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VOLUME 11.
New Spring G-oods!!
Jl>cr W\-tv* tf> inform n y customers and the people of liar tow county and irmunding country
to ttic tact that my new arc all in and it is conceded ty all that 1 have
Tho Largest Stocks,
Tb.© Handsomest Display,
AND
Tho Xiowoct Prices
t hat have ever licon heard of in ('artcrsyille. I have alt the new °tyte- and novelties in
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Come ami poo for yourselves that I have decidedly the handsomest stock l ever had ami am
selling cheapei • ver purchased such . if ore. Thinking you for your most
liberal patron anti asking for a continuance or the same, I am, Most Respectfully,
MISS E. M. PADGBTTE,
, v Over Mays A Pritchett’s, Cartersville.
C< mic anl make your selections before the stock is depleted.
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FOR THE
not* rtf GEORGIA
Cheap: Fufimok ; House!
UNDER MEW fIAN ACHMENT.
r would respectfully call the attention of my friends as well as the people generally to the fact
that I have bought, out the, Furniture store of Mr. Jas. 11. Gilrcath, and will continue the business
at the same old tan I. .( will always endeavor to keep the very best goods in the market as well
as those that will suit parties of limited means. One thing is certain, lam oiTering 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 Better
Than to Cive Me a Call. ! Guarantee they will bo
Pleased at my Stock.
1 Will also handle the “ IST MW HOME” Sewing Machine, which is guaranteed to
giv perfect satisfaction. The lathes .diouM he cej'tam to see tins easy-running machine beloic
they purchase. Have just opened up a nice line of MATTINGS. Something new and
ami nice. fife'T All 1 ask is a trial.
S L. VANDIVERE,
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Prop’r. N. 'Ga. Cheap Furniture House.
Attention Everybody!
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WE HAVE THIS HAY REDUCED OUR PRICES GREATLY !
All Repaira Will bo Loss than Heretofore.
Til si - f>otie in View of the Hardness of the Times. We Keep
on Constantly .t HEAVY STOCK OF WESTERN WAGONS,
Si l DEBAKBB, KENTUCKY, and other Makes, which we will
Sell Cheaper Ilian Ever Before.
It You Want the Best Wagon you can Buy on any Market Buy
The Celebrated JONES WAGON.
Made here. One and Two H no. SOLID BTBEL AXLES, SABVIK PATENT WHEELS.
We defy the worltl to beat us in this line. These Wag-ons will last longer, run ligiitcr, and 100
better than any. >N KOF THEM. Conic or write to us.
It. 11. Joiioh Ac Sons ManPg’. Cos..
dlO-fy CARTE3SVI LLE CEORCIA.
t-fMs Ssaiapd Ooods!
Hundreds Knives—Eighty Different Varieties, from a
Ladies* Penknife to a Cowboy’s Toothpick.
NIN E m INI MIE3>~&E r rS < KNIVES FORKS !
Till*: GOODS WILL RE SOLD DOG CHEAP—AT HALF NEW YORK COST.
£?/"Como ami make your selections before they are picked over.
It. M. PATTILLO.
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BARTOW LEASE,
Insiirmice Agent,
STORAGE <St COMMISSION MERCHANT
Insure Your Property in a Sale Company.
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rpilK ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY IS THE LARGEST AND WEALTHIEST TN THE
L World. Losses paid PROMPTLY ami without discount.
Insurance effected in P.ariow, Gordon, Polk and Paulding counties. Insurance at home and
abroad respectfully solicited. inch!
J A. CRAWFORD, Georgia. R. N. HUDSON, Tennessee.
Crawford <& Hudson.
CARTERSVI LLK, GEORGIA.
SAI.TO and LIVERY STABLE.
East of Railroad, Near tho Courthouse.
' , OUK TURNOUTS A ItK STRICT!.Y
L IIORSES A^ !> MFLKS KEPT ON
OUR ACCOMMODATIONS FOR
M DROVERS CANNOT RE SURPASS-
AM of Clingman’s T'obaeco Remedies
are gold at Curry’s Drug Store.
Curry's Diarrlnea and Dysentery
Specific is a sure cure for all bowel af
fections. 25c a bottle.
