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THE COURANT. Kvei’y 'JTu l AHTKIiMVILL: . CKOItOIA. IMF cor HA YT > r W "'-■/ n Kitty morning ani /* rtrlh -reel t,y iyrrr>'r* in t/trmtrpg • t menths, SO ‘■Hitt; three mouth*, 60 < * 4WKttT/sUij; HA Tits <>‘p •“> ■ lor.ition , ■ in the pnper, owl u>Cl 0* f r *he<t on ttpplicfl tion. 00RItESPOHOMXCF coot.lining important fieic* *olir/teit from oft / irts of the county. J Dlt It ESS vtl letters, < xnicaflon* ft nr! t*>- eetut’.M, 'ter l l ,„uh4 oil tft* or ■'■ e . Z ’ IHK OOf’ltAVT, CarterxriUe, On. DOCTOR AND i!RS. W. H. FELTON. APRIL 23 1885. smrxa. It has been more than thirty yeais since we ceased to write compositions on ■priog; atnl we felt tlvu that the season had been a dreadful sullen r at the hands of dull school Kiris. I! it, to-day, the first balmy day that the year 1833 has vouchsafed to us, we are provoked to say something of itonoe again. As we sit on our back piazza, a little weary with bouse work, we watch a pa r of mocking birds who are cautiously in specting a small cedar tree near us, prep aratory to the building of a nest and a home. Both are not fully agreed upon its capabilities. They have bopped from limb to limb, but one has retired —llown away. The male poises himself on the topmost branch and Hoods the air with it gushing, rapturous song. Some new beauty has been discovered; some supply of waste cotton, dry grass or shapely twigs are near, and the note of recall is •ounded. Oh! how busy, how happy! They are not careworn, fearful and anx ious, like poor human souls. With a confidence as sweet as it is trustful, they throw care to the winds, and are happy in their duty. The Great Father in structs them to build a nest, and they do it without any dread of the cold ruins and the dreadful bays who make such havoc with eggs and young birds* They are happy in their work. Two years ago another pair of bird* made a nest in the same tree. They pushed it to completion, rcgtliug us w ith Hoods of liquid melody the meanwhile. The little mother sit on Iter nest—the appointed time—and the little birds were heard to twitter. The delight of the singing pa rent was wonderful to see. There were “songs in the night’’ and songs in the day. They fed and they watched. A pair of envious j ty birds had however made a nest in an overhanging limb of an oak—above the cedar. They com menced war on our singing pets, and daylight showed ns the ruin they had wrought. The soft-padded nest was in fragment* on the ground—also three little dead birds, stiff and cold. We buried the hapless little things in the nest that parental love hail prepared for them, and during the summer that followed some mocking birds—perhaps the sorrowing parents—came occasionally' to sing for us or to mourn the loved and lost. If they are here again to stay we shall try' to watch for the forays of the blue jay— t! Mr, 1 thuf onntrivo* to make itself very disagreeable Jjj well as to gen tle mocking birds. " The soft warm airs that rustle and play around us are intoxicating, even to the guinea liens. They are boisterous. One has just made us a visit —overflowing with noise and exuberance of spirits. The little calves arc chasing each other' arrosa the grass lot, uml old I’ompey nibbles :it the short pasturage, with as much complacency as we shall cat a dish ot fresh crisp lettuce for our dinner. While the birds arc at work busily, the oaks that seemed so dead and cold three days ago, are now hanging out myriads of tassels to adorn the hard black stems. The young oak blossoms are as tender and yellow as the first feathers of my mocking birds’ babies. Did you ever rolled on the impulsive eagerness of the trees to lling out their tassels in the spring ? The adornment begins down on the branches and streams, and is completed when the lord ly mountain chestnut, bursts into a splen did fountain of cream-colored blossoms in summer. All grades and varieties have a delicacy of coloring—a modifica tion of pattern. Nature is so bounteous that she rarely repeats herself. Just as soon as spring can throw back her curtains to take in the warm, genial heat of the season, then she sets herself to decorating the forests with tassels. The little brown scales, that open to al low their appearance, are hardy and tough. They hold to the grim old bark, while the yellow, graceful blossoms wave to and fro, occasionally rippling in the wind like silken i.inge on a lady’s man tle. As we write the thunder mutters. The April shower is iu sight. Sweet violets are now beautifying the lawns and tlsjwer gardens. They come, too, at the easiest moment. Like the robins, the blue-birds and the tassels, thev are here. V'u;qh as patiently as you will, timing the cold, bleak, windy days, and you wiil see no llowers, but let a warm day come, let the gentle South wind blow . over them, and here they are, purple and fresh, filling the air with their sweet and delicate perfume. They claim no hot-house care. They arc solt reliant. Only give them a place t > root, and the colony will be settled aid ready for work, What poet says: "Lilies for a bridal bed. Hoses fora matron's bead. Violets for the maiden dead?" Oh! that the flowers could teach us the lesson of dying! The violets fade early, they vanish, but under the snows, beneath the wintry storms, they hold their vitality; and when light comes, ami heat warms, they spring up to speak in flower language or the beauty of hu mility an i the fragrance of a holy con secrated life. It death would only stretch out a friendly hand, put off the ashen, gray look, the scourge of pain and th r.ii“k of disease, that is so .orbdiding! Now, that the earth is waking up to the tremendous eagerness of nature to clothe it with verdant beauty and fresh ness, can we nor, also, throw aside the null, heavy cares that so beset and pur u>, mu] nilow iht? fresh, sweet iu- i fluencesof life to invigorate our minds i and hearts ? 1 xcr.ijEJt of rus coxricr, ui w-~ V 5 /? Judge Dooly is credited with the say ing: “God foreknows ali ft-lugs but the decisions of a petit jury. ‘ The verdict of flu* jury in the trial of Due Jackson, fsr the killing of the white convict, Faulkner, at the camp of Lockett & Cos., ii Fulton county, to us is a strange one. They* found him gtiiltv of murder, it is t'ue.Tiot fixed his sentence to imprison ment for life, instead of the extreme pen alty of the law. There may have been mitigating circumstances which have never reached the newspapers, but esti mating the crime by the published testi mony, we assert it was the most dastard ly and fiendish murder ever committed in Georgia. The prominent features of this crime, which would have disgraced a -savage tribe of Malays, are as follows: A white man who, for some minor .fel ony, had been sentenced to the chuin "gang, is ordered, late one Sunday after noon. in e> , r with sixteen other com ids, to carry’the cans of night soil to the j “i. lie is wearing, at the tiaye, heavy' chains and shackles, which unfit ted him for swimming or for making his escape by any other means. He told bis negro guard lie was too -ick to go, but the excuse was insufficient to the negro, lie was forced to perform the duty. While stooping uow n to empty his can, his foot slipped and he 101 l into the river. As lie drifted a few feet from the bank, and is seen by' bis fellow convicts beating the water, as if struggling to save hint self from drowning, it is an nounced that “a man is in the river,” whereupon this negro guard, Doc Jack son, armed with a double-barrelled, breech-loud in g shot gun, which Had been placed in his hands by the lessees, Lock ett & Cos., runs to the bank and fires at the drowning man. Five buckshot are lodged in his brain and spine. lie sinks to the bottom of the liver instantly. When Jack on Is asked if lie bad killed Faulkner, lie replies : “Yes, I have kill ed him deader than the devil. I’ve been waiting a long time-for a shot at him. T would not take S.IOO for the shot.” Faulkner’s recovered body' was brought to the camp that night in a dump cart, still bound with chain and shackle weigh ing three pounds, and riveted around his ankles so firmly that they had to he cat oil with a chisel. Here is this white man, a convicted felon, it is I me, having for his guards two brutal negroes, without intelligence and filled to the brim with malicious, liafr, swelling with a little brief author ity' over white men ! Are wc tint authorized in saying it was the most brutal murder that ever dis graced the State of Georgia? The jury recommends him to the mercy of the court, when his crime deserve Ia quick halter. Lockett was represented v offer ing an easy time to any' eon.Gt -who would testify favorably for his employee,' Jackson. it is a sad thought that any' white per son, who In a freak of passion or mo ment of temptation may commit a crime, for which he is sent to the chain-gang, should he placed under the shotguns of -ttegro guaiils. This is a little too much for the white men of Georgia.to submit to longer. While we believe this demoniac guard' richly desetves death in its severest form for tills premeditated {‘rime—a crime which is barbarous iu all it- sur roundings and details—vet we believe also that the owners of this conv* t camp are more responsible to Go-1 and more criminal in the sight of all just men for this bloody’ outrage than the ink urn an wretch that fired tlm gun. The men, who through infernal greed, because these guards can lie lilr and cheap- i ly,and because they are known to be more 1 exacting, with less mercy and mere 1 fiendish instincts than others, have placed ! these two brutes, Doc Jackson and Daws j Wyly as guards, armed with shotguns j over chained convicts, either white or black, richly' merit the execration of all honorable men. We opine, if the good people of Geor gia were empanelled’as a petit jury, and th? owners of this convict camp were placed on trial before them, for the mur der of Faulkner, their verdict would be “guilty without recommendation.” Tnere is another and still more disrep utable truth connected with this foul murder, namely, that the State of Geor gia, by previous legislative and execu tive