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THE COURANT. Published Every Tinneduv. CARTAKnVH.I.E. GKOBOIA. . HIE cor HAST it p , '.titled *vy Thurtia* 1,1 ruhitj "n& it ilelicered l y carrier* in tin oily r tiled, ptt ft /ret, it §i.so a ytar; ti* lonl/tt, SO omit; th, ** months, 50 oentt. A t'YK/rr/Sl ay; JIA TKS depend on location Hi i if I nipt; . "n! till he fut ' tht'l f’Tl llppliC*- C’>H R E SR>> SDM y t'£ containing import ant t .'t to’ Sited/, •• -I nil partHof the. county. A nil/:ESS letter*, com. micatinnt iralttl / anil make all draft* or checltt payable THE COI'KAMT, I>. W. CURRY, Curttetcille. Ga. B’mnttt Ahmnjer. DOCTOR AND MRS. W. H. FELTON. FEBRUARY 20, 1885. ANNOUNCEMENT. Wo are glad to auuounecto the readers ol The Coikam that we will begin the publication of a series of articles written by Hon. J. W. JI. Underwood, of Koine, Ga., headed “Reminiscencesof the Cher okt'cs,” descriptive of the Cherokee coun try, with illustrative anecdotes, inci dents, etc. All rights are reserved, and these articles will be condensed into book form, under the law of cop}'right, when completed. Judge Underwood needs no introduction to our readers, and no man in Georgia is so well qualified by nature, cultivation and experience to do justice to the subject. To those who desire the benefit of these brilliant and entertaining “Reminiscences” we would advise an cai ly subscription, as they will be found only in our columns. No such opportu nity lias ever been afforded to Georgians lor a complete history of the most inter esting and romantic portion of our State. When Judge Underwood shall have pass ed away (may the Father grant him long life and happiness), the only mind that could grasp the subject, and at the same time illustrate it with personal expe rience and acquaintance, will have left us. For the sake of future historians, for the pleasure and enjoyment of our citizens, we hail this literary effort with delight. The very moderate price of our subscription places these articles in the reach of every household. • - - Did it ever occur to our good Carters vilie people that they could pay the ex pense of a lire company by the saving that would accrue in the reduction of our insurance rates. The Cor ram has had a little experience in the insurance line, and to cover a few days, while our press and material were considerably exposed, we paid fifty cents a day to insure one half its value against lire alone. Count up, good friends, and see how long it would take to buy an engine and equip it, under that pressure. We admit your luxes arc rather steep, but in this partic ular are you not saving at the spigot and letting out at the bung? How uncertain is the lire (lend! How devastating the incendiary torch ! How painful the de struction and liow desolating the ruin! Like a thief jii the night it comes, sly and stealthy. A tiny hole in a treacherous Hue or a stray coal in the midnight hour has turned many a good family into the street, homeless and penniless. Suppose von insure (and you are wise so to do), what money ian replace the household treasures that are so precious to your hearts? mayhap sanctified by a mar riage vow; or a death-bed ? kiss How lean and lank is any home without those relics of a storied past, and bow sad the loss when nothing remains hut dust and ashes —the sport ot a bitter winter wind ! You may be careful, and we hope you arc, but how light would seem this lire company tax if your beautiful home should to-night be threatened with de struction! How welcome the sound of the engine wheels on these stony frozen streets, and how joyously would you greet the boys in their slick helmets and rubber over-alls. Think about it. -Think aborff your goods, your money, your homes, and remember the insurance rates you are forced to pay and then let us hear from you ! OUR WAGOX ROADS. The other day while old Pompey (our horse) was stumbling down the llaney hill, one foot continually on a boulder ami the other constantly in a mud pud dle, we ruminated (to use an “Arp”ism) on the injury a bad road does to business, and the damage it does to vehicles, and the suffering it entails on beasts and their owners, and the trial it is to patience, when we overtook otic of the best citi zens of Bartow county. Like the Arkan sas editor, who combined business with pleasure, as you will find in our columns, we delicately hinted that The Pocraxt might help his business if advertised and gratify his reading family at the same time when he startled us by saying, “I'm going to move away. To haul all my goods over these roads is too much for me. I’m sorry to go, but these roads put me too far from business, but I'll take The Coiraxt.” This put us to thinking with considerable vehemence. Wo again attempted to drive over the Haney hill on Monday,with its mud and boulders, when a sudden lurch sent our editorial grip s aek clean and clear over the dash-board into the half-fiozen slush, and jumbled up the camphor bottle, the spectacles, pencils, hair-pins, editorial essays and newspaper slips into a hopeless mass. But one clear idea lodged in our brain— n unely: if Providence sparer! us to get to terra Anna again we would tell what we knew of the road from Cartersville to Pine Log. It is said that one of Senator Brown’s argu lyeui flr S(>eer": confirmation was that he would b ‘ a good Democrat injMx months from the 4th ii Mar< h.