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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
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I business entrusted to me. Collections und
'Commercial law a specialty.
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stairs over 15. F. Godfrey’s store.
K.U.IiKUIOI. W.M. GRAHAM.
GRAHAM & GRAHAM,
Attorneys, Solicitors and Counselors at
Law,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Offic e in the court house, will
practice in all the courts of llartow county,
the superior courts ol northwestern Georgia, and
cSupreme and Federal courts at Atlanta, Ga.
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WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
of North Georgia. „ _ _
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Block. ,
GEORGE S. JOHNSON,
A T T O 1C N E Y - A X - LAW ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE, WcstSide, Public Square.
w ill practice in all the Courts.
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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ner of Main A Erwin streets. julylH.
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AX i OUNKYS-AT-LAW
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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\Y of tins state. Litigated cases made a
penalty. Prompt attention given to all business
entrusted to us.
Olliee in northeast corner of courthouse. feli9
M. L. JOHNSON,
ATXOUN PI Y- A X LAW
CARTERBV 1 LLE, GEORGIA.
Oillce in the brick house next to Roberts’
.very stables. Hours from B>4 a. in. to 4K p. m.
flkay All business poomptiy attended to.
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MILNER & HARRIS,
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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special attention to collections. feb24
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE : WEST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE.
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TItAVELEES’ GUIDR.
GAL)SDEN AND EEL> LIN E STEAM
EES—U. S. MAIL.
STEAMER SIDNEY P. SMITH,
(Ben. 11. Elliott, Master; F. G. Smith, Clerk.)
Leove Rome every Tuesday and Friday Ba m
Arrive Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday. (5 a m
Leave Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday. .8 a m
Arrive at Rome Thursday and Sunday 7 p m
Will go through to Greensport, Ala., every
Friday night, Returning, leave Greensport ev
ery Saturday morning.
STEAMER GADSDEN.
F. M. Coulter, Master F. A. Mills, Clerk.
Leave Rome Mondays and Thursdays 11 a in
Arrive uadsden Tuesdays and Fridays— 2am
Leave Gadsden Tuesdays und Fridays 9 a in
Arrive at Wednesdays and Saturdays 7pm
Olliee No. 27 Broad street, up-stairs over the
Cotton Exchange. Telephonic connection.
J. M. ELLIOTT, Jr., Gen. Man’gr.,
Gadsden, Ala.
W. T. SMITH, Geu’l Agent,
Rome, Ga.
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
On an<t after Monday, March 19, 1883, the trains
on this lioad will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted):
PASSENGER TRAIN-MORNING.
Leave Cartersville 9:45 am
Arrive at Stilesboro 10:17 a m
Arrive at Taylorsville 10:35 a m
Arrive at Rockmart 11:10 a m
Arrrive at Oedartown 12:05 a m
RETURNING.
Leave Cedartown 2:05 pm
Arrive at Rockmart 2:58 pm
Arrive at Taylorsville . . . ... . 3:33 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro B:slpm
Arrive at Cartersvillo 4:25 pm
PASSENGER T R AIN.—E VENIN G.
Leave Cartersvillo 4:30 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro 5:04 pm
Arrive at Taylorsville 5:22 pm
Arrive at Rockmart 0.00 p m
Arrive at Cedartown 7:00 p m
RETURNING.
Leave Cedartown 6:00 am
Arrive at Rockmart 6:53 am
Arrive at Taylorsville . . . . . . 7 :2k a m
Arrive at Stilesboro 7:40 am
Arrive at Cartcrsville 8:20 a m
ROME RAILROAD.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule:
NO. 1.
Leave Rome 6:10 am
Arrive at Kingston 8:55 am
no. 2.
Leave Kingston 9:20 am
Arrive at Romo 10:25 am
NO. 3.
Leave Rome 4:15 pm
Arrive at Kingston 5:30 p m
NO. 4.
Leave Kingston 5:55 pm
Arrive at Rome 6:50 pm
NO. 5.
Leave Rome 8:00 am
Arrive at Kingston 9:00 a in
no. 0.
