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CHEBOKEi
ADVANCE.
“ We had rather be riirtit than to be President. "
VOLUME V.
CANTON, GEORGIA
SATURDAY,
i
MORNING. OCTOBER 20, 1883.
NUMBER 44.
THE CHEROKEE ADVANCE
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY
By !f. N. EDGE, Idltor and Manger.
Office Up Stain rornn
Marietta Street—orerr
1)111 < >iil Organ of Cherokee County.
Quinrseille and H'ft,
rtorr of V. M, McUhm
TERMS:
Single copy, one year $1 2'
Single copy, six months 6
Single ci.py, there months Si
Professional «nd Business Cards.
F. B. PERRY,
LOCAL AGRHT
FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE CO
Oflioe in store of J. M. Met FEE.
W. I. & G. I. TEASLY,
ATTORNEYS at LAW,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Will gva prlmpt attention to all bus-
I less Inii tilted to them. Wi 1 prsctic-
i i a‘l the ourl* ot (he © unty, and h
the Sti[>etlor couitr of tin B ne Ri<V
circuit. f j »'7 ly
JOHN II. BELT,
Car ppntpr,
TTavIncr permanently located in Car-
tor—He i< now prepsred to do all kind,
of carpenter's woik Building and r<
pairing tvnmply done at satisfactory
pileo-*. Part'es contemplating building
will find it to their interest to get m<
prices before closing contracts wltb oth
er workmen. J. H. IIELI-
8ALB AND FID STABLE
G. W. EVANS,
Cralnearille Street, t CAN ION, OA
mu the Bail road Depot
Horsea aad Buggies at reaaonable
prices.
Carriages and Horaea always raady.
Will aend to any part of the country,
with careful drivers and gentle teams,
Ail kinds ol stock fed and wall cared
for.
HAULING AND DRAYING
done at low rates.
Customers will be politely waited on
st all hours, day or night.
G. W. EVANS,
nov26 '81 til Proprietor.
TIN SHOP.
J. II. STEADMAN,
Manufrcturer ol all Tinwa r c, roofing
guttering, atovo pipes, gas p'pes, steam
pipes and anything made of tin, etc.
Repairing.—Will repair any and ev
erything from a tin cup to a forty horse
engine at short notice. All charges low
sud work warranted. Marietta street.
Canton, Ga. [m*r25 82 ly
MEDICAL CARD
DR. N. 8RWELL 'returns thsnks to ths
niiii.en, of Cantos and vioiuily, for thslr lib
eral patronage.
Being permanently located, will continue
to practice medicine, surgery and midwifery.
Hoping by industry, energy and strict ap
plication to businesa, to merit an increased
patronage end confidence.
Office in Dr. W. A. Green’s Drug Store.
Residence adjolnlug W. H. Wsrlick.[nov9
J. M. DiJRTZ,
ATTORNEY AAD C0UASELL0R AT LAW
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Offloa in the Court House. [msi25 ly
GEO. R. BROWN,
Attorney at Law,
Will practice In the Superior Courts
of Cobb, Milton, Forsyth, Pickens and
Dawson counties, and in the Superior
tnd Justice Courts of Cherokee.
Oiii je over Jos M. McAfee’s store.
Special attention given to the collec
tion of claims.
Business respectfully solicited.
Jan 13, 1883.
PAINTING!
BRIDGES & FORRISTER,
House and Sip Painters,
Will paint wagons, buggies, furniture,
and all other plain and fancy painting.
See or address J. W. BRIDGES cr J. B.
FORRISTER, Canton, Gs. [feblO *88
THE—
‘CONSTITUTION’
FOB 1882-8.
la bettor equipped In every eenee than
ever before to maintain its position
IK THE FRONT RANKS OF SOOTHNIH
JOURNALISM.
It calls the attention of the reading
( ublic to the following point* that can
e claimed. Namely, that It le
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gis, Alabama, the Carolina*, Florida and
Mississippi.
. 2. Mora reading matter than any pa*
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8. The fullest telegraphic serrlea and
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A The brightest, beet and fullest cor
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6. The oompletost election returns,
6. Verbatim Legislature reports.
7. Official Supreme Court reports.
The Great Georgia Paper—Bettor than
Ever. No Intelligent Georgian
can do without It,
Such a rare little street it is! Nestled awsy
From the noise of the city end heat of the
day.
