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Ufl it "I I'ARTitJRVii.i.HCcurKAJrr, Established 18h.> Consolidated 1887.
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Georgia Chemical Works,
Manufacturers of
Hiji Urals Fertilizers and Ml Pkjlatss!
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Capacity of Factory in 1876,
5,000 TO 7,000 TONS!
First Ton was Manufactured Dec. 22, 1876
Capacity of Factory in 1886,
OVER 30 000 TONS !
Quality, Purity and Analysis of Every Ton Guaranteed.
STANDARD GUANOS:
Mastodon,
Lowe’s Georgia Formula,
Grain Fertilizers,
Dissolved Bone Phosphate & Potash,
Acid Phosphate,
With and Without Potash.
ME II BEST ITEHIIL.
SI'I,UNDID MECHANICAL CONDITION.
EVERY BAS FULL WEIGHT.
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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.
READ THE RECORD !
Aell Phosphate Without Potash Acid Phosphate With Potash.
Available Available
Phosphoric Phosphoric
Acid. Acul. Potash It. O.
Season ’B2-83 15.15 per cent 13.25 per cent 1.75 per cent
Season ’B3-84 15.8<> per cent 14.00 percent 1.52 percent
Season’B4-85 10.80 per cent 14.05 per cent 1.10 per cent
Season ’BS-80 15.05 per cent 13.55 per cent 1.20 per cent
SEASON OF 188-’B7.
Official Analysis Just Deceived:
18.20 Per Cent.
17.65 Per Cent.
2.25 Per Cent.
The above is higher than we claim, and we
reqtested the Department to review its An
alysis.
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file Official Ml of Revision:
Acid Phosphate With Potash, Acid Phosphate Without Potash
Analysis: Analysis:
Moisture 7.00 Moisture 0.85
Insoluble Plios. Acid 0.05 Insoluble Plios. Acid 0.00
Soluble “ 10.00 Soluble “ .10 20
Reverted “ 1.50 Reverted “ 2.05
Available “ 17.50 Available “ 18.25
Ammonia OO Ammonia .OO
Potash 2.20 Potash _ OO
Commercial Value Commercial 4 alue $2<.38
Our reputation and grades shall be main
tained, and these goods will be sold at figures
competitive with standard high grade brands.
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can get NOT ONLY VALUE but promptness
and satisfaction.
We thank the public for its past liberal pat
ronage, and shall in the future guarantee the
same faithful service and fair dealing.
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Office 735 and 737 Reynolds Street,
Augusta, - - - Georgia.
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Kidney Affections, Jaundice,
Mental Depression, Colic!
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No Household Should he Without It,
and, by being kept ready for immediate use.
will save many an hoiir of suffering and
many a dollar In time and doctors’ bills.
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arrangements for all the Monthly and Semi-
Annual Drawings of The Louisiana State Lot
tery Company, ai.tl in person manage and con
trol the Drawings themselves, and that the s one
are conducted with honesty, fail ness, and in
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Lotteries w hich may be presented at our coun
ter-.
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OVtK HALF A MILLION DISTRIBUTED
Tbe Louisiana State Lottery Company
Incorporied in ISCB for 23 years by the Logis
laturelor Educational and Charitable purposes—
with a enpitid of sloo,ooo—'.o which a reserve
fund of over $550,000 lias since been added,
lly an overwhelming popular vote its fran
chise was made a part of the present State Con
stitution adopted December 2d, A. D., 187‘J.
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ORLEANS, TUESDAY, March 15, 1887—
202d Monthly Drawing.
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20 PRIZES OF 1,000.... 20.000
50 “ 500 ... 25,000
100 “ 500... 30,000
450 200... 40,000
500 “ 100.... 50,(XX)
1,010 “ 50.... 50,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
1(.0 Approximation Prizes of SIOO ... $30,000
100 “ “ 200 20,000
100 “ *‘ 100 ... 10,000
2,179 Prizes, amounting to $535,000
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toguarantee Priz s in this I.o'tery,o- holding out
any other impossible inducements, are swindlers,
and only aim to deceive and defraud the unwaiy.
Askvotir retailor for the James Moans’ S3 Shofc
Caulion ! Some dealers recommend inferiflk
go. xls in order to make a larger profit. This is tha
origiunl $3 Shoe. Beware of imitations which ac
knowledge their own Inferiority by attempting to
build upon the reputation of the original.
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rta<u=j S 3 SHOE.
