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IN OLD CASSVILLE.
lhe Goo-1 Old Town Vividly
Brought to Mind.
The Nkws has just IbeenOver
/ .. co nv of the old Cass
.'that bears the date
rf tanuary =9, th f 15 fu “ of
?„ t i„ s t, inasmuch as those whose
int onnrir in its locals oi ad
“rtfsements have furnished the
storv of Bartow county. The
Vr'has seven columns to the
S four pages. Even now the
ape’r presents a handsome ap
earance. that would reflect cred
! upon many of the present day
üblications. John W. Burke was
ditor and p'oprietor. Ml Burke
lived to establish one of the big
gest printing establishments at
Macon, Georgia.
The perusal of the legal adver
tising is interesting. The paper
was the official organ of several
counties, outside of this, old Cass
county John F. Brown was sher
iff of Cuss, and in his February
sales he advertised one negro man
named Jim, eighty-five years old.
People trot hard up those days as
thev do now, and from the number
of sheriff sales in the paper they
couldn’t pav their debts. Several
columns are used in legal notices
for the different counties.
Among the advertisers were S.
H. Pattillo, tailor, of Cartersville;
several concerns in Augusta,
Charleston and Savannah, princi
pal!!'cotton factors; H. M. Mor
gan,' Cartersville, A. Leyden and
others, owners of the Atlanta ma
chine works.
The professional cards were
those of the Undei woods, of Rome,
Dr. Robert C. Word, lawyers of
Cas.ville. W. T. Wofford, A. R.
Wright, John A. Crawford, James
Milner and Marcus Fliggs.
Judge J. R. Parrott gives his lo
cation as Fairmount, Gordon
county. Dawson A. Walker, law
yer, Spring Place, James C. Long
street, lawyer, Calhoun; Daniel S.
Printup, lawyer, Rome.
Among the list of county officers
Humphrey W. Cobb is mentioned
as clerk of superior court. Thom
as Booker, sheriff.
The editor announces the nom
ination' for the presidency, eleven
in all, in nine lines A ‘‘special ’
from Charleston states that a min
ing company, with eighty “wooly
heads” h id 'left for the California
gold diggings.
In a strong editorial the editor
calls a mass meeting to have the
“State Road” changed so as to
run through Cassville, diverging
from its present route at “Cass
ville station,” and unite again at
or near Kingston. The legisla
ture, so the paper states, had pass
ed an act making the change, and
in a clarion voice, called a meeting
to help along the project, and
hopefully exclaims, “Cassville
will yet take her position among
the most flourishing and impor
tant towns in the Empire State of
the south.’'
There were politicians. those
| days who “fixed things” as they do
! now. The paper rasps some over
the head a few whacks and inform
| them that the people are the ones
doing business for themselves.
Mr. John A. Erwin was a mer
chant in Cassvi lie at the time and
has a column ad of a great patent
m 2dicine, that reads pretty much
! those of the present day.
H. M. Morgan advertises every
thing, groceries, dry goods, drugs,
Patent medicines, hardware, whis
kies, tobaccos and cigars. He
ca-ned everything and was located
"at the big brick store, near the
depot ’ at Cartersville.
I he paper was sold for $2.00 a
>ear, and the publisher complains
o a large list of delinquent sub
scribers. \v e have them with us
e ~. e Y n ever die.
l/' \if aper * s tlle property of Mr.
• Wofford, who kindly loans
dto The News. It is a most in
teresting sheet.
THE bell telephone.
rite City Council Grants It Priv
) dges to Do Business Here.
At the regular meeting of the
council Thursday night the
petition before it at its previous
'Meeting came up, but action was
( e erred until Thursday. The com
pany will commence work in six
VVee ks and will have it finished as
JOn as money and labor can do
he petition of the Bell people
| N as aggressively fought by the
,° ca l telephone company, who
av e been doing business here tor
’ ev eral years, and it is stated will
eitinue the war to the end.
STILESBORO PICNIC.
It Was the Same Good Old Thing
and Many Present.
