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Official Orp of Bartow County.
TUntXDA V, AUGUST IH, I*B7.
Atlanta in enf ertuining the National
Farmers Convention, this week.
Judge Samuel Mall, of the Supreme
court of Georgia, lice critically ill, at
Ahlvilla, X. C.
The State Agricultural Society met in
Canton lout week. lion. W. .1. Northern
huh elected to succeed President Living
ton.
l>t'l Veal, who ehot ami killed C. 1).
Horn at the Kimball House, has nearly
movered and will be ready for trial
this week.
Judging from the tenor of the press
throughout the State, the sentiment
favoring the sale of the Western &
Atlantic railroad, is growing.
It is to be hoped that occasion and
circumstances, w ill never again rise that
will call forth a rejietition of the bitter
ind jieminal debates that were listened
ro in the legislature last week.
Robert Homier hua advertised hiinnelf into a
fort line s2,7so,ooo.—Exchange.
And yet there are thousands of business
men unwilling to profit by his example—
are contented to sit in obscurity, lazily
awaiting the moment they are to enter
the poorhouse.
Atlanta, besides jiossessing many
good features, hasachief of police that
f lic may well fell proud of. Chief Con
nully is now gathering the jiictures of
vulgarity that are sold with the Duke
Company’s cigarrettes, preparatory to
making a case against that company.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Lngineers of the Cnited States, met in
Atlanta, this week. A nobler, nor more
heroic body of men never assembled in
the (late City, and we are glad to notice
1 hat she treated these noble men in the
royal manner they so richly deserve.
There is something in the labor of the
locomotive engineer that is so self sac
rilicing and heroic, that it commands ad
miration and esteem.
Knoxville votes half a million dol
lars to help the Marietta and North
Georgia road on to its gates. The way
to Georgia’s capital is blocked to that
rich and fruitful line of revenue, by the
action of Georgia’s legislature. Knox
ville will reap the profit other liberal
sagacity, and we fear Atlanta will suffer
14. the transfer to Tennessee of rich pro
ducts which would otherwise come sweep
ing through her gates. Will the legisla
ture jierjietnate this foolish financial
quarantine for the protection of the
State road?—Atlanta .Journal.
The legislature has not the time, es
teemed contemporary, to discuss mat
ters of so small importance as the de
velopment of our section. Any invita
tion to engage in a free and easy tight,
Ihe details of which would disgrace
oven th(‘ pages of the Police Gazette,
will receive prompt and satisfactory at
tention. Trot out your sluggers and
pull the door bell of the Georgia legisla
ture, if you want to be heard.
Righteous Indignation.
About the maddest set of jieople in
tills country is those of Montgomery,
Ala., and well may they be. Pojiular
indignation against an article in the
Herald, a weekly paper edited by a col
ored man named Jesse Dukes, reached a
climax Monday. The article come out
Saturday and is as follows:
“Every day or ho we read of the lynching of
some negro for outraging Home white woman.
Why in it that white women attract negro men
now more than in former days? There was a
time when such a tiling was unheard of. There
is a secret to this tiling, and we greatly suspect
it Is the growing appreciations of white Juliet
for colored Romeo as tie becomes more and more
intelligent and retlned, if something is not done
to break up these lynchings it will be so utter a
while that they will lynch every colored mnu that
looks at a white woman with a twinkle in his
eye.”
A large public meet ing Monday adopted
resolutions denouncing him and warning
him to keep away from Montgomery nt
tin* jieril of his life. Duke’s paper has
been bitterly jiartisan and has more
than once contained articles to which
whites seriously objected. He was mail
agent until Cleveland came in.
The New York Journal ot Commerce
does not have faith in George’s ideas of
“betterment” for trifling men. It says:
“The only way to better man’s condi
tion is to improve the individual. No
one is a slave to his surroundings; for
t here is none who cannot, if he will, rise
superior to his circumstances. Or if we
admit that he is helpless, and that with
out outside lifting he must forever lie iu
abject despondency, it is still true that
the elevation by external forces can only
come through the culture of the man's
own nature. Take the ignorant, the
besotted, or the brutish, dwelling in inde
scribable squalor, and wash him, and
adorn him with neat attire, and put him
in a commodious dwelling, and furnish
him with a comfortable larder, and tell
him henceforth to keep himself whole
some, and to live so as to deserve the
respect of the decent and orderly in so
eiety, and his betterments will not last
as long as the clean clothes from the
week's washing. The man must be
ehanged before his habits will improve,
and no outside scrubbing will nffeet his
character.”
