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CARTERSVILLE AMERICAN. VOLUME 11. Thß Carlsrsviile Aaerican. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARTOW CO. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING —K V American Publishing Cos. CA RTKKSYILLE, A, OFPIOBI ITp-Stairs in the Baxter Hwiilinjr. North-cast corner of West Main and Erwin streets. All communication** or letters on business thould be addressed to AMHUICAS PUBLISHING CO. Carteraville, Ga. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year, Cash in Advance *1 60 Six Months, “ “ (Three “ “ 60 If not paid in 4 months, 12.00 per year. Papers sent outside ol the County, 16 cents additional for postage. RATES Or ADVERTISING: For each Square oi 1 inch or less, for the first insertion, fl. 00; each subsequent insertion, 60 cents. Bpecial contracts made tor larger space or longer time. All contract advertisements must be paid quarterly. , n . Local Notices, 20 cents per line for the first insertion, and 10 cents lor each suqsequent in sertion. . _ Special Notices ten cents per line. Tributes of Respect and Obituaries over six lines. 10 cents per line. All personal cardsin Local Columns 25 cents per line. DIRECTORY. COURT CALENDER—CHEROKEE CIR CUIT. j, c. Fain, Judge. J. W. Harris, Jr., Solici or General. , „ . . _ Bartow County—Second Monday in January ar CafooVa County—Second Monday In February and August . , _ . Murray County—Third Monday in February and August. _ . Gordon County—Fourth Monday in February and August. „ . . L ade County—Third Monday in March and September. , . . .. Whitfield County First Monday in April and October. COUNTY OFFICERS. J. A. Howard, Ordinary. F. M. Durham, Clerk Superior Court. 11. W. Cobb, Treasurer. John A. Gladdeu,sheriff. A. M. Franklin Deputy Sheriff. Hailey A. Barton, Tax Collector. W. W. Ginn, Tax Receiver. A. M. Willingham. Coroner. I>. V, . K. Peacock, Surveyor. Commissioners —S. C. Prichard, T. C. Moore, A. Vincent, John H. Wike, T. 8. Hawkins. CITY OFFICERS. A. P. Wofford, Mayor. James D. Wilkerson, Marshal. Geo. 8. Cobb, Clerk. B. R. Mountcttstle, Treasurer. „ Aldermen —First Ward, J. O. Wofford, A. R. Iludgins; Second Ward. G. Harwell, YV. H. Barron; Third Ward, John , . Stover, Elihu Hall; Fourth Ward, W\ C. Edwards, Aaron Collins. STANDING OOMMITTEK3. Street.—Collins, Hudgins, Barron. Finance.—Stover, Edwards, Wofford. Cemetery.—Hudgins, Collins, Edwards. Hall.— Hall, Wofford, Barron. Relief.—Edwards, Barr in, Harwell. Professional Cards. W. T. MILNE It. J. V, HAKKIS, JR. 3IIJLXKK A HARRIS, Attorneys-At-Law. OlHce on West Main Street, mayfi-tf Cartersville, Ga, JOHN n. WIKLK. DOUGLAS WIKI.K. WlUI.r, <V WIKLK, Attorncvs-at-Law & Real Estate Agents Office up stairs North East Corner West Main and Erwin Streets. may9-if Cartersville, Ga. XIIA*:o. in. S.IISTSI, Attorney-A t-JLaw. Office with T. W. Baxter Main Street. may9-tf Cartersviila GEORGE H. JOIISSON, A t torney-at-lia w, Office, West side Public Square, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Will practice in all the Courts. A. M. FOUTK. WALTER M. RYALS FOUTE A RYAXS, Attorneys-At-I^aw. WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS of this state. Prompt and taithlul at tention given to all business entrusted to us. Office, corner Main and Erwin Streets, up stairs. Cartersv'lle, Ga. J. M. NEEL. j. j. CONNER. W. J. NEEL. HFJEIa, CONMER A SEEL, Atterneys-At-laaw. WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS of this state. Litigated cases made a specialty. Prompt attention given to all bus iness entrusted to us. Office over Stokely A Williams’ store. Cartersville, Ga. R. E. CASON, dentist, CARTE RSVILLE, QA. Office, over Curry’s Drug Store. BR. J. T. HHITIftERB, Physician and Surgeon, Office at Curry’s Drug Store, JDK* IV, R. LKAKE, Physician au<l Surgeon, Curt st*ville, Ga. ter Office at Word's drug store. I>K. W. fI.UEIAKJE, Praeilcing Physician, Cartersville, Ga. Special attention given to dr-cases of women and children, and all Chronic affections. Office up stair-way between bank and post office. May he found at office or Word’s drug More. -THIS PAPER IS ON FILE WITH T. E. HANBURY & CO., ADVERTISING AGENTS, ■Where advertising contracts may be made our beat rates. JP. O. Drawer 3b. Rail roads. ZEIKESAW ROUTE! WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. R. The following time card in effect Sunday, Dec. 30, Ibfcd; NORTH BOUND NO. S—WLSI>RN EX PICE'S— 1*;.,; ■ . Leave Atlanta .. 