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THE COURANT.
Published Every Thursday,
CARTERS VILLE, GEORGIA.
Official Organ Bartow Connty.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1886.
A heavy snow storm prevailed during
the early part of the week in the north
ern and New England States.
Now let our whole people come to
gether and harmoniously elect a strong,
progressive municipal ticket. Lay aside
long-harbored prejudices for a little
while and give the good old town half a
chance.
Ben. Perry has enlarged his Cherokee
Advance, and is now making it a live
local paper, one that reflects credit on
Ben. and his county. Ben.’s work
shows for itself and the people are not
slow in appreciating it.
When young Joe Brown bought Ken
nesaw mountain several months ago the
public was at a loss to know what he was
going to do with it. From an advertise
ment of the great Kennesaw Route we
see he has set the old thing to music.
Governor John B. Gordon was in
augurated Tuesday and entered at once
upon the duties of his office. Now look
for a live, fair, prosperous administra
tion. His first official act was to sign a
warrant for an olu, disabled Confederate
soldier.
On Saturday and Sunday last, slight
shocks of earthquake tremors were felt
in South Carolina. The motion was said
to be lateral and undulations and the ii
brations were felt for nearly a minute.
Some alarm was created in Columbia and
Charleston, but no damage was done.
The negroes are greatly alarmed at the
repeated shocks.
A new cure for consumption has been
originated by a German doctor. lie
makes his patients pass the night in the
open air of the I’huringian forest, well
wrapped up, and sleeping in light ham
mocks so as to avoid all damp from the
ground. A watchman keeps off all in
truders who might disturb the night’s
rest, and the experiment has proved
wonderfully successful.
A rill has been introduced in the
present legislature to supply dead bodies
to the medical colleges, and making
grave robbing a felony. It is hoped that
the solons will specify as to what are.
dead bodies, as mistakes might occur in
grabbing up men that don’t advertise.
There is not much difference, and it will
be an easy matter to make mistakes un
der such a general law.
The Kennesaw Gazette for November
is an exceptionally fine sheet and reflects
credit upon Col. A. L. Harris, the editor,
and his able assistants. It is a good ad
vertisement of the country through
which the great Kennesaw route travers
es. and will do a power of good. This
section with its manifold attractions and
advantages receive careful attention in
placing them before the
Arthur Orton well known as the
great claimant of the Tichborne title and
estate in England, was arrested and jail
ed in New York Saturday, the 7th Inst.,
upon complaint of the Pension depart
ment at Washington, charged with per
sonating one Charles Curtis, formerly of
a New York regiipent, and attempting to
diaw pension money. Orton was held
in jail in default of $25000 bail.
Dai.ton votes on the waterworks
question Saturday. The town was enter
prising enough to vote for public schools
a few weeks ago, and the election of wa
terworks seems to be a foregone conclu
sion. Dalton and Marietta are whooping
up things and have long ago left the ruts
of discontent and petty bickerings among
their people, and gone to honest hard
work in efforts to build up their towns.
The Georgia Press Association meets
at Valdosta next May and a trip to Cuba
is to be had. When the time comes for
handing out the tickets for this delightful
excursion we expect to see the fourth
estate imposed upon by fellows that don’t
knew a shooting stick from a double
leaded editoiial. Won’t President Ectill
draw the line somew'here as to who are
really entitled to courtesies intended for
newspaper men, and them only ?
CITY AND COUNTRY WEEKLIES.
The Constitution of Sunday has an ar
ticle upon the alleged encroachment of
city weeklies upon the territory of county
papers. The Constitution very properly
says that no fears ought to be entertained
by any properly conducted county paper
altogether printed at home; the com
plaints are generally, if not entirely,
from papers with patent outsides, “filled
with matter three weeks old clipped from
the city weekly and cooked up for rural
consumption.”
A paper that has for its object the up
building and advancement of the com
munity in which it is published and the
good of the county at large, always up
with the fullest and latest news of local
interest, need have no fear whatever of
the competition with the city weeklies.
So far as The Courant is concerned it
interposes no objection to the immense
circulation of the weekly Constitution or
any other weekly, for no other paper
printed beyond the confines ot this coun
ty can, in the nature of things, print
matter that is of especial benefit to local
readers, simply for the reasons that the
same facilities are not offered or obtained
to procuj e the news, and furthermore
city weeklies cannot afford the space, no
"matter how ,ar £ e the P a P er may be ’ to
special town and county matters. It is
a question simple and plain for the farm
er, merchant, lawyer and everybody else
who taker a county paper, to decide
which ?* In every way the best paper pub
lished in n e county and to subscribe for
that paper. Fair competition hurts no
one and with two or more papers pub
lished in the same place, it is nothing
more nor less than the survival of the fit
test.
The city weeklies are as harmless as
“spent shafts against a coat of mail” to a
county paper that has for its foundation
energy, enterprise and a wide-awake sense
of what is news ot local interest.
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lrJ *The CoOtM* office is now next door to
l obtoffioe.
the Goransoks message.
Governor McDaniel’s
legislature was
“ter or a century the Federal govern
“ment Is administered by a I resident for
“whom the vote of the State was cast
The Governor marks the progress of the
people in the elements of mater,al pr<*-
perity throughout the State and ,s
spired with the belief that this progress
is permanent.
Referring to the condition of the
State’s finances, drawn from the Treas
urers report, the following gratifying
showing is found to exist: “Cash bal
ance in the Treasury Oct. 1, 1884, was
$148,200 76; receipts for the year ending
Sept! 60,1885, $1,777,428 16; disburse
ments for the same period $1,441,338 19;
balance Oct. 1, 1885, $484,190 73.
