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THE CARTERSVILLE COURANT.
VOLUME 11.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
This city is situated on the Western A Atlantic and East and AVest Railroads, 48 miles north of
Atlanta, and in Bartow county, Georgia. Population 2,500, with churches of Baptist, Methodist,
Presbyterian and Episcopal denominations. With superior educational, climatic and business ad
vantages cartersville is unsurpassed as a place of resideuce. Nestling in the beautiful mountain
district of North Georgia, it is protected from the extreme chilly 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 know n to have originated in the county.
Mineral and Agricultural Resources.— Nearly every mineral known to exist is
found in inexhaustible quantities, which will make Gartereville a great manufacturing centre at
no distant day. The manganese shipments from this depot alone-are simply enormous. The Fakm
inc. Lands of Bartow'county will compare favorably with thyse 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
w e have the advantage of Bhorter and milder winters. Lands are cheap and superior inducements
are 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. j>.,
Physician and Surgeon.
office: Curry’s Drug Store; residence, Erwin St.
I 11. MAYFIELD, M. D.,
J, Physician and surgeon.
<)dice: first door south Craw ford & Hudson; res
idence, East Main Street. ___
11HOMAS H. BAKER, M. I>.,
Physician and Surgeon,
Office: one door above St. James Hotel,
JAMES M. YOUNG, M. D.,
Residence on Market street, near Baptist
Church. ___________
Daniel hamitur, m. and.,
Residence on Market street, south side.
Tl W. FITE, M. I).
XI, Office West side Public Square
o H. WHITE, M. 1.
. Oilice over Mavs & Pritchett
WL. KIRKPATRICK, M. !>.,
Oilice in Howard’s Bank, Residence on
Church Street.
n M. (JBIFFIN, M. Ik,
U Residence on Market Street—South side.
Merchant Tailors.
Rm. clinkscal.es,
Sliop over Mays <fk Pritchett.
Millinery and Dressmaking.
MISS E. M. PADGETTE,
Fashionable Millinery.
Rooms over Mays Sc Pritchett.
MISS LEO SHOCKLEY, •
Fashionable Millinery.
_ Rooms under Opera House.
Financial.
Baker & hall,
General Banking.
West Main Street, North side.
WH, HOWARD,
Exchange and Collecting Oflice
Office: In Bank Block.
Drugs.
Mr, WORD,
Drugs, Chemicals, etc.
West Main Street, North side.
David av. curry,
Druggist,
Proprietor Curry’s Liver Compound, Curry’s
Cough Cure, Curry’s Diarrhma and Dysentery
Specific.
Markets.
John Dodgen,
Choice Meats at all Times
East side Public Square.
A A. Dobbs,
Meat Market Wcst Main Street, South side.
Undertakers.
AIT C EDWARDS,
VV Collins and Mourning Goods,
Corner West Main and Erwin Streets,
Harness, Buggy Whips, etc.
Hicks & brevard,
Collins and Mourning Goods,
East Main Street.
Hotels.
rpENNESSE'E HOUSE,
JL Joshua Sumner Proprietor, East Main Street.
HI HE ST. JAMES,
X Dr. R, A. McFerrin, Proprietor,
East side Public Square.
Bartow house,
Mrs. S. C. Majors, Proprietress,
West side Public Square.
Barbers.
TORN TAYLOR, JR.
; Second Jdoor south postofliee.
WILLIAM JOHNSON,
Shockley building, east side railroad.
TORN TAYLOR,
At St. James llote\
IjiSSEX CHOICE,
!i Did Exchange hotel, east side railroad.
Stoves and Tinware.
VL, Williams,
Stoves and Tinware,
Housefurntshing Goods of every Description,
West Main Street—South side.
Carriages, Buggies, etc.
RII. JONES & SONS’ MANF’G CO.,
Buggies, Wagons, etc ,
Cartorsville, Rome and Stamp Creek.
All kinds of Repairing,
WA. BRADLEY,
Buggy, Wagon and General Repair Shop,
_ yVcst Main Street—North side,
Furniture.
Q L. VANDIVERE,
G North Georgia Furniture House,
East Main Street—North side.
Dentists.
RE. Cason,
Resident Dentist,
Office : Upstairs, over Curry’s,
Mftl. Puckett,
• Resident Dentist,
Office : Over K. H Jones & Sons’ Manf’g Cos.
Groceries and Provisions.
I F. STEPHENS,
J Groceries and Provisions,
Northeast Corner Public Square.
STEPHENS & CO.,
Groceries and Provisions,
est side Public Square.
Lit. MATTHEWS & CO.,
Groceries and Provisions,
Under CoukAnt Office,
BA KKON BROS., ’
Groceries and Provisions,
East Main Street.
¥ll. YVILUOITE,
Groceries Provisions, Farming Implements
and Field Seeds.
East Main Street.