acts, becomes jmrfietps erf minis with'. Lockett t To., and witn Doe Jackson in the commission of this crime. A State which, by its legislative acts, has made such a crime possible must be held mor ally as an accessory to that crime. Just as Lockett & Go , are responsible at the bar of public opinion, and we firmly be lieve at the bar of (tod, for this attro oious murder of a white convict by a ne gro guard, infuriated by Ids hate of the j white man. so we believe the legislature : of Georgia is responsible to the game ; tribunals tor T.nekett & Cos. A groat state that releases all control of her con victs to the greed and cruelty of such h “artless men, disgraces her honor and her civilization. “Am 1 my brother’s k eperThis was the question ask and by Cain v hen he was interrogated concerning the murder of his brother. Most assuredly he Was, but especially is the S ate of Georgia ;he keeper of her convicts. In the Provi dence of God, and by iier own violated statutes, these convicts are committed to the keeping of inhuman men and the State canned shirk her responsibility by pleading ignorance. She sins with her eyes wide open. The violation of Iter duty to her convicts is the foulest blot ou the State of Georgia. VV. H. F. A xkwspaceb like the Cuckant. which is circulating in several other States be sides Georgia, cannot ‘afford to advertise people \v ho attack it and raise quarrels to get thus advertised. That policy would i not please our readers or satisfy the de mand of the reading public. To fight such small game in print, who raise a dirty smoke to hide tlteir own short comings, would be like rolling cut a for- j ty-pouuder cannon to blow up a “brush j heap.” * Now that Gen, Grunt i-- iid to he get ting well, the and .-et rs find it hard to cx Plain v.by he dkl not die, when they kept the whole country in a stateVf ex pectancy on the Mibju-f. There is a lu dicrous squint to'the- bvte.sf telegram* on the subject. On Frid A night Rs*-. Gen. Grant got a good night’* rest. Tim doe tors went to bed, the nurse -wchc to bed, and On. Osn-it w;s o'•: ~->q! v al lowed to sleep. • “f slept; live hours find <* .(rdf srdiflp-,” Gen. Grunt said to Harris-m, am! when his sgi v<Vit aike l him how inj w jew this said : “Oil, I got the bestof vmi fell Ws; I did sleep five hours. The reason 1 know I slept five hours is because when I cough in flie day-time you poke some thing down my throat, and when I cough in the night time Henry pokes down.' Last night Henry di l'nof p ke anything down, so I know I must have slept right along.” Poor man ! it must h tve b< m awful to have one’s throat “puked”.so -heavily under the cireum stances. One of the doctors says he never said “Gen'll rant was going to die.” One merchant said that mourning goods had risen in price when he was under torture, ’and now mourning goods would jail. I)r. Xew mau „ thought he was partly saved by prayer, and so on, but (iegx. Grant ex plains the wholeHhing. When the doc tors worn out with poking in his ■- -1 the i iurs< s forgot to poke an his tbu poor "put-lent to' k a little sleep. Dr. .Sajigtw.U),- bled his p.u;cnt to iicuil , but Gen. abou ltd expiry because of “'poking in his tliro.it.”- President Garfield was not so fortunate. Being in high, oijioe, with six doctors, they poked in his back unlit he iliunot get time lo recover. For two long months the in lei a tig: tide savants poked in a wound and issued hourly bul letins as to_ the location of the bail, when they' “missed it a mile," an I thaT-dl dropped out of a place yCiu re the poking never readied. !j they had touched the ball with their bulletins and their pou gie’s/'-tfien. the patient might have died in quicker time—much to his relief and with less exposure to their luDeyubie charlatanism. If Geu. Grant lia learned enough by this time to k<g?p the evexla-ting poking au'ay from ins throat, tlieii he may' live to enjoy;bis pension and finish his book. In our opinion (which yye admit to be a very -mail one,) he got better when Fish went to jail, and when public opinion vvSs relieved of the grave' apprehension that lie was a guilty copartner with that adroit swindler. Ills throat was bad but his mind was m a much worse condition. To i>e the dupe of a villain was bad enough, but to appear to the country as a willing knave was awful. Asa m,-ral to thc.v hi 'dieul extravaganzas we would like r.> see our great men allowed to re cover from serious illness without so much uanecs.-:!. j slush and buncombe. 7'HK ST. LOUIS -jrRDSIt. On tb: 14th day of this month, a cham ber-:; ' ’ of the Southern Hotel, in St. Louis, Ho., complained of the the terri ble snu li cdonating from some’baggage that had been I--ft in a room, occupied on the 6 h by t • • Englishmen, who reads tcved as A. ix" H rad I Teller. • The trunk was car-1 out for inspc-C ---ti u, and when she lock - was forced a dead body 'was found, packed therein, doubled up into a stm.il sp.