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STANDARD AND EXPRESS. in. - *a*4 m i r m tiiiji'f.irff .. .... . ii I v... A ,c u : AT) PUBLIBHED WEEKLY. VOL. 14. From the Chronicle and Sentinel. ,hi. AUP ON HIS TRAVELS. , HA( V LETTER FBON THE GEORGIA HUMORIST- 2 —A Tltir NORTH—WHAT \ BLIND MAN BAW-BTAGING--EAT >■(. JloUsi.." —JUDGE UNDERWOOD’S KUGS —AN EYE SHOP—THE MIRA , I.FA OF SCIENCE. Home Qa Jewly 1873. Mr. Editor—Sur : l like travelin i, u -a-tluys. It alnt what it used to was. I'm not an old man by no moans, as I can prove by Mr. 8. Arp, if t;<c* s ary, but I can ncomember when folks used to stage it all the way t<> New York—bumping about all •lay and all night long—telUn stories and swappin lies along the way and hccumln as well acquainted on the trip as if they had been raised in the same town. Nevertheless I (lont like stagein. I was glad when the cars come along with their Stuff bottomed seats upon which a man or a woman coula m t up so dignifide and rattle along so easy and smooth— perusin the butiful country, and seem the trees and the fields and the landskapin by. 1 rec omember when I thought it was the most delightful bisness in the world, lint then when the night cum on and tin limbs got weary and the neck limber i) wasent so beautiful tryin to sleep. 1 have thought on such okka siotis that if a man or a woman could only rekline just a little—or could find a good place for the head to rest or could stretch out the legs (I im'A a man's) how delightful it would but there was nary a place. Thanks to Col. Pullman for his threat invention. I am obliged to look upon him as a public beuefaktor, a promoter of human comfort. Now-a ditysa man or a woman can stretch forth in peaceful sektusion and be warbled to sleep in natures own atti to<xl. The rolling of the wheels is like a soothing lullaby and puts one to sleep as gently as the hum of a spinning wheel does an old fashund baby. A man with a large eorporos ity remarked that it dident suit him \ altogether, for when he was down he was still top-heavy, and the roekin of the car from side to side shifted his gravity in such a way as to keep his head and his feet on a strain catch in I up. He said it was a great help to j make Side props of pillars when you > could get cm. A short time ago I started from the ' Mountains of Georgia to see if 1 could ! find my way to New York%nd baeki without a guide. My companion was; Genrul Black, an old fashioned man, who was teetotashiously blind. He was going to Baltimore in the hope j that Dr. Chisolm could remove the -kales from his eyes. The Genrul was in fine spirits, for he had hopes of once more lookiu upon natures bu tiful and lovey face—and womans too. To a man who has been led about for; four long years in affrican darkness its a mighty big thing to see. At times he seemed serious and anxious about the venture lie was making. I cheered him up all 1 could, and us we jurneyd along through the butiful valleys of East Tennysee 1 fed his blind eyes through his mertiry. I ex patiated upon the rivers and tiie mountains and the crops and the nice | little towns and the butiful women I who got on and got off at the various j stations. “Theres a tine oman Gen-1 ml,” sed 1. “Is she young and is she ; purty,” sed he. “Bhe steps as young ! and proud as a tine blooded Ally bookd for her first race at a fair,” sed I, “and she is as purty as a pigeon just takin her mate.” The Genrul heaved a long sigh and said nothing, but no body ever will know how bad he wanted to see that Tennysee gal. By and by we came to the dinner house at Rogersville; and this re minds us that right here is the place where Judge Underwood always calls fur eggs fried on both sides and loose in the middle, lie says its the only place in the world where they cook cm that way. A good eatin house is a good thing on a railroad, and saves a power of eussin. If a man wants to hear genuine eussin let him open his ears at Grand Junction on tne Memphis and Charleston railroad.— 1 lie same man never throws but one T'liar away on that tavern. I heard | of a man tellin the landlord, as he j give him his dollar, that he looked upon his eatin house as a regular 1 "Windle. The landlord took the mon- 1 °y uud the slauder as serenely as if it \ was a compliment, but in a few days he got an important dispatch from Mobile, for which he paid two dollars. He opened it and read: “my Dear Sir.—l told you the other day in my haute that your eatin house was a swindle. I now' repeat the akkusation at my leimre. You "ill please pay the Western Union two dollars, and charge it to Fly Blose.” J hear that the railroad companies going to employ a man by the year its a secret inspector of eatin houses and publish their standin once a month on their tickets. They are go in to rank em from a hundred down to nothin, so that travelers can lay in enuf vittels to skip over the swindles. It will be better for the health and better for the temper and save a pow er of eussin. Big John has applide for the place. When wo reached Alexandry we took a steamboat for Washington. The Genrul dident want anything but coffee, and as he couldent git up the steep little stairs 1 politely informed the landlord that there was a blind man below who wanted a cup of cof fee. He snaped me off as short as pie crust and remarked that he wasent runnin the coffee bisness just then. I kep my temper and tried him again with