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fin TIT? nA‘O ri ’IT? O U T7T T- TT U ii_ oL JHj K j jz\. . t\> JL Jfcy x\ki V x jlj LjJm YOi.i'MU !. Remit of the Cheroßees. j. v | . | »»-. n ! 'V(.)OI), ot K- tic, < \l A I’TbK XV. o*)>yi i. ’'• ! N-5. All rah* -j . ; -j vc»i. lii ji>-( miting Tliis l»rut • ketch ot my honored father, I (b’.'irt* to have the roadei of the i.'m u.wr enjoy a letter xvj'itu: *0 ( 01. J. rt. Waddell to myself gp vc!■ years ago. <ol. Waddell has been •e l for r:vend yen r; ; himself, hut the i nu iuhratiee r»I his many noble quid’ll ", and the superior excellence of hi? in., d •:*i«t heart, will never fade from the iTroiioetion of tlio-e who knew him in life. ;ie had many opportunities for an e;.ten ed acquaintance with Judge ln deruoo 1 , and for reason i rcque-ted a u. ' <■! from subject. < 01. Wad ' il had no sup&or in Georgia for chaste, pure English as a writer, and it v ill (»• a la-ting regret that lie did not giv: hi entire life to literature, a call ing (or which lie ’Ait- eminently fitted by taste and cultivation. I'nj i.a.v'l), near M Altii.viA, Nov. SO, 1-77 I)* ir .Judge : In performance <>l promise, 1 proceed to give you soon recollection of your diatin gni-iii'd l tlicr, the late \\ iiliam 11. Ln* derwnol. It is a matter of regret that my purely personal acquaintance with him was of . o short duration. I knew him handy as long as Phillips knew tin i n not as long as “Bozzy” knew •loiln‘<ni lie was an old man when we li; t met. 1 had just come to the Ear. He, “full of years and full of honors,’’ was preparing to take final leave of cdiii Is and < limns and juries. But 1 had known ot him from early boyhood. Wluit man, or woman, or child, in Geor gia did not know personally, or by repu tation, (ho Great Wit of his day, “old Judge Underwood,” as he was com monly called? Ills name was a house hold word from Rabun to Decatur, from Dade to Camden. His witticisms were part of t!ie social currency of the State for more than a generation; they seemed never to pull on the ear or grow stale or flat. In fact, so thoroughly pronounced am. universally acknowledged was his prc-cii;ircnce in that character, that—as in tbo use of Rabelais—much of the halt, df-wd of die time was fathered on i, ii. Sucl\ putative paternity gave him infinite disgust. lie despised the hi !• ! progeny. Jle, however, never di i i ed his own; on the contrary I think > was rather proud of ids happiest icdl. . of his “white horses,” as Curran war o .( to dominate the favorite pas- his great speeches. I r. 'll, as of yesterday, that warm Sin , afternoon in .Tune, 15.71, when 1 tiro i Judge I'iiderwood. I!- 1 was sit ting m the piazza of the old Verdory ilii. at. Cedar town, in company with other members of the Bar who had come to 'mid an adjourned term of l’oik Su perb • • urt. His was the central figure of tin' group; no stranger could have In il v 1 to note his as the most promi nent c-iio of them ail, not only from the ilignif. I and vcnerablo tout ensemble, hut also from the marked respect and defer ence shown him by ail present?. You ■ Hviusiv. 'aw v ors, a class, are proverbial ly the most loquacious of people vvlton j they meet in their social gatherings on ! the circuit. On such occasions, there arc 1 usually more talkers than auditors, and not unfirqucutly a half dozen tongues me gging at. the same instant of time on a s many ditlorent subjects, lie is a full grown man who can command the undivided attention of such a coterie. Judge l ii her wood always did. When ho o, . mod his mouth to speak all others were s uit, other tongues were still, all ears were open. On that oeea-don, 1 was inti, . ..cod by “Ramsey,” (as they then called him, since Judge,) Alexander, to an . id trap, above medium stature, of portly build, with thin, gray hair, small, round, deep-set, clear blue eyes, that t wink!, d rather ttian laughed, of broad, wcll-a;okod forehead and clean shaven f;;.c, Judge Underwood. Never was any one mere entirely mistaken in his p:; inneepiiou of another’s personal ap pear, nee than vy.is lin his. 110 was far from being the spare, thin-visaged, sharp chin ned, compressed-lipped, crabbcd t looking pcrsc'n my boyish fancy had pre figured. There was far more of benevo lence than of morose asperity in the ex pression of his countenance, ami for