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VOLUME 11. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. This city is situated on the Western St Atlantic and East and West Railroads, 48 miles north of \ Manta, atid in Bartow county, Georgia. Population 1,500, with churches of Baptist, Metnoaict, l’n -liyterian and Episcopal denominations. With superior educational, climatic and business au van tapes < arter villc is unsurpassed as a place of residence. Nestling in the beautiful mountain district of North Georgia, it is protected from the extreme chilly blasts of winter, while in t-ne not Mini no r months the cool mountain breezes makes it a most pleasant summer resort. As to Mea, *“* me -it cannot be surpassed—is entirely free from all malarial influences, and there never nas been a case of chills known to have originated In the connty. . . . Mineral and Agricultural Raaou.ces.— Nearly every known to• is round in inexhnu • able quantities, which wul rai Ve Cartersville a great manufacturing centre at no distant day. The manganese shipments from this depot alone are simply enormous. Tnx * iNU Lands of Bartow county will compare favorably with those of Illinois, Michigan .anil outer northwestern stales. All the cereals is raised to perfection here, while cotton is grown in immense iiuaiitilies. The nature of our soil is very'similar to the lands of the Northwestern States, wniie w have the advantage of shorter and milder winters. Lands are eheap and superior inducements arc offered to those that may locate among us for the purpose of developing our beautiful county. CENERAL AND BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF THE CITY OF CARTERSVILLE Physicians. T INDSAY JOHNSON, M. I)., li Physician ami Burgeon. < ullce: (lurry’s Drug Store; residence, Erwin St. | H. HA iPI ELD. M. D., ,J, Physician and burgeon. <mice: first door south Crawford & Hudson; res idence, East Main Street. rpllDM VS 11. HaKEU, M. J>., L Physician aud Surgeon, Otlice: one door above St. .James Hotel, J ABIES M. YOUNG, M. D., Residence on Market street, near Baptist Church. * • " 11 AN lEL HAMITER, M. !>., if ili idcnce ou Market street, south side. 11 W. FITE, M. T>. J J, Office West side Public Square ft H. WHITE, M. 11. Vi Office oyer Mays A Pritchett WL. KIKKPATRICK. M. D., Office in Howard’s Bank, Residence on Churcli Street. ft M. CIUIFFIH, M. 1).. V if on Market Street—South side. Merchant Tailors. I) M. CLINKS CAGES, t Sliop over Mays & Pritchett. Millinery and Dressmaking. MISS E. M. PADGETTE, Fashionable Millinery. Rooms over Mays & Pritchett. MISS LEO SHOCKLEY, Fashionable Millinery. Rooms under opent House. Financial. Baker & hall, General Banking. West Main Street, North side. Wll, HOWARD, Exchange and Collecting Office Office: In Bank Block. Drugs. MF. WORD, Drugs, Chemicals, etc. West Main Street, North side. David w. curry, Druggist, Proprietor Curry’s Liver Compound, Curry’s Cough Cure, Curry’s Diarrhoea and Dysentery Specific. . _ Markets. | oli n Dodgen, Choice Meats at all Times East side Public Square. A A. Dobbs, M< jl Main Street, Squth side. Undertakers. WO EDWARDS, Culflhs and Mourning Goods, Corner West Main and Erwin Streets, Harm***, Buggy Whips, etc. * —**■■•! : Hicks & rkevArd, T Collins and Mourning Goods, East Main Street. Hotels. rnENN ESSEE HOUSE, A Joshua lun n< r Proprietor, East Main Street. rnHE s r. .james, J. Dr. R, \. McFcrrin, Proprietor, East side Public Square. Bartow house, * Mrs. S. C. Maiors, Proprietress, West side Public Square. Barbers. JOHN TAYLOR, JR. Second idoor south postoflice. YITILLIAM JOHNSON, it Sim kiev building, east side railroad. JOHN TAILOR, At St. James Hotel, IJISSEX CHOICE, li Old Exchange hotel, east side railroad. Stoves and Tinware. VL. Williams, Stoves and Tinware, liousefurnishing Goods, of every Description, West Main Street—South side. Carriages, Buggies, etc. I) U. JONES & SONS’ MANF’G CO., t Buggies, Wagons, etc , Cartersville, Rome and Stamp Creek. All kinds of Repairing, Wa. munr.i.Y, I; •. •, W agon and General Repair Shop, \\ esi Main street—North side, Furniture. SL. VANDIVEKE, North Georgia Furniture House, East Main Street—North side. Dentists. RE. Cason, Resident Dentist, Office : Upstairs, over Curry’s. MM. Puckett, Resident Dentist, Office : f'ver R. II Jones & Sons’ Manf’g Cos. Groceries and Provisions. T F. STEPHENS, ,J Groceries and Provisions, Northeast Corner Public Square. STEPHENS & CO., Groceries and Provisions, est side Public Square. LII, MATTHEWS & CO., Groceries and Provisions, ITn < ler Coi’RAnt Office. Barron buos., Groceries aud Provisions, East Main Street. ¥ll. WILHOITE, Grocerie , Provisions, Farming Implements and Field Seeds. East Main Street. Alt. HUDGINS, . . Groceries and