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VOL. S—NO5 —NO 31] Georgia Chemical Works, Manufacturers of Eigi M Ferluiser: mi Acid Pkphtes! O Capacity of Factory in 1876, 5,000 TO 7,000 TONS! First Ton was Manufactured Dec. 22, 1876 apacity of Factory in 1886 , OVER 30 000 TONS! Quality, Purity arul Analysis of Every Ton Guaranteed. STANDARD GUANOS: Mastodon, Lowe’s Georgia Formula, Grain Fertilizers, Dissolved Bone Phosphate & Potash, Acid Phosphate, With and Without Potash. NfIHE BUT SEST HUTEHUL SPLENDID MECHANICAL CONDITION. EVERY BAR FULL WEIGHT. 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 by the following official re ports of the Department of Agriculture of the State of Georgia. REA D THE RECORD ! Acid Phosphate Without Potash Acid Phosiriiato With Potash. Available Available Phosphoric Phosphoric Acid. Acid. Potash K. O. Season ’B2-8R 15.15 per cent 13.25 per cent 1.75 per cent Season \B!S-84 15.8( per cent 14.00 per cent 1.52 per cent Season’B 4-ST 10.80 per cent 14.<*5 per cent 1.10 percent Season ’8.4-80 15.05 per cent 13.55 per ceut 1.120 per cent SEASON OF 1886-’BT. Official Analysis .Just Received: 15.20 Per Cent. 17.05 Per Cent. 2.25 Per Cent. The above is higher than we claim, and we reqtested the Department to review its An alysis. o ft Official Sosiilt of Reran: Acid Phosphate With Potash. AchlPliospliate Without Potash . Analysis: Analysis: Moisture 7.00 Moisture ($.85 Insoluble Phos. Acid 0.65 Insoittble Plios. Acid 0.00 Soluble “ 10.00 Soluble “ 10 20 lteveried “ 1.50 Reverted “ 2.05 Available “ 17.50 Available “ 18.25 Ammonia .OO Ammonia .OO Potash 2.20 Potash .OO C ommercial Value Commercial Value -1i27.:*8 pur reputation and grades shall be main tained, and these goods will be sold at figures competitive with standard high grade brands. Patronize the industries near you when you can get NOT ONLY VALUE but promptness and satisfaction. We thank the public for its past liberal pat lonage, and shall in the future guarantee the same faithful service and fair dealing. EfIOBKIA HKJI Ills, Office 735 and 737 Reynolds Street, Augusta, - - - Georgia. TIE OOUEANT-AMERICAN. The largest and most su perbly magnificent stock of fresh new Carpets, Draperies, Rugs, etc., ever opened by us, are now just in. The variety is perfect, the goods stylish and new. In Axminster, Mo quettes, Wiltons, Velvets, Brussels, Tapestry, Ingrain, various Art, Squares, Smyrna and Turkish Rugs in all sizes. Brussels, India Silk, Tambour and Nottingham Lace Curtains. Turcoman Silk and Jute Dra peries for halls. The above new and stylish goods are mammoth in quantity and warranted in quality and prices. Our Imported G-4, 3-4, 5-8, Crosley’s English Carpets are now in transit, being shipped direct from Halifax, England, to Atlanta, direct. We call attention of our pat rons to three facts: Ist. The styles of our goods are the best. 2nd. The quality of our goods are the best. 3rd. The prices are guar anteed as low as any house in the United States. Also, for Dry Goods, Shoes and Millin ery, see our immense new Stocks. Chamberlin, Johnson & Cos., Importers, Atlanta, Ga. ADVICE TO MOTHERS. Are you disturbed at uight and broken of 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 the poor little sufferer immediately. Depend upon it, mothers, there is no mistake about it. It cures dysentery aud diarrhoea, regulates the stomach and bowels, cures wind colic; softens the gums, reduces inflamation and gives tone and energy to the whole sytem. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children Teething is pleasant to the tate and is the prescription of one of the oldest and best female nurses and phy sicians in United States, aud is for. sale by all druggists throughout the world Price 25 cents a bottle. Sight Improved, New York City, April 7, 1884. Mr. A. K. Hawkes: Dear Sir—Your patent eye-glasses received some time since, aud 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, Blauk Book Manufacturer and Sec’y Stationers’ Board of Trade. CARTEBSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1887. LIVELY J L KOKS. THE GBAND JURY FOB THIRTY WEEK JANUARY TERM RENDER SAI.TY PRESENTMENTS. A Interesting Paper. We, the grand jury, chosen and sworn for the third week ofthe January term ot 1887 of Bartow Superior Court, make the following presentments: We have examined by committees the books of the tax collector, tax receiver, county school commissioner, and such dockets of the justices of the peace as have been brought before us. The books of the county Bchool com missioner are correctly and properly kept. We endorse him as a capable and efficient officer. The dockets of the jutices of the peace of districts No. 828 and 819 are found cor rect. The dockets of the justices of the peace in districts No. 822, 858 and 1041 are not accurately