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VOLUME 11.
CANDIDATES,
For the lattire.
We are authorized to announce the na re of
MU. JOHN A. CItAWFJRI) as a candidate for
a seat in the Lower House of the Georgia .leg
islature.
We are authorized to announce the name of
MAJ. A. M. FOUTE as. a candidate for a seat
in the Lower House of the Georgia Legislature.
To the Voters of Bartow County :
I am a candidate for the Legislature and re
spectfully ask your votes.
THUS. WAItUEN AKIN.
;Po*r T ax Receiver.
We are authorized to announce the name of
ALBERT iSMITII as a candidate for Receiver
of Tax Returns of Barlow county.
We are authorized to announce the name of
NAT DUNAHOO for the office of Tax Receiver
of Bartow county.
For Tax Collector.
We arc authorized to announce the name of
MR. JOSHUA BRADFORD, of Pinelog, as a
candidate for office of Tax Collector of
Bartow county. *
I hereby announce my name as a candidate
for l'ax Collector of Bartow county. Election
first Wednesday in January next, if elected, I
will faithfully and honestly discharge the duties
of the office, and will not ask to lie favored with
a successive term. Respectfully,
JAMES L. MILHOLLIN.
We are authorized to announce the name of
MR. J. F. LINN as a candidate for Tax Col
lector of Bartow county, Georgia.
For County Treasurer.
We arc authorized to annouuce the name of
MR. H. W. COBB for re-election to the office
of Treausurer of Bartow County.
Weave authorized to announce the name of
A.G. B. VANDIVERE as a candidate for the
office of Treasurer of Bartow county.
For Sheriff.
We are authorized to announce the name of
W. W. ROBERTS as a candidate for re-election
to the office of Sheriff of Bartow county, with
John A. Gladden as his deputy. Election in
January, 1887.
We are hereby authorized to announce the
name of A. M. FRANKLIN for Sheriff of Bur
tow County, and J. W. Williams, of the 17th
District, as his Deputy. Election to be held on
the llrst Wednesday in January next, and if
elected promise a faithful performance of the
duties of the otlice as heretofore.
July 20, 1886.
IPor Cleric Superior Court.
We arc authorized to announce the name of
MR. F. M. DURHAM as a candidate for re
election to the office of Clerk of the Superior
Court of Bartow county.
For Coroner,
We are authorized to announce the name of
MR. WILLIAM VAUGHAN as a candidate for
he office of Coroner of Bartow county.
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L.S.L.
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arrangements for all the Monthly end Quarterly
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300 do 100 30,00)
500 do 50 25,000
1000 do 25 25,003
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9 Approximation Prizes of $750 (5,750
9 do do 500 4,503
9 do do 250 2,259
1967 Prizes, amounting to— $265,500
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CARTERSYJLLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1886.
Y SNIALIJS ANNIVERSARY.
A Review of the Higtory of a Wonderful
Year.
From the Constitution 10th inst.]
Yesterday was a memorable day in the
life of W. Small.
One year ago last night he staitled all
Atlanta and set it agog with gossip and
speculation by standing upon an im
provised platform, at the artesian well,
and preaching a sermon of singular
earnestness and pathos. For years pre
vious his life had been one of strange
lines, filled with varied successes and
failures in several departments of em
ployment and public service, but princi
pally distinguished by its recklessness
and almost complete surrender to sins
and dissipations. When Sam Small
stood up that September night and
claimed conversion to God and pledged
his life to the service of Christ perhaps
not half a dozen persons in the world
Who knew him believed him sincere and
honest in his declarations. Hundreds
laughed at the episode as a drunken va
gary and scores of serious men declared
that Small had become insane through
his dissipation. It was freely predicted
that this latest freak of his would be a
nine-days’ wonder and he would speedily
relapse into his old ways and resume his
reckless, godless and extravagant life.
A WONDERFUL YEAR.
But the record of his life for tye year
has been one of marvelous surprise, and
not alone to his friends and the skepti
cal critics, but to himself.