In oool, shady ooveruof whiepering trees,
With, their loaves lifted up to shake baud* with
the hreese
That In all ita wlds wanderings never may
meet
With a resting place fairer than Lockerbie
street.
There Is suoh a relief from the olangor and
din
Of the heart of the town, to go loitering in
Through the dim narrow walks, with the
sheltering sliado
Of ths trsos, waving over the long promenade,
And littering lightly the ways of yonr feet
With the gold of the sunshine of Lockerbie
street!
And the nights that oome down the dark
pathways of dusk
With the stars in their tresses, and odors ol
mnsk
In their moon-woven draperies, spangled with
dews,
And looped np with llllies for lovers te nse
In the songs that tboy sing to the tinklo and
beat
Of their awoot serenading* through Lockerbie
street.
O Lockerbie street I Ton are fair to be eeen !
Be it noon of the day, or the calm and nercnc
Afternoon, or the night, you aro one to my
heart;
And I love you above all tho phrases of art;
For no language may frame, and uo lip* my
repeat
My rhyme haunted raptures o'er Lookorbie
street
-Life.
A DANGEROUS VIRTUE.
A RKKTOH BI JAMES PATM.
Every Georgina should take n pnper flroe
the Onpltal during the nest A mouths.
The Daily Constitution $10 per an
num ; $2 60 8 months; $1 00 1 mouth.
Weekly $1 60 a year; Club of 10. $1 26,
with free copy to getter up of club;
Oluba of 20 $1 00, with fra* copy.
Address Thb Constitution,
Atlanta, Ga.
J. M. HARDIN,
House, Sign, Carriage
—AND—
Omanental Fainter.
FRESCO & SCENIC ARTIST ALSO.
Oriental and Grecian painting. Mezv
Tinting, Cardo-Tinting, painting Scpei
and India Ink.
Twenty-five per cent saved by apply
ing to me before contracting with others.
Material lurnished at bottom prices.
Satisfaction given or no charges made.
See or address,
J. M. HABDIN,
Mar.l0-’83. Canton, Georgia.
C. D, MADDOX,
ATTORNEY at LAW
CANTON. GEORGIA.
Refers by Permission to John Silvey A
Co., Tbos. M. Clarke & Co., James B.
Wylie and <i rambling & Spalding, all
A tlanta, Ga. Mu.10 83
COME
AND
SEE ME.
I HAVE just opened a Complete Stock
direct from the manufactory of Fancy
Candies, Mixed Candies, Plain Candies,
Crackers oi all nor'a, Also Fresh Baisins,
N uts, Oysters, Canned Gcods, and every
thing wanted in this line. I respectful
ly asg patronage of my friends, both in
the store and job work. Blanks, Deeds,
Ac. always on hand. „
CLAUDE F. EDGE.
Nev 18,1882.
H. H. McENTYRE,
13riclr, T*lns f orlr»H-,
AND STONE WORKMAN,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
I sra fully prepsred to do eny kind of
Miuonry or P-ast< ring at ths lowest possible
ruts*, and solicit the patior.sge of tho'e de.
iir ; ng work in niv line. H. H. McEntykk.
A NEW WORK SHOP.
D W. Bridges bas opened a shop one
door ibive Geo. Lathem’s store. He
build" hou cs mills Bridges makes and
epairs all kinds of furniture, and does
ny thing that can be done with wood.
Ctil and see him. [jan!888tf
LOCKERBIE STREET.
(Sins VBITOOSI StLST.
R. E. CASON.
DENTIST.
J. W. J YRVI8,
JEWELER AND PHOTOGRAPHER,
CANTON, GEORGIA,
Can be found at his G tilery, at any
time where he is always ready to do good
work sta lew price. [Juiylfitf
Ha* now located in Oarteraville. He i
solicits patronage from his old fneuas
Mia offera bis professional •ervioesto^L
II. tv. N**MAN ■ JKO. T ATT.WAV
NEWMAN & ATTAWAY,
Attorneys at Law,
CAN ON, : : GEORGIA.
