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RATES OF A DVERTISING: for each Square ol 1 inch or less, for the first insertion, sl.nO; each siibsiqmut insertion, 50 cents, spei-ial contracts made lor larger space or ion iter time. All contract advertisemtmia must be paid quarterly. .... , Local Notices, 20 cents per line lor the first Insertion, and 10 cents for each subsequent in sert ion. Special Notices ten cents per line. Tributes of Respect and Obituaries over six lines, 10 cents pur line. All personal cards in Local Columns 25 cents per line. DIRECTORY. L’Ol KT CAI. END Alt—CH KBOKRR CUR Cl? IT. ,J.c. Fain, Judge. J. NY. Harris, .Tr., Solicitor t.cneral. Uartow County—Second Monday in January ami J uly. Catoosa County—Second Monday in February and August Murray County—Tliiid Monday in February and August. Gordon County—Fourth Monday in February i and A agio l. I ade County—Third Monday in March and September. Whitfield County —Fiist Monday in April and October. If VUTOW COUNTY CGHJtT. G. S. Tumlin. J utlge. .1. J. Ci nner, Sol. Gen. Geo. A. Howard. Clerk. J. G. Hroughton, llailifl'. _ quarterly Terms—First Monday in March, June, Sepiember and December. Monthly Term —First Monday in each month. JUSTICES COURTS. Times for holding Justices Courts in the dif ferent Milit in District sol Harlow county, Ga,: (artersville- No. 8224 Second Tne days, Adairsville “ Fourth Fridays, I'assvitlc “ 828th....second Fridays, Kingston “ 952d..... First Fridnis, Full n ice “ 851st.....Sec.’ndSaturdays, Allatoona “ Hltlili....Third Saturdays, Wolf Ten “ 10415 t.... I’ourth Saturdays, Stamp < reek “ ‘.Mid i i'hird Saturdays. sixth Disti ict “ U3o:h Fourth Satunlajs Fine Log 827 iii First Saturdays. COUNTY OFFICERS. J. A. Howard,Ordinary. F. M. Durham, Clerk Superior Court. 11. \V. Cobb, Treasurer. John A. Gladden, sheriff. A. M. Franklin, Deputy Sheriff. Bailey A. Barton, Tax Collector. \V. \V. Ginn, Tax Receiver. A. M. Willingham, (.5 roner. D. W. K. Peacock, Surveyor. Com in is.sioners—s. C. Prichard, T. C. Moore, A. Vincent, John 11. NVikiC, T. S. Hawkins. CITY OFFICERS. A. I*. Wofford, Mayor. James D. Wilkerson, Marshal. Geo. s. Cobb, Clerk. it. U. Monntoastie, Treasurer. Aldermen—First Ward, J. C. Wofford, A. ft. Hudgins; Second Ward, G. Harwell, W. 11. Harron; Third Ward, John j.. Stover, Elilui Hall; Fourtli Ward, W. C. Edwards, Aaron Collins. STANDING COUMITTKKS. , Street—Collins, Hudgins, Harron. Finance—Stover, Edwards, Wofford. Cemetery—Hudgins, Collins, Edwards. Public Hall—Hall, Wofford, Harron. Relief—Edwards, ltarron, Harwell. CIIU R CII DIRECTORY. MUTnomsT.—Pastor, Rev. .1. T 5. Robins. Ser vici s, every Sunday at 11. a. m , and 1:80, p. m. Fraver meeting, every Wednesday at 7:30, p. in. Sabbath School, every Sunday at 0:3’), a. in.; .1 no. W. Akin, Supt. Yoni g men’s prayer meeting, every Thursday at 7:30, p. m. Baptist.—Pastor, Rev. F. M, Daniel. Ser vices, every Sunday at 10:15, a. in. and 7:15, p. in. Prayer meeting, eyery Wednesday at 7:15, p. m. Sabbath School, every Sunday at 0:30, a. m,; D. W. K. Peanock, Supt. Young men’s prayer meeting, every Sund y at 2, p. in. Ser vice of song, every Sunday at 3. ]>. m. Mont li ly conference, third Sundry ol each month at 3, p. m, J*hksbytrkian.—Pastor, Rev. T. E. Smith. Services, every llr-t and third Sundays at tt, p. in. Salth.ith St bool, every Sunday at 0. a. in.; T W. Milner, Supt. Prayer meeting, every Wednesday at 7:30, p. m. Episcopal.— Church of the Ascension. Min ister in charge, Rev. W. R. McConnell. Ser vices. vvery Sunday, except Hiird in each month, at 11, a. in. Sabbath School, every Sun day at 10, a. in. Professional Cards. <Jf. W. KILNS*. J. w. HARRIS, R. MIIIEII fc HARRIS, Alcorn ey s- A t -lift w. Oft.cn over Howard’s Bank. Cartersvlile, Oa. john u. wiki.k. novalas wiki.k. wikij: *v- wiki.k, Attorneys-at-Law & Real Estate Agents Offices at Court House and on Main Street ! above Jfirwin, Cartersvillo, Ga. ; UEOIICIF. S. JOHNSON, Attornoy-at-liaw, Ofllce, West Side Public Square, CAUTEKSVII.bB, GA. Will practice In all the Courts. A. M. EOUTIC. WALTER M. KVAI.S. FOITTE KYAIiS, Attorney.t-A t-Eaw. WILT. PRACTICE IN ALL THE COO RTS of this state. Prompt ami l'aithl'ul at oHire, corner Mam anu ju - .Vi A,. stair g. ’ Cartersville, Cue- J. M. NEEL. 3. 