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J SBPiu VOL. n -NO. 2, CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 28,1884. $1.00 A YEAR. fine Stomach Bitter* is klood deparent, a rational cathartic, and a BBberb antl-bilioue specific. It rallies the failing energies of the dobilitnted, and •keeks premature decay. Fever and ague, billons remittent, dyspepsia and bowel •emplalnts are among the evils which 16 entirely removes. In tropical countries, where the liver and bowels are organs most unfavorably affected by the combined In fluence of olimate, diet and water, it Is a Very necesarv safegaurd. For sale by all Draggists ana Dealer* gti generally. JjJ SIMS & WAT.KT.~R, CARROLLTON, GA. Chair and Furniture Shop. Will make bedsteads and all kinds of furniture. Repairing done at short noAe and in the best of style. A large lot of chairs ou hand for ale .s HELP WAHTED.-Pemale. TT 7'ANTT'D—In every town, VY county, an intelligent, city and w energetic lady of good address and some business ability, to introduce to the consumers, Ha da mi: Dean's Celebrated Spinal Supporting Corset. Splendidly adver tised, highly reeeommended by the lead ing Modistes, the Dressmakers, and the most eminent Physicians of the United States and Europe. Agents are making $15 to $65 weekly. Address Lewis Schiele & Co., 390 Broadway, New York. Z. T. GUTHREY, Boot and Shoemaker, ROOPVILLE, - - - Q A. Solicits the patronage of those wanting any work in his line. Repairing at *h<*rt notice and in good style. Give me a trial ID Ft. J. IF. COLE, CARROLLTON, GA. Is devoting most of his time and atten tion to surgery and surgical diseases, and is prepared for most ant’ operation . Mb charges are reasonable. ATTENTION FARMERS. I am agent for Cooper's celebrated en gines, Centennial and Winshipgias.— Before purchasing give jne a call, as I think 1 can make it to your interest. X. FAIJT. JOHNSON HOTEL. FYTIDFYFTTFA, G-^Y 50 Y DECATUR STREET. MRS. E. A. RAGLAND, Proprietor, TEEMS, $1C0 TO $150 PEE DAY. This House is centrally located with in half a block of Depot, with good ac commodations at reasonable rates. Land for Sale. I offer for sale my farm3 miles north east of Carrollton. There are 03 acres on the place GO acres of it cleared, in good state of cultivation. Good dwelling and outhouses, apple and peach orchard good as in the county. W. S. II/ ALEXANDER. Carrollton Ga. Heard County Land for Sale. 86 acres more or less in the Twelfth district of originally Carroll, hut now Heard county, being part of lot of 202 in said district. Will he sold cheap. Apply at this office. CLEVELAND',fT„r,; vanted authentic edition of his life; written at his home with his cooperation and assistance, by the renowned Goodrich. Largest cheapest handsomest, best. Costs more to man ufacture than other lives that are sold for twice its price. Outsells all others ten to one. One of our agents made a profit of over $50 the first day. A harvest of gold will be realized by every worker. All new beginners succeed grandly.— Terms free and the most liberal ever of fered. Save valuable time by pending 25 cents for postage, etc., on free outfit, which includes large prospectus book.— Act quickly; a day at the start is worth a week at the finish. 3nio. II. HALLETT & CO., Portland, Maine. For Sale. A v-iluahle farm of one hundred and seventy-five acres, one mile from Carroll ton. 'Thirty acres cleared, balance heav ily timbered. Good road covenient. Bounded by little Tallapoosa riveron one side Terms easy. Apply at this of fice. r. c. McDaniel, IDZEFTTIST, CFAFtFtOFiXiTOISr, GA. Is now inserting full sets of 2S teeth fer $20, half set 14 teeth, $10. Partial seta and fillings cheap in proporton. Satis faction guaranteed in every case. Ofitae In Mandeville building. From the New York Sun. The Two Great Parties. We hear a good deal among po litical philosophers about the probr ability that the two great parties that have so long divided this coun. try between them will presently en ter intodsssolution, and go out of business, leaving their places va cant for new organizations that are not yet visible. For our part, we cannot see the signs of any such catastrophe. A partvthat has been through a long term of years is always more or less in danger of dissolution. So is a party that grows to excessive proportions, taking in all kinds of discordant material, until it be comes so large that its elements lose their cohesiveness, and are more disposed to fight each other than to fight the common antagonist. But where parties are evenly divided, undone about as strong as the other, so that neither can gain a destructive victory, there is no rea son why they should not hold to gether and fight again. As for the Democracy, it has cer tainly shown a most extraordinary tenaciousness of life. Constantly defeated in every