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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 D 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,