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VOLUME 11.
New Spring 1 Goods!!
I bog leave to inform ncy customers an<l the uqople of Bartow county and surrounding country
to the fact that ray new goods are all in amt it is conceded by all that I have
The Largest Stools,
Tlae Handsomest Display,
AND
Th.© Lowest Prices
That have ever been heard of in Cartcrarille. I have all the new styles and novelties In
HATS uVINT> IJONINETS.
< ome and sue for yourselves that J have decidedly the handsomest stock I ever had and am
sidling cheaper than you have ever purchased such goods before. Thanking vou for your most
lilierai patronage and asking for a continuance of the same, I am, Most Respectfully,
MISS 10. >l. PADGIOTTTO.
Over Mays A Pritchett’s, Cartersville.
Come and make your selections before the stock is depleted.
Aid. ABOARD
FOR TH E
NORTH GEORGIA
Cheap: Furniture: House!
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT.
T would respectfully call the attention of my friends as well as the people generally to the fact
that 1 have bought out tin; Furniture Store of Mr. Jas. 11. Gilreath, arid will continue the business
at the same old stand* 1 will always endeavor to keep the very best goods iu the market as well
as those that will suit parties of limited means. One thing is certain, lam offering goods cheap, at
figures that will sustain the well-earned reputation of this house in giving bargains.
Those Intending to Commence Keeping House Could do no Bettor
Than to Give Me a Call. I Guarantee they will be
Pleased at my Stock.
1 will also handle the “NEW HOME” Sewing Machine, which is guaranteed to
glvo perfect satisfaction. The ladies should be obtain to sea this easy-running machine licfore
they purchase. Have juit opened up a nice line of MATTINGS. Something new and
and nice. ®@f" All I ask is a trial.
S. L. VANDIVERE,
Prop’r. IST. Oa. Cheap Furniture House.
Attention Everybody!
WE HAVE THIS DAY REDUCED OUR PRICES GREATLY!
All Hopairs Will bo Loss tlian Heretofore.
This is Done in View ol' the Hardness ol* the Times. We Keep
on Constantly a HEAVY STOCK OF WESTERN WAGONS,
STCDERAKEii, KENTUCKY, and other Makes, which we will
Sell Cheaper than Ever Before.
It Yon Want the Best Wagon you can Buy on any Market Buy
The Celebrated JONES WAGON.
Made hero. Quo and Two-Horse. SOLID STEEL AXLES, SAItVIN PATENT WHEELS.
We defy the world to beat us in this line. These Wagons will last longer, run lighter, and 100
better Ilian any. ONE OF THEM. Come or write to us.
11. 11. Jones Ac Sons Altmf’g-. 00..
dio-ly CARTERSVILLE GEORGIA.
Slightly Damaged Goods!
Hundreds of Knives-Eighty Different Varieties, from a
Ladies* Penknife to a Cowboy’s Toothpick.
NINE IgNIVES & FORKS !
THE GOODS WILL BE SOLD DOG CHEAP — AT HALF NEW YORK COST.
IfCorac and make your selections before they are picked over.
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THE CARTERSVILLE COURANT.
Steam Fitting* ! Steam Fitting* ! !
V. L. Williams & Cos. are now prepared
to furnish steam fittings and pipe. Do
not send off when you can buy cheaper
at home.
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1886.
IN MEHOKIAM.
FATHER KYAS.
Out of the silence a song has been made—
Out of the shadows is Hashed and is played
harmonies, never before
Perfectly blending, accordant and whole
Given expression, except in the soul
Out of the silence that ceaseß in Heaven-
Out of that sileneo a song has been given,
Filling the heart with a glad, sweet surprise;
Never a lone of a wail of despair
Mingles its sound with the music from there.
Out of the silenee that once the heart filled—
Out of that silence a song has beer, thrilled;
Hope’s sweet fruition in strains divine voiced
As the celestial, bright visions arise
Fully revealed to the wondering eyes.
