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Latest IN ews.
The Mississippi river is said to He clear of ice
from Keokuk to St. Louis.
Ihe Secretary of the Treasury lias issued a
call for ten million dollar bonds of the 4 per
e>nt. loan of 1881. The call matures May Ist.
The hill grauting a pension of |2,000 a year to
the widow of General W. S. Hancock passed the
House Monday hy a vote of—yeas 100, nays 47.
Mr. Jefferson DaviJ ha? written a letter to the
monument committee in Montgomery, formally
accepting the invitation to address the people in
that city, lie will visit Montgomery about the
last of April.
At 9 o’clock Monday morning the railroadmen
of the Wahash and Chicago & Alton railroad, at
Kansas City went on a strike. At that hour all
the engine whistles were blown as a signal for
the men to quit work. It was a genuine surprise
to the officials.
Blondin, desirous of replenishing his purse,
wishes to make another tour through America
and repeat his Niagara performance, but hesi
tates because the law would compel him to have
a safety net under the rope,which would detract
much from the interest of the feat. He is now
sixty- two yeares old and lives in London.
There was a lady in Athens Monday from
Lula, who says that there is a great deal behind
the scenes In the murder of Merritt by Coffee.
She says that Coffee has never run an illicit dis
tillery, and that the tale about Merritt trying to
get a woman to give Coffee away about his illicit
distillery is all stuff, and that things will yet
come to light showing that Merritt was trying to
work the illicit distillery business on Coffee so as
to get him to leave the country or to have him
arrested.
Omaha, March 22.—Ed Johnson, the desper
ado who killed his employer Saturday, in
trenched himself in a barn near Oakland,
where he resisted all attempts to capture him
and killoo two men and wounded several others.
The barn was set on lire last evening. Fire was
opened on Johnson and he was killed, falling in
the flames. When the lire had subsided, the
body was found riddled with bullets.
Marietta, March 21. —Two very sudden
deaths in one day has set our town into a frenzy
of excitement. Miss Fannie Ford, fourteen
years old, an adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs,
H. T. Daly, died last night, after a few hours’
illness. To-day Mr. W. Groves was stricken
with spotted fever, or meningitis, and died about
7p. m. Mr. Groves has been a resident of this
place all his life, and has for several years held
the position of recording clerk in the freight
office of the Western and Atlantic railroad in
Atlanta. He leaves a wife and two children.
New Yoke, March 20.—Joseph Pulitzer, edi
tor of the World, has sent to the Governor of the
New York hospital a check for $5,000, the amount
of his first year’s salary as representative in
Congress from the ninth district. This donation
is to be used in endowing a permanent bed in
the hospital for the benefit of sick and disabled
newspaper workers of every kind. The experi
ence of the past year has demonstrated the need
of something of this character. It is understood
that the control of the hospital bed thus perma
nently assured will be vested in the trustees of
the New York Press Club.
At Atlanta Thursday two brothers, John and
Marvin Sweat, who live in a settlement near
the old Exposition hotel, had a desperate fight
and tried to kill each other. The light grew out
of a family quarrel. Marvin, who is a one-arm
ed man, knocked several of John’s front teeth
out and received a fearful blow undsr his left
eye with a rock. After beating each other terribly
the men parted for awhile. Marvin got an ax
from his wife and John went to hia home and got
a double-barreled shotgun. When they came
within a few paces John levelled the gun on his
brother and was about to kill him, when an old
man rushed between them and knocked the
weapon up. Officers stopped further trouble.
Chicago, March 21.—The Inter Ocean’s
Oshkosh (Wis.) special says: The most remark
able atmospheric phenomenon ever known here
occurred at 2. p. m. The day had been light,
though slightly cloudy, when suddenly dark
ness began settling down, and in five minutes it
was as dark as midnight. General consterna
tion prevailed. People on the streets rushed to
and fro, teams dashed along, and women and
children beat precipitate retreats into cellars.