Leave Kingston 9:20 am
Arrive at Rome 10:10 am
Nos. 1,2,8 and 4 will run daily except Sun
days.
Nos. 5 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.
KIiEN HILLY ER, President.
J. A. Smith, G. P. Agent.
WEbTGRN AND ATLANTIC 11. R.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule:
NIGHT PASSENGER —UP.
Leave Atlanta 2:40 pm
Leave Cartersville 4:30 pm
Leave Kingston 4:65 p m
Leave Dalton 0:34 pm
Arrive at Chattanooga 8:00 pm
NIGHT PASSENGER— DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 2:55 pm
Leave Dalton 4:82 pm
Lea.vo Kingston 0:03 p in
Leave Cartersvillo 6:82 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 8:40 pm
DAY PASSKNGKR — UP.
jeave Atlanta 7:00 a in
Leave ( ariorsville B:;>sain
Leave Kingston 9:21 a in
Leave Dalton 10:55 a m
Arrive at Chattanooga 12:30 am
DAY PASSKNGKR—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga . 8:00 a in
Heave Dalton 9:40 a in
Leave Kingston ,11:15 am
Leave Cartersvillo a m
Arrive at Atlanta 1:40 pm
ROME EXPRESS 4
Leave Atlanta 4:30 pm
Arrive at Cartcrsville
Arrive at Kingston 7:00 pm
Leave Kingston o : 22 am
Arrive at Cartersvillo 0:32 a m
Arrive at Atlanta . . . . • 10:37 am
VOLUME VI.
BROWN’S
IRON
BITTFRS
will cure dyspepsia,heartburn, mala
ria, kidney disease, liver complaint,
and other wasting diseases.
BROWN’S
IRON
BITTERS
enriches the blood and purifies the
system; cures weakness, lack of
energy, etc. Try a bottle.
BROWN'S
IRON
BITTERS
is the only Iron preparation that
does not color the teeth, and will not
cause headache or constipation, as
other Iron preparations will.
■HHB9U3I
BROWN’S
IRON
BITTERS
Ladies and all sufferers from neu
ralgia, hysteria, and kindred com--
plaints, will find it without an equal.
REWARD!
For any case of
CHILLS
THAT
CHI LARIN E
FAILS TO CURE.
C. F. SIMMONS & CO., Prop’s.,
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.*, ist.assa. a perfect
system of ROUND Tltll’ TICKETS will
be on sale at all important points, South, South
east, Southwest ami West, over this line and its
connections to the Summer Resorts and Water
ing places of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee,
North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and
Maryland. Ami Summer Guide Book for 1383
furnished to all applicants.
For tickets and and all information inquire ef
all Ticket Agents of connecting lines or Passen
ger Agents of the Virginia, Tennessee and
Georgia Air-Line,” Kenncsaw Route, She
nandoah Valley Route or the undersigned.
T. S. Davant, A. G. P. A., Memphis, Tenn.
Ray Knight, A. G. P. A , Selma, Ala.
Joseph Gothard, A. G. P. A., Knoxville.
S. 11. Hardwick, Trav. Pass. Agt.., Atlanta.
M. M. Welch, West. Agent, Chattanooga.
A. Pope, General Pass. Ticket Agent. m 24-2
Joseph Robinson,
(East Main Street, near Manganese Works.)
BLACKS M B T H
AND
Wagon a hop.
Is prepared to do all kind <* Blaoksinithing,
Buggy ftnd Wagon ret : 'g, and Horse
Shoeing in the bet j ale manner,
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
aug23 _
FOR SALEI
ONE STORE HOUSE AND' OT IN CITY of
Cartersvillo, fronting public square, near
the court house. .
Alto one farm containing Ua acres, lying on
Burnt Hickory road 2mile! from Cartcrsville,
west; aoout 80 acres cleared, balance well tim
bered; comfortably improved; or would be ex
chonged for city property. , ~ .
Also, oue 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. W itn
this place will be sold mules, wagons and farm
ing implements if desired, tor prices, terms,
etc., call upon the undersigned at Cartersvule,
Ga, (aug2) j. A. HOWARD.
THE FREE PRESS.
lION. IV. 11. FELTON,
The Champion of Justice and Political
Purity.