Beginning to preach from the third
hour of his conversion, he has steadily
gone forward in the service of his Mas
ter with growing zeal and power to the
present day. Tie preached every nigh l
and day of that first week of his new
life, and then was called bj r Rev. Sam.
Jones to go with him in his evangelical
labors throughout the country. He was
surprised at the call, but believing it
God-direeted, obeyed it, and has since
been the active and efficient associate of
the great Georgia evangelist in his re
markable meetings throughout America.
Not only have “the two Sams” become
household words all over the union, but
the people and press have united in pro
nouncing Mr. Small “one of the fore
most and most eloquent preachers in the
American pulpit.” This entire copy of
the Constitution could be filled with the
collated encomiums of the secular and
religious press passed upon the power
and eloquence of his labors.
THE STRIKING FIGURE^
of his year of labor, so far as accessible,
will be read with wonder. Within the
twelve months Mr. Small has traveled
over 10,000 miles, preached 507 sermons,
and addressed audiences estimated as ag
gregating one million persons. As to
the number of conversions marking their
labors, or the larger number of persons
whose lives were affected for good by
them, no possible estimate can be made.
HIS ANNIVERSARY SERMON
was preached last night at Trinity church
to a densely packed audience. His text
was I Timothy, i, 15, 16, and the thread
of the discourse was the recital of his
own past experience, his conversion and
the results that had attended upon his
life in Christ. The sermon was full of
lender, pathetic and thrilling passages.
It was listened to with profound atten
tion, and those who heard it were con
vinced that it would bring forth good
fruit among those who were present.
In speaking of his changed life Mr.
Small said he knew at the outset of it
how the people would doubt him, deride
his professions and scoff at his efforts;
how cruel and pitiless would be the criti
cism he would encounter; how deep and
poignant would be the stabs that the
heartless and ungodly would inflict; brift
be was conscious that God had, for
Christ’s sake, forgiven his sins, and that
he had fixed his life on lines of loyalty
to Christ. With this happy assurance he
faced the world, unheeding its sarcastic
doubts and undismayed by its malignant
jeers, llis life for the past year had
been one of sweet felicity in the service
of Christ; he knew that anew mind and
nature had been given him by God ; he
felt the throbbings of anew and eternal
life in his veins and soul; and now he
cared nothing for what men might say,
but only looked forward to pleasing God
and meriting, through Christ, His “well
done” in the glorious end.
The sermon was one of notable power
and earnestness, of perfect frankness
and simple faith, and had a visibly in
spiring effect upon all present. Mr.
Small was tendered many congratula
tions and given many hearty “God
speeds.”
A Railroad Accident.
Chattanooga, September 17. —A
very serious accident occurred on the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
seven miles east of this city to-day
caused, by a freight train running into
the rear of a passenger train. The Bris
tol train left Chattanooga at eleven
o’clock with a heavy freight following
closely behind. The passenger train for
some reason ran so slowly to the West
ern and Atlantic junction that when it
stopped the freight ran into the rear
end. The officers’ car of the Mobile and
Ohio railroad was on tlie rear of the
passenger train and was badly torn up’
No one was in the car. A Pullman
sleeper was also damaged, but the pas
sengers escaped without injury. All of
the trainmen escaped unhurt.
A Congressman's Wife Dead.
Mrs. John T. Heard, wife of the pres
ent Congressman from the Sixth Con
gressional district of Missouri, died at
Booneville, Mo., yesterday at 1 o’clock,
after an illness of several weeks.
For the speedy and sure cure of head
ache nothing equals Curry’s Liver Com
pound.
■" A WONDERFUL CLOCK.
An Electrical Time-Piece That Promise*
to Revolutionize the Ticker World.
Elizabethtown, Ky., Sept. 12. —liar-
din county has contributed to the scien
tific world and electric clock, which sur
passes everything of the kind ever in
vented. It has been placed on display
at the Exposition by Mr. C. B. Gifford,
of Colesburg, and will doubtless attract
a great deal of attention. Unlike pre
vious electrical time-keepers, this clock
regulates itself automatically under all
variations of temperature and the pen
dulum remains the same length under
all temperature changes. This requires
what is called compensation in metal,
and is effected by an engenious arrange
ment of iron and brass rolls acting upon
a lever so that the distance between the
points or suspension and oscillation of
the pendulum remains unaltered by
variations of temperature.
