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VOLUME 11. Potash Victim. Cured by 8. 8. S. S. S. S. vs. POTASH. I have had blood poison for ten years. I know I have taken one hundred bottles of iodide of potash in that time, but it did me no good. summer my faee, neck, body and limbs were covered with sores, aud I could scarcely use my arms on account of rheu matism in my shoulders. I took S. S. S., and it has done me me re good than all ot her medi cines I have taken. My face, body and neck are j>crfectly clear and clean, and niy rheu matism is entirely gone. I weighed 118 pounds when I began the. medicine, and I now weigh 152 pounds. My first bottle helped me greatly, and gave me an appetite like a strong man. I would not be without S. S. S. lor several times its weight In gold. C. E. MITCHELL, W. 23d St. Ferry, New York. Attention Everybody! WE HAVE THIS DAY REDUCED OUR PRICES GREATLY! All Hop airs Will be X*ess th.an Heretofore. This is Done in View of the Hardness of the Times. We Keep on Constantly a HEAVY STOCK OF WESTERN WAGONS, STUDEBAKEK, KENTUCKY, and other Makes, which we will Sell Cheaper than Ever Before. You Want the Best Wagon you can Buy on any Market Buy The Celebrated JONES WAGON. Made hero. One and Two-llorse. SOLID STEEL AXLES, SARVIN PATENT WHEELS. Wo defy the world to heat us in this line. These Wagons will last longer, run lighter, and 100 better than any. GNK THEM. Como or write to us. R. 11. JoiieN Ac Sown Manf’g. Cos.. dio-ly CARTERSVILLE GEORGIA. ROYAL FI HE INSURANCE CO„ MERCHANTS INSURANCE CO., Liverpool, England. Newark, N. J., Cash Capital, - - *10,000,000 Cash Capital, - - - 4,000,000 BARTOW LEASE, Insiiranee Agent, STORAGE <Sc COMMISSION MERCHANT Insure Your Property in a Safe Company. milK ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY IS THE LARGEST AND WEALTHIEST IN THE A World. Losses paid PROMPTLY and without discount. Insurance etl'eoted in Bartow, Gordon, Polk and Paulding counties. Insurance at home and abroad respectfully solicited. inch! BiELEEFI Forty Tears a From CATARRH Wonderful to Relate. <*- “For forty years 1 have been a victim from tarrh—throe-fourths of the time a suihead and Excruciating Fains Across My MTensive that Nostrils. Tiie discharges were S for the good it I hesitated to mention it, ey/'i have spout a may do some other during my voung fortune from .5 obtain relief from the forty years of fluff*.- l 1 ’patent medicines—every doctors. I havej^of— from tiie four corners of cue I couldrelief. And at last (57 years the earth, ou nc t W ith a remedy that has cured ° a iv--mado me anew mar.. 1 weighed ??.u-mmds'ond now weigh 14(1 fused thirteen ..f "ic-medicine, and the only regret I Jvi Mi being In tho humble walks of life I iiv nr have conlldence to prevail on all ca tarrh u ® epers t 0 U3C w hat has cured me, PIONEER liLOOD RENEWEK “HENRY Cil EVES. “No. 267 Second St., Macon, Ga.” “Mr. Henry Cheves, the writer of the above, formerly of Crawford county, now of Macon, Georgia, merits the confidence of all interested in catarrh. W . A. H U KF, Ex-Mayor of Macon. A SUPERB Flesh Producer and Tonic! Guinn’s Pioneer Blood Renewer. Cures all Flood and Skin Diseases, Rheumatism, Scrofula, Old Sores. A perfect spring medicine. If not in your market it will be forwarded on receipt of price. Small bottles $1.00; large bot tles $1.75. Essay on Flood and Skin Diseases mailed free. MACON MEDICINE COMPANY, Macon, GA. STANDING COMMITTEES. Council Chamber, ) CAKTKU3VILI.K, Ga., Dec. 22,1885.1 It is ordered that the following shall constitute the standing committees of the Board of Alder men for the year 1886: Stkkkts— A. M. Franklin, John P. Anderson and W. A. Bradley. Finance— A. R. Hudgins, Gerald Grifllnaml George 11. Gilreath. ordinances— Gerald Grifiin, A. M. Puckett and A. It. Hudgins. Ckmetrky —George 11. Gilreath, A. M. Frank lin and E. D. Puckett. Hicmkk —W. A. Bradley, A. R. Hudgins and A. M. Puckett. Public Buildings— E. I>. Puckett, \V. A. Bradley ami John I*. Anderson. It is nirthev ordered that this order l*eentered on the minutes and Clerk furnish each Alderman with a copy hereof. (Signed) Jno. 11. Wiele, Mayor. Attest: Ham’l F. Milam, Clerk. It. E. CASOIST, Resident Dentist. Olllcc over Curry’s drug store, Cartorsvllle, CENTRAL HOTEL, ROME, GEORGIA. O. MOSS, Proprietor. Ample A ccommoilations for Commercial Trav ers and Theatrical Companies. In centre business locality and street cars run front of the door, auglS d* aa A. Y EAR. Tiik Courant, tjhe best local paicr in thd State. THE CARTERSVILLE COURANT. CAUTION. Consumers should not confute our Specific with the numerous imitations, substitutes, jxAash ami mercury mixture ? which are got ten up to sell , not on their own merit, but on the merit of our remedy. An imitation is always a fraud arid a cheat, and they thrive only as they can steal from the article imitated. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. For sale by all druggists. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC VO., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ua. “A BOWLl) SOGER BOY.” One of the Macon Volunteers and Ills Ability as a Drummer. SAMUEL DUNLAP, OF ATLANTA, OA. The excellent picture we present at the head of this column, ia of a man who ia aa well and favorably known in his capacity aa a traveling man or “drummer”- as any one mau in the United States.' ‘ Mr. Dunlap aaid in conversation recently: “About f<pir ysars?ago I had a severe attack of rheumatism, which completely disabled me for a time, aud which doyalopod Into what ia com monly called ‘chronic/ j attacking me whec least expected, and laying, xnfi jip entirely; in capacitating me lor any kind of business, and Causing me aa much suffering in a day as should be crowded in a life time. After one of my moat severe attacks, and when I had just got able to hobble around, I met J. M. Hunnicutt, an old friend, and he said he could make a remedy that would cure me, and, by gracious, he did. I toqk two bottles of his staff, piCpared from roots and herbs, and I have never had a twiuge of rheumatism since. 'The medicine was not prepared for sale at that time, hut was manu factured by Mr. ifimmcult for his friends. About six months ago it was determined to place it npon the market, and a firm was organ ized for that purpose. Two weeks ago, in the midst of "my suffering, I noted in oue of their advertisements that it was good for kidney troubles also. I knew it would cure rheuma tism, and I bought a half a dozen bottles at onoc and determined to give it a fair show at a kidney disease of long standing. It may seem extrava gant, but the first day’s use gave me relief, ami before I had completed taking one bottle my disagreeable symptons had entirely disap peared. I have used two bottles up to this time, and I have not felt a trace of my disease for a wdek.” J. M. Hnnnlcutt A Cos., the manufacturers of fjunniontt’s Rheumatic Cute, Atlanta, Ga., as sure us that their medicine is on sale at the low prioe of SI.OO a liettle, at all reputable druggists and can no procured at wholesale from jobbing druggists everywhere. DR. J. M. YOUNG. He Endorses Curry’g Diarrhoea and Dys entery Specific. D. W. Curry : Dear Sir: lam familiar witli the formula and mode of preparing Curry’s Diarrhoea and Dysentery Specific, and prescribe it in my practice, with the most gratifying results. Respectfully, ‘J. M, Young, M. D, They M uat Have It. Dinkyu.i.e, Ga. —Mr. D. W. Curry: Please send me one dozen more of your Liver Compound. Wherever it is used It gives satisfaction. I sold the last bottle I h&d this morning. L. Richardson. Manufactured by D. W. Curry Carters ville Ga. CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1886. /OEN. LEE’S BODY SERVANT. A Resilient of Boston—He Relates Stories of the Southern Leader. From the Boston Post. ] “Yes, sah, I’se tie man. 1 was Massa Robert Lee’s body servant durin’ de wall, surah enuff.” Anthony Riley, a ne gro was busily engaged in scrubbing the lloor of Horticultural Hall when a re porter accosted him. A curious chain of circumstances brought Anthony to Bos ton, after an eventful life as Gen. Robert E. Lee’s body servant, the fortunes of war depriving him of a comfortable home and a kind master. Some interesting facts were elicited from him during a conversation. It seeing that Anthony sprang from a long line of slaves, ilis father, Atrolius Riley, and his grandfather were slave*, belonging to the Custis family of Ar lington Heights, Va., into which family Washington and Lee both married. “Andy” is now over 50 years old, al though he looks much younger. He has an intelligent face and a jolly dispo sition, always cracking jokes with the employes in the building. He was born on the Custis plantation. When Gen. Ixie married Martha Custis, Andy was a boy of about 15. With many of the 800 slaves in the Custis family Andy fell to Lee’s share after the marriage, and eventually became his body servant. During Gen. Lee’s courtship Andy remembers but little. He used to see him drive up the beautiful circular path, lin*d with magnificent trees, to the house, Jump down from his horse, Rob Roy, and linger near Miss Custis for hours. Just after the mar riage Andy was made one of the house servants and wltnaased a continual round of gavety and pleasure. was then captain, United States army, ac cording to Andy's recollection. He re members seeing two stripes on the shoulders of his uniform. When the young officer went oil’ with a hunting party it was Andy’s duty to brush the flies from Lee’s horse and open the gates of the estate. Partridge hunting was one of the events on the plantation in the season, a snort of which Lee was very fond, especially as he was a crack shot with the sporting gun. “De white folks lived high when Massa Lee was on de plantation; just de same