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CARTERSVILLE AMERICAN.
VOLUME 11.
The Cartersville Ann.
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DIRECTORY.
CODIVT CALKNDEIt-CIIGROKGE CJIt-
CIJIT.
J. C, Fain, Judge. J. W Harris, Jr., Solici
or General. ....
Bartow County—Second Monday in January
hi and July. . . . _ ,
Catoosa County—Seeond Monday in February
and August ....
Murray County—Thiul Monday in February
amt August.
Gordon County—Fourth Monday in February
ami August. . , ,
Fade County—Third Monday in March and
September. , , .
Whitfield Count) First Monday in April
and October.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. A. Howard, Ordinary.
F. M. Durham, Clerk Superior Court.
11. W. Cobb, Treasurer, p-
John A. Gladden, Sheriff. A. M. Franklin
Deputy Sheriff.
Dailey A. llarton,Tax Collector.
W. W. Ginn, Tax Receiver. /
A. M. Willingham, Coroner.
1). W. K. Peacock, Surveyor.
Corn in is.* loners—H. ( . IVicluud, TANARUS, C. Moore,
A. Vincent, John 11. Wikie, T. S. Hawkins.
CITY OFFICERS.
A. P. Woffor i, Mayor.
Janies I). Willserson, Marshal.
Geo. 8. Cobb, Clerk. *
B. K. Mountcastle, Treasurer.
Aldermen—First Ward, J. C. Wofford, A. K.
Hudgins; Second Ward, G. Harwell, W . H.
Barron; Third Ward, John • Stover, Fliiiu
Hall; Fourth Ward, W. C. Edwards, Aaron
Collins.
Professional Cards.
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9HLNKK AIIAiIFJS
Atlorney#-At-I*aw
Office on West Main Street.
mayO-tf Cartersville, Ga.
JOP.it U. WIKLE. DOXJOLAS WIKLE.
TVUilili & WIKIiE,
Attorneys-aULaw & Real Estate Agents
Office up stairs North East Corner West
Main and Erwin Streets.
mai'J-U' Cartersville, Ga.
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BIfIB.O. M. WMITH,
AUoniey-At-Law.
Office with T. W. Baxter Main Street,
m ayff-tf built is ale,
ODOItOE S. JOILVSOiV,
AUonipy-iil-lisav,
Office, West side Public Square,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Agf Will practice In all the Courts.
. 0. GRAHAM. W. M. GRAHAM.
(ntiIEATI & ORAHIAH*
Attorneys, Solicitors and
Counselors at Ijiw,
Cartersville, Ga.
Office in the court house. Will practice in
all the courts of Bartow county, the superior
courts of northwestern Georgia, and the su
preme and federal courts at Atlanta, Ga.
A. M. l’Ol'T K. WALT EH M. KYAI.S.
FOVTfi KYAI.S,
Attorneys-Ai-fittw.
WILL PR ACT It E IN ALL THE COURTS
of lliis State. Piomptund iaithml at
tention given to all business entrusted to us.
Office, corner Main and Erwin Streets, up
stairs. Cartersville, Ga.
J. M. NEEL. J. J. CONNER. W. J. NEEL.
IK £ Eli, ( OX.\ KR a seel,
Atteruejs-At-Laiv.
WILL PRACTICE 1N T A LL THE COURTS
of this state. Litigated cuses made a
specialty. Prompt attention given to all bus
iness entrusted to us.
Office over Stokely * Williams’ store.
Cartersville, Ga.
I>K. J. T. KIBKI’HKKIK
Piij Kii'ian and Surgeon.
Office at Curry’s Drug Store,
DR: \V 9 11. LEAKE,
Eliysieiaii and Surgeon,
Cart us vllle, Ga.
j|ffiQffice at Wo; is drug store.
{>K. Yl - H. LEAKE,
Fraetieiug Pliysiciau,
Cartersville, Ga
Special attention given to diseases of women
aim children, and all Chronic affections
Office up stair-way between bank and post
office. May be found at cilice or Wold’s drug
store.
It. E. CASON,
Dentist,
Cartersvillo, Ga.
