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CARTERS VII.LE, GEORGIA.
Official Orian of Bartow Comity.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, I*M7.
Ai,i, Atlanta rode her (irst (lummy en
gine last Sunday.
The northern press should at least ac
cept the fact that the south is solid on
tin* rare question.
The prospects now are very favorable
to the defeat, in the senate, of the Dean
bill to sell the Western and Atlantic rail
road. __
I)n. Felton’s SIO,OOO wine room bill
has passed both houses and now only
awaits the approval of the Governor to
lieeome a law.
A Macon lightning rod man warns
those that intend repainting their
houses, not to pyint their lightning rods,
as it injures them.
The .young Atlanta lawyer no doubt
expects to be fully repaid in glory for all
that In* may do for Woolfolk, the Bibb
county murderer.
Chakles E. Bautlktt, of Sumpter, S.
<*., cashiered his bank the other day and
skipp'd out for Canada. Too much
monkeying with cotton futures.
It the legislature hasn’t the backboue
to pass the Glenn educational bill, its
author can console himself with one
thought—that it has made him famous.
Chattanooga, not satisfied with find
ing a gas well has now discovered a
blowing spring. The town is bound to
boom if gassing and blowing can make
it do so.
Jay Gould has just turned $17,000,-
000 of securities into cash. The old man
has some big scheme on foot. It may be
that lie is preparing to cross the dark
river.
The gas well at Chattanooga has
failed to satisfactorily materialize so
far. Gas is there no doubt, and an ef
fort will be made to bring it in paying
quantities. ____________
The Interstate Farmers’ Convention
met in Atlanta last week. It was a rep
resentative body of practical and sensi
ble men. Their deliberations were con
servative and business like.
Boston still maintains a high reputa
tion for beans. A hack man by that
name is found to be an heir to $10.000,-
000, left by an eccentric Texas Bean who
died recently.
Work has been commenced on the
Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus road
mid it will be pushed through in a hurry.
Congressman .J. C. Clements has been
made president.
A son of Ilam, by the name of Ham,
has shocked his admirers in Washington
by purloining a ham from one of the city
markets. A verification of the old adage
Unit, “birds of a leather will flock to
gether.”
Isaac 11. Vincent, the defaulting State
Treasurer of Alabama, lias been sen
-1 eared to ten year's imprisonment, in the
penitentiary. An appeal has been taken,
I lending which Vincent will remain in jail
at Montgomery.
J. C. Duke, the Montgomery negro edi
tor, who was made to decamp, writes
back to the Advertiser that he wants to
return, promising good behavior and
forever eschewing journalism. He is
probably sorry that he ever learned the
newspaper business.
On our first page will be found an in
ti resting article on the management of
the Dade county convict camp. It will
be seen that the home of the convict is
not as bad as some think, and the man
agement speaks volumes for the true
Christian character of Gov. Brown.
Col. W. C. Morrill, vice-president and
treasurer of the Western and Atlantic
railroad died last week in Boston. Mr.
Morrill was a very rich man, and left a
number of charitable bequests, among
them $25,000 to the Colored University
in Atlanta, and $25,000 to the Young
Men's Library.
Chattanooga society just now consid
erably disturbed over the scandalous
reports concerning the fair name and
character of a leading society belle. The
developments promise to prove a bonan
za for scandal-mongers, and the sensa
tional newspapers. Such affairs are
disgusting in the extreme, the details of
which do no good to those that read them.
The committee appointed to make
some disposition of the State road have
made out their report, which was pre
sented yesterday. It recommends that
the Governor, Comptroller and Attor
ney-General be authorized to advertise in
London, New York and other places that
the road is for sale or lease, and ask for
bids before the next legislature, the bids
to be sealed and the legislature to open
them and determine whether it is to the
best advantage to sell or lease.
Maggie Burger, a resjiectable mar
ried lady of Birmingham, became sus
picious of her husband, and by donning
one of his suits of clothes, attempted to
watch his movements. She asked a gen
tleman to go along as a protector. A
policeman caught the suspicious looking
Maggie and had her up Indore the recor
der, who imposed a heavy fine. Mag
gie’s husband was greatly shocked at
her foolish adventure, and will no doubt
give a better account of himself hereaf
ter.
