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THE COURANT. i I*u hiisihod Kvory Thursday, ( AIMERSYILLE, ULOIiUIA. ///A t'oV/lA XT it t MUUd *>'•>;/ n■■,*+>j, j • I ,ml it delirered I>y carrier* inthe city "!■ m,tiled, jKitUu/t /riM, at jil.oO a ijf r; tiA notlth*, SO tenth; three iioniht, HO cent*. ADVERTISING DATES depend or, location ,/ the /']•'>', and 'till I*/', rnikhtd OV ajplicu ‘.nn. (’Oft RESP OSD EX CE containiny iwjiortatj ■ urt toli Cited from til! jxirth of the county. ADDRESS at! letter!, eoacmnn l cation* and tcU •ir i:,'t. and make, all <lrafie or check* payable to THE COURANT, />. W. CUDDY, CarUnriUe, Ga. Ratine** Sanayer. DOCTOR AND MRS. W. H. FELTON. FEBRUARY 19, 1888. On! The weather, the weather! This last week Iris been something like .Solo mon Ojnnoy’fi famous rhyme: ('yelone cloud, lightning and thunder on Monday, A respectable Arctic freeze on Tuesday, A Northern blizzard on Wednesday, Hie beaut iful snow on Thursday, Hard-faced, frigid sriow on Friday, A freeze, sleet and more snow on Sat urday, Worse and worse—Northeast storm on Sunday. Here we are, on a blue-nosed Monday, Not much behind old Solomon Grundy. Thanks, Mr. Grady, for your clever attention! Our Senior admits his mis take on “Waterloo,” but says he can bear correctioirfrorn the hand which deals it so gently. “K iin I ness by secret sympathy is tied, For noble souls in nature are allied!” ♦ '♦ A iuci 11 ion from our youthful fiiends decides us to add a Roys’ and Girls’ col umn to our paper. Now help us, young friends, to li 11 it, with a letter once a week. The hoys can tell tijj,pf the rabbit hunting, etc., and the girls of the crazy <|tiilts, etc., until' the weather opens enough for picnic**ffiuljuch like. HO W TO GET A GOOD DIX X Eft. When an excursion party starts from Philadelphia to go New Orleans, induce them to stop over in Cartersvillo to in spect the town and our good hotels. If tlie party orders its dinner, let them in vite us till in to help eat it; and after they pay their bill and ours you will see how they did it in Atlanta. THE XE It’ YORE WORLD. In till our experience, we never saw such a “come out” as is found in tilths paper under the new management. It is one of the brightest, freshest, breeziest papers in this Union. It lion. Mr. Pu litzer makes half so good a Congjes'stnan as lie does an editor, he will make a stir in that body that will count; see if lie doesn’t. Atlanta has had some severe losses by tiro during the last week, and the emergency disclosed the tact that their water-works were a failure. Has Cai tcrsville taken suitable precautions, and made ready to meet such a calamity? An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. To got ready will cost much less than to lose a tew buildings before you are ready. We are by tires as we are by cyclones. Wllen everybody arouiid us is “catching it,” it is probable we may not always escape. So get ready. That much work won’t hurt. II arpkk’s WKEKLy has a striking car tom on the shooting of O’Donovan Rossa. Uncle Sam is seen gazing intently on the anti-dynamite resolutions in the Senate, while the British Lion looks at tho result with a dry sort of chuckle that betokens his gratification. Rossa lies on his back, a victim of his own poisoned medicine, his fate a matter of indifference to both nations. Rossa no more represents the Irish character than Yseult Dudley rep resents the English nation. If the latter will. pronounce her name for us it will save us some anxious moments. Is it Isult, or Easeult, Wiseult, or Uscult? Will not some correspondent help us? Akk you going to the Inauguration? Tickets are ottered as we see for $22.50 the round trip. If you conclude to go, take along as much money as you can spire for a frolic, for the chances are you vviH need it before tho hotels and board ing houses see the last of you. The skill with which those enterprising people can transfer your “spot cash” to their pockets will amaze you. At such seasons they lie in wait for the unwary—and they goner.illy catch him. Pickpockets and sharpers abound in every locality; ami we have seen the policemen's clubs tly about Petmsyly mia Avenue until it looked like honest people had generally stayed at home. But it will be a s#ght worth seeing, nevertheless. Gkx. Gordon's fate may yet bo in doubt. Khartoum has fallen, but some of the eleven vessels carried to that point by Gen. Gordon are missing, and the probabilities are said to be strong that he sailed up the Nile. He thus declared liituseli sometime .ago if a retreat should be to reed upon him. The Khartoum campaign and the dangers there encoun tered remind us of the Arctic expedition* the American Government undertakes periodically—with much more of disas ter than protit, to all concerned. We never saw the.sense of such risks—unles* the British and American governm*ut are so plethoric of mouey and of men that both can bear thinning out, like too many plants in a seed bed. These disas ters are God-send< to the press, however, f >r nearly every little sheet has enliven ed its pages with penny pictures of fa mous warriors, which, most likely, are not intended to be accurate, but are only used to “till up,” like advertising cuts ot cattle powders and Lydia Pink ham, at a small cost to ttie vender and the pur chaser. Such is fame! —" 1 •-► ■■ -- lui: Jasper News, an excellent paper, did us the honor to copy two of our edi t'Tldo entire. Long life to it! ► V -• 'DEFORM A TORI’ SC BOOLS. ' The following Governor Ire lanit's message to the Teoiß-egislature: ”I.ook ingtothe b-riften ng of the number of convicts in tbc penitentiaries. I again suggest the neces sity of a House of Correction, in which might be confined boys amt others, rendered harmless by reason of age or other conditions.” Time and again the attention of the Legislature has b ‘en called to the impoie-y of sending youths in their teens to the penitentiary to be associated with the most abandoned of criminals; but nothing has l<ccn done, amt there is little prosiMjetof any thing !