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THE COURANT.
I*u blisl-if<l EvPry Thursday,
CABTKBBVILLE, GEORGIA.
Official Organ Bartow Connty.
C'onrant Publishing Company.
THURSDAY, MAY 27, 188 G.
Tins THREE big G’s: Gordon, Gov
ornor of Georgia.
Dear Judson: Take your linger out
ot the pie and give some one else a
chance. •
Bartow county v/ill take pride in send
ing in a solid delegation for her noble
son, .lodge Fain.
The campaign is entirely too warm,
and we fear that even the State Conven
tion will not he sufficient to solidify the
forces.
Tins war may be over and all that, but
the memory of the brave defenders will
ever l>e cherished by our people. It is
natural with them to be so.
'I vPhoid fever may be very fatal, but
none will dispute the fact that bullets are
equally so. Especially did they prove
fatal during the “late unpleasantness.”
Judge Daniel Pittman, an old citizen
o( At lanta and for a long time ordinary of
Fulton county, dropped dead In Atlanta
Sunday morning. Truly, a good man has
fallen.
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The undertakers of Georgia have just
met in convention at Atlanta. This fact
taken in connection with the approach of
the green plnm seems to he rather sig
nificant.
The only way to got at an expression
of the will of the people is through pri
mary elections. Why do Maj. Bacon’s
friends object to this? Do they fear the
voice of the people?
Tijk independent party was born of
bulldozing court-house meetings, and if
a split of the party is desired again, why
fail to give the people a chance to speak
through the ballot box.
.Judge Fain is an able gentleman, a
fact that no one disputes. He has done
yeoman service for the cause of democracy
and why not he he honored with a seat
in Congress?
Legislative timber is seasoning, hut
the boys are lying low on account of the
State campaign. It has drowned out
every thing in the way of politics. It
doesn’t even give Tobe Jackson a show
ing-
Tiie more ardent supporters of Major
Bacon insist that he will certaiidy beat
General Gordon in the race for governor.
If he does it will not he the first time he
has done such a thing. He beat General
Gordon back to Georgia in ’62 we believe.
Whenever Maj. Campbell Wallace
makes an assertion the whole people of
Georgia will back him in it. The Major
has always proven hfcnself to he a mighty
good friend of the people, and it is now
entirely too late in the day to denounce
him just because he eboses to support
General Gordon for governor.
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Gen. Gordon got a little “hot” the other day
at Sparta when Maj. Bacon “pinned” down on
him about resigning his seat in the Senate.—
ILtrahon Banner.
And Maj. Bacon got still hotter when
Gen. Gordon intimated something about
a resignation that is certified to have
taken place in’62—at a time when the
southern people needed friends if they
ever did.
When Mr. Clements was first elected
to congress he made good campaign ma
terial out of the fact that Dr. Felton had
been in the office for six years and he
thought he should be set aside to let some
one else have a chance. As Mr. Clem
ents has enjoyed the office for the same
length of time it is nothing but right lie
should be willing to keep up the rule.
Let us tote fair, Mr. Clements.
Sii> Lewis, of the Sparta Ishmaelite,
will support General Gordon on account
of his attitude towards the railroad com
mission. ITe had been championing the
cause of Maj. Bacon until that gentleman
so completely failed to give his position
on this most important question that in
terests the whole people of Georgia.
Bight ye are, Sidney. When a man can’t
sustain such a bulwark as the railroad
commission and such a man as Maj.
Campbell Wallace, then we think it is
time to drop him.
Primary Elections.
The Coukaxt is on record as sustain
ing the cause of primary elections. It
thinks that through these that a fair ex
pression of the people can be had. Any
attempt at handicapping the voice of the
people by refusing them a chance to
speak for themselves should be discoun
tenanced by all lovers of fair play and
justice. Let the candidates present their
claims before them and nine times out of
ten they will speak justly. The time has
passed when a few interested parties can
call a meeting, appoint a chairman, select
delegates tavorable and rush before the
world with the proclamation that the
people had spoken. The game has be
come aged and the people have long ago
cut their eye-teeth in this inspect.
