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Alton t ys, Solicitor* ami Counselor* at
Law,
CARTERSVILLE, UA.
OFFICE IN TIIE COURT HOUSE. WILL
practice in all the courts of Itartow county,
the sajK-rior court* of northwestern Georgia, and
the Supreme and Federal courts at Atlanta, Ga.
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A x r ORN KY - AT-L AW ,
ATLANTA, GA.
No. 8 Broad Street, up-stairs.
Office No. 1* Grant Building.
\\7TLL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS.
> V }iu-<iness receives prompt attention. Col
ectisr * a S|>ecialty. I.will attend tlie superior
rouri iisirlow county, La., and in connection
with Hr. .J. M. Neel, will fluish the unfinished
j 11>< nl 'J'rippeA Neel and will also attend
t any new Wuitinoas that may be offered. ocp*
M. il.ul'A Rl> UItOWNE, M. !>.,
JLate of the firm of'Drs. Browne A Ishmsel, Mt.
Olivet, Ky.]
Physlcisa,Sargeon,Obtetriclaßandßjsaerologist,
Cassville, Georgia.
N. B.—Special attention given to Surgery in
si its ht u-hes. 0ct682-tr
SHELBY ATTAWAY,
A I ORNKY-A'T-LA w,
\\riLL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
VV of North Georgia.
fitoT* Office with Got. M. It. Btanael!, Bank
Block. *
.. I < > H(< K f>. JOHNSON,
ATTORNEY -A T - I. A "W ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE, WeatSide, Public Square.
war Will praotioe la all the Courts.
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AT r V O ltN E Y-AT - IiAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
JEFICK (up-stairs) In the briek building, cor
ner nf Main A Krwin streets. jiflylfi.
J. M. N BSC. J. J. CONNER. W. J. NEK!,.
NEEL. CONNER A NEEL,
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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W of this state. Litigated cases made s
jieeixltv. Prompt attention given to all business
vDtrusted to us.
Office in northeast corner of courthouse, fell*
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ATTORNEY -AT I. A W
CA KT KRS VIL LE, <: EGRGIA.
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.very stithies. Hours from Ba. m. to4>£ p. ni.
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ROME. GA.
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFI’H E : WEST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE.
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Will receive prompt attention.
TKAVJELERS’ GUIDE.
GADSDEN AND ItED LINE STEAM
ERS—U. S. MAIL.
STEAMER SIDNEY P. SMITH,
(Ben. IT. Elliott, Master; F. G. Smith, Clerk.)
l.cove Rome every Tuesday and Friday Bam
Arrive Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday. 6am
Leave Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday, ,8 am
Arrive at Rome Thursday and Suuday 7pm
Will <p> through to Greensport, Ala., every
Friday night. Returning, leave Greeusport ev
ery Saturday morning.
STEAMER GADSDEN.
F. M. Coulter, Master F. A. Mills, Clork.
Leave Rome Mondays and Thursdays 11 a m
Arrive Gadsden Tuesdays and Fridays ... Sam
Leave Gadsden Tuesdays vncl, Fridays 9am
Arrive at Wednesdays and Saturdays . 7 p in
Office No. 27 Broad street, up-stairs over the
Cotton Exchange. Telepliouic connection.
J. M. ELLIOTT, Jr., Gen. Man’gr.,
Gadsden, Ala.
W. T. SMITH, Geu’l Agent,
Rome, Ga.
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
On and after Monday, May 22, 1882, the trains
on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted):
PASSENGER TRAIN.—MORNING.
Leave C artersville 8:15 a ra
Arrive at Stilesboro 9:51 a in
Arrive at Taylorsville 10:12 a m
Arrive at Rockmart 10:51 a m
Arrrive at Cedartown 11:50 a m
RETURNING.
Leave Cedartown 2:05 pm
Arrive at Rockmart 2:58 p m
Arrive at Taylorsville 8:33 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro . B:slpm
Arrive at Cartersville 4:25 pm
PASSENGER TRAIN.—EVENING.
Leave Cartersville 4:30 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro 5:04 pm
Arrive at Taylorsville 5:22 p m
Arrive at Rockmart 6.00 p m
Arrive at Cedartown 7:00 pm
RETURNING.
Leave Cedartown 6: to am
Arrive at Rockmart 6:31 a m
Arrive at Taylorsville 7:04 am
Arrive at Stilesboro 7:18 a in
Arrive at Cartersville 7:45 a ni
ROME RAILROAD.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule:
no. 1.
Leave Rome 6:10 am
Arrive at Kingston 8:55 am
NO. 2.
Leave Kingston ........ 9:20 am
Arrive at Rome 10:26 a m
NO. 8.
Leave Rome 4:15 pm
Arrive at Kingston 5:30 p m
no. 4.
Leave Kingston . . . 5:55 pm
Arrive at Home 6:50 pm
NO. 5.
Leave Rome 8:00aiu
Arrive at Kingston . 9:00 am
NO. 6.
