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About The standard and express. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1871-1875 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1873)
PUBLISHED WEEKLY. VOL. XI V. From ihe ftonthern Watchman.) S<»rißK BLOWIIAHD AT THE “DEVIE’S PULPIT.” “Many years ago,” remarked Squire l>lov\ hard— I “before the days of rail haulh, bustles, hooi», and ail the oth er tomfoolery got up by the Yankees ami the women—it was after Mr. Ber ri en had retired from Gen. Jackson’s cabinet on account of the Mrs. Eaton affair—l lnlsreuaeinber the precise date but I recollect I was spending a w«*ek or two with the Judge at his hospitable mansion in Habersham. 1 and Bcrri-m had long been bosom friends—in fact I have been intimate ly acquainted with all the gieat men of my day—and it was nothing unu sual for me to spend a week with him. Finding him engaged in preparing a great constitutional argument, 1 de termined to avail myself of the op portunity offered of visiting Tallulah Falls—a‘pleasure I had promised my self for years. At that time, and for a long time afterwards, a man of the name of Beall lived near the Falls and “detained travellers in a hostile manner.” Arriving at his house just at dark, I had no opportunity of vis iting the grand cataracts until next morning; i>ut, learning, after supper, that there was a remarkable echo a cross the river a short distance below Be-all’s house, 1 determined to try its power that night. Communicating my desire to Beall, he advised me not to go —remarking that there were overhanging preci piccs from eight hundred to a thou sand feet high, and the night being dark, I might fall overboard before becoming aware of my danger. He i particularly described a place called “the devil’s pulpit,” which he swore was more than a thousand feet high, and regaled ir e with many other mar vellous stories. Now, gentlemen, if there is anything on earth which I dislike, it is exaggeration. I have no confidence whatever in a man who cun tell wonderful stories.” “But, Squire,” remarked Billy Muckle, “you relate some very re markable stories.” “That’s true,” remarked the Squire, ina patronizing tone; “but, you’ll please observe, Billy, that these tilings 1 have experienced myself and know them to be true. Besides, it j matters not what a man may believe or discredit in others, he never loses confidence in himself.” “Well, Beall’s stories, which I j thought were only invented to fright-; on me—he did not know me at that time, and had not heard of my difli- i culty with Col. Cantey, who was af- j terwards Adjutant General, or he j would not have dreamed of making! >uch a silly attempt—Beall’s vivid \ description of the Hazardous nature j of the undertaking, only served to } stimulate my desire to visit the river. | The fact is, I was always fond of ad- j venture, and an undertaking without hazard was always considered by me as a very tame affair. lienee it was, that so soon as 1 arrived in India, 1 lost no time in trying my luck at ti ger-hunting in the jungles—which, by the way, reminds me that I ought to relate an adventure which 1 one day had, while employed as the con fidential adviser of old Tippoo Sul- j tan.” “Tell that some other time—give j us the story about the “devil’s pul-1 pit,” said Lindsey McJunkin. “Well,” resumed the Squire, “the! landlord, seeing I was bent upon go ing, once more cautioned me to keep ! a sharp look-out for the “devil’s pul pit,” assuring me that if 1 stepped overboard there, the cliff being an overhanging one, 1 would touch no thing until I fell in the bed of the liver, a thousand feet below. 1 started off as brave as Julius Cie, sar, hut it was so infernally dark that my courage began to fail. 1 could not sec my hand before me, and in spite of all I could do, that garrulous land lord’s warning voice was still ringing in my ears. Feeling my way along cautiously, 1 managed most of the time to keep in the narrow path through the dark woods, ever and anon repeating Beall’s solemn warn ing, “Beware of the devil’s pulpit.” The ground was rough, and huge granite boulders lay on every side, as 1 ascertained by feeling them —for it was so dark 1 could see nothing. Presently I got out of the path, and, having turned around once or twice in endeavoring to flank one of these large rocks, 1 became bewildered and did not know in which direction the path lay. I determined to back out and leave the rock, but before go ing a dozen paces, I stepped off and found myself falling into JJthe pro found depths below! Gentlemen, instinct is a wonderful tiling—and man, though possessed of the God- | like gift of reason, is very often de- ; pendent on instinct for preservation.: Os course, I had no time to think, hut instinctively I grasped the edge of the precipice as 1 went over, and, clinging to the rugged rock with my lingers, supported my weight—l was not so corpulent then as now—and tried to fiud a footing on the preci pice. I soon found, by my failure to touch anything with my feet, that I was clingiug to the edge of a shelving, overhanging rock, with nothing to sustain me but the strength of my lingers. Oh, what an eternity of mis ery I sufiered in a few moments! Gentlemen, I have been informed by a reputable gentleman, the late Maj. Gladden, that the prints of my lin ger nails were distinctly visible in that granite rock thirty-five years af ter the event occurred! Nor do I wonder at it, when I recollect with what tenacity I-clutched the rugged rock! “instinct had saved me for a short time, but reason must effect my de liverance, if delivered