All business operations ceased until the lights
could be lighted. Not a breath of air was stirring
on the surface of the earth. The darkness lasted
eight to ten minutes, when it passed off, seem
ingly from west to east.
Baldwin county voted wet Monday by 300 ma
jority. The election will be contested. The
prohibitionists claim that there were at least six
hundred illegal votes polled. The grounds for
contesting, as near as can be learned, are:
I irst, the polls were kept open at Brown’s pre
circt twenty minutes over time, w r hich will
take about thirty from the antis’ majority.
Second, that the cost on executions of insolvent
taxes, amounting to over six hundred dollars,
have not been paid. The antis, on the other
hand, claim that the election was legal and that
all voters who registered to hold the tax collec
tor’s receipt in full for back taxes had a perfect
right to vote and that a telegram was received
from .1 udge Lawson, judge of this district, this
morning stating the same.
Some time before the failure of the ttrrn of
Grant & Ward, Mrs. Virginia Corbin, of Boston,
Gen. Grant’s sister, was invited to place money
in the firm for investment. She called at the
firm's office and introdneed to Ferdinand Ward.
She took a dislike to him and, it is said, told Col.
I red Grant that she believed Ward was un
trustworthy. A few days later Mrs. Corbin in
trusted Col. Grant with $25,000 which he invested
with the Arm without her knowledge. When
the crash came Gen. Grant in looking over the
accounts discovered that the firm owed Mrs.
Corbin this amount. As he was preparing for
the end he charged his family to pay all the
debts caused by his unfortunate connection with
Ward. A day or two ago Mrs. Grant sent a eer
terlied check for $25,000 to Mrs. Corbin in pay
ment of the investment. Mrs. Grant, it is said,
received the money from the publishers of her
late husband’s book.
The executive committee of the State Agricul
tural Society met in the Chamber of Commerce,
at Atlanta Monday to meet the general commit
tee appointed by the various public bodies of
Atlanta, to consider the invitation and hear the
proposition to locate the State fair in the “Gate
city” permanently. There was a full attendance
of both committees, and a full informal confer
ence had. Atlanta seemed anxious to get the
fair, but the committee was rather at sea as to
how to accomplish it. The fair committee, fully
appreciating the advantages of Macon, stated
that it would be necessary for Atlanta, or an
other city, to offer superior inducements to move
it. The Atlanta representatives were cautious
as to offering financial inducements, as they are
in no condition to do. They suggested various
properties suitable for fair grounds. The re a ult
of the meeting leaves the matter just where it
has been. The question of permanent location
will be settled at the August meeting of the
Agricultural Society.
Tombstone, Arizona, March 21.—The soldiers
who have been stationed at Mud Springs, under
the command of Lieut. Wheeler, have arrived
heve, bringing news of the surrender of Geronimo
to Lieut. Maus. The circumstances leading to
the surrender arc reported as follows: Friday
afternoon, about ten miles across the Mexican
line, an Apache camp was attacked by Mexican
forces and a hot skirmish ensued, during which
two Apaches were killed and the forces of Ger
onimo completely routed. Geronimo and his
band fled in the direction of Lieutenant Mau’s
cj>mp for safety and there made an uncondi
tional surrender. The Mexican troops followed
them across the line into Mau’s camp, demanding
them as prisoners and claiming that the fight
occurred on Mexican soil and the victory was
theirs. Lieutenant Maus refused to give the
prisoners up, which greatly incensed the Mex
icans, who threatened to take the prisoners by
force. General Crook was hourly expected to
arrive in camp, but at last accounts had not yet
come. Two dispatches from Lieutenant Maus
have been received at Mud Springs applying for
assistance. The situation is critical in the ex
treme, and a massacre of Lieutenant Maus and
Ids command may occur at any moment.
BuUt’s Garden Seeds just received at
Curry’s.
THE COURANT.