73D m. Arrive Marietta t u •* (;arterville.... .. u ->r> “ Kingston........ 9 f>-> “ Dalton i: “ Chattanooga ', ; <np. m. NO. I—FAST EXPRESS—DaiIy. Leave Atlanta ...... .. 2 r i . n Arrive Marietta 3 21 *• CaVtersviile . i v'i “ Dalton r, 2i “ Chattanooga -■ NO. 11—LIMITED EXPRESS—O Leave Atlanta i Arrive Marietta . „ “ Cartersville • i *• Dalton HI “ Chattanooga 515 Rome Express—Nort/i—Daily, except Sunday. Leave Atlanta 4 05 p. m. Arrive Marietta 3 no “ Cartersville ti 03 “ Rome 7 20 No. 1 carries Pullman cars from Atlanta to Louisville, Jacksonville to Cincinnati, New Orleans to Washington. No. 11 carries Pullman cars from Savannah to Chicago and Atlanta to Nashville. SOUTH BOUND. NO. 4-FAST EXPRESS. Leave Chattanooga 8 00 a. m. Arrive Dalton 9 33 *• Kingston 1J ] “ Cartersville .1142 “ Marietta 12 46 p.m. Arrive Atlanta 1 45 NO. 2—SOUTHERN EXPRESS. Leave Chattanooga 2 55 p, m. Arrive Dalton 4 30 “ Kingston . .. 6 i>2 “ Cartersville 6 31 “ Marietta 7 47 Arrive Atlanta 840 NO. 12—LIMITED EXPRESS—DaiIy. Leave Chattanooga ...10 15 p. m. Arrive Dalton 1149 Cartersville 1 47 a. m. “ Marietta 2 50 “ Atlanta 340 Rome Express—South—Daily, Except Sunday. Leave R0m0... 8 30 a. in. Arrive Cartersville. 9 45 “ Marietta 10-9 “ Atlanta 11 45 No. 4 carries Pullman cars from Cincinnati to Atlanta, Washington, New Orleans, Louis ville to Atlanta. No. 12 carries Pullman cars from Chicago to Savannah and Louisville to \tlanta. B YV. WRKNN, Gen’l. Pass. Agt. R. A. ANDERSON, Superintendent. EAST & WEST R. R. OF ALA. ON and after Sandav, Nov. 14, 1883, trains on this road will run as follows: GOING WEST—Daily, Except Sunday. no. 1. NO. 3. Leave Cartersville 950 a. m. 4 :;0 p. m. “ Stiles boro ...102 4 42 “ Tiivloisville 10 37 517 “ Rockmart 11 10 5 50 Arrive Oedartown 12 00 0 40 GOING EAST—Daily, Except Sunday. NO. 2. no. 4. Leave Cedartown 205 p. m. 7ir a. in. “ Rockmart. 3(H) 8 07 li Taylorsville 3 35 8 39 “ BCi eshoro ... 3 55 8 55 Arrive Cartersville 125 9 25 SUNDAY ACCOMMODATION— Going-Best. Leave Cedartown 8 00 a. m. “ Stiles boro B.’>2 “ Taylorsville ‘ 924 “ Rockmart 9 40 Arrive Cartersville. 10 10 SUNDAY ACCOMMODATION—Going West. Leave Cartersville . . . 2 R 0 p. m.‘ “ Stileshoro 3 2i “ Taylorsville 3 37 “ Rockmart 4 10 Arrive Cedartown 5 00 ALABAMA DIVISION. Daily, Except Sunday. Leave East ft West Junction. . ..... 2 55 p. m. Arrive B 1 oken Arrow (i 1 0 Leave Broken Arrow 9 v a. m. Arrive East & West Junction 1 l.> p. m, HOME RAILFOAD. The following is the pic-ent .-v> > r schedule: no. 1 n6, 3. Leave Rome 6id a m. 4 ' ■ , m A 1 rive K tugstoa 855 5 o no. 2 no. 4. Leave Kingston ..9 tt m * .:•> p. n: Arrive Rome .0 ar>... .... t> NO. 5.* Leave Rome 8 ’ a. . . Arrive Kingston 9 00 NO. 6. Leave Kingston 9 29 a. m. Arrive Romo JO 10 Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 will run daily except Sun days. Nos.s and 6 will run Sundays only. Nolwill not stop at the junction. Makes close connection at Kingston for Atlanta and Ch ittanooga. No. 2 makes connection at Rome with E. T. Va. & Ga. U R.. for points south. EKES H I LI.Y KR, President. J. A. SMITH, Gen’l Pass. Agent. IF YOU ARE GOING ■^Vssc:t NORTHWEST OH SOUTHWEST. BESURE Your Tickets Read via the H, C. & St L. Ey. Tlie McKenzie JR oixte The First-class and Emigrant Passengers FA V 0111 T £ l Albert B. Wrenn, W. I. Rogers, Pas. Agent, Pas- Agent, Atlanta, Ga. Chattanooga, Penn. \V. L. DAJfLWI, Gen. l’as & Tkt. Agent, * Nashville, Tean, SANITARIUM. laivet-Bide. Ci!. Tim dry climota ct res, Nose, Throat, full idea, Hup., route, cost, iroa. MAR RI AO Mao) C Ali that the doubtful curionsor though thd war! (know, Cloth and guilt Media •BOete.rapt - *v. -mr Jrlage Guide. 