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THE CABTEBSVILLE EXPRESS
BY C. H. C. WILLINGHAM.
Cartersville Express.
I (jLI) standard AND EXPRESS.]
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tnnouncing names of candidates for ollice,
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Legal Advertising.
Sheriff sales, per levy $2.50
mortgage fi fa sales, per inch 4.50
Citations for letters of administration— 3.00
“ “ " guardianship 3.00
Ar iilication for dismission front admins’n. 0.00
1 •• " “ guard’shp 2.50
“ " leave to sell 7nd 2.50
pes of land per inch 2.50 ;
. , of perishable property, pi - inch— 1-50 ;
N',t ice to debtors and creditors 3.50 |
V ,i t-.-losures of mortgage, per ic di 4.00
y t -.-iv notices, thirty days 2.50;
\ ■ ~t! ii-atiou lor homestead 1.50 i
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Travelers’ 0 uide.
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
I’l.oM and after this date the following
Fcheiiule will he’run on the Cherokee Rail-;
mart at 7:00 A. M.
Taylorsville, 8:00
** Stillsboro, 8:25 “ j
Arrive at ( artersville, 9:10 “
1., ave Car! ersville 3:00 P. M. j
•* Stilishoro, 3:50
Taylorsville 4:30 “
Arrive at Rockmart 5:15 “ |
ATLANTIC RAILROAD
and its connections.
liic following Schedule takes effect April j
30, 1875.
NORTHWARD. No. 1.
Leave Atlanta..'. 4 10 pm |
Arrive Cartersville 6 23 p m
Arrive Kingston 6 52 p m j
Arrive Dalton ....8 32pm
Arrive Chattanooga 10 16 pm
No. 3.
Leave Atlanta 5 40 am
Arrive Cartersville 7 67 a m ;
Arrive Kingston 8 26 a m j
Arrive Dalton 10 08 a m ,
Arrive, Chattanooga 11 55 p m
Leave Atlanta 8 00 a m ;
Arrive i artersville 10 20 am t
•Vrrive'Kingston ...10 53 am
,-v rrive Dalton 105 pm
SOUTHWARD- No. 2.
Ani\Vi>aiton".T. ’• • • •••• i') sT pm
Arrive Kingston 7 21 p m
Arrive Cartersville 5 ~
Arrive Atlanta No 4 1
Leave Chattanooga }S. “ ™ I
Arrive Kingston E !
a . rive Cartersville i
Arrive Atlanta
Arrive Dalton v ~ ™
Arrive Cartersville ; ® "
Arrive Atlanta?. ; J ™ “ - n
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 2, be
!u ecu New Orleans and Baltimore.
Pullman Palace Cars run ou Nos. 1 and 4 be
tween Atlanta and Nashville. !
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos *a3 nd -be
tween Louisville and Atlanta. .
r*r So change of cars betw. en New Orleans
Mntule. Montgomery, Atlanta and Lalumoi e 1
ami only one change to New A . k.
U Passengers leaving Atlanta at HO V- m- -
I rive in New York the second thei after at 4 00
I ‘’'Excursion Tickets to the Virgin-a Springs
I ai.' various Summer Resorts will oe on sale
iu New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Colum
-1 hu-. Macon, Sava unah, Augusta and Atlanta,
at greatlv reduced rates Ist ot June-
Parties desiring a whole car through to the
Virginia Springs or to Laltimoie should ail
° Parti^T^mplating traveling should send
for a c-ipj of tlie Kennesau Route Oazette, con
taining schedules, etc. „ ~
J3T Ask for tickets via ‘H^n^esaw^Roiite.
General Pu-senger and Ticket Agent,
may22—dtt Atlanta, Ga._
ROME RAILROAD COMPANY.
On and after Sunday, Dec. 12th trains on the
Home Railroad will run as follows.
PAV TRAIN—EVERY DAY.
l eave Rome at (UiA ? m
Ar. ii e at Rome 11,30 a m
SATURDAY EVENING ACCOMODATION.
T ~ , 5.45 P m
Arrive at Rome at “
K ATLANTA VIVEST POINT KAIIEOAD.
passenger train—outward.
I xAT*Ti 0KS * ARKnE ‘ 10 m.
I K. i nnut'.::: l p. m. 10:44 p. ni
Ii;. 10:50 p. m. 11.44 p.m.
I Fairi-uni" It3l p. m. 11:22 P- 1,1 ■
I , , ii pj. 11:S8 u.m.
•}}:£&& HS££
I . I°*so a m 12:51 am
liiicvid’s • ISM a m l:g am
I.a*.range a m 2:21 am
West Point 2:40 a m
passenger TRAIN-INWARD.
I ..STATIONS. ARRIVE. f.‘*u
I Whitiield’s.:. V*i ? m 1 -42 p S
I 'on- 2:13 pm 2:18 pm
' 2:29 p m 2:30 p m
j J’YJ. . 2; 14 p m 2:45 pm
.:f r , 3:06 p m 3:01 pm
Itirluirn 3:32 p m 2:<W p m
Red Oak 8:38 pm 3:42 p m
hast i-mni::::::::::.... ® 3:07 pm
I Atlanta 4.101 P m
SELMA, ROM & DALTON.
