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VOL. S—NO 35 ] US? 'S&jSSSSF**** .1
Georgia Chemical Works,
Manufactiu ers of
•Eiji Cali AAb and ii PisosjMss!
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Capacity of Factory in 1878,
5,000 TO 7,000 TONS!
First Ton was Maniifallipcd Doc. 22, 1870
Capacity of Fajbtory in 1886,
OVER 30,000 TONS !
Quality, Purity and Analysisol Kvery Ton Guaranteed.
STANDARD GUANOS:
Mastodon, '
Lowe’s Georgia Formula,
Grain Fertilizers,
Dissolved Bone ifliosphate Sc Potash,
Acid Phosphate,
With and Without Potash.
NONE BUI IST MATERIAL.
SPLENDID MECHANICAL CONDITION.
EVERY BAG FULL WEIGHT.
T°
The goods manufactured by us have no su
perior as to quality, and our Acid Phosphate,
either with or without Potash, has never been
equalled, as shown % the following official re
ports of the Department of Agriculture of the
State of Georgia. , j
HEAD THE RECORD !
Arid Phosphate Without jfotasli Acid Phosphate With Potash.
Available Available
Phosphoric Phosphoric
Acif. Acid. Potasli K. O.
Season’B2-8(5 15.15 pr cent 13.25 per cent 1 75 per cent
Season 'S'LSI- f s.B<i (if’ emit 14.00 percent 1.52 percent
Sc ivon ’8 4-85 10.80 iiir cent 14 <>s per cent 1.10 per cent
(“ eason’Bs-8(5 15.05 plr Cent 15.55 per cent 1.20 per cent
SEASON! Of 188-’BT.
Official Aiipiysis Just Deceived:
18.30 Per Cen fl
11.05 Per Cent.
2.25 Per Cent.
The above is higher than we claim, and we
reqtested the Department to review its An
alysis.
Tte Official Rssult of Revision:
Acil Phosphate tV itli Potft li. Acid Phosphate Without Potash
Analysis Analysis:
Moisture TOO Moisture 0.85
Insoluble Plies Aci< 035 Insoluble Phos. Acid 0.00
Soluble “ 101)0 Soluble 10 20
Reverted “ I*o Reverted. “ 205
Available “ 1750 Available “ 1825
At iinonia fM) Ammonia • .OO
Pjtasb 220 Potash _ OO
C’fein mercial Value S-845 Commercial Value .$27.58
Our reputa ion am grades shall be main
tained, and tl ese goo Is will be sold at figures
competitive n ith standard high grade brands.
Patronize 1 le industries near you when you
can get NOT ONLY VALUE but promptness
and satisfacti >n.
We thank t ie public for its past liberal pat
ronage, and siall in he future guarantee the
same faithful service tnd fair dealing.
CIU Clin IK
Office 785 and 727 Reynolds Street,
Augusta, - - - Georgia.
THE (MR A NT-AMERICAN,
Free Trade.
The redaction c f internal revenue aud
the taking off of revenue stamps from
Proprietary Mediciueß, no doubt lias
largely benefited the consumers, as well
as relieving the harden of home manu
facturers. Especially is this the case
with Green’s Angust Flower and Boe
chee’s German Hvrup, as the reduction
of thirty-six cents per dozen, has been
added to increase the size of the bottles
Coht.iiimig these remedies, thereby giving
one fifth more medicine in the 75 cent
size. The Angust Flower fur Dyspepsia
ainl Liver Complaint, and the German
Syrup fr Cough and Ltug troubles,
have perhaps, the largest sale of nuy
medicines in the world. The ; dvantage
of increased size of the bottles will be
greatly appreciaied by the sick and
afflicted, iu every town and village in
civilized countn s. Sample bottles for
10 cents remain the same size. tf
ADVICE TO MOTHERS.
Are you disturbed at night and broken
if your rest by a sick child suffering and
crying with pain of cutting teeth? If so,
send at once and get a bottle of Mrs.
Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children
teething. Its value is incalculable. It
will relieve tlie poor little sufferer
immediately. Depend upon it, mothers,
there is no mistake about it. It cures
dysentery and diarrhoea, regulates the
stomach and bowela, cures wind colic;
softens the gums, reduces iuflamation
and gives tone and energy to the whole
sytern. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup
for children Teething is pleasant to the
tnte and is the pi ascription of one of the
oldest and best female nurses and phy
sicians in United States, and is for*sale
by all druggists throughoui the world
Price 25 cents a bottle.
COURANT-AMERICAN.
X 5 -u."bXisls.e<3. E-ver3T
CAIITKKBVIL.EK, GEORGIA.
Oicial Orp of Bartow County.
a°m G wi'llingham, ( Editors and Pr °P rie,or ‘-
THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1887.
