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The Courant American is Published
Weekly in the Interest of Bartow
County, Devoted Mainly to Local
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Expect an Undivided County Patron
aor.
VOL. 5-NO 461 *>■
DRUGS! DRUGS!
J. B. WIKLE & CO.,
(SUCCESSORS TO D. W. CURRY.)
lUve now in store ibe be*t selected, most complete and varied stock of
Drugs, Chemicals, Paints, Oils,
Glass, Patty, Perfumes, Etc.
IN NORTH GEORGIA.
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About twenty years ago I discovered a little sore on my cheek, and the doctors pro
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ncut benefit. Among the number were one or two specialists. The medicine they applied
was like fire to the sore, causing intense (.tun. I saw a statement in the papers telling what
H. S. S. hail done for others similarly afflicted. I procured some at once. Before I had used
the second bottlo the neighbors could notice that my cancer was healing up. My general
health had been oau for two or three years—l haa a hacking cougn ana spit blood contin
ually. 1 hed a severe |aiu m my breast. After taking six bottles of S. S. S. my cough left
nte and 1 grew stouter than I had been for several years. My cancer has henled over all bnt
s 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. McCONAUGUKY, Ashe Grove, Tippecanoe Cos., Ind.
Feb. 16, 1886.
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“We do hereby certify that we supervise the
arrangements for all the Monthly and Semi-
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tery Company, and in person manage and con
trol the Drawings themselves, and that tile s ime
are uonduc ed with hone-ty, fairness, autl in
good faith towcr l all i>arlicg. and we authorize
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Commissioner*.
We the undersigned Ranks and Bankers will
pay all Prizes drawn in The Louisiana State
I>>times which may be presented at our coun
ters.
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P. LANAUX, Pres, State Nat’l Bank.
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CARL KOHN, Pres. Union Nat. Bank.
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Tiie Louisiana State Lottery Como any
Incorported in 1808 for 25 years by the Legis
lature lor Educational and Charitable purposes—
with a enpittd oi SIOO,OO0 —to which a reserve
fund of over $550,000 hag 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 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
regularly every six months (Juue and Decem
ber )
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Capital Prize $150,000.
■^“Notice.—Ticket* are Ten Dollar* only.
Halves $5. Fifth* $3. Tenths sl.
LIST OF FRIZES.
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 10.000 ... 20,000
4 LARGE PRIZES OF 5 000... 20,000
20 PRIZES OF 1,000.... 20.000
50 “ 50<> ... 2c,000
100 “ 300... 30,000
200 “ 200.... 40,000
SHO “ 100... 50,000
1,010 “ 50.... ,50,000
A I’I’KOXIMATioV 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 iuiormstion write clearly, giving
full address. Postal Notes, Expre s Money
Orders, or New York Exchange in ordinary let
ter. Currency by Espies* (at our expense) ad
diessed M A DAUPHIN,
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or M. A. DAUPHIN,
Washington, D. C.
Address Registered Letters to
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REMEMBER ence of Generals
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drawings, is a guarantee ol absolute lairness and
integrity, tiiat the chances are all equal, and that
no one can possibly divine what numbers will
draw a Pnz *. All parlies therefore advertising
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and only aim to deceive and defraud the unwwiy.
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CARTERSYILLE, GA., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1887.
Editorial Brevities.
The burglars are trying to “boom”
Georgia just now. They are meeting
with poor success, however.
John G. Sax*, the poet, died at Albany,
N. Y., last Thursday, at the house of his
son. He had been in ill health fbr ten
years and had to some extent lost hi3
reason. ______________ _,
Jeems Blaise is cavorting around the
west, hustling up support for the presi
dential candidacy next year. He will be
in the arena again, no doubt, but only to
be again lain on the shelf.
Thb princely salary of $20,000 is attach
ed to Capt. Raoul’s new position, as Pies
identofthe Mexican National Railway.
He left for New York Saturday night,
and will soon inspect the road in person.
The tax assessor of Hamilton county,
in which Chattanooga is located, seems to
be somewhat of a ljoomer himself. H®
assessed property in that city at what it
was boomed at and now the owners are
doing some tall kicking.