Office over Curry’s dm.- stoic. j}'B ly
t ilfHiijfcl
CURES WHERi AU ELSE FAILS. Gd
W - pvt Bent Cough Syrup. Tames irood. [SI
j M Use In tune. Bold by druggista
COFFEJH !
Jf* 1 2*% S w f* 1 During Ih Holiday’s,
, j beautifully Decorated 50
S tA L L I lb can, an ornament to asy
P* ill store, will be givn awav
| T ) a 1 to everv purchaser ot 50
I I I Bet 1— I lb. oi Standard Java.
( IIUSE & SANBORN’S
Standard Java!
TAKING THE LEAD AND CONSIDERED THE
BEST COFFEE IN THE WORLD!
Everybody is delighted to got a
drink of I’IKK CdFEEE.
Always packed unground in hermet
ically sealed tin cans. Keeps its
Strength any length ot time.
Every can guaranteed to bo strictly
pure, and the finest Coffee grown.
Over 5,000 retail merchants buy it.
Our other Coffees give universal sat
isfaction. Try a can of our
Combination Java!
Extra Rio, Mocho and Maricabo—
nil kinds put up in our beautiful air
tight tin cans.
All orders will receive prompt at
tention by sending to our Agents,
Messrs. Geo. M. Stova 1 tfc Cos., At
lanta, Ga.
Send for I’rloe* and Circulars.
Always Buy, Sell & Dnak theßest!
Wiry [very family should have a can of our Stand
aid Java. \sk your Grocer lor it Packed in 1,2,
3,4, 10, 25 and 501 b. cans. Respectfully,
t ” ’HASE A SANHORN,
Importers and Roasters.
87 Broad and 8 Hamilton Streets, Boston, Mass.
nov2o-2m
1884 THE 1884.
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SAFES. ■
Parties needing Safes should
get prices on Herring & Co.’s
“Patent Champion” Fire n
Burglar Proof Safes. Illustra
ted Catalogue and prices fur
nished on application to K. T.
Smillie, care Heinz & Berkele,
15 Whitehall street, Atlanta,
a * sept. ll’9t-tf.
TO FARMERS AND FRUIT ORCHARDISTS.
\ Y
WANTED: —100 bushels of good apples
per day from Nov. 20th, to be delivered at
your nearest railroad station, in bags, which
the subscriber will furnish. Communications
solicited from
Farmers aud General Store Men
within 40 miles of Atlanta. State lowest price
1 per lyishci delivered in bags, to nearest station
| or bring them to my tacioi v, conn r Bell aud
I Foster Streets, Atlanta, Ga., after Nov. 20th.
| - W. L. BRUCE,
| P.O. Box, 108. Atlanta, Ga.
no ,’2O-I m
CAKTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 8. 1884.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Kartow County Nliorifl’s
Sales for Febrtary, JBB4.
WILL BE )LD before Ihe Court house dor
In Cartersville. Ga., cm the fl rst Tuesday
in February, 1884, between the legal sale hours,
the following de-oribed property, to-wit: The
undivided one-half iniercs? in and to lots of
laud Nos 43, 41. 65, 66. 69 80. 81. 101, 109. 144. 148
and 182, an t ullof the following lots: Nos. 150,
136. lit, IH. 187 and 247, nil in the 22<i district
and second section oi Bartow county, Ga., each
lot containing 16<) acre-, more, or l*s?. All lev
ied on and \\ ill be sold ar. the property of E. H.
Woodward, to satisfy one Bartow superior
court mortgage 11. fa. in favor ot Mis. Emily
A Pool, executrix of B. G Pool, deceased, vt.
Edward 11 Woodward Property pointed out
and described in sad mortgage fi. fa., and in
possession of T. F. Barratt, agent of said
Woodward. Jan 1, 1881-$ 1.30
Also, 19 acres oI land in Cartersville, IRiriow
county, Ga., beginning at th • southeast corner
of the old Salter land, running .vest wi)h the
original land line 75 pole* apt! ti links to the
northwest corner of *aid lot; thence south 51
poles and 15 links to the centre of Rowland’s
terry road; thence north 86 degrees east 24
poles and 3 links with said road; thence north
69 degrees east; 62 poles and 18 links to the fork
of Rowland’s ferry and Douthet’s road; thence
nflrth 16degress ea-t. 9 poles ami 12 link- to the
corner of G. W. Hill’s lot; theuee north 38 de
grees west with said Mill’s lor to the beginning
corner, being the property set apart as a
homestead to Mary J. Hackman out of ttie
property of her husband, the defendant, J. If.
