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SUBSCRIPTION. Tiif. Cor rant Amkukan is Pcrmmif.d AN KEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF BARTOW Coi nty, Devoted Maim.v to Local News, and Thinks it has a Right to Kxi*KCT ax UndividedCoe v ty Patron age, • VOL. 7 -N0.12] St! ™ *■ DRUGS! DRUGS! J. L WIKLE £ CO., (SUCCESSORS TO D. W. CURRY.) I Live now in store the bf*t selected, mct complete ami vai ie l atockof Drugs, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty, Perfumes, Etc. IN NORTH GEORGIA. < ome to see n, examin*- foo Is and g-et p'ieei, l*liy.-ician* Pie enption? fii'wl with the greatexf rait Jay ;n<l Ditfht by a Uceun> I pfc .ram in'. AO-lLllSra? STA-ISTIDA-'R/H) OIL COMPLT’Y Okas. A. Wiklo, Manager, CHEAP GROCERIES, CRAIN - , HAT, Etc,, GO TO C. T. JONES’ AT THE “RED CORNER.” deliver goods to any part of the city. I would be grateful for your patronage. McCanless’ Baling Press The cut represents the Hand Power. Can be operated by three hands. Turns out W w BTO 10 BALEo PER HOUR. 11l sizi of hales 18x21 by 86 inches. Weight 91 \ of bales from 100 to 150 pounds. If J 1 PRICE OITI/T SSO. If || I McCanless & Cos., Tried and recommended by J. H. Oil reath.J. W. Gray, W. O. Barber and others ’ u "**" i —:GO TO:- RICHARD L. JONES FOB, Fresh Groceries, An 1 everything gard for the table. FUESII EGGS and CHICKENS, .lElt'E\ IB Til'.H, • REAM CIIKHsK. \ EGE TAULES, GARDEN SEEDS, TENNESSEE SAUSAGES hit ESI! M EAL iu addition u my am aly c mjleesto.’k of FAMILY GROCERIES and GENEItAT. MER if-' A N DISK, I have rented a storage housj jnsr above m s where I k >ep a w lys on h ind a gooil supply <T Hay, Corn, Oats, Cotton Seed, Bran and Meal, I ha* I can furni h y uat tho 1.0 WEST FIG PROS. I deliver gaod-i to any part of the city free o! phage, Soli -is mx sour patronage and promi ing to treat you well, lain jours truly, RICHARD X.. JONES. jy West Main Street, Ourtersville, Gn. Peacock & Veal, I2ST Fl l Id N I T tJRET (NORTH GEOHGIA FURNITURE HOUSE.) THE CHEAPEST AS WELL AS THE FINEST Parlor and Bed Room Suits in this section. a — WE STILL CLAIM TO SELL BETTER GOODS OK LESS MONEY Than Anyothcr House in this Section. As space forbids mentioning everything, we will only enumerate a few. We hav in stock and to arrive FINKST PARLOR FURNITURE. SUBSTANTIAL BKDROOM FURNITURE, ROCKING C’HAIRS, WARDKOIIES, BABY C A Bit I ABES at any Price, MATTINGS, BUGS,CARPETS,Etc. LADIES, SEE OUR WyV L L PAPER, of which we have the latest and most unique design. We Guarantee Prices and Goods. Respectfully, PEACOCK <&. VEAL, CARTERSVILLE, GA. THE HOWARD BANK, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. Dona Geneial banking business. Deposits received, subject to cheek. Exchange bought and mid. Collccli-ti s made in a'l p trts of the United States. Discounts desirable paper. All accom m datii ns consisient w ith s iieiy extended to its customers. JOHN T. NORRIS, Real Estate and Fire Insurance, (UPSTAIRS.) First Door South, of Howard’s Bank. lihlOty THE COUEANT-AMERICAN. [regulator] PURELY VEGETABLE. It acts with extraordinary efficacy on tha JIVER, k, dneys> I—* and Bowels. AM EFFECTUAL SffF.CIFIC FOR Malaria, Dowel Complaints, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Constipation, Biliousness, Kidney Affections, Jaundice, Mental Depression, Colic! BESTFAMILY MEDICINE No Household Should be Without It, and, by being kept ready for immediate use, will save many an hour of suffering and many a dollar in time and doctors’ bills. THERE IS BUT ONE SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR See that you get the genuine with red “ Z” on front of Wrapper. Prepared only by J.H.ZEiLIN 6b CO., Sole Proprietors, Philadelphia. P. VKICL, SI.OO. l£lSlfe% CAPITAL PRIZE, $150,000 “We do hereby certify that we snpervine the iiit.-inarenieiitx for nil the Monthly and Seni-An niiiil Drawing of The Louisiana State Lottery • 'oitiimny, and in person manage and control the iirawinsr* themselves, and that the name are conducted with hone-t.v, fairnees, and in good faith toward all parties, and vve authorize the Company to use this certificate, with fac-sitniles of our Bignatureattached.ln its advertisements.” Commissioners. 4Vo the undersigned lianks and Hankers will pay all Prizes drawn in The Louisiana State Lotteries which may be presented at our coun ters. J. H. OGLESBY, Pros. Louisana Nat. Bk P. LANAUX, Pres, State Nat’l Bank. A. BALDWIN, Pres. N. O Nat’l Bk CARL KOHN, Pres. Union Nat. Bank. UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION! Over Half a Million Distributed. Louisiana Stale Lottery Company. Incorporated iu 1868 for 25 years by the Legis lature for Educational and Charitable purposes —with a capital of *1,000,000 —to which a reserve fund of over $550,000 has since been added. Ily an overwhelming popular vote its franchise was made a part of the present State Constitu tion adopted December 2d, A. D,, 187<>. The only Lottery ever voted on and endorsed by the people of any State. It never scales or postpones. Its Grand Single Number Drawings take place monthly, and the Semi- Annual Drawings regularly every six months (June and December). A SPL LNDID O PPO RT U N I T Y TO WIN A FORTUNE. NINTH GRAND Dll WVINU. CLASS I. IN THE ACADEMY OF MCsic. new ORLEANS, TUESDAY. Septem ber 13, 1887—208th Monthly Drawing. Capital Prize $150,000. ,fJF“Noticc. —Tickets are Ten Dollars only. Halves, $5. Fifths, $2. Tenths, sl. LIST OF PRIZES. 