at all, was my agonizing reflection. It was evident I could not save myself-—but where should I find human aid? I had but little hope of making myself heard at the cabin of Beall, who had a host of noisy children; but in perfect des peration, I shouted as loud as I could; the infernal echo that had lured me eut promptly sent back the shout. Again and again I shouted. Nobody but the echo replied. Then I prayed most earnestly. Ah, gentlemen, 1 understand your significant nods; but, let me assure you that when a man gets into real trouble or immi nent danger—yes, the most hardened eases among us, if not entirely given up to wickedness —can and will pray earnestly. In the meantime I was growing weaker and weaker every second, ; md knew that if I did not get succor | must necessarily relinquish my nolcl. I alternately prayed and shout n ' ,* iour after hour, it seemed to "e, Bad passed by, and yet no relief STANDARD AND EXPRESS. | had come. I wondered at my ability to hold on so long, and grasped the ledge still tighter. Hour after hour seemed to pass, until I fancied it was growing lighter, and that, if 1 could hold on a little longer, deliverance would surely come, as Beall would certainly search for me at early dawn. Shouting, hallooing and praying, I finally felt sure I saw a light—strain ing my eyes, I could see it flickering among the tree tops, and, oh, blessed sound! 1 once more heard human voices. Courage, my heart, and in a few minutes more, deliverance will come! And it did come. Beall and two of his boys soon came in sight, l«earing torches. If they had been a minute later I should have dropped. The instant they reached the top of the rock, 1 gasped, “For God’s sake, pull me up.” “Impossible,” said Beall, laconically. “Oh, Lord! what shall I do?” “Let go,” said Beall. Groaning in spirit, 1 made no reply, but nerved myself to hold on a few | moments longer. Holding a torch over the brink of the precipice, Beall directed me to i look down. Shudderingly I obeyed —aqd, gentlemen, I’ll be- if my feet were more than nine inches from the ground. “And you had been hanging there ; by your fingers all nignt?” asked Bil ly. “I thought so,” said the Squire, “but when I examined my watch, I found I had been absent from the housejust thirty-five minutes, and, according to the best estimate I could make, 1 had been hanging over that awful chasm just five minutes!” “And you really thought you had been there all night?” incredulously inquired a bystander. “Yes, sir. Placed in such a situa tion, seconds are lengthened into hours.” “I should have killed Beall,” said Goody. “I shall always feel grateful to him,” replied the Squire, “for he gave me a drink of his “old apple jack” to steady my nerves. Feeling now very much enervated, I am rea dy to accept a treat from the hum blest individual in the party.” “That’s me,” said Bill Jones, and they all turned the corner, in search of “amplittcating fluid.” IN A DENTIST’S*CHAIR. IfSpivins is to be believed, there was recently an extraordinary case of dental surgery in this city. He says that a friend of his wife visited a den tist on street, for the purpose o f having a tooth extracted. It was an eye-tooth. Spivins accompanied his friend for the purpose of favoring him with a little sympathy over the shoulder. It is so pleasant to witness the agony of a friend, and to advise him to bear it like a man. The dentist seated his patient in a chair, lanced ids gums, applied his forceps, a vigoraus pull.— The tooth was wrenched from its socket, and came out easily enough, but the root hung fire. Either it was a very long root, or it stretched. In fact, ihe dentist had exhausted his reach, and the root was not yet en tirely out. Bpivins ventured to inquire if the root was not unusually long; but that dentist was not going to admit that anything could happen that had not already occurred in his experience. “Not at all,” he replied. “I have often pulled teeth whose roots reach ed down to the hips.” He mounted a chair and took an other puli. He thus succeeded in getting away with about a yard of the tooth, but the root continued to hang. At the same time the patient’s leg was violently jerked up. Spivins ventured to say that this was surely an unusual case. “It is a little singular,” replied the dentist, “but I once pulled a tooth whose roots reached down to the man’s knees. Having thus extinguished his ques tioner, he tied his patient to the chair and straightened out his leg by put ting it in splints. Then he took the forceps over his shoulder and walked away like a deck hand going up a bank with a bow line. When he reached the parlor door, he braced himself against the jamb and laid back for a final pull. The tooth popped out this time, but the dentist made the most nois when he reached the floor. Spivins jumped forward and pick ed up the latter end of that tooth.