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VOLUME 11.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
This city is situated on the Western A Atlantic and East and West Railroads, 48 miles north of
Atlanta, and in Bartow county, Georgia. Population 2,500, with churches of Baptist, Methodist,
Presbyterian and Episcopal denominations. With superior educational, climatic and business ad
vantages Carte rsvi lie is unsurpassed as a place of residence. Nestling in the beautiful mountain
district of North Georgia, It is protected from the extreme chilly blasts of winter, while in the hot
summer months the cool mountain breezes makes it a most pleasant summer resort. As to health
iness it. cannot be surpassed—is entirely free from all malarial influences, and there never has
l*een a case of chills known to have originated in the county.
Mineral and Agricultural Resources.— Nearly every mineral known to exist is
found in inexhaustible quantities, which will make Cartersville a great manufacturing centre at
no distant day. The inuuganese shipments from this depot alone are simnly enormous. Thk Farm
ing Lands or Bartow county will compare favorably with those of Illinois, Michigan and other
northwestern States. All the cereals is raised to perfection here, while cotton is grown in immense
quantities. The nature of our soil is vefy similar to the lands of the Northwestern States, while
we have the advantage of shorter and milder winters. Lands are cheap and superior inducements
are offered to those that may locate among us for the purpose of developing our beautiful county.
GENERAL AND BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF THE CITY OF CARTERSVILLE.
Physicians.
Lindsay Johnson, m. and.,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office: Curry’s Drug Stt -e; residence, Erwin St.
T 11. MAYFIELD, M. D.,
J, Physician and surgeon,
utticc: first door south Crawford & Hudson; res
idence, East Main Street.
Thomas h. baker, m. and.,
Physician and Burgeon,
Office: On* door above St. James Hotel,
FAMES M. YOUNG, If. D.,
J Residence on Market street, near Baptist
Church.
Daniel hamitkr, m. and.,
Residence on Market street, south side.
HW. FITE, M. O.
, Office West side Public Square
CH. WHITE, M. D.
, Office oyer Mavs A Pritchett
TV T L. KIRKPATRICK, M. D.,
W Office iu Howard’s Buuk, Residence on
Church Street. t
CM. GRIFFIN, M. I).,
Residence on Market Street—Sooth side.
Merchant Tailors.
Rm. clinkscal.es,
Shop over Mays A Pritchett.
Millinery Dressmaking.
MISS M. E. PADGETTE,
Fashionable Millinery.
Rooms over Mays A Pritchett.
MISS LEO SHOCKLEY,
Fashionable Millinery.
Rooms under Opera House.
Financial.
Baker & hall,
General Banking.
West Main Street, North side.
¥ll. HOWARD,
Exchange and Collecting Office
Office: In Bank Block.
Drugs.
Mf. word,
Drugs, Chemicals, etc.
West Main Street, North side.
David w. curry,
Druggist,
Proprietor Curry’s Liver Compound, Curry’s
Cough Cnre, Curry’s Diarrhoea and Dysentery
Specific.
Markets.
John Dodgen,
Choice Meats at all Times
East side Public Square.
A A. Dobbs,
Meat Market West Main Street, South side.
Undertakers.
WC EDWARDS,
Collins and Mourning Goods,
Corner West Main and Erwin Streets,
Harness, Buggy Whips, etc.
Hicks & brevard,
Coffins ami Mourning Goods,
East Main Street.
Hotels.
Tennessee house,
Joshua Sumner Proprietor, East Main Street.
THE ST. JAMES,
Dr. R, A. McFerrin, Proprietor,
East side Public Square.
Bartow house,
Mrs. S. C. Majors, Proprietress,
West side Public Square.
Barbers.
JOHN TAYLOR,
At St. James Rotel,
Henry morris,
First door south postoffice.
WILLIAM JOHNSON,
Shockley building, east side railroad.
Essex choice,
Old Exchange hotel, east side railroad.
Stoves and Tinware.
VL. Williams,
Stoves and Tinware,
Housefurnishing Goods of every Description,
West Main Street —South side,
Carriages, Buggies, etc.
RH. JONES & SONS’ MANF’G CO.,
Buggies, Wagons, etc,
Cartersville, Rome and Stamp Creek.
All kinds of Repairing,
WA. BRADLEY,
Buggy, Wagon and General Repair Shop,
West Main Street—North side,
Furniture.
I H. Gilreatli,
and North Georgia Furniture Ilousfe,
East Main Street—North Mde.
Dentists.
BE. Cason,
Resident Dentisb. „ ,
Office : upstairs, over Curry’s.
MM. Puckett, ' .
Resident Dentist,
Office : Over H Jones & Sons’ Manf’g Cos,
groceries and Provisions.
T F STEPHENS.
,| ‘ Groceries and Provisions,
Northeast Corner Public Square.
Stephens & co.,
Groceries and Provisions,
West side Public Square.
LB. MATTHEWS * CO.,
Groceries and Provisions,
Under COUrAnt Office.
