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THE C OURANT-AMERI CAN.
"V OL. X.
OF LOCAL INTEREST.
Some of the Happenings in and
Around ( artersville.
The .Grindings of the City Court—A Small
Sized Shooting Affair—An Attempt
at Suicide.
The following business was trans
acted at the last term of the city
court:
State vs, Henry Johnson, misde
meanor; verdict of guilty. Fined
$25 and costs.
State vs. Jack Thomas, simple
larceny; plea of guilty. Sentenced
to pay a fine of S3O and costs or
work on the changang four months.
State vs. S. F. Thompson ; default
ing witness. Plea of guilty; fined
sls.
State vs. Will Sampson, simple
larceny; plea of guilty. Sentenced
to work on the chain gang for the
term of ten months.
Ford, Glover & Hight vs. I). Mur
chison and J. 1). Murchison, com
plaint; verdict for plaintiffs for
$535.09, principal, $75.43 interest.
State vs. Pete Weaver, misde
meanor; verdict of not guilty.
State vs. Martha Davis, riot; ver
dict of guilty. Fined S3O.
State vs. Press Bailey, misde
meanor. Nol prossed.
State vs. Lewis Scrutchens, mis
demeanor. Nol prossed.
A Small Sized Shooting Affair.
Last Tuesday night Mr. Cale
Goode and a negro by the name of
Charlie Ransom became involved
in a quarrel, which came near re
sulting seriously. Mr. Goode was
at Field Bros’, stable, on the east
side of the town, and was, in a
spirit of fun, fooling with the
younger brother *of Ransom. The
latter happened along and grew
very angry and insulting over the
affair, and finally let fly two brick
bats at Goode, one striking him
near the shoulder. The negro then
ran as Goode leveled his pistol and
fired. The ball, however, missed
its mark, but Ransom was so badly
frightened that he was not seen
any'more that night.
A Would Be Suicide. ,
There was a small sensation in
tliis city Saturday night over an
attempt at suicide. A man who
lives a few miles south of this city,
came to town and attempted to get
from the druggists a bottle of j>oi
son with which to end his life.
The druggists, however, refused to
let him have it, but he afterwards
in some way obtained a bottle of
laudanum. He carried this to the
Shelman hotel, where he obtained
a room. A relative of his followed
him to the hotel and got the poison
away from him before he could
employ its deadly effects.
Southerners in Washington.
Mr. Lothrop, the Boston publish
er, who has been in Washington
for several weeks, is a shrewd ob
server, says a writer in the New
York Tribune. He has been about
in the various hospitable houses of
Washington, and while here has
met many southern people. He
says that as‘entertainers they are
the most charming people in the
world. They have an ease and
grace and a kindliness in their way
of receiving one which he admires.
He says that it does northern peo
ple good to come in contact with
the more easy-mannered people of
the south. They learn to know
each other better when they meet
in a social way. If the disturbing
element of politics could be elimi
nated, the two sections would soon
become firm friends, and bo f h sides
would be the gainer. Mr. Lothrop’s
comment is a just one. The best
southern people at Washington are
noted for their characteristic meth
ods of entertaining. In a good
southern house there is never any
ostentation, any desire to overawe
or impress a guest with display.
The genuine southern host or hos
tess seeks to please in the simplest
and surest way. The southern peo
ple in society are easy in their
manners. They are the best com
panions at the dinner table at
Washington. They tell the quaint
est stories, and appear to have a
keen appreciation of fun. This in a
social way. In politics they are
altogether solid, united against
the north, which is regarded al
ways with jealousy, and with the
firm conviction that it should not
be in the position of control. The
southern people are ambitious to
control this country, as they did
before the war. I heard a charm
ing southern lady say the other
CARTE RSVLLLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. MARCH 19. 1891.
evening that tlie south ruled this
country before the war and it was
their darling ambition to rule
again. She said:
*A\ e are coming up now fast, and
you will soon see us where we
were.”
