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VOL II.—NO. 4(5.
Bartow Sheriffs Sales.
ITTFILL HE SOLD BEFORE THE COURT
\ V House door in Cartersville, Bartow county
Georgia, on the
First Tuesday in January, 1887,
between the legal sale hour*, *;o the highest bid
der. the following described property, to-wit:
lads of land numbersflCS, 737,777, 778,779,84/0, 805,
701,705, 790 and parts of lots numbers 733, 731,
735, 851, 852, 853, 894,781, 780—the whole of
said lots and parts of lots comprising the
place formerly known as the Hr. H. M. Young
place, and bounded by the Etowah River and
Petits Creek, and the lands of Xliomas If. Baker,
John S. Leake and J. W. Harris, Jr., and now in
possession of P, M. B. Young as executor of R.
\1 Young, deceased, all in the 4th district
and 3rd section of Bartow county,
Georgia. Levied on and will! be sold as
the property of the estate of R. M. Young, de
ceased, in the hands of P. M. B. Young,executor,
to lc administered to satisfy one Bartow Supe
rior Court fi. fa. in favor of .James M. Neel, re
ceiver of Lewis Tumhn’s estate vs. P. M. B.
Young as executor of R. M. Young, dec’d. $7,46.
Also at the same time and place, one house and
lot in Mechanic sville, Bartow county, Georgia,
containing one acre, more or less, bon tided east
ward by an alley octweeu this lot and the Teague
lot, northward by Jonas Thomas’ lot, westward
by Louisa Moore, southward by W. & A. R. R.
Levied on and will be sold as the property of
Robert Thomas and Katie Thomas to satisfy one
Justice’s Court 11. fa. from 822nd district G. M.,
in favor of R. M. Pattillo vs. Robert
Thomas, Katie Thomas and G. A. Pattillo.
Property in possession of defendants Thomas,
Levy made and returned to me by F. If. Frank
lin, L. C. $4.20
Also at the same time and place, forty acres
of land in the southern portion of lot of land No.
53, and 122 acres on the east side of lot No. 54,
both said lots being in the sth district and 3rd
section of said county of Bartow, also lots of
laud Nos. 5,142 and 140, each of these three lots
containing forty acres and situated in the 4tli
district and 3rd section of Bartow county, all
levied on and will be sold as the property of
Edwin M. Price and John A. Price, Jr, to satisfy
one Bartow Superior court mortgage fl. fa. iu
favor of MeCtttchea and Shumate vs. Edwin M.
Price and John A. Price, Jr. Property pointed
out in mortgage fl. fa. $5.50.
Also at the same time and place, lot of land
No. 180 in the 23rd district and 2nd section of
Bartow county Ga., said lot lying in the north
west corner of said district. Levied on and will
bo sold as the property of A. M. Gunn, to satisfy
one Justices court fl. fa. from 1055th district G.
M., Gordon county Georgia, in favor of Ililburn
and Gardner vs. said A. M. Gunn. Levy made
amt returned to me by J. F. Browner, L. C. $3.41
Also at the same time and place, a house and
lot known as the R. S. Phillips pluce, containing
four acres, more or less, occupied as a residence
by W. B. Leake, fronting northeastward toward
the public road, the open lot on which is located
tiie store house now occupied by said Leake, ly
ing between the lot levied on and said public
road, the property levied on bounded
northward and westward by the
Taylorsville road, and westward and
Bouthward by a ditch at the liottoni of the hill on
which is located the house levied on, and divid
ing the lot 1 ivied on from the cultivated field
known as the Tom Tumlin land, southeastward
by the dwelling house and lot immediately ad
joining the property levied ou, said property all
located iu Euliarlee, Bartow county, Georgia.
Levied on and will be sold as the property of the
defendant, U. S. Phillips, to satisfy one Bartow
Superior Court fieri facias in favor of O’Bryan
Bros. vs. R. S. Phillips, Thomas Tumlin audJ.
J. Calhoun. Property pointed out by plaintiffs
and in possession of \V. B. Leake. $0.47.
Also t the same time and place, lots of land
numbers 204, 205, 240, 247, all in 16th district
and :|rd section of Bartow county, Georgia.
Levied on and will be sold as the property of the
defendant, Mrs. M. V. Moore, to satisfy oae fieri
facias from the City Court of Cartersville, in and
for said county, in favor of B. E. Strickland vs.
J. S. Moore and said Mrs. M. V. Moore. Prop
erty pointed out by plaintiff and i.i possession of
Mrs.M. V. Moore. $4.05.
Also at the same time and place, 147 acres of
land, more or less, being all of lot No. 318, in the
Oth district and 3rd section of Bartow county,
Georgia, except 13 acres in the southeast corner
of said lot, the same being all that part of said
lot lying southeast of the Tennessee public road.