Kuckiuan, according to plat by G. W. Hill,
county siii’vevor, recorded on bonk “A,” of
iiomtikluads' c,lepl,s’ office, RartQw superior
court, page 28. Levied cm and will be sold a
the property oi the estate of J. 11. Kuckman,
deceased, to satisfy one Bartow superior court
li. fa., in favor of Margaret Guri y, executrix of
J. W. Curry, deceased, vs. John li. Ruekinau.
Property pointed out by I). W. Curry, plain
tiff’s agent, and in possession of Mis. Mary J.
Wilson. J. A. GLA DI)EN, Sheriff,
A. M. FRANKLIN, Dep. oh’ff.
Jan 1, 18S|-<{t
Nale,
Will be sold before the court-house door, in
Cartersville, Ga., on the first Tuesday in Feb
ruary next, between the legal houVs of sale,
the interest which diaries Vf. Sproull had at
the time of his death in and to lots of land
Nos. tint, 715. 72f), 729 and 787 j also, al' of 714, t-X.
cept tin acres in.the northeast corner; algo,
the fractional parts of 786 and 798,’which lie
north of the Etowah river; and also, all of lots
Nos. 716, 725, 788, 797 and 86j, which lie on the
north of the Etowah river aad east of aline
running north and south through said lots,
cutting ijtem so as to leave five-eights ot said
lots bn the ot said Unp and three-eights on
the west, all said lots and parts of lots being in
the 4th district and third section ot originally
Cherokee (now Bartow) county, and being the
dower which was laid off to Eliza M . Spronll
out ol the Binds of her deceased husband,
James C. .Sproull, by the superior eonrtot Bar-,
tow county, Ga. The interest of said C. W
Sproull in said land was one undivided fourth,
inten st in remainder alter the expiration of
tim Jiip estate oi Eliza M. Sproull; which said
*nterest in remainUbr ipp s*id C. W. Sursjull
had. in his lifetime, conveyed to K. T. Fouche.
by deed, and the interest to be sold is any
equity of redemption which the estate ol said
Charles W. Sproull lias, or may have, in and to
said land. Terms of sale cash.
K. T. FOUCHE,
Dec 25 4t Administrator.
pEORGJA, Bartow county.
Whereas;, .John Crawford lias applied for
letters of guardianship o)f the property of R. }f.
Crawford, an insane person of said county.
This is to cite all persons concerned to be and
appear at the February term, 1884, to show
cause, if any they have, why said appointment
should not be made. Dec. 81, 1883.
J. A. HOW Alii), Ordinary.
Jan 1, ISB4-4t-$‘2.10
Georgia, < t n- .
Whereas, B, i'. Posey fi ts applied fpr let
ters ol administration on the estate of John
Posey, late of said county, deceased. There
fore, all persons concerned are hereby notified
to tile their objections, if any they have, in my
office, within the time presc. ibed by law. eise
letters will be granted applicant as applied
for. This Dec. 31, 1883. J, A. HOWARD,
Jan I, 1884-41 -$2.10. Ordinary.
p EORGIA, Bartow County.
j. w. Go rcl on has applied lor exemption of
personally, ami I will pass upon Hie same at 10
o’clock'a. in., on Hie sth flay ol January, 1884,
at my office. Dec. 12, 1883.
<iec2s-2t J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary.
Georgia, bartow county.
VV hereas, 15. D. ( lark has applied for ict
ters ofGu tin ini st ration on the estate of W. 1.
Clark, late of saiti county, deceased. Therefore,
all persons concerned are hereby .notified to flip
their objections, if any they tiij,vc, in my office,
within the tune prescribed by law, else letters
will be granted applicant as applied lor.
J. A. HOWARD,Ordinary.
dec2s-2t
p EORGIA, Bartow county.
