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Is an affection of the Liver, and can
be thoroughly cured by that Grand
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I wm afflicted for several years with
disordered liver, which resulted in a
severe attack of jaundice. I had as
good medical attendance a* our sec
tion a (lords, who failed utterly to re
store me to the enjoyment of my
former good health. I then tried the
favorite prescription of one of the
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CAPITAL PRIZE, $150,000
“We do hereby certify that we supervise the
arranxenienti, for nil the Monthly Mini Sem-An
iiiihl DrnuiiiKs of The Louisiana State Lottery
Company, unit in person manage and control
the Drawings themselves, and that the same are
conducteil with honesty, fairness, and in good
faith toward all parties, and we authorize the
Company to use this certificate, with fac-similes
of our signature attached, lit its advertisements.”
Commissioners.
We the undersigned Banks and Bankers will
pay all Prizes drawn in The Louisiana State
Lotteries which may be presented at our coun
ters.
J. H. OGLESBY, Pres. Louisans Nat. Bk
P. LANAUX, Pres. State Nat l Bank.
A. BALDWIN, Pres. N, O Natl Bk
CARL KOHN, Pres. Union Nat. Bank.
UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION !
Over Half a Million Distributed.
Louisiana Stale Lottery Company.
Incorporated in IGiS for 25 years by the Legis
lature for Educational and Charitable purposes
i —to which a reserve
fund of over $556,000 has since been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its franchise
as made a part of the present State Constitu
tion adopted Decent tier 2d, A. D., I*7o.
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-
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months (June and December).
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO
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DRAWING. CLASS <i. IN THE ACADEMY OF
MUSIC, NEW ORLEANS. TUESDAY, July 12,
1887—20Gtli Monthly Drawing.
Capital Prize $150,000.
Tickets are Ten
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Fifths, $2. Tenths, .sl.
LIST OF PRIZES.
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
r, u 500 25.000
100 >• :il)0 HO,OOO
200 “ 200 40,000
iio J “ 100 50,000
1,000 “ 50 50,000
approximation prizes.
1 00 Approximation Prizes of $".00 $.10,000
]OO “ “ 200 20,000
KM) • “ 100 10,(Mil)
2.170 Prizes, amounting to $535,000
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Notice of Local Legislation.
To Tin: General Assembly of Georgia:
Notice is given of intention to apply
for the passage of a bill to be entitled,
An Act to ammend an Act entitled, “An
Act to establish a City Court in the
County of Itartow, and for other pur
poses," approved Oct. 10,1885, so as to
provided for the drawing of eighteen ju
ral's instead of sixteen, and requiring the
said eighteen jurors to attend and serve
at each quarterly term of said court, and
to further provide, that parties to cases
in saiil court shall have the light to
strike in empanelling juries for the trial
of cases. And to provide further, that,
by consent of parties, trial may be had,
in civil cases, before a jury of six, and
for other purposes.
ALSO,
A bill to be entitled, An Act to provide
for oue Jury Commissioner from each
Militia District in the County of Bartow,
and who shall be appointed as now pro
vided by law.
ALSO,
A bill to be entitled, An Act to render
competent as jurors all fiersons in the
County of Bartow yvlio are over sixty
years of age. and who are otherwise com
petent ; and to mjuire the Jury Com
missioners of said county to place the
names of such persons in the jury box.
ALSO, .
A bill to be entitled. An Act to author
ize and require the registration of all
voters in the County of Bartow; to pro
vide penalties for the violation of the
same, and for other purposes.
A. M. Foutk.
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Address, YVIKLE A CO.,
une2 tf Carters vllle, Ga.
CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY,JUNE 1(5, 1887.'
A CRIMINAL AS THEIR JUDGE.
f'iikig Tolliver’s Jiiil -lUsilttl Susy hi
Kussa t'etist] , toy.