MAIL TRAIN DAILY—NO TIL
It tt 6:10 pm
Making close connections atD al ton wi th the
I Ea-t Tennessee, Virginia and Rail
Ii ad, and Western and Atlantic Rainoad loi
nil Eastern and Western cities.
MAIL TRAIN DAILY—SOUTH.
I Arrive at Rome £ “
I Arrive at Selma 10,20 am
Making close connection at Calera lor i oni
I feuinury and points South, and at ‘l' v ‘ () .
i Al abama Central Railroad for Mobile, New Oi
i leans, Meridian, Vicksburg, f
| !'..mu South in Texas, Louisiana ml AM—
| m. |i. M. STANTON, o n- *UP J
b w Knight, Gen. Ticket ana 1 ass gr Ag • :
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Day Passenger Trains on Georgia Railroad, |
I Atlanta to Augusta, run as below: 0.45 aml
1-. .i\es Augnsta at........••...*••*• T.on *.,..
l eaves Atlanta at a m
Arrives at Atlanta p
Night passenger trains as iollows:
Leaves Augusta at " v io ! lu P. I!)
Leaves Atlanta at vißam I
Arrives at Atlanta m
Accomodation train aslollows •
Leaves Atlanta • •• '2?> ? ;!!
Leaves Covington P.’iv m
Arrives at Atlanta ...
Arrives at Covington *• 1
THE COOSA RIVER STEA3IERS.
steamers on the Coosa River will run as l^>
I schedule as follows! . . nr .
Leave Rome every Monday at....,..* ■ •••*, 1
Leave Rome every Thursday . .•••• ••_ ‘
Arrive at Gadsden Tuesday and I nday ■• •
The Fence Law.
What a Farmer of Bar tow County lia%to
Say on the Subject.
To the Editor of the Express:
As elections and issues of govern
ment of all sorts is the order this fall,
would It not be well to bring the
fence question before the people of
our county? We have a statute
which provides whenever so many
as fifty freeholders of a county shall
petition the ordinary he shall aion©e
make known throughout said county
hv advertisement In the public ga
j zette and by notice at all election pre
citffs and public p'aces therein that
such petition has been filed in his
office, and such notices to be publish
ed twenty days. If a counter-peti
tion of freeholders is filed, amounting
to fifty persons, then the ordinary
shall proceed no further. If such
petition of freeholders is not met by
such counter-petition, or if met by
1 such counter-petition is supported by
a petition of so many as twenty-five
additional freeholders, then the ordi
nary aforesaid shall at once p>*<reed
to have an election held in such pve
cints on the first Monday in July
following in which the question of
“fence” or “no fence” shall be sub
mitted to the lawful voters of sl id
county. Said election to be held at
1 t’o pluoo and undor tho aame TPIeS
and regulations as are provided for
members of the General Assembly, j
and after thirty days notice at the
most public places in said county,
and the returns to be made to tne or
dinary, etc. If a majority of the
votes so cast is for no fence, then six
months thereafter this law takes
effect.
You will see by this statute it is an
open question for the people to de
t?rmine. AH who rre entitled to
vote for legis’ation are voters on this
question. This is certainly under
law the settlement of which would
would be by the people—that good
old principle that has beeu. Would
this not be one step towards reform ?
Take the question without bias and
solve it, the result both to landholder
and tenant is the same. Fences are the
heaviest burden belonging to agri
culture, and since our labor is tree
and cropping the principal system,
the tenant feels the burdens of fences
brought home to himself, for it is tlie
established rule now that corners
must he cleaned and fences kept in
repair by tenants. This is a heavy
burden without directjremuneration,
aid one which can be dispensed by
doing away with fences. All prac
tical farmers, both landlord and ten
ant know if there was no fences that
landlords would have to have lots
or pastures for their tenants, these
iots to be "kept up by the tenants and
for their sole use. Would this not
be much cheaper thau fencing out
stock? As our fences now are, but
few are up to the requirements of the
law, and we hear of had cows aid
bad hogs, and of one neighbor kld
ing or forcing his neighbor to put up
his stock. This is always done just
at the busy season when there is no
time to prepare lots, and the conse
quence is stock is almost a loss to tile
owner. Farmers, let us hear from
you ©n this subject.
Farmer.
PoirmAiint VTR. T.llflvillft.
Is the Bible a Greater Evidence ot tne 1
insistence 01 non mu i, ..wins t.
Nature ?
To the Editor of ehe Ecpress:
With your permission I will give
my final respects to “Hannibal” and
dismiss tiio cas6 to tho verdict of an
enlightened public. That the teach
ings found in the bihle clearly point
ed out inspiration was by argument
so clearly and overwhelmingly es
tablished and yet .0 plain and simp e
as to carry conviction to every un
preiudiced" mind on that occasion.
Its truth was proved by the nyra
cles wrought by our Savior and his
apostles bv the fulfillment of prophe
sv and bv the excellency of its doc
trine. We showed that no other
system of religion that ever prevail
ed among men compared in the,
least with the Christian, it excelled
them all in the purity of lis precepts,
the sublimity of its doctrines and the j
revelations it made to us of the wis- j
doni, power and goodness of God m
die great work of man’s redemption,
Thai it alone answered the great
question that sin would arise in every
mortal’s mind sooner or later. What
must I do to be saved? and that
without a religion that answered this
all important issue how wretched
would be our condition. The great
hook of nature tails to answer it.
