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VOL. XXIV. The Cartersville Express, Established Twenty Years. KATES AND TERMS. SUBSCRIPTIONS. One copy one y car $1 50 One copy six months 75 One copy three months 50 I‘aymcnts invariably in advance. AOVKKTSH.su KATES. Advertisements will be inserted at the rates ot One Dollar per inch tor tlie lirst insertion, and Fitty Lents for each additional insertion. Address CORNELIUS H ILLINGIIAM. Vivian mini I,NU vm**xm£* Mmi**i*m ra t .v.iMnnii^na..*.. j B.UUOU COUNTY—OFFICIAL DIRECTOR!. Counry Officers. Ordinary—.i. A. Ilow'ard—Oilice, court OoKse. Sliei'ih —A. M. Franklin, Deputy sticrill—John A. Gladten. EgLlerk of Superior Uourt —F. M. Durham. —ll umphrey Loltb. Yax Collector—liaiiev Bartou. u Tax Receiver—W . W. Li inn. Commissioner!-.—J. il. \Y ikle, secretary; A. Kai-nt; T.l Moore; A. A. Vincent; i. C. Hawkins. CITY OFFICERS—CAKTEJRSVILLE. Mayor—John Anderson. Board ol Aldermen—Martin Cillins, E. Payne; W.H Barron, G. Harwell; J. Z. Mc- Connell, A. D. Vandivere; W. L. Edwards, Lewis T. Erwin. Clerk—George Cobb. Treasurer—Benjamin F. Mountcastle. Marshals--Janies D. WilkeiaOD, Janies Broughton. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Methodist—Kev. A. J. Jarrell, pastor. Preaching every Sunday util o’clock a. in. and 3 o’clock, p. m. Sunday school every Sunday ai 9 >ck a. m. Prayer meeting on Wednesday night* . ii>3byterian--Kev. Theo. E. Smith, pastor Preaching every Sunday at 11 o’clock, a. in. Sunday school every Sunday at 9 o’clock. Prayer meeting on Wednesday night. Baptist—ltev.lt. B. lleuden, pastor. Preach lag every Sunday at 11 o’clock, a. m., and 8 p. m. Sunday school every Sunday at 9 o’clock, Pray er meeting on Wednesday night. Episcopal—il, K. itees, itector. Services oc casionally. SECRET SOCIETIES. KNIGHTS OF HONOR, V xjfou k / Bartow Uo. Lodge, No 148, meets every Ist and 3rd Monday night Curry’s Hall, east side 01 tin -square, Cartersville, Ga. W. L. Kirkpatrick, • J.B. Conyers, ltepojier. Dictator American legion of honor, carters ville Council, No. 152, meets every second and fourth Monday nights in Lurry’s had. GKO. S. Loiiß, ’ It. B. lIEADDKN, Secretary. Commander. POST OFFICE DIRECTORY. Malls North open 7:30 a m 4:50 p m Mails South open 11:15 a m Cherokee It. it. open 5:00p m Malls North close 10:20 a m 5:45 p m Mails South close 9:45 am B:3opm Caerokee R.lt. close 9:30 am . tear . 1 ' alkiug Rock Mail, via Fairmouni leaves Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 6:00 am. Arrives Mondays, Wednesdays unu Fridays at 5:00 p in. , Money Order and Registered Eettei Office open Hum 8:45 a m to 5 p in. MT General Delivery open from 8 a m to 6 pm. Open on Sunuay from 9:50 to 10:30 a ni. J. R. WIKLE, P. M. SOUTH WAKD. STATIONS. No. 2. No. 4, No. 0, K a l^!‘- Chalta’ga. 2 55pm | 7 05am 0 45am Dalton, 420 “ 850 “ 10 13“ Kingston, 545“|10 20 “ 107 pm 5 20am Cartersv’e Oil “ 10 47 “ 202 “ 554 “ Marietta, 725“J11 52 “ 429 “ 720 “ Atlanta, 815 “ jl2 4Upm 015 “ 845 “ C HEROIC EE RAILROAD. ON AND AFTER Monday, October, 11, 1880, trains 011 this road will run daily, except Sunday, as follows: westward. NO. 1. NO. 3. Leave Cartersville, 10:00 a m . 2:00 p u. Arrive ac Stileaboro 10:30 a m 2:49 pin “ Taylorsville... 10:57 am I fc 3:l3 p m Rockmart 11:30 am j 4:07 p m Cedartovvn .... 12:35 pm | 5:3U p m EASTWARD. STATIONS. NO. 2. NO. 4. Leave Cedartovvn 2:00 p m 0:40 a m Arrive at Rocktnart 2:56 p m 8:09 a m “ Taylorsville... 3:31 p m 9:13 a m “ te tiles boro 3:55 pm 9:40 am “ Cartersville.... 4:30 pm 10:35 pm WESTERN & ATLANTIC 11, It. ON AND AFTER Jan. 30th, |lBBl, trains on this road will run as lollows: NORTHWARD. STATIONS. No. 1. | No. 3, j No. 11. Atlanta, 2 50pm 5 10am 800a in 4 15pm Marietta, 335 “ 557 “ 852 “ 526 “ Cartersv’e 430 “ 7 18“ 954 “ 0 51“ Kingston, 500 “ 74t “ 10 21“ 722 “ Dalton, 028 “ 927 “ 12 15pm Chatta’ga. 810“ to 50 “ 140“ ROME RAILROAD COMPANY. On and after Monday, Nov. 17, trains on this Road will run as lollows: MOKNIN’U TKAIN—KVKKY DAY. Leaves Rome 6 30 a in Arrives at Rome a m EVENING TRAIN —SUNDAYS EXCEPTED. Leaves Rome 5:00 am Arrives at Rome f m Both trains will make connection at Kings ton with trains on the W. and A. Railroad, to and irom Atlanta and points South. Eben Hillyer, l'res. Jas. a. smith, G. P. Agt. __ TANARUS, W. MILNER. j. w. UAKKIS, JR. 