A dispatch to the New York \\ orld
from I/'xinfftOTi. Kv.-; gays: Craig Tol
liver, of Rownn eotmtv, Kentucky, has
lah‘ii u limited desperado and murderer
for years ami years. W arranfs liave
b.*en served against him, indictments
found against him. posses hare searched
for him, and a whole eonfpany of sol
diers went after him ami jwodaiHied
martial law in all of Rowan county. But
they did not get their man. Cuimiug,
re, kless. dare-devH, he fought them from
ambush, hid away In the mountain fast
ness when the country grew too hot for
him, and when matters quieted down
again lie came forth cool and unharmed
and went at his old tricks. Of eon rue a
fetnl was at the bottom of it. John
Martin killed Bill Tolliver. Craig a broth
er. and so, of course, the Batumi result
was that the Tolliver family and their
friends set out to kill the surviving mem
l*ers of the Martin family and their
friends. Craig shot a few men, aud the
whole county took sides.
Troops were ordered to Mo rehead, the
county seat of Rowan county to quell
tin* disturbances that had been caused
then* by the two factions—one under the
leadership of Craig Tolliver, and the other
marshaled by Cook Humphries, who
was looked upon as being every bit as
dangerous tis Tolliver, and possessing
even more courage. After a long trip in
the mountains by the State Guards,
peace was finally restored by anarmistic
on the part of the commonwealth, whose
attorney agreed •to withdraw prosecu
tion on condition that the two leaders
should leave flie state. The principals
readily agreed to this, and itwasthought
that the disorders which had brought
the state into such bad repute had come
to till end find the troops were ordered
withdrawn. Scarcely had peace been re
stored when information was received
that Tolliver was at his old haunts.
But he came back in anew character.
Tired of being hunted like a dog, lie con
ceived the brilliant idea of hunting in
stead of being hunted. He thought the
matter over in his own rude way and
figured things out about like this: 4he
onlv thing he had ever been forced to
fear was that intangible something men
called the law. What was the law? he
asked. The judge on the bench was the
only personal exponent of it that he
knew. So his mind was made up. He
would become the law. He would make
himself judge. His friends would vote
for him. Where was the man brave
enough to ride up to the polls and de
posit a ballot against him !
And so Craig Tolliver, murderer and
desperado, a criminal hiding from justice,
was elected a judge of Rowan county.
No further need had lie to (lee from
justice. Hi'was justice himself now. 1 lit*
man whose outbreaks had brought
shame and disgrace to the fair soil <>(
that section had turned the tables, and
with a high hand prepared to turn prose
cutor instead of being prosecuted. It
was a dazzling stroke of genius.
The great opportunity of his life was
at hand, and he prepared to pay off old
scores, and pay them off in the name of
the law. There are many indictments
against Tolliver for serious crimes; yet
so terrified are the people that they allow
a criminal to hold office and exercise
the rights of that office. Since the elec
tion of Tolliver to the office of Police
Judge three good citizens have been com
pelled to flee from Moreliead. In the re
ports of the election Tolliver received 20
votes, thereby electing him.
Immediately after taking possession of
his office he began the persecution of his
enemies. Yesterday afternoon he issued
warrants for the arrest of William Logan,
2J j ears old, and his brother John. 18,
charged with kuklux plans. Warrants
were placed in the hands of Marshal Man
nin to serve. About ff o’clock Mannin
and Tolliver and a posse went to the
Logan homestead to serve the warrants
on the two boys. Upon arrival at the
home of the Logans Marshal Mannin
asked if the boys were at home. The
housekeeper answered no, but Mannin
knowing to the contrary, forced his way
into the house and upstairs.
Immediately--the Logan boys, who
were secreted upstairs, opened fire upon
Mannin, riddling him with slugs from
shotguns and killing him instantly.
The two boys then attempted to make
their escape by getting out the back way
of the house, but the two men who ac
companied Mannin were stationed in the
rear,and as soon as the two boys made
their appearance the posse opened fire
upon them. When the smoke cleared
away it was seen that the Logan boys
lay dead —killed at the first shot. The
two men who formed the posse to More
liead, gave themselves up and gave
the facts as stated. The Logan boys
were buried this afternoon at the old
burying grounds about five miles north
of the town of Moreliead.
