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That Trick Didn’t Work.
During the latter part of May, Con
ductor L. M. Turner, of the Rome
Express, reached Cartersville one morn
ing and took aboard about four hun
dred colored people who were going
down to Emerson, five miles distant,
on a picnic excursion.
Mr. Turner was advised that a num
ber of these had gotten on the train
without tickets, no doubt relying on
the fact that he would, within the ten
minutes allowed from Cartersville to
Emerson, be unable to reach them,
and they would thus get their ride free.
But having some experience in the
business, he concluded that he would
call the turn on t e olored “brethren”
and “sistei’n,” which would protect the
revenue of the company if it accom
plished no other result. Consequently,
having instructed his engineer, when
the train reached the bridge over the
Etowah River, about three quarters of
a mile below, it stopped upon the
bridge and stood there for about ten
minutes, until Conductor Turner and
his baggage-master and train-hand went
through the entire train and took up
all the tickets, and collected forty-nine
cash fares from those who had gotten
on without tickets.
An amusing circumstance occurred
at the very end of this proceeding.
The conductor had gotten to the rear
platform of the last car and collected
the tickets and fare from several
darkeys who were crowded thereon,
and started back into the car; but
happened to catch sight of some one’s
hat down under the steps. Supposing
that some one was crouching there,
he came out again just in time to bear
a darkey who was climbing upon the
steps. Again, remark,
“Didn’t I beat dat conductor good ?”
“Ticket, sir, let me have your ticket,”
said Conductor Turner, shoving his
hand out, and the darkey had to poney
up and receive the laugh which was
thoroughly upon him.
On the Apex.
The passenger receipts of the West
ern & Atlantic Railroad for the first
three weeks in May, just past, were
greater than for the same period in
any May (except one) since the road
was leased. This shows that its cheap
passenger fares are bearing their ex
pected fruits and also that the passen
ger department, like its other depart
ments, is splendidly handled.
Black Beauty,
His Grooms and Companions, is the
title of a story occupying 245 pages of
aneatb>ok, published by the Amer
ican Humane Education Society, 19
Milk Street, Boston. Black Beauty s
a horse and tells his own story of joys,
sorrows and thrilling adventures
The book is a delightful one —intense-
ly inter..sting —and carries with it the
heavenly lesson of humanity. Sent
postage paid for 20 cents. Address
George T. Angell, Brest., 19 Milk St.,
Boston, Mass.
The W. & A. gets there on time.
Maier & Berkele, 93 Whitehall St.,
Atlanta have spectacles and eye glasses
fitted to customers by an expert opti
cian. Preserve your eyes by getting
good glasses of Maier & Berkele, prop
erly fitted.
“Little Switzerland,” adjoining
Grant’s Park. Atlanta, is the favorite
resort for ladies and gentlemen who en
joy lovely scenery, beautifully orna
mented grounds, shady bowers, deli
cious refreshments, bowling, boating
and other amusements. This quiet,
cool, delightful resort attracts great
numbers of visitors who desire a rest
from the turmoil, heat and dust of the
city-
“The Dresden,” corner of Pryor and
Decatur streets, Atlanta, opposite
Kimball House, is the leading China
house of the city. It is a treat to walk
through this big establishment and
view the exquiste articles there display
ed, in china, glass, silver, bronze and
aluminum. At “The Dresden” you
can buy at bottom prices anything in
the china, glass or crockery line, or
anything kept in such an establisment,
from a common coffee cup to the most
magnificent articles manufactured.
A distinguished gentleman in New
York City writes as follows to Mr.
Brown a out his novel, “Kennesaw’s
Bombardment”:
“I find your Kennesaw story quite
realistic. You could hardly have been
there, but it reads like personal ex
perience.”
Watermelon Freight.
Railroad Conference Decides to Keep the
Low Rate.
Louisville, Ky., May 9.—There
was a conference here to-day between
the Southern Railway and Steamship
Association and the Louisville & Nash
ville and the Nashville, Chattanooga
& St. Louis railroads and other roads,
to establish watermelon rates for the
coming season.
It was agreed to give the melon
growers the same rates on melons this
year as they had last, which was eight
mills per ton per mile, to the Ohio
River, both for points on the river
and for points beyond.
This news will no doubt put the
melon growers of the South in a good
humor, as it is a low rate and cannot
but prove satisfactory to them.
A few years back the melon indus
try suffered for lack of a sufficient
number of ventilated fruit cars. Now
they have an abundance. They also
had to pay higher rates of freight two
years ago than they will have to pay
this year.
This, together with the information
and assistance in regard to markets,
rates, population of towns, etc., fur
nished them by the railroads, and the
better knowledge that shippers now
have of the business, should enable
them to market this year’s crop more
profitably than any crop in the past.
A Mark of Growth.
There is a boom of building mark
ing every quar er of Dalton, Ga., from
the palatial new residences to the neat
and cozy cottages of lesser pretentions,
and the plans of all show a decided
improvement in architecture. The
building now in sight in Dalton sur
passes any five years of its previous
history.— Citizen.
The W. & A. is the quickest.
THE KENNESAW GAZETTE.
Tin Mine.
Rich Deposit of Valuable Ore in Georgia.
Atlanta, Ga., May 9, —Rich and
plentiful deposits of tin and silver have
just been discovered in Cherokee coun
ty, east of Canton, just forty miles
from Atlanta. The tin ore, as does
the silver, assays very rich.