I .cried -a and will bo sold as the property of
.1 acltsdn S. Upshaw,defendant, to satisfy one Bar
tow Superior Court writ of possession execution
in favor of F. M. Durham,administrator of James
Vaughn, deceased, vs. Jackson S. Upshaw, and
in his possession. Property pointed out by
plaintitTs attorney. $4 23,
Also at the same time and place, lots of land
numbers 871 and 1000, in the 21st district and 2nd
section of Bartow county, lleorgia. .Levied on as
the property of one of the defendants, T. C 1
Moore, and in his possession; also lots of land
numbers 1015 and 1073, in the 21st district and
2nd section of Bartow county, Georgia. Levied
on as the property of the defendants, 1. O. Mc-
Daniel, Sr., and I. O. McDaniel, Jr., and in their
possession. All said property levied on and will
lie sold as the property of the defendants as above
specified to satisfy one Bartow Superior Court
11. fa. in favor of 11. I.yneh vs. I. O. McDaniel &
Cos., defendants, a firm composed of I. O. Mc-
Daniel, Sr,, I. O. McDaniel, Jr., T.C. Moore and
T. F. Moore. $5.70.
W. W. ROBERTS, Sheriff.
J. A. GLADDEN, Dep’y Sh’fl.
RECEIVER S SALE
By virtue of an order or tne United States Cir
cuit Court in and for the Northern Distrfet of
Georgia in the ease ef James Rice et al. vs. Frank
1\ Gray et al., therein pending, the undersigned
as Receiver of the estate of Lewis Tomlin, de
ceased, appointed such iu said case, will sell at
public outcry to the highest bidder before the
Court House door in Cartersville, Ga., within
legal hours,on the first Tuesday in January, 1887
as the property of said estate, the following lots
in the city of Cartersville, Ga., to-wit:
One lot containing three and one-half acres,
more or less, bounded on the east by lands of Dr.
Samuel Claytou and Capt. E. D. Puokett, on the
south by lands of Samuel T. McCanless, on the
west by lot now occupied by John Hill anil on
the north by lands of Dr. Samuel Clayton.
One vacant iot fronting east on Douglas street,
containing seven-eights of an acre, more or less,
and bounded north by a street, west by lot now
occupied by Moses Wells and by a lot now occu
pied by Frank C. Watkins.
One vuear.t lot containing two-fiftlis of an
acre more or less, bounded on the north by
Johnson street, east by lot occupied by Martin
Napier and by lot now occupied by Columbus
Martin, south by street, and west by lot of A. M.
Franklin.
One vacant lot containing one acre, more or
less, bounded north by Johnson street, east by
lot of A. M. Franklin, south by street and west
by lots of Sam Nicholson and Fletcher Pattillo.
One vacant lot containing three-fourths of an
acre more or less, bounded south by Gilmer st.,(on
which said lot fronts 184 leet), north by vacant
lot belonging to said estate and east by lot of
Moses W ells.
One vacant lot containing five eighths of an
acre more or less, and bounded north by a sireet,
cast by lot of Moses Wells, south l/y the vacant
lot last before mentioned and west by Gilmer
street.
One vacant lot containing three-fourths of an
acre more or less, and bounded north by vacant
lot of B. E. Strickland, east by Gilmer street,
south by lot of J. C. Wofford, cast by a lot now
occupied by King Reason, (col.)
One vacant lot containing one-half acre more
or less, bounded on the north by Johnson street,
east l>y an unopened street, south by a vacant lot
of said estate, and west by lot now occupied by
Doc. Wofford, (col.)
One vacant lot containing two-filths of an acre
more or less, bounded on the north by the last
described lot, cast by an unopened street, south
by a lot now occupied by King Reason, (col.)
and west by lot now occupied by Joe Wofford,
“one lot containing one-lßlf acre more or less,
bounded north bv lot now occupied by Joe Wof
ford. east by lot belonging to Winnie Reason,
tool ) south bv lot now occupied by George lver
noodle. west by Railroad street.
One vacant lot on the bill, north by Baptist
church, bounded on the north by lot of Alfred
bv Jones street, south by old
and west by land of John J. How
ar", this lot containidg two-filths of an acre
hVtennsof sale are one-third cash, one-third
• •On hie Julv Ist, 1887, out' third December 15th,
!sku each of the two deferred installments to
, ’ interest from date of sale, notes to be giten
V*(l av of sale, and tond for title given
forsameon day
flrmaUon by 1 the court aforesaid on the reeeiv
c rs report of rece iverof estate of
‘ * Lewi* Turn deceased.
THE CARTERSVILLE COIIRANT.
R. M. PATTILLO
BUYS
COTTON,
DEALS IN
G R A I IT,
GENERAL GROCERIES,
BAGGING,
TIES,
HAY,
STOCK PEAS.
Farmers’ Supplies a Specialty.
Cor. ERWIN AND MAIN STREETS,
CARTERSVILLE.
s3O-3m
Bartow Leake,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
JELLICO,
Poplar Creek,
Coal Creek,
GLEN MARY
BARREN FORK
COAL.
BEST GRADES OF COAL ON THE MARK
ET. CHEAPEST RATES.
TERMS CASH.
Ten Cents Store
1 s
STILL IN TOWN
And carries the nicest line of
Toys | Holliday Goods
to be found in Cartersville. I expect to carry in
stock through the mouth of December a nice
assortment of
TIN and CHINA TOYS,
Musical Instruments, Sbeil Boies,
DOL* ' ~ fact many things that will please
the cl ’in reach of every child in the
whole ‘.nd also many things that will
please Aten— say about sixteen and
eighte. -.J. I still offer to the public for
one month longer only many useful and ucces
sary household articles at
Unprecedented Prices.
Come one and all and increase my already tre
mendous sales. Y ours respectfully,
L. A. DOZIER.
The Sain Jones Female College.
rtEORGIA, Bartow County.
Rjl To the Superior Court of said county:
The petition of John H. \Vikle,*C. H. Smith, R.
M. P \ttillo, R. 11. Jones, \V. C. Baker, W. H.
Howard and John \V. 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
MALE COLLEGE.” 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 Cartersville, Bartow county, Ga. The
amount of capital stock of said corporation is to
be the sunt of Ten Thousand Dollars, with the
privilege of increasing the same at any time 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 successrul
and proper management of the business for
which sai/1 corporation is chartered, and all the
powers granted to corporations of this State by
the cotie and laws of Georgia.