THE CARTERSVILLE COURANT.
Steam Fittings 1 Steam Fittings 1 !
V. L. Williams & Cos. are now prepared
to furnish steam fittings and pipe. Do
not send oil' when you can buy cheaper
at home.
CARTERSVILLE..GEORGIA, THURSDAY. JUNE 17, 1886.
NE.IOHRORHOOD NOTES.
Item* of Interest from the Fens of Busj
Newspaper Bnygin This Section.
Col. LntherJ. Glenn, of Atlanta, is
dead.
Cordon whooped it up in Fulton coun
ty to the tune of four to one.
The democrats of Cobb county will act
Saturday.
Judge W. M. Sessions, of Cobb county,
bag declined to make the race for con
gress.
Fannie Alston, a colored woman, was
found dead at Due West, Cobb county,
last week. Heart disease.
Will Glenn, of Dalton, has tsken the
stump for Gen. Gordon, and is doing
some effective work.
Miss lon Williams, of Cartersville, has
: a good school at Cherokee Mills, Chero
kee county.
A man in Birmingham, Alai has lost
his mind from reading the campaign
columns of the Macon Telegraph.
Mr. Ervin Maxwell, of the Palace
hotel Cincinnati, has been in Marleta,
talking up the building of a 100-room
hotel and the building of gas works.
The Marietta Journal says slander will
not pay in Georgia polities. Exactly,
and we now hope the good editors of the
papers let up on Judge Fain,
John IT. Evans, while in a drunken
condition, severely cut his companion,
Terry Campbell, in Home last week.
Evans made his escape.
The commissioners of Floyd county
have contracted for the building of tyyo
iron bridges across the Etowah river.
They will cost $30,000.
Mrs. John Gunter, of Cherokee county,
has a skillet that has been in the family
since 1780, which looks as good as new.
Dr. T. R. Kendall, pastor of the Meth
odist church at Rome, Ga., formerly of
Trinity church. Atlanta, was married to
Miss Mary Lovelace, of Rome, on the Bth
inst.
Mrs. William Reece, who lives on Jno.
F. Wheeler’s place near Hickory Flat,
Cherokee county, gave birth to triplets
—three boys—last Sunday evening. The
mother, father and boys are doing well.
Judge J. W. 11. Underwood is lying
at his residence in Rome very ill. His
sickness is dangerous and his many
friends are uneay but still hopeful of his
recovery.
Considerable disappointment is man
ifested over the development of Colonel
George It. Brown’s ineligibility to the
position of state senator on account of
his age. It is said that he will not be
twenty-five years old until November
27th. Ho was the most prominent can
didate in pie field and would doubtless
have been elected. It is not understood
who will run in his stead.
Mrs. J. M. Caldwell, wife of Presi
dent Caldwell, of the Rome Female
college, died yesterday morning after a
lingering illness. Mrs. Caldwell was
universally beloved and respected
and her death, while not unexpected,
cast a gloom over the community. Mrs.
Caldwell was about sixty-lhree years
old, and lias been connected with
the Rome Female college since its estab
lishment nearly thirty years ago.
Georgia has a postoftiee named “Talk
ing Rock,” which acquired its title in
the following manner: Some one in the
vicinity found a large stone, upon which
was painted the words, “Turn me over.”
It required great strength to accomplish
this, and when it was done the man was
confronted with the legend on the other
side of the stone, “Now turn one back
and let me fool some one else.”
Let us gee whether certain men, cer
tain sets of men, and certain newspa
pers, can deliberately set to work to in
troduce personal slander and revilement
as elements of political procedure in this
.State, and not recieve swift and condign
punishment at the hands of every truth
and honor-loving Georgian. That re
buke and punishment will come, as sure
as the sun will come out of the East to
morrow. Georgians will not tolerate
the terrible abuse which is heaped upon
an honorable man who seeks, in an hon
orable way, the suffrage of his fellow
citizens. All of which means that Gen
eral John 15. Gordon will be triumph
antly elected governor of Georgia.—At
lanta Journal.
