1 ■ being completely telescoped by the bag
-1 gage car.
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