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THS PAULDING
4AS. IIKCA KENRUMiG & CO., Publishers,
“ONWARD AND UPWARD’
VOLUME li
DALLAS, PAULDING COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 18S3.
FHOFKHHIONAl, ('A11DB
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R. 8. ROBERTSON,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
prm
the citizma of Dallai and surrounding
country. S^Oflico No. 5 Acworth atreat,
■oar court hodie,
F
FI BLOCK* GRO. P. ROBERT*
IELDEE & ROBERTS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Ddllna. Paulding County, Georgia.
Prac’lo* in all th. cnuria. Prompt aitou
(Inn given to looking alter wild laud nlaln .
Collection, a specialty. 1 ly
J M. SPINKS,
'attorney at law,
Dalian, Paulding County, Grorgis
' Pronpl attention given to collret'nn. In
anv ps t of th» Sta'e. Wild land, looked
alter and intruder, eject.d.
• 37.35 FOR *M.
Music for the Million.—Vienna Rollnn
Labial Organ,
8w«at#*t an I most delightful mnein I now
Popular in Europe. Amt tun** ran In played
on if, from Out II u id red tn Yankee Doodle.
Eren ihoaa “wLh no ♦•nr” while away
llghtful hou « with th?* in‘trmrent. Any
ona o«n pUr i\ Children liny it in one
evenine. Ca«U b t one •truth na iminhaa
the Org nette, Oriranin*, rk, end it far
aweaterand needs only nomiuon music. To
introduce onr new miis'e we will scud a sam
ple Organ, with bound book containing full
words and nw-iic of 06 new and popular
songa, which in »hert form sell for $36.35,
prepaid to any addreit for O^LY $1.
C. O. P.—As a guarantee that every one
will receive all they pay for, we will rend
ona sample book and orsran by eipre a C.
O. P„ $100; two lor $< 60; three, $2.30, or
more at the rate of 10 per dozen. We can
not prepay goods sent < ’. O. I). Circulars
free. Address MONADNOCK MUSIC CO ,
Ix>ek Box 780, Hinsdale, N. H.
THE ELECTRIC
is guaranteed to mend a greaterw.irifcty
ol article, and hoM atronger than any
uther cement ever invented. It will
mend leather, china, gl.u, wood, mar
ble, .tone, and i. atronger where mended
than elaewhere. It I, a household necec
dty, and if you try it one* you will
never bj without it in the hou: ).
Agent, wanted. Stale and county
right, fur aale. Address for circular..,
the Electric, or Tea'. Gypsum Cement
Of.. 85 Decatur S.ieet, Atlanta, Gi,
teiT'lliix cement took the premium at
tip- Cotton Ean'udtio".
It Stands at the Head!
I *ms|M)4 Ur the Continental Insurance Con.
pany, wiloh is cawflasd lo the Insuring of lain
prop art?, dwelling*, c lurehet, s ml school houses,
for ons, throe tno flee jeer*. Kttry prudent tnsn
feels safe worn bo knows that If he tncuid be a r no
lertunste as to set bis propsity dsstroyrd by fire-
hooilt hevo tho gvoater portion of Ms losses to*
plactd. Thills « reliable company, and insurea
fur n low rats. Call on me, and I wilt glee eon fu
(zplaaatloos. T. A. FOOTE.
FREE
8end to MOORt.’H
Buainrsa University,
Atlanta, Georgia,
For (llu.iratrd Circular. A live actual bux
in.aa achoo). Katabli.hed twenty year*.
YOU CAN HAVE ANY KIND FO
Sewing Machine Repaired,
BDT
All Kinds of Needles,
Jttachuunte, Farit, Etc,, Etc,
— OF—
I*. McCORMACIi,
51 S. Broad St., Atlanta, Ga.
BflT.S'nd Machine, by Eipreaa.
It. E. CASON,
DENTIST,
lias permanently located in OAR-
TERSViLLE, where he ia prepared to
do all kinds of Dental work at prices to
SUIT THE TIMES.
He will ire pleased to see nil his old
frienda and many new customers If
you need any dental work done call on
him.
THE LI6HT RUNNING
DOMESTIC!
That it is tho LEADER IN THE
TRADE is a fact that cannot bo dis
puted.