a motucnt J almost doubted whether ho be tin J “old Judge Under.vobtW H treesm and at' lingua) so long been tM terror t J f so many contain .inti ip* :,,, ot (hose legal fledgelings, whose de meanor savorcu more of arrogaJee titan ot modesty. He grasped my hand—r x lendoJ not without some tremulots niis grvu.gs—very cordially, and bale the ‘ limb ol the law” welcome to the of a profession which ho charac v r'/.od as “very numerous, and, for tlie part very ignorant.” Robert S. j then from Cobb, was of ii:y. He, as vnu know, was a as well as :t lawyer. In the run * •*•"« general conversation which en 1. "ith but momentary abatement, h s«v.ij renowned that he had noticed on “ %;»y to Cedar town, l!l C; M"S to be jKKujy tiwed; that he saw wore of ars(ss and weeds JJ.in of cotton <r . ‘ruin fee liolH. addressing • ! a; ge Underwood directly, tb> inquired " tlier farmers ii» upper Georgia did not usually over-pitch their* crops? “\.s," replied the Judge, “Farmers, i.ke the rest ol mankind, universally over-crop themselves. Yunna men of all elates invasiabl) over-crop themselves in all things.'' at the moment stroking his own clean-tousored chin and darting a quick glance *U at me, who at the same time liap|>oned to wear a heavy crop of whiskers, particularly for the season ami for one of my years. Those whisker.- were not clipped on the morrow, but I was sorry they were worn on that day. The crowd around was considerate and tried to stifle a laugh. It cost them an effort. Not so with myself. My risible? were rigid and stark, never more so. He did not afl’eet long beards on anv b >dy. He would have scorned the ollice of a patriarch or prophet of the olden time, if couplet! with the condition that lie must renounce the use of the razor, that the barber’s occupation, like Othel lo’s must he gone. No man, more, than he, ever misliked the Samson strength which lay in length of hair, whether on head or face. He would have defended Delilah “without fee or reward or the hope thereof,” in any court wherein he practiced had she been indicted for shear ing off Samson’s locks. lie would have eulogized the treachery' and striven for a verdict of malicious prosecution! No Norman ever believed more strongly than did he, in the becoming ness and de cency of short-cropped hair. lie was remarkably cleanly in his person and scrupulously neat in his dress. When his linen was sent to rhe v asherwoman, it was rarely soiled, the microscope could hardly disclose a stain. The day of milled shirt-bosoms” had long passed when I put on the toga virllis. i doubt whether Judge Underwood ever wore the ruffles. Colonel Thomas A. Latham, of Campbell, was the solitary member of the Ear of that circuit who evinced a lingering fondness for the antiquated. He occasionally appeared in the court room with rutiled bosom and wristbands, reminding one of “an aged hemlock in the path of the hurricane,” and he aban doned their use with sorrow, very sin cere, touching and personal, only when tiie voice of progress proclaimed in the words of Hamlet, “It is a custom More honored in the breach than the observ ance.” The two had for many years practiced in the same courts and were better known, for a longer time, to the people af the circuit than any lawyers who took the riding, the one for his wit, the o her for his oddities. Their, personal rela tions were friendly, cordial, I should rather eiiy. When attending Polk court, they generally occupied the same room, and when the day's work was through with, and no case for to-morrow occu pied attention or exacted overnight preparation, their room was the common center of attraction to all who had a fondness for the social gathering or relish for the spices of innocent hilarity' and mirth. A feast was sure to be spread out. seasoned with rich condiments tempting and gratcAil to the palate of any intellectual epicure. I remember an occasion when the room was full to dis comfort—all the chairs, tables, and bed. occupied for seats. It had been a “field day” with Col. Latham. lie had gained a pet case, made a fine speech and was in exultant, jubilant spirits. Judge Un der worn! had been of opposing counsel and did net participation the Colonel’s exhilaration largely; in fact, lie was not in a very amiable mood. The Colonel, like an actor on the boards, flushed with