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COURANT- AMERICAN. rE’vVclYali.oiL Xt-vory Th.uisi.ay. r artkrsvit.ii; gk'ohgi a . Official Orjaa of Bartow Ccnaly. _ " _ : OOUGLAS WIKLE, ) c ... . D A M. WILLINGHAM. i Ed " on * nd P “>P-"*<>"• THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1887. ■thii iwmmmmmmam Editorial Brevities. Tun president hath demonstrated again that he hath a large backbone and much common sense, in vetoing the pau per pension bill. If oue half the many industries we have discussed for Cartersvilie iu the near future are built, thou we must be the centre of a great manufacturing community. t Tire staid, health}' old city of Macon is picking her Hint for a boom. And why not? Toe Central City has the lo cation, wealth and a brainy, euterpiis ing, plucky people. Bam .Tones rays that in all his four teen \ ears preaching ho has never fouud n place where tlio people would sit up honestly and take the plaiu, uaked tiutb as they will m Boston. There seems to be no change in the senatorial contest in West Virginia. O linden, the democratic caucus nomi nee, is making no progress towards unit ing the full strength of the party. The Stato Agricultural Society, which held its winter convention in Americas l ist week, decided to permanently locate the Stale Fair in Macon. This is oue of tlie few times Atlanta has to get left. Georgia has f >ur applicants for posi tions on the Inter-State Commerce Com mission. Most prominent among them are ex-Goveruor James M. Smith and Mr. Raoul, late president cf the Central Railroad. The president has appointed Alex. C. ir.Lski 11, of Columbia, S. C., government director of the Union Paciffio railroad company, vice E. I*. Alexander resigned. It w ill lie remembered that Gen. Alex ander was recently elected president of tlio Central system. llknuy Ward Beroheu claims to linve disc ivered the secret of happiness. Ife says it consists in a salary of SIO,OOO a year, instead of $20,000. Perhaps the Rev. Henry Ward will, in the warm fu ture. learn that a much smaller sum than SIO,OOO will buy happiness. The anti-proliibitioniats claim to have received another great leverage. A Bos ton man who was on the ill-fated train burned at White River Junction, escaped death probably by going into a saloou for a drink at Concord, thus missing the train by about one minute. Mu. Manning, secretary of the treas ury, on last Monday placed his resigna tion in Ihe hands of the president. He tenders his resignation in order to accept the presidency of the Western National Bank of the city of New York. It is not known who will ho Mr. Manning's suc cessor. • Every citizen of Cartersvilie, who can a fiord it, should have at least one share in the Cartersvilie Laud un i Improve ment Company. If we have no real es tate to put in as capital stock, subscribe for a share, you can make no other in vestment that will pay you half ?o well, besides you encourage an enterprise that must necessarily result ill incalculable good to our town. We see it stated that Jas. R. Randall, of the Augusta Chronicle, is to take editorial charge of the Auuiston (Ala.) Hot Blast. Mr. Randall has uo superior oil the southern press as a pleasing, f aeiblo writer. Ho is a gentleman of culture and moral worth. The citizens of Anniston are to be congratulated on seem ing the services of such a classical and chaste gentlemen at the head of their leading journal. The distressing loss of human life iu burning cars on the occasion of receut railway .accidents has led to efforts at devising protective measures. Vice President Oakes, of the Northern Pacific road, is having built an experimental iron car, intended to supply heat, light and water to passenger trains. This car is intended to immediately follow the engiue. The details, which are still crude, have not boon announced, but the inventor will experiment until practical results have been attained. Those wishiug to thoroughly keep up with the booming times find keep apace with the revolution tint is now making our section anew southland, should sub scribe for “The New South,” published at that busy centre of operation, Bir mingham, Its typographical appearance I.>orh like the out-put of a type foundry, while the editorial and other matter in spires one into the belief that the South is on a boom, whether ho wants to or not. It is a monthly ned cotta only a dollar a year. Aro vst. \ was visited by the most de struotive tire iti lier history on last Sat urday night. Property amounting to $200,000 was destroyed. Among the buildings consumed, the losses and the insurance are us follows : Masonic Thea tre, insured for $40,000, loss about $75,- 000, together with other articles burned was the entire effects of Mrs. Bowers’ tioupe, valued at $11,000; also $1,500 worth of personal property of Manager Colien. The Globe Hotel, the property of Mr. T. W. Coskery, was insured for $.'0,000; loss, including furniture, about $25,000. The stock of dry goods of Daly & Armstrong, insured for $20,000; loss $25,000. The building and stock of clothing tf the ,T. B. White