Many Male it! Hons Equal it!
The largest Armed ! The Lightest
Running! The most Beautiful Wood
work ! And is warranted to be made
of tho bed material, to do any and all
kindB of work, to bo complete in every
respect.
For sale by
J. B.& T. A. FOOTE SCO.
Dai,i,ah, Geo rota.
BfSuAgents wanted in unoccupied
territory. Address
DOMESTIC S. M. CO.,
Richmond, Va
WM. E. CUNNINGHAM,
PRACTICAL
Watcbaker aid Jeweler.
— AND PRCPKIETOR-
GATE CITY
SEWING MACHINE EXCHANGE
—AND —
REPAIR SHOP,
68 Decatur St., - ATLANTA, GA.
Some folks would say that the above
is alitt'e t. much mixed up to be very
good in either of its departments, and
that Mr. Cunningham cannot be a very
good watchmaker if he works on guna,
sewing machines, and anything elia
that comes along.
Now let me say to those who may fa
vor me with a perusal of this that my
experience in watchmaking runs back
over a quarter of a century, and that
part of my business it under my own
personal supervision, and that I propose
to do the heat, possible work on every
ob entrusted to me.
The sewing machine department of
my buaineas is in the hands of thorough
ly competent workmen, and I guarantee
every machine that is repaired at the G.
C. S. M. Ex. and R. S. shall bs well and
thoroughly done.
Now, if you have a machine that
needs repairing, send or bring it to us,
and if we don't make it work all right
we won’t charge you a nickel. We also
have an assortment of second hand ma
chines that will do good sewing, which
will sell cheap.
UGHtRunning
new Home
sLThMe
“tUEWHOME^"
•SEWING MACHINE CO-
■ciaiiY' i iik «ntiFi:t» ’ uavmi .EtHl
CHICAGO, ILL.•• . _
, ORANGE, MASS.
, and ATLANTA.GA.—
b^-IEI^PFFn'. ■=
B. F. MATHEWS & CO ,
DALLAS, GA.
COX, HAMMOND & MflSSEY
Attorneys at Law,
Will practice in the Superior Courts of
Douglats and Pruldiug counties. Suits
ngainst railroads and criminal defences
a specialty.
Cox & Hammond, >• Atlanta, Ga.
Robt. A Massey, Douglassville, Ga.
GENERAL NEWS.
Tun total voting population of Virgin
ia is estimated at 231,<HK). Of this num-
128,(M)0 are eolorod voters,
Tiik. Mississippi river lias 16,571 miles
navigable to steamboats, and 20,221
miieB navigable to barges.
It is supposed that tho building of
fbo Lady Ensly Milling and Manufac
turing Company will lie located at llns-
selville Ala.
Tun Texas pocau crop promises to l><>
a very heavy one. The burdened trees
are bending under the weight of half
;rown nuts.
A National bank lias just been or
ganized at Anniston, Alabama, with a
apital of 1100,000, D, D. l’arkor was
'looted president.
The AppokafFla.) canal is being made
twenty three feet wide and seven feet
deep. It iB thought it will havo to bo
further enlarged to seventy-live feet in
width.
Tim dried fruit trade of Statesville, N.
C., roaches annually into hundreds of
thousands of pounds, and it. was never
any previous year anything like aB heavy
as tliis.
Memhuis Avalanche: Southern far
mers will have more cash in tho batik
this year than everbefore, even if the
cotton crop bo ]short, because they owe
less to tlie mcreliant and havo raised
more food this year titan any previous
year.
Wltioox county, Ala., lta, a baby-boy
now 14 mouths old, who weighs 68
pounds. Tho parents havo been offered
$3,000 and oxponees for tho privilege of
>f exhibiting the child for tho benefit of
tho modicnl fraternity. They liavo ro-
fusod.
The Eufalla (Ala.) mills ore putting
n a now set of niachineiry for making
patent process flour. When completed
the milis will havo a capacity of 400 bar
rels per day, and will lie the best appoint
ed in tho country,
Tito Water Valley, Miss., Coutrnl is
not satisfied with tho pistol assessment.
It snys: “The assessors in this state can
only gntbor in their rollH a total of 227
pistols. Wo will venture tho assertion
that about 10,000 lies liavo been .told the
assessors about tliis pistol question."
