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NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN
CRACKERS.
[From advance sheets of Silvii Sunshine’s
new book upon Florida, ‘Petals Plucked from a
Sonny Clime.’]
Hoping the poblie mind may be relieved of
the impression that a kind of hybrid creators,
or nondescript, somewhere between a chimpan
zee and oorang-ontang, circulates only throngh
the Southern States, entirely unknown in any
ether locality, ealled Crackers, I now propose
giving a description of the Northern Crackers
in connection with our Southern product.
From the Alleghany mountains of Pennsylva
nia to the sands of Florida, there exists a cer
tain class of the genus homo, defined by differ
ent names, but possessing traits of character
nearly allied. In the Northern States they are
not oalled Crackers, but the ‘Lower Class.'
These poor uneducated oreatures ruminate in
all parts of the North, the localities which they
prefer, being removed from the principal towns
and cities. During the summer they spend a
portion of the season in raising a little corn and
potatoes, together with what they call other
'garden sass,’ which is oonsumed in cold weath
er by their numerous family to sustain them
while hibernating in their winter quarter.
This crop is cultivated when they are not
working out as the 'hired help' in assisting the
neighbors through 'hayin’ and harvestin’ or dig-
gin’ taters.’ Many of them never ‘hire out,' but
subsist entirely by hunting, fishing or gather
ing berries, for which pursuits their wild na
tures and unsettled habits well adapt them.
They excel in the Isaac Walton profession, stud
ying the habits of the finny tribe in their va
rious stages, together with their times of ascend
ing and descending the streams.
Sometimes the oity folks come out to spend a
few days with tent and reels, wbioh movement
these self-constituted sovereigns of the soil re
gard aB a direot invasion of their rights, and if
the supposed intruders escape without their
tent being burned, or their clothes stolen during
the day while absent fishing, it may be regarded
as a most fortunate oircumstanoe.
If a party enters the grounds for berries where
these poor whites roam, no difference on whose
lands they may chance to stop, the visit will not
be repeated. While the unsuspecting town peo
ple are in pursuit of a day's pleasure, these
wicked jayhawkers have watched them retire,
and pounced on the spoils they have left. The
lunch basket which is soon disgorged of its con
tents comes first. Ah 1 how they eat, with the
exclamation, ‘Orful good town vittles !' es the
fat sirloin of roast beef, light bread, jelly, pound
cake and sandwiches disappear with a rapidity
that would astonish any Georgian Innkeeper
who had ever catered for a wagon yard patron
age. When they are glutted with food, then
comeB the question, ‘Any whisky, boys ? I'm
orful dry!' After another search, carefully
stowed in one corner of the wagon is found a
small demijohn. With eager haste it is opened
and sampled. Then a pair of skim-milk eyes
are raised heavenward, with a look of disap
pointment, followed by an exclamation ‘Oh,
that’s nuthin but a mess of wine. Yer know
them ere town people's stumaks are orful weak,
they live so shut up and stooped over, sorter
bowin and tryin to be perlite, but I guess we
can kinder worry some down anyhow, if it is
weak enough for babies.’
The demijohn is emptied without difficulty,
then comes the crowning Btroke. The hoises
are unfastened from the shady trees where they
are standing and turned loose, portions of the
harness cut. Then these poor, uncultured out
laws retire, with the solace of having taken a lit
tle satisfaction from the intruders.
Many of these Northern ‘Lower Class’ speci
mens of humanity cannot read or write, while
those who can, do not often imbibe orthodox
opinions in their religious belief, but embrace
theories mapped out by New England fanatics,
upon which they try to make improvements du
ring the cold winter days when they cannot be
‘stirrin out-door.’ If a thaw comes, they hunt
deer and other wild game. Hogs, with them as
most other people, is an important item for win
ter food. These animals manage to live tolera
bly well during the summer on grass, besides
occasionally breaking into a field of corn or po
tatoes and fattening in autumn on the ‘wild
mast’ which is plentiful.
