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■ Michigan to Texas.
|B That Pe-runa is unequaled as a
gßpring medicine is testified by al
Br"at many people every spring . 1
|BVhcn one is run down, listless and ;
■i red, depressed with that peculiar->
distressing trouble popularly i
Bnown as spring Fever, Pe-ru-na
always be taken, as it is
to give prompt and permanent
B Lena L. Stoll, Adrian, Mich.,
gßvrites as follows: “It affords me
jßnuch pleasure to testify to the mer
|Mts of your Pe-ru-na. 1 cah speak
the highest terms of it, having
it for five years as a spring
t^B nf 'dicine with great benefit to my-
,U| d I recommend it to my
with like results.” J. 11.
, East land, Tex., the opposite
C( ‘>din< iit, corroborates
HMer statements as follows: “1 pur-
HBhased a bottle of Pe-ru-na and it
us °d hy myself and wife as a
, Bpring medicine. I consider it the
dollar’s worth I ever bought.
My wife has used your remedies
gratifying results.”
||B Ono of Dr. Hartman’s latest
treating on the catarrhal
|l|Bseascs peculiar to spring, will be
But free to any address by The Pe-
Drug Manufacturing Com-
Columbus, ().
B SAT UP IN HIS COFFIN.
Carolinian Quits Breatli
irig After Six Weeks’ Siege
of Grip.
BB Columbia, S. March 17. —E<l-
- Godding, a farmer living near
■■ampler, had been ill for six weeks
the prevalent grip. A few days
he became much Worse and Mon
morning died.
■ That is, was pronounced dead by
■odors, nurse and relatives.
The collin was ordered and the body
prepared for burial.
■■in the afternoon it was placed in the
and the interment was to take
■ce the next morning.
Hiring the evening when the room
full of the dead man’s friends, who
*«£Bre talking in low tones, a voice was
issuing from the coilin.
of the bolder men opened the
(leddings rose to a sitting pos-
and spoke to them. He tv as
undressed and put to bed.
he is reported improved, and
BHB1; are now hopes of his recovery,
say it is a remarkable case
: animation, and the sini
<-«£Bolk in ihv community are all agog
superstitious excitement.
■ Bow to Cure a Severe Cold.
weeks ago the editor was
|||||ißi with a very seven' cold that
BBHBd him to be in a most misnra-
ion. It was undoubtedly
BH|Bt case of la grippe and recog
it as dangerous ho took im-
steps to bring about
cure. From the advertise
|||||||B Chamberlain's Cough
|||||||Bdy and the many good recom
||||||s&Bations included therein, wo
to make a first trial of
’XVfiißiediciiio. To say that it was
in its results, is put-
BHsßt very mildly, indeed. It
magic and the result was
and permanent cure. —
of Liberty, l.iborty
.-B Maryland. The 25 and 50
BBBBizes for sale by 11. 11. Arring-
BBBBbyd County’s Back Taxes.
(. \.. March hi. - l'a\ C c-
BHBB T. Sanford and hi< ;i"i<t.un. Mr.
Shaw, have been at work for
l ' vo '' l, ‘
:uul fooling up the
back taxes
Bfißßrnm m ing al I"""-. t’ae amount of
'?■ W taxes due IO January 1. IS*.»T. is
g'.'T.Og. nearly all of which i- col
■ctable.
Mr. Sanford stated some time ago
||Bhat in his opinion there were enough
taxes due Floyd county to pay
enure floating debt, and this show
? verifies his statement in full. Mr.
l Sanford says he will proceed to collect
1 the tax at once.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEW
ADVERTISING IS THE LIFE OF TRADE.===WHY DON’T YOU TRY IT, AND SEE?
MUST RAISE
SUPPLIES.
Then Farmers Os The
>*■
South Will Prosper.
COTTON GROWERS MEET,
And Discass Ma Hers Os
Vital Importance To
Farmers.
Augusta. Ga., March 15. —The
Cotton Growers’ convention and
the State Agricultural Society held
a short of double-barreled congress
today. The delegates to each took
part in the sessions of both, and
both sandwiched in-their proceed
ings alternately in the same hall
of the cotton exchange building.