applause from pit to gallery, was pacing the room back and forth, repeating to the crowd the strong points of iiis court house speech, to convince those present, it seemed, of rhe righteousness of the jury. Ho recited, in nearly the very language used in adressing the jury, one of his happy hits, and with an air of conscious triumph, said: “Didn’t L let the water on v em there? Didn’t 1 ! carry their Malakoff by storm?'” Then pat ting Ids milled shirt with all the tender ness a mother would manifest in fondling the child'she was proud of, lie turned to the Judge and said: “Underwood, why don't you run a rutile?” The laugh, for the instant, was on the Judge. His reply turned the tables,or rather,reversed (lie risiblos: “Col Latham, when T came to be a man, I quit being a woman, or a babv-boy.” Was not this tiie germ of the famous answer he made to the ques tion of Dr. Thompson, of ante helium “Atlanta hotel” notoriety: “Judge, j what do you think of this new fashion ! that gentlemen have got into of wearing shawls instead of overcoats?” “I can not give an opinion, Doctor, on that sub ject, because I never knew a gentleman to wear a shaw l.” This last recalls another witticism which may have appeared in the public prints of the time, perpetrated at the Doctor's expense. Their relations, us you wfll know, were as intimate and is any that ever existed between stbooL'boj chums. Their bond of Union was not pofsona! only, but political as ! w<M, for both were gentlemen in society and botft were federalists in politics. Sallust's aphorism, “idem velle ct idem nolle” was never more fully realized ami exemplified than in the ease of these two. But to the point: You remember with what surprisfTig ’’quickness the Know Nothing party party sprang into being in ISoo; how formidable its num bers were, and how it swept the country everywhere until Henry A. M i<o, with more than Canute power, breasted the tide lit Virginia and beat it buck. That blow, fatal as it proved to be, intensified rather than abated party feeling in Geor gia. Never since the days of Troup and Chirk, was politjeai excitement so in tense, so acn§v>nious and so universal throughout hek, worders. it was auto crat t>f ail classes and ovVr all the rela tions of life, swaying sovereign sceptre ,in society, in courts, in churches. Inte.i ligtnee of W ise's gul»eniatorial election over Flournoy reached a considerable ftuinber of the* iierokee Bar at Kingston, iWien on their way to attend the Supreme Court, then landing sessions at Atlanta. Ou arriving at the passenger depot in that city, some one of the jurisconsults said: “Let’s -top at the Washington i Hall. Lloyd (the proprietor,) is a good CAETERSYILLE, GEORGIA, TIILjf 7 now Nothing.” Judge Underwood •»> 1 o. though not a good Know Nothing, was less of a Democrat, gathering up his luggage, remarked, “Well, gentlemen, a - many as choose, can go to Lloyd’s be cause he is a good Know Nothing, but I shall go to Thompson’s, he I ncurs little enough for me.'” Some thought his wit was lacking in pleasantry, that it was cynical in tem per, that tiie blade had gaps in its ed« which lacerated the incision it made. ™ Jo not think so. True, the blade was sharp and keen as tiie polished acime ter of Salad in, and could not but cut deep, yet the wound always healed “by first intention,” unless the case was des perate and required heroic treatment, as the surgeons call it, even then lie was more ready to pour balm than vitriol into tiie sore. Ot course }'oii will devote a full chap ter of your volume to tiie witty sayings of Judge Underwood. None who knew him would willingly let them die. Un like Sheridan’s, which “smacked of the lamp,” there was a dewy freshness about his that showed how entirely impromptu they were. Nor did he call for them or wai for them, they bubbled up, unbid den, like spring-boils at their fountain head. ile was a natural wit, just as Burns was a natural poet or Patrick Henry a natural orator. * But Judge Underwood was much more than a brilliant wit. He was an able and learned lawyer. lie had studied law more as a science than an art. liis ac quaint nice witli the fundamental princi ples, of universal jurisprudence was sci entific and profound. lie had knowl edge of all its branches; but it was his thorough mastery of the common law that made him