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Professional and Business Cards
JOHN W. WOFFOKD. THOMAS W. MILNER
WOFFORD & MILNER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CAKTI2RSVILLE, GA.
OYFiCF tip stairs, Bank Block.
lfrf]f r T ' ll - 11
(. TUMLfN,
A T*T bRN E Y A T LAW,
CAItTEIIBViI»LE, GA.
Office over the Bank.
JOHN L. MOON,
AT fWi AT LAW,
OAKTERSVILLE, GA.
Will practice in the counties'comprising the
(JUerokcc Circuit; Office over Liebman’.s store.
|| w. MUjRPHEY,
attorney at law,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Will practice in the courts of the Cherokee
Circuit. Particular attention given tothecol
ci-tion of claims. Oilice with Col. Alula John
on. Oet.l.
A. wwl ' OKn ’
attorney at law.
CAKTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE in Court-House. jnn 26
M. FOUXK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
( With Col. Warren Akin,)
Will practice in the courts of Bartow, Cobb.
Polk, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Whitlield and ad
Joining counties. March 30.
g a. McDaniel,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Ollice with John W. Wofford. jan ’72
W. I>. TRAMMELL.
A TTOR NE Y AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA
OFFICF W. Main St., next door to Standard
& Express Office. Feb. 15,1872 —wly.
r|l HO« A S TV . DODD,
AT T O lIN E Y AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
Os lira over U» Bank. JanlßlCT3 .
DR. J. A. JACKSON,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
OFFICE in W. A. Loyless’ Drug Store, next
door to Stokely & Williams’. oct27
w. 11. Mountcastle,
,Jewelaf and Watch and Clock
Repairer, *■
CAUTEBSVILLE GEORGIA.
Office in lront of A. A. Skinner & Co’s Store.
(JEN. W. T. WOFFRD. JNO. 11. WIKLE
Wofford cfc Wiltlo,
ATTORNEYS - AT - LA W,
AND
Real Estate Agents,
Cartersville, Ga.
SPECIAL ATTENTION given to the pur
chase and sale of Real Estate. -28-6 m.
DENTiSTRY.
fnUB undersigned respectfully informs the
I. citizens of Cartersville and vicinity that he
lius resumed the practice of Dentistry, and by
close attention to business and faithful work
ha Mopes to receive a liberal share of success.
Office over Erwin, Stokoly & Cos.
Jan 30-6 m. F. M. JOHNSON.
Dental Card.
milE undersignod, a practical dentist of 18
I years experience, having pnrehesed prop
erty 'and located permanently in the city of
Cartersville, will continue the practice in rooms
opposite those of Wofford & Milner, in the new
budding adjoiningthe Bank. With experience
a lid application to my profession, charges al
w: ys reasonable auu just, 1 hope to merit the
patronage-of a generous public.
Office hours, from November Ist proximo. 8 to
12 a. m., 2tosp. m. Sabbaths excepted. Calls
answered at residence, opposite Baptist church.
R. A. SEALE,
UI-17—tf Surgeon Dentist.
— 1 I
DU. CHAS. IV A LYI GAY,
13 E IV T I S T ,
Cartersville, Ga.
SPECIAL ATTENTION given to children’s
toetri.
8-15-
TO PLANTERS.
Bowen A MERCER'S Superphosphate,
S3B PER TON.
Warranted equal to any Phosphate manufac
tured. Send for the Pamphlet of Certificates
and Analysis, by Professors Means, Pigtfott
and Stewart, to BOWEN & MERCER,
65 South Gay St.,
12-12—wlm. Baltimore, Md.
DR. W. A. TROTTER
Offers his frofesssonal services
to the citizens of Cartersville.
Office with Dr. Baker.
Cartersville, Ga., Jan. 7,1873.
UME! LIRE S LDIE!
PERSONS WISHING THE BEST LIME can
always llud cm ffaud, at the Store of Me
non aid & Brandon, an ample supply ot Alla
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&U ,•
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lor FORTY YEARS it has proved its great
vntaioaa all <li>eaaes of ttie Mona, H ovtu and
■ Kidneys. Thojisands of the good and great in
i all parts of tint, country vouch for its wonderful
and pocniiai' | tower iu purifying the Blood,
stimulating the torpid Liver and bowels, and
imparting new life and vigor to the whole sys
tem. Simmons’Liver Regulator iis acknowl
edged to hawe no equal ns u
LIVER MEDICINE.
it contains four medical elements, never bc
lorc united in the same happv proportion in
any other preparation, vi* : njmntie CaiUatUc,
a woudcmil lou ic, an uDmeptumalik Alter
ative, and-a certain Com<tiv«of all i»puriMe»
?f thi body. Such signal euoenes bas attend*!
its use that it is now regarded as tbe
GREAT UNFAILING SPECI
FIC
for Liver Complaint and the painful offspring
thereof, to wit: Dyspepsia, Constipation, Jaun
dice, Lilhous attacks, sick Headache. Colic,
Depression of Spirits, Sour Stomach, Heart
Burn, ,<fec., &e.
