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VOL. X.
ARP ON POLITICS.
He Says Everythin!? is in a Had
Muss.
Candidate* Abusing Kach Other in Round
Term#—-To the Farmers’ Alliance
lie Addresses a Few Words.
[Atlanta Constitution.]
Was there ever such a political
muss iu Georgia? Gordon and
Norwood and Livingston and Peek
all fussing, and ex-Goveruor Smith
and Judge Hines in the bushes
with their coats off. Gordon says
Norwood is a demagogue and uses
language on Livingston.' Of course
they had to bring poor Tom Lyon
into it as a side show. Hut Tom
can stand it. Norwood says he
does not like the word demagogue,
ami he challenges Gordon for a
talk. They all seem to be friends
to the farmer, and are almost ready
to die lor him. This sudden and
extraordinary love lor the poor far
mers is very touching and pathetic,
and I wish there were four or five
senators to elect. Such devotion
deserves to be rewarded. To a man
up in a tree the whole thing looks
peculiar, and somehow reminds us
of a soldier who got scared early
and wanted to go home. So, while
the minnie balls were singing and
whistling all around him, he was
found beuind a tree with his arms
outstretched, and was waving them
up and down vigorously. “What
are you doing, Jake ?” said a com
rade. “I want to go home,” said he,
“and I am waiving for a furlough.”
He wanted to get shot in the hand.
There is many an ofliee seeker,
many a political soldier, waving for
a furlough now.
What is all this racket about
anyhow ? Who started it? Who
told the farmers that they were op
pressed and mistreated and impos
ed upon by all the restof mankind ?
General Gordon says he lias been
sympathizing with them for seven
teen years, and Mr. Norwood has
been troubled all his life about
them. Gov. Smith is awful sorry
for them. Livingston has wept in
great anguish for them.
Well, it must he a had, sad case,
hut to save my life I can’t cry a hit.
I wish that I could. When I see
folks weeping all around me, and I
can’t shell a tear, it makes me sus
pect my own heart. I’m afraid I’ve
got calloused in my old age. I
farmed as hard as 1 could for eleven
years, and never found out ttiat I
was oppressed. I worked in the
field with my hoys. We planted
and plowed and hoed and mowed
grass and raised horses and cattle,
and sold our produce for a good
price.
Our corn always brought 50 cents
a bushel at the crib and our hay
S2O a ton, and nobody ever came
and told me I was imposed upon,
and t was such a fool I never found
it out. Joe Bradley has been farm
ing right close by for twenty years
and hasn’t found it out yet. He
must be an awful fool. Joe
used to bring his cotton to my gin
before I got up and I asked him one
day how he managed to make so
much cotton and corn and wheat
and oats, and to raise so many fat
hogs, and send his daughter
to town to school, and buy a piano
and all that. Joe smiled and said:
“Well, you must know that if I
don’t see the suu rise in the morn
ing I have the headache all day,
and as my house is down in a hol
low 1 have to go to the corn field or
cotton patch to see the sun rise. I’ll
bet $lO tiiat Joe don’t belong to the
alliance. He hasn’t got time.
When a rainy day comes you will
find him in his worksh >p making a
plow stock or mending his harness,
or cleaning out his stables. He
saves every spadeful of barnyard
manure and puts it on his land. I
had one tenant who worked hard
and prospered. I had two others
who were always behind. They
had a power of business at the mill
or at town, or at some meeting
house, and when the creek was
muddy they were just obliged to go
seining. Their crops were always
in the grass, and they are in tlie
grass yet I reckon. They belong to
the alliance, and are waiting for
something to turn up. This is plain
talk, but it is true talk. The great
est enemy the farmer has got is his
own indolence. No man succeeds
ut anything who does not work
diligently. If a man would work
as hard on his farm as lieub Satter
field does in his store, he would
prosper. Mr. Satterfield is a good
merchant. He is at his store before
I get up. His dinner is sent to
him on busy days. After supper
lie goes hack to his store and works
on tiis hooks. He is never idle, and
is making money. It is the same
way with all trades and professions.
It is very nice and pleasant to set
about and talk and read the news,
Hut the lawyers in this town who
get most all the business are rarely
seen on the streets, and they enter
tain no loafers. Diligence, dili
gence is the secret of success, and
diligence ought to hi' the secret
password of the alliance.