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Published Every Thursday,
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
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in the paper , and will be furnished on applica
tion.
CORRESPOXDKXCK containing important
news solicited from all parts of the county.
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egrams, and make all drafts or checks jmyable
THE COURANT.
Cartersville, Oa.
Official Organ Bartow County.
Courant Publishing* Company.
THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 188 G.
All tie Ofcial Alyertisements ot Bartow
Comity Appear in The Courant.
Publishers’ Announcement.
As heretofore announced, under the present
management, it is intended to make The Oou
rant a people’s paper in every sense of the word,
and we know of no better way to carry out our
object than to publish all the news and put it
upon the market at the low price of
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
At this low price it will be impossible to carry
any delinquents or a free list. The credit sys
tem is the rock upon which many a newspaper
enterprise has been wrecked. By putting the
price so low, and giving our readers the news,
we hope to make The Courant a permanent
success and of lasting benefit to Cartersville and
Bartow county.
TO DELINQUENTS.
We have some that are in arrears for one year.
By remitting us $2. we will send The Courant
another year, and cancel the old account,
Nothing fairer could be asked.
Mr. Clements’ Speech.
We do not feel called upon to apologize
for the space occupied by the speech of
Hon. J. C. Clements, our immediate con
gressman, and which will be found on
the first page in this issue. The speech
embodied some solid statistics which
were too voluminous for us to publish.
The speech has the jingle of true states
manship as well the jingle of the “dol
lar of our daddies.” Our congressman is
eminently right in regard to the coinage
question, and we could not refrain from
allowing his constituency to read his ex
cellent speech on the subject. The silver
dollar is what the South needs, it is what
everybody needs, and its unlimited coin
age is anxiously hoped for. The silver
dollar is a useful thing to have around a
poor man’s house, and as yet we have
heard of nobody refusing to take them
except the gold bugs of Wall Street.
When they get tired “toting” the silver
dollar, there are plenty honest people in
immediate reach who will relieve them
of their burden. Besides being exact
change for one years’ subscription to The
Courant the silver dollar has an honest
jingle about it that every poor man in the
country enjoys. In the language of our
congressman, “Let us have more of
them.”
Cartersville and Her Blind Tigers.
•‘Cartersville is still having trouble with her
blind tigers.”— Savannah Times.
If there is any trouble about blind
tigers in this part of the moral vineyard
we have not heard of it, and if there is a
blind tiger in this community we have
not heard of it. “Blind tigers” are a
thing of the past in this county, and its
roar is no longer heard. True, a lew
jugs of the ardent are received by ex
press, but it is drank in private places
and by private individuals. The only
trouble there is about the whole thing,
and probably the trouble the Times
has reference to, is the fact that it puts
a fellow to lots of trouble in hunting for
one of the mysterious animals—and then
the search ends with no success at all.
Come up brother Richardson and try a
hunt for the “roarer,” but if you are
obliged to have some of the ardent, you
had better bring your own jug for things
are awful dry around here.
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An account of President Cleveland’s
love affairs appeared in the Atlanta Con
stitution on the 19th inst., bearing date
of the 18th. There is nothing remarka
ble in that. The Dade county limes
publishes the same article on the same
day, word for w r ord, on the patent out
side of the paper, too, and it bore date of
the 16th inst. Verily the get-up-and-get
of the Dade county Times is somewhat
remarkable, and we would warn the
great Consti to hereafter look well after
its laurels.
In the ranks of the Georgia dailies
none stand higher then the Macon Tele
graph. Its news service is a most excel
lent one, and the many friends of the
paper up this way are delighted to re
ceive it on the early morning train. The
Telegraph is ably and fearlessly edited,
while its mechanical get-up is unsur
passed.
A full account of the wholesale slaugh
ter of negroes in a Mississippi court house
during a trial, by an unmasked mob, will
be found in another column this week.
