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r >o <• 500 25.000
1(w .. tiOO 30,000
goo “ 200 40,000
500 “ 100 50.000
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100 “ “ 100 10,000
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CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY. SEPT. 1. ISB7.
AN INTEROCEANIC IIOAI>.
An Outlet for the Products of
the Mississippi Valley and
the Alabama Coal
Fields.
of the Globe-Democrat.]
D. C., August 23. —There
just now from
the of State, in substance,
that U. I*. Hmitiugtoo, of the Central
FMcilic and and Missis
sip] ii Valley Railway, a rail
way, seventy-five miles in length, from
tin? Pacific Oc-ean to Gautemala City, in
the Republic of Gautemala, and that
Huntington contemplates the construc
tion of an interoceanic railway across
Central America. The announcement
was not only meager, but has come
along slowly. The Department's state
ment, as published, failed to convey the
entire material news on the subject.
Very important facts relative to the
matter have been known here for some
time past. Since receiving the official
credence of our Consul tit San Salvador,
the subject has attracted more serious
attention than it had previously re
ceived. The scheme turns out to be of
greater scope and significance than was
indicated in the official dispatch of our
Consul.
Huntington’s project is more than a
mere diversion; it is in reality intended
as a part of his great American trans
portation system. Such is the informa
tion imparted to the Department of
State. In the accomplishment of this
enterprise Mr. Huntington says he ex
pects to provide an important outlet for
the vast and increasing products not
only of the Mississippi \ alley, but also es
pecially the products of the coal and
iron mines, furnaces and foundries of
Alabama. It appears that this is hut
carrying out a scheme which capitalists
and furnace and iron-mine owners, in the
vicinity of Birmingham, had determined
upon, including the building of a rail
way of their own across Central Amer
ica. The “prospectors” of the Alabama
capitalists were already examining what
is known as tlie Honduras begin
ning at the Bay of Honduras, on the
Atlantic Ocean, and ending at the Bay
of Fonseca, on the Pacific Ocean.
A NATURAL PATHWAY.
Of this route Admiral Davis, United
States Navy, in his official report upon
the various lines proposed for inter
oceanic canals and railroads between
the oceans, says: “The reader who fol
lows the course of tin* surveys of natu
ralists and geologists, from the capa
cious, safe and excellent harbor of Puerth
Caballos (Porte Cortes), through re
gions remarkable for their salubrity,
fertility, great variety of climate and
productions and valuable mineral re
sources, to the waters of the splendid
harbor of La Union, can not but regret
that capitalists have not found it to
their interest to carry out one of the
most, promising and one of the least em
barrassing enterprises of the day.”
The above mentioned Alabama capi
talists eonfered with Mr. Huntington,
who undertook to provide a route of
railway across Central America. The
distance from New Orleans and Mobile
to Honduras Bay is not perceptibly
greater than from the same ports in the
United States to the Gulf terminus of the
proposed Tehuantepec ship railway. On
the Pacific side the difference to San
Francisco amounts to only a few hun
dred miles, while there are said to be
certain advantages in tides .and wind
currents favorable to tin 1 Honduras
over the Tehuantepec route.
Tho Huntington Interoceanic Railway
across Central America will, it is claimed,
be completed and in operation before
work will fairly be begun on the Tehuan
tepec Ship Railway. In letters from Cen
tral America received here, it is repre
sented that the route is through a good
country; that there is considerable pop
ulation in the towns and villages, and
that, the local travel and traffic will
probably make this road profitable, irre
spective of the receipts for transporta
tion of the products from the Mississippi
Valley, and from the coal-pits, iron
mines, furnaces, etc., of Birmingham.
A FINE CHANCE FOB COAJ,.
