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Tli ville Express.
Cartersville, Ga.. Thursday, March 24, 1881.
REPORTORIAL RACKET.
r l ho Lady Washington Tea Party.
N>t twenty men have so far paid
the r slreet tax.
Newt Wheeler lost $6,000 when his
mill washed away.
“Hoss-Fly” is humorous and cut
ting at the same time.
Wo are selling all winter goods at
cost. Pyro. Man. Cos.
An unmarked bale of cotton has
been found on Capt. Tom Lyon’s
island.
Our citizens had the sight of Pine N
Mountain covered with snow, Tues
day morning.
The choicest lot of staple and fancy
groceries in town'at the PyroJusite
Manganese Co.’s store.
The late floods have blasted all
hopes of recovering the remains of
poor Dick Griffeth, at Rome.
Henry Ramsaur came down from
the mountains Monday, He is wear
ing a nice, well developed boil over
his left eye.
Horse-ographs and Jack-otypes
neatly and truthfully taken at this
office regardless of the weather.
Bring along your child.
it you want to buy hardware you
<an save money on every purchase
bv going the Pyrolusite Manganese
Company’s store on East Main street.
I I you want a good photograph or
gem picture call on Hansen & Men
kee, who havejust opened the
tograph galit ry on Main street. Call
and see ihem.
Mr. A, C. Bilberman, once a clerk
in the New \ ork store, was in the
city this week, He is now traveling
for Ettinger; ltosenberg & Cos., cigar
dealers, Philadelphia.
hat tstablishmi nt conducted in
this town and Is continually crying
lor home patronage,—“Don’t go off
lor your goods,”—that gives all its
job printing to an Atlanta firm.
I ut mers and others in need of farm
supplies will consult their interests
by calling on us and getting prices
before purrha-iing elsewhere.
Pyrolusite Manganese Cos,
The upper part of a separable sleeve
button,moss agate set,has been found
by the editor of this paper. The per
son having the other part of the but
ton will please leave it at this oflice.
We have had the pleasure of meet
ing this week Mr. Tom Anderson, jr.
the genial Nashville drummer. Mr.
Anderson is entertaining enough in
his conversation to make any man
buy of him.
Mrs. L. E. Pr ca has bought the
residence of Maj. A, M. Foute, on
Erwin street and the removal of her
self and accomplished daughter to
Cartersville is a great acquisition to
our society.
I he Express job office is now un
excelled by any establishment in this
section, and for our hard work in
placing it in the front ranks we think
we can, with some degree of justness,
claim your job work.
The Rev. Samuel Jones is awaken
ing a gregt revival interest at Mul
berry street Methodist church. Meet
ings every night this week. Let all
the Christians and every sinner at
tend.—Macon Telegraph ,
Th- management of the Cherokee
road is hard at work repairing the
damage done by the late flood. The
trains will doubtless run in on time
by Monday. This is a brave little
road and it takes more than a flood
to suppress it.
“The Kids” gave an open air con
cert from the balcony of the court
house, Wednesday. The young per
formers are that small that a specta
tor feels almost an irresistible inclin
ation to catch them by the slack of
their trouserloons to keep them from
blowing themselves out through the
big end of their horns.
Ask some men for an advertise
ment or some local, they answer
they don’t believe in advertising—
a paper is never read. Let the man
be caught kissing his neighbor’s wife
or holding up the side of a building
some dark night and his tune
changes instantly, and if the printing
office is in the garret of a seventeen
story building he will climb to the
top to beg the editor to keep quiet—
don’t publish it in the paper, you
know.
At the corner of Gilmer arid East
Main streets stands a one-story brick
building'. This building was erected
by Messrs. Hackett & Johns for a
machine shop. This firm is no long
er in business* but the building is
sUU oocupled by Mr. Hackett as the
iffiice of the Pyrolusite Manganese
Company. They also have here one
of the most beautiful stores in Car
tersville. mention this as there
are a great many of our readers who
are not aware that such an establish
ment exists. Everything a person
needs can be had there.
the Recent Flood,
We have yanked the “oldest in
habitant” upon the witness stand,
and he fails utterly to acknowledge
the ability to reach back into the hip
pocket of his memory and recall a
fac simile copy of the recent flood.
The rain commenced before we ia.
sued our last sheet, and then the rise
in the river had become alarming.
Since then another came, and as the
usual three-sheet illuminated colored
rainbow was not displayed, we all
Thought it might terminate in a see
nd deluge.
< The river has risen higher than
ever known before. This is not mere
assertion, but fact, upon which we
will be willingly qualified.
