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The Courant American is Published
Weekly in the Interest of Bartow
County, Devoted Mainly to Local
News, and 'Thinks it has a Kioiit to
KirsTT an Undivided County Patron
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ITOT r un J 0 1 Cart*'svii.mc f oHSAirr, Established l*f> f consolidated 1887.
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(SUCCESSORS TO D, W. CURRY.)
Huvg now in store the best selected, nicit complete ami vaiied sock of
Drugs, Chemicals, Paints, Oils,
Glass, Putty, Perfumes, Etc.
IN NORTH GEORGIA.
forne to *><• ns, examine goo l ami get price.. Physician. Pie cription. Oiled with the g.eatwt
rare day awl night by a lk<enre I pharmacist.
./aG-ZEUSTT OIL OOMPN’Y
Ch.ets. A.. M!ax*etg©r.
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RICHARD L. JONES
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Fresh Groceries,
An I er<r\thine a <c<l fur Ihe table. I'KESII EGGS and CHI< KKVS, JEK-KY HUTTEIt,
I IU AM IIIKK-K. V I'.G GARDEN SEEDS, TEN N KSSIiU sAI SAQEs ERE.SH MEAD
Hay, Corn, Oats, Cotton Seed, Bran and Meal,
,ha-loan furni h yiu at tlia I.OWEiT FIGURES. t deliver goods to any part of the city free ol
tliuuc. ScluiUng your i iitrouaga and promi-ing to treat you well, lam yourstiuly,
RICHARD Lr. JONES.
feb*M-ly West Main Street, Cwrtersville, Ga.
A BOOMING BUSINESS
L IST
Furn it ur e!
S. L. VANDIVERE, Proprietor,
Mil Mb Finite Hoe,
l.'e idv to Hide any Hoorn that may come along. lie runs a Dooming Business by Booming Row
Price-, llis stock of
FINE FURNITURE
is Dartre and Superb everything to suit th* most fastidious in elegant prolusion. The poor man's
pocket book Ins been remembered, and goods bought accordingly. Be sure ami price furniture in this
LIVE ESTABLISHMENT
and ym.will not go to other markets. “LIVE AND LET LIVE" is the motto of this excellent house
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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.
Can build any style of vehicle desired; only the very best
material used. rebs-iy
4 Tried jn
About twenty years ago I discovered a little sore on my check, and the doctor# pr
nonurcd it cancer. I have tried a number of physicians, out without receiving any perma
nent benefit. Among the number were one or two specialists. The medicine they applied
was like fire to the sore, causing intense pam. I saw a statement in the papers telling what
S. S. S. had done for ethers similarly afflicted. I procured some at once. Before I had nsed
the second bottle the neighbors could notice that my cancer was healing up. My general
health had been bad for two or three years—l haa a hacking cougn 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 thau I had been for several years. My cancer has healed over all bat
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.
Mns. NANCY J. McCONAUUIIEY, Ashe Grove, Tippecanoe Cos., Ind.
Feb. 16, ISB6.
Swift'- 1 Spt ri;ic is entirely vegetable, and serins to cure cancers by forcing out the imp*
> 'lies from the blood. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free.
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the red Z Tr<l*-Marl and the full title
on front of tVrapper, and on the I<l*
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CAPITAL PRIZE, $150,009.
“Wo <lo hereby covtifv that supervise the
itrrangcments for all the Monihly tin 1 Semi-
Annual Drawings of The Lfui.-iana State Lot
tery Dompany, and in pcr* 'n manage and con
trol the Drawing* themselves, and that the same
are con luc’e l with hone-ty, fairness, ami in
eood faith toward all parties, and we authorize
the Company to ue this cerlifflcate, with fac
similes of our signatures attached, iu its adver
tisements.”
Commissioner..
We the undersigned Hanks and Bankers will
pay all Prizes dnwn in The Louisiana State
Lotteries which may he presented atom - couu
ters.
J. H. OGLESBY, Pres. Louisana Nat. Idle
P. LANAUX, Pies. State Nat’l Bank.
A. BALDWIN, Pres, N, O. Natl Bk.
CARL KOHN, Pres. Union Nat. Bank.
UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION !
UVtH HALF A MILLION DISTRIBUTED
The Louisiana Stats Lottery Comcany
Incorporled in DSf>B for 25 years by the Legis
lat lire tor Entical iin.d and Charitable pur noses—
with ti enpitrl oi SIOO,OO0 —to whicli a reserve
fund of over $500,000 has since been added.
By an over whelming popular vote its fran- ;
cliise w t made a part of the present State Con
stitution adopted December 2d, A. D., 1879.