So long as such an atrocity is allowed
and the perpetrators go unpunished, so
long will the “blody shirt” wield iis sub
tle power in American politics.
The coming State campaign will be
noted for its “dark horses.” “Skillet
toting” is the order of the day, and every
other man has one of these important
cooking utensils which he is trying to
“tote” all by himself. It is presumed
that the man with the biggest skillet will
“get thar Eli.”
Congressman Pulitzer, of the New
York World, has given $5,000, his first
year’s salary as Congressman, to a New
York hospital, to be used in caring for
broken down newspaper men. Very few
men know as well how to advertise as
Pulitzer.
Bacon and ’simmons are old Georgia
stand-by’s, and it remains to be seen
which will get nearest to the people’s
heart.
“Is the Negro a Failure?” is a ques
tion that is bothering the minds of the
statesmen. As a negro, in our humble
opinion, he is an eminent success.
Brushes, Combs, Perfumery, Fetlow’s
Gossamer, Swan’s Down, and other toilet
requisites at Curry’s.
THE MISSISSIPPI OUTRAGE.
A Cohrt House Entered by a Mob, While a
Trial Is in Progress.
Carrollton is a lovely little intend town
in Mississippi and lias a population of
about seven hundred. Some weeks ago
Bob Moore, of Greenwood, Liddell’s
home, and a personal friend of James
Liddell, was in Carrollton and had a few
words with Ed Brown, a very bad and
unruly negro, whereupon Brown smash
es a molasses pitcher over Moore’s head.
The parties were separated. On February
13th Liddell was in Carrollton, met Ed
Brown on the street and asked why he,
Brown, struck Mooree, to which Brown
replied:
“I don’t know if that’s any of yourd—
d business.”
This was resented by a blow from Lid
dell. Ed Brown immediately left, got
his brother Charles and John Johnston, a
chum of theirs, all arming themselves,
and kook their stand on the corner ot the
street where they knew Liddell would
pass from supper. Professor Gunn, of
the male academy, passed, and heard one
of the party say that they would fix Mr.
Liddell, and Gunn hastened to the hotel
to tell Liddell what be had heard the ne
groes say.
Liddell and Gunn went to where they
were stationed. Liddell, advancing,raised
the hat of Ed Brow n, and asked what all
that meant, when Ed replied, “That’s
none of your business,” and Liddell again
struck Ed, whereupon the three opened
fire on him, and he returned the fire first
at one and then the other. He slightly
wounded Ed and received a painful
wound in his right arm and one in his
right leg. Mr. Gunn was not armed.
Friends interfered and drove the ne
groes off. Johnston had been firing from
behind a tree within eight feet of Liddell.
Mr. Liddell was confined to his bed over
three weeks.
The two Browns gave bond and John
ston skipped. They stayed around town
all the time, now and then making
threats. Mayor Elam beard Ed. Brown
say he expected to be killed but he would
carry some d—d white men with him.
Last week Liddell went home and Ed
Brown swore out an affidavit against him,
charging him with assault and battery
with intent to kill. Liddell was arrested
and carried back to Carrollton, and the
trial fixed for Wednesday the 17th at
12 :30. Ed had also made affidavit against
Ed Schaekelford, Walter Johuson, John,
Jim and Bedford Maber, and A. Graham.
They were the parlies who came to Lid
dellis assistance on the night of the shoot
ing.
On Thursday these parties, together
with Liddell, were on their trial. The
Brown negroes and several of their sym
pathizers were present, besides others
who were there for purposes unknown.
At one o’clock exactly, while Captain
Estes was in the midst of his argument
in Liddell’s defense, a crowd of men, es
timated at from fifty to one hundred,
armed with Winchester rifles and pis
tols, galloped into the town and sur
rounded the courthouse, some rushing
in and the firing began. Ed Brown, see
ing his doom was sealed, opened fire on
Liddell and crawled under a bench.
There were at least five hundred shots
fired.
