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IT. V. HEMMLER, M. D
HOMtEPATHIC PHYSICIAN.
fJtRKATSONLY CHRONIC DISEASES.
Mlike* Specialty of Liver Duwawa*
Cures CaneFf* and Uterine Cancer wilbottt ime
uac of the Knife.
Catarrh, Ozueena, Granulation of the Eyelids.
Female Diseases and all chronic private diseases.
Office at residence, Cartersville, Bartow coun
ty, Georgia. Office liours 9t012 A. n„ and from
I K> 6 r. a. m>r *
Mil KL.lt V ATTAWAY,
A. T O If N K Y - AT- LA W,
W 11.1. Pit M'TlCfc IN ALL THE COURTS
of North Gonrgia. ....
ffcf- office with Col. M. R. Stansen, Rank
■Heck. *
■ 'oUHtt.t * .JOHNSON,
JL T TO JiN K Y - AT-Ii A AV ,
.* UARI KKSIVILL.E, GA. *
OFFICE, West Side, Public Square.
gfc2>" Will practice in all the Com
R. W. MUKPHEY,
a r r r r o kne y-a r r - aw .
CARTERSV IDLE, GA.
>FrjCE the brick bulWltng. cor
eer of Main A Erwin streets. julylH.
A- . _ -• —■ ■
D.OKAHAM. A. X. VOLTE.
Cl It AIIA M A FOUTE,
A. M’ T O If- N K Y S -A T - I j A YV
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Prn<-ticc in all the courtsof HKrtow- county, the
uperior Couris of Norih-wcst Georgia, aud the
ujtreine Courts at Atlanta.
Office in cojuThouaec JolFl®
JOHN U. WIKS.K. DO OI.ASK WIKI.E.
tV I K 1.10 ,U tVI K 1.15,
A T 'TO UN7 K V H-A T-1. A\V ~
CAHTKUSVILLE, GA.
Office in court bouse. Douglas Wiklo will give
special attention ncollection*. fcii^i
J, M. NEED. J. J. CONN Kit. W. J. NEEL.
NEEL. CONNER & NEED,
A r V O It IN id VS- A'P - 1 . A W ,
CAKTBKSVILLE, GA.
\ITIU, PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS j
W of this state. Litigated causes rnadu a i
pceiulty. Prompt uttcuyou giveuto all Uustueas j
„ntrufiici t.
Office in uofUmsi.A corner of eoucthou e. feb9 !
sl. L. JOUNHUN,
A '?*]} Olt IST f: Y - A. T' i'A TV
CARTE UH Vi ELK, GEORGIA.
Office in the brick house uext to Roberts’
.vcMy stahlM. Hd(irß fi'om 8? n. m.t4>{p. in.
JWr*t" All busiiiess pooiiiptly attended to.
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ALBERT S. JOHNSON,
A r V O Art M X V -AMV lo A W ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE : WEST HIDE PUBLIC SQUARE.
Will practice In all the Courts. Tltisiness
will rec eive prompt atteutfqu,
.UNO. It. 1 . LUMVKIN,
A T r O H. IN K Y-A r r - IjA w ,
ROME, GA.
ClOL LECTIONS A SPECIALTY. OFFICE
/ in rear of Printup, Bros. it Co.’s Bank.
O. S. TUMLIN,
A T T O RNEY-A T -LAW,
( AUTERSViLLK, GA.
WILL PRACTICE IN SUPERIOR COURT
Court of Ordinary and .1 ustiec Courts.
t/efT' Prompt attention given to collections,
nos 10-aiii
ROBERT It. TUIPPE,
A l T O R N PI Y-AT*LA W ,
ATLANTA, GA.
No. 8 Broad'Struct, up-stairs.
Office No. IS Gr.-ilit Building.
W- ILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE Cot UTS.
Business receives prortipt attention. Col
teetisns a speelalLy. 1 will attend the superior
court of BartoW county, Git., aud in • ounectiou
with Mr. .1. M. Neel, will finish the unfinished
business of A Nctd and will also aiteed
to any new business tliat may be uflured. sej>9
Wl. SEQUAWD BROWNE, 1.1. L).
]Late of tlie llrm of Drs. Browne & 1-innad, Mt.
Olivet, Ivy.]
Fhjsiciaii,Margcun,Obstetrician and Uynoecologist,
Cassvillo, Georgia.
N. IL—Special attention given to Surgery in
al its braclies. 0ct682-tr
T. W. UII.NEK. J. W. HARRIS, JR.
MILNER ft HARRIS,
A TOUNEYS-AT-I- AW ,
CAUTERSVILLK, GA.
Office on 'Vest Main Street. julylS
U. O. KOIVEItTSOX, M, !>.,
Hygienic Physician and Eloctro-
Therapeutist,
Hkus leave to announce to the
citizens of Bartow, Gordon, Cobb, Cherokee,
nml oilier comities of North Georgia, that lor iho
sake of reieleHng bis mode of trentment more
universal amt available, and the Health Institute
equally easy of access to paUciiu in all partsol
the Mate, lots removed from If OW fund Springs to
At lama whore he has permanently established a
Health Institute.
'i’Ue Atlanta iiealth luetiluii
9
iH the only institute south suporiutended by reg
ularly qualified Hygienic l’hyeic.ians, and the
only place where ail kinds of’ curable disease*
are scientifically treated without a particle of
medical drug in any form, and with success un
paralleled by any other known process of treat
ing diseases.
JBfirtles whdfirtf, 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 (Urug
ophatic) healing art*’ and’ with no other change
than that ot growing continually worse and
worse, have under the Hygienic system of medi
cation. been and permam fitly restored
to health.
