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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
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arrangements for all the Monthly and Sem-An
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Company, and In person manage and control
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pay all Prizes draw n in The Louisiana State
Lotteries which may be presented at our coun
ters.
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U Over Haifa Million Distributed.
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Incorporated in 1 SOS for 25 years by the Legis
lature for Educational and Charitable purposes
—with a capital of #l,ooo,ooo—to which a reserve
fund of over #550.000 has since been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its franchise
was made a part of the present State Constitu
tion adopted December 2d, A. f>,, IS7O.
The only Lottery ever voted on and endorsed
by the people of any State.
It never scales or postpones.
Its Grand Single Number Drawings
take place monthly, and the Semi-
Annual Drawings regularly every six
months (June and December).
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ber 1 3, 1887—208th Monthly Drawing.
Capital Prize $150,000.
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Fifths, *2. Tenths, sl.
LIST OF PRIZES.
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1 (IRANI) PRIZE OF 50,000 50,000
1 (IRANI) PRIZE OF 20,01 K. 20,000
2 LARGE PRIZES OF 10,000 20.000
4 LARGE PRIZES OF 5,000 20,000
20 PRIZES OF ‘ 1.000 20,000
r >o *. 500 25,000
100 “ 300 30,000
200 “ 200 40,000
500 ** 100 50.000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
100 Approximation Prizes of #3OO #30,000
100 “ “ 200 20, (MX)
100 • “ 1(H) 10,000
1,000 “ “ 50 50,000
2,179 Prizes, amounting to #535,000
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REMEMBER ence of Generals
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and that no one can possibly divine what hura
l.er will daaw a Prize.
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chartered rights are recognized in the highest
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anony inous schemes.
Notice This As You Pass By.
111. L BRADLEY
WEST MAIN STREET,
CARTERSVILLE, GEO.,
Carriagies, Baggies | Wagons,
And do all kinds of
Repairing in Wood and Iron,
Making new pieces when neoesaary. He is also
prepared to do all kinds of BLACKSMITHING.
None but the l(est workmen employed who can
inake anythin* that is made of wood or iron.
All work WARRANTED TO GIVE SATISFAC-.
TION. Terms reasonable, Work done promptly
(jive him a trial and be convinced.
D. W. X.. PEACOCK,
REAL ESTATE,
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
minerals a specialty.
Reai Estate bought and sold. Information
fully given.
CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY. SEPT. 8, 1887.
WILLIAM TATUM WOFFORD.
Tlie Memorial at tlie Reunion of h's
Regiment, the Eighteenth Georgia
Gen. William Tatum Wofford was born
in Habersham county, Ga.. on the 28th
day of June, 1824. and died at his resi
dence near Cass Station, in Bartow coun
ty, on the 22nd of May, 1884. His an
cestors were an old Virginia family. His
father died when he was a mere child.
He was educated at the common schools
in his neighborhood, and was taught by
his mother the noble traits and fine im
pulses which distinguished his long ca
reer. He attended a high school at Law
renceville, and was noted for his indus
try, perseverance, integrity and sociabil-
ity. After leaving this school he studied
law at Athens, Ga., and was admitted to
the bar in the year 1845, and soon there
after located at Cassville, where he at
tained eminence at the bar in competi
tion with some of the brightest legal
minds of the state. In 1847, then quite
a young man, he raised a company of
cavalry and went to Mexico to join in
the war then raging between the United
States and that country. Here he dis
tinguished himself in a skirmish with a
large force of Mexican guerrillas, dis
playing that cool courage that so highly
distinguished him in the war between
the states. His company was in a l.a
tallion commanded by Lieutenant-Colo
nel James E. Calhoun, of Columbus, Ga.
For his conduct in Mexico he was com
plimented by a public resolution of tlie
general assembly of Georgia in 1850.
