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Che Marietta Journal,
VOL. XXIII.
A MARBLE QUARRY.
THE EXTRAORDINARY BISCOVERY
IN A SOUTHERN VALLEY.
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What Followed From Reading a
Georgia Newspaper in a Train.
A Marvelous Fortume
Unearthed.
Eight years ago a passenger on a
train was reading the Atlanta Con
stitution and was in the act of lay
ing that paper aside when the word
“marble” in an article attracted his
eye. The passenger was H. C.
Clement, a clothier of Chicago. He
read the article carefully, and so
deeply impressed was he that he
crossed over to Frank Siddall, the
Philadelphia soap man, who sat
near by, and called his attention to
the article. Siddall read it, and it
was about the Pickens County, Ga.,
marble. Clements then related Low
his uncle in the “Green Moun
tains” of Vermont, was forced to
take an old neglected tract of land
for a debt, and how it turned out.
The famous Rutland marble quar
ries was developed on it, and his
uncle became one of the wealthiest
men in Vermont.
With an eye to business, Siddall
suggested a visit to Pickens county
at his expense. The offer was ac
cepted, and in company with Hon.
Evan P. Howell, the author of the
article, they visited the North
Georgia marble quarry in Pickens
county, situated on the Marietta
and North Georgia railroad, in
Long Swamp Valley, about two
miles from the railroad and 40
miles north of Marietta. The bed
of the creek disclosed the vein,
while surface indications and rough
hewn blocks taken out by the
mountaineers, were to be seen in
abundance. The Tate brothers
owned the land. Their father own
ed the land when the Cherokee
Indians roamed the country and
Andrew Jackson - was president.
He discovered the marble while out
prospecting for gold. He foresaw
that in the great future that there
was “millions in it,” and advised
his sons to “hold on to it, and never
let it go. Some day it’s sure to be
more valuable than the gold mines
at Dahlonega.”
The boys were hardy mountain
eers. What they lacked in educa
tion they made up in horse sense.
The advent ot Clement did not sur
prise them. They seemed to take
little interest in his proceedings,
and calmly awaited the conclusion.
The Chicago man went to work with
the utmost caution. He was confi
dent that there was a bed of genuine
marble below him and one of re
markable purity. Me first ascer
tained its width, length and depth.
This was the work of experts sent
to the Long Swamp valley on his
return to Chicago. They dug hdles
and tested the marble at every
point. The vein was traced two
miles and a half up the valley. It
proved to be over 2000 feet wide.
Its actual depth, however, has
never been ascertained. Nothing
but marbl have been found after
boring 185 feet. It has been up
heaved in a solid block, and not in
layers. It has neither crack nor
lamination. A chunk the size of
the Washington monument could
be taken from it. If the mass was
heaved ahove the earth a church as
large as St. Peter’s in Rome could
be carved from it. Indeed, the
pyramids of Egypt have been cut
from its solid triangles.
Upon the report of the expertsa
company was formed, and an effort
to buy the property was made. But
the Tate brothers, mindful of their
father’s injunctions, refused to sell.
A long lease of their land was tak
en, and the remainder of the vein
was purchased outright. The cap
italization of the company was
$1,500,000. - The company controls
the entire vein, Over $600,000 has
been spent in developing the quar
ries. A spur has Ween built into
the valley from the North Georgia
Railroad, and five great pits have
been opened. The marble is taken
fiom the pits in blocks weighing
many tons each. These blocks are
sawn into slabs by mills in the val
ley and elsewhere. The Tate
brothers are drawing a royalty of
over 81000 dollars a month, and the
aggregate is constantly increasing.
The output of the quarries is al
ready immense, and is doubling
every yéar. Over 1000 men are al
ready employed in the valley. Be
sides this, mil's for shaping and
polishing the marble are running
in Cincinnati, Chattanooga, Peoria,
Marietta, and Nelson, Ga. The
Marietta mill is two stories high,
and nearly 500 feet long. It was
built by a company of Bostonians
and Philadelphians, of which the
lamented R. M. Pulsifer of the Bos
ton Herald was president. The
marble is sent all over the country,
and there have been a few ship
ments to Europe. It is almost im
possible, with the present facilities,
to supply the demand.