Editorial Brevities.
War clouds are plainly visible on the
European moon.
There is said to be a tremendous exo
dus of negroes to the Mississippi bottoms.
The Inter State Commerce bill still
lingers in the Senate, but will likely pass
Ibis session.
Gladstone is again Using from his late
defeat. The grand old man will yet be
master of the situation.
The Department of Agriculture reports
a falling off of breadstuff's of last year as
compared with the previous year.
The Senate has continued the appoint
ment of W. T. Newnan as Judge ot the
United States Court for the Northern Dis
trict of Georgia.
The Indiana legislature continues to
wrangle. Both parties need a first-class
bumping, and then they would elect a
Democratic Senator without further de
i*y-
Tiie little State of New Jersey possesses
a legislature ns bull-headed as that of In
diana. There does not appear to be pa
triotism enough in the body to effect an
organization.
The Cartersvili.e American and
Courant have been consolidated. It
takes more than the accustomed amount
of liberality found now-a-days to run two
papers successfully in a small town. —
Cuthbert Enterprise and Appeal.
A chunk of 223,000 cubic yards of
limestone and slate rock of the banks of
Niagara river, near Horse Shoe falls on
the Canadian side, fell out a few days
since. The mass is said to have fallen
with such a tremendous crash as to he
felt for miles around.
When Jay Gould scribbled off a check
for $1,500,000 to pay Tom Allen for the
Iron Mountain road it was thought to be
the largest individual check ever written.
Gould wrote it on a sheet of note paper.
John B. Alley once dashed off a check for
$400,000 and gave it to Senator Dorsey for
a half interest in the senator’s cattle
ranch. There are several United State ß
Government checks for 1 cent, to square
up accounts, in existence.
The Albany Argus laments the deca
dence in the United States. It says that
such Senators ns Webster, Clay, Calhoun,
Benton, Douglas, Seward, Chase, Wright
and Sumner are no longer to be found in
our upper house. The Constitution takes
a cool business view of the situation. It
suggests that different ages require differ
ent characters ol legislative genius. In
the early stages of our government we
were passing through the fanatical period
and required great expounders to con
sider the questions that affected the very
existence of our society and the founda
tion of the government. Now everything
is business, and wo must have business
men to deal with business questions,
Recollections of Senator and Mrs.
Logan are still the recognized order of the
day. The following story, which is
vouched for as true, wdll be of interest;
“During the campaign of ’B4 the Sena
tor had arranged to meet his wife in an
Ohio city in which he was to speak. The
train which bore her to the place was un
expectedly delayed, however, and the
candidate for vice president had to leave
the station, whither he had gone to meet
her, for the place of political meeting.
Expecting, of Csourse, that she would re
pair to the hotel and await his return in
their rooms, he treed his mind from all
worry concerning her and began a speech
such as only he could make. It was a
fierce, revengeful effort, with the blood
shed in the civil war dripping from its not
always rounded periods, While laborious
ly climbing up a rather difficult climax,
w ith his hand upraised and fire flashing
from his eye, he suddenly caught sight of
Mrs, Logan in a remote corner of the hall,
her both eyes fastened on him in a proud
and happy look. For a second he hesi
tated, Then the rigid lines of hi3 face
relaxed ; the revengeful frown melted into
a forgiving smile; even the angry gesture
was changed into a graceful wave of the
hand. An audible murmur among the
friends who had escorted Mrs. Logan to
the hall did not enable him to resume at
once, but ho finally grasped the broken
tli read of his thought and thereafter wove
it into a more peaceful skein.”
CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1887.
HE MAKES NO CONFESSION
CLUVERIUS, THE CONVICTED MI'R
DKKKK MEETS DEATH BRAVELY,
Anil Asserted HD Innofeni* to the Last.
Greet Excitement at the Gallows.
Richmond, Va., Jan.. 14.—Clnverius
was up early. Counsel, Mr. Bev.
Cump, parted with him at 2 o’clock this
morning, and he afterwards took only a
few hours rest without removing his
clothing. He ate sparingly , but bore
up bravely, and seemed to be hopeful.
The Governor remaiued in bis private
office in the Executive Mansion, aud
was not seen by any of bis counsel.
They had done all they could for their
client, but to no avail. Mr. Bev. Crump,
one of the most active of the counsel,
came down to the jail about 11 o’clock,
and had a talk w ith the prisoner.
Mr. Frank W. Cuuuingham, who has
sung for the prisoner’s gratification, also
came down aud sang with much mel
ody several hymns, one of which com
mencing,
“How firm a foundation, ye saints of th
Lord,'*
greatly siffeeted the prisoner.
The scaffold was erected in the enclo
sure of the jail yard, aud admittance
was gained ouly by a ticket from City
Sergeaut Smith. Notwithstanding this,
a small space was filled with people
brought out by idle curiosity.