Ex-Gov. Brown, of Tennessee, now re
ceiver of the Texas Pacific railroad,
thinks that he has hit upon a plan by
which ballot-box stuffing and repeating
can be effectually prevented. In speak
ing recently of election frauds, he said:
“There is, after all, only one way by
which ballot-box stuffing, miscounting of
votes and fraudsofthat character can be
entirely stopped. It can be done by
viva voce voting. When the man comes
to vote, and must stand up before the
judge to proclaim his name, his place of
residence, nge, etc., and then announce
Ids choice of candidates in equally open
manner, the chance of fraud will be di
minished to the lowest degree. There
would still be some dangers from repeat
ing, but those will always exist.' 5
The South’s Greatness Depends Upon a
Diversified Industry.
Iu a rermt letter to the Manufacturers’
Record, Judge “I*ig Iron” Kelly sjieaks
in glowing ’terms of the South's
future, and gives some good advice as to
how it can attain financial greatness and
permanent prosjierity. That advice is,
that hsr agricultural, commercial and
manufacturing resources must be har
moniously developed.
The Philadelphia Times wisely suggests
that the essence of harmony is diversity.
There should be agricultural diversity, it
says, to begin with. It would not be
wise for everybody in Virginia and
North Carolina to raise tobacco, or
everybody in Georgia, Alabama and Mis
sissippi to raise cotton, or everybody in
Florida to raise oranges, or everybody
in Louisiana to raise sugar, for whatever
may be the agricultural staple of any
commonwealth, a due degree of diversi
fication of farming industries is just as
important to its prosperity as is the de
velopment of its specialty in the highest
degree.
The Times further says “that agricul
tural diversity is really at the root of the
harmonious development of commerce
and manufactures, and why? . First, be
cause it is the safer business policy not
to put all one’s eggs in one basket, and
local prosperity that dejiends on a single
industry is crippled when that industry
undergoes a reverse, whereas diversifica
tion tends to produce a higher average
of independence of disaster to any spe
cial crop and puts a community in bet
ter shape to take advantage of opportu
nities and to cultivate a spirit of enter
prise. This is its direct bearing upon
commerce.
“It also has a direct bearing upon
manufacturing prosperity, through the
increased likelihood of the discovery of
raw material of every kind, whenever the
natural capacities of the soil are investi
gated with view to their adaptation to
new crops from time to time. Manufac
turers follow railroads, and wise railroad
managers will extend new lines into a
country with a diversity of industries,
where half the farmers make two kinds
of crops a year instead of one, and
where its line will not depend on any one
kind of traffic for its earnings, much
more readily than they will give railroad
facilities to a region that is at the mercy
of one industry. When agriculeural di
versity is once obtained the harmonious
development of commerce and manufac
tures is half secured.”
Judge Speer 011 Usury.
Judge Emory Speer has recently de
cided a case, coining before him in the
Southern District of Georgia, involving
the question of usury. The decision is
an important one, and should it be sus
tained, will prevent the collection of a
large portion of the many thousands of
dollars loaned throughout the country
by large banking and loan companies of
the North and East. These companies,
through agents, have been loaning money
011 landed securities, at 8 per cent, per
annum, but deducting from the amount
paid to the borrower from 10 to 20 per
cent, for agents’ fees and other expenses.
Judge Speer holds that where loans are
made through agents of the companies,
where anything is charged over
legal rate of interest, the contracts
are in violation of the law and
become usurious. He holds that the
company loaning the money can only
recover the amount less the agents' fees,
or commissions, thus making a large
part of each loan uncollectable. This
decision will have a tendency to effect
ually break up the loaning business of
these banking establishments, where
loans are through agencies anything
above 8 per cent, interest is charged.
Mil. Oliver, of Oglethorpe, has intro
duced into the house a bill for securing
greater care for the supervision of rail
roads in this state, and to render less
dangerous travel by rail. The recent
terrible accidents on some of the rail
roads, caused from carelessness, in which
so many lives were lost, go to show that
the bill is not untimely. It requires, un
der severe penalty, that all roadbeds,
embankments, tunnels, cuts, side-tracks,
crossties, rails, bridges, trestles, culverts,
switches, depots, and all rolling stock
and appurtenances of thr several rail
roads in this state, shall hereafter be
kept in perfect order by the constant su
pervision of specially appointed and re
sponsible inspectors or watchmen, for
whose dilligeiice and reliability the rail
roads are responsible. The bill makes
any carelessness whereby damage may
ensue a felony. This is ail important
measure, and should become a law and
be enforced to the letter. A large per
cent, of the railroad horrors and acci
dents are the direct results of the gross
est kind of negligence. One needs but to
refer to the history of railroad mishaps
to tie convinced of this fact. Me trust
that Mr. Oliver’s bill may become a law,
and every state in the union may imitate
I Georgia in this matter.