-q tlie tongue .drawn out, the face blac’. from decav, auu the whole in -a horri -o condition. An investigation reveals the fact that two men, corresponding to live two per sons who registered as before - stated, cam - over jtt February- oorn London, making some stay In GahatVi, Boston and other pieces, finally' reaching St. Louis. Maxwell got there first and telegraphs.d for Preller. 'The former was -aid to lx* -much pushed fo> moneys while .in ter was flush oi funds and handsomely equipped for life and luxury. ; left the hotel on the (It!-, buying an un limited ticket to San Francisco, intend ing to sail for Auckland, as he casually stated. A cable dispatch has keen sent to have him arrested whenever the ship lands in Australia. No‘one seemed to know what day Preller left, or whether he left J ;d’ until the horrible stench prow!-. :d an investigation. In the trunk, I pasted above mangled, rotting head, | was a paper, with these words thereon, j. “So perish all traitors to the good caused ■ The poor creature, it appears had been overpowered by chloroform, killed while I limp and helpless from the mu'esthetic. ! and then packed away in this medium- ■ i sized zinc trunk, Up to date all di*eov • and ies point to the fact tfi it rich Preller was murdered by impoverished Maxwell, j whose greed for money led him to the j commission of the horrible crime. Tes titnony from Boston, trom Preljer’s rtla ; tives iu that City, disclose the' cfFeetfonare j feeling, of Preller for Maxwell’. He j always assured his cousins of is high ! esteem for his countryman; and is rep- I resented as a pious Christian, intent on J good works. I The murderer may con =en f to disclose I the derails of the vile I>.-1 at some fu ture time.’ but nothing can add to the horror <f such a death md such a hi ling place for the crime. TVelierhj relatives in London arc re j ported to be of fine standing-, 'with con siderable fortune. When the news ; reaches them of this dreadful calamity, their sorrow can be imagine!. Tons, the vile hypocrisy of the murderer and his crafty diasembling, are perhaps a? odious a? hiscriine . Macon Telegraph'. ! Judge Underwood is contributing some interesting sketches to The €ar iusviuk Got'it aXT about the ( herokee Indians. In his last the judge, having gotten through with the wild Cherokee chiefs, gets down to the tame ones, the article b-iug devoted to himself and Gus vrright. We -h ill look with interest to the numbers treating of Lewis Tumlin, Bart TerLune, Torn II ekett. Johu Word. Newt Trammell. Pierce Young, Tom Lyons, “Hightower IML” and otoer ; Cherokee brave-. \ Scheuer Bros, must Be. fine buyers in the Luge markets, their stock is varied, i extended and handsome. 'FIX' OF Tffgr ??. 1 ' ■ '* ftaisnea r#aamg a pub- | Hsiied ]• tt r fro in'a ctergyifteri who has'l bren visiting Western Fiorila, below 1 TAN ARUS.;! 1 Ut.n??---. ofic. : the most pro-perods i> <tt of that F:ate, In which he says: *-Tt“it may ' fi: een iit cm either road j fr'> >i Tit :;i--ee and not find a dozen j white children in the fifteen allies. Fur mb - :he u.c- --i i mansions ate given up to the colored race, in some cases there are not living members enough of t he old fufliH#s p> tell where the dead are but Gd, iu others they are gat’tered into the city for sympathy a .and help while a few are r■ sflutcly turned away from the brightness of the past ami are nobly fighting for the necessities of the pres ent.” The-e words recall to us the changes that have tab n place around and about us di. We can each look over our im mediate neigh: rhootls and repeat them for ourselves. Our mind went back to old Cassvilie, w hicli v. as such a charming town before the torch of the invader Hi 1 it in ashes. When it had its two colleges, its good .n.iiiy piosperpu ; zens, we can think of no place that ex celled it for genuine hospitality and cul j tured society. M aiy of these good eiti zo is, or their children, arc still in the | place autl viciuiry, “resolutely' turned | away from the brightness of the past i and nobly figuring for tiio necessities of i the present.” Memory brings bade a commencement occasion *i tiic Methodist College, when Dr. Lovick Fierce okeotrifiod an immense audience with his wonderful power as an orator and divine, and of another commencement at the Baptist College, when lion. \Y m. 11. bales made the clos ing address of the.occasion. It was the first time we had ever seen him,-and. the impress.of ius magnificent address has never left our mind. Aoi exactly in front of him sat his wife, the memory of whose magnificent eyes will ever remain wiihTis. As the speaker would thrill its with enthusiasm or charm our souls with the retiring music of his oratory', we can recall the play of the emotion on bar face a-her heart filled with gratffi- I cation and wifely pride. What sump | limits repasts were prepared for the tnul i titude by those good people, tind how frank and engaging was their generous kindness! We recollect the old camp meeting days at Fine Log, when the multitude gathered, and where the services were so full of temporal and spiritual comfort for those in attendance, and where plen ty and good living were so. profusely set forth lor ali who came, It makes us sad to miss