I wish 1 knew exactly who it is
that is oppressing the poor farmer.
I think I would get a big stick and
TANARUS! II: GOURANT-AMERIOAN.
go for him. i wish i knew the dis
tress that hangs like a millstone
over iny friends, Gus Bates and
Tom Lyon, and old man Burge, and
(’. M. Jones, and Conne - , and Turn
lin, and John Brown, and a host of
other big farmers in the county.
They have aH got rieli enough to
leave home when they please and
send their children off to college;
Hut still they are not happy. They
.seem to think we have been doing
something against them, but I de
clare upon my honor I haven’t.
They say they want a warehouse
and a loan from the government, so
they can hold their cotton and force
the manufacturers to pay 15 cents a
pound for it. Just so—the great
west wants warehouses for their
grain, so as to make us pay $2 a
bushel for wheat and $1 for corn.
If this thing all happens what is to
become of me? I won’t have more
than a shirt and a half all the year
round, and my wife will wear her
eyes out patching undergarments.
Carl and Jessie won’t have but one
biscuit a piece and nothing hut ’ta
ters to carry to school. What will
become of the shoemaker and the
blacksmith and the carpenter and
the hrickmason and the day labor
er? What will become of all the
poor folks and the negroes and the
cotton pickers. I have before me
tlie tallies of the last census, and
find that there are 4,250,000 farmers
and planters in the United States,
and there are 13,000,000 laborers oil
tiie farms who work for wages.
What will they say to flour at $5 a
100 ? There are over 1,000,000 me
chanics and nearly as many rail
road operators and half as many
milliners and factory hands, women
and children. What is to become
of them if the farmers get up a cor
ner on the necessaries of life ? One
of England’s greatest statesmen was
Richard Cohden, whose powerful
speeches abolished the duty on
grain and the inscription on his
monument is “He gave the poor
cheap bread.”’
I tell you my farming friends,
this tiling will not do. You have
gone far beyond reason in j our de
mands. Demagogues have led you
astray—l saj’ it considerately—
demagogues have led you far avvaj’
from the original purposes of your
order. Don’t you know that you
will never live to see your cotton
in a government warehouse? Don’t
you know that you will never see
a dollar of thats<>4,ooo,ooo that your
leaders say is coming right away
from England to advance on your
cotton? Don’t you know that ail
those promises are a delusion and a
snare and will fade into a mist af
ter the elections are over? I do
confess to some grief and mortifica
tion over the credulity of my farm
ing friends. I feel but little inter
est in politics. My politics is for
the south to go on prospering as
she lias done since the war. The
farmer, the laborer, the mechanic,
the merchant—every class lias pros
pered. Diligence in business, and
a contented dispositiifh will make
us all happy. There are no people
upon earth that have as much to
he thankful for as we have. I feel
like I am alone in these views, for
I know that the press is against me,
and most of the people, Hut J feel
better for having had my say wheth
er it pleases anjdiody or not. I see
politicians dancing and prancing
around the alliance, and talking
big about corn and cotton who
don’t know the difference between
a bull-tongue and a twister. Heard
of one the other day who said that
there would be a very short cotton
crop for he had noticed that the red
blossoms were all falling off. He
said that just as soon as a poor far
mer had anything to sell the price
went down. Cotton was down, and
fodder had dropped from $2 a hun
dred to sl, and sweet potatoes had
already gone down to 00 cent3 a
bushel, and in two months from
now corn would fall 25 or 50 per
cent. We must have a big ware
house, said he, and store the pro
duce and keep it until the specula
tors and the monopolists are
whipped out. Maybe that man
wants to be a friend to the farmer,
but he don’t know how. He knows
nothing of the laws of supply and
demand. During the tabernacle
meeting I had to pay’ 25 cents for
chickens that hadn’t done sucking.
Before that they were plenty at 15
cents. The Methodist preachers
did that, but they didn’t mean to
and I’m not complaining. I’ll do
anything for a preacher.
Bill Arp.
Rock Hil S. C., Marcli 24, 1890
Dr. J. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C.:
Dear sir—l have been a life
longsufferer from hereditary asthma
and after trying ail known reme
dies lrom the patent medicine
catalogue, and a great many phy
sicians, I had almost given up
when you recommended the Mi
crobe Killer, last December, and
1 have no- had a paroxysm since.