Regulate the Liver and prevent
CHILLS AND FEVER.
Simmons’ Liver Regulator
. i» manufactured only by
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MACON, GA., AND PHILADELPHIA,
l' l- package; sent by mail.postagepaid
|L2o. Prepared ready for use in bottles, #1.50.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
I©- Bewareof all Counterfeits and Imitations
STERLING
SILVER-WARE.
SHARP & FLOYD
No. 33 Wliiteluill Street,
ATLANTA.
Specialty,
Sterling Silver-Ware.
Special attention is requested to tire many
new and elegant pieces manufactured express
ly to our order the past year, and quite recently
completed.
An unusually attractive assortment of uovel
ics in Fancy Silver, cased for Wedding and
mill.; r
character.
The House we represent manufacture on an
unparalleled scale, employing on Sterling Sil
ver-Ware alone over One Hundred 'skilled
hands, the most accomplished talent in Design
ing, and the best Labor-saving Machinary, en
abling them to produce works of the highest
character, at prices UNAPPROACHED by any
competition. Our stock at present is the lar
gest and most varied this side of Philadelphia
An examination of our stock and prices will
guarantee our sales.
OUR HOUSE USE ONLY
925
BRITISH STERLING,
1000
an4—tf
Win. Gouldmith,
Manufacturer and dealer in
4 HE)
METALIC BURIAL CASES & CASKETS
Also kc«i>B on hand
WOOD COFFINS
of every description.
All orders by night or day promptly attended
to. .
aug. 22
NOTICE TO FARMERS!
y OUR attention is rsspectfully invited to th
Agricultural Warehouse
OF
ANDERSON & WELLS,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
DEALERS IN
Guanos, Field and Garden Seeds,
FARM WAGONS,
PITTS’ TH RESHERJA
Size 26 to 32 inch cylinder, with or without
down aud mounted horse powers.
SWEEPSTAKES THRESHERS.
Size 26 to 32 inch cylinder, wijh or witgfut
down and mounted horse powers.
Bali’s Reaper and Mower,
Buck-Eye Reaper and Mower
PLOWS—ONE AND TWO-HORSE
BUGGY PLOWS.
Also General Agents for
“ Pendleton’s Guano Compound,”
Cash, 167 per ton of 2,000 lbs.; Credit Ist Nov.,
$75 per ton 2,000 lbs.
“Farmer’s Choice,”
Manufactured from Night Soil, at Nashville,
Tenu.—Cash $45 per ton; credit Ist Nov., SSO;
And all other kinds of implements and ma
chinery, which we sell as low as any house in
the South. Call and see us, or send for Price
List. ANDERSON «t WELLS.
52
Theo. GOULDSMITH,
Agent for
GEORGIA MARftIE WORKS.
Cartersville, Georgia.
feb. 8
SAMUEL H. SMITH & COMPANY, EDITORS .AND PROPRIETORS.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6, 1873.
JC
MONET MODE.
IStiy youi* (jootl*
OH EAP.
While you can.
The* iiiitl( k i*«igiie«l has on
hand and is constantly re
ceiving
New and Beautiful
GOODS,
of every description just
from the Kastern Markets,
which will he sold at the
LOWEST FIGURED FOR
Cash •
I offer superior indiice
meuts us regards
Style,
C^xxcility,
and
Prices.
An examination of my
Stock will convince you
that you can buy your
(*oods cheaper of 111 c than
elsewhere
Handsome Styles of
DRESS GOODS!
SHAWLS,
Striped and Reversible, of
the latest Fashions.
PRINTS,
Os every Style and Shade
Notions;
fcr
CLOTHING,
MENS WEAR.
BOOTS,
Caps,
mmi
GROCERIES,
My. assortment ofLadiei’
misses au<l’eliil<lren*s
BOOTS, SHOES & GAITERS,
Cannot be excelled lit ei
ther style quality ,[or cheap
ness.
Mens’ Hoots and Shoes at
all Prices, Hats Lower
than the Lowest.
I would call special at
tention to my system oft*do
ing business. Ist., I sell
strictly for CASH. Having
no accounts I lose no debts,
and do not have to add on
an extra profit of 15 to 25
per cent to make up for
time custoMcro.
2d., I have but one price on
each article, so that a child
an buy Gocds as lotv as a
man, and a poor judge as
cheap as the best judge of
Goods in the country.
Huy your C*oods|at the
MISSTH
and save money. Ho trou
ble to show Goods.
