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VOLUME VI.}
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 1873.
INUMBER 21
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ATLANTA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16.
ATLANTA’S ALLIES.
Sketches of Cities and Towns Trad*
Ins With Atlanta.
Along the t ( Alr»)Llnc’* and Vp
“State Road.”
From Atlanta to Macon, from Atlanta
to Augusta and from Atlanta
to Montgomery.
Interesting Exhibit of Business,
Crops, Improvements, Popula
tion and Mention of Lead
ing Citizens.
We present this morning to the renters of Toe
Cossimmos throughout the country a most Inter
esting and valuable account of the history and bnei-
seis of the principal cities and towns doing business
with Atlanta. The paper should be laid by for fatnre
reference. The statistics are gathered from leading
officials and merchants of the several places In add!,
tlon to those from regular agents end corrc-pondente
of The Constitution. Or cottree tbe statements
have neceesarlly to be mnen condensed. We urge a
careful perusal The most valuable information
abont the value of lands, the kinds of productions,
desirability for residence, etc., are presented, which
con'd not be obtained elsewhere. Toe Constitution
congratulates the general prosperity evinced.
On the A. and W. P. Road.
runtm.
Seven houses dealing in dry goods and groceries,
selling In the aggregate per annum from $101,000 to
$11(^0110; one family grocery, boots, shoes, etc-,
$1X000; three retail groceries, $0,000; one drug store,
$9,000; two boot and .shoe shops, $.’,000; one csbi.
set, buggy and blacksmith shop, $4,003; two waggon,
baggy and blacksmith shop, $lu,ct0; one saw and
grist mill and cotton gin, 916,000; five lawyers,
$7,000; four doctors. $1,(100; mtltiig In the aggregate
$179,000.
There is abont 1,800 bales of cotton sold her. per
Country produce—estimated $10,000 or $19,000
worth sold here a year.
The business of the place has more than doubled
itself in the last three years. Being situated on a
high sandy ridge, dividing the waters of the Chalts-
boochee and Flint rivers, cn ths Atlanta and West
Fpljtt Railroad, 19 miles from
oellent water, pure air and-almost
health, we have .a delightful and pleasant village,
numbering about 900 Inhabitants with two large
churches and perhaps tho most desirable place in
Georgia for Some enterprising gentleman to establish
a large and prosperous school. The local puronsge
wonld amount to 100 or 129 students per annum. We
have a new and beautiful Court House. Our county
will be entirely ont or debt at tbe expiration of thb
present year. Tae crops ss a general thing are most
excellent and will be ample to place our peop.e In an
easy and thriving condition. Carmsau.
WEST POINT
Was incorporated about twenty-three years ago, and
sow baa near fifty business houses. The sales of the
strongest firms will reach over $2CO,OOa per annum,
$1,610,oOO sold yearly. Between 18,010 and 19,000
bales of cotton were received tbs past year, and our
best Informed men are counting heavily on getting
£0,000 the present year. Controls a capital of half a
million.- and it la kept constantly stining; merchants
ont of debt; business reviving, and prospects are
bright for a rich harvest. Several splendid buildings
have recently been erected, and others will be com
menced and pat np ere tbe dose of this year.
Three foctorles in successful operation cost $125,-
COO; run 2MS looms, use eomo 6 bales cotton, and turn
out 10,009 yards doth per day, give employment to
260 operatives. These factories will yet be made to
thribble the present amount of works, and that, too,
at no very elstant day. They will then be worth not
leas than $1,000,000.
Foundry aid grist mills, $25,000; employs 9 hands,
has cast and sold netr fifty iron screws. Bank han
dles over $1,600,000 each year. Fire engine cost$l,<
200. City Council ont of debt, money on band.
The principal products are corn, cotton, wheat, oats
and potatoes, land worth from $85 to $129 per acre;
yields from 5 to 15 bushels com, and 150 to 500 pounds
iint cotton.
Leading citterns.re W.C. Larmr, 3. L. Atkinson,
II. T. Walker slid J. R. Scott. Railroad property
$30,0(0, which consists of a large hotel, car-shed *nd
depots.
home fifteen Inland towns and a large portion of
the trade of five counties ail concentrate at this
point. Two colleges, three churches - Methodist,
Baptist snd Presbyterian. A fine carriage repository
and other necessary places ofbas nes*. Population,
abont £,000; one newspaper, the News. The Con-
stitctiox la considered a grand.commerdal paper.
eimynut
Incorporated in 1566. Population, 39J whites. 430
blacks; two schools; between 3.0G0 and 2,600 oottou
bales annually sent to Atlanta; $5,000 worth of chick
ent, egg*, batter, etc; two chuiche* both hletnod-
is*.—one white and one colored; trade wi.h Atlanta
$100,000 annually; annual business $100,000; princi
pal products, cotton and grain; land worth $19 j cr
acre: one hotel; one mill; between three hundred
and fifty and four hundred tons guano shipped to this
pises annually.
Among our leading citizens are Ms]. B.C. Moreland,
V- s. Smith, Assistant P. 1L. 1L A Barnett, Rev. W.
C. Smith, T. C. Moreland, Rev, F. 31. T. Bnnnon,
Psef. Sam Leigh. J,D. Stafford.
Among our leading merchants are Garrett & Z el lari,
Post A Arnold, J. M. Stallings, Word A Cotton, Clov
er A Son, Addy A Post, Post A Croley, Johnson A Son,
8. Mirtin.
lsgiuxge.
This flourishing town is noted for the Intelligence
of Us people, its splendid educational facilities, and
its great beauty. Its population Is some 2,500or 3,000.
There are two or three banks, and about filty stores.
Annual cotton receipts, some fifteen thonaand bales.
We might farther mention that LsGrar ge is noted far
and wide for its hospitality, the great personal charms
of Its ladl—. audits partiality for The Constitotion,
needy a hundred copies going to that office. La-
Grange has a popular weekly—the Reporter,
This is qni’.e a flourishing town, of some two thou
sand Inhabitants. It has a noted Female Institute,
College Temple. It has a good paper likewise, the
Herald, and consequently the people are Intelligent
and energetic. Business for the last yetrhas been
good. About 15.000 bales of cotton sold. It has a to
bacco factory, car and building works. Lands good.