A vital fact connected with this enter
prise is set forth, namely: That coal
from Birmingham, Ala., is delivered in
Mobile and on the Mexican Gulf coast at
$ 1.37)4 per ton, and may be delivered in
barges at any port on the Bay of Hon
duras at $2.50 to $3 a ton—a sum only
equal to the cost at Newcastle, England,
of digging coal and delivering it on ship
board. English coal is sold annually, to
the amount of about $50,000,000, at
from $8 to sl2 and sls a ton to ports
on the Gulf of Mexico and to the islands
and neighboring coasts of the three
Americas and Australia; and English
coal and iron are supplied to steamers
and railways along the whole Pacific
coast, from San Francisco to Cape Horn.
“The cost to consumers is enormous, but
it would be cut down to about one-third
the present rate if enterprises of United
States citizens in Central and South
America were fostered and encouraged
by the Government of the United States
ofter the manner in which the enterpris
ing subjects of England, Germany and
France are supported and jealously pro
tected when engaged in the pursuit of
business in fareign lauds.”
Among the most reeent circumstances
-which, aside from the pressing need for a
southern outlet for the vast products of
the Mississippi Valley and Alabama,
drew public attention in the United
States to interoceanic ralway matters in
Central America, was an interesting oc
currenee which came out of the enter
prise of certain Americans.
THE GUATEMALA NORTHERN RAILROAD.
In 1883-'B4, under a decree of the gov
ernment of Guatemala, taxes were levied
and the wealthy people of that republic
were called upon to subscribe propor
tionate to their means, for stock for the
construction by the govern men t of a
railroad from the Atlantic coast to the
capital of Guatemala (Guatemala City),
as a part of the purpose to ultimately
build a railroad from ocean to ocean
across that portion of Central America.
Although the enterprise had to all ap
pearances progressed satisfactorily for
about a year, the war of last year (early
in 1880), which ended with the traffic
death of the ambitious Gen. Rarrious,
President of Guatemala, who proclaimed
himself “Military Dictator of Central
America,” caused the government of the
republic to revoke the decree levying
taxes, etc., and preparations were made
to liquidate the affairs of the railroad.
Contractors from the United States had
engaged to build sixty-two miles of the
“Guatemala Northern Railroad” at a
round sum of $30,000 per mile, equip
ped. and most of the 300 men employed
by the contractors were from the 1 nited
States, chiefly from New Orleans and that
vicinity, and the whole work was under
the management of ('apt. Grant, a south
ern railroad engineer of high reputation.
The government of Guatemala agreed to
pay upon the completion of each one
mile of the road, and on these terms mat
ters went on smoothly for a time. Ihe
contractors completed and received pay
ment for twelve miles of road. Then
came the war between the Central Amer
ican Republics, brought on by the act of
Barrios ill proclaiming himself “Military
Dictator of Central America.” During
thcK* troubles the Government treasury
was so depleted as to cause it to fail to
pay for four aditionnl miles of the afore
said railroad as they were finished. At
this juncture starvation staml the
American workmen in the face. They
were wholly destitute, and could not ob
tain necessary food, nor could the sick
among them obtain medicine.
A QUIET HINT.
The United States Minister, Henry C.
Hall, was appealed to. and he came to
the rescue, lie called upou the president
of the republic, and - insisted that the
sums due to the contractors, tin amount
sufficient to pay the wages due to the
men and their passages to New Orleans,
l>e supplied at once. This suggestion
was complied with immediately. In ad
dition to this prompt compliance with
the demand of the United States Minis
ter. the president informed Minister
Hull that it would l>e necessary for
the government to rescind the contract
for constructing the railroad, but that it
would be done upon equitable terms. In
the meantime, however, there were many
other destitute foreigners at Livingston,
Guatemala, all or nearly all of whom had
gone from New Orleans, ostensibly in
search of work. Upon urgent represen
tations to the government at Washing
ton as to the general destitution and
suffering from want and privation, the
United States ship Swartara was sent to
Livingston, and, after relieving the ini:
mediate wants of the sufferers, brought
Thick to New Orleans seventy-eight men.
In his account of this matter our Consul,
Mr. Hall, remarked that the Swartara
was the first representative of the United
States unval power that had shown
upon the bay of Livingston, Guatemala,
within more than forty years, and, he
added, suggestively, that “a quiet, unos
tentatious display of power will in these
Central American Republics accomplish
more than diplomatic moves.”
