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SHORT CROPS!
Consequently Money is Scarce and Everybody is
Looking out for the Best Bargains. y*'
North Georgia Cheap Furniture House to the Rescue!
TWO MONTHS AGO EVERYBODY FELT ASSURED THAT THERE
would be an imniense cotton crop gathered this Fall, and consequently all the
merchants laid in heavy stocks —“one of whom we are which.”.
Now, to secure as much of the limited funds afloat, the NORTH GEORGIA
CHEAP FURNITURE HOUSE has marked down all its goods to prices that
absolutely guarantees their sale.
BARGAINS IN FtIRNITCRE.
As kind Providence has rained out our bright cotton prospects, so the NORTH
GEORGIA CHEAP FURNITURE HOUSE has prepared to rain down Bar
gains in Furniture for the disappointed people.
As to the quality of our goods why our reputation is made in that respect, and
the people have long ago deserted the foreign markets and now patronize the
North Georgia Cheap Furniture House —having come to the conclusion that it was
only a delusive idea that fine goods could not be had at home.
UNDERTAKING DEPARTMENT,
As usual our Undertaking Department is filled with a fine and well-selected
Stock of Caskets, Coffins, Burial Robes, Etc. All orders in this line will be given
prompt and careful attention. E. L. PEACOCK,
Proprietor North Georgia Cheap Furniture House.
THe
Howard bark
0F ©ARTERSVILLE.
Buys and sells Exchange, available in all parts of the world.
Receives Deposits subject to check.
Issues Certificates of Deposit, payable on demand; or at a specified time, or
which interest Is allowed.
This Bank having been tried in tho crucible and having proven its claim upor
the confidence of the public, solicits Kb patronago and promises a faithful dis>
charge of its duties to its customers.
Desirable accounts solicited and all usual accommodations extended.
aug22-ly W. H. HOWARD, Solo Owner.
J. B- WIKLE, President. J. 11. VIVION, Cashier.
Directors : J. B. Wiklo, J. C. Wofford, J. 11. Vivion, L. S. Mumford,
W. C. Bakor, Hiram Bluisdell, J. A. Stover.
• THE •
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OF GARTERSVILLE.
Cauteusvillk, (tA., May Ist, 18S9.
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tho surrounding country. Respectfully,
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Office: Upstairs, First Door Below Howard Bank.
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Public Hauling.
ECBERT MOODY.
I PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS
of Hauling- carefully, safely and
guaranteed satisfaction. Moving piano,
12.50 —heavy sales, etc., according to
weight; baggage, 150. flour, 15c.; guano,
IKc.; household furniture, 25c. Call for
Egbert Moody. junel-ly
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AGENTS FOR
CLEN MARY AND LEHICH COAL.
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of any character for sale can do no
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CITY PROPERTY,
MINERAL PROPERTY.
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and every effort made to bring about a
sale.
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Wflrtjly
TUB Courant-Hmerican.
1.80 PER ANNUM.—IN ADVANCE.
KATES OF ADVEETISINO.
space. I mo. 18 mow. 8 tubs 1 year,
One Inch. * * t '<fo •708 10 Ob
Two Inches. SB7 750 10 00 15 00
Three Inches, 500 10 00 12 50 20 00
Fortec*><*, 600 12 50 18 00 25 00
Fotrfk column, 700 15 00 28 00 40 00
Hsff column, 11 00 20 00 40 00 60 00
One column, 18 00| 36 00| 60 00 100 08
Local notices ten rente per line for first inser
tion, For a long-r time, lower rates.
Capital punishment dees not seem to
be much of a preventive against the rise
of revolutionists in Central America.
They spring up and arc shot down with
remarkable regularity.
Cigarettes are dangerous even to full
grown men. A Philadelphian thirty-five
years old was recently sent Id the insane
asylum. The phykHMans investigated his
case and agreed that his insanity was
caused by smoking cigarettes.