- Savannah Times. Mr. Speer's defection from the party which lias paid him so well, will not be an astonishing thing in Georgia. He will not be the first Federal office holder who became a good ( ?) Democrat in six mouths after he begun to draw pay. If that makes him happy, lie will not be obliged to dance bis little jig alone, tor he has plenty of company, and we hok for more, if office-holding is de pending oa it. FOR RIGS COST It A CT LA BOR. SKXATE: *'£i it eno tul, etc.. That, from an i alter the passage of this act, it shall lie unlawful for anv person, company, partnership or corporation, in any manner whotsoever, to prepay transporta tion, or in anyway assist or encourage importa tion or immigration of any alien or aliens, or foreigner or foreigners, into the I'niteil States, its Territoriesor the District of Columbia, under contract or agreement, parole or special, ex press or implied, made previous to the* importa tion or migration of such alien or alien-, for eigner or foreigners, tojK-rform labor or service pf any kind in the United States, its Territories or tiie District of Columbia.” This bill, the first section of which we give above, has passed the Senate with amendments, and only awaits the con currence of the House and the Presi dent’s approval to become a law. It forbids the importation of laborers into this country, provided any agreement had been made with them to work, pre vious to their departure from their for eign home; and it also forbids the pre payment of their passage money by the employer, and lines the ship owner who transports him to this country. One remarkable feature of this bill is the exceptions which it makes to this whole sale condemnation ol honest laborers. The bill with great particularity stipu lates that it shall still be lawful to engage the services of foreign theatrical troops, actors, actresses, ballet-girls, singers, lecturers, indeed, it is still the “proper thing,” according to this hill, to draw largely upon the “refined and gilded slums” of European cities for every ad venturer and adventuress who can amuse the languid passions or excite and gratify the animal instincts of those who have money to waste. But if the foreigner has nothing but muscle and bodily strength, which he is willing to exhaust in some productive in dustry, nothing but skilled and educated handicraft, if he proposes to be a simple factor in the creation of real wealth, then the man who prepays his passage to this country is to be fined one thousand dol lars, and the laborer himself is subject to heavy penalties. In addition to this, the Captain of the vessel, knowing him to be a pre-engaged laborer, is to be fined live hundred dollars. It is true, the bill nominally excepts those who are engaged to be stiietly do mestic servants—hut who can draw the line? Who can afford to go into court with the attendant expense to establish the character of the labor he seeks ? The bill forever excludes all foreign labor which has been contracted for before landing in the United States. If this is not political insanity, we are ignorant of the meaning of the words. Especially is the object of the bill dam aging to the South. This section of the Union is now struggling to develop its. wonderful natural resources. Econo mists tell are only three factors in the creation of wealth, viz: “Land or nature, capital and labor.” The first, we have most abundantly. Nature lias richly endowed these South ern States, their varied treasures are in calculable. The two last-named factors, capital and labor, we have to a very limited extent. We must greatly multi ply them or our sectional inferiority is assured. Manufactories of every de scription must be started and worked successfully. Our agriculture must be improved and diversified. Our forest timber must he utilized. Our minerals converted into a thousand forms of the beautiful and valuable. To accomplish this, money and labor are essential. Wc have asked the starving men and women of our large Northern cities, and of its sterile, rural districts, to come here and work in our factories, build our railroads, ditch and drain our farming hinds, assist the faithful colored labor of the South in cultivating otir field crops, our gardens, our orchards, superintend our dairy farms, and everywhere in con sideration of liberal wages to create wealth for the Southern people. Asa class, they treat this invitation with contempt. They prefer to starve in New York city*, or in some Xew Eng land manufacturing town, rather than work in the fields and mines of the South, with a plenty to eat, good clothes, and now and then a dollar in their pockets. They greatly prefer to be “on a strike/’ or in a “labor riot,” or shout ing in the train of some communist or dynamlteur. If at any time they are in duced to leave those delectable abodes of millionaires and paupers, they move di rectly to Dakota, lowa, Minnesota, or some otiier ice-bound State or Territory. Now, if in our extremity, some capi talist here in Georgia desires to run a cotton factory, a furnace, a farm, to build a railroad, to work a slate or marble quatry, or engage in any other industry should find it to his interest and our ad vantage to prepay the passage money of competent laborers either from