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fi V'.. a* formation how to get this
I*'' \\ shoe tin any State or
Our celebrated factory produces a larger quantity
of Shoes of this grade than any other factory in the
world. Thousands who wear them will tell you the
reason If you ask them. JAMES MEANS’
&110 E for Boys Is unapproached in Durability.
CARTERSVILLE, GA„ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1887.
MOKE GOOD NEWS.
CAPITAL BY TIIE MILLIONS TO FLOW
INTO OLD BARTOW.
The Etowah Property to he the Scene of
Disturbance —A Million Dollar Roll
ing Mill, Smelting Mills, Flour
ing Mills to be in Operation
in Eighteen Mouths.
The Courant American is fully aware
that its readers are eager to grasp any in
formation concerning the probable devel
opment of the various resources through
out our county and section. It is not
desired to publish anything but what
may be substantiated. The Etowah syn
dyeate with its headquarters in Atlanta,
is alive and are rapidly making arrange
ments to commence operations on their
property here. They are slow in giving
out any news concerning their plans, and
we have to rely to a great extent upon
what can be gathered from other sources.
The following correspondence to the Ba-'
vannah News has the true ring about it
and the writer evidently is on the inside
and in a position to write intelligently
and truthfully. From the article it will
be seen that the property will be a live
bee hive in a few months, and will prove
a vast benefit to the whole country.
Sm Her industries and enterprises will
spring up in our midst and the very
fondest hopes of the most sanguine may
yet be realized.
Atlanta Correa, onder.ee Savannah News.]
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 17. —By far the
most important enterprise that has been
inaugurated in Georgia since the war is
now fully under headway, and is being
pushed with much vigor and determina
tion by a syndicate, composed of the
presidents of two banks and ten other of
the most substanial citizens of this state.
The origin of this enterprise is the
purchase recently of what is known as
the Etowah property, three miles from
Cartersville and about fifty miles from
Atlanta. The property consists of 17,00(1
acres of the choicest mineral and most
productive agricultural lands in Georgia,
a large portion of which is covered by a
deuse forest of oak and pine timber. Much
of the tract fronts on the Western and
Atlantic railroad, and before tbe war a
short railroad bui t by the owners of the
property ran thro igh a portion of the
tract to several mines and furnaces which
were then being operated. Gen. Sher
man, in his march to the sea, destroyed
the road. At that time several furnaces
and rolling mills were in successful op
eration, the product of which was nads
and merchant iron, much of which wds
sold in Georgia and the adjacent states.
During the war a considerable portion of
the product of these mills was used in
making horseshoes.
The Etowah Iron and Manganese
Company, which has recently acquired
THIS MAGNIFICENT PROPERTY,
will commence at once to lay iron on the
old road bed, and extend the line through
the tract so as to give ample facilities for
the.development of every acrecf this im
mense territory. A large force of hands
will be put to* work building tbe line as
soon as the survey which is now going on
is completed. "Negotiations are being
made for the construction of several hun
dred houses for the use of tbe operators
who will be employed in the various en
terprises that will soon be established
there. The Etowah river, noted for its
immense water pow T er, runs through the
greater portion of the land, besides which
several smaller streams, giving additional
water power, traverse the property, and
after enriching the lands through' which
they run, flow into the Etowah. Four
miles of this river show a fall of seventy
feet, and furnish a water power of nearly
12,000 horse, at the lowest stage of water.
The character of minerals to be found is
principally iron and manganese,- while
vast quantities of baryta, ochre, limestone,
sandstone, talc and asbestos are to be
found in every section. The manganese
is of the best quality, many samp’es of
w’hich yield 55 per cent, of manganese
metal, and is found in immense quanti
ties, so much so that the supply is be
lieved to be exhaustless. Several large
shipments of it have been made to Europe
and there is a ready demand for all that
can be taken out. These deposits of man
ganese are thought to be all that there are
in Georgia, and in consequence their
value cannot be overestimated. To make
any kind of showing in taking out this
, wealth of manganese it wi 1 require the
removal^of
SEVERAL MILLION TONS,
and then an abundance will be left to
supply even the most exhorbitant de
mands. The iron ore to be found od the
property not on’y abounds in vast and
measureless quantities, but the output
from the various openings that have been
made show a remarkable variety m the
way of quality.
