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THE CARTERSVILLE COURANT.
VOLUME 11.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
This city is situated on the Western & Atlantic and East and West Railroads, 48 miles north of
Atlanta, and in Bartow county, Georgia. Populat ion 2,600, with churches of Baptist. Methodist,
Presbyterian and Episcopal denominations. With superior educational, climatic and business ad
vantages Cartersville is unsurpassed as a place of residence. Nestling in the beautiful mountain
district of North Georgia, it is protected from the extreme cnilly blasts of winter, while in the hot
summer months the cool mountain breezes makes it a most pleasant summer resort. As to health
iness it cannot be surpassed—is entirely free from all malarial influences, and there never has
been a case of chills known to have originated in the county.
Mineral and Agricultural Resources. —Nearly every mineral known to exist is
found in inexhaustible quantities, which will make Cartcrsville a great manufacturing centre at
no distant day. The manganese shipments from this depot alone are simply enormous. TnE Farm
ing Lands of Bartow county will compare favorably with those of Illinois, Michigan and other
northwestern States. All the cereals is raised to perfection here, while cotton is grown in immense
quantities. The nature of our soil is very similar to the lands of the Northwestern States, while
we have the advantage of shorter and mi liter winters. Lands are cheap and superior inducements
arc offered to those that may locate among us for the purpose of developing our beautiful county.
GENERAL AND BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF THE CITY OF CARTERSVILLE.
Physicians.
Lindsay Johnson, m. and.,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office: Curry’s Drug Store; residence, Erwin St.
JU. MAYFIELD, M. D.,
, Physician ami surgeon.
Office: first door south Crawford & Hudson; res
idence, East Main Street.
miioMAS h. baker, m. i>.,
X Physician and Surgeon,
Olfice: one door above St. James Hotel,
JAMES M. YOUNG, M. I>.,
Residence on Market street, near Baptist
Uhurcii.
Daniel ham iter, m. and.,
Residence on Market street, south side.
HW. FITE, M. J>.
• Office West side Public Square
(1 H. WHITE, M. D.
/, Office oyer Mavs & Pritchett
WL. KIRKPATRICK. M. 1).,
Office in Howard’s Bauk, Residence on
Church Street.
M. GRIFFIN, ill. I).,
Residence on Market Street —South side.
Merchant Tailors.
Rm. cljnkscales.
Shop over Mays A Pritchett.
Millinery and Dressmaking.
MISS E. M. PADGKTTE.
Fashionable Millinery.
Rooms cm r Mays & Pritchett.
MISS LEO SHOCKLEY,
Fashionable Millinery.
Financial.
Baker & hall,
General Banking.
West Mam Street, North side.
WH, HOWARD,
• Exchange and Collecting Office
Office: In Bank Block.
Drugs.
MF. WORD,
Drugs. Chemicals, etc.
West Main Street, North side.
Tv AVID W. CURRY,
17 Druggist,
Proprietor Curry’s Liver Compound, Curry’s
Cough Cnrc, Curry’s Diarriuea and Dysentery
Specific. • ■
Markets.
John Doilgttn,
Choice Meats at all Times
Last side Public Square.
A A. Dobbs,
Meat Market West, Main Street. South side.
Undertakers.
WC EDWARDS,
Collins and Mourning Goods,
Corner West Main and Erwin Streets,
Harness, Buggy Whips, etc.
Hicks a jvrevard,
Collins and‘‘Mourning Goods,
East Main Street.
Hotels. i
Tennessee house, . ]
Joshua Sumner Proprietor, East Main Street.
THE ST. JAMES,
I>r. R, A. McFerrin, Proprietor,
East side Public Square,
BLRTOW house,
Mrs. S. C. Majors, Proprietress,
West side Public Square.
Barbers.
JOHN TAYLOR,
At St. James llote 1 ,
JOHN TAYLOR, JR.
Second (door south postolfice.
WILLIAM JOHNSON,
Shockley building, east side railroad.
Essex choice,
Old Exchange hotel, cast side railroad.
Stoves and Tinware.
VL. Williams,
Stoves and Tinware,
Housefurnishing Goods of every Description,
West Main Street —South side,
Carriages, Buggies, etc.
Rn. JONES A SONS’ MANF’G CO.,
Buggies, Wagons, etc ,
Cartcrsv ille, Rome and Stamp Creek.
All kinds of Repairing,
WA. BRADLEY,
Buggy, Wagon and General Repair Shop,
West Main Street—North side, •
Furniture.
SL. VANDIVERE,
North Georgia Furniture House,
East Main Street—North side.
Dentists.
RE. Cason,
Resident Dentist,
Office : Upstairs, over Curry’s,
MM. Puckett,
Resident Dentist,
Olfice ; Over K. H Jqccs & Sops* Mai f’g Cos.
Groceries and Provisions.
I F. STEPHENS,
•I Groceries and Provisions,
Northeast Corner Public Square.
STEPHENS A CO.,
O Groceries and Provisions,
est side Public Square.
LB. MATTHEWS A CO.,
Grot cries and Provisions,
Under Cos UK ANT Office,
Barron bkos.T ~
Groceries and Provisions,
East Main Street.
WH. WILHOITE,
Groceriej, Provisions, Farming Implements
and Field Seeds.