The ordinary compensating pendulum
consists of a mass of rods, which form a
part of itself, thus increasing the surface
exposed to atmospheric influences,
while in the Colesburg the
compensating portion Is fixed and the
vibrating portion consists simply of a
pendulum bob. and approaches as near
as possible the form of the theoretical
pendulum. The electrical device which
keeps it in motion, while ingenious, is
exceedingly simple. All wheel escape
ments are dispensed with, and the pen
dulum is kept in motion by the succes
sive impulsations of a magnetic amature.
The magnet varies in strength according
to the condition of the battery, but by a
simple arrangement this variation of
magnetic force makes no corresponding
ehange in the are of vibration, which
remains constant under all conditions of
the battery.
So delicate is this pendulum that one
cell of gravity battery is amply suffi
cient to run the pendulum and a prima
ry clock, and the pendulum will run
any kind of electric clock, either prima
ry or secondary, and the number is unu
nited.
Mr. Gifford has been testing the elec
trical wonder for four or five months,
and not even the slightest \ariation has
been detected. Nothing of the kind was
found in the patent-ofiiee at Washing
ton, and letters patent were secured
without any trouble whatever. Had it
been the invention of the Wizard of
Menlo Park it would long ago have at
tracted public attention, but as it is the
result of long and laborous experiments
of a modest gentleman who thirsteth not
for popular applause, its existence is
known to but few persons.
TURNED TO GOLD.
About twelve years ago Maj. Campbell
Wallace of Atlanta, invested $6,000 cash
in the stock of the Elyton Land company.
The total capital was SIOO,OOO cash—
•which was increased to $200,000 in stock.
The company bought 4,000 acres of
the site of the present city of Birming
ham.
Permission was soon granted the com
pany to issue SIOO,OOO in bonds for im
proving the property. The bonds were
sold, but almost immediately re-bought
by the company and retired z-$r The pro
ceeds of land sales were largely' put into
improvements.
Major Wallace has drawn over SIOO,OOO
in cash dividends on his $6,080 invest
ment. He has drawn $17,000 or three
times his investment in dividends this
year with four months to hear from.
Besides paying such dividends the com
pany has over $2,000,000 in cash assets,
exclusive of its land which has hardly
been touched. The shares are now worth
$4,000 each. Major Wallace received for
his $6,000 oash, $12,000 in stock, or 120
shares, worth now in open market $4,000
a share, or $450,000. He has distributed
most of his stock among his children,
and Mrs. Mynatt has just received and
refused $99,000 for her share.
This reads like a fairy tale. An in
vestment of $6,000 paying over SIOO,OOO
dividends in twelve years and then being
worth $480,000 cash. The Elyton com
pany on a paid in capital of SIOO,OOO has
paid over $1,500,000 in dividends, has
$2,000,000 in assets, besides its land, and
its stock is now worth $8,000,000. ThfS
stock was hawked about Atlanta a few
years ago at 18 cents on the dollar. — Con
stitution.
A Captain’s Fortunate Discov
ery.
Capt. Coleman, sehr. Weymouth, plying be
tween Atlantic City and N.Y., had been trou
bled with a cough so that he was unable to
sleep, and was induced to try Dr. King’s New
Discovery for Consumption. It not only gave
him instant relief, but allayed the extreme
soreness in his breast. His children were simi
larly affected and a single dose had the same
happy effect. Dr. King’s New Discovery is now
the standard remedy in tho Coleman household
and ou bo ird the schooner. Free Trial Bottles
of this Standard Remedy at Curry’s Drug
Store. 4
THE LANGAUGE OF THE TRAIN.
To sit on one seat and put your feet on
another signifies, “I am not accustomed
to upholstered furniture at home.”
To occupy four seats on one ticket
means, “I am a hog.”
To lean half way out of the window in
order to see the country means, “There
are no glazed windows in my house.”
To turn a front seat and ride back
wards means, “I may not be pretty but
I think so.”