Infidelity did not; Paganism could
You may catechise the winds of
heaven, the waves of the sea, the
mountains that pierce the sky, and
the clouds that gather around their
summits, but they coukl not tell us
how mortal man can be just with
God or appear before him wk.i ac
! eeptance. They could not tell you
how to escape from hell and 1 y to
i heaven. Tne bible answered every
| question. All this and much mo e
was argued by our Fairmount c eh.
| but stifi the Ludville mills ground
I us to powder.
1 Fair Hack.
Eduoational.
The Closing Exercises of the High School
at Sonora.
Mr. Editor: On last Thursday
night and on Friday following, June
Bth and 9th. I witnessed a high
school exhibition at Sonora, Gordon
county. A more pleasing spectacle
cau scarcely be imagined than to see
a goodly number of students, male
and female, arrayed before an intelli
gent throng who have come to share
in the innocent triumphs of such an
occasion. It forcibly suggests the
query, How can these varied capaci
ties be utilized ? They are all needed
for cultivated intellect is the most
precious commodity that the world
possesses.
Thre prices were awarded, one to j
the little girls tor the best reading of,
r composition, one to the young la
thes for the best composition reader,
and one to the young gentlemen for
the best deolaimer. Miss Zara But
ler gained the juvenile prize, Miss
\ddie Hill, the one for the young
ladies and Mr. G. W. Tate, the one
for the young gentlemen, the decis
ions being made by a competent, dis
interested committee. Their efforts
were free from the common tau t of
immaturity, The young ladies’ es
says displayed fine sentiment ano
thought. The young men threw pa
thos Ind feeling into their delivery,
tilting the lance of elocution with a
! chivalry seldom found in school
The exercises cjosed with ft chaste
on ‘‘belles-lettres” by Bey.
Ilillhouse, of Calhoun, and the pre
sentation of the prizes by the writer,
Sonora is a pleasant, healthy, moral
little village, and institute, masonic,
with good facilities for hoarding.
Dormitories are furnished those
wishing to board themselves, and
withal, it affords ample accommoda
tions for inducing a good patronage.
Prof. Bradley is a keen, practical
educator, who well keen pace with
the changes, attending the progress
and growth of thought, cultivating
and directing the natural aptitudes of
of pupils in reference to their useful
exercises in after life.
Good instruction for one genera
tion will beautify our dear land, and
bestow upon it charms that nothing
else can give. Let all become edu
cated ; then virtue will be upheld,
and vice almost unknown. Xotie
ought to let adversity deprive their
children of the advantages of these
good schools, for tuition is now with
in the reach of any one who is in ear
nest.
Quid est juventuti melius sdentia f
T. G. Reynolds.
Colquitt’s Brilliant Administra
tion.
A few days ago the Atlanta Com
monwealth, in its usual reckless style,
in speaking its praise of Gen. Colquitt
referred to his administration of the
ScatA -Agricultural Society as one of
brilliancy and credit. We promised
tnem to look inlo the society and see
if he had indeed covered himself with
glory, and earned the plaudits of the
people by his brilliant management
of its affairs- We have done so and
have to make a compendof it3 histo
ry, truthful but not at all creditable,
to Gen. Colquitt.
In 1869 by the patriotic endeavor
of a number of gentlemen, the Sta'te
, Agricultural Society was resuscitated
and Col. B. C. Yancey, of Athens,
I was made President. He found it
without money, and a chaos. He
restored order, reorganized its ma
chinery and went to work to build
it up into public favor and public
usefulness. He held two State E'airs
one at Macon and one at Atlanta.
He did not draw one single cent
from the State Tresury, hut relied
upon the energy industry and judici
ious management of the society tor
success, and he did succeed.
In 1871 he declined a re-election
and was suceed by Gen. Colquitt. He
left the society in a thriving condi
tion, out of debt and a surplus of
some seven hundred dollars in the
Treasury. Colquitt’s first act was to
spend to tlie $7,000, in paying the
board bills of his committee, when
the ci.izens had given it to them free
a kind of back salary grab that
Yancey would not have tolerated
one moment.
His next was to draw from the
Slate Treasury the sum of $7,500
claimed to be due the society under
an ante-bellum act of the Legislature
This was back dues, to which he has
added yearly ever since the sum of
$2,500, all drawn from the Slate
Treasury making a total of 17,500.
He has held four fairs receiving from
the c’ties the same aid that his pred
ecessor did. and each of his four fairs
lias been a financial failure so much
so that, instead of accumulating a
a surplus as was done before he took
charge, the society has spent the
seventeen Liousand drawn from the
I*7oo left forr <vd *0
uui give a fair this year, but has to
put i< off under the specious excuse
that it will conflict with the Cen
tennial, when in reality it is .00 poor
to undertake it. , .
This is Colquitt’s brilliant admin
islration of the Slate Agricultural
Society. People of North Georgia
look at it and see what you can
promise vourselves with such a man
at the head of your Slate administra
tion.—Home Courier.
