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VOLUME 11.
New Spring 1 Goods!.!
I hog leave to inform n y oustomern anl the people of Ilartow county an<l surrounding country
to the fact that my now goods arc all in and it Ss conceded ly all that I have
The Largest Stock,
The Handsomest Display,
and
The Lowest Prices
That have over been heard of in t artersvillo. 1 have all the new styles and novelties in
HATS AND DONNETS.
Come an<l see for yourselves that I have decidedly the handsomest stock I ever had and am
telling cheaper than you have ever purchased such goods ltefore. Thank ing vou for your most
iil>erai patronage and" asking lor a continuance of tlie same, 1 am, Most Respectfully,
MISS jra. M. PADGIETTE,
Over Mays A. Pritchett’s, Cartersvilie.
Come and make your selections before the stock is depleted.
aboard
roll THE
NORTH CEORCIA
Cheap: Furniture: House!
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT.
r would respectfully call the* ttention of my friends as well as the people generally to the fact
that I have bought out the Furniture Store of Mr. das. 11. Uilreatli, and will continue the business
at the same old stand. I will always endeavor to keep the very best goods in the market as well
as those that will suit parties of limited means. One tiling is certain, I am offering goods clieap, at
ligures that will sustain the well-earned reputation of this house in giving bargains.
Those Intending to Commence Keeping House Could do no Better
Than to Cive Me a Call. I Cuarantee they will be
Pleased at my Stock.
1 will also handle the “NEW HOME” Sewing Machine, which is guaranteed to
give perfect satisfaction. The ladies should be certain to see this easy-running machine before
they purchase. Have just opened up a nice line of MATTINGS. Something new and
and nice. All I ask is a trial.
S. L. VANDIVERE,
Prop’r. N. Ga. Cheap Furniture House.
Attention Everybody!
WE HAVE THIS DAY REDUCED OUR PRICES GREATLY!
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f
ah Repairs Will bo Loss th.an Heretofore.
This is Done in View of tlie Hardness of the Times. We Keep
on Constantly a HEAVY STOCK OE WESTERN WAGONS,
STUDEBAKER, KENTUCKY, and other Makes, which we will
Sell Cheaper than Ever Before.
If You Want the Best Wagon you can Buy on any Market Buy
The Celebrated JONES WAGON.
Made here. One and Two-llorse. SOLID STEEL AXLES, SAUVIN PATENT WHEELS.
Wedefy the world to beat us in this line. These Wagons will last longer, run lighter, aud lo o
better than any. £&TRY ONE OF THEM. Come or write to us.
f{. H. Jones Ac Sons Manfg. Cos..
dio-ly CARTERSVILLE CEORCIA. .
Slightly Damaged Goods!
Hundreds of Knives-Eighty Different Varieties, from a
Ladies’ Penknife to a Cowboy’s Toothpick.
NINE HUNDRED BETS KNIVES & FORKS !
TIIE GOODS WILE BE SOLD DOG CHEAP —AT HALF NEW AORK COST.
tSyCome and make your selections before they are picked over.
n. M. FATTILLO.
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CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
SALE and LIVERY STABLE.
East of Railroad, Near the Courthouse.
OUR TURNOUTS ARE STRICTLY
HORSES AND MULES KEPT ON
AH of Clingmari’s Tobacco Remedies
are sold at Curry’s Drug Store.
Nothing equals Curry’s Cough Cure
lor recent colds, coughs and the early
stages of consumption.
THE CARTERSVILLE COURANT.
Steam Fitting* ! Steam Fitting* ! !
V. L. Williams & Cos. are now prepared
to furnish steam fittings and pipe. Do
not send oil when you can buy cheaper
at home.
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1886.
A LEADYILLE SERMON.
The Prodigal Son In a New Dress.
Leadville (Col.) Letter.!
The services were in a variety theatre;
some whisky barrels made the pulpit.
