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VOL X. WHAT THEY THINK Of the Beautiful Queen City of the Etowah. New Citizens and Strangers Give Their Opinions of the Live, Bustling Town Her Grand Future. “What do you think of Carters ville ?” That is a question the Courant- Atnerican lias recently propounded to many strangers who have re cently visited the city. Invariably the answer has been most lauda tory—indeed, what would seem to one not acquainted with our many advantages as somewhat extrava gant. “I am amazed at the boundless resources of the country and the grand possibilities of your town,” says one. “It is the garden spot of the world,” says another, ‘and I intend to cast my lot with the peo ple here.” Such remarks are con stantly made by people who seem to be carried away with delight at Cartersville and vicinity. This is all very well, but what would interest people more is whether, after an acquaintance of a year or more, the same parties would retain their first pleasant impressions. A Courant-American reporter has asked a few of our comparatively new citizens, most of whom have lived here at least a year, and came from different states, what they now thought of the town. Below will be found the replies: Mr. W. S. Crosby, president and manager of the Kennesaw Refining Company, who came to this city from Baltimore a little over a year ago, said: “lam charmed with Car tersville and her people and am thoroughly satisfied with being a resident of the place:” Mr. Wm. B. Miller, superintend ent of the gas works, who came to this city from Chicago, said: “Car tersville has the best all around ■climate I know anything about, and I have lived in several states, including the piney woods region of Mississippi, which is claimed to be very healthy. She has also the finest water 1 ever drank. S hon estly believe there is a great future before Cartersville. The people here are free-hearted and courteous and make good neigbors and friends. One thing that particularly pleases me is the abundance of game, which make the country around the sports man’s paradise.” Mr. R. C. Miot, the druggist : “I think that Cartersville is as nice and pleasant a little place as one cares to live in. I have been here about eight months and have met with great courtesy and kindness from the citizens. My business is increasing each day and I do not think that I shall ever regret mov ing here. In fact, Cartersville is such a thriving town that any one who comes here and attends to his own business can surely succeed." Mr. A. G. Clark, representative of the Illinois Steel Company, who has been here a grear deal during the last year or more, says of Car tersville and vicinity: “Surrounded as it is with, apparently, inexhausti ble supplies of iron ore and manga nese, and a soil capable of produc ing all the cereals, vegetables and fruits, grasses for stock, indeed e ,-erything necessary for the enjoy ment of good living; with a good cotton growing district tributary and with a climate unexcelled, it is simply a question of time, when the inducements here presented for the investment of capital in indus trial enterprises, will be appreciated and advantage taken of same. “At the present time, to my mind, the most natural enterprise for es tablishment, and one which would aid materially in development of the district, is a cotton factory. A little later closer connection with the coking coal fields, will bring furnaces for the utilization of the ores in the manufacture of pig metal, and possibly, of ferro-manganese. “The healthful, equable, all year climate, enabling outdoor work the year round, affords great advan tages in the employment of labor, and all enterprises founded upon the natural resources of the dis trict, with judicious and capable management, must meet with com mensurate success. “Fifteen months sojourn among the people of Cartersville, have af forded me opportunities of observa tion covering their social inter course and the high religious and moral sentiment pervading. Its numerous churches and schools make the town a most desirable place for residence.” Mr. N. J. Beane, president of the Cartersville Ochre Company, said: “Cartersville undoubtedly has with in itself the elements of a perma nent growth. In Minnesota and the northwest generally the question for the energetic and pushing busi ness men is, ‘where shall I find an opportunity for investment?’ In the south the question js, ‘which op portunity shall I take?’ This is particularly true of Cartersville and the surrounding country. There is certainly everything to be hoped for in its future and much that seems well nigh assured. After a THE G OURANT-AMERI GAN. varied experience in nearly every kind of climate I can say that the climate of Cartersville has no supe rior in the United States.” Mr. F. Sharp, of the Southland hotel, says: “My opinion of Carters ville is summed up briefly. I think it has more advantages than any place I have yet visited. And I speak from an experience in thirty states, from New York to the Pa cific coast, as general agent for manufacturing firms in Chicago for nearly twenty years. I watched the wonderful growth of that city, and towns and cities west of it. 1 know of no place with the possi bilities of this town. It is not a question as to what it has. What has it not? As regards air, noth ing can be purer, with the eleva tion 1,230 feet. The water is supe rior to anything I know of on the continent for city water. Its min erals need no notice from me. More competent men can tell of their richness, magnitude and variety. The surrounding scenery surpasses for beauty anything I know of in the south, and 1 carefully investi gated many places before deciding on this as a desirable place to move my family, whose health were giv ing away under the severe winters of the north. The people of Car tersville I have found exceedingly hospitable, cultured and agreeable. The three summers 1 have spent in Georgia have been the coolest and most pleasant of the twenty-three I have spent in this country.” The above is only a few of the answers received. There are oth ers who would be glad of the opportunity of adding their endorse ment of the city and county were they asked to do so. A PARTY OF VIRGINIANS. They Talk Freely in Regard to the Prospects of Cartersville. Messrs. \V. P. Moomaw, Armstead P. Neal and Oscar D. Derr, of Roa noke, Va., are in the city, quarter ed at the Shelman hotel. It was the pleasure of a Courant- American reporter to call on these gentlemen and enjoy an hour’s con versation with them. They spoke encouragingly of Cartersville and her prospects and said that no place they had visited had better oppor tunities for the future, but that to bring quick success and enterprises to Cartersville it would require new and progressive acquisitions to our population and that our people would have to meet new 7 comers in a spirit of liberality and offer them every inducement to locate, by sel ling them real estate at its worth and not at fancy figures. They re gard the price of land as high, look ing from the standpoint that as yet Cartersville was unknown and un developed. They thought every dollar invested by the stranger w 7 ould place $lO in the pocket of the citizens. Cartersville could only ne pushed to the front by un tiring energy, experience and vim. They said the iron region must be developed and worked here, not sent away, furnaces should be built and manufacturing industries fos tered, the streets lain out in some systematic way. "()ne thing they called our atten tion to w r as that so many of our business buildings w’ere susceptible of rigid improvements, remodeling, etc., which could be done at very little cost and add so much to the ap pearance of the town. The business men, banks and other institutions should vie with each other in this matter. The resiliences they were delighted with and thought them erected with an eye single to beau ty, taste and comfort. The morals of the town so far as they could dis cover were exceptional good, the people refined, warm hearted and kind after the typical southern style. The gentlemen w 7 ere much pleas ed with the magnificent surround ings, balmy climate and grand re sources so close to hand. New 7 railroad facilities were urg ed, and when w 7 e told them of new roads projected, they said it wouid add much to Cartersville. In answer to their intention to stay to the land sale on the 29th, said such was their intention and that after visiting other points south, they found more artisfactory inducements for the future, by in vestments in Cartersville than any other point. One thing to Carters ville’s