so many of those noble frien Is of the days of long ago, while their chil dren are scattered, wildly scattered. To come down to a little later time, just before the war, where was there ever a county lit at had a more prosper ous, euterprDiiig citizenship? The Row land’s, the Conyers’, the Tumlin’s, the Woolley’s, the Leak's, the Burge’s, Sprouil’s, the Yeung*-;, he Miiuer’s, the Woftord’s, the Word’s, the Johnson’s, the Gaiioa’ and many’ otic:■ s, dead and bit! ted long ago. What a so.: hngb’gai iralorafiy had we in Judge Ttirncr Trippe, Messrs James and Richard Milner and Col. Akiu! Their name' v, ere a tower of strength to their clients. Hr. John Lewis preached at old Pet ri kY creek church v. 1 m we first came to Cass, delighting his hearers with his ex- C'-‘!ient;cGuimo:i seuse and liis sturdy re ligion. 'The oid times are. closely associated with R gs. J no .Crawford and A. W. Bu ford, and the Baptist church,and with Revs. CrowMl, Aleck Todd and dear old uncles “Billy” Henderson and Stephen Tallis, of . 1 ■ Methodist church, and Rev. Richard A wr, of the Freabytei ian, the latter dying j u : ,in his early prime. Ills fuuertl discourse was preached by Rev, Francis Gouiun-g, thou living at Kings ton, and -ome of his beautiful allusions, metaphors and comparisons are as fresh now in our mind as then. We had a charming coterie of imme diate neighbors, and when we mention Maj. Wiiiis Bonham, (Jol. Foster, Col. Mick Juiiusioo, Mr. John Shepherd, Maj. Milner, Mr. John Kennedy, Messrs. Smith and Guyton, we tell the story of their xeeiier.ee and our neighborly sat isfaction v Nearly all are gone—“passed over the river, under the shade of the trees,” We, the survivors, are toiling aw ay. lighting persistently, if not nobly, ; “for the i- cessities of the nresent.” WHY 11F, I)ID IT. A gintleimui 1.-i Homo some days ago was relating-to a circle of gentlemen the particulars of a mean, thievish, ungrate ful trailsaetjon on the part of a map vviiom they -.11 knew. Said he, “I can’t see yiiy the fellow did it. I have helped ] him“time nod ;.'gain* ar>d have been his friend when he needed friends badly.” A } e minent c : iz- n asked. “Did you | do a great deal u< 1 lor him? Did you put youc-slt outdo do a heSp for him !” “Yes,” was the reply. “That explain* it. Nine cases out of t ten v- here you strain a point to help peo ple—they hate you so, because of the ob ligation—that they feel compelled to do ; you an injury.’’ is this true $ W* are in ' ued o think so.- IlrxTsvrj.LE. Ga , April 1-1. ’So. -Cunu.xn How is it the- Goi uaxt . don’t get to II ilh until Wed ue-Jay, I wbei* ,ve have, two nr-.h- per week? It • ! ought to get 1; rr-Sj’’ , y. I Uke the paper, hut am dMt'tisth’d wi h the delay. A'ours respe fully, VV". G. Bao*et. We cannot tell you where the delay occur-. It i mailed in time to go oft' early Thursday morning. We are sorry you are disappointed in getting it, but we are comforted tb know it gets there even at that late date. It is anno • _u> feel that our subscribers are thus foder ed. but we art doing our best to secure better attention to the paper, for our own -uk '- an Tfor the sake of our Subscribers. Ju-t received, the large- ~and most beautiful stock of Mens’, 15 and ehil- ; dicn-J straw hats, at awful low prices. SC JlLL'mi Bi:os, Cili.no KJßl-: NATION, I. T. Ejk<Rw 1 liA.N'r: T n in y<nr issue of the 2uth lilt., that winter was still ''lingering in the lap of spring,” and that imi 1, slush, ice an l snow, much to the diseomrttnre of the fanners, .were retarding the horticultural anti agricul tural intere-ts of that section. -Our recollection of llie seasons are soon at fault, and, without stopping to reflect, many are heard to sat', ‘'nothing like it ht- occurred before.” la the latter part of July, 1339, a drouth set in. It extend ed over N rth Georgia, East Tennessee, and now much farther L do not recollect. My father, Maj. IV. C. Wy] y, at that tiuio was living >ust nine miles Xorth east of C tssville, on a farm now occu pied, or a portion of it at least, bj T Olive r Richards, if 1 mistake not. In October of that year I went with my father and family to Blount county, Tennessee, on a visit to my great-grandfather, who then lived on Little Tennessee river. When we eame to the crossing of Sa-100-cohe (fat corn) creek, near which Miller Erwin redded, the water bad entirely disap peared. Nothing like it had ever occur red before, so far as any one knew'. 