Europe, Canada, Mexico or elsewhere, he is sub jected to a line of a thousand dollars. If the Irishman starts from Ireland to ditch our swamp lands or throw up railroad embankments in this State, if the owner of a cotton factory in Manchester should move ids spindles, together with his fe male employees to the cotton fields of the j Etowah; if a Southern farmer desires a j German to supervise a “truck patch,” or j a milk-maid from the island of Jersey to ! mould the “gilt-edge” butter, or any j other labor from other lands, he must be I severely punished. Know-Xothingism was a triile com pared with this folly and injustice. A prohibitory tariff levied, not upon the products of labor, but upon laborers. Hie man excluded, not because he is a foreigner, but because lie is a foreigner seeking work. W oik, for the first time in tlie history of our common country is made a crime by legislative enactment, and even the desire on the part of a foreigner to con tribute to the wealtli of Georgia, tor a wage consideration, makes him a criminal. It will be remembered that in ftic “Chinese craze,” which afflicts our Pa cific States, the principal argument used agakist these Celestials, is the demoral izing efiect of their licentious character upon the i>eople of those States. Their religion, their manners, and their un- I chaste habits, it is said, influence injn riousiy the transient and turbulent popu lation ot the Pacific slope. This is the alleged reason of that ostracism and ban ishment of a people, who are vile heathens in California, but the tender subjects of missionary zeal in China. Their enemios dare not urge their will ingness to work as an argument against Chinese immigration. But in this new Foreign Labor Bill, we have a declaration of war, pure and simple,against work. Labor is the offense against which the august American Sen ate pours its wrath. We understand the pretended argu ment in favor of this measure was, that Foreign contract labor conflicts with the interests of home labor. We can readily perceive how home labor is protected by shielding its products against the unequal competition of commodities imported into this country. We can see how home labor is encouraged by giving to the laborer cheap food, cheap clothing, a Comfortable home and all the benefits of our advancing civilization, hut we cannot conceive how an embargo levied upon muscle and dextrous fingers to be employed upon American soil,can benefit or dignify American labor. Nine Senators only voted against this measure. Eight were Southern men, and we are glad they recorded their names against this outrage upon progress. We give their names: Butler and Hamp ton, of South Carolina; Groome, of Ma ryland; Vance, of North Carolina; Maxey,of Texas; Morgan, of Alabama; Saulsbury, of Deleware; and Williams, of Kentucky. Gen. Hawley, of Con necticut, also recorded his vote against it. Senator Colquitt’s vote is not re corded, which we mention in justice to him. W. 11. F. 77/ E CR Y FOR WORK. A New York City newspaper sent out its reporters one of the cold days of last week to collect news, and they returned with the startling announcement that 75,000 men and women were idle and begging for work, for wages, to feed and warm themselves and their helpless ones. Just think of if—75,000 people crying for work. Not bread, not money; but hard work! In London 3,000 men collected in the streets, formed a procession, gathered be fore the doors of the powerful and wealthy and filled the air with a clamor forer doyment. “Work we want! Give us w.'.-k to bring us food and fuel, or you must suffer!” The police scattered the hungry mob, but no police can quell the burning sense of wrong and suffering that hunger and cold will bring to human starving souls. [u some of the large manufacturing, towns the Irish are being turned off by the thousands, because an insane craving for revenge had possessed some unwor thy compatriots until dynamite shook the very shelter of royalty itself. The Savior said, “The poor ye have always with you,” and with deep poverty there will always he deep distress. It is sad that the innocent must suffer with the guilty, but salvation only comes through suffering. Agar’s prayer should he the inspiration of our heart’s desire: “Give me neither poverty nor riches.” The middle classes are the hope of this coun try. The man who is careful of "his time and health, laying up a little for a rainy day, willing to live and equally willing to let his neighbor live, neither the slave of a monopoly or the oppressor ot the poor and helpless; the man who deals honestly in the fear of God with justice to all about him, those, men are the support on which the free institutions of this country rest, and those hearts are the safeguards of our liberty and our free dom under the law. So long as legislation was left free to unbiased judgment and reason, so long was honest labor within the reach of every honest man; but tbure is some thing wofully out of joint when our iarge money centres become also the centres of starvation and suffering. The centrali zation of moneyed power may thrive under a despotism, but in this land of freedom it will bring on an irrepressible conflict, never to be settled until one or the other of these two extreme classes gain the mastery. God defend us and our children! We