Apropos the discussion of the question
we would republish an editorial that ap
peared in The Courant of December
10th, 1885, from the pen of our able and
distinguished predecessor, I>r. William
If. F'elton. The editorial is a's full of
sound sense as an egg is of meat! Let
oui people digest the wholesome words
and govern themselves accordingly;
Wc are always insrructed and some
times amused whep. ‘candidates and
measures’ become arrive factors in Geor
i£ta polities. It nominating conventions
are a necessity u\ order to keep up party
organization, why not hold ‘primary
elections’ ir 4 which only Democrats
shall be pe r mitted to vote? Let the dele
gates to o’jr Gubernatorial and Congress
ional conventions be elected by the Dem
ocrats of the several counties. Let the
moii Who do the voting have some voice
in the selection of candidates. Let the
aspirants for Gubernatorial and Con
gressional honors canvass (if they think
proper) the counties before these pri
mary eVctions are held. Give these as
pirants an opportunity to announce to
the people of the State and of the Dis
tricts their position upon the vital ques
tions which are now at issue in the State.
Xo honorable man would wish to deceive
the people by eoncealing his ©pinions—
especially concealing them from the great
mass of the party while he confidentially
divulges them to the managers and
manipulators of the caucus. There is
no national election next year impera
tively demanding concentration of the
Democracy. When the ‘danger signal’
is hoisted over the old party every mem
ber of that party must be at his po t and
do his duty. There is no possibility of
electing any man in Georgia who would
endanger our interests if such a man
was required to state his opinions and
principles before he was given a nomi
nation. This is the only possible w\ay to
make a nomination express the will of
the people, and there will be such a de
mand for an exposition of the policy of
candidates next year. If such a demand
is unheeded, lookout for the breakers!”
Cordon and Bacon.
The gubernatorial canvass is waxing
warm. The two avowed candidates, Gor
don and Bacon, have been holding joint
discussions during the week, and large
and enthusiastic crows have greeted them.
General Gordon, as is well known, invited
Major Bacon to unite with him in a request
to the State Committee that this committee
ask the various county committees to have
primary elections instead of court bouse
conventions. Major Bacon declined to ac
cept this offer, alleging as his reason that
the county committees should determine
that for tliieinselves. This is true; but it
was not Gordon’s proposition that the State
committee dictate to the county commit
tees. The offer simply was, fhat these
two candidates unite in this expression of
their wish as to the mode of selecting dele
gates. We see no reason why Major Ba
con should have objected this proposition,
unless he was opposed to the primaries.
It will not do to say that he did not wish
to dictate the methods of the party. 1 his
is no dictation. Every candidate has the
right, as well as any other citizen, to ex
press his choice as to the manner in which
the will of the people should be made
known. We believe that primaries are
best calculated to insure a free and full
expression of the popular choice. General
Gordon is unequivooal In his choice. lie
wants the farmer, the toiler, the mass of
the people—those who live in the country
districts as wdll a? those who five in the
county towns —to oast their ballots and
speak their choice.
Again : Whqn asked as to whether he
is in favot of the Railroad Commission,
Major Bacon writes a long letter, full of
contingencies and uncertainties. General
Gordon answers this question just as he led
his troops to tfye charge:—fully, directly
and positively, He is in favor of the Com
mission as tt is, without modification or
change. This terse and to the point.
It is what the people want.
Everybody knows Campbell Wallace,
fie is a friend to the people. He has stood
by them in their battles with the railroads,
lie knows what he is talking about. He
knows men. He says truly and frankly
that he would bot support his own brother
unless that brother was right on this great
question. How does Campbell Wallace
stand in this fight ? He is emphatic in his
declaration that he is strong for Gordon.
He declares that lie hnoivs Gordon is right
on this question, and was right on it long
before he became a candidate. We are
willing to confide in the wisdom and
integrity of Campbell Wallace. On this
point we think his declarations are decisive
of the matter.
Major Bacon’s friends say that he ought
to be nominated because he should have
had the nomination when McDaniel was
nominated, and that Atlanta influences suc
ceeded in defeating him. How is this : It
is publicly charged that at the critical mo
ment Bacon sent for Governor Brown and
begged him to use his influence to have
Bacon nominated. The meeting occurred
right in the capitol in Atlanta, while the
convention was sitting. Governor Brown
told Bacon that he preferred him to Mc-
Daniel, and would not hesitate to say so to
any friend of Brown’s. How is this for
Atlanta influence? Why was Bacon
a suppliant to Gov. Brown then? These
charges are not denied by Bacon or his
friends, so far as we have been able to hear
or see.
