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arrangements for all the Monthly and Hem-An
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the Drawings themselves, and that tile same are
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CARTERSVILLE, GA„ THURSDAY. SEPT. 29, 1887.
SUNSET IN THE HAREM.
Minister Cox Relates His Expe
riences With the Odalisques.
An Egyptian Princess Sends for Him and
Offers Him Tea and Cigarettes—The Ap
proach of a Man and a Glavor Puis
an Inmate of the Seraglio luto a
State of Violent Excitement.
My experience, however, in the harein
lias IsH-ri limited. The adventure which
I will now narrate is a little beyond the
limitation. When visiting Constanti
nople some six years ago, and while
stopping with our Consul at Therapia,
certain Turkish ladies made a call at the
consolato. One of them was an Egyp
tian princess. She was a cousin of the
Khedive and a granddaughter of Me
hemet Ali, the great Albanian soldier of
Egypt, I happened to take a cup of tea
with her, and this, to be mutual, re
quired that she would drop her veil just
a little. She was widowed, and lived at
that time with her mother in one of the
palaces on the Bosphorus. I need not
say that she was beautiful and accom
plished—Ayesha, the favored wife of the
prophet, was not more so. “Her eyes
were brilliant, and yet human, like the
reflection of stars in a well.”
When we were visiting Egypt in Feb
ruary, 1880, I received a note from the
Princess to call at her palace. She de
sires to prefer a request of the Sultan,
whom she knows to be my friend. The
request has reference to some diamonds.
They lmd been mortgaged by her hus
band. and she desires to recover them.
This request has a touch of romance about
it. 1 venture, in company with the Vice-
Consul, to make the call. Her palace is
quite after the manner of the baremlink,
which l had frequently seen when the
birds were flown. When 1 enter it 1 And
the inevitable colored eunuch. He dis
misses the Consul and solemnly directs
my steps up the winding staircase, at
the same time using the most singular
sound—not pronounceable or translata
ble into type—by which to warn all the
females of the household oi the ap
proach of a man and a Giaour. I sur
mount the stairs with much timidity.
The number of heads which pop out of
tlie doors of the various landings, and
which are withdrawn with sudden sur
prise, astonishes me. At last I reach the
apartment of the Princess. There I find
her seated upon an ottoman. After
making the salutations and many in
quiries, tvnd a statement of the business,
we smoke our cigarettes together, and
drink our tea. We talk of palms and
palmistry, of Egypt and England, of
Arnold’s “Light of Asia,” and American
petroleum, and of the beauties of Bos
phorus and the navigation of the Nile.
Alter this interview I am escorted by the
same colored gentleman, amid the same
indescribable noises, down the winding
stairway to the door. On the way down
one of his sable highness’ ejaculations
scares one of the resident young ladies.
Not being a ware of my proximity, site is
ascending the stairs. At the terrible
sound she rushes for the banisters. She
attempts a speedy covering of her head.
She is embarrassed. So am I. I, too,
rush for the banisters —for support—and
thus we meet. There is no screen, and
no scene; but there is a hasty parting,
all too hasty; while the eunuch gives out
another tremendous sound, as if all the
Indians of the “Wild West” were incar
nate and vociferous in his person. I
reach the sweet and balmy atmosphere
of Cairo, with considerable perspiration.
This is in v wildest adventure in a harem.
AN EPISODE.
It so happened, during the last sum
mer, that this fair princess desired to pay
some Moslem rites upon the grave of her
mother, who died the summer before
upon the Bosphorus. She came to Con
stantinople. Her physicians ordered her
to Prinkipo. There she took a house
near ours, and, as in duty bound, 1 make
my devoirs. My wife, invites her to ride
in our launch, amid the isles of our beau
tiful little archipelago. Without much
reflection I procure a carriage, drive to
the villa of the Princess and tap the
knocker. Her manservant comes to the
do,or and soon she appears radiant in all
the beauty of her white tulle yashmak,
and as stately as became one of the line
of Mohamet Ali. I assist her into the
carriage. She sits by the side of my wife
and they make the vivacious French in
candescent with their talk. We drive to
thescala, where the flag and the launch
await us. Unfortunately, at this time,
one of the ferries from Constantinople
comes in and lands about a thousand
passengers. They set* the Giaour, with
the stovepipe hat. He is gallanting a
Mohammedan lady. The rumor reaches
the Kaimakam, or Governor of the
island. We return to the scala after our
sail among the islands. We drive her to
her home in the carriage which is in
waiting. What is the result? Before I
take the boat that day for Constanti
nople my driver, horses and carriage are
arrested by order of the Kaimakam!