Alt. HUDGINS,
Groceries and Provisions,
est Main Street —South side,
T A. STOVER,
J Groceries and Provisions,
West Main Street—South side,
E STRICKLAND & BRO.,
Staple and Fancy Groceries,
Canned Goods of every variety.
West Main Street—South side.
DUCKETT & MARSHALL,
Groceries and Provisions,
East Public Square. •
p LENN JONES,
VI Groceries and Provisions,
West Main st., South side.
TaiTtodd,
J Groceries and Provisions,
West Main Street —South side.
T L. AVIKLE,
J Groceries and Provisions,
West Main Street—North side,
n H. WHITE & SON,
\j Groceries. Provisions, Lumber and Coal
West M ain Street —North side.
Bradford & co.,
Groceries and Provisions,
West Main Street—North side.
\T ANDIVEKB & WALDRUP,
V Groceries, Candies, etc.
West Main Street —North side.
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GEORGE 11. GILREATII,
VI Staple and Fancy Groceries,
est M tin Street—North side .
BF. GODFREY,
Groceries and Provisions,
est Corner Main and Erwin Streets.
fIIHOMAS LAWHON,
X Groceries and Provisions,
East aide Public Square \
Poolaud Billiard Tables.
117 H. TERRELL,
VV First door below' Bank.
Books, Stationery, etc.
Wikle & co,
First. Door above Post Office.
Crain, Hay and Produce.
Roberts & collins,
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 & SON,
Grain, Hay and Produce,
South aide Public Square—East side Railroad^
Lawyers.
JOE M. MOON.
Office over J. K. Rowan’s store
JA. RAKER,
Office: northwest corner court house
Douglas wikle,
Office with Sheriff, at court house
JOHN H. WIKLE,
Oflice with Ordinary, at court house.
TAV. H. HARRIS.
Solicitor pro tem City Court.
Opposite Clerk’s office at court house
Albert s. Johnson,
Office: two doors above St. James hotel.
JOHN AV. AKIN,
Office: First stairway above postofliee.
Ray. murphey,
First stairway below PO. Ist door on right.
TAMES It. CONYERS,
J First stairway below PO. Ist door on left.
SHELBY ATTAAVAY,
Office: first stairway below P O, and second
door on right.
Mr. stansell, ~
First door below postofliee, last door on left
Graham & graham,
First stairway below P O, and last door on
fight
Am, foute,
Office: Upstairs, cor Main and Erwin Sts.
T M, NEEL,
J Judire City Court.
Oilice over Curry’s Drug Store.
AAV, FITE,
Office 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.
CRAWFORD & HUDSON,
Sale, Livery and Feed Stables.
Near court house, east side railroad.
Horses and nudes for sale at all times.
TOIIN P. ANDERSON,
J Sale, Livery and Feed Stables.
Erwin Street, near Main.
Printing.
COURANT PUBLISHING CO.,
Proprietors “COURANT” and Job Printers.
Official organ Bartow County.
Office: Puckett Building, S. E, Cor. Square,
flay*Atlanta Prices Cut.
American publishing co.,
Proprietors “American” and Job Printers.
Office : West Mam stieet—South side
Dry Goods snd Clothing.
RAV. SATTERFIELD,
Dry Goods and Clothing,
South side Public Square, near Railroad
] P. JONES,
° Dry Goods and Clothing,
West Main Street—Public Square.
QCHEUER BROS,
k? Dry Goods and Clothing,
W cst Main Street—South side.
I G. M. MONTGOMERY & SON,
u Dry Goods and Clothing,
West Main Street—South side,
Mays & pritchett,
Dry Goods and Clothing,
Southivest Corner Public Square.
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.
I sham Alley,
Dry Goods, Hardware, etc.,
South side Square, Eastof Railroad.
Bakeries.
VANDIA’ERE & avaldrup,
Bakery and Confectioneries, West Main St.
Cabinet Makers.
HIX & BREVARD,
Cabinet Makers and Repairing, East Main St,
m AV. WHITE,
X Cabinetmakers and Repairing.
East Main Street—South side.
Jewelers, Watchmakers, etc.
fnURNER & BAKER,
X Watchmakers and Jewelers,
Under Opera House.
JOHN T. OWEN,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
Word’s Drug Store, West Main Street.
¥R. Iv/fOUNTCASTLE,
Watchmaker,
E. Strickland & Bro.> West Main Street.
Insurance.
Bartow Leake,
Fire Insurance and Commission Merchant,
Office at Warehouse, West Main Street.
Johu T. Norris,
Life and Fire Insurance,
Oflicc, Second door below Bank, in Bank Block.
Gerald Griffin,
Life and Fire Insurance,
Oflice : Rear Howard Bank.
WH. Howard,
_ Lifc < tn( l Fire Insurance. Howard’s Bank
Loan and Real Estate.
George H. Aubrey,
Loan and 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 Grifffu,
Cotton and Guano. Office in Howard’s Bank.
SF. SMITH,
Cotton Buyer. Office in Howard’s Bank.
JC. MILAM,
Cotten and Guano.
