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J. R. WIKLE £ CO.,
(SUCCESSORS TO D. W. CURRY.)
Have now in store the best selected, most complete anil varied stock of
Drugs, Chemicals, Paints, Oils,
Glass, Putty, Perfumes, Etc.
IN NORTH GEORGIA.
( oiu oto see iis ex am flu g-io-H and pet prices. Physicians ITe criptions filled with the greatest
care day an l iiixbt hy a lioeiite I pharmacist.
.A-GIEINT STA-ILTIDA-IR/D OIL OOMPN’Y
Cb.as. A. ’W’ilsle, Manager.
feb it- 1 J
—:CO TO:—
RICHARD L. JONES
FOR
Fresh Groceries,
An I overt tiling gocil for the table. FRESH EGGS and CHICKENS. .1 Ell-EY BUTTER,
t REA M UIIKE-iK. VKG ETA HI. ES, CARDEN SEEDS, TENNESSEE SAUSAGES * ItBSH MEAL
"'in letVil'imi'Ti' inv 'ao’i'a* y* o''in/1 “l !.-k of FAMILY GROCERIES and GRNFKAL MERCI
AN i> j sK, I huve rente i a atonies house just aljove in ; where 1 keep a ways on hand a good supply of
Hay, Corn, Oats, Cotton Seed, Bran and Meal,
I In* I can furni li you at tlm LOWEST FIGURES. I deliver goods to any part of the city free o
ill. rut*, rtt lniring your patronage and promi-ing to treat you well, I mu yours truly,
EICHAED L. JONES.
lebil-ly WentMaln Street, Curteraville, (ia.
A BOOMING BUSINESS
I IST
Furn it ur e!
S. L. VANDIVERE, Proprietor,
Mi Georgia Furniture House,
lie wlv to Ride any Boom that may come along, lie ruus a Booming Business by Booming Low
Price-. Ilia stock of
FINE FURNITURE
is Large and Superb everything to suit the most fastidious in elegant prolusion. The poor mill’s
pocket bowk his been remembered, and goods bought accordingly. Besure and price furniture in this
LIVE ESTABLISHMENT
and you w.ll Dot g) to other markets. “LIVE AND LET HIVE” is the motto of this excellent house
ehiu-l v
R. H. JONES & SONS’
MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
CARTERSVILLE, ROME AND STAMP CREEK, GA.
—Manufacturers of and Dealers in—
BUGGIES, CARRIAGES WAGONS & MATERIAL
EFSLSaSESHSZSHSZSZSHSBSaSHS2S?SHSZSaS2SHSaS2SZSaSBSZSSSESHSHSaStISaS
ALL WORK FULLY GUARANTEED.
We can duplicate the work of any first-class manu
factory in the country in Price, duality and Finish.
We acknowledge no superior in the Carriage Business.
Cun build any style of vehicle desired; only the very best
material used. rcb3-iy
-# Tried in the Crucible. &
About twenty years ago I discovered a little sore on my cheek, and the doctor* pro
nounced it cancer. I have tried a number of physician*, out without receiving any perma
nent benefit. Among the number were one or tvro specialists. The medicine taey applied
was like fire to tlie sore, causing intense pain. I saw a statement in the papers telling what
S. S. S. bad done for others similarly afflicted. I procured some at once. Before 1 had used
the second bottle the neighbors could notice that my cancer was healing up. liy general
health had been bad for two or three years—l haa a hacking congn ana spit blood contin
ually. I had a severe pain in my breast. After taking six bottles of S. S. S. my cough left
me and I grew stouter than 1 had been for several years. My cancer has healed over all but
a little spot about the size of a half dime, and it is rapidly disappearing. I would advise
every one with cancer to give S. S. S. a fair trial.
Mrs. NANCY J. MoCONAUGHBY, Ashe Grove, Tippecanoe Cos., Ind. *
Feb. If., ISB4I.
. Swift s S|iecific is entirely vegetable, and seems to cure cancers by forcing out the imp*
*ies from the blood. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
Justice Court Blanks,
Of all kinds are to be found at
THE COT7R ANT-AMERICAN OFFICE
THE (MR A NT-AMERICAN,
LOOK OTXY!
Compare this with your purchase!
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PHILADELPHIA. P|Lj |
I Price, ONE Dollar lip
“Ifj rTVj/fil 525* ""USSt
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
on front of "Wrapper, and on the side
the seal and signature of J. H. Zeilin A
Cos., as in the above fac- simile. Remember there
haw other genuine Simmons Liver Regulator.
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CAPITAL PRIZE, $ 150,000.
“We do hereby certify that we supervise the
arrangements for all the Monthly and Seini-
Anninl Drawings if The Li uisiana Btate I.ot
lerv Company, and in person manage and con
trol the Drawings themselves, and that Die s tine
are con luc e I with honesty, fairness, and in
eood faith tow rd all parlies, and we authorize
the Company to u-e this certiffle ite, with fac
simile- of our signatures attached, in its adver
tisements.”
Commissioners.
We the undersigned Banks and Bankers will
pay alt Frizes drawn in The Louisiana State
Lotteries which may be presented at our coun
ter-.
