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THE COURANT. Published JCvery Thursday, CAKTKR-SVILIjE. GEORGIA. lIIK CO UR A NT r* publlnhed or fry Thursday/ w.onU*'j * "I it delivered by carrier* in the city or mailed, po*Uup free, 'it $1.60 y"W; isK ntonltw, SO Otrte month*, 60cent A DYKRTISI NO RATES defend on location m thn paper, and trill be furniehed on qppUea~ tiou. CORKKSPONI)KNOR important ,imc mOa cited fro n. all parte of th' county. A DDItKSS all letter*, communication* and tel eoram*. and make all draft* or check* payable to Til K COURANT, CarlerecUle, On. Official Organ Bartow County. DOCTOR AND MRS. W. H. FELTON. AUGUST 20, 1885. Ik, ;u> the Constitution reports, W. B. Lowe makes no money by convicts, why did be struggle into the possession of them as he did, and why has lie bought up all the interest in his company but one-eighth, which is now owned by the Dade Coal Mine Company? If, as Sen ator Smith reports, he makes nothing, out of what has that giant 0,000 acre farm grown? If he calls several thousand bales of cotton, line houses and planta tions well stocked, “ nothing,” pray what would he call something! Tick Macon Telegraph and Messenger calls attention to the fact that Gov. Col quitt sold rights of way on the W. & A. K. K., to the Georgia Pacific railroad, amounting in value to sooo,ooo, for the small sum of SI,OOO. As the Governor was understood to be pecuniarily inter ested in the latter road it is his duty to himself to show the real facts in the case at once. The .State itoad belongs to the people of the state and the State s intei ests should la; protected. The Telegraph gives Gen. Mediae as authority as to value. THR STA TR ROA D. The sale or lease of the state railroad is now before the legislature. One propo sition is to sell for eight millions, if it can be done within two years. Failing to sell then to lease at SIO,OOO per month. Another proposition is to lease (not sell on any terms) within two years, just as it is at present leased, for $40,000 per month. Another. Not to lease at all— sell outright. Another to lease for stand ing rent, the lessee to take the road when the present lease expires, they to regu late the “betterment” question. The Augusta Chronicle intimates that the betterment will soak up the whole price for it whenever Goy. Brown gives it up. It is also said to be susceptible of proof that the road has netted clear money to the lease, a sum note less than $450,000 a year after all expenses are paid. This tiling will bear watching from first to last. POINTERS. John B. Gough is prostrated from speaking and the heat. The Manhattan bank toller got away with SIOO,OOO. A lady in Canton, Ohio, had a violent coughing spell, broke a small blood ves sel in the brain and died in a few hours. Cholera is now in Pennsylvania. < ’holera fearfully destructive in France devastating in Spain. ~~ Hie President Is lUhing in tho Adiron dack mountains. On tho Ist of October, 275,000 pounds of dynamite will bo blown up under Hell Gate, N. Y. Maxwell, tho St. Louis trunk murder er, says lie and Prellor bought a dead body to got insurance on the hitter’s life, that Prellor is alivo and hearty. Tho labor organizations of Pennsylva nia appeal to tho president for extra session of congress. They aro dead broke and need help from Washington. gex. grants last message. “Look after our dour children ami direct them In the paths of rectitude. It would distress me far more to think that one of them oould depart from an honorable, uptight and virtuous life, than it would to know that they were prostrated on a bod of sickness from which they were never to rise alive. They have never given us any alarm or. their account, and I earnestly pray they never will. With these tew injunctions and the knowledge I have of your love and af fection, I but you a final farewell until we meet in another and a lietter world. You will find this on my pcipou after my demise.” Mt. McGregor, duly 9, 1886. Lt ttie '’ruling passion” is “strong in ■death," we Ufive here an index to Gen. Grant’s trueejiaraeter that cannot be too strongly emphasized. Warriors have been usualiy'luSL to dwelling on battle.