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THE COURANT.
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Entered in the Postoffice at Carterncillf, Ga.
as second-class matter.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1880.
CURRENT COM MEN T .
Mr. P. L. Moon, of Rome, was in town
Sunday and Monday.
Jno. O. Davies, formerly of this place,
is now traveling for a Virginia tobacco
house.
“Good as Gold” combination comes
weli recommended to our people by Rome
papers.
The chant of the spring poet will soon
be heard. The load intended for the bur
glar will not need drawing.
Consideiable property has been taken
oft' the Ohio market in the past few days,
and taken otT very suddenly, too.
Rev. Sam Jones is a farmer, judging
by the liberal supply of stable manure
that he is broadcasting on his clover
field on the Tennessee road.
The Atlanta prohibition contest has
reached the Supreme Court with the same
result, so it seems. Atlanta will give lo
cal option a trial at least at the time ap
pointed.
The Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion have neatly furnished rooms now
reaily for the public, and the place is a
good one for those who desire a pleasant
spot in which to pass their evenings.
The State Agricultural Convention has
decided to hold its August meeting in
this city, as we foreshadowed in last
week’s Courant. Jt will be a most en
joyable occasion for our citizens as well
as the visitors.
The beautiful residence of Rev. IV. 11.
Cooper, in Cuthbert, was destroyed by
fire Inst Friday night, entailing quite a
serious loss upon this clever gentleman.
The house was valued at SI,BOO and was
insured for $1,350.
The Ohio farmers are welcome to come
and see our Bartow lands as often a3 they
desire, they cannot fail to note the
superior excellence of our lands, loca
tion, climate, and everything else that
makes a farming country.
Mr. Will Howard is doing a good busi-
ness with his new exchange and collecting
office. Our merchants have long since
found out that he is a whole-souled and
persevering young gentleman, whom we
could illy afl'ord to do without.
Prof. Bowers reports the East Carters
ville Institute on a regular boom. Twen
ty odd new scholars enlisted on Monday
morning. The Professor is a clever gen
tleman, his scholars worship him, and
there is no reason why the school will not
be a grand success.
Sam Jones and family have returned
from Cincinnati, while Sam Small has
gone to Chicago, where he and Mr.
Jones will shell the woods of the deyil
about next Sunday. Chicago is the Sodom
of this country, and the result ot the
efforts of the two evangelists is anxiously
looked forward to.
The entertainment given by the Ladies’
Aid Soc iety of the Methodist church was
so good and enjoyable on the first night
that it was repeated the next. We have
some fine talent in our midst and it was
remarked very often during the perform
ance that professionals could scarcely
have done better. We are glad to hear
that the finances of the society were ful
ly replenished and the ladies are well
satisfied with the result.
The stewards of the Methodist church
have adopted the weekly pay system—
the members being expected to place
their stipend in envelopes provided for
the purpose in the pews. The church
authorities have also announced that all
who were in arrears of a month would
be reminded of the fact. Rev. Mr.
Dodge preached a sermon for children
only la3t Sabbath, and judging from the
responses the young people were much
interested.
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All meats delivered free by Payne &
Morrison.
The Buckeye force Pumps and Iron
Turbine Wind Mills, the best in the mar
ket, for sale bj'
V. L. Williams & Cos.
LAST NIGHT’S SUCCESS.
The opera house was crowded last
night to greet Mr. Edwin Browne, and
all were greatly delighted. The play of
‘‘Good as Gold” is full of thrilling sit
uations and affecting scenes, which kept
the audience in a variety of interesting
humor. The scene of the play is laid in
the wild regions of the mining district of
Montana, and its incidents are of the
kind upon which so many romances and
latter-day dramas have been founded.
“Good as Gold” is one of the best of
them and Mr. Brown in the leading role
shows remarkable adaptation to heavy
dramatic work. The singing of Miss
Jennie Moore Browne was exquisite and
she held her audience spell bound; she
is a success and was loudly applauded.
This troupe performs here again to
night, when the thrilling society drama,
“A Double Life” will be rendered. We
bespeak for this clever company a crowd
ed house.
Steam Fittings ! Steam Fittings ! !
V. L. Williams & Cos. are now prepared
to furnish steam fittings and pipe. Do
not send oft' when you can buy cheaper
at home.