the same result. I then tried a darkey but he referred me to the Boss. The Genrul got no coffee and scd he could do without it, but he would like to know that landlords name. A man standin bv sed it was Fox—but he changed it directly and st ‘d it was Wolf, and the Genrul re marked that more likely it w T as deg. 1 think that feller was mad because he couldent sell more of his vittels. l’assing through the nation’s capi tal I gazed upon the marblo pile " hose doam pierced the clouds and said to the Genrul, “There is a grand <>Ul buildin.” He replied mournful .VT can’t see it, but I remember it. B is a magnificent structure, but it is ‘.whited sepulker, and has been the birthplace of more villainy than all the gamblin hells of Christendom. It sine birthplace of iniquity in high l u? fes . there had never been a mu one would germinate spontane ity from the corruption that breeds ' itiun its walls, like maggots breed -1 m the karkases of the cteffdv — | Hypocrisy, avarice, lust and lies dwell there, and their foul influence spreds from his central fokus to the very confines of the Government. If the honest, workin people who really support the nation at the anvil and the loom and the plow handle knowd one half of the devilment that is laid and hatched in that buildin, and could realize that all the slealin and plunder cum out of their sweat and their toil, they w r ould raze it to the ground, and scatter its poluters to the end of the earth.” The Genrul’s sightless eye balls rolled around wildly, but he soon sub sided into a state of melancholly re flektion. Arrivin’ at Baltimore, an honest Irishman drove us to Dr. Chisolm’s eye-shop. The Genrul made me take an Irishman, for lie sed they wouldn’t deceive strangers. We found the Doctor up to his eye-brows in eyes. ; There was two rooms full of patients, ! and not a sound eye among ’em.— Thinks I to myself, if this is iiis dai ly bisness, there’s more sick eyed peo ple in the world than I ever dreamed of. After a little w hile the Genrul was led to a room in the hospital where lie washed the travel off and I dressed himself iff anew suit of store ; clothes, and got the hang of the room j by feelln all around for the buro and ; the bed, and the lire place and the winders. We then went down to in ! terview the Doctor, who had pretty well gone through the eve bisness for ; that day. After makin’ his pleasant ! akquaintance he took the Genrul into ; a room as dark as Afriky and throwd a lokomotive head light right into his j eye-balls. In a minute or so he re | marked “all right, Genrul, I’ll send you home without a guide in two weeks.” He then showed me an eye as big as a kokynut, which I suppose cum all the way down from old Gog or Maygog, and he took it all to pieces and explained the concern to my en tire satisfaction. He showed me the Irish and the pupil, and the eataline lens, and the conjunktion, and the skyroket, and the victorious humor, and the erie canal, and the corny co pia and the cataract. I always thought that the cateract was some thin’ grow in’ on the outside, and that he cut it oft‘ with a thin bladed knife, but he sed that the eye ball was a room, and the pupil was a winder, and the seein’ was done from inside the room, and the cateract was a cur trin that got in betwixt the organ of sight and the winder, and he had to go into the room with a knife and cut away the curtain and then the sight was restored. .Since these explana tions I have had a very high respekt for my eyes and for science too. I learned tiie whole bisniess as well in twenty initiates as if I had studid | eyes for a year, and I’ve seriously thought it my duty to open an eye shop at homejnst for the sake of suf ferin humanity. The Doktor re marked that some folks learned a heap quicker than others, and 1 thought at the time he was alludin’ to me. Eyes, I think, is my special ty —my fort. I’ve always had a me kanikal eye, and my mother says I cut my eye-teeth easier than any of the boys. Next mornin’ besot the Genrul up in a big barber’s chair, and techin a spring it laid down with him jest like it had sense, and the Doktor propped his lids open with a parcel of small wire crowbars, and he told the Gen rul to look down all the time. Tiien he cut into his eye-bail with about as much indifference as he would have cut into the eye of a potater, and as the Genrul flinched he told him to look down. The Genrul says, “1 am looking down.” “No you are not,” says the Doktor. “I tell you I am,” says the Genrul. The Doktor cut a way a lick or two and says: “Gen rul] if you don’t look down your eye will be ruined.” “I’m looking down all I can,” says the Genrul. “I’ve lost control of my optic nerve. I be lieve you would expect a man to look down if you wascuttin his head oft.” The Doktor says, “I’ll have to give you chloroform.” The Genrul says, “I won’t take it—go on with your butchering.” Well, it was perhaps the funniest quarrel you ever heard; but the Doktor went on, and throwin down his knife, he took another little instrument and dug round inside that eye-ball like he was pickin the good ies out of a hickory nut. Then he took some bull dog pinchers and pulled that cateract out, shore. He took the curtain from behind that winder in a jiffey, and then turned tiie Genrul over to the tender care of Mrs. Bryan and Miss Banks, sisters and ladies of Charleston, who have charge of the hospital. Their kind ness and