Georgia Historic Newspapers

    Devilish Heeds!
FEARFUL HOLOCAUST AND DIA
BOLICAL BUTCHERY IN
SOUTHERN KANSAS.
A FARM PLANTED WITH CORPSES-
EIGHT BODIES ALREADY
DISCOVERED.
**°w adfamily of Human Hyenas
eyed Upon the
Passers By.
DISCOVERY OF THE DECOMPOSED
BODY OP WILLIAM A. YORK
AND SEVEN OTHER
VICTIMS.
HOW THE DEED WAS DONE, AND HOW
IT WAS DISCOVERED—DESCRIP*
TION OF THE SCENE.
FLIGHT OF THE MURDERERS — IN-
TENSE EXCITEMENT IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD-OTHER
GRAVES FOUND.
Names of the Murdered Victims—
Horrible Details of the
Sickening Spectacle.
Kansas City Times, May 9, 1873.
What follows in its facte may read like the
recital of some horrible dream, wherein night
mare mirrors npon the distempered brain a
conntless number of monstrous and un
natural things, yet what is set down in the
narrative is as trne as the sun.
From the information furnished to ns last
night by a gentleman jast from the
SCENE OF THE BUTCHEBT,
and from dispatches and accounts already,
published, we are enabled to give a tolerably
detailed account of the monstrous series of
murders up to date. The
BEGINNING OF THE END,
came about in this wise : On the 9th of
March, Dr. William H. York, the brother of
that other York, now famous for his penetra
tion of the guilty secrets of Pomeroy and his
betrayal in the supreme moment of the Sena
torial crisis of the trusts confided to his keep
ing—left Fort Scott on horseback for his
home in Independence, Kansas. He did not
come home. His friends watched and waited,
and his family prayed and prayed for him;
t'ue talk of the town dealt day after day with
him, expectation at last deepened into down
right earnestness about him, until on the 28th
of March, the Lawrence Tribune gave a brief
account of the
MYSTEBIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.
All at once thereafter, all the papers in the
State took up the tale of his journey, of his
non-arrival, of the fears of foul play, and of
all the little details and circumstances that
might go to show that he had been murdered.
The most thorough search known to finite
bkill was at once commenced. His neighbors
turned out en masse. His brother, Col. JL
M. York, rested neither by day nor night in
his labors, but followed what seemed to him
a trail with the tenacity of an Indian and the
devotion of a saint. Rivers were dragged,
spots fit for an ambush were probed foot by
foot, lonesome places were quested as a keen
hound scents a trail that is cold, the route he
was supposed to have followed had scouts
upon it from city to city, the tracks of his
horse even were attempted to be identified,
but all to no purpose. Not a shadow of evi-
denm rested a:ijwl»eru lu MJ that 2>r. York
had been murdered—not a sign anywhere
told how he came to his death, if death in
deed had overtaken him unawares. He was
traced to
CHFJIBTVA1E,
but no further. There the trail was no longer
a trail, but a myth, a mystery, an enigma
neither the unwearied patience of friends, nor
the sacrificing devotion of a brother could
solve.
Cherryvale is a small town on the Leaven
worth, Lawrenceville & Galveston Railroad,
and is in Labette county, about fifty miles
from the south line of the State. To the
south of Cherryvale, some two miles or less,
stands a frame house, having in front a large
room where the meals were served, and in
rear a sleeping room furnished with two beds
and some scant additional furniture besides
WILLIAM AND THOMAS BENDEB
lived in this house with their wives. To the
right of the dwelling house was an oat-house,
and in the rear was an enclosed garden of
possibly two acres.
The search seemed to end suddenly at Cher
ryvale. Suspicion, if ever entertained, fell
upon no one. There were various surmises,
coujectnrcs and expressions of opinion; but
for the life of any man he could not say what
had become of Dr. York.
One day early in April some from Cherry
vale rode over to the Bender house—a tavern
too, it a as, where entertainment was fur
nished to travelers—to inquire concerning Dr.
York, and to lean, if possible, some
TIDINGS OF ms FATE.
They learned nothing, however. None of
the Benders had seen him nor heard of him,
nor of his mysterious disapuearanee, nor any
thing that pertained to him. Very well, said
the men, and they rode back again as fully in
formed as before.
WILLIAM BENDEB,
the eldest of the brothers, had a wife who was
a Spiritualist. The balance of the Benders
called her a medium, the neighbors a she-dev
il. She was forty-two, with iron-gray hair,
ragged at the ends and thin over the temples.