Dr. H. S. Logan, the father of the two
dead boys, is confined in the Lexington
jail for safe keeping on a charge of con
spiring to kill Taylor Young and Judge
A. C. Cole, of the Circuit court of Rowan
county. Dr. Logan, when seen, said
that the object was to arrest the boys
so that they could be placed in the hands
of Craig Tolliver, who is Police Judge, so
that Tolliver could wreak his revenge on
them. Howard Logan, an uncle to these
boys, was one of the parties who was
forced to fiee from Morehead a few days
ago and seek a place of safety. That
whole section of the State is wild over
the affair, and the end is not yet.
Craig Tolliver is about fifty-five years
old, and has been a desperate character
for thirty years. He revels in bloodshed.
In 1884. at the August election, the
Martin-Tolliver feud was started, and
since that time more than a dozen men
have been killed in encounters between
these factions. At the first breaking out
of the feud John Martin killed Bill Tol
liver, a brother of Craig, in a fight.
Martin was placed in the Flemiugsburg,
from which he was taken by Bill Bowling
and others on a forged writ of habeas
corpus, and shot dead while on the cars
en route to Moreliead. The warfare has
l>eeu carried ou openly or in ambush ever
sitids* that time. Two years ago martial
law was proclaimed in Rowan county,
but as soon as the troops left the old
troubles were renewtnl. Tolliver preten
ded that he was going to reform, and
some people were foolish enough to le
-lieve his professions. It is the general
optimal at Moreliead that nothing but
t lie death of Craig Tolliver will restore
peace to the section.
THE POOR OF LONDON.
“The Problems of a Great City by
Arnold White,’’ isa volume of 27apages,
published in London last year, which
furnishes food for thought on many of
the questions that have to le dealt with
in onr own growing population. Lon
don s|>euds annually over twenty mil
lions of dollars in supporting over a
thousand charitable institutions, includ
ing for the blind. 8 for the deaf ami
dumb, 1) for incurables, 3 for idiots, r>3
dispensaries, 44 convalescent, and 14
nursing homes, 17 general and 29 s|*ecial
hospitals, 8 consumptives, 5 ophtuhal
mie, 3 orthofneilic, 3 for skin diseases,
21 lor women and children, and lying
in liospitills, besides 158 societies for
pensions for the aged, 95 for general re
lief, It lor ftHxi, etc. —also 95 homes.
• orphanages, 7H reformatories, 98 ed
ucational societies, 42 lor social im
provement ami 17 for protection, iu all
.181) institutions for children. In spite
of this, there are iu England 800,000
paujters supported by the government,
liesides :()O,O(H> supported by private
cluu’ities. Tlie money spent in charities
w ould give enough to 200.000 poor per
sons to enable them to find permanent
iustead of temporary relief by a system
of state aided and supervised coloniza
tion. Only $(55,000 wins speut in this
way, and it sent 3,500 individuals out
to countries where they were soon pro
ducers instead of consumers only. If
$(>25,000 had been wisely expended in
helping emigrants to South Africa, it
would have saved the expenses of wars
costing $90,000,000. While 155,000
persons went to the United in 1884,
only 44,000 went to Australia and New
Zelund, and yet it is claimed tliat an em
igrant sent to Australia uses 1(5 times,
ami one sent to South Africa six times
as much English products as one sent to
the United States and this of itself would
be u great addition to the wages earned
at home.
