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VOLUME 11.
Poiiiflii ' e, 8. s. s.
S. S. S. vs. POTASH.
, Hnvo had blood poison for ten years. I know I have taken one hundred bettks of
iodide of i>ottum in that time, but it did me no good. Last summer my face, neck, body
ana limbs were covered with sores, and I could scarcely use my arms on account of rheur
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Council Chamnsa, J
CARTKR9VILI.K, UA., Dec. 22, 1885. i
It ia ordered that the following shall constitute
the standing committee* of the Hoard of Alder
men for the year 1886:
Streets—A. M. Franklin, John P. Andereon
and W. A. Bradley. ,
Finance— A. tt. Hudgins, Gerald Griffin and
George H. Gilfeath.
Ordinances Gerald Griffin, A. M. Puckett
and A. R. Hudgins. , „ _ .
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lin and E. D. Puckett. ... .
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Public Buildings— E. D. Puckett, W. A.
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It is further ordered that this order bo entered
on the minutes aud Clerk furnish each Alderman
with a copy hereof.
(Signed) Jno. H. Wikle, Mayor.
Attest: Sam’l F. Milam, Clerk.
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used. G. W. Martin,
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“About four yearn ago I had a severe attack of
rheumatism, which completely disabled me for
a time, and which developed into what is com
monly called ‘chronic,’ attacking me when
least expected, and laying me up entirely; in
capacitating me for any kind of business and
causing me as ranch suffering in a day as should
be crowded in a life time. After one of my most
severe attacks, and when I had just got able to
hobble around, I met J. M. Hunnicutt, an old
friend, and he said lie could make a remedy
tiiat would cure me, and, by gracious, ho did. I
took two bottles of his stuff, pieimred from
routs and lierl**, and 1 have never had a twinge
of rlicumatisin since. The medicine was not
prepared for sale at that time, but was manu
factured by Mr. Hunnicutt for ids frionds.
About six months ago it was determined to
place it upon the market, and a tirm was organ
ised for that purpose. Two weeks ago, iu the
midst of my suffering, 1 noted in one of their
advertisements that it was good for kidney
troubles also. I knew it would cure rheuma
tism, and I bought a half a dozen liottles at once
and determined to give it a fair sliow at a kidney
disease of long standing. It may seem extrava
gant, but the first day’s use gave me rolief, and
before I had completed taking one bottle my
disagreeable symptons had entirely disap
peared. I have used two bottles up to this
time, and I have not felt a trace of my disease
fora week.”
j. M. Hunnicutt A Cos., the manufacturers of
Hunuicutt’s Rheumatic Cuie, Atlanta, Ga., as
sure us that their medicine is or. sale at the low
price of SI.OO a liottle, at all reputable druggists
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CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY I. 1886.
MOUNTAIN MEADOW.
One of the Atrocious Crimes of the West.
In a work relating to Indian history,
by J. P. Dunn, Jr., recently published
by the Harpers, the author gives a vivid
and authentic sketch of the atrocious
Mountain Meadow massacre, the thought
of which excites burning indignation to
day, although nearly thirty years have
passed since this dark stain on American
annals. As illustrating the savage spirit
which incited this horrible crime, the
writer quotes from a sermon of Brigham
Young published in the Desert News just
prior to the wholesale murder. Young
tells his congregation: “I could refer
you to lots of instances where men have
been righteously slain in order to atone for
their sins. I have seen scores and hun
dreds of people for whom there would
have been a chance (in the last resurectlon
there will be) if their lives had been taken
and their blood spilled on the ground as
a smoking incense to the Almighty, but
who are now angels to the devil until our
elder brother, Jesus Christ, raises them
up, conquers death, hell and the grave.
It is true that the blood of the Son of God
was shed for our sins, but men commit
sins which it can never remit.” It wag
during the zeal which Young thus
wrought among his fanatics that the
massacre oecured. During the snmmer
of 1857 Captain Fancher’s train, number
ing fifty-six men ami sixty-two women
and children most of whom were from
the northern counties of Arkansas, at
tempted to cross the mountains en rohtc
to California. At Sait Lake City the
train was joined by several disaffected
Mormons. In the train were thirty good
wagong, as many mules and horses and
cattie. Their route lay through south
western Utah, where the Mountain
Meadows are located. In these meadows
they camped on the 4th of September.