Her eyes were steel-gray and hard. The light
that came from them was sinister and forbid
ding. She had not a single prepossessing
feature. Her form, angular and tall, seemed
to lift itself np when the spiritual influences
took possession of it, and to become not only
gigantic in height, bat supernatural as well.
At times she dealt in incantations and the
boiling of herbs and roots that had charms
and spells about them. Her will was indom
itable. All the household feared her, dreaded
her, obeyed her, and, as the sequel proves,
did the
DEVIL’S WOBK FOB HEB
beyond all the atrocious devil’s work ever
•done in Kansas.
It would seem as if the visit of the Cherry-
vale party alarmed the Benders. William
Bender, now that the terrible secrets have
come to light, and now that the shallow graves
Lave given np their ghastly and mutilated
occupants, can be remembered as having
acted very stragely. Twice he had come into
Cherryvale and had been noticed, upon the
occasion of each visit, to loiter upon the out
side of crowds, seemingly having no busi
ness, but eagerly intent all the time in listen
ing to everything that was said.
Time went slowly by, and a man
1.1 LINO IN ONE DAT
w prairi* saw no smoke arising from
#*>- -* •- The windows were
doors were closed, there was no
signs of life anywhere. These evidences of
emigration did not even interest him. 8c
absolute was the stupor over the disappear
ance of Dr. York that an awakening had to
depend upon an absolute discovery. This
man, however, in riding by a pen to the left
of the house saw a dead calf in the lot, and
upon further investigation and with the prac
tical eyes of a practical farmer, used to guess
ing the weight of live stock upon the hoof,
he knew that the calf had
DIED or STABVAXIOM.
Then the truth came, as an oveifiow comes
often to a Kansas creek, all of a sudden and
overwhelming. Such a death suggested flight,
flight meant gailt, and the nature of the guilt
was surely murder. He galloped into Cher
ryvale and related what be had seen. The
town aroused itself. A party was organized
instantly and set out for the Bender mansion.
Then it was remembered that about two weeks
before this—say somewhere near the 24th of
April—William Bender had sold to some per
sons either in or near Cherryvale a watch, two
mules, and perhaps a shot gun or two and
a >me pistols. How did he come by these?
IF THE DEAD COULD SPEAK
the question might be readily answered.
In the rear, as we have said, was a garden.
This at first, was not examined. The front
room of the house was next carefully searched,
every crack and crevice being minutely looked
into, and subjected to the application of rods
and levers to see if the flooring was either hol
low or loose. Nothing came of it all. No
l spots appeared. The floor was solid—
walls were solid. If there wero dead men
t, they were not in the front room. Then
came the back room. The beds were re
moved.
IN HIS FLIGHT
tie . I ler Fender had left everything untouch
ed. Not even the doors were locked, though
such had been the reputation of the she devil
that the premises stood as safe from intrusion
as if protected by a devil in reality. After the
beds had been removed one of the party no
ticed a slight depression in the floor, which,
upon a closer examination, revealed a
TRAP DOOR
upon hinges. This was immediately lifted
up, and in the gloom a pit outlined itself,
forbidding, cavernous, unknown- Lights
were procured, and some of the men descend
ed. They found themselves in an abyss
shaped like a well, some six feet deep, and
about five feet in diameter. Hero and there
little damp places could be seen as if water
bad come up from the bottom or been poured
down from above. They groped about over
these splotches and held up a handful to the
light The ooze smeared itself over their
palms and dribbled through their fingers.
IT WAS BLOOD —
thick, foetid, clammy, sticking, blood—that
they had found groping there in the void—
the blood, perhaps, of some poor belated
traveler who had laid himself down to dream
of home and kindred, and who had died while
dreaming of his loved ones. The party had
provided themselves with a long, sharp rod
of iron which they drove into the ground in
every direction at the bottom of the pit, but
nothing farther rewarded the search, and
they came away to examine the garden in
the rear of the house. After bor:n,or prod
ding, as it were, for nearly an hour,
the rod was driven down into a spot
and when it was withdrawn, something that
looked like matter adhered to the point.
