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- T. WOFFORD,
ATTOKNBY-AT-LAW,
—AND—
DEALER I N REAL ESTATE,
l ASS STATION, BARTOW COUNTY, GA.
JNO. L. MOON. DOUGLAS WIKLE.
MOON A WIKLE,
Attorneys-at-Law,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
W ILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS,
both State and Federal, except Bartow
•ountv criminal court. J. M. Neel a! one yviU
practice in said last mentioned court. Office m
northeast corner of court house building. febz7
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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Superior Courts of North-west Georgia, and the
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office west side public Square, up-stairs over
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AND
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CARTKSVILI.E, : '• : GEORGIA.
(Office: Bank block, up-stairs.)
\ A TILL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OF
VV the Cherokee and adjoining circuits.
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W. M. .JOHNSON, Dentist,
(Office over Stokely & Williams store.)
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA..
T WILL FIL j TEETH, EXTRACT TEETH,
± and put in teeth, or do any work in my line
at prices to suitthe times. ,
ItetY-Workal. warranted. Refer to my pat
rons all over the county. Tnnwanv
augls-ly. F. M. JOHNSON.
JOHN T. OWEN,
(At Sayre A Co.’s Drug Store,)
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
WILL sell Watches, Clocks and Jewelry.
Spectacles, Silver and Silver-Plated
Goods, and will sell them as cheap as they cun
be bought anywhere. Warranted to prove as
represented. All work done by me warranted
to give satisfaction. Give me a call. julylß.
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WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The following ie the present passenger sched-
NIGHT PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta ......... C:oopm
Leave Cartersville 4:53 pm
Leave Kingston p m
Leave Dalton p m
Arrive at Chattanooga 8:47 pm
NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 6:25 pm
Leave Dalton
Leave Kingston
Leave Cartersville 9:05 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 11:00 p in
DAY PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 5:20 am
Leave Cartersville 7:23 am
Leave Kingston 7:49 am
Leave Dalton
Arrive at Chattanooga 10:50 am
DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 6:15 a m
A.eave Dalton ? : 19 am
Leave Kingston a m
Leave Cartersville . 10:11 am
Arrive at Atlanta 12:05 pm
CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—UP.
Leave Atlanta
Arrive at Cartersville * 7:22 pm
CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION —DOWN.
3;eave Cartersville . 6:05 am
Arrive at Atlanta . 8:45 am
COOSA RIVER NAVIGATION.
On and after December 16th, 1878, the following
schedule will be run by the Steamers MAGNO
LIA or ETOWAH BILL:
Leave Rome Tuesday . . 8a m
Arrive at Gadsden Wednesday .... 6am
Leave Gadsden Wednesday *P m
Arrive at Rome Thursday " P m
Leave Rome Friday ........ 8a m
Arrive at Gadsden Saturday 7am
Arrives at Greensport * a m
Arrive at Rome Saturday . . . . • • b P m
j, M. ELLIOTT, President and Gen’l sup t.
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
On and after Monday, Sept. 1, 1879, the train
on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted):
TjeaveC'artersvillo am
Arrive at Stilesbora
Arrive at Taylorsville 8:52 am
Arrive at Rockmart 10:00 a m
Arrrive at terminus 10:50 a m
RETURNING.
Eeave terminus 5.■00 pm
Arrive at Rockmart 3:40 p m
Arrive at Taylorsville - : To pm
Arrive at Stilesboro " : “P m
Aarrive at Cartersville P 111
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 laily (except Sundays) . 5:00 pm
Arrive at Rome 8:00 brn
Both trains will make connection with W. ®A.
K. R. at Kingston, to and from Atlanta and
points south.
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Oas. A.Smitu, President.
G. P. Agt.
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Dalton, Ga.
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On fihe Kennesaw Route.
BREAKFAST AND SUPPER HOUSE FOR
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Special Attention Given to the Comfort and Con
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Reading and Sample Rooms for Commercial
Travelers.
