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DOCTOR AND MRS. W. H. FELTON.
MAY 7, 1&35.
']'}!k new Treasurer of the United
btates gave a bond of $1 .*>o,ooo.
The Persian government is arming
and reinforcing its frontiers in expecta
tion of an early war.
Henri Walterson is enthusiastic over the
new administration. If Henri is happy
the rest of us will be content.
♦ ♦
Dn. Bradfield has a splendid notice
in tlie Southern World, which paper is one
of our neatest exchanges. The Doctor is a
self made man, and of such the country is
proud.
Mr. J. J. Baird, who took the oath of
office Friday as chief clerk of the dead
letter office, is a son-in-law of Mrs. Sen
ator Colquitt.
New York and Brooklyn dwelling
houses are falling to pieces every week,
from pure carelessness and incapacity in
construction. On May the 6th thirty
lives were lost in one crash. A good
hemp necklace would perhaps improve
the condition of things up that way, and
stop this criminal negligence.
“The National Commercial Convention
meets in Atlanta on May 19th, 20th and
21st. The rates of fare will be arranged
on all roads leading to Atlanta, due no
tice of which will be given by publica
tion.” This we insert by request of the
managers of the convention. The gath
ering promises to be a stupendous aflair.
,—♦ 0
An Athens girl took a fit of crying,and
fiom tears went into convulsions, and
died Sunday night. To have been fourteen
years old, she should have cried with less
force and fury. We think the average
girl can cry every hour in the day and
survive it.
Kiev. Sam Jones has made a tine im
pression on the Chattanooga Commer
cial, which, bv the way, is one of our
new'siest exchanges, and it wonders why
Nashville took such offense when Chat
tanooga was so little aggrieved, by our
North Georgia preacher. Perhaps the
preacher can solve the enigma.
An article on our front page, adverse
to the appointment of county commis
sioners, may call for an explanation or
reply from those who differ with the
writer. Asa vehicle of news and gen
eral information the Courant opens
wide its columns to all matters of gener
al and public interest. Both sides of
any public question can have a full, fair
bearing.
JV Fi-helfr a great deal about progress
and protection to life and property, but an
express ear was entered by desperadoes,on
the Louisville and New’ Albany railroad,
last week, and robbed of its valuables.
Two men were knocked senseless, their
wounds probably fatal. Such an occur
rence w’ould not surprise us on the fron
tier, but it is somewhat perplexing in
the heart of Kentucky.
President Ceevki.and, accompanied
by Secretaries Whitney and Endicott and
Postmaster Vilas, spent yesterday on the
battlefield of Gettysburg!]. Mayhap
that will ease off a little Northern criti
cism, but it was sensible in Secretaries
Bayard, Lamar ami Garland to stay at
home. Where you are placed in a posi
tion of that sort it is good policy to ac
cept the least of the two evils—keep
away and keep quiet.
The Dickson will has gone into law,
ami the chances are that the colored wo
man, Amanda Eubanks, will see but lit
tle of the bequest. It is said she is will
ing to accept $40,000 in lieu of the $400,-
000, which shows some worldly wisdom
on her part, and the refusal of the offer
shows considerable greed on the side of
those who were not so popular in the
eyes of the man who made and owned
the property.
The fish epidemic is not confined to
Bartow county. A few days ago New
York was literally overrun with
fresh mackerel. One paper puts
the number at 40,000,000 that were
thrown on the market in one day. They
sold at low rates until the market was
glutted, and then they were given away,
until the sellers were at last glad to
get somebody to carry them off to get
them out of sight and smell. It seems
that the fresh mackerel is a tender fish to
handle, easily tainted and has to be put
on ice to kept even a few hours.
—
For two moths the Illinois legislature
has been trying to elect a Senator with
no success. The situation is about this:
Morrison and Logan are good personal
friends, and both are willing to elect the
other in the event he cannot himself get
in, and they are trying to wear out the
patience ot those who are resolved to
have neither. This may be fun to the
candidates but it “death to the frogs”—
otherwise the people who foot the tax
bills. It is high time common sense
should come to the relief of those short
sighted legislators who have forgotten,
that their duty and allegiance is due to
the people of Illinois rather than to either
Morrison or Logan.
Gen. P. M. B. Young has his eyes on the
Russian Mission. Gen. Young was the
Skobcleff of the Counfederacy, and even
Tliad Stevens in Reconstruction days could
not resist his fascinations. Augusta
Chronicle.
A Reliable Article.
I- or enterprise, push and a desire to get
such goods as will give the trade satisfac
tion, I). W. Curry, the druggist, leads all
competition. He handles Dr. Bosanko’s
Cough and Lung Syrup, because it is the
best medicine on the market, for Coughs,
Colds, Croup and Primary Consumption.
Price 50 cents and SI.OO. 1
TOREK JUVENILE CULPRITS.
