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CmicrstriUc °dfßk Aitwitmi. VOLUME V. li€>f>gS. Bl®ll I WIKLeTY CO.’S STORE.^= — (ITOBTH ©3T POST OPPICB.) FOR EVERYTHING IN THE l£sok aai. liati mammamam Their news stands are kept constantly supplied with the latest and best paper and periodicals. They take subscriptions for every newspaper and periodical published. nag* mmammmam — Great bargains in pocket and lull books, ladies’and misses shopping bags, etc They keep on hand a large stock of marbles, tops, balls, bats, school satchels, book straps, slates, pencils, ink, paper, books, etc. All orders by mail promptly attended to. Address, WIKI'S & ©., OA RTERSVILLE, GA. SANFORD L. VANPi V ERL Wholesale and Retail FURNITURE HOUSE. NOW w i mm t 1 I have on hand one of the b.rgest stocks of furniture ever exhibited in North Georgia, and can fit you up in a handsome suit of fur niture- for little money. Call and sec if I don’t DUPLICATE ATLANTA PRICES. S AFFORD L. YAKDIYERF BARTOW LEAKE’S Flk© liisiirait.ee fMllee* Represents Sms of tie tf 11 Firs Insurance Companies of tie WorM, When you want Insurance in First-class companies and at adequate rates call on or address me and your orders shall have immediate attention. I also represent the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, of Chicago, whose machines for durability and excellence cannot bo surpassed. I have the exclusive right for the sale of the ustly popular Glenn Mary Coal, and will always keep on hand a full supply during be coming fall and winter. Feeling very much encouraged on account of your past patronage and soliciting a continuance of the same, with a still greater increase, I am Very Truly Yours, BARTOW LEAKE. *5 Tried in the Crucible. !^ About twenty years ago I discovered a little 3ore on my cheek, and the doctors pro nounced it cancer. I have tried a number of physicians, out without receiving any perma nent benefit. Among the number were one or two specialists. The medicine tney applied was like fire to the sore, causing intense pam. I saw a statement in the papers telling what S. S. S. had done for others similarly afflicted. I procured some at once. Before I had used the second botile the neighbor- couid notice that my cancer was healing up. Siy general health had been baa for two 01 tnr. years - 1 baa a hacking cougn ana spit blood contin ually. I had a severe pam in mv hr, ast. After taking six bottles of S. S, S. my cough left me I grew stouter than I had > for several years, lily cancer has lioaied over all but a little spot about the siae of ahr an and it is 'rapidly disappearing. I would advise every one with cancer to give S. ; -2 uir tr ini. * Feb 1C 1880 - NAK< Y ‘ ONATJOnfiY, As'n'o Grove, Tippecanoe Oo. f Ind. . Swift's Specific is entirely veg ; and seems to euro cancers bv fiwckl" oat the impu ties from the blood. Treatise on a! and Skin Ihsca-cs m .i’w.i r r , * ** ! ; • SWIi-T SPECIFIC Cdt Driver 0, Atlanta, Gft. CARTERSYILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER IT, 1880. TO THK.MEMOKY OF GEN. K. E. LEE BY W. T. LOCKHAKT, As’t Surgeon late Confederate States Army. May he sleep the sleep ol a gallant man, ‘Neath the sod of Virginia, that once hap py land, Which gAve birtbio his vein,and strength to his hand, f To uphold a bright banner, that emblem so grand, Which floated in triurn p o’er fields wet with gore, But now' lies an emblem of mourning and w6e, In the grave with brave Lee, and thou sands of more, And sleeps the deep sleep and will rustle no more O’er the homes of the free, and the fields red with gore. May his spirit take wings to its Creator ou High, And therej-est in peace, and know not a sigh; Free’d from this w'orld of sin and no more to die, To rest in endless bliss with the angels on High, And exckiim iu pfoud triumph, the Vic bW-L'won! But won not by sword, neither cannon nor gun, But through God and Jesus Christ, the only begotten son, TV hose commands he obeyed; which were “come, sinner, come.” May liis spirit still hover o’er the land of birth, And a beacon light to the comrades on fearth, Who are falling into line, “may the last be the first,’! When the long roll is sounding, “cursed be the earth,” To rally to their colors from land and from sea, Exclaiming “we are coming to re-enforce Lee,” Who has fought the good fight and in Heaven must be, Where we hope to wake up to a last reveiiie. May he command us again on Heaven’s bright Shore, When tlie army is full