Office, with Maya A Pritchett.
JJ. HOWARD,
Cotton Buyer. Office in Howard's Bank,
Hardware, Machinery, etc.
Baker & hall,
Hardware and Machinery, Guns Pistols, etc,
_ West Main Street, North side.
Educational.
East Cartereville Institute.
Prof. H. C. Carney, Prin., Mrs. Carney.
Ass’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.
\A7 C. EDWARDS,
* T * west Main street north side
WO. BOHLER,
West Main street north side.
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1886”
COOL CHARLIE’S DEATH.
From the Chicago News.]
There were, in the years of 1565-6,
along the overland route through Kan
sas, a number of very daring road agents,
and perhaps the boldest of the gang was
a boy 16 years old, who was known as
“Cool Charley.” There were various
stories as to his identity, but the
real fact was that he was the son of a
Missouri bushwhacker who had been
hunted down after the close of the war,
with other members of Quantrell’s gang,
and shot on sight. The boy was a wild,
reckless fellow, and as he drifted West in
the current of travel he fell in with bad
men and became a desperado. The
achievement which resulted in his death
was the boldest affair he ever attempted.
In June, 1860, three families, named
Wolf, Taylor and Dayton, respectively,
started for Colorado from St. Joe. There
were three men and two half-grown
boys in the party, and until within fifty
miles of the Colorado line the teams
were in the company of a caravan num
bering twenty wagons. One day one of
the women was bitten by a rattlesnake,
and she was so terribly ill that the wag
ons halted for a day or two until she
should find relief. The caravan pushed
on and left them, but at that time no
danger was to be apprehended from the
Indians. On the second day of the halt,
about 5 o’clock in the afternoon, one of
the boys named Will, aged 13, a son of
Mr. Taylor, took his shotgun and left
camp in search of a rabbit or other small
game. The camp was on a small
creek emptying into the Re
publican river, and in a bit of valley
where the grass grew luxriantly. This
very spot was about a mile from a main
line of travel, but hidden from it by
broken ground and sage brush.
Soon after the boy left camp the three
men and the other lad sat down together
to repair one of the harnesses, while the
three women were together in one wag
on. The men must have been very busy
with their work, for of a sudden a voice
addressed them, and they looked up to
find Cool Charley sitting barebacked on
a mule between them and the wagons,
lie had a rifie resting across the animal
and a revolver in his right hand. They
took it for granted that he was the son of
some immigrant who was, perhaps, in
tending to rest his horses in the valley,
but as they were about to arise to wel
come him and reply to any inquiries, he
commanded them to remain seated un
der pain of instant death. All the fire
arms were in the wagons, and when the
men realized that the boy was a des
perado and meant business they obeyed
orders. He rode to within ten feet of
them and dismounted and said:
“I shan’t hurt nobody unless obliged
to do it to keep you quiet. How much
much money is there in the crowd?”
The three men had a total of about
S7OO, but all pleaded poverty and appeal
ed to him not to rob them of the means
of subsisting after reaching their desti
nation. Pointing his revolver from man
to man he made each one own up the
exact amount he iiad in his wallet.
Then each one was forced to count out
half, and the money was handed to him
by the boy.
“That’s all right,” he said, as he pock
eted the gold. “Now, I’m tired of rid
ing around on an old ihnle without a
saddle. I think that bay horse will suit
me.”
The animal was a splendid beast,
owned by the father of the boy who was
off hunting, and while the boy drove
the wagon the father drove this horse.
The animal was hobbled near by, and
the saddle hung on a hind wheel of the
wagon. It was hopeless to object or
protest, and the men were quiet while
the young outlaw leaned his rifle against
the wagon, and proceeded to catch the
horse, all the time carrying his revolver
ready for service, and having an eye on
the group. He had brought the horse
to the wagon when Will Taylor came in
sight from his brief hunt. lie approach
ed from the other side of the wagons, and
was unseen by the outlaw. While green
to pararie life and its dangers, he was a
quick-witted boy, and while yet a con
siderable distance away he realized that
something was wrong at the camp. His
farther approach was made with more
caution. The two boys had been chums
for years, and out of curiosity had
learned the deaf-and-dumb alphabet, and
could converse quite rapidly together.
As Will came nearer George signed to
him that there was a robber in camp.
A moment later Mr. Dayton told him to
signal Will to creep nearer and shoot the
outlaw in the legs. Will replied that he
was afraid, and was told that if he did
not the horse and money would soon be
off. With that he crept rapidly forward.
Cool Charley bridled and saddled the
horse without hurrying. There w'ere
some articles in the saddle-pocket he did
not care for, and he threw them away.
There was a revolver in the holster, and
this he carefully examined. He had just
returned the weapon when Will, sighting
his gun over a spoke in the hind wheel,
gave him a dose of coarse shot in the
calves of his legs, being not over fifteen
feet away as he fired. The outlaw fell,
and as he did so the three men rushed
upon him, and he was presently bound
hand and foot. He raved and cursed
and threatened, but he had not long to
live. The men could have done yery
little for him in any case, but wounded as
he was, they stood by and saw him slowly
bleed to death without making an effort
to save him.