The Long Swamp quarries are
probably the largest in the world.
“A LOT OF THINKING*”
Northern newspapers are begin
ning to open their eyes to the steady
progress of the South in industrial
development. The recent agree
ment to place a contract for 3,000,-
000 yards of cotton bagging by the
Georgia Alliance with Georgia and
Louisiana mills has caused several
northern papers to make editorial
comment. In reference to this con
tract the Philadelphia Telegraph
asks:
“Where has it [the Alliance] gone
for that considerable quantity of
goods? To the New England mills?
Not at all. It might have done so
once, and not so very long ago, but
now it has no need to do so. The
contracts were given to mills in
Louisiana and Georgia, and the in
cident is very completely illustrated
of the many radical changes which
have taken place in one of our lead
ing industries. The south has no
longer any need to divide an im
portant part of its revenues with
the cotton spinners of Massachusetts
and Rhode Island. [t does its own
work and keeps its money at home.
This incident will bear a lot of
thinking.” 4 ‘ \
Several othcr similar incidents
have occurred recently that have
caused ‘“a lot of thinking.” The
letting of a contraet in Boston for
iron work tor a Georgia firm caused
“a lot of thinking,” not only on the
part ot Boston editors, but ot the
editors throughout New England.
The skirmish of southern iron men
in the north and west preparatory
to an invasion of the country with
their products has caused “a lot of
thinking”” on the part of northern
mine owners and iron producers,
and the intention of English iron
and steel makers to spend $10,000,-
000 in building an industrial town
at Middleborough, Ky., is causing
“alot of thinking” all over the
country.—Manufacturers’ Record.
BETTER THAN DEATH.
Professor Arnold says: “An incurable
dyspeptic is justified in committing sui
cide.” We will guaraniee to cure any
dyspeptic within three months by Aker’s
English Dyspeptic Tablets. For sale by
J. D. Malone, druggist,
The Verdict Unanimous.
W. D. Sult, Druggist, BiPpus, Ind., testi
fies: “I can recommend Electric Bitters as
the very best remedy. KEvery bottle sold
has given relief in every case. OUne man
took six bottles, and was cured of Rheuma
tism of 10 years' standing.” Abraham
Hare, druggist, Bellville, Ohio, affirms:
“The best selling medicine I have ever
handled in my 20 years' experience, is Elec
tric Bitter.” Tnousands of others have ad
ded their testimony, so that the verdict is
unanimous that Electric Bitters do cure all
diseases of the Liver, Kidneys or Blood.
Only a half dollar a bottle at J. D. Ma
lone’s Drug Store
e — W W—
PARENTS CRIMINALLY LIABLE.
More than half of all deaths occur he
fore six years of age. An army of inno
cent, lovely children are swept needlessly
away each year. Parents are criminally
res&)onsible for this. The death rate of
children in England is less than half this.
Aker's English Baby Soother has done
more to bring this about than all other
causes combined. You cannot afford to
be without it, For sale by J. D. Malone
druggist.
MARIETTA, GA., THqRSDAY MORNING, JULY 18, 1889.
STATE NEWS. i
Culled and Condemsed from our Ex. |
changes.
At Americus $ll,OOO has bheen
subscribed toward the $lOO,OOO wan
ted to build a new hotel on the pub
lic square. ; % &
The Twenty-third Georgia m‘-\{
ment will hold its annual reunion at
Emerson on Aug. 31. Senator Col
quit anl other distinguished confed
erates will be present. |
ATLANTA police are executing the
vagrant law, and allidlers and loafers
found on the streets with no visible
means of supprot are to be arrested
and put to work ‘
Colonel Machen paid Henry
Brittain, ot Athens, $6OO for a right
of way for the Covington and Ma.
con road through his farm near the
city. Dr. W. A. Carlton demands
85,000 damages for passing through
his land.