Thk.uk is every indications of a largo
fall trade. business of every kind will
enjoy a great boom. Notwithstanding
the revere drought of the northwest, the
m ops of 1887, throughout the country
will I*‘ immense, and the general products
of the country's industries will be abso
lutely unexampled in the aggregate vol
ume. There have been ripples on the
surface of finances, by heavy reckless
gambling operations of simulators, but
they have never touched the business of
the country. It is a source of cumfortto
know, that no time within the last fifty
years, have the people been as generally
solvent and prosperous; the farmers
have never been so wisely economical in
their purchases; the crops have never
been finer, nor made for such a mini
mum cost; added to this, the farmers
entered upon the year in twenty
jive per cent better condition than for
any, perhaps, since the war. Indeed,
every branch of business and industry
is healthy and prosperous. The people
were never better able or equipped for
making liberal purchases. Them things
must make a great faff trade.
The Sale of the State Road.
We regret to note an increasing dispo
sltion upon the part of the legislature to
sell the state road.
We regard this as an act of bad fait h to
the jieople and a virtual violation, of in
structions. While making the contest
for nomination. Gov. Gordon rejieated
l.v declared, both in letters and from the
stump, his uncompromising opposition
to any sale. In nearly all the counties
of the state the candidates for election
to the legislature were required to define
their position upon this subject, and we
doubt if there are a dozen members in
the house of representatives who are not
pledged against the sale, and who were
not elected iqon the implied understand
ing that they would vote against any
bill providing for a sale. We therefore
insist that good faith to the people re
quires that the present legislature should
submit this whole question to the ]>eople
for settlement. Let the great arguments
pro and con be submitted directly to the
voters on the hustings. Let the people
in their choice of the members who com
pose the next legislature say whether or
not their will, so clearly and unmistaka
bly pronounced in the selection of the
present legislature, has altered. We do
not believe that Mr. Dean’s bill reflects
the will of a majority of his constituents.
We know the present sense of the voters
of Bartow county is overwhelmingly
against the sale.
Again: It is bad policy to attempt to
make a sale until the rights of the state
and lessees in regard to betterments are
clearly settled. Will the purchasers of
the road obtain it iu its present condi
tion, or in the condition it was when the
lessees took charge? How many engines
will the purchasers get title to? and bow
many ears? and what conflicts will arise
between the purchasers and the lessees?
Every man who thinks must at once per
ceive that the rights of all parties can
not be determined until these questions
are adjusted. And is it not equally clear
that the existence of these conflicting
claims will depress the sale and the prop
erty? Indeed the concurrence of the les
sees’ claims and the effort, to sell the road
is almost sufficient to justify the suspi
cion that there exists somewhere along
the line a community of interest.
It seems to us that the duty of the
legislature is plain. Let it, by appro
priate legislation, settle this question at
once: Shall the state, by proper adjust
ment with the lessees, provide for the
maintenance of her road in its present
splendid condition to the end of the
lease, or is she content to receive it back
in the condition it was when it was
leased? This question disposed of, then
let the other question of sale or a re
lease be submitted to the whole people.
When the question as to the attitude of
the state towards the lessees is settled,
the jieople will know whether they will
have for sale a splendid road, magnifi
cently equijiped, or the ramshackling
concern of 1870; and this exactly
known, they, as intelligent sellers or les
sors, (as the case may be,) will know
what price to expect from intelligent
purchasers or lessees.
Natural Gas in Chattanooga.
About the wildest town within the
scojie of our knowledge, is our large
and propressive sister up the railroad.
If the two papers of Chattanooga, the
Times and the Commercial, are to be
taken as evidence, the town is very wild.
For several weeks boring has been going
on at the Logan well, near the suck, ten
miles from town. Ojierations ceased
very suddenly a week or so ago, and the
report given out by those in charge that
the machinery was broken and some
time would be taken to replace the
broken parts.
Last Monday week the Commercial, a
very live pajier, which takes "a fiend
ish delight in “scoojiing” its neighbor, the
Times, sniffed a sensation from afar,
and the following morning the columns
of the paper were filled with gas. It pro
claimed that natural gas had been struck
in paying quantities at the Logan well,
and gave considerable proof that the as
sertion was true. The town went wild on
gas. Gas, gas, gas, of all qualities,
was at every turn. The Times, usually
very alive, woke up Tuesday morning,
the victim of a cruel “scape. The
Times, however, has been diligent in se
curing positive facts in relation to the
new discovery and proclaimed that gas
had not been found in paying qualities,
and tlins a war of words was immediate
ly inaugurated between the two papers.