Board per day, $2.00; Meals, 50 cts.
Railroaders. County and Stockmen, half
fare. , .
THEO. K. SMITH. J. W. PRITCHETT.
SMITH vV PRITCHETT
REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
PROPOSE TO BUY AND SELL ALL KINDS
of Real Estate in Cartersville and Bartow
countv, on commission. They have on hand for
sale several desirable farms located in diflerent
parts of the county. ,
They respectfully solicit business of all par
ties desiring to sell or buy town property or
farming lands. Their terms will be reasonable.
Office in Planters’ and Miners’ bank, Carters
lle, Ga. _______ se P u
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VOLUME 11.
M. LIEBMAN & BRO.,
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Going out of Business!
POSITIVELY SELLING OUT AT COST.
Being fully determined to give up our business here we will sell
from now on until our ENTIRE STOCK of
DRYCOODS, CL °I” I , 2S’ UNI
DRY COODS, CJ-eCH NO, Uirl’
DRY COODS, CLOTHING, HATS,
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, VALISES,
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, VALISES,
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, VALISES,
Is Sold at and Below NEW YORK COST.
If possible we will wind up our business by the First Of September next, but any goods
we may have on hand then,
WILL BE SOLD AT AUCTION.
We mean business this time—no child’s talk, so if you want to secure BARGAINS you had
better call early and secure choice ol goods while our stock is complete yet.
Bear In Mind Our Whole Stock will Have to be Sold by the First of
September, and any Goods left on hand will be sold at Auction, to
gether with Store Fixtures:
Slioyv Cases, Looking Grlasses, J3ed.steads, "W ard
robes, Desks, Chairs Etc., Etc.
Our Business in Nashville requires our Full Attention, which Com
pels us to Give up Here. Respectfully,
M. LIEBMAN & BRO.
Cartersville, Georgia.
P. S. We will Positively from now on not sell any Goods except for
CASH.
Those Parties indebted to us will please call at once and settle
their account.
All Accounts not settled by the first of July next, will be given in
the hands of our lawyer for collection.
3 18 _ 2m M. LIEBMAN & BRO.
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Tailoring-!
The undersigned returns thanks
to his former patrons for their literal pat
rmiaire in the past and inform them that ho nas
S a hop over the furniture store, west
Xin street wViere he will he pleased to see all
Sat wantan vthingdone in the tailoring line
and in future lie hopes to merit
he has always received. S. H. FAiiitcv.
January Bth, 1880.
THE FREE PRESS.
SCHOOL AND COLLEGE TEXT BOOKS,
PUBLISHED BY
Iverson, Blakeman, Taylor & Cos.,
NEW YORK,
ft. 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’ Histories,
Swinton’s Word Books,
Swinton's Geographies,
Pasquell’s French,
Gray’s Botanies,
Bryant & Stratton’s Book-keeping,
Catheart’s Literary Reader, etc., etc.
Correspondence respectfully solicted.
Address ROBERT E. PARK,
General Agent.
Care J. W. Burke & co., Macon, Georgia.
V. O. ROBERTSON, M, !>.,
Hygienic Physician and Electro-
Therapeutist,
Begs leave to announce to the
citizens of Bartow, Gordon, Cobb, Cherokee;
and other counties of North Georgia, that for the
sake of rendering his mode of treatment more
universal and available, and the Health Institute
equally easy of access to patients in all parts of
the state, has removed from Rowland Springs to
Atlanta where he has permanently established a
Health Institute.
The A. Clarita, Health Institute
is the only institute south superintended by reg
ularly qualified Hygienic Phyeicians, and the
only place where all kinds of curable diseases
are scientifically treated without a particle of
medical drug in any form, and with success un
paralelled by any other known process of treat
ing diseases. . * . . .