After the conclusion of a treaty of pence
with Mexico he returned to his home in
Cass county, and was the next year
elected to the house of representatives
from Cass county, which then included
nearly all of Gordon county. He served
this and the succeeding term of the legis
lature with credit to himself, though one
of the youngest members, la his election
he received the highest vote in the coun
ty. The legislature of 1851 was distin
guished for the number of brilliant and
experienced men it contained. It was
probably the ablest legislative body ever
assembled in the state, consisting of
such men as R. H. Hill, James A. Merri
wether, Fancis S. Bartow, James 1 Sew
ard, Dr. \V. 11. Felton and many others
of like characters. Yet General Wofford
was said at the time to be one of the
most useful members of the distinguished
house. He did not aspire to a seat in
the next house, but was almost unani
mously elected clerk, which position he
filled to the satisfaction of all. He con
tinued to practice his chosen profession,
the law.
On the 16th of August, 1859, he was
united in marriage in Hopedale. in Mur
ray county, (Ja., with Miss Julia A.
Dwight, daughter of Dr. Samuel B.
Dwight. Four daughters were born to
him, the three eldest dying in infancy,
the other, Miss Lela Dwight Wofford,
his only living child, now live with her
mother’s relatives in Murray county, a
very popular, fascinating young lady,
and truly a worthy daughter of an illus
trious sire. lie was greatly opposed to
secession, and his career, connected with
his canvass and election as a delegate to
the secession convention in 1861, is tlie
most remarkable and illustrative of his
life. He ran as an anti-secessionist. The
fiery fervor of that day cannot be de
scribed. Public feeling was at a white
heat. The blinding adumbration of war
was over the land. Men lived in a nam
ing excitement. The contagious and ir
resistible fever of revolution, inspired
by a believed wrong, was seizing a peo
ple. It was a wild time, growing wilder,
and in the delirious influences men threw
themselves into the rushing current with
frenzied enthusiasm. Opposition, re
monstrance, protest, were unavailing.
It was suggestively characteristic ot
General Wofford in this feverish passion
that he - coolly and resolutely set bis
head against the popular current. He
opposed secession and took the field as
an anti-secession candidate to the seces
sion convention. Ht was a decided union
man from first to last during the w hole
war, though fighting with conspicuous
gallantry to the end of the struggle, for
the south, lie was elected by about one
hundred majority, the county voting
about 3,000.
His course in the convention was op
position to secession in any shape, but
when the state, through her chosen rep
resentauives, spoke, he, as a loyal Geor
gian, accepted the situation and volun
teered his services in defense of his state,
and no more brave or gallant officer ever
led a regiment or brigade into deadly
conflict.
Entering the state service at the be
ginning of the war as captain of a com
pany he was elected colonel of our regi
ment at Camp Brown in April, 1861.
Our regiment was at that time a part ot
Geneml Phillips’ brigade, and was turn
ed by Gov. Brown over to the confedera
cy in August, 1801, He was placed in
command of the famous Texas brigade
and led through the Maryland campaign
in 1802.
In January, 1863, lie was commission
ed Brigadier,, and his brigade was com
posed of the 16th, 18th and 24th regi
ments and Phillip’s and Cobb s legion.
In the battle of Chancellorsville, ou the
sth of May, 1863, and the second battle
of Fredericksburg, 6th of May, 1863, he
did conspicuous service. In the first tight
his brigade was on the right of, Lee’s ar
my. He saw the federal troops moving
back when J; e cson struck them, and
begged to be permitted to charge the en
emy’s flank.
At tlie fateful heights of Gettysburg
he added to his deserved military reputa
tion. On the third day of this fight Gen
eral Longstreet seut for General W oftord
ami carried him to General Lee, who
questioned him closely as to the progress
of the charge he had made the day be
fore’ Gen. Wofford said he believed he
could have taken the heights if support
ed. General Longstreet asked him if he
believed lie could do it then. Wofford,
with deep reluctance, said he did not
think they could be carried at all,
strengthened as they must have been
during the night.
General Wofford’s brightest service
was at the battle of the Wilderness on
the 16th of May, 1864. Hill’s corps
was retreating. Lee s ordinance train
was in danger. Longstreet went in at
the double quick to help Hill. Wofford
was on the right of the corps and the
army. He had a narrow escape. A
minie ball struck h im in the breast, pen
etrated his overcoat, glanced upon a
button and dropped into the lining of his
vest. The enemy was repulsed. At this
juncture, General Wofford discovered a
chance to flank the enemy and applied
for permission to make a charge. It
was granted. It was royally made.
Wofford carried his brigade like a storm,
sweeping everything before it, and liter
ally uncovering Longstreet’s entire front.