Leave Kingston 9:20 a m
Arrive at Rome 10:10 a m
Nos. 1. 2,3 ami 4 will run daily except Sun
days.
Nos. 5 and 8 will ruu Sundays only.
No. 1 will not stop at the junction. Makes
close conuection at Kingston for Atlanta and
Chattanooga.
No. 2 makes connection at Rome with E. TANARUS.,
Va. & Ga. It. R.. for points south.
EBKN HILLYER, President.
J. A. Smith, G. P. Agent.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The following is the present passenger eched-
Xle:
NIGHT PASSENGER—CP.
Leave Atlanta 2:4opm
Leave < irteraviUe 4 -30 p m
Leave Kingston 4:55 pm
Leave Dalton 6:34 pm
Arrive at Chattanooga B*oo p ra
NIGHT PASSENGER— DOWN. *
Leave Chattanooga 2 55 and m
Leave Dalton 4:32pm
Leave Kingston % . . 6:03 pm
Leave Cartersville j, m
Arrive at Atlanta * 8:40 pm
, DAY PASSENGER—CT
Leave. Vlanta 7:00 am
Leave cartersville 8:55 am
Leave Kingston 9:21 a m
LiCayc l)%lton 10:55 a m
Arrive at Chattanooga 12:30 a m
DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 8:00 a m
Leave Dalton 9:46 am
Leave Kingston 11:15 a m
Leave Cartersville 11:42 a m
Arrive at Atlanta 1:40 pm
_ , ROME EXPRESS
Leave Atlanta 4:30 pm
Arrive, at Cartersville 6:31 p in
Arrive at Kingston 7:00 p m
Leave Kingston 8:06 am
Arrive at Cartersville 8:32 am
Arrive at Atlanta 10:87 am
VOLUME V.
East Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia
RAILROAD.
CEORCI A DI VISION.
THE NEW SHORT LINE.
Chattanooga to Atlanta,
Atlanta to Macon.
AND—
SHORTEST OF ALL ROUTES.
CHATTANOOGA AND THE WEST.
TO FLORIDA AND THE SOUTHEAST
Condemn! I7>cal Passekgcr Schedule (on basis
of Louisville time by which all
all trains are run.;
IS EFFECT NOVEMBER 12TH, 1882.
SOUTHWARD. f |
Leave Chattanooga. j 6:15 a m
“ Ooltewah 6:50am 1
“ Cohuttah ; .. 7:33 a m 3:26 pm
“ Dalton i 8:2o am ; 4:85 p m
Arrive Rome 9:55 a uit 7:lspm
“ Rockmart 111:05 a m
“ Dallas.:. 12:16pm
“ Atlanta -...J 2:00 pin No. 49.
Leave Atlanta 2:4opm l:3sara
“ McDonough 4:15 pm 3:4uain
“ Jackson ..i 4:59pm 4:o3aui
“ Indian Spring* 1 5:12 pin 5:10 am
Arrive Macon 6:4spin 8:00 am
Leave Macon 8:00pm 9:ooam
“ Cochran I 9:47 pin n : os ani
“ Eastman 10:36 pm 12:00 in
Arrive Jessup 2:40 am 5:20 ain
Leave Jessup 8:00 a m
“ Sterling 4:65 am! *
Arrive Brunswick 5:35 a mj
SOUTHWARD. i T O ?W.
Leave Brunswick .. 1 8:30 pmj
“ Sterling 9:10 pm;
Arrive Jessup 11:00 pm
Leave Jessup 11:45 p ml 7:0o a m
Kastman 4:13 a ml 12:05 p m
“ Cochran 5:08 ami 1:25 pm
Arrive at Macon 7:00 ara 8:80 pra
Leave Macon 8;15 a mj 4:15 pm
“ Indian Spring 9:55 am 6:46pm
“ Jackson 10:08 am 7:08 pm
“ McDonough 10:53 am 8:24 pm
Arrive Atlanta 12:25 pm 10:30 pin
Leave Atlanta 1:20 pm
“ Dallas 3:uopm Train
“ Rockmart 4:10 prn j No. 52
“ Rome s;2spmj 7:ssain
‘* Dalton 7:23 p m 111.00 am
“ Cohuttah 8:15 pm 12:00 m
Ooltewah 8:45 pin]
Arrive Chattanooga 9:20 p in|
Connections—'l'rains Nos, 53 and 54 connect at
Chattanooga with Memphis and Charleston Di
vision, E. TANARUS., Va. <t Ga. It. It , Nashville, Chat
tanooga & st. Louis Jt. It. and Cin., N. O & T.
P. Railroad.
trains No3. 51 and 62 connect at Cohutta and
Cleveland with main line E. T , Va. &, Ga. It. R..
and connect at Rome with Alabama Division E,
T.. Va. & Ga. R. It.
Trains Nos- 49, 50, 53 and 54 eminent at Atlanta
and Macon with all diverging roads, and con
nect at Jessup with S. F. & W. railway for
Florida.
