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About The Cartersville express. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1875-18?? | View Entire Issue (July 11, 1879)
THE I'MTEBSFILLm EXP HESS. VOL. XX.—NO. 24. CHATTANOOGA ADVERTISEMENTS. J. F. RUOFF, and. M. GILLESPIE. C. A. KUOFF. RUOFF & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF Doors, Sash, Blinds, Door Frames, Window Frames, Mantels, 1* rackets, Balusters Moulding. Bresscd Lumber, Flooring, Ceiling Weatherboard iiig, And Dealers in Rough Lumber, Cedar Posts, Laths, Shingles, Sasli.We. Market St., near Railroad Crossing, CHATTANOOGA. TENNESSEE. ESTABLISHED IN’ 1870. NOVELTY MACHINE WORKS, DEALERS IN PUMPS, PIPE FITTING. BRASS GOODS And all kinds of Steam, Gas and Water Supplies, Hose, PACKING and HYDRAULIC RAMS. k^Blacksraithing of all kinds done to order. Keys fitted, Locks repaired, and Bell Hanging promptly attended to. Awnings and Awning Frames made and repaired. Iron Fenc ing made to order. All work done by practical men and guar anteed. Agent for Scollay’s Green House Heating Apparatus. HIGHEST PRICES paid for Scrap Brass and Copper, and good Wrought Iron. SHOP AND SALESROOM ner’s Haa<lware' Store. HARRY WILCOX fc Cos., Proprietors. Chattanooga, Tennessee. F. G. WII SON, —DEALER IN— Window Glass and Glasswares. Market Street, Chattanooga, Tenn. -•fife?*' To seenrp Lowest Prices, senfi (Gash with your Orders. apr23 78 CHATTANOOGA BRASS FOUNDRY! IXTOTICE to all manufacturing Coir,panies ofanj name or kind ; to Railroad Companies Mi i-1 "mg Companies. Rolling Mill Companies Car Fetors Companies, Flaming Machine Companies, steamboat Companies, Threshing Machine Companies * tc„ etc., in Tennessee Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, or elsewhere 7 We can supply on short notice any kind of BRASS CASTING of the very bestmatevial and at the ltwesfc possible pi ices. BABRJTr METAL 01' everv grade and price, from No. Ito No. S. $ ) K P K* R taken at market price, for work, or cash on delivery. COP! Jik BRAN 1)S ol all sizes, an 1 letters of any size, made to order. We have compounded Metals of all kinds for forty-two years, and know exactly what kind you need. We are determined to please, and will fill all orders promptly. Special Rates will he given large manufactories. Iv.ll. Hisro ■Corner Market ami Sixth Streets, ChiAianooga. CHAS. SUNDQUIST Chattanooga, Tenn. Is Closing Out His Eotire Stock of FURNITURE AT ('< ST. Great Reduction in Undertaking. "VTtSPECIAL ;tttent-w)n will be paid to ths [ department. I bare tin* finest Hearse and j best stock in the city. Please give me a cal.. , Respectfully, ' CHAS. SI JNDQUfST, Cor. 6th and Market Sts. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. IbOT opposite new court house, 100 feet X 28U leet, running hack to Cherry street; 2 lots on Market street, 1 has fifty feet front and the other 40, running back to Cherry street. The second lot has a storehouse, a machine shop and machinery on it. one lot and build- j i ,, J on Market street, now occupied by W. j Crutchfield A Cos.. Oue lot opposite (Stanton j house, on Market stret, 25 ieetXJoO leet Tins property will be sold at a great sacri- j jff. Te-nr ran he agr n *'i vpon. may 26-tf* CHAS, * RUSSELL’S INDIAN LIVER INVIGORATOR is pronounced by the press and persons of high standing as far superior to any othei upon the market. It is PURELY VEGETABLE. It acts upon the Liver, Bowel*, Blood, Kidney*, Se cretion*, Stomach, and is a restorative of sv6tom genernlly. It will cure the worst dyspeptic and lever and ague when taken in large doses. It has no mineral in it, nor poisonous matter. It is an old CHEROKEE MEDICINE, Revived and improved. ! Manufactured only by W. T. RUSSELL A CO., Chattanooga, Tenn. It is found in all drug tores. Try iL * j U n6-ly FOR SALE! _ I HAVE HOUSES, LOTS, And Varioas Tracts af Laid. ALSO A corroN 4 f ooffl factory Id OPERATION, , All of which I desire 10 sell. Apply to JOSEPH RUOHS. Cimtwuwfc*, lcuii, | CARTERSYILLE. GA.. FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1870. The Cartersville Express. Established Twenty Years. KATES AND IEKMS, subscriptions. One copy one year $2 00 One copy six months... 100 One copy three mouths 50 Cl.I B RATES. Five copies one year *8 75 Ten copies one year 15 00 Payments invariably i* advance. APVERTSIINGj RATES. Advertisements will be n lie dth#rat es of One Dollar per inch for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for each additional insertion. Address S. A, CUNNINGHAM. CARTERSVILLE—CAPITOL OF NORTH GEORGIA Is located on the line of the Wes tern A Atlantic lailroad a little more than oue-thiid of the distance fipin Atlanta toward Chattanooga. It is the eastern terminus 01 the Cherokee railroad; is near the Etowah river and centrally located. Considering the rich -1 ess of the soil lor agricultural pursuits; con sidering the richness and abundance of min erals, comprising Iron Ore, Manganese, Ba ryta and Gold, and considering the mildness of the cJimate, is the most desirable section of the United States. Resides, no section of America furnishes more hospitable people. They are not weathly, a general thing, but well to do. A feature in this connection, worthy of special note is the aim lability 01 our young ladies- They are remarkably intelligent, as a class, and have been tihined, so that almost any one in isny familv etn superintend house hold affairs as n sally as the mothers who trained. Our young