Sweden and Norway are now subjects
of special interest in England, from the
sueeessfel introduction of the Gothenburg
system of regulating the liquor ques
tion. It was first tried in the town of
that name, ami is now in force in many
other small towns and in Christiana. It
is tfc plan by w hich liquors are sold by
I'lei-sons or corporations deriving no
profit for themselves, but using the net
revenues to defray the expenses of the
local governments, thus reducing taxes,
aud making it compulsory to offer good
food, coffee ami other non-intoxicating
drinks iu the same place where liquor is
sold. This, it is believed, would go far
towards solving the drink question in
London. There the poor man's budget
is made up largely of the cost of liquor,
averaging, it is estimated, at over fifty
dollars a year, helped out by over ten
dollars a year for tobacco. Iu London
it is estimated that 88 jier cent, of the
poor spend one-fifth of their income in
rent, and the average is a dollar a week
for one room and a dollar and a half for
two. Meat is rarely eaten more than
once a week, and the averagecost a week
of food l‘6r husband and wife aud three
children is about three dollars and a
quarter, of fuel about fifteen dollars a
year, of which more than a third is paid
for the profit of the retail dealer; cloth
ing and other necessaries bring up the
average weekly expenditure to six dol
lars and a half, a total of $378 a year,
leaving but little margin out of an in
come of even S4OO a year, and out of
his expenses it is estimated that nearly
S4O go to meet the extra cost of buying
at retail. With this narrow margin be
tween receipts and expenditures, the
poor man is told that he has the choice
of 191 religions in force in England, and
that in London nearly ten millions of
dollars are spent by bible and tract so
cieties and for home and foreign missions
for the unconverted.—Philadelphia Ledg
er.
A CORNER IN WHISKY.
Kentucky Distillers Agree to Suspend
Distilling for a Time.
At a .meeting of the Kentucky Distil
lers' Association the other day in Louis
ville, a resolution recommending the
cessation of production of whisky until
October 1. 1888, was adopted. At least
95 per cent, of the producing capacity of
the state was represented. An officer of
the association stated that there were
now in bond in Kentucky 39,000,000
gallons of whisky, of which 18,000,000
were distilled last year. There are 5,000,-
000 gallons in foreign ports belonging
to Kentucky men, and all this makes the
supply enough to last three years. He
thought there would not be a drop of
whisky distilled in the State of Kentucky
this year. It did not pay because the
supply was so much greater than the de
mand that prices was almost nominal.
The resolution just adopted would bal
ance things again and every whisky man
in the country would be beuefitted. The
resolution goes into effect the Ist day of
July.
Give your wife a vacation. She needs
one. Little cares are harder to bear than
greater responsibilities. A woman's work
is never done. And modern life has iu
creased and intensified it. Cart's have
multiplied faster than conveniences. Life
is more complex, its demands are great
er and more numerous, society more ex
acting. M ho needs a vacation if she does
not? And she cannot get it at home.
The more quiet and restful the home is
to you, the more evident that it is a
care, if not a burden, to her. A house
keeper can uo more take a vacation in
her home than a merchant in his count
ing room. Even though her absence oc
casions inconvenience, give her an oc
casional vacation.
BITTER CREEK’S BAD MEN.
The Original Citizen Who Mailt* Life
Miserable for the People.
From the San Francieco Examiner.]
NoF, Ixxl I the power I’d pour
The sweet milk of Doneord *nto hell.
Uproar the universal peace.
Confound all unity on earth.
“I admit that 1 am from Bitter Creek,"
said W. F. Robbias at the Russ House
yesterday. “I can’t help it. I was from
there, aud now can't very well g*t away
for ktfps. Besides, why should I ? lam
doing very well there and like the place.
“But hget a little weary. Everywhere
Igo when I put down my name the fool
clerk says:
“’OU, alia! You r the bad man from
Bitter Creek, an* you?’
“These tilings make me weary! New
to the idiotic clerks and others, perhaps,
w ho make tlie remark, but aw fully old to
me.
“You have supposed this Bitter Creek,
or at least the lwul man part of it, to be
hypothetical? Not a bit of it. Consult
your map. You’ll find one Bitter Creek
in Wyoming, two iu Arizona, one, and
possibly two in Utah, one in Montana,
and one iu California. Almost all ure
small streams, or they would be called
rivers, as yon may suppose.
“Well, the genuine and historic stream
is in southern Montana, and that's w here
1 hail from. The creek is 110 miles long,
and empties into the Clark's Fork of the
Columbia.
