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Newspaper Page TextTHE EXPRESS. Cartersville, January Local Notices 15 cents per line, and 10 cents for each additional publication, and no display allowed in the local columns of this paper. Agents for the Express. The following gentlemen are authorized agents for The Express: D. B. Mull, Cassville, Isaac Thompson, Pine Log, Ga., Thomas J. Furry, Rome, Ga. Payne & Vincent, Attorneys, Canton,* Ga. Edward Uagin, Dallas, Paulding county, Georgia. Directory of County Officers. Ordinary— J. A. Howard. Clerk of Superior Court— Thomas A. Word. Sheriff— A. M. Franklin. G. L. Franks, Deputy. Tax Receiver—a. M. Foute. Tax Collector— W, F. Corbin. County Commissioners— Russel 11. Cannon, Chairman. David V. Stokcly, John C. Aycock, F.. 11. Dodd, John 11. Wikle, Clerk. Coroner— D. B. Mull. Surveyor —H. J. McCormick, G. W. Hill, Deputy. AROUND TDK TOWN. Notes Gathered Here and There by our Rep orters. Cold! Rack in with your job'printing. Trot out your ulsters and talmas. Stall’s big horn makes a very at tractive sign for his store. Why in the world can’t a leap year party he gotton up in Cartersvilte? The brilliant and attractive organ grinder was with us on Saturday last. These are beautiful mornings, but be hanged if we like to get up to look at them. Pleas Shelman, the invincible, smiles from behind the desk at the Bartow House. Have any of our young men for gotten that pledge they made on the Ist instant ? These ohl husky-faced bachelors about Cartersville had better look out for this is leap year. This being Court week for Bartow county there are quite a number of guests in cur midst. If you have a favor to ask of a man now be sure to shut the door when you go into hisoffie. But few men can handle a hot lamp chimney and say there is no place like home at the same time. We want to see the life and busi ness of Cartersville spread out in the advertising columns of The Epress Mr. ltalston, of Macon, was in the city on Monday, and left on Monday for the copper mines near Rockmart. And now the average Cartersville youngster “chunks” his last rock at the c'oy and unsuspecting robin and hies away to school. The crowd from Cartersville that attended Rex’s carnival in Atlanta last week, have returned, well pleas ed with Atlanta’s get up. If somebody don’t stop sending somebody’s name to the Matrimonial Bazaar as a candidate for matimony, somebody will get hurt. Rev. Mr. Pledger, the Presiding Elder of this circuit, preached an able sermon to a large congregation at ihe Methodist church on Sunday night last. Old “Probs” having rushed in spring so suddenly not only caused the flowers to put forth their little buds, but has brought out the spring fights also. Two or three this week. This being leap year, ladies will govern themselves accordingly. To some we would say “look before you leap,” also, leap out of them “tied baeks.” Capt. J. Lindsey Johnson,of Rome, W. B. Arnold, of Floyd county, Mr. Joe Roper and the veritable Biil Arp, of Kingston were ail in town on Saturday last. A couple of squads of Federal troops under command of two lieutenants arrived in our town on Monday I morning, and branched out from here i to look after “crooked” whisky. We do not know whither they went. Tom Gibson and Fletcher Smith, of the Cedartown Express arrived on Sunday. Mr. Gibson returned on Monday and Fletcher will remain a week or two with his old friends. W. S. Grady, Esq., of the Atlanta Herald, is spending a day or two in this neighborhood. We don’t know his mission unless it is to reverse the order of leap year,and to infringe upon female rights. Mr. W. G. Dobson returned from Atlanta on Monday evening, and it is hoped he will remain here perma nently. Cartersville can’t get along well without Dobson, and then we want all the clever men here. Mr. W. A. Marschalk has retired from the Planters Advocate to take up the shovel and the hoe and to “gee haw” along the corn and cotton rows. We dont know but he has exercised wisdom in the change. Messrs Presley and Gibbons, of Floyd county, have been in our town the present week. Presley is one of the famous trio of Acton, Underwood ■and Presley which has been grouped in a potographic picture, neither of them weighing over five hundred pounds. Prof. Teusler, Music Teacher. Attention is diiected to the adver tisement of the above gentleman who desires to secure a class in Car tersville of at least ten pupils. If that number can be secured he will visit our town twice a week for the purpose of instructing them. Prof. Teusler is one of the most thorough and accomplished teachers of music in Georgia. Being a Ger man and having been taught music under the most rigid discipline, his acquirements are of the most ar tistic character, and his facility of im parting insures the most thorough training of his pupils. Having been a patron of the Pro fessor we know whereof we speak when we state that parents or guar dians will seldom find such an oppor tunity of having their children or wards eDjoy such advantages for mu sical education. Prof. Teusler respectfully refers to Mr. G. H. W aring, of Kingston, his patrons, and the press of Rome. Parties desiring instruction can leave Iheir names at The Express offic THE PRODUCTION OF IRON. Where Future Supplies are to Come From To the Editor of The Express : I will endeavor to comply with your request, and give a brief statis tical account of iron ; the advantages of Northern Georgia and Alabama in the making thereof; also to offer a few suggestions. Sacred history asserts that Tubal cain was the first worker of iron, and the Assyrians and Egyptians made great progress. In