Wouldn’t take SIOO.OO for the good
it lias done me. Yours truly
James A. Giles.
For sale by Young A Mays.
I have anew ami select stock of sta
ple and fancy groceries at the old stand
of Barron Bros. I invite my friends and
the public generally to give me a call
Respectfully, W. L. Millkk.
sep2s-tf
CARTEUSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, ISJKI.
FELTON AT GEDARTOWN.
A Regular Field Raynor Jeffer
sonian Remoeraey.
A Large Crowd, a Grand Speech ami Abun
dance of Knthnsiftsin and Barbe
cued .Meats.
Ckdautown, Sept. 20.—When
the train come in from Roma
last evening freighted with the
next congressman and his famous
lady’, Cedartown was ready to re
ceive them most cordially. They
were rapidly driven to the Booz
house where, until a late hour, the
loyal democracy of Polk called to
pay their compliments. Soon after
the arrival of tl>e distinguished
guests at tlie hotel the crowd which
had collected, some three hundred
.strong, were entertained in a short
talk which presaged a glorious
speech for the morrow.
The daj' dawned in splendor and
an immense multitude soon began
to fill the streets of tlie thriving
little city. They came from far
and near, on train and cart, ready
to be present at this feast of reason
and tlie flow of barbecued meat
lavishly spread by citizens of Polk.
In passing up and down tlie
streets of tlie county metropolis the
large capacious houses, business
and dwelling, the thrift and intelli
gence of tin* people was on every
side apparent, and in the sturdy
men pleasantly talking were recog
nized the architects and builders.
A steady stream of visitors could be
seen calling upon the doctor in the
parlors of the Booz house. The
town full and getting fuller each
moment and as tlie delegations
from along the lines of railways
were poured into her, tlie streets
could hardly hold them. A great
lesson was taught to Mr. Everdtt
and his friends, for tlie crowd was
practically’ unanimous. Many esti
mates were put upon the multitude,
most of them fixing it at 2,000 or
2,500.
At about 12 o’clock a burst of
music from the Valley City band
announced the coming of the hero
of the hour. Accompanied by
Chairman M. V. B. Ake of tlie
executive committee pnd Col. D. B.
Hamilton, of Rome, the doctor
passed to the stand. As his tall
form attracted the gaze of the peo
ple a shout was sent forth upon the
air, heard doubtless by tlie absent
Everett wherever he was in hiding.
The audience was in the main re
spectful and attentive. Some fel
low, who had more effrontery than
brain, would sling out his insolence,
as lie hopes tojdo his ballot, hut the
audience would have none of it.
Dr. Felton began his remarks by
thanking Col. Hamilton for his
complimentary introduction and
expressing his gratitude at tlie
large assemblage of voters. He
wanted a calm and quiet discussion
of tlie issues of the daj’ and pro
posed to recognize those who differ
ed witli him as patriots and though
there were some who were after
office on other lines than himself
they were patriots, but mistaken
ones. He wanted every man to
vote his conviction hut desired that
no man stiould vote as a slave, a
serf or a bondsman. He pledged
himself unfalteringly to the democ
racy’. His views are known of all
men. It was not necessary to inter
view and question him. He allu
ded to his former independency
and said tiiat when he had laid it
aside as impracticable and.come
into the true democracy he had
fondly hoped to greet some who
were even here in Polk in the atti
tude of skippers, not to be found
except in an organization secret
and political, which they were try
ing to control and direct for their
political preferment. I am tlie
nominee of the best and truest
democrats in this district, men who
have stood by the party. I am not
ashamed of them, I am proud of
them. Mr. Everett was the nomi
nee of tlie alliance party and Mr.
Polk, its president, has said that its
object is to create a third party. I
submit to j r ou, fellow citizens, that
that party is in your midst today
full fledged. He had invited Ever
ett to discuss with him the issues
of the daj - but he was saving him
self for Hargrove. Just here cries
approving of his proposed discus
sion with Everett met with
applause and calls for that gentle
man but he was wanted in vain—
he was wanting to stay away and
lie did. Where was he? In his
own county, on his own roost and
yet a fugitive. In flic language of
Sam Jones, My! My! Mj'!