The regular Stilesboro picnic
came off Saturday as it has been
for the past half' a century. On
the first Saturday in May the
Stilesboro community has its pic
nic, rain or shine, life or death,
and they are always liberally at
tended
Saturday a good, orderly crowd,
was present, notwithstanding
there were two or three counter
attractions over the county A
splendid dinner was spread out
under the great oaks and every
body was invited to partake.
Enough was on the ground to feed
three times as large a crowd. It
was much enjoyed, after which
conversation among the older peo
ple, and some younger ones con
sumed the time.
A game of baseball was started
off between the Cartersville nine
No. 2 and a man and eight kids
from Stilesboro. When the team,
man and kids lined up for battle,
it looked pitifully gloomy for the
man and his kid's. This gloomy
feeling sympathy vanished, how
ever, for the man and the kids
were game and played ball from
away back. In the first hour of
the game the gloomy cloud, that
could be cut with a knife, settled
around over the Cartersville
sports. The game was warm, es
pecially to the visitors. At the Bth
inning the score stood about 7 to
15 in favor of the Stilesboro lay
out, and it looked sad for the Car
tersville boys. They, however,
ran their score to 12, while Stiles
boro quit at 15.
The game was much enjoyed by
all who witnessed it, and the Car
tersville team-came in for consid
erable roasting. They were al
leged crackerjacks when they
went upon the field and dismal
when thev went off. The throat
work of the Cartersville boys was
ineffective, as the man and boys
were in the same kind of business
As base runners the Stilesboro boys
picked up bases as thev do rabbits
out there, while the Cartersville
boys looked upon the bases as for
bidden fruit and not for them.
Smith, for the Stilesboros did the
box work, and besides putting the
visitors in a hesitating humor, did
some good coaching and batting
of the leather. Forrester occupied
the box tor Cartersville and did
some good pitching, and had a
splendid stopper behind the home
plate in Howard Hicks.
The Stilesboro man and eight
boys justly felt proud of their vic
tory, as well as their friends, and
when the visitors climbed into
their hack bound for home, sore,
sick and tired, they were given the
equine cachinations and serenad
ed with the current rag time song,
“When Reuben comes to town,
etc.” That was cruel and the pro
cession moved off towards Carters
ville with a faint recollection of
having once known how to plav
ball.
GYPSY CARAVAN.
Is Now Traveling South Towards
Chattanooga.
About the largest caravan of
gypsies ever seen in this section is
now traveling south to the city,
and will probably reach here in
time for the members to swap
horses, tell fortunes and steal
children during the May carnival.
The caravan crossed the state* of
Kentucky during March and a
part of Apri l , and passed Deer
Lodge and Harriman, Tenn.,
some days ago. The caravan is
now south of Dayton, Tenn.,
moving onward to this city. A
hundred or more wagons and sev
seral hundred gypsies, children,
dogs, mules, horses, ponies, etc.,
constitutes the caravan. —Chatta-
nooga Times.
It is likely that the gypsies will
now come to Georgia as the li
cense tax against them has been
repealed. The tax committee of
the late legislature declined to
levy it again, not wishing to ad
vertise to the world that a Geor
gian could not take care of him
self in a horse swap.
K. of P. Meeting Notice.
A regular conven
tion of the Carters-
Knights Pythias,
Castle Hall. Fridav,
May ioth, 1901, 7:30 VMgKSLF
p. m. sharp. Work
in Ist and 2nd Rank.
C. M. Milam. C. C.
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THE NEWS.
MR. JOHN T. OWEN.
This Former Citizen Writes From
111-Fated Jacksonville.
Dear Alex—You have doubt- 1
less, ere this, learned of the terri
ble disaster to our beautiful city.
And as I have a number of good
friends in dear old Cartersville,
who will, perhaps, think of me
and wonder if lam safe, I take
this meth >d of giving information
on that point.
I will say nothing of the origin
of the fire except that it started at
12:30, and spread like a forest fire
in July—after a 90 days’ drouth.