All trains run daily except Nos. 1 and 2, be
tween Jessup and Macon, which run daily ex
cept Sundays.
Trains to and from Hawkinsville connect at
Cochran.
I. E. MALLORY, M. N. BEATTY,
Ass't Sup’t, Macon. Ass’t Sup’t Atlanta.
W. V. MCCRACKEN, Sup’t., Atlanta.
J. GPIFFIN, A. POPE,
A. G. P. A., Atlanta. Geu’l. Pass. Ag’t.
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ST. JAMES HOTEL,
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THE UNDERSIGNED HAS RECENTLY
taken charge of this elegant new hotel. It
has been newly furnished and shall be first-class
in all respects.
SAMPLE ROOM FOR COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS.
Favorable terms to traveling theatrical com
panies. fjan!6] L. C. HOSS.
THE FREE PRESS.
MY FOURTH WKDDIXG TOUR IN
THE SAME FAMILY.
To The Free Press :
On the 29th of July, 1880, I was called
upon to unite J. W, Bowles, of Gordon
county, to Miss Josie Boston, of Bartow
county, in the holy state of matrimony.
On tlie 30th of August, 1881, Mr. James
Alexander to Miss Bettie Boston, both of
Bartow county, and, on the 6th of Sep
tember, 1882, Mr. Fred Boston, jr., to
Miss Mary Connor, of Cherokee county.
On this occasion the old gentleman said
l had been there marrying the children
and if he and his wife lived to see the 6th
of January, 1883, he intended to have the
finest wedding of them all, and I was
then invited.
So on the day appointed I left home for
the golden wodNing. I reached Brother
Boston’s and found the old man, his wife
and ten of his children seated by warm
fires in ids commodious building, talking
of things past, present and to come. I
had prepared a short ceremony of thanks
giving to offer, but that did not suit the
old brother. He only wanted me to read
a chapter suitable for the occasion and
offer prayer for him, his wife, his chil
dren present, the one absent, all the
guests and his enemies, if he had any.
I read the 90th psalm and commented
on the 10th and 12th verses and offered
prayer as directed, after which we were
invited into the dining room where we
found the table richly furnished and par
took of a splendid dinner and returned to
the parlor.
Now, comes the solemn time when the
old veteran took his seat at tlie head of
the table, with his wife on the right,
then the children on the left, the oldest
first on down to the youngest and dined
together for the last time on earth, I
guess. Then each child presented them
with a nice present of gold. May the
Lord grant that they may all sit down
together at the marriage supper of the
Lamb. YV. A. Nix.
TRIBUTE TO MR. STEPHENS.
To the Editor of The Free Press:
At last the feeble spark of life that lin
gered so long in the tody of Alexander
H. Stephens has burned out, and we
mourn him as dead, but his memory will
live in the hearts of all patriots as long
as the love of liberty lasts. I desire to
add my feeble tribute of praise to his
worth as a christiau statesman.
lie was always willing to give advice
whenever called or. and his advice was
always good and to the point. I once
wrote to him for advice as to the course
I should pursue, and he gave *ne the
benefit of his experience, and, after
telling me what course to follow, he
closed his last letter with these words:
“B-> of good clicer, never despair;
strive on, strive ever. Every young
man in this country is the architect of
his own fortune, and to one of health,
industry, honesty, integrity and upright
ness ‘there is no such word as fail.’ ”
1 will ever treasure up his advice and
keep his letters to remind me of Georgia’s
greatest son. I will leave it to more gift
ed pens than mine to speak of his noble
qualities, but I hope this humble tribute
will not come amiss. History will give
him a place among the greatest and
grandest characters the world has ever
produced.' Georgia can ill afford to lose
such a man. His life should encourage
every poor boy in the country and teach
them that “there is no such word as
fail.”
May his noble example have many
imitators is the earnest prayer of a young
man YYTio Mourns Him.
Cartersville, Ga., March 5, 1883.
ROMANCE OF MR. STEPHENS’ FIFE.
In one of the early years of the 40s Mr.
Stephens, then a young man, paid a visit
to the home of Mr. Darden, in Warren
county. There he met a flaxen-haired,
blue-eyed girl of sixteen, beautiful in
face and lovely in character; piquant,
w itty, and gifted with a mind rarely cul
tivated. An attachment grew up, which
for years did not pass the formal bounds
of friendship, but which was sacredly
cherished by both. The boy lover was
poor in this world’s goods; fragile in
frame, and harrassed by sickness, he did
not dare to aspire to the hand of one
whom he had learned to love and yet
forebore to claim. With womanly devo
tion the young girl read the secret in the
young man’s eyes, and true to her heart
she could only—wait and love.
One evening in 18-IP a party was given
at the residence of Mr. Little, in Craw
fordville. There the two met once more;
there they enjoyed the sweet communion
born of perfect trust; and there Mr. Ste
phens tound courage to speak the words
which for years had fought for expres
>iou, until at last he could no longer ccn
tain them.
