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On and after Monday, June 10, 1878, the train
ou this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted):
GOING WEST. Arrive. Leave.
Cartersville 1:30 pm
Stilesboro 2:15 pm 2:20 pm
Taylorsville 2:45 pm 3:00 pm
Rock mart 4:00 p m
GOING EAST.
Rockmart 6:00 am
Taylorsville 7:00 am 7:15 am
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Cartersville 8:35 am
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COOSA RIVER NAVIGATION.
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MAGNOLIA:
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Arrive at Gadsden Tuesday Tam
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Arrive at Rome Wednesday 6 p m
Leave Rome Thursday 0 a m
Arrive at Gadsden Friday 7 a 141
Leave Gadsden Friday G p m
Arrive at Rome Saturday 6pm
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The following passenger schedule took effect
July 12 th, 1879:
NIGHT PASSENGER—UP.
l.eave Atlanta 2:00 pm
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Leave Kingston 4:21 p m
Leave Dalton .......... 6:10 p m
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Leave Dalton 7:05 pm
Leave Kingston , 8:34 pm
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DISSOLUTION.
rjMIE FIRM OF McCANDLESS & WIL
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to the public for their liberal patronage in the
past he hopes by fair dealing to receive the same
in the future,
Cartersville, Georgia, January 21, 1879.
JptROM THE ABOVE IT WILL BE SEEN
that I am now solely conducting a full and com
plete
TIN AND STOVE STORE.
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the requirements of this markets offering relia
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SCROFULA CURED!
The North Georgia Medical In
stitute Discharges Another
Scrofula Patient!
Mv litttle boy now four years of age was af
flicted with the loathsome disease. Scrofula,
which exhibited external symptoms at about six
j months of age. He became very weak, his skin
; presented a peculiar yellow appearance—had no
appetite, became so very poor in flesh that he
was really unpleasant to look at. Large swell
ings appeared under his right arm, and finally
they broke and continually discharged the most
fearfully offensive odor—almost unbearable—his
mother could hardly bear to wash and dross the
deep-running sores. After the disease had gone
1 • - llji > ,
on for about a month, we called iu our family
physician, a man who bore the reputation of be
ing a learned and skillful physician. After
treating the case for a number of months, he
told us that it would take two or three years to
perform a cure. However, he continued to treat
the child, but with no manner of benefit as we
could see. Indeed, with the jminful lancing and
unpleasant internal medicines the poor little
creature seemed to grow more restless and a
great deal weaker.
About this time myself and wife came to the
determination to change physicians, hut were
greatly troubled as we then knew of no one
whom we could trust with more confidence than
the one engaged. Happily, through the advice
of a friend—one who deeply sympathized with
us in our dire distress—we were directed to sec
and consult Drs. Memmler & Johusonf who had
established an Infirmary in Cartersville. Our
consultation with those gentlemen resulted in
our turning over to them the treatment of the
little child, whom we deemed beyond the skill of
any earthly physician; but our love for the dear
child, who had goue through so much suffering,
prompted us to leave nothing undone that prom
ised the least relief. After thoroughly examm
ining their patient, Drs. Memmler & Johnson
began treatment. We had given only three
doses of their medicine, when we noticed consid
erable improvement, and every day thereafter
improvement went rapidly on. With nothing
but internal remedies, no sore, no plasters, no
lancing was resorted to by the above named gen
tlemen. Simply their internal remedies, after
hardly three months’ treatment have performed
the cure which it was said required years to ac
complish.
And now, in conclusion, I invoke the richest
blessings of the Great Physician—who looks over
all things—to bless and prosper them, and to the
afflicted world we feel that we could wish them
no greater earthly blessing than to fall under
the care and treatment of these gentlemen. If
any desire to hear from me directly, they will ad
dress me at Cartersville, Ga.
Most respectfully,
NIMROD X 8 HOWREN.
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day of February, 1879.
J. W. PRITCHETT, N. P. & J. P.
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Surgical Operations Per
formed at the North
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Proprietors.
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CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13, im
AESTHETICAL CRITICISMS.
Cartersville as Viewed from a Social
Standpoint.
Pine Log Mountain, Feb. 8, 1879.
