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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 w r e
consider it the duty of all Druggists to
recommend it to the poor, dying con
sumptive, at least to try one bottle, as 80,-
000 dozen bottles were sold last year, and
no one case where it failed was reported.
Such a medicine as the German Syrup
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sold at 10 cents. Regular size, 75 cents.
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CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1887.
OUR WEALTH.
THE BOI'XDLESS RICHES OF A
GREAT COUNTY.
Mineral, Agricultural, Gold, Copper ami
Other Resources—Climate and Water, Etc.
CLIMATE AND WATER.
To those at all cog niant of.the topog
raphy aud geological formations of the
county, it is needless to say anything
touching the clim ate and water. To the
stranger looking for a home, informa
tion of this character is of the highest in
terest.
The bulk of the county lies immedi
ately north of the last regular bench of
mountains, or foothills, southward from
the Blue Ridge, aud entirely within the
thirty-fourth parallel of latitude. Nu
merous ranges of lower elevations tra
verse the county in various directions,
but maiuly parallel to the Blue ltidge.
Between the ridges, charming villages
mellow the landscape, aud give promise
of abundant harvests to the husbandman.
The atmosphere is neither too dry nor
too m ust, but bracing aud healthful.
Looking at the the facts as above set
forth a thoughtful man will reasonably
conclude that we have here a genial, sa
lubrious climate. This is the truth.
Throat ana lung diseases are rare.
Pneumonia has not obtaiued (except spo
radically) in nearly thirty years. Con
sumption, the scourge of more northern
climes, scarcely exist, except as import
ed. Summer dise.ises prevail as any
where else, but not to the extent, nor
with the fatality that characterize them
in many sections of the country. Chol
era is unknown.
Now as to the water. All the extreme
southern and southeastern and eastern
portions of the country are entirely fiee
stone ; croppiug out frequently in the
springs, cold, refreshing, satisfying. This
statement needs to be qualified, so far as
to exeept the mineral springs, of which
there are several, and some justly famous,
viz : the Rowland Springs. The princi
pal constituents of the mineral waters,
are iron, sulphur and magnesia. The
formations are maiuly granitic. The
rest of the county (about two-thirds) i
uf the limestone formation, and the wa
ters partake of of the nature of the rocks.
There are, however, mineral springs and
wells of free aud nearly freestone water.
While there are numbers of bold bine
limestone springs, the main supply of
water for domestic uses is ootained from
wells, which are found at from 30 to 75
feet. Speaking of limestone wator, the
“true blue” alone is meant, as not a sin
gle fountain of rotten limestone water
exists in the county.
IRON.
The county of Bartow contains with
in her bouudary'linesja greater variety of
minerals and a larger quantity and vari
ety of iron ores than any other county in
Georgia perhaps, with oue exception,
th m any in the south. The first is due
to the fact that ia the county is the di
viding line between the new and the old
rock formations, the fossil limestones of
the silurean age aud the slate?, and guek,
soid rocks of the paleozic aud azoic time,
traveling from its noithern to its south
ern border over a thousand of years cre
ated time, from the coralline limestones
across that belt wherein the convulsions
in which nature’s change was madeamii
the wild, upheaved rocks of the Etowah
to the yellow leaves of geological nature
in the Hornblende gneiss south of Alla
toona; from the lately lormed limonite
in the valley of the Oostanaula to the
hard and close-grained magnetic ores of
the oldest rocks.
To the student of geology the fact of
this range of formations would immedi
ately convey/m idea of at’least varied min
eral wealth, aud it was the knowledge of
this fact that caused Bartow county to be
selected by Prof. George Little, a form
er state geologist, as the first county for
elaborate examination, and oue from
which he could fairly illustrate the plan
of his survey. And thus it forms the
basis of a large portion of bis “Report of
Progress,” published in 1874.
Bartow county contains gold, copper
magnetic aud peculiar iron ores in its
southern part, with brown hematite,
while in the limestone region are found
numerous beds of brown hematite, un
surpassed iu quality aud in extent; and
the same is true of thejbeds of mangan
ese, which are abundant, and the ore of
good character. Then the excellent
quality of the limestone and cement
rock has caused the erection of extensive
kilnß iu several sections of the county,
where these stones are burned to lime—
equal iu quality to any in the world.