Out of the silence, oh! Poet, a song
Perfected is of the feelings that long
Thou but in part couldst give tone; and the
strain
Hears, now, no sadness, or longings denied,
Or hint of heari-cravings unsatisfied.
The song that was craved of the deep silence dim,
Where •‘eurlh-songs melt into Heaven’s sweet
hymn,”
Thine has become, Poet; silence is ours,
Since died with thee, Soldier, Poet and Priest,
Earth’s sweetest songs when thy soul was re
leased. Hattie
“Bonnie RuoOk,” Near Cassville, Ga.
CAGED in THE WOODS.
A Farmer’s Daughter Confined for Ten
Years Like a Wild Beast.
Wysox, Bradford county, Pa., May
23.—Samuel Case, aged 80 years, Is a
farmer in comfortable circumstances,
although he lives on an isolated farm
some twenty miles baek through the
woods from this place. The nearest set
tlement to him is the backwoods village
of Orwell, which is ten miles trom his
farm.
The farmers who live in his neighbor
hood are also isolated, and but little is
known of their domestic surroundings.
A week or so ago a citizen of this county
had some business up through that neigh
borhood. While on his trip he stopped
at Case’s farm to make some inquiries,
llis curiosity was excited by a small out
building, which stood by itself nearly 200
feet from the house, and still further from
an old and unused road at the back of the
farm. The building was not more than
ten feet square and eight feet high. It
had a window which was heavily barred,
and a door which was locked by a pon
derous nadlock and chain. Old man Case
gave him no satisfaction when asked what
use the outbuilding was put to, and the
gentleman, feeling an irresistible desire
to know, returned to the farm quietly by
a roundabout way, and, reaching the
building, stole up and peered through the
barred window. •
Across the inside of the building a
number of poles were fastened in the
floor and in the ceiling, forming a cage
like a chicken yard. As he looked he
was horrified to see rise up out of a box
of straw in the cage an old woman, scan
tily clad, almost llesliless, with high
cheek bones and gaunt eye 6. Her head
was covered with a mass of matted gray
hair. The gentleman hurried away, de
termined to have an investigation made
of his singular discovery. He came to a
house in the woods two or three miles
further on and there he told what he had
seen, and aeked if any information could
be given him. Lie was told that the wo
man he saw was old farmer Case’s daugh
ter Thebe. She had lost her reason twen
ty-six years ago through overwork on
the farm and about the house. She was
then 27 years of age. She had been al
lowed to'have her own way about the
place until ten years ago, when she be
came so violent that her father put up the
cage and confined her in it. She had
never been outside of it since. The
neighbors apparently thought but little
of the case, and treated it as a matter of
eourse.
The gentleman who discovered the un
fortunate woman at once notified the
State Lunacy Commission. Dr. A. J.
Onot ot that Commission came up last
week to investigate it. Case at first re
fused to open the building, in which he
admitted that he had his daughter con
fined, but finally unlocked it. The luna
tic was lying in her box of filthy straw
in the cage of poles. She had a remnant
of a quilt wrapped about her head, and
had but one tattered garment on her per
son. She raved wildly when disturbed.
For ten years, her father said, she had
been fed by placing her food on a block,
which stood on the outside of the cage
within her reach. She remained in the
place winter and summer, clad only as
she was found. Case said he could not
afford to pay her board in an asylum,
and was fearful she would not be treated
well in one. A physician who had at
tended Case’s family for years was aware
of the way the daughter was kept, but
had never reported it. The woman’s
mother died five years ago. The lunatic
has been taken to the county house. Dr.
Onot says that, with proper treatment
and care when her malady first appeared,
she could have been restored to her for
mer sound mental condition.
GENERAL GORDON.
Col. I. W. Avery, editor of the Atlanta
Capitol says:
“The editor of this paper knows the
facts connected with the resignation of
General Gordon as United States Senator
and the appointment by Governor Col
quitt of ex-Governor Brown as Senator
in his place.