Watsr fine. Sales of dry goods ar d groceries exceed
.pi$h*ps one and a hal f mllKors of dollars.
30GA36TILLE.
We have been an Incorporated town for tho past
four yean. Hr. W. F. Be gland is now chairman of
the Council, Ur. R. H. Cato, clerk, and T. M. Bikes
Marshal. The members of the Council are J. 3.
Hutchinson, A. R. Williams, Col. W. 3L Cato and
Plea Whitaker, all gentlemen of energy and perse-
verence as well as of sound discretion in the manage
ment of our affairs. We haTe now a population of
abont fifteen hundred, and no better society in the
State of ueorgia or anywhere el«e. The Baptists and
Presbyteruns have large and comfortable church
buildings. 1 he Baptist is presided over by Rev. Ur.
Jackson ; the Presbyterian by Rev. Mr. Stacey.
Tbe Uethodists have no cburch building ye„ but
have recently purchased a lot and contracted with
Messrs. Backus A Lofton to put up at cnee a church.
They have heretofore used the Presbyterian Church.
This church is in the hands of the Rev. Mr, Bowden.
The Hogansvilie Male and Female Institute, now In
charge of Prof. 3. H. Williams, cannot be excelled.
His assistants, Ur. A F. Trimble and Miss Hopson
are competent, kind and Indeed combine alt those
qualities so requisite in the management of the
young. This school now has about sixty students.
We have four dry goods stores, Uobley, Morion A
Bro, Hurst A Ponder, and B. Michael, grocery and
dry goods, P. H. Whitaker A Bon, Stallings A Coch
ran, and Kick Ringer, llqnorB and groceries; T. J.
Mitchell and Sikes and Boater; groceries, J. K.
Hutchinson A Bro; drags, W. D. Boozer; tin ware
and furniture, George Carter. Messrs Hutchinson A
Bro., sold, last year, abont thirty-five thousand dol
ors worth of goods. Another gentleman paid to one
Atlanta house upwards of ten thousand dollars for
groceries. Every other house in tbe place who carry
on dry goods or groceries, or both, have doneas good
business during the past twelve months.
The Improvements now going up, are tbe new
trick store of Dr. Hudson, 29xC0 feet,two stories. This
nearly completed. The brick block comprising five
stores, tbe whole fronting 66 feet and running back
72 feet is being rapidly completed. The contractors
on the brick work are Messrs. Bat hell and Jackson,
Messrs. Backus and Lofton do the wood work. The
warehonee oi Mr. J. M. Hoot Is being rapidly pushed
forward; this building Is 3'x90 feet. The new livery
stab.eof P,eas Whitaker, 28x10 feet with one hun
dred feetof shedding, will soon be done. Last bat
not l*os», the new hotel Is now in the bands of the
plasterers and painters; it is already much needed
and in tbe bands of Mr. John J. J. Lofton,
will have no superior. Every one of these buildings
havn beta commenced since tbe first of May last.
By enquiry among those of our planters who I have
men, I hnd that the cotton la being very much injured
by tte cutterpi'ler and bole worm. Hr. J. I. Callo
way, one of our largest and best planters docs not
think that the crops to this county win be as large as
last year.
We will however venture the assertion that Hogans-
vibe will receive this year as nrach as any town of the
same size In tbe State, a-d more, If we can get tbe
buyers. The lands su roundUg Hoganaville are tbe
beat in this section cf the iitv.e, and our people have
learned to live at home. Yours, X.
Down tbe Macon Read.
J0NXSB0B9.
Cotton. 4100 bales; guano, 1,800 tons; new stores,
ten in a year; two livery stables; two gord hotels and
another fluis'-lDg: new Methodist Church; new
hotel; fine flour, marbln'ery snd planing mill; good
comm-n school sys'em under Dr. Robert Logan; Clay,
ton high schi cl under Professor J, vM. McDaniel;
Clayton trie* for tbe oonnty prize at the State Fair.
MILNER.
Ten general stores; business $128,000; cotton re-
oslved, 3.000 bales; ntarlv- 7U residences; two
oburtea, .Baptist,and Methodist; good sohool of
Messrs. Hooke a. and May*. )
The conntry around is fine for all prodnoe.
BABNE8VTLLB,
Pike oonnty, Georgia, was a post offioe in 1810. incor
porated a town in 1847, made a city in 1866; sells over
a million dollars worth oi goods annually; trade with
Atlanta probably soventy-five thousand dollars per
year; corn and cotton prlnolpal products; land worth
from $5 to $10 per acre; produces without fertilizers
ten to fifteen bushels of core, and from five to eight
hundred pounds of cotton per acre. Ships 8,000 bales
of cctton annually. Drygoods, groceries, drags, hard
ware, etc., articles bought and sold. Among- tbe
principal business men, Morphy A Powe’, S K
Cook A Co., Stafford,' Blalock A Co., C. C. Holmes A
Co., W. P. Holmes A Co., W. W. Carter, J. B. Han
son, B. x. Pond, J. W. Hightner, W. A. Wright, Tur
ner A Redding, Z. Davis, P. Van Alsiine, Butt, Price
A Co., J. F, Mendez, H. Chambus, H. H. Swalts, C.
W. Biown. Lawyers—J. A. Hunt, J. F, Redding.
Physicians—McDavid, Blalock, Strother and Black
burn. Ministers—J. M. Wood, W. P. Caldwell. Has
two printing offices, and weekly newspapers—Ga
zette, by E. T. Power—Patriot, by Dr. J, C. Black
burn; two churches-Baptist and Methodist, the
latter the finest modern church in the State, costing
over $10,000; one large carriage and wagon factory,
the beat in Middle Georgia; one large steam flouring
mill; two splendid schools—Gordon Institute and
PJxley’s select school; pure freestone water; pleasant
and comfortable residences; wide and well worked
streets; no paupers; the finest conceit hall (granite)
in the State, and the most desirable place to live on
the Macon and Western Railroad. Population abont
2,000, with neither a pauper or confirmed sot among
them.