77e only Lottery ever voted on and endowed hy the
people of any State,
It never calex or poxtponex.
Its grand Single Number Drawings tike
place monthly, and the Semi-Annual Drawings
regularly every six months (June and Decem
ber )
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A
FORTUNE. FIFTH GRAND DRAWING,
CLASS K, IN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. NEW
ORLEANS, ’ TUESDAY, May 10, 1887—
304th Monthly Drawing.
Capital Prize $150,000.
SS^Notice. —Tickets are Ten Dollars only.
Halves $5. Fifth® $3. Tenths sl..
LIST OF PRIZES.
1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF $150,000....5150,000
1 GKANDP.UZEUF 50.000... 50.000
1 GHAND PRIZE OF 20,000 ... 20 000
2 LARUE PRIZES OF 10.000 ... 30,000
4 LARGE PRIZES OF 5 000... 2,000
20 PRIZES OF 1,000.... 20.000
50 “ 500 ... 27,000
100 “ 300 30,000
200 “ 200 40,1X10
500 “ 100 50,000
1,01.0 “ 50 50,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
ICO Approximation Prizes of S3OO ... $30,000
100 “ “ 200 20,(“00
100 “ “ 100 ... 10,01X1
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 lniorm rti>n write clearly, giving
lull address. Postal Notes. Expre s Money
Orders, or New Yolk Exchange in ordinary let
ter. Currency by Ex fit ess (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.
REMEIVIBER 2SVS.SX
Beauregaid and Early, win* are in charge of the
dinwings, is a guarantee ol absolute lairness and
integrity, that ihe chances are all equal, and that
no one can possibly divine what number will
draw a priz.o
Rt4ME.UiJF.iI that tho payment of all
Prizes is GIIAKAM'KKI) It* FOUR N*-
i loN AL HANKS of New Orleans, and the
Tickets are signed by the President of an In
stitution, whose chartered rights arc recog
nized in the highest Courts; Th refore. beware
of any imitations or anonymous schemes.
Dr. Chipman’s Pills
are a Certain Cure for
SICK HEADACHE,
BILIOUSNESS,
COSTIVENESS,
DYSPEPSIA,
DIARRHCEA,
DYSENTERY,
MALARIA
and various diseases arising from a Torpid
Action op the I,ivKR and Impurit . or the
Blood. They do not weaken you, nor do they
produce inconvenienee or imitation in their
action.
I.A DIES troubled w ith General Debility,
Cold Feet, and Loss of Appetite, will find these
Fills highly useful.
F. D. LONG, Agent,
No. I‘JO4 Filbert .Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
For S.sle ly Wiki© & Cos.,
mdi 3-3 m
$25,000.00
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ARBDCKLES’ COFFEE WRAPPERS.
1 Premium, • •1,000.00
2 Premiums, • §500.00 #ach
6 Prmium( • §250 00
25 Premium*, • SIOO.OO '
100 Premium*, • §50.00
200 Premium*, • §20.00
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CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1887.
Editorial Brevities.
A midlion dollar cvel me passed through
Cleveland, Ohio, last week, kliiiug
three or four .persons.
I’ltiMii* Justs’ c.ttou is growiug
ifig rapid, y and will get lo market earlier
than common this year.
Hukkah f*i the Piedoi >ut fair! Every
body is going evea President Cleveland
and the balance of us fellows.
"Would it not be better to use a little
more water on tlie streets?” asks the
Rome Bulletin man. Yes, and yon can
take it out of your bixun stock, too.
Monk e cot sty, seeing the error of
her ways, is cUuuriug for an election
ou the prohibition question. Let the
good old county have a chance to re
deem herself.
Broom factories are starting up oYer
the State, and a great demand will be
created for broom corn next fall. We
repeat with emphasis, plant some broom
corn, even if only for au experiment.
After much “tiggeriu” the editor of
the Rome Bulletin has found out that a
man can live on less than 50 per
month. He leaves us iu the dark, how
ever as lo the m xlus operandi of over
hauling the SG.SO.
The Kansas drug store saloons have
received a black eye. The new law re
quires the signature of twenty-five
women iu the immediate neighborhood
before one of the so called drug stores
can be started up. That settles it,
good oye Old Rye.
Am ik itED negro man, while oil trial
at the Union City, Teun., court house
last week, was taken from the officers by
an unmasked mob mid strung up before
the very eyes of the presiding judge.
The negro deserved his fate no doubt,
but the desecration of the court house
is uncalled for in this iustauce.
