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Tk3 Cartersville Express,
CarUrsYllle, T.a.. Thirsday, Fek. IT, 1881.^
REPORTOBIAL BACKET.
Our new quarters.
Al. Mackey is now a conductor.
Gus Fite has been spotted with the
measles.
Much smoking kills live men and
cures dead boys.
Parent! be sure you know where
your boy is tonight.
The mumps and measles are still on
the rampage hereabout.
Will Elliott, of Rome, received his
valentines in Cartersvillo.
The Javeniio brass band is nearly
stricken down with measles.
If you ,want a first-class cbrotno,
call at Moxntcastle’s Rook store.
Charlie Saxon returned from a trip
Into Middle Georgia last week.
Charlie Tomlinson is now estab
lished at W. H. Wikle A Co’s.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson Is slowly re
covering from a spell of sickness.
Esty Organs, the best in the world
for Bale by 11. M. Mountcastle A Cos.
Doug Crawford is delighting his
many friends here with his presence.
The young folks had a Valentine
party at the St. James hotel Monday
night.
Col. K. A, Crawford, so well
known in this city is now living in
Griftin.
We noticed that Mountcsstle book
store was crowded during Valeri
tkie’s day.
In her special car, Sara Bernhardt
passed through Cartersville, this
morning.
Those wko attend the exhibition at
the opera house to-night will be a
conspicuous minority.
The bills on the depot wall truth
fully depict what may be seen at the
opera house to-night.
A telegraph office has been estab
lished at Rogers Furnace with Will
Vandevere as operator.
Picture frames a specialty at H. M.
Mountcastle A Co’e any size or quali
ty made at short notice.
Let it be said and heralded that
so-called Female Minstrels find no
recognition in Cartersville.
The adjournment of Court has
thrown Deputy Sheriff Gladden out
of a job for a few weeks.
The iadies of the Episcopal church
return thanks to those who did them
service in their late supper.
Don’t forget the festival to be given
at the St. James hotel to-night by the
ladies of the Methodist Church.
# Charlie Mountcastle is the boss
picture frame maker of North Geor
gia. Window cornice made to order.
A large stock ofsheet music Piano
and Organ instruction books at 11.
M. Mountcastle A Co’s.
11. M. Mountcastle A Cos., keep
constantly on hand a large stock of
school miscellaneous and blank
books,
George Aubry advertises for sale a
blooded Jersey calf. Stock fanciers
will do well to examine the animal
offered.
Now is the time to whitewash
fences to save lumber. Whitewash
is nearly equal to paint. Ladd’s
dine is cheap.
Constable John Hill has the tax
fi-fas for collection and it will be to
the interest of all to come up and
settle immediately.
Mr. R. H. Field, of Kansas City,
Mo., accorupaaied by his lady is vis
iting his family and many friends in
Carters ville.
We visited Rome last week and
found the place doing as well as
could be expected ander an attack of
three daily newspapers.
Tbe roof of the Bartow lloyse is
being repaired by Virgii Williams,
and soon the track of the lute storm
will he covered over.
Young man, do you think by at
tending the Female Minstrels to
night, you are showing the proper
respect to your mother and sisters?
The Atlanta Phonograph says, the
deadest us well as the largest audi
ence ever seen in Atlanta, the
one assembled to hear Bernhardt.
Ail persons indebted to Anderson
A Bro., are warned to come forward
and settle, else they will find their
accounts in ttie hands of an attorney.
Three disguised Italian counts,
with bagpipes, clarionettes, etc.,
were in town last week. It is said
that one of them is a cousin to iLl
vini.
Wo are rejoiced to anncußie that
Coi. Johnson is now retting quite
easily. We trust it will Le only a
few more days before he will be able
to get out.
The Grifln News states that it is
probable that Ed. Freeman will re
turn thare to live. We hope that
this is not true.
Col. C. B. Howard has moved to
Atlanta. Himself and excellent fam
ily made many friends during their
short residence in Cartersville.
Alderman Erwin, (returning from
his Bernhardt trip) : “I never was
so disappointed in my life. The poor
est thing I ever saw—all the boys
were disappointed.”
There will be divine service in the
Episcopal church .on tor-morrow
(Friday) night and on the following
Sunday. The public is most cordially
invited to attend. Rev. Mr. Rees
will officiate.
Charles B. Willingham has receiv
ed the appointment of Stenographic
reporter of this judicial circuit. He
will be an efficient man in the place
and we trust he will be pleased in
h!s now position.
We are requested to announce that
the Social Club will meet on Friday
night, at the residence of Alderman
Erwin, on Erwin street. It is hoped
by the friends of the club that all
members will be present.
Farmers are not doing justice to
themselves if they fail to use Ladd’s
permanent manure—only sls a ton.
One ton makes four tons of compost
with material usually wasted at
home.
Mr. Estes is making a lively loca|
department in the Rome IVibune.
