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YOL. XXIV.
The Cartersville Express.
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Address CORNELIUS WILLINGHAM.
EDITORIAL EXPRESS-IONS.
The coupon on every Georgia edi
tor’s free ticket has Rome printed on
it. Rome will be ready.
We would like to publish the name
of a single Bartow county man who
made money, or a living, or a better
government out ot politics last year.
We pause for a reply.
We call on Hon. Louis Garrard,
of Muscogee county, to rise up and
explain whqt he by the act to
create State depositaries. There
seems to be some misunderstanding.
And now the news comes from the
west that the speculators have got
up a •'‘corner’ in corn-field peas!
Think of it, farmers, while you are
laying off your land tor cotton and
coating it with guano at SSO per ton.
A sweet young lady of Cartersville
wants us to write a little original pou
em in her album. We would do so
if we could find ttie one we wrote
about five hundred times in other
young ladies’ albums when we were
young.
The Christopher boys are keeping
up their corner with the Phono
graph. It is spicy and short, and
don't chase his Satanic majesty around
the decayed remains of a monarch of
the forest when dealing with men
and events.
Marcellus Thornton has been giv
en an SI,BOO clerkship in the pension
department in Washington City.
Marcellus said when he went to
Washington that he would be solid,
and we are glad he was right. He
has his pecularitiee, hut is a clever
boy with them.
Henry Grad} was the last deposi
tor in the Atlanta Citizens’ Bank,
lie had placed SBOO in that institu
tion, and as he walked out the doors
were closed. This was bad on the
brilliant young journalist, but his
sunny, elastic nature will not let him
brood over his loss.
Is it not high time for the people
of this county to be striving after
their own interests instead of the
interests of one political party, or, as
it seems, the interests of one m-in
who cares about as much for the
people of his country as he docs the
remainder of his stock in trade?
Col. Fitzsimmons, United States
marshal of Georgia, has tendered bis
resignation to President Gai field.
A most disgraceful war was waged
against Col. Fitzsimmons during his
entire administration, both by repub
licans and democrats, and his victory
will always be a matter of pride with
his friends.
Much of the excitement concern
ing the failure of the Citizens’ Bank
in Atlanta has subsided, tiifc the
week has been stormy. The credit
ors will fight the claim of the State
to be the preferred creditor. They
had a meeting Tuesday, but adjourn
ed over to Wednesday without tak
ing any action. There has been some
talk of suing Treasurer Speer. The
Post-Appeal says an indictment
against Perino Brown and W. 11.
Patterson for cheating and swindling
is in soak. It is claimed that there
are abundant grounds for making
good cases under the law. If such
an indictment shall be found, and the
gentlemen named be put on trial, it
will uncover the entire conduct of
the bauk, and some persons claim
that in this case some very crooked
things will come before tne public
gaze.
The Cartersville Express.
GIVE A NEW DEAL.
POLITICS VERSUS BUSINESS.
Now is the Time to Give Selish Politltians
“the Shake*’ and work for our
Town and Coanty.
There is no community that can
devote its entire attention to two
battles and win both. There is
no community that cau afford to
neglect its pace in the march of pro
gress simply to further the interests
of any one individual. This asser
tion comes from the editor of this
paper and he defies refutation.
No man in town will assert that
politics—nasty, 6tinking local poli
tics has not divided the opinions and
aims ot father and son, husband and
wife, brother and sister. In propor
tion to the extent of these family di
visions are the entire people of the
county divided, one faction against
the other. The continuous smug
glings between our county people
have caused the mass of them to for
get the snail-like step our county is
keeping. Our people herd ou one
side or the other lor these politicians
and the question of the growth of
our county and our county town is
lost sight of in bickerings.
In the last decade of years our peo
ple,have just paid enough attention
to politics to lose the best trade that
was ever enjoyed by a town of this
size in the state. “Organized” vs.
“Indeuencents” has just been the
versus that has deprived Cartersville
town of a place among the cities of
Georgia.
And what does the politician care
after all. When his own selfish in
terests aier not subserved he cares
about as much for the material in
terests of a community as we do
about the private affairs of the Khe
dive of Egypt.
YVe would not have our people
sleep over their political interests.
They should keep posted and take a
reasonable amount of interest in
state and national politics. Let them
form their honest opinions indepen
dent of slang-whanging politicians.
The beat political outrage that could
be perpetrated would be to let poli
ticians and their wrangiings severely
alone.
