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THE COURANT. lubliHhed Kr<*ry Thursday. CARTKBSTTLLE. GEORGIA. 7UK COCK AST published erery Thursday mornina and i* delirered by carrier* in the city or mailed, poeta./e free, at ft 50 a year; nix month*, 80 oent; three month*, 50cent*. A it VK R T/SlS'it RATES depend on location .n the paper, and trill be/urni*hed on applana tion. CORRESPONDENCE containing important ne.ru toll cited from all part * oj the county. Alt DRESS ri'l tetter *. communication* and tel enet, and make, all draft or check* payable t, TBK COl' KANT, CarterevUle, Ga. 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. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ml2-lm Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. * 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,