AYi 1 practice in ihe Superior Court o!
Chen kte and adjoining counties. Prompt
attmt'on riv<n to nil business nlacedin
tbur hands. Office ip *h* Court House.
Every one (perhaps) knows the story
of Proaence-of-Mind Tomkyns(of Oriel)
who gained his prmnomon for hammer
ing with an oar the fingers of the young
lady who clung to his boat, which she
would otherwise have overact and
drowned him ; bnt his is not the only
instance wherein that admirable virtue
has been displayed to its possessor's
disadvantage. Except, indood, in the
case of running away at once on the Aral
hint of danger (where it is almost im
possible to go wrong), I am inclined to
doubt whether presence of mind is a
virtue, I have known so many cases
wherein people endowed with this highly
eulogised quality have, in what the
French call “supreme moments” (Ang-
lioe “narrow shaves,” “muckers”), done
such things with sang-froid and unpre-
mediated good judgment as they have
repented of, but could novor atone for,
all their lives.
I once performed an action of this
kind myself, which proved so far from
presence of mind” being only second
in point of advantage in a railway acci
dent to “absenoe of body,” that hnrdiy
anything can be less desirable; and as
tho public travel * groat deal by railwny,
tho recital of it may interest them.
I was a passenger one night by the
Scotch express to Edinburg, and as
might have been expected from one pos
sessing the quality in question, had
token care to jnake myself particularly
comfortable. Pullman and sleeping
can were unknown in those days, but I
hud secured the seat opposite to mo for
my feet, and was as weil fortified against
the cold as u late dinner at “tho Rag,”
with a glass of “sixty year-old” brandy
to follow, within, and ulster and nigs
without, coaid make me. I had a friend
(no, too suspicious reader, not a lady—
it was tho limited mail trniu) beside mo
similarly situated, and in the third seat
beyond was an urbane stranger with his
legs up, who from his discreet si
lence, and his having secured the Beats
on the off side whore nobody coaid
disturb him, I concluded to be a diplo
matist. Having awakened at Carlisle, 1
got out for another petit verre of brandy
(much younger than that. I bad had at
the dub), and on returning to my car
riage found, toroy horror, tho seat for
my feet occupied otherwise, by an in
truder, and a person too of a class to
whom the term "a rough customer"
would not have keen inapplicable,
Every one who is any one can under
stand my indignation. Even i^ ornni-
buzaes, which are licensed to hold »
good many people, persons already in
possession, however few, resent, I am
told, the arrival of new comers; but tin
present outrage was one that was intol
erable, and (except on the Continent)
absolutely unparalleled. An English
man's house is his castle; but liis two
scats in a night train are even more sn
cred and peculiar to himself. I was as
tonished and amazed to the last degree,
but I was not speechless;
“My good sir,” I said, “you have
mistaken yonr carriage.”
“No, I ain’t; and I mean to travel in
thisun.”
“But it is my seat, sir.”
I “Then I suppose you sits on your
I legs.”
My friend w« asleep (cine’s friends al
ways are asleep when we need their as
sistance), bnt I saws sly flicker np m
the coon to nano* of the diplomatist; it
was the sort of difficulty (another man’s
difilcnHy) that amused him.
“You may not be aware, my good
man,” I resumed, “that it is usual for
gentlemen on long journeys to reserve
two seats for themselves.”
“Then they onght to take two tickets,"
lie replied, surlily; “show mo yourn—
hero’s mine right enough,” and he osten
tatiously displayed it It was a sooond-
class one.
I flung down tho window and ex
claimed witli professional prompitude,
"Guard, turn out”—I should have said,
of coarse, “Guard, turn out thiB man" ;
but the official (who had half a crown of
mine ill his pocket) understood the situ
ation fit once. Tho obnoxious intruder
wns instantly hauled forth, cxolniming
(falsely) that he had boon inserted in the
first-class for want of room elsewhere.