- and earnageJjWw the spirit in loosiug itself from jjKnd&ge here has not yet touched a rewig place beyond. Even our own Gen. Lee called on A. P. Hill, his trusted friend and commander, to load a charge sis the spirit winged its llight to the battlements of heaven. Stonewall Jackson’s dying soul sought the ‘shade of tire trees beyond the river.' Napoleon’s lips parted to call bnce more to his heroic legions, before,death sealed his utterance forever. But Ger.. Grant’s heart reached out to his children —their future, their character, their honor. As sured of the teuder love of his wife, he encouraged her to her task, to the children in the paths of duty aud\reeti tude. \ We read a story a few days arfo, a boy’s account of his father’s kind words in parting from him, as he went for h\m on a simple errand. “Thank you, niff son, you have always been a good child to your father." Heart disease stilled v that father’s earthly life before the er rand was accomplished. That teuder praise was ever the strongest comfort to the sorrowing boy in his deep, agonizing grief. To the Grant children nothing of comfort could be said that would equal that dying father’s commendation to be read after he was dead. It Is hard to say which it reflects most credit upon, the father, the mother, or the children. Marble may crumble, brass may perish, but that simple confidence in his chil drens’ honor and that humble prayer for a united family in heaven, will reflect a radiant glory on Gen. Grant’s character, when earthly fame and human honors tie forgotten in the dust. X'' Met. W. R. LOWE'S TESTIMONY. f)ur readers will find in another col liinn Mr, Lowe’s testimony, which shows how the lease of convicts was granted to himself and company. This arrange ment was made in December, in the year I*7*3. liefore Gov. Smith went out of of fice in January 1877. B. J. Lockett, L. A. Jordan and J. B. Gordon and hlm- S’lf formed his company. They had put in an accepted bid for the lease to begin in April, 1879, but they could not wait, it appears, that long. They must get in possession at once. The testimony shows how and whore they used etlorts for that purpose. Gov. Smith’s term was about to close, as Gov. Colquitt had been elect ed in October, and the former was a can didate for the U. S. Senate against Mr. Norwood and Mr. Hill. Messrs Lockett and Jordan were large influential south west Georgia planters and they wanted farm hands. Gen. Gordon wanted hands to work on cotton farm3 also. They, theretore, could not wait until the ap pointed time, because they wanted mon ey much and could get heaps of it, if Gov. Smith or some lessee would become “your most obedient.” The governor’s brother-in-law, John T. Brown, was the principal keeper, and understood to be the managing partner of the Arm, in which politics was the biggest capital. Gov. Smith told Col. R. F. Maddox (who swore to the statement before a notary public) that he (Smith) “would be glad it could be arranged so as to enable him (Smith) to organize and locate the camps and the penitentiary of the twenty year lease during his term/’ Why hQ was so desirous "is notoftieially stated, but rumor has it that he was intensely anxious, for good reasons, to fix it so-cording to his own wishes. Lot u- slop bore a miuu e to inquire, why a governor should thus desire to anticipate the state’s action three years ahead cf the time set by law. Strange, to say the least of it. suppose Bullock had done as much, “don’t you know “howl” would have been heard in certain circles? Just imagine if you can Ohas. J. Jenkins, in Fulton county jail, juggling with four dirty convicts, by which the revenue of four hundred other convicts were turned over to W. B. Lowe three years before he was entitled to them! Think of Herschel V. Johnson, playing thimble-rig with Win. C. Daw son, in the back yard of a city prison, tricking the state of Georgia out of her convicts, to fill their own pockets! What a picture ot deceit as well as greed! . A governor, with the interests of a half a million of people in his care, standing on*' one side, and Gen. Phillips, a lessee, on the other. Four dirty convicts are be tween them. Says the governor: “Phillips, will you tako them?” Re ply: “Governor, 1 want them, but if you auf tho lessees will not hurt me, I’ll say I don't want thorn. Pull that jail door close. I’m skeerd of the railroad folks, and I’m skoerd of you. Make ’em all sign tho paper hero in the dark, that I shan’t be hurt, and I’ll do what you tell me. I can’t trust your word; sign tho paper. If tho railroad folks catch up with this trick, good-by William.” Said the governor: “William, bequiot, you shan’t ho hurt. Just make out like you refuse them, and I’ll issue a proclamation that some con victs are thrown back on the state, and we will all go to glory together.” Gen. Phillips then said he would rfu'°, tho whole crowd signed, and the executive issued an order, and the great t>.x pay ing multitude in the state know nothing about this shrewd thimble-rigging game, until tho lossoes fell out with oue an*.inl and went to law. You know the ok. adage,” Whon —fall out, honest men get” at the truth. This is the way the con vict lease system was incubated, and those are the men who hatched the swin dle. Lowe says a convict is worth from $l5O to SIBO. Count up their profits in the three years alone, and you will see where the tricksters made the swag. GOOD RESULTS IX GEORGIA. In the struggle to prevent an increase of crime, and to check the sale of liquor, the state is making great progress. There is nothing so elevating to a country as philanthropic efforts to