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Address CORNELIUS WILLINGHAM.
BAKTOW COUNTY—OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Connty Officers.
Ordinary—J. A. Howard—Office, courthouse.
Sheriff—Jas. 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—C4RTEKSVILLE.
Mayor—R. B. Trippe.
Board ol Aldermen—J. C.Woffford, E. Payne;
L. A. Chapman, A. L. Barron; Jno. A. Stover,
M. U.Gllreath; W. C. Edwards, R. W. Satter
field.
Clerk—George Cobb.
Treasurer—Benjamin F. Mountcastlc.
Marshals- John A. Gladden, James D. Wil
kerson.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Methodist—Rev. P. M. Rvburn, pastor.
Preaching every Sunday at 11 o’clock a. m. and
£ o’clock, p. m. Sunday school every Sunday at
£ 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. K. B. Headen, pastor. Preach
ing every Sunday at 11 o’clock, a. m., and Bp.
m. Sunday school every Sunday at 9 o’clock,
Prayer meeting on Wednesday night.
Episcopal—A. W. Rees, Rector. Services oc
casionally.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
A KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
iTir Bartow Cos. Lodge, No. 148, meets
every Ist and 3rd Monday night
wWw i n Curry’s Hall, east side of the
* square, Cartersville, Ga.
W. L. Kirkpatrick, A. C. Smith,
Reporter. Dictator
American legion of honor, carters
yille Council, No. 152, meets every second
and fourth Mouday nights in Curry’s hall.
Gico. S. Cobb, J, W. Harris, Jr.,
Secretary. Commander.
POST OFFICE DIRECTORY.
Malls North open ...7:30 am 4:52 pm
Mails South open 10:10 am 9:04 pm
Cherokee R. 14. open 6:55 p m
Malls North close 7:00 am 4:00 pm
Mails South close 9:45 a m 8:30 p m
Jherokee R.R. close 7:30 am
Jfijgp*Talking Rock Mail, via Fairmount,
leaves Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at
6:00 am. Arrives Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays at 5:00 p m.
jHajy-Alonev Order and Registered Letter
Office open from 8:45 a m to 5 p in.
General Delivery open from 8 a m to 6
pm. Open on Sunday from 9am to 10:30 am.
J. R. WIKLE, P. M,
WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. R.
ON AND AFTER June 20th, 1880, trains on
this road will run as follows:
northward] '
STATIONS. No.l. | No. 3, [ No. 1L j *Acc?*
Atlanta, 2 50pm 6 20am 7 60am 5 10pm
Marietta, 335 “ 606 “ 843 “ 609 “
Carte rsv’e 436 “ 723 “ 949 “ 722 “
Kingston, 500 “ 7 51“ 1018“ 800 “
Dalton, 628 “ 926 “ 12 03pm
Chatta’ga. 825 “ 10 56 “ 140 “
' SOPTIIWAKD.
STATIONS. No. 2. No. 4, No. 6. K 2cc.
Chatta’ga. 5 25pm I 7 06am 6 45am
Dalton, 715 “ 837 “ 1013 “
Kingston, 843 “ 110 16 “ 1 07pm 5 30am
Cartersv’e 907“j10 46 “ 202 “ 604 “
Marietta, 1012“ 1161“ 429 “ 733 “
Atlanta, 11 00 “| 12 40pm 615 “ 850 “
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
ON AND AFTER Monday, October, 11, 1880,
trains on tbis 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 am 2:61 p m
“ Taylorsville... 10:57 a m 3:17 p m
Rockmart 11:30 a m 4:07 p m
Cedartown .... 12:35 p m 5:30 p m
EASTWARD.
STATIONS. NO. 2. NO. 4.
Leave Cedartown 3:10 p m 6:40 a m
Arrive at Rockmart 4:06 p m 7:58 a m
“ Taylorsville... 4:45pm 8:48 am
•• Stilesboro 5:06 pm 9:14 am
“ Cartersville.... 5:45 pm 10:10 pin
ROME RAILROAD COMPANY.
On and after Monday, Nov. 17, trains on this
Road will run as follows:
MORNING TRAIN—EVERY DAY.