The county was first in Georgia to
commence the manufacture of iron. In
1837, Jacob Stroup erected a forge and
furnace near the Stamp creek. It made
no pig metal, but all hollow-ware and
other casting, which were hauled to all
parts of the sta‘e. This was the nucleus
from which grew the famous aud exten
sive Etowah Iron Works, under the
management of Hon. Mark A. Cooper.
The works at one 'time consisted of two
furnaces, a rolling and nail factory and
an extensive flour mill, all employing
over 300 hands. The property consists
of superb water powers on the Etowah
river and Stamp creek and about 15,000
acres of land, containing numerous beds
aud veins of brown hemitite and specu
lar iron ores. A small forge aud corn
mill has lately been erected near the old
Stamp Creek furnace, but with this ex
ception this valuable property is now
uuused. The first lager beer made iu
the south was made at the works. The
next furnace was erected ou Allatooua
creek by Jacob Stroup. It run uutil
1861, when it was abandoned.
The greatest development of brown
hematite iron ore in the country is to be
found up the valley leading from Carters
ville to Eairmount, and contiguous there
to on the waters of Stamp creek. Some of
the immense quantity of iron ore up this
valley be formed by quoting from
Prof. Little’s pamphlet, the number of
extensive beds he noted in a distance of
ten miles from Cartersville, all in or bor
dering on the valley. He names twelve
in that distance : The Peachtree Bank,
Big Bank, Black Bank, Terry, Sugar Hill,
Connor, Big Spring, Butord, Wild Cat,
Lowrey’s, Munfoed and Guyton Hill, and
more can be added in the ten miles further
on to Fairmount. Well and truly has a
visitor to our section named this the Iron
Valley.
In the southern part of the county are
also deposits of brown hematite iron ore.
i On the line of the East and West railroad
from Cartersville to Broken Arrow, is to
be found a continuation of the same line
of deposits which make the Iron Valley,
none of which are yet developed, but great
in their undeveloped state amid the dense
| forests that surround them. Another
great belt of brown hematite ores crosses
the country below Kingston, containing
in its extent an immense quantity of very
pure ore. One of the banks is romanti
cally located, near the Crystal Springs,
which form the head of Two Run creek,
aud in what is known as the Branson
place. It is remarkable among this class
of ores as being entirely free from phos
phorus. There are other extensive kinks
on this line, extending down into Polk
county. Still another line of ores comes
across the northern edge of the county.
Such is a brief sketch of the brown hem
atite beds of the county of Bartow. In the
aggregate they contain an enormous
quantity ot iron ore, enough to supply
many furnaces for hundreds of years; and
many of them alone can compare favor
ably with any of the vast masses of such
economical material that have become
famous in the annals of mineralogy and
feography. And unlike many such won
erous deposits they are not" far distant
from line of transportation, but almost at
the pit mouth runs a trunk line of rail
road, well managed and offering cheap
rates of freight. One of these great de
posits, the Guyton Hill, is a great cone
over 200 ieet high, coyering over 40 acres
of ground, and is a solid mass of brown
hematite iron ore. Another, the Buford,
is a long hill-side, made up of vast masses
of ore of great purity and richness. It is
long ere the child will be born who will
see the day when all these vast deposits
will be exhausted.
MANGANESE.
It has become a fact of note that Bar
tow county has the best and purest man
ganese in the United States, and that the
quanity is simply inexhaustible. Scat
tered ever a hundred hills are great stores
of this mineral, still remaining for that
better time, and that time must come as
the march of progress daily comes nearer
to our doors, calling for its use in the
manufacture of new steels.
When this mining for manganese was
first begun, the veins of ore were follow
ed in open trenches and pits. This caused
a great expenditure of useless labor.
Now, however, the veins are traced by
tunneling. One tunnel has been made,
about two hundred yards in length, be
sides off shoots to the right and left, fol
lowing veins yielding ores of from 75 to
90 per cent, of mctalic manganese.
All grades of the ore are found in these
mines—from the commonest to the
finest variety. Mr. Dobbins has shipped
a great deal of manganese to Europe, and
much more of it is to go there.
Jos. D. Weeks of the U. S. Geological
Survey, in his report for 1885 embodies
this in his remarks: “At present the
chief sources of supply iu this country
are the celebrated Crimora mines iu Vir
ginia, which furnished about 80 per cent,
of all of the manganese ores mined in
the United States in 1885; the Batesville
district iu Arkansas, which has for some
years supplied some ore, and in which
district recent developments give prom
ise of suplies second only to those of
Virginia, aud the Cartersville district iu
Georgia, which furnished some 12 per
cent of the ores miued in 1885.
copper.
