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About The Courant-American. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1887-1888 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1887)
SUBSUKI i*TION. sr^2 The Con kakt Ami rican is Puhmkhkd \\ kkklv in the Imtkkkst ok Bahtow Cm nty, Devoted Mainly to Local News, and Thinks it has a Rioht to Expect an Undivided County Patkon ae ml -Nil PA 1 tts™""-'-*-;™"*"'. K-übihiw! i* i. , I IUI 6JJ ' AKI KltHVlia.K AMKKK'AN. “ IKK!.I * DNSOmi)ATSD 1887. flare Treat in Store for Lovers of Bargains. J. P. JOIT ES, The Regulator of Low Prices, Inaugurates tlie Fall Season by an offering of New Goods in every Department. The Cheapest and Prettiest Stock ever Shown in Cartersville. DRESS COOES. Special attractions in everything new \ll Wool Tricots, Combination Suitings, Fancy Diagonels, All Wool Cashmeres in ievery desirable color, All Wool Henrietta, Ladies Cloth in nil the new shades, Silk soul Velvet Novelties in every color suitable for-trim tiling. ATTEACTIONS. Velvets in nil shades, Silk velvets in every desirable colors, Brocaded Woven Velvets. 50 I‘iees Brocaded and I‘lain Dress Hoods —Double Width Cashmere, all colors, at 18c.; worth 2fie. J. P. JONES, Cartersville, - S-- Georgia. PEACOCK & VEAL, DEALERS IDT W U R]\ I T U U K (NORTH GEORGIA FURNITURE HOUSE.) THE CHEAPEST AS WELL AS THE FINEST Parlor and Bed Room Suits in this section. WE STILL CLAIM TO SELL Better Goods lor Less 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 I‘ARI.OR FUItMTURK, KEI) ROOM FUItMTURK, ROCKING UH A IKS, WARDROBES, BABY CARRIAGESat any Price, MATTINGS, RUGS,CARPETS Etc. LADIES. SEE OUR YV AL, \j 1 > A I > ER , of which we have the latest and most unique design. We Guarantee Prices and Goods. Respectfully, PEACOCK <&. VEAL, CARTERSVILLE, GA. R. H. JONES So SONS’ MANUFACTURING COMP A NY, CARTERSVILLE, ROME AND STAMP CREEK, GA. —Manufacturers of and Dealers in— BUGGIES, CARRIAGES, WAGONS S MATERIAL Oldest (Carriage Factory —IN— Georgia. all work fully guarantied. We can duplicate the work of any first-lass niami factory in the country in Price, Q/iiality and. Finish.. We acknowledge no superior in the Carnage usiness. Can build any style of ‘vehicle desired; only the very best material used. lcli:My ~ THE HOWARD BANK, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. TjSfi*' l * ttonaisient with saiety extended to its custom ors. SPEC! AX. 10 Pieces All Wool Red Flannel at 18c yard; worth 25c. All Wool Red Twill Flannel, 25c. White Flannels at all prices. Gray Flannel, 2<>e.; worth 25c. Cotton Flannel at 7c. yard. Jeans,good quality, 15c. per yard. All Wool Jeans at a bargain. Men’s Undershirts, all wool, from 25c up. Ladies’ Vests front 35c. to SI.OO. Extra fine all w<;ol Jerseys from SI.OO to $2.50. „ Rreakfase Shawls from 20c. to SI.OO. Large all wool Shawls from $1.25 to $3.00. A beautiful line of Cashmere Shawls in the latest colors, from $1.25 to $3.00. THE (MEANT-AMERICAN. SHOES! SHOES! If you are in need of Shoes 1 will only tell you in a few words, I bought every pair in my store for SPOT CASH, ena bling me to get the Lowest Inside Prices. I am selling Stribley & Co.s’ Shoes— EVERY PAIR WARRANTED. If they don’t give satisfaction money will be refunded. Ladies’ fine Kid Shoes at $3.00 per pair. My Ladies’ Shoes in Kid and Goat Button at $2.00 are well worth $2.50. Ladies’ Button Shoes at $1.50 others will ask you $2.00. 1 sell the best $1.50 Shoe in Cartersville. In Men’s Shoes 1 can show you the best and cheap est line. A splendid pair Shoes for SI.OO. I am satisfied with a small profit. Don’t buy Children's Shoes till you learn iny prices. Bargains in Men’s and Bovs, Boots A POINTER! A Safeguard to Comfort, Peace ana Happiness. 