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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. O, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 16, 1885. VOLUME XXL?NO. 1. WE havn5t a BAT, but we have a curiosity ex? ceedingly rare. So come around and see two hearts from one living animal, which is Touched for by a truthful and responsible (arty. You will find *t at WILIITE'S, The Acknowledged Headquarters for I PERFOMERV, PATENT MEDICINES AND DYE STUFFS. 0) a C3 GO - L-l rl ' ? (0 H ? p P? -n ?J gj ? r, S- ? 0 $1 . I ?1 X' u 3-. Linseed, Machine, Sweet and Castor Oils. Combs, Brashes, Hair Oils, Pomades, Bay Bum, Toilet Articles, Perfumery, Sponges, Etc. Fine Soaps, Insect Powders, -Fly Paper, Indigo, Madder, Etc, Face Powders, Powder Puffs, Tooth Powders, Tooth Brushes, Ivan's Dentifrice, and Fine Toilet Goods. Trusses, Shoulder Braces, Supporters, Etc. Our CIGARS are-of Extra quality. .. None better in the city. Best Coal Oil, Lamps and Lamp Goods. If you are troubled with Flies or Insects of any kind, come buy some of our Insect Powder and get rid of them. W?hlte* s Soda Wattr is still the favorite beverage. July 9.1885 ? ' .52 FREE PASS TO THE EXPOSITION ? AT ? SMITH * CO.'S CLOTHIiJQ STORE. WE HAVE NOW ON EXHIBITION ONE OP THE Finest Stocks Spring and Summer Clothing in the market. COME AND SEE TJ8. We will pass yon in free, and charge you nothing for look? ing. We have just receive] from market a beautiful line of MENS' AND BQYS> CLOTHING and FURNISHING GOODS. HATS for Men and Boys. Come and see bur SUITS FOR THE LITTLE FELLOWS. The impression boa gone out that we were out of the market, but we want to in? form our old friends that,we are here yet. Come and see us, and we will treat you right. ?3* Don't forget the place. - SMITH & CO., WHITNER STREET, Opposite Auditor's Ofllce. March 26,1885 87 si&ARGrAINS FOR CASH! , I HAVE A PULL LINE OP Boots, Shoes, Hats and Clothing . That I will sell AT COST, and LESS THAN C08T for the CASH. I also have a A F?ll LINE OF OTHER COODS that I will sell "VERY LOW for Cash. Good Bargalnscan be found here. ? If you don't bclicvo it call and see, and you will not be disappointed. ???.:?->??' -te,^'.".-. '. .-.If * "V ?" --: . vc\ ? .... ' ? : V- ?' ? V: TAKE WARNING! AJter.the-.IOfch day of April next the Note3 and A'ccauols of the bid Firm of REED & M00EHEAD w?f be found in the.banda of an Attorney for collection. Timo and money can be saved by calUng before then and-seUling with me. . ?J. PINK REED. March 26,1885 .." . - 37 . .. - ' r ? 8 Qo Toll all the People for Miles Around!" -THAT.?TT-T MORE THATCHES, MORE SlliVERWARE, MORE CLOCKS, &C., AJT PRICES MORE TO YOUR NOTION, THAN EVER BEFORE. EVERYTHING in the shape of a Watch, Clock or Jewelry thoroughly repaired. Eeb 5,1885 30 FISHING TACKLE, HOOJB:? and LINES - OF ALL KINDS A.X , HEID & CO.'S DRUG STORE, Waverly House Corner, Anderson, 8. C. April 22,1885 41 THE CONYICTS. An Official Report at Last on Major Twlggs's Camp. Columbia Correspondence News and Courier. The following statement and corres? pondence comprise the official record of the Savannah Valley Railroad convict investigation: On the 16th of June Col. J. C. Has kell informed the Governor of reports which he bad heard in Abbeville of cruelty to the convicts employed on the Savannah Valley Eailroad. These re? ports were to the effect (1) that at least one convict had died in consequence of brutal whippings by the guards; (2) that the convicts were overworked in viola? tion of law, and (3) that there was ex? cessive mortality among ' the convicts, showing that great wrong was being done. Governor Thompson directed the Superintendent of the Peniteutiary to investigate the charges, to examine per? sonally, into the general condition of the convicts, and to . report .fully the result of such investigation and exami? nation. As soon as the report of the Superin? tendent was submitted Governor Thomp? son sent an agent to Georgia with a re? quisition'for the arrest of Jackson, the guard who was charged with cruelly, beating the convict, Henry Porter, men? tioned in Col. Lipscomb's report. -The Governor was informed that Jackson had returned to hia home in Georgia. The affidavit of Col. Lipscomb upon which the.requisition was based charged Jack? son with assault and battery' with intent to kill. The agent left Columbia on the 22d of Jone, the day on which Col. Lipscomb's report was submitted to the Governor. He returned on the 1st of July with? out having arrested Jackson, but with information which induced the Governor to believe that a second effort would re? sult iu his capture. By direction of the Governor the agent returned to Georgia on the 2d instant. The publication of the reports of the Superintendent and Surgeon of the Penitentiary has been withheld until this time, lest the making known of their contents might delay if not prevent the arrest of Jackson. As the publication of these reports cannot now affect the result of the efforts which the agent of the Governor is still making for the capture of Jackson the Governor permits them to be published. The report of Col. T. J. Lipscomb, Superintendent of the South Carolina Penitentiary, as submitted to Governor Thompson, has been given to the public to-day, and is as follows: To His Excellency Hugh S. Thomp? son, Governor of South Carolina?Sir: I have the honor to report that in obedi? ence to your communication of tho 17th inst.,''proceeded with Dr. Pope, physi? cian of the