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THE FREE PRESS,
Cartersville, Ga.
i*HOFiiSSIONAL CAltI>S.
WALTKII M. K \ ALSi
V PT O u IST IS V -AT -L A "W,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
\v,u practice in all the, courts in North Geor
g‘office with Neel, Conner * Neel, juiy2fl-tf. _
A. M. FOUTE,
x V'V O RN" K‘Y- AT- 1- A Wi,
CAKTKfciVILLS, GEORGIA.
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“SK'Sme"
stairs over It. F. Godfrey’* store. t,
W. M. OK AH Alt.
K. D. OKAIIAM.
OHAHAX a graham,
Attorneys Solicitor*, and Coauselots at
Law,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
/ aKFK F IV THE COURT HOUSE. WILL
( V,Settee in all the courts of Bartow county,
V. /pi a . f northwestern Georgia, ami
at Atlanta, Ga.
null ‘ i —L..' r Uk,
M. SEIJUAUD BROWNE, "*••
, ate of the llrm of Drs. Browne * Miiusl, Mt.
Olivet, Ky.]
Surgeon,Ohstetridanand Gynecologist,
Cassville, Georgia.
v u —Special attention given to Surgery in
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aj us hiai aes.
attaway,
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\E7ILL PRACTICE IV ALL THE COURTS
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lilock. _ —— "
GEORGE S. JOHNSON,
A T T ORNEY-A T - L> A V\ ,
CAlt ILRSVILLE, GA.
rwvrrn West Side, Public Square.
(. ) IS Will practice in all the Courts.
It. W. MUBPHEY,
v t tokney-at - LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE (up-stairs) in the brick -
riß-r of Main Sc Erwin atreeta.
J. M. NEEL. J. J. CONNER. *•
NEEL. CONNER & NEEL,
r p qI i Id Y-A. T -LA *W
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
\ A ril I PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
\V of this state. Litigated cases l ma
pecialty. Prompt attention given to ail business
.n nortiieaet corner of courtliouee L Jebg
M . E. JOHNSON,
* V ' L ' \! AUTKRSVILLE, GEORGIA.
- AH business poomptly attemied t .
T. W.MM.SiOK. W.H^IUS.JK.
MILNER & HARRIS.
A TORNKYS-AT-LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Otlice on West Main Street. jllLylß
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WHILE & WIK.LE,
AT r U Olt JST K Y S-A CL’-Ia AAY ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office in court house. Douglas Wikld willgo’C
, penal a Wept am to collections.
ALBERT s. JOHNSON,
A r T O It N K Y- A r r-LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
E • WEST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE.
Will practice in all the Courts. Business
will receive prompt attention. .
travelers* guide.
GADSDEN AND RED LINE STEAM
ERS—U. S. MALL.
STEAMER SIDNEY P. SMITH,
( P.ou. H. Elliott, Master; F. G. Smith, Clerk.)
Leove Rome every Tuesday and triday.. .8 a m
Arrive Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday . 0 a. in
Leave Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday. .8 a m
Arrive at Rome Thursday and Sunday ... 7p m
Will ko through to Groonsport, Ala., eveiy
Friday night. Returning, leave Greensimrt ev
ery Saturday morning.
STEAMER GADSDEN.
F. M. Coulter, Master F. A. Mills, Clerk.
Leave Rome Mondays and Thursdays U a m
Arrive t.adsden Tuesdays aud Fridays.... 2a m
Leave Gadsden Tuesdays end Fridays ... a a ni
Arrive at Wednesdays aud Saturdays < p m
Otlice No. 27 Broad street, up-stairs over the
Cotton Exchange. Telephonic connection.
M. ELLIOTT, Jr., Gep. Man gr..
Gadsden, Ala.
• W. T. SMITH, Gen’l Agent,
Rome, Ga.
igHEROKEE RAILROAD.
On and after Monday, March 19,1883, the trains
on this Hoad will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted):
PASSENGER TRAIN.—M<MINING.
Leave Cartersville -in-17 a m
Arrive at Stilesboro ” f J
Arrive at Taylorsville n !
Arrive at liockmart I*:*9 ? J
Arrrive at Cedartown ..... . li.Uoam
RETURNING. •
Leave Cedartown 2:05 pm
Arrive at Rock mart
Arrive at Taylorsville 8:88 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro 3:slpm
Arrive atCartersville . . • • • VT ; VT f, 1J m
PASSENGER TRAIN.—E\ ENING.
Tear e Carters ville
Arrive at Stilesboro . . . • • • • P 111
Arrive at Taylorsville
Arrive at Roc km art p ™
Arrive at Cedartown .00 p in
RETURNING.
