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VOL. XXIV.
The Cartersville Express,
Established Twenty Years.
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Address CORNELIUS WILLINGHAM.
BARTOW COUNTY—OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
County Officer®.
Ordinary —J. A. Howard—Office, courthouse.
Sheriff— J as. Kennedy.
Deputy sheriff—A. M. Franklin,
Clerk of Superior Court—Thos. A. Word.
Treasurer—Humphrey Cobb.
Tax Collector—W. W. Rich.
Tax Receiver—W. W. Ginn.
Commissioners—J. 11. Wikle, secretary; A.
Knight; W. I. Benham ; A. C. Trimble; T.
C'. Moore.
CITY OFFICERS—CARTERSVILLE.
Mayor—rt. B. TTippe.
Board ol Aldermen—J. C.Woffford, E. Payne;
L. A. Chapman, A. L. Barron; Jno. A. Stover,
M. H. Gilroatb; W. C. Edwards, R. W. Satter
field.
Clerk —George Cobb.
Treasurer—Benjamin F. Mountcastle.
Marshals- John A. Gladden, James D. Wil
kersou. •
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Methodist —Rev. I’. M. Ryburn, pastor.
Preaching every Sunday at 11 o’clock a. m. and
8 o’clock, p. m. Sunday school every Sunday at
9 o’clock a. in. Prayer meeting on Wednesday
night.
, Presbyterian--Rev. Theo. E. Smith, pastor.
Preaching every Sunday at 11 o’clock, a. in.
Sunday school every Sunday at ‘J o’clock.
Prayer meeting on W ednesday night.
Baptist--Rev. R. B. Headen, pastor. Preach
ing every Sunday at 11 o’clock, a. m., nndSp.
ra. Sunday school every Sunday at 9 o’clock,
Prayer meeting on Wednesday night.
Episcopal—A. W. Rees, ltecfov. Services oc
casionally.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
A KM GUTS OF HONOR.
Tlirr Bartow Cos. Lodge, No. 148, meets
JgWkiU' every Ist and 3rd Monday night
Curry’s Hall 4 east side ofthe
* Tjsi* square, Cartersville, Ga.
W. L. Kirkpatrick, A. C. Smith,
Reporter. Dictator
American legion of honor, carters
yille Council, No. 152, meets every second
aud fourth Monday nights in Curry’s hall.
Gxo. S. Cobb, J, W. Hakris, Jb.,
Secretary. Commander.
POST OFFICE DIRECTORY.
Malls North open . '1:30 a m 4:52 p m
Mails South open 10:10 a m 9:04 p m
Cherokee It. R. open 6:55 pm
Malls North close 1:00 a m 4:00 p m
Mails South close 9:45 a m 8:30 p m
ijherokee R.IL close 1:30 am
Rock Mail, via Fail-mount,
loaves Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at
5:00 am. Arrives Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays at 5:00 pm. , _ ~
Money Order and Registered Letter
Office open from 8:45 a m to 5 p m.
General Delivery open from 8 am to 6
pm, Open on Sunaay from 9am to 10:30 a in.
J. R. WIKLE, P. M.
WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. K.
ON AND AFTER June SOlh, 1880, trains on
this road will run as follows:
' NORTHWAKD. '■ "]
stations. No.l. No. 3, j No. 11. j
Atlanta! 2 50pm ”5 20am 1 50am 5 10pm
Marietta, 335 “ 606 “ 843 “ 609 “
Cartersv’e 436 “ 123 “ 949 “ 122
Kingston, 500 “ 151“ 10 18“ 800 “
Dalton, 628 “ 926 “ 12 03pm
Chatta’gft. 825 “ 10 56 “ 140“
gOUTH WARD.
STATIONS. No. 2. | No. 4, j No. 6,
Chatta’ga. 5 25pm 7 06am 645 am
Dalton, 115 “ 837 “ 1013 “
Kingston, 843 “ 10 16“ 107 pm 5 30am
Cartersv’e 907 “ 10 46 “ 202 “ 604 “
Marietta, 10 12“ 1151“ 429 “ 733 “
Atlanta, 11 00_“ 12 40pm 615 “ 850 “
CHEROKEE 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 p m
Arrive ac Stilesboro 10:36 a m 2:51 p m
“ Taylorsville... I 10:57 a m 3:17 pm
Rockmart ll :36 a m j 4:07 p m
Cedartown .... 12:35 pm | 5:30 p m
EASTWARD.
