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SUBSCRIPTION. Thb Cot;rant Amkiucan is Published Weekly in the Interest ok Bartow County, Devoted Mainly to Local News, and Thinks it has a Right to K.vkct an Undivided County Patron AOK. VOL, 6— HO. 3] ttSSSESSS c—*s* U.UGS! J. R. WIKLE & CO., (SUCCESSORS TO D. W. CURRY.) Have now in *trc Hie b.st sileetcd, u< at complete anl varied n'ocLof Drugs, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, /Glass, Putty, Perfumes, Etc. IN NORTH GEORGIA. ... p, illM* '• - * 1 rare tiny an I iiixbt by tt li'Viire I ph.irturnwi. AGENT STA.ITIDA.TUXD 0131. CGMPN’Y Cb.as. A. Wikis, Manager. ■ I) tl-ly —:GO TO: RICHARD L. JONES roa Fresh Groceries, \ii ! id fni the table. KUKBH KOG.B and 'mi kids. l:| t 1:1 I ‘ l :: I 111 : \M( it KKK, \KG K I'A RI.K A (iAHDI S SEEDS, TEN N ESS EL -AU?*AG v> i Rhsll MEA L, "lii I'm'miu i' o ill v Vi'.i!’ y" ''.'n’ll.M.'.Hto V nt I .Will. Y GROCE KIES :n ! GENE UAL MEIUH- A \ I<l >!<;, 1 |ihv i: rente tti Hinr.ig ; house ist übove m ' where I k e,i a w iys on hand u y e>d >np..ly of Hay, Corn, Oats, Cotton Seed, Bran and Meal, I ha* I can lurni h y>u nt thn I.OWET FIGURES. I ilelivr to any part of the city free o itiu • y out putio (tg • auil pioiui in# t < treat you well, l itn ) oytis truly, RICHARD Is. JOITES. feh'Jl ly West. Main Street, Cartersville, Ga. R. H. JONES l SONS’ MANUF A( 3TUR I. NO COM PAN Y, CAIvTEIISVILLE, ROME AND STAMP CHEEK, GA. —Manufacturers of and Dealers in— BUGGIES, CARRIAGES iAGOtiS & MATERIAL .. ........ . i, asasaSiSESHS?SSSHS? r ;hSESHSES2SISHSZWSHS all work fully guaranteed. V\ r e can duplicate the work of any first-class manu factory in tin* 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. few-iy -f Tried ja jr About twenty years ago I discovered a little sore on my cheek, and the doctor* pro nounced it cancer. I have tried a number of physicians, out without receiving any perma nent benefit. Among tlie number were one or two specialists. The medicine tney applied wait like fir jto the sore, causing intense pain. I saw a statement in the papers telling what S. S. S. bat' done for others similarly afflicted. I procured some at once. Before I had used the second bottle the neighbors could notice that nty cancer was hcsiiug up. My general health had been t>a<l for two or three years— l baa 4 hacking cougn and spit blood contin ually. I had severe pain mmy breast. After taking six bottles of S. S. S. :my cough left me and 1 grew stouter than I had beeu for several years. My cancer has healed over all but 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. Mils. NANCY J. McCONAUGIIEY, Ashe Grove, Tippecanoe Cos., Ind. Feb. 16, 1886. Swift’s Specific is entirely vegetable, and seems to cure cancers by forcing out the imps ! Ues from the blood. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawers, Atlanta, Ga. sl. sl. sl. Sl a tubBIEERLV gldbe-deiiiocbai it:Ensr if-AG-ies.) IN" E DOLL E A "Y" E A The following* comparative statement of a number of the most prominent Weeklies published in the United States shows conclu sivelv that the WEEKLY GLOBE-DEMOCRAT is from 25 to 50 PER CENT THE CHEAPEST. Weekly aiobe Democrat, St. Louis, Mo 10 Pages. 70 Columns. $1 Per Year. WEEKLY HEPI'BI.IKAN'. St. Louis, Mo S Pages 56 Columns t 00 IVr Year W EGh I.Y TltlliLN'K, Chicago, 11l s Pages 56 Columns 1 00 Pit Year .\V KKK I.Y TIMES. Chl< uito 111 s I'nges 56 Columns 1 00 IVr % our \V I:I!K I.Y INTKILOCEAX, Chicago. 11! 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Justice Court Blanks, Of all kinds are to be found at THU COTTHAKT-AMERICAIT OT7XCX THE COURANT-AMERICAN. ffsiMMONSj BILIOUSNESS Is an affection of the Liver, and can be thoroughly cured by that Grand Regulator of the Liver and Biliary Organs, SIMONS LIVES REGULATOR M AJitTACTVRXD 1Y J. H mUH k 00., PklljutelptaA, Pt 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 most renowned physicians of Louis ville, Ky.. but to no purpose ; where upon I was induced to try Manaeas Liver Rsgnlstor. I found imme diate benefit from its use, and it ulti mately restored me to the full enjoy ment of health A. H. SHIRLEY, Richmond, Ky. HEADACHE Proceeds from a Torpid Lhrer and Im purities of the Stomach. It can be Invariably cured by taking; BIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR Let all who suffer rttnember that SICK AND NERVOUS HEADACHES Can bs prevented by taking a dose as soon as their s/niptoni iudiott the corning of an attack. 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- Annual Drawings regularly every six months (June and December). A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FORTUNE. SEVENTH GRAND DRAWING. CLASS <i. IN THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, NEW ORLEANS. TUESDAY, July 12, 1887—20Gtli Monthly Drawing. Capital Prize $150,000. Tickets are Ten Dollars only. Halves, 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 Application for rates to clubs should be made only to the ortice of the Company in New Or leans. For further information write clearly, giving full address. POSTAL NOTES, Express Money Orders, or New Y'ork Exchange in ordina ry letter. ’ Currency by Express (at bur expense) addressed M A DAI I IILV, New Ot leans, La., or M. A. DAUPHIN, Washington, D. C. Address Registered Letters to NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK, New Orleans, La, REMEMBER SLAAS Ueauregu.d ami Eailt, h > me in clmrgeof llio diawn g , is a guarantee ol absolute tainuSs ae.d inti gt iiy. tliat die chances arc all i qual, and that no one cm possib y divine what number will dr tw a prize. itKMii.UisFlt that the payment of all Prizes is GUAKAM'KKU n\ FOUlt na iittN Al. BANKS of New Orleans, and the Tickets are signed by the President of an In stitution, whose chartered rights are recog nized in the highest' ourts; th refore. beware of any Imitations or anonymous schemes. 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. TRIUMPHANT SONGS For Sunday Schools and Gospel Meetings. Price by mail, 25 cents; by express, not prepaid, #3 60 per dozen ; #.lO per oue hundred. 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. 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