There was an extraordinary case in Fulton Su
perior Court yeaterday. A little mulatto boy,
certainly not more than twelve years of age,
and two black boys still younger, were ar
raigned for the crime of burglajy. They pre
sented a queer spectacle as they were brought in
by the bailiffs. Their diminutive size and their
scared looks, their miserably ragged attire,
combined to make them curious objects to the
gaze of the crowd that would have paid little at
tention to ordinary mature criminals. Their
clothes were so tattered Dd worn that they
baroly covered the nakedness of the little cul
prits, and seemed ready to drop off entirely.
They were sharged with breaking into the store
of M. Rich & Bro. and stealing some dry goods.
The court appointed Col. S. B. Spencer to defead
them. The evidence went to show that they
simply raised a window, reached in and took out
the stolen goods. The jury therefore returned a
verdict of guilty of larceny from the house. The
age of the boys was questioned, the defense con
tending that the two smaller ones were not ten
years old and therefore not indictable lor the
the erime of which they were accused. No evi
dence could be had as to their age, and this
question was left to the jury. A verdict of
guilty indicated that the jury thought the boys
of sufficient age to suffer the penalty of their
misdeeds There was general expression in the
courthouse Of the feeling that they were too lit
tle to go to the chaingang and that a house of
correction could be filled with just such cases in
Atlanta. Frequently very young criminals are
brought before the court, and the chaingang is
toe only place open to them.
Judge Hammond placed very light slmtences
on the hoys, giving Will Coshy six months, John
Hopkins four months, and Henry Sasseen three
months. The sentences were graded according
to the apparent age of the criminals.—Atlanta
Constitution.
It is true they are colored boys. It is
true they were convicted of larceny
from the house, and it is also true they
were in rags and tatters. But they are
human beings, not ten years old, and
sentenced to the chaingang. Thus sen
tenced because there is no house of cor
rection or reformatory prison in Georgia.
Outside of the Southern States we be
lieve there is not a State in the Union
without such a reformatory prison, and
two of the Southern States have such
institutions.
Also the principal cities in two or three
other Southern States have, under mu
nicipal authority and liberality, erected
such prisons. But to the everlasting
shame and disgrace of this State no such
reformatory prisons for prisoners and
females is found in Georgia.
If it was announced in the pulpits of
this State that a prison system similar
to ours existed in Japan or China or the
South Sea Islands, every Christian
church in the State would be besieged for
money and men to rescue the
poor heathen. The long prayers, the
broad phylacteries, and the crocodile
tears would be prominent on eyery cor
ner of our streets. But when the young
criminal in Georgia, male or female,
white or black, ‘’leaves hope behind”
and enters the chaingang it is all right
and proper, because their “cry of de
spair” is heard under church steeples
and the clank of their chains is musical
because profitable to convict lessees.
But let us leave the inhumanity of the
case out ot the discussion. Does this
system pay the State? Here are three
negro boys under ten years of age sent
maybe to Lockett & Cos., to be chained
possibly to Doc Jackson for six months,
to be taught implacable hatred for the
white man, to be informed that the grati
fication of shooting a white man is worth
a hundred dollars. Or maybe they will
be chained to an accomplished thief who,
for six months, will teach them all the
“art and science” of burglary. If they
are female children or adult women, a
fate worse than hell awaits them.
At the end of six months, these negro
boys w'ill return to the city of Atlanta
educated and hardened in all crimes.
They are black Ishmaelites, whose
hands are against the person and prop
erty of every citizen of that city. Mur
der, arson, burglary and every crime
known to the law is their occupation for
life.
When we estimate the loss of life, the
loss of property, the cost of courts en
gaged in their trial, does it pay the State
to perpetuate such a prison svStem?
Can we as tax payers, can we as mem
bers of society, thus endangered, longer
submit to such outrages simply for the
benefit of convict lessees ? In the name
of God, In the name of humanity and in
behalf of personal safety, let us wipe
the foul stain from Georgia.
W. H. F.
A NOTB OF WA RNINO.
Cholera is raging in Spain. Whole
districts are infected. The wealthy peo
ple are getting away, and the poor are
dying. It is thought to have been trans
mitted by some filthy rags—but no mat
ter how that may be, it is there. The
history of cholera—the Asiatic scourge—
shows that it always begins in India,
conies westward to Egypt, Persia and
adjacent countries, spreading on into Eu
rope, and from that country it reaches
to the United States. Some think it
malarial, others that it is transmitted by
breathing infected atmosphere, around
the bodies of the dying and the dead,
while some think it infects like small
pox, irom contact. However it may be
generated, transmitted or otherwise in
troduced it is a terrible pestilence that
“walks in darkness.” It is now, also,
said to be ragiug in Calcutta and Egypt,
so that as the infected territory increases
our opportunity for catching the disease
is constantly increasing. It is more
prevalent in strong lime stone soils,
where the peculiar conditions are favor
able, therefore some parts of Tennessee
are always affected whenever it reaches
this country. Whether it comes to Bar
tow county or not, its presence in the
country is always followed by an increase
of the class of diseases of which Asiatic
cholera is the giant. Cholera infantum.
