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THE CHATTOOGA NEWS. VOL. 2. PROFESSIONAL cards, ge martin, m? D., Physician and Surgeon, Taliaiurro, .... Ga. Residence at J. N. Taliaferro’s. Physician and Surgeon, SUMMERVILLE, G-.Zv. Dr. F. E“Held DENTIST, Will visit Chattooga county frequent ly. Those wishing his services will please write to him at Summerville. CLOVIS D. RIVERS, Attorney-at-Law, Summerville, - Ga. Ollers his t professional services to the .citizens of Chattooga ami surrounding comities. By close attention to whatever business may be entrusted to him, he hopes to merit public confidence. _ W. M. HENRY,“ Attorney-at-Law, Summerville - - - Georgia. W. COPRLAND, JESSE G. HUNT . LaFavetto, Ga. Summerville, Ga. COPELAND & HUNT, Lawyers; Summerville and La Fayette, Georgia. Prompt attention to all legal bosincss. ollecting claims a Specialty. WESLEY SHROPSHIRE Attorney-at-Law, Summerville • - - Georgia. J. M. BELLA! Lawyer; Summerville - - - Georgia JOHN TAYLOR. J. D. TAYLOR. TAYLOR & TAYLOR, Lawyp r s; Suukmcrville - Georgia f Wl BURNEY, 'f- CON PKACTOK AND BUILDER J Ori’icu: Adams’ Block, East Sth St., (Second Floor) CHATTANOOGA - - TENN. ■Work promptly executed. WES T REW, The Barber JHRBLE FRONT 2 DOORS BELOW E. W. STURDIVANT A CO. New Shop, New Razors, and everything connected with a first-class barbershop. Call in. Church Directory. BAPTIST —RNV. D. T. ESPY. Summerville- First Sunday and even ing and Saturday also third Sun day evening. Sardis Second Sunday and Saturday before. Pleasant Grove Third Sunday and Saturday before Mount Harmony Fourth Sunday and Saturday before. BAPTIST BBV. .1. M. SMITH. Raccoon Mill-First Sabbath in each month at 11 o’clock Perennial Springs - Third Sabbath and Saturday before. Melville Fourth Sabbath and Saturday before at 2:30 p. m. o METHODIST REV. T. H. TIMMONS, oak Hill First Saturday and Sunday. Anti Second Saturday and Sunday; also Fifth Sunday evening .Broom town-Second Sunday evening, and Fifth Sunday morning South Caro lina Third Saturday and Sunday Summerville -Fourth Sunday and night. riIESBYTERIAN KEV. W. A. MILNER. Trion Everv first and fifth Sabbath. .Summerville Every second Sab bath Alpine Every third and fourth Sabbath. PRES|:YT!-:JU an REV. T. S. JOHNSTON. 'Walnut Grove First Sabbath Sil ver (’rock, Floyd County Sceomi Sab bath .Beersheba ’l'hird Sabbath... J,a Fayette Fourth Sabbath. Court Directory. SUPERIOR COURT. First Monday in March ami Septem ber. John W.‘ Maddox, Judge; G. 1). Hollis, Clerk ; C. C. Clements, Solicitor- Gem ral; J. N. Kikor, Stenographer. CHfNTY COURT. Monthly terms, second Monday; <m::rterlv terms, first Monday in Jan me. v, April, July, and October. J. M. Pcllah, Judge; G. D. Hollis, Clerk. justices’ (■<);• kt. Summerville (925th district),John 'Tay lor, N. I’., ami J. J. ]’. Henry, J. P. Court-3rd I'riday. Lawful Constables: D. A. Criimly and E..C. Smith. Trion (N7()th district), T. J. Simmons. N. I’., ami N. IL Coker, J. P. Court 3rd Saturday. Last return day Friday be fore the first Saturday. Lawful Consta bles: IL P. Williams? Teloga (927th district). W. F. 'Tapp, N. P., and A. Johnston, J. P. Court Ist Friday. Lawful Constables: George AV. Carroll. Alpine 9'Sth district), J. E. Burns, N. P. Court 4th Saturday. Lawful Consta bles: S. M, Baker. Dirtsellar (121(>th district), J. L. Huie, N. P.,ar.d Hugh Richardson, J. P. Court 4th Saturday. Lawful Constables: John M. Rose. . Seminole (;K‘.Lst district,) A. J. Hender son, N. I’., and E. C. Adams, J. P. Court 3rd Saturday. Lawful Constables: Jos. Glenn and F. P. Bagland. Coin water (UK'rd district), D. B. Franklin. N. P., and W. T. II rmlon, J. P. Court ist Saturday. Lawful Consta bles: N.J. E<i wards, and M. W. Bryant. Dirttown LH'Hh district),Al. M. Wright N. P., and J. P. Johnson. J. P. Court 2nd Saturday. Lawful Constables: C. M. M. Herndon. Haywood (13S2nd district), N. A. Jaek son, N. P., and L. S. Scogin. J. P. Court 4th Saturday. Lawful Constables: R. C. Sanders and J. J. Barbour. Sirbligna (962nd district ), G. R. Ponder, N. P., and J. P. Jackson, J. P. Court Ist Saturday. Lawful Const, lies: J. M . Coats, RELIGIOUS. Courant-American.] An internatianal convention of the Young Men’s Christian Asso ciaton met at Stockholm, Sweden, recently. There were in the conven tion representatives from nearly ev ery civilized