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Cartersville, Ga.
Official Organ Bartow Connty.
DOCTOR AND MRS. W. H. FELTON.
FEBRUARY 18, 1880.
Thu cotton crop is now set down at
0,500,000 bales.
Ex- Gov. Seymour, who died in Utica,
New York, a few days ago, was the
brother of Mrs. Roscoe Conkling, and
the funeral service was from her house,
where he died, and where his wife now
lies dangerously ill.
John. W. Renfroe, ex-State Treasur
er, was appointed to be postmaster at At
lanta on Tuesday last, Senators Brown
and Colquitt endorsing him and Con
gressman Hammond against him. We
will say more at another time.
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In the death of Hon. Augustus Reese,
of Madison, Georgia, loses one of her
purest and safest jurists and statesmen.
He was the father of Congressman Seab
Reese, of the Eighth District, formerly
represented by Hon. A. 11. Stephens.
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From late accounts the mob in London
was a very serious matter. They offered
indignities to ladies in their carriages and
threatened murder and hanging promis
cuously. One nobleman’s wife had her
cheeks slapped unceremoniously.
Should Mr. Henry Wattersou, of the
Courier-Journal die, as it is now feared,
from a terrible attack of spinal meningi
tis, the South will lose her most brilliant
journalist. We trust be may safely pass
the crisis and be restored to his family,
his friends and an admiring public.
Gen. Schofield will succeed Gen. Han
cock in the military department of the
army, and lie will most probably occupy
the same quarters at Governor’s Island
in New York bay. Gfen. Schofield and
his charming wife, whom it is our good
fortune to know personally, will grace
the position most admirably.
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Gen. Hancock was buried at Norris
town, Pa., with distinguished honors,
lie spent his early boyhood near the spot
where he now lies. He left a small pri
vate fortune, much to his credit in these
days of official speculation. Some steps
have been taken to raise a fund for his
widow, and the amount had reached
SIG,OOO at last accounts.
Senator Morgan is strenuously for
went Blair’s educational bill which pro
poses to tax the people from ten to twen
ty million a year, to educate all races,
conditions and colors alike. Tie thinks
it will develop more dangers than seces
sion brought, and will do harm rather
than good. Asa rule public education
so-called has not done great things since
the war.
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Suppose It Were Blaine?
If Mr. Blaine was in the White House
and his Ait rney General and Secretary
of the Interior were found engaged in
an effort to break down a patent granted
by the United States (while both depart
ments were filled with holders of the
stock of a rival patent) what a howl
would then go up all over the South! If
Mr. Blaine then had appointed some man
as railroad commissioner who had been
“let in on the ground lloor” of a big
swindling scheme, and whose “letting
in” had cost the commissioner not a dol
lar—how these apologetic journals would
blow and bluster!
If the aforesaid commissioner had then
written a letter to the democratic Oakes
Ames, in which lie says he and all con
cerned would be pronounced “ swind
lers,” unless they succeeded, and that
letter was now before the public without
denial—don’t you know that indignation
would run riot all over this land, and a
cry would go up “Turn the rascals out.”
Oh! what a difference it makes as to
whose ox is gored!
But we repeat, Mr. Cleveland owes it
to himself and the party which elected
him to unload, and that rapidly, unless
he would be considered a part and parcel
of the men about him in Ills cabinet.
Fatality Among Candidates.
Scarcely two months ago Gen. Geo. B.
McClellan’s death shocked the country—
to be followed soon by the sudden de
mise of Vice President Hendricks. The
mourning emblems for the latter’s death
were not removed in some quarters,
when Gen. Hancock expired. Before lie
was laid to rest Ex-Gov. Seymour, of
New York was a corpse. Counting Gen.
Grant four or five months will cover the
period of their deaths.
There is something noteworthy in
these facts. It would appear that the
present season has lmd a fatal effect on
Presidential candidates for three of
these distinguished personages were
barely past the prime of life. Can it be
that politics and the anxiety of a Presi
dential canva % are excessively deleteri
ous to health and long life?
Only three Presidents remain if we
except Mr. Cleveland of all the nominees
of both parties since the close of the civ
il war, namely Messrs. Tilden, Arthur
and Hayes. Mr. Tilden .'s reported al
most dead with shaking palsy, while ex-
Presklent Arthur is pronounced a’failing
—almost a dying man, as poor in purse
as in health.
