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SUMMERVILLE CHERT
Now Making That Place Fa
mous For Streets.
Frank Reynolds in Rome Tribune.
With the exception of Dalton,
Summerville has the finest streets
of any town in the South.
The chert found there is now be
ing used in many Southern cities
for streets, and the heretofore lim
ited use has demonstrated it to be
far superior to any other material
for street purposes. It’s cheapness
makes it therefore only the more
desirable. It is found in endless
quanti'y both at Dalton and Sum
merville. It is a combination of
grey gravel and red clay which,
after having been spread on the
street and rained upon, forms an
elastic cement that makes the
thoroughfare smooth, hard aud
white. Both Dalton and Summer
ville have paved their streets with
it, and it has proved so valuable
and desirable that no amount of
money could induce these places
to use any other sort of material
When the people throughout the
country come to properly apprec
iate the value of good roads and
the cheapness by which chert can be
laid, they will have made a long
stride not only to material progn s
but will h ,ve nearly attained the
perfection of country travel. I
often marvel at the worry and vex
ation farmers submit tc in the way
of poor roads, when right at their
doors they have the material to
help them out of the mire and ruts
of miserable roads, to say nothing
of the time and expense it would
save.
Then, too, it will greatly en
hance the value of their property,
both personal and real, and furn
ish them a quick and easy way to
town on rainy days and in bad sea
son when no outdoor work can be
done on the farm. I had not in
tended writing a dissertation on
roads, but am a good roads crank
and the opportunity and tempta
tion are too great for me to lose.
To anybody who wants it. If
you don’t know how to invest your
spare dollar at home give them
away. Quit putting your money
in every little concern which comes
along and promises you a hundred
per cent. There are more people
going over the country now who
never saved a dollar in their life
telling men how to invest their
money than we have ever seen be
fore. If you can’t look after your
own earnings as well as the fellow
who has no interest you get you a
guardian.—Harmony Grove Echo.
That, sound which camo to the
ears of our sleeping citizen at mid
night the other night was not
caused by an avalanche on Wild
Cat Mountain. If anybody believe
it the rush of a herd of steers over
the plains he was mistaken. It
was not the reverberation of thun
der; nor yet the rumbling and
moaning of an earthquake about
to wipe Givoadam Gulch and the
editor of the Kicker off the face of
the globe. No! Tt was none <sf
these things which caused 2,000
sleeping human beings to start up
in terror and call upon heaven to
defend thtim from deadly peril. It
was simpjy old Jim Williams, the
bear hunter, who had come down
from mountain cave with a jag
on. 11/ e g O t a9 far as the public
squareyand stopped to whoop and
jumpoiq his hat and jump up and
down ami to crack his heels to
gether any] bellow like a thousand
bobtail bu]] 3 . We were probably
the only my in j u town who recog
nized what\sort of a calamity was
at hand, am] W e jumped into our
boots ami tr<y Users an j jerked the
old man to td 0 lock-up and gag
ged hint withL stick of stove wood.
He was alt risJht next morning and
we turifed him loose, and the great
mystery whicli had occupied the
minds of our fallow townsmen for
the last tA.-o da|s is hereby fully
explained—Ancona Kicker.
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Chilolren Cry for
Pitcher’s Cjastoria.
for
Pitchers
ren Cry for
astoria.
for
A Contry Editor’s Pleasure.
Here's another one which exchange
gets off that gives one an insight to a
country editor’s pleasure: we will
mention a few things with which we
have to contend in order that you may
understand why we always look so
••happy and content.” After reading
our paper for twelve months a man
moves and authorizes the postmaster
to imform us the paper is not taken
out. But we will excuse that man—he
will be sufficiently punished hereafter.
Another one says, “Give us more local
news. I want to hear from every man,
child and yaller dog that comes to
town every week.” Another says.
“For Gods sake quit giving us so much
local news. I don’t care whether John
Smith went to Birminghan or to h—.”
Another will say, “Not enough poli
tics Another wants religious matter
strictly. Another wants anything else.
Some say, “You have got your old
paper filled with advertisements (those
kind are behind with their subscription
and very ignorent besides.) Merchants
kick because their ad. don’t occupy the
most prominent part of the paper. Prin
ters kick because we want them to work
regularly. The landlord kicks because
half of the time we are unable to pay
his rent.
The “devil” kicks because we kick
him. Well we have made up our minds
to stick to it one more year if it take
the hide off.