I had once more put up my feet tri
umphantly, and was arranging my wraps
as the train moved slowly on, when I
perceived a carpct-bog in the rack over
•he opposite seat My nature is not
nuiltcioni, and though still smarting
from my recent wrongs, I felt sorry
that the poor man should bo parted
from his solitary article of baggage,
and thinking there was yet time (or
iny immonso presence of mind not
giving mo time to think) I plucked the
bag from tho rack aud flung it violently
out, as l reckoned, upon tno piattorm;
it fell, however, on the line, about ten
yards beyond it.
“Good heavens,” cried I, “he’ll lose
it.”
“It’s no matter,” said the diplomatist
in the softest and creamiest tone conceiv
able; “it happened to be my bag.”
You might have knocked mo down
with a feather. I made a hundred apolo
gies, all of which he acknowledged with
great politeness.
“It has my address on it, and will turn
up some day, no doubt.”
“Jlow could I have been such an in
fernal fool I” I murmured penitently.
•Tardon me,” ho said, still sweetly
smiling; “it is not that yon are—tho
eb^iyder -yon have so graphically do-
sen l?d, but because you have so much
presence of mind. For my part I never
do anything in a hurry, and especially
if it seems imperatively demanded of me;
I always avoid lieing what is vnigarly
called 'equal to tho situation.’ At one
time, indeed, it was otherwise. I used
to suffer from the same infirmity as
yourself, bnt was cored of it, as 1 am
sure yon will be, and, as it curiously
happens, in n precisely similar manner.
“I wns coming by mail one night from
the north of Scotland; in the carriage
with mo was but one fellow-passenger,
a yonug fellow whom I judged to be in
love, since be seemed very much occupied
with his own affairs and Bnid little. He
did net appear inclined for sleep, and
gave me the idea of expectation. Per
haps he wns to meet his beloved object
at his journoy’B end. At a small station
just lieyond Perth he got hurriedly out,
os I understood from his muttered ex
clamation, for a glass of whisky; it was
bitterly cold winter's night, which
seemed hn excuse for it; but I warned
him that there was no time to get it, and
there was not The carriage door had
hardly closed behind him when the train
went on.
I was very sorry for the poor lad,
and knowing that to bo left at so wretched
a place without one's luggage would be
an additional annoyance. Wifh great
presence of mind I threw ont of the
window everything he possessed: liin
portmanteau, hat lrox, and railway rug,
even to his umbrella. I can see them
block on the Bnow-covcrcd line,
where ho could not fail to see them from
the platform. Then wo thundered on
for about twenty miles, when the train
stopped again, and who should present
himself at the window of the carriage but
the young man himself.
“ ‘ I beg your pardon,’ ho said, ‘ for
letting the cold air in, bnt I see it is the
wrong compartment. I thought I bad
loft my luggage hero.’
“ < go you did,’ I said; ' but I chucked
it out. I’m very sorry, but I thought
we had. left you behind. I did it all for
the best.’ ,
“ ‘ And you’ve done it pretty com
pletely,’ was his dry reply.
“When we had telegraphed to the
last station he got in again and explained
matters. He was studying civil engi
neering, it seemed, and hail bribed the
engine man to lot him drive us for a
mile or two. As this was contrary to
regulations, the man was afraid to let
him join him at Perth, but told him to
jump on at the first small station we
came to, which he accordingly did. It
was a lesson to him not to break the
company’s by-laws, and to me not to be
so fond as I used to be of exercising my
presence of mind.”
After this homily, and my own pre
vious experience of what comes of
promptness and presence of mind, the
reader will tkipk that I myself—rn/ti 7'“
votu parlc—would at lenst never fall
into a mistake of that kind again. Yet
this happened to me only last week.
I had token a hurried Inneh at my
club, before going to Brighton, nnd,
finding it to lie rather Into, had filing
myself into the first hansom at the door,
with an impatient “ To Victoria." Tin
man drove off, hut slowly; his borer
seemed tired, aud after a few yards cann
to a full stop. “What is tho matter?"
I exclaimed with some irritation. “ l
am tho matter,” cried a well-known
voice; it was a great friend of mine, win
had stopped tho cab just to shake hands
His quick eye saw something boaidt-t
myself in if. “ Why do you travel witl
two umbrellas,” ho inquired, “like n
Japanese gentleman of rank with u
couple of swords ?”
Then I perocived that tho man win
had just got ont of the hansom at tit'
club had left his umbrella ttohind him.
