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StJB.Sf RIPTION. The CotRANT America* is J’cm.TPnF.n A\ kkkey in the Interest ok Bartow County, Devoted Mainly to Local News, and Thinks it has a Right to gvi'KCT an Undivided County Patkon- A.iE. ml m m <'ARTKKBVii,i,Kf OUKANT, Established I . , I IUJ.IoJ CAKTKHSVILLE AmSKican, ** 1882.) ( °°l-IDATED 18b.. DRUGS! DRUGS! J. R. WIKLE & CO., (SUCCESSORS TO D. W. CURRY.) Htive now in store the b< at selected, most complete and varied stock of Drugs, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty, Perfumes, Etc. IN NORTH GEORGIA. Come to see ii, examine gool* and got prices. Physicians Pre criptlons filled with the greatest rare day and night by a lice me I pharmacist. A OIEHSTT OIL COMPII’Y' Ch.as. A. Wilde, Manager. CHEAP GROCERIES, GRAIN, HAY, Etc., GO TO C. T. JONES’ AT TUB “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 bauds. Turns out BTO 10 BALE J PER HOUR. 11 size of bales 18x24 by 30 inches. Weight |j * of bales from 100 to 150 pounds. Bln a PRICE OXTI/7 SSO. S| \ McCanless & Cos., ,||y i JSTI tKu’Srwfi-ohrK, J . "o.S FIELD SEEDS! Eye, Barley, Orchard Grass, Red Top, Blue Grass, Timothy, Clover, &c. AT BOTTOM PRICES —AJJP Guaranteed Prime Quality DAVID W. CURRY, WHOLESALE DRUCCIST, Broad St. Cor. Howard, ROME, GA. PEACOCK & VEAL, IlsT I UN I I I 1 K !•: (NORTH GEORGIA FURNITURE HOUSE.) THE CHEAPEST AS WELL AS THE FINEST p ar lor and Bed Room Suits in this section. * WE STILL CLAIM TO SELL BETTER MONEY Than Anyother House in this Section. As space forbids mentioning everything, we will only enumerate a few. We hav in stock and to arrive finest parlor furniture. auBSTA NTIA L B El> ROOM F URN IT norit l \ G C/IIAI Ita. WAh DRUB ROCl> VaHY CA RRIAUES at any Prico MATTINGS. RUGS, CARPETS Etc. LADIES. SEE OUR WA.LL PA.PER, of which we have the latest and most unique design. We Guarantee Prices and Goods. Respectfully, PEACOCK VEAL, CARTERSVILLE, GA. THE COURANT-AMERKM. LOOII OUT! Compare this with your pure bate: 'T 1 S • 'y.y o iffk> : fh j g : RESTLESSNESS* Jlgr * STRICTLY VSOCYeaLI ;*2jf ? aatILTLCSS f AM: LT MCaiCINK. jßjjA J( l WM* SB, Pj aim, sa. || ' PHILADELPHIA. jB/jjg i Price, OH E Dollar As yon value health, perhaps life, examine each package and t>e sure you get the Cleiiuiut'. See the r*-d / Trade-Mark and the full tide on froytt of Wrapper, and on the side the seal ami sigioilure of J. K. Zeiliu X Cos., a> in the ..hove f.,c- simile. Remember there is no Other genuino Simmons Liver Regulator LSI. CfPITAL PRIZE, $150,000 “We do hereby certify that we supervise the arrangements for all the Monthly and Hem-An nual Drawings of The Louisiana State Lottery Company, and in person manage and control the Drawings themselves, and that tile same are conducted with honesty, fairness, and in good faith toward all parties, and we authorize the Company to use this certificate, with fac-similes of our spenuture attached, in its advertisements.'’ Commissioners. We the undersigned Banks and Bankers will pay all Prizes drawn in The Louisiana State Lotteries which may be presented at our coun ters. J. H. OGLESBY, Pres. Louisana Nat. BE P. LANAUX, Pres. State Nat’l Bank. A. BALDWIN, Pres. N, O Nat’l Bk CAHL KOHN, Pres. Union Nat. Bank. UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION! U Over Haifa Million Distributed. Louisiana State Lottery Company. Incorporated in 1868 for 25 years b.v the Legis lature lor Educational and Charitable purposes —with a capital of # 1,000,000 —to which a reserve fund of over #556,000 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. It,, 1876. 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 R T U N 1 T Y TO WIN A FORTUNE. TENTH GRAND DRAWING'. CLASS K. IN THE ACADEMY OF MUgIC NEW ORLEANS,I TUESDAY, Octf bet -11, 1887—209t1i Mouthy Drawing. Capital Prize $150,000. £#“Notice. Tickets are Ten Dollars only. Halves, $5. Fifths, $2. Tenths, sl. LIST OF PRIZES. 1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF $150,000 $150,000 1 GRAND PRIZE OF 50,000 50,000 1 GRAND PRIZE OF 20,000 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 50 “ 500 25,000 KH) • 300 30,000 200 “ 200 40,000 500 “ 100 50,000 APPROXIMATION PRIZES. 100 Approximation Prizes of S3OO $.!(),000 fc lo<) “ “ 200 20,000 100 •• “ 100 10,000 1,000 “ “ 50 50,000 2,170 Prizes, amounting to $535,00y 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, Express Money Orders, or New York Exchange in ordina ry letter. Currency by Express (at oar expense) addressed M. A. DAUPHIN, New Oilcans, La., or M. A. DAUPHIN, Washington, D. C. Address Registered Letters to NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK, New Orleans, La. REMEMBER 'SSVIfJZS' Beauregard and Early’ who are in charge of the drawings, is a guarantee of absolute fairness and integrity, that the chances arc all equal, and that no one cap possibly divine what hum ber w ill thaw a Prize. It KM EM It r 11 that the payment of all Prizes 4 GUARANTEED BY FOUR NA l ION AL HANKS of New Orleans, and the Tickets are signed by the President of an Institution, whose chartered rights are recognized in the highest Courts; therefore, beware of any imitations or anon vinous schemes. Notice This As You Pass By. 111. I. BRIDLEV WEST MAIN STREET, CARTERSVILLE, GEO., Carriages, Baggies f Wagons, And do all kinds of Repairing in Wood and Iron, Making new pieces when necesaary. He is also prepared to do all kinds of BLACKSMITH ING. None but the best workmen employed who ean iuake anything: that is made of wood or iron. \ll work WARRANTED TO GIVE SATISFAC-. TION. Terms reasonable, Work done promptly Give him a trial and be convinced. D. W. K. PEACOCK, REAL ESTATE, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. MINERALS A SPECIALTY. Reai Estate bought and sold. Information cheerfully given. 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. i 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. ADE V RTISEM ENTS. Tnrc Coitiiant-Amebtcan is titr only Paper Published in one ok the Best Counties in North Georgia. Its Cir culation IS SECOND TO NONE OK ITSOI.ASS. Reasonable Rates on Auplicat ion. 51.50 Per Annum.—sc. a Copy. 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.