At the time it was charged that the
whole matter was one of arrangement
between these gentlemen for private in
terest. They promptly denied it. The
people have four times overwhelmingly
declared rhe accusation false, by two elec
tions of Brown as Senator, the latter al
most unanimous, and by Governor Col
quitt’s re-election as Governor, and his
election as United States Senator. These
tests would seem to be decisive in the
matter.
General Gordon’s candidacy for Gov
ernor has revived the dead scandal.
There never was less basis for a charge.
The editor of the Capitol was at the time
ot the resignation and appointment Sec
retary of the Executive Department un
der Governor Colquitt and knew every
step of the transaction. lie knows two
facts that utterly negative the idea of a
bargain.
1. Gov. Colquitt was opposed to Gen.
Gordon’s resignation, and tried to get
him to withdraw it.
2. Gen. Gordon was opposed to the ap
pointment of Gov. Brown.
The resignation and appointment were
entirely disconnected and independent of
each other.
The writer states these facts in the in
terest of truth.”
Curry’s Liver Compound is endorsed
by our most prominent citizens.
THE PRELLER MURDER.
Getting at the Bottom Facts—The St.
Louts Trnnk Mystery Being Solved.
St. Louis, May 26.—The prosecution
in the famous Brooks-Preller case un
covered an ambush on the defense. It
was like the explosion ot a bomb at a
man’s feet. The smooth current of
unimportant testimony was broken by
a sensation startling as an earthquake
or a volcano on a quiet landscape. For
the first time Maxwell may be said to
have cowered. He stood the dragging
out ot the stained trunk in which the
body decomposed, and scarcely quivered
at the sight; be threw aside with flip
pant nonchalance the bundle of clothing
that had been cut from Preller’s corpse;
he viewed with scarcely a perceptible
quickening of respiration the disclosing
of his own drawers, found on the rot
ting carcass of the dead man; all of these
things were like twice told tales, and
none of them moved him. John Mc-
Culloch, a detective employed by the
Gould system secret service, testified
that by an arrangement with Mr. Mc-
Donald, of the prosecution, a sham case
of a forgery was got up and he was sent
to jail under the name of Frank Ding
felder, the forger. He was in jail forty
seven days, and while there he became
a confidante of Brooks, who told him all
the details of the murder of Preller. He
thought witness belonged to a notorious
gang of forgers, and together they fixed
up a plan to run some bogus testimony
in at the trial of Brooks for his benefit.
Brooks said he could beat the State if he
could only get a witness who would
swear that he had S7OO or SBOO when he
left Boston. McCullogh thought that
tills could be fixed, and agreed to get
one of the gang of forgers to do the job.
The result was that Brooks unbosomed'
himself and told the detective every
thing. Among other things, he said he
was almost broke, and wanted Preller to
lend him enough money to pay his fare
to Australia, but he said he had only
enough for himself. For his meanness,
Brooks said, he made up his mind that
he’d fix Preller. On Easter Sunday
Preller complained of pains, and Brooks
told him that he could cure them by us
ing a hypodermic syringe. Preller con
sented, took off his coat and vest, and
Brooks gave him a good dose, as he ex
pressed it. After he was asleep he ad
ministered the chloroform, but found
that he had not enough, and hurried out
to get more. As soon as Preller was
dead Brooks stripped him, took his mon
ey and prepared to leave. The rest of
the details are as have been given.
This account's for the hypodermic
syringe which was exhibited in court
last week, and which created so much
speculation. Witness also agreed to get
Brooks a witness to testify that he met
Preller in Boston last June, and that he
spoke to him, and that Preller asked
him not to say anything about meeting
him ; that might prevent him and Brooks
from getting the money they wanted,
it is now considered reasonably certain
that Brooks will hang.
REV. SAM JONES AS A SMOKER.
Baltimore Herald.J
Certain New York and Chicago papers
have published very unkind remarks eon
rorning the Rev. Sam Jones and the to
bacco habit, and we observe that the
Minneapolis Tribune goes so far as to
make a charge that Mr. Jones has broken
a pledge.