A special from Acworth On., says:
Mr. O. P, Mo Roberts has discovered
and is now opening a rieli Hilver miuo,
Ilis show so far is tho best tiling wo
wo have ever soon in tho lino. He lias
got liis shaft open and molten shows it
self in a puro state as it does near tlio
surface. Acworth will havo a genuine
boom,
Tim two cotton milln in Nate lies have
expended in that city ill the past twelve
months over $300,000 for wagos and ma
terial. They liavo consumed nearly
70,000 bales of cotton olid turnon out 0,-
650,000 yards of cotton goods ami cloth.
During the year Natches received 46,200
bales of cotton, 14,505 more than any
previous year,
Tiie trustees of a eolorod church at
Winston, N. C., mortgaged tho edifice
recently to secure $1,200 witli which to
have an excursion 'to Columbia. Half
tho amount required was deposited at
WinBton to tho credit of the Richmond
and Danville Railroad. A special train
was sent to Winston to draw the money
and take tlio congregation, but it steam- 1
back to Richmond when it was learned
that tho trustees could rniso no more
ensh.
The anuunl reviow of tho Charleston,
(S.C.)Nows and Courier shows a business
of $75.000 during tho past year. Lo
cal manufactures employed 6,500 per
sons, the vahio of their products being
over $0,250,000. Tho exports of phos
phate were 350,060 tons, tho largest over
known. Tho products of tho cotton
mills in the Btuto reached $6,000,000.
At a recent old men’s gathering at
Lewisburg, Tonn., 104 members were
present, the old est being 104 years old
There were 114 between tho ages of six
ty anil seventy;. 42 between seventy and
eighty; 5 between eighty and ninety; 2
between ninety and ono hundred: over
100 one. Of this number 102 wore horn
in Tennessee, forty in North Carolina,
eight in Virginia, five in South Carolina,
three in Kentucky, ono in Maryland, one
in Germany, one in Ireland and three in
Georgia.
Knoxville Tribune: Yesterday Mr
Southy Nelson a youth of 113 years of
by his wife, a grandson, and a great-
grandson. Tlio' latter is just 100
yours younger than his groat grand-
fat lior.
Ax Edward, Miss., two negroes nam
ed dames King and Oeorgo Giuldis wore
arrested Jelmrgod witli having rohliod
tlio grave of Mm. Hattie Howell. They
confessed their guilt, informing tlio ofll-
oor that thoy stole the laxly for the pur- been nn
», .. , , _ ... was led to seVi
pose of seeuriug tlio bones of ono arm
which thoy UBod in carrying on their
profession ns conjurers,' Ono was hung
and the other shot iu his attempt to es
cape.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The Now Y'ork Times is endeavoring
> boycott tlio nickel throe cent piece,
which is ho easily mistaken for tlio silvor
dime It came into existence with three
cent postage, am 1 , many people bolievo
that it should lio retired witli the same
Out ot 700 specimens of French i>or-
fuiucry examined at the Paris Chemical
Laboratory, 207 wore condemned na in
jurious to health. Of 3,301 specimens
>f"wino submitted to analysis, only 357
were pronounced good.
A New Yoiik lumber dealer recently
imported, from (he l’yrenes moiinlains,
a walnut log which is twelvo feet long
ami nine feet in dhinio er and weighs 22,
000 pounds. It is estimated to ho worth
12,000 ns it lies, and when it is sawed
into venocringitwill yield sixty-six ihoii-
sand feet which will ho worth $5,000.
Tiikiie are custom-houses which pay
aim others that do not. To the later
class belong the following, tubulated
from n recent official nqmrt for tho fiscal
year ending .Tune 80: Atlanta, Ga., col
lections, $21; expenditures, $1,068; 8t.
Augustine, Fla., collections, $133; ex
penditures, $2,228; York, Mo., collec
tions, $34; expenditures, $812.
Tim largest cnitlo ruuoho in tho world
is said lo lie that of Ghnrles Goodnight,
at tlie head of Rod River, Texas. Ho
began buying land four years ago, secu
ring 270,000 ncroB nt thirty-five cents an
acre. Tn tlio inonnpmo tho price lias
advanced from $1 to $2 l>**r aero, lint ho
is Htill lmying and controls 700,000 acres.