Penitentiary, on that day to visit the convict camp of Major A. J. Twiggs, on tho Savannah Valley Eail? road, in Abbeville County. On reaching Abbeville C. H. that evening, I had a conversation with the gentlemen named by Col. C. J. Haskell in his communi? cation, and was shown a note from a gentleman in the neighborhood stating that the convict reported to have been so severely whipped had died on Sunday morning, the 14th inst. Mr. M. L. Bon ham, Jr., acting for Solicitor Orr, on this information instructed the coroner to go to the camp and hold an inquest. The body was exhumed and the inquest held in my presence on Thursday morn? ing, and I attach hereto a copy of the finding of the jury, together with the certificates of the two physicians who were sworn and testified. As will be seen by the certificates, it was found on inves iigation that Simon Daniels, the man who had died on Sunday, died from natural causes. Dr. Pope viewed the body also and concurred in the opinion of the other physicians. I found, how-, ever, that one man, Henry Porter by name, had been most cruelly beaten, and I requested the coroner to take the entire jury to the camp and make a personal examination of his case, which be kindly did, and for myself I must say that I have never in my life seen a human being more brutally beaten. Besides Henry Porter, Frank Smiley was the only man who had been severely beaten, although'four others showed slight scars. All the convicts claimed that their whip? pings had been inflicted by one A. W. Jackson, who bad been left in charge of the camp in the absence of Mr. C. M. Carroll, the regular overseer, and I am credibly informed and believe that the said A. W. Jackson is responsible for all of this cruel treatment. I have, therefore, sworn out a warrant for his arrest. In justice to Mr. Carroll, who was in charge of the camp when we arrived, I would say that he was anxious, that that the inquest should be held, not only on the body of Daniels, but on all of the others who had been recently buried. I would also state that Dr. Taggart told me that Mr. Carroll was uniformly kind to the convicts, and never seot them out to work until reported fit for duty by him, and he (Dr. Taggart) had visited the camp every day since they had been there except about four days. All of the convicts at the camp and also those recently returned to the Penitentiary regard Mr. Carroll as their friend, and speak in high terras of his kindness, although Mr. Cairoll, himself, admits that he worked them more than the ten hours per day allowed by law. These convicts are not working under the recent Act of the Legislature, and therefore the guards are not of my ap? pointment, but since my return I have notified Mr. Carroll that he must comply with Section 2,730 of the Revised Stat? utes, governing the hours of labor, &c, and have sent him a copy of the section. While there I cautioned him that be was marching his hands too far to their work, (between two and one-half and three miles.) He explained by saying that he could not get a sufficient supply of pure water for the convicts auy nearer to the work, and further said that in about a week's time he would finish the work he was now on and would move nearer to the stockade. I would call your attention to the report of the physician, Dr. Pope, for the statement of the physical condi? tion of the convicts. I found that they had plenty of food (bread, meat and peas,) but a scarcity of fresh vegetables. They also had sufficient clothing and blankets, although the blankets needed washing; and there was a scarcity of straw, which Mr. Carroll promised to have corrected within a few days. I found nine graves at this camp, the date of death having been reported at this office as follows, the four last since I left Columbia to make the inspection : May 9,18, 18, 26, 30, Juno 10,10, 11 and 13. Dr. Taggart has promised to send a cer? tificate setting forth tho cause of death in each case, and I have directed tho coroner to hold an inquest on the body of Henry Porter in case of his death. I also found that there bad been two escapes for this year, one on the 19th of May and one on the 9th of June. Mr. Carroll informed me that ho bad dis? charged Jackson immediately on his return to the camp, and while be should be given credit for this prompt discharge, I told him that instead of discharging Jackson he should have had him arrested for his cruelty. In conclusion I am in formed that Major Twiggs, the contrac? tor, has not visited the camp for three month 5, but leaves the entire manage? ment to Capt. Carroll. Respectfully submitted. T, J. Lipscomb, Supt. The verdict of the coroner's jury was as follows: "We find that Simon Daniels came to his death from diarrhoea and general de? bility." Drs. Taggart and Johnson agree with the verdict of the jury. The following report was submitted to Col. Lipscomb by Dr. Pope, tbe physi? cian of the Penitentiary : Sir: I herewith hand you my report as to tbe condition of tbe convict camp of Mr, A. J. Twiggs, which was inspect? ed on the 18th of the present month. There are now, all \.o\a, 103 convicts, who are under the immediate control of Mr. Carroll. Of this number 96 were out at work, two were cooking, one wash? ing, one blacksmithing and three sick or injured. The stockade buildings are - sufficiently large and well ventilated and the camp is well located. Those who were in on account of sickness or injuries were George Wilson, lamed by shackles ; Hiram