most conspicuously prom inent in tiie estimation of the profession. In that department of legal lore lie tow ered above all bis Georgian contempora ries—the acknowledged Ajax of the pha lanx. With the daily and the nightly hand he had toiled through the “lueu brationes rig inti annorum u and become master of “the jealous science.” The wealth of the profession, nowhere, could have shown his superior as a common law lawyer. He had paid the price of excellence and won the palm of victory. Success affeotioned hi* kindly toward his legal kindred. Coke, he venerated as a father; Blaqkstone, he loved like a brother. I cannot speak, with knowledge, of the sheaves he reaped in of scien« title research. I. hardly k those fields were inviting to him, or his men tal conformation more beliked the ab stract than the concrete. But that he was a ripe, and finished scholar in studies, which the old schoolmen de nominate “the elegant humanities,” none who knew him will question. He was not only familiar with the standard English classic, but indulging his taste tor letters always. lie kept up -with the best literature of his own time. Nothing from the pen ofßulwer, Dickens, Thack eray’, Irving et id omne genus, escaped his eager eye. lie enjoyed Thackeray, especially, lie loved to eulogize Thaek era’s pictorial power, which few appre ciated as highly as lie did. I think Thackeray’s definition of a “snob” cap tured him. “A snob is one that meanly admires a very mean thing.” His ad miration of a good author glowed with all the ardor of personal attachment. Lie read much of almost everything. liis style was chaste, vigorous, nervous and perfectly natural. It approached in neatness, perspicuity and energy, more nearly to Horne Tooke’s than that of any man I ever knew, with exception of the lute Linton Stephens. lie spoke as correctly and elegantly as he wrote, L never heard an ungrammatical sentence tall from his lips, if the sentence were his own. lie addressed a backwoods jury with tiie same precision and ele gance of diction he would have employ ed in addressing the learned bench. In that respect he had the capital faculty of always doing iiis best. If it had been iiis fortune to preside in tiie Supreme Court of Georgia, his decisions, like Judge Stephens’, would have taken rank, in point of style, alongside of Chief Justice Gibson’s, of the Pennsyl vania Bench. His memory was, probably, chiefest of his mental faculties. It was simply prodigious. It was a capacious store house wherein were garnered up, with out confusion, and ready for use at any moment, the facts of history, the inter esting incidents of biography, the tine passages and grand images of general literature, whether of prose or verse. Among all his contemporaries of the North Georgia bar, whom I knew, Judge John A. Jones, at meridian, was most nearly his solitary peer in literary taste, attainment and accomplishment. These sheets have been thrown off eurrente calamo ; if vou can turn them to account, use them, if not, destroy them. Yours truly, J. I). Waddell. William 11. Underwood was born on the 30th cfhy of September, 1779, in what was then Culpepper county, Yir ginia, now Spottsylvania county, on Ce dar creek, at the foot of Cedar mountain, about two or three miles northwest of Mitchell’s Station, near the battlefield where Stonewall Jackson whipped John Rope, in ISG3. Ilis ancestors were En glish and Scotch. Ilis great-grandfather was John Underwood, of London. Ilis | grandfather was one of ten sons with whom his great-grandfather emigrated to America, and settled in Lancaster . county, Pennsylvania, and his sons scat ’ tered in the state around Harrisburg and Gettysburg. Joseph, the grandfather, settled in Virginia, in what is now Page county, in the Shenandoah Valley. This valley was very much “settled up” with NngHsif and Scotch—they intermarried i and ea^grated south, in Culpepper oouu ; - ? -■ ' : V ■ flj ■. - "t: «"7. .7 . C :■', J.v M ■ I y -< j 1 ’ ' -«* * ' V v. i *” ’ ■ 1 i : ; 1111' i. •!' . M.