Hersehel V. Jolipson,
YVe publish below the corsespon
dence between certain prominent
gentlemen of the State and Governor
Johnson. His answer to their com
munication is such, precisely, as
might have been expected from the
noble Roman. He is no aspirant for
the office of Governor, and will be no
candidate for nomination before the
Convention ; but still he is ready to
de any patriotic work the people may
require of him. Governor Johnson
is a natural Democrat, and voxpopuh
be regards now, as a'ways hereto/ore,
as vox Dei —“the voice of the people
i is the voice of God.” — Atlanta Times.
True. The Colquitt organs find
: an easy way of fighting Governor
Johnson by saying that he is not a
! candidate for Governor of Georgia.
The declaration is made for the pur
j pose of deceiying his friends in the
different counties of the State, and
preventing them from voting
in the primary meetings for the man
!of their choice. Governor Johnson
is not a candidate in the vulgar sense
!of that much abused word. He will
not solicit the office. He will not
travel over the country and beg tor
it speak for it, combine for it, slate
make for it. If the people of Geor
o ja—the real people of Georgia, anti
not the office-seekers, ringsters and
their satilities—desirs his services, he
will serve them. Farther than this
he could not with propriety go, I ath
er than this, he will not go ; and it is
for this verv reason that a majority
of bi S fellow-citizens desire his nom
ination. It is because he has scorned
to enter into an unseemly scramble
for the highest office in the gift of the
State that the people wish him to
serve them. If he should be nomi
nated, there is no man who will work
harder to secure the triumph of Dis
party, hut he will do nothing novv
to obtain a victory for sell. —Chroni-
\ cle and Sentinel ,
The St. Louis Time 9 presents the
case in a nut-shell as follows:
The contest resolves itself at once
into that of Democracy pure and
simple, with the same adulterated
Republicanisms that has so long had
iis own way and a very shameful
way in the administration of the
Government. Evidently, then, an
uncompromising, agg“~ss ve policy
directed at the abuses of the pftity in
power, its infamous covrqpaons and
its manifestly sectional pvincipies
is the only policy upon which jjem
oc ■ats c n expect to win tne fight.
The pu -Uy, the liono~, the prosnen
ry_eVen the stability of the Govern
ment are involved, and out of
are to he produced the issues of the
campaign,
••*♦**"' —: tt-
A forgeman of Warrington, Eng
land lately sohl his wife to a friend
for half a gallon of ale, Number 2
was so delighted with his bargain
1 that he stood another pint, and then
the young wife, who was equally
pleased with it, stood another half
gallon.
~SiFCharles Adder’y has invented a
new phrase. In speak b-2 the other
night in the House of Commons
about American seamen, he described
them as United Statesmen.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 29, IS Hi.
POLITICAL.
The Platform of tlie National Republican
Party.
The following is the platform
adopted at Cincinnati.
When iu the economy of Provi
dence this land was to he purged of
human slavery, and when the
strength of the government of the
people by the people and for the peo
ple was to be demonstrated the Re
publican party came into power. Its
deeds have been passed into h ; slory,
and we look hack to them with pride.
Incited by their memoiies and high
aims for the good of our country and
and mankind, and looking to the fu
ture with courage, hope and purpose,
we, the representatives of the parly,
in national convention assembled,
make the following declaration of
.principles:
1. 'The Uni led States of America is
a nation, not a league. By the com
bined woi Ring of tiie National and
State Governments, and their re
spective conslitu.ions, the I, ghts of
every citizen aresecuredat home and
protected abroad.
2. The Republican party has pre
served these governments to the hun
d. anniversary of the na*lon’s
biLli, and they aie now the etnbod : -
inejis of the jfreat truths spoken at
its cradle—“that all men are ciealed
equal; that they are indowed by their
Creator with certain in.iPenable
rights, among which are life, lioerly
and the pursuit of happinc .s; that for
the attainment of these ends, gov
e. nmenls have been insdiaied among
men, deriving t hei** just powe rs f om '
tlie consent of the governed.” Until
these (ruths are cheerfully obeyed, |
or, if need be, are vigo - ously "en
forced. tne work of the Republican i
party is unfinished;
8. Tfio permanent pacification of
the southern section of the Union,
and the comple e protection of its cit
izens in (he iree enjoyment of all
their rights are duties to which the
Republican parly stands siciedly
pledged. The power to provide for
the enloi cement of the p mcipies em
bodied in the recent const! utional
amendments is in tne congress of the
United 8-ales, and we declare it to be
tiie solemn obligation e f the legisla
tive and executive departments of
the government to put into imme
diate and vigorous use ail the : r con
stu utional powers for removing any
just cause of discontent on the part of
any class, and for securing to every
American citizen complete liberty
and exact equal!.y in theexerei e of
all civil, political and private I'ghts.
To this end we impera-'ively d<-
maud a congress and chief executive
whose couiage and fidelity to the-.e
dulio shall no* falter uadi these re
sults are placed beyond dispute or
reo 11.