To oncloBO liis landed laissnssions 250
miles of fonco is required, On tlie
range lie lias 40,000 cuttlo.
The nfficiul statement of tho cotton
crop of tlio UnitodStntes for the year en
ding August. 31, 1883, issued by tho na
tional cotton exchange, shows a total
crop of 6,040,756 holes, including re-
eeipts at tlie shipping ports 5,000,612;
and shipments by rail routes overland to
northern spinners direct from producers,
641,801 Tho re]M>rt shows that tho
southern mills consumed 313,373 hales.
Tlie increase in tho total crop, compared
with tlio previous year, was 1,403,708.
Tlio takings of tlio United HtateH spin
nors for tlie year were 2,073,006 halos,
an increoso of 103,561.
A taiiulated statement of tlie receipts
and expenses of tlio nverogo cost of col
lecting ono dollar of revenue in all of the
custom districts of the United States for
tho fiscal year ending Juno 30, 1883, has
boon prepared at tlio troasary depart
ment. From this statement it appoars
that $216,780,86!) were collected at a cost
of $6,422,127. Tho cost of collecting ono
dollar ranges iu tlio different districts
from one cent to eight mills in New
York, to fifty and eighty-four cents in
Atlanta, tho average cost in all of tlie
districts being two cents, nine mills and
a fraction. In twenty-nine out of tho
ono hundred and thirty districts the cost
of collecting one dollar was more than a
dollar, and iu thirty of them it was less
tlimi ten cents.
A Rascal.—Robinson proved himsclt
a clever amateur actor in a London
hospital. Ho had been caught picking
a pocket, and transferred from prison on
account of seeming illness, lie took to
liis lied with accurate imitations of ex
cruciating agony. He groaned and
cursed so terribly that his fellow patients
were horrified. Then he regained com
posure, and begged to go out into the
air. Once in the yard, lie knocked the
attendant senseless, scaled the wall, and
escaped to this country, with over
$15,000 of accumulated swag.
1.50 Per Annum.
MBEK 4?.
KRRY SWAMP.
mm Aimmmm Mmmkrn mm4 Mi*
llnrklrbrrrlra.
Thompson & Spinks.
Ivy F, Thompson and W. E, Sp
have formed a partnership for the prac- 1 n ne came'to Knoxville “to have his pie-
ics of Law, to be confined to eases in tnre took," Mr. Nelson lives about five
l’aulding Superior Court, under (he miles’from the city, though lie seldom
firm name Thompson& Spin comes to town, He was accompanied
A Last Resort.—“As a last resort I
will enlist in the army,” said a young
mnn of education, the descendant of a
prominent family, to a New York re
porter, as he had lost employment and
friends through strong drink, was re
duced to abject poverty, had to sleep ill
the parkB and subsist on free lunches.
This is only s sample case. The re
porter was told of a number of cases of
men of education, of experienced clerks,
of skilled mechanics, who have lately en
listed in the regular army or joined the
marines.
department by
pioco of deception 1
District Attorney,
liis usefulness ntid two
fonoo were simultaiv
and Ills dignity ns a eiti:
a grandfather greatly injured
According to tho aooeptod
tlio affair, it seems that at a
tlie boys nt tho Crissman
athletic exercise onme up for
and much difference of opinio:
to exsiat as to tho individual
oortniu pedestrians. Tills discuss 1
grew warm,and tlio ex-Distriet Attorin
was finally prompted to remark that
whon it camo right down to |H>wora ol
ondiiranoo ns n )adostriau, ho felt Hint
lie himself would never bo cnllod upon
to tnko a back scat for any ono, where
upon tlio County Clerk, who had failed
to agree with tho ox-District Attorney
on any point during tlio ovening, ejacu
lated rather contemptuously that some
poo; lo could do more wonderful things
with tlioir mouths in ton minutes Ilian
thoy could perform with tliojr bunds and
feet in six months. This was takon by
tlio ox-District Attorney ns n direct per-
sonal allusion, mid ho obtained the
floor to remark that if somo people
whom ho might mention would mix
more water with what tiny drank they
would probably bo I letter qualified for
stondy pedestrian oxereisrs themselves.