Barron bros.,
Groceries and Provisions,
East Mam Street.
¥M. SATTERFIELD,
Groceries and Provisions,
East Main Street.
AR. HUDGINS,
Groceries and Provisions,
West Main Street—South iide,
JA. STOVER,
Groceries and Provisions,
West Main Street—South side,
E STRICKLAND & BRO.,
Staple and Fancy Groceries,
Canned Goods of every variety.
West Main Street—South side.
A M. PUCKETT,
Ji\ Groceries and Provisions,
East Public Square.
JONES & SONS’ MANF’G CO.,
Groceries and Provisions,
(Glenn Jones Manager) West Main at., South side.
JM. TODD,
Groceries and Provisions,
West Main Street—South side.
T L. WIKLE,
J Groceries and Provisions,
West Main Street—North side.
(1 H. WHITE & SON,
) Groceries, Provisions, number and Coal
West M ain Street—North side.
Bradford & co.,
Groceries and Provisions.
West Main Street—North side.
JOHN L. SMITH,
Groceries and Provisions,
West Main Street—Nortli side.
yANDIVERE & WALDRUP,
Groceries, Candies, etc.
West Main Street—North side.
iTEORGE H. GILREATH,
TJ Staple and Fancy Groceries,
West Main Street—North side.
BF. GODFREY,
Groceries and Provisions.
West Corner Main aad Erwin Street*.
fIIUIOMAS LAWHON,
JL Groceries and Provisions.
Bank Block—West side Public Square
Pool and Billiard Tables.
THE CARTERSVILLE COURANT.
Crain, Hay and Produce.
Roberts & collins,
Wholesale Grocers, Grain and Produce.
North side Public Square—West side railroad.
Rm. patillo,
Grocer, Grain, Hay and Produce Dealer.
Southeast Corner Main and Erwin Streets.
A KNIGHT & SON,
Grain, Hay and Produce,
South side Public Square—East side Railroad.
Lawyers.
Joe m. moon,
Office over J. K. Rowan’s store
JA. BAKER,
Office: northwest corner court house
Douglas wikle,
Office with Sheriff, at court house
JOHN H. WIKLE,
Office with Ordinary, at court house.
TW. H. HARRIS.
Solicitor pro tem City Court.
Opposite Clerk’s office at court house
Albert s. Johnson,
Office: two doors above St. James hotel.
JOHN W. A KIN,
Office: First stairway above postoffice,
RW. MURPHEY,
First stairway below I* O. Ist door on right.
JAMES B. CONYERS,
First stairway below PO. Ist door on left.
SHELBY ATTAWAY,
Office: first t tairway below P O, and second
door on left.
Mr. stansell,
First door below postoffice, last door on left
Graham a graham,
First stairway below P O, and last door on
right
Am, foute,
Office: Upstairs, cor Main and Erwin Sts.
T M, NEEL,
J Judge City Court.
Office over Curry’s Drug Store.
AW, FITE,
Office two doors above St. .Tames Hotel.
Livery Stables.
JOHN P. ANDERSON,
J Sale, Livery and Feed Stables.
Erwin Street, near Maim
lIRAWFORD A HUDSON,
L Sale, Livery and Feed Stables.
N ear court house, east side railroad.
Horses and mules for sale at all times.
Printing.
COURANT PUBLISHING CO.,
Proprietors “COURANT” and Job Printers.
Official organ Bartow County.
Ofiice: Puckett Building, S. E, Cor. Square.
Bl&r Atlanta Prices Cut.^^f
American publishing co.,
Proprietors “American” and Job Printers.
Office : Upstairs, Cor. Main and Erwin St’s.
Harness and Saddlery.
WC. EDWARDS,
• west Main street north side
¥O. BOHLER,
west Jfain street, north side.
Dry Goods snd Clothing.
RW. SATTERFIELD,
Dry Goods and Clothing,
• South side Public Square, near Railroad
I P. JONES,
*J Dry Goods and Clothing,
West Mam Street—Public Square.
CJCHEUER BROS,
Dry Goods and Clothing,
W est Main Street—South side.
I G. M. MONTGOMERY & SON,
U Dry Goods and Clothing,
West Main Street—South side,
Mays & pritchett,
Dry Goods and Clothing,
Southwest Corner Public Square.
General Merchandise.
George W. Satterfield,
Groceries, Dry Goods, etc.,
Southwest Corner Public Square.
JK. Rowan,
Groceries, Dry Goods, Hardware, etc.
West side Public Square.
I sham Alley,
Dry Goods. Hardware, etc.,
South Ide Square, East of Railroad.
Bakeries.
YANWYVERE & WALDRUP,
jsakery and Confectioneries, West Main St.
Cabinet Makers.
HIX A BREVARD,
Cabinet Makers and Repairing, East Main St.
TW. WHITE,
Cabinetmakers and Repairing.
East Main Street—South side.