4. i.> the first act of congre-r signed i
by R esident Grant, the Na oual j
Government assumed to remove any j
doubts of is nu; >o..e .0 discharge us j
juit ou'gado a to public c.ed : o.s, I
and-solemnly pledged its fr.i h 10 1
make provision, at e earl'esi: pw
(;■ Hue moment, for the redeuM-ion
of Uni cd B!.t ©s notes in coin. Com-1
mt cml p.-osoe fry, public morals, j
and he national * ed>, demand that j
ibis prorni >e be fulfilled by a con- 1
tinuous and steady prog re s o specie i
deut and heads of depaitmen s a e
to make nomine lions for office, (lie
Senate is to advise and -onsent 'O he
appoint men! s, and ihe Hou-e of
Rep esenia. ives is to accuse and pros
ecute faithless officers. The best iu
te c,sis of tne public service demand
that 1 distinctions be respected,
and ihatsenato sand represen.atives
who may be judges and aceu&ei3,!
shoidd not and elate appoint men s for j
office. Tiie invaTable rule for ap
poio-'menls should have re e enee to
tlie honesty, fidefrty and cap city of;
the appohv'ees, preferring f lends of
tlie party in power for p ace > wneie
harmony anti vigor of adm-nis,ra
tion equire its po'icy to be repre
sented, but periniuing a'l others to
be filled by pe..*.ons selected with sole
reference io the efficiency ot the pub-;
lie service and the right of a'l chi- j
zens to share in the honor of rende j
ing iauhful service to their country.
6. We rejoice in the quickened con
science of ihe people concerning po
litical affairs, and will hold all pub
lic officers to a rigid responsib-lily,
and engage that tiie prosecution and
punishment of all who betray official
trusts shall be speedy, thorough and
unsparing.
7. The pubHc’school system of the
several Sta : es is the bulwark of the
American Republic, and with a view
to its security and permannenee, we
recommend an amendment to the
constitution of ihe United Slates tor
bidding the application of any pub
lic funds or property for the benefit
of any schools or institutions under
sectarian control.
8. The revenue necessary for cur
rent expenditures and the obligation
of the public debt must be largely
derived from duties on importation,
which, so far as possible, should be
adjusted to promote the interest 04
American labor and advance the j
prosperity of the whole country,
s 9. We reaffirm our opposition to j
1 the furifiei grants of the pubUc lands i
I to corporations and monopolies, and |
demand that the national domain be
j devoted to free homesteads for the
people.
10. Tt is the imperative duty of the
government so to modify existing
treaties with European governments
that the same protection shall he af
forded to tiie adopted Amerh an cit
izen that is given to the native born,
! and that all necessary laws should be
pa -e l 10 p.otect immigrants in the
absence ot power in the btates for
that p ■•i)0-e.
11. at is the immediate duty of
Congress to fa.ly mveidgftte the
effect of the immigration and impor
tation of Mongolians upon tne moral
and material interests of the conn v.
12. Tie Republican party re og
mza wi h approval the suosianfal
aivan. e re ant'v made toward the
estabfi hment of equal rights t'qr wo
men, by the many impoUant'amend
menb effected by republican legisla
tes, in the laws which ponneyn the
pe son-d and property relations of
wives, mothe r and widows and by
the appointment of women to the
superintendence of education, ciiari
ties and other public trusts. The
honest demands of this class qr citi
zens for additional light t.ud •Privi-
leges and immune ies, should be
tree, .ect with rr pectful consideration, j
13. The cons u n lion confers noon'
congress sovereign power over the j
territories of the United States, for
their government, in the erereise of i
this power it is the right and duty of
eongress to prohibit and extirpate in |
the territories that relic of barbarism
polygamy, and we demand such leg,
lslaUon as will secure this end and
the supremacy of American institu
tions in all the territories.
14. The pledges which the nation
have given to onr soldiers and sail
ors must be fulfilled. The grateful
people will always hold those who
periled their lives for the country’s
preservation, in the kindest remem
brance.
15. We sincerely deprecate all sec
-1 tional feeling and tendencies. We
therefore noffi with deep solicitude
that the Democratic party counts as
its chief hope of success on the elec
toral vote of a united South, secured
through the efforts of thooe who were
recently arrayed against the nation;
we invoke the earnest attention of
the country to the grave truth that a
: success thus achieved would re-open
sectional strife and imperil the ra
tional honor and human rights.
16. We charge the Democratic par
; ty as being the same in character and
spirit a$ when it sympathized with
treason: with making it3 control of
the House of Representatives the
triumph and the opportunity of the
na ' ion’s recent foes; with re-asserting
and applauding in the national Capi
tol the sentiment of unrepented re
bellion; with sending union soldiers
to the rear and promoting Confeder
ate soldiers to the fr-onl; with delib
erate'y propo a ’ng io repudiate the
plighted faith of the government;
with being equally false and imbe
cile upon ihe shadowing finan
cial qurSiiou; with thwarting tlie
ends of justice by Us partisan mis
management and olr.i ruction of in
vestigation; with proving itself,
through <he pe tod of its ascendancy
in the Lower House of Congres3, ut
terly incompetent to administer the
government. We warn the country
against trusting a party thus a'ike
unworthy, rec-eant and incapable.
17. The national administration
merits commendation for its hon
orable work in the management of
our dottiest c and foreign affairs, and
President Grant deserves the con
tinued and heavly gratitude of the
American people for his patriotism
and immense services in war and in
peace.