Such is the reputation of our fire
department that no one expected
to hear of more than one house ev
en being damaged. After the
lapse of an hour, without the usu
al signal “out,” I started to the:
scene, to see if I could be of any
assistance to any one, and wassur-!
prised and horrified to find that
the fire had traveled 6 blocks east
ward and five blocks southward ;
from its starting point through aj
thickly-settled territory, its course \
being also as far northward as it |
could find food to feed upon. The!
rapidity with which it traveled
vas surprising and appalling, so
much so that your humble ser
vant, while rendering assistance to 1
a friend, found himself almost
completely surrounded and had to 1
escape through the back door and
through cracks in the fence, and
run for two blocks down a street, j
one side of which was a wall of
fire—through blinding smoke and
dust, and the air as hot as that
over a dinner stove, with the
sparks and burning shingles fall
ing as thick as snow flakes.
Getting out of that corner I en
tered the field at another point
where a stand was made to arrest
the flames, 13 block* further on,
for the mad rush of the angry
flames was onward! onward! on
ward! seathing, cracking, howl
ing. Here, too, we failed and
had to iush on to prevent being
cut off from escape. Nor did it
stop until it reached a marsh cov
ered with green grass, sufficiently
wide to save one house from
being ignited by the intense heat
from another. Fortunately, my
home was on the far side of the
marsh, and I was thus saved a
shelter for self and family, and a
home for some of the homeless. I
am able to extend a regular Sam-
Jones’ invitation Come on and I
will divide what I have to eat, and
those who can’t get in the house
can sleep on the piazza or under
the house.
When night came on, the scene
was one of the grandest, 250 acres
of ground covered with burning
houses, at some places with suffi
cient light to show the desolation
and from others the flames were
leaping as if they were trying to
reach the very heavens.
The day after the scene beggared
description. If you can work
your imagination up to such a
point, just think of 250 acres of
naked chimneys, charred trees,
the ground covered with broken
stoves, dishes and cooking uten
sils, sewing machines and such
things as showed that man once
lived at this place,
Thanks to a kind Providence,
my life was spared. My son is on
his bed with a sprained limb, he
was forced to jump from the top
of a house 25 feet to the ground.
We think several were drowned
trying to escape by the river route.
They were cut off and were forced
to take to the water. Ralph !
Smith is safe, the fire missed him j
just one street on the north and
one on the east. This leaves him
as happy as a big sun flower.
Now I must mention that this
firi swept through the best portion
of the citv, destroying mansions
of great value, court house, ar
moiy, convent, all the fine church
es, alas! alas! everything in its
course.
I must close, for, though it is
COURT HOUSE SITE BOUGHT.
DEEDS MADE, CASH PAID.
At the last meeting of the board
of county commissioners, it was
decided to accept the titles to the
property selected by the court
house commission, to the lot
owned by Dr. J. G. Greene and oth
ers. Friday the deeds were drawn
up, signed, sealed and delivered
to the chairman of the board Mr.
L. B. Matthews.
A check for iiiUoo was made Out.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. MAY 50. 1901.
FOR JACKSONVILLE.
Cashier H. E. Cary Raises Seven
ty-Five Dollars.
When the cry for help came up
from the Jacksonville people who
lost their all by the big conflagra
tion, Mr. H. E. Cary, cashier
Bank of Cartersville, determined
that something should be done by
Cartersville. He assumed the
responsibility ot sending $75 and
making out a check for that
amount, forwarded it Monday
morning, taking the risk of rais
ing that amo int among the citi
zens.
Taking the streets he soon rais
ed nearly that amount, the peo
ple responding promptly and lib
erally, The act was a neat one
and went a long way towards re
lieving the distressing circumstan
ces in the ill-fated city of Jackson
ville.
Jacksonville, Fla., May 7, 1901
—Mr. H. E. Cary, caffiier, Car
tersville, Ga. Dear Sir: Please
thank your kind people fir their
generous contribution to our suf
fering city. Check for $75 has
been handed A. M. Ives treasur
er. Yours gratefully,
J. E. T. Bowden, Mayor.
SERIOUS FIRE.
A Saw Mill Outfit Consumed Sun
t day Afternoon.
Messrs. James B. Crawford and
Sam Farris had the misfortune to
lose a saw mill and shingle mill
outfit by fire Sunday afternoon.