Receipts for the year ending Sept. 30,
1886, were $4,220,130 33; disbursements
during same period $4,453,393 10, leaving
balance, Oct. 1, 1880, $250,927 96.
q’he message calls attention to the fact
that the time has arrived for carrying in
to effect the law requiring the creation of
a sinking fund to pay off and retire the
state bonds not yet matured, and for no
other purpose.
The Governor alludes to the reports of
the various state officers and railroad
commissioners, etc.
Fiona the report of the chief officers of
the penitentiary it is seen that the num
ber of penitentiary convicts on October
20, 1884, was 1,368; received from jail
since, 777, making a total of 2,145. Of
this number 493 have have been discharg
ed, 57 have escaped, and 68 died; total
GlB, leaving on the rollg of the peniten
tiary October 1, 1886,1,527.
Under the head of “Department of Ag
riculture,” the Governor says:
“The net amount realized as fee3 for
the inspection of fertilizers is $75,500.
This is a decrease of nearly $5,000 from
the amount received into the treasury
from the same source during the season
of 1884 5, and is doubtless due in part to
the determination of the farmers of
Georgia to utilize the means of fertiliza
tion which with proper care may Le
found at home.”
Reference is made in the report to a
former recommendation to the General
Assembly to amend the law relating to
the inspection and analysis of fertilizers.
The views of the Commissioner on this
subject are again expressed and your at
tention is respectfully invited to them.
The report shows that proper attention
has been given to the several subjects
connected with the Department of Ag
riculture. Satisfactory results have fol
lowed the distribution of seeds, and the
efforts of the Fish Commissioners to
stock the waters of the state with fish
have been rewarded with reasonable
success.
The Commissioner repeats the recom
mendation made for the establishment of
an experimental station for the benefit
of agriculture. In my last biennial mes
sage to the General Assembly a similar
recommendation was made. The farm
ers of Georgia, represented by the State
Agricultural Society, have made repeated
demands that a portion of the money col
lected from their peculiar calling should
be devoted to the improvement of agri
culture.
More tnaTi
year from the charge of fertilizers —paid,
of course, by the consumers on the far ms.
Without discussing this tax, it would
seem that the request made for the appli
cation of part of the revenue derived
therefrom for the benefit of agriculture
is not unreasonable.
On the subject of education he says:
“The enrollment of white scholars in
1885 was 190,346; colored, 119,248. The
average attendance in 1885 was 209.184,
which was an increase over the preced
ing year of 14,149.
“The amount raised by the state for
common school purposes in 1885 was
$506,328 08, which was in excess of the
amount raised in 1882, $40,519 73. Tbe
aggregate of the school fund for 1886
cannot yet be determined wfih accuracy,
as the sum to be derived from poll tax is
is unknown.
There was appropriated to schools in
1885 by cities and counties, under local
laws, $209,463 49, so that the entire
amount available for school purposes
last year was $15,791 57. This gives an
average per capita on enrollment of sl,-
407, and an average attendance of $3,-
421.”
The report of the Trustees of the State
University indicate a prosperous year in
all the branches of the University.
Referring to the lunatic asylum, the
Governor says: “The report of the trus
tees and officers of the Lunatic Asylum
stows that on October 1,1855, there were
in the institution 1,237 patients. Of
these 892 were while and 345 colored.
There has been received during the year
ending October 1, 1886, 274 white and
117 colored, making a total of 391. Dis
charged, removed, returned to counties,
and died during the year, white and
colored, 390—leaving in the asylum Oct.
I, 1,238. The average number in treat
ment during the year was 1,237; whole
number receiving treatment 1,628. Daily
cost of each patient, 33%c,”
He also recommends that the appi-o
priation for the support of the asylum
asked for by the trustees, $175,000, per
annum for 1887 and 1888, be made.
Concluding a long reference to the
Marietta and North Georgia railroad, the
Governor says: “Pending executive ac
tion in the final settlement between the
state and company, I was informed by
the treasurer that a bill had been filed in
the Supeiior Court of Cobb county, by
J. P. Harrison, and a citizen of the state,
against the company and the treasurer,
to test the constitutionality of the resolu
tion cf October 1, 1885, and to restrain
the treasurer from delivering and the
company from receiving its bonds. This
bill was sanctioned by the Hon. J. C.
Fain, Judge of the Cherokee Circuit,
with the usual restraining order, and an
order gianted requiring the defendants to
show cause on Nov. Bth, inst., why the
injunction piayed for should not be
granted.
“Satisfied that it was my duty to car
ry into effect the resolution, an executive
order was issued on October 2, 1886, de
claring that the company, having com
plied with the terms of the resolution,
was entitled to the surrenderor its bonds,
and that the same should be surrendered
and cancelled upon the filing of the
company’s release, as provided in the
resolution whenever the restraining
order hen inbeforfe mentioned shall be
revoked.
W hilst the treasurer is charged with
no duty by the resolution in reference to
this matter, he is the head of one branch
of the Executive Department. The
courtesy due from the Executive to the
Judiciary, a c>-orJinate branch of the
Sißte government, induced me to suspend
the execution of the order until the in
junction shall be dissolved.”