1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF $150,000 $150,000 1 GRAND PRIZE OF 50,000 50,000 1 GRAND PRIZE OF 20,000 20,000 2 LARGE PRIZES OF 10,000 20,000 4 LARGE PRIZES OF 5,000 20,000 20 PRIZES OF 1,000 20,000 r,O “ 500 25.000 100 “ ROD 30,000 200 “ 200 40,000 600 “ 100 50,000 APPROXIMATION PRIZES. 100 Approximation Prizes of S3OO $30,000 too “ “ 200 20,000 too ■* “ 100 10,000 1 ,IMM| “ “ 50 50,000 2,170 Prizes, amounting to $535,000 Application for rates 1o clubs should he made only to l lie ollico of the Company in New Or leans. For further information write clearly, giving fail address. POSTAL NOTES, Express Money Orders, or New York Exchange in ordina ry letter. Currency by Express (at our expense) addressed •M. A . DAUPHIN. New Oilcans, La., or XI. A. DAUPHIN, Washington, D. C. Address Registered Letters to NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK, New Orleans, La. REMEMBER SSW'SkKS Ilea mega,l'd and Early’ who are iu charge of the drawings, is a guarantee of absolute fairness and integrity, that the chances are all equal, and that no one can possibly divine what num ber will daaw a Prize. KKAI G.M UP K that the payment of all Prizes is Gl A KANTKKD ISY FOtllt NA’iIOKAL ItANKS of New Orleans, and the Tickets are signed by the President of an Institution, whose chartered rights are recognized in the highest Courts; therefore, beware of any imitations or anonymous schemes. Notice This As You Pass By. I. YIM WEST MAIN STREET, CARTERSVILLE, GEO., ——ls Prepared to Manufacture* Carriagies, Buggies | Wagons, And do all kinds of Repairing in Wood and Iron, Making new pieces when neeesaary. He is also prepared to do all kinds of RLACKSMi THING. None but the best workmen employed who can make anything that is made or wood or iron. All work WARRANTED TO GIVE SATISFAC-. q’l ON. Terms reasonable, Work done promptly Give him a trie,) and be convinced, E w. :k. peacock, REAL ESTATE, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. MINERALS A SPECIALTY. Real Estate bought and sold. Information heerfuliy given. CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST, *25, ISS7. GEORGIA CONVICTS. LIFE IN TIIE STOCK VI>ES AT SENATOR BROWN’S DADE COUNTY' COAL MINES. The Over-Time Checks—Convict Capitalists—Sunday Trading: —The Captain and His Strap—No .Jags, Etc. S|>ecial Correspondence Globe-Democrat.] Cole City, Ga., August 14. —The genius of Joe Brown is seen ,in a hundred ways at the Dade county convict cauip. The plant is just what might lie expected of the old gentleman who walks slowly down the middle aisle of the United States Senate Chamber, places oa the desk a neatly tied bundle of pajiers, parts his long black coat tails, seats himself and folds his hands. There is a delibera tion and method in every movement. Nobody ever heard the* senator utter a loud word or saw him make a hasty movement. The cam]) is jn<t like him. Nobody hurries. A lew hundred yards away “iu the forest primeval one would never dream that he was on the out skirts of a camp of 100!) people, for there is no bustle or confusion. Even the little engines which zigzag* their way along the mountain side between the coke ovens in the valley and the coal mines on the plateau 1000 feet above have a gentle toot. Subdued sounds are as character istic of the place as of the senator’s speech. Even the hounds which are used to track the runaways ha ve caught the infection of the place, and the official who has them in charge complains that he cannot teach them to “mouthe" enough when thev are on trail. CONVICT i. a non SAVING. But iet no one imagine that quietude means lethargy. The convict camp turns out 14,000 bushels of coal a day, with development kept so far ahead that the product can be suddenly increased upon demand. Each of the 2HO coke ovens have a capacity of 100 bushels or more every forty-eight hours. The senator is a methodical man. Al though the labor is forced and cheap, yet methods for economizing muscle abound. Tramways run to all parts of the mine, and mules draw the trains of cars front where the coal is dug to the slope which leads up to the surface. A cable draws the cars up the slope, and and the contents go down a chute into the cars of thenarrow-guage road. Down this road the cars are trundled a mile and a half to the foot of the mountain, where the coal passes through other chfltes, either to be loaded upon cars of the various roads over which the product is shipped, or to be placed in bins and drawn out for the ovens. From the bins a tramway leads over aud among tiie coke ovens, and a fearless mule hauls the coal in a great iron box to the very mouth of the fiery furnace, Only once does manual labor lift the coal, and that is to shovel it into the car where it is mined The coke requires but two hand lings—one when it is raked oubout of the furnace, the other when it is shoveled into the car for shipment. The system is us perfect as can be devised to save time aud labor. Method