A. P. NEAL.
Fur the Standard and Express.
O&LY WAITING:*
Iu passing through the town and country, we
often meet some very old people, whose time
worn expressions suggest the following lines:
Only waiting till the shadows
Are a little longer grown;
Only waiting till the glimmer
CM the day’s last beam is flown;
Till tbe nigbt of earth has faded
heart once full of day;
Till the «tars of U»a«Mr«i«t**aM*g
Through the t wittgltt *oft end gr»v.
Only waiting till the reapers
The last sheaf have gathered home,
For thesflfnimer time has faded, *
And the autumn winds have come.
Quickly, reapers, gather qnicklv,
The last ripe hours of my heart,
For the bloom of life is withered,
AnM hasten torlep art.
Only waiting till the angets
Open wide the mystic gate,
At whose feet I long have lingered,
Weary, poor and dviolate.
Even notv, I hear theft fodtsthfr,
And their voices far away—
It they call me, 1 am willing,
Only waiting to obey.
Only waiting till tbe shadows
Are a little longer grown;
Only waiting till the glimmer
Os the day’s last beam is flowj;
Then from out the gathering darlne-s,
Holy, deathless stars shall rise,
By whose light my soul shall gladly
Tread its path-way to the skies.
Canton, Jan. 1873. May.
[From the Macon Telegraph & Messenger.
MUSIC IN CAMP.
Two armies covered Hill and plain,
Where Rappahannockls waters,
Ran deeply crimsoned with the stain.
Os battle’s recent slaughters.
The summer clouds lay pitched like tents
In meads of heavchly azure;
And each dread gun of the elements
Slept in its hid embrasure.
The breeze so soltly blew it made
No forest leaf to quiver,
And the smoke of the random cannonade
Rolled slowly from the river.
And now where circling hills looked down
With cannon grimly planted,
O’er listless camp and silent town
The golden sunset slanted;
When on the fervid air there came
A strain now rich now tender,
The music seemed itself aflame
With day’s departing splendor.
A Federal baud, which eve and morn
Played measures brave and nimble,
Had just struck up with flute and horn
And lively clash of cymbal.
Down flocked the soldiers to the hanks
Till margined by its pebbles.
One wooded shore was blue with “Yanks,”
And one was gray with “Rebels.”
‘7IU I hiVi YCirA*4A’s
Made stream and forest, hill and strand,
Reverberate with “Dixie.”
The conscious stream, with burnished glow,
Went proudly o’er its pebbles,
But thrilled throughout its deepest flow
With yelling of the Rebels.
Again a pause, and then again
The trumpet pealed sonorous,
And Y'ankce Doodle was the strain
To which the shore gave chorus.
The laughing ripple shoreward flew
To kiss the shining pebbles—
Loud shrieked the crowding Boys in Blue
Defiance to the Rebels.
And yet once more the bugle sang
Above the stormy riot;
No shout upon the evening rang—
There reigned a holy quiet.
The sad, lone stream its noiseless tread
Spread o’er the glistening pebbles;
All silent now the l r ankees stood,
All silent stood the Rebels:
For each responsive soul had heard
That plaintive note’s appealing,
So deeply “Honic,’ Sweet Home” ban stirred
The hidden founts of feeling.
Os blue or gray, the soldier sees,
As by the wand of fairy,
The cottage ’neath the live-oak trees,
The cottage by the prairie.
Or cold or warm his native skies
Bend in their beauty o’er him;
Sending the tear-mist in his eyes—
The dear ones stand before him.
As fades the iris after rain
In April’s tearful weather,
The vision vanished as the strain
And daylight died together.
But memory, waked by music’s art
Expressed in simplest numbers,
Subdued the sternest Y'ankec’s heart,
Made light the Rebel’s slumbers.
And fair the form of Music shines,
That bright celestial creature,
Who still ’mid war’s embattled lines
Gave this one touch of nature.
John R. Thompson.
GALLANTRY
What is gallantry but a tribute
from the stronger to the weaker ?
What right has a fresh-faced, ruddy
girl, abounding in strength, to plant
herself in front of a weary man In
that way that plainly indicates her
expectation that he will yield his
seat? What right has she to take
if, indeed ? Why should she not rise
and give a seat to an old man, in
stead of accepting his ?
Now, we submit that the fault is
partly with ill-bred women. They
take seats as if they belonged to
them. We almost always surrender
to a standing lady, however weary
our legs may be, and not one in six
has courtesy enough to say, “Thank
you.” Avery weary and very plain
woman with none of the varnish of
society, no knowledge of the propri
eties and improprieties, stood in
front of us the other day. We of
fered her the seat, and she hesitated.
“I hate to take your seat,” she said.
She was a lady.
