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KD.OTAHAM. W. M. GRAHAM.
GKAIIAM & OKAHAM,
Attorneys, Solicitors and Counselors at
Law,
( artersville, ga.
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practice in all the courts of Bartow county,
rtie superior courts of northwestern Georgia, and
e Supreme and Federal courts at Atlanta, tla.
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CassviUe, Georgia.
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C VRTERSVILLK, GA.
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( ARTERSVILLE, Ga.
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ROME, GA.
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TRAVELERS’ GUIDE.
GADSDEN AND BED LINE STEAM
ERS—U. S. MAIL.
STEAMER SIDNEY P. SMITH,
(Ben. H. Elliott, Master; F. G. Smith, Clerk.)
Leove Rome every Tuesday and Friday. ...8a m
Arrive Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday. t> a m
Leave Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday, s a m
Arrive at Rome Thursday and Sunday i ... • < P m
Will go through to Greenspoit, Ala., every
Friday night. Returning, leave Greensport ev
ery Saturday morning.
STEAMER GADSDEN.
F. M. Coulter, Master F. A. Mills, Clerk.
Leave Route Mondays and Thursdays 11 a m
Arrive (aid den Tuesdays and Finlays . ..2a m
Leave GadsdeM Tuesdays mid Fridays— a in
Arrive at Wednesdays and Saturdays. . . t pin
Office No. 27 Broad street, up-stairs over the
Cotton Exchange. Telephonic connection.
J. M. ELLIOTT, Jr., Gen. Man’gr.. .
Gadsden, Ala.
W. T. SMITH, Geu’l Agent,
Itoniq, Gu.
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
On and after Monday, March 10, 1883, the trains
on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted):
PASSENGER TRAIN—MOUSING.
Leave Cartersvdlle ....... 9.15 am
Arrive at Stilesboro ....... am
Arrive at Taylorsville . ' 10:3o a m
Arrive at Rockmart a m
Arrrive at Cedar town i3;oa a in-
RETURNING.
Leave - -®' l P 1)1
Arrive at Rockmart * i> m
Arrive at Taylorsville ** 111
Arrive at Stilesboro •’* P 111
Vrrive at Cartersville 4:25 pm
1* ASSExNGE Li TR A1 N.-E SEN IN G.
Leave Cartersville 4:80 pin
Arrive at Stilesboro '-*!!* !‘ l
Arrive at Taylorsville • P !U
Arrive at i
Arrive at Gedartovvn :ou p m
RETURNING.
Leave Codartowii a 111
Arrive at Rockmart . . *>:oa a m
Arrive at Taylorsville 7:2# am
Arrive at Stilesboro •
Arrive at Cartersville . • ■ • • . 8:20 ain
ROME RAILROAD.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule:
no. 1.
Leave Home S : rr~ !i!
Arrive at Kingston . y B:.>sam
NO. 2.
Leave Kingston
Arrive at Rome 10:2o a m
NO. 3.
Leave Rome r‘.>n^ m
Arrive at Kingston pm
no. 4.
Leave Kingston P m
Arrive at Rome • o :60 p m
NO. 5.
Rome £ :00 am
Arrive at Kingston . :ooam
NO. G.
Leave Kingston 9:20 am
Arrive at Rome ......... 10:10 am
Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 will run daily except Sun
days.
Nos. f> and 6 will run Sundays only.
No. 1 will not stop at the junction. Makes
close connection at Kingston for Atlanta and
Chattanooga.
No. 2 makes connection at Rome with E. T..
Va. & Ga. R. It., for points south.
EBEN HILLY ER, President.
J. A. Smith, G. P. Agent.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The following is the present passenger sched
ale:
NIGHT PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 2:40 pm
Leave Cartersville 4:30 pm
Leave Kingston 4:55 p ni
Leave Dalton ... 6:84 pm
Arrive at Chattanooga 8:00 p m
NIGIIT PASSENOER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 2:55 pm
Leave Dalton 4:32 pm
Leave Kingston ; • 6:03 pm
Leave Cartersville |U32 p m
Arrive at Atlanta 8:40 pm
PAY PASSENGER—UP.
..eave Atlanta 7:00 a m
Leave Cartersville 8:55 am
Leave Kingston
Leave Dalton R m
Arrive at Chattanooga 12 :0 a m
DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 8:00 am
ljeavc Dalton
Leave Kingston 11 Go am
Leave Cartersville 1 } "1,7 n ni
Arrive at Atlanta 1:40 pm
ROME EXPRESS „ "
Leave Atlanta f : o? 2?