<eing done in this Legislature.—Texas Christian Advocate. Only a few days ago we saw on the streets of our city, the chain-gang at work. There were i tiiat gang two little boys who did not seem to le over ten to thirteen years of age. A few years ago there was a l*oy convicted in the United States Court of Georgia of a crime against the United states. It was said that the Judge and the jury were greatly perplexed about the matter. The boy was too small to send to the United States’ prison and there was no House of Correction in Georgia. Is it not time fer the Legislature to take this matter in hand and provide a place where these little boys who offend against the letter of law without any adequate conception of the nature of the crime, may be sent for correction and reformation, course the officers of the law cad only treat them as ordinary criminals, they have no option. But the Stateought to provide for discrimination be tween adult- guilty of crimes and children. The Legislature is slow, however, even to a proverb. Will not some rich man of the State honor his mother by founding such an institution and ask ing the State to legalize the regulations govern ing it.—From Wesleyan Christian Advocate. We agtee with Rev. Dr. Potter that Legislatures have been slow, but we do not agree with him in asking some “rich man” to donate money to do that which it is the bonmlen duty of the State of Georgia to do for herself as a sovereign State. No State can shirk such a re sponsibility, nor can her citizens apolo gize for omitting to repair such a mon strous wrong by yielding to any Legis lature’s supineness longer than it takes to elect another with a better understand ing of its duty. We And by reference to the biennial report concerning convicts, submitted to the Governor last Novem ber, that there have been 93 youths under the age of 17 in the penitentiary camps of Georgia during two years ending the 20th of October, 1884. These poor crea tures, who have no protection on earth, biitthe greed and rapacity of the lessees, ajJF'hained to and enclosed with older and more hardened criminals to be cdu catedpin villainy, so that when turned loose on society they may become ex perts in crime and again subject to the law —so to continue until incarceration for life or the halter concludes their ca reer. We find also, that there were thirty females in camp when this report was made. Look on page 9G and see what we decline to record here. Oh! shame, where is thy blush ! The Wesleyan has made a brave fight for the prohibition of whisky, and is un ceasing in its appeals for the missionary cause. Now let it add a frequent word . against this terrible wrong, and it will find itself working in a cause, which if left unrebuked, not only disgraces the State of Georgia, but the Church of Christ itself. Does China, or any other mission work in foreigli lands, present a greater Held for philanthropy than the open and glaring neglect of these children, who are thus incarcerated and thus debased forever in soul and body? Oil! Mrs. Jellaby, don’t forget the heathen at your very door! It is no excuse, nor is our responsi bility relieved by the statement that the large majority are negroes. Will the Judge of all the earth accept such a plea or apology ? The State only gets $25,000 per annum for nearly 1,400 convicts, nearly half of which is spent on supernumerary offi cials who claim to be keepers, etc., with no prison to keep. Suppose the pay was ten times as great, can the State of Georgia afford to bank on crime ? Can she consent to drag these youthful offenders into a degradation so vile that a description would stagger the pen of a Milton, and which would bring a national investigation if the whole truth was known? No, dear Wesleyan, that reform be longs to the State, and we want no money from “rich men” to teach us that sort of humanity, or to relieve us of such a duty. We are not a race of tramps or mendi cants who beg for anything from a church or college down to a prison-pen, and when some George Seney is obliged to send money to Georgia to build a re formatory prison, we hope to be able to emigrate and get away from such a God forsaken land. The “rich man” who would “honor his mother” by donating a reformatory prison, had better spend that money in paying newspaper and stump-speakers and preachers to thunder the awful truth in tho cars of Georgia Legislators, that such wrongs cry aloud to Heaven for re dress and that no blessing can attend a people who are thus willing to sub mit to wrong, and to thus condone injustice because of their fear of the cor rupt money and inlluence in high places. 