It is refreshing to know that there is an
increased demand for watermelon seed in
the lower end of the State. Soon the fes
tive colic instigator will be getting in
its work on the northern bloody shirt
howlers. Then all will be well.
Governor Gordon has not the time to
look over the claims of convicts that
are entitled, in his opinion, to pardons,
and recommends the establishment of a
board of pardons. The proposition is
meeting with approbation with the press
and people. •
It is give!; out semi-officially from the
State Agricultural headquarters in Atlanta
that the peach and pear crops are entirely
killed. Thi3 is certainly the case in the
Griffin section, which is the center of the
peach growing belt of Georgia. Peaches
in that section are undoubtedly destroyed*
In many portions of the territory trib
utary to the city of San Autonio, Texas,
the suffering from drought is severe. In
Atasca county all crop.s are a failure.
Lean kine abound, and un ess it rains
soon people will be brought to starvation.
In Medina county cattle are dying so
fast the owners cannot skin them.
Miss Agnes Herndon, whom most of
our citizens will remember as au elocu
tionists of rare and wonderful gifts, was
poisoned by eating fruit seut to her by
•‘an unknown crank admirer.” That is
a strange way to express admiration.
Miss Herndon is now au actress, and at
the time of the attempt or. her life, was
filling an engagement in New Y’ork.
Cherokee Advance: “Capt. John C.
Printup, president of the Rome & Decatur
Railroad writes the Advance in reply to
an inquiry addressed him that he can t
say just yet when the corps of Engineers
will be put into the field (to survey
routes from Rome to Gainesville). I hope
to get them in by the middle of April, or
first of May. This is assuring, coming
from such a reliable gentleman as Capt.
Printup”
Senator Sherman haß lost a great oppor
tunity. The Smth wants mney, not
talk. If he had come down with money
enough to buy a few booms he would
have made himself “solid” with the
South.—Brunswick Herald.
The Senator was in the South with a
pocket full of rocks trying to buy a
“boom,” but not the kind of “boom” you
speak of. It was a presidental “boom”
the Senator was after buying.
Have you ever noticed what a peculiar
thing Sunday sickness is ? The indisposi
tion comes on suddenly. The victims re
tire on Saturday night in usual health, but
on awaking on Sunday morning somehow
they “do not feel very well,” and they
“guess they won’t go to church to-day.”
But fortunately, it never proves fatal or
very serious. Monday mornings the suf
fering ones are in their usual health
People suffering from this malady never
take much medicine. —Americus Recorder.
A special from Tallahassee, Fla., says:
“C. W. Jones, Jr., son of ex-Senator Jones,
has taken quarters at the St. James Hotel,
and will remain in the city until his father
arrives in a week or two. It is said the
ex-Senator will make a mighty effort to
explain his shortcomings to the legisla
ture with the hope of being re-elected.
His efforts, however, will be vain, so far
as a re-election is concerned, but it is
hoped he will be able to explain the con
tempt with which he has regarded his
obligations to the people who have re
peatedly honored him 'with the highest
offices in their gift.”
There are thousands upon thousands
of people who distinctly remember the
time when to cross the Atlantic ocean in
a sailing vessel a three months’ trip was
regarded as exceptionally expeditious.
Yet the yacht Coronet reached Queens
town the other day after a trip of fourteen
days, nineteen hours, three minutes and
fourteen seconds. The whole number of
nautical miles sailed was 2,949, and the
longest day's run was 291.5 miles. The
passage was more than ordinarily stormy,
and the wind a good deal of the time un
favorable. Steam can beat this record
only a few days.
All the small men do not live.in this
section of the State as the following from
the Brunswick Herald will attest:
Brunswick harbors some very small men,
not from a physical standpoint, but rather
from their extremely small acts. A case
in point: A piece of property was adver
tised for sale in the Herald, and one of
this class of men wanted to buy the prop
erty, but would not do so until it was
advertised in another paper with another
name signed to the advertisement other
than the one which appeard in the Herald.
But the fact remains that the great and
good Herald found the purchaser, but he
was so blind to prejudice that he would
not buy until the property was adyertised
in another journal. The Herald is pros
pering despite the small acts of extremely
‘ small men.
CROSS PLAINS, ALABAMA.