India, where now the finest steel is made, there is an immense wrought iron column, near Delti, fifty feet high, weighing not less than seventeen tons. How it was’, forged with the rude facilities of that age remains a mystery. There are evidences of iron being made in China, Burmah, Japan, Afghanistan and Persia, also many places in Northern and Central Africa. There is scarcely any country in Europe in which iron is not made, although at the beginning of the present century we have no statistical account. There was not more than 500,000 tons made in the world, of which 185,000 tons were made in England, where the first railroad was opened for travel from Darlington to Stockton in 1825. On account of the introduction of railroads, there was a greater demand for iron, so the product increased greatly, as per report : Y’rs. World. England. U. S. 1800. 1,100,000 tons 618,000 tons tons 1810. 3.(X >,OOO “ 1,500,000 “ 285 000 “ ’ 1850. 6,000,000 “ 2,250 OJO “ 600 000 1861. 8,000,000 “ 4,5" 0,000 “ 974 000 “ 1869. 11,000,000 “ 6,445,757 '• 1,916 641 “ 1874. 13,000,000 “ 0,850,000 l> 2,850,000 “ The iron business is now depress ed, yet there is a reasonable assur ance, before the end of the present year, it will Jegain its usual prosperity. The present is the best time to prepare for it. There is an abundance of good iron ore in this State and in Alabama, generally brown hematite, specular and mag netic ores, with an abundauee of tim ber to make charcoal, with a coal field of sufficient capacity to supply demands for sev?ral hundred years in Georgia alone, and in Alabama there are ten times ars much, as it contains over 4,000 square miles of mineral coal. The coal fields of Eng land are not as productive as they were ; consequently, the demand will develop the resources of the United Stages, especially the South. There Is no country where coal and iron is known to exist in such abundance, so the increasing demand to supply the world must be made here. It would be the interest of the makers of pig-metal to exert themselves to finish the iron into some profitable form. There are sevqjil places on the Western and Atlantic Railroad. Cartersville alone having in its vi cinity large bodies of iron ore and seven or eight blast furnaces. A roll ing mill to make boiler plates and light or thin sheet iron, especially from numbers 16 to 23, will pay a handsome profit, and is a prime ne cessity. There is not a mill of this kind nor a sheet of iron rolled in the following States: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. J. 11. Jones. D. W. Curry, bus just received a fresh stock of pure drags, oils aud chemicals, aud cn ■ ouirged by the past liberal patronage, he siill offeis such inducements to cash cus.om ers that will not fail to give h'm that Liade which fiist-dass goods, polite attention and unusually low prices begets. K ; s establish lishuient is one door north of the Postoffice, Caviersville, Ga. janl3-lt A Free Bridge Across the Etowah, The citizens of a-good portion of Bartow county—those living South of the Etowah—are heavily taxed in visiting their county site, either on private business or to serve the pub lic. This lax is very considerable upon the farmers in bringing their produce to Cartersviile, which con sumes no inconsiderable amount of their profits, and is quite a burden to small farmers. Efforts have been made, as we un derstand it, to secure the building of a free bridge by the county, near Puckett’s feiry. We understand, also, the grand jury lour years ago, recommended the building of such a bridge. It is claimed by the people directly interested that as they have been taxed for building bridges over the county, and that the county be ing better able and the people more urgent in their demands, the grand juries ought to give some heed to what is believed to be a public ne cessity. We are also informed the people are willing to contribute money for the purpose over and above their taxes. They claim that they are entitled to this consideration at the hands of the county. These are points we are not familiar with. How able the county is to meet this expense we do not venture to say, but it would certainly be not only a great conven : ence but a relief to the people interested to have such a free bridge. The columns of Ty e Express are open to the discussion of this subject by all pa; ues interested. Strangers in the City. The following is a list of the stran gers who have been visiting our city this week: At the Bartow House. —It. L. My aatt, Thos. R. Allen, Atlanta; R. J. Harris, Mat Thomas, W. K. Harris, Jno. A. Crawford, Col. Joe ltoper, Kingston; Dr. Hughes, Adairsville; Col. Wash Johnson, R. A. Keith, Dalton ; Tlios. Tumlin, Euharlee. At the Ricks House.—J. L. Moon, R. E. Boyd, C. B. Blacker, B. J. Hutchins, W. S. Grady, Jno. C. Goodwynne, A. C. Ladd, W. W. Draper, J. S. Presley, Atlanta; C. D. McCutehen, D. A. Walker, Wm. L. Lumpkin, Dalton; J. C. Branson, Kingston ; C. M. Keith, Miss C. D. Keith, Miss Katie Brobson, Miss M. Summers, Athens, Tenn.; W. Saddler, Rwik Hill, S. C.; E. E. Clarke, Connecticutt; R. S. Phillips, Euharlee; A. Harris, U. S. A.; G. W. Ware, Fayetteville; A. T. Hack ett, Ringgold ; W. H. Chamberlain, W. D. Kirkpatrick, Bartow Iron 1 Works. Court-House Hots. C. D. McCutchen, Judge, and A. T. Hackett, Solicitor-General, are in at tendance. The following eases have been dis posed of, up to yesterday noon: Addison A. Jones et al. vs. Z. South and Seaborn Spencer, tenants in poasession. Judgment for defend ants. Akin <fc Son for defendants. Addison A. Jones et al. vs. J. H. Ruckman and Mary Ruckrnan, tenants in possession. Judgment for defendants. Akin & Son for defendants. G -L- McDonald vs. Stiles Pecket al. A edict for plaintiff in the sum of $366.26 f with interest and costs. Thomas W. Milner and James B. Conyers, attorneys for plaintiff | L - Bennett et al. vs. Thomas J. Skel t()Q. _ Verdict for defendant. Wofford & Milner, attorneys for defendant. B. G. Pool vs. W. H. Stiles & Cos. Verdict for plaintiff for $444.53, witn interest and costs. Wofford & Milner for plaintiffs. Arthur A. Price vs. Susan S. Solo mon, executrix. Dismissed. Warren Akin & Son, attorneys for defendant.