-I Whereas, J. A. Fleming, guardian of Ben
iamin W., Kate and Lula Hill, minors, lias ap
plied for leave to sell the land belonging to
said minors. Therefore, all persons concerned
are hereby notified to file their objections, if
any they have, in my offise, within thp tfipe
prescribed by Jaw, els>p iearo will t.3 granted
applicant as applied tor. Dec. 17, 1883.
J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary.
dec2s-4t
Hotels.
Hi LEU IIN HOUSI,
ADIIUSVIIXF, GA,*
W, *l. 11l I. BULK A, Prop’r.
Nice rooms/ lean beds, thorough ventilation,
tables applied with the very best
the market affords.
JO“TEUMS MODERATE, ju!4-tf
Central Hotel
ROME, GEORGIA.
J. H. KIPPS, Proprietor.
Rates $2 per day. Baggage handled lree. Sit
uated in the business part of the city. Free
omnibus to and lront all trains. Recently en
arged and newiv furnished,
FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL,
LOUISVILLE, KY.
CENTRALLY LOCATED
And all the appointments, including
ELEVATORS AND FIRE ESCAPE.
VERY COMPLETE.
S. M. SCOTT, Proprietor.
GRANT HOUSE.
BEST HOTEL IN ATLANTA.
New building, new furniture—everything
first-class.
Headquarters lor commercial men.
HIS OPINION.
In Clear Sentences an Authority adds his
own to the Popular Judgment,
191 West Tenth Street,*
New York, Aug. 11,1880. j
Messrs. Seabcuy & Johnson:
lam slow to pin my faith to any new cura
tive agent. f>ENSON’S CAPCINE POROUS
PLASTER has won my good opinion. I find
it an exceptionally cleanly plaster to use and
Rapid it it* aution. Many'tests of its qualities
in my own family, and among my patients,
have convinced me that there is no'other sin
gle article so valuable tor popular use. None
so helpful in cases of Lame Si . Local Rheu
matism. Neuralgia, congestion of the Bron
chial Tubes and Lillies and Luo ago.
You may feel free to use niv name.
Very tr uly yours,
H. li. ivAN’E, M, 1).
Phyeician-in-chief of the lie Quiucy Home,
Price of the Capeine 2 5 cents,
Sea bury & Johnson, chemists, New Xork.
The Cartersville American.
Entered at th- 3 East Ofpee at Carter.
it a.. May 9 fh, IhSS, as second class matter.
TUESDAY, JAN. 8, 1884.
Sifteand
CXJLLKD FROM
THE
V 5 SPREAD OUT
% Before our Readers.
The many admirers of Albert It.
Lamar, of the Macon Telegraph and
Messenger, will he giad to learn that
he is to continue a member of the
staff of tditors, whose able pens fill
the columns of that strong, aggress
ive and caustic-journal. Gol. P. VV. Al
exander has purchased an interest in
the Telegraph and Messenger, and
will control its editorial department,
in addition to these weii known
gentlemen, this paper will have in
its service the following; Sidney
Lewis, liarry E Edwards, Bridges
Smith, Julien S. Hedgers, with 11.
C. Hausen as business manager.
Friday, of Christmas week, in Lex
ington, Oglethorpe county, Ga., Jo
seph 1. Stewart, aged nineteen, and
his neice, Miss Hassie Stewart, aged
twenty-two, were married, Mr, Cf.
A. Stewart, father of the bride and
own brother of the groom, is a wel
to-Ro and highly respected farmer of
Oglethorpe county. As soou as he
discovered what had happened, the
justly displeased father set ont in hot
pursuit. He found the truasts
Athens, and, after considerable par
leying, succeeded in carrying back to
her home his wayward and foolish
daughter. The long mooted ques
tion as to who would be appointed
postmaster at the Atlanta postoffice,
has at last ÜBen decided. Mr. W. T.
B. Wilson, of the revenue depart
ment, has received Die appointment.
Mr, Wilson is not A T ot thirty two
years of age, but h 5
bie experience in the United States
service. Mr. Park Woodward will
bo assistant-postmasfer; and, alto
gether, the Atlanta postoffice wili he
run in a first-class business style.
