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VOLUME 11.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
.1 1 h .'. 9 i an,i East and West Railroads, 48 miles north of
Atlanta, and in llartow county, tfcorgia. Topulatioa 2,500, with churches of Racist, Methodist,
I reshyterian and Episcopal denominations. With superior educational, climatic and business ad
vantages Carters'du, is unsurpassed as a place of residence. Nestling in the beautiful mountain
districtot • ortli Georgia, It ia 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 lie surpasod--is entirely free from all malarial influences, and there never has
been a ease of chills known to have originated Hi the county
Mineral and Agricultural Resources.-Neariy every mineral known to exist is
found iu iuexnautMrle quanthhw, whirl) will m&k6 Cartcrsville a threat mauttfacturiuK centre at
no distant day. Ihe manganese shipments from this depot alone are simply enormous. The Farm
inu Lands of lartow county will oompare favorably with (.hose of Illinois, Michigan and other
north western l States. All the cereals i h raised to perfection here, while cotton is arrow nin immense
quantities. 1 lie nature of our soil is very 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 oflered to those that may locate among us for the purpose of developing onr beautiful county.
GENERAL AND BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF THE CITY OF CARTERSVILLE.
Physicians. #
Lindsay .Johnson, m.
Physician and Surgeon.
i ithcc: Curry’s Drug store; residence, Erwin St.
JU. MAYFIELD, M. D.,
, Physician and burgeon,
office: first door south Crawford & Hudson; res
idence, East Main Street.
Thomas h. baker, m. and.,
Physician and Surgeon,
Office: one dour above St. James Hotel,
JAMES M. YOUNG, M. D.,
Residence on Market street, pear Baptist
Church. _____
Daniel hamitkr, m. and.,
Residence on Market street, south aide.
HW. FITE, M. I). •
, Office West side Public Square
(\ M. WHITE, M. D.
> t o ill ex: over Mavs A Pritchett
WL. KIRKPATRICK. M. D.,
Office in Howard’s Rank, Residence on
Church Street.
7\ M. GRIFFIN, M. !>.,
Residence on Market Street—South side.
7—— - ■■ ■— §
Merchant Tailors.
Rm. clinkscales.
Shop over Mays & Pritchett. _
Millinery and Dressmaking.
MISS K. M. PADGETT*.
Fashionable Millinery.
Rooms over Mays & Pritchett.
MISS LEO SHOCKLEY,
Fashionable Millinery.
Rooms under Opera House.
Financial.
Baker & hall,
General Hanking.
West Main Street, North side.
WH. HOWARD,
Exchange and Collecting Office
Office: In Bank Block.
Drugs.
Mr. WORD,
Drugs, Chemicals, etc.
West Main Street, North side.
TkAVID W. CURRY,
1/ Druggist,
Proprietor Curry’s Liver Compound, Curry’s
Cough Cnre, Curry’s Diarrhma and Dysentery
Specific.
Markets.
John Dodgen,
Choice Meats at all Times
h.ast side Public Square.
A A. Dobbs,
Meat Maiket West Maln South sale.
Undertakers.
WC EDWARDS,
Coffins and Mourning Goods,
Corner West Main and Erwin Streets,
Harness, Buggy Whips, etc.
Hicks & brevard,
Coffins and Mourning Goods,
East Main Street.
Hotels. i i .
Tennessee house,
Joshua Sumner Proprietor, East Main Street.
THE ST. JAMES,
Dr. K, A. Me Perrin, Proprietor,
East side Public Square,
BARTOW HOUSE,
Mrs. S. C. Majors, Proprietress,
West aide Public Square.
Barbers.
JOHN TAYLOR,
At St. James HoteL
Henry morris,
First door south postoffice.
WILLIAM JOHNSON,
Shockley building, east side railroad.
Essex ohoice,
Old Exchange hotel, east side railroad.
Stoves and Tinware.
VI,. 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,
¥A. BRADLEY,
Buggy, Wagon and General Repair Shop,
West Mam Street—North side.
Furniture.
I H. Gilreatli,
and North Georgia Furniture House,
East M ain Street—North side.
Dentists.
RE. Cason.
Resident Dentist,
Office : Upstairs, over Curry’s.
MM. Puckett,
Resident Dentist,
Office : Over R. II Jones ft Sons’ Manf’g Cos.
groceries and Provisions.
T F. STEPHENS.
J Groceries and Provisions,
Nortlieast Corner Public Square.
Stephens & co.,
Groceries and Provisions,
West side Public Square.
LB. MATTHEWS ft CO.,
Groceries and Provisions,
Under CouhAmt Office.
Baruonbros.,
Groceries and Provisions,
East Main Street.
WM. SATTERFIELD,
Groceries and Provisions,
East Mam Street.
AR. HUDGINS,
Groceries and Provisions,
West Main Street—South side.
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.
AM. PUCKETT,
Groceries and Provisions,
East Public Square.
Glenn jones.
Groceries and Provisions,
West Main st., South side.
T M. TODD,
J Groceries and Provisions,
West Main Street—south side.
