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VOL X ■ 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- No. 3