The Times told the truth so far as fu
ture investigations show.
Monday morning the boring was re
newed. Large excursion parties went
down and watched the boring. During
the afternoon a match was applied to
the well, when a flame eight fret high
shot forth, though gradually dying
away. That gas in any amount is in
the immediate neighborhood there seems
to be no doubt whatever.
The drilling at the well is being con
tinued, and the indications are better at
every turn of the drill. The company
owning the Logan well are satisfied that
there is plenty of natural gas in the
neighborhood, and will proceed to bore
in six other jdaces.
The finding of gas will amount to a
great deal to Chattanooga as well as the
surrounding country. It will revolu
tionize manufacturing interests and will
start that town on a boom that will
heap up a population of 100,000 in less
than two years. The average Clmita
noogan can well afford to become wild
for the time being. Immense gas mains
can lie laid from Chattanooga to adja*
cent towns, and us Atlanta, through the
Constitution, has sjioken fin* one of these
mains, it is safe to say that Cartersville,
lying in the intermediate territory will
be allowed to tap the main, and thus be
| come a direct beneficiary of Chattanoo
ga’s wonderful gas.
It is hoped that gas will be found in
Chattanooga in such quantity as to ad
mit of supjilying her neighbors some.
It is stated within the last year, that
George I. Kenny, has made additions to
his collection of paintings to the volume
of |250,000. lie lias also, fully rapoyered
his fortune and :is no longer financially
cm harassed. This will be pleasing news
to the people of Georgia, whose institiir
tions of learning are enjoying the bene
fits of his muniticient gifts.
People who Tkavel.
Change of climate or w afer very often
affect tie bowels seriously. If on the
first symptoms of a disturbance you
wobld take l)r. Higgers’ Huckleberry
Cordial much suffering might be saved.
: Etowah—A Romance of the Southern
Confederacy.
We have before us the ad vance pages
j of a novel, with the above title, by Mr.
Francis Fontaine. Tlie author, having
at one time been an esteemed and hon
| oral citizen of Bartow county, is known
lo most of our jieojile as a scholarly and
accomplished gentleman.
The purpose of the work, is to give a
| correct picture of life in the south, as it
was under the regime of slavery. The
author endeavors to faithfully show
what the south was, and is. the charac
teristic life and customs of the people,
* both white and black, both slave and
free,’’ a book written to give a true
history of that remarkable struggle,
“with malice to none and charity to all."
The jiages before us show this to have
been entertaingly and skillfully done.
The proceeds of the sale of the book are
to be devoted to the founding of a veter
ans home in Atlanta. The cause, out
side of the merits of the book, should aji
peal to all.
By the Way.
Atlanta Journal.]
Some South Carolinians, who moved
into Georgia in the fifties and settled in
Cass county, at old Cassville, were very
much astonished at some of the Georgia
ways, and especially the ways of the
judges and lawyers.
In South Carolina they had been accus
tomed to see judges always wear gowns
on the bench; every lawer was required to
wrap his form in a black cloth Prince
Albert coat. It was the custom also for
the sheriff, wearing a uniform, and a
sword, to escort the judge from his room
to the bench with great dignity. The
bailiffs, with the long Jacob stalls, were
required to jireserve order in keeping
with the great dignity of the court.
To these South Carolinians it was an
odd sight to see Judge A. R. Wright,
then an attorney at Cartersville, sitting*
in the court house window with his coat
off, while the other lawyers wore such
apparel as suited their varied tastes and
jiocket books, and the presiding judge
sat upon the bench without a gown.
They soon discovered, however, that
Georgia lawyers were not lacking in abil
ity, eloquence or wit. The traditions of
the profession have preserved fragments
of many a great sjieeeh, many a burst of
eloquence and innumerable sallies of wit.
From the humor of those days, homely,
quaint or exquisite, but ceaselessly flow
ing, has arisen a hazy enchantment that,
from the distence of time, smoothes the
rugged outlines of stormy scenes and
paints every picture anew in lines of
beauty.
It was the father of Judge Underwood
who took such a prejudice against
Marietta, and frequently remarked that
if Providence should so will he would
like to die in that town, as he could
leave it with less regret than any place
he knew. Strange to say, Providence so
willed. The Judge was called to Marietta
on business; he was suddenly taken ill,
and died the next day.
.1 udge \V. F. Wright, who died several
months ago, presided in the circuit of
which Coweta formed a jiart. In the
Coweta served a bailiff named Parrot,
who was a favorite of Judge Wright, and
a kinsman of Judge Parrot, who pre
sided in the circuit of which old Cass
county was a part.