Copper ore has been found in the south
west end of the county of apparently
good quality at the outcrop, but no de
velopments li ave been made of sufficient
depth to tell the extent of the veins or
their true quality. Beiug beyond the
first gneiss belt, they appear to be in the
same geological position as the Ducktown
ores. However well they promise an
expenditure of capital can alone tell their
value.
OTHER ADVANTAGES.
It mu3i be remembered that th re
are other advantages iu a county which
raises large quantities of wheat, corn,
and meat, as well as minerals; and,
too, affording a climate never affleted with
the malarias of the farther south regions,
nor the rigors of the northern winter.
Here the laborer can work all the year
without danger from climatic disease, and
the employer or capitalist can bring his
family to reside heie without fear of
cholera or yellow fever. To this land of
ours, so prolific of iron and manganese, so
glittering with golden sands, so produc
tive of all that is needed by man or beast,
we cordially invite the capitalist and man
of energy.
THE DRUMMERS GOT HIM.
It is an incontestible fact that as a gen
eral thing “there are no flies” on drum
mers and when anybody can get ahead
of them it will be when the thermometer
is busted and the mercury freezes. The
following is the way a festive traveler for
a grocery house in Sayannah tells how
the knights of the grip sat down on an
actor well known in Sayanuah:
Mr. Charles L. Davis, ot diamond fame,
known as Alvin Joslin on the stage, but
in the breezy West as “Cheeky” Davis,
ran foul of a merry lot of drummers at a
Denver hotel last week. It wa3 noticed
by these gentlemen that Mr. Davis would
invariably call up one of the ebony-col
ored waiters in the dining-room, and
pointing to a big stone in his scarf, say,
“Do you see that diamond? Do you
know how much it is worth? It is worth
$5,000, sir, $5,000.” At the next meal,
when Mr Bavis entered, the drummers
were on hand, When he looked up at the
Ethiopian with a smile of se'.f-satisJaction,
his eye encountered the reflected rays
from the neck-ties of twenty drummers,
each of them with a cut glass stopper of
a vinegar cruet fastened above his vest
There were' silence for a moment, and for
the first time in his life, Mr. Charles L.
Davis knew he was being guyed. At the
next meal he appeared as a common
every-day actor—without diamonds.
TWAS ONLY A DREAM.
Excitement Created by an Old Man’s
Story of Robbery.
A remarkable case of excited imagina
tiou has just beeu exposed in Cherokee
county. One of the wealthiest farmers
iu that county is Mr. Pasco. He has no
faith iu banks, and keeps as much as
$20,000 at a time in his house. This
fact is well kuown by every one, and
when Pasco announced that his house had
been robbed by a burglar, and $6,000 of
the money stolen, no one was surprised.
The old man, who lives alone with his
wife, declared that chloroform had been
used. He awoke and saw the burglar at
work. He felt that he was under the
influence of chloroform, and fell back
unconscious. He did not awake until
morning, when he arose, counted his
money hurriedly, and found himself
$6,000 short. He then gave the alarm.
The county officers were re-enforced by
detectives from Atlanta and a thorough
search of the county was instituted, but
without success. At last it was decided
to put Mr. Pasco to a test. He told his
story over, which was straight. He was
then asked to count over his money,
which he did, and the whole amount was
found intact. It was developed that the
old man bad dreamed about burglars,
and iu his hurry counting the money
made a miss and thus set the commu
nity in an uproar.
The Birmingham (Ala.) boom is being
examined by a clear beaded correspondent
of the New York Times, and while be
finds there all the elements of substantial
prosperity, lie calls the ruling real estate
prices exceedingly unsubstantial. Specu
lators buy land with personal notes main
ly, and when purchasers begin to look
more sharply at their investments, and
these notes begin to come due, there will
be a serious panic. The mining interests,
upon which the growth of Birmingham is
based, cannot be said to be in a like
peril. It is the city real estate specula
tors who are building up a house of cards.
Also are to be found swinging and han 1 lamps
t Word’s
LEE AND JACKSON!
What Lord Wotseley Thought of Them in
1848.