attention to the Doktor’s pa tients is equalled only by their refine i ment of manners and their Confedrit - independence. Born rich and raised s rich they did not hesitate as to their i duty when the crash of the war wip- I ed out their property, and they glad [ ly akcepted the offer so kindly made em bv Dr. Chisolm. I will jump over a fortnight just now to say that the operation was a grand success and the Genrul is at home pursuiu his daily avokations as in days of yore, full of thanks to God and gratitude to science and Dr. Chis olm. The Doktor showd me a bottle full of cataracts floating about in spir its like little milky peas, and I could ent help thinkin how much of gloo my helpless and melonkolly had been turned into joyful day by the teach ins of science and the skillful knife of this eminent surgeon. 1 asked my friend Walker, of Baltimore, if he knu him. “Os course I do,” sed he, “ev erybody ought to know him. lie’s a gentleman, and he’s a Christian, and as for eyes he hasn’t got an equal. He’s the kindest man to his poor pa | tients you ever saw, and has restored ! more sight for nothin than any ok kalist in ameriky.” I journeyd from the monumental I city to New York, the sen ter of space, ! and in my next will recount some things that befelmein that respekta i ble town. Yours pleasantly, j . Bill Arp. — The laboring man holds the same i relation to the merchant, manufac ! turer, attorney, physician and minis | ter, that the locomotive does to a train of elegant and well-filled cars; j they would stand still for ever if the | engine did not move them. I I There is many an honest, hard working poor man, who rises him self and calls his family before sun rise, three hundred and sixty-five days in the year. In nine cases out of ten when his children arriveat his age, they wiU be called up by ser vants. SAMUEL H. SMITH & COMPANY. EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. CARTERSYILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY *4, 1873. LA MOUNTAIN’S DEATH, rarticular* of the ajsboxaut’u fatal ASCENSION AT IONA, MICHIGAN.— TUK BALLOON COLLaPSLS AT TIIE HEIGHT OF 1300 FF.RT. Detroit, July G. Mail reports give some interesting details of the fatal accident to the teronaut, La Mountain, at lona, last Friday. His balloon was what is known as a hot-air one, and was sim ply filled with rarifled, and not gas. The canvas had somewhat of a worn appearance, as if the worse for being filled with heated air too often. At the summit, where the canvas was sewn together, a block some 10 or 12 inches in diameter was fastened, and through a hole in this six guy ropes were secured, hanging down over the sides of the balloon, being at the bot tom some 17 feet apart, and these were tied to the basket by the Prof, himself. There were no ropes running around the balloon horizontally to keep the guy ropes from slipping, or to prevent the whole thing from slid- j ing out between the ropes with a gust of wind. At 3:35 P. M., the Professor ! stepped into the basket, and the bal loon shot up almost perpendicularly, i with the Professor swing his hat to the crowd, all apparently enjoying j the sight. In a few moments more, however, the mouth of the balloon ! was observed to wave aoout two or 1 three times, then to pass between the j ropes careening over on the side, i when the ropes broke out from their fastenings at the top, and the fall commenced. La Mountain was no ticed to be apparently making some effort to get the basket above him, and if possible to break the fall, but after the first struggle he fell so rap idly that nothing could be distin guished but the falling body, his hat coining after him, about 100 feet be hind, the old canvas, nearly collaps ed, falling down gradually. The body struck the ground about half a dozen feet from the northwest corner of the jail building. It struck with such a terrible thud that it jarred the ground for fifty rods around, and made an indention in the solid ground 8 inches in depth. There was scarcely a bone in the whole body that was not broken into fragments. It was as limp as a rag. There were j very few fractures of the skin, except j the right foot, the bone of the right j leg being driven through the bottom i of the foot. The body was laid out on a couch, j a cirUe formed, and a prQcession of ail who wished to view the remains passed around. The Professor is a brother of the celebrated aeronaut, who died two or three years ago.— This one’s name was Edward La Mountain. lie was a jew-eler by trade, and lived at Brooklyn, in this State. lie had said, just before he went up, that he wished to take the train for home as soon as possible af ter coming down, as his wife was very sick. He himself had not had his clothes off for ten days. There were from ten to twelve thousand people who witnessed this horrible tragedy. He was seen by people four miles from the city at an angle of 35°. Tiie best estimates make the height from which he feii from 1000 to 1500 feet. Those who were on the hill back of the town, said the strangest sight was to see the people swaying backward and forward like a field of wheat moved by the wind. UNHEARD-OF HORRORS IN Aj LUNATIC ASYLUM. A most horrible and almost incred-! ible condition of affairs in the Ver mont iusane asylum is described in ; the report of the Legislative Commit tee appointed to investigate the man agement of that institution. The) committee’s