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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME 111. Things That Never I)ic. The pure, the bright, the beautiful, That stirred our hearts iu youth, The impulse of a wordless prayer, The dream of love and truth, The longing after something lost, The spirit’s yearning cry, The striving after better hopes— These things shall never die. The timid hand stretched forth to aid A brother in his need, The kindly word in griefs dark hour That proves a friend indeed ; The plea for mercy, softly breathed, When justice threatens nigh ; The sorrowings of a contrite heart— These things shall never die. Let nothing pass, for every hand Must find some work to do ; Lose not a chance to waken loye ; He firm and jusfr and true; So shall a light that cannot fade Hearn on thee from on high, And angel voices say to thee, “These things can never die.” —The Guardian. UITEMS OF L\ THRUST. Chang, the Chinese giant, is going to get married and open a tea store in De troit. The Nebraska Senate hires seventy-six employes to wait upon its thirty-three members. The business of canning fruits and veg etables is being urged upon tho South ern people. Boston, in the opinion of the Herald, of that city, will have 1,000,000 inhabitants by the census of 1900. Ostrich farming has proven a success in Southern California. The first shipment of feathers brought $4,000. February will only have one hour of full moon during her whole twenty-eight days of life. Iler moon will full on the 28th at 11 o’clock at night. | Anew York barber claims to have ac complished tho unprecedented feat of shaving seventy-five men iu one hour and twenty-two minutes. A Kentucky editor reports that during the past five years he has recorded 1,340 murders and homicides in that State, and there have been less than 20 executions. Java planters are successful in finding a market in Australia for their teas, and the India planter, who has heretofore enjoyed an exclusive island trade, is becoming alarmed. At the last meeting of the New York Homeopathic Society one of the speakers stated that he had cured a lady of nervous diseases by having her practice on roller skates a few hours each day for three months. Small candles, remarkable for'the purity and brillaucv of tho light they give, are now inported into Europe from Chiua, where they arc made from wax supplied by minute insects bred for that purpose by the poorer class of Chinese. Vermont has a still unrepealed law on her statute books empowering her justices of the peace to order the collection of wheat at five shillings, rye at four shillings, and Indian corn at four shillings per bushel to pay the salaries of certain specified preachers. For years the lava plains of Idaho have been a terror to emigrants because of the supposed lack of water, the fluid having often to be hauled a distance of twenty miles, but by chance the other day a lake which never goes dry was discovered, and now the route is to be altered so as to pass the lake, and the terror and danger of the route arc reduced to a minimum. SMILE ItS. Saul Croucliman, when he was a strug gling lawyer; “Circumstances alter eases, *but 1 wish I could get hold of some cases that would alter my circumstances,” “Remember the porter,” said the hotel highwayman to the departing guest. “I shall,” safrt the other, “it was worse than the ale.”—Boston Commercial Bulletin. “Are you sure you are converted ?” asked Mr. Spurgeon of a devout housemaid. “ ’Deed, sir, I think I am, for I sweeps un der the beds and in dark corners.” —Pro- vidence News. Nothing makes a fat man learning roller skating so mad as to have the band come in with a terrific clash on the cymbals every time he sits down real hard. —San Francisco Post. “It goes against my constitution,” said Mr. Closepenny to his wife, “for you to spend so much money.” “Aw, your consti tution be hanged,” replied Mrs. C., “it’s my buy-laws I don’t want you to interfere with.” Two Americans in London: “I wonder why everyone is so happy?” asks one. “Don’t you know ?” the other one replies. ‘‘An Arab has just been found dead in the Soudan and it is supposed that the British killed him.”—Arkansaw Traveler. •‘Does your husband sleep sound?” asked Mrs. Cobbs in the course of a call upon Mrs. Dobbs “Sound!” responded Mrs. Dobbs. “Well, I should say so ! I don’t believe you or anybody else ever heard such sound. It’s enough to stop an alarm clock.” —Boston Journal. There are men who would not hesitate to walk a mile in the mud for the purpose of sassinating a man, and yet when they come to be tried for the murder they must ibe carried back and forth from court to prison in oabs, owing to the delicacy of their constitution. —New Orleans Pica gune. “Is the editer in ?” “Yes, sir?” “Here is a little poem I dashed off this morning.” “Dashed it off, did you ? Well, take it back and write it carefully. Young man, you’d have plenty of time to write it before we shall need it.”