For particulars, call at ATLANTA HEALTH
INSTITUTE, No. 178 W. Petersstrci t. or address
Dll. U. O. HOBEETSON
fcbSQ Atlanta., Ga.
Hotels, Restaurants, Etc.
ST. JAMES HOTEL,
(Uartcrsville, Georgia.)
rjMIE UNDEUSIGN ED HAS RECENTLY
X taken charge of this elegant new hotel. It
has l>een newly furuished and shall be Qrst-class
in all respects. u i ..
saarLKitooir for cohmrrciax tratklxrs.
Favorable terms to traveling theatrical com
panies. fianlßl L, C. HOSS.
THE NATIONAL HOTEL,
The only first-class hotel in
DALTON. GEORGIA.
Rates per day : ; : : : : |2 00
Kates per week : : : : : : 800
Kates per month : : : : : 25 00
Large Sample Rooms for Connnercia Travel
ers, PostoQice in the building.
• an? J. Q. A. LEWIS, Proprietor.
LITCHFIELD HOUSE,
(Acworth, Georgia.)
E. L. LITCHFIELD, Proprietor.
CION VENrENT TO TIIE DEPOT, YND ITS
j tables snyqdied with the very best (he mark -
et ft Herd*. ' augtb
S-Lr>,oo $ *is.oo
COTTON CLEANERS
Dalis’ Seed Cotton Cleaners
tCheapest and Best in -:he Woric*.
PRICE ONLY FORTY-FIVE DOLLARS.
YVTARK.VN lED TO IMPltoY* DIRTY',
V \ tra-h.v or yioddy cotton from $5 tv 420 per
bale, and perfectly white clean cotton |i per
•ale, and to make one-fourteenth to one thii ti
cth more buyout of the same amount of seed cot
ton; saves sflwscleans 13 to 17 biles Ter day;
pays for itself in day; one-nail hori-e power
will ruu it; can be run in connection with any
horse, water, or steam power. Only two bear
ings to oil. If machine does not do all claimed
for it, re-ship at my expense. Seat on five day’s
trial to responsible parties. Wa t anted to be
letter than any cleaner and do m .re and better
work. A 14-year-old boy can with it clean cot
ton for 80-saw gin.
Send for circulars, etc.. Agents wanted in
every town ra Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi
and Texas. W. L. GOLDSMITH,
nov9-Bm. Atlanta, Georgia.
VOLUME V.
A Common Seise Remcjf.
NALICYL I CA.
No more Rheumatism Cout
or Neuralgia.
Irrtmediate Relief Warrarr ed.
Permanent Cure Guaranteed.
Fite ye<ir* entablieked and necer r ten to fail
in a tingle case, acute or chronic. !: >r to a’l
prominent phynician* and drnjj’uti f r the •tand
ing of iSaUcylica.
H ECU ET!
THE ONLY DISOLVER OF TH r . POISON
OUS U&JC ACID WHICH EXIST.' IN THE
BLOOD OF RHEUMATIC AND G > JTY PA
TIENTS.
SALICYLiCA m kjuowu a a cc.nnton
(M>nse remeilyTuecau-e it strikes directly at the
cause of Uheuinatism, Oout and Neuralgia,
while so many so-called specifics mu. supposed
panaceas only treat locally the efifoca.
it has tieeu conceded by eminent seen fiat*
that outward apnliations, ucli as ru >bir g with
oils, ointments, liniments and southing lotions
will not eradicate these diseases whi ;h ire the
result of tiie poisoning of the blood with Uric
Acid.
SALICYLICA works with nt' vei >us ef
fect on this acid cjo removes tlie disor ier. It is
now exclusively meed bv all r*b*bri ttxi ‘ physi
siei*sof America and ftnrope. Ifigjcst Medi
cal Academy of Paris reports 95 jer cent cures
viti t ltremdnvs.. r 1 * *
REMEMBER
that SALICYLICA Is a coitai.i cure for
Rheumatism, Cout and Neuralgia.
The most intense pains are subdued ilinost in
stantly.
Give it a trial. Relief guarantee* or money
refunded.
Thousamla of testimonials sent rn rppliea
tion.
a Box. 6 Boxes for $5
Sent free by mail on receipt of money.
ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FO i I
But do not be deluded into taking imitations or
substitutes, or as “just
as gomll*’ Insist on ihe geuniae with the name
of WASHBURNK Jfc UO., on each bo , which
is guaranteed chemically pure under ou signa
ture. an fndiapcnsible requisite to tn ur* success
in the treatment. Take no other, or sc\ and to us,
Washburne & Cos., Piap* iet rs.
287 Broadway, cor. Reade St., N W YORK
V. L. WILLIAMS,
Manufacturer and Deabrin
TIN & SHEET IRON COODS
ESPECIAL ATTENTION UP EN TO
Roofing, Glittering, Etc.,
Dealer in
ST<>"V E * l w
Hollow-Ware, GlassTture Etc*.,
CROCKERY, V/INDOv -21 \SS,
SASH, HOOKS ANii O fYI>B.
I r ** ? . f*/ r ~\ ~ CT
rpilE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO ( ALL AND
X examine. Prices guaranteed as low as a
good article can be bought anywhere.
ft® I 'Will give market price for ok m cotton
rags. june29
THE “ CONSTITUTION,”
For 1
Is better equipped in every sense .ban ever
before to maintain its pos.tiou In
the front ranks of Souther*
Journalism.
It calls the attention of the rear mg public to
the following points that can 1 e claimed.
Namely, that it is
1. The largest aud boat paper in Georgia, Ala
bama, the Carolina*. Florida and Mississippi
•>. More reading matter than an* paper in the
South Atlantic States.
3. The fullest telegraphic service and latest
news.
