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VOLUME 11. -THE PARKS BLOCK, 48 BROAD STREET, © ROME, <; A. We are now in our new store which is one of The Finest Store Houses in the South. With ample room, im proved shelving and counters, with all the modern improvements of A MODEL Dry Goods Establislimaxit Indeed, it will pay you when in Rome to visit and go through our store, as but few Dry Goods Stores south of Baltimore will be found equal to ours. We have six hundred feet of counters and twcn’y six hundred feet of shelving for display ing our brand HEW STOCK We are the only bouse in Rome carry ing a full and complete stock of FINE Dress Goods, Silks, lotions, Hosiery Trimmings, Millinery, Cloaks Wraps, Woolens, Jeans, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Etc. We can show you a NEW STOCK in every department. EVERYTHING HEW! “Noolii goods—no wet goods.” “Don’t forget thi9.” You will remember we had our entire stock in the Great Flo'd 1 ist April, which we have closed out, ex cepting a few lines of goods which we do not offer for sale in our regular stock, but have a department cut off up stairs special for the sale of these damaged goods at most any price you may name As it is certainly a very grat advantage, and no small satisfaction, to a customer to know when he is buying his Dry Goods that they are all El mm i STYLISH we again state that our stock is the only Strictly New Stock of Fancy and Staple DRY GOODS, In every department, in Rome. Our stock is the largest—our departments the most extensive—our styles the latest— our goods the best—(no trash nor shoddy) —and our Prices as Low and with our many advantages we are Sirepared to sell you your Dry Goods, HiJlinery, Boots, Shoes, Clothing, &e., Ac., at Prices not found elsewhere in this market. Please call and examine our goods and prices. Yours very respectfully, H. B. Parks & Cos. o 1. DHL 1 MODI, LATE OF CartersviUe Is with this house and will be very glad to see his old friends and customers when they come to Rome, even if they do not wish to purchase anything. \V. I. Heyward, attorney-at-law. Office near corner Main and Erwin Sts I Male a Law. A large assortment of Clocks, including tie Ithica Calendar clock, at than half the price of those peadled through he country at Turner & Bakjsr. THE CARTERSVILLE COURANT. R. M. PATTILLO BUYS COTTON, DEALS IN GRAIN, GENERAL GROCERIES, BAGGING, TIES, HAY, STOCK PEAS. Farmers’ Supplies a Specialty. Cor. ERWIN AND MAIN STREETS, CARTERSVILLE. a3O-3m Bartow Leake, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in JELLICO, Poplar Creek, Coal Creek, GLEN MARY BARREN FORK COAL. BEST GRADES OF COAL OX THE MARK ET. CHEAPEST RATES. TERMS CASH. “Dick” Jones' CARD. READ IT! O TO MY FRIENDS AND THE PUBLI J -1 take this method of informing my friends that I have recently established myself in the FANCY GROCERY and GENERAL MERCH ANDISE BUSINESS on West Main street, next door to Norris & Jones’ warehouse. My goods are fresh and have been bought for cash, thus en abling me to sell them lew. Would respectfully ask al! of my friends to call and see me. All I ask is a trial and 1 will convince you that I mean business and will treat yon “fair and square.” Rioh.ard L. J ones, CARTERSVILLE, - - GA. September 23, 1886. The Sam Jones Female College. Georgia, Bartow county. To the Superior Court ot said county: The petition of John H. Wikle,jC. H. Smith. R. M. Pattillo, R. 11. Jones, W. C. Baker, W. H. Howard and John W. Akin shows that petition ers and such other persons as they may associate with themselves desire to be incorporated for the period of twenty yeais, with the privilege of renewal at the expiration of that time, under the corporate name of “THE SAM. JONES FE MAI.E CtILEEGE.” The purposes of said cor poration is to be the education of the young. The business of said corporation is to be conduct ed in Cartersvillc, Bartow county, Ga. The amount of capital stock of said corporation is to be the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars, with the privilege of increasing the same at any tune or times to any sum not exceeding the sum or one hundred thousand dollars. Each share of the capital stock of said corporation to be of the par value of fifty dollars. Petitioners pray that this court confer upon said corporation all the pow ers and privileges necessary to the succcssrul and proper management of the business for which said corporation is chartered, and all the powers granted to corporations of this State by the code-end laws of Georgia. GRAHAM & GRAHAM, JOHN H. WIKLE, and JOHN W. AKIN, 021-lm for4m.—*(>.B7 Petitioners’ Atty’s. TAX COLLECTOR'S NOTICE, Of Bartow Comity. I will be at the following named places on the days mentioned below for the purpose of Col lee ting State and County Taxes for the year 1886, Kate per cent.—ten dollars on the thousand. Gartersvilie—October 18, 30; November 11,20; December 6, 7. 8,9, 10,11. Allatoona—October 20; November 3, 15. wu P p Cree^~°S U)ber 21; November 2,19. P," i l r~rV < l to , ber22; November 1, 13, i .u l l^7 o< -' tober 25 ; November 6, 22. f \vi.i Btr A C^ Ctober 28; Novembers, 23. October 29i November 27 Kingston le ( 7 < t >cb)lx ‘ r 2 "j November 9,‘24. Fnh K arW~ n t , ol ? er 28; Member 10, 2. Stnesboro—November 19. Mct anless’ Mill—November 29. coufd 1 h T V hnni th . e time offas late as 1 possibly uromntlv as <f e toI ery -., tax P a y cr will pay up Sates have em rA* 1 be isßUed af ter the above oct7-td l ml ' B. A. BARTON. poto<Bc. raiU ° Wce is now next door to CAIITERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 11, 1886. CANDIDATES. 