A sad case of desertion comes from
East Macon. Some months ago Charlie
Brooks was married to a fair young
girl, named Wilcox, of Jasper count)’.
For months they lived happily together.
The erirl was an heiress in a small wav,
she being in a fair way to inherit some
thousand or two dollars. Charlie
worked faithfully to keep his little home
supplied until he fell ill, some weeks ago.
In the meantime, a little baby was born
to the young pair and all seemed to go
merry as a marriage bell, and the mat
rimonial skies looked very bright. But
the young husband was taken ill, and
from some cause the wife decided to re
turn to her paternal home. With litile
ceremony she departed, kissing her baby
good-by, and left the sick and grief
strteken husband lo do as best lie might.
It is one o* the saddest romances of life.
The young man still lies very ill at his
home, and the babe is with its paternal
grandmother. The husband’ illness has
been aggravated by the unfortunate state
of affairs, and his early recovery is very
doubtful.
Bucklen’g Arnica Salve.
The best salve in the world for cuts
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tetter, clumped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi
tively cures piles, or no pay required.
It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac
tion, or money refunded. Price 26c per
box. For sale by D W. Curry.
SCAMPERING UNDER WATER.
The Torpedo Boat Peacemaker Hunting
Around the Bottom of the North River.
From the New York Sun J
Ap exhibition of the powers of the
torpedo boat Peacemaker, built at the
Delamafa Iron Works for the Submarine
Motor Company of Twenty-third street
and Broadway, was given yesterday in
the North River, at the foot of Eighty
sixth street. Sj far as under-water navi
gation in the Hudson River is concerned
the Peacemaker sank or floated, went
ahead or turned almost as if on a pivot,
at the pleasure of the engineer.
The Peacemaker looks like a boat laid
upside down on another boat. It is 30
feet long, 8% feet beam, 7)4 feet deep,
and displaces 20 tons. It is built of
iron.
All that could be seen of the Peace
maker, which before the experiments
was tied to the wrecker Chance Shot,
anchored off shore, were the pilot bouse
amidships, a low iron dome, in which
are bulls’-eyes looking four ways, and at
the stern a man-hole with a cover that
the navigators screw down after them
after going aboard. The vessel is raised
or lowored when stationary by taking
the water or pumping it out. A West
lingliouse engine drives the propeller.
The last device of the inventor, J. H. L.
Tuck, is the newest. lit gets the heat
to make steam by slaking ‘ caustic soda
with water, and there is no fire or smoke
aboard. The boat will travel twelve
knots an hour. Comprejted air ii stowed
aboard to supply the man’s lungs, and
stored electricity lights the submarine
boat. Air can be manufactured on board
if it is necessary to spend * week or so
under water.
The destroying power f the boat con
sists of two dynamite torpedoes, one at
each end on the deck. You drive your
boat uuder your iron chid, determining
her position by the shadow she makes on
the water. Then the man in the dome
detaches the cork-ballaßted torpedoes,
so that they rise and lie Against the ene
my’s hull, one on each tide of the keel.
Electric wires still connect the torpedoes
with the boat. The hijden boat runs
away to a safe distance, nd then fires
the torpedoes.
John G. Holland, tffinlv clad, was
Captain of the craft yestqyday, and John
H. Kline engineer. Thaboat is intended
to accommodate two mtn. The Peace
maker started off on the turface as fast as
a man could run, and thl faster she went
the deeper her nose ploughed under
water. In half a minute only a ripple
remained to show where' she had disap
peared. When she reappeared at the end
of seven minutes she was half a mile
distant. The craft steamed back to the
Chance Shot with her back out of water,
and when, nearly half an hour after it
had started, the men reappeared, they
said they had not suffered from the con
finement, ancl that the temperature was
like that of an engine room on an ocean
steamer.
Two more trips were made. The de
vice for registering the depth to which
the vessel descended indicated thirty-five
and forty feet.
ROYS, ATTENTION.
From the Marietta Journal}.
From a conversation with Prof. Harris,
principal of our male academy, we learn
that quite a number of valuable scholar
ships at some of the very best institutions
in the United States will be vacant next
year.
One at West Point, the United States
Military Academy, the other at Annapo
lis, the U. S. Naval Academy. These
cadetships belong to 7th Congressional
Dist., and they each pay, besides tuition,
$540.00 per year. The places are now
filled respectfully by a Mr. Harris of Ce
dartown, and a Mr. West, of Rome.
The course of instruction is very thor
ough and comprehensive: the cadet grad
uating as 2nd Lieutenant on a salary of
$1400.00 per year with lifetime tenure.
A competitive examination will be held
in the district during the coming year to
fill these places.