Arrive at Cartersville
Arrive at Kingston :00 pin
Leave Kingston ' '
Arrive at Cartersville ...... am
Arrive at Atlanta . . ■ • 1° :; L am
Dou’t Forget
That you cau be suited in a clock at
J, T. Owens.
VOLUME VI.
SHILOH'S CATARRH RJEMKHY—a positive
Cure for Catarrh, Diphtheria and Canker Mouth.
Ask Curry for it. nov2l-6.W
Pric’s Baking Powder and flavoring extracts
can be had of Cel M ord.
The most prominent ph/siciaus in the city
smoke, and recommend Tansill’s Punch sc. ci
gar. Cel Word sells them.
Curry has a splendid lot of strictly pure teas
which he is selling cheap.
Wadsworth Martinez A Longman's paint - aro
guaranteed strictly pure an<l otgre. ter cmWing
capacity than any other and Curry is selling
quantities of it.
A ut Word’s drug store.
figiLgfljß CURE WILL immediately relieve
Croup, Whooping cough and Bronchitis. Sold
■ hy Curry.
Good mixed paints at Word’s drug store,
Lamps Aheap and nice at Words drug lore.
S;*S. H.,!he great blood medicine at Woid
drug store, _____
,Que by one tlie roses fall, but “Tansill’s
PiiTT'i h” cigar outlives them all, Cel Word’s drug
store.
Purify yout- Blood'by,using *el WoriUw^arsw
pwilla.
Smoke “Taffuul’f Punch,” CftierlC'iN JwCstf sc.
cigar. Cel Word sells them.
The old reliable genuine Brown Windsor soap
so duerviiUy popular with the ladies. For sale
by T>; IV. Cu. iy,
iiower p<Hs from 5 cents up, at Ciiryf.s,
Hagan’s magnolia balm for the complexion, at
D. W. Curry’s.
Curry has just received a larg • lot of Lund
borg’s Triple extracts.
Attention Ladies.
Tet’.ows Swan’s tlovvu white and fl *sh colored
at C rrry’s.
Tetlow’s gossamer white and ilesli colored at
Curry’s.
Cigarettes 10 for 5 cts. 20 for 10 cts. at Curry’s
Seltzer Water on draught at Curry’s. Call
and tty it.
Sleeplessness is almost always occasioned by
some derangement of the atom ache and can be
cured by taking Curry’s Liver Compound which
aids digestion, quiets the nearvs and thereby
gives refreshing sleep.
Fine cut tobacco at Curry’s.
Allane, Woodward & Co.’s Extra select pow
ders guaranteed strictly pure lor sail by Curry.
Toilet soap iu endless variety at I>. W. Cur
ry’s.
Lemon Elixir cures headache, indigestion,
diziness, etc., for sale by David W. Curry.
Price, 50cents per bottle.
Curry will sell you an insect gun charged with
Persian Insect powders, that will drive off all
sorts of insects from your flowers, vegetable and
melon vines, for 20 cents.
Fruit jars enough for everybody and cheap
i enough for anybody’ at Curry's.
Why “pot” your beautiful plants in a rickety
old unsightly box or keg when you cap buy
elegant Paulding county Majolica flowerpots, at
Curry’s as cheap as dirt.
DAVID W. Curry, Dear Sir: The Persian In
sect powder procured of you has cfl ctually rid
my vegetables aud melon vines of insects with
out the least injury to the plants.
Respectfully, etc.,
June 9th 1883. P. STEGALL.
Curry has in stock a large quantity of all sorts
of lubricating oils that ho is selling very cheap.
A lady who has visited most of the cities north
and south says that Curry’s soda wa er surpas
ses any she ever drank.
Pure Lard oil the very best thing tor machin
ery for sale by I). W. Curry.
PILES.
Piles are frequently preceded by a sense of
weight in the back, loins and lower part of the
abdomen, causing the patient to suppose he has
some a flection of the kidneys or neighboring or
gans. At times symptoms of indigestion are
present, as flatulency,uneasiness of the stomach,
etc. A moisture, like perspiration, producing a
very disagreeable itching, particularly at night
after getting warm in bed, is a very common at
tendant. Blind, Bleeding and Itching Piles
yield at dhee to the application of Dr. Bosan
ko’s Pile Remedy, which acts directly upon the
parts aflected, absorbing the tunic vs, allaying
the intense itching, and effecting a permanent
cure, wUerU*all other remedies have failed. Do
not delay until the drain ou the system produces
permanent disability, but try it and be cured,
rice 50 cenis. Sold by D. W. Curry. jaalß-l
‘•JIACKMETACK,” a lasting arid fragrant
perfume, Price 25-and 50 cents. Sold by Curry.