This ‘Lower Class’ have never been accredited
with being strictly honest and frequently a
stray sheep, calf or turkey, make an important
addition to the family larder, which is eaten by
all without any conscientious scruples whatever
and no questions asked. Generosity cannot be
classed among their virtues. If a benevolent
impulse ever forced its way into their stingy
souls, it was soon frozen out for want of suste
nance. Never a weary wanderer rests upon their
beds, or is fed from their table unless pay is ex
pected for it, nor a drop of milk given to a par
ty of excursionists, without collection on deliv
ery.
Their clothes are made mostly of wool, it be
ing a home product and the winter weather so
severe they are compelled to be protected. Their
•wimmen folks,’ as they term them, weave the
cloth, then color it blue, or red, and when the
garments are made, they are useful during all
seasons of the year, in summer to keep out the
heat, and in winter, the cold. There is no chang
ing of raiment, nor any record kept of the time
each garment is worn, it being only removed
when patching becomes necessary and a Jos
eph’s coat among them is not an uncommon
sight. These poor creatures are not remarka
ble for their powers of articulation, but enun
ciate with a nasal twang through their noses, as
if that was the design of the organ. Cow is
pronounced as though it was spelled ‘keow,’
how, ‘heow.’ Awful is their superlative adjec
tive, npon which they ring changes at all times.
‘Awful nice!’ ‘awful good !’ and ‘awful mean!’
Conversation through the nose, for the old wo
men is a difficult experiment, as they deposit
large quantities of snuff in that organ, whether
for disease or to fill a brain vacuum, has never
yet been determined, but it is certainly a most
fearfully disgusting practice to witness. The
above is a truthful description of the Northern
Crackers, of which Northern scribblers seem to
have lost sight in their unfeeling efforts to abuse
the South and impress the world with the idea
that Crackers and ‘poor whites’ are entirely of
Southern origin and only found in that locality,
they being the outgrowth of a slave oligarchy.
That indigenous i lass of persons, called South
ern Crackers, receive names according to their
localities. In South CarottLaand Southern Geor
gia, they are called ‘Poor Backra,' and in Flor
ida, Sand Lappers, or Crackers.’ The Florida
Crackers are supposed to be named from the fa
cility with which they eat corn, it being their
chief article of diet, while some few diseased
ones, contract the habit of dirt eating and are
called ‘Sand Lappers.’
The word Cracker, about which so much has
been said, is the original word for Quaker, that
in Spanish is cuacero, by the English changed
into cuaker, and again to Ciacker. From this
we may learn that neither cattle whips or corn
crocking had anything to do with the origin of
the name.
These nomadic Nimrods have few local at
tachments, moving twice in a year does not in
convenience them, indeed, no earthly state of
existence can be imagined more free from care
and less fraught with toil than the one they lead.
When settled they are not fastidious about
their habitations, the mild climate does not re
quire close quarters, an ordinary shelter sub-
8 erves their purpose, like God’s free birds in the
air, they only want a locating place when night
overtake* them.
Their houses are mostly made of logs notched
to fit at the corners, the floors being oftentimes
of earth, but usually boards s» wed by hand.
These tenements are scoured once a week, the
beds sunned and everything turned out. The
men are not always dressed in ‘store olothes,’
with fine linen accompaniments, but usually
country-made cotton homespun.
The genuine Craoker wears a broad brimmed
hat, braided from palmetto, a white or brown
jeans ooat and breeches to match, a deer skin
vest with the fur left on, and a pair of stout, use
ful, cow skin boots or shoes.
He supports a very unkept mustaohe and
whiskers, at the sight of which a Broadway dan
dy would shrink with the most intense disgust
This growth obsoures a mouth well filled with
teeth, which are nature’s growth, and the handy
work of no dentist, from whence a constant
ejecting of tobacco juioe is kept up.
He is always accompanied with a bodyguard
of dogs whenever and wherever you find him,
the number varying according to his condition
in life, the poorer the man, the greater the num
ber of canines to make up for his lack of real es
tate.
These animals are very thin, whether from a
deficiency in their master's larder, or the con
stant rambling life they lead, no doubt the re
sult of these combined forces acting upon them.
