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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1891
Page
1
Athens defends backing the State University and urges Branham and Rome editors to unite alumni for an endowment plan. The piece lauds Athens for campus gifts and calls for pursuing endowment to strengthen Georgia’s premier college, urging cross-city support and reform.
A speaker urges residents to talk about and advertise the city, support merchants, beautify streets, and invest in improvements. He urges courtesy to visitors, explains investment yields, and cites Georgia politicians and Alliancemen. Also notes Athens becoming a key market for horses and mules with Holman bringing stock and Nicoll promising prized animals soon.
Harmony Grove Ga March 14 Special Cols W W Stark and R L J Staith attend Harrisburg Justice court. The passenger train uses Harmony Grove as headquarters while yesterday’s wreck is cleared. Will Wagnon acts as marshal during Marshall Hawks illness. praised as an officer. The Harmony Grove Age will resume next week led by editor N S Alexander recovering from illness. Postmaster C C Alexander shows a 1836 Postal Guide noting Harmony Grove as a Cherokee nation post office. Prof J Henry Walker returns from Monroe where he was summoned for his father’s critical illness. Fort Lamar’s Charles B Henry visits. Mayor T E Key hosts matinee for coal blossoms cited with town-law violations. treasury surplus rises.
Near Augusta Georgia on March 14 three men were killed after a dispute at Maxey's. Harvey Smith a young planter discharged his insolent employee Byrd Hatten. A second Hatten, Bill, was shot and died. A later shot wounded Byrd Hatten, and a white woman attempting to aid her husband narrowly escaped as the scene unfolded.
President John H. Inman of the Richmond and Danville rejects a Seaboard and Roanoke buy talk as baseless and calls the plan sour grapes. The piece notes Robinson as a major rival with strong funding, unlikely to sell early, and ends with a fleeting aside about a city-building question from editor Bill More of Augusta.
New Orleans on March 14 sees eleven Hennessy assassins killed and executions in the street as crowds gather around Canal Street and the Clay statue. A large procession forms, speakers address the mob, and police acknowledge the rising tension as vigilante justice follows the mayor’s murder of Chief Hennessey. The scene recalls a past uprising, with parochial prison violence, hangings, and ongoing manhunt for suspects while Augusta’s electric-city transformation headlines shift to industrial progress.
Clarke County takes early lead in preparing Georgia exhibition for the 1893 World’s Fair. Governor Northen calls a May convention in Atlanta to decide state representation, with Clarke County delegates and actions endorsed by Dr. E D Newton. The Clarke effort follows Cobb’s plan to use Western & Atlantic railroad lease for funding.
A rousing Cook County Democratic club reception celebrated General John M. Palmer’s election as United States senator after a solid vote of 154 for him. Farmer Cockrell spoke, criticizing returning to the Democratic party unless it embraced the Beowie.
An article extols hypnotism and mesmerism, recounting a Virginia showing by Monsieur De Bonville. It notes skeptical observers were drawn in, describing stage feats, pain insensitivity, and the era's curiosity about this power. The piece urges open investigation over quick dismissal.
A promotional piece extols BBB Botanic Blood Balm as a cure for all stages of blood poison with patient testimonials from Benj Morris Robt Ward and others. It narrates dramatic recoveries from syphilitic blood poisoning and tertiary disease after extensive BBB use, then abruptly shifts to unrelated ads for Dr Bull's Baby Syrup and farm stock listings.
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