But for Longstreet being wounded and
thus being disabled from taking prompt
advantage of the successful charge it
would have been followed up. For this
charge General Wofford was recommend
ed for promotion to major-general.
General Longstreet, in his recominen
tion, said that General Wofford “was
distinguished by the energy and rapidity
of his attack, and the skill and gallant
ry which lie handled his brigade.” Lieu
tenant General Anderson indorsed:
“General Wofford has constantly exhib
ited superior bead courage and ability.
General l>*e indorsed that General Wof
ford had “always acted with boldness
aud judgment, displaying great zeal and
promptness.” Ex-Governor Hersehel V.
Johnson, then confederate states sena
tor, wrote to General Wofford: “The
president esteems you very highly. Your
career has impressed him very favorably
toward you as a brave, energetic and
skillful general, and I am proud of you
as a Georgian.”
At the bottle of Spottsylvania. on the
eighth of May, 1864, General Wofford
again had a narrow escape. He was put
ting a piece of artillery in position and a
ball struck him, glancing one of his ribs.
On the 23rd of January, 1865, Gener
eral Wofford, by the request of the au
thorities and people of Georgia, and by
his own desire, entered upon duty as a
department commander in North Geor
gia. He made the last surrender this
side of the Mississippi at Kingston, Ga.,
on the twelth of May. 1865, to Gen
eral Judah, commanding federal troops
at Dalton. It was through General
Wofford’s instrumentality, in a confer
ence by flag of truce w ith General Judah,
that the starving |>eople were furnished
corn by the federal authorities.
After the surrender General Wofford
asked General Thomas to loan the jieo
ple 30,000 bushels of corn to feed them
while making a crop. That officer
promptly granted the request and the
corn was disti ibuted. General Wofford
also applied to General Thomas to make
an order that laid l>een issued and let
the people tuk<* and use the straggling
government stock scattered over the
country to help them farm. This re
quest was granted.
General Wofford was elected to con
gress in the fall of 1865 under an ordi
nance of tlie constitutional convention
of that year; but none of the members
from the seceded states were admitted to
seats during that congress.
The only other place to which he was
subsequently elected was a delegate from
his senatorial district to the constitu
tional convention of 1877. During the
deliberations of that body he made an
enviable reputation by his sensible and
conservative course. Had he been per
mitted to have his way many of the ob
jectionable features in our present con
stitution would have been eliminated
from it.
On the 2d day of October, 1880, Gen
eral Wofford was united in marriage in
Atlanta, Ga., with Miss Margaret Gang
dom a very estimable lady, who still
survives him, and at present resides in
Marietta, Ga.
General Wofford was a very charita
ble man, as well as lienevolent, and did
more for the poor than he was really able
.to do, but it was his nature to disfur
nisli himself to relieve the distressed
wherever he met them.
On Thursday, the 22<1 of May, 1884,
General Wofford quietly passed over the
river. His remains were interred in the
cemetery, at Cassville, by the side of his
beloved wife, at 1 o’clock on unlay.
In compliance with a request of his,
made some time before his death, he was
buried with only a simple Christian bur
ial, Rev, Theo. E Smith, of the Presby
terian church, officiating, although he
was a member of the Methodist church.
The large concourse of sorrowing
friends that followed his remains to their
last resting place testified the tender af
fection and high regard in which he was
held by his fellow citizens.
Jay Gould’s Sweet Daughter
Nellie.
New York World.]
Nellie Gould is one of the brightest and
sweetest little ladies in tlie city. She has
tlieen fully educated, and is highly ac
complished. She is an artist of no mean
ability, and her collection of bric-a-brac,
which has been adorned by her pencil
and brush, has been greatly admired.
She dresses plainly but richly, and when
in town can be seen any afternoon driv
ing through the park with one ot her
brothers. Miss Nellie Gould is probably
the richest heiress in America, and at
her father’s death will come in for $20,-
000,000, or $30,000,000. lake her
mother, she is not too proud to wait on
herself, and there are no French maids in
the Gould establishment. Mrs. Gould
and her daughter go shopping the same
as other women do, and return home
with their arms filled with bundles.
They don’t mind riding in horse cars
and they don’t put on nearly as much
style as the wife and daughter of the gro
cery man who serves them with the neces
saries of life.
