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t VRTERSVJ LLE, GEORGIA.
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c oninercial law a specialty.
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stairs over i’>. F. G alfrey’s store.
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AMudi.'js, Solicitors and Counselors at
Law,
rALTERSVILLE, GA.
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C'ufesville, Georgia.
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W of North Georgia.
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< MM ERSVJI.LE, GA.
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. \ RTERSVILLE, GA.
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( . . I'ERSVJ LLE, GA.
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\ V . i ale. Litigated eases made a
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< NKY -A T LAW
( \ RTERSVI LLE, GEORGI A.
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Ci cin ('.iiit house. Douglas AVikle will give
Bpe. .1; ciition to eollcetious. febgl
EBERT S. JOHNSON,
A . ■ -l X Id X' -AW- Ii A. W ,
\ RT HISVILEE, GA.
: V ' -II,E PUBLIC SQUARE.
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v iirompt attention.
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CHATEULERS* GUIDE.
U A I >S I) K N AND RE D LIN JO STE AM -
ERS—U. S. MAIL.
STEAMER SIDNEY' P. SMITH,
(8.-ii. 11. Elliott, Master; F. G. Smith, Clerk.)
J.cove Rome every Tuesday and Friday Ba m
Arrive Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday, ii a m
Leave Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday. .8 a m
Arrive at ltomoThursday and Sunday 7 p m
Will go through to Grcenaport, Ala., every
Friday night. Iletuming, leave Greensport ev
ery Saturday morning.
STEAMER GADSDEN.
. M. on Iter, Master F. A. Mills, Clerk.
Leave Rome Mondays and Thursdays 11 a m
Arrive Gadsden Tuesdays and Fridays— 2am
Leave Gadsden Tuesdays cud Fridays— Pam
Arrive at Wednesdays and Saturdays. ...7pm
Oiiieo No. 27 Broad street, up-stairs over the
i on on E \change. Telephonic connection.
,1 . M. ELLIOTT, Jr., Gen. Man’gr.,
Gadsden, Ala.
W. T. SMITH, Gen’l Agent,
Rome, Ga.
CHEROKEE RAILROAD:
On aud after Monday, March 10, 1883, tho trains
on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted):
I> A SS ENGKR TR A IN.—MORNIN G.
1. "! vo Cartersvilie 9;4sara
Arrive at stilcsboro 10:17 a m
A nave at Taylorsville 10:35 a m
Arrive at Rock mart 11:10 a m
Anriva atCedarlown 12:03am
RETURNING.
Leave! edartown 2:05 pm
Arrive ul Rockmart 2:58 pm
Arrive at Taylorsville 3:;S1 ji m
Arrive n! siilesbon) 3:slpm
Arrive atCarlcrsvillo 4:25pm
1 ’AS-d ;NGER TRAIN.—EV EKING.
L ave Cartel sville 4:30 pm
An ive at s;;lo.-boro 5:04 p m
An ise a! Taylorsville 5:22 pm
Arrive at iMekmart 0:00 p ra
Arrive a 1 t edartown 7:00 pm
RETURNING.
I e id rhc.vu 0:00 ain
Ac vc . F ickmart o:s3am
A a iiv iie sville . . . . . . 7:2 am
A vc. i 7:40 am
Arrive at t artersvlUo 8:20 a m
!MME RAILROAD.
'i : >,v ing is the prevent passenger sched
ule:
NO. 4.
1 ,c 0:10 a in
•Am -at i- in. ton 8:55 ain
NO. 2.
1. .e ii., ln o:2oam
A • ■' :a- 10:26 a m
NO. 3.
1 i: e 4:15 pm
Arne.; a; Kingston s:3opm
NO. 4.
I ivc Kingston 6:55 pm
Arrive at llomu 0;50 p m
no. 5.
Leave ! -'iie 8:00 am
Arrive at Kingston 0:00am
NO. C.
L v K -ion 0:20 a m
Ai iv at Rome 10:10 a m
’• . i.2, 3 and 4 vvill run daily except Sun
d&yg* !
a-■ : ul G vvill run Sundays only.
