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The Cartersyille Express.
CORNELIUS WILLINGHAM, Editor.
For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance ,
And the good that we can do.
CrtersTllle, Ga., Thursday, March 17, 1881.
ASSASINATION OF THE CZAR
OF RUSSIA.
Alexander 11., Czar of all the Itus
sias, met his death lastSuiday at the
hands of an assassin. The dead Czar
ascended the throne of Russia in
March 1856, a critical period in the
history of his country. What is
known in common parlance as the
Crimean war had been waged for
some years, and Russia was about to
succumb to the combined powers of
England, France and Italy. Nicholas
the father of Alexander 11., under
whose administration this war had
been begun and carried on, broken in
spirit by Russia’s reverses, died,
knowing that he was defeated, but
without seeing peace restored.
Alexander,on ascending the throne,
first addressed his energies to the se
curing of peace on the best possible
terms, and in this work gained for
himself high character. He obtained
peace on terms less humiliating than
it was thought would be exacted.
He won for himself the reverence of
his people and the admiration of the
world.
Early in 1857, the Czar intimated
his intention of emancipating the
serfs. Of these white slaves there
were twenty-three millions in the
empire, owned by one hundred and
ten thousand persons. His wish that
the serf-owners would aid him in the
project was sufficient, and so on the
3d of March, 1861, Alexander, by one
stroke of the pen, manumitted twen
ty-three millions of slaves, with the
memorable expression that “In Rus
sia laws are made by autocratic pow-*
er. The autocratic power created
serfage, the autocratic power must
abolish it.”
Whether the liberation of these
slaves was the result of a desire to see
them enjoy a larger liberty, or wheth
er it was a blow struck at the grow
ing power and wealth of the aristoc
racy is a question not settled. But
the world outside of Russia at the
time these serfs were liberated, look
ed upon the act as one inspired by
love of his fellow-man and a desire to
see his country advance in wealth
and intelligence.
Not only did Alexander give free
douiiotordW,hnpy tfie
lands of the serf-owners and settled
the emancipated serfs upon them.
The years of the first half of Alex
ander’s reign gave promise of the
tablishment of a government that
would have some respect for the pop
ular voice, and that the dying words
of Nicholas, “Serve your country !”
addressed to Alexander were about
to bear fruit in enlarged liberty and
enjoyment of political rights by the
people, even beyond the expectation
of Nicholas himself.
But as years passed on the Emper
or became more autocratic if possible,
a feeling of opposition to his govern
ment was aroused in unexpected
quarters, and the cry of the oppressed
was heard in prison and in mine.
Attempt after attempt was made on
his life, and at last he has met his
fate at the hands of one of his own
subjects.
On the 16th of April, 1866, a stu
dent named Karagozof fired on the
emperor.
On June 6, 1867, his life was at
tempted by a Pole named Berezow
skij while the emperor was visiting
the emperor of the French at Paris.
On April 14, 1879, four shots were
tired at him by a retired functionary
of the finance department named
Skolof as he was taking his morning
walk near the winter palace. In ad
dressing the people who came to
congratulate him on his safety the
czar said: “This is third time God
has saved me.”
On Irecembr 1, 1879, an attempt
was made to wreck his train while
lie was traveling from Si. Petersburg
to Moscow. His train escaped, but
the baggage train was blown off the
track by an explosion, a tunnel hav
ing been dug under the road-bed and
filled with powder.
On February 17, 1880, a mine was
laid below T the dining hall in the
winter palace and fired about the
time the czar and his family were in
the habit of dining. Fortunately
they had been delayed on this occa
sion. Five soldiers were killed and
thirty-tive wounded.
Alexander 11. was something over
sixty years of age, having passed re
cently the age of sixty—a period he
feared he would not reach, because
of the fact that no reigning czar for
generations back had lived to that
age.
To give us some idea of the purely
autocratic power of the czar of Rus
sia, it is only necessary to recall a
matter of recent occurrence. The
nebles a few days ago met and re
solved to ask permission of the czar
to petition for a modification or
change in the government. This re
quest was refused.