The heavy growth of oak and pine tim
ber, which covers a considerable portion
of tbe tract, will furnish an abundance of
charcoal, and several charcoal chemical
furnaces will be constructed at once, so as
to utilize the wood. Besides this the
company will construct an immense
smelting mill for manganese, and another
for iron ore. Another enterprise wh'cb
will be established will be
A MILLION DOLLAR ROLLING MILL
for the manufacture of steel rails, and
seyeral other mills for the production of
merchant and bar iron. Other enterpri
ses, such as a mill for making nails, one
for the manufacture of horse shoes, and,
in fact, numberless factories for turning
out all kinds of goods to be produced from
iron and steel will be put up. The con
struction of car works and a plant for the
production of car wheels is also being
favorably discussed, with a strong proba
bility that both of these enterprises will
be under headway within the next
eighteen months. The old flouring mill,
the remnants cf which are still to be seen,
and when in operation before the war
produced about 500 barrels of flour daily,
is to be rebuilt on the most improved
style. These enterprises are among the
number now determined upon. As the
work of development progresses, others of
like importance will he inaugurated.
With its magnificent water power, its
boundless forests of oak and pine, and
the inexhaustible supply of manganese
and iron ores, manufactories and enter
prises of all characters can be established
there upon a sound footing and made to
pay from the beginning.
Mr. J. 11. Parkes, a substantial farmer
near Kingston, Kentucky, has success
fully trained a force of seven large
monkeys to work in his hemp fields, and
to break and prepare the hemp for
market. They do the work quicker_and
better than the negroes he formerly em
ployed, and the cost is about one-fourth,
It required about four months of train
ing to get the animals to understand the
duties required of them. But now they
seem to comprehend it all, and to perform
their daily labor with but little difficulty.
The monkeys was sent to Mr. Pfirkes
by his brother who is engaged in business
in Cape Town, South America, and who
had seen the animals put to similar uses
by the natives of that country.
Mr. Parkes will send for about ten
more, six of which will be sold to John
G. Taylor, another extensive raiser of
hemp and neighbor of Mr. Parkes.
THE ETOWAH PROPERTY.
At'anta Journal.]
The statements made in the Journal
Saturday, iu reference to the company
that have lately purchased this fine
property, and their liberal plaus for its
restoratiou and fuller development, have
attracted much interest. The gentle
men who are investing their money and
energies in this enterprise are some of
our most sagacious and public-spirited
citizens—men who would not rush wildly
into any speculation or business without
good assurance of its success. Iu this
instance they have the record and re
membrance of for oner success to give
them the best assurance. The property,
as is well known, was worked advanta
geously under the superintendence of
the late Hon. Mark A. Cooper up to and
during the first years of the late war,
and his investment and facilities were
by no means equal to those of the geu
tlemen who propose to continue and ex
tend his work. Not only does the laud
bought by the company contain au in
exhaustible supply of the finest ores,
but its location affords superior facilities
for converting it into the best and most
needed iron, as well as transporting it to
market. Other schemas for the greatly
increased production of iron may be of
the “wild cat” or speculating order, but
of tho stability and success of this there
can be no doubt.
To Atlanta, especially, this enterprise
promises to be of great benefit and ad
vantage. Its proximity and the superi
ority of its iron product will contribute
largely to the support and success of the
manufacturing enterprises already es
tablished and those yet to be built up
in our citjx It is on increased manufac
tures, both of the smaller and larger
kinds, that Atlanta must mainly rely for
continued growth and trade, and this
splendid enterprise will bo an important
factor iu promoting aud sustaining them.
By all means, aid aud encomage it to its
full development.
IS IT A WONDER?
A Most Startling Statement l>y tlie State
Commissioner of Agriculture.
In a supplemental report receutly is
sued by the State Agricultral Department
we find the following item: “The aver
age cash piica paid for bacon iu the
state during the year was 8 cents per
pound, while llie average price on time,
payable November Ist, was 11 {- cents.
The average price for corn was G 9 cents,
and the time price 93 cents.
“The farmer purchasing supplies on
time pays in tins way about 42 per cent,
on bacon and 344 per cent, on corn for
about four months time, which is equiv
alent to rates of iuterest of 12G and 104
per cent, per annum. In this, taken in
connection with the fact that little more
than two-thirds of a provision supply is
produced in the state, is shown oue im
portant reason for the hard times expe
rienced by the farmer. These materials
may be profitably produced at home,
and the mouey that is expended for such
supplies outside of the state, is an un
necessary aud damaging drain upon our
resources.”
In connection with the above report
the Americus Journal comments as fol
lows : “No wonder farming does not
pay —the farmer. It seems, however,
to pay the supply merchant very well.
If a farmer can come out even at tlie end
of the year aud pay such an interest,
then farming in Georgia is the most
profitable business we know of. But
farmers for the past three years have
not come out even, aud it is little won
der. In any other class of business
they could not liav held up three
months. The commissioner cf agricult
ure does well to call attention to such
important facts.”
