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AT i
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\V of this state. Litigated cases made a
penalty. Prompt attention given to all business
entrusted to us.
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ROME, GA.
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A T O RN PI Y S-AT-LA W ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
office on West Main Street. ___ julylß
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WHILE & WIKLK,
A T X C) U N W Y S-A T-L. A W ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office in court house. Douglas Wikle will give
pecial attention to collections. fcl>24
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DENTIST,
< mice over Curry’s drug store, Cart crsvllle,
A.M. FOUTK. WALTER M. RVAI.S.
FOUTE & RIALS,
A T TORN K Y S-AT-LA W,
C A ItTERS VI LLE„ GEORG I A.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
of this state. Prompt and faithful atten
tion given to all business entrusted to us.
Office, corner Main and Erwin streets, up
stairs. i __ — ___
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A T O II N 1C Y -AT- I, A W,
I \TILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
\ V of North Georgia.
office with Col. M. It. Slansell, Bank
Block.
1), UK ill AM. W. M.GRAUAM.
GRAHAM & GRAHAM,
Attorneys, Solicitors and Counselors at
Law,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE IN THE COURT HOUSE. WILL
practice in all the courts of Bartow countv,
the superior courts of northwestern Georgia, and
e Supreme ami Federal courts at Atlanta, Ga.
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GEORGE S. JOHNSON,
ATTORNEY - A T - L A AV ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE, West Side, Public Square.
Bk Will practice in all the Courts.
R. W. MURPHEY,
A. T TOUNEY-AT - LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE (up-stairs) in the briek building, cor
ner of Main & Erwin streets. jiuylß.
ALBERT S. JOHNSON,
A T TOR NEY-AT-LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE : WEST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE.
Will practice in all the Courts. Business
v i ! r",,'l vo |inmi pt n Hen turn .
TRAVELERS’ GUIDE.
GADSDEN and red line steam-
ERS—U. S. MAIL.
STEAMER SIDNEY P. SMITH,
(Ben. H. Elliott, Master; F. G. Smith, Clerk.)
i,eove Rome every Tuesday and Friday Bam
Arrive Gadsden We<lnesday and Saturday. Cam
Leave Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday. Bam
Arrive at Rome Thursday and Sunday 7pm
Will go through to Greeusport, Ala., every
Friday night. Returning, leave Greeusport ev
ery Saturday morning.
STEAMER GADSDEN.
F. M. Coulter, Master F. A. Mills, Clerk.
Leave Rome Mondays and Thursdays 11 a m
Arrive Gadsden Tuesdays and Fridays 2am
Leave Gadsden Tuesdays nnd Fridays 9 am
Arrive at Wednesdays and Saturdays 7pm
Office No. 27 Broad street, up-stairs over the
Cotton Exchange. Telephonic connection.
J. M. ELLIOTT, Jr., Gen. Man’gr.,
Gadsden, Ala.
W. T. SMITH, Gen’l Agent,
Rome, Ga.
CHBROKEE RAILROAD.
On and after Monday, March 19, 1883, the trains
on this Road 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 Cedartown 12:05 a in
RETURNING.
Leave Cedartown 2:05 pm
Arrive at Rockmart 2:5S p m
Arrive at Taylorsville 3:38 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro 3:slpm
Arrive at Cartersville 4:25 p m
I*ASSE NGE It T R AIN.—E V ENING.
L.*avc Cartersville 4:30 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro 5:04 p m
Arrive at Taylorsville .5:22 p m
Arrive at Rockmart 6:00 p in
Arrive at Cedartown ....... 7:00 p m
RETURNING.
L>ave Cedartown . . . . . . . . 6:00 am
Arrive at Rockmart 6:53 am
Arrive at Taylorsville 7:2$ am
Arrive at Stilesboro 7:46 am
Am ve at Cartersville 8:20 a m
ROME RAILROAD.
'L'tie following is the preseut passenger sched
ule:
NO. 1.
Leave Rome 6:10 am
Arrive at Kingston 8:55 a m
no. 2.
Leave Kingston 9:20 am
Arrive at Rome 10:25 a m
NO. 3.
Leave Rome 4:15 pm
Arrive at Kingston 5:30 pm
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 am
NO. 6.