Parties who are, because of continued dosing
and drugging, considered incurable, are re
spectfully requested to visit or correspond with
us Thousands of chronic invalids, after having
patiently tried the “deadly virtues of the (drug
ophatic) healing art” and with no other change
than that of growing continually worse and
worse, have under the Hygienic system of medi
cation, been speedily and permanedtly restored
call at ATLANTA HEALTH
INSTITUTE No. 178 W. Peters street, or address
dr. U. O. ROBERTSON
fel)2o Atlanta,, Ga.
For Sale.
THE DWELLING HOUSE AND LOT LATE-
Iy occupied by John A. Erwin m Carters
ville, Ca. The lot contains emht acres a fine
pasture, orchard and kitchen garden. Ihe house
{ins seven rooms, with cook room and kitchen
attached There are stables and all other nec
essary outhouses on the premsses. To a respon
sible'purchaser liberal will
SSSUtUMi*.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 22, 1880.
THE YAZOO FRAUD.
CONCLUSION.
Questions asked Phillip Clayton, Esq..
1. Were you intimately acquainted
with Roberts Thomas, deceased, one of
the senate of the state of Georgia, during
the last session of the legislature at Au
gusta? Did he live in your house dur
ing the session ?
Answer: I was intimately acquainted
with Mr. Roberts. He did live in my
house during the session.
2d. Had you any conversation with
him on the subject of the sale of the Wes
tern territory, while the subject was in
agitation before or after that time ?
Ans: He had, before, at, and after
passing the act.
3. Did he, or did he not tell you, or
give you to understand that he held
shares in some one of the companies who
purchased the lands —did lie not make
known to you that such share or shares
were given to him by the company or
companies, without being liable for any
money therefor, and that his certificate
differed from those given to persons out
of the legislature in that respect ?
Ans: After the passing of the act, he
brought considerable money to my house
and asked me to take care of it. I be
lieve it was two thousand dollars. On
which, I asked him how he got it, or if
he got it tor his proportion of the lands,
or words to that effect. lie said, “It is
nothing to you. lake care of it,” and
smiled.
4. Are you not acquainted with some
one or more of the grantees, of the said
onmpanies, and have you net heard some
one or more of them say that Roberts
Thomas did receive a gratrtous certifi
cate for a share or shares, and that he
would not be content with one in the
usual form ?
Ans. I am acquainted with the gran
tees of the companies. I never heard it
from any of them.
Gth. From any circumstance which
has come to your knowledge do you or
do you not know or believe that the said
Roberts Thomas or any of the members
of the legislature were absolutely inter
ested in the purchase of the western
lands or did receive monsy to induce
them to vote for the sale thereof?
Ans. I do not know, but suppose they
were from general suppositions.
7. Did you understand from the ques
tion you put to Roberts Thomas when he
brought you the money' and the manner
in which he answered it, that he had re
ceived money for his vote in the legisla
ture for selling the land ?
Ans. I did suppose from a knowledge
of Mr. Thomas’ circumstances that he
couia nut Have gotten the nv>"j. ■
in that Tmj- rtti tot ttidirootly. 1
8. Do you, or do you not, know the as
sociates of the respective companies ?
Ans. Ido not. Mr. Longstreet exe
cuted a renunciation of dower of lands
belonging to the Georgia com pany to Mr.
Maher. Sworn to as aforesaid.
Phillip Clayton.
David B. Mitchell, a member of the
present “legislature, being: duly sworn,
maketh oath and saith; that, on his re
turn to Augusta alter the rising of the
legislature he rode in company with
Thomas Wylly, a member of the senate
from Effingham, when a conversation
took place regarding the sale of the
western territory of the state, and the
said Wylly told the deponent that he sold
a share in one of the companies to one
Wilson, of Augusta, for which he got a
negro fellow named Dublin —that he had
some money besides on account of said
share—that the said Dublin was then
riding behind them in the carriage—that
Wylly further said he would make eight
or ten likely negroes out of his shares in
the different companies—the deponent
said to Wylly that he had not made as
much as some of the rest did and said
that he had engaged too soon. He was
not so lucky as some who held out to the
last. ‘ D. B. Mitchell.