4. The brightest, best and fullest correspondence
5. The completost election rctnrm.
6. Verbatim Legislative reports.
7. Official Supreme Court reports
The (treat Georgia Paper—Better Chan Ever
No intelligent Georgian can do \\ . thout it.
Every Georgian should take a pap r from the
Capital during the next three months.
The Daily Constitution $lO per r mum; $2 50
months; *1 00 1 month. Weekly *1 50 a year;
of 10, $1 25, with free copy to getter up of
Club; Clubs of 20 $1 00, with free oo y. Address
THE CONST' Ti riON,
A lanta, Ga.
THE EVENING HERALD
ATLANTA, GA.
* The Best and Cheapest Daily it Georgia. ”
Published every Afternoon, ex'.'pt Sunday, and
lent free of postage at the foi ow ng unprece
dented rates :
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u a§r ihe cash accoiap ny every name
TH- EVENING HERALD is f onounced by
aress aod people the liveliest, sp cie t and newsi
est of the dailies ot the state; it i. tl. ; unswerving
idvocate of True Democracy, ' al .ays for the
interests of the people, is opp sec to Bossism,
ting-role and Corruption; it is 1 jar ,ss in expos
eg the truth and owes ailegia < e t> na clique c;
action. It is emphatically “The Re :rlc‘s Paper."'
The Weekly lerald
isn splendid collation of the c rc- mws of t*i
vt is aandteiaely printed ;• and ■- r.P-d. freeo
postage, for
ssly Filly Ccb j Vcai .
r>.*iv honsilvvl in Geo- -: hi il l have .tM
>r'ijht and newsy weekly, p thi . v 'he Cap
;of the State, and the price v ie c suit th
>•■• •of -.very -eading man :■ or w.
..i is live and Suprei u tej 'rts, Cor
jiyest-ional proceedings, Mou-- 1. id Fashion an..
Atr icnltural Items are spec-., f >k and after Ci,
Thk Wreily llekald. “Oi L taiXog
irtic.es in every issue.
Issued every Tuesday morning.
J.ocal Agents wanted in e-. cry county. Club
rates furnished on application.
Address:
THE IDERAUD*
,\TL V TA GA
Everybody wanting Christ;n is j -es uts should
ead at D. W. Carry's at t. i- o lit st conven
ience and make heii select: so s to avoid the
rubh that usually occurs just prior to the holi
days.
THE FREE PRESS.
THE REV. GEO. H. THAYER, of Bourbon,
lad., says: “Both myself and wife owe our lives
to Shiloh's Consumption Cure.” Curry lias it
ARE YOU MADE miserable by indigestion,
constipation, dizziness, loss of appetite, yellow
skin'- Shiioh’s Vitaiizcr is a positive cure. For
salebyCoiry.
WHY WILL YOU cough when Shiloh -* Cure
will give immediate relief. Price 10cts., 50 ett
and #l. Enquire for it at Curry’s. nov23-6m
SHILOH’S CATARRH REMEDY—a positive
cure for Catarrh, Diphtheria and Canker Mouth.
Ak Curry for it. nov23-6m
“IIACKMETACK,” a Lasting and fragrant
perfume. Price 25 and 50 cents. Sold by Curry.
SHILOH’S CURE WILL immediately relieve
: Croup, Whoopiug cough and Bronchitis. Sold
by Carry.
FOR DYSPEPSIA and Liver Complaint, you
have a printed guarantee on every bottle of Shi
loh’s Vitalizer. It never fails to cure. You can
get it at Curry’s.
A NASAL INJECTOR free with each bottle
of Shiloh’s Catarrh Remedy. Price 50 cents.
Don’t delay—rush with all your might to the
drug store of M. F. Word. He has lots of pretty
things for the holidays.
Smoking sets, Bisque figures, Card receivers,
cologne sets, vases, mustache etips, mugs and
many other articles suitable for holiday pres
ents at prices that defy competition at
Ci’krt’s Data Stoke,
Fall Greeting.
Ladies and Gentlemen: I am now ready aud
wifi take pleasure in showing you my new fall
stock of goods, carefully selected to suit Ihe resi
dents of this vicinity, and can offer special bar
gains. I mean it. Come and see, all are invited.
Respectfully, P. L. MOON,
05-3 m East Main Street, Cartersville, Ga.
The young, the middle aged and the old can find
suitable Christmas presents at Curry’sdrug store.
Call at once and see his handsome exhibit.
Celluloid sets, mirrors, puff boxes, toilet sets,
vases, cups and saucers, mugs, smoking sets ami
numerous other nice tilings for the holiday trade
at Cel Word's drug store.
Cologne sets, vases, mustache cups, mugs, aud
many other articles suitable tor Christmas pres
ent at Curry’s drug store. Call at once and
make a selection.
Pretty lamps at low prices at Cel Word’s drug
store.
Celluloid aud rubber toilet case* in leather
and plush at from $1.50 to $16.50 ea< h. All can
be suited nt Curry’s drugstore.
Those plush odor and toilet cases at Curry’s
drug >tore are the handsomest goods ever brought
to this market. Go anil look at thei i before they
are sold.
The lai’gest assortment of Christmas goods
ever brought to this city is now on exhibition at
Curry’s drug store. His stock consists of plush
end leather odor cases, Bisque figures, genuine
’•lersebaninpipes, cigar' and cigan-fcto holders,
card receivers of various designs, fanny boxes,
cologne sets and vases in eadlesss variety, mugs,
mustache cups, small toy’s and a great mauy
other goods suitable for holiday presents. No
ane should fail to act* his excellent display. Call
early before the stock is broken.
“Cloves and spice and everything that’s nice”
ar tt ord’s drug store.