— The root had two prongs, and on the end of each prong was a toe nail. “That’s what hurt you so,” said Spivins, consoling his friend, whose screams had been somewhat annoy ing. “Never mind ; it will be all the same a hundred years lienee. Don’t you think, doctor, that this is rather Ihe most unusual case that ever hap pened in your practice?” “I am inclined to believe that it is the most singular case of its class,” replied that impurturbable dentist; “but I once extracted a tooth for one of the Siamese twins, the roots of which extended through tiie bodies of both, and at the end was a corres ponding tooth from the mouth of the other. It was a good thing for Eng, from whom I pulled the tooth, but bad for Chang, whose tooth happen ed to be sound.” Spivins’ friend had such high re spect for the dentist that he told him that iie might keep the tooth for his pay. Some incredulous people may ac cuse this story of being too thin ; but they are mistaken—it is tooth out. BE KIND TO THE OLD. Be kind to those whd are in theau tumn of life, for thou knowest not what sufferings they may have en dured, or how much it may still be their portion to bear. Are they quer ulous or unreasonable? allow not thy anger to kindle against them ; re buke them not, for, doubtless, many and severe have been the crosses and trials of earlier years; and, per chance, their dispositions while in the spring-time of life M ere more gentle than thine own. Do they re quire aid of thee? then render it cheerfully, and forget not that the time may come when thou mayest desire the same assistance from oth ers that now thou renderest unto them. Do all that is needful for the old, and do it with alacrity, and think it is not hard if much is required at thy hands, lest, when age has set its seal on thy brow ami filled thy limbs with trembling, others may wait upon thee unwillingly, and feel relieved when the coiSiu lid has covered thy face forever. SAMUEL H. SMITH & COMPANY, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. JIM FOREMAN. THE ATLANTA HERALD’S GOLD MINE DISCOVERER —JIM A SLY OLD COON —WHAT YE ROMANS KNOW ABOUT HIM. Rome, Ga., Aug. 4, 1873. Is l it or s Commercial:— I have t**en asked, by divers persons, what I kuow about one Jim Foreman, a man that claims to be a native Cher okee Indian. I became acquaiuted with the said James Foreman, in the ■ year 1830 or 1837. He came to my father’s place and hired to him as a field hand,, and represented himself to be a Spaniard, by birth, and work ed very faithfully until the crop was made. He left there in the fall and came to the city of Rome, Georgia. He was well treated while in the employment of my father. He ate at the table with the family and slept in the house. Some time af ter he came to Rome there came a trader, either from Tennessee or Ken tucky, and claimed him to be a slave, took him up, and sold him to Judge Lumpkin for a considerable sum of money. Soon thereafter he ran away and left Judge Lumpkin. It was about the time the Indians were leaving this country. That was the last I knew of Jim, until about five years since. He came back here j claiming to bea Cherokee, and said he was from Arkansas, and was looking for certain mines’ He was here for sometime; visited his old acquain tances in this county, and got up considerable excitement about cer tain silver mines, lie claimed to know of one in particular, in the vi cinity of Stilesboro. He left the country, and recently made Bis ap pearance again, representing him self to be direct from the Cherokee nation. He remained about ten days and left again. The next I hear of him is through the Atlanta Herald, representing him to be at Dalton. I recollect, very distinctly, that the selling of Jim created considerable excitement. When he was taken up no one here suspected him of being a negro. This is Jim’s history as far as I re member. You can consult Judge Spulloek, Samuel Stewart, Joe Nor ris and Jesse Lambeth for particu lars, who are all familliar with the facts as to his being so hi and running away from Judge Lumpkin. Some of the citizens thought it was an ar rangement between Foreman and his taker to fleece the Judge of his money. Tugs. G. Watters. THE BOY WHOSE MOTHER CUT HIS HAIR. You can always tell a boy whose mother cuts his hair. Not because the edges of it looks as if they had been chewed ott‘ by an absent mind ed horse, bnt you tell it by the way he stops on the streets and wriggles his shoulders. When a fond mother has to cut her hoy’s hair, she is care ful to guard against any annoyance and muss by laying a sheet on the carpet. It has never yet occurred to her to set him over a bare floor and put the sheet around his neck. Then she draws the front hair over his eyes and leaves it there while she cuts that which is at the hack. The hair which lies over his eyes appears to be surcharged with electric needles and that which is silently dropping down under his shirt band appears to be on fire. She has unconsciously continued to push it forward until his nose presses his breast, and is too busily engaged to notice the snuf fling sound that is becoming allarm ingly frequent. In the meantime he is seized with an irresistible de sire to blow his nose, but recollects that his handkerchief is in the other room. Then a fly lights on his nose, and does it so unexpectedly that he involuntarily dodges, and catches the point of the shears in his left ear.’ At this he commences to cry and wish he was a man. But his mother dosen’t notice him. She merely hits him on the other ear to inspire him with confidence, and goes on with the work. When she is done she holds his jacket collar back from his neck, and with her mouth blows the short bits of hair from the top of his head down his back. lie calls her attention to this fact, but she looks for anew place on his head and hits him there, and asks him why he didn’t use his handkerchief. Then he takes lVis awfully disfigured head to the mirror and , looks at it, and, young as he is, shudders as he thinks what the boys on the street will say. PROVOKING A PREACHER TO ANGER. A man was once employed to pro voke a certain preacher to anger, and he undertook the task in the follow ing manner: “Sir,” said he, “you are a fool!” “I know that,” said the preacher, “and knew it some time before you mentioned it to me.” “You are ignorant.” “I know that, aud