from company to corps, With the ranks and the file of the troops here below, And those “passing muster” who have gono on before. Then with Lee as our guide, and Christ to ‘command, With banners unfurled, and swords in our hands, We will fight the last battle allotted to man, And exclaim “it is finished” with Victory in hand, And yield up the laurels to the great I Am. Farewell to the world, to fife and to drum, Also to cannon, the sword, the gun, We leave you on earth where strife first begun, In taking the life of Christ’s only Son, The world, may it own you to will and to do The deeds of Apolpon find his wicked crew, Farewell to friends, relatiyes, and enemy too, The Olive branch, a token of peace we offer to you, Accept it, we’re passing from earth with Heaven in view, Where Lee and his army will be waiting for’ you. Ex-Congressman Geo. It. Black ox Sylvauia, Ga., is dead. Prohibition goes into effect in Bald win county, on the Bth of December. Anew paper has just been issued at Fayetteville, Ga., called the Chronicle. A number of new houses are going up m Milledgeville, and the old town seems to be on a boom. ‘‘Twenty widows own twenty adjoin ing ferns in Green county, Ohio.” What a country for the relict hunter! Friday, at his home near Hollywood in Richmond county, J. B. Frainer, an id and respected citizen, was found dead in bed from natural causes. Judge Fain has dissolved the order c:joining the State Treasurer from can celling bonds of the Marietta and North Georgia Railroad for want of jurisdic t on. Though this has not been a good ap ple year, Gainsville handles more than she ever did. Chestnuts are very plen t fill, and the merchants are shipping them freely. Miss Lula Jordan, of Washington, lias a little baby shoe that was worn by President Cleveland’s wife while an in fant. It was gived to Miss Lula when she was at school at Staunton, Va., by a cousin of Mrs. Cleveland. W. II Searcy is whooping up the citizens of Griffin and urging them to subscribe (he 825,000 required to secure the Griffin, L Grange and Birmingham road. Only 815,000 are lacking, and he thinks he will bo able to secure the amount. Mainland 13 taking in one iudustry alone, a prominent share in the business • ioom of the South. That State employs 60,000 persons in patting up canned goods, an industry in which she now loads all the States ef the Union. The prop = inter of aL. misvillebrewery ha3 in his < dice one of the most wonder ful pieces of clock mechanism ever seen in that city. The ticker is about two feet in diameter, and occupies a niche in the wall. Nothing seems strauge about the clock until the long hand points to the hour. Just before the clock should sound out a mechanical man jumps up from the hole behind the dock and elevates his right hand, in which is a !! pony” beer glass. The lips open, and the words “larger beer” are spoken as many times as the Clock should strike. The mechanical imita tion of the human voice is so perfect as to be startling. The clock was manu factured in Strasbourg, aud was purchas ed for a large sum of money. * ONLY A COQI~ETTE A Posthumous Sketch by Madam George Sand. CONTINUED —END. “There i3 nothing more to say,” I answered, “Your love is returned by the woman w'hom you have made its object, and'she will marry you if you ask her.” “How do you know' all this?” “I have it from her lips.” “Did she tell you unasked?” “No. She was stung and wounded by a sneer from you, and she was weeping her sorrow out upon my bosom, I won her confidence and drew the story from her.” “Upon your bosom!” he repeated con temptuously. “Why a month ago you would have sooner put an adder in your bosom.” “I w T as a fool then.” He laughed derisively. “And yet, you then thought me a fool because I seemed likely to fall in loyc with this woman. Now', beyond doubt, you will think me a fool if I do not fall in love with her,” “I tell you, I have changed my mind since I so foolishly denounced her.” “You may change it again.” It will at least be prudent for me to w'ait and see.” “My mind is fixed now,” I answer ed, savagely. “Parbleu! It seemed fixed before.” “Then I had accepted your character ization of her; now I speak from my own.” “That, I suppose is equivalent to call ing me a fool.” “You interpret my meaning about as correctly as you judge the woman whom you pretend to love.” The grief I thc-n saw in his eyes and heard in his voice will never leaye me until memory alsogoe3. “Pretend! pretend!” he