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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 11 ATW AA l> 1 U )xA A ETS. 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. VI JLa >ARI > 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, r 0 * Prop’r. N. 'Ga. Cheap Furniture House. Attention Everybody! • V 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. wjwkw : 1 * -ih,i , wtmt mm 'rr< ~ i run m ' impwnawii koyal fire insurance CO,, merchants insurance CO., Liverpool, England. Newark, N. ,1., <!a*h Capital, - - #10,000,000 Cash Capital, - - - 1,000,000 BARTOW LEASE, Insiirmice Agent, STORAGE <St COMMISSION MERCHANT Insure Your Property in a Sale Company. % 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.” ... -+ ♦ - 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. ♦ ♦ % 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. # ♦ 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. ♦ • 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.