East Main Street,
Alt. HUDGINS,
Groceries and Provisions,
est Main Street —South side,
JA. stover,
Groceries and Provisions,
West M&in Street—South side,
E STRICKLAND A BRO.,
Staple and Fancy Groceries,
Canned Goods of every variety.
West Main Street—South side.
PUCKETT A MARSHALL,
Groceries and Provisions,
i •-t Public Square.
Glenn jones, ,
Groceries and Provisions,
West Main st., South side.
Tm. TODD,
J Groceries and Provisions.
West Main Street—South side.
T L. WIKLE,
J Groceries and Provisions,
West Main Street—North side,
CII. WHITE A SON,
Groceries, Provisions, Lumber and Coal
West Main Street—North side.
Bradford a co., .
Groceries and Provisions.
West Main Street—North side.
VANDIVERE & WALDRUr,
Groceries, Candies, .etc.
West Main Street—North side.
iIEORGE H. GILKEATH,
U Staple and Fancy Groceries,
est Miin Street—North side .
BF. GODFREY,
Groceries and Provisions,
est Corner Main and Erwin Streets.
Thomas lawhon,
Groceries and Provisions,
East aide Public Square
Pooland Billiiml Tables.
WH. TERRELL,
First door below Bank.
Books, Stationery, etc.
IIT IKLE A co,
IT Fixpt,f>£pi' Office.
Crain, Hay and Produce.
Roberts & colltns,
Wholesale Grocers, Grain and Produce.
North side Public Square—West side railroad.
Rm. pattillo,
Grocer, Grain, Hay and Produce Dealer.
Southeast Corner Main and Erwin Streets.
A knight a son,
Grain, Hay and Produce,
South side Public Square—East side Railroad.
Lawyers.
toe m. moon.
*1 Office over J. K. Rowan’s store
JA. BAKER,
Office: northwest corner courthouse
Douglas wikle,
Office with Shertff, at court house
JOHN H. WIKLE,
Office with Ordinary, at court house.
TW. 11. HARRIS,
Solicitor pro tem City Court.
Opposite Clerk’s office at court house
Albert s. Johnson,
Oflicy: two doors above St. James hotel.
JOHN W. AKIN,
Office: First stairway above postoffice.
RW. MURPIIEY,
First stairway ixdow PO. Ist door ou right.
TAMES B. CONKERS,
J First stairway below PO. Ist ctoor on left.
SHELBY ATTAWAY,
Office: first stairway below P O, and second
door on right.
MR. ST ANSEL L,
First door below postoffice, last door on left
(1 RAH AM & GRAHAM,
I First stairway below PO, and last door on
right *
Am. foute,
Office: Upstairs, cor Main and Erwin Sts.
7 M, NEEL,
J Judge City Court.
. Olfice over Curry’s Drug Store.
AW, FITE,
Olfice two doors above St. James Hotel.
JJ. CONNER,
Erwin Street, opposite Anderson’s Stable.
Milner, akin & Harris,
Office, over Howard’s Bank.
RH. BRUMBY,
Opposite Anderson’s Stable, Erwin St.
Livery Stables.
PUAWFOUD A HUDSON,
V Sale, Livery and Feed Stables.
Near court house, east side railroad.
Horses and mules for sale at all times.
JOHN P. ANDERSON,
J Sale, Livery and Feed Stables.
Erwin Street, near Main. -
Printing.
BOURANT PUBLISHING CO.,
V- Proprietors “COURANT” and .Job Printers.
Official organ Bartow County.
Office: Puckett Building, S. E, Cor. Square.
ibices Cut.^Qfc
American publishing CO.,
XL Proprietors "‘American” and Job Printers.
Office : West Main stieet—South side
Dry Coods snd Clothing.
RAY. SATTERFIELD,
Dry Goods and Clothing,
South side Public Square, near Railroad
I P. JONES,
Dry Goods and Clothing,
West Main Street —Public Square.
aCILEUER BROS,
t? Dry Goods and Clothing,
VV est Main Street—South side.
J G. M. MONTGOMERY & SON,
u Dry Goods and Clothing,
West Main Street—South side,
Mays a pritchett,
Dry Goods and Clothing,
Southwest Corner Public Sqnare.
General Merchandise.
La DOZIER,
Groceries, Dry Goods, etc,
Bank block, above Turner & Baker’s.
George W. Satterfield,
Groceries, Dry Goods, etc.,
Southwest Corner Public Square.
I K. Rowan,
Groceries, Dry Goods, Hardware, etc.
West side Public Square.
I sham Alley,
Dry Goods, Hardware, etc.,
South side Square, Eastof Railroad.
Bakeries.
TTANDIVERE & WALDRUP,
T Bakery and Confectioneries, West Main St.
Cabinet Makers.
BREVARD,
Makers and Repairing, East Main St.
TW. WHITE,
Cabinetmakers and Repairing.
East Main Street—South side.
Jewelers, Watchmakers, etc.
Turner a baker,
Watchmakers and Jewelers,
Under Opera House.
JOHN T. OWEN,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
Word’s Drug Store, West Main Street.
¥r. MOCNTCASTLE,
Watchmaker,
E. Strickland A Bro., West Main Street.
Insurance.