do good to our fellow-man. These efforts may tor a lone time take the Bemblance of unequal struggles, but right will finally triumph. There is always difficulty in carrying out reforms because reforms always antago nize some business interest. The ex citement on the slavery question was prolonged for many years because of the orospective loss of the money value of the slaves. Had there been no money invested in slave labor, the system would have crumbled years before it did. The North sold out, therefore its willingness. This fact alone makes the delay in pass ing a reform prison bill. Every sensi ble man in the state is disgusted with the lease system, but the lessees and their friends are unwilling to give up the profit of their labor. Otherwise they would quickly recognize the necessity. Continual agitation will force the reform, aud every stroke tells on the evil. Thus It is with tbe sale of liquor. That it produces evil effects, induces crime and entails poverty, even the liquor deal ers will admit, but they do not like to have their business interfered with, their money and their profits. They cling to the money that Is invested In it, and they feel it a hardship to be compelled to close doors and destroy their stock. This is the place where the shoo pinches, and it is a question to bo honestly and justly dealt with. There is in Qeorgia an in clination to put aside everything but re- V form in these matters, and when the Change comes it w ill be like the slavery qluestion —irrepressible. yY state that looks at the philanthropy of V qaestkm is always charged with ia natA'lsui. These movements are no ex ception. Luther was a “fanatic," the aboli\ionlsts were “fanatics." It is a term Vf reproach, but all great move ments \n church or state have been dub bod fan\ticism until success crowned the efforts, t\en it goes by the name of liber ty ana reVorin. Curry’s V>iarrhoea and Dysentery Spe cific is a suVe and all bowel A YANKEE METHOD. When the National Convention on “Criminals and Correction” met in Washington City, a short time ago, a statement was made that a young lady of Philadelphia had been imprisoned in the asylum for a lunatic for nearly thirty years because she was extravagant. The statement raised Inquiry and Investiga tion proved its truth. Her father was a very wealthy physician, who indulged her in every luxury that money could buy. He failed in business, and she still spent money freely. Ills remonstra ting availing nothing, he at last told her if she would go to the asylum as a luna tic he would her as soon as her giddy habit was broken, lie died with in five years, and there she has lived to the age of sixty, confined in a lunatic asylum, charged with “extravagance and eccentricity,” this and nothing more. The offense tor which she was made thus to suffer was the buying of some furniture on a credit. Getting in a straight she sold the furniture. Her father told her if she resisted the lunatic asylum he would have her prosecuted for “false pretenses,” and she yielded. Who knows how many such frauds are carried out in America ? It is represented now that convicts are worth nothing. All right! The State is willing to take the work of the convicts into her own possession. We pay a mil lion dollars for anew capitol, the brick out of which it is built are made by Geor gia convicts at present. Suppose the State should make the brick and thus save one-hulf the amount from general taxation. _ good books . Dear Mk. Editor :—There are before me two most valuable books, which are being distributed by the agricultural de partment at Washington, one entitled “A report of exhibits illustrating agri cultural statistics at the World’s Indus trial and Cotton Exposition at New Or leans, La.,” and the other “a descriptive catalogue of tho grasses of the United States, including especially grass collec tions at the Now Orleans Exposition, made by the United States Department of Agriculture. In the preface of this last, there is this sentence: “The state of Texas makes a display of two hundred species of grasses indigenous to that state.” Georgia, with her 15,209,225 acres of forest land, richly carpeted with native grasses, is not mentioned. And even her greatest authority on grasses, her honored son, the late Charles Wallace Howard, is called, in quoting him, Mr. Howard, of South Carolina. Why is this? The answer is easy. Georgia’s legislature refused an appro priation for an exhibit. The counties were then called upon to send each an exhibit, and if they had done so, Geor gia would have been honored thereby. But only two counties responded. Chat ham, through her Savannah Cotton Ex change, and Dade, through her agricul tural society. Literally tho mountain and the seaboard of Georgia. Chatham’s rice, potton, woods and Ocean steamship company were handsomely represented. Dade sent a full display of her field