STATIONS. NO. 2. NO. 4.
Leave Cedartown 3:10 p w 6:40 a m
Arrive at Rockmart 4:06 pm 7:58 am
“ 'Taylorsville... 4:45 pm 8:48 am
“ Stilesboro 5:06 pm 9:14 am
“ Cartersville.... 5:45 pm lOilO P P
ROME RAILROAD COMPANY.
On and after Monday, Nov. 17, trains on this
Road will run as follows:
MORNING TKAIN—EVERY DAY.
Leaves Rome 6 30am
Arrives at Rome 10.00 a m
EVENING TRAIN—SUNDAYS EXCEI’TED.
Leaves Rome 5:00 am
Arrives at Rome 8:00 P ni
Both trains will make connection at Kings
ton with trains on the W. and A. Railroad, to
and from Atlanta and points South.
Ebkn Hili.yeß, Pres.
Jas. A. Smith, G. P. Agt.
t/w. MILNER. J. F. ITARRIS, JR.
kILIKH & HARRIS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE. GA.
Office on West Main street, above Erwin.
ST. JAMES HOT JB Ij ,
(CARTERSVILLE, > GIA,)
UNDERSIGNED HAS RECENTLY
J_ taken charge of this elegant new hotel. It
has been newly furnished and is first-class in
all rospects,
SAMPLE ROOM FOR COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS.
Favorable terms to traveling theatrical eom
oompauies. L. C. HOSS, Proprietor.
NATIONAL IIOTii,
DALTON, GA.
j. (). A. LEWIS, Proprietor.
The only first class hotel in the
City. Large, well ventilated rooms, splen
did sample rooms for commercial travelers,
polite waiters and excellent pure water.
{fey- Rates moderate. sepl9tf
aT\V. FITE
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.,
Office:—With Col. A. Johnson, West side
public square. When not at office, can be found
at office of Cartersville Expke.-s, Opera House.
A year and expenses to agents,
tb / / / Outfit free. Address O. VICK
-w a mm Augusta, Maine.
The Cartersville Exp ress.
YELLOW FEYER-Black Vomit.
Tt 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
months of 1879.
MRKKfCLL’S HEPATINE, a Remedy dis
covered in Southern Nubia and used with such
wonderful results in South America where the
most aggravated cases of fever are found,
causes from one to two ounces of bile to be fil
tered or strained from the blood each time it
passes through the Liver, as long as an excess
ol bile exists. By its wonderful action on the
Liver and Stomach the Hepatine not only pre
vents to a certainty any kind of Fever and
Black Vomit, but also cures Headache, Consti
pation of the Bowels, Dyspepsia and all Ma
larial diseases.
No one need fear Yellow Fever who will ex
pel the Malarial Poison and excess of bile from
the blood by using Mekrell’s Hepatine which
is sold by all Druggists in 25 cent andsl-00 bot
tles, or will be sent by express by the Proprie
tors, A. F, MERIiELL & CO.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Dr. PemDsron’s usiiag ia or Queen’s MM
The reports of wonderful cures of Rheu
matism, Scrofula, Salt Rheum, Syphilis, Cancer
Ulcers and Sores, that come from all parts of
the country, are not only remarkable but so
miraculous as to be doubted was it not for the
abundance of proof.
REMARKABLE CURE OF SCROFULA.&c.
Case of Colonel C. Branson.
Kingston, Ga., September 15,1871.
Gents: —For 16 years 1 have been a great suf
ferer from Scrofula in its most distressing
forms. I have been confined to rny room and
bed for 15 years with scrofulous ulcerations.
The most approved remedies lor such cases had
been used, and the most eminent physicians
consulted, without any decided benefit. Thus
prostrated, distressed, desponding, I was ad
vised by Dr. Ayer, of Floyd county, Ga., to
commence the use of your Compound Extract
Stillingia. Lanaamge is as insufficient to de
scribe the relief TflHtalncd from the use of the
Stillingia as it is Co-CtHivey an adequate idea oi
the intensity of my suffering before using vour
medicine; sufficient to say, I abandoned all
other remedies and continued the use of your
Extract of Stillingia, until I can sav truly, “I
am cured of all disease, with nothing to ob
struct the active pursuit of my profession.