A romantic story cob \tt, from Kaloska,
in Hungary, A young pupil entered a
seminary to prepare for tho priesthood
ami lived exactly the same life as the
young men on the premises. The Cardi
nal’s suspicions were aroused, and it
transpired that the pupil was a lady,
who said that she desired to become a
priest.
Cocoa-nut oil as a lubricant is a com
ing rival of petroleum, and it has been
found equally serviceable for lighting
purposes. A Frenchmitrt in the island of
Cuba has just established a factory for
the manufacture of this oil. He has im
ported the most perfect machinery, in
order that the oil produced shall be as
pure as possible. It is said to be very
fluid, to oxidize slowly, and to keep long
without turning rancid.
Anew substitute for tobacco is being
introduced. It is a mixture of British
herbs—the particular plants are kept se
cret—and smokers who have tried the
compound declare it to lie deliciously
flagrant, slightly exhilarating, and withal
loothing to the nerves. Combined with
ordinary tobacco it is said to make a blend
as satisfactory as that of chicory with cof
fee, but such a blend is illegal and
punishable by very heavy fines. At pres
ent it is prepared in Scotland, under the
name of “herb tobacco,” and it has.
rapidly grown in favor.
A small boy at Marshall, 111., has
voiced a sentiment which would be a
good thing for general adoption. He
was a very tough urchin, and together
with his little brother got so bad that
the townspeople decided to send him to a
reform school, so he was arrested on an
old charge of theft and advised (o plead
guilty. The little fellow stoutly main
tained his innocence of this particular
crime, and, while acknowledging that he
ought to go to the reform school, declined
to plead guilty to something he had not
done. He won the sympathy of both
the spectators and the court, and was
finally discharged.
Saccharin is beginning to bo felt bj
the beet sugar manufacturer as a danger
ous enemy. It is stated that in Ger
many already so much saccharin has
been made as to render 5000 tons of beet
sugar superfluous. It is principally em
ployed in the preparation of fruits and
the production of sweet liquors. It is
not a food stuff. Indeed, declares a con
temporary, it has been condemned by
eminent medical authorities as directly
prejudical to health. The sugar manu
facturers arc of the opinion that sac
charin should only be sold liy chemists.
France, Italy and Portugal are already
contemplating imposing a tax upon it.
Iu a recent number of the bulletin ol
the Horticultural Department of the
Agricultural Experiment Station of the
College of Agriculture of Cornell Uni
versity, ,i tomato is put through a sort of
civil service examination. The scale of
points for a perfect tomato, says the
bulletin, will probably run about thus:
Vigor of plant 5
Earliness 10
Color of fruit 5
Solidity of fruit 20
Shape of fruit 20
Size of fruit!.. jo
Flavor 5
Cooking qualities 5
Productiveness 20
________________ 100
The weight and bulk of the gold and
silver coin now held by the United States
Treasury forms the subject of inquiry by
a correspondent of a mathematical turn
of mind, and he finds that the weight of
the gold is 601 tons of 2000 pounds, and
the silver 8000 tons. Packing it along
the highway as cord wood is packed,
the gold would make a barricade four
feet high, four feet thick, for a distance
of 355 feet, and the silver, if similarly
packed, would extend 4248 feet, or five
lixths of a mile. If packed in carts, one
tou to each cart, the procession would be
nearly thirty-three miles long, of which
distance the gold-bearing carts would
•over two and a half miles and the silver
a fraction over thirty and a quarter miles.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
GRAPH AND CABLE.
THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAT
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CtJLLEB
FROM VARIOUS SCURCEfr.
Great initiations are reported through
out Northern Italy.
The Spanish ministry has resigned.
Senor Sebasta will attempt to form anew
cabinet.
About fifty men attacked the temple of
the faith healers, in Tuscola, 111., Thurs
day, and smashed its windows with
stones.
The Belgian govuHttrtt'rtl. has stopped
the exportation 'of fcoal, owing to the
scarcity bf that commodity, caused by the
strike.
Juge McConnell announces that the ap
plication for anew trial in the Cronin
case will be taken up by him Monday,
January 13th.