Leaves Rome 6.30 a m
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.
Eben Hillyer, Pres.
J as. A. Smith, G. P. Agt.
TANARUS, W. MILNER. J. W. HARRIS, JR.
MIMEE A HARRIS
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE. GA.
Office on West Main street, above Erwin.
nT~. JAMES HOT E ,
(CARTERSVILLE, GI A,)
THE UNDERSIGNED HAS RECENTLY
taken charge of this elegant new hotel. It
has been newly furnished and is first-class in
all respects,
SAMPLE BOOM FOR COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS.
Favorable terms to traveling theatrical coua
oompanies. L. C. HOSS, Proprietor.
jtatioYall hotel,
DALTON, GA.
J. Q. A. LEWIS, Proprietor.
riIHE ONLY FIRST CLASS HOTEL IN THE
I City. Large, well ventilated rooms, splen
did sample rooms for commercial travelers,
polite waiters and excellent pure water.
tig* Rates moderate. sepl9tf
"Xw FITE
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.,
Office :—With Col. A. Johnson, West side
Bq S?, re - Wh en not at office, can be found
at office ot Carterviiie Express, Opera House.
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iII, Augusta, Maine.
The Cartersville Express.
YELLOW FEYEE-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
months of 1879.
MERRELDB 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 lound,
causes Horn one to two ounces of bile to be fil
tered or strained lrom the blood each time It
passes through the Liver, as long as an excess
of 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 Hkpatink,which
is sold oy all Druggists in 25 cent and?l-00bot
tles, or will be sent by express by the Proprie
tors, A. F, MERRELL CO.,
Philadelphia, Pa,
Dr. PemDeron’s itsling ia or Queen’s Eeligl
H&T The reports of wonderful cures of Rheu
matism, Scrofula, Salt Rheum, Syphilis, Cancer
Ulcers and Sores, that come lrom all parts oi
the country, are not only remarkable but so
miraculous as to be doubted was it not for the
abundance ot proof.
REMARKABLE CURE OF SCROFULA, &c.
Case of Colonel J , C. Branson*
Kingston, Ga., September 15,1871.
Gents:— For 16 years I have been a great suf
ferer irom Scrofula in its most distressing
forms. 1 have been confined to my room and
bed for 15 years with scrofulous ulcerations.
The most approved remedies for 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
Stillingiu. Lanauage is as insufficient to de
scribe the relief I stained from the use of the
Stillmgia as it is *iHst>nvey an adequate idea of
the intensity of my suffering before using your
medicine; sufficient to say, I abandoned all
other remedies and continued the use of your
Extract of Stillingia, until I can say 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 oi the above statement, I refer
to any gentleman in Bartow county, Ga., and
to the members of the oar of Cherokee Circuit,
who are acquainted with me. I shall ever re
main, with the deepest gratstude, Your obedi
ent servant,
J. C. BRANSON, Att’y at Law.
A MIRACLE.
Gents:—My daughter was taken on the 25th
day ot June, 1863, with what was supposed to
bo Acute Rheumatism, and was treated for the
same with no success. In March, lollowin*,
pieces of bone began to work out of the right
arm, and continued to appear till all the
bone from the elbow to the shoulder joint came
out. Many pieces of bone came out of the
right loot and leg. The case was the upro
nounced one of White Swelling. After hav
ing be§n 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 was so well satisfied
with its effects that I have continued use of the
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
olessing 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, Drnggists.
Hon. H. D. WILLIAMS.
SSL. Dr. PEMBERTON’S STILLINGIA is
prepared by A. F. MERRELL & v,0., Phila%
Pa. Sold by all Druggists in SI.OO bottles, or
sent by express. Agents wanted to canvass
everywhere.
Send for Book—“ Curious Story”—free to all.
Medicines sent to poor people, payable in in
stallments.
For sale by D, W. Curry,Cartersville,Ga.
TO THKB I GIVE HEALTH.
Adapted in chronic diarrhoea, constipation,
and scrofula.—Hy. Latham, M.I).