Ur. Spencer F. Baird, Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institute, died last week,
lie was a native of Pennsylvania, and
was born on the 3d day of February,
1823, and was consequently more than
04 years old. He was educated at Dick
inson College, at which institution he be
came professor of natural science in 1840,
holding that position until appointed as
sistant secretary of the Smithsonian In
stitute four years later. To his industry
as a scientific student he added the zeal
of a literary workman and a number Of
valuable works on bird and animal life
emanated from his busy brain. Among
these were his translations of Heck, a
voluminous work on the mammals of
America, and a still more complete effort
on the birds of North America. In 1871
he was appointed Superintendent of the
Fish Commission by President Grant,
and he has held the position since. Upon
the death of Professor Henry, Secretary
of the Smithsonian Institute, Dr. Baird
was appointed to the office and this po
sition he also held at the time of his
death. Up to five years ago—and he has
published many papers since—he was re
sponsible for 1,200 books, reports,
pamphlets and articles—thelargest num
ber credited to any one American, per
haps the largest any one man can claim.
These range all the way from an encyclo
pedia, which he edited thirty-five years
ago, to newspaper articles, and cover a
wide range of scientific subjects.
Blaine gets his first presidential boost
for the presidency in 1888 from the re
publican convention of Pennsylvania,
which assembled last week.
A Board of Pardons.
The penitentiary committee of the
house have recommended the passage of
Schofield’s bill for the establishmen of a
board of pardons. It is very probable
that the bill will become a law at the
present session of the legislature.
The bill provides that within thirty
days from the passage of the act. the
governor shall, with the advice and con
sent of the senate, appoint three dis
creet and proper persons, one each from
the Northern, Middle ami Southern por
tions of the State. One of these is to lie
a lawyer, another a j#iysic ian. They are
to serve two, four and six years. After
the expirations of the terms of the first
members of the board, their successors
are to be appointed for the full term ot
six years each, so that one member of
lie board will go 011 every two years.
All appointments to be made from
those sections of the State in which the
vacancies occur.
The bill prescribes the following oath
of office:
“I do solemnly swear that I will faith
fully and carefully consider all applica
tions for pardon or commutation of sen
tence that shall come before me, and be
guided in my action thereon by the nic
tates of justice and humanity; so help
me God.”
The board is to meet and organize as
soon as practicable after its appoint
ment by the election of a chairman and
secretary.
The governor is to turn over to the
board all applications for pardon and
commutation of sentence, toget her with
a statement of the order in which the ap
plications were filed, and these and all
subsequent applications are to be kept
on a docket and examined in their order,
except when for special reasons the board
thinks proper to take up some case be
fore its regular time. The action of the
board in each case to be recorded, and
when the governor lias approved the
recommendation of the board it shall
act as a bar to further consideration of
that application for three years, except
on order of the go vernier, in case of dis
covery of new evidence or for other rea
son satisfactory to him.
The board is not to set longer than
sixty days the first year, nor thirty days
each year thereafter, unless specially
convened by the Governor.
The board is to accompany each re
commendation with a brief statement of
the salient points in the case, and the
Governor will endorse and adopt the re
port or take other action as he may see
proper.
QThe board will have authority to call
upon the keeper, physician and other of
f cers of the penitentiary for information,
and to call upon the attorney general
for an opinion on legal points involved
in cases.
The compensation of the members of
the board, and of the secretary, will be
#4 per diem while in actual discharge of
their duties; the secretary not to be em
ployed between the sessions. Mileage of
ten cents each way, by the shortest route
to Atlanta is allowed.
Millions of Acres of Land Thrown
Open to Settlers.
Secretary Lamar fails to recognize the
justice of withdrawing millions of acres
of valuable lands from occupation by
the people until the land-grab railroad
companies get ready to fulfill their vio
lated contracts. It is to the Secretary’s
credit that he has taken this view of the
matter, and strange that his predecessors
could not look at it in the same light.