77/A* XE W BONDS OE TILE STA TE. Some days ago, a clever banker in Sa vannah imagined he had found a “mare’s | nest” in the act of the recent Legislature I refunding that part of the State debt falling due in ISSoand in ISSG. It surprised us that one so well in formed should make such a mistake and charge a failure to provide a sinking fund to meet the payment of the new bonds. . But our very efficient State Treasurer ! has clearly and satisfactorily explained Ibis imaginary difficulty, and there is no ; reason why the new bonds should not be sought after by capitalists everywhere. Backed as the}' will be by the Western and Atlantic Railroad as collateral secu rity, while the pledged faith of the State is as good as any in the Union and not doubted by those who know her lest, these bonds should really command a premium in the money markets of the world. As long as Georgia owns the Western and Atlantic Railroad and which site can oiler as collateral security, there will be difficulty in her borrowing money upon I the most favorable terms. W. H. F. Oi k continued story was begun in our last issue, Feb. 11, and will be iluished next week. Money easily made by soliciting for j Tmk Con:axr. Write for terms to agents, j IRON ODE. With regret we are informed that the business of mining and shipping iron ore from this county i, at this time, like all our industries, considerably depressed. Some months ago this was, and is to some extent now, a valuable industry to some of our enterprising citizens. It gave employment to quite a number of laborers at remunerative wages. Per haps a hundred tons of this ore was sent out of our county per day, also a large quantity of manganesse ore was shipped North. We hope this industry will soon revive and tiiat the pay roll which it sus tained will soon be restored. In the manufacture of iron and steel, the mining of coal, the digging and smelting of ore, more labor is employed throughout the United States than in any other industry except agriculture. There is also, if we estimate the value of the coal and ore lands, which enter into the production of iron, more capital invested than in any one enterprise. Iron is now king of the commercial and manufacturing world. This is lit erally an “iron age.” Nearly every thing we use is made of or affix’ted by the use of iron. .Skill and ability to con struct it into the useful and beautiful, is now the measure of a country’s civiliza tion, and we rejoice that the United States are competing successfully with all the world in its manufacture. While we wish, for the sake of our personal friends who are engaged in the business of shipping iron ore from this county, to sec the enterprise revived, quickened and made remunerative, yet we confess to a painful feeling of loss every day when a car load ot ore. leaves Bartow county. Nothing is more assured than the poverty of a county or State which habitually and persistently ship from their borders the “bounties ot na ture” unconverted into the useful by human labor. The time vvi'l inevitably come to such a state, when stripped of the munifi cence and bounties of nature —its pocket beds of ore emptied, its soil impover ished, its foreals denuded, its rock quarries blasted away and gone, and its varied treasures of wealth exhausted, it will stand a skeleton upon which the outside world has fattened. We repeat, to ship iron ore unfashioned and inutilized by skilled human labor, will finally impoverish any mineral sec tion which is engaged in any such self destruction. lion ore Is more susceptible of being increased in value by human labor than almost any other commodity. We do not recall any one bounty of nature which can be so wonderfully enhanced in value by skilled labor as iron. Let us illustrate. Bartow county, we will suppose, ships one hundred tons of crude ore pm- day to some other State. This is worth, at. the railroad Station from which it is shipped, one hundred and fifty dollars. Gf this amount, one hundred and thirty has been expended in wag*s, leaving twenty dollars as profit, and value ol the ore—that is, fhe wealth of Bartow county is increased twenty dollars by the shipment. The State to which it is shipped, by ex pending two hundred dollars in wages anl other expenses, converts it into fifty tons of pig-iron worth at least six hun dred dollars. With small additional ex pense, it is converted into bar-iron worth one thousand dollars; and as the “change of form” into the beautiful and anu val uable progresses, the material is lessened but the value is enhanced, until finally, maybe, in the shape of delicate watch springs, it is worth its weight in gold. For all this wealth, which a bountiful Providence originally placed in charge of the people of this county, practically saying to its citizens, “this is yours, make it useful and enjoy its benefits,” we have, through lack of capital, skilled labor, enterprise, and to some extent, by false economic theories, received the sum of tsventy dollars. The poorest countries on the earth are those which for years have been export ing their wealth in the shape of “raw materials,” and the richest, are those countries which have been manufactur ing them. W. 11. F. OUR WAGON lIOADS. A communication from a farmer, published elsewhere, pronounces the new mode of work ing the public roads in Floyd county