This is, indeed, an adventure not pro
vided for by any instructions from the
State Department. At once I send a re
monstrance to the Kaimakam against
the arrest of one in the employ of the
American Miuistry. It is couched in un
abridged terms, such as are embraced in
the word interritoriality.
It is needless to say that the proceed
ing reached the prefect in the city, and 1
fear the Sultan and the palace also.
There had been an apparent infraction
of the Turkish law, which forbids a Mo
bametan woman, unless of princely rank,
to be seen upon the streets with any man,
and more especially a Christian. The
plug hat made a prima facie cast*. How
ever the matter was decorously settled,
as it should have been; for the Kaima
kam had exceeded his authority. It was
a matter outside of his jurisdiction. His
conduct was arbitrary. He had no war
rant or process for the seizure of the hor
ses, the driver or carriage. If there had
not been an Oriental princess in the case
—who exhibited some sensibility in rela
tion to her royal independency, which
perhaps she had overstepped—the matter
might have figured in our diplomatic
correspondence. As it was, the affair
was properly settled without a pursuit
of tjie Governor. My impresssion is that
he did not know the quality of the lady
nor the capacity of the Minister. I had
occasion to remedy at the palace any
seeming mischief which may have been
done. The Princess left us the next day,
which was the beginning of Bairam, in
order to sacrifice a sheep upon the grave
of her mother. She was a devout Mos
lem, as well as a most charming and in
telligent woman.
I am sorry touudignify theKaimakam
off he Princes Islands, who produced so
mtfch trouble in the romance of the
Princes. Since 1 left the island he has
become an ex-Kaimakam. This means
an unknown quantity not only in Alge
bra, but in politics. He was removed
from office. He had been unmindful of
the relation ot rneum et tuuni. He over
drew his salary by more than SB,OOO, an
act without legality ou his part, or sat
isfaction on the other part.
It Won’t Bake Bread.
In other words, Hood's Sarsaparilla
will not do impossibilities. Its proprie
tors tell plainly what it has done, submit
proofs from sources of unquestioned re
liability, and ask you frankly if you tire
suffering from any disease or affection
caused or promoted by impure blood or
low state of the system, to try Hood's
Sarsaparilla. The experience of others is
sufficient assurance that you will not be
disappointed in the result.
RELIC OF THE REVOLUTION.
Old Hilly Wliltley’a Wonderful Age—His
Memory of the I’ast.
Concord Times.]
A correspondent has found a man in
Stanly county, N. 112 years old. His
name is Billy Whitley. The correspon
dent says of him:
“He remembers distinctly seeing the
soldiers coming home from the Revolu
tionary war. He married at 33 years
old, and lived with his wife 73 years, who
died at the age of 101 in 1881. He has
in his possession a gun used at the fight
of York town by a gentleman who heard
the conversation between Cornwallis and
Washington at the surrender. With this
gun Uncle Billy has killed more deer than
any other man in North Carolina. He
has also a pocketbook which belonged to
his father, and is possibly 125 or 150
years old. He has his third set of teeth —
not from the dentist, but from God. He
cut his last set at the youthful age ot
109.
“To show the strength of his manhood
yet it is enough to state that last winter
he cut wood, cut up and split into fine
wood a large dead tree, and last year
sprouted fourteen acres of ground. He
has lived a member of the old school
Baptist church for more than GO years.
Never was known to tell a lie; never had
a lawsuit; never took a dose of medicine
and never paid a doctor’s bill.
“One felt like taking off his hat in the
presence of Ibis venerable man of four
generations back.”
Two Thousand. Dollars lor Two Hun
dred.
Ticket No. 46,856, which drew the
third capital prize of $20,000 in the
drawing of The Louisiana State Lot
tery Company on the 9th of August,
was held by Daniel McNaughton, brother
ot Robert McNaughton, the barber of
Governor street. “As soon as 1 ascer
tained that ticket No. 46,856 had drawn
the third capital prize of $20,000 1 im
mediately drew a sight draft on M. A.
Dauphin and it was promptly paid.”
I suppose I have bought two hundred
tickets. This was the first time I ever
struck it big. I know of nothing else in
which 1 could have invested S2OO and
got $2,000 in return. —Richmond (Va.)