J . H. OGLESBY, Pres. Louisan a Nat. Bk
P. LANAUX, Pres. State Nat’l Bank.
A. BALDWIN, Pres. N, O. Nat’l Bk.
CARL KOHN, Pres. Union Nat. Bank.
UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION !
UOYLK HALF A MILLION DISTRIBUTED
Tlie Louisiana State Lottery Company
Incorported in ISGB for 25 years by the Legis
lature for Ei meat it nil and Charitable purposes—
with a cnpit.-'l o! *#loo,oo0 —to which a "reserve
fund of over $550,000 Ins 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. D., 1879.
The only Lottery ever voted on and endoi tied by the
people of any State,
Jt never tenles or postpones.
Its grand Single Number Drawings take
place monthly, anil the Semi-Annual Drawings
regularly every six months (June and Decem
ber )
i A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY ITO WIN A
FORTUNE. FOURTH GRAND DRAWING,
CLASS D, IN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, NE A'
ORLEANS, TUESDAY, April 13, 1887—
33d- Monthly Drawing.
Capital Prize $150,000.
SfcjTNotice.—Tickets are Ten Dollars only.
Halves t)>s. Fifth* SB. Tenths sl.
LIST OF I’KiZES.
1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF $150,000... ,|150,000
1 GRAND PRIZE OF 50,000 .. . 50.000
1 GRAND PRIZE OF 20,000.... 20 000
2 LARGE PRIZES OF 10.0(H) ... 20,000
4 large phizes of 5.000.... 20,000
20 PRIZES OF 1,000 20.000
50 “ 500 ... 25,000
100 “ 300... 30,000
200 “ 200 ... 40,(KM)
S(H) “ 100... 50,000
1,000 “ 50.... 50,000
approximation pkizks.
ICO Approximation Prizes of S3OO ... $30,000
100 “ “ 200 20,000
100 “ • 100.... 10,000
2,1T9 Prizes, amounting to $535,000
Application for rates to clubs should be made
only to the office of the Company in New Orleans.
For lurther iniormwtion write clearly, giving
lull address. Postal Notes, Expre 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 SIVSJSS;
Beauregaid and Early, who are in charge of the
drawing-, is a guarantee ol absolute tairness and
integrity, tiiat the chances are all equal, and that
no one can possibly divine what numbers will
draw a Pus*. All nunies therefore advertising
toguarantee Priz s in this Lo , tery,o v holding out
any other impossible inducements, are swindlers,
and only aim to deceive and defraud the unwary.
Dr. Chipman’s Pills
are a Certain Cure for
SICK HEADACHE*
BILIOUSNESS,
COSTIVENESS,
DYSPEPSIA,
DIARRHOEA,
DYSENTERY,
MALARIA,
and various diseases arising from a Torpid
Action Of the Livkk and Impohitc of the
Blood. They do not weaken you, nor do they
produce inconvenience or imitation in their
action.
LADIES troubled with General Debility*
Cold Feet, and Loss of Appetite, will find these
Fills highly useful.
F. D. LONG, Agent,
No. 1304 Filbert Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
For Sale by Wikle & Cos.,
mch 3-3 m
$25,000.00
IN COLD!
WILL BE PAID FOB
ARBDCKLES' COFFEE WRAPPERS
1 Premium, • $1,000.00
2 Premium*, ■ 8500.00 each
6 Premium*, • $250.00 “
25 Premiums, • SIOO.OO “
100 Premiums, • $50.00 “
200 Premium*, • $20.00 “
1,000 Premiums, SIO.OO “
For full particulars and directions see Circu.
lcr in every pound of Abbcckles' Coffee.
Highest market price paid for country
produce. Farmers you will save money
by calling on Glenn Jopes.
Blank lioo'is at Wikle & Cos
CARTERSVILLE, GA„ THURSDAY, MARCH 2 4, 1887.
liROOM CORN CULTURE.
How and Why it should be Encouraged—
Some Interesting Information,
Macon Telegraph.]
Readers of the Telegraph will remem
ber aa interview with Prof. W. D. Will
iams, of the Academy for the Blind, in
relerence to broom corn cultuie that was
published in tjaese columns. As was
stated in the article, Southern manufact
urers are compel’ed to import their broom
corn.from the West and North, while the
Sauth should supply those sections. The
article bad a tendency to do good, and
with a view of still further arousing in
terest in a matter that would be of so
much'benefit to the farmer herabont, the
Telegraph reproduces from good source
some information that will bo of great
interest to those whose enterprise and in
dustry will lead|to depart from the old
beaten paths aid sow a crop that bad
seasons cannot effect.
To start with, broom corn being a na
tive of India an l belonging to the sorghum
genus, the same soil, climate and cultiva
tion apply as to sorghum cane, and the
soil ot the South is much better adapted
to its cultivation than those of the North
and West. It is a fact that we can plant
a month earlier, and harvest a month
before the Western crop comes in. It is
also a fact that the Georgia farmer can
have the money in his pocket four
months from the time lie drops the seed
in the ground, long before the cotton
ceas s to bloom.