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, w ith John A. Gladden as his deputy. Election in January, 1887. We are hereby authorized to announce the name of A. M. FUANKLIX for Sheriff of Bar tow County, and J. W. Williams, of the 17th District, as his Deputy. Election to be held.on the first Wednesday in January next, and if elected promise a faithful performance of the duties or the office as heretofore.. July 20, 1886. We ari authorized to announce the name of ED. B. FORD as a candidate for the ofiice of Sheriff of Bartow coudty, with J. J. Murphey, of the Sixth district as his deputy. For Cleric Superior Court. We are authorized to announce the name of BAILEY A. BARTON as a candidate for Clerk of Superior Court of Bartow county. We are 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 County Treasurer. We are authorized to announce the name of MR. H. W. COBB for re-election to the office of Treausurer of Bartow County. We are authorized to announce the name of A.G. B. VANDIVERE as a candidate for the office of Treasurer of Bartow county. For Tax Collector. We art 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 iax 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 be favored with a successive term. Respectfully. JAMES L. MILIIOLLIN. We are authorized to announce the name of MR. J. F. LINN as a candidate for Tax Col lector of Bartow county, Georgia. For Tax Receiver. Wc are authorized to announce the name of WILLIAM W. GINN as a candidate for Receiv er of Tax returns of Bartow county. We..re authorized to announce the name of ALBERT SMITH as a candidate for Receiver of Tax Returns of Bartow county. We are authorized to announce the name of NAT DUNAHOO for the office of Tax Receiver of Bartow county. For Coroner. We are authorized to announce the name of MR. JOHN B. ROWLAND for re-rlection to the office of Coroner of Bartow county. We arc authorized to announce the r ame of SIR. WILLIAM VAUGHAN as a candidate for the office oi Coroner of Bartow county. We are authorized to announce (he name of JAMES H. HARRISON as a candidate for Cor oner of Bartow county. We are authorized to announce the name of MR. JAMES F. PATTERSON, (FRANK) as a candidate for Coroner of Bartow county. Barn’s Show! Has gone out of reach, and S. L. VANDIVERE has come back to stay, and can sell you anything you wish in the Furniture line at bottom prices. S. L. Vandivere Makes good Carpets at low prices a specialty. Don’t forget it when you want to buy one or two or three. IF A POOR MAN Like President Cleveland could afford to giva?2o to the Charleston sufferers any man can afford to buy Furniture at Vandivere’s prices. Call and ex amine his stock and prices. If You Don’t See What you want when you come to Vandivere’s Furniture Store, you may rest assured that it is in the de pot or on its way from the best markets. HEW HOME l SEvVING MACHINES Makes the best stitch, runs the light est, wears the longest, gives better satisfaction, and more of it than any other machine for the same money for sale by S. L. VANDIV ERE. NORTH GEORGIA Cheap Furniture House. 8. L. VANDIVERE, Proprietor. m - CARTERSVILLE. STANDING COMMITTEES. Council { CARTERSVILLE, Ga., Dec. 22, 1885.) It is ordered that the following shall constitute the standing committees of the Boar l of- Aider men for the year 1886: Streets—A. M. Franklin, John P. Anderson and W. A. Bradley. ~ „ Finance—A. R. Hudgins, Gerald Gnffln and George H. Gilreath. „ _ . . Ordinances—Gerald Griffin, A. M. Puckett and A. R. Hudgins. Cemetery—GeorgeH. Gilreath, A. M. Frank lin and E. D. Puckett. „ „ . . , Relief—W. A. Bradley, A. R. Hudgins and A. M. Puckett. PUBLIC BUILDINGS—E. D. Puckett, W. A. Bradley and John P. Anderson. It is further ordered that this order be entered on the minutes and Clerk furnish each Alderman with a copy hereof. (Signed) Jno. H. Wikle, Mayor. Attest: Sam’l F. Milam Clerk. 3E 1 OXJTZ’S HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERf Ho Hors* will die of Colic. BWI or LttWtT* vkr if Fontz’s Powders are used in time. Foutz's Powders will cure and prevent Hoo Foutz's Powders will prevent Gapbs in Fowl. Fontz’s Powders will increase the quantity of milk and cream twenty per cent., and make the buttei film *°FoutPß Vowderi will enre or prevent almost every Diskask to which Horses and Cattle are subject. FOUTZ’B POWDKRS WILL GIV* SATISFACTION. Sold everywhere. DAVID V FOTTTZ, Proprietor. H/siTIMOBE. KD. THE COURANT. Published F,very Thursday, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. Official Organ Bartow County. R | Edl,or * and Pf,P'S THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11. 