Mentioning the pressing needs of a
system of savings banks in the state, he
says: “In this connection the laws re
“lating to hanks and bankers should be
“revised so as to subject the books, ac
“counts and assets to personal examina
tion by a state official charged with that
“duty. The time may not be distant
“when state hanks will be permitted to
“issue bills for circulation, and provision
“should be made to commend them to
“public confidence.”
The Governor speaks in complimentary
terms of the effiehnjy of the volunteer
military, organizations of the state.
In concluding his message the Gov
ernor says: “Georgia deservedly holds a
“high rank amongst the states of the
“Union. Extent of territory, variety
“and salubrity of climate, abounding
“resources of soil, timber and minerals,
“and increasing population, in them
selves woull not be sufficient to give
“the state such rank if the government
“had been unfaithfully or unwisely ad
“ministered. It may be truthfully said
“of our various state, county and mu
nicipal officials that they have been
“reasonably zealous in the discharge of
“their duty.”
A PROGRESSIVE PARTY.
A movement is taking shape in Car
tersville to put forward at the next mu
nicipal election a progressive ticket for
mayor and aldermen of this town, and
the idea of calling a mass meeting to be
held in the opera house some time early
next week for the purpose of nominating
men for the offices of mayor and alder
men who are endowed with a spirit of
progress and who will exercise energy
and enterprise in the procurement for
tills town of every facility for its pro
gress and good lias been determined
upon. The idea, which has been pretty
freely ventilated in town, looks to the
election of young, progressive and clear
headed men at the head of our municipal
affairs; negative men and men who are
afraid to branch out into untried enter
prises are to bo ignored, no matter what
their personal popularity or following
may have been or may be. The ties of
blood relationship or clannish affiliation,
will not be permitted to play any part in
the selection of men to control the town
aflairs.
From information obtained the objects
of the progressive movement is to elect
such town officials who will pledge them
selves to use their best efforts to obtain
waterworks for the town, a system of free
schools and the prosecution of a railroad
from this point to Gainesville to rapid
completion. These improvements are
such as will commend themselves to ev
ery live, wide-awake, energetic man in
the community. The water works idea
is one of almost paramount importance
and is entirely practical. The rate of in
surance on property would be reduced at
least one-half by having a system of wa
terworks, to say nothing of the vast im
provement to property and convenience
to householders. S Q veral plans are spo
ken of in this connection. One is to
have the reservoir somewhere up in the
neighboring mountains, run the mains
down through some of the manganese
beds into the city. The fall would be
sufficient to throw a strong stream into
any part of the town from water plugs
placed judiciously. Besides the great
saving in risk and insurance the income
and revenue to the city from such water
works would be large. The principal
main3 could be tapped and water convey
ed into every house; the water could be
sent through smaller pipes into the ore
beds from which a profitable revenue
could be obtained; the W. &A. railroad
now pays about SI,OOO per annum for
water at Rogers station and the East and
West pays something like S4OO per an
num for the water It obtains near here.
These two roads would undoubtedly use
the water from the water works should
they be built, which would be an addi
uoi.ai income of value. Independent of
all this the fact of water works in a town
always places it upon a splendid basis for
inviting settlers and capital.
As to public schools the idea is to put
in thorough repair the colored school
house and run that with one or two other
schools on the free school plan. Of
course the public schools would only
reach a certain grade, to be determined,
and would not affect the college or pri
vate school enterprises.
The railroad to Gainesville has ben
written of and spoken of so much that it
is a familiar subject in this community,
and its importance cannot be too highly
estimated.
The point is, as b fore stated, to get
men who will run on this progressive
platform to handle the interests of Car
tersville. There can be no object or good
in delaying improvements here, for if
they are to be made at all, and if Car
tersville ever purposes competing with
her sister towns in the State, it is high
time that something real and tangible
was being done to improve the material
and internal resources of the community.
It is therefore earne'tly hoped that the
whole voting population of the toivn will
turn olu when the call is made and unite
on men of the right calibre and quality
who will carry out the wishes of the com
munity as to progress and improvement.
It w 7 ill be made known perhaps in th? 8
issue of The Courant when the mass
meeting will occur.
The New York Sun says a Georgian
who forty years and four months ago
bought a clock that has been steadily run
ning since, figures out that it has been
running fourteen thousand seven hun
dred and twenty days, three hundred and
fifth-thousand two hundred and eighty
hours, twenty-one million one hundred
and ninety-six thousand eight hundred
minutes, one billion two hundred and
seventy-one million eight hundred and
eighty thousand seconds, fn winding up
the clock his hand has traveled fitty-six
miles. The clock has struck two million
two hundred and ninety-six thousand
three hundred and twenty times, and
ticked one billion two hundred and sev
enty-one million eight hundred and
eighty thousand time3.
A STIR IN HIGH CIRCLES.
The Constitution of Sunday created a
flurry of excitement in this com
munity, by publishing an attack on
Judge Fain end W. R. Rmkin, of Gor
don county. George R. Eager and
J. A. Bisaner, lately of Boston, swears
that these gentlemen accepted lobbying
fees in getting bills through the Georgia
legislature to secure the use of Georgia
material in the new capitol in
stead of oolitic limestone. The state
ments of these fellows caused some com
ment, but with those that knew Judge
Fain well did not put in credence in the
charges. Below we print cards from
both Judge Fain and Mr. Rankin. The
legislature will look into the matter very
early, we are informed, and the conclu
sions of the investigating committee is
anxiously looked forward to.
FROM JUDGE j. C. FAIN.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 9th, 1886.