As she is the wife of one of the
leading politicians of the south,
t'ds remark means something. All
o the southern women are furious
politicians, and are even more am
bitious than thei*.husbands. When
once the position of superiority is
reached, then they will be as agree
able as need he to their northern
associates. The union of the sou h
and the west is a well direct and
movement toward such control.
Among the Hoses and Parks.
Editors Courant-American:
The sunny clime of this thrice
favored land is often spoken' of as
“the land of flowers,” and if we its
denizens have not made it so, who
is there to blame in the matter but
ourselves? The spring breezes that
are wafted from the many hills of
this county reach us in delightful
perfumes from blossoming loveli
ness. Do they bring with them
lessons of the divine 10-ve and favor
to the many children of earth or
not? Do they not inspire us with
a more profound love of our native
land, and warm our hearts with
enlarged charities, and a larger de
gree of forbearance for the frailties
of our fellow pilgrims, who in com
mon with ourselves are obliged to
reflect upon a more perfect and un
fading beauty over life’s river in
the better land? Such thoughts
must sifrely stir the emotions of all
who think wisely or reflect well.
In all the suggestions offered for
advertising and otherwise attract
ing the regard and admiration of
new comers to our town and its
resources, how little has been said
or written about moving ahead in
developing a true and enlightened
taste for the beautiful, in nature or
art. Who.can gainsay the magical,
effect of beauty upon the human
soul ? Its power and influence is
feR. nnd observed wherever human
beings dwell. Even the brute
creation is exercised by its potent
charm.
It is a resource from within be
stowed by an all wise Benefactor;
and is to be exercised, fostered and
developed by ourselves. Strangers
cannot *do this for us. It is dor
mant and profitless unless exer
cised and that continually. The
charming loveliness displayed in
the many city parks of Savannah,
Ga., the air of bewitching beauty
exhibited in many private yards of
Marietta, have invested those cities
with an enticement that has belted
this entire Union.
Cartersville has a natural soil
throughout her entire circumfer
ence, and all around the city that
is incomparably superior for such
a display than either place named.
Fathers, mothers, reflect on these
things, beautify your homes; make
them the dearest, most interesting,
most entertaining and attractive
spots on earth to the young. This
is the secret of keeping them away
from forbidden walks, the bar
room included. Next to good and
beautifully mannered inmates, pro
fitable means of culture and im
provement in doors, comes beauti
ful surroundings outside, which
carry also useful lessons through
life. While it is true that many
private grounds in our town have
very much of beauty in their exhibi
tions of flowers, shrubbery and other
decorations, there seems a very ex
tensive margin for improvement in
the matter of designing and ar
ranging the improvements therein
made. Respectfully,
M. E. Cooper.
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gar at Young A Mays’. mchl2-2m
Full line of the best brands of crock
ery and glassware at Martin Collins A
Cos. In prices and qualities they can
not be surpassed.
The best 5 cent cigar in the world, the
El Merito, at Young A Mays’. mehl2-2m
Prescriptions are prepared at lowest
prices, from the best drugs, by It, C.
Miot. Eighteen year’s experience.
Smoke the El Merito cigar, at Young
A Mays. mchl2-2m
Piano for sale cheap. Cal
at Tennessee House.
MONEY TO LOAN.
\Ve have recently made arrangements
l>v which we are enabled to negotiate
loans on improved farm lands in sums
of S3OO and upward, on very easy terms
and at lower rates than heretofore offer
ed in the county. Farmers desiring to
borrow money willconsult theirinteresi
bv calling to see us.
FOUTE A MILNER,
meh2s-3m Cartersville, Ga.
PLODDER'S PICKINGS.
Off-Hand Suggestions From a
Thinker Who Thinks.
A Sehenif, the Consummation of Which
Would Make Some Visible Changes*
If it Did Nothing Else.
“I have it.”
Not knowing whether it was
something merely in the form of a
suddenly acquired fortune or some
new ami popular malady, I evinced
my Impatience by instantly asking:
“What is it?”
“Scheme.”
“Ah!”