144 p 16q,seofceepl t '<k money o tj_ -• am. whittier ansswrifey STha taeatspecialist. NerrooßLehilds, ;• edimenfe-v ; ,:,W CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1884. The Cartersville American. Entered at (he, fasf Om* at Cart*rnilUi, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1884. Sifted Shimmsrings ' * CULLED FROM THB <<^> ( • SPREAD CtfT Before our Eeaders. Doctor Mary Walker is lost, stray ed or stolen. The reformer is apt to be the chim ney sweep of politic^. Washington city is the paradise of knaves, fools and bores. Pigs don’t break out of the pen so long as there is swill for them. It is time John Sherman is sick of hi3 outrage Danville investigation. General Grant’s crutches may send him to the white house in March, 1885. The Ohio and Indiana presidential booms were ail washed away by the floods. * Several Arctic explorers arrived in New York last week. They came in coffins. Mrs. Logan has made up her mind that John shall be president. That settles it. Candidates for the republican pres idential nomination seem to he on the decline. The tornado Sield an election in six states last week, and carried every thing before it. Education is a great thing. Even the boat racers depend on the power cf the skull to win. A great deal more architecture and fewer architectural pretenders is one thing the country needs. The whisky ring is very efficiently drilled and can assume all forms but the square on instant notice. John Sherman will not get enough heat out of the Danville riot to save the expense of buying a spring ovei eoat. *" No matter how close a horse race may >.lie mail who wagers money on the beaten horse always loses bs, forfeit. Cincinnati used to be called the Paris of America. It is now chris tened the Venice of the United States. Doctor Mary Walker desires it dis tinctly understood that s ie was neith er lost nor led astray during her re cent absence. Boynton is providing the music and Keifer the variations in their veracity investigation now going on at the capitol. The mild weather continued suffi ciently long to cause the Thomas cat’s fancy “to lightly turn to thoughts of love.” The eyes are described as the “win dows of the soul.” When the eyes are black and blue, however, the sen timent does not have application. Over a ton of valentines went through the Chicago post-office on the fourteenth. It is said that the mail bags and letter boxes were all gummed up with taffy. The New York Sun should request its presidential, candidate, Flower, to dt fine himself. The country wants to know whether ha is a Marshal Nt*il rose dr a hollyhock. The burglar who was shot and wounded by a girl named Gable, in a New England town, came near meeting a Gable end. She “got her Dutch np to a high pitch.” “Hopesprings eternal in the hu man breast,” but it never realizes much on the inves.merit unless a fellow gets square down to business auo earns what h< hopes for. People who are constantly talking i about “what is due to society,'’ often ! forget altogether what F due to j themselves, to say nothing of what is | due to the butcher and the baker. I J aim Sherman’s contribution for j the relief of the II >od sufferers was . larger this year than that he gave last. Last, year lie gave nothing,?his j year nothing multiplied by two. He tloins to be a great sufferer by the flood in Ohio list October. Folger and Brewster are the twin MKiwhers of this administration. While they are waiting for some thing to turn up. the people are wait ing to see thorn turn down—and oat. A bill for taxing “bnehelors, law yers, and other Animals.” is pending In the Wytovii: r Territory legisla ture. It is -u-..*i ! ted that the -‘other etimals” in the bill refers to wUdw- Qiieea Victoria’s life is not a hap py one. Hundreds of amateur poets ve [Kirii fi: ii \i poetry at her on ihe death, of J n Crown. The queen o: now ryn.p* h ae with the edi tors. Asa humorous work, the book by Queen Victoria surpasses anything that has. as yet been, published in the English language. It is funnier than an old patent medicine alma nac joke. It is said that several presidential aspirants look with envy on the booming Ohio river. “Oh for a boom like thail” is the burden of their song, but ttiey don’t boom worth a darn, Suliivan, the Boston aesthete, is making a bad impression cut west. There is considerable delicacy dis played m alluding to the matter, hut it is hinted that iie may get shot un less he goes home pretty soon. With all their money, when the millionaires come to cross the Styx they will have to ride in