Shovels were set at once to work, and in a
few momeuts a corpse was uncovered. It had
been buried upon its face. The flesh had
dropped away from the legs. There was no
coffin, no winding sheet, no preparation for
the grave, nothing upon the body but an old
shirt, tom in places and thick with damp and
decay. The corpse was tenderly disinterred
and laid upon its back in the full light of the
soft April sun. One look cf horror into the
S hastly face, festering and swollen, and a
ozen voices cried ont in terror:
“MY GOD, IT IS BB. Y0BE ! *
And it was. He had been buried in a shallow
hole, with scarcely two feet of dirt over him.
Had he been murdered, and how ? They
examined him closely. Upon the back of his
heed and to the left and obliquely from his
right ear, a terrible blow had been given with
a hammer. The sknll had been driven iuto
the brain, and from the battered and broken
crevices a dull stream of blood had oozed,
plastering his hair with a kind of clammy
paste and running down upon his shonlders.
Strong men turned away k troin the sickening
sight with a shudder. Others wept. Some
even had to leave the garden and remain
away from the shambles of the butchers.
It seemed as if the winds carried the tidings
to Cherryvale. In an hour all the town was
at the scene of the discovery. A coffin was
procured for Dr. York’s body, and his brother,
utterly overwhelmed, sat by the ghastly re
mains us one upon whom the hand of death
had been laid. He could not be comforted.
But the
HORRIBLE WORK WAS NOT YET COMPLETED.
The iron rod was again put in requisition
until six more graves were discovered, five of
which contained each a corpse, and the sixth
containing two, an old man and a little girl.
Some were in the last stages of decomposition,
and others, not so far gone, might have been
identified if any among the crowd had known
them in life. The scene was horrible be
yond description. The daylight fled from the
prairie), but the search went on with unabated
vigor. A fascination, impossible to define,
held the spectators to the spot. The spirit
of murder was there, and it kept them in
spite of the night and the horror of the sur
roundings. The crowd increased instead of
diminishing. Coffins were provided for all.
and again was me search renewed. It was
past midnight when our informant left, but
three more graves had been discovered, each
supposed to contain a corpse, although they
had not been opened. The
WHOLE COUNTRY IS AROUSED.
Couriers and telegrams have been scut in
every direction with descriptions of the
Benders, and it is not thought possible that
they can escape* With the crowd at the grave
was a man named Brockman, who was sup
posed to know something about the murders.
Furious men laid hold upon him at once, and
strong him np to a beam in tho house. His
contortions were fearful. His eyes started
from their sockets, and a livid hue came to
his face that was appalling. Death was with
in reach of him when he was cut down.
“ CONFESS ! CONFESS
they yellec, but he said nothing. Again he
was jerked from his feet, and again was the
strong body convulsed with the death throes.
Again resuscitated, he once more refused to
open bis mouth. He did not appear to un
derstand what was wanted of him. The yell
ing crowd, the multitude and butchered dead,
the flickering and swirliDg torches spluttering
in the night wind, the stern, set faces of his
executioners, all, all passed before him as a
dreadful phantasmagoria which dazed him
and struck him speechless. For the third
time they swung him up, and then his
HEART COULD NOT BE FELT TO BEAT,
and there was no pulse at the wrists. “ He I
is dead,” they said. But he was not dead.
The night air revived him at last, and he was
permitted to stagger away in the darkness
one who was drunken or deranged.
Six butchered human beings were brought
forth from their bloody graves, and three nth
ers are yet to be uncovered. It is thought that]
more graves will yet be discovered. The pit
under the trap door was made to receive the
body when first struck dow n by the murder
er’s hammer. All the skulls were crushed in,
and all at nearly the same place. One of the
corpses so horribly mutilated as to make the
sex even a matter of doubt.
THE LITTLE GIRL
was probably eight years of age, and had long,
sunny hair, and some traces of beauty on a
countenance that was not entirely disfigured
by decay. One arm was broken. Tho brea3t
bone had been driven in. The right knee bad
been wrenched from its socket, and tho leg
doubled up under the body. Nothing like this
sickening series of crimes has ever been re
corded in the whole history of the country.
People for hundreds of miles are flocking into
Cherryvale, and fenermons rewards are to be
offered for the arrest of the murderers. It is
supposed that they have been following their
SUMMER RESORTS.
DR. J. A. TAYLOR,
Of Atlanta, Georgia.
DR. R. A. HOOKE,
Of Chattanooga, Teun.
MINERAL HILL.
SALINE, SULPHUR, ALDI,
AND
Chalybeate Springs!
miles from Morristown, E. T. k Va. Railroad, lias just
been 8PLENDIDLY FITTED UP for the summer
of 1873.
OUR SULPHURS!
