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VOLUME v:
CANTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY ypRNING, FEBRUARY 28. 1884.
NUMBER 9.
THE CHEROKEE AOVAWCE.
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A FLOAT I MI THEATRE.
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Cards.
W. A S G. I. TEASLEY,
Attorneys at Law,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Will give prompt attention to nil busi
ness intrusted to them. Will practice in
all the courts of the county and in the
Superior Courts of the Blue Ridge cir
cuit. janS-ly
C. D. MADDOX,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
CANTON, GEORGIA
Refers by permission to John Silvey &
Co., Thos M. Clarke & Co., James R.
Wylie and Gromling, Spalding A Co., all
of Atlanta, Ga. janl-’83-ly
GEO. R. BROW ft,
ATTRONEY AT LAW,
Will practice in the Superior Courts
of Cobb, Mil on, Forsyth, Pickens and
Dawson counties, and in the Superior
and Justice courts of Cherokee.
"Office over Jos. M. McAfee’s store
Special attention given to the collec
tion of claims.
Business respectfully solicited.
[jap3 ’83 ly.]
H. W. NEWMAN.
JNO. D. ATTAWAY.
A startling innovation is to be intro
duced into the histrionic world in the
shape of a floating theatre company,
says the New York Time*. A certifi
cate was filed in the County Clerk’s Of
fice incorporating the company, of which
the Trustees are Mr. William B. Stone,
Mr. 8. Conant Foster, of the firm of
Otis A Co. ; Mr. Ross C. Stone, Mr.
Robert M. Fryer, and Mr. Sydney Neer-
gaard. The company’s capital is plaoed
at one million dollars, to bo divided into
100,000 shares. The first boat, designed
by Mr. R. M. Fryer, is to be built on
the catamaran principle, and the struc
ture will be suppoitcd on two steel cyl
inders of 20 feet each. The dimensions
will be 276 feet iu length by 66 feet in
width. The motive power will he a com
pound engine of 2,600-horse power,
while the draught will be 7| feet. State
rooms for a company of 100 will be
provided, while the seating capacity of
the theatre itself, including parquet and
two balconies, will be for 1,600 people.
The parquet is to bo ou the front of the
vessel, taking up little more than one-
third its length, and the stage will be in
the middle. The engine-room, state
rooms and dining-roomBRnd kitchen will
occupy the after part. The boat is to be
built by contract iu N. Y. city and will
cost $250,000. It is to rojoioo in the
title of the Gladiator.
"We have the sympathy of some very
eminent theatrical people,” said one of
the Trustees. “I may say that they arc
enthusiastic on the subject. Our ob
ject is simply this: There ore 2,000,000
people outside of New York Bird Brook
lyn, distributed iq towns of from 10,000
to 20,000 inhabitants, who have no op
portunities of witnessing a good per
formance without coming to the great
cities. This is nlways inconvenient ou
account of the late return at night.
Moreover, great actors wili not go to
small towns. Do you think Booth would
play iu Newark ? He would positively
decline to do so. Wo shall visit such
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Darwinian theory: There is a t>oy' in
Norristown who “sprang from a mon
key." The monkey belonged to an or
gan grinder aud attempted to bite the
boy.
A shabdUiY dressed woman called
upon one of our citizens for aid, claim
ing that she was in n starving condition.
The citizen looked upon her plethoric -W and whom her parents favored,
form, estimating tlm avoirdupois of the ft ^ struck for a tiUe, and a Russian, the
NEWMAN & ATTAWAY,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CANTON, - - - GEORGIA.
Will practice in the Superior Courts
•f Cherokee and adjoining counties.
Prompt attentiou given to all business
placed in their hands. Office in the
Court Houge. [jau3-’83-ly ]
P. P. DuPREE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Will practice in th' Blue Ridge eir
cuit and io Cherokee county. Office in
the Court House with tffe Oriiuaiy.
Administrations on estates.
19*00 lections a specialty. Y*i*
BEN. F. I-EHRY,
AGENT —
FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE CO.