To expectorate on the floor meins,
“I haye no carpets at home.”
To say of the station that you “can
not see the town for the houses,” signi
fies, “I have never been anywhere be
fore.’’
To drink all the water in the tank and
go to sleep at eight o’clock in the morn
ing means, “I was out with the boys
last night.”
To be bounced oft' the train signifies,
“I am dead broke.”
Journalism is a hard taskmaster. A
man has little idea, as he lolls back in his
easy chair, smoking an after dinner
cigar, and reading his paper, what a
hard matter it is to gather the news dish
ed up for his delectation, and to write
those little sketches that make him smile
or throb with interest.
>
Turnip Seed, at Curry’s.
HONEST AND CLEaN.
An Opinion of President Cleveland's Ad
ministration—The Choice of III* Party.
From the Courier-Journal.]
Washington, Sept. 14. —The Indiana
Democrats who are supposed to know all
about the political situation in that State
are being rapidly interviewed here, and
some of them do some remarkable gush
ing. The latest is from Postmaster Dal
ton, of these House of Representatives.
Here is the encouraging way he talks.
It is enough to make an Indiana Demo
crat feel good all over:
“There is but one opinion about Cleve
land’s Administraton,” he said, “It is
honest and clean. Ido notbflieve there
will be the least opposition to him at the
convention in 18S8. There certainly will
not be if things keep on as they now are.
There is no opposition to him to-day.
Even those who do not agree with him
on the civil service and the silver ques
tions are ready to accept him on the
whole without question. Members wh©
at first supposed him have all come
around since they have gone home. 1
venture to say there is not a Democrat
who could carry a district in the United
States upon avowed opposition to the
AdminialfSlion. Even Senator Voor
hees, as strong as he is, could not be
elected to the House from Indiana as an
anti-Administrationist. I thought, and
most of the men who were watching
things thought, when the opposition
broke out in the House, when he wrote
his silver letter, that the party would
surely be divided and would go to pieces.
When Reagan and Bland and Mills and
all the rest of the silver men came out
boldly and fought Mr. Cleveland, every
body thought the party would be disrup
ted. All that amount to nothing. Op
position has died out entirely, and these
very members are ready to accept Mr.
Cleveland. They have modified their
views. They will leave the silver as an
open question and suport him and his
administration. There is but one voice in
the party now.”
Renews Her Youth.
Mrs. Phcebe Ohesley, Peterson, Clay Cos.
lowa, tells the following remarkable story, the
truth of which is vouched for by the residents of
the town: “I am 73 years old, have been trou
bled with kidney complaint and lameness for
many years; could not dress myself without
help. Now lam free from all pain and sore
ness, and I am able to do all my own housework
I owe my thanks to Electric Bitters for having
renewed my youth, and removed completely all
disease and pain.” Try a bottle, only 50c. at
Curry’s Drug Store. 4
THE FARMERS’ PARADISE.
A man on his own farm, well culti
vated and kept, well stocked, with good
modern dwellings and barns and out
buildings, master of both time and acres,
tied by no hours by the calls of bells or
whistles, free to come and go according
to the necessities of none but himself,
mostly in his own fields, performing his
healthful labors within sight of his own
chimneys, is surely as rich, in the
genuine sense of the word, as any man
can be. lie has nothing to fear, nobody
to envy. Of one thing he is sure all his
days, and that is a sufficient living; and
that is what other men are never sure of
without a single pang of doubt or appre
hension. There is his home, there is all
the animate and inanimate machinery of
his establishment, and for the rest he
looks in profound trust to the bounty of
heaven.
Instead of this unworthy and demoral
izing anxiety to get rich, if the average
farmer, once being solidly established,
would resolve to enlarge or exalt his
life as it is, to make more out of that, to
enjoy as much as possible of what there
is to be enjoyed, to adorn and beautify
his home—that onty paradise on earth—
within and without, he would find all
his daily tasks easier, even to the extent
of being delightful; lie would feel rich,
where with more money, he feels all the
time poor; and he would rid himself of
a false tyrant in the form of increasing
parsimony that holds his nose to the
grindstone till he is flung into his grave.