crops, silk, fruits, vegetables, minerals, magnificent forest trees and the wealth of native grasses of that wonderful table land, Lookqyt Mountain. These grasses •were in well prepared botanical speci mens, but could not, of course, represent rho state, and were thus overlooked. A without grasses for pasture and nay, can never invite capital. Let every Georgia farmer collect: spec imens ot the grasses, native and improv ed, on his farm. Semi them to our com missioner, Hon. A.T. Henderson, at At lanta, there to lie named and classified and placed on exhibition at the depart ment in Atlanta. Every agricultural society in Georgia should place copies of the two works at the head of this article within reach of its members. Chatham. WORKING THE ROADS. The heart swells with gratitude as we look out upon the fields of corn and cot ton ; the showers —the latter rains—have come just at the l ight time. The doc tors can testify that the health of the neighborhood is alarmingly good. Yes, we have had a protracted road working. I like the old-fasliion way of working the roads. All classes come out together and work and talk and joke and spin yarns and laugh and enjoy them selves together; it brings us all close to gether—begets a feeling in general; it’s neighborly. We have a model overseer. He has too much sense to work his road in the spring of the year, knowing that more harm than good would result to the road-bed; hence, lie calls them out after crops are “laid-by” and works them moderately from day to day ’till he is satisfied that his road will stand the traffic for twelve months with, possibly, a few hours patching tn the winter. And again, our boss has a knack at getting work out of the loquacious, the “Ora cles"; knowing them all he pairs his hands off, giving Smith a shovel, with the understanding that he has nothing to do but to pitch all the dirt thaj Jones lifts with his pick. No; we want no petty criminals working our roads, nor do we want them worked by contract. Give us still the old method; it produces less friction than any other plan and bears more evenly. To illustrate: Smith has no property, but his neighbor Jones has; they both work the road together, both pay poll tax, and both vote, hut in addition to this, the property of Jones is taxed to build bridges and to defray the expenses of county and state. At fifty years of age both stop working the road, at sixty both are exempt from poll tax; the property of Jones is still taxed to de fray county and state expenses; at the ballot box both are equal as long as they live. Hall’s Mills. —ih* Has your Child the summer com plaint? Ret its liver straight and it will get well, and don’t fill its little stomach with drugs when nature made Innocent herbs for its relief. Try Curry’s Diarrhoea and Djsentery Specific and watch its smiles return and its cheeks grow red once more. ADAIHSVU.LK, UA., Aug. 16, ’BS. Written for the Covra nt.] [Respectfully dedicated to J H H and K E ll.] They were born to love each other With a never changing love, Through life to tight together, Pure and faithful as a dove. Let ua watch these two frail vessels As they gently glide along; We will watch and pray together That their paths may e’er be one. We can watch their course, and wonder Will they ever drift apart, Can the surging billows ever Wide asunder drift their barks? No! They’ll sail, and sail forever, On a calm and peaceful tide, While they list not into others. With affection as their guide. Bittik Pbiff. For the covrant. ETERNITY. Time past is eternily gone, lu footprints have fadod away; No echo of beauty and song Comes down to the living to-day. The future of ages must pass All time to eternity lent; All nature must perish like grass, All into eternity sent. The sun that is shining to-day, The beautiful stars of the night Must perish in darkness, thoy *ay, lio lost in eternity’s light. All that is mortal mud perLl* Into nonnontity driven Ilow fleeting >t.e ini’ wo cherish, lin nit'. riM me itoimno* ei heaven. T. A.. Down with the moster, monster foe, Old “red coat” whisky, it must go; At Yorktown kept, its side-arms hid, Let Georgia close its coffin lid. Ac wort a. HOW THEY KVADBff THE LAW. Georgia, Fulton County. Before comes in person W. B. Lowe, who being sworn on oath says that, Penitentiary Cos. No. 2 had anticipated being organiz ed by the surrender of what was known as the Stephens convicts in July or Au gust, 1876, but Governor Smith held said convicts under the Act approved Feb. 25, 1876, should be turned over to the Mari etta & North Ga. Railroad, as part of the 250 given under said Act. Penitentiary Cos. No. 2 was to get 60 or 70 conviets from W. D. Grant and Thomas Alexan der, under a previous agreement, as soon as they bad legal existence. Col. B. G. Lockett and W. B. Lowe made various attempts to have their company organiz ed trom that time until December. On or about the IBth