But if Bacon’s failure to get the nomina
tion is a reason why he should now be
selected, how much greater is the reason
that Gordon should be nominated because
he was elected by Georgians, and robbed
of the office by the minions of the Radical
government ? W ell do our people remem
ber the days of 1868. Well de they remem
ber the bayonets and the federal troops,
menacing liberty in the very halls of legis
lation. We do not claim that this gave Gor
don a title to tine office. We claim, rather,
that the people- of thse grand old common
wealth ought now to redeem the infamy
then perpetrated upon them,
Gordon resigned his seat in the Senate.
We have never heard the most violent
enemy of his say that any interest of Geor
gia suffered l>y the change. We could
spare him Wegdt Jeseph E. Brown
place. All agree that Brown makes
a good SetuAor. But there was a time
when eveay man was needed at the front
by this oppressed people. Bacon, in that
trying timet resumed hi £ position in the
army and- came home, because he was
afraid tliatHyphdkl fever would prove fatal.
But the arany never saw him In the ranks
again.
The are for Gordon. Outside the
members ai the Legislatilre with whom
Bacon and the lawyers and the
county towns, Gordon has an overwhelm
ing majority. It remains to be seen wheth
er these old legislators and a majority of
the lawyew shall prevail Over the masses
of the Democratic voters in the fcjtate by
means of court-house conventions.
Ex-President Arthur is declining fast
and his friends believe that the ex-Presi
dent will never leave his house alive i
again. 1
FROM ifOKDON COUNTY.
Editor Cdt RANT: I notice that some
unfair strictures are indulged in by some
of the friends of the candidates for con
gressional honors because the convention
was called at a date earlier than, as they
allege, previous conventions have been
called. W ill you therefore, in justice
and fairness to some of the candidates
allow me to state a few facts that I think
ought to put at rest all insinuations of
unfairness. In the first place you will
permit me to state that I am not a mem
ber of the Executive Committee of this
District, but by request of Dr. C. King,
of this, Gordon, county, who was sick at
the time of the meeting of the Executive
Committee, I attended the meeting as a
proxy, and as such acted with the com
mittee in his stead. I ?in from the
connty in which Judge Fain lives and I
can truthfully state that I had no con
versation or communication with him or
any other aspirant as to when they pre
ferred the convention should meet, nor
did I know Judge Fain’s wishes in the
premises when I left for Cartersvillc.
There were only two dates suggested as
appropriate times for the meeting of the
convention and the first was the time
agreed upon by the committee and the
second the last of August, as' I now re
member, and as a compromise I favored
and so stated to the committee, a divis
ion of the time named, which called
forth more discussion than either pre
vious motions and 1 withdrew the same
as the opposition seemed to come princi
pally from those whom I now think was
unfriendly to the nomination of Judge
Fain.
Besides, was it presumed that the peo
ple of this congressional district are so
ignorant of men and measures as not to
be already familiar with the personal
and political character of any aspirant
for congressional honors in this district,
and if not and an independent candidate
should desire to enlighten the people on
the subject of the political record of the
nominee would it not be well to nomin
ate him early so as to give time to discuss
his record elaborately ? The truth is the
people are not complaining and such
sophistry is calculated more to injure
the friends of those who seek to make
capital of it than to prejudice the claims
of those they hope thereby to damage.
Mr. Editor, I feel that under all the
circumstances 1 ought to state, in justice
to Judge Fain, and without any purpose
to disparage the claims of any other as
pirant, that from twelve years personal
acquaintance and four year’s business
connection with him that T have always
found Judge Fain to he a liberal, gen
erous, and as I believe, incorruptible
gentleman. T. C. Milner.
The Perry Home Journal thus man
fully speaks its little speak in reference
to Gen. Gordon: “While emphatically
opposed to Gen. Gordon as a candidate
for Governor, we have no desire to attack
his character in any respect. To attack
him would be to acknowledge his su
perior strength, and we are not willing
to admit that.”
FROM Mil. CLEMENTS.
To the People of the Seventh Congressional
District of Georgia :
In pursuance of the kind solicitation oi
many of you I am a candidate for nomi
nation lor the ofiice of Representative in
the next Congress. Should I be the
choice of the Democracy of the district 1
would appreciate the honor, otherwise I
would neither expect nor desire it. My
apology for taking the liberty of address
ing you this letter is, that owing to the
unusually early date of the convention
this year and consequently early county
meetings while Congress is in session, it
will be out of my power to see many of
you personally, as 1 would be glad to do,
and as other candidates are doing, even
if the duties of the trust with which you
have honored me should permit me to
visit the district at this time.