Oil one occasion the two judges ex
changed circuits for a week or so, and
Judge Parrot came down to Newnan,
He was much annoyed one morning by
talking* and disorder iu the court, and
looked about for the bailiffs who he did
not know and could not see.
“Mr. Sheriff, I can’t recognize your
officers; provide Jacob stall’s for these
bailiffs.’’
Tlu* sheriff soon had the Jacob staffs
and offered them to the bailiffs. Bailiff
Parrot refused to take the one offered
him, saying that lie “wouldn’t have the
d —n thing,”
Presently the Judge said:
“Mr. Sheriff I see one of your bailiffs
without a Jacob staff; how is that?”
“I gave him one, sir, and In* refused to
take it, and said lie wouldn’t have the
d —ll thing.”
“Bring the bailiff before the court.”
Parrot was brought in and looked like
he didn’t care whether school kept or
not.
“Did you say that, sir?”
“Yes, I did, and l meant it; I didn’t
have any use for the stick.”
He was sent to jail for several days and
then sent word that he would carry the
staff, which he did afterwards with great
dignity.
Judge* Pant learned of the occurance
and determined to get even with Judge
Wright. The next morning lie said, in a
very solemn tone:
“This court on ordinary occasions, is
a kind-hearted and merciful court, but
tins morning it is a revengeful court.
Judge Parrot has jmt my favorite bailiff
in jail, and I think I will have to put the
sheriff of this court iu jail.”
This almost took the sheriffs breath
away, as he did not understand Judge
Wright's way. He soon learned that
“this court was not such a revengeful
court” as lie first thought.
Feeding lladies.
with arrowroot, cracker pap, and sim
ilar indigestible foods as we are glad to
say nearly a thing of the past. Lac
tatod Food should be the only substi
tute used for mother's milk. It is iden
tical in effect, and gives health and
strength to every infant that uses it.
- ♦ ♦ ——
The article in The Press of June 15,
“No full crop without a full stand,"
should be read and pondered by every
farmer. There have been years when
the loss on fully half the farms in my
country has been 50 percent , of the en
tire corn crop from poor seed alone. As
we grow an average of more than 50,-
000 acres of corn in this country and
our average per acre is usually forty
bushels per acre, a little calculation will
show that a reduction of the crop one
half on these farms would mean a loss
of about one-half million bushels. The
corn crop of Ohio first reached 100,000,-
000,000 bushelsin 1872 and has already
dropped below since, reaching from
5 000,000 to 15,000 bushels in excess of
this figure most years. My own expe
rience for ten years past leads me to be
lieve that all this loss from poor seed is
fhe result of culpable carelessness, and
that gathering seed corn early, thorough
ly curing it by lire heat will insure a per
fect stand in ninety-nine cases out of one
hundred. |t is never safe to neglect this,
as intense cold in fhe early part of the
winter, while there is still moisture in
the cob, will always impair and often
destroy the vitality of the seed. If you
want seed that will not only grow but
grow strong endure after planting cold
ruins and even snow and frost there is
but one way to have If and that is early
gathering and fire-curing of the seed, A
bushel of seed plants from six to eight
acres of corn, and I have often seen
years when one bushel of seed of full
vitality, would have been cheap at fifty
dollars to half the farmers of my neigh
borhood. The best way to keep seed
corn, I have found to be to put it on
racks near the pipe above a stove that
is in constant use through the fall and
winter so that it will feel the heat every
day. I have put up my seed in this way
fur many years and have done no re
panting in this time. Some may con
sider it an qiujpasojiable time to be writ
ing about seed corn, but { like to give a
whack at the stupid neglect sq comnjoq
ji this line whenever 1 can, and 1 sug>
g‘st the plan of sending out missiona
ries with paint pot and brush to orna
ment tin* fences with the sentence, “Save
your seed corn in October.”—Waldo F.
llrown, Phil. Press.
I mean what I say, if you doubt it call
and you will be convinced. Glenn Jones*
NOT FIRED BY HYENAS.
The Theory of Incendarisui at the Bridge
Exploded.
Chicago, Aug. 14.—The Times' special
from Champagne. 111., says: “J. O.
Baker, President of the Illinois Society of
Engineers and professor of civil engineer
ing in the University of Illinois,returned
last night from a careful personal ex
amination of the engineering jiroblems
of the Chatsworth disaster, and an ex
amination of the condition of the other
bridges and culverts, and the protection
of fire given those culverts, by the road
officials and track hands.
IXCKXDAIUSM IMPROBABLE.