The very women who complain of
a lack of gallantry, never give plaee
themselves to older and weaker peo
ple. The sight of a young lady giv
ing a seat to a feeble old man would
work wonders of gallantry among
men. “See that tired man!” ex
claimed a lady alongside-of us the
other evening, and squeezing her
silks she made room for a weary and
earth-soiled Irish laborer. There was
gallantry!
Some men get up for pretty faces
and fine clothes, but we know a man
who gives his seat to a weary wash
erwoman with a basket of clothes,
and that whether she be Irish or Af
, rican. And when we see this we say,
Behold a gentleman indeed! The
true-heartea coutesy of such a man is
worth more than all that hand-kiss
ing and bowing of a hundred knee
buckled courtiers!
; ch aracteristic sayings of
AMERICANS,
Franklin said many things that
have passed into maxims, but noth
ing that is better known and remem
i bered than. “He paid dear, very dear,
j for his whistle.* 1
Washington made but few epi
gramatic speeches. Here is one: “To
he prepared tor war is the most ef
fectual meat**of preserving peace.”
s Did you ever hear of old John
Hiekiuson 7 Well, he wrote of Amef
jo*ll* In 1768. “By uniting weiStftmL
by dividing we fall.”
| Patrick Henry, m every school boy
knows, trave us. “Give me liberty or
give me de*th,” and, “if this is trea
son, make the most of it,”
Thomas Paine had many quotable
seteences: “Rose like a
! rocket, fbll like a Sttrk“Times that
try men’s soote;’* “One step from the
sublime to the ridiculous,” etc.
Jelferson’s writings are so besprin-
I kled that it is difficult to select. In
(despair, we jump aL “Few die and
aone resigu,” oertaLnbf as applicable
j now to office-KolaererHs lit Jefferson’s j
time.
Henry Lee gave Washington his
immortal title: “First in war, first
in peace, and first in the hearts of His
countrymen.”
Charles Cotesworlh Pinckney de-1
dared in £a,vor of “Millions for de-!
fence, but‘not one cent for tribute.’’
“Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we 1
must,” from Josiah Quincy, 1841.
John Adams did not say, “Live or i
die, survive s or perish, lam for the
Constitution,” but Daniel. Webster
said it.for him.
The revolutionary age alone would
give us our article, had we time to
gather our. pearls. Coming down,
we pass greater but not more famous
men.
Davy Crockett, the illustrious au
thor of “Be sure you are right, and
then go ahead.”
Andrew Jackson gave us, “The Un
ion it must be preserved.”
Benton almost lost his original
identity in “Old Bullion,” from his
‘hard money’ doctrines.
General Throop, of New York, was
called “Small Light Throop” for
years, from a phrase in a thanksgiv
ing proclamation.
Scott’s “hasty plate of soup” lasted
his lifetime.
Taylor’s battle order, “A little
more grape, Capt. Bragg,” will be
quoted alter he is forgotten by “all
the world and the rest of mankind.”
Seward is known for the “irrepres
sible conflict,” wherever the English
language is spoken.
Marey’s patched breeches are as
well remembered as his State papers.
Rufus Choate gave us “glittering
generalities.”
Tom Corwin, “Wellcome with
bloody hands to hospitable graves,”
gave him more unenviable criticism
than any other saying in his life.
Colhoun trave us “State rights” as
tection of the liberties of the people.
Douglas applied ‘squatter sover
eignty,’ though it is probable that
Cass invented it, and Calhoun named
it.
Stringfellow was the original “Bor
der Ruffian.”
War times gave us no end of epi
grammatic utterances. Those of Lin
coln alone fill a volumn—chiefest of
these.
“With charity to all, malice toward
none.”
A CITY BOY’S LETTER FROM
THE COUNTRY.
Dear Jimmy: Ask your mother to
bring you up here right off. It’s gay.
There’s fishing here and lots of
worms to catch ’em with. You stick
the hook in them and they wriggle
bully. Fishin’s funnier when yo'ffl
don’t catch the hook in the seat of
your pantaloons, so that you can’t
sit down and can’t fish all the way
home. I did that the other day.—
Mr. Jenkyns, Cousin Laura’s beau,
asked me if I was a sole or a heel.
Suppose he thot he was going to be
funny, but I didn’t see it. Bimeby,
I saw him cut a piece out of Cousin
Laura’s hair, where her hook caught,
and kiss it, like a great baby, and
put it in his pocket. So I told on
’em at tea, and everybody last.
They have cows and I go to see them
milked. They don’t pump it out
with their tails, like you and I
thought they did, but they squeeze
it out of a bag that comes on purpose
I suppose. I milked the other night.
It was very hard to squeeze, and it
would not go into the pail. Some
went into my eyes, and the rest went
up my sleeve. I don’t like milking.