To the Free Press:
By way of answer to a query in my
last your indulgence is requested while a
few facts are given. The writer was
down in your city shortly after the Christ
mas holidays, and has been there once
since. One of the gallants of Carters
ville who is favored with an extensive
and every way available visiting ac
quaintance amongst the elite of your
place assured me that he had not for any
evening or day of that usually social pe
riod been complimented with an invita
tion from any quarter of the town to
spend an evening, take a meal or to call
at any one of the many pleasant homes
in the city. Another one of Carters
ville’s nicest beaux a “well-to-do” young
gentleman stated that he had not “been
out” visiting or calling once in the en
tire limits of the progressive city. Two
of your best looking, most fascinating,
most intelligent and polite young ladies
assured the writer that they had neither
received calls, been invited out, nor
heard of sociable anywhere in town,
neither had they learned of any one
otherwise circumstanced, speaking of
course from a social standpoint. There
might be other instances reported of sim
ilar tenor and purport; hut these are suf
ficient surely. Your communicant frank
ly confess that he posted oft' to points at
which a different status prevailed. Next
query: the reasons for this death of en
joyable sociable life. Some one suggests
at once hard times, but wC reply, not so.
Times and hospitality rightly conceived
are not a whit harder in Cartersville
than at a thousand other places in the
South, and that plea is weaker than sea
soned water. A gentleman who recent
ly visited a country much farther from
railroads and electric wires than Carters
ville delightfully remarked to the writer,
“Well, upon my word I really like these
people up here. Every'man I meet in
county politely speaks whether he
knows me or not.” Mr. Editor, does
that c6st anything? Do all of the Car
tersville people, male and female, even
among those who know each other, po
litely speak when they meet? Some
there are who state that the} 7 do not. Is
this because of the hard times too? Is it
enlightened, is it cultivated, is it chris
tion like to extend no recognition of a
morning salutation? Is it becoming in
gentlemen? Is it lady-like in the fair
sex ? I once heard that General George
Washington would doff' his hat to a eol
-01 ed man rather than be excelled by him
in these every-day civilities.
My reason for the social torpor of Car
tersville is, that there prevails in your
town an inadequate conception of those
bewitching shades and colorings which
enter into the composition of cultured
hospitality and well tempered intellectual
intercourse between the sexes. Your so
cial enjoyments in other words need
toning up. Refined getlemen and ladies
who can find no pleasure in each other’s
society and acquaintance in absence of
everything like worldly display, creature
enjoyments, expensive suppers, visits to
the theatre, the ball, showy costumes,
costly furniture, last horses and watch
chains, are no longer refined; they be
come pitiable panderers to shoddyism.
(Excuse the phrase—it is expressive.)
Heaven forbid that these marks in Geor
gia should ever become the sine qui non
of true gentility. We are told that such
as cannot afford a supper for instance
should not invite or encourage gatherings
or simple unceremonious tea parties,
where all who are bidden may feel nat
ural and welcome. We learn that it is a
rare occurrence in your town for an el
derly gentleman or matron to meet a
young man on the street in daylight and
say to him informally, “Miss so-and-so
will be at my house to-night. Call
around and spend the evening.” Is it a
wonder then that gentlemen seldom pay
calls informally and without notice; and
is it strange that they are expected to
sound a trumpet, or which amounts to
the same, write a note asking gracious
leave to do so ? Is it surprising that the
many idle tongues of dame Gossip are
set running in case an innocent youth or
be.tux who is wearied with street corner
society musters up sufficient hardihood to
seek a lady’s charming companionship?
If we are putting the case too strongly
Mr. Editor, we shall be more than happy
to be corrected. The case has been giv
en to us on capital authority. Would
you realize the fond wishes of numerous
enterprising citizens of Cartersville who
desire to see their city a popular place of
summer and winter resort, a town to be
desired by good people everywhere, and
a model of high breeding as well as a
city of rare natural beauty as to its sur
roundings? Would you make the youth
of Cartersville patterns of chivalry, so
briety and manliness? Encourage them
on all occasions, their gallantry, self-de
nial and fine manners towards the fair
sex whether old or young. Tear away
the icebergs of social intercourse en fam-'
ille , and encourage the maidens not to
despise their civilities, their honorable
attentions) and all gentlemanly approach
es. Don’t lock up the ladies as you
would a pretty painted doll; nor incul
cate the idea that the sight of a man will
produce an eye disease. It is unnatural
and unseriptural besides. Give them
true ideas of maidenly deportment of
course, and then permit them to enjoy
whatsoever proportion of polite atten
tion, as their ages, their charms and
their good sense of propriety will justify.
