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VOL. XXIII.—NO. 43.
The Cartersville Express,
Established Twenty Years.
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Address S. A. CUNNINGHAM.
BARTOW COUNTY—OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
County Officers.
Ordinary—J. A. Howard—Office, court h ousc.
Sheriff-Jas. Kennedy.
Deputy sheriff—A. M. Franklin,
Clerk ol Superior Court—Thos. A. Word.
Treasurer —Humphrey Cobb.
Tax Collector—W. W. Rich.
Tax Receiver—W. W. Ginn.
Commissioners—J. H. Wikle, secretary; A.
Knight; W. I. lienham ; A. C’. Trimble; T.
C. Moore.
CITY OFFICERS—CARTERSVILLE,
Mayor—R. B. Trippe.
Boardot Aldermen—J. C.Woffford, E. Payne;
L. A. Chapman, A. L. Barron; Jno. A. Stover,
M. il.Gilreath; W. C. Edwards, R. W. Satter
field.
Clerk —George Cobb.
Treasurer—Benjamin.F. Moun toastie.
Marshals- John A. Gladden, James D. Wil
kerson.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Methodist— tteV. I*. M. Ityburn, pastor.
Preaching every Sunday at 11 o’clock a. m. and
8 o’clock, p. in. Sunday school every Sunday at
9 o’clock a. m. Prayer meeting on 'Wednesday
night.
Presbyterian--Rev. Theo. E. Smith, pastor.
Preaching every Sunday at 11 o’clock, a. m.
Sunday school every Sunday at 9 o’clock.
Prayer meeting on Wednesday night.
Baptist—Rev. R. B. Headen, pastor. Preach
ing every Sunday at 11 o’clock, a. m., and 8 p.
m. Sunday school every Sunday at 9 o’clock,
Prayer meeting on Wednesday night.
Episcopal—A. W. Rees, Rector. Services oc
casionally.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
OTAR LODGE, No. 322. 1,1). G. T. Meets at
totbeir hall oyer J. W. Jackson’s store, every
Thursday night.
CHAS. E. IIABICIIT, W. C. T.
W. R. Shockley, Secretary.
RNItiHTS OF HONOR.
Jraafct Bartow Cos. Lodge, No. 148, meets
} JUftC*- evcr y lsfc ant * 3rtl Monday night
Curry’s Hall, east side of the
*■ Tilw s<maro, Cartersville, Ga.
W. L. Kirkpatrick, A. C. Smith,
Reporter. Dictator
American legion of honor, carters
yille Council, No. 152, meets every second
and fourth Monday nights in Curry’s hall.
GKo. S. Cobb, J, W. Harris, jh.,
Secretary. Commander.
POST OFFICE DIRECTORY.
Mails Nortli open 7:30 a m 4:52 p m
Mails South open 10:10 a m 9:04 p m
Cherokee R. R. open 6:55 p m
Mails North close 7:00 am 4:00 pm
Hails South close 9:45 am 8:30 pm
Jiierokee It.R. c105e..., 7:30 a m
ffigy-Talking Rock Mail, via Fairmount,
leaves Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at
5:00 am. Arrives Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays at 5:00 u m.
fygF Money Order and Registered Letter
Office open from 8:45 a m to 5 p m.
General Delivery open from 8 a m to 6
p in, Open on Sunoay from 9am to 10:30 a in.
J. R. WIKLE, P, M.
WESTERN A ATLANTIC
ON AND AFTER June 20th, lßsdPWffl
this road will run as follows:
NOIiTHW4RD.
STATIONS. No. 1. No. 3, No. 11. j
Atlanta," 2 60pm 5 20am 7 50am 51( vm
Marietta, 3 35“ 606 “ 843 “ 6 09'“
Cartersv’e 4 36 “ 7 23 “ 9 49 “ 7 22 “
Kingston, 500 “ 7 51“ 1018“ 800 “
Dalton, 628 “ 926 “ 12 03pm
Chatta’ga. 825 “ 10 56 “ ], 140 “
Southward.