But the power and influence of these
grasping companies at "Washington have
been immense, and it lias been suggested
that, perhaps, the public ought to feel
thankful that they do not own the whole
country by this time. It is something
gained, even at this late date, that we
have a Secretary of the Interior who has
the nerve and courage to stand by the
public interest, and demand that the
government shall not be swindled out of
such great bodies of the public domain
by these greedy railroad companies with
out showing some color of title. The
Secretary’s letter, throwing open the in
demnity lands of the Atlantic and Pacific
Railway to settlement, will be cheering
news to many who desire to avail them
selves of tlieprovisions of thehomestead
laws. This decision of Mr. Lamar gives
to settlers a large and valuable tract of
land that had been unjustly held by a
corporation. It will strengthen the Ad
ministration in the West, and will go far
towards changing that uncomfortable
f(*eling that has existed among the West
ern settlers.
The Lunatic Asylum.
When the committee appointed by the
legislature to investigate the state luna
tic asylum, will have made their report,
it will be found that that institution is
better managed than any of its kind in
the country. Dr. Kenan, the cause of
the dirty scandal concerning its manage
ment, no doubt feels aggrieved at his
dismissal on account of unbecoming
conduct, from the physician’s board and
takes this chance of getting even. We
will wager our existence that the com
mittee will unanimously agree that no
more humane men and Christian gentle
men exists, than does Drs. Powell and
Whitaker, and that the charges against
them are without foundation whatever.
It is sad to think that there is a single
person willing to lend his influence in
tearing down such an institution and
its management, an institution that
commends itself to the good people of
the state. It will be very hard to con
vince the people that all is not right at
ti e Georgia lunatic asylum so long as
Dr. Thomas O. Powell is at its head.
Prof. O. S. Fowler, the distinguished
and well known phrenologist, died in his
seventy-eighth year the other day.
Vigor and Vitality
Are quickly given to every part.of the
body by Hood's Sarsaparilla. That
tired feeling is entirely overcome. The
blood is purified, enriched, and vitalized,
and carries health instead of disease to
every organ. The stomach is toned and
strengthened, the appetite restored.
The kidneys and liver are roused and
invigorated. The brain is refresed, the
mind made clear and ready for work.
Try it.
Old Alabama.
W. C. Lourd, Leesburg, Ala., writes:
My little babe, ten months old, was al
most dying from teething, gave it Dr.
Diggers’ Huckleberry Cordial. The hap
piest result followed. Every home should
have it.
The Public Interested.
When manufacturers of an article are
asking the public to consume their
wares, it is indeed refreshing to know
that they are reliably endorsed, as illus
trated by the united endorsement of Dr.
Harter’s Iron Tonic and Liver Pills by
the druggists of St. Paul.
Delicate diseases of either sex, how
ever induced, radically cured. Address
wit i JO cents in stamps for book,
Worlds Dispensary Medjciil Association,
Buffalo, N. Y.
OVER THE COUNTY.
OUR CORRESPONDENTS NOTE THE
INCIDENTS OF THEIR
NEIGHBORHOODS,
And Ilish Tliem I'p In : Uelectalile Shape
Fji- Oar K eailers.
A DA IRS VILLE.
We have received the formal notice
from the gallant 23rd Georgia Regiment,
of its assemblage here on the 31st.
Hence we will be better prepared to meet
them with the fatted calf, and to recog
nize this body of patriots among us by
chosen orators. Our good ladies will
meet you with the best the larder affords,
while the men folks turn the keys over to
you that you may enjoy the freedom of
our village.
Mr. A. M. Penn, from his extensive
and valuable farm near here, brings in
last Friday, the first open cotton of this
season. His present crop is a treat to
look at.
I)r. Robert Hefrbin is with H. M.
Yeach.
It is claimed that two young men from
Cartersville while returning from a visit
to their lady friends here the other
night, were treated with a volley from
pistols in the hands of some fun-loving
somebody, and that there never was
such running done. Even a hot journal
was made by those two young men. An
Augusta youth was treated the same
way last year. •
It is now almost a settled fact that
our academy will be remodeled and re
paired generally, which is certainly very
gratifying to us.
A meeting of many good results is
going 011 at Ootcaloogachurch, Rev. Mr.
Buford, presiding. These services and
campmeeting at Pinelog almost depopu
lated our little town.
Mr. Frank Durham attends to-morrow,
the marriage of Mr. Virgil Alexander,
and Miss Emma Bonner, at the residence
of the bride’s father near Calhoun.
A. M. C.
011ASSDALE.
Everybody is attending the campmeet
ing at Pinelog, and a glorious good
meeting they are having.
Father Lanier, from Stilesboro, did
some good work for us at Best’s, who
for several years has been a regular at
tendant upon the protracted meetings at
that place. The people all love him and
are always glad to have him among us.
Mr. Montgoihery, after a pleasant
visit to his old home near Danielsvllle,
has returned home.