He favored the Times correspondent
with the following: “The incendiary
theory has no foundation whatever. I
am unable, jiersonally, to find any cit
izen of Chatsworth who have seen sus
picious characters loitering about as re
quired by the theory. The flames of the
burning culvert were plainly seen from
Chatsworth at intervals for several
hours before the accidcirf. From the lay
of the land they must have risen five or
six feet above the track to have been
seen so far.
AN ATTEMPT TO PROTECT THEM.
“It is plain that an attempt has been
made to protect the bridges of the road
from fire, but jiersonal insjiection of
other culverts m that vicinity shows
that it was not done so as to afford
complete jirotection. Personal inspect
ion along the line of the road for several
miles shows that the grass and weeds are
not all burned off, but many patches
were left unburned, and in the immediate
vicinity it was more carelessly done than
elsewhere.
SUFFICIENTLY STRONG.
“The culvert itself was of the usual
build, and had abundant strength to
carry the train but for the fire which had
destroyed the lower portion.”
He added that he thought is probable
that the fire left by the section men late
in the afternoon, who by their testimony
admitted that there was burning grass
only forty rods away, was driven down
to the culvert when they left by a slight
change of wind. Otherwise it is possible
that sparks from the special train of the
superintendant of bridges, the last train
before the fated excursion, kindled in the
grass near the culvert and burned slowly
for a long time and finally fired the
culvert.
An Important Element
Of the success of Hood’s Sarsaparilla
is the fact that every purchaser receives
a fair equivalent for his money. The
familiar headline “100 Doses (inn Dol
lar,-' stolen by imitators, is original
with and true only of Hood’s Sarsaparil
la. This can easily be proven by any
one who desires to test the matter. For
real economy, buy only Hood's Sarsa
jiarilla. Sold by all Druggists.
Bob Burtlett’s Advice.
My son, when you hear a man growl
ing and scolding because Moody gets
S2OO a week for preaching Christianity,
you will perceive that lie never worries a
bit because Ingersoll gets S2OO a night
for preaching atheism. You will ob
serve that the man who is unutterably
shocked because F. Murphy gets SBSO a
week for temperance work, seems to
think it all right when the barkeeper
takes in twice as much money in a single
day. The laborer is worthy of his hire,
my boy, and he is just as worthy of it in
the pulpit as he is on the stump.
Is the man who is honestly trying to
save your soul worth less than the man
who is only trying his level best to go to
congress? Isn't Moody doing as good
as Ingersoll? Isn’t John B. Gough as
much the friend of humanity as the bar
tender? Do you want to get all the
good of the world for nothing, so that
you may be able to pay a high juice for
the bad?
Remember, my boy, the good things
in the world are the cheapest. Spring
water costs less than corn whisky; a box
of cigars will buy two or three bibles; a
gallon of obi brandy costs more than a
barrel of flour; a “full hand” ot poker
often costs a man more in twenty min
utes than his entire church subscription
amounts to in three years; a state elec
tion costs more than a revival of reli
gion: you can sleeji in church every Sun
day for nothing, if you are mean enough
to deadbeat your lodgings, but a nap in
a Pullman car costs you $2 every time;
fifty cents for the circus and a penny for
the little one to put in the missionary
box; one dollar for the theatre and a
jiair of trousers frayed at the end, baggy
at the knees and utterly bursted as to
the dome, for the jioor; the dancing lady
gets $00(5 a week and the city mission
ary gets SOOO a year; the horse race
scoojis in about $2,000 the first day,
and the church fair lasts a week, works
twenty-five or thirty of the best women
in America nearly to death, and comes
out forty dollars in debt.
Why, my boy, if you ever find yourself
sneering or scoffing, because once in
awhile you hear of a preacher getting a
living, or even a luxurious salary, or a
temperance worker making money, go
out in the dark and feel ashamed of
yourself, and if you don't feel above
kicking a mean man kick yourself. Pre
cious little does religion and charity cost
the old boy, and when the money it does
give is flung into his face like a bone to
a dog, the donor is not benefitted by the
gift and the receiver is not and certainly
should not feel grateful.
Get rid of that tired feeling as quick as
possible. Take Hood’s Sarsaparilla,
which gives strength, a good appetite
and health.
A National Bank-Teller in Luck.
Mr. F. V. AVasserman, receiving tel
ler of the United States National Bank
of Omaha city, who held one-tenth
ticket No. 52,749, which drew the first
cajiital prize of sßoo,ooo in theLouisana
State Lottery's drawing on the 14th lilt.,
continues at his old jiost counting the
gold and silver. “Yes,” said he, "I re
ceived the money through the express
office, and it made a package about two
feet long, but SBOO,OOO was too nig a
sum to be kejit in the dark.—Omaha
(Neb.) Bee, J uly 8.
