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VOL. S—NO 35 ] US? 'S&jSSSSF**** .1 Georgia Chemical Works, Manufactiu ers of •Eiji Cali AAb and ii PisosjMss! 0— — 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 Southall, finding that nothing remained for him to dv> but to bold on to the mail catoher uutil the traiu reached New River, the next station, or otherwise jump off and run the risk of losing his life, aeoepted the former situation as 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, but in addition to have to grasp and hold ou to a cold iron rod, with fingers cut and hands benumbed, is an experi ence that no man need waut to test. Southall was almost crazed before the traiu reached New River. Sewing machines oan be bought at the most reasonable p neeS from Wikle & Cos. 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, Try It. St. Mary’s Oil is a godsend to the Na tion, as it will positively cure Rheumatism, and all other ptin requiring an external application in man or beast. All that is asked is a trial. This Oil has no equal | Sold everywhere. a Western Laboratory, 1 ay2?. -ly " Cincinnati, O. j $1.50 Per Annum.—sc. t Copy. GEORGIA GLEANINGS Note* Nicked From Kiehngw, . r 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. KIDNEY COMPLAINT. For over six years I have been a terrible sufferer from a troublesome kidney com plaint. for the relief of which I have spent over $240 without benefit; the most noted so-called remedies oroving failures. The use of one single bottle cfß. B. B. has been marvelous, giving more relief than all other treatment combined It is a quick cure, while others, if they cure at all, are in the distant future. C. 11. Roberts, Atlanta Water Works. 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 B. B. B. Write to him about the case. Sight Improved, New York City, April 7, 1884. Mr. A. K. Hawkes: Dear Sir—Your patent eye-glasses received some time since, and am very much gratifiedat the wonderful change that has come over my eye-sight since I have discarded my old glasses, and a now wearing yours. Alexander Agar, Blank Book Manufacturer and Sec’y Stationers’ Board of Trade. Itch, Prarie Mange, and Scratches ot every Kind cured in 30 Minutes by Wof ford’s Sanitary Lotion. Use no other This never fails. Sold by M. F. Word, Druggists, Cartersville, Ga. Standard Literat ore— soo copies of Lovel’s Library just received at Wikle & Cos. ’s Book Store. Good books from [lO to 20 cent*.
