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CARTERSVILLE AMERICAN.
VOLUME 111.
The CarlsfSTille American.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARTOW CO.
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directory.
COURT CALENDAR—C IIKROKEE CIR
CUIT.
.I.C. Fain, Judge. J. W. Harris, Jr., Solicitor
GenefW. „ _
Bartow County—Second Monday in January
County—Second Monday in February
and August
a! urray County—Thlid Monday in February
and August.
Gordon County—Fourth Monday in I ebruary
and August.
I ade County—Third Monday in March and
September.
H bitfield County—First Monday in April
and October.
BARTOW COUNTY COURT.
G. s, Tunilin, Judge. J. J. Conner, Sol. Gen.
Geo. A. Howard. Clerk. J. G. Broughton,
Bailiff.
Quarterly Terms—First Monday in March,
June, Sept cun her and December.
.Monthly Term First Monday in each month.
JUSTICES COURTS.
Times for holding Justice* Courts in the dif
ferent Militia Districts of Bartow county, Ga,:
Cartersville— No. 822d Second Tue- days,
Adairsville “ 866th Fourth Fridays,
< assville “ 828th....second Fridays,
Kingston “ 952d.. ...First Friday s,
Euharlee “ 831st Sec’nd Saturdays,
Allutoona “ 81 Oth Third Saturdays,
Woirpen “ 104ts6....fourth Saturdays,
stamp Creek “ 963 J Third Saturdays,
sixth Distiict l)36th Fourth Saturdays
Bine Cog* *• 827fh First Saturdays.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. A. Howard, Ordinary.
F. M. Durham, Clerk Superior Court.
H. W. Cobb, Treasurer.
John A. Gladden, Sheriff. A. M. Franklin,
Deputy Sheriff.
Bailey A. Barton, Tax Collector.
W . W. Ginn, Tax Receiver.
A. M. Willingham, Coroner.
** S. (J. PnclWWt, t . C. arwrr,
A. Vincent, John 11. VVikie, 'J.'. S. Hawkins.
CITY OFFICERS.
A. P. Wofford, Mayor.
James D. Wiikerson. Marshal.
Geo. S. Cobb. Clerk.
B. It. Mountcastle, Treasurer.
Aldermen —First Ward, J. C. Wofford, A. R.
Hudgins; Second Ward, G. Harwell, W. If.
Barron: Third Ward, John j.. Stover, Klihu
Hall; Fourth Ward, W. C. Edwards, Aaron
Coll ilia.
standing committees.
Street—Collins, Hudgins. Barron.
Finance—Stover, Edwards, Wofford.
Cemetery—Hudgins, Collins, Edwanls.
Public Hall—Hall, Wofford, Barron.
Relief—Edwards, Barron, Harwell.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
M kthodist.—Pastor, ltev. J. B. Robins. Ser
vices, gvory Sunday at 11, a. ru-, and 7:30, p. ni.
Prayer meeting, every Wednesday at 7:3u, p.
in. S.-ibbath School, every at 11:30, a.
m.; .Jno. W. Akin, Sunt. Yout g men’s prayer
meeting, every Thursday at 7:30, p. m.
Baptist.—Pastor, Rev. F. M. Daniel. Ser
vices, every Sunday at 10:45, a. tn. and 7:15, p.
in. Prayer meeting,every Wednesday at 7:15.
p. m. Sabbath School,every Sunday at 9:30,
a iu.; D. VV. K. Peacock, Supt. Young men’s
prayer meeting, every Sunday at 2, p. rn. Ser
\on of song, every Sunday at 3, p. in. Month
ly conference, third buudry ot each month at
3, p. in,
I’Bksbyterian.—Pastor, Rev, T. E* Smith.
Services, every flivt and third Sundays at 11, p.
in. Sabbath St bool, every-Sunday at 9. a. in.;
T \\ . iMilner, Sunt. Prayer meeting, every
Wednesday at 7:30, p. ni.
Episcopal.—Church of the Ascension. Min
ister’in charge, Rev. W. K. McConnell. Ser
vices. every Sunday, except third in each
month, at 11, a. m. Sabbath School, every Sun
day at 10, a. m.
Professional Cards.
w. MILNER. <L w - HARRIS, JK.
HILLER & HARRIS,
At loruej s-Al-Law.
Oflice over Howard's Bank.
Cartersviile, Ga.
J.OJIV H. WTKI.R. DOUGLAS WIKI.E.
WIHLR fc WIKLK,
Mtopeys-at-Law & Real Estate Ageits
Olliees at Court House and on Main Street
above Erwin, Cartersviile, Ga.