—Chicago News. S’MjS/ISS?*' THE CABINET. • . AUGUSTUS H. GARLAND, United States Senator from Arkan sas, Who Wild Probably be Attorney-General at Washington. The name of Augustus 11. Garland, United States Senator from Arkansas, ap pears in all, or nearly all, the many “slates” which represent the more or less well-founded conjectures of editors, as to whom President-elect Cleveland will call to his counsels. He is a learned, able and powerful man, and the compliment paid him in this virtual unanimity of journalis tic judgment regarding him, has been earned by his diligence and the remark able evidences of statesmanship which he has exibited in a career comparatively but short. He was born in Tipton county, Tennes see, June 11, 1832. A year afterwards his parents removed into the state of Arkan sas, of which Mr. Garland has been a resi dent ever since, with the exception of the time he spent in acquiring education. At a suitable age he was removed from the freedom of his father’s farm to the re straints of school life. He acquired his academical training at Bardstown, Ken tucky, where he was an inmate of Saint Mary’s and afterward Saint Joseph’s, two Catholic colleges. There too he decided upon becoming a lawyer, and began to read sheepskin bound books and to follow the proceedings of courts of Justice with the view to future appearances in a profes sional capacity. He was admitted to practice at Wash ington, Arkansas, in the year 1853, and immediately opened an office. In 1850 he removed to Little Hock, the capital of the State, where he built up an excellent bus iness as a lawyer. In 1860 he was a Bell and Everett Elec tor, and opposed threatened secession as long as there existed the apparent possi bility of preventing it. When, however, it became inevitable he went with his State. He Avas a member of the Convention in Arkansas, which passed the ordinance of secession, and of the Provisional Congress of the Confederacy, which met at Mont gomery, Alabama. Subsequently as a mem ber of both houses of the Confederate Con gress, he did liis utmost to assist the cause which collapsed with the surrender of General Lee. In 1865 he petitioned the Su preme Court of the United States for re-ad mission to practice within it. The iron-clad oath stood in his way, and he accompanied his application with an argument intend ed to show the unconstitutionality of that requirement. In December, 1857, the Su preme Court rendered a decision agreeing in three of the four points urged by Mr. Garland. Meantime the statesman was denied the seat in the United States Sen ate to which the Legislature of Arkansas had elected him. He was elected Governor of his State iu the year 1874, without opposition, and, after giving an administration character ized by wonderful ability, was again elected, to the Senate. On March 4, 1877, lie was sworn in as Senator Garland, and the second time six years after. Garland ranks with our greatest law yers and statesmen. He is a man of a playful and affectionate disposition. It is his happiness to be honored and rever enced for Ins abilities, and loved for his childlike naturalness and other aimable qualities. He is a tremendous worker, and recreates with the joyful abandon of the sc lie 01-boy. lie Tliought it Would L>o. Chicago Herald. “I want a divorce from my wife,’ said a Washington street broker to his attorney, “but I don’t know how to begin it.” “Any ground for scandal ?” asked the attorney. “No; oh, no.” “Did she ever hit you ?” “No;her temper is quite even.” “Did she ever blow out the gas ?” “No —she lets it burn. Maybe that would be grounds eh ?” “No,” said the attorney. “In that case she would call to her aid the gas company, and we would have to struggle with a mo nopoly. That wouldn’t do.” “No,” said the applicant, sadly. “Did she ever scald any of the clnl dren?” asked the attorney, brightening got any to scald. I suppose it wouldn’t do to say she scalded the chil dren of the next door neighbor ? “No.” , “Then I don’t know what to do or say.” “Then both men looked thoughtfully out of the window for nearly seven minutes. “She drank out of the linger bo w l at the hotel when we was on our bridal tour, said the husband, hesitatingly. ‘ If you get the date and witnesses, said the lawyer, quickly. “I think that will be sufficient—under our law. ’Then they went out together and called I for two schooners of beer. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1885. FAMOUS BUILDING. SKETCH OF THE OLD WASHINGTON CITY HALL. Founded Upon the Proceeds of a Lottery —Celebrated Trials Within Its Walls. [Washington Sunday Gazette.] The government of the city of Wasli ington early felt the need of a suitable building wherein to house the oflieers of that government. But the iufaut city was poor, especially so since the difficul ties into which it had been pluuged by the speculative tendencies of the Laws’, the Greenleaf’s and others of its first in habitants who had come thither chiefly to speculate. Nor would Congress help the people out. Almost from the begin ning, if not from the very commencement of the city, did Congress conceive that spirit of niggardliness toward Washing ton which lias been kept up ever since, modified ouly partially during the past few* years. Hence, tlie citizens were compelled to do the best they could. THE LOTTERY SCHEME. A bad precedent had been set in 1812 by the city councils, passing an act to provide for the payment of a loan of ten thousand dollars, raised to endow two school houses on the Lancastrian plan. In 1815 the project of building a city hall was againJraistd, and earnestly discussed. To gratify the universal wish for such a building the conncils in that year pass ed au act borrowing ten thousand dollars with which to commence the hall, provi ding for the payment of this sum by au thorizing another lottery. It may be re marked here that the councils at differ ent times passed similar acts for this and like purposes until the aggregate had reached SIOO,OOO. These loans, togeth er with the debt iuerreud for the canal, greatly retarded the improvement of the oily, many persons being afraid to make investments. To settle this, a committee were appointed managers of the lottery to draw the prizes. Few places in the city coulJ have boeu selected presenting more advantages for the site of a city hall than the one final ly determined on. It stands on the brow of a gentle elevation commanding a wide prospect. From the Avenue, east, west and south, the ascent is gradual but suffi ciently steep to afford a good view, and to bring out tlie beauties of the building in their best light. The architecture is Greek, sufficiently modified to produce a pleasing impression. The streets iu front, among the widest in the city, are curved immediately before the hall in the shape of a crescent. Tho reservation iu which it stands is the largest in Washing ton north of Pensylvania avenue, anj was possessed of great capacities for sylvan ornamentation and improvement until its possibilities wero destroyed by the worse than vandal taste which plauted huge and hideously ugly rectangle of gloomy brick on its north front, styled the Pension Office. ITS PLAN. The plan of the City Hall was a beau tiful one, but only half of it was ever fin ished. The idea was to give it a north frout corresponding with the south, with a wide court in the centre. It was ouilt of brick and stone, and is probably, so far as materials and work are concerned, as fire proof a building as any in the city. Lack of funds prevented completion ac cording to the original plan, but a few joars ago it was “finished” by the addi tion of a solid rectangular building run ning along the entire northern front from east and west. The addition spoils the beauty of the building, but gave the nec essary room required for the use of the courts. ITS rRESENT USE. Originally intended as the city or town hall, it was partly appropriated to the uses of the District judicairy before it was finished. By act of Congress, March 3,1823, the President was authorized to purchase and cause to be furnished in the City Ilall, which was then buil ding, permanent and suitable apartments for the accommodation of the Circuit Court of the United States. The conse quence was that the city government and the United States courts crowded each other to their mutual discomfort. The large room to the east was the court-room proper, the large one to the west was the council chamber, while the board of al dermen had a room upstairs, in the west wing, over the city the mayor, re gister, collector, etc. In the east wing, from the basement to the garret, the of fices of the clerk of the court and the file rooms were located. Frequently, when the Circuit Court was sitting in the court-room proper, the Criminal Court, if its term came on, had to seek the ac commodation of the council chamber, and the desks of the councilmeu became, for the nouoe, the lawyers’ seats. CELEBRATED CASES. There have been many famous and celebrated cases tried at the bar within this City Hall. Tae old court-room in the oast wiug has witnessed many strange and stirring scenes. Among the trials rendered famous, either from the crime or the c.-iminal were those of John B. Hendersoi, for forging a Treasury draft; Doctor Gardiner, Richard H. White, for burning the Treasury; Julian May, for killing a man iu a duel; Daniel E. Sick les, for killing Phil. Barton Key; Ludam A. Bargy, for false pretenses; the Rioters of Bloody Monday, and Charles J. Gui teau, for shooting President Garfield. Of these the most widely famed were the Sickles and the Guiteau trials. The for mer brought together a more brilliant array of talent than probably any other trial ever occurring iu this section of the country. For the prosecution was Rob ert Ould, the newly-appointed District attorney, who astonished even his most intimate friends by his knowledge of law, his grasp of a question, his readiness at