If farmers only knew it they would be
the richest men on earth.
The continuance of the earth’s disturb
ance has naturally created a panic, Many
families, wl 03e homes l een si al
tered have secured others, while others
who have relatives in the interior are
gratefully accepting invitations to visit
them. Furniture carts and express wag
ons, under the circumstances, are in
great demand, and the prices of a load
have risen from 25 cents to from $1.50 to
$2.50. It is creditable to some of the ex
press wagon drivers that thev have not
increased their charges over 100 percent.
Others, however, have trebled and quad
rupled their charges. An instance was
brought to the attention ol a reporter on.
Saturday which, for shrewdness and
meauness, may be said to ’’take the cake.”
The person is a colored man named
Henry Lesesne, who owns what is known
as a furniture cart. Lesesne found that
his customers would not submit to a
charge of $2 a load, so he reduced his
price to sl. One of his customers found
that Lesesne had sawed off from the taii
end of his cart at least two teet. The
idea was, of course, to reduce the carrying
capacity of the cart, and thus to make
two loads out of one. It requires an
earthquake to bring out the full character
of the “Charleston coon.” —Charleston
Neics and Courier.
They get along fast in Dakota, and to
prove it a story is told of a recently elec
ted judge. lie had been a sort of free
lace in his profession, and had incurred
the enmity of a certain lawyer. This
lawyer came before the Judge the other
daj' with an ordinary motion which
should have been granted in due course
of law. But it wasn’t “Motion denied,”
yelled the Judge. “But, your Honor—
—” “Motion denied, I say,” “Your
Honor, one word, if you please.” “You
seem to have a prejudice against me.”
“You’re b and right I have,” said the
Judge. “I’ve been laying for you for
the past three years, and you don’t get
any motions in this court,”
Railway construction continues at an
active rate, the returns for the last two
months making it certain that the total
of new lines for the year will exceed
6,(XX) miles.
The best way to make a name is to
to have an aim.
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
The indications are (say 9 the Savan
nah Xetrs of recent date) that the whole
country is entering upon a very pros
perous business season. There is a bet
ter feeling in business circles than there
has been for a long time. It is said that
in New York city and Philadelphia or
ders for merchandise are being sent so
rapidly that it is about impossible to fill
them promptly. The employes of the
great jobbing houses hardly have time to
get a lunch. From the South orders are
large, indicating a feeling of confidence
in the business outlook.
It will indeed be gratifying if these
indications prove to be correct. The de
pression in business has been so long
continued and so severe that a great
many business men all over the coun
try have been wondering whether they
would be able to keep their doors open
much longer. A sharp revival of busi
ness will be to them like a heavy rain to
the parched earth. It will put new life
into them, as it were.
The prospects in the South for a
prosperous season are certainly very en
couraging. The cotton crop is a good
one, and it is coming to market in good
condition. It is true that the prices are
rather low, but then everything which
the planter purchases is very cheap. If
a comparison were made between the
prices of supplies, when cotton was
much higher than it is now, and prices
of supplies now, it would be found per
haps that the planter is about as well off
now as when he got a great deal more
for his cotton. The rice and sugar
planters are not very prosperous, but if
they will doubtless come out a little
ahead. If the planters are reasonably
prosperous business of all kinds is gen
erally good.
The feeling in New York is a pretty
fair indication of the prevailing feeliug
throughout the country. In that city it
is certainly one of confidence and in
creasing satisfaction.
A Supposed Corpse Comes to Life Long
Euough to Utter a. Warning.
From the Savannah News.]
A gentleman from Ga.,
was in the city yesterday, and reported
that the colored people out there are
greatly wrought up over the peculiar
circumstances connected with a negro
woman’s death. The woman had been
sick for some time, and late one after
noon about a week ago she died, or at
least those who were present had every
reason to believe that she did, and they
laid her out as a bona fide corpse.
The friends of the dead woman were
sitting around in the room discussing the
good qualities of the departed one, with
that feeling and solemnity in keeping
with the occasion, when suddenly the
supposed corpse was in a sitting posture.
The mourners rushed out of the house
frightened half out of their wits.
