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Cartersville, (la.
Official Organ Barlow County.
DOCTOR AND MRS. W. H. FELTON.
FEBRUARY 11, 1880.
Accepted WSth Thanks.
A friend—himself at one time among
the ablest democratic editors of the
State—writes: “Enclosed find $ — for
Thk Courant. It is without doubt the
only honest, thoroughly honest journal
that comes to my house. 1 can’t do
without it.’’ This, coming from the
source it does, is very grateful to us, for
we claim to be “honest, thoroughly hon
est’ in our views on public measures.
Without the right to vote (and perhaps
we should be perfectly candid here) and
with no desire to vote, it is our high
privilege to look on public matters with
out constraint or prejudice. Although
thus agreeably disfranchised, we still
have abiding interest in all that pertains
to good government, good society, good
morals and good behavior. Whatever
betide3 this nation bears fully and di
rectly on women and children. Without
a solitary exception these weaker vessels
are afiected by all of our good or bad
laws, and to that extent we have interest
in public affairs. “ When the wicked
rule the people mourn;” so The Cou
kant casts its “honest” influence on the
side of patriotism and honest govern
ment, and its criticisms like its encomi
ums—are without favor or prejudice or
hope of political reward.
Tho Judicial Ermine in the Slime
of Politics.
Our Judges are only men. Invested
with the high and responsible duty of
deciding on the lives and property of
their fellow-men, every safeguard should
be thrown around their positions and
they should be removed to the farthest
possible distance from heated discussions,
politicul scrambles, and all the rivalries,
jealousies, envyings, hatreds and combi
nations that attend political promotion
and political aspirations. Every effort
to make a judge a partisan should receive
the strongest condemnation. Politics is
more or less demoralizing in its results
and its decadence from virtue is more
marked with every year that passes. No
man can retain his seat on the bench in
this day and time and run for a higher
office without becoming a partizan in his
judicial decisions. A judge is intended
for an impartial officer, but a judge who
is appointed to decide between friend and
foe, will in all human probability lean to
the friend and against the foe in spite of
himself. The law incapacitates a judge
from sitting on a case where he has been
related to the litigants, by blood or
has ever held the relation of counsel to
either side. Although there is no statute
debarring a judge from runuing for
another olfice while he retains his seat
on the bench, there ought to be an un
written law in every judge’s conscience
condemning such office seeking. There
are several judicial aspirants mentioned
in Georgia as seeking congressional and
gubernatorial nominations. Let the
press of the state frown down any open
or disguised attempt of this kind, and if
the judges do not resign such positions
let the people rebuke them when they
meet in convention.
The Next Congress.
The time approaches when the people
of this district will be called upon to se
lect a represetative for the next congress.
In alluding to this subject it will be
proper to say The Courant has not the
slightest interest in the subject except as
pertains to every private citizen in the
district. We have no friend to flatter or
to boom, and we do not suppose there is
a more thoroughly disinterested person
in its coniines than the writer. It is pre
sumed that there will be a change from
the present representation, as the party
rarely accords more than three terms
even to its distinguished members, and
there ae too many good loyal organized
brethren in the ranks to be set aside ad
infinitum. The party will no doubt be
careful in its selection, and having been
compelled to give so much time to mere
ly breaking down indepentism, it has
now the opportunity to turn its atten-
Uon to talent and capacity. An extend
ed acquaintance with the district leads
us to think that Cobb, Whitfield or Polk
will be next in turn for such attention,
and unless there was more marked abili
ty in any one particular section, it will
be fair to give each county in turn a
showing before the people. Bartow held
the place for a term of years, and
V\ alker has also had her quota, and we
vote for a fair showing—stipulating that
the grand old Seventh may elect some
man this year who will place us on a
plane with the best represented districts
in Georgia. A district is judged by its
selection, unless indeed the place is
bought with so much money, and we
feel sufficient interest in the matter to
hope we shall be happily illustrated in
Washington City as well as at home.
Mr. Joseph M. Brown, General Freight
and Passenger Agent of the W. & A.
Railroad, very kindly forwarded a copy
of the “Mountain Campaigns ot Geor
gia” to The Courant. It is a neat and
tasteful pamphlet.
Senator Brown has our thanks for a
copy of the Report of the 10th Census,
which completes the series. They are
valuable books and highly appreciated.
Congressman Clements has favored us
with a Directory of Congress. Thanks!