“Are }’ou sure that there lives none
other whom you prefer to me?” asked
the maiden timidly, half-shrinkingly yet
only too happy ro feel that she was fa
vored in his eyes.
‘Tn the whole universe there exists not
another,” said he. passionately.
Thus their troth was plighted; the day
was set for their marriage; and all seem
ed auspicious for the lovers. But clouds
lowered o’er their hopes; matters of a
private nature, which it is not within the
domain of the public to know, intervened
and deferred the fruition of their hopes.
The one became immersed in politics,
and racked w ith physical ills, hesitated
to enter a state where he feared the hap
piness of the other might be marred. The
lady found her duty by the side of an in
valid mother, who long lingered with a
confining disease. Thus the years flew
by; but the plighted troth was kept. Mr.
Stephens never addressed another, and
ever kept the image of the fair young girl
in his heart. The lady was the recipient
of admiration from many, but to all she
turned a deaf ear.
They have often met since, and while
the idea of marriage was abandoned, they
felt a sweet pleasure in each other's so
ciety. But three weeks ago the lady was
at the mansion, and, on taking leave of
her old friend, one of the chairs tripped
up, an unfavorable sign, as the governor
remarked at the time. The lady has for
years been a citizen of Atlanta, and no
one is held in more esteem for every
quality which adorns womanhood than
Miss Caroline Wilkinson.
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH 15, 1883.
THE COUNTRY AND CITY PRESS.
There is probably not a country week
ly paper published but what has some
subscriber* who grumble at the idea of
paying more for hb county paper than is
asked by tlie eity weekly papers that are
made up from matter published in
the dailies and consequently at no cost
whatever, save for the white paper
printed upon. As we ourself come in
contact occasionally with such sub
scribers we take the following from the
Marietta Journal for the consideration of
those who think we should put our pa
per down to the price asked by the city
press:
We have been frequently asked, Why
is it you cannot furnish the Journal as
cheaply as the Atlanta Weekly Constitu
tionf Simply for the reason that the
Constitution is published in a city of
about fifty thousand population and pub
lishes a daily at ten dollars a year and
out of this daily it tales enough reading
matter, without additional cost and
prints its weekly for which it receives
one dollar making eleven dollars a year
the Constitution receives, while we have
no daily and receive only one dollar and
fifty cents for our paper. The Constitu
tion has not only its own county to circu
late in, but every county in tlie state of
Georgia and all of the adjoining states,
while the Journal is confined to one
county—that ©f Cobb, with a limited cir
culation in the adjoining counties. A
country paper thus situated cannot be
sustained at a cheaper price than we
charge. The Constitution is a splendid
paper and we have nothing to say
against it, but when a citizen stops his
county paper to fake the Constitution , he
virtually says, by his action- that as far
as he is concerned he doesn’t care
whether there is a paper published in
his county or not and that he is willing
to build up a monopoly in a distant
town, to the crushing out of hnpie enter
prise. And if all of our subscribers
should intimate such a niggardly exam
ple they would bring about just such res
ult. But fortunately we have a large
list of appreciative subscribers, who by
their action say they want their county
paper.
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
A line of herdics have commenced
running in Macon, Ga.
Western Virginia payers all predicts a
big maple sugar season.
Strawberries are selling at seventy-five
cents per quart in Jacksonville, Fla.
Corn is selling in many portions of
North Alabama at thirty-two cents a
bushel.
A million feet of black walnut timber
is to b shipped from Gaudalotipe county,
Texas, to England.
General Wade Hampton says his father
raised the first cotton crop ever harvested
in the south;
The coal fields of Alabama cover 10,8-
60 square mites, and the coal is all bitum
inous, but differs widely in quality.
A lady living near Overton’s station,
Tenn., sells on an average S4O worth of
Vegetables every market day in Nash
ville.
Alabama has 1,519 miles of railroad,
and the railroads furnish eleven percent,
ot all the taxable property in the state.
J. M. Coleman, ex-postmaster of Crys
tal Springs, Miss., has purchased 10,000
cocoons, and intends trying siik culture
in that place.
Tlie Pascagoula, Miss., Ice company
are making preparations to can oysters,
tomatoes, tigs, okra, etc., thus offering
a home market for fruit and vegetables.
Irish laborers on the Texas and Pacific
road, from the Pecos river to El Paso,
have been supplanted by Chinese, who
are working for fifty cents a day less than
was paid the Irish.
A young woman of Ellis county, Tex
as, gave her young man a sum of money
that he might go to the nearest towm and
buy her a trousseau, as they were to be
married in a few weeks. He left with
the money, and has never been heard of
since.
FREE LOVE IN ALABAMA.
Montgomery Advertiser: Sherman is
the name of a man who for some time
has been at work on a copper mine in
Chilton county, on the Coosa river. In
conjunction with his business of a cop
per miner, he carried on a desultory
kind of preaching, inculcating among
the innocent folks who would listen to his
teachings strange doctrines called Sher
manisni, but which the knowing ones
who heard him say w-ere very like Mor
monism. Anyhow, free love and natur
al affinity played a part, and he found
converts. Sherman’s free love doc
trines, while they found some so lustful
and so ignorant as to fall into the snare,
aroused the enmity of the virtuous coun
try folks among whom he lived.
