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VOL. XXIII-NO. 35.
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BAUTOW COUNTY—OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
County Officers.
Ordinary—J. A. lfoward—Office, court h ouse.
Sheriff— Jas. Kennedy.
Deputy sheriff—A. M. Franklin,
Clerk of Superior Court—Thos. A. Word.
Treasurer—Humphrey Cobb.
Tax Collector—W. W. Kick.
Tax Receiver—W. W. Ginn.
Commissioners—J. 11. Wiklc, secretary; A.
Knight; W. I. Bonham ; A. C. Trimble; T.
<J. Moore.
CITY OFFICERS—CARTERSVILLE.
Mayor—lt. B. Trippe.
Board of Aldermen—J. C.Woffford, E. Payne;
1.. A. Chapman, A. L. Barron; Jno. A. Stover,
M. ll.Gilreath; W. C. Edwards, it. \V. Satter
field.
Clerk— George Cobb.
Treasurer—Benjamin F. Mountcastlc.
Marshals- John A. Gladden, James D. Wil
ke rs o l?.
CIIURCII DIRECTORY.
Methodist —Rev. I\ M. Ityhurn, pastor.
P ishing every Sunday at 11 o’clock a. m. and
h o'clock, p. m. Sunday school every Sunday at
i) o', lock a. m. Prayer meeting on Wednesday
night.
i , resbytcrian--Rev. Tlieo. E. Smith, pastor,
eking every Sunday at 11 o’clock, a. • m.
Sui: hiy school every Sunday at 9 o’clock.
IV.-iver meeting on Wednesday night.
llaptist--ltcv. It. B. Headen, pastor. Preach
ing every Sunday at 11 o’clock, a. in., and 8 p.
in. Sunday school e very Sunday at 9 o’clock,
Prayer meeting on Wednesday night.
Episcopal—A. W. Rees, Rector. Services oc
casionally.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
QTATt LODGE, No. 322.1. O. G. T. Sleets at
h'Alien- hall oyer .j. Yv'. Jackson’s store, every
Thursday night.
Cl! AS. E. HA U K HP, AY. C. T.
A*. R. : hockli v, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
A *AJ
V Bartow Cos. Lodge, No. 118, meets
j .Wf V-Y every Ist and 3rd Monday night
t ' uri T , s Hall, east side of the
V/ square. Cartersvillo, Ga.
AY. L. Kirkpatrick, A. C. Smith,
Reporter. Dictator
A ME RICAN LEGION OF HONOR, Cartcrs
j- V yiilc Council, No. 152, meets every second
mid fourth Monday nights 4n Curry’s hall.
guo. s. Coed, j, \\. ILarkis, jr.,
Seen 1 i .-v. Commander.
PO r OFFICE DIRECTORY.
Mails North open 7:30 am 4:52 pm
Mails South open ....10:1!) a m 9:04 p m
Vherokee It. It. open 6:55 p m
vails North close 7:00 am 4:00 p m
ails South close 9:15 a m B:>D ;> m
horokee R.R. close 3:30 a m
Rock Mail, via Fairmount,
leaves Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at
t:00 am. Arrives Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays at 5:00 p m.
V WMoney Order and Registered Letter
Office open from 8:15 amtos pm,
p Y"Genera! Delivery open from 8 aratoC
.i, Oppn on Sunday from 9am to 10:30 am.
,T. It. AYIKLE, P. M.
AVESTEIIN & ATLANTIC R. R.
ON AND AFTER June 20th, 1880, trains on
this road will run as follows:
NORTHWARD 1 .
ITIONs. | No. 1. | No. 3, | No. 11. |
Atlanta, 2 50pm 520 am 780 am 5 10pm
Marietta, 8 35“ 606 “ 843 “ 609 “
Cartersv’e 436 “ 723 “ 949 “ 722 “
Kingston, 500 “ 7 51“ 11018“ 800 “
Dalton, ' 628 “ 926 “ 12 03pm
Lhatta’ga. 825 “ 10 56 “ | 140 “ ___
southward.