a failure. Not being so well acquainted with their condi tion, or with the work that has been done under the new system, we cannot express any positive opinion of our own about that; but as our cor respondent speaks positively, we will assume that it has not answered the expectations of the public. Admitting that, we are not convinced of the propriety of a return to the old system, which certainly was a failure with fifty years of trial. The new plan has had only one year’s trial, and its shortcomings may be remedied by such amendments as experience suggests. It certainly seems to have a promise of improve ment if faithfully and energetically adminis tered, and such an administration should be se cured before giving up the plan as an irremedia ble failure. Whatever general plan may be adopted, we are in favor of aiding it by convict labor to the utmost available extent. We believe that this labor alone, with proper superintendence of course, would make many miles of good road eveiw year, and that all but the worst of the penitentiary convicts should be thus employed. The Stato gets nothing of consequence from its system, and if the convicts should be kept in tfcoir respective counties and worked as above suggested, they would do the Stato and the pub j lie much more service. Judges of the criminal | eorts could materially help the counties by senfcmeing to the chain-gang as many convicts as ike laws will allow. As to the work Ikm ng | done in the vicinity of Home, that is also a mat tor of administration that can easily be reme ! died if ft is not for the best, or for the conven i ionise of the largest number of people of the i county. This is an interesting and important question, and we trust that our ne v Commissioners’ Court wil) give it careful consideration as one of the most weighty shatters with which they have to deal. The above is an editorial from that steiling, honest journal, the Rome Cou rier. Not being acquainted with the law which prevails in Floyd county in re gard to working the roads, we have noth ing to say about it. But there is one mat ter which should be faithfully impressed upon the minds ot the people of Georgia, viz: The need of a general road law for the State which will obliterate some of the objectionable features which now j prevail. The great expense of courts, jails, ju- i ries, and general criminal prosecution, j is growing heavier year by year in the j State. In Bartow county, for instance, ! we are heavily taxed to meet this re quirement. 'Net one dollar returns to the county in labor or in money. A criminal, when convicted, is turned over to the lessees, and the county proceeds to tax honest labor to foot the bills. Bar tow county has to pay her pro rata share for salaries to Judges, solicitors and ste nographers. (The latter expense it would pay our grand juries to examine into, both as to the necessity and the charges.) It is a perpetual outgo, with no income. In our opinion, all criminals sentenced for a less period than life, or the halter, and for a less crime than murder or some thing else of equal turpitude, should be compelled to work for the county in which the crime is committed and where the expense of prosecution is incurred until the indebtedness is relieved. r l’be courts can easily sentence all convicts for this purpofe, if the Legislature will authorize it. There should be some equalization of burdens, and this method appears to us to meet the situation squarely. For instance, there was anew road cut in the vicinity of anew bridge in the 4th district of Bartow county something more than a year ago. Every man sub ject to road duty was called as much as three days to do that hard work when the weather was very disagreeable. The law can call for fifteen days of regular work from every lad of srxtcen years in the county, and for all over that age until we reach the limit. The penalty for non compliance is fine and imprisonment. We actually make criminals of honest children and adults, when they fail to appear at any time, under the fifteen days allowed b3 r the statute, while the law breakers, the murderers, the burglars and etcetera are all hustled ofl to swell the force on some man’s big cotton plan tation, brick yard or coal mine. Let charity begin at home, mid begin right early. THE SILVER DOLLAR. Some sensational correspondents from Washington report President-elect Cleve land as favoring the suspension of silver coinage for one year. We do not believe he favors this suspension. If he does, he deals a blow to Democratic success, which, in our opinion, will be fatal. The remonetization of silver and the act authorizing its coinage, was the especial work of the Democratic party, and it was in obedience to the imperative de mand of the Southern and Western States. The silver dollar, as thus authorized, enabled the country to resume specie payments at a time when our Federal treasury was iu sore need of such a friend. It tided our commercial interests so quietly into safety and security that no honest man outside of Wall street was conscious of the agency by which he was relieved. It arrested, at the time, shrinkage in values, caused by the rapid contraction of the currency. It stimulated and sustained labor everywhere—particularly at the South. It checked the clamor which existed in some States for a “local