Company, insured for $40,003; list, about $25,000. Tin* sti ck of clothing of I. L. Stan seil, insured for $10,000; loss, about SB,- 000. The stock of carpets tf Bailie & Coskery, iti the Masonic buildiug, in sured for $20,000; loss, about $12,000. E. Liebscher, IV. A. Bamsey, B. M. Nixon, J. P. Cartwright, Mclntosh & Roberts and Benson k Cos., were also heavy losers by the fire. It is estimated that the loss on the buildings, goods, e:c , will amount to about $200,003. THE LESSON TAUGHT BY GADS DEN. For the benfit of a few old croakers in Cartersvilie, whose Rip Van Winkle slumbering has been somewhat disturb ed by our little lioom, we have secured an article from one of our best corre spondents touching the boom and its tf fec's iqoii the little town of Gadsden, Ala., a tow’n that two months ago slum bered as did old Cartersvilie. Oar cor respondent was instructed to overdraw nothing, but give a plain, matter of fact statement, and how well he ha3 done so will be seen from a careful rending cf the article. He only provc3 what can be done right here in Cartersvilie. Gadsden had not one more than w’e, only, if we may be excused for so expressing it, she had more live, go nhead citizens. They, in combining their strength and their capital, havo taken up the cause of their town aid have pushed it where she now stands. Her future is assured and it only remains to be seen whether her sleeping sisters will follow suit. There is . ist uow a most laudable ef fort being made on the part of a few to inaugurate a movement that, if rightly pushed aud handled, will place Carters vilie and Bartow county where they be long. We rpeak of the Cartersvilie Land and Improvement Company. It was uuder the influence of the Gadsden Laud aud Improvement Com pany that Gadsden was brought where she now stands. Why not Cartersvilie ? The investment is good and w’e venture by the time a few months rolls around the shares will be iu demand as the Gadsden’s are now. This combina tion of capital and the bending of every one’s energy at one time will be bound to revolutionize things, aud in a very short space cf time, too. It brings all together iu harmony, that is so necessary just now. Of course we may expect great things from the foreign capital that may flow into our borders, but doesn’t it appear a littlo better aud isn’t it a little more just for owu people to derive some of the bonelits that are bound to accrue in the development of our country ? The cap ital, glad to be loosened from its long i lleness iu the North, will soon be flow ing, and the tide is coming this way. We are in the stream and soon will be flowing with the great tide, whether it is in favor of our home people or the en terprising Yankee. It makes no differ ence ; the tide is bound to sweep through our county and section. Jump aboard, sinners, while passage is cheap in the state-room, for soon you cannot get deck passage for love nor ruoney. The books of tlio Cartersvilie Land and Improvement Company are open aud will remain so until the 10: h of uext mouth, A great rnauy shares havo al ready been taken and are being taken every day, aud among the takers we notice the names of strangers who lire glad to ride with the boom that is sure to com*’. Let our people see the gentlemen at once and let the ball be put iu motion. A great many projects that-will improve the interests of our sec tion are in contemplation by the com pany. Manufactories will multiply, aud our county and section will soon blossom as a rose. Let us all pull together ! GEORGIA'S NATURAL WEALTH An exchange in speaking of Georgia, says it is the grandest state in theUnioa, possessing abundant natural wealth and advantages. Gold is found in 5o coun ties in the state; copper in 12; asbestos iu 12 cruuiies; manganese in 4 counties; mica in 6 counties, diamonds, gems, precious stones, etc., in 2G counties. Diamonds are found iu II ill aud White counties; opal in Bullock aud Washing ton counties; galena iu 7 counties; silver iu 8 couutios; graphite iu 9 counties; kaolin iu 5 counties; fire clay iu 3 coun ties; lime stone in 31 counties; burrstoue in 27 counties; mill in 29 counties; green sand in 4 counties; marble in 9 counties. Gilmer has its white aud varie gated, Walker has black marble. Coal in 3 counties; serpentine iu 8; soapstone in 23; granite iu 48 counties, in suffici ent quantities to be quarried and used for building purposes. Sandstone iu 9 counties; lithographic stone is found in Walker county; polishing sand stone in 3 counties; muck f >r agricultural purposes is found iu Charlton, C inch aud Ware counties. Of these old Bartow stands first. She is not only the banner agri cultural county iu the state, but fore most in point of mineral wealth. With in her borders is f mud c >pper, gold and silver, asbestos, iron, manganese, baryta, limestone, burrstoue, soapstone, graph ite, marble, sand stone aud ochre. All in quantities sufficient to make mining profitable, and nearly all in such quan tities as to be almost inexhaustible. These, together with maguificent scene ry, salubrious climate, fine water, timber