cried, pressing his hand upon his brow'. “Oh, God! how you are making me suffer!” Still I did not relent. “Pretend,” I answered,” seems to me to be the correct word. If you love this woman so much why do you not wed her?” ‘Why do you so mock me,” he cried* bitterly. “You mock yourselt.” “Do you wish to drive me mad alto* gether? If 3'ou do 3 r ou have set about it in the right w r ay.” “I cannot make you what you already arc. No one but a madman could be so unreasonable. She loves you and you say you love her. If that is true, w'hy do you not marry her—or do you flttd it impossible to reconcile anything so prosaic as matrimony with your fanciful and poetic notions?” “Prosaic! You know I would - '-rifice everything I cherish to call her ’ . wife! You but —", He paused. “You can call her wife without rific ing anything,” I remarked bluiv He came over to my side an>. < me by the hand. “Sister,” he began, “w'hy will . >u per sist in torturing me with hopes—” I placed one of his hands over his mouth and stopped him. “Will you listen to me, brother, for two minutes?” He nodded his head. “You say you loye this woman?” “Yes.” “And you are anxious to marry her?” “Yes.” “Assurance of her love, then, is all that you are waiting for?”,’ Again he inclined his head. “That makes the problem an pay one to solve. She has confessed to . that she loves you and that her hand yours for the asking. Now, I can see no : other obstacle. Offer her your heart an. hand in exchange for hers, and all i.” “She would reject me instant’ did anything of the kind.” “Nonsense!” “Now listen to me,” he s;v... This woman, with all her be.r ; , i no truth in her. She has scut ' man to his death and has brut i :b .rt of many another . Do not curl y \o so scornfully. No man can in ■’ he- with out receiving the wound “cu- , and you, lacking man’s emotion ever know what it is to hav* nearest hopes answered with sue. a .Oman’s laughter. As you said, when <ve first came into these mountains, though you now'seem to have forgotten it, 1 m the only man she ever approached who did not succumb to her resistless fascinations. That is w r hy she came here and that, also, is why she told you she loved me. Such women cannot love. They are merely sreial actresses. She is useing you as a decoy to lure me ou to my death, for it w'ould kill me to be refused by her; I love her too well to survive defeat.” “You misjudge her. She ! you— of that lam certain. lf ; —” “No, no,” he said. “She h or "ived you, as she has deceived every > ■ < tse.” “I could not be deceived m oh a matter.” “Could not? You were deceived ime You never once dreamed that I :oved her until I told you. If you coul i no, read me, whom you have known so long, how could you exDect me to believe that you read her any more successfully? No, sister, you are wrong. She not' love me; if she did my heart ,v tell me so.” •‘Do not be sure of that . Sh- t no know that you love her H r - not speak as plainly as you irnag “Again yoTi afe ffSpeMlj.3' Tier w T ord. If she did not know : love her she would have gone aw o here long ago. She is determined n > be by aie>. wmJ bef departs re is only delayed until she gains her purpose in coming here—my undoing.” I said no more to him, but I told her all that had transpired, and my faith in her was completely vindicated by her tears and distress. She had not deceived me; I was fully convinced of that. She loved him madly. The first few days which followed were miserable enough for us ail, but we at iength regained our composure and made everything seem as it had been before. She was most disturbed. No woman ever full a man’s doubts and injustice more keenly. In every possible way, except by ever avowing it in so many words, she tried to show him how faithfully she loved him, but availed her nothing. Had she loved him lc-ss, she might have employed her woman’s art to better advantage and so unkind reserve. But art cannot be ex ercised where love, in its highest sense, exists. The summer was fast dwindling and there were still no sign of his relenting. Nothing, apparently, could make him be lieve in her. For w'eeks she submitted to his un- W'orthy doubts, with the extremest hu mility and patience; and then, all at once, her w'hole manner changed and she be came frigidity itself. It w r as the very ro acion w'hich I know eventually must come, unless she rvas either a saint or an imbecile. As I had expected, it was the one thing necessary to bring him to her