kept, in many cases the cost is not itemized, and in some, cases the bill of co9t is made oat and no entry made as to whether the case was settled or tried. The justice of the peace of the 850 dis trict keeps a separate criminal docket which is correctly kept. The books of the tax collector are found correet. The books of the tax receiver are also found correct. His books expose to view some facts which ought to be not.ced. We find upon examination of his wild land d'gest that much of that land is re turned to the receiver at a fearfully low valuation. Lots containing 160 acre3 are there valued at the pitiful sum of two and three dollars per lot. We, as a grand jury, consider this an outrage on the honest tax payers of the county. We find at the pauper farm twenty-two inmates, thirteen of whom are grown, the remainder children, all are poorly clad, the houses open and cold, fully half the glass being broken. AYe find tome in mates there who should be discharged at once, viz: Mary Reed aud two children, Miss Green and two children, Talton Hyde we believe to be a fit subject for the lunatic asylum. This farm contains 335 acres •• wc do not know the number of acres in cultivation, the outside fence is a veiy poor fence, being down in many places, it cou and be made a good fence by removing the inside fences and using the rails in making a good outside fence. The lot and fixtures are in moderately good condition, we find one wagon and harness, and sufficient tools for farming purposes, also two mules in rather poor condition, one milch cow and heifer, 170 bushels corn worth 50 cents per bushel, 1200 bundles fodder at SL2S per hundred, and a small lot of shucks. No wheat nor oats has been sown, nor have they any seed wheat or oats on hand. There is one hand on the farm at $15.00 per month. Upon examination of the books and vouchers we find an average attendance to be 17, costing the county about $50.00 each per nunum. We recommend that the proper author ities proceed to bind out or otherwise dis pose of some of these children, who, we are satisfied, would be better cared for in this way than by remaining at the pauper house. The county commissioners arc main taining in part several parties who are objects of charity in different parts of the county, by making occasional appropria tions to aid in their support in preference to sending them to the pauper farm, as by this plan they save the county a consider able sum of money annually. We ap prove this plan, as we be ieve it to be better for these parties and to the interest of the county. Believing this pauper farm as it is, and has been for years past, to be productive of no good, but rather of evil, and a foul blot on the good character of our county. We join in the recommendations of former grand juries for its sale, and to this end we appoint a committee of one from our body, viz : J. H. Gilreath to co operate with the proper authorities in selling the same, and purchasing another place large enough for Decessary build ings and gardens, nearer and more con venient to the county siet, and recom mend that he be paid two dollars per day for the time actually thus employed, the time not to exceed fifteen days. We visited the jail in a Body, and con cur with the graud jury in their recom mendation as • that building. We re commend that the leaks in the roof of the jail’s residence, which is the cause of the plastering falling off be attended to at once. By reports from different parts of the county we learn that the roads generally are in veryjfair condition, except the road near Captain Sewels hmse in the 17th dis trict, which is said tobealmost impassable, and the road leading from Eukarlee to Rome, running through Jolly’s pond has been for years, and is still considered dan gerous to persons not familiar with the road. Former grand juries have recommended that this road be put in good order, but up to this time no attention ha 9 been paid to these recommendations. We recom mend and insist that the proper authori ties take this matter in hand and have the road put in a safe and passable condi tion. The bridge near Taylorsville in the 17th district known as Smith’s bridge is report ed unsafe, the bridge across Gaines & Lewis’ mill pond, and bridge across A1&- toona creek, near Alatoona, are also re ported in a bad condition. We recom mend they be repaired. We concur with the grand jury of the first week as to the amount to be levied for taxes for county purposes; also as to pay of jailer for dieting prisoners. We recommend that our representatives to the legislature petition that body to consolidate the offices of tax receiver and tax collector for Bartow county, and the compensation for the services of that offi cer he the same as that now received by tax collector; also that they repeal the act