No plan occurs to us so certain and
speedy as a means of relieving the so
cial dullness in Cartersville as that one
which is easily in the reach of every
motlror ar*d fetter in yWur town, Fur
example, those who have houses might
say any day to the young people, “there
"iH a fire and open parlor at mv
house this evening. Call after tea or be
fore (as you elect) and bring a lady, and
to ladies bring a gentleman. Amuse
yourselves as you find agreeable, saving
only my religious scruples, by reading,
chess, music, talking, tableaux, or parlor
games as you like, etc.”
This plan once set on foot by the elder
ly ones and persevered in for two or
three months by turn would at once
bring the young people together, extend
acquaintanceship, would be inexpensive,
and effectually break the ice. Other
things will follow in due time and good
order. In a little while Cartersville
would acquire the reputation not here
tofore enjoyed of being a sociable, lively
place, until by and by, ay in the
“sweet by and by” you would discover
the active mind, the magnetic clash of
wit and eloquence which lies dormant in
the fertile brain of our aspiring county
assume former symmetry and vigorous
manhood in the reproduction perhaps of
a Madam Muhlbaeh or a Mirabeau.
Virgil.
THE GUANO AVAR.
The Conflict Raging; in Georgia and South
Carolina.
BULLOCK COUNTY RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved, 1. That we, the committee,
appointed by the citizens of Bullock
county, to draft resolutions in relation to
the use of manipulated commercial fer
tilizers at the advanced prices, after due
consideration, find that there is no mar
gin for profits.
Resolved, 2. That we recommend to
the citizens of Bullock county generally
not to nse the manipulated commercial
fertilizers at the present advanced prices;
and we further recommend that each
and every citizen pledge himself to use
his influence against the introduction and
sale of said fertilizers, at the advanced
prices, within our county.
Resolved, 3. That we solicit the farm
ers throughout the state to act in concert
with us.
Resolved, 4 . That we invite the manu
facturers and agents to meet us on equi
table terms in order that we may be able
to purchase fertilizers.
OCONEE COUNTY.
Resolution adopted by the Oconee ag
ricultural society: Whereas, There seems
to be a disposition on the part of some oi
the dealers in commercial fertilizers to
demand of the farmers higher prices for
their fertilizers, to-wit: Five hundred
pounds of lint cotton per ton, or 13 cents
instead of 15 cents cotton option, an ad
vancement of from fifty to one hundred
pounds of cotton per ton; Therefore be
it resolved, that the members of Oconee
agricultural society, in convention met,
January 25th, 1879, do pledge themselves
to positively refuse to purchase fertilizers
from any dealer who demands these ad
vanced rates. And be it further resolved,
that we refuse to purchase manures from
any dealer who will not sell them on as
.good, or better terms than heretofore.
RIDGEWAY (S. C.) RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas, We, the citizens of Ridge
way and vicinity, have viewed with
alarm the recent combination of dealers
in and manufacturers of commercial fer
tilizers at Augusta, and furthermore re
alizing the fact that cotton is now selling
below the cost of production; therefore,
be it resolved, 1. That we protest hon
estly and earnestly against such combi
nation and collusion. 2. That we, as
citizens, will unite in laboring to avoid
the use of commercial fertilizers, by man
ufacturing our own fertilizers, in the
shape of home made compost. 3. That
we will endeavor to aid those who seem
reasonably to labor to relieve themselves
of their present difficulties.
ACTION OF WILKES COUNTY PLANTERS.
Resolved, That from the present de
pressed prices in all our agricultural
products, we think that the last year’s
prices of standard guanos is all that the
farmers can afford to pay for fertilizers
during the present year; that is to say,
467 pounds of lint cotton, freights inclu
ded, for standard fertilizers per ton. It
was finally amended so as to read that
farmers would not pay more than 400
pounds of cotton for guano per ton.
WHAT THE PLANTERS OF GREENE SAY.
Whereas, The manufacturers of guanos
have combined to put up the price of the
same; and whereas, all values have
greatly depreciated, especially every
thing made by farmers; therefore, be it
resolved, That we urge upon our fellow
tillers of the soil in this county the pro
priety of manufacturing their' own fer
tilizers, and, as far as practicable, to dis
continue the use of manipulated guanos,
unless the price be reduced in propor
tion to the depreciation of the price of
cotton.
THESVOICE OF GREENVILLE (8. C.) COUNTY.