There is not a bridge across the Et
owah river from Canton to Rome,
Ga., except the State road bridge.
A few mills stand along the banks
of the Etowah river where many
stood before.
There will be a great demand in
these parts for men to build bridges
and mills.
The damage to Bartow county by
the recent flood cannot be estimated.
On Gen. Young’s farm, it is said,
there were ten acres of choice land
fertilized and ready to receive its
burden for the coming year. After
the rain, it was found that the entire
soil was washed away, leaving noth
ing but the bare clay.
Capt. Tom Lyon is the most fortu-
nate man in the county. Upon his
land is an island in the middle of the
river. This island has caught four
teen grist mills, seven road bridges,
and one railroad bridge. When the
Captain will break dirt for a private
branch railroad to Cartersville, will
oe announced in these columns.
Business is well nigh suspended in
ail the towns hereabouts. Peopleean
not get out to trade.
THE FLOOD ELSEWHERE.
Frem the Rome Courier of Sunday
we clip the following to show the
state in which that town, rejoicing in
its perch upon seven hills, finds itself:
“The city hall was turned into a
barber shop yesterday.
“Judge A. R. Wright and his son*
Seaborn and R. Toombs, came all the
way from their residence to Broad
street bridge in a bateau, a distance
of three miles.
“Messrs. Dave Powers, Louis Co
hen, W. M. Meeks and Alex Gilles
pie left Patona, Ala., Friday at 2£
o’clock and walked to Rome, reach
ing herb at five o’clock yesterday.
“Tuck Thomas got into a bateau
Fiiday afternoon and started down
the Coosa liver to his farm, a distance
of sixty-five msles. We never expect
to hear of him again.
“Tom McKenzie, R. C.Tilley, John
Goff, John Irwin and Bobo,came
up from Cave Spring on a hand-car
yesterday. They experienced great
trouble in getting over the road.
“We were quietly gliding down
Broad street yesterday afternoon in a
dug-out, and as we passed a butcher
stall we’beheld six men in six differ
ent bateaux buying beef from three
different men in one bateau.
“The freshet from which we now
suffer effectually squelches thu sixty
oners. We heard a new-comer say
yesterday that it puts all on a level,
and the old inhabitant could no more
tell of ‘the highest water ever known,
sir, in 1861.’
“The Courier received its press dis
patches by boat last night. The tele
graph office is submerged, and anew
office was opened in the Cental hotel,
which is over a quarter from our of
fice, and that distance is traveled by
small boats.
“Mr. T. A. Lovelace, son of J. Mv
Lovelace, of this city, who has a
plantation rented near Kingston, has
lost very largely by the flood. He is
reported to have lost ten tons of gua
no, all his wagons, harness, and most
of his plows and other tools and im
plements for a sixteen mule crop.
“The steamer Gadsden left the city
of the same name at 11 o’clock last
Thursday, and arrived in Rome at 7
last evening, bringing say 20 bales of
cotton, other freight and four passen
gers. The river spreads over all the
bottom lands, to the width of two or
three miles in some places. Great
damage has been done to plantations.
Estimates are now impossible.
“Messrs. Stanley & Rawlins, pro*
prietors of the Central hotel, certain
ly know how to keep a hotel. On
short notice they prepared a most ex
cellent dinner for one hundred and
ninety men Friday. These men were
ravenously hungry, and when they
began eating, it looked as if no larder
w r ould contain enough to appease
their appetites, but the Central’s held
out. Everybody now praises that
splendid hotel.”
Let Him Go~. l/
The weather is now beautiful and
we dare say that winter has at last
had its old rheumatic anatomy sum
marily bounced from the luscious lap
of spring.
Ahead of all Others.
T. A. Foote has already commenced
to receive his sp; ing dres-s goods.—
Make your selection early, ladies.
AfUr the City Council.
Friend Neil:—The street tax
matter has been stirred up, which is
very much a “mare’s nest,” and
mind you, I don’t expect to “butt the
bull off the bridge,”—l shall not be
the man “who struck Billy Patter
son.” In fact lam proud the city
owns a cemetery and a little hall de
voted to thespian entertainments, is
out of debt and has a floating cap
ital of SBOO. I have no complaint
to make against this particular
city make-up of officers. Don’t see
but that they equal at least all their
predecessors in doing very Httle fur
the town, but still taxing Cartersville
-folks who can pay anything, verj
heavily. This is only so far as I can
see, but perhaps I am not a judge.