of a former legislature creating the office of county commissioners lor Bartow county. In taking leave of His Honor and the officers of the court, we return our thanks to them for the usual courtesies extended to the grand jury as a body. We recommend these presentments be published in the county papers, Jason T. Bailey, Wji J. Brandon, We. W. Cotton, Marion T. H : ys, Joseph F. Mason, Thomas Pittard, James H. Gilreath, Jabkz H. Gilreath, Joseph Bradley, Lewis V. Wilson, James B. Crawford, Joseph G, Lowry, James F. Armstrong, Pinckney W. Kay, Eliiiu It. Abernathy, Thomas M. AVebstkr, John T. Owen, Eliphas Wofford, Henry J. McCormick, Foreman. James C. Tumi.in, Clerk, GEORGIA, Bartow county: It is ordered by the court that the Gen eral presentments of the Grand Jury for the present week of Bartow Superior Court be published as recommended. Superior Court, Jan. 29th, 1887. J. C. Fain, J. S. C. C. J. W. Harris, Jr., Solicitor General. The distressing disease, Salt Rheum, is readily cured by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the blood .purifier. Sold by all druggists. BAItTOW’S BULLETIN. OUT! CORRESPONDENTS NOTE THE INCIDENTS OF THEIR NEIGH BORHOODS, And DUh Them Up in a Delectable Shape For Our Readers. Stamp Creek Ripples. Quarterly meeting for “Piuelog Cir cuit” was held at Miller’s Chapel last week, aud as it was rather cool, there was not a full attendance of the official members, though there was a pretty fair congregation of neighbors preseut, and they were all charmed and greatly en thused by the spleudid sermon preached by the presiding elder, Rev. Quillian. After the sermon, we had an intennis, siou of an hour, during which Sisters B trues, Lewis, Ford and Watson brought out their baskets aud coffee-pots, aud after warming up the latter on the stove, they opeued out the beautiful supply of good things on the benches aud invited us all to “pitch in.” Well, Messrs. Editors “you just or ter been thar.” For a good “square” well cooked meal, commeud me to the above ladies, aud these the “good cheer” of these “country meeting dinner*” is a mighty good sance, aud it makes a fellow eat too much sometimes. Bro. Smith, the veteran Presbyterian minister, as usual preached a good, for cible sermon for us last week. Bro. Smith is breaking down very fast with age aud hard work, but he still has a groat deal of energy and zeal. Dr. W. J. Covington has reoently bought and moved to the Barnes place, formerly owned by W. K. B irues, but more recently by R. 11. Jones, Sons Mf’g. Cc.. from whom the Dr. bought it. The Dr. is a most energetic man, and when at home lie is constantly at work improving tlxo place. He will make a mo3t desirable home of it. We have several new married couples in our neighborhood, and it is a most in teresting study to watch them when at church. The sight suggests “lasses,” “ginger cake” and lots of sweet things all mixed up together. Such things have a wonderful effect ou Raymond Shockley, aud he seems anxious to jfo and do likewise. We are sorry to learn that genial, olever, O. J. Moon has left County Line. He has left many friends behiud him who will be glad to see him at any time. He was also popular as a teacher, we learn. We can not clone these Ripples until we tell you how much we appreciate the letters of yoijr many correspQudents; they are all pleasant amj entertaining, but we are especially phtrmej and edi fied by the beautiful descriptive letters of “W. J. Neel’’ aud “Uncle Max,” aud we also trust the writers will cheer ua by their letters every week. You gave us a good paper last week. Thanks. Yours for news and a good paper. Doti’kr. Cass Station Notes. Maj. A. M. Foute, of Cartersville, was in town last week. Maj. T. It. McKelvy returned rrom Kingston Thursday. Mr. George A. Veach and wife, of Adairs ville, visited Mr. Dobbins’ family Friday, Mr. J. D. Rogers, of P. & G. T. Dodd. Atlante, gave our merchants & call Satur day. Itev. B. B. Quillian attended quarterly meeting at Kingston Saturday. At the present writing Mr. M. G. Dobbin* is quite ill. We wish for him a speedy recovery. Mr. Frank Weems now of Rome, but formerly of Cass, was here Thursday. The remains of Mr. Henry G. Hardy, who died in Atlanta last week, were brought here by tiain and interred at Cassville Thursday. Mrs. R. R. Hargis and Miss Annie Couch visited Mrs. Farnsworth’s family at Dalton Saturday. Rev. J. M. White preached a very inter esting sermon here Sunday, 23rd. Mr. J. G. Vernon returned last week from Florida, whether he went with a car load of stock. Mr. Sam Carter, who has been on the sick list for some time, we are glad to say, is convalescent. Mr. Bob. Garwood, of M. M. Turner $ C0.,0f Atlanta, visited Mr. Chunn’s family at Cassville last week. Sheriff N. H. MGiunis and wife, of Gor don county, paid Mr. Quillian’s family