and economy are twins; joint ly they beget profit. The senator figures as closely as any yankee. Perhaps that accounts for the fact that the man agement of the business is in the hands of a man from Maine. Convict labor is cheap, but that is not considered any reason why it should be wasted at the Dade coal mines. . THE STOCKADES. Indeed nothing is wasted here. The stockades are home-made affairs through out, strong and plain. Rough board fences 15 feet high inclose a yard. At the corners of the high fence are little stations for the night guards. Near the center of the yard is the cell house, as it is sometimes called, although that is rather a misnomer, for there are no cells at the Dade county camp. The house is upon posts from two to three feet above the ground with the under portion open. The floor is of heavy planks, or logs they might almost be called. The sides aud ends are of planks and the top like wise substantial. The interior is one large room, without a single partition. Through the center from end to end is a, wide passage, and on either side is a row of double bedsteads built of lumber and standing low like the old-fashioned trun dle bed. Two convicts lie upon each of these bedsteads with their heads to the side of the building and their feet toward the passage through the center. Along the ends of the bedsteads on each side of the passage lies a heavy chain resting on the floor, and reaching the length of the building. When the convicts are put away in their beds a shackle is attached to one leg of each man, and from the shackle a short chain reaches down to and connects with the long chain extend ing the length of the building. hours of Rest. There are three of these stockades, one at the coke ovens at the foot of the mountain and two at the coal mines on fop. The one at the ovens houses about 140 convicts at night. The others take care of 150 each. The first impression on entering these great dormitories, and hearing chains clank every time a rest less convict turns over, is not pleasant. But then comes the consideration that the absence of partitions means better ventilation than could possibly be had with tho cells. A long the center passage stands a row of huge stoves, which are filled to the throat during the winter, for the mercury often goes below zero on the mountain, and the thought suggests itself that incase of fire these convicts could pick up their big chain aud walk out, while if confined in wooden cells the chances of escape would be small. Extra good conduct relieves a eonvict from the troublesome chain at night, but those who secure this mark of favor are not very numerous. In the yards stand great wooden troughs, and these are the bath tubs. Pipes bring water from the springs in abundance, and a good wash is enforced at the close of the day's work. The men who work at the coke ovens perspire pro fusely in this kind of weather. In the mines the temperature stands about 60° the year round, but there is more or less dripping water. Oven men and miners are alike provided with a change of cloth ing, so that they may put on dry gar ments at the close of the day. THE OVER-TIME CHECK. The theory of the employment of these convicts is piece work. So far as possi ble the men are given daily tasks, and when these are done they are allowed to stop or are paid for over-time. The management sets up no particular claim to hunmuitarianism for this theory, but claims that sound business principle dic tates it, or, in other words, that it pays. The convicts are not judged by one meas ure, but are classed, One man's task for the day may be the mining of two car-loads, while that of another may be seven cars. This is a matter that is de cided by the ability of the convict and the judgment of the superintendent. The cars hold sixteen bushels each, and the tasks lie between the two extremes given. When a convict has completed his task, he keeps on mining and is credited at the rate of 10c a cur for all he gets out over his task. Every month tin* compa ny settles with the convict by giving him a check, reading like this, fur example : JlL\ 1, 1887 Convict Labor: l>ade Coal Cos. Coal City, Ga : : Rlt'ii.i" pay Ed Jaekoou one dollar and forty ; : cents for extra work. [■Signed] Thomas H. Evans, Amount due, $1.40 This is the currency of the convicts. With these checks they carry on quite a business among themselvss. The speci men given is one ot the smaller cheeks taken out of a cigar box full, which Mr. \\ iugtield, of the commissary depart ment. was entering upon his bosks at the time of the visit. CONVICT CCRRENCY. The average for July overwork was considerably larger than this. Some of I the men had turned in checks to the ! amount of $7 aud *lO. The bits ot pu ! per were wrinkled and dirty from being carried in pockets. They had been pre sented ami traded out at the company's stores, and now they were to be entered upon the books. These checks are as good us so much money for canned goo Is, tobacco, lemons, sugar, aud for a hundred other little tilings which may brighten the life of a coal mine convict. “And how many of your convicts take ad vantage of the privilege of working over-time for pay,’’ Mr. VVingfield