Duriftg the past ten months the imports
of woolen goods amounted in value to
$47,167,423, against $44,010,890 during
the same months of 1889,
The conductors' and switchmen's strike
on the Kvatlgvillv aild "Terre Haute, and
Evansville find Indianapolis roads, of the
.Macfeey system, still continue.
Twenty-two Russian officers have been
arrested charged with being members of
i secret society, the object of which is to
establish a constitutional monarchy.
A disastrous fire occurred on Tuesday
at the industrial school in Westhnm, Lon
don. Twenty-four lives were lost. The
buildings were almost totally destroyed.
It is stated that the steel trade of this
country is to be revolutionized by a
new process for making open
liearth steel as cheap or cheaper than
Bessemer steel. A test was made a few
days ago at Pittsburg, Pa., which was
fairly satisfactory to those interested.
It is estimated at the treasury depart
ment that there has been a decrease of
nearly $4,000,000 in the public debt dur
ing the month of December. Reduction
for the calendar year, endihg Tuesday,
is $81,481,253-. ftgaihst $91,538,148 for
the calendar year of 1888.
Geo. 8. Jack, ex-United States deputy
marshal, against whom six cases are pend
ing for burglary and larceny, was con
victed in the circuit court, at Muskegon,
Mich., on Saturday, of larceny in one of
the cases. This trial has been one of the
most sensational ever held in that city,
and has cost the county $15,000.
Saturday was the sixth day of the strike
of all employes on the McKey system at
Terre Haute, Ind., except engineers and
firemen, causing ft complete tie up. The
strikers claim that eight men, chiefly con
ductors, have been relieved by Master of
, Transportation Hurd, because of their
connection with the brotherhood.
Four loggers were burned to death af
Beebes camp, up the Tennessee river,
seventy-five miles From Paducah, Ky., Sat
urday lugut, by their cabin taking fire.
Two of them were brothers named Dyer,
and others named Colton and Somers. It
is supposed they were all intoxicated and
the cabin ignited from the chimney.
Charles E. Pearce, of St. Louis, read a
statement before the Congressional com
mittee of ways and means in Washing
ton, on Saturday, showing that the jute
mills iu the country can manufacture
70,000,000 yards of cotton bagging, while
the total amount required by a seven mil
lion bale crop is but 45,000,000 yards,
having a surplus of 25,000,000 yards.
Henry M. Pfeefer & Sons, editors and
proprietors of the Daily Sentinel, of Car
lisle, Pa., were on Saturday arrested on
the oath of the postmaster of that city, for
alleged libel. Damages amounting to
SIO,OOO are claimed. The Sentinel
charged that the postmaster, while county
treasurer, was a defaulter to the extent of
many thousands of dollars.
A dispatch from Topeka, Kan. says:
The Farmers’ Alliance, State Grange and
Knights of Labor there have formed an
offensive and defensive alliance according
to the recommendation of the recent farav
era' convention and Knights of Labor con
vention. The object of the combination
is co-operation in Kansas business and
politics. The combined alliances number
in their ranks over 125,000 members.
A dispatch of Tuesday, from Loving
ton, 111., says: Great excitement prevails
here over an attempt of male members of
the Pentecost band to decoy two highly
respected girls from their homes. There
was almost a riot at the depot when the
faith healers tried to take the girls with
them against the wishes of their friends,
and knives and revolvers were shown.
The feeling against the faith healers runs
very high.
The western passenger rate war is now
fairly begun. Reduced rates from St.
Paul to Chicago went into effect Thurs
day, and to make the fight more interest
ing, the Chicago, Milwaukee andSt. Paul
road has ordered a cut of $2.50 in the
first-class rate from Kansas City to Chica
go. The evident object of the cut is to
punish the Burlington and Quincy for the
action of the Burlington and Northern.