The temple services were conducted on
a scale of musical magnificence which St.
Paul's or St. Peter’s may seek in vain
to-day to emulate. Two great choirs of
singers, one composed of Priests, the
other of Levi tea, were stationed opposite
one another at either side of the build
ing, and sang in antiphon the psalms
and canticles which made up the service.
The singers were flanked by instrumen
talists composed in like manner partly
of Priests, partly of Levites; who each
had their peculiar instruments, the latter
playing on cymbals, psalteries and
harps, the former on trumpets alone, of
enormous length and made of glittering
brass or gold. The gigantic masses of
the performers may better be imagined,
when the historian tells us that the
smallest contingent of the musical forces,
viz; the priestly trumpeters, numbered
alone one hundred and twenty players.
“One hundred and twenty priests blowing
with trumpets!” exclaims the historian
in a burst of eloquence. “A scream of
sound! Harshness is forgiven to that
enthusiasm which so wrestles for expres
sion and sees heaven open before its
eyes. For when they lifted up their
voice with the trumpets and the cymbals
and instruments of music, and praised
the Lord, saying, for He is good, for His
mercy endureth forever; behold! then
the house was filled with a cloud, even
the house of the Lord, so that the priests
eould not stand to minister by reason
of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord
had filled the house of God.”
An ingenuous arrangement for main
taining automatically an equable tem
perature in rooms is the recent invention
of a Brooklyn man'. A wooden frame
which may be placed either in the upper
or lower sash, is divided into alternate
parts of glass and metal. The metal
strips are pivoted at each end and all
attached to one metal bar, which is con
nected at one end of the frame with the
armature of an electro-magnet, covered
by a wooden box, and the otlier end is
drawn back by a spiral spring. The
thermometer has a wire let into the
bulb, and also one fused into the glass
tube at any desired degree. The electro
magnet, thermometer, and battery are
connected by insulated wires. The mer
cury in the tube, acting as part of the
conducting wire, will, as it rises and
falls, connect and disconnect with the
wire fused in the side of the tube, thus
alternately attracting and releasing the
armature, and thereby opening and clos
ing the movable slats in the frame. It
has been practically demonstrated that
by the use of this instrument any apart
ment which is artificially heated may be
kept for days at a temperature which
will not vary more than one degree.
ADVICE TO MOTHERS.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, for
children teething, is the prescription of
one of the liest female nurses and physi
cians in the Baited States, and has been
used for forty years with never-failing
success by millions of mothers for their
children. During the process of teeth
ing, its value is incalculable. It relieves
the child from pain, cures dysentery and
diarrhoea, griping gi the bowels, and
wind-colic. By giving health to the
child it rests the mother. Trice 25c. a
bottle.
THE SOLID SOUTH.
DIGGING MILLIONS WORTH
OF MINERALS OUT OF
THE EARTH.
Blast Furnaces are Doubling’
While Cotton Factories
Are Going up. Seven
Years’ Growth.
Atlanta. Ga., August 26.—“1n seven
years,” said Mr. Henry W. Grady, the
well-known editor, sitting in the Pied
mont Exposition rooms, "the South has
increased her manufactures $213,000,-
000. By this 1 mean that in 1887 she
has dug out of the ground, or manufac
tured from the raw product, $213,000,-
000 worth of products that in 1880 she
had to do without or buy from the
North ana West. This does not include
the gain in her agricultural product. It
simply means ores, minerals, marbles
and manufactured goods. This state
ment is amazing. Its details are even
more so.”
“And the details are?”
“Why, this, for example: She now
has about forty iron furnaces in blast,
making 750,000 tons of iron a year.
She is now actually building thirty-one
new furnaces, with a capacity of more
than 1,000,000 tons a year, so that her
iron output will be more than doubled
when the furnaces now being built go
into blast. In 1880 she produced 450,-
000 tons of iron; in 1886, 750,000 tons,
and in 1889 she will produce 1,800,000
tons. The furnaces now being built will
add $20,000,000 a year to her income
dug from her iron beds and made into
pay.”
“Does the inci-ease in other lines com
pare with that in iron?”
A MILLION NEW SPINDLES.