Editors Courant:
I enclose slip with a card from myself
and one from W. F. Rankin, published
in the Constitution of this morning, and
which I desire published in your paper,
together with this letter. I desire that,
especially those of mv immediate sec
tion, who have known me from child
hood, know something of the dirty in
wardness of the scheme of the Boston
thief, George R. Eiger, and his misera
ble tool, J. A. Bisaner. In addition to
what I have said in my card above re
ferred to, I have this to say that many of
the best cuizens of the State who know
this miserable creature Bisaner, tell me
that they would not believe him on
oath. That in addition to being prose
cuted for perjury, he has been arraigned
and fined in Jasper Superior court for
indecent proposals to and using obscene
and vulgar language to a respectable
lady. The many acts of this man,
George R. Eager, will, when developed
and made public, show that he has made
his advent into Georg:a for spoils and to
oppress the tax-payers and nothing else.
Publish this and the enclosed cards in
vour present issue. J. C. Fain.
A CARD FROM JUDGE FAIN.
The lollowing card from Judge J. C.
Fain was received yesterday, and is pub
lished with pleasure, and will he read
with interest:
Atlanta, Ga , November 9th, 1886.
Editors Constitution—l see in the Consti
tution of this morning an affidav.it over
the signature of J. A Bisaner, in which
he swears that I received money from
General William Phillips for lobbying
for Georgia material for the new capitol,
and against the use of oolitic limestone;
that General Phillips paid Hon. W. R.
Rankin and myself money, in his pres
ence, Phillips receiving the same from
James P. Harrison. I desire to say em
phatically, that this affidavit of J. A.
Bisaner, so far as lam concerned, is
most wickedly, wilfully and maliciously
false, as will be testified by each and all
of the gentlemen mentioned in its affida
vit. Ido not know of my own knowl
edge, but am informed that said J. A.
Bisaner is now under prosecution for
pegury in one of the counties of the
Blue Ridge circuit. I know nothing of
the transactions mentioned by Mr. George
R. Eager in his interview further than
my official conduct goes as a judge of the
Superior court. In the two cases which
have been before me, and in which the
Marietta & North Georgia railroad com
pany has been a defendant, 1 have de
cided on the healing in favor of the com
pany. In the first case my jurisdiction
of the last case I transferred to the
United States court, and my action was
affirmed by the Supreme court of the
State of Georgia. I refused to take ju
risdiction of the case so soon as
Judge Brown made affidavit that he was
not qualified, though one of tbe sworn
allegations in the hill was that Judge
Brown was personally interested in the
subject matter of the suit and disqualifi
ed. My official and private conduct is
open to a full investigation by every citi
zen of the State of Georgia.
J. C. Fain.
MR. RANKINGS CARD.
Calhoun, Ga , November 7th, 1886.
Editor Cotistitution: That it may appear
in your Monday morning’s issue, I have
only time to say in reference to the
charges made in the affidavit of J. A.
Bisaner in to-day’s paper, that so far as
t hey relate to me, they are false—willful,
wicked and malicious lies.
I cannot conceive the motive that
prompted such an assault upon me. I
never, in a long legislative career, reeeiv.
ed one dollar from any source that was
not honestly and justly got—never one
cent corruptly.
To his other sin*, I unqualifiedly say,
Bisaner has added the sin and crime cf
perjury. W”. R. Rankin.
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An uproar exists at LaCrosse, Wiscon
sin, on account of the enforcement of the
Sunday laws. Not only have the saloons
been closed, but telegraph and telephone
companies were compelled to suspend
operations, and milk and bakers’ wagons
were stopped. Even the paid choir sing
ers in churches must stand the risk of
prosecution.
Robert A. Graynor, colored, was last
w r eek sentenced to be hanged at Sr. Louis,
December 20th, for the murder of Win.
Evans. This makes the fiifth time sen
tence of death has been passed upon
Graynor. It is likely, however, that he
will hang now.
Monday the legislature eleettd Hon.
John W. Maddox, of Chattooga county,
Judge of Rome circuit, defeating the
present incumbent, Judge Branham, by
a small majority.
An Assurance of Incorruptible Integrity.
The presence of Genl’s. G. T. Beaure
gard of La., and Jubal A. Early of Va.,
at the drawings of the Louisiana State
Lottery Company, in entire charge, is
regarded as a guarantee of absolute fair
ness and integrity. Any advertisement
or offer t<J guarantee any partiality would
expose the cloven hoof of the swindler.
Remember that the next (the 199th
Grand Monthly and the Extraordinary
Quarterly; Drawing takes place on Dec.
14th, when over half a million of dollars
will go Hying about the world, trying to
fali into some one’s pocket. For any in
formation address M. A. Dauphin, New
Orleans, La. Sure you are tight, go
ahead!
Pametto, 6a., Sept, 24,1881.
I certify that on the 19th of September 1 com
menced giving my child, 20 months old, Smith
Worm Oil, and the following day 23 worms were
oxpelled from 4 to 10 inches long,
inch 18 W ' LONt “
If you want nice fruit always go to
Wylie Bbidoes, Bank Block.
MB. J. A. BAKERS BEPLY TO MR, F.
M. DI RHAM.
To tue Editors of thk Com ant:
In to-day’s A meriean I notice a communica
tion signed by Mr. Durham, Clerk of the Supe i
or Court, which when taken in connection with
the certificate which forms a part of the article,
is a very remarkable document for two reasons.
First, it is remarkable for what U says, and
secondly, it is very remarkable for what it leaves
unsaid.