More than eight months have elapsed since
this remarkable cure, -without any return of
the disease.
For the truth of the above statement. I refer
to any gentleman in Bartow- county, Ga., and
to the members of the bar of Cherokee Circuit,
who are acquainted with me. I shall ever re
main, with tlio deepest gratitude, Your oDedi
ent servant,
J. C. BRANSON, Att’y at Law.
A MIRACLE.
Gents:—My daughter was taken on the 25tli
day ot June, 1563, with what was supposed to
be Acute Rheumatism, and was treated for the
same with no success. In March, following,
pieces of bone began to work out of the right
arm, and continued to appear till all the
bone/rora the elbow to the shoulder joint came
out. Many piece? of bone came out of the
right loot and leg. The case was the irpro
nouncedone of White Swelling. After hav
ing been confined about six years to her bed,
and the case considered hopeless, I was in
duced to try Dr. Pemberton’s Compound Ex
tract of Stillingia, and w r as so well satisfied
with its effects that I have continued use ofthe
it until the present.
My daughter was confined to her bed about
six years before she sat up or even turned over
without help. She now sits up all day, and
sews most of her time—has walked across the
room. Her general health is now good, and I
believe she will, as her limbs gain strength,
walk well. I attribute her recovery, with the
blessing of God, to the use of your invaluable
medicine. With gratitude, I am, yours truly,
W. B. BLANTON.
West Point, Ga., Sept. 16,1870.
Gents:—The above certificate o* Mr. W. B.
Blanton we know and certify to as being true.
The thing is so; hundreds of the most respected
citizens will certify to it. As much reference
can be given as may be required. Yours truly,
CRAWFORD & WALKER, Druggists,
lion. H. D. WILLIAMS.
Dr. PEMBERTON’S STILLINGIA is
prepared by A. F. MERRELL & n-0., Phila*,
Pa. Sold by all Druggists in SI.OO bottles, or
sent by express. Agents w r anted to canvass
everywhere.
Send for Book—“ Curious Story”—free to all.
Medicines sent to poor people, paypbu, in in
stallments.
For sale by D. W. Curry,Cartersville,Ga.
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TO THEE I GIVeTiEALTH.
Adapted in chronic diarrhoea, constipation,
and scrofula.—Hy. Latham, M. D.
Successfully used in Dyspepsia, Chronic Diar
rhoea and Scrolula.—Prof. S. Jackson, Univer
sity, Pa.
Efficient in anremia; excellent appetizer and
blood purifier.—ll. Fisher, M. D., Ga.
Valuable in nervous prostration, indigestion
and chlorosis.—G. E. Mathews, M. D., N. C.
A fine tonic and alterative, very valuable in
diseases peculiar to females, chronic lever and
ague, bronchitis and diseases of the digestive
organs.—J. F. Houghton, M. !>., Ala.
Very beneficial in strengthening and improv
ing a reduced system.—Rev. Jno. W. Beck
with, Bishop of Ga.
Invaluable as a nervous tonic.—lion. I. C.
Fowler, Tenn.
Recommended as a prypliylactic in Malarial
districts.”—!). R. Fairex, M. I). N. O.
Restores debilitated systems to health. —T. C.
Mercer, M. 1)., lnd.
“Used with great benefit In Malarial Fever
and DiptherJa.”—S. F. Dupon, M. D., Ga.
Prince of mineral tonics.—Francis Gillam,
M. D„ N. C.
Of great curative virtue.—Thos. F. Rumbold,
M. D., St. Louis.
Beneficial in uterine derangements and ma
larious conditions.—G. M. Vail, M. D., Ohio.
Best remedy ever used in diseases of the
throat.—l*. 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, D., 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. Analysis
with each 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
lon-sin casks, Mass 50 cents and?l; $2.50 and
$5 for half doz. Pills, pure sugar coated 25c.
50c. and #4 package; $1,25, $2.50 and $5 half doz.
Sent postpaid anywhere. This Alass 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 ads ice of arrival.