X'. mii not stop at the junction. Makes
ci' i l l at Kingston for Atlanta and
Cbatlanooga.
c ■- connection at Rome with E. T..
\a. !■ i. R. R.. for points south.
EBEN HILLY ICR, President.
. c. l*. Agent.
~N AXI) ATLANTIC R. L*.
i ! 2 is the present passenger sched
ule:
IIT PAS3ENGKR—UP.
!. 2:40 j) m
. die 4:30 pm
I. :o;i * . 4:56 p ill
I. " i 0:34 j, ill
An vc • iiattanooga 8:00 pm
NIGHT PASSENGER— DOWN.
L vet'; itt::ooga 2:55pm
Leave Dalton 4:32 p m
Leave Kingston 0:03 pm
Lea ve Cartersville 0:32 p in
Arrive at Atlanta 8:40 p m
DAY PASSENGER—UP.
.leave Atlanta 7:00 am
Leave Cartersville ........ 8:55 am
Leave Kingston 0:21 am
Leave Dalton 10:55 am
Arrive a t Chattanooga 12:30 a in
DAY PASSKNUKK—DOWN.
eChattanooga . 8:00am
Rcavo Dalton . 9:40 am
Leave K . agston 11:15 am
Leave Car 1 er.-.villo 11:42 am
Arrive at Atlanta 1:40 pm
ROME EXPRESS
Leave Atlanta pm
Arrive at Cartersville 0:31 pm
Arrive at Kingston 7:00 pm
Leave Kingston 8:06 am
Arrive at Cartersville 8:32 am ,
Arrive at Atlanta 10:37 am
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removing all dyspeptic
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St. Louis, Mo.
D. W. CURRY, Wholesale Agent, Cartersville,
Ga. aug23
1883
Summer Excursions
ROUND TRIP RATES
VIA THE
East Tennessee, Virginia &
Georgia Railroad
AND ITS CONNECTING LINES,
COMMENCING JUNE Ist.. ' d.,1883, a perfect
j system of ROUND TKi< TICKETS will
be on sale at all important pc s, South, South
east, Southwest amt West, o\ this line and its
connections to the Summer Rc rts and Water
ing places of Georgia, Abd tna, Tennessee,
North Carolina, Virginia, V -t Virginia and
Maryland. And Summer Gur : Book for 1383
furnished to all applicants.
For tickets and and ail info • nation inquire ef
all Ticket Agents of connectir.' lines or Passen
ger Agents of the Yirgiiiie. Fennessce aud
Georgia Air-Line,” Kenie iw Route, She
ll ndoali Valley Route or the lersigned.
T. S. Davant, A. G. P. A., ' mphis, Tenn.
Ray Knight, A. G. P. A . na, Ala.
JoSErii Gotiiakd, A. G. P . Knoxville. ,
s. h. Hardwick, Trav. P, Vgt, Atlanta.
M. M. Welch, West. Agei liattanooga.
A. Pope, General Pass. Ticl Agent. in 24-2
Joseph Ko inson,
(East Main Street, near Man mese Works.)
BLACKS HITH
AND
Wagon Shop.
Is prepared to do all kinds of Blacksmitliing.
Buggy and Wagon repairing, and Horse
Shoeing in the best p<ible manner,
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
ang?3
FOR SAL E!
ONE STORE HOUSE AND LOT IN CITY' of
Cartersville, fronting public square, near
the court house.
Alto one farm containing 140 acres, lying on
Burnt Hickory road 2)i milet from Cartersville,
west; aoout 80 acres cleared, balance well tim
bered; comfortably improved; or would be ex
chonged for city property.
Also, one farm lying 5 miles west of Carters
ville, on new Kingston road, containing 240 acres
about 140 cleared, balance well timbered; well
improved. This place can be divided into two
farms, each with good improvements. With
this place will be sold mules, wagons and farm
ing implements if desired. For prices, terms,
etc., call upon the undersigned at Cartersville,
Ga. (aug2) J. A. HOWARD.
THE FREE PRESS.
BARTOW COUNTY COURT.
The Question of the Judgeship Discusssetl
in Regard to the Governor.