STATIONS. No. 2. No. 4, No. C,
Uhatta’ga. 5 25pm 7 05am 6 45am
Dalton, 7 15“ 837 “ 1013“
Kingston, 843 “ 10 16“ 107 pm 5 30am
t urtersv’o 907 “ 10 46 “ 202 “ 604 “
Marietta, 10 12“ 1151“ 429 “ 733 “
Atlanta, li oo “ 12 4opm
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
ON AND AFTER Monday, September O,ISSO,
trains on this road will run daily, except
Sunday, as follows:
westward.
STATIONS. ’ NO, 1. ~ NO. 3.
Leave Cartersville, 9:50 am 2:30 pm
Arrive ac Stilesboro 10:30 am 3:10 p m
“ Taylorsville... 11:59 am 3.:30 p m
“ ltock m art 11:45am 4:35 pm
“ Cedartown 1:15 p m 6:00 p m
EASTWARD.
STATIONS. NO. 2. NO. 4.
Leave Cedartown 3:25 pin 6:30 a m
Arrive at Rockmarfc 4:28 pm 8:25 am
Taylorsville... 5:22 pm 9:50 am
“ Stilesboro 5:47 pm 11:35 am
“ Cartersville.... 0:30 pm 12:20 pm
ROME RAILROAD COMPANY.
On and after Monday, Nov. 17, trains on this
Road will run as follows:
MORNING TRAIN—EVERY DAY.
:>ve,s Home 6.80 am
. rrivcs at Rome 10.00 a m
EVENING TRAIN—SUNDAYS EXCEDTED.
! cave Rome 5:00 a m
. vrives at Rome , . S:00 p m
.Roth trains will make connection at Kings
ton with trains on the W. an l A. Railroad, to
and from Atlanta and points South.
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Case of Colonel <T. C. Branson.
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sity, Pa.
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Valuable in nervous prostration, indigestion
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Prince of mineral tonics.—Francis’Giilani,
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CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1880.
TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA.
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, 1
Athens, August 25,1880. j
The trustees of the University of
Georgia, at their last stated meeting
in July, adopted, inter alia , the fol
lowing statement, in relation to the
four branch colleges, at Dahlonega,
Milledgeville, Cuthbert and Thomas
ville, and the following recommenda
tion enjoined upon their secretary :
“We are more than gratified to re
port the healthy and successful status
of each of our schools, and believe
that they are awakening an interest
in different portions of the state on
the subject of popular education, that
has uot, heretofore, been seen—let us
push this system—and in our opinion,
the people will demand, of the legis
lature, all the money needful to es
tablish it in every part of the state.’*
“To t K at end, we recommend, that
the secretary of this board shall issue
a card to the people of Georgia,
showing the number of pupils now
being educated in each of the branch
colleges, and such other facts in rcla>
tion to each of the same, as shall give
correct information as to what are
our purposes and } lans ; and with a
request that the same be published in
the different gazettes of the state.”
In executing this task, the secreta
ry states, that
North Georgia Agricultural Col
lege at Dahlonega, catalogues 625 pupils.
South Georgia Agricultural Col
lege at Tliomasville, catalogues 170 “
Southwest Georgia Agricultural
College at Cuthbert, catalogues ITS “
Middle Georgia Military and Ag
ricultural College at Milledgc
ville, catalogues 885 “
The branch colleges at Dahlonega
and Milledgeville arc open to stu
dents of both sexes; those at Cuth
bert and Thomasville are confined to
male pupils.
These branch colleges charge no
tuition fees; they only impose a
small matriculation fee upon each
student.
They prepare pupils for the classes
in the university at Athens, when
any of such pupils are determined to
obtain a complete and liberal educa
tion in the arts and sciences.
Whenever the trustees ot the uni
versity shall be enabled, by the fur
ther and fuller endowment of the
same, by the legislature, or other
wise, to make tuition free to all its
students, then the poorest boy, pos
sessing sound mind in a sound body,
i. e. “mens sana in corpora sano can
obtain the highest education, by his
own unaided efforts, without pecuni
ary assistanse from parent, kinsman
or friend. Because he can earn, by a
year’s labor for some thrifty farmer
in his vicinity, from one hundred to
one hundred and fifty dollars, a sum
sufficient to support him during the
ensuing year at one of the branch
colleges, or at the university; and
thus by alternate labor and study he
can work his way to graduation in
the arts and sciences as bachelor and
even as master, and take his seat with
the highest literati of the land.
