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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.