“The bad man w as a fellow named Jim
Yount, an exceedingly rocky individual,
who came there in very early times from
Tennessee. Nobody knew the exact date,
for he was ahead of most everybody
else. He was none of your ‘mild-man
nered’ men as Slade was represenoed to
be. Originally in Tennessee, 1 suppose
lie was a Knob-hiller, and as he grew
older he rapidly grew worse.
“Upon my word, he was the most
vicious, vindictive man I ever heard of.
He fairly earned his title. We heard that
he was a murderer iu Tennessee ol three
boys, playmates in school whom In*
didn't like. He sloped to Missouri anil
knifed an old gentleman, in whose em
ploy he was, because the old man insis
ted on his getting up at 7 o’clock iu the
morning.
“He blazed his way in this manner
pretty effectually to the west. (hie of his
tirst deeds, which the pioneers of Mon
tana recolect, was the shooting off' of
both*ears of a bullvvhacker by Jim.
“Jim saw him driving along, and re
marked to a friend that he thought he
could make a center-shot on the team
ster's big ear. The friend doubted it,
and he let her go. He struck the audit
ing appratus plum in the middle. Before
the teamster could clap his hands on the
shot ear whack went a bullet through
the other one.
“The bad man then asked the bull
whacker if he didn’t want him to present
to him a couple of enrlmbs, since he had
such nice round holes to put them in.
“His next deed was to burn a school
house—souk? twenty miles away. TTe
claimed the children made faces at him
as he was going along one day, and he’d
behaug if he’d have such kids to grow
up to know any more than he did.
“In a dispute with two confederates
about some stolen horses in ’6O, a year
after this school-house, he killed both of
them, took all the stock and gobbled
their money. He didn't even bury the
fellows; but left their bodies lying only
fifty yards or so from the corral.
“But his best hold was in the saloons.
He’d drink a barrel of whiskey every few
days—no soft drinks for him —whiskey
every time. He had a bleared, blotched
fiice, that looked like a chromo, and his
oaths and his language in general was
something frightful to hear.
“I don’t recollect a crime in those early
days that he didn’t commit. He held up
stages, stole bullion and robbed mails
with impunity. Nobody molested him.
Everybody feigned to know who did it,
and everybody went around cringingly
asking Jim as they patted him on the
back, to take a drink. Quite often he
would get mad at this even, and tell
them to have a care how they came
slobbering around him or he'd shoot the
tops of their heads off.
“Jim played many brilliant eugage
ments of this sort around Virginia (’ity,
in Montana, Boulder City and other
places. His Bitter Creek ranch was only
a rendezvous for him, a sort of a central
or pivotal point, where he and fellow
thieves rounded up their stolen horses
and catlle.
“Jim ran on this way for several years,
cutting, shooting and killing until he
boasted himself that two graveyards
would not hold the people he had laid
away.
“In ’O7, however, Jim made one trip
too often to Helena. He had made his
record over there. But the rich placers
had drawn a host of bad men there, and
one night when Jim drew his artillery in
Tom Best's gambling dive and began to
lay on right and left he got a ball in his
heart that forever fixed him.
“Of the crowd, though, he killed four
first and maimed for life three or four
more. He was buried out in the foot
hills near Helena, and for a long time a
plain pine board marked his grave and
bore the insctiption:
| THE BAD MAN FROM BITTER CREEK. \
“I think Jim was about 40 years old
when he was rounded up. It was a glad
day for Bitter Creek and a joyful one for
Helena, which for a long time boasted
that it tucked our bad man away under
the daisies.
“ Now, you might think that our region
is full of such citizens as Jim, but it is
not so. We are now, at least, a quiet,
peaceable community, devoted to ranch
ing and agriculture. It would do you
good to visit Bitter Creek.”
Despise Not the Day of Small Things.
Little things may help a man to rise—
a bent pin in an easy chair for instance.
Dr. Pierce’s “Pleasant Purgative Pel
lets” are small things, pleasant to take,
and they cure sick-headaches, relieve tor
pid livers and do wonders. Being purely
vegetable they cannot harm any one.
All druggists.