Cholera morbus, and all diseases that af
fect the digestive organs are always on
the increase in cholera seasons. The
preventive and the remedy lies in cleanli
ness, good drainage, pure drinkiDg
wator and moderate eating, especially of
unripe, unwholesome fruit and vege
tables. A word to the wise is sufficient.
Ji’DGE Spbkk decides against Mr. Rob
erts, the Augusta bank cashier, who is
charged with embezzling and larceny of
funds. Roberts will now be carried to
New York to stand his trial there, we
presume.
TOE EAST TENNESSEE, VIRGINIA
AND GEORGIA RAILROA D.
Our readers have been informed of the
difficulty in which the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad has been in
volved. There were two receivers seeking
possession of the road. One of these re
ceivers was sustined by the federal courts
and the other was recognized by the state
courts.
We are gratified to hear that this un
fortunate clash of authority between our
courts has been amicably and satisfactorily
settled. The parties in Georgia who be
lieved their interests and their rights en
dangered and who were looking to their
state for protection, have been secured
against loss and Judge Dorsey, the receiv
er appointed by state authority retires.
This leaves Mr. Fink, of Knoxville, Tenn.,
in full control of this valuable property.
We congratulate all parties to this contest
upon the solution of a difficulty without
any one yielding opinions honestly enter
tained.
It is best never to provoke a fight when
defeat is inevitable, and all conflicts be
tween federal and state courts should, if
possible, be avoided, for the chances are
the federal courts will triumph over the
state courts.
Yet, we greatly admire the pluck,
and we believe the legal correctness
of Judge Hammond’s position. Our heart
was with him. It was a sad day for
Georgia when her legislative authorities
made it possible to have a great incorpora
ted railroad, stretching from her northern
to her southern boundary, which is not ab
solutely amenable to Georgia laws and
Georgia courts. This, however, is the be
ginning of the end. This is the fruit of
that system of railroad consolidation which
is now the object and purpose of railroad
managers. This is the system which is
destined in this country to prostrate all the
industries and all the liberties of the states
at the feet of corporations. As Wendell
Phillips once said, the time approaches
when a few railroad magnates will com
pose the congress of the United States,
and their edicts will be the recorded laws
of the continent.” We hope, however,
that behind all this difficulty with the
East Tennessee road there was no jealousy
—no effort to overreach and destroy on the
part of rival roads.
Surely there was no desire on the part
of any state railroad combination also
stretching from the northern to the south
ern boundary of the state to break down a
powerful competition for the carrying bus
iness of the country. We cannot enter
tain such a suggestion for a mament. Ic
is true we noticed that some evil disposed
person alleged the complaint against the
East Tennessee road that it had committed
the grievous wrong of underbidding some
other roads in it charges for freight and
passenger fare. But uo wise man, having
any regard for the rights of the people
would bring such a complaint against any
railroad.
If there is anything just now of more
pressing need in Georgia than all others it
is railroad competition. Practically we
have but one great consolidated railroad
system in the state, and if Mr. Fink, at
the head of this immense Tennessee sys
tem, will challenge the right of consolida
ted Georgia roads to domineer over certain
towns and individual, if he will stand
aloof from the unjust Georgia pool, if by
fair competition he will destroy all iniqui
tous discriminations—if honorably he will
stand in au open field, maintaining a fair
fight, we will hail him and his road as de
liverers of Georgia.
Mr. Fink has the power to “twist the
tail” of this Georgia syndicate until it lets
go its grasp. He has the power to teach it
a decent regard for the rights of certain
towns in Georgia. Will he exercise this
power ? Will he bring relief or will his
road soon be an indistinguishable member
of the pool? We await the result hope
fully. W. H. F.
MANIA FOR BUICIDK.
Whether there is a very great increase
of suicide or whether we have greater fa
cilities for getting full information in re
gard to such matters we cannot decide,
but one fact is clear, there has never
been such a number recorded as we find
in the last few months. We rarely
pick up a paper that does not tell of some
dreadful deed of this kind. Generally
there is a note of explanation left behind,
and the trouble seems to be mental in the
majority of cases. Failures in business,
defalcations in office, and the dread of
the world’s scorn seems to be too pow
erful to be withstood by the average in
tellect. Mothers kill their little chil
dren, husbands kill their wives, sons
and brothers kill their mothers and sis
ters and then place their smoking pistols
to their own heads and kill themselves.