1886. By George, your Uncle Abram Mewitt has been elected to the Mayoralty of New York. Horizontal Morrison,of Illinois, lias been defeated by a Republican, Jehu Baker, for Congress. A Bolivian coffee, that is said to in toxicate, has been introduced in this coun try, so says a Chicago special. Throughout the entire cotton belt a pretty fair crop of the fleecy staple has been raised, and is being rapidly pot on the market. The dude policemen of the country are in Washington city ; while on duly they wear white gloves and carry canes—no clubbers there. TnERE is a banking institution in Bos ton called the “Maverick National BanK.” Their aim is probably to “carrol” the fes tive Bland silver mavericks. Disgruntled Democrats in Washing ton charge the defeat of some of the Dem ocratic candidates for Congress to the apathy engendered by the passive policy of the administration. The carelessness of Democrats in not voting in many places where elections were held on the 2d inst. cost the Demo cratic party more Congressmen than it can well afford to lose. Out near Santa Maria, Cal., Farmer Shuman saw bees going in and outofa crack in a big pumpkin on his place. He opened the pumpkin and found eight pounds of excellent honey within. “The grandfather of 116 persons is cut ting railroad ties in Yirginiafor a living.” Suppose the ties of relationship with thise 116 individuals were cut before the old man commenced on his railroad work. The reported defeat of Carlisle, of Kentucky, for Congress, created a great deal of excitement, and great relief was experienced when the official returns showed him to be elected by over 700 majority. Hewitt was elected Mayor of New Yoik by a popular vote of 90,296. George, the labor candidate, received a vote of G7,G99, and Roosevelt, the young Repub lican candidate, had 60,392 votes cast for him. The Galveston News styles the Presi dent’s private secretary, Col. Dan La mont, “the managing editor of this ad ministration.” The New Y"ork Sun thinks that’s well enough, but it hardly believes Mr. Cleveland can be called “the editor-in-chief.” McCabe, one of the New York in dicted hoodie aldermen, who, together with others, stole millions, has been ad judged a hopeless lunatic. Justice has a poor chance indeed when she has to con tend with Canada on one side and the lunatic asylum on the other. Chas. Warren, of Allumelte Island, has a most industrious hen turkey. She laid a nest of eggs and hatched them out last June. The brood was taken from her, and she resumed laying again and hatched out the second brood. When these were two weeks old she began lay ing again and is now laying an egg daily. M. Pasteur’s success in averting and curing hydrophobia has been great, judg ing from the report, which he makes to the Academy of Sciences of Paris, France, in which he says that he has treated dur ing the past year 2,400 persons who had been bitten by animals, and that out of this number only ten had died. Seven teen hundred and twenty-six of the pa tients were French. A farmer of Delaware county, Pa., much troubled by crows, soaked a peck of corn in frhisky and scattered it near a fence much frequented by the birtU. They ate of it and got decidedly drunk, and the farmer was so amused by the ex hibition that he forbore to shoot them, and after a time they flew unsteadily away. The result was good. The crows never came back. The heads they had the next morning must have been of that they desired. Abram S. Hewitt, democrat, was elected Mayor of New York city, Tues day, over Henry George, the labor candi date, Roosevelt and Wardwill. Eigh teen out of twenty-four al lermen elected are democrats. S. S. Cox, late minister to Turkey, was elected to Congress from New York city, and Ferry Belmont an other democrat was re-elected to congress from the first district by a small majority. The adherents of Henry George in New York city are much disgusted at his de feat. A good many persons, after consider able mental difficulty, have been taught to believe that when Robert Burns wrote “Cornin’ Thro’ the Rye” he referred to a little stream in the northwest of Ayr shire, called Rye, where the lads were given to lying in wait and kissing the lassies as they waded througl*the stream, their hands being employed in holding up their petticoats to keep them out of the water. Now comes Editor A. B. Todd, of the Camuoek Express, who is said to be an authority in Scottish litera ture, who was boru a few miles from the Burns farm, and was intimate with some of Burns’ cronies, and he says that the idea expressed above is pure nonsense; that Burns never saw and probably never heard of the Rye; that the description of how Jenny “draigelt a’ her petticoatie” doesn’t mean that she wet it in the water of a stream, but bedraggled it walking through dew or rain-laden grain. All of which commends itself as being a sensi ble explanation. Tiie Bartholdi Statue. [From the Independent ] The land, that, from the rule of kings, In freeing us, itself made free, Onr Old Wo Id Sister, to ns brings, Her sculptured Dream of Liberty. U alike the shapes of Egypt’s sands Uplifted by the toil-worn slave, * On Freedom's soil with freemen's hands We rear the symbol free hands gave. m O France, the beautiful! to thee Once more a debt of love we owe: In peace beneath thy Fleur delis, We hail a later Roehambeau! Rise, stately symbol! holding forth Thy light and hope to alt who sit In chains and darkness! licit the earth Witu watch-fires from thy torch nplit! Reveal the primal mandate still Which Glaos heard amt ceased to be, Trace on mid-air th’ the Eternal Will In signs of fire: ‘‘Let man be free!” Shine far, shine free, a guiding light To Reason’s ways and Virtue’s aim, A lightning flash the wretch to smite Who shield’s his license with thy name! John Greenleaf Whittier. DOUBLE LIVES. From the Housekeeper Union.] There is an old saying. “There is a skeleton in