Here is the national divide. They were
on the edge of the Pacific slope. They
just began to realize their hopes for they
could almost look over into California,
their “promised land.” On Monday
morning, September 7, as they were
gathered about the camp fires, a volley
of musketry blazed from the gulley
through which ran the stream that wa
tered the meadows. Seven of the expec
tant travelers were slain and sixteen
wounded at the first fire. The man had
been frontiermen too long to
BECOME PANIC-STRICKEN.
The women and children hurried to
cover and the men returned Are, much
to the surprise of the masking agsailants,
who had expected to enjoy an uresisting
massacre. The assailants were made up
of Mormons masked as Indians of Pah.
Utter, Upper Pi-Eads and Fower Pi-
Eads, and all led by John D. Lee, a
Mormon elder. The response that the
bloody wretches received to their Are
drove them back. They sent after rein
forcements, and while waiting for the
same amused themselves by pitching
quoits, and occasionally shooting the
cattle and firing upon the wagons, which
the travelers had to draw around them as
a barricade and defense. On Wednesday
a young man named Aden, a son of a
Kentucky physician, together with a
companion, succeeded in eluding the
vigilance of the masked savages and get-
ting out of the meadows on their way to
Cedar City, where they hoped to secure
aid. At Richards’ springs they met
throe Cedar City men, William C. Stew
art, Joel White and Benjamin Arthur.
As they stopped to water their horses,
Stewart
SHOT AND KILLED ADEN,
and White attempted to kill the compan
ion, but succeeded only, in wounding
him, when he escaped and made his Way
back to the camp. His report filled the
emigrants with despair. Aden’s father
was known to have saved the life of a
Mormon bishop, and yet his son had
been assassinated by a Mormon. Al
ready they had pierced the masks worn
by many of their assailants to discover
that they were white men—were indeed
Mormons, Itfty-four in number. The
Indians numbered 200. The beseiged
prepared a statement of their desperate
condition, giving as belief that the Mor
mons were their real besiegers, directing
it to Masons, Odd fellows and leading re
ligious denominations. With this state
ment they dispatched three of their best
scouts, directing them to California.
The scouts did not succeed in eluding the
vigilance of tho murderers. They Were
run down by Ira Hatch, a Mormon and a
leader of a band of Indians, in the Santa
Clnra mountains.
TWO OF THEM WERE MURDERED
as they slept and the third was wounded,
and a few days afterward assassinated.
While the Mormons were awaiting re
inforcements they knelt and formed a
prayer circle and asked for divine gui
dance. After prayer one of their leaders,
Mayor Higbee, said: “I have the evi
dence of God’s approval of our mission.
It ia God’a will that we carry out our in
structions to the letter.”
In carrying out these instructions they
found it necessary to make use of the
basest teachery. This they did by means
of a white flag born by Lee and William
Bateman. “They represented to the be
seiged that the Indians were terribly ex
cited and thirsted for revenge because of
the loss of some of their cattle, and they
promised protection to the emigrants if
they would unconditionally surrender.
Thero was no alternative. The supplies
of the emigrants were giving out, and
inasmuch as Mormons were the only
white people in Utah, there was no hope
for mercy from any other source. The
terms were accepted, and on the morning
of Friday, September 11, they gave up
all their guns aud ammunition, and then
placed themselves wholly in the power
of those whose appetite for bloodshed
had but just l>een whetted. They
marched out from behind
THEIR BARRICADES.
The scene that followed is thus de
scribed by Mr. Dunn.
“It is just afternoon and the day is
bright and clear. Tramp, tramp, tramp,
they march down from the camping
place. The men reach the militia and
. give three hearty cheers as they take
their places, murderer and victim, side
by side. Tramp, tramp, tramp. They
are rounding the point of the ridge
which has served as a screen for the
Mormons and Indians for the past week.