The announcement of an article on
General Lee by Lord Woseley in the
March number of MacMillan’s Magazine,
gives a timely interest to an anonymous
account ©f a visit to Lee’s headquarters
October, 1862, which England’s “only
General”—then an officer on duty in
Canada—wrote for Blackwood’s Maga
zine in Jauuary, 1862. The “Black
wood” article is called “A Month’s Visit
Among the Confederates.”
Wolseiey was smuggled across the Po
tomac in a fishing boat iu September,
1862, aud made his way thence to Fred
ericksburg and Richmond. He is fall of
praises of Richmond aud the Shenandoah
Valley and takes every chance to contrast
the spirit and tire of the South with the
cowardice and inefficiency of the North.
Here is his impression of Lee twenty-five
years ago :
“In manner, though sufficiently conver
sible.he is slightly reserved but he is a
person that, wherever seen, whether iu
a castle or a hovel, alone or in a crowd,
must at once attract attention as being a
splendid specimen of an English gentle
mau, with one of the most rarely hand
some faces I ever saw. Every oue who
approaches him does so with marked
respect, and althongh there D none of
that bowing aud flourishing of European
generals; and whilst all honor him aud
place implicit faith in his courage and
ability, those with whom he is most inti
mate feel for him the affection of sons to
a father. Old Geu. Scott was correct in
saying that when Lee joined the South
ern cause it was worth as much a3 the
accession of 20,000 rebels.
“Siuce then every injury that it was
possible to inflict the Northerners have
heaped on him. His house on the Pa
muuky river was burnt to the grouud
aud the slaves carried away, manj' of
them by force; whilst his residence on
Arlington Heights was not only gutted
of its furniture, but even the very relics
of George Washington were stolen from
it aud paraded in the saloons of New
York aud Boston. Notwithstanding all
the personal losses, when speaking of
the Yankees he neither evinced any
bitterness of feeling, nor gave utterance
to a single violent expression, but allud
ed to many of his former frieuds and
companions among them in the kindest
terms. Ho spoke as a man proud of the
victories won by his country, and confi
dent of ultimate success uuder the bless
ings of the Almighty, whom he glorified
for past successes aud whose aid h * in
voked for all future operations. He re
gretted that his limited supply of t nts
and available accommodations would pre
vent him from putting us up, but he
kindly placed at our disposal horses, or a
two-horsed wagon if we preferred it, to
drive about in.
“Upon leaving him we drove to Bun
ker’s Hill, six miles near Martiusburg,
at which place Stouewall Jackson, now
of world-wide celebrity, had his head
quarters. With him we spent a most
pleasant hour and were agreeably sur
prized to find him very affable, having
been led to expect that he was silent aud
almost morose. Dressed iu his gray
uuiform, lie looked the hero that he is;
and his thin, compressed lips aud firm
glance, which meets yours unflinchingly,
gave evidence of that firmness and decis
ion of character for which he is famous.
He has a broad, open forehead, from
which the hair is well brushed back ; a
shapely nose, straight and rather long ;
thin colorless cheeks, with a small allow
ance of whiskers, a cleanly-shaven up*
per lip aud chin, and a pair of fine gray
ish blue eyet>, rather sunken, with over
hanging brows, which intensify the keen
ness of his gaze, but without adding
any fierceness to it. Such
are the general charactpristics
of the face, and I have only to add that a
smile seems always lurking about his
mouth when he speaks, and that although
his voice partakes slightly of that harsh
ness which Europeans unjustly attribute
to all Americans, there is much unmis
takable cordiality in his manner; and to
us he talked most affectionately of Eng
and and of his brief but enjoyable so
journ there. The religious element
seems strongly developed in him; and
though his conversation is perfectly free
from all Puritanical cant, it is evident
that he is a person who never loses sight
of the fact that there is an omnipresent
Deity presiding over the minutest occur
rences of life as well as the most impor
tant. Altogether, as one of his soldiers
said tome in talking of him, ‘He is a
glorious fe'low’; and after I left him I felt
that I had solved the mystery of Stone
wall Bridge, and discovered why it was
that he accomplished such almoast mirac
ulous feats.
“With such a leader men would g® any
where and face anyamount of difficulties;
and for mvself, I should be perfectly in
sensible to fatigue and reckon on success
as a moral certainly. Whilst General Lee
is regarded in the light of an infallible
Jove—a man to be reverenced—Jackson
is loved and adored with all that child
like and trustful affection which the an
cients are said to have lavished upon the
particular deity presiding over their
affairs. The feeling of the soldier for
General Lee resembles that which Wel
lington’s troops entertained for 1 im—
namely, a fixed and unshakable fabh in
all he did, and a calm confidence oi ric
tory when serving under him. But Ji'jk
son, like Napoleon, is idolized with that
intense favor which, consisting of min
gle personal attachment and devoted
loyalty, causes them to meet death for
his sake and bless him when dying.”