The time has c< me for Cartersville
to be up and doing. The time for
action has come. Let every citizen
be imbued with anew supply ol pub
lie spirit. The seers and prophets are
predicting wonderful events to trans
pire in the year 1881. Let’s all try
and have a wonderful change in our
town and let the year close finding
Cartersville on the high road to pros
perity !
Tlio Earl of Beaconsfield is Dead.
.Associated Press Dispatch.
London, Tuesday, April 19. 1:30
a. m.—Yesterday, in this city died
Benjamin Disraeli, politician and
author, whose fortune in political ad
venture ims surpassed the heroes of
his political romances. One of a race
proscribed by universal prejudice,
which, when he came on the stage,
was under political disabilities in
England; in a nation whose govern
ing class was founded on the ablest
aristocracy that history has told of,
he rose by his own genius to be the
most conspicuous man in the empire;
to be the bead of the government, a
place whose duties make it a severer
test of ability than any government
place in the world. And with all
this political fortune be gained social
recognition by a noble clats singu
larly exclusive in its national feeling.
Nominally, he was of the church
of England, and zealous for the es
tablishment, but it is likely that he
held to the religion of his race. The
English nobility were the gods of his
idolatry and envy, yet iu his books,
parallel with his sycophantic wor
ship, may be seen the consciousness
of self and race, in his exaltation of
the Jews as a race of pure blood,
while all Europeans are mongreis.
Laborer’s ltiot.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Milford, Pa., April 18.—A riot
occurred at Deckerton, N. J., this
morning among the Italian labor
ers employed in the construction of
the Pennsylvania and New England
railroad, caused by the paymaster of
the road to pay their demauds in
full. Paymaster Dunning and Su
perintendent Russell were impris
oned by the mob and were rescued
only with considerable difficulty.
Many of the men engaged in the
riot were badiy wounded with knives
and other weapons.
CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1881.
“SLEEPING I DREAMED.”
BY C. DUBBLEYER.
It was either the gentle narcot
ics homeopalhically served in the
onions of my spring greens or my
normal, constitutional Sunday after
noon laziness that shut my eyelids in
sleep. I did sleep, and sleeping I
dreamed. It was a Rip Van Winkle
siesta and consumed twenty years.
I was standing on the street of a di
lapidated village that had every in
dication of having been deserted.
A few rude plank huts were make
shifts for business houses and in
front of the principal one was a group
of coatless, dirty men. There was
a plaza in front of me grown up in
dog fennel and briars. The one street
approaching the group of huts was
also grown up in weed 9 through
which could occasionally be seen a
lazy, rusty lizzard. I wondered how
any human heing could be induced
to remain in so desolate ajspot.
I saw an aged man standing away
from the motley group and I en
gaged him in conversation. Soon a
man carrying himself with the air
of business importance with a satch
el in his hand passed along. He
Stumbled on the broken sidewalk. I
heard him mutter, “Dead ! why the
town is dead and buried too,” He
turned to a lounging store-keeper and
asked: “YVheu does the next train go
to —to some live place ?”
“The next train going north starts
to-morrow morning. We’ve only
one train each day now,”
“YVhy, I was here twenty years
ago and there were trains running
almost every hour and in all direct
lions.”
The reply came full of deep sig
nificance:
“Ah, that was twenty years ago.”
My aged companion looked at me,
shaking his head sadly.
“Yes,” said he, “that was twenty
years ago. Twenty years ago all
was life, brightness and promise.
“YVe had the advantages, natural
and artificial. About us we had fine
farms, immense beds of iron, man
ganese and other minerals. We had
fine water power and hoped for ma
chine shops, foundries and thriving
manufactories But, alas ! The spirit
of selfish greed came upon us and
reigned supreme and it is thas we
are left. The magnificent farms that
lay around us were couverted into
guano hot-beds for the production of
cotton. Flour, meal and provisions
did not burden the commissary de
partments of our farmers and one
bag of cotton paid for a sack of guano
and a sack of flour. Then we tried
to get up a cotton factory to iut some
life into our fast-dying place. Some
enterprising men took hold of the
movement to build the factory.—
Everybody agreed that a cotton fac
tory was just what our town needed,
but no man opened his purse. YY’e
cried for foreign capital to come arid
give to the world our boundless
supply of ores. Some foreigners
did come, but they were ignorant
of our ways and some of our
designing men “swooped” them.