- J. A. Ansley vs. R. A. Alston. Dis missed. W offord & Milner, attorneys for defendant. The following is a list of thcGrand Jury for the first week : A YSheats.F’m’n, G H Waring,Cl’k, Sr J xx9°.°P er > L M Gillarn, W W Myers, W S Battle, Joshua Suinner, T N Pittard, L P Aunspaugh, J H Harrison, WH Logan, RCRowan, T C Moore, Lewis, J K Rowan, J F Morton, J A Stone, T N Harris, R M Pattillo. The criminal docket will be taken up next Monday. The road commissioners, who were summoned to be in attendance at the present term of Bartow Superior Court, wili not be required to appear before the last week of court. The Grand Jury have a large amount of business before their body this week. Judge Dawson A. Walker and Col. J. A. W. Johnson, of Dalton, are the only attorneys from a distance in at tendance upon court. Jim Alfred is master of liis hnsiuess. Tlie Visit of Northwester a Men. At some time in the near future a large delegation of Northwestern men propose to pay a visit to Geor gia on a tour of observation, to see our country and to learn more of its society, its resources, etc. These gentlemen will visit Atlanta, and will pass through Cartersville. It would be a veiy fortunate circum stance if they could be induced to spend a day or so in Cartersville and learn something of our town and county, to see specimens of our min eral resources, and to be made ac quainted with tuo fact that Bartow is the best agricultural county in the Slate, and that she is almost a solid bed of iron. If these facts could be thus made ! known, it is not improbable that many of these gentlemen’s observa tions, obtained by a day’s sojourn in our midst, would be the means of directing a great deal of capital here for the development of our great county, and thus make our people richer in a few yeais? There is no telling what would be the result. Cannot our city authorities inau gurate a movement ro detain these tourists one day in Cartersville? They will comprise some of the best men in the Northwest, Jim Allred tlie bootmaker, will work cheap for the cash. Our Town anti County. We have the pleasure to announce that our town and county are both free trom debt—the county having paid up its last indebtedness last week, The town does not owe more than five hundred dollars, if that much, and has assets equal to ten times that amount. When times get better, as we think they must, there will be no more prosperous a people than we of Cartersville and Bartow county. If our authorities refrain from making debts and engaging in any wild schemes we shall have the best town and county in the State. Let us all be united in building up both. Jim Alfred’s shop is ia the rear of Hudgins and Mountcastle’s harness shop. Don’t for get the place. The Weather and th3 Winter. This has been, so far, one of the most remarkable winters upon rec ord. For weeks the weather has been warm and balmy like spring, with now and then a cold srfap. With this we have had a great deal of rain, and but little sunshine until within the past week or two. We had several warm, balmy days last week, ending with rain on Sunday night. Since then the atmosphere has been rather pinching. Yesterday morning the sun rose brightly upon a cool, bracing morning, and the thick white frost was beautiful and enchanting, and the day continued clear and magnificent. Hook and Ladder Parade, Our hook and ladder company had its regular parade on Monday after noon. Only a few of the faithful ones were out. We learn that there is very little interest manifested by some of the members of this com pany. Such should not be the case. Let all turn out on their next parad day. That Minstrel Show. The minstrel show that appeared in Cartersville week before last, played for the Episcopal church at the suggestion of a friend of the church, who intended no disrespect to any one, and for which the church was in no way responsible. The gen tleman at whose suggestion the en tertainment was given had no desire to involve the church in any way, and acted from motives of the utmost friendship. So the church nor its of ficers had nothing to do with the show, nor did the gentleman suggest ing the benefit mean to do wrong. Apropos. Every little town boasts of its pretty girl or girls, but I think that Stilesboro, can pride itself upon having two of the most interesting young ladies I ever met. At a party given at Capt. Shelman’s, I was charmed with their ease, grace and fluency. Miss S. seems to venture her remarks with a peculiar modesty, which is quite becoming and atfrac tive. Miss D. converses with more self-confideuce. I am not no\v sur prised that our Cartersville boys should be so attracted towards Stiles boro, for there we find the united accomplishments of Beatrice and Cleopatra. W. Fine tobacco and cigar?, cheap, "at W. II WIKLE & CO.’s Book store janl3-2t. The City Drug Store. It is not an undeserved compli ment when we say that M. G. Wil liams’ drug store is the neatest and most attractive establishment of the kind in the city, stocked as it is with pure drugs, paints, oils, etc., and an elegant display of