I don’t like turkey cocks neither.
They ruffle themselves up and run at
you. They' are a pheroeious bird,
and disagreeable to live with. Chick
ens are nicer. We eat ’em. They
put them under a “barril ” at night
and Bill and I kill them in the morn
ing. We have bully fun wringing
their necks. You’d better come here
right off and bring a shot-gun, for
there are bears here —anyhow we
saw a fox—and candy, because we
can’t get any here, and a pop-gun.
and some bows and arrows and
things. Perhaps we can shoot a deer.
I think Mr. Jenkyns is a blamed
fool. He made me believe he found
a deer’s track the other day, and
when I looked at it, it was only the
mark of Cousin Laura’s boot. I
don’t see what makes him so happy
about girls. We won’t will we ? I’d
be ashamed. lam going to rkle old
Sam to-morrow. He’s a horse. You
ride him bar-back, and it’s very hard
to stick on, he feels so squirmy.
Give my love to all the boys, and
tell them I'm having a bully time,
and hate old Jenkyns. No more at
present from Yours truly.
Robbie.
Nowhere is well-bred courtesy, or
the lack of it, more observable than
in traveling. On the steamboat and
in the cars the quiet observer easily
detects those who have been educa
ted under refined influences, or those
who, without special cultivation, are
possessed of native politeness. It is
not education alone, nor wealth, nor
high social position, nor costly trap-
Sings, that makes one a pleasant j
raveling companion. There must
exist a kindness of feeling towards
strangers, a general recognition of
equal rights in the comfort and con
veniences provided for the public,
and a quickened discernment for the
needs of others. Summer journeying
in crowded boats and cars is a test of
both patience and politeness. Thrice
happy they who pass Jlobly through
it, for their own sakes, for the com
fort of companions, and for the repu
tation of poor human nature in gen
eral.
FASHIONABLE WOMEN.
There is a passage in Lord Jeffrey’s
: review of Mias Edgeworths’ “Tales of
a Fashionable Lire,” in which the
great critic describes with admirable
force the miseries of the fashionable.
This wretched hunt after a reputa
tion for fashion, with its constant
heart-burnings ami defeats, is, lie
considers, more productive of real
misery than the serious calamities of
life. This may scam a strong asser
tion, I>© adds, hut is his deliberate
tinvletion, and hisaUtemeotson this
head ftTe strengthened by the opin
ions of one fully as competent to form
j mteono)tislons —Bl r Hohry Holland.
In his recent autobiographical sketch
that celebrated person states that he
has koo»wn people to be made abso
lutely ill by their mere anxiety and
disappointment in regard to tickets
of admission for Almack’s halls in
Loudon. Speaking of fashionable
women, the London Lancet has late
ly had some very sound reqiarks iu
the same strdin.
“Fashiort,” it says, “kills morethau
toil or sorrow. Obedience 4q fashion
is a greater transgression of the laws
of woman’s nature, a greater Injury
to her physical and mental constitu
tion than the hardships of poverty
arid neglect. The slave-woman at
, her task still lives and grows old, and
sees two or three generations of her
mistress pass away. The washerwo
man, with scarcely a ray of hope to
cheer her in her toils, will live to see
j her fashionable sisters all extinct.
The kitchen-maid is hearty and
strong, when her lady has' to be
nursed like a sick baby. It is a sad
truth that fashion-pampered women
are worthless for all good ends of life:
they have little force of character and
quite as little physical energy. They
live for no great ends. They are
dolls, formed in the hands of miliners
and servants, to be tfed to order. If
they have children, servants and
nurse do all save conceive and give
them birth ; and -when reared what
are they? What do they amount to
but weak scions of the old stock?
Who ever heard of a fashionable wo
man’s child exhibiting any virtue
and power of mind for which it be
came eminent? Read the biogra
phies of our great men and women.
None of them had a fashionable
mother.”
WORK.
“Work well done is twice done.”
Never mix up things; do one thing
at a time; begin one thing and finish
one thing—make clean work as you
go. Have order, system, regularity;
a place for everything and every
thing in its place.
Whatever you do, do it well. A job
slighted, because it is apparetly un
important, leads to habitual neglect,
so that mau degenerates, insensibly,
into a bad workman.
Training the hand and eyes to do
good workman is, in most cases, a
good citizen. No one need hope to
rise above his present situation, who
suffers small things to pass unim
proved, or who neglects, metaphori
cally speaking, to pick up a cent be
cause it is not a dollar. A rival of a
certain great lawyer sought to humil
iate him publicly" by saying, “ You
blacked my father’s boots once.
“ Yes, ” replied the lawyer, unabash
ed., “and 1 did it well.”