of various kiuds, a convenience and ac cessibility to the coal fields of Alabama arid Tennessee, and a population cf in telligent, generous, chivalrous aud brave people, combine to m ike her the most favorable spot on earth. Where iu all the laud can lie found her equal ? Prov idence has fitted her as the natural point for almost every industry of modern pro gress. With all this wealth of natural advantages, it is not strange that Carters ville, the commercial centre aud capital of this grand o!d county of Bartow, shou’d be on the eve of a boom, the like of which no southern town lias ytt ex perienced. ENJOY El EE. What a truly beautiful world we live in ! Nature gives us grandeur of moun tains, glens and oceans, and thousands of means of enjoyment. We can desire no better when in perfect health ; but how often do the majority of people feel like giving it up disheartened, discouraged and worn out with disease, when there is no occasion for this teeling, as every suf ferer (an easily obtain satisfactory proof, that Green's August Flmccr, will make them free from disease, ns when born. Dvspepsia and Liver Complaint are the direct causes of seventy-five per cent, of such maladies as Biliousness, Indigestion, Sick Headache, Costiveness, Nervous Prostration, Dizziness of the Head, Palpi tation of the Heart, and other distressing 1 symptoms. Three doses of August Flaw- j er will prove its wonderful effects. Sam ple bottles, 10 cents. Try it. tf Cologne* In great variety at Wiklt’s drug tore (Cuiry’s late stand) at bottoir prieos. DR. T. 11. BAKER'S TRIAL AND ACQUITTAL. The acquittal of Dr. Baker last week, was a source of much gratification to his friends throughout the state. Thus ends the last of thece’ebrated dyuamite cases: aud upon their termination, Bartow county is to be congratulated. Tiie foulness of the plot aild the heinouacess of the crime, gave the actual perpetra tors uo little notoriety, a id the trials re sultant have naturally elicited much in terest. But the last of these investiga tions, perlinyw, created more interest, if possible, than any of the rest, not so much cn account of the gravity of the charge, but, because it involved the character and reputation of a man emi nent iu his profession, noted for his in telligence, at one time prominent in pub lic matters, aud who has ably and worth ily filled offices of trust and honor. But twelve of his peers, selected for their uprightness and intelligence, sworn to impartially pass upon his case, have, after a patient hearing of a most search ing investigation of all the facts aud cir cumstances surrounding the crime, de clared that so far as this particular of fense is concerned, there should be uo stain upon that character aud reputation. While Dr. Baker’s conduct may have reasonably caused adverse criticism, the verdict of au uubiased, honest jury, which under our system of jurisprudence is accepted as the final arbiter of all criminal accusations, as well as of civil differences, will no doubt bo received as such by those otherwise disposed to re criminate. W’e believe that no unpreju diced, unbiased mind will he heard to say nay. A WEEK’S RECORD. Mr C. T. Guernsey, secretary and treasurer of the Macon, Ga., Bycicle Club, expects to travel from Niagara Falls to Macon on his bycicle as soon as tlie weather will permit. The distance is about twelve hundred miles William K. Vander bilt's new million dollar yaclit lias just be*m completed, and is now moored in North river, and is much admired by tlie public In a few weeks Mr. Vanderbilt expects to take his family and a few friends for a cruise around Bermuda and the West Indies... .Beaumont, the St. Louis contractor, built an eiglit room two story house complete and turned over tlie keys in nine hours and twenty minutes one day last week, in Birmingham.... The jail at Murfresboro, Tcnn., was burnt last Saturday, and three of the prisoners confined in it perished in the flames. ... Right Rev. Wm. Mercer Greene, for forty years Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi, died at Sewanee, Teun., last Sabbath... .The dependent pension hi l which was passed by Congress by a large majority has been vetoed by the president The bill was entitled “An act for the relief of dependent parents and honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who are now dependent upon their own labors for support.” The president'smes sage is a very long one, and is said to be one of the ablest that any president has sent to Congress in many y r ears There is much discussion as to the probable effect upon the popular vote of the north An effort will be made to pass the hill over the veto, but it is not like'y that the effort will succeed. .. .The inhabitants of Ban kan, center of the great Russian Petrole um fields, have been much alarmed over a subterranean explosion which shook houses and caused considerable damage At the same time a volcano burst out of Lokbatan, ten miles distant from Bankan For two nights the volcano threw a column of fire and mud three hundred feet high, illuminating the country