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SUBSCRIPTION. Thk ComiANT Am nine an is Pum.isnrn M KKKI.T IN THK INTKHKST OK IjAHTOW Coi ntv, Devoted Mainly to Local Xkw, and Thinks it hah a Rioiit to Fai'kct an Undivided County Patron* a ok. VOL. 1 -NO 10] . 1 ] PURELY VEGETABLE. I< acta with extraordinary efficacy on the t i ver, ki DNE yB, *l—-* and Bowels. AN EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC FOR Malaria, Bowel Complaint., DyippU, Hiek Hradache, Constipation, Uiilonsneaa. Kidney A fft’ctiona, Jaundice, Mental Dcpreaalun, Colic! BEST FAMILY MEDICINE Mo Household Should be Without It, and, by being kept ready for immediate uao. will nave many an hour of suffering anti many a dollar in time and doctors’ bills. THERE IS BUT ONE SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR Baa that you get the genuine with red 11 2" an front of Wrapper. Prepared only by J.H.ZEILIN dt CO ., Sole Proprietors, Philadelphia, Pa. THICK, 81.00. Slt*;iin yachts, luxurious luxuries that they are becoming, keep multiplying. Joseph Stiekney, of the New York Yacht club, lias just had one built, the Sus quehanna, at ii cost of $1,000,000. She is two masted, schooner linked, and measures dOO tons. By means of the trimk cabin tin* crew may work tlx* ves sel without going on deck. Stoiim Siunads. As Ibe coming of a great storm is herahled by I lie display ot cautionary signals, so is the approach of that dread and latal disease, Consumption of the Lungs, usually announced in advance by pimples, hlotehes, erruptions, nleers, glandular swellings, and kindred out ward inanifestatioiiH of the internal blood poison, which, it not promptly ex pelled from the system, attacks the deli cate tissues of tin* lungs, causing them to ulcerate and break down. Dr. I'ierce's “Holden Medical Discovery” is the great remedy for this, us for all diseases having their origin in bail blood. It improves I lie appetite ami digestion, increases iiu t ritiou and builds up I he w asted system. A novel sight was witnessed in Indian apolis, lad., Tuesday last, us a result of the high temperature of the post three weeks in that section. Home time ago a commission merchant of that city re ceived a consignment of eggs, packed in boxes, after the usual manner. The eggs were placed in storage, and Tuesday the consignin' had occasion to open the cases. When the lid was removed the low call of chicks sounded in his ears. One entire layer of eggs was found to he hatching out, mid ill a few minutes after the eggs were brought to the light fifteen well de veloped chicks picked their way through the shells. A motherly old hen was taken from a coop and placed in posses sion of the brood. A mutual under standing was soon reached, and the en tire family are doing well. Another layer of eggs began to hatch out about noon, and ul last accounts it looked as if the entire consignment w ill hatch. Fly's ('ream Halm was recommended to mi' liy my druggist as a preventive to lla.v Fever. Have been using it as di rected sinci* the 9th of August, and have foil ml it a specific for that much dreaded ami loathsome disease. For ten years or more 1 have been a great suffeivr each \ear, from August 9th till frost, and have tried many alleged remedies for its rare, but Fly's ('ream Halm is the only preventive I have ever found. Hay Fe ver sufferers ought to know of its efti eary.— F. H. AINSWORTH, Publisher, Indianapolis, lad. Several months ago Miss Fmma Xeu mun, of Hristol, Conn., had her scalp torn from her head by her hair catching in the machinery in the mill where she was employed. A physician of Hristol. says Hie Hartford Times, has Imh'ii dili gently engaged since in building up a new scalp by grafting on the head min ute bits of skin taken from the arms of various persons. Probably he has ex hausted the list of Miss Neuman's friends who were willing to contribute to her re lief, for at this time he calls for outside aid in the following published card: Vo lag |>ersons, not over thirty, who nre willing to confer a favor on Miss Fmma Neuman,.will greatly oblige her and her friends if they will allow seeds for grafting in the new scalp to l>e taken from their arm. The family and friends have furnished material, and a good scalp is being made, but the lack of suffi cient material is now the greatest obsta cle in successfully covering the entire head. The piece for grafting is pinched up and slipped otf wit hont pain or bad effect on the person. Those who will as sist tie* recovery of Miss Neuman may call on Hr. Wilson at his office at 9:30 a. m., or notify him, and arrangements will be made for the convenience of parties. Two Certain Cures of Poison Oak. (lentleiiien—Three years ago 1 was poisoned with oak vine, ▼he poison broke out on my body and face. One large bottle of S. S. S. entirely cured me. Mv ease was a jierfect test of the power of S. S. S. ns a blood purifier. A friend of mine Ims been cured of a smaller poison by S. S. S., and it was through his recommendation 1 took it. Mo here are two certain cures of poison oak by Swift’s Specific. Yours truly, Akthuh Whitk, For. Carroll and Cniversify Sts. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 28, 1887. A Capitalist’s Case. Eli Mitchell is the wealthiest man in Corinth; Miss. He has retired from ac tive business for years. His word has the greatest influence in his community, lie Inis long been a staunch advocate of S. S. S.. and here is the cause of his great faith and his friendship for the medicine: Swift’s Specific Cos., Atlanta, (in.: (ieidlemen—l hud had the rheumatism for twenty years in my arms and shoul ders, and some time ago I underwent a coui ne of S. S. S., taking a dozen or so bid t ies. It entirely cured me, and l very cheerfully give this testimonial of its virtue in my case. E. S. Mitchell. COrinth, Feb. 17, 1887. Treatise on Hlood and Skin Diseases mailed free. The Swift Specific Cos. Drawer 8, Atlan ta, tin. Our Farmers and the Lctn Asso ciations. American Recorder. To listen to the complaints ma le of the bills now before the general assembly one would Is* disposed to regard our leg islators as extremists, which they an* to a certain extent, for one extreme begets another, and there are many abuses wllieh need to'lie reilllS li<s|. The money lenders bnve. by their' greed in fleecing borrowers by commis sions, brokerage, fees, etc., brought upon themselves ii punishment in the shape of a bill to restrict their rates .of interest , and charges to a degree tlmt IbitD fair to ' drive them out of business. The bill has passed the senate, and provides that it shall be unlawful for any corporation, company, firm or individ- Uat engaged in the bi/siuesH of lending or advancing money upon mil estate, upon a deed of bargain mnfsale to secnrothi* payment of ihe same, or upon a died and I bond for title ba* k ...to the borrower, upon the payment of the sain**, ns pro vided in section ItMit Of the code of till* state, to reserve, charge or take for such loan or advance of money, any rates of interest Or other charges, such as bonus money, brokerage, commission or other compensation to tv-ents effecting such loans, for searching titles, making ab stracts an.l other seiArifti*sgreater ,#lj nil eight jM*r centum ]s*r aiiniim of the net amount advanced to and actually re ceived by the borrower, either directly hy way of interest to the lender, or indi rectly by way of bonus money, commis sion for advances, discount or exchange, or by way of brokerage, commission or other compensation to agents negotia ting such loans, or by any contract or device whatever. Alld**eds to real estate executed by the borrower to secure loans or advances of money, where 1 greater rates or charges than eight per cent per, annum are reserved, charged or taken directly or indirectly, by way of bonus money, brokerage, commission or other compensation or charges, for agents ne gotiating and effect iife such loans (whether sueli agents net in the matter, as the agent ot the lendtr or borrower or both) shall be absolutely void and of no effect, even in t he hands of innocent third parties. Many of these companies have taken advantage of the necessities of farmers to charge them as high as twenty per cent in the way of interest, commissions and attorney fees. The fact that most of these companies represent foreign cap ital, and the fear that, they will in time, by foreclosures, own a great port ion of the land upon which they have made loans, lias created a prejudice against them which has found expression in the bill before the legislature. Hut in all these ext rentes there in dan ger, and sometimes in the endeavor to correct an evil we create a greater evil. Hue'll, we fear, will be the effect of this bill. Thecompetition of these loan compan ies has already greatly reduced the evil complained of, and on a five years' loan money can now be secured, including all commissions, at a rate averaging about ten per cent, a less rate than can be gen erally secured at the banks. AYe believe that competition will st ill further reduce the rates, at least such has been the ex perience in other states. In 1878 the fa rmers of Jllinois, by a reason of a con tinuous failure of crops, were in ii meas ure bankrupt. They neeeded money to carry on their farming operations, and could offer no security but that of their lands, which were then at a very low price. The national banks w ere prohib ited by law from making loans on real estate; and the other bunks had not the necessary capital to supply the demand. Eastern loan companies came in and loaned in Obey to the farmers on their lands at ten per cent, with commissions added. These loans saved the farmers from utter ruin, but soon there was heard the cry that eastern sharks were trying to gobble up all the land, that mortgages would be foreclosed, and the loan companies would get the land for one-third of the value. When the time came for payment a majority of the far mers could not pay, but instead of being sold out their loans were renewed at seven per cent interest. These loan com panies do not want the laud, nor are they particular as to the prompt pay ment of t(ie principal, but they want the interest. They are only agents for indi viduals w ho have spare funds which they want to draw interest on. The greatest danger from the bill now before the legislature is that it will drive out from the state these loan companies and force them to wind up their business as rapidly as possible. A large number of the loans they have made are now nearly due. Many of the borrowers will be unable to make the payment when It it is due. They cannot renew the loans with these companies unde;* this bill. Can they borrow the money from the banks or of private individuals under this bill? l)o you know of any bank or individual who will loan money on real eetnte at eight per cent, and pay for the examination of land and title? If they cannot pay and cannot borrow the banks or individuals, the property is sold and the farmer eit her becomes a renter of the land he once owned or is forced to to go. Considering the many loans that have lieen made in this state, do the leg islators realize the amount of suffering that must ensue? Our merchants and bankers have lieen largely benefited by these loans of for eign capital, for it has enabled the far mers to pay their debts and "has made money easier. It lias also made the rate of interest lower on short time loans. We are making no plea for the loan companies, for they deserve none. By their greed t hey have brought the incon venience which will result from the pas sage of the bill upon their own heads, and the losses they will sustain w ill be but small in comparison to the profits