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THE COURANT AMERICAN.
VOL. XIX.
MANY MINOR
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Lively Little Local Lines and Lim
pings Linked.
notings OF THE notworthy.
Carefully Corraled Chat of f I v
Concer I -a* of Which the
Courante Cognizant
Mr. J. E. Field spent last Satur
day in Dalton.
Mr. W. M. Graham visited At
lanta Monday.
Mr. Sam Hudgins was down
from Dalton Sunday.
Col. A. S. Johnson made a bus
iness trip to Canton Tuesday.
Miss Bessie Lumpkin has been
on a visit to relatives at Adairs
ville.
Dr. Joe Liddell and Mr. Will
Knight were over from CecLrtown
Saturday.
A housewife has the fires kin
dled with newspapers and calls
them light literature.
Mr. H. M. Veach, of Adairs
ville, made a brief visit to the city
the first of the week.
Rev. A. W. Bealer will deliver
his lecture, “De Big House and
De Kitchen,” at Canton, Friday
eve ing, 2gth instant.
Mr. Josh Kinnett, a former citi
zen of Cartersville, who is now lo
cated in Cherokee county, was
over among his friends here Sat
urday.
P. M. B. Young Camp of Con
federate veterans met last
day and adjourned to next Satur
day when it will consider matters
pertaining to the Savannah re
union.
“In His Steps,” the new story
started in this issue of the Courant
American is one of the strongest
works that has been written in
many a day. Over three million
copies of the work have already
been sold.
Judge John S. Candler, of the
Stone Mountain circuit, who went
to Dalton last week to hold Whit
field court in Judge Fite’s stead,
cleared the jail by trying cases of
prisoners and then adjourned the
court to the second Monday in
May.
Col. Will J. Harris, Senator
Steve Clay’s private secretary,came
through on his way from Cedar
town, to Marietta, on Monday.
Through liis-, "genial nature and
gentlemanly demeanor Will has
made himself quite a favorite
among the Georgians at Washing
ton.
We refer our readers to the ad
vertisement of the Self Culture
Magazine in this issue. The pub
lishers are offering one thousand
dollars in premiums to persons
sending in subscriptions. Self Cul
ture is decidedly the leading ten
ant monthly, and this offer should
be of interest to some of our read
ers.
Editor J. T. Gibson, being de
tained between trains, spent a day
here last week and met many Car
tersville friends, who enjoyed see
ing him. Mr. Gibson is now edit
ing and conducting the Cedartown
Advance Courier, which has great
ly improved under his manage
ment. It is neat and ably edited
and easily takes rank with the best
°f the Georgia weeklies.
] Mr. E. C Bennett left last Mon
day for Cedartown, where he goes
to open up a first-class beef market,
bd's father accompanies him and
"i.l be interested with him. They
ar e. experienced market men,know -
ln g their business as well as any
"ho undertake to serve the public
111 their line anywhere. They are
"orthy of the patronage of the
'ublic and the Cedartown people
have only to find them out to give
tilem all th“v can do. Cartersville
egrets to lose them.
Fore
Makes tne food more delicious and wholesome
ROYAL BAKINO PQWOCB CO.,
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1899.
JUDGE FITE CRITICALLY ILL.
Great Interest and Sympathy Here ]
and Elsewhere.
Last week we mentioned the ill
ness of Judge A. W. Fite. We
are sorry to announce that, from
latest information received before
going to press, his condition,grown
critical, is not improved and he is
now in a dangerous stage. Two
weeks ago today he came from
Dalton, where he was holding court
and after adjourning that body,
and was carried in a vehicle to his
home and took his bed. He had
been complaining for several weeks
of feeling badly and his sickness
was noticeable to his friends while
at Calhoun court, which gomes be
fore Whitfield. He con|i|ined in
his duties at Dalton after he had
been advised not to by his physi
cians. Dr. Greene began attend
ing him as soon as he reached
home and on Sunday night, the
Bth, Dr. Lindsay Johnson,of Rome,
was telegraphed for and came and
staid several days with him. Dr.
Todd, of Atlanta, was summoned
after a few days and the three
physicians consulted and a plan of
treatment was agreed upon which
has since been kept up. Dr. Bar
t >w Fite, a brother of Judge Fite,
whose home is at Muscogee, In
dian Territory, being communica
ted with by telegram, came, reach
ing here last Thursday. He has
been constantly at his bedside and
assisting in the case ever since.
Judge Fite’s trouble is disease of
the kidneys and the intense fevers
that have prevailed, controlled to
sqme extent by medicines, have
caused flighty spells, unconscious
ness and a comatose state inter
mixed at times with periods of ra
tionality. His confinement and
s ff rii ghive told on him a: and he
is now much weaker than at first.