After the singing of “A day’s march
nearer home,” a hard-featured miner
rose to address the hard-featured con
gregation :
Friends, the regular preacher has gone
down among the boys who are working
the new carbonate mines at Gunnison,
and I have been appointed to take his
hand and heave it for all it’s worth. To
many of you present it won’t he neces
sary to tell yon that I'm kinder new to
this business, hut I don’t believe there’s
a rooster in the camp mean enough to
take advantage of my ignorance and cold
deck me on the first deal. I have been
reading in this yer book that yarn aboflt
the prodigal son, and I will try to tell
you the story. The book don’t give no
dates, hut 1 guess it happened a good
spell back in history. It seems the prod
igal’s father was pretty flush with the
stamps, and a real good sort into the bar
gain. as he always shelled out freely
when the kid struck him for a stake, and
never bucked at the size of the pile
neither, so long as the boy heaved in
hearty on the ranch and generally be
haved hisself handsum. But by and by
the kid began to get restless and wanted
to rustle out to travel; so he got the ole
man to ante up in advance of the death
racket and let him go. He no sooner
got his divy in his pocket than he shood
the ranch and spead himself out to take
in some of the far-off camps. Wall, ac
cording to the book he had a way-up
time at first and slung the coin around
as if he owned the best paying lead with
in a thousand miles of Denver. But my
friends, the game didn’t last forever.
Hard luck struck him at last, and the
prod is found in one of his sober inter
vals remarking in a confidential way to
one of his chums: “I say, olepard, I’m
busted clean down to the bed rock, and
them’s the cold-blooded facts.” The
book don’t say what the prod went broke
on, hut probably he steered up against
some brace game. Be that as it may,
however, he was so beautifully cleaned
out that he hadn’t a two-bit piece left to
go east on. In this fix he struck a ranch
belonging to an old granger, who, taking
pity on the poor, busted prod, gave him
a job of herding hogs. The granger
wasn’t a bad old sample in a general
way, but he was inclined to be kinder
mean on tlie feed, and so it came that
often the prod got so frightfully sharp-set
for a meal he had to go whacks in the
trough. You bet the kid who in his
flush times had been nosing round
among the best of everything like a sil
ver king or a big railway monopolist, had
now plenty of time on his hands for
doing a tail lot of thinking, and one day
he said to himself: “I’ll just ding this
business. Why, even the meanest help
in my old governor’s hired service are
living on square grub, arid plenty of it,
while I’m worrying along here on shook
lunch. I know what I’ll do—l’ll just
skip back home to the old man and ask
for anew deal.” So away he went, but
he had a hard time a raehing the old
ranch, and don’t you forget it, VV hen
you have plenty of coin, my friends,
everybody’s pleasant, but when you are
on the borrow you don’t find it so good.
Finally, he did strike the familiar trial
leading down to the old home, and while
crossing some open lots the old man, as
the book puts it, saw him coming afar off.
Yes, that old man’s eyes were very dim,
but he did not fail to spot his boy afar
off.
And what d’ye suppose that boy’s fath
er did ? Did he whistle the dogs up to
chase him off the ranch ? You bet he
didn’t. Did he go and take down his
shot-gun and wait till he got a good drop
on him ? No, hut I’ll tell you what he
did. He just waltzed right out of the
gate to meet him, and froze to that scare
crow right on the spot and fell to kissing of
him and weeping over him and calling
him his poor, long lost boy, until the
prod got broke all up and cried like a
sluice dam when the snow comes down
of Dike’s peak in a July sun. The old
man then took him right away to a cloth
ing store and rigged tiim out in the nob
biest suit, to he Lad for coin, and put an
elegant ring on his finger, ordered the
fattest steer on the ranch to be slaugh
tered, invited all die neighbors in, and
had the biggest blow-out the camp had
ever seen.
Now, it appears the prod’s elder
brother was out at work with the teams
and when he came back he asked some
of the help what was the meaning of the
picnic they were having inside, and
when he was told the reason lie got just
real mad. The old man, hearing of this,
went out to him and said: “Come in,
lad; you’re brother’s come back, and
we’re having a regular old-fashioned
jubilee; now you come right along like a
good fellow and take a share in the break
down.” But the brother wouldn’t
budge, and said: “Look here, dad, I
have stuck to the ranch and never trans
gressed your orders, but it never struck
you to 1 ave a picnic of this
kind until you give it in honor of a
loafer who has disgraced our name.”