Successfully used in Dyspepsia, Chrouic Diar
rlioea and Scrofula. —Prof. S. Jackson, Univer
sity, Pa.
Efficient in ansemia; 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. Itoughton, M. I)., Ala.
Very beneficial in strengthening and improv
ing a reduced system.—Rev. Jno. W. Beck
with, Bishop of Ga.
Invaluable as a nervous tonic. —Hon. I. C.
Fowler, Tenn.
Recommended as a pryphylactic in Malarial
districts.”—D. R. Fairex, M. D. N. O.
Restores debilitated systems to health.—T. C.
Mercer, M. D., Ind.
“Used with great benefit in Malarial Fever
and Diptheria.’—S. F. Dupon, M. D.. Ga.
Prince of mineral tonics.—Francis Gillam,
M. D„N. €.
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.—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, D., Va.
Relievos headache, promptlv—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
lons in casks, Mass 50 cents and $1; $2.50 and
$5 for half doz. Pills, pure sugar coated 25c.
50c. and $1 package; $1,25, $2.50 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 four miles from Springs,
upon adwee of arrival,
Address
A. M. DAVIB, Pres, of the Cos..
72 Main Bt., Lynchburg, Va.
Sold by D. W. Cwrry, druggist, Cartersville,
CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1881.
THE WILL.
Blame not the times in which we live.
Nor fortune frail and fugitive;
Blame not yonr parents, nor the rule
Of vice or wrong once learned in school;
But blame thyself, oh man I
Although both heaven and earth combined
To mold thy flesh and form thy mind,
Though every thought, word, action, will,
Was framed by powers beyond thee, still
Thou art thyself, oh man !
And self to take or leave is free,
Feeling its own sufficiency;
In spite of conscience, spite of fate,
The judge within thee, soon or late,
Will blame but thee, oh man!
Bay not, “ I would, but could not—He
Should bear the blame who fashioned me —
Call you mere change of motive choice?
Scorning such pleas, the inner voice
Cries, “Thine the deed, oh man ! ”
A HEADLIGHT IN VIEW.
The Condnctor’s Story of a Night Train
on the Union Pacific.
Detroit Free Pi ess.
“Yes,” said the conductor, biting
off the tip of a cigar and slowly
scratching a match on his leg, “I’ve
seen a good deal of railroad life that’s
interesting and exciting in the twenty
years that I’ve been twisting brakes
and slamming doors for a living.
“I’ve seen all kinds of joy and all
kinds of sorrow—seen the happy
bridal couple starting out on their
bridal tour with the bright and hope
ful future before them, and the black
robed mourner on her way to a new
made grave, wherein she must bury
the idol of her lonely old heart.
“Wealth and pinching poverty ride
on the same train, and the merry
laugh of the joyous, healthy child is
mingled with the despairing sigh of
the aged. The great antipodes of
life are familiar to the conductor, for
every day the extremes of the world
are meeting beneath his eye.
“I’ve mutilated the ticket of many
a black leg and handled the passes
of all our most eminent dead-heads.
I don’t know what walk of life is
more crowded with thrilling inci
dents than mine.”
“Ever have any smashups?”
“Smashups? Oh, yes, several of
them. None, however, that couldn’t
have been a good deal worse.
“There is one incident in my rail
road life,” continued the conductor,
running his tongue barefully over a
broken place in the wrapper of his
cierar, “that I never spoke of to any
one. It has caused me more misery
and wretchedness than any one thing
that ever happened to mo in my offi
cial career.
“Sometimes, even now, after the
lapse of many years, I awake in the
night with the cold drops of agony
standing on my face and the horrible
nightmare upon me with its terrible
surroundings, as plain as on the mem
orable night it occurred.
“I was running extra on the Uuion
Pacific for a conductor who was an
old friend of mine, and who had gone
South on a vacation for his health.
At about 7:30, as near as 1 can re
member, we were sailing all com
fortable one evening with a straight
stretch of track ahead for ten or fifteen
miles, running on time and every
body feeling tip-top, as overland trav
ellers do who get acquainted with
each other and feel congenial. All at
once the train suddenly slowed dow,
ran in on an old siding and stopped.