9IILKKK & HARRIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, CARTEKBVILLE. GA. Office on West Main street, above Erwin. W. FITE ATTORNEY AT LAW;, CARTERSVILLE, GA,, Office:—With Col. A. Johnson, West side public square. When not at oilice, can be lound at office of Cartersville Exphe-8, Opera House. NATIONAL HOTEL, DALTON, GA. J. q. A. LEWIS, Proprietor. milE ONLY FIRST CLASS HOTEL IN THE A City. Large, well ventilated rooms, splen did sample roomlTTbr commercial travelers, polite waiters and excellent pure water. tsr Rates moderate. scpl9tf ST. JAMES HOTEL, (CARTERSVILLE, GIA,) 11 he UNDERSIGNED HAS RECENTLY . taken charge of this elegant new hotel. It lias been newly furnished and is lirst-class in all respects, BAMPLE ROOM FOR COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS. EavoraLle terms to traveling theatrical com *ompauiee. L. C, lIOBS, Proprietor. opr THE CHILDREN. FOUND IN THE DKBK OP CHARLES PICKENS AFTER HIS DEATH. When the lessons and tasks are all ended, And the school for the day is dismissed, And the little ones gather around me To bid “me good-night” and be kissed ; Oh, the little white arms that encircle My neck is a tender embrace ! Oh, the smiles that are halos of heaven, Shedding sunshine and love ou my lace! And when they are gone I sit dreaming Of my childhood, too lovely to last; Of love that my heart will remember, When it wakes to the pulse of the past, Ere she world and its wickedness made me A partner of sorrow and sin, When the glory ol God was about me, And the glory of gladness within. Oh, my heart grows weak as a woman’s, And fountains of feeling wili flow, When I think of the paths steep and stony Where the feet of the dear ones must go; Ot the mountains of sin hanging o’er them, Ot the tempests of fate blowing wild ; Oh, there’s nothing ou earth half so holy As the iunocent heart of a child! They aro idols of hearts and of households, They are angels of God in disguise, His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses, His glory still beams iu their eyes ; Oh, those truants from earth and from heaven, They have made me more manly and mild, And I know how Jesus could liken The kingdom of God to a child. Seek not a life of the dear ones, All radiant, as others have done ; But that life may have just as much shadow To temper the glare of the sun ; I would pray God to guard them from evil, But my player would bound back to myself; Ah! a seraph may pray for a siuuer,^ But a sinner must pray for himself,^ The twig is so easily bended, I have banished th: rule aud the rod ; I have taught them ilie goodness of knowledge, They have tanuht me the goodness ot God. My heart is a dungeon of darkness Where I shut them from breaking a rule; My frown is sufficient correction. My love is the law of the school. I shall leave the old house in the autumn, To traverse its threshold uo more. Ah ! how I shall sigli for the dear ones That meet me each morn at the door. I shall miss the good nights and the kisses, Aud the gush of their innocent glee, The group on the green aud the flowers That are brought every morning to me. I shall miss them at moru and at eve, Their soug in the school and the street. I shall miss the low hum ot their voices, Aud the tramp of their delicate feet. When the lessons and tasks are all ended, Aud the death says the school is dismissed, May the little ones gather around me, To bid me “good-night” and be kissed. A law was passed by congress a ynitr or two ago authorizing the use of double postal cards —that is, a card to be sold for two cents, which should pass free through the mails both from and back to the person sending it. The object was to enable persons de siring to do so to pay the postage on postal cards both ways. These cards have never appeared, and the Rich mond Dispatch has discovered why. It says the reason came out in a de bate in the United States Senate last Thursday, that although the law au thorized the use of double postal provided that there should be no roy alty claimed by any person, yet the postmaster-general has been inhibit ed by that provision from using doublo postal cards, because there are none except what are patented, and therefore none upon which there is no royalty. There are said to be 40,000 drum mers sent out of New York city alone. We think the estimate too small, but