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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 “ SAr Cartersville. ,03 *•