Lights, suffering from effects of a burn on the foot, and Henry Porter, who was disabled by injuries received at the hands of Mr. Jackson, who had been placed in charge of the camp during Mr. Carroll's absence. This occurred three weeks ago, and, as evidence of the sever? ity of the. whipping inflicted I would state that the tissues have sloughed, leaving an open sore eighteen inches long by ten inches wide. The punish? ment must have been very cruel ; I doubt his complete recovery. The condition of those who were at work was very'fair, with 'but a single exception. Frank Smiley had also been severely whipped by Jackson, and was quite unwell. He was sent back to the hospital at once and treatment commenced. There were also slight Bears over the bodies of several of the other convicts,- all of which were attributed to this same Jackson. The hands are beginning to show some signs of scurvy among them. The bedding was not clean and there was a lack of straw. The quantity- of food was suffi? cient, but fresh vegetables are sorely needed. A portion of tbe convicts walk at least two and a half miles to their work, which is too long a walk for men in shackles. According to Mr. Carroll's own statement the men are out by 4:30 a. m., and do not return until 8 at night, excluding the two hours at noon, and it leaves thirteen working hours. I think that under the circumstances the hours for work are too long. Mr. Carroll promises to rectify as soon as possible. No complaints of cruelty were made against Mr. Carroll, but rather expres? sions of confidence. I examined the body of Sim Daniels, winch was taken up by the coroner, and saw no evidence of recent punishment. As to the condi? tion of the seven convicts returned from this road, T append Dr. Gaubert's opin? ion. X fun/ concur with him. In con? clusion I would state that each man was subjected to a thorough examination. Dr. Gaubert's statement is as follows: D. S. Pope, M. D.?Dear Sir: During your absence I attended to tbe duties you requsted me to perform, a part of which was to examine carefully tbe seven convicts returned from tbe Savannah Valley Railroad, and could find no indi? cation of ill-treatment or cruelty in their cases. Why the Con ,ts are not Returned to the renltfintiary. State of South Carolina, ) Executive Chamber, [? Columbia, S. C, June 29,-1885. J Col. T, J. Lipscomb, Superintendent Penitentiary, Columbia, S. C?Dear Sir: I have received your report with accompanying papers of the investiga? tion made by you of the convicts no<7 employed on the Savannah Valley Bail road. In conversation with you on the subject I understood you to say that in your opinion and in that of the Burgeon of tbe Penitentiary the return of these convicts to the prison at this time would be prejudicial to tbe interests of tbe in? stitution. I would request that you submit your viewB on this subject in writing, together with the opinion of the Surgeon of tbe Penitentiary. Very respectfully, H. S. Thompson, Governor. Superintendent's Office, ) S. C. Penitentiary, \ Columbia, June 29,1885. J His Excellency Hugh S. Thompson, Governor of South Carolina.?Sir: I have the honor to say in answer to your communication of this date that, in my judgment, it would be very prejudicial to the health of this prison to return at this time any number of men to be added to the number at present in confinement. We are badly crowded now. In many cases wo have three (3) men confined in cells built originally for the use of one, and besides the prison building, every! available compartment has been utilized to confine our overflowing population. Last night we had 101 men locked up in a room abont 97x20 feet, and scarcely ten feet high, and a number of other healthy men confined in that portion of the hospital designed for convalescents for the lack of other quarters. I am sorry to say that it is getting worse in steak of better. The Comts are. now in active oper?li?h, and ourreceipts of con? victs for June and July have been and will be much in excess of our losses. There were confined here last night 703 convicts and at the State farm 36 more, and any material accession to that num? ber will require at once the erection of a stockade either insido or outside of the prison inclosure for their accommodation. I would respectfully call your attention to the remarks of the surgeon for a further statement of the objections to an increase in our population if it can pos? sibly bo avoided, and I would beg to add j that from a financial point of view it! would be little less than suicidal. Our expenditures exceed our cash re? ceipts about $1,000 monthly at this time, ana we are, therefore, unable to take care of and provide for a larger number of bands with our present income, and, of course, if the convicts now on the Savannah Valjey Eailroad were returned here our income would be reduced about $1,250 per month, and our number of convicts would be increased by one hun? dred, being a net 'oss to tho prison in two ways, and cost of maintenance about $2,000 per month. Your Excellency will readily under? stand that if I thought a proper regard for the health and treatment of the con? victs in question required their immediate return to the Penitentiary, the matter of money would not be mentioned in this connection; but I am convinced from all the information at hand that Mr. Carroll, the regular overseer at this camp, was not responsible for the cruel treatment reported, and that now the convicts are humanely treated and properly cared for; and further, they aro now in a healthy country with the very beat drinking water, and even under more favorable circumstances their removal to this sec? tion at this season would be unwise. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, T. J. Lipscomb, Superintendent. Columbia, S. C, June 24,1885. Col. T. J. Lipscomb, Superintendent S. C. Penitentiary.?Sir: In response to your inquiry as to whether an additional number of convicts could be placed within the prison yard without endanger? ing the health of the institution I would respectfully state: That there are to-day 700 convicts within the walls of the prison, about 75 more than can be safely housed. In order that you may fully understand this statement I will give you the size of the different rooms where the prisoners are confined at night. The prison building has 250 cells, con? taining each 280 cubic feet of clear space. The old loom house has 18,203 cubic feet. The hospital in all of its rooms has 23,073 cubic feet, a part of which cannot be used in damp weather. The women's quarters are large and will ac? commodate very comfortably and safely all of the women?43 in number. All of these buildings are already crowded beyond the limits of safety. In each cell in the prison building two men are confined, which allows to each man only 140 cubic feet of breathing space. This is barely safe. Just at this time some of these cells have three men in them. This is positively dangerous and cannot be continued long without serious risks to the life of the inmates of these cells so crowded. This has been demonstra? ted time and again. In the loom-bouse 100 men are con? fined at night, which allows to each man about 180 cubic feet of breathing space by actual measurement. This building will afford reasonably safe accommoda? tions to 60 men only. It is not safe to place more than 30 men in the hospital at any time. The prison count for last night shows that there were locked up 520 in the prison building, only safe for 500; 100 in the old loom-house, safe for 50; 43 in female prision, safe for 43; 38 in hospital, safe at present for 88?show? ing 701 locked up with sufficient air for but 631. Thus you will see that there were 70 more men than you had reason? ably safe accommodations for. Very respectfully, D. 8. Pope, M. D., Physician S. C. Penitentiary. Why tho Convicts Died at Twlgffs'a Camp. Superintendent's Office, 1 South Carolina Penitentiary, } July 6,1885. J His Excellency Hugh 8. Thompson, Governor of South Carolina.?Sir: I have the honor to enclose certificate from Dr. W. M. Taggart, setting forth the cause of death in the cases of ten convicts who have died at the convict camp of A. J. Twiggs, in Abbeville County, since May 5, 1885.' Tho death of Wm. Timmerman has not been officially reported by tho officer in charge of the camp. I also append a list of all the convicts who have died at said camp aince the commencement of the present fiscal year, with the date of each death as reported: Ben Jones, January 19; Robert Lad son, January 19; Tom Wilson, January 30 ; Larkin Bratton, February 4; Rich? ard Graves, February 16; Wesley Hodge, February 16; Arthur Campbell, May 9; John Holman, May 16; Robt. Riley, May 18; Swann McNiel, May 26 ; Sam Flood, May 30; Isham Robertson, June 10; John Fant, June 10; John Dayis, June 11; Samuel Daniels, June 13. The death of Wm. Timmerman has occurred since my visit on June 18. Very respectfully, your obedient-servant, T. J. Lipscomb, Superintendent. (Enclosure.) Arthur Camble, "erysiloe;" John Holman, congestion lungs; Robert Riley, disease of heart; Sam Flood, congestion brain; Isham Robertson, "hemorage" lungs; John Davis, abscess; Swan McNeil, pneumonia; John Fant, pneumonia; Sim. Daniels, "diarrhoea Wm. Timmerman, dysentery. I do hereby certify that the above is a correct list of the convicts in charge of Cipt. Carroll that have died since I have been attending them. Saw them first 5th day of May. W. M. Taggart, M> D. July 2, 1885. An Excursion to tlio Battlefields of Virginia. At the meeting at Chester-last Monday of the Chester division of the Sixth Reg? iment survivor?, the preliminaries were arranged for an excursion to the battle? field of Seven Pines during the month of August, where the annual reunion of tho regiment will be held. A resolution was adopted inviting the survivors of all commands engaged in the late war from Chester, York, Lancaster and Fairfield Counties and the relatives of surviving and deceased comrades to join the excur? sion, they paying their own expenses and subjecting themselves to such dis? cipline as may be ordered for the govern? ment of the survivors of the Sixth Reg? iment. In the event of 100 men joining in the excursion, the cost of the round trip WG?ld be $10.50 per man, and in the event of 260 men gome: the cost would only be $5.75 per man. All persons who intend taking the trip are requested to Rend their names to J. H. Buchanan, Chester, S' 0.j on or before the 20th of July. The old veterans are looking forward to the occasion with anticipa? tions of great pleasure. General John Bratton will deliver tho address.?Roch Hill Herald. - ? -wr A Successfnl Colored Man. On Monday, the 6th instant, tho last will and testament of Samson Hall, col? ored, was admitted to probate before tbe Probate Judge of York County. - The document is a plain, business-like paper, and names Mr. Peter Garrison as exec? utor. The testator was an