Of course I might have left it where it
woe, but, with great presonoo of mind,
it struck me that it would ho better to
intrust it to my friend (wlto wan bound
for tho club) to give it to the porter, f<>
tho owner, who would thereby rocovet
it at once. I therefore did so, aud (t ill
the consciousness of having performed
a good action, and also manifested in
slight acumen on the spur of tho moment,
wo drove on.
On arriving at Victoria, I tondcrci*
the cabman etghtoenponco. “ What i
this for ?" ho iuquirod, with an huHgmt
tion which, considering his actual fan
was a shilling, did him, I thought, great
credit.
“It is just fifty per cent, above what I
owe you,” I said, “you very impttd.-n'
fellow.”
“What!” ho cried, in a voice thn
brought quite a little crowd around us
“eighteenponoe from the Temple I”
“Tho Temple I I came from the M
gatherium Club, yon scoundrel. ”
“Then that’s not your umbrella,” I
exclaimed excitedly, pointing to tb
article, my own property, which I hei
in my hand.
“Pardon me,” I said sarcastically
“but those are my initials.” And 1
held up the handle for his inMicctioii.
'Then where U the umbrella that Wu
in the oab T"
It was really rather difficult to cxplnin
my real reason for returning the artich
by my friend wss that 1 hod doubts ot
the cabman’s honesty, but I could not
tell him that. So I had to narrate to n
by tlais time considerable andionce, in
eluding a polioeman, who was looking
at me with great suspicion, that I had
sent tho article away by a friend, for the
purpose of returning it to its owner.
“Oh, that’s a prefty story,” cried the
cabman (and I felt That it was ho, and
would be worth tolling). “Just look af
ter this party, policeman.”
1 had never boon in suoh a false posi
tion in my life, though, as tho mulct
snows, I had suffered before from my
great presence of mind.
“Yon had better go back, my good
friend, to the gentleman at tho club,
who will doubtless reward you," said I
in a conciliatory tone. Then, suddenly
remembering it was this abominahlo cab
man’s own fault all along, I added in n
more natural way, “How dare yon take
« second fare, before yon have done
with the first? Don’t you know tint
regulations under which you hold your
license?’’
“But I thought, sir, as you were tin-
same gentleman”—then I know (by hit-
civility) that I had conquered.
“Thought, sir,” I put in, “it would be
much better for you if you used you.
eyes, instead of thinking. The man’s n
fool 1” Aud then I walked off majosti
cally, having already, as I saw, im
pressed the fickle crowd with tho same
opinion.
But I was -mite aware, for all that,
• hat tho whole affair might have been
very unpleasant, and that I had Ircen
very nearly getting into a second bobble
through my too prompt proceedings, and
ray fatal gift of presence of mind.—
BelgraviaI.
Tlie Lumber Fields.
The present size and swift growth of
tho lurolior industry of Michigan, says a
local corresiMindeiit, as shown by statis
tics, aro almost startling. Twenty years
ago a few hundred millions of feet of
lumber were cut in tho State; now the
annual product is ono-qnarter that of the
whole country, and reaches more than
four billion feet. Cut in Itoards, twelve
inches wide and one inch thick, the
early product would roach 800,000 miles
utd would suffice for a double- boordod
fence, with poets, sixteen times around
the earth. It would Guild houses for s
ity of 100,000 inhabitants, and would
each year load snmo two thousand five
hundred miles of railroad ears. Those
vho wero far-sighted cuough to buy
Michigan lttmltcr lands a quarter-century
.go at a little more than tho government
•rice of $1.66 an acre, have already
undo colossal fortnnos out of tracts
which sell readily now at from $16 to $30
ui acre. Nevertheless, tho business
tas its ups and downs, and is particu
larly down when s groat forest fire sweeps
>ver a lumber region. In that event,
mlcHH the trees arc cut within n year, ■
worm penetrates the timber, spoiling it
n a few months. One of the curious
facts in this connection is the almost
mmodinto appearance in millions of the
noth that produces tho worm on a
burned tract of |terhaps 10,000 acres,
••hero ltcfore not a moth of tho species
vita visible.