An occasional suicide shocks the pub
lic. A stranger banged himself in Baton
Rouge, La., the other day. An examina
tion of his effects, contained in a satchel,
failed to discover his identity. The popu
lar theory of suicide, that it is the result
of lunacy, is by no means clearly estab
lished. Men and women groaning under
the burdens incident to their condition in
this life sometimes prefer to “fly from the
ills they have to those they know not of.”
Hope fails to cheer them in the darkness
of the night of woe that settles around
them, and they have not the moral spinal
lty to go forward in the battle of life.
They simply succumb to the forces with
which they have not strength to contend.
Their future promises no relief, and they
invite death hoping to find rest and & sur
cease from the tormenting cares that
harass them. Life presents many sad
phases, and it requires greater courage at
times to live than to die. How weak
must be the man who turns his back on
beseiging troubles instead of fighting
them to rout. Troubles loom up, like
shadows in night, and courage to inspect
them dissipates an alarming shape into
the nothingness of air. There is a safe
and sure retreat from the storms of life,
it is the pavilion of God’s love. # It offers
a security. from the troubled waves, a
love locked harbor of rest and peace where
hope anchors us to heaven.—Albany
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ANGRY ARMSTRONG.
REV. jr. G. ARMSTRONG DEPOSED
FROM THE MINISTRY.
Sharp Correspondence Between Him and
Bishop Beckwith,
Atlanta Correspondence Courier-Journal.]
The correspondence between Rev. J. G.
Armstrong, the suspended Episcopal priest,
and Bishop J. W. Beckwith has been
made public. In his first letter to the Bish
op,Dr. Armstrong says: “Desiring to
relieve the Protestant Episcopal Church
of any and all responsibility for my
thoughts, words or actions, as well as to
relieve myself of any and all responsibili
ty of said Church, Ido hereby renounce
the ministry of the same.”
In reply to this letter, Bishop Beckwith
points out that it is discretionary with the
Bishop whether one under charges should
be tried or not, but says :
“I do not see that the interests of the
Church require that there should be a
trial, while I do see that such a trial
would add to your sufferings and those
of your family. While my official duty
has demanded of me action which has
caused them and you much pain, there
has never been a moment when I could
not have thanked God if I could have
done otherwise. This is not said in the
hope of justifying myself to you, or to any
man., Time moves us all rapidly on to
the judgment seat of Christ, and I await
the final scrutiny of him who searcheth
the hearts of men for my justification. In
this affair of unspeakable sadness I am
glad to do what I can to avoid giving you
and yours additional pain. My prayer
to God for you is that He may give yon
strength to struggle with and master a
habit, which, as a strong man armed,
seems to be binding you that it may rob
you of its treasures. I beg that you will
pardon the liberty I have taken in saying
this much. God in His infinite mercy
strengthen and help you. I accept your
renunciation of the sacred ministry and
will take such steps as the law of the
Church requires.”
This reference to his habits angered Dr.
Armstrong exceedingly, and in a long let
ter he rasps the Bishop severely. The
sum of his letter is to repudiate the Bis
hop’s imputation; to deny his right to try
the motives of men, and a caustic doubt
of the charity which should animate one
in the episcopacy. Bays the Doctor :
“ I can not but reply that the course of
your action throughout was not such as to
inspire me with the comforting confidence
that charity at the time largely dominated
and determined your heart. Yet, I re
peat that the externals of actions are not
always the infallible exponents of the
motives of the actors. Ah, Right Rever
end and dear sir, it is not when our suf
ferings are over that we need and welcome
assurances of sympathy and willingness
to help; it is when we are in them and
under them Not thus does the Great
Father of all deal with his suffering child
ren. He is a yery present help in time of
trouble. In the time of my trouble, how
ever, you, whom I had been taught to call
my reverend father in God, stood afar off
from me.”