T L. WIKLE,
J Groceries and Provisions,
West Main Street—North side.
p H. WHITE & SON,
L Groceries, Provisions, Lumber and Coal
West Main Street —North side.
Bradford ft co., . .
Groceries and Provisions,
West Main Street—North side.
VANDIVEKE & WALDRUP,
Groceries, Candies, etc.
West Main Street—North side.
PEOKUfi H. OILKEATH,
Ij Staple and Fancy Groceries,
West Main Street—North side.
BF. GODFREY,
Groceries and Provisions.
West Corner Main and Erwin Streets.
IUiOMAS LAWHON,
„ Groceries and Provisions,
Hank Block—West side Public Square
Pool aud Billiard Tables.
WH. TERRELL,
First door below Bank.
Books, Stationery, etc.
WIKLE & co.,
First Door above Post Office.
Grain, Hay and Produce.
Roberts a colltns,
Wholesale Grocers, Grain and Produce,
j North side Public Square—West side railroad.
RM. PATTILLO,
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.
Oflice 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. If. HARRIS.
Solicitorprd tern City Court.
Opposite Clerk’s office at court house
A LBERT S. JOHNSON,
IX Office : ,two dfxirs above St. James hotel.
JOHN W. AKIN, | | j.
Office: First stairway above posloffice,
RW. MURPHEY, I
First stairway below PO. Ist door on right.
TAMES B. CONYERS,
J First stairway below 1* O. Ist uoor on left.
SHELBY ATTAWAY,
Office: first stairway below P O. and second
door on right.
MR. KTANSKLIj,
First door below postoflice, last door on left
Graham & graham,
First stairway below P O, and last door on
right
Am, foute,
Office: Upstairs, cor MaiD and Erwin Sts.
T M, NEEL,
J Judge City Court.
Office over Curry’s Drug Store.
AW, FITE,
Office two doors above St. James Hotel.
T J. CONNER,
J Erwin Street, opposite Anderson’s Stable.
Milner, ajun a Harris,
. Office* oveivLloward’s-Bank.
Rh. brumby.
Opposite Anderson’s Stable, Erwin St.
Livery Stables.
JIRAWFORD A HUDSON,
V; Sale, Livery ami-Feed Stables.
Near court house, east side railroad.
Horses and mules for sale at all times.
TOHN P. ANDERSON,
J Sale, Livery and Feed Stables.
t Erwin Street, near Main.
Printing.
AOURANT PUBLISHING CO.,
fj Proprietors “COURANT” and Job Printers.
Official orgau Bartow County.
Office: Puckett Building, S. E, Cor. Square.
tttif* Atlanta Prices Cut.
American publishing co„
Proprietoifi *.*American” ami Job Printers,
Office : West Main stieet—South side
Dry Goods snd Clothing.
RW. SATTERFIELD,
Dry Goods and Clothing,
South side Public Square, near Railroad
| P. JONES,
G Dry Goods and Clothiug,
West Mam Street —Public Square.
SCHEUEK KUOS,
Dry Goods ami Clothing,
W est Main Street —South side.
I G. M. MONTGOMERY & SON,
G Dry Goods and Clothing,
’West Main Street—South side,
Mays a Pritchett,
Dry Goods and Clothing,
Southwest Corner Public Square.
Ceneral 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 side Square, Eastof Railroad.
Bakeries.
VANDIVERE & WALDKUP,
Bakery and Confectioneries, West Main St.
Cabinet Makers.
HIX ft BREVARD, w .
Cabinet Makers and Repairing, East Main St.
TIV. WHITE,
Cabinetmakers and Repairing.
East Main Street —South side.
Jewelers, Watchmakers, etc.
TURNER ft BAKER,
Watchmakers ami Jewelers,
Under Opera House.
JOHN T. OWEN,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
Word’s Drug Store, West Main Street.
WR. MOUNTCASTLE,
Watchmaker,
K. Strickland & Bro., West Main Street.
Insurance.
Bartow Leake, , .
Fire Insurance and Commission Merchant.
Office at Warehouse, West Main Street.
|otin T. Norris,
w Life and Fire Insurance,
Office, Second door tie low Bank, in Rank Block.
Gerald Griffin,
Life and Fire Insurance,
Oflice : Rear Howard Bank.
WH. Howard, .
Life and Fire Insurance. Howard’s Bank
Loan and Heal Estate.
George H. Aubrey,
Loan and Real Estate Agent,
Office : First Stairway below Post Office.
Cotton Buyers and Commission
Merchants.
Sam F. Milam,
Commission Merchant,
Clerk City Council and Manager Opera House.
3 Office : Maya A Pritchett.
Gerald Griffin, .
Cotton and Guano. Office in Howard s Bank.
S Buyer. Office in Howard’s Bank.
JC. lILAI,
Gotten and Guano.
Office, with Mays Sc Pritchett.
J~7Thowabi>, . _ .
Hardware, Machinery, etc.
Baker ft hall,
Hardware and Machinery, Guns I istols, etc.
West Main Street, North side.
Educational.
c t W i l i.B^fc—--sas^s tal ,
M rs. S. J. WARE, Associate Principal.
