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COU RANT-AMERICAN. Every Til.-vxtad.oL3r. C \ KIKRSVIU.K, OKOKOIA. WIKI.K * \VII.MN(itUM. Official Oraan of Bartow Conntf. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 0, 1887. Oru jieople should spare no pains to make Bartow's exhibit at the Piedmont fair attractive. The Piedmont Exposition will lx* the greatest exhibition of strictly Southern resources ever brought together. Nothing short of bankrupting the Na tiomvl Treasury with pension claims, it seems, will satisfy the Grand Army of the Republic. The late Herr Krupp’s iueome for the present year was about f1,2fi0,0110. The late Baron Charles Rothschild's was $700,000 and his brother’s s('>.">o,ooo. Marie Antoinette’s famous necklace of pearls, which encircled her neck in six teen strings, is now for sale in the shop of one of t in* principal jewelers of Berlin. Pit. Parker, of London, filled the pul pit at Plymouth church last Sunday, and delivered a eulogy upon the char acter of its late great pastor, Henry Ward Beecher. It is said that Phil. Armour, the great millionaire meat packer, pays a doctor SIO,OOO a year to feel his pulse, and that Jay Gould gave a doctor $.">,000 to rub his head. The Vanderbilt holders of United States bonds are all registered four per cents, and amount to $40,000,000. The late Win. H. Vanderbilt’s original pur chase was $.">0,000,000 at par. Bismarck weighed 207 pounds before lie left Kissengen recently. Before l)r. .Sellwenengen took charge of him Bis marck’s weight averaged forty pounds more, much to the great man’s disgust. Our legislative patriots and hard worked law-makers, have concluded that they are needed at home and will, on or about the 20th instant, near the wind up of the Piedmont show, desert their post of duty and wend their way homeward. Gov. Gordon will conclude his investi gation of the conduct of the convict lessees this week. The people of Georgia arc resting assured that their courageous Governor will render a righteous decision in the matter. The recent international yacht race not only proves that the center-board boat is swifter under almost all ordinary conditions of wind and water, but is another evidence that America outships the rest of the world in everything she undertakes. It is rumored that Colonel Albert R. Lamar, before entering upon journalism again, will write a history of Georgia politics since thewar. There is no man in the state more thoroughly qualified than Colonel Lamar to write such a his tory, and his work would be a valuable contribution to the political literature of the state. The Evangelical Alliance of the United States assembles at Washington on De cember H. Among the speakers will be Chief Justice Waite, Associate Justice Strong, of the Supreme Court; Bishop Coxe, of the Protestant Episcopal Church; President McCosh,of Princeton; Senator Joseph E. Hawley, and Bishop Hurst, of the Methodist Church. Chief Justice Waite says that the Supreme Court isoverworked. The appel late jurisdiction of the court is now what it was when it was first established — w hen the population was 4,000,000, now it is 00,000,000. The cases docketed there was about 1,000 and now they are 14,000. The court is so much behind in its business that it takes about three years to get a hearing and decision. The national indebtedness has been re duced to the extent of $23,902,1:140 in the first quarter of the current fiscal year, $14,247,969 of this sum being credited to September. This is equivalent to a reduction of about $95,000,000 a year, which is $2,000,000 more than that of the fiscal year of 1886, and $14,000,000 less than that of 1887. From present indications, however, the debt payment will hardly exceed $20,- 000,000 this year, it equals that sum. The Daily Tribune of Rome made its first appearance last Sunday morning. I ts editorial department is under the man agement of that talented and accom plished young journalist, John T Graves, late editor of the Atlanta Journal. Mr. Houston Harper is the spicy city editor, and Mr. A. L. Brooks business manager. If the first few issues are to be accepted as an index to the future get up of the Tribune, then it will take a front rank as one of the neatest, newsiest and best daily papers in Georgia. It is the best paper Rome has ever had, and it deserves the warmest support of her citizens. Henry Johnson, one of the leaders of the Salvation Army, who has been hold ing forth in Rome tor sometime, was con victed in Floyd Superior t.’ourt hist week of an outrageous assault upon a young white girl. The infamous hypocrite, when arrested, was engaged in prayer at one of the army meetings, but a few hours after the assault was made. When preachers steal horses and leaders in the Salvation Army commit outrages upon young girls, the judgments of the courts ought to be tern [Mired with but little mercy towards them. In the hist issue of the Kennesaw Gazette, is to be setm u sjtleudid picture of a view from, the redoubt on the heights over-looking the Western and Atlantic Railroad at Allatoona Bass to Kennesaw Mountain. The view is one of great beauty. The rolling hills and the grand mountain looming up in the background makes a grand picture of nature’s beauty and majesty. Mr. Joseph M. Brown, general freight and passenger agent of the W. & A,R. It., deserves much credit for the faithful manner in which he has written up and illustrated the points of the country along the line of his road. Why Not Invest in Bartow? The Atlanta Constitution of the 3rd instant says: “A raw EnttrHxhnian niaJcea the point that Hinnlnirtiain. Ktiftlanil, in not tin well situated on the AlnUaiini rit.v of the name name, and yet has a population of ometliiK like SMO.Odfi souls lUrnihifrharn’H proximity to the emit and Iron fields reminds one of Atlanta's situation. We have here all the natural advantages neoded for the butJdiiiK up of a lsrse manufacturing city. The progress of the North Alabama towns is watched with satisfaction here, localise the de velopment of those places will largely benefit us. After the first Hurry