But, my friends, you make your bets on
It that the old man had a level head on
him, and wasn’t to be easily bluffed. He
says: “My son, you say you have never
transgressed my orders, but are you
quite sure that’s right? I tell you, my
lad, that you have greviously transgress
ed my commandments now by your un
brotherly and uncharitable behavior.
Learn that l am not pleased by service of
mere form, if the heart is not in accord.
You may count that your service is ac
cording to the letter of the law; but I
tell you it don’t till the bushel worth a
cent, so far as the spirit is concerned.
The spirit you are showing, my lad, is
the one that leads to narrow-mindedness,
to bigotry, to intolerance, and to fooling
around and burning folks because they
don’t fix up their formal observances
just exactly as you have arranged and as
you assert must be right.” And now
friends it is to the credit cf the brother
that he took Ids old father’s square talk
in good part, and you bet that old man
was a real neighbor—and don’t you for
get it.
An engine belonging to the C., S. & M.
railroad was attached and detained at
Selma, just before the time for its start
ing with a passenger train on Monday.
The levy was made by the sheriff of Dal
las county on behalf of the State of Ala
bama, to ' satisfy a judgment obtained by
the State against Fred Woiffe on account
of his dealings with Ike Vincent. It is
claimed that Mr. Wolfl'e has $6,000 inter
est in the road. The train was delayed
three hours, until another engine could
.be brought into use.
The Macon Telegraph wants the pow
ers of the railroad commission modi tied.
The Telegraph is Major Bacon’s personal
organ.—Atlanta Constiution.
CONFEDERATE GENERALS.
How Those of Them Who are Still Alive
are Occupied.
i Cincinnati Enquirer.!
Gen. Marcus J. Wright, an ex-Con
federate officer, who has charge of the
publication of the rebellion records un
der the auspices of the war department,
gives the following as the whereabouts
and occupations of the more prominent
generals of the Confederate army: Of
the six full generals appointed hv the
Confederate Congress only two survive—
Joseph E. Johnston, now United States
Commissioner of Railroads, tnd G. T.
Beauregard, Adjutant General of Louisi
ana and manager of the Louisiana lot
tery drawings. Of tlie twenty Lieuten
ant Generals appointed to the provisional
army, several are living. E. Kirby
Smith is professor of mathematics in the
University of the South Tennessee,
which is an Episcopal Institution; James
Longstreet is keeping a hotel down in
Georgia, after serving a term there as
United States Marshal under President
Hayes; D. 11. Ilill, of North Carolina,
was till recently, President of the Agri
cultural School of the State of Arkansas,
and now earns a living chiefly by Maga
zine-writing. Richard Taylor, son of
President Taylor, is engaged in building
a canal near New Orleans. Stephen B.
Lee is a farmer, and President of the State
Agricultural College of Mississippi.
Jubal A. Early practices law at Lynch
burg, although his chief support is deriv
ed from his connection with the Louisi
ana Lottery Company.
Of the Major-Generals, A. P. Stewart
is now President of the University of
Mississippi at Oxford, where Secretary
Lamar was a professor at the time of his
election to the United States Senate.
Wade Hampton is in the Senate. Jo
seph Wheeler is in Congress; he is very
wealthy, and one of the largest planters
in Alabama. John B. Gordon is a mil
lionaire. Gen. Loring, of Florida, was en
gineering in Egypt until a few years ago,
when he came to New York to work at
the same profession. B. F, Cheatham
was recently appointed postmaster at
Nashville, Tenn., by President Cleve
land. Sam Jones of Virginia, is in the
Judge Advocate General’s office. La
fayette McLaws is postmaster at Savan
nah, Ga. L. B. Buckner lives in Louis
ville, Ky., where he owns a great deal
of real estate, the revenue of which sup
ports him. L. B. French earns a scanty
subsistence by engineering* in Georgia.
C. L. Stephenson is in Fredricksburg,
Va. John 11. Forney, brother of Con
gressman Forney, is in an insane asylum
at Selma,* Ala. Abney IL Maury is
Washington agent for a New York Life
Insurance Company. John B. Walker
is also in the insurance business here.