Stephanotis Cologne is without a peer. Try it,
. sk 1). M r . Curry- to show it to yov.
Cel Word has got just lots of pretty things for
ihe big fo'ks as well as for the little ones. Go soon.
You can make your selection now and have
l lie articles purchased safely stored away at
Curry’s drug store until you see proper to call
for them. Every one should bear this iu mind
and call early while you have the opportunity to
ile ' from an unbroken stock.
Go quick. Cel Word is selling his Christmas
goods right now at prices that would astonish,
you.
I>. W. Curry has a complete stock of hair
tooth and nail brushes, eelluloid, horn and rub
ber combs, extracts iu bulk and fancy bottles
colognes and hair oils, laundry and toilet soaps,
strictly pure ground spices ami many other in
dispensable articles to which he respectfully
iuvites the attention of the public.
TO be beautiful, buoyant and healthy,
tho whole female constitution must
maintain regular action during a certain
period of life. Otherwise, no female can
possibly remain healthy, and she who
dooq not know this fart, is auite unfortu
nate. Should you by exposure, become
irregular and sutler with many troubles,
experience advises tho use of English
Female Bitters as the most wonderful
female regulator and iron tonic in use.
Bailey’s Saline Aperient is a cool
ing, refreshing summer drink for dys
pepsia and headache. No medicine taste,
abroad,should keep it.
“Tough on Chills,**
Cures 5 cases for 25 cts. in cash or stamps.
Mailed by John Parham, Atlanta, Ga.
Wright’s and Landbory’s perfumes at Curry’s
drug store. Try Stephanote’s cologne.
White aud Red Ouion Sets at Curry’s drug
store for 20 cents per quart.
Go now. Dou’t wait till the last day to get
your pretty things. Cel Word is ready to wai
on you op the spot.
Cel Word’s cigar and cigarette stock is com
lete. Go to see him.
FAMILY & STAPLE GROCERIES.
NEW STORE AND NEW GOODS.
L . I? , MAT T HEWS
Has opened out at the old stand of William
Satterfield, under Puckett’s Hall, a full
stock of Groceries and Family Supplies which
he proposes to sell at the lowest market prices
ror the cash. He will keep constantly on hand
Flour and Meal, Bacon and La rd, Sugar, Coffee
and Teas, all kinds of Canned Goods, Preserves
and Jellies, ond in fact, every article desired in
hisliue. Attached to the store is a -well fur
nished bar supplied with the ve**y
Finest Brands of Liquors, Cigars and
Tobacco.
Biggr-Mr. Nod Payne and Mr Vesta Harwell
wiTlalways be found here to wait on their old
fronds and customers. decß
PILES AND FISTULA CURED
DU. J. S. BEAZLEY,
At Stiles boro, Bartow county, Ga., and
DU. A. G. BEAZLEY,
At Cr lwfordville, Ga.,
Make a specialty of diseases of
the Rectum. They will treat Fistula, Ulcer
ation. Prolapsus, etc., of the bowels, and will
■’uiarantee a perfect cure in a s tori while in ev
ery case of piles without the use of the knife and
very little pain Will point f> cises cured, ov
give the best of reference if 'esired. All cler
vmen treated gratia tr.ch?7
THE RUBY BAR!
ON WEST MAIN STREET.
W. TERRELL, Frop’r.
pMNE WHISKIES, SPLENDID BILLIARD
Table, and good treatment guaranteed. Give
me a call. eep7
MONEY LOANED
CEORCE H. AUBREY
\Y ILL BE FOUND at the taw office of Gra
and Saturday, or the purpose of loaning monev
on Bartow and Gordon county lauds, at a v-r'v
■ow interest. aeofrl-Bm
Make a present of a nice lamp from Cel Woi4p
drug store.
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY 4. 1883.
SOUTHERN CONVICT CAMPS.
A Crying Disgrace to American Civiliza
tion.
New York Sun.
From time to time during the past four
yeais there have appeared In these eol
umuscertain plain statements of fact in
regard to the prison or convict systems
of various States iu tlte South. For a
brief .-pace these statements created some
excitement in the communities to which
they referred, and some passing comment
among newspaper readers and writers of
the North. Asa rule, however, they
were flippantly dismissed with an intima
tion that they were prepared and printed
for partisan efttet, to influence elections,
and were, therefore, unworthy ot credit.
Asa result, and despite, certain isolated
promises of reform, the Crying evils com
plained of continue to exist. That such
is the case is a reproach, a disgrace not
only to the South, not only to the Amer
ican people, but to our common humani
ty. Against all the cotton States it is
safe to make the general charge of ill
treatment of convicts, especially negroes,
bnt against Georgia, North Carolina,
Mississippi, and, as it now- appears,
against Alabama as well, there can be
brought without the slightest exaggera
tion and upon the best 6! testimony still
more specific, serious and startling in
dictments. In all the States named the
Democrats, when they came into power,
made haste to establish laws relative to
the convicts, which had the effect of
placing such persons in a condition worse
than slavery. These enactments were
all strikingly alike, the principal and
most iniquitous feature being a provision
which empowered tue prison authorities,
practically without supervision or re
striction of any kind, to lease the labor
of the convicts to persons who, after mak
ing the lease became in fact, if not in
name, their masters and owners, with
full power to work them anywhere in the
State under such conditions as might be
most profitable, or to feed and house
them or to starve and maltreat them as
suited their own sweet wills. In Geor
gia, which justly claims to be “the em
pire State of tho South,” and which is,
therefore, perhaps, entitled to first con
sideration, the convict law which was
approved in 1876, and which, it was pro
vided, should continue iu force for 20
years from 1879, gave to the State offi
cers power to enter info contracts w'tn
certain influential politicians—the pres
ent United States senator Brown and ex
senator Gordon among the number—by
which they (the so-called lessees) were
permitted to take charge of the convicts
ol‘ the state —an average of 1,100 persons
of both sexes and all ages—to work them
where and when they pleased within the
hounds of the Commonwealth, and,
worst of all, to sub-let them at pleasure.