3. CONNER. W. .1. NI'EE. AEEE, CONNER & NEEL. Attorm^ys-At-Eaw. WILL PRACTICE IN ALE THE COCRTA of Hi is state. Litigated cases made a specialty. J'rompt attentiun given to all ms iness entrusted to us. ... Muvkcl. 0 " 12KSt"S.o5^ JARES R. CONYERS, Attorney-at-I^aw* Ofllce Up-Stairs, Bank Block, Carters! ille, t.a Will practice in all the Courts of the Chero kee ami adjoining Circuits, ami in the Mt i)ierne Court. Prompt attention given to ah business. Collections made a specialty. Railron.cls. KENNESAW ROUTE! WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. R. The following time rani in effect Sunday, Dec. 30, JP93: NORTH ROUND NO, 3—W ESTERN EX PRESS—DaiIy. l.eave Atlanta 7 3o :l m. Arrive Marietta 820 “ Cartersville 025 “ Kingston 0 52 “ Dalton ~.„ll 25 “ Chat tanooga 100 p. m. NO. I—FAST EXPRESS—DaiIy. t,cave Atlanta 2 35 p.m. Arrive Marietta 3 27 *• < artersville.. .... 4 20 “ Dalton tl 22 “ ( hattanooga 803 NO. 11—LIMITED EX I’R ESS Daily. Leave A Cant a 11 40 p.m. Arrive Marietta p> :;i ;.. m. “ C trler>ville... J is *• Dalton 3 4J “ Chattanooga 515 Rome Express—Norta—Daily, except Sunday. Leave Atlanta 4 05 p. in. Arrive Marietta 3 00 “ (.'artersville .. 0 03 “ Rome ... 7 20 No. 1 carries Pullman cars from Atlanta to Louisville, Jacksonville to Cincinnati, New Orleans i<> Washington. No. 11 carries Pullman cars from Savannah tot hieago and Atlanta to Nashville. SOUTH BOUND. NO. 4 FAST EXPRESS. Leave Chattanooga 8 00 a. m. Arrive Dalton 0 33 Kingston 11 in “ ('artersville 1142 “ Marietta ..124Up.m. Arrive Atlanta 145 NO. 2—SOUTHERN EXPRESS. Leave Chattanooga 2 55 p, m. Arrive I>alton 1 30 “ Kingston 0 02 “ ( artersy ille <i :;t “ Marietta *. 7 47 Al ii ve A ilanta 8 40 NO. 12—LIMITED EXPRESS—DaiIy. Leave Chattanooga .... 10 15 p. m. Arrive Dalton .. 11 41> “ (artersville 147 a.m. “ Marietta 2 50 “ Atlanta 340 Rome Express—South—Daily, Except Sunday. Leave Rome... 8 30 a. in. Arrive (?artersville 0 45 “ Marietta 10 40 “ Atlanta 1145 No. i curries Pullman ears from Cincinnati to Atlanta, Washington, New Orleans, Louis ville to Atlanta. No. 12 carries Pullman ears from Chicago to Savannah and Louisville to Atlanta. R. w. WRKXN, Gen'l. Pass. Agt. R. A. AXDKR-ON, Superintendent. EAST a WEST R. R. OF ALA. ON and after Sunday, Nov. 14, 1883, trains on this road will rim as follows: GO INu WEST—Daily, KxceptSunday. NO. 1. NO. 3. Leave Cartersville 050 a. m. 420 p. m. *• Stileshoro 10 02 4 42 “ Taylorsville 10 37 517 “ Rockmart 11 10 5 50 Arrive Cedartown 12 00 ti 40 GOING EAST—Daily, Except Sunday. NO. 2. NO. 4. Leave Cedartown 205 p. m , 715 a. m. “ Rockmart 3 00 8 07 *• Taylorsville 3 35 8 30 “ Sti esboro ... 353 855 Arrive Cartersville 4 25 0 25 SUNDAY ACCOMMODATION—Going Best. Leave Cedartown 8 00 a. m. “ Stilesbom 8 52 “ Taylorsville 024 “ Rockmart ‘.NO Arrive Cartersville. 10 10 SCN 1)5 Y ACCOMMODATION—Going West. l.eave Cartersville 2 50 p.m. *• Stilesboro • • • 3 21 “ Taylorsville 3 37 “ Rockmart 4 Id Arrive Cedartown 5 00 ALABAMA DIVISION. Daily, Except Sunday. Leave East & West Junction. ....... 2 55 p. m. Arrive Broken Arrow <U<> 4 Leave Broken Arrow 0 00 a. m. Arrive East & West Junction 1 15 p. in. ROME RAILROAD. The following is the present passenger schedule: no. 1. no. 8. Leave Rome.. 010a. m. 415 p. m. Arrive Kingston 8 55 5 30 no. 2. no. 4. Leave Kingston. 920a. m. Rssp. m. Arrive Rome 1025 a.m. 050 NO. 6. Leave Rome SOO a. m. Arrive Kingston 000 NO. 0. Leave Kingston 9 20 a. m. Arrive Home .10 10 Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 will run daily except Sun days. Nos.s and 0 will run Sundays only. No twill not stop at the junction. Makes close connection at Kingston for Atlanta and Chattanooga. No. 2 makes connection at Rome with E. T. Va. & Ga. It U., l'or points south. Eli KN’ lit ELVER, President. J. A. SMITH. Gen’l. Pass. Agent. IF YOU ARE GO I NO NORTHWEST on SOUTHWEST, j BE STJRE! Your Tickets Bead via the K.,C.