“That’s it”
“Fire me theminuthc if you don’t
object.”
The party was one of those fel
lows who always, according to
lodge lore, “knows something for
the good of the order,” and right
eager did he appear to dispense the
pent up contents of his mental
store on this particular occasion.
“The old depot.”
“Yes, it has been a kind of bone
of contention, so to speak, bound
less eye-sore, a target for sponta
neous criticism, a relic, a “wluit
is-it ?”
* * *
“Well, my scheme is to move it,”
ventured this random thinker, and
as he proceeded his countenance
bore a superlative enthusiasm lie
tokening a consciousness of a pe
culiar ability to think.
‘Now let the city offer to grade
out a road bed from this side of
Pettit’s creek, running along the
edge of the town and next to the
big hill on the west and then either
back or front of Mrs. Akerman’s to
a point on the present bed this side
the river, move ties, rails and
switches, and the depot from the
present bed over to it. The rail
road has a prettier and perhaps
nearer run. They lose nothing,
perhaps gain something.”
* * *
“Now, it is possible that for varied
benefits derived owners of proper
ty over which the’new bed would
go would gladly give the right of
way, and the city could do thi.
work with but little cost, and tliis
could be practie. 1 y mi t with pr -
ceeds of the sale of the old road
bed and switch ground properties.
You see there is a big space down
southward from Main street and i!
would bring a good price for busi
ness and manufacturing sites.”
“Or, if the city preferred, slu
might let the old bed remain as om
large, inviting looking street, trim
ming it to regular bounds and prop
erly grading, etc.”
“Now take the square around the 1
depot, grade it nicely, set out in
trees, put an attractive fence around
it and you have one of the most ad
mirable and showy parks to be
found in any town.”
“Is that all ?”
“No, hold on; you hadn’t proba
bly thought of the fact that this
would effectually do away with the
division now existing between the
east and west sides of town, for
there would be no east and west,
but only a west side. This seems
practicable and feasible to me,”
said this local philosopher and I at
least gave him credit for a sincere
interest in the city’s welfare.
* * *
The banks have made all tin
loans they care to. This seems to
be the situation and any amount of
money could be put out at interes ,
perhaps, if one had it to offer, am
that safely, too.
The several loan agents could tel!
about this, but I believe generally
they claim, with perhaps an excep
tion or two, they liaye placed all
they have on hand. One of our
good citizens was talking about the
scarcity of money and how the con
dition bln braced many who ha<
usually handled it rather- plenti
fully.
“By the way, I have a few dol
lars wrapped up in a little schcn e
that I wish I could see performing
its mission or the amount turned
back to me, as I could use it to good
advantage now. I mean the sub
scription to the shops.”
And, do you know hi* remarl
applied to the feelings of nearly all
who subscribed to that fund ? Tht
land company collected the varied
sums with alacrity and the aggre -
gate seems well cared for, and nc
one doubts their ability to replaet
the money if the shops don’t go up
but this impatience on the part o'
those subscribing is natural, and 1
can’t help it. Perhaps the land
company could explain matters.
The Plodder.
A Tltll* TO ALA HAMA.
Kev. E. Darling Has Some Interesting
Things to Tell.
Editors Courant-American:
Oak llill, Ga., March 16, 1891.
My better half and myself boarded
tile cars at Rome on February 26th
for Oxford, Ala. The snow was
failing and fast, hut melting
nearly as fast as it fell. As tl e
cars sped along we would look out
at the country anti the depots and
tried to see all we could. We
noticed a large meadow field almost,
HfjWe thought, covered with goats.
Thinks I, “did ever any one see so
many goats*”’ On closer inspec
tion I found they were slumps, the
north sitle of which were covered
with snow. We soon found our
selves among the mountains • of
Alabama, the tops of which wt re
covered with snow. It was a beau
tiful sight.
We found Oxford a live town
with considerable trade, having re
ceived by wagon upwards of 12,000
bales of last year’s crop of cotton.