national contest from I860 to 1881, with one single exception, and that exception re moved by successful fraud on', the part of the Republicans, the Demo crats have come up every time briht and smiling, fora new set-to. It is true that much of their vitali ty has been due to the fact that ev cr Since the reconstruction of the Southern States, all that part of the country has remained solidly Democratic; it is true also that their fundamental principle, the minimizing of government, is great and precious, though there are few of them who understand it or really believe in it; yet, whatever the cause, the result is worthy of admi ration. But now that they have once more carried a national elec tion, we can’t see any present dan ger that the Democaats will dis solve. No army scatters and goes home in the moment of victory. Many of the strange allies that have helped to elect Cleveland may fall away from the Democrat ic standard, but the old party will still be there, especially the 'solid south. Neither is it probable that the Republican party will now break to pieces, and give up the offort tore- gain the possession of the govern ment. It has been beaten, it is true; but such a close defeat is encoura ging to renewed exertion. Moreo ver, the losses it has suffered through the withdrawal of the In dependents have been mnde up by the accession of Irishmen and workingmen, wno went over from the Democracy in large numbers on account of their belief in the protec tion of home industry and their an tagonism to Mr. Cleveland. There never before was a party which gained at once such a body of ear nest and valuable material from the very bone and sinew of the country, the men who live by their own labor and who believe in American ideas with an intensity that never gives down and an ar dor that never slackens. Thus while there is no sense in the idea that either of these two parties is going to be broken up at present, the Republicans are politi cally in much the better condition of the two. They are compact and united. There is no difierence of opinion or of purpose among them. The discordant elements have gone out, and the army which remains is peerless for steadiness and discip line. The defeat of last week tends to promote and enliven their cour age rather than destroy it. Consid ered merely as a political organi zation, the Republican party is in good fighting order. But, while this is true of the de feated, it is not true of the victori ous party. There is no such unity among the Democrats. On the ques tion of protection and free trade wide divisions prevail among tqpm. Between the wing so brilliantly represented by Mr. Morrison and Mr. Dorsheimer, and the wing championed by Mr. Randall, there exists a degree of antagonism which is all the more dangerous to the party because it is based upon material interests and is animated by antagonism of principle. This antagonism may for a time be re pressed through the exigencies of party policy, but it cannot be got rid of except through-bitter conflict in which one side will be /victori ous and the other will be crushed. In the recent election the free tra ders have undoubtediy gained a great advantage; but it remains to this new* dispensation, sharp dis cords and internal convulsions are pretty sure to arise; but, of course there is no sign of them as yet, and only a prophet can foresee when or how they are to be manifested. Meanwhile tliereiscau.se for pa triotic congratulation that these two political parties are evenly di vided, so that each is entirely able to watch the other and exercise powerful control over the follies and blunders of its antagonist. Toombs on the result. After wavering between hope and fear, victory and defeat for four long restless days, our people took courage and determined to cele brute the election of Cleveland and Hendricks in a wild burst ofenthu siasm last Saturday night. The crowd formed in line on the public square, with banners and lanterns to march to the residence of Goner al Robert Toombs. With respectful silence the crowd filed through the gate leading to the brilliantly lighted residence of General Toombs, and formed ii front, presenting from the front porch a great sea of faces The fir.