Bring this possibility home to our
youth, who are hungry forthe higher
education, but have not, hitherto,
made efforts in this direction, for the
reason, that they have not known of
its possibility in their own case, and
beyond all doubt, our branch colleges
and university halls will soon exhibit
a status still more gratifying.
The demand for branch colleges is
manifesting itself in various parts of
the state, and the university should
be supplied with ample means by
the legislature or otherwise, to pro
vide for all our great educational
wards.
The department of agriculture of
tho state, might be utilized to great
advantage, by forming a close union
with the university, and using its
professors for the analysis of fertili
zers and soils ; for the gradual geolog
ical and physical survey of the state;
and for the experimental farm—
enlarging it to embrace all sorts of
crops, fruits and vegetables, with the
rearing of all sorts of domestic ani-*
mals, not omitting the ornamental
and beautiful, and from that source
some funds might be realized.
is greatly needed a . Normal
college at the seat of the university,
to prepare professors and teachers for
the branch colleges and common
schools. The common schools are
new to some small extent supplied by
advanced students of the branch cob
leges and by university students.
ButaNoimal college is the proper
agency to perfect the profession of
teaching. Free common schools are
a constitutional duty, and they must
have a close union with our higher
institutions of learning, to perform
their functions to advantage and with
success.
There is an old law maxim, “ Aqua
currit , et debet currere ,” water runs
and ought to run. So education runs
like water, and it ought to run as
freely ; but water runs down, never
up, and so of education, it must run
down, if it runs at all. Much money
has been wasted in the past by losing
sight of this important principle.
The transfiguration was on the top of
the mountain ; at its base, the dumb
spirit was exorcised by the Great
Teacher, in the presence of the dici
ples and the multitude.
Funds are greatly needed to pay
forthe rebuilding of the burnt col
lege at Dahlonega, for putting the
building and grounds at Milledgeville
in suitable order, for supplying the
branch colleges with apparatus and
libraries, and for establishing other
branch colleges in such portions of
the state as will furnish suitable
grounds and buildings. The trustees
of the university of Georgia have al
ready appropriated more of the in
come of the land scrip fund to the
four branch colleges than they prob
ably should have done, in view of
the wants of (he university itself.
It becomes then a vital question,
where are the funds to come from?
There is but one answer to this ques
tion. The general assembly and lib
eral men and.women of wealth, must
supply these great wants of the peo j
pie. The sum of twenty thousand
dollars per annum has been sugges
ted as within the ability of the legis
lature, without adding any burden to
the people by additional taxation.
Even a million of dollars in six per
cent bonds, has been publicly pro
claimed at the seat of government as
a proper fund for our present wants.
There is no danger of having too
much money. The oldest and best
endowed institutions of learning in
this country and in Europe, are al
ways in need of money ; and if they
do their duty, they will never have
money enough, till the millenium
beams upon the world. Our univer
sity needs funds for additional pro
fessorships at this very time ; espec
ially its professor-hip of English lan
guage and literature ; for the English
language has become the most im
portant language of the earth, being
spoken by 115,000,000 of people,
which is more than double the num
ber of people speaking any other Eu
ropean language ; and the professor
ship of natural history, now partially
filled, ought to have its own exclu
sive professor; and also the profess-*
orship of civil engineering; and in
addition to these, we need a drill
master for the military feature of the
state college.
The constitution of 1877, by its
various provisions, unifies our sys
tem of public education, and by wise
and judicious grants of money by the
legislature, it is within our reach to
realize the ideal of the charter of the
university, granted in 1785, which
gives anew definition to the word
university, meaning thereby not only
a curriculum of liberal arts and sci
ences, but a system having a collegi
ate head and academic members scat
tered through the state. In our pres
ent circumstances, the university is
the head—the branch colleges are the
arms—and the common schools are
the members of the educational body.
We need a bigger head, more arms
and better members. Make those all
work in harmony, and in a single
generation, we may become the best
educated people in the world. Now
As tlie golden moment to lay. the
foundations deep and solid. For a
complete and well equipped univer
sity is essential to first class branch
colleges ; the first class branch colle
ges at*e essential to first class common
schools; and ail co-operating will se
cure the best educated people upon
this planer.