Provisions, est Main Street—South side, I A. STOVER, J Groceries and Provisions, We t Main Street—South side, E STRICKLAND & BHO., Staple and Fancy Groceries, Canned Goods of every variety. West Main Street—South side. rJCKETT & MARSHALL, Groceries aud Provisions, East Public Square. Glenn jones, Groceries and Provisions, West Main st,, South side. T M TODD, J Groceries and Provisions, West Main Street—South side. T L. WIKLE, J Groceries and Provisions, West Main Street—North side. fl 11. WHITE & SON, . V Groceries, Provisions, Lun her and Coal West Main Street—No th side. Bradford & co., Groceries and Provision*. West Main Street—North side. VANDIVEKE & WALDRUP, Groceries, Candies, etc, Wesl Main Street—North side. ITEOKGE n. GILKEATH, \ | Staple and Fancy Groceries, e s t M tin street—North side . BF. GODFREY, Groceries and Provisions. c.- 1 Corner Main and Erwin Streete. 11UOMAS LAWUON, Groceries and Provisions, East side Public Square Pool and Billiard Table*. Ilf H. TERRELL, _ . \\ First door below Bank. Hooks, Stationery, etc. \V IKIE & Ffrst.Door above Poat Office. THE CARTERSVILLE C OUR ANT. 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, j Southeast Corner Main and Erwin Streets. A KNIGHT St SON, Grain, Hay and J’roduce, South side Public Square—East side Railroad. Lawyers. (OE M. MOON. ,| Office over J. K. Rowan’s store JA. BAKER, Office: northwest corner court house T\OUGLAS WIKLE, iJ Office with Sheriff, at court house JOHN H, WIKLE, Office with Ordinary, at court house. TW. H. HARRIS, Solicitor pro tern City Court. Opposite Clerk’s office at court house A LBERT 8. JOHNSON, il Office: two doors above St. James hotel. FOHN W. AKIN, Office: First stairway above postoffice. UW. MURPHEY, First stairway below PO. Ist door on right. TAMES B. CONYERS, J First stairway below PO. Ist door on left ATTAYVAY, U Office: first stairway below PO, and second door on right. Mr. stanskll, First door below postoffice, last door on left Cl RAH AM & GRAHAM, T First stairway below PO, and last door on right Am, foute, Office: Upstairs, cor Main and Erwin Sts. T M, NEEL, J Judge City Court. Office over Curry’s Drug Store. A W, FITE, lx. Office two doors above St. James Hotel. I J. CONNER, •J Erwin Street, opposite Anderson’s Stable. Milner, akin & Harris, Office, over Howard’s Bank. —— . Rh. rrumby. Opposite Anderson’s Stable, Erwin St. Livery Stables. PRAWFORD Si. HUDSON, \j Sale, Livery and Feed Stables. Near court house, east side railroad. Horseß and mules for sale at aU times. TOHN P. ANDKUSON, J Sale, Livery and Feed Stables. Erwin Street, near Main. Printing. * CIOIJRANT PUBLISHING CO., L Proprietors “COURANT” and Job Printers. Official organ Bartow County. Office: Puckett Building, S. E, Cor. Square. JfeT Atlanta Prices Cut.<jfjß|ff American publishing co., Proprietors “American” and Job Printers. Office : West Main stieet —South side Dry Goods snd Clothing. RW. SATTERFIELD, Dry Goods and Clothing, South side Public Square, near Railroad I P. JONES, D Dry Goods and Clothiug, West Main Street—Public Square. QCHEUER BROS, m Dry Goods aud Clothing, VV est Main Street—South side. j G. M. MONTGOMERY & SON, u Dry Goods and Clothing, West Main Street—South side, Mays & pritchett, Dry Goods aud Clothing, Southwest 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. West side Public Square. Isliatn Alley, Dry Goods, Hardware, etc., Soutii side Square, East of Railroad. Bakeries. UANDIVERE & WALDRUP, y Bakery and Confectioneries, West Main St. Cabinet Makers. HIX & BREVARD, _ Cabinet Makers and Repairing, East Main St. TW. WHITE, Cabinetmakers and Repairing. East Main Street —South side. Jewelers, Watchmakers, etc. lIUKNER & BAKER, Watchmakers and Jewelers, Under Opera House. JOHN T. OWEN, Watchmaker and Jeweler, Word’s Drug Store, West Main Street. TU R. MOUNTCASTLE, Vf Watchmaker, _ E. Strickland & B ro., W eat Ma in Street. Insurance. * ; - Bartow Leake, Fire Insurance and Commission Merchant, Office at Warehouse, West Main Street. lobn T. Norris, Life and Fire Insurance, Office, Second door below Bank, in Bank Block. CUirald Griilin, f Life and Fire Insurance, Office : Rear Howard Bank. II T 11. Howard, W Life and Fire Insurance, Howard’s Bank Loan and Real Estate. (1 aorge 11. Aubrey, I Loan and Real Estate Agent, Office : Firet Stairway below Post Office. Cotton Buyers and Commission Merchants. Sam F. Milam, Commission Merchant, Clerk City Council and Manager Opera House. Office : Mays A Pritchett. /lerald Griffln, II Cotton and Guano. Office in Howard’s Bank. £1 F. SMITH, LI Cotton Buyer. Office in Howard’s Bank. TC. MILAM, Cotton and Goano. Office, with Mays & Pritchett. T J. HOWARD, ,J Cotton Buyer. Office in Howard’s Bank. Hardware, Machinery,etc. Baker & hall, 