everbody’s closet.” How true we find this adage when we glance inn the inner life ot those around us, WLo apparently are so happy as to have all that the heart could desire, and whose supposed happiness we often envy ; but like the old lady in the story from which the adage is derived, we have our deepest sympathies moved when we learn of that closet in which a skeleton with its ghastly vi-age, marks the presence ot some frus trated hope, deeply buried trom inquir ing eyes. There are many more persons in this world whose lives are double—one which is known alone to God an 1 themselves— than superficial observers are apt to think. Many persons whom we in our ignorance pronounced peculiar, proud and ignorant, are only wrapping from the gaze of the cold and critical world some deep sorrow, some great mistake, tlie ghost of some murdered love whieh haunts them still because they love it yet, but which they faerificed for filthy lucre or some false worldly position. There is many a husband who will never taste true love, never have the conti lence of the woman whom God has given him for his companion, never dream of the picture which forever haunts her inmost soul, and is a retribu tion to her all her after life. Thousands of luxurious homes are to day governed by just such women, who, after the glitter has worn off the gold they sought and which has turned into filmy tinsel when in their grasp, learn to loathe and have contempt from the splendor and magnificence about them; and if ’twere in their power would give years of their lives to retrieve the past. Thisis only one form the skeleton some times takes —God only knows in how many other structures it may he found. In remembrance, 1 see a mansion, sumptuously furnished, servants hurry ing to and fro, and in the drawing room of that palace a lady past her prime, who smiles with a sad, sweet smile —a smile so beautiful and sympathetic that all who come and go instinctively love her, and some even deem her hippy. Lot us study that smile; let us go ffom the drawing room, and watch her kneel ing beside a drunken, loathsome looking, young man, once that golden haired, bright eyed baby boy from whom she had expectations, expectations grand as an. • **. But now, what is he? A sot, a night ly reveler; and all her pleadings and tears are in vain. Sisters do you envy such as these the comforts that money can buy? Let us think of the truth of that adage when we are tired and discontented, and inclined to think our lot the hardest one; let us thank God that we followed the in stincts of our own love, that we have no wretched, double life to darken our homes and make our lives a misery ; let us look with pride and thankfulness upon our noble sons and daughters, and know that although our lives may he obscure and humble, we have a blessing which many wealthy women would gladly exchange with us. WASN’T IT TOUCHING? Chicago News.] “Hush! Not another word.” Regally beautiful was Beryl Clearsides as she stood beside Bertie Cecil in the brilliantly lighted parlors of her father’s Prairie uveuue residence that October night when the glorious harvest moon hung low in the western sky and the baseball championship lav buried in the dim vista of an unknown to-morrow. She had been singing for him—this man to whom she had given her heart such a time ago in the soft June days when the line and her ice cream-campaign dress, a soft robe of the purest white, which clung to her Dina-like form in graceful folds, had sailed away into the great unknown. At first he had sung gay verses, the sparkling harmony rippling from her lips in a cascade of melody that held Bertie Cecil spellbound at her art, but after a little it seemed as though the girl’s mood had changed, for when her fingers had wandered idly over the board of the instrument for a moment she had bent her queenly head forward a little, and there came to Bertie Cecil’s ears the words of the old Scotch ballad : Wtien the cows come home, When the cows come home; Meet me, darling, in the gloaming When the cows come home. It was at the conclusion of the last stanza that Beryl had risen from the pi ana and moved toward the conserva’ory. “Speaking of cow's,” said Bertie, in his rich, manly voice, whose every tone thrilled Beryl’s being, so madly did she love him, “reminds me of pleuro-pueu monia. And it seemed to me, sweet heart, that you, too, are in danger of catching cold; you seem” It was then that the words with which this chapter opens were spoken. “But why may I not speak?” he con tinued. “Why may I not say to the one who is all the world to me words which may save her from suffering?” “There is no need of cau.ion,” replied Beryl, speaking in low, firm tones. “But you may not know,” he contin ued. “Perhaps you are not ” “Believe me,” said Beryl, “there is no daneer —none whatever.” “But why ?” The faint suffusion of a blush passed like a wave across the girl’s beautiful face as she leaned trustfully over Bertie and said m low, melting tones; “I am wearing my liver-pad.” What True Merit Will I>o. The unprecedented sale of Boschee’s German Syrup within a few years, has astonished the world. It is without doubt the safest and best remedy ever discovered for the speedy and effect ual cure of Coughs, Colds and the severest Lung troubles. It acts on an entirely different princi ple from the usual prescriptions given bv Physi cians, as it