Around their master's neck is suspended a flask
of shot and a powder born, while in his hands is
a rifle oalled ‘Sure Fire,’ whiob, he says, was
never known no flicker, warranted to bring down
any game within a two hundred yards range,
running or flying. These people, like the pa
triarch of old, have large families, whioh require
about the same attention as kittens. When
night comes, the ohildren curl up in almost any
oorner to Bleep and at dawn of day, when the
early songsters dash the dew drops from the
grass and flowers, they are out hunting for ber
ries or watching the birds build their nests that
they may seoure the eggs, in which enterprise
they excel. The Cracker has a hearty weloome
for the stranger which puts the blush of con
tempt upon those claiming a muoh higher de
gree of civilization; everything the house con
tains being free to visitors.
The bill of fare bears no resemblance to a first
class hotel, but quantity must atone for quality.
Chiokens are always killed for company, al
though no reoord has been kept of the merry
Christmas mornings they have been permitted
to announce. Your plate is pill d with sweet
potatoes, fat possum in the season, corn dodger
bread or ash cake, to be washed down with per
simmon beer, or strong coffee whioh they al
ways manage to keep on hand in oase of emer
gencies. The old folks are very attentive and
considerate, but where are the ohildren ? Bun
away like wild rabbits. Watch and you will
soon see ourious little eyes looking through the
oracks, or slipping around the corners. They
claim the privilege of seeing while they are in
visible.
These Crackers are a very communicative olass
of people. They are full of information in re
gard to tfie localities whioh they frequent, and as
ready to talk as a freshly wound up, well regu
lated Yankee clock to keep time.
The husband of the family is called ‘Dad,’ the
mother, ‘Mam.’ The husband speaks of hiB
wife as the ‘old woman;' the wife says ‘old man,'
while the children are always called ‘girls and
boys.’
Females among no cla*s of people in the South,
however poor, are ever called ‘Heifers,’ as one
Northern writer has represented, unless by their
conduct, they have beoome lost both to virtue
and shame.
The Cracker makes an exhibit of his pruden
tial care by constantly keeping hogs. It is the
main support of the family and these razor
backed tourists are always going on voyages of
discovery either by land or sea. Their thin
looking bodies excite the sympathy of visitors,
but they possess many more self-sustaining
qualities than those who are sorry for them,
showing what hogs can do as well as people,
when thrown on their own resources.
The swine on the coast, which receive suste
nance from the beaob, can feed twice in twenty-
four hours, when the tide recedes and no deple
ted stores tell the amount of oysters, jelly fish,
and other marine morsels of various kinds that
are deposited in their skeletonized frames.
The above is a correct description of the South
ern Crackers, who excite the commiseration of
so many people who know nothing about them,
and would no doubt be greatly benefited by
saving their sympathies for themselves, remem
bering ‘Where little is given, little is required.’
THE INDIAN.
From a lecture on Indian Summer, delivered
at Mercer University, October, 1607, by Prof. J.
E. Willet.
But, to the Indian the hunt is nearly over.
Less than a century ago, he was the sole pro
prietor of these groves around us whioh we now
call -classic;’ and less than two and a half centu
ries ago, he was the sole lord and disposer of the
broad domain which is now proudly called the
United States. When the ‘pale face' came, the
Indian gave him lands; or sold him for a trifle,
immense tracts which have since been divided
off into many states. Then it waa the fashion to
call their sachems wise, their warriors brave and
their orators eloquent. John Smith, the foun
der of Virginia, quaintly styled Powhatan, ‘the
manliest, comeliest, boldest spirit I ever
saw in a savage.’ Pocahontas, the daughter of
Powhatan, was deemed worthy to espouse an
Englishman of gentle descent; was called Prin
ces, ; was graciously feted by British royalty, on
a visit to England; and, in after years, many
Virginia families claimed more proudly the
blood which came down to them from the sav
age, Pocahontas, than the commingling stream
which flowed from English gentility.
But, the fashion has changed. It is now a
questionable honor to be of Indian descent.