advantage over any other point, are its famous and unlimited as well as undeveloped manganese deposits, which, if fully developed, and the product manufactured in its many forms, Cartersville vould grow 7 to the second city in Georgia, as the uses to which manganese were put were so numerous. In conclusion, said these gentle men, Cartersville has grand and unusual opportunities and advan tages for a large city, provided her people embrace them. An Accident nt a .Mine, Nat Baker, a young man of this county, hud his left hip crushed at the Culver ore bank last Tuesday by a cave in. He was taken from under the debris as soon as possi ble and the young man is now rest ing very well. He is a nephew of Mr. James Rich, of this city. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1890. THE CENSUS 0F1590. A List of Questions to be Asked the Farmers. It Is Worth the Carffill Perusal of Ajfricul t lira lists That They May he Able to Give Prompt Answers. The eensus year began June 1, 1889, and ends May 31, 1890. Each state has from one to eleven super visors’ districts. There are 175 su pervisors in all. There are 42,- 000 enumerators, who in all parts of the country will begin their work Monday morning, June 2, 1890. Every farm will be visited before June 30, anil the f< llmving questions will be asked, keep ing in mind that the figures you are to give nearly all pertain to the crops of 1889, and not to the growing crops of 1890: (1) Your name as occupant of the farm. (2) Are you owner, renter for money, or for-share of the crops of the farm? (3) Are you white or black ? (4) Number of acres of land improved and unimproved. (5) Acres irrigated, (fi) Number of ar tesian wells flowing. (7) Value of farm, buildings, impliments, ma chinery, and live stock. (8) Fences: cost of building and repairing. (9) Cost of fertilizers. (10) Labor: Amounts paid for labor, including board: weeks of hired labor, white or black. (11) Products: Estima ted value of all farm productions sold, consumed, or on hand for 1889. (12) Forestry: Amount of wo id cut, and value of all products sold. (131 Grassland: Acres of each kind of grassland cut for hay or pastur ed : tons of hay and straw sold: clo ver and grass seed produced and sold: silos and their capacity. (14) Sugar: Cane, sorghum, maple, and beet; sugar and molasses, acres, product and value of each. (15) Castor Beans: Acres. (10) Cereals: Barley, buckwheat, Indian corn, oats, rye, wheat; acres, crop, amount of each sold and consumed, and value. (17) Rice: acres, crop, and value. (18) Tobacco: Acres, crop, amount sold, and value. (19) Peas and Beans: Bushels, and val ue of crop sold. (20) Peanuts: Acres, bushels, anil value. (21) Hops: Acres, pounds, and value. (22)Fibers: Cotton, flax, and hemp, acres, crop, and value. (23) Broom coni : Acres, pounds, and value. (24) Livestock: Horses, mules, and ass es; number on hand June 1, 1890; number foaled 1889; number sold in 1889; number died in 1889. (25) Sheep: Number on hand June 1, 1890, of “fine wool,’ “long wool,” and “all other;” number of lambs dropped in 1889; “spring lambs” sold in 1889; sold in 1889 other than “spring lambs:’ slaughtered for use on farm in 1889; killed by dogs in 1889; died from other causes in 1889. (20) Wool: Shorn spring of 1890 and fall of 1889.(27) Goats: num ber of Angora and common. (28) Dogs: On farm Junel, 1890. (29) Neat Cattle: Working oxen, milch cows, and other cattle on nand June 1, 1890; number of pure bred grade and common;calves dropped in 1889; cattle sold in 1880, slaugh teredfor use on farm, and died in 1889.J(30) Dairy: Milk—totsl gollons poriluced on farm; sold for use in families; sent to creamery or fac tory; used on farm, including for or cheese; used on farm in raising cream for sale, including for cream ery or factory, Butter —pounds- made on farm and sold in 1889. Cream—quarts sent to creamery or factory; sold other than to cream ery or factory, Cheese —pounds made on farm and sold in 1889. (31) Swine: Number on hane June 1, 1890; sold in 1889; consumed on farm and died in 1889. (32) poultry: Number each of chickens, turkeys, geese, and ducks on hand June 1, 1889; value of all poultry product sold; eggs produced, sold, and val ue in 1889. (33) Bees: Number of stands, pounds of honey and wax produced, and value. (34) Onion: Field crop—number of