The triumph of the principles of De
mocracy are far more important to the
country and to each voter than are the
aspirations of any candidate. The suc
cess of these principles necessarily de
pends upon the integrity of the paity
devoted to them. Such integrity can only
be preserved by fair and just methods of
organization, whereby the choice ot the
masses of the people can be fully and de
liberately recorded and respected.
For some reason July the Bth, a date
five or six weeks earlier than has been
usual in this or other districts of the
State, has been fixed for the convention.
The county meetings to select delegates
must therefore, of necessity, be held in
the midst of the busiest season of the
year, instead of the usual and easy time
of the latter part of July or first of
August. Meetings in several of the
counties, including Catoosa, Murray,
Gordon, and Polk have been called for
the first day of June.
Mr. Waddell, chairman of the Execu
tive Committee of the district, in reply to
some criticism of the press upon its ac
tion in fixing so early a date, offers the
remarkable explanation that the courts
begin on the second Monday in July,
and the time was therefore fixed prior to
that date for the convenience of the
“ lawyers , litigants, and witnesses,” and
while he admits the date to be early, he
tries to justify it with the statement that
“Col. Clements was at one time nomi
nated on the 4th of July.” This state
ment is erroneous. I have been twice
nominated between the 25th and the last
of August, and never earlier than the Bth
of August. But how many “litigants
and witnesses” are likely to attend the
convention? There are perhaps two
hundred times as many voters of other
classes in the district as there are lawyers.
The latter live in the towns where the
meetings will be held; the former live
mainly in the country. In addition to
the short notice given, no more incon
venient time for the honest, toiling farm
ers and laborers of the country could
have been selected than this, the most
pressing and busy season of the year.
These people, upon whose prosperity
all other classes must depend, certainly
hare quite as great an Interest in the
nomination of a candidate for their Rep
resentative in Congress as have the emi
nently respectable but very small elass of
citizens known as lawyers, whose con
venience has been so kindly considered
at the expense of the great body of the
voters, though I do not believe the law
yers as a class have demanded or desire
it.
The farmers must either lose a day
from their pressing work, or leave the
selection of delegates to represent them
in this important convention to others.
But the day lias been fixed. Meetings
must soon be held in some manner in all
the counties to select your delegates,
whose action in convention assembled
we must all abide. I respectfully protest
that they should be selected by the whole
Democratic people of the respective coun
ties of the district, to represent their will
and to nominate their choice for Congress,
whoever that may he.
Therefore, for the good name of the
party, the integrity of its organization,
and the triumph of its principles, I
earnestly appeal to each and all of you
who may read this letter, to watch for
the appointments for county or primary
meetings, and to take one day from your
fields and other labors and to attend these
important meetings, and urge otliers to
do so, and to see that the will ©f the ma
jority, which is the spirit of Democracy,
prevails.
Allow me, in conclusion, to say that
whatever of personal interest I have in
the contest I leave it in the hands of a
people who have honored me with their
confidence in the past, whom I have en
deavored to serve to the best of my abili
ty, whose sense of justice and fairness
may always he trusted, and to whose will
none will bow with more reverence than
Your obedient servant and fellow
citizen, J. C. Clements.
Washington, D. C., May 19,188 G.
GENERAL GORDON AND SENATOR
HILL.
What the General Says About Those nfll
ilavits ami the State Koal I.ease.
General Gordon’s attention was called
to certain affidavits published in the Ma
con 7 <degraph in regard to language that
he used concerning the offer of a share in
the State road least* made to him by the
late Senator Ilill. General Gordon said :
“I desire to say in regard to this mat
ter that my speech in Americus, taken
as a wbolo, cannot bo made to reflect the
slightest degree on the integrity or honor
of Mr. Hill. I introduced his name with
the warmest terms of admiration, and all
that I said of him was eulogistic. I con
gratulated the state that men of such
high character, and such perfect integ
rity as himself, and others had taken a
share in the lease and that it was a guar
antee to the state that her property
would be managed well and honestly.
Every man who heard the speech in
which I alluded to this matter will affirm
that my treatment of Mr. Hili’s name
and memory was all that his closest
friend or relative could have asked.
