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:/> rVc; ' T ’’ —:—-—-2—_L-—;■ ■- * ..•* 4 * — — '—■ 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.” —. . 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. - ■ ■■■ ♦♦ • 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 Roots and Herbs is purely vegetable, and is guaranteed to speedily relieve consti pation, indigestion, heartburn, headache, jaundice, dizziness and all liver or bowel affections. Guinn’s Pioneer Blood Remedy is so on a positive guarantee by Curry the druggist. 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