took the time the other day to scan the peculiar talents of our leading Geor gia editors —we mean of the large dailies —the big papers. Asa result we decided that Mr. Walsh was equal to the best in the Union for putting the subject square ly before liis readers, while Col. Albert Lamar could fling chain lightning around anything he handled, as a diversion, and when his heart and his head together tackled his editorials he was matchless for terseness and brilliancy. Mr. Henry Grady is inimitable as a delineator, far out-stripping “Gath,” who has under taken such a mammoth contract in the Cincinnati Enquirer that his brain seems tired, jaded, worn out. The wit is spread on so thinly that it is tasteless, vapid, stale. Mr. Richardson, of the Savannah Times, comes next, we believe, for tact and sparkle, while Great Heart, in the Evening Xews, slings a sledge-hammer when he rounds a point or defends a friend. Mr. Estill is said to be a finish ed editor, but as be fails to exchange with us we are unable to place him in this list. Wiien W. 11. Ilideli sharpens his pencils on the Rome Courier, he will give somebody a race for the prize. Xor will we forget the News and Advertiser, for its talent overflows its little sheet. The Atlanta Journal has had remaikable success, and seems to be gaining a foot hold where ail other evening papers have die*] heretofore. Success to it! Man y thanks to the Wesleyan Advo vocate for its offer to club with us. If there is any editor anywhere who ever belonged to Bartow county that stands higher than Rev. J. W. Burke we would like to see him. It was Casa when be so journed with us, but we claim him ail the same. He has built up a splendid circulation in the Advocate and deserves all the credit that belongs to him. He should succeed because he merits success. I)r. Wright, of Dalton, died in Atlan ta. Our sympathy to his wife nd family. ISA VGVRA TICS DA Y. Before we go to press next week Mr. Cleveland will have taken the oath ot office and the people will be dressing for the ball. T 1 e supper is to be all cooked in New York city—except hot teas and coffee and such other viands as will not bear transportation and which are to be served up hot and smoking. If the weather is go.i l there will be a great dis play—ln tlie streets, as oon as it is cleverly dark, and the fireworks will be magnificent, if they equal those we saw when Hayes and Garfield were inau gurated, and they p;omise to “yap the climax”—to use an old saying. The 4th of March, in the year 1877, came on Sunday, and it was understood that Mr. Hayes and Chief Justice Waite performed a small tableau scene in the White House about noon of that day, in which one held the Bible and the ether kissed it. It was a little uncertain at that hour whether there would be a peaceable surrender on the part of the Democrats, and w ith a resolution horn of fear, and perhaps cowardice, Ruther ford B. took the oath twice. The next day, our family of three, set oft' for the Capitol, after an early breakfast and by the quickest route. Members of Con gress had control of three tickets, be sides an “open sesame” for themselves, so we gave away two, and contrived by a little feminine strategy to get a front seat in the Senate gallery about nine o’clock a. m. It was dull waiting for a spell, but in due time the crow and began to push in. Soon the roar in the outside street announced the approach of the pageant that made its way through Pennsylvania avenue —the crowd kept back on each side by a solid line of police and sol diery. About the time the air was re sounding with cheers, drowning the thunder of artillery at the Arsenal and Navy Yard, Mrs. Senator Sherman w-alked down ihe gallery steps, grace fully pointing out a seat to a handsome lad} , who accompanied her. Her com panion was Mrs. Hayes, and the two children that followed were Scott and Fanny. A murmur ot applause ran around the Senate chamber and the good lady’s eyes brightened, while a love ly rose color suffused her face at the demonstration. Directly the Foreign Legations began to arrive, Sir Edward Thornton in his official costume leading the way, and Aristarchi Bey, the Turkish Minister, in his brilliant fez cap, in the rear. The Grand Duke Alexis, and his attendant, also appeared, a lad of eighteen or twen ty, not remarkable for beauty or grace, although a well-built, sturdy looking chap, whose interest never seemed to flag to the end of the proceedings. The officers, high in rank, <4 both army and navy, dressed in full uniform, stood about in the hall, Hie crowd now becoming a literal jam. The main door to the chamber opened, and eight. Supreme Court Judges entered, in full costume, long biack sWk gowns, that hung in rich folds about corpulent forms. One, the ninth, Judge Davis, wore a genteel business suit, ready to take the oath of office as a newly-elected Senator from the State of Illinois. As soon as the dignitaries were seated, a hush fell on that restless throng, and as the door opened again the Seriate ad vanced, followed bv Senator Ferry the acting Vice-President, and VV. A. Wheeler, the new Vice-President, arm in arm. Just behind them walked Gen. Grant and Mr. Hayes, a sturdy couple, well matched in size, but very dissimilar in person and manner. The doors swung to and the chaplain rose, with outstretched hands, to