currency,” or a reviyal of banks of issue under State au thority. If it had done this much only, the wisdom of the silver act would have been established. The truth is, the remonetization and coinage of silver has never had a lair and just showing in this country. Passed originally by a two-thirds vote over the veto of Mr. Ilayes, condemned and shackled by every Republican adminis tration, from that time until the present, despised and practically nullified by the national banks of the United States — hated by Wall street and the sharpers in New England, it lias been most dili gently tabooed by the enemies of labor everywhere. A legal tender for all debts, public and private, the Govern ment has made no effort to meet its obli gations with silver until last week it partially paid its balance to the New York Clearing House in si Ivor certificates. Heretofore these payments have been made on a gold basis, but fortunately it was com pelled last week by its necessities to honor the silver law. Now when the country had a right to expect that a Democratic administration would give this Democratic measure a fair and just trial, to be told by sensa tional news-mongers that President-elect Cleveland had arrayed himself among its enemies, is too bad! For his own sake, and for the sake of the country, we deny it. We imagine some infatuated “gold bug” propounded the question to him and he replied with a “genial smile”— which like ail his other smiles, have been interpreted to suit the questioner. W. 11. F. Oxe of the best stories we have heard j of Jay Gould is a late one concerning his | boyhood. Somebody told him a canard about his owing some cobbler for mend ing his shoes In bis young days. There ! upon he related the fact that he started ; in life as a cobbler himself, and would hardly go in debt for such work when he was so well able to help such necessities without money. Self-made men !tre tite bone and sinew of this country; and when you find one who is not ashamed of his lo wly beginning wlien lie is prui porous; you find there the material which made him a man at the start. Don’t understand us to endorse all the demagogue’s bosh about his service be tween the plow handles, when he only plowed his truck patch one time, or his work with a little steer when he was simply steering for notoriety, or any- j tiling else similar to it, but we mean good, honest work, performed in a faith ful, honest way for Lhe sake of an up right, honest living. There is nothing so gratifying to us as the stories of the j olden times, with the shifts, privations j and difficulties explained and illustrated i by the experience of a veteran who nasi traveled along the path himself or her self. Shall these domestic histories per ish vvith these noble pioneers? Does | anybody know of a book wherein the home life of Georgia, sixty or seventy years ago, is detailed ? Are our children to lose all these delightful experiences, e&cept at secondhand? We, all of us, •ve in such a hurry that we haven’t time to repeat them it we took the pains to remember them. The counting of the votes by Congress last week concludes all the official action tliat is needed to seat Mr. Cleveland in the White House except the oath he takes ou iuguration day. This American na tion is a great one—witl: all its faults. The excitement over the Hayes and Til den canvass disclosed a rock on which the ship of State might be stranded, and the sight of it was not only sufficient to avert anarchy and confusion at that time, but to seat Mr. Cleveland quietly and satisfactorily—although the change from one party to another turns out more than one hundred thousand office hold ers, who were dead sure six months ago that it was a life tenure to them or their party successors. America is a great country, and in no particular is her greatness more fully disclosed than in her willingness to obey a rightful ma jority, legally expressed at the ballot box. The bill retiring Gen. Giant failed in the House on a two-thirds vote. It re ceived a majority of over fifty votes, which insures its final passage. Every democrat, whose opinions shape party policy and have weight with the Ameri can public, such as Randall, Cox and Slocum, took the floor in its advocacy, and urged its passage. We fear that Georgia, from its opposition, will derive but little credit from this inevitable measure of kindness to the idol of the Northern people and this valuable friend of Gen. Lee. It is going to pass over whelmingly and why should the South distinguish itself by unavailing cynicism. TAX ASSESSORS. Messrs. Editors : It is a wise opera tion of our laws that even the county of ficers are the servants of the people, and therefore their acts are subjects of criti cism by the people. The Grand Jury for the third week of the spring term of court could legally pass in review upon the action of the Grand Jury of the first week, but there are several vulnerable points in their “presentments,” as I will Proceed to show. If any member of the last Grand Jury will carefully examine the tax books in reference to the district iu which they live, they will readily find much property returned upon the basis of what it would bring if sold out by the United States marshal (and we all know Ijow low that is). While others have re turned their property at its approximate