Georgia is entitled to thirteen scholar
ships at the Peabody Normal College at
Nashville, one of the best and perhaps
the most thorough institutions in the
South. The student, besides all college
privileges, gets $25.00 per month during
two years. There are ten of these places
to be filled by our School Commissoner,
Dr. Orr, by the Ist of June next.
At State University, Athens, there are
seventeen scholarships from the Brown
endowment, each paying two hundred
dollars per annum, this amount being
sufficient to defray all necessary expen
ses besides tuition is free. There are six
or seven vacancies for next year, the
competitive examination to be held in
April next.
So, young man, if you apply yourself
to your books during the next few
months, you may reasonably expect to
obtain one of these eighteen scholar
ships.
The Verdict Unanimous.
W. D. Suit, Druggist, Bippus, Ind., testifies:
“I can recommend Electric Bitters as the very
best remedy. Every bottle sold has given re
lief in every case. One man took six bottles,
and was cured of Rheumatism of 10 years’
standing.” Abraham Hare, druggist, Bellville,
Ohio, affirms: “The best selling medicine I
have ever handled in my 20 years’ experience,
is Electric Bitters.” Thousands of others have
added their testimony, so that the verdict is
unanimous that Electric Bitters do cure all dis
eases of the Liver, Kidneys or Blood. Only a
half dollar a bottle at Curry’s Drug Store. 2
A dispatch of the 23dinst. from Louis
ville, Ky., mentions a rumor current
there that the Louisville and Nashville
was about to buy out the Georgia Central;
that the price had been agreed upon, and
the purchase will be closed in a few days.
Agents of the Louisville and Nashville
railroad may be secretly operating to
secure a controlling interest or a majority
of the stock in the central; but one rail
road company cannot buy out another
railroad Company in Georgia—the State
constitution forbids that; and even if the
Central could be thus sold to the Lousville
and Nashville its president and directors
coulu not make the sale —they would have
to submit the matter to the stockholders.
So the report is at least premature.
But It is interesting in view of the
remarkable demand for central stock and
its rapid appreciation within the past
few weeks. —Home Courier.
Why Mr. Clem Came to Town To-Day.
There was, yesterday, received from
New Orleans a draft for $15,000, the
sum drawn by William Clem of Mon
roeville, in the last drawing of The
Louisiana State Lottery. Mr. Clem
will be in the city to-day to receipt for
his newly and easily acquired fortune.
Many persons were skeptical and did
not believe that money would be forth
coming. The Louisiana State Lottery
is as solid as a National Bank and prizes
are invariably paid in full. —Fort Wayne
(Ind.) Journal , July 21.
Fruit jars and jelly glasses, at Curry’s.
THE GREATEST GAMBLER.
Picture of Big Ben Wood, Who Won
•140,000 at a Sitting.
Saratoga Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer.]
Ben Wood is the most notable gambler
of his day. lie is a scientific player.
His presence anywhere recalls the day
when his brother, Fernando Wood, was
mayor of New York City and the Woods
ruled that city completely. Iu Washing
ton, as a Congressman, Ben Wood be
came noted for the heavy poker handg he
played and for his skill at whist. He is
one of the best whist players in the world.
He never plays without betting. He will
not play a four-handed game with a part
ner, but gives a point to his antagonist
and uses a dummy.
Wood’s appearance, especially under
the white rays of the electric light, is
startling. His huge face has an ashen
white color that is seen in women who
use opium. His big moustache is as
white as his face. He generally wears a
white palm-leaf hat, which is bleached
to a color corresponding to the paleness
of his face. His eyes, which are a light
blue, are constantly in motion, but at the
same time have a set, impassive look
about them. They are wliat you would
call impressionless eyes. You can never
read what is passing in Ben Wood’s
mind by any token from his orbs.
At my elbow sat a man who has played
in a number of games with Wood within
a short time, who said to me: “It is
Wood’s habit when he is playing to have
a bottle of wine at his side and a box of
cigars on the stand. He lights a cigar,
takes three or four whiffs of it, chews
away at the end of it for ten or fifteen
minutes and then throws it away only to
light anew one. He plays a game which
gamblers call lucky. Even at faro they
will not deal for him. Here at Saratoga
the minute he comes in they close the
game. He plays a system and seems to
have reached a perfection in placing his
bets which no other man ever attained.
I was in a game the other night where
he sat from 11 o’clock until five In the
morning and cleaned up $4,000. That
was poker. One reason that the faro
dealers are afraid to deal for him is be
cause there is no limit to his betting,
unless they place a limit on the game.
He would bet SI,OOO where aonther man
would bet SSO.
“The biggest winnings I ever heard of
his making at a single sitting was at a
game in New York City, where it is said
he won $140,000.”
IMPRINTED BY LIGHTNING.
Ne v York Tribune, August 15.]
A remarkable freak of lightning re
cently occurred at Plainfield, N. J.