To thp Editor of The Free Press :
In my communication of last week I
gave a brief synopsis of such tilings as I
thought would interest your readers.
Since that time some few things have
occurred which may interest them, and
knowing them to be an independent peo
ple in the very broadest sense of that
word, I will give a fact or two which I
think is of significance to them.
The first and most important occur
rence of this kind is the nomination of
George S. Tumlin by the governor to be
judge of the county court of Bartow.
For the significance of this action of the
governor to be appreciated, one must un
derstand the position in which he was
placed. The grand jury, at the last term
of the superior court, in then general
presentments, recommended the estab
lishment of a county court for Bartow,
and recommended Mr. Conyers for the
judgeship. Mr. Conyers is an independ
ent democrat. The members of the bar,
not being satisfied with the action of the
grand jury, called a meeting, and twen
ty-four of his legal brethren recommend
ed Mr. .John 11. AVikle to the governor as
a fit and proper person for the appoint
ment to the judgeship of the county
court, and pledging themselves to urge
his appointment. Mr. Wikle is also an
independent democrat. With this en
dorsement, these two gentlemen, Mr.
Conyers and Mr. Wikle, placed their ap
plication before the governor, and each
man’s friends went before him and urged
their friend’s appointment. Mr. Wikle
was selected by the bar because of his
personal popularity through the county,
as well as for his eminent qualifications
otherwise, because it was believed that
the establishment of the court was con
trary to the wishes and judgment of a
large majority of the people of the coun
ty, and it was the sincere desire of the
members of the bar to popularize the
court, if possible, and thereby add to its
efficiency. lie was an impartial man,
and one whose judgments w r ould be re
spected. ido the grand jury the justice
to say that they thought the same tiling
of Mr. Conyers. I, for myself, thought,
as the county was largely independent,
that, therefore, the independents were
entitled to this little office, and so stated
to the governor, and asked him to hold
out to the independents of that county
the little “olive branch;” for I knew
them too well—that they could not be
coerced hack into the democratic fold.
But the objection to the applicants that
they were independents seemed to be in
superable, and, notwithstanding the as
surance that either of these applicants
would he confirmed by the senate, he
must go outside and conscript an organ
ized democrat.
It is said that Dr. Felton was the au
thor of the little squib that appeared in
the Macon Telegraph and Messenger
some two weeks ago, signed “Bill
Berry,” and that the governor could not
afford to be “bull-dozed” Felton into
the appointment of an independent. I
concede that the article referred to was,
to sny the least, inopportune. It was
said, further, that the governor must
take care of himself; that he was elected
by organized democrats and could not af
ford to appoint independents to office or
make such a record. Now, some one of
these arguments, or ivll combined, must
have produced the result. The governor
“could not afford to be bull-dozed bj’
Felton,” but could afford to be influenced
by such stuff as the above to disregard
the wishes of the people who arc to he af
fected by his appointments.
Another consideration might have af
fected the matter, and that is, you know,
that the nominating power sometimes
comes to what is considered a “dead
lock,” and every ballot is almost without
change, and it becomes necessary to take
an “outsider” or compromise on the
“bottom dog in the fight.” Such might
have been the case in this instance. “A
fellow-feeling makes us wondrous kind.”
1 was told by a gentleman three weeks
ago ihal the policy of the “bosses” as to
what course was best, had, at that time,
been decided upon. I did not believe it,
however, because I did not think that
any sane man would come to such a con
clu-ioit. 1 confess that lamat a loss to
attempt to suggest what apology the
governor can offer the people of Bartow
for not appointing one or the other of the
gentlemen whose appointment was urged
by her citizens. If he had gone outside
and appointed Colonel Graham, a man
pre-eminently qualified for ftie position,
1 could hayc comprehended his reasons;
for then lie could have said to the people
of B.irtnw, i gave you a better court than
you were, asking for. But, to make an
appointment and have the confirmation
of the senate doubtful, or at least delay
ed, and then sit in the executive office
and send for members of the senate and
a-k, personally, that they vote for a con
firmation, is a “record” which should, if
possible, he avoided, and one for which
there is no apology.