Leave Kingston 9:20 am
Arrive at Rome 10:10 am
Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 will run daily except Sun
days.
Nos. 5 and 6 will run Sundays only.
No. 1 will not stop at the junction. Makes
close connection at Kingston for Atlanta and
Chattanooga.
No. 2 makes connection at Rome with E. T..
\ a. & Ga. R. li.. for points south.
EBEN 11 ILLYER, President.
J. A. Smith, G. P. Agent.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule:
NIGHT PASSENGER —HP.
heave Atlanta 2:40 pm
Leave Cartersville 4:30 pm
Leave Kingston .* ... 4:55 pm
Leave Dalton 6:34 pm
Arrive at Chattanooga 8:00 pm
NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 2:55 pm
Leave Dalton 4:32 pm
Leave Kingston 6:03 pm
Leave Cartersville 6:32 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 8:40 pm
DAY PASSENGER—UP.
-■cave Atlanta 7:00 am
■ .cave Cartersville 8:55 am
Leave Kingston 9:2lam
Leave Dalton 10:55 a m
Arrive at Chattanooga 12:30 a m
DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga . 8:00 am
l eave Dalton 9:46 am
Leave Kingston 11:15 am
Leave Cartersville 11:42 am
Arrive at Atlanta 1:40 pm
, ROME EXPRESS
Leave Atlanta '. ... 4:30 pm
Arrive at Cartersville 6:31 p ni
Arri ve at Kingston 7:00 pm
Leave Kingston 8:06 am
Arrive at Cartersville 8:32 am
Arrive a t, Atlanta 10:37 am
We want that money you owe for THE
PUKE PRESS.
VOLUME VI.
BROWN’S
IRON
BITTERS
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.
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BROWN’S
IRON
BITTERS
Ladies and all sufferers from neu
ralgia, hysteria, and kindred com
plaints, will find it without an equal.
MEMPHIS aim LITTLE ROCK E. R,
ARKANSAS,
TEXAS
ocAND
PACI F I C
SHORT L3NE
MEMPHIS
CHEAP TICKETS
To Emigrants and Land Explorers. Also Low
Rates of Freight for household Goods, Farm
ing Implements and Stock. Children
under 5 years carried free; over sand
under 12 half fare. 150 pounds
baggage free to each full
ticket, and 75 pounds
to each half ticket.
By this Great Through Car Route First-Class
Coaches are run from Atlanta, Chattanooga,
Nashfille, McKenzie, Decatur and Mem
phis to Little Rock without change.
A porter iu charge of each
Car to look after the Com
fort of the Emigrants.
Elegant Sleeping Cars from New York and
Lynchburg to Chattanooga Without change.
Pullman Sleepers from Nashville toMem
pliis, and Memphis to Little Rock.
Pullman Sleeping Cars between Memphis and
Little Rock. A solid train with Pullman Sleep
er attached from Little Rock to Palestine, Hous
ton and Galveston without change. Pullman
Sleepers from Little Rock to Dewing, and from
Deming to San Francisco without change.
Write or call on upon
R. A. WILLIAMS, Pass. Ag’t.
Atlanta, Ga., Chattanooga, Tenu., or Memphis,
Tenn. novS’B3.
THE NEW SHORT ROUTE
T O
KANSAS
—AND THE—
WEST.
Attention is called to the new Kansas City
railroad line now completed and in operation
between Memphis, Tenn., and Kansas City, Mo.
By this new route the south and west is brought
into close relation. Saving several hundred
miles and many hours travel between the two
sections. It is in fact now the only practical
route the south 10 all points in Kansas, Missouri,
Colorado and all western states. A through
train with Pullman Palace Sleeping car and el
egant day coaches leaves Memphis daily, run
ning through to Kansas City without change of
cars, where it arrives in time to make connec
tion in the Grand Union Depot with all trains
leaving Kansas City. For emigrants to the Pa
cific coast and the Northwest, or for home seek
ers in Kansas and Missouri, time and money is
saved by this short route as against the circui
tous routes via St. Louis, heretofore the only
outlet. Special low rates are made for this class
of business and all are carried through to Kan
sas City in first-class cars ou first-class trains.