Office with Cherokee Advance.
L. NEWMAN,
HOUSE & CARRIAGE PAINTER,
Paper Hanging and Calcimining,
Graining and Glazing.
ALLWOKK GUAHANTEED
Can be found a Warlick’s Shop.
janij-83-ly]
j. m. hardinT
House, Sign, Carriage
—AND—
ORNAMENTAL PAINTER,
FRESCO AP SCENIC ARTIST ALSO.
Oriental and Grecian painting. Mezo
Tintin', Carbo-Tinting, painting in Se-~
pei and India Ink.
Twenty-five per cent saved by apply-
'ng to me before contracting with others.
Material furnished at bottom prices.
Satisfaction given or no charges made.
See or address, J. M. HARlliMp
|jan8-’83-ly] • Canton, Georgia.
nperfluous fat, aud answered, “You
don’t look like a starving womau." "1
Imow it," she whiuiugly answered, “I’m
bloated with grief."
Hollow steel siiaftino, which has
Come very generally into use iu Europo,
even for such heavy work ns steamship
propeller shafts, is found to very much
lessen the weight iu proportion to the
decreased strength. It appears, for ex
ample, that a ten-inch abaft, with a hole
four Inches in diameter, has its weight
reduced sixteen per cent., with a loss of
only 2.66 per cent, of strength.
Miss Mabt M. Carey, young, pretty
and gentle-mannered, is employed by
the 8t. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba
Railroad at Nuzata as railroad and
express agent* She ha* charge of yard
work and signals around the station.
She is at her post from 6 a. m. to 10 p.
m. much of the time. Hho is respected
by all, and understands her duties
thoroughly. She is the eldest of fou r
orphan girls who live aud keep house
together.
Stay There.—An eccentric farmer
living in Ohio had a flock of sheep that
had not been shorn tor six years. The
wool lias grown over their eyoH anil
is so long that it drags on the ground.
Ou being asked why he did not slienr
his sliepp, Mi. Sellers replied, “God
put the wool ou their backs to stay there
and keep them warm, and I Bo not pro
pose to interfere.” Tho flock is a great
curiosity, and peoplo come from miles
around to see them. Mr. Sellers never
shaves, cuts his hair or finger nails.
Alsaok-Lohraine has now a popula-
GKSKVIKVK WARD’S ROMAX’K.
rilrame Story Kvrn It tinlf St It b* True.
* Genevieve Ward went to Europe nt
throe years of age with her banker
lather, became a musical protege of
5Iwe. Son tug and studied music near
Rweini, iu Florence, writes s newspaper
correspondent. She refused to lie en
gaged to a rich Tlew Yorker who was
towns ,as Newport, Albany, Newark,- tion of l,-8116,670, oi whom 88,063 ttA
Paterson, Stonington, and Fall River,
anchor alongside the dock, and give
them a first-rate performance, such as
could never bo heard in the miserably
appointed theatres of Buch towns. We
Bhall have a regular stock company, who
will live on the boat all the year ronnd.
The appointments of the theatre wili Ire
simply sumptuous. All that art and
modern theatrical improvements can
suggest will be found on board the
Gladiator. We shall rival Wallack’s and
the Fifth aveune in point of complete
ness, while our company will be a sec
ond Madison Square troupe aud con
ducted upon exactly the same principles
ns those which govern that theatre. We
can move from place to place during the
summer months, but we bhall keep the
company in action 365 days in the year.
The cost of running it will not be nearly
bo much as that of managing a theatre
on land. There will bo no land taxes,
and we can therefore ail’ord to build
a very fine boat, and a theatre which
will be ono of tho best iu the world.
This will be only our first structure, and
wo shall not venture upon the ooean
with it. Later on we shall have boats
to take in the Delaware and Chesapeake
Buys. We shall elect our officers in
December, and next spring wo hope to
be able to launch the Gladiator.”
A Crowded City.