Equally surprising is the circumstances
.hat after the pine has been out away on
.it immenso timet there spring up all
vor it poplar trees, where beforo not
v sign of tho pop).jr could l>o seen—tho
-ceils of tho new growth, no donbt,
vitftcd invisibly from a distance through
lie air and finding fertile lodgment on
lie uncovered soil. The valno of the
timber, when markoted, may Ire judged
mm tho fact that an ordinary pine
mikes some 2,000 feet of cut boards,
vorth at the iuUIm say 810; while the
tiggest pines produce 6,000 feet, worth
MIX). As showing the size to which the
white pino sometimes attains, tho lam-
Irormen hero tell of a sound tree in
uotliorn Michigan, eleven feet in diame
ter at the* ground. The owner of this
qtlcndid shaft has already refused $100
for sixteen linear feet of the bntt which
wns Bought for exhibition. But, unhap
pily, ail these evidences of Michigan’s
vast wealth in lumber are only the sig
nals of tho end. Some ton years more,
at tho present rote of denudation, will
exhaust the grand pino forests of the
-State, and, unless the cutting of harder
woods, cedars, maple, and elm, succeeds,
large amounts of invested capital must
neck new fields.
Advice to Brides.
Ottr kewlt appointed Minister to
Corea seem* to be finding the way
of the diplomate to bo much like
that of the transgressor. Tire Ministe
rial residence appears to be in tho Five
Points oi tho Corcan capital; food is hard
to obtain, and, although tho weather iA
sometimes very opld, the only fuel to bo
had is pine boughs, and the windows aro
of paper. If Mr. Foote were not ttie
representative of one nation at the capi
tal of onother, suggests one paper, i;
might occur to him that the Corcans
were endeavoring to “freeze him oat.”
Tho Public, Lerf//eraays: “When the
bride on her bridll journey is a sensible
young person, she will keep her silk
Huit in her trunk for a suitable occasion
aud not wear it on tho railway train. A
pretty young girl tho other day making
an expedition to the Catskills, and leav
ing Now York on a rather cool morning,
wore a black silk dress—but a white
Spanish lace fiohn, with a broad Gains-
lairough hat and nodding plumes. It
got quite cool in the oars on the northern
journey, but there was no wrap availa
ble. If she had a shawl it was packed
away in her trunk. The groom, who
had given no advice evidently to his
spouso, or, perhaps, didn’t know, had •
stout cheviot suit, and must have been,
os he looked, quite comfortable. Arriv
ing at the railway terminus and taking
the Htago for the further pull np the
mountain, it made one spectator’s teeth
chatter to see how confidently the little
bride climbed into the vehicle, still in
the airy flehn, not a scrap of woolen for
her shoulders, and her face white with
tho cold. Probably in her modest outfit
for the wedding there was a flannel dress,
or a woolen stuff of some kind, intend
ed for tho house. If she hail put that
on for tho journey, and saved her best
black ailk for home uses, she would
more nearly have been on the level of
tho city persons, who hod left their dia
monds at the bank, and hod taken two
woolen suits and one cotton gown for •
fortnight’s journey among the moon-
taiuB. Home, und not hotel parlors,
and, least of all, tho parlor oars, is the
placo to wear one’s pretty, airy clothes.
In a publip crowd, on a journey, all del
icate wear is sure to encounter dust,
rain, or chilling cold; the plainest flannel
suits are the best for climbing, beach
lonnging, and comfort generally.”
“Do you fear lightning;, Miss Fitz-
joy?” inquired Do Maurice, tenderly,
as he saw the gathering storm in the
West. “Y-e-e s, I arasomewhat fright
ened. Bnt the lightning never seems
to strike me, although moet of the girls
of nty very set are engaged.” With a
h ui like that what could De Mvtnce do?
Costly.—The Princess de Began has
given to an interviewer ot the Figaro,
as the sum necessary for the toilet of s
fashionable Paris woman, for dressmak
ing, §4,200; millinery, $600; linen, $800;
boots, ehoes, and slippers, $300; gloves,
hosiery, ribbons, ties, and other trifles,
$12; lace, $600; hair dressing and per
fumery, $900; umbrellas and parasols,
100; total, $6,900