East Cartersrille Institute.
Prof. W. H. BOWERS, Principal
Cornel Carter and Douglas Streets.
WEST END INSTITUTE, .
Miss Lucy Carpenter, principal, Mrs, J. w.
Harris, Sr., assistant. Bartow street.
Harness and Saddlery.
W. ain street north side
0. BOh E , Main street, north side.
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. APRIL 22, 188(5.
GEORGIA ( RAYONS.
Prowling Around Among Pungent Para
graphers.
Maud S, the queen of the turf, was 12
years old on March 28.
An old negro woman died in Aruerjeus
Saturday who was said to be 100 yearsold.
A gray eagle, measuring nearly seven
feet across the wings, was killed on liriar
creek a lew days ago.
A man by the name ot Hardwick, from
Cherokee county, Ala., shot a negro’s
hand off in a Home livery stable last week.
In the First Baptist church ot Colum
bus, Ga., last Sunday, two violins^were
played as an addition to the rnnsio of tiie
organ.
Clay county, Ga., voted for the sale of
whisky by forty-four majority. Negroes
from the river plantations turned the
scales in favor of the wet ticket.
Alex Huggins, of Bethel, killed his
mother-in-law, Folly Miller, at that place
on Friday night with a shot gun.
ly dilllculties are said to have been the
cause.
“The Working World,” a weekly ,in
dustrial paper of Atlanta, is considerably
mixed up. The management haye fallen
out among themselves and gone into
court.
The Advertiser says that one of the
Cedartown merchants recently shipped
400 dozen eggs to Cincinnati, and they
netted him 4cents per dozen. lie could
have sold them in Cedartow n for 10 cents.
Mrs. S. CV fchelor, of Calhodji, iwhile
attending to some duties last fell
and broke her hip. The fracture ifiatrade
more serious by the advanced age of Mrs.
Shelor, and it is feared that it will be a
long time before it heals.
Gen. Phil Sheridan with his staff offi
cers, General Tompkins and Colonel Kel
logg, accompanied by Captain J. W.
Jacobs, who has the supervision of the
construction of thQ military post at At
lanta, passed through Cartersville last
week.
A Macon man whose apartments are on
Third street keeps the door of his room
covered with empty oyster cans. He de
clares that he detests dogs, but must have
some protection from burglars. The
empty oyster cans form a first-class bur
glar alarm.
Mr. A. M. Graham told the Calhoun
Times that as he was com ing up the river
last Saturday, viewing the work of the
high waters, he saw a cow about twenty
feet up in a tree, lodged there during the
freshet. It was just below Mr. Z. T.
Gray’s place.
E. W. Glower, of Paulding county,
commenced farming for hitnself thirty
seven years ago, and he still has seed of
the same Irish potatoes with which Jse
made his first crop. They are of the
Buckeye variety and as good now as
they were at first.
Just at the close of the war Gen. Breek
enridge lett with Gen. Toombs $5,180 for
public purposes. This money Toombs
retained until after Johnson’s surrender
and then turned it over to the Federal
authorities, lie could have held his grip
on that sum and nine men out of ten
would have said, “done right.” That
was not Bob Toombs’ way.
Mr Charles Burke, who lived and died
near Union Point, in the ninety-seventh
year ot his age, was the most noted citi
zen that ever lived in Greene county for
physical strength. Old citizens now liv
ing say they have seen him lift up a bar
rel containing thirty gallons of whisky
and drink from the bung-hole, and han
dle a 450 pound bale of cotton as if it
were a baby.
Athens Banner-Watchman : Meeting
up with one of the Oconee county boys
yesterday, we inquired if Oconee would
stand wet or dry in the coming election.
“Dry, and as dry as a powder horn,”
said the gentleman from the Watkinsville
district. “Listen to me while l whisper
hopes of happiness and tales of a far dis
tant land in your off ear. 1 consider that
l have lost a SIOO,OOO by whisky, and
that is the cause of my going for prohi
bition. You think this is a very heavy
assertion, but it is true. I am a man of
good sense, had a fair start in the world,
and believe that t would have been worth
to-day SIOO,OOO if it had not been for
whisky. I calculate my losses on what I
ought to have made. Oconee is bound to
go for prohibition.”
Three thousand dollars worth of dia
monds were stolen from the Southern
Express Company sometime about the
lith of ihe present month, which were
shipped from Athens over the Richmond
and Danville railroad to Charlotte, N. C.,
and never received at that place. The
manager of the company and the detec
tives working up the case, all refuse to
talk about the matter. The loss is sup
posed to have taken place at Lula, while
the package was on its way to Charlotte.
The articles lost are as follows: One pair
of gold bracelets, each set with fine dia
monds and valued at $450 apiece; six
pairs of solitaire ear rings, valued at
$825; one diamond scarf pin, valued at
$405; two diamond scarf pins, valued at
S7O apiece, and one diamond scarf pin
valued at SOS.