Having sold his lands in fair bargain, at the
point of the bayonet, having consented to mi
grate from lands he loved to those which were
strange to him, under the friendly escort of sol
diers; receiving from government an annual
pension, which sounds magnificent on paper,
but which ‘feeds not and clothes not,’ under the
cunning manipulations of government agents,
disfranchised, where the advocate of ‘manhood
suffrage' grant the ballot to those of darker hue,
outlawed from citizenship, in ‘the asylum for
the oppressed of all nations and climes;’ when,
pushed westwaid, to the plains, where only the
buffalo can subsist, and unable to retreat fur
ther westward, because the ‘pale faoe’ is before
him upon the Pacific slope, seeing the wall of
tire east, west and south, and to him the impen
etrable icy plains on the North, the brave, gen
erous, eloquent Indian of other days, turns in
despair to make one last, hopeless struggle for
his patrimonial lands, he is called a lying, thiev
ing, plundering, murderous savage, which civ
ilized man cannot too soon sweep from the land
which he polutes.
So goes the world ! The weak serve the strong
er; when too proud to serve and too inflexible
to intermingle, they perish. The Indian will
soon take his last hunt in the autumn, and his
fires will no longer help to deepen the haze of
its smoky atmosphere. He will take his place
among the dead natiuns, and will be known on
ly in the beautiful names which he gave to the
rivers, and lakes, and bays, and mountains,
when they were his; and in the Indian Summer,
the season in which he was the freest and most
happy.
MEN AND WOMEN.
Senator Gordon employs convict labor on his
Georgia sheep farm.
John Q. Donnell, a blind man, has been elect
ed to the Legislature of Indiana.
Smalls, the colored would-be Congressman of
Sou.h Carolina, says that ‘kiss ballots’ are very
wioked.
A widow won ninety thousand dollars from a
German gambler at Monaco, and a French gen
eral, whose hatred of Germany is undying, mar
ried the avenger of his country—and the ninety
thousand dollars.
Sarah Bernhardt is a writer as well as an aotor
and sculptor. She has been writing a book de
scribing her voyage in a balloon; it is called ‘Un
Voyage dans les Airs.’
Charles W. Richards Dodge, son of Hon. J. B.
Dodge of w&shingtoD, and editor of Field ano
Forest, has written a story of seaside life, oalled
‘Louise and I,’ whioh G. W. Carleton & Co. will
publish next week.
Joaquin Miller intends to lecture on ‘what is
poetry,’ and will doubtless try to explain by
some of his own.
Miss Maggie de Rothschild receives regular
lessons from a priest to prepare her for marriage
with the Duo de Gulohe.
Business before pleasure—and religion. A
priest has just been expelled from the Vatican for
selling toe old slippers and dresses ot Pope
Pius the IX.
Some burglars broke into the house of Dan
Bice and found his pickled jokes in a bottle, to
whioh they took off their hats with respect due
to old age.
Lady Anne Blount, a granddaughter of Lord
Byron, is about to issue a book of travels.
Scene laid among the wandering Arabs of the
Syrian desert, wfiere she passed the last winter.
The Misses Roxana and Elizabeth Lowd and
Miss Elizabeth Wbitqcomb are successful far
mers in Warner, N. H., working profitably a
farm of 100 acres. They are constantly in the
fields.
Mr. S. W. Hall, at Frederica, is now running
his canning factory on dried sugar corn. There
s said to be a large demand for it
Miss Mary A. Livermore tells what she knows
about ‘Husbands’ in an amusing lecture deliver
ed by her at the Reformed Church.
Smith and Jones went out quail shooting on
Thursday, and thejformer’s gun went off acci
dently, which filledjone gentleman with remorse
and the other with shot.
The wife of the Chinese minister at London is
inclined to the woman suffrage ideas, and a
Hong Kong paper thinks that the moon-eyed
lady will not be Bafe in China, whatever she may
be in England.
Mrs. Dan. MacFarland lectures in South Bend
at one hall, while her husband lectures in
the same town. How they arrived there just at
the same time has not been found out; but if
intentional it ro good advertising.