A raven flies over them croaking. What
called him there ? Does he foresee that
he shall peck at the eyes of brave men
and gentle women who are looking at
him? The wagons with the wounded
and children are passing the hiding
place of the Indians. How qutetly they
lie among the gnarly oak bushes! But
their eyes glisten and their neck*' stretch
out to see how soon their prey will reach
them. The women are nearly a quarter
of a mile behind the wagons,
and the men are much further be
hind the women. A half-dozen Mormon
horsemen bring up the rear. Tramp,
tramp, tramp! The wagons have just
passed out of sight over the divide. The
men are entering a little ravine. The
women are
OPPOSITE THE INDIANS.
They have regained confidence, and
several are expressing joy at escaping
from their savage foes. See that man on
the divide. It is Iligbee. lie makes a
motion with his arm and shouts some
thing which those nearest him under
stand to be ‘do your duty.’ In an In
stant the militia men wheel and each
shoots the man nearest him. The In
dians spring from their ambush and rush
upon the women; from between the
wagons the rifle of John D. Lee ciacks,
and a wounded woman in the foremost
wagon falls ofl the seat. Swiftly the
work of death goes on. Lee is assisted
in shooting and braining the wounded by
the teamsters, Knight and McCurdy, anil
as the latter raises his riflerto his shoul
der he cries: ‘O Lord, my God, receive
their spirits; it is for Thy kingdom that
Ido this.” The tomahawk, and blud
geon, and knife soon completed the
bloody work begun by the bullet, and in
a few minutes after Uigbee’s signal not
a man or a woman was left alive. Two
girls were missing, and were scion found
concealed In some neighboring bushes.
Two of the Mormons—and Lee was one
of them —dragged Jdie trembling and
HALF DEAD GIRLS
from their place of concealment and
ravished them, then Lee ordered them
killed by the Indians. An Indian chief
objected saying “they were too pretty to
kill; let us save them.” While this ob
jection was being made Lee held one of
the girls on his lap. She threw her
i arms around his neck and implored for
her life promising she would lovo him
tdways if he but would. Jot her live. His
answer was to pash her liead back with
one hand, when, with the other hand
clasping abowie knife, he cut her white
neck through to the spine.
This Anighed the slaughter as awful
as were the Sicilian vespers. The bodies,
horribly mutilated, were left upon the
meadows a prey for wolves and buz
zards for weeks, and it was not until
some months had elapsed that the whit
ened bones were gathered together and
buried. Sixteen or seventeen children,
ranging in age from a few months to
eight years, were divided up among the
Mormons, and so was -t70,000 in property
which the emigrants possessed. The
little children were subsequently secured
by Gentiles and restored to Arkansas, but
the “strong parental government” has
never compelled the cut-throats to dis
gorge the $70,000 and restore it to the
SURVIVORS OF THE MASSACRE,
most of whom have always been in des
perate need of it.
A strange sequence to the awful mas
sacre is the fact that Mountain Meadows,
from being a verdant spot in 1857, invit
ing the fatal halt and rest of the emi
grants, has become sterile and barren,
literally the abode of desolation.
The only atonement ever offered for
the crime was the shooting ot John D.
Lee at the scene of the massacre on March
23, 1877, nearly twenty years after the
crime was committed, and after he had
confessed that on that bloody occasion he
himself took five lives. The responsibil
ity for the crime laid at every Mormon
official’s door, and Brigham Young was
their chief. They ought to have all
swung for it. President John Taylor,
George Q. Cannon -and other Mormon
leaders ought now to be arrested and
tried, not for polygamy, but for the
Mountain Meadow massacre, and ought
to be hung. They could all be convict
ed of being accessory, not only after, but
before the fact.
Facts ami Figures.
The 192d Grand Monthly Distribution
of the world-famed Louisiana State Lot
tery took place at noon on Tuesday, May
11th, 1886, in the city of New Orleans,
under the sole management of Gen’ls G.