(Red, White and Black), Alum and Chalybeate Waters,
need no comment, as their effects are generally known;
but we would call your particular attention to the won
der of the age, as a mineral watei —
OUR SALINE SPRING!
better known as Black Water, which is msgical in its
specific effects in cases of RHEUMATISM, 8CROFULA,
DYSPEPSIA, all Diseases of the Blood and Skin, and
especially adapted to the Diseases of Females.
HOT AND COLD SULPHUR BATHS!
the cool and bracing mountain air, together with the
MAGNIFICENT MOUNTAIN SCENERY, tend to make
this one of the most pleasant summer resorts in the
Tfccse Springs are accessible by daily hack lines.
Parties desiring to visit us will Btop at Turley House,
Morristown, and call for William A. Dickinson, propri
etor Hack Line to Mineral Hill. Address
DBS. TAYLOR k HOOKE, Pbopbietoms,
Bean’s Station, East Tennessee.
Great Summer Resort
FOR HEALTH OR PLEASURE.
(McCaMEY’8, NEAR GAINESVILLE, Ga.)
mHK above named Springs have been leased by
I Mrs. J. G. Trammell k Son, (late of Trammell
Rouse, Gainesville.) where their friends and the pub
lic generally, wbo are in quest of either HEALTH or
PLEASURE, will find ample means of enjoyment.
The water of these Springs needs no comment, as
heir medical qualities are known from New York to
he Gulf. The climate cannot be surpassed. The
Hotel has been newly furnished, and guests will be
tgiven every attention that is required to make their
6tay pleasant and agreeable. Charges moderate,
april 1G dim MRS. J. G. TRAMMELL k 80N.
^ SC A L B ’ S
CELEBRATED
SULPHUR AND CHALYBEATE
Springs,
NEAR ROCERSVILLE, TENNESSEE.
riMUS FAVORITE WATERING PLACE AND PLKA-
I ant Summer Resort will be open for visitors May
1st, 1873.
TERMS:
Board per Day $1 50
Board per Week 9 00
Board per Month 30 00
S3* Special terms for families.
To those having Scrofula, Dyspeptia, Kidney and
Mercurial Diseases, General Debility, etc., we say.
Come and be cured !
It. F. k E. D. POWELL,
ap27 Proprietors.
Grand Summer Resort
rpiIOSE who desire relief from the dust and toll of
I City life, cau av-il themselves of the pleasures
oi a fine drive out to the Oglethorpe Park, where
ample preparations Lave been made for the enjoy
ment cf the public.
A Hall 225 Fed in Mb, 70 Feet fide
with nplenclKl Hoot o.»a an other arrangements for
comfort and pleasure, to be used for dancing and
festive purposes.
A BEAUTIFUL LAKE,
with boats free for tho amusemont of guests. The
ground are free to picnic parties. Ample arrange
ments for Balls, Assemblies, Soirees, etc. The attrac
tions to be found here,in the way of scenery, beauti
ful d Ives ou the race track, a row upon the lake,
splendid water, refreshments of every description, and
the numerous other inducements to enjoyment, ren
der this one of the moat desirablo resorts in the
South. apr20-esm.
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THE COMBINATION KEROSENE
nun
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IS
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First.
Second.
Third.
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Because while it dispenses
with the use of bark, and
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per cent, it may be used in combination with
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Because of the superior
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yy QrrN it Because of the superior
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Prices range from ONE HUNDRED to TWO
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iergy which seems to communicate new life to
the system, and renovate the feeble, faintiDg powers
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There is no disease of any name or nature, whether
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feb!2-d2ra
W. B. HOPE.
JOHN W. LEIGH.
WM. McOLUR
HOPE, LEIGH & CO.
(SUCCESSORS TO YARNELL, LEIGH A COD
Commission, Merchants,
FOOT CF MARKET STREET. CHATTAR006A, TENN.
PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO ORDERS, AND CASn ADVANCES ON CONSIGNMENTS, “fct
Special Be»e*ei«ce—To Banks of Chattanooga. mav3-eod3in
BOOT, SHOE, AND HAT STORE:
CO.,
JUST OPENED AT
V5 W iiitoliall Street,
BARRETT, COKER &
W E beg to announce to the citizeus oi AtUutv, that we have opened, at the location above named, an exrlii
lively
BOOT, SHOE and. HAT STORE.