Chairman W. H. Warren, of the
local committee of arrangements,
called the convention to order and
Hector D. Lane, of Alabama, was
chosen chairman of the conven
tion with J. Lindsay Johnson, of
Rome, secretary. President Thom
as Barrett, Jr., of the exchange,
and Mayor Young then made the
wel coming speeches. President
Lane responded, after which he
made a more elaborate address, set
ting forth the reasons for their
coming together and the objects of
the convention. A committee of
seven was appointed to draft reso
lutions as follows:
W. A. Broughton, J. 0. Waddell,
R. T. Nesbitt, R. J. Redding, M. V.
Calvin, J. L. Johnson and James
Tobin.
During the absence of this com
mittee to prepare resolutions, the
Cotton Growers’ congress took re
cesss, and the meeting resolved it
self into a session of the Georgia
State Agricultural Society, |Retir
ing President Waddell announced
the election of his successor, Hon
J. Pope Brown, of Pulaski, and the
latter made his inaugural speech.
President Brown made quite an
optimistic speech, declaring the
farmers and farming interests of
Georgia were in better conditions
than he had known them in twen
ty years, and he would be
willing to have them guarantee to
remain unchanged for the next
twenty. He pictured as the ideal
of prosperity the time when the
farmers produced everything! that
was needed for food, both on the
farm and in the town, and the
towns in turn manufactured every
article that Mas needed on the
farm.
After setting an hour at which
the executive committee would re
ceive the fair delegations at the
hotel tonight the agricultural so
ciety then adjourned, and a second
session of the Cotton Growers’
convention received the report of
committee on resolutions, which
was adopted. The resolutions urge
the farmers to first make the cot
ton states self-supporting and then
the area devoted to cotton will
yield more profitable returns than
if they sought to increase the num
ber of bales. While the reduction
i of the acreage to be planted incot-
I ton for the sole purpose of reduc
' ing the size of the crop may be
: impracticable the increase of area
planted in food crops must inevit
ably bring prosperity to the cot
ton growers, irrespective of the
size of the cotton crop. There has
' never been a time in our history
that a novem 'nt looking to the
increases production of corn, hay,
oats, hogs and other food crops
was so important and necessary.
After being addressed by Mr.
Ball, of St. Louis, cn the merits of
the cylindrical cott n bale, the
convention adjourned and the del
egates went to see an exhibition of
the bale subjected t<jw’’D'r and to
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, MARCH 24, 1897.
fire. The convention was finely
represented in the chair and
though not numerically large,
satisfactorily discharged the busi
ness before it.
ALABAMA ITEMS
Clipped From the Collins=
ville Clipper.
The big cotton mill at Birming- I
ham is an assured thing as the !
stock has all been subscribed.
J. R Hughes, of Gadsden, has
been appointed oil inspector of
this, the seventh district.
The business houses in Centre
recently burned are being replaced
with handsome brick structures.
The IG-year old daughter John
Hartline, of Kaolin, was buried
atSulpher Springs on the 11th.
The bridge over Wills creek at
Gadsden, which was destroyed by
a flood, will be rebuilt at a cost of
$5,000.
Cherokee county is talking of
having an annual connty fair.
County fairs ought to be held in
every county of the state.
Geo. Roach, a fifteen year old
boy shot himself with a shotgun
at Blockton on the 11th inst. The
top of his head was blown off,
Walter Hill, a young farmer and
teacher living three miles from
Sulligent, was ambushed by un
known parties and fatally wound
ed.
Gadsden people will become
friskey and high-toned as they
will soon have fine unadulterated
water to drink. A new' filter will
be added which will give that city
a capacity of 50,000 gallons per
day.
Bill Taylor, of Marshal County
and Wyat Moore were jailed at
Huntsville on the 9th inst., char
ged with counterfeiting. The two
men are prominent citizens of
their locality, and the evidence a
gainst them it is said, is conclu
sive.
A small cyclone or whirlwind
visited the premies of C. J. Brown
near Bankhead, on the Bth inst.,
demolishing out-buildings, fences
and destroying fruit trees. A
mysterious feature was the fact
that no signs of a windstorm were
evident anywhere, except on Mr.
Brown’s premises.
Two deputy United States mar
shals gathered in W. A. Cogdell
and W. F±?Foster for operating an
illicit still, near Index close to the
DeKalb county line. The officers
destroyed 200 gallons of beer and
the still, w’hich had a 25 gallon
capacity. This happened on the
11th inst.
Blountville is now without a pa
per. The merchants there, so it is
reported, thought they could get
along without advertising, hence
the newspapers they had packed
up and left —one going to Onuona
and the other to Hanceville. Trade
is leaving Blountsville and when
too late they find out that a news
paper did some good after all.
They want some one to come and
liven things up for awhile. It
will be a lesson hereafter to them.