is over Atlanta will forge ahead as the leading manufacturing city of this re tion. Her distributing advantages more than o.T-set the proximity of Itinningham to the coal fields and iron distrlcss.” It is passing strange to us that the shrewd business men of Atlanta who are seeking in vest meats for their money in Al abama towns, overlook the Eldorado at their doors. We submit to their consideration, as well as to the judgment of all investors, the following facts: 1. By the census of 1880 it apjiears that the improved lands of Bartow coun ty arc valued at $2,162,212, and that the crops produced thereon in that year were valued at $903,588. The famed county of Adams in the State of Illinois, in the same year upon lauds valued at 17,595,477, produced crops valued at only $3,194,250. In other words, the farmer of Bartow, with unreliable labor, imperfect system and wasteful habits, produces from his land in Georgia nearly 50 per cent of their value, while the Illinois agricultur ist with perfect labor service, clock-like system, and a rigid economy produces only 16 per cent. What says the home seeker to this comparison? 2. The lowest mean temperature for any three months of the year from 1874 to 1884, was 44.8°; the highest 78°. Let our Northern friend who mops his brow while running home for an overcoat pon der here for a moment. 3. Upon our river and within view of the W. & R. R. flows a water power of over 7,000 horse, at low water mark. The site of war destroyed works prove its capacity and mutely invites the touch of development. A hundred streams in the county waste their impatient force, waiting the curbing and directing hand of intelligent application. 4. But it is to our mineral deposits to which w r e call especial attention. We are only seventy miles from the coal fields of Alabama, with direct railroad communi cation, by way of the East and West Railroad of Alabama; and the Western and Atlantic Railroad furnishes a line to the competing mines of Tennessee. Jn other words, we draw from the near coal fields of both Alabama and Tennessee, while both these States must depend upon its own production for supply. 5. Long before the late war there were five furnaces in operation in Bartow, pro ducing, by crude methods, and unskilled labor, the finest quality of charcoal iron. The business paid. But it it is only of late that the enor mous quantity of iron and manganese ores lying in our hills have been revealed. We have scarcely scratched the surface, yet from only two mines we ship annual ly over 27000 tons of iron, and nowhere have excavations been made fifty feet below the surface. It is estimated that in one acre there is deposited nearly 500,000 tons of brown hematite within easy and profitable reach. We are now shipping our iron ores both to Tennessee and to Birmingham. Alabama tells us she needs our ores, aud Tennessee has been btiying for years. Our brown hem atite ore carries over 60 per cent, ot pure iron, and the gray specular ore over 64 per cent. The comprehensive mind of Joseph E. Brown long ago realized the situation, and the Dade Coal company has invested in largely, is operating with tine profits, and continues to buy. The Etowah Iron and Manganese Company, owning nearly 12,000 acres in the min eral belt, has received offers of lease for less than 300 acres, the secured profits on which, to the company, would pay them over ten per cent, annually upon the purchase price paid for the entire 12,000 acres. Yet this three hundred acres hardly contains the 100th part of their mineral deposits. It lies within the knowledge of the writer that a mine owner is now receiving nearly 50 per cent, per annum in profits from a single miUe, and the deposit is barely touched. These instances are mentioned that the reader may see that there is money in it. Statistics rank Bartow county as third m the quality of manganese shipped; yet the writer ventures the opinion that nowhere is mining for this valuable metal carried on as crudely. The pocket drifts on the surface are rifled, while the main stores remain untoched. This ore is worth delivered at the depots about s(i, while iron ore is worth only $1.50. Bear in mind that eonqietent authority has pronounced the manganese deposits in Bartow to be superior to any which have yet been discovered. A furuauce for the conversion of this ore from the crude manganese, worth $0 per ton, into Speigel, worth $25 per ton a.id upwards, is one of the many investments which we think would pay our Atlanta friends. But imagination exhausts itself in picturing the possibilities of the profit which would inevitably result from prudent investment here. All things invite. A sober, god-fearing people; a fertile soil; a delightful climate; un bounded and incalculable mineral re source; illimitable forests for the pro duction of charcoal, and coal at our doors for coke irons; manganese in quantities and quality unsurpassed any where else in the world; marble, black, white and gray, beneath our hills; the ex istence of the lesser minerals demon strated, and their presence in paying qualities reasonably believed —why is it that Atlanta does not reach out her baud and turn to her doors the profits which await the first investors? The Constitution attempts to set off Atlanta’s advantages as a distributing point against Birming ham's proximity to the coal and iron fields. ()ur esteemed contemporary over looks the fact of Atlanta’s prox imity to the most wonderful mineral district upon earth—one whose advantages immeasurably sur pass the widely advertised Birming ham district of Alabama. Why do not the traders of Atlanta, retaining all her advantages as a distributing eeuter, go to work and develop the unfailing sources of profit which lie among her surrounding lulls? Why not make her not the Birmingham of Georgia, but the Birmingham of the South? Senator Colquitt's Seat. The Constitution is out in an editorial j attacking Senator Colquitt’s position on | the tariff and kindred questions, aud j putting him on notice that his services could lie dis|>cnHcd with after the expira tion