FORSYTH.
Incorporated in 1622; has been steadily Improving,
particularly slues the close of the war, and is now a
prosperous town. Amount of annual business: Gro
ceries, 2560,COO; dry goods, $200,000. guano, $160,000;
other business, $1(0,000; Kentucky stock, 259 bead of
horses and mules. Cotton is the principal product;
10,000 to 12.000 bales shipped annually. lands are
worth abont ten dollar* per acre; cotton averages to
the acre one third bale; corn averages to the acre
abont twenty bushels. Groceries constitute the prin
cipal trade. Amount of business annually done with
Atlanta, $lC0,COu. Merchants are all on good looting
and prosperous.
Population—whitee 1,230; blacks 1,300.
Forsyth has two flourishing schools. The school
buildings are very large and Imposing. The Female
College is tbe second oldest one in the South, snd his
yearly from 159 to 203 pupils. Has a flourishing
weekly paper—the Advertiser—which is an honor
to tbe Stele. Three churches—Baptist, Methodist and
Presbyterian. A mineral well has Just been discov
ered,-the waters of which are very strongly impreg
nated with sulphur, magnesia, soda, lime, etc.
gbutix.
This city has a population of 5,009: was laid off in
1810, and Incorporated some years after; has a trade
of come three mllliots, including the purchase and
sale cf cotton; has five churches—Methodist, Bap
tist, Presbyterian, Episcopal and Christian; two fe
male calleges; cne splendil free school; two manu
facturing Interests (one furniture snd one carriage
and wagon); two merchant mills; pretty women by
tbe score; and two good papere. Daily Kows and Tri
weekly Star.
anrot*.
This thriving town baa some 1,209 Inhabitants.
There are twenty odd stores, two churches, two
schools, two warehouses, and receives annually about
6,000 bales of cotton. Among the trading men are L
A Bonds A Co, J R Brantley. A Co, S B Hnnnlcntt A
Co, Dixon, Morth A Taylor, W H Conch, Brooks a
A Edmondson, Stilweil A Co, Mr Ingraram, of the
Academy; Hr Atkinson and Mr Brad, of the High
School. Senoia is flourishing and hss a good weekly
paper—the Journal,
Dp tbe State Road.
ACWOBIH,
three resident physicians, one lawyer. Lands worth
from $10 to $50 per acre. Principal article of pro
dnoe, cotton; but enough corn made for home con
sumption.
Awl r7 A Cooper, Tanner, Putnam A Co., Phillips,
Parkinson A Co., A. II. Horthcutt A Co. and B. Lem
on A Co. are the leading merchants. Col. E. L. Shu-
ferd, Judge B. A.. Lane and CoL Strickland, all have
nice residences and stand high In our community.
Fine health, pure air ard several fine mineral springs
in the corporate limits of tbe town.
CiLHOCX
So railed; In the valley, at the base of the hills, east of
the Ooatanaula; incorporated in 1851; population,
609 whites, 10) negroes; amount of business annually
done, about $300,000; trade annually with Atlanta,
$150,03C; piinc’pal products, groin and cotton; land
wor:h J1C to *50 per acre; bushels corn per acre, 80
to 40; cotton, one bale to two acres; mining .in
terests developing men in fervent expectancy of big
fortunes to be realized from this source; Iron
in greatest abundance; two schoolt; two churches,
Methodist and Baptist; will soon be in dolly comma-
nleitlon with Rome by Etramtcst; directly on the line
of the Western and Atlantic Railroad; a projected
railway to Morganton through the finest undeveloped
mining and manufacturing region on the globe; in
fertility of soil and resources unsurpassed in the
South. Among the leading citizens are Colonels J.
C. Fain and R. If. Young, N. J. Bosz, J. W. Barrett,
B. G. Boag. T. A. Foster, Z. T. Gray; T. W. Ellis, E.
J. Hiker, J. H. Arthur, J. T. Miller, W. J. Cantrell,
D. W. Neal, etc. •
MARIETTA.
Settled In 1833— (40 years.'
Incorporated in 1832. Whites about 2,COO; blacks
abont 1,000 ; schools C; cotton hales received 4,000;
chickens, eggs, etc., $2,000. Six churches, 4 white
and 2 black; Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist and
Episcopal; trade with Marietta 5,003; land worth
$2 50 to $50 per acre; average SIC2; 2 flour mUli; one
hotel; principal products corn and cotton; cotton
average one bale to two aerss; corn 12 to 15 bushels
per acre; chief articles of trade corn and cotton.
Among the merchants are Boston A Gilbert. E H
Macchman, W J Hudson, McCutcbeon A Bro., L S
Nor Jicutt A Co., W P Anderson A Son. Atkinson A
Tucker, Lake A Hunt, Haley A Dobbs, J F Lindley,
Joseph Elsas, N G GUrailiatt, P H Lyon, L C lic-
Lellau, L Bennett A Son, Mrs. B Bcbrentball, Hale; A
0 toper, Wade White, a Hester, D F MsClitchey, A
MMuse.
Druggists—Wm. Boot, J T Haley A Williams.
County Officers - H. SI. Hunmetr, Ordinary; Clerk
of Superior Court, W. J, Henderson; Sheriff W. P,
Stephens.
Moyor, W. H. Tucker.
A Yi'Jcge cn the W. A A. Railroad, was incorporated
in 1868 Population to day about 9C0. One high
school-two-story brick edifice. Three churches, aU
brick—Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian. Five
thousand bales cotton shipped from here; one hun
dred tons hay. $3,000 chickens, eggs and butter.
Niffs stores. About $250,003 anrnti trade. One mer
chant mill-cap ’-dty 100 barrels per day. One hotel,
The avenge "price of lands is $9 00 per acre.
Amount of business annually done with Atlanta,
abont $160 000
There are three manufactories lu Dalton: one of
forniturc, one of castings and one of boots and shoes;
and one steam fburing mill, and two excellent
hotels.