One bright example remains—Ruther
ford B. Mrs. Lucy Hayes’ husband. lie
took an antidote for Presidential poison
and went to poultry culture —for profit
and diversion. Geese, it is said, once
saved Rome, and mayhap chickens are
the safety-valve for too much Presiden
tial excitement and disappointment.
Onion Sets at Cur.y’s Drug Store.
The Lives of Georgia Congressmen
Our Representative, Mr. Clements,
made us very happy the other day by
sending us a copy of the Congressional
Directory, in which our distinguished
men write out their own eulogies, and
we had nearly said their obituaries.
The bulk of our experienced states
men generally set down the simple facts
of birth, the time of election and re-elec
tion for certain Congresses, but fortu
nately for our edification and delectation
some are more diffuse and entertaining.
Occasional snatches of vanity and falli
ble weakness crop out to enliven the pe
rusal.
Among our Georgia members those
who have been there longest are the most
concise and brief, while the new ones
cover considerable ground in expatiating
on themselves. As each man always
fixes up his own story of himself, the
history becomes very interesting in that
light.
Congressman Norwood only chronicles
the fact that he was elected to the 49th
Congress, as a Democrat, with 10,000
yotes against 0,000 for his opponent (We
state round numbers.)
IT. G. Turner was born in North Caro
lina, is 47 years old, w’as elected as a
Democrat to 47th, 48th and 49th Con
gress.
Mr. Crisp is more diffuse. He tells of
of bis birth in England (where his pa
rents happened to be visiting) “was
brought back by them” to this country,
received a common school education in
both Macon and Savannah, which is fol
lowed by a long war history of himself,
with various “ups and downs” until he
“rejoined his parents at Ellaville, Schley
county.” He then read law, which he
followed up with minutest details as to
his “ups and downs,” mostly “ups” in
the legal capacity. Next he lands into
polities, which affords a prolific theme,
and culminates by presiding over a con
vention in ISS3, which actually nominat
ed a Governor for Georgia, and which
was the open sesame that finally permit
ted and authorized this tedious and de
cidedly long-winded autobiography in a
Directory of Congress.
lion, Henry R. Harris had too muen
good sense to tell another such a long
winded yarn in praise of himself, and
only lays stress on the fact that “he is by
profession a “planter,” the only farmer
from the Empire State of the South. Be
ing in his fourth Congress, it made him
modest and retiring.
Hon. N. J. Hammond was almost as
brief, and having quietly set down what
was of national interest and importance,
he quit off.
Hon. James 11. Blount, who has seryed
longer than any one member from Geor
gia, likewise abbreviated liis statement
to cover only three lines.
One member stretched his biography
considerably longer. Among other things
of interest he tells us he “began the prac
tice of law in LaFayette, Ga., and has
continued in the same at that place until the
present time,” although his political ex
perience seem3 to run tally also continu
ing in the same at that place until the pres
ent time. When he writes out his next
directory notice perhaps he will elucidate
the problem and tell us where the law
left off and where polities began, and
vice versa.
lion. Seab Reese “dropped into it”
somewhat, and from all the bearings he
shows up smartly bigger in this book
than at home, which is correct we do not
doubt.
Hon. Mr. Candler wishes it understood
that the war spoiled him for a lawyer,
but saved him for better things, iu that
he blossomed into a “manufacturer and
railroad President.”
lion. George Barnes had rubbed against
the world long enough to know that
“self-praise is half scandal,” sohedid not
parade very many of his accomplishments
before the public, since he knew it would
be universally understood as his own
handiwork.
The New York Sun is of the opinion
that there are “fewer eccentricities, pom
posities and assinities than usual,” and
we are glad to know it.
“To see ourselves as others see us,”
should be the motto of all our inflated
dignitaries, especially when they place
in print what goes before the eyes of the
public, and what is known to be’ their
own estimate of themselves and their sup
posed greatness.
The Silver Dollar.