State, Aug. 27
A Duty Farmers Owe Themselves.
Carroll Free Press.
Aside from the mere matter of sight
seeing, it is a duty farmers owe to them
selves, their State and their posterity to
attend this Fair. It is a farmer's con
cern, gotten up by farmers to benefit
farmers, and it needs the presence, confi
dence and encouragement of farmers.
We fondly hope to see the attendance of
veritable farmers largely preponderate
over the “hanging on’’ of idlers, loafers
and spendthrifts who are usually attract
ed by such occasions.
The exhibits will consist of horses,
mules, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, field
crops, needle work, fine arts, floral and
merchant's displays, manufactures, ma
chinery, tools, implements, etc. Each
department will have a thorough and
attractive collective exhibit and will be
in charge of competent and painstaking
directors, with accommodating assist
ants, who will spare no toil to satisfy the
curiosity and enlighten the intelligence of
visitors.
The railroads have placed the rate at
one cent a mile from any point within
250 miles of Macon. The round trip from
the most remote point in Georgia will
cost only $6.00. Let Carroll send a full
attendance of representative farmers —
farmers whose sole purpose will be to
avail themselves of the education to be
derived. It is, indeed, a school in which
a thorough course of invaluable informa
tion can be acquired in six days—a school
which the youthful and aged student
may enter upon equal footing.
Dangerous Drinks.
A bartender plaintively bewailed the
necessity of having to rub congealed
drops of sticky beer off the bar. “But if
I let them remain,” said he in a tone of
one seeking compassion, “They rot the
wood.”
“They rot the wood, do they?" fiercely
repeated a beer bibber. “Then what in
the name of common sense does beer do to
my stomach?”
“It is beyond me to tell,” said the
mixer of drinks. “Of one thing I am
confident, and that is a man's stomach
js made of cast iron. Elsewise how could
he withstand the fluids he pours into it?
Let me show you something.”
lie then placed a piece of raw meat on
the counter and dropped upon it a small
quantity of an imported ginger ale. In
five minutes the meat had parted into
little pieces, as though hacked by a dull
knife.—Philadelphia News.
THE BEAN ESTATE.
Romance Surrounding the Life
of the Late
Texas Millionaire—His Keal Name Ami
His Reasons for Being a Recluse—
Startling; Surprise in Store for
the Claimants, Etc., Etc.
Bonham, Texas, September 25.—For
some time past the principal topic in
Fannin county has beat Colonel Tom
Bean, his death, his property and his
heirs. From coast to coast, and from
the lakes to the gulf, it was heralded
that Tom Bean, of Texas, a many times
millionaire, had died heirless and with
out a will. Immediately persons churn
ing a relationship with the deceased Col
onel Beau became as thick as the tradi
tional hops. Claims were filed, and the
lawyers smiled sweetly, and like vultures
watching their victims from their eyrie,
looked ou and awaited developments.
Now the denouement is about to be made,
the clouds of doubt are drifting to the
uttermost horizon, and ere many suns
rise and set the factum! truth will stream
in and illume what has heretofore been a
a deep mystery. Before imparting the
substance of the coming events it will be
well to make a brief review of Colonel
Bean's life.
HIS LIFE IN TEXAS.
The first and only authentic history
that his friends ever obtained of him was
his debut in Texas, from Fayetteville,
Ark., before the war, he then being a
young man in the twenties. Settling in
this vast and new country at that early
day, almost penniless, but with a fair
knowledge of surveying, lie commenced
locating land for himself and for others.
Little attention was paid then to the
hermit-like young stranger, who pos
sessed the noble yet rare trait of attend,
ing to his own business, but the immi
gration which soon commenced to flow
into this country brought him into
notice by developing the fact of Igis pos
session of tracts of fine land, and that
he was destined to be one of the future
land kings of the empire state, lie was
frugal, economizing and very eccentric,
living alone in a little one-room hut, sur
rounded by negroes, one of whom, a
young - buck, he educated and dressed ele
gantly. He never had what might be
termed an intimate acquaintance, though
lie was a familiar character to every
body. One of his noble eccentricities was
His tendency to misogny, which was al
ways a matter of comment and wonder
in society circles. Another was his de
cided opposition to disposing of his real
estate, even at fabulous prices, leaving it
unfenced from the day of his settlement
in Bonham to the day of his death. He
evaded all questions as to his birthplace
and previous life, and stoutly averred
that he had no relations.