Leave Cedartown !!;99 a ™
Arrive at Rockmart . e.oaain
Arrive at Taylorsville
Arrive at Stilesboro ‘ )
Arrive at Cartersville . • . . . . g.au a m
ROME RAILROAD.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule : ,
NO. 1.
Leave Rome 9 : 19 *j”
Arrive at Kingston a 111
NO. 2.
Leave Kingston .... *• • * l jj:!9j*“
Arrive at Koine
NO. 3.
Leave Rome m
Arrive at Kingston .so pm
no. 4.
Leave Kingston 5:55 p m
Arrive at Rome 6 :*0 p ni
NO. 5.
Leave Rome 8:00 am
Arrive at Kingston 9:00 am
no. 0.
Leave Kingston 9:20 am
Arrive at Rome 10:10 am
Nos. 1,2, 3 aud 4 will-run daily except Sun
days.
Nos. r> and 0 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. R.. 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
ule:
NIGHT PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta ? : *,2 pm
LiaveCartersville . . . . . • • • 4:30 pm
L :avc Kingston p 111
L :ave Dalton 6:34 p m
Arrive at Chattanooga B:(K)pni
NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga ? :55 pm
Leave Dalton
Leave Kingston p m
Leave Cartersville 6:32 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 8:40 pm
DAY PASSENGER—UP.
Atlanta 7:00 am
Leave Cartersville
Le ive Kingston 9:21 a m
Le ive Dalton *2‘on a m
Arrive at Chattanooga 12 :80 a m
DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 8:00 a m
Leave Dalton
Leave Kingston JDlSam
Leave H a m
Arrive at Atlanta 1 :40 p m
_ ROME EXPRESS , „„
Leave Atlanta 4:30 p m
Arrive at Cartersville 6:3lpm
Arrive at Kingston p m
Leave Kingston 8:06 am
Arrive at Cartersville
Arrive at Atlanta 10:37 am
VOLUM E VI.
SHILOH’S CATARRH REM 1 DY—a pos tTfve
cure for Catarrh, Diphtheria atnl Canker Mouth.
Ask Curry for it. nov'23-Cm
Pric’s Baking Powder anil flavoring extracts
can lie had of Cel W ord.
The most prominent physicians in the city
smoke, and recommend TansilPs Punch sc. ci
gar. Cel Word sells them.
Curry lias a splendid lot of strictly pure' taps
which he is selling cheap.
Wadsworth Martinez & Longman’s paints are
guaranteed strictly pure and of greater covering
capacity than any other and Curry is selling
quantities of it.
Alabastine tit Word’s drug store.
SHILOH’S CURE WILL immediately relieve
.Crqup, Whooping cough and Bronchitis. Sold
by Curry.'
Good mixed paints at Word’s drug store.
Lamps cheap and nice at Words drug store.
S. S. 8., the great blood medicine at Word
drug store.
One by one the roses fall, but “Tansill’s
Punch” cigar outlives them all, Cel Word’S drug
Store. ‘ # ~ ' ■
Purify your blood by using ' el Word’s' Sarsa
parilla.
Smoke “Tansill’s Punch,” America’s finest sc.
cigar. Cel Word sells them.
The old reliable genuine Brown Windsor soap
so disefvidly popular with the la lies. For sale
by D. W. Curry.
Flower pots from 5 cents up, at Curry’s.
Hagan’s magnolia balm for the complexion, at
D. W. Curry’s.
Curry has just received a large lot of Lund
borg’s Triple extracts.
Attention Ladies.
Tetlows Swan’s down white and llesli colored
at Currry’a.
Tetlow’s gossamer white and flesh colored at
Curry’s.
Cigarettes 10 lor 5 cts. 20 for 10 cts. at Curry’s
Seltzer Water on draught at Curry’s. Call
and try it.
Sleeplessness is almost always occasioned by.
some derangement of the stomaclie and can be
cured by taking Currv’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 for sale by Curry.
Toilet soap in endless variety at I). W. Cur
ry’s.
Lemon Elixir pures headache, indigestion,
diziness, etc., for sale by David W. Carry.
Price, 50ceiits i pei / bottle.
Curny will sell you an insect gun charged with
Persian TiiseCt powders, that will drive off all
sorts of insects from your flowers, vegetable and
melon tines, for 20 cents.
Fruit jars enough for everybody and cheap
enough for anybody at Curry’s.
Why “pot” your beautiful plants in a rickety
old unsightly box or keg when you can buy
elegant Paulding county Majolica flowerpots, at
Curry’s as cheap as dirt.