day of Dec., 1876, Lock ett & Lowe called again on Gov. Smith to try and arrange some way to organize their company. Gov. Smith said he had no authority to organize it except under the provisions of the Act which made it his duty to turn over to the new compa nies conviets being thrown upon the State by any of the lessees surrendering them, until the Marietta & North Ga. Railroad Cos. had received her 250. Lock ett & Lowe left Gov. Smith’s olliee, went to tho telegraph office and Lowe tele graphed Gen’l. Phillips to meet him at the depot, he would be up to Marietta on the evening train. Gen’l. Phillips met Lowe and Lowe explained to him liis object in coming, and asked Gen’l. Phil lips to surrender to his company some of the convicts on his road, Lowe promising to return them or others as soon as his company had been organized and receiv ed thoir hands from Grant and Alexan der. Phillips said he was perfectly will ing to make the surrender, but presented two objections; one was the surrender of any of his hands might be construed by the State, that he had forfeited his right to have others under the -uct; to this Lowe replied, his company would give him any kind of an obligation he might wisli .-erfing forth the fact that that his company would take no advantage of said surrender. The other objection was that if he made rise surrender and went up and r**ok the hand* off rite road, it would demoralize the people along the line, and they wouid construe i r > uto a a ncl of aban doning the enterprise, as they work ing under great financial difficulties; to this Lowe replied, it would ordv be tem porary, as they would be returned the convicts in a few days, with pay for all trouble and expense. Finally Phillips agreed to this and said he would come to Atlanta the next day and consult Gov. Brown and some other of his friends in regard to it. The next day he came to Atlanta and Lockett and Lowe met him in Governor Brown’s office, and ije de clined to make the surrender updn the same grounds as stated in his objections above. In the meantime we had ascertained that there were 4 convicts iu Fulton county jail, and Gen’l. Phillip agreed that they might be assigned to the M. & N. Ga. R. Cos. and he would surrender them to the State for our benefit, and the Principal Keeper, John T. Brown, did assign them to his company, and he did refuse to take them, s the people along his line would know nothing of the sur render, and therefore, it would not effect them. And by an Executive order, dated Dec. 21, 1876, said hands were turned oyer to Penitentiary Cos. Nos. 1, 2 and 3: and all of said three companies gave Gen’l. Phillips a written obligation that they would tal no advantage of his surrender of the 4 convicts, but let all his legal right’s stand just the same as though he had never made the surrender. W. B. Lowe. Sworn to before me,' this 12 Oct., 1881. Gf.o. Hillyer, Judge. Georgia, Fulton County. Before me, comes in person James M. Smith, who being duly sworn on oath says that deponent held the office of Governor of said State during the year 1876, and as such official leased the Penitentiary con victs under the provisions of the Act of Feb’* 25th, 1576, to Penitentiary Compa nies appear on record iu the Executive’s office. In [the negotationß which led to tbo oontrtacts deponent talked in reference thereto with John B. Gordon, Joseph E. Brown anff Thomas Alexander, who j seemaJ to sfreak for their respective Com- j p&niesMMtte interviews had by deponent ' with these gentlemen while negotiations were pending were numerous, and depo nent cannot undertake to give more than a general recollection of what transpir ed. James M. Smith. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 2G Nov., 1879. VV. I. Hayward, J. P., Fulton County, Ga. BETTER INSURANCE FACILITIES. The properfy holders of Georgia desire and demand better insurance facilities. As the situation stands at present we have 103 towns in the State with popula tions ranging from 500 to 50,000, and of this number only about 25 have a water supply and an organized lire department. This leaves 73 towns in which it is almost impossible to get insurance, as the lead ing companies now doing business in the State refuse to establish agencies or issue policies at places without a tire depart ment and a water supply. Unfortunately for our people the de posit requirement is a part of the consti tion and cannot without too much ex pense be repealed. This legislature, iiuwever, can reduce the deposit to any fra. cyen down as low as one dollar, fhis i- required and demanded by the •(. and people of the small towns and the urge property owners of the state. Au gusta, Columbus, Savannah, and othor large places with their heavy manufac turing, and naval store interests, cannot place their insurance with the companies now in the state, and they cannot with out violating the law place