20,000 Dollars’ Worth O F Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Clothing, Ladies’ Wraps, Notions, Etc., TO UK CLOSED OCT WITHIN TUB NEXT SIXTY DAYS! We are resolutely determined that these GOODS SHALL GO, and to accomplish this result we give the people of this community an unprecedented opportunity of get ting these goods for away DOWN! DOWN!! DOWN!!! until you have actually lost their value in perfect outbursting happiness. Here are some of our flat-footed prices, which we mean to stand on: Five cases of good Calico for 3% cents. Four eases of Cotton Flannel for 7to 15 cents, worth from 10 to 20 cents. Four cases of tine Ginghams 8 to 10 cents, worth anywhere else from 10 to 15 cents; 1,000 yards of Red and White Flannel for 12% to 75 cents; 100 pieces of all wool Jeans for 25 to 33% cents; 1,000 yards of Blank and Colored Cashmere for 10 cents,elsewhere 15 cents; 1,000 yards Brocaded Worsted for 12% cents, worth elsewhere 20 cents; 500 yards Serge for 33 cents, worth 50 cents; 1,000 yards of Colored Cashmere, 40 inches, for 65 cents, you pay anywhere else in town 90 cents and SI.OO. HOSE, HOSE! We can make you feel good in this line. We can show you the best and cheapest Hose in Rome; also the most complete assortment of Ladies' and Gent's Handker chiefs ever brought South. A special run on Gloves. In fact anything in the Notion line is going to be sold at not what they are worth, but what we can get. SHIRTS, SKIRTS! In this department you will be overwhelmed with astonished gladness. We keep the celebrated Glenn Shirt, conceded by all who wear it to be of better Linen,, tits nicer and laundries better than any shirt made. ■ WRAPS, WRAPS! This is the place to make your money back if you have lost any by buying any where else. We have .a complete line of them both in Long and Short; .also a good stock of Ladies' Walking Jackets. Remember we are over-stocked on these goods and if you want one you shall have it. We are also burdened with too many Trunks, and mean to give somebody the best bargain here ever dreamed of, even by the most economical miser. The first to come, the first to carry off the mammoth bargains. SHOES, SHOES! Everybody knows we keep the most complete line of Men's, Ladies’. Misses' and Children’s custom-made Shoesto be found in any Dry Goods house in Rome, and the pleasing feature is that we will save you from 20 to 35 per cent. We carry a full line of J. Faust & Son's custom-made shoes, said by all who wear them to be the best, most comfortable and now the cheapest shoes ever worn. We have- too many Boots, consequently we are going to give you a $2.50 boot for $1.75, and a $7.50 boot for $5.00. We have the largest stock of HATS in Rome, which we will sell at the greatest sacrifice ever known. Hoping you will come to set l us and bring your friends with you, that both may be made happy, we are Yours truly, J T WORTHAM & CO , Under Masonic Temple, 88 Broad St., Rome, Ga. ESTABLISHED —BY — R. H. Jones —IN— -1853. CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY NOV. 24, 1887. Clothing! Clothing-! A splendid stock or Clothing at very Low Prices. If you need anything in DRY GOODS, DRESS GOODS, FLANNELS, WATERPROOF and thousands of other articles, don't for get to call at my Store. I can’t sell you goods for less than they are worth, but 1 will guarantee to sell you goods at a living price. Don’t fail to call on me when you come to Cartersville. PURELY VEGETABLE. It acts with extraordinary efficacy on tha tiver, ki DNE ys, I—and Bowels. AN EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC FOR Malaria, Bowel Complaints, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Constipation, Biliousness, Kidney Affections, Jaundice, Mental Depression, Colici BEST FAMILY MEDICINE No Household Should he Without It, and, by beingkept ready lor Immediate use. will save many an hour of suffering aud many a dollar in time and doctors’ bills. • THERE IS BUT ONC SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR See that you get the genuine v/ith red “Z" on front of Wrapper. Prepared only by J . H . ZE I L! N <*, CO., S.-,b Proprietor*, Philadelphia. P VtJIUE. fei.OO. WILKES BOOTH’S DIARY. Lincoln's Assassination Derailed l’.|- the Anurolii-1 Execntlons Washington, Nov, 15. —The assassi nation of President Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, and the hanging ot Payne, Atzerot, Harold and Mrs. Surratt as principals and accessories in that crime, have been vividly recalled within the past few days by circumstances and incidents connected with the trial and execution of the Chicago anarchists, and also by the figure cut in the anarchists’ case by General lienj. F. Butler before .the Supreme Court of the I’nited States. The charge has frequently been made by (distinguished statesmen, as well as by profound jurists—once by an ex-member of the cabinet in a public speech in Bos ton —that Mrs. Surratt, one the persons w ho were tried and executed for the mur der of President Lincoln, was “illegally