Resolved, l. That we hereby endorse
and confirm the pledge already adopted
at several township meetings in this coun
ty, to-wit: That we bind ourselves, indi
vidually, by affixing our names to these
resolutions, that we will not, during the
present year, pay any additional rate,
either by exchange of cotton or other
wise, for same grade of commercial fer
tilizer, above that paid by us during the
past year. 2. That we call upon farmers
all over the state to meet and adopt the
same resolution, and obtain signatures to
it. S. That, as we believe the true in
terests of farmers in this section lies in
the increased use and manufacture of
home-made manures, the chairman of
this meeting is instructed to appoint a
committee of five practical and experi
enced farmers, whose duty it shall be to
investigate this subject and report at the
earliest practicable time, through the
public press, the best mode of compost
ing and utilizing the materials of the
firm lor purposes of fertilization. 4.
That a committee of five be appointed to
report, as information, to an adjourned
meeting to be held in two weeks from to
day, the best terms to be obtained from
any manufacturers of approved fertilizers
on a basis of exchange for cotton. 5.
That a committee of three from each
township be appointed to obtain signa
tures to the pledge contained in the first
resolution.
WHAT BARNSVILLE (S. C.) PLANTERS SAY.
Resolved , Ist. That we, the planters
and farmers of Barnwell county do
pledge ourselves not to pay any advance
upon any of the different grades of man
ufactured fertilizers bought and used by
us heieafter. 2. I hat we pledge our
selves, unless terms are offered'’corres
ponding with the reduced price of our
products, that we 'will not use one pound
of any of them. 3 That a raass W
ing of each township be held at its usual
$£ tSSSS Z
i lions, and that reports of those subserib
| ing to the said resolutions be forwarded
to the chairman of this meeting. 4.
; 1 bat we consider the use of fertilizers
at present figures, as not only unremu
nerative but financially injurious to our
■ agricultural brethren.
* PERSON COUNTY (S. C.) ON THE WAR
PATH.
Resolved , By the citizens of Anderson
county, in mass meeting assembled, that
the recent action of the companies manu
facturing commercial fertilizers, at a
meeting held in Augusta, on the 18th of
December, 1878, banding themselves to
gether, and, in the midst of general suf
fering, and at a time when all kinds of
agricultural products are depreciated in
price, and when the great mass of the
tillers ot the soil find it hard to exist,
they regard as a public wrong and a
blow aimed at the best interests of this
Commonwealth.
Resolved, That the monopolists who
conspired to commit this wrong are ene
mies ot tae farming community, and, as
such, should be deprived immediately of
any and all privileges to dig, mine or
manufacture commercial fertilizers.
Resolved, That we appeal to the farm
ers and all others interested in the suc
cess of agriculture, wherever scattered
over the State, to unite in the opposition
to the phosphate monopolists and all the
influence they can bring to bear, and to
continue in their opposition, until every
vestige of a monopoly, which seeks self-
a f? riin dizement at the expense of the
rights of others, is rooted out of exist
ence.
Resolved, That unless the manufactur
ers of commercial fertilizers reduce their
price to at least what it was last year, the
consumers be advised not to purchase a
single pound, and in the future unani
mously and earnestly resist any attempt
on the part of guano manufacturers, or
others, to extort from the farmers ruinous
prices for their produetton.
Resolved, That the president of this
meeting be and he is hereby instructed
to furnish a copy of these proceedings to
the president of the senate and the speak
er of the house as soon as the assembly
shall meet at its next session, and that he, j
in the name of the people of Anderson
county, petition the general assembly to
repeal all charters granted to companies
to dig and mine phosphate in the navi
gable rivers and streams of the State, and
enact such legislation as will place the
whole phosphate interest in the hands of
the State, wliere it properly belongs.
ADVERTISING.
The man who expects to be successful
in any kind of business these days with
out advertising, is bound to be wbfully
disappointed. To see who does the busi
ness of any city you have but to see the
names of those who keep themselves
most prominently and persistently before
the public.— Exchange.
There is nothing truer than the above,
and we appeal to the facts of every day’s
business, in this city, to prove it. The
men who advertise have the trade, and
they will keep it as long as they persist
in liberal advertising.
Sticking up cracker-box tops about the
streets, and through the country with
grotesquelyprinted announcements that
sufch and such articles can be had at John
Jones’ store, is a mistake. That style of
advertising very properly inspires dis
gust and contempt in the minds of all
sensible men, and they very carefully
avoid John Jones’ store.