Everything in nature and grace is
active, lull of life and motion, on the
wing. The sun, the moon, the spark
ling heavens, the floods, the rippling
brooks and flowing founts; the birds
warble on every tree in ecstacy of
joy ; the tiny flower, hidden from all
eyes, sends forth its fragrance of
full happiness; and the mountain
stream dashes along with ‘a sparkle
and murmur of pure delight. The
object of their creation isaccomplisn
ed, and their life gushes forth in har
monic work. Oh, plant! oh stream !
worthy of admiration to the wretch
ed idler! Idleness is the bane, the
moth, the gangrene, the curse of lift.
“Dream not, but work ! Be bold, be brave!
Let not a coward spirit grave,
Escape lYom tasks allotted ;
Thankful for toil and danger be ;
Duty’s call will make thee flee
The vicious—the besotted.
A SLEEPING CAR OFF TIIE
TRACK—A MAN CRUSHED
TO DEATH.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad
is having more than an ordinary
share of accidents here lately. On
Wednesday night last, as passenger
train No. 2 neared Stegall’s Station,
the sleeping Coach run off the track,
turning over, and bruising the sleep
ing car conductor, Mr. Clark Howell.
The coach, also, caught on fire and
the occupants, amid smoke and con
fusion, had great difficulty to make
their escape. The car being turned
over and everything upset, some of
the passengers were forced to climb
out the windows. After considera
ble delay the train proceeded.
Also, on passenger train No. 4,' near
Dalton, an unknown gentleman left
his berth i.. die sleeping ear, and
went into au adjoining ear, it is sup
posed, to smoke, anu being absent
some time, inquiries were made as to
his whereabouts by the sleeping ear
conductor, aud search was made and
the missing man was found dangling
between the cars crushed to death.—
Letters were found on his person in
dicating that he was a Western man.
Marietta Journal.
Death of Col. W. E. Adams, of
Putnam — The Eaton ton Press and
Messenger reports the death, on Sun
day night, of this venerable and
much esteemed citizen of Putnam
county. The servant who went in to
make a fire found the Colonel dead,
sitting in an armed chair. Ho was
in an easy position, and died appar
ently without pain—perhaps while
he was asleep—as it was a habit for
him to take a short nap in Uis chair
before retiring for the night. His
cane was hung at its usual place, and
his bible and spectacles were laid up
on his little table, as though ho had
just finished reading a chapter. Col.
Adams goes down to his grave with
his gray hairs honored, and in peaoe
wiih his fellow men. He was smarts
ly advanced in his 88th year, and was
for 70 years a consistent and zealous
member of the Methodist Church.
ALABAMA LEGISLATURE.
Montgomery, Jan. 28.—Judge
Busteed to-day appointed W. Lu La
nier Receiver of the Selma, Rome
and Dalton Railroad, and a bill was
filed by Aimee and others to have
the assests administered according, to
priority of claims*
From the Atlanta Herald.
SOME SAUCE FOR THE
PREACHERS.
MISS ADDIE L. UAL LOU ON THE W*R
I PATH—SHE BEXDETH A CHALLENGE
At a meeting of the first association
of Spiritualists of Atlanta on Sunday
evening last, the following resolu
tions were unanimously twlopted:
Resolved, That as the Rev. T. M.
llteritand Rev. Dr. VV. P. Harrison,
have repeatedly lectured against .Spir
itualism, that we consider it a reli
gious duty they owe us and their re
spective congregations, to meet Miss
Addle L. Ballou in discussion on this
subject iu public, and shall take a re
fusal from them to do so on whatso
ever grourids imaginable, as an ac
knowledgment of their inability tq
defend their position, being conscious
of defeat. Wm. Coleman,
J. M. Ellis,
F. F. Taber, M. D.,
► Committee.
To the Rev. Dr. W. P. Harrison and '
Rev. T. M. Harris in particular, or
other acting Pastors of the respec
tive Churches of Atlanta to whom
this may apply:
Sirs— lnasmuch as you have felt it
your duty, or pleasure to indcaver,
from pulpit and press, on several oc
casions, to dissuade the public mind 1
of the reliability and truthfulness of
modern spiritualism, as alleged by its ;
adherents, by charging it the infamous
and demoralising authorship of de
„mons of low order, instead of the
spirits of our fkmiliar de&d, I would,
therhfore, in behalf of what we con
ceive to be truth, and iu the name of
justice, which should ever give to the
accused their right to vindications,
extend to you this
CHALLENGE!