Henry Mithell, from Warren county,
sworn and examined, said he was sent
for by Mr. Gumming, one of tho grantees,
and was asked his opinion about the mat
ter if it came before the senate. The de
ponent told Gumming that he did not
chink it proper to give opinion before it
catne up, and Gumming then said the
company had made provision for shares
for all the members, provided they
thought fit to take them. Sworn to as
aforesaid,
Capt. Robert Raines, being duly sworn,
saith. That a day or two before the ad
journment of the legislature he was in
Augusta with John King, a member of
the senate. He introduced Capt. James
Lucas to King. King asked Lucas to go
to the house King lodged in to drink
some grog—when King came out he said
he had given Lucas a share, and, with an
oath said he and his sons hud more land
than they knew what to do with —depo-
nent asked Lucas if King gave him a
share, he said yes, but he ywas to pay
money for it. Deponent saith also that
Phillip Clayton, treasurer of the state
called on deponent and told him that if
he could prevail on Mr. Mitchell, sena
tor and brother-in-law of Mr. Raines, to
go home, he, the deponent, might have
SSOO, or pounds or guineas, the deponent
does not remember which. The depo
nent saith Richard Worsham, a member,
was offering a share in Gunn’s company
for sale, that Reuben Wilkinson was also
wishing to sell shares in the western
lands. Robert Rains.
William Sallard, of Hancock, making
oath, said lie was in Augusta about the
23d or 24th of January, and was at Gen.
Glasscock’s one of the grantees, and
Glasscock talked with him about Rob
erts Thomas, senator from Hancock, and
asked th deponent what the people of
Hancock thought of Thomas. Deponent
said he did not know that they would
kill him, but he would stand a good
chance of chugging a sapling, that they
thought Thomas had been bribed. The
General said that he did not know that
he had been bribed, but he had a good
deal of land. That he, with a Mr. Night
ingale had paid to Thomas seventeen
hundred dollars, and four hundred dol
lars to John Thomas, his brother, for
land, and further said other companies
had paid as much to Thomas as he had.
On yesterday the deponent met John
Thomas and he acknowledged he had
received money from Glasscock. Sworn
t O . ‘ William Sallard.
Peter Van Allen, sworn, saith that
Roger P. Saunders told the deponent
that he had made a contract with Loch
lan Mclntosh, member of the general as
sembly, by which lie contracted to give
him eight negroes, fifty barrels of rice
and a sum of money for his shares. That
Mclntosh held six shares In the Missis
sippi company' which he offered at $306
premium each. Petek Van Allen.
There is similar testimony for proving
Gindrat Musgrove and other members
engaged in the same traffic and sworn
testimony to prove that General Gunn
offered to pay the expenses home of mem
bers who would vote against the bill. Of
the amount promised to be paid to the
state there were three hundred and ten
thousand dollars paid back by the state
to those who owned shares, and had paid
money for them after the fraud had been
uncovered and exposed.
The legislature, as before stated, pass
ed an act declaring all these sales null
and void, and ordered the whole pro
ceedings expunged from the records; and
Be it further enacted, that witiiin three
days within passing this act, the differ
ent branches of the legislature shall as
semble together, at which meeting the
officers shall attend with the several rec
ords, documents and deeds, in the secre
tary’s, surveyor-general’s and other pub
lic offices, which records shall be then
and there expunged from the face and
indexes of the books of record of the
state, and the enrolled law or usurped
act, shall then be publicly burnt, in or
der that no trace rf so unconstitutional,
vile and fraudulent a transaction, other
than the infamy attached to it by this
law shall remain in the public affairs
thereof, and after passing this act, if any
clerk of a county, notary public or other
officer keeping record, shall enter any
transaction, agreement, conveyance,
grant, law or contract relation to Said
purchase, whereby claim can be derived
of authority of record, they shall be ren
dered incapable of holding any office of
trust or profit within this state, and be
liably to a penalty of one thousand dol
lars, to be recovered in any court within
jurisdiction of the state, one half to go to
the informer, and the other half to be
lodged in the treasury of the common
wealth.