Experience has demonstrated the fact
that the weekly country newspaper is the
best medium fov* advertising. It is local,
and its country subscribers have each
issue before them, morning, noon and
night, for a whole week, and they must
necessarily go through and through their
paper more than once. The result is,
they become familiar with all the adver
tisements, afid come to know intimately
the very faces and character of the adver
tisers.—Albany News.
CONKLING’S GRIP GONE.
The Washington special to the Cincin
nati Commercial says: Secretary Sher
man remarked to your correspondent to
day that further contest with Conkling
over appointments to office was not an
ticipated. If, however, the New York
senator chose to renew' the contest on
other grounds, the administration was
ready for him, but that he would get a
higher fall than the one of yesterday.
The secretary said that several senators
who had voted with Conkling told him
to-day that this was the end of their sup
port of that individual should lie attempt
to antagonize the administration again.
The secretary thinks this will end what
at one time threatened to be a formidable
breach in the republican party. He did
not anticipate that the opposition could
be reorganized in the senate either by
Conkling or any other senator. He
thought all would move along smoothly
hereafter.
On the other hand, Conkling’s friends
are very bitter, and promise a renewal
of hostilities as soon as their leader gets
well and on his feet again. They say he
has six and a half years in the senate
yet, and senators who promised to sus
tain him in the brunt of battle, and then
backed down and w ent over to the enemy
when the pinch came, will be made to
feel the weight of his displeasure during
the ensuing six and a half years.
The New York Herald, of the 4th con
tains the following dispatch from Nash
ville: “George Edward Schoolbey, the
returned express robber, says that the
reason he came back to Nashville was be
cause he was tired of living the life
through wdiieh he had been passing du
ring the last tw'o years. His mind has
been continually tortured with the
thought that at some unexpected moment
he would be grabbed by an officer and
hurried oft'to jail. The fearful delirium
that some one was at all times and every
where shallowing him, phantom like,
was more than he had been able to pa
tiently bear, and to rid himsalf of the
horrible nightmare he had determined to
return to Nashville, submit his ease to
the court, implore the mercy of the jury,
and if he were sent to the penitentiary
he was willing to go there and serve out
his term. Anything was preferable to a
wild, roving iife, the only aim of which
was to keep out of the clutches of the law.
He wants a speedy trial.
Commissioner Raum has completed a
hearing before the house appropriation
committee on a subject which is expected
to much debate in each house—
namely, to aid in the enforcement of the
revenue laws. He called attention to the
fact that the appropriation now was too
small to provide the necessary force
where there was no resistance. It was
very difficult to devise means of aiding
collectors in disorderly districts. He in
formed the committee that the appropri
ation which could be used for these ex
hausted, and that ail further effort to
stop illicit distilling must cease till the
close of this year, unless the committee
gjjre funds at omand made them im-
NUMBER 31.
j THE WESTERN AND ATI. A NCl*' RAIL
ROAD.
It s always a genuine pleasure for us
to praise. There is no sensation more
agreeable than that evoked by the warm
and honest appreciation of true worth.
And yet we cannot bring ourselves to
I the exercise of this pleasing function,
i unless there is a substantial basis for a
good opinion. The wonderful imnrove
| ment effected in the magnificent state
■ property named above affords us a pleas
ing subject for our words of commenda
tion. When we revert back to the time
I of the transfer of tins road from the
hands of the plunderers to the present
company, and contrast its condition then
with its present perfection, the contrast
is startling. Then the cross-ties were
rotten, the bridges shaky and unsafe, the
road-bed uneven and absolutely danger
ous, the iron worn and almost worthless,
the rolling stock poor and defective. The
travel had from its insecurity been di
rected to other routes and the carrying
trade fearfully impaired.
Now we find a well-trimmed and bal
lasted road-bed, sound and superior ties,
new and improved iron, bridges all in
perfect safety and absolute security, roll
ing stock ot the most improved charac
ter, the engines all new or thoroughly
overhauled, the passenger coaches ele
gant and superbly fitted. The travel is
restored, not only to its former prestige,
but is far in excess of anything ever
dreamed of before. The carrying trade
is also enhanced. This lias been done,
too, in the face of hard times, the con
stant monthly drain on its treasury of
$25,000 rental. Its affairs are prosper
ous, and it stands a model of successful
enterprise.