&St. LUy. Tlie McKonzieli oixte The First-class and Emigrant Passengers IrAVOBITB! ! Albert B. Wrenn, W* 1* Rogers, Pas. Agent, p “ 5 - Atlanta. Ga. Chattanooga, cenn. W. Jj. DANI.KTt Gen. Pas. & Tkt. Agent, Nashville, Tenn, K [SEMAK 15KOS j\f ANU FACTE RING CLOTHIEaS& TAILORS 55 WHITEHALL STREET, i ATLANTA, GEORGIA. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1884. The Cartersville American. Entered at the. J'ust Office of Cartersville , Ga., May 'Mh , 1882, as second class matter. TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1881. /BARTOW COF'iTY. • Its Climate and Water. To those who are acquainted with the topography and geological formations of the county, it is needless to sav anything touching the climate and water. To the stranger, looking for a home, information of this character is of the highest interest. The bulk of the county lies immediately north of the last regular bench of moun tains, or foothills, southward from the Blue Ridge, and entirely within the thirty fourth parallel of latitude. Numerous ranges, of lower elevation, traverse the county iu various directions, but mainly parallel to the Blue ltidge. Between the ridges charming valleys, with bright and healthful streams of water, serve to mel low tlx’ landscape, and give promise of abundant harvests to the husbandman. The atmosphere is neither too dry nor too moist, but bracing and healthful. Looking at the facts as above set forth, a thoughtful man will reasonably con clude that we have here a genial, salu brious climate. This is the truth. Years ago, a free and rapid denudation of the surface of timber, for purposes of agriculture, had the effect of developing malarial diseases in some sections of the county, just as turning the sod of the prairie has been thought to develop the same class of diseases in Illinois and oth er western states. These forces having ceased to act, their effects have meas urably passed away. Throat and lung diseases are rare. Pneumonia lias not obtained, except sporadically, for over thirty years. Con sumption, the scourge of more northern climes, scarcely exists, except as import ed. Summer diseases prevail, as every where else, but not to the extent, nor with the fatality, that characterizes them in many sections of the country. Cholera is unknown. Now, as to the water: All the extreme southern, the south-eastern and eastern portions of the county are entirely free stone; cropping out frequently in springs —cool, refreshing, satisfying. This state ment needs to he qualified so far as to except the mineral springs, of which there are several, and some justly fa mous, viz.: the Rowland spring, now the property of hi. G. Dobbins. The princi pal constituents of the mineral waters are iron, sulphur and magnesia. The forma tions are mainly granitic. The rest of the county, about two-thirds, is of the limestone formation, and the waters par take of (he nature of the rocks. There are, however, scattered over this region, numerous springs and wells of freestone, or nearly freestone, water. While there are numbers of bold blue limestone springs, the main supply of water for do mestic uses is obtained from wells, which is found at from thirty to seventy-five feet. In speaking of limestone water, the “true blue” alone is meant, as not a single fountain of “rotten” limestone water exists in the county. As germain to tlie subject in hand, the scenic features of this magnificent domain challenge a passing word. Nature, with prodigal hand, has put forth every ehnrm that can adorn a landscape, and poured out her gifts in such royal profu sion that, from almost every headland and hillock, views may be had which even the ancient and storied beauties of Italy do not excel. In matters of hy giene, this is a factor of no mean impor tance. The sick man ceases to languish and his physical frame grows strong by having the {esthetic elements of his being - tirred and gratified. Again, he of the brawny arm—rugged in every aspect of his being—delv ing for gold as the only end and ob ject of human pursuit, as Tie gazes day by day upon these grand displays of na ture’s handiwork, cannot fail to have the asperities of his nature softened and sub dued, be led to look beyond to something higher and better, and finally to conclude that after all it is