About 11:30 o’clock the prisoner sent
for Mr. Bev. Crump, and they bad a
conference, the exact nature of which is
not known. The jail officers were busy
at work testing the rope, and making
preparations for the execution. The
rope was made of silk, and weighed one
pouud aud a quarter.
The scaffold was made by a colored
councilman of Richmond, and a very
primitive structure of piue wood, the
drop being about eight feet. The trap
was supported by three feet of scautliug,
about four by six inches in size; on one
side of it the jail walls stood 22 feet
wide, on the other the jail building,
making a narrow corridor of 16 feet
iu width and about forty feet iu length.
Here the crowd assembled, packed
close together,aud above aloug gallery,
on a perfect level with the scaffold, were
aoout one hundred people. There were
about a score of newspaper men present.
At 12:30 p. m. Mr. Cramp, of counsel
for defence, reported to Sergeant Smith
that the Governor had declined to inter
fere, and the execution will take place
iu half an hoar.
After Mr. Crump reported that the
Governor had determined not to inter
fere, Sergeaut Smith hurried his prep
arations for the execution. These out
side numbering at least 15,000, yelled
and hooted, and seemed impatient for
this crisis. A herd of cattle were driven
through the crowd on Jail alley, aud
this caused a ripple of excitement, the
streets being densely packed with hu
man beings.
At 1 o’clock the prisoner was led out
of his ceil. He wore a neat suit of black
diagonal cloth and a waterproof cloak,
buttoned behind. His arms were pin
ioued in front, aud his step was firm and
nerveless.
Cluverius was cool and collected. He
did not quiver nor show the slightest
nervous embarrassment. He stepped
quickly and naturally up the long flight
of steps, aud stopped immediately iu the
centre of the trap door, he wore a crisp
brown hat, and his shoes were of the
fashionable cut and neatly polished.
His face had on it a beard of several
day’s growth, and his countenance
seemed fixed, as if ny force of great
power.
Sergeaut Smith advanced to the frout
of the scaff >ld and iu a loud and distinct
voice real the death warrant. Turn
ing to the prisoner after finishing the
reading, he asked: ‘ ‘Have you anything
to sav ?” To thie Cluverius replied, in a
voice inaudible ten feet away, “Not a
word, sir.”
Rev. Dr. Hatcher then said, “Let us
all pray,” aud kneeling upou the rough
pine boards of the scaffold, offered up a
fervent prayer to the Throne of Mercy
During this prayer the prisoner re
mained standing. No trace of excite
ment was visible, exoept that this eye
lids quivered every seooud. His hat
had been removed, and bis brown hair
glistened iu the sunlight.
When the prayer was ended, the con
demned man asked Dr. Hatcher to come
near him, aud when the doctor did so, a
few words iu a low voice were said to
him. Turning to the crowd be’ow, Dr.
Hatcher said; “I am requested by the
prisoner to say just one word—that he
carries no ill feeling to-day against any
one on earth.”
Dr. Hatcher then turned and bade the
prisoner farewell. Deputy Sergeaut
Alleu tied his legs together and put the
black cap over his head, aud adjusted it.
At 1:08 o’clock the trap was sprung,
and the body of Cluveriun shot down
ward so quickly that none could de
scribe it.
Then a scene was witnessed. The
silk rope did poor service, and it was
seen that the uoose bad slipped and the
rope stretched feai fully. The feet of
Cluverius was just touching the ground,
and ouly a turn and a half of the noose
was left, Horror was on the faces of the
spectators present, and in a minute the
police were ordering every one to leave
the premises.
Dr. Openheimer examined the body
and at first said that tne pulse was beat
ing regularly, there were guttuial sounds
for six minutes , gasps for breath, and
indications of strangulation.
The victim, however, did not writhe,
his head hung on one side, and around
the neck w.ts a red livid mark made by
the fall of eight feet, the color of the
countenance commenced to ehauge, aud
in sixteen minutes after the fall of the
drop Drs. Harrison, Beall and Cable
pronouuced life extinct.
Dr. Openheimer said that the neck
had been broken by the fall. The uody
was turned over to an undertaker, aud
will be sent to King aud Queen county
for interment.
O'uveiiug was liauged for the murder
of his cousin, Fannie Lillian Madison,
her dead body being found floating in
the old city reservoir here March 14,
1885.
Handsome Christinas Present at ClUc-agro,
An agreeable Christmas surprise befell
Charles O. Okholm, a young 8w r ede Art
Ameteur, No. 153 Townsend St., in Chi
cago, who has been notified that bis one
fifth ol ticket in the Louisiana State Lot
tery drew the first capital prize of $75,000
in the November drawing, and the $15,000
was placed in his Rands fqr the $1 sent to
M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La.; and
Mr. Ekholm will complete his art studies.