The mills were located on the
old Hardy place, where it was be
ing operated to get out material
for Messrs. Sloan Bros., in their
new buildings, and Saturday af
ternoon early,the fires were drawn
out and banked in a pile at the
door of the furnace. Mr. Craw
ford was at the mill quite awhile
and kept an eye on the fire and
when he left he was sure there
was no danger in it.
Sunday afternoon the mill was
discovered on fire and was soon
completely destroyed, together
with the engine,shingle mill, 10,000
feet of lumber and buildings. It
is thought the prevailing winds
fanned the pile of coals drawn out
the afternoon before into a flame,
and a spark therefrom started the
fire that destroyed the outfit.
TO DISPOSE OF RATS.
A Novel But Effective Plan Fur
nished The News.
Mr. Joe Forrester, of Stilesboro,
has furnished The News a novel
but effective way to get rid of rats,
the great enemy of the farmer.
I He says that a gentleman from
Alabama told him of the scheme
and that he has effectively used it.
His barn seemed to be headquar
ters for all ratdom,and now not one
can be found. He says take a plank
about two feet long and 12 inches
wide, and in the center of it nail
down a piece of burnt meat.
Around this burnt meat, carefully
avoiding it, sprinkle pulverized
potash in good quantity. It seems
the rats in reaching the meat step
into the innocent looking potash,
and soon it begins its work on
the feet, and when they are licked
bv the rodents the firy stuff is
transferred to their tongues and
mouths. Thus the rat gets a hot
dose all around, goes off and dies
or hunts anew location.
Mules for sale.
A. M. Foute, Receiver.
May 3-2 L
Sunday, there is other work for
me to do. Yours truly,
J. T. Owen.
P. S. Excuse paper. I lost my
office and contents, and am con
tent to take such as I can get.
Jacksonville, Fla., May 7, 1901.
The deeds are now on file at the
clerk’s office.
The board appointed a commit
tee of three to visit court houses
and select plans for Bartow’s new
one. The committee is composed
of Messrs. L. B. Matthews. W. M.
King and W. D. Rowland. Just as
soonas plans are accepted work
will be commenced in earnest.
MR. FRANCIS FONTAINE.
He Dies In Atlanta Last Week—
Once Lived in Bartow.
This excellent gentleman, who
was for a few years a resident of
Bartow county, died in Atlanta
last week.
Mr. Fontaine was a true repres
entative of the old southern aris
tocracy, a gentleman to the man
ner born. He was a genius and
his pen will be long remembered
by many. He was for many years
editor of the Columbus Enquirer,
and his work there was of great
importance to the state and its af
fairs. Associated with him was
Mr. Henry Richardson, another
bright genius, and the two made
a cuperb team.
Mr. Fontain owned and lived on
the beautiful farm on the Tennes
see road now owned bv Rev. Sam
Jones, formerly owned bv Maj. C.
H. Smith. While on this farm he
introduced many new things in the
way of agriculture and took quite
an interest in fine stock.
BIG SNAKES.
The Woods Are Said to Be Full
of Them.
There is much interest taken by
the farmers and people having
business in the woods and fields
in the enormous size of snakes
this season. It was thought last
year that larger snakes than usual
were seen but it looks as if they
are even larger this year.
Mr. Joe Bell was plowing Tues
day and plowed up> a huge spread
ing adder, which rolled on one
side and on to its back as if sick.
It soon began vomiting and threw
up two big frogs. It was killed.
A horse of Mr*. Lumpkin near
Ferrobutte was bitten Sunday.
Several parties report large num
bers of cotton mouths, adders and
rattlesnake “pilots” being seen
and killed.
People can well afford to be care
ful in their perambulations and al
ways have a snake bite remedy
convenient.
MISSING RECORDS.
A Matter of Importance to Land
Owners.
During the war several of the
county records were destroyed and
many people own lands the titles
of which are not on record at all.
Legislative enactment provides
for those whose deeds were record
ed in the lost books to have them
recorded ae;ain. The books des
troyed were B, D, E, F. J, K. L,
M, N and O. Parties can look up
their old deeds and compare with
this list and they can determine
whether they are on record or not.
N.
DEATH OF AN OLD CITIZEN.