GRAHAM A GRAHAM,
•TPiHN 11. WIKLE, and
JOHN W. AKIN,
021-liu fortin.—s6.B7 Petitioners’ Atty’s.
TAX COLLECTOR'S NOTICE
Ol Bartow County.
I will be at the following named places on the
days mentioned below for the purpose ofCollec
tmg State and County Taxes for the venr 1888.
Kate per cent— en dollars on the thousand.
Pine Log— October" lt- Novembe? 6* 22*
K,ngston—October2B f NfovendJertS *2B***
Luharlee—October 19; November a T. '
Hall's Mill—November 2o° yember
Ligon’s Chapel—November 17.
1 ay lorsvtlle—November 18
Stilesboro— November 19
McCanless’ Mill_November29.
could, TST & 'at. ... poalbl,
promptly as ft. fas. hi i L ST u ,\ v J* a y K up
T. C. B. C.
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY’. DECEMBER 23, 1886.
CANDIDATES.
For SUerifT.
j We are authorized to announce the name of
j W. W. ROBERTS as a candidate for re-election
j to the office of Sheriff of Bartow county, with
j John A. Gladden as hie deputy. Election in
January, 1887.
We are hereby authorized to announce the
| name of A. M. FRANKLIN 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
j 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 office 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. VANDIVERK 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 Pax 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. 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 Tax Receiver.
We are authorized to announce the name of
WILLIAM W. GINN as a candidate for Receiv
er of Tax returns of Bartow county.
We i.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 j
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.
Wc are authorized to announce the rarne of
MR. WILLIAM VAUGHAN as a candidate for
the office of Coroner of Bartow county.
Mil arc authorized to announce the name of
JaWES 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.
Bn’s Slim!
Has gone out of reach, and 8. L.
VANHIVERC 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 Presiden t Cleveland could afford
to give S2O to the Charleston sufferers
any man can afford to buy Furniture
at Vandivere’s prices. Call and ex
amine his stock and prices.}
If Tin Doi’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 T
SEWING 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. VANDIVERE.
NORTH GEORGIA
Cheap Furniture House.
S. L. VANDIVERE, Proprietor.
m - CARTERSVILLE.
CENTRAL HOTEL,
ROME, GEORGIA.
L. C. IIOHH, Proprietor.
Ample Accommodations for Commercial Trav
rs ana Theatrical Companies,
n centre business locality and street cars r
root of the and) ir au k 18
FOR RENT OR SALE.
For RENT FOR THE YEAR 1887 OR FOR
sale, a splendid Ten-room Residence, with ten
acres of laud attached, in the town of Carters
ville. Apply to
J. J. HOWARD,
Oct.6-Bmo Cartersvilla, Ga.
fOUTZ’3
MORSE ARO CATTLE POWDERf
No Hons* will die of Colic. Pot* or Lrxe Tr
vaa. if Fonts’# Powder# are ied In ...
Foutz'n Powder# will cure and prevent Ho® Cbot.ma
Fontz’s Powders will prevent Garaa n
Foutz’s Powders will increaw the quantity of niilk
•nd cream twenty per cant., and niak# the butter Brra
Vowdera will core or prevent almost itist
Dika#k to which Horae# *nd Cattle are nbjact.
Foutz’s Poitou# viu sit# B#.Tl#* actio*.
•old everywhere.
DAVID* FOT7TB, Propriata*.
W aL-TIMOKI. 18.
THE COURANT.
Published. Every Thursday,
CABTEBSTILLE, GEORGIA.
Official Organ Bartow Connty.
A R VV,UN Y OH O AM, ;
THUKVJAY, DECEMBER 23, 1886.
Editorial Brevities.
J. A. Bostwick, of New Y’ork, has
presented Wake Forest College, N. C.,
with $50,000, in addition to $20,000 given
some time since.
The new regime of the Richmond it
Danville railroad system has commeneed
active operations, and anew directory
elected.
The Constitution heads a report of di
vorce suits granted “Misfits.” Judging
from the causes alleged the most of them
were “tight” fits.
The Atlanta Constitution thinks “this
is very cold weather for the Wall street
lambs.” Just so, but the “bulls” and
“bears” stand it all l ight.
On Thursday last the Superior Court
in Atlanta granted nine petitions for
divorce. Drunkenness, brutal treatment,
violation of the marriage vows and gen
eral incompatibility ot lives were the
causes assigned.
Gen. Wm. G. Harding, the venerable
proprietor of the celebrated Belle Meade
stock farm, near Nashville, Tenn., died
last Thursday aged 70 years. General
Harding was born on the Belle Meade
farm which his father cultivated some
years before.
The steamboat J. M. White, running
on the Mississippi river, was burned to
the water’s edge last week, near Bayou
Sara, La. A large number of passengers
were aboard at the time, but a majority
of them were rescued. This steamboat
was palatial in its magnificent appoint
ments and equipments. _
Col. John C. Pkintup, of Rome, lias
been appointed General Superintendent
and assistant to the President of the pro
posed Rome and Decatur railroad and
general agent and manager of the same.
This appointment was made by the Presi
dent, Col. Daniel S. Printup. The Rome
Courier commends the appointment.
The Read House in Chattanooga was
sold Saturday for $160,000, the purchaser
being the present proprietors, Mr. Sam
uel B. Read and Mr. George L, Morris,
of Birmingham. The property fronts
236 feet on West Ninth street, and 150
on Broad and Chestnut streets. The
price paid shows the value of property
in Chattanooga.
At a meeting of the Tammany general
committee, in Tammany Hall, New
Y’ork, last week, eloquent tributes were
paid to the memory of the late ex-Presi
dent Arthur. A resolution expressive of
regret for his death was unanimously
voted by the members rising to their feet.
