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THE G OLI RANT-AMERI CAN.
VOL. X.
SAM P. AND_SIMON P.
Some Things Heard in Front of
the Post Office.
Two Apostle* anti Tlieir Peculiarities ami
Accomplishments—A Lively Little Tilt
That Entertained a Crowd.
[Bill Arp in Sun<la3'’a Constitution.]
Sam Paul Jones and Simon Peter
Richardson met at the postofflce the
the other day and I was introduced
to the venerable apostle. He is a
heavy set man of large frame ori
ginally, but is now going through
the shrinkage that makes his over
coat seem comfortably loose and
easy to put on and put off. His
manners and his conversation are
as easy as his coat. ‘-You have been
writing about me, Bill Arp, “as if
the conference sent me here to help
jj ro ther Sam Jones maul the grace
into Cartersville sinners. I dident
suppose there was much mauling to
do, and I anticipated a good rest,
but I understand there’s to be a
dance here to-night—a german, or
some such furrin performance.”
“It was last night ” said Sam.
“They have done had it.”
“Done had it,you say ? Is it pos
sible? And what kind of a thing
was it ?”
“I don’t know,” said Sam. “I
wasent there. I don’t know whether
it was a boy or a girl. Twins I
reckon—a boy and a girl.”
By this time a little crowd of lis
teners had gathered, and the laugh
ter echoed around, the crowd'in
creased. Sam Jones was merry, but
the old man was solemn and solid,
and his sentences felt like rocks a
falling.
“Are there many of these furri
ners in this town of Cartersville,”
said he.
“A good many,” said Sam. “I un
derstand there were about sixty out
last night.” Simon Peter gave a
grunt and cleared his throat.
“None of them are decent, re
spectable people I don’t suppose,”
said he. “lust the lower classes —
the scum and scurf of your society.
Every town has its scum—unedu
cated, ignorant folks who don’t
know any better —folks who never
read or study or think—folks who
are not fit for anything else and are
hai>ily responsible for their con
duct.”
“Just so,” said Sam Jones, as he
winked his off eye at the crowd.
“I have always thought,” contin
ued Simon Peter, “that it was not
very much sin for a poor, ignorant
creature to dance. I used to let my
negroes dance at the corn shuckings.
They didn’t know any better. We
had a big old fashioned cook woman
who would put on a hoop skirt as
big round as a hogshead and skee
daddle around the room and kick
up his heels as good as a German,
but I don’t suppose that any re
spectable darkey would be caught
a-dancing now.
“Brother Sam, I will ha ve to get
you and Bill Arp to help me run
these dancing furriners out of town.”
“You need’t rely on Bill,” said
Sam.
“Why not 9 ” asked Uncle Simon
Peter.
“llis feelings are all right,” said
Sam, “but he has lost his influence.”
Simon Peter looked at him seareh
ingiy and remarked: “And I’m
afraid you have lost yours. What
have you been doing to these many
years; living and preaching here in
Cartersville and this thing going on
right under your nose? I never did
believe you was much of a lasting
preacher nohow.”
Sam winked again and said: “Why
you bragged down at Griffin that 1
learned how to preach from you.
You claimed to be iny daddy in the
business but a Griffin man heard me
preach after you left there and he
said the son could beat his daddy all
hollow.” Of course everybody laugh
ed but the old man. He shook
up his coat a little, and said: “You
preached down at Greensboro once,
and I asked a friend what he thought
of you, and he said you were a very
remarkable man—that you could
draw a more tremendous crowd
than any other man, considering the
stuff you fed ’em on. He said you
were doing a very large business on
a very small capital.”
Sam enjoyed that as much as any
body. and old Jfather Richardson
continued hi? broken remarks:
“If there is any stagnation of re
ligion or of morals in this town, I
know how to wake up the people.
I found stagnation at Griffin, and I
went to Brother McCall, the Baptist
minister, and told him I was going
to preach a sermon against baptism
by immersion, and against close
communion, and I should skin ’em
from head to heels, and the next
Sunday he must preach one against
the Methodists and give them fits,
and we would wake up the people.