country 38,000 associ ations. There are about 800 Asso ciations in America, an increase of about 50 per cent, within the past four years. The twelve thousand itinerant ministers in the Methodist Episco pal church are said to have contrib uted, last year, SIOO,OOO of the mis sionary money paid in—or one tenth of the whole million received. This is an average of $8.33 each. At the same rate the more than two millions of lay members of the church would have contributed about $17,000,000 missionary money The Southern Presbyterian sta tistics are just out and they show: The total communicants reported stand now at 156,249 as against 150,308 last year The churches number 2,280, aii increase of 11 du ring 1887-’BB. The ministers num ber 1,129, an increase of 13. In the Sunday Schools there arc 101,700 scholars, against 98,806 last year. The total receipts for 1888 for all purposes were $1,463,478 as against $1,415,318 in 1887. In Memory. Mrs. Mary I’. Holcombe, mother of Edward Holcombe, departed this life at the residence of her brother, Wm. Gilliland, near New Moon, Ala., on Aug. 26th, 1888, age 55 years. She was buried by the side of her husband, Thos. Holcombe, at Oak Hill, Ga. The devotional services were conducted by Mr.,R. W. Jones an honored member of the Method ist church at Oak Hill. Mr. Jones made very sympathetic and appro priate remarks. The Sabbath school sang several appropriate songs, and manifested goodness of heart by their sympa thetic manners, which was much aj - predated by the bereaved. Mrs. Holcombe was an exemplary mem ber of the Methodist church, and had been for the most of her life. She had no enemies, but had a host of devoted friends. Those who knew her best, loved her most. A week or more before she died she sent and bought such clothing as she desired for her burial and also her coffin. How quietlj' she met death I “Though she walked through the valley of the shadow of death,” knowingly, “she feared no evil.” She told those who wait ed on her in taking the measure for her coffin, etc., that it was pleasant for her. Though she is dead she yet speak eth—her words do follow her. Her faithfulness, her virtue, kindness, patience and deeds of charity, we cannot .forget,yes, we would imitate her, and.will not forget her as long as life endures. For her to die is gain, and we sorrow not for her as those who have no hope, what need is there of 'sorrow? She’s at rest—sweet rest. Her spirit returned to Him who gave ,it. It has borne the image of the earthly and will also bear the image of the heavenly—sower in weakness —reaper in power. Let’s imitate her by walking in that straight and narrow road in which life is worth living. Beyond this vale of tears, There is » life above, Unmeasured by the flight of years, And all that life is love, A Friend. Skepticism. By reason of the state of chronic incredulity in which many men pass | titeir lives they miss half the good' of this world. They seem to think ; that doubt and unbelief are proofs of wisdom, and through fear of be ing deceived reject much that is true and good. To such minds the statement that Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery is a real and proven cure for all diseases caused by torpid liver, bad blood or scrof ulous humors carries with it its own condemnation. They do not believe it apparently because we say so; and yet what more, or less than this can we do? We know the facts, and if we did not make public the great value of this reme dy few would profit by it. NV e try to do our duty in the matter and it remains for the doubter who needs help to overcome his prejudice and give it a trial. SSOO reward for an incurable case < f chronic Nasal Catarrh offeieu by the manufacturers of Dr, Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 20, 1888 Atlanta’s Owl. The courthouse owl is back ! The owl is a curiosity. Every year about the latter part of Au gust, or as late sometimes as the latter part of September, the owl appears in the steeple at the court house. It stays here three weeks ' or a month usually, and then disap- ■ pears as mysteriously as it came. ■ The owl is an immense bird. No • body knows where it comes from or goes to, or why it is so peculiarly punctual in its yearly visits to the courthouse steeple. The owl has been coming for at least nine years. He leaves his perch in the steeple about one o’clock in the morning usually, and returns about four. His usual course is straight over the tops of the trees and on down Pryor street. If there are any chicken or pigeon ■ roosts that suffer on Pryor street the owl may know something about it. He lias never been “caught” at a roost, though, and the policemen say they never saw him coining back with a chicken in his mouth. Altogether, the courthouse owl is a mystery.