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ner of Main & Erwin streets. julylß.
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AND—
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MOON & WIKLE,
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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Superior Courts of North-west Georgia, and the
Supreme Courts at Atlanta.
Office west side public Square, up-stairs over
W. W. Rich & Co’s. Store, second door south of
Postoffice. julylß.
JAMES B. CONYERS,
A T r -U ORNEY - A r X’ -J, A W
ANI)
Notary Public,
Cartksville, : : : : Georgia.
(Office: Bank block, up-stairs.)
\T7TLL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OF
> V tile Cherokee and adjoining circuits,
l'rompl attention given to all business. Col
lections made a specialty. jnnc29-ly
F. M. JOHNSON, Dentist,
(Office over Stokely & Williams store.)
CARTiRSVILLE, GEORGIA.
I WILL FIL j TEETH, EXTRACT TEETH,
and put in teeth, or do any work in my line
at prices to suit the times.
lifeay" Work al. warranted. Refer to my pat
rons all over the county.
augls-ly. F. M. JOHNSON.
JOHN T. OWEN,
(At Sayre & Co.’s Drug Store,)
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
WILL sell Watcnes, Clocks and Jewelry.
Spectacles, Silver and Silver-Plated
Goods, and will sell them as cheap as they can
be bought anywhere. Warranted to prove as
represented. All work done by me warranted
to give satisfaction. Give me a call. julylS.
Traveler’s Gruide.
COOSA RIVER NAVIGATION.
On and after December 16th, 1878, the following
schedule will be run by the Steamers MAGNO
LIAotETOWAH BILL:
Leave Rome Tuesday Bam
Arrive at Gadsden Wednesday .... 6am
Leave Gadsden Wednesday 7pm
Arrive at Rome Thursday spm
Leave Rome Friday Bam
Arrive at Gadsden Saturday 7am
Arrives at Greensport ham
Arrive at Rome Saturday 6pm
J. M. ELLIOTT, President and Gen’l Sup’t.
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
On and after Monday, Sept. 1, 1879, the train
on this ltoad will run daily as follows (Sunday
ovcepted):
Leave Cartersville 7:40 a m
Arrive at Stilesbora 8:30 am
Arrive at Taylorsville 8:52 am
Arrive at Rockmart 10:00 a m
Arrrive at terminus 10:50 am
RETURNING.
Leave terminus 3:00 pm
Arrive at Rockmart ....... 3:40 p m
Arrive at Taylorsville 4:45 p m
Arrive at Stilesboro 6:13 p m
Aarrive at Cartersville 6:00 pm
ROME RAILROAD COMPANY.
On and after Monday, November 17, the Rome
Railroad will run two trains daily, as follows:
MORNING TRAIN.
Leave Rome daily 6:30 am
Return to Rome daily 10-00 a m
EVENING TRAIN.
Leave Rome daily (except Sundays) . 5:00 p m
Arrive at Rome • .8:00pm
Both trains will make connection with W. & A.
R. R. at Kingston, to and from Atlanta and
points south.
F EBEN HILLYER,
Jas.'A. Smith, President.
G. P. Agt.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule:
NIGHT PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 8:00 pm
Leave Cartersville 4:58 pm
Leave Kingston 5:19 pm
Leave Dalton 7:10 p m
Arrive at Chattanooga 8:47 pm
NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 5:25 pm
Leave Dalton |:10p m
Leave Kingston 8:39 p m
Leave Cartersville 9:oopm
Arrive at Atlanta 11:00 p m
DAY PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 5:20 am
Leave Cartersville i : ?X am
Leave Kingston 7:49 am
Leave Dalton a m
Arrive at Chattanooga 10:56 am
DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga § : ?? anl
Leave Dalton 8:10 a in
Leave Kingston a m
Leave Cartersville a m
Arrive at Atlanta 12:0opm
CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATiON—UP.
Leave Atlanta ®P
Arrive at Cartersville • p m
CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION— DOWN.
Leave Cartersville
Arrive at Atlanta 8.45 a m
Books, STATIONERY, Music.
We beg luave to announce to our friends and
patrons that we have a complete and varied as
-Bortni€!Dt of the above good* in ®tock, bought be
fore the advance iii prices. We have a flue se
lection of other goods not properly in this line,
but incident to the 1 ><><>k and stationery tuple.
We have also made ample preparations to meet
the demands of the holiday trade, and will be in
constant elegantgooda.^
STOVES & TINWARE.
JOHN ANDERSON,
(Opposite Curry's Drug Store.)
HAS (X STORE AND FOR SALE A
large lot of Tinware, Stoves and Cutlery.
Also, the celebrated Fly Fans, Tubs and Buck
ets which he will sell in exchange for Rags,
Beeswax, Feathers, Butter, Eggs ami Chickens.
He sells goods cheaper than ever. junem
COUCH HOUSE,
(Kingston, Georgia.)