And we did. There never was such
lively congregations in that town
before. They turned out en mass
to hear us abuse one another,and the
Baptist sisters wouldn’t spea k to me
mi the sidewalks, but we got our
people out and began to work on
Ym in the good old way. The cook
book ceiis you how to cook a rabbit,
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8. 1801.
and says the first thing to dt is to
catch the rabbit.”
Simon Peter is a fearless old
fashioned man, and has force of
character and convictions and dares
to maintain them. He believes in
a personal devil and a burning hell
and a satanic kingdom and sinners
in everlasting torinent. He has no
half way compromises to make
with modern skepticism. He is
holding the fort. I asked a Calvin
istic friend if he had heard him
preach. “Yes,” said he, “I heard
him last night, and he preached a
very solemn sermon.” “What was
his text?” said I. “I don’t remem
ber his text,” he replied, but his
subject was the solitudesot hell,and
he used burning words, I tell you.”
Sam Jones could’nt help being
bright and cheerful and witty even
under affliction. If that personal
devil was here going to and fro in the
earth Sam would have his fun out of
him while fighting him. He can’t,
help it. It is amusing to hear him
relate his own discomfiture. He
says that once he was preaching in
a western town and had got wrought
up in his feelings, and was going
along tender and j athetic in his
appeal to sinners, when an old man
got up and stretched forth Ids hand
and said: “Brother Jones, Brother
Jones, stpp a minute—just a min
ute. I just want to shout a little
and say bless God I’m happy.on the
way. Yes, Pm happy on the way.
I lived in sin for fifty-odd years,
but now I’m happy on the way.
Yes, happy on the way.” And he
sat down shaking and sobbing with
joy-
Ham paused for the affecting
scene to lend its influence to his
preaching, and then said to the old
man: “Well, my brother, don’t
you feel now like you had lost that
fifty-odd years of your life that you
spent in sin?”
The old man rose up again and
said: “Well, no; Brother Jones,
not exactly. I can’t say that; I
wasent as happy as I am now, but
I did have a power of fun.”
On another occasion while a re
vival was going on, Sam observed
an old man in the altar who seemed
to be much affected, and going to
him, he asked if he felt that his sins
were all forgiven. The old man
wiped his eyes with a red bandana,
and murmured, “Not all, Brother
Jones, not all; but I think a major
ity of ’em.”
it takes a variety of preachers to
reach a multitude of people. A
century or so ago, Whitfield and
Wesley preached love and pity,
while Jonathan Edwards seared
the sinners so bad they clung to
the braces of the church for fear of
falling into hell. A tear and a kiss
is enough for one child, but it takes
the rod to reform another. So let
the preachers work out their own
way. If it doesent suit me, maybe
it suits somebody else. It is hard
to find one who is not a better man
than I am—better in heart and
nearer to God—and I am not fitten
to pick at them. There is a sign
over the door, and it says: “Touch
not mine anointed and do my
prophets no harm.”
Election for Constables.
Last Saturday the election for
constables of the different districts
was held. In this, the Cartersville
district, there were four candidates
in the field and the election resulted
as follows: J. G. Broughton, 215;
F. H. Franklin, 205; W. E. Puckett,
157 yJ. A. Johnson, 147. Messrs.
Broughton and Franklin are there
fore the constables for this district
the coming two years.
In the Emerson district W. A.
Whitmire and E. G. Pendley wire
elected.
R. J. Patterson and W.-S. Barron
were elected constables for the
Cassville district.
The Iron Hill district elected S.
T. Bright and G. E. Calloway.
The successful men in the Euhar
lee district were F. G. Nelson and S.
J. S. Yarbrough. J. E. Yarbrough
was elected justice of the peace of
this district to fill an unexpired
term.
In the Wolf Pen’ district W. M.
Rogers and Wm. Gilstrap were
elected.
The returns from the other dis
tricts have not as yet been sent in.
