19 Apr 1892
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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1892
Page
1
Fragment from G A Chadwick in Bonkman reflects on human strife and quieted passions using Virgilian imagery. Bees clash like armies beneath Mantuan trees, dust offering calming order as ambition hatred and lust fade into stillness.
Adrian Pottles discovers his friend Peter Allison claimed authorship of the verse volume To Lalage. Amid social pressures from his Uncle Mr Pottles and Dora Chatterton, Adrian wrestles with loyalty and truth. Peter engineers a writ to extract advantage, but Adrian’s integrity prevails while Peter preserves his own gains.
In Bathgate Scotland Widow Simpson prized a dozen silver teaspoons said to have royal lineage. Nancy Campbell had cared for them, but when they vanished the parish held a public inquiry led by the minister. Geordy Wilson confessed to hiding them in a Bible, ending the tale with humor and a lesson in judgment.
The speaker recalls learning a neighbor's child is dead and comforting her own child in grief. She hides tears, returns to the other mother, and cannot say it is better, pleading with a higher power as she imagines the personal loss. Kathleen Kavanagh in New Orleans Pica yune.
In 1834 a trading schooner named The Ella, commanded by Nat Martin, carries dry goods to Tampico. A Mexican guarda costa officer is lured ashore with drink while six canoes load cargo. Martin fells the officer overboard but the crew pretends sleep. The incident ends with the officer blamed and the cargo delivered as per manifest.
The Ladies of the Industrial Home announce a tableaux vivant exhibition at the Opera House next Friday to aid the Home’s building fund. Four tableaus with multiple scenes will feature The Captains Daughter Cleopatra and Scenes of the Confederacy with Dixie sung by the orchestra. Admission is fifty cents and rehearsals begin Monday night.
The Grand and Traverse jurors for the October term were drawn. Names include W.J. Russell Sr and J.E. Braderry for Grand Jury, with a long list of Traverse jurors. proceedings set for Monday morning. A note mentions a fine for ladies driving at C W Cocp.1's.
A fragmentary notice suggests a possible game between the University team and the Technical School next Saturday on campus. A telegram from Techs requested a match but arrived too late to schedule. If played, University classes may shift to let the college squad practice, with expectations of a tough but winnable contest.
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