a visit last Friday. Col. W. M. Carter went to Route Fri day. Mr. W. M. Dodd claims to have seen the famous belled buzzard about three miles from Cass last week. The guano trade is booming. With good wishes for the Courant- American, I am Donali.yn. A LUCKY HOUSTONIAN. A reporter in liis daily jaunt in search of interesting matter for the perusal of the readers of the Post, happened into the cigar store of S, Alexander, Jr., where he was told that one of our popu lar young clothing dealers had sudden ly came into possession of a large sum of money. Closer investigation revealed the fact that the popular young mer chant was Mr. Ben. Kuna, of the firm of Kiam Bros., and the sum of money was the neat littie amount of $15,000. Mr. Kiam, on being interviewed, stated ho disliked publicity, but as the rumor had been circulated, lie preferred emu lating Ceorgn Washington and Grover Cleveland, and would “tell the truth.” “Some time last month,” he said, “I concluded to purchase a ticket in the January drawing of The Louisiana State Lottery Company,. and sent my office-boy after one, which I put in my sf<fe. I thought no more about the ticket until the lltfi instant, when Mr. Alexander called at my store and told me if my ticket was No. 91,960, I had won one-tenth of the capital prize that his telegram from The Louisiana Lot tery Company stated the winning ticket had been sold in Houston. You can hardly imagine the state of my feelings while examining my ticket to see if I really was the lucky individual. When the truth dawned upon me that my lit tle investment of $1 had returned me the snug amount of $15,000, I felt— well, I can't tell you how I did feel. If there are words iu the Euglish language comprehensive enough to describe my feeling, they are not at my command.” To the question, “Have you got your money?” Mr. Kiam replied: “Yes, the ticket was promptly cashed on presenta tion.” Mr. Kiam wiil surely invest a portion of his prize for the next draw ing, which takes place on the Bth of next month. Houston. (Tex.) Post, Jau. 16th, 1887. It is a strange state of affairs that makes police intervention necessary to preserve the peace among members of the same religious flock. This, however, is what was necessary a few days ago in New \ork. Father Donnelly, successor of Father McGlynn, had to invoke the aid of the police in preserving order among his unruly congregation. Some rebellious women were dragged out of the church by force. “WITHOUT HOPE.” MR. JONES’ GREAT APPEAR TO THE SINNERS OF BOSTON. The Revival Still AboantlingWllli Inter.se Interest and the Happiest Re sults Expected. 1 Rev. Sam. Jones’ revival in Boston is still gathering strength as it progresses, and the Bostonians are waked up in earnest. Rev. Sana. Small has joined Mr. Jones and both preach to immense con gregations twice a day. In a sermon last Thursday Mr. Jones said : I am very anxious that there should be much prayer in this house to-night. I have long known that the power of the pulpit is with the pews, aud let every breath be a prayer for God to bless this service in the salvation of souls. We se lect tl se words from the prophecy of Zacbariah: “Turn you to Mie stronghold you prisoners of hope." The all-absorb ing theme with God and angels and g<*od men, is the salvation of the living. It is not the salvation of men who lived one hundred years ago. They luve enjoyed their privileges, they have had their op portunities, and their destiny is fixed. It is not the salvation of men who shall live 100 years in the tuture, they have yet to be born, they have yet to enjoy the oppor tunities and their privileges; but the all absorbing theme with God and angels and good men to-day is the salvation of the living, The men and women who live and walk and talk upon the face of the earth. And isn’t it strange that a theme like this should so engage the heart and mind of God, and yet you for whom all this grace avas bestowed,and you to whom this grace is given, are the only disinterested ones in this vast universe of God ? And this ex hortation ought to fall upon your cars to night with all the weight of eternity. “Turn you to the stronghold, you prison ers of hope.” Tjbere a re three classes of prisoners with hope and three classes without hope. The first class of prisoners with hope are THE FAITHFUL MEN AND WOMEN living to day on earth. Men who loyc God and keep his commandments. Men who live with a singe eye to ihe glory of God, and to the good ot their race, men who have eonsecrated themselves to the right, men who had rather be right than be king, men who have gfven their all to God; tjjey aje prisoners ol' hope. My mother was a prisoner of hope, hemmed in by the en vironments of earth and the temptation of lile. But when I was a nine year old boy the fetters were cut and my mother went