for five miles around The mud emitted during the eruption lies from seven to fourteen feet deep over a square mile of territory .... The president has nomina’el Captain Adolphus W. Greely, of Arctic fame, to be chief signal officer, with rank of brig adier-general. .. .Rowau county, Ky., celebrated for its lawlessness, has another sensation. The grand jury on Tuesday of this week returned true bills against Henry S. Logan, Morgan McElury aud Lou Itagborn, charging them with the crime of confederating and banding them selves together for the purpose of killing Judge A. E. Cole, Colonel Z. T. Young and bis son Allie \V. Young, now county attorney of Rowan. The scheme to mur der these men was detected just in time to save their lives.... The wholesale dry goods and boot and shoe house of Black, Oppeuheimer & Cos., ot Galveston, has failed for a million dollars. Too much credit to country customers is the cause assigned. Rheumatism au.l Neuralgia Ca.-jil in ft Days, The Indiana Chemical Cos. have discover ed a compound which acts with truly’ mar velous rapidity in the cure of Rheumatism and Neuralgia. We guarantee it to cure any and every case of acute Inflammatory Rheumatism and Neuralgia in 2 Day’s,and to give immediate relief in chronic cases and effect a speedy cure. No receipt of 30 cents, in two cent stamps, we will send to any address the prescription for this wonderful compound, which can ho fil'ed by your home druggist at sma 1 cost. We take this means of put ting it out as a patent medicine, it being much less expensive. We will gladly refund money if satisfaction is not given. The Indiana Chemical Cos., feb-ly Crawfordsville, lnd. Editors Courant-American: The boom ! the boom ! Your paper is booming. Having been a subscriber to our couuty paper or papers eyer since the war, and (if I am competent to judge) must say that the Couuant-American is equal, if not superior, to any of the pre vious ones. Cartersville and even the secluded town of Euharlee booming with its valuable granite bed and splendid bridge, and the approaches to said bridge being so easy as not to necessitate the use of any extra teams. As we are in our infantile state of writing up our county wo may, in our exhultation, leave out some of the more important matters. We notice in the communication writ ten by “Willow Pond,” that lie, she or it, or what ever gender “Willow Pond’ might be, in enumerating the various good teachers who have taught school at Oak Grove Academy, f*i s to mention the name of Prcf. H. C. Ethridge, who was the model teacher of Oak Grove for seven consecutive years —having taught longer there than all the other teachers out to gether. Now we suppose that “Willow Pond” unintentionally leit out the name of Prof. Ethridge, an honored graduate of Grand Old Mercer, and who is now teach ing in the delightful vitl.ige of Stilesboro. We were a patron of Mr. Ethridge all the i while he taught in our community, and in justice to Mr. E., must say he is one ■ among the very best teachers of our ac quaintance. Fair Play. Mr. Kinch Kitchen has attained an en viable notoiiety amongliis neighbors near Tallapoosa, because fifteen years ago he swore off from getting mad, and has kept his resolution from that day till this. Charles A. Roberts, of East Wilson, N. Y., had thirteen scrofulous ulcers on his face and neck. Hood’s Sarsaparilla cured them. TIMELY TOPICS. THE RUMOR OF CONGRESSMAN CLEM ENTS’ REMOVAL DENIED. “W. J. N.” Sees- tlie First Laity of tlie Lanil aud is Smitten With Her Cbarini. Spec’at cirrespon lence Courant- Amer it an. I have learned from different Georgians recently in Washington that it was cur rently circulated in the Seventh District of Georgia that, at tlie expiration of his next term of Congress, Mr Clements ex pected to move to Louisville, Kentucky. Feeling a personal interest to know if there was really any truth iu the rumor, and believing that the people of his dis trict would also like to know, I made inquiry of Mr. Clements himself. He said I was not the first one who had made such inquiry, and he presumed the report grew out of the fact that he had recently married a Louisville lady. He said, how ever, that it was wholly unfounded in fact, and that the thought of giving up his citizenship in Georgia had not entered his mind. He laughingly said that because he had fallen in love with and married a Kentucky lady it by no means followed that he was infatuated with that State, or expected to i-elax his love of Georgia, lie thought Georgia's future was brighter now than ever before, and that this would be the poorest time of all others to leave the very best of the Southern States, and one that was just merging into what gave promise of being the most prosper ous period in her history’. The influence of Mrs. Clements, I am sure, will not he exerted towards getting her husband to leave Georgia. She expressed herself in my hearing as being anxious to see her Georgia home, and get acquainted with the people with whom she expected to be hereafter identified. I conclude from her conversation that she will enjoy