We propse ke epiug FIRST-CLASS GOODS, which wo shall sell as LOW as any house in the city. Give us a
lU-kS BARRETT. COKER k CO.
KEEP YOUR VEGETABLES, MILK, &f„ COOL
1 HAVE a splendid *to.k of self-veutilatiug REFRIGERATORS, that I am selling at very low prices. They
gi»e perfect satisfaction. Ten pouuds of ice will run you a day, and give you plenty for your tabic
GOOCH'S PATENT ICE CREAM FREEZER
will make more and better Cream, from the same amount, than any other Freezers known. It is takin
place of the other Freezers iu the market. Has taken Premiums at all the State Fairs.
A splendid assortment of BIRD CAGES of every description. Finest stock of SLATE MANTLES evei
brought South.
Mauufactuier of and wholesale dealer iu
STOVES, GRATES, TIN WARE, AND HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
81 WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
jsS* Splendid Stock of Wood-Ware at wholesale always on hand.
apl2Q-8xm&Tu-3t Xi. B. XiANOFOUX).
St. Louis, lemiiis, NasDville
— AND —
CHATTANOOGA E, E, LINE,
SPRING SCHEDULE, 1873.
Leave Atlanta 8:30 a.m. and 8:10 p.m
Arrive at Chattanooga 4:28 p.m. ami 3:44 a m
“ Nashville 12:45 a m. and 1:05 p.m
“ McKensie 8:30 a.m. and 8:30 pm
Memphis 2:10 p.m. and 2:25 a.m J
Great Labor-Saving Machine,
BRILEY’S UNRIVALLED SHAFT PLOUGH.
Saves tie fferk if Two Men and Two Horses.
Clears a Cotton or Corn Row at One Round-
PRICE ONLY $24 WITH THREE PLOW POINTS.
Little Reck.
6:30 i
Leave Atlanta 8:30 a.m. aud 8:10 p.m
Arrive at Chattanooga 4:28 a.m. and 3:44 a.m
“ Nashville 12:45 a.m.-nd 1:05 p.m
“ Union City 10:30 a.m. and 10:30 p.m
Columbus, Ky 12:00noon, 12:00 night
T B
that our people want. It has the endo;
PRICE places it in the re.ch of everybody.
ot the best planters who have seen it, and the LOW
St Louis, via Cairo
Short Line 9:05 I
St. Louis, via Iron
Mountain Railroad.. 11:00 r
m. and 11:20 a.i
FULTON,
CASS,
FLOYD,
GORDON,
GILMER,
DAWSON,
DADE,
WALKER,
CHATTOOGA,
WHITFIELD,
MURRAY,
FANNIN,
TOWNS,
RABUN,
CATOOSA,
PICKENS,
LUMPKIN,
WHITE,
HABERSHAM,
FRANKLIN,
CHEROKEE,
FORSYTH,
HALL,
BANKS, IIART.
ALBERT B. WRENN-
Southeastern Agent,
Post-office Box 25a.
OfficeNo. 4. Kimball House. Atlanta Georgia.
!"' *
ml School-Books!
Tie University Senes of
GEORGIA, Fulton County.
n^HE PETITION OF W. S. WALKER, J. S. BOYD.
JL Walter A. Baker, T. W. Hooper, John Patterson
II. Stockton. Charles Dupree. W. D. Bell, A. M. Wil
son, and H. L. Davis, citizens of the city of Atlanta
said county, respectfully represent that they desire to
form a FIRE COMPANY, in accordance with the laws
of paid State. The object and purpose of said com
pany, and the name and terms thereof, are as lollows:
1. The corporate name by which a dd company shall
be known is
THE EUREKA FIRE COMPANY, No. —.
2. The object for which said company is formed is
the protection of Life and Property in the city of At
lanta, Georgia.
3. This company will have no capital stock other
than may be necessary to purchase outfit, equipment
and engine house, and to meet current expenses inci
dent to such a corporation, for which it will dspeod
upon donation aud assessments per capita upon its
1 members.
4. The term of existence of said company shall be
twenty years, unless sooner dissolved by a vote of two-
thirds of the active members thereof.
Wherefore, your petitioners pray the order of your
Honorable Court incorporating aaid company agreea
ble to the statute in such cases made and provided.
This 23d of April, 1873. T. W. HOOPER,
Attorney tor Petitioners.
Tine extract from the minutes.
This April 24,1873. W. R. VENABLE,
ap2G-lawiw Clerk.
HOBBIBLE WOBK FOB YEARS.