Wong Ah Yee is the first Chinese citizen nat
uralized. This noble Mongolian has been made
a man and a brother, and presented with a vote
by Judge Larremore of the State court of com
mon pleas of New York. The door being open,
now let all the moon-eyes walk into citizenship.
The engagement of Captain A. H. Bogardus
having proved so successful at the Aquarium,
he has been reengaged for one week more during
which time Captain Bogardus will attempt many
difficult shooting feats such as breaking thirty
glass balls in less time than two minutes, hitting
1000 glass balls without a miss, besides shoot
ing in the English, American and other styles.
liev. J. W. presiding cider of the
Dayton district of the Methodist Episcopal
church, was arrested on the public street, in a
beastly state of intoxication. He was ttken to
the stationhouse, after a severe struggle with the
officer, when his idenity was discovered. Ste
venson is one of the most prominent ministers
in the State, and has borne the highest moral
character. It is believed that this action comes
from derangement caused by family difficulties.
Emily Hyatt arrived at the Chattanooga depot
on Tuesday with eight children, and not a cent.
She was on her way to Oxford; Alabama, and
with the eight would join her other five children.
She was an intelligent woman, had one child at
the breast, and a little bit of bread had served
her for the proceeding day. The Chattanoogas
are not bad people if they do build such big
fires—they saw to the suffering. God bless
them.—N. 0. Times.
George Henry Lewis, the philosopher, and
still better known as the husband of George
Eliot, is dead.
A Michigan Miss, one Miss Minnie Smith, has
sued two gentlemen for breach of promise. She
should not forget the strong legal maxim;that de
Minnie-miss non curate lex
A youth named Kelly, of Grayson County, Va.,
and but seventeen years of age, is preaching to
large and attentive congregtions in south-west
ern Virginia.
William Corkey, who won Sir John Astley’s
great walking prize at London recently, is by
trade a vender of cat's meat, and is in the habit of
walking from twelve to fifteen miles daily on his
rounds.
Olive Logan, it seems, is the author of the
statement, that Nellie Grant is unhappily mar
ried and looks ‘fair, fat and forty, instead of
twenty one, which is her correct age. Some one
wants to know if Oiive is happily mated, and if
she looks much under forty ?
Mr. Bogardus offers to match his boy, Eugene,
against Ira Paine to shoot 100 glass balls, with a
rifle loaded with bullets, for $2o0 a side, and
backs his proppsition with $100 in greenbacks.
dr. STAIN BACK WILSON’S
Turkish Batli and Water-Cure.
TEN THOUSAND CASES!
This institution has boon in successful operation nearly
four voars during which lime it ha.bceu resorted to by
thousands, from Maine to California, on account ol ns
wonderful powers in the prevention and cure of disease,
and because it is the osnv on* south having the genuine
HOT-Ain Turkish Bath, and all necessary facilities for
Ilvgieuic and Water-Cure treatment. W hole columns
could be filled wilh well-known names that would testify
to t lie advantages of this treatment, while not a single
case of injury has resulted. The follow! ■ g is one of hun
dreds of cases, of,all kinds of chronic diseases, that have
been cured in this institution.
R. W. Martin, of Buford, Cia.. had’been eevorely af
flicted for mry years with rheumatism of the hands, feet
and legs, to such an extent that he ivalued with great dif
ficulty. on account of paralysis ot the legs, while lus hands
were so disabled that lie could not button his clothing,
and the muscles ol one hand wese shriveled up to less than
half their proper size. After taking some “0 or 25 ot the
Turkish baths, followed by' the douche hath, the muscles
were restored to nearly their lull volume, and the use of
the hands and legs was almost as pcrlect as before the at-
t'l’his Is hut one of hundreds of cases that may he seen
by consulting Ur. Wilson's record books, which contain
some ten thousand names. Location, opposite the Mark
ham llcuse.