The Discovery Saved His
Life.
Mr. G. Caillouette, druggist
Beaversville, 111, says: “To Dr.
King’s New Discovery I owe my
life. as taken with La Grippe
' and tried all the physicians for
miles about, but of no avail and
j was given up and told I could not
' live. Having Dr. King’s New Dis
jeovery in my store I sent for a
bottle and began its use and from
the first dose began to get better,
and after using three bottle was
up and about again. It is worth
its weight in gold. We won’t keep
store or house without it.” Get a
free trial at H. H. Arringtons
drug store.
WILD RIDE
ON ENGINE.
Everything Wide Open
And Engineer Drunk,
BEAT A KEELY CURE BAD.
Boozy Drnmmer For Fire
man And Bell Cord
Tied to Throttle.
“Just once I rode in an engine,”
he said, “and that once cured me
for all time. You fellows try it if
you want to, but I’ll sit back here,
where I know that there is at least
four Pullmans between me and
eternity.
“When was it? Back in the old
days when I first went on the road
for the old house, and when I be
lieved my sole mission in life was
to drink all the rum there was ex
posed between Omaha and the At
lantic.
“I was on my way to Jackson
ville, Fla., and we got stalled at
Washington with a hot journal, or
something like that. They held us
up outside the capital from 10
o’clock at night until 1 in the morn
ing. I tried to amuse myeelf by
putting the men of the train under
the table, and succeeded so well
that by 12 o’clock the porter was
the only survivor.
“Then I got it into my head that
a plain, ordinary sleeper was too
plain for me, I wanted to go where
I could ride fast, and know that I
was riding. So I bought four of
these little Pullman flasks of rye,
filled my pockets with cigars and
went up to the engine.
“Only the engineer was in the cab -
The delay had put him in a nasty
humor. I jollied him along, how
ever, offered him a cigar in my best
mahogony-top, fall-design voice,
and finally he asked me to climb
up into the cab.
“Whether it was because he knew
we were alone or because the long
stop had upset him, I do not know.
At any rate, he accepted my invi
tation with alacrity to ‘have a
smile,’ and while these four flasks
lasted he more than kept his end
up.
“With the assistance of the con
versational water it did not take us
long to become chummy, and when
the brake or hot jcurnal was finally
repaired, and the tired out conduc
tor came up with the order to start,
my friend told me to sit where I
was.
‘“D that fireman,’ he said
with a leer that any other time
would have warned me, ‘he never
was any good. We’ll pull her out
without him. You and I can shov
el all the coal that’s needed be
tween here and Lynchburg.
“I couldn’t fire a chafing dish,
but he already had pulled open the
throttle, and with the big frame
shuddering with every spin of the
drivers, it was too late for me to
protest, and besides I was in that
condition where I didn’t care
whether Sunday school convened
or not.
‘“Let her go,’ I shouted across
the sputtering row of valves and
stop cocks.
“ ‘Don’t you worry about that,’
he shouted back, ‘l’m going to give
you a ride for yer money.’
“He bad jumped down from his
perch and was throwing coal into
that fiery furnace with might and
main. Each time the door opened
and the lurid glare lighted up his
face I could see delirium blazing
iu his eyes, and instead of being
frightened by it, I seemed to catch
the contagion, and urged him on.
“Already we were racing through
the city, with its labyrinth of
tracks, at whirlwind speed. The
[ little red and green eyes of the
Highest of all in Leavening Strength.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report.
Powder
absolutely pure
switch targets blinked wickedly at
us as we shot past them —just as if
they knew our secret and were jeer
ing us on. I tell you it was a fast
game. My friend sat there with
his hand on the throttle and with
a smile so grim and ghastly that,
maudlinly reckless as I was, it
made me shudder every time I look
ed at him.
“When we crossed the Potomac
bridge with a rush and a roar that
made the heavy trestles quiver and
shake, they must have realized back
in the train that something was
wrong. There was a violent pull
at the bell rope and the little sig
nal gong rang loudly. My friend
heard it too and laughed.
“‘We got ’em on the run back
there,” he said, jerking his head
toward the flying coaches. ‘I bet
Jim was never yanked over that
bridge so suddent before. Oh,-we’ll
show ’em a thing or two yet. Just
wait until we get her started.’
“He pullled open the throttle an
other notch ‘just to start her,’ I
guess, and then jumped down to
hurl in more fuel. Every fresh
throb of the iron heart sent us fast
er and increased the alarm behind
us. There was another tug at the
bell cord and the gong rang again.