It is settled that the silver dollar is not
going to be disturbed by the present
Congress. The “old dollar” has to-day
a stronger hold upon the popular heart
than gold or greenbacks. We believe the
American people would to-day demone
tize gold sooner than silver. It is the
people’s money—the money of the la
boring masses. It is the money of the
world. It is demanded by and satisfies
the laborer the world over. Even in
England and Germany where hereditary
and immense fortunes have temporarily
and partially crippled silver in order that
labor may he enslaved and wealth en
throned, the masses, especially the agri
cultural masses are demanding the re
storation of silver to its former debt-pay
ing power. These agricnltural laborers
will finally succeed in their demands. The
“gold lords” have proven such false
prophets in regard to silver that they have
unwittingly strengthened silver. They
said gold would leave the United States.
It lias steadily increased in volume from
the day silver was remonetized until the
present time. They said the banks
would hoard gold—the people would
hoard it and it would disappear from cir
culation. The truth is no one wants
gold if they can get silver certificates or
national bank bills. They said Europe
would Hood this country with worthless
silver coin. The truth is European coun
tries hold on to their silver with a tenaci
ty unknown before silver was remone
tized in the United States. These gold
lords have proven lying prophets from
the beginning. Their only object being
to reduce labor to serfdom and make
themselves the sole beneficiaries of that
labor. But they are disappointed. The
people are yet masters of the situation ‘
and forbid the suspension of silver ooin
age.
Our only regret in this triumph of the
people is that no thanks are due to our
democratic administration. Coming from
New York anJ seemingly thoroughly
imbued with the idea that Wall street is
the only place on this continent which
must be protected President
Cleveland has done all he could to sus
pend—that is that is to abolish silver coin
age. What a favorable opportunity this
silver question offered to the Democratic
president to idemnify himself with the
people of the South and West. How
easily he might have placed himself
en rapport with the laboring multitude of
this country. But while suefi leading
republicans as Sherman and Evarts con
fess the benefits and necessity of the sil
ver dollar our good Democratic President
prefers the incense which immense capi
tal may throw around him rather than
enjoy the homage and gratitude of honest
labor. W. H. F.
A Raid on the Chinese.
Seattle is the capitol city of Washing
ton Territory. There are no negroes
out there and but few laborers except
Chinese, who are very distateful to all
other laborers, because of their cheap
ness and their clannishness. About ten
days ago an anti-Chinese meeting was
held and a committee appointed for the
ostensible purpose of visiting Chinatown
—a suburb of Seattle —to ascertain if
sanitary regulations were properly ob
served.
Promptly at 7 o’clock next morning
the committee proceeded to Chinatown,
and knocked at every door as they were
reached, successively. The inmates who
came to the door were then questioned as
to sanitary regulations, while the crowd
which attended the committee pressed
into the houses and began loading the
Chinese goods and chattels into wagons,
which also appeared just in time.
The celestials were completely over
powered and were driven to the ocean
dock, where a steamer happened also to
be waiting. They were then driven on
board, although the officers of the steam
er were prepared with hot water hose to
defend their vessel from such intrusion.
At last the officers consented to receive
100 provided their fares were paid to San
Francisco, which bill was promptly set
tled by the mob—leaving 300 homeless,
destitute pigtails on the ocean dock, the
sport of a furious populace.
It appears that there will be no peace
while the Chinese remain, and it is also
true that the Chinese have many habits
and customs that are fearfully obnoxious
to the white people. In San Francisco
they have a society called Highbinders,
which is a sort of free masonry that
embraces vast numbers—leagued togeth
er in defiance of law and order, and
which are nests of criminals. So des
perate are some of these outlaws that
they hire out to perforin murder —some-
times at the low price of S2O a victim.
While many of the Chinese are peaceful
and law abiding they are outnumbered
by these restless, vicious creatures who
recognize no law; wfiose hiding places
baffle the police; who hold all oaths in
contempt—will swear to anything them
selves.
They are said to be beastly in their
habits—almost always under the opium
influence yet they are scrupulously
protected by their societies from capture
or punishment. The oath of initiation
is a fearful one—taken kneeling with a
naked sword touching the bare flesh be
low the chin, and a sharp dagger prick
ing the back of the neck, as the neophyte
repeats the words of the obligation by
which he swears to protect all members
of the order under all circumstances,
and to kill all who disobey the fearful
oath or who excite the ill-will of the
chiefs of the order.
There is some excuse for mob law in
dealing with such people, and of course
the innocent; suffer with the guilty,
which is always an injustice. The ques
tion arises here, “What shall Christians
in America do to remedy tins bad state
of tilings?” The subject is worthy of
profoundest attention and patient inves
tigation.