they have made. This is a big country and they can easily loan their money elsewhere. I nfortunately in this case, as in many others, the blow will alight upon the heads of the wrong parties, and it is our own people who will suffer, THE OOUKANT-AMERICAN. A I><*!t Paying- Religion. Just ni this time our country needs n j religion that will make a man pay his debts. Shouting don't settle old notes and accounts with God and man—cash ; up. We want to pounce right on a fel- I low and put him out of church it he goes to a ball, or theatre, or gets drunk, but never say u word to the pious scamp who never pays Ids debts. Preachers I and people who never pay tlmir debts are doing the church more harm than 1 dance and drunkards —there are more of them in the church. Header, am 1 getting close to you? Then laydown the paper and go and pay up and then you can read on with ease. And don't you stop paying be cause the “statue of limitation " excuses the one account you made for your bread arid rneat—God's law knows no such statue. You pay ir in cosh or God will make you pay it in lire and brim stone. God knows no such excuse from paying vour debts and you can stop singing “When 1 ean lead my titles clear to mansions in the skies." —you've got none up there. You may say, “I would pay if I could.” How hard have you tried? If trying at this moment could you say, “I have done all in my power.” Have you tried to save a little each week or month for debts? Are you spending no money for things io eat and wear thatyou could not do without? How much do you spend a year for cigai-s and tobacco? Make your calculation? l’ut the'amount to your debts. Do you eat dainties and luxuries? Plainer diet would keep you from making doctor s lull that you won’t pay, and brings up l ank accounts. Do you strut about with an umbrella over your head while .vour creditor walks in the broiling sun? Don’t you cut shines in hired turnout (may lie they are not paid for) when you might walk and use the money to make your creditor smile? A plainer suit would be more becoming till you can pay for those worn out last season. When expenses not necessary for the feeding and clothing of the body are cut off and applied to the payment of debts, then you will grow in favor with God, and not till then does God excuse yob. Re pentance on this point must lie of that Godly sort llmtnredeth not be repented of. Header, were you sorry that you had not paid your debts w hen you made a profession of religion? If you were not, that is just why you have not got a debt-paying religion. True repentance has a retroactive as well as a prospec tive effect on the lift* of the believer. He w ill as far as possible make good his past wrongs. Many converts sing, “ Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe.” No such thing; .Jesus did not pay it all, neither do you owe it all to Him. If the week before you were converted you owed ten dollars and you were able to pay it, and you owe that neighbor ten dollars yet, .Jesus did not pay that for .you. If you don't pay that debt it will meet you at your judgment just as sure us you are a sinner. It is mean in you to expect Jesus to pay debts for you thatyou can pay yourself. If you have a Christian heart in you, think how much Jesus paid for you thatyou never couid have met at God's bar of inflexible jus tice. Some people think that the cleans ing stream of Jesus' blood w ashed Sinai away and deluged the law —no such tiling. Jesus came not to destroy, but to fulfill, and gave grace that we through Him might fulfill. Jesus everywhere en forces the commandments as the rule of life. At the close of our great revival at fifth street church two years ago a num ber of young men came to me to know if they ought to go and pay bills that they had made ut barrooms for whiskey, etc. I told them to “owe them anything," “let not your good be evil spoken of"— give the devil his dues. All of those young men save one or two, went and paid up those bad debts and have had no more. Those who could not see that it was their duty to pay these debts have returned to their old paths and their sec ond state is worse than the first. Then let the whole church pray for a revival of the debt-paying religion. In every revival let prayers be made that the new converts may have grace to pay up old debts and not contract new ones without good, probability of paying them. Let the ministry enforce this duty publicly and privately (with discretion) and great good can be accomplished. If the preachers would look after this mat ter of debt paying among their congre tions their own debts might be prompt ly paid—chickens come home to roost, Both preacher and people need to be more cautious, prayerful anil pay fid along this liar. The great necessity of the present time is confidence among the people. Let the church demand and command her membership to live up to their promises and contracts and soon present financial darkness will give way to a brighter morn of prosperity to all business circled. Keep the amen corners and front seats clear of members who can and won't pay then debts, (the pul pit. too,) ami the word preached will reach sinners. May Hod give increase to these words which are written for the promotion of His kingdom in the prac tical dealings with men.—Kev. D. H. Tuttle, Wilmington, X. 0. St. Louis, A gust 4. —The Post-Dis patch has a dispatch from Block Island, Long Island Sound, which states tlust I*. W. Fauutleroy, one of the attorneys of 11. M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, pre sented to-day the case of his client to .Tuetice Miller, of the I'nited States Su preme Court, who is stopping at the Ocean View Hotel there, anil obtained from him a writ of error in the ease. The effect of this order will be to bring the case of the chloformer before the Sijpreme Court for a hearing on const i tional points, and will act as a superse deas anil defer the execution of Brooks, which was set for the 26th of this month. Young or middle-aged men. suffering tram nervous debility or kindred affec tions, should address with 10 cents in stamps for large treatise. World’s I)is pejisgrv .Medical Association, Buffalo, Si- Y, CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 11. 