CLAIMANTS OF THE ESTATE.
Thaddeus Bean, an architect of Wash
ington, claims to be an heir, likewise a
Mr. Howard, of San Antonia. Howard
claims to have a family tree with which
to establish his claims, while Thaddeus
Bean, it is said, is almost a perfect image
of Colonel Bean. However, their claims
now bid fair to be scattered to the winds,
as it will soon develop that instead of the
rich land owner’s name being Bean it
was Saunders. A short while since a let
ter came to a prominent citizen of Bon
ham, bearing a Mississippi postmark
and making the following inquiry:
“Is Colonel C. T. Bean dead and did he
leave a will?”
The tone of the letter interested the
prominent citizen, who replied to the in
quiry, and shortly received another let
ter, stating in substance as follows:
“Colonel Bean should have left a will,
and it must have been stolen. He was
my brother, and his name was Saunders.
While on a surveying expedition in Mis
sissippi before the war he struck a co
laborer with a staff, killing him. He
then fled to Texas, and you know the
rest of the history. If his will is found,
it will also be found that some colored
friends are partial legatees of his estate.”
Saunders talked very familiarly of Col
onel Bean’s affairs, as though he were
perfectly acquainted with his business.
He also stated that he (Saunders) had a
daughter in Lamar county. The lady
mentioned has since visited Bonham,
taking a picture to compare with one of
Colonel Bean, and the resemblance was
so striking that any one could perceive
it at first glance. But the chain docs
not end here.
CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE.
A prominent citizen of Bonham, who
requests that his name be witheld for the
present, states that Colonel Bean years
ngo told him the same story that Saun
ders asserts to be true. Then, as a
further corroboration of the story, a
prominent doctor of Gainesville and a
lifelong friend of Colonel Bean, writes the
identical facts stated by Saunders and
the citizen of Bonham. It is also recol
lected that Saunders had frequently been
seen with Colonel Bean in Bonham, Aus
tin and San Antonia. On investigating
Colonel Bean's papers it was discovered
that there was no will. A prominent cit
izen averred that he had one, and that it
had been stolen, and further hinted that
$1,600 in cash was missing. It was not
only a matter of surprise, but of wild
conjecture. Some asserted boldly that
his negro servants had stolen both the
will and the money, while others supple
mented this conjecture with the whis
pered belief that the negroes had acted
upon the advice of a certain white man,
who is to be remunerated when every
thing is adjusted, and the negroes re
ceived their legacy. This conjecture
seems to have been essentially well
founded, as the former slave of Bean’s
now comes to the front, averring that he
can produce the lost will, and states that
it recites the substance of Saunder's let
ter. It is generally believed that ne
groes stole the document for fear the
whites would destroy it and deprive
them of their heritage.
Mr. Saunders is expected here to-mor
row, and it is conceded that there will
soon be “rendered unto Ceesar the things
that are Oteser’s.” It is still a ghost in
the path of the incredulous. Colonel
Bean's father was buried here in the En
glish cemetery under the name of Bean,
though it is asserted that no one knew
his full surname. Future developments
will have to settle that point. Some as
sert that the father assumed an alias to
protect his son. while others profess to
believe that the professed father was an
uncle on the side of Colonel Bean's moth
er. and also believe that the resemblance
of Thaddeus Bean to the colonel comes
from the same source.
These startling developments in an es
tate of 25,000 acres of tine Texas land
are beginning to leak out and create
great surprise. The “knowing ones,"
numbering a score or more, smile with
complaisance, while those who have just
caught a breath of it are on the tiptoe of
excitement. It is now quite apparent
why Colonel Bean was a recluse and a
supposed mysogamist. Fear of appre
hension by the law was doubtless the
skeleton of his closet. A few more hours
of waiting and a mystery that has
created national comment will have
burs ted, and right will have received its
own.
Green Apples
Eaten in the spring time, or any other
season is liable to give one bowel trouble,
which can be speedily cheeked by tin* use
of l)r. Higgers' Huckleberry Cordial.
Also for children teething.
Great Little Things.
Baltimore Manufacturers' Reeon.l.]
‘•Where do all the pins go?" How
often this question has been asked and
never answered satisfactorily. They are
made by the billion, and hundreds of
persons earn good wages in their pro
duction. Xaugatuc valley, Connecticut,
is sometimes jestingly spoken of as pin
county, because of the large shops em
ployed exclusively in making these little
but very useful adjuncts to clothing,
and the small army of work people in
their employ. Stick a pin here, reader
and think for a moment of the old Scotch
proverb, “Many a mickle makes a
lnuckie.”