1 confess that so far as I know, they
spend all the money and don’t steal
any. They say it costs a good deal
to get elected to these high places,
But then, when an alderman is in
the saddle, can’t an alderman get
some rock work done close to his
house? They say so, and I am sure
I don’t blame them. Still I know
that taxes area heavy cash article for
the privilege of living in this famous
town. What do we get in exchange
for all this money? We have to
build or rent our houses, the same as
in the country. The street in from
of our doors in many places (especial
ly mine) don’t beat any other well
worked country road. We have to
pay our state and county taxes the
same as others in the country, and
this piled on.
I repeat, Messrs. Mayor and Aider
men, what do you give us? You are
all good looking, and we feel very
proud so far as the ornament of the
thing is concerned. But, what have
we except your honorable presence,
whom we rarely ever see or hear of
officially ? Your fine looking police
men in uniform, whom we see ir;
day-time sometimes at the trains,
and your very worthy and hard
working street hands, who haul and
ram a few rock* here and there on
the old streets, not the new, for Car
tersville seems to have been finished
some years ago. It may be that some
of the cash has to go out for grand
things of whFh I have no knowledge,
for I am not a good financier, nor a
competent inspector. But, I have
lived in other cities before and had
city taxes to pay, yet I could see
some benefit in the shape of clean
Streets—rain or no rain, lighted up
streets at night, water works, city
clocks, fire engines, etc. Where is
the solitary advantage we have over
our neighbors in the suburbs, for in.
stance, John T. Norris, John Leake
Andrew Baxter, Zirnri Jackson, or
anybody else just outside?
I do not wish to underrate our wor
thy police in the daytime, nor the
vast importance of your meetings in
seeking how to properly divide out
amongst the whole municipality and
their employees the taxes, nor the
arduous labors of the worthy mayor,
who has to sit there from time to
time to fine some poor chap or other
for getting ‘three sheets in the wind,’
but the money, mind you, which
comes out of him or her.
But I do know that since I have
to keep paying the fiddler, I should
like to be amused and tickled just a
little sometimes. I would like to feel
that I did really live in a city. I
would like to see street lamps around
the square and on the principal
streets at nigbt; sanitary regulations
—rain or no rain ; fire engines; parks;
fountains ; water works; brass bands,
a4 everything lovely; even our
worthy mayor himself always in
uniform and on horseback. But if I
am to have none of these things and
still have the taxes to pay, I would
not care if I was evicted. I believe I
would pray the legislature to remand
me back to a territorial condition
where I would be left simply to
‘shinny on my own side,’ and de
pend on the sheriff and constables to
protect my property, and stand ready
to answer to my name at the call of
the road overseer every time, just
before court, with my old dull hoe
like the rest of them, to work the
road. Pl oss Fly.
He is uot Drowned.
“J. C. Tumiin, of Euharlee, left
Rome last Thursday at 11 o’clock for
Cartersville in a buggy, and at 3:42
p. m. yesterday had not arrived at
Cartersville nor been heard from by
his wife who is at the latter place. It
is feared that he has suffered by the
high water at some place between
Rome and Oartersvilie. ,, —Borne Cou
rier.
Before Jim Tumiin arrived in Car
tersville Monday morning, the ru
mor had already terrified his young
wife and many friends that he was
drowned. Jim congratulates himself
that he has almost reached the emi
nence of one Alexander H. Stephens,
that is in the fact that he has almost
had the opportunity of reading his
own obituary. People should be very
careful in disseminating news, a re
marls, we believe, we have previous
ly made.
Behind the Bam.
We paid a short visit to the Frank
lin hotel, or in other words the coun
ty jail, yesterday, and found every
thing as quiet, orderly and cleanly as
usnal. The inmates do not appear
to suffer at the hands of our excellent
sheriff, and find prison life as pleas
ant as it can possibly be made for
them. There are now about ten pris
oners in confinement, the most prom
inent of whom are John Hanie, im
prisoned for forgery, and A. J .Thorn
as, who was sentenced to life-time
imprisonment for murder.
John Hanie looks very badiy. He
has grown a great deal thinner, and
looks more grey since his Imprison
ment, but talks cheerfully. He is in
very bad health and under the con
stant care of a physician. Mr. Thom
as is also in feeble health, and bis
general looks betray that if reason
has not already fled from him, it
shortly will. His bibleand religious
books are his constant companions.