are willing, as the basis of this article, to accept it. These aver age at least SI,BOO per annum In sala ry and commissions, or $72,000,000 paid by mercantile houses as salaries to men on the road. If to this we add their traveling expenses, $6 per day, and estimating they are upon the road 150 days during the year, we have an item of $36,000,000 more, and an aggregate of $108,000,000, which must be covered by, and ad ded to, the price of the goods sold. As there is about, say, 400,000 stores iu the country which the goods sold ou the road evidently reach, we find that every dealer is taxed $270 per annum to sustain this army of “drummers” from New York city alone. Atlanta is now vaccinating her public schools. In the schools there are 3,940 pupils, and 1,754 of this number have been successfully vac* cinated. Some of the pupils refuse to be vaccinated, and if they persist in this refusal the says they will probably have to leave the school. Trustees of public schools cannot guard them too carefully from the dangers of contagious disea ses. CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, MAECH 3, 1881. A GREAT MAN—NOBLEST RO MAN OF THEM ALL. Ex-Chief Justice Warner—The Leading Incidents of his Ca reer—a Brilliant Record Now Drawing to a Close. [Atlanta Post-Appeal.] A few short days ago during this month, Judge Warner went to Sa vanuali, because sixty years ago, as a mere land of seventeen years of age, he landed in Savannah. This vener able pride, an ornament of the Jdi ciary, possessed a longing to revi.su Hie place where as a mere stripplirn irom the bleak clim *te of Massachu setts, became to cast his lot in th* sunny and favored land of old Geor gia ; and herewith us he lias beei •ow sixty years, making the Judge seventy-seven years old. What mo mentous events have been crowdeo into those sixty years since, in 1821. Chief Justice Hiram Warner stepped ashore from the vessel in Savannah ! He was then a wayward boy, vigor ous in mind and body, unknown and penniless. To-day, feeble in body, hut most of the time clear in mind, racked and tortured by pain, and pei naps on his death bed he lies, powei ful, influential, wealthy, aud en snrined iu the hearts of ail Georgians, whose sineerest sympathies go out to his noble and good old man, who nas served them so faithfully. Shortly after coming to Georgia iu 1821, Judge Warner taught schoo a short while, reading law assiduous ly during his leisure hours. When sufficiently prepared he was admitted to the bar, and soon attracted to him self a large clientelle. In a few years lie was sent to the Legislature, when he made a most efficient member. By the time or before he was thirty yeais old, he was elected Judge oi the Superior Court, being the young est Judge iu the State on the bench. In those early days there was no supreme court, but superior court judges would convene at stated inter vals and such cases as had been re* served for discussion were discusseo in the Convention of Judges. Judgr Warner, In this August body, by his keen, incisive, legal acumen and in tellect, jjpon made his power felt and he became one of its leading mem bers. When the supreme court was organized December 10th, 1854, Jo seph Henry Lumpkin, Hiram War ner and Eugenius A, Nisbet were appointed Judges of said court, aud from First Kelly to 61st Georgia Re ports, or when he resigned, can De found lending the impress of bis genius aud industry. About 1856, Judge Warner ran for Congress against Hon. B. 11. Hill, our present U. S. Senator. Mr. Hill was the the candidate for the American par ty, and was beaten at the polls by Judge Warner. After serving one term in Congress he returned to his practice of the profession and was soon re-called to the bench. In all Judge Warner was on the bench about 43 years—more than any other man. He has done more to give our Supreme Court decisions that solid strength and great weight and re spect they have at home and com mand abroad. The present Justice was an able coadjutor and associate of Judge Warner. Judge Jackson is a man of Ciceronian and classic elegance of diction, and most gracefully wears the mantle so long worn, and so ably by his distinguished and venerable predecessor. In the troubulous times after the war, from 1868 to 1874, and all through that period, Judge War ner took strong and determined