Isaac R. Trimble lives in retirement in
Baltimoie on a fortune deiived from the
Trimble whisky. Gen. Heath is em
ployed by the government to do engin
eering on some Southern rivers. Cad
mus Wilcox was formerly employed
about the Senate Chamber, but is now
in retirement writing a history of the
Mexican war. Fitzhugh Lee is Gover
nor of Virgini°. Extra Billy Smith
practices law at Warrenton, Va. Charles
W. Field, once doorkeeper’ the House,
is superintendent of the Hot Springs
reservation, Win. B. Bate is governor
of Tennessee. W. 11. F. Lee is a Fair
fax county farmer. C. J. Polignac, who
came over from France to espouse the
Confederate cause, is back in Paris,
busied with immense railroad opera
tions. J. F. Fagan was marshal of Ar
kansas under Grant. He is now at Lit
tle Rock. William Mahone is in the
Senate, as is E. C. Walthall of Missis
sippi. John S. Marmaduke is Governor
of Missouri, and an aspirant for Senator
Cockrell’s seat. P. M. B. Young has
gone to Russia as United States consul
general at Sc. Petersburg. M. C. Butler
is a Senator of the United States. Thos.
L. ltussell, after making a fortune as
attorney for the Northern Pacific Rail
road, has settled down at his old home,
Charlotteville, Va. G. W. Custis Lee
is president of Washington and Lee
University, at Lexington, Va.
THE BIGGEST THING IN THE WORLD.
The largest theater in the world is the
new opera house in Paris. It covers
nearly three acres of ground; its cubic
mass is 4,287,000 feet; it cost about 100,-
000,000 francs.
The largest suspension bridge is the
one between New York city and Brook
lyn; the length of the main span is 1,595
feet, six inches; the entire length of the
bridge is 5,980 feet.
The loftiest actiye volcano is Popocata
petl—“Smoking mountain” thirty-five
miles southwest of Puebla, Mexico; it is
17,748 feet above the sea level, and has
a crater three miles in circumference and
1,000 feet deep.
The longest span of wire in the world
is used for a telegraph in India over the
river Kistnah, between Bezorah and Sec
tynasrrum. It is more than 6,000 feet in
length and is 1,200 feet high.
The largest ship in the world is the
Great Eastern. She is 6,080 feet long,
83 feet broad and 60 feet deep, being
28,629 tons burden, 18,915 gross and 13,-
344 net register. She was built at Mill
wall-on-the-Thames and was launched
January 31, 1857.
The largest body of fresh water on the
globe is Lake Superior, 400 miles long,
160 wide at its greatest breadth, and hav
ing an area of 32,000 square miles. Irs
mean depth is 900 feet, and its greatest
depth is said to he about 200 fathoms. Its
surface is about 635 feet above the leyel
of the sea.
The biggest cavern is the Mammoth
Cave, in Edmonson county, Kentucky.
It is near the Green river, about six miles
from Cave City and twenty-eight from
Bowling Green. The cave consists of a
succession of irregular chambers, some
of which are large, situated on different
levels. Some of these are traversed by
navigable branches of the subterranean
Echo river. Blind fish are found in its
waters.
Major Bacon and Gen. Gordon had a
discussion at Sparta on Tuesday. The
report of the Constitution shows that it
was also exciting and heated. The
most noteworthy p6int in it is that Major
Bacon declared emphatically that he
would not, if Governor, nominate Hon.
L. N. Trammell for re-election as Rail
road Commissioner. Mr. Trammell is
the only Commissioner whose term will
expire duiing the next gubernational
term.
Sib:—My chilu, live years old, had symptoms
ot worms. I tried calomel and other Worm
Medicines, but failed to expel any. Seeing Mr.
Barn’s certificate, I got a via! of your Worm Oil,
and the first dose brought forty worms, and the
second dose so many were passed I did not count
them.
mch 18 S. 11. Adams, Athens, Ga.
COST OF PUBLISHING A PAPER.
Savannah News.]
A newspaper agency in New York has
been investigating the reason why some
newspapers charge more than others for
advertising. There is certainly a great
difference in newsp per advertising rates.
The leading dailies of the great cities of
the North and West charge from 50c to .$2
per line.