To the Editor of The Free Press:
Lessons emanating from a person who
is the embodiment of the above caption
cannot fail of effectiveness on the public
mind. From the impressions made, thou
sands already trust in him, and, without
unexampled untowardness, he, with the
aid of his friends, will accomplish the
work he has so heroically started, which
any honest man would gladly have been
commissioned to perform. Notwith
standing the bearings used by his oppo
nents, he and his iriends should feel
complimented with their already partial
success, and almost elated at the prospect
before them. In discussing public men,
we should duly reflect on their entire
composition, and endeavor to see the
different attributes and traits governing
them in shaping their course and the
adoption of any policy. When, after a
true analysis, we And one suiting us, or
even plainly unobjectionable, we should
not throw him aside, nor ignore his sug
gestions, but give them consideration as
becoming in their nature, and hearken
ing unto them. In studying the con
struction of the honorable gentleman, we
find such qualities ag force ns to admire
and gratefully acknowledge the overrul
ing of his independent virtues and lofty
heroism, which have opened the way for
the usefulness of honest men and the
supply of virtuous political w’ants. The
people will yet And, when awaked, that
for their safety and protection, they must
heed the counsel given by him—realize
that real work is on hand—and it is to be
deprecated if, on account of tardiness,
they should fail to use their time and
opinions to the best advantage. The
gentleman, while being sensible, digni
fied and reasonable, is not one of the
easy sort. He has dene much, when com
paratively young in politics, and now, in
advanced life and stages, does not depend
on unreasonable and treacherous props
for aid or suggestions, but acts and looks
forward to the time when true manliness
and political courage will cause the peo
ple of Georgia to make their demands,
and, by forced compliance, bring public
servants, and leaders into their normal
condition, and cause them to grow in his
own likeness. In shaping his course and
arraying his facts, it has never been
characteristic of him to go from one piece
of work to another without finishing
either, and this qualification he carries
not only into smaller matters, but holds
the reins over greater, always guiding to
the advantage and comfort of honesty
and sound sense. One cannot believe
that the outpourings of houesty and sin
cere watchfulness over his people’s in
terest will ever be so mistaken in their
effects as to fall powerless on the minds
of the public. He has taught it will be
time enough to meet trouble when it
comes, but lazy and cowardly passive
riess has no power over him, and, conse
quently, he engages in the effort to have
the people prepared, and he will yet have
reason for congratulation from the coun
try at large on account of the changes to
take place in the views and feelings of
the common herd. Whenever traduction
and indignity have characterized the at
tacks made on him by his opponents, he
has never failed to come out with Hying
colors, not from any attempt at ambigui
ty, duplicity or perversion, but with ar
gumentative reason mated with sound
philosophy inseparable from his love for
hoHesty, reverence for truth and esteem
for public virtue. These are not too ded
icate for him, and enter into all of his re
lationships. Never were fair-minded
men more astonished and convinced than
when listening to his exposures and sub
stantiated charges, arguments and facts
bound to penetrate the very rough pass
ages of prejudice and play on the sound
ing board of common sense and unalloyed
truth. The constancy following his in
dividual, as well as public life, will have
such forcible communication with inde
pendent, thoughtful and good men, that
no allowances will be made for the indel
icate organs of those who are more than
guilty of all the charges unbecoming in a
statesmanlike politician or the humble
calling of a private citizen. He and his
followers can be patient, and, looking
with satisfaction at his past, can exult
antly look on the inoon of his principle’s
future rising beautifully, can now see a
long streak of light playing across the po-
litical waters, dancing on the waves
formed by his nobleness of demeanor,
and will yet lay smooth and unruffled,
making a line of clear, political light as
reflected from the mirror of his honest
and impressive statesmanship. There is
something attractive and peculiarly fas
cinating about the formation of political
ideas such as his—everything seems so
fair; the interchange of confidence is so
mutual, so whole-hearted, there is no ne
cessity for secret standing on guard ; no
cautious feeling of our waj ? to see if we
can safely trust him. He has never de
ceived, and we can, therefore, yield him
implicit confidence. Scrutinize bis utter
ances, look at his career for years past,
and none but those who are hardened to
the callings of good attributes would dare
to heap the asperities upon him that his
opponents do. His teachings are not of
the light order. The sense, reason and
sincerity contained in them are intended
only for those in whom they can confide,
and only with effect enter the ears of
truth and virtue. What statesmanship he
lays claim to—and he has acquired more
than a little—is of a plain and forcible
nature. He is deaf to the teachings of
statesmanship as prevailing in Georgia
at this time; his is not based on prepos
session and prejudice, for he well knows
that these will only pervert truth and re
vert to sophistry. The impressions made
by his course and instructions in the
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 27. 1883.