«t call was for “Toombs. Toombs, Toombs.” The fond mem ories of such occasions as these nerved up the feeble form, and this noblest Roman of them all, with steady step and bared heard, walk ed out to the head of the steps that lead up to the porch, and once more addresssed his fellow-citizens. His voice trembled with emotion as he said: “It lias been long years since I have had the opportunity of re joicing with my people in such victory as this.” He thanked God that he had lived to see the day when honesty in the administra tion of national affairs had once more gained the ascendency, that he believed that now this needles burdensome taxation of the people would cease. That the policy of the republican party had been to extort enormous sums of money from the people, divert it from its natural channels in trade and pile it up in the vaults of the treasury, when the government did not need it, simply that the men in power might steal it by all manner of jobs. That the fact that Blaine had fol lowed this policy was what had now brought him to grief. That the honest men of the republican party had turned their backs upon suchjmen as Blaine and to them we are in a large measure indebted for the election of Cleveland and Hen dricks. General Toombs spoke very feelingly of the old county in which he was born, where he has always lived, and whose bosom would re ceive his dust. He said this was likely the last public speech he should ever make, and heartily thanking the people who had al ways stood by him, he bade them a fond farewell. His heart seemed to overflow with gratification' that the time and circumstances should have brought about such an occa sion. General Toombs was followed by Hon. Sam Barnett and Hon. Wm. M. Reese. The greatest enthusiasm pervad ed the occasion and the speakers were continually applauded to the echo. It was proposed that upon the threshold of the home of Gener al Toombs three cheers and a tiger be given to the independent repub licans of the north who had so ma terially aided in achieving this great victory. The general most heartily assenting, the cheering was loud and prolonged. The crowd was then invited into the dining room to take wine at the hospitable board of General Robert Toombs.—Washington Gazette. be .seen which faction will most en joy the favor of the new chiefs who are now to take control. Under The Way to do it. A great deal has been said about our farmers raising their meat. That it pays to do so has been de monstrated by Mr. W. S. Askew, one of our most thrifty and enter prising farmers. He has raised this year about sixty hogs, and has this season soid 44 head, 36 of which were sold in this market this week. He realized nearly three hundred dollars for them. The cost of those sold he does not think is more than seventy-five dollars making a clean profit of more than two hundred dollars. Besides this he has a suffi cient number in his pen, waiting for the cold weather, which will be more than sufficient to run him for another year, and which have not costhimupto the present more than twenty-five dollars.' What one man can do, all can do, and then our farmers would be the most independent class on k earth.—Cowe ta Advertiser. The Free Pass System. A correspondent of the Railway Age calls attention to the striking contrast between the free pass sys tem in Great Britain and the Uni ted States. In Great Britain very few free passes are issued and com paratively few people think they are entitled to them. Members of Parliament never ask for them,and are never furnished with them. No class of public officials get them. Even large shippers of freight are not provided with them. They are supposed to get the value of their money in the transportation of their freight. Railway officials, those occupying high positions, inter change courtesies in the way of free passes, but only half fare tick ets are granted to their wives. Even stockholders are furnished free passes only once a year to at tend their annual meetiflgs. In this country free passes are the rule rather than the exception. About everybody who has been honored with a public office thinks that he has a right to a free pass, and rail way companies feel, that for the protection of their interest, they must give free transportation to members of congress and state leg islatures. The number of those having no shadow of claims on rail roads who ask for free passes is re markably large. Of course the legislature or the judge who receives favors from railroads cannot act with the same freedom in matters relating to cor porations from which he received favors as he could if he were under no obligation to them. He may be honest and mean to do his whole duty, but, unconsciously almost, he will be influenced by the free pass. The system is a drain on the re sources of the railroad companies and injurious to public interests. The free pass is’not exactly a bribe but it has much the same effect as a bribe. A legislator who travels about the country free of expense is much more likely to look out for the interest of the railroad compa nies than a'legislator who pays his own expenses. This the railroad companies know, and they are very free, therefore, in favoring those ■/ho can aid them. It would be very interesting to know how ma ny members of congress there are who would not only accept them but actually demand them. Many of them not only travel at the ex pense of