The cultivation of broom corn is so
simp'e that one hand can cultivate be
tween thiity and forty acres, and land
that produces good crops of sorghum or
cotton will answer. Bottom lands are
better adapted but other fertile lands
will produce good crops. Plow and
harrow the land well; manure as for
sorghum, throwing the soil into beds 34 to
4 feet apart. Some put one-third the
fertilizer in the opening or bedding furrow
and one-third each in the two listing
furrows, but this must be left to the
judgment and discretion of the farmer.
Plant between the loth and the Ist of
June, when the soil is thoroughly warmed
and the seed will jerminate tit once.
If a large acerage i3 put in, best to
plant one-third each at inter veils of two
weeks, in order that all the crop may not
ripen and have to be harvested
and housed at the same time,
and thus necessitate employ
ment of the labor. Put in the crop just
as soon as the weather becomes favorable.
Will come in that much sooner and bring
better prices.
Use drill, planter or guano distributor.
One bushel of seed will plant ten to
twelve acres. Coyer not more deeply
than one inch. Can put in thick, and
when well up, cleau thoroughly with the
hoes. Can then chop out and leave about
the same stand as for sorghum. As re
girds the stand many farmers differ—
sime say in hills one foot apart, three or
four plants'toTlieTill; if land isjvery strong,
five or six plants to the hill; others that
plant should be left two or three inches
apart. Experience aDd a knowledge of
the land must be the guide. The point
is not to produce a large coarse brush, but
long and fine. If the soil is very strong
can leave the plants very thick. Rows
same as for sorghum cane, three and a
half to four feet apart.
The cultivation requires about the same
shallow culture of sorghum. It is very
important that it be rapidly and thorough
ly worked until five or six feet high.
Must not be ploughed deeply after the
plants are knee high. When the plants
first come up they appear weak and sickly
and must be well cleaned and kept free
of weeds until tney get a good start.
Once fainy started they grow rapidly.
Now we come to the most important
stage of the croo. Any negligence or
carelessness at this point will take away
all the profit of the crop. Great care
must be used and strict attention given to
details. The quality and consequently
the value of the brush depend in a large
measure upon the time at w’hicli it is
harvested. A delay of a week may make
a difference of one-half in the market
price. Those who follow the old “foggy”
plan of turning down the heads and har
vesting them when the seed are fully ripe
may get a good crop of seed but very
poor brush. The crop is generally ready
to cut in ten or twelve weeks after being
planted. With manufacturers color is de
sired above all things. Light green com
mands the best prices. Coarse, heavy
brush is not the most desirable, but long,
green and fine. To obtain the color de
sired, very particular attention must be
given to harvesting and curing. The
brush must be cut as soon as the jieads
are well out of the stalk, when m the
“blossom” before the seed begins to form,
or at latest while in the milk. The seed
must not be permitted to fill or ripen. A
tew rows can be left to ripen for seed. It
matters not how good a growth may be
produced, if left standing in the field until
it turns red or becomes dark from mould
or wet, its va'ue is reduced fully one half.
Different kinds of knives are used for
cutting. Some use those with long hand
les, others the short. We would recom
mend the long. Cut the brush with five
or six inches of stalk be ow the hurl, not
exceeding seven inches. Put in piles be
tween the rows. Should be gathered and
threshed same day as cut, as the weight
of the seed will soon cause it to heat and
stain the brush if allowed to lie in piles
any length of time. After the first crop is
out, two suckers will head out from the
old stalks and sometimes a fair second
crop of short brush can be cut. One hand
can cut from three-quarters to an acre a
day.
Various devices are used for cleauing.
For large crops it is best to use the reg
ular bloom corn threshers and scrapers;
single or double cylinder. The former
cost $25 or S3O, the latter about S6O
Operated either by hand, horse or steam
power. Two or more farmers could club
together and buy a machiue. Any
cylinder of wood cr iron with upright
spikes about two inches in length, with
crank attachment for turning, or au iron
comb something resembling a curry
comb, will answer for small crops,
some drive spikes in a board and use
that. Pull it through and beat it out.
The old ground hog wheat thresher
with drum in fume, and teeth about the
size of 16-penuy nails, has been found
practical. When ready to thresh pile on
both sides of the mau at the machine as
nigh as his w aist so he can get it con
veniently. lie takes up two handsful at
same time and holds them on the teeth
of the scraper, first on one side then on
the other. The threshing is neitlur
very laborious or difficult. It should be
well done.
When threshed pile on the racks in a
shed or barn, not over three inches in
thickness. Have the tiers of poles or
slats about three feet apart, oue above
the other, in order to allow free circula
tion of air. Every two or three days
stir up the piles well to prevent mould
ing. If cured in a baru the windows
should be kept open so as to admit
plenty of air. In two to four weeks,
according to the weather, it will be ready
to bale.
Bale in hay or cotton press (separate
the crocked and damaged from the better
grades) with wire. Pile carefully in the
press, with the brush ends to the center,
thus throw ing the stalks to the end of
the bale. The bales should range in
weight from 245 to 250 pounds. They
are about the same size as bales of hay.