This large and comfortable
House is now r kept by W. W. Rainey. The
traveling public will find good, plain accommo
dations. Parties wishing board through the
summer will find Kingston one of the healthiest
and quietest localities in Upper Georgia. Three
or four families can get comfortable rooms in
view of trains. Terms very reasonable.
ily‘2fi. W. \V. R AINKI
LITCHFIELD HOUSE,
(Acworth, Georgia.)
E. 1. LITCHFIELD, Proprietor.
C CON VENIENT TO THE DEPOT, AND ITS
j tables supplied with the very best the mark
-et aflords. awjffß
VOLUME 11.
TO ADVERTISERS.
The Free Press as an Advertising
Medium.
We challenge any paper published on the line
of the state road to make a showing of as large
a circulation as that of The Free Press. We
will compare books, refer to paper mills, or
swear pressmen on the number we publish.
This is an item for advertisers to consider. The
following rates of advertising agreed upon be
tween the Express and The Free Press are as
low as respectable counntry journals can work
for. Those that work cheaper is evidence that
their circulations are very limited.
The following constitute the aggregate circu
lation of this paper:
Copies delivered in Cartersville : : 250
At Kingston :::::: 42
At Adairsville :::::: 41
At Pine Log :::::: 20
At Cassville :::::: 21
At Stilesboro :::::: 38
At Euharlee :::::: 34
At Taylorsville 29
At Cass Station :::::: 13
At Little Prairie : : : : : 5
At Bartow Iron Works : : : : 4
At Allatoona 9
At Hall’s Mills :::::: 5
At Stamp Creek : : : : : 3
At Gum Spring :::::: 2
Total number in Bartow county : 517
Number in rdjoining and other counties : 467
Total circulation 984
Can any paper on the state road claim such a
circulation? If so give us the figures. Let ad
vertisers take due uotice and govern themselves
accordingly.
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STEPHENS’ HISTORY
A Compendium of the History of the United States,
For Schools and Colleges.
By Hon. ALEX. H. STEPHENS.
(513 pp. 12m0.)
17 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK.
“The pith and marrow of our history.”— Ex-
President Fillmore.
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pressive.”—V. Y. Christian Union.
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good. We recommend it to be read by all
Northern men.”— Boston Courier.
“A work of high excellence; well adapted to
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L. L. I).)
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ning Post.
“Among tne notable books of the age.”—Chica
go Mail.
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sionate; style masterly.”— Louisville Home
and School.
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Sentinel.
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“Destined to become the standard of historic
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‘•Should find a place in all libraries.” — Ev-Gov.
C. J. Jenkins.
“A most important addition to American litera
ture.”— Prof. R. M. Johnston, Baltimore.
“Read it; study it; heed it.”— Prof. E. A. Steed,
Mercer University.
“Fairness, fulness, accuracy.” Prof. J. J.
Brantly, Mercer University.
SCHOOL AND COLLEGE TEXT BOOKS,
PUBLISHED BY
Iverson, Blakeman, Taylor & Cos.,
NEW YORK,
R. E. PARK, General Agent,
THIS series comprises among others, the fol
lowing well-known
STANDARD SCHOOL BOOKS:
New Graded Readers,
Robinson’s Mathematics,
Spencerian Copy Books,
Well’s Scientific Works,
Riddle’s Astromics,
Dana’s Geology,
Woodbury’s German,
Kerl’s Grammar,
Webster’s Dictionary,
Swinton’s Histories,
Swinton’s Word Books,
Swinton’s Geographies,
PasqueH's French,
Gray’s Botanies,
Bryant & Stratton’s Book-keeping,
Cathcart’s Literary Reader, etc., etc.
Correspondence respectfully solicted.
Address ROBERT E. PARK,
General Agent.
CareJ. W. Burke & co., Macon, Georgia.
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28tli day. Then is it not money LOST to attempt
to permanently cure the Chills with Quinine or
Cinchonidia, when they do not remove the cause
from the system that produces them? For until
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and will refund the money if the Chills return
after you are through taking. Positively no cure,
no pay. Try it gnd be convinced. It contains
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THE FREE PRESS.
DR. FELTON’S LETTER.
The Insinuation that it was not Written
on the 4tli Denied.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
Cartersville, November 19.—Edi
tors Constitution : An editorial ap
pears in the Chronicle wnich declares that
Dr. Felton’s letter was not written until
after the New York elections, not as pur
ported on the 4th of November.
That letter was not only written on the
4th of November but was submitted to a
half dozen of the best democrats in Car
tersville before the result of the election
reached us. If proof is needed they shall
have it.
The Chronicle asks why Dr. Felton did
not tell these things during the extra
session of congress. If the Chronicle
will look over its files they will find an
interview from Dr. Felton, about the 19th
or 20th of May, 1879.