A flfj vpce
A. M. DAVIS, Pres, of the Cos..
72 Main Bt., Lynchburg, Va.
Sold by D. W. Curry, druggist, Cartersville,
Ga. j el itBBB-6.
CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1881.
MR. FISHER’S BEREAVFMENT.
BY MAX ADEI.ER.
The wife of ray neighbor, Mr. Ar
chibald N. Fisher, was attacked
some years ago by a very dangerous
malady, from which there was from
the first, very little hopes of her re
covery. And one day, when Mr.
Fisher came home, they communica
ted to him the sad intelligence that
she was no more. When the first
outbreak s grief had subsided, he
sent an order to the undertaker for a
coffin, he tied crape on thedoor-knob,
i he sent his hat around to the store to
have it draped in black, he adver
tised her death in the papers with
some poetry attached to the an
nouncement, and he made general
preparations for the funeral. Then
he sat down in the parlor with his
great sorrow, and his friends tried to
comfort him.
“It’s no use,” he said, “I’ll never
get over it. There never Was any
woman like her, and there never will
be again. I don’t want to live with-'
out her. Now she’s gone, I’m ready
to go any time. I’d welcome the
grave.—What’s life to a man like
me? It’s a void —an empty void;
that’s what it is; and there is no
more happiness in it for me.”
“You must try and bear up under
it,” said Dr. Potts. “These afflic
tions are meant for our good. She is
now an angel.”
“I know ! I know! said Mr. Fisher
sobbing, “but there’s no comfort in
that. An angel is no use to me. An
gels don’t make your home happy.
They don’t sew on buttons ami look
after the children. I’d rather have a
woman like Mrs. Fisher than the
host of them.”
“But,” said Dr. Potts, “you must
reflect how much happier she is now;
you must remember that our loss is
her gain.”
“Well, I don’t see it,” replied Fish
er. “She w’as happy enough here,
bustling around, making things live'
ly, quarreling with me sometimes,
bless her dear heart, w hen I annoyed
her, and scolding away all day long
at the hired girl, making music in
the house. Who’s she going to scold
now, I’d like to know? How’s she
going to relieve her feelings when
she gets mad? Flying around in a
night-gown with wings on behind
her shoulder blades! And what I
say is, that if Henrietta had her
choice, she’d rather be home here
tending to things, even if every day
in the week was a rainy wash-day.
Now I know she would.”
“You take a gloomy view of things
now,” said Dr. Potts. “After a while
the skie3 will seem blighter to you.”
“No; they won’t”said Mr. Fisher.
“They’ll grow darker until there’s a
regular awful thunderstorm of grief.
I can’t live throuh it. It’ll kill me.
Iv’e a notion to jump into Henriet
ta’s grave and be buried with her.
I’ve got half a mind to commit sui
cide, so I can—”
Just here the doctor came down
stairs and into the parlor, with a
smile on his face. Mr. Fisher saw it,
and stopping abruptly, he said:
“Dr. Burns, how you can smile in
the midst of the awful desolation of
this family, is more than I can un
derstand, and I don’t—”
“I’ve got some good news for you,
Mr. Fisher,” said the doctor.
“No you haven’t,” said Fisher.—
“There can be no good news for me
in this world.”
“Mrs. Fisher is alive.”
“What? ”
“Mrs. Fisher is alive,” said the
doctor. “She was only in a condi
tion of suspeded animation after all.
She’ll be perfectly well, I think, in
a few days.”
Mr. Fisher wiped his eyes, and
with a frown on his face put his
handkercheif in his pocket, and said:
“You don’t really mean to say Mrs.
Fisher’s going to rise up from her
bed, and remain alive? Going to re
main here with us!
“Precisely ! and I congratulate you
heartily.”
“Oh, you needn’t congratulate me,’
exclaimed Fisher, rising aud looking
gloomily out of the window. “This
is a pretty piece of business! But it’s
just like Henrietta. She always wa9
the contrariest woman in the state.
Who’s going to pay the undertaker’s
bill, I’d like to know? She can just
do it herself; and the advertising,
and that poetry, and the crape, apd
all the things! I never heard of such
foolishness! It makes me mad for
women to be carrying on so ! Hanged
if I’m going to—”
Just here the boy came in with
Mr. Fisher’s hat, with a weed around
it, and Fisher giving the hat a sav
age kick, said to the boy :
“You miserable little scoundrel,
get out of here or I will break your
neck.”