A. M. rOUTK. WALTER M. KYAI.B.
FOITE fc RI ALS,
A i torney s-At-Xaw*
WILL PRACTICE IN' ALL THE COORTS
of this state. Prompt and faithful at
tention given to all business entrusted to us.
Office, corner Main and Erwin Streets, ttp
stails. Cartersviile, Ga.
J. M. NEEL. .1, J. CONNER. W. J. NEEL.
HEEL, COINER & IEEL,
AUorueys-At-Law.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
of tliis state. Litigated cases made a
specialty. Prompt attention given to all bus
iuess entrusted to us. .
(Office on Erwin Street, between Main and
Mn ket. Cartersviile, Ga.
•IAIIEK B. COIIFJIS,
Attojrney-itl-X.au*
office Up-Stairs, Bank Block, Cartersviile, Ga
Will practice in all the Courts of the Chero
kee and adjoining Circuits, and in the Su
pieme Court. Prompt attention given to all
biKiuess. (Jnllectiuns made a speeiaitv.
T. NHI)EIIERR
i’liyxiciaii and Surgeon,
Office on Main Street, above Erwin,
Cartersviile, Ga.
Railroads.
KENNESAW ROUTE!
WESTERN UTUNTIC R. R.
The following time card in effect Sunday.
J line 15th, 1881:
NORTH BOUND.
NO. 6—WESTERN EXPRESS—DaiIy.
Atlanta 8 20 a. in.
Arrive Marietta 9 10
• * (’Hrterville.... ...1b 12
“ Kingston 10 38
“ Dalton 12f0
*’ Chattanooga 130p.tn.
NO. I—FASP IAPRESS Daily.
Ecu ve Atlanta 2 35 p. in.
Arrive Marietta 3 2T
** Cartcrsvilie 4 SO
“ Dalton 0 22
“ Chattanooga 800
NO. 11—LIMITED EXPRESS—DaiIy.
Leave Atlanta 1140 p.m.
Arrive Marietta.... 12 39 u. in.
*• Cartersville 148
“ I Hilton 3 41
“ Chattanooga 5)3
Rome Expros—North—Daily, except Sunday.
Leave A Manta 3 45 p. m.
Arrive Marietta 4 3s
,l Cartersville 5 30
“ Rome 6 50
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
Ki ngston 11 18
“ Cartersville 1142
“ Marietta.... 12 46 p, ni.
Arrive Atlanta 1 40
NO. 2—SOUTHERN EXPRESS.
Leave Chattanooga 2 55 p, in.
Arrive Dalton 4 30
“ Kingston 602
“ Cartersville 6 81
“ Marietta 7 47
Arrive Atlanta 8 40
NO. 12—LIMITED EXPRESS—DaiIy.
Leave Chattanooga 10 15 p. m.
Arrive Dalton 11 49
•* Cartersville 147 a.m.
“ Marietta 2 50
“ Atlanta 340
Rome Express—South—Daily, Except, Sunday.
Leave Rome 8 30 a.m.
Arrive Cartersville 9 45
“ Marietta 10 49
“ Atlanta ll 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 Atlanta.
B. W. WRENN, Gen’l. Pass. Agt.
R. A. AN HER-ON, Superintendent.
EAST & WEST R. R. OF ALA.
ON anti after Sunday. July 20th, 1884, trains
on this road will run as follows:
GOINu WEST—Daily, Except Sunday.
no. 1. no. 3.
Leave Cartersville 10 17 a. m. 1 50 p. m.
*• Ladd’s 10 29 2 10
“ Stilesboro. 10 49 2 38
“ McGir.niss ... ...1055 251
“ Taylorsville 11 03 3 02
“ Deaton’s .1114 3 13
Davitte’s 11 18 3 23
“ Waddell’s 1121 3 28
“ Rockmart 11 36 4 01
“ Pineville 11 42 4 18
“ G0ddard’5.........11 48 4 40
“ Fish Creek 11 55 458
“ Cedartown 12 25 p. m.
“ Berry’s 12 41
“ Esont Hill 12 55
“ Rowell’s 121
o 1 Sri
( * Cross Plains I 50
“ East & West J un.. 235
“ Sulphur Spring... 3 12
“ 1 Hike’s, 3 29
“ Hebron . .. 856
“ Gray’s 4 13
“ Ohatcliie 4 25
“ Francis 4 42
“ Singleton 4 55
“ Ackers 5 03
“ Ragland 5 33
“ Fairvicw 6 02
“ Rowland’s 6 13
Arrive Broken Arrow... 63G
GOING EAST—Daily, Except Sunday.
NO. 2. NO. 4.
Leave Broken Arrow. . 845 a.m.