of his present term,unless he changed his policy upon these matters. The atti tude of the Constitution towards the Senator, for whom it has i>een so zealous and enthusiastic in its support, in years i gone by, created no little seusation in j jiolitical circles. Its position places the first coals under the political caldron, and the steam is liegiuning to rise. It at once inaugurates a vigorous campaign for Senator Col quitt's seat. The fight will be an inter esting one. The Senator is almost invin cible before the people, as has been dem onstrated on several occasions, and will enter the race with a clean record and a fair field. The Constitution, on the other hand, is a powertul paper, wielding great influence, and keeps things pretty warm for any antagonist. One thing is evident, and that is, that there is to be lively times, politically speaking, in Georgia next year. It is rumored that at a political conference recently held, the following slate was made up : For United Sta tes Senator in 1892 (to succeed Hon. Joseph E. Brown) —John B. Gordon. For United States Senat >r to succeed Hon. Alfred H. Colquitt—Alfred H. Col quitt. For Governor —James H. Blount. And that in this conference, the Consti tution was ignored, and on that account is taking revenge by an attack upon Senator Colquitt. This rumor, however, has been denied, but there is abundant evidence to show that affairs are not harmonious, to say the least of it, and that there is a. contest ahead. Silica in the Manufacture of Iron and Steel. A most valuable discovery has been made by Maj. G. G. Mullins, of the United States Army, by which silica can be used to great advantage in the production of iron aud steel. He has had his process patented, and claims that by it the manu facture of irou and steel will be revolu tionized. A full account of this wonderful dis covery will be found in another column. •The main feature of this new process is a peculiar use of silica in the iorm of crushed quartz or pure white sand as an ally and detergent in the production of superior iron and steel, even from the cheapest crude material. The use of the silica helps greatly to eliminate sulphur, phosphorus, arsenic and other impurities; it removes the oxide of iron. It makes the production of a comparatively puri fied, hard, tough and maleable irou very simple and cheap. If this discovery is a success, Bartow county is ready to contribute every ele ment necessary to the manufacture of iron under the process. Besides ores of every description, quality and kind, in un told quantities, we have the purest grade of silica to be found anywhere. An analy sis show much of it to assay as high as 98 per cent. The State Road. We are sorry to see the present Legis lature haranguing over the ques tion of the sale or lease of the Western and Atlantic railroad, and losing sight of the great question that should command their attention — that of betterments. When this ques tion is settled, it will be an easy matter for the people of Georgia, at the next election, to determine what disposition they desire made of the road, and so in struct their representatives, who will then have two years before the expiration of the present lease to carry out their in structions. But if the matter of better ments is left unsettled, it will be a cloud hanging over the property that will pre vent an intelligent and sjieedy disposi tion of it. We repeat, the paramount duty of the present Legislature, as regards the road, is to definitely determine the responsi bility, if there be any, of the State to the lessees for betterments. This will leave the naked question of sale or lease for the next General Assembly; and as to their duty in the premises, the people will fully and unmistakably instruct them. The New York court of appeals has affirmed the decision of the court below in the Jacob Sharp case. So Mr. Sharp must go to the penitentiary, unless a higher court interferes. The New York court, it will be observed, took about the same ground that was recently taken by the Supreme court of Illinois, in the case of the Chicago anarchists. That is to say, it refused to set aside the action of the lower court, because of errors in the records, which were merely of a techni cal character. The existence of such errors was conceded; but the verdict was allowed to stand, nevertheless, on the theory, that “‘the jury were justified in arriving at the result they did.” The courts took a very sensible and practical view of the matter. They thought that the jury had enough facts upon which to predicate a verdict, regardless of minor technicalities. Sometimes it would seem that tdo much stress is placed upon what is generally termed legal technicalities in the trial of criminal cases, and the guilt or innocence of the accused is lost sight of and overshadowed by them. The volume of immigration continues to increase, the total number of alien ar rival in eight months of the present cal endar year having been 3(52,839, as compared with 254,(579 in the corre sponding period of last year. It is hardly probable, of course, that the immigration of the calendar year 1887 will equal that of the fiscal year 1882, when it reached 788,992, the highest figure. There is strong likelihood, however, that the fiscal year 18,38. nearly three months of which have already expired, will exceed the largest previous record in this direc tion. Mu. Frank H. Richardson, of the Con stitution staff, and who, for several years, has been the brilliaut and able corre spondent of that pajier, in Washington, has been made editor-in-chief of the Macon Telegraph. Mr. Richardson is a young man of fine ability, und will bring to his new post large general experience in journalism. He will be a worthy suc cessor to Col. Lamar, and the Telegraph's editorials will make the paper a strong factor in Geoegia politics. • Hon. James M. Russell,, a prominent lawyer and citizen of Columb us, died on the 3rd ilistent. A NEW DISCOVERY. Th. 1 * Application of Silica to tbe Manufacture of Iron ami Steel. St ion s Capitalists Invest in an Army Chaplain’s Tatent aud Lay tlie Foun dation Tor a Uival Monopoly to the Bessemer Process. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.] Another large industry has l>een added to the special enterprises of St. Louis in the organization last night of the Mul lins Sillicuted Iron and Steel Company, the object being to utilize the discovery made by Maj. G. G. Mullins, Chaplain, United States army, several years ago. Maj. Mullins is well known in St. Louis having been stationed here many years as supervisor of education in the army, ami when in need of assistance he natu rally turned to friends here. They took hold of the matter, and during the past month about twenty capitalists and munufat:tiirers of this city, Chicago and Pittsburg have been watching with lively interest the development and demonstra tion of his process for the application of anew principle in the manufacture of iron and steel. The main feature of the process is a peculiar use of silica, in the form of crushed quartz or pure white sand, as an ally and detergent in the pro duction of superior iron and steel, even from the cheapest crude material. Prac tical iron men and iron masters have witnessed trials of the process made on a large scale, and they testify that it cer tainly does make a marked improve ment in the product, and that it more than suggests an important influence of silica and silicon heretofore not recog nized in the manufacture of irou. The company has already obtained patents from the United States, England, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium and Russia. HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY. Maj. Mullins arrived in the city yester day, from Pittsburg, where he hail been superintending several new tests, and in answer to questions by a Globe-Demo crat reporter, gave the following sketch of his discovery and its uses: “In 1869 and 1870, in the mountains of Colorado, while superintending a small smelting furnace, and trying to re duce refractory silver ore,'’ he said, “my attention was arrested by some appa rently curious chemical reactions of silica and iron. I began at once a series of careful crucible experiments, and was soon convinced that in certain combina tions and conditions silica would act in ways unrecorded by chemists and metal lurgists. Through all these years, as I have had opportunity, I have been ex perimenting upon, and studying silica and silicon. As early as 1872 I demon strated to my own satisfaction that I had made a valuable discovery, and con tended that silica would yet prove to be the iron and steel producer’s powerful helper, and that in this new field I would be the pioneer. Now, since my claim and rights have at last been acknowledged at Washington, my company may be said to have the corner on silica in iron metallurgy. 1 early filed a caveat, and afterward fought for a patent, and that, too, despite sickness, poverty, many dis couragements, and absorbing duties in other directions. But I now have the patents, and such are the conditions of my process and so overwhelming the proof of priority of my discovery, that we can easily stop infringement and maintain the claim of interference against the one or two parties \tho may have re cently obtained patents for some specific use of silica in other processes, such as for the manufacture of ferro silicon and the removal of oxide of iron from the bath in the Bessemer converter. A COMPLETE MONOPOLY. u “The heart, or the ‘point d’appuly’ of my very comprehensive claim consists in this: The exclusive right to use silica, in the form of crushed quartz or pure white sand, in any molten mass rof iron, in order to purify and otherwise improve the product, whether in blast furnace, cupola, puddling furnace, crucible, con verter, ladle or mold, it matters not what. Our great opening is in the field of weak irons. From cold-short or red short weak and cheap pig we can manu facture superior wrought or cast-iron. In a recent trial, when given a heat of the most inferior red-short pig to oper ate upon, 1 succeeded in making a metal which Inis been tested and proved to have a tensile strength of over 54,000 pounds to the square inch. But, of course, we can profitably treat the high grades of iron, and we propose to make application of our discovery in all possi ble directions. I am now considering the subject of the manufacture of a su perior car-wheel to meet a most urgent demand. A purified, tough, malleable iron is now the great desideratum or necessity. Bessemer steel has seen its greatest day, and from now on its popu larity will gradually wane. It is not fit for railroad, bridge or boiler purposes. It is not homogeneous, not reliable. It is first too much burned up, and then given an artificial life and strength of short duration by the introduction of spiegel, or ferro-manganese. It is more subject than any other metal made to rapid molecular change and crystalliza tion from the influence of heat, cold, steam, electricity, magnetism, vibration and concussion. In this respect, we can produce irou vastly its superior. THE PROCESS DEFINED. “I have made over 300 experiments, about sixty on a large scale. At a cer tain moment 1 introduce a certain per cent, of silica into the molten mass of iron. It helps greatly to eliminate sul phur, phosphorus, arsenic and other im purities; it removes the oxide of iron. In a measure, it combines with the iron and forms an alloy.of steel-like appearance; it converts white iron into gray; it helps to overcome red-shortness' and cold shortness in iron and steel; it makes an acid and very liquid slag; it liberates the gases, and renders the product homeo geneous, and free from porousness and tendency to blister. In brief, it enables us to produce in a very simple and cheap Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is a peculiar medicine, and is carefully pre pared by competent pharmacists. Tiie com bination and proportion of Sarsaparilla, Dan delion, Mandrake, Yellow Dock, and other remedial agents is exclusively peculiar to Hood’s Sarsaparilla, giving it strength and curative