have been try ing to be clear from it by learning to know myself.” “You are not tit to preach.” “I know that, and daily wonder that God should bless an instrument so unfit for such an important work.” “You ought to be carried out of town to have justice done you.” “I know that, and according to justice, out of the world, too, for I long ago forfeited my life.” “You are not worthy the no.tice of any respectable character on earth.” “I know that, and yet these are the only characters who take any re spectable notice of me.” “You are not worth talking to. or with.” “1 know that, and it is singular that you should acknowledge it, and then spend your time in acting con trary to what you say is true.” "I never saw such a person as you are.” “I know that; but I cannot say so much of you, for your father’s chil dren are numerous, and there is a fam ily likeness throughout the whole.” Two men, disputing about the pro nunciation of the word “either”— one saying it was ec-ther, the other i-ther —agreed to refer the matter to the first person they met, who hap pened to be an Irshman, who con founded them both by declaring, “it’s nayther, for its ayther.” Yen some men ah laps me on der shoulder und say, “vas glad to hear you vasso veil,” und den sticks be hind my pack his finger to his, nose I has ojnniou of dot veller. Cartersvii.le, Ga., August 21, 1873, WORDS OF TRUTH. Senator Bayard, of Delaware, one of the few statesmen left to the coun try of ancient and noble mould, in his address to the alumni of the Uni versity of Virginia, says: “In my belief the vigorous exer cise of the simple and primative vir tues exhibited by the men who founded our government was the j true cause that such a government be came possible, and that it was put in j operation and maintained for many years; and that by the impetus tiius i received we are still able to retain its original form. When I refer to the , past it is not idly to mourn over it and the change wrought in so much we held in close affection and just value, but here to aver my belief that, whatever may be the present condi tion of our government, its forces, and its tendencies, we of this day have our only hope for that happi ness, individual and national, that | security to person and property, that social, political, and religious free dom which were the objects for which our fore-fathers instituted this government, in the revival and ' constant exercise of the simple vir tues practised by the founders of tiie republic, which the growth of | wealth and luxury and a period of j civil war, with its necessary accom paniment of public demoralization, | have done so much to lessen in pub lic as well as in private use. The men of our first revolution were truthful, honest, constant, fru ! gal, industrious and brave. Adver ! sity had been their nurse, and these virtues were the rugged texts of her instruction. When they came to lay the foundation of a government they naturally based their organic law on these principles, so that they became its motive power, the inspiring sent iment of the entire scheme. Throughout tlie vvritteu charter of carefully enumerated delegated and ; limited powers with which they en trusted tiieir official rulers and rep resentatives every where, are to be i found evidences of this. It was be-j cause they were possessed of the vir- } tues I have named that they formed ! the government they did. It was the natural result of such possession. The government was designed for a people like themselves; it was to-! tally unfit for people unlike them. And we may be sure that attempts! to engraft upon it a government hav- j ing a different classes of ideas and 1 principles for its basis can be but j the commencement of a career of loss j I and sorrow, with certain failure as the tiual result. If the Federal Con stitution should have been so invad ed and overthrown that it shall nev er again be restored in the beauty and beneficence in which the eyes of our fathers beheld if, it is because the virtues which gave it birth have fallen into disuse, and the hands and brains which have destroyed it have been those of men whose hatred was stronger than their love of justice, whose love of gain overcame their' love of truth, and whose fear of local | and temporary discontent overcame the courage necessary to enable them to stand by their duty. The virtuous qualities I have been esnsidering, which alone can create and keep a State, are personal and individual, and which, being possess ed and exercised by the leading men of a community, those whose exam ple most effects and influences the mass, become in a great degree the rules compelling evil minded men, at least outwardly, to pay homage to Virtue by wearing her habili ments; and above these primitive, postive and congenial virtues floats that find aroma of sentiment and character which, though undefined and perhaps undelinable, never fails in accuracy; though delicate and sensitive, is more powerful than ar ia es ; which, having no marketable value, outweighs all things purchasa ble—the sentiment called personal honor; the first born child of good faith and kindly feeling, which guid es good men when their neutral pow ers are obscured by doubt, and to de ny the existence of which would in volve the degradation of the human species.” The Itobesonian publishes the fol lowing : Robeson County, N.C. Mr. Post Master General: Dear Sir —1 wish to get the appointment as Post Master at B , in this coun ty. 1 can give you the best evidence that my character is just as I here state it. lam as good a Republican as you ever saw; was a deserter