There also appears an editorial about
the same time in which the editor him
self says: “Dr. Felton believes that the
democrats made a mistake in forcing an
extra session. * * * Asa result he
fears that the north and south are array
ed against each other. Like Mr. Ste
phens, he believes that the interests of
the party and the people have been se
riously jeopardized by leaders who
have no higher ambition than the selection
of a presidential candidate. As to what
should be the course of the party in view
of the vetoes that have been and are to
be received Dr. Felton speaks plainly and
vigorously. The democrats in congress
have injured instead of strengthing their
party and we fear the republican victories
this fall will be the fruit of their blun
dering.”
Why does the Chronicle now reproach
Dr. Felton when he is thus on the record
upon the same subject?
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun goes off
into a spasm of organized indignation,
and advances the argument that the
truth must not be told.
The democratic party must stick its
head in the sand and fancy it is hid.
That journal throws out some hints
that it will leave Dr. Felton at home and
go on to victory with the 7th district in
its side-pocket.
The 7th district independents are a free
unpurchasable people and are as indiffer
ent to such rash threats as they would be
to a .SSOO check, direct from Gramercy
park.
The ostrich game lias hurt Georgia pol
itics almost as much as the reporter who
details gossip and retails slanders from
the neighborhood of the department of
justice in Washington City to the Savan
nah News. The politics of that paper
may be democratic, hut it is not the
choice in the selection of its purveyor.
One Who Read the Manuscript on the
sth of November.
MR. STEPHENS’ VIEWS.
Special to Savannah News.]
Washington, November 18.—The idea
advanced heretofore that Mr. Stephens is
in accord with Dr. Felton in writing his
recent letter, and in most of the senti
ments therein expressed, is correct. It is
stated upon good authority that Mr. Ste
phens contemplates writing a letter,
taking the same grounds, practically, as
those taken by Dr. Felton. Mr. Stephens
says it is a matter of utmost indifference
to him what the newspapers may say on
this subject; that he represents his dis
trict, and the sooner the newspapers in
Georgia and other parts of the south un
derstand this fact the better it will be for
them.
MISS “LOTTIE” CRABTREE.
Philadelphia Letter to Chicago Times.
One would think that Lotta’s social
and professional position, was almost in
vulnerable to attacks of blackmail or slaiD
der. That she is not so fortunate, how
ever, is shown by the following letter,
hitherto unpublished, which she received
during her recent engagement here:
Law Office of T. F. Bachelder 622 Clay
street, San Francisco, October 28, 1879.
—Mrs. Lottie Crabtree, Playing at Wal
nut Theater, Philedelphia—Dear Mad
ame: Your husband, Earnest Zoff, has
been into my office, and wants to obtain a
divorce from you or a settlement, so
that he can go into business without
traveling round the country. He says
that when he married von he had SI,OOO,
and that since then he has used that up
and is now entirely out of funds; that
since your marriage to him you have ac
quired a large fortune, one-half of which
by the laws of this state belongs to him.
But he says that if you will give him
$4,000 cash now he will release all claims
to the balance of the property, and will or
will not get a divorce from you, as you
may request. At his solicitation I wrote
a letter to you to Chicago, hut addressed
it to Lottie Zoff, and he thinks you did
not get it. So I write this. He says
he does not care about having the noto
riety of going into the divorce court if
you are willing to do do anything reason
able with him; hut if not he will com
mence a suit for a divorce and for one
half of all property acquired since your
and his marriage. Hoping to hear
from you soon, I remain truly yours,
T. F. Bachelder,
Attorney-at-Law.
Even blackmailing, to be done to any
purpose, requires a certain amount of in
telligence and education, and both, these
elements of success seem to be lacking in
the two individuals quoted above. As it is
they hardly deserve as much attention
as they receive at the hands of Miss
Lotta’a attorney in this city, who in his
reply, said:
There are a few trifling circumstances
in the way of her complying with your
demand for $4,000. ‘She was never
married to anyone, has not and never
had a husband. Now your client,
Zoff, is either a lunatic or an impostor, or
both, and I am inclined to think that an
“attorney-at-law” who writes about com
pelling a wife to support a husband is
little better. Say to your client, who
does not know the name of the
woman he claims as his wife, that if he
will come to Philedelphia l will provide
him with quarters and board that " ill
relieve him of the necessity of traveling
round the country. If you should ac
company your client I have no doubt
that I shall be able to increase your
knowledge of the law by teaching you
the penalties of its violation.
Strange to say, Lotta has met with her
full share of blackmailers and impostors,
and she tells ip her sprightly, vivacious
way many interesting and -remarkable
stories of the innumerable brothers, hus
bands and indiscriminate relatives, who
have sprung up in every path, or whose
hills have been sent to her for payment.