as goln’ to Saratoga, boss,” re marked Andy. , Afterwards Andy was placed in charge of the horses. When Lee went to Har per’s Ferry on John Brown’s raid Andy hitched up the carriage and drove to Leesburg, where the carriage was put up, and Lee, accompanied by his young ser vant, rode on horsback to Harper’s Ferry. From this time until Andy ran away from his master and joined the Northern troops he was Lee’s body servant. His especial duty was to take care of the horses Robert and Dick, both of which were Kentucky thoroughbreds. Andy accompanied Ms master to Richmond, and was present with him when Ells worth was killed in Jackson’s Hotel, Alexandria; thence to Manassas, Chickahominy and many other places in Virginia. His position as body servant brought him near his master al ways. Andy states that it was his duty to keep very near Lee, even in engage ments, in order to take care of his horse at a moment’s notice. Lee’s manner was always kind to his servants, though he rarely expressed opinions before th**n* When everything was ly, he would sometimes A gelinff. <*ndy and show evidence ftfy tickled "after Bull says he was d'tfften gave his men a $5 Run. Hesf clothes and other pres bill, P lle loved his own people, 3/tf was a domestic man, accord ing to Andy’s statement. At home, he used his slaves very kindly, and all were happy and contented. Andy re mained with Lee as his body servant until the war had progressed about two years. When Lee went up the Shenandoah Val ley, cn route to South Mountain, Andy ran away. Instead of leading the Gen ral’s horse around to him, as was his custom every morning, he turned him over to a small darky boy and left the earap. It was three days before he reached the northern lines at Fairfax Court House. Arriving there he became the servant of Gen. Reynolds, performing the same duties 3 before. He never saw the General again nor the small boy to whom he gave the horse in charge. After the war Andy roamed about in New York State, working in stables, hotels and clubs, coming to Boston some four teen years ago. He has been In his pres ent positon at Horticultural Hall for the past twelve years. According to Andy’s story Lee was extremely fond of the thoroughbreds, “Robert” and “Dick.” He would ride them very hard at times, but was always particular in giving in structions to Andy to give them the best of care. Even when at home on the Virginia estate, the four horses attached to the family carriage would receive the greatest care after a drive, and, from Andy’s story, the General had as great an affection for his horses as for his family and men in general. GORDON’S TREATMENT OF HIS MEN' Ramsey’s P. 0., Murray County, Ga., June 9.—Editors Constitution. Wishing to bear testimony to the great, good and gallant old hero, General John B. Gor don, I will say that I was only a sixteen year old in 1863, and was a member of cjmpany H, 31st Georgia regiment, Gor don’s brigade, and was on the march with him from Summerville ford Rapid Ann River, Virginia, to Orange Court House, Virginia, in 1863. The distance, as well as I can remember, is about eighteen miles. The march was made through in one night. After we had marched about two miles General Gor don noticed that I was barefooted and soretooted, and that it was a struggle for me to keep up with the command, and dismounted and helped me on his horse and allowed me to ride him the balance of the night, and General Gordon walked the entire distance among and with the boys. I have been in several battles with General Gordon, and he was al ways in front when duty called him there. I have seen him avert disasters in our army by keeping to the front and encouraging his men when and where they were the hardest pressed. He shirked nothing; as brave and generous a man as Gordon is not capable of doing anything wrong, and is incorruptible. T. W. Price, Cos. 11, 31st Ga. R., Gordon’s Brigade. ALL SCIENTISTS KNOW THE proneness of insects to deposit their eggs in decayed fruit. What creates worms In the human body? Think of this, and give Shiner’s Indian Vermifuge occasion ally to your children. For the speedy and sure cure of head ache nothing equals Curry’s Liver Com pound. GEN. GORDON’S FATHER. A Most Touching Letter in Regard to the Senatorial Resignation. Jackson County, Ala., May 22,1580. —Editors Atlanta Constitution: I see from a copy ot your paper which has been sent me by some friend, that my son, lion. John B. Gordon, has resigned his seat in the senate of the I’nited States, and that much excitement pre vails on account of it. I think it, per haps, not out of place for me, his father, to write you this communication. My son has ever been obedient, dutiful and confiding. From his earliest youth to the present time he has been the pride and joy of my life. I am now nearly eighty-five years of age—a few more days and I shall have passed away. I would feel that my