grounds against the famous relief laws. He could countenance nothing that looked like Republicanism, and all through his opinions of those days will be found earnest and elo quent protests against the light re gard in which the sanctity of debt was held. While .perhaps Judge Warner may have been a trifle ex treme in his notions of “the relief laws,” yet his opinions in the Geor gia Reports on that and kindred subject, inculcated a healthier state of feeling and sentiment among the people, and what is a lasting compliment to Judge Warner, wherever on such matter he dissented from the majority of the courts, and the case was carried to the U. S. Su preme Court, Judge Warner was sustained by that high tribunal, and his dissenting opinions declared law. He had the deepest love for his cho sen profession of the law. He al ways declared it was a noble science, and had the greatest reference for all the ethics and amenities of the pro fession, whether at the bar or on the bench. He abhored*,anything that looked like bad faith, and was the soul of honor and integrity. In these days when we hear talk about bribes and corruption of the judiciary, nev er in all of Judge Warner’s honored md long career, was there ever the faintest breath of suspicion against him. He plumbed the law, and if iu the same case on one side was hit dearest kinsman or frieud, aod ou tlie other his bitterest and dead lies ; ue, yet even then nothing but the purest justice was mated out. He had the brain *and nerve to be out t natures truest noblemen under ah circumstances. While he was ou th< Circuit and Supreme Bench theie ‘vas never the suggestion or hint 01 avoritism or partiality. All were • reated alike, and that fairly and jusi >y. When Gen. Wilson’s raiders plundered and pillaged through Georgia with Sherman’s army in 1864, a detachment of cavalry of the Yankees rode up to the Judge’s house in Greenvillle and demanded ois “life or his money.” The yankees had been told he had a large imount of money hid in his garden which was partially true. The offi cer was very insulting and threaten ing. Judge Warner spurned the Yankee Captain, and declined to tell where the hidden treasure was. They said they would hang him, and Accordingly began preparations. The Judge laughed derisively at the van dal mob. They bent down a stout ■sapling and tied one end of a rope to it and the other around Judge War ner’s neck. Suddenly turning the iree loose, he was jerked violently and swung iu mid air. Finding him not dead, the Yankees cut him down aad again for his money. Judge Warner gasped out a deter mined “No,” when he was again swung up. This time thev kindled a tire under him aud went off, leav ing the Judge suspended by the neck iu the air. After the Yankees were gone his faithful negroes cut him down. Judge Warner was insensi ble and badly hurt, but finally recov ured, which we hope he will do iu this his serious, alarming and per haps fatal illueßs. Even while the forms of this issue are being placed upon the press, or before the paper reaches our sub scribers the mournful intelligence may come that this grand old man has breathed his last. THE HORRORS OF FICTION. A SHOWER OF TALMAGIAN FIRE AND BRIMSTONE FROM WHICH THACK ERAY AND T. S. ARTHUR AMONG OTHERS ESCAPE. Dr. Talmage, yesterday morning, in order to fulfil a promise made some time ago to tell his congrega tion something about novels, and what sort of novels, if any, they should read, took for his text: “Of the making of many books there is no end.’’ Incidentally he had a good deal to say about newspapers and the printing press generally. The oppor tunities for good or evil of editors of great dailies, he thought, could not be over estimated. At what cycle of time, at what distant hour of the word’s existence, he wanted to know would the influence of Henry Raymond, Horace Greeley, James Gordon Bennett and William Cullen Bryant come to an end ? Taking into consideration that the New York and Brooklyn daily papers have a combined circulation of over half a million, who, he would like to know could ever estimate the extent < f their influence upon the minds and morals of men ? “God speed,” said Mr. Talmage, “the cylinders of an honest, intelligent Christian aggres sive printing press. I put to you to day the stupendous question, what books shall we and