>lr. Durham, together with the jury commis
sioners, have recorded in the Ordinary's ofliee an
oath of which the lollowinz is a copy: “Y'ou
shall faithfully and impartially discharge the
duty of jury commissioners for the county of
Bartow, in accordance with the constitution of
this state, to the best of your skill and knowl
edge, and the deliberations and counsel of the
jury commissioners, while m the discharge of
their duties, you shall forever keep secret and
inviolate, unless called upon to give evidence
thereof in some court of justice or other legal
tribunal of this state, so help you God.” The
oath of Mr. Durham as to secrecy is exactly that
of the commissioners. In view of this oath and
the following section of the Act approved Sept.
26th, 1883, to-wit:
Sec. 11l That in case any jury commissioner or
clerk of the superior court shall wilfully and in
tentionally violate the terms of his said oatn,
such person shall be guilty of the offense of
false swearing, and on conviction shall be pun
ished by imprisonment and labor in the peniten
tiary of this state for not less than one year nor
longcr.than five years. The disclosures made
in the article of Mr. Durham above referred to i
indeed remarkable.
Now, as to the article being remarkable for
what it leaves unsaid. A witness when sworn
in court is sworn to tell the truth and the whole
truth. A jury would necessarily make a very
erroneous verdict did it not have the whole truth
before it. For example, if the witnesses on the
trial of a man for murder were to he allowed
only to state that they saw John Doe shoot and
kill Richard Roe. The jury with only this tes
timony before it would he compelled to find
John Doe guilty of some degree of homicide.
But if in connection with the above testimony
the witnesses were permitted to state that while
they did see John Doe shoot and kill Richard
Roe, he did not do so until Richard Roe had,
with a drawn dagger, chased John Doe for half
a mile to the wall, swearing every- step that he
would kill him, the verdict then would be quite
a different one. Mr. Durham says “I leave the
matter to a generous public to decide.” Before
doing so the public should, like the jury, have
the whole truth, ami not a partial statement of
it.
Mr. Durham did not slate that during the July
term of the court, when Judge Fain asked if
there were any appointments of jury commis
sioners to be made, lie was informed that there
were none. Judge Fain, if he had been correct
ly informed, would have had ample time to con
sider well his appointment and would doubtless
have made appointments which would have
given general satisfaction, and .whose labors
would have been attended with quite a different
result.
Mr. Durham did not state that the old com
missioners met on the 11th nay of August aud
proceeded to revise the jury boxes, but ascer
tained that the term of service of two of the
commissioners had expired ami that another
w s inelligible because lie had been elected one
of the County Commissioners. This discovery
was made after the list had been canvassed aud
agreed upon.
Mr. Durham did not state that ho and the
parties present, the jury commissioners, agreed
that those commissioners whose terms of ofliee
had expired should be reappointed because
Capt. Dobbs was inelligible, they agreed upon
Mr. Corbin. Mr. Durham sought Mr. John 11.
Wikle, and got him to draft the order appoint
ing the men thus agreed upon and went and
telegraphed Judge Fain and met Judge Fain on
the train in this city as he passed through and
upon his personal assurance to Judge Fain that
the men whose appointmont he then held in his
hand were agreed upon and would give satisfac
tion, and then and there induced Judge Fain to
sign in pencil the prepared order. He fails also
to state that Judge Fain says that one of the
men appointed would never have been appoint
ed but for Mr. Durham’s assurances.
Mr. Durham then notified his men and they
again met on the 17th of August, and after tak
ing the oath recanvassod the jury list and made
up the boxes.
Here the curtain falls, we don’t know what
they did or what they said. Mr. Durham would
have “a generous public” to believe that while
the list of jurymen was being prepared he set up
there like an Egyptian Mummy, said nothing
and did nothing. In his article he fails to re
member that on the back-stairway of the court
house he told the writer he furnished certain in
formation to the commissioners as to who were
the jurymen who had rendered certain verdicts
He fails to remember and state that in the hard
ware house of Baker & Hall he told W. C. Baker
that the commissioners did consult with him re
garding certain parties who he knew ind they
did not, and that they would frequently so con
sult him.
One of the jury commissioners who signed
the certificate fails to remember that he told
Wm. A. Chunn in Cassville that Mr. Durham
was consulted about the fitness of certain gen
tlemen for the jury box.
Out of about four thousand voters in the coun
ty, we have the paltry number of one hundred
and twenty-three in the grand jury box. We
know that men who entertain political views
have been very liberally selected from, and men
who entertain different political views have
been almost entirely rejected. We know that
men were rejected because they were on a jury
that rendered a verdict which did not meet the
approval of the commissioners. We know that
some of the very best men in the county have
been thrown entirely out of the jury box aud a
great number reduced from grand to traverse
jurors, and all this done under the very nose of
Mr. Durham without, according to his article, a
single protest on his part, and according to his
statements heretofore upon consultation with
him. If the public tolerates for one minute the
manner in which Mr. Durham secured the ap
pointment of the jury commissioners and the
complexion they have given the jury boxes it is
indeed and in truth what Mr. Durham terms it,
“a generous public,” too generous indeed for its
own good.
why should Mr. Durham have failed to give
all this information it he did not know that it
was damning to Ins candidacy? Mr. Durham
and his tribunal have passed adversely upon the
uprightness and intelligence of a large majority
of the voters of this county and if In this judg
ment Mr. Durham shall lie supported by the very
men upon whom he has thus passed adversely.
