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The CouiiantAmerican is Pcblishf,d
Weekly in the Interest ok Bartow
County, Devoted Mainly to Local
News, and Thinks it has a Bight to
Exi’ect an Undivided County Patron-
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. I NU 3 J UAtOKKSVIf.I.K AMKKICAN.
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BILIOUSNESS
Is an affection of the Liver, and can
bo thoroughly cured by that Grand
Regulator of the Liver and
Biliary Organs,
SIMMONS UVER REGULATOR
MANUFACTURED BY
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I was afflicted for several years with
disordered liver, which resulted in a
severe attack of juundlce. I had as
good, medical attendance as our sec
tion affords, who failed utterly to re
store me to the enjoyment of my
former good health. I then tried tho
favorite prescription of one of the
most renowned physicians of Louis
ville, Ky.. but to no purpose ; where
upon 1 was induced to tn' Simmons
Liver Regulator. I found imme
diate benefit from its use, and it ulti
mately restored mo to the full enjoy
ment of health.
A. 11. SHIRLEY,
Richmond, Ky.
HEADACHE
Proceeds from a Torpid Liver and Im
purities of the Stomach. It can be
invariably cured by taking
SIMMONS LIVERREGULATOR
Let all who suffer remember that
SICK AND NERVOUS HEADACHES
Can l prevented by taking a dose as scion as their
symptoms iuilicuto tho cumin* of an attack.
<; H. AUBBKT. UHAS McEWEN.
Aubray c & MoEwen,
Dealers In
Coal and Insurance Agents.
The public patronage respectluM.y solicited.
Money lo I,nan on desirable security.
.1 nee 111, 'N7,
R H . Aiurphey. (1. II Aubrey, ('has. McEtven.
C. H. Aubrey & Cos.
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lloughl and sold on commission. Desirable
Town, Uouulay ami Miaeral Property for sale.
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€A KtTKKSVILLK, GEORGIA.
MINERALS A SPECIALTY.
Kc.il Eslalc bought and sold. Information
tJUaerffllfy given.
J. M. ITEEL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
S|e'inl attention pivon to litigation in real
estate ill the adiuimslr .tion o esiutes of deceased
pei-Miii', and in cafes in iquitv.
OWI.-e on ITibHo Square, north cl St. .Tnrae
Hotel. leb24-1y
Yellow Pine Shingles.
W. W. ROBERTS,
Dealer in and Manufacturer of
YELLOW PINE SHINGLES.
I will be glad to furnish nil who desire them
first-class Shingles at reasonable prices. Orders
will receive the most prompt and personal atten
tion. I*. O. Uhlhlershurg, Ala. and Uartersville,
On W. W. UOUEUTS,
JulyT-'ini
Notice This As You Pass By.
111. 1. HOLE!
WEST MAIN STREET,
CARTERSVILLE, GEO.,
Carriages, Buggies f Wagons,
And do alt kinds of
Repairing in Wood and Iron,
Making new pieces when uecesaary. He is also
prepared to do nil kinds of BI.AUKSM ITH INU.
None but the best workmen employed who can
make anything that is made of wood or iron.
All work WARRANTED TO (11VE SATISFAC-.
‘i'ION. Terms reasonable, Work done promptly
(live Idm a trial and be convinced. *
:GO TO:
J. W. BRIDGES
Cheap Cash Store,
Fir*t Door llelow Bank, Cartersville, Ga.
14 rounds Standard Granulated Sugar, |1 00
1C •• ►x r l I*. Siig.>r, *2*
Id “ .K. L&nl, I W*
14 - He id H're J•*
15 “ Cooler; Hit e
50 •* Pearl Gut* * ' , ' ,
A buckle's O ffee
li. ve llnra, per pound *“
I euu in, |* r <’<>z 'll
to a ms | er dtsen -J
t ri.nberiie', per o :art
Brunet, | it ;.oumi }*•*
I UliMit-. Jr r I o.llid O*
Any kind i-f Jeliv, per pound I'*
25 l*oiiiitl* O.rm ul ("OMium ,k l’s) 1 10
50 “ lieu liili Flour 1 05
2 “ Ci iiT in t' es *"
1 “ ’* I’ciwlies 15
.50 “ V eat hiv Hiliost Patent Flour 1 50
51 “ Ft t lotitl Pa' •nt Fiour 1 60
50 “ Neptune •* “ 1 00
2 “ t aos Blackberries 10
•4 *• “ It spb rries 12>i
1 " “ Oysters, full weight 10
:l * AAA -I at a It a led r ottee, pui e 1 00
2 ’• At ■eh i “ “ 1 <H>
1 Gallon H. si New Orleans Syrup 55
1 *• Plantation syiup 40
:J PottiitlCans Mackeral 17>i
2 “ •• Corn Beef 35
2 •* “ Peers 25
20 “ Head Rice 1 00
515 “ Buckwheat Flour 1 00
T am determined to give fit-sh goods cheater
4han tha lowest for the ea-h. I keep no books,
•credit no on' 1 , lo°e no money, and save yon 20 pir
sent, .lust come one lime and be convince l.
cl.2!!y
Hut kirn's A mien Salve.
The Best Salve in the world for Cats
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, J'elos
;Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains
’Corns, anti all Skin,Eruptions, and pos
itively Piles, or no pay required It is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 35 cents per box.
For sale by J. It. Wikle & Cos.
nr3 tf.
OVER THE COUNTY.
on: CORRESPONDENTS NOTE THE
INCIDENTS OF THEIR
NEIGHBORHOODS,
And I>Uh Them l’p in a Delectable Shape
For Our Headers.
CASS STATION.
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Splendid rains Saturday and Sunday.
All the farmers now boast of cotton
blooms.
Notwithstanding the ruin we had some
very good sinking Sunday. Sinking till
day at Oak Grove next Sunday, 10th
met.
Miss Ruth Cunningham, of Atlanta, is
visiting Mr. Dobbins family.
Master John Barry, of Atlanta, is up
to s|*eud Home time with his gioud
parent* Mr. and Mrs. Taylor.
Mrs. Schulte and her daughter Miss
Rosalie, went to Chattanooga Saturday
to sjiend several days with Mrs. l)r.