It has also a dummy line five or
six miles long, tlie dummy making
trips every hour, a college with up
wards of 200 students, with gootl
churches, which all spoke to us
that these people were a united, en
ergetic people, anti I realized the
old saying that in “union there is
strength.” I found several of Bar
tow’s boys there, and some of then,
subscribers to your paper. It
would do you good to see how anx
ious they are to get the Gourant-
Ame’rican and read its pages. Those
who went from . the seventeenth
look for “Slim Jim’s” dots the first
thing, and if there is nothing from
“Slim Jim” they are disappointed.
We went from Oxford down in
Talladega county to Lanier’s mil!.
Vv e also found a number of persons
there from Bartow and theCourant-
American visiting them, anti, like
the Oxfordites, relish its contents.
We learned that all of those who
or.ee Jived in Bartow still dearly
love old Bartow. One old gentle
man who had traveled around con
siderably said that if he wanted to
farm he would never leave Bartow
lounfy. We found the Laniers
doing a big business sawing lum
b r, sawing about 25,900 feet per
day, besides a car load or so of
shingles. They have almost eight
miles of railroad, logging their mill
and shipping their lumber on their
own road and with their own cars.
May success still attend them, for
they have vim and energy.
We went from thence back to
Rome, and there we boa. dial the
cars for Lyrely, on the Chatta
nooga, Rome A Columbus railroad,
in Chattooga county, Ga. We went
from there to Alpine by private
conveyance, and Oh, what a horri
ble road! We found Prof. If. C.
Ethridge and family there, with a
very pleasant and comfortable
home, and teaching a large school.
We find that the Couraot-Ameri
can also visits this place and as
eagerly read as at Oxford and
Lanier’s mill. When we returned
home we came from Rome by p i
vate conveyance. The road is
macadamized from Rome to Spring
Creek, a distance of about eight
miles, and oh, what a contrast this
part of the road and that which is
not macadamized. I wish the tax
payers of Bartow county could
have traveled over this road and
then compared it with the mud and
slush of other roads that are not
so worked. If they had I think we
would devise some plan by which
we might improve our own roads.
We find that Bartow county has
a good name abroad and let us be
united in adding fresh laurels to
her good name. Let us unite in
building anew court house, which
will compare with the fertility of
our soil and our rich mineral hills.
But if we croak and grumble and
livide and let our prejudice con
-1 rol us we will stagnate and not
move with the great progressive
tide.
We found Rev. George Harris,
>ne of Bartow’s ministers, pastor of
the Baptist church at Oxford. We
found Rev. Waller Lanier at the
Lanier mill, another one of Bar
tow’s minister’s, still preaching
with his usual warmth and zeal.
We learned that Rev. Air. Law.
who went from the Kingston cir
cuit, was preaching to a church
near Alpine, in Chattooga county,
and we regretted not meeting him
as he was not out at his regular a; -
pointment, we suppose in conse
quence of the bad weather. H.
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Fine Jersey milch cow, with young
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nich 19-4 t
NEW GOODS!
Attractive Styles !
LOW PRICES-
Porter & Vaughan are now receiving daily their mam
moth stock of
Spring Goods.
We extend a cordial invitation to the trading public to
inspect our stock. Our line of
DRESS GOODS
Satins, Ginghams, Outings, White Goods, Embroidery,
Laces, Muslins and wash goods embrace every
thing new and desirable. We are determined
to lead the town in low prices, variety of
styles and first-class goods.
Oiir Clothing Department
this season is immense, containing all the new styles
and fabrics for men, youths and children. We
make -a specialty of boys’ and childrens’ suits
and extra pants. Our prices will be lower
than ever before known in North Geor
gia. Our clothing department em
braces everything from the cheap
est to the finest. The largest
SHOE DEPARTMENT
in North Georgia can be found in our house. Nearly
Five Thousand pairs of new spring shoes will be
. received by us this month, from the best facto- ’
ries in the Union, embracing all styles and
* grades for men, ladies and children.
Us uur puces are guaranteed under all competition.