3Ty father, who was rather a demonstrative man and addicted to exclamations of surprise when any circumstance occur red out of the usual order of things, Ex claimed : '•Weil, well, did any one’ever see the like of this before. Sa-100-cohe creek, dry as a bone !” lie then quoted from a very aueieat author something in relation to the drying up of the waters and passed on. We remained in Blount county about four weeks, and while there my father bought a (look of sheep. A younger brother and myself drove the sheep to our home, iu Cass county. We drove them Tennessee, Counasauga and Coosawatee rivers with out swimming one of the flock. Etowah river could be forded at almost any point. Tine Log creek was less affected by the drought than any stream in that whole section of country. The dry weather continued nearly four months, during which time scarcely a drop of water fell on the earth. So much for a drought. About forty years ago, in this month, April, North Georgia was visited by weather of a phenomenal character. The winter had been exceedingly mild and spring made its appearance unusually early. Induced by the genial condition of the weather, farmers" set” their crops far in advance of what had been done any previous spring within the recollec tion of tne oldest inhabitants. The for est was as green ‘as in May; the earlier variety of garden vegetables were being used on tiie table; com was nearly knee high. My lather had 200 acres in wheat, on tlie old homestead above mentioned, which was in full head. Altogether, nothing like it itad been known in that latitude before, so the people said. The weather had been uncomfortably warm for several days, but on the 12th the temperature begad to fall, and the balmy south breezes were soon changed to chill ing blasts from the North. The heavens were overcast with leaden clouds and at night-tall stray flakes of snow could be seen drifting with the winds. The morning of tiie 13th the situ came up clear and looked down on the earth, cov ered with nearly four inches of snow. It had been a mild representation of what we call in the West, Colorado blizzard. Through the day of the 13th, “a nipping and eager air” came down from the North, and on the morning of the 14th of April the earth was ice and frost bound. Every living thing was bitten by this untimely frost. The wheat all fell down and iu three or four days would have burned off like dry grass on a Western prairie. Garden vegetables were de stroyed and tlj.e forest resumed its mid winter aspect. Not many, in old Cass enmity, now living, wilt recollect the drought of ’39. A few, perhaps several, will recollect the April snow of forty years ago. Rob. Wyi.y. April 14th, 1885. A LETrmi post-markel Cartersville, Gu., was received at the Washington postofflee the other day addressed : "Hon. Mr. Cleveland, In the White House at Washington. Please examine quick.” ft is supposed to come from a patriot, who been enjoying public pap under the republican administration, along with some of hisTkin, and who gives this "inuendo” of a desire for more.—Msfcon Telegraph and Messenger. A KISS BY MOONLIGHT. From time Immemorial, no one will pretend to deny the fact'thr.t k sues have been held in high repute by both sexes— whether active or passive, it lias bccude -11404 a LEGAL implies ACTION op hou. parties: buf when a lady aim _ plv consents to be kissed without action of her lips, it constitutes < ntv s PASSIVE kiss—a sweet deprived of its nectar. Snugly enconseed within a moss-embowered and vine-clad verandah, and almost hid from view amid sweet-scented honeysuckles, was seated a fair Atlanta nymph, whose beautiful dark eyes, alabaster complexion and voluptuous contour, seemed to DASCE tfie young gent by her si who ever anti anon, while circumnavigating her slender waist, gave her a BUSS and then a RE-BUSS to the amazement of a pedestrian who happened to be passing that beautiful moonlight night. At that moment the lover was heard to ask., "My dear darling Sarah Jane, you are be coming more beautiful every day; your eyes sparkle with more brii’iancy, your once pale cheeks have been painted by the roseate hues of nature, and you seem to have entirely regained your health. Will you tell me tbe cause of the . change?” "I have simply used that wonderfully effective i blobd remedy known as B. B. B..”: Tiie Atlanta Constitution, Tn a long article relating to the I>. B. 8., of that city, says: The Blood Baim Company started one year ago with 5162.00, but to-day the business cannot lie bought for $50,000! The demand and satisfaction given i said to be without a parallel, as its action is pronounced wonderful. We are glad to announce that our druggist have already secured a supply, and we hope oar readers will supply themselves at once. It is said to be the only speedy and permanent blood poison remedy offered, giving-entire satis faction in all cast s, before one bottle has been rise i -or Blood Diseases, Kidney Trouble, ScrQful • .tarrh, Old Ulcers,and Skin Diseases, try one 1> ctle B. B. B. Blocd Ktlm Cos., Atlanta, Ga.. will mail free of coat, a book Ciied with information about the blood, the Kidneys, Scrofula, etc I, etc. ap23-lm Memories of Old School Days. My Dear Mrs. Feltont; — l enjoyed your reminiscences of the old school days exceedingly. I am so glad that you haven’t forgotten those days; that jou think of them with pleasure. lam happy, tpo, to know that 1 am one of yoiit “girls.’> r 6ft(m think with the greatest pleasure of kindness and for bearance manifested towards us by your self and Dr. Felton, and rejoice in hav ing another '■opportunity of expressing my gratitude and appreciation.’ 