Bartow Leake,
Fire Insurance ami Commission Merchant.
Office at Warehouse, West Main Street.
loliu T. Norris,
Life and Fire Insurance,
Office, Second door below Bank, in Bank Block.
Gerald Griffin, #
Life and F’ire Insurance,
Office : Rear Howard Bank.
WII. Howard,
Life ami Fire Insurance. Howard’s Bank
Loan and Real Estate.
George H. Au’orej-,
Loan ami Real Estate Agent.
Office : First Stairway below Post Office.
Cotton Buyers and Commission
Merchants.
Sam F. Milam,
Commission Merchant,
Clerk City Council and Manager Opera House.
Office : Mays & Pritchett.
Gerald Grilfia,
Cotton and Guano. Office in Howard’s Bank.
SF. SMITH,
Cotton Buyer. Office in Howard’s Bank..*
JC. MILAM,
Gotten and Guano.
Office, with Mays & Pritchett.
TJ. HOWARD,
Cotton,Buyer. Office in Howard’s Bunk.
Hardware, Machinery, etc.
Baker a hall,
Hardware and Machinery, Guns Pistols, etc,
West Main Street, North side.
Educational.
TAast Cartcrsville Institute.
JLX Prof. H. O. Carney, Prin., Mrs. Carney.
A&6’t. Mrs. S, J. Ware, music teacher.
WEST END INSTITUTE,
Miss Lucy Carpenter, principal, Mrs, J. w.
Harris, Sr., assistant. Bartow street.
Harness and Saddlery.
\A/ C. EDWARDS,
* west Main street north side
WO. BOHLER,
West Main street, north side.
CAHTEIIS-VILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1886.
HE MAKES AN ATTEMPT.
Tube Jackson Makes a Most Daring At
tempt to Escape.
From ihe Atlanta Journal, 11th inst.j
There are now confined in the Fultou
county jail some of the most desperate
characters ever incarcerated in that insti
tution —men whose future cannot appear
pleasant, with death by hanging and long
terms of imprisonment staring them in
the face. Among them are Jim McCoy,
the slayer of Deputy U. S. Marshal Kel- •
let, who is now awaiting the death sen
tence, his conviction having already been
secured, and Tobe Jackson, the Carters
ville dynamiter, under sentence oi ten
yeays in the penitentiary.
Early yesterday evening, Jaiier Poole
obtained from a United States prisoner,
whose as me he positively refuses to di
vulge, the startling information that
the.-e men, wifh others, were at that-very
moment engaged in an attempt to break
jail; that their plot was to assault and if
necessary, murder the jailers. It was
fortunate for the latter that they secured
the information just as they did, as the
following particulars will show.
About 3:30 yesterday afternoon, the
occupant of the famous Sam Hill cell,
which is located on the main floor, and
next to the office, was permitted by Jail
er Poole to go into another cell on the
second tier to engage in a game of cards
with two other prisoners. This prisoner,
by the way has earned by his good con
duct the confidence of the jailers, and is
given liberties which the others do not
enjoy. In fact, Jailer Poole and his as
sistant, Mr. Osborne, permit him to keep
their private razors in his cell, with
which he shaves them when requested.
While he was playing cards a scene
was being enacted in the adjoining cell
to that occupied by the card players,
which for a time gave promise of having
a tragical denoument. Tobe Jackson,
his brother Sam, Jim McCoy and Joe
Walsh were industriously at work saw
ing a hole through the floor of the cell
which would enable them to drop
through into the Sam Hill cell.
Their intention was to get through this
aperture into the Hill cell during the ab
sence of its occupant, and when Captain
Poole opened the door of the iron cage
into which the cell opens, in its turn, for
the purpose of readmitting the present
proprietor, to spring suddenly into the
cage, seize the door before the jailer
could close it, overpower him, and make
good their escape. But through the in
formation secured bv the jailers, their
design was frustrated. Capt. Osborne,
having previously looked into the Hill
cell and seen how r matters stood, quietly
brought its rightful occupant down and
bade him look at his bed. It was covered
with plaster, and just above it in the
northwest corner of the cell, was a clean
hole, fourteen inches square, cut between
joists througli the floor and ceiling above.
Through this several men had already
descended into the cell about sundown,
as could be seen from the foot-prints on
the coverlid of the bed and on the floor.
Captain Poole’s razor had been taken
from the floor where it had lain and
placed on the table. Captain Osborne’s
razor was gone.
The men had evidently become fright
ened at Capt. Osborne’s approach, and
gone through the hole to the cell above.
How they ever managed to compel se
cresy on the part of the other prisoners,
while thej’ worked is a mystery, Captain
Poole says.
The four consnirators have been
ironed, locked up* and placed under sur
veillance. The matter has been kept
very quiet. Since the above was written
a close search has brought to light Capt.
Osborne’s razor and an old knife blade
stuck in a wooden handle, wrapped with
w ire. The hole w’as cut with this rude
instrument.
A GO AS YOU PLEASE LINE.
An Illinois Road That is Run in a Free
and Easy Style.