What does it mean ? Is it possible that
the human mind takes on such manias
by reading horrible narratives of the fate
of other victims ? Is the desire for death
greater than the desire for life, or does
disease inoculate itself into poor human
souls—that are morbid and depressed—
until nothing will satisfy but such a
climax of horrors? A brilliant young
man, of good family, of fine social posi
tion, politely requested his mother and
sister to walk with him on a public prom
enade a few days ago, and before they
were aware of his design he had killed
all three, with one weapon. The only
possible excuse that has been given was
said to be a stint of spending money.
Can anybody offer a feasible solution of
the difficulty? Is it In the air like con
tagion ?
It is hoped the new Kimball House in
Atlanta does not look like the picture iu
the Constitution a tew days ago. The
Macon Telegraph mistook it for a clumsy
map of the Afghan country, a kind of
outline, depicting the seat of war. We
did not so regard it, supposed it to be
a copy of some old ruined baronial
castle in the neighborhood of Manches
ter, England, which contrived by the
flatsam and jetsam of politics to get
mixed up with the Constitution’s private
papers. Harper’s Weekly has a fine
sketch of it from the pencil of that very
clever artist, Horace Bradley, whose phe
nomenal success is a matter of pride to
the State of Georgia, as well as to his
friends in Atlanta.
The Augusta Chronicle 100 Years Ago.
IVe received yesterday a copy of the
above named paper printed one hundred
years ago—not of course the sheet itself,
but a fac simile of the old sheet. It is
dated October 9, 1790. It used the long
S.’s, now entirely obsolete in printing.
Its foreign news was dated June—four
months in coming over to Augusta. It
was printed by John Smith’ who is dub
bed “Printer to the States.” A Mr.
Will Spence informs the public that he
will, in course of time, go to Charleston
there to lay in a stock of groceries ; there
fore in view of the expected purchases
he wishes people to make payment for
what they then owed. Among the ar
ticles he expects to buy is mentioned
cherry bounce, Jamaica spirits and
Northward rum. A Mr. Bugg advertises
his desire to go to Europe, where he
will take on commission, tobacco or
merchantable indigo. Some advertising
poetry appears also, beginning—
“ This advertisement is to tell
Near Harlem's creek that I do dwell.”
John Habersham was collector for the
port of Savannah. Another poet lapses
into sentiment thusly:
“Sweetest syren of the Augustan stage,
Admired by youth and respected by old age,” etc
This ancient copy was not the first by
long odds, four volumes having already
appeared. Mr. Walsh has performed a
brilliant journalistic feat in getting up his
centennial sheet, and we wish him great
success, not only because he deserves it,
but because ot his uniform courtesy to
the Courant,
TOE RAILROAD TROUBLE.
Sarrnnah Daily Times.
Atlanta, April 28.—The East Tennesse, Vir
ginia and Georgia railroad trouble is still pend
ing, and excites great interest. The meeting
yesterday demonstrated that the people are
dead set against the unnecessary litigation that
seeks to put Dorsey in against Fink as receiver,
The light is being led by the Constitution and a
unaniasous public follows strongly condeming
the Dorsey side of the question. It has been as
certained here that the suit is doing the State,
and especially the city of Atlanta, great harm,
Northern investors looking with alarm on the
spectacle of a road about to be wrecked by a
half dozen lawyers. Yesterday Mr. Julius
Brown let the cat partially out of the bag when
he said;
“My father (Hon. Joseph E, Brown, President
of the Western and Atlantic) says if the East
Tennesse rolling stock is run out of the State, he
will lend the road what cars it needs.”
A Toice replied: “Your pa will spank you
for that!”
It is not believed Hammond will go hack on
his judgment, and enloss something con he dono
unsold litigation is still ahead.
What would his “pa” spank him for?
Because his “pa” owns so much stock
in that railroad? We should think it
likely “pa” would pat him on the back
and say “clever boy, go ahead.”
Bill Arp is “catching it” from a Con
stitution correspondent because his let
ters are so flattering to Texas and so
damaging to Georgia by way of compari
son. Now, we think there is little too
much blame for the grievance complain
ed of. “William” is abroad, is treated
like company, sees the good side of ev
erything, and to be consistent he must
so narrate it. You take the average man
away from home, dressed up in his Sun
day best, feed'him on fried chicken and
fresh honey, and everything will be
colour de rose, and he will be sure to
think “potluck” and hominy very plain
diet at home. The correspondent says
“we naturally look in the Constitution
for the truth, the whole truth and noth
ing else but the truth,” and thereupon
he reads that truthful journal a lecture
upon such dissatisfying letters. To reg
ulate matters, suppose we get some Tex
ans to Georgia, “put the big pot in the
little one,” and report the result in the
Texas papers? In our opinion nobody
is hurt in this late encounter, except,
perhaps, the truthfulness of the Atlanta
Constitution.
Mr. Walter H. Johnson, who yields
position to Hon. Thos. C. Crenshaw, has
a great deal to be proud of in giving up
the collector’s office. He leaves the po
sition with the respect and good will of
all the people of the State, because of his
personal integrity and official honesty.