fancy and toilet ar ticles, together with the presence and courtesy of that genial, clever and handsome countenance of “Frank”— always at his post. These make it a desirable store at which to trade. Jim Alfred has a first class stock of French calfskins, kip and side leather ou hand. To he Sent to the Asylum. Augustus Johnson, of Chattooga county, who was arrested here a week or two ago, was brought before a jury of investigation, on a writ of mquirendo last Saturday and adjudg ed a lunatic. From the testimony adduced, we are of the opinion that the verdict of the jury was a correct one. He will be sent to the State Asylum. If you want a good boot go to Alfred’s shop. He can fit tlie foot without fail. The Etowah Committee. Tiie committee appointed at Can ton, on the 6th inst., to memorialize Congress in regard to the opening of the Etowah river, will meet in Car tersville on Saturday, (day after to morrow,) the Isth inst. Good hemlock and white sole leather at Al-rep’s shop, at Hudgins & Mountcastle’s. Treasurer Jones. The Governor having decided to institute the suits against ex-Treas urer Jones and his sureties, in this county, the declarations were filed at a late hour yesterday, in the clerk’s office of our Superior Court, by At torney-General Hammond ami Mc- Cav and Trippe, as counsel for the State. One case is against ex-Treas urer Jones and the sureties, John T. Grant and C. A. Nutting, upon the first bond for $200,000 and the second suit against Ex-Treasurer Jones and the surities, Agustus R. Jones, John A. Jones, Seaborn Jones and Batt Jones, of Folk county, James Wad dell, of Cobb comity, and James Russell, of Muscogee county, upon the second bond for $20,000. It will be remembered that the sureties upon the first bond deny that they are bound, because said bond was only a tempoary one. The suits are cal culated to give much legal battling, and our readers can hardly venture upon opinions as to the result.— Constitution o f yesterday. James A'l,ed is the bust boo.maker iu the county ot Bartow. The Slanderer fknswe.'ed- Washington, D. C. Jan. 11. Ben Hill’s reply 0) Blaine to-day was an answerable refutal of the lat ter's slanders yesterday upon Mr. Davis and the Southern people. It was listened to with marked atten tention and applauded during deliv ery and at ite close. While it was calculated to offend fanatics and fools, it was throughout a staunch union speech, and as such honestly reflected the sentiments of the Southern men in Congress. Some milk-and-water democrats think that m u - Dom in his speech, and declare that Blame’s purpose was to provoke just such a reply, but all the capital Blaine and the third termers can make out of this speech will not avail them much. They have been taught a lesson to-day, and that is that here after they cannot slander the South with impunity.— At. Constitution. Your work is always ready wtieu promised at Allied’s shop. Cotton Manufacturing in Georgia. —According to the Finan cial Chronicle there are forty-five cotton mills in Georgia, which con sume annually 50,214 hales of cot ton. One-sixth or the amount is taken at Columbus. South Caroli na is the next largest Southern State in this production and con sumes 19,905 hales. The entire Southern consumption is 145,079 bales, of which Georgia lakes over one-third. It would seem that we are doing very little when the con sumption of Massachuseets is put down at 450,204. Rhode Island 132,348, New Hampshire 123,530, and the whole North 1,067,001 bales. Ev ery mill built in the South is mak ing her that much richer and more independent of the North. Tha Bartow House, so well kuown in this communi.y, was opened again last Monday at noon, by Mr. Diekerson, of Morristown, Tennessee, and the hospitality shown to those who partook of the excellent dinner, was only a part of the features that will be prom inent at thal hotel while under the charge of Mr. Dickinson. He comes among us a stran ger, and expects to build up the reputation of the Bartow House by lurnisbing the tables whh the very best to be found iu this or ] other markets, aud with well-furnished rooms j an orderly house, the patient attention, to ! gether with Pleas Sbellman behind the Clerk’s desk, who will devote all the attention to the comfort of bis guests, and all that accommo dation that has won for him so much popu larity in the past, and has characterized the l opularity of the Bartow heretofore, wili be fully sustained. Passengers will note the ; above facts when stopping at Cartersville. ■ janl3-lt. ■ Retrenchment.— The members I of Congress who have been investiga ting the subject of government ex penditures with a view of retrench ment are of the opinion that the es j timates for the ensuing year he cut i down forty-three million dollars. This includes a reduction of eight million in the army appropriation, and about the same in the navy budget. The remainder of the re duction will be made up of the small slices from all the estimates, except that of the State Department, which wilinot be interfered with. The Johnson Okequies. Washington, January ll.