hung "—that bhe was an “innocent woman.” Gen. Butler, on the floor of the house, repeatedly jnade a similar statement and claimed that the diary of the assassin Booth, on file in the war •department, sustained the allegations as to the innocence of Mrs. Surrat. With but one exception none of the gentlemen who relied upon thecontents of the Booth diary had ever seen or examined that book, which was then locked up in an iron safe in the war department and public examination of it refused by order of Secretary Stanton. With the excep tion of a brief period it has been, thus locked up to this day. A few days since a correspondent obtained permission of the secretary of war and made a copy of Jji<‘ contents of the diary. The text, which is ia lead pencil, is as follows: “April 14, Friday.—The ideas. Until to-day nothing was ever thought of sacrificing to our country's wrongs. For six months we had worked to cap ture, but our cause being almost lost, something decisive and great must be done. But its failure was owing to others who did not strke for their coun try with a heart. I struck boldly, and not as the papers say. 1 walked with a firm step through a thousand of his friends; was stopped, but pushed on. A colonel was at his side. I shouted ‘sic semper' before I fired; in jumping broke my leg. I passed all his pickets. Rode sixty miles that night with the bone of my leg tearing the flesh at every jump. I can never repeat it, though we hated to kill. Our country owed all her troubles to him. God simply made me the instrument of His punishment. The country is not what it was. This forced union is not what I have loved. I care not what becomes of me. I have no desire to out ive my country. The night before the deed I wrote a long article and left it for one of the editors of the Na tional Intelligencer, in which 1 fully set forth our reason for our proceedings. He or the south.” At the top of another page further on the diary is resumed as follows below: “Friday, 21st. —After being hunted like a dog through swamps and woods, and last night being chased by gunboats till 1 was forced to return, wet, cold and starving, with every man's hand against me, lam here in despair—and why? For doing vvliat Brutus was honored for, what made Tell a hero. And yet I, for striking down a greater tyrant than they ever knew, am looked upon as a common cut throat. My act was purer than either of theirs. One hoped to be great himself, the other had not only his country but his own wrong to revenge. I hoped for no gain. I knew no private wrong. I I struck for my country, and that alone —a country grand beneath this tyranny —and prayed for this end, and yet now behold the cold hand they extend to me. God cannot pardon me if I have done wrong, yet I cannot see any wrong ex cept in saving a degenerate people. The little, very little, I left behind to cleaPmy name the government will not allow to lie -printed. For my country I have given up all that makes life sweet and holy, brought misery upon my family, ami am sure there is no pardon in heaven for me since man condemns so. “1 have only heard of what has been done (except what I did myself), and it fills me with horror. God! try and for give me and bless my mother. To-night I will once more try the river with the intention to cross, though I have a great er desire and almost a mind to return to Washington and clear my name, which 1 feel 1 can do. Ido not repent the blow I struck. I may before my God, but not to man. I think 1 have done well, though lam abandoned with the curse of Cain upon me, when if the world knew my heart, that one blow would have made me great, though I did not desire no greatness. “To-night I try to escape the blood hounds once more. Who, who can read this fate? God’s will be done! I have too great a soul to die like a criminal. Oh, may he spare me that, and let me die bravely. I bless the entire world; I have never hated or wronged any one. The last was not a wrong unless God deems it so, and it’s with him to damn or bless me. And for this brave boy with me, who often prays, (yes, before and since) with a true and sincere heart, was it a sin in him? If so, why can he pray the same? Ido not wish to shed a drop of blood, but I must fight tne cause. ’Tis all that’s left me.” The “brave boy” to whom Booth al ludes above, was Harold, one of the as-, sassins, who was