Jewelers, Watchmakers, etc.
Turner a baker,
Watchmakers and Jewelers,
Under Opera House.
JOHN T. OWEN,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
Word’s Drug Store, West Main Street.
¥r. mountcastle,
Watchmaker,
E. Strickland & Bro., West Main Street.
Insurance.
Bartow Leake,
Fire Insuance and Commission Merchant.
Office Warehouse, West Main Street.
lohn T. Norris,
Life and Fire Insurance,
Office, Second door below Bank, in Bank Block.
Gerald Griffin,
Life and Fire Insurance,
Office : Rear Howard Bank.
George H. Aubrey,
Insurance, Loan and Real Estate Agent,
Office : First Stairway below Post Office.
WH. Howard,
Life and Fire Insurance, Howard’s Bank.
’“Cotton Buyers and Commission
Merchants.
Sam F. Milam,
Commission Merchant,
Clerk City Council and Manager Opera Heuse.
, Office : Mays & Pritchett.
Gerald Griffin,
Cotton and Guano. Office in Howard’s Bank.
SF. SMITH, , „ ,
Cotton Buyer. Office in Howard’s Bank.
cTmilam,
Cotton and Guano.
Office, with Maya A Pritchett.
Jj. HOWARD,
Cotton Buyer. Office in Howard’s Bank,
Hardware, Machinery,etc.
Baker & hall,
Hardware and Machinery, Guns Pistols, etc.
West Main Street, North aide.
Educational.
Cartersville High School and Kindergarten,
Mrs. S, F. BRAINE, Principal,
Mrs, S. J, WARE, Associate Principal.
East Cartersville Institute.
Prof. W. H. BOWERS, Principal
Corner Carter and Douglas Streets.
WEST END INSTITUTE,
Miss Lucy Carpenter, principal, Mrs, J. w.
Harris, Sr., assistant. Bartow street
STOP THE CRACKS.
Window Glass of all sizes at bottom
prices at Curry’s Drug Store.
Clingman’s Tobacco Cake and Cling
man-s Tobacco Plaster; sold at Curry’s
Drug Store.
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. MARCH 11, 1886.
IF I SHOULD DIE TONIGHT.
If I should die tonight,
My friends would look upon my quiet face
Before they laid it in its resting place,
And deem that death had left it almost fair,
And, laying snow -white flowers against my hair,
Would smooth it down with tearfull tenderness,
And fold my hands with lingering caress,
Poor hands, so empty and so cold to-night.
If I should die to-night,
My friends would call to mind, with loving
thought,
Some kindly deed the icy hand had wrought.
Some gentle word the frozen lips had said,
Errands on which the willing feet had sped,
The memory of my selfishness and pride,
My hasty words, would all lie pnt aside,
And so I should be loved and mourned to
night.
If I should die to-night,
Even heartt estranged would turn once more to
me,
Recalling other days remorsefully;
The eyes that chill me with averted glance
Would look upon me as of yore, perchance,
And soften, in the old, familiar way, *
For who could war with dumb, unconieiousclay?
Sol might rest, forgiven of all to-night.
Oh, friends! I pray to-night,
Keep not your kisses from my dead, cold brow;
The way is lonely; let me feel them now;
Think gently of me; I am travel-worn;
My faltering feet are pierced with many a thorn;
Forgive, oh, hearts estranged, forgive, I plead,
When dreamless rest is mine, I shall not need
The tenderness for which I long to-night.
—An Old Favorite.
BLTJJB BTJNIDJL.EB.
Mrs. Brown stepped on board the train
with a tiny blue bundle in her arms,
holding it with a careful tenderness
which showed what an exceedingly pre
cious little bundle it was.
It was so muffled up in a long blue
cloak that not a particle of it was visible,
but all who saw it knew it was a baby,
the baby of all the world to the fond,
maternal heart to which it was held so
closely.
The car was rather crowded, but near
the further end sat a lady, who, together
with her baby and various boxes and
parcels, occupied two seats, said seats
being turned so that they faced each
other.
On perceiving Mrs. Brown looking
around with an air of perplexity, and
taking especial note of the animated bun
dle, that was the exact counterpart of her
own, this lady, whose name was also
Brown, moved the parcels on the oppo
site seat, so as to make room for her, a
countesy that Mrs. Brown number one
smilingly acknowledged as she seared
herself.
The two babies were evidently about
the same age, and attired in long cloaks
of the same color and texture.
For the purpose, of challenging the
admiration of the other, and taking men
tal notes, the two mothers carefully un
covered the heads of their respective
treaures.
The little creatures laughed and cooed
at each other in their baby fashion, while
each mother looked smilingly on -her
own, and then at each other.
With this bond of sympathy between
them the two began to converse, natural
ly entering upon the apparently inex
haustive field of their maternal cares and
duties.
Mrs. Brown number one volunteered the
information that she was going on a visit
to her folks who had never seen “baby,”
enlarging enthusiastically on the pleas
ure that “grandpa,” “grandma,” its
“aunties” and “Uncle Bob” would ex
perience on beholding the sweet little
cherub.