All pork Sausageat Payne & Morrison’s
MARRIED,
On Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, Mr.
Erustus Matthews was married to Miss
Ella Bradley, at the residence of Mr.
W. A. Bradley, in this city. Rev. W.
A. Dodge performed the ceremony.
The bride has scores of friends, who
admire her many excellencies of charac
ter, and the groom is worthy of so good
a wife. We are glad to knov f that both
are so well and happily ms ted. The
happy couple went to the home of the
groom’s parents, but returned in time
for -the reception last night at the resi
dence of Mr. L. Matthews, the uncle of
the groom. We trust their future will
be as bright as the present promises, and
they have the heartiest congratulations
of The Courant.
Magic Corn Salve at Curry’s.
A BIG FIZZLE AND A MaMMOTH
FRAUD.
So it was called by a level-headed Bar
tow citizen, who said he had been amus
ed, provoked and disgusted to see how
the State of Georgia had lieen imposed
upon by “Ohio farmers coming to settle
among us.”
“Did they quarter on you?” asked the
scribe.
“Not much, for I smelt a mice some
weeks ago. I kinder got suspicious when
there was so much hospitality, banquet
ing, and riding around called for—free,
gratis, for nothing. People that aim to
buy land don’t flourish with no such airs
and graces. Business is business; and if
1 was to go to Ohio to look at land I
should be suspicious of a crowd that
jumped up so smart to show me all the
land they had, and was so willing to
sell it that they would board half a regi
ment to get a chance at ray money. Why,
bless your soul, dear Courant, one of
my neighbors killed a turkey, stuffed one
of the excursionists so full of good
things that he grunted when he climbed
into the buggy, to be repaid after this
fashion : “If we had this sort of land in
Ohio, and you had our sort, you would
not give me one acre for a thousand of it.
Why, my good fellow, I wonder you
don’t all starve.” Now that was a nice
return for hospitality—free buggy rides
and free tickets to this country—was it
not?”
Your scribe said it was rather discour
aging.
“Plague take ’em,” said the irate citi
zen. “They sent a messenger to Rome a
week or so ago, and even the women
turned up their sleeves and went to cook
ing to fix up a banquet, had a floor mana
ager appointed and set all the lawyers to
getting an address of welcome “by
heart,” and bad the last one of them
poor merchants, real estate agents and
hotel clerks wrought up to a frenzy of
expectation, running to the cars with
every horse that could be hired or bor
rowed to haul up the Ohio frauds to the
general place of meeting and eating, and
what do you reckon it amounted to?”
The seribe could not say.
“Well, I’ll tell you. Two men, two
women and a boy put in an appearance,
while the balance were scattered all the
way from Chattanooga down, having
raised the same sort of a rumpus every
step of the way. It’s my honest opinion
that Cherokee Georgia will not recover
Iroin the raids of these Ohio bummers
and dead-beats this side of next Christ
mas. Blast their pictures ! My son-in
law has a poor farm that I know he’s
mighty tired of, for lie wants to got to
town like all the balance, and he and
Susan Jane killed their last turkey to
feed a great green,' gawky hoosier, who
concluded to ‘come along and see where
Sherman whipped the rebs, as it was a
free ride and free grub all the way.’ Bob
and Susan Jane don’t like to hear much
about Ohio farmers now at present, but I
told them it was ‘pull dog, pull devil.’
Bob expected to cheat somebody into
selling of his piece of land at a big price,
and that somebody was smarter than he
was at the game of cheating. Take my
word for it, it hain’t helped Georgia
much to throw so much land on the mar
ket, particularly to them greedy, close
fisted excursionists, who are laughing in
their sleeves at the whole Georgia popu
lation. One of them said : ‘lf your land
is so choice, so productive, so healthy
and so everlastingly better than any out
side the Garden of Eden, why in the
kingdom do you want to sell it all out to
us?’ Dog-gone’em ; I could stand it al 1
better if Bob hadn’t filled Susan Jane so
full of castles in the air, and- made the
poor thing work herself nigh to death to
feed a lot of swindling dead-beats, who
will have a Jbig time laughing over the
poor child’s big dinner when thev all re
unite away back in Ohio. I never did
like Yankees nor any akin to them, and
L hope to gracious we have had the last
grand hurrah on Ohio Excursionists.”