Tlio County Clerk replied witli some
heat that, water or no water, lie would
last $5 with tlio ox-District Attorney, il
tlio latter thought lio could lairrow the
money to put up. that he (tlio County
Clerk) would walk tlio shoes off of him
(tlio ox-District Attorney) tlio liost day
ho over saw, and do it easy, Tho ox
District Attorney said that was all right,
and it tho County Clork wanted to gel
mad ho could got mod and bo blamed to
him; and as (or money, he could show
just ns much ns any ono iu tho crowd.
Tlio Comity Clork said it that was He
case it might not ho a bad idea for tin
ex-District Attorney to show a little, ns
thoy had lteen sitting there all tho oven
ing, and ho hadn’t soomod to las very
anxious to sling much around. It is not
known what tho ox-Distriot Attorney in
tended to reply, or what tlio result ot
tliis bandying of pleasantries might have
been, for just thon Jako Schorr, the
atage driver, who was returning from n
Into train at Fort Jervis, enmo dashing
down tlio road, wiiii liis team and crying
“Fire 1" “Fire I" at tho top of ids lungs.
Then there was n hurrying to and fro
among tlio hoys. Tlio hook and laddei
truck was housed in tho Crissman Himsi
burn. Tho County Clork and tlio ex-
I )istriot Attorney rushed foritnt once
Tho former seized hold of it at tlio roar,
while tho latter handled tho tongue.
Tho night was very dark. Tho (met
was quickly taken out, and tlio Count,'
Clork shouted:
“Now lot hor go, boys 1 I’ll push he-
liehind and you hnndlo tlio tongue.’
Thon he added to himself: “I’ll seo how
much pedestrian ism there is in that Dis
trict Attorney, now, you liot. He’s got
to lio n good ono if I don’t wind him be
fore this run is over.”
Away they went. Tlio tiro was up
town, throo-qunrters of n mile away.
Before thoy had gone half a block I ho
County Clerk was clearing ten feet of
ground at every stop.
“Sweet Christmas I” thought lie, “what
an infomal gait them boys liavo struck.
If they keep that up the District At
torney’ll l>o d?ad before ho gets there,
and I’ll Inst on it."
By this timo tho County Clerk’s feet
barely nod time to touch tlio ground nt
all. His hat was gone, and lie swung
along behind tho track like a kite tail in
the wind.
“If ho ain’t a rannor, I’m Mowed I”
ho said, “If thoy don’t get to that fire
blnmo soon, or if ho don’t 1
a goner.”
A still greater burst
part of tho track lifted
off his feet, and ho strno
machine ns straight as
An instant ho hung
lost his grip. Ho sh
went right on. Ho
space for fifty foct.
hoard fonoo. Ho took
with him as ho
rested in the mi
patch he said:
“Well, I’ve
hut tf that d
off of anyth:
legged pot.’
So, whon
that he had
with Jake
tongne and ,
twenty miles
District Attornd
it every stop of
felt hurt. He i
to ran a Fire Dcpartmi
ciples they could, hut
And he resigned.
The most an Arctio explorer can
now is to follow in the tracks of those
who went before him, freeze his feet and
write a book.
Whisky punches are not found under
oak trees, but a man ksows that they
are ache-horns the morning after In
lias been out with the hoys.—Syranitti
fleraM,
ild lands” of tho Delaware
ist is, on tlie lands of farm-
swanips are located—if the
not interfere, hundreds of
i and children, barefooted
led, invade tho swamps snd
eke out an existence during
r liy picking ami soiling lier-
lierries are picked flrsi into
strawberry baskets or any
Sole that oau lie conveniently
and dumped into an ordinary
ickcit, which when Inti, will hold
arts ot berries. Tlieso are oov-
li a pioco ot moistened canvas,
to preservo their healthy ap-
, and sot away until another
i filled, About sundown, along
roads and by-paths ramifying
swamps, men with huakets on
is, women, sometimes carrying
lio keep lip vociferous antinlnng,
'oarily along witli a bucket, snd
barefooted boys and girls follow
behind willi tin pails, all on tlioir way to
kjMmoarest store in town,.