NO ESCAPE THAT TIME.
Youth’s Companion.]
In the early history of Indiana there
was a time when the inhabitants suffered
from the depredations of a desperate
gang of horse thieves. Many of the
offenders were captured, tried and
proved guilty, yet through some defect
in the indictment, escaped punishment.
Naturally, the people complained of
this, for they got neither satisfaction nor
protection. About this lime General
Marston G. Clark was appointed judge,
to till a vacancy. He was not learned in
the law, but he had a stern lover of jus
tice, and, as the following anecdote
proves, the people did well in trusting
their oause in his hands :
Court came on ; Judge Clark on the
beucli. The jail at this time was full of
horse thieves. The penalty was not
less than thirty-nine lashes ou the bare
back. The grand jury returned indict
ments against each of the prisoners.
Judge Clark—We will try John Long
first, as he seems to be a leader in this
business. Sheriff, bring him info court.
The sheriff brought the man in.
“John Long,” said .the judge, “stand
up. You are indicted for stealing an
Indian pony. Are you guilty, or not
guilty?’’
Counsel for John Long—may it please
the court, we plead in abatement that
his name is John H. Long.
Judge Clark—That makes no differ
ence ; I know the man, aud that is suffi
cient.
Counsel—We then move to quash the
indictment.
Judge Clark—State your objections.
Counsel—First, there is no value of
the horse laid ; second, it is charged iu
the indictment to be a horse, when it is
a gelding.
Judge Claik—l know an ludiau pony
is worth ten dollars, aud I shall consider
that a gelding is a horse ; motion over
ruled.
The prisoner then pleaded not guilty.
The jury was impanelled ; the trial was
short ; verdict, guilty ; sentence, thirty
nine lashes on his bare back.
Asa last resort, Long’s counsel moved
an arrest of judgment, on the ground
that it was not charged in the indict
ment that the horse was stolen iu the
territory of Indiana. The judge promis
ed to consider the point, and give a
decision the next day. Meantime he
ordered the sheriff to keep the prisoner
safe. But privately he told the sheriff
to take LoDg into the woods, clean out
of hearing, and give him thirty-nine
lashes on his bare back, well laid on,
then put him in jail again.
“Keep this to yourselves,” he added,
“and bring the prisoner into court in the
morning.” Tho order was obeyed to
the letter, and, next morning. Long was
in the box agaiu, his counsel ignorant of
what had takeu place.
Judge Clark—l have been thinking of
the case of Long. I think we will grant
him anew trial.
Long, springing to his feet, cried out,
“Oh, no; for heaven’s sake! I have
been whipped almost to death already.
I discharge my attorneys, and withdraw
their motion.”
Judge Clark—Clerk, enter the judg
ment on the book and mark it satisfied.
The other prisoners were brought in,
in succession, and convicted. No mo
tion to quash, or iu arrest, was afterward
made. The prisoners were whipped and
discharged, carrying with them the
news to all their comrades. Not a horse
was stolen iu that part of the territory
for years afterward.
THE TEX AS l FFEREKS.
A Plea For i heir Belief From tl£ La
uies' Benevolent Altl Society of
Henrietta—A Chance For
the Charitable.
To Elitors Coui ant-Ameri'a-.n.]
Will you allow me space iu your valu
able paper to make an appeal for tbe
sufferers iu Western Texas? I know
there are a great many who are opposed
to the people of this country asking for
help, but the truth is, they must have
it, they can not live without it, aud I see
those who are most opposed to seeking
help are the ones who do the least to
relieve the people. I now ask the peo
ple of the United States to send clothing
to this people. They are greatly need
ed ; men, women aud children of the
laboring class are uot half clothed, and
fully oue-third are uot half fed. I know
families that are depeudiug upon the
charity of their neighbors, aud ouo
widow told me yesterday she had only
one gallon of meal, had lived on bread
alone since Christmas, aud did uot have
a change of clothing. One old man told
me he had on all the clothes he had in
the world, and that he could not change
his clothes if he were to die. There is
uo money in the country, no food and
no clothing. If you will box or bundle
your cast-off clothing aud semi it, with
freight prepaid, to me at Myrtle, Tex.,
I will distribute the same to the people.
The Ladies’ Benevolent Society of Hen
ri eita have appointed me their agent to
solicit contributions. Will you interest
yourself in this mutter? You can do a
great deal if you will, aud God will re
ward you, M. E. I vie.