teachings and counsels would have been to little pur pose if the slanders and falsehoods ut tered against my son had any founda tion is tact. As I stated above he has always been obedient and confiding. When he could reach my ear he has always consulted me before taking a momentous step. lie made me a visit in March last, and while here he said to me, “Pa, 1 am tired of public life. I crave the peace and quietude of my home and home af fairg ; besides I can’t save up any money out of my salary; and the idea of dying and leaving my family without a competency troubles me no little.” He then went on to say that if he was out of the senate he could make a great deal more money and would have to spend a great deal less, and added that he had about ooncluded to resign, feeling that the public inter ests would not suffer thereby, and his private interests would lie protected. I advised him to that course and urged him not to delay it, and instead of being surprised at ilia resifination now, I am on ly surprised that it was not sooner. As to the insinuations that he was bought out,” or “bargained out,” I pronounoe it in famously and shamefully false, and my blood almost curdles aud ray old limbs totter with indignation when I think of such charges being made against him. From his youth to his manhood he has been the embodiment of honor and truthfulness. In his boyhood he would never betray a friend, and at least once, to my knowledge he suffered a severe punishment at school rather than betray the confidence of a schoolmate. Would he then now, in the zenith and glory of his manhood, betray the people in whose defente he has proven, on a thousand oc casions, his readiness to die! Would he betray, or sell for lucre that integrity and honor which is dearer to him than life itself! No! no! no! Away with such infamous falsehoods. Let them who condemn his course put themselves in his place. He had served his people in war and in peace with undying devotion. He had on his hands a large and grow ing family; his state and people are now free and prosperous, and no longer re quire his service; his financial and aome matters demand his attention. The con stitution and the laws of his country give him tne right to resign. Ilis salary is not sufficient to support his family and meet all his needs for money, lie is not rich; after years of toil in his country’s service, he comes out poorer than he went in. He is offered a position which will afford him rest and quiet and a compe tency. Georgia has other so-is capable of filling his place in WV-- fhon is ;!'" e of wfcfch he is guilty. wi. ’ ' his accusers would not.have .Uted as he riw -- --- umr circum stances ? With Governor Brown's appointment, I have nothing to do, and only feel inter ested in it as an old citizen of Georgia. I am satisfied of one fact, however, and that is that he has the brains to serve his state with great distinction, and that Gov. Colquitt appointed him because he thought he was the best man for the place, and that Georgia’s interests would not suffer in his hands. I voted for him for governor and julge many years ago. He certainly made a good judge and ex cellent governor. I sincerely trust and believe he will serve his state as faith fully now. Truly yours, Z. 11. Gordon. THE MILLIONAIRE. Who is this hard-w'orking man ? That is the millionaire, the man who wanted to get rich and has got rich, and is get ting richer every day. Is he any hap pier for it? Happy! Bless your soul he’s more miserable, has more cares and anxieties and harder work than ever. He is the worse slave of them all. lie is pushed with business and business is pushing him. He has so many irons in the lire that some are burning his lin gers while others are getting too cold. His present life is a rush from the meet ing of this board to that board and thence to some other board. lie is a di rector of this company and a trustee in that, and a silent partner in another, world without end and more coming. He hasn’t time to eat and hardly time to sleep, and when he does lay liis poor head on a pillow he can’t stop thinking of his business plans and schemes, and fears, from whirling and whirling through it. lie can’t take a day to spend in quiet out of town, and, if he could, he would take all of his business with him into the woods. He is a slave and a victim, liis millions in bank don’t bring him as much enjoyment as anew ten cent piece given to a ten year old boy. lie is infected with a mania for getting, and more he gets the more lie wants. If you could see him just as he is and where he is inevitably going, and how he is going there, you would only pity him. He is one of the coming vic tims of demantia paralytica, the preva lent ailment among so many Wall Street men. —New York Graphic. Cleverly Caught. In Rome, Thursday, was a Mr. Kiig, of Bartow county, and two boys, oneof whom was Albert Furrnount. Albert