In an interesting article on tho over
crowded state of Paris, a writer in the
Nouvelle Revue shows that there are only
26 metres per inhabitant, as compared
with 79 in London and 115 in Lyons.
In the British metropolis the houses, on
an average, are occupied by 8 persons;
but this figure in Paris is raised to up
ward of 30. It is not surprising, there
fore, that the mortality in this city
should be higher than in London. The
Nouvelle Revue sets it down at 25.60 per
1,000 inhabitants, against 23 per 1,000
in London, the healthiest city in Eu
rope with the exception of Copenhagen,
where the rate is 22. The regular for
eign colony in Paris is made up of 43,-
000 Belgians, 36,000 Germans, 22,000
Italians, 20,000 Swiss, 11,600 Euglish
and 10,000 Dutch, The strength of the
American colony can hardly fall very
short of the latter figure. Of the
French inhabitants 322 per 1,000 were
born in Paris, while 565 belong to other
departments than that of the Seine. At
the close of the war in 1870 Paris had
lost 200,000 of its citizens, but this
number has been recovered and the cap-
it.ul contains 500,000 more souIh than it
did before the days of the siege and the
Commune. It is computed that at the
present rate of growth the population
will have increased before the end of the
century to 3,000,000.
The mistakes of women result almost
from her-faith in the good and her confi
dence iu the truth.
long ta tho army. Of natives there are
1.418,026, of Germans born elsewhere
114,797, aud of foreigners 38,848.
Classed according to religions there are
in the grand total of 1,566,670 a total
of 1,218,468 Roman Catholics, 805,124,
Protestiuits, 89,278 Jews, 3,413 persons
belonging to minor Christian sects, a
Buddhists, and 1 Mahommedan. In
1871 tlie Roman Catholic population
formed 79 per cent, of the wholo 5 it is
now 77 per cent. Meanwhile, tlm Prot
estant population lias iuoreased from
17.50 to 19.48 per cent, of tho whole.
Sand Which Sinos in the Wind.—
About twenty miles south of Stillwater,
Cal., on Sand Springs Flat, at the foot
of the mountain, thero is a heap of sand
about one hundred feet high and nearly
a mile neross, which sings in the wind
and is constantly changing. It is thrown
by tho wind, which thero has a circular
motion, into a vast round wall with a
hollow in the centre half a mile across,
which goes two-thirds of the way to the
bottom. It is steep and hard to climb
to the top, and on the inside is even
more steep, so steep that uo one has
ever dared to go down, for fear that the
loose sand would slide down and bury
them up. There are similar dunes on
the Sandwich Islands, on the Hebrides,
and on the Atlantic Coast.
Poole, who was hanged in Dnblin,
Is probably the last man who will hnve
to pay tho penalty for complicity iu the
Phtenix Park murders. His connection
with the tragedy was something like
O’Donnell’b; he helped to kill Kenney,
who was suspected of having given in
formation to tho Police about the assas
sination of Cavendish and Burke. We
have yet to learn the fate of the other
informers who betrayed their associates
in the Phoonix Park affair. The British
colonics refused them a landing, and at
last accounts the English Govermflent
had not found an asylum for them. Then
came the excitement about the killing of
Carey, and under cover of that, they
have managed to disappear. The hang
ing of O’Donnell and Poole adds to their
chances of a long life, wherever they
may be.
Saved.—A DJind man crossing the
street the other day was on the point of
being run over by a reckless driver when,
at the risk of her own life, a beautiful
young lady ran to his rescue and piloted
the poor man to the pavement. A rich
bachelor saw the transaction, and
straightway sought her oat, was intro
duced, courted, proposed, was accepted,
and married the heroine. The effect has
been wonderful. Hopeful young ladies
may now be seen standiDgin the vicinity
of street crossings with one eye searching
for stray blind men, and the other on
the lookout for a rich bachelor, for il
would be a' lerrible bore to tackle the old
blind man without the rich bachelor be
ing around.
(Vunt do G., as sho colls him, applied
fo£ her hand. Hur mother started to
IjUns with the romautio girl, but was
takep sick at Genoa, and at Nice they
were Married at the American Consulate.