The agency in question, however, has
not been giving so much attention to the
rates of the leading dadies of the great
cities as to those of the dailies of the
smaller cities. There are two kinds of
this latter class of dailies. One has all
the expenses of a full telegraphic service,
large editorial and reportorial staffs and
numerous paid correspondents. Each of
the papers of this kind has an almost ex
clusive territory, and to hold it against
competitors it has to incur a large extra
expense in collecting the news of its ter
ritory, and, also, in getting facts at the
great news centieq reflecting interests in
its territory.
The other kind of dailies of the smaller
cities is that which incurs very little ex
pense for dispatches, or for original arti
cles—and which, in fact, prints compara
tively little reading matter. For every
dollar this kind expends in the interest
of its readers the kind first mentioned
spends ten. The difference in the cost
of the two kinds has been growing great
er for a good while and continue to
grow.
There has, of course, been a continual
increase in the income from subscriptions
of the costly kind of papers, especially
in the South where the growth in the
reading population has been, within the
last few years, quite marked, but the
charges for advertising have advanced
very little, if at all. In some cities they
certainly have not advanced.
For several years there has been a
laudable rivaly among the leading news
papers of the South, which has been of
much greater benefit to their readers
than to their owners. The statement
that the cost of publishing newspapers
like the Morning News, Atlanta Constitu
tion, Charleston News and Courier and
others of the same class is three times as
great as it was ten years ago, is within
the truth. It is also within the truth to
say that these papers are wortli as news
papers and advertising mediums three or
four times as much now as they were
then. Their readers, however, pay no
more for them, and their advertisers are
charged very little, if anv, higher rates.
Comparatively lew people have any
idea of thecostof publishing a newspaper.
Indeed, only those who are connected
with the business part of it know much
about the cost. The expenses of a daily
newspaper in this city are as great—with
the exception of the outlay for white pa
per required by the larger edition —as
those of dailies published in cities having
from five to twenty times as many peo
ple. The rates for advertising, however,
are very low compared to the rates in the
larger cities.
The daily papers in some of the smaller
cities are in advance of the ability of the
territory in which they are published to
support them, but being ambitious that
their cities shall make the best possible
appearance before the world, they under
take to do more than they can really af
ford to.
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GOKVON GAINING.
Maj. Bacon I>oses His Temper While Ad
dressing the Spartans.
Sparta, Ga., May 18.—As per an
nouncement the two Gubernatorial can
didates met in joint discussion here to
day. At 2 ::>0 o’clock Maj. Bacon opened,
and spoke for an hour and a quarter.
Gen. Gordon followed for a like time.
The former closed in fifteen minutes.
Maj. Bacon addressed his speech mainly
to Gen. Gordon’s resignation from the
United States. Senate. He argued that he
would resign the Governorship if occasion
offered. He said Gen. Gordon had
been unfaithful to a high trust. The
speech was highly personal. He claimed
that Gen. Gordon’s candidacy forced a
conflict on the party. Gen. Gordon re
plied defending himself in resigning.
Maj. Bacon, he said, had once resigned
in 1862 to become a tax gatherer. Gen.
Gordon carried the crowd. His defense
was complete. In concluding, Maj. Ba
con affirmed himself no longer a friend
of Gen. Gordon. He denounced the At
lanta ring, and Atlanta associations made
even Judge Blanford uncertain. The
joint canvass was verging on an open
rupture. He predicted an explo
sion soon. The audience number
ed 600, and included the best citi
zens in the county. Gen. Gordon seenv
ed to carry the crowd. Maj. Bacon
lost ground by not keeping his temper,
and giving a personal turn to the discus
sion. He was evidently mad at Gen.
Gordon’s candidacy and thus injures
himself with the people. Gen. Gordon
has the soldier vote almost solid. The
people favor primary elections. It the
meeting to-day was a fair index the coun
ty will send Gordon delegates. The peo
ple were in better humor than the speak
ers. The crowd dispersed cheering for
the respective favorites.
THE NOMINATING CONVENTION.
Calhoun Times.]
There is a disposition on the part of
Hon. J. C. Clements and his supporters
to kick because the nominating conven
tion for the Seventh Congressional dis
trict is called for the Bth of July, claim
ing that it is too early, and that it does
not give Mr. Clements a fair chance.
I They also intimate that it is done in the
interest of Judge Pain.