T. Beauregard of La., and Jubal A, Early
ofVa., when $265,500 was scattered all
over the world. Ticket No. 76,244 drew
the First Capital Prize, which was sold
in fractions of one-Afth was held by W.
Hpnt, Vineton, Ala., collected through
City National Bank of Selma, Ala.; an
other fifth collected through Wells, Fargo
& Co.’s Bank of San Francisco, Cal.: an
other to Harry Johnson, collected
through Chauncey J. Stedwell, Esq.,
Train Master C. C. C. I. Kailway,
Cleveland, O.; another to Jno. Olson,
No. 79 East 4th street, New York city,
collected through Adams Express Cos.;
and another to C. 11. Bessey, West Enos
burg, Vt., collected through the National
Park Bank of New York city. This will
be repeated on Tuesday, July 13th, and
any information thereof can be had on
application to M. A. Dauphin, New Or*
leans, La.
Dahlonega Signal: “On Thursday
evening, the lOch inst., a young man, J.
B. Lewis, of Fannin county, seventeen
years old, met with a horrible deatli
while working in a tunnel at the Calhoun
mine, two and a half miles south of town.
In his death we plainly see the effect of
not heeding the warning of'older persons.
He was told only a tew moments before
lie met with this accident mot to go into
the tunnel, as it was not safe. He re
plied with an oath that he would go if he
got killed; and in disobeying advice he
made the venture, and in a few moments
the timber gavo away, letting the over
head fall. He was instantly crushed to
death. He was excavated in about thirty
minutes, when life was entirely extinct.
He wag terribly crushed and a horrid
sight to behold. In failing to obey Mr.
Crisson, who controls the works, be met
with a premature death, and was rushed
headlong into eternity with profane lan
guage on his lips.”
■■ • ♦ ♦ ... ,
Henry Ralph and his wife of Bferville,
Mich., quarreled and separate#, the
mother taking a three-year-old child
with her. She tired, of the boy, and a
few days ago, in company with an ad
mirer, started in a buggy to take the child
to its father. She met him on a wagon
load of gravel and offered the child to
him. He wouldn’t take it. The mother
tossed the boy up on the load of gravel.
The father threw him back into the bug
gy. The mother grabbed the whip and
began beating her husband, and in the
confusion the little boy fell out of the
buggy between the wheels of the loaded
wagon. The horses started, the wheel
went over the little head, and the ques
tion in dispute was settled forever. The
woman has been arrested.
Marie Hebron, lYyears old, and black,
was committed to the industrial school in
Baltimore by her mother, who said she
couldn’t do any thing with Marie. She
had a room on the fifth floor. Oue bark
night She got out on the roof, hung from
the eaves by her hands, and dropped to a
building beneath, thence jumped to the
roof of a house adjoining, got on the
veranda, slid down a post to the ground
scaled the fence, and went home. Her
mother at once notified the police, and
one of the force went to re-arrest Marie.
He couldn’t And her until he happened
to stick his hand up chimney. He felt
something, and pulled, dqwn came Marie
blacker than ever, angry.
PAYING OFF.
How the Members of Congress Get Their
Money.
Washington Hatchet.j
It is interesting to watch the way in
which Uncle Sam's sons draw on the old
man at the ( apital. Take the lower
house. The bank for the members is
conveniently situated alongside the
Speaker’s room at the west side of the
wing, and is conducted as any other
banking house. Checks on it are good
commercial paper anywhere in the coun
try. There are seven men connected
with the management of the bank, in
cluding the Sergeant-at-Arms. The
Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms gets $2,000 per
annum, the cashier $3,000, the book
keeper SI,BOO, the paying teller $2,000,
the messenger sl, 300, the page $720 and
a laborer $5 a day during the session.
There is an average of $150,000 in the
safe while the House is in session. When
money is needed the messenger goes to
the Treasury with the proper papers, ac
companied by a Capital policeman, and
returns in a street-car, unusually with
about $40,000. If there is a call for a
larger sum the Sergeant-at-Arrn9 jumps
into a carriage and goes after it himself.