He is full of praise ot the Louisiana State
Lottery Company, and of his luck coming
just before Christmas. Chicago (III)
Staats Zeitung, Dec. 22.1336.
A MODERN CAIN.
The Mark of Coin Placed on Ike Mob Who
Kills Bis Only Brother.
Frosa the Murphy, N. €.. Bulletin.}
Many of our readers are cognizant of
the fact that a most brutal murder was
committed in this county about eight or
ten years ago. We will not go into full
detail regarding the crime, but will give
a brief synopsis of the crime. What we
wish to state, however, will be mostly in
regard to the man who committed the
crime, what his life has been since, etc
in 1844 a man by the name of Mortimer
moved into this county from Virginia
He was a wealthy man—owning any
quantity of slaves By turn he was a
literary man, and had an accomplished
education, and perhaps the finest library
in western Carolina He was said to be a
good man We wish we could say as
much for the mother. Suffice it to say she
was not a good woman
W hen the war broke out all of his prop
erty was swept away—everything he pos
sessed, and he died just before the surren
der, leaving his wife and two little sons
to battle their way in the world alone
They were about ten and eight years of
age. when their father died, and, with
proper care and training, they would have
undoubtedly rnadj good and useful citi
zens ; but with such a mother, we will
ask, what better could have been ex
pected of them ? She taught them to hate
everybody, and that everybody was their
enemy. She made them go armed, and
when one of them was fined for carry
ing concealed weapons, she paid the fine
imposed, bought him a pair of pistols and
told him to wear them buckled around his
waist, aud use them when he thought
proper.
They—Henry and Edward—grew up to
be young men, and at the time the crime
was committed, they were about 28 and
30 years old respectively
Jealousy on both sides and a woman was
the cause of the crime.
Henry had loaned his brother Edward
sixty dollars or more, and often he had
asked his brother for it, but was always
put off with some trifling excuse.
He went over to see his brother about
it—they were living on the same farm, but
not in the same house—and he was heard
to remark before he left the house “that
he would have his money -ir blood,’’ and
he got blood !
They met in front of their mother's
house, and were standing withiD ten feet
of each other Their mother, seeing them
standing there quarreling, walked out of
the house and stood between them. The
conversation that took place between them
was never known
Suddenly there rang out on the cool,
quiet air, the report of a pistol, and Ed
ward Mortimer fell dead at his brother’s
feet, the ball having penetrated his fore
head, killing him instantly, and in his
hand was an open knife
As stated above, the mother was stand
ing between them, and had her right hand
up to her head, putting under her cap a
stray lock of hair When the pistol fired
the ball took off the forefinger of her
right hand, barely missing her temple,
Both were married men and had families
Henry Mortimer was arrested, tried and
acquitted, his mother being the only wit
ness in the case. And now comes the
strangest part of this story—stranger than
fiction. Henry Mortimer is a veritable
modern Cain He has not a hair on him
from the crown of his head to the soles of
his feet. We have seen and talked with
him. and know whereof we speak. He is
about six and a half feet high; very
stout, converses splendid, although some
what reticent in his manner at first ap
pearance Shortly after he was acquit
ted, and just after he retired which was
between 9 and 10 o’clock, he was visited
by his dead brother. He could see and
hear him, but he himself could not move
or speak. He lay as if dead in a passive
state He had beautiful auburn hair and
beard, which was his pride Ilis brother
visited him the second time, and reached
out his skeleton arm and bony fingers,
and began plucking his hair - one by one—
from his head ; then his eye brows, eye
lashes, beard and so on, until he had
plucked every hair off his entire body
It was not done all in one night, but was
kept up from night to night tor a period of
about three months
He is a wanderer on earth, and travels
at night He is the greatest curiosity
that we have ever seen. He has the sup
posed mark of Cain,
THE ARKANSAS WHEELERS.
An Organization of Farmers in Control of
the Arkansas Legi-latnre.
The Wheelers, an organization of far
mers in Arkansas, are making an effort
to secure beneficial legislation from the
Geueral Assembly, now iu session.
The organization in question polled near
20.000 votes at the election in Septem
ber last, rmuiug a ticket for State offi
cers, chosen mainly from their own
ranks, but whioh did not receive unan
imous support, owing to differences as
to the expediency of going into politics
The total membership is stated to be
over sixty thousand, aud is increasing.
The resolutions passed by a number
of the Wheels, and whioh the Legisla
ture will be asked to oonsider, are iu
substauoe as follows;
To favor a consolidation of State aud
Congressional elections.
Opposing a constitutional convention,
the necessary changes being made by
amendment.