He was willing to meet Hargrove
—fellow citizens, what a meeting
thfct would be. lie would, like liar
grove, swallow the alliance plat
form but he would get tiehind a
corner to swallow it when he de
sires to talk to alliancemen. When
he talks out to democrats he stands
on the Calhoun platform. He re
ferred to Mr. Everett’s Cartersville
friend as the deeliner. He de
clines for Everett in Cartersville
and Cedartown. A voice cries out:
“No and a j’oke of steers could’t
pull Everett here.” Ho referred to
the remark of a notable lawyer in
i Cedartown, who is credited with
saying that (lie reason fur Mr.
Everett’s absence was that the
“leather headed farmers” ought
not to be allowed to hear tlie speak
er. Mr. Everett had declined to
meet him and yet he was advertised
positively as going to he absent. I
am in perfect accord with the prin
ciples of the alliance, hut am
against 'the demagogues at its
head. The farmer ought to organ
ize to get good prices and to buj’
cheaply, but Ido not respect tlie
small hoy with the beard of a man
who says I am not a friend of the
farmer—this boy in intellect and
information. For forty-five years
I have followed the life of a farmer
and consecrated my energies to
that calling and yet these miserable
traduce/s cry that 1 am an enpiiij’
of the farmer. Stand up, j’ou slan
derers, if j’ou are more interested
in farming than I am. Come out
and compare farming notes witli
me. Go to my records in state and
nation and find any vote against
tlie farmer. He then discussed the
public schools and his action and
( showed tiiat lie had introduced a
hill devoting ail the state road ren
tal to common schools. This bill
failed and then I put forward
another devoting one half of tlie
rental to common schools. Now,
slanderers, stand out, let us see j'ou.
He referred with pride to the tech
nological school established at
MiUedgeville for girls. He helped
in this work. This last money
went through the University of
Georgia, for under our constitution
money can only go through tiiat
channel or the common schools.
His school bill provided that a col
lege was to he built in every coun
tj’ of tlie state where academic edu
cation could lie had absolutely free
of tuition to every child in the
county, lie wanted the boys and
girls of the farm to get their bene
fit. Under our present system
common schools have a month
longer than ever before. They
owe this mouth |o me as much or
more than any man in Georgia.
Hi* spoke of his work for increased
sums for common schools, first out
of the state road, second increased
taxable values of Georgia, third the
capitol tax and other matters, all
of which he advocated relating to
common schools. He had fought
tie idea of the sale of the state road
ana under his bill it had been
leased for a larger sum than ever
dreamed of and it was to be return
ed to the people at the expiration
of the lease without any claim for
betterments and witli improved
equipments. And j’et all this is
said to he a war on tlie farmer. lie
then addressed himself to the plat
form adopted at St. Louis by
MeCune and the others of that ilk.
Georgia farmers’ were j’ou there?
He detailed tlie great expense un
der this platform with its sub-treas
ury scheme and its federal control
of railways. He showed the stu
pendous folly; the enormous taxes
to lie imposed under this outrage.
Among tlie audience were those
of the primitive church who ap
plauded him when lie praised them
for their unflinching opposition to
secret orders. The sub-treasury
was hut to make tlie rich richer
and the poor poorer. When the
day of payment comes under that
bill where are the vast sums of
money to come from? Homes,
houses, land, fortunes, stock must
go. Your all must vanish to satisfy
this greedy monster. Everett
stands on that platform asking
your votes. He defeats Clements
on it and I will make him stand *to
it. He is the man of the sub-treas
ury convention and he shall stand
to it. He (Felton) pledged him
self to all the interests of all the
people. He wanted more currency
for the country, sufficient for the
demands of the business interests
of the nation. He advocated tariff
reduction; economy in the govern
ment. if you elect me these oldects
will absorb my attention. They
are democratic and I pray j’ou
stand by them in November.
He closed his speech amid uni
versal and prolonged applause.
And in the meantime where was
Mr. Everett? The steers had not
brought him in.
Winona, Miss., Jan, 10, 1890.
Mr. Wallace O Leary:
Dear sir—l feel that I am in
gratitude bound to tell you how
the Microbe Killer has benefitted
me. For several j’ears past 1 have
been a great sufferer from indi
gestion and chronic diarrhu a and
genii al nervous prostration. Af
ter having taken two jugs of Will.