—Mr. Young, of Tennessee, in closing his eulogy upon Andrew Johnson, on Tuesday, said: Massachusetts has just buried Hen ry Wiison, her own great commoner, who, like his distinguished compeer, rose from the humblest origin to the highest stations and most distin guished honors, and the emblems of mourning tyat festoon this hall and droop with the half-mast flag of our country attest the nation’s sympathy with the ancient commonwealth of the East. In the performance of these cere monies, it should forever forget the differences growing as well out of the providence of God as the fo'ly of men, which have so long and so un happily divided those whom the in terest of civilization and the destiny of their race requite that to be broth ers not only in political relations but in social feelings. It were better if we could conse erte this hour to tho service of the living as well as to the honor of the dead, by burying in the graves of Andrew Johnson and Henry Wilson the bitterness and hatreds which have so long burned in the hearts of our people. Let Mas sachusetts and Tennessee join hands over the tombs of their great states men and renew that broken bond of political union and fraternal affection which once bound them so nearly to gether. Though they have entered the val ley of the shadow of death, let us emerge from the shadow of our past misfortunes into the full brightness of that day the coining dawn of which already begins to gild with golden azure the heavy clouds which have so long hung upon our political horizon. Now, in the opening of the centen nial year of our national life, before coming spring shall spread its ver nal robe over the graves of our illus trious dead, let the yawning chasm rent by the throes of a horrid civil war be forever closed, and the bless ings of prosperity, good government and perpetuai peace be vouchsafed to a people who have’made themselves worthy to receive them. A man cannot possibly be happy witho 111, giving Dennis Vandivere’s bakery a call. Rome District—First Round. Cartersville, January Bth and 9th. Rome circuit and DeSoto mission, at Beach Creek, January loth and 16th. Forrestville, at Rush’s Chapel, Jan uary 23d and 23d. Cave Spring, January 29th and 30 th. Cedar Valley and Cedar Valley circuit, February sth and 6th* Van Wert, at Chulio, February 12th and 13th. Marietta, February 19tli and 20th. Aeworth, at Acworth, February 26th and 27th. Powder Springs, March 4th and sth. Douglassville, at Factory Hill, March lltli and 12th. Dallas, at Bethel, March 18th and 19th. W. P. Pledger, P. E. West & Woodruff, Home. This firm keep on hand an extensive and varied stock of drj r goods, men’s furnishing goods, and in fact all classes ot goods general ly kept in a first-class dry goods store. Par ties visiting Rome will do well to give them a call, if good goods and cheap goods are de sired. declG-4t. Washington, Jan. B.— The propo sition of the Mobile & Montgomery Railroad, looking to a fast mail ser vice from New York to New Or leans, via Louisville, Nashville and Montgomery, has not been finally acted upon ; but after inquirv to-day at the Postoffice Department, it is safe to say that it will almost cer tainly be adopted. The department will probably run two trains a day, as proposed, but will not put on "a postal car south of Nashville. The department officiate to-day regard this route from Louisville via Nash ville and Montgomery as practical ly the best in the service between New York and New Orleans. Ladies shoes a specialty at Alfred’s shop. Dcunis Vandivere, Ihe baker, keeps the neatest aud most attractive store in town. The Way to Make Money. My son, deal with men who ad vertise. You will never lose by it. Benjamin Franklin. The road to fortune is through printer’s ink.—P. T. Barnum. My success is owing to liberality in advertising.—Robert Bonner. Frequent and constant advertising brought me all I own.—A. T. Stew art. Success depends upon a liberal pat ronge of printing offices. —John Ja cob Astor. How can the world know a man has a good thing unless he advertises the possession of it? —Vanderbilt. Judicious, sharp business adver tising is a splendid way to make money. Franklin, Barnum, Bonner, Stew art, Astor and Vanderbilt understood the use of printer’s ink. First come first served at Alfred’s 6hop. Killing in Haralson. We learn from the Rome Commercial that on Tuesday afternoon, of last week, Mr. Dick Taliaferro was con versing with some friends on the streets of Buchanan, when Mr. Cicero Goggins walked up, and called him asside. Some hot words were passed and Mr. Taliaferro was heard to say, “I am not armed and you have the advantage of me. Take your hands from your pocket.” Whereupon Mr. Goggins drew his hand out, and with it a pistol. He tired twice, the first shot did no harm but the second took effect in in Mr. Taliferro’s left side, near the hip. Mr. Taliaferro has since died from the effect of the wound. Jim Alfred the City Bootmaker, can fit de formed feet. He makes any and all kinds of work. The Nashville American has this from a responsible hog dealer of Williamson county of that State : j “Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 31. 1875.—T0 the hog and cattle dealers of Middle Ten nessee: Don’t ship your stock here for several days after the cold weath .er sets in. Packers are full. The 1 weather is as warm as May. No market. Good hogs sold here to-day for 61e.” Jim Alfred will repair boots aud shoes neat i and cheap. juul3 2t. A correspondent of the New York Tribune, writing from Harrisburg, asserts very positively that of the Democratic candidates for the Presi dential nomination, Tilden is the last choice of the Pennsylvania Democra cy. Gov. Hendricks, he says, is the 1 candidate most favored. Georgia Farmers. Meeting of the Georgia State Agricultural Society. Secretary's Office, | Atlanta, December 20,1875.) To the Couniy Agricultural Societies and Chibs : 1. The Spring meeting of 1876 of the State Agricultural Society will take place in the city of Brunswick, on the second Tuesday (Bth day) of Febuary, 1876. 