The one restriction in the act reads to
the effect that “there shall bo Such regu
lations, restrictions, and arrangements
made by the Governor, to l*e nforced by
the law-, as will associate only persons
convicted of eriines of moral turpitude,
w hich shall regard the condition of the
sexes and ages of convicts, and their abil
ity to labor.” But there being no pen
alty for a violation of this portion of the
law, it has from the first been openly
disregarded. So true is thi* that in 1880,
at the. time of the las! investigation of the
subject, the male and fetnale convicts of
Georgia were found wxirjdng and living
together; there were among them 22 ille
gitimate children, and many of the wo
men were about to become mothers.
Then, as now-, the prisoners were kept
and worked in what are known as con
vict camps. It is a matter of record that
in them they are made to labor like
beasts of the field, and are supplied with
food of the coarsest kind, food barely suf
ficient to keep life in their bodies. If
they die, their places are soon taken by
“fresh niggers,” who are stronger and
can work better. One beast of burden
more or less does not count. They can
not be regarded as “property,” as they
were in the days before the war, and,
consequently, their lives liaye no value
in the eyes of the men whose aim it is to
get out of them the greatest possible
amount of work at the least possible ex
pense. The result of the system is an
average annual death rate of 10 per cent,
from disease, and a similar death rate,
which, in such records as are ever allow
ed to see the light, appears under the
stgnUL.an* bead, “Died or lost while try
ing to escape.” W lieu it i* stated that
bloodhounds are used to track and cap
ture the unfortunates who from time to
time try to fly from a fate far worse than
death, the full meaning of the quotation
will be better understood.
In Mississippi, North Carolina, and to
a certain extent in South Carolina, as I
know from personal observation and in
vestigation of the most careful character,
the condition of the convicts under the
lease system is quite as bad as it is in
Georgia. In all the “convict camps” of
those States the prisoners are obliged,
under the lash ot cruel keepers, from the
effects of which many of them die every
year, to work in fields, in mines, and
upon railroads and highways. No effort
is made to provide them with proper
shelter or food. In the majority of cases
their clothes are a mass of filthy and
foul-smelling rags covered with vermin.
Under the eyes of the armed guards,
hired by the lessees because of their
known brutality and strength, theyare
worked from daylight sometimes until
far in the night; worked whether they
are sick or well; worked in all sorts of
weather, frequently without food of any
kind; worked sometimes until they fail
down and die. So dying, they have in
more than one case been left to rot in the
place where the}' fell. This is not a fan
cy picture. It is a plain, uncolored state
ment of facts, which cannot be success
fully contradicted. Those who doubt
will find the proof in the official statis
tics of the death rate among convicts in
the south, w hich have lroni time to time
been forced into print. These statistics,
it must be remembered, are far from
complete. It is obviously to the interest
oftbe prison officials to keep back as
much of the truth as possible. There is
many a convict who dies m a swamp or
a ditch without official notice or record
of any kind, yet, even vht n the best pos
sible face is put uf on the natter, the fig
ures tell h story which is sufficiently
startling and terrible for even the most
confirmed seeker afoer sensation.
from such official records as have been
compiled and cun be obtained it appears
f hat for the four years pat the average
death rate among the convicts of Missis
sippi has been a lUde over 11 percent.
The great majority of the prisoners are,
of course, negroes. In imm eases they
are let or hired out by the chief contract
ors to planters an 1 othe.g who pity an
average of $8 a month tor their work.
The average pay for laborers in Missis
sippi who are not convicts is about sl4 a
month.
In- South Carolina the average death
rate for the past four years has been,
among the negro convicts nearly 0 per
<e<it., ml :*m mg th<* white convicts a
little ivet p-r cent fnlS79, during
the entire year, an average of 100 negro
convicts were leased to work on the
Greenwood and Augusta railway. Dur
ing the \ ear ol <. of the convieti so em
ployed died, i'he death rate for the year
was among the white convicts, who num
bered 36, nearly j*er cent., aud
among the negro convicts, who number
ed ;>B9, a fraction less than 22 per cent
It is but justice to state that th compara
tively small average death rate since 187S
cue chiefly to *he efforts of the I’riwi
Superintendent, Mr. J. T. Lipscomb.'
In North Carolina, from incomplete
statistics, it appears that the average
death rate for the four years was about 9
per cent, among the negro conriet*. In
that state there have been many instan
ces of great cruelty to the prisoners. In
at least two eases within the time speci
fied negro convicts are known to have
been whipped to death.
Turning to Alabama, in regard to
whose prison system little or nothing has
until recently been known, it appears
that under the vicious lease plan the
death rate among convicts in that state
for the past 10 years has been nearly 600
per cent, greater than in the majority of
the penitentiaries of the north and north
west, where the average death rate is
about 1 per cent. Referring to this start
ling fact, I>r. J. B. Gaston, the President
of the Alabama Board of Health, has
within the past few days made certain
disclosures which are well worthy- the
careful attention of all thoughtful men.