—Atlanta Constitution. Miss.Margate! Fennical, of Car lisle, Pa., died last week, aged 54 wars. She was the smallest woman in the w irld, being only 31 inches high. Chattooga county ought to cap ture the $i,009 prize at the North Georgia and Alabama Exhibition. A high-toned saloon in New York is enlivened by the chirping of nearly fifty canary birds. Fijians use words to denote physicians, which, when translated, signify “carpenters of death.” A 6-month-okl calf in Tennessee gives a quart of milk daily that makes about.two ounces of beauti ' ful golden butter. Mount Hood was lighted up by a I blaze of red fire on its summit on July 4, and the illumination was seen a distance of 90 miles. In China there arc over 400 spe cies of plants used for food and in the world probably ten times that number. Sawdust in Sweden is used in bread and found digestible. A cat belonging to Thomas Mcllrath of Barre, Wis., gave birth some time ago to a quartet of kit tens that were all joined together by ligaments passing through the middle of their bodies. The flannel shirt, which is ear nestly struggling to assert itself as an article of fashionable wear, was the subject of similar polite ef fort some thirty years ago. Just be fore the war a craze prevailed a niong New York business men for wearing the flannel shirt. It came with all the cyclonic force of a rol ler skating rage and died out as suddenly. The Way to Write Locals. “Mr.Williain Watkins was in town yesterday and presented this office a large pumkin,” wrote the new re porter on one of tfie Springfield i dailies. “Nonsense!” exclaimed the managing editor to whom the item was shown. It is stupid nonsese— write it this way and be guided ac cordingly in' the future:—Uncle Billy Watkins one of the leading farmers citizens of (’ass township, I arrived in the city yesterday in his substantial two-horse vehicle. He I was accompanycd by his hansome wife and two beautiful accomplished daughters, Mary Jane and Polly Ann. Uncle Billy, according to an iramemoriable custom, visited our santum whore he entertained us for nearly an hour with his inteligent view on pi ogress of agriculture in the South west. Uncle Billy before leaving laid upon the table of ye hungry editor the finest pumkin that has gladdened our eyes for lo! these many years. Our wife cooked it this morning and we enjoyed it most hugely. There is-enough of it to last a week. We hope Uncle Billy will call each week as we are always proud to greet bis jovial inteligent face. Uncle Billy wa§ one of the first subscriber to the Blow-Out. Thanks, Uncle Billy, call again. There, said the editor, as he stuck the item on the hook. “Thats ac cording to the most approved meth ods of journalism. I see you have ; much to learn yet. young n an.”«— Springfield Hornet ABOUT RAILWAYS. Twenty Questions Propounded and Answered. 1. How many miles of railway in the United States? About 156.000 miles; half the mileage of the world. 2. How much have they cost? Over $9,000,000,000. 3. How many people are employ ed by them. More than 1,000,000. 4. What is the fastest time made by a train? Ninety-two miles in ninety-three minutes, one mile being made m forty-six seconds, on the Philadel phia and Reading road. 5. What is the cost of a high class eight-wheel passenger locomotive? About $8,500. 6. What is the longest mileage operated by a single system? Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe system ; about 8,000 miles. 7. What is the cost of a palac sleeping car? About $15,000, or $17,000 if ves tibuled. 8. What is the longest railway span in the United States? Bantilever span, in Poughkeepie bridge, 548 feet. 'J. What is the highest railroad bridge in the United States? . Kinsua Viaduct, on the Erie road 305 feet high. 10. Who built the first locomo tive in the United States? Peter Cooper. 