The postmaster’s 6*l ary is $3,300 per
annum. No doubt, the people of At
lanta, and even of the whole State,
will experience a feeling of relief,
now that this much discussed ques
tion, as to who shall he postmaster
at Atlanta, is settled, for a syason,
at least. No one questions tbe con
firmation of the appointment by
eongr ss. Mock marriages have
been declared legal and binding in
Pennsylvania. Not long since a
young lady and a young man went
through with a mock marriage cere
mony simply as a matter of sport.
Shortly afterwards it was discovered
that the young man who read the
ceremony service was a notary pub
lic, and this fact made the ceremony
a legal and binding one. P. H.
Snook, the great furniture dealer of
Georgia, who was lately burned out
in Atlanta, will rebuild and com
mence business on a larger scale at
once. This is hut one of the many
instances which indicate Atlanta’s
irrepressible and astonishing growth.
There is something about the atmos
phere of Atlanta that actually in
fuses into all of her citizens a spirit
of enterprise and push that is won
derful. But the city of Macon is not
far behind. Within the last three
years Maoou’s material growth ha
been phenomenal. Nearly every day
some new enterprise is set on foot,
and the rapid strides she is making
can but make a true Georgian’s
heart heave with pride. Let the
good work go on. The unusually
rapid growth of the cities is a sure in
dleation that the state at large is
prospering. Sometime during the
fall of 1883, O, P. Cornet, a deaf mute
of Atlanta, was indicted by the grand
jury of Fulton county with the grave
offense of murdering his wife. Dur
ing his trial, Solicitor Hill, of the
Atlanta circuit, announced to the
court that he was willing to accept a
plea of guilty of involuntary man
slaughter. Upon euteriug this plea,
Judge Hammond sentenced Cornet
to.a twelve months’ term in the
Georgia penitentiary. Last week
Governor McDaniel signed the par
don which set tree this poor, deaf
mule. This act on the part of the
Governor was a wise and Just one.
Facts developed since the trial show
that Cor et was not guilty even of
involuntary manslaughter. This,
like everything else t int our Gov
ernor does, is just, honorable and le
gal. Strong, vigorous editorial
writing is always admired, but, if
one desires to peruse a florid, flow
ery, figurative, metaphorical, ner
vous, brilliant,. sensational, hair
lifting, blood-curdling, panoramic,
chromatic, satirical, spicy, eighty-
one ton pressure to the square inch
article, he t-hould read the Chicago
editors 1 effusions when they wri e
about “Eastern Decadence*” A
farmer who has tested five different
varieties of peas, according to
the catalogue from which be made
his selections last spring, now fisids
that there is not the slightest differ*
cnee in any of them. In earliuess,
manner of growth, height of plant,
length of pod, number of peas in a
pod—in fact, every particular—the
alleged different varieties proved to
be one and the same. The farmer
thus victimized pertinently asks:
‘•Have -eedmen the right to give
new and catching names to old va
rieties, and to bewilder and mislead
the public by offering the same arti
cle under five different uames?”
A man of fashion hates the rain he
cause it disarranges the set of his
pantaloons; a woman of fashion
hates it because it disarranges her
complexion. No wbmeii iti the
world need exercise more than
American women; aud yet there is a
vehicle called the tricycle which of
fers to our female population a
healthful exercise, together with in
describable pleasure. The side-sad
dle was designed to enable the ladies
to accompany the gentlemen ou
horseback. In the same way the
tricycle was invented to enable them
to accompany male humanity in the
healthful exercise of bielycing. Who
will be the first young lady in Cnr
tersville to purchase a tricycle just to
inaugurate tricycling geneneraliy?
We patiently await an answer.