was asked. "I should say that seven-eighths would not be too high an estimate,” was the reply. The incentive to labor is not limited to the mines. The coke oven men have their tasks. To “draw” five ovens is .considered a good day's work. Drawing consists in pulling out the coke with tongs and rake. There are probably more than one hundred of the convicts employed upon work of such a kind that tasks cannot well be set, and in these cases Mr. Evans exercises judgment as to the payments. Every convict who does well gets something, and those who excell on “dead work," as it is called, are rewarded correspondingly. CONVICT TRADE. Some of the convicts save their over time money. Two of the men, Harry .Johnson and (Jus Broughton, have three hundred dollars each to their credit, but the saving convict is the exception. Most of the checks go to the store with in a month after they areearued. Then* are born traders even m the zebra suits. \> hen Sunday comes the convicts have the run of the yards within the stock ade, and then the mercantile in stinct asserts itself. Refreshment stands are set up by convict merchants lor con vict custom, and a lively exchange of checks takes place. Mr. Wingfield had before him the order of Ike Shipman, one of these convict merchants, for a stock of goods, and the bill called for the fol lowing: 1 barrel of eider $2 50 Salmon $1 00 1 sack of peanuts 5 50 Oysters 00 2 sacks of flour I 80 Ribbonsoap 40 ■Sugar l oo Sardines 20 2 boxes of cigars 2 50 Soda 5 Tobacco 1 50 Total $22 05 A STOCKADE STOCK. Another one of these merchants had ordered for his convict custom the fol lowing: Peanuts $2 oo Cigars $2 50 Coffee 3 00 Flour 1 SO Oysters 1 00 Soap 50 8 -gar 2 00 Sugar (ill Sardines 4 00 Oysters 1 00 Sal nion 2 00 Total S2O 40 The cash, in the form of the over-time checks, accompanied each older, and in dorsed on one of the bills was “Fill care tally. ’ There is no foolishness about this convict trade. It is as sharp as the real tiling* outside the stockade. Mr. Wingfield says that the goods are put to the convicts on these orders at the prices which rule in other stores for cash trade. Tho system of payment for extra work was inaugurated by the com pany voluntarily, and has operated well. It.keeps the men in good heart, increases the product, and is profitable to the company, aside from aliy sentimental consideration. CAM l* CODES. The camp codes are notable for their brevity. One set of rules is for the gov ernment of the convicts, and the other for the government of the overseers and guards. If anything, the latter set is the strongest. There are six rules for the convicts. The first makes it “the duty of all convicts to attend divine worship whenever the regularly author ized chaplains are in attendance” The second announces that “gambling and all chance games are forbidden.” The third rule requires the convicts to take reasonable care of their clothing, bed ding and eating utensils. The fourth in sists on cleanly habits about the build ings. The fifth rule is deserving of a entire place, It is as follows: It is the duty of all convicts, when they have just cause, to make complaints as to food, clothing, bedding, treatment, etc. Such complaints shall be made to t he superintendent of the convict depart ment. The sixth and last of the convict rules provides that “all violations of the above rules shall be punished according to the nature of the offense.” This last is rather indefinite, but it may be supplemented by the explana tion that there is but one judge of the offense and one form of punishment. All infractions of the rules are reported to ( ’apt. Reese, and lie decides upon the pen alty, which is the number of blows to be administered by the strap. The only de parture from this rule is at the coke ovens, where (’apt. Kilpatrick is given authority to administer discipline for small offenses, but when anything ag gravated occurs at the ovens Capt. Reese is called in. THE STRAIN The instrument of torture is a curious looking affair; nothing like it is seen in the north. If is devised with a special view to smarting like thunder for the time being, without inflicting lasting in jury. To a flat, wooden handle of six or eight inches in length is attached firmly a wide thick strap. The leather is prob ably twice the length of the handle. The width enables the leather to cover con siderable space of cuticle and the mate rial is pliant enough to convey the sting without cutting into the flesh much. The wooden handle gives the punisher a good grip and enables him to bring down the leather with great effect. There is a swishing* sound as the strap cuts the air, followed quickly by a resounding slap as the leather measures its full length and width on the fleshiest part, and then there is an agonizing howl. It hurts awfully, but it is the one form of whip ping from which a man can go back to work without feeling any serious incon venience, except from lacerated feelings. The strap doesn’t lame, but tho memory of it haunts. Capt. Reese has had occa sion to use it but once this month, lie says. Last month eight cases required his attention. The camp has no solita ry cell. Tying up by the thumbs is never resorted