Mr. It. 11. Knapp, a live real estate
agent of Atlanta, is reported as skipped,
leaving from one to ten thousand dollars
of debts uupuid. He is well known iu
Bartow county, and ou leaving Atlanta
lie had a notice inserted in the Consti
tution to the effect that lie was in this
county looking after manganese beds.
It is thought that ho has gone to
anada.
Over tke signature of ‘‘Judge Lynch,”
one of the Yorkville lynchers, publishes
in the Columbia Register a manifesto
to the people of South Carolina, in justi
fication to the recont lynching of the five
negro murderers at Yorkville, because of
lax methods of administering justice to
the murderers in the state courts, and
threatening further lynching in the eyent
of juries failing to perform their duties.
An exchange sizes up a certain style
of ‘‘boom’ pointedly and properly as
follows: ‘‘A boom is a lot of specula
tors sitting around real estate signs try
ing to cheat somebody by selling him
dirt for ten times what it is worth, while
manufacturers and the things that
make a town rich go off to some place
where real estate is not so dear.” Lots
of good towns have been killed by that
kind of booms.
The drought which has prevai ed for
a time in western Texas is' at last
broken. There was a heavy rainfall in
that section Thursday night, which began
after dark and lasted the entire night.
Telegraphic advices from distant points
sliow r that the rain was one of the most
general that lias fallen there in years. The
confidence of farmers and stockmen is
fully restored. Advices from d’fferent
portions of the State note a copious rains
for 300 milos along the Texas and Pacific
railroad, west of Merkel and the country
north of that road. This is regarded
as a great boon to stockmen and farmers
living in the drough-stricken country and
will be worth hundreds of thousand of
dollars to the country. In many places
in Texas rain has not fallen for nearly a
year.
Athens Banner-Watchman: A gen
tleman was in Athens Friday who brings
some long-expected news from Birming
ham, Ala. He says that one day this
week $1,500,000 worth of paper there went
to protest, and real estate is feverish and
in no demand. He says the people
are greatly excited, for they realize the
fact that the predicted collapse is now
about on them, and it will ruin thousands.
This is the first serious financial disaster
that has come upon Birmingham, and it
will doubtless be quickly tollowed by
others that will prick the bubble of ficti
tious values, and bring property in the
place down to its legitimate price. Our
informant further says that the ore found
around Birmingham is only fit for stoyes
and for pipine, and can never be made
into steel. This, of course, renders it un
profitable for rai's and greatly contracts
its sale.
Joseph Howard, Jr., well known for
the past twenty-five years as a brilliant
and acceptable writer is prepairing a life
of Henry Ward Beecher for publication
by Hubbard Bros. As Howard’s father
was one of the three founders of the
Plymouth Church, and his most intimate
friend for more than forty years, with a
social intercourse at no time interrupted,
and as Howard himself, by reason of his
public life, was brought into frequent
contact with Mr. Beeeher since his early
boyhood, it is obvious that he ought to
have and probably has material at his
hand which is accessible to no other con
temporaneous writer. The book is said
to be well under way, and will he ready
for the market early in May. Mr. How
ard, by the way, was the author of the
comprehensive tnd interesting obituary
published in the New York Herald, the
day after Mr. Beecher’s death.
The following corpespondence between
a professor of mathematics in Macon and a
backwoods taacher shows how “stem
winder” can be applied to an arithmetic:
Dear Sir: Will you please send me the
price of a key to your Third Grade aritli
metic. I have been useing it in my
school and like it, but I want a key.
Respectfully 1 Birciirod Wiseacr*.
The professor received the epistle, and
wrote on a postal card:
Birchrod Wiseacre —Sir: It ha# no
kev It is a stem winder. .
Those who know the professor and the
arithmetic can fully appreciate the cor
f cfjxmdeuce.—Hartwell Suo.
MARK TW AIN AS A SOLDIER.
Hi* Fart in tli Bloodiest Hattie Ever
Eouglit in Human History, and
Why He Withdrew to Priv
ate Life.
The following is from the Baltimore
American report of the twenty-second
anniversary of the Veteran Association
of Maryland;
“Mark Twain then responded to the
toast to ‘Th* Campfire.’ He was greeted
with cheers and applause.
“When your secretary invited me to
this reunion of the Union Veterans of
Msiyland, he requested me to come pre
pared to clear up a matter which he said
had long been a subject of dispute and
bad blood in war circles in this country—
to-wit: the true dimensions of my military
services in the civil war, and the effect
which they had upon the general result.
I recognize the importance of this thing
to history, and I have come prepared.
Here are the details. I was
IN THE CIVIL WAR TWO WEEKS.