power superior to other prepa rations. A trial will convince *"you of its great medicinal value. Hood's Sarsaparilla Purifies the Blood creates and sharpens the appetite, stimulates the digestion, and gives strength to every organ of the body. It cures the most severe cases of Scrofula, Salt Rlieum, Boils, Pimples, and all other affections caused by impure blood, Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Headache, Kidney and Liver Complaints, Catarrh Rheu matism, and that extreme tired feeling. “ Hohd’s Sarsaparilla has helped me more for catarrh and impure blood than anything else I ever used.” A. Ball, Syracuse, N. Y. Creates an Appetite a “I used Hood's Sarsaparilla to cleanse my blood and tone up my system. It gave me a good appetite and seemed to build me over.” E. M. Hale, Lima, Ohio. 4 “ I took Hood’s Sarsaparilla for cancerous humor, and it began to act unlike anything else. It cured the humor, and seemed to tone up the whole body and give me new life.” J. F. Nixon, Camhridgeport, Mass, Send for book giving statements of cures. . Hood’s Sarsaparilla * Soldby all dnigrylst*. f';sixforfs. Prepared only by C. I. HOOI) & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, xv—y. 100 Doses One Dollar way a comparatively purified, h ml, tough and malleable iron." When asked if he should devote him self entirely to his discovery, Maj. Mul lins replied : “No; I shall not .remain as the active head of thecompany.as 1 am in wretched health, and must soon return to my re treat in Southern California. But we will have smne able man soon its Presi dent, and an agent in this country ami one in Europe. The contfmny was only organized to-night, at the Planters’, ijul as yet 1 cannot give away name*. I have not tried to make any sales, as 1 am not ready for that yet. Ours is a new departure, and a thing of such mag nitude and so many details that it will require time to work up the business.” A Good Appetite Is essential to good health; but at this season it is often lost, owing to the pov erty or impurity of the blood, derange ment of the digestive organs, and the weakening effect of the changing season. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is a wonderful medi cine for creating an appetite, toning the digestion, and giving strength to the whole system. Now is the time to take it. Be sure to get Hood's Sarsaparilla. Heed This, Farmer. We have secured the best Home-made Jeans for the least money ever brought to the Rome market. Also tin* best Home-made Waterproof Boot. J. T. Wortham & Cos., sep29-tf 88 Broad St., Rome, Ga. AS AX EDITOH. Hieronymous Crank Recalls a Painful Newspaper experience. “Hieronymous Crank,” Memphis Sunday Times. I have never yet discovered the man who would acknowledge that he could not run a newspaper. He might be will ing to acknowledge anything else ; he might confess that he has mistaken his calling in becoming a minister; he might say that he was never built for a lawyer, or that medicine was not to his taste; he might own up that he could not run a saw mill, a locomotive, a school, a hotel, a steamboat or a saloon, but he would never admit that he could not make a newspaper a howling success. I discovered this pyschological fact several years ago when a friend of mine took a trio to Europe and asked me to run his paper for him while he was away. Now, if there was one thing that I thought 1 could do then, it was to con duct a newspaper; so I promptly acceded to liis request and was installed as editor. I determined in the first place that I would sound public sentiment, and find out accurately what my readers wanted. Here are a few of their opinions: “Your editorials are too long, people don’t read anything longer than fifteen lines nowadays. They believe in para graphs,” “Why don’t you give us some editor ials? Those short comments are not worth reading. They give us no idea of a subject.” “Y'ou ought to give more personal and society news. Surely the movements of respectable people are of much more im portance than the records of the police court.” “What makes you fill your paper with all this slush ? Nobody cares to read that kind of stuff.” “1 can’t see why you fill your paper with so much trivial local news, when so many important events are taking place elsewhere?” “For goodness sake, give us a rest on this foreign news! Nobody here care what the royal idiots are doing in Europe.” “Why don’t, you cater more to the ladies ? They are the greatest nevvspaj>er readers, and it seems to me you slight them entirely.” “Look here! Y'ou are making a mis take in publishing a woman’s paper. If you expect to succeed you will have to put something stronger in it.” “As soon as you quit publishing this infernal baseball news you can renew my subscription.” “What’s the matter with your paper now? It has no baseball in it. That’s the only department I read, and if you cau’t give us more than you do, why, you can stop my paper.” “Y'ou could greatly improve your paper by publishing articles of the best humor ists occasionally.” “I can’t understand why you stuff your columns with the alleged humor of Bill Nye, Bob Burdette and the funny papers. Nobody wants to read that kind of truck.” “Well, I see you are publishing a red hot prohibition paper now. You will make a great many enemies by embrac ing that folly,” “I hear a good many complaints among the prohibitionist of the lukewarmness of the paper. They say that you have gone back on the cause.” “There is one thing lacking m your paper. You are not spicy and personal enough. People want personalities now adays. They want to be shook up.” “ You ought not to indulge so much in personalities. Maintain a judicial tone, and anything like heat or malice.” “If the paper had more sporting news in it and fewer religious notes, it would be more popular.” “Religious people complain a great deal about your filling your paper with sport ing news and neglecting the affairs of the church.” Such was the advice I got. It was plain that in order to satisfy everybody I had to double the size of the paper or discontinue its publication entirely. I concluded to adopt the advice in sec- I became by turns rapturously religious and sublimely skeptical. 