‘H « Harris vd i b "g- < > • lie intermarried with Nancy C. and had a family on his hands. he was teaching school in South na he formed the acquaintance of a well educated Scotch-Irishman named Ander derson McGuire, from whom he borrow ed some Latin books, and under his oc casional instructions learned a small smattering of the Latin tongue, and al though McGuire was an intemperate man, addicted to the immoderate use of ardent spirits, he was gratefully remem bered as a benefactor and friend down to the day of l;is death. When war was declared against Great Britain, in IS 12, William 11. Underwood raised a company of volunteers In El county to serve during the war,* - and was organize d tiie regiment of Col. Milton, aad marched to Mobile. Ala., and yeas stationed at Mobile at fhe time of the battle of New Orleans, and after that memorable event, wqa still at Mobiie until the news ot the peace \\a3 received, when his company marched again on foot to Elbert - county, having been discharged at Fort Hawkins, near the sYte, of the present city of Macon. Often have I seen the old men w!k>, when young, were his companions in the army, meet him and salute him as “captain.” It did not matter wh.qtoth-. er title he had acquired, he was to them their captain, and with joyous gladness they met him, with et’ory expression of delight, and parted from him with glistening, downcast, mournful eyes. The tie that binds true and brave soldier to his considerate and kind officer is as dear as any on earth. The soldier remembers the hardships and toils, the dangers and strife; and the officers of the kindness of the officer. And the of ficer remembers tiie obedience, devotion, and unbounded courage of the soldiers. And thus they are drawn together by cords of sympathy and love, confidence and trust, never betrayed. The officer is to the soldier his captain, and the sol dier is to the officer one of his men for ever. We see such scenes when young and philosophically refleeton them when old. Underwood was a man of decided opinions and earnest convictions. No time server or demagogue. A firm, bold thinker, always stating his views can didly and without reference to the effect on himself. He was, in the days of Troup and Clark, a Clark man, greatly in Ijm minority in Elbert and tiie ad joining counties, yet unflinchingly he maintained his principles. He rapidly rose in his profession, and in 1525, in the month of November, he was elected by the legislature judge of the Superior eourts of the western circuit, defeating Augustin Smyth Clayton, one of the ablest and purest men iu the state. Clayton was a Troup man, and the vote was strictly a party vote, the Troup men voting for Clayton and the Clark men voting for Underwood; the difference was 27 votes. In IS2S the Troup men had the majority in the general, assem bly, and Clayton was elected judge by about the same party vote. Both Clay ton and Underwood, to the day of their death, retained the entire confidence of the people of the circuit and of the state. Underwood was aver;- great admirer of Blackstonc. He read Black stone's commentaries every year of his life from ISOS to 1559. He regarded Mr. Biackstone’s style as the purest < f Eng lish, and his definitions perfect, and his logic unanswerable and as accurate as mathematics. When the writer was a young man studying law, as the phrase goes, when his preceptor returne 1 home from the circuit and took up Bfackstone to see how his pupil was progressing, among other questions asked: “What is burglary?” The student answered: “Burglary is the unlawful breaking and entering a man’s house in the night | time with intent to commit a felonj\” ; He threw the book on the t.-dde and I said: “You will never make- a lawyer, ! you had as well go to somethu g else,” ; and proceeding to walk across the room i with considerable indignation, :cm ark .rn® '' \..f * V.^‘v~y’ '- '>/?> Y.jigvg . 'A li' -; i : a uV- •/ ;*i ;: t;U4 f--igiiieia*d. On m opposing force, without n\^^HBHHB| the ielea struck )iim that their was probably as much frightened as hi? was. This view of the matter remained in his mind, and he never thereafter felt trepidation in the preaen.ce of the enemy. In his comments upon the much dis cussed buttle of Shiloh, Gen Grant dis sents from that if Johnson had not been killed tjhe Confederates would have won and annifilgied Grant’s army. He remarks: ‘‘ffs’ defeated the Confed erates at Shiloh. We should hgye-bec-p --disgracefully beaten "‘if’"'all the bullets fired by us had passed harmlessly over the enemy, and ‘it’ all theirs had taken effect.” Tire fact that Johnson was leading a