Round trip. Land Explorers’ tickets on sale at
low rates. Send for the Emigrant's Guide, an
eight page pap£r, giving full and reliable infor
mation in regard to Kansas aud Missouri—mail
ed free. Address J. E. Lockwood,
Gen’l Pass. Agt., Kansas City,
or H. D. Ellis,
Tkt. Agt., 31 Madison St., Memphis Tenn.
C. N. Winner,
Southern Pass. Agt. 28 Wall St., Atlanta, Ga.
FOR SALE!
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> s milet from Cartersville,
west; .about 80 acres cleared, balance well tim
bered; comfortably improved; or would be ex
chonged for city property.
Also, one farm lying 6 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) .T. A. HOWARD.
Oil, my tooth! What can Ido? Go to Curry’s
and get the famous tooth drops. They cure in
five minutes.
THE FREE PRESS.
ORANGES AND FLORIDA.
Better than Breezes—Under a
New Flag.
Even the balmy air and orange groves of Flori
da fail to keep its people full of happiuess and
comfort. Art must help nature every where—in
the topics as among the pines of the north.
“And, chief among the blessings which are
adapted to all zones,’’ writes Dr. J. G. Wallace,
of Fort Dade, Fla., “is Parker’s Tonic. It
seems to have the world for a field, and most of
the current diseases yield to its action. I have
used it in the case of a delicate and dyspeptic
young lady, with the most gratifying results.
It seemed to accomplish with case what the usu
al prescriptions and treatment for that misera
ble malady failed wholly to bring about. 1 am
also glad to state that the Tonic has greatly re
lieved me personally of a troublesome atonic
eoudition of the stomach of long standing, it is
the ideal purifier and invigoraut.”
Messrs. Hiscock & Cos. call especial attention
to the fact that after April 16, 1883, the name
and style of this preparation will hereafter be
simply Parker’s lonic. The word “Ginger” is
dropped, for the reason that unprincipled deal
ers are constantly deceiving their patrons by
substituting inferior preparations under the
name of Ginger; and asginger is an unimportant
flavoring ingredient in our Tonic, we are sure
that our friends will agree with us as to the pro
priety of the change. There to ill be no change ,
however, in the preparation itself: and all bot
tles remaining in the hands of dealers, wrap
per under the name of “Parker’s Ginger To
nic,” contain the genuine medecine if the signa
ture of Hiscock & Cos. is at the bottom of out
side wrapper. oct2s-lm.
SoaE Have you seen the latest novelties in the
way of line fancy soaps at D. W. Curry’s? By
the way ask Curry to show you a “Dudelet.” He
lias arrived at Curry’s lately from New Y'ork.
If you don’t intend to pay for THE FREE
PRESS, be honest enough to say so.
Liver Compound. “Hello,” Skeet, what
makes you always so happy and smiling?”
“Well, Saiu, the secret lies in Curry’s Liver
Compound. It sets the liver O. K. and then a
fellow is in Paradise.”
THE REV. GEO. H. THAYER, of Bourbon,
Ind., says: “Both myself and wife owe our lives
o Shiloh’s Cotisum ition Care.” Carrv h i
ARE YOU MADE miserable by indigestion,
constipation, dizziness, loss of appetite, yellow
skin? Shiloh's Vitalizer is a positive cure. For
sale by Cuiry.
Winter Cough and Pneumonia Cured, Tiie
Great Cherokee Remedy, Sweet-Gum and
Mullen. “Did you get that prescription for
your cough?” “No, my wife had a bottle of
Sweet-Gum and Mull®n and I tried that, and
you see 1 am now happy again,” the Doctor
sighed.
FOR DYSPEPSIA and Liver Complaint, you
have a printed guarantee on every bottle of Shi
loh’s Vitalizer. It never fails to cure. You can
get it at Curry’s."
Tempus fugit. So do the worms by using Cur
ry’s Candy Vermifuge. The children eat it like
sugar candy.
PILES.