The bill providing for the erection of
anew capitol is now before the senate
finance committee, which will probably
recommend some amendments to the bill
as it passed the house. That the hill vvill
pass both houses in some shape, I have
no doubt; but what the building will
cost the state, when completed, no man
now knows nor never will. It is rumor
ed that, in order to get certain papers in
the state to advocate the building anew
capitol, certain other papers would ad
vocate a school of technology, and one
should be located at one place and the
other located at another place. llow this
js I am unable to say, but, in my opinion,
t is only the beginning of a series of
‘jobs” we are all going to witness in
connection with the building of the new
capitol.
The local option bill still hangs fire be
fore the judiciary committee, and, from
present prospects, it will have rather a
bard time before it becomes a law.
Very truly yours, More Anon.
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30. 1883.
SUMPTUARY LAWS.
The Views of the Late Henry A. Wise on
the Temperance Legislation.
1 Jie late P.x-Gov. Henry A. Wise was
one of the greatest men Virginia ever
produced and his views are always inter
esting. We clip the following collation
from the Augusta Chronicle and Constitu
tionalist:
The ultra temperance advocates of
Georgia may profess that they do not wish
to make a political question of their hob
by, but they are doing it all the same.
Indeed they could not help it if they
would. Demagogues abound and they
will not fail to turn this agitation to ac
count. It is none the less scandalous
that some of the foremost advocates of
prohibition or its effinity are not them
selves sober men. We have heard and it
has not been denied that several of the
vanguard of the temperance cause cele
brated a'questionable victory in the House
by a rattling spree at night. The Car-
tersville Free Tress recently said:
“ There is a member of the Legislature
“who is a prominent Good Templar and
“is conspicuous in temperance legislation
“who ought to wear a muzzle in Atlanta,
“for the reason, we are told, that he was
“gloriously drunk one day last week.
“As this is a sort of free country yet, a
“man may indulge his wishes, but he
“ought to he consistent about it. He
“ought not to preach one thing and
“practice the opposite. When a legisla
tor makes a temperance speech, he is a
“very inconsistent man when he slips
“around to the nearest grocery to ‘nip’
“of the end of his speech with whiskey,
“straight or diluted.”
This is the kind of Puritanism and
demagogism that should be reprobated.
In 1855, Henry A. Wise addressed a
letter to a National Democratic meeting
at New York, in which he predicted that
the same spirit of intolerance that mani
fested itself in Know Nothingism would
culminate in a crusade against slavery
and John Barleycorn. The first part of
rhe prediction has been realized, in tears
and blood and desolation, and the loss of
constitutional liberty perhaps. We are
entering upon the second stage of the
prophecy, which may be as terrible in
some of its consequences as the first. As
pertinent to the theme and as oppertune
reading for the legislature, we quote Mr.
Wise’s remarkable words:
“I give you the right hand of fellow
ship in opposition to the sumptuary laws
which have of late years disgraced the
Codes of some of our states. Why, some
legislatures seem to have lost the horn
books of personal liberty ! They are for
free soil and free negroes, hut war upon
the liberties of ,fsee white men! They
seem to have never know that there were
such things, first invented in North
America, as hills of rights, defining UIOS3
which are inalienable and fixing the lim
its of legislation ! Where was the prin
ciple of liquor laws to stop? Nowhere
liort of invading every inalienable right
of individual man. If municipal law
cannot touch vested rights, much less
can it invade the natural rights of the in
dividual person. In such a dominion as
that of England, they may hardly dare to
confine the rights of the person to “air,
to light and to flowing water,” at this
day; but here there never was a mo
ment, since colonial times, when the
rights of persons were not infinitely ex
tended beyond those out of the reach of
legislation. Oh! hut they say that such
laws are sanitary, not sumptuary. And
who made them hospitalers of Hygeia,
health nurses for the people? Health is
about as private possession, about as
ll intus et in cute,” personal as any man
can be endowed with. Who created a
government to turn quack and pi escribe
physic? “Physic to the dogs!” There
aie other things which destroy health
besides alcohol. Eating as well as drink
ing, gluttony as well as drunkenness
hurts health. W ill any one say that leg
islation may take charge of my table,
and my diet and appetite, and say what
I shali eat? If they may prohibit a man
from buying and selling whiskey, may
they not prohibiting planting and sowing
on his own fee-simple soil, of his buying
and selling the corn and rye from which
the whiskey is distilled ? Again, French
corsets have hurt more the health of
whole generations, have crippled tor
their | own lives and for their posterity
too, more women and children than ever
John Barleycorn slew of men! Shall a
Hiss committee be allowed by law to in
spect madame’s and miss’s chambers, en
compass ladies’ waists too tight? The
idea would be ridiculous, if it was not so
insufferably tyrannous. You cannot
legislate men to morality; you must edu
cate them to liberty and virtue. Man
ners and morals must begin at the moth
er’s knee; must he trained in the schools,
and home and domestic teaching naust
give to the country pupils fit for the
schools, and the scliools must give to the
country a people who will require no
such despotic laws. They don’t suit a
people fit to be free; they corrupt and
demoralize a people already fit to he
slaves. The last source I would appeal
to for temperance in eating and drinking,
is a legislature, state or federal or state.