country life and readily adapt herself to her new surroundings in Georgia. And the Geor gia folks are going to like her immensely. She has wonderfully pleasant manners and is a charming conversationalist There is something about her that makes one feel pleasant and easy in her company. She will add anew grace and charm to Mr. Clements’ country home, and instead of pursuading him to move to Kentucky, she will, 1 think, inspire him with a stronger love for Georgia. * * * I saw Mrs. Cleveland at the theatre the other evening. It was on the occasion of the Kirmes entertainment, given lor the benefit cf the Homeopathic Hospital in this city. She and “our Grover” occupied a private box, and with the aid of a strong pair of opera glasses I could bring them up very close. The president is about as large as lie was a year ago, but there Is an overworked sort of expression about liis face. It is a big undertaking to sit at tlie helm of this great government and keep the old ship of state in sailing older Mr. Cleveland is a worker, a careful, industrious, painstaking president, who thinks and acts for himself. I have sometimes passed the White House at nearly midnight, and the light in his work room would be brightly burning I was told by a prominent official of the Treasury Department that nearly every important document coming from the Ex ecutive Department had some of Mr Cleveland’s writing upon it, and many of them were written out in full in liis own hand. This constant labor of body and brain is beginning to show on him, and he does not look as fresh and well as he did the first time I saw him. Still he is a strong, vigorous looking man As he sat by his wife in their private box at the Kir mes dance, he looked very happy and sometimes laughed quite pleasantly He has a beautiful wife and really seems proud of her It is unusual to see so pretty a woman as Mrs Cle "eland is. There is nothing vain or haughty in her manners or her face ; nor does she appear patronizing or condescending in her bear ing. She is just a lovely, graceful, beau tiful, queenly looking woman. A woman apparently suited in every way to be the wife of our president, and wear woithily the honor of being “the first lady ot the land.” It seems that at last the Chinese miners who were so badly treated by the citizens of Wyoming 3’erritory a year or two ago, are to be paid for their losses. It wi 1 be remembered that in the fall of 1885 a (’liinese village at Ilock Springs, Wyom ing, consisting of 765 Chinese miners, was attacked by United States citizens of that Territory, the houses burned down, twenty-eight Chinamen killed outright, fifteen wounded and the others scattered in the hi Is The Chinese Government, through their minister in Washington, demanded that these Chinamen be paid for the damage occasioned by this riot Bills were introduced in both houses of Congress to indemnify these Chinamen for their losses, known as ‘ Chinese Indeirni ty Bills.” The house bill provided for the appropriation of a certain amount of money in bulk, nearly sl'o,ooo, to cover the losses ; while the senate bill made an appropriation of a little larger amount, hut also provided for the appointment of a commission to ascertain the exact losses sustained, and pay the money out only after satisfactory proofs of loss were made before this commission I happened to he at the capitol last week while discussion of the measure was progressing n the house. Quite a num ber of prominent gentlemen took part in the debate, and some interesting speeches were made Mr. Belmont, Mr Clements, Mr. Daniel, Mr Plielp* and Mr Cox all had something to say, and they all agreed that the Chinese had been very badly treated, and that the United States should indemnify them for their losses, though there was some difference of opinion among them as to the kind of obligation our government was under, some claiming that under our treaty obligations with China, we were under legal liabi ity to pay this money- While others, and Mr. Clements particularly, insisted that there was not and could not be any legal liabil ity on the United States, but the payment was recommended as a matter of generosi ty to the citizens of a nation wi li whom our government was on friendly terms The measure was reported from the com mittee on foreign affairs, of which Mr. Clements is a member, and he participated quite freely in the discussion His enun ciation was distinct and lie expressed himse f with clearness and force. He took quite a practical view of the subject, and insisted that while we should perhaps from the standpoint of moral and natural justice pay these claims, there was, strict ly speaking, no legal liability on the gov ernment The depredations made on these Chinese miners were made of pri vate individuals, on their own lesponsi bility and without the knowledge or sanc tion of the government. These persons ; commit ing tliis outrage were legally liable j to the sufferers out of their individual j property for the losses sustained, but the j United >tates Government as such was not liable legally. If such a