it out through a broker, and should they deal directly with an outside company, in ease of loss the company, under the law, could not send an adjustor or attorney to investi gate the loss. We feel confident that a modification of the deposit law, as suggested, would induce such companies as the JEtna, of Hartford, the National, the Orient, and many others of like standing, to come back to of $25,000 required by the present law amounts to nothing as a security to poli cy holders, but it serves to keep many good companies out of the state, because they claim that it is wrong in principle. Other states view the matter in this light, and there are now but three, Virginia, Mississippi and Georgia, that demand a deposit. North Carolina has just repeal ed the deposit law, and the geople of that state are already feeling the good effects. Georgia cannot afford to lag behind. It is to be hoped that a bill will be intro duced without delay to reduce the de posit now exacted of the companies, and all other insurance legislation should bo let alone. THE CONVICT SYSTEM OF GEORGIA. Tlioraaaville Euterbriso.] Sometime ago Hon. W. H. Felton in troduced into tho lower House of the lower measure to provide for a legis lature a reformatory institution to receive youthful violators of law. He took tho ground that crime is increasing at a fearful rate among the negroes of the State, and argued that every criminal who served a term in one of the convict camps of the State, became a missionary and a crime center as soon as he was re leased. There is not a man in tho State who will join issue with the truths embodied in the statement made, that crime is on the increase, and that instead of opera ting as a bar to crime, the present convict system of the Stato has exactly the con trary effect. The legislature in its wisdom, we call it such for want of a better name, saw lit to vote down the bill introduced by Dr. Felton, but that gentleman took oc casion, during the discussion that proced ed the vote, to tell some very plain truths concerning the convict lessees. We would be glad if the burning words of the eloquent gentleman could be im pressed on every man in the State, for it is a truth, that in the afternoon blaze of the nineteenth century, surrounded by the light of religion and refinement, our State is fostering and protecting an insti tution, as full of horrors, as any that dis graced the darkest days of the Inquisi tion. The present convict lease system was begotten by corruption, has been nur tured by subordination of inen in high places, and is being perpetuated by greed and gold. It has been made by designing demag ogues a party measure, and the party lash is used to beat down inquiry. Madame Roland when she went to death exclaimed —“Oh Liberty how ma ny crimes are committed in thy name,” To-day in our State how many crimes are committed or condoned, to further party triumphs, or to perpetuate party power. The questions of right and wrong are made to stand aside, and Georgia is made to stand sponsor for crimes against civili zation, and crimes against herself. But the flood tide of light is bound to flash over this dark chapter in the histo ry of the State, and a brand will be fixed on every man, who gained gold from its horrors, or who has been frightened into silence by the party also, or who has been gulled into apathy by fear of the powers of the ring that rules the State. Jud Clements say n no is not a candi date for congress he certainly will not be for the Judgeship. This in reference to a rumor that he had made a trade for ex change with Judge Branham. The way we get the true inwardness of the rumor is that Jud, If he fails ior himself, will throw his strength to Branham, and then brother Cicero will get to be a Judge, The trade is really a family affair as we get it.—Argus. WILD CHEBKY AND TAR. Everybody knows the virtues of Wild Cherry and Tjir as a relief and cure for any affections of the Throat and Lungs, combined with these two ingredients are a few simple healing remedies in the compo-itiou of Dr. Bosanko’s Cough and Lung Syrup, making it just the article you should always have in the house, for Coughs, Colds, Croup and Bronchitis. Price 50 cents and SI.OO. Sold by D. W. Curry. | 3 Cholera Is in Spain, hut C.u,. c. will cure cholera in Cartersviile and Georgia. NARROW ESCAPE FROM INDIANS. Reminiscences of the llorder Era in South Georgia. Amerieus t,Ga.) Recorder.! Away back in Indian times there lived a man in Stewart county who owned some horses, and a ranging party of In dians stole one of his best ones and car ried it across the river. The ranger tracked the horse to tho river, and cross ing he went to a noted resort and then found his horse in the possession of a tawny warrior. “Muchee good pony, ugh. Tote two big wariors, long ways.” This was said to induce the white man to purchase the pony, tho Indian not aware