In return Mrs. Brown number two re
marked the fact that she was just return
inn from a visit from “her folks,” and
that she expected her husband to meet
her a tew stations beyond.
She dilated rapturously on his again
seeing “baby,” from whom he had been
separated nearly three weeks,growing elo
quent on the subject of the marvelous 1
changes and improvements which had
taken place during that time in that most
remarkable child.
In the meantime the baby fell asleep,
and by the two ladies sitting together a
couch for it was improvished on the op
posite seat.
Both time and ears sped swiftly, and
Mrs. Brown number one was in the
midst of an interesting recital of the time
that baby nearly died with the croup,
when the conductor shouted:
“Sterling Centre!”
With an ejaculation of surprise she
sprang to her feet, and taking up one of
the blue bundles, hurried out.
She found Bob on the platform wait
ing for her.
As he helped her into the cutter he
offered to take “baby,” but the air was
keen and frosty, and Mrs. Brown pre
ferred to keep it under her warm cloak.
But when she reached the house she
surrendered tile blue bundle to the happy
and laughing group that gathered eager
ly around her.
Chilled by her long ride, Mrs. Brown
was glad to draw near the blazing fire,
upon which Bob had heaped fresh tuel.
Then there was the nice hot supper,
for which her long fast had given her a
keen appetite, and which was prolonged
by the numberless questions that had to
be asked and answered.
In the meantime, “baby” had been
carried to “grandma’s room”—baby’s
great-grandma—to be duly admired and
commented on.
It now made its appearance in the arms
of the old lady, surrounded by a bevy of
admiring aunts.
“La, child! I thought you wrote t t%as
a boy!”
“And so it is, graudma,” said Mrs.
Brown, from whom “baby” was hidden
by the faces that surrounded.
“Phebe Jane! what air you talkin’
about?” exclaimed the indignant old
lady. “Do you think that I have raised
fourteen of ’em an’ never lost one, and
don’t know a boy from a gal baby?”
Here the astonished mother caught a
glimpse of the little creature who, clad
in her night dress, was staring wonder
ingly around.
With a sudden screech, she sprang to
her feet.
“Mercy on us! I took the wrong
baby!”
It was some time before Mrs. Brown’s
excitement and agitation would allow
her to give a coherent and intelligible ex*
planation of these mysterious words.
When she did, Bob was dispatched at
once to the depot.
The train had gone, of course; neither
was any expected from either way until
morning. So all he could do was to tele-
graph to the different stations beyond,
and to “baby’s” father.
As might be expected, the poor mother
was nearly frantic, and would have been
quite so had it not been for the consoling
idea, earnestly dwelt upon by her sym
pathizing friends “that the lady must
haye found out the mistake ere this, and
was probably as anxious to get her baby
back as she was to get her3.”
The early morning train brought Mr.
Brown, if less agitated, quite as much
distressed at heart, as his wife.
After a hasty consultation, the two
determined to take the baby and start
out in the same direction taken by the
strange lady, hoping to find some clew
to her name and whereabouts.
When they reached the station the
train wanted some minutes of being
due. .
Mrs. Brown went into the “Ladies’
Room,” but her husband remained out
side walking restlessly up and down the
platform.
At the further end a man was stand
ing talking to a lady in a carriage, whose
dress only was visible.
As he regarded him more attentively
he sprang forward.
“Why, Cousin John, is this really
you ?”
The sober face of the man addressed
brightened into a smile as he turned
round.
“How do you do, Cousin Will?” he
responded, with a hearty shake ot the
hand. “I didn’t know you lived in
Sterling?”
“I don’t. My wife’s people live here;
and she is here on a visit. I thought you
lived in Boston?”
“So I do,” replied Mr. John Brown,
his countenance sobering, as he recollect
ed the errandthat brought him there.
“But the oddest, most unfortunate tiling
that has happened. We haye lost our
baby! My wife lost it on the train yes
terday ”
Here the lady in the carriage, who had
a blue bundle in her arms, thrust her
head forward.
Just then Mrs. Brown made her ap
pearance on the platform, she also hav
ing a blue bundle.
There was a simultaneous recognition.
The two mothers rushed toward each
other, and in the twinkling of an eye the
blue bundles changed hands.
This was followed by an outburst of
joy, ejaculations and endearments from
both parties, and which was finally
broken upon by the two cousins, who,
joining in a laugh of mingled relief and
merriment at the turn affairs had taken,
now stepped forward to introduce their
respective wives.
The result was that Mr. and Mrs..
John Brown went home with their new
ly-discovered cousins, where they spent
the day. a visit which was none the less
happy because of the fright and trouble
from which it so curiously sprang.
COLD BLOODED MURDER.
A Terrible Tragedy Enacted over In Har
alson County.