General Gartrell Declines.
Atlanta, June 16,1876.
Editors Constitution : After ma
ture deliberation I have concluded to
withdraw my name from the list of
gentlemen heretofore suggested as
suitable persons to be presented to
the approaching convention for the
office of governor.
From present appearances I fear
the contest for the nomination will
be an exciting one, and I am unwill
ing to enter into a heated contest for
any office.
The harmony and success of the
Democratic party of the State and
throughout the Union, at this time,
are of paramount importance, and
the triumph of true Democratic
principles in the election to office of
able, competent and faithful public
servants, pledged to retrenchment,
economy and reform, will be of more
advantage to thepeopleat large than
the elevation to office of any particu
lar individual. Asa private citizen
desiring the welfare and prosperity
of tiie peoule, I shall strive to accom
plish these results.
In withdrawing from the contest
as I now do, I take this occasion to
state that I shall ever hold in grate
ful remembrance the many warm
and generous personal and political
friend in all sections of the State
who have manifested their prefer
ences for pm
bers ot the press for the kind and
complimentary terms in which they
have been pleased to allude to my
name. lam truly yours,
L. J. Gartrell.
Hon. R. R. Harris.
The above named gentleman of
Floyd county has written a letter to
the Democracy of his county, an
nouncing himself as a candidate for
Senator from the Fo.'ty-second Dis
tiict,. He says that the principles and
measures he wiU advocate, if elect
ed, are as follows:
1. The calling of a convention to
frame anew Constitution. This, be
cause I am in favor of electing the
Governor for two years ; of biennial
se.sions of the General Assembly ; of
making the Secretary of Siate, the
Treasurer and Compiroller-Gnueral
elective by the people; of electing
Judges of the Superior Court by the
people, and having fewer of them ;
of establishing a Court of Chancery
where all equity cases can be tried
without the cost to the county and
trouble to the people of having ju
ries; of having criminal couris at
small expense in such counties as
want them, with original, exclusive
jurisdiction of all offenses againt the
laws of the State.
2, The abolishment of all such fifth
wheel arrangements as the Agricul
tural Bureau and Medical Bureau,
and kindred sinecures.
a. All just measures that, in mv
judgment, will tend to lessen the
burden of taxation which is now
weighing down the people, crippling
their energies, and rendering unprof
itable their industry.
There is a story that an eminent
microsconist had a bit of substance
submitted to him to decide what it
was. To an unaided eye it might be
a morsel of skin which the baggage
mas.er had knocked off the corner of
a*smoothly worn hair trunk. Th©
savent applied his microscope. En
id ely ignorant of this tiny bit of mat
ter, except as he had taken counsel
with ms instrument, the wise man
dec’ared it \va" ihe skin of a human
being, and that, judging by the fine
hair on it, it was -he so-called naked
port’on of the body, and further, that
it once belong to a fair com piexsoned
per&on. The s- >. ange facts now made
known 'o the man of science were
1 the e '■ That a thousand years before
1 a Hroish marauder had robbed an
Engli-ih church. In the sp rit of the
i old fashioned piety the robber was
flayed (’et us hope that he was killed
first) and tho skin was nal'ed to the
i church door. Except as a tradition
j or areiqtogieal lose had it, the affair
; had been foi gotten for hundreds of
ye o s, Time, the great erodent, had
long ago removed the offensive thing.
Stil', however, the church door held
to'iis marks of the great shame, for
the broad headed nails remained.
Somebody e 1 acted one, and under
neath its flat head was this atomic
Vemnai t of that ancient Scandina
vian malefac or’s pelt—that fair skin
ned robber from me North.
A New York man, slightly boozy,
who was riding in a street car, got 10
his feet his legs as well
as he could, asjusied his hat, looked
up, measured for an instant the dis
tance of the bell-strap, made a dive
for it, caught it at the third attempt
put his entire weight upon it, and of
course rang both bells violently.
“Here; what’s the matter with you?”
Yelled the conductor, ‘‘What are
you ringing the bell at both ends for?”
“Because,” replied the passenger
with great dignity, “because (hie)
I want both ends of the (hie) car to
stop.
Special Notices.
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 Coi.lrctor—W, F. Corbin.
County Commissioners— Russel 11. Cannon,
Chairman. David V. Stokely, John C. Aycock,
R. H. Dodd, John 11. Wikle, Clerk.
CORONER— D. B. Mull.
Surveyor—H. J. McCormick, G. W. Hill,
Deputy.
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subscription book when we purchased the
Standard and Express, credited by advance
payment will be furnished The Express until
the time paid for expires.
The names of those who had not paid up, we
have transierred to our new books, and begin
their subscriptions from December 2, 1875.
These are respectfully and earnestly requested
to cal' in and payor send us two dollars for
the current year’s subscription.
We arc determined to give our readers a
good paper, as it requires aconstan cash
outlay to do so, wediope ali.who have not paid
will do so without delay.
CART! KSY ILLE CITY GOV ERNMENT
Mayor— F. m. Ford.