Be it further enacted, to prevent frauds
on individuals, his excellency, the gov
ernor, is required to promulgate the same
throughout the United States.
Thomas Stephens, Speaker 11. 11.
Benj. Taliferro, Pres, of Senate.
Jared Irwin, Governor.
February 13, 1796.
Thus closes this remarkable transaction
in which a great majority of the mem
bers of a general assembly sold their
votes for money or the equivalent of
money. In a single year the state shook
oft* these vultures that were eating at her
vitals and disgraced them. We desire
our readers to keep this whole thing in
mind. There will be another day of
reckoning some of these days—hidden
things will come to light, and unless
“rats and matches” consume the records
we shall have another history to write.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The argument for public education is
this: All are born blind; it takes educa
tional surgery to open their eyes; the
masses are unable to open the eyes of their
aSil'.'KV
employ surgeons to perform the
operation; the state can command
the means, and it is better for the
state to raise the money and expend it for
good surgery than to have a swarming
multitude of blind citizens. Though
some prove surgeons to themselves, and
tear their eyes open as best they can,
still, without assistance from the state,
the great majority of her sons and daugh
ters must grope all their lives in dark
gess, and be led by the few who can see.
This is weakness in the majority, and a
waste of strength on the part of the mi
nority. When each individual can see
his way, he is better off personally, and
his neighbors are better off for being re
lieved from the burden of watching and
leading him; and to the state, both are
less expensive and more useful. Knowl
edge is not equal to virtue; but it stands
next in older, and when rightly used, is
one of the sources of virtue. It is better
than money, and hence it is wise to ex
pend money liberally to secure it. There
is nothing in Georgia more important
than common schools except morality
and religion. Even railroads had better
attract less attention, than that the cause
of education should be forgotten by the
press and the people. The Lumsden
nugget, over which we exult, are less
valuable than the Orr nuggets. In the
cities there may be enough school facili
ties, but in the country there is a defi
ciency. Many minds are not settled or
satisfied as to the justice and policy of
public schools, and they old the cause, if
at all, languidly and reluctantly. Let
them meditate on the argument briefly
suggested above, and perhaps it may
tend to overcome their hesitation. Not
apathy, but zeal must result from any
large and enlightened view of the rela
tions of the state to education. — L. E.
Bleckly in Atlanta Constitution.
THE IRON INTEREST.
Pittsburg, Penn., April 16. —The an
nual mreting of the western nail associa
tion was held to-day. There was a large
attendance as the business to be transact
ed was two-fold. Officers were chosen
to serve during the ensuing year. In the
matter of curtailing the nail supply, a
resolution was passed providing for a
further suspension of all mills for anoth
er fortnight. This begins on Monday,
the 19th, and the action of the association
was a foregone conclusion. Members
say there is no possibility of a decrease in
the card rate of.nails, as the price bad not
gone up to correspond with the advance
in iron.
Cleveland, Ohio, April 16.— Inquiry
among men heavily interested in the
Lake Superior iron mines shows the sea
son’s contracts call for 1,650,000 tons of
ore from that region. Four hundred and
fifty thousand tons will go to Lake Mich
igan ports. Most of the balance comes
to Cleveland and vicinity. The Cleve
land rolling mill company has contracts
for tie rails and other manufactures,
which will require many months to
fill. Other extensive works here are
proportionately busy, and report that
they will not be materially affected by the
present agitation of the iron market. The
iron manufacturers and ore dealers here
are looking for a reaction in the market,
and better prices, which they expect will
soon be established o.i a natural and
healthy basis, where they will remain
without much fluetation for one or two
The Courier states that on Stnday night
last Colonel C. W. Sproull, a peach
grower of Rome, had small fires built in
between every four trees in one of his
peach orshards, ane thus saved all the
young fruit in the orchard. He has over
a hundred trees outside, and on all of
these the fruit was killed.
