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COURANT-AMERICAN. Putiieh-ea "zz-vovy xis.vLraaa.3r. 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. A Generous Offer. An earnest Christian lady makes the following offer to our readers: “I will loan, free of postal and all charges to such of your readers as will promise a careful reading and to pay re turn postage after reading it, a book which in interesting style shows the Bible to be a self-interpreter, and its teachings grandly harmonious, viewed in the light of sanctified reason and common sense. “1 want to put this book into the hands of the skeptically inclined, as an aid and guard against the growing sci entific skepticism. It is not dry, musty reading, but truly ‘meat in due season’ to the truth-hungry. The light of this precious little volume has made the Bible anew book, a treasure, a mine of wealth, to many as well as to myself. And I feel that I cannot better use my means than in circulating this work by the thous and.” Address postal card to Alns. C. B. Lem cels, Allegheny, Fa. No Time to Soothe Her Own- Baby. Nurse (to fashionable mother). —The baby is very restless, ma’am. 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Pope was sentenced to be hanged on July Bth but was respited by the governor ns before stated. Within the last week a colored man named Tay lor has been arrested in Somerset, Ken tucky, and has confessed that he was guilty of the attempt to rape Miss Ken drick. This confession as a matter of course will and ought to establish Pope's innocence, but it is necessary that cer tain legal proceedings be had, and the confession made in proper form before he can be released. The governor will issue an order at once further respiting Pope for the purpose of allowing tjie confes sion of Taylor to be investigated. A re quisition was issued on the governor of Kentucky a few days ago for Taylor, an agent being named to receive Taylor ami convey him to Georgia. As soon as he arrives his confession will be taken down in proper legal form, and Pope will no doubt be soon liberated. If Taylor's confession should prove to be bogus, enough testimony has been secured to show that Pope has been niQre sinned against than sinning, and it is not at all probable that Pope will hang for the of fense. Pope's conduct in jail, has been most exemplary, and he has made a number of friends. THE : SAM JONES XT IT I O IT Tabernacle Meetings, BEGIXTITXXTC AT CARTERSVILLE, CA. SEPTEMBER 9th, ’B7, And continue ten days. Four sendees each day, G and 10 a. m. and 2 and 8 p. m. The following efficient preachers and workers have been invited and are expect ed to attend and participate in the services, with others whose names are not now given: Rev. HUGH JOHNSTONE, Toronto, Canada; Revs. J. B. HAWTHORN, H. C. MORRISON and J. AV. LEE, Atlanta, Ga.; Rev. A. J. JARRELL, LaGrange, Ga.; Rev. T. R. KENDALL ami Rev. Dr. GEOTCHEUS, Rome, Ga. Rev. SAM JONES will preach once each day. PROF. EXCELL Will lead the music and also sing those solos which have charmed and delighted the thou,amis. 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