Knuilmn Thonjlits of a Fine Country and
of a Clever People who are Patiently
Abiding Their Time—The Riches of
Their Surroundiug Hills yet Un
known and Undeveloped
Cross Plains, Alabama, is a town of
about 800 inhabitants, and is, as its name
indicates, a place where two valleys, or
plains, intersect each other. It streets are
laid off regularly and of pretty width
perfectly level and sandy. Its surround
ing mountains are of sufficient distance to
“lend enchantment to the view and robe
them in azure hue.” On of these moun
tains, about four miles from towD, is a
bold, beautiful spring, whose waters, as
they slenderly wind and leap down the
rugged mountain side, forms in the sun
light a silver thread. The waters ot this
spring in time will be confined in a huge
resevoir and made the plant of the city
waterworks and its sparkling spray will
be conveyed and thrown from a hundred
fountains, reflecting the dancing sunlight,
to the beautifying the palatial houses and
parks and the cooling the mid-summers
atmosphere of the future city. Cross
Plains, like many of the towns of North
Alabama, boasts of her huge deposits of
iron and manganese. We were shown
some beautiful specimens of the latter,
which I was told essayed 58 per cent,
and found in large deposits. Outside of
her iron ore prospects, she has a clever
farming country, capable of producing
food for the eater and clotheß for the
wearer, which, under the proper system
of culture might be made to produce a
large revenue. The farmers here, like
most of the farmers all over our own
South land, are improvident and wanting
in thrift and energy. They persist in
holding on 10 the little bobtail mule and
scooter plow, scratching the land for
cotton while their smoke houses and corn
cribs are all in the west. We saw a num
ber of these hard-fisted sons of toil carry
ing out corn, meat, flour and guano, thus
early giving their chattel and corn liens
for the same to be payed out of their fu
ture cotton crop at a ruinous per centage.
The farmers generally get their supplies
on six mouths’ time, paying therefor from
60 to 120 per cent. No business can stand
such a strain. It is but a matter of time
when it will pass into other hands. This
country is capable of producing wheat,
oats, rye, corn, clover, timothy, orchard
grass, fine stock ot every description, and
in fact everything that goes to supply a
country and make it rich. Nature has
been lavish to this people, but her gift is
being terribly abused. They complain of
poor crops the last year or two past —they
attribute it to unpropitious seasons, when
they should haye credited it to inadequate
culture, etc. No place in Alabama bas a
nicer and clever set of people, generous
and hospitable. They made us fee! per
fectly at home. Cross Plains will be re
collected as the place where a yankee
negro schoolmaster incited the negroes
to fire into a crowd of ladies and gentle
men returning from church. This indig
nity was resented and rightfully punished
by hanging the schoolmaster an I five of
his negro cohorts, and shooting many
more. This just act of her citizens, how
ever, was an unfortunate occurrence for
the prospects of the place. Her name was
written on the bloody shirt and flaunted
on the hustings of republican politics both
north and south, and was regarded by
many good men of both sections as a
bloody ground ruled by thebowie knife
and pistol of the ku klux. There was an
unjust discrimination made, too, against
her by the authorities of the Rome, Selma
and Dalton railroad in favor of Patona, a
rival yillage just one mile below. Her
depot, express office and post office was
at Patana for a long time, and until the
present time the authorities have persist
ently refused to put her name on their
railroad maps. But notwithstanding this
unjust hazing she has gradually built up
until to-day she has two railroads and a
prospect for a third one; has two large
flourishing schools, four churches, two
nice depot buildings, many nice cottage
homes, and a lively and lucrative trade,
while her rival Patona is in ruins, with
nothing left but a few negro cabins and
the abandoned railroad round house. As
if in disgust of the place and in contempt
ol the wicked founders the engineers draw
wider open the throttle and pass her by
with a rattling speed.
Calhoun county has by an overwhelm
ing vote adopted the temperance act, and
by the Ist of May the last bar room will
have disappeared and the county will be
subject to the ravages of the “blind tiger.”