Washington, June 4. — The House
Committee on War Claims to-day listen
ed to an argument by a representative of
the Confederate bondholders, who urged
the redemption of those bonds by the
Government. Ex-Judge Fullerton of
New York appeared for the British bond
holders. The point made was that the
United States should not have allowed
one part of its citizens (the South) to sell
them abroad; that the Federal Consti
tution forbids the Southern States from
paying these debts, and that the United
States, therefore, should assume respon
sibility lor them.
The London Electrician is the author,
ity for anew and easy method of re
lieving the toothache. It says that if
a thin plate of zinc he placed on the side
of the gum and a silver coin on the other
side, with the aching tooth between
them, and then the edges of the metals
brought together, a weak galvanic cur
rent will he established that will cure
the pain. It looks possible, and is the
sort of tiling that one could easily get
somebody to try.
Cleveland is if* years old, Mrs. Cleve
land is 22. There is twenty-seven years
difference in their ages; still there is not
much more difference than there was in
the ages of President Madison and his
wife, and Mrs. Madison made one of the
host mistresses the White House evtr
had. She was just as old as Mrs. Cleve
land is now when she married Madison.
— Cleveland. Leader.
SLAVERY IN FLORIDA.
A Keinnant of tlie Somlnoles Maintain Ne
groes in Bondage.
A Tampa Fla.' letter to the St Louis
Globe-Democrat saj3: It will probably
be difficult to convince Northern people
that the “peculiar institution” for the
extinction for which such oceans of
blood and millions of treasures were
spent a few years ago, still has any ex
istence within the borders of the United
States. Nevertheless, it is a fact that in
certain of the more Southern parts of
Florida negroes are held in as strict bon
dage as ever they were before the great
war in any part of the country. Slavery
survives, however, only among the few
remnants of the Seminole tribe who still
have thejr homes in the woods and ever-
glades south and ea3t of the Caloosa
hatche river. There are many families
of the red men who, though perfectly
inoffensive so far as the whites are con
cerned, maintain a dignified indepen
dence of the general laws and administer
their own affairs in a way strongly rem
iniscent of patriarchal traditions. They
live principally by the chaoe and upon
the fish of which al’ Florida waters,
lakes, streams and seas are extremely
prolific; and for vegetable food they de
pend upon small pitches of ground
cleared hero and there, $s fancy may
dictate, from year to year, The cultiva
tion of these patches among the poorer
members of the tribe is carried on by
their women; but the more prosperous
of the Indians have their negro slaves,
upon whom they devolve aii the hard
labor of cultivation, as well as the few
items of menial drudgery incident to
their simple methods of living.
It is curious to observe the degree of
pride these Seminoles* take in the fact
that they arp slaveholders. They are
perfectly aware that the white people of
the country are forbidden to hold slaves;
that every negro throughout the South
who once had to pay obedience to a bond
master has been freed; but they don’t
seem to understand that either emanci
pation proclamations and enactments or
amendments have any
opplication to them a u d their “niggers.”
Hence they regard themselves as a race
of beings more highly privileged than
the whites—aristocrats who alone are
recognized as having rights of property
in an inferior race. Nor is there appa
rent among them the faintest suspicion
that their assured rights can be ques
tioned by the law. Slave owning and
slave trading among themselves is con
ducted as openly and with as much confi
dence as ever it was in South Carolina
or Alabama thirty or forty years ago,
and even when they visit the town3 to
exchange their peltries for powder, cloth
ing, crockery and other necessities, they
occasionally take with them their black
bondsmen, partly to perform any la
borious duty that may happen to become
necessary, but partly, also, to enhance
their appearance of dignity and impor
tance. Only a few weeks ago one of this
class, a full-blooded Indian, claiming the
rank of a Seminole chief, came to Tampa
to buy stores, bringing with him a young
negress whom ho pointed to with
pride as his own property, remarking at
the time, “Me big chief, heap bigger
than white man, white man no slave,
only Seminole have slave,” etc. Several
people of Tampa, both white and colored,
tried to interest themselves on behalf of
the black girl, hoping to induce her to
assert her right to freedom and to remain
in the city, where a home would have
been provided for her. But slie knew
no language but Seminole, and all efforts
to make her understand were fruitless.