He had been told that his assaults up
on the virtue and purity of the communi
ty must cease, but his false teachings
continued. On last Tuesday night he
was preaching in the open woods to a
mixed crowd just across the river in
Coosa county, and while delivering his
discourse some one from behind poured
a load of squirrel shot into the small of
his back. He is suffering from his
wound, though not likely to die. The
man who stood at the butt end of the
nearly fatal shot gun is unknown, but is
supposed to be some one whose domestic
peace had been ruptured by Sherman’s
propensities. Sherman has been in
Chilton county about a year, is a one
armed man and intelligent. He has
priests under him whom he calls apos
tles. The plan adopted to “seal” wives
to these apostles is said to be similar to
the practice prevailing in Utah. Per
haps this is the man whom the Elmore
County Grange warned to leave the coun
try several weeks ago.
The famous blue laws of Connecticut
enacted by “the people of the Dominion
of New Haven” were so called because
printed on blue paper. They prohibited
the ceremony of marriage being perform
ed by a parson, on the strange ground
that a magistrate might perform it with
less scandal to the church. Adultery
was punished by death. Wearing
clothes trimmed with gold, silver or lace
above one shilling a yard involved a tax
on the person’s estate of sls. No one to
cross a river on the Sabbath but author
ized clergymen. No one shall travel, cook,
make beds, sweep houses, cut hair or
shave on the Sabbath. No one shall
kiss his or her children on the Sabbath or
fasting da/s. The Sabbath day shall
begin at sunset Saturday.
Death Distanced.
Alexandria, Va., Aug. 4, 1881.—
11. 11. Warner, & Co.—Sirs: I should
have been in my grave to-day had it not
been for your Safe Kidney and Liver
Cure* Mrs. Burgess,
HOW WOl’l D YOU LIKE IT?
Young man! How would you like it if
you had to stay in the house nine days in
the week, and ht.ar nothing but disserta
tions on shirt buttons and historical re
miniscences about busted suspender but
tons?
How would you like it if every time
your w ife saved a few dollars she would
come home at one o’clock in the morn
ing with her back hair afioat, and pull
ed every door-bell in the neighborhood
out by the roots? %
llow* would you like it if you met her
on the street with her hat cocked in the
back ot her head, while she w as doing her
utmost to make sausage meat out of every
ash barrel on the sidewalk?
How would you like it if she stood ou
the street corners, or in front of theatres
on matinee day, and winked at the fellows
as they came out?
How would you like it if she shucked
the handsome waiters under the chin and
called them “dear?”
How would you like it if she went out
to the club every night and came home
with her breath smelling like a decayed
skunk? J
llow would you like it if you had to
have all the children of the household, to
attend to ail their wants, and then re
ceive only looks blacker than a ton of
coal for your pains?
How would you like it if you had to
live all your life with such an amalga
mated brute as yourself?
Young man, do you ever stop to think
that your wife has a tender, loving heart
right under the left wing of her corset
that must have been terribly tender and
loving and brave to have said “Yes”
when the minister asked the fatal conun
drum ?
Drop it, young man, or one of these
days that tender, loving, brave heart will
break, and then you’ll have to take the
children and go live with your mother
in-law.
Then God help you !
A GEORGIA DIAMOND FIELD.
l)r. M. F. Stephenson, a geologist of
some celebrity, publishes in the last issue
of the Gainesville Eayle ati interesting
article on the mineral wealth of Hall
county. In his coinmunicationr, Mr.
Stephenson says that diamonds and oth
er precious stones, gold, silver, iron and
copper'caii lie found to an extent almost
incredible. The Gainesville Eayle in
dorses Mr. Stephenson as a me whose
siocerety and truthfulness are unques
tioned, and says:
“it is an undoubted fact that precious
stories worth millions lie hidden in their
roughness along the creeks, rivers and
branches of our section, and that they
are not few, but enough to supply de
mands for ages. A number have been
found by accident, but how to become so
acquainted with their rough appearance
as to make the getting of them a busi
ness is the mystery.
“The great diamond fields of the world
are becoming exhausted, and unless a
new territory is soon found the getting
of them will be a thing of the past.
“Attention ought to be directed to our
section, and if there is any truth in the
writings of Dr. Stephenson, and un
doubtedly there is, this will some day be
one of the greatest mining districts in
the world. We think it would be nice
for some young man to make a study of
the diamond, learn all about its peculiar
ities and then begin his search in Hall
county for them. It might remunerate
him a thousand fold, while the study it
self would be beneficial,”
ON THE BATTLEFIELD.
Atlanta Star.]
“How did the old battlefield look?” a
Star reporter asked Col. F. A. Burr,
who had just returned with a party from
a tour over Chiokauiunga.