Cedartown, March 3. —News has just
reached here of a very cold blooded mur
der which occurred in Haralson county
early yesterday morning. Henry Norris
killed George Elliott. The circumstan
ces as related by those who were near the
killing are about as follows:
On the day before the homicide there
was a road-working on the Cedartown
and Draketown road, about six miles
northeast from Buchanan, where twenty
or thirty of the neighbors collected, Nor
-ris and Elliott being in the crowd. Dur
ing the day, while the men were at work,
Norris did the plowing and the other
men moved the dirt. Elliott and some of
the men began to joke Norris about the
manner of using the plow, which so of
fended Norris that he seemed to be mad
during the whole day. As is usual in
such cases, when the men perceived that
Norris was angry they continued the fun
all the more, never dreaming that any
think serious would grow out of it. At
the close of the day the hands had not
finished their allotted work, and agreed
to return on the next morning (yester
day) and finish. As they dispersed for the
evening Norris remarked quite signifi
cantly to one of the men that on the next
day some of them would find that he
would use a different instrument. While
the joking was going on it seems that the
remarks made by Elliott were especially
offensive to Norris.
At an early hour yesterday morning
the workers began to assemble at the
same place, and when six or eight had
arrived, Norris stepped into the crowd,
picked up a hoe, and without saying a
word, stepped immediately behind El
liott, who was shoveling, and pretended
to commence work. The men were ap
parently all in fine humor, and no one ex
pected any difficulty except the murder
er. Norris pursued his work only a few
seconds, when, without givinghis victim
a moment’s warning, he raised his hoe
and dealt a tremendous blow upon the
back of his head, felling him to the
ground instantly. Norris continued to
strike the fallen and unconcious man,
cutting him horribly about the face and
head with the sharp edge of the hoe. After
numerous blows the hoe handle broke,
when the murderer seized the shovel
which Elliott had been at work with and
completed his deadly purpose. The mur
dered man’s head was laid open to the
brain in several peaces, and he lived but
a short while. After Norris had slain
Elliott he endeavored immediately to
make his escape by running through the
wood 9, but he was overtaken and cap
tured within a short distance of the men
who was present, and was taken to Buc
hanan jail.
The bystanders seem to have been so
shocked by the unexpectedness of the
attack that they made no effort whatever
to save Elliott’s life.
Norris and Elliott have been citizens
of Haralson for a number of years. I’hey
were near neighbors, about 35 years old
each, and both were married and had
families. So far as we have been able to
learn, there was no motive for the crime
except the frivolous cause mentioned
above.
There was a man in our town, and he
was wondrous wise, for when he marked
his prices down, he then did advertise.
And when he saw his trade increase, with
all his might and main he marked still
lower every price and advertised again.
And when he adyertised again it made
his rivals roar, to see the people rush to
him and.patronize his store. And while
they sat in solitude and saw him custom
win, that man behind the counter stood
and raked the shekels in. And when he
raked the shekels in and saw his fortune
rising, he took a goodly lot of tin and
kept on advertising. Each day a gener
ous sum he’d sink, and demonstrate full
plain, the more one pays for printers’ ink
the greater is his gain.
Sum Jones says he would rather be
five hnndredold maids shut up in a room
by himself than to be the wife of one
drunkard.
A DISGRACEFUL DOCUMENT.
A Cowardly Villain Disgraces the State,
that Gave Him Birth*
Madison Ga., Madisonian.]
Some time in January Mr.T. C. Boylan,
a leading citizen and successful farmer
lof Coin, Page county lowa, wrote to the
the Atlanta Constitution an open letter,
in which he asked a number of pertinent
questions concerning the people and soil
of Georgia, and how a man with North
ern sentiments would be treated in this
section. While he received quite a num
ber of responses that furnished him with
the information he was seeking, there
was among his Georgia mail one letter
which for baseness and maliciousness,
stands without a parallel. If it were
not for the fact that the author of the
letter 2s unknown in lowa, andfor the
additional reason that the vile sentiments
therein expressed may be accepted as an
index to true Southern sentiment in a
country where the masses, at least, are
ignorant of the chivalry ot our people, we
would not descend* to write qur editorial
condemnation of the wretch who coh
ceived it. But, if left unanswered, the let
ter is calculated to do more than pecun
iary harm to our country, in that it
brings into question the good name of
our people. For this reason we ask par
don for reproducing the letter in all its
knavish repulsivenees. The letter was
postmarked Madison:
Ga. R. R., near Atlanta Ga.
January 29, 1886.
T. C. Boylan—l have read with sav
age indignation your’d phool
queries published in the Atlanta Consti
tution, of last Sunday, and am just itch
ing to get my rebellious paws on your
cowardly and thieving yankee carcass.
I am unreconstructed and unrepentent,
and am an ex-Ku-Kluxey. And know
how to lave in Yankee gore. Would
give my hat & boots if you will light on
Ga. soil. There are several waiting
here to give you a warm reception. If
you think there is any room in Ga. for a
G and yankee you are badly mis
taken. Don’t you believe anything the.