It is understood he will return to Colum
bus, Ga., his old home, where he lived
all his life before he moved to Atlanta.
Civil service reform passed over him and
gave him no showing, and we are of the
opinion that this exception will go far to
prove the humbuggery of the whole
thing. To use Senator Eustes words,
“the fact that a horde of unscrupulous,
ignorant, dyed-in-the-wool and often
offensively partisan leaders” are left in
their positions, while such a man as Wal
ter Johnson is given his walking papers,
proyokes in us a feeling of deep “dis
goost,” to talk Frenchy.
War in the Northwest.
We have before us the Winnepeg
Daily Times, of April 24th, printed in
Winnepeg, Manitoba, giving an account
of the late engagement with the rebels.
The sheet is in full mourning because oi
the dead and wounded of Winnepeg.
These rebel fighters seem to be native
born soldiers, and from the description
of the battle the soldiers of the Dominion
were no match for the half-breeds. With
these disturbances in Canada, the troubles
in the Soudan, and threatened hostilities
in the Afghan country old England has
her hands full. She is hoary with age
and honors, but it is not impossible that
her pride may be humbled in Manitoba.
Those Northwest Indians seem to be
gifted with more judgment as fighters
than the aborigines of the United States.
It is certain they are good soldiers.
Plain Questions.
Mythical ideas are fanning the public brow
with the breath of prejudice, ignorance and
humbuggery. Have you the remotest idea that
your scrofula was created by the use of potash
and mercury? No matter what the eause, B. B.
B. is the peer of all other remedies. Do yon
presume that your troublesome catarrh is the re
sult of mineral poisoning? B. 8.8. is the quick
est lemedy. Are your chronic ulcers and boils
and sores the result of potash and mercury ?
Medical gentlemen will not tell you so, but B.
B. B. is the only sovereign remedy. Were your
terrible kidney troubles created by mineral
poisoning ? Nut a bit of it, but B. B. B. has
proven to be a reliable remedy, Are your skin
diseases, your eczema, dry tetter, etc., the effect
of too much potash and mercury ? The medical
profession are the best judges, anti they say nay,
but B. B. B. makes more pronounced cures than
all other preparations combined.
For The CoubaxT.
WILL TIIJC LI Oy FIGHT THE BE JUT
Hark! we hear the lian roar.
Echoes come from every shore,
Reverberating everywhere
Will the lion fight the bear?
See him shake his mighty mane,
With his whelps in fighting train.
While the bear her cave* still hold—
Left Napoleon in the cold.
Here bulls and bears together fight,
A war of ink, no blood in sight;
But if the lion shakes his paw,
My goose will have an empty craw.
Down South.
Hon. T. C. Crenshaw has announced
some of appointments, and we find Car
tersville gets one,Hon. A. \V. Fite,whose
district embraces Floyd, Bartow, Polk,
Paulding, Haralson, Cobb and Douglas
counties. Mr. Crawford has made a
good officer, and has many friends in our
midst, but the whirligig of politics gives
the position to Mr. Fite, who will no
doubt make a good officer also. This ap
pointmant will prohably necessitate an
election for the legislature to fill the va
cancy made by Mr. Fite’s appointment.
We believe the Constitution expressly
forbids the holding of a State and Fed
eral office at the same time, though there
may be a provision in cases like this of
which we are not aware. Mr. Fite made
a very diligent, zealous legislator, and
whoever may succeed him we hope will
also do the position credit.
The Advertiser reports quite a scene
in Cedartown on Thursday evening on
the occasion of the release from jail, by
order ol Judge Pardee, of JJx. 4- Hunt
ington, who had heen committed for con
tempt of the Federal Court. We do not
know exactly how his contempt was
manifested. He was decreed to impris
onment for ninety days, but had only
served nineteen when released. The
mayor, sheriff and other citizens went
to the jail in the “finest rig to be found”
to receive him, and accompanied him in
a drive around town. During Ifia oon
ftnerqent he had flamers and flowers
sent to him every flay. Mr.Huntington
publishes a card thanking the oitiaens of
Cedartown for the manifestation of their
sympathy and regard. The Advertiser
also repojts him as saying that “if. the
United States District Court entertains
any more contempt for him than he does
for it, it is welcome to the weight of the
argument.”
Mr. Crenshaw, the new collector
of internal revenue, has selected his
deputies and gaugers for the several
collection distrets of the State, The
following are the selections for this
section:
First division —Dade,Catoosa, Walker,
Chattooga, Whittteld, Murry and Godon
counties, M. A. B. Tatum, Treton.
Secon division— Fannin, Union, Towns
and Rabun counties. W. E. Candler,
Blairsville.
Third division—Floyd, Bartow, Polk,
Paulding, Haralson, Cobb and Douglas
counties. A. W. Este, Cartersville.