Shepherd.
The Oak Grove Baptist Sunday School
will picnic iu the grove surrounding the
church, Saturday, the 9th. A pleasant
time is anticipated.
Col. Dobbins, we are glad to note,
has improved considerable since last
week.
Rev. Fletcher Gilreath will preach at
the Methodist church next Sunday night.
Mrs. B. B. Quillian is visiting relatives
and friends in Atlanta.
w. c. w.
PINE *LOG.
Oenial showers.
Every thing pleasant and lovely.
Mr 1 >oug \\ ikle was in our midst lust
Saturday, smiling softly and sweetly,
so the gil ls say.
Mr. B. A. Barton spent the day in our
vilage on last Monday the 4th.
Mr. A. C. Shelton brags of having-the
finest sweet potatoes patch in this Kt*c
tion says lie smacked his lips over a slice
pie on the 4th.
Mr. R. E. Adair commenced his school
nt tin- academy on last Monday the 4th.
Several other schools opened the same
day among which was l’rof. J. M. Boyd
and brother at Richards school house.
They ex|>ect a very full attendance.
Msss Emma Heath accompanied bv a
friend from Rolling Springs paid a visit
to her parents here on last Saturday and
Sunday.
Rev. Joe Jones was up in our section
Saturday and Sunday, and preached lor
us on Sunday and the best la* has ever
done here. A delegation from I’ine Log
accompanied him to the pauper farm on
Sunday night where he preached an inter
esting sermon to a good congregation
for that place.
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GItA’SSDALE.
()h for a gentle rain is the wish of every
one.
(irassdale has been very fortunate
about sickness. We were beginning to
congratulate ourselves. lam sorry to
say that several of our people are sick
at present. Mrs. Sallie Jrick is very sick
with some kind of fever. 1 hope sin* is
not destined to undergo another linger
ing spell, i understand Mrs. Mary
Pittard is at her farther’s Rev. T. E. Haw
kin’s, confined to her bed. Next on same
road, we find two of the Misses Gibbon s
sick. These are all in upper (irassdale,
If any are sick in lower (irassdale 1 have
not heard of it.
Rev. M. Taylor of Cass spent Ratarday
wit h the family of Mr. Montgomery.
“The biggest thing of the season/’
was a grand picnic gotten up by- the
young people of (irassdale, with a few
froni other places. There were some of
you .town boys invited. Did they but
know the half they missed there would
be greater sacrifices made next time in
order to attend. One charming young
lady from near you, leather charms to
the occasion, to the pleasure of the whole
crowd, we are always glad to welcome
among us Miss Annie Jones. The happi
est looking boy-, was a certain young
drummer from Rome, who came driving
Anderson’s best team of grays, seated
beside him was Miss Annie, now the last
was enough to make him frel happy,
even had he been driving a poor mule.
Missi-s Aileen and Orie Best were also
among us. Miss Aileen knows bow much
we all think other, and no gathering of
our young people would be complete
without her. Mr. George Alexander, the
Passville dutch mull was also present,
with his witty saying and comic songs
made much fun for the crowd. These
are only a few of the many present, I
hope none of the visitors will feel hurt
by my not mentioning them peis mally,
it would take up too much valuable
space. As to dinner I wol’- attempt to
describe it, sufficient to say there was a
table spread good enough for a king.
Every oue did justice to the occasion and
there was enough left for two more such
crowds.
Misses Annie .Tones, Aileen and Oiie
Rest spent Saturday night with Miss
May Battle.
Misses Etfie Montgomery and May Bat
tle spent Tuesday night at J. C. Herrings,
the boys came iu and we had a pleasant
time. Watts ears were deaf to the
striking of the clock, neither could he
see to what hour the short hand pointed.
This calamity befalls most every boy
sometime in life.
Brother White will preach at Beamons
next Saturday night. All who love to
hear a good sermon should attend.
Crouton.
ADAIIISVILLE.
A young man of this place, Mr. Elrod,
finished his house is having a nice cellar
dug under the same. Had just moved
down, forgetting to securely fasten the
door, when his calf straying around fell
down upon him throwing him in a churn
of milk and breaking all of his crockery.
The contract with specifications for the
building of the Methodist church has
been turned over to Mr. V\ aldrip here. A
gentleman under high recommendation
as a contractor —he has drafted a neat
and tasty building costing about $2,-
500. Soon os the Hite is selected work
will commence ut once.
M.v son, brush away those tears and
under direct authority go tell Kingston
that the Rome & Decatur railroad is
going by her town. This is dirent.
Several of our citizens are going to
Cohutta Springs shortly.
Mr. Close is moving the machinery
from our factory to Raccoon mills very
rapidly. When everything is moved out
the building with a good HO horse power
engine could he utilized for some indus
try, and the owners no doubt would
offer every inducement to those who
wish to open up some enterprise therein.
The wheat marked at this place, and
the Louisiana lottery are on equal toot
ing when it comes to making any money
out of either. ___ A. M. C.
“Nip’t in the Ren!”
Sad to say, many a good thing attains
to nothing more than a faff beginning.
On the other hand it is a matter tor con
gratulation that the growth of some
evil things may be also*promptly frustra
ted. A large proportion of the eases of
the most wide-spread and fatal diseases
—consumption huve their inception in
nasal catarrh. Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Rem
edy is pleasant soothing and effected.
Try it. It has cared thousands. All
THE ICOURART-AMERICAN.
A Tribute of Respect.
I have written these lines, but can
1 scarcely realize the last that when I
I again visit Old Fine Grove church, the
happy face of Mr. J. T. Smith will lie
missing, but at 4 o'clock on June the
lath, his soul took its flight into the
eternal world of spirits. He was the
eldest son of Mr. G. R. Smith, an esteemed
citizen of Gordon county. He was born
Oct. the Ist, 186 L. When he was first
taken ill hut little danger was appre
hended but his sufferings soon became so
intense that some fears were entertained
as to his recovery. Let no one think
that every duty under love’s command
was not discharged and every sacrifice
made. But with duty discharged and
every sacrifice made father and mothers,
brothers and listers, pastor and friends,
with heads bowed, eyes dimmed with
tears, hearts all bleeding and toru. sick
and faint and yet in hope we yield the
body of our loved one to dust and the
spirit to (rod who gave it. Thank God
for the victory through Jesus onr Lord.