Nothing that I said or implied could take
one iota from his reputation as an honest
and illustrious man. What I said was
not deprecation, but it was eulogy as ar
dent as l could find words about him,
and I remember with great distinctness
and pleasure that what I said about him
was greeted with enthusiastic applause,
and approval. This cannot be denied.
“What brought the allusion to the
State road lease ?”
“One of the vilest insinuations that
could have been made against man.
That if elected governor I would con
spire with others to rob the state of that
magnificent piece of property, the State
road, which it shotild never surrender
under any circumstances and which
never should be surrendered with my
approval. I want to put on record here
again my contempt and scorn for the
writers who are attempting to misrepre -
sent my meaning in that speech, ft is
known of all men that they were the
maligners and the slanders of Mr. 11111
when he was living, and that their pre
tended defense of him is inspired by a
hatred of inyself that is as malevolent as
the hatred with which they opposed
him. .Mr. Hill and myself opposed each
other in a race, but our relations were
cordial and affectionate at the time of and
long before his death, and no man loves
and reveres his memorv more tb*i I
do.”
A SLANDER DENOUNCED.
Americus, Ga., May 22. —We, the un
dersigned, were all present and heard
the speech of General John B. Gordon
made in Americus on the 12th day of
May, 1886.
The charge that General Gordon as
sailed the character of Senator Hill, or
cast any aspersion on his name, is un
true. General Gordon, on that occasion,
eulogized Senator Ilill, and spoke of him
as a true, good and great man. In the
audience were many who revered the
memory of Mr. Hill, who would have
resented any aspersion upon his character
or fame.
It is plain that this charge was an af
ter-tiiougiit of General Gordon’s ene
mies. (Signed)
B. P. Ilolis, W. B. Guerry, C. H.
Wooten, J. W. Jordon, Jr. U. S. Lock
ett, J. D. Shepherd, John W. Jordon, Sr,
Thos. A. Grah. i, H. C. Bagley, A. A.
Adams, John Windsor, W. E. Clark, W.
T. Tool, W. P. Davenport, A. S. Cutts,
J. B Hinkle, A. T. Oliver, E. J. Miller,
J. C. Mathews, C. B. Raines, X. A.
Smith, J. B. Pillshury, W. M. T. Till
man, M. B. Council, R. J. Perry, J, W.
Sheffield, 8. W, Small, T. Wheatlev, L.
B. Bosworth, Thos. S. Greene, Ezek
Taylor, John R. Shaw, D. F. Davenport.
And a hundred others.
HOW THEY STAND.
When the two candidates for guberna
torial honors were in Sparta, Major
Sidney Lewis, of the Ishmaelite, sub
mitted to them, while they were on the
stand, the following questions, among
others:
1. Do you favor the enactment of a
law preventing railroad pooling in
Georgia?
2. Do you indorse Major Campbell
Wallace as railroad commissioner?
Th&se questions were presented to the
two candidates, with requests that they
respond to them during the course of the
debate. What was the result? We will
leave Editor Sidney Lewis to give the
facts. lie says in his editorial columns:
“Major Bacon answered the first of the
questions evasively, leaving the una
voidable impression that he favors the
railroad pool. In reading aloud the
second question, he omitted the last
three words, making it appear that we
had asked the silly question, whether or
not he indorses Major Campbell Wallace,
as a man. After some persistence, we
elicited the fact, that he and the Ishmae
lite are on different lines on the railroad
commission question.
“General Gordon promptly and frank
ly announced his opposition to railroad
pooling, and all other sorts of pooling,
and fully indorsed the record of Major
Campbell Wallace as railroad commis
sioner.
“Major Bacon, Captain Raoul, the
Macon Teleyraph and all the railroads in
dorse the commission in theory but it
requires a friend of the letter and spirit
of the commission law and of the pur
poses for which the law was enacted, to
Indorse Major Wallace’s record as rail
road commissioner. General Gordon did
it. The questions were asked for infor
mation, and acting on the information
gained, the writer has no other honest
alternative but to favor his candidacy.
“It is a small matter whother this
course puts us In the big ‘ring’ or the
little ‘ring.’ The Ishmaelite doen't stop
to eouut noses in the face of considera
tions of public duty.”
This statement settles the commission
controversy.
* •
A case Involving the present ownership
of a small negro boy was heard and dis
posed of by the Ordinary of Cherokee
county a few days ago. The negro was
remanded to the care and custody of Mr.