men, although not numerous, are, as a general thing, moral, intelligent and enterprising. Educationai facilities are not as good for the poorer classes as they should be, but there is a disposition to improve in this respect. There is no fancy in the foregoing, nor is there the slightest exagerdion. Property is very low, and a more inviting section as a home cannot be found, we believe on earth. ROBERT TOOMBS. Reminiscences* of the Remarkable Man. Henry Grady has written a lengthy sketch of General Toombs for the Philadelphia Times. His ancestors were English royalists and were de votees ot Charles ll,after whose defeat they came to America, and settled in Virginia. The father of “Bob” was major in a Virginia regiment sent to Georgia during the revolu tionary war. The officers of that regiment were given lands by the State of Georgia, and Maj. Toombs selected his iu Wilkes county. Robert Toombs was born in 1810, was sent to the University ot Geor gia where he distinguished himself as a student, but was expelled for fighting. After graduating at the University of Virginia, he began the practice of law at Washington, in his native county. It is stated that by the time he was thirty-three years old, he had made in the prac tice of his profession $150,000. He was elected to the legislature at the age of 27. His first distinction in the legislature came through his de feat of an omnibus bill granting State aid to railroads, his first assault be ing upon a scheme to build a railroad to his own to An. It is said that he changed custodians of the State’s fi nances until its notes went from 40 cents to par. He won his way to congress against great odds, and was chosen senator in 1853-7 by almost solid votes. He was “never beaten in a popular elec tion,” and was in active public life from 1837 to 1805. He denies having been the ardent secessionist that he was reputed. His first vote was for Andrew Jackson, but fell out with him in his nullification ideas and acts. In 1850, he supported the Clay compromise very, strongly. He al ways acted independently of his con. stitueocy. In 1860, he supported Breckenridge; Stephens, Mr.Douglas; while Hill was for Bell. They were leaders of the three elements in Geor gia at the time. After Mr. Lincoln’s election General Toombs telegraphed Breckenridge, suggesting that he ap point a compromise committee to meet the exigency. One of the com mittee on the Bell side w r as Mr. Crit tenden, while Jefferson Davis and Toombs were chosen as Brecken ridges friends. Toombs supported the Crittenden compromise. He de nies having said that he “would drink all the blood that was spilt in the conflict.” Mr. Stephens did not believe that Georgia would secede, and said, though earnestly opposed, “if you will carry it by a fair, square resolution, I will go with you.” He asked Mr. Stephens to write the res., j oJuticm and he did it, Toombs has more than once enjoyed telling that Stephens wrote the secession resolu tions for Georgia. mu, i_n*via, m wjv organization 0/ his first cabinet as Confederate Presi dent, made General Toombs secretary of State, but he resigned ere long and went to the field. He was a gallant brigadier. He says the Confederacy failed because of the conscript act, and that was a pet of Mr. Davis as it, of necessity, gave him the appointing power. He has not many good words for Mr. Davis. At the surrender, Toombs went to Mobile, was there sheltered by Augusta Evans, thence to New Orleans, got on a Britisn ship and went to Havana,thence to France. On his return he found Badeau want ed him, but he didn’t want Badeau so ho went to Canada for a while. Toombs is is a good judge of great men. He says that Webster—Mr. Webster—was the greatest man he ever knew. He admired Clay’s elo quence, and his capacity for regulate ingmen, Calhoun was the greatest logician he ever knew. The two most eloquent men he ever knew were Yankees—Choate and Prentiss. Toombs has known every president of this nation personally, except Wash ington, Jefferson and the eider Adams. He saw Jackson inaugurated, and sat by Quincy Adams when he died. His estate is reputed to be a half million. One of his best investments, years ago, was in Texas lands. He has sold near half of the purchase of 100,000 acres at more than twenty times the cost. He at one time lent the Confederacy many thousands of dollars, and it is well remembered that to enable the late constitutional convention of Georgia to complete its work, he lent it $25,000. General Toombs’ gieat powers are yielding. Nature did much for him, and he has done much for and atrainst himself. Georgia will never cease to honor the brave, noble-hearted man. Fourth of July at Cbattanoooga. Chattanooga is not more famous for her magnificent surroundings and as a great central point for iron and coal, than for the enterprise of~her citizens in getting up a Fourth of July celebration. Since her attempt to eclipse Philadelphia in ’76, a little vauity has existed, (on the part of some who have sacrificed their time and money each year for the benefit of other people,) to excel all other cities south, and the effort has not been altogether in vain. Certain criticisms have been due, and quite a number of her citizens have deter mined to stand aloof. Last year for instance, one of the largest placards in the procession read as follows: “Once cotton was king, now iron is king.” This was a shrewd way ol cutting at the pride of the southern people