Aldermen -A. It. Hudgins, G. W. Satter
field, C. B. Conyers, A. L, Barron, J. A. Stover,
S. F. Milam, Peter Marsh, H. S. Best.
Clerk—J. B. Conyers, acting.
Treasurer- A. T.. Barron.
MARSnAi—M. P. Maxwell.
Attorney— J. P. Conyers.
Sexton—ll. S. Revell.
COMMITTEES.
Finance— A. It. Hudgins, C. B. Conyers, S. F.
Milam.
Street —H. S. Best, J. A. Stoves G. W, Satter
field. A. L. Barron.
Cemetery —Peter Marsh, S. jF. Milam. C. B.
Conyers.
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they have settled their bills and ordered them
discontinued.
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out notifying publishers, and the papers are
sent to the former direction, they are held re
sponsible.
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take periodicals from the office or removing
and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie
evidence f intentional fraud.”
6. An y person who receives a newspaper
and makes use of it, whether he has ordered it
or not, is held in law to be a subscriber.
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tinue taking it; otherwise the publisher is
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tice, with payment of all arrearages, is sent
to the publisher.
„ r ~ If YOU
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Want a situation,
Want a salesman,
Want a servant girl,
Want to rent a store,
Want to sell a piano,
Want to sell a horse,
\Yant tj. Iwe ..
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,
Want a job of blacksmithing,
Want to sell millinery goods,
Want to sell a house and lot,
Want to advertise to advantage,
Wan’ttofind anyone’s address,
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THE CARTERSVILLE EXPRESS.
Professional Cards.
J. M. MOOS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office: Un-stairs over Stokcly & Wi'V, a ms
West Main Street. aov2o ’
James W. Harris, Hr.
attorney-at-law,
One door East of Express Cilice, Mam Street.
CARXERSVII i?E, GA.
marCO
LAW A REAL ESTATE.
VY. T. WOFFORD,
1 will be in my office between the hours of 10
and 11 each morning, and will attend to any
business entrusted to my care.
A. M. FOIITE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
CA.RTERSVILLE, GA.
( With Col. Warren Akin,)
Will practice in the courts of Bartow, Cobb,
Polk, Floyd, Gordon, Murray,Whitfield and ad
joining counties. dcc2-ly.
It. W. MIRPHEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
C ARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE (up stairs) in the l.rick building
coiner of Main and Irwin streets. dec2-tf.
J. W. HARRIS, Jr.,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
C ARTERSVILLE, Ga.
OFFICE next door to The Express printing
establishment.
JOHN W. WOFFORD. THOMAS W. MILNER
WOFFORD & MIIAEB,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.,
OFFICE up stairs, Bank Block.
~JAMES B. CONYERS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cartersville, Ga.
WILL practice in the Courts of Cherokee
and adjoining circuits. Particular attention
given to all business entrusted to my care.
Collecting made a specialty. Office up-stairs
in the Bank Block. dec23-ly.
O. H. BATES,
attorney at law,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office in the Court House.
decfi-ly
DENTAL NOTICE.
Drs. Tigner & Johnson
Office up-stairs, in Brick Building opposite
The Express Office.
TREAT diseased gums and ab-
£ T X-c-~*a> scessed teeth, fill and clean
teeth, extiact teeth, and in
sert artificial teeth. All work
guaranteed. Xenns reasonable.
Prices to Suit tlie Times-
The Southern Shirt Manufactory!
IS MAKING
Best Wmsutta Muslin Shirt, with line linen bosoms aril cuffs, complete... $34.00 Per Dozen.
Best Fruit of Loom Muslin, and noon Linen 18.00 “
Best Wamsntta, Partly made Shirts, 14.00 “
I.ESS WORK to be done on our partly made shirt than any ether make. Ramsey's Paten
Reversible Cull', which is two pair of cuffs attached to each shirt, is manufactured; also al
grades and kinds of COLLARS, BOSOMS, DRAW Fits and UNDERSHIRTS.
ft" if" Parties in Cartersrille ordering: from us can have their measures taken at Mr. Patillo's
taTlorshop. ZEel. JE*. Slu opshixo tfc 00.
jan9o-hm :\ ~ East Tlahama st.. ATLANTA, GA.
THE SIUGEU SEWHTG MACHINE
THE PEOPLE’S FAVORITE.
The Largest Sales because'the Most Popular.
The Most Popularßccause The Best.
VERDICT OF TIIE PEOPLE.
Sales in 1871 131.960.
Sales in 1872 219,753
Sales in 1873 233,444
Sales in 1874 _ 241,070 !! !
Nearly luO.OA) more than was sold by th" next highest competitor and over Go.tXX) more the n was
sold by all othor companies combined ! ! !
Address the Singer Manufacturing Company, I*9 Broughton Street. Savannah, Ga.. C. S.
Beatty. Agent; Corner Btoad ami Alabama sts.. Atlanta, Ga., George W. Leonard, Ag’t.; end
at Stokely and Willsams’ Popular Store, Cartcrsville, Ga., K.W. M. MERRITT, Agent.
IvbS-lv,
Hardware and Farming; Implements.