from the Confederate army during the war; I had served two years in the peni tentiary, stole twenty-seven sheep and six horses, been publicly whip ped three times, kicked my grand mother out at the door, thrash my wife once a week, robbed the mail one time on raccoon route—the on ly opportunity I ever had, and now stand indicted for forgery. I know some P. M’s. in this country that can’t give half so good a recommen dation. INTEMPERANCE. In a late number of the Contempo rary Review, Herbert Spencer com bats the idea that inebriety is on the increase. He describes the time when men took drugs to increase their desire for wine; when glasses were so shaped that they had to be held until emptied; when a man was reckoned as a “three-bottled j man,” etc., and when (Mr. Spencer! might have added) one of the first Scottish nobles employed a domestic ! whose sole duty it was to sit under : the table aud loosen the neck-cloths of the guests as they fell from their chairs, in order that they might not suffocate in their drunken sleep. In toxication used to be a mark of hon or. It is now a disgrace. Education has driven the evil from one class to another. It is now almost exclusive ly confined to the lowest. No Barrels For Whisky. — A master cooper called upon a black man, in Ohio, and wished to pur chase some stave timber. The black asked for what purpose he wanted the timber, and received for an an swer, “I have a contract for a thous and whisky barrels.” “Well, sir,” was the prompt reply, “I have timber for sale, and want money; but no man shall buy a stave from me for that purpose.” The cooper was indignant to meet with such a stern reproach from a black, and called him a “nigger.” “That is very true,” mildly repli ed the other, “it is my misfortune to be a negro ; I can’t help that; but i 1 can help selling my timber to make whisky barrel?, and I mean to do it,’ M I S CELLANEOUS. When a man’s necktie is untied, how untidy he looks. Chemists say no matter is ever lost —printers deny it. There is a law firm in Boston call ed Steele & Gamble. Editor—a poor w retch whoempties his brain to fill his stomach. A man Is going to lecture on “The Geognosy of the Appalachians.” The bones of the late free pass sys tem whiten the Western prairies/ The umbrella which Washington used to rarry is to be seen in Boston. The Pittsburg, Pa., Evening Lead er has a special of “Penn. Points.” Lafayette, Ind., merchants forge each others’ name to beer orders, just for fun. A photographer requests that his sign—“ Taken from life”—should be his epitaph. Ladies traveling across the plains carry their hair in their pockets to avoid being scalped. Antimony impregnate# the air of every printing room; yet printers are not anti-money. An old Western gamester wants to know if the vote of “no more passes” applies to rail road euchre. The overseers of the poor in a Ver mont town set down in an annual re l*>rt a charge of $3 for “taking pau l>ers to the menagerie.” “Oh, mama,” said a little girl who had been to the show,, “I’ve seen the elephant, and he walks backwards and eats with his tail.” A Cincinnati brewer’s wife paper ed her trunk with costly keg revenue stamps, aud the brewer is in jail for the way he took on about it. A Washington paper announces that the public printer will shortly issue a “complete complication of the postal laws of the United States.” “Don’t worry about my going away, darling. Absence, you know, makes the heart grow fonder.” “Os somebody else,” added the darling. “The independent press can afford to tell the truth,” says an enthusiastic editor. “Yes; and tell it at all times,” responds his malicious rival. A man addicted to snoring remark ed to his bod-fellow in the morning that he slept “like a top.” “I know it,” said the other—“like a hum ming top.” A drug clerk who put up poison for quinine took the matter very coolly, saying that the victim was old, and would have died in a few years, anyway. The married ladies of a Western city have formed a ‘Come-home-hus band-club.” It is about 4 feet long, and has a brush at one end of it. We rejoice to learn that George Augustus Sala’s complaint has final ly yielded “to the local application of the styptic colloid and the use of faradisation.” A Western editor’s statement, “We are living at this moment under ab solute despotism,” is attributed by a rival paper to the fact that he has just been married. Alice—“Do you know, uncle, that that horrid Mr. Binks declares that you have taken to hard drinking?” Uncle George—“ Not true, my dear —no! Never drank easier in all mv life!” Jones don’t see the use of the mili tia. “What,” he bawled out, “is better to disperse a crowd than a good policeman ?” “A yaller-back ed wasp,” shrieked an urchin in the street. A Connecticut farmer, who sat out an elaborate scarecrow’ in his straw berry patch, was disgusted to find that a pair of robins had built their nest and were raising their young under its hat. A Sioux chief, after following a surveying party on the Northern Pa cific for some days, mildly remarked that they might go on, but he’d be d—d if he’d freeze to death for what hair their was in that crowd. A Troy man advertises, “the larg est assortment of boys’ pistols in the market.” Inasmuch as the merchant lias an undertaker’s shop on one side of him and a surgeon’s office on the other, suspicion has been aroused. A Western editor having heard that sulphur in the socks will pre vent cholera, has worried a stick of brimstone out of the new druggist, and now’ wants someone to loan him a pair of socks w’hile he tries the thing. At the depot, on Monday