feet, and he sought her now as much ashc ha and avoided lier before. She begged me to pursuade him not to humiliate lximself by asking her hand, as she would certainly reject him if he did. I told him, and it precipitated exacily the thing she had hoped it would avert; that very day he asked her to wed him. “You have waited too long,” she said. “I w'ill not even now' deny that I love you, but you have forfeited my respect. Nothing could induce me to marry you now r , though, w'ithin a week to be your wife v;a3 my dearest aim and hope. You have done that w'hich no woman can forgive, ar.d, though sending you away is to bre i my ow'n heart, I command you to go c"b of my presence forever.” lie simply said, “You haye triumphed,” and then walked quietly away. An hour later he had left the village. When he was gone, she went up in the mountains wild with her misery and despair. Night came and she did not return. In the week that followed we searched for her everywhere, but she never came back. Deep down in my heart I cherished the hope that she had found my brother, re lented, and gone away with him; but I never even whispered it except to my self. When there was no longer any hope of finding her, 1 left the mountains, too. My brother seemed to have mjrste riously disappeared. There was no trace of him anywhere. Three years elapsed and still there was no word of either of them. I mourned them as dead. I again went to the little village in Switzerland, and got a melancholy pleas ure out of strolling about where they, my lost ones, had been with me in the by gone days. Four weeks after my arrival my broth er suddenly came. He had been travel ing ever since the moment of his dis missal, and only just returned from liis yarious wanderings. He w r as horrified at the story of the disappearence of the woman whom he had so strongly loved and wronged, and at once expressed the opinion that she had been lost in the mountains. Eyery day he would wander about, aimlessly, and one morning he went away at sunrise. When he returned in the evening he ■was a gibbering maniac! In the front of his coat be had thrust a sprig of sweet brier, the flowers and leaves of which were the largest and most fragrant I ever saw. To this he address ed all of the wild, unintelligible words he said. It was easy to see that he was hopelessly insane, and I was also nearly demented with grief. At last he pulled the sprig of sweet brier out of bis coat, and thrusting it into my bosom started out of the cottage and signed for me to follow him. I -went with him and three stout Swiss peasants followed close behind us. Every few minutes he would stop, bend over me, kiss the bit of sweet brier and mutter something to it. Finally he took us down into a nar row and lonesome valley, which was over-hung on three sides by high cliffs, and was carpeted with the most luxuriant grass. Under the tallest cliff in the midst of the grass was a sweet brier bush. I saw at once that the sprig in my bosom,which you now hold in your hand, was broken from that very bush. I saw the frightful thing that unseated his reason. The grass concealed a flesh less skeleton, and the jewels and shreds of cloth which clung to it disclosed the awful fact that the crumbling bones we saw were those of my brother’s lost love! Blinded by her agony and despair she j had fallen over the cliff on that awful day, and death had so ended her troubles. Ihe sweet brier bush had grown straight out of the which had l once held her heart, as ii it sprung I from and been nourished by her heart | itself. The earthquake made itself ielt again, Sunday, iu South Carolina, * ' A FIEND’S DEEDS. SAM PURPLE MURDERS HIS WIFE AND INFANTS. And Tries to Kill His Wile’s bister and a Son—Trying to Smother the Son Taken Out of Jail and Lynch ed at His Home. St. Louis, November 10.