Tlic New Land Company.
Thomas J. McGuire, Esq., presi
dent of the Corporate Sale Syndi
cate of New York city, has been
spending a few days in the city in
the interest of the Cartersville
Land and Manganese company.
His syndicate is the one that has
purchased a large interest in the
above named company and he was
here for the purpose of obtaining
an extension of three months on
the options on the land which had
previously been obtained, which
was granted. He sold a good deal
of the stock of the company to our
people and the outlook is now ex
ceedingly bright.
Mr. McGuire spoke very encour
agingly of the pr ospects of the com
pany and he seemed to impart
some of his enthusiasm to those
with whom he talked. If every
thing moves oIF as satisfactory as
everything now indicates tin com
pany will be a great thing for Car
tersville.
ROBERTS ROUTED,
And Franklin Elected Sheriff of
the County.
J. M. Smith Elected Treannrer Over Cobb
Alter an Exciting Contact —The
Other Successful Candidates.
A. M Franklin, Sheriff.
F. M. Durham, Clerk.
W. W. Ginu, Tax Collector.
Albert Smith, Tax Receiver.
H. J. McCormick, Surveyor.
Frank Patterson, Coroner.
M. A. Collins, Harlston Lewis,
W. J. Hicks, J. L. Irick and B. F.
McMakin, County Commissioners.
This is the result of the county
election yesterday.
The contest was a sharp and
close one for the offices of sheriff
and treasurer, A. M. Franklin get
ting a majority of 75 votes over W.
W. Roberts for the former office
and J. M. Smith beating H. W.
Cobb 9S votes.
About 614 votes were polled at
this box, There were about 2,200
vote> cast in the county.
The official consolidated votes is
as follows:
Sheriff—Roberts, 1,035; Franklin,
1,110,
Clerk —Durham 2,141.
Treasurer —Cobh, 1,022; Smith,
1,120.
Tax Collector--Gjnn,93B; Vaughn,
577; Shaw, 442; Youngblood, 82.
Tax Receiver Smith, 1800;
Shelton, 195; Gravely, 34.
Surveyor McCormick, 910;
Smith, 482; Jones, 720.
Coroner—Bgll, 443; Patterson,
531; Battle, 280; Owen, 71; Milan’,
153; Harrison, 119: Lipscomb, 124;
Morris, 237; Collins, 45; Maddox,
56.
Comxnissioners Collins, 876;
Lewis, 911; Leake, 639; Barton,
364; Best, 410; Stegall, 517; Louder
milk, 379; Lockridge, 377; Dobbs,
611; Hicks, 1,017; Irick, 1,078; Wof
ford, 139; Upshaw, 237: Dodd, 506;
McMakin, 669; Burgess, 319; Lee,
160.
A FINE BARGAIN.
A Young Man Buys a Lot on the In
stallment Plan and is Offered iJO
per Cent Ih-offt on His Bargain.
Our readers will remember that
the interview with the president of
the Land Company, which appear
ed in our issue of December 24th,
concluded with the statement that
“the president of the Land Compa
ny turned away to talk to Mr. Ben
Mell, who had come in to see about
buying a lot.”
The officers of the Land Compa
ny say they never intend to deceive
or intentionally mislead the public.
The above statement was accord
ingly followed up by the purchase
by Mr. Ben Mell of a house and lot
on the installment plan. The issue
of the succeeding week made a note
of this fact.
Mr. Mell paid S2O down and pays
S2O a month for 59 months, making
$1,200 in ali. This was only $5 a
month more than he was paying
for house rent. So at the end of
five years he would own his house
and lot by paying only $5 a month
more than his house rent was cost
ing him. The Land Company said
at the time that Mr. Mell had made
a good trade. Some people who
are afraid to risk their judgment on
anything, said that lie paid too
much. By the way, there are some
people in every town who always
think everything sells too high, no
matter how much the actual rise
may afterwards contradict their
prediction.
But what are the facts? Has
Mr. Mell made a good trade or a
bad one?