2. We hope, through the continued liberality of the rail roads, to obtain Importation for the members free both ways. The rail roads, however, will positively not pass but three delegates from a coun ty. It is useless to ask an extension of the rule. Where, therefore, there are two or more clubs in one county each claiming three delegates, this Society cannot make application for transportation for any of them until' the several soiceties have ar ranged among themselves, and agreed upon the tiiree delegates to represent the county. We cannot discriminate at this office. Delegates, by agreement with the railroads, will be required to go by the most direct routes. 3. The county societies must forward to this ottice.th rough the enclosed blank form, by the 25th January (or sooner if possible) their reports, showing the number of members and number of meetings actually held during the past six months, according to re quirement of the Constitution, and also the names of their delegates, certified to by the President and Secretary of the Club. 4. Life mem bers wishing to attend the Conven tion should give notice to the Secre tary, at Atlanta, by or before 25th January. 5. A full and interesting programeof proceedings will be made up ard published in due time. The repprt of Dr. Pendleton, on this oc casion, will be one of the most val uable and interesting he has ever made, as it will give his experiments, for the past year, bearing on the cheap production of cotton and the cereals, considered in respect to the three important elements which enter into the cost of their produc tion, viz: food, labor, fertilizers. A. H. Colquitt, President. Malcom Johnston, Secretary. Salt Lake City, January 11.— I lie message of Gov. Emery was read to the territorial legislature. He argues strongly against polygamy and urgues legislation for its equita ble abolition. The message calls at tention to the necessity of a complete system ot tree schools, and urges the repeal of the present registration of voters and which puts the power in the hands of the church,and is imitative to republican govprnmeut and advises legislation in regard to marriage and those authorized to per form the ceremony. McWilliams & Cos., of Home, Have just received for this season their second large stock of Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, Clothing, Hats, Carpets, &c., and are now offering the greatest bargains ever offered iu this country. This stock has been bought recently at greatly reduced prices and they propose giving their customers the benefit of the lowest prices ever made in this section. They are doing an Immense business, and parties in want of anything in their line wili fiud it to their interest to look through this mammoth stock before buying. We have been through this extensive house and will say that their stock is immense and prices astonishingly low. Call and see their stock when you visit Rome. dec 9. New Orleans, January ,11.— The democratic members of the house to day went into an election for United States senator. Of the republican members only ex-Governor Hahn took part. He nominated J udge Tal iaferro of the supreme court. State senator J. B. Eustis, of New Orleans, was elected by 58 majority. He re ceived 61 votes. The senate passed a resolution that there was no vacancy and therefore no necessity for an election, by 13 to 12. The democratic senators, however, will attend the joint session to-morrow, and it is said the republican senators will join them when Eustis will be elected by ale gal majority on joint ballot. Taxation in New York.— The board ot estimate and apportionment ot New York city have determined on what it will cost the tax payers for that city’s government next year. The total estimates foot up $30,898,265, against $32,307,741. for 187A. ‘TaTi . oi nearly $1,000,000, not quite five per cent. Tne Tribune says: ‘‘This wdl be an acceptable le li.ef, though it scarcely reaches the av erage economy which our citizens are practicing in their private expendi tures.” New Orleans is moving to secure a convention of the Governors during the carnival week to consider the in terests ot the Mississippi Valley and to adopt comprehensive measures to promote immigration for their more rapid development. Jefferson Davis, President of the Mississippi Valley Society, proposes that the convention b% made the occasion of a grand or ganization extending all over the South. He thinks it would cause the transfer of the headquarters of the Mississippi Valley Society from Lon don to New Orleans, and that much more active operations would be in- The forthcoming mutual council of Congregational churches, to take into the consideration the differences ex isting between Plymouth Church and Mrs. Moulton, is to consist of five delegates at large and pastors and two delegates from ten churches on each side. The names of these pastors, churches and lay delegates will not be announced. They have been incited to participate in the council and have signified their will ingness to do so. The public lands committee, of which Mr. Saylor, of Ohio, is chair man, have decided to go to work upon three important reforms in the pub lic land system. First, to restore to settlement the public lauds in Flori da, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas; second, to protect the timber lands, and third, to provide for the settling the titles ol persons occupying lands under the homestead act, which have been in fringed by land grant railroads and from other causes. The widow of Gen. Geo. H Thomas w rites to the New York Herald to the effect that the letter of Gen. Thomas to Gen. F. H. Smith, of Lexington, Va., written in January,lß6l, had no reference to any position in the Southern army, but was written with the view of applying