does not dry up a Cough aud leave the disease still in the system, but on the con trary removes the cause of the trouble, heals the parts affected and leaves them in a purely healthy condition. A bottle kept in the house for use when the diseases make their appearance, will save doctor’s bills and a long spell of se rious illness, A trial will convince you of these facts. It is positively sold by all druggists and general dealers in the land. Price 75 cts,, large ottles. THE JURORS Djawn for December Term City Court and January Term Superior Court. grand jurors first weex. J D Wilkerson B R Mount astle Eli Barrett J I* Hawks Z VV Jackson J S Leake K B Holcaust John N Dobbs Robt C Rowan W J Hilburn Seaborn Pritchard John A Stover J L Luther, sr II D Lewis James F Morton William Chitwood WmMTrippic Stephens Saggus W C E l wards F A Boston jr Janies M Smith ST McC&nless J L Iriek TRAVERSE JUBORS first week. W G Kennedy Thos L Smith G W McGuire John D Thomas J H D McCormick Chas T Jones Jas C Collins L 1’ Brisendiue Bartow Leake Abe Cox J VV L Brown J W It Burns Jas W Maxwell James Uren J W Rich J S Adeoek Thomas l'enly C P Anthony VV II Arnisttong JnoC Dunnaway J J Murphy Win W Jolley R S Taff S J Davis Z T Brooks G A Denman John C Raiford A E Vincent W W Dellinger VV D Pittard C M Howard Henry F. Gaines W G Mc M i cken F J B ray W W Morris V M. Tumlin TRAVERSE JURORS SECOND WEEK, Eugene M unford J M Anderson W H Best Rob’t S Amos VV A Skinner T W Leake S F Milam J H Cole 8 C Goode Elbert M Upshaw JP Johnson Sam’l I> Joues Thos H Powell W V Smith Jas E Lewis D VV Loudermilk T D Powers Levi Y Jackson Jas P Lewis James W Adams VV J Adams II F Wade F M Thompson J VVFGilieath. I VV Alley Joe C Bell TJ Rogers F M Walker J T Jolley I H John Bey E E Gaines N H Adam's VV M King W VV Ay cock Jas S Goodwin John N Maxwell Sam’l H Law V GRAND JURORS THIRD WEEK. John I’ Lewis M T Hays J G Lowry W VV Cotton Pink vv Kay II J McCormick Thos N. Pittard W J Brandon Eliphas Wofford P H Reynolds Jas H Gilreath J F Armstrong* .J F Mayson Oliver H Richards Joseph Bradley Thos M Durham II II Hall J C Tumlin Jas C Crawford J T Bailey Levi D Jolly Lewis V Wilson Elihu R Abernathy TRAVERSE JURORS THIRD WEEK. J Benson Smith Osborn S Shaw; Chas M Milam VV II Wikle J S Upshaw W S Hunt G It Casey Geo T Smith VV H Baker C M Floyd ■T C Powell Warren V Dodd P P Stone Larkin C Franks Henry Dunaltoo A J Layton S J Gentry C VV Floyd J A McCanless C M Quillian .TnoW Stubbs J 4 Bailey Thos B Maxwell Aaron Collins Jno VV Callahan F A Smith James A Shelton J C Rawlins. Samuel T Dysart I, D Munford; Rob’t M Collins J R Kinney James vt Hall D P Brandon Thos J Hendrix Ileadden Elrod TRAVERSE JURORS FOURTH WEEK. T J Benson R W Milam J H Harris VV B Woodall D L I’eiry John Banton Jas C Hedgcock Hubbard Darden W H Stiles J J Kennedy It L Beshears A B Conyers Geo S Davis J It Williams J VV Bruinsfleld Z VV Oglesby VV S Mitoliel S L Galloway Geo H Waring N C Anderson Levi F Shaw VV A Bradley Jas F Alexander S R Arnold .TC Smith John Goddard VV T Sexton W It Howard L Y Bnrch J E Shaw Hugh Tomlinson John C Rhodes T K Hammond G It Gilreath W O Littlefield VV E Puckett JURORS DECEMBER TERM, CiTY COURT. J W Morris I C Bell Winfield S Dodd Jno N Dobbs VV A Bradley J F Armstrong A L Barron Bartow Leake Sam’l B Jones Sanford Venable VV J Hilburn Jeff J Bishop J C McElroy J F Alexander J t? Lewis J B iiau-i Lner The First Keen Twinge. As the season advances, the pains and aches by which rheumatism makes itself known, are experienced after every exposure. It is not claimed that Hood’s Sarsaparilla is a specific for rheumatism —we doubt if there is, or can be, such a remedy. But the thousands benefited by Hood’s Sirsaparilla, warrant us in urging oth ers who suffer from rheumatism to take it before the first keen twinge. THE GREAT INVENTION. The following additional information in regard to the Mason Cotton harvester will be formed of interest. It. is from the Macon Telegraph of the 23 inst. Judge Henderson, commissioner of agriculture, returned this morning from Sumter, S. C., where he was called upon invitation of Col. Morehead and other gentlemen, to witness and report on the practical operation of the now celebrated Mason cotton picker. The report of Commissioner Henderson and the gen tlemen associated with him was sent in to the Charleston News and Courier last night and a synopsis published in the Associated Press this morning. Your correspondent had an interview with Judge Henderson to-day on the subject of Mason’s cotton harvester. The Judge was greatly pleased with the machine, but alter careful examination and ex periment, decision was reached that there are yet serious defects which should be, and will be, remedied. The most important of these are : First, the machine knocks oft’ considerable of the matured bolls, leaving it on the ground. Second, it does not pick clean. The commissioner is of the opinion that the invention is on the right line, and that the needed improvements can be and will be made. The opininon of the committee was that in view of the great interest now being taken in the invention by the planting public it would be unwise to bring it out on pub lic exhibition until suggested improve ments are made. To this end it would be suggested and determined that the cotton picker should not, as contempla ted, be put on exhibition at the State