The facts are simply these: During
ills visit to Chicago Mr. Jones both
chewed and smoked tobaceo. But on
the offensiveness ol the chewing habit
being brought to his attention, he an
nounced his intention of abandoning it,
and we have his word for it that he has
never chewed since. He never made
any pledge as to giving up smoking; on
the contrary, he has never abandoned
smoking, even for a short length of time,
nor did he pretend so to do. He smoked
while he was at Chicago and after he
left. lie has been smoking eyer since,
nor has he made any effort to conceal the
fact that he does smoke.
We feel prompted to offer this plain
statement on behalf of a man who has
been maligned as one who voluntarily
makes a pledge and breaks it. We have
been told that some malicious persons in
Baltimore have started these leports, in
tending thereby to bring Mr. Jones into
contempt, and to impair his usefulness as
an evangelist. With the source of these
leports, we have nothing to do. We are
dealing simply with their untruthfulness,
and we are safe in saying that in the mat
ter of the smoking habit Mr. Jones made
no pledge.
Conceding that the use of tobacco is not
a natural habit, and that the active prin
ciple of the weed is poisonous, the fact
remains that thousands of the best and
greatest of men on the known earth, in
the East and the West, the North and
the South, have practically testified their
adhesion to the practice of tobacco smok
ing. Tiie habitually abstemious tribes
of the Arabian and Syrian deserts use
tobacco. The fanatically prohibitive
Turk exempts the pipe from the category
of forbidden joys, and the stout burghers
of Holland and Belgium think so highly
of the weed that they smoke continuously
during the transaction of business in pub
lic assemblies and courts.
While it is unnecessary to refer to the
injury which the use of tobacco inflict
on the young and the real danger of
smoking to exces.? even to grown persons
there has yet to be shown any reasonable
argument that could prohibit the use of
tobacco in moderation among men who,
like the Rev. Sam Jones, have their
mental faculties constantly strained by
the demands of the public for new ideas
and new impressions.
The Augusta an<l Chattanooga Railroad.
No railroad enterprise that was ever
projected in this city are pushed to com
pletion has yielded better results than
are promised by the proposed Augusta
and Chattanooga railway. The line
traverses one of the richest sections of
the State. It is, indeed, a natural line,
and the road will do for Augusta and the
side belt of country which it will under
contribution all that the Georgia railroad
has done for our city or the South Caro
lina railway has accomplished for Charles
ton. The road can be built—it must be
built. The people along the line, and
at the terminal points, are aroused to the
' importance of the enterprise. They see
and feel that now is the accepted time to
perfect the work so auspiciously begun.
Augusta feels that it is her opportunity,
and her people are responding right lib
erally in furtherance of the project. The
movants in this enterprise know no such
word as fail. —Augusta Chronicle, 25th.
THE LUNATIC ASYLUM.
Atlanta Correspondent Macon Telegraph.]
A great many people have a very
enormous opinion of the management and
surroundings of a lunatic fsylum,”said
a prominent Georgian to the Telegraph
correspondent.
“How so?” was asked.
“Well, they think that the inside of an
asylum presents a picture of a howling
mob of crazy people, when the very
reverse is the case.
“1 have just come from Milledgeville,
and while there visited the asylum and
spent a day going through the various
departments of the valuable and well
managed institution. Instead of finding
a violent mob of lunatics’ I found that
the inmates were well-behaved, looking
well-cared for, and seemed to be quite
contented with their treatment. Some
of them to whom I was introduced talked
perfectly rationally upon certain subjects
while upon others their views showed
that their minds were of a disordered
frame. For instance, l talked to quite an
intelligent fellow, and would not have
taken him for a lunatic or insane man,
had I not been informed that he imagined
himself a grain of corn, and was afraid
that if lie went out into the yard the
chickens would make a meal of him.
Another male inmateevinced his insanity
by imagining that a young lady who is
confined in the asylum is a negro. He
can’t be convinced otherwise, and thinks
that it is outrageous that she should be
allowed to mingle with the white inmales
of the institution. In other respects this
man seems to have more than ordinary
intelligence.”