The meeting immediately adjourned out
of respect to his memory.
Alice Oates, the once popular and
charming actress, is reported as being in
a dying condition in Cincinnati, and her
husband, Tracy Titus, being fatally ill
and in great poverty in Chicago. Both
of these persons who have been beiore
the public so long, have squandered a half
dozen fortunes. At one time in Titus’
career lie would smoke nothing but ci
gars which cost a dollar apiece, and now
he suffers for the necessaries of life.
“Waste not, want not!”
♦
A lady in Portland, Oregon, spoke
to a Chinaman about finding her
a good cook. Soon after she receiv
ed this letter: “Mrs. Lady—Friend
She: Y’ou when at there told me to want
to boy cooking. I had have a boy is good
man and honest man he neat and clean
and doing nicely that this one best one
never you have before like he does. I
wish could take him to stay with you and
Leong Gitt recommend to him come to
she.”
A Huron, Dakota, telegram report*
the meeting there last week of a consti
tutional convention having in view the
admittance of that territory to the Union
as a State. At a meeting of committees
of conference Governor Melletts, of the
proposed State organization, delivered a
strong message in which the doctrine of
Statea’s rights was earnestly urged. He
reaffirmed ids belief in the right of a
State to maintain local government, anu
said that the right of self-government is
inherent and not given by Congress.
• ♦
A special from Bayou Sara to the
New Orleans Picayune says a little boy
three years old, who was on board the
ill-fated steamboat J. M. White was saved
by a colored woman, who was fortunate
enough to get hold of a floating log and
landed about a mile below the wreck.
Although ttie woman made every en
deavor to ascertain who he was, her ef
forts were unsuccessful. He was un
doubtedly a deck passenger and the re
mainder of his family lost. The child is
too young to give his name. When asked :
“Whose boy are you?” he replied:
“Mama’s.”
Dr. Felton’s bill to tax the dealers in
domestic wines failed to pass in the house
last week. Its introduction brooked a
long and animated discussion, but the
bill was ultimately laid on the table by a
close vote. Dr. Felton has stated that he
will call for the consideration of this bill
on tbe second day of the summer session.
He said to a Constitution reporter that he
believed that the house was in favor of
the measure, that he would surely push it
next summer, and when it was put upon
its passage, he w'as confident that it
woud be adopted, as lie had strong assur
ances that many who voted to table it
last week would vote for it when it came
up again.
Smoker#’ Supplies and Meerschaum Pipes in
all designs at Curry’#.
BILL NYE IN THE SOUTH.
HIS ABILITY IN MEETING AN UN
USUAL WINTER WHEREVER
HE GOES.
Delight# of the Sunny South Portrayed by
Pen and Pencil.
In My Sunny Southern
Asheville. N. C., Dec. 6. t
To the Editors of The World :
I write the-e lines from the South. I
came hereto evade the severe winters of
the North. I have tried to show in the
inclosed sketch how I appear while in the
act of evading the severe winter of the
extreme North. It is of course, only a
rough draught, but it was the kind of
draught we were having when we made
the sketch.
The tracks iu the foreground are only
ideal tracks. They did not exist in reali
ty at the time I made the sketch. In the
left middle foreground stands the author
of these lines, wrapped in earnest
thought and a pair of adult ear-cuff?. He
is about to become the author of the tracks
shown in the foreground. These tracks
lead to the kitchen, where there is a
warm fire.
A large magnolia grove may he seen
by going over the range of hills shown
in the extreme background and bearing
off to the left about three hundred miles.
In the house there is a case of Budweiser
beer and a case of croup.
The earnest gentleman in the fore
ground has just been out playing in the
snow with a fire shovel and is about to
return it to the owner. He is less fluent
with this instrument than with the poker
game, of which he is passionately fond.
In the background, to the left of the
toboggan slide, may be seen a family of
Christmas trees in repose. This regiun
is noted for its Christmas trees, rhodo
dendrons and rheumatism.
Many people come here to spend the
winter and what spare change they may
have on hind at the time.
Beyond the furthest line of hills at the
back of the picture, and extending as far
as the eye can reach, may be seen a broad
expanse of climate. Climate here is as
free as air. Such as it is, every one may
help himself to it.
I thought before I came here that I
would find the oriole, llitting through the
soughing boughs of the magnolia and
mocking-bird cooing to its mate, but as I
write the snow is nearly two feet deep on
a level, trains are not expected for six
days and the snow is still falling.
imagine a light, almost girlish figure
like my own, clad in a crinkled seer
sucker, a Mackinaw hat and a fire-shovel
battling with the elements and digging
holes through the virgin snow in order to
get to the grocery store.
“Yet once I was as pure as the beauti
ful snow.”
It wasn’t over twelve or thirteen years
ago at the outside.
I had thought that the odor of the or
ange blossom and the mint julep would
float along upon the gentle brow of the
soft and voluptuous air. I had pictured
to myself a land of gentle sun3 and
soughing breezes, instead of which I
seem to be the principal sougherer my
self.
I was fool enough to imagine this a
broad and beautiful green State, with
here and there a dark red isothermal line
across it, but the whole surface of the
earth is covered knee-deep with the same
kind of snow that people select up in
Manitoba when they decide to perish and
want something in which to do up their
remains.
People here say that this is an unusual
winter, and that is why I am bitterly dis
appointed. I’ve been in Utah, Colorada,
Wyoming, Minnesota, Wisconsin, lowa,
Maine, Oregon, Montana, Washington
Territory, Pennsylvania, Michigan,Ohio,
Indiana and Chicago in winter, but in
each one ot these localities 1 was so un
fortunate as to strike an unusual winter.