The subject of this sketch was for two
years a pupil of the writer and a close
student was he. In fact he was a young
man of rare mental capacities wonderful
pleasing manner and such a happy turn
of disposition as to attract attention
anywhere in every company on first
sight, throwing himself iuto one’s very
best heart and affections ere they were
c i.is io,is of it an 1 mats'an 1 more so
ns association lasted to the purest and
happiest consequences. By all he was
dearly loved, white and black, old and
young. Of him I write no vain sentence
but follow his track and you will find
abundant testimony thereto. Why it is
that one so young, so buoyant and so
useful should be taken just when he was
is more than J can explain. No more
does his bearding" facte greet us in the
Sunday school, in the church or at* our
singings, of which he was so fond. But
his image still lingers on our minds and
the sound of his well trained voice still
lingersjupon our ears. May the death of
this bright young Christian lie a warning
to the youth of this community that
death is nojvsjxcber of person, that lie
comes to the young man as well as the
old man, the high and the low, the rich
and the poor, the good and the bad. To
the Christian boys and girls may if bear
admonition to be more faithful and fill
up tho vacancy thus mad*, As this
death had to be I am glad that God so
ordered that I should witness the scene
for I have been made to set* more power
fully that this grace is sufficient for
a thorn in the flesh and with all my heart
1, can say, farewell friend, pupil and
brother, in faith of a reunion in tin*
bright beyond. * w. .\f. W.
County Roads.
One of the most difficult things to get
comities to do is to improve their roads.
Indeed, it is about impossible.to get them
to do it. There is not ft citizen |of any
eonnty in all this broad land who does
nDt know the value of good roads, and
yet the road problem is one that only a
comparatively few counties have solved,
and they have succeeded only because
they have atarked it resolutely and in
telligently. The condition of the roads
throughout the State is deplorable. If
farmers would carefully compute the
damage they annually suffer on account
of bad roads they would be surprised at
the amount of it. They would find that
the wear and tear upon their work an
imals, harness, wagons, inconvenience
they are put to, and the loss growing out
of the impossibility of hauling full loads,
amount to many times their taxes.
And yet r while everybody wants good
roads and declares that he is ready to
bear his share of expense in makingthem,
ibis extremely difficult to enforce the
road laws, A farmer would apparently
rather pay ten dollars for repairs to his
wagons and harness than to pay that
sum to assist in putting the roads in las
neighborhood in good condition, al
though he knows that if improved they
would relieve him of the expense of re
pairing his wagon and harness.
It is noticeably that wheretherearegood
roads the farmers are more prosperous
and the farms are more valuable than
where the roads are neglected. Good
road horses and good carriages are found
where roads are good, and tiie people
appear to be more contented. It is cer
tain that money invested iu roads is well
invested. It pays a big interest and
everybody gets a Share of it.
There are those who insist that the
road laws are insufficient , but it is prob
able that if the road laws were strictly
enforced they would answer the purpose
for which they are intended very well.
The trouble is that in enforcing the laws
too much favoritism is shown, aud iu
leaking the roads too little intelligence
is exhibited,—Savannah News.
A I’euiiloiieil Donkey.
From th** Portland Oregonian.]
A small old gray donkey, a regular
“burro,’’an animal farmiliar in mineing
regions, but seldom seen here, passed
thruugh the city yesterday by express,
consigned to Mrs. J. B Ward, Forrest
Grove. A notice on the side of the crate
informed the curious that the animal’s
name was “John Kellogg.” and that it
was the property of N. S. Kellogg, with
whom it shares the honor of discovering
the Bunker Hill mime, the richest mineral
lode in the West.
The story goes that the patient, faith
ful animal Ims shared with his master
the toils of prospecting for many
years, packing his bacon and beans, his
pick and shovel, and all his other be
longings, sustaining himself on bacon
gunnies, tin cans and wlmt odds and
(aids and crusts his kind master could
provide, aided out bv any vegetation
which came to hand, or rather to mouth.
While prospecting in the Wardner Hills,
Mr. Kellogg one day sat down to eat his
luncheon and the burro, probably tired
of his wandering, unsettled course of life,
began to paw away the snow and un
covered a cropping of mineral, Mr.
Kellogg wiped his lips, took up his pick,
and the rich discovery of the Bunker
Hill was made and his bomestake
secured.
Like a thoughtful, kind-hearted man,
lie determined his faithful burro should
share his good luck, and so lie sent the
animal by express all the way to Forrest
Grove, there to revel in clover the re
mainder of his days. The little animal,
as it stood in the Wells, Eargo A Co.'s
yard, attracted much attention, lie had
gorged himself on oats and stood in the
shade a picture of content, carelessly
flicking a fly oft his rump w ith one ear
and another from his fetlock with the
other. The hair was all worn off his
back and he looked rough and shabby,
hut he lias earned his rest, and it is to he
hoped he may long live to enjoy it.
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A Printer’* Krror.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, the
printer’s copy said, hut he set it up’sweet
are the uses of advertising. Sweet, in
deed, is those who in sickness and suffer
ing have seen the advertisment of some
sovereign remedy, which upon trial has
brought them from death’s door. “The
l>est thing I ever had in my paper was
the advertisement of Dr. Pierce’s ‘Golden
Medical Discovery’" is again and again
the testimony of those who have been
healed by it of lung disease, broneal
affections, tumors, ulcers, liver com
plaints and the ills to which flesh is heir
CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1887.
SIX SLAIN.
A ergi Boy Kill* Half a Boieu Men
iu as Many Months.
Chattanooga Times.J
Truth is stranger than fiction.
The force of that trite ({notation was
borne iu upou a Times uewsgatherer as
he chatted with and heard the story of a
man who in less than as many months
had killed with his own hand six of his
fellow-men.
The slayer was John T. Prior, of
Prior’s station. Georgia, a huiplet, a
score of miles below Rome, on the E. TANARUS.,
V. AG.R. R. He is medium in size, with
brown hair and gray eyes, which look as
if they might glare, but not a man to be
singled out as a desperado or as oue who
had ever done anything especially out of
the common dull routine of a farmer's
life. He is low-voiced aud quiet like
Byton’s pirate who—-
“Was the iniMetit, mannered man
That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.”