Tariff.
Col. Morrison has introduced in the
House anew tariff bill. It is not hori
zontal this time. It is said the general
reduction of the revenue proposed by the
new bill will not average more than five
percent. The principal reactions —at
least the most striking changes proposed,
are on rice, sugar and iron. It seems es
pecially designed to cripple, if not de
stroy, the industries of the South. To
reduce the duty on unclean rice from two
centsio one cent is simply to destroy
the rice industry of the South. To re
duce the duty on sugar twenty per cent,
is simply to convert every sugar planta
tion in the South into a cotton plantation,
thereby increasing the production of cot
ton and necessarily reducing the price of
cotton. For the last year or two sugar
has been cheaper in the United States
than ever known before—so cheap as to
bankrupt many sugar planters in the
South. Yet under the senseless of
making sugar cheap, this Western mana
ger of the Democratic party, Col. Morri
son, proposes to blot out every sugar
plantation in the South. Sugar cheap!
Yes, throw its entire production into the
hands of the Spaniards and negro slaves
of Cuba and its entire refinement and
classification into the hands of New York
and Boston skinflints and the consumers
of sugar will long remember the cheap
sugar of 1885. Not only that the cotton
planter will find the cotton crop increas
ed heavily, diversity of crops abandon
ed, rice and sugar lands all producing
cotton, and then some of the free-trade
farmers of Georgia will be glafl to re
ceive even eight cents per pound for their
cotton. Not only that Col. Morrison’s
bill proposes to place the tariff’ on pig
iron at about five dollars per ton and re
duce the tariff on steel rails to twelve
dollars per ton. That is he desires to
wipe out the iron industry of the South
and to put all the labor and capital now
employed at the South in making iron to
making cotton, thus again fearfully in
creasing the production and diminishing
the price of cotton. God help a people
who place mad fanatics at the helm o.
legislation. W. 11, F.
If the Bell Telephone patent should he
decided by the courts fraudulent, as we
hope it will be, so that one monopoly in
this country may be destroyed, how is
such a decision going to relieve our
Democratic Statesmen who have in
vested their names and political influence
in the Pan-Electric concern? We think
such a favorable decision by the courts
would only intensify the popular de
mand that they retire from office under
Cleveland’s administration.
Suppose they sell or give away their
stock, how will such sale or gift relieve
President Cleveland’s administration
from the scandal of having ordered a suit
in the courts which, terminate as it may,
must severely affect the pockets of men
who hold important positions under him.
The universal verdict would be they “un
loaded” because of the pressure of pub
lic opinion. We repeat, that in our opin
ion, there is only one escape for the
President and the party he represents
from this most damaging affair, and that
is to relieve from office every man impli
cated. Certainly out of fifty millions of
people the President can find men to
take th*e places of these three or four
men who have, we will suppose, inno
cently involved the Democratic party in
such difficulties. Is it obstinacy or is it
something else which retains these men
in office? Mr. Cleveland will find out
before his term of office expires that pub
lic opinion in this country has more pow
er than a President.
THE MAIN QUESTION.
New York Sun.]
If Gen. Jackson was now President,
there would not be one of the Fan-Elec
tric speculators in office to bring reproach
on the Administration, and to stain the
good repute of the Democratic party,
lie would simply have demanded to know
if the inculpated officials had received
shares as gifts in consideration of their
public standing and influence, and if
other officials not shareholders had used
their places to promote the interests of
their colleagues, The fact that they were
interested in a scheme to acquire wealth
without having staked capital, or any
thing substantial, would have settled his
mind as to the character of the transac
action, and have also determined the ten
ure of office of all who had engaged in it.
Suppose the President at the first out
brsak of the scandal had told Mr. Gar
land and his associates that the facts as
stood before the world, even if not crim
inal in themselves, were as damaging to
the Administration morally as if they
were steeped in guilt. Hence their re
nations were necessary to remove every
cause of distrust, and to show the coun
try that the party was above and beyond
any just cause of suspicion. If he had
electaified the public by a frank state
ment of the reasons that led to the de
cision, would not his position have been
strengthened, and would not the party
in whose name he speaks have been puri
fied by such an example of rightful cour
age ?
To ask this question is virtually to an
swer a self-evident proposition. Consid
ering the unfortunate differences that ex
ist between the Administration and the
Democratic majority in the House, this
step would have been advantageous as a
mere matter of political policy, while on
the higher plane of duty to a great cause
it would have assumed grander propor
tions.