1 trust you may never cease to think of us thus kindly ami may you long live to brighten and improve the minds and hearts of the residents of Bartow county. I am, ever affectionately, one ot the "girls.” April 21, 1885. M. A krikxd tells us that the region about Birmingham, Ala., had a heavy bhnv last Friday, almost a little cyclone. We are no \ enuor or any other sort of a wise acre, but when you see a warm, sultry spell succeed a cold snap, with the wind in one quarter and the clouds rising in another, you may look o'ut for squalls of tffe cyclone vaiiety. The Moxf eagle Lkctcres begin Wednesday, Atlgust sth, and close Au gust 28th. The summer schools begin earlier, June 30th, and Close August 11th. Dr. FHee makes the opening ad dress, to be followed by Drs. Wharton, Palmer, Carlisle, Willits, Edwards, Lee, Barrows and Eager. Rev. Sam Jones is set down for two discourses, August 17th and August 22ud. Interspersed will be found lectures by various professors and learned scientists. The annual meetings are highly commended. # ~ Mr. Thomas Steyens, the famous bp cyclist, who rode a Columbia bicycle from San Francisco feo Boston, sailed from New York for Liverpool, on ApMl 9, anil will start from the last named eijx to travel on hia bicycle through Europe and Asia; literally over the land portion of the world. He goes under the aus pices of the Outinq magazine. It is probable he will winter in Teheran, Porsia, and early in the spring of ISS6, begin his route through the Chinese Em pire. It tabs all Ms of People to matte a Worlit, lint it tabs Curry’s Lifer CoipuM to bop the People in Health. These Golden Opinions, TRUTHFUL AND UNSOLICITED. KEY. SAM JONES Continues in the Lord’s Work and Heartily Recommends C. L. C. Rev. Sam. P. .Tones, the distinguished minister and agent of the Orphans’ Home, says: “I conscientiously commend Curry’s Liver Compound of Southern roots and herbs to all persons suffoiing from Indigestion or any form of Dyspepsia, t know it is the best medicine we have ever used in our home.” A CURED SON and a GRATE FUL FATHER. D. W. Curry, Cartersville—Rear Sir: It gives me great pleasure to testify to the good results of the use of your Liver Compound. My son, age 22 years, was a great sufferer with misery in his head—he was nearly blind. Al! the doctors had failed to cure him. I tried a bottle of your Liver Compound. It cured him perfectly, and now I publish to the world this great remedy,, the best medicine before the public. All it wants is a trial. W. T. INLOW. A GRATEFUL AND POSITIVE BENEFICIARY. Mr. David W. Curry, Cfirtersville, Ga.: Dear Sir— I am trappy to say that your medicine, Cur ry’s Liver Compound,’ has proven itself to be of inestimable value to my family. Its power to eradicate Malarial Poisoning is something won derful; and as a remedy to relieve the excessive biliousness following what the doctors call Ty pho-Malarial Fever it stands, in my opinion, (based on a thorough test,) without a rival. Ac cept my hearty wishes for your success. I trust every family shelf v,dll find a place for C. L. C. ' ! ’ ' Most truly yours, T. H. \V ILLI AMS. Fish, Georgia. “WONDERFUL to RELATE.” “Am in Cqoq Health Digestion Good, Bowels Healed, and ! Continue to Crow in Flesh and Strength." D. W. Curry: Dear Sir—Sometime ago I was suffering with an incontrollable affection of the bowels—could get relief from no manner of treatment; my appetite became poor, nervous system run down, indigestion seized upon me; my flesh forsook me—l became the very glio3tof my former self. At last i procured and began to take Curry’s Livpr Compound, and, wonderful to relate, am in good health, digestion good, bowels healed and have continued to increase in flesh and strength—all owing to the use of Cur ry’s Liver Compound. 1 am verv truly yours, ' J. C. TRACY. ONLY THREE WEEKS ! And Feels One Hundred Per Cent. Better. Fish, Ga., D. W. Curry, Cartersville, Ga.:—Dear Sir— I take pleasure in recommending your C. L. C. I have been using jt for three weeks only, and I can safely say that I feel one hundred percent, better. It baa renewed my appetite and re lieve Ia severe pain in my head. I recommend it to all persons who are suffering with Bilious ness, for relief. Respectfully, B. W. McKIXEY. CURES MALARIAL FEVERS. And Prefers it to any Family Medicine. Fidk, Polk Cos., D. W. Curry, Cartersville, Ga.—Dear Sir: I take great pleasure in recommending your C. L. C. Have been using it in my family for Ty phoid and all Malarial Pevfers, and find it pro duces an astonishing goal effect. I prefer it in my family to any medicine I 4 ave ever used, and when fairly tested I think that it will do all that it has been recommended to do. Hope that I may always be able to procure it. Would not do without if if it cost t.vice the amount of its price. .Respectfully, JAM ES ADKINS, A gent Depot. | SOLD BY DRUGGISTS AND MERCHANTS GENERALLY. IRONVILLE. We farmers continue to be very busy. I’he work seemsffo accumulate. Miss Maggie I rick, sister of our esti mable neighbor, Mr. James Iriek, is ex pected on Thursday next. She resides in Virginia, but lias been spending some time with relatives in Florida. We