Recentlyabolt of lightning struck
the ground in one of O. H. Arnold’s
iizlds,near Lexington, and tor aspace
of a quarter of an acre all vegetation
was so thoroughly killed that it has
shown no signs whatever of reviy
ing. |
At Adairsville, Tuesday, fire
originated among some papersin the
law office of Colonel Henry D.
Capers. Before it could be put out
his entire law library was destroyed,
including many valuable records
and manuseripts. There was no
insurance.
An old negro man came into
Vienna with a load of watermelons
last week. He asked 10 cents
apiece for them. In fun some one
offered him 11 centsapiece for them.
He said: “Ha! ha! ha! No sur,
boss, you can’t swindle dis ole nig
ger no way like .dot. I ain’t gwine
ter sell dem millions fur less nor 10
cents.”
~ Jeft Johnson, a negro in jail at
Fairburn, tried to commit suicide
Monday. He procured a knife
somewhere andplunged it into his
throat, onceon the left side and
twice on the right side. The cats
were deep and long. Dr. Mobley
was summoned and pronounced the
wounds not fatal. The cuts missed
the jugular vein only a small dis
tance. Jeff is charged with burning
his wife with intent to murder her.
She was burned from her breast to
her ankles. Jeff was assisted by
another negro woman, who wanted
Jeff’s wife out of the way.
Joe Mitchell, at Blanton’s mill,
eats all the rats be can catch and
says that “they are much nicer
than squirrel or rabbit.” ] was
passing by the mill Friday after
noon, and a large rat, as large as a
squirrel, ran out from Stonewall’s
engine house. Joe, on seeing the
rat, gave chase and soon killed it.
Having noticed the unusual inter
est manifested in catching the rat,
1 asked Joe what he was going to
do with it. He said: “Eat it, by
gosh.” Sure enough, he soon had
it skinned, cleaned and salted, and
looking in all appearences like a
squirrel. Smacking his lips over
the joyful prospects of a rat supper,
Joe went his way looking for more
rats.—Griffin Sun.
A FINE GOLD PROPERTY.
We have always maintained that the
best test of our gold mines would only be
shown when the miners began to use im
proved machinery. The way to accom
plish successin any mining venture is to
have the very best machinery.
The celebrated Haile Gold Mines in
Lancaster county, S. C., are now having
rlaced a6O stamp Gold Mill, using all the
atest improvements in the way of Self
Feeders, Steam Batteries, Concentrators,
etc., and will use a Corless engine as
motive power. .
The success of this mine is assured, for
they will have the latest improvements in
machiner{ furnished by the Mecklenburg
Iron Works, of Charolotte, S, C. This
firm is the pioneer in the introduction of
improved gold mining machinery, and we
would advise every miner in aeorgia to
consult with Mr. Jno. W. Wilkes, the
manager of this firm, who has made a
study of this particular machinery, and
have them erect their plants. This firm
has an advertisement in this paper and we
direct all our readers to their card.
SMALL MANUFACTORIES.
How They Can be Secured.
A number of small manutactories in a
city are much to be preferred to one or
two large ones. The Americus Recorder
tells how to secure them as follows: There
is not 80 much risk of failure and there is
greater diversity of employment and better
wages. There are no strikes or sud
den shut downs, throwing hundreds out ot
employment: Small manufactories, prop
erly managed, build up into large ones and
build on a solid foundation, for they know
by experience the wants of the market and
work to supply them. Too often all the
capital, in large manufactories, is expend
ed in building and machinery, leaving too
little to work upon, and as the first year‘
is always an experiment, the logges often
eat up the small working capital and work
is suspended
We need a number of small manufacto
ries, and we can secure them at compara
tively small cost and without any great ex
ertion. There are many small and profit
able manufactories Which could-be located
bere if our people would take one-third or
one-half the stock. The money for this
stock could be easily secured by the organ
ization of an investment company upon a
plan similar to the loan and building asso
ciations. Say organize an investment
company with a thousand shares of $lOO
each, payable at the rate of one dollar per
month on each share. This would give
one thousand dollars per month to be in- |
vested by the directors in the stock of
small manufactories The directors could
advertise that they were prepared to take
a certain proportion of stock in manufac
tories to be located here, and we have no
doubt but many could be thus secured. By
careful investinent and management this
stock could be made to pay handsome
dividends, and thus not only would the
city be benefitted by increased population
and trade, but the stockholders would
realize a fair per cent. on their invgstment.