Sympathy for individuals in such a
dilemma as Mr. Garland and his col
leagues now find themselves, can claim
no proper place in the Executive mind,
confronted as Mr. Cleveland is with the
superior demands of obligation to the
reputation and the welfare of the Demo
cratic party. Of what consequence are
Mr. Garland, Mr. Lamar, Gen. Johnston,
Mr. Atkins, Mr. Armstrong, Mr. Goode,
Mr. Upshur, and other officials who are
mixed up with the Pan-Electric job,
compared with the millions of Demo
cratic voters who suffer from the pres
ence of these men in office, and who will
be put on the defensive at the coming
elections to answer a Republican indict
ment against them ?
All discussions of the rights of merits
of competing patents which the apolo
gists of the scandal have sought to force
into prominence as a means of confusing
the public mind, is entirely foreign, to the
true question. What has the validity or
invalidity of the Bell patent got to do
with Mr. Garland’s conduct in taking
half a million of stock for nothing in an
adverse company, while a Senator, and
retaining it while Attorney-General, with
the power in his hands to direct legac ac
tion that would affect its value?
What has that patent to do with the
conduct of Mr. Goode, when acting as
Attorney-General during Mr. Garland’s
absence, in directing a suit to be brought
at the instigation of the Pan-Electric job
bers without the least official inquiry,
and at a single day’s notice, intended to
strike down an adverse and judicially
affirmed right?
What has that patent to do with Mr.
Lamar’s act in assuming functious be
longing solely to the Commissioner of
Patents, and creating a court of his own
without the color of law to make up a
case by which the suit dismissed by the
President should be revived and prose
cuted in the name of the Government for
the benefit of these Pan-Electric specu
lators, including four of his own chief
subordinates.
These links in a continuous chain of
circumstantial evidence, even on the as
sumption that they do not justify a
charge of dishonor or of actual corrup
tion, are most unfortunate in involving
in the meshes of a ruinous complication
two members of the Cabinet, an officer
second only in position to them, two of
the most important heads of bureaus
and others of secondary degree. ,
We have gladly contributed to honor
these men in the past for their public
services. The duty-which compels us
to criticise them now is painful, and free
from all feeling but that of regret at the
condition in which they stand before the
countty. They have failed to realize the
force of public opinion, or are different
to its existence. Thereforo, it behooves
the President to do now what he should
haYe done when the scandal was first ex
posed. He neglected that opportunity,
and lost its benefit. Still it is not too
late to apply the remedy, to relieve the
Administration of a heavy burden, and
put the Democracy on high ground,
lloroic treatment is needed.
TELEPHONES FOR CHURCH PEWS.
Why the IJeaf Can Not Hear by Telethon®
—lnterfering Sounds.
“One of our correspondents wants to
know why in churches the deaf can not
be made to hear by putting telephones in
their pews?” said a reporter to the super
intendent of the Metropolitan Telephone
company.
“Deaf people can’t hear by telephone
any better than in ordinary comersa
tion,” was the reply. “Every ot of our
deaf subscribers gets a clerk or some one
to do his talking for him. "Where people
hare average powers of hearing they can
get a sermon through telephone as well
as by going to church. This is a regular
practice with invalids, but a man who
couldn't hear the preacher while sitting
in the church couldn't do any better with
a telephone. If he heard indistinctly
with the unaided ear, there would be an
interference between the sound waves
that came through the air those
that came through the telephone. ’ _
“Isn’t it possible to magnify the sounds
in transmission?”
“Yes, it can be done, and inventors
have been at work on that, but the
trouble in practice is that the interfering
sounds are magnified also. There are
thirty companies stretching all sorts of
wires over this city; electric lights, fire
alarms, messenger calls, telegraph lines,
etc. The telephone wires are a sort of
catchall for these. The telephone lines
also interfere one with another. If you
magnify the results of all this, the voice
becomes an indistinguishable yell in the
midst of an appalling roar of miscellane
ous sounds.”
“But couldn’t it be done with a private
wire from pulpit to pew?”
“Yes, something might be accomplished
in that way, but it would be necessary to
use a double sounder, one for each ear,
as our operators do. These are connected
together by a spring that goes over the
top of the head. That is apt to interfere
with an elaborate head-dress, and if your
correspondent is a woman, it would
prove a fatal objection.”—New York
Tribune.