our families read? It is a subject of vital importance to-day, standing as we do, chin deep in fictitious literature. Ido not deny that there are many good novels. The world will have some difficulty in paying its debt of obligation to such novelists as Hawthorne, Mac kenzie, Landor, Hunt, T. S. Arthur and Marion Harland. Cooper’s works were also healthy, smelling of sea weeds and wood flowers. Thackeray has brought the world into debt by his caricatures of pretenders to no bility, and Charles Dickens’ books are an everlasting plea for the poor. This class of novels rightly read and in good proportion to other books, is healthy. But —I deplore the fact — there is a pernicious tide of novels coming in like a destructive freshet. You will find them in the school girl’s desk and in the young man’s trunk. I charge upon these books the destruction of tens of thousands of soul?,* “In the first place I warn you to avoid all those novels which give false pictures of human lives. What good can they do you? How do they prepare you for the labor of the day. See that woman at midnight bending over the romance, her hair dishevelled, her cheeks pale, trem ding and sobbing at the fate of the luckless lover, Roderigo. Look at her this morning. There she sits with a thousand duties calling her, staring idly into vacancy. The ea - pet which seemed plain before, is now positively hideous in her eye-. What is it to the marble hails—which lever existed—through which she strolled last night? What is her Kitchen or sewing room to the ivy bower by the limpid stream by which she sat with the poiished des perado. “In the second place dbn’t read bad books. Don’t deceive yourself with the idea that you can safely read a bad book with the intention of getting good out of it. You plunge your hand into a hedge of briers to get one blackberry aud you invariably get more burs than blackberries. Whenever you peruse a bad book with any such idea, you are like a man who takes a lighted torch into a powder magazine with a view to finding out whether it is safe to do if. He'll find out, but tne ex periment wont be of any particular value to himself. In the third place I counsel you against all novels which arouse however faintly the baser passions of man. Years ago a French lady came forth as an author ess under the assumed name of George Sand. She smoked cigars. She wore gentlemen’s apparel. She stepped over the bounds of decency. She wrote with a style ardent, elo quent, mighty In its bloom ; horrible in its unchastity ; glowing in its ver biage ; vivid iu its portraiture; damning in fts effects; transfusing into the libraries and homes of the world an evil that has not even be gun to relent ; and she has her copy ists in all lands. To-day, under the nostrils of your city there is a fetid, reeking, unwashed literature enough to poison all the fountains of public virtue and smite your sons and daughters as with the wing of the destroying angel. “Again, avoid all books which are apologetic for crime. All novels which represent sin as happy, and vice as triumphant, insults to man aud God. Sin is never happy; yice is never triumphant. If carnality must be presented, let it not be pre sented as lurking behind embroid-> ered curtains or languishing in gor geously-lighted halls, but as writhing in agony in the city hospital. Cursed be all those books! “The clock strikes midnight. A fair form bends over a* romance. The eyes flash fire. The breath is quick and irregular. Occasional ly the color dashes to the cheek and theu dies out. The hands tremble as though a guardian spirit were trying to shake the deadly book out of her grasp. Hot tears fall. She laughs with a shrill voice that drops dead at its own sound. The sweat on her brow is spray, dashed up from the River of death. The dock strikes four and the rosy dawn soon after begins to peep through the lattice upon the pale form that looks like a detained spectre of the night. Soon in a mad house she will mistake her ringlets for curling serpents and thrust her white hand through the bars of the prison and smite her head, rubbing it back and forth as though to push the scalp from the skull, shrieking, “my brain ! my brain !” Mr. Talmage next directed his anathemas to what he called the “Unclean pictorials of to-day.” Ma ny a young man, in the purchase of a