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SUBSCRIPTION. 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- AOK Mn HA Cl CARTKHHVIM.K UoCTKANT, Established IH* ' CONBOMD VTED 1887. . I NU 3 J UAtOKKSVIf.I.K AMKKICAN. Regulator | 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 J. H. ZHILIN fc CO., Philadelphia, Pa. 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. REAL ESTATE lloughl and sold on commission. Desirable Town, Uouulay ami Miaeral Property for sale. Mil.l D. W. K. peacock:, REAL ESTATE, €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. * * * 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. # 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. ♦ • ■ -- 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. - > - 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. AD VERTISKMKkTS. The Courant-Ambrican ig Tiiid omi t Paper Published in one of the Best Counties in North Georcia. Its Cir culation IS SECOND TO NONE OK ITS CLASS Reasonable Rates on Attlicat ion. 51.50 Per Annum.—sc. a Copy. 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.