Fresh lot condensed milk, Eagle
Brand, just received at Curry’s Drug
Store. 13
A Desperate Remedy.
The readers of the Atlanta Constitution
who have watched its course for many
years, and who have been frequently
astonished at its agility in defend
ing its political allies, were struck
with amazement last Monday morning to
hear it cry in accents of desperation,
“Shoot the Rogers Family!!” “Shoot the
Rogers Family!!!”
For the first time in its history it found
all avenues for escape closed to specula
tive statesmen in the Democratic party.
Ihe situation was a novel one to our fer
tile contemporary, whereupon it court
martialed the Rogers family and ordered
their immediate execution by a prompt
volley of musketry. Strange to tell, it
saw nothing wrong in the action of At
torney-General Garland, who bartered
off his political influence, while U. S.
Senator, for a block of Rogers telephone
stock, amounting to $500,000. Not a dol
lar did he pay to the Rogers family for
the stock, nor does it appear that he ever
expected to pay a dollar. It is rather
hard lines to “shoot the Rogers family”
because of their generosity, while Attor
ney-General Garland is coddled up for
not only accepting the telephone stock in
this way, but for allowing the use of the
name, the money and the authority of the
United States Government to break down
all rival telephone companies in favor of
the Fan-Electric. In the unlooked for
emergency, that “shooting” may J>e offi
cially ordered, justice will demand that
some others, as well as the Rogers family,
be condemned to execution by such a
military argument.
WhenU. S. Senator Garland accepted
the stock belonging to the Rogers family,
without any outlay of money, he knew
he was purchased for a purpose. He
might not call it a bribe, hut he knew he
was getting something lor nothing, to be
paid for in political influence—and noth
ing else.
Just so with Joseph E. Johnston, now
Railroad Commissioner under Secretary
Lamar.
Just so with Robert Yance, Commis
sioner of Patents under Secretary Lamar.
Just so with J. D. C. Atkins, now In
dian Commissioner under Secretary La
mar.
Just so with the Clerk and Inspector of
the Indian Bureau, in the same depart
ment.
Just so with U. S. Senator Isham G.
Harris, who accepted $500,000 worth of
Rogers stock, in return for his influence
with the public as Senator.
Yet the Constitution desires to “shoot
the Rogers family” and allow those who
alone were guilty to escape. Rogers
contemplated a simple business transac
tion. He paid so much for so much. lie
was the only man who gave a bonus—a
real gift that was legitimate and business
like. But the others traded in what be
longed to others. Had they dealt hon
estly with the people and the party that
has made them all they were and are,
they would have kept their hands clean
and spurned the bribe, for such it was in
plain, unadulterated English.
But this feature, bad as it is, is not the
worst one in the difficulty.
The United States Government had
granted a patent to the Bell Telephone
Company, and six or eight judges had
passed upon the patent and pronounced
it legal. No effort had been sufficient to
break it down until the Government
itself undertook to break down what it
had granted on its own motion years ago
for a consideration. This author
ized attempt to destroy the Beil Tele
phone patent comes out of Secretary La
mar’s department, in which Robert B.
Vance holds the responsible position of
Commissioner of Patents—himself, as be
fore stated, a large stockholder in the
Pan-Electric concern. Gen. Johnston
holds perhaps the most responsible place
in this Goyernment, as Railroad Commis
sioner, having to deal directly with the
tremendous railroad monopolies, who
have betrayed the people a thousand
times by corrupting Legislatures and de
bauching Senates with money. Gen.
Johnston, on whom the eyes of the whole
Union are turned, is caught with $500,000
of telephone stock, given to him for his
political influence alone, and yet he is
the supposed bulwark of the United
States in dealing with other cor
rupt corporations. “0, temporal O,
mores! Congressman Reed, of Maine,
facetiously remarked to a New York
World correspondent:
“It is painful to see the Democratic party dis
tracted from its great work of reform in the civil
service and out of it by this affair,” said Repre
sentative Reed, of Maine, this morning. “It re
minds me of the predicament of the man who
was about to deliver a lecture to a large and en
lightened audience, and >vho, standing in front
of an open fire place, discovered just as he was
making an elaborate bow, that the seat of his
trousers was on Are. Now the man was not at
all to blame, but his position was very embar
rassing. This is a very serious matter and one I
would not care to discuss lightly. It is a pity
that after twenty years of purification the Demo
cratic party should be placed in such a position,
and if the righteous suffer, what then is to be
come of us poor Republican sinners?”