O! ye metropolitan high livers! what
tales champagne and terrapins, and oys
ters could tell upon your example of ab
stemiousness and self denial! How your
temperance tells upon your lives! and
your legislation, too, at times! The truth
is, all these “isms” come from the same
nidus of the same cocatrix. They come
from the Scribes and Pharisees, who
would take care of others’ consciences;
they are inventions of ambitious priest
craft or men who have a little religion to
help their secular affairs, and who are a
little w'ordly to help their religious affairs
—of “preachers of Christian politics,”
who are subtle!y aspiring to’civil, secular
and political power—of men who don’t
“render unto Caesar the things which are
Cmsar’s,” nor unto God the things which
are Gods, of hypocrites who would
superservieeably cut off an ear for their
master with the sword, without his orders
and against his law, and who would deny
him thrice before the cock crew once.
And these are aided by cowardly and
knavish politicians, who either fear or
fawn upon their secret and sinister in
fluence. We have only to drive out all
such from the temple, as the dove-sellers
were driven out by the master whose
“pure and undefiled religion before God
and the Father is, to visit the widow and
the fatherless, and to keep one’s self un
spotted from the world!”
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
Bright Flashes of Intelligeuce From Near
and Afar.
Savannah News, 23d.]
The first rails on the S. F. R. R. were
laid this week.
The work of grading on the Interna
tional railroad is being pushed with ra
pidity, and is being done in a thorough
manner.
Regular track laying on the S. F. R. R.
will be commenced on the Tampa and
the Kissimmee end of the line simulta
neously on the Ist of September.
The board of directors of tlie Sanders
ville and Tennille Railroad have declared
7 per cent, dividend on the stock, paya
ble on and after the Ist of September.
One hundred and twenty-five laborers
have left Jacksonville for Sanford on the
steamers Plant and Anita to work on the
extension of the South Florida Railroad.
The Louisville, New Albany and Chi
cago Railroad has closed a trade with
Judge John D. Cunningham, attorney
for the Austell Refrigerator Car Company,
for five cars to he used on their line.
The new superintendent of the Atlanta
division of the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia Railroad, to take Captain
Kline’s place, will be Mr. J. W. Fry, of
the Columbia and Greenville Railroad.
It is confidently expected that about
the Ist of September the small force now
at work on the Thomasville, Tallahassee
and Gulf Railroad about Tallahassee will
be largely increased, and the work will
be pressed forward vigorously.
While the Pensacola and Atlantic Rail
road is arranging for a series of mer
chants’ excursions from Jackson county
to Pensacola, the Florida Central and
Western, through its agent at Chattahoo
chee, tenders the same merchants an ex
cursion to Savannah via Fernandina.
The schooner Scotia, of New York,
George Sherer Master, from Portland,
Me., has arrived at, Tampa with the fol
lowing cargo: Twenty-seven platform
cars and complete fittings; one mail car
and fittings; two passenger cars and
complete fittings; two locomotives and
and one tender, and complete fittings;
eight pair car wheels; three hand cars
and two push cars, and all fittings.