Lee Starnes until a debt due by the boy’s
lather was fully satisfied.
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SAMUEL DUNLAP, OF ATLANTA, LA.
The excellent picture we present at £l*i Imxul
of this column, is of a man who Is as well ami
favorably known in bis capacity as a traveling
man or “drummer” as any mic man In the
United States.
Mr. Dunlap said in conversation recently:
“About four years ago I had a sevore attack of
rheumatism, which completely dtsableib-me for
a time, and which developed into what is com
monly called ‘chronic,’ attacking me when
least expected, and laying me up entirely; In
capacitating me for any kind of business, and
causing me as much suffering in a day as shoukt
be crowded in a life time. After one of my most
severe attacks, and when I had just got able to
hobble around, I met J. M. Ilunnicutt. an okl
friend, and he said he could make remedy
that would cure me, and, by gracious, lie dhU I
took two bottles of his stuff, prepared from
roots and herbs, and I have nevor luwi a twinge
of rheumatism since. Tho medicine was not
prepared for sale at that timoj hut\j*ae tmUia
factured by Mr. HunmcCtfc tor Ills frioade.
About six months ago it was determined To
place it upon the market, ami a linn was organ
ised for that purpose. Two weekH ago, In the
midst of my suffering, I noted fn one of their
advertisements that it was good for kidney
troubles also. I knew it would cure rheuma
tism, and I bought a half a dozen bottles at once
and determined to give it a fuir show at a kidney
disease of long standing. It may secip extrava
gant, but the first day’s use gave me relief, and
before I had completed taking one bottle my
disagreeable symptons had entirely disap
peared. I have used two bottles up to this
time, and 1 have not felt a trace of my disease
for a week.”
.J. M. Hunnicutt <fc Cos., the manufacturers of
Ilnnincutt’s Rheumatic Cuie, Atlanta, Ga., as
sure us that their mcdicino is on sale at the low
price of SI.OO a bottle, at all reputable druggists
and can be procured at wholesale from Jobbing
druggists everywhere.
TIIE PRESBYTERIAN CONFERENCE.
Augusta, May 24.—The evolution
discussion occupied to-day in the PnMr
byterian General Assembly. I>r. Q. D.
Armstrong advocated the committee re
port. He said this church should remain
close to her anchor of formulated creed.
Her standard of belief was not to bo tilled
with private or personal interpretations,
lie condemned Dr. Woodrow’s theory as
dangerous. He declared that the Pres
byterian church allowed wide liberty,
but would not tolerate such mischievous
errors as this. Dr. Armstrong said he
believed the book of Genesis was a his
torical account of the creation, and that
the garden of Eden had a distinct
georaphical position.
Dr. Woodrow replied this afternoon
in a two hours’ speech, lie begged the
church not to make any positive deliver
ance upon the story of the creation of
man. The church had generally erred
when it preached upon the reservation
of scientists. Was the church never to
learn anything? Dr. Woodrow declared
that the scriptures did not pretend to
teach history, geography or science.
Dr. Armstrong’s committee could not
say that man’s creation was an imme
diate act without animal parentage.
The debate continues to-night.
Fraternal greetings . were exchanged
to-day with the Northern Presbyterian
assembly now in session at Minneapolis,
and invitations were recicvod to join in
the celebration of the centennial of the
establishment of the church in America
in Philadelphia in 1888.
A Florida girl has written au open let
ter to Jones, the love-sick Senator, want
ing to know why he has goge to fiTir.cn
Michigan “to waste ids virgin alloctfons
upon the marble heart of an unrespon
sive woman. Let him return,” says she,
“to his own sunny land of tlowers and
bananas, where mocking birds ever sing
in the magnolia and lenjon trees, where
the sott air is laden with odor an j orange
flowers. Why doe3 lie turn away from
us, his own sisters of the balmy and lan-
guid South, who long for hts klssos ?
Come back ! Come back ! < Jonosey,
you old fool, come ' aok K*
Reports from ex-PresldonC Arthur* s
friends continue to state that hW yondl
tion is precarious and Itte -wcomjhv .fe ft
matter of grave doubt*
Occasional doses of Lfvtfr Com
pound will prevent ehilte ami fever and
all malarial troubles by -keeping the liver
in perfect order.
W. T. Heyward,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Office near corner Main and Erwin Sts
1 Make a Specialty of iraffi Law.
TOE JOINT DISCUSSION.