After remaining out some time two or
three of the bravest among them mus
tered up courage to approach the house.
When they had come within speaking
distance the woman called to them to
come in, that she had something to say
to them. With fear and trembling they
entered, and the woman told them that
she had been dead, but that she had come
back to give them a warning. The
warning was that the world would come
to an end on Sept. 29. After making
this awful prediction she said that she
would be with them until 9 o’clock the
next morning, when she would leave
them forever. She asked them all to get
ready for the final winding up on Sept.
29, and to be prepared to meet her on
that day. She was punctual to the min
ute as to her promise to leave them at 9
o’clock the following morning, and died
precisely at the hour.
All this occurred a few days before the
earthquake, and the coming of this was
full and complete proot to the negroes
that the prediction was true. T hey re
gard the earthquake as a forerunner of
the eventful Sept. 29.
The gentleman who narrated the story
says that the wildest excitement pre
vails among the negroes, and that they
are preaching and praying day and
night, and that they have constant relays
of preachers, and as soon as one is ex
hausted another is put up in his place.
The Record.
At noon on Tnesday, August 10, the
193 th Grand Monthly Drawing of the
Louisiana State Lottiry took place, under
the supervision of Gen’ls G. T. Beau
regard of La., and Jubal A. Early-of Ya.
No. 68,301 drew the First Capital Prize
$73,000. No. 33,631 diew the Second
Capital Prize, $23,000. It was sold in
fifths ot $1 each ; one to Henry Lftjnie,'
Holbrook, Mass.,paid through Adams
Express in Boston, Mass.; one to B.
Frank Burpee, a siloon keeper, No. 8
Granite street, South Boston, Mas., also
paid through Adams Express; one paid
through the German Bank of Memphis,
Tenn.; two others paid though Wells,
Fargo & Co.’s Bank, San *aneiseo, Cal.
No. 60,849 drew the Third Capital Prize,
slo'ooo. Nos. 18,325 and 57,815 drew
the two Fourth Capital Prizes of $6,000
each; sold in fifths at $1 each to parties
in Kansas City. Mo.. Concordia, Kan.,
Montgomery, Ala., New Orleans, La.,
Fort Monroe, Va., Chicago, 111., and
Philadelphia, Pa., &c., &c. all infor
mation can be had from M. A. Dauphin,
New Orleans, La.
Engineer ami Fireman Killed.
A terrible accident occurred half a mile
from Chattanooga on the 15th inst. on the
East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
Railroad. A north-bound express train
struck a cow on a sharp curve while
coming into the city. The engine turn
ed over a slight embankment, crushing
Engineer Tom Buckley and Fireman
Traviss to death. Buckley’s body was
not recovered for several hours. The
tracks of the E rst Tennessee, Cincinnati
Southern and Western & Atlantic were
blockaded until midnight. No passen
gers injured.
Henry Clews is having his revenge at
last. Through his exertions the govern
ors of the New York Stock Exchange
have refused to put the new 4>£ per
cent, bonds of Georgia on the list of se
curities on the ground that Georgia now
has outstanding repudiated bonds in the
hands of innocent purchasers. It is well
known the repudiated bonds were not
eyen issued under the forms of law.
NUMBER
THE CUTTING CASE.
Envoy Sedgwick Having Completed Hi*
Investigations Starts for Home.
N. O. Times-Democrat.]
Er. Paso, Sept. 14.—Special Agent
Arthur Sedgwick left this morning for
Washington. Nearly all the work there
was to do in the Cutting investigation
had been done, except the taking of two
or three more affidavits. Yesterday
Sedgwick received a telegram from
home saying that his wife was seriously
ill, and he concluded to leave the further
investigation of the case to Consul Brig
ham. The consul I was interviewed to
day and said:
“We have gone through the case very
carefully from one to the other, making
full notes of everything from the record,
and we carefully examined all the laws
bearing on the case, and took a great deal
of evidence. The work has been well
done by Mr. Sedgwick.”
f |Being asked what he thought of Sedg
wick, he said : “He is a man of fine ed
ucation, and fine natural ability, an ex
cellent lawyer, and a man who, in my
opinion, is well capacitated for the mis
sion. The scandalous reports about him
distracted his mind considerablj T ANARUS, but lie
said to me that he could not help that.”