pray God’s bless ing on the old and the new, “The king is dead 1” “Long live the king!” Vice-President Wheeler took the oath of office and the new Senators also, among the number Ben Hill, of Georgia, and M. C. Butler, of South Carolina. These things consumed some time, but finally the Senate adjourned to the front of the Capitol where Mr. Hayes was to make his littie speech and kiss the Book in the presence of tens ot thousands, who had packed the open space for hours under a biting, sleet/ wind, to oatoh a glimpse of the Xation’s new ruler,elected by one solitary electoral vote,as so declared. A3 we had missed the procession to see the proceedings in the Senate chamber, we crept out quietly and hurried with all speed to our hotel on the Avenue to witness the return from the Capitol. We thought the world and his brother had gone up the hill to hear the inaugural address, but the avenue was so densely crowded, we were forced more than once to rub against the walls, while the policeman flourished his club over some pickpocket who wa3 caught going through the purse of a haples; visitor who had hardly yelled “stop thief,” be fore the club came down on the ras cal’s head with a dull thud. Right glad were we to find ourselves and our little charge safe within the hos pitable shelter of the old Xational, and hardly had we reached our third-story window, when the head of the proces sion with the forty musicians of the Ma rine Bind, in full blast, began to file along before us. We were just in time to see it all. Oh! the soldiers, the ma rines, the artillery, the flags, the bands, the cavalry, the hundreds and frhe thou sands of blue-coats, intermixed with sailor boys, in full naval rig and swag ger. Once or twice that “blue coat” vi-ion recalled. =o much of our wartimes, j Chat a tear would start, but when the j President’s carriage drove slowly along : with poor Mr. Hayes, hat in hand, and ! his weary head bowing around like the j beat of a slow moving pendulum, we : got over the sadness and wondered if he j would escape the toothache that night j after such a bare-headed spell in that I bleak wintry, air. Oh ! the rush, the hurry, ‘bo eiation of j the Republicans, and the ill-concealed > vexation of the Democrat.', the gossip I about cabinets, and the muttered wrath of the Tildenites who were “so near, and j yet so far! ! ” At tea-time, we saw a quiet, home spun looking couple come in, take their seats and order their supper, just as we were about to pass on our way out. Imagine our surprise, when introduced to Secretary McCrary, the new Minister of War, who had just received his port folio from the new Executive. For a day or two the rumors flew thiek and fast as to who should be Postmaster- General. It was understood to be a Southern man and a Democrat, but if D. M. Key was as much surprised as we were when he was announced to the public, he must have felt giddy from the shook. We wonder if anybody will be in doubt next Wednesday night as to what department he will fall into, and in which dwelling belonging to Uncle Sam he will toast his shins and rest his political ambi tion for the next four years? We expect great things of Mr. Clevt-1 aud and wish him hearty success. AX OLD TRUNK. We have in our possession a little hair trank which has a history. In shape it is nearly round, about two feet long and eight inches high, 'with an iron ring on each end to fasten on the back part of a saddle. The writer’s father purchased it in the year 1813. The federal government in that year called for a levy of Georgia troops. Oglethorpe county furnished a company of volunteers. The ollicers of that com pany were: Owen, captain; John Felton, Ist lieutenant; Elisha Strong, 2nd lieutenant; Burwell Pope, 3rd lieu tenant. They went directly into service and the entire Georgia force of 3,500 men under command of Gen. John Floyd, were ordered to rendezvous at Fort Haw kins, near where the city of Macon is now built. This little trunk was thete —in the midst of these brave young Georgians. Capt. Owen soon sickened and died and the owner of the trunk became captain of the company. It next took a trip—in the unbroken wilderness from the Oc mulgee to the Chattahoochee, some miles below Columbus —where Gen. Floyd’s troops built Fort Mitchell. Gen. Floyd ordered a detachment of sixteen hundred men to move on an Indian town. They camped at night, of the 26th of January, 1814, near a small creek and swamp called Challitbee, without breast works, and with great pine knots bla zing in the depths of a dense pine forest. An hour and a half before day they were roused by the war-whoops of 3,000 Indians—arrows, bullets, tomahawks flew around these gallant young Geor gians—and many of them awoke,in a few moments to sleep again forever. The little trunk was on hand, in the midst of one of the bloodiest battles of the cam paign—which tested the courage and en durance of that brave little army of militiamen. The little trunk was there, when Gen. Floyd dashed bravely to the front, his white charger a clear target for the dusky foe. It was near when gallant Captain Samuel Butts fell, shot through the heart, dead. Jett Thomas commanded the single cannon in the fight. Every man around the gun was either killed or wounded, and he had loaded and fired it himself before help reached him—the Indians