The World Is Moving Along.
Gilbert and Sullivan in their burlesque
of the “Mikado” have got theatre goers
and amusement lovers to laugh at the
oddities of Japanese customs and man
ners, but Japan itself is making progress
in fields which promise to put it in ad
vance of* the most civilized nations. It
has settled by law the vexed question of
free popular education. Hereafter all
children between the ages of 6 and 14 are
to be compelled to attend school from
three to six hours a day for thirty-two
weeks in the year, and all expenses, in
cluding the use of school books, are to be
paid out of the public treasury. This in
a few years will place Japan in the front
rank with Germany in the universality
of a free common education, while it
will be far in advance of the United
States and England.
In the latter country such of the poor
as can contribute the support of the
schools, are forced to do so, while in the
United States education is not compul
sory, and hence, setpe 16 per cent, of our
population is illiterate. Then there is
Brazil which h%s taken another step for
ward in hastening the day when slavery
is to disappear from that great South
American empire. Enforced slavery is
rapidly disappearing from all parts of
the earth’s surface. The number of
slaves in Cuba is steadily diminishing;
the day is certainly coming when over
the whole earth it may be said that the
sun does not rise upon a master or set
upon a slave.—Demorest’s Magazine.
Rigid Court Etiquette in Vienna.
Apropos of the retirement of the Aus
trian minister of public instruction,
Baron Conrad, a Vienna paper relates the
following episode, which shows how rig
idly court etiquette is observed in
Vienna: One evening, at a so-called “aris
tocratic picnic” at the Rbtel Imperial,
one of his daughters, who was 'dancing
with the Archduke Ludvig Victor,
pinned one of the cotillion oHdrs pn her
partner’s coat. Such a thing is strictly
forbidden by etiquette, and the duke
promptly tore off the order and threw it
on the floor.
The young baroness being ignorant of
this rulfc, went to her mother, weeping,
and left the hall; and next day Baron
Conrad had an audiencfr with the em
peror, begging to retire to private life on
account of the insult to his family. But
the emperor smiled, and told him he
would “make it all right,” and the follow
ing day Ludwig Victor called on Baron
ess Conrad and apologized for liis appar
ent rudeness in the most chivalrous man
ner. —Exchange.
Boyhood of Wagner, the Composer.
Geyer, Wagner’s stepfather, wanted to
make young Wagner a painter; but the
boy was very awkward at drawing. He
says: “I had lertrned to play ‘Ueb immer
Treu und Redllchkeit’ and the ‘Jungfern
krans’ which was then
quite new. The day before his death
(Sept. 30, 1821) I bad to play these to
Geyer in an adjoining room, and I heard
him faintly saying to my mother, ‘Do
you think he might have a gift for
music?’ ” At the age of 14 Wagner
secretly began to write a grand tragedy.
It was ina,de up of “Hamlet” and “Lear”,
forty-two men died, and some of them
had to return as ghosts to keep the fifth
act going.—New York Sun.
A Remarkable Blind Journalist.
William E. Cramer, editor of the Mil
waukee, Wis., is one of the most remark
able journalists of the northwest. He
has been deaf since boyhood and is
totally blind, yet he is one of the hardest
workers and most thoroughly posted
men in the profession. He has been in
harness nearly fifty years, and his office
hours are aS regular as when he was
young. He knows the city thoroughly,
and can without difficulty go alone to
any point or house he may desire to visit.
—Exchange.
New Source of Lead Poisoning.
The latest danger to sewing women is
reported by Dr. Arthur V. Meigs, who
tells of a case of marked lead poisoning
in a tailor, which he attributes to the use
of sewing silk treated with sugar of lead
to give it weight, and especially to the
habit of biting off such thread. It is
probable that many sewing women suffer
from the results of this habit, although
the poisoning is not often produced in
such intensity as to lead them to consult
a uhvsician.—Chicago Herald.
A Marked Expression of Gratitude.
While the Philadelphia cricket team
was in London, F. E. Brewster and D. P.