“ Rowland’s'.... 9 12
“ Fairview 9 23
“ Ragland 9 57
“ Ackers 10 22
“ Singleton’s 10 33
*• Francis 10 43
“ Ohatehie 11IK)
“ Dray’s 11 12
<• Hebron 11 39
“ Duke’s 11 56
“ Sulphur Spring —1213
“ E. & W.Junc 12 55
“ Cross Plains ... 2 25p.m.
“ Delay’s 2 40
“ Rowell’s 2 55
“ Esom Ilill 3 22
“ Berry’s 3 35
“ Cedartown 4 00 5 50 a. m.
“ Fish C reek 4 30 6 33
4> Cod da n(s 4 36 6 48
“ Pineville 4 43 7 06
“ Rockmart- 4 56 7 28
“ Waddell’s 5 09 7 48
“ Davitte’s 5 14 7 55
o Deaton’s 518 8 00
“ Taylorsville. 531 816
“ McGinnis*’ ...... 5 39 8 29
“ Stilesboro ... 5 51 8 42
*• Ladd’s 6 09 9 33
Arrive Cartersville 625 9 40
ROME RAILROAD.
The following is the present passenger
schedule:
no. 1. NO, 3.
Leave Rome 610 a. m. 415 p. m.
Arrive Kingston .. 8 55 5 30
no. 2. NO. 4.
Leave Kingston. — !( 920a. m. 555 p. m.
Arrive Rome 10 25 a. in, 650
NO. 5.
Leave Rome. SOO a. m.
Arrive Kingston 9 00
NO. 6.
Leave Kingston ~•••• ft ‘J 20 a. m.
Arrive Romo .... .... m 10
Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 will run daily except Sun
davs.
Nos. 5 and 6 will run Sundays only.
Mol will not stop at the junction. Makes
close connection at Kingston for Atlanta and
Chattanooga.
No. 2 makes connection at Rome with L. r.
Va. & Ga. R. R-, for points south.
EBICN HILLYKR. President.
J. A. SMITH. Gen’l. Pass. Agent.
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CLOTHIERS & TAILORS
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MARRIAG E c^S p ?if
(All that thodou’otfal curiousor thoughtful want to, •
yk*ow, Cloth and guilt binding 50 cts,paper 25c,Mar,;
triage Guide, 144 p 15c, sent sealed, money or stps.by ,
DR. WHITTIER M^nXtn'oWiO*. i
fTb* irreafc specialist, Nervous Debillty f lmpec!iaientSi t
{to Marriaco. Consultation and Pamphlet free, J i
S&mFOK CATALOG if £ &
Jnst Issued.
\ circular entitled, “Fruits and how to
Preserve them.” Write.or apply at once at
Curry’ drug store lor a cojp.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1884.
The Cartersville American.
Entered at the Post Office at (\utersvi/Je,
Go,, Mat/ Of//, 1882, as second class matter.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1384.
SAM BROWN.
He Talks About ’Possum Hunting--A Terrible
Coon Fight--A Mountain Reverie,
Etc., Etc., Etc,
If there is anything iu the world that
Ido love, it is a good ’possum and coon
dog, and if there is a good one iu Geor
gia, my dog Pup is one; he is, certain.
About two seasons ago his capacity for
coons and ’possums was tried, and well
tried, too. -
One evening about dark I was seated
on a little stump at the back of my barn
ruminating on theology, when Arthur
Davis, Tom Jones, Joe Forrester and
Levi Shaw rode up to my front gate and
called for me. I put on a regular
“sucker” smile and warmly greeted ray
friends. They all seemed to be in a very
happy mood, and Arthur Davis, acting
as spokesman, announced their desire
to have me accompany them on a coon
hunting expedition. To this I joyfully
and anxiously acceded, provided they
were willing to have me carry my dog
Pup. This they agreed to very readily.
I gave Pup his supper, caught out my
Beck, put some sweet potatoes in an
old guano sack, threw them across
Beck’s back, spit on my hands twice for
luck, straddled my mule, and annonneed
ready.
Davis and I took the lead, as we al
ways do in everything we undertake.
The small cavalcade moved along rapid
ly. We soon reached the mountains
where ’possums and coons oft’ do con
gregate, especially ’possums. My Pup
struck the first trail, and he struck it so
hard that the whole pack of dogs—nine
in number —were very soon in hot pur
suit after a perfect drove of ’possums.
If there is a man in the world that loves
to hear dogs run, that man is Arthur
Davis. It jostles him all up, from liis
boots to liis hat. Ecstatic joy seems to
swell up in him until he can stand it no
longer, and then he opens his head and
peal after peal of rock-lifting, hilarious,
soul-stirring, dog-encouraging, ’possum
scaring, thundering shouts roll out of
his mouth in a terrific volume. Very
soon the drove of “wild hogs with long
tails” were treed up a tremendous black
jack. Tom Jones, and Levi Sliaw were
cutting away on the tree for dear life
when Davis and I reached the scene of
action. In less than twenty minutes it
went down with a crash, and the ’pos
sums began to wiggle about iu the thick
limbs like a peck of worms in hot ashes.