There is a young law student at our
State University who is destined to
become a brilliant journalist. Henry
W. Grady gave'such decided evi
dence of future greatness as a news
paper man, when attending the Uni
versity of Virginia as a college stu
dent, that he was, on his gtaduation,
almost immediately assigned to a
lucrative position on staff of one
of Georgia’s leading dailies. The
young man now at the University
Law School, whose future greatness
we predict, has, on more than one
occasion, and in more ways than one,
foreshadowed a life of brilliant suc
cesses as a writer. His name we do
not fed at liberty to give, but, if any
■f our readers desire to know who he
is, they can easily ascertain by en
quiring of any student now at the
State University. The heart, in its
normal condition, beat3 seventy-five
times a minute, but, when a young
man meets a pretty girl at a party
and steps tremblingly up to proffer
an escort home, the number of neats
—heart beats—instantly mounts up
to one hundred and sixty-two in the
shade. Again: The average number
of teeth is thirty-two, but, when one
of them is decrepit, and in the dark
it runs on to an ambuscaded raisin
seed in a piece of Christmas cake, a
man is apt to fancy t hat he has but
one tooth at most, and that it is throe
feet square. Considerable doubt as
to his confirmation seems to be felt
by Fmory Speer, the independent
renegade. As matters now stand,
the chances are tuat he will be con
firmed. Democratic senators will
leave no stone unturned to defeat
him, but, as the senate is republican,
the chances are in his favor. Speer
is an intelligent, eloquent and
shrewd man, but his record as to
principle is dreadfully smirched.
Renegades and traitors are some
times successful for a season. The
Telegraph and Messenger comes to
us in anew dress. Continual im
provement seem3 to be the motto of
this thoroughly southern paper, and,
should it make as rapid strides to
wards perfection during the next
three years as it has mado during the
last three, it will be the peer of any
paper south of Mason and Dixon
line. C 7 course, all of us cannot sanc
tion everything it says, but no intel
ligent man can keep from admiring
the fearless and able and forcible
manner in which it presents to the
public its ideas of men and things.
M. H. Marcy, a commercial
traveler representing the well known
shoe house of Iviaiey Bros., of Hart
ford, Conn., committed suicide at the
Markham house, in the city of At
lanta, last Wednesday morning
about 2 o’clock. The deceased was
about thirty years old, of fine busi
ness habits and highly esteemed by
his acquaintances. Family troubles
of a private nature drove him to his
death by his own hand. If it be
true that the Texas Pacifiic railroad
recently paid S6BO for refusing Mrs.
Johnson, colored, a seat in a car, it
looks very much as though the
ghost of the civil rights bill, like
Banquo’s spectre, is a bard thing to
down. But the limes are sadly out
of joint when a colored dramatic
troup are refused hotel accobumoda
tious in Michigan, and the Texas
Pacific railway pays S6BO for refus
ing a seat to a colored woman',
Somebody must have jerked the
United States wrong end to.
Though last year was remarkably
dry and poor crops were made in al
most every section of the state, yet
the schools and colleges of Georgia
; seem to be thriving. There are
; more pupils attending our schools
. than there have been for years be-
I fore. The people of the empire state
<of the south are determined that
| their intellectual development shall
keep pace with their material.
T!IF: WOSDERFI L WOMAN
WfcO'O Strange Power Consternates the Peo
ple of Cedartowß
Several days ago the Journal gave a brief
account of the wonderful electric powers ex.
bibbed by Miss Lula Hurst,a young lady who
resides near Codartown. in Polk county
Georgia. The statements made ecuceruing lici
strange powers arc corroborated by the best
citizens of Polk, Floyd and tbc adjoining
counties, who have flocked to the residence o!
her father, Mr. W. E. Hurst, to witness the
strange phenomena. Ou Sunday last the
young lady was visited by a representative of
the Rome Courier, who says that Mr. Hurst
is pleasantly situated at his residence, five
miles from Codartown, and his surroundings
bespeak the well-to-do farmer. We were ex
tended a cordial welcome aud invited into a
large room and seated bqfore a bright, old
times country ti c. Not having time for any
thing but “straight business,” wc made known
the object of our visit iu short order.
Mr. Hurst aud his wife are both earnest and
consistent members of the Baptist church,
aud strongly objected to their daughter, Miss
•Loula, giving an exhibition on Sunday. But
after some persuasion they eouseuted to let
her perform just enough to convince us that
the rumors about her strange power were not
without foundation. Miss Loula was called in
and introduced, ftlie is liilcen years old, five
feet three inches high, aud presents a perfect
picture of robust health and fully developed
physical womanhood; an erect, symetricnl
form and a bright childish face; a gracefully
poised head, covered with a luxurious growth
of hair, which she allowed to fall loose over
her shoulders. Ou the whole her perfect phys
ique aud comely, childish face are very pie
possessing.