There is a little narrow gauge railroad
in Central Illinois which is rather amus
ing. It runs through a rich farming
country and is owned and managed by
wealthy farmers. The conductors, engi
neers aad brakemen are farmer’s sons
who have grown weary of raising cattle
and corn and who have taken to “rail
roading” as a relief. A train starts from
each cud of the road every morning after
breakfast, runs to the opposite end of the
road by dinner time, returns again for tea
and ties up for the night. As there is no
telegraph line connected with the road
nobody at any of the stations knows
when a train is coming until it arrives in
sight. As the rails are laid on ties placed
on the flat prairie, and as no grade exists
from one end of the road to the other,
the tall grass has an awkward habit ot
getting under the wheels and stopping
the train. Not infrequently, also, the
light rails spread apart and the cars run
oil the track and go tumbling along on
the virgin prairie. The passengers ride
in a car reserved for them in the rear of
a long line of freight cars. Half of this
oar is partitioned off in order that it may
also serve for carrying mail bags, express
matter and baggage. Not infrequently
passengers walk into a village ahead of
the train arid announce that the cars will
follow them, in an hour or two, provided
they can be kept on the track long
enough. Sometimes a locomotive gets
stalled on some one of the several gentle
hills along the line. The trainmen
thereupon quietly wait until the other
engine appears. Then the two engines
draw the train up the hill. Notwith
standing this little railroad hauls large
quantities of freight and is making money
for its stockholders.
Chattanooga, Tenn., August 12 —A
little love affair between Miss Alice Ban
dy and John Davis, of Graysville, Tenn.,
a little village thirty-five miles from this
eit}’-, has resulted in a frightful tragedy.
Rev. F. M. Bandy, father of the young
lady, objected so sternly to Davis atten
tion to his daughter that when he called
Tuesday night. Bandy gave his daughter
a severe whipping. This incensed the
young lady’s brother, and he determined
to avenge the wrong done his sister, by
thrashing her sweetheart. Davis beat
the young man almost to death, and fin
ished him by crushing his skull. Rev.
Mr. Bandy then assaulted Mr. Davis, aud
they had a battle with huge knives. A
terrible struggle ensued, and when it
ended both men were almost hacked to
pieces and in a flying condition. The
awful affair has thrown that community
into a furor of excitement.
Miraculous Escape.
W. W, Reed, druggist, of Winchester, Infl.,
writes: “One of my customers, Mrs. Louisa
Pike, Bartouia, Randolph Cos., Ind., was a long
sufferer with Consumption, and was given up to
die by her physicians. She heard of Dr. King’s
New Discovery for Consumption, and began
buying it of me. In six months’ time she walked
to this city,-a distance of six miles, and is now so
much improved she has quilt Using it. She feel
owes her life to it.” Free Trial Bottles at
dwijll Drug Store. 6
GOOD PEOPLE IN POLITICS.
We most heartily commend to the
consideration of those to whom it
may apply, the following thoughts upon
the responsibility of using our suffrage,
taken from the Christian Advocate, Nash
ville, Ten u. That paper says;
“The minister of the gospel cannot ig
nore the moral issues that have come to
the front and leave to others leadership
,in the great conflict for their right set
tlement which has begun and which
must be fought out to the end. Christian
eitizeus cannot sit in cushioned pews and
sing of heaven, and leave it toothers to
grapple with the deadly evils that threat
en the destruction of social order and
the. moral life of the nation. They can
not afford to let it continue to be true
that on electiou day one whisky saloon
is more potent on the wrong side than
the entire membership of a church on
the right side.
The suffrage is a trust. It is the duty
of the Chrisiian citizen to vote, and to
vote right. The stay-at-home vote is
largely made up of what is called the
best class of voters —to their shame be it
said. The saloon vote is always on hand;
the vote that is bought is usually delivered;
the loafer vote may always be counted
on. The voter who stays away from the
polls on election clay is the man who
prays for good government, but never
gives an hour of his time nor a dollar of
his money to secure it; the man who
complains of the mal-legislation, but
never lifts a finger to prevent it; the man
who groans over excessive taxation, but
folds his hands and lets the rascals that
pull the wires for their own ends have
their own way; the man who seems to
think that when our Lord said his king
dom was not of this world he meant that
the blessing of civil liberty and good gov
ernment might be enjoyed by leaving
the administration of civil affairs in the
hands of those who fear not God nor re
gard their fellow men. Such men are
fanatics—fanatics of the mild and silly
sort who expect to enjoy the rich bless
ings of freedom and happiness without
the use of the means by which they are
secured and maintained.
The very plea by which these unfaith
ful citizens often seek to justify their in
action in civil affairs furnishes a most
powerful reason why they should go to
work with a will. The very corruption
that repels them they should take as a
challenge for the fight.
Are the methods of our politics cor
rupt? It is your business to purify them.
Are the ruling politicians cunning and
deceitful? It is your business to sup
plant them with better men. Is it disa
greeable to you to contend with them
and conquer them, or you must be ruled,
disgraced and plundered by them ? 'fake
your choice.
It is equally stupid and cowardly to
hope to enjoy the blessings while you
shirk the responsibilities of citizenship in
a free country.
This nation has the grandest possibili
ties of any on earth. Its perils are pro
portioned to these possibilities. Citizen
ship is a sacred trust that can only be
discharged by unceasing vigilance, un
shrinking courage, and untiring activity
in the discharge of all civil duties, fr&m
casting a presidential ballot down to the
choice of the constable or policeman of
your district.