“What is done by the management to
direct the minds of the inmates from
their condition and the surroundings?”
“Oh, almost everything. The Super
intendent, Dr. Powell, and his assistants
are constantly engaged getting up some
sort of amusement fur the inmates of the
institution. For instance, last Wednes
day night a big dance was given in the
new building recently constructed at the
asylum. A good band of music was on
hand, and everything passed off smooth
ly. Had a man fallen out of the clouds
and landed in the ball-room, be would
not for a moment have thought the peo
ple who were dancing were lunatics.
Every night they have a change of pro
gramme. Sometimes they have instru
mental and vocal concerts, then again
they spend an evening by having read
i igs and recitations, and upon other oc
casions theatricals are resorted to. The
main object is to get the minds of the in
mates as far away from the causes which
sent them to the asylum as possible.
“Everything is done to make them
feel that the hard hand of restraint is off,
and the soft p’lm of freedom given
them.”
“How many inmates are there in the
asylum ?”
“About twelve hundred, and hardly
one in a hundred is uncontrolable. They
all seem to be happy, contented and in
fine spirits.”
A REMARKABLE MOUNTAINEER,
Clark North, the Blind Mail Carrier of the
Catskill Mountains.
Clarksville, N. Y., May 25.—The
mail between this mountain hamlet in
Sullivan county and Big Indian, Ulster
county, is carried by way of Denning,
Ulster county. The route is twenty-one
miles long, and is through the roughest
and wildest portion of the Catskills.
The road is so rough, in fact, that the
mail is carried on foot, and the carrier
is Clark North, who is totally blind.
He has carried the United States mail
over almost impassible Catskill routes
for thirty years, since he was a boy, and
has never seen any of the wild region
through which he has travelled.
His former route was in the wilderness
region between Sliokan and Sampson
ville, at that time an almost unknown
country, frequented only by hunters
and fishermen, yet the sightless carrier
made his trips three times a week with
the regularity of clockwork. He travels
his present circuit of forty-two
miles three times a week, and
has never missed a day either in
winter and summer. Snow drifts nor
floods seem to be no barrier to him. He
has never met with an accident. In spite
of his long life of exposure to rain, snow,
cold, and heat he is wonderfully vigorous
in health. He is a walking encyclopaedia
of the region through which he travels.
Its vital statistics for more than a quarter
of a century past are as an open book to
him. Marriages, births, deaths, relation
ships, the pedigree of stock, ownership
and titles in property, are fixed in his
mind with marvelous accuracy of date,
name and circumstance. Any disputed
point on these subjects is settled at once
by appealing to Clark North. His decis
ion is final, and no one would ever dream
of appealing from it.
Although unable to read, he industri
ously gathers from others all information
on the current topics of the day, and, as
he never forgets anything, is probably
the best informed person on general
subjects in this part of the Catskill
region. Kind, honest, industrious, re
liable, 00 citizen of this region stands
higher in the estimation of all classes than
Clark North, the blind mail carrier of
the Catskills.
GORDON'S POSITION.
General Gordon is opposed to the sale
of the State Road, and opposed to it being
leased to the East Tennessee Road, be
cause he wants the people to have a com
peting line that freights maj r not be
extortionately levied on the people.
Major Bacon is the Attorney of the East
Tennessee Road and the Pullman Palace
Car Company at a salary of SIO,OOO per
year, and he is very likely to use his
influence in behalf of his railroad friends.
Gen. Gordon is In favor of the Railroad
Commission that the people may not be
discriminated against and oppressed.
Major Bacon wants the Railroad com
mission modified. General Gordon is
opposed to convict labor being brought
in competition with free labor. He is
squarery committed on these questions,
and being the gallant soldier, the Chris
tian statesman and pure patriot that he is,
he should have the support of the people
irrespective ot class or calling.— Marietta
Journal.