There are six churches in the place—a Methodist,
Baptist, Episcopalian, Catholic, and two Presbyte
rians. y * ■ * ■
Ths number of business houses of every description
reach fifty-two, all of which are doing a good bus
iness. One good wotkly, the Citizen.
ClETEItSVILLE.
Incorporated in 1850; amount of annual business
estimated at $7.0,000; principal products, cotton,
wheat, corn, etc; chief articles of trade, cotton,
wheat, lumber, etc; estimated amount of businets
dine with Atlanta about $150,000; population in
1870. white 1,567, colored 665—total 2,232; population
at pretent about 8,060; annual shipment! of cotton
4,(K0bales; annual shipments ol wheat80 000bath
e’s ; considerable amount of pig i on is shipped from
from three furnaces in our neighboi hood;
Average datlv product of each 3 to 6 tons. There
are other furnaces, however, in tbe county that are
shipping, or will soon make and ehip from 25 to 80
tons per day. Three substantial brick cbnrches—
Methodist, Baptist ssd Presbyterian—and a rest
Episcopal church nearly completed, besides three
churches owned ->y the colored people. The principal
schools ore one female and one male, and two mixed,
with smaller schools, and two or three for colored
children... • ■ •
Public buddings of city-r-a large and commodious
City HaU * also ail * eicelie'nt Court Hours and jail,
(this being the county site), excelled by few If shy
county buildings in tbe State; one hotel and * everal
firet-class boarding houses; tbe walls of the first
story of a three story brick hotel are now up, and
will be pushed rapidly to completion, giving ns one
of the best In tbe State; one newspaper, the Standard
and Express, one of tbe neatest printed papers in tbe
State; one ca* factory and building association; one
fonndry and machine shop; two planing mills and
sash, door and blind factory, and one steam flouring
mill. The quality of land varying so mttch
is difficult to give an average
price, the prices being governed bylceality proximity
of the city; farming lands In the city rated fro a $20
to $100 per acre; the average yield of corn 15 to 25
bushels per acre; cotton, bale toT)£ to 3 acres, occa
sionally better; wheat 7 to 20 bales per acre. Leading
citizens “too numerous to mention.’* Lawyers and
law firm*, Warner Akin, Woffoid A Wfltle, Wofford
A Milner, Colonel Abda Johnson, John Coxe, A. p.
Wofford, M. R. Stan sell, A. M. Foote, G, C. Tntnlin, •
R.;W. Murphy, J. L. Moon, Warren Aiken, and Hon.
A. T. Akerman, late Attorney General of the United
States, with his estimable family also reside here.
Incorporated as a city in 1871; its prospects, aU things
considered, are exceedingly flattering; a very wealthy
English Company has recently purchased the old
Etowah property near here, and will soon, we learn,
spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in building
iron works, factories, etc. Tils is the finest property
in the State, W.H. W.
DALTON.
ALLATOOBA
is a small village, located on the W. A A. Road, forty
milas above Atlanta, at the base of the flrat ridge of
the Allatoona Mountains. It had ita origin in the
gold diggings around it some forty years ago. The
country then was occupied by Indians. The digging
of gold was first by the Indians, then by the whites,
and the building of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad sustained quite a village at Allatoena
for a number of years. Nowit is quite diminutive-
only one store, doing a moderate bnsiness. Popula
tion not over 50, white and black. Cotton has lately
become the staple. Land in the vicinity worth from
$1 to $50 per acre, and some lands in sight of tbe vil
lage have produced a bale of cotton to the acre, weigh
ing 500 pounds. Cotton is the chief article of trade ;
bat little is,bought at this place, and, indeed, but little
(hipped from this depot; The pel hborlng towns of
Cartersville and Acworth (the former having grown
Into a city, and the latter Into quite a town,) have ab
sorbed nearly all the trade of this region.
A large amount of Iron oro has been shipped from
this depot daring the present year—shipped princi
pally to the Rolling Hill in Atlanta. And Mr. Cran-
die, who haj recently purchased a rich bed of ore In
the vicinity la arranging to ship much more exten
sively. ,<?
Mr. T. C. Moore and Capt. T. L Wallace at present
own the wholo village between them. J. A. McDan
iel has a stone residence some half mile from the
village, from which there is a splendid view of tbe
proximate and dls'ant mountain. And Capt. T. L.
Wallace has a beautiful Sylvan residence near hts
Pumpkin Vine plantation. Ailatooiais just south of
the line, dividing the limestone from the free stone
country, -ficenery splendid, good freestone water,
and the air salubrious. It it had schools and churches
and more good people, it would be a very desirable
location..
Down tbe Georgia Road.
DECATUR, GEORGIA,
was incorporated in 1827; has improved much since
the war; a-number of handsome residences have been
built by parties doing business in*Atlanta and resid
ing here for pure air and water. There are several
mineral springs near this place; two schools, nude
and female; three churches, Presbyterian, Metho
dist and baptist; population 403 white, 2U0 colored;
annual business $125,000; principal products, cotton
and - corn ; land worth $25 per acre;
land produces 20 bushels corn or 800 pounds
seed cotton per sere on an average; chief articles of
trade are cotton, com, bacon and guano; trade with
Atlanta $100,000 annually; two mills near; one forni
tore factory, two tanneries. Besides other leading
citizens are Hon, Milton A Candler, Hon Juntas Hill-
j er, J B S Howard, J N Pate, EMason, V B Tommey,
J W Kirkpatrick, G A Ramepcck, Dr W W Durham.
H O Jonet, W S Houston, S A Duraud, RL Barry and
W R Webster and an energetic and efficient Council
composed of the following gentlemen; L J Winn, T
R Bamspeck, H J .vy internsand J B Scranton. Be-
ceipta of. Georgia Railroad Agency $2,651 48.