The pay erf the members begins the 4th
of Maruh their eleotiou, and a check
ip sent them every month, unless they
otherwise direct. Their accounts are
cerlilled by the Clerk of the House, as
there is then no Speaker. The pay of a
member U $416.66 per month, but to
avoid fractions they are paid sll6 for
four months and $517 for eight months.
The Treasurer only recognizes and
makes payments. Many an Old m**)er
is under the impression that his per diem
is always placed to his credit, and could
be drawn out before every sunset, but he
is mistaken. The SSOO per annum is di
vided Into twelve installments at Mr.
Manning’s end of the line. When a
member dies his pay ceases on the day of
his death. The salary of the successor
commences the day after the decease of
the former member, though the election
may not occur for several months. The
new member, in other words, draws pay
for time he never served.
The members draw their money in
different ways. There are probably
twenty of the present House who let
their salaries iun into nest eggs. Among
these arc Scott and Everhardt, of Penn
sylvania; Powell, of Illinois; Boutell, of
Maine; Henly, of California; Jones,
Stewart, and Reagan, of Texas; Ellsbury,
of Ohio; Stone, of Massachusetts, and
Wakefield, of Minnesota. Scott has
over a year’s salary owing him—about
$6,000. " The other members mentioned
have from SI,OOO to $3,000 to their credit.
There are a couple of dozen of members
who always overdraw or rather borrow
from the head of the bank. They bor
row or get in advance sums ranging from
$lO to S3OO, and at the end of the month
they have nothing. The great majority
of the members draw all that is coming
to them at the end of each month, par
ticularly those who have their families
with them. Some of them never see au
outside bank, but let their monthly salary
remain and draw it out in small sums.
Others take out their salaries and place
them in other banks. But this is not
done as much as formerly. A number
of them got caught in * the Middleton
Bank that broke some time ago.
Most of the members do all their finan-
cial business over the counter of the Con
gressional bank, and some of them pile
checks up as high as $60,000 in a single
session. The employes of the House, 150
strong, are paid off at this bank as a mat
ter of accommodation. During the long
sessions $60,000,000 pass through the
wire wicket of the House bank.
NORTH CAROLINA’S GIANT.
W. J. Andrews, of Raleigh, had his
attention attracted recently to a news
paper article on large men, and. in be
half of his State he writes him to bring
forth Miles Darden and sweep the stakes.
North Carolina lays claim to the largest
man in the world, and Appleton’s En
cyclopedia gives this description of him:
“Miles Darden, probably the largest
man on record, was born in North Caro
lina in 1798, and died in Henderson coun
ty, Tennessee, January 23, 1857. He
was 7 feet 6 Inches high, and in 1845
weighed 871 ft>S. At his death his weight
was a little over 1,000 pounds. Until
1853 he was active and lively, and able
to labor, but from that time he was
obliged to stay at home, or to be hauled
about in a two horse wagon. In 1839
his coat was buttoned around three men,
each weighing more than 200 pounds,
who walked together in it across the
square at Lexington. His coffin was 8
feet long, 35 inches deep, 32 Inches across
the breast, 18 inches acros the head, and
14 inches across the foot.”
THUE QUEEN OF HOME.
Honor the dear old mother. Time has
scattered snowy Hakes ou her brow,
plowed deep furrows on her cheek, but
is she not sweet and beautiful now ? The
lips are thin and shrunken, but those are
the lips which have kissed many a hot
tear from the childish cheeks, and they
are the sweetest lips in the world; the
eye is dim, yet it glows with the soft
radiance that can never fade. Ah, yes,
she is a dear old mother. The sands of
life are nearly run out, but feeble as she
is, she will go further and reach down
lower for you than any other person on
earth. You can not enter a prison whose
bars can keep her out! you can hot mount
a scaffold to high for her to reach that
she may kiss and bless you as an evi
dence of her deathless love. When the
World shall despite and forsake you:
when it leaves ybu by the wayside to
perish unnoticed, the dear old mother
will gather you in her arms and carry
you home and tell you of all your virtues
until you almost forget your soul is dis
figured by vices. Love her tenderly,
and cheer the declining years with holy
devotion.