Tiles are frequently preceded by a sense of
weight in the back, loins and lower part of the
abdomen, causing the patient to suppose he has
some affection of the kidneys or neighboring or
gans. At times symptoms of indigestion are
present, as flatulency,uneasincssof the stomach,
etc. A moisture, like perspiration, producing a
very disagreeable itching, particularly at mght
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, but try it and be cured,
rice 50 cenis. Sold by D. W. Curry. janlß-l
V. L. WILLIAMS,
Manufacturer and Dealer in
TIN & SHEET IRON GOODS
* ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO
Hoofing, Guttering, Etc.,
Dealer in
T o y E s,
Hollow-Ware, Glassware, Etc.,
CROCKERY, Wl N DOW-CLASS,
SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS.
rpilE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO CALL AND
1 examine. Prices guaranteed as low as a
good article can be bought anywhere.
a*ar Will give market price for clean cotton
rags. june29
REWARD!
For any case of
CHILES
THAT
CHILARINE
FAILS TO CURE.
C. F. SIMMONS & CO., Prop’s.,
St. Louis, Mo.
D. YV. CURRY", Wholesale Agent, Cartersville,
Ga. aug2B
PILES AND FISTULA CURED
DR. J. S. BEAZLEY,
At Stilesboro, Bartow county, Ga., and
DR. A. G. BEAZLEY,
At Crawfordville, Ga.,
Make a specialty of diseases of
the Rectum. They will treat Fistula, Ulcer
ation, Prolapsus, etc., of the bowels, and will
guarantee a perfect cure in a short while in ev
ery case of piles without the use of the knife and
very little pain. Will point to cases cured, or
give the best of reference if desired. All cler
ymen treated gratis. mchS7
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29. 1883.
THE MAN FOR THE WORK.
New York Sun.]
No one can look through the list of
members of the new house without being
struck by the fact that in point of proved
ability and legislative experience
the democrats have advantage this
year.
On the republican side it is possible to
pick out the names of six or eight repres
entatives of national reputation for faith
ful service and honest, if sometimes mis
taken, notions of their dirty to the coun
try. It is easier, however, to select the
names of a round dozen of republicans
who are unpleasantly, ridiculously, or
infamously notorious from Maine to Tex
as.
Where is the minority to find its lead
er this winter? Will it be Kellogg of
Louisiana? Will it be Mackey of South
Carolina? Will it be Horr of Michigan?
Will it be Frank Hiscock of New York?
Will it he the wooden-witted speaker of
the house, Keifer of Ohio?
Now turn to the other side. Here are
men like Gen. Rosecrans of California,
William W. Eaton of Connecticut, Mor
rison and Springer of Illinois, William
S. Holman of Indiana, Blackburn and
Carlisle of Kentucky, Leepold Morse of
Massachusetts, Belmont, Cox, Dorshei
mer, Hewitt and Slocum of New York,
the North Carolina Cox, Frank Hurd
and Ben Le Fevre of Ohio, Randall and
Curtin of Pennsylvania, Reagan of Tex
as, and Randolph Tucker of Virginia.
These names are chosen for exhibition
not because they represent all the wis
dom, or all the integrity, or all the legis
lative experience of the majority, but be
cause it happens that there is not one
name among the twenty which does not
stand for a democrat of sufficient aalibre
to command the respect of the nation in
the speaker’s chair.
There is plenty of good timber for the
speakership on the democratic side of the
present house.
Who doubts, for instance, that Mr.
John G. Carlisle of Kentucky would
make a good speaker ? His wit is brigh’t,
his personal address is engaging, his
knowledge of parliamentary methods is
adequate, his tact is good, his reputation
is unblemished.
Or who doubts that the distinguished
representative from the Corijer’s Hook
district in this town would fill the speak
er’s chair with credit to himself and to
the satisfaction of the people? Few men
now in public life combine the capacity
for hard and serious work with that phil
osophic good humor which lightens la
bor and makes enjoyable more thorough
ly than does the Hon. Samuel S. Cox of
New York.
But, although at first view there may
seem to be an embarrassment of riches in
the way of first-rate material for the
speakership of the democratic house
which meets a week from Monday, it
appears to us that one great consideration
makes the present duty of the majority as
plain as a pikestaff.
