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SUBSCRIPTION. The Courant American is Published Weekly in the Interest of Bartow County, Devoted Mainly to Local News, and Thinks it has a Right to 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. < orne to we ue, examine g.x*ls and get piicea. Pl.yiician. J’re criptions Oiled with the greatest rare day and night !y a license I pharmacist. A.C3-ETTT STyX.ITTDA.TtXD OIL OOMPN’T Ch.as. A. Wikle, Manager. —— ■■■■mummmwarn — :CSO TO: RICHARD L. JONES FOR Fresh Groceries, aft i thine aoed for the table. FHISSIf K<HiS and CHICKENS, JER>KY IJJITTER, 4 KKa M ( II EkSE. KTAHLKN, GAKUKN SEEDS, TENNESSEE NAUBA(i*ia 1 KESH MEAE Hay, Corn, Oats, Cotton Seed, Bran and Meal, lha k I oan furiii-h you at the LOWEST FIGURES. I deliver gorxds to any part of Ihe city free ot ili irgv. S* li. uiui; your putronnge anil proiui-ing to treatyou well, lam )OUI tiulj, RICHARD Xi. JONES. Jy West, Main Street, Crter*ville, G. A BOOMING BUSINESS I 3ST Furniture! S. L. VANDIVERE. Proprietor, irtli Georgia Furniture House, Ready to Ride any Room that may come along. lie runs a Booming Buaiuess by Booming I.ow Price-. His stock of FINE FURNITURE Is Large ami Superb everything to suit the most fastidious in elegant profusion. The poor marps U*t >uk has been remembered, and goods bought accordingly. Re sure and price furniture in this LIVE ESTABLISHMENT and you will uot g) to other markets. “LIVE AND LET LIVE" is the motto of this excellent house eblu-ly H. H. JONES & SONS’ MANUFACTURING COMPANY, CAKTERSVILLE, ROME AND STAMP CREEK, GA. —Manufacturers of and Dealers in— BUGGIES, CARRIAGES WAGONS & MATERIAL SJHSiSHSMBnSJ£i!SHSHSHS2raSZSZSgSHgSZSZ!iHKHISISgSZSZS2SgSZSZ jS2SaSgS2SHS2S2S2SEFSSH£^2SSS2S2StScS&SiSasaS2SSS2SgSgS2SZSiISHSgS • ALL WORK FULLY GUARANTEED. [£,.£= We can duplicate the work of any first-class manu factory in the country in Price, Quality and Finish. We acknowledge no superior in the Carriage Business. Can build any style of vehicle desired; only the very best material used. reb3-iy Tried jn fr- About twenty years ago I discovered a little sore on my cheek, and the doctors pro nounced it cancer. I have tried a number of physicians, out without receiving any perm*.- 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. Swift’s Specific is entirely vegetable, and seems to cure candors by forcing out the impu a. ’ice from the blood. Treatise ou 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 COURANT-AMEHICAIT OFFICE THE COURMT-AMERICAN. LOOK OUT! Compare till* with your purchase: ggd j 1 jj *USSTLEBNBSS* a ivaicrw vi<wt*ch jf&A raWLftct* VAMIU MtottMC. iitV; , **£■*#• 1 BAIM, ttA. PHILADELPHIA. Igj \ - ONE Dollar Wim As you value health, perhaps life, examine each package andd>e sure you gel the Genuine. See the red Z Trade-Mark ami the full title ua front of Wrapper, and ou the side the teal and signature of J. H. Zelllu A Cos., as in the above fac- simile. Remember there i* no other genuine Simmons Liver Regulator. L.S.L. CAPITAL PRIZE, $150,000. “We do hereby certify that we supervise the arrangements for all the Monthly and Semi- Anuual Drawings of The Louisiana State Lot 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 the Company to u*e this cerfifflcate, with fac similes of our signatures attached, ill its adver tisements.” 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. J. H. OGLESBY, Pres. Louisana Nat. Bit P. LANAUX, Pres, State Nat’l Bank. A. BALDWIN, Pres. N, O. Nat’l Bk. CARL KOHN, Pres. Union Nat. Bank. UWKSSIfMSfsWIED 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 ) A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY |TO WIN A FORTUNE. FOURTH GRAND DRAWING, CLASS I>, IN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, April lit, 1887— 303d Monthly Drawing. 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, New Orleans, La., or M. A. DAUPHIN, Washington, D. C. Address Registered Letters to NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK, New Oi leaus, La. REMEMBER ence of Generals Beauregai<l and Early, who are in charge of the 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 toguarantee Priz s in this 1 o'terv.o- holding out any other impossible inducements, are swindlers, and only aim to deceive and defraud the unwwiy. Dr. Chipman’s Pills are a Certain Cure for SICK HEADACHE, BILIOUSNESS, COSTIVENESS, DYSPEPSIA, DIARRIHEA, DYSENTERY, MALARIA, and various diseases arising from a Torpid Action Or the Liver and Impurit* or 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 And these Pills highly useful. F. D. LONG, Agent, No. 1204 Filbert Street, PHILADELPHIA. For Sale by Wikle & Cos., mch 3-3 m $25,000.00 IN GOLD! MILL BE PAID FOB AEBOCKLES’ COFFEE WEAPPEBS, 1 Premium, • $1,000.00 2 Premium*, • $500.00 ach 6 Premium*, • $250.00 “ 25 Premium*, • SIOO.OO “ 100 Premiums, • $50.00 “ 200 Premium*, • $20.00 “ 1,000 Premium*, SIO.OO “ For full particulars and directions see Circu lar in every pound of Arbccklrs’ Corrwa 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 ADVERTLSEMENTS. The Courant-American is the only Paper Published in one of the Best Counties in North Georgia. Its Cir culation IS SECOND TO NONE OF ITS CLASS 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.