the same lidle old row boat with the rest of us. They don’t have steam yachts or silver-plated first cabin3 on Charon’s ferry. The vigil in tea out in Arizona hung a man the other day hecau ehe was a confirmed liar. Good graciou-J If it gets to be the rule to hang liars, none of us—that is to say, fhere are a great many men who will be in danger. There are about fifty postmasters in this country who receive a sHary of one dollar a year. It’s worth that to a man who has nothing"else to do but to study human nature and chew to bacco, to say nothing of the fun he’d have in putting 1 alts in the wrong bOX. It takes money and scissors and years of hatuand anxious shearing to establish a newspaper, uud build thereon a town. The man , who is willing to take advantage of these efforts without even furnishing a whetstone to advance progress, is a hog. President Arthur with the aid of a liver pad, a chest protector, severs! porous piasters aid two magnetic elect tie appliances, manages to keep jYotn being'prostrated by the strain of his candidacy for the republican presi denti and nomination. About a month ago, Tom K>ene performed in Austin as Richard the Third. Among the audience were several members of the Texas legis lature. When Richard exclaimed: ‘ A horse! a hoist! My kingdom for a horsel’The Scions nudged each oth er and whispered, “That’s an old joke. I’ve heard that one before.” The grand jury of Essex county, New Jersey, recommends the use or the whipping post for wife-beaters. The man who whips his wife where divorces areso easily obtained as in New Jeisey, is a perfect brute. This is saying a great deal, when it is borne in mind that authorities on natural history tell us that the brute is an imperfect animal. It is reported that General Ben Butler was lately troubled with a sort of boil on the top of his head— occasioned, probably, by the mental incalescerice evolved during the elec tions. Heconsulted a physician,who said: “It won’t signify, I think, gen eral; but you’d better keep your eye on it.” The general has been taking the prescription ever since. The forever lost beauty and vigor of the legs of the late John Brown continues to be the cause of poignant grief to England’s queen. Lord Ten nyson, hoping to assuage her sorrow, lias changed one of his beautiful poei ioal expressions to read as follows: "Oh, for a sight of Brown’d vanish ed legs, and the sound of his hoofs that are still.” Miles Hall, a bold Kentuckian, over whose amative head nineteen summers have not yet roiled, has been lodged in jail at Citiettshurg, in that state, on the charge of being the simultaneous husband of four wives. He was escaping on horse back from his latest matrimonial al liance when captured by Marshal! Punch. In- the absence of a jury of his peers, that bold, bail boy should by tried oy his widows. The tact du-tt his tirst marriage was contracted ! last September shows that he is ; eham-iighiniug i the bah room. Fur th American.] A SCHOOL LULL ROHMSCEME. Sitting on a rustic seat ’nenth the wide-spreading limbs of an aged oak ft! a lovely grove in the seminary campus of a busy, bustling town on the Air Line railroad, was 1; thought less -'ohnol -ori. It was the first d.i> of April, 18S0. N 1 doubt many of hf r schoolmates remember it, as. > erh p-, it was indelibly impressed on th< r minds as on hers. It was a is-oiiiful -prog day, and she had taken her (ext book and s(r< lied out mere alone to study. We can Net her now as she sits there, half reclin ing, leaning on <*ne elbow, ner head r sling in one hand, the book lying open careies-ly by her side, her eyes riveted on the ground a *h'*rt distance from her, as 1 hough she was trying to get her geology lesson out of the ground instead of the book. She seemed to be ruminating, perhaps she was, but can’t say wnether it was over her books or not. In the midst of her reverie, she w as by the hum of familiar voic es, nearer and nearer the sound ap proaches Suddenly turning her head in the direction of the seminary, her eyes meet with a merry group of her schof lmates Coming as swiftly as on eagle’s w’ings. She stares and wonders, not less than a dozen differ ent suppositions pervade her mind ina moment’s time. Before she has time to decide