Myrtle, Clay County, Tex.
LOUISIANA LAW.
Tho Slayer of Joint Kirkpatrick to be
Pardoned.
There seems to be some very caustic
strictures from different papers of Louisi
ana in regard to the disposition of the case
of Dr. Ford, the slay er of John C. Kirk
patrick, formerly of this place. The New
Orleans Item, a newspaper that stands
high has the fo’lowing:
The following from the Boston Demo
crat of the sth inst., will shock the moral
sense of the people terribly, and cast an
other shameful staiu upon the reputation
of Louisiana through its officials. The
Item does not believe it possible that the
Boaul of Pardons could in any manner
be even approached through such influ
ences as the Democrat so unqualifiedly
asserts ; hut for public credit and individ
ual fair fame that, paper should make
known the foundation of its terrible
charge, in order that no vestige of suspi
cion that it is true may he permitted to
linger in the mind of any honorable hu
man being at home or abroad. We
quote :
dr. ford’s trial (?)
The following special to the Shreveport
Times tells what has become of the Ford-
Ivirk Patrick case.
“New Orleans, Feb. 2. —Dr. Ford,
through counsel, plead guilty of man
slaughter, which was accepted by the
State’s attorney. A pardon will speedily
follow. I consider that the case was ad
mirably conducted. “W. P. Ford.”
Just why Dr. Ford should speculate
upon tbe chances for a pardon is one of
the many things the public will never un
derstand. This case will go down in the
records of the State like the Ford case in
Missouri (for the assassination of Jesse
James), the murderer pardoned before the
trial of his case, and will only show how
shallow the law is in Louisiana. The
real fact is, Dr. Ford was promised imme
diate pardon through the influence of
money or he would never have entered
the plea of manslaughter.
TAKE YOUR CHOICE.
Just How Prohibition is Working in At
lanta.
Corstitution.
From the f blowing expressions of the
present mayor aud the last mayor of the
city the public can satisfy itself as to the
working of prohibition in Atlanta. There
can now bo no further doubt concerning
the question, as everybody will agree
with the two mayors :
Ex-Mayor Hillyer, Mayor Cooper (auti)
(pro.) press letter. press telegram.
The truth is, there Chicago, Feb. 10.
is not one-tenth of —Mayor Cooper, of
the drunkenness' in Atlanta, Ga., ae-
Atlanta that there companied by alder
used to be in the men and other offi
days of the bar- cials of that city, ar
rooms. Tho reform rived in the city
in the drinking hab- yesterday. They
its of the people is have come specially
unmistakable, aud to examine into the
in the very highest improvem en t s in
degree gratifying, fire extinguishing
Taken altogether, apparatus, aud iu
tlie prohibition law tend to purchase
is to-day better en- some chemical en
forced in the city ot giues. The party
Atlanta, than is the will exteud its tour
law against conceal- 1 to Baltimore aud
ed weapons, or any New York. Talk
of that class of mis ing with a reporter
demeanors. What for a local paper,
we have achieved by j Mayor Cooper, who
prohibition is worth lis an anti-prohi bi
all, and a thousand tionist, said he did
times more than if'not thmk any good
has cost us iu the had been aecom
struggle to carry it. piished by tlie new
Ever siuce its adop-; prohibitory laws,
tion prohibition has All members of the
been a very decided party declared that
benefit in material!drunkenness is as
prosperity; but of prevalent ns ever
very much greater aud that no tliirs
benefit in the moral ty man need suf
well-being of the for the want of
people. liquor.
In a Delaware jail yard last week ten
prisoners, stripped to the waist, stood,
shivering in front of a pillory and whip
ping-post. Six of them were colored
men. All of them were hard-looking
cases. They had been convicted of bur
glaries and thefts and were to be pun
ished under the Delaware law. The
first man punished was a white man who
had been convicted of stealing a horse
and wagon. He was given twenty
lashes with a cat-o’-niue-tails. The
next man was given teu lashes for steal
ing some clothing. Each prisoner was
given a dose of the cat and some of them
had to stand in the pillory for a while.
A motley crowd walched the infliction of
the punishment and jeered at the cul
prits.
Fortune Favors Faith in a St. Louis Man.
Many persons are made happy by the
Louisiana State Lottery Company. Last
drawing Fortune smiled upon Mr. Cor
nelius Becannon, a prominent and es
teemed citizen of St. Louis, Mo., who has
great faith in this Company. For years
he has invested in eyeiy drawing, and
nine times out of ten he has drawn a
prize. Last month he “went it a'one,”
and came within one number of the capi
tal. He this month purchased another
ticket, and happily got one-tenth of No.