Another lot Wizard Oil, the great “Cure All,”
fust rccoivod at.Cnrry’s drug stove.
Do smoke “Tansill’s Punch” 5 cent cigar. Cel
Word’s. _
FREE OF COST.
Byjealling at D. W. Curry’s drug store, you
can get a sample bottle of Dr. Rosanko's Cough
and Lung Syrup free of cost, wrick will relieve
the most obstinate Cough or Cold, ami show you
what the regular cent size will do. When
troubled with Asthma, Brochitis, Dry, Hanking
Cough, Pains in the Chest, and all diseases of the
Throat and Lu*'gs, try a samp la buttle of this
medicine. jan!B-Iy
Madsimc Lorame’s stive death to bed bugs.
For sale by D. W. Curry.
If you would ris6 early take Curry’s Liver
Compound.
Cel Word respectfully calls attention to his
country friends that he can supply them with a
cool glass of soda water when in Cartcrsvfllc.
Many imitate, none equal, “Tansid’s Punch”
scent cigar. Cel Word sells them. t
2,3, aud 5 gallon tilting oil cans at Words drug
storm
ARE Y OU MADE miserable by* indigestion,
constipation, dizziness, loss of appetite, yellow
skin ? Shiloh’s Vitalizer is a positive cure. For
sale by Curry.
Warner’s Safe Diabetes Cure, Warner’s Kid
ney and Liver Cure, Warner’s Nervine, WTar
ner’s Tonic, and Warner’s Pills, are kept con
stantly in stock and sold wholesale and retail at
Curry’s drug srore.
FOR DYSPEPSIA .and Liver Complaint, you
have apriuted guarantee on every bottle of Shi
loh's Vitalizer. It never fails to cure. You can
get it at Curry’s.
Diamond Dyes, only 10 ccntsper package, a t
Word’s drug store.
Ice cold soda water and ginger ale, drawn
from one of Tufts’ Arctic Apparatu ?, can be had
ut Cel Word's drug store.
Cel Word’s Horse and Cattle I wdeYs give
perfect satisfaction. Try them.
Hot weather is coming, and Cel '.ord lias put
in operation one of Tuft’s elegaa? so la water ap
paratus to dispense the cooling beverage.
Old smokers prefer “Tansili's Punch 5 cent
cigar to most of the 10 centers. <e! V r ord is the
a £ .
Pure white lead and linseed oil. Pare mixed
paints in any quantity at Cel Word’s drug store.
830.00 Reward.
For the man to whom I Live misre
presented a vehiekle of any kind carriage
buggy or wagon.
I' R. 11. JONES.
THE FREE PRESS.
I RESOURCES OF THE SOUTH,
ti hHj; the Southern States Have to Show.
Baltimore Sun.]. *’
The southern exposition, which will
open at Louisville on theH -d >f August,
while containing exhibits l'rom all. parts
<t the Umtetl States, as well as from
many forßlgti countries, will, as its name
implies, be primarily devoted to display
ing the resources t>f the'soft;h. The six
teen states stretching from DeiawlSre to
Texas and from Florida to Missouri,
with their 1)00,000 square miles of surface
and nearly, twenty millions of people,
contain almost one-half of the sett’ed
area Of the country and well-nigh two
tftfhsiof its population. Slavery, the
war and the political disorders of the re
construction period all retarded the de
vplopeinent of the maguiiloent natural
resources of these states. Carrying such
weights as these, it is no wonder that the
-outh fell behind in the race of wealth,
And It la iKit surprising that in propor
tion to its population it can show but two
dollars tor every live in the north and
west; that the average resident of Mnsa
c*uusettsi.+ four times as rich as his coun
tryman iu Virginia, and .that, man ler
n)tru, OMoc.m quadruple the wealth of
URiOigia. Tiie bonds that "have so long
rustricied the free" expansion of the ca
ll teides of the south are at last broken,
tod in the past live years there has been
throughout all its borders a wonderful
moyetieut in almost every branch of iq
iteinal activity. It knows that it lias
I. .st ground to make up, and it is earnesjt
ly.addressing itself to the task. The
notion’exposition at Atlanta in 1881 was
a reveintFm to Cite world of the power
that lay in the new south, and it is, con
fidently predicted that the exhjfrition
about to open at Louisville will have
even inore*surpiies for those who have
been brought up in the belief that to the
south of Mason and Dixonjs' line‘there
was a commercial Nazareth out of which
there could come no good thing.