Origin of q, Famous Song.
Once over thp bar at its entrance from
the Gulf the Swanoe river holds its way
with a deep current, in places of forty
feet, far up through the forrests of the
best hard pine in fhe State. It is the
Penobscot of Florida, If has some good
kind upon it where plantations have
heretofore been made, but after aw hile
generally abandoned. The mosquitoes
and malaria guard in the main entrance
against other than lumbermen, anglers
and intrusive tourists. This dark river
has, too, its romance, as being the place
which gives rise to a melody which, like
“Home, Sweet Home.” the olfaction of
the heart will never let go. For it was
here trat a French family in the time of
Louis XIV. came over and settled on
the Swunee and made a plantation.
After awhile the father and mother and
all died save one daughter w ho, disheart
ened and desolate, returned to France,
and there wrote, adopting in part that
negro dialect which sin* had been farinil
i.ir with on the plantation in her girl
hood, a feeling tribute to, “The old folks
at home” in their graves in the far-off
county.—Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
POSTEUITV \'S. AnCKSTRV.
It is po longer questioned, it is admit
ted, that the blood of man is improving.
The children of to-day are better formed j
have better muscle and richer mil ds
than our ancestors. The cause of this
fact is dure more to the general use of
Dr. Harter's Iron Tonic than any other
source.
CONCERNING WOOLFOLK.
Atlanta Constitution of yesterday.]
Macon, Ga., August 16. —Today ti Mr.
Davis came from Hazard's district and
reported some facts concerning the A\ ool
folk tragedy that caused a sensation.
llis report is that Ilev. Mr. (’ox. a young
Baptist preacher who serves Midway
church, was to have spent the Friday
night with Captain AVoolfolk. On ac
eonnt of various delays lie never reached
the place till about midnight ora little
later.
Another young man was with him,
and as they drove up, a man driving a
gray horse came away from W oolfolk s
and whistled as though for a preconcer
ted signal with some one else.
The minister and his friend drove on
to another place and spent the night.
Had they stopped there the tragedy
might never have occurred.
A man driving a gray horse was also
seen, according to the report, by a ten
year-old girl the daughter of a promi
nent planter, during the same evening,
in tlie woods in the Woolfolk neighbor
hood. Few people have believed there
was an accomplice, but developments
are awaited with anxiety. It is said the
man with the gray horse disappeared
that night and has not been seen nor
heard of since.
HE CUUSES HIS LAWVEI!.
Mr. Frank Walker, Woolfolk’s lawyer,
will leave Atlanta for Macon soon to
work up testimony for his client.
Walker and Woolfolk had a little spat
at the jail. Woolfolk wanted to
know what Walker meant by telling
that he is crazy, and also said. I’ve got
more sense than you have, right now.
“Well,” replied Walker, “1 believe
that you are crazy.”
“I say that Lam not. 1 had rather die
and go to hell than to be sent to the
lunatic asylum.”
Walker changed the subject and AA ool
folk was soon conversing quite pleas
antly with him.
Woolfolk afterwards said that AA alker
was doing what he thought was best for
him.
Governor Gordon lias received two
urgent petitions signed by great numbers
of prominent citizens of Hnzzard, War
rior and Howard districts, Bibb county,
asking that a special term of the Bibb
Superior court be called as early as
practicable for the purpose of putting
Tiios. G. Woolfolk on trial for murder.
The Governor has replied to these pe
titions to the effect that the law gives
him no power or authority in the prem
ises, and that the case is altogether and
absolutely in the controll of the courts.
Frank 11. Walker, of Atlanta, attor
ney of Tom Woolfolk, the Bibb county
murderer, is out in an interview in which lie
claims that he will be able to clear his client
on grounds of insanity. He says lie has
several plans procedure to show that
W oolfolk is insane. If he fails in one of
them he will resort to the others. Mr.
Walker claims that Woolfolk gives the
names of several residents of Bibb county
who are implicated in the killing. His
statement neither admits his guilt or de
nies it. His whole statement is regarded
as very thin and transparent.
Already there are beginning to appear
some very strong indications that a pled
of insanity will be set up for Tom W ool
folk, the murderer of his father and fam
ily. One of his sisters has given it as
her opinion that he is crazy; but his
wife, who ought to know him pretty
well, says that he is not crazy, but mean.
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Mr. T. I>. Meador of the firm of
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les.