Some place a lathe at each corner to
strengthen the bale. As appearances add
much to the value of every article sold on
| the market. Care should be used
to have well shaped biles.
A lien not properly and compactly baled,
w ill get “lopsided,” shake and frequently
fall to pieces. Use from four to six wires,
or iron ties.
Now, it will be see that one bushel of
seed which will cost $4 Will plant from
ten to twelve acres One man can cut
from t hree-quarters to one acre per day
The yield per acre is from five hundred to
eight hundred pounds. The prices range
according to quality, and are from 24 to 5
| cents per pound. Thus ten acres w ill
bring from S2OO to $240, and mind you,
broom corn always commands a ready
market and is strictly a c tsli crop. If it
receives but one-half the labor and at
tention that cotton does, it can be made at
one-half the expense, and at the lowest
average prices it will prove more profita
ble than eottou or most any other crop,
♦ •
DR. FORD S PARDON.
Tlie Slayer of J. C. Kirkpatrick, at New
Orleans, on tlie Eve of Securing
HU Liberty.
A special dispatch to the Louisville
| Courier-Journal, under date of 16th,
sayt: “The state board of pardons to
day decided to recommend the pardon of
Dr. T. G. Fivd, who in November last
killed J. C. Kirkpatrick for seducing his
wife and breaking up his home. On
the trial, early in February, Dr. Ford
pie;’ cd guilty of manslaughter. The
plea was entered to prevent the dis
closures and scandal of a public trial
and the defendant’s cause met warm
commendation. The plea was accepted
oy the state, and Dr. Ford was sent
enced to hard labor in the penitentiary
for fifteen years. A movement to se
cure a pardon was immediately set on
foot hy the prisoner’s friends, who were
among the most influential people in
the state. Long lists of names were
signed to the petitions, many of the
1 signers being ladies. Judge Roman,
1 the trial judge, was not present to-day
j when the other members < f tLe board
j of pardons, consisting of Lieut. Gov.
| Knoblack and Attorney General Cuu
-1 uingham, met to consider the petitions.
As soon as the board decided to recom
i mend the pardon a friend of Dr. Ford’s
I took the papers to the governor, who is
I expected to grant the pardon at once.
! as he has already stated that he would
do so. Dr. Ford is still in jail in this
city. He is not likely to reach the pen
itentiary.’’
THE COTTON-SEED MILLS WILL BE
BUILT.
We are glad to be able to reiterate the
statement already made by the Manufac
turers’ Record to the effect that the new’
cotton-seed oil mills, about w’hicli there
has been so much talk, will be built, not
withstanding reports to the contrary. The
Soutbe on Oil Cos., lately organized
with Henry C. Butcher, of Philadelphia,
as president, is entirely independent of
the action of others, and while they have
rather preferred not to make many state
ments regarding their plans and methods,
ashy so doing they might encourage the
belief that it was done for stock jobbing
purposes and to create sensational effects,
yet we are authorized by Mr. Butcher to
say ;
“You assure the press and the people of
the south that this company means busi
ness in its broadest sense. We have
taken but one position from the start and
will maintain it. We have all the funds
in hand necessary to accomplish our pur
pose, and have no favors to ask on that
score. The company propose to build
nails at the most desirable points as fast
as the machinery can be turned out, and
to go into business on a purely legitimate
mercantile basis and develop it as it should
be.”
Large contracts for machinery have al
ready been closed, and the work of build
ing mills will proceed as rapidly as posi
ble. The mills will be of not less than
150 tons capacity per 24 hours. The idea
that this enterprise is a stock-jobbing op
eration has been very industriously spread
by those who doubtless would be only
too glad to have it so. Moreover, some
individuals who have never been connect
ed with it, but whose names have been
prominently mentioned as though its suc
cess depended upon them may have used
it as a lever to accomplish certain private
ends, but the actual members of this com
pany have gone ahead, quietly perfecting
their plans and arranging for building
the mills, and have not sought any pub
licity.
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HOW CALIFORNIA MILLIONAIRES
LIVE. •
The popular idea on the subject of
what establishments cost are vague, and
as a rule entirely beyond the mark. Sev
eral very rich men, who stmt themselves
in nothing in tlicir houses, who entertain
as much as taste can possibly demand,
■who have every comfort and every luxury,
concur in the statement that it is impossi
ble to expend on the running of a house
hold more than SIO,OOO a month. He can
buy pictures and keep adding expensive
articles and all that sort of thing, but you
cannot find luxuries and accessories that
cost beyond that amount of money unless
you go iu wantom avase, encumbering
rather than bringing any return in com
fort. So you see all you want is $120,000
a year and the capital, and don’t you
wish you may get it? One millionaire
here, who has a most noted establishment
and maintains the most luxurious style,
admitted that lie he could buy everything
that could be made use of for $6,000 a
a month. Perhaps that will suit you bet
ter. We have lower and cheaper classes
of millionaire goods, madame. We have
au article that we can sell at SI,OOO a
month, and if that doesn’t suit you we can
offer you a millionaire establishment that
cost $17.50 a month. You wouldn’t
CBre to go lower surely.—San Francisco
Chronicle.