“Curious enough. There is no battle
field on earth like it. It is a dense for
est, with scarcely a patch of field. The
battle was a struggle in a wihlerness.
It was fought behind trees and in clumps
of bushes. Gen. Lojigstreet said, yester
day, as we rode through the dense un
dergrowth : ‘When I dashed through
here on the day of the battle, the men
would shout, ‘there goes old Bull of the
Woods!’ There is a pretty heavy
growth of saplings, but the tops of the
old trees are scarred and blunt, just as
they were when the shot and shell
mowed them off.”
“The strength of General Longstreet
was wonderful. He rode the thirty-four
miles on horseback, and was as fresh as a
daisy when we finished. It broke me
down, and Capt. Howell said, ‘I came off
the battlefield to-day in a heap worse fix
than I did the day we fought the battle.’
“Gen. Longstreet was able to recog
nize every important point on the field.
He was wonderfully interested in every
thing he saw. Had the battle been fol
lowed up, it would hav been the great
est victory of the war.”
Alaska is popularly believed to be a
cold country, but only four times in the
last forty-five years has the temperature
fallen below zero, according to a record
kept by the .Russians. Rev. Sheldon
Jackson, who has lived in Alaska five
years, told a Philadelphia audience the
other day that the average winter tem
perature is about the same as in Ken
tucky, and the summer temperature is
similar to that of Minnesota. This state
ment of Mr. Jackson is corroborated by
Commander Meiriarn, who writes from
Sitka December 29: “Our winters are
far from rigorous here. The average of
our thermometers from October 25 to
date has been 41.21 degrees Fahrenheit
at noon and 39.55 degrees at midnight.”
Some idea of the great exrent of Alaska
may be formed from the statement of
Mr. Jackson that it would stretch in an
east and west line from Philadelphia to
San Francisco, and north and south from
Philadelphia to Cuba. It has the high
est mountain peak in the country, Mt.
St. Elias, 19,500 feet it height, and the
largest river, Yukon, which is 70 miles
wide at its mouth. Its coal and iron de
posits are so extensive that a half dozen
Pennsylvanias could be carved out of it.
Its vast forests will be our resource when
the lumber barons have exhausted those
of Michigan and Wisconsin.
At a party in Marshalltown, lowa, a
german was danced with the lights turn
ed out. As most of the dancers belonged
to a Methodist church, the pastor on the
following Sunday denounced the act as
scandalous, and asserted that those con
cerned in it would not dare to repeat it
in the light. They responded by giving
what purported to be an exact reproduc
tion of the figure; but several persons
who had heard, though they had not
seen, the original, declared that certain
sounds resembling kisses were omitted.
Having used Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup
in my family for the last three years, I
find it is the best preparation I have ever
used for Coughs aud Colds, giving almost
immediate relief. B. Walker.
Gen. Com. Merchant, 118 Light St.,
Balto., Md.
CONGRESSMAN SPEER.
National Republican.]
Hou. Emory Speer, of Georgia, was
on Saturday presented with a beautiful
and costly gold watch. The inscription
tells the “who and why” of it:
“Presented to Hon. Emory Speer by
his friends from the ninth district of
Georgia, uow in Washington, D. C-, in
recognition of his distinguished public
services, and in token of our own friend
ship and esteem.”
The present came from young men
who had been watching the drift of poli
tics in the south especially in their own
state. Mr. Speer is doiug a great work
io making his break from bourbonisiu,
and this expression signifies that he will
have a following in his independent
course that will astonish the Ohl inhabi
tants.
“The New York IForid goes Out of its
way to be mean to Speer, of Georgia,”
said & member of congress' jesterday.
“lie was appointed on the tariff confer
enoe because he seemed to be the only
man for the emergency, and he was too
much ot a man to decline, as Carlisle
w as. It may be that his efforts in behalf
of *he cotton raisers led to a mistake in
not raising the duty on cotton ties; hut
if he did lie was justified in it so iong'as
the duty on fence wire was kept down in
the interest of farmers,*’ and thin lie pro
ceeded to say that no man in the house
had ever acted in a more manly and in
dependent way than Mr. Speer.
BISIXESS I'RO'FKCTs
Boston Advertiser. |
What is the prospect,? it is good, ami
some respects excellent. The mw quo
tations in the investment market are an
element of strength fully sustained by
the earning capacity of shares. The
country is richer than it was a year ago;
consequently its power of consumption
is greater. The losses inflicted by the
floods are great and absolute. : and furth
er losses of the same kind in . V ii it
voidabie. But the relation ot •■•p- ' li a
ses to the weHlth of the emmfri > very
slight. Besides this, all foreign coun
tries report an expansion ol trade.
France, Germany and Great Britain
have done more business, foreign and
domestic, during the year 1882, than
ever before, ami the great east, including
India and China, shows greater capacity
tor trade than it has in recent years.
The fall in tiie price of silver has stimu
lated trade in both these countries, and
the effect upon the trade of the world
can not but be direct and benefleeut.