hope her stay in our community will bo pleas ant. Ours lias often been called one of the best neighborhoods in the county. I don’t know why, unless it is because we love each other so much. Mr. Lem Munford shot a beautiful bird on the pond yesterday, evidently not a native ot this locality; its head was*large, of a dark, rich green, with beak four inches iu length; its general color was myrtle green with white mixture, weight eight pounds, web-footed. Misses Marion and Stella Smith, Miss Trammell, Mrs. Emma Munford, Dr. Battle and "Neighbor” and Mrs. "Neighbor” Freeman attended the after noon exercises at the academy Friday week, expressing themselves delighted, which compliment the teacher and school highly appfPcia^^ A large and happy tea-party received royal entertainment a few evenings since, at "Richland’s.” Plain Questions. Mythical ideas are fanning the public bi-o\r widi the bream of prejudice, iguoraneo and humbuggery. llare you the remotest idea that your scrofula was created by the use of potash and mercury ? No matter what the cause, B. R. R. is the peer of all other remedies. Do you presume that your troublesome catarrh is the re sult of mineral poisoning? R. R. R. is the quick est remedy. Are your chronic ulcers and boils and sores the result of potash and mercury ? Medical gentlemen will not tell you so, but R. B. R. is the only sovereign remedy. Were your terrible kidney troubles created by mineral poisoning ? Not a bit of it, but B. R. R. has proven to boa reliable remedy. Are your skiu diseases, your eczema, dry tetter, etc., the effect of too much potash and mercury The medical profession are the best judges, aud they say nay, but B. R. B. makes more pronounced cures tliau all other preparations combined. —; We saw yesterday 28 fine dress pat terns, with trimmings, to match. Don’t that speak well for our assortment and low prices. Sen burr Bros. GAINED 20 POUNDS in Weight and 75 Per Cent, in Health. D. W. Curry—Dear Sir: I bought a bottle of your Liver Compound of our merchant here, when I could not rest day or night for coughing. I took it according to directions, and now I am a well man ; have gained twenty pounds in weight and seventy-five per cent, iu health, I also bought two bpttles f6r rpy wife. She tooE it for liver disease, and it Has done her a great deal of good. J. P. ABERNaTII>\ r Cherokee Mills, Ga. “C. L. C.” Did for Me what th© best Physicians failed to tlo.” This is to certify that I have in tuepast iayeam been troubled with Dyspepsia and Liver Disease, During that time I have taken medicine from many leading physicians and received more ben efit by taking two bottles C. L. C. than from all of them. I therefore cheerfully recommend it to suffering humanity generally. Yours truly, Alks. FASTER MCCOLLUM. Roxanna, Ga. Indigestion and all Liver Dis eases Knocked Skyward by the Wonderful C. L. C. " To all persons suffering from Indigestion qr Liver disease I would say take C. L. C. I wa§ troubled with indigestion and could obtain up relief from physicians. I took two bottles of C. L. C. and am now entirely well. Very respectfully, MRS. ANNIE Y r E Alt WOOD. Roxanna, Ga. One of Bartow’s Noblemen : “ I am Satisfied that it will do all that is Claimed for it." I have been froubled with Cohsl:ip‘ation foi twenty years and have been ’greatly relieved fff using Curryls Liver Oornpodnd of Soqtiierp roots and herbs. lam satisfied that it will do all that is claimed for it. It. C. SAXON, ’ j School*Loanr-t.-ssi'.nor Con^y, “I TAKE PLEASURE IX GIVING MY AMEN.” D?V. Curry—Dear Sir:f take great pleasure in giving my amen to Curry’s Liver Compound. This medicine lias proven a great benefit to my self and family. It cured my wife of the chills after she hail been a sufferer a long time. Your liver Compound will cure Sick Headache, -Bil iousness and ludigestioil. it.is ouV fainilv med icine. My w* f e jdihh uiedn tronqlincliig fiuiry'a Liver (MuipQuud the safest, most reliable ap'.J satisfactory- remedy'wo know of. H. 4..JOHNS® Y. Carters vine, Georgia, A GRATEFUL LADY Commends it to all Suffering Hu manity. Fish, Polk Cos., D. \V. Curry, Cartersville, Ga.—Dear Sir: Commend, in my name, Curry’s Liver Compound to all humanity—all of those who suffer wit|i torpor of the liver, sick headache, and indeed all those miserable symptqms which accompany tjig bilious state. Yours truly, etc., MRS. CANTRELL. UNDER the CARE of MIYSI CIANS 20 YEAf$, Uses Patent Medicines 10 Years, and at Last Finds Health ancf Happiness in C. L. G. Roxana. G a. To all suffering humanity I cheerfully recom mend Curry’s Liver Compound. My wife has been afliicted with a hacking cough, with Dys pepsia and Liver Complaint tor the last tjifrty years. She was ua4er the constant caye pf goot| physicians for twenty years, then trying pptpnf medicines of various kinds for 10 years and re ceiving no permanent relief until she began the ase of C. L. C. tsAJice my wife took the first bot tle she has been able to attend to her household affairs and is in better health than she has been iu many years. Very respectfully, john Tidwell*