brigade to make a charge which had been repeatedly ordeyjd, is evidence that there was neither the universal demoralization oil our side nor the unbounded confi dence on theirs, which has been claimed. There was in fact no hour during the day when I doubted the eventual defeat of the enemy. Grant says that Col. Win. Preston Johnston’s description of the battle is very graphic and causes the reader to wonder why the Federal troops were not all killed. I witnessed the fight, some what sarcastically adds the General, and I see but little in the description that I can recognize. The Confederate troops fought well and deserve commendation enough for their bravery and endurance on the Gill of April, without detracting from their antagonists or claiming any thing more than their due. The General makes amends to General Anson McD. McCook by explaining a re mark in his Century articles on Shiloh to the effect that McCook was unwilling to pursue the enemy on April 7, because of the condition of his troops. Grant says the remark has been misinterpreted. He sustained McCook and merely men tioned the-fact as a matter of history. He then pays a high tribute to McCook’s gallantry. Gen. Grant lirst met Lincoln when called to Washington to receive his com mission as Lieuteuant-General in March, IS(M. “In my first interview with Mr. Lincoln alone, he stated to me that he had never professed to be a miltary man, or to know how campaigns should be conducted, and never wanted to inter fere in them, but that procrastination on the part of commanders and the pressure of the people at the north, and of con gress, which like the poor he had always with him, had forced him into issuing his well known series of executive or ders. lie did not know but they were all wrong, and did not know that some of them were. All be wanted, or had ever wanted, he sail. vas that some one would take the responsibility and act, and call on him for all the assistance needed.” Grant first met Stanton at Louisville. Stanton handed him two orders, saying he could take his choice. Both created a military division of the Mississippi, giving Grant command of it, and were identical, except that one left the division commanders as they were, while the other relieved R >se erans and assigned Thomas to his place. I accepted the latter, rays Grant. After Dpseerans' defeat at Chicakauiauga and retreat upon Chattanooga, Grant says Stanton sent for him and told him that further retreat must be prevented, I : immediately wrote an order assuming i command of the division of the Missis- S sippi and telegraphed to Gen. Kosecrans. i then telegraphed him the order from Washinfiton, assigning to Thomas the 1 eVamand of the array of the Cumbcr- mis *>**"<\ /-V? J enemy. It. giving n render, Gen. Grant says I.B'} had been brought into conducted to a house belonging tiaß McLean, and was there witJuPm (jHi ! stall' officers ii. uufumri was occupying a hill, a portion of which was an apple orchard. Wars produce many stories of fiction. The story of the apple tree is one of those fictions, with a slight foundation of fact. Running diagonally up the hill was a wagon road, which at one point ran very near one of the trees of the or chard, so that the wheels had cut olf the roots of the tree, which made a little embankment. Gen. Babcock reported to me that when he first met Gen. Lee he was sitting upon this embankment with his feet in the road and leaning against a tree. It was then that Lee was conducted into the house whore 1 first met him. I had known Gen. Lee in the old army, atid had served with him in the Mexican war, but did, not suppose, owing to the differences in our ages and rank, that he would probably know rne; while I would remember him more distinctly, because he was the chief engineer on the staff of Gen. Scott in the Mexican war. When I had left camp that morn ing I had not expected the result so soon that was then taking place, and eonse- quently was in rough garb, and I be lieve without a sword, us I usually was when on horseback on the field, wearing a soldier’s blouse for a coat, with shoukg der straps of toy rank to indicate whdß was to the army. JHj When I went into the house I fowpd Gen. Lee. We greeted each otlian after shaking li tnds took our .fIPF. What his feelings were I do not khinv, being a man of much