industrious colored man, and while his example is well worthy of imitation by all of his race, it should serve as an encouragement to any of them who may be aspiring to true citizenship. At the time of his death Samson was possessed of 183 acres of good farming land near Rock Hill, $1,000 in cash, and personal property of the value of $500. This is equitably de? vised among his heirs, consisting of wife and eight children. Until the close of the war he was a slave, and his posses? sions were acquired after his freedom by good management, economy and indus? try. He worked industriously and raised his children to work. He was univer? sally respected by tho white people of his community as honorable and fair in all his business transactions and with the merchants of Rock Hill his credit was always good. He, however, resorted to the credit system in his purchases very sparingly. As one example of his methods, it may be mentioned that in? stead of buying grain he sold it and so conducted his farm as to make it self supporting, and this was one reason of his success.? Yorkvillc Enquirer. ? To have been a wife, a widow, a mother, and again a bride in one year may be crowding a good deal into life, but it is what, with various other things, a pretty littlo lady now in Jacksonville, Florida, has succeeded in accomplishing. ? Without economy none can be rich; with economy few need be poor. A WILD CAREER, A Sketch of the Life of an Athens Eaiuct. Boy. Athens, Uu., Banner. Athens has furnished as many brighi; minds to the world as any other little city in the United States. She has never., however, had many heroes that have so fat been written up by dime novelists. We pro Eose, in this short sketch, to give the istory of a young man who was born and educated in our little city, and whose character for plain, unvarnished rascality and recklessness would shame the re? nowned John A. Murrell and "Three Fingered Jack," the pirate of the placers and the marauder of the mines in the gold digging days of California, would be eclipsed and pale into insignificance. Our hero has no fancy, high-sounding name, but the simple name of-George will do to give his history and his many little freaks and escapades during the days of the late rebellion. When war's dread alarm was sounded in 1861, George was a mere strippling of a youth, with a handsome face, good address and a slight mustache. While the balance of the young men of the South shouldered their muskets and went to the tented field, George shouldered his sword and did most of his fighting at the hotels in Bichmond and other cities. The writer's first no? tice of George was at the American hotel in Bichmond, w here he was sporting a handsome Confederate Brigadier Gener? al's suit, and was the friend and boon companion of the officers that stayed around tbe Confederate capital. He had a suit of rooms where his friends were always welcome, and would treat Ihem to wine and cigars that were too costly for any one not drawing a large salary or having a good backing at bis home. George made the acquaintance of the beat ladies in Richmond and was on familiar terms with the President and all of the cabinet officers. He had an im? aginary command on the front lines with Stonewall Jackson that he took particu? lar pains never to go and see about. George finding his cash running short, dressed himself up in a captain's uniform, went down in Rockets, a place where all the wharf rats of Bichmond lived, got up a company of forty men, made out his pay roll and marched his com? pany up to the paymaster's depart? ment and drew three months pay for his whole company. . The next, we heard of George his cash is again short and he made a bold- dash and drew money three times in one day: first ob Colonel George, next as Major George and last as- Captain George. Finding things were getting rather hot for him in Richmond after be made the draw, he left for better climes around Atlanta. As soon as the paymaster's department in Bichmond found out that they had been duped they sent dispatches and detectives on every road to arrest Gentle? man George and bring him back for trial, but he was never caught, and the next time we hear of him he is traveling on one of the railroads coming into At? lanta, with a party of officers. Gentle? man George was' dressed in a handsome artillery captain's uniform, and made himself very agreeable to his newly made friends. Captain George made a bet with one of tbe officers of a basket of wine, to be drank as soon as tbe party reached Atlanta, that he could read every man's passport on the train. One of the officers accepted tbe bet and told Cap? tain George to start with him, as he was certain that he had no authority to make him produce his passport. George de? manded the passport and the officers refused and demanded bis authority. Captain George went down in the side pocket of his handsome captain's uniform and produced papers with authority from Jeff Davis, General Lee and everybody else in power, and informed the officer that unless his passport was forthcoming that ho would be arrested and put in chains and carried to the nearest mili? tary post. The officer saw that Captain George had him, produced his passport and paid the fine. George took quarters in Atlanta, and by his fancy dress, good looks and lavish expenditure of money soon made friends in that city. He ran as passport conductor on the West Point until one day, while in tbe zenith of his glory, an order