“UNCLE BILLY” TOOMBS.
Death ot* tho On y African Who
Refused to Accept his Fieo
(loia After the War.
Washington, Ga., August 23. —To-day
the body of “Uncle Billy” Toombs was
buried in the colored cemetery here in the
presence of a large number of the best
white citizens, as well as of almost the
entire colored population. Prominent
among those present and taking charge
of the arrangements were tho family of
the late Gen. Robert Toombs. “Uncle
Billy wos born eighty-two years ago,
the slave of Maj. Toombs, and was 11
years of age when the major’s son, Rob
ert, was born. Billy was assigned to
duty as the boy in waiting to the baby,
and took great interest in his develop
ment.
When young Mr. Toombs grew up and
married, his father presented him with
Billy, and ever after the closest Irieml
ship existed between the two. Billy ac
companied his muster to Washington,
to tin- fashionable watering places, and
to Europe. In this way he became fa
miliar with many distinguished people.
In all this change of life, however, Billy
never lost his head, but was polite and
faithful to his master's interests. Before
the war lie had an intense, hatred for the
abolitionists, refusing to countenance
them in any way. When the wav was
over and the Toombs family had gath
ered once more at the old family man
sion. Billy returned there too as well as
the rest.
“You are free now," said Gen. Toombs
to him.
“I’ll never bo free from old master,"
said lie, “but I will follow you all the
rest of my life.”
To this Gen. Toombs replied: “Very
well, then, I'll take care of you.”
Ever after this Billy was the most de
voted of servants, looking after his mas
ter’s interests as though they were his
own. When Gen. Toombs died two years
ago he left full provision for “Uncle Bil
ly’s maintenance, and no mourner at the
general's grave shed warmer tears than
did the faithful old African who lingered
there long after the crowds had melted
away. “Uncle Billy” will be remember
ed as the only African who absolutely
refused to accept his freedom.
Bloody Perspiration.
Louisville Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.
A man named John Kabeisko is now
at the city hospital, and the peculiar
malady with which he is suffering is at
tracting the attention of all the physi
cians of this city. The man perspires
blood, and at times in very large quan
tities. He is a Pole by birth, and, ac
cording to his own story, has been work
ing on the Panama Canal for the past
three years.
He claims he was attacked by a viru
lent fever about a year ago and lingered
between life and death for some weeks.
After his recovery he noticed one day,
while wiping the perspiration from his
brow, that blood spots were left on his
handkerchief. From that time on the
strange affection increased until from
any slight exercise his whole body would
bleed, leaving his underclothes one mass
of blood. The physicians of Honduras
treated him for the disease, but were un
able to be of any great service to him,
and finally advised Kabeisko that the
only chance for his life was to proceed to
some cooler climate.
At times the attacks are very mild
and at others very violent. After one of
the latter the man is left in such a weak
ened condition that at times it is with
difficulty his life is sustained by nourish
ment and care. The men of medicine of
this city have diagnosed Kabeisko’s case,
but cannot account for blood oozing
through the pores of his skin. He seems
to be getting somewhat better, mul it is
the belief that cold weather will entirely
restore him to health. Kabeisko was
suffering with an attack this morning.
He was very weak, and his body and
face were covered with small drops of
blood, which, when removed with a towel,
left the crimson color on it. The Pole is
a man of more than average intellect,
and has traveled all around the world.
An Heirloom from the South.
New York Mail and Express.]
A rich laee shawl of an ohl-fashioned
pattern hangs in the ladies’ parlor of
one of the hotels at Long Branch to be
raffled off at $5 a chance. There is a
strange story connected with it. A fam
ily of wealthy southerners are staying
here, and the shawl was sent them by
oneof their neighbors down in Louisiana
to l>qdisposed of. It is the last posses
sion of a family that before the war lived
in luxurious ease and plenty. All their
belongings have gone the “way of thin
shawl, one by one, to maintain them,
and now they have come to their .last.