liability were admitted in this case it would be taken as a precedent and innumerable other petty claims would be sprung on the govern- | went, and Congress would be asked to appropriate money for them because it had dmitted in this case a legal obligation to pay for damages inflicted by private in dividuals. j On the other question as to whether Congress wou and appropriate a sum in bulk [ to pay the lesses, or whether it would direct the money to be paid out only after j clear proof of loss before a commission, Mr Clements thought it was more in ! keeping with business principles to require proof of loss to be made before paving out the people’s money. I quote the closing j of his speech : “Now, in order to dispose of this who’e ' matter, when the president lias recom mended the payment of the claim, w hen the secretary cf state has urged the pay ment ot it, when the house is willing to vote for the payment of it, is it any great inconvenience to the Chinese Govern ment that w'e should have an investiga tion as to the amount? The disposition has already been shown by our govern ment, and will be shown by the vote of this house it the bill is passed, not to deny or curtail this claim unreasonably. But it is the surest way to a final disposition of the matter, which I have no doubt will be satisfactory to both governments, and will be the nearest to what is right and proper, to have a further investigation to ascertain accurately the propermmount to be paid. “If we substitute the house bill it appro priates the gross sura of $147,000, the full amount that has bean claimed by the agents of the Chinese Government. This is simply granting the entire amount without question. That is not the ordi nary way in which wc do business with regard to the c'aims of our own citizens. We do not pay the full amount of claims without question. But in this case I repeat I would not oppose this if we had not the senate bill here. Suppose w T e adopt an amendment substituting the provisions of the house bill reported by the committee for the senate bill, it goes bick to the senate; that body may not concur, and it may go into conference or may be lost by disagreement between the two houses. But a few weeks of the session remain. This question has been pressing upon us, and it is one which should be finally disposed of. There is no danger that there will not be a full and just allowance made under the senate bill. To dispose of the whole matter fi nally in a spirit of generosity toward a friendly people, I think w T e should pass the senate bill without any amendment, and get rid of the question.” W. J. N. MISS LULU IIURST. SHE MAKES A FORTUNE, AVFIICH IS XREDI.EI) BY LUCKY INVEST MENTS, AND THEN Slie Marries Her Former Stage Manager Mr. Paul Atkinson. Special to the Atlanta Constitution from Home says : Miss Lulu Hurst, the great electrical wonder, who created such a furore three years ago, was married on the 9th inst , in Rome, to Paul M. Atkin son, who was her manager during her stage life. The couple were to have been married during their tour of the United States, hut friends interposed for several reasons. It was feared that marriage might weaken the strange out of which the girl was making so much money ; besides it was advisable tliat Miss Lulu should go to school a little longer. When one hundred thousand dollars was put away the family concluded that they had money enough upon which to retire. Miss Lulu was sent to Shorter College, in this city, and Mr. Atkinson was taken into confidence by the family and aided in the investment of the for tune. Last December Mis3 Lulu conclud ed her education and went home to get married. Atkinson is now engaged in the manufacture of scales in Chattanooga, and in that city the couple will live. Special to the New Orleans Times Democrat from Chattanooga says : Paul M Atkinson, of this city, who achieved quite a reputation as manager of Lulu Hurst, the young lady who possessed such marvelous magnetic powers, was married to that lady this morning at her home near Ccdartown, Ga Miss Hurst, since her wonderful power deserted her, has been attending school, and graduated in De cember last. It is reported that her for tune of $200,000, amassed while on the stage, has been trebled since by lucky investments Special to Savannah Times from New Orleans says : Lulu Hurst, the Georgia wonder, who retired from the boards and sawdust on a competency of five million francs several years ago, and who, it is reported on good authority, is behind the \t est Point terminal deal in Georgia Cen tral, and who luckily invested her colossal earnings in stocks that were under the freezing point, and which have now al ready risen to above 180 Fahrenheit* that is, 100 Centigrade, or 80 Reaumur, and who, since leaving the stage, has been engaged, first, in lifting Voltaic piles, and, afterward, in serving on Polar expedi tions, to counteract, with her magnetic inlluence, the declination of the needle, is married. “Consumption Can be Cured.” Dr. J. S. Combs, Owensrille, Ohio, says : “I have given Scott’s Emulsion Of