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kat bs or subscription. I me co o three months 60 CLUB RATES. ►•tve copies one year, {■ .„ copies one year, 15 00 -'uv conies one year, 50 00 1,1 * TANARUS„ be paid for invariably in advance. ill orders for the paper must be addressed to 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. 1 A ad “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 .-.oL octflM-tf aj us hiai aes. attaway, . ,11 ry 11 IST K Y -A T - LA A’V', \E7ILL PRACTICE IV ALL THE COURTS 'i-'oJK Wlikffif: M. H, Stacell, Bank 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 ~„,N il. WtKU:. Gf.VSSWIELE. 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.” RATES OP ADVERTISING. Advertisements will lie inserted at tile rates *f One ltollar per inch for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for each additional insertion. __ _ CONTRACT RATES. Space. 1 mo. 3 mos. 6 most. 1 year. One inch, |2 50 $5 00 $7 50 *lO 00 Two inches, 3 75 7 50* 10 00 15 OO Three inches, 500 10 00 12 50 20 00 Four inches, fi 00 12 50 15 00 25 00 Fourth column 7 504 15 00 20 00 80 00 ll&If Column, 11 00 30 00 40 00 60 (0 One column. 15 00 30 00 60 00 100 <0 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