came from General Bragg, then in command at Chattanooga, to arrest Captain George and send him to his headquarters in irons. The order was shown to Captain George and he insisted that the handcuffs should not be put on him ; that there was a mistake, and that as soon as he could see General Bragg he would make it all right and be back in Atlanta in a day or two. He was such a good talker that Colonel Lee, then commanding the post in Atlanta, sent him up to General Bragg's head? quarters without a guard, and George out-talked General Bragg and was soon back in Atlanta at his old tricks. Gen? eral Bragg sent another order after him, and he again went to see General and explained everything satisfactory. Cap? tain George cut a big dash in Atlanta. He always had plenty of money, dressed better than anybody and kepi wines and cigars at his rooms that a king might envy. At last a shadow came over this young man. It was whispered around that he had never had a commission from the Confederate government, and he was arrested on some kind of a charge and lodged in the barracks at Atlanta. The Confederate deserters and yankee prisoners were all in the same stockade, with only a plank partition dividing them. The writer had occasion to go out to the stockade one evening to iden? tify a prisoner who had been put in for bushwhacking, and who should he find on the inside of tbe stockade but Gentleman George, there shorn of his handsome artillery uniform and dressed up like a common soldier. George at once accost? ed the writer and informed him that he was in there as a detective, to keep the Yankees and Confederates from trading j together. The next day Gentleman George was seen coming between two guards to the old Washington hall, where the Markham house now stands. He told the guards that bis wife, whom he claimed was very wealthy, was stopping at the Washington hall* and asked the guards to wait outside while he went in the room to see his imaginary wife. The unsuspecting guards waited for Gentleman George to make his appear? ance ; but he never came; he had slip? ped out of the window and made his escape. This was the last heard of him for some time. When the Yankees came to Athens, he was hand in glove with tbcm and rode around showing them where the richest people lived. Gentle? man George disappeared from Athens and went to Washington City and sued out a pardon that he was worth over twenty thousand dollars. President Andrew Johnston granted the pardon, andarmed-with the document as a wealthy Southern planter, be made his way to Indians, and soon ingratiated himself with the family of a Major-General, who ; had a daughter worth $18,000 in her own ! right. Here was a chance for Gentleman 1 George, and he availed himself of it,1 and soon married her and proposed to i take his rich bride to his brother's ranch in Texas. The unsuspecting bride start? ed with him, and going down the Missis? sippi river the funds of Gentleman George began to grow alarmingly short. Ha found a passenger on the boat who had plenty of the filthy lucre, and he, together with two others, robbed the rich passenger. For this Gentleman George was arrested and lodged in Baton Rouge jail, with a fair chance of going to the Eenitentiary. His young bride, almost eart broken, went back to her father's in Indiana and told him, with tears streaming from her eyes, that the rich bridegroom was a fraud. From this point we lose sight of Gentleman George for some time and a great many have said that he served several years in the penitentiary for robbing the man on the Mississippi. Others, more knowing, say that he got out and went to Mexico, where he was engaged in getting horses from the Mexicans and trading them in Texas. We are inclined to believe the latter story, as Gentleman George never had any idea of going to the penitentiary, and if there was any chance to get out he availed himself of it. The next.we bear of him be is on a boat going down the Potomac river from Washington City, where a gentleman from Athens met him, en .route for Europe, with a party of {;enilemen. He said that he had a large ot of cotton in Europe, which he was going over to sell. Gentleman George landed in Europe, and got into the ser? vice of the queen of England as a detec? tive. From high living in the queen's service he contracted consumption and a few years ago died. He was one of the shrewdest, sharpest and boldest rascals ever raised in any community. He was as liberal as a prince and as bold as a lion. He played for big stakes, and had he turned nis attention to better things would have been a very useful man. Athens has never furnished a poet or many actors of note, but for daring ras? cality Gentleman George takes the cake. Another Sad Warning* Oorrespondencs Temperance Worker. j Dear Worker: About three months ago three promising boys of our city be? came involved in a difficulty about 11 o'clock at night, resulting in the serious injury of a man who had recently come1 into our midst. These boys fled the city that night, and have not returned yet. One of them is now at college in another State, kept there by his father, who has been almost broken-hearted by the con* duct of this son, in whom so many hopes was centered. One year ago this good man was sorely bereaved by the death of a noble Christian wife. Soon after her death the father rented a store room and started his sou in business, but alas! like eo many other boys iu our land, he ig? nored the advice of a