ETON* MOUNTAIN
4a itity has nineteen badness
and three blacksmith shops;
$1 horses and buggies for hire; 200 handB employed
at rock work, for $1 26 : to $4 per day; two hotels;
three boarding houses; two day schools; two Sunday
Schools; three churches; 1 brick yard; 2 tan yards;
1 steam distillery; five doctors; one lawyer; fonr
cotton bnyers; over $159,000 worth of goods sold
annnally; chickens, eggs and batter sold,
one hundred thonsand dollars; re.-aipta at Georgia
Railroad Agency, $6,932 81; population 1,100; land
yields 300 ponnds of lint cotton per acre, worth from
$10 to $25 per acre. Among the leading citizens ste
J. W. Goldsmith, J. W. McCurdy, B. G. Taylor, E. F-
Veal, W. W. Veal, J. T. Willingham, J. W. Scruggs,
Winniegham, H. N. Hamilton, H. P. Wooten, Dr.
J. L. Hamilton, G. K Hamilton, G. R. Wells, J. G.
Rankin, J. E. Cloud, P. B. McCurdy, O. L. Sammey,
W. Herndon, J. Deiworth.
LITBONIA.
The town of Dalton is twenty-six years old, havirg
been incorporated In December, 1847. It la beauti
fully situated in a level valley or plain which extends
fora considerable distance north and south. To the
east and west of the town rise picturesque mountains
and hills thatare beautiful when crowned with sum
mer verdure, and wild and grand when .draped with
winter’s snow and ice. The atmosphere is pure and
bracing, and the water as fine as any in the State.
This place Is located on the Western and Atlantic
Railroad, and is the terminus cf two other impor
tant roads—tbe Selma, Rome and Dalton,.and the
RistTenhesee and Georgia Roads. There Is another
Road In contemplation—the Dalton and Morganton,
the work upon which will be commenced et an early
day—indeed, several miles of ft have already been
graded. When this road is built, Dalton will then
bec< me an important railway centre and her growth
to that of a place of no small dimensions insured.
Since it will place her directly upon two great thor
onghbrea, making her the distributing point for
both.
The town was almost wholly destroyed during the
late war, scarcely a building being left to tell the tale
of the passage through it of “Sherman’s torchlight
procession;” bat by the energy of her people, to
gether with Us fine healthy location, it has grown
from a population of less than 600, in 1865, to that of
8,000, and this population is being steadily aug
mented.
At the present time there are no less than twenty
new buildings going np in the place, among them
several substantial brick business houses.
Many handsome buildings adorn the town, among
them two fine colleges—male and female—built at the
expense of the town at a cost of $20,000. The first
sessions of these schools opened the first of the month
under the most favorable auspices. The male hutUa-
tion crowns the summit of one of the picturesque M)i«
mentioned, commanding an extensive view, and the
college being built with an observatorn, is admirably
adapted to the accomplishment of astronomical re
searches, etc. The female college is a stately, hand'
some edifice, situated In a pleasant grove. Both Insti
Unions are presided over by an able corps of efficient
teacher b.
The annual business of Dalton, of all kinds, will ap
proximate, if not exceed, $1,003,000.
The chief articles of product and trade are corn,
wheat and cotton. The farmers have only within the
last year or so commenced growing the latter article,
sad the experiment has proved a decided success thus
far, the amount of s.-ed cotton being 950 pounds to
the acre.
Bake of cotton shipped from this point last year
abont 1,200—it will reach 4,060 this year.
Avenge .yield of corn to the acre 25 bmhels, and
that of wheat about 15 trasbels.
Octal er tho Greene County District Fair will be held
here. This town la ninety-five milts from Atlanta.
MADISON.
Fifty-five stares; population, 2,600; city property
worth $92,600; bulk atock.etc., $35,000. The mer
cantile business cannot, be- less than $1,690,000, of
which nearly one half la cotton. Cotton bales received
to the 1st ol September were 10,035k of which 9.471
were sold in Madison. This is an increase over the
previous year of nearly 89 per cent.
The farmers used l,49Uons or guano this year, or
more than double last year. At least 609 males and
horses are sold here yearly. The people are a ve*y
intelligent and refined set of citizens. They have
tasty honsei and grounds.
WASHINGTON.
The home of Bob Toomba; five church;* i
A Female Seminary and male academy; Merchants
and Planters’ Bank; with $100,000 capital; general
business $650.000; cotton bales arid 11,160; cotton
warehouse Just built thatwillstoreS.OOJ bales; many
brick stores going np. Washington is connected by a
branch railroad with the Georgia Railroad. Tbe junc
tion is Barnett.
Up the Air-Line.
GAINESVILLE.
Gainesville is arowing like a young giant. Htr
cotton receipts have leaped to 1,500 bales. She does
some wholesale bnsiness. Over forty' stares are
needed to do her business.
Two newspapers, the Eagle and the Advertiser.
Tiro sash and one car factories. But Gainesville has
been so often written np in The Consfitutioh that
its readers know it by heart.
xoncncss.
Market Reports-From Cham
ber of Commerce.
The lots were sold In this place in 1870 - some time
in Augn*t. At that time no buildings were finished
except Cousin John Thrasher’s Hotel and a few
shanties. It has grown under all adverse dream-
stances to he a considerable village, and is now nuk
ing greater progress than at any former period; A
number ol fine substantial dwellings and bnsiness
houses are now going np, one private residence abont
finished—a concrete structure—one other just
commenced (same material) 40 by 63 two stories high.
A large brick livery stable and a branch dwelling ere
now building in the main port of the town, and many
mere improvements are going on in various parts of
the incorporation. The business of the place has
been good and a largo amount of goods and wares
have been sold here. In regard to the lands and pro
ducts ; our lands average with any in this latitude for
p-oduciion. We raise corn, wheat, oats, cotton, pota
toes. all kinds of vegetables in profn-imi, and onr
soil lacks nothing but marl or lime to make It a first-
rate soil. Mxty bushels of corn has been made on
oue acre; 83 uuebeis of rongb rico on one acre,
and one man bas made over one thousand one hundred
pounds lint cotton three years In succession Fruit
of all kinds do well—p^are and grapes particularly.