home, and for thirty years she has roamed the Elysian fields. My father was a pris oner of hope. By prayer and se f-sacrifice and surrender to Christ, at last the liga ments that bound him to earth were cut, and for fourteen yei.rs he has walked the golden streets, a freeman forever in the skies above me. And brother, when I look ,QUt upon life with its environments and temptations, tho one aspiration of my heart is to make any sacrifice to see the star of hope shining on my pathway. I have often buried ray face in my hands and wondered whether I should ever get to heaven; whether I should ever reach that world where the wicked epase from troubling and the weary are at rest. Let God’s smile rest upon me, let the earth frown upon me, let all its riches be spread out before me, lot pauperhood and misery overtake me in this world; but, oh, God, whatever betides me, let the star of hope *hine over my pathway. Brother, every faithful man is a prisoner of hope, with the prospect that the fetters shall be sun dered some day and shall be a free man forever. But there is another class of pris oners of hope—those who are members of the Church of Christ and doing their duty; those who way down in the depths of their souls have hungered and thirsted after righteousness, crying, “Oh God I wish I were a better man, a better woman, a better husband, a better father, a better citizen. IN THIS BRIGHT WOULD ABOUT ME. The aspirations of the human soul all ever aud anon cry out to God, “I wish how I knew to be better.” Haven’t you felt it? Don't you feel it to-night in your soul? Brother, if you have in your soul that de lire you are a prisoner of hope, and I say to you to night you are as much a prison er of hope as any man, if you will take the hope aud run the race with all the power of your soul. Brothor, I beg you to go in that way and press your way far ther and farther in that direction,'and some of these days your fetters shall be burst, and you will join that band up yonder that walk the golden streets, eter na' free men. There are others who are prisoners of hope. The man who has not been to a single service, who ever aud anon prays and wishes he was a better man. For is there a man who does not occasionally say Irom the depths of his heart: “I wish I was a good man?’’ Broth er, where there is a longing in the heart to be God-like you are a prisoner of hope, and there is a chance to make your way to everlasting peace. And l beg you, brother, hear me. But there are three classes of prisoners Without hope, and oh how my heart shudders as I take hold upon a fact like that. A prisoner without hope. The first class we read of in the Bible are the angels who kept not their first estate. They sinned against God and were cast down iu chains of everlasting dark ness to await the final judgment day. But, brother, we know not how to sympathize with angels. Angels have not bodies as we have; they don’t have gny hairs and wrinkles and old age and death to the body, and we know not how to sympa thize with angels. There is another class without hope, and this class are those who hare lived in this community.'They have lived in this American enlightened Chris tian country, they have enjoyed all the privileges and opportunities of Jesus Christ. They trampled the blood of Christ under their feet as an unholy thing, and gone down to death and to their grave im penitent before God and man. IF MV BIBLE TEACHES ANYTHING it teaches that the man who Jives and dies impenitent joins those lost spirits in that world of despair where no hopes of mercy can ever reach them. And brother what you do the book says do quickly, and now is the accepted hour, now is the day of salvation. To night the impeni tent man who turns his back on the call of mercy and walks out of this house has no assurance at all but that he h?„s got his last call to God. A young lady sat once bv the side of a young man at a revival, and tLe preacher m his sermon tod his hearers that this might be their last call, and a3 the young lady walked out she saitl to her compan ion : “Oh, I wish that preacher had not said that this might be our last cal .” She bid him good night at the door, was taken ill but a short time afterwards and at 1 o’c'ock the next day she breathed her last saying : ‘‘The last time, the last time, God’s last call to me !” A prisoner without hope, lirother, “As long as the lamp holds out to burn, the vilest sinner may return," that may or not be true, but we all admit this, that when the candle is snuffed the life goes out in death no power can rekindle op portunities and privileges lost. I have preached the gospel in twenty different states of this Union. I may live to preach it in all of them, and if God wills that I shou’d preach it in China I would go there with all willingness. But I never