11. What road carries the largest number of passengers? Manhattan elevated railroad,New York; 525,000 a day. 191,625,000 yearly. 12. What is the average daily earning of an American locomotive? About SIOO. What is the longest American rail tunnel? Hoosac Tunnel, on the Fitchburg railway, 4 j miles. I t. Whnt is the.average cost of constructing a mile of railroad? At the present time about $30,- 000. 15. Wli it is the highest railroad in the United States? Denver and Rio Grande, Mar shall Pass, 10,852 feet. 16. What are the chances of fatal accident in railway travel? One killed in one million. Sta tistics show more are killed by fal ling out of windows than in railway accidents. 17. What line of railway extends furthest east and west? Canadian Pacific railway,running from Quebec to the Pacific ocean. 18. How long does a steel rail last with average wear? About eighteen years. 19. What road carries the largest number of commuters? Illinois Central, 4,828,128 in 1887. 20. What is the fastest time made between Jersy City ane San Frirn francisco? Three days, 7 hours, 37 minutes, ami 16 seconds. Special theatrical train, June 1886.—Scribner’s Mag azine. Two This Time. When the surveyors were running the boundary line between North Carolina and South Carolina they Came upon a cabin directly on the proposed line in which lived an old lady. As soon as this lady realized what the surveyors were doing she came out and addressed them thus: “Don’t for goodness sake run your line so I will have to live in North Carolina. I don’t want my house to be on the North Carolina side for that State is so unhealthy.” * * A sailor once fell overboard when his companions hastily low ered a boat and pulled to his res cue. When the crew reached the floating man one of the sailors grabbed him by the arm and began to pull him up. It was a wooden arm, however, and pulled loose. Laying the arm in tee boat the would-be rescuer grabbed one of the floating man’s legs. It was a wooden leg and also pulled loose. Laying it in the boat the rescuer grabbed again and this time caught the floating sailor by the hair. It was av, i : and came loose. By this linie the rescuer was greatly exci ted and throwing the wig in the boat, cried out to bis companions “Boys l-.elp me. We’ll save] as much of his man as we can.” They Wear the Ball and Chain. Mr. Towers, keeper of the Geor gia penetentiary, will issue his biennial report soon, which will con tain the following prison statistics : Number of inmates in the peniten tiary on Aug. Ist, 1,556. Os this 263 are in for life—l7o for murder, 23 for arson, 8 for riot and 2 for beastiality. There are 549 in for burglary, 256 for larceny, 200 for assault, 124 for rape or attempt to rape and 7 for kidnapping. Os the tatol number there are 708 confined for crime against persons and 958 for crimes against property. There are five counties, namely: Murray, Towns, Johnson, Catoosa and Col quitt, which have not a single in mate in-the penetentiary.. Cha tham county furnishes the largest number of inmates, 163, and is fol lowed by Fulton county with 133, Muscogee 55. Bibb 54, Richmond 35 and Floyd 27. These six coun ties furnish 460 of the total, which shows that crime is concentrated to a great extent in the cities. Only 5 per cent, of those discharged are sent back. There are from SQO to 700 discharged each year. There arc only 33 more in the penitentia ry now than there were in 1881. A Sad Mood. The followed extract is from the last issue of the Arizona Kicker: Wednesday evening as we put on our Mother Hubbard and sat down by the open window to get a breath of air before retiring, a sadness sudenly stole over us and in a few ■ minutos we found tears in our eyes. | The query came to us over and over again : ‘ls life worth living?’ and as we thoght of the homestead —the days of boyhood—the many graves—the changes of thirty years —the fountains of the deep were broken up and we wept. Such moods do a man good. They bring him nearer heavens’s gate. We don’t know wheather they came from a disordered liver or the near presence of a guardian angel, but we always feel a heap better afterwards. TVe feel no greed. We feel charity for all. And as the bright beams of the harvest moon steal into our office window and throw a flood of silver light upon the dead ads. on the im posing stone —as the south wind comes sighing around the corner of Jackass Hill and whispes to us the story of houshold graves—as the whip-poor-will wakes from his sweet sleep in the rear of Stevens’ dis reptutable dance house to call to us press onward and upward and be not discouraged, we take down the office towell, wipe the falling tears away, and seek our couch with the determination to secure a pass from here to Omaha and return or make it so hot for the railroads that they will have to keep every tie wet all the year around. Henry V. Perrine, a wealthy and eccentric merchant who died at Dayton, Ohio, recently, hail never drawn a check in his life although engaged in many daily 7 business transactions. He paid all of his bills in cash. A. J. Drake of Palatka, Fla., has a vest of homespun that was worn by his grandfather during the revo lutionary war. It is in an excellent state of prservation, and Mr. Drake frequently wears it on state occas ions. Sir Arthur Sullivan does not look like an inspired musician. He is short and stout, with a low fore head, and short curly hair, black eyes and a square, bulldog chin. Winnie Johnson, colored, who died in Baltimore last week, was the largest woman in the world. She weighed 850 pounds. At Buffalo, N. Y., last week Wil liam Rose, pall-bearer at his uncle’s funeral, fell dead while acting in that capacity. John R. McLean, of the Cincin nati Enquirer, has bought the New Yoik Star of Colli* P. Huntington. Gov. Richardson, of So ith Caro lina, lias been re-nominated for governor by the Democrats. Refute every campaign lie. There are lot s of fools who vote. Thos. Fahy, 258 Broad street - - Rome, Ga. In honorable Rivalry and Strife for supremacy Fahy has distanced the futile followings of Competi tors and now proudly waves to the free breezes his deserved ribbon of Triumph.. Almighty Dollar! There are hundreds of places to spend it; people are continually devising all manner of impropermea’ns to cajole it away from you. Be wary, be chary, be mistrustful and only loosen your grip on the silver ridge rimmed tieasure when you see that for it you are receiving equal value in useful, serviceable stuff. The time has comewhen flagrant spoutings and fallacious newspaper advertisements refuse to be the throttle by which an honest, live, progressive and rushing business can lie successfully conducted. Money may be expended with a profuse prodigality even eclipsing the liberal and excessive measures of a Barnum, but if the attractions heralded fail to fall in view tin house is sure to lose. IVe do no! entice trade by the .glamour ol doubtful and dubious statements. We shall organize no audacious oi illegitimate system to dupe and de lude a gullible public. To ride the high wave of popular favor, to bask in the sunshine of universal confi dence, to enter the sacred pavillion of public trust and repose on tin downy couch of success we shall absolutely abstain from all preca rious promises. Never shall w< forget the primal principles that should bo employed to develop trade. We shall establish a system based on a serious and honorabli endeavor to stir up the people with a stimulus composed of real money saving bargains. We shall method ically and zealously reduce the I prices of Dry Goods a little lowei than any one else. We desire t< arouse and awaken new interest, t< make a sensation to attract tin trading element, to create new rip pies and extend the radious of oui operations and enlarge their scope. We shall augment and swell oui daily crowds by discarding thread bare, edgeless and worn out max ims and setting the soft spinning axle of trade humming to a tune ol new enterprise. We will be tin projectors, the founders, the active, living, breathing exponents of a broad, courageous, aggressive, bold and successful business. We shall neglect no opportunity, nor be care less, indill’erent or injudicious to any honest means that tends to les sen the price of merchandise. This age is too busy for drones Men with arms folded never achievi grand or triumphant results. Mus cles grow sinewy with labor and orains are vigorously active when fortunes are to be made. Dreamers and visionaries Idly live in the fu ture—ever listlessly waiting foi tomorrow. Physical and mental toil combined with systematic and untiring efforts are necessary to conquer and surmount the business barriers of today. Brains excited