'Hardware and Machinery, Guns Pistols, etc West Main Street. North side. , Educational. I last Cartersville Institute. [ j Trof. H. C. Carney, Prm., Mrs. Carney. A-s’t. Mrs. S, J. Ware, music teacher. VEST END INSTITUTE, ... Miss Lucv Carpenter, principal, Mrs, J. w. Harris, Sr., assistant. Bartow' street. Harness and Baddlery. W. Main street north side CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1886. LUNATICS AND THE EARTHQUAKE. How the Great Disturber W*n Received at the State Lunatic A*yluni. “C. Sharp” in Milledgeville Recorder.] The regular Tuesday evening enter tainment of the “Asylum Dilettanti” was in progress, in the Amusement Hall in the Female Convalescent building. Strangely enough Capt. A. was singing, “Oh Restless Sea,” when a sound like distant thunder was heard and at the same instant the building was felt to quiver about as much as would be felt upon a heavy peal of thunder. Several at once asked “what is that?'’ to which some replied, “Tis a thunder storm,” others “a cyclone.” The writer went to a window and looked out but seeing a bright starlit sky and the trees not wav ing in the wind, saw at once it was no storm, but by that time the whole build ing began to rock till he felt as if he were on the deck of a vessel at sea, the windows rattled, a crepitant sound as of bricks grating together was heard, the gas burners were seen to swing to and fro, and in less than half the time it takes to write it, he realized and cried out in alarm, “Great Heavens it is an earthquake, let us get out of here or we will be killed,” and started for the door, but ere he reached it the ceiling cracked, some of the plastering fell and striking him on the head and shoulders and blind ing him with the dust, he naturally sup posed in that supreme moment of terror tiiat the whole building was tumbling in upon him. The fifty or sixty persons, male and female who were in the large hall, most of them convalescent patients, became once wild with a frenzied panic, and the cries and shrieks and groans, their blanched faces many of them look ing into each others in panic stricken terror without uttering a word and their wild and frantic rush for the doors —that were locked, made a scene of terror hard to be imagined, much less described and the memory of which will never be effaced. Some fainted and some of the patients who were in a state of convales- cence when the shock occurred had their minds so excited that they were thrown entirely off their balance and had to be taken in charge by their attendants and taken to their rooms as soon as any one could be sufficiently self-possessed to Know what to do. The shock lasted as near as can be guessed under such excit ing circumstances about fifteen or twen ty seconds, and so strong was the sway ing of the floor that the writer experi enced for the time that sensation of sea sickness that he lias felt on board ship on the Atlantic Ocean. It is difficult to im agine and utterly impossible to give an appreciable description of the sensations as the floor was heaving under foot like the deck of a vessel and the surrounding wails , and gas fixtures swaying to and fro, the plastering cracking over head and falling, that crepitant sound of bricks grating together, the rattle of window sash all combined with that ter rible ominous roar heard above the other din with the cries, shrieks and groans of frightened women and the pale terror stricken faces of strong brave men. For one man to feel all this and then see the panic in others and feel the pelting of the broken plaster upon his head and shoulders and the dust in his eyes all combined to constitute oue supreme mo ment of apalling dread and fill the mind and heart with a dazed, bewildering fear that death was already upon him and that tach breath was his last ere he were a crushed and mangled mass buried be neath the debris of brick and mortar. While many were'so dazed that they were completely paralyzed into an in ability to even move. Others made a rush for the doors, which were locked and could only be opened by the atten dants, and so great was the rush to the door that they found it almost impos sible to unlock them. After what in that moment of extreme peril seemed hours, the door was at last unlocked and many lied to the open air. As soon as that shock was over the writer, who had got out, returned to the hall when the doctors and attendants were doing what they could to quiet the excited and panic stricken crowd. Dr. Whittaker in the most trying moment acted with the most admirable self-denial and cool heroism. Apparently ignoring his own danger, he stood his ground and raising his hand in an assuring manner called aloud for all to keep still and remain quiet, that they were