Ho w many canary birds do you sup
pose there are in the United
More than five million. These birds are
busy feeders and great wasters of seed.
They are the occasion of many industries.
Hundreds of tons of brass and iron wire
are annually made into cages for their
benefit, and the world is ransacked to
provide them with food. The three prin
cipal seeds, canary, rape and hemp, on
which they live, are brought from Europe.
Eleven million pounds of these were im
ported last year from Spain and the
Mediterranean ports. Besides these there
are other seeds, like millet and wheat,
imported for these pets of the household,
the whole bulk weighing fully 0,500 tons.
Think of the hundreds of families in
Europe to whose livlihood these birds
contribute, of the ships whose cargoes
they help to swell, of the transportation
and express companies in this country to
whom they furnish business, and of the
stores scattered all over the land that
deal in these seeds, finding them an im
portant item of their daily trade.
This is the season for the importation
of bulbs. One day recently three steam
ers landed in New York with many hun
dred thousand. The great seedsmen of
that city were in a hurry to get them,
for their customers all over the country
were waiting for them. The docks were
crowded with their drays. Their custom
house brokers were hastening through
the routine to further their wishes. One
importer alone paid that day more than
$1,500 duty on tulips, jonquils, lilies and
other little things.
What is the lesson the Manufacturers'
Record would teach by these examples?
This, that the South has withif her
broad and fertile acres thousands of
little things, “unconsidered trifles,” that
may be turned to account and made the
basis of a large and lucrative business.
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Children Dying.
At this season of the year, when warm
days followed by cool nights, and the
eating of fi uit and vegetable effecting 1 he
bowels, we hear of so many children dy
ing. Give them Dr. Diggers" Huckleberry
Cordial.
History In a Nutshell.
The Federal Constitution has four
different dates fixing its adoption and
ratification, its going into effect and the
organization of a government under it.
They are all worth remembering now.
September 17, 1787, the Constitution
was “done in convention by the unani
mous consent of the States present,
George Washington signing first for
Virginia as president of the Convention.
This step is celebrated this week, and it
needed to be followed by the ratification
of nine States before a government
could be organized.
June 21, 1788, the last of these nine
States needed to put the “new roof’ of
the Constitution over the land, as the
phase then ran, ratified the Constitution
and it became the law of the land as far
as these States were concerned. This is
the'event whose celebration in this city,
July 4, 1788, was described in the Sunday
Press.
March 4, 1789, the first Wednesday
of March, the constitution became “prac
tically operative.” The Supreme Court
was called upon to pass on this question
(Owings vs. Speed, 5 Wheaton, 420),
and it decided that while the constitution
was adopted September 17, 1787, and
was ratified June 21, 1788, yet these
acts were only preliminary and prepara
tory to the creation of a government
whose affective operation under the con
stitution begin only with the date set
for its organization.
April 30, 1789, General Washington
was inaugurated as the first President,
and the government, which went into
effecet March 4, or nearly two months
before, was set in motion with two of its
department, executive and legislative,
complete. The judiciary was not or
ganized until after the approval of the
act of September 24 1789, creating the
Supreme Court.
The liver and kidneys must be kept in
a-ood condition. Hood's Sarsaparilla is
a great remedy for regulating these
organs.
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HE IS AN IDIOT.
Jack Du Bose a Professional
Confessor.
The Woolfolk Murderer Is Crui) Tne
Canton Darker Would Confess that lie
Struck Hilly Patterson if Anybody
Were to Suggest It.
Atlanta Journal.f
Mr. Frank U. Walker, Tom Wool folk's
attorney, is sure that Jack Du Bose, the
negro now in Canton jail, knows the
murderers of the Woolfolk family.
Mr. Walker, who has returned from Can
ton, says the aegro described the posi
tion of the bodies and other circumstan
ces connected with the murder, and
showed a very remarkable familiarity
with the tragedy. I)u Bose says he went
to the Woolfolk residence with the three
murderers, but that he remained in the
front yard and took no active part in
the killing. He also describes how Tom
Woolfolk came out of a front window,
and says that Woolfolk passed in a few
feet of him. Mr. Walker says he can
prove by the state's witnesses that the
bloody clothes found in the well belonged
to Richard Woolfolk, and not to Tom.
lie says the family washer woman and
others will so testify.