For thirty-live years and in various parts
of the United States I have been the vic
tim of unusual winters. I came here to
evade this very thing. I said to my fami
ly last fall: “It looks now as though we
are going to have another of those un
usual winters here. We will go South
just as soon as we can and see how it will
be there.
Tiie result is, that old timers say they
never had such ait unusual winter since
they have been here, although the win
ters have been growing more and more
unusual for ten years.
I thought that there 1 would sit on the
vine-embowered porch all the livelong
day and smoke a cob pipe, while drowsy
influences and enervating sloth would
soothe my troubled breast. So far it has
been dirterent. The houses are made to
resist the mild cold of what may be
termed a usual winter, but, greatly to
the surprise of every one, there hasn’t
been a winter of that kind since before
the war.
Therefore the raw and chilling blast
comes stealing up through the shrunken
floors and seeks out the Northern gentle
man who has left his winter underwear
at home in his trunk.
I am trying to tell tiie everlasting
truth, for I know I shall been criticised,
but there is as much winter right here
to-day, with less preparation to resist it
and the prospect of more actual suffering
among the poor and improvident, of
which classes there are a great many,
than anywhere in the North where I
have been.
What I reproach tiie Southern builder
for is his absolute failure to build houses
that will protect people from cold. La*t
winter people atp their breakfast clothed
in their fur overcoats and mittens in
Florida, and here comes a little flurry of
snow, lasting three days already, and
still falling, while three tobacco ware
houses have already fallen in with tiie
weight of snow on their roofs; but the
houses that will be erected here next
summer will be thrown together in the
same wild and reckless manner by car
penters who yet fondly hope to witness a
winter that will fit their perforated style
of architecture.
If you will excuse me I will cease
writing in order to nail a bed quilt up to
the window where too much climate- is
now’ gently stealing in and freezing some
of ray children. Bill Nye.
Tlio Eml of the Crazy Quilt Furor.
From the Philadelphia Record.]
The crazy quilt furor is at an end, and
women whose intellect has not been irre
trievably wrecked by its intricacies are
now turning their attention to the kind
of patchw’ork known as Noah’s ark. The
quilt is ot serge, cloth, satin sheeting, or
plain cream sheeting, or, in fact, any
thing. Tiie Noah’s ark is rather above
the centre, and the animals arc, of course,
arranged “two by tw’O, the elephant and
kangaroo” round and round the entire
quilt in such a way as to form a design.
Scraps of fur and embroidery oi silk and
wool, with cross stitch and outline, or in
what is known to art workers as couch
ing, are all used in the same piece ot
work. Of course, much more ingenuity
is required than in the crazy quilt, with
out which it would be a dismal failuie.
Arid there is a question whether any of
these quilts, involving such an outlay of
labor, pays.
WOMEN OF THE HAREM.
j From Gen. Lew Wallace’s Lecture.]
One of the conditions upon which a
woman enters the harem is that she give
up all family ties and connection w ith
I the outside world \\ bile polygamy is
; permitted in Turkey, not more than five
per cent, of His Majesty’s Moslem sub
jects have harems. Gen. Wallace de
! picted in a humo.ous vein the curiosity
j of American women to visit the harems.
They always have a great desire to see
[ the poor creatures at home, and devise
; some means to raise them from their de
j graded condition. After a visit many of
! these ladies change their minds about the
fearful fate of the Turkish wdinen. The
Turkish ladies assemble in a common re
ception room richly furnished. They
are attended by a throng of slaves, white
and black, who do their every bidding.
The mistresses of these harems wear
costumes, which tiie speaker, after apolo
gizing for his deficiency on the subject of
feminine apparel, undertook to describe.
Their clothing is of the richest material.
Of the general intelligence of these
women their American sisters who have
seen them do not speak in flattering
terms. The conversation between tiie
ways runs about this way :
“Where are you from?” inquire the
luxurious wives of tiie Mahometans.
“From America.”
“Where is America?”
“It’s over the ocean.”
“Do you ever go out there out there
without wearing veils? Aren’t you
ashamed before the men?”
“We don’t pay any attention to the
men.”
It is the general opinion that ladies ot
the harem are prisoners. This is merely
a delusion. Every Turkish woman lias
her own quarters and her own slaves to
wait upon her. She can take a ride
whenever she pleases, and she wears
what she pleases without any interfer
ence. The Turkish headdress is, with
due deference to the styles of Paris and
New Y’ork, the most becoming of any in
tiie world. It makes the homeliest
woman handsome and the handsome
angelic. The Turkish women are, next
to our American women, the most beau
tiful I have ever seen. Glimpses of them
can be caught on Fridays, the Turkish
Sunday, or from their carriages. They
do their own shopping. It is theirs to
buy as they please and their husbands to
pay for it. It is incorrect to say there is
no home-life among the Turks. Laying
aside the tie of husband and w ife, there
remains that almost as dear as parent
and child. The residents of the harem,
which means a sacred or secret place,
are passionately devoted to ther children,
upon whom they can shower all the ten
derness of a woman’s nature.
LATEST STYLE OF GIKL.
METTLESOME, DASHING GIRLS WHO
SWAGGER AROUND WITH DELI
CIOUS FEMININE AU
DACITY.