at' that moment almost touching the mi zzle of the gun. Daybreak witnessed the flight of the enemy and the shouts of the pursuers. This little old. trunk followed these Oglethorpe boys everywhere, messed with them, slept with them and trav eled with them for six months, during Floyd’s campaign. It held in its diminu tive space all the clothing its owner did not wear, his razor and soap, his ink and paper, and everything ho was obliged to have for his personal comfort alone. It is lined with a paper printed in New York city, dated November 14th, 1812, and the newspaper was called “The War.” The print is as clear to-day as then, and one place we find the sailing of the Constitution and Hornet in command of Commodore Cambridge, as a news item. W. 11. F. Senator Hale, of Maine, who voted against Speer, is said to have made alliance with some of the Democrats to secure the passage of meas ures, and that he was willing to sacrifice Mr. Speer to make sure of the votes he needed.— Augusta Chronicle. We are afraid the Chronicle gave its case away. What can be charged so openly of Senator Hale can be easily charged on another Senator. Mr. Hale’s party did not vote unanimously—four Republicans declining to vote for Mr. Speer—while the Democracy gave a solid vote one way. People who live in glass houses should look before they throw stones. Eh! Chronicle! Mr. Hale will find less trouble with bis vote than some other people will with theirs, and we are inclined to think the Chronicle felt inclined to go outside and pinch itself when It saw the above in cold type. That gun “kicked,” no mis take ! The dedication cf the Washington monument marks a great era in our his tory. It is the highest structure in the world built by human hands, being 550 feet high. Gen. Washington deserves the monument —for he is the prominent fig ure, that filled the whole civilized earth when his prowess and patriotism made America the “Crown Diamond” in the coronet of nations. The day of dedica tion was vert' cold, and froze out senti ment—for the speeches fell rather flat on the listeners, it seems. The inaugura tion will lx? a bigger thing than the dedi cation although the latter will live longer in history. When America Closes her gates on the poor people in foreign lands, who are willing to come here and make “waste places to rejoice,” then will her glory have departed. She will lx> no longer the shelter of those whose kindred set tled at Plymouth Rock and Jamestown. Xo wonder the South is poor! Oh! im pudence where is thy limit? We arc sorry that our subscribers have to write so often that their Cocrants fail to go. There lias been much confusion in railway schedules during the hard weather. We hope it will soon he all right. Meantime let us know when your Coukant does not reach you and wc will send another. THE GRANT TENSION. Thk Cori:axt never had any favors from Gen. Grant, therefore its advoeacy is neither gratitude or the hope ot per sonal favor. Had we opposed his pen sion when he had given our family, lor years together, a fat office, common grat itude would have kept our mouths shut. The general is wearing away with cancer of the tongue —likely to die with that slow torture*at any time. The North and West are going to honor him with a pen sion for the few days or weeks lie has to live. In the midst of his failing health how sadly must lie remember that sharp er than a serpent’s tooth is ingratitude. The Southern soldiers respect Gen Grant and it is not that class which is now hig gling over a brief pension to the idol of the Federal Army, and his pension has no more to do with depriving Southern soldiers of a pension than with the pass age of a bill to any other foreign subject. Southern soldiers with one leg and arm will never forget that Gen. Grant, after the war, declared that his limbs shoul be torn from him one at a time be fore Southern soldiers like Gen. Fee should be tried and hung as traitors. THE WEATffER Is perfectly awful. Tuesday morning a northeast gale was blowing heavily. Soon it began to spit fine sleet, and be fore noon the land was transformed into an arctic display. The wand of a ma gician had touched the dull, black shiubs, weeds and sodden grass, and lo: the world was a fairy scene of pearls and the fences were chains of jewels rare. A drive of three miles, under the pelting sleet, took all the romance out of our na ture.' and we were glad to see the old farm house with its cheery fire. Is this the Sunny South ? W. B. Lockett, who was ousted from the control of his father’s convicts by order of Gov. McDaniel for cruelty, has been elected president of penitentiary No. 2, instead of his father. One way to circumvert a dismissal, by a promotion. Tiie first number of Judge Under wood’s “Reminiscences of the Chero kees,” will appear in our next issue. Little Freddie Turner, of Cedartown, died a few days ago. May heaven com fort the dear parents! David Dickson, Georgia’s most cele brated farmer, died suddenly last week. Dr. Fox, of Atlanta, stricken with paralysis. Getting better. An Open Letter. IN WHICH ALL LADIES DEEPLY INTERESTED. READ IT, Belair, Ga., Nov. G, 1884. Ge/ntlp ,ren: I have been using your wonderful remedy, “Dr. Bradfleld’s Female Regulator,” in my fam ily for a long time, and 1 want to say to the suf fering ones of my sex that there never was