value. It is all stuff about the statutes being sufficient to remedy the evil, for Live most of the papers in this State, for the past two years, have launched their diatribes against this unjust and crying evil —showing that the law, as it stands, is inoperative. Judge Simmons, in discharging the Grand Jury for the first week, took occa sion particularly, to compliment them upon that clause of their presentments which recommended the appointment of tax assessors for each militia district, as the only means of reaching these fraudu lent returns, and expressed the belief that their action in the matter would be the entering wedge of reform that would be soon taken up by every county in the State. There are other flaws in their action that I could readily point out, but if they will thoroughly digest the above some good will have been done. Their action in reference to the proper distribution of the county commissioners throughout the county is a wonderfully wise one, and if good, successful business men under that recommendation are chosen, our taxes will be perceptibly lightened. Their recommendation for the substitution of a city court in lieu of the present county court, and making the officers of the Superior Court, ex officio, officers of the City Court, can work nothing but good to the county and the suggested change is a wise one. Bartow. LATEST NEWS. Congress thinks it will save the coun try the expense of an extra session. Good news. The Senate is now struggling with Blaine’s Labor Bill, which means bun combe and demagogy. Senator Mahone’s little boj', Butler, got on a bender and tried to kill Weleher and destroy his restaurant. The Land Forfeiture Bill failed to get up in the Senate. Too many railroads interested was the reason. Gen Gordon is not dead yet, and we hope he may be saved. “Khartoum will be relieved and Egypt will be taken in out of the cold.” Bishop Gross, Catholic Bishop of Geor gia, a most courteous and cultivated pre late, has been made the Archbishop of Oregon. lie deserves the promotion. Messrs. Holmes, of Indiana, and Biount, of Georgia, are set down as the Congressmen who killed John Roach’s subsidy bill. The lobby was beaten in au open fight. Frank Hurd, tl e genial and brilliant Ohioan, has apparently killed the Blair Educational Bill. In oratory and all in tellectual accomplishments, Frank Hurd is without a peer in the American Con gress.' The River and Harbor Bill hangs fire, ami we don’t care whether it passes or noi. Too many jobs in it, such as the 1 Hennepin Canal, Galveston Harbor, Mis ' stesippi River, and especially because ' river navigation is now only an adjunct of the great railroad pool system of the conntry. The newspapers are flooded with dis graceful routs in Washington, where men and women seem to vie with each other as to who can drink tiie most raw whisky and disgrace themselves the quickest and oftenest. This winter the rapid set have been trying to wear as lit tle body to their dresses as possible, and when one of these bare-necked creatures fell down in a drunk on the floor of the White House the time had come to call a i halt. A little more frock an 1 a little less punch is the demand of the hour. ♦ Curry’s Cough Cure in 25et. and 75ct. bottles, guaranteed to prove Tenefic*al. NOT DEAD ?BT. Atlanta papers are giving the public somecur ions ami wonderful cases that are quite interest ing. It sec-ms that a young lady of Atlanta had been reported as dead, but it came to the ears of the Atlanta Journal that she was still alive, and being on the alert for news, a reporter was sent to the residence to learn all the facts. Miss Belle Dunaway, who had been pronounced dead, met him at the door, stoutly denying that she was dead. She said: ‘•For four years, rheumatism and neuralgia have resisted physicians and all other treatment My muscles seemed to dry up, my flesh shrank away, my joints weref swollen,painful and large, lost my appetite, was reduced to 00 pounds in weight and for months, was expected to die. 1 commenced the use of B. B. B. and the action of one half a bottle convinced my friends that it would cure me. Its effects were like magic. It gave me an appetite—gave me strength, re lieved all pains and aches, added flesh to my bones, and when live bottles had been used I had gained 50 pounds of flesh, and I am to-day sound and well.” IS IT A LIE? Some one said that Potash was poison: Who makes the assertion except those who desire to mi-load and humbug you? lie who- denounces other remidies as Fa u na, is quietly offering a vile compound of his own—beware of all such. A-'k your physician or your druggist if Potash produces all the horrors claimed for it by those who ure compelled to traduce other preparations n order to appear respectable themselves. We claim that Potash properly combined with other remedies makes the grandest blood remedy ever known to man, and We claim that B, I>. B. i s that remedy, IX afflicted with any form of blood poison,Srcof ula, Rheumatism,Catarrh, Old Ulcers an 1 Sores Kidney Complaints, Female Diseases, etc., the B. B, B. will cure you at once. Send to Blood Balm Cos., Atlanta, Ga., for a copy of their book FRKK. fehlS-lm A • W . FITE, febl9 Cartersville, Georgia. 11. 