Each man had him a sack, and into the
sacks the large, fat, impudent and juicy
’possums went without form or ceromo
ny. Having filled our sacks so full that
we could hardly tie them, we called off
the dogs aud let the rest of the ’possums
get away. Joe Forrester said that he
was confident over half the pesky var
mints escaped. Davis and I grunted
our assent and proposed to strike across
the ridges until we should come to the
very tall and steep hills immediately
back of the Quarles farm. He said we
had as many ’possums as the whole
neighoorhood could eat iu six weeks,
and he wanted to catch a coon before we
returned home.
In the course of two hours we were
about five miles distant from the black
jack what had so many ’possums iu it.
Forrester, Jones and Shaw were whoop
ing up the dogs what had struck a hot
coon trail. Davis and I were lying down
by a large fire roasting and eating pota
toes and spinning yarns—that is, we were
both trying to see which could tell the
most improbable tale without telling an
untruth. I think I beat him a little ; lie
said so, and I told him to consider him
self “shook.” After amusing ourselves
in this manner for about one hour we con
cluded to take a short nap,for the boys had
promised to blow the horn for us when
the dogs had treed the coon. Davis soon
glides of into a milk and eider slumber,
while I get wider and widen awake all
the time.
As I lay there with the starry dome of
heaven for a covering and the foot-stool
of the Maker of All for ray couch. I be
gin to feed my musing spirit on all what
I had seen and felt during my whole life,
l'es, my whole life, with all of its dust
and sunsliine, with ail of its rain and tur
moil of moral and physical vicissitudes,
with all of its pleasures and pains, with
ali of its ups and downs, rolled its varie
gated length through my mind ; and, as
it were, the great globe performed its
revolutions and shifted its thousand scenes
before my minds’ eye, without whirling
me onward in its course! I lay perfectly
still; I did, certain.
Suddenly I am aroused to a conscious
ness of my surroundings by a loud blast
from the hunter’s horn. Davis is awak
ened from his sweet repose. We spring
to our feet and strike across a ridge in
the direction of the barking dogs. My
companion is a large and rather fleshy
man, but his will is good and his blood is
warm for the fray. I am small, thin,
wiry and as active as an Ariel gazelle;
he is heavy, muscular and as strong as
an elephant. We sweep across almost
perpendicular ridges and bluffs. We ar
rive at the most coveted spot in a hunters
world: a treed coon. In a deep, pietur-
esque, mountain gorge stands a very tali
poplar, in the topm< ist branches of which
sits the largest coon ever seen in north
Georgia. His eyes shine like Brazilian
diamonds under the glare of an electric
light. All the huntert#are swimming in
a perfect sea of joy seme fun. My Pup
is serenely contented; sitting af:.r off, he
gazetli upon the coon with greedy eye.
while an Occasional growl is emitted from
his month as he lazily shaketli liis limber
tail. Strong arms make rapid strokes
with sharp axes. In a few short moments
a loud, sharp crash announces the down
fall of the very tall poplar. Npw, indeed,
the sport commences., The dogs rush
upon the coon. The coon falls upon Ins
back. With wide-open aud ravenous
mouths the dogs proceed to devour the
coon. This spunky little varmint is de
termined not to be devoured. In less
than a second dogs and coon are rolling
over and over in inextricabte confusion.
My Pup’s dander is completely up, and
his keen, shrill tpnes can be easily dis
tinguished from the profounder notes of
his companions. Blood is spattered upon
the loaves and rocks and trees and moun
tain sides, and fur and hair are scattered
in profusion. Not a scratch is made on
the coon, and he has lost not a sprig of
hair or fur, and stiil the fight goes bravely
on. I think of Marathon and Leuetra,
of Waterloo and Gettysburg, of Bunker
Hill and of the brave niggers what met
such a glorious death in Burnside’s his
toric mine, and still the fight goes bravely
on. My Pup watches his opportunity,
aud, in a twinkling, gathers the coon by
the tail. This disconcerts the coon and
he is quickly dispatched.
The fight is ended! Peace at last. As
we look around us we discover that morn
ing lias come—dim, gray, frosty winter’s
morn—and we dilligentlv commence our
homeward journey, carrying sixty-three
’possums and one coon.
My Pup did not get out of his bed in
ten days. I don’t think he was badly
hurt in the coon fight, but he lost so
much fur until he contracted a severe
case of chronic neuralgia, what caused
his confinement. Bully for Pup!