impossible to satisfy ihe soul with “sordid dust.” W. L. Kirkpatrick. A largo number of chronic croakers would have been pleased if the W all street flurry had resulted in a financial panic. This influence, whatever it is worth, has been used to spread distrust. .But, for tunately, nothing of that sort could pre vail against the solidity and soundness of the general business condition of the country. While an old gentleman and his daugh ter were prominading in Chicago, some boys, “just to scare them,” shot the old man in the thigh and wounded the young fcwtv. As it was simply a little playful pastime on the part of the boys, the po lice declined to arrest them. Love affects folks variously, according to climate and country. The disappoint ed Frenchman seeks solace in suicide; the Mexican, whose love proves false, goes out and shoots liis rival in a duel; and the jilted American cosoles himself by getting on a roaring drunk. The Grant & Ward failure served to prick the bubbles which Wall street 1 speculators had been blowing. PROHIBITION. Col. M. R, Sk'.uscll Continues his Temperance Talk- Editors A Mimic ax— Tn addition to what has l>een said in your paper on the jirfflskv question, considered morally and socially, it may not be out of place to go still further and notice its importance in some other respects. The whisky traffic certainly carries with it many subtle evils. Springing out of it, there are many embarrassing issues, raised by its friends, demaudiiig serious consideration. No sensible mu i will deny that its in tlnenee is fearful; its support is immense, both by money and strong brain power. The fact is, if u is allowed to be manu factured and sold like other articles, the magnitude of tl\£ question can hardly be overestimated. its proper solution is perhaps the nmy difficult question with which the government has to contend. Politicians are ‘braid of it, Who has f.alf 1 to observe the manner in which the statesman is tangled when he considers it, as it presents to him its ten thousand phases, apologies and threats, demanding his protection ? Who has failed to notice how it worries the judiciary, baffles justice, hobbles ad vancement and squanders the finances of the country, public as well as private? These inharmonious troubles will always be felt and seen, when the control of this great question is not intended to be actual and complete. As long as the purpose shall be, on the part of those who make the laws, to co quette with antagonistic principles, to do a little for prohibition and a little for whisky, so as to make friends on both sides, just so long this great evil will con tinue firmly rooted in our country, even if it overrides everything else, and car ries down all that is good. The great trouble is, that those who have put themselves in front of the peo ple, and assumed control, seem to be in favor of prohibition before the election, when the plausible side of the face is turned; but, afterwards, when the other side is revealed, fear cometli, and they do nothing which tends to have such an effect. 80, the people, who are interest ed and anxious about the final issue, are left just here. They are in the hands of the politicians, who, after being trusted and getting into power, dodge the ques tion. They are afraid to move for their own people against whisky, because that power may be used against them in the next election; and whisky becomes alarmed also, because the politician may chance to cast a thoroughly dry vote now; and, the c-o. sequence is, the people are forgotten, and politics and whisky, half friends and half enemies, shake hands over and discuss a compromise line of their own, the purpose of each being to buy out the influence of the other for the future. This thing of being neither cold nor hot, on the most vital question known to men, has been endured by the people long enough. They have the voice of the gods and the power of Sam son. They have the right to be heard and felt, and before long they will shake up the saloons in this state like an earth quake,. and declare iu tones unmistakable as heaven’s thunder, that the sale of whisky shall be prohibited. Whenever the