STATIONS, j No. 2. No. 4,
ChaDu’gu. 5 25pm l 7 05*m 6 45am
Dalton, 7 15“ 837 is 1013“
Kingston, 8 4:1 “jlO 16 “ l 07pm 5 SOam
Cartorsv’e 907 “ .10 46 “ 2(Ji H 604 •*
Marietta, 10 12“ 111 51 “ 4 29“ 733 “
Atlanta, 11 00 “1 12 40pm 615 “ 850 “
CHKROKEE RAILROAD.
ON AND AFTER Monday, October, 11, 1880,
trains on this road will run daily, except
Sunday, as follows:
westward.
Stations. no. 1. ~~ no. 3.
Leave Cartersville, 10:00 am 2:05 pm
Arrive ac Stilesboro 10:36 am 2:51 p m
Taylorsville... 10:57 am 3:17 pm
*' liockmart 11:36 a m 4:07 p m
“ Cedartown 12:35 p m 5:30 pm
EASTWARD.
STATIONS. NO 2. NO 4.~
Leave Cedartown 3:10 p m 0:40 a m
Arrive at ltockmart 4:o6pm 7:58 am
Taylorsville... 4:45 p m 8:48 a m
Btilcsboro 5:06 pm 9:14 a m
C m tersville— 5:45 pm 10:10 p m
ROME RAILROAD COMPANY.
On and after Monday, Nov. 17, trains on this
Road will run as follows:
MORNING TRAIN—EVERY DAY.
Leaves Rome 6 30am
Arrives at Rome. 10.00 a m
EVENING TRAIN—SUNDAYS EXCEPTED.
Leaves Rome 5:00 am
Arrives at Rome 8:00 p m
Both trains will make connection at Kings
ton with trains on the W. and A. Railroad, to
and from Atlanta and points South.
Ebkn Hillyer, Pres.
JAB. A. SMITH, G. P. Agt.
TANARUS, W. MILNER. J. W. HARRIS, JR.
AULIIDB 4& lIAKRIS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE. GA.
Office on West Main street, above Erwin.
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.,
Office: —With Col. A. Johnson, West side
public square. When not at office, can be found
at office of Cartersville Express, Opera House.
st7lam win iiotel,
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taken charge of this elegant new hotel. It
lias been newly furnished und is first-class in
all respects,
SAMPLE ROOM FOR COMMERCIAL TRAVELEBS.
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companies. L. C. HOSS, Proprietor.
satiojial hotel,
DALTON, GA.
T J. Q. A. LEWIS, Proprietor.
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YELLOW FEVER—Black Vomit.
It is too soon to forget the ravages of this
terrible disease, which will no doubt return in
a more malignant and virulent form in the fall
month* of 1879.
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REMARKABLE CURE OF SCROFULA,4c.
Case of Colonel J, C. Branson.
Kingston, Ga., September 16,1871.
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The moat approved remedies for such cases had
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to the members of the oar of Cherokee Circuit,
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J. C. BRANSON, Att’y at Law.
A MIRACLE.
Gents:—My daughter was taken on the 25th
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West Point, G a., Sept. 16,1870.
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The thing is so; hundreds of the most respected
citizens will certify to it. As much reference
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CRAWFORD & WALKER, Druggists.
Hon. H. D. WILLIAMS.
W* I)r. PEMBERTON’S STILLINGIA is
by A. F. MERRELL A 00., Phila\
by ai 1 Druggists in $1.1)') bottlca, or
Agents wanted to canvass
Send for Book—“ Curious Story”—free to all.
Medicines sent to poor people, payabu* in in
stallments.
For sale by D. W. Curry,Cartersville,Ga.
f -BT it
TO THEE) 1 GIVE HEALTH.
Adapted in chronic diarrhoea, constipation,
and scrofula.—Hy. Latham, M. D.
Successfully used in Dyspepsia, Chronic Diar
rhoea and Scrofula.—Prof. S. Jackson, Univer
sity, Pa.
Efficient in anremia; excellent appetizer and
blood purifier.—H. Fisher, M. I)., Ga.
Valuable in nervous prostration, indigestion
and chlorosis.—G. E. Mathews, M. D„ N. C.
t A fine tonic and alterative, very valuable in
diseases peculiar to females, chronic fever and
ague, bronchitis and diseases of the digestive
organs.—J. F. Houghton, M. D., Ala.
Very beneficial in strengthening and improv
ing a reduced system.—Rev. Jno. W. Beck
with, Bishop of ua.