so. The shower bath is un known, but when a convict has misbe haved the captain takes him right out in the woodshed as a father would his sou, and lays on the strap where it will do the most good and the least harm. The offense which brings the strap most frequently into use is fighting. Ungov erned tempers, which brought many of these convicts to the camp iu the first place, will still get them into trouble. THE CAPTAIN. This man whose word is law in ques tions of treatment and discipline of the convicts is W. O. Reese. His relation with the Georgia jiemtentiarv system go back over twenty years. Perhaps that kind of a life accounts to some extent for the watchful fixedness of look which the dark, deep-seteyes possess. To tin* whole camp Mr. Reese is “the captain.” He is a man of a very few words, aud tiis way of showing a visitor through the camp is to go from point to point on one of his own trips of iusjxtttion and let the stranger follow and ask questions. The fact is soon discovered tlmt “the cap tain" has a good deal more humor and kindliness of nature than apjieurs on the surface. The.convicts don't shun him. Tin* aged African who is always wanting * i leetle flour, sail,”gets in the way with his petition aud is told to go to the com missary. A Jim ('row darkey receives a playful punch from the captain's cane and jumps and rubs the spot with a “Yah, yah," and a gleam of ivory as tin* captain grimly asks, “What's the mat ter, Joe?" Stopping near a convict whose clothes {iu* reeking and whose shining black face is a war map ot per spiration streaks, the captain asks seri ously, “What makes you sweat so. Jim?" and“. Jim" enters into an explana tion of his philosophy, tin* substance of which is: “A man mus' eat, an' ef he eat he mils' wuk, and when he wuk he have ter sweat, Cap'll, for sure, seek hot weather.” LAWS Of THE (‘AMI*. Ten rules are find down for the govern ment of the employes, the overseers and guards. Several of them relate in a technical way to the performance ot duty, aud are not of special interest to the public. The second, third and fourth rules, as they bear upon the relations with the convicts and upon the habits of the officers of the cam]), are worthy of notice. Rule second prohibits guards from having conversation with convicts, except ou matters pertaining to work, ami further says that “overseers and guards are not allowed to trade or traffic with the convicts.” Rule third says “Overseers and guards are not allowed to abuse convicts either by words or blows.” The fourth rule enforces the forms of strict morality, for which Senator Brown's own life has been noted, and which have won him the title among ad mirers of “The Christian Statesman of Georgia.” This rule is as follows: The use of intoxicating drinks on the works by overseers and guards is strictly forbidden. Overseers and guards are re quired to refrain from gambling and the use of profane language. They are not allowed to invite friends and acquaintan ces to their quarters; and the congrega tion of loafers around the camps on the Sabbath is strictly forbidden. This is no dead letter. It is lived up to, and Cole City is, so far as the observa tion of this visit goes, the model moral town of Georgia. Prohibition prohib its here. There are no jugs, or if there are any, the owners do not parade their evasion of the law I’UECEIT AND EXAMPLE. Probably the Senator’s own moral life has something to do with the regard of his subordinate for this rule. The Semi tor’s habits have been absteminous. It is said that of late years, since his health began to fail, he has been induced to take a little “good red liquor” for his stomach’s sake. Of this there is some doubt. It is only known that Wadly, the railroad man, once played the St. Paul to the Senator’s Timothy without the result being stated. \Yad leigh and the Senator were guests on a certain occasion, and late in the feast the former observed that the latter’s glasses were turned upside down. “Governor,” said he. Everybody in Georgia calls the Senator “Governor, for it was in that position he especially endeared himself to the people. “Gover nor,” said Wadly, holding up his glass, “if you would drink some of this stuff’ you would have better health and live longer. The Governor replied with his usual deliberation: “Mr. Wadly, I do not know but you are right. A friend has sent me a bottle of fine old Scotch whis key, and l have been thinking of taking a little three times a day withmy meals." “A bottlel” shouted Wadly. “Throw it away, Governor, and get a barrel.” W. B. S. A Department of Railroad Stat istics. The Inter-State Commerce Commis sion has established a department of statistics to collect facts for its guid ance in administering the law. Speak ing of this sensible step, Brad street's says: “Such a department can be of decided use to the Commission both by collecting and arranging the general statistics of traffic movement for the Commission, and by devising a clear, intelligible and uniform system to be followed by the railways in making reports to the Commission. It almost goes without saying that railway prob lems demand for their thorough compre hension and intelligent solution the con