Mr. Walker visited the jail this morn
ing and talked to Woolfolk. He found
his client as happy as a king over the
turn affairs have taken, though Tom
Woolfolk says he does not know Jack
Du Bose under that name.
Jack Dußose was in the Atlanta poliee
station about ten days ago, charged with
vagrancy. While in the lock up he there
confessed to so many crimes that he com
pletely disgusted the officers, who turned
him out, and laughed heartily at the idea
of his knowing anything about the Wool
folk murder.
Mr. Walker was asked this morning if
Du Bose gave any reason for the murder.
He replied:
“He gave me the reason, but 1 am not
at liberty to state what it was. He
gave me the names of the men who did
the killing, and I am going to investi
gate the matter and if the story works
out all right I will have some arrests
made. I am confident Jack Dußose,
knows who the murderers wore.”
Assistant Penitentiary KeeperKhubriek
said this morning:
“That negro, Jack Dußose, is an idiot
1 have had letters from nearly every
sheriff in Georgia saying that he had ar
rested Jack Dußose for some crime
which lie had confessed. Sometimes he
would confess that he was an escaped
convict. Why it’s the same man who
went to the Governor’s mansion and
told Governor Stephens that he had
burned five or six houses, and gave him
self up.”
Captain Jones said: “We worked him
five years and he was discharged from
the penitentiary in 1883. We carried
him to the depot and put him right on
the Georgia Railroad train so as to get
him way from town. It's a bully idea of
his to confess to crimes that he never
committed. I can make him confess to
anything. He will tell you that he is an
escaped convict. He is anxious to get
back into the penitentiary. He was put
in the penitentiary twice—the first time
about 1870. He was discharged several
years after and was again put in. The
first time he was sent up under the name
of Jackson Dußose, and the second time
under some other name, but we always
called him Jackson Dußose. He will tell
you that he escaped from every peniten
tiary camp that he can think of, and
then if you will ask him leading questions
he will tell you about any crime that you
want to know. I have often heard him
do that.”
Mr. Walker received a postal card
this morning from a man who has been
helping him in his search for the real
murderer of the Woolfolk’s. It read:
“Hold the negro—T think he is the man.”
TEXAS TO THE FRONT AGAIN.
Two Houston Men Invest #1 Kacli nnd
Make 30,000.
The story of how The Louisiana State
Lottery Cos., deals out fortunes every
month is known far and near. Chances
in the drawings are eagerly taken by all
classes. How many persons have been
suddenly made rich by this institution
would be hard to tell—the number would
almost seem incredible. It can be safely
said, however, that residents of every
State in the Union have profited by if.
One of the many made happy by the last
drawing was W. H. Anthony, a dairy
man of Houston, Tex., who held one
tenth of No. 50,255, which drew the capi
tal prize of 150,000, collected by Wells,
Fargo & Co.’s Express through the firm
of T. W. House of Houston.
The other tenth of this ticket was held
by Mr. George H. Zapp of the same
place. This gentleman, accompanied by
Ids son arrived in the city Wednesday
night and on presenting his ticket at the
company's office the following morning
was handed a check on the New < Means
National Bank. He was greatly in need
of the money, and on the receipt of the
news of his good luck he fairly wept with
joy. Mr. Zapp is a native of Germany,
but for the past eight years has made his
home in Houston where he has been
clerking in a cotton press. He is a large,
fine looking man, 55 years of age, and
has a wife and three children. He has
not decided what use he will make of his
newly found fortune, but will look out
for some profitable way of investing it.
Mr. Zapp has visited New Orleans before
and will remain here several days to re
new old acquaintances. .
Apropos of Mr. Zapp’s visit to this city
it might be mentioned that his nephew,
Mr. Orsiui Zapp, of Round Top, Texas,
came hereon a similar errand in May,
1885. He was also the winner of $15,-
000. The money he put out in lmid and
stock in Favette county, Texas. To
day he is one of the most prominent .far
mers in that section of the country,
and is blessed with a happy family and
has all the comforts of life. An invest
ment of $1 in The Louisiana State Lot
tery started him on the road to pros
perity.—New Orleans Picayune, Aug. 13.
An Old Friend Dangerously 111.
You all know him lying there suffering
so with, that fearful case of dysentery of
a bloody type. Why not suggest to him
to try Dr. Diggers’ Huckleberry Cordial,
it relieved him after a few doses.