minds of true lovers of political justice
and freedom have reversed the judgment
of those who asperse him. Open dignity
characterizes him, and his thoughts and
actions are never known to be silly and
delegating. He prefers rather to be just
than popular, and this reversed aspira
tion gives him the title to nobleness. The
people can trust to none with more prom
ises of leadership than to the honorable
gentleman. D. 11. R., Jr.
TALE OF THE WaK.
Bright Spots in Ben Butler’s Military
Career in New Orleans,
New York, September 20.—General
P. G. T. Beauregard, who is stopping at
the Park Avenue hotel, was asked how
the candidacy of General Butler would
be receiyed in the south.
“1 am not prepared to speak for the
south,” said the general, “but I think it
would meet with strong opposition in
that quarter, although he may not be
guilty of all the charges brought against
him while in command there. His sub
ordinates may be responsible for many of
the acts complained of.”
“How did lie treat your family and
friends?” was the next question.
“With proper consideration, as I was
more particularly informed, on my re
turn to New Orleans. I left home sud
denly February 23, 1861, having resign
ed from the United States corps of engi
neers, on the call of the provisional gov
ernment of the confederacy, at Mont
gomery, Alabama. I expected at that
time to return in about a fortnight to my
command, in Louisiana, where I had
been stationed for many years. Instead,
I was ordered to Charleston, thence to
Manassas, thence to West Tennessee, etc.,
to the end of the war, remaining absent
from home four years and three months.
When I started from New Orleans, Mrs.
Beauregard was in very bad health, and
I was compelled to leave her with her
own family to be taken care of; hence I
was extremely anxious to return to be
with her; but in waf a soldier belongs
first, to his country, and then to his fam
ily. Shortly after New Orleans was
taken possession of by the federals, my
wife and family—composed only of la
dies, the gentlemen having gone to the
war—received an order from General
Butler’s chief quartermaster to vacate
their house in forty-eight hours, as it
was to be occupied by federal officers.
butler’s maonanim it y .
An old friend of the family, Dr. Mer
cer who w'as well acquainted with Gen.
Butler, went to him to remonstrate
against such a proceeding, and to explain
the condition of Mrs. Beauregard’s
health. General Butler at once counter
manded the order, which he said had
been given without his approval. More
over he sent a guard to protect the house
against further intrusion, but the ladies
requested the guard to be withdrawn,
which was done. The war progressed
with variable results while Mrs. Beau
regard’s health became worse. At last
in the early spring of 1564 it became evi
dent to her physician and her family
that she had not long to live. Our good
old friend, Dr. Mercer, again went to
General Butler, to know if there were no
possibility of my seeing once more the
tender and loving wife from whom I had
been so suddenly and long seperated ?
He immediately turned to his desk, and,
with his characteristic promptness, wrote
an unconditional pass which authorized
me to enter his lines and to come to New
Orleans, where I could remain unmoles
ted as long as circumstances required my
presence there. That was a noble act
for which I shall ever be grateful. It is
doubtful in my mind whether many offi
cers of the United States service would
have been willing to assume such a re
sponsibility without first referring the
matter to the war department at Wash
ington. When I receivod the pass Char
leston was threatened with another seri
ous attack, and General Seymour, ofthe
United States army, was about to leave
Jacksonville, Florida, on an expedition
across north Florida, thence to the Gulf
of Mexico, and I was organizing a force
to check his march, which was done
shortly after by Generals Finnegan and
Colquitt at the battle of Olustee at Ocean
Pond. I was thus placed in the painful
dilemma of selecting between my duty
as a commander and my affection as a
husband. I declined the pass so gener
ously tendered. Two weeks after, while
with my troops in front of Jacksonville,
in which General Seymour had retreated
after his defeat, I received and read by
the dismal light of a camp fire, the news
of the death of one whom I loved dearer
than life. We had been .married less than
one year when we parted and I never
sa n her again.”