She took fright, too, at the well-meaning
efforts, and breaking from those who
would have persuaded her ffed to her
master, and taking hold of his skirts,
could not be induced to detach her hold
all the time be remained in Tampa.
It is but fair to add that since that sin
gular event news has been received
that the chief has promoted the poor girl
from the position of slave to wife, an
honor which she, of course, has to share
with two or three others. Upon first
hearing this queer story I naturally con-
eluded that it was an isolated instance
and by no means to be considered as
representing a common state of things,
but I was assured by Mr. Henderson, a
leading merchant of Tampa, an extensive
stock raiser and shipper, and a gentlepian
who lias been familiar with this part of
the country for forty years, that every
Seminole family of any degree of con
sequence has one or more negroes, who
are kept in profound ignorance of the
English language, and who, consequent
ly know nothing of their claims to
freedom.
The Melon Crop.
Evening Capitol.]
A Capitol reporter called on Mr. Jo
seph M. Brown, freight agent of the
Western & Atlantic road, and asked him
what figures he had made on the melon
crop for 1886.
“We have made no figures,” lie re-
plied, “because such work has become
unnecessary on account of the manner in
which our freight cars are now construct
ed. By a double door arrangement we
ean convert all our grain and meat cars,
and thus have more than we will need.
You can say, however, that from the re
ports we have received the crop promises
to be much larger than last season ; that
is if the present wet spell does not injure
it. You know last season two weeks of
rain in June entirely destroyed the early
melon crop. It is hard to tell yet what
result the present rainy spell may pro
duce.”
“There is a great deal of planting ?”
“More than there was ever heard of
before in Georgia.”
Nothing equals Delectalaye as a mouth
wash. Try it. Sold by Gurry.
A PRESENT FOR THE PRINTERS.
Messrs. Childs and Drexel Give Them a
Check for #IO,OOO.
l’rrrsni'RG, June B.— ln the Interna
tional Typographical Convention to-day,
Janies J. Dailey of the Philadelphia
Union presented a letter from Mr. G. W.
Childs, in which he said :
It is known to some of your members
that I feel a warm interest in what con
cerns tiie welfare of all who work for
wages, and in the wise management of
the trades union and other kindred or
ganizations it has become advisable for
them to establish for the promotion of
their true interests. This feeling being
especially strong toward the Printers’
Union, with whose members I have had
close and very satisfactory business rela
tions for many years, it is my earnest de
sire, in which I am heartily Joined by
my friend, Mr. A. J. Drexel, to extend
to the time-honored International Typo
graphical Union, as the representative of
the united plass in North America, some
expression more substantial than words.
llow to do this is a way that may produce
lasting good has engaged the thoughts of
both Mr. Drexel and myself, and we
conclude that your union, or such trus
tees as you may select for the purpose,
will know better than ourselves how that
good can be best accotnpliyed,
We therefore send to you herewith, by
the hand of Mr, Dailey* foreman in the
Public Ledger office, our check for the
amount of SIO,OO0 —$5,000 from Mr.
Drexel, who is now in Europe, and
$5,000 from the undersigned—without,
condition or suggestion of any kind, as
an absolute gift, in full confidence that
the sagacious and conservative counsel
lors of your union will make or order
wise use of it for the good of the union.
The letter was received with tremen
dous applause, and upon motion of Jo
seph L. Evans of this city the gift was
received and a committee appointed to
draft resolutions oi thanks to Messrs.
Childs and Drexel.
VALUE OF COTTON SEED.
Savannah News. I
There has been a great increase in the
value of cotton seed since the manufac
ture of oil therefrom lias assumed large
proportions, and the increase is likely to
continue as the manufacture increases
and the use of cottonseed oil is extended.
Not many years ago the planter who
cared to sell his cotton seed felt that lie
was fortunate if he could get 10c. per
bushel for it. Now the average price
paid by the agents of flic oil mills is
nearly double that of five or six years
ago.
The seed from a bale of cotton will
bring $5 in almost any part of the
South, but comparatively few farmers
care to sell it at any obtainable price.