Of course I got out and ran ahead
to the engine to see what the matter
was. Old Antifat, the engineer, had
got down and wa3 on the main track
looking ahead, to where, twinkling
along about six or seven miles down
the road, apparently, was the head
light of an approaching train. It
was evidently “wild” for nothing
was due that we knew of at that
hour.
“However, we had been almost
miraculously saved from a frightful
wreck by the engineer’s watchful
ness, and everybody went forward
and shook old Antifat by the hand
and cried and thanked him till it was
the most affecting scene for a while
that I ever witnessed. It was as
though we had stopped on the very
verge of a bottomless chasm, and
everybody was laughing and crying
at once until it was a kind of a cross
between a revival and a picnic.
“After we had waited about a half
an hour I should say, for the blasted
ftain to come up and pass us, and ap
parently she was no nearer, a cold,
clammy suspicion began to bore it
self into the adamantine shell of my
intellect. The more 1 thought of it
the more unhappy I felt. I almost
wished that I was dead. Cold streaks
ran up my back fallowed by hot ones.
I wanted to go home. I wanted to
be where the hungry, prying eyes of
the great, throbbing work day world
could not see me.
“I called Antifat one side and said
something to him. He swore solftly
to himself aud kicked the ground,
and looked at the headlight still
glimmering in the Then
he got on his engine, and I yelled
‘All aboard.’ In a few moments we
were moving again, and the general
impression was that the train ahead
was sid -tracked and waiting for us,
although there wasn’t a side-track
within twenty miles, except the one
we had just left.
“It was never exactly clear to the
passengers where we passed that wild
train, but I didn’t explain it to them.
I was too much engrossed with my
surging thoughts.”
“I never felt my own inferiority so
much as I did that night. I never
so fully realized what a mere speck
man is upon tho bosom of the uni
verse.
“When I surveyed the starry vault
of heaven and considered its illimita
ble space, where, boyond and stretch
ing on aud on forever, countless suns
are placed as centers, around which
solar systems are revolving in their
regular orbits, each little world peo
pled, perhaps with its teeming mil
lions of struggling humanity, and
then other and mightier systems, till
the mind is dazed and giddy with
the mighty thought; and then when
I compared all this universal mag
nificence, this brilliant aggregation
of worlds and systems of worlds
with one poor, groveling worm
of the dust—only a little insig
nificant atom, only a poor, wead, err
ing, worthless, fallible, blind, grop
ing railroad conductor, with my
train peacefully sidetracked in the
gathering gloom and patiently wait
ing for the planet Venus to pass on
the main track, there was something
about the wnole somber picture that
has overshadowed my whole life, and
made me unhappy and wretched,
while others were gay.
“Sometimes Antifat and myself
meet at some liquid restaurant and
silently take something ia memory of
our great sorrow, but never mention
it. We never tear open the old rank
ling wound or laugh over the night
we politely gave the main track to
Venns while we stood patiently on
the siding.”
THE HOME OF MARK TWAIN.
In a recent letter from Hartford,
Ct., the Burlington (Iowa) Hawk
eye, Mr. It. J. Burdette writes :
“The pleasantest view I had of the
city was from the cozy fireside in
that wonderful home of Mr. S. L.
Clements, who was my host duriag
my stay in Hartford. I am not suf
ficiently ‘British’ to*wander through
December and January in a short
checked coat and no ulster. I am
given to much wrapping up when I
do go out in the snow, and to very
little going out ia the snow at all. I
begin to shiver with the first frost,
and I keep it up until the following
April. And 30, when I can sit down
by a bright wood fire, and burn up
cigars, while somebody entertains
me, I love the icy winter.
I think I have never been in a
home more beautifully homelike than
this palace of the king of humorists.