Invaluable as a nervous tonic.—Hon. I. C.
Fowler, Tenn.
Recommended as a prypliylactic in Malarial
districts.”—D. R. Fairex, M D. N. O.
Restores debilitated systems tobealtk,— T. C.
Mercer, M. D., Ind.
‘Used with great benefit in Malarial Fever
and Diptheria.’ —S. F. Dupon, M. I)., Ga.
Prince of mineral tonics.—Francis Gillam,
M. D„ N. O.
Of great curative virtue.—Thos. F. Rumbold.
M. D., St. Louis.
Beneficial in uterine derangements anl ma
.arious conditions.- G. M. Vail, M. D., Ohio.
Best remedy ever used in diseases of the
throat.—P. A. Sifferd, M. D., N. C.
Tonic, alterative, diuretic; one of natures
greatest remedies.—Medical Association ot
Lynchburg, Virginia.
Adapted in certain affections of the kidneys
and bladder; dyspepsia, lupus, chlorosis,
scrofulous and cutaneous affections,—Prof. J.
J. J. Moorman, M, !>., Va.
Relieves headache, promptly—both sick and
nervous.—Rev. E. C. Dodson, Va.
* Sample supply sent free to any physician de
siring to test. Pamphlets sent free. Aualysis
with eacn package. Water as it comes from
the Springs $4 per case of 6 gallons in glass—
s2.so for 5 galons, $4 for 10 galons, $7 for 20 gal
lons in casks. Mass 50 cents and $1; $2.50 and
$5 for half doz. Pills, pure sugar coated 25c.
50c. and $1 package; $1,23, $2.60 and $5 half doz
Sent postpaid anywhere. This Mass and Pills
contains in reduced space all the curative
powers of the water,and is convenient,palata
ble and soluble.
Springs open for visitors June Ist. Board S3O
per month. Special rates to families and par
ties. Carriages meet visitors at Forest and
Lawyer’s depot, each lour miles from Springs,
upon ad\ ice of arrival.
Address
A. M. DAVIS, Pres, of the Cos..
72 Main St., Lynchburg, Va.
Sold by D, W. Curry, druggist, Cartersville,
G*. jol ,1880-6.
CARTEKSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1880.
HOW TO OPPOSE INFIDELITY.
New York Sun.
The pastoral letter read at the close
of the Episcopal convention by the
venerable Bishop Smith gave deserv
ed prominence to the question of the
means of combating the infidelity of
the time. It very properly warned
ministers not to despise their adver
sary, but to prepare themselves in all
ways to encounter the enemy.
It is only lately that the church
has been awakened to a conception of
the alarming proportions of the infi
del movement. The theological sem
inaries went on as if the world about
them was not denying the religion
they were learning to preach. They
did not understand that in every civ
ilized country a large share of the
writers were either openly or insidN
ously assailing Christianity. They
dis not know that even anew reli
gious terminology had come Into
vogue, and that they were learning
forms of speech very different from
those employed in the current philo
sophical and religious discussion; that
they were ill-fitted to argue with
their antagonists because they had
yet to acquire their language.
Infidelity is not now fighting with
the weapons of Voltaire and Rous
seau and Tom Paine. It has diawu
its implements of warfare from anew
arsenal stored with modern engines
of destruction. Its tactics are far dif
ferent from the old ; its points of at
tack are not the same; its arms are
of new invention, and the spirit of
its troops is dissimilar.
The modern assault on Christianity
is directed against its foundations.
The infidelity of this time denies the
supernatural altogether, or rejects it
as something not within the power
of man to discuss with intelligence.
Appeals to Biblical authority are
therefore of no avail against it; for
what is the Bible to these modern in
fidels except an ancient record, an an
cient anthology, a collection of legen
dary tales, or the history of an out
cast and bigoted people, to which is
added a more or less spurious account
of the career of a revolutionary reli
gious enthusiast ?
The Bible is no more to them than
the Koran or the mystical writings
of pagan India. They count it as the
product of intellectual childhood,and
deem it an impertinence to ask men
to develope minds to base their rea*
soning on it as the Book of inspira
tion. With them inspiration and su
perstition are about the same thing.