1887. Presentments 'Which Come to Warn Mortals of Their Last Moment. Little Agnes Huckley, a policeman's, daughter, of Newburryport, hail a strong realization of her approaching death, al though the physicians had not given her up. <ln the day she dii*<l she called her mother to her bedside to make arrange-1 meats for the funeral, and announced j that she had only a minute or two longer I to live. Just then the gate clicked and she heard her father's footsteps coming up the w alk. Raising herself in bed with her remaining strength, the child cried out: “Hurry up, jiapa; lil wait a min ute for you." The agonized father heard the cry, and rushed up the stairs to the liedroom. He had barely time to take his daughter in his arms when she whis jiered “Good-bye" to him and expired. A young woman employed as a domes tic by a Denver family married a private soldier in the regular army a year before, and immediately after the wedding re turned to her service, while her husband was sent out to Fort Union, in New Mex ico. One afternoon, w hile sitting in the kitchen, she heard a tapping at the w in dow, and on looking up saw the face of her husband there. The upparation re mained for a minute, without speaking, and then slowly faded away. The young woman ran screaming into the presence of the family, related the strange appear ance to them, and then fainted. Later in the day she received a telegram from the fort announcing that her husband had died of lever the day before. At a uecent seance in Cleveland a .Mrs. Moss related how she had been fore warned of the death other husband's sis ter Maggie. The two women had been warm friends, but had not seen each other for years; but last week, while Mrs. Moss was alone in her room, her sister in-law appeared before her, and after speaking affectionately to her, kissed her and departed. .Mrs. Moss was much disturbed by the visitation and tel egraphed to learn if her sister-in-law was ill. She was not surprised to receive a letter the next morning announcing that Maggie was dead. A Nashville lady dreamed one night re cently that her old school friend, whose bridesmaid she hud been at her wedding to a Virginia planters! year before,had died suddenly, and that she was present at the funeral. The lady related the dream to her family, and refused to be convinced that ii: was a premonition of death. A week later a delayed letter reached the lady informing her that her friend had died about the same time with the occurrence of the dream. A Confederate veteran related in Amer icas, Ga., the other day, a strange coin cidence that attended the death of Capt. Wynn, a gallant Georgian, who was killed at Gettysburg. The captain had frequently boasted that the “bullet was not molded that was to lay him low," but on the day of the fight his wife was startled to see tin* oil portrait of her hus band fall with a crash to the floor from the wall on which it hung in her parlor. Singularly enough the only damage done to the picture was in the shape of a small hole which was punctured through the forehead by a chair foot which the paint ing struck in its fall. Two days later news came from the field that the cap tain had been killed by a rifle bullet, wliich had struck him squarely in the forehead. Louisa Benn, the daughter of a labor er in Wednesburg, England, made up her mind to emigrate to Australia, and gained the consent of her parents. Just before she was to sail, however, her mother dreamed that the ship which was to carry her daughter struck a rock near the Australian coast ami went down with great loss of life. She succeeded in per suading Louisa from going, but not un til the girl's baggage had been placed on board the vessel and every preparation made for her departure. The ship went down, as Mrs. Benn imagined it would, and among the lives lost were those of several girls who were to have been Lou isa's companions. The Farmer’s Alliance. The Farmer's Alliance is a movement originated in Texas in the interest of farmers, and which is spreading into other states. It is based upon the principles of co operation, which has been tried with such wonderful success in England. They will have in a few weeks eight State Alli ances, with 1,500,000 members. Dallas and Waco have each offered a #IOO,OOO bonus to the Alliance people to induce them to locate their cotton and produce exchange with them. They also agree to furnish telegrams from every trade center of the world free of charge for one season. The Alliance proposes 1o sell, through the exchange, the corn, wheat, hay and 800,000 bales of cotton this year, direct to Lowell and Liverpool; thereby getting rid of the street buyers. They expect to save #2,50 on each bale of cotton by shipping direct from coun ty railroad depot to destination. New York takes thirty-two pounds tare for bagging, ties and dirt, which they pro pose saving by putting 32 pounds on each bale, heretofore having only fifteen pounds. The Alliance is to have its ex changes in Waco, Little Rock, Vicks burg, Shreveport, and a central exchange in New Orleans. They are looking for ward to establishing a branch exchange in each of the cotton, tobacco and grain states. They will quote quality uml prices of these products eyery day in the year. The difference in their plan and the old way is to sell 1,000, 10,000 or 100,000 bales at once instead of a single bale, to be graded at the branch or State Exchange by an expert, from ac tual samples furnished. Lumber