evening, an eager-looking man jumped off the train and clasped a w’aiting woman in his arms. “Heavens, my wife!” said he. “Mercy, my ruffles!” said she, which showed w’hat both were thinking of. A Clay county, Kentucky, auction eer pulled out a revolver and an nounced : “If any man goes frolick ing around here while this sale is go ing on, I shall interrupt him in his career. Put them shot guns over by, the fence and leave ’em tliar!” The Coffeyvilie, Kansas, Courier thus advertises itself: “The Courier is printed nearer to the scene of the late Bender horror than any other newspaper. Those wishing to sub scribe for a good, live newspaper should make a note of this fact.” The retiring editor of a Kansas pa per “valedicts” himself as follows: “If I have said anything through these columns that I am sorry for, I am glad of it. To my friends, thank you for your liberality, and to my enemies, you can go to the devil.” A philosophical Kentuckian who had but one shirt, and was lying in bed while that garment was drying on the clothes line in the yard, w r as startled by an exclamation from his w’ife to the effect that “the calf had eaten it.” “Well,” said the Ken tuckian with a spirit w’orthy of a bet ter cause, “well, them who has must lose!” An old negro woman living in Monroe county gives her views on making cotton. She says: “De wav dey used to make cotton in my day w r as vvid a plenty o’ hick’ry. Dey didn’t need no juanner den. An if you will desgib me a few’ nig gers and a good hick’ry now, I kin make any of dis land about here j fetch good cotton, dat will beat any 1 of yer juanner.” Professional and Business Cards JOHN* W. WOFFORD. THOWA.S W. MtI.NKR WOFFORD & MILNER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, C A RT ERSV I LL E, Ci A. OFFiUK up -fairs, Bank Block. , ... 9 5-ts. C. TIMLIN, ATTORNEY AT LA W, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Office over the Bank. JO 11 N Li. M OON , ATTORNEY AT LAW , CARTERSVILLE. UA. W’ill practice in the counties comprising the Cherokee Circuit. Office over Liebman’s store. R\V. MLRPHEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE. GA. Will practice in the courts of the Cherokee Circuit. Part icular attention given to the col* ection of claims. Office with Col. Alula John son. Oct. 1. p WOFFORD, ATTORNEY AT LAW. CARTERSVILLE, GA. OFFICE in Court-llouse. jan 26 M. F OUT E, ATTORNEY AT L A W , CARTERSVILLE, GA. ( With Col. Warren Akin,) W’ill practice in the courts of Bartow, Cobb. Polk, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Whitfield and ad Joining counties. ' March 30. B. McDANIEL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Office with John W. Wofford. jan ’72 C. H. BATES. ATTORNEY AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Office oyer store oi Ford & Briant. Feb. 6- dr/w. a. trotter OFFERS his PROFESSSONAL SERVICES to the citizens of Cartersville. Office with Dr. Baker. Cartersville, Ga., Jan. 7,1873. Medical TVotice. DR. W. HARDY, having removed to this city, proposes PRACTICING DiCINE, in all its branches, and is also prepared for OPERATIVE SURGERY. DR. J. A. JACKS ON, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN AND SURGED*. OFFICE in the Clayton Building on W’est Main Street over the store of Trammell & Norris, where he may be found during the day, except when out upon a professional call. Oct. 27. W. It. moinitcastlc, Jeweler and Watch and Clock Repairer, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. Office in front of A. A. Skinner A Co’s Store. TO R.EHSTT. House AND LOT desirably located oh Forest street. Apply to B. SCOFIELD. T.B. SHOCKLEY Is now permanently settled in Cartersville, East of W. & A. It. It., on the public Square fronting the depot, with a goneral stock of goods of all kinds. WANTED MONEY! WE call upon all parties indebted to us for Groceries, Produce, and Family Sup plies, to come and settle up for the same. We want money, and money we must have, ptac ably, if we can, forcibly, if we must. Th‘*re is no use of talking, for that don’t bring the mon ey, action, action, is what we want. Now just do the fair thing, and call and pay up the little you owe us. and let’s stop the agitation of this question. But don’t take this to be a joke, or it may result in cost to debtors and some trou ble to ourselves. We mean all we say, when we tell our patrons who owe us that they must pay us, and that without delay. DANIEL. PAYNE & CO. Cartersville, Ga., Mch 6,1873. —ts W. H. WIKLE. G. W. WALDKUP Win. H. WIKLE & CO., DEALERS IN STATIOKTEH.Y, TOBACCO, CICARS AND PIPES, CONFECTIONERIES, FANCY GROCERIES, ETC., Post Office Building. Cartersville. Ga. Feb. 6-ly. CARTERSVILLE BAKERY! BY J. D. WILKIE & BRO., WEST MAIN STREET, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Frosli Broad db Calroa Kept Constantly on Hand. Wedding Parties, Pic-nics, aiwl all other Parties can have Cakes, both Plain and Ornamental, served up in the neatest and best style. Cartersville, Ga., June 19,1873.—1 v j -yj ■ THE undersigned, Agent for the worl nowned Wm. HLMiABE CO., C. Xj. Gr orlxam dj Cos., \ And other Pianos, sold at New York prices.— | Second hand Pianos lor sale and to rent very low. Organs from different makers, from *SU upwards. Pianos and Organs sold on install ments, and easy' terms, and tuned and repaired in the best manner, at very moderate prices; i fully warranted in every particular, and all j orders promptly attended to. Leave orders ! with Mk. Pktkk M arsh, Cartersville, Ga., or I Address F. L. FREYER. J use 19,1873.—1 y Mar ictta, Ga. F. M. RICHARDSON, DEALER IN STOVEs CRATES, HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS, m ! 