The Courant nibbled its pencil and
set it down, and to save its life it could
not count up any big tilings that had re
sulted from the big blow we have all
been making for about two months and
a half, and we have got to hear of the
first sale or rental that has resulted from
our gushing hospitality and profuse at
tention to the “Ohio farmers looking for
homes.”
♦ •
Pork Chops at Payne & Morrison’s.
Hood’ Sarsaparilla at Curry's Drug
Store.
Call at Curry’s Drug Store for a Grier’s
Almanac.
Buist’s Garden Seeds at Curry’s Drug
Store.
CURRY’S ARTISTS.
High art in garden seeds is the craze
just now. The elfort of Will Skinner in
that line is superb. Resting upon an
easel constructed of corn in the ear is a
handsome “C. L. C.” advertisement,
made entirely of different kinds of gar
den seeds. The colors are well arranged
and everything is in harmony. Tins
well known house is the proud possessor
of another eminent artist in the person
of Walt Ileaddcn, who is just now paint
ing the whole country red and cli sert d
ing upon that wonderful family medicine,
Curry’s Liver Compound. There is
hardly a plank fence or a smooth faced
boulder in this section that has not been
elegantly touched up by Walt’s artistic
brush.
BITTEN BY A MAD DOG.
Mrs. Davis, wife of Mr. Joe Davis, was
bitten last week by a dog, supposed to be
mad. He suddenly attacked the lady and
succeeded in badly lacerating a toe.
Though not suffering with the bite just
now, grave fears are entertained, as the
dog showed unmistakable signs of hydro
phobia. He was quickly despatched by
Mr. Davis.
Go to Payne & Morrison’s new market,
Shockley building.
Veal Cutlets at Payne & Morrison’s.
Why will you sufl'er with a bail coW when a
few doses of West’s Cough Syrup will cure you ¥
Invaluable for all throat and lung troubles
Consumptives try it. Small size 25c, large bot
tles SI.OO. All druggists.
KIND WORDS.
Cedartown, G a , Feb. 10, 1880.
Mrs. R. A. Felton: Dear Friend—l
enclose a draft for two dollars to renew
my subscription for 'Firm Courant. 1
miss it every week, It is the best weekly
in the State. My wife perfers it to all
other papers. Yours Truly,
Augusta, Ga., Feb. 10th, ISSG.
Mrs. Win. il. Felton: My Dear Mad
am—Please give me credit for the enclos
ed two dollars on my subscription to your
paper. I feel that I get most amply and
richly repaid for the outlay. I wish ev
ery paper in the State was as fearlessly
and ably conducted and edited in the true
interests ot society and the welfare ot the
country as The Courant. Its tone is
admirable and its influence must be good.
Observing carefully the rights of the
rich and poor alike, it flatters not the
wealthy and powerful that “thrift mav
follow fawning.” Devoted to the great
cause of Christianity, it does not plaj r on
the sanctimonious “harp of a thousand
strings” at the bidding of greedy or over
zealous missionaries, and favor heavy
contributions from a people already poor
and hard pressed to live, to be sent to
“Borri-boola-gha” to build expensive
edifices among unappreciative pagans.
Nor yet, has it bent the knee to the Wall
street Baal, as many so-called leading
democrats have done and are still doing
and thereb3 r chaining the grand old par
ty ot Jefferson, down to the mudsills of
radical corruption. Oh ! how unlike the
democracy of former days is much of
that which comes to us now labeled with
that honored title. If democracy now
means, playing second fiddle to the radi
cal republican party in upholding the
lawless and wicked greed and exactions
of the bondholders and oppressing the
honest laboring men of this country, the
sooner we get rid of such democracy the
better. It is but a miserable t avesty of
a great party of grand principles and
high behests.
What a noble man Senator Beck, of
Kentucky, has shown himself to be m
battling for the people on this silver
question, against their cruel, heartless
and powerful oppressors. It really seems
that “whom the Gods wish to destroy
they first make mad.” The shameless
greed of the bondholders caused him to
press for this new method of again dc
crying and displacing the silver dollar.