To the delinquencies of Christian citi
zens must be attributed many of the evils
that now excite alarm in our country.
In the extirpation of these e/ils they find
a call for the exercise of the highest
functions of citizenship am) an opportu
nity to prove their worthiness to bo the
rulers of a great nation.”
DOGS THAT GET DRUNK.
From the Indianapolis Journal.]
Dogs that stay about saloons much of
the time very often acquire a taste for
beer by drinking water into which a little
beer is poured. The appetite for it grows
until they relish pure beer. They often
become very fat from drinking it. The
most famous of dog tipplers ever in the
city was Jack, a big mastiff owned by
John Brough. He long ago sunk into a
drunkard’s grave. The Circle House sa
loon was his favorite loafing place, and
he was a sort of hail fellow well met
among the human drinkers who congre
gated there. He would wag his tail and
beg for beer when he saw anyone drink
ing, and if his prayer was not answered
he would go behind the counter and lap
from the drippings in the bucket. He
would sometimes get so drunk that he
would walk on both sides of the pave
ment w hen he got out. His feet would
be put out slowly and fumblingly, the
four of them being pushed far out to four
points of compass to keep from falling.
He would often “not go home un
til morning.” Early risers have many a
time seen him staggering along the
streets, getting home as best he could.
He was always ill when in his cups, and
those who knew him gave him plenty of
room at such times. A local sportsman
is said to own a pointer which is of a
rather lazy temperment. The dog keeps
his eye out, and whenever he sees his
master getting his gun ready and fixing
up his wagon to go hunting, hurries to a
neighboring saloon and drinks until he
is too drunk to move.
AN AMERICAN ARMY IN 1777.
Here is a picture of one of the men
at Valley Forge: “Ilis bare feet peep
through his worn shoes, his legs nearly
naked from the tattered remains of an
only pair of stockings, his breeches not
enough to cover his nakedness, his shirt
hanging in strings, his hair disheveled,
his face wan and thin, his look hungry,
his whole appearance that of a man for
saken and neglected.” And the snow
was tailing! This was one of the pri
vates. The oftieers were scarcely better
oft 1 . One was wrapped i‘in a sort of dress
ing-gown made rf an old blanket or
woolen bed cover.” The uniforms were
torn and ragged; the guns were rusty; a
few r only had bayonets; the soldiers car
ried their powder in tin boxes and cow
horns.
The horses died of starvation, and the
men harnessed themselves to trucks and
sleds, hauling wood and provisions from
storehouse to hut. At oue time there
was not a ration in camp. Washington
seized the peril with a strong hand and
compelled the people in the country
about, who had been selling to the Brit
ish army at Philadelphia, to give up their
stores to the patriots at Valley Forge.—
St. Nicholas.
Saved His Life.
Mr. D.I. Wilooxson, of Horse-Cave, Ky., says
he was, for many years, badly afflicted with
Phthisic, also Diabetes; the pains were almost
unendurable and would sometimes almost
throw him into convulsions. He tried Electric
Bitters and got relief from first bottle ami after
taking six bottles, w'as entirejy cured, and had
gained in flesh eighteen pounds. Says he posi
tively believes lie would have died, had it no
been for the relief afforded by Electric Bitters
Sold at fifty cents a bottle by D. W. Curry.
A WONDERFUL MAN.
More Than a Millionaire, But as ‘‘Plain as
an Old Shoe.”
Banner: “Who is the richest man in
Athens ?” we yesterday asked cf a gentle
man who is posted on such matters.
“Ferdinand Phinizy, by a big major
ity,” was the reply.
“Is he worth half a million ?”
“Nearer two millions. Ten years ago
he had SOOO,OOO in stocks and bonds,
besides his other vast possession, and his
wealth is accumulating very fast. His
income now I know to be $lO,OOO
month, and as Mr. Phinizy lives a plain
life for a man of his wealth, he does not
begin to spend it. Besides, he is one of
the best business men in Georgia, and
makes a great deal by trading. A short
time since, on an investment of SIO,OOO
he doubled his money in less than a
year.”
“How does he invest his surplus cash ?”
“I’ll venture the assertion that he has
now arranged in his mind where he
shall place every dollar for the next six
months. He never lets his money lie
idle, but has alw r ays a place ready to
hand to place it. Mr. Phinizy has the
most wonderful financial brain of any
man I ever knew. Why, he will work a
hundred hands and never keep a memor
andum book. He will let them have
change if they need it, and at the end of
the month, when he comes to settle, tell
each man exactly what he was paid and
when he got it. He never forgets any
thing, and if he owes you a nickle in a
settlement will remember it and pay it
to you. Mr. Phinizy is very plain in his
habits, and if the poorest man in Georgia
should come to his home he will treat
him with just as much courtesy and
honor as he would the President of the
United States. He makes no distinction
in persons. One man to him is just as
good as another, so he is honest and
truthful. Mr. Phinizy, too, is a chari-
table man, but he never makes a display
of his gifts. What he does is in a quiet,
unostentatious manner. He is a man of
great determination, and will not put his
money into anything unless he is given a
controlling voice. If it was not for him
the Northeastern railroad would never
have been built. It was his monev and
influence that made this road a success.