Radam’s Microbe Killer I find my
self restored to health in my nerves
and digestion, and can eat vege
tables without suffering any
trouble. 1 most earnestly recom
mend it to all sufferers in that line
as the best remedy J have ever
found, and will testify tlie same
to any one who wishes to hear
more from me, as I have lived
here in this town ten years and
have a very extensive acquain
tance. Hoping ail may be liene
fitted by this truly wonderful rem
edy. I remain yours truly,
Wm. M. Cog hill.
For sale hj’ Young A Mays.
For lame back, ride or chest, use Shi
loh’s Porous Plaster. Price 25 cents. 1
A3 A MARKET.
Cartersville’s Claims as to 'Best
Prices ou Cotton.
She In Getting Therein Kraetptu—A Show
ing So Far Thl* Seatton Tiiat llhm
Not Heretofor* Been KqualltMl.
All hail King Cotton!
And all hail the coming com
mercial metropolis of Cherokee
Georgia!
For Cartersville is getting there.
The Queen City of tlie Etowah
now rises to claim her old-time
prestige of being the best cotton
market in this section. The boast
is not a vain one, for one lias onlj’
to look out on our present lively
thoroughfares, flecked with the
snowy staple and almost crowded
with people ou business intent, to
he convinced of the truthfulness of
our claims, lttls yet earlj’ in the
season, hut Cartersville is taking
the lead over all the towns around
clamoring for supremacy. The hard
cash, tiie best prices and our unex
celled advantages as a trading cen
ter, are the trump cards, and it is
certainly a winning hand.
It was only about a month ago
when the first bale of cotton of the
year was put on the depot platform.
Of all tlie towns around, Carters
ville. paid the best price for tlie first
bale, and for every bale that has
beeu put down since, the owner was
given as much money for it as he
could have obtained in any of the
leading cotton markets of tlie south,
except possibly tiie seaport towns.
The determination of our buyers,
and business men to raise the stand
ard of our market has met tiie ear
nest co-operation of the planters of
this section, who were onlj’ too glint
to bring their cotton here after
thej’ were assured that they would
get full value for it.
It has been a fine season for gath
ering the crop, which lias opened
with a rush. The whitened fields
are alive with the busj’ pickers and
tlie various gins scattered about in
this and adjoining counties are hav
ing all they can jwissibiy do. Per
haps less than half of the staple
tiiat has been picked out and ginned
has been sold. Notwithstanding
this,our receipts up to date are over
one hundred per cent, more than at
tlie same time last year. Several
times a day is the depot platform
filled with tiie bulky hales and as
often cleared for the next grand
rush.
The cheery appearances of things
seem to have a marked effect on
everj’thing and everybody. Even
the delightful autumnal weather
seems to he influenced by it and
with elastic steps and pleasant
countenances the merchants, clerks
and business men generally go
about their daily tasks. Well maj’
we all feel happy over the flourish
ing present and buoyant future for
it is only tlie beginning of anew
era for the business interests of
Cartersville.
In the stores of tlie city is tiie
great activity the most apparent.
Tiie merchants are daily receiving
the remainder of the fail and win
ter goods. With tiie opening of the
great boxes, the marking and laj'-
ing the goods away in the drawers
and shelves, while at thesame time
waiting on tlie many customers, the
employers and employes a*e having
their hands full. All day long and
far into the night is this going on,
the clerks hardly having time to go
to their meals. Never before did
the stores have such piles and piles
of goods stacked on the counters
and shelves. Kaiil a leading busi
ness man to a Courant-American
reporter yesterday: “I never saw
business open up so soon and witli
such a rush as it has this season.
Our sales this month will amount
to more than during either of tlie
months of October, November or
December of last year or of any
year that I have any recollection
of. Our every day’s sales are doub
ling the salesof the same days of
last year.”
That is the way they are all talk
ing. Tlie outlook is most encour
aging ami everj’ one seems jubilant
over the prospects.
A correspondent from this city
writes the following on the outlook
for Cartersville to last .Sunday's
Constitution:
No town In Georgia, perhaps, within
the past twelve months, Inis made
greater strides in the direction of mate
rial development than Cartersville. At
no time in her history have the eviilen
ees of her prosperity and progress been
more manifest, or her prospects brighter
than now.