I am very much deceived by the voters of
Bartow county.
lu conclusion I desire to say to the young men
of the county that to be placed in the jury box is
a recognition by the authorities of the state of
your uprightness and intelligence which you
have a right to demand, and I further say to
your fathers that it is a recognition which they
should help you to secure. If tho young men are
not upright and intelligent the fathers must
share their part of the reproach. Ido not mean
to he understood as saying that any name in the
jury box ought not to he there, but I do say you
ought to lie there and others ought to lie there
with you. Truly, J. A. Baker.
'TdCinaCordial
CURES
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WEAKNESS, CHILLS AND FEVERS,
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FALL GJ- OOI> S > O W IIV .
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exquisite stock of imported Lyons Dress Velvets and Novelties ever shown in tho city.
WOOLEN DRESS GOODS IMPORTED
In immense quantities and endless variety. In English Serges, Sattin, Sulahs, Drab D’Almas, Henriettas, Crepe Cloth, Mmrose C lotlis, C-uit 1 H >
Theresa, Venetian, Convent Cloth, Raven'a, Nun’s Serge, etc.
OTJXt DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT
Is again enlarged ami is now double original size to accommodate our immense trade in imported goods. And not only >** j* r J. J'*.® I?, 1 '’ 1 *
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BOOTS AND SHOES
For everybody in all the new styles. Everv pair made to order and to lit comfortably, as we have every size for men, ladies, misses, boys and children,
n all the widths as well as engtTh „
CARPETS, CARPETS
Imported direct, 3-4,4-4 aud 0-4 goods in the very best grades, with rugs and draperies to match each and every shade, KTf. 1 }* and
to our 6-4 English Brussels and Velvets, each piece woven toruS; also our Administers, Monquettea and Wilton s, with an immense stoc k of in
grains, Napiers, Hemps. Linoleums, etc., all bought from headquarters. Wo can and will save you money if you want good “txi*
for vou to see ourstoek and price with us before placing your orders. We are the ONLY agents in the city for the celebrated C ROssLY A ONs
English Carpets, and we have just opened the largest stock of S-4, 6-4 fine goods, shipped direct to us from their factory mEngland, sver shown in
the south. These beautiful goods all have rugs and draperies to match. Remember there is iro middleman to divide no instance ui
a customer get old styles, for every piece is woven for us in new designs. See these magnificent beauties and if you w ant good goods you u ill hat t
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GRASSDALE GOSSIP.
BY PEREGRINE.
Since iny last Jack Frost lias laid his
withering hand heavily upon vegetation,
nature around us is donning a different
colored robe and getting ready to go into
winter quarters. Did any one ever see
lot o :er wah r ? We c-a i hardly realize
that summer has gone, and that winter
with her chilling blasts will soon over
take ns, but such is the undoubted fact,
and all should profit bv the biuer experi
ence of the last two winters and prepare
for emergencies.
Miss Allcen Best spent a week
at the home of Dr. Battle,
with his daughter, Sh.ll le May.
We all enjoyed her vi-it. Hope she
will repeat it soon. Especially as we miss
the daily training of old Tom, by two
beautiful young ladies. Had you com
menced sooner the doctor could have en
tered Tom as a trottf rat the State Fair.
Mr. T. F. Jeffries of Smyrna, but orig
inally from the Valley of Virginia,
came among us the first of the month.
VY e hope he will spend some time with us,
for he is such good company. Seems
like one of the family to the whole neigh
borhood, and it carries us back to dear
Old Virginia, to talk over old times
with him.
Our people are beginning to appear
in their new winter apparel. The young
ladies look more charming than ever, if
possible, the new styles are so becoming
to them. Some of the boys are sporting
dei by hats, all they now lack is the cane
to make them dudes.
J i m W ceres is su fticiently recovered to ride out.
Will Rowland is able to stir out a little.
John C. Hilburn is a candidate for Alderman
from the Second Ward. nov4-3t
Freshest groceries in town. Free de
livery. Wylie Bridges.
V. M. C. A, Business Meeting.
All members of the Y. M. C. A are requested
t assemble at their rooms Friday evening, 12th
inst., at 7 p.m. This is an important meeting.
There Is much to be done and the officers earn
estly desire a full attendawse.
John H. Wikle, Pres.
NOTES FROM KINGSTON.
Interesting Pointers from the “Forks of
the Road.”
Mrs. Rogers has returned from Cass
Station, where she has been spending
the last month.
Mr. D. S. Colbert, of Cedartown, has
been spending some time here. He says
the marriage fever has struck Kingston,
and he has come here prospecting.
Mr. Geo. Harris is flying around town
in a handsome top buggy behind a fiery
steed.
Mrs. A. Y. Sheats has bought the
Couche house, and will hereafter run it
herself. This alone speaks success for
the house.
Rev. James England preached his last
sermon here last Sunday, which was the
finest effort of the whole year. That
speaks wonders.
The social event of last week was the
birthday dinner given by Mr. J. B.
Eubanks. Miss Carlisle, sister of Mr.
Eubank’s wife, of Cassville, was married
to Mr. Crow of Crow’s Springs, the
day before, and Mr. Eubanks tendered
them a reception at the same time, and
was a grand success and all present can
bear testimony with the writer.
An occasional jug from Rome gives
our town council business, otherwise
they would hardly ever have a session.
The farmers are in a hard place, they
don’t know what to wish for. If it don’t
rain they can’t sow wheat, if it does rain
it will hurt the cotton.'
We are glad indeed to see Mr. W, A.
Gillam improving so much in health.
Curious Facts.