Lt any display of resourses of the
south its agricultural products and its
agricultural systems are entitled to the
place of honor. Nearly two-thirds of
her employed population find tneir bread
in the tilling of the fields. In the last
census year the products of her farms
amounted to more than $700,000,000, an
average of about forty dollars for every 7
inhabitant. Of this aggregate more than
one-third was represented by the value
of the cotton crop. in the more dis
tinctively cotton states, such as South
Carolina, Mississippi and Texas, more
than half the value of all the produce of
their soil was in cotton. Iu her cotton
lands the south has a perennial source of
v ealth. In cotton she controls the mar
kets of the world.
No foreign competition has as yet been
able to oven seriously threaten her supre
macy. While her crop of the great sta
ph; gets larger and larger, with increas
it.g population here and elsewhere, her
homers and planters are beginning to
raise in addition many tilings which
they were formerly in the habit of buy
ing fiern their neighbors. Food supplies
of td 1 sorts are now being raised on the
farms of the progressive men of the
scuih. In places convenient to means of
rapid transportation land owners aie
availing themselves of the advantages of
fered by their more advanced seasons to
r:;i-e early fruits and vegetables for the
northern markets. Every resident of
Ibhimore knows that tomatoes, straw
berries and so on make their appearance
in considerable quantities in our markets
some weeks if not months earlier than
v. as the case ten or twelve years. ago.
Tin* industry, now in its infancy, is ca
pable of almost indefinite expansion.
r i he steadily growing city populations of
the south will continually increase their
demand for early produce, and the im
provement in the means of transporta
tion will reduce the cost of bringing the
g irdan truck of Georgia and Carolina to
the tables of New York aud Philadel
phia. The crowded town that will
s; ting up around the already forming
manufacturing centres of the south will
afford an eyen more certain and profita
ble market.
In Florida the raising of tropical fruits
has become an important and extremely
lucrative industry. So well has it paid
that unimproved lands in the orange bolt
now command prices that would buy ten
times the number of acres in any of the
neighboring states. Three years ago the
value of the tropical fruits raised in Flor
ida was nearly three-quarters of a mil
lion, aud it must Since have greatly in
creased. With the extension of railroad
facilities the business must assume still
larger proportions, and it is, perhaps, not
too much to expect that the products of
FI .rid i orchards will drive out of our
markets the foreign fruits, which now
cost ns something near eighteen millions
a year.
The reduction of the tax on tobacco
can hardly fail to stimulate the cultiva
tion of that great southern product. The
cattle raising industries of Texas bid fair
to become every day more lucrative and
moft valuable. Hostile legislation’ abroad
cun be but temporary. The demands of
the poorer classes in European cities for
flesh food must in the end prove too
strong for the protectionist interest of the
agricultural population. The wool pro
duct of Texas has increased more than
fivefold in the last ten years, and between
1870 and ISBO the wool dtp of the south
bad advanced from 10,000,000 pounds to
more thau 30,000,000.
It would be useless to go through the
long hue ot the products pf southern
farm labor and dwell upon their present
condition and their future prospects. But
there are some chauges in the general
system of agriculture that call for a pass-
I iug mention. Wherever close cultivation
i and varied crops will pay, the best re-
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9. 1883.
suits are likely to be gained on small
tracts of land, worked by their owners or
renters, and the great increase in the
number of the farms in the south, and
the accompanying decrease in their acre
age, are among the most promising fea
tures in the present condition of that sec
tion. The 700,000 southern farms of 1800
had become 1,840,000 in number iu 1880,
while their average size had fallen from
320 acres to lot. A large part of the old
southern farm, as a rule, remained un
onllivuted; in this respect (here lias been
a decided advance, tiie proportion of im
proved land in farms having risen from
30 per cent, in 1800 to 37 per cent, iu
1880. Further improvement is necessary
still to put the two sections of the coun
try upon an equal footing, as in the north
the improved land forms 00 per cent, of
the farms.
The completeness with which a farm is
equipped with proper h and
machinery has much to do with the prof
its realized. The .south is making rapid
progress in this direction, the value of
machinery ip proportion ro the number
of acres in farms having increased nearly
21 per cent, in the last decade, though it
is still behind some other parts of the
Union, the greater use of machinery in
the north enables the same number of
men to raise more vr.’usable crop's. Thus,
though the south has 4.000,000 of people
employed Ju agriculture a-ul the rest of
the has but 3,500,0U>, the annual
Value ot Ihe products oi th- iotm-r was
only $.700,000,000 against $1,450,000,000
raised by the other section; or in other
\yords, while in the north every person
-engaged in agriculture raised on an aver
age $414 worth of various crops, in the
sputh a man’s labor only produced some
SIOO. On the other hand, it must be re
membered that tiie avtrge monthly
wages in the south tor fan • labor, where
the hand finds himself, i* but $lO, against
$26 in the northern states.