Not Coughing for Mere Amusement.
From tlie Detroit Free Press.
He had coughed for two straight blocks
on a Michigan avenue car, when a sym
pathetic passenger remarked:
“You have got a cough, haven’t you?”
“Well, maybe you think I’m fool enough
to be trying to throw’ up my liver!”
shouted the man, as he let out another link
and fairly shook the car.
Wants the Facts Known.
Mr. Editor: I and my neighbors have
been led so many times into buying diff
erent things for the liver, kidneys and
blood, that have done us more harm than
good, I feel it due your readers to advise
them when an honest and good medicine
like Dr. Harter’s Iron Tonic can be had.
Yours truly, an old subscriber.
The Latest London Joke.
The Queen —“Bertie, dear, I lain would
hear thee play upon the banjo.”
The Prince—“VVliat shall I play, mo
ther?” (Glancing towards the throne):
“ ‘ We’ll Get There By and By?’ ”
The Queen (sett ing herself among the
cushions) —“No, Bertie; play ‘God Save
the Queen.’ ”
C. T. Jones has a fine stock of family
groceries, staple dry good, grain, hay,
bran peas, Ac , which he will sell you
right—he will not be undersold, and don’t
you forget that fact.
(Pattillo’s old corner) mch 17-Gt.
SALTPETRE CAVE.
The Spot Where the Conductor’s Ttrotlier
. hood Will Picnic in May.
The c inductor’s brotherhood will have
their annual picnic in May at Saltpetre
cave, in this county, a descriptive article,
from the files of our paper would hardly
be amiss. The brotherhood have been
wise in selecting such a delightful spot
for their picnic:
There are many points of interest iu
Bartow county, Ga., but the most remark
able and interesting one is situated about
ten mi.es from Cartersvilie, We refer to
our justly celebrated Saltpeir; cave. The
adjoining country around it is poor, rocKy
and mountainous. The decent into it is
steep, abrupt, and somewhat difficult, for
perhaps one hundred and fifty feet, where
the bottom becomes perfectly smooth and
even ; owing, no doubt, to the collection
of dirt which has been washed down the
mouth, and settling there for ages. This
smooth and even surface extends forty
by sixty feet, Here the Indians are said
to have been in the habit of meeting for
the purpose of dancing, and to indulge in
other pastimes and festivities. The air in
this cave is damp, and unpleasantly cold.
From the mouth to the bottom of the first
descent, the aperture becomes larger and
larger until the bottom is reached. About
midway the rocks overhead are so far
above as to render the top almost invisi
ble from the light of torches. Stones
thrown up can barely reach it. At the
bottom of the first room, as it is usually
called, the rocks close in on all sides, ex
cept the entrance, and a few feet through
which the visitor must pass half bent,
if he desires to proceed further. After
going in this way for twenty or thirty
feet, the opening again becomes suddenly
large and extensive on all sides, and a
steep and rugged ascent has to be encoun
tered for eighty or one hundred feet.
Here, if it were not that the cave is in
the side of a mountain, it could not be
very far to the surface of the earth above,
as it has now ascended a distance nearly
eaqual to that which was descended in
entering, and it is also some distance to
the rock overhead. But the visitor is
now in the heart or center of the moun
tain, where no ray of light eyer found its
entrance, except that of the torch or lan
tern of exploring man. At the tup of this
ascent a road branches off to the right and
left. Both are circuitous and lead into
rooms of different shapes and sizes. The
one to the right le ids by a difficult and
sometimes dangerous route to tlie largest
room in the cave. From this there is a
small and narrow outlet, scarcely of apace
sufficient to proceed erect, of about one
hundred and fifty or two hundred feet in
length, and leads to another issue, though
small. There in this cave some twenty or
thirty rooms of different sizes or forms,
and gonerdly connected with each other
by appartures sufficiently large to admit
of easy access ; but in some places, though
rarely the visitor must gain his way ou
his hands and knee3. Some visitors of
more enterprise and preseverance, have
taken in poles, by which to ascend to the
rooms overhead. Oue room is accessible
by a ladder, and in this room it is said
there are thousands and thousands of
leather-winged bats. On what these bats
subsist, is a question that may puzzle the
curious. The continual drippings of tlie
lime and saltjfetre have in many of the
rooms formed beautiful columns and pil
lars by concretion. Many of these,
from the different shapes they have as
sumed, are interesting curiosities. These
pil ai’s are, in a state of nature, almost as
white as marble; but the frequent visits
to the cave, and from the visitors using
pine for torches, they have become smok
ed black. Several years ago considerable
quantities ofsaltpetre were manufactured
from tlie dirt dug out of this cave, and
the signs are visible, but no work of tbc
kind is now goi on.
THE STRONGEST MAN ON EARTH.
From tlie Virginia Footlight,
There is a man on the Carson river, be
low Dayton, named Angel la Crodelia,
who claims to be the strongest man in
tlie world. He is an Italian, aged 28, and
lie stands 5 feet 10 inches, weighing 198
pounds. His strength was born with him,
for he had no athletic training. He dif
fers from other men chiefly in the osseous
structure. Although not of unusual size,
his spinal column is much beyond the
ordinary width, and his bones and joints
are made on a similar largo and generous
scale. He has lifted a man of 200 pounds
with the middle finger of his right h ind.