They would no more think of look
ing on the Bible as an infallible guide,
as the final repository of human
knowledge concerning infinite and
occult things, and as the fuil revela
tion of the Divine mind and heart,
than they would think of building
another pyramid of Cheops as an as
tronomical observatory, (for that is
what Mr. Proctor says it was put up
for). The say they are not children
to be held captive by fairy tales, or
savages to be frightened by hobgob
ling.
When the ministry understand—
and some of them seem now to he
beginning to understand it—that even
where modern infidelity has not got
to this extreme it is all inevitably
tending to that end, they will be bet
ter f repared to meet the enemy. We
have in the advance the philosophers
who treat the mind and soul as only
a product of the brain and nervous
system; as something no more im
mortal than the rest of us. We have
the school who would trace man up
from inanimate matter through the
lowest scale of animal existence. We
have the philosophers who discuss
the origin and development of reli
gion as they would a case of insanity.
They make men the manufacturers
of their own gods; the worshippers
of qualities in themselves which they
have magnified into attributes of de
ity, constructing the god to fit the
mould the limits of their imagination
hays made. As to a man, he is a
crea ure whose characteristics are de
termined by his inheritance of quali
ties acted on by his surroundings.
Far behind these philosophers, but
really on the same road,are the doubt
ers of inspiration ; the men who re
ject chuich dogmas; those who turn
away with repugnance from the idea
>f hell, whether it can be proved out
of the Bible or not; those who deny
the efficacy of prayer; the Agnostics,
the Know-Nothings of religion ; and
the people who are unable to say
whether they believe in religion or
' Ot. Of such as these the churches
themselves are full, and the logical
r. suit of their doubt is the denial of
n authoritative supernatural reli
gion.
If they are not converted to faith,
they are liable to become infidels of
the stalwart variety. They will get
further away from Christianity the
longer they reason about it. They
give up parts of the creed, bejeome
critics instead of devout believers,
and then the whole Bible and the
whole creed go, Hell passes away
for them, and then heaven is dissolv
ed, and finally the look into the fu
ture and see no immortality. That
is the logical progress of modern in
fidelity ; and many thousands of men
and women, here and in Europe, have
either taken the steps or are entering
upon the road.
But against the fiercest assaults of
infidelity the church can always stand
if it plants itself upon the rock of
original Christianity, Its work is to
regenerate and reform the world. Its
mission is to reconstruct society and
fashion it after that beautiful ideal
which won the admiration of the
simple Galileans and has never yet
failed to extort praise from men.
The Christianity to oppose the mod
ern infidelity is practical Christianity;
the realization in the lives of those
who profess to be governed by Chris
tian rules of that sublime ideal of
man’s duty to himself and his fel
lows.
HOG PRODUCTS IN THE SOUTH.
Can we raise hogs in the south?
The appearances in our market, ev
ery winter, of home-slaughtered
hogs indicate that we can. Then
why is sb much pork and bacon
brought in this direction from Cin
cinnati and Chicago if we can raise it
ourselves ? We ask this question just
now because there are appearances
that indicate that hog products will,
from this time, permanently aver
age considerably higher than it has
hitherto. Our readers who have to
buy these products know what a
heavy price they have had to pay
during the last two or three months
compared with what they were pay
ing before. The basis for the ad
vance is one that will not pass away,
but on the contrary* is increasing in
extent and importauce— it is the for
eign consumption of American ba
con. We see it stated in the New
Y"ork Chronicle that the low prices
of the last three years have increased
the consumption of American pork
produce in Europe; the working
population have added it to the cere
als and vegetables to which their di
et was largely confined. The use be
ing introduced, the demand for it
goes on increasing and the prices
rise. In Germany, Sweden, the ports
of the Baltic, and throughout South
ern Russia the consumption of ba
con has largely increased. In our own
country also there is a larger con
sumption, and the demand in the
south and Southwest has especially
grown wider. In Chicago during the
season of 1862-3 there were packed
970,260 hogs, while from March Ist
to 6th of the present year 2,*
570,000 hogs were packed in that city.
Speculation has undoubtedly been at
work, but the basis of that specula
tion was the increase of the foreign
demand, and that demand will con
tinue when the present speculative
influences are* passed. The reasons
are strong, then, for raising the wan
ted pork and lard on our own land,
for the consumption of those residing
on the land. This would give the
advantage of having good corn-fed,
home-cured, and sound healthful
lard, unpoisoned by the manipula
tions and chemical tricks played with
the white substance so often consist
ing of one third water. Let the far
mer raise his own hog meat and
lard . —Nashville American.