—A special from Learned, Ivan., says: Near Marine, in the southeast corner of Hodgeman county, lived, until las’. Friday, Sam Pur ple, whose natural brutality was en hanced by chronic drunkenness. His family consisted of himself, his wife, his wife’s sister and four little children, the youngest of which w'as only three weeks old. Friday morning his wife arose as usual and prepared breakfast. She then went to awaken her husband, which en raged him. He sprang from his bed, and, seizing him revolver, shot his wife through the body, killing her instantly. The new born babe was next fired at with the same result. He next shot and killed another of his children. His sister in law, Miss Lowker, was then fired at, the ball passing through the arm and lodging in his shoulder. As this emptied his revolver, he proceeded to load his shotgun, in order to complete the work. A slight mistake in this was the only thing that stopped the deadly proceed ings. The powder was poured into one barrel of the gun, and by error the shot into the other. With this he endeavored to blow off the head of another child, but as there was nothing except powder in the barrel, the child’s face was only seri ously burned by the explosion. A heavy blanket was wound around the suffering child, and this securely wrapped with heavy wire, in the hope that he might ac complish by suffocation what he failed in by the use of the shotgun. The child will recover, although slightly disfigured about the face. The murderer then mounted a horse and started across the fields toward Ma rine, with the avowed purpose of murder ing his wife’s father and mother. Before he could accomplish this, how'ever, the wounded young lady had made her way to the village and notified the inhabitants of what had happened, and they had con gregated for resistance. Seeing that his plan was frustrated, Purple hastened to Telmore and surrendered himself to the authorities. He was placed in jail and the jail surrounded by a heavy guard. Last night a mob of about 100 w r ent in quietly to the jail and demanded the prisoner, who was delivered with little ceremony. He was then taken back to the scene of his crime and hinged to a tree. Only one member of the family es caped serious injury, and that was the murderer’s little boy, who had hid under his bed w’ben he heard his father coming. Mr. A. J. Williams, of Gla scock county, lias a hog that lias fasted forty days and nights and is still living. This hog fell in an old well about six weeks ago, where he remained without food or water until a few days ago. He weighed about 150 younds when ho fell in, and when taken out weighed sixty pounds. “What pretty children you have!” said the new minister to the proud moth er of three little ones. “Ah, my little dear,” said he, as he took a girl of son his lap, “are you the oldest of the family?” “No, ma’am,” responded the little miss, with the usual accuracy of child hood, ‘ ‘my pa’s older’n me. ” There is a pretty good evidence that Celia Monroe, a colored womm, who died iu Kansas City a few days ago, was 125 years old. She is the mother of six teen children, the foul* youngest of whom are living at the ages of 81, 63, 58 and 50 years. Her second husband died fifty years ago. A week before she died she was about the house sweeping. A cat at Galena, 111., climbed a tree and attempted to pounce upon a group of E iglislr sparrows which were sitting on a branch. The sparrows attacked their enemy with their bills and soon it was surrounded by hundreds of angry birds. The birds compelled the cat to jump to the ground. They pursued it peeked out its eyes, and finally killed it. A novelist makes his heroine throw SIOO,OOO of her own money into the sea so as to relieve her lover of the suspicion of being mercenary. She Should have given the money to her lover to start a paper intended to fill a long felt want. She would have lost it just the same and it would have been a little more natural. Irate Parent—“ Well, sir, when I was a young man I never squandered my father’s money in such a scandalous way as you are doing.” Son (who knows his father’s weakness for cards)—No, perhaps not; but you have been making up for it by squander ing my father’s money at a furious rate ever since you were a young man.” The “big trees’ of California will soon bo extinct. Seventeen ljimber companies, owning from 3,000 to 25,000 acres of iai Wood forest each, are waging the war ° L extermination with ail the j know to the modern logging no demand for the wood > r mills re kept wA to the limit' dl eta forest. targe, but the forces employed against them are aWJ it au irresistible. NUMBER 27 XOVEM HER SKIES. " luit the Student uf Astronomy Will See In the Heaven#, Fiovidence Joarauf, Neptune is morning star until the 18th, and then becomes evening star. He takes the lead among the brotherhood on the November annals, for he reaches during the month the most important epoch in his course as far as terrestiul observation is concerned, On the 18th, at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, he is iu opposition with the