* “In that brief time I rose from private
to second lieutenant. The monumental
feature of my campaign was the one bat
tle which my cunmand fought—it was
in the summer of ’6l. If I do siy it,
it wa3 the bloodiest battle ever fought iu
human history; there is nothing approach
ing it for destruction of human li'e iu the
field, if you take in consideration the
forces engaged, and the proportion of death
to survival. And yet you do not even
know the name of that battle. Neither
do I It had a name, but I have forgotten
it. It is no use to keep private informa
tion which you can t show off. Now
look at the wv history does. It takes
the battle of Booneville, fought near by,
about the date of our slaughter, and
shouts its teeth loose over it, and yet
never even mentions ours; doesn’t even
call it an ‘affair;’ doesn’t even call it any
thing at all; never even heard of it.
Whereas, what are the facts? Why, these:
Iu the battle of Boonville there were two
thousand men engaged on the Union side
and about as many on the other —suppos-
ed to be. The casualties, all to’d, were
two men killed; and not all of these were
killed outright, but only half of them, for
the other man died in the hospital next
day. I know that, because his great
uncle was second cousin to my grand
father, who spoke three languages, and
was perfectly honorable and upright,
though he had warts all over him, and
used to—but never mind about that, the
fact3 are just as I say, and I can prove it.
Two men killed in that battle of Boone
ville, that’s the whole result. All the
others got away—on both sides. Now
then, in our battle there were just fifteen
men engaged, on our side —all Bri’adier
Generals but me, and I was a Second
Lieutenant. On the other side there was
one man. He was a stranger. We killed
him. It was night, and we thought he
was an army of observation; he looked
like an army .of observation—in fict, he
looked bigger than an army of observa
tion would in the daytime; and some of
us believed he was trying to surround us,
and some thought he was going to try to
turn our position, and so we shot him.
Poor fellow, he probably wasn’t an army
of observation, after all, but that wasn’t
our fault; as I say, he had all the look of
it in that dim light. It was a sorrowful
circumstance, but be took the chances ot
war, and he drew tlie wrong card; he
overestimated his fighting strength, and
he suffered the likely result; but he fell
as the brave should fall —with his face to
the foe and feet to the field—so we
buried him with the honors of war and
took his things. So began and ended the
only battle *in the history of the woild
wheie the opposing force
WAS UTTERLY EXTERMINATED,
swept from the face of the earth —-to the
last man. And, yet you don’t know the
name of that battle; you don't even know
the name of that man. Now, then, for
argument. Suppose I had continued iu
the war, and gone on as I began, and ex
terminated the opposing force every time
—every two weeks —where would your
war have been? Why, you see yourself,
the conflict would have been too one
sided. There was but one honorable
course for me to pursue, and I pursued it.
I withdrew to private life, and gave the
Union side a chance. There, now, you
have the whole thing in a nutshell; it
was not my presence in the civil war that
determined that tremendous contest—it
was my retirement from it that brought
the crash. It left the Confederate side
too weak. And yet, when I stop and
think, I cannot regret my course. No,
when L look abroad over this happy land
with its wounds healed and its enmities
forgotten; this reunited sisterhood of
majestic States; this freest of Iree Com -
monwealths; the sun in his course shines
upon this one sole country nameable in
history or tradition where a man is a man
and manhood is the only royalty; this
people ruled by the justest and whole
somest laws and government yet devised
by the wisdom of mer, this mightiest of
the civilized empires of the earth, in num
bers, in prosperity, in progress and in
promise; and reflect that there is no North,
no South any more, but that as iQ the old
time, it is now' and will remain forever,
in the hearts and speech of Americans,
our land, our country, our giant empire,
and the flag floating in its firmament, our
flag, would not wish it otherwise. No.
when I look about me and contemplate
these sublime results, I feel, deep down
in my heart, that I acted for the best
when I took my shoulder from under the
Confederacy and let it come down.”
He finished in a roar of applause that
shook the room.
A GOOD GKO INNING.