Then the company adjourned, and
Fisher taking the crape off the door
knob, went around to see the under
taker.
But Mrs. Fisher did not get well.
Two or three days later she suffered
a relapse, and within a week she
passed peacefully away. Upon the
same day one of Mr. Fisher’s fellow
townsmen, Lucius Grant, lost his
wife, and the interments were made
in the cemetary upon the same "day,
and about the same hour.
A.s the two funeral parties were
coming out of the burying ground,
Fisher met Grant, and clasping each
other’s hand they Indulged in a sym-
I athetic squeeze, and the following
conversation ensued:
“I’m sorry for you. It’s an un
speakable loss, isrPtit?”
“Awful. She was the best woman
that ever lived.”
“She was indeed. I never met her
equal. She was a good wife to me.”
“I was referring to my wife. There
couldn’t be two best you know.”
“Yes, I know. I know well enough
that your wife couldn’t hold a can
dle to mine.”
“She couldn’t, hey? Couldn’t hold
a candle. Why she could lead Mrs.
Fisher every day in the week, in
cluding Sundays, and not half try !
She was an angel.”
“Oh, she was, was she? Well, I
don’t want to be personal, but if I
owned an angel as bony as an omnh
bus horse, I’d kill her if she didn’t
die of her own accord.”
“Better be bony than wear the
kind of a red nose that your wife
flourished around this community.
It’ll burn a hole through the coffin
lid. And you pretend you’re sorry
she’s gone. But you can’t impose
on me ! I know you’re glad enough
to hurrah about it. ”
“If you abuse ray wife, I’ll knock
you down.”
“I’d like to see you try it ”
There wouffl have been a hand-to
hand combat between the two dis
consolate widowers, if the friends
cl the parties had not interferred at
this juncture. Grant’s friends thrust
him in a carriage, and drove away,
while Fisher was put in the carriage
with liev. Dr. Potts, and he spent
the time consumed by the journey in
giving expression to his sorrow for
the loss of his wife.
“Doctor,” he said, “in one respect
I never saw her equal. I have known
that dear woman to take au old pair
of my treusers, and cut them up for
the boys. She’d make a splendid
suit of clothe far both of them out
of those old trousers, get out stuff
enough for a coat for the baby, and
a cap for Johnny, and have some
left over for a rag carpet, besides
making handkercheifs out of the
pockets, aud a bustle for herself out
ofthe other linings. Give her any
old garment, and it was a-* good as a
gold mine. She’d take a worn out
stocking and make a bran new over
coat out of it, I believe. She had a
turn for that kind vi economy.
There’s one of my shirts that I
bought in 1847, still going about
making itself useful as window cur
tains and pantalets, and plenty of
other things. Only last July our grid
iron give out, and she took it apart,
and iu two hours it was rigged on
the side of the house as a splendid
lightning rod, ali except what she
had made into a poker and an ice
pick. Ingenious? Why, she, kept
our family iu buttons and whistles
out of the ham bones she saved, and
she made fifteen chicken coops from
her old hoop-skirt, and a pig pen out
of her used-up corset bones. She
never wasted a solitary thing. Let
a cat die around our house, and the
first thing you knew Mary Jane’d
have a muff and a set of furs, and I
began to find mince-pies on the din
ner table. She’d stuff a feather bed
with the feathers that she’d get off
one little bit of a rooster. I’ve seen
her cook potato parings so’s you’d
think they were can v T ass-back duck,
and she had a way of doctoring up
shavings, so that the pig’d eat ’em
and grow fat on’em. I believe that
woman could a built a four story
hotel, if you’d a given her a single
pine board; or a steamboat out of a
wash-boiler ; aud the very last thing
she said to me was to bury her in
the garden so’s she’d be useful down
below there, helping to shove up the
cabbages. I’ll never see her like
again.”