They retired to tell their brethren
that the only thing their money
could develop in our midst was ‘jus
tice courts.’ j
“We had two live newspapers that
fought hard for the dying town. The
editors wroto and starved. They
finally Tannered out, dying of cruel
neglect from the merchants of the
town, who thought the town was
better off without newspapers. The
trade and business they fought so
hard to win lor our town went else
where, because after the papers died
nobody, outside ol its corporate lim
its knew of the existence of our
place.
“ An effort was made to have pub
lic schools, from whose plenteous
fountains our children were to drink
freely of knowledge, but ouf people
wrangled and quarreled about which
side of the railroad the building was
to be erected and the school-house
was never built. Our children grew
up in matted-haired ignorance and
Allied the jails and chain-gangs. In
deed, our people seemed to put a
premium on ignorance, for right
here on the then public streets an
humble man, whose honored sire
had contributed the best years of his
vigorous manhood in building up
our section, suffered the indignity
and humiliation of an arre-it for sell
ing The Word of God without li
cense.
“Here where we stand there were
once handsouoe brick business hou-es,
hut tilt fire fiend came mid we, hav-
ing no fire department and no fire
engine, were left completely at the
mercy of the flames.
“The public spirit that should have
encouraged manufacturers and home
industries was diverted by jealousy
and business bickerings. Our bank,
once thriving, is now closed and our
shops are no more. We had no wa
ter-works system nor adequate sew
erage, and disease made this place its
permanent home. Dissensions came
everywhere. Our churches, as edi
fices of worship, became empty and
their membership become divided in
bitterness and internecine strife. Our
best men departed for brighter homes
except such as died in misery of mind
if not of body. Oh, ’ts sad; ’tis sad.
The old man wept in bitterness of
his recollections of the past.
“This place,” he continued, “is the
grave-yard of great expectations
Twenty years ago we had men here
with brains and money, but the
money conquered the brains. Their
hearts became as hard as their iron
safes. The future was naught to
them. The present and their tran
sient affluence was enough for them
to think about. Look around you.
You see the result.
About me, on every hand I saw
the evidences of the * truth of what
he said. “To Rent,” “For Sale,”
were the notices attached to the re
maining huts.
“This,” said the old man, “is Car
tersville in 1900.”
And then I slept in obliviousness.
Religious Items.
Some two hundred persons have
just been converted at Pulaski, Tenn.
Moody and Sankey won over sl,-
500 persons to the church in San
Francisco.
The Southern Baptist Convention
will meet in Columbus Mississippi,
in May.
Two hundred and fifty ordained
ministers are laboring as missionerie*
in China.
The Episcopalians of Tuscaloosa,
Alabama, are preparing to build a
handsome church.
There are 178 Jewish congrega
tions in the United States with a
membership of $12,546.
The general convention of the New
Jerusalem church will meet in
YVashington, D. C*, May 20.
The statistics of Petersburg, Vir
ginia, for 1879 and 1880 show an in
crease of 590 church membership.
A colored church in Corsicana,
Texas, has expel ied seven of its mem
bers because they attended a circus.
The general synod of the Reformed
church in the United States, will
hold its triennial session in Tiffiu,
Ohio, May 18.
In nine years the church of Eng
land has contributed $28,000 for the
purposes of religious education.
There are fifteen branches of the
Methodist church in the United
States, the aggregate membership lit
ing $3.521,600.
The general assembly of the South
ern Presbyterian church will hold its
next session at Staunton, Virginia,
May 19.
For an Extra Session of Congress.
- Senator Blair offered a resolution
Tuesday, “that in the judgment of
the Senate, the public interest re*
quires that Congress be convened in
public session immediately.”
Republicans generally favor the
proposition of a special session of
Congress, as proposed by the resolu
tion. They virtually admit that at
an executive session of the Senate
they cannot elect their ticket for offi
cers, and rather than back down are
determined to U9e every influence to
induce the president to call a special
se sion, hoping the Democrats will
yield under the pressure of regular
congressional business. This policy,
however, is not unanimously in
dorsed by the Republicans, and Mr.
Blair’s resolution will not pass. Still,
Mr* Garfield will be urged to call an
extra session. If it is called it is ex
iremely doubtful whether the pres
ent ticket for senate officers can be
elected.
The Wisconsin Anti-Treatin'* Law.
Associated Tress Disputed.
Milwaukee, Wis., April 18.—In
a test case to-day, to determine the
legality of the anti-treating law, of
Wisconsin, it was found that the
law was inoperative, because of an
error in the text of its enactment.