was suspected of stealing ass bill from John Kennedy, also of Bartow comtj. In order to ascertain whether or not tie boy stole the money a clever ruse wai adopted. Mr. King brought the boy, with a companion, to town and watdiel every movement he made to see if h spent any money. Soon after enteiin£ town the boy went into Wyly Richard son’s and bought sc. worth of crackers and tendered ass bill. He was given the change and soon afterwards went to Gammon’s, where he purchased a suit of clothes. All of this Mr. King noted, and without saying anything to the trap he had been caught in drove home, the boy suspecting nothing. Mr. King said the boy would be turned over to officers of the law. —Rome Bulletin. Richard M. Hoe, of New York, whose name will be remembered as long as printing presses exist, died suddenly at Florence, Italy, whither he had gone with his wife and child for rest and pleasure. All the delicious extracts are to lx had at Curry’s soda fount. LOW PRICES AND HIGH WAGES. New York Sun.] During the past fifteen years the prices of all stable commodities, measured in gold, have steadily fallen. During the same period the wages of labor have not fallen, but, on contrary, have slightly risen. While the workingman earns as much money now as he did fifteen years ago, and a little more, he can buy with it one-half more food, fuel, and clothing than he could then. Thus, in effect, his wages have increased one-half. Can this state of things be maintained? Judging from past experience we should say that it could not, and that unless something unforeseen happens, the pres ent high rates of wages will have to come down. Of course, much can be accomplished by the union of workingmen against a f 11 in the money value of their labor, and, from the case, they have every’ ad vantage on their side. Employers hate to incur the risk of strikes, and conse quently put off provoking them as long as possible. They would rather keep up the prices of their goods, and thus throw the burden of high wages upon consum ers. But, under the pressure of compe tition, the time will come when this expedient will not answer. Somewhere else in the world a break will occur, and the shock will affect the whole line. For example, steel rails are now so low in England that they can be delivered, duty paid, at our Southern ports at a less price than American rails of the same kind. This must inevitably reduce the price of rails here, and, of course, lower the wages of the workmen who make them. In like manner hardware, cotton and woolen cloth, and other manufactured articles must come down to the level at which they can profitably be imported. Cheap as American-made clothing is, it will be cheaper, just so soon as clothing made in Europecan be brought to under sell it. Against this competition Amer ican tailors will struggle in vain. They will either have to accept lower wages or go without work. What is this true of railmakers and tailors is equally true of all other manu facturing hands. The steady and per sistent fall in the prices of commodities all over the world, caused by the opera tion of the gold standard, is bound to tell upon all wages alike, and bring them down to a common level. The trades least affected will be those con nected with building, because they are not directly subject to foreign competi tion ; yet in their case the result will be produoed by the invasion of men from other countries and from other less well paid employments. When masons, car penters, plasterers, painters, plumbers, and tinners are earning more money than can be earned in other countries or at other trades, the number of masons, car penters, and so on will increase among themselves their wages cease to he more attractive than those paid to other work men. The process is slow, but it is sure, and it cannot be defeated. The wise thing for their is, thei’ejftgft vVages while they last, and lay by as much as possible for the hard times that are in store for them. Instead of spending every cent that they earn as fast as they earn it, they should practise a little self-denial, and put a few cents out of every’ dollar into the savings bank. This may compel them to live a little less comfortably now, but it will help them to live better by and by, and thus make a satisfactory average. ENOUGH TO MAKE DEMOCRATS GLAD. From the Boston Journal.] A gentleman who claims to know the fact, says that the President told some Southern and New York Democratic pol iticians Saturday that he was going to change his tactics. “You think,” said he, “1 am not removing Republicans quick enough for you during the next six months, let me know.” These gen tlemen came away from the White House almost hilarious. Their Democratic bosoms heaved with expectant joy, and later in the day in their cups they gave away a good deal moreot their conversa tion with the Chief Magistrate of the na tion and of his with