The shawl will probably bring floO. A
reporter was talking with the gentleman
iti whose charge it is. He said that there
were many families down south in the
same straitened circumstances.
‘‘l know what you pushing people of
North will answer,” he continued. “You
will ask why they don't turn round and
gain their living in some way, but they
can't. They don't know how to work.
You see, many of them had gone beyond
the prime of life when the war began,
and they were too far advanced when it
ended to adjust themselves to the new
conditions. Those of them who are
alive to-day get along by parting with
their heirlooms and family relics, just as
do these friends of mine who own that
shawl.”
I)r. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescription" is
the debilitated woman's best restorative
tonic.
WOMEN BEGIN TO DRINK
Startling Figures From a Pris
on Superintendent.
Godov's Lady’s Book ]
Out of au examination of 204 ineb
riate women I have found that 128 be
gan their drinking by the use of beer, 27
by drinking whisky (as punch at. first
usually,), 20 began wine, 8 with gin, and
11 could not remember what beverage
was first used. These young girls, mill
and shop girls largely, began by going
to some so called refreshment saloon
with their friends, and the debutante
usually began by sipping a little tonic
(made of hops, sugar and water, charg
ed with carbonic acid gas and colored
with burnt sugar): l>eer soon followed,
and soon rioting, other kind of intoxi
cants, recklessness an<l crime; and what
was an innocent, foolish girt yesterday is
to-day a branded criminal, and all for a
glass of beer. Alas! how many ruined
lives 1 have seen. Beer was also the bev
erage which older inebriate women used
to entice the younger ones to drink. A
call upon one of these old sots was tin*
signal for the pitcher of beer to be sent
for, and a little coaxing and urging
would result in the first fatal glass being
indulged in. The steps were then easy.
Beer is the trap which the drunkard
maker sets for the fret of the unweary.
And he usually makes sure of his prey
because of it. A glass of raw whisky
would have presented but slight attrac
tion to these overworked, half-fed girls
had it been offered them tit first. After
that sleeping devil, tho appetite for in
toxicants, had been aroused by beta*, it
became altogether a different matter,
and at last in many cases, chloroform or
peppermint oil was added to the drink
of these maddened creatures, so furious
had the ap]ietito become for something
stronger.
It may be of interest to note that out
of the 204 inebriate women 12(5 had beeh
guilty of other crimes, and yet in but
sixteen instances did the first commit
ment of a crime antedate the habit of
drinking.
Of the beverages first used, while in
but thirty-seven cases it began with
whisky, in 187 it had become the favor
ite beverage. Several hopeless drunk
ards, far gone toward insanity, had nev
er drank another intoxicant than beer.
One hundred and thirty-two were com
mitted to prison for drunkenness, fifty
six for offenses against chastity and pub
lic order and sixteen for crimes against
property. Their ages when last com
mitted averaged thirty years, six months.
Sixty-five were between thirty and forty
one years of age, forty-nine betwren
twenty and twenty-six years of age, and
thirty between fifteen and twenty-one
years of age. The remainder were over
forty-one years of age.
Many of the older ones could not tell
how many sentences they have received,
showing the absolute uselessness of pun
ishing these poor creatures while the
temptations are left in their way.
To show the effect upon the children
of inebriate parentage, I collected the
following: Of 111 inebriate mothers, 33
of whom had inebriate mothers, 408
children were born. Of these, 227 per
ished in infancy and early childhood,
and of the survivors many are doomed
evidently to an early death. In many
cases the death of these children was in
directly due to the inebriety of flu* pa
rents, as cold, deprivation, etc. Ages:
Twenty-seven of the 203 women began
to drink intoxicants before they were ten
years of age; 11 between the ages of 9
and 15; 74 between 14 and 21; 37 be
tween 20 and 20; 33 between 25 and 31;
19 between 30 and 41; 3 between 40 and
71.
Average age, 18 1-2 years. More than
one-half had formed habits of intemper
ance before they were 21 years of age,
and more than one-third at the giddy
age of from 1 5 to 20 inclusive.