Although it is contended that the oil
contained in cotton seed is worthless as a
fertilizer, the whole seed is known to be
so valuable, both alone and in compost,
that it is not considered economy to sell
it and supply its place with cotton seed
meal at the present prices of these ar
ticles.
The demand, for cotton seed oil seems
to be increasing and its use extending.
Difficulty has already been experienced
in securing sufficient seed to supply the
mills, even when the production of oil
was limited by the pool. The manufac
turers were obliged at different times to
raise the price which they had agreed to
pay for seed. The present price in the
Mississippi valley averages about sl2 per
ton, while the price of cotton seed meal,
adapted for use as feed stuff or as a
fertilizer, is about S2O per ton. Should
the demand for oil increase so that the
mills can run on full time, there is little
doubt that they could afford to pay fully
S2O per ton for the seed. This would be
30c. per bushel. If farmers near rail
road and steamboat lines could get that
price for their cotton seed, they could
afford to sell the bulk of it and invest
the money in fertilizers.
THE BANKRUPTCY* BILL.
Senator Brown Addresses the Senate in
Opposition to it.
Washington, June 7. —After the rou
tine morning business the Northern Pa
cific forfeiture bill was placet! before the
Senate, then informally laid aside to per
mit Mr. Brown to address the senate on
the bankruptcy bill.
Mr. Brown said that of the sixty mil
lion people of the United States, not one
million desired this bankruptcy bill. It
was desired by bankers and brokers and
by the creditor class generally, as well as
by lawyers. It was a good bill for these,
but a sad bill for the remainder of the
people. lie reviewed the history of our
former bankrupt laws to show that that
class of national legislation had not
worked well and was not desired by
the people. lie analysed the provisions
of the pending bill, to show that they
would have an injurious effect on that
class of people who buy goods on credit,
and would discriminate against them
in favor of the people who “are very
well able to take care of themselves.”
The bill would permit the putting into
involuntary bankruptcy of persons who
should be thirty days behind in their
payments. What would our country
merchants say to this? They were usu
ally more prompt in their payments than,
city merchants, yet country rncrcnants
were sometimes unavoidably behind in
| their payments for more than thirty
days. The people of the .United States
would not stand such an iniquity as this
bill. In behalf of the people whom he
represented, Mr. Brown, protested
against its passage.
Occasional doses of Curry’s Liver Com
pound will prevent chills and fever and
all malarial troubles by keeping the liver
! in perfect order.
A Good Campaign Editor.
Philadelphia Press, j
, Stories of the recent cyclone in Ohio
are coming in quite freely, hut they do
not approach the marvelous stories of the
tornado that swept up the valley of the
roaring Codorus, in York county, in the
cold spring of 1842. After the storm we
speak of one farmer found that his well
had been pulled up by the roots and was
hanging on the limbs of a white-oak tree
four miles away. A eellar belonging to
one of his neighbors was split in two,
one-half of it being blown through a
stone-quarry and the other half turned
up endwise against a haystack in the
adjoining county. A flock of geese were
completely stripped of their feathers by
the wind, and a dried-apple pie was
blown through the side of a school-house, j
terrifying the teacher and scholars, be-
sides ruining a large map of the grass
hopper districts of Kansas. A large
barn containing thirteen tons of hay was
lifted off its foundations and carried
bodily six miles down the valley, where
it settled down so squarely that the doors
could be opened without prying them.
The wind blew the tails off six Durham
cows, and a Berkshire pig weighing 200
pounds was blown completely through
his skin, the hide remaining in a stand
ing position and preserving an expression
of naturalness that deceived many visi
tors. The boundary lines of several
townships were bent all out of shape, so
that they looked like a curled hair mat
tress on a hot griddle, and the air was
blown so completely out of the valley
that people had to go up on the hills
when they wanted to breathe.
Erecting the Statue of Liberty.
New York World.
The steel framework ot the Statute of
Liberty is being very rapidly erected,
about seventy, feet being up now. This
takes .it up to the waist of the statue.
The heavy part of the work will be com
pleted by the. 12tli,and the entire interior
structure will be in place by July 1.
Next will begin the putting on the sheets
of the exterior, and then the graceful
outline of the statue will begin to appear.