afterwards tried and hung with the others for the murder of President Lincoln. Tennyson’s “May Queen.” Who knows but if the beautiful girl who died so young had been blessed with I)r. Pierce's “Favorite Prescription” she might have reigned on many another bright May-day. The “Favorite Pre scription” is a certain cure for all those disorders to which females are liable. ANOTHER J HUSKY MYS I’KRY Ait Unknown \Vnm*u' .Awful Struggle to Save Her Life. New York World.] Trenton, Nov. 18. —A woman about forty years of age, whose face is so dis figured that she cannot lie identified, was ; found this afternoon in the cellar of a rambling two-story frame tenement at No. 55 Tucker street. That she was foully murdered seems apparent. The authorities are, however, perplexed as to the exact manner of her death, and have no clue to the jierj**trators of the crime. The body had been lying in the cellar l**r!mps two or three days. The woman's head was within eighteen inches of the lowest cellar step and her body just out from the stairway. The body was on its | back. The woman, wore heavy shoes, which were unlaced, and white stockings. Her clothing, a plain dark dress and a rough plaid coat, were roll'd over her face as if to hide the disfigured features beneath them. Dr. Lalor believed that rats had gnawed the woman’s fare after death. The eyes alone remained intact. There were no apparent bruises on the body. In the soft earth could be plainly dis cerned the footprints of a man. On either side there were marks of feet, as if the murderer had lifted the body into its present position. There was every evidence of a terrible death-struggle. marks showed where the woman had fought against her assailant. The first marks appear at the front entrance to the house, immediately inside the door, and at the foot of the stairs leading to the second story. Two doors lead into rooms on the other side of the stairway. The woman appears to have been thrown to the floor, then' her head smashed in and cut, and then dragged along in a semi-circle course to the cellar stairway at the back of this apartment. A bloody trail shows the way. Arrived near the stairway a big round spot in the floor seems to be heav ily saturated with bood, and on the white side walls just at the entrance bloody finger marks are plainly visible, indicating that she attempted to grasp at anything which might aid her in re sisting the force that impelled her into the cell. In all probability she was finally hurled headlong into the dark pen below. Another indication of the violent strug gle was the finding of one of the woman’s, coat sleeves on the first floor in the same room where the bloody marks appear. It had been torn off the coat near the shoulder, and was discovered under the mantel. Exactly how death was caused is still a mystery. Dr. Lalor will not. hold a post-mortem examination until daylight. In a casual examination of the remains, however, a white scarf was found twisted about the woman’s neck. It was tied in a slipknot, and Dr. Lalor thought it not unlikely that the woman might have been stran gled when she became too weak to resist her assailant. She was first probably assaulted. The Philadelphia and Read ing depots, which always harbor tramps, are near by. Persons who live in the neighborhood heard noises at the house Tuesday night, but paid no attention to them. The police late to-night arrested James McDonald, a tramp, on suspicion of being the murderer. It is said that the dead woman bears some resemblance to Mrs. Quinn, who was for some time the keeper of a cheap lodging-house here, and who, a few days ago was released from prison. Who Killed General Packenliam? Senator Joseph E. Brown’s father was a soldier in General Jackson’s army when at the age of eighteen years. He joined General Garroll's brigade of Tennesseeans, and went down to New Orleans with the rest of General Jackson’s command, and took part in the battle of New Orleans, January Bth, 1815. He used to be fond of telling of the bravery of a Tennessee rifleman who was in his company, whose name was Daniel Sally. Among other ineidentsin Sally's career during the cam paign he told the following: “During the midst of the great battle of New Orleans I, like nearly everybody around me, was busy loading and firing my rifle as rapidly as I could, taking gen eral aim at the mass of redcoats before me, but not bothering to take special aim at any particular one. Sally, how ever, was pretty close to me, and I noticed that he was very deliberate in his firing. He would cut the patching around his bullets as if he was about firing at a deer. He would then raise his head above the embankment, and take deliberate aim; and I noticed that he seemed to wave his rifle from one side to the other as if he were trying to get sight upon someone in motion. “1 said to him, “Sally” what makes you fire so slowly? Why don't you shoot fast like the rest of us?” “ ‘Why,’ said Sally, ‘I am trying to kill yan officer on that white horse.’ “I then watched him to see what was the result, and the next time he loaded his rifle and raised his head above the parapet I did the same; and saw an offi cer attired in a fine General’s uniform who was riding on a splendid white horse. He was galloping from one por tion of the line to another waving his sword, and apparently rallying and en couraging his troops. Sally fired once or twice, and each time exclaimed, —‘I missed him again.’ About the third or fourth time, however after I had first had my attention called to him, I noticed ns he took aim, and at the crack of his ritlle the officer threw up his hands, reeled in his saddle, and was falling when he was caught by one or two of his orderlies who rushed to his side. “I do not know who the officer was; but history says that General Packen hani, who was coininader-in-chief of the British army, against the advice of his officers, dressed himself in his full Gener al's uniform and went into the battle, mounted on a splendid white horse. The general description fits the officer whom 1 saw fired at, and 1 think it more than likely that he met his death from a shot by this Tennessee rifleman who was, like me, a private in one of the companies ot General Carroll’s brigade.” Tons of Pure Gold. PiiEscofT, Arizona, Nov. 15 —Private advices show that the recently discovered gold mine, ten miles from here on the Tassayampa river, richer by far than anything ever discovered in the world. The ore averages SI,OOO per ton and thousands of tons are in sight. Two men yesterday, with a common mortar, pounded out SBOO in less than an hour, the gold clinging to the rocks in the purest scales. A man with a knife can scale off a handful in a few minutes. There is every indication that the ledge contains fabulous wealth. This river has produced millions in years pastfn placer mining, and on one occasion a pocket was found which yielded SIOO,- 000 in a few weeks. People are flocking there in great numbers. Don't hawk, and blow, and spit, but Dr. Sage’s Cartarrh Remedy. I have had catarrh for twenty years, and used all kinds of remedies without relief. Mr. Smith, druggist, of Little Falls, recommended Ely’s Cream Balm. The effect of the first application was magical, it allayed the inflammation and the next morning my head was as clear as a bell. One bottle has done me so much good that 1 am convinced its use will ef fect a permanent cure. It is soothin<>- pleasant and easy to apply, and I strngly urge its use by all sufferers.—Geo Terrv, Little Falls, N. Y. Apply Balm to each nostril. Bill Nyo on tin* X(‘W South. Huston (Ilobe.J “It was my good fortune to go South j Inst winter, and il any of you are going South let me recommend the locality in which l was fortunate enough to locate in Western Tennessee. There were sever al things 1 objecetd to, however. One of them was the whisky. 1 speak of that because it was the most important* indus try there. Moonlight whisky isn't fit to drink until it is about 150 years old. After I AO years, if you put the pro|**r in gredients in it, you can feet! it to your worst enemies, ami then let your two worst enemies tight it out. “Let me here tell you my ex|>ericnee in trying to milk a cow —a regular tradi tional Southern cow. When I was a boy. ambling along the lanes of my native town, stealing watermelons by the light of the moon, esjwcially by the light of a dark moon. I thought I could milk any body's cow. “I left my home to attend to my edu cation, the result of which you can sec, and while away I changed considerably, as did all the other domestic jminmls. When 1 got home the cows did not recogiaiw* me. I can especially recall one of these cows. She was a common self made eow, born very low. but she bore her tail very high, and she was a very haughty cow. 1 made a few remarks to her, sueh remarks as 1 was accustomed to make in the very best society, when 1 can get into such society. 