L. O. Gold, late superintendent of con
struction of the projected International
Railroad, on Monday, 13th instant, with
drew with his entire force of three hun
dred and fifty men from the line of that
road, between Jacksonville and Palatka,
and is now employed on the Florida
Southern, between Lake Weir and Lees
burg. The latter road now runs within
four miles of Newnansville.
The Charlotte Observer has the follow
ing: “Rumors in regard to changes in
the management ot the Richmond and
Danville are rife, and the latest is that at
the meeting of the stockholders on the
12th ot September, there will be made a
general change in the management.
Whatever the details of the plan may be,
the object of them will he a closer con
nection between the lines of the Rich
mond and Danville, and those of the
East Tennessee and Georgia system
which the syndicate is concerned in. A
giatice at the map shows that the men
who control these two systems (the pres
ent system is an amalgamation of the
Clyde, Seney and First National Bank of
New York syndicates) as good as control
the railway interest in the south.
Through the Richmond and Danville the
leading parts of the southern coast are to
be readied from the points touched by
the East Tennessee and Georgia in the
interior.”
The Atlanta Constitution says: “Yes
terday the first train passed over the
Coosa river bridge on the Georgia Pacific.
The biidge is of the most improved pat
tern of iron structure and was built by
the Buffalo Bridge Works. It has been
put up under the supervision of Major
Temple, the chief engineer of the road.
The river is very wide at the point cross
ed and the bridge has three very long
spans. Col. Foreacre and Major Temple
were present at the passage of the train.
The completion of the bridge leaves com
paratively little to be done toward the
complete connection of Atlanta and
Birmingham. The tunnel is twelve
miles further and there the work is going
ahead finely. A 20-horse power engine
is driving the steam drill and a way is
rapidly being bored through the stone
that stands in the way. From the tun
nel to Irondale is nineteen miles and
there the Georgia Pacific reaches the
Alabama Great Southern. Much of the
track is laid and the work complete from
the river to Birnfingham, and it seems
that nothing can stand in the way of the
connection of Atlanta and Birmingham
by the coming November.”
“Deserves and Should Receive.”
Louisville, Ky., March 19, HBl.
11. H. Warner & Co.—Sirs: Your Safe
Kidney and Liver Cure has been used in
my family with good results. The rem
edy deserves and should receive the high
est recommendation.
Judge Robert J. Elliott.
THE PRODIGAL SON.
A Sermon Preached on an lalaud on the
Georgia Coast.
i New York Stua.l
I Brudders and Bisters: De discourse
i meat dis mauning is lucinated from de
! tex in de book, which say: “A suttin
man had two son.” Now de nyoungest
son was a berry eontentionable nyoung
man dat was in no wise respose to do de
will ob’e father. And darefore he was a
projigal son, and the last state ob dat
man was wuss dan de fust state !
De bible say dat dis nyoung man call
to’e father and say. “Father, gim me
my share ob de subtun, and I will teck
it and go away to a fur country, and you
shall not see my face no mo.” Now, I
recon de ole man war tired bodderin wid
dis projigal, and’e was willin to let him
hoe’e own row. For we read in de bible
dat de nyoung man teck his share of de
substun and gone into a fur country, and
dare he spen’ he substun in riotous ex
trabaganee, high libin and sin ! An’ af
ter’e money war all throw away ’e war
reduced to a great necessity. So great
war de necessity ’e war reduced to dat ’e
had to hire heself out to one rich man to
mine hog!
No, tie bible don’t say, but it is sup
posed, dat dat was a berry mean wite
man,’cause we read in de book dat de
projigal was full he belly on de
husks wat’e feed de hog wid. And
when ’e come to hisself he say, “De ber
ry seryant in my father’s house hab
bread fur to eat and I ain’t hab none.
I’m gwine back to deole man and ax’im
to teck me as a hired seryant.” And so
he teck de pearl ring oil' he finger and
trow uno to de hog. And de hog run at
urn, ’cause you read in de book. “If
you cast pearl befo swine he will turn
round and run you!”