The island, was visited by many persons
last week, and it is expected a great many
will go over to-day. The steamer Jud
Field leaves her pier at the Barge Office
at every hour beginning at 0 o’clock,
except the noon hour, up to oin the af-
teinoon. !fiberty Island is just now one
of the most interesting spots about New
York, and the interest will grow up to
the day when the great statue is dedicat
ed. Several pieces of the statue are
placed where they can b ® seen before
they are elevated to their lofty perches.
The face of the bronze goddess stands on
the ground, and this alone is worth going
to the island to see. It will soon be 300
feet above ground, and no one can tell
when man shall again be able to stand in
the light of this stern countenance.
Judge Henderson, State Commissioner
of Agriculture, in his report for June,
says: “The condition of the growing
crops is much below the average for the
season. The corn crop is 4 points below
the reported condition of last year’s crop
on June 1. The oat crop falls 13 points,
wheat 14, and cotton 15 below the condi-
tion of last year at this date. The Irish
potato crop only is reported to he better
than an average. The heavy rains in
many localities have caused serious
damage to corn and cotton, necessitating
in many instancies entire replanting of
crops on bottom lands. The crops are
from 10 to 20 days behind the usual stage
of growth at this date. The cotton stand
is generally poor. This is attributed to
the cool weather, to the beating rains and
baked condition of the lands, and is also
due in a large degree to defective seed,
resulting from the damaged condition of
last year’s crop.”
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The story is told that not long ago a
ranting Chicago communist gathered a
crowd and entertained them with his
diatribes on the inequalities of riches and
poverty. He was in the midst of his
liery declarations that the capital of the
rich belonged to the laboring classes,
when a clear voice rose from the crowd :
“you’ve got a gold watch and I haven’t
any. I want yours.” The speaker was
nonplussed. liecovering himself, how
ever, he said, “I bought the watch and
paid for it.” “Don’t make any differ
ence,” persisted -the voice, “\ r ou’ye got a
gold watch and I haven’t —I want it!”
The talker was checkmated and the meet
ing broke up.
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Fort Gainks, Ga., June 9.—Willis
Hudson was yesterday sentenced to be
hanged on July 10, aud his accomplice,
Isabella lioney, was to-day sentenced to
the penitentiary for life. Miss Roney,
who \va| also an. accomplice in the mur
der, died in jail a few weeks ago. Mari
on Millirons had incurred the displeasure
of the two Women, who, watching an
opportunity, assaulted her. They would
have killed her but for the appearance of
her husband, who interfered. At this
juncture Hudson, who was concealed,
stepped from his hiding place and shot
Millirons dead. The whole party were
convicted of murder a year ago, but ap
pealed to the Supreme Court. 'The final
decision is that Hudson must hang and
the woman go to the penitentiary for
life.
“CUt Out.”
We rise to state "That Cartersville has
more pretty school girls within her lim
its than any town in the South. The
first newspaper fellow that contradicts
this statement will surely l>e yanked
hence in very short order. — Cartersville
Courant.
We contradict your statement, Mr.
Courant, and you may proceed with
your “yanking.” There is no compari
son between your frigid north Georgia
girls and Dawson’s sunny, vivacious las
sies.—Dawson Journal.
NUMBER 20
NEWS ITEMS.
Lucius C, Owsley, a drummer, shot
and killed his step-son, DcWltt Taylor,
at Lebanon, Ky.
It is reported that the money to build
a cotton compress at Anniston, Ala.,
has been subscribed.
A suit has been filed against the At
lanta Evening Capital company for libel,
and the sum of $20,000 in damages
claimed.
Geo Johnson, Jno. Vandcvort and
Matthew Hammond, were killed by the
explosion of a locomotive at Belliare,
Ohio, Thursday.
The Rev. Philip Brooks, of Boston,
has sent an official letter declinning the
election of Assistant Bishop of Penn
sylvania.
Hiram Seidy, Thursday, while play
ing with his brother Allen, at Boyer
town,Pa., sent a bullet from a loaded
revolver into the latter’s body.
The commandant at Fort Bliss, Tex.,
has received orders from General Miles
to move his troops to Arizona and pros
ecute the war against the Indians.