politicians, or anybody else, under take to hedge in whisky just a little even at one or two points away out on the skirmish line, its sensitiveness is offend ed, and we may all expect to hear a loud clamor from whisky—that this is the work of fanaticism, and that liberty is about to be overthrown. Tills is sufficient to change the coun tenance of a common size politician. It addles his brain, bewilders his intellect and confuses his action. And right there he makes up his mind to walk the fence and to “coon” it. He resolves not to advance far enough against whisky to be wounded as one of its enemies, nor to retreat far enough towards prohibi tion to be captured as a torv, and the result is, that lie spends his official term, if he has any, trying to regulate the manner and hours of sale. He piddles oil the screens, and the opening and closing of bar room doors, just where he knows the good is largely qualified and the evil only partially hemmed in. All of this looks like temporizing. It is worse than milk and cider; it advertises a half a friend on both sides. Weariness begins here with the people. It is time to re-let the contract, and it is going to be done. Better work is desired. The conflict is irrepressible. Prohibition, or the saloons, one or the other, must give way. The wet and the dry elements in this country can never be harmonious, and such politicians as are astraddle of the fence, holding out a hand for help on both sides, had as well undertake to convert the devil, or to add an eighth star to the seven, as to make whisky, temperance, morality, good order, and economy in finances all run harmoniously in the same channel. If whisky is bad enough for it to be surrounded' by legal safeguards, fettered | by bands, walled in by oaths and pressed ; down by special taxation, it is bad enough ! for the law to stop its sale altogether. One goes half way to the desired point, I the other the whole route. It is said that this is purely a moral question, to be controlled by persuasion alone. This I deny. If if were so, then our laws up on the subject are all wrong, and have been for years. Repeal everything on the whisky subject, and then look at it; where will we le? Let the bar rooms be opened on Sunday; let whisky be -old without license or taxation—to minors and to drunken men, at camp grounds, at churches, and on the days of elections; i who then can tell what would be our condition? Such a state of things would bo bad enough to claim the pity of the Choctaw nation, Is there a man in the state who is in favor of turning every thing loose and taking all this salutary legislation back, simply because it is the act of the law, and not the result of per suasion? Now, if we can go beyond moral suasion for the purpose of pre j venting by law the sale of whisky with out license, or on the Sabbath, or to mi | nors, or to drunken men, or on election i days, at camp grounds, churches, schools ; and colleges, will any man sustain these | laws, and then show why wo may not go | one step further, and stop the sale of whisky at all times and places, ami make a great work complete, which everybody joined in, and which is now just about half done? NT. R. Btanskbl. ANSWER TO COL. M. R. STANSRLL. Glf.n Hobby, Ga., May 17, 1881. Editors American —T see that you are still working for prohibition. I had hoped that it was dropped, or had gone where Judge Dooly sent the “roasted pig”—“loose on its own recognizance. ” But the correspondent on Erwin street insists that “roasted pig,” swimming in grease, shall come on the table daily. The distinguished gentleman came from Putnam, that good old county which fifty years ago we thought it pa triotic to organize on the good old state’s rights, now democratic, creed. If your correspondent did not come from Putnam, I think his better half did; and if her father were alive, he could tes tify that in that organization he was one of our first leaders. That during the canvass, we were required to meet not only the charge of total abstinence, but of legislative prohibition. We admitted the former, but denied the latter. In this denial we grounded ourselves on the fundamental rule of