And now a widespread discussion has
been provoked, in which the villainy and
corruption of partial legislation, in his
interest, i being fully ventilated and ex
posed by able and patriotic senators and
representatives in congress and able and
patriotic editors and orators out of Con
gress, and the people are fast coming to
understand the gross wrongs that have
been heaped upon them —threatening
them and their children with beggary
and serfdom; and the indignant vibra
tion of the outraged popular heart will
soon cause the pendulum to swing the
other way, until the movers of this mean
ly avaricious monometalism policy will
wish they had not waited to be forced by
an injured people to find a decent limit
to their insatiate greed. England is not
the only country on the eve of a fearful
revolution. Others, ours, among them,
are in the same fix and for the same rea
son—the oppressions heaped upon the
poor. God, in His own good time, al
ways defends the helpless and suffering,
and the cry ot the poor which He hear
eth, has long gone up to him. The mut
tering thunders are already heard, and
the storm will soon be here.
Washington, D. C., Feb. lltli, 18SG.—
I have learned to greatly admire and re
spect The Courant for its fearless utter
ances. Like it, my heart is saddened by
the painful thought that the men most
conspicuous in the great telephone scan
dal are Southern Democrats. I was born
a Democrat, and nurtured to reverence
the principles of the great party. But
how stands the party to-day ? At the
head of it if I may so speak, my party
has a President who represents the re
publican party, if he represents any par
ty, and who belongs body and soul to
Eastern bondholders and capitalists.”
ADAIRSVILLE ECHOES.
Adairsville, Fcb’y 15.
Our people are improving the fine
weather by an industrious effort to place
their lands in good order for seed time.
Col. 11. D. Capers returned from Ox
ford, Ga., where be delivered a lecture on
“Specialties’’ to the young men of tlie
societies on last Friday’evening.
The drummers still pay their respects
to the merchants.
Miss Annie Yeach and her father went
to Florida on Tuesday. Pleasant trip to
them.
Judge Bibb stiys there are more suits
brought to this term of his court than he
over remembers to have had. Hard times
seem to be on us sure enough.
I saw a curious relic of the war in the
law office of Col. Capers a day or two
ago. It was a letter from the camp of
the 65th Ga. regiment, dated May 31st,
1804. The letter gives the circumstances
of the death of Sergeant Alvin. Parish
and is written by Lieut. 11. V. Bimbo,
Company F, 65th Ga. regiment, Jack
son’s brigade, Walker’s division, liar
dee’s corps. It is written on the back of
a morning’s report of the company,
signed by Lieut. Rambo. The letter will
be usel in an important ejectment suit to
be brought by the children of Mr. Parish.
Inquiry is being made for the head
quarters) of the Sunday-school Associa
tion. Do you know where it is?
A.M. C.
All those indebted to Dr. Lindsay
Johnson for medical services are earnest
ly requested to pay up at once.
Buist’s Garden Seeds just received at
Curry’s.
To Ladies The great beautificr for the com
plexion: One of West's sugar coated Liver Pilla
taken nightly. 30 pills2sc. All druggists.
SCIIEUER BROS. SELL CHEAPER than any
house in Cartersville.
All those indebted to Dr. Lindsay
Johnson for medical services are earnest
ly requested to pay up at once.
If you want FIRE GUARDS, go to
V L Williams & Cos.
FIERCE YOUNG’S ROUGH EX PE
RI ENCIS.
Washington Letter to Augusta Chronicle. |
A gallant .Southern gentleman who
had secured a conspicuous diplomatic po
sition in the vicinity of Siberia wearied
of the monotony of his winter post. lie
determined to journey to Berlin or Vien
na and have a jolly good time. After
traveling several hundred miles he reach
ed the German frontier and was halted
by a squad of Cossacks, whose officer de
manded his passport. Our friend, well
known to Capt. Edge Eve and other mar
tial Georgians, assumed the dignity of
his office and said: “Passport be blessed !
1 had to get one to enter your effete mon
archy, but did not know it was necessary
to procure one inside the land. I have
not got a passport and am in a hurry,
so please stand aside and let me proceed
on my t.ip. 1 am Consul-General, too,
and don’t want any confounded red-tape
nonsense.” The Cossack officer did not
comprehend a word of what was said,
but knew the suspicious and distinguish
ed-looking foreigner had no papers re
quired of him. So the Consul was put
in charge of two grim and dirty Cossacks,
hustled on a train bound due North Pole
and conducted back to his reputed post.