Suppose the United States should act
upon the Constitution’s frantic sugges
tion and “shoot the Rogers Family,”
what shall be done about the men who
liaye applied the torch to the back part of
the Democratic trousers ? After the Rog
ers family have been thrown in the
trenches, what will be done about the
bad odor that rises from Secretary La
mar’s department, filled as it is with cor
rupt telephone stock and corrupt political
influence, all pressing the United States
into a legal suit, employing lawyers at
enormous prices, while their own hands
and hearts are loading down the ship of
State to the very gunwales with bribes ?
“Shoot,” say we, but do not shoot the
Rogers family. Aim at the guilty peo
ple, and shoot them out of power into
deserved obscurity.
Just as certain as the sun shines in the
heavens, just so certain will this tele
plione scandal defeat the Democratic par
ty in 1888, unless Mr. Cleveland should
unload, and that rapidly.
The Democrac3 T came into power be
cause the Republican party did not un
load with Mr. Blaine; that was the issue,
pure and simple, and this Democratic
telephone swindle will plunge the “par
ty of reform” into a despicable minority
unless Mr. Cleveland shall “shoot” —not
the “Rogers family,” but the crowd who
took bribes from the Rogers family. It
is not possible to temporize in this mat
matter, or to evade the facts. They are
plainer than Belshazzer’s warning, and
they admit of only one meaning.
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The Atlanta Constitution writes an in
teresting editorial under the caption
“Shoot the Rogers Family.” Well, be
it so. Let us enquire who should be de
tailed to do the shooting. When Mar
shal Ney was condemned to be shot it
was the refinement of cruelty which de
tailed a squad of his old soldiers—the
men he had gloriously led upon many
battlefields to shoot him to death. When
he reached the place of execution he
asked and obtained the privilege to issue
the orders to his old comrades in arms
himself. When the firing party were in
in position. Ney, with unbandaged eyes
stepped to their front, saluted them, and
with the sharp word of command, which
they never disobeyed, ordered, “Com
rades !at the heart, fire!” and the brav
est soldier in Europe fell dead without a
struggle. Surely, our friends of the
Constitution will not deny to the Rog
ers family the refined cruelty of being
shot to death by their comrades in the
Fan Electric Telephone Company.
Flease picture the scene at the place of
execution. The firing party are in po
sition. Muskets are cocked and they
only wait the orders of their old com
mander. The two Rogers, with unban
daged eyes, step to the front, and, just as
they raise their hands to give the salute,
they recognize for the first time their
executioners. There stand, with musk
ets—
Commissioner Joseph E. Johnston,
with five hundred thousand dollars worth
of Rogers stock in his pocket.
Commissioner Atkins, with the same
amount of Rogers stock in his pocket.
Commissioner Vance,
Senator Harris, each with the same
amount of Rogers stock in his pocket,
and
Attorney-General Garland, with a mil
lion and a half of Rogers stock in his
pocket also;
One Indian inspector and one clerk in
the Indian Bureau, eaeh with five hun
dred thousand dollars worth of Rogers
stock in his pocket.
The “Rogers family” are embarrassed
only a moment as they recognise their
comrades in the Pan Electric speculation.
The elder Rogers assumes command of
the firing party. He says: “Comrades,
we bought you because we wanted your
names and political influence we have
loaded you down with prospective
wealth. You willingly accepted our
bribes and now I and my son die under
your fire that you may live the rich pets
of the Clevel .nd administration. Com
rades! at our hearts fire!” and the
“Rogers family” fall dead without strug
gle.
The Atlanta Constitution says “Shoot
the Rogers family.”
One by one the great men of the Union
pass away ! General Hancock was one of
the truest and ablest of the Union Gen
erals, and his nomination for the Presi
dency by the Democrats in 1880 was a
tribute to his ability as well as his hones
ty. He was not successful, because his
party divided on the tariff and disagreed
among themselves. Peace to his ashes!
New York, Febuary 9, 4 pm.—The
following official notification of the death
of Gen. Hancock, had just been received.
Governor’s Island.— ‘‘Major-General W. S.
Hancock, of the United States Army, died at
2:35 this afternoon.”
| Sign cell “\V. and. Whipple,
Assistant Adjutant General.”
General Hancock’s death waß the re
sult of a malignent carbuncle on the
back of his neck, which had confined
him to his bed for several days. No
serious alarm was felt, however until
shortly before he expired.