for the position of Commander of Cadets and Instructor of Tactics at the Vir ginia Military Institute. Mrs. E. A. Jack, aged 72, one of the oldest residents of Rome and one among the first members of the M. F. Church of R une, died very sud denly at 1 o’clock Tuesday, at her home near the city. She died as she lived, a true Christian woman loved by all. The Cotton Crop. The C 'atistician of the D partment of Ag? ;ulture has completed the compilation of official returns for the past month, and finds correct the general assumption of a lower yield of lint in proportion to seed cotton. Only Arkansas and Texas report a larger yield than in 1874. TheAlan tie State r, which have previously made low estimates of the aggregate production, all return a smaller yield of lint seed in comparison with the previous crop, none of them over GO pounds to each 100 pounds of seed. The average decrease in all the states is 4 per cent. The production is attributed in most cases to extensive moisture, and the result of the imperfect develop ment of the boll, and in some to the effects of the early drought in pre venting full maturity. The cotton grown in fields heavily dressed with commercial fertilizers, is found to i have a greater proportion of devel- i opmenf'of seed than of lint. The j average quality of fibre is somewhat | lower ban last year. Arkansas and Texas furnish the | only exceptions to this statement, l though the average depreciation is ' slight in Louisiana and Alabama. It; is greatest in Mississippi and the At- j lantic States. The proportion of the j crop gathered on the Ist of December j was 90 fier cent, reported as follows.* j North Carolina 89, South Carolina 95, Florida 91, Georgia 82, Alabama [ 87, Mississppi 95, Louisiana 85, Texas 94, Arkansas 96, and Tennessee 78. In announcing the monthly cotton reports of the season, the average condition from June to October is made 967 per cent, against 83 in the same period of 1874. This would in dicate a crop of about 4,400,000 bales with an equally favorable autumn and an equal proportion of lint. The loss of four per cent, in the yield of lint makes a reduction of 170,000 bales, and the difference in maturing and gathering since October points to a further reduction of two to four per cent, with a margin of 100,000 bales for contingencies after the first week in December. The seasons’ report taken together indicate a crop of not less than 4,050,000 hales nor more than 4,150,000. According to a Washington tele gram, the Democrats of the Iloune seem to he aiinos„ a unit in disap proving the desire manifested by the Louisiana Conservative Convention to disregard the Wheeler compro mise and re-open the Louisiana case. They prefer that all questions of pol itics in that State should be left to be settled at the election next fall. Washington, January 11.—Sen ate—Merrimon introduced a bill to pay North Carolina certain moneys; Bogy to establish a branch mint at St. Louis; Dorsey to bridge the Miss issippi at Memphis, also to amend act supplementary to acts incorpor.it ing'the Texas Pacific railroad. Mor ton, Cooper, McC ' cry, Paddock, Bo gy, Jones, Baya and and Key spoke in eulogy of Andrew Johnson, and ap propriate resolutions'passed. “There exists,’’says the Atlanta cor respondent of the Augusta dr. onicle , a growing conviction that all exemp tion laws ought to he repealed. Men of business experiences say no capi talists in the work will seek Georgia as long as she maintains such a sys tem of laws—laws that will not se cure creditors in their investments unless they he dealing every time with an honest man.” The hotels are filling up with the members of the legislature. At one of them yesterday afternoon we saw, among others, Hon. Thos. Hardeman, the speaker. Hon. John H. James and others of our citizens were on hand,renewing old acquaintances and making the members welcome to the city.— At. Constitution of yesterday. The Omaha Herald is suorised that Babcock, on a salary of $4,00U a year should have been able to accumulate a handsome foriune. The Herald for gets that the SI,OOO a year was only the army salary, and did not inc’ude the emoluments of Washington ring measurer, partner of Boss Shephejd, and White House advocate for the St. Louis and Chicago i ings. Bowen has changed his mind and withdrawn his second suit against the Brooklyn Eayle. This says the ?.''A.\.*i *o uS ■fefff- tlio'usand dollars, even in deprediated rag money, for a haraeter ought to con sider himself fortunate. The exact number of the Georgia railroad company's stockholders is fourteen hundred and eighty-four. Just that number are being made happy by the receipt of a four-per cent semi-annual dividend. The Georgia road has resumed. Mr. Clarence Stephens having become postmaster at Crawfordville, Air. II W Baldwin is no* the editor of thq Home Journal. He promises to give his readers s high-toned relia ble paper,and we believe he will do it The statement that Cassius M. Clay will preseut bis own name to the next Democrat ic National Convention as a candidate for Vice President does not appear to create ifluch of a sensa tion anywhere. Dr. Linder man, Director of the Mint, has recommended Indianapolis as the proper place for the estab'ish inent of a Branch Mint. Unhappy St. Louis! Govenor Hendricks will deliver the opening address at the Southern States Agricultural anu Industrial ex hibition at new' Orleans, February 26- The debt of New Orleans is twen ty-one millions of dollars, and the city is trying to make a compromise with its creditors on the basis of sixty cents on the dollar. .