1 told her to •so' ami she ‘soed.’ Then I told her to ‘hi' and she ‘lasted.' but 1 think that when she did so she put too much ex pression in it. .lust then I heard some thing crush through a window near by, with a dull, sickening thud. My parents came down to see what the trouble was, and they found their son. I asked them if the barn was standing. They said it was. I asked them if the cow was hurt. They said she was still vigorous. They carried me into the house on the chicken coop door. 1 laid there a week. “My father came to me and said, ‘1 for got to tell you about that cow. She’s a high-bred f. f. v. cow.” ‘“Yes 1 said, ‘you probably did, but you would have saved me a great deal of inconvenience if you hadn't.’ “He said: “You probably went down there the wrong way. Perhaps you were singing. You’ve driven off much of our stock in that way. However, you did right, my son. Y'ou saw you couldn’t milk her, and so you came right away.' “Since that time I have bought all of m.v own milk. I found a gentle, meek milkman, in whom 1 could trust if he could trust me. “Another thing that is wrong in the South is the dogs. The dogs of that country remind me of my own, a dog with whom 1 associated many years in the West. “ When l first went West I didn’t feel worthy of a dog, but finally I secured one; a dog of brindle color, where he had any hair, a sort of seal brown color where he didn’t have any hair. “I had some difficulty in choosing an appropriate name for the dog. 1 finally called him Entomologist, for entomolo gist, you will recollect, is one who makes large and rare collections of insects. His choicest characteristic was to eat some thing that didn't agree with him and then come in my tent and regret it. “I missed him one day, and on going out found him trying to eat a rawhide lariat . He had eaten fifteen feet of this lariat when he found the other end was fastened in the ground. This was a very em+mrrassrng positron to be placed in. “He moved to reconsider, the motion was (jnashed, and I cut the lariat.’’ The Cost of Ignorance. Absence of knowledge of the fact that physical and mental weakness, indiges tion, impure blood) and sick headache can be averted by I)r. Harter's Iron Tonic, costs millions of money annually for uncertain and unreliable decoctions. Nellie Grant’s English Home. Frank A. Burr writes that the Kartoris home is not far from the English seaport of Southampton and off to the right cun be seen Cowes, wit i its harbor fidl of sailing yachts and the richest pleasure craft of all descriptions. The boats of royalty, Albert and Victoria, which carry the Queen, and the Osborne, which is at the building of tl*e Prince of Wales, lay at anchor in the waters. The reigning house of Britain sails in and out of this harbor every day when in this locality in the yellow painted and curiously peeked craft which are called royal yachts. Beautiful boats they are and gorgeously fitted up. Both of them carry crews equal to that on an ocean steamer that has the capacity of a thousand souls. TlieV are kept constantly in commission to do the bidding of her sovereign and and her son. In these waters, too, the royal yacht club has its home, and the swell rimes between the boats and other chases ot high social life make things very fashionable and lively about here. But social life, as the world knows and feels if in this locality, does not interrupt the even tenor of the Sartor is home. ax eekoant home. Nellie Grant is the mistress of this home now, for the elder Mrs. Sartoris is dead. The master is the father of the singular son who married this splendid American girl, who so worthily bore a great name. The husband, having large interests in Wales, is rarely at home, and the father devotes himself to the care of his son's children and his wife’s happiness. The elder Sartoris is a man of culture and refinement, devoted to music, painting and literature. He has means, and not only surrounds himself with a home air of art and refinement but with those who deal in the finer touches of existence. His daughter-in law lives inan atmosphere of higher or der. There are rich paintings in the halls and on the parlor walls, music of every descriptionis in the