by the fever of progress must bi swift to plan and hands ready to execute. We have built wide and deep on the rock of Commercial integrity, aiming to treat others as we would have them treat us. IVatered with the dew of good intentions, warmed by the clear glow of fair dealing, the dollar you bring us will expand and grow to colossal proportions. Today we strike a straight blow in behalf of the PEOPLE. We will suppress the usurious monster HIGH PRICE and emancipate the country from the galling and hated chains of HARDTIMES. We hit hard for we are the mighty wielders of the battle axe and the champions of LOW PRICES. With genious and ambition, an energy that never lags, a mfnd that never wanders, an eye that never tires and a nerve that never quivers, with new, ad vanced ideas crowding out the old, pluck instead of luck, cash instead of credit, brain in the place of cheek we will beat back and crush into obliv ion those moonshine mer chants with their tough and tre mendous profits. If there is honor in. man, or vir tue in reliable goods at low prices we NO. 33. mean to be masters of the situation, taring pioneers that dive down to rock bottom. In the future as we have in the past will refrain from all semblance of ambiguous adjec tives, rediculous, wholesale asser tions and grandiloquent terms, only suggestive and indicative of exag gerations. Convinced that the public de -criminate between sound sense and sophistry and will appreciate and believe plain statements of promi nent, positive and undeniable truths, we propose, to announce our facts and features in every day mod ■st English, ignoring all mock methods and sesquipedalian phra seology. Confident that the people of North Georgia and Alabama, bless- . ■?d with keen perceptions and free educational advantages will readily recognize reasonable announce ments, dissect chaff from corn, Read, Reflect, Resolve and Act for hemselves and Resolutely Reject Blowing Bombast and Brainless Blather whenever flagrantly mani fest. The public judges its individual requirements and cannot be deceiv 'd ; they will invariably purchase where the best value is secured and refuse inferiority. We crave the careful criticism of our country nen. Standard Calicoes 2.1 3/, 4c, 5/. Cotton Check j Owing to the con- Sheeting V stant fluctuation Shirting. \we can quote no positive prices on these goods. But they will always be sold at factory cost.. Shoes sl, $1.15, $1.25, $1.35, $1.50 ind up. Jeans 12J/, 15/, 16J/, 18/. 20/, 25/ to 50/. Dress Goods 5/, C}/, 7i/> 10/, 15/, 20/. ■ juilts, Blankets, Comfortables, <fcc. 'orsets, H'd’k’cfs, Buttons, Trim mings, Ribbons, Cloaks, Velvets, Silks, Umbrellas. Carpets, Shades, Oil cloth. The most extensive Stock in the South. CARPETS from 15/ to $2.00 per >-a rd. Read this column next week, it will be filled with figures —Plain figures for the people. THOS. FAHY, Rome, Ga. The Mother Hubbard —Air— ■‘Old Oaken Bucket:” How loose around my. waist were the clothes of my childhood, As my doubled up corset reminds me with pain, I’he slips that I wore when I used to chop stovewood, Had more enjoyment than bustle or train. I’he bustle I know', is a thing high ly treasured By ladies built on the mocking bird style, But £ive me that garment with looseners unmeasured, The old mother hubbard which weak men revile. The dear mother hubbard, The loose mother hubbard, L’he honored old hubbard that beats any style. Fair warning.—We have borrow ’d a shot gun, which we keep heav ily loaded, and the first person that enters the door of our sanctum for the purpose of whipping us .be cause we have published a little joke about them we will blow the top of their heads oil'. We dont in tend to take back any thing, nor take any of their jaw. You have been warned so heed it'. —Senoia Sentinel. Two young women fought a reg ular prize fight at Bridgeport,Conn., last week. They were fighting to see which one should receive the at tention of a young man, but were parted before they had determined the quest Ton. God help the people of Jackson ville. Stricken with the terrible yel low fever they sadly need help. H nothing else the people of this fa vored country should send up their petition to the Most High for them Georgia’s delegation to the lower house of congress is all right, but its two' senators do not represent ji."-people.