Carried to the Russian headquarters, our
luckless Consul was after some delay
identified. Profuse apologies were vouch
safed, but nothing further was done to
make amends for 1,400 miles of jaunting
to no delightful purpose. When the ice
breaks up on the Neva and Russian sol
diers put on white pantaloons to coax the
reluctant spring, no doubt our dashing
cavalier wilj, properly equipped at the
circumlocution office, triumphantly dart
by’the Cossack guard on the Austrian
confines, and by the blue Danube, in the
ravishing capital of Franz Joseph’s do
main, whirl the yellow-haired Gretchens
in the intoxicating waltz to the delirious
strains of Johann Strauss’s magical mu
sic, “where the viol the trick-tongue’s
song salutes! ’
Now is the time to put out onion sets.
Curry lias a nice lot. of both white and
red. Call on him.
Eastern Onion Sets, red or white, at
Curry’s Drug Store.
BARTOW SUPERIOR COURT.
January Term, 188 G.
The business of this Court requiring an
adjourned term, It is ordered by the
Court that this, the January term, be ad
journed to 10 o’clock a. m. on the 4th
Monday in April, ISSG, to be then con
vened for the transaction of such busi
ness ac may legally come before it.
It is further ordered that the Traverse
Jurors drawn and summoned for the first
week of thjs (January) be required to be
and appear at the Court House at 10
o’clock a. in. on the 4th Monday in April
next to serve as jurors at the said ad
journed term.
It is further ordered that this order be
published twice in each of the county pa
pers. Done in open court, Feb’y G, 18SG.
J. 0. Fain, J. S. C. C. Q.
An Enterprising, Reliable House.
David W. Curry can always be relied
upon not only to carry iu stock the best
of everything, but to secure the Agency
for such articles as have well-known
merit, and are popular with the people,
thereby sustaining the reputation of
being always enterprising, and ever re
liable. Having secured the Agency for
the celebrated Dr. King’s New Discovery
for Consumption will sell it on a positive
guarantee, ft will surely cut* any and
every affection of Throat, Lungs and
Chest, and to show our confidence, we
invite you to call and get a Trial Bottle
Free.
Reliable Garden Seed at Curry’s Drug
Store.
A few bushels Clover Seed at Curry’s
Drug Store.
If you like Chocolate call at Curry’s
Drug Store.
Avery fine Registered Jersey Bull for
sale—lie was three years old last August.
Apply at this office.
Nothing equals Curry’s Cough Cure
for recent colds, coughs and the early
stages of consumption.
Wonderful is the effect cf West’s World’
Wonder or Family Liniment. One bottle will
effect more cures than four times the number of
any other liniment. 23 and 50c. All druggists.
West’s Cough Syrup stops tickling in the
throat, stop that hacking cough ami gives per
fect relief, it is certainly worth a trial. All
druggists
if you want Stoves and Tinware cheaper than
you ever bought, go to
V L Williams* Cos.
Pain cannot exist when West’s World’s Won
der is applied. Cheaper and best. 25 and 50c.
All druggists,
If you want a TOILET SET, go to
Y L Williams & Cos.
STOP THE CRACKS.
Window Glass of all sizes'at bottom
prices at Curry’s Drug Store.
If you want Crockery any Glassware cheaper
than the cheapest, go to
V L Williams & Cos.
INTERESTING EXPERIENCES.
Edward Shepherd, of Harrisburg, 111., says:
“Having received so much benefit from Electric
Bitters, I feel it my duty to let suffering humani
ty know it. Have had a runing sore on my leg
for eight years; my doctors told me I would
have to have the hone scraped or leg amputated.
1 used, instead, three bottles of Electric Hitters
and seven boxes Bucklcn’s Arnica Salve, and my
leg is now sound and well. Electric Bitters are
sold at fifty cents a bottle, and Bucklen’s Arnica
Salve at 23c. per box at David W. Curry’s. 5
ROME RAILROAD.
Eastward.
Rome express—Daily except Sunday.
Leave Rome 8:00 am
Arrive Kingston 8:45 a m
no. I—Daily except Sunday.
Leave Rome 8:50 am
An ive Kingston t):soam
- no. 3—Daily except Sunday.