His items are sharp and spicy and
just the thing a man wants in his
morning paper. We predict for him
great success in his uow calling.
We know we are giving the so
calied Female Minstrels a lot of free
advertising, in our remarks this
week, but we think we have halted
some young man upon the thresh
hold of an exhibition to which he
would not take his sister.
The ladies of the Episcopal church
propose shortly to give a musicale.
The direction of it will be in compt
tent hands. The time and place of
holding the entertainment will be
announced in a lew days. Our best
musical talent has volunteered.
A prominent citizen or our coanty
was recently fined ten dollars by the
postal authorities for writing a mes
sage on a circular which it only took
one cent to carry. That same man
doesnt take a single one of hisjjcoan
ty papers, or he would have known
better.
We are a friend to the drama and
lend our humble aid to every exhi
bition of a meritorious character that
comes to Cartersville, but we could
never sell space in our columns in
advertisment of the disgraceful per
formance to occur in our opera house
to night.
Howell Cobb Cloud, formerly a
knight of the jard-stick in several
of Atlanta’s largest dry goods empo
riums has purchased the stock of
Sheats A Cos., at Kingston and set
tled down thero to live. Now if the
boy will only marry he will be do
ing things up all right. Good luck
to him, anybow.
The dizzy blondes appeared at the
opera-house last night to a fair audi
ence, composed exclusively of men.
The show was just what we expected
it would be —coarse and poof. Even
for a show of its kind it was a railure t
as there was not a redeeming feature
about it. — Rome Tribune.
H. M. Mountcastle A Cos., have
made arrangements with the pub
lishers to pet new music as it is pub
lished, so that our people will not
have to order elsewhere, or wait till
it can be ordered. Music teachers
will find it to their advantage to pat
ronize the above firm.
The Jadie3 of the Episcopal church
were quite successful in their oyster
supper enterprise. We did not have
the pleasure of attending, but no one
has spoken of the occasion iu any
other terms than expressive of satia
faction and pleasure. A lunch was
spread the morning after, from which
a neat sum was realized.
Ladies, if your husbands come
home at 11| o’clock, and tell you
that they have been to the club, or
to prayer-meeting, or to the lodge,
or to an oyster supper, or to till a
business engagement, or to a rail
road meeting, just don’t believe
them. Remember that the female
minstrels will be in town to-night.—
Home TANARUS, ibunc .
Wanm Akin, Bob Murphey, Lew
is Erwin, and Charlie Sheiuian, jr.,
were the Oartersvillians who went
Bernhardting yesterday. Bob Mur
phey will act as the interpreter for
the party during the evening’s feast
of the French Camille. Bob is in
his glory when he get* to talking
French,
We will have a grand time at the
St. James hotel tomorrow night.
The ladies of the Methodist church
are preparing one of the richest
treats ever had in this city. Sub
stantial and delicacies —oysters and
ice-cream in abundance for all. Don’t
forget Friday night at the St. James
hotel. To be repeated with candy
pulling for children and all young
folks Saturday 3 o’clock to 9 p. m.
at Mr. Millican’a schoolhouse.
The foundry is now opened and in
running order. Messrs. Stephenson
A Mclntyre are the proprietors, and
as they are accomplished workmen
and have the requsite capital there is
no doubt but what Cartersvillo will
soon boast of as fine a foundry as
there is in the land.
Mrs. Sophronia A. R. Cooper, the
wife of our venerable and distin
guished fellow-citizen. Hon. Mark
A. Cooper, died at her home, Glen
Holly, on Sunday morning last, the
6th inst. The deceased was born in
Hancock county, June 28th, 1801,
married 6th of January, 1825, and
was the mother of ten children.
Yesterday we had the pleasure of
forming the acquaintance of Mr.
Sidney Root, a gentleman well
known in the commercial and litera
ry circles of Atlanta. He is most
pleasing in converse and withal a
polished, clever gentleman. While
here he is being chtperoned by his
old-time friend Mr. Win. H.
Gilbert.
Will Pentecost, of Rome, passed
through the city yesterday en route
to the Bernhardt, in Atlanta. When
the elongated Frenchwoman draws
her slow length from without the in
ner recesses of a gas pipe and goes
through that impassioned passage in
the French “Camille”: “ Parley voo
le wong<vong frog-frog /” it is ex
pected that Willie will sit down in
an aisle and scream.
We cannot go to press this week
without returning thanks to our pa
trons for overlooking our suspension
of last week. Wc would also return
grateful thanks for favors and as
sistance from the Free Press ) and say
to it that if it ever has to move in
one week, tear down and put up a
power press with more machinery
about it than a set of two-horse gear,
have a form pied, innumerable cases
pied, wife sick, no coal, likewise
money, it has only to command us.