reply, his inexhaustible resources, bis eloquence and tlie strength of his grip. Assisting him was the famous James M. Carlisle, tho “Lion of the Washington Bar,” who fought with the sword of Sa laddin rather than with the battle axe of Richard, but whose trick of fence and whose strength of mental wrist, so to speak, was unrivaled even in that, “good lie compauie.” Arrayed against these two formidable champious was a brilliant body of defending counsel. Edwin M. Stanton, Philip Phillips, David Graham, James T. Brady, Daniel Ratcliffe and others formed tlie list. Brady was fa mous the world over for his marvelous brilliancy and readiness. Graham was tho famous criminal lawyer of New York. Phillips was at the very head of the Southern bar. Ratcliffe was tlie leading criminal lawyer of Washington, always successful, as full of tricks aud devices as an egg is of meat, with the snap of a ter rier and tlie grip of a bull dog. But Stanton was the Coryphaeus of this baud. Phillips was asserted to be the manager of the defense, but Stautou was the lead ing spirit. He towered meutally above his gigantic associates as Saul above the prophets —full head and shoulders over them all. The whole trial was the most wonderful display of intellectual gladia torship ever witnessed iu this District, and Stanton was the central figure. How it resulted the world knows. Aud that result was due not less to the supreme ability of Edwin M. Stanton than to the general feeling in the District that a man was justified in defending his marital honor even to the mouth of tho pistol. It is au interesting building this City Hall, around which cluster a thousand memories and associations, although the actors of the mightiest dramas played therein are nearly, if not quito all, long since departed. MRS. ARTUR’S UXPFKIMFNT. How She Tried to Rival Lulu Hurst’s Electric Feats. No genuine home-made woman will ever allow any woman to get ahead of her if she can help it. They are strange creatures iu this respect, and when Mrs. Arter read the other day how Lulu Hurst could jerk the mainspring out of an um brella by a simple touch jf the hand, and- sling grown men about as if they were babies, she then aud there made up her mind that she had just as much electricity about her as Lulu Hurst or Lulu anybody else. Young Tom, who had seen Peck’s Bad Boy played here, encouraged the old lady in thinking she could twist an umbrella wild-western crooked, aud the two lit on me first thing as tlie proper subject to practice on. When I went home that night the old lady was as bright and chipper as anew girl at a base ball. Her unusual spi y nesß almost took my breath away, but when I saw Tom dart behind the door to straighten his crooked face I knew there was some devilment up of some sort. I didn’t say anything, but kept my eyes open. After supper I began to see symptoms of the earthquake. Tom was tip-toeing around the house trying to hide a grin, and every now and then looking at me as if I was about to sit down on a pin or something of that sort. After Mrs. Arter had skinned the clothes off the baby, and swaddled it in its gown aud laid it down to sleep, she told me that she liad discovered that she was a second Lulu Hurst. I thought perhaps she had made the discovery sure enough, aud in less time than half a second the Arter family was rich enough to go to the exposition aud live like lords the balance of our days. In that half a second I bought the finest house in town, horses, carriage, box of fine cigars and w;is the blooming presi dent of a base ball club. I could almost feel my blood getting richer and richer- Then I thought this thing ought to be investigated, so I said: “Show me how, honey !” When I called her honey she knew I was half converted. I was ripe enough to call her daisy if she had just hinted it. Sal got up to see tho exhibition. We went out in the lialhvay where the noise wouldn’t wake up the baby, aud Tom banded me au open umbrella to hold. “Pm going to get out of the way,” said Tom, and he ran iu the next room. I gripped tho handle and held the um brella up as if a heavy rain was blowing right agaiust me, and then Mm. Arter steppod up. She put her hand to her face to brush a lung from before her eyes, just as Miss Hnrst does, and then she placed one finger on the handle. The very second she did this the umbrel la was jerked out of my hand with such force as to stagger me, but I caught it again and held on. It was all I could do to keep it from being seat to the ccling, and then Nil’s. Arter giggled a little half giggle just like Lulu does. I was satis fied now that my wife was chock-full up to the chin with electricity, and our for tune was made. I only wished she was better looking, for I didn’t think any large aud enthusiastic audience would consider my wife as g*.xkl looking as Mrs. Langtry, but one tiling was certain—she was electric. She could make an um brella think it had been struck by light ning. Tom thought the danger was