110 'Tkiuut endeavored to stavo off a
Quick Church ceremony at Turiu; but
Genevieve and her mother found from
the Prussian Minister that the marriage
auuld not ho binding upon a Russian
BUbject. So, without the cousummation
of the nuptials, the bride Bet off for
Paris, tho Count following. Ho then
became alarmed at a threat to appeal to
tho Emperor, and proceeded to abuse
his wile’B reputation, and used the
American Legation to assist him. The
bride intimates that the Secretary of
Legation himself endeavored to wrong
h J also. Suddenly Governor Dix ar
rived in Paris (1864). lie took to Miss
Ward's case, wrote to Governor Sey
mour, of Conneetiout, our Minister at
Bt. Petersburg, and tho lady and her
brother and mother started thither iu
the dead of winter, before any railroads
were open.
The yonng girl meantime set to work
to study Russian; she was, at law,
neither American nor Russian under the
peculiar circumstances of her case. They
traveled from Konigsberg to Riga on
sledges. In six days moro they reached
St. Petersburg, having been attneked on
the road by Russian boors. Minister
Heytaonr introduced Genevieve into the
Court society, his object being to pro
duce an interest in her behalf that
would offset the official rank of hor lms-
ijfeiuily. She thus met her own
&Ih-1irW, a gt*n eHl 011 the TStnpoV-
or’s staff, who became lier warm friend
and told her that his brother Constan
tine was tho black sheep of the family.
A Russiau Prince wished to marry her,
but she remained true to lier pur|Kise of
an honorable vindication, and her
brother-in-law himself took the onse to
Alexander If. The Emperor sent his
Cliief of Police, Prince de Dolgorottki,
to see tho muiden bride and ask her to
name General de G.'s punishment,
"To marry me forthwith.”
“Nothing but that?" asked tho aston
ished Tartar.
“Immediate divorce after marriage,”
said Genevieve Ward.
The minister said that would lie im
possible under the Church and the laws;
she would be compelled to live with the
Count a few weeks. To this hard con
dition she assented, and the recreant
bridegroom was ordered back to Russia.
He meantime had engaged himself at
Naples to the Russian Minister’s daugh
ter, and was* giving splendid purties,
borrowing money, etc. The news of
his marriage to Genevieve Ward as
tonished Naples and brought out the ad
ditional fact that he was at the same
time engaged to two other Neapolitan
ladies. He narrowly escaped a public
horsewhipping for showing the letters
of one of theso women, and sailed out
of the harbor in his yacht only to run
upon Colonel Ward, the father of Gene
vieve Ward, at Paris. Together father
and son-in-law proceeded to Warsaw.
The Count had now concluded to marry
his wife aqd get rid of her, if he so de
sired by poison or violence. Tho Vice
roy of Polapd, Prince Gortcliakoff, in
formed the Count that it was to lie in-
instant marriage or Siberia for life and
the confiscation of all bib property to
his American wife. He then called 011
the lady in the presence of her family.
“Nothing, sir,” she said, “could in
duce me to live with you one hour."
“What is your motive, Genevieve?"
“Your infamy.”
Said he, in a few minutes: “Why
do you put mo in chains ?"
“Thils far,” said sho, “I have been a
wife without a husband. Henceforth
you shall be a.husband without a wife.”
The Russian scoundrel now took to
oaths and rage, but Gortcliakoff coolly
pointed to Siberia.
The fhzage of RmM.
“I have had three eases recently
where clients wanted their names doc
tored. One petitioner was a traveling
agent, a Mf. Wintringham, I think.
Ou the road and amotlg his customers
aud friends he was known as “Smltlisy.”
This nickname he had carried zo long
that when he struck a town he registered
as Smith. Letters seut to him as Win-
tringlmm Wefe frequently not delivered,
and fiually, as a matter of convenience
as well a* a matter of business he had
his name legally ohanged from Win-
triughum to Smith.”