Athens Banner - Watchman : Berrien and
Clinaon Smith, two young Athens boys,
shipped before the mast in 1801. They
were two bright young boys, and with no
ties to bind them to this country but their
mother, they concluded to try their for
tunes on the briny deep. Clinton Smith
was killed while starting on a voyage
near New Orleans. Berrien was on the
same ship when his brother was killed.
After traveling over the globe several
times, he heard, while waiting for a car
go at one of the ports on the Atlantic
coast, that his mother was dead, and
came back to Athens, where he found a
handsome little fortune awaiting him.
Never having known the value of money,
he went to work and spent it as quickly
as he had gotten it. After spending all
he had, Berrien again shipped, and has
not been heard from until reeentlv. It
is reported that lie is living in China,
and lias made a pile of money.
In LaGrange, on last Wednesday, the
Grand Lodge of the Knights of Honor
for Georgia met at 10 o’clock a. m. at
Masonic hall. There were in attendance
about sixty representatives from the va
rious subordinate lodges of the State.
Reports from ihe lodges show a flattering
and healthy condition of the noble order.
An election for oflicers resulted as fol
laws: Grand Dictator—H. 11. Cabaniss,
of Forsyth ; Grand Vice-Dictator —M. M.
Hill, of Augusta; Grand Assistant Dic
tator —J. P. Hanna, of Elberton; Grand
Reporter—D. K. Cook, of Barnesville;
Grand Tresurer—R. H. Jones, of Car
tersville; Giand Chap'ain—A. P. Jones,
of LaGrange; Grand Guardian—W. T.
Ileidt, of Jonesboro; Grand Guide—J.
O. Adams, of Eatonton; Grand Senti
nel — s. R. Johnson, Atlanta; Grand
Trustees —C. E. McGregor, of Warren
ton; F. C. Weisiger, of Columbus; R.
A. S. Freeman, of West Point; Repre
sentatives to the Supreme Lodge—J. €J.
Printup, of Rome; L. I). Ledbetter, of
Cedartown; S. P. Weisiger, alternate.
Macon was selected as the place to hold
the next Grand Lodge.
I* AREN’T A L RESPONSIBILITY.
Atlanta Sunday Telegram.] 7 *►
Few parents feel a3 they should their
parental responsibi'ity even when chil
dren are born to them; fewer still are ca
pable of acting up to their own honest
ideas of parental duty, and almost none
think of these things belore taking the
momentous step that results in a family.
Men who exercise the most critical judg
ment in the choice of a mate for a trot
ting horse, women whose delicacy is
shocked even by the mention of materni
ty, do not scruple to form unnatural and
abnormal alliances —to choose their
mates, though it is for lifetime that
they choose them, with less care than a
bird exercises in choosing its mate of a
season. Beauty, whether physical, men
tal or moral, is a legitimate object of
choice, and he or she succeeds best in
life who is mated to a share of all. Much
ink has been wasted in satiric pity of
those of either sex who aril tempted by a
pretty face or a well-proportioned figure
—a choice which at its worst gives hope
of good physical qualities in the off
spring; biff far too little Ims been said in
blame oi those marriages flor money, for
position, or for mere convenience, which
are the curse of modern society.
Still there are tew, no matter how ig
norant or how frivolous, how worried or
worn out, how criminally neglectful or
impiously dependent upon! Providence to
take their duties off their shoulders, that
do not feel, when to them comes an act
ive, growing little mind %nd body, re
ceptive and acquisitive, imperious yfet
pliable; that it is their duty to care for it,
•and that do not sometimes wish that they
were better able to perform their duty.
In the distribution of blame women
deserve by far the larger share. In all
matters relating to the futare of individ
uals, of the state and of the raoe, the fe
male is the more important sex. For
the existence of a child both sexes are
equally responsible, but what that child
—man-child or woman-child —shall be,
depends almost entirely upon the female
parent. Refoie birth the mother’s
health, temper and habits influence for
good or evil those of her offspring. The
babe draws its food from her, and her lap
is its home. Through its earliest years
she is its sole teacher, and in its older
childhood her example and influence
have more power than those of any other
person. To have such power a woman
should be fitted to exercise it. Nature
intended her for woman and mother.
Every line of her figure proclaims it; her
voice, her gait, her mental aptitudes and
shortcomings, all proclaim her woman
as surely as do the details of her anatom
ical structure. Yet the aim of woman,
or rather of some women, appears to be
to escape entirely the duties of maternity.
If they hayc a child they delegate it, if
possible, to nurses—dry and wet—and to
careless girls the care of the precious
blessing. The poor woman goes to the
factory, while the child lies uncared for,
tended by strangers, perhaps drugged;
the rich woman attends balls and parties,
church and theatre, picnic and charity
fair, while an ignorant servant feeds her
babe from a bottle. Even if she loves
her child and tries to care for it, she
knows not how. Such o rr —and there
are thousands— deserves pity. No moth
er’s duties, no school gave her informa
tion useful to her; she does not know
how to regulate the food or clothing of
the child, how to comfort its little ail
ments, and offiimes she loses her babe
through her own misdirected efforts to
keep it.