“BILL ARP” IN LEXINGTON.
The Oglethorpe Echo has a few
lines in its last issue about William,
who has lately been speaking a piece
in that ancient burg, from which
we quote as follows: Major Smith’s
forehead is the most conspicuous
feature of his anatomy. Take off his
forehead and there isn’t enough head
left to make a chinquepin. It starts
off in the usual place and runs clear
back to bis heels. We asked Major
Arp the cause of this singular be
reavement and he answered with a
deep drawn sigh, “My friend, I have
been married for thirty-five years.”
At Crawford, while waiting for the
departure of the hack, quite a crowd
or admirers gathered around the
major in the post-office aud were
highly entertained. In course of
conversation he told them how he
came to adopt the signature of “Bill
Arp.” It seems that the original Arp
was a ferryman near Rome; a thrift
soit of fellow, who was fond of com
pany, and although an illiterate
man, possessed a rich store of moth
er wit. The first article that Major
Smith ever w T rote for the press, was
his reply to Lincoln’s proclamation
for the Confederate army to disband.
He submitted the production to some
friends, and Arp having heard it
read, stepped up and said, “Major
Smith, them’s my sentiments, and
you may sign my name to it.” Arp
.vas something of a philosopher as
well as a wit. He was a perfect
slave to hi3 employer, and never
denied the fact. He was once asked
how he expected to vote in a certain
election. “Well,” was the reply,
“I can’t say till I see Mr. C.; then
he in turn must consult Col. J., and
he Gov. 8., and then B. must go to
Stephens for bis instructions; and so
if you can only find out how Little
Alec is going, I can give you the
vote of the whole d—d caboodle of
us,” Arp and his sons volunteered
at the beginning of the warand made
gallant soldiers. Two of the boys
were killed at Manassas. After the
surrender he became very dissipated
and some of his friends prevailed
upon him to move to Arkansas,
where he met his death by a wagon.
Major Smith is not only Georgia’s
greatest humorist, but one of her
most successful farmers. Last year
he made on ten acres of land, seven
hundred bushels of corn, and on 14
acress in cotton 16 bales. His hay
crop brings him seventy dollars an
acre. He has ten children of his own
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great interest in the farm, and do
much of the work themselves.
A woman’s advice is generally
worth having; so, if you are in any
trouble, tell your mother or your
wife or your sister all about it. Be
assured that light will flash across
your darkness. Wemen are too com
monly judged verdant in all but
purely womanish affairs. No philo
sophical students of the sex thus
judge them. Their intuitions or in
sights are the most subtle, and if they
cannot see a cat in the meal there is
no cat there. I advise a man to keep
none of his affairs from his wife. Ma
ny a home has been saved and many
a fortune retrieved by a man’s full
confidence in his wife. Woman is
far more a seer and a prophet than
man, if she be given a fair chance.
Asa general rule, the wives confide
the minutest of their plans and
thoughts to their husbands. Why
not reciprocate, if but for the pleas
ure of meeting confidence with con
fidence? The men that succeed best
in life are those who make confidants
•f i heir wives.
The nihilist sympathizers in New
York have had a meeting and the
following concludes their address :
“Tell the workingmen of Russia
that between aristocracy and prole
tariat there can be no compromise.
Between parasites and produiers
there can be no peace, While louts
and loafers live in luxury upon the
products of our labor, we must suffer
and slave. Brothers, your cause is
that of the oppressed against the op
pressor. That cause is a holy cause.
That cause is not only for Russia, but
for all countries. It is universal.
Brothers, we approve your actions.
We appiove your methods. Between
you and your oppressors there can be
no truce. Kill, destroy, assassinate,
annihlate, even co its very germ, your
aristocracy. Have for them no feel
ing of love, for they are incapable of
that noble emotion.”