democratic faith. With the help of able leaders, the rank and file in solid column sustained us. Bo firm was the tread, that to this day old Putnam is where she was, true to “strict construction, limited and defined powers. ” Now, as to ardent spirits and its use. It is one of the best, most useful articles in medicine, but as a beverage it is ruin ous and destructive. Its moral results are unequalled by anything known on earth. As to its effects on the human family, physically, its destructiveness is unequalled by any article except to bacco. If any one desires health, long life, a cool head, a steady. hand and a green old him avoid both, es pecially tobacco. If these facts exist, why then not we prohibit the sale by law ? We answer: First. It cannot be done. Second. It ought not to be done. The legislature has a little more right to pass such a law than congress has the right to pass a law to distribute public money to the states for educating the children. It ought not to he clone; however, when done, every advocate of temperance then washes his hands of it, and leaves it in the hands of the law, consoling himself that his conscience is at ease and, folding his arms, he ceases all effort. This is the age of progress, in which nothing can he done without associated effort. We cannot advocate the temper ance cause, without the church, or a so ciety with banners, and failing there none need a law with penalties. This admits the impotence of religion and the power of unrestrained appetite. It de stroys the power of individuality, and the force of precept and example. This is all wrong. Wliat then? 1 say, let every man or woman, hoy or girl, resolve himself or herself into a tem perance organization, and stand by the resolve. Each individual will then he felt and seen. Together they will he unrecognized by each other. Let the drunkard drink and go mad and rave. Those who cannot he re strained will go into pandemonium where they belong, or into the grave which is open to receive them. Respectfully, Mark A. Cooper. There is something really pathetic in the innocence with which General Grant and his sons allowed Ferdinand Ward to fleece them out of their fortunes. This very innocence is evidence of their own honest motives in the business which ended so disastrously. A Pittsburg druggist administered mor phia to a child instead of calomel. The child died and the druggist fainted. It is a pity that the order of dying and fainting could not have been reversed. The undertakers, who had become dis consolate at the unusual good health pre vailing this spring, are now more cheerful. The early cucumber and the watermelon have come to their rescue. Alabama has just given birth to a mule with five legs. We hope the fifth leg is well located for’ard. If it isn’t the ani mal should be executed before he has a chance to settle down to his business in life, JOHN Pi LI.IV, OF TAYLORSVILLE, 0\ SAM BROWN. Mr Editor: —lt has been a long time since I wrote a letter for a newspaper, though I reeou I enjoy reading a gotxl paper like yours about as much as any body you most ever seed. When I was a young fellow just about old enough to begin to fly around the girls, 1 thought it would suit me exactly to be an editor of some paper, because they always had free rides on the railroads, invitations to all the weddings, big dinners, dances, candy puffins and the like, they do shore's you’r liorn. But as the editors are always the last people who get paid for their labor, f recon its all for the best that I am not an editor. Them letters that you publish in your paper written by Bam Brown, just gets spang away with me, Why lordy Mercy I use to know that fellow when he was just a lad of a lroy, and 1 .always thought he was the audaciowsest chap I most ever seed, but he dident mean any harm by it, it was pure devilment. Why 1 remember one time Barn's Pa gave him a little bit of a pig and told Bam if he would feed and fatten that pig on acorns he might have it, and bless my life don’t you think that boy tied a plowline around that pigs neck, tried to puff it up in a tree to eat acorns and choked that pig slap to death, he did shores you’r horn. But