Leave Rome 8:50 p m
Amuvc Kingston 4:30 pm
SUNDAY SCHEDULE.
No I—Leave Rome 9:20 am
“ —Arrive Kingston 10:10 am
No 3—Leave Rome 4:00 p m
“ —Arrive Kingston 5:00 pm
Westward.
rome express—Daily except Sunday.
Leave Kingston 5:20 pm
Arrive Rome 7:05 p m
no. 2—Daily except Sunday.
Leave Kingston 10:20 a m
Arrive Rome 11:20 am
no. 4—Daily except Sunday.
Leave Kingston . . 5:00 pm
Arrive Rome 6:00 pm
SUNDAY SCHEDULE.
No 2—Leave Kingston 10:20 ain
“ —Arrive Rome . . . . . . .11:10 am
No 4—Leave Kingston 5:42 pm
“ —Arrive Rome 6:30 p m
E. HILLYER, President.
J. A. Smith, G. P. A.
All those indebted to Dr. Lindsay
Johnson for medical services are earnestly
requested to pay up at once.
THE CLAY-EATING HABIT.
EXPLANATION OF A PECULIAR AND
PERNICIOUS PRACTICE.
A Philadelphia Physician Solves the
Mystery—Physical Appearance of
the Clay-Eaters—Sedative and
Stimulating,
It has been a matter of speculation for
years as to why the “poor white trash'’ of
central North Carolina ate the clay that
is found in that part of the country. It
remained for a Philadelphia physician to
solve the mystery. A short time ago Dr.
Frank 11. Getchell went on a gunning
expetition to North Carolina. His quest
Tor game led him into the wild country
hack of Salisbury, which is inhabited for
the most part by a miserable race of be
in.;.-* with only just enough energy to eke
out a wretched existence. These creat
ures are nearly all veritable living skele
tons, and with exceptions, are addicted
to the habit of clay-eating.
While shooting wild turkey and other
game in this wild region, Dr. Getchell
made an incidental study of this peculiar
habit of vice among the inhabitants. It
is a mountainous Country, and in the
spring little rivulets start out from the
caps of snow on the mountains, and as
the days grow warmer the little rivulets
become torrents, and great washouts are
being made along the mountain side.
THE HABIT ALMOST UNIVERSAL.
The soil is 6 £ a heavy, clavey nature;
but there are strata of clay that is heav
ier than the rest, and when the water
rushes down this clay is formed into
little pellets and rolls and accumulates
in heaps in the valley. These little
pellets and rolls are what the clay eaters
devour with as much avidity as a toper
swallows a glass of whisky.
“Among the poor people of this sec
tion,” said Dr. Getchell “the habit of eat
ing clay is almost universal. Even little
toddlers are confirmed in the habit, and
the appetite seems to increase with time.
While investigating the matter I entered
a cabin occupied by one of these poor fami
lies and saw a little chap tied by the
ankle to the leg of a table, on which was
placed a big dish of bread and meat and
potatoes within easy reach. The child
was kicking and crying, and I asked his
mother why she had tied him up. She
replied that she wanted liim to eat some
food before he went out to
the clay and lie refused to do
so. The woman confessed that she ate
the clay herself, but explained that the
child’s health demanded that it eat some
substantial food before eating any earth.
Almost every one I met in this section
was addicted to this habit. They were
all very thin, but their flesh seemed to
be puffed out. This was particularly
noticeable about the eyes, which had a
sort of reddish hue.
“All of the clay-eaters were excessively
lazy and indolent, and all these condi
tions combined led me to the conclusion
that there must be some sedative or
stimulating qualities, or both, in the
clay, and I determind to find out whether
there was or not. I consequently brought
a lot of the clay home with me and Pro
fessor Tiernan and myself made an
analysis of the stuff and discovered that,
instead of clay-eaters, the inhabitants of
central North Carolina should more
properly be called arsenic-eaters.
A SEDATIVE AND STIMULANT.