The surroundings of the house are
beautiful, and its quaint architect
ture, broad East Indian porticos, the
Greek patterns in mosaic in the dark
red walls attract and charm the at
tention and good taste of the passer
by, for the home, inside and out, ia
the perfection of exquisito taste and
harmony. But with all its architec
tural beauty and originality, the ele
gance of its interior finish aud deco
rations. the greatest chalrm about the
house is the atmosphere of ‘home
likeness’ that pervades it. Charm
ingly as he can entertain thousands
of people at a time from the platform,
Mr. Clemens is even a more perfect
entertainer in his home. The bright
est and best sides of his nature shine
out at his fireside. The humor and
drollery that sparkle in his conver
sation is as utterly unaffected and
natural as sunlight. Indeed, I don’t
believe he knows or thinks that most
of his talk before the sparkling fire,
up in the pleasant retirement of his
billiard room study, is marketable
merchandise, worth so much a page
to the publishers, but it is. And it
is all drollery and humor. He is so
earnest that his earnestness charms
you fully as much as his brighter
flashes, and once in a while there is
in his voice an inflection of wonder
ful pathos so touched with melan
cholly that you look into the kind,
earnest eyes to see what thought has
touched his voice. And he has a
heart as big as his body; I believe
there does not live a man more
thorouehly unselfish and self-forget
ful. Two little girls and a boy baby,
bright-eyed, good-tempered,and with
a full head of hair as brow T n as his
father’s assist Mrs. Clemens to fill the
heart of the reigning humorist, and
they do it most completely. Person
ally, Mr. Clemens is, perhaps, a little
above the medium height, of good
symmetrical physique, browu hair,
scarcely touched with gray, that
curls over a high, white forehead;
friendship in his eyes, hearty cordi
ality in the grasp of a w T ell-shaped
white hand, strong enough andlieavy
enough to be a manly hand; his age
is forty something, and he looks
thirty-five; in the evening, after the
lamps are lighted his faco has a won
derful boyish look, and he loves a
good cigar even better than Grant
does.”
BITS OF INFORMATION.
The meaning of the word amen is
“so be it.” It was introduced from
the Jewish into the Christian church
about 390 A. D.
The drink knowh as “punch” was
introduced into Europe from the
East Indies by Anglo-Indians at
some date between 1746 and 1760. It
is so named from the Hindoo word
pantsch (Persian, paiy ,) because it
consists of five ingredients, which *
when first made, were arrack, tea,
water, sugar and lemon-juice. The
famous Yauxhall punch was an ad
mixture of arrack, brandy, sugar,
lemon-juice aud water.
The President of the United States
cannot be arrested. If he commits
any high crime or misdemeanor he
can be impeached by the House,
tried by the Senate, and if convicted
can be removed from office. After
removal from office he can be arres
ted and tried, the same as any other
citizen, for any crime which he had
committed while in office. If the
President could be arrested on char
ges preferred against him, any petty
magistrate might endanger the peace
of the country.
The mammoth trees of California
are the largest kaown. The dimen
sions of one tree, in the Tulre group
were according to the measurements
made by members of the state geo
logical survey, 276 feet high, 106 feet
in circumference at the base, and 76
feet at a point twelve feet above tho
ground. The redwood tree frequent
ly grows to a height of 300 feet, and
a diameter of 15 feet. The bark of a
California tree on exhibition is thir
ty-five inches thick.
The origin or game of philopena
is said to have been as follows: The
people of Alsace and Lorraine were
formerly under German rule, as they
now are; but while a part of France
they lost in a great measure the use of
the German language, and what they
retained became corrupt. It was an
old custom among them for young
couples to engage themselves by eat
ing the halves of double almonds,
and then to salute each other as “well
beloved” each time they met. The
word in German wa i vielliebchen ,
but, having forgotten the meaning
of this word, they gradually changed
iujo “phiilipo,” which sounds like
it, and “phillippina.”
The first meteoric shower which
attracted attention in modern times
was that witnessed by the Moravian
missionaries in Greenland, iu 1799.
The phenomenon was observed over
a wide extent of territory. Hum
boldt, then traveling iu South Amer
ica, said : “Toward the morning of
November 13, a most extraordinary
scene of shooting stars was seen.
Thousands of bodies and falling stars
succeeded each other during four
hours. Their direction was very
regular from north to south ; from
the beginning of the shower there
was not a space in the firmament
equal in extent to three diameters of
the moon which was not filled every
instant with bodies of falling stars.