01,060, which drew $150,000, and at the
office of the Company, was given a check
on the New Orleans National Bank.—
New Orleans Picayune, Jan. ;32.
SENATOR JOE BROWS, OF.GEORQI.V.
Utica Observir
After fini-hiug a course of studies at
. the Yale law school Brown liuug out his
shingle at Canton, Ga. The first year
he made 51,200. His practice rapidly
grew and he was soon making $2,000
! and then $3,000 a year. It is said that
in all his law practice he has never lost
a cliout, and he is one of the best jury
; lawers in Georgia. He invested hit
; savings and made more money in specu
lation than in law. One of his first in-
I vestments was a piece of land which he
| paid $450 for. A copper mine was fouud
| upon this, and he sold a half interest for
j $25,000. About this time he married.
His wife was the daughter of a Baptist
preacher named Gresham, who is said to
have brought about $25,000 iuto the
family. It was in the Georgia stato rail
| road that Brown made a large part of
his fortune, though he has made good
investments all his life. Early in his
career he began to invest in lauds. These
lauds have steadily grown in value, and
they are of a character which makes their
owner land rich instead of land poor.
Brown owns the half of Colorado City,
Texas, a town of 7,000 inhabitants, and
he did own the whole of it. He has
stocks and mines in different parts of
Georgia, and he has made a great deal
out of coal mines. He lives in Atlanta
very plainly. His house is an old-fash
iuned brick structure, with no attempt at
j ornamentation. It is situated on Wash
! iugton street, the most fashionable
i street of Atlanta, and is not worth more
than $5,000, appearing in strange con
trast with the residence of Ins sou Julius,
adjoining, which cost $75,000. The
ground about Senator Brown’s house is
worth $50,000.
Joe Brown has six children, and they
are strikingly different from him. Juli is
is the eldest, who has the $75,000 house
above spoken of, is a small, dudish fel
low of 10. He has made a fortune, and
liV es to spend it. He is now living in
line style in Cuba duiing the winter on
account of the weakness of his lungK.
Joseph M. Brown is the superintendent
of liis father’s road, aud George Brown
is just coming of age. Oae of Brown a
daughters married Hr. Connolly, a prom
inent physician of Atlanta, and Miss
Sahio Browns speuds the winters with
her parents at Washington. Elijah,
another son, is treasurer of the l)ade
Couutv Coal Company. The boys are
all college bred, add Joseph M. inclines
to literature. The Brown family is noted
in Atlanta for its qniet, uuosteutautious
charity. Mrs. Brown and her daughters
are always doing little kindness, aud as
for the old gentleman, Brown is good to
his friends, though he hates his enemies.
A friend ef his told me not long ago that
Brown gives away a good deal to his
friends who were formerly wealthy, but
who are now reduced. He has given
$50,000 to the BapMst Seminary in
Georgia, and $50,000 for the payment of
the board of poor boys at the State Uni
versity.
Waylaid and Sliut.
At Homer Tuesday, Tom Armor was
waylaid about dark, and mortally shot
by his cousin, Paul Armor, while in the
road on the way to liis father’s house.
This affair is the culmination of a grudge
between the parties, occasioned by the
fact that the wounded man recently took
part in the pursuit and capture of Bill
Armor, a brother of ot Paul, who is now
in jail at Wallialla, S. C., charged w'ith
horse stealing, and who, within the last
two or three months has become some
what notorious in that section by his re
peated acts of lawlessness. A warrant
was at once issued for Paul Armor and
placed in the sheriff’s hands, who imma
diately set out in pursuit of him, and he
will doubtless be captured soon.
It is a curious fact that the body is now
more susceptible to benefit from medicine
than at any other season. Hence the im
portance of taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla
now, when it will do you the most good.
It is really wonderfully for puriiying and
enriching the blood, creating an appetite,
aud giving a healthy tone to the whole
system. Be sure to get Hood’s Sarsa
parilla, which is peculiar to itself.
STAY SHOTS.
A wonderful gold mine has been dis
covered in Sonora, Mexico. The miners
get pure metal by breaking the quartz
with hammers.
A man who imagined himself a tele
phone, and who has been trying for a
year to shout “hello!” in his own ear, has
been sent to an asylum at Flatbush.JL. I.
A large cake of ice cut from the Illinois
riyer, near Ottawa, contained the body of
a man frozen in the middle of it. The
dead man was Joseph Johnson, of Peru,
Illinois.