Favoriug such railroad legislation as
will prevent discrimination in freight
and passenger rates aud compel them to
bear their equal proposition of taxation;
also, to present the issuing of free
passes to officers from Governor bo con
stable.
In favor of a law compelling parents
to send their children between the ages
of eight and sixteen to school,
Favoring the abolition of the offices of
Tax Assessor and Country Judge and
placing the discharge of the duties of
said offices in the hands of the magis
tracy aud at reduced fees,
As there are over seventy farmers in
the Legislature, the legislation will very
likely be favorable to farming interests.
A JOURNALIST AND A BURGLAR.
Chicago Tribune]
“We wish to return our sincere
thanks,” says the editor of an Idaho
paper, "to the enterprising but mis
guided burglar who broke into onr
residence uight before last under the im
pression that he was oraoking the onb of
the druggist who lives next door. He
entered at a window and carefully re
moved his boots, setting them down on
the floor. To this circumstance, aud on
the fact that we saw him oome iu we are
indebted for the first good p lir of boots
we have had iu ten years. While he was
ransacking the hous'e we quietly slipped
out of bed and exchanged onr old boots
fir his aud tlieu went back to bed and
fell asleep. How long he was in the
house we do not know, but the pre
sumption is that when we went away he
took the old boots. They have been
missing ever since, and there was noth
ing else to take. ”
THE STIRRING SOUTH.
!
STUPENDOUS INDUSTRIAL DKVViOI’-
MKNTS IN THE FAST TEN DAYS.
A General and Lasting Boom Hai Cet
lainly Struck Us.
—-
Baltimore Manufacturers'' R. cord.]
The rapidity with which gigantic enter
prises are being organized io the South is
simply bewildering. As week after week
we have recorded some stupendous under
taking it has each time seemed that the
limit, so far as the magnitude of new in
terests was concerned, must certainly
have been reached, but there seems to lie
no end to the yast developments now in
progress. The most stupendous transac
tion yet recorded is the sale of the im
mense property of the Woodstock Iron
and Steel Company and the Anniston
Land and Improvement Company, of An
niston, Ala. These two corporations,
which owned a large part of the town of
Anniston, two furnaces, 50,000 acres of
mineral lands, etc., have sold their proper
ty for $6,000,000, the telegraphic report
stating it is the largest cash transaction
ever made in the South. Messrs. Tyler
and Noble, who founded this town.and
who were the principal owners of the two
companies that have just sold out, retain
large interests in the new organization,
and will continue actively engaged in
their management. With this gigantic
sale, arrangements were completed for the
immediate construction of two coke fur
naces of 1,000 tons capacity each per
week, and the building of a railroad from
Anniston to Gadsden. In addition to this,
Birmingham capitalist-! have organized a
$1,000,000 company to build two furnaces
near Anniston, and many other enter
prises are projected. The great advantages
of this town have long been recognized,
and when Judge Kelly, in his recent let
ter on the South, predicted such a bright
future for it, the attention of the whole
country was attracted to Anniston. Then
when this big sale was consummated fuel
was added to the fire and the South has
probably never seen such a “boom” as
as this town is now enjoying. It fairly
staggers one to attempt to keep up with
the new enterprises projected and big real
estate sales reported. Anniston, however,
has not monopolized attention for other
great enterprises have been brought into
existence. The last ten days have, in fact,
given birth to more great enterprises in
the South than has ever before been seen
in the same length of time. Among these,
tn addition to the Anniston deal, we men
tion only some of the most important.
The Bessemer Land and Improvement
Company, capital $2,500,000, organized at
Birmingham to build up she new town of
Bessemer, where two furnaces are under
construction and a steel plant prejected.
The company has appropriated $500,000
to assist in building up other industries at
Bessemer. At Decatur, Ala , $1,000,000 in
cash was subscribed within a day or
two, for the development of iron and
other interests at that place. In Nash
ville a $700,000 company has a large tr ict
of land adjoining the city, on which
two lurnaces and other iron industries are
to be built. At Athens, Ala., a $500,000
company has been organized to build up
manufactures. In Jackson county, Ala,
an immense tract of mineral land has been
sold to Hon. Jos. E. Brown and otli re
who will build a railroad and develop this
property The Napier furnance property
in Lawrence ounty, Tenn., was sold for
$50,000 to E. vV. Cole and others, who will
improve it and engage in iron manufac
turing. A $250,000 company has been or
ganized in Birmingham to establish a
tannery and boot and shoe factory. A
purchase has been made of 30,000 acres of
land in Perry and Decatur counties, Ala.,
by anew company that has been organ
ized to make iron. At Chattanooga a
$500,000 company lias purchased a large
tract of land for improvement f>r manu
facturing purposes. A SIOO,OOO wagon
factory company is being organized in
Birmingham, and at Scottsboro, Ala., a
$400,000 iron and coal company has been
chartered. The Bertha Zinc Works, of
Southwest Virginia, have been sol 1 to a
new company, which will have a capital
stock of $3,000,000; large improvements
are to be made. A marble company with
a capital of SIOO,OOO has purchased and
will develop marble property near Flor
ence, Ala. Philadelpbia capitalists, who
have lately purchased heavily of mineral
lands in Southwest Virginia with a view
to establishing a manufacturing town,
building furnaces, and probably steul
works, will, it is telgraplied from Phila
delphia, invest $5,000,000 or $6,000,000 in
the development of this new place. At
Bessemer, Ala., a $200,000 rolling mill,
fire brick works and a nut and bolt fac
tory have been decided upon. In addition
to these we may note companies to estab
lash a SIOO,OOO cotton mill, a $50,000 and
a $20,000 furniture factory, SBO,OOO cooper
age works, $50,000 plow company, $25,-
000 shoe factory, $20,000 carriage factory,
$14,000 ice factory and $27,000 ice factory,
SIOO,OOO distillery, $20,000 brick com
pany, and others too numerous to men
tion.