If old records are to be examined and
invoked, wiil the Marietta Journal and
Rome Courier inform us what kind of a
record Mr. Clement’s was making when
Judge Fain was getting shot to pieces—
with face to foe when proud patronism
was piling up monuments in the dead
bodies of liberty’s sons?— Calhoun Times.
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BRIDAL PREPARATIONS.
The President Wants Privacy And Will
Go to the Altar by Special Train.
New York World.]
Washington, May 24.— C01. Lamont
has found the weight of the President’s
matrimonial confidences too much for
him. He has gotten a week’s leave of
absence and left for Cortland, X. Y. this
morning. A denial that the President
told Dr. Pierce, Mr. Hendricks’s brother
in-law, when he was to be married was
given out yesterday. Dr. Pierce could
have had no interest in misrepresenting
the President. He called at the White
House Saturday for the special purpose
of finding out about the marriage, and
the very moment that he left the Presi
dent with the happiest kind of triumph
ant flourish, he made the announcement
which was printed in the World last Sun
day morning. Later in the day he re
peated the story of the discovery to Col.
Irwin, of New York. Dr. Pierce left
Washington for New York yesterday.
It is believed here that the President
will refuse to publicly commit himself
concerning this interesting topic up to
the very day of the wedding ceremony.
If he should pursue the policy which he
has followed concerning this subject the
marriage will take place in secret and
all fact relating to it ever after w ill be
suppressed. A gentleman who is well ac
quainted with the President says that
Mr. Cleveland is not as good-natured
about the gossip over this matter as some
of his friends think. He turns off the
casual remarks that are made about it
from time to time in a good-humored
way, but in reality lie says that the Pres
ident is angry and really resents all of
the talk about it in the newspapers.
He resents it to such a degree that several
days ago he wrote a long lettr to a New
York member of Congress who had been
guilty of making some comment upon
the possibility of the marriage in a spec
ulative interview.
In this letter the President complained
in severe terms of the prying aDd per
sistent impertinence of the newspapers.
He thought the question of marriage
purely a private one which did not con
cern the public in the remotest degree.
It is said that when Mr. Bissell was
here he completed all the arrangements
for carrying the Presidential party from
Washington to Buffalo. He ongaged a
special car from the Pennsylvania Com
pany. This will leave Washington and
pick up the Folsom family at Baltimore.
Thence on, the car will be run up over
the Northern Central road and go to
Buffalo via Williamsport. It is probable
this car will have a commissary attached
to it, and the two will be made up as a
special train. With all the President’s
sensitiveness upon the subject of being
married, it is hardly probable that he
w'ill want to be at the mercy of any
curious people or wicked reporters, who
w’ould seek to take passage upon the
train if it were not a special.
Miss Folsom Wealthier than Mr. Cleve
land.
From the Buffalo Times.]
The public are at liberty to gossip until
they are fully satisfied regarding the
Folsoms and the corning marriage of
President Cleveland, but no one need
lose sleep because of the poverty of the
family. The Folsoms have for many
years ranked among the wealthy and
influential people of western New York.
The father of Miss Frances Folsom, the
late Oscar Folsom was not a prudent
man in financial matters, and died poor,
but he was the exception in a large fam
ily. Benjamin Folsom, the Buffalo at
torney, who is now in Europe with Miss
Folsom, has already inherited a quarter
of a million dollars, and will doubtless
receive a large addition to this fortune
from the estate of his father and other
relatives. The senior Benjamin Folsom
was for a quarter of a century or more a
resident ot Attica, N. Y., where he made
a large fortune as a railroad contractor.
Western investments rendered him a
millionaire, or nearly so, and Benjamin
Folsom, Jr., receives at least one-half
of the estate. He is a bachelor of quiet,
though refined tastes, and the present
European trip is being made largely at
his expense. The father of the lamented
Oscar Folsom is still alive. His wealth
is about half a million, and Miss Frances
Folsom is one of his heirs. The popular
young lady will be rich in her own right
in a few years. In fact she and her
widowed mother already enjoy a portion
of the wealth which Col. John B. Folsom
has willed to her. Miss Frances Folsom
is already the virtual possessor of a larger
estate than Mr. Cleveland has ever been
able to accumulate.