LKOMn.Vs AM) THE FANS.
From tln> TVxnx Stain** ]
Leonidas was a prominent editor of
Sparta in the sweet long ago.
His paper, the Palladium, was noted
for its opposition to the inter-state com
merce bill of that period, and when the
obnoxious measure became a law ljeoni
das was ns hot as a took stove.
Like the law which is now distracting
the minds of the jteople of the Cuited
States and overworking the Coaimis
missioners. this ancient statue prohib
ited the issue of passes.
•lust liefore the law began to lo its
deadly work .Mr. Xerxes, President of
the Thermopylae Railway Company, is
sued a circular, of which the following is
a copy:
[Form 291.] 2—14—2,000
THEK.MOFYE.tv Railway Cos. j
Office of Coe. W. 11. Xerxes, Pres J
Looms, April 27, 48015. (’. )
Dear Snt—As you are aware, the inter
state commeree law. which goes into
effect on the sth proximo, forbids, under
severe penalties, the issuing of five passes
or the honoring of those now issued.
You will therefore return to the general
offices of fhe Thermopylie Railway Com
pany the annual pass now issued in your
name, as the same will not be available
for passage after the date mentioned.
Regretting the necessity for issuing
this circular. I beg to remain yours
faithfully. William llknhy Xerxes,
Pres, and (Jen’l Freight and Ticket Ag't.
When Leonidas received this intima
tion lie was even more wroth than when
tlm bill passed.
The pass was a young and beautiful
one, with the figures 480 in huge gilt let
bus nil over the face, and Leonidas had
not exhibited it more than three times
to the admiring gaze of the conductors
of the line.
Then, again, the fishing season was
about to open, and lie intended to tuke
a run down into Thessaly county every
Saturday after the pajier had gone to
press and indulge in the pleasant sport
of lazily drowning worms.
He had several other little excursions
planned lor the summer, one of which
was to visit his girl in Ohio.
Leonidas was therefore sorrowful when
he learned that this nice new pass, winch
was just ready to blossom forth into a
career of usefulness, had been cut down
in its fresh young beauty.
Then he made a brave resolution.
He resolved not to give it up, but die
in its defense if necessary.
He died, as the sequel will show.
Col. Xerxes was determined to see the
law enforced, and when Leonidas neg
lected to return the puss at the ap
pointed time, Xerxes sent a postal card
to inquire the wherefore.
Leonidas replied that Xerxes might go
to Halifax, but Xerxes’went not.
He went for Leonidas instead, having
first called out the militia to assist in
taking the pass from the angry editor.
The latter levied 800 Pinkerton guards,
armed with Remington rifles, to defend
the pass.
But it was of no use.
Xerxes capture the dprecious paste
board, but not until Leonidas and all
his retainers but one had been sent to
tha 1 ; land where the wicked legislators
cease from troubling and the weary
editor is at rest.
The man who escaped got back to
Sparta and wrote an account of the fight
for the Palladium, which thus had a
scoop on its contemporaries.
The little incident shows us that there
is nothing alarmingly original about
the inter-State commerce law, for passes
were called in more than two thousand
years ago.
Seek Fortune’s Embrace Ere It is too Late.
The 204th Grand Monthly drawing of
the Louisiana State Lottery took place
at New Orleans, on Tuesday (always
Tuesday), May 30th, 1887. $522,500
was sent to many worthy jieople. We
will tell some: No. 15,766 drew the first
prize; it was sold in fractional tenths at
$1 each, sent to M. A. Dauphin, New Or
leans, La. One was sent to T. J. Lynch,
a well known liquor dealer in S. E. cor.
lltli and Locust Sts., Phila., it was col
lected by the Third National Bank of
Phila.; six tenths were sold to Califor
nians, and was collected through Wells,
Fargo & Cos., of San Francisco, Cal.; one
sold to A. Fruny, Deer Lick, Mason Cos.,
W. Va., was collected through Metropol
itan National Bank, Cincinnati, Ohio.