As we have included in this list only a
part of the long list of new enterprises
reported in our Construction Depirtment
in the last ten days, some conception may
be gained of the more than marvellous
progress that the South is now making.
The history of the world, we believe,
shows nothing to equal it.
A HIDE ON THE MAIL-BAG CATCH EH.
Lynchburg (Va ) News]
When the East-bound passenger train
on the Norfolk and Western railrord
reached Central a few nights ago, two < f
the United States postal olerks, B. W.
Babooek and George H. Southall, left
the car to get something to eat, leaving
a third man in the car. Presently,how
ever, the solitary clerk, likewise afflicted
with hunger, also left the oar, locking
the door after him, so that when Postal
Clerk Southall returned he found the
door fastened. Reaching up tie unlock
ed the door as he thought, and just then
the traim moved off with a jerk. Mr.
Southall grasped the appliances used to
catch the mail of small post-offices where
the train makes no stop, and drew him
self up iu the oar door; but when he at
tempted to enter the oar he found the
door secured. The train by this time
w' flying nl ing at lightning speed and
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catoher uutil the traiu reached New
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preferable and tightened his grip ou the
iron rod. The night was as cold as a
midwinter blizzard could make it, and
the wind cut like a knife. The meutal
stress aud the fear of being hurled with
violeuce to the earth were bad enough,
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hold ou to a cold iron rod, with fingers
cut and hands benumbed, is an experi
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CHIEF Jt STICK JACKSON GiCAD.
An Autobiography of His Career in Pub.
lie ami Private Life.
j Chief Justice Jackson died at his home
; iu Atlanta last Thursday night, after a
| short illness. The Judge was taken with
1 a chill at his dinner table last week
! while entertaining Secretary and Mrs,
j Lamar and Governor and Mrs. Gordon.
: Ills age and frail physical condition made
i it a desperate case from the start, and
there has been little hope entertained of
his mvovery. His age is state! as 74
years. He was l>orn in Jefferson county
and wis a son of William Jackson, who
died in Macon, and a grandson of Gen.
James Jackson of revolutionary fame,
afterward Governor of this State and
United States Senator, who resigned the
latter office to come to Georgia and effect the
repeal of the Yazoo fraud act. He went
to Savannah and was elected to the Leg
islature from Chatham county, and con
tributed large’y to the repeal of the act.
His portrait adorns a wall of the House
ot Representatives. Judge Jackson grad
uated ai the State University and entered
public life early as a member of the Leg
islature. He was Judge of the Western
Circuit eight years, and from that time
was in Congress till secession, when he
withdrew" to enter the Confederate service.
During the w ar he was for a time a mem
ber of the Military Court of Jackson’s
corpse. After the war he entered upon
the practice of law with his cousin, How
ell Cobb, which partnership terminated
upon the sudden death of the latter at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel. Subsequent part
nerships were formed with E. A. and J. T.
Nesbit, and he was with Judge Lyon until
he was appointed to the Supreme bench
by Gov. Smith. His first wife v r as a
daughter of Walter Mitchell of Baldwin
county, by whom he had six children, one
a son who is now dead, and four daugh
ters, two of whom are now married. One
is the wife ol Joseph G. Scrutcbin of the
internal revenue office, and the other is
the wife of Prof. W. M. Stanton, assistant
principal of the boys’ high school, both of
Atlanta. His second wife survives him.
She is a lady from Maryland whom he
wedded in St. Louis. lie was noted for
his piety and w y as an eminent lay member
of the Methodist Church South and a fa
miliar figure at the General Conferences.
He has one sister living here, Mrs. John.