dignity and with an impenetrable face; but my own feel ings, which had been qutie apparent on the receipt of his letter, were sad and de pressed. I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe that had fought so long and so gallantly, and had suffered so much for a cause which I believed to be one of worst for which a people ever fought, <fnd -''for which there was not the lecst pretext. I do not question, however, the sincer ity of the great mass of those who were opposed to us. Gen. Lee was dressed in full uniform entirely, wearing a sword of considera ble value, very likely the sword that had been presented to him by the state of Virginia; at all events it was an entirely different sword from the one that would ordinarily be worn in the field. In my rough traveling suit, which was the uni form of a private, with the straps of a general, I must have contrasted very strangely with a man so handsomely dressed, six feet high and of faultless form. But this was not a matter that 1 thought, of until afterwards. Gen. Lee and I soon fell into a conversation about old army times. He remarked that he remembered me very well in the old artnv. Our conversation grew so pleas ant that I almost forgot the object of our meeting. Gen. Lee was accompanied by one of his start, Col. Marshall. I had all of my staff with me, a good portion of whom were in the room during the whole of the intervie w. There is as much home comfort in the Alaska Wrought* Iron Range as any made. Price forty dollars. V*. L. Williams & Co. 1 ■ 1 K\ f 11 : lie W * - | _ !"■ •:r ■’! ;i; ho;!; i v\ i 1 11 . 1 V o not prep ircd for ; nr battle. IMPTIIKHIA CUKKH BY SULPHUR. A few years ago when diptheria was raging in England, a gentleman accompan ied tlie celebrated Dr. Field on his round to witness the so-called “wonderful cures’’ which he performed, while the patients of others were dropping on all sides. The remedy, to be so rapid, must be simple. All he took with him was powder of sul phur and a quill, and with these lie cured every patient without exception. He put a teaspoonful of flour of brimstone into a wine-glass, of water, and stirred it with his finger, instead of a spoon, as the sul phur does not readily amalgamate with water. When the sulphur was well mix ed he gave it as a gargle, and in ten min utes the patient was out of danger. Brim stone kills every specios of fungus in a man, beast and plant in a few minutes. JBpead of spitting out the gargle, he rec- Ipimended tlie swallowing of it. In ex treme (bases, in which he had been called just in the jiiclrof time, when the fungus nearly closing to allow the gar gling, he blew the sulphur through a quill into tlie throat, and, after the fungus had shrunk to allow of it, then the gargle. He never lost a patient from diptheria. If a patient cannot gargle, take a live coal, put it on a sliovei and sprinkle a spoonful or two of flour of brimstone at a time upon it, let tlie sufferer inhale it, holding tlie head over it, and the fungus will die. The Atlania correspondent of the Ma con Telegraph, after noticing the appoint ment of John W. Nelms as United States Marshal says : “The next office to be filled now in the custom house, one of tlie most important and lucrative, is the postoffice. From all I can gather and see, it is understood as a part and parcel of the new deal that thus important office will be handed over to ex- Treasurer Renfroe.” We think that when the senate comes to act upon the nominations of Nelms and Renfroe, tlie “true inwardness” of Sena tor Brown’s support of Speer for federal judge may have some light thrown upon it. Nelms and Renfroe cannot be con firmed without republican support, and perhaps tlie support of quite a number of republican senators. —Rome Courier. A Reliable Article. For enterprise, push and a desire to get such goods as will give the trade satisfac tion, D. VV. Curry, the druggist, leads all competition. He bandies I>r. 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 Keynote to Health. Health is wealth. Wealth means inde pendence. The keynote is Dr. Bosanko’s Cough and Lung Syrup, the best Cough Syrup in the world. Cures Coughs, Colds, Pains in the Chest, Bronchitis and Primary Consumption. One dose gives relief in every case. Take no other. Price 50 cents and sl. Sold by D. W. i Curry. l