The man stood with one foot on the floor,
his arms stretched, his hands grasped by
two persons to balance his body, Cor
delia then stooped and placed the third
finger of his right hand under tlie man’s
foot, and with scarcely any perceptible
effort, raised him to the height of four
feet and deposited him on a table near at
hand. Once two powerful men waylaid
Cdrdelia, with intent to thrash him, but
he seized one in each hand and hammered
them together until life was nearly
knocked out ol them.
Albert Parr, a sixteen-year old Wall
street messenger boy, decamped with
nearly $30,000 of his employer’s, in cash
and checks, and started to realize his
ambition of becoming a tramp. His
career was cut short by arrest.
Mr. Chang Yen Hoon, Chinese Minister,
sat fur some photographs the other day.
He was accompanied by his interpreter
and two or three lady friends, who were
anxious to see the operation. His ser
vant carried up to the photographer’s
room two or three trunks and several
smaller cases, in which were ten or a
dozen changes of costume. The Minister
was “done” in each of these and in as
many different positions. He wore a silk
cap, in the center of which was a large
diamond about the size of a hazlenut.
The cap fitted so closely that the diamond
looked like a huge star in his skull. From
the cap floated a long peacock feather.
Around his neck was a necklace of three
chains, each of which was about a yard
long, composed of precious stones, every
sixth of which was a diamond. His in
terpreter. one of the party, said the agg e
gate value of the jewels which adorned
the person of the representative of the
“Flowery Kingdom” was about a million
of dollars. The different costumes were
composed of the richest silks and satins,
embroidered with solid gold and trimmed
with richest furs. Mr. Chang Yen Hoon
is said to be the richest man in China.
A Halt Should Be Called.
Chattanooga Times.]
This seems a peculiarly bad time for
railway horrors; there is an epidemic of
them, and the two most terrible and mur
derous in New England, where all usually
look for care and system in everything,
especially in railroading.
23 Street Kailway Drivers in Luck.
The Lombard and South Sts. Railway,
Philadelphia, boasts of a “combine” which
has just made $15,000. The “combine”
consists of twenty-two drivers and con
ductors, and the rules of the association
requires the payment of $1 per month by
each member to the transfer agent at
Twenty-third and South Sts., who invests
the sum in Louisiana State Lottery tickets.
The first monthly investment of the club
resulted in the purchase of ticket No. 73,-
987, which won a $15,000 prize on Feb
ruary Bth. The members of the “combine”
are wild with delight. —Philadelphia
Herald, Feb. 14.
Chipman’s Pills are pure, vegetable,
mild and efficient in their action; purify
ing the blood and increasing the appetite.
A positive cure for sick heaTlaehe, mala
ria, etc. For sale by. J It. Wiklk&Cq.
MIND READKK BISHOP.
Philadelphia Thn?s, 17th, in*t.)
Washington Irving Bishop entertained
a good sized audience at the Chestnut
Street Opera House yesterday afternoon.
After selecting a committee, composed of
Dr. James B. Agnew, James Pollock, Pro
fessor L. J. Deal, Frank Moran, Joseph
A Donliam. Dr. T. H. Andrews, Profes
or Fullerton and others, Mr. Bishop made
a few preliminary remarks. He said :
“1 shall make no statement of my in
tentions, so I will not break any promises.
I shall simply try to do it. Call it what
you may, but I think the best name is
‘Bishopism.’ If it is that. I hope you wi 1
say it is well done. If it is a trick, then
yon are very well done.”
The first, experiment was made with
the aid of Mr. Bonham, who took a large
knife, went into the audience, atablied a
man and hid the knife. Mr. Bishop,
blindfolded, led his subject to the place of j
hiding, got the knife, repeated the wound
and returned to the stage. Only one man I
of the entire committee knew any
ladies in the audience. He knew
two and wrote their names
on a piece of paper and put it In au en
velope. Mr. Bishop then proceeded to
lead him arouud the building. After
some time the committee man was told
that lie allowed his thoughts to wander
from the locality where the ladies were
seated, and the latter then imparted
their locality to a friend. Mr. Bishop
then led the friend to where the ladies 1
were seated.
After findingtlie two ladies, the only j
clue to whose whereabouts was the
names in the envelope, Mr. Bishop
presented each with a large bouquet.
The best performance of the day was
made with the assistance of Frank Agnew
and 11. G. Fryer. The former circulated
among the audience aud got, a carnation
scarf pin, a rose hud and a l ing from dif
ferent parts of the house. He wrapped
them in a handkerchief and placed them
in a man’s pocket in au upper proscenium
box. After being led around for about
ten minutes Mr. Bishop said Mr. Agnew
couldn’t think hard enough, and Mr.
Fryer took his place.