T. Grant. lie was a first cousin of Gen.
Hemy R. Jackson, of Savannah. The
late Clieit Justice was reelected for anew
term by the present Legislature and quali
fied before the Governor Jan 1, but had
not sat on the bench during the new term
A MOST JUST TAX.
Hartford Courant.]
The tax upon inheritance is one of
the easiest and least objectionable ways
in which to raise money for the State.
It is taking a small percentage off from
receipts which are not earnings. The
law has yielded excellent results in Penn
sylvania and Georgia, and although
but a year old in New York, promises to
be equally successful there. Consider
able attention is attracted by a case just
developed iu Clearfield county, Pa.,
where an estate of $ 3,000,000 has
escaped the tax through a transfer short
ly before death. The law especially ap
plies to such transfers where made to
evade the tax, and a test case will be
made up iu tlria instance. Meanwhile,
think of the parsimony and lack of pub
lic spirit iu the mau who possessed under
the law so vast a sum and yet gave his
last efforts to trying iu escape his obli
gation to the State that protected him iu
it. It is suggestive of the meanness
that the very rich are capable of, and
recalls the old story of the miser who
thought that other people might well
devote i < per cent, of their incomes to
charity, but that he couldn’t beoause his
income was so large!
Mitchell county is ahead on almost
everything that is good, and can certainly
claim to have furnished the youngest sol
dier in the confederate army. Mr. Isaac
Willingham, of Evergreen, was a brave
memder of the Second Georgia cavalry,
and was severely wounded in Gen. For
rest’s capture of Murfreesboro, on the 13th
of July, 1862. That same year his son,
C. B. Willingham, who was just ten years
old, joined his father and remained with
his company, commanded by Capt. P. W.
Twitty, until the war was closed. The
father was kindly nursed, while suffering
from his wound, in the house of Mr. Tal
ley, the father of Mrs J. H. Hpence. for
merly of Camilla. Cape remained with
his father, and gratefully remembers the
kindness of the Talley family. Like
Casabianca, Cape stood wherever his fath
er or his captain placed him. The father
died afhr the war, and the’young soldier
in 1870 sought his fortune in the far west.
He is now a citizen of Wheeler county, in
the Pan-llandle region of Texas, and is
superintendent of the Hansford Land and
Cattle company, near Mobeetle. He has
prospered in business and is now in com
fortable independence, with a happy fam
ily around him. His many friends here
have this week had the pleasure of shak
ing the hand of the boy soldier. He has
come to visit his old home, and take with
him to Texas his sister, the widow of the
kite Evan Shiver, of Worth county,—
Camilla, Ga., Clarion.
John Roach, the famous ship builder,
died in New York last week. He had
been ill for some time suffering from can
cer of the throat. His affliction was
simihr to that of the late General Grant.
The concerous growth which caused Mr,
Roach’s death had eaten way to the side
of the neck below the angle of the jaw,
involving the large arteries. For the
past few days Mr. Roach suffered great
pain, and to relieve him large doses of
morphine were injected and he was uncon
cerns most of the time. Mr. Roach was
horn in Mitchell town, county Cork, Ire
land.
Nothing Unusual.
Chicago Tid Bits.]
Mrs. Patrician (to new girl)—l suppose,
Bridget, you overheard my husband and I
conversing rather earnestly this morn
inf?
Bridget—lndade I did that, mum.
Mrs. P.—l hope you do not consider
that anything unusual was going on?
Bridget—Niver a bit, mum. I wanst
had a husband meself, mum, an niver a
day passed that the neighbors didn’t be
lave one or the other uv us would be kilt
entoirly.
Speaking of art matters: A few even
ings ago a fine looking, well-dressed ne
gro, black as black can be, entered a drug
store and inquired confidentially of the
clerk: “Bo you keep lampblack?” “I
can give you some,” was the reply.
“How much do you want?” “Well, you
see, sah—ah— it is very nice? I would
like a little, sah, in a pretty box —like
these,” pointing vuguely at boxes con
taining toilet articles in the showcases.
“Well,” said the clerk, dubiously, “I
dunno; what do you want it fir?” “For
de toilet sah ; for my wife—she powdahs,
sah!”—Buffalo Express,
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GEORGIA GLEANINGS
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An epidemic of glanders Is threatened
among the horses in Athens.
A ledge of granite, suitable for building
purposes, has been discovered near
Athena.
There are rumors that a syndicate is or
ganizing either to make a “combine” of
the two Rome papers or to start anew
one.
A large snow white hawk has been
killed in Campbell county, and will be
stuffed and sent to the Smithsonian Insti
tute at Washington.
The whiskey license in Montezuma
has been advanced to SSOO per annum.
Four dealers have paid the tax and will
continue to set up the “pizen.”
Three of the most important events in
the annals of life occurred in one family
in Lincoln county one day not long since;
a birth, a marriage and a death.