Our crops of coltoa fine. Lands are comparatively
cheap, and can be bought at from $10 to $25 per acre.
AU business is done with Atlanta. Among onr enter
prising citizens are such men as Cousin John
'thrasher, Drs. Boring. Id tie* and Richardson, G. T,
Roke, M. T. Lively, 8. T. McEiroy, Col. J. P. i immons
and a host of others. Onr popu’ation Is now about
730. We have about 100 families, and better than all
we have no re'aU nr wholesale liquor shop in tbe in
corporation. We have a flourishing high school under
Prof Vincent. We have excellent water, a fine climate,
'no good clever citizens; and there Is no place lu tbit
- " ' '
wide world where a iau-ily can live happier or more
comiortaole than lu Norcrcss.
Buford founded in 1871; population 300; ootten
bales annually sent to Atlanta 2.000; $10,003 worth
chickens, eggs and butter sent annually to Atlanta
ilao. tine church bouse; three church owanizulons
-two Methodists and one Baptist. Trade with At
lanta $155,000 annnally; wi'h charleston, Savannah.
Baltimore and New York, $50,003, Laud worth $10
per acre; will prodnoe from five to eight hundred
pounds seed cotton, and from fifteen to twenty-five
ouchela corn per acre. Chief article of trade, codon ;
corn chief product. Leading merchants Gamer &
Smith and A. G. Harris. Everybody takes The Cok-
BiiinnoH.’ r r * •• > •
coLUMBca. -fjs,,
Mrs. Ann. Thompson, better known as “Aunt Ai n,
and one of tbe oldest residents and first settlers of
Troy, Alabama, cied in that city on Tuesday night
last, and was buried on Thursday morning. -— PJascie.
the youngest daughter of Mrs. Theresa Watt, died on
the 10th af er an Illness of only three days, and at the
age of eight years. The camp meeting in Meri
wether county, near the Warm Springs, resulted in
the add ltion fo the church of fifteen in embers.—Mi
chael Jones, of Pike connty. Ala., had eleven hogs
killed by lightning one day last week, wh le
lying under a trev during a thunderstorm j. Co-
lumucs jeweler has a happy family consisting of a
dog and a wild cat Last Saturday night some evil-
minded scoundrels at the Warm Springs Camp-meet
ing cut off the manes and tails of horses, and demol
ished buggies, dashboards and shafts The meeting
the next meriting after these outrages had been dis
covered, was of anything but a religious claracter,
and the perpetrators were vigorously consigned to a
place where they will never be able to find stay bug
gies and horses to practice their tricks upon.—Sim
WAYNESBORO.
Georgia Bailrosd finished here in 1845; incorpo
rated 1854; population 039; dsy schools 2; Sunday
schools 2; cbnrches 2; bales cotton sold 500, chick
ens and eggs sold $13.0C0: annual bnsiness $100,000;
guano sold 400 tons; produce and general merchan
dise generally sold; productions, cereals, frnits—
cotton largely In excess of other crops. Land
yields from 500 to 2.400 ponnds cf
seed cotton; ten to thirty bushels of
camper acre, land worth from $10 to $25 per acre;
two granite companies, who pay opretivea $8,000, or
two blacksmith snd two wood shops; one steam cot
ton gin; one variety works, one earh, door and blind
factory, and two furniture factories. Some of the
leading men are W.L.Born, J. H. Bom, Dr. W. P.'
Bond, J. E. George, W. H. Brasswell, D. Longshore;
J, C. Johnson, R. Smith, B. Cagle and Col. John N.
Swift.
COVINGTON.
the death of Miss Lillie Lawson. Rer(de&th occurred
at Oxford, whither she had gone for her health. Her
remains reached the Waynesboro depot at 4 o'clock
Saturday evening, and were met by the Good Tem
plars. Rev. J. E Evans, of Augusta, preached the
funeral discourse.—Expositor.
Incorporated 1821; first named Newtonsloro,
changed to Coving on in 1822; city chir-ered in 1853;
county laid off In 1821, name! in honor of Sergeant
Newton, of revolutionary memory; Covington named
in honor of General Leonard Covington, of the war
Of 1 S X2; population ibont 1,200 whites, 803 blacks;
three white echools, one black; the Southern Masonic
Female College, nndsrthe control of the Grand Lo<Le
of F. A. M.,of the State of Georgia, is located hete,
and IS in a prosperous condition, and with Oxford,
only two miles distant, the seat of Emory Collage,
male, this moral, refined, and intelligent community,
offers superior educational advantages to parents of
any known; 4 churches—1 Methodist, 1 Baptist, 2 col;
two ho’.e.e, one guvno manufactory. Annual business
of the place, $3)0,000 to $480 000, (not including
guano), one-thiid to one-half Is done with Atlanta.
Fries of land—$10 to$15 per acre. Productions—15
bushels of corn, 600 to 830 ponnds seed cotton per
acre. Principle article cf trade—cotton—10,000 to
11,000 hales received annnally. Fertilizer—2,000 tons
sold annnally since the war. Prosperity of the place
on the increase, Tbe Covington and Oxford Street
Railway will soon be completed and running as for as
the depot, three-quarters of a mile, and will be ex
tended on to Oxford during the foil and winter:
Among the prominent citizens—MsyorJ L Jones.Hon
JJ Ftoyd. Hon W W tiiark. Rev J N Bradsoaw.
President Southern Methodist Female College. Rev.
Mr. Kinnebrew, P.sident Boys’ High School. General
RJHesdereon,Gen JPRimma,ColT J Henderson,
Col A B Simms, Ool LB Anderson, Col CD Pice, Hon
John Harris, Col N P Hunter, Col O 8 Rogers, Capt
JMP.ce. etc.
Board of Aldermen—Oliver B Porter, Robert
Wood, J J Deanney, John P Harr s, E W Everett,
Henry Thompson, A W Carlton, Clerk, H W Smith,
Marshal.
SOCIAL CIRCLE.