fair in Macon —for that reason and no other. Commissioner Henderson is of the opin ion that the invention is a most valuable one to the South, an l that when it is per fected its value will be immeasurably in creased. Even if it should be able to pick out two-thirds of the cotton the value of it would be practically incalcula ble. A portion of the machine is on exhibi tion in the Agricultural Department, and is attracting great interest. The committee visited the mechanical establishment, fitted up in Sumter by Mr. Mason for his work and experiments. It i3 a small place, 20x30 feet, and is a hive of industry. Mr. Mason has with a half dozen skilled mechanics, who work with him on his invention, and who give him many practical and valuable sugges tions. It is believed that he and his as sistants will be able to make the impor tant improvements tnat have been sug gested. An Earthquake at a Funeral. From the Charleston Xtws and Courier.] A most extraordinary incident took plaee yesterday during a burial service held in the Lazaretto at the quarantine station. While the Rev. Father Wilson of St. Mary’s was reading the beautiful burial service of the Roman Catholic Church, and just as his lips had given utterance to the words, “And the earth shall open and give up its dead, etc., the mighty and deep roll of the eai th quake was beard approaching, the house began to rock, and even the dead captain in his coffin seemed to respond to na ture’s throes, as the coffin gently swayed though in response to the mighty voice. The laces of the surrounding officers, friends and crew portrayed, if possible more solemnity, as though each was looking for the last great summons. GEORGIA GLEANINGS. Notes Nicked From Exchanges. Eistuaon Times: There was no elect ion held in Dodge couuty for Congressman of this district last Tuesday. As Judge Cri<p, the nominee, had no opponent, uo body seemed interested, and f> r that rea son'tiie polls were not opened at all. The freight business of the East A W est for the past few weeks has been unprece dented in the history of the road. It takes close management with a hundred cars and all others that can be obtained to prevent a big blockade at CartersvilSe and Cross Plains. Several weeks ago Mrs. Guerry, of Stiniter county, Ga., dreamed that her hnsoand. long-dead, had appeared to her and said: “ Rhoda, I have net come lor you now, but in four weeks from to-night I will come for you.” Exactly four weeks from that night Mrs. Guerry fell ill, and it is said that the chances for her recovery are very slight. The Atlanta Journal says: “A distin guished member of the Georgia Senate will, we learn, introduce at an early day a hill prohibiting the use of free passes on the railroads by members of the Gen eral Assembly during the period of which they are elected. This is right. Let the members of the pre e ent General Assembly' start right. Don’t put your selves in a position that you cannot vote according to tne dictates of sound judg ment on the matter. Don’t eat part of the beef, gentlemen.” J. G. Kitchen was shot and instantly killed recently at Sterling, in Glynn countv. The deceased was a preacher and Democratic poll ician, and it is thought his support ot Democratic candi dates in the late elections caused his death. Suspicion points to TaylorColiey, who is now in iail. Sheriff W. H. Ber rie found a wad near the bodv similar to one found in Colley’s gun, while a buck shot extracted from the body of the de ceased was exactly the size of those in the gun. Both parties were colored. The legislature will be asked to incor porate the Salt Springs and Northwest ern railroad. Salt Springs are in Doug las county on the Georgia Pacific rail road a few miles west of Austell which is at the junction of the Georgia Pacific and East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor gia railroads. From Salt Springs it is proposed to run north to Marietta on the state road and south to Palmetto on the Atlanta and West Point road. From Palmetto the road is to be built to Green ville so as to connect with the Greenville and Columbus road. Look out for very cold weather. The immigrating birds have been going South in large flocks for the past few days. This is said by observers t> be an infalli ble sign of cold weather, and as they have not gone South in any considerable number until this week, we begin to be lieve they are reliable weather gua'ds. It is a remarkable fact that birds, and beasts know by instinct the approach of stormy weather, and always protect them selves by avoiding it as much as possible. God has given even to birds and beasts this knowledge. Who can doubt his goodness and omnipotence? The two houses of the General Assem bly finished the counting of the votes for the State ticket on Thursday afternoon. The aggregate was: For Governor— John B. Gordon 101.159; for Comptroller Genera! —Win. A. Wright 105,797: for Secretary of State—N C. Barnett 115,- 401; for Treasurer R. U. Hardeman 105,- 187; for Attorney-General, Clifiord An derson 114,158. There were about 1,000 scattering for Governor, of whirti 55G were for J. W. Lyons, colored 289 for W. J. White, 84 for A.JLL Bacon, 37 for J. C. t 5. Black, MS-fdr A. A. Barker, 14 for W. H. Felton, 15 for Jos. E. Brown, 1 for Joel Branham. The Recorder’s insinuations against the purity of Americus society are Clear ing a sensational in that pretty