Impugning the Bishop’s sincerity, the
Doctor says lie almost cursed the hour
when he trusted him. He then con
eludes:
‘ Yet I cannot but enter my protest
against a very unkind assumption invol
ved in the otherwise kindliness of ex
pression in your wish. The assumption
induced the open affirmation that there is
a habit which as a strong man armed,
seemed to ba binding me,’ I submit is
not generous, while f positively asseve
rate th it it is not true. I never have
denied taking in oxicating liquor when
I did take it; I have never, when taking
it, gone behind a door or drawn down
the blinds; what I have done in the mat
ter, whether it was blum ble or unbla
mable, I have done openly. But this I
Bolemly asseverate, that the habit of in
temperance is not my habit, neither does
it, ‘as a strong man armed,bind me.’ And
admitting the hone-ty and sincerity of
your expressed wish, this asseveration, if
you accept it as true, must be acceptable
and agreeable to you. I assume that this is
the last communication that it will ever
be my honor to address you, ministerially
at least. I shall henceforward be out ol
your life, and you will be out of mine.
Yet our relations to each other are not
wholly abolished, as you yourself suggest.
We are moving on to that judgment
where motives as well as actions shall be
seen and known and determined. At
that judgment you and I must appear,
not only to answer for ourselves, but to
witness for or against each other. For
the go#d you have done me, if any, may
the great Father of ail abundantly reward
you; for the wrong you have done me, if
any, may He abundantly forgiye you,”
Bishop Beckwith, immediately upon
the reception of this letter, summoned
Rev. Mr. Holley and Rey. Mr. Barrett to
St. Luke’s church, and in their presence
formally deposed Dr. Armstrong from
the ministery.
Judge Brown, of the United States
Circuit Court, iu announcing his decision
in the ca-e of the longshoremen’s boy
cott, in New York, says :
‘‘Associations have no more light to
inflict injuries upon others than individ
uals have. All combinations aud asso
ciations, designed to coerce workmen to
become members of or to interfere with,
obstruct, vex or annoy them iu working,
or in obtaining work, because they are
not members, or in order to induce
them to become members, or designed
to prevent employers from makings just
discrimination, the same wages paid to
sKillfnl and unskillful, to diligent and
lazy—to efficient and inefficient, and ail
associations designed to interfere with
the perfect freedom of employers in the
proper management and control of their
lawful busiuess; or to dictate iu any par
ticular the ‘ arms upon which their busi
ness shall be conducted, by means of
threats of injury or loss, by interference
with their property or traffic, or with
their lawful employment of other per
sons, or designed to abridge any of these
rightß, are illegal combinations or asso
ciations; aud all acts done in furtherance
of such intentions by such means and
accompanied by damage, are action
able.”
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GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Notes Nicked From Kxchai: jjo*.
Old Hartford, from which sprang what
U now, the city of Hawkinsville, once
came within one vote of being chosen the
capital of Georgia.
A gentleman in Rome has just revived
a remittance of from Indian Territory
to pay a debt contracted twenty years ago.
The creditor had forgotten all about the
matter.
John I. Washington, who was con
victed of counterfeiting and sentenced to
two years in Albany, N. Y , penitentiary,
has served out his sentence and returned
to his homo in Butts county.
Owing to the abundance of idle Capitol
in Americus, and the great competition in
banking.circles there, money is said to be
easier and the rate of interest less than for
many years past. Notwithstanding this
fact, however, farmers ars acting with cau
tion about borrowing so early in the sea
son.
Excelsior Eagle: We have been re
quested to contribute 5c to build a monu
ment to Grant, and the request was ac
companied by the very gratifying an
nouncement that we will not be allowed
to contribute more than that sum. Hon
or ground down fine! We are saving our
nickle for Jeff Davis.
If a cold wave rudely crosses your path
you can say, “Blow winds, and crack
your cheeks !” if you have a bottle of
Coussens’ Honey of Tar, which will cure
all the bad colds, coughs, and diseases of
the throat and lungs that ever rode on the
back of a blizzard. Try Coussens Honey
of Tar for your cough.
There is a wonderful cave at a point on
the Oostanaula river, ninety miles from
Rome by water and seven miles by land
from Calhoun. It is three-fourths of a
mile long, and has many beautiful stalac
tites and stalagmites. In most places they
have grown from the roof to the floor un -
til they have joined in solid columns. In
the cave red ochre has been found in good
quantities.
While a colored man was digging a
well on Mrs. Kirkpatrick’s farm about
one mile and a half west of Marietta, lie
•truck a vast quantity of iron ore and
could proceed no deeper. It is pronounc
ed by an expert as of very fine q-ility of
iron ore, and if worked no doubt would
pay Landsome’y. The mine will be
more thoroughly investigated.