over, and he came out of the next room aud put away tho umbrella. The chair trick was next on the programme. Now you have no idea how much thinking was go ing on in my brain while I was monkey ing around with that umbrella. Hanged if I wasn’t happy —I was wsrse than hap py; I was wild. I was wild enough to paint the sky red. If anybody had come* m aud offered mo $40,000 dollars for my wife I would have refused it with a scorn ful sneer. Tom put the chair in position. Fact is, Tom acted as tho old lady’s manager, so to speak. With a little practice he’d be a first-class doorkeeper for a side show. Well, he put the chair iu posi tion, and I sat down iu tho attitude of a young man at prayer-meeting with his girl. I told Mrs. Arter that if there was any danger of the chair tilting over to touch it lightly. She promised she would. Women will promise anythiug, though. When I was well seated, and had worked up a becoming smile, Tom ran in the next room to avoid consequen ces. Awful cautious boy is Tom. He would go four blocks out of the way of a dog that was chained up. Mrs. Arter was as proud as a peacock, and walked like Mary Andersen walks when she plays Juliet. I never saw a woman get so proud all of a sudden. You’d thought she was Vanderbilt’s wife to have seen her step up to where I was sitting in that chair. When she got near enough she laid her hand on the top rim of the chair, and before I knew whether I was iu Macon or w ith Chinese Gordon I w T as on the floor. My head struck against the hall table aud knocked over the lamp. The lamp exploded and the carpet caught fire, and the blaze ran all over the hall. I rushed out on the back porch to get water aud Mrs. Arter screamed loud enough to bo beared in Fort Valley, and tho baby woke up and squalled like somebody bad sat down on it, and Tom hollered for another length of hose, aud the meglibors rushed in to look at the fire and ask what was the matter, and when I got back to the scene there w 7 ere enough people in the house to run a protracted revival. The house w T as in danger and I dashed a bucket of w T ater on the flames and put out the fire, leaving the crow T d in the dark. Knowing that Mrs. Arter was subject to hysterics when under groat excitement, I groped my way in the dark to where she was, put my arm around her waist aud kissed her as I used to forty years ago, when she had good teeth. While I was whis pering reassuring words in her ear aud calling her daisy and other sweet names, Tom came in the hall with anoth er lamp, and then there was thunder to pay sure enough. I was kissing one of the neighbors! Mrs. Arter made a pass at me, aud if she ever had electricity in her she had it then. When I woke up she was standing over me with the coal-scut tle. I feebly protested against further brutality, but she gave me one lick with the scuttle just by way of a souvenir of the occasion. I pulled the last piece of coat-plaster oft' yesterday. The black lump on my brow still remains, aud the vacancy among my upper front teeth has not been filled yet, but I have made au important discovery. I may say two important dis coveries. First is, that Mrs. Arter pos sesses about as much electricity as a lamp post; aud secondly, that young Tom play ed a trick on both of us. He had tied a fine wire to the top of the umbrella aud run the wire through the wall over a pul ley. When the old lady r touched the handle he jerked the wire, and the um brella struck the ceiling. As to the chair trick, he simply detached the wire from the umbrella and hooked it on to the back of the chair. We will not go to the exposition. We will stay at home and wonder what on earth will become of that boy. Tom Arter. THE HOUSEKEEPER. A handsome Cover for the sideboard is made of fine white crash, with ends of Maerame. Table-scarfs are sometimes made in this way also. To remove white spots from varnished furniture, try this : Rub with sandpaper gently, then with a soft piece of cotton cloth rub on some shellac varnish thinned with turpentine. Sugar cookies can be made to bake quickly and yet have a delicate brown color, just before putting into the oven, you wet them lightly with milk and sugar —dissolve a little sugar in the milk. An appetizing sauce to serve with roast beef is made of one tablespoonful of grated horseradish (the bottled, of course, at this season), one teaspoonful of made mustard, one teaspoonful of powdered sugar, four tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Mix them thoroughly together, Kerosene oil will soften boots or shoes which have been hardened by water, and render them as pliable as new. A GAMBLERS’ PARADISE. VICE PAUPERIZING A GREAT CITY. How the Spirit of Guming Has Been Fostered in New Orleans —A Typical Iveno and Faro Don Described. The special correspondent of the Phil adelphia Times writes as follows of this great ev 1: The passion for gambling has l.eon so firmly implanted in the people of this city by 7 the Lousiana Lottery that now