A late New Y’ork letter has this rich
description of this year’s style of girl:
“The popular thing in girls this year L
dashing and straight and strong. She
greets mankind with an impetuous stare
as she strides along the street, with her
chin in the air, her shoulders well back,
and her arms swinging to and fro. This
week settled it. The opera brought
society hack, and the proper girl came
romping home witli flashing eyes and the
ruddy gow of perfect health showing
through the nut-brown tan of the sum
mer’s campaign. The clinging gitl with
tender eyes, the romantic girl with
yearning glare, the domestic girl with
the purring voice, the “brilliant” girl
with her ferrid French, tiie smuggling
girl with her artful smirk and the girl
who clung to the skirts of mama—they
are gone, all gone. They went away in
flutter with timorous screams at the
snort of the engine and the rush of the
hurley world. Now they’ve come back,
but they are not the same. Instead
there’s an army of lofiy, gay, intrepid,
mettlesome, dashing girls, who swagger
abroad with delicious feminine audacity,
and wlio have brought the breeze of the
mountain ,top, the salty flavor of the
ocean’s edge and the buoj’ant air of the
Berkshire hills into the very heart of
dirty, dusty stale New Y’ork. Of all the
types that the town has ever seen, the
girl of to-day, with her high-bred look,
the daring style and winsome assump
tion of manliness, is far and away the
most fetching thing the world at large
can show.”
The Joy of Receiving a Letter.
Chicago Journal.]
“I have often wondered,” said a north
side letter carrier lately, “what consti
tutes the charm of receiving a letter. If
a person is expecting to receive by mail
a challenge to fight a duel or the reply of
his lady love to a proposition of matri
mony, or even a check for $25, I can un
derstand how lie should get excited about
it. But I suppose that ninety-nine out
of every hundred letters that pass
through the mail are simple little speeches
from friends that could be listened to on
the street without the slightest interest
or concern. But how anxious people are
to receive these letters! Y’ou don't know
anything about it; you ought to be a let
ter carrier for about a week. Why, there
are some people on my beat who, I really
think, don’t do anything else but sit
down and wait for me to come. They
stand at the window or front gate and
wait for me, they tremble with anxiety
as I approach, they groan and cower if
I sty ‘nothing to-day’; and if I hand
them a letter they fly with it into the
house as if they had picked up a pocket
book and were going off to a secret
place to inspect the contents. All this
makes me a very popular man. 1 tell you.
You see, they associate me daily with the
strongest hopes and the keenest enjoy
ment of their lives. I am a sort of lion
with them, and to tell you the truth I
have a matrimonial project in view very
far above my station.”
Rob. Burdette’s Good Advice.
“My son,” says Robert J. Burdette, in
the Brooklyn Eagle , “I observe that you
are pleased to be a little sarcastic on the
subject of tbe ‘modern evangelist.’ Now,
do let the evangelist have his way, as
the ‘reformers.’ Let him go where the
crowd is. He wou’t hurt the crowd.
He doesn’t teach the multitude to do any
thing wrong. Herr Most didn’t get into
jail for listening to Sam. Jones. The
Chicago anarchists were not the out
growth of a revival meeting. No Pres
byterian elder, no Methodist class-leader,
no Baptist deacon lias been indicted for
throwing bombs at the police. 1 here
may have been an infidel or two, a free
thinker, may be; an atheists, perhaps,
mixed up in that crowd of anarchists; I
do not positively know, but there may
h >ve been; you can easily ascertain.
But I do know that the deacon and the
elder weren’t there. None of Sam.
Jones’ converts were there. 1 lie evan
gelist rnav have some odd, rough, funny
ways of teaching, but he doesn’t teach
evil.” . , ,
Wouldn’t Marry the Whole Family.
Pittsburg Dispatch.]
“Y’oung man.” said the stern parent to
the applicant for his daughter’s hand,
“are you sure you can support a family ?”
“I I wasn’t in-making any calculations
on that,” stammered the youth; “I on
ly want the girl, you know.”
GORDON AND FELTOX.
j They Make friends and Bridge the Chasm
of Enmity.
The Macon Telegraph's Atlanta corre
spondent 9ent bis paper the following in
cident ot the amiable meeting of Gover
nor Gordon and I)r. Felton, which he
says, had not hitherto been generally
known. The writer says:
“The incident is nothing more than
the complete reoonciiation and burial of
the hatchet between Dr. Felton, of Bar
tow, and Governor Gordon. The politi
cal and personal antagonism between the
gentlemen has been of long standing,
and a matter of public knowledge. The
doctor has felt the Governor’s blade, and
the readers of the Telegraph, the vigor
ous attacks which the doughty parson
made on his excellency.
Some weeks ago mutual friends became
interested in bringing about a reconcilia
tion, and their offices doubtless had much
to do with tempering the existing bitter
feeling.
At the last reception at the executive
mansion a break was made in the ice,
when Dr. Felton received an invitation
to be present on that occasion.
On Saturday last, while '.he Governor
was in his office, saddened over the intel
ligence of his venerable father, Dr. Fel
ton called with warm sympathy for the
Governor’s atllietion, and took occasion
to thank him tor the kind invitation to
attend the reception at the mansion. The
gate was thus opened tor friendly feel
ing, and the two men clasped hands
across the aneient chasm of antagonism,
and agreed to bury the past and let by
gones be by-gones. The meeting was a
pleasant and friendly one, and the differ
ence between the two may be considered
entirely obliterated.
These be strange times, and strange
things are happening in the new admin
istration. If the signs are not deceptive
there are stranger tilings yet to happen,
and the people will not be sufferers
thereby.
1 relate the incident with some confi
dence, as it was given to me by a very
reliable and well-informed gentleman.”
A BUSTLE ABOUT RUM.
The Unique Device by a Woman Smug
gler.
Tampa, Fla., December 20.—The cus
tom officials here have made a capture
of an unique article which is now in
possession of Colonel John G. Gibbes, of
the United States secret service, and
which he will preserve as a curiosity.