first discovery was that the asylum, which if controlled by a private corporation, was greatly overcrowded, four hundred and eigh ty-five patients being packed into a space intended to accommodate three hundred atthe most. This, however, is a trifling matter in comparison with other revelations. Seventy-five of these unfortunates were thrust away in subterranean dungeons, dark, damp, foul, and pervaded by unendurable stenches. Some were confined in apartments nine feet by four in size, with air and ventilation only through augur holes bored in the doors. The active as well as the passive inflictions put upon these poor people proved equally inhuman. Among them was the punishment of the bath, in which the patient, se | curely bound is.plaeed in a bathing tub and a continuous stream of cold wa iter allowed to fall upon his head. I This torture, it may be remarked in passing, was one of the most excru- I elating known in the dark ages, re sulting usually in insanity or death. 1 To this asylum of horrors the com j mittec also state that sane men have I been confined through fraud and bri ’ bery. The picture is as complete as j 'Charles Reade could make it, but ! without the romance of fiction. The reality is something for the Legisla | ture of Vermont to deal with prompt ly and severely; foritistoodisgrace , fill for belief, except as attested by an official investigation such as has produced this astounding report.— , Boston Pos>t. SENT HOME. i A Washinton paper tells of an ele- I gantly dressed young lady who went I into one of the dry goods stores on Pennsylvania avenue, bought a j spool of cotton and requested the I proprietor to have it sent home. Overwhelmed with the important . duty so suddenly thrust upon him, 1 he immediately procured an express , wagon and detailed a clerk, who lift j ing the spool into the wagon, drove i with it to the residence of the young i lady, and dismounting, rang the bell, j and when the door was opened, plac ‘ed the spool upon his shoulder and 1 carried it into the hall, and gently placed it on its end, as if it had been a barrel of flour, and then retired. The consternation of the family can ,be imagined. The head of the house has been dodging in and out of the J dry goods store duri ug the past week | trying to find that clerk. ! Raspberries are said to give a rich red color to the blood of those who eat them. It first manifests it | self in the nose, and several confirm ed berry eaters have been expelled from Good Templar lodges, owing to ignorance and superstition. ;MA CM A HUN’B LEAP FOR LIFE. j ® __ \ THRILLING INCIDENT IN TUB CAREER OF THE NEW FEKSBSKT OF FRANCK. In 1831, MacMahon, then a young ; lieutenant serving with the French ! army in Algeria, under the command pf Marshal Bugeaud, was stationed with a small company of men at an outlying settlement, forty milesfrom huniquarters. The Arabs, then bit terly hostile to the new colonists, be- I sieged the small fort, slaughtered all the settlers they could catch, inter cepted all supplies, and brought the little garrison to the very verge of starvation. Capitulation was not to be thought of, for that meant iunne- j diate slaughter. Help from the mar j shal was not to be expected’ for he was quite unrware of their danger; in fact all hope seemed to be lost ! when MacMahon volunteered to be the bearer of dispatches announcing their predicament. The eomraand i ant thought the venture perfectly use less, as the entervening country was ‘ absolutely alive with infuriated Arabs, but being aware that help must come in that manner if it came i I at all, he reluctantly consented to ! what he considered at the time was j a desparate sacrifice of a valuable life. MacMahon, perfectly overjoyed at j gaining consent to his enterprise,! spent the short time intervening be | tore his start in looking carefully to | the equipment of his horse and his i own accoutrements, ami in the first hour of darkness he set out brisk, i biithe and debonnaire as a gay young soldier on parade, with bright eyes | gazing on his splendor. The wily \ Arabs, seldom caught unawares, soon noted his departure, and followed hard and fast in his rear; but seeing that his course lay toward a broad and deep ravine, some tive miles j from the post, they spread out wide- 1 ly, hoping to outflank him when he j should be compelled to turn at the ! brink, and securing him alive, learn from him under torture all those par-; tieuiars concerning the French forces j which they wanted to obtain. MacMahon, who had in the first mile or two easily distanced them, understood their plan thoroughly, and was well prepared to meet it.— He looked back and saw in the moon light the constantly increasing crowd of white clad warriors, spreauing out 1 in a semi-circle behind him. He knew well how they exulted in the thought that tuey would wring from his tortured frame all the secrets they wanted to know. He quickly slack ened a little the headlong speed of bis horse, in order to reserve its strength for the effort ho had deter mined upon, that should, fie hoped, save lite and liberty. The Arabs, thinking that his horse was already failing, renewed their efforts to over take and surround him, and by the time he had reached within a few hundred yards of the brink, their shouts of triumph were clearly audi-, ble. But Arabs, as well as other 1 men, sometimes count their chickens i before they are hatched, and so it proved they had doue in this case.