Finally, we begin an agricultural season
of very fair promises. Winter has done
its worst, and it has not been intolerable.
As spring advances, then, hope and
good spirits may well revive, and en
courage us to do that which make cities
rich and countries great—work, save and
operate firmly!
A practical Ohio statesman is quoted
as saying that the governorship of
the buckeye state a year
doesn’t meet his figures: “1 have had
enough of the thank-you business in poli
tics, and I am now inclined to take Jago’s
advice and put money in my purse. The
glory of lame is an empty thing, and I
would rather leave my (children the lega
cy of a good education and a comfortable
competence than that they should sleep
under the shadow of the finest monu
ment ever erected by the adulation of
mankind. What has the wife and fami
ly of a great statesman after he lias died
a pauper? What would Mrs. Gartield
have to-day had she not been favored by
peculiar circumstances? What is Gar
field’s glory to-day? I tell you the world
is forgetting him already, and the funds
for his monument are growing very
slowly. The dav after he was dead 1
could have raised a sum of $50,000 to
make a statute in Vis honor in my native
city; to-day l could not raise sl,ooo. ir.
is so with the glory of fame. The great
man dies; the world stops a second, and
then rushes madly on. In a short time
he is forgotten, and often, if he died poor,
the people sav: “Yes he was a great
man, but he never laid up anything.
He worked all his life and left his family
poor.”
There is force in the Ohio man’s re
marks.
A good deal has at one time and anoth
er been said about the corrupt and cor
rupting air about the District of Colum
bia. It has been asserted that the few
est numbers can remain in the atmos
phere of that city without being contam
inated. The proposed removal of the Cap
itol and the appurtinrnent state houses to
St. Louis would afford no relief—it
would be simply a transition and not a
correction of evil. St. Louis is already
as bad as she can be, and the crowd that
goes to make Washington would make
St. Louis worse. About the only thing
that can be safely relied on to purify in
any degree the atmosphere of the place
wculd be the complete clearing it of its
tribes of political dead-beats, its hang
ets-on of congressional coat-tails, and its
noodles who till the air continually with
the mephitic odor of scandal in all the
walks of life and in every grade of socie
ty*
Necessity often develops powers that
people do not dream they possess. Since
the termination of the late war many
southern ladies have been forced to de
pend o their own efforts and have ac
complished mueh. The ladies should
take eourage. A Boston woman; the
daughter of a once wealthy man, being
reduced to the necessity of providing for
her own wants, resolved to manufacture
pickles and preserves for the market.
She told her friends, and they promised
to become customers. She found no
dilfieulty in selling all that she could
make with her hands. The next year
she enlarged the business, and the third
she expanded it still further, her condi
ments having by this time acquired a
reputation in the maiket. Now she is
making a net profit of about $10,003 a
year.
Silver spring, in Georgia, is said to be
the largest spri/ig in the world. It is the
source of the uklawaha river, which is
sixty feet wide at the start, ten feet deep,
and with current flowing two miles an
hour. All this vast quantity of water
comes from the spring, whose only inlets
are at the bottom. It is about two acres
in size, and its mysterious depths have
never been explored. There is an In
dian legend about Silver Spring, of
course. Wenonah, the beauty of the
tribe that inhabited the neighborhood,
won the love of Chu’.lootah, a hostile
chief. Her wrathful father slew the
lover, and then Wenonah drowned her
self in the spring, which was then small,
but was instantly enlarged to its present
proportions by the Great Spirit’s abund
ant tears of sympathy.
Mr. Edward Atkinson, in Illustrating
the advantages reaped from machinery,
states that with the spinning-wheel and
hand-loora of our forefathers, it would
require 1(1,000,000 people to weave the
cotton cloth now manufactured by 160,-
000. .
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GOOD ADVICE io tOVTfXEItIf YOUTH.
Atlanta * "~-~
Thtert*fe htV ffcNfht tfwrt a great many
of the voting men hare false and exag
gerated notion* in regard to “chivalry/’
These false and exaggerated notions are
in themselves the evidence of a transi
tion atate, for they were not hekl by tte
ancestors of the young meu* for such
braw ls as pc-urred fifty years ago were
made mainly ghnd humored, and tha
man who fired his-pUtrd promifirnously,
or with malic ions intent, was tattooed it
a ruffian and a blackguard. * * •
There is no brttvery in carrying a pistol,
no chivalry ih‘shooting ti Ynah/Vio gal
fanny involved In a street brawl.
Mur yowagpmn ought to pndarstand
these thiugs. Bqffiaus and blackguards
tfo armed, and engage in brawls, and un
ess a young mafc'Sb fxr forgets himself
as to associate with atich characters, the
necessity fan deiondiog himself is not
apt to arise. With respect to the habit
ot carrying concealed weanons, We might
say to our botthern critics that young
men in Chicago and New York sin in
this respect, but the plajtv answer would
be that the young who do carry pistols
and dirks hi these and other northern
cities belong to the ruffian element, and
respectable |**oole rarely come in contact
with them. It is high time for them to
understand that there is a wide differ
ence between ruffianism and true chiv
alry.