is to be handled in the same way. They expect to save millions of dollars this year to their membership, in the purchase of farm implements, wagons, buggies, ma chinery and hardware, buying in carload lots from the factory. The Alliance of Texas has bought the Marble Falls of Burnett county, which is not surpassed for waterpower in the South. On the 12th and 13th of July lots were sold, and a city is to be built there in six months with street railroads, electric jghts, telegraph and telephones, etc. There will be a cotton, woolen, paper and other factories to be envtcd there at ome. On the Ist of September, 1887, the State Alliance Agricultural College, of Marble Falls, will begin its second ses sion. They have also a publishing couir puny with capital stock of $50,000, and proposes to furnish in one more year, to tfie* membership all over the South, an eight page paper at actual cost, and stive the Texas membership $40,000 an litiaHy in school books. It will be seen from (lie above that the object of tin* Alliance is to protect the fanner from the middleman. The scheme, of course, is an exjieriment, but from what we see through our Texas ex changes. the Texas farmers have gone into it with great enthusiasm, and are confident of success. The Alliance starts oilt under most encouraging auspices and it is well backed by the farmers of Texas. Arkansas. Louisiana and neigh boring states. It declares that it has no intention of coming into conflict or antagonizing other interests. We await further development of this gigantic aud ambitious experiment with much interest. Startling Prediction. Two hundred years ago in China there was just such a craze about natural gas as we have in this country to-day. Gas wells were sunk with as much vim and vigor as the Celestials were capable of, but owing to a gas explosion that killed several millions of people and tore up and destroyed a large district of country leaving a large inland sea. known on the map as Lake Foo Chang, the boring of any more gas wells was then and there prohibited bv law. It seems according to the Chinese his tory, that many large and heavy-pres sure gas wells was struck, and in some districts wells were sunk quite near to each other. Gas was lighted as soon as soon as struck, as is done in this country It is stated that one well with its unu sual pressure, by induction or back draught, pulled down into the earth the burning gas of a small well, resulting in a dreadful explosion of a large district and destroying the inhabitants thereof. Lake Foo Chang rests on this district. The same catastrophe is imminent in this country unless the laws shall re strict further developments in boring so many wells. Should a similar explosion occur there will be sueh an upheaving as will dwarf the most terrible earthquakes ever known. The country along the gas belt from Toledo through Ohio, Indiana mil Kentucky will be ripped up to tin* depth of 1,200 to 1,500 feet and flopped over like a pancake, leaving a chasm through wliich the waters of Lake Erie will come howling down, filling the Ohio and Mississippi valleys and blotting them out forever. —Cincinnati Commer cial Advertiser. The young woman who has attained the most notoriety in the past fortnight is Miss Josie Holmes, of Cincinnati, the pretty private clerk or secretary of Vico President Harper, of the defunct Fidelity Bank. Friends and enemies agree that she is decidely the prettiest prisoner ever locked in an Ohio jail. Miss Holmes has astutely figure, a fair complexion and brilliant brown eyes. She is about 25 years old and was born in Cincinnati. Her parents were respectable, but were without means, and she was well edu cated in the public schools. Several years ago her father died and Miss Holmes became the sole support of her mother. She obtained employment as amanuensis for Dr. N. H. Wolfe, but sub sequently applied to Mr. Harper for a position and, being employed, rapidly rose in Ids favor. In addition to her beauty, she discharged her duties in a very acceptable manner and finally be came the trusted business confidant of her employer. How to Start Balky Horses. Hood authorities on the horse agree that a balky horse should never be whip ped or abused in any manner. One writer says: ‘‘lf he wont go, let him stand still and think it over. He will very often think better of it, and after a few tosses of his head go on of his ow n accord; or, if this does not answer, get out of the wagi n and pat him and talk to him kindly. Sometimes it is well to loosen a strap or start a buckle. I have known the mere act of unchecking and rechecking the animal to answer the purpose and stop a determination to re sist. For this same reason an apple or a bunch of grass from the roadside, or a handful of oats, or a few kernels of corn will often accomplish what an hour's beating could never effect. If the above does not start him pat the horse on the neck, examine him carefully, first, one side and then the other; if you get a handful of grass give it to him and speak encouragingly to him. Then jump into the wagon and give the word go, and he will generally obey. 2. Taking the horse out of the shafts and turning him around in a circle until he is giddy will generally start him, 3. Take a couple of turns of stout twine around the fore legs just below the knees, tight enough for the horse to feel it; tie in a bow knot; at the first click he w ill probably go dancing off. After go ing a short distance you can get out and remove the string to prevent injury to the tendons. 4. Take the tail of the horse between the Iliad legs and tie it by a cord to the saddle-girth. 