There was no letup this time or at
tention to the signal. I thought
friend would heed the signals but
he didn’t. He sat there with the
same grin on his face and winked
at me.
“Suddenly he reached up, and be
fore I realized what he was doing,
he had unfastened the cord from
the bell and was tying it firmly
around the throttle, with the little
ratchat pinched open so there would
be no check to the lever.
“ ‘Now, damn you,’ he shouted,
‘pull till you drop and see how
much good it does you. I’m run
ning this caravan to-night, and we
will ride as fast as you want to
go.’
“Then he leaned back and folded
his arms, and I sat there humped
up and shivering like a monkey on
a circus pony. Each tug at the
rope now opened the throttle a lit
tle wider and sent another pound
of steam in to the cylinders.
“Did I say my prayers? I should
say not. Why, it would have taken
a corps of recording angels scat
tered over sixty miles of heaven to
have caught ‘Now I lay me,’ in
shorthand. I took a drink instead
and looked out into the few rods of
future that the headlight revealed.
The rails were fluttering up and
down in the night like black satin
ribbons, and the telegraph poles
were staggering past in a wild and
drunken dance. Every time we
passed an empty freight car or a
tool house a lot of demons inside
were let loose, and how they did
shriek and curse at us.
“I shut my eyes every time we
went around a curve, and braced
myself to land somewhere in pur
gatory, with the baggage car on top
of my neck. My soul! but how
the old girl (that’s what the engin
eer called his engine) did plunge.
The exhaust no longer came in
short, seperate throbs, but in a jum-
I bled up roar that had nothing but
madness in it. I guess that the
i ’old girl must have known about
the bell rope and shared the spirit
of her master.
“Os course the poor idiots in the
cars did not know that every time
they pulled that cord they were
sending themselves faster to per-
s.
dition, and they kept tugging away
all the time, just to show them
that we were still living I caught
hold of the whistle rope and pulled
it. Every pound of steel was racing
through those steel arteries below
us, and the answer came in a long
trembling shriek that seemed to
voice the despair of the passengers.
“It frightened mo, and I looked
over to see how if affected my
friend.
“He was still sitting there with
his arms folded, but his head had
fallen on his breast and his eyes
were closed. The liquor had over
powered him, and even in that wild
ride he had gone to sleep.
“It must have been the same
Providence that watches over tho
innocent babe and tho volunteer
fireman that made the man go to
sleep.
“I knew enough about an engine
by that time to shut off tho steam,
and it didn’t take but a precious
short time to crawl over to the oth
er side, untie thoi rope and close
the throttle.
“After a milo or so we slowed up
sufficiently for a brakeman to climb
over tho tender and put on the air
brakes.
“That’s tho only rido 1 over took
on an engine, and it was tho best
gold euro that’s ever been discov
ed.”
The supremo court has affirmed
the dicision of tlio superior court
in the case of Mrs. Nobles who
hired a negro, Gus Families, to kill
her husband, and they will both
probably he hung unless Gov. At
kinson sees an opportunity to make
some more political capital out of
these cases.
Garnet Peek, a faithful old col
ored man, was run over and killed
by tho C. R. & C. train yesterday.
The train was backing out of tho
“Y.” Uncle Garnet was crossing the
track near the old water tank. It
is supposed that the wind blowing
and deafness prevented him from
hearing the approaching train. His
body was terribly mangled.—Ce
dartown Advance.
A Sunny Face.
Wear it. It is your privilege.
It has the quality of mercy ; it is
twice blessed; it blesses its posses
sor and all who come under its be
nign influence; it is a daily boon
to him who wears it, and a con
stant, overflowing benediction to
all his friends. Men and women,
youth and children, seek the
friendship of the sunny-faced.
All doors are open to those who
smile. All social circles welcome
cheerfulness. A sunny face is an
open sesame to hearc and home.
By it burdens are lightened, cares
dispelled, sorrows banished and
hope made to reign triumphant
where fear, doubt and despondency
held high carnival.
Get the glow or radiance from
such nearness to the throne as God
permits to his own. A little child
on the great city, wishing to cross
at a point where the surging throng
and the passing vehicles made the
feat dangerous to the strong, and
especially to the weak, paused,
hesitated, and asked asunnyfaetd
gentleman to carry her across. It
was the sunny face that won the
child’s confidence. —Exchange.
Child, en Cry for
Pitcher’s Castoria-
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