• ♦♦♦ —■ —
. An Arizona judge has just shown his
appreciation of modern improvements in
firearms by shooting and killing an edi
tor. The editor’s partner immediately
shot the magistrate and was himself way
laid and extinguirhed the same night by
some parties unknown. The total bag for
the dav’s sport was a judge and two edi
tors. Altogether it was a great day for
Arizona.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 27, 1879.
TWO OBJECTIONS TO PUBLIC
SCHOOLS CONSIDERED.
“A Tax-payer,” writing in the Arneri
cus Republican, thus handles the public
school question:
“I would not be opposed to public
schools were it not for educating the ne
groes,” said a gentleman on the street
the other day. It is for those holding
his and similar opinions that constrains
me to write this article. Is his objection
a valid one? If we can by a system of
public schools educate both white and
colored for less cost than under the pres
ent system we can educate the whites,
should we not adopt it? If a shade tree
standing in our yard, at some hour in the
day cast its grateful shade upon the yard
of our neighbor, should we cut it down ?
Or should our bkl of flowers be enjoyed
by our neighbor, or “the sweet south
wind that breathes upon our banks of
violets stealing ami giving odor,” waft
the same upon some chance passer by,
should we destroy them ? Or should we
withhold from planting fruit trees, fear
ing that we may not live to eat tbe fruit
thereof? It has been demonstrated time
and again that we can, by the pub
lic school system, educate both white and
colored, for less money than under the
present system we educate the whites
alone. But, others say that they do not
want to send their children to a public
school, that they will come in contact
with immoral children, and contract bad
habits. This is fallacious; for your chil
dren will sooner or later come in contact
with the world, and it is far better that
they should learn while young to resist
evil, than to wait until the heydey of
youth, when the passions are strong, and
the rich blood coursing through their
veins drives them headlong upon the
breakers and shoals of life, as a ship in a
storm without a compass or chart is driv
en upon the rocks, and left to rot a deso
late thing, a sad warning to others sail
ing over life’s tempestuous main. Histo
ry accords no great names who were ed
ucated separate and alone; nor the only
son or daughter of a family. “God set
teth the solitary in families.” Man is a
gregarious animal, thrives most when
jostled by multitudes: Carlo and Maria
Lutizia Bonaparte, the father and moth
er of Napoleon Bonaparte, were the pa
rents of eight children—half of whom,
without borrowing any lustre from Na
poleon, would have lived in history. So
reads the biography of nearly all great
men, they were one of many brethren.
It is by association and attrition with our
fellows that the mind expands, enlarges
and develops into the perfect man. It is
the law of nature. Plant a grain of
corn in your garden, solitary and alone,
it matters not how you cultivate it, nor
how rich the soil, the ear of corn will be
imperfect. So the child that is brought
up alone; denied associates, it matters not
how much care and pains in training, it
will not be able to compete with those
who from childhood have come in con
tact with the world. Nature’s laws are
inexorable. “The survival of the fittest”
the weak go to the wall. It behooves us
to so educate our children that they may
overcome temptation, not by taking them
out of the world, but by making them
strong to withstand the assaults that
will come sooner or later. And in edu
cating our children, let us not be cast
down with sorrow and regret, that at the
same time we should educate our neigh
bors, also, even the negro; for as we ed
ucate the negro and lift him up to a high
er plain, will crime be diminished and
taxation reduced. Solidarity between
the races in the south exists, ignore it as
we may, and we are only helping our
selves after all, when we contribute to
the moral and mental culture of the ne
gro race. Of two things we should
choose, to make the negro better, or ban
ish him from the land. We cannot af
ford to do the latter, then let us do the
former with cheerful hearts and willing
hands, for jails and court houses are more
expensive than school houses.
ESTIMATES FOR THE PRESENT FIS
CAL YEAR.
A Washington dispatch states that the
secretary of the treasury has completed
the computation of the estimates of the
.expenditures of the government for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1881. These
estimates agregrate $136,347,129, which
is an increase of $7,149,316, compared
with the estimates presented to congress
last December for the current fiscal year.
The items for which the estimates are
increased, are as follows: Civil establish
ment, $333,713; navy, $321,767; Indians,
$59,602; pensions, $2,788,000; post office,
$1,804,024; miscellaneous, $2,954,720.
In the estimate of the military establish
ment, there is a decrease of nearly $16,-
00(), and in those for for public works
over $1,000,000. It will be noticed that
the increase is mainly confined to the
additions made to the estimates for pen
sions, post office, and miscellaneous.
The increase in the miscellaneous expen
ditures is due to the appropriation made
at the last session of congress for taking
the census next year, and the increase of
pensions is due to the legislation of the
forty-fifth congress in reference to the
arrears of pensions. The increase asked
for the postal service is explained by the
constant growth of that service. The
aggregate of the estimates to be submit
ted to congress in December, falls short
of the amount appropriated by congress
for the current fiscal j r ear over $26,000,-
000, the amount appropriated for this
year being $162,404,646. This includes
about $3,000,000 appropriated for the
district of Columbia, estimates of which
are not included in the figures to be pre
sented to congress by the secretary of the
treasury.