PORTER S M3UGHKN,
Leaders of the Dry Goods Trade, Cartersville. Ga.
The Town Loafer’s Views.
In going over to the depot, en
deavoring to get a nows item, we
met the “Loafer.” As we neared the
spot where he stood we saw by the
way he had fixed his mouth he ha
something to say, and just as we
got in speaking distance he re
ms rked:
“Well, they certainly have done
it this time!”
“Done what?”
“Yes, they have done it,” he said.
“Done what ?” was the reply.
“Why, the city fathers have made
that portion of Cartersville facing
the railroad look like a bob-tail bul
in fly time, and now just look at
her young oaks in front of the Shel
man house. Some of them have
been trimmed like a mule’s tail.
Did you ever see the like of such
landscape.gardening ?
“In most towns great care is taken
with the trees planted on the public
squares and the streets, but here all
those on the Bank block have been
cut down except one, and that looks
fearfully lonesome, while those on
the square have been trimmed, as 1
said before, like a mule’s tail.
“There can be no reason why they
were so trimmed, unless it was be
cause being unable to tackle the
inud on the streets the city fathers
determined to do something, and
ihey certainly have succeeded.
• “There is nothing that so sets off
a city or town as plenty of hand
some shade trees. If any one will
visit Augusta and go over Green
street he will be struck with the
beautiful trees; and Savannah also
is noted for some beautifully shaded
streets; but then Cartersville is not
Cartersville unless she does things
a little different from the other
towns in the state.
“I really think if President Har
rison intended to make a southern
tour he should come here and see
those oaks, for I know of nothing in
the south that can compare to them
in their uniqueness. If he don’t
come here I think it would be a
great scheme to send the two near
the telegraph pole to the world’s
fair at Chicago as a specimen of the
idvancement made by Cartersville
in tree trimming—we could call it
the “bartow mule cut.” With that
remark Loafer took anothew chaw
jf his tobacco and pointed to the
dumps of the t.re*s that had been
cut down on the B. ,;k block..
■m you think thev wer©
left for?”
‘u ~n I .mngine,” was the reply.
\t ell, 1 think t Wits done to"
mice visitors believe that ( m-ters
ille was one of those now, boom
ng tow ns that have so suddenly
•pmng up all over the south. That
her citizens were hustlers, cut
iown the trees ’one day and the
next there rose a fine block of huiM
ings. It was a good scheme, and
would have worked pretty \<ou :f
the buildings bad only been made
to look like new ones. I tell you
there is nothing like having city
fathers who are bent on doing some*
tiling but who do not care very
much wiiat that something is so
they are on the do.”
“Well, you seemed out of sorts
this morning?”
“No, ’ he replied, “I am only a lit
tle cut up on tiie tree question,” was
the answer of the town
Loa fer.
A “POME.”
Not a light was seen, not a single one,
As away to my room I hurried;
Not a glimmer was shone, not e’en the
moon,
On the streets where the gas mains
were buried.
T carefully picked my way along
In darkness, fearing the ditches;
Hut, alas! I fell to the bottom of one,
And muddied my Sunday “brit dies.”
“Oh where, oh where, did the lamp
lighter stop?”
Was the cry of this poor pedestrian,
As I wrathtully rolled around in the
slop,
And wished I was an equestrian.
With very great effort I dragged myself
out,
While rhy mind was greatly flustered.
As I wended my way, I found, with
dismay
That my Sunday pants were “busted.”
Tiddlf-dy Winks.
An Actual* Fact.
You can keep your eyes clear and
bright and vision perfect by having
your glasses properly fitted, it is a fact
in eight cases out of ten that one eve
will be stronger than the other. You
should not have vour spectacles and eye
glasses fitted by numbers and guess,
but the glasses should be scientifically
fitted to both eyes and the frame ad
justed to the face. Call and have vour
eyes examined by W. C. Abbott,
Scientific Optician.
At W. L. Bolt’s jewelry store, Bank
block, next to post office.
NO. 89.