In eight years we would have one hundred
thousand dollars invested in manufacto
ries without the investors having felt the
losses of the money.
Suppose some of our enterprising busi
ness men go to work and get up such an
organization. We believe the amount of
stock necessary could be gecuredin a
‘short time, '
AN HONEST MAN
The Noblest Work of God.
Mrs. Belle K. Abbott is sojourning at
Canton, and recently made a visit to the
poor house of Cherokee county. In ome
cottage she found 8 Coniederate veteran,
She writes:
‘“Age had not bent his form, but the
bullets of the war had crippled and bent
both hands and arms. Poor old bleached
beaded soldier! his pathetic condition
moves me to tears a 8 I pen thkese fTines.
He can use cne hand enough to carve
walking canes, which he is glad to sell to
chance purchasers. 1 agked him about
his pension. ‘I get fifty dollars a year,”
he said cheecfully. “I have got that much
two years” Then, with your pension,
you can manage to live quite comfortably,
I suggested.
“Yes, ma'am,” he replied, somewhat
timidly. “Icould ifl had not been so
unfortunate. I was totally helpless for
two years before I came here, and in that
time I got in debt. I have been trying to
pay my debts for two years.”
“With your pension money?’ I asked.
“Yes, ma’am, with my pension meney,
and that's why I have not been able to buy
myself many little things 1 would have
liked, and might otherwise bave had.”
This confession startled me. Here was
an old, helpless man, for twenty-five years'
a hopeless cripple, fed at last by the hand
of charity, and the first money he could
get hold of he took to pay his honest
debts! Think of this man, ye whose
honest debts, rest ligktly on your souls!
And when the confederate veterans’ home
is built let this grand specimen of an
honest man be given the post of honor
among those battered heroes. A man who
would carve walking sticks with crippled
hands, for scarcely money enough to buy
an occasional plug of tobacco with, and
then with his fifty dollars a year of pension
money would pay his' honest debts, is
grander than the grandest potentate on
2arth’'s grandest thronme. Let Georgia
build for him a grand monument out of
her most enduring stone when he shall
have been bourne “by angels into Abra
ham's bosom” up from the shadows and
sufferings of life’s battlefield. |
THE FIRST SYMPTOMS OF DEATH.
Tired feeling, dull hLeadache, pains in
various parts of the body, sinking at the
pit up the stomach, logs of appetite, fever
18hness, pimples or sores, are all positive
evidence of poisoned blood. No matter
how it became poisoned it must be purified
to avoid death. Aker's English Blood
Elixir has never failed to remove scroful
ous or syphilitic poisons. Sold under
positive guarantee by J. D. Malone, drug
gist.
KILLIAN KILLS ALLEN.
The Corouer’s Jury Says it is Volun
tary Manslaughter.
Mr. Tom Killian is the boss of the con
struction train of the Marietta and North
Georgia Railroad. At Holly Springs, in
Cherokee county. on Wednesday morning
of last week, about 6 o'clock, several
negroes came to work rather late. Mr,
Killian remarked, “All you d—n negroes
can quit if you can't get to work earlier.”
George Allen, a black, chunky negro,
about 23 years old, from near Griffin, re
plied: “Don’t you curse me,” at the same
time picking up a rock and motioned as if
he intended to throw it. Mr. Killian
pulled out his pistol and fired at Allen,
the ball entering the hack of his head,
killing him instantly. The coroner’s jury
pronounced it voluntary manslaughter,
and Mr. Killian gave himself up and a
bond of $750 for Lis appearance at Chero
kee superior court. Killian is about 30
years old, and has a wife and four small
children. His wife is the daughter of Mr.
Jesse McCollum, of Holly Springs. Mr.