After the shooting was over, and every
body but Captain Estes and a wounded
negro had vacated, Ed Brown crawled
out from his hiding place and opened fire
on Estes. The mob re-entered and per
forated him with bullets. Nine were
killed dead on spot, viz:
Ed. Brown, Charles Brown, Joe Lang,
French Hughes, A. Mathews, Simon
Cain, Jim Johnston, Jim Harris, John
Money, Andrew Robinson, Scoot Moore,
Olie Thompson died soon after. Ten
more were wounded, among whom were:
Jake Cain and Will Dodds, who are not
expected to live. Negroes jumped from
the windows up stairs, fully twenty high,
only two escaping, The horrible work
was done inside of ten minutes. The
mob was composed of the best citizens ot
Lefevre county, and were not disguised.
The killing of so many is regretted by
everybody, but all are glad that the bad
ones are gone.
On most of the dead bodies arms were
found. The room was completely filled
with smoke. The judge’s bench is on the
north side of the room and the benches
facing it are towards the south. It is a
very large court room with windows all
around. On the south wall were counted
135 shot holes.
In the walls of the passage leading
down stairs were ten shot holes, and in
the benches thirty shot holes. One shot
struck a northeast window sash and
glanced into the wall. Five others show
on the north wall from the direction of
benches. Large pools of blood were on
the floor of the court room. The mob
left as quietly and quickly as they came.
For tear of further trouble from the ne
groes, Sheriff Hamilton has notified Gov
ernor Lowry to hold the Winona Rifles in
readiness to go at his bidding. Governor
Lowry says that the affairs at Carrollton
do not, as far as he is now informed, de
mand executive interference, that his in
formation is that everything is quiet and
that peace officers of the county do not
now need any assistance. Reports sent
to him of the circumstances of the imme
diate origin of riot were to the effect that
the negroes were the aggressors, one fir
ing at Liddell in the court house, where
upon the latter’s friends retaliated with
the above fatal results.
about ins browns.
Adam Brown, the father of the de
ceased, was born free, in Tennessee, and
was of Indian extraction, being consid
ered three-quarters breed. He bad all
the characteristics in appearance, tem
perament and general attributes of that
people. He moved to Carrollton prior to
the war and engaged in blaeksmithing, at
which he made money enough to be con
sidered rich. He purchased and operated
two plantations and a good store out of
this source, but by bad management and
becoming involved in bad investments,
was unable to stay the loss of forune
which overtook him, and he died with
out a dollar.
His death followed from a shooting
difficulty in 1872, in which he was wound
ed by Tandy Oury, of the Carrollton Con
servative, living but a short time there
after. He had been in two other shoot
ing difficulties prior to that time, in each
receiving wounds sufficient to have killed
any ordinary man. Mr. Oury killed him
in self defense, as Adam had snapped
his pistol, if not fired it, twice at Mr.
Oury.
Juliet Brown, the mother of the de
ceased Ed and Charlie Brown, and wife
of Adam, was born a slave, but her
father being thrifty and allowed by his
master the opportunity, made money
enough to purchase her freedom and that
of her brother prior to the war. She,
like Adam, comes from the Indian race,
being about half-breed. She has large
cheek and jaw bone, and is what is
termed “raw honey.” Her father, Ed
mund Richardson, purchased in Carroll
county her freedom from his master, Al
fred Jackson.
There are three daughters to Adam
and Juliet, who are considered conspic
uous in their near approach in appear
ance and temperament to that people
from whom their ancestors draw the ma
jor part of their blood and resemble in
many ways.
They have loug, glossy black curly
hair, and large, black, piercing eyes, full
of resentment and flash, carrying unre
lenting and vindictive hatred to that ene
my who crosses their path.