Constitution publishes. It is a whining
sheet & panders to your kind for patron
age. But I tell you a d—yankee
can’t live in Ga. unless he locates in one
of the large cities. There are here yet
rebels who never intend that our soil
shall be desecrated by the presence of
ad and yankee thief. For such all of
you are. There is not a man from the
highest to the lowest who wore the yan
kee uniform but what was a thief. And
this is what the people ot South believe.
Don’t you be deceived by the,papers and
politicians. < .
There are a few Yankees • down in
Morgan county. But they are kept
down with the negroes. For we do not
consider them as good as our negroes.
This is the only condition on which one
can live in this country. Otherwise we
put them where men tell no tales. You
take pains to laud such creatures as Abe
Lincoln, a bastard & traitor & Stanton, a
cowardly liar—murderer & suicider.
And you worship such brutes & tyrants
as Grant —Sherman & Sheridan. Also
you denounce such men as Pres. Davis,
Hon. L. Q. C Lamar & Generals
Toombs & Lawton, who are hightoned
gentlemen—Statesmen and heroes. Re
member your presence and that of your
kind are not wanted here. If you come
you must choose between the place of a
“Nigger” and a dead man.
In conclusion allow me to say that I
think you are a .
Yours in earnest.
Jefferson Davis-Blood.
The human brain could not have con
ceived of anything more unmanly, cow
ardly dastardly than the above produc
tion. To writtrsuch a letter to a gentle
man seeking legitimate and commend
able information, required the basest and
most cowardly of hearts, and the author
deserves the low’epithets. which he so
wantonly thrusts, heaped upon him by
the indignant people whom he thus dis
graces. No man who uses the term
“thief” so sweepingly can be anvthing
but a thief, and when this debased scrib
bler states such to be the sentiment of
the Southern people, he utters what he
knows to be a lie.
While the entire letter is shameful in
the extreme, the crowning act of infa
my is the effort on the part of its author
to place himself as an apostle of Jeffer
son Davis, one of the best, grandest and
bravest of men. In a recent letter to the
writer this good man says: “It has been
decided that the States were to remain
united, and it becomes us heartily to
unite with all who are endeavoring to.
exalt the character and enlarge the pow
er of the States as united.” The author
of such a sentiment would not wipe his
feet upon the scoundrel who would give
expression to such venom as it contained
in the above letter.
In conclusion, we wish to say this
much to Mr. Boylan and all good people
who may desire to become residents of
Morgan county or Georgia: We weigh
105 pounds, and while it is not our ambi
to be known as a bully, we will take the
contract to detend him and fflem against
snch harmless crank. Instead of “itch
ing to get his rebellious paws on your
caacass” he is congratulating himself
that you are in lowa and he in Georgia.
A GROWING EVIL.
Cuthbert Enterprise.]
One of the most prevalent evil of the
day, and one which cannot be too strong
ly condemmed, is the tendency to take
into the family circle strangers whom
circumstances may have sent this way.
Recently the Americus jail contained
two men who had won the affections of
girls and married them, too, while they
had wives and families in other sections
demanding their time and assistance.
This state of things can be traced in
many cases ts the indifference of parents
in choosing associates for their children.
For this neglect, many times, girls of a
romantic turn meet and are attracted by
the fascinating ways of some scoundrel,
who, familiar with the world, knows the
chicanery necessary to secure the adora
tion of the unsophistacated girl. She
dreams of him as some pvince to bring
her countless fortune, and pictures a
life of ease never before thought of. He,
of course, encourages this line of thought
until, in an evil moment, she is induced
to run away from home to marry the
veriest sort of a Pascal. The pangs of
regret and sorrow, when she comes to
realize that a life has been ruined, can*
never be known to the outside world.
It is too late for the parent to correct his
mistake. He realizes his helplessness to
minister to the grief of his child, and can
only apply to the law for redress of a
wrong too great for any penalty com
mensurate except death. He who allows
a unknown to pay attentions to his fam
ily can expect nothing but shame and
mortification to be the outgrowth.
PRISONERS’ EFFECTS.
A Nebraska Jeweler’s Experience with
Dynamite.
Omal n BeeJ
“Only 40 cents among twelve prison
ers,” said jolly night jailor Tom Peirro
net last evening, as he closed up the reg
ister, on which he had copied a list of his
boarders for the night.
“Do you count all the money the pris
oner has on his person ?” asked a Bee re
porter who was standing near and heard
the remark*. . '
“Yes, have to take Ifll the money he
has, together with every piece of prop
erty, valuable or otherwise* which he has
on his person. These are? all done up
neatly in a package, and the next morn
ing, on hts discharge or commitment to
jail, they are returned to him. We find
some curious things on the prisoners once
in a while, I can tell you.”
“What was the largest amount of mon
ey you ever took from any one prisoner ?”