5. Tie a string around the horse's ear close to the head; this will divert his at tention and start him. All in the family! At St. Jacobs, 111., Monday last, says an account, John Schuler and Miss Fannie Simpson were married by a magistrate. Shortly after Mrs. Schuler and Mr. Simpson, the moth er anil father of the newly wedded pair, and almost past the allotted three-score and ten, concluded to become man lind wife, and the ceremony was therefore at once performed. False Colons are sometimes offered to the public where Diamond Dyes ore called for. Do not be deceived. These adulterated and use less dye-stuffs will not answer the pur pose or do the work of Diamond Dyes. Favorites everywhere. 82 colors. 10 cents. Marriages Between Cousins. Xevi Yorfc Sun.] The inqfiiry as to the effects of such marriages on their offspring comes from a friend in Oregon: “Is not the common belief that mar riages between first cousins an* objec tionable somewhat like the belief in the effect of the moon u|iou the planting of crops, shrinking of meats, etc., merely coincidence and not caused by the moon? 1 am aware, of course, that family traits must Im* more pronounced iutheehildren. but where both sides are mentally and physically sound I can't see why such marriages should have the tendency to produce unsound children.” Though the prejudice against such mar riages has a sounder basis than mere siqM'rstition. their evil effects upon off spring seems to have lieen exaggerated, except in instances where there is a fam ily predisiiositioit to serious disease. In I*7l. when the English census was to be taken, Sir John Lubbock, Dr. Playfair anil other scientific men made an effort to have statistics obtained ns to tin* prevalence and consequences of cousin marriages, but unfortunately they were defeated by a Parliament which was silly enough to treat their proposition with scornful laughter. Afterwards Mr. George H. Darwin, a son of the great Darwin, and himself a man of much sci entific reputation, undertook an investi gation on his own account, though in a cnmpai atively narrow field, and reached the conclusion that, outlie average, such marriages did not produce the evil effects commonly attributed to them. But Signor Paolo Mautegazza, a pro fessor at Pavia, made a somewhat sim ilar inquiry in I 808, and his deductions were that “consanguineous marriages are, on the whole, more unfavorable to the offspring than others," and that “the nearer the kinship the greater is the danger." and the more so when the kinship is through Ike mother, “because more evil or good is heritable through the mother." Mr. Darwin him self acknowledges that the preponder ance of opinion among the many auth orities examined by him is that the ill effects of cousin marriages are greater than his partial investigation showed them to be. Our Oregon friend will see, therefore, that there is much difference of opinion regarding the subject about which he consults us, and that, all! lungs consider ed, it is safer to marry somebody else than your own cousin. Negro Farm Labor. The labor question comes nearer clean ing me up than anything else. 1 have, however, become convinced that the ne gro is our main dependence; we have got him, or he has got us, I don't know which. Sometimes 1 think one way and sometimes the other. At any rate, we have to stay together, and we must feed him or lie will feed himself, and I prefer finding him; it takes no less to do him, or there is less waste attached to our feeding him, for he had as soon eat a Berkshire pig worth twenty-five dollars as a scrub worth only two dollars; or your Ply month Rock chickens, or any other cheaper food. On the shares, we can't afford to give him a good mule or horse to kill, or a costly lot of tools, or seed to throw away; for if he was to make six bales of cotton and three hun dred bushels of corn, he would think he ought to live easy the rest of his life. You should feed him, and you or some one else will be certain to do it, too. Now when you take the expense off the three bales of cotton (for 150 bushels of corn-don’t go to his support; it goes for Sunday clothes and whisky), we see very plainly that it will not feed and clothe his family. I ean suggest no rem edy that will meet the ease. If the ne groes would work and quit their stealing I would be on Wall street, New York, preparing myself for Canada in less than ten years. At the present price of cot ton, to work them on shares, or rent them land and furnish them, is sure bankruptcy.—Jeff Wellborn in Southern Cultivator lor August. Asa raindrop foretells a storm, so does a pimple upon the human body in dicate health-destroying virus in the blood, which can be neutralized and ex pelled only by Dr. Harter’s Iron Tonic. No Ambushing Allowed. Dakota Kell ] A man from Chicago was in Little Muddy, Dakota, at the confluence of the Little Muddy and Missouri rivers near the Montana line, last Sunday and at tended church. When prayer was offer ed the Chicago man knelt very devoutly and was astonished to hear the minister shout: “Here, you feller with tin* coat! none o' yer gettin' down behind the pew tryin' to draw a gun on me! If you've got anything agin me jes" pull ye.