what she does think, tliev are at her side. “Get up from there; put away that book; come and go with us,” rang out a chorus of voices. She hesitates, not fully compre hending their intentions. “We’re going to April Fool the professors. Come on quickly. G*t no time to lose. It’s nearly one o’clock, time for the bell to ring Come on! C/me on!” were the va rious cries that met her ears. Hesitating no longer, thinking on ly of the fun they would doubtlessly have, she ran by the cottage where she boarded, left her book, snatched her bonnet from its nail, and joins her schoolmates, never giving a thought as to what the consequences I of such a wild goose chase might possibly be. Entertaining great fears of being found out and pursued, they traveled quite rapidly, and as noiselessly as. possible, until they were out of ali danger on that score. After running until almost breathless, jumping ditches, climbing, or rather failing over fences and logs, they came to a large sink-hole, some of them termed it cave. Here they paused a lew moments, pitching rocks and sticks into it. Some of the braver ones ventured to near the edge and p* ep ov. r. Suddenly the alarm, ‘.snake- ! ” was echoed and re-echoed iM one who wasn’t l x king would have thought the ground was made of the dreaded repi l j s. Such run ning, scrambling and yelling as they went ringing through the old forests. In the flurry and confusion, some of them left bonnets, others tore their pinafores completely off and left pie ctsof their Shepard plaid calicos on the bu-hes, iti remembrance, we sup pose (?). At length they And themselves in an unknown road, unknown to them. While standing there debating which end of the road to take, they saw a queer looking object at some distance ahead of them. As they approached, it proved to be a rusty old cart drawn by au old brokr n-horned, one-eyed steer. The driver was lying extend ed his full length on the cart, appar ently asleep. However, he was des tined not to remain in that condition any longer. The girls gave such shouts and outbursts of laughter that the frightened man gathered his lines and yelled, “Whoa! whoa!” to the now ungovernable animal, and look ed all the whi’e as though he thought “Surely I have been transported to another world.” Leaving him to realize tbe true state of affairs, they move onward till they see at some distance, in an old broom-3edge field, a dilapidated looking old house. Delighted at be ing once more in sight of a house, with quickeued pace they move on. Slopping at the fence theycal ed out: “Granny, will your dog bite?” On being as-ured by the good old dame that the dogs were not at ihe house, they advanced to the do<>r and asked fur water. Toe blue bucket and the crooked neck gourd were produced, and their thirsts were quenched. Their benefactress eyed them rather curiously over her spectacles, and ventured to ask where they were from, and where they were going. One of the girls answered that they were al! the way from Georgia, but hardly knew where they going, and added, giving the girls a wink not to laugh, that they were hungry and if she would give them something to eat that she would tell her fortune. The old lady smiled and remarked that they didn’t much resemble Gyp sies, and besides-she thought that crowd cot-11 about eat up ail she had. No doubt sin tecoguisj and tne uniform ' 1! the sernin :ry girls, which was Shepherd plaid calico, and remem- I bering fhe fact Shut it was the fir-U day of April, **touk in the whole ! thing” at a glance. I From thence they proceeded until hey came to a beautiful little brook. Here they paused to rest. One of * :*m mounted a stump and amused ihe.others by giving them what she culled a “stump speech,” anyway -he was on a stump when it was de livered. Suddenly ail eyes were turned in thu direction from whence came a low rumbling sound. A dark threatening cloud rolling direct y toward them. A few questioning glances were cast, and in less lime than it takes to tell it, they w’ere making tracks as fad as their feel could carry them in the direction they thought was home. The thun der rolled, the lightniug flasned, the w ind raged furiously, and the decay ed limbs of the old trees were flying in every direction