Atlanta Journal ]
Major R A. Bacon, late Secretary of the
Georgia Railroad Commisson, has written
a sensible communication to the Chat
tanooga Commercial on the subject of the
inter-state commerce law. Major Bicon
thinks that the railroads acted too hastily
and indiscreetly in changing their rates
or other regulations in anticipation of
the action of the commission. He cor
rectly says that the law vests large dis
cretionary powers in the commissioners, '
and no one can yet know what action
they will take on any difficult question
raised. The fact that the commission
have merely suspended for a short time
(as they had unquestioned power to do)
the operation of the clause of the act
which has given the railroad companies
the most uneasiness, and have made ap
pointments for consulting both the rail
road officials and the business communi
ties at several important points during
the suspension, attests the correctness of
this opinion. They evidently intend to
give both sides a fair hearing and con
sideration, so that they may act intelli
gently, conservatively and impartially
when they have to make permanent regu
lations
Journalists who imagine that they dis
play superioi acumen and discernment
in pronouncing the act of difficult con
struction may have their vanity flattered
by finding that the commissioner!, by
their action so tar, seem to entertain a
similar opinion. But men who have all
the time looked hopefully for good results
from the act and its execution by the
commission are not at all surprised or dis
appointed because of the cautious and
deliberate manner in which the commis
sion is entering upon its work. They
mu’d deplore the failure of the scheme
as an event prejudicial to the interests of
the people, and they applaud the com
mission for its manifest purpose to take
no definite action hastily or without due
consideration of its justice and effects. A
good beginning is of essential importance
in this case, and such a beginning we
think the commission has made.
LINCOLN’S REMAINS.
Duitof th Astiiuated President Finally
; * Laid in its Last Resting Place.
I Springfield, 111 , April 14.—The re
reuiaius of President and Mrs. Lincoln
was privately taken from their sectet rest
ing place this morning and enterred in
the north vault of the Lincoln monu
ment, in Oak Ridge cemetery, near this
j city. Less than a dozen persons, mem
, hers of the Lincoln Monument Associa
tion aud Lincoln Guard of Honor, weie
present.
For years the whereabouts of the re
mains of the great president and his wife
has baeu vestsd in mystery from auxiet y
| that they would be stolen to obtain a huge
reward for their return. The actual at
tempt to carry off the bodies in 1876 was
! the moving cause of the formation of the
Guard of Honor, which organization se
! creted them, and to-day surrendered their
j charge. Great care wis taken to keep the
I event of this morning a profound secret.
! At the appointed hour few besides the
little knot of guards were present. The
secret grave was directly under the north
base of the obelisk, about thirty feet from
the north entrance, but only accessible
through the south door. A door on the
north of the hole where the Lincoln
relics are kept leads through a long,
dark passage, first east, then north, then
west and then south, to a recess. Here
about three feet below' the sur
face of the floor w’ere depos
ited the remains of Abraham Lincoln
and his wife. The body of Mr. Lincoln
was in a walnut colfln, lined with an air
tight lead lining, about one eighth of an
inch thick. The walnut coffin was in a
cedar box, and the cedar box was inclosed
in a pine box. Mrs. Lincoln’s were
similarly inclosed.
Twenty-two years to-day Mr. Lincoln
was shot. When the guards, with the
help of a few laborers, bad exhumed the
caffins and the lid of the President’s was
remoyed, his face was seen to be in a re
markable state of preservation. Those
who stood around and had known
Lincoln when alive easily discerned the
features. They were very distinct. The
silver/plate on the coffin lid was
bright. On it was inscribed the fol
lowing:
* >8
: Abraham Lincoln, :
I Sixteenth President United States. I
; Burn Feb. 12,1809; died April 15,1865. I
* *
While the remains of Mrs. Lincoln were
being exhumed, Gen. lteese, President of
the Guard of HonM', turned the remains
of Mr. Lincoln over to the Lincoln Mon
ument Asssciation. A certificate was
signed by the members of the Guard o!
Honor, certifying that the remains in the
coffin were those received from the
Lincoln Monument Association in 1873.
The Monument Association made out a
certificate, signed by tho members of tlie
association, declaring the remains to be
those of Abraham Lincoln.
Tlie undertaker was then directed to
seal the coffiin, and a plumber sealed it
up. The coffin was then taken out by
the workmen and carried around to the
vault on the north side. The members of
the association and a stranger or two, who
happened to be lookiug at the monument,
fo lowed. A hole eight feet long by six
wide and five and,a half deep, biicked up
and cemented, had been prepared. The
president’s coffiin was placed in the grave
on the west side. The coffin containing
Mrs. Lincoln’s remains was then brought
to the vault and placed on the east side
of her husband. A brick arch was then
built over the coffins. This was covered
with cement, mixed with small broken
rock. Two guards will be on duty at
the tomb until the cement becomes hard.
The marble sarcophagus, in which the
public liaye supposed the remains to be,
is still in the vault. “Without further
ceremony the remains of husband and
wife were laid to moulder together in the
grave.
NORTH GEORGIA BEATS NORTH
ALABAMA ON IRON.