The two sons, Ed and Charlie, aged
respectively 27 and 24 years, lost no
quality of hatred, vindictiveness and un
forgiving defiance and terrorizing that
marked the fretful and adventurous life
of their father, but accepted and sought
every available opportunity to affront and
bully the white race, never haying a sin
gle serious conflict with the negroes, but
always aggressive to a degree of bitter
ness to the white people. They were de
void of all religious faith and scouted the
fear of death or the future.
WHAT IS SAID.
The coroner held no inquest.
It is well understood that the perpe
trators of the slaughter came from a dis
tance.
The affair is deplored by good citizens,
but there is a feeling of relief that the
community is finally rid of a gang of bad
and desperate negroes.
THE BIRMINGHAM AGE ON THE OUTRAGE.
It was to be hoped, for the sake of hu
manity, that the story of the killing ol
the thirteen negroes in the court-house
of Carroll county, at Carrollton, Missis
sippi, wa3 exaggerated. At first tele
graphed, the affair appeared nothing
shoitof a cold-blooded massacre of de
fenseless men. A second and fuller ac
count, though it slightly mitigates the
blame for the tragedy, scarcely lessens
its horrors.
Not until every one of the guilty par
ticipants is arrested, tried, convicted and
subjected to the utmost penalty of out
raged law, will the State of Mississippi
escape the righteous condemnation of all
men who have the least spark ol humaui
ty in them. The Governor of Mississip
pi should see that the offenders are pun
ished, if it takes all the power and re
sources of the State to do it.
Is it possible that Mississippi is no more
than a depraved despotism in which there
is no law but the rule of savage, insen
sate brute force ? Will Misssisippians let
this damnable mark of shame rest upon
their commonwealth? It is enough to
bring humiliation to every citizen of this
republic. Not only Mississippi but the
whole South and every State in the union
will feel the evil of this crime.
THE DOLLAR OF OUR DADDIES.
An Old United States Note Prlntedln 1779,
and Signed by It. Roberts and J. Maloney.
Madison Madisonian.]
Yesterday we w r ere shown an old Uni
ted States note, the face value of which
was sixty dollars, which was found in
some old papers by Dr. Chas. Scoggin,
who has been visiting his grandfathers,
Mr. J. F. Johnson, in this county. Dr.
Scoggin lives in Gilmer,Texas, and found
the note in some old papers belonging to
his father, which had been left by that
gentleman in the possession of Mr. John
son. The notes is of queer shape and
peculiar designs, has “United States of
North America” printed upon its edges,
and the back of it is decorated by a to
bacco leaf and indigo plant, the principal
products of this country in those days.
It was printed from a wood cut by Hall
and Sellers. Below is a copy of the note,
with the exception, of the designs and
mottoes:
No 156950.
SIXTY DOLLARS.
The bearer is entitled to receive Sixty Spanish
Milled Dollars, or an equal sum in Gold or Sil
ver, according to a Resolution of Congress of the
14th Jauuary, 1779.
60 Dollars.
J. Maloney. 11. Roberts.
The note may or may not be valuable.
In the year of ijjs date Continental cur
rency was below par. owing to the finan
cial embarrassment of the government,
and historians saj 7 that 1779 closed in
gloom. But this note is not Continental
currency, and may be valuable, if not for
for its intrinsic value, as a relic of the
long ago. Dr. Scoggin left for his home
in Gilmer, Texas, yesterday, and says
that he will advertise the note and ascer
tain whether it is valuless. In the broad
light of equity it seems that the govern
ment should redeem it.
A SINGULAR CASE.
Cedartown Advertiser.]
Some two weeks since, at his home
near Ilockmart, Mr. J. A. Morgan died.
He had been an invalid for ten years,
through his afflictions his flesh, long be
foae his death, having wasted away, leav
ing his body a mere skin-covered skele
ton. He would sleep a greater part of
the time with his head off his bed and
resting on a chair, claiming that in this
position alone could he find comtort in
slumber. He had been to Hot Springs
without beneficial results and consulted
as many as twenty good physicians, none
of whom were able to correctly define
his malady. A few months before his
death he vomited up a live object re
sembling in looks, it is said, a bot as
found in horses, but with the manner of
snail, reaching out and then drawing up
when moving. Physicians have been
unable to name the object, being distinct
from anything of the kind ever winessed.