MRS. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
New York Cor. Pliila. Record.
Truth is stranger than fiction any
how, and the few who saw the widow
of Abraham Lincoln thrust rudely
back by policemen at the steamship
wharf on Wednesday could not but
be sure of the fact. An aged, white
haired woman, almost shabbily clad,
she attracted no attention from the
throng who crowded about to wel
come the French adventuress. The
latter were mainly foreigners, and
were of no social prominence, hut
somebody ought to have looked after
Mrs. Lincoln, and nobody did. Hers
has been a sad life. From the pin
nacle of social prominence she had
descended to the depths of forgetful
ness. A little of the money squan
dered by the republicans of this state
on Grant would go far to make Mrs.
Lincoln comfortable for life.
—Brigham T. Young, a son of the
prophet of the Mormons, committed
suicide a few days ago. He left only
one widow to grieve for him.
A STRANGE OCCURRENCE.
Last Saturday a week ago, while
Mr. Isaac Reed and his four children
were picking cotton upon a portion
of land belonging to Mr. Newton
Cates, in this county, rocks began to
fall about, when Mr. Reed in anger
grasped up a stone and exclaimed,
“whoever you are, if you don’t stop
you’ll get this,” holding up the stone
iu his hand. But the rocks kept ou
falling so fast, that all began to won
der who could be throwing them,
when it was noticed that they were
rising off the ground about them and
falling back ! So strange a sight caus
ed them to leave the field and go to
the house near by, when the stone
falling commenced there. Some of
the near neighbors were sent for,
among them Mr. N Cates, and Mr.
J.Bazel, (a sister of whom is Mr.
Reed’s wife) and all saw the rocks
falling, some of which were hot, and
all testify to the same facts—for facts
they are—but as to the cause, none of
them pretend to know. Now, some
will be so incredulous as utterly to
deny this and cry out “pshaw!” and
“superstition,” yet, in spite of all,
these are well established facts, as
human testimony can establish. Bet
ter accept of them as facts, and go to
investigating for the cause. Ou Mon
day week the same manifestations
were repeated at the same place, aud
one of the stones struck a little boy
on the foot, and another stone struck
Mr. Hazel on the shoulder. By the
way this is not the first time that
these sort of “manifestations” and
“appearances,” or call them by what
name you please, have occurred, hut
in other places in this state and Vir
ginia, such have occurred. —Marietta
Journal.
WHY THE SOUTH IS SOLID.
Lawlessness and oppression, profi
gacy and plunder of the republican
party compelled the solidity of the
south. To that solidity more than
ever before, she must remain stead
fast immovable. Under our benign
home rule our people have prosper
ed to a degree that has astounded our
friends and confused our enemies.
There must not be, and will not be
any “let up” in the wonderful prog
ress of the south, under the new re
gime, whatever it may be, which the
republican party seek to inaugurate.
It cannot materiall} 7, affect the south.
It will indeed prove a blessing to the
extent that it will induce great self
reliance, greater energy and wiser
efforts in developing the wonderful
wealth and unlimited resources
which a kind providence has bestow
ed upon the sunny south. The sun
will still shine, gentle showers will
fall, seed time and harvest will still
bring their blessings, and our great
staple must continue to be a power
in the commercial world, while our
coal and iron and other minerals will
yield wealth of w’hich the world
does not dream. Let the solid south,
solid always for homo rule and hon
est government, now give its great
est vigilance and wisest counsels, not
to national politics or to conflicts and
passions of national parties, but to
the building up and advancing of our
educational, moral and material in
terests. Herein the south is and
must continue to be solid—solid as
her glorious mountains, and strong
and increasing as the flow of her own
broad and beautiful streams. It may
be that Garfield will prove a very
different man from what his past rec
ord indicates, as first officer of our
great republic. With the responsi
bllity of the government of fifty mill
ion of people pressing upon him, he
may possibly prove a wise and be
neficient ruler. — Montgomery Adver
tiser.
WHERE THE DOLLARS GO.