them than Mr. Cleve land suspects. There was one happy party of Democrats in Washington that night, and many a bottle of champagne was opened, and many a toast was drunk to Cleveland and his bride. The account of this little episode came to me direct, and more of the particulars. There are many circumstances which seem to cor roborate this. One hears the furloughs in several departments, and after fur loughs come new appointments. Here is one case: The clerks employed in the Sixth Auditor’s office are very uneasy about holding their positions, as a num ber will be discharged on the first proxi mo. The list of those who will have to go is made out, and at the end of this month sixty clerks will receive the yel low envelope which contains tne enforc ed leave of absence. A MUSICAL MONKEY . Pall Mall Gazette. | There was a great fuss a few months back about Sir John Lubpock’s wonder ful dog, which its master had almost taught to speak. A monkey has com pletely eclipsed the quadruped. A well known American savant has educated a favorite monkey to become a good pian ist; all monkeys, this gentleman main tains, have more or less a musical faculty. If men had not invented the piano, the learned American seriously maintains, monkeys would infallibly have done so. After only forty-eight lessons the monkey Tabitha, who is a real ornament to her sex, could play scales with surprising dexterity. The suppleness of their fin gers, their agility, their strength, all tend to show, at least according to Ta bitha’s master, that most monkeys are born pianists. Patience is the only thing required to bring out this hidden faculty. There is another fact which strikes one. monkeys have this great advantage over human pianists: they have four hands, while men are unfortunately not endow ed with more than two. A monkey, among other advantages, can thus, it will readily be observed, play a duet without the assistance of a companion. The United States Minister to Persia, Mr. Fred 11. Winston, has tendered his resignation, and Mr. Bayard has signified an acceptance. It is said that a love dis appointment is at the bottom of the re signation. A young lady promised to marry and accompany him abroad. She backed out and he has resigned. So the gossip goes. IN ROBBERS’ CAVE. The Secrets of a Famous Robber Hand Discovered. Sax Antonio, June 16. —The recent discovery of a skeleton in Robber’s cave, fifteen miles north of here, and its identification last evening by a coroner’s jury as that of Frank Harris, a young man who was arrested by’ constable Frank Scott, in September, ISS4, has produced a sensation here, and officers of the law believe that they have at last got hold of a thread that will unravel the history of the worst band of mur derers, stage robbers and horse thieves that ever infested Western Texas. How many’ murders the Pitts Yeager- Pitron band perpetrated In the last ten years no man will ever know. Pitts and Yeager killed United States Marshal Gasting while on their way to the penitentiary for life. Pitts was killed at the same time, and is now serving his sentence. There were always some six or seven members of the gang whose identity was a profound mystery. “Joe” Brannan, another member, was killed week before last by officers in a desperate hand-to hand fight. Brannan’s death proved the means of giving officers their present valuable clews. A few day’s after he was killed, his brother, Captain Calvin Brannan, came to town and made a statement that Constable Frank Scott and his father, Thomas Scott, were both members of the famous gang, and had killed Frank Harris in the fall of 1884. The Scotts had previously stood fairly well in the community, only a few peo ple suspecting them. They were both arrested, much to their amazement, and are now in jail. Who directed the offi cers to the long-lost robbers’ cave is not known, but it is thought Calvin Brannan told them where to find it. SIXTY MILES AN HOUR. From the Birmingham Age. Y r esterday an Age man was an atten tive listener to the conversation of a small group of railroad men. “This talk about trains running sixty miles an hour is all bosh,” said a big, broad shouldered engineer. “Why, there is not a fast train on any road in the coun try that makes regularly more than for ty-eight miles an hour. Say, did you ever figure on that sixty miles an hour business? Now, see here, take an en gine with six-foot drivers and to make a mile a minute the drivers must make over three hundred revolutions.” “Say ? You’ve never been on a Texas road have you?” inquired a small size chap who was smoking a stogy. “Why, in Texas where the roads have no curves or grades, we run freight trains sixty miles an hour, schedule time, an’ talkin’ ’bout fast trains, why, I once ran a fast mail on a Texas line, and we ran so fast that the mile posts seemed to be a solid wall, but still we didn’t gain any thing by running so