David W. GrRRY, Bear Sir: The Persian In
sect powder procured of you has effectually rid
my vegetables and melon vines of insects with
out the least injury to the plants.
Respectfully, etc.,
June 9th 1883. Jno. P. Stkoall.
Curry has in stock a large quantity of all sorts
of lubricating oils that he is selling very cheap.
A lady who has visited most of the cities north
and south says that Curry’s soda water surpas
ses any ahe ever drank.
Pure Lard oil the very best thing for machin
ery for sale by D. 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 be lias
some affection or 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 once to the application of Dr. Bosan
ko’s Pile Remedy, which acts directly upon the
parts affected, absorbing the tumors, allaying
the intense itching, and effecting a permanent
cure, where all other remedies have failed. Do
not delay until the drain on the system produces
permanent disability, hut try it and he cured,
rice 50 cenis. Sold by D. W. Curry. janlS-1
“HACKMETACK,” a lasting and fragrant
perfume. Price 25 and 50 cents. Sold by Curry.
Another lot Wizard Oil, the great “Cure All,”
fust recoivod at Curry’s drug store.
I)o smoke “Tansill’s Punch” 5 cent cigar. Cel
Word’s.
fuel of cost.
ByJcalling at D. W. Curry’s drug store, you
can get a sample bottle of Dr. Bosanko’s Cough
and Lung Syrup free of cost, which will relieve
the most obstinate Cough or Cold, and show you
what the regular 50 cent size will do. When
troubled with Asthma, Brochitis, Dry, Hacking
Cough, Pains in the Chest, and all diseases of the
Throat and try a sample bottle of this
medicine. _ janlS-ly
Madame Loraiue’s sure death to bed hugs.
For sale by D. W. Curry.
If you would rise early take Carry’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 hi Cartersville.
Many imitate, none equal, “Tansill’s Punch
5 cent cigar. Cel Word sells them.
2,3, and 5 gallon tilting oil cans at Words drug
store. .—.
ABE YOU MADE miserable by indigestion,
constipation, dizziness, loss of appetite, yellow
skin? Shiloh’s Vitalizer is a positive cure. For
sale by Cm ry.
Warner’s Safe Diabetes Cure, Warners Kid
ney and Liver Cure, Warner's Nervine, War
ner’s Tonic, and Warner’s Pills, are kept con
stantly in stock and sold wholesale and retail at
Curry’s drug srorc.
FOR DYSPEPSIA and Liver Complaint, you
have a printed guarantee on every bottle of Shi
loh’s Vitalizer. It never fails to cure. Toucan
get it at Curry’s. _____ -
Diamond Dyes, only 10 ccncsp • package, at
Word’s drug store.
Ice cold soda water and ginger ale > drawn
from one of Tufts’ Arctic Appar tus, can be had
at Cel Word’s drug store.
Cel Word's Horse and Cattle Powders give
perfect satisfaction. Try them.
Hot weather is coming, and Cel Word has put
in operation one of Tuft’s elegant soda watei ap
paratus to dispense the cooling beverage.
Old smokers prefer “Tansill’s Punch” 5 cent
cigar to most of the io centers. Cel \l ord is the
agent.
Pure white lead and linseed oil. Pure mixed
paints in any quantity at Cel Word’s drug store.
■
$50.00 Reward.
For tlie man to whom I have misre
presented a vehiekle of any Lind carriage
buggy or wagon.
65 R. H, Jonf.B.
THE FREE PRESS.
j> OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
An Able and Clinching Article from State
School Commissioner G. J, Orr.
Editor Banner- Watchman:
My attention has been recently called
to two editorials in your paper—one in
<the issue of July 10th, and the other in
that of July 17th. These editorials con
tain so many grave errors as to facts,
that I must beg of you to be allowed to
make the proper corrections. Ido so the
more readily because I feel sure that the
errors into which you have been led were
unintentional on your part.
Referring to the expenses of the school
system, you say *‘one-third of the entire
fund appropriated, so we are reliably in
foiraed, goes to pay salaries of officers;”
and you propose to abolish, on the score
of economy, “the superintendent and his
army of assistants and clerks.” So far
from its requiring “33 1-3 per cent, to
turn this money into the proper chan
nel,” over 03 per cent, of the fund is
paid to teachers. Let me submit the
proof of this statement.
The only school officers in the state
who receive compensation are the state
school commissioner, his clerk and the
county school commissioners; and of the
last named, there is only one in each
county. The whole sum paid to the
county school commissioners in 1882,
was $25,200.77.