Now so far as this is concerned, we can
say without fear of contradiction, that
Judge Fain had nothing to do with the
calling of the convention, and would have
been satislied with a later date. The
chairman of the committee is a strong
Blance man, as every one knows, with
Clements, it is supposed, as his second
choice. The convention of 1878 was held
in Kinggold on the 4th ot July. Did
anybody kick them? Another thing;
why should it be necessary for Mr. Clem
ents to be present? He has had six years
in Congress and the people know him.
If they want his services for another term
they will notify him.
Brooks, alias Maxwell, the St. Louis
trunk murderer, has made a written state
ment of the method by which his room
mate, Preller, came to his death, and his
counsel will rely upon it in his defense in
the pending trial. lie claims to have
accidentally killed Preller while ad
ministering chloroform preparatory to
the performance of a delicate surgical
operation. His subsequent actions he is
unable to account for, owing to his be
coming crazed with excitement and drink
after the death of Preller.
When preparing your picnic “goodies”
don’t forget that Curry’s flavoring Ex
tracts are the cheapest and best.
PRETTY STRONG TALK.
Atlanta Correspondent Augusta News.!
One of the most dastardly murders that
has been committed in Fulton county in
years, took place at West End, on last
Sunday, and genial, pleasant and hospi
table Frank Gray was the victim. With
out warning, and without notice shot
down, almost in sight of his wife and four
little children who was waiting and
watching for his return. His life taken
from him just as he had reached the hap
piest, sunniest hour of his existence, and
with the kiss of his wife and little ones
still warm ui>on hi? lips, he entered the
great unknown world which lies beyond
the stars.
Nearly everybody that knows Frank
R. Gray loved him and admired his frank,
open and manly manner, and when the
news reached the city of his assassina
tion, nothing but a profound sense of re
gret was expressed by all at his untimely
death. That an unarmed and defenseless
gentleman was shot and killed without
sufficient provocation is plain, and the
entire affair of the killing points to but
one hypothesis, and that is murder of
the most cowardly kind.
Could Col. Gray’sassassin have witness
ed the death bed scene of his victim, and
seen the closing act of the horrible and
heartrending drama that he had enacted
on this beautiful and quiet Sabbath day,
he could carry to a successful end the
farce which he attempted, after he had
slain his life, by his own hand. *
Could he have seen the fond wife, and
mother of four little children, throw her
self in frenzied grief upon the dying
husband and father and kiss his lips,
which were rapidly taking the colorless
hue of death, and laying even in death to
get him to speak to her, and not leave
her alone with her little babes to do bat
tle with a selfish and unfeeling world,
could Me have seen her as she moaned out
the words. “How could he do it? How
could he do it,” and then in almost fren
zied shrieks cry out: “Can it be possi
ble that he is dying, and that I shall lose
him? merciful heaven, my husband is
dead.” Could R. L. Jones have seen all
this misery and sorrow that he had
brought upon a happy home, I repeat
again that the farce he introduced after
his tragedy would have had a successful
termination.
TOO LATE.
A story is told as authentic, of a
young man in the Highlands of Scotland,
who became a drunkard, a gambler,
and, in the expressive Scotch phrase, a
“ne’er do-well.” His father owned a
small farm which had been in the family
for two hundred yea.s. But to save Jock
from the consequences of his misdoing,
he was obliged to mortgage it far beyond
the possibility of le lemption.
The old man sank under the disgrace
and misery, and died, leaving his wife,
two or three children and worthless Jock.
But the stiock of his death brought the
hoy to his senses. He foreswore cards
and whisky, came home, and turned into
hard work. He toiled steadily for years.
At last his mother was “struck with
death.”
Jock, now a middle-aged, grizzled
farmer, stern and grave, was sent for in
haste. He Stood in silence by her death
bed a moment, and then broke forth :
“Mlther! mither! gin ye see feyther
there tell him the farm’s our own agen.
An’ it’s a’ recht wi’ me.”
The story reminds us of Dr. Johnson,
who went when he was an old man to
stand in the market place of Uttoxeter,
his gray head bared to the pelting rain,
in bitter remembrance of some act of
disobedience to his father on that spot
when he was a boy.
But of what avail are these tears or
acts of atonement when the old father
or mother whom we have hurt and slight
ed so cruelly is de id ? I)o they see ? Do
they forgive? Who can say?