Bishop Gai.i.oway, in a recent address,
referred to the letters of Hon. Jefferson
Davis, in the prohibition election in
Texas, as follows:
“I have only one regret about the
memorable contest in Texas, not so
much that the amendment was defeated,
for that is only temporary, but that the
great name of the most distinguished
Mississippian should have been used in
favor of the open saloon and against
moral reform. Though thoroughly na
tional in my convictions, I am glad
there is a star on the flag of our repub
lic that answers to the name of Missis
sippi.
‘T have revered the genius and admir
ed the history of Hon. Jefferson Davis.
It has been a source of gratification that
the chief of the Lost Cause lives within
the commonwealth that honored him
long and trusted him implicitly, and
where the balmy breezes of our const
may fan his aged brow and the waves of
the Southern Gulf bathe his weary feet.
While neither forgetting nor apologizing
for his part in the late conflict, that
severed for a season the two great sec
tions of our reunited country, I recall
with pride his splendid services to the
nation from the day he led his brave
battalions on the plains of Beuna Vista
to his regretful retirement from a seat in
the I'nited States Senate; and since the
ever-to-be-lamented war between the
states. I have admired his quiet re
ticence, his beautiful resignation, his
manly dignity and his sublime con
sciousness of unstained honor and ui ?
corrupted integrity. But that his pen
should have been betrayed into writing
q line against the reform of the age
gives me pain, and l the more regret it
because a great statesman, familiar with
profound constitutional problems, should
have repeated the platitudes on personal
liberty which have been exploded by the
leading law writers of America and for
ever settled by the decisions of the Su
preme court of the I'nited States. I did
hope that his stormy life would have a
peaceful close; that his sun would go
down without a fleck of cloud in the sky;
but tliai unfortunate utterance will ob
scure the radiance of his eventide and
leave a shadow upon his memory. How
sad that the last words of a soldier, sage
and Christians should become the shib
boleth of the saloons.”
The most successful tonic of the ago—
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commended by twenty thousand emi
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vous affections, dyspepsia, sick head
ache, etc. Is pleasant to take, and will
prave itself beyond price. Sold at
Wikle’s Drug Store.
A Physician From lowa.
Dr. 11. Monk, Nevana, lowa, state,-:
Have been practicing medicine for fifte en
years, and of all the medicines 1 have
ever seen for the bowels Dr. Diggers’
Huckleberry Cordial is by lar the best.
President Cleveland's invitation to
Pittsburg is to be on a stevl plate, which
is to be rolled until it is only three
thousandths of an inch in thickness and
can be rolled together in tin* form of a
scroll. To roll a piece of steel so thin re
quires an enormous amount of work and
the greatest uo.ro and skill, Should there
bo the slightest defect in the rolls the
plate would be wavy and spoiled. On
the plate will be engraved the invitation
with the names of the presidents of the
different committees attached, the coat
of-arms of the I'nited States, of the
cities of Pittsburg and Allegheny, and
the new court house.
Iron Ore in Good Condition.
Lon# Branch Correspondent Philadelphia Press.]
Among those who went up to the city
on the morning express was Abraham
S. Patterson, who is interested in some
of the big iron and steel companies of
Pennsylvania. I asked him what he
thought of the scheme of the Lake Supe
rior syndicate for placing Bessemer ores
in Pennsylvania furnaces, and lie told
me that it would be a very good scheme
ifif worked. “TheseLakeSuperior men.
lie added, “have never been able to com
pete with foreign ores in prices. Why
we can get a shipload from the other
side, pay the tariff and railroad it to
our furnaces cheaper than it can be
hauled from Lake Superior to the same
place. Fntil rates can be fixed so that
they can get below the cost for foreign
ore there is not much use for them in our
State. The Pennsylvania Steel Compa
ny and the Bethlehem Iron Company
are experimenting in the matter of sav
ing railroad hauling by building two
twenty-ton furnaces down on the Chesa
peake, below Baltimore. These com
panies have a joint interest in some
mines in Cuba, and the ores have been
landed at Philadelphia and railroaded
thence to Harrisburg and Bethlehem.
These Cuban ores can now be landed
from the ships right at the furnaces, and
there will be quite a difference in the ex
penses of transportation.
“The iron market is in pretty good
shape now,’ ’continued Mr. Patterson.
“It is recovering from the depression of
the last two or three months. We are
getting a good deal of foreign ore, as
pecialiy of Bessemer. lam a protection
ist, of course, but I am getting tired of
this never ending cry against the tariff,
and I am jierfectly willing to let the free
traders take off’ the duties and let my
furnaces remain idle a couple of years.