that he wes talking to tho lawful owner. “Come across the river and I’ll pay your price,” said the white man. Once across the river lie turned to tho Indian and his friends and said: “This is my horse, and you stole it. Now I’ve got it again, I’ll see if I can’t keep it. Get on to your side of tho river.” This was tho last straw. The war of Roanoke followed. That was a terrible beginning. The proprietor of Roanoko munlerod, his goods stolen, his possessions burned, tho cry “To arms!’’ was echoed from hill to hill, and the hardy militia of Georgia were soon in the field. The Indians plundered a place on the Noehaway, and dressed themselves up in clothing stolen from the whites, so as to surprise tho man who had obtained his horse at such a risk. The Indians were sitting on a log near the creek, and Nace Bush, J udge Bell and a Rian named Sampler were coming up the creek in search of Jorni gan’s company. Bell and Sampler were out In a clearing, and Sampler, walking on the hill at the foot of' which flowed Nochaway, saw a smart company of men, all seated on a log, and thinking it was Jernigan’s men, he shouted: “Hel lo, boys, I was just a lookiu’ l'er ye,” and started down toward them. Suddenly, as he came within rifle range, he was electrified by the whistling of a rifle ball near his head, and with a yell the In dians started in pursuit of Bush, who was now flying for life. Beil was on horseback, and hearing the commotion galloped to a deep ravine, up which Bush was flying, and Sampler, on foot, soon overtook them, and they found that he was seriously wounded. “Leave me, boys,” said he; “I can’t go any further.” But Bell proposed to get him on the horse. They lifted him up, but the horse smelled the blood and refused to carry him. “Blindfold the cussed horse,” cried Bell, and this expedient was resort ed to with happy results, and all three escaped. Do you want a beautiful skin ? Take Curry’s Liver Compound. It imparts tone to the liver, takes away that bilious yellowness from the skin, purifies the blood and invigorates the system. CUT THIS OUT. Some Uaoful Hints for noiisokeopers. Put a little equa ammonia in the water when you clean your paint. Boraxine in tho scrubbing-water will save you time, soap, and “elbow grease.” Beat your carpets with a horsewhip. Use turpentine to take out paintspots. Pour hot tallow through ink-stains to remove them. Use hot vinegar to take paint-spots off of the window- glass. If there are moths in your garret or closet, sprinkle tho floor with benzine, keep it carefully away from lire. Put salt in your whitewash to mako it stick. A few drops of liquid bluing will make it look all the whiter when if’ te on tho wall. Use turpentine to cloan nieklo plated ornaments. Use salt and vinegar to clean brass or naments. Use common baking-soda (with a damp flannel rag) tor silver. When you whitewash the top and sides of your cellar, put the coperas-water in the whitewash, to drive away all kinds of vermin. If vegetables on the cellar-bottom have made a damp spot, sprinkle coperas-wa ter there also. Rub old furniture and picture-frames with kerosene oil. When you clean your stoves, a little sugar in the blacking will make it stick better and last longer. To clean willow furnituro, ugo salt and water. Apply it with a coarse brush, and dry thoroughly. Wash the mica in your stove doors with vinegar and water to remove the smoke from the inside. Carol Hka. POWDER Absolutely Pure. 1 his powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesome ness. More economical than the ordinary hinds, and cannot las sold in '■ompetition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. ROYAL BAKING I'OW DER CO., jtme 4-ly 106 Wall St. N. Y. NOTICE TO FARMERS. All persons having idle teams can get regular employment for them—in hauling ore from the Chumblin Hill mine, to be paid every Saturday night for all the ore hauled that week— aafifi rate off 1.7. r > per ton of 2268 pounds. Apply to B. C. McEver, agent for ryflH|| Ma:.--a.*ie.;<; '.t lie. < m.-.nhj.u 11 iTifi iuneiS-tf Bartow Sheriff’s Sales FOR SEPTEMBER, 1883. YX7IT.L HE SOLD BEFORE THE COURT \ V house door in Cartersvillfc, Bartow county, Georgia, between tho legal sale hours, On the First Tuesday in September, 1885, The following property, to-wit- Lots of land Nos. two fourteen (214) and two hunured and fif teen and all of two hundred and thirty four (234) lying west of Pino Log creek, and all of two hundred and thirty-five (235) lying north of the Fite place, being one hundred and six acres more or less. All of said lots lying in the Uth district and 3rd section of Bartow county. Lev ied on under li. fa. in favor of Elizabeth Clark against Rhoda King as administra trix of Win. S. King, deceased, issued from the .Superior Court of Bartow coun ty—said li. fa. proceeding lor the pur chase money of said land. Deed tiled and recorded as provided by