He has been offered $250 for his
bargain, which is a clear gain of over
twenty per cent, of the price asked
for the lot, and this was in less than
a month from the time he bought.
This ought to answer the objec
tions which are made by the chronic
kickers. The same people said five
years ago that Cartersville real
estate was too high, yet it i an
average of 300 to 500 per cent, higher
now than it was then. They are
saying now that Cartersville real
estate is too high. Five years from
now they will be still saying the
same thing, while those who can
read the signs bf the times And in
vest n'ow, will be enjoying the pro
fits of their trades.
Fine lambs wool bed blankets going
at cost at Crutcher A Cos. 1- -tf
TERRIBLE HUMAN CARNAGE.
A Slaughter of 2,500,000 Lives in Wars
3; of the Last Thirty Years.
According to the estimates of
French and German statisticians
there have perished in the wars of
the last thirty years 2,500,000 men,
while there has been expended to
carry them on no less than the in
conceivable sum of $13,000,000,000,
says the San Francisco Chronicle.
Of this amount France has paid
nearly $3,500,000,000 as the cost of
the war with Prussia, while her loss
in men is placed at 155,000. Of these
80,000 were killed on the battle field,
36,000 died of sickness, accidents or
suicide, and 20,000 in German
prisons, while there died from other
causes enough to bring the number
up to the given aggregate. The sick
and wounded amounted to 477,421,
thelivesof many thousands of whom
were doubtless shortened by their
illness or injuries.
According to Dr. Roth, a German
authority, the Germans lost during
the war 60,000 men killed or render
ed invalids, and $600,000,000 in
money, this being the excess of ex
penditure or of material losses over
the $1,250,000,000 paid by France by
way of indemnity. Dr. Engel,
another German statistician, gives
the following as the approximate
cost of the principal wars of the last
thirty years: Crimean war, $2,000,-
000,000; Italian war of 1850, $3,000.-
000,000; Prusso-Danish war of 1864,
$35,000,000; war of the rebellion
(north) $5,100,000,000, (south) $2,-
300,000,000; Prusso-Austrlan war of
1866, $330,000,000; Russo-Turkish
war,sl2s,ooo,ooo;Houth African wars
$8,770,000; African war, $13,250,000;
Servo-Bulgarian, $176,000,000.
All these wars were murderous in
the extreme. The Crimean war, in
which few battles were fought, cost
750,000 lives, only 50,000 less than
were killed or died of their wounds
north and south during the war of
the rebellion. These figures, it must
be remembered, are German, and
might not agree precisely with
American estimates. The Mexican
and Chinese expeditions cost $200,-
000,000 and 65,000 lives. There were
250,000 killed and mortally wounded
during the Russo-Turkish war, and
45,000 each in the Italian war of
1859 and the war between Prussia
and Austria. In the other wars the
loss of life was relatively less, which
did not make either tlx? men or
money easier to part with in the
more limited areas where they oc
curred.
V>l this is but a part of the ac
counting, since it does not include
the millions expended during the
last twenty years in maintaining
the vast armaments of the European
powers, the losses eaused by the
stoppage ol commerce and manu
factures. and the continual derange
ment of industries by the abstraction
from useful employment of so many
millions of persons held for a period
of military service extending from
three to five years.
Col. Forsythe Suspended.
A board of inquiry consisting of
Maj. Whiteside, Col. Carr and Cap
tain Baldwin have been selected as
a board of inquiry to investigate
the conduct of Col. Forsythe, in
conducting the fight with the In
dians at Wounded Knee. It is ru
mored that the disposition of 400
soldiers and four pieces of artillery
were fatally defective and a large
number of soldiers were killed and
wounded by the fire from their
own rank, and Col. Forsythe is
s ispended from his com ran
The Indian baby girl, about three
months of age, that was found three
days after the battle beside its
dead mother, has been adopted by
Mrs. Allison Naitor, of Washing
ton, D. C.