STATE NEWS.
Harmony Grove is out of debt and has
SIBO in the treasury.
Burnsville’s new hotel will open with
a grand reception March Ist.
Sparta wants a building and loan asso
ciation and a cotton seed oil mill.
The Albany cotton compress has press
ed 11,000 bales of cotton to date.
The negroes in Washihgton have_a very
flourishing temperance organization.
Sugar cane put up for seed has been
pretty generally killed by the severe
cold.
George W. Rogers, a farmer in Hart
county, will plant nothing but tobacco
this year.
Editor Harris, of the Toccoa News has
married Miss Nannie Rozar, of that
place.
There is a place in Oconee county call
ed “I Re Damn.” It is situated near
Frog-town.
The Ordinarv of Sumter county has
been petitioned to order an election on
the prohibition question.
A lady living near Hartwell had her
tront teeth to freeze and burst during the
recent cold spell.
It Is said that the Elberton narrow
guage railroad will be changed to a wide
guage next summer.
The measles are breaking out in El
bert county. Twenty cases are reported
at Franklin Springs.
The young ladies of Cuthbert have or
ganized a brass hand and are giving con
certs in the neighboring towns.
Mr. Wm. W. Bailey, brother of Col.
D, J. Bailey, of Griffin, died in Jackson
last week. He was fifty years old.
The surveyors of the Savannah, Dub
lin and Western railroad have reached
Cobb Town, in Tattnall county.
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CLEAN HANDS.
The vital issues in the Fan-Electric
Telephone scandal are not to be obcurred
by any insinuations as to the motives of
the exposure. The World has no motive
but its desire for good government and
to maintain the honor and integnity of
the Administration. It has no sympa
thy with the Bell Telephone Company.
No newspaper in the land is so untram
melled, so steadfast and persistent in its
opposition to all monopolies. We would
be glad to see the Bell Monopoly broken
up. With Mr. Lamar, we are heartily
in fayor of thoroughly testing the validi
ty of its patents.
But at the same time we insist that it is
absolutely essential that those who go into
court representing the dignity and gran
deur of this Republic should go uncom
promised and uninfluenced by private
interests. He who asks for justice
should have clean hands himself. Espe
cially when this great Goyernment is the
client should its representatives be be
yond all taint or suspicion. There is
nothing so vital to good government as
the honor and integrity of its high offi
cials. There is nothing so essential to
true democracy as clean-handed leaders.
There is nothing so absolutely necessary
to an Administration elected upon Demo
cratic pledges of reform and purification
as single-purposed, untrammelled, un
ci uestioned, feafless devotion to the most
elevated sense of public duty. A mill
ion and a half of Telephone stock are
strange Court papers for the head of the
Department of Justice of the United
States.
A good example in public life is a
shining light. A bad example breeds
contagion in the body politic. Who can
imagine an honest, incorruptible and
unassailable man like Mr. Cleveland,
either a Mayor, Governor or President,
being interested in the Fan-Electric Tel
ephone Company, or any other specula
tion dependent in any measure for its
success upon his official name or fame?
The country and the world would be
shocked at such a spectacle. No office
next to the Presidency is much more of a
public trust or more delicate or impor
tant than that of the head of the Depart
ment of Justice.
Sterling official virtue in high places is
specially needed in these days. There is
a deep-seated suspicion in the public
mind that public affairs are not properly
managed. In this great city especially
evidences of peculation and extrava
gance, if not corruption, are visible in
almost every department. Not very many
officials can he named about whom suspi
cions do not gather. The administration
of the Custom House is distrusted. The
Appraiser’s office is under a dark cloud.
Bribery among inspectors is believed to
be common. The United States District
Attorney is notoriously inefficient, devot
ing his time to private interests, with
nearly three thousand untried cases wait
ing on his docket. The public service,
municipal and national, is discredited by
evidence of official laxity. We need not
an example of still greater demoraliza
tion, but of the opposite kind. We need
an example of old-fashioned public vir
tue. If Mr. Garland is to ignore public
sentiment, if he does not rid himself of
the fatal burden he carries, if his subord
inate in this city is to continue to neglect
his public buoiness, if this demoralization
of the public service is to proceed with
out check, it will be but an invitation for
still greater official demoralization. The
people who elected Mr. Cleveland be
lieved and still believe that he stands for
honesty and reform, not merely upon pa
per but in practice. We are very much
mistaken in the man, in his seriousness
of profession and sincerity of purpose,
however puzzling his practice may be, if
he permits this opportunity to go by with
out giving a practical demonstration that
he does not deal with these official evils
so gently as has been the wont of Ills Re
publican predecessors.