One hundred and thirty-two began to
drink socially and with female friends.
L. M. Hall,
Superintendent Woman’s Reformatory
Prison, Sherborn, Mass.
Immoral Pictures.
Mr. Si Hawkins, editor of the Coving
ton Enterprise, and member of the Home
ot RepreseTtatives from Newton county,
has introduced a bill prohibiting the stile
of any merchandise accompanied by in
decent pictures. This is in the right direc
tion and the bill ought to pass. As re
marked by the Macon Telegraph, “the
greed of money has made men traffic in
the lewd of man’s nature. Cheap goods
are put on the market with the sole
merit (?) that accompanying them were
pictures that by their lewd nature ap
pealed to the vicious imagination of the
younger people. Lustful pictures are
getting prevalent, and half grown boys
walk up and down our streets with their
pockets full of them. We have known
older men, who make loud professions in
favor of moral reforms, to thumb with
evident pleasure through a large collec
tion of these obscene pictures wit h the
small boys who had collected them for a
pocket museum, and jest and remark
about the suggestions they force upon
the boys’ mind under such circumstances.
We know of nothing more corrupting to
the youthful mind, and we trust the
Hawkins’ bill will become alaw. —Valdos-
ta Times.
A successful young farmer said re
cently to a writer:* “I am convinced,
after trying different plans of dealing
with farm hand tenants, especially col
ored laborers, that much of the diffi
culty encountered is due to tho farmer’s
lack of patience and sagacity. If he
would recure the very best ;nen he could
find, place confidence in them from the
start; if he would set them a good exam
ple of thrift, energy and sobriety, they
would care less about excursions, fre
quent the grogshop shows less, and keep
the weeds and grass out of the crop in
nearly every instance.” This advice to
others, we learned from his neighbors,
was literally followed by himself and
was evidently the foundation of his own
success. Certainly the rule of justice,
frankness and common sense must pro
duce results similar to these whenever
put into operation. The same farmer,
by his forbearance and wise liberality,
has acquired a control even over the
tenants of his farm such as might well
have been envied in the days of slavery;
but its basis is self respect on both sides
and enlightened self interest.
Statistics of Oil Wells
Statistics show that 53,000 wells have
been drilled in Pennsylvania and New
York since the discovery of petroleum,
at a cost of $200,000,000. These
wells have produced 3X0,000.000 barrels
of oil, which were sold at the wells for
$500,000,000. This represented a profit
to the producer of $300,000,000. The
amount of oil exported is placed at
6,231,102,923 gallons. In the pool in
Washington county alone $3,200,000,
has been expended in machinery and
drilling. This does not include the many
millions that are represented there in the
natural gas industry. Independent of
the oil business there is about $50,000,
000 invested in natural gas plants in
Pennsylvania. These are majestic fig
ures, and serve to show the magnitude
of the oil and gas business.—Oil City
Derrick.
Do you suffer from scrofula, salt
rheum, or other humors? Take Hood s
Sarsaparilla, the great blood purifier.
XOO doses one dollar.
A Talk With aGreely Survivor
From the Sim Francisco Examiner.}
“Yes. I'm Private Council, one of the
six survivors of the Greely exptHlition,
and the only one on tho coast, hut you
can t get anything out of me about what
was done during the last days of starva
tion nmi terror,” was the response a re
porter met with last evening from the
gentlemen above named, when asked if
the published story of murder and can
nibalism was true. “All I have to say
is that 1 never did any thing of the kind.
What others may have done is none of
my business, and 1 don't propose to gos
sip about it."
“But if they were equally innocent as
yourself, why not say so?” persisted the
reporter.
“1 tell you I don't want to talk about
the matter at all. It's past an 1 gone.
I'm glad of it. If an official litigation
should be calk'd I'd gladly testify to all
1 know, so as to clear myself from any
imputations of ever having shot and
eaten anybody'. I tell you 1 didn’t do
it.”
“Your refusal to say that none of the
others did so either will convey the im
pression that, they did eat their fellows."