“Yes. In the six years following the
Cotton Exposition she built 173 new
cotton mills, putting over 1,000,000
new spindles in motion. The cotton
seed oil mills grew in the past six years
from 46 to 146, and 10 new mills are
now being built at a cost of $1,150,000.
One third of the crop of cotton seed
now runs through the mills, yielding
$8,000,000 worth of crude oil. In fer
tilizer factories the same increase is
noticed. Georgia bought 160,000 tons
of fertilizer seven years ago, every ton
of which was bought in the North. Last
year 125,000 tons were manufactured in
Georgia, and this capacity will be
doubled in another year. Atlanta sup
plies a half-dozen Southern States with
trunks and valises. She sells agricultu
ral implements into Mexico, paper bags
into California, and razors over a dozen
States. A few years ago we seat North
for as simple a thing as coffins. Now a
coffin factory in Atlanta keeps a hun
dred men at work. There are not less
than a dozen furniture factories scat
tered about the city reaching up to fine
grades of furniture. Six years ago there
was hardly a broom factory in the South.
Now there are a dozen factories in Atlan
ta. All these smaller articles are manu
factured, in which labor is the main cost,
in which raw product is made valuable,
and in which small capital is needed and
the South, formerly relying entirely on
the North, now relies almost entirely
upon herself.”
“.You are utilizingyour raw material?”
THE MARBLE QUARRIES.
"Yes. We are just picking up our
buried resources. Fully $2,000,000 has
been invested in the past three years in
marble quarries in North Georgia, which
are now selling marble by the train-load
through the North and West. The
Georgia Granite Company has just
closed a $600,000 contract for four
months’ delivery of blocks to tlie streets
of Cincinnati. The same company paved
the streets of Columbus, 0. Our Besse
mer ores are being shipped by the train
load to Carnegie Brothers, of Pitts
burg, and other buyers. Our pine and
hard woods are being exported to every
available port. Every day develops
some new mineral or ore valuable to in
dustry or commerce. Prospecting
through the South lias the charm of
speculation and discoveries, and the land
is full of prospectors. It is anew sec
tion of exceeding fatness and richness,
and is being rapidly found out.”
“Are the farmers prospering?”
“Undoubtedly. Their crops last year
aggregated $715,600,000. The cotton
crop alone, the best money crop that
can be grown, averages more than
$400,000,000 a year. When our people
learn to raise the supplies that make
this crop and keep its enormous reve
nues at home, they will be the richest
people in the world. Every farmer who
does that now becomes prosperous and
and rich. You may take one thousand
who raise their own meat and bread,
and make cotton the surplus crop, and
nine hundred and ninety of them will be
prosperous men. The best formula and
opportunity for farming this earth af
fords is offered in the South to the man
who will raise his own meat and bread
and make cotton his surplus crop.”
THE PIEDMONT EXHIBITION.
“Will your Piedmont Exposition show
the resources of the South?”
“Admirably. Birmingham, Anniston,
Decatur, Sheffield, Gadsden, Home and
the other cities that have become fa
mous in the past few years will each
make a collective exhibit of their miner
als, woods and industries at the Exposi
tion. The railroads running through
Piedmont section will make collective ex
hibits of everything produced along
their lines. Twenty or thirty counties
will make exhibits of their agricultural
products, including everything produced
in the county from a humming-bird’s egg
to a Durham bull. Every variety of
grass and grain will be shown by sample
with statistics as to the land on which it
was grown, the climate, soil and price.
It will be such an epitome of the re
sources of the South as no man has
ever seen, classified and brought togeth
er so that an investor, or home seeker,
can by two or three days’ study get the
capacity of our lands and the chances of
investment and the habits of our people
as thoroughly as he could by traveling
six months through the byways of the
south.”
“Will he meet the people there?”
“In enormous numbers. President
Cleveland and his wife and several mem
bers of his cabinet will be present for
three days and the president will make
an address. The governors of almost
every southern state will lie there and
the jieople will come in multitudes. The
largest parade of volunteer soldiery that
the south has ever seen will be met and
reviewed by President Cleveland. The
old soldiers who fought on the battle
fields from Chattanooga to Atlanta have
been invited to ccune and revisit the
scenes through which they curried the
Union flag. Kennesaw mountain will be
illuminated handsomely and its crest
covered with artillery and a grand pyro
technic display will be had there.”