Now, wen de nyoung man was yet a
long way off de ole man see um, an’ he
run out to meet um, and he ketch um
and trow ’e hand’ ronn’ ’e neck and kiss
um, and putanurrer ring on ’e han’ and
gie um one wite shirt wid gole stud in de
bossum, and tell de hired servant to kill
de fat calf an’ make a great feast! An’
cordin’ tode way he say so it war done.
An’ wen de feast was ready he sen’
round to all de rich nabor and invite um
all to de supper. And dey all wid one
consent begin to make excuse. One
man say he jess buy a yoke ob oxen, and
’e got to go look after he purchase. An
urrer man say ’e taking in a peace ob
new groun’ and ’e ’aint got time. An
urrer man say ’e iess married to a nice
nyoung wife an’—an’ he can’t come !
Well, wen de ole man see how every
body discount um ’e git bex, and ’e say
to de hired man : “Go out into de high
way and by-way, and gadder all you
find: for de loss is foun,’ and de blind
kin see, and de deef can hear, and my
son dat was dead am alive again.” So
de hired man weut and he gadder de
blin’ and de lame, and de halt and de
deef, and all de po’ people in dat lan,’
and he fetch um and set um down, and
dey make a great feast! An’ ater dey
dun eat de fragment wat dem gadder up
full seben basketful and liye small fishes
ober.
Just here a member took his hat,
walked oft' a few steps,filled a short,black
pipe, stuck it between his teeth, and
walked oft’. Whereupon the preacher
resumed in an impressive manner:
I don’t call no name to-day! No
name to-dsy! But de word ob God is
struck de heart ob one relentless sinner
in dis congregation, and ’e gone oft to
meditation by heself. Dis, my brudders,
will show you de power ob faith. We
will close de sarbice by singing de him
found on de page ob de book: <
“Come, yea sinners, po’ and needy
Weak and wounded, sick anil so’.”
A FRANCO-GERMAN WAR.
All Europe Aroused by (lie Gazette’s
Article.
London, August 23.—The Times , com
menting on the North German Gazette's
article referring to the attack of the
French journals in Germany, and declar
ing that France also threatens the peace
of Europe, says: “The irritation shown
by the latter paper cannot be explained
by the reason assigned, as the French
press upon the whole has been very mod
erate in regard to Germany. The article
is rather an expression of general impa
tience at the conduct of the French, and
ought to convince them that their expe
ditions in various parts of the world do
not add in the smallest degree to their
influence in Europe.
The article of the North German Ga
zette startled Paris, alarmed Europe, and
caused prices on the Bourses of Paris,
Vienna and Berlin to fall. The press
every where express surprise at the Ga
zette's attack on France, and wonder as
to what its object is.
The French papers repel the charges
contained in the article, and intimate
that France is better prepared now to say
that Prince Bismarck is seeking a pre
text for a quarrel or for the imposition of
fresh army burdens. The Austrian press
ask if the article means war.
The English journals think that the
warning was overdone, and that the
cause for it was insufficient. It would
not be wise, they say, to attach too much
significance to the article.
A lady was traveling in a stage coach
with a troublesome barking dog in her
lap. A gentleman, a fellow passenger,
complained of the annoyance. “Dear
me, sir!” exclaimed the lady, with an
air of astonishment. “I wonder you com
plain of my dog; everybody admires it;
it’s a real Peruvian !” “I don’t complain
of your Peruvian dog, madam,” he re
plied, “but I wish he would give us less
of his Peruyian bark.”
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NUMBER 7.
THE MINNESOTA CYCLONE.
The Damage Done by the Storm—Lives
Lost and Houses Swept Away.
Rochester, Minn., August 24. —The
number of people killed by the cyclone
on Tuesday is now fixed at thirty-four,
and the number of injured at eighty-two.
Of the latter nine were fatally injured.
Details from the surrounding district
show that the cyclone swept over a terri
tory of sixty miles in length and about
two miles wide, leaving in its path noth
ing but ruins. To form an idea of the
loss one has only to estimate the value of
all the improvements that have been
made in the section visited by the cy
clones, which are all gone. The loss in
Rochester |is now estimated at $350,000.