' ‘Does John Smith ever get tired of
his name?” <
“Often. There woa one very irate
old Johu Smith iu Milwaukee who fig
ured ns a petitioner not long ago. The
circumstances attending his case were
these: He was in theolothing business,
and his most active competitor was his
son, John Smith, who hod a clothing
store next door. Father and ton had
quarrelled, aud tho vendetta between
them hod been of long standing. Tho
young man neglected business, ran be
hind and two officials were scut from the
sheriff’s office to attach hia stock aud
close the place. The officers swooped
down on the wrong John Smith’s place.
The old man was absent, his clerks
were paralyzed, and when the venerable
I proprietor nppeured and pounded on
the front door for admittance he saw by
the bill posted prominently in the win
dow that the Shiriff had poBseaaion. A
madder old man never mutilated the
English language. He swore he would
have his name changed, and the follow
ing day his petition was filed. He ia
now John Saunders.”
“Do women occasionally petition for
a new title ?”
“Indeed they do. The law permits
a woman who has obtained a divavee to
assume her maiden name, but some di
vorced wives want brand-new names,
and they are frequently accommodated.
I recall a petition once filed by a widow
named Boggot. She was young, and
aspired a seooud, time to Matrimony.
She deposed that certain wioked ac
quaintances pronounced her name,
•By ,’ profanity. She received a
decree, aud subsequently got a new bus
band.”
ACCIDENTALLY HEAP.
1
A FEW NOTES FROM TOR PHULADBL.
I’HIA EVENING CALL.
IN NEW YGlttt.
Beggar—“Thank yez, thank yes. It
is not ivery gintlemin that wad help »
poor widdy. May yez live forever and
a day."
Philanthropist—“Oh, that would be a
little too loug. I would not want to live
forever and a day."
Beggar—“Thtn may yez live till the
Bartholdi'pedistal is oomptotad,”’
PUT Hia foot m IT
They were returning home tram Use
theatre and had uoarly reached ha
home when the young men oUerved s
“Isn't the weather cold aud raw.”
She must have misunderstood him.
“Raw,” she said rather hesitatingly.
Yes, I like them raw, but" she ooa-
tinned, looking sweetly in hia eyea,
'don’t yon think they are nicer fried ?”
What oonld he do ?
DERKRVINO OF OUElHTl h
“Yes,” said tho grocery man, “JonMi
has stopped drinking?, is wortring eveiy’
day and is taking good care of hie
family. Ho eertaiuly des^ryc* a great
deal of credit.”
At this juncture Jones came into the
store and asked the grocery man if he
would trust him to a sack of flour for a
lew days.
i“No,’’ was tho reply, '.’times are too
hard. I cau’t give tuiy credit,”
Gave ft Up.
The anger of Air. John Joseph Ryan
of N. Y. city hiiM been aroused by what
he considers the inability of this Re
public to protect its citizens abroad.
Ho was naturalized in the Oourt of
Common Fleas of New Y’ork city on Octo
ber 13, 1880. The contempt which lie
now entertains lor his citizenship has in
duced him to return his certificate to
the court, and ask that his namo bo
stricken from the roll. His letter says :
— Seeing how American citizens are
stmug up unmercifully on the gallows
iu England, and how Messrs. White
bead, Curtin, Wilson and Gallagher,
American citizens, have been, on the
evidence of a lying informer, sentenced
to life imprisonment in England without
American interference, J wish to have
my name erased from the American
citizenship roll of your court and Amer
ica at large.
Mr. Ryan deposited this letter and
his naturalization papers with Clerk
Rogers, in the office of the court, said
that the documents would explain them-
aud hurried out of the Court-House.
Ho signs himself ap a citizen of the Irish
Republic.
A Kunner.
HOW BIIH WOULD DO It.
Mr. Jones—“I wonder why to Urn
world Cougrees don't An- something. At
once to stamp out polygtonydl"
Mrs. Jones—"Boskuse Oougress is
composed of men, and men don't know
anything. I oouid kill polygamy with
one blow.”