1 • OFFEKR’I), TIN WARE, cbo. Cor. Whitehall and Hunter St’s, ATLANTA, GORGIA. T. R . GRIMES Desires to inform the residents of Cartersvi and surrounding district that he has opened a Tea aod flouso-Fnrnishms Store on West Main Street, first door east of Gould smith’s Furniture Store, a choice selection of NEW GOODS including the following ; OAR PETS, Matting, Buggy and Door Mats, Oil-Cloths, Hearth Rugs, Hassocks, Tubs, Buckets, Sugar Buckets, Rolling Pins, Clothes Pegs, and Wood Ware in variety. BASKETS, of every kind. Combs. Brushes, Fancy Soap and Toilet Articles, Looking Glasses, Trays and Waiters, Castors, Plated Spoons, and a variety of House-Furuishing Goods. Musical Instruments, Stationery and School Slates. Green and Dried Fruits, Nuts, Candies and Crackers, Canned Fruits aud Jeliies. Lantern's Vegetable and Flower Seeds. and would call particular attention to aver choice selection of T JE3 A, just received direct from Europe, in original Chinese packages, and which will be sold un usually low, beginning with areally good ar ticle at 75 cents per pound. Coffee, green and roasted, Sugar, Spices. &j. 2-20 PLANTERS’& MINERS’ BANK CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, ORGANIZED JUNE, 1872. DIRECTORS: LEWIS TITMLIN, J. J. HOWARD, M. G. DOBBINS, .) as. W. BALL, B. J. WILSON. M. 6. DOBBINS President, D. W. K. PEACOCK, Cashier. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL. SIOO,OOO. Paid in, miHS Rank will do a regular discount and JL exchange business; will receive deposits oi money from Courts, Public Institutions, Ad ministrators, Guardians and private individu als of all professions, payable at call or on time ertillcates of Deposit, and allow such interest s may be agreed upon. Collections a specialty C. D, ROGERS & CO., Sucessors to I. C. Mansfield A Cos., MERCHANT MILLERS, And Pronrletors of “Holly Mills,” CARTERSVILLE, GA. Er Lawshe, NO. 50, WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA, GA. * HAS JUST RETURNED FROM MARKET. and is now receiving and opening one of the largest stocks of •FINE JEWELRY ! In upper Georgia, selected with care for the FALL AND WINTER TRADE "W a t c li e s Oi the BEST MAKERS of EUROPE an AMERICA. AMERICAN AND FRENCH CLOCKS; TERLING and COI.V’SILVER-WARE, And the best quality of LVER. PLATED GOODS, SPECTACLES TO SUIT ALL AGES. Watches and Jewelry repaired by Competent Workmen. Also Clock and Watch Makers Tools and MateriaD sep 13-ly COTTON GINS! THE IMPROVED WINSHIP COTTON GIN! For lightness of draft, fast ginning, cleaning the seed well, and making good sample, this «Cin has no equal. It is made of the BEST MiLTEH.XAIj to be had in this Country or Europe, in good style and well finished. Planters ire invited to call on us in Atlanta, or at any ol onr Agen cies, and examine this Gin, before purchasing; also lo send in their orders early, to insure their being filled in good time for the coming crop. Send for Circulars. GILBERT A BAXTER, Agenl,., Carters ville, Ga. WINSHIP <fc 00., Atlanta, Ga, MayS. 1373. wliu* SUBSCRIPTION : $2 per annum. No. XXXV. It Leads 'o Happiness! A Boon to tie WMe_Race of Woman! DR. J. BEAD FIELD'S FEMALE REGULATOR! It will bring on the Menses; relieve all pain at the monthly “Period;” cure khruinaii-iti autl Neuralgia of Back and ['(erus; la-uoor rho-aor "h hites.” ami partial Prolap-u- l tel i; check excessive flow, and correct all irregular ities peculiar to laities. It will remove all irritation or Kulneva anil Bladder; retievet lodiv cues-; purity tin lilood: give tone ami strength to tin wln»le si-leui; clear the skin, imparting n- rosy hue'to the cheek, and cheerluliies- to the uuud. It is as sure a cure in all the above diseases ns Ipwnine is in i hills and Fever. I,ad it's can yttre themselves ol all the above diseases without revealing their com plaints to any person, whieh isalivav> mortifying to their pride and inodestv. It is recoin in ended by Ihe liest phis iris ns and the clergy. LiGtiNOC, 01., March 23, 1870. UKADFIELD A (U, Atlanta, Ga,— Hear i Firs: I take |#ea>ure in sta ing that I have used tor the last twenty years, the medicine you are now putting up, known as Ur. J. Bradfleld's FEMALE UEgI LATok, and consider it the best combination ever gotten together tor the diseases lor which it is recouimeudcd. 1 have been familiar with the prescription both a- a practitioner of medicine and in domestic prac tice. and can honestly say that I consider it a boon to suffering females, aud can but hope that every lady in our whole land, who may ih. suffering in any way peculiar to their sex, may lie able to procure a bottle, t hat their sufferings may uotoiily he relieve**, hut that they may be restored to health ami strength. II ith my kiudest regards, 1 aui respectfullv, W. B. FERRELL, M. I'. Risk Marietta. Ga., March 21, 1870. MKSSUs. VV M. ItOOT A soN. Deai Mrs: Some months ago I bought a boltlc of BRAU- KlKLb’s KKMaI.L KkUULATUK from you, ami have used it iu my lamily w ith the utmost satisfaction, and have recommended it to three other families, and they have iound it just what it is recommended. The Icmales who have used your REGULATOR are iu periect health, and are able to attend to their House hold duties, and we cordially recommend it to the public. Yours respectfullv, Kkv. H. B. JOHNSON. We could add a thousand other certificates, but we consider the above amply sufficient proof of its virtue. All we ask is u'triul. For full particulars, historv ol diseases, and certificates ui its wouderlul cuies, tlie reader is referred to the w rapper around the bottle. Manufactured ami sold by BRADFIELD & CO„ Price $1 jO. ATLA XT A, G A. ,on , So,<l all Druggists, 1-30 -IV. W. A. DEWEESE, Apt, TJ .VYING PURCHASED TIIK STO( K OF GROCERIES, PRODUCE, CONFECTIONERIES, liquors, \c.. Heretofore owned by Payne .V Green, will still continue the business at the old stand un der Puckett’s Hall, and respectfully Invites ail i heir old customers ami friends lo.still bestow tlieir patronage upon him, as he premises to sell Groceries as clieap as any other house, ami ol as good quality as the market affords. W. C. green still remains with this house, and invites his old friends and customers to call and trade w ith him as heretofore. March 27. 