safer there than elsewhere —all seeming to have lost sight of the fact that the portion of the building they were then in was only one story high while that through which they would necessarily have had to es cape, was three stories high and much more liable to tall. Dr. O’Daniel too was deserving of much credit for his pres ence of mind in calming the fears of and quieting the frightened patients. He prevailed upon two visiting young ladies to sit down at the piano and play a duett to distract the attention from more exciting scenes. A little later Dr. Powell, with his usual imperturbable dignity aud kind geniality, came in and it was astonishing to see the instantane ous effect his presence produced, for all (although nothing was said to that effect) seemed to express by their looks and ac tions, “Ah, we are safe now, Dr. Powell is here.” It must he very gratifying to him to feel that all the patients have such love and respect for and such confi dence in him. After the excitement had somewhat subsided it was discovered that the build ing was not seriously injured. There wis a crack in the ceiling where it joined the main building, but only enough to throw down some plastering and a similar crac k at the opposite end. The time is here when a bottle of Cur ry’s Diarrhoea and Dysentery Specifio should be in every house. Take time by the forelock and get a bottle. MARRIAGE AND BUSINESS. Christian Advocate.] Marriage affords a sufficient, satisfying and ennobling end for all business en deavor. When the end of business life is self, it debases manhood and produces a creature of avarice, sordid and grovel ing, whose - thoughts are materialized, whose tears of sympathy are frozen, whose feelings are fictitious. The bene ficent end of business life is seen in the change which the purpose of marriage brings in the lives of young men. It is sometimes observable twenty-four hours after the betrothal, so wonderful is the transforming power of a purpose on life when love lies like a palpitating heart in the bosom. The loss of gallantry among young men is an injury to business. It is an ominous departure when they would rather go in gangs by themselves than in the companionship of young women. The fact is hut too apparent that their morals will not endure the restraint. Tippling, doubtful conversation and ac tion are restrained. Dishonesty does not often overthrow young men in business trusts who spend their leisure with virtuous women. There is no more as suring and beautiful sight than to see young men and maidens going together to the house of God. It has been the means of saving multitudes. Young men, have your own pew or sittings in the church, and bring with you like a man, the woman you respect. Feel it a pleasant duty to serve these conservators of society, whether you may be in loye with them or not. Treat your mothers and sisters with all the gallantry of the one you love. It is a grateful and pleas ing thing to any w oaian to receive this attention, and it is manly and noble to give it. Be gallant; it is right, it is manly, it is a debt you pay and will pay with interest in the end. Marriage is related to the reverses of business life, for business and what we call prosperity are not now the same. Adversities are often the best part of business. A man is not often on a safe business foundation until he has been truly crazed by disaster. Then comes the power of home life. Then the wife often, like a tug, takes the whole family out of the breakers into the broad sea of prosperity. A man will come home in financial disaster, often sorrowing most as to how the wife will take it, and when he gets there he will find that she is the better man of the two, and girds up her loins, and his, too, and is at it again to repair the lost fortunes. The business of life is not 90 much in making money as in getting to be better, and in helping others to be better—-in getting rid of sinful habits, and in going on to heaven. It is here that married life is the mightiest force for good, ex cept good itself. If a man have a Chris tian wife her prayers and entreaties are keeping him from hell. J*ier prayer grip is holding him up from the pit. How she has besought and stormed the very gates of heaven for him. Oh, let her lead where she is wisest and best! Let marriage install each in that church which the apostle says “is in thy house.” Seek the kingdom of God, and when sor row comes, which is an inevitable seg ment of life, man and wife will be brought into a unity that prosperity never gives. Very sorely they weep together over little graves. And if they must part, the bitterness is mitigated in the fact that love leaves its last kiss, and love gives its tribute of tear3 at the grave. DROWNING OUT