Three intoxicated Germans, who were
on the track of the Midland railroad at
Clinton, lowa, were run over and killed
by a passenger train Thursday.
31 rs. Serano Comforte, of Philadelphia,
was kicked to death by a brute, named
Henry Bossel, Sunday night. Her un
born babe was also killed. The murderer
was arrested.
A recent discovery near Warm Springs,
in Madison county, X. C., has brought to
light a large lode of complex ore, carry
ing copper and nickel, the later predom
inating.
The Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion, Atlanta, Ga., have rejected all bids
for erecting their building and are ad
vertising for new ones. They will re
ceive until June 19.
The Rome Ice Manufacturing com
pany, capital stock $20,000, has been
incorprated at Rome Ga., by Rush ton A
Dixon, and W. J. Cameron and R. 11.
Pierson, of Birmingham, Ala.
Armour A Cos., of Chicago have exe
cuted a contract to supply the French
Government with 7,000,000 pounds of
beef, to be put up in the special cans
adopted for use by the French army.
Chicago grand jury have returned .‘lf
additional indictments against An
archists. It is said five additional per
sons have been indicted for participating
in the Haymarket riot, that additional
charges have been prepared against those
already under arrest.
We have wedding “breakfasts” now
just as they do in England, with toasts
to the bridegroom, reponses and all the
rest. It shows real energy to go .‘I,OOO
miles for customs.
Leghorn hats —litnbeornets, as Boston
ladies call them—are considered, says an
exchange, the aetne of elegance, because
there is no possibility of their ever be
coming common.
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Jane Marsh Parker lias written a book
which she calls the “Midnight Cry.”
We have not read it, but we know all
about it, and Jane has our sympathy.
The cats bother us, too.
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The Shakespeare memorial building at
Stratford-on-Avon is now out of debt,
and a sustaining fund has been provided.
The building contains a theatre, library
and picture gallery.
Black sashes will be much worn this
summer. We notice that in a fashion
paper, and hasten to give it wider pub
licity because some people are painting
their window frames red.
The employment of natural gas for
fuel has at last enabled the Pittsburg
glass manufacturers to make mirrors
from glass of their own making. Hith
erto they have had to import the glass.
A candidate for Governor of Texas is
accused of having “Nil Desperandum” as
his motto, and his enemies are disposed
to accuse him of bidding for the “des
perado” vote.
Some of the newspapers that are op
posed to brass band attachments in poli
tics appear to fully indorse brass cheek
methods. —Savannah Morning News.
A “lady” in New Orleans recently
caused the arrest of a policeman for
calling her a “woman.” The Judge,
after carefully deliberating, decided that
she was a woman, thus aggravating
i the insult.
Lord Sheffield is the patron of cricket
in England. He maintains a cricket
ground in nis own park, and hires a
number of professional cricketers every
year to giye instructions in the science
of the game.
A dreamy writer says it would be
curious to follow a pound of 3ilk from
its spinning until it becomes a lady’s
dress. No doubt but most men prefer
to follow it after it becomes a dress, and
while the lady was in it.
In these days, when two-headed and
four-legged chickens are hatched on
every farm, it Is a positive relief to read
that Owen Craven, of Randolph county,
Mo., has a one-legged Plymouth Rock
chick that is perfectly healthy, and hops
about on its one leg with apparent pleas
ure.
It is diflicult to get a drink in Minne
apolis on Sunday, but a shrewd fellw got
one the other evening, lie went into a
drug store with a big bug in his hand, i
asked the clerk what it was, went into
raptures over the rare specimen he had
found, and bought ten cents’ worth of
alcohol to preserve it in. Then he went
out and had his drink.
“Have you any fears about the silver
question obtruding itself unpleasantly V”
Mr. Gould smiled, ran his hand in his
pocket, jingled some loose change, and
said : “The silver question is too deep
for roe. I take silver and never refuse
it. 1 find it goes, and k don’t bother m v
head any further about it.” —Philadeliihh
Press.
Go to Turner Baker tor anything ii
the jewelry line. You will lie please<
with their goods and prices.