The idea of forming a colony of Ital
ians at Vineland, New Jersey, occurred
to Mr. G. F. S. De Cesall, editor of the
L'Eco d'ltalia, about six years ago, aud
the undertaking has met with such
success that he is now taking the initia
tory steps for establishing a second
colony of his countrymen in a fertile
region in Florida. For the purpose of
selecting suitable lands, Mr. De Cesall
expects to visit Florida next month, in
company with the late minister to Bel
gium, General 11. S. Sanford, who is a
land owner in that state, and who pro
poses to sell lands to the colony on easy
conditions. Attention will be given by
the Italian settlers in Florida ehietly to
the culture of oranges, lemons, grapes,
figs and almonds.
Irregular methods are tolerated in the
west. Two men started to Minneapolis
on the same train, carrying conflicting
deeds to a piece of land in Sioux Falls,
and each resolved to get his document
recorded first As they approached that
city, one of them climbed upon the en
gine, slipped the coupling, left the train
to take care of itself, and rushed on, se
curing a record of his title half an hour in
advance of his rival, who had to wait for
another loeoinotive.
♦ ♦
Bill Arp says he crosses his sheep with
a hydraulic ram. It makes the butter
stronger.
HOPE FOR THE DRUNKARD.
A Certain Care for Dypsomanla Found.
Chicago Letter to New York Sun.
The physicians and temperance men of
Chicago are very much excited over a
new remedy discovered by Dr. Robert
D’Unger, which not only cures intem
perance, but leaves the drunkard with an
absolute aversion to spirituous liquors.
Mr. Joseph Medill, the editor of the Chi
cago Tribune, is one of the strongest in
dorsers ot the new remedy. Mr. Medill
has had many scientific articles in the
Tribune about it, and has often devoted
editorial space to make known to the
drunkard that there is a simple remedy
which can save him. Yesterday I had a
long talk with Mr. Medill about this won
derful discovery, during which he said:
“This is one of the most wonderful dis
coveries of the age. Dr. D’Unger lias
actually cured 2,800 cases of the worst
forms of intemperance. He takes men
debauched by liquor for years—takes a
used-up, demented, loathsome sot, and in
ten days makes a -well man of him with a
positive aversion to liquor.”
“You have seen the medicine tried, Mr.
Medill?”
“Yes, repeatedly. Why, one of our
first citizens became a common drunkard
a few years ago. He fell to the lowest
depths. He groveled in the dust. His
wife, a lovely woman, got a divorce from
him. But at the last moment, when
ready to die, this man’s friends tried this
wondeiful remedy. In four days his ap
petite came back, and in a week he
gained the use of his hands, tongue and
brain. Then color came to his cheeks,
and in two weeks he was a cured man.
He had 110 longing for liquor. He posi
tively hates the sight of it. His wife and
children are delighted, and to-morrow
this reformed and cured drunkard is to be
married again to the loving woman who
had to leave him a year ago.”
“Is this medicine a secret?”
“No, not at all. Dr. D’Unger is a
regular practitioner. He tells the secret
to every one, and many of our physicians
are using his discovery. I will give you
a note to him, and he will tell you about
it.”
Armed with Mr. Medill’s note I called
on Dr. D’Unger at the Palmer House.
“You are just in time,” said the doctor.
“I’m just going to call on a patient now
who, though a rich man, has been a de
bauched drunkard for fifteen years. For
six weeks he has been in bed as helpless
as a child. His memory was even gone.
He has been taking my medicine for four
days.”
“Is Mr. in bed?” asked the doctor,
as we gave our name to the servant.
“Oh, no; he’s in the parlor reading—
walk in.”
And there was this drunkard, still
weak, but mentally cured. When the
doctor asked him if he had any longing
for liquor, he said : “No, none whatever,
I have eaten the best meal this morning
that I have eaten in fifteen years. I am
not mentally depressed. I am strong,
and I wouldn’t take a drink of liquor for
the world, and—”
“Oh, doctor!” interrupted his wife
as she took both his hands, “you have
saved George, and we are so happy!”
and then her eyes filled with tears of
joy.
“Will that man ever drink again?”
I asked the doctor.
“No. I’ve never had a patient cured
by cinchona rubra return to drink again.
They hate the sight of liquor.”
“Now, doctor,” I said, “what did you
give this patient, or, in other words, tell
me in plain English what your medicine
is, how you prepare it, and how any one
may give it so as to cure an habitual
drunkard—l mean a drunkard with in
flamed eyes, trembling hands, bloated
body, and intellect shattered by habitual
drink.”
“My medicine,” said the doctor, “can
be bought at any first-class drug-store.
It is red Peruvian bark ( cinchona rubra).