drawingrooms, and books of the rarest quality in the library. THE FARM. . The farm is ample, well laid out and cultivated. The house is an old building with two centuries of history about it. The proprietor has added some new fea tures to the architecture of the main building, and it is ample now to house the gie it troup of friends who frequently come here to enjoy the good taste of the proprietor. The grounds are beautifully laid out and decorate<j. There are acres and acres of lawn and pasture, and many more acres of flowers, shrubbery and shade. Graveled walks laid in and out between the rows of great trees, which run in every direction, and tasteful flow er beds dot the whole slope from the house to the river. leaflet Fever and Diphtheria are spread by contagion, by the transfer of living matter from the skin, the mem branous lining of the mouth, nose and throat, and from the intestines and urin ary organs. Disinfect promply and thor oughly with Darby's Prophylactic Fluid, the great germ destroyer. Prof. H. T. Lupton, of the Vanderbilt Fniversity, Tenn., savs: “Asa disinfectant and de tergent Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid is superior to any preparation with which I am acquainted.'' The colored depositors of the defunet Freed men's Bank, which was robbed by its faithful republican officers, have peti tioned President Cleveland to again re member them in his next message to Congress. He will do so. Yet they will vote for Blaine, who never did anything for them, in 1888. Ally EKTISEM ENS. Tllß CoURANT-AmKRICAN J 8 THE ONI.V Paper Published in one ok the Best Counties in North Georgia. Its Cir culation is second to none of its C’j.Asg Reasonable Rates on Application. $1.50 Per Annum.—sc. a Copy. IIAHNUM’S SHOW lUIRNEI), Horrible Holocaust s*t Hril|;c|>oK, Conn., Sunday Night. Burnt: eport, Conn., .Nov, 20.—The mail) building of Banium A Bailey's great cirrus was entirely destroyed Jo tin* tins evening- In less than thirty min utes the big building, which was 600x200 feet, ami two stories in height, was en tirely eousumed. The first intimation of fire was given by the*roaring of the lions and tigers whieh seemed to realize the ini|*endiug datiger. Next elephants strug gled in their chains. There were six watchmen employed on the premises, but they wen* helpless to cheek the flames. One of the men was in the horse building, when his lantern exploded, igniting the hay and straw. One watchman is miss ing. The np|*>r portion of the building was tilled with hay and all the parapher nalia of the great show. Before the first alarm ceased sounding the wlrflle build ing was euvelojied in tire and no one dared to approach tin* building? ls*ig tearful of THE CRAZED IXIMAI.S, Three elephants were burned up and thirty-six broke from their fastenings and dashed through the sides of the burning building. Their roars and trtimpetings and sounds of torment were ferritic. Six elephants and a large African hipjiopofca mus rushed about the streets presenting a sickening appearance. Their sides wen* burned and great pieces of flesh a foot square fell off. Thirty elephants and one large lion made their esenjie and have started across the country towards Fair fields and Easton. Great alarm has seized a great many residents of West End, and. they have taken refuge within their houses with windows barred. William Newman, ele phant trainer, was out of town and the keepers in the excitement were not able to herd the frightened auiuals. In the horse room were all the ring ani mals, trained stallions, ponies, etc. These were all burned, hi the upp- r rooms were tents, poles, seats, harness, etc., for the entire show, and these, too, were all destroyed. In another room were birds, monkeys, three rhinoceros, tigers, hyenas, lions and all the menagerie, which fella prey to the flames. So rapidly did the flames lea p across the main building that firemen made no attempt to save it, but turned their streams upon the chariot buildings' sheds, which they suceeded in saving, but the heat was so intense that this was accomplished with the greatest difficulty. The total loss is #700,000, upon which there was but #IOO,OOO in surance. Before the building went, down Barnum's agents were busy making ar rangements for obtaining a lot of new attractions to supply the loss. Mr. Broth well, Barnum’s Bridgeport agent , stated that the