1 wrote like a literateur one week, and like the correspondent of a sporting journal the next. I constructed ponder ous articles on the tariff, and, as an off set, penetrated the giddy of giddies, and dished up an editorial on society. I wrote learnedly about baseball, and de veloped an easy, cowboy style in my lit erary critiques. I noticed every local plank walk that had been laid, and every watermelon lawn party that had been given, one week; and next I wrote about the early extermination of Europe. I gave my views about agriculture in a way that infuriated the entire Grange element. I wrote up a public official in a judicial way, and nobody paid any at tentiod to it. I denounced another offi cial in a lurid, red-headed style, and con tracted a serious Case of" doctor’s bill on account of it. When 1 had been an editor for about six weeks, I became aware of the fact that if the owners of the paper did not return soon, he would find nothing of his journal left except the mortgages on the type and press. Ucfotecig* ftp food -M It is not “the only’l Food, BUT IT IS THE BEST FOOD, < s THE CHEAPEST FOOD, THE HEALTH CIVINC FOOD. 1 For young Infants. it will prove a safe substitute for mother's milk: tor the Inva lid, or Dyspeptic it is of great value. Huo droils who have used it recommend it qp THE MOST PALATABLE FOOD, THE MOST NUTRITIOUS FOOD, THE MOST DICESTIBLE FOOD. it is a Cooked Food:.. A Predigested Fool: ' A Non-Irritating Food> ‘ Rend for eirevlars and pamphlet* gim tng testimony r f Vlnjaicians and Moth er*, which u-iU amply prove every state ment see make. [24 THREE SIZES-25C., 50C.,51 .EASIL V PREPARED. Wads, Richardson A Cos., Burlington, Vt, A Case of Deafness Cnr l Office of Shaw & Bald wind's Wholesale) Notion House, Toledo, 0.. !><*: 11,1879./ F. J. Cheney & Cos., Toledo, O. —Dear Sirs: About throe months ago. noticing a letter addressed to you in the Bee from Gen. Slevin, in reference to the cure of his son by the nso of Hall’s Catarrh Cure, we were induced to commence the use of it lor our daughter Nellie now fourteen years old, who has been suffering from catarrh for about eight yean*, during which time she has been treated by one of the best physicians in the city. We have also teied the use of almost all the known remedies for catarrh, with no more success than temporary relief. Many nights have we laid awake to hoM her mouth open to keep her from strang ling. Her hearing had also become affec ted. We were afraid that she would never recover. We have now used six bottles of Hall's CatarA Cure, and we believe Nellie to be entirely cured. In a few days after commencing the use of it we noticed a decided change for the bet ter, and from that right along she has improved, until now she breaths as easily as any one. She sleeps well and her hearing is perfectly good. We feel that the disease is entirely removed. We write this unsolicited letter, feeling that, it is due you, and with the hope that others may be benefitted in like manner. We can hardly realize that such a change could he effected in so short a time after battling with the disease so long. We are still using the remedy at inter vals, as it seems to build up her system. You are at liberty to use this in any manner you see proper. We are yours, truly, Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin, 220 Franklin Avenue. Sept. B-1 in Hold by Druggists, 7f*c. Weather proverbs for October: Much rain in October, much wind in December. A good October and a good blast. Ho blow the hog acorn and the mast. If October brings heavy frosts and winds, then will January and Febuary be mild. When it freezes and snows in October, January will bring mild wepther; but if it is thundering and heat lightning, the winter will resemble April in temper. Warm October, cold February. As the weather in October, so will it be in the next March. 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As I have put the time off as late as I possibly could, 1 hope every tax-payer will pay up prompt ly, as fi. fas. will be issued after the dates have expired. Oct. Ist, 1887. J. F. LINN. Tax Collector Bartow County, Ga. Letter of Guardianship. GEORGIA, Bartow County: To all whom It ma.v concern—-•!. G. Cannon having applied for guardianship of the property of Della E. Sproull, C. W. Sproull, (). B. Sproull, Charles M. Sproull, Kary Sproull and James Sproull’ minor children of Thomas K. Sprouil, late of Orange county, Florida, deceased, ami notice is hereby given that said application will be heard on the first Monday in November, 1887. This Ist October, 1887. $2.52 J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary. GEORGIA — Bartow County. Whereas. E. E Field, adminisr. tor of E M. Filild, deceased. r. pitsenis i> the Court, in Ins i cinion, dub ttie.i uinl enfert.. on ri cord that he has lull) alniiiistercd sail. E M. lield’s e-t.iie this is ii.er. f. re to cite ail personsconcerni and, kinur.il anil creditors, to show c u e. :f any the) . a,.. h s iid ndii.ioisiT to> siiiMil.i noi lie dis charged (mm his idmii.is.i ,ti >n ami receive Let t. r of Dismiss) ii on the Fust Monday l De cern b r, 1887. This Sept fl.h, 1887 sepß-3m J. v HOW \RD, Ordinary. Administrator's Sale. GEORGIA— Bartow County. By virtue of an order from the Court of Ordi nary of Bartow county, will be sold on the first Tuesday in November next, 1887, at the Court House door in said county, between the legal sale hours, the tract of laud whereon Edmund Cullinana resided at the time of his death, con taining 200 acres, more or less, being lots of land Nos. 1064, 1065, 1066, 1067 ami 1094, in the 21st District and 2d section of Bartow county. About 40 acres cleared, in good state of cultivation, balance well timbered. Improvements, 2 small frame houes and 2 stables, good bold spring, freestone. A small creek runs through lot No. 1094, and branches on other parts of the land. Terms cash. Sold as the property of the estate of Edmund Cullinana, for distribution and pay ment, of debts. This 20th September, 1887. B. A. ISEMAN, Administrator. GEORGIA —Bartow County : To all whom it may concern: R. I. Battle, Guardian for Fannie E. anil Mary V. Arho gast, minors, lias applied to the undersigned for leave to sell the real estate belonging to said minors, in said county, and said application will be heard on the first Monday in November,, 1887. This 20th September, 1887. J, A. Howard, Ordinary. H. B. PARRS CO. Leaders in Low Prices And Latest Styles. Lairgcat, licet, newest and most com plete stock of Dress Goods r -—AND —r- TRIMMINGS Ever offered in Rome. ' L 1 1 l .I—l - Center FOR M DUS MAE! Worsted suits with trimmings, $2.50, $3, $4, $5, so—all good styles. Elegant French Novel ties. 