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SUBSCRIPTION. The Covkant American is Published \\ EEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF BARTOW ('oi'N’TY, DevOTIP IT AIN T.Y TO LOCAL ■News, and Thinks it has a Right to Kxpeot an Undivided County Patron age. me un JO 1 Catwbwsvim.* CotTßAicr, Established I{*s j consolidated 1887. . 0— NU 4J J t AHnsewtiXK AMWIHUN. ,882 -' DRUGS! DRUGS! J. R. WIRE & CO., (SUCCESSORS TO D. W. CURRY.) I!i.ve now in store the b; st selected, meat c m|lete and varied stock of Drugs, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty, Perfumes, Etc. IN NORTH GEORGIA. B oo.|. .....> St piio. Ph,ili~ I’l. cripUon. Oil. lil U ( are day and night ty a Ifcenee I pbamaewt. ST I .A- I>TDA A -t. X) OTXj OOJVTT 3 l>r ’ V Ch-as. A. Wikis, Manager. — —:GO TO:— RICHARD L. JONES FOR Fresh Groceries, An I everything g-xd for the table. Flt E*- II EGGS and CHICKENS, JKIt'EY BI TTER, i UI'.AM CHEESE. VEGETA BEKS, GARDEN SEEDS,TENNESSEE SAUSAGES ERESII MEAL “"li ‘in Tiny A N hil have rente l a storag j l.ous'3 jast above iuo where* I kee.j a w.ty on hand a good supply o Hay, Corn, Oats, Cotton Seed, Bran and Meal, lI.V Inn fund .h y.uat the LOWE IT FIGURES. I deliver (foods to any prut of the city free o' ,1, ir ge, s< lu it.inaf your patronage and promi-iag to treat you well, Jam yours truly, RICHARD Zi. JONES. j y West. .Main Street, Curteruville, Ga. A BOOMING BUSINESS i isr Furniture! S. L. VANDIVERE, Proprietor, Mi Georgia Furniture House, Ready to Ride any Boom that may come along. lie runs a Booming Business by Booming Low Pricey II is stock of FINE FURNITURE is Large aiul Superb everything to suit the most fastidious ia elegant profusion. The poor man’s pocket book his been remembered, and goods bought accoidiugly. Be sure and price furniture in this LIVE ESTABLISHMENT and you w.ll not go to other markets. ‘‘LIVE AND LE I' LIVE’’ is the motto of this excellent house eblO-lv E. H. JONES & SONS’ MANUFACTURING COMPANY, CARTERSVILLE, ROME AND STAMP CREEK, GA. —Manufacturers of and Dealers in— BUGGIES, CARRIAGES WAGONS & MATERIAL ES2SasasaS2SZSHS2SHSSS2SHSHSaS2SSSHSHSKSaS2ST2SZSZSasaSESESaSaSHSM ALL WORK FULLY GUARANTEED. We can duplicate the work of any first-class manu factory in the country in Price, Quality and Finish. We acknowledge no superior in the Carriage Business. Can build any style of vehicle desired; only the very best material used. nsw-iy . 4 Tried in the Crucible. 4 -■ ■ ” 1 About twenty years ago I discovered a little sore on my cheek, and th* doctor* pra noanml it 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 like fire to the gore, causing intense paw. I saw a statement in the papers telling what 8. S. S. had done for others similarly afflicted. I procured some at once. Before I had used the second bottle the neighbors could notice that my cancer was healing up. My general health had been hail for two or three years—l haa a hacking cougn ana pit blood contin ual!)-. I had a severe pain m my breast. After taking six bottles of S. S. S. my cough left me and I grew stouter than Iliad 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 oue with cancer to give S. S. S. a fair trial. Feb 1G iB6O MKS ' NANCY J ’ McC Ashe Grove, Tippecanoe Cos., Ind. ■un.f'r™ \ Sl,u fi fic I s < 'n, tiri ! y ve l? c table and seems to cure cancers by forcing out the irnpu ■les from the bhsjd. 1 rcatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. I'IIE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO,, Drawers, Atlanta, Ga. Justice Court Blanks, Of all kinds are to be found at Ti3 IS GOURANT-AMEHICAIT OFFICE THE COURANT-AMERICAN. LOOK OTJT ! Compare this with your purchase: n si i ReBTJLESSNBSS* 1 A SVNIOTLV iTtai |tsi MVlTlfil FAMILY MCDICIHt. psj| ******* Lev ~ ,i ■ACM. SA. P HILADELPHI A. fi Lgf As you value health, perhaps life, examine each package and be sure you get the Genuine. See the red Z Trade-Mark and the full title un front of Wrapper, and on the side the veal and signature of J. U. Zeiiin & Cos., as in the above fac- simile. Remember t>are ia no Other genuine Simmons Liver Regulator. HALL’S HOW’S THIS I We offer Ore Hundred Dollars Bedard for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hal N < iitarrii (urn. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Prop’rs, Toledo, O. P. S.—Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucus sur faces of the s’ys'em. Price, 75 cts. per bottle. Sold by a!l druggists. Rheumatic Cure CAPITAL PRIZE, $150,000. “We do hereby* certify that we supervise the arrangements for all the Monthly and Semi- Annual Drawings of The Louisiana State Lot tery Company, and in person manage and con trol the Drawings tliemsel ves, and that the same arc conduc ed with honesty, fairness, and in good faith toward all parties, and we authorize the Company to use this cerliJßo tte, with fac similes of our signatures attached, in its adver tisements.” Commissioners. We the undersigned Banks and Bankers will pay all Prizes drawn in The Louisiana State Lotteries which may be presented at our coun ters. J. H. OGLESBY, Pres. LouisanaNat Bk P. LANAUX, Pres. State Nat’l Bank. A. BALDWIN, Pres. N, O. Nat’l Bk. UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION ! OVER HALF A MILLION DISTRIBUI ED The Louisiana State Lottery Company Incorported in IS6B for 25 years by the Legis lature for Educational and Charitable purposes— with a capital ot 8100,000 —to which a reserve fund of over $550,000 has since been added. By an overwhelming popular vote its fran chise was made a part of the present State Con stitution adopted December 2d, A. P., 1879. The only Lottery ever voted on and endorsed by the people of any State, It never scales or postpones. Its grand Single Number Drawings take place monthly, and the Semi-Annual Drawings legularly every six months (June and Decem ber ) A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FORTUNE. THIRD GRAND I)R \ WING, CLASS C, IN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, March 15, 188 7 2U3d Monthly Drawing. Capital Prize $150,000. BjyNotice.—Tickets are Ten Dollars only. Halves $5. Fiftks2. Tenths sl. T.IST Or PRIZES. 1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF $150,000...,5150,000 1 GRAN D PRIZE OF 50.000 .. . 50.000 1 GRAND PRIZE OF 20,000 ... 20.000 2 LARGE PRIZES OF 10,000.... 20,000 4 LARGE PRIZES OF 5.000 ... 20,000 20 PRIZES OF 1,000.... 20.000 50 “ 500 ... 25,000 100 “ 300... 30,000 200 “ 200.... 40,000 500 “ 100... 50,009 I,OGC “ 50..,. 50,000 APPROXIMATION prizes. ICO Approximation Prizes of S3OO ... $30,000 100 “ “ 200 20,000 100 “ “ 100 .. . . 10,000 2,179 Prizes, amounting to $535,000 Application for rates to clubs should be made only to the office of the Company in New Orleans. For further intormetion write clearly, giving full address. Postal Notes, Kxprc-s Money Orders, or New York Exchange in ordinary let ter. Currency by Express (at our expense) ad dressed M A. DAUPHIN, New Orleans, La., or M. A. DAUPHIN, Washington, D. C. Address Registered Letters to NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK, New Orleans, La. REMEMBER enee of Generals Beauregaid and Early, who are in charge of the drawings is a guarantee of absolute fairness and integrity, that the chances are all equal, and that no one can possibly divine what numbers will draw a Pnze. All parlies therefore advertising toguarantee Priz s in this Lo'tery.o- holding out any other impossible inducements, are swindlers, and only aim to deceive and defraud the unwary. Astonishing Success. It is the duty of every person who has Boschee’s German Syrup to let its won derful qualities be 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 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 cannot be too widely known. 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 Highest market price paid for country produce. Farmers you will save money by calling on Glenn Jcnes. Blank Books at Wikle & Cos 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 News. PHYSICIANS USE SHRINER’S IN dian Vermifuge in their practice and pro nounce it a first class article. A trial will convince the most skeptical of its intrin sic merits. Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the cheap blood medicine] at Word’s 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.” Rheumatism and Neuralgia Cured in 3 Days, The Indiana Chemical Cos. have discover ed a compound which acts with truly mar velous rapidity in the cure of Rheumatism nd Neuralgia. We guarantee it to cure any and every case of acute Inflammatory Rheumatism and Neuralgia in 2 Days,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 be fil'ed by your home druggist at sma'l 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 Crawfordsyille, Ind. ADVERTISEMENTS. Tue Cocrant-American is the only Paper Published in one of the Best Counties in North Georgia. ITS CIR CULATION IS SECOND TO NONE OF ITS CLASS. Reasonale Rates on Application. $ 1.50 Per Annum.—sc. a Copy. 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 - 80-san-ko In his new discovery for Consumption, succeeded in producing & medicine which is acknowledged by all to be simply mar velous. It is exceedingly pleasant to the taste, perfectly harmless, and does not sicken. In all cases of Consumption, Coughs, Colds, Whooping Cough, Croup, Bronchitis, and Pains in the Chest, it has {iven universal satisfaction, Dr Bosan o's Cough and Lung Syrup is sold at 50 cents by VY'ikle & Cos. mclid ly Dry-goods and groceries. Gleuu Jones,