This house was elected to reduce the
appropriations, to stop jobbery, to ad
minister the government with strict econ
omy. The democrats were returned to
power as a direct rebuke to the party re
sponsible for the corruption and prodi
gality of the last congress. No democrat
nor republican will deny that this is the *
single reason why the Forty-eighth
house is democratic to day. If the party
thus intrusted with a definite and specific
work, misunderstands its mission, or,
understanding it, fails to do its duty, so
much the worse for that party. It will
be hustled out of the south wing of the
capitol as promptly as it was when
it forgot its mission there a few years
ago.
The special work of the forty-eighth
congress was laid out beforehand for it
bj the votes of the people. Of all the
democrats now in congress, the best man
to direct that work from the speaker’s
chair is Samuel J. Randall of Pennsyl
vania.
— +
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR.
Among the acts passed by the last leg
islature was one creating the oftice of
county or public administrator. The or
dinaries of the respective counties
throughout the state have power to ap
point, for four years at a time, a county
administrator. This officer is to take
charge of all estates which are unrepre
sented or where parties fail to give the
bond required by law. They will be al
lbwed all the fees and emolument such as
are allowed other administrators. The
bond which they will be required to give
is fixed at $5,000, and the ordinary is in
vested with full and complete authority
to increase that bond as often
and whenever he may deem it
necessary. The term of the first
appointment will expire on the first
Monday in March, 18S5, and ,the subse
quent appointment every four years
thereafter. The public administrator
will be subject to removal by the ordina
ry, and all vacancies, whether by death,
resignation or otherwise, are- also filled
by appointment made by the ordinary.
An exchange remarks that, “the best
teachers are those who learn something
new themselves every day,” so we an
nounce this day that several thousand
important cures have been made by the
use of Dr. Bull’s Cough Sj rup.
Governor McDaniel has received an
official invitation from Gen. John Coch
rane, Chairman of the committee on the
celebration of the evacuation of tiie city
of New York by the British, for any of
the volunteer military companies or cadet
corps of the state to unite in the military
parade of that grand centennial event.
No other or more formal invitation will
be needed by an} r organization desiring
to participate.
THE NEGRO AS A SOLDIER.
New Y'ork Sun.]
It is a general impression, wc believe,
that colored troops, whatever their merits
in other respects, have less physical cap
ability than white soldiers for successful
ly withstanding the hardships and mala
dies of military life. It has even been
supposed that in climates where the heat
is specially trying to white troops, the
colored men oftener succumb to routine
or exfra labors,
A different conclusion will probably
be reached on an examination of the facts
presented in the current annual report of
the Surgeon-General. This document is
signed and submitted by Acting-Surgeon-
General Huntington, but it had been
completing by the late Gen. Crane a short
time before his death. In this report the
hospital records of the white troops and
the black for the fiscal year are carefully
compared; and as there are four regi
ments of the latter in the army, two be
injr of infantry and two of cavalry, mak
ing forty-four companies in all, it must
be admitted that there is sufficient basis
for fair generalization.
First, then, we observe that while
there were thirty-eight outof every thous
and white soldiers “constantly under
treatment for disease,” as the official
phrase goes, of the colored there were
but thirty to the thousand. Secondly, of
deaths there were ten to the thousand
among the white and eleven among the
colored troops. This latter result may
seem to confirm the theory of the greater
hardiness of the whites; but when we
look at the causes of tiie deaths we find
that, whereas five to the thousand among
the colored died of wounds and six of
disease, among the white troops only
three to the thousand died of wounds,
while seven died of disease. This fact al
so suggests that the adored troops not
only did their share of the year’s frontier
fighting, but that they must have taken
their full part in the extra fatigues* and
exposures ol lield service.
In discharges for disability the negro
and the white troops stand exactly alike,
at forty-two to the thousand for each;
but while the record is a little imperfect
in this respect, it may fairly be inferred
that o# discharges for diseases a larger
proportion occurred among the white
troops than among the colored, and a
smaller proportion of discharges for
wounds. Among the details of the ma
ladies the following passage deserves at
tention ;
“It is interesting to note that the color
ed troops make a particularly favorable
showing in the small number of admis
sions for alcoholism and its results, ex
hibiting, as they do, a rate of only four
per one thousand to a rate of seventy-six
per one thousand of mean strength among
the whites. On the other hand, in dis
eases of the nervous system they have an
unexplained preponderance.”