The expenses of the department of ed
ucation for the year, commencing July
31st, 1881, and ending June 30th, 1882,
were as follows:
Salary of state school commissioner $2,000.00
Salary of clerk 1,200.00
All other expenses, including the print,
iug and distribution of the school laws
and instructions, and all the blanks
and forms of every kind in the school
work of all thecouuties in the state ... 1,204.05
14,494.65
Add to this the sum paid county school
commissioners, as given above, viz: $25,-
20G.77, and we have $29,701.42, which is
the sum total of the expenses of adminis
tering the school system last year.
The school fund for last year was about
$443,562.28. I say about, because I can
not give the precise sum paid as poll tax
last year, as this tax is retained in the
several counties where it is collected. I
know the sum above stated to be within
a few dollars of absolute accuracy. Seven
per cent, of this sum is $31,049.35. 1 thus
demonstrate that the expense is less than
7 percent, ot the fund, arid that,more
than 93 per cent, of trie fund is expended
in tlie payment of teachers.
in view of the fact that the comity
school commissioners are the custodians
of the school fund, for the safe keeping
and proper disbursements of which they
give bond and security; and that they do
a large amount of labor; that they are
entitled to no commissions, and that the
only pay they receive is a per diem, the
aggregate of which is given above; 1
think lean say, without the fear of suc
cessful contradiction, that no set of offi
cial' in the state of Georgia ever did so
much work and assumed so great re
sponsibility for so little pay. The figures
above given will show to any one who
chooses to make the calculation, that
their pay is less than six per cent, of the
fund handled.
if it were possible to establish the of
fice of state -school commissioner and
haye his arduous duties performed with
out expense, how much do you suppose
would be added to each child’s pro rata
of the school fund ? Divide the expenses
of the department, as given above, by
507,861, the entire number of children of
school age, and you get eight mills and
eight-tenths of a mill as the sum added to
each child’s part thereby. Suppose,
further, that the office of county school
commissioner was abolished, and that
you could, in some way, have the labo
rious duties of these officers performed
without cost, a similar calculation to the
above would show that the sum added to
each child’s part thereby would be
five cents and eighty-four hundredths of
a cent.
tit one of the editorials referred to in
the beginning of this article you ✓say:
“The negro bears a.very little part of the
burden of this government, and yet in
the dispensation of the free school
fund he reaps more than half.” Here
you have been veiy badly misled again as
to facts. 1 cannot give the exact amount
paid, separately to white and colored
teachers last year, as these separate
amounts were not reported to me. I can
and will make a very close approximation,
as you will see if you will but go with me
in what follows. Savannah and the
county of Chatham, Macon and the coun
ty of Bibb, Augusta and the county of
Richmond, the city of Atlanta, the city
of Columbus, and a few other smaller
cities, have been placed under local
sehoul laws, and the people living under
these respective organizations are taxing
themselves for the education of all—
white and Hack. The people outside
would hardly claim the right to interfere
in this matter. It is to the great bulk of
the slate outside of these local organiza
tions, and dependent entirely on the pro
visions of the general school law,
that we aie to look in considering the
statement above quoted. In all the
schools of the state, outside of the local
organizations just named, there were last
year 0,112 teachers. Of these, 4,297 were
white, and 1,815 were colored. It is thus
seen that about 7-10 of the whole number
of teachers were white, and about 3-10
colored. The county boards of education
employ teachers. I instructed these
boards that they had the right to discrim
inate on the ground of qualifications In
employing teachers. Within my know
ledge many of them did so. As the col
ored teachers, as a rule, are much infe
rior to the white, in qualifications, this
instruction would naturally have the ef
fect of diminishing the pay of the colored
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST 16. 1883.
teachers, and increasing that of the
white, if all the teachers had been paid
alike, the colored teachers would have re
ceived only 3-10 of the money. As dis
criminations were made, I feel sure that
the colored teachers received but little, if
any, more than 1-5 of the money.
The next mistake you make is in rela
tion to the annual appropriation made to
Atlanta University. You seem to think
that in the appropriation made to this in
stitution, and in the failure to make an
nual appropriations to the State Univer
sity, great injustice is done to the white
race. Let us look briefly into the history
of the Atlanta University appropriation.