.As will l>e seen hereafter, Prior had
much and deadly provation, and his
killings grew out of those troublous sit
uations.
BETWEEN THE LINES.
He had enlisted early in the war in the
First Georgia cavalry, served three
months, provided a substitute and gone
home. Shortly after the evacuation of
Rome the section in which he lived was
left between the lines, with no large force
of troops of either army near him. As
a consequence, small bands of camp fol
lowers—independents, as they called
themselves—roamed over the country
side on predatory errands, bent on rob
bery, and not stopping at murder if re
venge or body depended upon it. They
were mostly stragglers or camp follow
ers from the Confederate army, and, if
anything, worse than Sherman’s bum
mers, as they were preying upon their
friends.
In this delectable condition of affairs
young Prior, a boy of twenty-two years,
found himself. All the men left at home
were organized by Gov. Joe Brown into
the then somewhat noted Georgia militia.
The subject of this very brief autobiog
raphy was madea first lieutenant therein
and his father a captain.
“lucky” unlucky.
A party headed by one Lucky Baldwin
has been committing depredations of
various sorts. With a small squad
Prior started to arrest the first party.
Four of these surrendered. Lucky threw
himself on a horse with the hope of es
cape, but Prior drew a bead on him with
a shotgun. The aim was deadly, the
horse was wounded, the rider stuck to
the animal until he was out of sight,
then fell oft’ dead. His comrades were
jailed at Cedartown.
NCMUEU TWO.
Soon after, one Colquitt, a Texuu,
whose brother had been killed in an “in
dependent” party, came to Cedartown,
declaring his purpose to kill somebody.
Prior was riding through the little vil
lage, and was called to the store to help
arrest the desperado, who had a pistol
and was threatening one Capt. Tracy.
Prior and his brother shot and killed
him.
“That is the prologue,” Mr. Prior said
to the scribe, who began to get inter
ested in this tale of slaughter, thinking
as Hamlet said.
"Thus bad begins
Hut worse remains behind—
DEADLY PROVO*ATION.
April 2, 1864, the senior Prior and a
colored man were brutally murdered by
a gang under one Phillips, who himself
committed Die murder in the high road,
wantonly slaying a good old man, out
of pure villainy, and took the horses the
twain were riding. Young Prior followed
the squad. He tracked them by their
outrages, and to him one man said: “If
the Lord will just hear my prayers,
you’ll get them fellers by night.”
THREE MORE —TWO AT ONE SHOT.
Near Coloma, at the foot of Wisener
Mountain, the pursuer came upon the
victims. They had dismounted, ar
ranged for dinner and were sitting under
the trees. As they saw Prior, who at
the head of four men had advanced to
wards the ruffians they rose, the move
ment bringing two of them in range.
He fired one barrel of his shotgun,
loaded with a bullet and buck shot at
them. One dropped dead, the other ran
around the corner of the house and fell
lifeless. The third meanwhile was shoot
ing with a pistol at Prior, who turned
and chased him through the woods, and
killed him with a pistol. The avenger
had supposed that these were the men
who had killed his father. They were
not, but belonged to the same gang.
Their names were Tucker, Slack and
Poe.
BEOOIJ FOU BLOOD —SIX.
The last and crowning tragedy involv
ing blood for blood and a son’s revenge
for his father's cowardly murder shall be
told in the language of the slayer: “I
was offering a reward for Phillips and
was shown the house he was in. I led
four men to the house and laid around a
day or two. A dog betrayed us. I
killed the cur at 100 yards with a pistol
and left. The second time we went we
laid around the house in the night until
we knew he was there. I didn’t: want to
kill him in the house where the women
and children would see it. He passed me
before day. 1 saw him but was afraid of
killing the wrong man, so let him go.
We stayed around until Bor 9 o'clock
when we saw that he was gone. I took
his horse's track and followed it until it
went into a field. Phillips was in there
plowing. He did not discover me until
lie came to the end of the rows. I raised
up aud called to him. He said, ’ls that
you, John?’ 1 told him it was and I
had come after him. 1 allowed him
to hitch his horse and made him
wade a branch to come to me. I asked,
‘ Phillips, do you know who killed my
father?’ Of course the evidence I had
against him was positive, or I never
would have hunted him. He exacted a
promise aud then told me of two parties
w hom I'kneW were Wot in the country at
the time. The scared darkies who had
been in the field had run to the house,
and I saw people coining out of it. 1
said: ‘Phillips, you are the fellow that
killed him* If you have any prayers,
any conscientious scruples, or think the
devil is waiting for you, you have time
to say a few words.’ T spoke as kindly
us I am talking to you, but said, ‘Pin
going to kill you,’ He started to run. 1
shot him with a pistol, then with a gun.
He dropped dead, and I left him there.”
According to Prior that w ound up the
lawless incursions, raids and murders.
jmdS'n course of tiine civil law reasserted
itself.
A LIFE SAVER,
Years after Mr. Prior had married an
estimable lady upon whom fell the pall
of lunacy. While he was taking her to
an asylum, he met a man who rendered
him assistance and said: “You killed
Tucker. If you hadn’t he would have
killled me.”
A PASSIONLESS STORY.
The man w ho told this story of killing,
slaughter and revenge seemed absolutely
passionless. His tone was even aud
moderate, and he spoke in the most mat
ter-of-ftiet way, the farthest possible i‘e
moved from sanguinary gush or boast
ing. His tale is undoubtedly a true one,
u and lifts tor a moment
the veil that hangs over the past in the
debatable ground between the two armies
in North Georgia during the civil war.
Mr. Prior has lived near the old hon
since the war, gathering what he could
from the wreck of the family fortunes
and accumulating more. Prior’s station
is named after him; he is a solid man, a
i prominent citizen, and very evidently
feels no remorse or compunction for the
deadly work he did during the dark days
of the late very unpleasantness.
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Ruse-Ball in latlianapaliii.
From Detroit Free Prees.
There is one lady in Indianappolis who
will probaly never liecome an enthusias
tic admirer of our national game.