A paper on Father Hyacinthe, by
the Rt. Rev. William Croswell Do
ane, Bishop of Albany, illustrated
with a fine portrait, engraved by
Cole, is announced to appear in the
April Scribner. This will be the
third paper on Evangelical move
ments in Europe.
Let every man who loves his de
pendent oues too well to take from
them five dollars to keep up the
water-washed and absolutely dan
gerous streets of Cartersville, come
out Friday.
ADDRESS.
The stewards respectfully suggest
that friends of these servants of God,
Rev. James E. Evans, and Parmelia
J. Evans, who have spent their
worldly substance, and the strength
of their days, in the service of the
church, make their “Golden Wed
ding” memorable with golden gifts,
that will relieve them in declining
life from anxious care as to what
they shall eat or where withal shall
they be clothed. Let every friend
send his gift, addressed to J. I.
Wright, chairman board of stewards,
or to Rev. James E. Evans, Rome,
Ga.
INVITATION.
The stewards of Rome Station,
North Georgia conference, with his
consent, consider it proper to cele
brate the “Golden Wedding” of our
pastor, Rev. James Ezekiel Evans,
D. D., who was born February 4th,
1810; converted to God, October 10th,
1824; licensed to preach, December
25th, 1829; married Parmelia Jones
Mays, March 22d, 1831; joined the
Georgia conference, January, 1833;
has been a regular itinerant forty
eight years, a member of every gen
eral conference since 1844. They will
be pleased to see their friends at the
M. E. Church, South, Rome, Ga.,
from 8 to 11 o’clock, p. m., March
22d, 1881.
That sterling, sensible and repre
sentative Georgia journal, the Au
gusta Chronicle , thus delivers the
law unto the weaklings: “Call it
Nation or Republic, it is the best
government that has existed in the
world since God made light. Theo
rists and dreamers may fear the
shadow or the substance of what
they are pleased to caLL the Empire,
but those who love their country
have no apprehensions as to the fu
ture. Let our first thoughts be for
the honor and glory of the Republic.
Let us cultivate and make strong the
National sentiment in the south. In
combination and union is our
strength. The rights of the states
are in no danger. To destroy the
constitutional and reserved rights of
the States would be to commit Na
tional suicide. Let us of the south
glory in the progress and prowess of
the Republic. Let us feel that the
Republic is our Nation—that its
growth is our growth and its honor
our honor, and its glory our glory.
When we of the south feel the same
pride in our common country as the
VYlf guide and control the des
tinies of the Nation.”
“Oh” say the apologists for the op
pressive street tax, “every man in
the country is compelled to work
fifteen days on the roads. Whj T
should it not ao well be so in the cit
ies.” For the simple reason that
road hands in the country do their
work at a time of the year when
they are not occupied on their farms
—and then ihe fifteen days work is
divided so that he scarcely feels it
But when a poor workman in the
city leaves his forge, or drops his
hammer or bin trowel or his jack
plane even for fifteen minutes his
wages are docked by his employer
and he has that much less to give
his family. Asa general thing when
he stops work the flow of corn bread
and sorghum stops at his house. If
the city council can do no better let
the poor men of this town be allowed
to pay their street tax in small in
stallments, like the countryman pays
his road duty. But don’t gobble up
his sweat-earned five dollars ail at
once.
It is unfortunate that the late acci
dents and collisions have occurred on
the Western and Atlantic railroad,
because everything has for the past
years been running so smoothly on
this great thoroughfare. But if Gen
eral Macßaedooa not soon set things
all right, nobody on the top side of
this earth can. There is the most
universal expression of regret for the
late accidents, mingled with expres
sions of confidence that affairs will
soon be righted. The fact of the bus
iness is that the Western and Atlan
tic railroad needs a double track.
Mr. Vennor has laid out the wea->
ther for the year. The spring is to be
early, hot and dry ; the midsummer
cool and wet, and the autumn open,
dry and fine. There is to be a good
deal of sickness, but there will be
some compensation in the favors na
ture will bestow mi those who follow
agricultural pursuits. If Mr. Vennor
strikes as good a balance in this as
he did in predicting this winter’s
weather, more peoole than ever will
believe that he must be a yankee, for
he “beats all creation” at guessing.