the railroads, but they do all their telegraphing free of charge. No doubt the great majority of people are satisfied that the free- pass system is bad and would like to see it abolished, or at least so re stricted that it would be deprived of many of its worst features. How to reform the system, however, and confine it to healthy limits, is one of the questions the railroads have not yet undertaken to solve. Buy to Keep not to sell. Mr. Bonner, the Ledger man, is not a selling man in any sense, says a newspaper correspondent speak ing of the editor’s purchase of Maud S. Pretty much everything he buys is bought to keep. All the fast hor ses lie has bought, and which still live, remain in his possession. When he makes an investment in that line, or any other, it is permanent. He has had many opportunities to sell the Ledger, at an almost fab ulous price, but he would not even consider the question of selling. He takes a pride in the paper and a pleasure in conducting it, and he intends to keep full charge of it while he lives. He lias also had scores of offers for the block of ground he owns on Fifth a venue, just below Central Park, but that he has also thus far refused to sell. The lots are said to have cost him about $10,000 each, and each is now worth $50,000 or $60,000. The plot is the only one on the avenue below the park, that remains unimprov ed. It is now getting on to thirty years since Mr. Bonner took hold of the Ledger and began making his fortune. The Ledger when he purchased it was a cheap sort of business paper, with a very small local circulation. He had already made some money, and he sunk the most of it in putting the new Ledger on its legs. His enormous advertising and his payment of $100 a column to Fanny Fern (who is now nearly forgotten) for special ar ticles, were the talk and wonder of the time. Some said he was rush ing to ruin, but he Was confident from the first that his plan would pay, and it certainly did. I have never seen an estimate of Mr. Bon- ners’s actual wealth, but it runs well into the millions at all events. And not many years before he took the Ledger in hand he landed as a friendless youth from Ireland, with almost empty pockets. The well broken saddle horse of Kentucky has five different gaits. From the Atlanta Journal. Conscience in Politics. Neither the Republican nor the Democratic party has any property right in a voter, says the Nashville Banner. One of the best signs of the times is the growing indepen dence should be encouraged. The spirit of independence of voters in both of the old parties. This spirit of independence should be en couraged. The strength of the par ty hold upon the voter should be only in proportion to its claim up on an intelligent, sincere and hon est support of the principles it maintains. There should be an in dependent element in both parties strong enough to be able to check each party in any wrongful course it may pursue. “When the party is prostituted to the selfish uses of politicians.” says our contemporary, h “or loses ight of the high principles upon which it was founded, it should be curbed, rebuked, and, if necessa ry, defeated, through the efforts of its own independent and conscien tious membership.” The experience of the campaign just past proves the correctness and eternal truth of the proposition as stated by the Banner. Itw’as the application of this principle which defeated the Republican party. Ev ery party sows the seed of inevita ble dissolution within itself when ever it departs from the paths of rectitude. It cannot sin rgainst the laws of God and man and hope to escape the penalty. Public opinion moves slowly but surely. The sense of right can be blinded for a time, but the darkness is transitory. The light will prevail. A newly discovered cave in Mer cer county Ky., has been explored for three miles without the end be- in^ reached. Milton Democrat: On last Tues day, being at Gainesville, we ob tained leave of Sheriff Gaines and visited the cell of Eugene W. Beck, the murderer of Clayton.- We found him in good health. He ex pressed himself pleased at our com ing to see him, and asked after the people of this county. It will be er- membered that he was a citizen of this county until one year ago. He asked what the people thought of his case and conduct. We told him that they w r ere surprised, grieved and outraged in their feelings, and asked him to give us an account of the terrible tragedy. He gave us substantially the following state ment: “I am here in jail without sympathy, and have committed the worst crime ever committed in Georgia. I have killed the best friend I ever had—my wife—and an inoffensive, good girl who had never done me any injury, and I ought to and will suffer death for it.” We asked him if he remem bered the killing, and if he had con templated