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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. ■ *♦ 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. - 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. Chamberlin, Johnson & Cos., ——IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN DRY GOODS, MILLINERY, CARPETS, SHOES, And Dress Malting. 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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. 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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, sebS