Ihe more so because Dr. Gaston is a
southern gentleman ol known ability,
and standing, a man in regard to whom,
as a democratic state oflicer, it will cer
tainly uot be possible to bring the famil
iar charge of partisan bias. From his tes
timony, yfiveu without passion and after
Careful investigation, it appears that the
extensive convict camp at the New-Cas
tle coal mines, which is referred to as
“the best managed camp in Alabama”
and w hich on that account is selected for
description, is lirtle better than a second
Black Hole of Calcutta, and not quite so
desirable for a residence as was the deatli
prison of Ava during the English-Bur
mese war. What is known as “the
camp cell for w-hite convicts” is describ
ed as being 24 feet long, 2 feet, wide, and
BW, teet high from floor to ceiling. It is
made to accommodate from 25 to 30 con
victs. Placing the number at 25, each
convict would have only ahou ISO cubic
teet of space, or 220 cubic feet less to each
man than is allowed iu British military
prisons, and 1,320 cubic feet fi ss to eaeii
ma:ii than is allowed in English military
hospitals in warm and wet cm ntries like
Alabama. At one end of the cell there
is a door and at the other one window
}‘a teer w-ide and guarded by iron bars,
fhrough this w indow- and a number of
holes in the logs of which it D built the
cell is ventilated. A platform extends
along one side of it and half way along
the other. This is divided bj planks, 8
to 10 inches wide, into hunks 4 feet wide.
In each bunk is a straw mattress 5 feet
7 inches long and 3 feet wide and a coarse,
heavy blanket of mixed cotton and wool.
Two convicts are obliged ro sleep in each
hunk. Upon recent inspection the mat
tresses were found £to be “extremely
filthy and swarming with b .dbugs and
other vermin. The blankets were also as
filthy as they could be—saturated with
coal-dust, human sw-eat, aorl grease.
There were two tubs in the ceil iu which
the convicts were expected to wash
themselves. The fecal and urinary ex
cretions were received in buckets, which
were not emptied until the morning.”
But terrible as are these conditions un
der winch the white convicts are expect
ed to exist, their situation must be re
garded as an enviable one when compar
ed to that of their black brethren in mis
ery. The negro cell at New-Castle has
no window, such ventilation as there is
being through the cracks between the
logs. The room is 50 feet long. 22 leet
wide, and 9 feet high. In it there are
huddled at night from 150 to 200 con
victs. The walls are supplied with three
tiers of bunks filled with foul and ver
min-infested straw and laddering and
ragged blankets. One foot and a half in
width and 5 feet in lengiti vf thw, bo<i_
space is allowed to each man. The cell
is provided with three tubs in which the
prisoners may wash and a like number of
buckets for whatever other necessities
they may have. All the convicts white
and black wear shackles. These consist
of an iron hoop fastened around the an
kle, to which is attached a chain 3 feet
long and terminating in a ring. When
they nro at. work or at meals-t.he ring end
of the chain is attached to a belt fastened
around the waist. In marching to and
from the mines and at night the convicts
are chained togetiier in squads by de
taching these short chains from the belts
and passing a long and continuous chain
through the rings. When Dr. Gaston
visited the camp he saw them as they
came out of the mines at night chained
together in this way. When the long
chain was passed through the rings the
shackles were errefnlly examined link
by link, to see that they had not been
tampered with. This examination con
sumed nearly an hour. When it was
concluded the convicts were marched to
the eating-house, where they were ter
ribly crowded around tables which were
colored with white lime, probably to keep
dawn the foul odors. Each prisoner had
a tin cup and plate, but no knife or fork
or spoon. They were obliged to eat their
scanty supper, dirty as they came from
the mines. They were allowed no op
portunity to wash even their hands or
faces. After supper they were turned in
to “the cells,” where, before getting In
to the bunks, they were expected to hang
up their filthy working clothes to dry
during the night. In summarizing an
extended account of these, the terrible
conditions under which the unfortunates
at New-Castle are obliged to exist and
work, Dr. Gaston says in substance:
“There is particularly to be noted that
the food which is served to the convicts
is ot the coarsest description, and that
much of it is constantly given to them
cold. There is also to be noted the bed
spac<s —a mattress about five feet seven
inches long and three feet wide, for two
white men and one foot and a haif of bed
space for each colored covviet; the re
volting filthy condition of the mattresses
and blankets; the supply of water and
tubs for personal ablution, two tubs the
size of half-barrels for 25 ■ lii<e convicts,
three tubs of the same size for more than
150 colored convicts; the presence in the
cells at night containing the fecal and
urinary excretions of all th i convicts,
the very trying change of temperature
experienced, particularly in winter, on
coming from hard work i * a not mine in
wet clothing and standing stili for an
hour <*r more in a shelter, so called,
which is only partially an l v ry imper
fectly protected by weather-boarding,
and at last —the frequent flogging for
“failure to perform the daily tasks.”
It may be as well to repeat with as
much distinctness as is possible that these
recently ascertained facts in regard to
“the best managed convict camp in Ala
bama” are supplied by an officer of the
democratic government of the state.
They have been obtained is they tire now
printed without partisan purpose or in
tent of any kind. Tile elections are now
over. The question involved is not one
ot politics, it is above and beyond all
politics and all partita*. It is a question
of coQimou humanity—is a sentence Cos
hart! 1.,b0r in the penitentiaries of the
south to be regarded hr the world as the
equivalent ot a sentence to death by slow
torture? The query is owe which can
not forever be ignored. Sooner or later
and m one form or another It must be
answered by the democratic governor,
the democratic legislators, and other offi
cers of the states of Alabama, Georgia,
Nortu Carolina, and Mississippi
H. C.
CAI'T. KD. COX.
A few word* with the Murderer of Cel.
Ale tea.