Quinine is from the yellow bark (cali
saya). Now, there are eighty varieties
of this bark. I use the bark from the
small limbs of the red variety. Drug
gists call it the quill bark, because it
comes from twigs about the size of a
quill.”
“ITovv do you mix it?”
“I take a pound of the best fresh quill
red Peruvian bark ( chinchona rubra),
powder it and soak it in a pint of diluted
alcohol. Then I strain it and evaporate
it down to a half pint. Any one can
prepare it.”
“How do you give this medicine?”
“I give the drunken man a tablespoon
ful every three hours, and occasionally
moiston his tongue between the doses the
first and second days. It acts like qui
nine. The patient can tell by a head
ache if he is getting too much. The third
day I generally reduce the dose to a half
spoonful, then to a quarter spoonful,
then down to fifteen, ten and five drops.”
“How long do you Continue the medi
cine?”
“From five to fifteen days, and in ex
treme cases to thirty days. Seven is
about the average.”
“Now, please tell me the philosophy
of this medicine —why it cures drunken
ness, and how you happened to make the
discovery?”
“Well, first you must understand that
intemperance, first a habit, finally be
comes a disease. It becomes a disease
of the nerve or if talking to a phy
sician, I should say it becomes a disease
of the sensorial gangalia. I found by
dissecting the brain of a man who had
died of delirium tremens that the cells of
the quadrigeminal hotly, or the cells that
send the nerves to the eye, were in an
unnatural state on the outside, while
within the nerves themselves I discover
ed a yellow, yeasty looking deposit. Now,
I asked myself what is this yellow de
posit and what causes this abnormal look
of the cells? It is caused, I learned af
ter much research, by the etherial part
of the alcohol going straight to the out
side of these cells. Now, if I drink
milk,” continued the doctor, “or
eat food, it will take it four hours
to pass through the digestive or
gans, to he taken up in the blood, and be
passed to the nerve cells, from which the
brain is fed; while if I drink alcohol it
will go straight to the nerve cells in three
minutes. This shows that alcohol is not
digested. It is not food. It is a poison
ous fluid electricity, which goes over the
sensitive nerves as electricity goes over a
wire, straight to the outside of the nerve
cells, which it stimulates artificially,
when they should be stimulated natural
ly through the blood, If the the spirit of
alcohol,” continued the doctor, “were di
gested like some, the kidneys and liver
would extract from it its poisonous prop
erties as they extract the injurious salts
from our food, and this poison would
never reach the brain. Once stimulated
unnaturally by a poisonous substance
like whisky, the nerve eells call for larger
doses, till by and by a man can drink two
quarts of whisky or eat seventy grains of
morphine a day. Chinchona rubra stops
the call for alcohol.”
“Do not red Peruvian hark and alcohol
both stimulate the nerve cells? Then whj
1 can one cure the other?” I asked.
“Well, alcohol is a fermented, distilled
stimulant, with poison in it, while my
medicine is a natural stimulant, contain
ing no poison; so my medicine stimulates
the nerves, and, not being poisonous, al
lays inflammation—that is, it holds the
cells open until the morbid deposit is
forced out, and the cells accustom them
selves to receive their stimulus naturally
through the arteries. It stops all craving
for alcohol.”
“Then red Peruvian bark stimulates
and builds up the nerve cells until they
begin to receive nutrition from the
blood?”
“Yes, that’s it. The only credit I
claim is making this discovery and dis
covering the location of the disease
known as dipsomania.”
“How did you discover that red cin
chona bark would cure drunkenness?”
“Well, I first discovered it down in
Maryland twelve years ago. An account
was published in the Sun at that time.
I had a case of a drunkard—Bill Stevens
—who also had intermittent fever. It
was a hard case of fever, and so I tried
red Peruvian bark instead of quinine.
To my surprise it not only cured his
fever, but he never wanted to drink
whisky afterward. When he went into
a saloon and the boys asked him to drink,
Bill said:
“I can’t boys. That doggone red bark
the doctor gave me not only killed my
fever, but it spoiled all the whisky in
Maryland for me.”
“What conspicuous cures in Chicago
can you refer to, doctor?”
“Well, Dr. S. B. Noble. He had the
alcoholic disease. His nerve cells were
poisoned, lie was once president of the
Illinois Dental Association. He got to
be a hard drinker. Ilis mind began to
be affected, though a scholar and a
gentleman, beloved by everybody. He
tried red Peruvian bark three weeks ago.
He’s a well man now, and everybody in
Chicago looks at his cure as a miracle.
Dr. Noble knows it was a disease, and
don’t object to be referred to.”
I am satisfied that if the physicians in
New York will give Dr. D’Ungers dis
covery a trial they will do more for tem
perance in a year than Gough and Mur
phy have done in all their lives. It is
the first remedy ever discovered that
kills the disease and the inclination to
drink at one and the same time.