Let this achievement be your
work, people of Georgia, in the spirit
of our constitution.
Wm. L. Mitchell,
Secretary. -
—General Luring, late of the Khe->
dive’s army, says there is an obelisk
at Thebes 100 feet high, which
was erected by Queen Hatsou, 1500
years oefore the good Joseph with a
queer coat came into Egypt. The
obelisk is beautifully carved, and
on it troops are represented marching
in columns with the same step now
used by the American army in Up
ton’s tactics. This is severe on Up
ton’s invention. —New Orleans Pica ->
7/une.
- • ♦
—General Lougstreet will not leave
for Turkey for several weeks, and
when he goes will take his family.
He will return to Gaiuesvilie before
taking his departure.
A LETTER FROM EX-GOVERNOR
BROWN.
Correcting Some Statements Made by
Ex-Gov. Smith at Rome Satur
day, September 4.
Atlanta, Ga., S: pt. 6, 1880.
Col. J. Branham, Rome, Ga.:
Dear Sir—l have to acknowledge
the receipt ol your letter and in re
ply have to state that I am very
much astonished at the statements
you say were made by Gov. Smith in
his speech at Rome. You say he sta
ted that Colquitt took a fifty thous
and dollar bond with me as surety
from the citizens bank on account of
the state deposits which he placed
there without interest, in preference
to a two hundred and fifty thousand
dollar bond and three per cent inter
est from the bank of the state of
Georgia. You surely must be mista
ken in the statement made by Gov.
Smith as this statement is untrue, I
am not security for the citizens banK
as state depositor nor in any other
way. It never gave a fifty thousand
dollar bond with meassurety in any
matter oi any character.
You state further that Gov. Smith
said I took fifty thousand dollars of
the citizens bank assets as collateral
before. I would sign the bond. There
is not a word of truth in this.
Also that my son is a director and
the bank’s attorney. This is also
untrue as to the directorship. My
son is attorney of the citizens bank ;
but he does not own a dollar of the
stock, and is not a director and never
was. I own but $3,500 of the stock ot
the bank, and it only pays but 0 per
cent per annum dividend, I am not a
director.
As to tho other point about the
deposit with the citizens bank when
the bank of the state of Georgia offer
ed to pay interest I know nothing
personally, as I had nothing what,
ever to do with any of tho transac
tions. It is said that the solvent
banks generally declined to do so on
the groud that the legislature had
limited the rate ot interest they could
take to eight per cent; that they
could not afford to be limited to that
and pay interest.
I am also informed that no bank in
Atlanta except Mr. Coker’s proposed
to pay any interest and that he did
not make a proposition until after he
was informed that the citizens bank
was to have the deposits; that he
then said he would pay three percent
interest; but on looking over the re
ports made by his bank, the govern
or did not think well of it and was
unwilling to deposit with that bank
on account of what he considered its
weak condition.
I am also informed that one bank
in Augusta proposed to pay interest;
but would offer no security except
their own stock, and that no other
bank in Georgia did propose to pay
interest.
As already stated above, I know
nothing whatever of any of these
transactions ot my own knowledge as
I had no connection whatever with
them.
As to Gov. Smith’s statement that
lam making eight hundred dollars
a day out of an iron mine, it is equally
as untrue as the statement above
mentioned. The Dade coal company,
of which I am president, owns an
interest in the Rising Fawn iron
furnace in Dade county, and it is
making a reasonable income. But
as every man acquainted with the
iron business is .obliged to know, no
furnace is making a heavy income at
the present price of iron.
And you say Gov. Smith adds,
“and a large profit from the Dade
coal mines with convict labor.” We
are making some profit a‘t the Dade
coalmines and tlfere we use convict
labor, but we are n.o.t working a con
vict within fifteen miles of the iron
furnace in which we have no inter
est.
The Dade company also has an
interest in iron ore in Bartow county
and has built a railroad out to their
'mines three miles, which is nearly
Completed. We hope to make some
money on that. Is it a crime for a
citizen to put his money into the
development of the mineral interests,
especially if he should succeed in
making money by bis energy and
enterprise ? If so I have been acting
under a delusion. I thought our cit
izens desired that kind of develop
ment.