The total amount of appropriation from
the general fund for 1880 is $540,989.59,
and for 1881 the amount is 476,231.65.
STORIES FOR SPANKABLE BOYS.
A New Edition of Tales to be Told to the
Children After Supper.
Sox in Augusta Evening News.]
I have often noticed that the stories
for children as told in books are not as
fully appreciated as|hey should be, and
the reason is plain. These stories are
usually of the Sunday school stripe, and
are couched in language not understood
by children. For the past year or so, my
five-year-old crawls into my lap after
supper, when I have settled down to
commune with my faithful brierwood and
rest from ihe day’s hard work; and when
my feet are slippered, and the clatter of
the dishes in the dining-room becomes
still, I tell him stories—inventing them
as I go along—and the little fellow never
gets sleepy, no matter how long 1 tell
them. I have tried the stories from books
on him, but they invariably fails to please,
and he says, “Pshaw, that ain’t no good
story!’’
The idea occurred to me that perhaps
my improvised tales might interest some
other fond father’s boy, and I have thus
caught a few of them on the fly, trusting
that they may be read to the little boys,
and the result be made known, that I
might grind out more.
1 notice that the average boy always
likes tales in which criminals or giants
figure, and no matter how absurd you
make your expressions he gulps it all
down as literal truth, and enjoys it as
much as older boys do the Arabian Night
talas. I always commence with the old
“one time,’’ and when I utter those mag
ic words my boy’s curls nestle against
my shoulder, and all his mischief, his
sparrow crusades, his Alabama sling
and his buck-shot scrapes are forgotten.
THE BULL AND THE YELLOW-JACKET.
One time there was a bob-tailed bull
out in an old field pulling up grass. He
was a-chompin’ and a-chompin’ away at
the grass, and a-singing the “Sweet Bye
and-Bye,” when along come a teenchy
weenchy yellow jacket. Yellow-jackets,
you know, ain’t got much sense, and are
always playing off smart. Well, the yel
low jacket lit on the bull’s nose, and the
bull said, “What you want there?” The
yellow-jacket laughed and said, “What
you reckon?” The bull he got might}'
mad, because he never did like yellow
jackets, so he said, “Well, if you don’t
get off pretty quick, I’ll make you.”—
Then he flung his tail round to knock him
off, but the yellow-jacket he crawled into
the bull’s nostril, so the tail wouldn’t
touch him. You know what nostril is,
don’t you? It’s the hole in people’s
noses what they breathe through. When
the yellow-jacket crawled into the bull’s
nose it made the old bull so mad he
didn’t know how to spell Jack Robinson.
It worried him like smoke to know how
to get the yellow-jacket out of his nose.
He pawed and snorted, but the yellow
jacket just stayed in and laughed fit to
kill himself, and said, “Ain’t you asham
ed of yourself to allow a teencliy-weenehy
thing like me to worry you so—you great
big old thing you !” Then the bull was
mad sure enough, but he couldn’t do
nothing. After a while a little rabbit
come up and asked the bull what was the
matter. The bull told him all about it.
The rabbit said, “If you ggve me a ouar-
Then the bull put his hand in his pocket
and pulled out a quarter and handed it to
the rabbit. Then the rabbit tickled the
bull under the chin and that made the
bull sneeze, and then out came the yel
low-jacket, The bull was mighty glad,
and laughed until he busted a button off
his pantaloons. The old yellow-jacket
was mad—awful mad —and said a big
naughty word. Good boys like you don’t
say naughty words; only yellow-jackets
mean old good-for-nothing yellow-jackets.
Well, the old yellow-jacket just buzzed
around and says, “Never mind, Mr. Bull,
I’ll pav you for this.”