It is a bustle made of tin in the shape of
a crescent, so as to fit snugly. At either
end it is very thin, but is expanded so as
to be about an inch and a half wide about
the middle, holds exactly one gallon.
When discovered by the lady inspectors
at Tampa, the owner had it on in its
proper place, and it answered admirably
for the purpose for which such things are
used, but, unfortunately for the owner,
it was found to contain a gallon of fine
Cuban rum, which she was evidently
endeavoring to smuggle.
For some time it has been suspected
that this lady was engaged in some
peculiar business, which made necessary
frequent trips to and from Cuba. After
consultation it was decided to make the
proper inquiry. When first questioned
the lady exhibited much indignation that
she should be even suspected, and finally
began to weep, however. The lady who
was appointed to make the inspection,
however, was kind but firm, and the
result was the discover}’ of the mysteri
ous bustle, filled with rum. All was
seized, the liquid was poured out where
it would do the most good, and the vessel
w'as turned over to Colonel Gibbes.
Mother’s Ideas The Best.
San Francisco Chronicle.]
Up to the time a child can talk and say
funny things—it is generally particularly
so with female children —she is her
mother’s pet. Then she is taken posses
sion of by the male parent. A little
while after she is born the new made par
ent likes the novelty of dandling her, but
that does not last long. Then for awhile
she is a nuisance to the father; but when
she begins to get “cute” and cunning,
when her mother has, with infinite care
and affection developed her infantile
biain, the father steps in. and begins to
monopolize the credit. It isn’t fair. But
the mother always lets him. Since this
column admitted clever children, fond
parents come to me and tell me of their
precocious progeny. It’s an elegant
thing, especially in mothers; but I notice
when a lady tells me a story of her baby
she says “our baby.” But when a father
talks he always begins about “my little
girl,” and generally says: “I have a
little daughter.” I never met a child
whose best ideas were not derived from
the mother. 1 have heard of children
who have been petted by their fathers,
but they generally talk slang, which
their fathers thought awfully bright.
North Carolina Curiosities.
Not a few people laugh at the queer
names borne by some North Carolina
towns, and certainly Shoe Heel has ex
cited as much amusement as any. It is a
town on the Carolina Central railway,
and is a very pleasant little place. The
proper name is Quebele, good broad
Scotch, but all attempts by the Legisla
ture to restore the good old Gaelic and
stop the horrible name failed. Now an
other attempt is to be made. At a mass
meeting ot the people of the town it was
decided, nem. con., to ask the United
States and the State to change the odius
Shoe Ileel to Moxton. It is to be hoped
that neither the United States Post-office
Department nor the General Assembly
will turn a deaf ear to such a plea.
As the chosen home of the Siamese
twins, the birtholace of the two-headed
nightingale, as well as of freaks unnum
bered, it is but natural that from time to
time fresh wonders should be discovered,
Mr. B. F. Albritton, of Greene county,
has two children—one a girl, the other a
boy. The former, just fifteen years of
age, weighs 290 pounds, while the boy,
thirteen years of age, weighs barely
34 pounds.
An Era of Prosperity.
Albany, Ga., News.]
The dawn of anew era of prosperity
threatens to break upon ttoe dark deprec
sion of the South. If it be true that the
darkest hour is just before dawn, then
we know that the morning ot a bright
dav i3 near. It is said that the eye of
capitalists all over the world are turned
to the South as a land of promise, and
they propose to come and possess them
selves of it. It will be an easy conquesr,
as a conquest bought at the sacrifice of
gold ususally is. Under the policy of
protection and other militating causes
the agricultural interests ot the South are
at a very low ebb, but revival in busi
ness generally will necessarily stimulate
farmers to renewed exertions. The press
has labored to inspire the country with
hope, and it may be rewarded with the
increased prosperity that follows in the
train of its exertions.
A New York Opinion.
From the Westchester Northern Eagle.]
Should Mr. Cleveland stop writing
such odd Mugwump, incongrous, and
memorable phrases as “offensive partis
anship,’’ “pernicious activity,” “in
nocuous desuetude,” “ghoulish glee,”
and devote his time to the “turning out
of the rascals,” there would not be much
doubt but that “he might be happy,”
and even get the “second term.”
S 1.50 Per Annum.—sc. a Copy.
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Notes Nicked From Exchanges.
Mrs. R. B. Headden is very ill at Rotte.
She has been sick for the past ten days.
Capt. George A. Mercer has be. n
elected colonel of the First Georgia Reci
ment.
An epidemic of measles has closed ti e
Augusta Medical College. Thirty of the
students were sick with the malady at
one time.
Maj. S. B. Wight, one of Albany’ sold
est and best citizens, died at that place on
the evening of the 15th instant, after a
paralytic attack.
The new’ brick academy building at
Albany, the pride of that town, was con
sumed by fire Friday morning. The fire
was the w'ork of an incendiary.
The governor has offered a reward of
SIOO for the arrest and delivery to the
sheriff of Muscogee county, of Allen
Hood, charged with killing James Mills
last June.
Col. G. J. Foreacre died at Newark,
Ohio, last Thursday morning, lie was
for a long time connected with the rail
road interests of Atlanta in prominent
positions and was universally popular.
Ninety-five names have been been
drawn from whiphare to be selected jurors
far the trial of Jones, who killed Frank
I*. Gray in Atlanta. The trial will take
place before Judge Clark the 3d of Jan
uary next.
Jasper X. and John Dill, convicted of
voluntary manslaughter iu killing a John
Allen on the 12th of October in Dallas,
were sentenced to the penitentiary in the
Paulding superior court Friday, the
former to six and the latter to two years.