A detailed statement has been fur
nished the New Orleans Times of the
shipments of standard silver dollars
from.the United States mint at New
Orleans during the month of October
1880:
Alabama, $ 262,500
Arkansas.... 67,500
South Carolina 36,500
Florida 36,000
Georgia 165,000
Illinois 1,000
Kentucky 5,600
Louisiana 416,000
Mississippi 267,000
Tennessee 169,000
Texas 660,000
Total $2,067,500
—The democratic party was badly
euchered in the late election. The
republicans held all the bowers and
the ku-klux, and only allowed the
democrats to make one
that was a “solid” one.
S. A. CUNNINGHAM.
A GIRL.
There is at Sourbaya, Java, at pres
ent on view, a Japanese infant girl
with two heads and necks, but
body and two legs. The little thing’
is now about fifty days old, according
to the mother, and so far in fair
health. The two heads are placed
side by side on the trunk, and per
fectly formed, and about normal size.
Between them on the trunk is a small
protuberance, caused evidently by the
junction of the two bodies. The body
is abnormally broad at the shoulders,
and tapers down at the waist and
loins to the size of an ordinary infant
of the same age; the legs appear very
small and weak, however. The arms,
too, on each side of the broad chest,
looked puny. The right-hand head
is a lighter in color than the other.
How the internal arrangements are
disposed of we of course do not know,
but both heads have to be fed at meal
time. When the writer was present
one head cried, the mother said from
hunger, but the other did not, though
it at the same time began moving
about restlessly as if for food. The
two heads do not breathe alike, nor
do the pulses of either arm beat to
gether. From time to time the in
fant (or infants, for each head has a
name) suffers from depression and
the face turns bluish, showing the
blood circulation is not properly reg
ulated. The parents are ordinary
Japanese of the lower class, and the
mother is good looking—so is the off
spring. They are doing a good trade
by the exhibition.
FARM LIFE.
A writer in Scribner’s Magazine
asserts that the farmer, having the
most sane and natural occupation,
ought to find life pleasant. Hp alQne,
strictly speaking, has a home. How
can a man take root and thrive with
out land ? He writes his history up
on his field. How many ties, how
many resources he has; his friend
ship with his cattle, his team, his
dog, his trees; the satisfaction in his
growing crops, in his improved fields,
his intimacy with Nature, with bird
and beast, and with the quickening
elemental force; his co-operation
with the clouds, sun, seasons, heat,
wind, rain and frost. Nothing will
take the various social distempers
which the city and artificial life
breed, out of a man, like farming—
like direct and loving contact with
the soil. It draws out the poison, it
humbles him, teaches him patience
and reverence, and restores the prop
er tone to his system. Cling to the
farm, make much of it, put yourself
into It, bestow your heart and your
brain upon it, so that it shall savor
of you and radiate your virtue after
your day’s work is done.
HOW TO HAVE A BAD SCHOOL.
The following rules are taken from
the Pennsylvania School Journal, and
recommended to those who do not
take any interest in having good
schools as worthy of their attention:
1. Elect the most ignorant, bigoted
and close-fisted old fogies in the dig*
trict to the school board.
2. Employ the cheapest teacher
you can get, regardless of qualifies*
tions, reputation or experience.
3. Find all the fault you can with
the teacher, and tell everybody; es*
peeially let the pupils hear it.
4. When ytoi heir a bad report
about the teacher or school, circulate
it as fast as you can.
5. Never visit the school or encour
age the teacher.
6. If you should happon to Visit
the school, take c'oso n tice of w at
seems to go wrong and tell everybody
about it except the teacher.
7. Never advise your children to
be .obedient to the teacher, and when
the children are punished rush to
the school room before your passion
is cool and give the teacher a hearing
in the matter in the presence of the
whole school. '
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8. Be indifferent about sending
your children to school regularly,
Get Out of Doors*
The close confin men* o f all fac*
tory work, gives the operatives pal*
lid faces, poor appetites, languid*
miserable feelings, poor blood, inac*
tive liver, kidneys and urinary
troubles, and all the physicians and
medicine in the world cannot help
them unless they get out of doors or
use Hop Bitters, the purest and best
remedy, especially for such cases,
having abundance of health, sun*
shine and rosy cheeks in them. They
cost but a trifle. See another column*
—Christivn Recorder.
—Advertise in the Express.