And all this is due to the admirable
geuins of General William Mcßae, su
perintendent of the road, under whose
management this wonderful improvement
lias been effected. It is true he has been
backed and sustained by the judgment of
Governor Brown, whose financial abili
ties gave strength and character to if
enterprise. The genius of Gen. Mcßae
is marvelous, and stands the wonder of
all who are eoguizant of his operations.
His modesty is equal to his deserts, and
hence so little is heard of him by the
outside world. Were his true services
known, and the affairs of his office laid
before the public, those who commend
now would applaud then.
But it was not to praise any man we
essayed this article, but to give our read
ers an idea of the wonderful improve
ment that has been made in this property
of the state. It is gratifying to every
lover of the state. —Rome Tribune.
THE STATE FAIR.
Colonel T. J. Smith of the committee
appointed by the state agricultural soci
ety, to arrange for holding the next state
fair, returned from Atlanta yesterday
morning. He there seems to be no
disposition in the gate city to claim it:
rights under the contract with the state
society, and Macon is not in a financial
condition to have tiie fair; so that he now
considers the question an open one and is
satisfied that Augusta can have it held
here if she so desires and takes the proper
steps in that direction. Atlanta will ful
fill her part of the contract if the agri
cultural society insists upon it, but as the
committee are in favor of Augusta, he
does not anticipate any difficulty on that
score. He thinks it would be a good idea
for the people of Augusta to hold a meet
ing and make some definite proposition
to the state agricultural society, which
will soon assemble in convention in
Hawkinsville So far no decided answer
has been received from Atlanta, but it is
clear that that city is not anxious to hold
the state fair, as it has a tair association
of its own, which will give an exposition
in the latter part of October.
A Chronicle reporter conversed with
Mayor Meyer in regard to the state fair.
3 r esterday afternoon. His honor said the
council could not contribute any money
to such an object, unless authorized to do
so by a vote of the citizens. It would
cost six or seven thousand dollars to re
place the building removed by fire, and
he did not think the city would be repaid
for this outlay, even if it had the au
thority to spend the money. He would
like to see the fair held here if it did not
cost the city anything.— Chronicle and
Sentinel.
The Washington special to the Cincin
nati Enquirer says: Mrs. Senator Bruce
yesterday put the social problem to the
test. It appears that among the ladies of
the Riggs House, one of the fashionabio
hotels, two of them called at Mrs. Bruce’s
residence some time ago and left their
cards. All the ladies of the hotel receive
on Monday together in the hotel parlor.
Yesterday, when the reception was at its
zenith, Mrs. Senator Bruce, accompanied
by a lady friend, as dark as Erebus, was
shown into the parlor. Singling out the
twain who had kindly left their cards
with her, she engaged them in conversa
tion some tew minutes, and then lett.
The other ladies thought the episode de
cidedly shocking—not so much that Mrs.
Bruce had called, as the fact that she al
lowed her dusky triend to accompany
her. She was too much oft color to be
squeezed through tony 8' ciety, although
the senator’s bride is nearly white.
The German army horses are no’w fed
on biscuits of three parts each of rye
flour, and one part of linseed flour. The
biscuits are made with a hole in the mid
dle of each, so that they cau be strung
on a cord and hung to the saddle bow,
or hung by the trooper around his waist.
Each biscuit weighs about two ounces,
and seven of them are broken up and
given to the horses night and morning,
and twelve at noon. Officers generally
agree that these biscuits are better than
oats, and each trooper can carry thirty
pounds weight, which will furnish his
horse with full rations for eight days.
When the train conveying General
Sherman to the south stopped at Kettle
Hollow, Montgomery county, Va., Te
cumseh walked out to view, the sterile as
pect of the country. Seeing an old resi
denter standing near, the general in
quired, “what do thev raised in this
country anyhow?” “They raise h—4!
here about as quick as any place you ev
er saw.” The general tucked his feath
ers and sought refuge in the car instant
er.
The Rev. H. M. Turner, colored, in
his sermons recently delivered at Madi
son, Georgia, advised his hearers to not
vote at all. nis purpose appears to be to
persuade the colored citizens to stay
away, from the polls, so that northern
republicans will think them huU-dczad.
Carpet-bag government paid the Rev.
I urner better than the present govern
ment .—Philadelphia Timtt.
The Boston Advertiser says that Dr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes used but one pea
for all his literary works from 1857 until
September of last year, when he sent it
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