187#. ts REAL ESTATE AGENCY. WOFFORD & WIK LE , Cartersville, (ia. SALE. Property Situated in the City of Carters ville: OVK HOUSE AND Lot, on Church street, | house contains 3 rooms; lot an acre. /• ACRES, on corner Cook and Clayton st’« \W in quantities to suit purchaser-. 1 ONK ACRE LOT, with small house, on iKnttflus and Xenticssee Streets. 1 ' DOT, 11-4 acre, corner Look J- an<l Erw in st’s, extending back to ( lav ton street. ■' 1 A , CR J : £ OT ’ with small house, on Aleagul - U - ~OW J VACANT LOT a<ljoining the above. 1 BRICK STORE HOUSE, on w est side Pub lic square, new, with lot, inside to be fin is ued to suit purchaser. 1 HOUSE WITH FOUR ROOMS, and LOT Containing six Acres, Fine Land, in Cass yule, lju. A bargain. jl ?‘\S'E OL i KTIf ACRE Building LOTS, JL ill W offord and Puckett survey, east Factory ne * SUC Street ’ neitl ' foundry and tar ril HE House and Lot known as tlie Suriner ace ’ °“ Alain st.; lot contains three louith acre, 5 rooms; 3 tire places; good well' a tew hundred yards trom Public Square. 1 HOUSE WITH TWO ROOMS, and Containing Three Acres, in Cm S sville, Ga tnere is a Blacksmith Shop on this place, and is a line location tor a blacksmith-large pat ronage could be had. * p BAROAINR Furiuiug Landis : i plantation known as the J. g. Colbert ~p la< c 0,1 Luharlee t reek in nth, District of Bartow county, near Stilesboro, Cherokee Kail-roadcontaining64oacres. Could be divid ed into three places. This place is in . neighborhood, and healthy. J ,ine TOO , A ! f , .- ASn - °V C MU'- North of • "", ,l " station, mostly timber-d. 100 ?| o good land on the place. It being near the Kailrond, is a very valuable place for the tm'ber. andas a fan". Can be X HO h ii, N "'- *** *“<1371. in the l"th District and 3rd Section minlv cleaied, good well of watei, smoll im pro v el uents—good Cotton and Grain laud. \ good home lor a small farmer. K ONE FAKM, containing 170 acres. «f) acres cleared, balance well timbered, situated H mile from Cass Station. There i» a good dwelling containing 4 rooms. G<h>U water healthy location, and good neighborhood. A very desirable place. I e, CEES ' , near McXeaPs Fora tee, 40 acres cleared; 3 log houses: gooti stables. Land yields grain, grasses and cot ton. Healthy location; good water. There is a large quantity of the best Iron >re on tms place, A COTTON F ARM known as the Dr. B<»vd place, in 17th disc. Bartow con ty; contains 200 acres; good dwelling, outhovse gin house, &c.; also, a good orchard. I ,n<i produces grain well. A great bargain tc be N<ui in this plate. ACRES Land, known as the Jchn son place, near Kingston. Bar ow county, Ga. ; with good improvements. Ti tie a Limekiln and inexhaustable Lime bed< on * h « W K<x>d Stack and houses for tenants “hi. ,a iT‘‘ rS - A valuable place, and a rare chance lor an enterprising man. 21T ALRES LAND—BS oj eared—ordinary “• ■ S™' 1 improvements, 12 mile* North of L ..in ’ on ,i wagon road from Bine Log to Cassvilie, and know n as the King & MrEvcr nmee 'V"S‘ ru,li> l iL half lade through the tiii.la’re.f 0 7 r 40 , ftl ‘' br ;‘i><h bottom, beavilv ssrsossste" 11 **» Cl ONSISTING OF £3OO Acrks. .too Rich y jottum l*imi, hall u from Fainnouiit. A U,u; ' st ° ,;k im, ‘ f arm, lbe \\ heat made on it annually will pay 10 per mTJtino lh 'V nV t t "' I;,U - * in « «ater. healthy location. the place can be divided into three tarms wit ti comfortable improvements on each. 1 Ins place cannot be excclicd. h Af RES, 1* mile* almve C'artcrgvjUe, O ‘“i 1 enue-see road, being a port on oi the .las V atigli* place; 80 acres cleared; all htijirov einents; well watered ind healthy. Ibe place is situated on thesurve ed lineoi the Cartersville & Diirktown Railroad; i$ one of the finest stock farms in the coun y; the land produce- well grain, grasses and t it ton. \\ ill Lie sold cheap. 1 ACRES OK I.AND in the 6th I i«- "vc trict ot Bartow county, 10 miles ( *>t ot Adair-ville, 11 miles front Carteasville. 90 acres open land; 18 acres bottom; all of the Ist quality; balance heavily timbered. liiPßov KMi.ntjs: New house, unfinished-; ne double log cabin; • ood log barn, crips, stab es, anil stock shelter*. Good spring. This is ine ot the finest grass and grain farms in the co n try, and is situated 1 ‘j miics from the prop >se lineoi the i artersville A Ducktt vvn liail Rout. V bargain to be hart in this place. ICXTRAORDINAKY OP PORTCNIVY fok a good ho up: chhap. 1 /A AC'REiy LAND, situated on Tennessee A." f' street, in the city of CartersviUe. upon winch is a dwelling containing 5 rooms, recent* , !>' painted and iu good condition, and well fin ished; well of fine water, good, roomy smoke house, splendid barn and stable, carriage lrouse, 2 excellent servant houses, line garden ol 1 acre, and all necessary outbuilding-; line young orchard, apples, peaches, pears, Ac.; al so, grapes, raspberries and strawlmrries—alto gether one of the most desirable places in the city had a bargain offered.