After awhile the bull got sleepy and
tired, and laid down in one corner of the
fence to take a nap. The yellow-jacket
come buzzing up easy—just as easy—and
lit on the bull’s nose again. Then he
looked around to see if anybody was
looking, and he then put his hand in his
hip-pocket and pulled out his little sting
er and shoved it down deep into the old
bull’s nose! Then the bull woke up and
just eveilastingly howled. The yellow
jacket then hopped on the fence and
laughed so hard that the tears just poured
from his e} es. Then the bull saw
him on the fence, so he shut his
eves, put his head down and ran to
the fence to knock the yellow-jacket off,
but he ran so hard that his horns went
clean through the plank and knocled it
off the posts. And there was the old bull
going over the field with a great long
plank stuck on his head. The old yel
low-jacket would light on the plank and
make all sorts of faces at the bull, but the
old bull couldn’t do nothing, and had to
be teased all day.
One day the man who owned the bull
came out" into the field to see how the
bull was getting along pulling grass.
When he saw the old plank a moving up
and down the field, he didn’t know what
to think; so he hollers to the bull:
“wliat you doing with my fence on your
horns?” The old bull, didn’t want to
tell him that a little teenchy-weenchy
yellow-jacket made him get it on his
horns, so he sat down and told the man a
great big white story about how a giant
come along and put it on his horns.
Good boys like you don’t tell stories;
only old bulls tell ’em. Then the man
went into the house and got a great big
gun, and then he told the bull that he
was going to shoot the plank off. The
bull was mighty glad to hear this, be
cause the plank bothered him a good
deal; so he sat down on the ground and
held up his head so the man could hit
the plank good. Bang! went the gun,
and what do you reckon it done? Why,
the bullet just went clean through the
plank and hit the old bull right in the
eye and killed him dead!
Now, to-morrow night I’ll tell } r ou
another story; kiss me “good-night.”
Time changes and customs with it. The
locomotive and the telegraph made many
revolutions. But none so great as that in
journalism. A hand-press and a huddle
of type are no longer sufficient to set
one up in business who had failed in all
else. Cheap postage obtained. Then a
popular thirst for news. Ultimately a
popular demand that facts should be giv
en on which readers might form intelli
gent opinions of their own. Journalism
became a profession; the art and practice
of journalism a science; the journalist an
emancipated being. Instead of a puffing
machine—an echo—a worthless stipen
diary of is party—the newspap* r has an
independent, commercial existence, and
is looked to by thousands of readers with
a respect proportioned to the strength
and consistency of its opinion, its trust
worthiness and its sincerity. —Louisville
Couriei'r Journal.
Lord Rosebery, in addition to paying
Mr. Gladstone’s expenses, whatever they
may be, Midlothian, contributed $25,000
towards the election for Southwark of
Mr. Co’e, a very able Hebrew barrister,
who is a relative of Lady Rosebery.
NUMBER 41.
GEORGIA CROP NEWS.
Corn looks well in Harris county.
Corn looks woll In Thomas county.
Cotton planting going on in Newton.
Large quantities of guano sold in For
syth.
Bud worms troubling corn in Sumpter
county.
Forward peaches killed about Social
Circle.
Fruit not materially damaged about
Dalton.
Wheat prospects around Belton not
promising.
Prospect for a fruit crop good in El
bert county.
Walker county will make a good wheat
crop.
Small grain about Buena Vista is look
ing better.
The fruit crop of Warren county still
promising.
A Covington sow has 17 healthy pip
two weeks old.
The fruit crop about Decatur is serious
ly damaged.
Plenty of corn knee-high in Montgom
ery county.
Cotton seed in great demand in Pulaski
county.
Avery large cotton crop planted in
DeKalb county.
But little sorghum will be planted in
Newton county.
Farm work progressing favorably in
Talbot county.
Down about Smithville the corn crop
is well advanced.
Oat and wheat crops of Elbert county
are very promising.
Cotton that was up was killed in some
localities in Burke county.
John Laremore, of Lee county, cut his
meat 10th of April.
Hog cholera prevalent in some sections
of Jefferson county.