Cod Liver Oil with llypopho3pbites to four patients with better results than seemed possible with any remedy. All were hereditary cases of Lung disease, and advanced to the stage when Coughs, pain in the chest, frequent breathing, fre quent pulse, lever and Emaciation. All the cases have increased in weight from 10 to 23 lbs., and are not now net ding any medicine. I prescribe no other Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphit.es, Lime and Soda, but Scott’s, believing it to be the best.” feb 3 Im. Astonishing Success. It is the duty of every person who has Bosehee’s German Syrup to let its won derful qualities he known to their friends in curing Consumption, severe Coughs, Croup, Asthma, Pneumonia, and in fact a 1 throat and lung diseases. No person can use it without immediate relief. Three doses will relieye any case, and we consider it the duty of all Druggists to recommend it to the poor, dying con sumptive, at least to try on'- bottle, as 80,- 000 dozen bottles w'ere sold last year, and no one case where it failed was reported, a medicine as the German Syrup cannot be too widely kuown. Ask your druggist about it. Sample bottles to try, sold at 10 cents. Regular size, 75 cents. Sold by all druggists and dealers, in the United States and Canada. nov ly Just what effect the passage of the inter-State commerce bill will have on the manufacturing centers remains to be seen. As yet, the bill is imperfectly un derstood. There is no doubt about it that persons living in small towns where only local rates are charged will get lower freights, but when it comes to the ship ment of grain to the great trade centers, it mav operate veiy seriously against the farmers. It is possible that the very men who have been clamoring for the passage of the inter-State commerce bill may dis cover that the object which they sought to accomplish has been defeated. Every thing depends upon the construction placed upon the bill. The next few weeks will determine the matter.—Chat tanooga Commercial. Led Astray. Fernakdina, Nassua Cos., Fla , March 29,1880 —“I have used Dr. Simmons Liver Regulator and always found it to do what is claimed for it. The last bottle and two packages did me no good and were worse than nothing. I see it is not put up by J, 11. Zeiliu & Co.’s., and not genuine, and a waste of money to buy it . I would be glad to get the pure and genuine. Send me some from honest liands(with red Z and Zeilin & Co.’s signature on Wrapper). The fictitious stuff sold will injure some one badly. “Your Ob’t Serv’t, feb 10 lm Benj. T. Ricii, A LESSON AVI rsi A MORAL. AVhen AVIII <Jur Eyes be Opened to this Great National Calamity. The year 1886 played sad havoc with many prominent men of our country. Many of them died without warning, passing away apparently in the lull flush of life. Others were sick but a comparatively short time. We turn to our files and are astonished to find that most of them died of apoplexy, of paralysis, of nervous prostration, of malignant blood humor, of , Bright’s disease, of heart disease, of kid- Siey disease, of rheumatism or of pneu monia. It is singular that most of our promi nent men die of these disorders. Any journalist who watches the telegraph re ports, will be astonished at the number of prominent victims of these disorders. Many statements have appeared in our paper with others to the effect that the diseases that carried off so many promi nent men in 1886, are really one disease, taking different names according to the location of the fatal effects. When a valuable horse perishes, it be comes the nine days’ talk of tire sporting world, and j r et thousands ot ordinary horses are dying every day, their aggre-; gates loss is enormous,and yet their death creates no coinmet. So it is with individuals. The cause of death of prominent men creates com ment, especially when it can be shown that one unsuspected disease carries off most of them, and yet “vast numbers of ordinary men and women die before their time every year from the same cause.” It is said if the blood is kept free from uric acid, that heart disease, paralysis, nervous prostration, pneumonia, rheuma tism, and many cases of consumption, would never be known. This uric acid, we are told, is the waste of the system, and it is the duty of the kidneys tc re move this waste. We are told that if the kidneys are maintained in perfect health, the uric, kidney, acid is kept out of the blood, and i these sudden and universal diseases caused by uric acid will, in a large meas ure disappear. But how shall this be done? It is fo’ly to treat effects. If there is any known | way of getting at the cause, that way 1 should be known to the public. We be- j lieve that Warner’s safe cure, of which so ! much has been written, and so much 1 talked of by the public as the one specific j for such diseases. Because public attention has been di rected to this great remedy by means of advertising, some persons have not be lieved in the remedy, We cannot see how Mr. Warner could immediately bene fit the public in any other way, and his valuable specific