Cornelius D. Paul lives in West Fourth
street. The shutters in the bay window
in the dining room of his large frame
house were open, and in the centre of
the window stood a small stand on
which stood a polished old gold Japanese
tray. Upon this tray the lightning im
printed the photograph of Miss Lillian
Paul, a youug lady about 18 years of
age. The incidents attending this phe
nomenon are best described in the fol
lowing statement which Mrs. Paul has
prepared:
“I have been requested to giye an ac
count of a singular phenomenon or
freak of nature that occurred in our
house daring the thunder storm on the
evening of the 18th of July. The family
had all retired early, with the exception
of my daughter, who was sitting up
awaiting the arrival of a servant who
was expected at home any minute. The
violence of the storm increased, and the
lightning was so vivid and continuous
that there appeared to be no cessation be
tween the flashes. My daughter upon
stepping into the dining room to close
the windows saw that a tray that lay
upon a table in the bay window was at
tracting the lightning in what seemed a
dangerous manner, being in the centre
of an almost constant blaze of light.
Approaching for the purpose of remov
ing it, she was suddenly startled by a
fearful flash, and hastily turned away,
but, waiting for a few moments for an
opportunity, she succeeded in drawing
it off and covering it with a rug. Noth
ing further was thought of this until
next morning, when, on removing it,
we discovered a profile likeness of my
daughter apparently burned into the
lacquer of the tray. We cannot account
for this except on the hypothesis that
the picture must have been photograph
ed by the electric light at the time my
daughter drew back so suddenly. Some
prominent-electricians are investigating
the case, and we contribute these few
facts in the interest of science.
Fannie W. Paul,
“Plainfield, N. J., August 11, 1886.”
GEORGIA’S OLD RECORDS.
At the last Legislature J. S. Morgan,
of London, formerly of New York, pre
sented the State the original manuscript
journal of the Georgia trustees of colonial
memory, which had never been printed.
Recently Mrs. Mary Deßeune, of Savan
nah, generously bore the charge of -print
ing a few copies for preservation in the
great libraries of this country and Eu
rope. The volume is an elegant octavo
of 500 pages, the impression limited to
forty-nine copies, and dedicated to the
memory, of George Wimberly Jones
Deßenne, whose widow she is. She
presented a copy to the State, which
has reached the executive office sent
through Charles C. Jones, Jr., who ten
dered the gift in a letter of characteristic
literary polish. The Governor has replied
accepting the gift for the State,
thanking Mrs. Deßenne and expressing
profound appreciation of the value of the
volume as an addition to the fund of the
colonial literature of the State. The vol
ume will be placed in the archives o( the
executive department.
Excitement in Texas,
Great excitement has been canaed in the vi
cinity of Paris, Tex., by the remarkable re
covery of Mr. J. E. Corley, who was so helpless
he could not turn in bed, or raise his head;
everybody said he was dying of Consumption.
A trial bqftlc of Dr. King’s New Discovery was
sent him. Finding relief, he bought a large
bottle and a box of Dr. King’s New Life Pills;
by the time he nad taken two boxes of Pills and
two bottles of the Discovery, he was well and
had gained in flesh thirty-six pounds. Trial
Bottles of this Great Discovery for Consumption
free at D. W. Curry’s Drug Store. 2
While the Bushwick Rifles, a crack
Georgia company, was drilling the other
evening a despatch, apparently from
Washington, was handed to the Captain,
asking how many of his command could
start at once for Mexico. He read it to
the boys, who with one accord began to
make excuses. They wished that they
had talked more warlike when they
learned that the despatch was a hoax.
BARRED BY LAW.
From the Albany News.]
Since the recent trouble between the
United States and Mexico has assumed a
threating aspect and become the topic of
conversation everywhere, it may not be
amiss to look at the Federal Statutes reg
ulating the military service.
There is much “talk” of “on to Mexi
co” by those in Georgia who have never
known what war means. The old veter
ans shake their heads and say, “We
have had enough of it, but you younger
boys may try it.”
The Mexican war, forty years ago,
was fought mostly by Southern men.
If there is another war shall it be again ?
What is the law controlling the pro
visions of general organization of the
army?
Act, passed July 28th, 1866, and still
embodied in revised Statutes, section
1217, reads: “No person who has
served in the military, naval, or civil
service of the so-called Confederate
States, or of either of the States in insur
rection during the late rebellion, shall be
appointed to any Dosition in the army of
the United States.”
There was an effort to repeal this pro
scription law against the South during
the last Congress. Fiery speeches
against the South and her people were
indulged in by unreconstructed North
erners. We do not remember whether
the act was repealed or not, how can any
Southern man volunteer?
The law is most proscriptive against
all who took any part in our invading
army. It makes us rebels and insur
rectionists, and it carries with it a sug
gestion that no Confederates are worthy
of trust to hold office in the Federal
army.
Under this law Southern men would
be officered by Yankee officers. Is it
not time for all Southern young men to
cease to talk of the Mexicans?
Let us be distinctively enough Southern
to stay at home and preserve our honor.
HOME POLITENESS.