Within the past year several industri
al enterprises have been added to her
list, a first-class gas plant has been
completed, one of the finest systems of
water works in the state built, splendid
public schools established and $250,(100
added to her taxable values.
The Georgia Land and Manganese
Company and the Cartersville Land
and Manganese Company have been
organized, with 1200,000 ami *1,500,000
capital, respectively. Both of these
companies will begin, this fall, the de
vclopmcut, on a large scale, of their
valuable city mineral properties. The
Cariersville Brick and 'file Company
have their inachi! eryordered for an ex
tensive plant, and will be in operation
by January Ist. The shops of the East
and West ltailroail of Alaluuna have
been located bore, and work on them
will commence by the middle of Octo
ber. These with a number of other en-
PORTED {VMGmH
Arc now receiving daily the largest and moat complete line of Fall and
Winter Dress Goods, Clothing, Dry Goods, Shoes and Cloaks ever before
brought to this market. Our
CLOTHING DEPARTMENT
is anew addition to our business, consequently every garment is new
and the latest style, comprising a full and complete line of Gents’ Prince
Albert suits, Cutaway suits, Frock suits, Sack suits, Boys’ and Childrens’
suits in endless variety. Our Clothing is all made up by the best manu
factory in the United States, therefore we guarantee perfect tits, good
workmanship and lowest prices. Our
DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT
Surpasses any of our previous efforts. The assortments, the styles and
novelties we are displaying are simply grand, new and beautiful. A
full line of Dress Silks in all the latest styles; lmndsome line novelty
Robes, complete line fancy Dress Goods in plaids and stripes. Our line
of dress Flannels are immense. Here we claim the largest assortment
in northern Georgia. Elegant trimmings to match all our dress goods
in the latest styles and novelties. Our
SHOE DEPARTMENT,
as usual, leads the town. We are constantly receiving from the factory
large shipments of new Shoes in hwlies’ gents’ and childrens’, at popular
prices. Every pair sold under an absolute guarantee.
NOVELTIES and FANCY GOODS.
Under these lines we are this season displaying a line of go<ds
never before brought to this market. New styles in ladies’ neekwn r.
Beautiful line ladies’ purses and bags. Complete line ladies’, misses’ aid
infants knit goods, such ns saqnes, bods, bonnets, bootees, faelnators,
skirts, etc., made up in wool and silk. Our
CLOAK DEPARTMENT
this season Is immense, embracing ail tiie newest and nobbiest styles.
They cannot be appreciated until seen. The styles and prices are un
matchable, comprising all the new styles in jackets, wraps, new markets
ami capes, for ladies, misses and children.
Underwear, Hosiery and Clove Depart
ment.
These departments are full to overflowing, containing all qualities,
styles and prices for ladies, gents, misses and children. We haven’t
time nor space to go into details. We extend a cordial invitation to all
to examine.our stock. Witli thanks to the public for the large trade of
the past season, we are Respectfully Yours,
PORTER & VAUGHAN,
Leaders of the Dry Goods Trade.
terprises under contemplation, presage
for Cartersville a most prosperous
future. There has been a steady increase
in the volume of her trade; and this fall
promises to be the best season our mer
chants have enjoyed for a number of
years. Indications now point to an in
crease of cotton receipts, over last year,
ol at least 25 percent. The opening up
of new mines, of which Cartersville is
the trade center, together with tlie
new enterprises, in her midst, now
under way, will contribute In no small
degroo to her growth and business pros
perity. Indeed, with Curtersville’s un
rivaled advantages in point of location,
climate, mineral and agricultural re
sources, it would Im* hard to overesti
mate tier immediate possibilities, from
an industrial and commercial stand
point. Below we give the opinions of
some of tlie leadiug business men on
the outlook.
Capt. 11. W. K. Peacock, who is very
largely interested in Cartersville, says:
“J think the future prospects of Carters
ville brighter than at any time in its
history, there being more building, and
of a better class thaimtany time hereto
fore. < 'rops in this county, except early
corn, are exceptionally fine, and I see
no-reason why the fall trade may not
meet the views of the most sanguine,
especially If our merchants buckle on
their armor and make this a first-class
cotton market, as they have promised
to do.”
Mr. John A. Stover, ono of tlie load
ing grocers and supply merchants, says:
“I think the outlook for Cartersvilio’s
trade this fall was never better. The
farmers have made splendid crops, ani
their indebtedness was never smaller
than it is this year.”