To meet in public debate to discuss
the merits and demerits of the ques
tion at issue, as herein expressed and
embodied in the resolution, which I
will negative, as it now stands, or
change to one better suiting the cler
ical side of the question, which they
shall teirly put and be willing to af
firm. And shall expect you as Cler
gymen loving j ustice,. as gentlemen
of honor and worthy of the people’s
confidence and esteem, anti possess
ed of customary gallantry or ordina
ry chivalry, willing to accept, at the
instanoe of a lady who is confident in
her ability to sustain herself iu de
bate. Any refusal to comply on
grounds of inequality of position or
sex will be considered as an un
worthy argument, and may be con
strued into a lack of faiiii in your
own position, or a want of gentle
manly candor, or the acknowledged
apprehension of defeat.
Resolved, That so-called modern
spiritualism is the work of diaboli
cal influences; is contradictory to the
teachings of the Bible, and is dernor-
Addie L. Ballous
BILL ARP’H CREED.
Bill Arp, in the Rome Commercial,
thus announces his creed:
I believe in George Washington and
his hatchet, and Isaac Newton and
his apple tree. I believe in Bonaparte
and Shakespeare, and Andy Jackson
at the battle of New Orleans. I believe
in Santa Claus and Pocahontas and
John Smith, and Ben Franklin, Jef
ferson and Dixie, and the 4th of Ju
ly, 1776. I believe that an old man
once found a rude boy up one of
his apple trees a stealing apples.—
I believe the milkmaid spilt her
milk when she tossed her head and
said, “Green it shall be.” I believe
in Robinson Crusoe and his man Fri
day and the island of Juan Fernan
dez. I believe in old mother Goose
and Cinderilla and John Robinson’s
Circns. I believe in Horace Greeley,
James Gordon Bennett and George D.
Prentice, and other dead editors, ex
cept Sain Bard, late of Chattanooga
Herald, deceased. I believe in the
big battles of Waierloo and Bull Run,
Thermopylea and Leather’s Ford.
That last battle was immortalized in
verse by Jack Jones when he wrote,
“Big fitin John Sanford, he fit amity
battle. He fout it at the ford where
Leathers stole the cattle,”* I believe
that General Grant told the truth
when he said they had two million,
six hundred and eighty-eight thous
and soldiers in the field in the late
war. I believe that old Sherman
marched through Georgia about one
inile behind me and my folks, and
that Big John was saved by tying a
knot in the steer’s tail. He needn’t
deny it, for I saw the knot.
Solution of Geographical Story. —
During the mouth of March , dress
ed in a full suit made of nankin ,
which was lined with cashmere , and
wearing shoes made of morocco , hav
ing in the soles cork , and trimmed
with large brass buckles, and attended
by a negro , I said farewell , to my
friends, Charles and Henry , and pick
ing my teeth with a bristle (Bristol),
i Started to form an alliance with a
hirl who had refused an offer of mar
riage from a rude fellow, who, being
angry with his father, had threaten
ed to bag (lad. When I arrived, her
mamma (Maumee), being filled with
wrath, was swearing (Schwerin) at
two noisy guineas and a shanghai,
but who, after all, had a superior
daughter. When I met her I called
her my dearie (Madeira), and gave
her an orange and a pound of bologna
(Bologna). Tnen she set before us,
on a j open dish, a turkey, which was
very full of grease (Greece), aud some
fish-balls made of cod , with a clear
of Jmva coffee and then retired
to milk the cows (Cowes). 1 When I
spoke to hrtr about being her man,
she 9«kl I was silly (Scilly), which
was not flattery) so I told her to go to
halyfax, put on my panama, and went
home, feeling worse than I ever did
since the day I was born (Borgne).
A Breton peasant, on his way to
Paris, stopped at a barlier shop in
Rambouillet. While the barber was
strapping his razor, the peasant no
ticed a dog sitting near his chair, and
staring at him fiercely. “What is
the matter with that dog ?’ The bar
ber answered, with an unconcerned
glr, “That dog is always there. You
see, vvhen I cut off an ear—well, he
eats it,”
Thai Chattanooga lady Is weeping
and wailing, and gnashing her teeth.
She recently claimed the Dody of an
unknown dead man as that of her
son, and took it from the charge of
the city authorities. The sou has
since returned alive and well, and
the tedf presents a,bill to the city
for funeral rapences.
SUBSCRIPTION :
$2 per annum.
SOW PLASTER.
Let UQ farmer who wishes to raise
a luxuriant crop of clover on his thin
soils fail to buy a few barrels of land
plaster and sow on it just as it begins
to show On the ground, and berore
the hot days set in. The beneficial
action of piaster on clover is duo
chiefly to the capacity or quality
which the plaster has of fixing the
ammonia brought down from the at
mosphere hv the rains, dews, snow's,
anil tlius securing a large supply of
nitrogeneous food for the growth of
j clover. If any farmer doubts that he
i will be compensated for his outlav,
let hkn buy hut a bushel of plaster
and sow one slip across his field, and
lie will find the clover so rauk as to
look like a raised bed, or a parterre
of living green.