Before we left he handed us the fol
lowing for publication:
“Cartersville, Ga., March 18th,
1881. —near Editor: As it has been
ray intention to write you a short
letter for publication in your paper
for the benefit of those may read it,
and as my mind is clear to a greater
extent than common this morning,
I now attempt to proceed. The Chris
tian temper is one great part of true
religion. AncJ by this, as distinguish
ed from what has gone before, I mean
the passive virtues and amiable affec
tions of the heart, or what is called
the meekness and gentleness of Christ.
I mean the charity so beautifully de
scribed in the thirteenth chapter of
the first epistle to the Corinthians. It
is of great imoortance to every living
soul to read it, and the Lord’s sermon
upon the mount. These passages of
Holy Writ fully and intentionally
describe and get forth the Christian
temper. Therefore let us *ll learn
the lesson of the great apostle who
said: ‘When I am weak, then am I
strong,’ or that other lesson: ‘Yet
not I, but the grace of God in me.
Be strong in the Lord, and in the
power of His might.’ We cannot be
too active as regards our own efforts.
We cannot be too dependent as re
gards divine grace. We should do
everything as if God did nothing,
and yet we should depend upon God
as if He did everything. Hence, let
us do all in a spirit of prayer. lam
trying to improve what time I have
in this life reading the word o t truth,
and giving myself to prayer, that
God may reveal his love to us in due
time, and may save our souls in the
end. Although lam shut up in pri
son for life, I am thankful God is
everywhere, and will devise means
of grace for us to do good. I wish all
well, and especially the relatives of
the deceased Mr. Alford. God knows
that I did not intentionally kill him,
nor would I have done it for my
right arm, or even both arms Yet,
I must suffer the penalty of the law
as though it was true. I will endeav
or to bear all the punishment inflict
ed for his relatives’ sake, and for
Christ’s sake, that when we come to
die we may live together in Heaven.
Lord, increase our faith daily, and
give us grace to overcome all our
trials and troubles and afflictions
that we may have to encounter with
in this life, and bring us all safely to
Thy happy kingdom above, without
the loss of one on the way, we beg
for Christ’s sake. Farewell.
“Please give space in your paper
for these badly written and composed
lines, for the sak -of a prisoner who
intends, by the help of God, to get to
Heaven. Therefore pray for me, all
Ghristian people. lam your friend,
“A. J. Thomas
“N. B. My afflicted condition has
brought me to what I am, and where
I am to-day. because if had been at
myself, I would have jumped off my
horse and run out of his way.
“A. J. Thomas.”
The Best Roof Paint.
I call the attention of citizens of
this county to the fact that I have
recently assumed the agency in this
section for John Brewer’s Rubber
Roof Paint and Varnish, which is
the best paint for shingles or metalic
roofs known to our trade. It stands
the test of time and I am assured
will give the utmost satisfaction to
all who purchase. Call and examine
the paint and varnish and your own
practical eye will convince you that
it is the proper coating for your
roofs. Very Respectfully,
Virgil L. Williams,
West Maine Street,
Cartersville, Ga.
Martha Washington Tea Party.
The noble Indies of the Methodist church,
always on the qui vive in the interests of their
church, are in the midst of arrangements for a
Martha Wa-hington Tea Party, to be given
to-morrow (Friday) night at the residence of
Mr. Uriah Stephens, on West Main Street.
The ladies will serve the tea arrayed in cos
tumes of a hundred years ago, while some of
the gentlemen will probably dance attendance
in knee breeches and powdered wig*. The en
tertainment will he novel and enjoyable, a> and
everybody should come out.
Mrs, Lizzie A. Chapaai.
When we view from the stand
point of our human affections those
providences of God, which sunder
our fondest earthly ties and- blight
our brightest earthly hopes, we fee
that life is indeed shrouded in mys
tery. .
We can see no good in an affliction
that leaves hearts desolate and takes
away for life from helpless little
ones their surest comfort, their best
friend.
The lesson which each one thinks
hardest for me to leran, in time
comes to all. We must sink in
helplessness under it, and look out
through all life in utter darkness, or
we must rise up in a triumphant
faith in Him, whose wisdom reaches
through all eternity and whose love
is wonderful passing knowledge, and
say: “Though He slay me, yet will
I trust Him.”
In this trust alone is there rest for
the weary, aching heart, and by it
only are we kept in perfect peace.
In the sudden removal of Mrs
Lizzie A. Chapman, we cannot ques
tion but that it was best for her, and
could she speak to those who sorely
mourn her loss, she would say in the
words of Jesus: “If ye loved me, ye
would rejoice that I am gone to my
Father.” But in our grief and blind
ness we still ask why was it best that
ler life should be cut off in the very
prim and vigor of her usefulness; in
the time when her own faith in God
had been put to the tests that bring
forth fruit; in the time when her four
ittle ones were emerging from the
sweet innocence of babyhood aDd
childhood into the broader walks ol
knowledge and temptation ; also
when they so much needed the in
fluence of a mother’s love and the
strength of a mother’s hand to guide
them.