The people elected Mr. Cleveland and
defeated Mr. Blaine because they wanted
clean hands in Washington, not stock
jobbing statesmen. The demand for
clean hands is as strong to-day as it was
before Mr. Cleveland’s election.
Mr. Garland must get rid of his Tele
phone stock, or the Department of Jus
tice must get rid of Mr. Garland.
A PUBLIC TRUST.
The New York Sun.]
“Public office is a public trust,” said
Mr. Cleveland.
He made Mr. Garland his Attorney-
General, and that officer proceeded to
have the power of the Department of
Justice and the name and overwhelming
weight of the United States Government
used to advance the interests of the Pan-
Electric Company, in which he was an
owner to the extent of a million and a
half of shares.
Then came Mr. Lamar, Mr. Cleve
land's Secretary of the Interior, and the
question being referred to him, he de
termined to sustain the scheme of pri
vate profit with which his friend Garland
had allowed his name and his expecta
tions to be identified. Regardless of the
law, of the facts, and of public justice, he
endorsed and adopted the scheme of
using the name and the authority of the
United States to prosecute a private pat
ent suit.
What does President Cleveland say to
these transactions? Do they accord with
his idea of public office being a public
trust ?
Yes, public office is a public trust, that
is a truth. It is also a truth that fair
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THREE-ROOM DWELLING FOR SALE
I will sell my dwelling on Church
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and outside. Good well and lot.
j!4 Jeff Harwell.
POLITICS ON THE BENCH.
Macon Telegraph.]
The position of the Telegraph in rela
tion to judicial electioneering tours, has
been well understood. We are on record
as having called the attention of the peo
ple to this dangerous practice, and our ap
peal to the Legislature to stop it by proper
enactment has had a wise and vigorous
support throughout the State.
Further than this, there has been no
improvement in the situation. It has
come to us, now and then, that a Judge
has declared his intention to resign be
tore entering a political canvass, and it
has been publicly announced that the re
cent resignation of Judge Stewart was a
preliminary movement to a possible Con
gressional canvass. We are in possession
of positive knowledge that a large per
centage of the bar of the State is strong
ly opposed to the use by Judges of their
positions to engineer movements for their
own political promotion.
The reason why the opposition of the
bar has not been made more palpable and
effective is, that a lawyer hesitates to do
or say anything which might re-act up
on the interests of his clients. And the
reason is not unfounded. A judge aspir
ing to Congressional or gubernatorial
honors has frequent opportunities to
cruan lawyers who stand in open oppo
sition to his ambition, and human nature
is so weak, that eyen judges may not
neglect such opportunities. It is popu
larly believed, that tor years ]>ast many
cases in our courts have been tried and
disposed of, rather in reference to future
political combinations, than to the law
and equity involved in the cases them
selves.
It is needless to say, that if this belief
is true, the time has come when some
thing should be done to prevent its
growth and continuance. A judge of a
circuit should confine himself di’igently
to the courts of such circuit, and the
prompt and faithful discharge of his offi
cial duties, should l?e sufficient to recom
mend him to the people.
There is no need of this judicial itiner
ancy, this selection of grand juries, and
this forming the adquaintance of manag
ing politicians in various sections of the
State. The provisions of the law are
ample in cases of disqualified judges.
We have hesitated to refer to this sub
ject lest we might be misunderstood, but
the time has passed for further silence,
lest silence may be construed into a lack
of interest in the public good.
Judge Simmons, of this circuit, spends
a large portion of his time in holding
courts in other localities. The statement
that he is a candidate for Governor has
been made so often, without denial from
himself and friends, that no one can be
questioned for accepting it as a fact. We
have no arguments or reasons to advance
against this desire on his part. The hon
orable political ambition of no man can
bear heavily on the heart of the Telegraph.
But we do object to the appearance of
Judge Simmons in a dual role.
And this article is written with the pur
pose to demand of him that he shall make
his choice between the position he now
holds and the one to which he is said to
aspire. In behalf of the people, if he
desires to be Governor, we demand that
he shall make his canvass as an individu
al and not as a judicial officer. He should
not attempt to hold one place until he
feels that (he other is assured, but should
submit his claims to the people as other
candidates may do.