J. 11. Cro3slanJ, a model fanner of East
Dougherty, took into the A'bany market
Monday thirty-two bales of cotton. It
required six wagons to haul it, and a flut
ter of surprise and delight was crer.ted as
they drove through Broad street. This is
but a small part of Mr. Crossland’s crop,
which he usually piles up at home and
waits for a favorable time to sell.
After the storm at Americus Saturday
afternoon, myriads of large green locusts
or grasshoppers were seen in the pine
thicket near the Americus, Preston ami
Lumpkin railroad shops. The place fairly
swarmed with them for a while as they
hopped about in their bewilderment. It
is supposed that they were blown theie
from some warmer clime by the gale.
Tell me not in mournful numbers that
piles cannot be cured. Use Tablere’
Buckeye Pile Ointment and experience
the permanent cure which is always ef
fected by this preparation. There are
numerous so-called remedies; only one
Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment good for
that disease that all sufferers with it need
only use the greit remedy.
If w r elial a whole dictionary of adjec
tives at our tongues end to use in recom
mendation of Coussens Honey of Tar, as
a cure for coughs, colds and diseases of
throat and lungs, we would simply pick
out the little word “best” and apply it sin
cerely to Coussens Honey of Tar, be
cause it is the only permanent cure for a
deep-seated cough or cold upon the
lungs.
At Cave Springs prior to the recent
change in the weather a young bachelor
discovered that his brandy cherries were
sour, and threw them out. Ilis geese
partook freely and became intoxicated.
Thinking they were dead he concluded to
pick them at once, but to his great aston
ishment after an hour or two he found
them walking about the yard, and the
cold snap lias necessitated liis making
each one a red flannel jacket.
The present tremendous rush of freight
over the Western & Atlantic has taxed
that popular line to its utmost. As the
Train Dispatcher remarked to another
Western & Atlantic man a few days ago—
“You can form some idea of how heavy
it is when I tell you that we had to send
the old ‘General’ out to bring down a
freight train.” “Well,” was the reply,
“that’s what you call bringing out the
‘preserves,’ isn’t it?”
Joel Bennett, from near Flowery
Branch was in Gainesville on Wednesday
of last week. Mr. Bennett is 76 years old,
strong and hearty, never took a dose of
medicine or wore an overcoat in his life;
has not had his shirt buttoned at the
throat for more than 50 years, and has
been chewing tobacco for 55 years. Mr.
Bennett was born in South Carolina, and
moved to Hall county when he was (5
years of age. He is the father of six chil
dren, the youngest of whom is 45 years
old.
The Georgia convict, notwithstanding
carpings of Nothern papers to the con
trary, as a rule, soon regards the prison
as a home which he is loth to leave. A
20 year term colored man, who had
served thirteen, the other day escaped,
and was hunted unsuccessfully for sev
eral days, and the search for his recapture
was abandoned. Wednesday, to the
surprise of Manager Crabb, lie gave him
self over again to servitude, saying he
had never been out of hearing of the
furnace whistle. He was doubtless feel
ing the need of rations.
A storm swept over Sumter county
Saturday, and damage was done nearly
everywhere. The damage was mostly to
fencing and timber. T. W. Griffin, in
the Twenty-eighth distret, was a heavy
sufferer. lie had a ten-acre field literacy
covered with timber blown over it. Five
or six negroes were in his buggy house.
He drove them out, and in two minutes it
was down, his buggy broken to pieces,
but the negroes were saved. They are
now blessing him for saving their lives.
He says that the damage to timber can
hardly be calculated in his section.
While on her way to Newton church is
Wilkee county on Sunday, an old tree
was blown down on Miss Sallie William
son, a young lady of about 16 years of
age, and the accident came very near re
sulting fatally. She was in a buggy with
her brother when the tree came crashing
down on her. It knocked her senseless
and she remained in an unconscious con
dition for some time. On examination
her shoulder blade w.<s found to be bro
ken, her shoulder dislocated and her face
badly lacerated. Her brother was also
injured by the tree but not seriously. The
buggy was badly damaged. Miss Wil
liamson was taken to the residence of I.
D. Aycock, near by, wheie the physician
says she must remain for at least a week
or two
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{iven universal satisfaction, Dr Bosan
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