and fulling on ev ery side. The rain now’ poured in torrents. For the first lime they now perceived their imminent dan ger. Fortunately nobody was hurt, except getting a thorough drenching. A worse frightened crowd, we guess, never were seen. VVe’U venture the old president himself, <*ould he have s j en them, would have felt a little bad for them. Doub'less he would have taken them, some of tbetn at least, to be walking representations of “Before Taking.” The wind and rain ceased, and ail w T as calm again. The truants now had ab ut five miles to walk before reaching tfn campus, so they put off at full speed, as if they thought a catamount or some wild animal was on track of them. The girls who knew the roads took the lead, the rest followed. At length, very much fatigued, they ar rived at the house of one of the pro fessors, where a number of the girls boarded. Here they stopped to rust, get some refreshments, and see what time it was. The landlady was very muen surprised at seeing them, and, after finding out the state of things, sent a runner to the seminary to inform the president of their where abouts. As it was vet, some time be fore chapel exercises, the girls look ed rather puzzled, but one of their not-tn-be-outed-kind remarked : “Girls, it would be advisable for 11s to pull for another shore.” Henceforth they left for parts un known—to the landlady. Taking a circuitous route, the wended their way along a pig-trail, which led to a woodland in rear of the seminary campus. Here they seated them selves on a raft of legs to await the ringing of the beil which denoted the time for chapel exercises. They talked and chatted, wondering what would be done with them for their late transgression. In a few minutes they start, at the S ;Und of the bell, for the seminary. Marching direct ly up stairs, they took their re spective places, as though nothing had occurred. The president came up looking rather surly, and evident ly as if something unusual hac hap pened to rnffla his temper. He call ed the roll, omitting all the names of all the runaways. The girls began to look like they were “sent for and couldn’t go.” Af ter singing and prayer, professor roared out: “All those girls who ran away this afternoon, will remain af terdismission, asl wish tosee t hem.” Of course, all that passed need not be repeated. Suffice it to say that he had to attend prayer-meeting that evening, but he thought it best for them to remain in the chapel until his return What better did they want? They proceeded to amuse themselves in various ways—talking, ptaying. singing and dancing, taking an occasional loos out of the window to make sure that none of the profes sors were in sight. After some time they see him waddling aloug, with hat in hand, looking furious. He came on, walked up stairs, and straightway demanded an explana tion as to where they had been, and what they meant by such conduct, but first told them that he had been informed that they had previously made arrangements v\iih the boys to meet them and go to ride. They all opened wide their mouths and eyes in blank astonishment. Of course it was no such thing. It was all the makeup of somebody. So one of the girls took the floor and made a masterly effort to “expi tin things and deny any such false accu sations.” She told him that they only meant to have a little fun, nev er thought of the boys, but if they had, of course they aJi knew that under the penalty of suspension iu tJefiuin lv, if not expulsion, they weer riot allowed to have any communica tion whatever with young m *u # tio not even to look sideways at otteof them. At the close of tier speech, the old professor was laughiutr in spite of all efforts to 1 <-k sour. It was now his turn to take ttie floor. lie gave them a good lecture, but added that be Would pardon them, and hoped ! that tie w uld never have occasion NUMBER 44. t>do so again, and that they must stay in next day and recite all les sons that had been missed that eve ning, and also that they had forfeit ed all right to compete for the prizes that had been offered. It waa now dark and they were glad to be dis missed, and went home, ate their suppers, studied till ten o’clock, and retired to dream oftheday’s proceed