stant and never failing assistance of re liable statistics. This is true of a great many questions under modern condi tions, but it is especially true of the railroad question. It is of importance, too, that those statistics should be col lated by some agency ’representing no particular interest on one side or the other of the question, but responsible only to public authority sis represented in the Commission. As regards the re ports which the Commission is author ized to require from the railroad compa nies, it will be readily seen how impor tant it is that they should be uniform so as to admit of ready comparison, and so framed as to convey information in stead of clouding up or concealing facts by book-keeping processes.” Over-Worked Women. For “worn-out,” debilitated school teachers, milliners, seamstresses, house keepers, and over-worked women gener ally, Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is the best of all restorative tonics. It is not a “Cure-all,” but admirably ful fills a singleness of purpose, being a most potent Specific for fill those Chronic Weaknesses and Diseases peculiar to women. It is a powerful, general as well as uterine, tonic and nervine, and im parts vigor and strength to the whole system. It promptly cures weakness of stomach, indigestion, bloating, weak back, nervous prostration, debility and sleeplessness, in either sex. Favorite Prescription’s sold by druggists under our positive guarantee. See wrapper around bottle. Price if 1.00 a bottle, or six bottles for $5.00. A large treatise on Disease of Women, ousely illustrated with colored plates and numererous wood-cuts, sent tor ten cents in stamps, Address, World’s Dispensary Medi cal Association, G6B Main Street, Buffa lo X. Y. ■ ■ ■ ♦ % AD VICK TO MOTHERS. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, for children teething, is the prescription of one of the best female nurses and physi cians 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. Highest market price paid for country produce. Farmers you will save money by calling on Glenn Jones. 100 Many Unmarried Women. This subject, says :ui exchange, is en gaging the attention of editors, pub licists and philanthropists from Maine to Mexico, and with no little of anxiety as to what is to come of it. Maybe there are too many women born, and that is the main trouble. But we are told by high scriptural authority, that God does not entail on his children greater burdens than they can hear, and iu His wisdom has proved a way to solve the problem iu His own {rood time. The women are here—come to stay—and more a-coming. We don't propose to {Tet rid of them, as we do some animals, by drowning them, when there sue too many for useful purposes: nor to make harems of them as the Sultans do, or give one man a dozen wives is the Mor mon's practice; but we propose too take good care of those that are here, and provide wisely and well for all that may eome in the course of time and God's will. How? Why, by changing the way in which our daughters are now edu rated. Let them lie educated as boys are, with an eye to business —to work— j not work such as housekeeping, for that comes well enough after a while. Hut instead of educating them mainly in or namental branches, emlielishing, as is done in most schools and colleges of the country, educate them for business. The avenues to business in which women can properly enter, are growing and widen ing every day. Thousands on thousands of unmarried women and widows are to day in the United States serving admira bly in occupations heretofore monopo lized by tin* male sex and are making a livelihood, and many lay up money for accidents and exigencies that arise. Give our girls such a course of training as will fit them to till positions men now occupy, where their physica 1 , mental and moral natures are equal to the work. If they are thus made ready for work on their own hook, and an opportunity for marriage offers, and is acceptable, thej, all the better prepared are they to take the risks of matrimony ; and thousands of young men, who cannot, or do not marry now, because they feel inability to support wives in a style and iu a sphere iu which education and ambition prompts them to move, will see the door to mar ried life thrown wide open to them, and easy to enter. Education with a view to business is the way to quiet all appre hensions about the thousands and tens of thousands of young women, who will be lingering in single blessedness, what ever that mav mean. Don’t Throw Your Lands Away. Scarcely a day passes that we do not chronicle the sale of a. tract of thousands of acres of Georgia lands at nominal prices. These lands sold at a song, usu ally Jiold mineral or wooded treasures worth many times the price paid. Our people will do well to use caution in the sale of their lands, When they are approached by strangers it will be well to reserve a royalty or some other interest in the mineral or forest rights. The Tates, who thus disposed of their marble quarries in north Georgia, have au independent fortune that generations cannot exhaust, from royalty. Others have sold as wisely. The great majority, however, have sold for a trilie a birth