Mr. J. M. Cox Dies Rather Sud
denly Friday of Last Week.
Mr. J. M. Cox, father of Mr.
James Cox, died rather suddenly
last Friday night. Though he had
been in declining health for years
his sudden end was entirely unex
pected. Friday morning he had
walked to the field with his son
some distance away looking at the
crops. His son commenced plow
ing and when some distance away
noticed his father had fallen to the
ground. Hastening to his side he
was found as if in a deep sleep, in
which condition he remained until
a few minutes before he died that
night. He died as if in a deep
tranquil sleep.
Mr. Cox was a native of South
Carolina, 71 years of age, moving
to Gwinnett county, 50 years ago,
from where he moved to Bartow
county about 30 years ago. He
was a faithful member of the Bap
tist church, and was buried at
Emerson Saturday. He left a wife
and four sons, J. M., Henry, John,
andTandyCox. He wasan active
man, during life, well liked by all
who knew him and his death has
occasioned much sadness among
them. '
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ONCE A WEEK 81 A YEAR
BURY HER DEAD
Officials Will Appeal To Prison
Commission To Bury Convicts.
Atlanta Journal.
A case is now before the state
authorities, which will in all pro
bability bring about a settlement
of the qu *stion of whether or not
the state is to prepare for burial,
under the new law, convicts who
die in the camps. Under the old
law the attorney general held that
the lessees of the convicts had to
prepare them for burial when
application was made for their
bodies.
When a convict dies his body is
put in the vat and preserved in
alcohol for sixty days, at the expi
ration of which time, no one hav
ing claimed it, the body is turned
over to the state medical board
and used as a “subject.” If, how
ever, application is made for the
body within sixty days, it must be
turned over to the applicant pre
pared for burial by the anatomical
board of Georgia colleges, who
own the vat and promised to bear
the expense ot burial of those
whose bodies were applied for.
This question was settled at the
time Bankston, said to have been
whipped to death, died at the
Bartow camps. Now that the
lessees have been relieved by the
new law of th.‘ expense of the
preparation of the bodies for bur
al, it remains to be determined
whether the state will bear the
expense when confronted with the
refusal of the college representa
tives to do so.
On April 18 E. S. Burt, of
Oglethorpe, died at the Bartow
camp, known to the convicts as
Sugar Hill. Application has been
made for his body, which is now in
the vat. As the body was perfectly
nude and the applicant was unable
by reason of proverty to obtain a
coffin, the body could not be re
moved Deca'i*- j the anatomical
board refused to shoulder any
expense. The matter was brought
before the governor, who showed
unusual feeling, exclaiming with
trembling voice:
’’Cannot Georgia bury her dead.
I do not care what a man’s crimes
have been: after he is dead we still
owe him the debt of humanitv.”
Burt had been convicted of i.rson
The governor visited the office of
the prison commission to see
if anything could be done, but
found that in the absence of the
commission he was powerless. It
is well known at the cap tol that
not long ago, under simitar cir
cumstances, the govnor paid out
of his own pocket all expenses
incurred in the preparation and
burial of a convict whose mother
had applied to him for aid.
Only a few weeks 'igo the gov
ernor paid out of his private means
for the transportation of a dead
lunatic whose relatives had ap
pealed to him.
A prominent official said:
“Governor Candler has secretly
helped many unfortunates who
have appealed to him in his official
capacity, not knowing that he was
powerless, and he has always as
sisted them and always out of his
private purse.”
When asked about this case At
torney General Terrell said:
“I am helpless. The commis
sion will take this matter up and it
will be settled and some perma
nent rule adopted, or if it be found
that no law authorizing them to
act exists, effort will be made at
the next legislature to have one
passed.”
He said some provisions must
be made for the decent burial of
the dead by the state as the rela
tives were generally too poor to
accomplish it.
The case will be taken up with
the commission as soon as soon as
it returns. The attorney general,
in his capacity as legal adviser,
can do nothing until the commis
sion calls upon him for advise.
Gov. Candler declared that he
would not rest until some provis
ion was made by which dead con
victs would be properly buried,
saying that if no law existed he
would push the passage of one
whin the next legislature meets.
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