suu. At that time ho is directly opposite the suu, as the term “opposition” implies, rising in the east as the sun sets in the west. He is then at Ins nearest point to the earth, our little globe lying directly between him and the sun. With a good telescope and a clear atmosphere the most distant planet that obeys our central sun may be easily fouud, when his place is accurate ly noted. A moug the surrounding stars, which are always bright points iu th>. most powerful instruments, a tiny sphere will suddenly leap into being of a pale blue color. This is far-away Nep tune, a charming telescopic object, and well worth the trouble of patient inves tigation. Saturn is morning star throughout the month. He is now lihely situated for observation, rising at the beginning of the month at 9 o’clock, and at the close aoout 7 o’clock in the evening. He snincs with a serene light, and may be readily found late in the evening in the Northeast, having changed his position but little from that of last mouth. The twin stars, Castor and Pollux, are north of him, and the red star Procyon is on thesfuth, Jupiter is morning star, and is rapid ly reaching a point far enough from the sun to make him beautiful to behold as the dawn breaks. He rises on the Ist more than an hour before the suu, and must then be looked for iu the southeast about three degrees north of Spica. L’t is impossible to mistake him for .. y other star if the observer has a posit n u commanding the southeastern horizon and commences his quest an hour before sunrise. Even at his present small dis tance from the sun he asserts his sovereignty, and shines as if he were a small sun himself, when it is remember ed that his light reaches us from a po’ t nearly 500,000,000 miles distant. Uranus is morning star. lie may be traced about three degrees south >f Gamma Virginia, and i3 approaching < e earth. Venus is morning star, but almost . • her lowest estate, for she will be visit e only for a few days at the comment,- ment of the mouth, after which liar lesser light will be hidden iu the rays f the sun, into whose near precincts she has entered. Mars is evening star. He sets abi. 5 two hours after tne suu, but he is so f : away, so small and so far south, that i might almost be blotted from the sky and not be missed by the ordinary ob server. At the close of the month, Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter and Venus are morning stars; Mam, Mercury and Nep tune are evening stars. One of the marked features of the month is the recurence of the Novewlv r meteors. The November me L eor-zone is a gigantic ellipse peopled with countk is myriads of tiny metors. Its periheli n rests on the earth’s orbit, its aphee ;i being beyond the orbit of Uranus. ;'s boundaries are. therefore entirely with. i the solar system, and it probably c.v s its presence within the solor borders ■ o the attraction of Uronus, whocaptured a comet when it came too near his migh y mass and changed his orbit into . > ellipse. The comet in disintegrating h being transformed into swarms of parti cles foliowing iu the train of the coun t and forming the meteoric showers. O i the Ist, of November the earth plun s through this meteor zone, the men and the earth moving with name e velocity and iu different directi . The metors come with full tilt upo . o earth’s atmosphere, are mflamod by t. .e concussion and descend iu the form of falling stars. Comet 1, 18GG, is f e name of the imprisoned comet, and the maximum show occurs once in thirty three years, for then when the comet comes round the swarming particles a e thicker than the leaves iu Vailamtorosa, and there is veritable rain of fan: g stars. The year 1899 will usher in the grand exhibition, and until that t' e observers must be sontented with so > times a few and sometimes many ters.o | The U. S, Supreme Court recency S rendered a decision, reversing a deci h j of the Supreme Court of Llinos, in r, /u j ereuce to the right of State laws co 1 i trol railroad transportation o/' Oges i -, . - .. Z „<ru snob ivni.e. ! freight passing throng The I Vn,to: } st ;;f • and nan only be regulated by Cong . 1 I’lto antiprohibitioaists of AtV < have secured, the candidate for Mi .r and a working majority of tho Coro ■ ]. Strike at the fountain-head the so: oo of all evil. Is it worms that has desk y ed the health of your child? Give Sh: er’s Indian Vermifuge before it is loq late. 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