all forms of gaming exist publicly and in defiance of law. It was found that the immoral element was stronger than the moral element or that the gamblers and their friends were stronger than the law, so the law gave way aud gambling reigns supreme day and night Under a State law all banking games are made a felony, yet the city- authorities have overriden the State law and permit gaming houses to exist on payment of a mouthy license of from SIOO to S2OO, according to their business capacity. This money goes to tho hospital fund for the support of the paupers made by these houses through losses and drunkenness. The city offi cials say that they might as well derive a revenue from the gamblers as to let the detectives get it, which argues a rather sad condition of morals all around. The licensing of gambling iu this city about fifteen years ago tended to educate tho taste and paved tho way for the Louisiana Lottery, aud though the Leg islature long ago repealed the gambling act the mania has grown and been nur tured to such an extent by the lottery that it now bursts forth iu all its passion ate fury and has converted the city into a veritable “gamblers’ paradise.” WHERE THE GAMBLERS ARE. Royal and Bourbon streets, just north of Canal, and St. Charles, near the prin cipal hotels, are alive with gambling dens, running day and niglit. Tho en trances to these dens are brilliant with electric lights, and another electric light flashes at the head of the broad staircase, as if inviting the passing stranger to the saturnalia within. One gambling liouse on Royal street found business so pros perous that the entire floor of tlie adjoin ing house was rented and converted into a similar institution. The partition was cut away and entrance is gamed from the one to the other through small fold ing doors. In each of these rooms there are about twenty-five lceno tables, placed lengthwise, and each table can accommo date from eight to twelve patrons. At about seven o’clock in tlie overling the victims begin assembling, and from 8 until 1 or 2 iu tlie morning the large es tablishment is crowded to its utmost. IN A KENO DEN. A stranger on entering is dazed by the flash of electric lights that swing over the tables and give the place a superuat urally weird appearance. From the hub bub and smoke he would at first think he was in a lager beer garden, while the rows of tables and men with their liats on would remind him of a ten-cent res taurant. The hundreds of players, who are mainly clerks and laboring men, are intently looking at their ten-cent cards and as each number is called it is regis tered on an automatic blackboard at the farther end of the room, and when some one calls “Keuo !” pandemonium breaks loose for a few- moments, by those who “just missed it.” On each side of these keuo lines of ta bles are groups of other tables devoted to faro, grand hazard, chuck-a-luck, rou lette, rouge-et-noir, twenty-one and ev ery game known to the profession. The extreme outer tier of tables are reserved for the great American game of draw po ker. These tables are fenced in by brass fenders and on tlie wall the visitor reads the strange legend: “Draw poker—Only players admitted within this railing.” Four or five meu are seated at ono of these tables, one of whom perhaps is the pigeou the others are going to pluck # Dozens of strangers are leaning on the railing, looking on at the game, betting iu their minds, or, perhaps “giving items” to a confederate. TILE BANKERS’ BIG PERCENTAGE. The “chips” are usually ten or twenty five cents and one “chip” is taken out for the house whenever a hand is called, no matter how much or how little is tlie “pot;” so it will be seen that the percen tage of the house is great aud it is only a question of a short time when all play ers will quit losers, unless it be a special game to rob some verdant visitor. A stranger in this city, he can scarcely credit his senses when he first walks into one of these gambling bells and reads in large letters upon the wall: “This game runs all night;” “The Jack takes colors aud sides;” “No bets paid uuless the cards are registered.” Finally he real izes that he is in a gambling house and that there is no danger of a raid, as a uniformed policemau stands by bis side as a guarantee cf good faith aud immu nity and occasionally slips down a quar ter to test the virtues of his favorite rou lette. The faro, poker and other tables perhaps outnumbered the keuo tables, so this mammoth double parlor-hell con tains about a hundred and fifty tables. As they are generally iu full 1 last day aud night, the amount tf gambling in this one establishment is considerable. • NUMBER 4*2 Thin is held by irany to be the meet ex tensive gambling house in the Uuited States. It hiift its relays of day and night dealers, but the betters rest only when they get broke. There are about twenty other gaming houses iu this portion of the city, but none so extensive. The amount of mon ey daily