acres, bush els produced and sold, and val ue, (35) Potatoes: Sweet and Irish, bushels produced and sold, (36) Market Gardens and Small Fruits: Number of acres in vegeta bles, blackberries, cranberries, rasp berries, strawberries, and other small fruits, and total value of pro ducts in 1889. (37) Vegetables and Fruits for Canning: Number of acres, and products, in bushels, of peas, and beans, green corn, and tomatoes, other vegetables, and fruits. (38) Orchards: Apples, apri cots, cherries, peaches, pears, plums, and prunes, and other orchard fruits- in each the number of acres, crop in 1889, number of bearing trees, number of young trees not bearing, and value of all orchard products sold. (39) Vineyards: Number of acres in vines bearing, and in young vines not bearing; products of grapes, and raisins, and value in 1889, Besides these questions on the regular agriculture scoedgule No. 2, Superintendent Robert R. Porter has orderod several special investi gations In the interest of agricul ture, among which are Victiculture, Nurseries, Florists, Seed and Truck Farms, Semi-tropic Fruits, Oran- ges, etc.', Live Stock on the great ranges, and in cities and villages; also the names and number of all various farmers organizations, such as Agrii ultural and I or icultura Societies, Poultry and Bee Associa tions, Farmers’ Clubs, Granges Alliances, Wheels, Unions, Lea gues, etc., In no part of the census w 7 ork nave the lines been extended more than in the direction of agriculture, and if farmers will now cheerfully co-operate with the enumerators and other officials in promptly furnishing the correct figures more comprehensive returns regarding our greatest industry will be ob tained than ever before. THE BYNUM COLLINS! AME. A Card From the Foreman and Jurors of the First Inquest. The members of the first jury of inquest in the ease of Bynum Col lins, who recently lost his life, un fortunately, from injuries received in a difficulty with Mike Goode, furnish us the follow ing card for publication: Pink Log, Ga., May 6th, 1890. There appeared in the Adairsville Ledger of April 24th, an anony mous communication, editorially or otherwise, that slanders the reputa tion of the first jury of inquest in the Bynum Collins case. We were much astonished at the bold and confident attack of the Ledger. It was charged in that paper, “that Goode had threatened the life of Collins only a few days before he killed him;” also that three of our body “w ere present when the threat was made.” “Moreover, It declared these to be “facts,” not rumors, but “trom parties that are reliable.” It then calls for light to he turned on. This we propose to do in this communication. We pronounce the whole charge a base fabrica tion, manufactured out of the whole cloth. An infamous assault upon private reputation with malicious intent. We demand the authority for so unprovoked an attack. Who are the “reliable” parties? To whom did the above jurymen tell “what they heard Goode say?” Home evil-hearted, under-strapper, who was thirsting to become the hero of a sensation, brings the grave charge, and now 7 we demand proof, retraction, or infamy. The time has fu ly come in our history, when some one should lie learned a lesson concerning the value of reputation, and the malev olence of slander. We all regret the killing of Bynum Collins, and feel that we discharged our duty, with the light before us, and will risk the rectitude of our intentions into the hands of the Judge of all the earth. W. L. Adams, Foreman, B. A. Barton, O. C. Bradford, L. C. Franks, C. B. Smith, O. J. Smith, J. If. Barton, A. R. Jackson, W. J. Adams, Wm. White, J. M. Barton, Bud Landers, Jurors. ALA IVN FESTIVAL. An Entertainment to be Given by the Ladies of the Episcopal Church. Tiie ladies of the Episcopal church of this place are making an heroic effort to put the church in good order for the reception of their new minister, who will be here and conduct services and preach his first sermon on the 22nd day of June next. The church is now one of the coziest in town, but they de sire to paper the walls anil make some other improvements. To do this they will give a lawn festival at the residence of Mrs. J. A. Baker, on West Main street, on Friday evening, June the 6th. The house and lawn will both be thrown open and brilliantly illuminated on this