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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.