John C. Flynn, a Cincinnati newsboy,
twenty-two years old, sold out his stand
recently and started for Denver to engage
in the lotel business. Young Flynn has
been a newsboy for thirteen years, during
which time he lias accumulated $22,000.
His profits ranged from $5 to sl2 a day,
and his money was regularly deposited
in bank. He lived at the Bethel, where
he paid regular rates for board and
lodging.
“What station did you say this was?”
inquired a passenger of a gruff brakeman,
“Pigsty,” growled the polite employe,
who was mad because his first was not
distinct enough to be understood. “Ah,”
smiled the traveler, “then you must feel
perfectly at home here.” The brakeman
slammed the door from the outside and
then bit off'a piece of the iron railing.
Nineteen years ago a Tennessee father
refused to let his young daughter go to a
candy-pull, and she disappeared, 'ihe
other day she returned, lifted eleven
children out of the wagon, and entered
the house and took off' her things as if she
hadn’t been gone over a day.
JAVA’S RUINED TEMPLES.
New York Herald, j
The greatest force of the late gigantic
eruption in Java seems to have been at
the western end, where Bantam, the
Dutch capital, is situated. But the activ
ity of the under world force was not
confined to one part of the island. About
the middle of the island, but not given on
ordinary maps, there is a group of very
remarkable old temples. Their position
may be roughly understood by a refer
ence to any map of Java, by drawing a
line south of Samarang to the other
coast, where a river will be found called
Progo, and on the oast of it there is a
town which has a variety of spellings,
but it may be written Djockjakarta—the
Dutch call it “Jockio”—this place is also
mentioned as having suffered seriously.
About thirty-five miles from Djockjakar
ta is the great temple of Boro Buddor,
also called Boro Bodo and Boer Buddha.
The dome of this monument is stated to
have been crushed in by falling rocks.
The temple does not stand on the side of
a mountain, but on the top of a hill, so it
could not have resulted from masses of
rock falling down upon it. The destruc
tion must be' ascribed to huge fragments
having been thrown into the air and
then descending with terrific force.
Boro Buddor is by far the largest and
greatest monument of the Buddhist re
gion in the east. The temple of Nakon
Wat, in Cambodia, is the only other that
can be put in comparison with it. The
base is square, and each side is about
four hundred feet long. The upper por
tion is circular and about one hundred
and fifty feet in height; there is one cen
tral dome, and there are seventy smaller
ones. On the terraces round it there are
between four and five hundred chapels,
each with a statute of Buddha in it, seat
ed in the usual cross-legged position.
The sides are covered all round with has
reliefs on each terrace; one terrace has
120 subjects, which embrace the whole
history of Buddha. The temple is a solid
mass of masonry, and is of the same kind
as the Dagobas of Southern India or the
Topes of the Northwest.
The first notice of this temple was
given by Sir Stamford Rallies, who at
the same time stated that “the interior of
Java contains temples that., as works of
art, dwarf to nothing all our wonder and
admiration at the pyramids of Egypt.”
Miss North has lately painted pictures of
Boro Buddor on the spot. About twenty
miles southeast of Boro Buddor is a place
called Brambanam. This is the site of
the ancient capital of Java, and there arc
a very large number ot temples standing
which have more or less suffered from
former earthquakes. One of the cele
brated groups at this place is known as
the Shandi Siwa, or the “Thousand
Temples.” Tnis is also said to have suf
fered. There is a volcano som where near
to these and to Boro Buddor, called
Mount Merapia, which has probably been
the active agent in this case.
KEEPING OLD COWS.
National Live Stock Journal.]