“It is only,” said a mother lately,
“since my own children speak to me
with rudeness and contempt, that I un
derstand how great the debt was which
I owed to my mother, and how poorly I
paid it.”
Many a poor girl who reads these
words, who treats her mother as a mem
ber of the family wlio does the work of
a servant without a servant’s wages, or a
tad who flings about the money which
the father is fast spending his feeble life
to earn, will awaken some day to utter
their remorse in an exceedingly bitter
cry; to which, alas, can come no
answer. — Selected.
Woerishoft'er, the New York milion
aire did not die suddenly. He has been
dying for a year, nut nobody knew it.
One of his friends said, the other day:
“I do not believe this theory of sudden
deaths from natural causes. Some time
ago I read a book from the pen ot a
young physician in Paris, who held that
there was no such thing. He contended
that all natural deaths were gradual, and
that the reason many were considered
untimely was because their symptoms
were not known even to their victims.
This is especially true in mental diseases.
Men are often so worried—unconscious
ly, almost—in business that their brains
become affected. Their symptoms are so
mild that do not alarm or concern them.
The attack is the more dangerous on ac
count of Its insidiousness. Little by lit
tle their brains wear and wear. At last
there conies a more than usual strain,
and the result is a rupture of one of the
worn out blood vessels, and we hear that
the victim has suddenly died like Woe
rishoffer.”
Jeff Davis in a Campaign Issue.
One feature of the work of tl\e Congres
sional committee will be a liberal distri
bution of the recent speeches' made by
JefT Davis. Mr. McPherson will have
verbatim copies of these speeches, and
they are to be carefully edited, so as to
cull from them the breathings of what
the Republicans call treason and disloy
alty. These will be circulated by thou
sands in States which sent large quotas
of troops to the war. In Tennessee the
plan is to discuss tariff question, sending
to the State some of the best speakers on
this subject. The tariff will also be the
feature of the canvass in Michigan. The
Republican defection in lowa is to be
solidified, if it can be, by the literature
Jeff Davis has gratuitously furnished.—
Washington dispatch to Cincinnati En
guirer.
Mr. 11. C. Sanderson, of Montgomery,
Ala., was one of the soldiers who guarded
the Confederate treasure wagons which
were abandoned at Washington, Ga.,
May 7, 1805. On the night of that day
each of the soldiers received $25 in silver.
Mr. Sanderson kept his money and show
ed it the other day in the office of the
Montgomery Advertiser. He says ex-
President Davis ordered the greater part
of the money to be paid to the soldiers,
and he does not believe Mr. Davis kept
a single dollar for the necessities of him
self and family.
NUMBER 17
AN OUTRAGE IN AUGUSTA.
Atlanta Constitution.]
The outrage committed or. General
Gordon in Augusta, where he was so
hissed and jeered that he could not con
clude his speech, will show the good peo
ple of Georgia spirit that animates
the opposition to him, and the legitimate
result to which it is being driven by
those who have determined to destroy
I General Gordon.
Let us be exact about the extent of this
outrage. It is already indirectly hinted
by the Bacon men that the reports of it
are overdrawn. The facts do not show
' this. It was so indecent and so flagrant
| that Mr. J. C. C. Black telt called upon
l to protest, although he is a Bacon man,
and in rebuking its perpetrators, to say
that “no cause deserved to succeed” that
had to resort to such means. The indi
cations are that this outrage was not only
flagrant hut deliberate. The Bacon men
organized at Clara Hall before the
speaking, and the reports say “they had
a lively meeting there.” It is reasona
ble to suppose that the programme for
the night was arranged at that prelimi
naiy meeting.
The scene was a disgraceful one. The
turbulent and intolerant spirit that is
back of it, is worse. The scar on Gor
don’s cheek, won in honorable battle,
must have rebuked those who were not
crazed with excitement, as a Georgia
crowd in a Georgia city denied him the
right of free speech. We are much mis
taken if his old comrades in arms —if
every man in Georgia who loves fair play
—if every conservative and right-minded
citizen—does not make this rebuke in the
most emphatic manner. General Gordon
has done nothing to deserve such treat
ment at the hands of Georgians. No liv
ing man has done more to deserve better
treatment. And the people will see that
he has it, and that those who put this
crowning indignity on him are made
to understand that such methods will not
win in Georgia.