kind and indulgent parent, and associated himself with bad company that led him first into the pool room, then into the dram shop, which caused him to neglect his business, and finally to commit an offense against the law, that makes him an exile from his State, and worst of all, cuts him off from those home influences that should be so dear to every boy's heart. This unhappy young man has recently written a letter to a younger brother, warning him against bad company, and the danger of strong drink. This doubly bereaved father has con? sented to the publication of this letter only with the nope that it may be the means of arresting other young men who have started in tho downward road that inevitably leads to shame, and disgrace. God grant that it may be a warning to such, and cause them to forsake the haunts of vice, and turn them into paths of righteousness. Here is the young man's earnest appeal to his younger brother: -College, June 15, 1885. My Dear Brother : Excuse me for not writing sooner. Everything is so quiet up here that I don't know what to write about. School will close on the 25th of this month.. All the boys are going home, and I expect I will be pretty lonesome. Were you confirmed to-day ? I hope you are feeling happy after it. Brother, you are in a city, and if you take my advice you will be cautious about the tfompany you associate with. Tou will have plenty of chums as long your father keeps a store; they will show you how to spend money, and teach you all kinds of excesses. Those boys who tell you not to mind the "Old Man" are your worst enemies. Xou are growing up now, and you will have to watch yourself closely. What? ever you do, don't drink that infernal poison, whiskey. Let my life for the last year be a warning to you never to touch a drop of intoxicating liquors of any kind. Where would I be now if it was'nt for whiskey ? I would be at home attending to father's business, honored, and respected by all, walking in the best society. I ought to have taken the bur? den of trouble from father's shoulders. Have I done so ? No, a thousand time3 worse. I have laid the burden on heavier than ever. What am I but an outcast who cannot show his face at home? Thank God, that father was so kind as to send me here. He could have cast me off after the way I have treated so indul? gent a father. My dear brother, when you are tempt? ed to do anything wrong pray to God for strength to resist. I hope you say your prayers every evening before going to bed. It would not hurt you to say them every morning also. You may say a change has come over me. Thank God, there is a change, I hope for the better. I wiBh father would send you here for one year. I know it would be to your spiritual as well as to your worldly ad? vantage. Brother, you are just at the ago when a fellow begins to turn fool, and I don't want you to follow my example. You must mind everything father tells you. Try to do everything that you know will please him. Don't go out at night. Stay at home and try to make it cheerful. Going out at night is where a boy's ruin begins, lasten to me and I will tell you what a boy does when he loafs around at night. Ite soon finds his way into the pool room, then the bar-room, then the gambling den. He stays out all night spending his father's or employer's money, drink? ing, gambling ana carousing about after h anest peoplo are in bed. Your place is a regular hell after night. There is as much gambling done there as in much~larger cities. Who gains by it? I'll tell you; it is the smooth-faced bar-keeper. They will treat you all right as long as your money lasts, and then kick you out until you get another supply; then they are &t oily tongued as ever. Keep away from them, brother. Be polite, but keep your distance. This is my advice for yonr good. Would like to write more, but hav'nt tho time. Your affectionate Brother. ? We would like to find a scientist in tL.is enligbteucd country who can satis? factorily explain how a boy's shirt gets turned wrong side out a warm day when ho has "been right to school and back." There never was a boy who could imagine how it happened. ? If you have an opportunity to do a generous action, do it. It is a very pleasant reflection to go to sleop with. BILL AEIP'S LETTER. He Has Something to Say About the Glo? rious Fourth. Atlanta ConsliMion. The Fourth of July?everybody is dead who made it?most all their chil? dren are dead. I don't believe I know a living son of a) evolutionary sire. We used to think a good deal of the national birthday. We always had a celebration. Sometimes we bad a barbecue and some big speeches, but if we didn't do anything, more we had a gathering at the court? house and had one man to read the dec? laration of Independence, and another to be the orator of t je day and make a patriotic speech and say Washington 200 times and Jefferson 100 times and this "glorious Union" 50 times and the great bird of liberty "ad libitum" and wind-up with a tribute to woman. I read the declaration once and George Lester made the speech, and he made a good one. He always could do that, especially when the ladies were about. He dwelt on the heroines of the revolution and proved conclusively that if it hadn't been for woman our boys couldn't have fought much and the British would have licked us. "Booked in the cradle of liberty," said he several time3, for his mind seem? ed to run on cradles. Well, I am glad that the notable day has at last come back to us, and onr ?eople begin to feel like it was their's. he fact is, that it is our day more than anybody's day. We are the rebels. The only difference between us and onr revo? lutionary sires is that we got whipped and they dtdent. The principles were all the same. They seceded and said "let us alone," and that is all we done. But it is all working out very well now, .'