The individual to whom I refer is Mrs.
McDuffy. I had the misfortune to oc
cupy a seat adjoining hers during the
opening game between the Detroit* and
the home club, and the following were
the remarks on the occasion referred to:
“I don’t see why some women can’t
understand base-ball. If there is any
thing about it that I can't through it
will be strange,” said she to her hus
band. “Who are those big fellows over
there*?”
“Why, the ‘Big Four,’ of course,” said
he.
“Oh, yes, how stupid I am. I suppose
that is Jay Gould watching the Big Four
so closely. Didn't* he say one strike?”
He is responsible for those dreadful
strikes, isn't he? Do you think the men
will strike to-day.”
“Great heavens, woman, areyou crazy?
That is the umpire. Can’t you keep
quiet and watch the game?” he growled.
“Certainly, I will,” she said. “But
where is the Detroit team? I haven't
seen a team to-day any different from
Indianapolis horses. l)o they bring
them right out on the ground. I should j
think they would get frightened in such 1
a crowd as this and kick and cut up aw
fully. Do you think they will?”
“It is possible,” he answered, resigned
ly. “There are some kicking teams.”
“I am so glad I um up here out of
danger. What did that man do then?”
“Struck a foul—”
“Struck a poor, innocent fowl! The
hateful thing! I didn't see any fowl.
W hat kind was it? What are they cheer
ing for?”
“Thompson caught a fly.”
“Now, Mr. McDuffy, don’t sit there
and tell me you could see anything so
small as a fly at this distance. Besides
it s too early for flies. What do they
want to stop in a game of base-ball to
catch flies for, any way? Do tell me
what that man is acting so silly about?”
“Trying to steal a base.”
“The wicked thief! Where is the base?”
“Over there, explained McDuffy.
“That is tin* first base, that other tiie
second, and this one nearest, the third.”
“Are they, indeed, ami that is the
soprano in the middle, I suppose?”
“Ah, yes,” groaned McDuffy, “you’re
getting it down fine.”
“See, that naughty man has knocked
tin* bail clean out of sight—wasn’t that
mean? Don’t you suppose they’ll dis
charge him? What are they cheering for
now? Making a home run? Well 1
should thiuk he would and stay there,
too, after such an exhibition of temper.
What—did you say they were going to
whitewash them? Do they just white
wash them all over —face and all?”
“Ah!” said McDuffy, savagely, “youv'e
got it now. That's the way they fix
them, and afterwards kalsomine them,
and fresco them, and dodo them, ami
ami put on French roofs. How proud I
am of you, Mrs. McDuffv, all you need
is a whitewash brush to be a fullfiedged
“How funny you are, Mr. McDuffy.
Did that man say they were giving the
visitors goose eggs? Now, what do
they want with goose eggs in a game of
ball? It’s gettidg worse and worse I
don’t see what people go crazy over
base-ball for, any way. I understand
the game, as far as that is concerned,
but there’s nothing in it. If there is
anything smart in bringing out thous
ands of people to watch them catch flies
and try to steal a base, and goose eggs,
and muffs, and crack pitchers, and the
Lord knows what else, I cant see it.
The next thing they’ll be bringing in
that team and they’ll kill somebody,
and I don’t propose to stay to see it.
If you’ll just sei* me to the carraige, Mr.
McDuffy, I’ll go home. I’ve had all the
base-ball I want.”
The disgusted lady departed, to the
evident satisfaction of her husband, who
soon returned to enjoy the remainder of
the game in peace.
Their Heels Are Loaded.
The donkey is a pious-looking animal,
lie always looks as if he would say:
“Let us bray.”—New Orleans Picayune.
Money may make the mare go, but it
takes three darkies and a yoke of oxen
to stir a mule.—Rose’s Toothpick.
We have noticed that it doesn't make
much difference where a mule is reared.
He is at home with his heels anywhere.—
Burlington Free Press.
The tail of a mule was recently eaten
off by rats in Key West stable. The
standard joke about the mule evidently
needs revision.—Philadelphia Call.
A scientist concludes that the voice of
a mule is much less musical than that of
a horse. We have observed that a mule
always flattened badly on his upper
notes. —Piladelphia Press.
Anew settlement in Dakota lias been
named Mule Head. That the other ter
minus of the animal was selected seems
to indicate that the people of the new
town are uot “kickers.
Herald.
LAW AND ORDER AT LAST.
Rowan County, Kentucky, to be a Law
Abiding County Hereafter.
A special from Morehead, the comity
site, under date of 30th ult., states there
is no foundation whatever for the rumor
that Tollivers are organizing and that
the people of Rowan county feel confident
that their long war is over, and that an
era of peace and happiness has at last
dawned upon the unfortunate section.
The belief is founded upon an outpour
ing of citizens at the meeting yesterday,
called to organize a Protective Associa
tion for the upholding of the law. An
article was then drawn up by which
every signer pledged himself with his
life to protect the life and property of
the citizens of Morehead and of Rowan
county. This was signed by all of the
live hundred men present.
Bottle Feu Babies
often surpass in robustness children who
are thought to l>e more favored. A
large number of mothers are not able to
give their children proper nutriment, and
in such cases Laetated Food is all that
can be desired. It is easily digested and
agrees with children of all ages.
ADVICE TO MOTHERS,
Mrs. Winslow's Soothi.no Syrup, for
children teething, is the prescription ot
one of the best female nurses and physi
cians in the United States, and has l>een
used for forty years with never-failing
success by millions of mothers for their
children. During the process of teeth
ing, its value is incalculable. It relieves
the child from pain, cures dysentery and
diarrhoea, griping in the bowels, and
wind-colic. By giving health to the
child it vests the mother. Price 25c. a
bottle.
Pj:u')dffcoa’3 Frdn23 WINE COCA is recoin
mended by Physicians for Nervousness, Indiges
tion. Constipation, Ac. At Wikle’s Drug Store.
CATTLE WOMEN OF COLORADO.
Light Hundred of Them Now Doing Bus
iness in th® State.