SAM JONES VINDICATAD.
The Baltimoreans Indorse His Words and
His Methods.
In a sermon the other night to 5,000
people, at the rink in Baltimore, Sam
Jones said:
“I am abused, hut, thank God, I can
stand it. (Applause.) My Savior
never got into so-called respectable so
ciety while he was in the world. (Ap
plause.) I read of Him among publicans
and sinners and fighting the devil for
ty days, hut never associated with the gay,
giddy, goodless ones of earth. If l
never receive anything hut cutis anti
scorn from the leading society people in
the town L can wait till I get to heaven
for my vindication. (Applause.)
Thank God there will he no so-called
society people there to cuff me. (Ap
plause.) What ever keeps my mind
from heaven and its issues l banish from
me forever. Thank God for the faithful
preachers. I want the indorsement of
the congregations. Thank God they are
not the hoodlums and rabble of Balti
more. They are as respectable people
as ever assembled in this city. Brethren
(turning to the preachers on the plat
form behind him), as God shall judge
you at the last day, don’t you believe
1 have stuck to the word of God, to the
best interests of all the people of this city
when I have denounced these wordiy
practices that are damning your city?
Those who can say it, stand up. (The
whole body arose.) Put those seventy
live preachers clown as on my side. (Ap
plause.) The wires last night carried
the news to New York that the socieiy
of Baltimore was being outraged by the
preaching of these so-called evangelists
I want all those who have felt outraged
to stand up. (Not a person arose.) I
want you reporters to say that five thou
sand people in the rink to-night say it’s
a lie—-it’s a lie. (Continued applause.)
JUDGE FAIN.
“Voter” in the Catoosa Courier,]
As to his record as a Judge the people
of the 7th know and recognize his ability ;
he being as pure, bright and good as any
one who has ever honored the bench in
Georgia. lam intimately acquainted
with him and have been for years and
say to his credit that he never deceived
or deserted a friend in any matter, always
open hearted, honest and true, and where
he is best known is liked most. I was
informed to-day by a gentleman of his
town that if there was any one opposing
him in either his town or county that he
did not know of it. Does not this speak
volumes for him; what more could I add ?
He is a poor man and I knew that it is
his unbounded liberality that keeps him
so. He opens his hands and divides lib
erally his earnings with the poor and
needed of the land.
Now I have tried hard, honestly to
bring the character and virtues of this
gentleman before the people of my coun
ty. Should Judge Fain be so fortunate
as to get the nomination it will he thank
fully received, and in my opinion he will
always be found at his post of duty, bat
tling faithfully, honestly intelligently
for his constituents. Such a man my
follow citizens is worthy of your support.
Give him your support and honor the
cause he fought so hard to sustain. Give
him your support in honor of the name
he bears among his fellow men, and
again give him your support, believing
he will do right.
Frank Hatton says: Blaine is a can
didate in dead earnest again. His family
is announced as having joined the Catho
lic Church. That always happens when
Blaine wants anything real bad. It
gives him a chance to come out and ex
plain how he goes to the Congregational
church, how Walker inclines to Metho
dism and how the rest of the family mix
up their religion. He uses a religious
scoop ret for votes. I presume it will
come out pretfy soon that Blaine is a
Knight of Labor.
The police of Chicago are gathering
the toils uncomfortably tight about Spies,
Schwab, and Fischer in the matter of
throwing the bomb at the Anarchist
meeting. A grocer named Melvin M.
Thompson has been found, who heard
these three discussing whether or not more
bombs should be procured just before
the attack was made upon the police.
THE MOST RELIABLE AGENT
for destroying and expelling worms from
children and adults is Shriner’s Indian
Vermifuge, 25 cents a bottle. Try It.
Every bottle guaranteed to give satisfac
tion.
A few nights since I gave my son one dose of
Worm Oil, and the next day he passed sixteen
large worms. At the same time I gave one dose
to my little girl four years old, and she passed
eighty-six worms, from four to fifteen iuceslong
inch 18 W. F. PHILLIPS, Athens, Oa.
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Beautiful berry sets at Curry’s