“I can't help that. I'm not testifying
before a court, and until that time comes,
if it ever does, and l wish it would, I
shall say nothing. Then I should prove
that I never ate any of my fellows, nor
shot them either.”
“How long were you without anything
to eat?”
“A month."
“VYhut! you ate nothing for a month?"
“Nothing but a few lichens 1 found
upon the rocks, and 1 think l should
have bren quite as well without them.
The nourishment derived from them did
not compensate for the exhaustion en
tailed by the effort necessary to secure
them.”
“Don't you know that the instinct of
self-preservation under sueh circumstan
ces would prompt a man to cannibal
ism?”
“Well. 1 tell you I didn't doit, what
ever the provocation may have been.”
“But you refuse to say other survivors
didn’t do it.”
“Let them answer for themselves. The
fact is that for a long time I did not
know what they were doing. 1 hardly
knew what, 1 was doing myself. You re
member ( apt. Norman, the ice ‘master,
says he found me insensible. I suppose
three or four hours would ha ve finished
me.”
“Then what Capt. Norman says is
true?”
“No; I didn't say that. 1 tell yon 1
don't know anything about it. You'll
have to find that diary he speaks about."
ADVICE TO MOTHERS.
Mas. Winslow’s Soothing Svitue, for
children teething, is the prescription of
one of tin* 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
diarrlnea, griping in the bowels, and
wind-colic. liy giving health to the
child if rests the mother. Brice 25c. a
bottle.
Highest market price paid for country
produce. Farmers you will save money
by calling on Glenn Jones.
A Free and Easy Legislature.
The Georgia Legislature is thus dis
cussed, under the above heading, by the
Charleston News and Courier:
The Columbia Register remarks that
the scandalous duel of words between
Felton and Simmons in the Georgia
Legislature, and wliieh passed unrelmked
by the speaker, although in violation?of
the well established principles of parlia
mentary law. would not have been toler
ated in the South Carolina Legislature.
This is undoubtedly so; but the Geor
gia Legislature is not to be judged by
ordinary rules, inasmuch as it is an ex
traordinary body. Last year when the
news of the election of Governor Gordon
was received in Atlanta, Mr. H. W.
Grady, of the Atlanta Constitution, at
the head of a crowd of friends and fel
low-citizens, marched down to the Capi
tol and entered the hall of the House of
Representatives Which was then in ses
sion. Mr. Grady bustled to the speaker's
stand, and without any more ado, an
nounced the result of the election, and
declared, in the name of the people of
Georgia, that the House stood adjourn
ed. The speaker laughed, and the House
roared. It was taken as a good joke.
If they had attempted anything of
that sort ,in Columbia, Mr. Grady and
his friends would have laughed on the
other side of their “big mouves.” Mr.
speaker Simmons would have sent the
whole party to jail in short order, and,
if necessary, the members of the Legis
lature would have acted as a posse to
compel obedience to his command.
We accidently overheard the following
dialogue on the street yesterday.
Jones. Smith, why don’t you stop
that disgusting hawking and spitting?
Smith. How can 1? You know I am
a martyr to catarrh.
J. Do as I did. I had the disease in
its worst form, but 1 an. well now.
S. What did you do for it.
.J. I used I)r. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
It cured me and it will cure yon.
S. I’ve heard of it, and by Jove I'll
try it.
Do so. You'll find it at all the drug
stores in town.
The Baby.
Away down, close to the keep, dark
bottom of the night he awakes; with one
eye half open and the other eye half
shut, he lies meditating. The night is
cold and disagreeable and the parents
lie peacefully sleeping in their warm and
comfortable bed. Wearied to the verge
of exhaustion for his special benefit, the
sleep they are indulging is indeed a luxu
ry. Any vocal performance on the part
of the baby just at this time will be ex
actly as unseasonable and unreasona
ble as possible; any shout in the domes
tic camp w ill disrupt the eternal fitness
of things to the greatest imaginable ex
tent. Baby studies the momentous bear
ings, views the situation and turns his
eyes and gazes long and steadily at the
silent sleepers. At length the decision is
formed, and he blows a blast and sounds
a whoop that would wake any parents but
dead parents. The parents appreciate
the “melodious sonnet,” and with glad
and happy hearts they rise to a point of
order.