A wonderful improvement in the oat
crop of Thomas county.
Corn is up and looking well in Dough
erty. Oats doing very well.
A large quantity of western corn be
ing bought in Burke county.
The M. & N. G. railroad has hauled
this sea Sen 1,296 tons of guano.
Grape crop of Cobb county reported as
being seriously damaged.
Corn in Houston slightly damaged by
frost. Cotton is coming up.
The fruit prospect for Whitfield county
promises better than for years.
Youqg wheat looking well in Newton,
and promises a fair yield.
Cotton will be largely planted in the
western part of Murray county.
About Wadley, wheat and oat crops are
being plowed up and corn planted.
Oats in Stewart county are splendid,
and the wheat crop more promising.
Wheat in the lower part of Taliaferro
not injured by rust is very promising.
The oat crop of Sumter county is im
proving. Half a crop of wheat will be
maria,
double the amount of cotton ever piafueo
before.
Mark Osborn, a colored farmer of New
ton county, has wheat three feet high.
No rust.
Sylvan Austin, of Lee county, is a
prosperous farmer. Is now selling wag
on loads of fine yam potatoes.
Colonel Furlow, of Sumter, has vetch
three feet high growing on his farm. His
lucerne is doing well.
A large amount of western corn is be
ing shipped to Dawson. Hundreds of
bushels have been sold. Not a bushel of
western corn was shipped there last sea
son.
DOWN IN DIXIE.
Kentucky pays $150,000 annually npon
fraudulent claims.
Nashville has 6,057 scholars in atten
dance at the public schools.
Gas is being introduced in the
churches, at Denison, Texas.
A vein of iron are has been discovered
near London, Tenn.
The general Baptist convention of
of Kentucky meets in Lexington May 5.
The Greenville, S. C., cotton exchan
ges has been completed and opened.
A great five days pigeon shoeting
rournament begins in Louisville, May
31.
There are five mica mines in operation
in Bakerville, North Carolina.
Steps are to be taken to build a railroad
from Beaumont Texas, to Sabine Pass.
Horse thieves have been operating
about Knoxville, Tennessee, lately.
Evangelist Barnes, of Kentucky, says
faith cured his daughter Marie of chills.
The new opera-house at Trenton, Ten
nessee, is a very neat building and credi
table to the place.
A Trimble county, Kentucky, boy died
the other day from poisoning his mouth
with the brass on a Freueh harp.
Baton Rouge, a city of 8,000 inhabi
tants, is excellently well guarded and
kept in order by three policeman.
From all direction come reports of active
exertions in Tennessee, on the part of
farmers in pitching their crops.
Mr. Walden, of Harrisburg, Kentucky,
has a mule forty years old. He has been
driven to the same rockaway by the same
negro man for the last thirty-five years.
Lightning went through a Madison
county barn filled with hay and oats,
picked out the best mule in the lot and
killed him without doing any other dam
age.
Corsicana, Texas, has a religions fana
tic who calls himself Righteousness.
Well, it is a large for from
Maine to Mexico there are many who
call themselves Rightous.
Captain Martin, of Nashville, Tenn.,
has in his possession a piece of the dress
that was worn by the wife of President
Washington on the day of the inaugura
tion, together with the fan she used on
the same occasion. The dress was a
light rep silk with stripes, embordered
with flowers of needle-work. The fan is
plain white, on which the only ornament
is a silver spangled wreath.
Newnan Tier aid: “Our Turin corres
pondent has seen the Clement attachment,
recently introduced into this state by the
enterprising firm of T. A. Barnes & Cos.,
in successful operation at Senoia, located
the S., G. & N. A. R. R., between this
place and Grffin, We congratulate Sen
oia on her good fortune in securing this
important ‘attachment’ to her midst such
hightoned, public-spirited gentleman as
as compose the firm of T. A. Barnes &
Cos. A few more like them would shoot
Senoia ahead and put her in the front
rank of the most prosperous interior
towns of Georgia.”
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