A Lycoming girl was kissed by a young man
while she was washing clothes, and neglected to
resist or sue him for damages for a whole year,
but at the end of that time had the bold kisser up
before the court. The jury was composed of men
of gallantry, but who, from a sense of business
promptness, decided that it was too long to collect
for the kiss, and the girl had to pay costs.
A French belt buckle represents a lizard hold
ing a cluster of ruby roses in his feet.
;ai ACQUISITION
Since Its virtues have been utilised by Dr. Tabler
as a permanent cure for piles, the Buckeye, now s*
abundant in our native forests, has beeeme of al
most as much importance in the medical world as
Cinchena.or Peruvian bark, of South America.—
Fortudately the medical properties are in the fruit,
and not the bark ; hence the trees will not be de
stroyed, but will stand many years to yield an
abundant supply, and we may regard Tabler,s
Buckeye Pile Ointment as a permanent remedy.
Price 50 cents a bottle.
For saleby Hunt, Rankin A Lrnaar, wholesale
Agents Atlanta, Os.
LIKE REALIZED.
“Life is earnest, life is real,” and the hopes that
cheer us, as well as the duties that we bravely en
counter, stimulate us to guard the treasure with
unceasing vigilance. Therefore vigorous health
should be preserved, and as diseases arising from
torpid liver prevail in our warm climate, we rec
ommend for their cure Portaline, or Tabler’s Vege
table Liver Powder, the best remedy in the world
for dyspepsia, constipation, sour stomach, heart
burn, and billiousness. Price 50 cents a package.
For sale by Hunt, Rankin A Lamar, wholesale
Agents, Atlanta, Ga.
Ctycsw.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
All communications relating to this department of the
paper should be addressed to A. F. Wurm, Atlanta,!ta.
Chess headquarters, Young Men's Library Associa
tion, Marietta street.
Original games and problems are cordially solicited for
this column. We hope our Southern friends will re
spond.
A. C. Ala.—We do nofknow where the American
Chess Journal Is publisned, New York probably.
SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. TS.
1. QQB8 KXB 3. Q K Kt 4 etc
1. Kany 2 -4 R 3+ etc
1. PB5 2. QxP+etc
PROBLEM NO. 75.
By J. Dresdner, Schula, Misa.
BLACK.
WHITE.
White to play and mate in J moves.
Composed especially for the “Hunny South.”
'CHESS IN VIRGINIA
Between Mr. Smith and Mr. ol Norfolk
Va., 1878.
MB, SMITH.
(By Lopez.)
MR.
1. P K 4
1. P K 4
2. K Kt B3
2. Q Kt B 3
3. B Kt 5
3. B 4 15 4
4. 15XKt
4. KtPXB
5. KtxP
5. 4 R 5
6. 4 B 3
6. K Kt 15 3
7. 4 Kt B 3
7. Castles
8. ('as
8. 15 4 5
9. PKKtS
9. 4 R 6
10. K Kt 4 3
10. 1‘ Q ,3
11. K KtK 154
11. 44 2
12. 4 Kt K 2
12. P15 4
13. P 4 B 3
13. 15 K 4
14. P 4 4
14. PXP
15. PXP
15. BXKt
16. 15X15
16. 15 R 3
17. KRK
17. 4 R K
18. Kt B 3
18. 1(K3
19. P40
19. RK2
20. 15 Kt 5
20. KRK
21. BxKt
21. PXB
22. 4XP
22. R K 4
23. K Kt 2
25. RR4
24. PKR4
24. 15 B
25. K K
25. (.1 Ivt 5
26. P K B 3
26. 4 4 2
27. 4 K 4
27. R (f K 4) K 4
28. POB3
29. K 15
28. P K R5
29. 1* R 6
.30. P B 4
30. RXP
31. KtXR
31. RXKt
32. KBS
32. PXP
33. ltXP
34. 4 K It 8
35. HK +
33.
34.
KB.5
K K 2
Resigns.
Chess in England.
Between Messrs. Lowentahl and Kennedy.
Lowentalil, Kennedy, Lowentahl, Kennedy,
White, Black, White, Black.
1.
•PK4
4 Kt B 3
i20
• KtxKt
PQ Kt 3
0.