It pays to run a machine as long as it
can be made to return a fair profit on the
cost of operating it. Using the old ma
chine saves interest n anew investment,
and the continued wear does not decrease
its value, for the waste material in a con
demned machine, whether it is only
wholly or half worn out. The case is
quite different with farm stock, which
can be used as food when it begins to di
minish in usefulness to its owner. The
man who keeps an ox or a cow till it
pines with old age, is a double loser by
so doing. It invariably costs more in food
and care to maintain an old animal than
a young one. As the vigor of life fails,
digestion is less perfect and assimilation
slower and more difficult, and the waste
is greater. As the decline goes on, more
and more* food is required to produce a
given amount of labor, or milk, or meat.
Old animals can seldom be fattened at a
profit, even if their flesh was as valuable
as that of younger ones, because it re
quires so much more time and feed to do
it. But their flesh is not equal to that of
animals in their prime, so there is a loss
both in the quality and the cost of pro
ducing. Old cows that have been milked
till their life force has been exhausted
make very poor and low-priced as well as
expensive beef. When a cow has reached
twelve to fourteen years of age, it hardly
pays to fatten her, if she could be had for
nothing. Some cows of extraordinary
quality may be profitably kept as long as
they can be, for the sake either of stock
or milk, but average cows are better con
verted into beet betore it would be ap
propriate to call them old.
INGERSOL.I, ON DEATH.
The following lines are an extract ta
ken from a letter recently written by
Col. Ingersoll from Long Branch, to a
personal friend who had suffered
a bereavement in , the death of bis
mother:
“After all there is something tenderly
appropriate in the serene death ot the
old. Nothing is sadder than the death
of the young, the strong. But when the
duties of life have all been nobly done —
when the sun touches the horizon, when
the purple twilight falls upon the pres
ent, the past and the future—memory
with dim eyes can scarcely spell the
records of the vanished days then, sur
rounded by kindred and friends, death
comes like a strain of music. The day
has been long, the road weary, and we
gladly stop at the inn.
“Life is a shadowy, strange and wind
ing road, on which we travel for a little
wav —a few short steps, just from the
cradle with lullaby of love to the low
and quiet wayside in, where all at last
must sleep and where the only saluta
tion is “Good night.”
“Nearly forty-eight years ago, under
the snow in the little town of Cazenovia,
my poor mother was buried. I was but
a few j'ears old. I remember her as she
looked in death. That sweet, cold face
has kept my heart warm through all
these years.”
TAN BARK IN BEEIi.
One of the Ingredients Used to Enrich the
It rewer.
Chicago Times.]
“Do you see that vesssel just turning
the curve in the river?” asked an officer
at the barge office as lie buttonholed a re
porter.
“1 do.”
“And the deck-load?”
“Bark is it not? What ol it?”
“Do you see the schooner in the draw
of the bridge, and the other approaching
it?”
“I do; both have bark also.”
“Well, that’s the way you see it here
day after day.”
“What do they want with so much of
it? Do they burn it or use it in the tan
neries?”
“There is the interesting point. The
stuff won’t burn worth a cent. It is
hemlock bark. It is sometimes used in
the tanneries,but you can’t imagine that
all that comes up the riyer is used in
making leather. The tanyards would
hardly hold it in stacks.”
“Then what becomes of it?”
“It is used as an adulteration for beer.
Large quantities of it are ground up and
shipped to other points. Chicago brew
ers can afford to make pure beer, and I
guess they do it; but this bark is fixed up
here and sent to other places. I suppose
you know that brewers do not now re
port the ingredients of which their beer
is made, as they once did. Tire courts
have decided that they are not compelled
to do so, I haye made some casual in
quiries, and I learn that tan bark and
soda are the principal substances used.
A little rice malt gives it body and makes
it bold the foam. Hemlock bark is a
new discovery in this respect and is use
ful because it takes the place, to a certain
extent, of both malt and hops. It is not
poisonous, but it certainly cannot be
said to contain any nutriment. It adds
the pungent, bitter taste and gives the
dark reddish color to the liquid. It is
very cheap, and the brewers who use it
must grow rich very fast.”
PORK PACKING.
Cincinnati Price Current, Sept. 29.]