Last weekot court at Jacksonville,Ala.,
the town was full of countrymen whose
principle object seemed to be to help the old
Italian whiskey vendor o clearout his stock
of villianous whiskey. The most of them
was on jim dandy drunks but seemed on
good terms with themselves and every
body else. Among the number was a
little old weasled face man with long
gray hair, wearing a long democratic wool
hat and a pair of brass rimmed specta
cles. As he came staggering up, he*
remarked. These preachers trouble me
durned if they don’t! I m willing to hold
up my right hand and swear it. What is
the matter with you and the preachers,
Uncle Jimmie was asked? Wal, last fall
when I was digging ’taters a hard shell
preacher came along and axed me if he
could stay all night, I told him I guessed
so if the old woman didn’t object. Di
rectly my nephew came along and stayed
all night, and he was a Methodist preach
er, and after supper them preachers jest
argefied and argufied and they bothered
me, durned if they didn’t. That hard
shell turned around to me aud sais, Uncle
Jimmie, you couldn’t help digging them
’taters this evening for it was foreordain
ed that you should do it, and if you go to
town and get drunk and kill somebody
to-morrow you can’t help it; and I didn't
sleep any that night for it bothered me,
durned if it didn’t. Next morning after
breakfast the old hard shell axed me
what I charged him for staying all night?
I said flye dollars, sir. No, he says, you
don’t, you are joking. Yes I do, says I,
can’t help it, I just can’t help it. He got
mad and I got mad and I told him he just
had to pay it fori couldn’t help it. Di
rectly he pul ed out his little old mole
skin purse and handed me a silver dollar,
the last cent he had. Says I, give me that,
for I can’t help it now. Now give me a
a note for the ballance, and the old fellow
pulled out a note for four dollars signed
by the old hard shell. What are you
going to do with the note, Uncle Jimmie
was asked. I’ll dun him for it here, and
if I don’t get it, I’ll dun him for it in
Heaven, for I can’t help it, darned if I can.
SCRIBBLER.
“Can’t eat a thing.” Hood’s Sarsapa
rilla is a wonderful medicine for creating
an appetite, regulating digestion, and
giving strength.
Eev. S. S. Sweet, of the Swift Specific
Company, has left Atlanta for England,
where he goes to establish a branch for
that great healer. Mr. Sweet no doubt
will make as good an impression on the
Englishmen as his medicine, for he was
once a Georgia editor.
How to Save Money,
and we might also say—time and pain as
well, in our advice to good housekeep
ers and ladies generally. The great
necessity existing always to have a per
fectly safe remedy convenient for the
relief and prompt cure of the ailments
peculiar to woman—functional irregu
larity. constant pains, and all the symp
toms attendant upon uterine disorders
—induces us to recommend strongly
and unqualifiedly Dr. Pierce’s “Favorite
Prescription”—woman’s best friend.
It will save money.
THE NEED OF A GOOD COLLECTION.
LAW.
Albany News and Advertiser.]
When the Georgia legislature meets in
July next there is nothing that it could do
that would be of more certain and
lasting benefit to the people of the State
than to enact a good straightforward col
lection law. Such a law would remove
the great barrier that now stands between
the people of the State and foreign cap
ital, and would not only make money
easier to obtain, but would reduce the
rate of interest.
. It is the man of limited means who has
to borrow, and not the money lender, who
stands most in need of a good, healthy
collection law. The man who has money
to loan in Georgia can, with the exercise
of an abundance of caution, find reason
ably safe investment for it at a
high rate of interest. If he loans it all he
will, nine cases out of ten, exact usurious
interest, for the reason that, under the
operation of our defective and uncertain
collection system, capital is timid and the
demands of the borrowing class are always
in excess of the supply of money that the
limited number of lenders have on hand
or are willing to invest in view of the
uncertainties and delays of the law.
A majority of the farmers and business
men of Georgia are money borrowers.
Any law that would have a tendency to
increase the supply of money and reduce
the rate of interest would, therefore, be
greatly to their benefit. A good collec
tion law would accomplish this for them
just as certainly as cause produces effect.
Whenever it became known that the laws
of the State required the payment of just
debts and made the debtor’s property
liable for his debts, then capital would
come out here for investment, and a man
could borrow money to the extent of the
value of his property, at a reasonable rate
of interest.
Under our present system a man has to
be comparatively rich to have any credit.
The poor man who is compelled to bor
row not only has no credit, but has no
collateral. He may have a house and lot
or a farm, but this is not good collateral
to the extent oi anything like its value.