— j They had headed him almost to the brink o f the dreadful chasm, andfol-; lowed hard behind, certain of an easy capture, when alt of a sudden,! obedient to the master’s resolute hand upon tne rein, the horse broke] into a swift galop, and, with a touch j from the spur, a flick from the glove and an encouraging word from the ( well known voice, gallant steed and | gallant rider cleared the yawning gap, and landing safely on the other I side, were out of sight of the enraged ; Arabs before they could get a chance J of taking even a deliberate aim. In two hours more MacMahon stood be fore his astounded chief, and two hours after that, refusing rest and re lief, he accompanied tne aid he had risked his life to procure, in its way to his beieagured comrades. [From the Rock mart Reporter.] LETTER FROM CEDAR TOWN. | Cedar Town, Ga, July 4,1873. Mr. Editor: Thinking the inter esting meeting which has just closed here might be of interest to your numerous readers, and might, also stimulate others to like efforts, and introduce the Rev. DeWit Burkhead to the notice of the people of Chero kee- Ga., so that those that may have the opportunity, may not fail to hear this eloquent minister, 1 write this hoping you may deem it of sufficient importance to give it a place in your coi uinns. Mr. Burkhead is the Evangelist of j the Cherokee Presbytery, and has 34 j churches under his charge, so that j he is not able to give any church ! over a week of his time; but he tries I to make it up by preaching three ! times a day. Mr. Burkhead commenced a meet- j ing here on Friday, the 27th uit., and closed on Wednesday evening, the 2nd iust., and preached 15 times,! held two business meetings, lectured j to the children of the Methodist j Sunday School, besides calling on ! many of the people, both spiritually I and socially, and during the Meet ing lie organized a Presbyterian Church in this place of 19 members, a part being received by letter from otner Churches, and the balance by the profession of their faith. The whole of this project was originated j by a handful of Presbyterians, but : Who are among the leading citizens I of this county, who conceived the j idea of starting a Presbyterian Church here, and immediately rais ed a fund, purchased the academy, situated on an acre of land in a very desirable and central part of the | town and will have, when they have | made some needed alterations, a ! very commodious building at pres i ent very well adapted to the object i in view, and for a young church, an exceedingly favorable start, as owing to the liberality of a few, tho Church, will start free of debt. The Church was fully organized i by the election of two Elders, one j Deacon, a Superintendent and Assis- I tant Superintendent of the Sunday School, together with five Trustees to take charge of the Church proper ty. They do not get possession of the Academy before the first of next! year, but they will at once organize | Ia Sunday School, and have already i ordered a library for the same, and the necessary Hymn Books for the Church. Mr. Burkhead was, as all strangers | are, very much pleased with the pen*- | pie and the valley, and made many , friends, and gave, as he always does wherever he preaches, a great deal !of pleasure and satisfaction to the 1 people of ail denominations, and eotiid he have remained another week he would have added greatly i to this young Church. The Church has invited Mr. Tay- > lor, the Presbyterian Minister at Cave Spring, to preach to them once j ■ a month untill the meeting of the 1 Presbytery, the last of September. It i* a great pity that this valley is j not visited by strangers more than it is, as it has some of the finest land in i Georgia—the people rank among the ; most intelligent, and are renowned j for their unbounded hospitality. They are greatly In need of Rail road facilities, but hope to have i them before long. The thermometer lias stood at 98 in the shade for the past two days— i ratio r unusually warm for this sec tion. Veritas. Tin. RESOURCES OF THE SOUTH— IRON FIELDS IN ALABAMA. The London correspondent of the Bofftcu Advertiser, writing on May 2G,siys that Consul Cridland, of Mo bile, has sent the British Govern ment a long review of the condition of Aiabama, which, writes the Con sul, I regard one of the richest States of the Union to-day, not because she has gold, or silver, or diamond deposits, however valuable they may be, £>ut liecause she has in untold plenty that without which no nation can be great, viz: coal and iron.— The Consul gives results of his own observation which lead to an infer ence of 52,250,000,000 tons as the product of the Alabama coal fields, enough for two thousand, years, con sumption. The dip is gradual, so the expense will be slight. Alabama should produce ten millions of coal per annum, employing at least one hundred thousand men. And then by the coal beds is an exhaustible supply of iron, also near the surface. The easy access, says the official, to the Alabama iron; the immediate proximity of the coal and iron ; the good quality of the coal; the proxim ity of limestone used in reducing some descriptions of ore ; the abun dance of water power; the healthful ness of the country—free from ice, snow or volcanic con vultions , abun dance of provisions, of timber, etc., all tend to prove the immense value of