have, and never shall, preach it in vour ceme tery. I will never stand amid the white tombstones of earth and beg men to come to God. Mother, as long as that impeai tent boy of yours breathed, you hung over him in supplication, but when he breathed his last and sank into death, you ceased your efforts, realizing that the hour had passed for repentance, realizing that there was no knowledge or device or repentance in the grave, whither we are all tending. There is no repentance be yond the point WHERE A MAX BREATHES HIS LAST. And brother when will your last moment come ? Hear me to-night I say there are persons within the sound of my voice who, perchance, within thirty days from to-day will realize the things the preacher is talking about to night. Oh ! my Sav iour, how cruel we are to our immortali ty, and here we are laughing away our privileges, throwing away the best uppor- , tunitie3 that mortals over had, and at' last, when the moment cornea, when the wife wipes away her tears, and the physi cian lays his finger on your pulse, and | calls wile to one side and says, “He will be dead in an hour; send foi his friends near by,” you catch his voice enough to know the truth, and you lie there motion lees and powerless and listen to the old clock on the mant eplecc—it never ticked so loudly before. Wife comes to your bedside and bends lovingly over you, saying, “Husband, we must give you up; 1 the doctor says you canuot live ’’ I see j the tongue cleave to the roof ol the mouth, and witli one or two long breaths ( all is quiet, and the doctor says, “He is deid ” A black crape hangs out in front! of the door now, the undertaker walks I into the room and pulls a little tape- fine out of his pocket and measures sixteen inchos this way and five feet ten that | way, and lie goes to the coffin-house and ! he secures your case, the hoarse drives up and carries you to the cemetery. (Here a | woman in the rear of the audience be came so frightened at the awful picture that she uttered a cry of terror.) And then it is good-by gospel, good by songs, good by revival influences, good by heav en, good-by all tli it is good for a man unprepared. Lord Jesus Christ, look upon us to night und help us. Such as THESE ARE PRISONERS WITHOUT HOPE. But, brother, thank God we are neither fallen angels, neither are we dead and in our graves. But there is another class of prisoners without hope, and those are the men and who walk the streets of your town, and npiy be some are here to night, that - are just as certain to be damned as that you and I are talking to each other to-night. # I will give you this incident aad then I will close. During the l ist war dpyvn in Virginia, a telegram w i* sent to a ujaq in the nortli stating that his brother was niorta ly wounded, lie hastened to his dying brother’s death-bed side tnd found the news too true, lie pleaded with him on the subject of religion, but the dying man, suffering in every portion of his body, implored that he might not be both ered with such matters, and the efforts of liis brother to prepare his soul tor the coming crisis were without avail. Oa the sixth night the brother lay down on a lounge in the room and unwittingly fell asleep, and while as eep he dreamed that his brother had died with his mouth wide open. In an instant the devil tripgecj into the room in bodily shape, walned up to the de id man’s side looked down his n>outii and saw the 60ul was gone. The dreaming man thought the soul had gone out of the body and hidden in the pile of wood near the stove in the roqm, and the dev)l seemed to scent the sqnl, and start ing towards it, and the soul at his ap proach fled from the room crying, “Lost, lost, lost,” aipl in the distance the dream ing man heard its scream of terror and mortal agony ais the devil stuck his infer nal talons into it. The lqan woke up, saw that the light had gone out, relit it, walked up to his brother’s side and found him lying with his mouth wide open, and he was convinced that God shut his eyes that night to sflow him the scene tflat transpired in the room. God help me. God help me not to go up to the very verge of death and hell unprepared. Don’t do it, brother, I beg you, let us come up to God and be religious. That “good wine needs no bush,” is one of the oldest of sayings and has grown a little too old fashioned for these our modern days. It is not enough that a thing has merit in itself, in these days of imposters and impositions, it must be brought to the notice of the people and then if it has the qualities claimed, it will win its way. Never has this been better exemplified than in the case of llunni cutt's Rheumatic Cure a medicine manufactured by J. M. llunnicutt & Cos., of Atlanta, for the absolute cure of rheu mutism and all blood and kindred dis eases, and placed upon