Mr. R. W. Walker, of Columbus, lor a
while engaged in prospecting the miner
als in this country, was interrogated by>a
Constitution reporter last week and in
reply said:
“I liaye examined both Alabama and
Georgia, aud I pronounce the iron in
North Georgia superior iu quality and
quantity to that of Alabama. There is
more of it and it is better. It will sur
prise any man in the world to go through
North Georgia and see what is there.”
“I have been up the line of the Marietta
and North Georgia Railroad prospecting
in Cherokee, Pickens, Gilmer and Fannin
counties. Along the line of the road can
be found immense deposits of iron, man
ganese, marble and slate. The road runs
for fifty miles through an iron belt where
there is plenty of lime rock, water aud
timber. Iu former years the iron beds
were worked with forges and trip ham
mers, and the iron proved to be of remark
ably fine quality. Some of the manga
nese beds are forty feet wide.”
Speaking of the Micon gold mine he
said:
“I spent abont four months running
the Micon gold mine, a mile and a half
from Holly Springs, in Cherokee county.
It is good property but the machinery
used was not sufficient to save the gold
and 1 had to give it up. There is gold
mining up there, however, that pays,”
Mr. Walker says the iron beds extend
from below Cartersville to the Carolina
line and thence through the state of
North Careliua. He is enthusiastic,
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A Great Power.
More than thirty-two thousand copies
of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary have
been placed in the public schools of the
United States. Who can tell what a great
power for intelleetnal stimulus and de
velopment to the young mind the constant
use of and reference to that number of
the- great work will be. If in these schools
there is an average of fifty scholars in
i each, it would bring more than a million
i and a half of scholars under its daily in
fluence. What an affect this must have
in coming years on the power of thought
and language thus developed. Well and
truly has Noah Webster been called the
schoolmaster of the republic.
A INTERMIXED DETECTIVE.
He Kills a Desperado and presents his
Body for a Reward of $7 00.
The Atlanta correspondent of the
Mao on Telegraph, in this Sunday letter
narrates the following:
Two years ago Avery Hates, a white
man, was convicted of the crime of
arson in Ellijah. Gilmer county, aud
turned over to the Chattanooga Brick
Company. After serving four months
he made a bold break for liberty one
day, aud under the fire from the bodly
armiug guards escaped. He went direct
to Gilmer county aud prevailed upon his
father to remove to Polk county, Ten
nessee. He sold out, and with his boh
settled amid the mountains of Polk,
many miles from the railroad. There
they lived for about a year aud a half iu
comparative security. Some time ago,
Chief Elliott, of the Southern Detective
Associahou, at Chittanooga, located
Bates iu his mountaiu home, aud two
weeks ago Elliott, accompanied by one
man, peuotrated the fastnesses of that
wild region to capture Bates, but he diu
uot succeed. Arriving in the neighbor
hood he fouud that the B ites house had
port holes. The chief of the detectives
and his companion essayed to approach
the hou, e, when they were saluted with
several shots from Springfield rifles
poked through the said port holes. Af
ter returning the fire, Chief Elliott and
his man beat a retreat aud returned to
Chuttancoga for reinforcements. Yes
teidav morning Chief Elliott, with the
sheriff of Polk county aud a posse of
seven man, rode up to the home of
Avery Bates aud dismounted. A rapid
reconnoissauce of the premesis showed
that Bates and his father aud another
man was at work clearing a field near
the house. Four of the posse were
plaoed iu a strip of woods skirting the
fields, and Chief Elliott with two men
advanced across the field. Old man
B ites saw them aud made for a tree,
ugaiust which hi-* rifle was leaning, but
was cut off before be reached it. He
and the other man were ooruered and
threw up their hands, but Avery Bates
seized his Springfield rifle and made to
ward the woods. He was repeatedly
called to surrender, but declined by
opeuing tire. The first two shots missed
the posse, but the third shot away the
upper lip of one of the men. Then the
posse opened on the desperado, firing
several shots, one of which pierced his
heart, aud he rolled down a little hill
ibout twenty-five feet, still clenching
his rifle firmly, a dead man. All this
took place yesterday morning at 10:45.
The bloody dead man was taken up just
as he hail fallen aud placed cross-wise
the saddle ou a horse with a man behind
the saddle to keep him balanced, aud
the little cavalcade cut across the moun
tains, being fifteen miles in that way to
the railroad. To-night Chief Elliott
reached the city with the corpse of
Vvery Bates, and turned him over to
Capt. James English, the lessee, who
without a word p lid Mr. Elliott, the
reward of S7OO. The body was taken
in charge by Capt. English, and was
sent out to the vicinity of the convict
camp for burial.