THE OED GRANDMOTHER
insists on the mother giving the little
one Dr. Digger’s Huckleberry Cordial.
She knows it will cure both young and
old of all bowel troubles, and not consti
pate, as many preparations do, with in
jurious efteet.
A negro who was resuscitated from
drowning was telling of w hom he saw in
the other world. “See any white folks in
hell, Tom?” asked his master. “Lord
save us, der ain’t no end to cm, laif, b\
gosh, niassu, eberv white man done got
a nigger between him and de fire!
THE EITTEE ORPHAN
Mrs Seago, one of the trustees of the
New Orleans Orphan Home, give Dr.
Digger’s Huckleberry Cordial for toe re
lief of all bowel troubles. She never suf
fers herself to be without it.
A in: V UTI B EM ENTS.
The Cor rant-Ami; iucan is titf, only
Paper Published in one ok the 13e;T
Counties in North Georgia. Its Cir
culation IS SECOND TO NONE OF ITSCLASS.
Reasonable Rates on Applicat ion.
51.50 Per Annum.—sc. a Copy.
A Romance With u Moral.
At one of the summer resorts which
abound in North Georgia a father and
mother and their daughter, a handsome
young lady not quite 20 years of age,
spent two months a few years ago. They
boarded with a private family. Among
other visitors at the resort was a young
man who was quite prominent upon all
social occasions. He was not a native
of Georgia, but was from a western
state. He seemed to have plenty of
money, he was not ill looking, he had
plausible manners and he made himseif
agreeable. He was introduced to the
young lady at a picnic. Their acquain
tanceship almost, immediately liecaine
friendship, and the latter, upon the
part of the young lady, at least, soon
rqiened into love. They became engaged.
The young man explained to the father
and mother that his family was good;
that he had ample means, and that his
presence in Georgia was due to the fact
that he had been nearly every where and
wanted to enjoy whatever pleasure lie
could find iu new fields. Neither father
nor mother made any inquiries about
him, but, us many other parents have
done in similar eases, accepted Ids state
ment as true. Within a tew months the
young jM'ople were married.
Phere is a sequel to this little romance,
and it is one that is not uncommon.
The young man was an imposter. He
was of a good family, but lie had no
money, and his habits were very bad.
Father, mother and wife decided to
make the best of affairs, and, if possible,
to conceal their bitter disappointment.
The father has a worthless son-in-law* to
support, the mother grieves over the
blasted lift 1 of her daughter, and the un
happy wife lives in Seclusion and nurses
her woes.
Of course this romance has a moral.
Young ladies are frequently not careful
enough about acquaintances they make.
They easily allow themselves to be im
posed upon by almost any good looking
young man who stems to have plenty of
money, and whose nmnnersare pleasant.
Barents are often not sufficiently cau
tious about countenancing their (laugh
ters associates. Certainly when mar
riage is in question the most careful in
quiries should be made about the men
who wish to become the husbands of
their daughters. It is always well, where
the suitors are strangers, to find out all
there is to know about them. Advice
liketliis is often given. Unfortunately,
it is seldom heeded.—Savannah News.
Cost of Solomon’s Temple.
According to the computation of Vil
lalpantlus, the talents of gold, silver and
brass used in the construction of the
temple amounted to £O, 879,821,500.