right the value of which money can scarcely measure. To withdraw lands altogether would be to stop progress, and thereby ob struct the appreciation of values. Hut the south is now undergoing the very transformation that lifteen years ago possessed the west. Especially is Geor gia interested, for it is being developed that this State ts as rich iu minerals as any part of North Alabama. The line of the Marietta and North Georgia road and the region adjacent is swarming with prospectors, investors and specula tors. Within the past week a capitalist from Washington City lias bought 3,000 acres near White Path, for its nominal value, and has discovered since buying, two springs on the property either of which is worth more than the whole price paid. Let our land owners go slow. There is wealtli in our soil we have never dreamed of, and it should not be sacri ficed in ignorance or carelessness. We shall see lands commanding better prices after the Piedmont exposition than thej' now and with vastly more purchas ers in the field! This fair warning from the Atlanta Constitution is not altogether untimely. Ex-Congressman Barbour, of Virginia, speaking of tin* political outlook in that State, says: “Ourpeople (the Democrats) all feel hopeful, even confident. The party is harmonious, and it never was in better fighting trim. I never attended a finer convention than the one we held recently in Roanoke. A sentiment of confidence pervaded the entire body. While the Democrats are harmonious and united, the other side is quarreling. There are many Republicans who regard the restoration of Mali one to power as the greatest evil that could afflict the state, and Mahone will not consider any thing short of his own elevation to ab solute power. The campaign will open next month.” A peculiarity of Hood’s Sarsaparilla is that while it purifies the blood, it imparts new vigor to every function of the body. People of Renown. John Guy Vassal - , thelast of the broth ers of that name, is reported dying at his home in Poughkeepsie. Mark Twain, the richest humorist in the world, is an inveterate smoker and an untiring billiard player. It is said of Russell Sage that he can command $25,000,000 in cash in half an hour any time during business hours. Alpreus Hardy, the old time Boston merchant who died the other day, was the father of the noted novelist, Thos. 11 anlv. A life size paint-ins of the late Hon. An son Burlingame lias been placed in the office of the Massachusetts Secretary of The Princess Mettcrnich is as thin as the Princess Bernhardt. She is somewhat capricious in her tastes, but loves musical people and artists. Buffalo business men have invited Hon. Benjamin IJutterworth to discuss the Canadian commertial union question in that city on September Ist. After a lifetime of separation, F. \V. Newman, tin* Atheist, and J. M. New man, the Cardinal, met, and without a word clasped each other in their arms and were reconciled. Marshal McMahon lias for some time been engaged in writing his autobio graphical reminiscenses, but the work is only to be printed for private circulation among his friends. John Boyle O'Reilly is to be invited to read a poem at the unveiling of the Father Matthew statue in Salem, Mass., October 10th. Mr. Witties is expected to be present. Mr. Ryan, the veteran leader of the Mendelssohn Quartet in Boston, is at Paris looking for musicians for the com ing season. He has secured aSwediuh prim a donna. Use I)r. Pierce’s “Pellets” for constipa tion. The Atlanta Constitution will sell you Waterbury 11 atch for $2,50. *so will Turner & Baker, AI >E V UTI s|: ME N TS. IHE ('OITRANT-AmeBICAN is THE ONLY Pap kk Published in one <>k the BkiT Counties in North Georgia. Its Ctu- C ELATION IS SECOND TO NONE OF TTkCLAS -. Reasonable Rates on Aitiucat ion. $1.50 Per Annmi?.—sc. a Copy. GEORGIA ITEMS. Home has received her firs! bale of new cotton. Mater spouts are reported to have done much damage in Paulding county. Ga., recently, iu some instances making excavations fifteen feet in depth, and carrying away fences formally rods. No lives are reported as having been lost. Dennis mid Hetty Broughton, of Mon roe, Ga., have a child seven weeks old which weighs but three pounds. Its name is only Martha Ann Mary Magda lene Prances Cleveland Broughton. When it has grown n little, its parents will probaly add to its patronymic as new ideas suggest themselves. Mrs. Shumate, of fhilton, wife of Pol. 1. E. Shumate, died Sunday afternoon of apoplexy. She was stricken Wednesday afternoon and never recovered from the paralysis, though manifesting evidences of conciousness. She was a true, good, (’hristain woman, and the sad event creates a universal feeling of sorrow. .Jiisper Porter, of Athens,Ga., while en roll te to the home of his afliauced to make arrangements for their early mar riage, stop]hkl at a wayside church, at which a funeral was lieitag held. When the features of the deceased were exposed to view he was horrified to find that he was attending the funeral of his promised bride. AhAut. the middle of next month a new morning paper will launch forth in Atlanta, to be called the‘•World." A #26,000 outfit has been bought and paid for and the