No. 75,866 drew the Second Prize of
$50,000; it also was sold iu tenths for
$1; two were paid through the Nat'l
Commercial Bank of Mobile, Ala.; one
through the Commercial Nat’l Bank of
Nashville, Tenn.: one paid through Bank
of Commerce, Louisville, Jvy.; two to
Frank Corcoran, Cairo, 111., through the
City Nat’l Bank of Cairo, 111. No. 15,-
872 drew the Third Prize of #20:000 —it
was also sold in tenths; one to Edwin Le
Bars of New York city, collected through
Adalns Express Cos.; one to N. Crenshaw,
of Everest, Kas.; one to C. J. Harman,
paid through Corry National Bank of
Corry, Pa.; one paid through Bank of
California, at San Francisco, Cal.: one
paid to Nevada Bank of San Francisco,
and the rest elsewhere. Nos. 45,649 and
and 51,955 drew- the two Fourth Prizes
of SIO,OOO each; sold to parties in Chi
cago, III.; San Francisco, Oakland and
San Jose, Cal.; Keokuk, Iowa; Camille,
Mo.; New Orleans, Boston, Washington,
Pittsburg,"lit: Pleasant, Fla.; Gunion,
Ark.; Inion Star, Mo.; and elsewhere.
So the wheel turns on forever, and on
July 12th it will all be repented. Any
one can learn full particulars by address
ing M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La.
Seek Fortune's embrace ere it is too late.
Fashions in Montana.
The editor of the Montana Screecher
attended a May-day ball, and for the
first time in his life, attempted a de
scription of the costumes for the benefit
and gratification of his lady readers. We
copy several of his descriptions.
Miss Sallie McSuiffin was rigged out as
pretty as a red and green wagon with
two spring seats, and made more mashes
than a few. .She bad on a blue dress
with a red flap at the side, and a puffy
something or other on the other side.
Miss Kuze Khurp wore an en train rig,
and could have knocked Mrs. Langtry
silly when it came to good looks. Her
hair was en curl and her face en powder.
She had sixteen rings on one finger and
bracelets clean to her elbow.
Little Birdie Bloom was the daintiest
darling of all, in white toggery of some
sort, looped up in spots. She wore hand
painted gloves and slippers, and passy
mentry jewelry; also the curls that have
been on exhibition in the window of our
fashionable hair dresser for the past
week.
ADVERT IS MAI ENTS.
The Courant-American is the oni„y
Paper Published ix one of the Best
Counties in North Georgia. ItsCiia-
CUI ATION IS SECOND TO NONE OF ITS CI.AS
Reasonable Kates on Application.
$1.50 Per Annum —sc. a Copy.
M A TER X A L A FLECTION 1 .
tun a Mother Forget Her Child, However
Wayward?
“Hal Easy" in West Point Press.)
Mrs. Zerelda Tames, the mother of the
two James boys. Frank and Jesse, the
latter of which, whose deed.s and acts of
daring, as an outlaw, gained for him a
world-wide notoriety, it is stated, on
shaking of her erring children, said:
“Could I forget or forsake them?” could
1 possess a mother's heart, or is there a
mother for her offspring, from the enr
liest dawn of their existence to the day
of her death, are so interwoven with her
frelings and existence ns to become a
second nature which the casualties of
life nor the flight of years can never ob
literate.
Many instances might be brought to
bear "and vividly portrayed in the his
tory of the lives, of mothers who for the
maternal affection of their offspring
have made some of as heroic and praise
worthy sacrifices for their children as
adorn the annals of time.
Was there ever a more self-sacrificing
principle of heart-felt affection evinred
by any one than that of the mother, the
eliihl of whom was brought to King Sol
omon of which two woiaeu claimed ma
ternity ?
“Bring me my sword,” said the King.
“J"11 divide the child bef wi-eu tjiem/'
'‘This is all 1 ask, and it hut my right,"
said one of the women.
The true mother on her knees, with up
lifted hands and eyes bathed in tears
Implores that the life <f tie* eliihl l>e
spared, and to let the other woman
have it.