lost and won iu these houses would be hard to estimate; but the ef fects of this general demoralization are becoming more apparent to the hotter element, who are awakening to the ne cessity of a reform. A committee of one hundred is talked of to devise means of ridding the city of these institutions that sap its life-blood and make paupers and criminals of its people. THE TEN-INCiTbaRBETTE GUN, A Sliot at Stephens’ Buttery—lead ed for Another Trial—An l iiox peeted Result—Turning 1 a Somersault. > [ fhc United Service.] For four hours we had been pounding away at Stephen’s battery and making no impression on it. This was very an noying to the men, and doubtless equal ly Ro to the officers. The non-commis sioned officers believed they could de molish the battery with the tou-iuch gun. The teu-iiich gun referred to w;is mount ed on barbette on the third tier, and the major had ordered that no guns on that tier should be manned. Orders were sa cred in the opinion of Tom Kernan, but the demolition of Stephens’ battery was a duty. In this case duty anti orders seemed to conflict. Tom was troubled. Tom was an old sergeant, a veteran of the Mexican war. Iu his dilemma he consulted with the ordnance sergeant, another Mexican war veteran, and they agreed that if it could be done on the sly, under the'circumstances, the major’s orders might be disregarded. They would Hot, however, take anybody with them. The blame, if any attached to the act, should rest entirely on their shoulders. Consequently they watched their chance, and when the major was out of their way, slipped up-stairs to tlio barbette battery. The gun was already loaded and aimed at the very battery they desired to strike. For weeks after the bombardment began all the guns were kept loaded. They had nothing to do, therefore, but slip in a friction primer in the vent and pull the lanyard; this was the work of a moment. The gnu was fired, and the two sergeants and those below who were in the secret, watched the flight of the shot with al most painful interest. It missed—missed seemingly, by a hair’s breadth—just grazing the top of the battery. Great was the disappointment. So much risk ed; so much won. But the two ser geants would not give it up so. They might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. They were determined to have another shot. The gun w.is reloaded, which was quite a feat for two men, as the shot weighed 128 pounds, but when they tried to run the gu t “iu battery” they failed. It required six men to throw the carriage “in gear,” 'and the two ser geants could not accomplish it. Al though the discharge of the ten-inch gun had escaped the observation of our officers, it had been noticed by the reb els. They kuew all about the position and power of that particular gun, and had no doubt wondered at its silence. Now that it had opened, it was of the ut most importance that it be silenced at once; so every rebel gun that could be brought to bear was turuod on it, and a shower of shot and shell came hissing and hurtling about the ears of the two sergeants, who were still struggling iu vain at the handspikes, Matters had now reached a crisis. “By Gemini,” said Sergeant Tom, “let us fire her as she is.” It was the only thing they could do. So the elevating screw was given half a turn, the primer was in serted, and the ordnance sergeaut ran down to sec if the coasts were clear. Meantime Tom, who was left holding the lanyard, found himself in a tight place. Shot and shell were coming thicker than ever. The rebel gunners were just get ting the range. Tom was lying down, because, as he said, there was no room for him to stand up. What could be keeping his friend so long? Traverse circles were being torn up by the ene my’s shot, and great blocks of granite were slashing about the terreplein. He could stand it no longer; the lanyard was pulled and the shot struck the battery and seemed to do considerable damago, but the gun, having been tired out of battery, recoiled over the couater-liurt ers and turned a somersault backward. As the ordnance sergeant reached tho top of the stairs he met the ton-inch gun going in tho opposite direction, and, looking around for his friend discovered him hugging mother earth half dead with flight—not at tlio enemy’s shot, but at having dismounted the boss gnu of the outfit. Both compatriots came down. There were now additional reas ons for seeping mum about the feu-inch gun, and the major never learned how it was dismounted. The Crew street school house burned in Atlanta Wednesday night cost $ 12,000, and was insured for SO,OOO It was a frame structure and had been in use a number of years. Nearly five hunnred children at tended that school, and it is awful to con template what might have been the result had the fire broke out during school hours.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Cartersville American. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1882-1886, February 24, 1885, Image 1