Mr. J. C. Wofford, the agent of the
Western and Atlantic railroad, anil
one of our most observant citizens, is
of the opinion that “the future pros
pects of Cartersville were never
brighter, and that this fall's trade will
be the la'st since the war."
Mr. 11. J. Porter, of the largo dry
goods house of Porter A Vaughn, says:
“The business outlook for Cartersville
in my estimation, was never better.
With the splendid crops we have, ami
the large mineral deve'opments now
in progress, business is found to l>e
line and money easy. Wo expect a
large trade this fall from above facts;
and, judging from the present increase
in our business, our sales will be twice
as large as last year.”
Mr. K. W. Satterfield, the oldest and
one of the largest dry goods merchants
iu north Georgia, thinks: “I regard the
outlook for business in Cartersville
more promising than for years, and
look for better trade tins fall than ever
before. There are many reasons con
spiring to this conclusion. While the
crops are not so good as wo have had
them in this county, yet the planters
have exercised the greatest energy and
economy iu their production, ami it is
my observation tiiat they are less in
dent than for years past. Should the
cotton crop bring a good price, as now
seems reasonable, supplemented bv
larger mineral developments in this
section than ever tieforc, X foci satisfied
tiiat the financial condition of our sec
tion will bo better than for twenty
years past.”
Mr. W. H. Howard, president of the
Howard bank, says: “The prospects of
our city are brighter and nearer prompt
realization than at anj’ previous time in
tier history. Wo are growing now,
steadily anil rapidly, anil our growth is
of a "ermanent character, duo to influx
of l o lulation and marked increase in
industrial development. Much build-
NO. 17.
ing of residence*! is going on, and people
are waiting to move in as fast as houses
are completed.”
Rev. Joe Jones.
(Boonville Ming.. Plaiudeuler.
Tlev. Jot> Jones—the brother of
Ham—who is known to most of us
by reputation, closed his meeting
at Marietta, in this county, on
Thursday, last, and commenced,
by invitation, a meeting here on
the day following (Friday). lie
preached the first two days at the
Methodist church, which was
Ibuud not to be large enough to
accommodate the'multitudes who
assembled to hear him at each ser
vice, and thecanning factory build
ing was resorted to and arranged
with a seating capacity of (purteen
or fifteen hundred. We have read
and heard much of Joe Jones—
that he was a blackguard—vulgar
in the pulpit—but after listening
to him, we find him altogether a
different man. Wo-find him a
plain and practical speaker, com
manding the closest attention of
his great audiences. Mr. Jones is
rough on all sin, hut it cannot tie
said that his heart is not overflow
ing witli love and compassion for
his fellow-men. Those who hear
him once like him and go to hear
him again, and it is only the “hear
says” that condemn him. That
his meeting here will result in
much good, and that he is a much
slandered man, is our belief. He
will leave to-morrow afternoon to
meet an appointment in the south
ern part of the state.
A REMARKABLE CURE.
Ofkckmak, lia., Aug. 13, 1890.’’S
Dear sir—When you were here your
(laughter gave us a medicine for our
baby who was sic’ with bowel trouble.
Wo'took her oil'; and he became very ill,
ami partly recovi j. <j, but was violently
taken again a few days ago, and wo
could get no relief from the physicians
as they ha I given iter up. Sol began
three days ago to give her your medi
cine ami today she is walking about Die
house laughing and playing, and 1 wish
to ask if you will please have some of
the tame kind of medicine prepared at
once and sent to me C. O. 11. or send
your bill to Mr OfTerinan and I will
pay when presented. 1 trust you w'ill
excuse mo for troubling you, out you
know we forget this when we think ‘the
lives of our little ones are at stake.
Please write me full directions and how
long to continue giving it and greatly
oblige. Yours respectfully.
J. J. Fka/ikk-.
The medicine mentioned above is
called the Egyptian Remedy for dysen
tery, diarrhoea and bloody dux. Pre
pared and sold by Young A Mays.
rrRRVS LIVER COMPOWT®.
Nature’s own remedy for afl liver
kidney, stomach and blood diseases,
manufactured by David W. Curry, whole
iale druggist, Rome, Oa. For sale by
Young £ Majis and M. J. W ord.