TRAMPS. “Train Talk” Chicago Herald.] “Great time we have with tramps,” said the freight brakeman, cutting a chip off the corner of a black plug. “They are pretty sleek, those chaps are what like to ride and not pay the company. We dont care much for the company or its earnings, but it is a matter of profes sional pride with us not to be beat by a dead head. One of the sleekest games I ever knew of was played on us one morn ing last week. A pair of tramps were beating their way West, and I’ll bet it would take you a month of Sunday to guess where they were ridln’. In the train was a flat car loaded with iron water pipes and into these pipes the old duffers had crawled. It was a right snug berth. They had plenty of ventilation, the pipes bein’ open at both ends and laid length wise of die cars, and the sun couldn’t bake em’ in the day nor the dews of night fall on ’em. “We couldn’t git at ’em, nuther, and that was the worst of it. If we crawled in after ’em the only thing we could do was to crawl out again, ’cause no man could pull another man out of a water pipe. We tried to poke’em out with fence rails, hut they were too short. The tramps they cussed us an’ called us all the names they could lay their dirty tongues to, an’ that made us mad, an’ we swore we’d have ’em out o’there K we had to dump that car of water pipe off into some river. Just then our conduc tor struck an idea. “Wait till we get up to Galesburg,’ said he, ‘and then we’ll fix ’em.’ And we did. At Galesburg there’s a switch ingine fixed tip with a pump and hose to throw water, an’we get hold o’that ingine and turned her nozzle on them tramps. Never had such fun iu my life.' It made me think of the time when we used to drown woodchucks out o’ their holes when I was a boy. I wouldn’t have missed that picnic for a month’s salary.” Bucklen’n Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for cuts bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped 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 25c per box. For sale by W. Curry. Fruit jars and jelly felasse*, at Curry’s. A STORY OF STONEWALL JACKSON. The next evening, Sunday, we wrent to Frederick for the first time to attend church, and there being no service in the Presbyterian church, we went to the German Reformed. As usual, he fell asleep, but this time more soundly than was his wont, His head sank upon his breast, his cap dropped from his hands to the floor, the prayers of the congre gation did not disturb him, and only the choir and deep toned organ awakened him. Afterwards I learned that the minister was credited with much loyalty and courage because he had prayed for the President of the United States in the very presence of Stonew’all Jackson. Well, the'general didn’t hear the prayer; if he had, he would doubtless have felt like replying as Gen. Ewell did, when asked at Carlisle, Penn., if he would permit the usual prayer for President Lincoln: “Certainly; I’m sure he needs it.” The troops being on the march, the general and staff rode rapidly out of town and took the head of the column. Just a few words here in regard to “Barbara Frletchie,” a touching poem which sprang full-armed from the loyal brain of Mr. Whittier. An old woman, by that now immortal name, did live in Freder ick in those days, but she was eighty four years old and bedridden ; she never saw General Jackson and General Jack son never saw her. I was with him every minute of the time he was in that city—he was there only twice—and nothing like the scene so graphically de scribed by the poet ever happened. The story will perhaps live, as Mr. Whittier has boasted, until it gets beyond the reach of correction. On the march that day the captain of the cavalry advanced, just ahead, had in structions to let no civilian go to the front, and we entered each village and passed before the inhabitants knew of our coming. In Middletown two very pretty girls with ribbons of red, white and blue floating from their hair, and small Union flags in their hands, rushed out of their house as we passed, came to the curbstone, and with much laughter waved their colors defiantly in the face of the General. He bowed and raised his hat, and turning with his quiet smile to his staff, said : “We evidently have no friends in this town.” And this is about the way he would have treated Barbara Frietchie.