Of course there are other elements in
the question relating to the employment
of colored troops in the regular army;
but this is perhaps the point about which
the chief misapprehensions prevail. At
all events, the information given in re
gard to it forms an interesting portion of
the current report of the medical depart
ment of the army.
POLITICAL yOTES.
Unless all signs fail the independent
>4Pter will elect the next president.—
Springfield Bepublicun.
The democrats will number so many in
the next house of representatives that
quite a number of them will be com
pelled to occupy seats on the republican
side.
According to the Washington corres
pondent of the Cleveland Leader, Senator
Edmunds lost all friendship for Presi
dent Hayes when the latter nominated a
United States district judge for Vermont
without consulting him. Edmunds’ mind,
it seems from this, is not above petty
questions of patronage.
Of the three candidates for speaker
only one, Mr. Cox, has a classical educa
tion. He graduated at Browne universi
ty, Providence, in 184 G. Mr. Randall,
in the Congressional Directory, describes
himself as having received an “academi
cal education,” while Mr. Carlisle
says of himself that lie “received a com
mon education.”
The Kurdish chief, Obeidullah, is re
ported dead at Mecca ot cholera. After
a long and adventurous life, this bold
leader dies in a most prosaic manner.
Many years ago the Turks succeeded in
capturing and holding him a prisoner.
Within a year he escaped and was again
taken. His son has since gathered the
sheik’s forces, but failed to rescue the
father.
The Hon. Robert M. McLane, who
will be inaugrated governor of Mary
land on. the second Wednesday in-Jan
uary, will hold the office four years, and
will receive a salary of $4,500 a year.
The sttorney-general, who was elected
on the same ticket, will also hold office
four years, controller, also elected at the
same time, will hold office but two years.
The attorney general is paid $3,000 a
year and the controller $2,500.
Representative Ellis, of Louisiana, one
of the most active workers for Carlisle,
gives the following estimate of the vote
of that candidate on the first ballot: Vir
ginia, 2; West Virginia, 2; North Caro
lina, 3; South Carolina, 5; Georgia, 8;
Alabama, 3: Mississippi, 5; Louisiana,
3; Texas, 9: Arkansas, 4; Missouri, 10;
Tennessee, 4; Kentucky, 8; Illinois, G;
Indiana, 5; Ohio, 3; Wisconsin, 3; Ne
vada, 1; California, 4; Michigan, 3;
lowa, 3—total, 94. It is claimed that
this table is based upon actual
knowledge as to how the members will
vote.
A young girl in Philadelphia who for
three years has been a patient sufTerer
with sore-throat, has been effectually
cured by using Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup.
THE LUNATIC ASYLUM.
What the Governor Found When he Visited
the Institution Last Week.
Atlanta Constitt ion.]
Governor McDaniel has returned from
his trip to Milledgeville, where he went
to inspect the asylum for the insane.
The governor is much pleased with what
he found there. He spent Wednesday
at the asylum in company with Colonel
Whittle, the president of the board of
trustees.
The building for colored patients has
been completed except that the heating
apparatus is not all in. A portion only
of the building is OQCupied and the other
will be occupied as soon as the heating
apparatus is in. The building has about
four hundred and fifty rooms and is one
of the best asylum buildings in the coun
try if the cost is taken in consideration,
as it cost only sixty-one or two thousand
dollars exclusive of the fixtures and heat
ing apparatus. It is admirably ventilat
ed and the protections in the way of fire
escapes and similar contrivances are very
fine, and are arranged with great care.
There is nothing expensive in the finish
of the building, but it is substantial and
thoroughly comfortable. An improve
ment over the old designs in one respect
is the location of the water
closets in a projection from the main
building.
An appropriation was made by the
legislature for two convalescent buildings
to relieve the main buildings of that class
of patients which it is desirable to sep
arate from the more alllicted. Only one
of these is in course of erection, but the
other will be built later.
The buildings are now covered by
$270,000 of insurance, which is less than
half their value. The legislature at its
last session appropriated .$5,000 to be ex
pended in insuring the public buildings
of the state, but the amount was insuffi
cient. Heretofore no insurance has been
carried oil the vast property owned by
the state at Milledgeville.