“I assure you,” said a prominent cat
tleman to a Denver Republican repre
sentntire the other day, “that of all the
failures in stock-raising made iu this
Western country not one of them has
been made by women. You can say
what you pleas** about the gentler sex
uot being able to ‘rustle’ with the stern
necessities of bread-getting, but you can
trust the stock-women, sir, to look after
their own interests every time, and
never, to my knowledge, has one of them
l)**en left. They are worth altogether
several millions of dollars and they have
got the clearest heads and test
judgment as regards managing stock
that I have ever seen displayed by any
body.”
“No, sir, I never heard of a stock
woman fuilings in luisines* yet, and l
don't believe you ever did. They take
their risks of course, but. uot unadvis
edly. They know what they are doing
and they invariably make instead of
losing. If you don’t believe this you
cuu consult all the stock journals in the
country and they will prove that what I
sa.v to you is true.”
“Areyou personally acquainted with
many women engaged iu the business of
cattle raising?” asked the reporter.
The cattleman gave a long whistle.
“Well, l should think so,” he said.
“I've studied them for years. You want
to know what kind of women they are?
I’ll tell you what sort they are, young
man; they’re ladies; that’s what they
are. Now, I don't mean by that they
would be afraid of soiling their hands if
occasion required; no, indeed nor of
doing a charitable action which would
necessitate some personal exposure on
their part, for they are generous to a
fault. What 1 mean to say is, that they
are as a rule refined and intelligent
women, who read and think, and are
capable of making a good appearance
in society. I don't know as I have ever
seen one of them who is phenomenally
intellectual, outside of the judgement
they exercise iu the stock business, which
is phenomenal. Most of them have a
genius for business, and nine-tenths of
them know how to appear in a drawing
room.
“In most instances they are rich and
know well how to use their money to
advantage so as to get the most good
out of life. Many of them are wives and
mothers, and when they are such I assure
you they are both wise and kind. You
will find that they rule their households
with firm hands, and that their husbands
and children, to use the biblical express
ion, ‘rise up and call them hies;el.”
“1 dare say you thought that women
who engage in stock-raising wen* all
centaurs. Como now, didn't you?” con
tinued the cattleman. “Riding like the
wind, half-clad, their tresses flying behind
them, and all the rest of it, for all the
world like a picture from mythology.
Confess now, didn’t you?
“I assure you, you could not have had
a more erroneous impression. Stock
women are much like others, save that
they have wider judgement on practical
subjects. They are thoroughly business
like, because they appreciate' the vast
interests which they have at stake, and
the quick conception with which all
women are gifted enable them to si*e
their decisions must be well-weighed; that
they must act only under the most care
ful consideration, and that once having
acted they must abide by their decision
with a calm, unswerving spirit. It is a
good training school for a woman. It
takes all the idiotic nonsense about
nerves out of her and gives her brain a
cool, cominon-sence poise which many a
man might envy.
“I know of no position in life which 1
had rather my daughters would fill. It
is one burdened with great responsibil
ities, of course, but wlmt mode of life is
uot where there is anything to be gained?
I assure you I should not consider that a
clear understanding of the cattle business
interfered in any way with therefinement
of those whom I hold most dear.”
“But you have met stock-women of a
directly opposite class, have you not?”
“Oh, yes, there are necessarily excejs
tions to all rules. The uncouth woman
of the ranch, who rounds up her own
herds and who sleeps in the saddle, is not
altogether a creatureof the imagination.
Uncouth and ignorant she may be, but
she is always a good woman, and one
whom all the cowboys respect, i know
several instances where these women can
swing a lariat like a man, and know
quite as well how to manage a herd. A
\ ery few of them personally supervise
their own animals, however, and these
in inoit instances are those who have
not as yet accumulated much wealth,
although there are some very rich cat
tle-women in Colorado who ride after
their own herds. This, however, is very
unusual. A woman usually manages her
cattle through a foreman, whom she
often supplies with brain-power. She
does not usually live on tiie ranch, but
rather in a handsome house in some
neighboring town. But all the same she
is the bone and sinew of the business.
Her clear head manages it all, and it is
through her directions that her foreman
always proceeds. She often spends the
summer on the ranch, where a comforta
ble dwelling is fitted up for her, much on
the order of an English shooting-box.
“You want to know something about
the unmarried women who are great
stock raisers? Well, the main thing that
can be said of them is, that men of posi
tion and prominence everywhere want to
marry them, and not purely out of money
considerations either, for soifie of these
unmarried stock-women have a fund of
good senee and useful intelligence which
cannot be eclipsed, and besides this,
many of them are quite accomplished
and good looking. But few of them are
‘on the marry.’ Most of them are past
their first yonth, and they have a shrewd
way of looking at things, which augurs
ill for the stranger who looks with long
ing eyes upon their flocks and herds.
“Colorado women have generally gone
into the stock business,” concluded the
caatle man, “through a direct line of in
heritance—that is, they have inherited
either small herds, vast ones, or a taste
and inclination for the life, 1 know of
nnmerous instatces where a farmer has
died leaving his daughter a very sma l
herd, and she has gone steadily on with
it’ making thousands where her father
before her made hundreds of dollars.
Again, there are widows who have
C onie into possession of vast
stock interests through the the death of
their husbands, and who have managed
the business left to them until its receipts
run way into the millions.
“1 know resolute women, too, who be
gan without a dollar, and who have
gained wealth and standing in the stock
business. The most highly novel sight 1
ever saw was a 14-year-old girl herding
cattle away up in Montana, with only
her little brother to assist her. The
father of these two children had died,
leaving them a small herd of cattle, and
I would be willing to wager mV last dol
lar that that little brown-skinned girl
away up there in that wilderness will yet
count her dollars by thousands. Of the
800 stock-women now doing business in
Colorado, all are well and favorably
known among cattle and sheep men, any
one of whom would gladly befriend them
in case of an emergency, but whom, on
the other hand, they are quite capable
of advising in many practicable matters
relating to stock-raising.”
PARAGRAPHIC POINTER*.
j Hon. J. C. < 'lenient*, our immediate
congressman, has moved to Rome.
Col. S. R. Crane,a prominent and influ
ential citizen, died ut hi' home in Athens.
Ga., last week.
It having been reported that the Con
stitution and Governor Gordon were at
outo, that gentleman denies the report.