When tlie mourners ail got homo f
Mr. Grant tied crape upon all his
window’ shutters,to show’ how deeply
he mourned, and as Fisher knew
that his grief for Mrs. Fisher was
deeper, he not only decorated his
shutters, but he fixed five yards of
black bombazine on the bell-pull, and
dressed his whole family in mourn
ing. Then Grant determined that
hi3 duty to the departed was not to
let himself be beaten by a man who
couldn’t feel any genuine sorrow, so
he sewed a black flagon his lightning
rod, and festooned the front of his
house with black alpaca.
Then Fisher became excited, and
he expressed his sense of bereave
ment by painting his dwelling black,
and by putting up a monument to
Mrs. Fisher in his front yard. Grant
hereupon stained his yellow horse
‘'with lamp-black, tied crape to his
cow’s tail, daubed his dog with ink,
and began to wipe his nose on i black
handkercheif.
These little indulges in generous
rivalry lasted fir nearly a year; and
it is impossible to say what would
have been the result of the contest,
had not Fisher, in the midst of his
sorrow', suddenly discovered in his
heart a deep affection for a Miss
Lang, a young lady who happened to
be visiting one of Fisher’s friends.
Fisher began to pay her attention,
and as he did so, he gradually re
moved the manifestations of his grief
for the dear departed.
A year later they were married,
and this made Mr. Grant so angry,
that he w T ent around to the widow
Jones, and proposed and of course
was accepted on the spot.
Parker had been out in California
for nearly thirty years ; but last win--
ter he came on east and paid a visit
to his old home. Among ac
quaintances of former days he met
Mr. Fisher remarked that he was
sorry his wife was out of town as he
w'ould like Parker to see her.
“And how is she?” asked Parker.
“1 remember her well, Mary Jones
she was before you married her.
Splendid woman ! And how is she
anyhow.
“I am sorry to say Mary is dead ;
been dead more than twenty years.”
“Oh, I beg pardon, said Parker,
excuse me for stirring up old griefs.
But who is your seem id wife? Fine
looking woman. I’ll bet, Fisher! You
were always the awfulest man at
falling in love with pretty woman I
ever saw. What is she brunette, 1
venture to say. Are you going to in
troduce hei to me ? ”
“It’s not—not a pleasant subject to
discuss —but —but my second wife
was laid away in the grave more than
fiifteen years ago.
“You don’t say ? Oh ! I know of
course —your second wife, of course
dead; I forgot about it. Did I say
your second wife? I meant your third
iustead of second. Fisher, I must
know that woman. Introduce me,
will you ? Hang me if I don’t stay
in town until I know her.”
“That will be impossible, Mr. Par
ker. My third wife has been an an
gel ever since 18G5.”
“Well, now, I declare it’s too bad ;
I had no idea—of conrse, I didn’t
mean anything. Let’s see, its ten
years since 1865, ain’t it ? Well now
old fellow, you’ll forgive me for tear
ing np your feelings that way ; but
I’ll make it all right by asking how
in thunder is your present wife
your fifth ?”
“Mr. Parker you are mistaken
again. 1 have no fifth wife. I—”
“ Well, then your sixth how is she?
Pardon me old boy, for saying that
you have been going it. Six wives
in thirty years, and here I am not
married yet. Now how' is Mrs. Fish
er number six ? ”
“Mr. Parker the lady with whom
I live at present is my fourth wife.
I don’t like the tone in which you
speak of this subject.
“Don’t like it! Well, it seems to
me, Fisher, that for a man who mar
ries them and buries them ,as fast as
you do to talk about sensibility upon
the subject is a little more than ri
diculous. I don’t care how your wife
is or when you get another one. But
if you take my advice, you will have
your undertaking business done by
contract at wholesale rates.
Then Mr. Parker took the earliest
through train to California.
Governor Farnham of Vermont
has signed the nuisance bill, and it
will become a law. Its effect is very
stringent against liquor dealers.
William K. Porter, of New York,
manager of the Kentucky lottery
company wa3 found guiity in tne
United States circuit court of sending
circulars through the post office rela
j ting to the company. He was re
-1 mauded for sentence.
POPULATION OF LARGE CITIES.