, A few days ago the news Hashed across
the wires that Ed. Cox had been imr*
doned. fn the year 1879 he was sentenc
ed to the penitentiory Tor life for the
P!“^‘ r <Jol * Robert A. Alston. The
j killing look place in the treasurer’s of
nee, which was located in the capitol at
Atlanta. I’he two men were interested
in a convict lease, and were having some
difficulty regarding it. Cox followed
Alston to the plaee named, and although
the latter tried to avoid the difficulty,
the latter shot him. He was tried and
sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
Ihe high standing of both parties gave
the killing and attending circumstances
almost universal attention. Col. Alston
was at the time a member of the Georgia
legislature, and Capt. Cox had his scores
ot friends. Cox was placed in the Dade
coal mines near this place, where he has
been laboring until last Tuesday, when
he w’as pardoned by Gov. Stephens, Im
mediately upon receipt of the news, his
wite, who lives near Atlanta, started for
the place of his captivity, and they pass
ed through the city yesterday, en route
home.
The meeting between husband and
wife is described as having been very af
fecting. What must have been tnat
mother’s joy to have her husband—who
was comparatively dead— restored to her
iu the full vigor of health. The couple,
accompanied by their little son. arrived
in the city Saturday on the Nashville
train, and left immediately for Atlanta.
A Democrat reporter east his eagle eyes
in that direction, gave the other news
gathers the shake, and boarded the train
With Capt. Cox.
Mrs. Cox was seated in a different por
tiou ot the car from her husband, who
was trying to make hrs way to Atlanta
with as little identification as possible.
He is a man 5 leet 9 inches high, and
weighs perhaps 165 pounds. His dress
yesterday vvas a plain brown suit that
looked all the worse for age. His face
was partly screened by i worsted com
forter and he appeared to covet isolation,
lie wore a small black mustache and chin
whiskers. His hands and face were
bronzed like that of the hardy country
man. Upon being interrogated by the
Democrat man he said he was expect
ing a pardon, not, however, through the
efforts of his but by the sense of
justice that pervaded Governor Stephen’s
mind.
When asked about his life at the peni
tentiary he replied : “I tlont like to speak
about that. It is a tender subject to me.
I want to go quietly to Atlatita, and
don’t want oven my triends to know that
lam coming. My life in future will be
as quiet as possible. I know hard feel
ings have existed, but I want them to be
things of the past. Any great stir over
my coming now would open okl wounds
afresh. I shall remain in Atlanta for the
present, but expect to be in Chattanooga
shortly.”
The man seemed bowed in sorrow. As
he talked he looked out the car window,
and when an occasional question would
attract his attention to the reporter his
face showed well what his mind felt.
Capt. Cox is a popular man in Atlanta,
and his score of friends will gladly wel
come him back to his freedom.—Chatta
nooga Democrat.
THE PENDLETON CILL.
Ihe civil sei uni as it passed the
senate will reform that service very am--,
ly and gradually at the best; for it sub
jects to examination none of thoee who
now till the large public offices. All
new applicants are to be examined, and
are thus to be pitted the one against the
other, but the thousands now in office
are to remain undisturbed, no matter
how incompetent they may be. They
may, it is true, be removed for cause af
ter a trial, but this method could not well
be applied to any considerable number.
The only provision in the entire bill that
affects those now in office is that of Mr.
Blair, relative to drunkenness. What
good, therefore, fiiere is in the bill con
sists in the fact that it is the beginning
of a reform that may hereafter be deep
ened anu widened. As the bill stands it
simply provides for a reform in the fill
ing of vacant clerkships in the public
offices that contain over fifty desks. A
reformation this basis will have to large
ly wait on death, which is proverbially
slow in public offices. But even a small
and slow reform In a service that is notor
iously inefficient and corrupt, is better
than no reform at all, and on that ac
count, let us accept what little good there
is in the Pendleton bill, while we pray
unceasingly for more.
The bill does not practically admit
outside applicants ro the competitive
tests, except for places of the lowest
grade. Promotion is the rule afterwards,
'ihe bill, too, is full of saving reserva
tions, which will no doubt be utilized up
to the fourth day of March, 18S5, after
which time seven full years must inter
vene before the departments can be filled
in accordance with the spirit of the new
bill.— Constitution.
GENERAL AND MRS. TOOMBS.
Sidney Herbert in Savannah News.
I am sure that the people of Georgia
will be pained to learn of the failing
health of the feeble wife of Gen. Robert
Toombs, a.id that there is no prospect of
her restoration in the future. The bright
est picture in the history of Gen. Toombs
lias been his devotion to his wife. No
cavalier of the olden time ever won a
worthier fame for his ohivalric bearing.
Together, bereft of children, but blessed
with grandchildren, they have come to
the declining years of life hand in hand,
and with hearts as loving and tender as
when first they were wed.
The change in Gen. Toombs grows
more marked every day :s he realizes tin
slow decay of the wife that has been such
a comfort and help to him in his long
public career. Feeble himself and daily
tailing, her aifiictiou seems to have
chastened and subdued his lion heart and
lordly manner?, and it is hard to con
template him in his changed condition
without a feeling of tender regard.
With all his domestic affections pure and
strong, side by side, tender and true to
the last, this remarkable couple are slow
ly tending to the grave, and neither will
long survive the other.
Many children die from worms whose
death is attributed to spasms or conges
tion. Dr. Moffeit’s Tkktuina >coiild
have saved their lives.
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NUMBER 14.
SEN ATOR BROWN * "©IFT”
••Aa Act of blaaatareotod ami Uatah
Generosity’* Severely CnU.ed.