it. He said: “I never had comtemplated killing them or even harming a hair of their heads, and if I had ten thousand worlds I would give them all to restore them to life. I have a vague recollec- tien that is like a horrible dream of shooting at something, but did not then think it was human beings that I was killing. It was two days after the deed before I could fully realize the enormity of its charac ter. I had delirium trements. I had been drinking hard for four weeks, but had stopped that morn ing, and in consequence took tre mens. There was no cause for my act.” We asked hiqi what his fu ture hope was. He said: “I have no hopes save in the mercy of God. I am praying to him every hour, and I want all the good people of Milton county to pray for me. I shall nbt trouble the courts to try me. I shall tell them as I have told you, that I am guilty and deserve death. I would not live if I could. Tell the young men that read your paper, that I requested you to say that I am here in jail for the most horrible murder ever committed, and that there was no cause for it but whisky, and for them to let it alone before it ruins them as it has me.” He said that he was afraid that Dr. Bailey and his wife could not survive the shock, but that he was praying for them. We left him, believing that we had seen the most wretched man living. San Antonia is the market in the South. largest hog Texas furnishes over half the beef of the United States. The area of coal lands in Texas is sti mated at twenty thousand iuare miles. The Old Man who has not Shavod Since i860 Turns Up—A Chain for Cleve- . land. A tall, broad-shouldered man, of apparently 55 years, says the New York Telegramfof Monday, walked into Hinder’s Seventh street bar- hershop in Philadelphia this morn ing and seated himself in a chair. A heavy black beard covered his face, and his shirt front, and was finally lost to sight within the ca pacious recesses of his waist coat. “Hair cut sir?” said the barber as he began to tuck a towel around the collar of his customer, prelimi nary to picking up his shears. The old man, who had been busy with his beard during this interval, now exposed it to the astonished gaze of the shopmen.. It reached three inch es below his knees when it was^un- coiled. He replied: “No, but”—here he glanced around the shop with a triumphant smile—“I want this beard taken off clean.” Apparent ly seeing that some explanation would be welcome to the astonished gathering of barbers and customers the old man said in tones that showed the emotion stirring within him: “For twenty-four years no razor has touched my face.” said the man. “This beard is the result. It was in 1860. I was as spruce a young chap as ever kicked up his heels at a wedding, - and everybody knew young" Joe Barstow in those parts. They called me “young Joe” to make a difference between the old man and me. The old man was a Bourbon Democrat to the backbone and I was with him till the split in the 1860 convention, when the Southerners put up John C. Breck- enridge and we—the North—nomi nated Stephen A. Douglas. The old man went in for Breckenridge. I felt strong on the suejectand work ed for Douglas day and night. I used to be very smart in my appear ance in those days, but I worked so hard I had no time for primping up. One night I made a speech at a meeting in the old Turnpike tav ern. I had a week’s growth of stubble on my face, and before I had spoken a dozen words some lout sang out, “Go get a shave.”,. Ev erybody laughed as they looked at me. “Get a shave?”says I; “no ra zor touches my face until I see a Democratic President in the White House. I have kept my word. Take it off and roll it up carefully in a piece of paper, barber, for I am going to send President Cleveland a chain made out of it.” President Cleveland Interviewed. Washington, November 19—The editor of the Capital, of this city, who has just paid a brief visit to President Cleveland at Albany, writes: “I naturally fell to talking witlk the Governor about Washington and asked him if it could possibly be true, as reported, that ho had never visited the capital. He re plied that there was no truth intklf statement, as he had been inWaal^- ington two or three times on busi ness, although never, of course, since he became Governor of New York. He said he had come to no decision as to when he would giro up his present office and prepare to go to Washington, but I learned af terwards that, in order to give his successor in office the fullest advan tage, he would probably resign the . Governorship by the 1st of January This would leave him two ft* months in which to devote his f* tention to the organization of W* cabinet and the administratis national affairs. I remarked the Governor that his election hadVe®* 1 followed by something like a pfc n * c among the minor employees of the government at Washingt^p are supposed to hold their ? 