MUDKI. MAXIMS.
Fr.>m rhe San Francisco Journal.]
Some of the Chinese maxima which
are hung on slips of red paper outside
i heir joss houses arc, in the matfer of
solid wisdom, worthy of Thomas-a-kem
j>is, Martin Tupper or any philosopher
irom the compiler pf the Koran down to
tlie latest mo.alist of the nineteenth cen
tury. A few translated by an interpre
ter are subjoined :
“If some great, disaster befall you, and
you see no means to extricate yourself,
submit m the will of heaven.”
“Think much and speak little. A
great parade of words nntv (lassie the
eyes ot fools, and is far Inferior to judi
cious silence.”
“.Ruin follows gain very near, and mis
ery is at the tail >1 fortune.”
“Do yon l.>ve sweet things? Taste
first those that are sour. Do you seek
repose aiul pleasure? First seek repose
and t >11.”
“Forget the service that you have done
for others; it is rheir business to'remem
ber them.”
“If you have but a small share ot gen
ius and virtue and . have nothing to re
commend you but a self-sufficient decis
ive air, your fall is certain'. Of ten who
resemble you, nine will fall.”
A couple were recently married in
Goshen lifter a eourtship extending over
a quarter of a century. The local chron
iclers say that so. far as could be judged
the course of their true love- has always
run smooth, both families being “agree
able” arid there was no visible obstacle
to their union years ago, except .that they
were never before quite ready. Friends
first laughed and then teased them, and
at last the condition of affairs became so
much a matter of course that oven gossip
forgot to busy ttself about them. The
young lady was one ot the belle* of the
town and had no lack of other suitors,
but she turned a deaf ear to them all.
Wj
Sir Garnet Wnlseiey is an ardent advo
cate of temperance in the army. He
says that, in his opinion, drink is the
chief cause of disobedience, Ajrime and
disease. In sbuth Africa his foody-guard
were all strictly temperate inch, and all
enjoyed excellent, health, in spite ot the
climate. In Egypt, also, very little liq
uor was given to the troops, although
the doctors insisted that it was necessary
on account of the climate; ybr tha gtmor
al health of the men was good, and their
behavior admirable.
; —fp -■
In Lambnr Cainp in Winter.
The men who cut and haul lumber are
fearfully exposed hftfe’fefe weather, and,
although hardy ud rugged, are some
times laid aside from duty. Mr. Randall,
of Augusta, Maine, . whp is extensively
engaged in the lmqbering business, writes
that one of hts men was attacked with a
terrible sore throat, o that they thought
he would die. They administered Perry
Davis’s Pain Killer, both internally
and externally. In an hour the sufferer
was relieved, and the next day he was at
work as usual.
The Augusta Chronicle says; “The
farmers of Georgia made, last year, in
round numbers, 900,000 bales of cotton.
At an average of S4O a bale, we have
$36,000,000 as the proceeds of last year’s
cotton crop. Now. suppose the men who
made this cotton had • raised their own
provision supplies—as the undoubtedly
could have done. In such an event, does
anyone suppose people would be inquir
ing what has become of the $36,000,000?
Would they then be declaring that there
is no money in raising cotton ?”
There is a little island, only ten miles
in circumference, lying almost In the
middle of the South Pacific Ocean, which
will be in May next the chief oentre of
scientific interest on the globe. This is
because it is the only available spot of
land where a view Of the total phase of
the eclipse of the sun which occurs on
May 6th can be obtained. Astronomers
from America, France and England will
meet there and set up their instruments
of observation.
--•
M rs. John Jacob Astor has trouble with
her diamonds. Detectives are employed to
take care of hefr when She wears her pre
cious jewels abroad, and when at home
the sate that contains them is more sol
idly built than the vaults that hold so
much precious metal In th United
States treasury. And Mrs. Astor must
die, and there hHS been no Invention that
would enable her to carry her jewels
with her. It is really a burden to be
very rich.
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“Charley,” remarked Junes, “you were
born to be a writer.” “Ah” replied
Charley, blushing slightly at the compli
ment; “you have seen some of the things
I have turned off?” “No,” said Jones;
“I wasn’t referring to what you had
written. I was simply thinking what a
splendid ear you had for carrying a pen*
Immense, Charley; simply immense!”
The late reports from the fl lode! Mis
sissippi are of a gloom}' character.
Under the action of a fierce gale and the
pressing water the levees fi iU —iveu way
at many points and vast tracts of country
were being submerged. Much less of
property, live stock, &c., has been repor
ted, ami great damage is anticipated
Journalism carinot be taken up as the
pastime of an idle hour, or as a special
means of gain, or as a stepping stone to
other literary work, and made a com
plete success. It reouires a laborious
apprenticeship, u special skill, the result
ol training a single-minded devotion, to
the exclusion of other fields of labor.