Xew York Times.] .
i Mr. Brow n, the United State Senator
( from Georgia, familiar j known as “Old
Joe Brown,” and everywhere regarded
as one of the shrewdest men In the south,
is just now in difficulty. Singularly
enough, his troubles spring from what,
according to his own statement, he in
tended as “an act of disinterested and un
selfish generosity.” His enemies, on
the other hand, declare that for once In
his life he has overreached himaelf; la a
word, that “he has been too shrewd for
his own good.” The controversy which
grows out of this difference of opinion is
of the most bitter character, so bitter, in
deed, ami so wide-spread as to warrant
the beliel that it w ill cause still more seri
ous breaches In the already divided dem
ocracy of Georgia. Fortunately, the
facts in the case, though they are of a
sort to be deeply pondered by all would
be public benefactors, uiay be briefly
told. During recent political excitement
in Georgia, when it was very evident that
the Brown faction of the detnooracy very
much needed to be strengthened in pub
lic opinion, it was suddenly announced
w’ith an altogether unnecessary flouri*h
of trumpets that the senator had conclud
ed to give to State University the sum of
$50,000. The authoritative confirmation
of this report wis naturally looked for
with much interest, and when, after some
time, it was definitely ascertained that
Mr. Brown really bad determined to
make “the generous gift” in question and
to apply the interest ot the fund to the
benefit of deserving young men too poor
to obtain an education in any other way,
even the most violent of his detractors
were silenced, and the sou'h was filled
with extravagant praise of the “noble
ex-Governor and senator Brown.”
But now all this is changed; the sena
tor has vindicated iiis reputation for
shrewdness of a very peculiar character,
but he is no longer praised for his gener
osity. He was true to his promise to be
stow $50.000 on the University, but he
was careful to couple his so-called gift
w ith a number of the most remarkable
conditions ever heard of in connection
with a like transaction. Among other
extraordinary things he stipulated that
the $50,000 was to lie in the Treasury of
the state for fifty years. During this
time the fund was to remain untouched,
yet the state W’ss to pay for its use Inter
est at the rate ot 7 jer jent. year. The
amount of $3,500 ir annum so realized
was to be used to pay the expense of
promising, but needy, young men who
wished and were fitted to enter the S ate
University. Bit this was not all. It
was further stipulated that out of the in
terest money secured as diseribod each
beneficiary win to be paid the sum of
S3OO a veer, fot which money lie was to
giye his note binding himself to pay after
he left college he amount sc lent togeth
er with interes at the rate of 4 per ee®t.
The money so returned, with the inter
est, was to he used to educate additional
beneficiaries. The interest from the
stale and from the young men to whom
money was lent was to be controlled and
disbursed by the Trustees, of the Uni
versity. At the end of fifty years, if the
state refused to again promise 7 per cent,
interest on the $50,000, then it was stip
ulated that “the gift” should be paid out
of State Treasury to the Trustees, but
again upon the condition that they should,
invest it in United States bonds, the In
terest on which was to be used as before
provided. But even this was not all.
The generous Mr. Brown still further
stipulated that his four sons, Julius, Jo
seph, George and Elijah by name, were
during their lives to so control the selec
tion of “the beneficiaries” that they each
of them should continually have one
voting man of his own in the university.
Such young men, if they were relatives
of the Brown boys, even to the fourtli
degree—second cousins, for instance—
were not to l>e required to pay back the
money which they received during their
stay in the college.
d’hoaft conditions, when closely exam
ined, were found to he so complex that
good lawyers declared they coulu only I e
accepted by an act of the legislature,
Such a bill was drawn, and, after giving
rise to much instructive debate, was very
properly defeated and Mr. Brown’s do
nation rejected. During the discussion
and since, the “generous giver,” through
Ids friends, explained that his intention
was to do the state a much greater ser
vice than appeared on the surface. To
prove this statement it was argued that
the interest cm the $50,000 being lent
each year to young men struggling to get
an education, they to pay 4 par cent.,
would virtually compound it after the
first year into the a rate of 11 per cent.
At this rate, even supposing some of the
young men failed to pay, the original
sum would be doubled In twenty years.
This SIOO,OOO would be doubled again at
the end of forty years, the $200,000 would
double at the end of sixty years, the
$400,000 and the end of eighty years, the
SBM,OOO would become $1,600,000 at the
end of a hundred years, and alter the
first twenty years of the second century
the $1,600,000 would amount to $3,200,-
000, or a fund sufficient, according to
Mr. Brown, “to secure from its interest
the education of all the deserving poor
young men in Georgia.” Unhappily for
“the good intentions,” as well as for the
reputation of the calculating senator, his
views is not accepted by the majority of
people. On the contrary, there seems to
be a generally credited idea that when
he made his “generous offer” he fully
aware of the fact that its acceptance by
the legislature would be in direct viola
tion of a constitutional provision which
prohibits the making of auy debt by
Georgia except for the purpose of paying
off certain existing indebtedness. Under
all its conditions the acceptance of Mr.
Brown’s “gift” would be tantamount to
contracting a debt. For the good sena
tor’s proposition in simple form Is that
the state of Georgia borrow, at 7 per
cent, interest, $50,000, which could rea
dily b® obtained at, say. per cent. In
other wordhe asks the state to give
away to hi? glory 2 3:4 per cent, interest
a year on $50,000 for fifty years. This
may be a shrewd way to be generous, but
it is not a good wav. Senator Br *wn has
made a very large fortune in Georgia.
He has not lost money through holding
office. He could well afford, if he realty
wants to do a generous act, to buy $50,-
000 worth of good safe bonds, and pre
sent them to the University of Georgia to
be used for the benefit of what he calli
“young men struggling to get an educa
tion.”
Farmers and others desiring a genteel,
lucrative agency business, by which $5
to S2O a day can be earned, send address
at once, on postal, to H. C. Wilkinson A
Cos., 195 and 197 Fulton street, New
York. _ dec2l-6m.
No man knows what a ministering a? -
gel his wife is until he comes home one
day, suffeiiug with a dreadful Cold and
she happens to have a bottle of Dr. Bull’s
Cough Syrup in the house.