The jewels are reckoned to have exceeded
this sum, but lor the sake ofan estimate,
let their value tie set down at the saint'
amount. 4 he vessels of gold consecrated
to the use of the temple are reckoned by
Sosephns at 14-0,000 talents, which ac
cording the Chapel's reduction, are equal
to £;45,290,208. The vessels of silver
art* computed at .€489,844-,000. The
silver vestments of the singers, £2,000,-
000. The trumpets amounted to £200,-
000; other musical instruments to £40,-
000. To these cx] muses must lit* milk'd
those of the other materials, the timber
and the stone, and the labor employed
upon them,the labor being divided thus;
There were 10,000 men at Lebanon hew
ing timber; there were 10,000 bearers of
burdens; 20,000 hewers of stoat'; and
•1,800 overseers, nil of whom were em
ployed for seven years, and upon whom,
besides their wages and diet. Solomon
bestowed £0,733,977 iu donations. If
the daily food and wages of each man
be estimated at 4s. (id., the sum total
will be $93,877,088. The costly stone
and tin liter, in the rough, may lie set
down at least equal to one-third of the
gold, or about £2,545,290,000. The
seveml estimates will then amount to
£7 7,521, 005,630. —Knglish Fxchunge.
now TO GAIN FLESH AND STRENGTH.
Use after each meal Scott’s Emulsion
with hydrophosphites. It is as palata
ble as milk, and easily digested. The
rapidity with which delicate people im
prove with its use is wonderful. Use it
and try your weight. Asa remedy for
consumption, throat affections and
bronchitis, it is unequalled. I'lease read:
“I used Scott’s Emulsion iu a child 8
months old with good results. He gain
ed four pounds in a very shod time.’’—
Tho. Brim. M. I)., Alabama. “I gave
Scott's Emulsion to a gentlemad 05
years old troubled with chronic bronchi
tis, with the most excellent results."—J.
C. ( a-on. Broken Arrow, Ala.
Sep 1-1 in
An exchange says: “An editor is a
man who is liable to grammatical er
rors, toothache, tyjihographical blun
ders, and lapse of memory, and usually
lie has ninety-seven thousand people
watching and criticising him on ninety
seven thousand different features of his
paper. He is a man of sorrow, ac
quainted with grief and frequently liable
to get ragged, hungry and thirsty for a
long period. And yet the woods are fall
of peopls who want to be an editor.”
An old tramp who had agreed to saw
wood for half an hour for his breakfast
from a Baltimore woman quit at the
seventh stick and said. “Madam, 1 have
struck for more breakfast and less wood;
are you willing to arbitrate?” “Cer
tainly, she replied, and she left the case
in the hands of her bulldog, who ran
the tramp half a mile and decided tha* a
lockout was inevitable.—Exchange.
Phillips’ Legion ! Attention.
A number of Phillips' Legion met at
Acworth, Ga., Thursday 25th inst., and,
after consultation, determined to rail a
preliminary meeting to make suitable
arrangements for a re-finion of the Le
gion, and to fix the time and place.
On motion, it was resolved, that the
preliminary meeting be held at Carters
ville, on the 10th of September, at 10
o’clock a. m.. and that every company
be requested to be represented by dele
gates, or eonnnunieate their wishes by
writing—addressing the secretary.
Resolved, That a copy of the above 1 e
published in the Atlanta Cons!itution,
Macon Telegraph, Milledgeville papers,
Clarksville Advertiser, Marietta Journal,
Cherokee Advance, Dalton pa]sis, Car
ters ville Coirant-American and Greens
boro Herald. R. It. Habgis,- Secy.,
Cass Station, Ga.
IT NEEDS NO MICROSCOPE
to perceive an increase in flesh, and an
improvement in temper in a feeble. ]>eev
ish infant, fed upon Lactated Food,
w hich embodies the chemical components
of mother’s milk, blended in just the
right proportion to flourish infants aud
invalids most efficiently.
THE MIND (TRE.
The theory of the mind cure may do
for some hysterical ease, hut for chron
ic bowel troubles, croup, colic, diarrluea,
dysentery, Dr. Digger’s Huckleberry Cor
dial is the surest and best cure. Keep it.
THE LIFE OF A CIIIED.
Mr. W. L. Fain, a large commission
merchant, says he owes the life of his
child to Dr. Digger's Huckleberry Cor
dial. It always gradually checks the
bowels and does not constipute, as many
do.
Parties wanting Ice for table use should
purchase it from J. \V. Bridges, as he
delivers it in any quantity, and at any
hour desired, on reasonable terms, by
monthly contracts. tf