The consul was asked if he had any
intimation as to the character of the re
port Sedgwick would make. He said
Sedgwick never intimated at any time
what would be its character, and it was a
matter of too much delicacy to be
broached to him. “I am sadisfied,” said
the consul, “that a thorough.'and ex
haustive report of the whole case will
be made. He took facts from the records
as they now stand from the examination
of witnesses and from affidavits taken
by me.”
THE CAUSE OF HOG CHOLERA.
A Farmer Thought to Have Died of the
Diseases.
IndiANAroLis, Sept. 11.—The ravages
of hog cholera in the central part of the
State are a matter of serious study by
those concerned. An important discov
ery in connection with the disease is
alleged to have been made by a farmer
named Sheppard, in Henry county. He
had long believed that the disease is
nothing more or less than parasites of
trichinae in the stomach of the hog, and,
to vindicate his judgment, had a post
mortem examination upon a hog that
died this week. His opinion was sub
stantiated by the finding with the naked
eye of many of those parasites in the
second lining of the stomach. He com
municated the fact of his discovery to
the Secretary of the State Board of Ag
riculture, and he has referred the subject
to a microscopist for examination and
report. Mr. Sheppard thinks he has al
so discovered a preventive of these para
sites, and expects to be able soon to give
his remedy to the public.
A remarkable story corres from Mun
cie, Delaware county, to the effect that
George Wilson, a well-to-do farmer,
living eight miles south of Muneie, died
yesterday afternoon with disease con
tracted while administering medicine to
the cholera hogs. Attending physicians
claim that the disease is similar to hog
cholera, and that it may become epi
demic. Wilson was only sick four
hours, and died in the most agonizing
pain. The entire southern portiqn of
the country is horror-stricken, and many
farmers are anxious to sell their farms
and go West. It is reported that many
farmers have left their homes, and will
not return until the question of epidem
ic is decided in this case.
The Agricultural Department has
completed the compilation of the reports
received from its corps of crop reporters
throughout the State, and the copy is
now in the hands of the printer. The re
port indicates a general improvement
during the month of August in all crops.
The following is the condition and pros
pect shown, as compared with an aver
age of the past five years: Cotton 81
per cent., corn 90, rice 98, sugar-cane 96,
sorghum 95, field peas 86, chufas 92;
sweet potatoes 94, tobacco 97, melons 80;
number of stock hogs compared with
last condition ot stock hogs 92.
average yield per acre of
tobacco in sections planted is 640 pounds.
The net profit of melons when grown for
market is placed at an average of $29 64
per acre. The report issued August 1
placed cottou at 75, corn 88, rice 93,
sweet potatoes 94, sugarcane 91, tobacco
93, melons 75.
Richmond, September G.—Miss Winnie
Davis, the youngest daughter of Jefferson
Davis, is in the city visiting the family of
Rev. Dr. J. William Jones, the secretary
of the Southern Historical Society. Miss
Davis was born in the Confederate execu
tive mansion here not long before the
close of the war, and for this reason her
father calls her “The Daughter of the
Confederacy.” This is Miss Davis’s first
yisit since she left as a babe with her
parents on the eventful night of April 3,
when the capital of the Confederacy was
evacuated by the Southern army. She
is pretty and accomplished, and during
the several weeks of her stay will be
warmly welcomed by the Richmond
people. The “Daughter of the Confeder
acy” expects to be here on the occasion
of the laying of the cornerstone of the
R. E. Lee monument on October 23,
Ex-President Davis is also expected here
at that time if his health will admit.
The Americus Hecorder sums it up
thus: “The aggregate value of taxable
property in Georgia, as shown by the
tax digests of the several counties, is
$329,197,124, an increase of $7,381,355
over the returns of last year. This does
not include railroad property, subject to
taxation, which is estimated to be about
$22,638,972. The railroad taxes must be
paid by October Ist, and statements of the
amounts due have been sent out by the
comptroller general.”
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