Plander is the accepted cause. Dr. York,
it is said, had a large sum of money on his
person, and that he stopped at the house
either to feed his horse or get a drink of
water. While haul ting for either he was
dealt the blow which killed him in an instant.
Every one who knew him liked him. None
of tho other corpses have been identified.
We have despatched a special reporter to tho
scene, who will send us other and fuller
particulars of the diabolical butchery.
Executive Department,
STATE OF GEORGIA,
Atlakta, March 21, 1873.
ORDERED:
That JAMES A. R. HANKS, of the county of Whit
field county, be, end he is hereby appointed (under
authority of a resolution of he General Assembly, ap-
pror. d February 22d. 1873,) Auditor, to examine the
Change Bills issued by the Western A Atlantic Rail
road, aud report the facts connected therewith ss re
quired by said resolution. 9
Br the Governor:
JAMES M. SMITH,
Governor.
J. W. Ware*.!*.
• Secretary Executive Dept.
By authority of the foregoing order of His Excellen
cy the Governor, I will enter upon the duty assigned
me on the let day of May next, at Boom No. 26, iu the
Capitol at Atlanta. Peraons holding the bills men
tioned must present thorn to me for examination by
the let of June next. In the meeutime thoae.holding
bills should advise me by letter at Dalton, Georgia, of
the number of eaeh denomination of bills held bj
Maeth 28,1873.
mar30-d2tawtill j n
“ GIVE HONOR
TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE.’
JACKSON’S
MAGIC BALSAM,
THE GREAT
MASTER OF PAIN,
A MEDICINE
Which is curing distress and pain to an ex ten
never before beard of in the annals
of medicine.
XT WIIjIj OUHB
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HEADACHE in five minutes!
ItBMB in twenty minutes l
NEURALGIA in ten minutes!
RHEUMATISM in four days 1
SORE THROAT in forty-eight hours
THE WORST
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IS OKK WEEK ; THE WORST
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in two deys; the Worst
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in twenty minutes;
THE WOU8T SWELLINGS AND RISINGS
la forty-eight hours;
Ami for removing Paine and Inflammations in
any part of the body, it cannot be excelled
by any medicine ever offered to suf
fering humanity.
It will Care (he IVoint Cramp Colic In ten
Minutex.
AND I WILD OUAUANTXE THAT MVE ONE
DOLLAR DOTTLES WILL COR* THE WORST
CAKE OF RHEUMATISM ON RECORD.
Go to your Druggist and get a bottle, or enclose the
price for the size of e l>ottte that yon wish, end I will
send It to you expenses peid. Address all orders to
P. VAN AL8TINE,
Proprietor,
BARNK8VILME, GEORGIA,
am- Hold at 25 cents, 6C costs, $1.00, find $5.00 di
le* feh2fiwj
jfr#-The following TESTIMONIALS are
from gentlemen of high standing in the city
where the Patentee lives :
Saint James, Mo., 1
April 2, 1873. j
J. F. Winans, Esq. «
Dear Sir—In reply to your inquiry, I would
state that my opinion of PETEB8’ EUREKA
TANNING PROCESS may be inferred from
the fact that I am now wearing a pair of
boots, the leather of which was tanned by
that process before the same was perfected
and a patent obtained; that the said boots
have now been in wear for the period of three
years—are tho most pliable and easy to the
feet of any boot I eveT wore, and are in a
good state of preservation yet.
S. M. Nichoalos.
The undersigned take pleasure in affirming
their knowledge of the facts, and the truth of
the statements set forth, in the foregoing let
ter of their fellow-townsman, S. M. Nichoalds,
and also in attesting the unsurpassed excel
lence and great superiority of the leather
tanned by the Enreka Tanning Process.
John Blain, M. D.
A. Emoby, Broker.
J. Talent, Merchant.
8. H. Headlee, M. D.
Wm. Teneyck, Merchant.
J. R. Bowman, Co. Judge,
Wm. Dawson, Merchant
ED. HOLLAND, Ag’t,
ALABAMA STREET.