Mr. Phinizy is certainly a wonderful
man, and some day, when the spirit
moves him, he will, with his vast wealth,
leave in some great enterprise a lasting
monument to his memory in Athens.” °
A GREAT MAN IN GEORGIY.
From the Washington Untie. 1
In a certain section of Georgia Sena
tor Joe Brown is held to be something
higher than earth, something greater
than man; and through this section an
Atlantic newspaper man of a religious
turn of mind (there is only one in At
lanta, and he isn’t there now) had occa
sion to travel. One Sunday he attended
a country Sunday school and was called
on to speak, and to interest the scholars
he asked them questions between his re
marks.
“Who made the great big world ?” he
asked under the subject “Creation.”
“God,” answered the whole school.
“And who made the pretty stars and
the great yellow moon to shine by night,
and the beautiful silver sun to shine by
day?”
“God,” said all the children again.
“Correct,” he said, pleasantly.
“And now, children, who made God?”
This was a poser, and the school was
silent for a full minute, when a -small
hand belonging to the postmaster’s small
boy went up.
“Ah, my boy,” smiled the catecliizer,
“you can answer, can you? Well, now,
tell us who made God.”
“Joe Brown did,” piped the boy, i;nd
all the scholars in the school looked
ashamed of themselves for being so igno
rant, and even the teachers seemed pro
voked that the postmaster’s boy had
taken the honors.
PUT IT TOGETHER.
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage says: “Gather
up the money that the working classes
have spent for rum during the last thirty
years, and I will build for every work
ingman a house, and lay out for him a
garden, and clothe his sons in broadcloth
and dress his daughters in silks, and
stand at his front door a span of prancing
sorrels or bays, and secure him a life
policy of life insurance so that the pres
ent home may be well maintained after
he is dead. The most persistent, most
overpowering enemy to the working
classes is intoxicating liquor. It’s the
anarchist of the centuries, it has boycot
ted and is now boycotting the body and
mind and soul of American labor. It is
to it a worse foe than monopoly and
worse than associated capital. It an
nually swindles industry out of a large
percentage of its earnings. It holds out
its blasting solicitations to the mechanic
or operative on his way to work, and at
the noonspell and on his way home at
eventide, or Saturday, when the wages
are paid, it snatches a large part of the
money that might come to the family
and sacrifices it for whisky.”
The people of Baldwin county yoted
under the general local option law, and
the ordinary ot the county, Judge D. B.
Sanford, rejected the ballots at several
county precincts on the ground of ille
gality. The election was heralded as a
victory for liquor, but the decision of the
ordinary gave it to the dry side by 300
majority. A legal contest ensued in the
county oyer the action of the ordinary,
able counsel appearing on both sides.
The precincts rejected voted in favor of
liquor, and the ballots were rnaily cast
by colored men who had not paid their
taxes or were otherwise disqualified as
electors. After a long and patient hear
ing, Judge I'. J. Lawson last week sus
tained the decision of Ordinary Sanford.
Baldwin is declared dry and the law will
go into effect January Ist., 1887.
A Mail Fraud Punished at Milwaukee,
Wis.
Everyone should remember that the
presence of Gens. Beauregard and Early
at the Drawings of The Louisiana S',ate
Lottery having entire charge, is a guar
antee of absolute fairness and that no
human being can know beforehand what
number will draw a prize; therefore,
any party advertising to guarantee prizes
in the drawings of The Louisiana State
Lottery, or holding out other induce
ments impossible to carry out, is a swind
ler and a cheat. Money sent in answer
to such advertisements is obtained with a
view to deceive and defraud the unwary.
To do the right thing address M. A.
Dauphin, New Orleans, La. One of
these swindlers, Robert Riley, alias W.
Huber & Cos., was sent to prison for ten
months at Milwaukee last month, and it
served him right.
Delectalave is endorsed by prominent
physicians. Try a bottle. Curry sells
it.
TWICE MARRIED.
James Starns in Company With Hlg Sec
ond Wife Meets His First, Whom He
Thought Dead.
Irom the Louisville Courier-Journal.J
Chattanooga, Tknx., Aug. 10— A ro
mance almost without parallel came to
light in tliis city to-day, and so intricate
ly is the plot interwoven that it would
make truth appear stranger than fiction.
Thirty years ago there resided near this
city, then a straggling village, James
Starns, a sturdy young farmer, with his
wife and two little boys. In 1854 Starns
concluded to try his fortune in the West,
and went to California. A month later,
having found a pleasant settlement, he
sent his wife money with which to join
him. Mrs. Starns wrote, saying she
would start in two months, but at the
end of that time she had received no re
ply. Starns wrote letter after letter to
his wife and relatives, and she wrote to
him, but neither ever received a word of
the other.
Ten years afterward Starns sent his
wife SSOO, but the money went back to
him, as no one called for it. By this
time both the husband and wife supposed
each other dead. Mr. Starns went to
Michigan, and from thence to Wiscon
sin, where six years ago he married the
daughter of a wealthy farmer.
By seme strange fate he drifted to
Chattanooga last week. Not even the
oldest inhabitant remembered him, and
he could find no trace of any of his folks.