The man who eats because he is
hungry is thus far, on a level with
the brutes. The man who stops
eating the moment his hunger is
appeased is the wise man. Nature
needs no more food than she calls
for. Continued excess brings
about indigestion or dyspepsia,
with loss of flesh, strenght, sleep
ambition and mental power, and
an accumulation of aches of pains
and many dangerous local mal
adies.
The stomach now can do noth
ing alone. We must appeal to
some artificially digested food
which can also digest other food.
That is to say, we must use the
Shakers Digestive Cordial. The
effect is prompt and cheering
The chronic pain and distress ceas
es. Appetite presently revives.
Flesh and vigor gradually comes
back, and the sufferer recovers. But
he must be careful in future. A
trial bottle for 10 cents.
An old man aged 90 years, eloped
with a w idow of 80 a few days ago in
Jaeksou county. There was objection
on the part of the children and the
aged lovers were forced to take coun
sel in flight in order to consummate
their bliss.
The consolidation of Crompton
Loom Company, of Worcester,
Mass., makers of the new looms
which will be in operation in the
Eagle and Phenix mills in Colum
bus, with their great rival in the
bussiness, s he Knowles Loom Com
pany, of the same city, forms the
greatest cotton mill machinery
manufacturing concern on earth,
and may safely be said that it
marks the era of yet greater per
fection in cotton machinery. To
the energy and capital of these
two firms the United States is large
ly due the credit of being leading
builder of weaving machinery on
the globe.
Henry C. Williams has given to
the Waycross Journal a very sim
ple and at the same time an ef
fective, as so proved, preventative
of hog cholera. He believes the
germ of the dise ise is often com
municated to animals from the
carcass of any dead animal and for
this reason he never allows any
carrion to remain above ground on
his plantation. His hogs have
never been troubled with the dis
ease and he believes other farmer
would be equally fortunate should
they adhere to the same rule.
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MONSTER OF THE DEEP.
Huge Devil Fish Cast Up on the
Coast of Florida.
From the New York Herald.
On the magnificent beach which
extends along the Florida coast,
south of St. Augustine, there lies,
at the present time, the largest and
most remarkable devii fish that has
ever been seen. It was cast ashore
in a mutilated condition, Decem
ber 5, and yet, after eight weeks ex
posure to the weather, it is still in
a fair state of preservation and has
changed but little in appearance.
Instead of decaying rapidly, as it
was expected to do, its flesh has
dried and hardened in the sun and
wind, until it resembles leather in
hardness and toughness.
About two weeks ago Dr. DeWitt
Webb undertook to turn th** body
over for examination. After the
great bank of sand around it had
been removed, 12 men, with the aid
of blocds and tackle, tried to pull
it over but they could only lift up
the hind end a short distance. Dr
Webb then procured a team of six
horses, and, with their aid and suit
able tackle, he succeeded in pulling
it higher up on the beach and upon
a plank platform, where it now
rests. Owing to the fact that it
has continued to harden he hopes
to be able to preserve it nearly en
tire by continued drying and the
use of proper preservations.
In moving the monster one large
break was made on one side, which
disclosed the creature’s massive
muscles. Fortunately, Dr. Webb
secured the services of a photogra
pher and had photographs made
which show the creature in differ
ent positions during its removal
and after it had been placed in po
sition.
The head is all destroyed and the
front part of its body was badly
mutilated and worn by the waves
and sand. The hind part of the
body, behind the middle, is nearly
perfect and has nearly a smooth
surface, without any appendages.
It is pear shaped and large be
hind.
The length of the body, as it now
lies, is 21 feet; the breadth 7, and
its height above the ground is
about feet. Its weight at pres
ent is estimated by Dr. Webb to
be at least seven tons, which is
probably too small a figure. The
head and and arms would certain
ly have been as heavy as the body,
and when we remember that the
front part of the body has lost
much of its substance by mutila
tion we must believe that the live
weight of the creature was about
eighteen or twenty tons. When
living it must have had eight enor
mous arms, each one hundred feet
or more in length, each as thick as
thick as the mast of a large vessel,
and armed with hundreds of saucer
shaped suckers, the largest of which
would have been at least a foot in
diameter.
Its eyes would have been more
than a foot in diameter. It would
have carried ten to twelve gallons
of ink in its ink bag, for clouding
the water when fighting with its
great enemy, the sperm whale. Its
jaws, composed of hard, black horn,
were shaped like the beak of a par
rot and of enormous size and
strength. It could swim rapidly,
without doubt, but its usual habit
would be to crawl slowly along over
the bottom in deep water in search
of its prey.