At the request of her father Miss Loula pin.
fed her hands oil the back of a plaiu caiu
botioin chair, which, in a few miuutcs, com
menced moving about with great vigor. Mr-
Moultrie was requested to catch the chair and
check il6 violent gyrations. This he ntttempt.
ed to do by grasping ihe chair tirmly in arms,
but he was tossed about with the case of
a feather. The test was made several times,
and it was simply impossible to hold the
chair while the girl’s baud was lying careless,
ly on its back. After the test, wben those .
who attempted to hold the chair were com
pletely exhausted, Miss Loula gave no evi
dence whatever that she had indulged in the
slightest exercise. A strange thing about it is,
lhat some uue must force the chair to touch
the floor before she can turn it loose. She can
not withdraw her hands uutil the chair touch
es the floor or wall.
Her parents positively refused to let the
girl exhibit any further on Sunday. But Mr.
Hurst told us that often at nfght the feathers
in her bed would pop and crack like combus
tible material. He alt-o says that she has, by
lying ou it and pressing the side with her
hand, caused the bed to move all over the
room, and that she caused an unseen hand to
ring music out of the headboard, the notes be
ing so distinct that even the children could
recognize the air. All of this is corroborated
by men of unquestionable integrity; citizens
ol Ocdardown who have witnessed these
strange sights and sounds.
Mr. Hurst moved his family to Folk county
from East Tennessee about six years ago. He
is a quiei, unpretentious man, aud enjoys the
confidence and esteem of his whole commu
nity. lie seems very much worried over the
development of the wonderful powers, of his
daughter. She cannot account for it any other
way. The first time the power made itself
manifest was one night about two months ago
while she and a lady friend, Miss Wimberly,
were sleeping together. The bed commened
popping, and they both jumped out, badly
frightened. After convincing themselves that
nothing was # wrong, they retired again.
When Miss Hurst carelessly dropped her
hand against the side of the bed, her touch
had the magical effect of causing the bed to
move rapidly across the floor to the other side
of the room.
There can be no doubt but that the girl is
in possession of some wonderful power —a
power we cannot analyze aud will not at
tempt to theorize upon. Her parents hooted
at our suggestion that it might be spiritualism.
Returning to Cedartown completely mysti.
lied, we were assailed ou all sides with the
"naw l guess you believe it,” of those who
had been there before,
THE RELATIONS BETWEEN SENATORS
AND REPRESENTATIVES.
In an interesting conversation the
other day Mr. Willis, of Kentucky,
called attention to the change which
has been almost imperceptibly going
on for years in the personal relations
existing between members of the
senate and house.
“When I came here six years ago,”
he said, “there was the greatest cor
diality between senators and repre
sentatives. There w T ere the very
closest intimacies between the two
classes of legislators. This was espe
cially the case between the senators
and members from the same and ad
foining states. Nothing- was more
common than to see fifteen or twen
ty representatives on the floor of the
senate or the same number of sena
tors in the house. Now it is all
changed. The change has been grad
ual, but sure. Except in yery few
cases, there is no noticeable degree of
intimacy between the houses. It is
not very often that you see a senator
on the floor of the house or a member
on the floor of the senate, and when
you do the visitor evidently looks as
if he ought to explain how he came
to be there.”-
Upon another subject Mr. Willis
said:
“I don’t think the corporations
and monopolies are going to pay
much attention to the house. They
have got all the legislation they
want, or think they can get. What
they desire is to keep what they
have. To do this they must have
a wheel somewhere to stop their
being deprived of it. There are few
er members of Ihe senate than of the
house. It is to the senate tiiat thev
have been paying and will continue
to pay their attentions. They will
try to make the senate a cheek to the
house. There are too many mem
bers iD ttie latter for them to handle.
They are going to let the house run
wild.”
NUMBER 36.
THEY PARTED IN A PET.
rwo Loving Hearts luited After Twenty
Ateary Years.