Gradually the most serious remaining
drawback to the prosperity of the south
is being removed. Every year more and
more of its people are beginning to pay in
cash for what they buy; the credit sys
tem not unfrequently made the farmer
pay two prices for all that he used.
Land in the south is now held at little
more than one-fourth the prices asked in
the north, but its annual products, acre
for acre, are more than hall as valuable.
In such a state of affairs there should be a
strong temptation to the it Insurious im
migrant, whether he comes from foreign
shores or from less favored portions of
our own country. With laud at a fourth
of the price it is elsewhere, the same la
bor and the same skill will raise upon it
crops nearly or quite as valuable. There
will not much longer be a lack of a home
market for products of every sort. The
days when the bale of cotton raised in
Soitth Carolina was carried to“MassaSnu
setts to be manufactured and then re
turned to its native state to be sold ate
rapidly passing away.
Tiie south is beginning to manufacture
its own cotton. The enormous profits
that have rewarded the enterprise of
those who have already' embarked their
capital in such enterprises is the best
guarantee that they will find many imi
tators. There are many reasons why cot
ton goods can be more cheaply produced
in the south than in New England. The
cost of transportation to rad from the
northern mill is saved. Already the New
England manufacturers are making earn
est appeals to the railroads to reduce the
freight upon their materials and their
products, but whatever favors the rail
road companies may be disposed to show
them, the cost of carrying the goods five
hundred miles each wuiy must remain
great enough to make all the difference
between a large profit and none at all.
In 1870 there were but 45,000,000
pounds.of cotton used iu the mills of the
south, amt in 1880 there were 115,000,000
pounds. The rate of increase in some of
the states was even greater. Georgia
manufactured but 10,000,000 pounds in
1870, while in 1880 her mills consumed
33,000,000 pounds. The consumption in
the manufactories of South Carolina
rose during the decade from 2,000,000 to
15,000,000‘pounds.
The expenses of living at the south are
less, and as a consequence l abor is cheap
er. In 1880 the average yearly wages in
the northern manufactories were S3GO,
and iu the southern only $256. It is
quite possible that at the present time la
bor in the south is, man for man, not as
efficient as it is in the north, but it is
rapidly becoming so. A widely dissemi
nated and at the same time utterly base
less delusion exists that the climate of the
southern section renders continued active
exertion impossible. Now it is doubtless
true that there are certain limited areas
in the coast region of the more southerly
states that are too hot and moist for the
health of the white man; but throughout
by far the greater part of the south a man
can work quite as hard as he can any
where else. Large parts of Virginia and
West Virginia have a mean annual tem
perature as low as that of Boston and De
troit, and lower than that of such manu
facturing centres as Pittsburg and-Phila
delphia. The cost of running machinery
is not likely to be any gre; -r in Virginia
or Carolina than it is in Pennsylvania or
Massachusetts. Toe natural water power
ot many parts of the south can scarcely
be excelled in any sectioned the Country,
and fuel is at hand for the production of
steam po.vef in vet more lavish supply.
That the mountain region of the south
was lieh in coal and iron has long been
known, but it has only been within a
very short time that any considerable ef
fort has been made to develop its wealth.
The results that have bees obtained have
been astonishing. In IS7O not a ton of
coal was mined in Georgia; in 1880 the
census reports that 154,000 tons were
produced, In 1870 Alabama dug only
11,000 tons; in 1880 her production had
risen to 322,000 tons. in Alabama,
Georgia, Arkanas,-Kentucky, Tennessee
and West Virginia the coal output ro*e
from 900.000 tons in 1870 to 3,700,000
tons in 1880.
There were in 1870 but 46,000 tens of
iron ore'mined in the states of Alabama,
Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and West
Virginia, and in 1880 there were 575,000
tons, an increase of more than twelve
hundred per cent. Great as these gains
were, there is every reason to believe that
they have been far exceeded in the three
years that have elapsed since the census
was taken, and still greater progress may
be expected in the future. The ore is
more easily to be come at, labor is cheap
er, and a ton of pig Iron can be produced
iti Virginia or Alabama for twelve dol
lars where in Pentuylvania it would cost
eighteen. So long as this inequality con
tinues the movement of the iron industry
must be towards the somh. Already
much northern capital is invested in
southern iron and coal fields; in some
instances the land has doubtless been
purchased with a view to prevent its im
mediate development, but all such ma
noeuvres must, from their very nature,
be productive of temporary results mere
ly. For the present little beyond the
smelling of ore into pigs is done at the
south. The superior cheapness of its
production enables the maker to bear the
cost f transporting it to the foundries
and machine shops of the north, but
sooner or later the latter will be necessa
rily moved nearer to the source of their
raw material, and all the many branches
of iron making be actively carried on in
the southern states.