little town. The last issue of the Republican says: “An article in the Sunday’s Re corder is a most ungenerous reflection on the morals and the character of the res pectable people of Americus. Nay, more. It is a slander upon the good names of the fair daughters of our little city that cannot be substantiated. If Macon was stirred from centre to cir cumference by the publication of slander in the Cincinnati Enquirer, which gave the names of its victims, then how much more horrified should the people of Americus be when the whole social fra bric of her citizens are impeached, and accused of being more leprous than the vilest dens —or on a par with them—that exist. Look at the article in any light, it is a vile slander, and the traducer should be made to feel the scorn of the community he so vilely slanders. Thinking Aloud. From the Court Journal.] Some years before his last illness Lord Dudley was the gue6t of the late Mrs. Cunliffe Offley. Sirs. Cunliffe was aunt by marriage to the beautiful daughter of Sir Richard Brooke. On coming into the room Lord Dudley asked at once after the lovely Miss Brooke, the present Lady Meath, who during the previous season had taken all hearts by storms. Sirs. Cunliffe answered : “I suppose you mean Harriett. She is now at home, but Mary, her sister, is with the this year in her place, aud among ourselves we think Slary, though her beauty is of a different kind, quite as handsome as her sister.” “I dare say,” retorted Lord Dudley, in a regular fume, “that is always the way with yon women; if there’s one pretty girl among a lot of sisters you will try to poke the rest of them down our throats over her back.” Mrs. Cunliffe, being an old friend and well are ot the Dudley eccentricities, was not much moved by this somewhat rough contradiction, observing only, “Well, it is nothing to me, Lord Dudley, but that is our opinion; agree with it or not, as you please,.and now we had better go to dinner.” To dinner they went, and Lord Dud ley, sitting opposite the new beauty, very soon began talking to himself. “Confound the old jade, I almost think that she is right alter all; and n the old hag, she is, indeed.” “What are you talking about. Lord Dudley?” was not the unnatural inquiry. “Well, Mrs. Cunliffe, you see it had just passed through my mind that your opinion as to Mrs. Brooke’s beauty is quite justified, and I suppose I have been saying to my self how thoroughly I agree with you.” After that, of course, there was nothing to be done except to stop that sort of con versation a- soon as possible. THE COURT AGREED. Texas Siftings.] Maj. Gassaway, a prominent San An tonio lawyer, is famous for his long speches, They are so long they cause his clients to get long sentences from the exasperated jury. Recently Maj. Gassaway defended a murderer and ad dressed the jury off and on for the bet ter part of two days. The jury gave the man imprisonment for life in the peni tentiary, and they would have given Gassaway twice as much if they could legally done so. When Judge Noonan, who was on the bench, asked the doomed man the usual question as to his having objection to sentence being pronounced on him according to law, the latter re plied; “I think, your Honor, that the time consumed by my attorney in ad dressing the jury ought to be deducted from my term of imprisonment.” Judge Noonan said he thought so too. NUMBER 41 GOV. SP it AGUE’S WIFE. Wife No. 2 Publishes a Latter Severely Criticising Wife No. 1. A Providence (R. I.) special says: Ca nonehet, the celebrated villa of Governor Sprague, at Narragansett Pier, has again been heard from. The fact that Mrs. Inez Sprague, the present wife of the War Governor, bought Canonchet after the death of Frank 1). Moulton, and that a Colonel George W. Wheaton, of Cincin nati, has spent two years at the Sprague mansion, appearing in public with Mrs. Governor Sprague aud Mrs. Willie Sprague, wife ot the Governor's only son, and who is a sister of the Governor’s wife, occasioned no little comment. The gossips were further astounded when on Saturday Colonel Wheaton announced that he neld a mortgage on the entire Canonchet estate, and, being about to foreclose it, wanted to sell the property. To-day this announcement is supple mented by the following emphatic letter from Mrs. Sprague No. 2:. “To the Public: Since Cathei ine Chase has been agitating the removal of her father’s body she has beguiled interim by entertaining reporters with reminis cences and shadowing forth her charms, assuring the public she married Governor Sprague to further her father’s political interests, thus martyring herself on the altar of Mammon. A recent article in a Philadelphia paper has been extensively quoted, purporting to have been an in terview with Mr. Sprague, but which, emanating from the same source as the rest, has demanded in justice to truth and decency a denial in detail. By her own confession, purity, refinement, and all the other instincts of womanhood were warped and blighted when she sold her self to Governor Sprague. Treachery and deeeit were the parents of disloyalty and disunion, from which naturally is sues treason and continual spite. I have felt ever kindly toward her, for her ae tions have given me the love of rhe no blest and grandest of men, and I would only ask of her to hesitate ere she brings into connection with her name what be longs wholly and