Mrs. Montgomery lias been sick for
several days.
Mr. Gibbons has had a very fine water
melon patch, and I have had the pleas
ure of helping to eat several of them,
and they were certainly very sweet, and
as large as the melons raised on the
river. His success shows what any of
us could do in this line, if we were not too
lazy to work, but like everything else,
they must have work and that at the
proper time.
"Walt Hawkins had cotton open on the
16th, and this is very early for us up here.
I expect Walt pulled open the boll.
Henry Saxon, and his sister, Mrs.
Clara Saxon, from Orlando, Fla., are at
home to spend the summer. Mrs. Saxon,
whose health has been very bad for some
time, was not able to stand the ride
from Cartersville to her father’s, and had
to stay in town until Saturday, when
she was brought home. She has a host
of friends who are very sorry to hear of
her sad condition, and all hope for her a
speedy recovery. We know if kind at
tention and good nursing will accom
plish it, she will soon be able to be up.
Henry is looking as if Florida agreed
with him, he will be a great addition to
the society of the young folks. He re
ceived a very warm welcome from his
many young lady friends.
Albert "Weems and his little daughter
were down for a few days in attendance
upon the campmeeting.
Murray Hawkins and Ids daisy were at
his home on Sunday, shaking hands with
their many friends at the meeting.
I understand some thief entered the
house of Joe Gravely, and ate up the
dinner that Mrs. G. had prepared to
carry for her family on Sunday. The
party crawled under the house and lifted
lip a plank in the floor, and it evidently
was some one who was well acquainted
with the premisis. Mr. Gravely is an
honest, hard working man, and while the
amount was not very great, it will make
them uneasy to all be away at one time.
We notice “Slim Jim” in our neigh
borhood, has been visiting the family of
Mr. Owens. Hope her visit will be so
pleasant that she will repeat it often.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Best spent Satur
day night at Dr. Battle’s. They were
in attendance upon the campmeeting.
Crouton.
KINGSTON.
Our place was highly entertained on
Thursday and Saturday nights by read
ings of Miss B. Combs Wood, of Ken
tucky. Most of her pieces were excellent
and well rendered. “Creeds of the church
Bells,” “Curfew must not ring to-night,”
and “The ball headed man,” were splen
did.
The young ladies of our town are pre
paring to give an entertainment at the
house of J. F. Hargis, on Tuesday
night the 23rd, the proceeds to be ap
plied to the painting of the Methodist
parsonage. I wish them great success.
Mr. Win. Morton and Mr. Thomas F.
Jones have situations with surveying
corps on the Chattanooga, Home and
Columbus Railroad, between Chattanoo
ga and Home. (’apt. F. 11. Harris, a
former citizen of Kingston, is Chief En
gineer and acting superintendent of the
road, and we are thankful to him for re
membering our boys.
Mr. and Mrs. .T. H. Harris paid Mr. J.
W. Oglesby a visit at his saw mill, four
miles west of Adairsville.
Mr. Harris says he feels greatly beno
fitted by his trip to the Pine Forest, and
the fine water from Snow Spring.
Hon. Seaborn Wright, of Rome, passed
through Kingston Monday morning
bound for Calhoun, where he and Judge
Hillyer, of Atlanta, were to speak on pro
hibition. The election comes off in Gor
don county on the 23rd, and we would
rejoice to learn that Gordon had step
ped into line, and then from Atlanta to
Chattanooga whiskey would be a thing
of the past.
Little Milton Pope, son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. S. Pope, was bitten on the nose
by a little terrier dog, and much alarm
is felt for fear the dog was mad. Dr.
MeCravy was called in, and he does not
seem to apprehend any danger.
We were pleased to see our old friend,
W. A. Chunn, of Casville, on our streets
Monday.
Bay less & Bell are receiving their new
stock of goods. Jackie.
STLESBORO
Stilesboro is on a boom. We have a
harness shop and beef market added to
our town’s business now. Mr. W. 0.
Bowler, of your city, has opened a har
ness shop, and the beef market is run by
Mr. Boler Moon. They expect a good
business; in fact, all of our merchants
say they are having a splendid trade,
and seem in the best of spirits. Well,
Stilesboro is a splendid place for busi
ness. How could it be otherwise, when
it is situated in the very garden spot of
Georgia? Several more business houses
would do a splendid trade here, and we
say come. The more the livelier, the
more the better, in every respect. There
is no doubt in my mind as to the truth
that accompanies the old saying that
“competition is the life of trade” and
the making of a town.