show building would be rebuilt, but he would probably go to Jersey Gity, where better railroad facili ties could be hail than in Bridgeport. JOE BROWN’S OLD HOME. It* >n, A(lvanl:iK ami Prospects foi* Prosperity. Amentum Recorder.] An evidence of the growth and pros perity of the South, and what the rail roads are doing towards developing the resources of Southwest Georgia, can be found m the new town of Cordele, in Dooly county. This new town was named in honor of Miss Cordele Hawkins, daughter of Colonel S. H. Hawkins, president of the Americus, Preston and Lumpkin railroad, and is as charming in situation, as its fair godmother is in graces. It was the home of Hon. Joseph E. Brown wheh the governor of Georgia, and Bill Arp made it famous with liis stories of the governor’s success in rais ing blue-stem eollards, while the gov ernor himself lias frequently alluded to it as the richest spot in Georgia. It is known the country over as “the old Joe Brown place,” and is rich in historic recollections. A few months ago it was situated in the center of a large tract of yellow pines, and thirty-four miles from the nearest market. The only house stand ing was the old homestead, and that in a dilapidated condition. To-day there are a number of handsome buildings, and 00,000 feet of lumber and 20,000 brick are on the ground to be used in the con struction of buildings. A brisk trade has sprung up, with a market for produce at the door. Streets have been laid off and two rows of shade trees planted on every street.. A SI,OOO academy building is in course of construction, and it will be but a sh6rt time before the new town will be enjoying as full school and church privi leges as the older communities. Cordele is located 38 miles cast of Americus, on the A. P. and L. road, at the crossing of the Georgia Southern and Florida road. It is 65 miles south of Macon, 34 miles from Montezuma, 37 miles from Albany, 38 miles from Hawkinsville, 35 miles from Abbeville. It will thus be seen that it is the natural trade center of a lurge and rich section. This, in connection with the fact that it has two lines of railroad, thus giving it competitive rates of fought must insure for it a rapid and permanent growth. A LIFETIME SENTENCE. A Georgia Girl Sent to the Dalle Coal Mines for the Murder of JUer Father. There is a girl named Leila Burgess serving a life term in the Dade county coal mines*the story of whose crime is somewhat strange. Her father, James Burgess, lived near Martin, in the western part of the State. He had two daugh ters, the youngest of whom was Isdla. About three years ago he joined the church, and became a regular church at tendant. He was pained to see that his two daughters, now grown to young womanhood, did not care to attend the religious services with the regularity that he did, and where all should have been concord the bitterest kind of discord grew up. After a while Burgess told tin girls that a revival was about to o|>en, and that he expected them to attend every service, and if they did not there would be somebody to whip. For three mornings the girls failed to up|>ear at the “sun-rise” meetings. On the fourth morning Burgess pulled the girls out of bed and began to chastise one of them severely. When he had beaten her into submission he began on the other. Lei la, who was the first one chastised, slipped out of the room, procured an ax, and with one stroke, buried the edge of it in her father's skull. The gash was five inches long and penetrated the brain half an inch. Afterward the girl sat looking sullenly at the dead body of her father, oblivious of the crowds which pressed in to behold tjie scene of blood. She was convicted of the highest grade of manslaughter, and took her place 'among the convicts uncomplainingly, merely saying that she would commit the crime over again before she would be compelled to go to church so early in the morning. The Arbeiter Zeitung, the anarchist or gan at Chicago, was not issued on Fri day, the employes having decided that they could best testify their respect for the memories of “their best comrades of the past” by closing the office. The buildiug was draped, a little streamer of black and white having been strung from the top windows.” Are you weak and weary, overworked and tired? Hood’s Sarsaparilla is just the medicine to purify your blood and ...ive you strength.