It was first made by the legislature of
1870. It was renewed by the legislature
of 1873. You will find the itpm on this
subject in the general appropriation acts
of those years. When the legislature of
1874 met, the land scrip fund donated by
congress for the establishment of an ag
ricultural and mechanical inUcge “had
been turned over by Governor Smith io
the trustees of the State University. This
fund, tuuounting to over $240,000, is now
yielding to the university an annual in
come of $17,000. It is needless for me to
say that it was bestowed by a government
that would npt have allowed, in its ap
plication, any discrimination in the mat
ter of race. The legislature of that year
passed “An act to equitably adjust the
claims of the colored race tor a portion of
the proceeds of the agricultural land
scrip.” The title of the act just given
shows its purpose. It appropriates SB,OOO
per annum to Atlanta University, ex
pressly providing that the appropriation
is made in settlement “of any claim of
the colored population of this state upon
the proceeds of the agricultural land
scrip donated by the congress of the Unit
ed States.” The money can be drawn
from the state treasury under the act till
a plan for its expenditure has been sub
mitted to and approved by a hoard of
commissioners, consisting of chancel
lor of the State University and two mem
bers of the faculty thereof. The act fur
ther provides that the hoard of visitors to
the State University, or a committee of
their body, shall perform the same func
tions in respect to Atlanta University.
You will thus see that the supervision
which you think the state might to exer
cise over the institution as to the expend
iture of money and the teaching done
there is provided for in thd act, and has
been exercised from the Beginning. I
will say, further, that the fAtlanta Uni
versity act originated with fhe friends of
the State University. A distinguished
gentleman who was then 4 professor hi
the latter institution was the author of it.
He submitted it to me for my approval
and for the purpose of securing my co
operation in obtaining its passage, before
it was introduced in the house of repre
sentatives. 1 did not approve, but op
posed. Governor Smith had asked my
opinion as to the best disposition of the
land scrip. I gave that opinion, and gave
it warmly, in favor of turning over fhe
fund to :he State University. I was
then, and am now, in favor of giving to
that institution whatevei the state may
he able to give, and whatever may he
necessary to increase its efficiency. 1 did
not feel, however, that we were shut up
to the choice of Atlanta University as the
sole agency of doing for the colored race
w hat I felt we ought to do in view of the
great benefaction bestowed on us by the
United States government. I was thor
oughly convinced we could do that which
would have been better for both races—
white and colored—and submitted a plan
for carrying my views into effect and
earnestly urged its adoption. All who
are curious to know my opinions on this
matter can find them very fully express
ed in my successive reports for several
years—in that submitted in January,
1874, in that submitted in January, 1575,
in that of 1876 and in that of 1877. These
reports are in the hands of all the county
school commissioners of the state. Should
any of your readers take the trouble of
perusing them they will not likely agree
with you in (he sentence pronounced on
me by you in the following words*
“With all due respect to Commissioner
Orr, we think his policy looks too much
like propitiating the north, and his re
commendations all look more to their ap
probation than the real welfare of his
own state.”
I will dismiss this Atlanta University
matter by simply adding that when the
constitution of 1577 was adopted, which
gives the power of making appropria
tions for the support of one college or
university for the education of persons of
color, and expressly refers to Atlanta
University as an institution to which
such appropriations may be made, I
ceased to object to the use which the
state still seemed inclined to make of that
institution.
A few words more and I bring this
communication, already too protracted,
to a close. The delegates to the constitu
tutional convention of 1877 were elm-mi
by the people, acting freely. They put
into the constitution which thej’ termed
a requirement that “there shall be a
thorough system of common schools.”
They went further. They pointed out iu
the clearest terms the sources from which
the funds necessary to make this thor
ough system are to be derived. The peo
ple in overwhelming numbers ratified
what had been done. All state officials
and all members of the legislature take
an oath to support the constitution. With
this statement of facts before them, the
path of duty to members of the legisla
ture and to all other state officials is a
verv plain oue.
Hoping tliat you will do the friends of
public education the justice of publishing
this communication, I am, with much
respect, very truly yours,
Gustavus J. Orr.
A SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY.
A New and Most Important Theory on One
of the most Vital Questions of
the Day.
If anyone had informed Queen Eliza
beth in her palmiest days that she could
have been seated in iier palace in London
and conversed with Sir Walter Raleigh
in his North Carolina home receiving a
reply from him within an hour’s time,
she would haye declared it to be a mira
cle. And yet, had they lived in the pre
sent day, this apparent miracle would
most readily have been witnessed and
not seem at all strange or unnatural.