Two cbnrches, Baptist and Methodist; two echools
two hotels; three millinery stores; nine general
■tores; fonr liquor shops; one carriage shop; one
livery stable; two blacksmith shops; two grist mills
one floor mill; annn.il business, $259,000; cotton
8,800 bales: railroad receipts, $90,000; fertilizers re
ceived, 4,800,000 ponnds. The place Is growing. New
buildings are in process of construction. For a long
time the trains have stopped here for sapper.
UNION FOIST.
five general stores; four railroad workshops. The
Athens branch oi ths Georgia railroad makes junc
tion with that railroad at this point, and is growing,
Cotton is the principal product shipped from here.
The shipments will perhaps reach 4,000 bales. Boms
whett, corn and other small! grain are th'pped. In
BUFORD, GEORGIA.
rr
Summary of State K$ws.
Chamber of Commerce, 1
Atlanta, September 15,1873. J
Flour—Fancy, $10 50all; extra family,
57)110 00; family $8 50a9 00; extra $7 &
air to superfine, $6 OOaG 50; fine $4a6.
Wheat—Red, $150al6C; amber $160a -
170; white, $1 65al 80.
Lime—40a50c per bushel.
Com—Yellow, 78a80c by car load, and
white S0a82}c. order lots.
Meal, 82£a85c.
Lard—Tierce, lOalOJ; kegs and backets,
Ilian*
Bacon—dear sides 12*; dearrib 12; shoal*
derslO*. Sugar cured hams 16al6|.
Balk—clear sides 11*; dear rib 10*all
long dear sides lOlalOj; shoulders 8 34.
Hay—$1 50al 65.
Oats, feed, 50o52; seed 60*65.
Rye—$1 25a 1 35 per bushel.
Barley—new—$1 35al 50 per bushd. / .
Coal—Lump, by car load, at 26c; bladfcC
smith, 22*.
Coffee—Prime to choice Rio 26*a23*. >
Iron Ties—Arrow, 9 1-2 per pound.
Bagging—2 lbs. 16al6 1-2; 21-8 lbs. 17, ,
21-4 lbs. 171-2. Gunny 13 l-2al4.
Atlanta Wholesale fnee Current.
IOOBUOTXD DAXLT.l
Constitution Office, )
Atlanta, September 15,3 o’dock, p.g.)
Remarks.—Trade good. For grain, meat
and lard quotations see quotation of Chamber
of Commerce above.
I
Atlanta Cotton Market.
Cotton,iby rail, is beginning to come in right
vuoivuuuji jnuy jo tv uurnu iu
freely. We quote quiet at I7al7* for mid
dlings.
V
Atlanta Money Market.
Financial.—On account of the stringency
of tbe money market, Ihere has been very
little doing in stocks and bonds. Gold, buy
ing at 1 10; selling at 1 12. (Silver, buying .
at 1 03, selling 1 07.
Exchange—Buying at par, selling at * pre
mium. Bonds and Stocks—Georgia 6s, C3a65,
7s, S8aS8; new Georgia bonds at tbe
State Treasury, 8 per cent noiN^
taxable, $1. Atlanta city bonds, 7s 70
a72; 8s, S0&82. Augusta, 83a85. Georgia
Railroad stock, 86a88; Georgia Rail RofifiT^-.
bonds, 93a95. Atlanta and West Point Rail- ■
road stock, S0a82; Atlanta and West Point
Railroad bonds, 94a96. Central Railroad
stock, 75a78. Rome city 7s, 68a72
Savannah 83. Atlanta National Bank stock I
1 25.
Money commands l*a3 per cent leadily.'
Atlanta. Dry Usods Market.
Prints—Wamsutta, 8; Bedford, St
Amoske&g, 91; Arnold, 9; Albions, 11;-
Spragues, 11; Richmond, 11; DunneUs, Ut
Garner 10*.
Roswell Mills—44 sheeting 12*c; 7-811c. -
yarns $1 60; sewing and knitting thread 50c -
Sheetings, etc.—Graniteville—S-4sheefings,.
8* per yard, 7-8 sheetings 10* per yard,
44 sheetings 12 per yard, 7-8 drills 121-2 per *
yard. Augusta—84 shirtings 8* peryard;7<B<
shirtjngalO* per yard, 4-4 sheetings 12 per-
yard. 7-8 drill 12* per yard. Alabama and)
Georgia and Monitour goods are a 1-2 cent
tAder the above qnot&tlons.
Thomas F. Caulk, formerly s c'tizan of Waynesboro,
Jefferson county, on Sun-
vras married in Louisville,
day last. The whole of this community was thrown
into great grief on Friday last by the intelligence of
' “ *— Lawton ‘ "
ATHXNS.
Business is nickiDg up.—The hotels at Tallulah
Toccca Falls and Nacoochee Valley are crowded with
Visitors this season. The season for courting on
the door strps is drawing to a close, and lovers are
compelled to betake themselves snd their sweet
hearts to the parlor. There was s sudden rise in
dry goods in Athens last Thursday, occasioned by
an Athenlon belle planting her dainty little foot, noon
s treacherous flagstone on Broad street. The
streets are dally filled with wagons from the country.
Thej don’t bring mneh cotton, hut ore loaded with
produce. Tbe caterpillar has mode its appearance
on Mr Bancroft’s place near Athens, but
it is hoped that the cotton is too far advanced for tbe
little pests to do it any damage The exerctees of
the Lacy Cobb institute were resumed last Wedntr-
dsy with 71 ecbolsrs. A former citizen of Athens,
named Cbsr.es Edge, son of Ur. Warner Edge, died of
cholera at Lebanon, Hi., at three o’clock, August 4ta.
Bishop Goss has started a subscription lu Athens
t>. build a Catholic Church. Mr. Bloomleld heads it
with fonr acres of ground snd $60 in money. Guns
were shipped to the Athens Guards oa the 10th —
ortheatt Georgian. .
AUGUSTA.