“All of this clay contains arsenic, but
exa.ctly in what proportion we have not
yet discovered. Arsenic-eating is com
mon in many parts of the-world, and is
practiced to a greater or less extent
throughout. It acts as a sedative and
also as a stimulant. The mountaineers of
Styria, Austria, are habital arsenic-eat
ers. They are better able to climb the
mountains after eating the poison, and
their explanation is a perfectly reasona
ble one, as arsenic acts as a sedative to
the heart’s action. Tlie habit is also
prevalent in the Tyrol and in the Alps.
“It is also said that the peasant girls of
Switzerland and part of Germany and in
Scandinavia eat arsenic to give luster to
their eyes and color to their cheeks, but
this is a matter I have not investigated.
It has been shown that arsenic or arseni
cal fumes are a sure cure for intermit
tent fever. The inhabitants of a sec
tion of Cornwall, England, at one time
suffered with this type of fev f er t but when
the copper works were "established there
the fever disappeared. 'This was ac
counted for by tlis arsenical fumes
created in the treatment of copper. As
to whether arsenic eating shortens life,
lam not yet prepared to say, but I in
tend investigating the matter thor
oughly. ’’—Philadelphia Times.
THt: FARMER TELLS H!S WIFE
About HU Experience in Trying to Nap
It; on a Sleeping-Car.
‘•Yes, I slept well enough when the
cars were moving, hut we got inlo the
depot from St. Paul at 3 a. in., and when
the car stopped I woke up. 1 wanted to
sleep till morning, as the ear stopped
there, and so I rolled over to g to sleep.
It was just as quiet as death around the
depot, until a switch engine began to
monkey around switching cars. Did you.
ever try to sleep when an old cow with a
bell on was browsing around in the
street, or in a garden? Then you know
how it is. That switch engine would be
heard away up in the yard half a mile
away, ringing her bell like a cow nibbling
a cabbage, then she would work up
nearer, and I could hear her ‘chew,
chew,’ and snort as though she had
swallowed a turnip and got choked.
Then she would hitch on to a car or two,
and move away.
“I would get a nearer asleep,
when she woufd ccn Lack slowly, then
stop and blow her whistle, as a cow would
bellow, and I couldn’t get it out of my
mind that it was a cow. I found myself
dreaming about going down into the pas
nre barefooted, to drive up a drove of
locomotives to be milked. I had them
surrounded, and their cow-catchers all
pointed toward the cow-yard on the old
farm, and they would stick their heads
out sideways to nibble grass, and I would
vei l at them, and one old ugly locomotive
with one horn would tmn and run into a
brindle locomotive an* she would run
away off in the woods, and I would have
to go after her. When I had got her back
into the road, all the rest of the locomo
tives were acting up, one pawiug the
ground and bellowing, another running
her horn into the ground and throwing
dirt over her back, while others were
rearing up and hooking, and acting just
like a lot of cattle.
“The only one that had sense was the
old ‘bell locomotive,’ and she started right
along towards the house as soon as I
came out of the woods, and the rest re
luctantly followed. It was hard work to
get the whole drove of locomotives
through the gate of the old barnyard, in
my sleep, becau *e some would block the
way of others, but finally the hired man
began to set out pails of slops and bran
mash, and the locomotive with the bell
on ran its cow-catcher clear down into
the bran mash, and then the hired girls
came out with milk pails and stools and
told the locomotives to ‘hoist,’ and then
they sat down right by the tender and
pretty soon T heard the milk from the
locomotives streaming into the tin pails,
and the girls said ‘so, boss,’ and I went
to sleep. Say, pass them pancakes.”--
Peck’s Sun.
For rheumatism, neuralgia, cuts, wounds or
burns use West's World's Wonder. All drug
gists.
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If you want BUCKETS, go to
Y L Williams & Cos.
J. P. JONES,
Successor to Jones Bros. & Cos.,
Low Price Cash House.
I\ow (*oods Arriving’ Weekly,
Many thanks to our friends and customers for their liberal
patronage in the past and I kindly ask your patronage in the
tuture. 1 will do my best to please you in goods and prices. I
expect to sell Dry Goods cheaper than any house in Cartersville.
Be sure and come to see me before you buy any Dry Goods,
and if I don’t sell you, I will POST YOU in the price, so you can
get them somewhere else VERY CHEAP.
m
Yours Truly,
j. p. joites.
A CARD.