The truth is, new principles are coming
into existence, and the operation of ma
ny laws unknown in the past is being
fully understood in the present. In no
way does this fact come more forcibly to
the mind than in the cai’e and treatment
of the human body. Millions of people
have died in past ages from some insig
nificant or easily controlled cause which
is throughly understood now and readi
ly handled. Uous.v,ofjou 0 fj ou during the
entire past has been considereu .... i ncur _
able disease. And yet it is demonstrate
that it has been and can be cured, even
after it has had a long run. Dr. Felix
Oswald has just contributed a ncteable
article oil this subject to the Popular
Science Monthly. He regards consump
tion as pulmonary scrofula. The impur
ities of the blood produce a constant irri
tation in the lungs, thus destroying their
delicate tissues and causing death. His
theory shows conclusively that consump
tion is a blood disease. It has its origin
primarily in a deranged condition of the
kidneys or liver, the only two organs of
the body, aside Irotn the lungs, that puri
fy ttie blood. When the kidneys or liver
are diseased they are in a sore or lacerat
ed state which communicates poison to
every ounce of blood that passes through
them. This poisonous blood circulates
through the system and comes to the
lungs, where the poison is deposited,
causing decomposition in the tlnel/ form
ed cells of the lungs. Any diseased part
of the body has contaminating power,
and yet the blood, which is the life of the
system, is brought into direct contact
with these poisoned organs, thus carry
ing contagion to all parts of the body.
Bishop Jesse T. Peck', D. D., LL D.,
whose death has been so recently regret
ted, is reported to have died of pneumo
nia which medical authorities affirm in
dicates a diseased condition of the kid
neys. It is well known, moreover, that
for several years he has been the victim
of severe kidney trouble, and the pneu
monia which finally terminated his life
was only the last result of the previous
blood poisoning. The deadly matter
which is left in the lungs by the impure
blood clogs up and finally chokes the pa
tient. When this is accomplished rapid
ly it is called pneumonia or quick con
sumption ; when slowly, consumption,
hut iu any event it is the result of impure
blood, caused by diseased kidneys and
liver.
These are facts of science, and vouched
for by all the leading physicians of the
day. They show the desirability—nay,
the necessity, of keeping these most im
portant organs in perfect condition, not
only to insure health, but. also to escape
death. It has been fully shown, to the
satisfaction of nearly every unprejudiced
mind, that Warner’s Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure is the only known remedy
that can cure and keep in health the
great blood-purifying organ’s of the bod}'.
It acts directly upon these members,
healing all ulcers which may have form
ed in them and placing them in a condi
tion to purify and not poison the blood.
This is no idle statement nor false theory.
Mr. W. C. Beach, fo t nan o | he Buffalo,
N. Y. Rubber Type Foundry was given
up to die by both physicians and friends.
For four years he had a terrible cough,
accompanied by night sweats, chills,
and all the well known symptoms. He
spent a season south and found no relief,
lie says: ‘‘l finally concluded to try
Warner’s Safe Cure and in three months
1 gained twenty pounds, recovered my
lost energy and my health was fully re
stored.” The list could be prolonged in
definitely but enough has been said to
prove to every sufferer from pulmonic
troubles, that there is no reason to be dis
couraged in the least, and that health can
be restored.
Chills and Fevers. —Thousands are
using the Seven Springs Mass, (manu
factured by Landrum & Litchfield,
Abingdon, Va.,) for Chills and Fevers:
They say emphatically, that it is superior
to Quinine, in every in every respect, or
any other remedy they have ever used.
It has the effect of eradicating malarial
poison from the system. For sore
throat, Eczemic affections, it is almost a
specific. All skin diseases, caused by
impurities in the blood disappear rapidly
after using the Mass a short time, shows
that it acts through the blood directly.
If your Druggist do not keep it, order it
from the “Seven Springs Co.'.” Abing
ion, Va. Price: $1 a bottle, or G for $5,
postage paid.
You can save bargains by purchasing
standard books at Wikle’s store, corner
bank block. Go along and make your
selections.
“I ATE SOME SOFT-SHELI CRABS.”
This is what Captain Hodgden said
when speaking of an unpleasant experi
ence lie had on board a ship, near Wash
ington. He added: “The bad effects of
which I soon felt.” Then he went on to
say that [he had severe pain, followed by
a terrible attack of dysentery. Those
wicked crabs would have been the death
of him but for the fact that he always
carried Pain Killer on board his vessel.
Have Perry Davis’s Pain Killer at
hand by day and by night for sure relief.
NOTRS GIVEN FOR FERTILIZERS.
A bill to be entitled an act to provide
for pleading and providing a failure
the consideration of any promissory
note, or other instrument in writing,
given for commercial fertilizers, gu
anos or manures, and to prescribe a
penalty for failing to state the consid
eration in the face of any negotiable
promissory note or any other negotia
ble instrument given for the same.
Section I, Be it enacted by the gener
al assembly of the state of Georgia, That
any purchaser of commercial fertilizers,
guanos or manure, who shall give a pro
misory note, or other instrument in writ
ing for the same, may plead and prove
when sued in any court of this state a
failure of the consideration of said instru
ment, when said fertilizers, guanos or
manures have proven worthless or of no
practical value.