It is believed by many that his stomach
was infested by numbers of them, that
caused his emaciation and death. He
was well thought of, was 38 years of age
and leaves a wife, two children and nu
merous other relatives and friends to
mourn his death.
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AN OLD-FASHIONED RELIGION.
Chicago News.]
Sam .Tones preached at the rink last
night, allowing the text to follow' the
sermon. He said he did not do it to be
odd, but because, in this instance, the
text properly came last. The subject
evidently was sin. He said :
“Oh, you fellows say Jones is a bully
fellow because he gives it to the church
members hot. Now remember this, that
the dryestold church member in Chicago
ig better than you. He was right once,
and you’ve been mean all your life.
Now look here. You don’t need to tell
me you live in sin because you don’t
know how to live right. See here you
are the very fellows who criticise church
members and say they are hypocrits.
You know how to live. If my foot slips
in Chicago you all know it. Thieves
know honesty, and lewd women know
virtue. God help me to live as the yilest
sinner says right. Either do right or shut
up. .
“There are whole churches in Chicago
going to hell. They will drop right into
the brimstone —right into the sulphuric
flames. They’ll bob up just long enough
to say: “My Lord, what a pity I be
lieved in a faith which had no hell!”
The man who believes in a religion which
has no hell in it is the biggest fool in the
world. You say you don’t like a hell
scared religion. It’s the only kind I’ve
got. 1 was so badly scared 13 years ago
That it will save me in eternity.
“The Universalists preach no hell.
There are some good men in the Univer
salist church; not good on account of
L T niversalism, but good in spite of it.
They hope to argue hell onto! existence.
But, now, look here, I’m better fixed
than they are. I’ll shun hell —if there is
a hell; and if there is not I’m as well off'
as you. I’ve two strings to my bow.
“I he newspapers say I preach an old
fashioned religion with a brimstone hell
in it. I do. That speaks bad for you
fellow's (turning to the ministers behind
him), for if you had given them plenty
of it they w'ould never have noticed me.”
In Rome, on last Tuesday morning
about 11 o’clock five shots were fired in
rapid succession in the rear of Printup’s
warehouse. In a few minutes
a large crowd collected. Gordon
Byrd, a son of Mr. J. P. M. Byrd, of
that city, had attempted suicide by shoot
ing himself through the head. He has
been acting very strangely of late. He
left the public school at 10 o’clock that
morning, and remarked to some of the
boys that he would not be living by
night. He had just recovered from one
of his fits. There was no cause for his
rash act except insanity.
The Macon Telegraph's Atlanta corres
pondent wrote to that paper Tuesday
night that —“Gubernatorial gossip about
the hotels is that Gordon is definitely in
the race, and will enter upon an active
campaign; that McDaniel’s withdrawal
was a part of the programme, and that in
due time Simmons will get out of the
way, leaving the field for Gordon and
Bacon.”
Hon. A. T. Mclntyre, Sr., of Thomas
ville, has been appointed a trusttee of
the State Lunatic Asylum to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of Colonel L.
N. Whittle, of Macon. Colonel Mcln
tyre is a prominent citizen of the State —
an ex-Congressman— whose name has
more than once been mentioned for Gov
ernor.
Dr. Phipson, in a German scientific
journal, advocates the general use of
sugar as an article of diet, not simply as
a pleasing addition to food. He affirms
that during forty years he has eaten at
least a quarter ot a pound of sugar daily,
not counting sugar-forming substances
taken at the same time, and has been
benefited by it.
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Streets— A. M. Franklin, John P. Anderson
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Finance— A. R. Iludgins, Gerald Griilln and
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That the reader may fully understand
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