It is hard to foreclose a mortgage and sell
property under the existing laws of this
State whenever the debtor undertakes to
tight the claim or avail himself of the
law’s delay, first under one pretext and
then under another.
As has already been said, the borrowing
or debtor class is largely in the majority
in this State. For this reason legislation
in fivor of this class has been popular
ever since the war. But our legislatures
have made a mistake. The policy that
has been pursued has had a tendency to
oppress rather than benefit the debtor.
It has had the effect of shaking confidence
and making capital timid. It has de
prived the man of small meaus of all
credit and conferred it upon the man of
wealth who does not need it.
EVASION OF LAWS.
Savannah News,]
years ago a rich man who lived in
a North Georgia city, owed a firm of mer
chants a large sum of money. For some
reason, with which the public was not
made acquainted, he wished to postpone
payment. He consulted a lawyer as to
how he might cirryout his purpose.
The lawyer advised him to allow him
self to be sued, promising to have the
case continued from time to time until he
should be ready to pay. The advice was
followed and the case was kept in court
three years, at the end of which time
judgment was confessed, and the money
with interest was paid. This was an
evasion of law.
Another rich man, who lived in a
Southeast city, made a will, conforming
strictly to the requirements of law.
When he died some of the heirs were dis
satisfied with what the will gave them.
Tliey consulted a lawyer as to how they
might obtain a greater share of the prop
erty. The lawyer advised them to con
test the will. The advice was accepted,
a long and expensive suit ensued, and
the will was broken. This was another
evasion of law.
These two cases are types of many that
crowd the courts. It is the tendency of
the times to evade the laws. When Con
gress or the Legislature enacts a law there
is nearly always somebody who im
mediately begins to seek ways of evading
it. Attempts to evade the local option
law in the State are all the time being
made, and no doubt plans are being laid
to evade the Intar-state Commerce law.
The records of the criminal courts abound
in the boldest kinds of attempts at
evasion.
It may be true that the laws need sim
plifying, or that there are too many laws,
it is certainly true that they are not
obeyed as they should be.
SAM JONES’ C IIARITY,
He Gives the Poor and Destitute Much of
the Moaev He Earns.
“Do you know that Rev Sam Jones
gives away to the poor more than half the
money he earns?” said one of the great
evangelist’s admirers to a Times reporter
yesterday. The reporter expressed ignor
ance on the subject, and while mentally
wondering why he had been neglected in
the distribution of the evangelist's shekels,
the first speaker said: “ Yes, you would
be surprised to know the many hundred
dollars he distributes among the poor.
Why, there are half a dozen old superan
nuated preachers down in Georgia who
really draw a pension from Sam Jones,
for hardly a month passes that he does
not send them money and he was never
known to refuse an appeal for aid. Peo
ple are begining to impose on him, too
for they write to him from a thousand
miles, asking for help. True he often
makes a neat sum of money in the big
cities, but then he is keeping up one or
two charitable institutions, besides tbs
other money he distributes among the
poor and needy. If it w ere not for his
chairity he would have a good bank,
account, but so long as he givss so lib
erally he will remain poor.”
A Little Girl’s Appeal to Secretary Lamar.
Washington Letter in Cincinnati Enquirer.
A little girl eight years old, residing at
Gordon, Dakota, has written the following
letter to Secretary Lamar. It was printed
on a small piece of paper with a lead pen
cil, in a style peculiar only to children
when they are writing their first letters.
Every letter is a capital, and reads:
“Mr Lbmars—Won’t you please de
cide the land case that is in your office
now. Ma has to work out, and Minnie is
sick, and I hare to do the work. lam
only eight years old. We hain’t no money,
and Lige Moon is trying to get our
claim.” Ada French.”
“Ma wants to get some money so we
can get some close i.nd git a horse. It is
awful cold here at Mitchell, Dakota, and
we have to burn hay, and can’t hardly
keep warm. Good by.
“Gordon, Dakota. Ada French."
The Family Educator.
Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary is a
great family educator, aud no family of
children ought to be brought up with
out having ready access to this grand
volume. It will answer hundreds of
queslions to the wide-awake child. It
is an ever-present and reliable school
master to the whole family.
THE COLORS BADLY MIXED.