■ • ♦ ■— -—-
A Yankee inventor is now in the field
with a paper produce which he calls
leatheroid, and this marvelous material
is now in course of extensive manufact
ure by a “leatheroid company’’ in the
little country town of Kennebunk, Me.
For practical utility the article named
bids fair to supplant almost every other
material. It Is strictly a chemical pro
duct, and for strength and adhesion is
said to surpass every thing else. It is as
tough as rawhide, and as elastic as whale
bone, and is at the same time adaptable
to the most supple as well as the most
sdlld use. In short, according to report,
there is scarcely a manufactured article
for which it is not available and superior.
It has already been wrought into various
things.
All tbe delicious extracts are to be
had at Lurry's soda fount*
AXNOYING BUT COMPLIMENTARY
From a Now York Letter.
To-day T had a long talk with Mrs.
Mary E. Bryan, the author and editor.
She is now in receipt of a very liberal
salary from George Munro for her valu
able services In the editorial manage
ment of his Fashion Bazar and Fireside
Companion. By the way, this brave
and hard working little woman is just at
present being somewhat annoyed by du
accidental entanglement into which she
has unfortunately gotten. It came about
in this way : Some time ago an enter
prising Chicago publisher urged her to
write for him a life of General Lee. She
repeatedly refused him, but he persisted.
Fiually she agreed to take the job, pro
vided the publisher would consent to let
her have the book written by another
party, she to reyise the manuscript and
allow the book to be issued iu her name.
With tills understanding she signed the
contract. Immediately afterwards Mrs.
Bryan learned that owing to ill health it
would be impossible for the party on
whom sha had counted to write the
book, and accordingly informed the pub
lisher and asked a release from the bar
gain. He positively declines to release
her, but on the contrary theatens her
now with suit for $250,000 for breach of
contract.
The grasping gentleman in question is
Mr. Eder, publisher of the Liferary Life.
In spite pf this aggravation, I found her
to-day as bright and pleasant as if noth
ing but roses grew in her path. Her
present position is so full of promise and
pay that It serves to stimulate her against
all the vexations in the trying life of a
hard working literacy woman in New
York. She is only one of the several
such earnest, honest, worthy daughters of
the south who have bravely taken their
stand here, and are holding their places
with the heroic courage of their inborn
fcpirit, and by the superior excellence of
their mental endowment.
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In spite of the usual talk about the
dilatoriOusness Of Congress, a good deal
of work has been quietly accomplished
during the session. In tlie House of
Representatives 9,125 bills and 178 joint
resolutions have been introduced, a
larger number of bills than has ever
been introduced at any previous session.
Of these the House has passed 72 public
and 384 private bills—making a total of
456 bills, which is certainly not a bad
showing. In the Senate there have been
2,580 bills and 08 joint resolutions intro
duced, of which 157 public and 323 pri
vate bills have been passed. The House
has passed 36 public and 87 private bills
which have passed the Senate. Alto
gether in the two Houses there have been
introduced 11,951 bills and resolutions,
of which 979 have been passed by both
bodies.
The London World says that on Patti’s
return to London she found awaiting on
her table several pale blue velvet boxes
from Lady and Mr. Alfred de Rothschild,
the first one containing a brooch about
four inches long, representing two large
pansies in white brilliants, with nine
big blood-red rubies in it; heart all dia
monds, and a large rubv in the middle,
goes with the brooch; a cigar-box of
violet leather, with an inch-wide gold
frame, and on • one side “M. Ernest
Nicolini;” on the other, “From Mr. Al
fred de Rothschild,,” both names all in
diamonds and rubies; and sundry other
trifles in gold and silver.
The Constitution announces authentic
ally that the Atlanta brewery and Kim
ball House bar will continue their busi
ness after the Ist of July. The brewery
company claim that they have $150,000
invested, and that the constitution of the
United States, which provides that “no
citizen of any State shall be deprived of
his life, liberty or property without due
process of law,” will protect them. They
have retained counsel. The Kimball
House bar keepers construe the local op
tion act as permitting the sale of any
wines manufactured in the United States
(which includes about all sold in this
country), and contend that it is uncon
stitutional if it does not allow this scope.