The Wild Cat Club, of Atlanta, seems
to lie one of the fixed institutions of the
Gate City. Another innocent man as
saulted the other night.
As an agricultural item we will state
that the inhabitants of the Hooded dis
tricts of China are living on grass and
leaves, with no prosjiect of this slim diet
being bettered.
Bishop James A. Shorter, of the Afri
can Methodist church, died in Xenia, ().,
of heart disease last Friday. He had
charge of the work in this state and
South Carolina.
Albert Turner, the brutal murderer of
Jennie Bpwrnan, the Louisville servant
girl, last April, was hung last Friday.
Albert wanted to die and seemed only
concerned in having a big funeral.
Between Monday and Saturday last
week 38 mad dogs had been reported
throughout the state. The legislature
that, is now sitting in Atlanta
will note this and see the necessity
of enacting a good dog law.
A Gibner county farmer sent his supply
dealer a mortgage note the other day in
which “one like negro man'' was the
mortgaged projierty. The note was of
course returned with the information
that the note was no good on such
collateral. Another southern outrage!
Through a contest between the towns
of Richfield and Thisco, for the county
seat of Merton county, Kansas, that
county has two county seats and two
sets of county officers. The rivalry be
tween the two towns is anything but
friendly, and it is expected every day
that tire arms will be resorted to. A riot
is imminent and there seems to be no
remedy to prevent it.
The negroes of Atlanta, headed by
Elder Gaines, recently petitioned the
board of public schools not to appoint
Northern white teachers, but to give
them teachers of their own color. They
stated that they did not want, social
equality in church or school, and especi
ally they do not want Northern white
teachers. The board granted their re
quest, and hereafter none but colored
teachers will be emploped in the colored
schools.
The Chattanooga Tradesman reports
the following new industries and rail
road companies organized and projected
in Georgia during the three months end
ing June 30: Agricultural implement
works <5, brick works 11, bridge works 1,
car shops 2, compresses 6, cotton and
woolen mills 12, electric light works 4,
foundries and machine shops 4, furnaces
4, fertilizer works (J, Hour mills 1, gas
works 5, grist mills 1, ice factories 2,
lime and cement works 5, mines and
quarries 22, oil mills 5, railroads 9,
rolling mills 1, street railways 10, water
works 7, wood-working establishments
41, miscellaneous 32.
The Marietta and North Georgia Rail
road company have about completed ne
gotiations looking to the extension of
that road Irom Murphy, Noith Carolina,
to Knoxville, Tenn,
The road is now completed to Murphy.
viiU u V l, sfe?mF seventy-ffve 1 ' Holes"for
some time past the promoters of the en
terprise have been figuring with Knox
ville for this extension, and as Knoxville
seems willing to pay a handsome bonus
to secure the road, it is almost sure to
take that course.
The entire route from Marietta to
Murphy has been built with the idea of
making the road a standard gunge at
some future date. It is now definitely
stated that as soon as the road is com
pleted to Knoxville it will be made
standard guage.
Very Wsirm Weather,
From the El l’aeso (Tex.) Inter-Republics.]
It is so hot at Nogales that they say
the hens there lay hard-boiled eggs.
A farmer at Ysleta went out to look at
his pigs one of the smelting days last
week and found nothing left except three
buckets of leaf lard.
At Tombstone they have to splice two
thermometers together to get any ideu
of the heat.
San Antonio is bragging about its de
lightful weather for this time of the year
and claims that people there get then
ears frost-bitten in the evening.
The streets of Albuquerque are so hot
tgat small boys get vapor baths by
merely following the strict sprinkler.
“Before being lynched Wednesday
night,” says one of the Bell’s Dakota ex
changes, “Col. Hossdeulcr handed us $2
and requested that the Hayrake t*e con
tinued to his family for another year.
The Colonel is a gentleman and a public
spirited citizen. Our best wishes accom
pany him.”
WOMAN’S VERACITY.
It is the opinion of theologians and
lawyers and judges that as a rule women
are truthful. Hence, the public right
fully attaches great to the testimony of
a lady us to the effect of medicine.
Mrs. Mask is the wife of one of the
most prosperous and intelligent farmers
of Alcora county, Miss., Edward Mask.
After suffering two years with an ulcer
that covered her left leg from the knee
to the foot, recently she has been cured.
Read what cured him:
Gift, P. ();, Miss., Feb. IG. 1887.
Gentlemen—A year ago last fall a sore
broke out on my left leg below the knee.
It began to spread, and run until my
whole leg was covered. This continued
until last fall, when I began to take
Swift Specific. The physician told me
it would take about one dozen bottles;
but when 1 had finished two bottles my
leg was well. While I suffered 1 also
had chills regularly. These, too, disap
peared when the ulcer was healed up. I
am truly graceful for the benefit I re
ceived from S. S. S., and both myself and
husband talk up your medicine to all
our friends. Mfts. Cokdklia S. Mask.
THE FIEND DYSPEPSIA EXORCISED.
Jesup, Ga., March 13,1887.
Gentlemen —I had a sevei-e case of dys
pepsia several years ago. My blood
was improverished, and my health was
so poor that. I was greatly reduced in
weight. 1 took a course of S. S. S.,
which brought me around all right.
My apiietite improved and my digestion
became perfect. My weight increased
about forty pounds, ami to-day I am a
well and sound man, thanks to your
valuable blood purifier, S. S. S.
Yours truly, M. W. Suukencv.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free. The Swift Spec f c ('o.,
Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
Jacob Sharp, whose trial was com
menced in the early part of May, was
convicted of bribery, m N'* w
week. The jury was out onl.y thiib.cn
minutes. Sharp is seventy years old,
and has been very much depressed, with
signs of rapidly failing health, during
tfie long trial. lie will be sentenced on
the 13 th.
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TALKING OF THE DEVIL.
! * a,u lone Nay* In Nome Coinniuiiiti*.* H
Ha* Nothing to 10, a* th Church
People Tran*aet all Hi*
Bu.lnn
St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer-Pre** ]
There has not been a camp meeting, at
least iu r**cent years, at Red Rtx-k that
has had less of Incident aside from the
regular succession of services than the
present one. Perfect order has been
maintained. Sam Jones stated a few
days ago that he had never attended a
camp meeting in his life before where he
result* were as good a* at Red Rock.