Fourth division—Gilmer, Lumkin, Pick
ens, Dawson and Cherokee, counties.
W. H. McAfee, Dahlonega. .
James O'Farrel ie general deputy for
the whole State, with headquarters at
Athens.
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
CASSVILLE
Died, at Cassville, Monday April 27,
Mrs. A. P. Walker, wife of Prof. W. G.
Walker. Another patient Christian wo
man has left the shores of Time for the
Elysian fields of Eternity. She is dead,she
buried from our sight, but she still lives
by the memory of her consistent, exem
plary Christian life.
Prof, and Mrs. Walker have been but
a short while in our midst, but they have
won the regard and affection of all.
Mrs. Walker had been thirty years a
wife, and in that long period she had
adorned and made her home superla
tively happy. What an epitaph to the
memory of a fond and fathful wife! In
Prof. Walker’s bereavement we sympa
thiza. God alone can comfort and con
sole. A few short years at best, and his
bark too will be moored on the shores of
eternity; there again husband and wife
will happily united, freed from the tears,
the sorrows, the trials and sufferings of
this life. What a blessed hope !
Saturday evening last, the farmers of
the Cassville neighborhood formed an
agricultural club, electing Robt. N. Best,
President, and Randolph Walker, Secre
tary. Let the good work go on. Never
in the history of the State was there a
greater necessity for an organized, con
centrated action on the part of the farm
ers. A worn out, tired and exhausted
soil is to be doctored and brought to con
valescence, a more rigid economy in
purchase and expenditure is to be or
ganized and a revolution of the exhaust
ive culture that has depleted and made
poor the people and the land is to be be
gun; and it will require the combined
wisdom and experience of our best men
in counsel to put it in action. Let them
go to their club-rooms with these living
issues at heart. Let them bring the wis
dom gleaned from experience, let them
organize experiments, let them discuss
the rotation of crops, the best machinery,
the culture of the grasses, etc., then go
home and put in practice what they have
learned, and my word for it the dawn of
better times are hand.
The Cassville Sunday School will pic
nic at Best’s mill Saturday, the 16th
inst. The bright, happy little children
are looking forward to the occasion with
much anticipation of joy. May their
fondest hopes be fuily realized !
The farmers’ outlook is quite a gloomy
one at present. The wheat crop, with
but few exceptions, will be a poor one
and cannot possibly make half a crop.
The oat crop is a failure. The clover,
without continued showers in the coming
two weeks, will not be worth cutting,
and the early planted corn has had to be
plowed up and replanted. This is all
very discouraging, indeed, but let us be
comforted with the idea that every cloud
has its silver lining and that the greatest
blessings often come in disguise. The
failure of the wheat crop will be a gen
eral one from the present outlook, and
we may expect what is raised to bring a
fair price. The price of the productions
of the farm have been below the cost of
production and we are glad to know that
the balances are to be readjusted
and that farmers are to receive some lit
tle remuneration for their toil.
Let every one remember that next
Saturday is decoration day. Come and
bring flowers to strew on the graves of
our heroic Southern dead. This Is a
tribute that is due to tiie dead and an
honor the living. Scribbler.
ECHOES FROM NEW MEXICO,
Dear Coi rant: In a formal letter I
gave you a few general facts concerning
tins territory, and it is my desire now to
speak more specifically. Of the imported
population (Americans and foreigners) it
is scarcely necessary thut I speak, as
that is very much the same you find in
many of the cities of the states. Our
natives (the Mexicans and Indians), with
their quaint customs and their mixed
and superstitious religion, make an in
teresting study. As you know, the
Mexicans are a cross between the Span
ish and the Indian. As the blood hag
been mixed so have the religions, and
some would justify us for saving that it
is difficult to see wherein the Aborigines
have derived any great benefit from the
mix. By far the greater part of the na
tives live in towns and villages. Many
of our railroad towns and cities, indeed
nearly all, are each made up of two parts j
called “old town” aud “now town.”
The houses of the “old towns” and of
the Mexican and Indian villages are
nearly all built of adobes. The adobe is
a sun-dried briok made of the soil. It is
much larger than your common brick,
aud doubtless is very much like the brick
made by the Israelites during the Egyp
tian bondage. To make a good abobe,
straw is necessary, as it was in Egypt.
The houses are one-story and are usually
covered with soil placed upon timbers
arranged to support it. The more hum
ble houses have small openings, looking
more like port-holes than windows,
while the better have real windows and
also enclosed courts. One thing which
strikes the traveller as rather remarka
ble, is the fact that these adobes are not
used in old Mexico for building purposes,
except on the extreme Northern bounda
ry. Stone is the most common material
In that country, and the masonry is of
the most solid kind. Some of our most
barbarous tribes of Indians have not yet
risen above the rude arohltect of the
“cliff dwellers,” and some of our Mexi
cans, even on the plains, cling to the
“dug-out.” A number of “dug-outs”
may be seen within a few hundred yards
of where I now write. A “dug-out”
may be very well described as a rudely
covered cellar, with a fire-place, the
chimney for which extends a few feet
above the ground. If these places of
abode were more securely covered they
would make good cyclone pits, such as
are in demand in your section sometimes.