Killian was in Marietta on Friday last, and
believes he will come out all right.
LOCAL ITEMS. |
Miss Julia Benedict, of Cincinnati, is
visiting Miss Maud Cole.
Mr. Charley Metcalf, of Oakland, Cal,
is visiting his mother at this place.
For RExT—Six room house. Close in.
Marierra Laxp Co.
Rev. W. K. Walker and family have re
turned from their visit to Tennessee.
Mr. W. E. Gramling and Mr. Walter L.
Sessions are delegates to the Grand Lodge
of Legions of Honor, in session at Rome.
Mr. Will Springer, we regret to learn, is
confined to his home sick. His many
friends trust he will soon be out again.
WE are glad to learn that the wife of
Hon. A. 8. Clay is much better, and everye
thing is favorable for her recovery.
Misses Hassie and Estilena Bartles, of
Roswell, are visiting Miss Delia Hamilton,
of this place.
Mr. Ervin Maxwell has been secured by
'Mr. Thompson, owner of the Palace Ho
te!, Knoxville, Tenn., to organize and
open the Palace, August Ist.
Mrs. Ida L. Young left Wednesday on a
' vigit to relatives in Anniston, Ala., and
[ will be absent two weeks. We wish her a
pleasant vieit and a safe return.
Prof. W. W. Legare and wife, after a
pleasant visit to their son, in Alabama, re
turned to Marietta this week. Théy left
Wednesday for Dahlonega, their new
home. ’
A white man, with wife and child, was
given the privilege of remaining in the
councilroom Sunday, as they had no
means to pay hotel bill. They left on the
M. & N. Ga. railroad on Monday morning.
A beet weighing four pounds and one
ouce, and nearly 14§ inches in length, is
one of the mammoth vegetable produc
tions left witn us by Dr. I. H. Springer.
This beet beats all the beets we have
seen.
LoxcreLrLow heautifully describes Sun
day as ‘‘the golden clasp that binds to
gether the volume of thz week,” but, to
many who never indulge in romantic
flights of imaginaticn, it is simply an
ecstatic season, when they can lie abed
late in the morning and have something
extra for dinner. In fact, the following
describes the average sterner sex's Sun
day: Slumber sweetly; soak, shine,
shave; satigfy stomach. Seek sanctuary.
Subsist sumptiously; smoke, srooze,
stroll. Sup, sing, sleep.
THE BLUOODY SEVENTH.
Barbecue and Basket Dinmer at Car
rollton, July 20th.
An excursion train will leave Atlanta at‘
6a. m., July 20, 1889, for Carrollton, Ga., ‘
via Newnan. Fare for round trip, $1.35.
Fare from any point in Georgia to Car;
rollton and return one and one-third farg.
Compauy F., assisted by the citizens of
Carroll county, have already arranged to
give the old Seventh and their friends™a"
royal reception.
W. J. Hupsox, President.
C. W. WeLLs, Secretary.
An admirable programme has been ar
ranged tor the day, consisting of speaking,
war songs, recitations, etc. General L.
J. Gartrell, who was first colonel of the
Seventh Georgia, will be the orator of the
day, and give a short history of the
“Bloody Seventh.” He will have a fine
theme in which to display his acknowl
edged eloquence, for the Seventh Georgia,
when ordered to charge, always got there,
DO NOT SUFFER ANY LONGER.
Knowing that a cough can be checked,
in a day, and the first stages of consump
tion hroken in a week, we hereby guarantee
Aker's English Cough Remedy, and will
refund the money to all who guy, take it
as per directions, and do not find our state
ment correct. For sale by J. D. Malone
‘druggist.
LOCAL LEAFLETS. 0
Picked Up Here and There and Dot
ted Down for Journal Readers.
Miss LiLLiaN BRITTAY, of Covington, is
visiting Mrs. W. H. Warren.
Dr. T. 8, Hopkins, of Thomasville, Ga.,
is stopping at the Elmwood for a few days
Mr. Davidson, of the firm of J. M.