A BUck-and-White Babe-A Startling
Arkansas Monstrosity.
From the St Louis Globe-Democrat ]
There is on exhibition at North St.
Louis the greatest living curiosity of the
nineteenth century. It is a child five
months old, the daughter of full-blooded
Ethiopians, but so peculiarly marked as
to excite the wonder of ad who visit the
place. The feet and ankles of the little
girl are of a dark copper color; the re
mainder of the lower limks are as white as
the skin of any child born of white par
ents. Around the upper part of the abdo
men is a peculiarly-shaped white belt,
while all the rest of the body, as well as
the face, is of the same color as the feet.
In the centre of the forehead, aud extend
ing a little way on the scalp, is a white
mark resembling an inverted “L.” At
the upper end of the “L” is a portion of
the head covered with hair very much in
texture and color like very fine wool.
The rest of the head has lor its covering
the ordinary black wool of the negro.
The child is perfectly formed, healthy,
and active, and in its general features
shows the African blood which courses
through its veins. It was born Oct. 9, at
Alma, Ark., and is the youngest ot three
children born to Isaac aud Mary Hollo
well The parents are each about
thirty years of age, black and ignor
ant They have for the last two
months traveled from place to place
exhibiting their little one to the
gaze of the curious, and receiving in re
turn whatever the visitors desire 1o give.
Hollowed, when asked what signifi
cance was attached to the peculiar maiks
on the chi and, indicated by his reply that
he thought they indicated that the* little
one bore the imprints of the Almighty’s
hand, and was destined to h ive a wonder
ful career. He explained them as fol
lows:
“Well, de brown stocking is de brass
on de Lawd’s feet: de white legs is the
marble pillahs; de belt means de girdin'
up de loins; an’ de white liar is de white
wool on de Lawd’s head ”
Some time before the child was born.
Hollowell said, the parients hap
pened to refer one day to the subject of
peculiar children, and wondered what
they should do should one he born to
them sucli as they had heard about. The
mother aftarward dreamed that she had
given birth to a child of uncommon ap
pearance, and which grew up and was
transported to Heaven and enrolled among
the angelic hosts. The dream made a
strong impression on her, and she is strong
in the belief that a brief sojourn on earth
will be accorded the little one she has
now with her.
Evidently they are bound to make the
most of it while it remains with them.
Countless visitors go to see the curiosity,
and both the parents are careful to re
mind them to “leave a dime for the
mother.,’ The negroes who visit it are
greatly impressed with the appearance of
the child, and seem hardly to know
whether to pity or envy the parents.
THE HEALING FIT.
The Wonderful Fit of WllkcH county aud
its Great Power.
The wonderful pit which was dis
covered several months ago, is effecting
many miraculous cures of rheumatism.
Mr. E. D. Bruce, of Hawkinsville, has
long been a sufferer of rheumatism, is at
present at the pit and this is what he wrote
to the Dispatch:
“My health is still improving, and I
hope to go home well by the first of May
“There has been some wonderful cures
here 3ince I arrived. But some who come
here go away disgusted at the idea of
being cured by simply sitting under the
ground. There are ten persons here now
for treatment, and the number contin
ues to increase. The pit will only hold
seven at one time. There are about fifty
spectators here to-day. It is a mistake
that all cases can be cured in a day or two.
And it is strange that it lias a better effect
on a negro than a white man, but it is
true, I have known several negroes to be
cured in a single night.
“A lady stayed in the pit last night that
has not walked in eight years. She says
she feels much belter this morning, and
hopes to be able to walk again soon.
“The price for staying in the pit is one
dollar per day, but if it is crowded a dollar
for three hours is charged.
“ Work will begin here in a few days on
a SIO,OOO hotel. There are but little
hotel accomodations here, it being over a
mile to the nearest boarding house.
“Respectfully,
“E. D, Bkuck.”
A Story of Victoria.
One of the first things Queen Victoria
did on hearing that William IV. was dead
and that she had succeeded to the throne
was to call one of her mother’s ladies in
waiting. “Am I really Queen?” asked the
excited Princess.
“You are, indeed, madam,” replied the
lady in-waiting.
“And I can do wliat I choose by right?”
continued Victoria
“Certainly, your Majesty.”