these mineral regions. All that is required to develop these great natu ral sources of wealth is immigration into the State, combined with skill ful iahorand capital. These remarks will apply to Geor gia as well as Alabama. The same conditions as to wealth of iron and coal exist in Georgia. Our iron and coal deposits arc being worked but to a very small extent in this State. A beginning, however, has been made and the results in a pecuniary pointof view are inducing the invest ment of capital from our own people and the organization of new compa nies. Georgia has almost inexhausti ble supplies of iron and coal, but there is a lack of capital and skilled labor. The knowledge of our im mense and valuable mineral deposits should be scattered abroad—in pam phlets and newspapers. The people of Great Britian, Germany, France and other countries should be made acquainted with the advantages which our State possesses, and these properly presented would induce im migrants to Georgia. Our Legisla ture deserves censure for its.failure to provide for a geological survey of the State. The thick crust of ignorance will have to be battered down and prejudices deep and lasting will have to be overcome before our sapient legislators will ever see the necessity or wisdom ofappropiating a dollar for a geological survey of the State, or for making known to the outside world the climatic, and hygienic ad vantages, and agricultures!, and man ufacturing, and mineral resources of Georgia. But something must be done by the Legislature before the | great resources of the State are de veloped by immigration, foreign capi- Ital and skilled labor —requirements I absolutely essential to the develop i ment of mines, the increase of manu factures and the establishment of a varied self-sustaining and remunera tive agriculture. Georgia is rich in every essential; and nature has been lavish in her gifts. But strange to say the people of the North and of Europe arejust as ignorant of the true condition of affairs in Georgia and other States South as we are of i the present whereabouts of Dr. Liv ingstone. The opposition at home must be removed, and the ignorance ! abroad enlightened as to the real j state of affairs in Geargia. HOW A DIGGER “INGIN” DINES. A California correspondent of the New York Tribune writes as follows: Riding through the foot-hills, near Rocklin, I saw a curious and unex pected sight. There are still a few wretched Digger Indians in this part of California ; and what I saw was a party of these engaged in catching grasshoppers, which they boil anu eat. Tney dig a number of funnel shaped holes, wide at the top, and eighteen inches deep, on a cleared space, and then, with rags and brush, drive the grasshoppers toward these holes, forming for that purpose a wide circle. It is glow work, but they seem to delight in it; and their excitement was great as they neared the circle of holes and the insects began to hop and fall into them. At last there was a close and rapid rally and a half a dozen bushels of grass hoppers were driven into the holes; whereupon, fiscs, aprons, bags and rags were stuffed in to prevent the multitudes from dispersing; and then began the work of picking them out by handfuls, crushing them roughly in the hand to keep them quiet, and crowding them into bags in which they were to be carried to their ran cheirs. “Sweet, all same pudding,” cried an old woman to me, as I stood looking on. It is not a good year for grasshoppers this year; no, they like the year of which an inhabitant of Roseville spoke to me later in the day, when he said, “they ate up every bit of his garden truck and then sat oh the fence and asked him for a ; chew of tobacco.” The late Dr. Marshal Hall, of Eng land, said: “If 1 were seriously iil of consumption, I would live out doors day and night, except in rainy weath er or mid-winter; then I would sleep in an unplastered log-house. Physic has no nutriment, gasping for air cannot cure you, monkey-capers in a gymnasium cannot cure you, and stimulants emmot cure you. What consumptives want is air, not physic —pur- 3 air, not medicated air—plenty of meat and breads Professional and Business Cards J®H\ w. WOFFORD. Thom as w. irjhr WOFFORD & MILNER, J ATTORNEYS AT LAW, CARTERSYILLE, GA. OFFICE up bUirs Bank Block. 9-5-tf. j C. TOILIN', ‘ATTORNEY AT LA \Y , caetersville, GA. Office over the Bank. JO HA L. MO ON 7 ATTOIt NE Y A T LA W , CAETERSVILLE. GA. Will practice in the counties comprising the I Cherokee Circuit, office over Liebmau’s store. J) W.’ MLR l* HEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CARTERS TO. LE. GA. Will practice tu the courts of the Cherokee Circuit. Particular attention given to tlio col ection of claims. Office with Obi. Abdn Johu »on. <> ct j, P, WOFFORD, ATTORNEY AT LA W . CARTHRSVILLE, GA. OFFICE in Court-llouao. jan 26 M. FOU TF, ATTORNEY AT LAW, C ART ERS VILLE, GA. ( With Col. Warren. A tin,) Will practice in the courts of Bartow. Cobb, Polk, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Whitlleld and ad joining counties. March 30. B. McDaniel, ATTORNEY AT LA W*, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Office with John \V. Wofford. jan ’72 CL H. BATES. ATTORNEY AT LAW, 1 Office oyer store 01 Ford & Rriant. Feb. 6- DR. W. A. TROTTER OFFERS his I’itOFESSSONAL SERVICES to tiie citizens of Ua tiers villi*. Office with l)r. Baker. CarwrsvilU, Ga., Jan. 