Found Insensible on His Train,
A telegram was received this
morning from Ragland, Ala., stat
ing that Harry Venable, one of the
popular freight conductors of the
East and West Railroad, was found
insensible on the platform of his
cab. There were no marks of in
jury on his person, and it is there
fore not known whether it was the
result of some accident or that he
was paralyzed. He has many
friends in this city anxiously await
ing to hear better news from him.
Court Next Week.
Superior Court convenes next
Monday, with his Honor,’ Judge
Milner, presiding. There is a very
full docket and a number of cases of
unusual interest will be disposed of.
The case af the State vs. Charles T.
Jones, who is charged with murder,
will come up prohabiv the second
week. All of the business remain
ing unfinished at the last- term of
court will first be disposed of.
AIrViCK TO MOfHSKt.
Mbs. Window's Soot in b a Strut,
tor children teething, is the prencrlption
r>f one of the bet lenuiie nurses mid
physicians in t--e 4 Stend
hue been used tor forty years wbh never
t uliug success by mil lieu* of in o thers
for their children. Luring the .process
ofte-thjiig, ie; v.s ue is it ton eulable. It
ejieves the child <rom pain, euros dvs
iia ry aud-dya -rhu-a, gripii g in ths
beweis, and wind coin* by giving
■ i r o iha ' V lit ft ; -*ii th* 1 iuottor
Pi’lCo m)v; H
A DASTARDLY MURDER.
A Negro Shot Down in a Most
Cowardly Manner.
.Torilnn Franklin IhIUhI to th Door of
Hi. Home and a* Soon an Ho Appears
Is Filled With Lead Slugs.
There was a negro killing out on
Mr. E. E. Freeman’s plantation
Friday night.
About ten o’clock some one came
to the home of Jordan Franklin
and called to him to come out of
the house as he was wanted on
business. Franklin asked, “Who
are you ?” and the one outside re
plied “Ferguson” and claimed to
have a private message for Frank
lin. Franklin knew uo one by the
name of Ferguson and hesitated
before going out. He told his
strange visitor to come in the door
but the man in the dark still insis
ted that he wanted to see Franklin
privately. Franklin finally opened
the door and as he did so the end
of a gun barrel was quickly placed
against his abdomen and the trig
ger was pulled. It proved a fatal
shot, as Franklin died about six
o’clock the following morning.
The wounded man was asked if
he knew who shot him and he re
plied in the presence of several
witnesses that it was Martin Dor
sey, a negro employed by Mr. W. H.
Lumpkin, at Rogers’ station.
Several weeks ago three broth
ers of Dorsey’s and Jordan Frank
lin were arrested on the charge of
stealing cotton from Dr. Felton.
Franklin turned state’s evidence
and claimed that he did not have
anything to do with the stealing
further than hiring himself to I a il
the cotton. Franklin was set tree
but the other parties were bound
over to court to stand trial.
There is no doubt but that this
tragic affair was caused by
Franklin’s action in the stealing
case.
Sheriff Roberts arrested Martin
Dorsey and Dave Archer on war
rants charging them with the crime
and they are now languishing be
hind the prison bars.
Coroner Frank Patterson em
pannelled a jury of inquest and the
evidence was substantially the
same as above sti.tcd and the ver
dict returned was in accordance
therewith.
The Cotton Movement.
The New York Financial and Com
mercial Chronicle of the 3rd, gives
the following report ot the cotton
movement for the week ending
Friday evening, 2nd Inst. The total
receipts reached 246,939 bales
against 276,782 bales last week, and
266,327 bales the previous week,
making the total receipts since the
Ist ot September, 1890, 4,480,477
bales, against 4,336,718 bales for the
same period of 1888-89, showing an
increase since September 1, 1880, of
149,759 bales.
The exports for the week reached
a total of 203,980 bales of which 107,-
586 were to Great Britain, 20,321 to
France and 76,072 to the rest of the
continent. ,
The imports into continental ports
this week have been 118,000 bales.