“Thirteen hundred dollars, which I
captured from a fellow who came in here
from Texas and determined to paint the
town with pink and yellow stripes. IJe
landed here with about $2,000. lie fell
fell iu with fast women (to one of whom
he gave $500), became gloriously drunk,
and in the midst of a grand spree
when he was arrested by the police. In
December or November last, I forget
which? a woman was landed in jail and
the charge of .jobbery was placed oppo
site her name. Before being placed in a
cell she was pretty thoroughly searched,
but nothing of any consquence was taken
from her. Once in the cell, however, she
called Jailer Sigwart to the bars and
handed him a yjll of SSOO, $lO, S2O, SIOO
and SSOO. Sigwart would not believe
that the wealth was genuine until she al
lowed him to count the cash tor himself.
So far as I kuow, she had more cash on
her person than any other prisoner caged
in the county jail, at least for the past ten
or fiftedn years.
“I shall never forget a little scare I had’
several months ago—it was in October
last,” continued Jailer Pierronet. “One
of the police had brought, in a man and
placed a charge of drunk and disorderly
against his name. I searched his inner
pockets, felt of his pantlegs, boots, etc.,
and finallv went through his overcoat
pockets. In one of them I found a small
square package, doue up in brown paper.
It fitted rather tightly in the pocket, and
I commenced to jerk vigorously to get it
out. I had worked at it but a moment,
when, with a wild shriek, the prisoner
threw his arm around and shoved me off.
Then with a movement he pulled out the
package and handed it to me before I had
time to recover from my astonishment.
He seemed to have become sober all of a
sudden, and as he handed me the package
he remarked : ‘lf you had jarred that
box or dropped it on the fioor, you and I
would have been dead men before this.’
The next morning after he had paid his
tine in police court he explained to me
that the package contained a dynamite
infernal machine of that kind manufac
tured for home use. Fact. And he broke
the seal cover and showed me enough to
to convince me that he was telling me
the truth.”
HOYV BEAUTY IS PRESERVED.
Baltimore News, j
It is stated that a well-known society
woman of Baltimore, who preserves her
beauty and freshness remarkably well,
despite her many seasons’ pursuit of ex
citement in the social whirl, attributes
her good fortune to the practice of drink
ing a small cup of luke-warm water every
day on leaving her couch. So strong is
her taith in the efficacy of this remedy
that its omission is sure to cause depres
sion and languor.
Iu speaking of this a few days ago a
well known matron of Baltimore said:
“I have known many ladies to be equal
ly devoted to some article which could
not possibly have benefited them except
through their imagination. One lady I
know has a glass of toast water placed
beside her bed by her maid every morn
ing. Another uses a half-teaspoonful of
tincture cinchona in a goblet of water;
still another takes a pinch of a table salt
into her mouth before leaving her bed.
Lots of ladies resort to such common ar
ticles as oranges and lemons and Appo
linaris water, or to cool plunge baths,
but the most singular freak lever heard
of was that of a Philadelphia belle who
every morning regularly gargled her
throat with soapsuds made of white Cas
tile soap, which she believed was abso
lutely necessary to the preservation of
her health.”
The colored folks have a great pen
chant for burying their hard earned mon
ey. Doubtless tiiis feeling was superin
duced by the Freedman’s Bank swindle,
in which so many colored people lost their
all. An industrious old colored man who
lived in this place a few years ago, named
Lem Mathis, before his death buried six
hundred and fifty dollars in Hunt’s
woods. The money was in a tin box.
He died without revealing the place of
deposit, and his children, one of whom
still lives here and another one in Atlan
ta, were thus deprived of this money.
Another negro man, named Joe Cook,
who formerly belonged to Rev. Dr. Cook,
was a brick mason and hired his own
time and by this means had accumulated
a half bushel of silver. The family left
here for lower Georgia, and old Joe bu
ried his money and he died without tell
ing the exact spot where it was hidden.
A colored man died here about a month
ago who had considerable money and
his children have been unable to find it.
It is presumed he buried it.—Marietta
Journal.
Last Thursday evening about six
o’clock, while the Mariietta Express en
gine wasjawitebing at this place, Mr.
William Dickerson, brakeman, attempt
ed to jump on the “cow-catcher” of the
engine, but missed his foothold and fell
under the wheels, the engine passing
over and crushing both of his legs, which
necessitated amputation. Mr. Diekerson
was carried to Key. Robert Baker’s
house, his brother-in law, where he died
after a few hours, suffering. He leaves
a wife and children, who reside in At
lanta. Mr. Dickerson was a worthy
and industrious man and his death is
deeply regretted.—Marietta Journal.
With one or two exceptions, the insur
ance companies doing business in Geor
gia have filed with the Comptroller Gen
eral their statements showing the amount
of capital stock, assets, liabilities, expen
ditures, etc., for the year ending Decem
ber 31, ISBS. There are, according to
these returns, sixty-seven o and line com
panies and four assessment companies
in the State.