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It" ILL BE SOL/DBEFORE TH K COURT Hoi \) door in Cartersville, Bartow County, (ieor gia, on the m FIRST TUESDAY IN NOVEMBER, 1887, between the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder, the following described property, to-wit • Lot of land No. two hundred and twenty -two (222), containing ISO acres more or less, alll vi'nir and living in the 23d district and 2nd section of Bartow county, Georgia levied on and will i, P sold as the property of F. F. Findley to satisfy one City Court ti. fa. of Cartersville, Bartow county. Ga., in favor of J. B. Collins vs. K p Findley. This 27th day of June, 1887. Property pointed out by plaintiff's attorney. Also at the same time and place, lot of land number one hundred and seveni v-livc (175), in the lfith district and :trd section of Bartow county, (in. Levied on and will be sob' as the property of William C. Smith to satisfy one Bartow Superior Court ft. fa. in tavor of McGhees A Cos. vs. William C. Smith. Property pointed out by plaintiff and in po-session of Wil liam C. Smith. Levy made by \V. W. Roberts former Sheriff, on May 24th, In*<;. s2.7ti Also at the same time and place, lots and parts of lots of land numbers two hun dred and fourteen (214), two hundred and ftfb.-en (215). and two hundred and nineteen, (2P.i) lying in thesth district and 3rd section of Bartow county, Georgia, known as the Nancy Henderson place and containing 338 acres more or less. Levied on and will be sold as the property of the defendant, Nauey Henderson, to satisfy one liar tow Superior Court fb fa. in favor of Sinclair McHenderson vs. Nancy Henderson. Property iu her possession and pointed out by plaintiff's at torney. I.<evy made by \V. \V. Roberts, former Sheriff, September 20th, ISO. Also at the same time and place, lots of land numbers four hundred and ninety (4<o) and four hundred mid ninety-one, (491), levied oil and will be sold to satisfy one Bartow County Court ft. fa. in favor of Georgia Chemical Works vs. Wm. Nichols and in possession of Wm. Nichols, the defendant, the same lying amt living in the 17th district and 3rd section of Bartow county, Georgia. $2.25 Also at the same time and place, lost of laud numbers one thousand, two hundred and twenty-ome, (1,221), one thousand, two hun dred and twent.v-eight (1.225), and one thousand, two hundred and ninety-three (1,293), and 20 acres more or less of lot 1,227, and 12 acres more or less of lot 1,222, all In the 2ist district and 2d section of Bartow County, Georgia. Levied on and will be sold as the property of the defendant, Elliott Moore, to satisfy one J untie Court ti. fa. from the Sloth district,!}. M., in favor of U. H. Jones & Sons Manufacturing Company vs. Elliott Moore. Defendant in possession. Levy made by F. H. Franklin, L. C. s4.os Also at the same time and place, thirty six acres of lot of land No. four hundred and eighty-nine (489), and four acres of lot No. four hundred and forty-eight (44,5.) Levied on and will be sold to satisfy one Bartow Counz.v Court ft. fa. in favor of Georgia Chemical Works vs. H. J. Wade, the same lying and being in the 17th district and 3rd section of Bartow county, Georgia, and iu possession of 11. J. Wade, tiu> defendant. $2.42 Also at the same time and place, two (2) acres of land of lot six hundred and sixty.eight ((ii;sj in the 4th district and 3rd section of Bartow county, Georgia, bounded as follows: On the south by lands of Henry Tuinlin, on the west In lands of. John S. Leake, on the north by lands of Charley Copeland and on the east by road leading from the public road to Henry Tum lin’s. Levied on and will be sold as the property of Caesar Richards to satisfy a Justice Court it. fa. in favor of W. N. Lowery vs. Oiesar Richards, issued from the N22d district, G. M , of said county. Levy made by F. C. Watkins, L. C„ and returned to me September 2Kth day, IHS7. $4.02 Also, at the same time and place the following property: Lying in the fourth district and third section of Bartow county, Georgia, and being those parts of lots Nos. six hundred and five (tios) and live hundred and forty-eight (54S),which are Included in the following boundaries: Begin ning at the southwest corner of lot six hundred and five (1106), where said lot connects or joins with the lands of Howard, ami running north from i aid point one-half mile, thence east to Cooper’s railroad, thence running with said road nearly south to the northwest corner of the bridge of the Western and Atlantic railroad across the Etowah river, then following the Western and Atlantic railroad to the top of the bank of the Etowah river, bearing north and a little east to the north line of lot number five hundred and forty-eight (548), t lienee east across said river tothetopof the opposite bank of said river, thence following the river bank down to said bridge of Western and Atlantic rail road, thence down on the top of said bank, down the river to a point within thirty-five yards of the inilldum across said river, thence southeast seventy yards, thence south seventy yards, thence back to the river bank, so as to include one acre of land at the end of said niilldam of the land adjoining, thence down the toji of tue bunk of said river to a point opposite the point of start ing, thence across said river to the point from which the lines were commenced; the