fast, for we had to watt at every station to catch up with the train.” tfotnin ! \V by, don’t you know there’s less danger of an engine jumping the track when it’s running fast than ' when it’s running slow? The electricity or something in the track seems to hold the engine down. Why. I was runninf? an extra engine over the road one day and going about ninety miles an hour, when I came to a sharp curve, and I’m a liar if she didn’t shoot strait across and hit the track just right. We gained ten seconds by the jump.” “Let’s take something,” said the heavy man, aud the crowd disappeared into a saloon. MISS CLEVELAND AT THE WHITE HOUSE. I heard that Miss Cleveland is likely to spend a good deal of time with her new sister-in-law. A lady who called on her the day before she went away informs me that Miss Cleveland laughingly said: “My leave taking is not to be in the least tragic. I shall go away now, but return later, and I dare say, on the whole, that I shall be in the White House quite as much as if there had been no wedding. It will be different to be sure; I shall have no responsibility and shall be free to come and go at will, and to do my work. I leave now because I believe that every new mistress of the White House should be under no restraint whatever. Every woman called to the position must give to it her own individuality; no training before hand fits a woman for the place and its duties. She must learn after ward, and to succeed, must shape her own course and rely on herself. She cannot follow in the footsteps of her pre decessor. My brother’s wife is a bright, attractive young woman. She has char acter, and will, I am sure, develop strength and adaptability. I am sure also that she will be much liked; indeed nobody can help but like her. She is a sensible, sweet girl, a thoroughly Amer ican woman, and that is what we want in the White House you know. It is much better that she should begin her new life alone, without me. The posi tion is so circumscribed, so bounded by narrow limits, almost unnatural in its restrictions, I shall be very glad of the freedom and chance to continue my work, which is more to my taste, I have no misgivings about Mrs. Cleveland; she is older than her years, and fully re alizes her responsibility.” John Burrows, an old Elkland, Pa., farmer, had a pet ewe with twin lambs running in a field into which a two-year old colt was turned a few days ago. The next morning, when the farmer went to the lot, he found the colt and one of the lambs on one side of the fiield and the ewe and the other lamb bleating discon solately on the other. Burrows went to fetch the stray lamb away from the colt, but the latter kept running around it in a circle, keeping itself between the lamb and the farmer and trying in every way to prevent his interfering with it. Bur rows finally secured thedamb and carried it back to its mate and mother. The colt followed, whinnying and trying to get the lamb back. A few minutes after wards the colt separated the lamb from the others and drove it along ahead of him until they were at the other side of the field again. The lamb seemed to like its new companion, and the two frisked and played, while the ewe and the other lamb were much distressed. The lamb was again separated from the colt, and it was necessary to take the colt out of the lot in order to keep the three sheep to gether. Asa spring medicine Curry’s Com pound is invaluable. It stimulates the secretion, carries off the excessive bile, enriches the blood and tones up the sys tem —thus preparing for the enervating heat of summer. NUMBER 21 HE DID IT FOR A JOKE. A Young Man Four Months In Jail Ac cused of Murder. Dedham, Mast*., June 14. —. Since last January a young man named Lyons lias been kept in solitary confinement in the county jail at this place awaiting trial on the charge of murder. In the same in stitution, though allowed greater liberty’, is a young fellow named Kirby, upon whoso testimony Lyons was arrested and charged with the crime. The murder was one of the most brutal that has ever been recorded in Massachusetts. Last Christmas an old lady living alone in Foxboro was chopped to pieces in order to get at an old pocket under her dress supposed to contain $lO. Suspicion at once rested upon a young woman who worked for her. Soon after the murder Kirby told the police that Lyons had con fessed the deed to him. It now tnrns out that he thought it would be a good joke to scare his friend Lyons a little. He manufacture 1 tl.a yarn, but he told such a straightforward story at the preliminary hearing that Lyons was at once held tor the grand jury. Kirby says he wanted to tell tho truth when lie appeared before the grand jury, but he become frightened and did not dare do it. Then he became so ex cited that he did not know what he did say. This story was told by a prisoner who was discharged from the jail this morning. This man says that Kirby has suffered a great deal since he has been in jail. Kirby told him that if he really thought any thing would happen to Lyons he would shoot himself. The police have no evidence against Lyons except that furnished by Kirby, Under those circumstances he will doubtless bo released at once. MACK AY’S LATEST VENTURE. Ills New Plan to Collect and Transmit Eu ropean News. New York Special to Philadelphia Times. 