10. CASON, Resident Demist. Office over Curry’s drug store, Cartersville, f’)s Bartow Sheriff’s Sales FOR BIAKCH, 1885. Will be sold before the court house door in the city of Cartersville, Georgia, on the first Tuesday in March, 1885, between the legal hours of sale, the following property to-wit: Twenty acres, more oi less, ol lot of land number 901 in the 4th district and 3d section of Bartow county, Ga., the same being that fractional part of said lot on the south-west side ol the Western & Atlantic. Railroad, it being the same side Ol said railroad that the buildings of the Baitow Iron Coinuany ate located; said twenty acres levied on as the property of the Bartow Iron Company; the interest of said com puny in said land levied on being the aforesaid twenty acres, more or less, including improvements and buildings on same, except the following interests, rights and privileges to wit: All the sand rock or sand stone on said part of lot as above des cribed, with the privilege of ingress and egress over said lot, or whatever privilege may be necessary in working pr getting ont said sand stone, and getting same to market, with further privilege of road and water necessary in operating said stone quarry; said reserva tion being same made by H. J. Bates to him self in a certain deed from him to said Bartow Iron Company, dated September 6th, 1873, and recorded in Book “and” page 104, of Deeds in the Clerk’s office ot Bartow Superior Court. Said twenty acres hereby levied on described as lollows: commencing on the line of the right of way of the Western & Atlantic Railroad, near the sand quarry, running in a southerly direction to the original southwest corner, thence in an easterly direction following the original 1 hie to the district line, thence along said line to the right of way of said railroad, thence along said >-ight of way to the starting point. Also, lour acres of lot ol land number 958 in the 2lst district and 2d section of Bartow county, Ga., said four acres bounded as fol lows: commencing at a poplar tree on the line of the right of way of said railroad, near the spring, and running east along said \line of the right of way of said railroad, 139 % yards, thence in a westerly direction 139> 3 yards, thence in a northerly direction running par allel with said l ight ot way 139 X yards, thence in an easterly direction 139>£ yards to the start ing point. All of said property levied on and will be sold as the property of the said Bartow Iron Company to satisfy one Justices Court ii fa issued trom Justice’s Court, 822d District, G. M., in favor of VV. O. Bowler (proceeding in favor ol Emsly Stegall trailsferree) vs. said Bartow Iron Company. C. M. Jones, tenant in possession of said land. Levy made and re turned to me oy F. 11. Franklin, L. C. Also, at the same time and place, the south haliof lot of land Noi 124, in the sth District and 3d Section ot Bartow County, Ga., con taining 80 acres more or less. Levied on and will be sold as the property of John it. Walker to satisly one Bartow Superior Court ii fa in favor of J. A. Miller and Harriet Johnson vs. John If. Walker. Property in possession of defendant, John H. Walker. Also, at same time and place, lot ol land No. 234 in thelOth District and 3d Section ol Bar tow County, Ga. Levied on and will be sold as the property of Mrs. E. M.Branson to sat isfy three Bartow Superior Court Ii fa’s in fa vor ol Thomas Fahy vs. sat 1 Mrs. E. M. Bran son. Property in possession of defendant, and pointed out by plaintiff’s attorney. Also, at same time and place, the south half of lots of land Nos. 551, 552 and 553. so as to run with the line between Wade il. Bailey and J. W. Jlanie, located in the 17th District and 3d section of Bartow County, Ga., all of said parts of lots containing 60 acres more or less. Levied on and will be sold as the property of Wade H. Bailey to satisly one Bartow Supe rior Court attachment fi fa in favor of G. M. Isbell vs. Wade H. Bailey. Levy made Sept. 3d, 1879, by James Kennedy, former sheriff. John VV. Jlanie was then in possession and no tified of this levy. Property pointed out in said fi fa. Also, at same time ami place, lotof land No. 234 in the 10th District 3d Section or Bartow County, Ga. Levied on and will be sold as the property ol Mrs. E. M. Branson to satisfy three Bartow Superior Court li la’s in favor of Thomas Fahy vs. said Mis. E. M. Branson. Property in possession ot defendant, and pointed out by plaintiff’s attorneys. Also, at same time and place, one one-horse wagon, second-hand and considerably worn, branded ’‘Jones wagon,” also part ol set of old single harness, old wagon seat with one spring broken. All levied on and will be sold as the property of W. T. Wofford to satisfy one fl la from Court of Ordinary ol Bartow county, in favor of M. L. Johnson vs. W. T. Wajyord. W. W. ROBERTS, Sheriff. I’ouuty Court Sale*. Will be sold before the court house door, in thecity olCartersville, between the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in March, ISBS, the following property, to-wit: One double-door iron safe. Herring’s Patent Champion make, combination lock, in storc house’of Jones Brother & Cos. Levied on and will be sold as the property ol Toombs It. Jones anil James P. Jones, under fieri lacias from Bartow County Court, in favor of Ornstein A Rice, vs. Jones Bros .