Attorney Chales D. Loud, arrested a
short time since at Mount Vernon,
charged with taking a letter from the
United States mail addressed to another
and the destruction of the same, has been
discharged as he proved his authority
from the person to whom the letter was
addressed to obtain and destroy it.
The city council of Augusta has gotten
into hot water with the paid fire depart
ment in that city because of the ousting
of the former chief, Platt, and the elec
tion of Young. Some of the companies
have held meetings, turned the prop
erty over to the city and disbanded. The
council is severely criticised for its ac
tion.
“The amount of whisky sold in Mari
etta at night on the sly must be great,
judging from the number of drunken
men we see. The prohibition law should 1
be enforced as much as any other law
that is on the statute books.” —Marietta
Journal. Enforce the law by all means.
Don’t compromise on the liquor ques
tion.
Dohlonega can boast of having within
her borders one of the oldest men La tJjp
State, lie is a Spaniard by leirth and his
name is Ausey Mac Deha Whela. If he
lives until Christmas day he will be 107
years old. The correctness of this can
be vouched for. He can walk and is in
good health but is rapidly declining.
He seldom uses eye glasses. —Dahlonega
Signal.
“Senator Davidson lias introduced a
bill increasing the pay of supreme court
judges from $3,000 to $4,000 and superior
court judges from $2,000 to $3,000. The
bill ought to pass, with an amendment
increasing the pay of the governor to
$6,000 instead of $ r 3,000. The pay of all
these officers is scandalously parsimonious
for a great and progressive State like
Georgia to pay.” —Dalton Citizen.
Americus is jubilant over the prospects
of her proposed water works. City At
torney Hawkins settled the question last
week by deciding that it required two
thirds of the votes cast at the last general
election to carry it, instead of two-thirds
of the registered votes. Only 220 voles
were cast at the last election and the
bonds received 343 votes in an election on
last Thursday. So the water-works pro
ject is successful by a big majority.
The severe earthquake shock was the
means of illustrating very clearly the in
stinct of animals and fowls. One in
stance was related to us by Mr. 1,. T.
Penick, one of our most sterling and
respected citizens, that occurred under
his personal notice. All- know that
ducks invariably roost on tne ground at
night. The brood of Muscovy ducks that
Mr. Penick had became frightened on
the night of August 31, by the shaking
of the earth, and not one of them has
roosted on the ground since. They have
generally, since that night, flew to the
top of his dwelling house and there re
mained all night, doubtless feeling in
stinctively more secure there than on the
shaking earth. — Madisonian.
Criminal Trial by Crows.
In the northern parts of Scotland and
in the Farce islands extraordinary meet
ings of crows are occasionally known to
occur. They collect in great numbers,
as if they all had been summoned for the
occasion; a few of the flock sit with
droofJTng heads and others seem as grave
as judge, while others again are exceed
ingly active noisy; in the course of
about half an hour they disperse, and it
is not uncommon, after they have flown
away, to find one or two left on the spot.
These meetings will sometimes continue
for a day or two before the object, what
ever it may be, is completed. Crows
continue to arrive from all quarters dur
ing the session. As soon as they have all
arrived a very general noise ensue3, and
shortly after the whole fall upon one or
two individuals and put them to death;
when this execution has been performed
they quitely disperse.
LA til A T BILL—THE ENGINEER'S STORY.
From. Puck.
Well, stranger, ’twas somewhere in ’sixty nine
I were runnin’ the ’Frisco fast express;
An’ from Murder Creek to Blasted Pine.
Were nigh onto eighteen mile, I gness,
The road were ,i down-grade all the way,
An’ we pulled out of Murder a little late,
So I opened the throttle wide that day.
And a mile a minute was'bout our gait.
My fireman’s name were I,ariat Bill,
A quiet man with an easy way,
Who could rope a steer with a cowboy’s skill,
Which he’d learned in Texas, I’ve heard him
say;
The coil were strong as tempered steel.
An’ it went like a holt from a crossbow flung,
An’ artei Bill changed from saddle to wheel,
Just over his head in the cab it hung.
“Weil, as I were sayin’, we fairly flew,
.Vs we struck the curve at Buffalo Spring,
An’ I give her full steam an’ put her through,
An’ the engine rocked like a living thing;
When all of a sudden I got a scare—
For thar on the track were a little child!
An’ right in the path of the engine there
She held out her little hands and smiled!
“IJerked the lever and called for brakes.
The wheels threw sparks like a shower of gold;
But I knew the trouble a down grade makes,
An’ I set mv teeth an’ my flesh grew cold.
Then Lariat Bill yanked his long lasso,
An’ out on the front of the engine crept—
He balanced a moment before he threw,
Then out in the air his lariat swept!”
He paused. There were tears in his honest eyes;
The stranger listened with hated breath,
“I know the rest of the tale,” he cries;
“He snatched the child from the jaws of death!
’Twas the deed of a hero, from heroes bred,
Whose praise the very angels sing!”
The engineer shook his grizzled head,
And growled: He didn’t do no sich thing.
He aimed at the stump of a big pine tree,
An’ the lariat caught with a double hitch,
An’ in less than a second the tram an’ we
Were yanked off the track an’ inter the ditch.
’Twere an awful smash, an’ laid me out,
I ain’t forgot it, and never shall;
‘Were the passengers hurt?’ Lemme see—about—
Yes.it killed about forty—but saved the gal!
U. W. H.
Pamktto, Ga., Sept, 24,1881.
I certify that on the 19th of September I com
rnenced giving my child, 20 months old, Smith’
Worm ofl. anf the following day 23 worms were
oxpelled from 4 to 10 niches long. T „„ n
inchlS s w ’ GOJSIx.