It was announced that the Thomas
Paine Society of Frederick county, Md.,
would celebrate the seventy-seventh an
niversary of Tom Paine’s death at his
house of Aaron Davis, near Frederick;
but not a celebrater appeared. Mr. Da
vis himself observed the day by not
working. He said that, while there
were only about a dozen members of the
society, there were three or four hun
dred believers of the Paine doctrines in
the county, but fear of social ostracism
or injury to their business caused them
to make a secret of their views.
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Twenty-six years ago Joseph Loth of
this city was an invited guest when the
Putnam Phalanx of Hartford visited the
grave of Gen. Putnam. At that time a
subscription paper was circulated to se
cure a fund to erect a monument over
“Old Putt’s” grave, and Mr. Loth put
down his name for $lO. He heard no
more about tire monument until last
week, when he read that it was about to
be erected. Thereupon he made good
his su v scriptiou by sending $lO to Adju
tant Tyler of the Putnam Phalanx.
A student of a Western university ap
plied to a leading Kansas druggist for a
position as prescription clerk, and about
a week ago he received a letter from the
druggist, of which the following is a literal
extract: “l’erhaps you understand the
nature of a Drug Store in kansas we Do
Some liquor Business in a Back Room
By the Drink our Presciption trade Runs
from two to three thousand Pr year Some
Clerks objects to the Back Room tradee I
Give you the facts in the case So that you
will hot be Disappointed.”
A woman belonging to one of the
oldest families of Derby, Conn., promised
her husband before his death that she
would wear his ring as long as she lived.
In the grief that followed his death she
forgot about the ring, and it was on his
linger when he was buried. A few
nights ago, at midnight, the sexton
opened the grave and took off the lid of
the coffin, and the widow went down
into the grave and removed the ring
from the dead hand. She paid the sex
ton $25 for his work.
A story comes from Clinton, Ky , that
George O. Daniels, aged 80, died and
was placed in his coffin preparatory to
burial. Thursday, at midnight, the watch
ers were frightened by a series of groans
from the supposed corpse, and all of them
ran away, except one, who opened the
coffin, when Daniels sat up, gasped and
spoke. He Is still living and says that
he was conscious of everything transpir
ing about him while he was supposed to
be dead.
England is agitated now by a political
campaign incident to the election Of a
new parliament. Tne contest is centered
on the Irish home-rule question, audit
is said that Gladstone has gained strength
to the Irish cause since the campaign
opened.
NUMBER 22
IMMIGRANTS AND CAPITAL WANT
ED IN GEORGIA.
Savannah News.]
T&e people of Georgia* 'do not take as
much interest in the subject of immigra
tion a6 they ought to. With millions of
acres of unoccupied land, with forests
awaiting the settler’s ax, with mines
which contain fortunes for those who are
adventurous and enterprising, and with
a climate that is mild and salubrious, the
State ought to be advanced with a ra
pidity equalled by few other States in the
Union.
Immigrants and capital are needed to
secure this advancement—capital to build
railroads, open mines and erect factories,
and immigrants to open farms and supply
the demand for workmen which new
enterprises would create.
The advancement ot Florida has been
marvelous, and yet Florida has not at
tractions and advantages superior to
those of Georgia. Immigrants and capi
tal seek Florida because her enterprising
citizens advertise her. They scatter in
formation respecting her climate, soil and
productions all over the civilized world.
Georgia is a greater State than Florida —
greater in population, wealth, territory
and resources—and yet people in Europe
know all about Florida who never heard
of Georgia.
Let our leading men bestir themselves.
They can advance their own Inserests as
the interests of others by lending a help
ing hand to all efforts that are being
made, or that may be made, to put Geor
gia among the most progressive and
growing States.
A statistical expert calculates that if
1,000,000 babies started together in the
race of life 150,000 would drop out in the
first year, 55,000 in the second, and 22,-
000 in the third year. At the end of
forty-five years about hair of them
would be still in the race. Sixty years
would see 370,000 gray heads still at it.