The number of hogs packed in the
west the past week foots up about 80,000,
compared with 90,000 the preceding
week, and 40,000 during corresponding
time last year; from March 1 to date,
2,990,000 against 2,625,000 last year—an
increase of 365,000. The average weight
per hog has probably been fully twenty
pounds heavier than last year. Prices of
hogs are about the same as a week ago;
a moderate reduction for light weights.
The movement to market has hardly been
so liberal as expected, but seems to be
ample for all requirements. The ship
ments of product to domestic consuming
districts and abroad haye been fair, but
not of such proportions as to be called
large. The course of values of products
has been to a lower range, in Chicago
October mess pork selling
closing at $10.65 on the regular board;
lard, $7.75-8.27)2, closing at $7.82* s >;
short ribs, closing rf at $5.75
—a decline since a week ago of 67)£c on
pork, 35c on lard and on sides.
There is not much ground for hope for
any material rally in prices of product on
the old crop, and not much in sight to
make it appear likely that in January
next values will be essentially lower
than they now are for that month. There
will be plenty of hogs and plentv of corn,
and at current prices for delivery in the
new season there should in time come
forward of orders for export,
and capital in thi3 country will likely not
be timid on such a basis. Our advices
this week from nearly all sections of the
corn-growing regions where damage has
resulted from frosts indicate that the full
extent of impairment of the crop will not
be five per cent. —our estimates in round
figures aggregate 60,000,000 bushels for
such damage. It is, therefore, evident
that the west will produce as much corn
as last j r ear, and possibly more, while
there will be a shortage in the south and
elsewhere.
AN ENTERPRISING WOMAN.
One of the thoroughly enterprising wo
men of New York is Mrs. Ottendorfer,
w ife of the editor of the Staats-Zeitwuj.
And she is not only enterprising hut gen
erous. It is only a few years since that
Mrs. Ottendorfer built and endowed with
her own money an asylum for aged Ger
man women, under the name of the Isa
bella home. It is located in Astoria, and
the outlay amounted to over SIOO,OOO.
Mrs. Ottendorfer has carried out another
benevolent, project, which entitles her to
a great deal of credit. She lately pur
chased two buildings on Second avenue,
and a few days ago she made them over
to the German hospital. Her outlay in
this case was was about $05,000. The
property is within a stone’s throw of the
Historical Society building and St.
Mark’s church. It was from the grave
yard surrounding the latter, and in
which the body of old Peter Stuyvesant
lies, that the body of millionaire Stewart
was stolen. Mrs. Ottetidorfer’s money all
comes from her husband’s paper, which
is one of the most valuable newspaper
properties in New York. She bad a good
deal to do w ith making it valuable her
self. I know, says a correspondent, that
as far back as five and twenty years ago,
when the Staats-Zeitung was but feeling
its way, she was a regular daily visitor
at the office, and always with one eye to
the business. She looked over the books,
took in tbe money at the advertising and
subscription desks, and saw that no one
employed in the office shirked his duty.
Much of the business success of the paper
is undoubtedly due to her. Few women
in New r York know better how to make
money or how to use it.
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NUMBER 11.
hiring out diamonds.
How Costly Jewels are Obtained for Re
ceptions and Wedding*.
Boston Globe ]
“That was an expensive set of jewel
rj r ,” remarked a reporter to tfie proprie
tor of a large Washington street store,
alluding to a set of diamonds a young
lady had just taken away with her.
“It is the most expensive set we have
in the store,” was the reply, “but she
lias only hired them.”
“Is that a common thing in Boston?”
asked the reporter.
“Most certainly. Many of our best
customers 1 ire a set of jewelry for an
evening, and for a comparatively small
price excite the envj' and jealously of
their friends. I wonder you have never
heard of it before. We take our costliest
gems and reset them to please our cus
tomers, and then rent them. Of people
whom we know we never require any se
curity, but a stranger would, of course,
have to deposit the full value of tho
gems. There are two of our finest sets
at Swampscott' now where, 1 un
derstand, they have been much praised
and their temporary possessors congratu
lated.
“A funny thing happened in connec
tion with this branch of our business.