— Colonel Douglas, in the Cen tury. HOW TO BUILD IT UP CARTERSVILLE. The following sensible suggestions for building up our town, we hope, will be studied and practiced by every one of her citizens. Its wise suggestions may be read with profit by those who are not croakers or missanthropes, but who really wish to see their town great and prosperous. The plan for building up a town and keeping it in a flourishing con dition, is to have grit, push, snap, vim, churches, colleges, morality, enterprise, harmony, advertising, cordiality, cheap property, healthy location, good country tributary. Talk about it; speak well of it; help to improve it. Advertise in and read the town paper; patronize its mer chants; have faith in your town exhibi ted by good works; honest competition in business. Welcome manufactories; welcome railroads; welcome macada mized streets with plenty of shade trees; make things look bright and attractive, by liberal use of paint and white wash; help all public enterprises; elect good men to office; speak well of its public spirited, enterprising citizens, and be one of them yourself. Remember that every dollar invested in permanent improve ments is that much in interest. Always cheer on the men,who go In for improve ment. By adhereing strictly to the above, it is impossible to prevent a town from growing and prospering. Demand for Small Money. Washington Star.] The Treasury Department will con tinue to destroy all the one and two dol lar treasury notes that come in. They will be redeemed only in notes of larger denomination or silver dollars until tli'e low denomination silver certificates are ready to be issued. The department is very anxious to get the one and two dol lar certificates out as soon as possible, as the demand is very large, and it is ex pected that thirty or forty millions dol lars of silver will be put in circulation through this medium. It is felt that something is lost by every day’s delay in getting them out, but it will be impossi ble to get the engraving and printing done so as to issue them before next month. By the policy of withholding one dollar treasury notes from circulation an immense number of silver dollars have been issued, but' the demand for convenient small notes is so great that it is expected that there will tea call for almost as many as they will print. Most Excellent. J. J. Atkin9, Chief of Police, Knoxville, Tenn., writes: “My family and I are beneficiaries of your most excellent medicine, Dr. King’s New Discovery for consumption; having found it to be ail that you claim for it, desire to testify to its virtue. My friends to whom I have recom mended it, praise it at every opportunity.” Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption is guar anteed to cure Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Asth ma, Croup and every affection of Throat, Chest and Lungs. 3 The Georgia Road in’3o. Athens Banner.J “I was in Augusta in 1530,” said an old citizen yesterday, “when the first en gine ran over the Georgia railroad. People came from all over the state to see the‘wagon that ran without horses, and pulled such a heavy load.’ The road bed was covered with people who had come to see it. This road was the first built in the state, and few people had ever seen a train of cars. The first cars that came over the Athens branch, was pulled by mules, as engines cot at that time from $35,000 to $50,000. Before the Elberton Air-Line was built, there was a number of old people in Elbert county who had never seen a train.” Fruit jars and jelly glasses, at Curry’s. ATHENS’ BASKET FACTORY. Something that Georgia Inventive Genius and Georgia Enterprise Has Developed. Athens Banner.] One of the most unique and ingenious industries in the state is the Athens’ Bask et Factory. It has also turned out to be one of the most promising and profitable. We have seen nothing like it in the state. We are told that it is the only thing of the kind in the world. It is not only the output of Athens capital, but the creation of Athens’ genius—for the patent as well as the product is Athens’ own, and we may say it is the only thing of the sort in the world. It is certainly the most unique factory in the state. The ingenuity in the idea in the working of the machinery, which was devised and partlj r made right here at home, the completeness and speed with which the different parts are turned off, the rare attention to every detail, from the selection of timber to the prepa ration of the packages for shipment, show a marvel of skill and workmanship. We may say that a plank of white oak is thurst into one side and a condensed package of baskets emerges in a twink ling from the other. In this process, however, we note that there are em ployed four skilled workmen, twenty four hands, of which six are ladies, a large quantity of lumber which is gotten up the Northeastern railroad is utilized, and a pay-roll of over SSOO per month is made. The plant represents an outlay of SIO,OOO, with the employment given to busy bands, the utilization of an Athens invention and the development of raw material grown in our section. RAIN BY CONCUSSION. Now