BAKER & TTAT/T,
AJ JL ,SSt 0 V n . 1 f their customers to ageneral and complete stock of HARDWARE and
y Farming implements such as
PLOWS, HOES, COTTON PLANTERS, ETC.
e . * lflve a .®®™ b' o stock ofFIELD SEEDS such as Clover, Red Top, Orchard and Blue
ei^ 'man Millett, etc. as cheap as they can be sold in this or any other market. We also
have acomplete stock ol READI MADE PLOWS both Iron and Steel. IV e sell
•i;^V°cV )
Cast Steel rent '
sweed iron ; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;”.7.7;5 u ;,, VV”, .
f FIJ caa h we can sell as eheapas the same quality of goods can be sold anywhere.
LI iak i:n .< h \ 11.
STOVES & TINWARE.
To tlie Citizens of Cartersville and Sur
rounding Country:
HAVING consolidated our business at the old GILBERT
STAND on the corner of Main and Tomlin Streets, We
will carry on the business under the name and firm of
STALL*ADAMS
. Wo will keep constantly on band a large and complete
Tjjp _ lock of
STOVES, TINWARE & HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
which we will sell at the very lowest price to suit thimes. We keep the celebrated COTTON
KING, IRON KING, CAPITOL A and various other stoves of all sizes and prices. VVewill du
plicate prices from any market in the State. All job worK and repairing promptly done for
cash Country produce, rags and old brass and copper taken in exchange for goods. Wrap
ping paper always on hand at Atlanta prices. We will furnish galronized Iron Evaporators for
Boiling Syrup, Id ft. long, 40 in. wide, complete, made out of a solid sheet, No at |l2
cash, frame and all. Ten dollars lower than ever tarnished in the South. Those desiring to
purchase please give us 15 days’ notice. (janl-ly) STALL & ADAMS.3
ETOWAH FOUNDRY AND . MACHINE SHOP.
W allace & TTaoLett,
.
IMANUFACTURERSJOF
Hollow Ware, Steam apes, Grates, Mantels, Mill Machinery, k\
i *
Highest Market Price lor
Old. iron, Copper andSßrass*
STILL A.T' THEIR OLD STAND.
STOKELY $c WILLIAMS,
DEALERS IN
STAPLE & FANCY DRY GOODS. DRESS GOODS,
Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes.
WE desire to state to our old friends and patrons that we are still running our business
with our paying patrons on the usnui time licretolore gi\en, •
But will Expect Prompt Payment at Maturity.
Those caving cash at purchase will get the benefit of a heavy deduction. And we would
be given at time rates.
|| g Those owing ns ducpaperwill do us a great favor by calling and V : j
THE GRANGERS’
Llfl ill IIILIII li.W CL
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Authorized. Capital 4,500,000
Of Which SIOO,OOO to be Owned in Each Department.
Ea ch Policy-Holder is entitled 10 avote in the oftheCompsn^
EAR-ENTT O h'-L’ICE, ]MLO±sXXiE. AXjA.
CAPITAL STOCK - - “ 100,000.
XV. H. KEXCHUM, President. |F. E. DAVIDSON, Vice President.!. W. FORT, Fee y
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT, ROUE, GA.
Capital Stock
Office No. 2 COMMERCIAL BUILDING.
Major C. G. SAMUEL, President, ALFRED SHORTER, Vice-President, R. -I. GWALTNEY,
J secretary, G. HOWELL, Attorney, Dr. G. W . lIOLMLs, Medical Examiner.
Hoard of Directors :
a All,,nod Trion Factory; C. Rowell, Rome, Ga.; Alfred Shorter. Rome. Ga.; John H.
Newton Athens Ga.; A. Jones, Cedartown, Ga.; Hon. D. F. Hammond. Atlanta, Ga.; Hon.
b B Hamilton Rome, Ga,; Cain Glover, Rome, Ga.; T. McGuire, Rome, Ga.; F. Woodruff.
Rome. Ga.; M. H. Bunn, Cedartown, Ga.; A. J. King, Cave Spring, Ga.; Hon. W M.
Hutchins. Polk county, Ga.
ALABAMA. DEPARTMENT, MONTGOMERY, ALA.
Capital Stock *IOO,OOO
Hon. N. N. Clements, President and General Manager, Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Hon. David Clopton.
Vice President, Montgomery, Ala.; W. L. Chamber?,Secretary; Stone A Clopton, Attorneys,
MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, MERIDIAN HISS.
Capital Stock *100,00(>
Col. James W. Beck, President, John,ll. Gray, Vice-President, L. A. Duncan, Secretary.
SECURITY, ECONOMY AND LIBERALITY,
Are the Leading principles of this Company.
ALL approved forms of Life and Endowment Polities issued in sums of SIOO up to SIO,OOO. Also
Term Policies of one, three, or seven years.
All Life policies non-forfeiting after two annual payments, when the insured will be entitled
to paid up Policy or Cash Surrencer thereof.
Dividends may be used to protect policies against lapsing incase of failure to pre
miums. This with the non-forfeiting and Cash Surrender features, are sufficient to make tni9
Company popular among thinking men. AGENTS WANTED,
dec 2-tf W. G. ENGLAND, of Mobile, Ala-, General Superintendent of Agencies
W. K. HUSIE, Agent, Cartersville, Georgia.
VOLUME XVII—NUMBER 26.