Yours iu fuu, Sam Brown.
TUE TATTLER TALKS.
Crops iu Bartow Connty— <£ I>nce v and “Jio-
Fenee’’ Elections—Female Lecturers, Etc.
The Tattler has, to some extent, re
cently investigated the crop prospect in
Bartow county. Prominent planters
from various portions of l ie. cr utv have
been consulted, ana tLe i-ea ..£ is very
gratifying. While it is said by many
farmers that the present year has been
the most unfavorable of any year which
has come under their observation for
cultivating crops, owing to the excessive
rains which have fallen and the unnatu
ral cool spells of weather which we have
had. Still for the most part crops of
corn and cotton are now iu good condi
tion, and the prospect for a fine yield is
very promising. Mr. Wyatt Adcock, of
the sixth district, says: “The crops in
our section are better than I have known
them for twenty-five years. Corn is es
pecially good, and cotton, though some
days later than usual, is growing well
and fruiting finely.” Mr. Adcock is not
a man who exaggerates things, but to
the reverse, is generally very cautious
in his statements. Mr. J. M. Veach. of
Adairsville, who is a very extensive and
successful farmer, says: “The outlook
is very good. Some crops in our valley
have been poorly worked, and do not
make such a favorable showing, but
where corn has been kept clean it is
about as good as the ground will make.
We can’t tell much about the cotton yet,
but I expect an average yield if the fall
is late. Altogether, our farmers and
business men are hoping for bettor
times.” Mr. D. P. Mahan, of Cassville
district, who is a careful and successful
farmer, says the crops in his district are
about as good as he has ever seen them.
He takes a hopeful view of the near fu
ture. Dr. F. B. Calhoun, of Euharlee,
does a large practice and travels all over
the seventeeth district. He says there
are many fields of corn, and some oot
ton, in his district that were almost hope
lessly lost in the grass during the ex
tended wet weather in June, but the
farmers have worked well and saved
most of their crops. Where the work
was done in time and the grass kept
under control, the corn stalks are bend
ing over with ears, and the cotton is
fruiting abundantly. Bueh reports as
these come, with a few exceptions, from
all parts of the county. We have occa
sionally found a farmer who was gloomy,
and said his crop was poor; but to aver
age up the reports I have received there
is nothing to be gloomy about. Just
now there is very little money in circu
lation—less, in fact, than I have ever
seen before, yet there is “a good time
coining,” and, thank goodness, it isn’t
far away. We have much, even now, to
be thankful for. The panic is over,
speculation is subsiding, and we are set
tling down on a legitimate and solid
basis.
I have lately attended two elections in
this county on the “fence” or “stock
law” question, and I have had opportu
nity to study this issue from the people's
stand point. It is an important question,
and one that is assuming tangibility and
shape before the people, Within the
next two years we "will have,to meet this
iw*ue in almost every county in North
Georgia, aud it is well enough to con
sider it seriously, and be ready to act
for the best interest of the country when
it comes. The fences of the county, ta
ken all together, are iu a miserable con
dition. You can sometimes ride for a
whole day and not see a single lawful
fence. Lawsuits are constantly brought
in the courts for wounding, manning or
killing hogs and cattle. Bail timber is
alarmingly scarce, and what there is of
it is too valuable to split into rails, where
the demand and price for oak lumber is
constantly increasing. Avery large
proportion of the fences are decaying,
and unless the stock law is passed our
farmers will be put to the necessity of
replacing them with either plank or wire
fences. To do this will cost thousands
and thousands cf dollars, besides an im
mense amount of work. I notice further
that a very large majority of the farmers
of Bartow county want the stock law
adopted. They are anxious about it. I
believe if the question was left to land
owners alone, the vote would be at least
three to one in favor of no fence. To be
convinced that this is true it is only nec
essary to go among them and talk. It
is equally true that the non-landholding
class are as solidly in favor of fence.
This is especially true of the colored
population. I took occasion while at
Euharlee the other day, to watch for
myself and sec how the negroes voted,
and I don’t believe there were over a
dozen of them that went for stock law’.
About all that these negroes, who are so
solid for fence, own, is a lean, hungry
cow, that can knock down any fence in
the community, and makes her living by
“foraging,” and three or four villainous
little sharp-nosed slroats that can go
through a knot-hole and climb a fence
like a dog. Ho we can see liow the is
sue is made up. On the one hand are
the men who <nvn the land aud pay the
taxes; on the other are the tenants, who
own no land and pay no taxes. The
best people of our county, and the in
terests of our county, demand the speedy
enforcement of the stock law’, and I shall
rejoice when it is adopted. Timber is
ten thousand times more valuable than
the worthless cattle that run at large in
in this country.