Nearly all of the natives are exceedingly
filthy in their habits and homes. Some
of their dens can hardly be said to be as
pleasant to th olfactory nerves as co
logne stands are. Their dress is almost
as noticeable as their habitations. The
broad-brimmed sombreros worn by Mex
ican men are some four times as heavy
as our hats. The Indian men seom to
have a contempt for anything like a
head covering, and in this their squaws
tollow suit, the hair of both hanging
down upon their foreheads very much as
do the most extravagant “baugs” of
some of our ladies. The Mexican wo
men of the poorer class use no head-gear
except a small shawl (the mantilla),
which is wrapped about their heads.
Whether about their homes or out camp
ing, these women have a unique method
of resting on their knees, and making
seats out of their feet, turned toes to
toes. Theie are some of the better class
es of Mexicans who imitate the Ameri
can styles and customs.
P. L. Stanton.
CURE FOR PILES.
Piles are frequently preceded by a sense of
weight in the back, loins and lower part of the
abdomen, causing the patient to suppose he ha®
some afiection of the kidneys or neighboring or
gans. At times symptoms of indigestion are
present, flatulency, uneasiness of the stomach,
etc. A moisture, like perspiration, producing a
very disagreeable itching, after getting warm,
is a common attendant. Blind, Bleeding and
Itching Piles yield at once to the application of
Dr. Bosanko’s Pile Remedy, which acts directly
upon the parts effected, absorbing the Tumors,
allaying the intense itching, and effecting a per
manent cure. Price 00 cents. Address, The
Bosanko Medicine Cos., Piqua, O. Sold by D. W.
Curry. may 7-ly
SCROFULA !
An old man of sixty-seven years has been sub
ject to scrofulous sores five years. He had one
on his cheek as large as a silver dollar, swollen,
raw and constantly exuding very offensive mat
ter. Another on his foot of the same character,
and several on his hands, all of about two and a
half years standing. His general health was
Soor, and he could scarcely get about at all.
Ie has taken two bottles of Swift’s Specific. The
sores are all well, leaving scarcely a vestige of
their former existence, and his general health is
1 Hitter than it has been in ten vears. I consider.
its effects wonderful—almost miraculous.
REV. J. H. CAMPBELL, Columbus, Ga.
Mr. Campbell is a Baptist minister, eighty
years of age, and Is well known ail over the
South as one of the purest of men.
I have been afflicted with scrofula for more
than twelve years—have had sores on me as
large as a man’s hand for that length of time.
The universal verdict of the community was
that I would be a dead man in less than thr -
months. I had spent hundreds of witn
physicians, and ruined my system wiSJMmereury
and potash. A friend suggested tR use of
Swift’s Specific. I began its use and isoon found
it was just what I needed. Ia very short time it
cured me sound and well. R. L. HIGH.
Lokom, Ark., Oct. 26, 1883.
Rheumatism Twenty Years.
I have been a sufferer from rheumatism for
twenty years, at times with almost intolerable
pain. I had the best medical treatment, and took
all sorts of remedies, but without relief. Being
reduced almost to a skeleton, and not being
able to walk even with crutches, I was induced
to try Swift’s Specific, and it acted like a charm,
and lam to-day entirely relieved. Have thrown
away my crutches, and am in excellent health.
I believe Swift’s Specific will cure the worst cases
of rheumatism.
Communication.
My babe at six months old broke out with Ec
zema. My family physician treated the child
for five months but gave up in despair of doing
it any good, and recommended me to call some
other physician. I did so, but he declined to
have anything to do with the case, saying that
the child could not live. In my despair f went
to the druggist and told him the condition of my
child. He gave me a bottle of Swift’s Specific
and I hove used two others. The child is now
two years old—is fat and plump as a pig, and in
perfect health. There is no sign of the disease
returning. MRS. J. J KIRKLAND,
Minden, Texas.
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GHOLGRA!
Our Danger
The spreading of this dreadful disease in Eu
rope and Asia leads us to beliove that we are in
danger this summer. Take the
PRECAUTION
and have on hand some speedy relief.
DR. BIGGERS’
Huckleberry
Cordial
rs THE
Great Southern Bemedy
FOR
THE BOWELS
AND
Children Teething.
CHOLERA.