A dispatch from Nebraska City, Neb.,
says: W. Simpson, ex-county treasurer,
has been arrested, charged with embez
zling the funds of the county. Simpson
had completed a four years' sentence on a
similar ehaige,his term expiring Tuesday,
when he was arrested on two other
counts. The total amount of Simpson’s
embezzlement will never be known, but a
shortage of SBB,OOO was found.
Stephen Laplant. at Haverhill, N. H.,
a Frenchman, aged eighty, while visiting
his son’s family, at Centre, was left with
his wife, in charge of two grandchildren,
aged ten and five years. The old man
became enraged from some trivial cause,
and killed his grandson, aged five, with
i hammer, fatally stabbed his grandaugh
tcr, ajjed ten, and was in the act of at
tempting to kill his wife, when a passer
by entered and seized him.
Collections of internal revenue for the
first five mouths of the present year were
$1,178,962, or $5,085,227 more' than col
lections during the corresponding period
last year. Receipts from spints were
$82,628,344, an inerecse of $3,321,777;
from tobacco $13,389,911, an increase of
$1,024,094: from fermented liquors sll,-
246,998, an increase of $81,405: from
aleomargerine $289,468, a decrease of
$24,184; from miscellaneous $22,171, a
decrease of $12,418. Receipts for Novem
ber, JBB9, were $1,045,861; greater than
for November, 1888.
On : of the largest contracts for ship
plate ever made In this country was con
cluded at Duluth ; Minn., by £aptajt)
Alexander for the American
Steel company, with a representative of
Andrew Carnegie. The contract calls for
about 5,000 tons of steel plates, making
over $300,000. It will furnish plates for
seven great vessels of the McDougall type.
An option was given to Captain Me-
Dougall for steel for three more vessels
and this will probably be closed in a few
days, making the whole order for about
7,200 tons and calling for about $450,000.
SOUTHERN history.
PAPERS READ BEFORE THE AMERICAN
HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
The Amerieun Historical association,
vhich has been holding its annual meet
ngs at Washington, devoted Tuesday, the
■ast of its session, to hearing papers on
southern history. Among these, was one
entitled, “Materials for the Study of the
Government of the Southern Confeder
acy,” by John Osborne Summer, of
Harvard university. He stated that much
of this material of value had been de
stroyed during the closing scenes of the
war. Documents were also preserved
which are not j-et accessible. There were
many executive messages and de
fiartmental reports obtainable, and
oumals of the confederate congress
are said to be in existence. After some
reference to the histories written by Jef
ferson Davis and Alexander H. Stephens
as well as to other recent works, the paper
closed with a plea for information as tc
the existence and whereabouts of docu
ments bearing upon confederate history
that are as yet unprinted. The final paper
of the session was delivered by Professor
William E. Trent of the University of the
Bouth, Scwanee, Tenn., comprising a
leriee of notes on the outlook for historical
itudies in history. He gave an account ot
i great collection of materials for a south
ern history now being made in New York,
iketched the condition of various state
historical societies in the south, deploring
the lack of public enthusiasm in the work,
but citing reasons why historic duties will
receive more attention in the future, aisd
expressing the hope that southern history
nay be studied by the people of all sec
tions.
BURIES UNDER SNOW.
X SNOW SLIDE IN WHICH SIX WOMEN ANE
A BOY WERE KILLED.
A dispatch on Saturday from Sierra
Dity, Cal., says that a fatal and destruc
tive snow slide occurred there on Friday
by w r hich six women and a boy were
killed; two other people may dje and
several houses and a Catholic church were
wrecked. The slide swept with terrific
force down the valley, carrying everything
iu its path before it. Several people had
narrow escapes from death, as the slide
came without the slightest warning. As
soon as possible after the slide, a uuuiuu
of men began the work of digging out
the unfortunates who had been caught in
it, and in few hours had taken out the
bodies of Mrs. Rich, her two daughters
and a son; Miss Ryan, of DownieviHe,
and Mrs. J. T. Mooney, with her daugh
ter, Miss Ethel Langton. The last two
named were still breathing when removed
from the snow, but efforts at resuscitation
proved unavailing. Search for others is
still going on, and it is feared that more
than is now known may have been swept out
of existence in the avalanche.