THE RIGHT KIND OF RELIGION
Jackson (Ga.) Herald ]
If it bo order, we suggest that all hands
turn about and begin to tell of the good
qualities of their neighbors and say noth
ing of their vices. It is becoming com
mon to hear brethren in the church and
natural brothers abuse *ne another, and
they even go so far, as to critize the con
duct and impugn the motives ot the pas
tors of their churches. S >me men seem
averse to giving praise to any human be
ing, however worthy. They are not at
tracted by their good qualities, but anx
iously watch an opportunity to announce
any mi deeds, however trivial. Men feel
better when they consider the better na
ture of their fellow beings and strive to
encourage them in their noble deeds
God will not fit up seperate pews for
these discordant brethren in the church
when they go to heaven; and we should
think it an odd sight to see two brothers
striking hands around the “Great White
Throne, - ’ who, in chis tenement of clay,
were not companionable. Let's look at
the good qualities of others until we quit
our own bad habits.
Down t'outli in Dixie.
New York Herald ]
Some of our southern neighbors seem
to have boom on the brain. It is a fasci
nating and ecstatic malady. A stranger
saw a number of them plowing recently
on a plain. He supposed, of course, that
they were getting furrows ready for corn
planting. One of them explained, how
ever, in this wise:
“Man alive, them ain’t corn furrows
over tliar. They air streets, nd this here
is a city. You air now on the corner of
Forsyth and Emporium street, and not
in the check of a corn row, as you mought
suppose.”
Goon, gentlemen; we know just how
you feel when you are going up like a
rocket, and some of us will be ready to
sympathize with you if you ever have the
ill fortune to come down like a stick.
Every enterprising community must get
experience in just that way. Siciturad
astra.
HUGGING MATCHES.
A new feature in the sociables in some
of the adjoining towns is the hugging
match. A man is blindfolded and placed
in a chair, and a woman is then led up to
him whom he hugs, paying fifteen cents
for the perlormance. At a party given
recently, a maD paid his fifteen cents and
hugged the woman as long as he cared to,
but when the hankercliief was removed
from his eyes he discovered that he lvid
been hugging his own wife. He was the
maddest man ever seen, denounced the
‘whole thing a swindle and demanded his
fifteen cents. Another one had a man
palmed off on him who had been rigged
out in female appearel, and the hugger
got mad and left the party abruptly de
nouncing all as frauds and humbugs.
Mr. Strang Strangely Win* a Fortune,
Joseph Strang, a former Auburnian,
living at Smith Falls, Ontairio. is the
lucky man who drew one tenth part ol
the first capital prize of 150,000 in The
Louisana State Lottery, at its last draw
ing. To a reporter he said that he sent
money by express to M. A. Dauphin, at
New Orleans for tickets. For the one
tenth ticket, No. 73,987, he paid one dol
lar. About six days after the drawing
he learned that he had drawn 15,000.
He came to Auburn and ordered the
money sent to the banking house of
William H. Seward & Cos. The 15,000
was forwarded in gold. He and his wife
will reside in this city—Auburn (New
York Advertiser,March 11.
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Joseph Howard's “Lif of Keeclier.”
Joseph Howard, Jr., the widely
known journalist and intimate frieud of
Henry Ward Beeoher for the past fifty
years, is engaged upon a life of the
great Preacher and Orator, which will
no doubt be standard work, as Mr.
Howard’s intimate relations with Mr.
Baeoher, and his justly won popularity
as a writer, are an assurance of a work
of peculiar interest and value. v\ e
iearu the w’ork is to be brought cut by
Hubbard Bros., at au early nay, and
will no doubt be sold by subscription.
ADVERTIS EM ENTS.
. 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 fCLASS
Reasonable Rates on Application.
$ 1.50 Per Annum—sc. a Copy.
ROBERT E. LEE'S SON.
The Confederate Chieftain's Family
Twenty Years after the War.
New York Evening Sun.]
A conspicuous figure in Broadway to
day was Gen. Runy Lee, son of Robert
E. Lee, and Congressman-elect from the
Eighth Virginia district. He attracted
attention even on crowded Broadway.
He is nearly six feet tall, very round, has
a plump face, full beard, aud the spark
ling blue eyes so characteristic of the
Lees. lli3 bearing is military, “A soldier,
every inch,” anyone would pronounce
him at sight.
Gen. Runy is regarded as one of the
coming Southern political leaders. It is
predicted that he will touch the maker
even higher than his cousin, Gov.