OFPIOB TJX* STAinS
OVER
HERALD BUSINESS OFFICE
J UST RECEIVED, AT MRS. McCORMICK’8 NEW
Millinery Store, on Whitehall street, NEW SUITS
for Ladies end Children; also, reel and Imitation Eve-
ning Fichu* and Pearl Jet ORNAMENTS for the Hair
and a floe assortment of REAL HAIR, viz: Switches,
Curls, Puff*. Ac. my8-dlw
OFFltfB CASTLE ROCK COAL )
COMPANY OF GEORGIA, [
Atlanta, Ga.. April fit, 2H78. )
A N ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLM
ere of the CASTLE ROCK GOAL COMPANY OF
GEORGIA will be held at the Green Line Office, No. 4
Grant Buildloj
By order 1
apiW-lm
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS
8E0RBIA RAILROADAND BANKIN8 CO.
LIBRARY GIFT CONCERT
NINETY DAYS’ POSTPONEMENT!
A Full Drawing Certain
$500,000 IN BANK TO PAY GIFTS.
10,000 Gash Gifts Paid in Full
$100,000 FOR ONLY $10 !
Third Grand Gift Concert, in aid of the Public
Library of Kentucky, having been sold to insure a full
drawing, and the wish having bten universally ex
pressed that the 10,000 i ash gifts offered should be
drawn in full and paid in full without any scaling
down, as heretofore, the management, with the con
currence of the trustees, have determined to allow
ninety days more for the sale of tlio remnant ef tick
ets left on baud. The concert and distribution ad-
ertised for April 8 is, therefore, postponed to Tues
day, July 8, 1873, on which day, and no other, they
will positively and unequivocally take place iu Public
Library Hall, Louisville, Ky.
At this grand concert the following cash gifts will
be distributed by lot and paid in full to the ticket-
holders who draw them *
LIST OF GIFTS.
One Grand Cash Gift $100,000
One Grand Cash Gift 60,000
One Grand Cash Gift 25.000
One Grand Cash Gift 20,000
One Grand Cash Gift 10,000
One Grand Cash Gift 5,000
24 Cash Gifts of $1,000 each 24,000
60 Cash Gift* of 600 each 25,000
80 Cash Gifts of 400 each 32,000
100 :ash Gifts of 300 each 30,000
150 o-sh Gifts of 200 each 30.000
590 -’ash Gifts of 100 each 69,000
9,000 Cash Gifts of 10 each 90.000
and set aside for that purpose, and can only be
used for that purpose, as will be seen by the following
certificate of the Cashier:
Orricx of Farmers’ k Drovers’ Bank.
Louisville, Ky., April 7, 1873.
This is to certify that thcro is in the Farmers’ sud
Drovers’ Bank, to tho Credit of the Third Grand Gift
Concert, for tbs benefit of the Public Library of Ken
tucky, five hundred thousand dollars, which hss boon
sat apart by the managers to pay the gifts lu Cull, aud
will be held by the bank and paid out for this purpose,
sud this purpose only.
R. 8. VEECH, Cashier.
The party, therefore, who holds the ticket drawing
the capital gift will get $100,000 in greenbacks, and so
of the $50,000 gift, the $25,000, the $20,000. the $10.-
000, tho $5,000, and all the other gifts, 10,000 iu
ber. amounting to $500,000.
The remuaut of unsold tickets will be furnished to
those who first apply (orders accompanied by the
ey always having preferences over agents) at the fol
lowing prices: Whole tickets, $10; halves, $5: and
quarters, $2 50; 11 whole tickets for $100. 66 for $500,
113 for 1,000, and 575 for $5,000. No discount on le
than $100 worth at a time.
The ooncert and distribution of gifts will begin at C
o’clock on Tuesday morning, July 8, iu Public Library
hall aud, the following will be the ordor of proceedings
1st Music by orchestral baud. 2nd. Placing of tags
(one for each ticket sold) in large wheel. 3rd. Placing
of gifts in small wheel. 4th. Music by orchestral baud.
5th. Explanatory remarks by President. 6th. Draw
ing of first half of gifts. 7th. Music by orchestral
band. 8th. Drawing of last half of gifts. 9tli. Pla
cing of large wheel with tags in tho hands of a com
mittee appointed by audience. 10th. Grand orches
tral concert.
The music on this grand occasion will be the best
that cau be piocurod, and the gentlemen who count
aud place the tags an.l gifts in tho wheels aud super-
intenc the drawing and keep the reoord of the drawn
numbers will be chosen from tho best known and
most trustworthy citizens ot the Htato. All will be
conducted at to be a perfect guaranty against co
plaint from any just source.
The payment of gifts will begin on Saturday, July
12, at 9 o’clock, a. m. Tickets drawing gilts must bo
presented at room No. 4 Public Library Building,
•r, will be given for the tickets. All gifts not eaUai
for in six months from the drawing will be turned
over to tho Public Library Fund.