From the Philadelphia News. |
Twenty-nine postmasters earned less
than a dollar each last year.
The Pasteur institute fund, Paris, has
reached the sum of 1,442,000 francs.
The slave trade is being carried on in
the Persian gulf with great activity at
the present time.
“At present,” writes a vi-itor to the
island of St. Kilda, “whistling is strictly
forbidden here.”
At Chimapia in Mexico the other day a
hill was split in two by some mysterious
subterranean force.
A farmer near Greenfield, S. C., has
10,000 pecan trees, from which he this
year secured a large quantity of nuts.
A remarkably rich gold mine is re
ported to have been discovered in a bear’s
den in the Coeur d’ Alene country. # The
mine is called the Biack Bear.
At Reno, Nev., the boys follow ant
fighting for sport. A shovelful cf ants
Irom one hill dumped among those of
another colony will always fight to the
death.
tiH! MY BACK
Every strain or cold attacks that weak back
and nearly prostrates you.
FMmWi
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1I if TME^
W B BEST TONIC
Strengthens the Muscles,
Steadies the Nerves,
Enriches the Blood, Gives New Vigor.
Dr. J. L. Myibs, Fairfield, lowa, says:
“ Brown’s Iron Bitters is the t>est Iron medicine I
have known in my 8U years’ practioe. I have foana it
specially beneficial in nervous or physical exhaustion,
and in all debilitating ailments that bear so heavily
on the system. Use it freely in my own family
Mb, W. F. Beown, 637 Main St., Covington Ky..
says: “I was completely broken down in health ana
troubled with pains in my hack Brown a Iron
Bitters entirely restored me to health.
Genuine has above Trade Mark and crossed red lines
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BKOWJI t'WEMiMi CV-, BAWLMVWS, ,%U>.
Catarrh
Is a constitutional disease, caused by scrofu
lous taint in the blood. Hood’s Sarsaparilla,
being a constitutional remedy, purifies the
blood, builds up the whole system, and per
manently cures catarrh. Thousands of people
who suffered severely with this disagreeable
disease, testify with pleasure that catarrh
Can be
cured by taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Mrs.
Alfred Cunningham, Fallon Avenue, Provi
dence, R. 1., says: “I have suffered with
catarrh in my head for years, and paid out
hundreds of dollars for medicines, but have
heretofore received only temporary relief. I
began to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and now
my catarrh is nearly cured, the weakness of
my body is all gone. My appetite is good—in
fact, I feel like another person. Hood’s Sar
saparilla is the best medicine I have ever
taken, and the only one which did me perma
nent good. I cordially recommend it.” A
gentleman in Worcester, Mass., who was
Cured
Of catarrh by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, says: " I
would not take any moneyed consideration
lor the good one bottle did me.” If you are
a sufferer, do not put off taking a simple
remedy till your bronchial tubes or lungs are
affected, and consumption has gained a hold
upon you. Be wise in time I That flow from
the nose, ringing noise In the ears, pain in the
head, inflammation of the throat, cough, and
nervous prostration will bo cured if you take
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Bold by all druggists, fl; six for $5. Prepared
ky C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
100 Dopes Ono Dollar
CAPITAL PRIZE, S 75,000
Tickets only $5. Shares in Proportion.
■ -
CAPITAL PRIZE, $ 150,000.
“YVe do hereby certify that we supervise the
arrangements for all the Monthly and Quarterly
Drawings of The Louisiana State Lottery Com
pany, and in person manage and control the
Drawings themselves, and that the same are
conducted with honesty, fairness, and in good
faith toward all parties, and wc authorize the
Company to use this certificate, with fac similes
of our signatures attached, in its advertise
ments.”
Commissioners.
We the undersigned Banks and Bankers will
pay all Prizes drawn in The Louisiana State
Lotteries which may be presented at our coun
ters.
J. H. OGLESBY, Pres. Louisiana Nat’l Bk
J.W. KILBRETH, Pres. State Nat’l Bk
A. BALDWIN, Pres. New Orleans Nat’l Bk.
Ilapreceileiitei Atraction!
u OVER HALF A MILLION DISTRIBUTED.
Louisiana State* Lottery Company.
Incorparated in 1868 for 25 years by the Legis
lature for Educational and Charitable purposes
—with a capital of *1,000,000 —to which a reserve
fund of over $550,000 has since been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its fran
chise was made a part of the present State Con
stitution adopted December 2d. A. D„ 1879.
Its Grand Single Number Drawings will
take place monthly. It never scales or post
pones. Look at the following Distribution:
199th Grand Monthly
AND THE
Extraordinary Quarterly Drawing
In the Academy of Music, New Orleans,
Tuesday, December 14, 1886.
Under tire personal supervision and manage
* ment of
GENERAL G. T. BEAUREGARD, oi Louisiana, ana
GENERAL JUBAL A. EARLY, of Virginia.
Capital Prize, S 75,000.
100,000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each.
Fractious, in Fifths iu Proportion.
LIST OF PRIZES.
1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF $150,000. .$150,001
IGR AND PRIZE OF 50.000 . 50,(00
1 GR AND PRIZE OF 20.000 . 20,000
2 LARGE PRIZES OF 10,000.. 20,000
4 LARGE PRIZES OF 5,000 . 20,000
20 PRIZES OF 1,000.. 20,000
'SO “ 500.. 25 000
100 “ 80C.. 30,000
200 “ 200.. 40.000
600 “ 100 . 60,000
1,000 “ 50.. 50,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
100 Approximation Prizes Of $200.. $20,000
100 “ “ 100.. 10,000
100 “ “ 75.. 7,500
2,279 Prizes, amounting to ’ $522,544)
Application for rates to clubs should lie made
only to the office of the Company in New Or
leans.