If Judge Simmons shall persist in run
ning for Governor from the bench, we
shall feel it a duty to oppose him, and if
he should fail to reach the higher office,
the next Legislature will fail in its duty
should it not find another man to fill his
present position.
HISTORY OF THE PAN ELECTRIC
COMPANY.
Macon Telegraph.]
In another column we give a full his
tory of the Pan Electric Telephone Com
pany, as compiled from the books of the
managers by the New York World. It
occupies considerable space, but w'ill re
pay perusal. As most of the parties con
nected with the transaction are Southern
men of prominence, and as the issue has
become a very exciting and absorbing
one, our people should be well informed
as to its true status.
The showing made is not a pleasing
one. It appears that Mr. Hewitt, Mr.
Cox and other Northern men were
shrewd enough not to become interested
in this transaction, even to the holding
of stock, whose future value depended
somewhat upon their official influence.
We do not charge wrong doing or intent
upon the part of any one, but we can
freely say that we could wish that some
of those connected with this enterprise
had pursued the course of Messrs. Cox
and Hewitt.
The showing as made, it seems to us,
put upon the Secretary of the Interior
the obligation to have this matter tested
in the courts. It nowhere appears that he
can in any way be benefited or injured
by any decision that may follow, more
than any other citizen of the country.
As the matter now stands, it places the
Attorney General, General Johnston,
Colonel Atkins and other officials on the
defensive. There is need of explanation,
and this is unfortunate for those occupy
ing public trusts.
The South has complained and with
great justice, that the officials of the gov
ernment, Under rule, have
grown rich by the use of their official
powder to further private enterprises.
It appears that the gentlemen connect
ed with this business were chosen on ac
count of their supposed inlluence, and
were given blocks of stock that in event
of success were to become very valuable.
It occurs to us that a stage in the pro
ceedings has been reached when the gov
ernment officials holding this Pan-Klec
tric stock should unload it or their offices.
They might be measurably relieved by
one act or the other.
Do you want a Tea Set ? Do you want
a Chambe r Set ? Do you want anything
in the way of Silverware ? It you do go to
Curry’s closing out sale and secure a bar
gain.
CBuist’s Gar Jen Seeds just received at
urry’e.
GOSSYPIUM PHOSPHii;
the great
Cotton and Corn Fertilizer.
FOR SALE BY
A. KNIGHT <£s SON,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Ask for Circular giving Analysis, Result of Contest for
Premiums for 1885, and Premiums for 1886. M
“ SEVEN
IEOH-ALUM MASS.
The product of Fourteen Gallons of the Best Mineral Water in the
World Evaporated to a Mass.
A Gift of Nature, and not a Patent Medicine.
The Finest Tonic and Appetizer Known. Cures Dyspepsia and In
digestion, Headaches, Chronic Diarrhoea, Chilis and Fevers, Catarrh
and all Throat and Nasal Affections, Scrofula and Eczema, Habitual
Constipation, Amenorrhoea, Menorrhagia, Leurcorrhoea and all Fe
male Weaknesses, Diseases of the Urinary Organs, Cholera Infantum,
&c., &c.
Price SI.OO for Large Size Bottle; 50 cents for small Size.
Ask your druggist for it. If he should not have it, and will not
order it, then address the proprietors and it will be sent by mail,
postage paid.
NO CURE, NO PAY!
DIKEY’S PAINLESS EYE WATER cures weak and Inflamed
Eyes in a few hours, without pain or danger. The best Eye Water in
the World. Price, only 25 cents per bottle. Ask for it. Have no other
DICKEY & ANDERSON, Proprietors,
And Manufacturers of the Above Remedies,
febll-ly BRISTOL, TENNESSEE.
GEORGE W. FECK AT THE PRESI
DENT’S RECEPTION.
I had thought of several things I want
ed to say to Mr. Cleveland. Several of
the boys in Milwaukee had told me to
give their love to Grover if I saw him,
and I intended that the tew remarks I
should make would be the greatest effort
of my life. My idea was to wait till all
the gang had passed him, and then bring
up the rear, and when he took my hand
I would hold on to it ana speax anout ms
follows: “Mr. President, I cannot let
this occasion pass without saying to you
that the people of Wisconsin are very
proud that you have got along as well as
you have.” Oh, I had a speech as long
as your arm that I was going to fire at
him, and I fell in the crowd and went
along. A big hand was reached out, and
mine was clasped by the President. At
last I had his hand. I had my head down
to keep from stepping on the trail of a
woman ahead of me, who seemed to lin
ger longer than was necessary. As her
trail disappeared I was just going to look
up to say my speech, when he let go my
hand and reached for another fellow’s
just behind me, and the e ther fellow step-
ped on a stone bruise on my heel, the
only heel I have got with a stone bruise
on it, and I looked around at the big
footed galoot behind me, and was borne
out of sight, and I hope never to see the
back of my neck if I had said a word to
the President.”—Peck’s Sun.