■ . " 111 m,,m 9 IF YOU Want boarders, W'aut a situation, Want a salesman, Want a servant girl, Want to rent a store, Want to sell a piano, Want to sell a horse, Want to buy a house. Want to buy a horse, W'aut to rent a house, Want to sell a carriage, Want a boarding place, Want to borrow money, Want to sell dry goods, Want to sell groceries. Want to sell furniture, Want to sell hardware. Want to sell real estate, Want a job of carpentering, W'anta job of blacks mi tiling, W'an* to sell millinery goods, W aut to sell a house and lot. Want to advertise to advantage, W'an’ttofiud anyone’s address, Want to sell a piece of furniture, Want to bny a second-hand carriage, Want to find anything you have lost. Want to sell agricultural implements, Want to And an owner for lost property. Advertise in THE CARTERSVILLE EXPRESS. Trade and Finance. MONEY AND COTTON MARKET. Office of The Fxfress. i Cartkrsvlllf, G a., January 13, 1876. f Corrected Weekly by J. J. Howard, President of the Planters’ and Miners’ Bank. FINANCE. „ , , . Buying Selling j Gold,premium $1 12 1 14 Gold closed in New York Tuesday, at 1.13. COTTON. Cotton has begun to come in again, and at offered is eagerly Ltught at 2*, to 12 cents j This is now one of the host markets this side of Augusta. No charirc for weighing. Low middlings closed in New York yester day at 12 9-16. C2TERSVILLK RETAIL PRICES CXBEEYT CORRECTED WEEKLY BY 11. S. BEST. FLOUR— }>er cwt .$3 25 it COFFEE—for best, V*. lb 25, l 33 SUGAR— lb, Ex. C., 12 va “ A 13 “ “ “ Crush lie) ** “ “ Yellow 11 va I SYRUP—I gal -X. O 75a,l I ** “ “ S Dries 99# % i MOLASSES—good quality, 50 ,0 MACKEREL (new) kit No. 1 2 <2OO “ “ No. 1 73# “ “ “ No. 3.... 1 5Ua ! CHEESE—best article cream, 23# CANDLES —ft lb 1 23# 41 SALT--* sack 2 U*® - i CORN—* bushel tm 60 MEAL—jI bushel.... Id - # LARD—ft to iso; 18^ BACOX—hams— g? tb 15 tc 16 “ bulk rib sides—s* lb —{& 15 “ shoulders—sl tb —(# 12 EGGS —dozen 20*# BUTTER—ft lb 25# 30 CHICKENS l<it 25 SODA CRACKERS, (fresh) lStt# 15 LEMON ** “ ... 15# BUTTER “ “ 15# SUGAR “ “ .......... 20# .. CRACK SELLS 3tt# 35 ASSORTED PRESERVES (ft jar).. 3u# 35 ” JELLIES (in tumblers) 20# 25 “ “ (in goblets).. 21 a 35 GINGER 85# SPICK 35# .. PEPPER 30# .. CLOVES ( oz.) 10# .. NUTMEG “ - **# .. MACE “ ....... 15# 2U STARCH (corn).per oz 2)# .. “ (pearl)per. lb A# 10 EXTRACTS LEMON {f, dot.) *2 Wft3s “ VANILLA “ 4 50#5 00 WORCESTER SAUCE “ 5 <JO TOM ATO CATSUP “ 2 50#3 00 BROOMS “ 3 50a 4 50 BUCKETS (painted) “ ........ 250#3 00 TUBS " (ft nest) 4 50#6 00 WHEAT BRAN (ft cwt.)..... 1 00,#1 25 SHOUTS “ 1 25:(tl 50 PEARL GRITS (new)—ft tb (# 4% GARDEN SEED—per paper 10# .. WELL ROPE—ft lb 20# .. AXLE GREASE—%t box ..(# 16% S. W. COLLINS AXES 1 40# .. AXE HANDLES 99# .. PLOW LINES—ft nair (32 feet)... 4<C# .. APPLE VINEGAR—%t gal . 50# .. PICKLE (In barrel)—ft gal 50;# .. GROUND PEAS—ft pt 05# .. STICK CANDY —ft tb...... 21 l 30 FANCY CANDY—ft tb 35,# 50 PEACHES .t PEARS (canned) doz. 3 50*# .. OYS’f ERS — (eauned) 2-Ib 3 5J# .. SARDINES—ft box... 25(<ij .. ■ CC It tt A XTS—ft tb 20.# CITRON—ft lb GO,# .. SOAPS —Various kinds 05# 15 RAISINS—ft tt) 25,® .. M ACC A RON I—V tb 20 # .. APPLES—ft bu~h 1 50,# .. LEMONS—per doz 75al 00 DRIED APPLES—per lb.. 7(# .. PEACHES “ 1% .. GREEN TEA—ft tb 1 2o a 1 GO BL ACK TEA—ft lb 100(3* .. i*o>vi>t;n-ft lb 50# .. SHOT —ft tb 12*;(# .. W. PROOF CAPS—ft box 15># 50 i’t ) BA< CO—ft 1b... 50# 150 CIGARS— 02# 15 RICE— It;# 12 v ERWIN, RAMSAUR& CO DEALERS IN Dry Goods? Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Notions, Bagging, Ties, Etc and are offering GREAT INDUCEMENTS TO THE TEADE Purchasers wanting GOOD GOODS, at low prices, are invited to examine their stock which is complete,{and NEW GOODS CONSTANTLY ARRIVING, ec2-tt C ITYFiNANC EsT Report of Clerk of Cooneil of the City of fartersville. By cash on han 1 from 18T4 $ 94 m “ liquor tax 1,>42 SO “ street tax 4**2 (X) “ from marshal lines 175 15 “ tax on drays 61 30 “ “ billiard tables 49 95 “ weighing on scales .... 12 i ) “ taxes from marshal mi 00 “ Borrowed 1,650 00 “ taxes on shows and peddlers.. 49 00 “ root of hall and lkcDed 62 50 “ tax on malt liq’rs 12 10 “ Moving dead eureas 1 00 “ from Col. Howard, lumber, 735 “ Sexton digging graves 14 75 “ street boss for w00d...'. 6 75 “ Col. Johnson for mule 90 00 “ Taxes 3,761 61 Total receipts and to be paid to the Treasurer $3,720 32 Respectfully, J. C. Maddox, Clerk. Approved: A. C. Williams, F. M. Jolm?on, Finance Committee. Report of tLe Treasurer of the City of Car tersTille, ta., for the year 1875. RECEIPTS. Ist quarter— From J. C. Maddox, c1’k..#2,597 66 ’’ “ Insurance scrip 22 5J 2nd “ “ J. C. Maddox, cl’k.. 1,365 4 3rd “ “ “ “ - .. 957 6) 4th “ “ “ “ “ .. 3,889 71 “ —T. Stokely, Mayor, on mule acc 40 00 $8,782 92 expenditures. , Street and cemetery including Sexton's salary 1,?9S 52 Accounts 395 Ol Printing 75 Wl Damages by streets assessed prior 1875 Ml U 0 Board of mules 249 19 Lumber 141 32 Insurance on City Ha 11... 50 00 Hanging Fire Bell 79 00 Repairs of City Hall rool 41 45 Tax Assessors,’ $25 each 50 00 Marshal, eleven months 550 00 Mayor’s Salary 100 00 Aldermen’s salaries (81 S3O each 24*) 00 Tax Collector 150 00 Clerk 125 00 Treasurer- 75 00 City Attorney’s salary 37 50 “ fee in suit for damages 23 00 Donation to storm sufferers 43 00 Notes and interest .. *•*• 4,165 90 Cash on hand 788 03 , $8,784 92 Dec 13, Cash on hand last report S7BB 03 “ By accounts . - - $ 350 Dec 15, “ note and interest - 3iß 56 " “cash on hand - - 465 97 S7BS 03 Respectfully submitted. Dec. 18. 1R75. R. A. Clayton, Treasurer Examined and approved, F. M. Johnson.) J. A. Erwin. 5 Fin. Committee. A. c. Williams! 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