There is a dog at Magog, Quebec, that
will mount the toboggan sled, go down
the slide, draw the sled back, and go
down again as many times as his owner
commands him.
The village of Knittlingen, in Wurtem
berg, will celebrate this month the 400th
anniversary of the birth of Johanna Faust,
the iarnous “sorcerer” and progenitor of
Goethe’s immortal hero.
In Montana during the winter cowboys
make a living by killing mountain lions,
for which a bounty of eight dollars per
head is paid. The animals are ferocious
and some are very large.
Including new editions, there were
published in Great Britain last year 755
works of fictions and Gl6 religious books,
the novels exceeding in number the pub
lications in any other branches of liter
ature.
Jim Brown eloped from Tin Cup, Col ,
with a woman who was described in a
local paper as a “fat blonde.” Friends
telegraphed the fact to her and she return
ed and smashed a pitcher over the editor’s
head.
Of five people who on their dying beds
last year confessed to great crimes, on‘y
one told the truth. In the other cases it
was shown that the ••confessors” could
not possibly haye had anything to do
with the crimes.
A young mm of Montreal i3 moon
blind, and cannot see at all in the evening.
He contracted the blindness a few years
ago by sleeping on the deck of a ship in
the full glare of a trouical moon. Such
cases, while very rare, are not unknown.
One of the girls working in the mills at
Bidderord, Me., gets more letters than any
other woman in the town. She is the
youngest of thirty-two children born to
the same parents, and twenty-three
brothers and sisters who still live write
to her every week.
A deceived woman is the lady who
uses cosmetics, face lotions, white lead,
bismuth powders, arsenic, etc., in the be
lief of enriching and beautifying the com
plexion. It is but temporary, and ulti
mately destroys the skin beyond the pow
er of nature to restore. Stop it! Stop it
now, and use only Dr. Barter’s Iron Tonic,
which imparts the vigor and loveliness
of youth.
Job work exeutel with nearness aud
despatch at this oflice.
51.50 Per Annum.-sc. a Copy.
G EOIt*G IA G LEA NIN GS
Notes Nicked From Exchanges,
Who steals my purse steals trash, but
he who deprives me of the use of Cous
sen’s Honey of Tar, makes mo poor in
health. When I have a cough, cold or
disease of throat or lungs, I want Cous
aens Honey of Tar, because I have seen
it tried ter those ills, with unvarying suc
cess and know its virtues. Ed.
A large amount of bread is consumed by
the patients of the Lunatic Asylum at
Milledgeville. Every morning the baker*
makes 3,344 biscuits, 530 loaves ot bread
and 2,400 pones of corn bread. All this is
eaten at one meal. Nobody in the Skit* l ,
however, grudges it. The asylum is the
State’s noblest charity, and its manage
ment lias the hearty approval of all the
people.
White’s Cream Vermifuge is good for
the chaps certain, when the chaps are
troubled with worms. When their pres
ence are indicated in the stomash by the
usual unmistakable symptoms, onlv give
the Boys and girls a dose of White’s
Cream Vermifuge and worms will follow
as surely as night does the day. Remem
ber White’s Cream Vermifuge will expel
worms.
The East Tennessee are spending for
rock-ballasting track between Atlanta and
Chattanooga $1,200 per mile. They aie
paying farmers 20 cents per cubic yard
for rock delivered on the side of track.
Farmers are taking advantage of this ho
clear their fields of rock. They have also
purchased a mountain of rock near Rome,
which they are quarrying and putting on
the track. The track is rapidly being
ballasted, and presents a pretty sight to
the eye ot the traveler.
Jackson county ha3 given to the world
one’ol the most remarkable suits in the
annals of litigation. It tvas filed by D.
J. Anglin vs. John Osment, and was for
the recovery oi two acres of land, valued
at sls and lying in Clarksboro district.
The best legal talent was emp’oyed on
both sides, and the case tried five times at
an enormous expense to the county. The
court costs alone tooted up over $400; that
was but a mite compared to the other ex
penses incurred. The death of the de
fendant at last put an end to the case.
Sam Jones says: “If I wanted to get
good square judgment on something I
had done, I had rather go to a newspaper
office for it than any other court of jus
tice. I know the justice of journals, their
integrity and purity of their motives. I
know that they probe into men’s charac
ters. No man whose character Ts pure
need fear all the press in America. The
way to be safe from so-called newspaper
attacks is to l.e a Christian. The repoi
ters are the best detective force in this
country. They have brought more crimi
nals to justice and punctured more shame
than all agencies combined.”