On Saturday morning the passen
ger car on the W. A A. R. R., known
as the Cincinnati connection knocked
a man of Pettitt’s creek bridge about
•one mile and a half north of this
place. Efforts by the railroad com
pany were at once commenced to re
cover the remains, but until Sunday
morning at 11 o’clock, all efforts were
futile. After continued dragging and
•fishing the remains were found about
forty or fifty yards below the bridge
in the spot customarily used for bap”
tismals. The body was discovered by
Mr. Raymond Thompson. It was
brought immediately to Cartersville
where an inquest was held by Cor
oner Mull, resulting in a verdict in
accordance with the above facts. It
was the body of a negro man named
Morgan Smith, who came from
Spalding county, and Who was on
nis way home. The remains' were
interred in the city cemetery at* the
joint expense of the railroad com
pany and the county.
While in Rome recently we had a
cordial greeting into its Public Pro
duce and Cotton Exchange. It is not
certain whether the genial managei,
Mr. Jim Murrill, took us for a bull
or bear. Anyhow, we didn’t per
form. A friend tried to rope us in
on a little game of futures, and he
made a narrow escape for all we had
was a free ticket over the Rome road
and an editorial written on the re
verse side af an envelope urging the
people of our section to plant more
sorghum. Seriously, the Rome Cot
ton and Produce Exchange is a lead
ing institution of Rome, and it is as
tonishing how many of the citizens
of our sister city operate on ’change.
It is a convenience to every specu
lator in this section of the state. The
latest market reports are kept con
spicosly displayed, hut no betting
is allowed. It is a branch of J. F.
Cummings A Co.’s Atlanta exchange
and is under the immediate super
vision of Mr. J. M. Murrill, to .vhorn
any correspondence relative to the
business may be addressed.
For the first time a female minstrel
troupe Is to appear in Cartersvile. As
many of our readers are unfamiliar
with the character of these enter
tainments we will state that they are
of the Jo west and most obscene or
der. In the larger cities they are
frequented by only the depraved. No
lady is ever seen in the alidience and
of course an entertainment can be
nothing but disgraceful where pure
womanhoo* does not smile in ap.
proval. The performance given by
thetroup billed to appear at the op
era house on to-night, the 17th, was
so outrageous in Nashville that the
city authorities pit a stop to it before
the programme was half over. We
hope that it will receive a welcome
here that will never juatify its return
It is customary for newspapers to
rasp these vile .-hows after they have
come and gone, but we take this oc
casion to pay our’retpects in advance
in the hope that what we have said
will be the means of keeping some
pure-minded and pure-hearted boy
from attending an exhibition that
will do no more than disgust him
and appeal to his baser passions. We
! are surprised that our town authori-
I ties should allow* our opera house to
be so disgraced.
Monday, the 14th February, was
St. Valentine’s day, a festival which
is observed by the sending of comic
| and sentimental missives and anony
mous notes of a jocular style. The
supply and variety of these carica
tures and elegant and handsome
souvenirs of love and friendship
were this season unusually large, and
the windows and counters of the
book stores were covered with them.
The origin of the peculiar observance
of St. Valentine’s day is a subject of
some obcurity. The Saint himself,
who was a priest of Rome, martyred
in the third century, seems to have
had nothing to do with the matter
beyond the accident of his day, being
used for the purpose. Mr. Douce, in
his illustrations of Shakespeare says:
“It was the practice of ancient Rome
during a great part of the month of
February to celebrate the Lupercalla,
which were feasts in honor of Pan
and Juno, whence the latter deity
was nomed Februta, Februatis and
Februlla. On this occasion, amidst
a variety of ceremonies, the names
of young women were put into a box,
from which they were drawn by the
men as chance directed. The pastors
of the early Christian church, who
by every possible means endeavored
to eradicate the vestiges of pagan su
perstitions, and chiefly by some com
mutations of their forms, substituted
in tlie present instance the nnmes of
particular Saints instead of those of
the women ; and as the festival of
Lupercalia had commenced about,
the middle of February* th y appear
to have chosen St. Valentine’s day
for celebrating the new least, because
it ouccurred nearly at the same time.
This is iu part the opinions of a
learned and rational compiler of the
‘Lives of the Saints,’ the Rev. Alban
Butler. It should seem, however,-
that it was utterly impossible to ex
tirpate altogether any ceremony to
which the common people had been
much accustomed—a fact which it
were easy to provein tracing the ori
gin of various other popular super
stitions. And accordingly the out
line of the ancient ceremonies was
preserved, but modified by some
adaptation to the Christian system.
Itisreasonabletosuppo.se that the
above practice of choosing mates,
common in this day according to
general belief, would gradually be
come reciprocal in the sexes, and
that all persons so c hosen would be
called Valentines from the day on
wheih the ceremony took place.”
Muse bid tbe morn awake,
Sad winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate.
This day’s St. Valentine’s;
For that good Bishop’s sake,
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
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