In her hristian woman hood,ripen
ing under the trials and responsibili
ties that life brings to all, she had a
deeper hold on the hearts of parents,
brothers and sisters, than eveu in her
bright, fresh, happy girlhood.
To her husband who had cherished
and loved her so faithfully for thir
teen years to a day, (the day of her
death was the anniversary of her
marriage) she was dearer and more
of a necessity to his life than ever.
Human reason staggers at these
providences, but thanks be to God,
we are able lo say through His mer
ciful revelations, and the gracious
influence of His spirit, “It is best
because he so willed it ”
Her friends will miss her. Through
life those little ones will go hungry
for mamma’s love. The void in her
husband’s heart is deep and sore, bu<
God knows it all. His tender sym
pathy and loving kindness is over
them. He is the friend who can sup
ply the place of all friends. He, the
father that is more to h s little ones
than even the most faithful and lov
ing mother. His spirit tan animate
the crushed heart of the husband
and fill it with a more complete life
than even the inspiring love of tha
darling wife. God grant that hus
band, children, and all who mourn
the loss of the dead, may yield their
sorrowing hearts to Him and find
the rame peace and cheerfulness fcuat
the dear departed one had in her last
afflictions. We mourn for her, but
not as those who have no hope.
We are comforted that she i3 at
rest, and rejoice that it is well with
her.
May all who love her, find the rest
that remaineth for the people of God,
M.
Altering Greenback.
Ayoungmiu named Watson, from Pine
Log, had seven dollars of. United States cur
rency—a five dollar note and a two dollar
note. He raised the five dollars to ten, and
the two dollars to twenty. The government
saw his pile, and called him after going a two
thousand dollar bond better, a He succeeded
in passing the money in C irtnrsville; the ten
(f5) dollar bill on the aged father of Fran!*
Daniel, and the twenty (13) dollar bill on !■*
dore Scheuer, a young mart who is now en
joying his first experience wi.h the rascality
of America. Tint sleuth hound of justice,
Runse Sellers, immediately proceeded to sniff
out the guilty note raiser, and Watson wa
caught in an old house upou Dr. Felton’*
farm, in which he had taken shelter on his
way to his home up on Pine Log. He was
brought back and had a cotmnita! trial before
Commissioner Aaron Collins. In the course
of his trial he set up the defense that the
notes were giveu to him by a neighbor, Mr.
MartOhumler, to bring to towu aud mtkf*
some purchases with. Mr. Chumler was then
sought out, but came in <n Monday and gave
himself up. Both the men were sent to At
lanta. The money is awfully botch ;d, and it
must surely be a very ignorant man who
would attempt to pass it. j
Mrs. Oates Coaling to Cartersville. V
Capt. Jim Wilkerson has received
an application from the agent of Mrs.
Alice Oates for the opera house on the
6th of next month. Then the opera
house will be rammed, jammed and
packed ftr xute
In Advance,
T. A. Foote is in daily reception of
boys’ and men’s spring clothing.
This is a little in advance of
opening of the spring trade arid tho*e
who wish to suoi*!v th'on-* Ives
shou'd do 4 v U tlvv •
The Biggest let.
Without the least “blanket stretch
ing” we can say that Virgil L Wil
liams has just received the largest
lot of crockery and glassware that
we have ever seen in Cartersvitle
The shelves on one entire side of
the store groan beneath the weight
of immense mountains of china and
glass. He has everything, from the
commonest stone to the finest and
most delicate china. It will pay
you just to take a look at hlft “eba
uey ware,” even if you dont want to
buy.
Th Place ta hay Faraitara.
Call on M. H. Gilreath A Cos. for
your furniture. They keep a nice
stock and sell cheap. If not conven
ient to call in person, send your or*
ders through the mail. They will
guarantee prices against any market,
and you will save money by giving
them a trial. Store rooms. West
Main street, Cartersville, Ga.
A CAKD.
To all who are suffering from the errors aad
ndiseretions el youth, nervous weakness, ear
ly decay, loti of manhood, Ac., I will send a
receipe that will cure you, mi of ciaxci.
This great remedy wa* discoyered by a mis
sionary ia South America. Sead a self ad
dressed envelope to the Rir* Joiirx T.
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