A Wisconsin farmer states that I*
sowed plaster on-a field May At, and
obtained three times the grass on this
field more than on that where it was
not sowed. He used to raise ontv
one ton of hay per acre; now raised,
by plaster, two or throe tons per acre;
always top-dressed it on grass lands.
Ile also states that when plaster was
sown on clover, the clover all cut and
hauled off, and the ground broken
and sowed to oats, every east of the
plaster made in sowing it could be
plainly seen in the field of oats. Al
so that when plaster was applied to
corn, in the hill, the place of every
hill could he seen in a crop of wheat
which followed. In a drought, dew
would be found on the ground where
plaster had been sown'while all oth
er ground was dry anil hard.
COAL AS FUEL.
Below we give an extract from an
address before the scientific depart
ment of Lafayette College, by Prof.
Shealer, on this subject:
“We magnify the importance of
coal in our country; first, because of
its value as a fuell, and, second, be
cause of the vast supply stored here.
The first point no longer needs dem
onstration. Since that day in 1812,
when the workmen at White A Haz
ard’s miii w >rks, at the falls of
Schuylkiii, lo;t their furnaces in a
rage because they could not make
the ‘black stones’ burn, and returned
to find that during their absence they
had nearly melted down the furnace
doors, anthracite coal has stood with
out a rival upon earth. Practical as
well as analytical tests have failed to
find an acceptable substitute. Nei
ther wood nor peat, nor oil, nor any
other substance contains pure carbon
in so condensed and cheap a form,
says Prof. Jevous; and Prof. Tyndall
adds: ‘I see no prospect of any sub
stitute being found for coal as a source
of motive power. We have, it is
true, our winds, our stream -and tides,
world; we can not but make head
against a nation which, in addition
to these sources of |>o\ver, possesses
the power of coal.’
“Prof. Tyndall further says: ‘Eng
land must, soon yield to America fn
the great competition of the nations
The strength of both is in their coal
mines, and in England these have al
ready reached nearly or quite their
maximum of production, while our
anthracite is but partially developed,
and our bituminous coals are scaredy
touched'’
“But though Pennsylvania’s store
of anthracite will last for many years,
and png after it is drawn upon to
supply England, it is useless to deny
that there is a limit to the supply,
and that, after a time, it will be ex
hausted. Then what shall we do?
“We shall proceed to open the
grand reservoir, the bituminous coal
fields, compared to which our anthra
cite beds are but as a millpond to the
Gulf of Mexico. With a bituminous
area of 12,000 square miles in Penn
sylvania, and 197,0(0 in the United
States, we can supply the world for
ages to come.”
SAND-PAPER.
The American Builder gives the
following method of making sand
paper of superior quality at almost a
nominal cost: The device for making
sand-paper is simple, and at hand to
any one who has occasion to use the
paper. A quantity of ordinary win
dow-glass is taken—that having a
green color is said to lie best—and
pound fine, after which it is poured
through one or more selves of differ
ent degrees of fineness, to secure the
glass for coarse or fine paper. Then
any tough paper is covered evenly
with glue, having about one-third
more water than is generally employ
ed for wood work. The glass is sifted
upon the paper, allowed a day or two
in which to become fixed in the glue,
when the refuse glass is shaken oft’
and the paper is fit for use. This
sand-paper costs little, and is better
than that ordinarily bought, in which
sand is frequently mingled with the
glass.
A REMEDY FOR BMALL-POX.
A correspondent of the Stockton
(Cal.) Herald gives the following
remedy for the small-pox:
“I herewith append a recipe which
has been used to my knowledge in
hundreds of cases. It will prevent
or cure small-pox, though the pittings
are filling. When Jennerdiscovered
cow-pox in England the world of sei
, ence hurled an avalanche of fame up
on his head, but when the most sci
entific school of medicine in the world
(that of Paris) published this remedy
as a panacea for small-pox, it passed
unheeded. It is as unfailing as fate,
and conquers in every instance. It
is harmless when taken by a well
person. It will also cure scarlet fe
ver. Here is the recipe as I have
used it to cure my children of scarlet
fever. When ltarncd physicians said
the patient must die, it cured:
“Sulphate of zinc, one grain; fox
glove, (digitalis) one grain; half a
teaspoontul sugar; mix with two ta
blesupqusful of water. When thor
oughly mixed, add four ounces of
I water. Take a spoonful every hour.
Either disease will disappear in 12
| hours. For a child, smaller doses,
according to their age. If counties
would compel their physicians to use
j this, there would be no need of pest
houses. If you value advice and ex
i perience, use this for that terrible dis
ease.”
They steal horses in a funny way
up at "Flint* Michigan. They take
out the coveted nag, put a dead
horse’s head and feet in the barn,
and then set the institution on fi^.
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