One of the tin veins is forty feet wide
and has been tested in several places
to a depth of nine feet, and in every
instance is found to be very rich and
practically exhaustless.
This is the only instance of the dis
covery of tin ore in paying quantities
in the United States. Our tin comes
principally from Cornwall, England,
and none is mined in this country.
So scarce and valuable are tin mines
in this country that the United States
Government has offered a large reward
for the discovery of the ore in paying
quantities.
This reward has never yet been
claimed, but the discoverers of the Cher
okee deposits will immediately forward
proof of their valuable find to the
Washington authorities and ask the
reward.
The find is better than a gold mine,
and will be worked for all it is worth.
A stock company will be formed to
work the mines. The lands on which
the deposits were found belong to Mr.
J. S. Thrasher of Chattanooga, Mr. J.
T. McLendon of Atlanta and Judge
J. D. Cunningham, also of this city.
That the find is everything that is
claimed for it, and that it will prove of
incalculable benefit to this city and sec
tion, is confidently predicted by Mr.
Thrasher, who is in Atlanta today on
business in connection with the mine.
Running parallel with the largest tin
vein is a silver vein of vast richness.
It is ten feet wide and has assayed
splendidly.
There are also other veins and out
croppings of tin and silver on perhaps
the same lead about five miles west of
the above mentioned property, near
Fort Buffington, which is also thought
to be very rich and in abundance.
Mr. Thrasher, a man of much expe
rience and of extensive informatin on
such subjects, says he has undoubtedly
struck it rich, and says further that
Cherokee county is richer in all kinds
of ores than any spot in the United
States.
Civil Rights.
Important Decision by a United States
Court. It Decides That a Colored
Man Made a Mistake.
Baltimore, Md., May 3.—ln the
U. S. Circuit Court yestereay Judge
Bond filed an interesting opinion in
the case of Robert A. McGinn against
Georgianna Williams and others on
appeal from the district court, affirm
ing the decision of Judge Morris, and
dismissing the bill. The facts in the
case are these: In July, 1887, the
libellant, a colored man, purchased a
first-class ticket fora passage from Bal
timore to Millbrook, Va., on board the
steamer Mason L. Weems, which be
longed to the defendants. 'The court
says: “There were provided in the
same saloon two tables of equal spread,
with the same food and like attendance.
The appellant was required to sit at
one, where other colored persons were
to be accommodated, but refused to sit
with his people and insisted upon sit
ting at a different table. The steam
boat company made a separation but
no distinction between passengers, ami
the appellant, by his conduct, appears
to have been the only person on board
who did so, or laid any affront on the
colored passengers by refusing to sit
with them. The libel ought to have
been dismissed, as was done, and the
appeal will be dismissed likewise with
costs.”
Psalm cxix.
This psalm containeth sundry prayers, praises,
and professions of obedience.
RESH.
153 Consider mine affliction, and deliver
me: for I do not forget thy law.
154 Plead my cause, and deliver me:
quicken me according to thy word.
155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for
they seek not thy statutes.
156 Great are thy tender mercies, O Lord :
quicken me according to thy judgments.
157 Many are my persecutors and mine
enemies: yet do I not decline from thy testi
monies.
158 I beheld the transgressors, and was
grieved; because they kept not thy word.
15!) Consider how I love thy precepts:
quicken me according to thy loving kind
ness.
160 Thy word is true from the beginning:
and every one of thy righteous judgments
endureth forever.
A Historic Speech.
Stinging Words With Which Cromwell
Turned Parliament Out.
The speech with which Oliver Crom
well turned parliament out of doors in
1653 has come to light through the
researches of Dr. Wolfgang Michael,
and there is evidence that it is authen
tic. It was this: “It is high time for
me to put an end to your sitting in
this place, which ye have dishonored
by your contempt of all virtue, and
defiled by your practice of every vice.
Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to
all good government. Ye are a pack
of mercenary wretches, and would —
like Esau —sell your country for a
mess of pottage, and —like Judas —
betray your God for a few pieces of
money. Is there a single virtue now
remaining among you ? Is there one
of vice ye do not possess ? Ye have
no more religion than my horse.
Gold is your god. Which of you
have not bartered away your con
science for bribes 1 Is there a man
among you who hath the least care
for the good of the commonwealth ?
Ye sordid prostitutes! have ye not
defiled this sacred place, and turned
the Lord’s temple into a den of
thieves? By your immoral principles
and wicked practices ye are grown
intolerably odious to the whole nation.
You, who were deputed here by
the people to get their grievances
redressed, are yourselves become their
greatest grievance. Your country,
therefore, calls upon me to cleanse
this Augean stable by putting a final
period to your iniquitous proceedings
in this house, and which, by God’s
help and the strength He hath given
me, lam now come to do. I com
mand you, therefore, upon peril of
your lives, to depart immediately out
of this place. Go! Get you out!
Make baste! Ye venal slaves, be
gone ! Sob ! Take away that shining
bauble there and lock up the door.”
The above would indicate that “the
good old times” that some people talk
about, have conferred their greatest
blessing upon the world by being past.
We believe this is the best period of
the world’s history ; but at the same
time we must admit that the control
ling powers in the American House of
Representatives of the present day
remind us to some extent of the pic
ture Cromwell’s words drew of his
parliament.
“Are you going?”
“Well, I should smile.”
“By what route?”
“By the W. & A., of course; if not
I couldn’t smile.”