* weepings while ye're up'n sight—l’m heeled an' ready fer ye! I plugged the last man that tried that game on me right through the pew an’ I ortcr serve you the same way.” A word from Peter Cooper: “In all towns where a newspaper is published every man should advertise in it. even if nothing more than a card stating his name and the business he is engaged in. It does not only pay the advertiser, but lets the people at a distance know that the town in which you reside is a prosperous community of business men. As the seed is sown, so the seed recom penses. Never pull down your sign while you exjiect to do business.” “Do you think,” she asked, dreamily, as he sat beside her at the circus, “that this is the same elephant I saw when 1 was a child?” “No,” he answered with scornful can dor, “you know elephants only live to be two hundred years old,” It won’t be this year. Dk.vb Littlk Babiks, how we all love you. What a pity some mothers of delicate constitution are un wise enough to attempt to suckle their ownVhildren, instead of using Lactated Food, which contains the same constit uents as the milk of a healthy mother. It also furnishes perfect nutrition to in valids. Henry Wilson was not hung at David son, on hist Saturday, as sentenced. The supreme court has not acted on the motion for anew trial in his case. Nate Wells' Wonderful Kel. i N’ow York CorrespomloßC* st. I.oai* Republican. "Talkingabout eels." said Nathan I*. Wells, of the Wagner Sleeping-ear enm panv, at the Lafayette hotel the other night, “the biggest ones in the worbl grow in Lake t'haniplain." He was ad dressing his conversation to Col. John Fowler, a down-town lawyer and a few years ago eliief of staff for (Jen. Shuler. The colonel had just told a story about a big eel he had seen dotrn at Norton's I’oint, on Coney Island. He said the eel was considerably over two feet long. Col. Fowler prides himself on his accura cy. Ile is accurate esptn ially as to state ments. For this reason the most out landish yarns are told in his presence by his friends to draw him into an argu ment to prove the accuracy of the prop osition. ‘How big do eels grow in Lake Cham plain?” the colonel inquired, "Oh, they grow all lengths, and the lake is full of them,” Mr. Wells replied. "What was the biggest eel you ever saw there?” the colonel asked, “Well, the biggest one 1 saw there this summer was eighty feet long, but I have heard of them, when it was a good sea son for cels, considerably over 100 feet long.” “Eighty feet long, did you say?” said the colonel in astonishment. “Yes, sir; and when 1 saw him he had his head out of water thirty feet, and some small boys were whistling to him to come ashore and get some bread crumbs.'’ “I don't believe that story,’’the colo nel said nervously. "I don't cure whether you believe it or not, It's true, and 1 can prove it if you will give me time to get the little boys down here. Pshaw, you don't know any thing eels in New York." The colonel folded his arms and looked at Wells a full minute, and then said; “Nate, I know you are u truthful man and would not tell a lie any quicker than George Washington, but you have goi to bring these little boys down here Ins fore 1 will believe it. Hut I tell you what Ido believe. It is my treat. What will you take?'' An Event in Georgia •Journa lism. AuKUsta ((in.) Chronicle.| Women in journalism in Georgia have proved quite successful. “Bonnie Lee,” the Block Creek correspondent of the Irvington Southerner-Appeal, in Wilkin son county, is an instance. She has kept the paper posted on the size of the melons, the late stories of t he snakes, the death of the neighbors and the advent of the babes. This week she drops the reportoriul pen with this quaint valedic tory: “Hark! What is it? It is those wedding bells 1 hear again. Ah! they are nearer than when I hist wrote you. Soon the bell will tell a tale. Oh, in.v heart beats high. Some one will be wed ded then. I think it will ue I.” Later reports are as affecting. At the residence of the bride's father, in Irving ton, Miss Annie Holland (“Bonnie Lee") and Mr. Thomas F. Avant have b<*en united in marriage. The Southerner- Appeal fears that by the nuptials it lias lost a valued contributor to its columns. While wishing for the newly married cou ple “usmooth voyage and safe and time ly anchorage in the haven of eternal felicity,” it pleads with its fair corre spondent in this way: “While ‘Bonnie’ inis changed her name, But not’her 'nom de plume,’ We hope she will not forsake uh, But greet uh with another article soon.” EA RTHQUAK E S HOC KS. A Wide Stretch of Country in the West A fleeted by It. CniCAtio, August 2.—Dispatches from Jacksonville, Centralia and Jonesboro, Illinois, this morning indicates that the early earthquake shocks noted at Nash ville, Tenn., St. Louis and Evansville, Ind., were general throughout central and southern Illinois. At Jacksonville tin* vibration seemed to be from east to west, but at Jonesboro from northwest to south. A rumblingnoise was heard and the shocks were of sufficient force to cause picture frames to fall from the walls. The time was 12:40 a. in. Cairo. August 2.—A severe shock of earthquake at 12:JO this morning lasted thirty seconds. It stojiped many clocks and frightened the populace. No dam age is reported. St. Louis, August 2. —A slight earth quake shock was felt here at 12 o’clock this morning. It woke up the occupants of houses, but no damage is reported. The movement was from north to south, and tin* vibration lasted from five to eight seconds. Evansvii. i,k, August 2.— At 12:‘1<> this morning a slight earthquake shock was felt here, three tremors following each other. Here’s a lively Kentucky item for you : “In a fight at Manchester, Clay county, Ky., growing out of a dispute over a negro “floater,” A. J. Hoeker was killed and Dale Little fatally wounded. 1). W. White was badly hurt. ADVICK TO MOTHERS. Mils. Win show's Sooth im; Syrup, for children teething, is the prescription of one of the best female nurses and pli.vsi eians in the United States, and has been 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 rests the mother. Price 25c. a bottle. The prohibition sentiment is growing throughout the country, and we doubt not if an election was held and the county was properly worked up, Chero kee would join the army of 114 counties against the accursed drink. An election will be held in this county at no distant day we predict.-—Canton Advance. Auk Mauuikd Pkopkk Happy? Do sou think married people are ha|e py, Uncle Jake? “Dat ur pends alto gedder how dev enjoy demselves; if dey hab chilluns an keep Dr. Diggers’ Hueklo berrv Cordial, dey are certain to be, for hit will cure de bowel troubles and de chillun teething." Home is looking for a population of 25,000 by 1800. AI)EVIITLSEAI ENTS. , Tme Courant-Amehican is the only Papeh Pubmsiikd in one ok the Bk?t Counties in Nqktii Georgia. ItsC'ir fcri.ATlON IS SECOND TO NONE OK ITsCI-AS.