notwithstanding all of Bams develment he seemed to he quite a favorite of all the girls, and if there ever was one who dident like him I never heard tell of her. There was one great big fat gal lived not far from us who seemed to be Barn’s favorite, and I couldent blame Bam for loving her because she did have the prettiest rosy cheeks and curly hair of any gal you most ever seed, and she was just so fat I dont believe to my soul she could set cross-legged. Sam was always a great fellow to use big words while in compa ny with the gals, and it was useless -to try to prevent him from it Shore’s you’r bom it was* I remember on one occasion there was a lawyer who took dinner with a near neighbor of mine and it happened Sam and myself were there at the time, and when the lawyer had gotten through eating, Sam, to be polite, asked him to have something more, when the lawyer replied no I thank you sir I have eaten superfluity. Well as soon as we got up from the table Bam lowed he was going to use that big word the very next time he went to see his gal, Bo shore enough the very next Sunday morning soon, Bam he come over to get me to go with him and spend the day at his gals house, Well as soon as I could get on mymeetin house clothes, Bam and 1 pn t out, and we dident go far until Bam asked me if I knowed what - tint big word was what that man said at the •hßlc, and lordy mercy I couldn’t think to save my soul. After awhile Bam, lowed he node it was something like flippity and he could study up the rest by the time dinner was ready. We hadent been there but a short time until the bell rang for dinner, and as I stept in the first thing I diskivered on the table was a great big dish of collards you know what grows in the garden. Well me and Bam was both mighty hungry but Bam lowed it would not do for him to eat too much for fear they wouldent ask him to have any more and then lie wouldn’t have any chance to say that big word. The old man soon helped our plates bounti fully, and put a great big pile of them collards on Sam’s plate, and it wasent long till I felt Sam sorter chug me in the ribs with his elbow and point at his col lards with his fork, and T soon diskivered a great big old collard worm all doubled up in Sams greens what he had on his plate, Then Sam ho commenced looking round first at the gal, den at the old man and woman, and it tickled me nearly to death to see Sam keep kivering up that worm to keep it from being such a mortification to the family. After awhile Sam had eaten up all the collards but just one little pile and dat worm he was under dat pile. Shores you’r born he was. Just about that time Sam began to look like be was in a heap of trouble bout something or other, and all at once while no body was looking at him he picked up dat little pile of collards wliar dat worm was hid and swallowed de col lards worm and all, he did shore’s you’r born. Then Sam he crossed Ids knife & fork, and got ready to say dat big word, bout dat time the old man said, Mr Brown have something more, den Sam he lent back In his chair and said no I thank you I have eaten flippity floppitv. When we had left the table I asked Sam what made him eat dat worm, and he said he would eat 50 more like it before he would leave it on his plate and cause his gal such mortification as that. About sundown we got ready to start for home, but the rain began to fall in torrents and Sam lowed we had better spend the night as it always made him sick to get wet, and after a little persua sion I agreed to spend the night there The house in which the family lived only had two rooms to it, one a bed room the other the cook room. Well we sat up late that night roasting potatoes, pop ping corn, and telling Rig yarns general ly, we did shore’s you’r born. We slept that night on the best feather bed you most ever saw, it was in the cook room, and as we had set up much later that NUMBER 4. night than we had been accustomed to doing and of course we slept late the next morning. I guess the sun mn t have been at least two hours high when I first opened my eves, and the very first thing T saw was the old lady and the gal in there a fixing to cook