A boy who is polite to his father and
mother is likely to be polite to every oue
else. A boy lacking politeness to his
parents may have the semblance of
courtesy in society, but is never truly
polite in spirit, and is in danger, as he
becomes familiar, of betraying his real
want of courtesy. We are all in danger
of living of living too much for the out
side world, for the impression which we
make in society, neglecting the good
opinions of those who are in a sense a
part of ourselves, and who will con
tinue to sustain and be interested in us,
notwithstanding these defects of the de
portment and character. We say to
every boy and to every girl, propriety at
home—in the sitting room—and you
will be sure in other places to deport
yourself in a becoming and attractive
manner. When one has a pleasant smile
and a graceful demeanor, it is a satisfac
tion to know these are not put on, and
are manifest at all times and under all
circumstances.
Atlanta correspondent Savannah Neics
says: “A conference was held at the
Kimball House between the prohibition
ists and antis. About forty prominent
members of both sides were present. It
is reported than an effort was made to
effect a compromise of the whisky ques
tion on some basis that would unite the
city. It is understood that the confer
ence was brought about by prohibition
ists. An effort was made to compromise
on high license, and also on wholesale
and quart licenses. The proceedings of
the conference are difficult to learn, but
it is reported that the conference agreed
on a wholesale and quart license, which
it is proposed in some way to work
through the legislature. Strong antis
say that they will not endorse or accept
any compromise which does not include
a retail license.
A Godsend to This Family.
It gives me great pleasure to add my
testimonial in recommendation of Curry’s
Liver Compound. My son aged about
twenty-two years was afflicted with a
tremendous misery in the head. He
became almost blind. After trying two
physicians, who pronounced it sore eyes,
but did him no good. I concluded to try
a bottle of your Liver Compound, which
resulted in a perfect cure. lam satisfied
it is one of the best mediciuees now be
fore the public and only needs a trial to
recommend itself.
W. T. Inlow, of Pickens county.
Dahlonega Signal : Sometime last week
Mrs May,wife of Ow'en May, while busy
at some house work, was stung on the
end of the nose by a hornet. Mrs. May
though nothing of the matter until her
nose began swelling, giving her severe
pains in the head. Still it was thought
that nothing serious would ensue from
the swelling, and only the common
remedies were used to allay it and kill
the poison. The lady gradually grew
worse and the swelling continued, going
into the head and neck. A physician
w'as summoned, but all efforts to subdue
it ppoved of no avail, and it slowly
extended to the body till it reached the
heart, when the laily died in excrucia
ting pains.
The Standard Oil Company, which
was started in 1869 on almost nothing,
and which has accumulated a property ot
$100,000,000 in fifteen years, has ex
tended its influence over every section of
the country. When oil wells were drilled
in Los Angelos the Standard Oil com
pany opened war upon the local company,
and it induced the railroad company
to refuse rates to its little rival. Then
the local company built a pipe line to the
&oa, and now snaps its Anger at their big
monopoly and its railroad creature.
The dethronement of Prince Alexander,
of Bulgaria, Sunday night, was a mean
and cowardly act on the part of Russia,
which will no doubt result in an Eastern
war. The Bulgarian army is loud in
its abuse of the act, and about half the
population side with the army. Several
regiments and garrisons are in open revolt
against the provisional gover'ment set up
by the Russians and swear they will
stick to Alice. In the mran time he is
being spirited awaj’ in a yacht as a pris
ner and will be incontinently dumped on
some foreign shore.
A B-ockton. Mass., shoemaker has
spent a deal of valuable time in making
a pair of shoes out of 852 different
pieces of leather. Each tip corltains 109
small-diamond shaped piece's. Fourteen
different kinds of leather were used, and
various colored silks were used in doing
the stitching.
In an Indian mound near Oakland,
Ind., was unearthed recently a stone wall
ten feet square. Within were five or six
skeletons, three copper vessels filled with
fifty pounds of rich silver ore, a copper
axe weighing eighteen pounds attached
to a stone handle, and a number of stone
hatchets.
For the speedy and sure cure of head
ache nothing equals Curry’s Liver Com
pound.
NUMBER 31
MRS. CLEVELAND’S GOOD ADVICE.
Mias Rose Cleveland expressed herself
as on the side of temperance when she
was at the White House, and it seems
that Mrs Cleveland is also on the same
side. Not long ago Mrs. Crow, of Lit
tleton, Wetzel county, W. Va., wrote to
her asking her opinion relative to the
propriety of a woman’s signing the pledge.
In a letter dated Aug. 12, Mrs. Cleveland
answered in a very sensible letter. This
is the letter:
The subject to which you refer and ask
my advice is one in which your own con
science must dictate the wisest course for
yourself to pursue. You have better op
portunities (or knowing how you can do
the most good, and it seems to me that
should be the standard by which we
women should settle all our great ques
tions in life. It rarely occurs that a
woman needs for herself the restraining
influences of a temperance pledge, but if
by placing ourselves under the obli
gations of such an organization we can
better help our fathers,brothers, lovers
and friends, I think there should be no
hesitation in the matters. I know some
thingof the Good Templars, and that
they do much good work. It is quite cer
tain you can do no harm by casting your
lot on the side of temperance, and you
may do much good. Do not consider it
a small matter by any means, and lam
glad you asked the question.
