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SUBSCRIPTION. TltK COUHANT -AMERICAN 18 PunLISHF.D " EKKI..Y IN THE INTEREST OP BaUTOW County, Devoted Mainly to Local News, and Thinks it has a Kioht to Expect an Undivided County I’atkon- ADE YQL *| —|j[] J3] \M?HtCAS F ‘* t * h ' ,l * hii ' 1 ! ' <O * 9O, ' IDJkTBD ,BR ”* DRUGS! DRUGS! J. R. WIKLE & CO., (SUCCESSORS TO D. W. CURRY.) Have now in store the b't selected, most complete and varied stock of Drugs, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty, Periumes, Etc. IN NORTH GEORGIA. Come to jwm* nf>, PXftmine fjoo l* and get p ice*. Ptipiciaoi Pte ctiption* fll el with the gieuleat care day and night by a lice me I ph irm:i<it. AGENT ST7YTnTIDAs.EEX3 OIL COMPL’Y Ch.as. A. Wiki©, Manager. nmirni i ———————■————m—————— GHEAPGRQCERiES, GRAIN - , HAT, Etc., CO TO C. T. JONES’ AT THE “RED CORNER.” I deliver goods to any part of the city. I would be grateful for your patronage. McCanless’ Baling Press The cut represents the Hand Power. Can be operated by three hands. 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THE CHEAPEST AS WELL AS THE FINEST Parlor and Bod Room Suits in this section. __WE STILL CLAIM TO SELL BETTER GOODS , (>H LESS MONEY Than Auyother House in this Section. As space forbids mentioning everything, we will only enumera to a few. We hav linstock and to arrive FINEST PAIILOU FURNITURE. sUlsVl ANTIAL 11 El> ROOM FURNITURE, M uiiaa LOCKING CHAIRS, WARDROBES, 15A 15 Y CA RRIAGES at any Price, MATTINGS, RUGS,CARPETS Etc. LADIES. SEE OUR w .V L\j PAPER, of which W'C have the latest and most unique design. We Guarantee Prices and Goods. Respectfully, PEACOCK <& VEAL, CARTERSVILLE, GA. THE HOWARD HANK, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. JIT if'"*"" R3uJSrtS!l: ‘oiK&K.SSS&te ( ollecti n*s msule m aU parts or ine uiiiwru m ilati* ns consistent withs iietY ext. nded to itscustonu r a . JOHN T. NORKisj Real Estate and Fire Insurance, (UPSTAIRS-) First Door Soutbi of Howard s Bsxl • tvblO-ly * THE COUKANT-AMEKKM mo^H PURELY VEGETABLE. 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CAPITAL PRIZE, $150,000 “We do hereby certify that we supervise the arrangements for all the Monthly and Sem-An uual Drawings of The Louisiana State Lottery Company, and In person manage and control the Drawings themselves, and that the same are conducted will, honesty, fairness, audit, good faith toward all parties, and we authorize tt.e Company to use this certificate, with fac-slnsiles of our signature attached, in its advertisements.” Commissioners. We tt.e undersigned Hanks and Hankers will pay all Prizes draw n in The Louisiana State Lotteries which may be presented at our coun ters. J. H. OGLESBY, Pres. Louisana Nat. Bk P. LANAUX, Pres. State Nat’l Bank. A.. BALDWIN, Pres. N, O Nat’l Bk CARL KOHN, Pres. Union Nat. Bank. UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION ! U Over Haifa Million Distributed. Louisiana State Lottery Comply. 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). A SPLENDID O PPO RT U N I TY TO WIN A FORTUNE NINTH GRAND DRAWING. CLASS I. IN THE ACADEMY OF MCSIC. NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, Septem ber 1 3, 1887—208th Monthly Drawing. Capital Prize $150,000. £jgTNotice. Tickets are Ten Dollars only. Halves, #*Y Fifths, *2. Tenths, sl. LIST OF PRIZES. 1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF #150,000 #150,000 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 Application for rates to clubs should be made only to the office of the Company in New Or leans. For further information write clearly, giving full address. POSTAL NOTES, E.vpress Money Orders, or New York Exchange in ordina ry letter. Currency by Express (at our expense) addressed M. A. DAUPHIN. New Orleans, La., or M. A. DAUPHIN, Washington, D. C. Address Registered Letters to NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK, New' Orleans, La. REMEMBER ence of Generals Beauregard and Early’ who are in charge of the drawings, is a guarantee of absolute fairness and integrity, that the chances are all equal, and that no one can possibly divine what hura l.er will daaw a Prize. ItEM EM B K It that the payment of all Prizes isGUAKANTEED BY EOUKNAiIONaL BANKS of New Orleans, and the Tickets are signed by tt.e President of an Institution, whose chartered rights are recognized in the highest Courts; therefore, beware of any imitations or 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. ADEYimSEMENTS*. The Oourant-Amkrican is the only Paper Published in one of the Be*t Counties in Noktii Georgia. Its Cir culation IS SECOND TO NONE OK ITsCIASS. Reasonawle Rates on Applicat ion. 51.50 Per Annum—sc. a Copy. 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.