Life is a serious business, young ladies,
and contains things more important than
music ami dancing, and more useful
than playing at painting and toying with
mathematics. When the world, our
white world, has become tired of trying
to educate women into, men, perhaps it
will begin to try to educate them into
women.
ALL OF US MUST COME DOWN.
A Colored Preacher Who Says the Devil
is Dead.
From the Baltimore American.]
Rev. B. W. Ford, a well known blind
colored preacher, has begun a series of
religious meetings at the hall occupied ty
the Knights of King David, at the cor
ner of Lexington and Pearl streets. Yes
terday afternoon his theme was “The
Funeral of the Devil.” lie announced
Ills text as follows: “O Lucifer, the first
son of the morning, thou art too high,”
from Isaiah, xxi., the real words being
“llow arc thou fallen from Heaven, O
Lucifer, son of the morning.” The
preacher vehemently insisted that the
deyil was dead, as he could not get back
to Heaven, and was dead to pardon, al
though alive to the world. “Lucifer is
the first son of the morning,” he ex
claimed, “and so he gets up before any
of you. The Lord said to him, ‘O Luci
fer, you are too high; you must come
down,’ and we must all come down.
Vanderbilt, you had money enough to
give every one of us two or three dollars
apiece; but you must come down and get
into the grave. Grant, you saved the
nation, but, like Lucifer, you must come
down. There’s no help for it. Lincoln,
you were the Moses of the Ethiopians,
but you were too high, and you had to
come down. Garfield, the nation mourn
ed for you, and they prayed for you ; but
it was all of no use, you had to come
down.” The preacher insisted so strong
ly that the devil was dead that, when he
asked his hearers if he was right, they
all agreed he was. In one of his digres
sions he said : “l served the devil twen
ty-four years, and they were twenty
four years lost. He’s always ready to
get you into a scrape, but he never helps
to get you out. I remember well one
day, many years ago, when I was young,
he said to me, ‘Aunt Dinah’s asleep, and
she’s got a nice, big ash-cake in the lire;
you go and take it.’ 1 went, and sure
enough there she was asleep, and there
was the ash-cake. I took it and run, but
her husband seen me, and he overtook
me, and he nearly skinned me alive.”
The sermon lasted over an hour. As
Ford was concluding the sermon, lie
said: “If the Lord lives, l will preach
here again to-night.”
Bill Nye says: “Don’tattempt tocheat
an editor ol a year’s subscription to his
paper or any other sum. Cheat the min
ister, cheat the doctor, cheat anybody,
everybody, but if you have any regard
for future consequences don’t fool with
an editor. You will be up for office some
time, or want some public favor for your
self or some of your friends, and whea
your lurk is a thing of beauty and a joy
forever the editor will open upon you
and knock your air-castles into a cocked
hat the first lire. He’d subdue you and
then you’d cuss yourself for a driveling
idiot, go hire some one to knock you
down and then kick you for tailing.”.
Prescriptions accurately compounded
and prices moderate at Curry’s.
Dickey’s Painless Eye Water at Curry’s
Drug Store.
THE BUGG COTTON PICKER.
A Machine that Will Revolutionize Things
iu the South.
Savauuah Times.]
The new cotton picker now being man
ufactured by the United States Cotton
Harvester Company, of New York, is
presented to the Southern eotton planter
as having at last really solved the great
problem of picking eotton by ma
chinery. Mr. Bugg, the president of
the company, claims that it will till all
the conditions required ot it- He says
that it will not break the plant; that it
will not destroy the blooms any more
than when the cotton is picked by hand,
and will not gather any more trash than
is gathered by the average cotton picking
Cutiee. He further says that this machine
can be easily drawn by two horses, and
is about hah the size of an ordinary grain
harvester. It requires only two hands
to work it, one to drive and the other to
attend to replacing the sacks, and its
cost was less than that of a grain harves
ter.
The operation of the machine is de
scribed as follows:
Four endless belts are arranged iu a
frame supported upon two wheels, which
furnish the power to drive the mechan
ism. These belts more horizontally, and
carry rotary picker stems, which are
placed perpendicular to the face of the
belt, and journaled thereon. Two of
these belts are mounted on each side of
the machine, and are driven so as to carry
the picker stems rearward in time with
the forward movement of the machine
along the cotton row. The row of plants
passes between the belts, which, by the
movement, carry the picker stems into
the plant and to the rear. At the same
time the picker stems are rotated and
wind the eotton upon themselves. After
being filled with eotton they are with
drawn from the plant by the movement
of the belt, and pass into a receiving com
partment, where the direction of the ro
tation of the picker stems is rapidly re
versed, and the cotton is unwound and
drops upon a carriers’ belt, which in turns
delivers it upon the elevator, by which it
is deposited in a bag at the rear of the
machine. The picker stems are clyin
drieal, and are made of hard wood, hav
ing pointed brass pins inserted at a cer
tain distance from each other, and in
clined to the surface. These pins are
suitably protected so as to avoid injuring
the unripe ootton stalks. The machine
is fitted with a tongue, and is drawn by
two horses, one on each side of the row.