whole land herein described being forty acres,, more or less. Levied on and will be sold as the property of ('.a. Milner by virtue of a fieri facias from judgment in attachment in the city court of Cartersville for Bartow county in favor of Roberts and Collins against said Milner. Defendant in possession. Property pointed out by ftieri facias and plain tiffs. $9.87. Also at the same time and place, one brick store house aud lot located on the south side of West Main street in Cartersville, Bartow county, Ga., said lot fronting fifty feet on West Main street und running back two hundred feet, bounded north by Main street, south by property of Mrs. M. E. Williams, east by property of Scheuer Brothers, west by property of J. G. M. Montgom ery. Also one vacant lot in Cartersville, Bartow county, Georgia, containing three-fourtlis of one acre, more or less, bounded east by M. F. Word's residence lot and the Mrs. Miller Gilreath prop erty, south by T. W. White’s property, wesl by tbe Ben. Latimore lot and a part of the Hudgins lot occupied by Henderson, (colored), north by Ferry street. All of said property advertised, levied on and will be sold as the property of Thomas Tuinlin and A. R. Hudgins to satisfy one Bartow Superior Court fieri facias iu favor of Mrs. A. L. Nelson, guardian, etc., against said Tuinlin and Hudgins. In possession of defend ant’s tenants and pointed out by plaintiff's at torney. $5.49 • A. M. FRANKLIN, Sheriff, J. W. WILLIAMS, Deputy Sheriff. Petition for Charter. GEORGIA, Bartow County. To the Superior Court of said County: The petition of John W. Akin shows that petitioner, with his successors and associates, desires to be incorporated for the term of twenty years, with privilege of renewal at the end of that time, under the corporate name of “The Central Company.'' The object of said corporation is pecuniary gain. Tl>e businesses to be carried on are: the buying, selling, owning, using, enjoying, improving, leasing, renting, and exchanging, of all kinds of property, real, personal and chosen in action; the digging, shipping and mining of minerals; the erection and operation of furnaces, foundries, factories for the manufacture of wool and cotton into threads, textiles and fabrics, mills for crush ing and preparing for market oil from cotton seed; the borrow ing and lending of money; the buying and selliug of goods, wares and mer chandise. The capital to be employed and actually paid iu by said corporation is Ten Thousand Dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, with privilege of Increasing same at any time or times to any sum or sums not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars. The principal otlice of said corporation is to be Cartersville, Georgia, and its place of doing business is to be in Carters ville and Bartow county, Georgia, and such other places in the United States as said corporation may desire. Petitioners pray that said corporation be im powered to exercise all powers necessary or proper to the prosecution of their business, with power to sue ami be sued, to borrow and lend money, to mortgage or sell its property and franchises or any part thereof, to -have a corporate seul. to have perpetual succession during its corporate existence, to make sueh rules, constitutions ami by-lnw-s as it may deem proper, consistent with the law and its charter, and with all the rights, immunities and powers conferred upon corpora tions by the laws of Georgia, und with such lia bilities only as are now imposed by law in such cases provided, to be incurred by stockholders or oUlcers of said corporation. JOHN W. AKIN, Petitioners’ Attorney, Filed in office, Clerk Superior Court, Bartow County, Georgia, September 28, 1887,and recorded same day in Book “H” of Minutes .page 28. F. M. DURHAM, Clerk S. C. Administrator’s Sale. GEORGIA —Bartow County, By virtue of an order from the Court of Ordi nary of Bartow county, will be sold on the first 1 uesday in November 1887, at the court house door in said county, between the legal sale hours, the following property to-wit; Lots Nos. 766, 707 and 736, in the 21st district and 2d section of Bartow county, Ga., containing 120 acres more or less. Improvements ordinary, part of this tract is considered valuable for gold. Sold as ths property of the estate of John Tumlin, de censed, for distribution a.id paying debts. Terms cash. This 27th September, 1887. T. C. MOORE. $3 84 Adru’r. Jno. Tumlin, dec’d. GEORGIA—Bartow County. To ail whom it may concern ; The commission ers appointed to set apart a twelve months’ sup port to Mrs. V. A. Keefer, widow of J. H. Keefer and their minor children, have made their report and the same is now on file in my office. All persons concerned are hereby notified that if no good cause be shown to the contrary the same will be alfowyd and made the judgment of the court on the first Monday in November next. This isth September, 1887. J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary. E'YTD i BOC K AGENTS LAll\n HIGH TEEMS Agents who bave had fine success should " Tit us in a letter (no postal cards) names of books, date, number sold in what time, what terms re ceived (full paraicclarsi, and obtain from us new plan and extraordinary discounts to bet ter themselves on uew and fast-selling hooks. HENRY BUCK LIN At CO., PHILADELPHIA, 1 aug2s-6m > G EORGlA— Bartow County. Whereas. John W. Stubbs, administrator of Lemuel Dillard, deceased, represents to thetour in his petition, duly tiled and entered on r,ww, that he has have fully administered said Dillard’s estate. This is therefore to dte ah P sons concerned, kindred and creditors, to - * cause, if any they can, why said ad in I should not be discharged from hw admiuM tion, and receive letters of dismission on ar 1 '■‘^^H.'.wAiiD.osa^ GEORGIA—Bartow County; To all whom it may concern : R.L (n Administrator of Samuel Ward, *■***£, o due form applied to the uiulersigned lor h sell the lands belonging to tlieestareof i ceased and said application wall be heaid on flint Monday in November, 1877. Tills 20th September, fcQWABU. Ordinary.