Mr. Bishop claimed to be able to read
the minds of his subjects. If they would
only tix tlieir minds tii>on the exact local
ity where a thing was hidden lie could
find it. He even went so far as to de
scribe accurately while blindfolded the
man who had the hidden jewelry in bis
pocket, aso the scarf of the owner of the
pin. He was not directed about the thea
tre by his subjects. He placed his own
hand within a few inches of the one
whose mind he claimed to be reading, but
was led.
Mr. Bishop, besides being blindfolded,
had his head encased in a student’s book
bag, and wis nearly suffocated. However,
he succeeded, after a time, in finding the
things and restoring them to their right
places, all the while blindfolded. His
last experience was telling the number on
a bank note, in which lie greatly mysti
fied the audience.
A DANGER TO 11K AVOIDED.
Bilbhnore Record.!
There is one danger that may possibly
cause some trouble in the growing indus
trial centers of the South, unless steps are
taken to prevent it. The rapid rise in the
value of real estate, and the large increase
in consequence in the house rents, must
necessarily be very seriously felt by me
clianics. 'Either tlieir wages must be
proportionately increased, thus enlarging
the cost of manufactured goods, or they
will be driven to seek work elsewhere,
unless a remedy can be found. The
leaders in the development of the ihdus
trial centers of the South must face this
matter and settle it very quickly. To se
cure a prosperous and contented laboring
class there must not only be cheap rents,
but also the opportunity of purchasing
homes at moderate prices. The South
cannot afford to ignore this question. If
real estate is to continue on the upward
move within the limits of these cities,
then there must be provision made for
reaching the suburbs by cheap transpor
tation, and there arrangements must be
made whereby the workmen can secure
homes. The managers of the great man
ufacturing enterprises growing up in the
South will advance their own interests by
taking steps to secure something of this
kind.
HE RECOGNIZED OLD SAWYER.
Chic.ay o Herald.]
Senator Philetus Sawyer is a very close
buyer when he gets into the market to
purchase pine lauds. Usually the man who
sells to him does not know who the buyer
is. A few summers ago Philetus was up
in Oconto county inspecting some pine,
and when he sounded the owner as to a
sa e, that individual, an old man with
grizzly hair and whiskers, hauled out a
newspaper containing a wood cut of
Sawyer, looked at it closely and then at
the stranger, and said :
“You be old Sawyer! Blamed if 1
haven’t been lookin’ for you for these
three years. This land ain’t for sale.
Pine that Sawyer wants is pine, and I’ll
just keep this ’ere patch to hand down as
an heirloom to my children.”
No trade was made, and the price of
pine laud in that region rose immediately
thereafter, something‘that does not take
place very often in Wisconsin until after
Sawyer lias made his purchase.
Dr. l!o-san-k
In liis new discovery for Consumption,
succeeded in producing a 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
given universal satisfaction, Dr. Bosan
ko’s Cough and Lung Syrup is sold at 50
cents by Wikle & Cos. mcli3 ly
At Leavenworth, Kan., the women are
taking great interest in their newly
acquired right to vote at municipal elec
tions. In two days over a thousand of
them have registered.
> ♦
The New York Evening Post (a very
reliable paper) makes the following state
ment of the features of the Sully Garrett
deal and of the present status of the ne -
gotiations for the sale of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad sj stem, for the correct
ness of which it says it can vouch :
Sully agreed to buy and Garrett agreed
to sell 80,000 shares of Ba timore and
Ohio stock at 200—that is, for the total
sum $16,000,000, payable as follows:
$1,000,000 on Thursday last, 10th instant,
$5,000,000 additional in forty-five days
$10,000,000 more in one year from the date
of the contract The contract further
gave Sully the right to make the whole
of the stock the basis of an issue of $lO,-
000,000 collateral-trust debentures. In
this very feature lay the impracticability
of the scheme. For the creation of such a
trust would have the first six millions to
be paid entirely “in the air.” Mr. Garrett
did not bind himself to put any of the
stock in escrow,thus leaving the question
an open one, whether he would have
been able to deliver the whole amount
conditionally sold. For a long time ne
gotiations have been carried on between
Mr. Garrett and other parties than the
Sully combination for the purchase of his
interest in the Baltimore and Ohio stock.
We have reason to think that these ne
gotiations are far more likely to result in
the accomplishment of their object than
1 the collapsed other “deal.”
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GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Notes Mrke.l From Exchanges.
It is said that the State Fair
will advertise liberally with the weekly
| papers this year.
i Dawson, a town of about seven hundred,
| is growling because she never got but
nine thousand bags of cotton the past
se son.
Rome is to have a huge iron miil, the
result of the hearty co-operation of her
citizens under the auspices of the Land
Company.
The popular blood purifier, Hood’s
Sarsaparilla, is having a tremendous sale
this season. Nearly everybody takes it.
Try it yourself.
The Druggists’ Association of the
State of Georgia, one hundred strong,
will hold their annual meeting on Cum
berland Island, April Pith.
llod. Patrick Walsh, of the Augusta
Chronicle, has been on a trip to Florida.
His many friends throughout the State
will be glad to know that he is recovering
from his illness.
The Atlauta Journal agitates the ques
tion of making boots and shoes in Georgia.