In Fashion’s Grip.
The long, narrow, toothpick-pointed,
close fitting shoe is again becoming fash
ionable, It is well named “close fitting.”
A thrilling experience with this style of
footwear convinces us that it fits 840
per cent, closer than the human skin. We
cannot conscientiously see this demoniac
evil healing down upon the guileless iu-
! habitants of this lair laud, ami remain
silent. The close fitting, toothpick shoe
is an unmitigated curse, It crowds the
land with bow-legged young men and in
growing toe nails: fills the air with
wrinkled visages and howls of agony,
rips the calf-skin binding off the romance
of love and even unties family ties, al
lowing the tattered ends to hang down
in a slovenly manner. We distinctly re
member wearing a pair of these shoes for
several conseeutive hours during the
haleyon days of our youth. Our feet
looked like a pair of slivers bound in
leather, and shortly afterward felt like a
couple of agitated carbuncles with the
jumping toothache. These shoes are
often an uusurmountable obstacle in the
course of true love and for some they
have made life, a hollow, smooth bore
mockery. Only a short time ago, a high
toned wedding was prevented and two
loving hearts torn asunder by a pair of
these foot-coverings. The young man
put on his blandest smile and close tit
ting shoes, one evening, and started out
to take his darling to the opera. With
his heart full of love and his feet full of
bunions, lie strode along right merrily.
While waiting in the parlor for the
young lady to get ready, he suddenly be
came aware of a painful sense of oppres
sion in his shoes. On his way to the op
era house the pain subsided somewhat,
but once there ami seated, it became in
tensified. He lifted one foot and then the
other, but the pain grew worse, and he
could plainly feel the shoes getting tight
er. In defiance of the laws of etiquette,
he crossed and recrossed his legs to ease
the pain, but the only perceptible effect
this had was to start a lot of girls in the
next row of seats to snickering and pass
ing remarks, among which such words
as‘‘St. Vitus’dance,” “Jim-jams,” etc.,
could be plainly heard, lie had only
spoken nine words to his lady-love since
entering the theater. lie half groaned :
“For heaven's sake when will the curtain
go up?” Then he shut his teeth hard.
He knew iflie opened his mouth he would
have to yell right out with the pain and
yet he felt that his continued silence was
causing the temperature to rise visibly
under his fair partner’s necklace. Asa
of fact his strange silence, togeth
er with the leg juggling performance, had
caused a horrible suspicion regarding
his temperance principles to Hit across
her mind. For appearance sake she
turned to make a pleasant remark to
him, but was still further shocked to find
his countenance covered with a scowl
fully an inch thick. A cold perspiration
burst through his skin and broke out all
over him with aloud report. At least
this was the way it seemed to him. lie
was becoming desperate when a happy
thought struck him. He removsd his
shoes without attracting the attention
of more than half the audience, and
placed his feet in front of him. This
eased the pain, but just as iiis heart be
gan to grow lighter, and he thought he
saw a way out of the dileinna, lus feet
began to swell rapidly. He looked at
them appealingly, but they continued to
swell in a manner that threatened to
crowd him out of .his seat. At the end of
the first act they were twice the size of
his Hue shoes, and his instep was hump
ed like the back of a family cat which lias
just caught sight of a strange dog about
Hie size of a sprinkling wagon. At the
end of the second act his pedal extremi
ties had assumed all the graceful propor
tions of a pair of Cincinnati prize hams,
and his bunions began to stick out like
door knobs. All this time liis fiance
never uttered a word. With eyes as big
as soap bubbles and blazing like electric
lights with indignation, she simply sat
there and watchtd those feet swelling up
towards her. Finally, gathering her
scattered senses together, she rose me
chanically, gave him a look which com
pelled him afterwards to sit over a hot
air register to thaw out the blood which
froze in his veins, and gathering her
skirts in her hand, she left the theater on
the dead run. A small boy afterwards
carried the shoes away under his arm,
but the young man had to have his feet
removed in a dray. He accompanied
them unwillingly and is thought to be
still hiding with them somewhere and
waiting for the swelling to go down. As
the young man has heard that the fath
er and brother of the young lady are
looking for what they term “that drunk
en scoundrel” with an old army musket
and anew self-cocking revolver, he
strongly suspects that the engagement
is broken. At any rate, there will be no
marriage. Love's young dream is shat
tered and the future blasted. The nar
row-toed, close fitting shoes may become
popular again, but if we had our way we
would station an athlete with a big fire
bell on every corner to ring out warnings
against it.