There are now 1,142 patients in the
asylum. Dr. Powell is taking in patients
a3 rapidly as he has room arid is making
every effort to accommodate all who are
entitled to the benefits of the institution.
The governor says the asylum is now
managed on a scale of economy that is
not surpassed by any in the union, con
sidering the kind of attention, treatment
and comforts afforded.
The governor says that the laundry
and kitchen departments are kept in the
best condition and the quality of food
furnished is of the best.
The recent fire at the asylum was of
little consequence, only some stables be
ing consumed. The asylum is well pro
tected against fire. They have tanks that
keep an i rumen so amount of water at such
a height that it can be thrown over most
of the buildings by pressure. They also
have an engine that will throw a stream
over any of the buildings. The de
partment is made up of employes of
the asylum who are well drilled in the
service.
Iu returning, tire governor passed
through Macon and inspected the acade
my for the blind, where he found every
thing in trim order.
The LaGrange Reporter says: “With
the proceeds of a Mosely Cabinet Cream
ery, a Stoddard churn and a Lever butter
worker, Mrs. C. W. Mabry, of Brown
wood, feeds her family of seven persons
and her cows. She has cleared SIOO this
fall on her apple orchard. With a single
servant, employed to run a knitting ma
chine, Mrs. Mabry manufactures 14 pairs
of hose per day, and receives more orders
than she can fill. Her profits are 10
cents a pair. She is also a great raiser
of chickens,-having consumed 300 this
year in her own family. From the for
ests around Brownwood she had 3,000
bushels of leaf mold or humus hauled up
and composted with two tons of commer
cial fertilizers and 300 bushels of cotton
seed. With this mixture applied to her
fields, she gathered 12 bales of cotton
from 10 acres of old worn-out soil, restor
ed by this fertilization. In addition, an
abundance of wheat and oats was made
by this energetic lady. All this on the
old Brownwood place of 50 acres.”
The Griffin News says: “Abqut seven
years ago Mr. J. W. Ilood purchased 200
acres of land about two miles below
Hollonville, in Pine county, paying for
it $1,200, or $6 an acre. The land was
old and worn out, and regarded as near
ly worthless, and he had no trouble in
getting it mainly on credit. He went to
work and stayed at work, and manured
his land well and cultivated it thorough
ly, and in two years he had made enough
of" his place to pay the purchase price.
He kept on until from being one of the
most worthless places in the neighbor
hood it is now among the most valuable,
and Mr. Hood is furnishing rations to
those around him. Last year, during all
the dry, hard summer, that 200 acres
supplied over 100 people with food.
This year it has made 1,000 bushels of
corn, 300 bushels of oats, 100 bushels of
wheat and 25 bales of cotton, besides
large quantities of other smaller pro
duce.”
The part of Shylock is generally con
ceded to be the most difficult in the range
of the Shakespearean drama. Since the
elder Kean, who achieved in it his first
great triumph, the elder Wallack has
been regarded as its strongest represent
ative here. . Edwin Forrest, Edwin
Booth, and E. L. Davenport attempted
it, and then struck it from their repertory
of parts. Save with Wallack, it has nev
er been popular or profitable.
Not to be behind the times the Detroit
Evening Journal dates its three afternoon
editions Fourteen, Fifteen, and Seven
teen o’clock.
KATES OF ADVERTISING.
Advertisements Will be,inserted at the rates >f
One Dollar per inch for the first insertion, and
Fifty Cents for each additional insertion.
CONTRACT RATES.
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One inch, *2 50 $5 00 |7 50 $lO 00
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NUMBER II
GENERAL NOTES.
The ladies’ billiard parlor in the prin
cipal hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico,
is in the cupola; the gentleman’s is in
the basement.
“Lady Jim,” the Plutes “squaw man,”
died recently. Having refused to fight
with his tribe at Pyramid Lake iu 1880,
he was condemned ever after to wear
petticoats.
The Sultan of Turkey has just made
present to the Emperor of Austria of a
palace valued at $500,000. The title is
somewhat an arbitrary one, as it was con
fiscated from the Pasha to whom it
belonged,
Tennyson can take a worthless sheet
of paper, write a few words, and make
it worth SIOO. This is genius. lioth
child can write a still fewer words on a
similar sheet and make it worth $50,000
This is capital.