entirely to another. I do not object to her regaling her friends by expatiating on her personal attrac tions—if she permits her fondness for the antique to carry her to such heights— neither do I object to her reveling in past conquests, if she can find listeners; but I demand that she does not refer to my husband in any form whatever. We ex tend to her our unlimited pity, which she ever and will always command. [Signed] ‘-Inez Sprague.” How to Live Long:. The secret of long life has once again been discovered, this time in Flanders, and, if we read aright the meaning of the announcement now made, there is noth ing to prevent any one from becoming a centenarian, provided he will do as he is told by the erudite Dr. Barggraeve, who professes physic in the University of Client. Not only does the Flemish professor proclaim long life to be a thing attainable in certain circumstances,> but at a rate so cheap that to any one ambi tious of outliving his welcome in the world, it would be folly not to accept the gift. The medicine is not protected by a patent, though the fortunate proprietor might, by selling what most men wish to buy, have grown rich beyond the dreams of avarice. It is no elixr of life, no Cagliostro’s drops, no foun tain ot perpetual youth, such as that which Ponce De Leon sought in Florida and Sir John Mandeville drank of on the shores of Malabar, albeit be digd of ar thritic gout, the miraculous draught not wirhstandingT* Dr. Barggraeve’s medi cine is nothing more than common salt. E tt salt in sufficient quantity, and, so far as years are concerned, there is nothing to prevent any one from becoming a Sir Moses Montefiore or an Old Parr, or even from reaching the age of Thomas Damme, who is said to have died at 154, or of Pe ter Torton, who declared though he did not produce a parish register, that he was close on to 184 the year before he made up his mind to go over to the majority. Salt, the Ghentish doctor affirms, is the great panacea for every ill that flesh is heir to. Good health, it is his opinion, is not a matter of chance or constitution; the laws which regulate human life are very simple, all that we have to do is to take care that they shall develop them selves without obstruction. Salt will ena ble them to do this. If the blood is too rich, salt will purify it. If the blood is too poor, salt will thicken it. Culprits who have been punished by be ing compelled to eat unsalted bread have almost invariably died. The want of salt caused the outbreak of a terrible epi demic in Saxony, and Russian peasants, when threatened by the plague, have saved themselves by putting salt in their milk. Cholera will flee from salt. Con sumption can be mastered by it. Old aee is comparatively powerless in the face of two-thirds of an ounce of solution of chloride a day. Therefore he invites all to swallow his frugal physic, and, if not tired of the world at three-score-and-ten, go on living until centenarians are as common as fools and insurance compa nies are threatened with insolvency by annuitants who continue on the funds to an age for which the actuaries of the past have made no provision. Didn’t Know it Happened. From the Hartford Times. 1 The Boston express, due here at 7:35 last night, was two hours late. About ren miles out of Worcester the express was running through a dense ground fog when the engineer whistled down brakes and stopped the train. He had smelled something unusual and wanted to see what it was. The train men found the whole front end of the engine spattered with blood. Part of a horse with a few pieces of harness and shafts, lay on the cowcatcher. Backing down for about a mile pieces of carriage and harness were found scattered along the track, and final ly, anout ten rods from where a road crossed the line, the passengers found a few lap robes and the body of a buggy on the track. A man was sitting beside them. He had a whip in his pocket, and was dlinking out of a big bottle when the men found him. He didnjt know anything about a smash up,' 'where his horse was, or why he was sitting on the ground, but he did know that he was having a good time, and he didn’t see what anybody wanted to ask him chuckle headed questions for. President Cleveland has had issued the following notice from the White House: “The President finds it absolutely nec essary to the proper performance of pub lic duties that the time between the 10th ot November and the next meeting of Congress should be at his disposal free from interruption. Within this period he will be abliged to deny himself to itors except on actual public business or* importance. This will not be construed to include applications or recommenda tions for office. “This notification is given to the pub lic thus early to dispose in advance of the plea that a trip to Washington has been made in ignorance of the President’s ar rangement. The usual public receptions \% o’clock on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays will be continued.” A Montreal doctor who had an an ac count with a job printer agreed to take his pay in work. After he had had all the printing done that he needed there still remained a balance, and, as his wife was very sick, he decided to have some blank funeral notices struck off with her name on them. He locked them in- his desk, his wife got well and found thenr, and now she talks of cptting a divoreu.