In any review of the resources of the
south account must be taken of her rela
tively large forest area. The rapid de
struction of the limber trees of the north
and west is yearly making the remaining
forests of the country more valuable, and
within a very few years the larger pait
of these will be in the south.
“Transportation facilities, hitherto and
and still insufficient, are rapidly increas
ing. Every year new railroads are pierc
ing into before unopened tracts of south
ern territory. The Southern Pacific and
the Texas Pacific place the south upon
the line ot transcontinental movements.
The Mexican railways now in course of
construction will find their nearest con
nections in the various southern lines
and will carry to the south the first fruits
of awakening enterprise in tiie long
sleeping land beyond the Rio Grande.
The railroad now being built down tiie
peninsula of Florida will have its termi
nus less than a day’s sail from the island
of Cuba, and all the-many valuable pro
ductions of the West India islands will
find their most convenient markets in
our southern states.
In the south the world is about to find
anew competitor in the strife for the
prizes of agriculture, manufacture and
trade, and the Louisville exposition will
give the public an opportunity to esti
mate her chances of success in such a
contest.
GEORGIA’S GIANTS.
Alexander H. Stephens Ben Hill, Robert
Toombs and Joe Brown.
Atlanta Correspondence of Globe-Democrat.)
I was seated near a group of Georgia
legislators, just within the front entrance
of the 11. I. Kimball house, at 6 o’clock
in the afternoon, listening to a spirited
discussion over the bill just enacted au
thorizing counties to tax the property of
railroads, when some one interrupted the
disputation with the remark, “There
comes Gen. Robert Toombs.”
I looked toward the entrance to see a
man dressed in a loose-fitting linen suit,
with gray hair and shriveling face, stoop
ing shoulders aud halting gflit. He ap
peared to lean heavily on his cane as he
stopped in th? 1 doorway to speak to a
friend who accosted him. Iliseyes were
lusterless and his face tremulous. One
who knew the stalwart political malcon
tent, tiie aggressive leader, the fiery de
bater, the magnificent specimen of phy
sical manhood personated in United
States Senator Robert Toombs twenty
live years ago, must took regretfully at
the weak old man whose physical debili
ty is hardly suggestive of the shrinkage
of his reputation and influence as a pub
licist. Personally, however, he is held
in exalted esteem. Either in domestic,
social or business life, Robert Toombs is
esteemed for all that is honorable. His
nearest neighbors are his best friends.
All who know him admire his generosity
and. integrity. Only in political affairs
are his tongue and pen at a discount with
Georgians. While Gen. Toombs was re
ceiving the greetings of the gentlemen
who had risen and grouped about him as
he’ advanced from the entrance, a carri
age drawn by a span of black horse?
passed in front of the hotel, through the
open window of which was visible the
long face and white hair and beard of
Joseph E. Brown. Some one on the ou
ter circle, a state senator., remarked to
liis right-hand neighbor:
“These are the remaining two of Geor
gia’s quartet of ablest minds; Stephens
and Hill are gone.”
A FAMOUS QUARTET.
The senator was right; Alexander H.
Stephens, Bemjameu 11. Hill, Robert
Toombs and Joseph EL Brown were
Georgia’s “Big 4” in affairs of state dur
ing recent years. E ich was prominent
in the Southern Confederacy; Stephens
as vice-president, Toombs for a time as
cabinet officer, Hill as tiie leader of the
Jeff Davis wing in senate, while Joe
Brown was Georgia’s war governor. The
course of each of the four subsequent to
the war lias been distinct. Brown join
ed the republican party in ’6B, was prom
inent in its councils until ’75, when he
| returned to the democracy"; Stephen*
j was a bourbon democrat in ’73, refusing
! to support Greeley, but after his return
! to congress was virtually an indepen
dent; Hill was a bitter opponent"of re
construction in ’(ir-S, affiliated with re
constructionists. In ’7l, and was bour
bon after ’7B; Toombs has been hour boh
every year and day and hour since the
day Georgia seceded from the Union.
The quartet were four interesting per
sonages. Toombs and Brown have al
ways been at loggerheads; Toombs and
Hill were always at outs; Toombs and
Stephens, from .first to last, were friends
of the Damon and Pythias type. Joe
Brown and Hill wer e at enmity for twen
ty-five years, until they became collea
gues in the United States senate, in 1880.