The number of cases shipped from Boston
to J Georgia alone was, last year, 70,000,
that is, 2,230,000 pairs. That is, wj sent
to Boston alone some three or four million
dollars in a single year. ~
'Flic Cuthbert Enterprise, eudy in the
field submits the following as its donation
to snake literature: “A gentleman of
veracity who labors in his own vineyard,
reports having ploughed up recently in
one short furrow across a piece of land
which had not been cultivated in several
years, six largo snakes, each of a different,
though all of a poisonous kind. lie held
on to the handles to the end of the row
as he was ploughing a fiery young mule
and cou and not well let go, though he vows
he would not run another plough through
that laud if it was as rich as the bottom
lands of Egypt. ”
George Woods, of the Hawkinsyille
Dispatch, briskly steps to the front with
this yarn: We learn that two negroes
tied tlieir clothing to the back of their
necks and attempted to swim the river
near Abbeville about two weeks since.
One of them gained the opposite bank in
safety, but the other was drowned. The
plan fur recovering the dead body was
rather a novel one. An old darkey took
a bundle of fodder and placed it in the
river where the drowning negro first
sunk, when it floated down about fifty
yards and suddenly stopped and com
menced to whirl slowly round and round.
Here the old negro Uiyed down and secur
ed the body. He claims to have recovers and
four or five other lost bodies by this means
in his experience, and declared it to be
an infallible guide.
Information reaches us from all parts
of the country that a large crop of tobac
co will be raised in this county this com
ing year. This report is encouraging, if
the farmers of the country only give this
branch of agriculture an liouest and
faithful trial we are confident the result
will prove all we have claimed f>r it.
There is mouey in the business, and if
our farmers go at it to raise and cure it
successfully, the country will bo better
off financially than for many yearys in
the past. No longer than last week a
correspondent related the success of a
farmer in Fannin county who sold his
crop, realizing 30 cents per pound for
the best grade of tobacco, which at the
moderate rate of 500 pounds per acre of
tobacco would have netted him the snug
profit of $l5O per acre on his labor.
What branch of business approximates
in every degree these startling but un
answerable figures? Let the result
stand by the record, aud if the tobacco
business, properly conducted, don’t
make money, we’ll pay for the yarn.—
Ellijny Courier.
Shan’t I Take A Hlue Pill?
No don’t take it and run the risk of
mercurial poisons, but when billions and
constipated get a box of the celebnted
Kidney-Wort an<l it will speedily cure
you. It is nature’s great remedy for con
sumption, and for all kidney and livar
diseases.
There are more ways than oue to
bring a recalcitrat wife to time. Oue
method is threatened suicide. This
doseu’t always work to the satisfaction
of the alleged lord aud master. Oxford,
Ala., is just uow chuckling over au iu
cideut of the sort. C. A. Shaw, a mar
ried man, wished to take advantage of
the little boom iu the little village he
calls home, aud bargained for a sale of
his real estate. His wife did not take
the same view of the matter he did aud
refused point blank to sign the deed,
and, after the manner of all her sex, was
firm and deaf to all arguments, petting,
coaxing and cajolery. These all failing,
her worser half fell back on his trump
card, self-destruction, and produced au
old horse pistol aud, in a highly melo
dramatic aud blood-curdling manner,
attempted to blow out his supposed
brains. L ufnrtunately for his success
of his experiment, the ancient equine
gun was not loaded, and the cranium
ventilation scheme was a flat failure.
O, Shaw !—Chattanooga Times.
POET OFFICE HINTS,
When you call at the office for your
mail, and the postmaster hands it out,
ask him is that all.
If you ask for mail, and he tells you
there is none, tell him that there ought to
be, then go home and send the rest of the
family around at different times through
the day.
Don’t bring your mail to the post office
until the mail closes, then abuse the post
master for not opening the mailbag and
putting your letter in.
When you want a stamp on yourlett r,
tell the postmaster to put it on; if he won’t
do it, “go” for him, In case you put it
on yourself soak it iu your mouth long
enough to remove the mucilage; it will
then stick until it’s dry.
Be sure to ask the postm ister to credit
you for stamps; if he has any accommo
dation about him he will do it.
If you have a box, stand and drum on
it until the postmaster hands out your
mail—that is if you have forgotten your
key; it makes him feel good, especially if
he is waiting on somebody else.
Coloring Dresses.
and any heavy garments can be done
without ripping, by using Diamond Dyes.
Be careful to have a kettle or tub large
enough to allow the goods to be easily
moved. Sold everywhere.
Seven-Year-Old Scores A Centre.
! From the PetioitFiee Press.
“So you have got a step-mother?” she
i said to the little girl ol 7.
j “Yes.”
“Well, I feel sorry for you.’
“Oh, you needn’t do that,” replied the
little one. “Please feel sorry for pa !”
That Tired Feeling
Afflicts nearly every one in the spring.
The system having become accustomed to
the bracing air of winter, is weakened by
the warm days of the changing season,
and readily yie ds to attacks of disease.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla is just the medicine
j needed. It tones and builds up every
part of the body, and also expels all im
purities from the blood. Try it this
son.