High, visited our city Sunday, the guest of
H. D. McCutcheon. Come sgain, Mr. D.
Mr. R. L. Northcutt is on a two weeks’
visit to St. Simon Islands,
~ Miss Luna Cowan, daughter of Col.
Frank Cowan, of Acworth, is visiting Miss
'Kate Mulling, on Church street.
Mr. Joseph M. Brown aund wife have
rented and moved into Capt. Boone's resi
dence on Kennesaw Avenue.
Tennis is the rage in Marietta just acw
with the ladies, and base ball has captured
the boys.
Wi; regret to learn that Mr. John Baber
is very sicc. We trust he will soon re
cover.
Dr. Felton's bill to establtsh colleges
for higher education will not pass, but die
a premature death.
Miss Dottie Flanders, of Atlanta, is
here visiting the family of Mrs. H. D.
Phillips.
A plensant party of young folks picnic
ed at paper mills Tuesday night, in honor
of Miss Pearl Lynch, chaperoned by Mrs.
McCutcheon
Mrs. W. E. McCarter and Miss Laura
Pardue, of Aiken, S. C, and Miss Daisy
Sale, of Augusta, are visiting the family of
Mr. J. G. Campbeli.
Wuar would this country be without
railroads? And yet there are people
fighting Railroads as if they were enemies
to the people.
M. G. N. Jonxsoy, of this place, has
invented and had builta fruit drier that
has merit and exceMence, and will no
doubt prove a success.
Tue dog law went into effect last Mon
day morning. The city has a tag, and
woe be gnto that dog tound on the street
without the regulation collar and tag.
SoumE people think that newspapers are
run without money, ar at least we judge
80, or they wouldn't get mad when pre
sented with an accouns for momney for
work done oy the printers.
Miss Jessie Reynolds is visiting friends
in Toledo, Ohio. She wrifes howe that
she has been t 0 Detroit and across the
lake into Canada, having @ delightful
| time.
Miss Pearl Lynch, one of Atlanta’s
fairest and accomplished daughters, is
spending a few days with Miss Manie and
'Emma McCutcheon, to the delight of her
‘many friends.
Phillips’ Legion will hold its anaual
reunion at Marietta, Wednesday August
ith.—Savannah News. Our esteemed
,contemporary is mistaken. The reunion
will be held on August 22d.
Col. R. N. Holland has been employed
as attorney for one of the leading Loan
Companies of Atlanta, and will be glad to
accmmodate all parties desiring loans on”
real estate as security.
I Oregon District, there lives a gentle
man named J. R. Scott, whose age is be
tween 85 and 90, who has raised eight
children, now grown and married off, and
never had a death in His family.
Cartersville and Marietta negroes played
a game of base ball hgge on Monday,
which ended in a rumpus and a row. At
one time, it is said, it looked as it base
ball bats would be wielded in bringing the
claret from more than a dozen craniums.
Newspaper advertising is regarded these
days as indispensible tothe success of any
business, and the firm that doesn’t adver
tise and use prin‘r'a ink, is counsidered
not very enterprising or liberal. Live
‘men have live ways, and show it in push
‘and energy.
~ TuE peach crop is very large and five.
'The probability is that much of it will rot
#nd go to waste on the trees, for want ot
L‘neans to save it. Some of the finest
of the season were brought in Monday by
Mr. Greer. .
Colonel Towers: “I have just returned
from White Path springs. It was so cool
there that I slept under blankets every
night. They have led a mountain stream
through the yard of the hotel and made a
four foot fall over some rocks. The
sound of the running water was enough to
keep me comfortable,”
On Monday last, Mr. W. J. Manuing
visited General Phillips’ farm tg see Mr.
Arnold, who works on the farm, relafive
to a settlement. Arnold had borrowed
some money from Manping and nfi
some wood, the proceeds from the sale o
the wood to go to Mr, Manning to pag flbp.
debt. A misunderstandfllg arosgabout it
and some harsh words were said, “When
Mr. Arnold struck Mr. Manning on, ehe
head with a stick of woods making a bad
scalp wound and knocking him senseless
far a brief time.
NO. 31.