“Then get me a cup of green tea. Mam
ma never would let me have it; now I
mean to know what harm it can do me.”
And the young queen drank three cups,
had a violent fit of the shivers, and has
never liked tea since.
Mr. T. J. Nicholl, the present General
Manager of the E. & W., if he retires
through the change in the road’s manage
ment, will still give his energies to the aid
of the pushing ot our town and county’s
interests. As President of the Cherokee
Land and Improvement Company he has
through bis large acquintance and influ
ence among capitalists West and North
already done much individually in direct
ing investments to our section, and giving
as he will renewed and enlarged effort to
the work, will accomplish much more.
Our community appreciates such citizens
as Mr. Nicholl —Cedartown Advertiser.
An Unanswerable Argument.
Omaha H orld.]
First Omaha Man—Humph ! The idea
of spending S2OO for a bicycle for your
boy! You’ll ruin him.
Second Omaha Man—On the contrary;
I desire to keep him out of bad company.
“What good will that new-fangled con
trivance do any one, I’d like to know?
He can go where he pleases with it.”
“Did you ever hear of a young man
coming home drunk on a bicycle?”
Many imitators, but no equal, has
r. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy.
Wonderful Cure*.
W. D. Hoyt & Cos., Wholesale and
Retail Druggists, of Rome Ga , say; We
have been selling Dr. King’s New Dis
covery,Electric Bitters and Bucklen’s
Arnica Salve for four years, Have never
handled remedies that sell as well, or
give such universal satisfaction. There
have been some wonderful cures effected
by these medicines in this city. Several
cases of pronounced Consumption have
been entirely cured by use of a few bot
tles of Dr. King's New Discovery, taken
in connection with Electric Bitters. We
guarantee them always. Sold by J. R-
Wikle & Cos. mcli3 tf.
THAT HACKING COUGH can be so
quickly cured by Shi'li’s Cure. We
guarantee it. At Word’s 1
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Reasonable Rates on Application.
$ 1.50 Per Annum—sc. a Copy.
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Notes Nicked From Exchaug< g.
The glory of the port of Atlanta bus
departed. Not even a schooner can get
over the bar there now. —Savannah News.
The people in and around Canton are
preparing to build a large arbor for the
proper entertainment of large gitbei
ings.
Dr. Hawthorne emphatically denies a
rumor that be is favorably considering a
call to a wealthy church in Washington.
He will remain in Atlanta.
It is rumored that Col. Thomas C.
Howard, of Atlanta, has been tendered the
position of Governor of Alaska, but it is
thought that he will dec ine it.
The Chronicle says that a lemedy f r
cancer in the form of an application of
live crabs, is being tiied on a patient iu
Augusta, aud with apparent benefit so
far.
A levy made by a constable in Polk
county on a fi. fa. read thus: “I hav this
day levvid on one Black cow, this piece
Hawing Bin sowed On by me with a
Nedlo & Thread.”
A geutlemau near Marietta, iu the re
cent earthquake, thought Bonn one was
turning his house over, seize: nis gun,
ran to the dooY and shot his wile’s wa-li
pot into thousands of pieces.
Uncle Sniumie Pasco, one of the old
est citizens of Cherokee county, died
last week. He went to that comity
wliou the gold fever ran high, and the
celebrated Pasco mine was ouce his
property.
Capt. C. P. llowen.of Douglasydle, has
quite a curiosity in the shape of & calf.
This Calf was born several days ago, and
has not the sign of a hair on it. It is a
large, healthy and perfectly formed calf.
While there are no hairs on it’s hide, it is
spotted in several places.
There is consternation in Atlanta mil
itary circles. A few days ago Mrs. Willie
Burton invaded the office of Col. W. T.
Moyers and horse whipped him. She was
afterwards fined $lO for assault, but this
does not seem to have had a soothing
ofiect upon the other colonels in At
lanta.
Mr. J. K. McKenney, of Cobb county,
has kept the number of days it rained for
the last nine years and the record stands
as follows: In 1878, 132 days; 1879, 125
days; 1880,153 days; 1881, 148 days; 1882,
180 davs; 1883, 149 days; 1884, 158 days;
1885, 150, and 1880, 127 days. He has
commenced on 1887.