While in Atlanta the other week I
heard Mrs. Bailie F. Chapin, president
of the Women’s Southern Christian Tem
perance Union, deliver a temperance ad
dress at the opera house. She is a wo
man of refined maimers and graceful
bearing. She has rather extraordinary
powers of speech and a pleasing address.
She is full of zeal aud earnestness for
the temperance cause. Her speech was
well received aud met with numerouse
bursts of applause. She touched the
feelings and won the sympathies of her
audience. But through all her address
I could not forget that she was a W’o
man, aud was out of place as a public
lecturer. It is bad enough for these
straight-haired, hero-looking women of
the north to come down here and pa
rade themselves before the public gaze,
but all true southerners regret to see the
women of our own sunny land (Airs.
Chapin is a South Carolinian) usurp the
stage and the rostrum. This is not in
keeping with our ideas of feminine deli
cacy and womanly modesty. Our moth
ers did not do it, and our sisters and
sweethearts should not do it. Ido not
wonder that the women are all advocates
of temperance, nor do I wonder that
they are walling to work and talk for it,
but there is a more effective w r ay for
them to accc mplish the desired end than
by forming “Salvation Armies” or for
cing themselves on the stage as public
lecturers. By this means they lay them
selves open to insult and expose them
selves to the rude stare and vulgar jist
of the coarse multitude w'lio are ready
to desecrate and desolate everything
that comes under their touch. Home is
the woman’s kingdom. The social cir
cle is where her influence is most pow
erfully felt. By a soft word, a gentle
look or a winning smile —or it may boa
tremulous sigh or a pleading tear, she
can accomplish more than all the thun
dering eloquence of the pulpit, the ros
trum and the stage. May w’e be deliv
ered from the day when our southern
women will be turned into short-haired
teachers, or detachments of the so-call
ed “salvation army!” Tattler.
Arsenic Fills by the Fiat.
J. A. Smith, a Gainesville, Ga., mer
chant, says: “For years I was a victim
to the combined effects of erysipelas and
an aggravated type of Eczema, that baf
fled all medical skill. I consulted the
very best physicians in the United States
to no good purpose. I gave every pat
ent medicine that was reoommended a
faithful trial and received no benefit.
I took large quantities of potash and a
pint oup full of arsenio pills. The pat
ent medicine, pills, and potash mixtures
fed instead of curing the disease. They
destroyed my appetite and wrecked my
system—l lost flesh and energy—l lost
three years from my business and spent
$2,000 in a fruitless effort to regain my
health. At last, when I began to con
sider mv case hopeless, I oommenoed
taking S, S. 8., and in a short tune, I
was entirely oured. I waited a year af
ter a cure was affected, and continued to
take Swift’s Specific off and on as a sort
of safeguard, before I was williug to
make public this marvelous cure. Being
assured beyond the possibility of a doubt
that the cure was permanent, I wrote
this history of my oase for the benefit of
my fellow-men,
My skin is now as smooth as it was
when a boy. 1 weigh more than I ever
did in my life, and my general health
was never better. I passed through last
winter (which was an unusually cold
one) without losing a single day from
my business. For the last twelve months
I have had no return of the erysipelas
in any shape or form, or any touch of
eczema.
Treatise on blood and skin diseases
mailed free. •'
The Swift Specific Cos., drawer 3,
Atlanta, Ga., 159 W. 23d St., N. Y., and
1205 Chestnut Sty Phila,
CH IFF.
There are over 40.00(1 brewer!:* In Enrope.
C’e veil ml’s exact weight is 225*; pounds.
The grain crop of Texas is the finest for
years.
General Bullcr will be 0G years old iu No
vember.
A craze for pond lilies is raging in Phila
delphia.
The Fress Club of Denver lias a member
ship of 100.
Canada’s production of iron ore is constantly
increasing.
There are 800 vacant dwelling house* in
Minneapolis.
Tin* British museum has an avolite weigh
ing five tons.
The Caban filibuster* are buying a stock of
nitroglycerine,
Delaware’s peach crop i* this year double
what it was last.
A snow-bank still lingers ou a firm uear
Clock ville, N. Y.
Mrs. Southworlli is now at work on her
6ixty-*ixth novel.
Mr. St. John’s liquor policy appears to be
also a gii -go policy.
The lowa buttermilk shops are becoming
suspiciously popular.
A seamstress has counted the stitches iu a
shirt. There are 20,469.
At a sale of unclaimed lreighl iu Louisville,
a coffin sold at ten cent*.
Thirty six men and nine women committed
suicide for love in Italy iu 1883.
In Aberdeen D. TANARUS., artesian flowing wells
are being used to run a grist mill.
A British man-of-war has gone to Madagas
car to protect British property.