.nd so I think we can afford to celebrate the day, for the day means rebellion against tyranny and taxes. The South has been down for 20 years, the bottom in the figh't, but she has at last turned and got on top, and she will be apt to keep there I reckon. I just want to brag a little to keep Murat mislead mad and a few more like him. I love to see them. squirm and hear them growl. We will divide the 4th of,July with them, and the bell of Independence, and will shake hands and be friends if they want to, but if they don't want to we don't care. I see you Atlanta folks have got up a big battle monument association, and got Joe Johnston and Sherman all mixed up in the concern. I dident know that Sherman had ever repented yet. He hadent when last heard from. What is that monument to c smmemorate ? Is it to be a great national Union .monument to commemorate the valor and patriotism of dead soldiers of both armies? If so, then that is all right, provided everything is on an equality. Everything I. say. If their maimed soldiers and soldiers' widows are pensioned, then ours must be too. We want no plunkeying around. If our eripples and widows have got to sleep out in the cold we don't want any monument about it. We are tired of all honor and no pay. If our soldiers de? serve a monument they deserve a pension; they deserve equality before the nation. Better try and see how much money can be raised for a confederate widows' fund. Dr. Felton is on that line now?the line of pensions for maimed and invalid sol? diers, and he writes most feelingly and eloquently about what is due them from the State. How much will General Sherman and company give' to that? Will they vote for a national pension ? For twenty years the South has been taxed to pay pensions to the Northern soldiers and we never said a word. Now what will they do for ours ? If nothing then we want no Union monument. We have built some simple marble columns in our cemeteries and they will do for history and glory. Pensions first and monuments afterwards, is my motto. We won't demand pay for the negroes, for they belonged to rich folks, but the maimed soldiers and the widows are poor. If it isn't but ten dollars a piece every year it will be a recognition of patriotic valor and be more gratefully received than forty monuments, with the taint of treason on the Southern side of them. The blue and the gray can't mix that way?one with a pocket fall of public money and the other with nothing?not only with nothing but has to help nil the other's pocket. Ob, pshaw! Let's quit all this foolishness. We can trade and traffic and mingle and mix and get along without it. We can pass and repass, as the feller said about his bull; but don't manufacture sentiment at the expense of truth and self-respect.. There is that Bartholdi business that is straining the nation now. Nobody cares anything about" it. If the pictures speak the truth, it is the ugliest thing I ever saw. There is nothing grand or emblematical bout it. It is a Dig curiosity like the sphinx or the pyramids and about as senseless. Let us run baseball awhile longer before we take up another hobby. Baseball is a good recreation but a very poor business. I read of a boy who was killed with a bat at Mineola and the club built a monument over him and inscribed on it, "He excelled in the Diamond and was the best pitcher in Mineola." Hurrah for him?died young; died in glory; peace to his ashes. My boy went to a baseball last Saturday and his nose looks like a mushroom now. He wont set in the front, piazza. But they have to take these things like taking the measles, or the bangs or crazy quilts, or any other disease. But we can afford to take the 4th of July, for it involves a principal, and lasts only one day in a year. The principal lasts about that long too I reckon; It used to lost longer, but not now. It is now money that we are after. Money beats principle. Money will buy princi? ples, and so let everybody get money. Bill Aep. What He Thought of it. A negro minister who married rather sooner after the death of his wife than some of bis sisters thought proper and becoming, excused himself as follows: "My dear breddern and sisters, my grief was greater than I could bear. I turned every way for peace and comfort, but ?one came. I sarched de Scriptures from Genesis to the Bebelation and found plenty of promises to de widder bat-nary one to de widderer. So I took it dat do good Lord didn't waste any sympathy on a man when it was in his power to com? fort himself; and habin' a fuss rate chance to marry in de Lord, I did so, and would do so again. Besides, bredderen, I consider that poor Patsy was jest as dead as she would ever be." A Mean Insinuation. _____ He called for gin, and in a calm, un? embarrassed sort of way filled his glass to the brim. "See here, my friend," expostulated the bartender, "that is gin you are pour? ing out, not water." The customer eyed him rebukingly over the top of the glass, as he slowly drained its contents. "Mister," he said in a hurt tone of voice, "do I look like a man who would drink thai much water V'r-Na? Ycrk Times. .