Brown and Stephens continued personal
friends even when opposing each other
in politics. Stephens and Hill never
were friendly., Stephens once challenging
Hill to fight. Stephens and Toombs were
great lawyers; Brown a thorough schol
ar in law, but no orator; Hill the most
eloquent of the four, but a special plead
er —effective before a jury by reason of
his magical speech rather than from pro
found knowledge of law. Brown and
Stephens were the poorest of boys, and
paid for their schooling from their per
sonal earnings and savings. Toombs
and Hill had means for acquiring edu
cation. Stephens was always very weak,
physically; Brown never robust. Hill
and Toombs, on the contrary, were
superb specimens of manhood. Oppos
ing each other, almost all around, each
o*ie of the four men has, nevertheless,
been successful in his.
CANDIDACIES FOR HONORS
from the same constituency. Toombs,
Brown and Hill have represented Geor
gia in the senate; Brown and Stephens
ha.veoccupied the gubernatorial chair;
Brown has been Chief Justice of the
Georgia supreme court, and Toombs was
the father of the present constitution of
the state, adopted in 1877. Brown and
Toombs are both wealthy; neither Steph
ens nor Hill acquired any wealth. Brown
is a religionist—a prominent Baptist;
Toombs is not a churchman, and is pro
fane; Stephens was p moralist; Hill
devout in his early and again in his latter
days.
Robert Toombs is no longer a factor in
Georgia state affairs. His influence in
the politicid field is as completely gone as
that of either Hill or Stephens, lying in
the grave. He still is, however, a power
at the bar, and is leading, or sole, coun
sel in many causes before the higher
courts, from which he realizes a large
come, varying, it is said, fiom $50,000 to
SIOO,OOO per annum. But the impress of
senator Brown is recognizable upon well
nigh everymatter of public import, lie
is the Richelieu of Georgia’s political af
fairs ; the back of his hand is the doom of
any aspiring man or measure—its grasp
the surety of success. He has attained
every honor for upon the occasion of his
defeat (while iunning as a republican)
for the United States senatorship, he was
burned in etflgy on a public square in
Atlanta. Some of the identical men who
took part in the proceeding, in 1880 voted
to make him senator.
The recent decease of ex-Governor
Charles J. Jenkins and of Judge Martin
J. Crawford, of the supreme court, re
moved two other distinguished Georgians
from public service. Gov. John B. Gor
don’s removal to Florida is yet another
notable subtraction from the state’s list of
public men. Senator Colquitt is popu
lar, but not remarkable for intellectual
force. When the “fierce spirit of the
scythe and glass” shall have removed
liobert Toombs and Joseph E. Brown
from the public gaze, Georgia’s giants
will have all departed her coasts. Her
great quartet is not likely to be duplicated
within her borders out of the present
generation.
■ * ♦ ' ——
TORNADOES.
Scientifically Accounted for, and Some
Remote Causes that produce Pain
ful Results Explained.
The following synopsis of a lecture de
livered by Dr. Horace It. Hamilton before
the New York society for the promotion
of science, contains so much that is time
ly and important that it can be read with
both interest and profit:
There is probably no subject of modern
times that has caused and is causing
greater attention than the origin of torna
does. Scientists have studied for th
benefit of humanity; men have investi
gated it for the welfare of their families.
It has been a vexed subject: long consider
ed, and through all this investigation the
cyclone has swept across the land carry
ing destruction f scientists as well as
to the innocent dwellers in its track.
One thing, however, is certain; the
cause of the cyclone must be sought far
away from the whirling body of wind it
self. Its results are powerful; its cause
must also be powerful. Let us therefore
consider a few facts. First, the appear
ance of a cyclone is invariably preceded
by dark spots upon the face of sun.
These spots, indicating a disturbed con
dition of the solar regions, necessarily
affect the atmosphere of our earth. An
unusual generation of heat in one part of
the atmosphere is certain to cause a par
tial vacuum in another portion. Air
mist rush in to fill this vacuum. Hence
the disturbances —hence the cyclone.
Lhis theory finds additional eomfirmation
in the fact that tornadoes come during
the day and not at night. The dark spots
upon the surface of the sun, whatever
they may be, seem to cause great com
motion in the atmosphere of the world,
and it is almost certain that the extreme
ly wet weather of the present season can
bo accounted for on precisely this basis.
Is it reasonable to suppose, that the mar
velous effect of the sun upon vegetation
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I and life in geuernl shall be less than upon
the atmosphere itself through which its
rays come? The cause is remote, hut the
j effects is here.