Come out Friday and let us have a
little revolutionary tea overthrowing
business. There is as much princi
ple involved in the street tax exhor
bitancy as ever actuated our fore
fathers in kicking against the exces
sive tea tax.
WHY IT PA YS TO READ.
One’s physical frame —his body,
his muscles, his feet, his hands is
only a living machine. It is mind,
controlling and directing that ma
chine, that gives it power and effica
cy. The successful use of the body
depends wholly upon the mind
upon its ability to direct the will. If
one ties his arm in a sling it becomes
weak and finally powerless. Keep
it in active exercise, aud it acquires
vigor and strength, and is disci
plined to use this strength as desired,
ust as one’s mind, by active exercise
in thinking, reasoning, studying, ob-
serving, acquires vigor, strength,
power of concentration and direction.
Plainly, then, the man who exerci
ses his mind in reading and thinking
gives it greater power and efficiency,
and greater ability to direct the ef
forts of the physical frame—his work
—to better results than he can who
merely or mainly uses his muscles.
If a man reads a book or paper, even
and he knows to be erronous, it helps
him by the effort to combat the er
rors. The combat invigorates .his
mind.
Of all men, the farmer, the cultiva
tor, needs to read more to strength
en his reasoning powers, so that they
will help out and make more effect
ive his hard toil.
We are in favor of making Em
mett Womack general of all the so
licitor-generals in the state. He had
the courage to arrest a lot of strolling
gamblers and one or two of our pro
gressive papers are rasping him. If
the aforesaid progressive papers could
be induced to partake of some of his
vigilance and ventillate alittle, prob
ably not so many defiant gambling
houses would fester in the cities from
which they are Issued.
The present city council went into
office with SBOO.OO on hand. It
has raised the tax on bar-rooms SSO
There are eight bar rooms in the
place, and this will put S4OO extra
in the treasury, making in all $1,200
more than the last city council had
to operate on. Then why not let us
poor fellows ease along on $2 street
tax and $3 ad valorem.
A working man of this town was
advised by two of the councilman
not to pay the oppressive tax of $5
for walking the delightfully safe
streets of Cartersville. We are glad
that there are two friends of the poor
men on the board.
in case he hasn’t five dollars of his
hard earnings laid away is there any
poor man in this city whose labor
can be spared from his family for fif
teen days.
Poor men ! Ye who do not own
five dollars to throw to the breezes !!
be sure to attend the meeting at the
Court House Friday night.
Ace Patterson murdered Robert W.
Simmons near Jasper, Pickens coun
ty, on the 13th in3t. He stabbed
him fifteen timei.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
There are 300 masonic lodges in
Mississippi.
In North Texas counterfeiters are
numerous.
Newport, Ky., is to have a large
stove factory.
Aberdeen, Mississippi, has 400
cases of the measles.
The taxable property of Houston,
Texas, is $5,000 000.
An oleomargarine factory is to be
established in New Orleans.
Charlotte, N. C., has 12 churches,
eight of them for whites.
Jackson, Mississippi, is to have a
new government building.
Raw cotton will be manufactured
in a $500,000 building at Btresville,
Arkansas.
Eist Tennessee has never before
enjoyed such an immense trade as
during the past winter.
Judge T. Cooper, of Mississippi, is
the youngest man ever on the Su
preme bench of that State.
Yazoo county is the wealthiest
and largest county in Mississippi,
and hasn’t a single railroad.
During the past month Capt J. N*
Keeran, of Victoria county, Texas,
lost 2,000 head of cattle.
Larger numbers of persons art> col
lecting at Hot Springs, Arkansas,
than ever before at this season.
Lieutenant-Governor Sims, an old
Oglethorpe, Georgia, boy, is promi
nently spoken of for governor of
Mississippi.
‘Virginia has 4,854 public schools,
of which 205 are graded. In these
schools, 220,736 pupils are instructed
by 4,873 teachers.