The bill, as drawn, specifies the
peal of an eld law that was dropped
when the statutes were lately re
pealed. Judge Mallory bold the law
to be inoperative and void.
How mßebel Major got his Pardon.
Springfield Republican.
A few days after the war had been
declared at an end, Major Drewry
went to YVashington, and, without
the usual ceremony of sending in
his name, lest he should be refused
an interview, made his way into the
very presence of Secretary Stanton.
“Mr. Secretary,” said he, “I want
my pardon as soon as possible. I’ve
fought against you as long as I could,
and I’ve been whipped; and now 1
want to go home and go to work.
I’ve got hundreds of acres of land
that have been lying fallow for the
past four years, and I want to get
seed into every inch of it this spring,
so I’ll thank you to give me my par
don and let me go.” He talked so
fast that Mr- Stanton couldn’t get in
a word; but being amused and rather
pleased by Maj. Drewry’s bluff man
ner, he asked at last, “On what
ground do you expect to get a par
don, sir?” “On the ground, sir, that
I showed you how to build a navy.
You sent your fleet of old wooden
ships up to Drewry’s bluff, and we
knocked ’em all to pieces, and
showed you, sir, that wooden ships
weren’t wortli a d—. And then you
went to work and got together a navy
that was worth something, and its
on the grounds that my men proved
your needs to you that I want a par
don.” Ttie Secretary laughed and
told the h nest rebel to call again
the next day, as he would like to
talk further with him. Next day
Maj. Drewry got bis pardon, and,
in return, gave Mr. Stanton a great
deal of valuable information con
cerning the South and its prospects.
He went back to his pleasant home
on the James, and has ever since
been a wise, enterprising, prosper
ous citizen.
A Gem from “Ouida’a Last.
Chicago Tribune.
“This corn was the only sad chord
in the otherwise perfect symphony of
Ethelberta De Courcey’s life. Often
when gliding dreamily through the
measures of a soft, sensuous waltz
that set all her senses pulsing in har
mony to the music, her nose resting
trustfully on the nose of Percy Mont
rose, her affianced, had she been sud
denly called back from the beautiful
rose tinted meditation by some one
stepping on her corn. Sometimes,
in the desolate moments that fol
lowed one of these painful society
events, she would almost sob out her
grief to the world, and often in th
still watches of the night would
come to her the thought that even a
bunion would have been better.”
The Wadley Siudicate Secures the At
lanta & West Point Railroad.
Augusta, Ga., April 16.— A syn
dicate, consisting of Messrs. YVad
ley, Sloan and Taylor, have pur
chased a controlling in the Atlanta
& West Point Railroad. The stock
was sold at $l5O a share. This gives
Louisville & Nashville and Central
railroad combination the principal
South Atlantic and Gulf ports, era
bracing Charleston, Savannah, Pen
sacola, Mobile and New Orleans, and
inland cities for Western freights.
Georgia stock to-day was firm,
with sales at 154. Central was ex
cited and fluctuated.
Garfield's Kelsons.
Associated Tress Dispatch.
Washington, April 20.—While
at breakfast this morning President
Garfield remarked to Mrs. Garfield
that The Cartersville Express
was the livest country paper in the
country and the reason he did not
give its editor a foreign mission was
because he did’nt want to break up
so live a newspaper.
A Good Riddance.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Chicago, April 18.— Fred Grant
has forwarded his resignation as fir.st
lieutenant in the Fourth cavalry and
lieutenant colonel on the staff of the
lieutenant general of the army. |Mr.
Grant will accept a position in the
employ of the Chicago, Texas and
Mexican railroad company.
A Georgia Murder.
A special dispatch to the Colum
bus Enquirer-Sun gives the particu
lars of the assassination, on Sunday
night of Watson Mi!ton, aged seventy
five years, at his home in Marion
county, Georgia. A young man
named O. P. Jones has been arrested
on suspicion. The cause of the mur
der is unknown.
Georgia’s New Marshal.
The name of General Jame3 B.
Longstreet was sent to the senate for
confirmation as United State’s Mar
shal for Georgia on Tuesday last.
The Georgia republicans are not de
cided whether or not they will con
tinue the war on him in the Schate.
THE LATEST CULLINGS.
Sitting Bull is going to surrender.
Yale College funds are now $1,830,-
000.
The Princess Louise will visit Sara
toga Springs during the summer,
Kossuth is living near Turin, 79
years old, but in excellent health.
Many a man is open to conviction,
who ought 4.o be, but never i*, convicted.