. + •
State’s Evidence.
An old negro, much alarmed, went to
a judge and said : “Jedge, dar’s er lot er
hangs been stold down in ray neighbor
hood lately an’ fust thing yer knows
somebody’s gwine ter be errested. I
know who tuck ’em an’ ef yer’ll let me
me turn State’s eyerdence I’ll tell yer.”
“You were concerned, eh?” “Yas, sail,
an’ ef yer’ll let me turn de eyerdence
I’ll tell yer zackly who took dem haugs.”
“All right.” “Wont’t do nothin’ wid
me.” “Not a thing.” “Will yer sw’ar
it?” “Yes, if necesary.” “But will
yer put it in writin’?” “Yes.” The
judge drew up an agreement and when
he had read it the old negro said: “Dat
soun’s sorter like it. Sho’ dis docky
mint’ll stan'?” “Of course it wiP-
Now tell me who stold the hogs.” Won’,
do nothin’ wid me?” “No.” Wall,
jedge, I stold dem hangs by merse’f,
Good day, sah. I thank yer fur yer kind
ness.”—Arkansaw Traveler.
Carrolton Free Press : There has been
one of the greatest mysteries discovered
in the way of snakes near the Black
Jack mountain that we have ever heard
of. The facts are as follows: A Mr.
Hill, a tenant of Mr. J. H. L. Benford,
was cutting and splitting rails and cut
down a post oak about two feet in di
ameter, and cut off a cut, split it open,
and to his surprise he found a chicken
snake about three feet in length right in
the centre of the heart. The tree was
entirely sound where he cut it off at
both places, all but one little decayed
spot in the stump. The tree had been
deadened four years ago, and the snake
must haye got in before it died. The
question now is how long it had been
in there and what did it live on ?
A CHILD TOSSING IN ITS SLEEP
indicates worms. An army of them are
at eating the vituals away. One dose of
Shriner’s Vermifuge will destroy them
and sr.ve its life.
The Buckeye force Pumps and Iron
Turbine Wind Mills, the best in the mar
ket, lor sale by
V. L. Williams & Cos.
NUMBER IS
CHICAGO ANARCHISTS.
Startling Revelations Made l>y a Police
Officer.
Chicago, May 25.—A morning paper
published what purports to be the tes
timony of Captain Schaack before the
grand jury in relation to the instigators
of the recent Haymarket slaughter.
This testimony as printed is sensational
in the extreme, but not incredible, and
it is anticipated that the developments
of the next few days will prove the
truth of much of it. Captain Schaack is
Slid to have told the jury the following
facts resulting from the investigations
of police department:
He had witnesses to prove that the
prisoner Lingghad manufactured a num
ber of dynamite bombs from material
obtained at Uni office of the A rbeitqgt
Zeitung. Three persons were associated
with Lingg, one of whom was under
arrest. The second section of the Cap
tain’s testimony, it is said, was listened
to with breathless silence. “1 think,”
said Schaack, “I have got to the bottom
of this business. In a couplo of days I
will have it all. But I want a little more
time. Then l can prove beyond a doubt
that this Anarchist conspiracy has ex
isted here for years. There are two
divisions in it. One is an agitating sec
tion. Money is set apart for its purposes.
This is called the Socialist section. Be
sides this there is an armed party, an
Anarchist section. These drill and are
trained in the use of explosives. I think
I can prove that there was a well-laid
plan to sack and burn districts in Chi
cago on May 4. It would have been
carried out, but that the Anarchists
lacked nerve and were unprepared for
the vigorous action of the police.