A seat is placed on top of the machine
for the driver, from which position he
can see the operation of the work-
ing part, which he can stop or start in
stantly by suitable levers within easy
reach. The weight of the machine com
plete Is a little over ( .X)0 pounds.”
Mr. Bugg says that his picker has
been tried iu the New York Cotton
Exchange, the plants being planted in
rows on the floor of the building just as
they grow in the fields, and that the ex
periment was perfectly satisfactory. The
machine accomplished the work assigned
it with scarcely an error, and not .only
picked the cotton, but stored it in bags.
If this is true the value of the invention
to the South cannot well be estimated,
for it will not only render the ootton
planter, to considerable extent, Indepen
dent of unreliable labor, but it materially
reduce the expenses of harvesting the
great staple.
It seems incredible that such a machine
could be invented, but it is really no
more wonderful than was the invention
of the eotton gin, when it was thought
impossible that eotton could be relieved
of its seed by any other than the hand
process. If Mr. Rugg’s picker only
proves a practical success it will be worth
a fortune to his company as well as to
the South.
ACTING NURSE FOR A YANKEE
SURGEON.
When Gen. Lee broke his lines at Ha
gerstown to retreat into Virginia, after
his repulse at Gettysburg, the roads were
in a most dreadful condition Irom the
heavy rains, and it was hard work for
infantry men to keep in ranks. Gen.
Lee sat on his horse by the road side, and
encouraged his men. “All you bare
footed men, push to the front,” said he,
“but you men who have shoes, wait for
your command.” Acting on the advice
of the General, we took a seat in a se
cluded spot and slept until the army had
passed by and a squad of Yankee Caval
ry awakened us and sent us to the rear.
A few minutes later they attacked Petti
grews Command, and were repulsed.
While they were attending their wound
ed, we were ordered to assist the Surgeon
in his humane work. lie had whisky
and morphine in abundance, but used
the whisky for himself, pretty often.
We had been obliged to pass him the bot
tle pretty often, and he was getting tipsy.
At one time he wanted the morphine to
ease the pain of a man wounded in the
head, and with an oath ordered the mor
phine. We gave it to him, and then in
returning dropped about halt an ounce
in the bottle of whisky. A few minutes
later that Yankee Surgeon was nearing
the brink of the Styx, while the humble
Confederate with a Yankee blouse
around his form was legging it for
Falling Water, which was crossed just
before the pontoons were taken up. That,
we considered, was the best use that a
drink of Rye and Morphine was ever
put to.
Printerdoiti.
Never tell an editor how to run his pa
per. Let the poor fellow lind it out him
self.
The man who doesn’t know all about
running a paper would be a great curi
osity.
Why are printers the most merciful
of men ? Because they never kill things
until they are dead.
We have just been presented with a
large new waste basket. Now send along
your spring poetry.
The only institution that makes money
without advertising is the United States
mint at Philadelphia.
We find the following in tire West
G*ove (Penn.( Independent: In a small
town, a local newspaper is by many con
sidered dead if it does not teem with
what is termed spicy gossip; the same
by others deemed very saucy and inquis
i ive. Of course, no publisher may ever
expect to please everybody, as that is a
feat as idiotic as impossible, but the
following little paragraph, from the pen
of John Boyle O’Reilly, may afford some
consolation to those editors who think
their lives are but lives of continuous
censure and criticism : “1 rather think
that the newspaper gossip, of which we
are apt to complain, is the safety-valve of
our society after al'—the balance wheel
|of humanity, as it were. Formerly, men
1 were afraid of the devil and the law;
now they shun public opinion and tem
per their actions because of that illiterate
and irresponsible little cuss who goes
about with note book in hand photo
graphing the world as it runs.”
THE MODERN BULL-FIGHT.
From a City of Mexico Letter.J
I merely mention this fossilized relic of
the gladiatorial shows of Rome to assure
you that I am fsmiliar with this one of
the pleasures and diversons of Mexico,
and that is all. They are not good"
enough to interest any one; they are not
bad enough to entitle them to contempt.
The creatures that are killed there—you
can see through the cracks of the old
shed where the “fights,’ are conducted—
are dressed for the market, and you may
very likely have some of the “bull” for
your breakfast. The horses are made in
to soap. It is sad to see those poor old
horses that are all worn out ready to die.
Of course, no horse that is likely to live
the year out is ever brought to the “bull
fight.” I actually once saw one of those
poor “soap-fat” horses lean up against
the wall of the shed and wait for the bull
to hook him to death, while the gallant
picadore got out and clambered down on
the outside. Here I saw him buy some
pepper o and pound meat—all of which is
always done up in a piece of corn-husk
and sold at 1 cent—and leisurely eat It,
while he occasionally looked through the
cracks of the board fence, to see if the
furious “bull” was dutifully goring his
gallant steed. But the “bull” had stop
ped to lick himself, and so when the ga}’
and gallant picadore had eatin his pen
ny’s worth of peppers he went around
and went in and led his horse out, while
the “bull” kept on trying to reach some
impossible spot on his back with his bent
tongue. Such is about the average “bull
fight” in this land to-day. The railroads
make a little money by taking people to
and from the scene. And you see bril
liant posters all about the town every
week on the subject. And as the
“bulls” are sold in the market for meat,
and the poor horses made into soap, why,
very little is expended to keep them up.
lam told that a shrewd Irishman, once
connected with the prize-ring of New
York, is the manager of the biggest of
these “bull-fights.”