& Cos. Property pointed out by John W. A kin, plaintiff’s attorney. JAMES G. BROUGHTON, Feb. 2-M County Court Bailiff. XOTIiK. GEORGIA —Bartow County. Whereas, Geo. 11. Waring and E. L Howard have applied to the Court ot Ordinary to have Julia Pamela MeMann, an orphan, aged elev en years, bound as apprentice, to be taught the duties of house service; Therefore, the next of kin of said orphan are hereby cited to file their objection in my office (if any they have) on or by the first Monday in March next, else said orphan will be bound out, as provid ed by Statute. February 2, 1*35. 2.61 4t* J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary. NOTICE TO DEBTORS & CREDITORS. STATE OF GEORGIA—Bartow County. Notice is hereby given to all persons having demands against William fleadden, late of said county, deceased, to present them to rue, properly made out, within the time prescribed by law, so as to show their character and amount; and all persons indebted to the said deceased are hereby required to make imme diate payment to me. Fcb’y 3d, 188.5. GEORGE 11. iiEADUEN, fublO.Ct* Administrator. Kennesaw Bout©. WESTERN AND ATLANTIC RAILROAD. IWIL FOLLOWING TIMECARD IN EFFECT Sunday, January 18tli, 1880. Northbound. KO. 3 EXPRESS—DAILY. Leave Atlanta f ™ Leave Cartersville ilvT-! Leave Kingston .*4 Leave Dalton ’ , Arrive at Chattanooga I* 111 Steps at all important stations. NO. 1 EXPRESS—DAILY. Leave Atlanta Leave Cartersville t'nn o m Leave Kingston (T-'n i Leave Dalton ,1 Arrive at Chattanooga P 1,1 NO. 14. RONE EPI’RESS Daily except Panda's. Leave Atlanta ci-rTII! Arrive at Cartersville P >-> Arrive at Kingston L’; P“J Arrive at Rome • • ; • ‘•'•* P m Stops at nil wav stations and by signals. NO. 11, EXPRESS— DAILY. Leave Atlanta T !!! Leave Cartorsville ....... \JJ a | Arrive at Chattanooga ..... •’•mam NO. 19. KESNESAW EXPRESS—DAILY. Leaves Atlanta . * 5:00 pm Arrive at Chattanooga i*m stops at all important stations when signalled. THROUGH CAR ARRANGEMENTS. Ns. 1 has Pullman Palace cars from Atlanta to Nashville and Pullman ears Jacksonville to Cincinnati, and Pullman Drawing Room Sleeper Atlanta to New York without change. No. U runs solid to Rome. No%l has Pullman ear Jacksonville. Fla., t> St. Loins without change. No. 19 has Full man Palace cars New Orica, to Washington, and through first-class eqael.es Atlanta to Little lto< k without change, via Me Kenzic. . . Sc***thj>Dund. NO. 4 -DAILY. Leave Chattanooga . • \ 8:00 an* Leave Dalton a r Leave Kingston J J HUI Leave Cartersville 1 > :2s a m Arrive at Atlanta -. . . 1:25 pm Stops at all important way stations. NO. 2 EXPRESS—DAILY. Leave Ohatianooga 2:45 pm Leave Dalton 4:12 p m Leave Kingston 5:42 pin Leave Cartersville 6:09 pm Arrive at Atlanta S:o7pm NO. 12, EXPRESS—DAILY. Leaves Chattanooga 10:25 pm Lcrvc Cartersville 1:41 am Arrive at Atlanta ........ 3:40 am Stops at all important way stations. no. .14, home express—Daily except Sunday. Leaves Rome 8:00 am Leave Kingston . 8:46 am Arrive at Cartersville 9:15 am Arrive at Atlanta . . ... il:lsani Stops at all way stations and liv signals. THROUGH CAR ACCOMMODATIONS. No. 4 has Pullman Palace cars Cincinnati to Jacksonville, and Washington to New Orleans. No. 12 lias Pullman car St. Louis to Jackson ville without change, and New York to At lant.i without change. aOS. M. BROWN, Gen’l Pass, and Ticket Agent. ALTON ANGIE it, Assistant Gen’L Pass, and Ticket Agent. R. A. ANDERSON, General Superintendent. __ IS S S 5 I k .* 1 The Supreme Bench. From experience,.l think S. S. S. a very valua ble reined) lor cutaneous diseases at the same time ail invigorating tonic. .Tames Jackson, Chief Justice of Ga. Atlanta, Sept. 23, 1884. AN AGED BAPTIST MINISTER. Two More Important Cases. Your agent being in Columbus, Ga., a few days ago and meeting the venerable brother J. il. Campbell, wo asked him for the news. His reply was, "1 have two more important cures effected by Swift’s Soecific to report.” This venerable man i§ known far and wide for bis univmtting labors of love in the behalf of the peer of Colum bus. It will be remembered that the Swift spe cific Cos. has donated quite an amount of their famous medicine, to be distributed,^ y Mr. Camp bell among the poor of the city; hence liis remark, lie said: “1 have just seen a lady who has boon greatly annoyed by a tetter iu one of her hands. It had gi v en her much trouble and pain. She said she had been treated by several physieiaus during the past three or four years with the old remedies, but without giving any relief. I suggested Swifts Spe cific and she took four bottles and is now appa rently perfectly well. Her hand is smooth, and not a single sign of the disease is left. It is marvelous how this medicine renovates the sys tem.” “Wliat about the other ease?” “Well,"that was a lady also. She had been badly affected with eczema for four years. Her face, hands and arms, as well as her body, were covered with sores and scabs. It was one of the worst cases <>r this terrible disease that I have ever seen. The suffering of this poor creature was beypud expression. She tried every remedy at liana; including mercury and iodide of potash hut she only grew worse. She was in this condi tion when 1 first saw the case. I soon had her taking Swift’s Specific, and she has now only only taken two bottles, but every mark of Hie disease has almost entirely disappeared. 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