To-day he learned that a family named
Starns resided near the city-, and procur
ing a carriage took his wife to ascertain
whether or not they were his relatives.
Arriving at the house, Starns was horri
fied to find the aged, white-haired lady
who received him was no other than his
first wife, and he realized the fact that he
had two wives. An explanation follow
ed, and the two wives were introduced,
but each exhibited a marked coolness.
The parties refuse to talk, and it is not
known what they will do.
INFORMATION FOR VOTERS.
Two amendments of the State consti
tution are to be voted on at the general
election on the 6th day of October next.
One of them is to strike from the consti
tution paragraph 15 of section 7of arti
cle 3.—This paragraph provides that all
local bills must originate in the House,
and gives directions as to the method of
procedure in getting such bills up for
consideration. The repeal of the para
graph will put local legislation on the
same footing with other legislation, ex
cept that notice of intention to apply for
such local act must be published in the
locality to be afteete 1 thirty days before
the introduction of such bill in the Leg
islature. The other amendment relates
to the last sentence in paragraph 1, sec
tion 1, article 7. Under the paragraph
in question the Legislature has power “to
supply the soldiers who lost a limb or
limbs in the military service of the Con
federate States with substantial artificial
limbs during life.” The amendment
proposes to add t > this the power “to
make suitable provision for such Confed
erate soldiers as may have been perma
nently injured in such service.”
According to the Court Journal, a
wealthy ironmaster in the north of En
gland, whose house and works are claz
zliugly illuminated by the electric light,
lias adopted an ingenious contrivance, by
which he may glean some Information as
to what goes on during his not unfre
quent absences from home. In several
of his rooms and in his offices there is a
concealed apparatus in the walls, con
sisting of a roll of Eastman paper and a
train of clockwork. Every hour a shut
ter is silently opened by the machinery,
and an instantaneous photograph is taken
of all that is going on in the room. On
the great man’s return he delights to de
velop these pictures, and it is said that
they have furnished some very strange
information indeed. One clerk, who re
ceived his dismissal somewhat unexpect
edly, and boldly wanted to know the
reason why, was horrified when shown
a photograph in which he was depicted
lolling in an easy chair, with his feet
upon the office desk, while the clock on
the mantelpiece pointed to an hour at
which he ought to have been at his busi
est. The servants’ party in the best
dining room furnished another thrilling
scene.
WOMEN AS FARMERS.
The New Orleans Picayune says num
bers of women in Mississippi have adopt
ed farming as a profession. Miss Eliza
Ewing is one of the most successful
women farmers in the state. Her farm
is four miles above Carrollton, in Carroll
county. Miss Ewing lives in the grand
old family mansion of ante-bellum days
and gives her personal attention to all
farm matters. Her success proves con
clusively what women may accomplish
in the rich growing agricultural sections
of Mississippi. Mrs. Sallie D. Echolls,
of Jackson, Miss., owns and personally
manages a stock farm that is near the
city limits and commands the prettiest
and most extensive view around the cap
ital. The pastures and grass lots are se
curely fenced and kept in beautiful
Mrs. Echols’ Jersey herd is considered
as fine as any in the south. All the corn
fo.ts and convenience of farm life are
found on the Echols farm united to
pleasures of one of the most refined and
social communities in the state.
Again the sea serpent, and this time in
fresh water, in Sandy Lake, near Min
neapolis, Cris Eugstein was sitting on
the shore of the lake with his gun, wait
ing for a chance shot at a water fowl,
when a violent agitation of the water not
150 feet from him brought him to his feet.
In an instant a huge scaly head was
lifted from the surface. Two horns
pointing forward and immense mouth
adorned it. It was about as large as a
a beer keg. Mr. Engstein says that
almost mechanically he lifted his gun
and fired. The bullet struck the beast
squarely in the forehead, and as it glanced
upward the sun glittered upon it, show
ing that it had been scraped down about
one-half as neatly as if done with a file.
The animal, doubtless astonished at the
greeting, sank below the surface.
The country is hardly going to rack
and ruin under a Democratic adminis
tration, when the Tribune gleefully an
nounces that it “is an encouraging indi
cation of returning business prosperity,
this increase in the production of iron
and steel in the United States. The pro
duction of pig iron in the first half of
this year amounted to 2,954,209 tons,
which is considered more than was ever
produced in the same length of time. Ac
coid:ng to the official report of the Ir >n
and Steel Association, more will be
produced in ISB6 than in any previous
year.”
NUMBER 29
ANARCHISTS ON A PICNIC.
Plenty of Reer, Some Disorder, and a
Tirade Against Capitalists.
Chicago, Aug. B. —Twenty-three
passenger coaches were chartered to the
Socialistic Publishing Company this
morning by the Lake Shore and Michi
gan Southern Railway. Into these
ears men, women, ahd children were
packed like so many herrings. The
party was bound for Sheffield, Ind., and
the proceeds of the enterprise were to go
towards defraying the costs of defending
the Anarchists nowon trial. At 9 o’clock
this train pulled out, followed later in
the day by straggling crowds on the
out-bound accommodation trains. A
rough approximation places the number
of the crowd at the picnic at between
5,000 and 6,000. Beer flowed freely, and
there was more or less disorder, but not
of a serious character.
