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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 Kioiit to KirsTT an Undivided County Patron aok ITOT r un J 0 1 Cart*'svii.mc f oHSAirr, Established l*f> f consolidated 1887. VUL. 0 rIU 40 J ( AKTK’WILLR AMKKKAN. IW *I DRUGS! DRUGS! J. R. WIRE & CO., (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. f.h'Q.ly __ * —:GO TO:- RICHARD L. JONES T OH 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 eblo-1 w R. H. JONES & SONS’ MANU F. ACTURINC J- COM PA NY, CAI.TERSVILLE, ROME AND STAMP CREEK, GA. —Manufacturers of and Dealers in— BUGGIES, CARRIAGES WAGONS l MATERIAL IMM—MM-MMOP, ALL WOIIK FULLY GUAEANTEED. 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. * THK SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. Justice Court Blanks, Of all kinds are to be found at THE COUBANT-AMERICAN OFFICE THE COURANT-AMEKICAN. LOOK OUT! Compare thla with your parchM- : 1| ■ **i*W* I? KfcrfTLCSSN ESS. • .vuictlv v.a.v.Bk* •AUITICM r.MIkT MtOtCI.I 'PJ;; kwpßi4#>wy % tt Bicoa, s*. ). PHILADELPHIA ___ i Price. OH E Dollar IgM As you value health, perhaps life, examine each package and be sure you get the Genuine. See the red Z Tr<l*-Marl and the full title on front of tVrapper, and on the I<l* tli* •;! and Signature of J. H. Zellin U l'u,, as in the above fac-simile Remember them It no Other genuine Simmons Liver Regulator. L.S.L. 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 IN GOLD! WILL UK PAID FOB 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 1,000 Pr*mium*, §IO.OO For full particular# and direction# ee Clrctfr lttta*rei7tVUfidofAuvu'Cam& 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, NEWSPAPER L.A W. Any person who has taken a paper regularly from the postoffice whether di rected to his name or another’s, or wheth er he is a subscriber or not—is responsi ble for the payment. The courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers or periodical from the postoffice or removing and leaving them uncalled for is prima facia evidence of intentional fraud. If any person orders his paper discon tinued, he must pay all arrearages or the publisher can continue to send it until all payment is made, and collect the whole amount. An action for fraud can be in stituted against any person, whether he is responsible in a financial way or not, w r ho refuses to pay his subscription. Postmasters who do not notity the pub lisher when a subscriber faiis to take his paper out of the office to which it is ad dressed, for four weeks, are liable to the publisher for the subscription. 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. •••mm 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. * * # pile tumors, rupture and fistula?, radically cured by improved methods. Book, 10 cents in stamps. World’s Dis peensary Medical Association, Buffalo, X. Y. Cure l'or Sick Headache. For proof that Dr. Gunn’s Liver Pills cures Sick Headache, ask you Druggist for a free trial package. Only one for & dose. Regular sized boxes So cents. Sold by Wikle & Cos. mch3-ly Wife was delighted the first morning to know her Sick-Headache had actually left her—the effects of Dr. Chipman’s Pills. They always behave that way. Sold by Wikle & Cos. ■ —• • ♦ • The body is more susceptible to benefit from Hood’s Sarsaparilla now than at any other season. Therefore, take it now. Use Dr. Pieroe’s Pellets” for all bilious attack-t. 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