A rumor by way of Atlanta is to tLe
effect that Senator Joseph E. Brown has
disposed of his interest in the lease of the
Western aud Atlantic railroad to his son,
Mr. Joseph M. Brown. The Senator, the
rumor continues, is much alarmed about
his health, and finds it necessary to with
draw from active business. The rumor
will doubtless cause renewed speculation
as to the probability of the Senator’s with
drawing from politics. It goes without
saying that in the neighborhood of At
lanta the anxious seat is already filled
with patriots who wouldn’t mind spend
ing a season or two at Washington.—Sa
vannah News.
Mrs. Elizabeth Talbot Belt, of Georgia,
sued Attorney Nelson G. Green in the Su
preme Court chambers, New York, to-day
before Judge Andrews for the return of
Confederate bonds of $1,000,000 face
value, but really worth little more than a
nominal pi ice. The bonds were the pro
ceeds of the investment of $1,000,000
worth of Mrs. Belt’s property by her
trustee, cx Governor Jenkins, during the
war, as she alleges, without her consent.
She is bringing suit to recover the amount
from the executors of the trustee in the
Supreme Court of Georgia, and claims
that the bonds are of great value to her.
Green contends that he had a lien upon
them for unpaid services rendered, and
declines to give them up without guaran
tee of payment. The decision was re
served.
For several mornings in Atlanta a
negro named Thomas Gay has been no
ticed calling around at houses and private
rooms, having upon his arm a large ham
per basket. An officer stopped him and
examined his basket, and found that it
was a perambulating saloon. Within the
basket were two large bottles of whisky,
four wine glasses, a bowl of sugar, a bot
tle of bitters and teaspoons. There was
also a tin bucket of water and a towel.
In the bottom of the basket was a wooden
frame with holes, into which the bottles,
glasses, sugar-bowl, etc., were fitted. The
outfit was complete and the liquor sold
by the saloonist was of the best, lie dis
dained selling such horrid mixtures as
Agaric, and his straight rye and cocktails
were as fine as could be obtained at any
saloon in New York city. Gay’s home
were examined, and fifty jugs of whisky
were found therein. The negro's outfit
was not large, but complete in every re
spect, and he was probably supplying to
a large number of regular customers and
making quite a handsome revenue.
Camilla Clarion: “Last Thursday night
while Tom Wilson, a negro laborer on Mr.
G. \V. Bagg’s plantation near Hopeful
church, in this county, was sitting quietly
by his cabin fire, the muzzle of a gun was
pointed at him through a crack undei his
door. At the sound ot a bursting cap he
sprang to his feet only to receive in his
leg a load of number five shot from, the
deadly weapon. His leg was badly shat
tered and his thigh bone broken. The
poor fellow died from the wound on Sun
day night. Wilson had a few days be
fore escaped to Decatur county in compa
ny with the wife of Wilson Taylor, a ne
gro living near Hoggard’s mill, in Baker.
The errring pair were brought back un
der a warrant and the trouble adjusted by
the wife returning with her husband lo
his home across the river. It appears
that she again left him and fled, and it is
supposed to the arms of Wilson. The
enraged husband sought revenge and
wreaked it most feaifu ly. He is report
ed to have said that in the barrel of liis
gun which missed fire he had a heavy
charge of buckshot. ‘I aimed dat load at
his heart and if she had fired I would
have got him.’ Taylor was arrested by
Sheriff Swindle below Hoggard’s mill aud
taken to Albany jail on Monday.”
The young men of Talbotton have a
temperance organization quite out of
line but at the same time a very effect’.
one. They have a judge appointed by
a quorum of the members, and any
member can act the prosecuting lawyer.
Any evidence, whether circ rmstantial
or otherwise, known by one of the mem
bers to the effect that one of their num
ber has taken a drink of intoxicating
liquors must be brought up by an ap
pointed sheriff aud stand his tri il.
Witnesses are summoned, and he goes
through his trial as a criminal would bo
forced to do by the laws of the state,
and if he is fouud guilty he must buy a
suit of clothes for the prosecutor, the
value of which to be the judge's sen
tence. The other day one of the boys
was arrested ou circumstantial evidence
and placed before the stand. After a
long and interesting trial the jury pro
nouuded him not guilty. He was the
proudest fellow you ever saw when he
heard the verdict. The prosecutor,
whose maiu evidence was that he looked
like he had had a drink, seemed some
what disappointed in not getting his
suit of olotluug.