Stoevor distinguished themselves by
courageously stoppiug a runaway horse
on Regent street. The carriage, contain
ing two ladies, had been run into by a
stupid hansom, the collision throwing
the coachman from his seat and starting
the horse along the crowed thoroughfare
at a hot gallop. Brewster was consider
ably mussed up by his heroic efforts, but,
lifting his hat to the fair occupants he
had rescued, he asked if they had been
injureo, “Not at all, thank you,” was
the chirpy response. “Can we do any
thing further for you?” inquired Stoever.
“Yes! Won’t you please run back and get
the number of that hansom?” said the
prettier of the two young women. “I’ll
teach him how to drive a horse,” she con
tinued, shaking her hand in the direction
i>f their late perilous dash. The two
Americans hurriedly brushed their soiled
clothes and started toward their hotel,
deeply impressed with such a marked
expression of gratitude.—Philadelphia
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The standard remedy for liver complaint is
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The Baptism of an “Illeiani.’*
An old Scotchman, when taking his
bairns to be baptized, usually spoke of
them as laddies or lassies, as the case
might be. At last his wife said he must
not say it was a laddie or lassie, but an
iafant. So the next time that Sandy had
occasion to go to the clergyman the lat
ter said: ”Weel, Sandy, is it a laddie?”
“It’s nae a laddie,” was the answer.
“Then it’s a lassie?” “It’s nae a lassie,”
said Sandy. “Weel, mon, what is it
then?” said the astonished preacher, “I
dinna remember very weel,” said the
parent, “but I think the wife said it was
an illefant.” The clergyman finally
found out that it was not an elephant,
but an infant, ho was expected to bap
tize.—Exchange.
The Gratitude of English Operatives.
In St. Giles’ house, the ancestral home
of the earl of Shaftesbury, there is a
monument to which the late owner could
hardly point without emotion. This is a
large bust of the earl, “Presented to
Emily, wife of the seventh earl of
Shaftesbury, by the operatives of the
manufacturing districts of the north of
England, as a token of their esteem and
regard for the preserving and successful
efforts of her noble husband in promoting
by legislative enactment a limitation of
the hours of labor of children, females
and young persons employed in mills and
factories. Aug. 6,1859.” On this occasion
7,000 persons are said to have kissed the
earl’s hands.—Chicago Herald.
The History of a Silver Mine.
An eastern young man returned home
a few days ago from a trip to_ Colorado
for his health, and, in narrating his ad
ventures, he told about buying a silver
mine for $3,000.
“I knew they’d rope you in!” exclaimed
the old man. “So you were ass enough
to buy a humbug mine.”—Wall Street
News.
“Yes, but I didn’t lose anything. I
formed a company and sold half the
stock to a Connecticut mail for $7,000.”
“Y—you did?” gasped tyio old man, as
he turned white. “I’ll bet I’m the one
who bought it.”—Wall Street News.
Scheuer Bros have BOYS’ KNEE PANTS a
50c. They halso also BOYS’ JERSEY WAISTS
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Clingman’s Tobacco Ointment for
piles. Call at Curry’s Drug Store for a
supply.
Pipes in cases suitable for presents at
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Curry’s flavoring Extracts are full
strength and guaranteed to please.
All of Clingman’s Tobacco Remedies
are sold at Curry’s Drug Store.
Prescriptions accurately compounded
and prices moderate at Curry’s.
Fresh lot condensed milk, Eagle
Brand, just received at Curry’s Drug
Store.
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
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sold low to close out.
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I will sell my dwelling on Church
street at a low price. The house has
three rooms, which are painted inside
and outside. Good well and lot.
jl4 Jeff Harwell.
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Clingman’s Tobacco Remedies are sold
at Curry’s Drug Store. They are highly
recommended, try them.
For coughs, colds, and all throat and lung
diseases use West’s Cough Syrup. All drug
gists.
For liver complaint, dyspepsia, and sick head
ache use West’s Liver Pills. All druggists.
Curry’s Cough Cure is a scientific com
bination of Tar and Wild Cherry. It is
pleasant to take and a sure cure. Only
25 cents a bottle. Try it.
Clingman’s Tobacco Ointment, sold at
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Absolutely Pure.
This powder never varies. A marvel of purity,
strength and wholesomeness. More economical
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in cans. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.,
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Dr E. C. West’s Nbrve and Brain Trea*
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PEMBERTON’S FRENCH WINE COCA.
A Delightful Nerve Tonic and Stimulant
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It gives strength, tone and power, for com
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