At the end of eighty years there would
lx; 07,000 remaining on the
track; fifteen years later the
number would be reduced to 223, and
the winner would quit the track forever
at the age of I OS.
The other night Mr. Chamberlain
twitted Mr. Gladstone for having once
described Jefferson Davis as the founder
of “a nation. iy Mr. Gladstone’s sympa
thy with Mr. Davis was not ill-chosen.
Two men more alike it would be hard to
find, and the likeness is personal as well
as intellectual and characteristic. Grace
ful, undoubting and imperious, the Pre
mier has as complete faith in his Irish
scheme as his Southern prototype had in
the Confederacj r .
Three weeks ago an Indiana man
taught his dog, a very finely bred, well
behaved setter, to chew tobacco. Now
the dog comes into the house by the
back door, never scrapes his feet on the
mat, never goes to church, is careless at
his meals, gets burs in his tail, goes with
a lower grade of dogs, and it is feared
that he is beginning to take an interest
in politics.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Munday, the Georgia, revivalist who is
trying to convert Nashville, is a reformed
gambler, circus juggler, and variety
actor. He is 30 years old, straight as an
arrow, and good looking. At a recent
meeting in Nashville it is reported that
two gray-haired sinners, with both of
whom the preacher had previously played
poker, professed 'conversion and wept
bitterly at the memory of their errors.”
Baltimore, June 23.—A check for the
full amount of his expenses at Deer
Park was yesterday sent by President
Cleveland to the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company. In the letter en
closing his check the President expressed
his appreciation of the attention himself
and Mrs. Cleveland received.
A Boston woman has petitoned Con
gress to permit her to import from Chi
na, where she formelylived, suitable ser
vants to perform her household labors.
She relates a pitiful story of her tribula
tions in attempting to solye the servant
girl problem, and places her only hope
in the heathen Chinee.
Mr. Boyd Winchester, champion Ken
tucky poker player and Consul-General
of the United States to Switzerland,
thinks that he has discovered some chees
es in that country that are 200 years old.
That is impossible. When cheeses have
advanced to that age they have become
chestnuts.
A superstitious subscriber, who found
a spider in his paper, wants to know if it
is a bad omen. Nothing of the kind.
The spider was merely looking over the
columns of the paper to see what mer
chant was not advertising, so it could
spin its web across his store door and be
free disturbance.
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A Chicago jeweler has invented a self
winding watch. By. an arrangement
.something like the carefully balanced
level (fa pedometor, the watch is wound
by the motion of the wearer when walk
ing. A walk of seven minutes will wind
the watch to go for forty-two-hours.
The Augusta Evening JVero* says that
the arrangements have been made, the
pai>ers signed and the Richmond and
Danville Railroad will build the road
from Macon to Athens, direct now known
as the Macon and Covington.
Three accidents in one day occurred
on the Wrighstville and Tenneville rail
road last Monday, aud several ears de
molished. Gen. Gordon was on one of
the trains when the tender of the engine
jumped the track.
Contributor—Here is a manuscript I
wish to submit Editor 'waving his hand)
—l’m sorry. We are all full just now.
Contributor (blandly). Very well, I
will call again when some of you are
sober.
A large party of Rome ladies and gen
tlemen are arranging for a trip to Cum
berland Island. They will go some time
between the first and middle of August.
Ttfe-fbur most important towns of Aus
tralia are now Melbourne, population
282,947; Sidney, 224,211; Adelaide, 103-
864; and Auckland, 60,000,
Curry’s Liver Compound continues to
grow in public favor and the demand is
constantly increasing. It gives perfect
satisfaction in every case. An intelli
gent public was quick to discover that it
possesses real merit, hence the increased
demand.
Curry’s Soda Water is the coldest and
most delicious. Try a glass and you
will not drink anything else.
The time is here when a bottle of Cur
ry’s Diarrhoea and Dysentery Specific
should he in every house. Tako time by
the forelock and get a bottle.