break fast, and when T looked in another di rection I saw a little bit of an old fiste dog with Barn’s ooperass breeches iu tils month running around, the yard theu back through the room by the bed on which we were sleeping. I called Bam and told him what that fetched fiste was doing, then Sam opened his eyes like he w a sent sleepy abit, and every time that fiste would come sailing by the bed with Sam’s ooperass breeches Sam he would make a grab for them and that made the fiste think Sam was playing with him, well that fiste lie just keep running and Sam he just kept grabbing for his breeches, till at last, Sam he matte a long stretching grab and landed, away out in the floor on the top of his cra uinm, but Sam dident mean any liana by it, and the fiste dident either shore’s yon’r 1 >orn. It is useless to add that Bam wasent hungry enough to stay for breakfast but left for parts unknown. Now Mr. Editor, if you want to set down to one of the very best meals you ever did sit down to just go to Sam Browns house some day and take dinner with him, and my word for it you will be compelled, to unbutton the waistband of your pants before you get up, Sam always would have a plenty of something good to eat at his house, and a better cook than his good wife can nowhere be found, I use to visit Sam just after the war when times were hard and often asked him why it was lie could always have more good things to eat than any one else, and he would reply by saying when ho got out of meal the old woman would make mush and when out of corn they would make hominy, So taking Sam up one side and down the other he is hard to beat, and my word for it even if that old man Wall Street of New york should breake its no sign Satn Brown ever will. Yours till death. John Pulun. Good growing weather for the grass. The greatest boom is the boom of veg etation. Speculators have been relegated to the rear. Values have struck bottom, and now comes the rebound. Riding clubs are fashionable. A light whip, however, is much better than a dub, Amid the wreck of fortunes and the crush of capitalists Jay Gould looked on and smiled serenely. Speculative schemes are bursting all around, but legitimate business is on a sufficiently solid basis. Governor Foster makes the astonish ing prediction that the Chicago conven tion will be either a long one or a short one. This country is broad, and prosperous and rich. The failure of a few New York brokers cannot create a panic among us. Beu Butler comes right, out like a lit tle man and says anybody votes for him for will appreciate the compliment. _ ■■ — 1 ♦- ♦ ♦ -■ Reports of exorbitant charges for ac commodation at Chicago during the con vention, show that hotel keepers up there have not reformed. “Yes,” said the schoolmaster, as he jumped wildly from his chair. “I have always been in favor of tax on raw mate rial, but bless me if T like raw 7 material on tacks !” A Chicago woman attempted suicide because her pet poodle was killed. Woman can endure many sacrifices without break ing her heart strings, but she draws the line at her poodle. At last a woman has been found who absolutely refuses to talk. She is a wit ' ness in a New 7 York will case, and says | she will stay in jail until resurrection day I before she will testify. A New York paper used a “G” instead ; of a “C” and printed it the “New York i Gab Company.” It is said that the members of the Borosis feel very ranch hurt about it, and will boycott the paper. Foreign trade as regards exports is very slack, owing to the ruinous opera tions of speculative cliques at Chicago and in the east. Railroad earnings and general business have been and will be affected to some extent. The present tendency, however, is in the direction of improvement. A panic among grain gamblers ' would be a blessing to the country. Mr. Blaine’s friends now announce that I they will nominate him on the third bal lot at Chicago, preferring rather to achieve their triumph gradually than to route the enemy by a precipitate move ment at the outset. They are exceeding ly kind and considerate. It dwells in vague memory that the same programme was announced for the convention of 1880.