We must reflect that wherever
this creature had its home there
must be living hundreds or thou
sands of others of its kind, prob
ably of equal size, otherwise its
race could not be kept up. Its hab
itat is probably the broad plateau
that extends out to sea about two
hundred miles off the coasts of
South Carolina, Georgia, and North
Florida, on which the water in
creases very gradually in depth
down to two hundred fathoms.
This plateau is swept by the Gulf
stream and supports animal life in
great abundance.
That same region is one of 'the
great feeding grounds for ihe
whale, which is
chief A' on
de
th w=i- y/ ~-,5*."
killed and partly eaten by a sperm
whale, and, the remnant of the
body having floated to the surface,
was washed ashore in a storm.
Alabama News,
Mrs. Lewis Roberts, died at her
home near Centre, last week from
cancer of the breast.
Two hundred miners employed
in a coal mine near Blocton, went
out on a strike Tuesday last.
Walter McAdams, colored, was
hanged at Columbina Friday for
the murder of his wife in 1895 at
Wilsonville.
The store of J. L. Beeson & Co.,
at Whitney, was entered by burg
lars last Wednesday night who
blew open the safe and secured a
small sum of money.
The directors of the Talladega
cotton factory have purchased two
additional English revolving cards
to meet a demand for a larger
production of that yarn.
Anthony Hill, a negro, wanted in
Randolph county, Ala., for the mur
der of the sheriff’s son, was killed
in Meriweather county, Ga., on the
18th while resisting arrest.
The school house at Mackey,
Cherokee county, burned one night
last week. A number of school
books were destroyed. It is be
lieved the fire originated from the
stove.
In noting the death of Gen. Shel
by and Gen. Pleasanton the Co
lumbus Enquirer-Sun says that
one by one the brove old soldiers
are answering to the last tattoo.
But a few years and only a little
band will be left. The ranks of the
great organizations of Confederate
and Union veterans will be thinned
more rapidly in the future by the
hand of death than they have here
tofore, and the day must soon come,
unfortunately for this country,
when the tattered flags will have
outlived the valiant hosts over
which they once Boated—when only
a handful will remain.
Your Boy Wont Livea Month.
So Mr. Gilman Brown, of 34
Mill St South Gardner Mass., was
told by the doctors His son had
Lung trouble, following Typhoid
Malaria and he spent three hun
dred and seventy-five dollars with
doctors who finally gave him up
saying: “Your boy won’t live a
month.” He tried Dr. King’s New
Discovery and few bottles re
stored him to health and enabled
him to g<> to work a perfectly well
man. He says he owes his present
good health to use of Dr. King’s
New Discovery and knows it to be
the best in the world for Lung
trouble. Trial Bottles free at H.
H. Arrington’s Drug store.
The Slabtown Simoon.
If times get harder we will be
compelled to turn this office into
a Keeley institute.
The end gate of a wagon load of
pumpkins broke in front of our
house last Saturday and we run a
yellow kid supplement this week.
We are just eating two meals a
day now, and have written a cel
ebrated specialist to ascertain
what would be the best eat
in case a man only eats once a
day.
An eastern capitalist came to
this city last week prospecting for
a suitable place to put in a street
car line. We opposed it because
the temperature is low enough in
this country now.
Fire broke into our office one
day last week. A subscriber who
was trying to break a colt to work
in a wagon hauled us a load of
wood. He could have carried the
wood, but he wanted to break the
colt.
We have got our representative
to introduce a bill in the legisla
ture compelling every person who
wants to run for office to subscribe
for his county paper and pay for
it in advance. If it passes it will
make a millionaire out of us, but
we can stand it.
Our subscribers will please no
tice the advertisment of a double
barreled shot guta on the third
page of this
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According to The Herald, an Al
bany jeweler has unearthed the
greatest fool since Simple Simom.
“I sold a clock to a country
negro,” said the jeweler, and be
came in afterwards and claimed
that the thing was no good —that
the hands wouldn’t work right. I
told him to bring it in and I
would see what was the matter
with it. When he came again and
brought the clock he had the
hands tied together with a cotton
string. The longest hand he said,
would go clean round the dial in
an hour, while the other only
moved an inch or so. He just
coulden’t make them run together,
he said, untill he tied them, and
then, he said, the thing wouldn’t
run at all. After so long a time
I succeeded in explaining to hi m
that it was the business ; of the
long hand to go clear rond the
dial once every hour, while the
hour hand moved only from one
hour mark to another but I’ll be
blamed if be ain’t the blue ribbon
fool of the country.”
An Irish priest relates the fol
lowing story: He says he wa s
calledin great haste to administer
the last rites of the church to a
dying Irish sinner in London. “I
have but one request to make
father,” feebly gasped the poor
penitent. “What is it, my son?’
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