there comes to the front a genius who proposes to do away with protracted drouths by tapping the clouds at will, and wetting down any section of the country as desired. The name of this genius is Woodbridge, and he lives in New Jersey. His idea, briefly stated, is to bring rain from the clouds by con cussion. He claims that if kegs of dyna mite, nitroglycerine or some other pow erful explosive, are hoisted up into the clouds bv aid of balloons, and are fired by electricity, the explosion will pro duce rain in proportion to the amount of the explosive used and the force of the shock caused thereby. This could be easily done, the father of the idea points out, by means of cheap balloons, to which could be communicated to the cask through a wire when the dynamite reached the desired altitude. The explo sion that would result would burst the clouds, and lo! the rain would descend. By this method, its inventor declares, man could control the heavens almost as completely as the earth, and, by a gener al application cf it throughout the coun try, disastrous drouth might be pre vented, and each section given just enough rain and no more. That such an invention would fill a long felt want is not to be doubted. Judge Woodbridge, however, does not appear to have taken into consideration that rain water is not at all hours on tap in the upper regions, and we do not infer that his invention is designed to briDg forth rain from a cloudless sky. Brace Up. You are feeling depressed, your appetite is poor, you are bothered with Headache, you are fidgety, nervous, and generally out of sorts, and want to brace up. Brace up, hut not with stim ulants, spring medicines, or hitters, which have for their basis very cheap, bad whisky, and which stimulate you for an hour, and then leave you in worse condition than before. What healthy action of Liver and Kidneys, restore your vitality, and give renewed health and strength. Such a medicine you will find in Fiectric Bitters, aud only 50 cents a bottle at David W. Gurry’s Drug Store. 3 ANOTHER COLORED EXODUS. The Macon Telegraph under the above heading contains the following para graph : The republican party hopes to get up a negro exodus by 1888, which may trans fer the negro vote to points where it will do the most good. It has been a matter of long-standing complaint with the republican managers that in parts of the south there are many republican negroes whose votes are wasted and that the race is not making any advancement. There has been for several years an organization to look after this matter. Fred Douglass, of Washington city, is president of the organization. He has studied the question carefully and collec ted many statistics. The republican committee, which has a large sura of money at its disposal, purposes to dis tribute these colored men before the campaign of 1888 where they will do the most good. Several agents have been making observations and reports upon the state of thiugs. It is intended to send large colonies to certain parts of Missouri, where a few more votes are needed and to southern Indiana, Dakota, too, has been considered a good place for a large colony preparatory to its admis sion into the Union. Milton Turner, a colored lawyer, of St.’Louis, who had charge of the ease of the Indian Terri tory freed men before congress last winter, is actively engaged in the matter, and is highly in favor of sending a large colony t> the proposed terrhory of Oklahoma. Mrs. Desmond, a daughter of a wealthy and widowed mother in New Y"ork city, was riding in a street car when her fashionable bustle made of celluloid accidentally caught fire and she was burned to death. Celluloid is a white, light and flexible material that is dange rous and combustible. A spark from a match or heat will quickly ignite cellu loid. So, ladies, beware of celluloid bustles which add not to your beauty, hut may endanger your life. Fruit jars aud jelly glasses, at Curry’s. NUMBER 33 CHARLESTON’S FAMOUS CHURCHES. From a Washington Letter. 1 St. Peter’s church in Charleston is un known in the North compared with St. Michael’s. The bells of St. Michael’s have made it famous. You remember the chimes originally sent as a gift to the young colony from England were taken back to England by the British troops at the evacuation during the revolution ary war. John Adams, as Minister to England, immediately after the treaty of peace had been signed at the close of the war, secured the return of the chimes to Charleston, where they were triumph antly replaced in the belfry of St. Mich ael’s by a great assemblage of people. When the Federal cannons began to play upon Charleston during the civil war the steeple of St. Michael’s, on account of its prominence, was hit