Tlie Lunatic Asylum.
The great institution which the state
has gradually built by at enormous ex
cuse at Midway, near Milledgeville,
away from the centres of news and poli
tics, as it should be, has gone on with
its work of benevolent care for the help
less so quietly for years that the average
citizen might at most have forgotten its
existence but for the addition to his tax
es made necessary by its large cost. The
gentlemen who have been at the head of
its management have stood high in their
profession, and their methods of treat
ment have been so successful that the
percentage of cures has compared favor
ably with those of the best similar insti
tutions in the country. For these rea
sons the people of the state have felt a
justifiable pride in the institution, and
have acquiesced cheerfully in the large
grants of money made by the legislature
in recent years, to be used in extending
the buildings and putting them in the
best condition for the comfort and safe
ty of their hundreds of inmates.
It was with regret, therefore, that they
heard intimations that the management
of the asylum had not in all respects
been good, especially' when the ground
upon which they were'based was a reso
lution offered in the legislature by a
member representing the county in which
the institution is located, and himself
formerly one of its officers. The investi
gation now going on will no doubt bring
out all the facts, and it is due the people
that, if any irregularities are developed or
any want of proper care for the unfortu
nate parents is shown, prompt and ef
fective remedial action should be taken.
These unfortunate jieople are, in a pecu
liar sense, the wards of the state, in their
helpless condition appealing as strongly
for help and protection as would so
many infants, and these, in full measure,
the state has intended to give. If there
has been a failure in duty on the part of
any one, it should be known. On the
other hand, if there is no just ground for
the intimations alluded to, or if there is
any reason to believe that personal feel
ing has actuated them, the facts should
be made perf< ctly plain. Thi- isnec< ssary
to the reputation of the officials of the
asylum and to the peace of mind of
those who have relatives in their care
Savannah News.
Cotton is not a fibre, but a plant hair.
It holds to be spun into a thread because
of peculiar twists in each hair, shown un
der the microscope, especially in polar
ized light. Linen thread may be spun
because the flax fibres have certain
roughness on their surfaces, which ena
ble them to cling together. Hence it is
impossible to make as fine linen as cot
ton cloth, but it is much stronger.
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Paper Published in one of the Be*t
Counties in Noktii Georgia. Its Cir
culation IS SECOND TO NONE OK ITsCIASS.
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EX-PRESIDENT DA MS.
Tie Jleeoa Fair Will Offset Atlanta'. Pres
idential Attraction Wltl the Fa-Pres
ident of the Confederacy.
Macon, Ga. .Sept. I.— Ex-President
Jefferson Davis has accepted an invita
tion to attend the State Fair in Macon
October 26th. On that day there will lie
a grand reunion of all surviving ex-con
federate soldiers who can get here. Pres
ident Xorthen, of the State Fair, arrived
here tonight from Beauvoir. He found
Mr. Davis suffering a little from tin*
wound received in the foot in the Mexi
can war, Mr. Davis said he would rath
er visit Macon than any city this far
south. He would he delighted to once
agaiu look on the surviving confederate
veterans. President Davis was captured
near Macon. He was always a favorite
here, ami his acceptance of the invita
tion has set the people wild with joy. Mr.
Davis will be provided with a special
bed-room car direct from his home to
Macon. Ten prominent citizens, most of
whom are his |iersoiml friends, will ac
company him to and fro. He will not be
harrassed by. heading a reception or
making speeches, as his health will not
permit it. lb* will review the veterans
in the State Fair park. The railroads
will make close connections, and run
with care and only at, a comfortable
sjieed in bringing him here. The grand
est reception ever given in the entire
country will be given ex-President Davis.