By that time their ideas would have
changed, and tariff duties would be
slapped up higher than they over were.
“The Democrats will be beaten out of
their boots in the next presidental elec
tion if the Carlisle Morrison crowd are
leading. There is one Democratic State
they will be sure to lose —Virginia.
Everybody down there is for protection
now. The recent opening up of their
mineral lands has had a great effect, and
even the farmers are strong tariff advo
cates. I have made several business
trips through the State, and know the
temper of the people.”
The Bluegilvss Country.
John 1L Jones, Tuttle, K.v., writes:
I have been selling medicine for seven
teen years, 1 pronounce Dr. Diggers’
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sold. It gives joy to every mother.
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“J want to put this book into the
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Mrs. C. B. Lemuels,
Allegheny, Pa.
An old negro at Weldon, N. C., at a
recent lecture, said: “When I see a man
going home with a gallon of whiskey
and a half pound of meat, dats temper
ance lecture enough for me, and I sees
it eberyday. 1 know that every thing in
his home is on the same scale —gallon of
misery to ebery half pound of comfort.
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The following efficient preachers and workers have been invited and are expect
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given: Rev. HUGH JOHNSTONE, Toronto, Canada; Revs. J. B. HAWTHORN, H.
C. MORRISON and J. AY. LEE, Atlanta, Ga.; Rev. A. J. JARRELL, LaGrnnge, Ga.;
Rev. T. R. KENDALL and Rev. Dr. GEOTCHELS, Rome, Ga. Rev. SAM JONES
will preach once each day.
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Prof. Hudson, of Ohio,
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The Knights of Labor number some s.ix
hundred thousand —they haveliadonroll
the names of over a million workingmen.
Grand Master Workmen Powderlv, tit
the head of the organization, has had an
excellent opportunity of studying those
things which affect their welfare, lie dis
courses on the liquor saloon in thefollow -
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1 have seen it in every city east of t lie
Mississippi river, and I know that the
most, damning curse to the laborer is
that which gurgles from the neck of a
bottle. I had rather be at the head of
an organization having 12,000 tem
perate, honest, earnest men, than at the
head of an organization of 12,000,000
drinkers, whether moderate or any other
kind. Every dime spent in the rnm
shop furnishes a paving stone for hell.
In one Pennsylvania county, in a single
year.fl 7,000,000 was spent for liquor,
and it was estimated that $11,000,000
of the amount came from the working
men.
The Rev. Geo. H. Thayer, of Bourbon,
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A negro is now lying in jail at Somer
set, K.v., awaiting requisition to be
brought to Georgia and be tried for the
crime of ravishing Miss Kendrick, in
Chattooga county, for which crime
Henry Pope has been sentenced to be
hung. Mr. Nelson Haggard, ot Walker
county, has been on the track of this
negro for some time, and finally came up
with him at the above named place,
where he was arrested and put in jail.
A day or two after the deed was done he
went home and told his wife that he hail
committed the crime and left. Since he
has been arrested he has confessed being
the one wanted.
Bishop Beckwith, of Georgia is spoken
of as the black bass catcher in this
country. He is a member of the faJTious
Pelee Cub of which John Maginnis, Jr., of
Wall street, is President, and comes
north every spring and fali to engage in
his favorite pastime. Gen. Phil Sheriden,
Judge Gresham and Robert Lincoln are
also members .of the dub and expert
with the rod. The Pelee Club does not
permit its members to fish on Sunday.
Atlanta! What of Atlanta? Why,
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Coca, is manufactured there. It is pre
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Two Arkansans engaged in conversa
tion :
“Say, Uncle Billy, you live in er pretty
tough neighborhood, don't yer?”
“Putty tough, Sam; putty tight on
ther slack.”
“Do yer ever get in lights?”
“No fights.”
“Whut do you do w hen er feller calls
yer a liar?”
“Wa’ll, I think that mebbe he knows
more erbout it than I do, and jest let the
thing rock along.”
“Yes, and spozen he calls yer er thief?”
“Wa’ll 1 jes think that mebbe lie’s bet
ter posted than I am.”
“Spozen he calls you a coward?”
“I wouldn't argv with him.”
“Wall spozen he'd say that yer
couldn't tell ther age uv er boss by look
in’ in h is mouth?”
“Whatl me not know the age uver
boss! W'y, Sam, ef er feller wuz ter say
that, he'd have me ter w hup, right there.
Don’t talk ter me, Sam, don't talk to me
for it makes me mad ter think about it.
—Tama Herald.
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An interesting letter from Mr. John \V.
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