For full particulars tend for circulars.
TH08. E. BRAMLETTE,
Agent Public Library of Kentucky,
aprl8-2taw Louisville, Ey
ay For Tickets or Information, apply to PHILLIPS
k GREW and IlET)WINK A FOX. Atlanta, Ga.
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vole, f ilonue* LL D . Professor of HUUry and
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PuMngsr Tnio upon tho Oeorgm lUllro.il will
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AT. And th.lr FauIUaI. Alta*
volition, At AnittuU, ou Wodi
THE JONES HOUSE,
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COVINCTON, CEORGIA.
B. W. JONES, Proprietor.
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Holiaes’* History of tile United States.
By • Jeorjj» F Holme*. LL D.. of the University of Vtr-
glei'a Tbs only History of ths United States which to
It omuss down to the present data.
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r.-ir Read the fn'\v.tiii 0 certificates from planters at borne and at a distance : TSS
Spalding County. Ga.. April 15, 1873.
The undersigned Luive seen the “Briulev Shalt Plow ” at work for two days, bedding lor cotton, working in
corn and cotton, and have worked it ourselves, aud we express our entire satisfaction with it iu every way. It
makes au elegant bed at every trip, and thoroughly pulverize* the land at the same time. After bed
ding, we plowed down the bed on the wster furrow—the place for guano, reversing the bed and covering the
guauo at the same time. In corn planted iu six teet rows, ouo round cleared the row, and left the laud in splen
did order, which would have required five furrows with a single plow, thus saving over one-half the labor, aud
doiug the work equally as well, if not better. Cotton rows from three 10 three and a half feet, were cleared at
oue furrow, which would have required two furrows with any other plow. As a cultivator it surpasses any
thing we ever saw, and for bedding lauds after being brokeu, it cannot be surpassed, ss it does the work of
three men aud mul-s. We cheerfully give it our fullest endorsement aud recommendation, as the greatest la
bor-saving agricultural implement that has ever been ou our farms, or in this country. The draft of the plough
is as light as a Dixon Sweep ou a single stock—a medium mule carrying it with ease.
H. M. GRAY,
8 V. GRAY.
H. A. BROOKS,
J. T. GRAY.
J. M. BROWN,
■rail do all that is claimed for it as a cultivator, saving the labor of t
Griffin, Ga., April 8. 1873.
Mr.. A. M. Speights—Dear Sir: We witu< saed the working of your “ BRIN LEY’S SHAFT PLOW,” on the
laud of S. B. Burr, this day, aud do notbesit .te to say that it is good for all claimed for it. It broke and bed
ded cotton land as well, if not better, than one horse and band could do, making a complete bed at one haul.
It is equal to three hands and three mules, a d is easily worked by one mule or one horse. We consider it a
great labor-saver, and unhesitatingly recommend it, and will use it outeelves as toon as they can be procured.
8. B. BURR.
KUF. JOHNSON.
DU. J. H. CONN ALLY.
W. F. Roberts, of Grahamviile. 8. C., says: “ No other Thill or Shaft Plough is an j whet o by the aide of
Brinley’s. My Foreman has tried it, and says that Brinley's is worth a doz *n of any other. The negroes are
delighted with it.”
W. G. Gibbs, Columbia, S. C., says: “The Shaft Plough lias been worked with perfect success and satisfac
tion. I am delighted with it.”
W. A. Walters, Simpsonville, Ky., says: “ Works admirably—cleans out a row of corn at one sweep— easily
managed—runs as steadily as a breaking plough—will do twice the work of a double shovel and do it better.”
A. C. Jackson, Greensboro, Ga., says: *• I hud your Shait Plow the perfection of covc-rera for corn and cot
ton.”
J. H. Nichols, Nacooche, Gn., says: “
cels anything I have seen used.” One
play.”
It. II. Geoige, Simpsonville Ky., says:
tion—can be used from tho time the >
plow.”
State, County and Farm Rights for sale by
A. M. SPEIGHTS, Griffin, Ga.
aprlO dtf *
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years of suffering, by the taking Dr. F'ltler’* Veg
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SUCCESSOR TO
HcBBIDE & SMITH,
MANUFACTURER OF
Fine Carriages,
PHAETONS,
ROCKAWAYS AND BUGGIES.
Repairing Promptly and Neatly
Executed.
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AND DWELLINGS.
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