Atlanta, Ga , May 20, 188 G.—To tlie
! Democratic voters of the State: In con
vocation with Captain E. P. Howell, I
i suggested that the violent personalities
i of the campaign threatened the peace and
good order of the State, and that they
i -boald be stopped at once. He agreed
with me heartily. As the result of our
1 conversation we made the follow
ing agreement about the joint
discussion: This is solely
in the interest of the party, and is
not to be construed, either directly or
indirectly in the interest of either can
didnte. Patrick Walsh.
I concur in the foregoing.
Evan P. Howell.
Atlanta, Ga., May 20,1886. —General
John 11. Gordon and Hon. A O. Bacon,
candidates for the Democratic nomina
tion for Governor,’having authorised us
to arrange for a joint discussion of the
Issues of the campaign, and having se
lected us to name places and dates, we
have agreed that the joint discussion
shall terminate this w eek. We have ar
rived at this conclusion in order that the
harmony of the party may be preserved,
and that the asperities of the campaign
may be removed as far as possible.
After the time named each candidate
shell make his own appointments to
address the Democratic voters of the
BtaCe.
Evan P. Howell,
for General Gordon.
Patrick Walsh,
for Hon. A. O. Bacon.
LYoni all sections of Cherokee county
it Is reported that cotton is not coming
up like the farmers think it should and
many have replanted. Others are more
hopeful, and think a poor stand is better
than a late crop. The eool days and
heavy rains have been very damaging
to the cotton crop.
USE S. pTb.IaT
At Hudgins*.
Georgia Editorial Courtesy.
The nomadic dudikin of the Wedowee
Observer has disappeared.—lie emptied
his bottle inside bis sbirt. cursed out the
town, and on Sunday night for the third
time within six months “hit the grit” for
a bidding place in the dark shades of
elsewhere. The News and the Coweta
Advertiser will wear due mourning.—
Franklin News.
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Terrible Destruction of Truth and Tenaci
ty by tho Ohio Cyclone.
Oollna (O.) Special to Cincinnati Enquirer.]
Mr. Curtis Hall, Jr., of Neptune, re
ports that he saw straw hats that were
blown into old oak trees.
Feathers were stripped from chickens
on this farm m though the fowl* had
been prepared by a cook for the pot.
At the house of John Itoeso tho hired
man was floated In a mattress several
hundred feet by the wind. He was in
jured, but not seriously.
George Fox's wagon was carried a
half-mile. The tires on two wheels were
each cut in two as with some sharp in
strument, and each parti}” straightened
exactly in the same shape. At John
Griffin’s dishes were can led and
driven into stumps so that they could not
be pulled out.
It was about a half-mile wide, and it
twisted immense trees off at tfie ground
as though they were pipe stems. It cut
crops of grain and grass off as clean as a
mowing machine, and in instances strip
ped trees of bark as clean as a hungry
Italian would peel a banana.
There was nothing left on Mr. Bryan’s
premises—not even a collar. The family
escaped alive from the cellar. There
were six horses in the barn. The build
ing was lifted up and blown away, leav
ing the dumbfounded animals to stand
there expose 1 lo the to m, b it o h irsvis
uninj ured.
The Church of God, a frame building,
was scattered all over the country. One
side of the building was carried over the
river and the foundation plowed through
the ground for twenty-five or thirty feet.
Tombstones in the church-vard were
snapped oft by t lie wind as though they
were sticks of wood. They were not bro
ken by fallen timber, but literally snapped
by the wind alone.
A hired man named Potter, ..who slept
up stairs, started to go below, and he was
plunged downstairs at *ffie same time that
the top of the house was blown oft. He
went upstairs again and lay down. He
was picked up by the wind and thrown,
it is said, 300 yards in the direction op
posite to that in which the storm was
traveling. There was an eightemonth
old baby in the house. It was picked up
by the wind, laid In a feather-bed and
the whole business baby and all, was
carried 150 feet. It was then deposited,
and a log was thrown on either side of
the child, pinning the bed to the ground.
After the storm a search was instituted
for the baby, and it could not be Imagined
what had become of it until one of the
searcliers heard it cry, and following the
direction indicated by the sound, found
the little pet and restored it uninjured to
the arms of its distracted mother.
H. XL CASON,
Resident Dentist.
Oftlco over Curry’s drug store, Cartersvllle,
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