Barbed wire fences have been used in Mary
land for telephonic communication.
Louisiana ice manufacturers sell at the rate
of $1.25 per 100 pounds iu small lots.
Amos Perkins, at the age of ninety-four, is
treasurer of the town of Unity, N. 11.
A New postofllce in Logan county, Arkan
sas, has neeu named after Mr. Blaine.
The Buffalo Express says that but one good
portrait of Cleveland has yet appeared.
The London Times speaks of John W. Gar
rett as the president of the lowa railroad.
Mr, Dana has seen New England women
cat five different kinds of pie at one meal.
A colored girl at Saratoga wears SIO,OOO
worth of diamonds when she is dressed up.
A Chinam in was baptized into the Metho
dist church at White Plains, N. Y., recently.
Governor Cleveland’s mother, it is said,
strongly disapproved f his entering political
life.
There was a frost iu Norwich, Conn., on
June 15th, and auother one ou the night of
July 16th.
North Carolina is in line feather over the
prospect of raising $3,800,000 worth of chick
ens this year.
A sou of the British vice-qpnsul at Rodosto
has been captured by brigands, who demand
£7,000 ransom.
A T rench almanac predicts that Emperor
William aud General Moltke will die before
December 31,1884.
A Brooklyn woman was arrested for being
drunk on the roof of her house. She was
having a high old time.
Twenty-four steamships are kept busy by
one firm in bringing fruits from the Medilera
uean ports to New York.
Grover Cleveland’s collar is large enough to
go around Tildcn’s w’aist. Yet Tilden is
the bigger man of the two.
Marie Ilalpiti is not helping Cleveland’s
cause to any considerable extent. Women
should uot come into polities.
The Pameiites in Parliament will not at
tend ilie autumn session unless specially sum
moned to do so by Mr. Parnell.
A large baloou which broke loose from i:s
moorings in Pitsburg recently traveled 100
miles in two hours and thirty minutes.
(Jholera, yellow fever, famine, drought and
cold have had marked success this year
throughout the temperate zone of the globe.
A factory in Xudianapolis makes 40,000,000
butter-dishes and 10,000 step-ladders a year,
besides other things too numerous to mention.
No woman without a male escort ventures
out alter dark in Naples or Home, such has
been the increased license given to crime of
late.
Tomahawk punch is a London mixture ol
champagne, green tea and turacoa. As the
name would imply, it goes straight to the
head.
John Derringer, of Philadelphia, has become
insane because ids wife disappointed him by
presenting him with girls when his heart was
set on a boy.
The Buffalo Historical Society proposes to
erect a monument to lied Jacket, whose bones
are now in the vault of the Western Savings
Bank of that city.
A substitute for genuine human hair is now
made out of the inner lining of the bud of the
palmetto tree, it can be made of any length
and dyed any color.
The new style of good indian in front of the
cigar store is not a wooden man, but zinc.
Jiinc ludians run as high as S.IOO and SOOO
each, and down as low as fill.
A Boston boarding mistress broke her leg
by jumping from a second-story window in
her efforts to avoid a kettle in the hand* of t
boarder man who disliked the corned beef.
Blaine was born just across the river in
Penusil vania. Cleveland is an Ohio town,
and Hendricks was born near Cincinnati.
'lbis is as near as Ohio comes to it this year.
Aiizoua has been enjoying a circus. “The
show went cu,” says a letter writer, “regard
less of the fact that there wore two dead men
lying under the seats.” There hid been a lit
tle row.
J ipan has enacted a code of criminal pro
cedure. All classes are subjected to the same
punishment, from nabob down to the poorest
laborer. How long will it be before some
such arriiuftetpciU as that is introduced into
this cqujitry V,
An obituary that appeared in an Austin pa
per winds tip : “He was a good man ;he was
born in Arkansaw, and has uo doubt gone to
a better laud.” The deceased can’t help going
NUMBER 10.
tr. a I letter lu*u! thin Aikao&aw, ev<u Tf
ho Lad not led an upright life.
When a man eoraes ouVln a crowd and ssys
he will not run for office, lie reminds i>uu very
mnob of that other mau who pinned a tem
perance pledge on biicoat, so that some one
would ask him to diink, under the mistaken
impression that he would refuse.
“What are we here for, if not for the office*?”
said Webster Flanagan, of the Republican
National Convention of ISBO. Flanagan, at
least, w.;s honest, and now he has his reward
in the appointniout ol Cos lector of iuternai
revenue for the fourth district cl Texas.
A Western Texas paper calls the highway
men operating in that section “brazen bau
baiudiltl.” If there are lialf a dozen ol the rob
bers, they are not unlike the six shooters de
sethed by Jolin I’hoeulx, “of the old fashioned
kind with no stopper for the cook to rest on.”
