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SUBSCRIPTION. Til* OoUIIANT-AmKKR AN IS PUBLISHED W r.tiKLY IN TUB INTKRKST OK BARTOW County, Devoted Mainly to Local News, and Thinks it has a Right to Expect an Undivided County Patron age mC \in iJ '1 t 'AHTt!**Yit.T<* UoraANT. Established l-SAo ) CoksOlidatbd 1887. , U ri U 44 J t At-IKtSWLLE AMKiUCAN, DRUGS! DRUGS! 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! pilllPß i fgaPni Iff’ * ;j Restlessness. 1 A 4TIHCTLV VlOfTsßlf p&i SAUt.Tk.US r SMUT MCZHCiNC. Uj;; ®A6@S§, 6A. fp 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. I 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. - ■ - ♦ •- ■ —- 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.” ADVERTISE*! ENTS. Fue Cou rant—American is the only Paper Published in one op the Best Counties in North Georgia. Its Ci r IS SECOND TO NONE OK ITS CLASS. Reason ale Rates on Application. S 1.50 Per Annum.- sc. a Copy. 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.