I am informed from other quarters
that my opponents are making the
point that 1 am doing all I can and
that Gov. Colquitt is doing the same,
to prevent the building of the Macon
& Brunswick tjiis. £ity. .This
is also a very great mistake. While
S. A. CUNNINGHAM.
I have not a dollar of interest in that
enterprise, I have a very considerable
interest in real estate in Atlanta, and
I have an interest in the W. & A. R.
R.; and the more connecting roads
we have to Atlanta, the more valua
ble my real estate is and the better
the business over the state road. To
go against the enterprise would be
therefore to go against my own in
terest. Aud I could see no possible
motive Gov. Colquitt could have in
opposing it, as he signed the law
which provided for its construction
and leased with the express condi
tion that a road is to be built con
uecting with Atlanta upon one of the
three routes mentioned in the statute.
However, I do not pretend to speak
for Gov. Colquitt who is competent
to speak for himself. I simply state
my connection with the matter and
my own position. lam in favor of
building all the railroads in Georgia
that the people have the money hon
estly to build. If men having money
invest in such enterprises, they are
apt to count the cost and they are
not likely to want to put their money
into them unless they think the
roads will pay. We certainly want
all the railroads that will pay and
aid in developing the country.
You are at liberty to use this state
ment as you think proper.
Very truly your friend,
Joseph E. Browin'.
A SLANDER REFUTED.
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Daiilonega, September 7.—ln
this section of the state the enemies
of Governor Colquitt are spreading
the report that he is to blame for the
non-insurance of our college, and
right in the very teeth of truth and
facts have the brazen effrontery to
assert that he (Colquitt) used the
money appropriated by the legisla
ture for the insurance of the college
on the executive mansion. The
whole thing is false from the premi
ses to the conclusion and those who
originated it ought to have known it
was a slander when they started it.
For proof of this look on page 8 of
acts 0f!877 and you will see an ap
propriation made for the governor’s
mansion. In the same book look on
page 368 and you will see a resolution
only appointing a committee of two
from the senate and three from the
house “to take into consideration the
propriety of having the public build
ings insured against fire, etc., and
report the result to the general as
sembly.” It appears from these re
cords that the legislative will of the
people did not intend to add any
further duties to the executive, but
appointed a committee of their own
body to perform that duty, and now
that they (not Colquitt) failed in
their duty, shallow-pated slanderers
make a lilliputian effort to cast the
blame on Governor Colquitt. Shame
upon such cowards! This is not the
first time Colquitt performed his
duty, and others tried to claim the
credit. I distinctly remember his
fighting about 15,000 with only be
tween 4,000 and 5,000 brave Geor
gians and Floridans, when his supe
rior officer in command was scared.
His gallantry on that field of duty,
Ocean Pond, saved Florida, and
whilst Colquitt was listening to the
music of bullets, most of his slander
ers were sheltering behind bomb
proofs. As one having never seen
the moment w r hen I blushed for hav
ing w r orn the gray, I dislike to see a
man who did his duty thrown down
by falsehood and slander, when his
very record proves his purity.
Mountaineer.
THE NORWOOD BOOM HAS DIS
APPEARED.
There is no boom for Norwood in
Georgia. On the contrary, the lack
of courtesy on the part ot some of his
followers, their rude treatment of the
ehivalrie Gordon at Columbus and
our gallant governor in Macon, have
disgusted the people, and now the
ouly question is “how large will be
Governor Colquitt’s majority ?” In
every meeting on the hustings, and
his published reply to Mr. Norwood’s
exasperating arraignment at Atlanta
and divers other places, thegoVernor
has triumphantly routed and over*
whelmed his antagonist: 1 That" the
truth is mighty and will prevail has
been abundantly manifested in Ihis
campaigu. Governor Colqtiitt is
passing through the furnace heated
“seven times hotter” by his oppo
nents unsatched, and without even
the smell of tire upon his garments.
As the choice of the people he will
be indorsed by the people at the bal
lot-box in thunder tones, if we read
aright the signs ofcthe times.—Tele
graph & Messenger.