‘ After describing some of the terrible
effects of the cyclone, the speaker went
on to say
This rule finds its application in nearly
every department of life. An operator is
in San Francisco—the click of the instru
ment manipulated by his fingers, in
New York. The president makes a slight
stroke of the pen in his study at the
White House, and the w hole nation is
aroused by the act. An uneasiness and
disgust with everything in life, common
ly called home sickness, ia felt by many
people, when the cause is to be found in
the distant home thousands of miles
away. An uncertain pain may be telt in
the head. It Is repeated in other parts of
the body. The appetite departs and all
energy is gone. Is the cause necessarily
to be found in the head? The next day
the feeling increases. There are added
symptoms. They continue and become
more aggravated. The slight pains in
the head in -<v. e to agonies. The nau
sea become chronic, The heart grows
irregular, aid the breathing uncertain.
All these effects have a definite cause;
and, after years of deep experience upon
this subject, l do not hesitate to say that
this cause is to be found in some derange
ment effeets appear. But one may say, l
have no pain whatever in my kidneys or
liver. Very true. Neither have we any
evidence that there is a tornado on the
surface of the sun; but it is none the
less certain i hat the tornado is here, and
it is none the less certain that these great
organs of the body are the cause of the
trouble although there may be no pain in
their vicinity.
NUMBEB t.
I kuow r v hereof I speak, for 1 have
passed through this very experience my
self. Neari) ten years ago,. I w~s the
picture of health, weighing more than 200
pounds, and as strong and healthy as any
man 1 ever knew. When I felt the
symptoms I have above described, they
caused me annoyance, not only by reason
ot their aggravating nature, but because
I had never ielt any pain before. Other
doctors told me I was troubled with ma
laria, and I treated myself accordingly.
1 did not believe, however, that malaria
could show such aggravated symptoms.
It never occured to me that analysis
would help solve the trouble, as l did not
presume my difficulty was located in that
portion of the body. But 1 continued to
srrow T worse. I had a faint sensa ion at
the pit of my stomach nearly every day.
I felt a great desire to eat, and yet I loath
ed food. I was constantly tired and still
I could not sleep. My brain was unusu
ally active, but I could not think con
nectedly. My existence was a living
misery. I continued in this condition for
nearly a year; never free from pain,
never for a moment happy. Such an ex
istence is far worse than death, for which
I confess I earnesly longed.
It was while sutiering thus thatnfiieud
advised me to make a final attempt to
recover my health. I sneered inwardly
at his suggestion, but I was too weak to
make any resistance. Me furnished me
with a remedy, simple yet palatable and
within two days I observed a slight
change for the better. This awakened
my courage. I felt that I would not die
at that time. I continued the use of the
remedy, taking it in accordance with di
rections, until 1 became not only lestor
ed to n.y former health and strength, hut
of greater vigor than 1 have before known.
This condition has continued up to the
present time, aud I believe I should have
died as miserably as thousands of other
men have died and are dying every day
had it not been for the simple yet won
derful power of Warner’s Safe Cure, the
remedy I employed.
The lecturer then described his means
of restoration more in detail, aud conclud
ed as follows:
My complete recovery has caused me
to investigate the subject more carefully,
and 1 believe I have discovered the key
to most ill health of our modern civiliza
tion. I am fully confident that four
fifths of the diseases which afflicts hu
manity might be avoided were the kid
neys and liver kept in perfect condition.
Were it possible to control the action of
the sun, cyclones could undoubtedly be
averted. That, howeyer, is one of the
things that cannot be. But I rejoice to
say that it is possible to control the kid
neys and liver; to render their action
wholly normal, and their effect upon the
system that of purifiers rather than poi
soners. That this end has been accom
plished largely by means of the remedy
l have named. T do not have a doubt,
and I feel it my duty to make this open
declaration for the enlightenment of the
profession and for the benefit of suffering
humanity in all parts of the world.
‘Chief Justice Waite, of the United
States Supreme Court, is now enjoying
a quiet resting spell with his family at
his summer residence in Lyme, Conn.,
which is across the river from the vener
able Saybrook. He has almost entirely
recovered from the effects of injuries re
ceived by falling from the back of a
horse in the great Yellowstone Park Ju
ly Bor 9. lie was not thrown from his
horse, as was stated, but, feeling his sad
dle slipping under him, he threw himself
sideways to the ground iu order to save
himself from a more violent fall. He was
then en route from the Mammoth Hot
Springs to die falls, expecting to rejoin
General Sherman’s party beyund the
falls. At first he felt but little pain from
the efteets of his tumble, but after ilding
two cr three day’s lie was forced to stop,
and the surgeons who accompanied his
party made au examination, w hich elic
ited from them the opinion that tue chief
justice had suffered a slight fracture of
the ninth and truth ribs.