^TOore tlio 1 lorries are exchanged for
dry goods, groceries, tobacco and snuff,
or, in somo cases, cash is paid for tho
berries, from forly-flvo to fifty cents pel
bucket being paid. Four buckets, oi
thirty-two quarts |>cr day, is regarded
as a good day’s work, but sunrise must
find tho pickers in tlio swamp to accom
plish this task. The store-keeper, if he
thinks there is no profit in thoir shipment
to tlio markets of tlio larger oilios, lias
thorn peddled about the town, snd Uie
thrifty hniisowifo uses them for jelly,
Bunco, or dries them in the sun and puts
them away for future use.
Just hack of tliis little village rejoic
ing ill tlie euphonious title of Dliulcs-
vilie—a sort of detached siirlmrb of its
more enterprising rivid across tlio river,
Hoaford—is ono of tlieso swamps a full
half milo long and porhupa a triilo wider.
On a recent hot July day tho writer,
alter journeying through blinding hot
sand almost knoo-dcop, arrived iu tho
entrance to tho swamp. Tlio tall
shrubs, rising fifteen foot high, grow so
close that tlioir numberless brunches
overlapped each other, forming an ap
parently impenetrable thicket, A wag
on-way led through tho swamp, so
there was no possibility of Incoming
lost, if s strict adherence to tlie admoni
tion of the popular song of “Keep in de
Middle of do Road,” was maintained.
The prattle ot children could lie heard,
peals of lnnghtor arose from tlie hidden
dii-pths ot tlie malarial lied, and ths
strains of a favorite onmp meeting hymn
broke upon tlio care; Imt thore were no
visible signs of human lioiugs. Proceed
ing somo distanco along tlie road the
first thing encountered wns a snake
euilod up on a rotten log, contentedly
basking in tlio sunlight; little brown
lizards crossed tho road nt intervals,
and tho gnats and mosquitoes hovered
ov«v'\flAil. As I advanced further tlie
ail became oppressive, almost stilling,
md 1 was on tlio |iomt of rot racing my
steps whon a voico near at hand Btnrtlud
mo.
"Hot day, boss, liorry hot day,” ami a
colored man, lintless and shoeless, with
a bucket of berries hanging on his
brawny arm, parted tlio shrubs and
came out into tho maiii road.
“Yes, it is exceedingly warm, hero at
least,” I answered, wiping tho groRt
heads of perspiration from my fofohead.
“How do yon manage to oxist in thia
place all day ?”
“Mils’ do it, boss," replied tho
darkey, with emphnsis, “mils’ do it or
starve; knse you seo nobody’s gwine to
koop up lazy niggnss.”
“Are there many people picking
hero?” 1
“Lot’s o’ white people away in do
middle—young, dclicat gals an’ little
oliilluns.
I watched him for some time, as he
prococdcd along tho edge, picking the
berries and putting them into his tin
pail, ns lie had already covered bis
bucket mid sot it away. Presently
there emergrd from another mysterious
opening a woman, pain and careworn-
looking, Imre-footed and carrying a
basket on her head, filled with berries.
She was followed by two children, a boy
and girl, perhaps eight or nine years
old, with Imre feet, dirty brown faces,
and a medley of nttiro that could hardly
be called clothes.
“Look out, thnr, mammy, you’ll
trood on that thar darned snako,” came
the warning from tho little hoy, and
looking down, a hideous creature was
just disappearing in tho slimy water.
There are now thousands of qunrts of
wbortle-bcrriei picked in this indiscrim
inate way. Should the experiment of
practical cultivation prove successful
larger and better fruit will be the result
,um the swamps yield a profitable rev
enue io their owners.
Rifles Bought by Chin*.
Five hundred cases oi ammunition and
arms were sent on the Pacific Mail
Steamship Comstock, for San Fran-,
eiseo, their destination being Chius.
The ammunition cases had the brand*
U, 8. Government; 45 oalibre,” and
i the coses were from Springfield,
...ass. It is now asserted that during
the past eighteen months regular ship
ments on an extonsive scale have been
made to C. Schmidt, Shanghai. During
that period 240,000 Springfield rifles and
25,000,000 cartridges in all have been
forwarded, besides from 500 to 800.balea
of cotton duck suitable for tents, by ex
press by each steamer, for China. The
total valuo of the war material approxi
mates $5,000,000,