1 John M. Mackay has just returned from a Hying trip to Europe to look after his important matters on the other side of the water, lie seems to he entirely absorbed just at present with his tele graph operations in this country and his cable system across the ocean. In relation to the latter, he says he is en tirely satisfied witli the income at the present rates of toll. There is a rumor that Mr. Mackay is going to or ganize a a foreign news service in connection with his cable system. Until recently the Asso ciated Press had used his cables for their press matter, but a short time ago they went hack to the Western Union compa ny without giving Mr. Mackay any no tice. ilis scheme, as reported, is to have special correspondents in all the great news centres of Europe. They are all to be men of position, and able to do the best class of work. They are to send the news to the main ollicers in Lon don, and there it will be put in shape and sent to this county. The gossip which marks out this scheme for Mr. Mackay says that John Hassell Young, wiw l,l Europe, isto have uuarge of the whole service, and to have his headquarters in London. It is to be hoped that this is true, for certainly it Mr. Young should undertake to do this work he would give us something from the other side worth reading. 4'he present news service from Europe, viewed through my spectacles, is about m o lat- of stud as ever went into a newspaper. I doubt it any journal it in the office without its costing so much money to get it that one twentieth of it would be printed. FORTY FEET TO DEATH. ATraln Hurled Through a Trestle Near Foxburg, l*a. Pittsburg, June 17.—At Point Creek trestle, near Foxburg, Pennsylvania, on the Pittsburg and Western railroad last night, the axle on the middle car of a long freight train broke as just the train was on the centre of the trestle, and the entire train of twenty cars was thrown into the creek, forty feet below. A large portion of the trestle-work was carried with the train. Four of the crew were buried in the debris, a fifth, Conductor Ivime, escaping serious injnries by jump ing. When the wreck was cleared it was found that Engineer George Settig and Brakemen Steffey and Ivase had been killed, it is thought outright, as their bodies were terribly mangled. Fireman Gougher was still living, but his injuries are believed to be fatal. The accident will cause great delay to the traffic of the road. _ THE INDIAN WAR. Athens Banner-Watchman.] Mr. Buchanan, an old veteran of the Indian war, and who lives near Athens, was in to see us yesterday. Mr. Buch anan says he is just as much entitled to a pension as a Mexican veteran, and we think so, too. There are now fifteen or twenty of the old Indian fighters Hying in Clarke county, and a pension from the government would help them along on the down grade of life. Mr. Buchanan entered service in 1537, when he was 17 years of age, and served under Scott and Floyd in the Cherokee war and in the outbreak of Billy Bowlegs in Florida. Gen. Scott and Air. Buchanan weighed, and he only went 95 pounds, but he stood the march from Lawrenceville to Cedar town, through a trackless wilderness, with the endurance of older men. The troops gathered up all the Indians they could find, and, carrying them to the present site of Chattanooga, the redskins were placed on hoard of boats and sent west. Will Stewart, a negro boy, of Macon, has been working anew chicking-steal ing racket, lie would go into the yards and say that the neighbor requested the loan of a hen or a rooster, and that would be the last of the chicken. When his scheme was found out lie became quite indignant at being called a chicken thief, and went to the city hall yesterday to have the spots removed from his charac ter. He told Officer Jones about it, and the officer thought the best way to wipe out the stain would be to lock him lip for a warrant. While the ollicer was pre paring to thrust him into a dungeon, he made a break for liberty and escaped. The officer being lame, was unable to pursue him, and he was soon several blocks away. Chattanooga, Tenn., June 1G. —The first dynamite factory to operate in the south will begin work near this city to day. The Dixie Powder company have quietly erected a plant near Wauhatchie, on the Nashville and Chattanooga rail road, and set their machinery before any body knew what was going on, and to day steam will he turned on and work begun. The capacity is 2,000 pounds daily.