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2 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.”