Our coroner, Frank Patterson, and his
brother, Robert, have just returned
from a week's visit in Alabama. They
took a trip through the country behind
two fine blacks. The coroner reports a
nice time, and says that’s the place to
go to mnrry rich.
Cotton picking has begun, and earlier,
too, than I over know it. However, it is
true, and 1 doubt not that ere this reach
es the eyes of the people of Bartow, Mr.
Frank Williams, living near Stilesboro,
on a part of the Turner place, owned by
the Stephens’, will have a bale On the
market. He commenced picking about
the lath, and l am betting on Frank
getting the premium bale in this year.
Mrs. Bchinull, nee Miss Nannie Cunyus,
Mr. D. B. t’unyus' oldest daughter, is up
from Louisiana, with her children, at the
old homestead spending the summer.
Also Mrs. James Colbert, tun 1 Miss Fan
nit'Cannon, is up from Florida with her
children spending the summer at their
old home place. It makes us think of
old times to st*e these ladies among us.
Mr. Bartow Leake was in town Friday
taking out some insurance policies. By
the way, Bart took dinner with me that
day, and while I was trying to apologize
all the time until we went into dinner for
having nothing but corn-bread, fried
meat and buttermilk that day, owing to
the fact that it was washday, pretending
like any other day he would have such a
picnic. I soon found, after we went in
and old Bart, slung his legs under the
table and smacked his sweet lips a time
or t wo, that my apologies were all very
unnecessary, for when Bart, after drink
ing about a gallon and a half of butter
milk and taking in roughness in propor
tion, said to me that it was as good din
ner as anybody ought to want.
Mr. Dick Milam met his mother and
her granddaughter, Miss Alice Carter, at
the train Friday evening, who are just
up from Alabama. Mis. Milam has been
spending several weeks with her daugh
ters, Mrs. Henry and Dick Carter, and
brought Miss Allice, a sweet little six
teener —or, to come nearer it, I might say
a sweeter little fifteener —home with her
for her health. She has been sick for
some time, and no doubt the change,
together with such a nice visiting place,
will soon restore her ro good health
again.
Mr. J. M. Purse, wife and children, of
your city, spent last Sabbath with our
esteemed professor, \Y. C. Ethridge, at
Stilesboro.
Messrs. Alfred Jolley and Alfred Cal
houn were in Stilesboro Saturday.
STEGALL.
Our village was well represented last
Sunday at Harmony Grove camprneet
ing.
Our pastor, Rev. AY. AY. AVootten, of
the Methodist church, will begin a pro
tracted meeting at this place on Satur
day, the 27th inst.
Mr. 11. I). Phillips, who has been visit
ing at Mr. 11. AV. Bayley’s, returned to
his home in Savannah last week.
Miss Lou Glenn, of Cartersville, spent
several days last week with Miss Ger
trude Baylev.
Uncle Emsley Stegall has been suffer
ing for several days from sunstroke or
over exertion.
Mrs. C. Chitwood, of Fish Creek, spent
a day or so with her mother, Airs. Jim
Chitwood. Her little family accompa
nied her.
Lewis Erwin, of Tennessee, is here on
business. He was formerly a citizen of
our county, and his business may bo im
portant to our people who own ore mines.
Several of our people anticipate a
pleasant time at Aeworth to-morrow at
the re-union of the survivors of the old
Eighteenth Georgia Regiment.
Facts About Farmer Armstrong.
Mr. Frank Armstrong, of Dodge
Township, was the winner, of $5,000 in
The Louisiana State Lottery. Tint cash
was received by Mr. Truman, banker,
here in full. It was one-twentieth part
of the second capital prize ($1000,000)
which was drawn by ticket No. 21,658,
for which twentieth part Mr. Armstrong
had paid one dollar about a month ago.
He is a substantial farmer of about 55
years, has raised si family in Union
county, and as he lost his wife a few years
ago, he is unmarried. —Afton (Iowa)
Tribune, July 6.
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No Time to Soothe Her Own- Baby.
Nurse (to fashionable mother). —The
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anything with her.
F. M.—She’s teething, I suppose.
N. —Yes’m. 1 think if you was to take
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tend a meeting of the Society for the
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baby some of Dr. Diggers’ Huckleberry
Cordial.
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Minnie Kendrick, was respited some
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hundred miles away from Chattooga
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the governor ns before stated. Within
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course will and ought to establish Pope's
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