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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.