18 ^ * accordance with the new Cr P** c " vice relations,and I inquired whether it might not be \ while for him to indicate somr if that were his purpose, tha* spirit of the Civil Service re^* tion would be adhered to after 1st of March next. To this the dl* ernor briskly replied: 2 > “I think I have said enough on that subject. It is in my letter. Ill in the platform. There is no n? trying to beat brains into peopl heads. Let them attend to the own business—let them attend their own business,’ he said repeat ing the words in a very decided manner, and with a gesture of the head that indicated more than the tone in which he spoke. In conver sation the Governor speaks with e good deal of animation, and the strongest impression one gets ftoro him is of great firmness and force in adhering to a course once it ill adopted. One would say, “Here ie * man surely who can not be djlven, but who will do the driving himself r whenever it be necessary.” Onb might ask a good /deal of such e man, but to demand, I should think would be a losing business.” /' t" From the Marshal Messenger. A Norther. An old Texan being asked by a stranger to describe a norther, said: “I’ll tell you what it is, stranger; a norther puts in the quickest work of anything you ever saw. You see that lake down there (pointing to a beautiful lake about a mile dis tant), last spring, in the latter part of March, I was fishing in the after noon, the sun was shining, and it was as warm, almost as the middle of summer. The fish was jumping up all over the lake, and they were biting splendidly. A shade came suddenly over the lake and I thought I smelt a strange smell that often precedes a norther. I immediately turned away from the lake and looked toward the north west, and I saw a small dark cloud passing like lightning and knew I mnst hurry home. After looking a short time at the cloud I turned and looked at the lake, when, to my as tonishment the lake was frozen ov er and many fish were lying on top of the ice. The fish had jumped up and the lake had frozen over so quick they could not get back. Stranger, maybe you think that is stretching things a little, but I’ll tell you a norther can beat any thing, but lightning and it can hur ry that up mightily.” Macon Telegraph: Politicians pay dearly for their success. The wear and tear upon minds that lead In great political struggles cannot be estimated. Y T ictory sus tains some. Defeat is fatal to many. There comes a time in the lives of all prominent politicians when the reaction fails to take place. The po litical campaigns, the fierce strug gles over vital issues, the frantic en deavors to stimulate lot energies artificially, have strewn our shores with frightful wrecks. Some there are so constituted, as to longer re sist the evils of political life, but ninety-nine out of every hundred young men, in the land will find greater peace and happiness in bus iness spheres. J efferson’s Ten Rules. Thomas Jefferson’s ten rules, any* a correspondent, are worth repro ducing for the benefit of the rising generation. They are: j j- 1. Never put off till to-morrow i j . what you can do to-day. .__At , ■ /: 2. Never trouble others for what you'ean do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap. 5. Pride costs us more than hun ger, thirst, or cold. 6. We never repent of having eat en too little. 7. Nothing is troublesome that wa do willingly. 8. How much pain have those evils cost us w hich never happen ed? 9. Take things always by their smooth handles. 10. When angry, count ten before yon speak; w r hen very angry, connt a hundred. “Never throw away dirty water till you are clean” is a proverb that has kept many a man in good plaee when he wanted to find a better and could not. Scores of men beeome discontented with their situation, and for a time they regard it as impossible for them to stay where they are. What is unpleasant is magnified into an intolerable troub le. In an hour of weakness they re sign their situation. And then they find that it is far more difficult to get anyplace when they are ont of employment than to get a better place when they are in one al ready. The fall is the best time to deep en and clean open ditches. The grass and weeds that grow on their sides should be all removed so as to leave a free course of water. Espe cially if willow's have got a foothold on the banks they should be pulled up by the roots. It is impossible to keep an open ditch in good working condition where its banks are in fested by willows. In dealing With neighbors and hired help it is good policy to be liberal rather than narrow or cIom. A farmer who is accustomed to bo always making hard bargains soon { jains this reputation and often oses sale for articles do not like to deal