should not be condemn ed because some nostrums have come before the public in the same way, any more than that all doctors should be con demned because so many of them are in competent. It is astonishiug what good opinions j you hear on every side, of that great ; remedy, and public opinion thus based upon an actual experience, has all the \ weight and importance of absolute truth. At this time of the year, the uric acid in the blood invites pneumonia and rheu matism, and there is not a man who does not dread these monsters of disease; but he need have no fear of them we are told, if he rid the blood of the uric acid cause. These words are strong, and may sound j like an advertisement, and be rejected as j such by unthinking people, but we be lieve they are the truth, and as such should be spoken by every truth-loving newspaper. OH! MY BACK Every strain or co'd attacks that weak back and nearly prostrates yon. ■Will IP 0 i s Strengthens the Muscles, Steadies tlie Nervca. Enriches the Blood, Gives New Vigor. Dn. J. L. Myeiis, FairlieM, lowa, Bays: . “ Brown’s Iron Bitters is the best Iron medicine I have known in ray 30 years' practice. I have found it specially beneficial in nervous or physical exhaustion, and in all debilitating ailments that Loar so heavily on the system. Use it freely in my own family.” Mn. W. F. Brown, 537 Main St., Covington. Ky.. saj-B: ”1 was completely broken down in health and troubled with pains in my buck. Brown’s Iron Bitters entirely restored mo to health.” Genuine has above Trade Mark and crossed red line# on wrapper. Take no oilier. Mude only by ÜBOWN CHEMICAL CO., UAI.TIMOKii, Mli. n j 1 1 3TO3R# SALE, CITY OF CARTERSVILLE. House and six acres land, .all improvemenlfi House and Lot, close to transfer yard. One and a half a:res cu Erwin street, near Wal’ace place. Residence and Seven Acres of L>.r:d on Market street. Fine Residence on Gilmer street. House and Lot, and Vacant Lot on Tennessee s-tivet. House and Lot oa Frwin s’reef. Biick Wa eh' use, KKlxiiO. with Large Lot. Two Vacant Lots on Cassville street, and 4 acres. Three St re Houses on Main s’rcct, good busi ness stands. Fourund a Half Acre Lot on Railroad street. And olln r\ ALSO:— 0 000 Ac as Mineral Lands, Eartow County. Ct. h. aubkey. febn-tf G EORGIA Bariow Conn ty. To all whom it nny concern: Notice is hereby given that I, U'zibeUi HacfeeU, a resi dent Of*;, id county, intend to ne.-otiin a public and ne -trader, and this advertisement is in serted in the Couraiit-Mnerican lor one month in order tbit t m ry b -come a public free tn-dcr under the law— of this State. And I, VV. W. H e;t i!, her husband, hereby ton sent to the same. January 13b, 1887 ELIZ VBET! 1 II U’KETr, W. \V. II AUvETL'. DRUGS! DRUGSr j. a. ME & CO., (SUCCESSORS TO D. W. CURRY.) lias now in store the best selected, most complete and varied stock of Drugs, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Glass, Patty, Perfumes, Etc. IN NORTH GEORGIA. Gome to see ns, examine £nol and get prices. Physicians Piwcriptions fllle l with the greatest care day and night by a licome J pharmacist. AGEITT T 5 ’Y Ck&s. A. Wikle, Manager. feblO-ly A BOOMING BUSINESS X IST Furniture! S. L. YANDIYERE, Proprietor, M tafia Mm Use, Ready to Ride any Boom that may come along. lie runs a Booming Business by Booming Low Prices. Ifis stoi'k of FINE FURNITURE is Large and Superb everything to suit the most fastidious in elegant profusion. The poor m iris pocket book has been remembered, and good* bought accoidingly. Be sure and price furniture in this LITE ESTABLISHMENT and you will not go to other marke's. “LIVE AND LET LIVE’’ is tho motto of this excellent house fehlu-ly iirr-n-r —••---- m ... ■■ —— -i JOHN T. NORRIS. Real Estate and Fire Insurance, (UPSTAIRS.) First Door South, of Howard's Bank. fib ’ 0-1 y -if Tgsd In the CruciHe. F About twenty years ago I discovered a little sore on my cheek, and the doctors pro nounced i t cancer. I have tried a number of physicians, out without receiving any perma nent benefit. Among the number were one or two specialists. The medicine they applied was like fire to the sort*, causing intense ram. I saw a statement in the papers telling what S. S. S. had clone for others similarly afflicted. I procured some at once. Before f had used the second bottle the neighbors could notice that my cancer was healing up. My general health had been had for two or three years—l haa a hacking cougn ana spit blood contin ually. I hc.d a severe pain m my breast. After taking six bottles of S. S. S. my cough left me and I grew stouter than I had been for several years. My cancer has healed over all but a little spot about the size of a half dime, and it is rapidly disappearing. I would advise every one with cancer to give .S. S, S. a fair trial. Mrs. NANCY J. McCONAUGHEY, Ashe Grove, Tippecanoe Cos., Ind. Feb. If., 188fi. • Swift's Specific is entirely vegetable, and seems to cure cancers by forcing out the ixupa ,f ies from the blood. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. 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