There lives in the republic of Salvador
at present a venerable gentleman named
Miguel Solis, who is one hundred and
eighty years of age. There is no doubt
at all about it. He signed *a document
relating to the building of a convent in
1722, being then twenty-three years old.
When Dr. Hernandez lately called on
him he was at work in his garden. He
takes one strong, nourishing meal each
day, except on the Ist and sth of each
month, when he eats nothing, but drinks
as much water as he can. We are not
told whether he is a teetotaller, or drinks
the wine of the country, which is called
“tangleleg,” but it is stated his skin is
like parchment, his hair white as snow,
while his eyes have a most lively ex
pression.
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At Paris, Texas, Wm. Pitts went to a
festival of colored people Walk'ug into
the middle of the hall, and in the midst
of the crowd, he pulled out his pistol and
nrea it oir, me Duuet going through the
roof. Another quiet looking whiteman
walked up and said: “You ought not to
act that way.” Pitts replied: “Take it
back, or you, I will kill you.” “I
don’t take It back,” replied the stranger.
The yahoo then fired, hitting him in the
right shoulder. The stranger then drew
a sharp bowie knife and made for Pitts.
The women shrieked and negroes seized
the stranger; but he broke loose, and,
getting at Pitts, slashed him across the
throat and slashed both cheeks in two,
besides cutting him in the abdomen.
Pitts is reported dying. —Louisville Cou
rier-Journal.
A majority of the steamship lines in
New York have acceded to the demand of
the longshoremen for an advance of
wages to twenty-five cents an hour for
the present, but some hold out. There
is an immense amount of freight to be
handled and the company is at the mer
cy of the strikers. On the Brooklyn side
nearly all the companies have acceded to
the demands of the strikers. The men
say that twenty-five cents an hour is no
more than they are justly entitled to, as
the prices of provisions have advanced so
high recently that they cannot support
their families at the old rates.
The London World says: “It is be
coming the fashion at distinguished
weddings in Paris for page-boys to be
subsituated for bridesmaids. They are
all dressed alike, mostly in red or blue
velvet or satin, with silk stockings or
gold buckles, and, for their business,
have to attend on the bride, carry her
prayer-book and bouquet, support her
train and veil, and generally be at her
bidding all the day. Young brothers or
relatives, under twelve years of age, are
usually selected for the office.”
Miss Lillie E. Barr writes to the Chris
tian Union, of New York, that while in
specting the convicts at the Dade coal
mines, in this State, she found a boy
founteen years old who, when only ten,
had been sentenced to forty years im
prisonment for burglary. As the sever
est punishment affixed to this crime by
the law of Georgia is twenty years im
prisonmeut, the Augusta Chronicle con
cludes that the gentle Lillie must have
drawn on her imagination for the other
twenty.
A curious calculation has been made
by a continental statistician as to the
amount drawn by various sovereigns
from the civil list. According to this it
appears that the Czar has 125.000 francs
per day; the Sultan, 90,000; the Emperor
of Austria, 50,000; the Emperor of Ger
many, 41,000; the King of Italy, 32,000:
and the King of the Belgians, 8,215.
A Brownsburg, Ind., coroner’s jury,
in the case of child poisoning, brought in
a verdict that “Minnie Jones came to her
death by means of arsenic administered to
her in a" pie and bread, purposely and
willfully administered by her mother,
Mary Jones.” Mrs. Jones was indicted
for murder in the first degree. She is
very weak, and is eating nothing.
Two men named Dennis and Anderson,
armed with riilles, went to the house of a
Miss Williams, at Jamestown, Tenn.,
and after insulting that lady, ordered a
man named Steincipher to leave. Stein
cipher, however, seized a riille and shot
one of the men dead, and clubbed the
other nearly to death.
Colonel Willliamson, a noted Texan
lawyer, who had suddenly become insane,
stood up in church and asked a young
lady to come forward and marry him.
The young lady was so surprised and
shocked that she fainted.
An lowa woman gave her husband
morphine to cute him of chewing tobac
co. It cured him but she is doing her
own fail ploughing.
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NUMBER 20.
THE BUSINESS BOOM.
Securities Still Tending: Upward.
Philadelphia Times.
“How are stocks to-day?” was asked
of a well-known banker and broker yes
terday.
“Off a little by spurts this morning,”
was the reply. Then after a moment’s
reflection, he continued: “That’s not
going to affect the rise, though. It is
beyond the influence of speculative flue
tution. Operators don’t control it any
more; it controls them. Money is
being sent in for investment by men
whose names were never heard of be fora
as capitalists, speculators or investors.
Some of it smells old and musty, as if it
had lain too long in the stockings. Such
operators buy to hold, and fluctations
don’t frighten them. It has been
estimated that within the past three
months $5,000,000,000 have been added to
the apparent wealth of this country
merely through the appreciation of rail
way and other miscellaneous securities.