Dr. Ernst Schmidt addressed the
picnickers, calling upon them to stand
by the doctrine of Socialism, and transmit
it to their children. The men on trial
were self-constituted martyrs, who
should be upheld and encouraged, lie
had no doubt that even a jury composed
for the most part of capitalists would
Vindicate tiie cause of Socialism and its
advocates now on trail for their lives.
Oscar Neebe, the only defendant out
on bail, was then called for and carried to
the platform. The sight of the man
seemed to craze the crowd, and the
woods resounded with their huzzas.
Neebe thanked the audience collectively
and individually for their support. Ifis
fellow prisoners would appreciate their
generosity. He then branched off into a
tirade against capitalists and the “capi
talistic press.” and the meeting wound
up with the defendant Anarchist still on
the stand shouting, “Long live the
doctrine of socialism.”
AN ALLIGATOR SW ALLOWS A MAN.
Orange City (Fla.) Times.]
Last week a man, presumably a tramp,
knocked at L. P. Thursby’s door about
9 o’clock at night after the family had
retired, Mr. Thursby struck a match
and responded to the call. The man
stated that he had walked fifteen miles
that afternoon to take the night boat
bound north and got left, and wanted to
stay all night. Thursby handed him a
key and pointed to the barn, stating that
that was the best he could do for him.
Not until after Mr. Thursby had retired
sometime did he think of the ten-foot al
ligator his boys had in the barn for the
entertainment of strangers next winter,
and worried considerably about the man.
As soon as he dressed he hurried out to
the barn next morning to see about the
man. He found the door locked with
the key turned on the inside. He forced
a side window open, found the alligator
in its usual corner, but the man was
missing. The evidence gathered points
to the destruction of the man during the
night, as the animal ate nothing during
the next few days. Nothing can be
heard of the man, and it is believed he
came to an untimely end that night.
Whether the man was a worthless tramp
or an honest and worthy citizen, it is one
of the saddest catastrophes the Times has
yet been called upon to chronicle.
That is a rather remarkable story
which a Cincinnati paper publishes
about a laborer named Charles Russell,
finding last Tuesday, while attending a
boulder crushing machine in a street of
that city, a diamond worth SIOO,OOO.
Stone is being used from the Georgia
stone quarries, for paving purposes in
Oinoinnari. but in order to allay any
excitement in the vicinity of tho quarries
it might be as well to state that in Cin
cinnati it is conjectured that the diamond
is the one that was lost at, Blennerhassett
Island in 1806 by Mrs. Clark, who visited
there with Aaron Burr, as described by
Burr in a published letter to his daughter,
the theory being that the stone became
imbedded in a boulder which was taken
to Cincinnati for paving purposes.
“Does it shuw, Mary?” “What
show?” “Why that steel plate I have
under my back hair.” Good gracious,
girl! Why are you wearing a steel plate
there?” “Don’t vou know that 1 have a
beau?” “Yes, but what of that?”
“Well, I believe, from what he said the
other night, that he is going to pop the
question this evening. I shall refuse
him, and he’ll probably shoot. 1 see
from the papers now that it is the lashion
for a man to shoot the woman who rejects
him. Well, I also notice that most of
the victims are shot from the back.
With the steel plate under my switch
and ma’s waffle iron under the rear of
my corset 1 feel pretty safe.”
Pursuant to the act of the
last Legislature the Governor has issued
an order to the tax commissioners of the
various counties to levy and collect a tax
of three mills on all the taxable property
of the State for general purposes, and an
additional tax of one-half mill for the
building of the new capital. It is esti
mated that the tax will bring in, together
with the special taxes and rental of the
Western and Atlantic railroad, $1,691,-
457 on a property valuation of $305,000,-
000. The estimated disbursements for
the year is $1,681,850. A decrease in
the special taxes this year is looked for,
owing to a falling oft' in the liquor tax
and the fees of fertilizer inspectors.
In jogging through life yon often
shake ' hands with a colledge graduate of
brilliant talents m whose pockets silver
seldom jingles, while Cincinnati, it is
said has a newsboy worth twenty thous
and dollars. It don’t make much differ
ence in this country who a man is or
what he makes is it what he salts down
that counts. —Chicago Ledger.
There is an old woman in Milledgeville
known as old Aunt Jane Brooks, who is
somewhere between 100 and 120 years of
age. She remembers the revolutionary
war and when Washington was Presi
dent. To her credit, be it said, she has
never claimed that she nursed the father
of his country. Her health is good
though she is quite blind.
A Texas judge has decided that when
one man in that State approaches another
with his hands in hi3 pocket it is an invi
tation to shoot. A Virginia judge, of
happy memory, once decided that calling
a man a liar was equivalent to knocking
him down, and he could, theieafter, gov
ern himself accordingly.
Gen. John B. Gorddon, it is positively
announced by the Jacksonville Herald ,
has recently disposed ot his railroad in
terests in Florida for $700,000 —$200,000
cash in hand and $500,000 to be paid in a
few weeks.
The time is here when a botrle of Cur
ry’s Diarrhoea and Dysentery Specific
should be in every house. Take time by
the forelock and get a bottle.