PUZZLED THE DOCTORS-
A STRANGE DEATH, THE CAUSE OF WHICH
BAFFLED ALL THE DOCTORS.
A Charlotte, N. C., dispatch of Satur
day, says: The very strange and remark
able death of Naihan Morgan, of Caba
rous county, is now puzzling the medical
fraternity of that section. Mr. Morgan
had been gradually declining in health
for two years, but was afflicted with no
specific disease. He had been examined
thoroughly by all the doctors of that sec
tion, and all of them failed to find any
thing organically wrong with his system.
Mr. Morgan went to Baltimore last sum
mer, and was there examined by eminent
physicians, who also failed to find anything
whatever wrong with him. lie took to
his bed in October, and gradually wasted
away until his death.
FEEDING THE HUNGRY.
WICniTA, KANSAS, REMEMBERING SUF
FERING FARMEnS.
A train of eighteen cars left Wichita,
Kansas, Thursday night for the suffering
districts in Stevens, Morton, and Hodg
mar counties. The ears were loaded with
clothing and food. Reports recently re
ceived were to the effect that several
hundred persons are suffering at present.
People at the end of the railroad at Lib
eral and vicinity were ready with wagons
to make an attempt to transport relief
from forty to seventy miles to where it is
needed. It is believed the weather may
get extremely cold and thus increase the
suffering.
A STRIKE ON HAND.
SWITCHMEN, BRAKEMEN AND CONDUCTORS
TO HAVE A WALK-OUT.
On Saturday night, at Evansville, Ind.
it was learned that the switchmen, brake
men and conductors on the Peoria, Deca
tur and Evansville and Air-Line roads,
part of the Mackay system, were ordered
out and those two roads are now idle, sc
far as freight traffic is concerned. It is
also rumored that the strike will extend
to the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan,
and the recent purchase of the Mackny’s
and that should an attempt be made to run
freight trains by other than the present
force, men on connecting lineswill refuss
to handle freight.
FLORIDA PHOSPH ATEB.
A dispatch from Jacksonville, Fla.,
says: There is considerable excitement
throughout the state over the recent dis
covery of phospate deposits in Marion
county and counties lying south oi
It. Land owners in the vicinity are ad
vancing prices and prospectors are exam
ining the country.
SOUTH URN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS TN THE SOUTH,
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA
SON’S and dixon’s line.
A iire at Wilson, N. C., burned the
stores of M. Harris & Cos. and W. Corbett.
Loss, $20,000; insurance, SIO,OOO on Har
ris & Co’s stock.
The -grand secretary of North Carolina
states that thtife arb iil that , state
12,000 Freemasons wlio are nienibers of
230 active lodges.
The Timet-Democral pronounces the
gravel roads of New Orleans a success,
and far preferable to the shell roads which
were first tried,
There were 1,140 negro exodusters op a
special train that left Wilmington, N. C.,
Thursday night, all save fifty going to
Mississippi. Thousands more will leave
Goldsboro at once.
Ex-Gov erpor Fitzhugh Lee, of Yirginia,
ivas on Saturday elected president of the
Pittsburg and Yirginia railroad. This
line will connect the ore beds of Yirginia
with the furnaces of Pittsburg, Pa.
The executive committee of Hollywood
cemetery, Richmond, Va., have writteu
to Mrs. Jefferson Davis, tendering liM- the
choice of any Unoccupied section qf the
cemetery as a burial place for her late
husband.
A large delegation of citizens of Wak €
county, N. C., called on the governor
Saturday and urged the commutation of
the death sentence of Claude Parish, the
white man who is to be hanged next Fri
day.
While four boys, between the ages of
six and eight years, were playing under
the edge of a sand bank in Jackson,
Tcnn., on Tuesday, the bank caved iu,
burying them under about ten feet of
sand. They were dead when extricated;
Conductor Frank Layton, of fjie Ala
bama Great Southern railroad; wqs
knocked from his traifi by a wntel tank
and killed Friday night. He was leaning
out of the door of the caboose tod fdr as
the train passed the water tank, arid was
on the head.