MBS. SAM JONES.
A Pioneer Press reporter called at the
“parsonage, as it is called, and was
very kindly met by an exot'edinglv pleas
ant-looking lady, who introduced herself
as Airs. Sain Jones. She talktnl freely
about the kind treatment aceorded her
by the jieople, mid expressed herself as
very much pleased with the reception she
had met with. While talking a bright
eyed little baby came into the room, ami
was given a hearty kiss by her mamma.
She was just old enough to lisp her name,
“Julia Baxter Jones.” Another little
girl, also with bright eyes, of about six
summers, came and looked up into the
stranger’s face with a look of wonder
ment, as if trying to discover why he
as there. Another miss of about four
teen years, who was afterward intro
duced as Miss Annie, came into the room
and. noticing the visitor, ran hastily to
her mother, and exclaimed in a warning
tone: “Mamma, look out! That is a
reporter.” Mrs Jones joiued heartily in
the laugh which followed. The eldest
daughter, Miss Mary Jones, is confined
to her bad with sickness, but it is thought
there is nothing serious. All who have
met Mrs. Jones understand why her hus
band so often and so feelingly refers to
her in his sermons. The reporter failed
to see Mrs. Small.
THE MOKXINiJ SERMON.
Before lieginning the morning sermon
Mr. Jones asked all church mendters to
rise. Nearly everybody iu the uudienee
stood up. He then said he intended to
preach from the text. “What shall doto
be saved,” but as they nearly all pro
fessed to be saved, he would preach on
how to keep saved.
“Be not weary in well doing, for iu due
season ye shall reap if ye faint not,” was
t he text selected.
Some people believe that it is not pos
sible to fall from grace. But Paul said
straight out, “Ye are fallen from grace.”
But you say he diden’t say just that.
Well, what did he mean? That you have
fallen from a tree, or into an old well? 1
dont believe a man win work Ins way to
heaven. But I dont see how a man can
get to heaven without good
works. I don’t believe there is a
Pharisee in Minnesota. A Pharisee fasted
twice a week, and gave one tenth of nil
he had to the church. Now, if you have
a Pharisee in this section, put him at the
head of the board of stewards, you want
a good liberal fellow there. Old fellow,
dont you be afraid of being a Pharisee.
lou were never within a thousand miles
of one in your iife. There is many a fel
low who sings, “I f<*4 like going on,”
who, if he would sing right out what he
means, he would add, “on an excursion,”
so he would have a ticket back, Home of
you want to go to heaven for an ex
cursion. Now you say you came 4*4# ~V‘f
is talking foolishness. Do you know
what foolishness is? It is something
rubbed on tools. [Laughter,] Now I
wouldn’t use that expression ever agair.
Sister did you ever get along with your
old dress and give the price for anew one
for charity? You say you go to church.
So does the devil. He never misses a
meeting, he is always on hand, hoof and
horns. Another fellow thinks he gives a
good deal. But if 1 had my head above
water 1 would be ashamed to give
as little as you do. The way to keep
from sinning is to keep so busy at God's
work that you haven’t a minute a year
to give to the devil. There are commu
nities where the devil don’t have to do u
thing. He just stands around with his
hands in his pockets, and the mcmliers
run his business. A man said to his son.
“You an* a pig. Do you know what a
pig is?” “Yes, sir; it is the son of a hog.”
My, my, how many little pigs there are in
the country. 1 can tell a Christian by
the way he waitson his table. Ifhegives
the neck and back of a chicken to his
children and takes the breast himself, he
is a hbg; and a hogcant’t be a Christian.
There are lots of you here,if you should go
home to-night mid have family prayers,
your children would caucus on you and
say you were going to die, because you
were getting religious all at once,
.
* * * * Nervous Debility, in either
sex, however induced, speedily,
thorougly and permanently cured. Ad
dress, with 10 cents in stamps lor reply
and book of particulars, World's Dis
pensary Medical Association, R6O Maiu
street. Buffalo, N. Y.
Give Them a Chance!
That is to say, your lungs. Also ail
your breathing machinery. Very won
derful machinery it is. Not only the
larger air-passages, but the thousands of
little tubes and cavities leading from
them.
When these are clogged and chocked
with matter which ought not to lie there,
your lungs cannot half do their work.
And what they do they cannot do well.
Call it cold, cough, croup, pneumonia’
catarrh, consumption or any of the
family of throat and nose and bead aud
lung obstructions, all are bad. AH
ought to lie got rid of. There is just one
sure way to get rid of them. That is to
take Boschee's German Syrup, which any
druggist will sell you at 75 cents a bot
tle. Even if everything else has failed
you, you may depend upon this for
certain.
The holder of one-tenth of ticked 23,-
890, the second capital prize in the April
drawing of The Louisiana State Lottery
of $50,00o —has received Ids $5,000, and
our readers would jierhaps like to know
that Clifford J. Tweedy isa likely colored
boy, twenty-two years of age raised by
Mr. Henry T. Peay, and getting $8 i*r
month. He deposited $4,000 in the
Georgia Railroad Bank and divided a
portion of the rest amongst his poor
colored relatives. He did not forget Mr.
Peuv, to whem he gave fifty dollars.
He said that he had a ticket regularly
f>r the last fifteen months, iul it was
the fifteenth dollar that did the work.
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, April 30.
Greatly Excited.
Not a few of the citizens of Cartersville
are greatly excited over the astonishing
facts, that several of their friends who
had been pronounced by their physicians
as incurable and beyond all hope—suffer
ing with that dreadful monster Coasuinp
ion—have been completely cured by Dr.
King s New Discovery -for Consumption
the only remedy that does positively
cure all throat and lung diseases,Coughs.
Colds, Asthma and Bronchitis. Tr al
bottles at J. li Wikle & Co.’s Drug Wtore,
large bottles sl.
mc3-tf.
Coca-Cola. Try it and you will always
buy it. At Wikle’s.
Go to Wikle's drug store and get fruit
jars and put up berries, as there will be
scarcely any loaches in this section. You
can get the jars at bottom prices.