again and again. The chimes was taken down as soon as possible and removed to Columbia, the capital of the state, where the bells were stored in one of the sheds around the un finished state capitol. There they were found by Sherman’s soldiers when they eutered Columbia. Before they left they broke the bells to pieces. After the war was over the pieces of the bells, which had been carefully preserved, were sent to England to be recast. The firm which originally cast them still ex isted, the descendants of the original members having kept the old firm name. They had complete descriptions of the bells in their records and were able to re cast them as good as new. Once more they crossed the ocean and once more were tearfully and enthusiastically re ceived and replaced. WHY MONEY IS SCARCE. Various reasons are assigned for the scarcity of money. The New York Sun says, editorially: “The Treasury state ment yesterday showed a further gain of more than $1,000,000 in gold and greenbacks, making the total gain for the current month over $11,000,000. No wonder that money is getting scarce, and the rates of interest higher. The bond calls thus far made ayail but little in in creasing the supply of money. The called bonds are mostly those which have been pledged by national banks as se eurit}' for circulating notes 90 per cent, of their payment consequently releases only the ten per cent, margin on them. The bonds not thus pledged belong to savings banks and other moneyed insti tutions, which are in no hurry to cash them, so long as they see the securities they desire to buy for reinvestment steady falling in price. What is needed is a sweeping call of all the three per cent, outstanding. Such a call would set free about $40,000,000 of the Treasu ry hoard and effectually relieve the money market, besides saving to the tax payers of the country $3,000,000 a year in interest. If the Treasury Department is not the slave of the banks and of the money lenders, it will make the call without further delay.”—Ex. Chattanooga, Tenn., September 7. — Last Friday a young man named Gaines, residing on Sand mountain, in Marshall county, Alabama, while out hunting, was bitten by his dog. The young man’s flesh was terrible lacerated in his conflict with the brute, which w r as finally killed, but he had no fear of serious results, and applied to his wounds some simple reme dies and retired. In a few hours the poison with which his system had been inoculated began to do its deadly work, and the family of the unfortunate msn at once recognized that his doom was sealed. His limbs began to swell, and soon attained twice their natural size, while froth issued from his mouth and he began to snarl and bark like a dog. In his lucid moments he would entreat his friends to cut his throat and thus end his terrible suffering. After hours of the most horrible torture death came to his relief. CHILD LIFE IN INDIA. The Hindu child is said to possess, even in infancy, in a remarkable degree, the virtue of patience. All day long the child of the poor coolie woman will cling to her hips, often tired, hungry and sleepy, but not crying or fretting. “The Hindu baby will lie for hours on a hard cot in a dingy room, tormen ted with flies and mosquitoes, supremely contented apparently in the contempla tion of its dusky little hands.” Grown older, the children are timid and respectful in manner, obedient to their parents, and w r ell behaved in put lie. They learn very readily, and are quick at memorizing. Truthfulness is not im pressed on them at home, and they early learn deceit. It is reported from Milwaukee that a regular business of putting babies to death is carried on in that city. Mrs. Pauline Mittlestadt, proprietress of a lying-in hospital, has been arrested charged with murdering a child by thrusting a darning needle through its heart. She says the mother of the child paid her S3OO to put it out of the way. Georgia has spent about one-third of the amount proposed to be invested in the new capitol, and it is presumed that the building is about one-third completed. It is gratifying to know' that the poeple are still determined that the capital shall not cost more than $1,000,000. The LTnited States Geological Survey is to make an exhaustive study of the re cent earthquake, and to that end will send out a series of questions to those sections of the country affected by it, to which re sponses will be requested. Our State exchanges are nearly all dis cussing the late ’quake and the effects of the shocks in their respective localities. For the Use of Man or Woman, The most useful article ever invented. Price sl. Put up in neat box with full direc tions. JLf. E. A. Cos., P. O. Box, 1993 N. Y. City Turnip Seed, at Curry’s.