owner will be Mr, G. k \\ oodward, who will secure a brilliant corps of writers. Mr. W. claims that the town can support two morning pn|iers and that he will not antagonize the ('•in stitution. The Constitution, it may be safely said will still be found at the same old stand, ever ready to advance the in terests of the Gate City as of yore, a fact that the Atlaiitians know and ap preciate. They are not yet ready to give ii] an old “standby’’ for any new ven ture that may spring forth. <>n Friday the 12th instant, Engineer Andrew J. Ford, in the employ of Mc- Donough A Cos., at Surrency, in Appling county, on the East Tennessee railroad, ran an engine carrying a lot of wood choppers to work. They stopped to re pair a broken mil, and the engineer or dered John Pinkston, a black negro who was slow to move, to go forward and help clear the track. The negro attacked Ford us he got off the engine and sunk the blade of his ax in the toil of the en gineer's head. The the negro away, and Ford, with almost superhuman nerve, held his head to gether and mu the engine for teu miles toward Surrency, finally fainting in his cub. Some of his brains oozed out, and lie became delirious. Delirium was suc ceeded by the eomutose state in which lie was brought to Atlanta Sunday morning. He was attended by Dr. Dan Howell and there was a st ruggle for life, which cuded at 4 o'clock Monday morn ing. Mr. Ford was born and raised in Atlanta and is held iu high estimation by his acquaintances. He has three sisters, one of w hom is Mrs, Tom Shivers, of the \V. &A. IL H, It Is thought tnut the murderer was quietly lynched. Mr. \V. L. Drown, of Tilton, Ga.,writes in regard to exhibiting two very fine three-v oar-old jacks and a jennet at the State Fair. He adds that he thinks he can get up a large stock exhibit from his county. So the Georgia farmers may rely upon seeing a grand exhibit from one of the best stock counties in the Cherokee section. Georgia is just awaken ing to the value and economy of raising mules, and the exhibit of jacks will prove of especial interest to every farmer in the State. In view of ■General Miles’ k|hvoli at Atlanta berore the Interstate Farm ers' Convention in which he asserted that the South paid #10,000,000 tax in im porting mules from other States, il is safe to assume that the Georgia farmer is done with that kind of tax Then, let the mule and jacks exhibit be as large as possible. Show what Georgia can do for herself to save her portion of that # 10,- 000,000 tax on her products.—Macon Telegraph. There are some as fine home raised mules in Bartow as any county can boast of, and it is hoped their owhers will take up the spirit of Mr. Drown and hav“ them at the State fair as well as the Piedmont exposition. Stock raisers, move at once. The advantages of n reliable, safe and efficacious Family Medicine, is incalcula ble, and when such is found, the blessing is thus happily expressed. I Exclaimed, “Eciieka.” I have been using Simmons Liver Regu lator myself some five years or more, and my family also, and can testify from experience to ils virtues. I never recom mend a medicine unless l know it to be good. In a ministry of twenty-five years I have often felt Ihe need of such medicine and when 1 found it l exclaim ed, “Eureka.”— Rev. J. I*. Harder, Pro prietor of the. “Christian Visitor," Smith field, N. C. Says the New York Herald: “That Congress has the power to legislate for the prevention of railwav catastrophes is as clear aw that it has the power al ready wielded for the prevention .of traffic abuses. We believe the time has come for that power to be exercised. Disasters are growing more frequent and more fatal. As we have said, they are due to negligence. Proper safe guards are neither provided by railway manage ment nor required by state legislation. Congress must act sooner or later. It should act now. Anew inter-state law is demanded by the safety of the travel ing public.” LIGHTENING THE BURDEN. Let me carry your pail, my dear. Brimming over with water?” “No! i'll take hold and you trike bold,” Answered the farmer’s daughter. And she would have her own sweet way. Ah her merry eyes grew brighter; So she took hold and he took hold. And made the burden lighter. And every day the oaken pail. Over tlie well curb slipping Was upward drawn by bund* of brawn, Cool, and aoitly dripping. And every day the burden seemed Lighter b.v being divided ; For he took hold, and she took hold, lty the self-same spirit guided. Till by and by they learned to love And each trust in the other. Till she for him one twilight dim, I.eft father and mother, The wedding bells were rung at morn. The bridal blessings given, And now the pair without a care Entered an earthly heaven. When storm and sunshine mingled, they Would seldom trouble borrow. And w hen it came they met the same With bright hope of to-morrow. And now they’re at the eve of life. While the western skies grow brighter. For she took hold, and he took hold, And it made the burden lighter. Loss of sleep sustained from anxiety spent over the little one so slowly and pitifully wasting away from the effect of teething, unfit you for business, why not try Dr. Riggers’ Huckleberry Cordial.