statute be fore levy. Levied on as the property of the estate of Win. S. King, In the hands of Rhoda King as administratrix to be administered. Land in possession of said Rhoda King. * Levy made by John A. Gladden, former sheriff, on March 3rd, 1884. $5.07 Also at tho same time and place, all that tract or parcel of land lying aiul be ing in the fourth district and third sec tion of Bartow county, Ga., and being parts of lots of land Nos. fifty-nine (59) and sixty 0) and all of lots of land Nos. eighty-four (84) eighty-five (85) one hundred and thirty-three (133), one hundred and fifty-four (15-1) one hun dred and llfty-live (155) and includes ten acres of land adjoining R. L. Rogers and along the west side of the W. & A. R. R. —the said ten acres being part of said lots Nos. 59 and GO in the fourth district and third section of Bartow county, and bounded as follows: Beginning at the Rogers lino and running with the W. & A. R. R. eighty (80) polos, thcnco due west twenty (20) poles to a stake, thence parallel with said railroad eighty (80) poles to tho said Rogers line, and thence with said line, twenty (20) poles the beginning. The entire tract of said land containing 210 acres more or less. Levied on and will be sold as tho prop erty of tho defendant, W. T. WofFoid, under two li. fas. issued from Bartow Superior Court in favor of Charles P. Jones and Lucius 11. Stephenson, trus tees of David V. Rucktnan, against said W. T. Wofford, Mrs. Jane A. Schulte, tenant in possession. Said li. fas. pro ceeding for the purchase money of said land. Deed filed and recorded. Levy made by A. M. Franklin, former sheriff, on November Ist, 1882. $8.31 Also at tho same time and placo, all that tract or parcel of land which lies in tho fifth district and third section of Bar tow county, Ga., and known and distin guished as thirty acres more or less of lot of land number two hundred and thirty,lt be ing that part of said lot known as the D. F. Bishop mill property, and of which said Bishop was in possession on the 2Jst of May, 1881, and on which his mill is lo cated, and all of lot number ltb "nuuflreu and thirty-eight (235) except that por tion of said lot heretofore deeded by said D. F. Bishop to Martin Munford and to Charlie Gunter and to VV. B. Bishop and to W. V. Smith, and all of lot number two hundred and seventy-throe (273) ex cept those portions heretofore doedud by said Bishop to J. R. Stephenson and to Gabriel Culver, and all the ores and min erals on those portions of said lots so conveyod to said Stephenson and Culver which was reserved by said Bishop and afterwards sold to E. U. Woodward, and all of lot number two hundrod and sev enty-four (274) except that portion of same heretofore deeded by said Bishop to Gabriel Culver, including the ores and minerals on that part of said lot conveyed to Culvor, and afterwards sold to said E. 11. Woodward by Bishop. And all of lot No. two hundred and sixty-seven,except that portion heretofore deeded to W. V. Smith. The whole of said land so levied on containing 400 acres rnoro or less. All said property contained and described in a certain deed from D. F. Bishop to E. 11. Woodw’ord, dated 21st of May 1881, and recorded in book “ W,” of Deeds, pages 4 and 5, in Clerk’s ollioo of Bartow Superior Court. Being tho property pointed out in the mortgage Ufa hereby levied. Levied on and will bo sold as the property of E. 11. Woodword, to sat isfy one mortgage flfa issued from the Superior Court of said county in favor of D. F. Bishop, vs said E. n. Woodward. Said property in possession ef the Pyro lusite Manganese Cos. at the date of levy. Levy made by John A. Gladden, former Sheriff, on Febuary 4th, 1881. $11,85 Alsoatsame time and place lot of land number (78)seventy-eight lying in the 17th District ami third section County, Ga. Levied on and as the property of VV. B. satis fy one flfa, issued from the Justice Court of the 851st District G. M. Bartow County, in favor of R. C. Rob< rts vs said VV. B. Arnold. Property poi°ut by plaintiff’s attorney, and levy r “ade and returned to me by J. VV. Tint e y> !-<• C. of said district. $2.82 Also at the same time and aoe , Jot of land number one hundred thirty eight (138) in the 22nd disti ct and section of Bartow county, Ge< led on and wiil be sold as projJflft,;.;. ry Burdott, to sati.-iy one ti H <4 from tiie J uli‘ - eou-t of th<H trim. </. M . of -aid -<■ mty, i. II Baker V-. said 8.-riy Burdo.%(. ’ ty in posses-inn ol B-n Rut! • , made and r-turned to mo* b\ ton, L. G., of said district. BNesUg Also, at the same time am ' of land number- on , hundred H 111, one hundred ami -i.v-H '■ and one herein and and all lying in the 22nd district section oi Bartow county, ' Levied on and will V sold as tb ” of the defend mt, John I), i ’■pd? sat is i y on- state and county lay ■ , the year 1884 vs. Thomas •. JM fcLjoperty in possession of J. and returned to