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A BAD FORTUNE.
Birmingham Chronicle.]
Great fortunes are not always hurtful
to a state. Millionaires frequently do
use and enjoy their money without de
cided injury to their poorer neighbors.
Jay Gould is not such a millionaire. He
is the most unscrupulous financier that
ever cursed any country. Ilis fortune to
day endangers the peace and harmony of
the country. He owns the greatest news
gathering and news disseminating agen
cy in the world—the Western Union Tel
egraph company. With it he systemati
cally falsifies news of all kinds to influ
ence his own stock speculations in Wall
street.
He used the great ageney in such an
outrageous manner in falsifying the elec
tion returns at the last Presidential elec
tion that the peace of the country was
endangered.
He owns vast railroad systems and in
directly can control the pay and employ
ment of 122,000 men. He has so used his
power that he has precipitated one of the
greatest strikes in the history of the
world. He has systematically used his
power to keep the strike on, so as to in
fluence the price of stock to his advan
tage.
He i widening the breach between la
bor and capital and endangering tbe in
vestment of every other capitalist. He
makes workingmen discontented and so
endangers the peace of the country.
He will at any time force strikes and
check railway transportation to influence
Ihe stock or provision markets. Just as
lie would have his myrmidons of the
news service report falsely. He would
not and does not scruple to affect public
interests to make money for himself.
Such a man in control of such a for
tune is a dangerous member of any com
munity. He is more terrible than an ar
my with banners, because it is unlawful
to protect yourself or your interests
against him, He is fully as powerful as
Congress in our public matters.
A DAKOTA MAN’S MISTAKE.
A man from Illinois got off the North
western train at Estelline the other day,
and met an old friend now living in Da
kota.
“How’s old Jim Stanford prospering
here?” asked the Illinois man.
‘Jim’s gettin’ ’long, very poorly. You
see, Jim made a mistake, and it set him
back. He set his house on the ground
with no underpinin’ under it.’
‘Well, s’posin’ he did. I don’t see
what hurt it would do.’
‘Of course you don’t—you live in Illi
nois. Why/hang it all, pardner, this
Dakota sile is so darned fei til that the
house took roots and growed.’
‘lt did? Well, admittin, it’s so, I
should think it would have been better,
he’d had a bigger house.’
‘Yes, that’s what Jim ’lowed at first,
lie had a nice two-story one, and pretty
soon a five-story one.’
‘I don’t see anything bad about
that.’
‘ln course not; but when it got up
there, instead of heading out with a
French roof and a lightnin’ rod, the
blamed house took to branchin’ out with
bay winders and piazzers, and pretty
soon the whole thing blowed over and
killed a pretty yoke of brindle oxen for
Jim. I tell you, you can’t build houses
in Dakota without underpinin.’— Dakota
Bell.
• ■
Atlanta Constitution: Mr. William
Hiudsman, aged 82 years, a prosperous
farmer, who lived four miles northeast
of Grantville, died recently of paralysis.
“Uncle Billy,” as he was commonly
called, had been farming all his life, and
he farmed on the sustaining order, mak
ing corn, oats, wheat, potatoes, etc., to
sell every year, and a few bales of cotton
each year, and if the price of cotton did
not suit him to sell, he would keep his
cotton till it did. He had about seventy
five bales of cotton on hand when he
died, and did not owe a dollar except a
small doctor’s bill. He was splitting
rails about three months before he died.
He raised a family of six children and
gave them all an education. He had de
posited over the door leading from the
first to the second room of his house, in
shot sacks, $3,190 In gold, mostly twenty
and ten dollar pieces. This was a safe
place to keep ‘yellow boys.’ He also had
a large crib full of corn which he had
raied last year and the year before, to
gether with wheat, oats, fodder, shucks
and potatoes, by the wagon load, five or
six head of horses and mules, several head
of cattle and sheep.”
The man who makes his wife his
friend and confidant will have the benefit
of two heads instead of one, and “two
heads are better than one,” even if one
is a woman’s head. Woman’s love and
intuition are priceless jewels in every
true man’s heart.
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Nothing equals Curry’s Liver Com
pound, for cleansing and purifying the
blood in spring. Sold and guaranteed
by Curry the druggist.
NUMBER 12
BRICK POMEROY’S A L)VICE TO BOYS.
You are learning a trade that is a good
thing to have. It is better than gold.
Brings always a premium.—But to bring
a premium, the trade must be perfect—no
plated silyer atlair. When you go to
learn a trade do so with a determination
to win.—Make up your mind what you
will be, and be if. Determine in your
mind to be a good workman.
Bide your time,
Learn to wait,
Learn to labor,
Trust iu fate.
Ever honest—
Keep your pluck,
Kver faithful—
Trust in luck.