The report that that the celebrated expert, l)r,
Koch, is about to proffer his services to France
to determine the character of the present visita
tion of cholera, is probably true Asiatic cholera,
and that ii is on its travels, having reached
Egypt last year, and France and Russia this
year. The civilized nations are all initiating
precautionary measures; and our own relations
with Mediterranean ports are quite intimate
•nough to impose upon us some care, if nothing
more. The certain ease with which a ffltliy
steerage can fetch cholera across the Atlantic
is known, and it ought not to be possible for us
to bo taken by surprise.
But quarantine is only one phase of our duty
Cholera is that scourge of all scourges which
most kills the poor. It is a disease which rarely
comes to a palace—unless the palace is environ
ed by hovels. It visits the unclean streets and
issues out of the unclean wells. Pure w r ater and
plenty of it is almost a specific for cholera. If
every house, yard, street, gutter, well, 6iak, and
receptacle of every sort for every kind of dirt
and filth were cleaned, scoured aud kept clean,
cholera could indeed come here, but would
amount to very little. If, in addition, tainted
meats and vegetables could be expelled and
perfectly excluded from the city, there would,
probably, in the event of a visitation, be no
deaths, aud the people would not kuow whether
it was cholera or not. We have had almost a
century of experience with cholera since the
commerce between tlie civilized nations aud the
East first seduced it forth from its Gaugetic
habitant and presented it to modern medical
science for investigation: and if it is permitted
to touch eur shores now we cannot plead ig
norance nor blindly bewail the act of prudence.
Aside from the above precautions, we feel il a
duty to advise our readers to ever keep on hand
a bottle of Dr. Bigoers’ Huckleberry Cordial,
the groat Southern Remedy that the eminent
old doctor who, from scientific researches, is en
abled to state that ho feels authorized iu saying
that it will cure the disease, for as cholera is
purely a bowel trouble the fumigating treat
ment cannot be the right course; but there en
ters into his medicine a drug that will destroy
the cholera germ and heal the coating of the
bowels.
Louisville Courier-Journal Inter
view with Ex-Covernor Black*
burn,of Kentucky,on Cholera,
In which this eminent statesman and renown
ed physician) who has probably had more expe
rienae with cholera than any other physiau in
this country, gives as his opinion that it is not
contagious but infectious, confining itself to
limestone regions, the seasons having no influ
ence as with yellow fever; at the conclusion of
which is given a remedy for the cure of same,
advising all to ever keep on hand a bottle of the
remedy, for when one is attacked there is no
time to wait for a physician, but some good rem
edy sliould be taken at once. The remedy sug
gested forms the basis of Dr. Biggers’ Huckle
berry Cordial, the great Southern Remedy,
which, in connection with the rhubarb, cam
phor and peppermint, has the astringent proper
ty of the huckleberry and an active principle of
one other drug that controls the spasmodic ef
fect; and as old Dr. Biggers, the presidont of the
Eclectic Medical College of Georgia, states that
he knows of many cases of cholera it has cured,
and wdeD no trifling cost in buying a bottle is
considered, and how much pain and anx'ety its
use will save, no tamily should be without a bot
tle, for aside from the fact of its relieving chol
era, it will save many slespless nights by at
once curing all other sudden attacks of the bow
els, such as cramp colic, etc. Try it.
A Rich Legacy.
The general attorney of the Fullman Sleeping
Car Company, Ex-Chief JusticeO. A. Lochrane,
of Georgia, says that old Dr. Biggers could not
leave a better legacy than his Great Southern
< Remedy for bowel affections, and in all his trav
els, he has never found anything to equal Dr.
Biggers’ Huckleberry Coraial, for the relief of
diarrhoea, dysentery and the restoration of the
little ones whose systems are suffering such a
drage from the effect of teething; and that his
family is never without a bottle, a dose of which
so eften relieves much suffering and anxiety.
A Cholera Cure.
Prof. A. Barili, the eminent musician and
nephew of Adeline Patti, states that in the
spring his children were suffering with painful
bowel troubles, and after trying several prepar
ations, he was induced to use the Great Southern
Remedy of Dr. Birgeis, and a few doses at once
relieved them ; and now his wife would not
think of being without it. He considers (from a
justly scientific stand-point, that any medicine
that will give such a happy effect in cholera
merbus, must have a decided one in choleka;
and he will advise all to be prepared, aad aside
from the necessary precautions of cleanliness,
advise them to ever have on a bottle of Dr.
Biggers’ Huckleberry relieve the ex
cruciating pain attendant in that dreadful epi
demic, cholera.
The preparation of Dr. Biggers is nothing
more than a scientific ation of the a tive
principle of the huckleberry, camphor, pepper
mint, a cathartic and anti-acid, lurking a neu
tralizing cordial,, after the formula of old Dr.
S. T. Biggers, the renowned president of the Ec
lectic Medical College of Georgia, and for many
years professor of the disease of women and
children, and member of the state medical asso
ciation.
Dr. Bikers’ Hnckleiierry Cordial
For sale by all Druggists —5O c bottle,