the market less than a year ago. It has not been our pur pose to “puff” patent medicines of any kind in this journal but this specific has proved itself so meritorious, that wc think it but just to call the attention of our readers to the fact that it absolutely doe3 perform the cures which its makers claim it will. The firm doe.s not go to foreign lands or distant cities for their testimonials but offer the unqualified en dorsement and reference of your friends snd neighbors who haye been cured. No fair minded person should allow a friend to suffer from any of the diseases this medium is claimed to cure without at least giving it a tral. No medicine pre pared in the South has ever gained as much favor, its intrinsic merit alone in the same time as the “Cure ” A year since it was only manufactured for private use and now it is know T n in every city, vil l ige and hamlet from tl e iron-biund hills of Tennessee to the Gulf-kiased palma toes of Florida, and from the sandy beaches of the Carolina’s to the muddy banks of the Father of Waters and its sales are exlending rapidly. All testimonials published in this pa per regarding the wonderful cures per formed by “Hunnicutt’s Rheumatic Cure” are genuine, and from responsible parties who will take pleasure in answer ing any communication addressed to them upon the subject. George Caldwell, whit* bear hunting a few days ago ou Balsam Mountain, one of the highest mountains in North Carolina, discovered a man almost naked wandering aimlessly around in the Boow, which was nearly two feet deep, and eight miles from the nearest habita tion. On seeing Caldwell he started to run, but was easily overtaken and cap tured. His clothing was found to con sist of a tiiuuel undershirt, which was torn into shreds, and one shoe. His feet were frostbitten and legs featfully scratched by briars. He is a veritable living skeleton. By securing his bauds Caldwell succeeded in taking him to hs house. All effoits to get him to tell his name or get from him any intelli gent account of himself have so far failed. When spoken to he becomes violent, and tries to get away, and talks delirously about being a fireman ou an engine in Charleston when the big shake came. His miud seems entirely gone, and he will only sleep, when complo'ely exhausted by his ravings. It is with difficulty he can be made to take nour ishment. It is supposed he was crazed by the earthquake shock of August 31, and wandered to the mountains, but how he has lived this long time is a mystery. Caldwell is takiugoare of him and will take steps to restore him to his friends. S 1.50 Per Annum.—sc. a Copy. GEORGIA GLEA NINGS Notes Xirked From Kxehu^ui, Charles Broyles, of Dalton, a W. & A. K. K conductor, has made $-25,000 out of Chattanooga investments. The Gazette, an eight-page paper, start ed in Marietta in December last, by Good man A Cox, suspended last week, giving as the cause, “failed to receive the support the editor was led to expect.” The number of State bouse officials who have been sick during the past month ie one of the strongest arguments in favor of th* speedy completion of the new capitol. There is little donbt that much of this sickness is due to the building, for some one has been sick in every office in it. In the executive office Secretary Warren, in the agricultural department Commit sioner Henderson, in the treasury, Treas urer Hardeman, in the library Librarian Haralson, and in the comptroller’s office both Comptroller Wright and Chief Clerk Furlow have been sick the past mouth. It is probable that no 6iugle other bid d ing in Atlanta can show such a sick list among its inmates. And it can lurdly be claimed that it just happen'd se, that alt these sick men had offices in this building, and that the building had nothing to da with it. Perhaps there never was a more horrr Lie act of inhumanity perpetrated than has occurred near Vineville, on the Cen tral r.iilroad. Last Saturday night the up train on the Central road ran over two mules in a cut near VineviUe. One had a leg crushed and its body m ingled badly. The first has hobbled arouud and gnawed sticks and stubble, but the other has l<en unable to get around even for that, and the two are just perishing to death out there with no merciful hand to put an end to their miserable live3. The owner has not been near them, the railroad authori ties have left them alone, and even the So ciety f.*r the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has been notified, and they have done nothing. The poor brutes remain there still, moaning in the intense agony of their sufferings, while hunger and thir.