7,1873. Medical TVotice- DK. W. HABDT, having removed to this city, proposes PRACTICING DICir4E, in all its hr inches, and is also prepared for OPERATIVE SURGERY. A I—UI-1 DR. J. A. JACKSON, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN AYD SlUGEoff. OFFICE iu the Clayton Building on West Main Street over the store of Trammell A Norris, where he may ue found during the day, except when out upon a professional call. Oct. 27. W. K. Mountcagile, Jeweler and Watch and Clock Repairer, CARTERtWILI K, GEORGIA. Office in trout of V. A. Skinner Co’s Store. GEN. W. T. WOFFRI). .JNO. 11, WIKLE Wofiord cfc Wiltlo, ATTORNEYS - AT - LAW, AND Real Estate Agents, i SPECIAL ATTENTION given to the pur sdußs«.tloof Re il Estate. -SP-6m TO BLES3NTT. House AND LOT desirably located oh Forest street. Apply to B. SCOFIELD. FRENCH’S NEW HOTEL, COR. C3RTLANDT k HEW CH'JROH STS., NEW YORK. On r,l lie European Plan. • RICHARD P. FRENCH , Son of the late Coi.. KICftIAUD FRENCII, of French’s Hotel, lifts taken this Hotel, newly fitted 11 >- end entirely renovated the same.— Oenlrally located in the BUSIXESH PART of the City, Lapikm' & Gentlemen’s Dining rooms at tached. June 19, 1873.—3 ms CABTERSVILLE BAKERY! BY j. D. WILKIE & BRO., WEST MAIN STREET, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Presh. Srcaci Calios Kept Uon-taiuly on Hand. Wedding Parties, Pie-nics, .iki.l all other Parties can have Cakes, both Plain and Ornamental, served up in the neatest and best style. . Cartersville, Ga., June 19, 1873.—1 y Hi- > . ' "~C— y y THE undersigned, Agen t for ~\ < nowueal Wm. and; CO., O. Xj. G-orliam cto Cos., And other l’iauos, sold at sew 1 ork prices.— Second hand Piano* lor sale and to rent very t low. Organs from different makers, from S3O I upwards. Pianos and Organs sold on install t meats, and easy terms, and tuned and repaired iu the best manner, at very moderate prices: fully warranted iu every particular, and all orders promptly attended to. Leave orders with M«. Peter Marsh, Cartersville, Ga., or Address F. L. FREYEK, June 19,1673.-—IV Marietta. Ga. DENTAL CARD. undersigned respectfully informs the I. citizens of Cartersville and vicinity that he has resumed the practice of Dentistry, and In close attention to business and luithtul work ha hopes to receive a liberal share of patronage Office over ifirwiu, Stoaely & Cos. .Tan JjD-Om. F. M. JOHNSON. BEAD HOUSE, Fronting Passenger Depot, tinmxoofiA. . JOHN T. READ, Procrietor. Jan 16-72. Large Profits . FROM | SMALL INVESTMENTS! THE NATIONAL | LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY ISSUES THE LAHSEST POLICIES For tlx© Smallest Amount of* Money Os any Safe i»m;> any In the United States. PAYS ALL BOSSES PitOMPTT.Y I ' Beforv Injuring in any other Company, call a,lli *ce JOHN T. OWKX, March 13—2m$ Agent. Sewing Machine Needles and MacMne Oil Kept Constantly On Hand, AM for sale u J. E. SCOFIELD, mch!3tf CARTERSVILLE, GA. W. 11. WIKLE. u. W. WALDftUP Win. 11. WIKLE & €O., DEALERS IN STATIONI3RY, SjnDtfsjrljpUioa TOBACCO, CICARS AND PIPES, CONFECTIONERIES, FANCY GROCERIES, ETC., Post Office Building. Carter.ville. Ga. Feb. fi-ly. WANTED—MONEY! VYTE call upon all parties, indebted to us for f V Groceries, Produce, and Family Sun plies, to eome and settle up for the same. We want money, and money we roust have, pnii - ab/i/, it wec.au, forcibly', if we roust. Tit-re is no use of talking, for that don't bring the mon ey, action, action, is what we want. Now just do the fair thing, and call and p;.v up th ■ little you owe us. and let’s stop the agitation of this question. But don’t take tnis t<W>e a joke, or it may result in cost to debtors anu some trou ble to ourselves. We mean all we say, when we tell our patrons who owe us that they must par us, and that without delav. DANIEL. PAYNE ft CO. Cartersvfile, Ga., Mch 6,1873.—ts F. m. RICHARDSON, DEALER IN STOVEsCSATES, HOUSFfUaNiSHINS GOODS, OIFEItIHL m- ill TI 03 -W Zi.irt.l3!, cfcc Cor. Whitehall nml Hunter St's, ATLANTA, GORGIA. En Law she, NO. 50, WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA, GA. HAS JUST RETURNED FROM MARKET, and is now receiving and opening one of the largest stocks of FINE JEWELRY In upper Georgia, selected with care for the FALL AMD WINTER TRADE W atclies Otthe r.EST MAKERS of EUROPE an AMERICA. AMERICA?* AND FRENCH CLOCKS; TF.RLING and COIN.SILVKR-W ARE, And the best quality of LVER PLATED GOODS, SPECTACLES TO SUIT ALL AGES. Watches and Jewelry repaired by Couipeteni Workmen. Also Clock and Watch Makers Tools and Material o sep 13-ly COTTON GUMS! THE IMPROVED WINSHIP COTTON GIN! For lightness of draft, fast ginning, cleaning the seed well, and making good -sample, this Gin U.s no equal. It is made of the BEST MATERZAB to be had iu this country or Europe, in good style and well finished. Planters :re invited to call on us in Atlanta, or at any ol our Agen cies, and examine this Gin, before purchating; also to send in their orders eari.y, to insure their being filled in good time for the coming crop, .Send for Circulars. GILBERT & BAXTER, Agents, Carters vilie, Ga. WIHSIIIP & 00., ■ Atlanta, Ga. Mays. IBTO. w has SUBSCRIPTION : 82 per annum. ! T. B. SHOCKLEY | Is now permanently (Settled in Carters v ilic. ; IWMtnfW. i V* R,, on tho puMlr kqntrr fronting the depot, with a aruer#* >»«< k of ! goods ot all kind*. • D. 8. H. 1 a DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINE lOvar »ix year* ago, and up to the promt titan it Hun not oust one dollar lor rt',>.