A young man of Dublin pullel from
one of his coat pockets a few days ago two
or three letters that was given him two
years and eight months ago to be mailed.
A person to whom one of the letters was
addressed was present when they were
brought to light and received his with the
stamp not canceled.
The blind tiger has again left his lair
in Atlieus, and is prowliug around seek
ing whom he may devour. If current
reports be true, oue of the sellers is a
well known business man, who stands
well iu the city. He selects his custom
ers, but is selling a great deal of the
orphan-maker without the pale of the
law.
There has been quito a revival among
the convicts at the camps of the Atlau
ta aud Hawkinsville railroad, Several
have professed conversion, and on Sun
day they will be baptized by Rev. Frank
Joseph, assisted by Rev. J. C. Murray.
Principal Keeper Towers has given his
couseut and and has issued passes to the
two preachers.
©
A citizen living near Cat nesville found
a couple of pistols in a bureau drawer not
long since. He supposed them to have
been placed there by his sons, took them
to the shop, laid them on the anvil, and
with a sledge hammer, mashed the cylin
ders Hit. They now answer as playthings
for the small children auout the house.
This is a worthy example for fathers gen
erally.
The Stovalls who reside in Banks,
Franklin and Elbert counties, claim to
be the only direct decendauts from the
famous Indian girl Pocahontas, Ab
Stovall, now living iu E bert county,
can give the family tree in all of its
brauchas. The Hurber Brothers, now
the most prominent merchants of Har
mony Grove, are one of the limbs of tbo
Pocahontas family tree.
A negro by the name of Wiley Smith,
of Baker county, who does his trading
iu Leary, is a physical curiosity. He
has for years been turning white, his en
tire body having been almost complete
ly relieved of the inky blackness which
once lingered on it. His face and
hands are still black, but the white is
encroaching upon the black reserve,
Wiley it is said, has the principles of
the whitest kind of a white man, being
in every way reliable, aud his obligations
are sought for.
A sad case of suicide from morphine
poison occured at Gainesville Wednes
day afternoon Miss Sadse Pecteret,
aged about 40, took enough morphine to
end her life in a few hours. Medical aid
was summoned, but too late. She ate
breakfast, but was feeling unwell at the
time. No one kuows what time she
took the morphine, but by 3 o’clock she
was as good as dead. No cause is assign
ed. The indications are that she took
the poison intentionally. Her mother,
brother and herself constituted the
family. Her brother is a lawyer. He
was aVisent on business aud did not re
turn till nearly night, to find his sister
almost dead.
The cold snap being heard from in ail
sections in Georgia, aud if we did net
remember that the cry of ‘‘min!” is
heard every year about this time, we
would regard the reports uow being sent
to the papers as very discouraging. The
truth is, that Georgia lias frosts nearly
every year between March 20th and
April 10th; snap beaus get yellow about
the gills and early squashes retire to the
cover of the earth very much dis
couraged. Peaches themselves put on
an injured look and the other fruits
seem to wither iu the bud. So it goes.
Bat in a little while the warm days start
everything off again. Fresh beans aud
squashes run up from new seed, buds
brighten up aud after awhile we get
about all the garden truck and fruit we
cau dispose of. We will hear better
news from the unhappy sections before
long. All gold does not g isteu.—Macon
Telegraph.
Mort. Donaldson, who has traveleled
over all of Cherokee and who kuows the
topography of the county well, called in
to see us this week and said he had a
plau maped out over which a railroad
could be built from Cartersville to Can
ton cheaper aud shorter than over any
other route. Of course after the road
gets here we all know, and it can be
easily shown, that an easy aud practica
ble route cau be obtained to Gainesville.
The plan suggested by Mr. Donaldson
was to come by the old Cooper iron
works, crossing Stamp creek near its
mouth, through by Macedonia church
to Keever’s place and on by Proctor's
bend, crossing the Etowah river near
Dr. Sp Vs place and then on to Chero
kee Mills and there crossing Little river,
thence on by the places of Dr. H irp,
R. VV. Hilhouse, l hos. Peardou, W. D.
Page’s tan yard to Dobbs' thence to
Canton, making the line only seventeen
miles long from Cartersville to Canton
and having comparatively light grades.