There was to be a large german, and a
young lady, well known in this city,
came to make arrangements about a set
of diamonds. I was not in the store at
the time, and knew nothing of the mat
ter, so when I came in I lent the same
set to another young belle. In the af
ternoon No. 1 came in and asked signifi
cantly it her diamonds had been cleaned.
While she was talking No. 2 put the
same question to me. The situation was
very awkward, but I explained the mat
ter, and all was finally settled in favor
of No. 1, the young ladies pledging
each other and me to eternal secrecy.
“ ‘I wouldn’t have it to get out for the
world, you know,’explained No. 1.
“Another branch of our business is to
rent silver services. These were very
well paid for. Most of the designs are
antique; and some of them have figured
in many Boston homes as highly treas
ured heirlooms. 4t weddings we fre
quently furnish large collections of bric
a-brac and other articles to swell the
number of‘gifts’ and make a line dis
play. We rarely get much for this, as
the jeweler’s name is frequently publish
ed when there is anything particularly
beautiful given as a present, and the ad
vertising compensates us.”
PLACES FOR TWO CARETS.
LaFayette, Ga., Sept. 14th.—In or
der to eomplj r with the invitation con
tained in a telegram just received from
the acting secretary of of the navy,
Acting Secretary English- telegraphs as
follows:
Washington, D. C., Sept. 11.—Hon.
J. C. Clements: You can send a candi
date for naval cadet to the academy. He
must report by the 29th inst.
Eabl English, Act’g Sec.
I ask space in your columns to give
notice that a competitive examination of
applicants will be had at the Sargent
House, Rome, Ga., at 12 o’clock in., on
Tuesday 25th inst. It will be seen that
the candidate will be required to report
at the naval academy, by the 29th inst.,
this appointment being made to fill va
cancy caused by resignation. At the
same time and place au examination of
applicants for nomination to the position
of cadet to the U. S. military academy
from the seventh congressional district of
Georgia, vice F. L. Palmer to graduate
June, 1884. The candidate for this posi
tion to report to the military academy,
uof later than the 14th of June next.
The following named gentlemen have
been requested to conduct the examina
tion :
Dr. J. B. S. Holmes, Rome, Ga.; Hon.
W. M. Sessions, Prof. W. M. Dyer,
Dalton; Prof. J. C. Harris, Cedartown;
Hon. T. W. Milner, Cartersville, and
Col. W. M. Henry, Summerville. Can
didates must not be less than seventeen,
nor more than twenty-two years of age.
Those desiring to compete for either of
these nominations are respectfully in
vited to attend the meeting of the board
at the time and place above specified.
Very respectfully,
J. C. Clements.
A WONDERFUL MATHEMATICIAN.
A blind mathematician of wonderful
powers is reported by the Hartford Cou
rant to be living at Danielsonville, Conn.
11 is name is Pardon Tillinghast, and he
is entirely blind. Recently his attention
was called to some facts In regard to the
combination of 142,857. If multiplied by
2 the product is 285,714 —the same figures
and in the same order, only starting with
another and changing the first two to
tiie extreme right. Multiplying by 3, 4.
or 5, a like result is obtained; that is, the
figures are tbe same and succeed each
other in a similar way. This led to a
careful study of these figures, a.Td he soon
found that preceded by tbe decimal point
they are the decimal equivalent of the
fraction 1-7, and be performed mentally
tbe operation of reducing its square, 1-49,
to a repeating decimal having a repetend
of forty-two places—six times as many as
that of 1-7. Then he took the cube of 1-7,
equal to 1-343, and performed tbe pro
digious feat of turning this into a repeat
ing decimal whose repetend has 294 fig
ures, or six times as many as that of 1-49.
All this, of course, without a mark to aid
the calculation or the memory. It filled
leisure hours of a number of days. He
would work tbe division ten places at
one operation, bolding in memory tbe
result, including tbe remainder, for
hours and days, till he could work tbe
next ten, and so on until be had the en
tire repetend. The necessity for Se
quent provings of his work added to its
complication. The mathematicians of
those parts doubt w hether this mental ef
fort has ever been excelled, at any rate,
by a blind man.