It has been decided by Atlanta physic
ians that the case of the young son of Dr.
Wadsworth . of Rome, who was suddenly
stricken deaf a few weeks ago, is hopeless.
R. M. Cheshire, a reporter of Atlanta,
has, through the inftuence of Congress
men Hammond and Candler, been ap
pointed to a good position in one of the
departments at Washington.
State Senator E. M. Word died at his
home in Decatur last Thursday. He was
a very prominent gentleman of his seb
tiou, and during his life time held many
offices el trust.
The right of way and all the property
of the Rome and Decatur railroad have
been mortgaged to a New York banking
firm for $2,240,000. The mortgage is re
corded in Gadsden, Ala.
General Gartrell and Solicitor Hill came
near mixing wool in Judge Clark’s court
in Atlanta one day last week. They had
squared for a set-to, but a deputy sheriff
in ter nosed and stopped proceedings.
Georgia, which produced Lula Hurst,
the electric girl, now claims to have dis
covered at Milled,:eville a young man who
can do ali the feats recently performed in
Boston and Europe by Mind Reader
Bishop.
A citizen of Baldwin county, who was
very rich before the war, is now very poor
and blind. Two of his former Blaves,
who are now doing well, have supported
him for years. They say he shall not
suffer while they live.
Holman, who was convicted of the mui
der of Matilda Gudger, in Dalton, has
now given up all hope of escape and is
willing to meet his death on the gallows
on the 23th inst. The execution will take
place one mile from the court house in
Whitfield county.
The ordinary of Gordon county has
written to the governor for a rupply of
vaccine virus points. He states that small
pox has broken out in Murray county,
near the line of Gordon, and that citizens
ol the last named county have been ex
posed to the disease. Hence the demand
for the virus.
Some time ago the grand jury of Ap
pling county preferred some charges
against Mr. Barnes, of the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad, for running
trains on the Sabbath day. At the term
ol the county court the case was called
and Mr. Barnes, through his attorney, Mr.
Padgett, plead guilty and was fined ac
cordingly.
Iu the death of the Rt. Rev. Horatio
Potter, D. D , the Protestant Episcopal
Church has sustained a severe loss. Some
idea of the labors of the deceased Biabop
may be gained lrom the following resume
of his official acts for the twenty-seven
years of his episcopate. In that time he
performed 78,092 confirmations and 150,-
000 baptisms, of whom 18,353 were adults.
He consecrated 117 churches and laid over
100 corner stones. He ordained 450 dea
cons and 3G4 priests, and instituted 47
rectors.
It was reported on Friday that Goyernor
Gordon had appointed Judge Logan E.
Bleckley to succeed Chief Justice Jackson,
but the Atlanta Constititution says the
rumor is without foundation. Among the
names mentioned in connection with the
judgeship are : Hon. Thos. J. Simmons ct
Bibb, Judge Underwood of Rome, Hon.
A. R. Wright of Rome, Hon. Thomos J.
Lawson of Eatonton, Hon. John T.
Clarke of Cuthbert, Hon. Joel Branham,
of Rome, ex-Gov. Smith of Columbus,
Hon. Logan E. Bleckley of Atlanta, Hon.
John T. Glenn, of Atlanta.
While in a spasm. Wednesday, Mrs.
Newton McCurdy, living a few miles
from Dalton, fell into the fire and was so
badly burned that she died the same
day. Her husband was lying on a bed in
the same room, sick with paralysis, un
able to move to her rescue. A little boy
who was attracted into the room by the
alarm, however, dashed a bucket of wa
ter upon her, which brought her to,
when she arose and ran out in her wild
delirium had to he run down by her
neighbors and caught. After which she
was completely prostrated till she died a
few hours after.
The weekly press of Georgia, after hav
ing taken the holiday recess to which tra
dition enf’tles it, is again in the field ready
to do its lull duty toward the people. No
town is complete without a newspaper,
and no man with proper sense, with home
pride, will neglect to patronage an insti
tution which advertises his community to
the world. The country press of Georgia
has been indifferently supported and
hence has not come up to the mark which
a better support would warrant. People
who complain that the local paper is not
good enough should first ascertain wheth
er their own names are on the right side
of the subscription book. The editors are
starting out on tbeir new year’® work full
of energy and hope, and if they fall by
the wayside it will be because of unap
preciative constituencies which have failed
in maintaining their own self-respect.—
Atlanta Constitution.
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use of one single bottle cfß. B. B. has
been marvelous, giving more relief than
all other treatment combined It is a
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all, are in the distant future.
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Dr. L. A. Guild, of Atlanta who owns a
large nursery and vineyard, has a lad on
his place who was cured of a stubborn
case ofScrofula, with one single bottle of
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