in a southern town, which will be dependent, soon, almost as much upon cotton as iron for its busi ness. The fellow who got the com mittee toallow its use, must have felt it to be a shrewd Yankee trick. Then there was much in the programme to disgust the better class ol people, while the exercises of the day were much more of a horrible than an in telligent character. This year much of it was horrible; it was barbarous. Indications beiug that it would fail of sufficient moral influence, the privilege of selling on all the grounds, was given the Or phans’ Home Association, an im portant charity for the city. That seemed all sufficient, and aside of the liberality in patronizing the bounti ful tables spread by the ladies, not a word more can be uttered in com mendation. Hardly is there in all heathendom a record of more degrad ing exercises. True the base ball was not so bad if the fellows had ex ercised in moderation, nor was the drill so bad, for an organized military at the south will remind our people, and the north, that we are not all dead, and that to all eternity. These things were tolerable, but they were mere side shows. The attrac tion of the day was in seeing if more than a dozen men could not murder themselves without pistol or dagger. A circle was arranged in the burning 9un, and these men started on a race. It was not simply a four mile heat, the test for horses of best blood; but it was the sweepstakes for men, and the time ten hours. So many horses would have died, but they would not have been required to enuure ao long. S. A. CUNNINGHAM. The keepers of these two legged ani mals were well up to policy in urging them on. This class represented some of the most respectable men in the city, and if they ever again are par ties to such work, we shall set them down as undeserving the good will ol anybody. There the crowd stood from morning until about night, in the hot sun, witnessing a torture which would, but for the voluntary act of the “ pedestrians,” have in duced the raising of a mob for their relief. So the day was spent. Long before the close of this walkiug match did one after another of the contest ants surrender to medical treatment, after he had .been encouraged by hi-* “friends,” who watered and sprinkled him as he hurried on in the w T alk, trot or run. No intellectual treat was had nor attempted. What a chapter upon American celebrations or their greatest anniversary. RAILROAD CAR COUPLINGS. A Comfortable ami Safe Invention. Sanford Bell in his usual quiet, po lite way introduced an Express rep resentative to “Mr. 11. A. Cowell, of Cleveland, Ohio.” Then he said let me show you, and upon a metal plate attached to the car platform, the writer saw Mr. Cowells name given as the patentee and owner of the best continuous platform and automatic coupling, without doubt, in America. Dr. Cowell then explained, in detail, the excellencies of his great inven tion. There are spring attachments so compressed that in curves or start ing there is sufficient yielding for safety, and giving necessary ad van - tage to the engine in starting its load. His couplings are adapted to freight cars also, and by their use there is a total saving of links and pins, while on passenger cars the coupling is done by means of a lever. Jerks are avoided also by their use in starting and stopping or changing speed. It is a splendid arrangement altogether, and we should be gratified to see it on all trains. It has been applied, so far, only to conductor Bell’s train, on the Western & Atlantic, and to con ductor Berry Holt’s train, on the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railroad, in this part of the country* TJie Chatham Artillery. The present members of this old company, of Savannah, organized in 1786, after spending several days de lightfully at Home, went Tuesday to Catoosa. It is the oldest military company, we may say, in the United States. During the second revolu tion their guns, presented by General Washington, lay buried under the armory, at Savannah. They have the same field pieces still. The Cen tral railroad furnished a car to take them to Rome and return. THREE CHILDREN BURIED IX SAND Two little sons aged eight .and ten years of Mr. Estell, living at Win chester, Tenn., were digging in & sand bank recently when it crumbled and hurried them both. They were found with warm bodies, but after life had become exiinct. Another, a girl or twelve and a half years, a grand daughter of con gressman Keese, of New York, at play after a day’s “good behavior,” accompanied by a little girl half her own age. They were near a snc bank and it fell, enveloping the eid er and life had become extinct be fore she could be rescued. DEATH OF GEN. ANDERSON. * Ex-Lieutenant Gen. R. H. Ander son, of the Confederate army, died at Beaufort, S. , on the 28th inst,, of apoplexy, in the 63d year of his age. He was a native of South Carolina, and entered the military academy ir: 1838. He became a second lieutenant of the Ist dragoons in 1842, and two years later was transferred to the 2d dragoons. He served with honor in the Mexican war, and received the grade of brevet first lieutenant for galiant and meritorious conduct at San Augustine. Soon after (July,, 1848), he became a first lieutenant and in March, 1855, he was made a captain. He became a brigadier general in the Confederate army in 1861, and a major-general in 1862, At Gettysburg-, July, 1863, he com - manuea Confederate troops.