-t and cold are left to finish the work of the cruel wheels. The Savanah News savs the phosphate men are nettled by the Brady bill, \yhndi was introduced in the Legislature before that body adjourned. One of the deah f of that city expresses himself as follows : “Ifthe bilf passes as it reads now it will seriously injure the fertilizer trade in Georgia. Manufacturers and commission men will not sell to any one op a credit under such & law as this bill proposes. The trade is handicapped terribly pow by the inspection and branding laws. This bil proposes to destry the validity of a promissory note unless the crop from the guano is unuiistakably benefited. How is that to bo decided? Some planters would not be satisfied unless their fertili zer made them two bales to the sere, 'file effect will simply be that tfle dealers will be compel ed to refue all credit sales, apq the small farmers will be the suffereps while their rich neighbors will pay cash and get what guano they waat. Our firai intends to work up all the trade outside of the State that it can and let home trade go, excepting, of course, the cash trade. Jf the bil passes a reaction is spre to fol low in a little while, and the wisest way will be to wait for it. The credit system, under the proposed law, would ciuse so much litigation that all fhe profits in the trade would be killed.” DRDO STOmdDx KANSAS). Bill Nye thus answers a young friend who inquires is Kansas a good place for druggists : Jf you would like tq go to a flourishing country and put put a bass wood mortar in front of your shqp in tirder to sell tfle tincture of damnation throughout b eeding Kansas, now is your golden opportunity. Now is the accepted time. If it is the gpeat big burning desire of your heart to go into a town of 2,000 and open the thirteenth drug store ip order that you may stand behind a tall black walnut prescriptiqn case day in and day out with a graduate in one hand and a Babcock fire extinguisher in the other, filling orders for \vbisky rpade of stump water and the juice of future punishment, yoq will do well to go to Kansas. It is 4. temperance state, and no saloons are al lowed there. All is quiet and orderly, and the drug business is a great success. You can run a dummy drug store there with two dozen dreary old glass bottles on the shelves, punctuated by the hand of time and the Kansas fly of the period, and with a prohibitory law at your back and & tall, red ba rel in the bick room, filled with a mixture that will burn great holes into nature’s heart and make the ennetery blossom as a rose, and in a few years you cr.n sell enough of this justly celebrated preparation for household, scientific and experimental purposes only to fill your flabby pockets with wealth and paint the pure air of Kansas a bright and inflammatory red. That Settled It. ‘‘Charley, said a Western girl, “take me a sleigh riding to-night.” “Am sorry, Kitty, but I’ve got an en gagement that is very pressiug.” “Yes, Charley ; but what’s pressing to squeezing?” “Enough, Kitty. I’ll go.”—Newman Independent. Lt X* Han Sneer at a Want of a Fortune. The great increase of business through out the entire Union is shown by the largely augmented monthly schemes of Distribution presented by The Louisiai a State Lottery at New Orleans, drawn at uoou on the second Tuesday of each month. On Tuesday Feb. Btli, ovi r $522,000 will be scattered among ticket holders at $lO each, and fractional tents at 1$ each: la Jane and December ths Capital Prize will be $300,000, and on other ocasious $150,000. But full info’ - matiou can be bad on application to M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La.. Let no one complain of a waut of a fortune who has never tried. When Wilks Booth killed President Lincoln, his brother Edwin resolved never again to play in the national capitol, and he steadfaat y held to his resolve. It is reported that last week while Mr. Booth wag in Baltimore a iheitrical manager went over from Washington to see him, carrying letters from many of the prom - nent people of Washington a firing the tragedian to favor them with a w eek’s en gagement. In addition to these flattering requests there was a substantial backing to the manager’s invitation in the shape of a guarantee of $20,000 for the week’s engagement. Mr. B >oth was inflexible. He thanked the manager, but declined to depart from hi* resolve. The way to make hard times is io abuse your country and town. Always be ready to discourage any enterprise that springs up, give no encouragement to strangers or capitalists to settle in your midst, and you wid undonbtely do your part in acc onplishing its end. That young girl in Chicago who wants to marry the Anarchist is the prospective heiress to $400,000. It is unfortunate that there is no way by w hich she can convert about half of it into brains.— Ifiuladelphia Presp. I#. G. Junes tins a flue pair of’ Black Horses to sell for cash or gfood note, or will exchange them lor a ffood pair of mules. See him at onee.