For further information write clearly, giving
full address. POSTAL NOTES,Express Mon
ey orders, or New York Exchange in ordinary
letter. Currency by Express (at our expense)
addressed M. A DAUPHIN,
New Orleans, La.,
or M. A. DAUPHIN,
Washington, D. C.
Mate P- 0- Money Orders payable \
and address Registered letters to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK,
New Orleans, La.
PHYSICIANS AND DRUGGISTS RECOMMEND IT.
De-lec-ta-lave.
Many persons lose their teeth by the
destruction of the means of their support
—the absorption of the gums and sockets
caused bv the presence of tartar. Use
Deleotalave with a soft brush and pre
vent the accumulation of tartar. For
sale by all duggists.
lliickleu’s Arnica Salve.
The best salve in the world for cuts
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tetter chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all akin eruptions, and posi-
It'is guaranteed e f’ n °
It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac
tion, or money refunded. Price 25e ner
box. For sale by nw. Curry P
Itch, Prairie Mange and Scratches of
every kind cured in 80 minutes bv Wood
ford's Sanitary Lotion
This never fails. Sold by ° ° ther ’
F. M. Word,
r tv -. Carter sville, Ga.
• Mayson & Cos.,
Kingston, Ga.
A. Fair Division.
Harper’s Bazar.]
“Joe, we’ll have to give up our bache
lor quarters.”
“All right, Jack.”
“You bought the stove, didn’t you,
Joe?”
“Yes, Jack.”
“1 paid for having the hole cut in the
chimney.”
“You did, my boy.”
“Well, there's nothing like a fair di
v sion. i’ll take the stove ami you take
tike the hole.”
Not the Heavenly Kind.
They had been quarreling, and she was
railing against marriage.
But, my l ive,” expostulated her hus
band, “marriage is made in heaven.”
“I don’t care if it is,” she snapped.
“It isn’t made for home consumption,
and they ship it down to earth just as
soon as they can fill the orders.”
Hides Wanted.
The Highest Cash Priee paid for Hides by
It. L. Jones,
Main St., next to Norris’ Warehouse.
Despair.
Young Ilusbind (to wife) —Didn’t I
telegraph you not to bring your mo her
with you.
Young wife —I know. That’s what
*he wants to see you about. She read
ihe telegram.
The only girl on record as having
eloped with a circus clown is Miss Delia
Grubbs, of Cincinnati. Instead of paint
ing her own, she will have to paint her
husband’s face, and may expect to have
a perfect treasure in him when it comes
to amusing the baby.
CLOSING OUT!
Attention One and All.
For reasons. I do not deem necessary to dis
close, I will by the FIRST DAY OF JANU
ARY', 1887, closeout my entire stock of goods
consisting of Notions, Glassware and Tinware.
In that time 1 give you a chance to decide the
all important questio'n : Shall I buy goods uow
that I need at half price, or shall I w T ait until
after Christmas and pay twice or three times as
much? Kind reader you have a head of your
own. Nature has been very kind ana endowed
you with good reasoning faculties, and you know
I have been among you long enough for you to
find out that lam no humbug. Ask your neigh
bor what they bought at the Ten Cent Store,
and if they were humbuged. Now with all or
your good reasoning faculties and intellect that
nature has so lavishly bestowed upon you grasp
the idea that I now wish to present to yon in ah
its force and truthfulness. Are you going to tot
such chances which do not occur every cay
slip by unnoticed? People, look to your in
terest, do not let this opportunity pass. Rest
assured that no one else will put up here that
will be as ready to divide the profit as I have
been and am now. The TEN CENT STORE
will soon be a thing of the past, and you will
think of all this when you have to pay a quarter
for an article that I will now sell you for ten
cents. Do not put off coming to the TEN CENT
STORE until next month, but come now and
get first choice. There is no use in my multiply
ing words, an unprecedented amount of my
cash sales is a sufficient guarantee of the truth
fulness of my statement that I sell gooda cheap
er than the cheapest. Hoping to have an earlv
and repeated visit lo the TEN CENT Si’oßE I
will wind up by saying that a word to the wise
is sufficient. I remain yours for fair dealing.
L. A. DOZIER.
Amufii
Moat of the disease# which afflict mankind are origin
ally caused by a disordered condition of the LIV ER.
For all complaint* of this kind. #nch as Torpidity of
the liver, Biliousness, Nervon# Dyspepsia. Indigee.
tton. Irregularity of the Bowels, Constipation. Flatu
lency, Eructations and Burning of the Stomach
(sometimes called Heartburn), Miasma Malaria.
Bioody Fiux ChiUs and Fever. Breakbone Fover.
Exhaustion before or after Fevers, Chronic Diar
rhoea. Loes of Appetite. Headache, Foul Breath.
Irregularities incidental to Females Bearing H
SftS£SIUGEirS miRUMU
is Invaluable. It is not a panacea fn * -ti "Jl-....
CURE oii2 B . a J?® So,th6 LIVER,
STOMACH and BOWELS.
It changes the complexion from a waxy yellow
tinge, to a ruddy, healthy color. It entirely
low. gloomy spirits. It is one of the BEST^L.
n| E rtftr ,VES Bnd PUR,F, ERS OF THE
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STADICER’S AURANTII
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