any thing to equal it. Would to God that every afllict ed woman in our lahd knew ol its wonderful virtues aud curative powers aa I do. 1 have used a great deal of it since the hirth of my last child, about a year and half ago, and I do think had it not been for this valuable medicine, I would have been IIIS ID-It 133 ID Til 3NT WOK lalß’lS ! But thanks to a kind Providence, I was directed to its use, and my life and health have been spared me 1 If my means would admit of it, I would never be without it in my house, 1 recommended it to a number of my friends and without exception they have all been won derfully relieved and cured. I give tills indorse ment without solicitation and freely, for the benefit of the suffering ones of my sex. Very Respectfully Mrs. Anna Ramp. Send for our Treaties on Female Diseases, mailed freo, Address, The Bradfxeld Regulator Cos., fob?fi-liu Box 28, Atlanta Ga. t’oiinly C’ourl Sale**. Will be sold before the court house door, in the city otCartersville, between thelegftl hours of Side, on the first Tuesday in March, 1885, the following property, to-wit: One doubt e-door iron safe, lies ring’s r-itent Chamwion make, combination lock, in store house ot .Jones Brother A Cos. Let ied on and will be sold as the property of Toombs it. Jones and James IJ.1 J . Jones, under fieri lacias from Bartow County Court, in favor ot Ornstein A Rice, vs. Jones Bros. & Cos. Property pointed out by John W. A kin, plaintiff’s attorney. JAMES G. BROUGHTON, Feb. 2.td County Court Bailiff. WOTICJE. , GEORGIA—Bartow County. Whereas, Geo. 11. Waring and E. E Howard have applied to the Court of Ordinary to have Julia Pamela MoMann, 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 m ruy office (it any they have) on or by*thc first Monday in March next, else said orphan will be bound out, as provid ed by Statute. February 2,1885, 2.61 41* J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary. GEORGIA—Bartow County. WHEREAS, Austin Foster lias applied for I.etters of Guardianship of the person and property oi Clem Foster, a minor resi lent of said county. Therefore all persons con cerned, are hereby notified to file their objec tion, if any they have, in my otlice within the time prescribed by law, else Leters will be granted applicant on the first Monday in April next. February 19th, 1 s>s. J. A. HOW ARO, Ordinary. RULE 10 PERFECT SERVICE, Emma Guyton, j James A. Guyton. $ Libel for Divorce. It appearing to the Court that an order was taken at the last term of this court to perfect service upon the defendant in the above stated case, and it being now represented that the service then provided for by said order was not made; it is now ordered by the Court that service be perfected on the defendant by the publication Cf this order once a month lor four months before the uext term of this court iu the Cartersvtlle American, a newspaper published m Bartow county, Georgia. c Granted in open court, January (16th) term 18*5. T. J. SIMMONS, J. S. C. A. M. Foute, petitioner’s attorney, A true extract from the minutes. F. M. Durham, Clerk S. C. SHELBY ATTAWAY, A. T O R N F, Y -AT - LA W, Cabteksville, Geoboia. First stairway below Postoftiee, Bank Block, febia tf “Housekeeping In the Sunny South.” This is the title of anew cook book gotten up by Mrs. E. R Tennent, of Marietta, Ga., and published byJas, F. Harrison & Cos., of Atlanta. No pains or expenses have been spared to make it the most perfect book of its class ever published. The recipe for making F. M. Jack’s famous bread is published for the first time. It is alone worth the price of the book. The great fault with most cook books on the market are their ex travagant demands, which r uder them valueless to the masses. This will suit the plainest and most economical as well as the millionaire, who can a fiord the costliest luxuries. The best housekeep ers, bakers and confectioners not only of the South, but of every section, have contsrbuted their tried and valued recipes. The list is indeed a brilliant one. The book contains four hundred pages, is ele gantly printed on the finest cream timed paper, and boundin eloth. it will ap pear Febraruy Ist. Price Two Dollars."" Send your orders now to Mrs. E, R. Tennent. feb 12 If Administrator's Notice. will be made to the Court o Ordinary, ol Bartow County, Georgia, at the first regular term after the expiration ol four weeks from this notice, for leave to tell pay of the lands belougir.g to estate of John Posey, deceased,JPf the benefit #f (he cred itors of said deceased. R. F. Posey, Administrator. nc3B -It. GEORGI A—B i rtow Connt y. WHERE AS, Richard B. Carnes has applied lor Letters of Guardianship of the nel - son and property of Oscar Cook, a minor res i • dent of said county, under 14 rears of age Therefore, all per>ons eoneerned are .herd y notified to tile their objections, it any they have, in mv office within the time pre.vribod bv law, else letters will be granted applicant on first Monday in April next. TUG February 20th, 1885. J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary. THK REASON WHY? • General Science. —Why should we seek knowledge? Because i( assists us to comprehend the goodness and p over of God. —Why should we use Curry’s Cough Cure? Because it alleviates the distressing soreness and difficult breathing of all spasmodic