16 Aug 1881
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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1881
Page
1
The long discussed rumor of Postmaster-General James quitting the cabinet to head a New York bank and safe deposit company is circulated with claim of permanence, high salary, and Vanderbilt backing. His reforms and postal savings have drawn praise for efficiency and cost cuts.
Col Barrow defends the need for a new Northeastern circuit, arguing the current terms overload the Western and neighboring counties. He cites court backlogs, long riding distances, and high workloads, urging legislative approval and noting broad regional support. The letter asserts facts about population, rail access, and tax bases to justify the reform.
A thirteen-year-old girl, Elsie Benson, cares for her wounded immigrant father after a mill explosion. With funds gone, she borrows his race against poverty, pawns silver spoons, and then decides to sell her front teeth for forty dollars to pay for medicine and rent. The dentist softly learns her tale and agrees to help, vowing to visit her father.
The New York Advocate quotes Geo I Seney in a revealing interview about fundraising pressure from applicants. He says gifts from individuals, especially women, have increased and that many letters arrive daily. He discards appeals, directs funds to church extensions and Freedmen's Aid, and notes threats and anger from some requesters. He plans to avoid personal gifts and seeks counsel if overwhelmed.
An Virginia man, once grieving his wife Polly, loses his crops and years pass. After months he drinks, then plans to remarry Jim Jackson's seventeen year old daughter, arguing the living cannot live by the dead. This Richmond Dispatch excerpt recalls sorrow and renewed hope in Mt. Zion.
A senate report by a special temperance committee proposes that after licenses expire it becomes unlawful to sell or furnish any alcoholic drinks outside incorporated towns without a written two thirds freeholder petition within three miles of a saloon site. In Baptist towns an election can bar whisky if petitioned by a quarter of voters. The bill aims to let towns regulate, not nationalize, liquor control.
J J Wathrman, proprietor, confronts fear as a plan unfolds to place a father and his ill child in a hospital. The doctor’s news of Elsie brings happiness and the family finds relief from poverty while Elsie serves as nurse to a Sooene baby in the hospital grounds.
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