Sales of new leaf tobacco in the Dan
ville, Va., market for the past thteb
months was 8,437,442 pounds, an Increase
over the same period of the previous yeat
of 4,357,532 pounds. Outpiit iminufae
tured tobacco for the year 1889 was
7,582,854 pounds, an increase over the
previous year of 2,251,771 pounds.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says:
S. M. Adams, R. F. Kolb, T. J. Karlish,
J. H. Harris, delegates to the reeehj; alli
ance convention, have issued an iiddress
to the alliances of Alabania, assuring
them that nothing in the resdiiitiori
adopted there, is intended to influence
their action as to party. The address
also’urges democratic allianeemen td stand
by the democratic party.
The Okefenokee swamp, of Georgia; is
to be sold at what it will bring, and ns
yet the best offer is said to be twelve find
a half cents an acre. If no better conies
it will go at that. General P. M. B.
Young, of Georgia, is at Asheville, N.C. t
trying to do better. General YOung’s
mission is to negotiate the sale of the
Okefenokee swamp, which is to be sold
by act of the legislature, and Asheville
may be the residence of the purcher.
A special from Birmingham, Ala., says:
A frightful accident, resulting in the
death of two men and the injury of twen
ty others, occurred Thursday morning on
the Bricrfield, Blockton and Birmingham
railroad, forty miles south of that city.
An unfinished trestle, about two hundred
feet long, and from twenty-five to fifty
feet high, fell, carrying down with it
twenty-three carpenters who were at work
on the structure. Carl Clark and David
J. Webb, two of the carpenters at work
on the trestle, were killed, and twenty
others injured. There were numerous
broken legs, ribs and arms, and several
of the injured may die.
FLORIDA'S EXPOSITION
WILL OPEN IN GREAT SHAPE AT JACKSON
VILLE —TIIE SHOW BOOMING.
The Sub-Tropic exposition will open at
Jacksonville Thursday with a grand pro
cession and trade display. The procession
will be headed by Governor Fleming and
his staff and the highest dignitaries of
Florida. The four days’ carnival begins
Friday, and magnificent preparations for
it are now under way. Jacksonville will
appear in holiday attire. Beginning with
the morning of the 9th, and continuing
for two days—probably into the early
hours of Saturday morning—the city will
be in holiday attire, and will present one
grand continuous round of festivity. The
exercises of the Sub-Tropical opening day,
with their accompaning procession, trade
display, music, speeches and grand enter
tainment, will inaugurate the demonstra
tion, and this will be followed on Friday
bv the masque-carnival, pyrotechnic dis
play and masque ball at the Sub-Tropic
building. The presence in this procession
of masquers from all sections of the state
will tend to greatly increase the interest
in it among all classes of spectators, and
Jacksonville will be proud to march en
Basque with her sister cities and towns of
Florida.
DIED IN JAIL.
WILLIS OATLORD, ONCE A PROMINENT
RAILROAD MAN, COMMITS SUICIDE.
Willis Gaylord, for years a heavy ma
nipulator of railroad securities and organ
izer of railroad corporations, committed
suicide Friday night, at Philadelphia,
Pa., in a cell in the county prison. Gay
lord was put under arrest on a warrant
issued on the 18th of November last on a
suit in assumpsit, involving a claim of
130,000, the plaintiff beinp Frederick A.
Baycock, of New York, with whom Gay
lord had been interested in New Orleans,
Baton Itougc ami Vicksburg railroad
bonds. Babcock alleged fraud on Gay
lord's part. In the meantime Gaylord
had remained in custody. Saturday morn
ing wasW.e time set for a hearing on the
motion. Instead of going on with the
CAse, Gaylord's counsel announced the
tragic death of the defendant, causing
quite a sensation in the courtroom.