Anew York druggist received an order from
an Austin fiini the other day for a ton of snnff.
It setnis that the wife of a prominent citizen
sneezed so hard that she dislocated her jaw,
aud now there is a run of married men ou
that drug store where she got the suutf.
In less than fifleeu minutes after the news
ot the nomination of (.Cleveland was received
a Boston lithographic tikrm had out handsome
lithographs of the democratic; candidate.
Thai’s nothing. There were thousands of them
out in Chicago Itefore the nomination was
made at all.
A young man in Plaquemiue Parish, La., is
esteemed a wiz ird because, after warming a
sheet of ordinary paper iu front of a good tire
he goes iuto a dark place, and, applying bis
knuckles to the paper, produces a very deci
ded spark, accompanied by a slight crackling
sound. Auybody cau do the same thing.
Dr. LoMoyne, founder ol the Washington,
Pa., crematory, was unalterably opposed to
the use of fruits out of season. He held that
the fact that they would not keep in the open
air was proof that they were not intended for
food after their natural time had passed, ami
so eanued and preserved fruits and beriies
were banished from his house.
A lawyer at Portland, Ore., lias sued the
mayor of that place for the recovery of a bill
thus itemized: For writing a letter which
Chapmau published over his own signature in
defense of charge#of bribery, $ 100 ; foi legal
ndviec du'ing an investigation by the council,
s3oo ; for writing the mayor’s annual mes
sage, SIOO, and for assisting the mayor to se
cure a $1,300 ljtin, sot>.
Japanese journalism in the last ten years
hisiaereaset from tlfty-three publications of
all kinds to about two thousand. The daily
Japanese newspapers are gotien up iu many
respects like American and European jour
nals, the only difference being th *t iu leading
the former you begin at the bottom of tire
column and read upward, and that the gene
ral look of the paper resembles a carupa'r
illustration.
For nine seasons a Utile sparrow with a de
formed foot returned wiih each summer to the
window of a Boston woman and tapped at
the pane. She always received him kindly,
and finally fell into the habit of making him
a special cake. .This summer on his first cull
he alighted on her hand, showing plainly that
he was ill. She carried him out into tlie
fresh air, but he would not fly, aud died while
she still held him.
CAMPAIGN NOTES.
Tammany cooks spoil the political broth.
It’s a wise candidate that knows Its own
party.
Widow Butler’s other name is Aunty Mo
nopoly.
Butler will probably run, but his legs arc
not built for speed.
It is thought that Blaine will not be able to
get up enough heat to melt the bolt.
Tho'G. W. Curtis party is to have a branch
office in Philadelphia, if a small enough place
cat be found.
The ring of true patriotism must not be
confounded with the ring of the Republican
party.
The race seems to be about neck and neck
between the two parties, but Cleveland has
the biggest neck.
St. John and Daniel will not be open to the
stigmatism of two good men gone wrong.
They will not go at all.
There is a town in Texas named Damsight.
Jim Blaine won’t go to the White House by
that town.
George William Curtis parts his hair in the
middle, and he is quite likely to part the Re
publican party ol New York in the same
place.
In future campaigns, Ben Butler should ex
hibit a diagram of his intentions. He ha3
plenty tf spare space on the top ol his
head for a lovely map.
Mr. Cleveland being a bachelor, no woman
by bis defeat, will be disappointed in her am
bition to be lady of the While House. And
that ought to couut for something.
Misfortunes are piling thick and fast ou the
shoulders of Brother Blaine. The latest is
the announcement that Cassius M. Clay, ol
Kentucky, intends to support him.
Aha ! his position is disclosed at last. Ros
eoc Conkling attended a temperance meeting
at Ocean Grove, and “warmly congratulated”
the speaker—when he had quit.
A Kingston poet entitles an epic, “Cleve
land our Cineinatus.” This looks a good deal
like an attempt to pass the Democratic candi
date off for an Ohio man. •
The dirty scandals gotten up about Gorver
nor Cleveland are probably intended to serve in
place of a bloody shirt. That is, it is to be a
diriy instead of a bloody shirt campaign.
Republicans claim New York by 75,000 ma
jority, and democrats claim it by equally large
figures. Probably figures won’t He. but it is
evident that they can be terribly misplaced.
Ohio has a cuiiosily in a man who can t,
flattened out like apancake and rolled up like
a carpet. After the first week in No vein tier it.
will be found that just such a man lives down
in Maind!
Thbiyt'o best orgahists in the country are lr.
NewA'ork. One- edits-thv organ in Trinity
Church and gets s#soo a year. ■" We do uci
know what salary is paid George William Cur
tis, but it is a big oue. And George is with it,
brethren, George i with It. .