-. Reasonable Rates on Arruc.vr ion. S 1.50 Per Annum.—sc. a Copy. Hound for “Hum.” f 1 lie old-style covered emigrant wag ons, with a single horse attached to each, and a pony that pranced lx>t ween the tk\o like a sergeant major on dress parade, moved along Fourth street yes terday until it reached the corner of Fine, when the procession came to a halt. A man of 45. with his wifr and two cliulby-faeed youngsters, occupied No. 1, while the 1-l-yoar-old son of his father had charge of wagon No. The pony, as soon as the halt was made, tried to stand on its hind legs, but it was called to a sense of proper city divoruui by a stentorian "Yawn, there, Billy?" file two little kids in wagon No. 1 poked their heads through the awning on the port side wheu-a li lobe-1 Vuiocra I repor ter asked the old man whither he had come and whither lp* was bound. “We're bound ter hum,” ivplh*d the traveler. “We've just come from Ash land. Kan., and we're goin' plum back t. Washington county, II!., whar we b'long. Ain't Kansas a niss> place to live? Mebbc it air for some folks, but ne ain't no hogs, ami we know when we've got enough. Lots of the neighbors from Illinois kep' up a goin' out to Kansas, ami my wife and the kids wouldn't give me no peace 'till I went 'long too. Waal, we’ve bin tlinr; ain't we Beckey?’ “Bight yevy be, John, replied his wife, with a smile that would have made a Chicago divorce lawyer ashamed of himself. “How far out is Ashland?” asked the reporter. "Nigh on to <OO miles, boss," replied the traveler. "And how long have you been in that wagon?" " I'll!•*>© weeks visterday; and we'll be ter hum by Saturday night, and when we git thar, as 1 said before, we'll stay thar. We ain’t seen no place half like it th hull wav out here. As for mo, I wouldn't take th' hull State of Kansas for a gift, t! long thar, Jim, and stir up yer jints." And then the procession resumed its march for “hum," via the big bridge. A Good Appetite Ik essential good health; but at this sea son it is often lost, owing to the poverty or impurity of the blood, derangement of the digestive organs, and the weaken ing ellect of the chuiigingHCUHon. Hood's Sarsaparilla is a wonderful medieinc for creating an appetite, toning Hie diges tion, and giving strength to the whole system. Now is the time to take it. Be sure to got Hood’s Sarsaparilla. • -♦-! The Augusta Chronicle says: Govern or Gordon is not and will not Im* a can didate for the nominal ion for Vice Presi dent. If he lives, he is certain to In* elected to the Senate to till the next vacancy. The South does nut want the \ ice Presidency, and it will, in all proba bility, be given to Indiana if she desires it. Get rid ol that tired ft*eling as quick as possible.. Take Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which gives strength, a good appetite, and health. The Atlanta Journal rightly says: One intelligent, courteous, property owning negro does more to advance the reputation and status of his race than all the insidious schemes and blatant ag itators lor social equality who have dis turbed the country for a divade. Advice to Mothers. Dr. Riggers’ Huckleberry Cordial should always be used for children teeth ing. It soothes the child, soflm* the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for the bowels. Try it. At Marietta recently,a unique wedding occurred at the African Methodist church. Tin* contracting parties were Martha Stark, aged 70, and Neusom Williams, ngpd 92. both as black as the traditional afro of spades. Bad Bowels. • The very expression implies suffering Every mother knows the anxiety over this sickness, but every mother does not know that Dr. Bigger*' Huckleberry Cor dial will regulate and cure all bowel troubles. The Best of All. Of all the medicines I ever heard of or used, ! consider J)r. Bigger*' Huckleberry Cordial the best medicine for ail bowel trouble and children teething ever us**d. A. J. Stine, Oxford, N. C. NOTHIN' TO 8A Y Nothin’ to say, my daughter! Nothin' at all to aa.vf — Girls that'd in love, I’ve noticed, yin,Tally has their way! Yer mother did afore you, wlien her folks ob jected to me— Yit here [ am. find here von air! and yer mother —where is she? You looks like your mother; pur tv much snmp in size; And about the same eompieeted: and favor about the eyes. I,ike tier, too, about livin' here, because she couldn't stay: It'll 'most seem like von was dead like her; hut I hain't not nothin’ to say! She left you her little Bible—writ your narr.v across the page— And left her ear-bobs fer you, ef ever you came of age. I’ve alius kep"ein and guarded ’em, but ef yer • groin’ away— Nothin’ to say. my daughter! Nothin’ at all to say! f You don't rikollect her, I reckon? No: you wasn't a year old then! And now yer—how old are you? Why, child, not “twenty?” When? And yer nex’ birthday in Aprile? ami you want to get married that day? * * * 1 wisht yer mother was livin'!—but—l hain’t got nothin’ to say! Twenty year! ond as good a gyrl as parent ever found! There’s a straw ketrhed onto yer dress there— I’ll brush it off—turn round. (Her mother was jest twenty when us two run away!) Nothin’to say, my daughter! Nothin'at all to say! [.lames Whitcomb Uiley in the Century. THROUGH THE STORM. I heard a voice, a tender voice, soft failing Through the storm; The waves were high, the bitter winds were call ing, Yet breathing warm. Of skies serene, of sunny uplauds lying In peace beyond. This tender voice, unto my mother replying. Made answer fond. Sometimes, indeed, like crash of armies meeting. Arose the gale; But over all that sweet, voice kept repeating, “I shall not fail." Noba Febby.