Have pluck and patience. Look out
for the interest of your employer—thus
you will learn to look out for your own.
Do not wait to be told anything. Re
member. Act as though you wished to
learn. If you have an errand to do start
oft' like a boy with some life. Look about
you. See how the best workman iu the
shop does, and copy after him. Learn
to do things well. Whatever is worth
doing is worth doing well. Never slight
your work. Every job you do is a sign. If
you do one in ten minutes see if you can
not do the other in nine. Too many
boys spoil a lifetime by not having pa
tience. They work at a trade until they
see about one half of its mysteries, and
strike for higher w’ages. Act as if your
interest and the interest of your employ
er were the same. Good mechanics are
the props of society. They are those
who stuck to their trades until they
learned them. People always speak well
of a boy who minds his own business —
vvho is willing to work, and who seems
disposed to be somebody in time. Learn
the whole of your trade.
NIGROES YVANTING A TERRITORY.
Washington, April 12. —Since the re
cent massacre of uegroes in Mississippi a
large number of petitions and appeals
from that race asking for protection have
been received in Congress. Some ask
for an investigation to show that they are
denied protection from such crimes;
others assert that the massacre is an at
tempt to keep them in political and so
cial subjection and they ask for further
legislation to secure them their equal
rights. Still others ask to be insisted in
imigrating elsewhere. One of the most
singular of these many petitions was
presented in the Senate to-day by the
President pro.tern. It was signed by H.
D. Weshly and other colored man of
Texas and was as follows:
To the Honorable the Senate and House
of Representatives in Congress assem
bled : We, the undersigned, do sincere
ly pray the separation from the white
population on account of disagreement
and imposure by some of the whites.
The whites do indeed treat us very badly.
We do not wish by any means to break
out in open revolt against the United
States, but it seems that we will be com
pelled to do something if we cannot ob
tain some relief from the United States
government. We do sincerely desire to
live in a separate State from the whites
under the United States government as
the Indians do in Indian Territory.
Man)' thousand colored men have emi
grated from Southern States this winter,
and though efforts are made to prevent
the fact from having publicity it is stated
on good authority that the emigration
has been greatly accelerated by the re
cent massacre and the refusal of the law
ful authorities in Mississippi to take any
action to punish the guilty persons.
The recent heavy rains and freshets
were the means of exposing to view a
great many ancient relics throughout
the State. The Thomaston (Upsoncoun
ty) Times says that while Mr. Tom P.
Holloway was out hunting a few days
ago on the plantation ot Mr. W. L. Ad
ams he discovered some old Indian pot
ware in the bank of a gully that had
washed in an old field. It somewhat ex
cited his curiosity and he went and pro
cured the assistance of Uncle Dock Mc-
Kenny and they dug into the bank of the
gully and unearthed several Indian pots,
two of which are now in the Ordinary’s
office in that county, almost as perfect as
they were buried, perhaps two hundred
and fifty ago. While making the
excavation they dug into four graves and
found that the bodies had been buried in
a sittiug position and the graves were
not exceeding three by four feet.
There are several morejgraves at the same
place, which were not disturbed.
GOOD RESULTS IN EVERY CASE.
D. A. Bralford, wholesale paper dealer of
Chattanooga, Tenn., writes, that he was seri
ously afflicted with a severe cold that settled on
his lungs: hail tried many remedies without
benefit, Being induced to try I>r. King’s New
Discovery for Consumption, did so and was en
tirely cured by use of a few bottles. Since
which time he has used it in his family for all
Coughs and Colds with best results. This is the
experience of thousands whose lives have been
saved by this Wonderful Discovery.
Trial Bottles free at David W. Curry’s Drug
Store.
> s i
Sheriff Ennis, of Baldwin county, went
over to Hancock county to arrest a negro
named Brown, whq had eloped with the
wife of another negro named Ransom.
The latter accompanied the sheriff, and
when the officer approached Brown to
arrest him the latter seized Ennis, threw
him down, wrestled the pistol from him
and gave him a severe beating over the
head. Taking the sheriff’s pistol, Brown
went next day to Ransom’s home and
killed him and afterwards escaped. The
sheriff is in a critical condition.
Curry’s Liver Compound, of Southern
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jaundice, dizziness and all liver or bowel
affections.
Guinn’s Pioneer Blood Remedy is so
on a positive guarantee by Curry the
druggist.
Hunt’s Rheumatic Cure, sold whole
sale and retail by Curry the druggist.
Buist’s Garden Seeds, in great variety,
at Curry’s drug Store.
Perfectly Clean Bird Seed, at Curry’s
drug store, only 10 cts for a full pound.
Every package of Bird Seed sold by
Curry the druggist, contains a piece of
Cutile Fish, and a small package of
Hemp Seed wrapped separately. They
are full weight and perfectly fresh and
clean.
♦ ♦
Clingman’s Tobacco Ointment for
piles. Call at Curry’s Drug Store for a
supply.
Hood’ Sarsaparilla at Curry’s Drug
Store.
Call at Curry’s Drug Store for a Grier’s
Almanac.
Buist’s Garden Seeds at Curry’s Drug
Store.