See. 11. Be it further enacted etc.,
that no waiver of warranty*or any other
waiver, promise, agreement condition or
undertaking, expressed in any promisso
ry note or other instrument in writing,
given for commercial fertilizers, guanos
or iu-..,rp Si shall defeat the right of the
maker thereot prove a fail
ure oi the consideration 01 o— awtue>
Sec. 111. Be it further enacted, eie.,
that no transfer of any promissory note,
or other instrument in writing given for
commercial fertilizers, guanos or ma
nures, to any person claiming to be an
innocent purchaser, without notice, or
holding the same under any other con
tact or agreement, shall defeat the right
of the maker thereof to plead and prove
a failure of the consideration of the
same.
Sec. IV. Be it further enacted, etc.,
that any agent for or dealer in commer
cial fertilizers, guanos, manures or any
other person who shall sell the same, and
who shall take a negotiable promissory
note, or any other negotiable instru
ment for the same, and shall fail, refuse
or neglect to state in the face of said
promissory no a or instrument in writing,
that the same is given for commercial
fertilizers, guanos or manures, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on convic
tion, shall be'punished a§ prescribed in
section 4310 of the code of 1882.
Sec. V. Be it further enacted, elc.,
that all laws and parts of laws in conflict
with this act, be, and the same are here
by repealed.
THE BLUE ANB fHE GRAY.
Springfikd, Mo., Aughst 11.—The ex
ercises of the reunion at Wilson’s creek
battle ground took place yesterday, from
11,000 to 20,000 people being present.
Governor Campbell, acting governor of
Missouri, delivered the address of wel
come, which was responded to by Gov
ernor Berry, of Arkansas; Colonel Mer
ritt, of lowa, and others, Union soldiers
united in applauding. The battle-lield is
about ten miles from this city, and long
before daylight crowds began to arrive
there. Throughout the reunion the most
cordial feelings have existed between the
union and the confederate soldiers, and
most courteous and generous sentiments
have been expressed. Not a single un
pleasant word has been uttered to mar
the harmony and enthusiasm. Men have
camped together as though there never
had been a difference between them. An
organization, to be known as the “Sur
viving Soldiers’ Union League,” was
formed on the battle-ground. It will
embrace soldiers of both armies, and the
officers elected were chosen from both
federal and confederate soldiers.
In the jail at Red Bluff, California,
languishes the editor of the local news
paper, confined on the charge of murder
ing one of his felbvv-citizens, presuma
bly one of his non-paying subscribers.
It gives the scoffing and the ungodly
much entertainment to know that an ed
itor is in jail. But his paper.comes out
with its usual punctuality. In his prison
cell he sits, this gentle editor, and writes,
scizzors, pastes and paragraphs,* secure
from duns and oblivious of the complaints
of readers and the demands of “exchange
fiends.” lie has every convenience but
liberty. It is the first instance, so far as
history records, that a newspaper has
been edited and directed from a jail. The
simple explanat ion of the anomalousness
of the affair is that the sheriff and the ed
itor are joint partners in the newspaper
business. The sheriff cannot see his
property suffer for the want of an editor.
Ite affords his prisoner every facility for
the conduct of their joint enterprise.
It was a poker party in Thompson
street, and a big jack pot had been open
ed. There were evidently big hands out,
and bets and excitement ran high.
“Looker hyer, Gus, whufter ye’ rise dat
pot?” exclaimed Mr. Tooter Williams.
“Nebber yo’ mind—yo’ call, ef you’ sn’t
afraid—yes, yo’ call—flat’s all!” retorted
Gus sullenly. “I won’t call! 1 rise yo’
back,” said Mr. Williams, whose verte-,
brae was ascendjug. “1 rise yo’ again,”
retorted Gus.
And so they weut at; each other until
chips, money, and colicicrai were gone,
then Williams concluded to call: “What
yo’ got, niggar, dat yo’ do all dat risin’
on? What yo’ got, nohow?”
Gus laid down his hand—ace, king,
queen, jack, and ten of club. “Is dat
good?” he inquired, beginning to size up
the pot.
“No, dat’s not good !” said Mr. Wil
liams, reaching down in his bootleg.
“What yo’ got den?” inquired Gus.
Mr. Williams looked at him fixedly,
“Ise jes' got two jacks an’ a razzer.”
“Dat’s good,” said Gus.
H. Elliott, 128 Broughton st., Savan
nah Ga., says: “After taking Brown’s
Iron Bitter for rheumatism, I find myself
benefited.”
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NUMBER 5.
ARTHUR AS A LAWYER.
Saratoca Correspondence Chicago News.]