Reports from the town of Salem indicate
that considerable damage was done in
that locality.
The streets of the city to-day are full
of people trora all over fhe state, some
troui curiosity and some to care for
friends, while a large number are prom
inent men from all parts of the state to
see the effect of the cyclone, that they
may know its effect and the needs of the
victims. One thousand men, women and
children of the class that possess hardly
anything but their homes and what there
is in them, are to-day without anything.
Of the two hundred houses which were
standing before the approach of the
storm there is not sufficient material to
build an ordinary shelter. All the house
hold furniture and clothing were also
completely destroyed. The reported list
of killed has been exaggerated through a
confusion of names. Careful inquiry
shows that sixteen comprise all those in
stantly killed. The loss of life in the
country adjacent .to Rochester has not
yet been accurately completed.
NEWS NOTES.
The Princess of Wales still retains her
girlish looks.
Senator Hampton is at Dagger’s
Springs, Va.
Senator Hawley, of Connecticut, is in
Holland.
Jay Gould’s rule has been never to
employ again discharged men.
Senator Lamar, of Mississippi, has
many head of blooded stock.
Gerster is announced to sing in Rome
for the benefit of the Ischia sufferers.
Edison says: “It requires as much in
genuity to make money out of an in
vention as to make the inventions.”
Secretary Chandler arrived at Ports
mouth, N. 11., Monday afternoon, and
took the Tallapoosa for a summer trip,
extending it at his pleasure.
The Earl of Aylesford is going on a
tour through Texas, with the intention
of buying laud enough to establish the
largest stock ranch© in that empire
state.
The Long Branch Neics says: “Mr.
Daniel Dougherty’s house on Chelsea
avenue is a model of comfort, and is
charmingly situated in the midst cf a
garden.”
Mr. 'Julian Hawthorne greatly re
sembles his father,Nathaniel Hawthorne,
but is hardly so large and handsome.
He lives at Morrisania, New York,
where he is writing his father’s biogra
phy-
The king and queen of Greece will
probably visit England toward the end
of September. The queen is now on the
way to Copenhagen, where she will lire
joined by the king when she leaves Weis
baden.
GENERAL, HOOD’S CHILDREN.
Washington, August 18.—Mr. Pus
sell, a wealthy Mississippi planter, who
is at Rockbridge Alum Springs, with his
wife, has with him also an adoped child
twelve years old, who is a son of the late
General John B. Hood. Of the Hood
children the two eldest daughters were
taken by Mr. Maury, a relative of Mrs.
Ilood, and are now being educated in
Germany with his daughters. Jol nB.
I Hood, Jr., the oldest boy, is the one adopt
ed into the family of Mr. Russell. A
| pair of twin girls are adopted children of
a Mr. Adams, of New York; another
pair of twin girls are in the family of Mr.
McKee, of Mississippi; another boy,
Duncan by name, is the adopted child of
a wealthy maiden lady of New York,
and another, Oswald, is in the family of
another New Yorker, residing near the
empire city.
Thus have the fatherless been cared
tor. A singular coincidence is related in
connection with three of the gentlemen
who have thus taken the place of father
to these interesting children. Messrs.
Russell, Adams and McKee were class
mates at \ ale College. They are all mar
ried, but have no children. Without
cousent of action, or even knowing what
the others were about to do, each applied
for and were given the charge he now
has.
His First Day At Saratoga.
Saratoga was anew idea to him. It
was so jolly to go from spring to spring
and take a drink of the water of each.
No two of the springs tasted alike. There
are about forty springs at Saratoga. Af
ter tasting nearly half of these, he began
to have a queer feeling inside of him.
After spending most of the day in this
way, he went to bed. It seemed as if all
the water-works of the lower regions
were raising a riot within him. After
several hours of agony, he thought of
Perrt Davis’s Pain Killer. It gave
him relief and comfort, and charmed him
to sleep.
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W. W. Sauls, Savannah, says:
“Brown’s Iron Bitters cured me of gen
eral debility when all other remedies
failed.”
J. A. Winburn, Savannah, Ga., says:
“Brown’s Iron Bitters cured me of kid
ney disease.”