These figures indicate an increase
in the cotton in sight Friday night
of 197,725 bales as compared with
the same date of 1890, an increase of
483,003 bales as compared with the
same date of 1889 and an increase
of 349,220 bales as compared with
1888.
The totals show that the old in
terior stocks have decreased during
the week 7,173 bales, and were
Friday night 74,097 bales more than
at the same period last year. The
receipts at the same towns have
been 4,727 bales less than the same
week lust year, but since September
1, the receipts at all the towns are
247,164 bales more than for*the same
time in 1889-90.
The total receipts from the plan
tations since September 1, 1890, are
4,961,747 bales; in 1889-90 were 4,-
741,835 bales; in 1888-89 were 4,266,-
180 bales.
Although the receipts at the out
ports the past week were 246,989
bales, the actual movement from
plantations was only 238,912 bales,
the balance being taken from the
stocks at the interior towns. Last
year the receipts from the planta
tions for the same week were 230,-
868 bales and for 1889 they were
191,560 bales.
The increase in amount in sight
Friday night, as compared with last
year is 314,358 bales, the excess as
compared with 1888-89 is 765,031
bales and the gain over 1887-88
reaches 341,500 bales.
EIIPETSV.
That is what you ought to have, iu
faet, yon must have it, to fully enjoy
life. Thousands are searching for it
daily, and mourning because they tind
it not. Thousands upon thousands of
dollars are spent annually by our peo
ple in the h q>e that they may attain
this boon. And vet it may be had by
all. V. e guarantee that Electric Bitters,
h use according to uireetions and the
use persisted hi, will bring you Good
1 -ge-.tioi! and oust tUe demon Dvspes.a
and install Kupepsy. V ro
. lie .di ■ :i of Id * r, Bit i-each
a; u Jfidti sold at .lye. and per
boivie by V oung .days, druggls'o. *1
1891.
GUNYUS
PHILLIPS.
Cartersville, Georgia.
All accounts standing
open on our books must be
*
closed. No more accounts
drawn off will be presented
IF A COLLECTOR
CALLS ON YOU
PAY HIM
Great Reduction!
—ON—
cams!
Only two Parlor suits left
Going at cost. (Cost us.)
A
Their Stock is Complete in
FURNITURE
ALL KINDS.
LEADERS IN
Carpets,
Matting,
m, Oil Cloth,
im
* * Rugs
-18917
Our business will be run
mostly on the Cash system.
Our business for 1890 has
been good. Thanks to all.
Gunyus & Phillips.
E.& W. R. E. OF AIA.
No 1 Passenger—West
Lv Cartersville lO.nOam.
“ 3tlleshoro..lo.3S **
“ Roekniart .11.83 “
“ Cedartown.. 12,-14 pm
“ WaAier’s .. 1.32 “
" “ Piedmont,. 2.17 “
“ Dnke’s . . 3,30 “
“ it airland. 4.vt •<
Ar Pell City . 0.05 *‘
No 3 Passenger—West
Lv Cartersville...s.s9pm
“ Stile.,boro rt.it ••
“ MeUtiutis ti,2l “
“ Taylorsville.27 •*
“ DaNflttc’s “
“ Ro-kmart “
•• I' sb Creel:... .7.02
Ar Ceia, t0wn....7.23 "
NO. 29.
Xo 2 Passenger—East,
Lv Pell City 8.50 am
“ Rascland 10,17 “
Duke's 11.28 “
“ Piedmont. .. 12.43 pm
“ ’Varner’s 1,32 “
“ Cedartown... 2.25 “
“ Roekmart... 3.12 **
'■ StHaaboro.. 3.50
Ar Cartersville.. 4.30 "
j Xo 4 Passenger—Easti
, l.v Cedartown. .7.30 am
: •• *radj 7.40 “
i•• Fish Creek 7.51 “
j Roekmart .. s.tis *
j “ DavUte’-. .r,17 “
j “ TavlorsT'.;: 2# “
i “ lfetinnLs s.S2 “
! “ fetltesboro 8.30 “
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