The men were told to set fire to certain
houses in the northwestern portion ot
the city, and others were told to throw
bombs into the police stations while oth
ers were to use bombs at the meeting if
the police attempted to disperse it. I
think l can connect every man of the
Socialists now in jail with this. The
houses to be burned in the northwestern
section of the city were to be selected in
discriminately. The purpose of the
burning was to attract the attention of
the police to that section, and to draw
them away from the main points of at
tack, the Haymarket Square and the
police stations. The early dispersal of
the crowd in the square, the premature
throwing of the bomb, for it was
premature, and the determined resistance
of the police frightened the would-be in
cendiaries, and those who were to attack
the police barracks in detail.”
A joror asked where the witnesses to
prove the conspiracy were.
“In the lockup of the police station,”
Schaack replied. “I can produce as
many of them before the grand jury as
may be deemed wise and necessary.
They have confessed their complicity to
me. I have explained to the Stite’s At
torney, and I am acting under his in
structions.”
A YANKEE POSTMISTRESS.
The town of Somerset, which lies on
the back borders of Windham county,
and teems with a population of G 7 souls,
17 of whom are voters, is trying to make
trouble for the spunky new postmistress,
Mr3. Sutton, who has planted the post
office in a box by the kitchen stove, and
insists on locking the house and going
visiting just when she pleases. In short,
she has made the proclamation that tho
post office will lie open only on two days
of the week. Post Office Inspector L. B.
Samson has just been over thereto per
suade the woman that nothing but ten
hours a day would do for the service,
but she simply told him that two days in
the week was enough, and that she didn't
propose to tie herself up to that post office
or stay at home if she wanted to go a vis
iting—not for Mr. Chase nor for Mr.
Samson nor for the United States Post
Office Department.
Mrs. Sutton thus defies the United
States government and all its agents in
Windham county: and not only that but
she bids defiance to all classes of society
in Somerset, the rich as well as the
poor, the seventeen voters as well as the
fifty other people about her. But she has
little to fear, as Somerset is in a wild
mountainous regeon, about thirty miles
from a good road, and not likely again
to be visited for some time by a govern
ment inspector. The sixty-seven souls
of that town have got to fight it out alone
with the plucky postmistress.
Among other traditions of the Gov
ernment printing office at Washington is
a story told about a boy sent with some
proof slips of an important decisions to
Cnief Justice Taney. He appeared at
the office of the Chief Justice and asked
him: “Is Taney in?” “I presume,”
was the dignified reply, “you wish to see
the Chief Justice of the United States ?”
“I don’t care a cuss about him. I’ve
got some proofs for Taney.”
“I am the Honorable Roger B.
Taney.”
“You’re Taney, aren’t you?”
“I am not, fellow. I am the Honora
ble Roger B. Taney.”
“Then the proofs are not for you,”
and the unceremonious messenger
would have gone oft’ with them if the
Judge had not admitted himself to be
Taney simply. —Pen Perley Poore in the
Boston Budget.
There has been a good deal said about
General John B. Gordon’s business trans
actions, but we have just heard of a little
incident that shows the true character of
the man. Squire J. D. Fuller, of Mer
ritts district, in this county, relates that
General Gordon owed his brother three
huudred dollars before the war. The
war came on and the debt was not paid.
After the war General Gordon had no
money but told Mr. Fuller that as soon as
he got the money he would pay it. That
time came in the history of General Gor
don and he hunted up Mr. Fuller and
paid every cent of it. —Marietta Journal.
Chattanooga, May 25—While an en
gine was pulling two flat with 170 kegs
of powder aboard up the mining incline
at Reichburn late last night the powder
exploded, blowing the cars to pieces and
killing three men. Engineer W. T.
Lloyd disobeyed his orders to push the
cars up, and put them behind the engine.
A spark from the engine dropped on one
of the kegs, causing the explosion. Not
one of the men had a stich of cloth
ing left on them when found, and their
bodies were black with powder.
The East Tennessee and the Western
& Atlantic roads are not dwelling in har
mony. The passes in the hands of Wes
tern and Atlantic agents have been de
manded by and returned to the East Ten
nessee officials.
The pilots of the port of Atlanta have
not yet adopted a schedule of prices for
bringing schooners over the bar, after the
liquor quarantine goes into effect. — Sa
vannah News.