This estimate does not include the grand
aggregate of specie which has been stead
ily flowing hither although to that source
was largely due the first impetus which
has resulted in such a steady, consistent
and seemingly well grounded rise in val
ues. The grand half billion marks only
the difference between what people will
take now and what they would have
taken then for securities that gave them
the gravest apprehension of being worth
anything only a quarter of a year ago.”
The most searching inquiry among the
brokers failed to identify any particular
class of persons as to the customers whose
orders have been setting Third street
agyg. The buying has been almost
solely of securities such as are very sel
dom quoted away from the local ex
change. Small blocks are ordered,
seemingly for permanent investment, as
in nearly all cases actual transfers are
made, although it has begun to be noticed
that some of the earlier purchasers are
realizing the profits already accrued.
The shrewd observers of the street site
such facts to show that the rise is not
speculative, but acquires its steadiness
and persistence from the best of all rea
sons—restoration of public confidence in
the healthfulness of trade. If it were
speculative, they say, there would be
some losers, and the facts would be ac
cented by the wrecks of conservative
operators. So far as can be ascertained
nobody has lost by this rise. Those
who sold out early are satisfied with
having realized their price for securi
ties that they had held so long in the
face of a declining market that they were
glad to realize upon the first brisk ad
vance.
“It is repeating the history of the ty
phoid patient,” said another broker.
“The country has had financial typhoid
ever since the panic. Even toast water
was too strong at first, but resumption
brought on the beef tea and brandy
stage. That’s where we are now. We’ve
got to come to the roast beef strength yet,
but the time is coining and no check born
of mere artificial construction or specula
tion is going to influence the result.”
“What do you attribute the money
plethora to?” the reporter queried.
“It is partly because we are getting so
much money back from Europe, and
furthermore, booange nearly all the money
now seeking investuicwta because
in stocks has paid for some product tnai
has been created out of the soil or mus
cle of the nation. It represents so much
value that did not exist a year ago. All
the arts and industries have answered to
the impetus lent by the indisputable suc
cess of resumption. A considerable
factor in the problem has been the fact
that the government has beenable to
borrow without running up the interest
on all other borrowers. Four percent,
interest does not attract capital any more.
The railway, mining and manufacturing
securities afford at least the promise of
much better returns for capital. It is
very doubtful whether the company
could negotiate another loan at that small
figure.”
Oil City, November 16.—The business
boom has struck the oil business in earn
est. The advance in prices during the
past week has been as unexpected as it
has been remarkable, when the unfavor
able aspect of affairs is taken into consid
eration. The appreciation in values is
supposed to be largely attributed to the
investment of enormous amounts of east
tern capital. In the Oil Exchange hero
to-day the excitement reached almost a
panic. One million two hundred
thousand barrels changed hands, nearly
one-fourth of which was bought for New
York capitalists. The market opened
$09;%, advanced to $1.20, dropped to
$1.15, again and closed at $1.20, with
$1.16;% bid. The assembly room of the
Exchange was crowded throughout the
entire day and the most intense excite
ment prevailed—together with an abun
dance of champagne. At the opening
of the afternoon session there was an ad
vance of four cents without a single sale.
Boys walnut be very regular at school
during the nutting season.
Jonah didn’t care for any mire fish
breakfasts when he got through with the
whale.
“Blessed arc the piece-makers,” said
the small boy who dropped a costly
porcelain ornament.
Mother: “Now, Emma, what is the
tenth commandment?” Emma, aged
five: “The same it was last Sunday.”
Tin has risen several dollars on the
ton, and we presume that many tin wed
dings will have to be postponed.
If youi wife objects to kissing you
because you smoke, simply remark that
you know some girl who will. That
settles it.
Little Johnny says: “Talk about your
patent base-burning stoves, my ma’s old
slipper is hot enough base burner for
me.”
A Connecticut small boy has written a
composition on the horse in which he
says it is an animal on four legs, “one at
each corner.”
That was a wise colored man who, in
speaking of the happiness of married
people, said: “Dat ar’ pends altogedder
how dey enjoy demselves.”
A beautiful woman, says a sentimen
talist, is a queen before whose sceptre
men bow. Yes, and scrape too. Scrape
around to get enough money to keep her
in.store clothes.
“Madam,” said Jones to Mrs. Brown,
the other day, “you are talking simply
rubbish.” “Yes,” replied the lady;
“and I do so because I wish you to com
prehend me.”
“Don’t be afrakl to praise your ser
vants when they deserve it,” says Mrs.
Swisshelm; but tile minute the husband
tries that on the hired girl, she has to
hunt another situation.
A lather eccentric man always says,
when he sees a fanner going to town
with a load of produce with a woman
sitting on the fop of-it: “That load’s got
a mortgage on it,” meaning the woman
will trade it out.