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CARTERSVILLE AMERICAN. VOLUME 111. The CarlsfSTille American. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARTOW CO. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING BY— American Publishing Cos. CAKTEItSVILLE, OA t OPPIOEI I stairs North-East Corner of West Main and Erwin streets \!l i omuuinioations or letters on business ~1,0,11,1 lit- HddresheU to AMKItICAN PUBLISHING < o. Caiteravtlle, Ga. TERBE-iOE SUBtSL’UIFTION: ; m.c Year, Cash in Advance 5160 s\ Months, •* “ 'I lime “ 11 ‘ oO li not paid in 4 months, ?2.00 per year. i' t|ior> sent outside oi the County, 15 cent' uddii ion*l lor postage. RATES <K 1 ADVERTISING: I-or each Square ot 1 inch or lc-s for the first insertion, $1.00; each subsequent insertion, 50 i eats, Hpe. ml contracts made tor larger |<ace or longer time. All contract advertisements must be paid quarterly. I. Notices, 30 cents per line tor the first in-ertion, and 10 cents lor each subsequent in sertion. Special Notices ten cent* per line. Tributes ot Respect and Obituaries over six lines, 10 cents per line. All personal curds in Locul Columns 2o cents per line. 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. EISEMAN BROS MANUFACTURING CLOTHIERS & TAILORS 55 WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA, GEORGIA^ SANITARIUM. Riverside, Cal. The dry climate crrv'a, Nose. Throat, Langs, full idea, SC p., route, cost, free. 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. .