Woman! maternal and heavenly de
voted woman, last at the Cross, first at
the sepulchre! when she forgets her child,
then, in my opinion, will heaven eeaae to
be an asylum of unalloyed felicity to the
pilgrim whose wayworn find have born
him to the threshold.
There may !w> women who are infidels—
women orally or verbally advocate prin
ciples of atheism. But for myself I’ve
got to converse with one of the kind, or
read a paragraph of the |>en advocating
such doctrine from a woman, still there
may be such, but if heaven don’t know
them; not by any means do I desire to
cultivate their acquaintance.
What can I say of man upon the sub
ject of parental affection? Have we not
seen cases where man has forgotten not
only his child but his wife, creator and
heaven itself and sunk so deeply in vice
description as to lie lost to envy sense
of virtue, honor and propriety; and in
the scale of decorum sunk beneath the
dignity of the common brute.
Still iu all his conglomerated mass of
sensual degradation have we seen the
mother pity, love and stand by him ns
her child.
Oh woman! what a heart of magna
nimity—what a feeling soul—what a
treasure* of inexhaustible and undying
love in tin* maternal affection, in thy
heart of hearts for thv offspring.
NO MERCY FOR MORMONS.
The Decent People of Seney Make a De
mand on Some Elders.
Ilockinart Shite.]
For some time the Mormon elders have
been making the residence of a man by
the name of Mitchell, near Seney, their
headquarters, from whence they travers
ed the country around about proselyting
among the ignorant and unwary. Their
disgusting procedures aroused the citi
zens of Seney who resolved to rid the
country of the fellow Mitchell and the el
ders at once.
Mitchell having snuffed the breeze of
this movement on last Monday commis
sioned his son, Will Mitchell, and Will
Hobbs, to go into town to w atch and re
port proceedings. They imbibed too
much whiskey, were arrested and locked
up. The next morning they were taken
before the mayor and Mitchell was lim'd
fifteen dollars.
The elders, Smith and Rich, hearing of
the trouble the boys had gotten into soon
appeared in behalf of the boys, and at
tempting, by various methods, to inter
fere with the process of municipal law.
The indignant citizens called an instan
taneous meeting whereby the elders were
notified to leave in fifteen minutes or take
the consequences. The saiuts, therefore,
declined to stand on ceremony, but got
up and dusted in double-quick time.
We see it stated in au exchange that
Revs. Sain Jones and Sam Small have
urgent invitations to visit London, Eng.
and also offered free transportation to
Bombay and other cities in India. It is
one of the wonders of the present day
that Sam Jones, a plain “Georgia crack
er,” should be one of the most famous
men in the world. His age Wing consid
ered, he has addressed more people than
any living man. There is something
remarkable about Sam Small, but not so
much as about Mr. Jones. Mr. Small is
a cultured, college-bred man; but Mr.
Jones’ education is almost entirely self
attained. His career is certainly most
remarkable, and the amount of good he
does is incalculable. —Thomaston Times.
The ofle great result which comes to
the front during this 50 year jubilee of
the British Islands is the fact that 50
years ago Britain was the first, was at
the head, in fact the only great nation
existing, to-day she is at the foot and a
follow er, not a leader in a single question
of industry, finance or commerce.—Chi
cago Journal of Commerce.
There Shall be no Alps.
When Napoleon talked of invading
Italy one of his officers said: “But, sire,
remember the Alps.” To uu ordinary
man these would have seemed simply in
surmountable, but Napoleon responded
eagerly: “There shall be no Alps.” So
the famous Simplon pass was made.
Disease, like a mountain, stands in the
way of fame, fortune and honor to many
who by Dr. Pierc’s “Golden Medical Dis
covery” might be healed and so the
mountain would disappear. It is specific
for all blood, chronic lung and liver dis
eases, such as consumption (which is
scrofula of the lungs), pimples, blotches,
eruptions, tumors, swellings, fever-sores
and kindred complaints.
All should take Chipman's Liver Pills.
Ladies pronounce Velvetia to be delight
ful.