occasion. Several of Cartersville’s most charming young ladies will be dressed in character costumes, and will serve all kinds of cake and ices. The ladies of this church have been giving a series of dime read ings, all of which have been decided successes, and greatly appreciated by the most cultivated people ot the city. At this law n party the ladies purpose to combine the at tractions of tiie dime readings, with other unique and attractive fea tures. These ladies deserve the success they have accomplished in the past, by their untiring energy and appreciate the hearty encour agement and aid they have receiv ed from the people of the city, who always in a cheerful manner “lend a helping hand” to any deserving charity. Every one is most cordial ly invited to this lawn festival, and may expect a most charming time. Death of Miss Ellie Owens. Miss Eftie Owen, the daught r Mrs, Mary Owen, who lives near Ford, this county, died last Sunday and w 7 as buried Tuesday morning at the Euharloe burial ground. She was twenty years of age and w 7 as a bright, lovable girl. CORNER LOT FOR SALK. Corner Leake and Tennessee streets improved with comfortable dwelling good water dee. Call on A. G. B, Vandi vere. in ay Lit. P 0 RTE R#&# V AFGHAN =ARE NOW OFFERING CREAT= ' Attractions in Every Department. 'Vo Have Determined to Close Out Our Stock of Woolen Dress Goods. Commencing' This Week We Offer Our Entire Stock of Colored Dress Goods at Greatly Reduced Prices. Njw is Your Chance to Secure Bargains in Dress Goods. OUR0 UR SALES IN DRESS GOODS HAS BEEN IMMENSE THE RAT as ance must be closed out at once. We prefer to sell them at cost rather than carry them over to next season. Now is the time to make your purchase Fy amine our goods is all we ask. We can and will save you money. Our Wash Goods Department HAS BEEN A 810 SUCCESS. THE PEOPLE APPRECIATE OUR LOW PRICES. WE ARE NOW 1 offering still greater bargains. In satines we have led the town. We now pro pose to close out this line of goods at prices which defy competition Fine French satines reduced to 20c. per yard. Fine American satines worth 20c reduced to i2'/ 2 c In colored muslins we are showing the handsomest and cheapest line in the citv Beautiful lawns, organdies and mulls, French patterns, at the lowest and prices in North Georgia. F Our Shoe Department —ALWAYS IN THE LEAD. — In this line we are selling the greatest bargains to be found in North Georgia Don t fail to see and price our shoes. Remember we have reduced the price on ali our fine shoes. No shoddy goods in this department. We buy direct from the fac tory and can save you money. See and price our line of ladies’, misses’ and chil drens low cut shoes, made up in all the new styles in black and tan patent tips, com mon sense, opera toe, etc. Great bargains in low cut shoes at Porter & Vauglian’s. Full line ladies hand turned shoes for tender feet in all styles at prices which are sure to please. OUR WHITE GOODS DEPARTMENT LEADS THE TOWN Ihe most complete line India linens, Victoria lawns, Persian lawns, mulls, striped and plaid India linens in the city. Splendid quality check muslins sc. yard, lull line plaid and striped lawns at 7c. Bc. 10c. 3rice. In finer goods we are showing an elegant line swiss stripes and plaids, very landsome and stylish at prices you pay elsewhere for shoddy stuff. We are still sel ing 1 rion mills best heavy yard wide sheeting at per yd., cotton checks at per yd., figured dress muslins yd., worth 5c., dress ginghams sc. per yd. worth 9 cents. <—-PARASObS AND FANS.^> In this department we are offering special attractions, complete line parasols in all grades at popular prices. Full line fans in all grades and styles. The handsom est and cheapest line of fans in the city. SPECIAL LOW PRICES In gents and boys straw hats, embracing all shapes styles and grades. See them and we guarantee to please you. PORTER Sc VAUGHAN ARE CONTEMPLATING LARGE ADDITIONS AND jIMPROVE MENTS IN THEIR BUSINESS FOR THE FALL TRADE. We have determined to close out every dollars worth of our spring and sum mer stock preparatory for these improvements. We are now offering our entire stock at. prices which defy competition don’t fail to examine our goods. Remem ber our advertisements mean business. PORTER & VAUGHAN,_ o< Headquarters for Dry : Goods and Shoes. NO. 1.