Ex-Congressman Horace F. Page r of
California, came here yesterday. He is
on his way wesr, where he will be join
ed in Chicago by ex-congressman Hazel
ton. The two will then go to New
Mexico for the rest of the year, looking
after cattle and mining inteiesrs. . Page
has been in congress for ovei ten ,wr*.
He is :* man-of great force of character,
who owes hIS present unpopularity in
California to his being the “pirate cap
tain” of the river and harbor bill. He
has been so long in politics at Washing
ton that he is thoroughly familiar with
all the peculiarities and qualities of the
leaders. *
i •
Speaking of Arthur yesterday, he
said: “I am surprised to see in traveling
about the country what* a popular man
he is. I believe to-day he U the strong
est man in the republic to put on a tick
et.”
After eulogizing Arthur’s course in
many particulars criticising hi™ *•--
and the.C, lie sum: “I have been sur
prised in one thing in my intercourse
with the president, -and that is * > find
him a much tbler man and a finer read
lawyer than the outside public has any
idea of. I regard him as an abler law
ye* than any man who has held the post
of president tv>r the last fifty 3 ears. His
knowledge as a lawyer was well illus
trated only the other day. 1 was in
terested in a complicated tide-wate land
question in my state. Teller <■ ffered
with me as to the construction ->f the
law.
I went with Teller and made an ap
peal to the president. I began my argu
ment, and I never in ray life saw u man
comprehend and take in so quickly all
the bearings of that ease, which had cost
me so much trouble. He was familiar
with every decision of the supreme court
for the past hundred years bearing upon
the question of tide-water lands. H?
very promptly told Mr. Teller lie was
wrong in his construction of the law,
without consulting a single authority.
The clearness of his views, when he
came to indicate them, convinced even
Mr. Teller.
Mr. Page thought the strong tieKet for
1884 would be Arthur and Gresham,
lie thought it would satisfy everyone.
In fact, it would make an ideal ticket.
. Col. Jack Brow n had another insult
from postmaster general Gresham, 1 -sides
the latter calling the republicans of Geor
gia “a set of d—d scoundrels” ‘(which
everybody knows they ain’t). Übl. Jack
says that he called on the postmaster
general in company with another gentle
man, and a Virginia readjuster at that,
and after they had chatted together pleas
antly for some time, Gen. Gresham order
ed a servant to bring in lunch for two,
meaning himself and the Mahoneite;
whereupon Col. Brown left insulted.
That was very rude, but if the republi
cans will put such men in office, they
have themselves to blame for if.
The output of pig iron, a New York
exchange concludes, after a careful re
view of the situation, has not yet reached
the point where it is equal to the reduc
tion in the demand. The number of fur
naces has reduced, but their production
for the first six months of the current
year was 2,352.019 long tons against
2,311,662 tons in the first Half of 1882.
The surprising thing, under these cir
cumstances, is not that iron has fallen,
but that it remains so steady. This is un
questionably due to to the enormous
amount of house building.
From some tables on coffee con
sumption, forwarded to the state depart
ment by Consul-General Merritt, at Lon
don, it is shown that the coffee drinkers
of the United States used 455,190,(XX)
pounds, while all Eurpope cousumed
763,635,900. The Germans are the great
est cottee drinkers in Euiope, using in
1881, 229,141,000 pounds; France con
sumed 142,331,000 pounds and Great
Britain 57,728,000 pounds.
The city council of Atlanta, after hav
ing the structure examined py experts,
condemned the block which Mr. J. 11.
James is reconstructing by adding new
stories, on Whitehall street, between
Wall and Alabama, as unsafe and dan
gerous. But Mr. James kept on build
all the same. The council has since re
affirmed its condemnation, but Mr. Janus
keeps on building.
A dispatch from Washington says that
under the revised form of brewers re
turns, adopted by the internal r< venue
bureau, every brewer in the United
States will hereafter be required to re
turn, under <>ath, the character ot every
ingredient u od in the manufacture or
adulteration of beer, with severe penal
ties for false returns.
T.S- Powell, CuthbertjSavs: “Biown’s
Iron Bitters is giving very universal sa
tisfaction.”
Parties can be supplied with dry oak
wood at $1.85 per cord by applying to
Dr. J. T. Shepherd, at Curry’s Drug
Store.
Try that very excellent meal at K. H
Jones’ store.
Clothing and Dry Goods of all kinds
and Groceries at It. H. Jones’ store.
Dick Jones will wait on you. Come
around.
The best corsets ever offered in the
town from 35cts to $2.00 at
Jones, Bros. & Cos.
All linen towels 16x32 at 20ets per
pair at Jones, Bros. & Cos.
McCormick
Harvesting machines," the best in
America. Mowers also at
Norris & Jones