Tbe pol’ce on Saturday arrested two colored boys,
Leonard Wheeler and Wonzo Thompson, for stealing
a trank containing jewelry and otber articles from the
house of Mrs. Evans at Quaker Springs laatTnurs-
day. Mr. K. J Phillips, an employee at the gin
factory of O. W. Mastey, near Macon, was fount dead
In the woods not far irom Mr. Massey's residence
last Friday morning. Liquor is supposed to have
been the cease A policeman, T. B. Grace, of Ms-
con, came after the colored yon>h. Frank urige*, on
Saturday. Grlgg’e mother gave him $94 to deposit in
bank for her, bat Frank made a mis
take about the credit, and s->me way oi
another got _ the money deposited iu
his own name. The next day^ be drew it and went on
a spree to Augusta. Frank's mother wants to see
him so badly that she bought a new cowhide, and
sent the officer all the way to Augusts after him.—.*
conference of mill-owners of Augusta was held " "
Augusts Exchange, at fonr 0’c‘ock, Saturday
noon, to consider certain matters relative to the
nosed Convention of ueorgia Millers in this dtf
24th in*t The prospects are good ter a lai ge convi
tlon. The question oi unjust dltcrimin.uon by tbe
railroads is tne principal one for discussion.— Chroni
cle and Sentinel.
savannah.
Atlanta Produce Market*
Dried Fruit—Demand good; rough,
peaches 3*a4*: oeeled 7al4.
Eggs—25a27.
Potatoes—Sweet $1 125.
Feathers—We quote at 75aS0 for prime
selections; mixed 65a70.
Beeswax—27a28c.
Rags—8a3*.
Hay—We quote old at $150. No new in
market.
Poultry—Spring chickens command 20a
22*.
Butter—We quote good country at 23&80;
Tennessee, 25a80c. "
Onions—In demand at $1 25al 50 per
bushel.
Wool—35a40c
Atlanta Grocery Market.
Sugars—Market firm; New Orleans, in
hogsheads, 9all for fair to choice; Demarra
12; 13 14; clarified white 12; do yellow 11*
all*; A coffee 12*; extra C do 12 1-4; Porto.
Rico 10*all; yellow C lOall.
Molasses and Syrups—Market steady;.
New Orleans 70&75; Porto Rico 26, inhhds;
refined syrups 45a75.
Coffee—Market firm; we quote Rio,com
mon to choice, 20a281-2; Lagnayra, 80; Java
30a33.
Nails—We quote at $5 50 for lOds, and
25c additional for diminishing grades.
Balt—We quote Virginia, $2; Liverpool,
$2 15a2 20 per sack.
Candles—We quote star 19}a20 per pound.
Fish—We quote as follows; Half barrels,
N03. 1,2 and 3, $9. $7 60 and $6; in kits, Nos.
1,2 and 3, $2, $175 and $150
Pepper—We quote at *8a30.
Spice—We qnote at 18520.
Ginger—We quote at 18a20.
Crackers—5 34al2.
Soda—H in kegs; 9 in boxes.
Rice—We quote at 9*al0. Inferior 8a9t
Teab—We quote Imperial at $lal 50;
Young Hyson $1 15al 59; Black 75a$l 25;
Gunpowder $lal 50. •
Powder—Dupont $7 50; Sycamore Mills
$7 50; blasting $5; fuse per 100 feet 65.
Shot—We quote patent $2 90a3 00; Buck
$315a3 25.
Liquors—We quote common rectified
whisky per gallon $1; Robertson connty
$125a3; Bourbon $1 25a5 50; com whisky -
$115a2.
Brooms—We qnote at $2 50a4 50 per
dozen. 1
Soap—We quote at 5&8c per lb, or $384 60-
i ^
leraflR/
mveV CAT.
The Superior Court holds a special session for the
trial of criminal cases commencing on the fourth
Monday rt November. 1; is rumored that ins
Honor Judge Schley contemplates resigning bis posi
tion ss Judge of tne hat.tern Circuit. Spencer
Fisher, colored, visited the jail lost Saturday for
steaUn? iron and brass from tbe Atlantic and Gull
depot. A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce
has been held in Savannah to couentt upon the im
provement of tbe harbor. General Wayne has mode
a speech. William Kirg and Gilbert Green, both
colurea. had a row Ssturoay night at s grocery store
on the Savannah river. King struck Green on the
side of the head with *n axe, t factoring his skull, snd
inflicting a mortal wound front which he died an
Monday. The murderer bos been arres'ed snd is in
jiilet Beaufort —Adtertiter and Republican.
BilSERIDGE
An old negro woman named Bells Martin recently
died in the Curry settlement of this county. She was
114 years cf age. The negroes of Bainbridge have
organized a fire company, and coil themselves tbe
••Wide-a-Wakes.” Hr. Lawtence Darden, seed 18
years, died of congestion of the bowels.—Democrat.
AXEBXCUa.
Last Friday afternoon Colonel John V. Price died at
his residence near Americas, alter an iiincat of three
weeks. He was one of the most estimable citizens
in the county.-rRepublican.
Atlanta Live stock Market.
ivala—6 car loads of horses and mules.
Cattle—3 cents gross; choice Tennessee-
4a4*. cents
Hogs—5 cents gross.
Sundries.
Seeds—Clover $8; timothy $5; orchard
grass $S; bine grass $3; herd’s grass $2 50. a
Cotton Yarns—We quote at $1 50 per
bunch all numbers.
Candies—We quote stick candy£14*al6;
common fancy 17a25.
Tobacco—Common sound 43a45;.low me
dium 47a50; medium 52a55; fine 60&70; extra
fine 80a$l; Spencer’s Calhoun $113. Princess
twist 85.
Iron—Bar iron $4 25 two horse Iyer;
axes $13 50al4; steel 20a22; shovels; Ames’,
$15; horse and mules shoes 8a9; horse shoe
nails 20a30.
Cheese—Factory 16*al7. State cheese
13al3*.
Oil—Kerosene 28.
Leather.—Sole, hemlock gcoi damaged
25|a28; good 29a33. White oak 40a50.
Black upper 40&55.
Hides—We quote dry, 15al5i; green salted,
8a8 1-2.
Blue Buckets—2 75 per dozen.