AN OUTWITTED HOUND.
New York^Times.]
A ludicrous incident occurred at a rab
bit hunt near Hohokus, N. J., recently.
The hound started the “cotton-tail” in a
piece of short brush on a hill side. The
hunter could witness the race at a great
distance, and soon saw the rabbit making
a circle. As he appeared emerging from
the brush he was seen to stop suddenly.
On rushed ttie hound, and as he lowered
his head to seize the little animal the rab
bit gave a spring to one side and the dog
doub’ed up like a ball. While he was
letting himself out the rabbit was mak
ing time on the back track.
The hound was soon in full pursuit
again, but the rabbit led the dog to where
two sapplings grew close together from
an old root. He then stopped as before,
and waited until the dog was almost up
on him, when he leaped between the two
sapplings, while the dog attempted to
follow. But there was barely room tor
the rabbit, and the hound was caught in
the crotch and badly injured. The rabbit
turned and looked at his enemy and was
soon lost in the thicket. The dog started
immediately for Inline, and no amount of
coaxing could induce him to continue the
hunt.
WILD CHERRY AND TAR.
Everybody knows the virtues of Wild
Cherry and Tar 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
composition 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
Clingman’s Tobacco Cake and Cling
man’s Tobacco Plaster; sold at Curry’s
Drug Store.
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A few nice Chamber Sets and Tea
Sets at Curry’s Drug Store, that will be
sold low to close out.
Tea Sets, Chamber Sets and Silyer
ware at greatly reduced priced at
Curry’s Drug Store,
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POWDER
Absolutely Pure,
This powder never varies. A marvel of purity,
strength and wholesomeness. More economical
than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in
competition with the multitude of low test, short
weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only
in cans. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.,
june 4-ly 108 Wall St., N. Y.
Mh isWealth!
Dr E. C. West’s Nerve and Brain Treat
ment, a guaranteed specific for Hysteria, Dizzi
ness, Convulsions, Fits, Nervous Neuralgia,
Headache, Nervous Prostration caused by the usa
Df alcohol or tobacco, Wakefulness, Mental De
pression, Softening of the Brain resulting in in*
Banity and leading to misery, decay and ueatn.
Premature Old Age, Barrenness, Dose of power
in either sex, Involuntary Losses and Spermat
orrhoea caused by over-exertion of the brain, selr
abuße or over-indulgence. Each box contains
one month's treatment. SI.OO a box, or bix boxes
Cor $5.00, Bent by mail prepaid on receipt of pnCO
WE GI AKAXTEE SIX BOXES .
To cure any case. With each order received byns
for 6ix boxes, accompanied with $5.00, we will
Bend the purchaser our written guarantee to re
fond the money if the treatment does noteaSCt
a cure. Guarantees issued only by
JOHN O. WEST & CO.,
862 W. MADISON ST., CHICAGO, IU&,
Sole Prop’s West’s Liver Pills.
PEMBERTONS’
PKEITCII 'WIITE COCA,
PEMBERTON’S FRENCH WINE COCA.
A Delightful Nerve Tonic and Stimulant
That Never Intoxicates.
It gives strength, tone and rower, for com
plaints of the Stomach, Liver and Kidneys; it is
par excellence, a balm for all those troubles
produced by care, worry, and over-work of
brain, all mental troubles, Melancholy, Hys
teria, Blues, &c. If you are wasting away from
age or dissipation, or any disease and weakness
of the nervous system, you will obtain relief
from all such troubles by the use of Pemberton’s
French Wine Coca, the wonder of Tonics and
Stimulants, which will build you up at once, and
the lirst dose will prove its invigorating powcis.
Sold by D. W. Curry, Cartersville, Ga.
SHELBY ATTAWAY,
A. X ORUSTEY-AT-LAW
Cartersville, Georgia.
Eirststairway below Postoflice, Bank Block.
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