The Firm of Jones Bros. & Cos. dissolved on January 2(Rb,
1880, ly mutual consent, T. R. Jones retiring’. The business
hereafter will he carried on by the remaining- members, J. P
Jones, and the firm name will he J. P. Jones, who will close
up all business of the old firm.
J. F. JOXTES.
Attention Everybody!
WE HAVE THIS DAY REDUCED OUR PRICES GREATLY"!
All Repairs Will be Less than. Heretofore.
This is Done in View of the Hardness of the Times. We Keep
on Constantly a HEAVY STOCK OF WESTERN WAGONS,
STUDEBAKEK, KENTUCKY, and other Makes, which we will
Sell Cheaper than Ever Beforec
If You Want the Best Wagon you can Buy on any Market Buy
The Celebrated JONES WAGON.
Made here. One and Two-llorse. SOLID STEEL AXLES, SAIiVIN PATENT WHEELS.
We defy the world to beat us in this line. These Wagons will last longer, run lighter, and 100
better than any. ONE OF THEM. Come, or write to us.
11. H. Jones Ac Sons Manf s g. Cos.
dio-ly CARTERSVS LLE, CEGRCIA.
CITY PROPERTY FOR SALE.
THREE HOUSES AND LOTS IX THE CITY OF
CARTEUSVILLE.
Good houses and large lots. Part cash
nd balance on long time.
MORT. E. PAYNE.
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Tea Sets, Chamber Sets and Silver
ware at ridiculously lew prices at
Curry’s Drug Stock.
White and Red Onion Sets at Curry’s
Drug Store.
If you wish to bny a farm near Carters
ville, apply to Francis Fontaine, rooms 7
and S, Fitten building, Atlanta. Farm
loans promptly negotiated. Address
Francis Fontaine,
Atlanta, Ga.
If you wish to buy a farm near Gait ms
ville, apply to Francis Fontaine, rooms 7
and 8, Fitten building, Atlanta. Farm
loans promptly negotiated. Address
Francis Fontaine,
Atlanta,
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Ftvrmers and Mechanics.
Save money and doctor bills. Relieve
your mothers, wives and sisters by a
timely purchase of Dr. Bosanko’s Cough
and Tiling Syrup, best known remedy
for Coughs, Colds, Croup and Bronchial
effections. Relieves children of croup in
ne night, mav save you hundreds of
ollars. Price' 50 ets. and $1 00 Sold
y I). VV. Curry.
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Dickey’s Painless Eye W ater at Curry’s
Drug Store.
Onion Sets at Curry’s,
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If you want DINNER BELLS, goto
V b Williams & Cos.
Imh, Prairie Mange, and Scratches of
every kind cured in 30 Minutes by V\ool
ford’s Sanitary Lnjon. Use no other.
This never fails. Sold by C. Ni. Mayson
& Cm D* nggists, Kingston, Ga.
j itril-ly.
I Lamps in great variety at Curry’s
Drug Store.
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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, tor
Coughs, Colds, Croup and Bronchitis.
Price 50 cents and SI.OO. Sold by D. W.
Curry. 3
W. 11.
Exchange and Collection Office.
Buys and sells Exchange on New York
and all other principal cities in the U. S.
Collect promptly on all accessible
points.
Mercantile collections a specialty.
Deposits received subject to check.
All deposits will be treated as special
deposits.
Patronage respectfully solicited.
sep3-6m
Everybody wants a Grier’s Almanac
and they can be supplied without charge
by calling at once at Curry’s Drug Store.
If you wish to buy a farm near Carters
ville, apply to Francis Fontaine, rooms 7
and 8, Fitten building. Atlanta. Farm
loans promptly negotiated. Address
Francis Fontaine,
feb-LOt Atlanta, Ga.
Saj r , vonng man, it you can’t get that
other fellow’s sister, goto Curry’s and
interview the “Charming Sisters.” They
are on the carpet b} r a large majority, and
don’t need begging to join you over the
troublous sea of life.
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Do you want a Tea Set? Do s*oll want
a Chamber Set V Do you want anything
in the way of Silvet ware ? It you do go to
Curry’s closing out sale and secure a bar
gain.
Lf SALEo\VfIAIIia jjf
A Life Experience. Remarkable and
quick cures. Trial Packages. Send
stamp for sealed particulars. Address
Dr. WARD & CO. Louisiana, Mo.