It is encouraging to know of eyery sister
who wants to add her strength to the
cause which happily some day will rid
our land of ruined men and broken fami
lies.
If women ot sense follow their own con
victions of right there will be very few of
them who will not be on the side of tem
perance. They exert a tremendous in
fluence, and if exerted in behalf of tem
perance would save many a man from a
drunkard’s grave, and many a home from
unhappiness, poverty and even disgrace.
From all quarters come evidences of a
renewed activity throughout the entire
South. This finds illustrations in many
ways, but is perhaps more noticeable
among the railroads than any other
source. A contemporary finds as a
reason for this that a few years ago, a
new set of speculative railroads were
built, and bonds issued largely in excess
of the cost of construction and equip
ment. Some of these have passed into
the hands of receivers; have been reor
ganized on a safer basis, and are now
ready for business. In the# meantime,
the business ot this section has been
steadily extending, and now the railroads
are showing increased earnings. New
towns are appearing on the map, new
coal fields are opening, mineral lands
are in the market, and capital is turning
this way for investment.
Mrs. Delia Stewart Parnell, the mother
of Charles Stewart Parnell, is a most
remarkable woman, physically and men
tally. She got out of a sick bed to go to
the Chicago Convention, and was told
by her doctor that it would endanger her
life to do so. She said she was going,
and go she did. She bustled around just
like the rest of the lady delegates, and
the excitement seems to give her renewed
life. She is in love with her son Charles’
business methods. When a young girl,
out in the Pacific Ocean in the cabin of
his vessel, she used to pull her ohair up
alongside the old Commodore, her father,
and listen to the officers make their report.
It nearly broke her father’s and mother’s
heart when she plighted her troth to
Parnell, who was then travelling in this
countr} r .
Indian card sharpers tried their be3t to
get away with a traveling Indian doctor
at Grundy Centre, but he was too fly.
Then they got him drunk and pinched his
watch. The next morning he walked
into a room where the gamblers were,
held them up with a pair of revolvers,
stood off the landlord and a crowd that
seemed in sympathy with the thieves,
and recovered his watch. Card sharpers
and thieves generally will understand
this paragraph.
“In the days of ’49” a member of a
party of miners strayed away from his
companions and was destroyed by wild
beasts. The friend upon whom it de
volved to “break the news gently” to
the bereaved parents showed himself
equal to the occasion by writing the
following letter:
Mister Smith deer sur the Kiotes has
ete your sun’s hed ofl'yurs John Jones.
While a circus was parading in King
ston, Canada, recently, a wagon con
taining a den of lions was overturned
and the top of the den knocked off. A
fire was built around the cage to keep
the lions in until-repairs were made, and
then the wagon was righted by the aid
of two elephants.
- Two citizens of Gibson, Ga., went to
law about the ownership of a red rooster,
valued at twenty-rfive cents. The ease
was tried in a court, and it has
now been taken t° the Superior Court.
The custodian of the rooster presented
it to a minister who killed and ate it.
Track laying on the Marietta and North
Georgia railroad has now been extended
to Toccoa river, 19 miles north ot
Ellijay, and 13 miles from the last re
ported teiminus at White Path. Grading
is nearly completed from Toccoa river, to
Murphy, N. C., 21% miles.
A little tornado whirled through Golds
boro, N. C., the other day, and finding,
the front door of a fine residenc open,
dashed into the house, gathered up a lot
of furniture, burst open a rear door, and
flung the whole lot in a heap in the back
yard.
A Wisconsin farmer, going down a hill
with a load of hay, locked one of the
wheels of the wagon. The friction of
the wheel upon the ground struck a spark
which ignited the hay and started a fire
that required eleven men to extinguish.
James Armstrong of Loure, Canada,
a well-to-do farmer, aged 83 years, fell
in love with a maiden of 76 summers,
who rejected his suit. Thereupon he
made his will, bequeathing her all his
property, and then hanged himself.
A Brooklyn stableman, working for
sl2 a week, finds that he is heir to
$500,000 worth of real estate in New York
city. He has retained two lawyers and
hopes to get enough of the $500,000 to
enable him to go on a vacation.
A track of land near Birmingham was
recently sold for S4OO per acre. Fiye
years ago it tfas bought for SSO. One half
of an acre in the city was sold for $9,700;
ten years ago it could have been bought
for a mere^song.
The continued drouth in Indiana caus
ed the salvation army at Elkhart to pray
for rain recently. They began at 7
o’clock in the evening and kept on pray
ing until a cloud burst at 3 o’clock next
morning. _
Fruit jars and jelly glasses, at Curry’s.