weekly picture paper, buys, he said, his everlasting undoing. “The Queen of Death holds a banquet eve ry night and the unclean pictorials are the cards of invitation. I’ll give SI,OOO reward for any young man who being in the habit of reading these papers, remains pure and good. One column in a good newspaper may save your soul; one paragraph in a bad one may damn it,” In con* elusion Mr. Talmage urged his hear ers to go straight home, weed out their libraries, and making piles in their back yards of all their question able books, set tire lo them. The State of Georgia keeps about a million dollars in the treasury. All the January interest and one thou sand doilars of the State’s debt was promptly paid at the end of the year. BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY. A whisky skin—a tramp, A town pump—the village bore. Chinese music may be celestial but not heavenly. The small-pox is raging in the vil lages near Quebec, Canada. Victor Hugo entered on his eighteenth year a few days ago. A seat in the New York Cotton - Exchange has just sold for $3,100. Mrs. Manning, a sister of the late Thomas Carlyle, is a resident of Caif* ada. Thomas Robinson, of Newtonville, Inti., has patented a potato-bug catcher. It is sad but true that a man who once becomes deaf, seldom enjoys a happy kear-after. Mr. J- hn G. Whittier is to be in vited to prepare an ode for the York town celebration. A welNdressed buckwheat cake wears a flap-jacket, cut by us daily, with syrup trimmings. Chicago’s “Ladies’ Grain Ex change” is well patronized, and financially well backed. It is a difficult thing for a dog without a tail to show his master how much he thinks of him. The maiden who adorns the knee of her lover while the gas is turned down is “born to blush unseen.” W. H. Vanderbilt has given an other SIOO,OOO to the Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tenu. The San Francisco Chronicle men tions a dam nearly two miles long. The fellow must have stammered. An exchange sajs: '‘The only kind of cake childreu don’t cry after is a cake of soap.” How about stoma cake ? An Indian brave in Montana, who was convicted of murder, thus gized his lawyer : “Too much talk ; heap fool.” The Chinese course £at Harvard College is said to have cost $4,062.15 last year. The fees received, amount ed to S4O. Mrs. Comstock telegraphs from Kansas that the colored refugees there are freezing and starving, and asks for aid. There is a young lady in this city so modest that she covers the legs of the chairs in her bed room.—Phila delphia Sun. A woman may be said to have un dressed kids on their hands when she is putiing tvins babies in a bath.— Bouton Courier. Passing around the hat is one way of getting the cents of the meeting. Cincinnati Saturday night . But it is a dollarous way, Mr. Bret Harte is mentioned by a Paris correspondent of the Home News as “the most pronounced cock ney in the whole of England.” Edward H, Coursey, of Queen Anne’s county, a well known arith metician, died last week, aged 86 years. He was in battle of North Point. The Dolly Varden mining estate, at Mining; Col., has bee* sold by Hall & Burnk to the Boston Gold and Silver Mining Company for $400,000. President-elect Garfield left Men tor, Ohio/ for Washington on the 28th instant, accompanied by his wife, mother and daughter Mollie, and his sons Irwin and Abram. Gov. Ludlow, of New Jersey, has just done a good thing in vetoing a bill for the restoration of citizenship to a politician deprived thereof on conviction of forgery and conspiracy. The official count of the Philadel phia election, gives King (Democrat and citizens’ candidate for Mayor) 5,787 majority; Hunter, (do.) for Tax Receiver, 26,285 majority; West, (Rep.) for City Solicitor, 20,459 ma jority. While Mrs. O’Donovan Rossa was reading in Nordheimer’s Hall, in Montreal, Canada, Monday night, a bullet was fired through a window and fell in the hall, without hitting anyone, however. The raiscrean who fired it escaped. Governor Pillsbury has sent a mes sage to the Legislature of Minnesota urging the members to make suitable provision for the State exhibit at the proposed New York international exhibition. Governor Pillsbury at tributes the rapid growth of Kansas in great part to the world-wide ad vertisement given by her splendid exhibit.at Philadelphia. NO. 9.