bron chial irritations. —Why do we breathe air? Because the air contains oxygen, which is necessary to life. Why do mothers keep constantly on hand Gur ry’s Cough Cure? Because they can go to bed with the assurance that if their little ones arc seized with croup, they have within their reach a sovereign remedy. —Why is oxygen necessary to life? Because it combines with the carbon of the blood and forms carbonic acid gas. —Why is Curry’s Liver Compound placed be fore the people as a blood purifier? Because it contains the very elements that attack impure and effete matter in the blood, aud eliminates or drives them from the system. Why is this combination (C. L. C.) necessary? Because we are so created that the substances of our bodies are constantly undergoing change, and thus revolving pure for impure matter by its direct alterative efiect, is the end necessary. —Why do we see blocks of ice wrapped in blankets or flannel in summer time? Because flannel, being a non conductor, prevents the ex ternal heat from dissolving the tee. —Why does D. W. Curry guarantee to refund the money to dissatisfied purcliacers of Curry’s Liver Compound? Because he well knows the ingredients will not disappoint him and that time has established a record upon which ho can stand. Why do people with torpid livers yield So the depressing influences of excessive cold or heat? Because there is that in the blood winch is in direct conflict with Jiealtliful combustion in the system—those poisonous enervating clcirents are entirely removed by Curry’s Liver ( ouiU pound. , —Why are hot rolls sent out by the bad In flannel? Because the flannel being a bad conductor does not carry off the heat of the rolls. —Why should we use Curry’s Liver Compound in hot weather! Because it relieves the system, of torpidity and infuses new hfo info our being. —Why are seeds generally enveloped in lmr l cases? Because the coming of tlio seed, like tha shell ol’ an egg, is designed to preserve the g. nn. —Why does everybody expect such good, re sults from vegetable seeds obtained from David W. Curry? Because ho handles only the purest aud freshest, buys only from growers who use the best measures to preserve their seed from atmospheric and other hurtful influences. All the seed sold by 1). W. Curry are guaranteed , true to name, and the best obtainable. Almost all the Jeading varieties, especially those used by most people, of tins section of the country are kept. Why is it proper to have beds raised about two feet from the ground? Because at night, the bed-room being closed, the lirealh'of the sleeper impregnates the air of the room with carbonic acid gas, which, descending, lies in its greatest density near to the floor, —Why is Curry’s Liver Compound the best remedy for cold hands and feet? Because it re stores to the blood vessels .their lost tone and stimulates active aud equal circulation through out the body. —Why do people feel drowsy in crowded rooms? Because the largo amount of carbonic acid gas given off with the breaths of the people makes the air poisonous and oppressive. —Why, therefore, should every family use Cur ry’s Liver Compound? Because the excessive impurities thrown off in breathing is rendered sweet and inoeuous be fore leaving the lungs. —Why do some articles of clothing feel cold and others warm? Because some are had con ductors of heat and do not draw off' much of the warmth of our bodies; while others are better conductors and take up .a large portion of our warmth. —Wiiy do a great many remedies occasionally loom up with a great deal of fu-s, Only to .soon pass altogether out of notice, and to virtue en tirely lost? Because they possess little or no merit, sometimes giving relief for awhile, yet doing no permanent or lasting good. cutr. Livdr Compound owes its continued success to the lasting and efficient action in eradicating disease. —Why is Curry’s Cough Cure put up in smafl and large sizes? Because a small hot He i , in tended to cure a single individual, while fami lies prefer to keep large bottles on hand, —Why does it frequently feel warmer after a frost has set in? Because, in tiie act of cong'-l-t --tion a great deal of heat is given out, and taken up by the air. —Why do those who have tested Curry’s Cough Cure, recommend it as the best remedy of its kind? Because it is perfectly natural to “praise the bridge that carries us safely over.” * —Why is it frequently cold when a thaw takes place? Because, in the process of thawing,a aiertaiu amount of heat is withdrawn from the air, and enters the thawed ice. —Why does D. W. Curry claim that Curry's Liver Compound and Curry’s Cougip.Cure are the in comparable remedies for meases for which they are recommended? IV ause a crit ical public has tested their virtues and unites tatingly pfonounce them the best. —Why do we see the sua before sunri.se and after sunset? Because of the refractive effects of the atmosphere. Why do physicians recommend Curry’s liver Compound? Because D. W. Curry gives any regular physician his formula, and they do not fear to use it—it meets all the indications for which it is prepared. —Curry’s Liver Compound and Curry VCotigh Cure is sold by druggist, an l merchants generally throughout the Southern stay s. U. JE. O A !>4< Resident Dentist, Office over Curry’s drug store, Cartofsvliie, fabs