ings. Thus passed the first day of April, ISBO. One op the Runaways, METHODIST CENTENNIAL. How the 31. E. Church, South, Proposes to Celebrate the Great Event. This year, 1884, is a great and not able one in the annals of American Methodism. It will witness the cele bration of the one hundredth anniver sary of the Methodist Episcopal Church ou this continent, and is cer tain to prove a year of unusual activ ity and profound interest throughout the wide-extended borders of that powerful denomination of Christians. The grand historic facts relating to the beneficent character and wonder ful achievements of Christianity through the organized plans and the doc’rines of Methodism during its pathway through this century of its existence in America, are truly phe nomenal, as acknowledged by the world’s leading minds, and is one of the grandest problems of the ages. With more communicants than any other religious body in America, it is a matter of interest to briefly review some of the facta of general interest connected with the history of the Methodist Church, beginning in ob scurity and feebleness, it has achiev ed for itself every where a most won derful success. This great religious movement has, immediately or re motely, so given an impulse to Chris tian feeling and profession, on all sides, that it has come to present.itself as the starting-point of our modern religious history. In 1774, the year when the Metho dist church was organized in Balti more, when C >ke and Asbury were acknowledged and set apart as Super intendents, or Bishops, there were only 14.958 members, 83 preachers, 64 church-buildings, no missionaries, and no institution of learning within the bounds of the denomination. But from that time until the present the growth of Methodism has been almost incalculable. This result was achiev ed by the men who can well be de nominated heroes in the loftiest sense of the word. Accepting the motto of John Wesley—their Church’s found er —“The World is my Parish,” these • nen of God traversedj every state and territory of our great country, preaching the gospel with power and in demonstration of the spirit—build ing up the chu ch. Their entire sin gleness of purpose in spreading the gospel has been their prominent char acteristic, and to-day American Methodism numbers within her va rious branches 3,993 724 members; 25,836 traveling preachers, and 34,- 714 local preachers; 32,000 church ed ifices valued at $100,090,000; 258 in stitutions of learning, embracing universities, colleges, seminaries and high school-; in 1882 had 433 mission aries in foreign fields sent from America, besides 1,906 native help ers; and during that year contribu ted for the cause of foreign missions the surn of $551,448.44. The M. E. church, south, has pre pared to join in the celebration of “the Centennial Anniversary of the Organization of the Methodist Epis copal Church in America,” which will occur in Bal.imore on Decem ber 27, aud proposes to commemo rate the great event throughout its entire bounds with suitable services aud by raising fuuds for educational purposes, church extension, and mis sions—three uoble objects to which the liberality of the church will cer tainly respond. Two millions of dol lars is the amount proposed to be raised for these objects, and that this purpose can be accomplished there should be nodoub ;it will certainly not exhaust the treasury of this strong church with its nearly nine hundred thousand members. Able and competent committees have this work in hand, and will spare no effort to successfully con summate it. The Central Centenary committee, with headquarters at Nashville, Tenn., is composed as fol lows: E. R. Hendrix, D. D., of Mis souri, chairman; W. P. Harrison, D. D., secretary; Wils. Williams, as sistant secretary; Judge James Whit worth, treasurer; Bishop H, N. Mc- Tyeire, L. D Palmer, esq., of Nash ville, and James G. Carter, esq., cf Louis vide, Ky. The following is the centenary committee of the Rome district. T. F. Pierce, P. E., Rev. J. W. Lee, Hamilton Yancy. Tommy(wbos9 papa bad just bought him a log)—‘‘Mama, is baby thoroughbred?” Fond mama-” What an extraordinary question; why?” Tommy— ‘‘Then please hold her up by tue ears and see if she’ll howl.”