Superintendent Walker has furnished
the press with a statement of the popula
tion of all cities in the country having
thirty thousand and upwards. In this
statement as published Atlanta’s popula
tion is given at 31,308* It should be 38,-
398. With this correction the table stands
as iollows:
Cities. 1880. 1871
New York 1.200,590 912,092
Philadelphia 840,984 *674,022
Brooklyn 550,678 390,099
Chicago 503,304 298,977
Boston 352,935 250,326
St. Louis 350,522 310,804
Baltimore 332,290 267,354
Cincinnati 255,702 216,229
San Francisco 233,956 149,473
New Orleans 216,140 194,418
Cleveland, O 160,145 92,826
Pittsburg 150,351 86,036
Buffalo 155,137 117,714
Washington 147,307 109,139
Newark, N J 136,400 105,059
Louisville 153,G44 106,751
Jersey City. 120,72S 82,546
Detroit 116,342 79,577
Milwaukee. 115,578 71,440
Providence 104,850 68,901
Albany,...: 90,903 76,289
Rochester 89,363 62,386
Alleghany 78,681 53,180
Indianapolis 75,074 48,244
Richmond 63,803 51,138
New Haven 62,552 50,840
Lowell.. 59,455 40,938
Worcester . 58,297 41,105
Troy 56,747 .6,463
Kansas City 55,843 32,260
Cambridge, Mass.... 52,740 39,634
Syracuse 51,790 43,051
Columbus, O 51,665 31,274
Patterson, N. J 50,887 33,579
Toledo, 0 50,145 31,584
Charleston 49,909 48,956
Fall River 49,006 26,766
Minneapolis 4G,SS7 13,066
Scranton 45,550 35,092
Nashville 43,461 25,865
Reading 43,280 33,930
Hartford 42,553 37,180
Wilmington 42,499 30,841
Camden, N. J 41,658 20,048
St. Paul, Minn 41,498 20,030
Lawrence 39,178 28,921
Dayton, 0 3g,G74 30,437
Atlanta 38,398 21,789
Lynn, Mass 38,281 28,233
-Denver 35,680 ......
Oakland Col 34,556 10,500
Utica NY......... 33,913 28,804
Portland Me 33,810 31,413
Memphis 33,593 40,226
Springfield, Mass.... 33,340 26,703
Manchester 32,630 23,536
St. Joseph 32,484 19,565
Grand Rapids 32,015 18,507
Wheeling 31,264 19,280
Mobile, Ala 31,200 32,034
Hoboken 30,999 20,293
Harrisburg, Pa 30,762 23,104
Savannah 30,681 28,235
Omaha 30,518 16,083
*Census of 1876.
Atlanta is the forty-eighth city, rank
ing next below Dayton, Ohio, and just
above Lynn, Massachusetts. Her rate
of increase was within a fraction of 80
per cent, Fall River and Denver are the
only towns in the country that have in
creased more rapidly since 1870. The
number of cities having more than 30,-
000 inhabitants has increased from 36 to
64. The number having over 100,000 is
20, against 14 in 1870. New York, Phil
adelphia and Brooklyn hold their relative
position at the head. Chicago has risen
from fifth place to fourth, and St. Louis
has fallen from fourth to sixth. Boston
has come up from seventh to fifth, and
Baltimore has dropped from sixtli to
seventh. Cincinnati continues to hold
the eighth position, and Francisco
takes the ninth, crowding New Orleans
from that to the tenth. Those which
have passed the 100,000 line in the ten
years are Cleveland, Pittsburg, Jersey
City, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Provi
dence.—Atlanta Constitution.
Many newspapers are uneasy as
fish out of water until Congress as
semblee. But the moment the ses
sion commences no language is too
severe or vile to be used towards that
body, rejoicing in a motion to ad
journ, alleging that the national leg
islature is only a nuisance, etc. Jour
nals claiming to be respectable are
guilty of this vulgarity, as it may
justly be termed. It is an insult to
constituents as well as to congress
men, and a smirch upon the Ameri
can name and nation in every sense
that should cease.
News from all sources indicate a
rapid increase of strength on the part
of the farmers alliance. If this or
ganization can be made to see and
understand the importance of the
money question, as bearing upon
their individual and collective inter
ests, they would soon, by their votes,
correct the wrongs existing under
our present monetary system. This
is but one of the wrongs it is true,
that the farmers suffer under, but is
a leadingone.
NO. 2.