The city will be decorated profusely, and
the Main street intersections will be cov
ered with arches. This will probably lie
the last appearance of Mr. Davis before
the largest gathering of ex-confederate
soldiers ever assembled, and will lie made
forever historical in the south. Many
old soldiers have already written for the
entrance of the names of their regiments
to join iu the grand reunion. A railroad
rate of one cent, a mile will draw 100,000
people, Georgia and the south will turn
out on masse in this probable last, d<-
monstration of the head of the ex-con
federate govern men t.
Parties wanting Ice for table useshould
purchase it from J. W. Bridges, as lie
delivers it, in any quantity, and at any
hour desired, on reasonable terms, by
monthly contracts. tf
HOW TO GAIN FLESH AND STRENGTH.
Use after each meal Scott's Emulsion
with hydropliosphitcs. 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. Please read:
“I used Scott's Emulsion in a child H
months old with good results. He gain
ed four pounds in a very short time.” —
Tho. Prim. M. I)., Alabama. “I gave
Scott's Emulsion to a gentlemad 65
years old troubled with chronic bronchi
tis, with the most excellent results.”—J.
C. Cason, Broken Arrow, Ala.
Sep 1-1 m
She Talks With The Bark On.
From the Kansas City Journal.]
.Mi's. Richardson, a member of the
Salvation Army, who is a trifle too old
to pass for a Salvation lassie,entertained
a big crowd on the public square yester
day afternoon. In the course of a twen
ty minutes’ exhortation, she said the fol
lowing among other things:
“A saloon keeper is the devil s advance
agent.”
“1 haven't got any use for these kind
of people that keep their Christianity in
a bandbox six days in a week and take
it out on the seventh.”
“There is l't a church in this city that
that has got the spirit of God in it.
They will guarantee you aseat in heaven
for $l5O a year.”
“You can't get Christianity into a fool
any more than you can get bologna
sausage from a rattlesnake.”
“Do you think that a man with a chew
of tobacco in his mouth and a bottle of
whisky in his pocket is a fit temple for
the spirit of God?”
“I would try to get into heaven just
to keep out of the company there is in
hell, if for no other reason.”
“The Salvation Army is the people's
church. You don’-t have to wear a silk
dress there to get religion.”
“Jay Gould will have to take his brim
stone straight, just the same as the
poorest criminal.”
Highest market price paid for country
produce. Farmers you will save money
by calling on Glenn Jones.
An Electric Woman.
There is an electric woman in Green
ville county, S. C. Her name is Mrs.
Lockaby, the wife of a poor farmer, and
she has recently developed extraordinary
power. She has been visited by curious
people from all sections of the State.
About two months ago she began to
hear what she believed to be supernatu
ral noises about the house, such as slam
ming of the door, tapping on the walls,
the moving of furniture and the like.
The manifestations became so frequent
as to alarm herself and husband, and
they abandoned their home and went to
live with a neighbor, believing that their
house was haunted. But the noises were
even more pronounced than before, and
the frightened couple were compelled to
return to their own home, as their neigh
bors believed them to lie “possessed of
evil spirits” and refused them shelter
any longer. After returning to their
home the manifestations continued a
few days and then suddenly stopped.
About this time Mrs. Isxkaby began
to have strange sensations, similar to
the shocks of an electric battery, at
times so strong as to lx* painful. Then
it was that she discovered her extraordi
nary power to lift and move large aui
heavy bodies. She has exhibited her
power in various ways, although it is
only by great persuasion that she can
be induced to do so. She is very super
stitious and believes that she is pos
sessed by spirits. She regards the mat
ter Very seriously and expresses great
alarm lest is should lead bo something
dreadful.
I have a fine milch cow for sale, she
gives 3 or 4 gallons of rich milk per day.
(3. T. Jones, “Red Corner.”
We sell the old reliable 1H47 Rogers
Bros. Knives, Forks and Spoons, tin*
very best goods known to the trade.
Prices Guaranteed.
Turner & Baker.
Two Methods of Farming.
Wasted time.
Old fogy ism.
Wasted manure.
Poor cultivation with inferior tools.
Poor seed.
Tumble-down buildings.
Scrub stock.
Corner grocery.
Result: Heavy mortgage.
Rising with the lark.
Hard, persistent work.
Improved implements.
Vats for manure.
Well-drained lands.
Number oile stock in number ORe con
dition.
Eyes wide open.
Progressive ideas.
Result:. Farm clear, money in the
bank.