A grocer in Troy, N. Y., says that
speculators have stored away millions of
eggs which they will be glad to sell after
Thanksgiving Day at less than what they
cost. lie adds that most of the eggs now
for sale are from Germany.
Alaska will go before congress de
manding a simple, inexpensive teirito
rial government. She is utterly without
law. There is no security for property
save the protection afforded by brute
force, and there is no punishment for
crime.
The total number of desertions from
the British army iu 1882 was 4,145, of
whom 1,207 rejoined. In the household
cavalry the desertions were were 8 in the
1,000; in the foot guards, 15; in the cav
alry of the line, 25; in the infantry of the
line, 24.
A St. Louis clergyman lias asked the
newspapers not to report his sermons,
since some of his congregation absent
themselves from the house of worship
because they can read the substance of
the discourse at their ease at the break
fast table.
Knoner Bros, of Stuttgart have bought
for $225,000 that well-known German,
periodical, the Gartenlaube. Its circula
tion has much declined of late jrnars, hut
is still 250,000 a week. A condition of
sale is that the editorial department shall
remain in Leipsic.
In England there are every year in
June 3,000,000 cows and heifers in milk
or calf, and about 180,000 families are
concerned in the industry. If each of
these cows gives 450 gallons of milk a
year, at Gd. a gallon the sum will amount
to over forty millions sterling.
For the first time since the invention
or printing, a German book has readied
its I,oooth edition, each of them number
ing 3,000 copies, thus making in all 3,-
000,000 copies It is a prime- by llaes
ler, published by G. D. Baedeeker, of
Essen, which first appeared in 1853, and
reached its 100th edition in 1883.
The great historic country houses of
England are now seldom occupied by
their owners. In the season they are in
Loudon, and when that, which now ex
tends deep into August, is over, as the
court circular shows, they make for Scot
land for shooting or for the continent.
So the splendid old places are left to sol
itude and American tourists.
The educational statistics of the Brit
ish army show that out of every 1,000
soldiers 30 can neither read nor write, 28
can read hut not write, 180 can read and
write, while 756 are of superior educa
tion. Twenty years ago 134 could neith
read nor write, 173 could read hut write,
641 could just read and write, while 52
only were of superior education.
Mr. John Casimir-Perier, lately ap
pointed Under Secretary for War in
France, anew office which some think
has been specially created for him, is one
of the few republicans who come of an
official family. His grand-father was
the well-kqown minister of Louis Phil
ippe, and his father a diplomatist, and
subsequently minister of the Interior un
der Thiers.
Washington, Nov. 9.— An organized
movement for the nomination of Gen.
Grant next year by the republicans wag
started by prominent officers at a recent
army reunion in the West. The plan is
to enlist military influence all through
the North and South, including Confed
erates who may be willing to join the
organization, and to keep aloof, from the
machine politicians until the time comes
for a public demonstration. The enter
prising authors of this plan think pre
judiet against the third term has passed
away. They also believe that Gran„t’s
alliance with Jay Gould and other oper
ators in Wall street would bring to his
support the great railroad corporations,
and insure a campaign fund quite equal
to that which Mr. Morton and his bank
ing friends raised for Garfield in 1880.
•‘Fox’s Book of Martyrs”
Contain the history and pictures of hun
dreds of people who were stoned, burned,
beaten, pulled to pieces and oihervvi e
tortured on account of their conscientious
convictions as to belief and duty. They
suffered incredible torment and have
come down to the present age as martyrs.
It is not customary to torture people
thus, but they are made martyrs by rheu
matism until they suffer almost as much
as did the heroes of the martyr ages.
There was no relief for the old-time mar
tyrs, but there is happy relief for those
who suffer from rheumatism. Cashier
Charles F. Morrill, of Manchester, N.
11., suffered terribly from frequent attacks
of this painful disease, but he has been
cured. He writes: “I was a martyr to
rheumatism, and, although I tried many
other remedies, 1 found nothing that re
lieved me like Perry Davis’s Pain
Killer.” Other rheumatic martyrs may
wisely take the hint.
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let us know it.