The Birmingham, Alabama, roll
ing mill is turning out one hundred
tons of street railway track for Mem
phis, Tennes-ee.
For. Sale!
a Half-Ayrshire Cow with young Calf
Apply to Dr, J. T. SHEPHERD,
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To Whom it may Concern, or any
other Man.
ON and after the 14th inst. the Stock Ordi
nance will be enforced in this city.
Look out lor your hogs and goats, and pen
your cows at night.
GEO. S. COBB,
Clerk City Council.
tl EORGIA, Bartow County. Charles T.
JT Dabbs, executor of Thomas Dabbs, de
ceased, has applied for letters of dismission
from said trust. This is therefore to notily
all persons concerned to file their objections
if any they have, within the time prescribed
by law, else letters will be granted said appli
cant as applied for. Feb. 7. 1881.
12t J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary.
GEORGIA, Bartow County, -R. P. Lackey,
executor of B. T. Harrison, deceased, has
applied for letteis of dismission from said
trust. This is therefore to notify all versons
concerned to file their objections, if any they
have, within the time prescribed by law, else
letters will be granted said applicant as ap
plied lor. Feb. 7, 1881.
12t J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary.
APPLICATION will be made to the Court
of Ordin try of Bartow county. Georgia,
at the first regular term after expiration ol
four weeks from this notice, for leave to sell
the lands belonging to the estate ol John Nev
il, deceased, late of said county, tor the benefit
of heirs and creditors of said deceased.
March 7th, 1881 S. B. SEAY, Adm.
Petition for Divorce.
LAURA A. MADDOX ) Nn.6, January term,
...... vs l 1881. Bartow Supe-
JOHN E. MADDOX.) rior Court.
R"le to periect service.—lt appearing to the
court that the deiendant does net reside in
the county of Bartow, nor in the State of Geor
gia, it is, on motion of the t laintifl', ordered
by the court, that said defendant appear and
answer at the next superior court in said
county of Bartow to the above stated case,
else the case will be considered in default and
the plaintill allowed to preceed. It is ,urther
ordered that this rule be published once a
month tor four months in The Cartersville
Express a newspaper published in Cartersville
iu said county. By order of the Cour,, this
heb. 3, 1881. J. C. FAIN, J. S. C (J < .
The above is a true extract from the minutes
of Bar:ow Superior Court,
F. M. Durham, C. S. C. B. C,
Willard Hotel Lottery Postponed
To April 7, 1881,
FOR A FULL DRAWING
The drawiug will take place at Louisville,
Ky-, uuder authority of a special act of the
Keutueky Legislature, and will be under the
absolute control of disinterested commission
ers appointed by the act.
LIST OF PRIZES.
The Willard Hotel, with all its Fixtures
and Furniture,
$250,000!
One residence on Green Street $15,000
One residence on Green Street .15,000
Two Gash Prizes, ea h SSOOO 10,000
Two Cash Prizes, ea-’h $2,000 4.000
Five Gash Prizes, each SI.OOO 5 000
Five Gash Prizes, each SSOO 21500
Fifty Cash Prizes, each SIOO 5 000
One Hundred Cash Prizes, each SSO 5.000
Five Hundred Cash Prizes, eacn S2O 10,000
One Set ot Bar Furniture 1 000
One Fine Piano !... ... ... .600
One Handsome Silver Tea Set ‘.'..100
J°Tp°? es Cld B °urhon Whisky, $36 14,400
00 Baskets Champagne, $35 356
Five Hundred Cash Prizes, each sl® 5,000
400 Boxe Fine Wittes, S3O 12 000
goxes Robertson County Wnisky, S3O. .GOOO
400 Boxes Havana Cigars $lO 4,0110
Five Hundred Cash Prizes, each $lO ... ...5,000
Amounting to $369,850.
Whole Tiekcts, $8 | halves, Si | Quarters, $2
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Exuress, iostal Money Order, or Registered
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