NUMBER 6
SPECIMEN SOUTHERN BEAUTIES,
W a shin*ton Letter in Ixmisville Times.]
Mrs. Ella Offut Kean is stopping at the
Riggs witli Kentucky friends. She is the
lady Joaquin Miller pronounced the most
beautiful person he had ever seen in any
clime. She is tall and stylish and bright
and agreeable in manner. Her eyes are
dark brown and her hair a golden tint.
Her complexion is a clear cream and her
features are classic and slightly acquiline.
Mrs. Senator Vance had two typical
Southern girls receiving with her Thurs
day—Miss Eugenia, daughter of Con
gressman Blount, of Macon, Ga., and her
cousin, Mary Ellen Johnson, also of that
city. Washington has not seen two more
attractive young ladies this season. Miss
Blount is of a stylish appearance, ex
ceedingly pleasant manners, that
sweetness of face one sees in pictures of
Giotto’s angels. Miss Johnson is tall,
with willowy grace. She is an argentine
blonde, with limpid grav-blue eyes and a
soft, sensitive complexion, changing with
every emotion. Each has the small
hands and foot of the Southron.
A foot more light, a step more true.
Ne’er from the heath ftoWer dashed the dew.
The Mother of De Lessep’sChildren.
——
Paris Letter in Chicago Tribune]
Mme. De Lesscps would be a luminary
if it were not tor her maternal cares.
Twelve living children and five dead
ones ia eighteen years’ time are draw
backs to gayety; but she keeps open Louse,
and is so hospitable that not infrequently
she does not know the names of those
who crowd her salons and whom her
husband invites on the most casual ac
quaintance. Ferdinand is the model of
trimmers. He was a pet of the Tuile
ries in what he terms the “days of the
tyrant,” and as now hand and glove
with tne Republic, as he will be the
d’Orleans if he lives long enough to see
those frauds come in. He is jubilant
now, less over the Panama undertaking
than over the gain of a suit wherein he
obliged the Princess de Beau van to re
store a bath-tub which she took away
with her when M. De Lesseps bought
that lady’s hotel for 700,000 francs. He
has compelled her to pay, moreover,
$392.50 damages caused by the removal
of the same. It took eighteen months
and cost SSOO to establish Hie veritable
proprietorship of that tub.
SENATOR MAHONE’S HELP-MEET.
From a Washington Society Letter.]
Mrs. Mahone is a universal favorite,
and besides shining with front of diamonds
on grand occasions, shines by her con
versation, which is full of humor and
originality. Mrs. Mahone always keeps
a bubbling of mirth about her, and re
lates her ow n experience and describes
things and people in a way quite her own.
She is an uncompromising American and
carried the Hag triumphantly through
many encounters with the insufferable
British tourist during her recent stay
abroad. She has a proper scorn for the
Europeanized American and his affecta
tions, and a comical story that she once
told was of her going into a store, or
shop, rather, in an English town and in
nocently asking for crackers. The pro
prietor hunted through all the shelves
and boxes and under the counter, and
finally sent the apprentice boy up a lad
der and brought down a dusty paper of
fire-craekers. Though she had to call a
cracker a biscuit for the two yearsf that
she was away, Mrs. Mahone is quite the
same as ever, now that she is in the land
where a cracker is a cracker. At Senator
Sherman’s last night her pale blue satin
dress was half covered with lace, and the
front of her square-cut corsage was all
a-glitter with the sprays, pins and orna
ments of diamonds.
An Enterprising, Reliable House.
David W. Curry can always be relied
upon not only to carry in 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 wall sell it on a positive
guarantee. It will surely cure 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. 1
A Texas clergyman, about to be ap
pointed chaplain of the penitentiary,
preached a farewell sermon to his con
gregation, who had treated him rather
badly. He selected the following text:
“I go to prepare a place for you, so that
where I am ye may be also.”
Anglophobia has gone so far that a
young man who has been abroad takes
great delight in telling strangers that he
was bornacross the water. It is a great
thing to deceive without resorting to a
falsehood.
Starbuck says he never could under
stand the expression, “Fair women and
brave men,” until a few days ago. He
went to a church fair last week, and says
it was a brave man who would encounter
one of those lair women.
When young Spriggins ran away with
his father’s youthlul wife it was remark
ed that he was no worse than the majori
ty of young people who wanted to begin
where their fathers left off.
A Belgium gun-drummer says all the
guns sent out of Liege are make b\ r wo
men. A woman is never so happy as
when she is promoting an engagement.
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
Say, young man, if you can’t get that
other fellow’s sister, go to Curry’s and
interview the “Charming Sisters.” They
are on the carpet by a large majority, and
don’t need begging to join you over the
troublous sea of life.
Iteh, Prairie Mange, and Scratches of
every kind cured in 30 Minutes by Wool
ford’s Sanitary Lotion. Use no other.
This never fails. Sold by C. N. May sen
& Cos. Druggists, Kingston, Ga.
jan2l-ly.