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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.