,P 4 *
P K 4
21
• Kt 4 1
B 4 2
3.
• PXP
KtXP
22
.K Kt 15 3
P 4 B 4
4.
.PIC B4
(1 Kt K Kt 3
25
.K Kt
HR 5
5
• O, 15 K 3
K 15 Kt 5 +
24
.(4 Kt B 2
(4 KB 3
6.
•O 15 l’one 1515 4
25
.1’ 4 Kt 3
4 R R 2
7.
K Kt 15 3
15 4 Kt3
26.
Kt K 3
K R4 R
s’.
-4 4 2
4 B 1* one
27
.Kt 4 5
QK 114 +
9.
14 Kt R3
K Kt K 2
28!
44*
KXQ It P
in.
.kill’ 1(a)
14 Kt B
29.
R K 8 +
Bxk
11.
15XR
4 R PXB
30.
-4X4 <e)
Rfi 8+
12.
Cas (b)
P 4 4
31.
K 152
K R R7P
13.
PXP
BXP
32.
• K 4 3
KxR +
14.
P 4 6 (c)
K Kt Kt 3
33.
K K 3
P 4 B 5
15.
B Q B 4
4 Kt K3
34.
• P 4 7
BXP
16.
KRK
Cas
35.
4XB
R 4 6 +
17.
P K R3
P 4 Kt 4
36.
Kmoves
RK 7+
IS.
15 4 Kt 3
Kt 4 B 4
37.
KB5
4RXKt+
19.
.K Kt 44
KtXB +
38.
4XR
KtK2+a
wins.
NOTES.
(a) White should have played 11. Q Kt B 4 to
strengthen his position.
i b) This exchange brings Black's rook into pow
erful play.
(c) This attack is too weak to succeed.
(d) Black has now a tine position and ready to at
tack.
<e) The position Black is about to gain permits
this immense sacrifice.
Mr. Lowentahl was considered by his contempo
raries to be the equal of Staunton, if not his supe
rior.
Tire Paris Chess Tournament.
SCOTCH GAMBIT.
Black. I White Black.
McKenzie.'Blackburne, McKenzie.
1.. PK4 121 .RK 21.-Q KBS
2.. KtQ B 3 22..Q (1113 22.,B K B 4
3 .P tks P 23..P U K 4 23..P Q It3
4. BQB4 24.. B K 2 24,.P K K3
5.. 0.B3 l25..KtKB3 25..Q, Q3
0..K Kt K 2 20..Kt K 5 20..1* K R 4
7.. P 4 3 27..P Q. It 5 27..BR2
8.. 1. O Kt 3 28..It 4 B 28..R K R 2
9.. Q KKtJ 29..P 4 Kt 4 29..P Ull 3
10.. P K B 4 30.-B K 3 30..K Kt
11.. Kttks Kt 31..RKB 31..RKB
12.. P tks Kt 12..O, K K 4 32..B 4 B 32..B K 5
13.. B K 2(a) 13..P tks P :33..P 4 Kt 5 33..RP tks P
14.. 1. Kt 3 14..QKB 2 j (d)
15.. K11ksK P15..Kt K B 4 34..K 4 (e)
10.. Kt K Kt 5 10.4 li 2 35..Q Kt 2
17.. 1. K 15 2(b)17..Kt tks R 30..PK0
18.. 1.tksKt 18..py,4(c)
19.. y y It 2 19. P K Kt 3
20.. B y Kt 5 20..K It
ell
NOTES.
(a) We are inclinded to think that Mr. Blackburne
ought now to have advanced 1’ to K 5. The text
move looks better than it really is, for it permits
Black to break up the adverse centre pawns, besides
opening a square for the Kt at K B 4.
(b) The loss of the “exchange” was unavoidable.
(c) He could not castle ou account of the follow
ing:
I 18..Castles
19.. B B 4 ch 19..KK
20.. Kt tks K R P. Ac. |
(d) A slip which loses a valuable Pawn.
(e) If B to y R 3, Black replies with B tks Q, P ch.
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