At the residence of Thomas Bark
er, three miles from this village, two
people who were strangely parted
twenty years ago were to-day, says
a Canton (0.1 special to the New
York World of the 25th, made mao
and wife. William Craig left his
pretty girl sweetheart in a fit of jeal
ous anger, on the eve of December 9,
1868, returned a week or two since,
found hi 9 betrothed still single and
true, and this afternoon the long de
ferred marriage was consummated.
All the surviving friends of their
youth were present, and many half
forgotten associates came from neigh
boring towns and farms to join in
the merrymaking.
Twenty yean ago William Craig
worked on his father’s farm, near
here, during the day and spent his
evenings at the residence of a farmer
neighbor. The attraction was Mary
Baker, a pretty seventecu-year old
girl. Craig was deeply in love, and
so was Mary, but, like maDy other
girls, she liked to play the coquette
occasionally.
Their wedding day was fixed for
Christmas, 1868, and the prospective
bride felt secure. One evening, how
ever, the pretty Mary pushed her
coquetry too far. Oa December 7,
1863, Farmer Baker gave an old
fashioned “sociaole” in honor of his
daughter’s approaching marriage,
Craig was there, of course, but his
happiness was marred by the pres
ence of a Pittsburg youth—a new
comer. Mary allowed this young
man to pay her manj attentions.
Craig was madly jealcus. After all
his attention, he thought his be
trothed showed too much regard for
his rival, aai, as she only laughed
at his pleadings, he grew angry and
threatened to leave. Herseemiug in
difference made him desperate, and
he declared:
“If you dance again with that fel
low, you will not see me again for
twenty years.”
“You couldu’t leave me for even
twenty hours if you tried ever so
hard,” she replied, and, with a co
quettish smile, she went off to dance
with his rival.
Craig went Ivotno 4ba4night alone,
and the next day was missing. The
most careful search failed to reveal
any trace of him. The old couple
continued to till the farm without
the aid of the strong armed son, and
at the neighbor’s, down the road,
pretty Mary * Baker went about hat
household labors with an air that?
told plainly how she regarded her
lover’s disappearance. She refiisedT
to keep company in the old-fash
ioned way with any of the young
farmers who would willingly have
taken young Craig’s place. She went
out very little, kept a cat and grew
domestic in her habits. She had an
abiding faith that Craig wouid re
turn, and to all entreaties would only
shake her head and say: “I am wait
ing for Will.” The firm contour of
the cheek grew somewhat less round
ed, the springing step less elastic, but
she would not think.of marriage.
Friday, December 7, this month,
was just twenty years since the dis**
appearance of William Craig. In
the twilight a bearded man of forty
came op the walk, and, as Miss Ba
ker opened the door, he put ©ut both
his hands and said:
“Mary, I have come again.”
“I am sorry you waited so long,
Will,” was the quiet reply, as she led
him into the house, where each told
the story of the weary waiting, and
Christmas was fixed upon once more
as the day for the w edding,
To the eager questions of old
friends a3 to where he spent the
time, he told them, as he told his
wife, how he had at once gone te
Philadelphia, enlisted in the army
under an assumed nanle, then, after
the war, gone to Nebraska and taken
up a valuahle tract of land. This he
had diligently cultivated until, at
present, he is in more than comforta
ble circumstances. Craig will leave
early in January for their Nebraska
home.
Fletcher Walton has moved his book and
stationery store to the old stand of Dr, M. G.
Williams, where you can find him ready to
supply anything in his line.
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Pale blue, or pink sheets, bordered
with deep frill of white lace,and pil
low cases to matoh, with an immense
monogram in the center, are said to
be the fashion. If a sight like that
would not make a man imagine ha
had the jim jams, set him down as an
ae*thete, and send up manicure to
rasp off his finger nails.
Put down the price and push up the trade
is Fletcher Walton’s motto.
Recently when a handsome yonritg
woman went to a shop to get one of
tnose wooden contrivances that are
used for mashing potatoes, and said:
“I want a masher,” every man in the
shop, from the cashier to the manager,
started to wait on her.
If you want to save money in buying school
books and school supplies go to Waltou’a.