Mr. Jones—“Oh, indeed 1 and law.
would do it?” '
Mrs. Jones—“I would go to •Salt
Like City and start a millinery stays
th^re.”
f
VERY NEOERSAHY.
Matcrfamilios— “Moroy I John, what
do you menu by practicing with that hor
rid revolver all duy long, aud you a theo-
logical student, too?”
Johu—“I am trying to learn to shoot
straight, ma.”
Materfamilins— “But you are to be a
clergyman. You will have no need of
such u horrid occompluthmout as that.”
John—“Oh, yes, I will, too. Cousin
Fred says that when I graduate he ia
going to get me a call for a congregation
in hia town, aud you know he livea in
Texas.”
Twenty YEAE3 ago Birmingham, Ala.,
did not exist even us a village. The
present site of the city was an old worn-
out plantation with a surrounding
mountain wilderness. Not a dollar of
capital was invested in the development
of its vast storehouse of hidden treas
ures. Now all is changed. Over $20,-
100,000 capital is invested in th© coal
and iron district of which Birmingham
is the centre. Its population—about
1G.000— is increasing, and the city is
glowing rapidly.
A Mr. Welch, of Casco, Me., ran to
Oxford, twelve miles away, in two hours
recently with his overcoat and cowhide
boots on. After running arouud tjj(
square there a few times to show them
“how kinky he was,” he ran back, not
walking a step or resting during his
twenty-four mile run. He is a very
singular man. He has run from Casco
to Lewiston, twenty-one miles, and back
several times. He takes u long steady
lope, which he can keep up for hours
One time, when returning from Lewar-
ton, he was overtaken by a man in a
sleigh, who asked him to ride. -iTm in
a harry—can’t stop to ride,” growled
Welch. Stung by this insult to bis horse,
the man whipped up and for ten rnilye
tried in vain to pass this wonderful run
ner; then the horse gave out, but Welch
kept on.
Dumfounded: “Now,” said the irate
mother to her family of one boy and
four girls, who hart been inisbehav
ing themselves, “I am going to whip
- you all,” and she seized oq Jimmie tc
receive the first installment of tho chas
tisement. “Mother,,” said Jimmie,- “la
dies first, always.” The old lady was sc
struck with this application of her own
instruction that she did not strike any
of the children, but lot them otftbaf
lime.—Oil City Derrick,
THE ADVANTAGE.
First Politician- “I hear that th*
salary of tho Governor Af‘Michigan ia
only $1,000 n year.”
Second Politician — “Only $1,000?
Well, that is getting things down pretty
fine.”
First Politician—“What puzzlea me
Is that they should ever find anyone to
take the position at that pay, for I learn
that there are very few perquisites. ”
Second Politician—“But you forget
the immense advantage of the office.”
First Politician— “In what way V
Second Politician—“A governor oao
not be arrested.”
UNPRONOUNCEABLE
A Russian gentleman by the name of
Slobberscabskihivitch waa traveling to
Maine when a brakeman shouted :
“Wequetegnock; change cars for An-
lroecnggin and Baccarappacasset.”
“Whatsky did he sayvitoh?” asked
the Russian gentleman in broken En
glish of his traveling companion.
“He was announcing the names of sta
tions,” was the reply.
The foreigner smiled a superior smile
as he leaned back in his seat, and re
marked :
“We Russians are very muohvitch
amusedsky at the heathenishscoff names
yon peopleneff have in ihip country-
skoff.”
NOT REMARKABLE.
“I see by the papers that there is a
clock in the postoffice in Monmouth,
Oregon, which was brought across the
plains in 1$52, and has been running
ever since.”
“Nothing remarkable about that”
“Nothing remarkable?”
“No. I crossed the plains myself in
1852.”
“Well, what of that? This clock was
taken across the plains fh that -year and
has been running ever since.”
“Exactly. That clock was probably
with our party. We were attacked by
Indians, and I don’t wonder it has been
running ever since. I feel like running
myself every time I think of it,”