Fitzhugh. After the war Gen. Runy, who
served on hU father's staff, weut to p’ow
ing. He became one of the most suc
cessful farmers in Virginia. He lives ou
a pretty i state called Raverswood, in
Fairfax county, and is said to be worth
$ 100,000 —a lig fortune as fortunes go in
Virginia. He took little or no interest in
politics until two years ago, when he
looked up as an aspirant for congressional
honors. Last fall he was elected to
Congress almost without opposition. It is
said that he will enter the field for Riddle
berger’s place in the Senate in case the
Democrats carry the State next No
vember.
Ilis brother, Gen George Washington
Parks Gustis Lee, is President of the Uni
versity at Lexington, Va , having suc
ceeded his father in that position. Gen.
Custis is a quiet student, care*- nothing
fer politics, and is devoted to his college
duties.
Gen. Robert E. Lee’s nephew, Gen.
Fitzhugh, is governor of Virginia and the
most ambitious of the Lee family living,
He was a farmer until his election to the
Governorship. Now he has entered pol
itics as a profession, haying sold out Ins
farm and everything on it a few months
ago. He allows a vice president boe to
buzz about his head. The United States
Senate has charms for him, too,and he has
an excellent chance of getting there.
Fitzhugh’s brother, Maj. Lee, a brave
cavalry leader in the war, also exchanged
the sword for the plow after Appomattox.
He is looming up in politics, aud will
probably go to the Virginia State Senate
next year.
Robert E. Lee’s daughter, Miss Mary, is
a great traveler. She has traveled in
nearly every civ i ize 1 country in the world
and is seldom seen in her native State.
It will be remembered that she was one
oi the few American ladies in Rome who
was present at the hattiug of Cardinal
Gibbons a few weeks ago. She and the
Cardinal are old friends, having known
each other well while he was Bishop of
Richmond.
THE SOUTH.
Sunday Gazette, Washington, D. C.]
There lias beau nothing in the history
of industrial civilization wliic’i equals
the preseut business boom of the south
for extent aud energy. After the close
of the Frauco-Germau war there was a
period of remarkable activity iu the lat
ter country resulting from the stimula
tion given business by the payment to
the conqueror of the war indemnity of a
thousand millions of dollars by the van
quished country. But that, though it
was more to bo oompared to the intoxi
citiou if stimulants than to the buoyan
cy of healthy business activity, was far
from being equal either in energy or ex
te it to the “boom” now convulsing the
South. For it is a convulsion, indeed.
It is an industrial earthquake, convuls
ing alike the face of nature, the charac
ter of society, the habits aud thoughts of
men. From New Orleans iu Louisiana
to the Mouougaliela river iu West Vir
ginia, this convulsion is going on with a
steady, though bounding pulse that b.i
speaks uot the weakuess of abnormal aud
consequently of morbid growth, but the
rugged strength of healthy development.
Cities are springing up like magic. The
traveler passes to-day over a bleak aud
desolate tract to which on returning in a
year he finds a large and flourishing city.
Land increases iu selling price rnauy fold
in a week. The silence of the wilder
ness gives place to the bustle aud noise
if a densely populated community.
Fortunes are acumulated in a day Worn
out old farms where the ‘ cracker” and
the “clay eater” have essayed with but
partial success for years past to make
a scanty living have become truck farms.
Men’s wages from ten dollars per mouth
aud scanty board have gone to three and
four and even live dollars per day. Man
is indeed sulnluing the Southern earth
and cultivating it.
The centre of this great activity, if
centre it can be called where unwonted
energy prevails all around, is the region
embraced iu the southern part of the
Appalachian range and its lower foot
hills aud extending a hundred miles or
more ou either side of the range Est
and West. It is the choicest part of the
United States for climate. It is the
healthiest part. The soil is, ou an aver
age, equal to any. It is the choicest
deposit of numeral wealth, from g >UI
aud gems to iron aud alkaline earths.
It is a virgin Italy without its paupers,
its poverty, its plagues, its sirocco and
its malaria. It is Southern Spain with
out its enervating heats aud its priest
ridden superstitions, its crime aud its
poverty. It is a land just near enough
to the sun t >r me.i to become fully ripe
without excess or deficiency. And it is
the Anglo-Saxon race in its highest de
velopment that inhabit and dominate
that laud. Given the finest climate, the
richest natural region aud the most en
ergetic men that the world can boast of,
there is hut little in the outlook which
eveu the most cynical can construe into
disappointment or failure. On the con
trary, iu the growth of this boom, iu the
continuous development of this favored
region, we may look for the favorable
solution of many of the problems that
now threaten evil to our institutions
aud to our onward progress.
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