«ir-. 1 he . lieve uto Iw as go*>d lar work ns alu n imv. if runs rtrv light, doe* its wo-V porter M* :ir.l wraiji less than any machine l know .it 1 . would not oxchaftjr;' n lor the iH Mesl w>.( ; oi .« v other make. Atlanta. May Bth l Laltt R:iooxi,\*. J. I SiCuriEU), kwl C4uer«?iiie, 6a. ; W. A. DEWEESE, Agent, ! |_j- avixu pencil ased tu* st*h.k or OHOCERIES, PRODUCE, CONFECTIONERIES, LIQUOHB, &C., Ukrktofokk owned by Payne A Green, will still continue the business at the obi stand un der Puckett's Hall, and respect tolly invites all iheir old custnmeis and *nen:s to still bestow their putiouagu upon him, as he pi to sell Groceries as cheap as any olher teutlse, and • lias good quality a- the market affords. \v. | C. GKKKM still reinaius with this bouse, and [invites bis old friends and customers to call and trade with him ns heretofore. March 87.1873. ts PLANTERS' & MINERS’ BANK CARTEBSVILLB, GEORGIA, ORGANIZED JUNE, IS<2. OIRKCTORS: udvi.s rnmx, j. j. Howard, >t. to imjbiijnss, j**. w. Hall. B. J. WILSON. M. G. DOBBINS President, D. W. K. PEACOCK, Cashier. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL, SIOO,OOO. Jt*uid in, 8«i0,(H)0 PTIHIB Han k will do a regular discount and i exchange business; will receive deposits ol money from Courts, Public Institution*, Ad ministrator.'.. Guardian* and privateindividu ais ol all professions, payable at (,-rfll or on time erti.icares oi Uepo-it, and allow such interest s may be agreed upon. Collections a specialty C. D. ROSERS & CO., Sueessors to I. C. MnnsliHd A Cos., MERCHANT MILLERS, And Prourietors of “Holly Mills,’’ CARTKRSVILT.E, G SPOTSWOOD HOTEL, (Opposite Depot,) MACON, GiA, T.H. HARRIS. BOARD $3 00 PER DAY. H-11-B.it. T. R . GRIMES Desires to inform the residents of Cartersvi and surrounding district that he has opened a Tea anil Hdo-FiiFaMii Store on West Main Street, Hist door east of Gould smith’s furniture Store, a choice selection of NKW GOODS including the following : OAR PKTS, Matting. Buggy and Door Mats, Oil-Cloths, Hearth Hugs, Hassock-, Tubs, Buckets, Sugar Buckets, Bolling Bins, Clothes Begs, and Wood Ware in variety. BASKETS, of every kind, Combs. Brushes, Fancy Soap and Toilet Articles,. Looking Glasses, Trays and Waiters, Castors, Blated Sixains, and a variety ol House-Furnishing Goods. Musical Instruments, Stationery and School Slates, Green and Dried Fruits, Nuts. Candies and Crackers, Canned Fruits and Jellies. Lautotb’s Vegetable ani Flower Seeis. and would call particular attention to aver choice selection of T E3 A, just received direct from Europe, in original Chinese packages, and which will be sold un usually low, beginning with a really good ar ticle at 75 cent.- per pound. Coffee, green and roasted, Sugar, Spices. 2-20 BAIiUAIXS It Leads +o Happiness I A Boon to tie WMeJace of Woman! DR. J. BRADFIELiD’S FEMALE REGULATOR! It will bringon the>ien«es; relieve all pain at the monthly “Period;” cure Rheumatism and Neuralgia of Rack and Uterus; I.euoor rhceaor “Whites.” and partial Prolapsus Uteri; check excessive ilow, and correct all irregular ities peculiar to ladies. It will remove all irritation of Kidneys and Bladder; relieve Coslivenesg; purify the Blood: give tone and strength to the whole system; dear the skin, imparting a rosv hue'to the cheek, and cheerfulne>s to the inihd. It is as sure a cure in all the above diseases as Quinine is in Chills and Fever. Ladies can cure themselves of all the above diseases w ithout revealing their complaints to any person, « hich is al way » mortify ing to their pride and modestv. it is recommended by the best phvgicians aDd the clergy. Lagrange, ga.. March 23, iffro. BRADFIELD & CO., Atlanta, Ga,—Dear Sirs: 1 take pleasure in sta ing that I have used for the last twenty years, the medicine you are now putting up, known as Dr. J. Uradficld’s FEMALE ItEGC LATOK. and consider It the best combination ever gotten together lor the diseases for which it is recommended. I have been familiar with the prescription both as a practitioner of medicine and iu domestic prac tice. and can honestly lay that I consider it a boon to suffering females, and can but Lope that every lady in our whole laud, who may be suffering in any way peculiar to their sex, may be able to procure a bottle, that their sufferings may not only l>e relieve. 1 , but that they may he restored to health and strength. With my kindest regards, 1 am respeetfallv W. B. FERRELL, M. D. Near Mak:..tta. Ga., March 21,1870. MES3R-S. WM. ROOT & H>X.-I>ear Sirs: Some months ago I bought a bottle of BRAD- FiEl.n’S FEMALE REGULATOR from yot, and have used it in my family with the utmost satisfaction, and have recommended it to three other families, and they have found t just what it is tecommended. The females who have used your REGULATOR arc in perfect health, and are able to attend to their house hold dutie-, and we normally recommend It to the public. Yours respectfully, Rev. H. B. JOHNSON. We could add a thousand other certificates; hut we consider the above amply sufficient proof of its virtue. All we ask is a trial. For full particulars, history of diseases, and i certificates of its wonderful cures, the reader is I referred to the wrapper around the bottle. I Manufactured and sold bv BRADFIELD & CO„ I Trice $1 50. ATLANTA, UA. Sold by all Druggists, I 1-80-ly. XO. 31.