The total value of exports from
Savannah on last Monday was $290,394.30,
A three per cent, bond was never
placed at par. The French three per cent*
were sold at $83.25.
The nearest recent approach to per
petual motion is the jaw of the Hon, Mr
Dawes, of Massachusetts.
Cadet Buck, of Texas, who shot J.
G. Thompson’s son at West Point, has been
acquitted by a New York jury.
A young woman who did a regular
business of handkerchief flirtations, said that
she belonged to the “signal service.”
Ducht-ss, Dot Dimple, Charmer,
Flirtation, Gary, Gersler and Bernhardt arc
the names of some of the new bonnets.
“Old Abe,” the Wisconsin war
eagle, earned about SBO,OOO for the various
charitable associations that exhibited him.
A terrible exposure of the secret
rites of the Mormon endowment house is made
by an escaped wife in the Chicago Intcr-Ocean.
The Suez caal shares bought by
the Bcaconsfield government at 20 in 1875, are
now worth 78, a profit of over fifty millions.
The chief engineer of Mexico has
surveyed the Tehuantepec route, and he re
ports Captain Eads’ project entirely practica
ble.
Horace Maynard, of Tennessee,
has been chosen orator at the unveiling of the
Farragut statue in Washington ou the 25ih of
April.
As the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
looks at the matter, an invitation to take a
drink carries with it no evidence of
esteem.
There were over 700 preachers re
ceived into the iiiuerant ministry of the M. E.
church duriDg the year 1880, an average of
about two each day for the year.
Mr. Bischoffsheim is to give his
daughter £125,000 on her marriage next week
to the Earl of Desart, and an equal sum will
be left her in bis will.
One son of Mr. English, the late
candidate for the vice-presidency, married a
pretty variety actress, and a second is betioth
ed to Minnie Kent, a skipping-rope dancer.
England has four universities,
France fifteen, and Germany twenty-two.
Ohio, with that simplicity which is character
istic of the west, contents itself with thirty
seven.
Chief Justice Pierpont, of Vermont,
decided the other day that drunkenness has
never been held in that Suite a good cause of
divorce uuder the statute, auu refused to
grant one on that ground.
Signor Salvini will leaveNew York
on the French steamer Canada, May 18th, and
will go directly to Italy. He lias received a
handsome offer to play in London, but will
visit his home before proceeding to England.
General Joseph Lane, of Oregon,
continues very ill. A telegram from Portland,
Oregon, dated April 5, 6ays that at his re
quest a vault was constructed a few days pre
vious to the reception of his mortal remains.
It is computed that since the be
ginning of the century, fifty-eight attempts
have been made on the lives of sovereigns and
presidents of republics, of which uine have
succeed. Tne proportion of presidents killed
being, as compared to crowned heads, four to
five.
Sophie PipnfF-ky, the young lady
hung in St. Petersburg on Friday for her
share in the aasnssina.ion of the czar, was
pretty and refined iu appearance, and was ex
ceedingly well educated. She has a near rela
tive now aide-de-camp to the Grand Duke
Alexis.
When Jay Gould drew his check
in Philadelphia the other day to Thomas A.
Scott’s order for $2,400,000, on a single stock
transaction, how he must have been pleased
at the contrast with his first ad von' into New
York, many years ago, as the owuer of a
patent ou a mouse-trap.
The rumor that there was an Ohio
man who didn’t want an office turns out to
have been error It was based upon Private
Balzell’s declination of a $1,200 clerkship. It
has since transpired that he declined, not be
cause he didn’t want au office, but because he
wanted a bigger one, the mission to B Igium
being about his size, according to his own
measurements.
“I feel,” said the fat passenger as
the train cro.scd the Ohio line, “that I am in
the land of statesmen. There is the smell of
a postofflee in the air, and the low, Bwee
sound of a consu+ateis heard in the dewy dis
tance. I see the shadowy forms of marshals
yet to be, and out of the dreamy gates of Im
possible I bee the anti .prpces-iou f never-to-be
supreme judges. Bear and favored land,
this grand old of presidents.”
The ex-Khedive of Egypt, made
aware by the recent example of the Swedish
princes and the Russian and Austrian arch
dukes, that he had omitted part of the eli
quette of a foreign prince in Rome, applied to
the pope for an audince. His holiness replied
that us the ex-khedive had allowed four
months to elapse before manifesting such a
desire, be did not think it could be very keen.
1 He therefore declined to comply with it.
NO. 16.