All the meteors left luminous traces
or phosphorescent bands behind
them, which lasted seven or eight
seconds.”
An English scientist upon hygienne
says that fashion and tight shoes have
so cramped up and stilted the walk
now-a-days that a lady with wooden
legs might pass muster on the streets
undiscovered.
The first conference of the National
Land and Industrial League was held
ftt the St. James Hotel, New York,
recently. Delegates were present
from all sections of the Union.
NEWS ITEMS.
Heavy drift-ice continues to movo
down the Mississippi.
Nashville has an oyster-club coral*
posed of colored persons.
Memphis is going to get up a big
mardi gras celebration.
The original “Old Bob Ridley” is
said to be living near Athens, Ga,
Anew bank, called the Citizens’,
with a capital of $200,000, will soon be
opened in Augusta.
The State Agricultural Society will
meet in Bainbridge on the second
Tuesday in February.
The Georgia Railroad will be refit
ted with an entire outfit of steel rails
during the present year.
The Garfield administration is puz
zled to get a man competent to fill
John Sherman’s shoes.
A land league was formed and a
considerable sum of money sub
scribed in aid of the Irish land
league, in Augusta, Ga., recently,
Seven hundred and fifty thousand
peasants are starving in Russia,
chiefly because of the monstrous
form of government under which
they live.
The Graphic Is of the opinion that
the United States government will
buy the whole telegraph system with
in a year, and that meantime we will
cheap telegraphy and wide fluctua
tions in the price of telegraph stocks.
The Kearney mob constitution has
done much harm in California, One
portion of it, on the contrary has
done much good—that portion that
broke up the monopoly in land. That
is just the medicine Ireland and the
whole of Great Bailain wants.
The Galveston News suggests that
the reason Mr. Abbey gave up his
“Passion Play” was because he could
not find anybody in New York to
whom he could intrust the thirty
pieces of silver with any expectation
of ever seeing them again.
The nomination of Nathan Goff,
Jr., of West Virginia, to be Secretary
of the Navy, was sent to the Senate
by Mr. Hays on Thursday. The se
lection of Mr. Goff was a great sur
prise, as Mr. Hays’ intentions were
known to put few.
The Commissioners of Ro ads and
Revenues of Putnam county have
repealed the old order fixing the
amount of liquor license for the coun
ty at $25, and have ordered that from
and after the 18th ult. the amount of
such license shall be $3,000 per annum.
The attempt of deacons to sit in
the same pew with ladies whom they
escort to church seems to have been
regarded with disfavor on Sunday
last by the Bethany congregation in
Pulaski county, Ky. A row ensued,
knives were freely used and one man
fatally cut.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has
adjourned for the term. It will not
meet again until February lGth. The
court had disposed of all cases on the
docket. It is one of the few apelate
courts which keeps up with its busi
ness. The Supreme Court of Mis-*
souri, for example, is three years be.
hind.
Here is a telegram to the conduc
tor of an embarrassed New Jersey
railway train : “ U3e all the fence
rails you can lay your hands on if
your coal gives out. Throw in a barn
or two, if necessary ; and if that fails
take all the pork offered at six dol
lars a hundred. Keep your steam up
and come through at any cost.”
Gould is tightening his grip all
around. The terms of consolidation
between the American Union and
Western Union telegraph companies
have been agreed upon and the pre
liminary papers signed. The Atlantic
and Pacific was let into the combina
tion at fifty cents on the dollar of its
stock, thus forming a monopoly
agaip.
Says the Columbus Enquirer: J?or
a week or two past there have been
large numbers of negroes passing
through this city en route to Texas.
Every afternoon the second class
coach of the passenger train from
Macon is crowded with them, and
frequently to such an extent that a
portion are forced to wait for the
next train. They say good homes
and better wages have been promised
them, and this is the only reason as
signed for leaving comfortable quar
ters in Georgia. The majority of
them are from the southwest part of
the state. We may well expect to
see all, who are able to do so, return
ing in the course of a year.
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