His physicians and attendants are
unrelaxing in their attentions and
putting forth their utmost effoits
for his improvement and restora
tion. The anxiety of his home
people among whom he is so es
teemed is something remarkable,
every heart going out to him in his
pain and weakness and hoping for
his recovery, while from every
part of Georgia—’his public work
making him one of the best known
men in the state —come telegrams
of anxious inquiry about his con
dition.
He was thonght not to have
been so well Tuesday night as he
had been, Tuesday being a very
unfavorable day. Yesterday his
condition was little, if any, chang
ed.
A NEW RECTORY.
Building Begun on the Church Lot
Fronting Bartow Street.
Mr. George Harrison, architect
ural builder for the Episcopal
church in the diocese of Georgia,
came up from his home at Fort
Valley Monday, and was followed
by the material for the building of
anew rectory for Ascension Epis
copal church, which is now on the
grounds and work will be begun
at once.
The house will be a two-story cot
tage with seven rooms, and will be
built on a modern style, fronting on
Bartow street, just back of the
church. It will be completed in
about six weeks and will be for
rent foi the present, but will event
ually be occupied by the re -tor of
the church.
Mr. Harrison, the builder, has
had charge of the building work in
the diocese for several years, and is
a mott pleasant and agreeable gen
tleman. He has been in Georgia
about ten years, coming direct from
his home in England, and talks in
terestingly of the old country. He
is stopping at the Shelman and
will remain here until the work on
the rectory is completed.
Chandler Dobbs, an old colored
man, who died at Emerson last
Sunday evening, was one of the
oldest persons in these regions, his
age being 93. He was for years a
hand at the W. & A. depot in Car
tersville and is said to have been
the first person who ever rolled a
truck there after the depot was
built. He possessed many friends
among the whites as well as the
blacks.
ENCLISHAND
BOERS FIGHTINC
War Opens in Earnest in the Trans
vaal, South Africa-
HOT FIGHTING IS REPORTED-
Conspicuous Braverv on Both
Sides but Sosr Rifles are Harm
leas Azalsat Armoured Train.
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London, Oct. 17. —A
from Pretoria dated Oct, 14, via
Delagoa bay, says.
A cyclist dispatch was received
from Ottoshoep, near Malmani, at
6 this evening, asserting that heavy
fighting had been in progress all
day long north of Mafeking. The
British troops on board an armour
ed train acted as a covering force
t > engineers repairing the track.
Conspicious bravery was dis
played on both sides, but it soon
became apparent that the rifles of
the burghers were ineffective
against an armoured train. The
latter however, was once forced to
retreat before a particularly strong
assault, but soon returned accom
panied by a British mounted con
tingent, and the fighting was re
newed fiercely.
Fighting still continues, the
Boers holding their position. A
dozen Boers were killed or wound
ed but the British casualties cannot
be ascertained.
Heavy firing can be heard south
of Mafeking where Gen. Crofijes’
command is operating. A corps of
experienced continental engineers,
former, officers, has left Pretoria
for the southwestern border
ed by a command of picked Boer
shots. It is probably intended for
large dynamiting operations.
The big engagement is expected
shortly in the vicinity of Lady
smith. The forces of Command
ant Pietvys are encamped on a
mountain overlooking Dundee from
which point they will be able to
observe the movements of the Brit
ish troops.
A DISPATCH FROM COALSBURG.
“It is persistently reported
from widely different sources that
a large force lof Boers resolutely
attached Mafeking on Friday and
after several hours fighting were
repulsed with heavy loss.
Today’s news from the western
border probably reduced the alleg
ed heavy fighting at Mafeking to
ordinary proportions. Apparently
the earlier sensational story origi
nated in the skirmishes between the
armored train and small detach
ments of Boers, although since
then much may have happened to
the little garrison. It is difficult
to understand how refugees arriv
ing at Lorenzo Marquez should
have come into possession of news
of serious Boer losses at Mafeking.
At the same time it must be re
membered that much news from
Transvaal is likely to come by the
way of Delagoa bay, as most other
channels are strictly censored.
ROBINSON’S SHOWS-
A Large Crowd and an Entertain
ing Exhibition.
The old John Robins jnaggrega
tion pitched its big tent on the base
ball ground, in the north part of
town, last Saturday and gave two
oerformances, one in the afternoon
and one at night. While many oi
the older persons were reminded
through some of its features of the
Robinson show of thirty years ; go,
the general appointments were up
to date and everything was on a
meritorious plane. The menagerie
part, while not as extensive as
some, perhaps, was, nevertheless,
a collection ol rare animals that
were splendid specimens—each of
its kind—and were well kept, The
collection gave satisfaction to all
who saw it and a view of it afford
ed instruction to the younger folks,
many of vChom had never before
seen a real specimen from the wild
animal kingdom, such shows hav
ing been far apart in this locality.
The horses were all in fine order,
nice looking, and were splendidly
trained. The costumes of the main
actors were new and neat, while
the performances were such as
would come up to the best of the
day. The trapeze performances,
acrobatic and riding were daring,
unique and pleasing, while the
clowns by their comic doings and
sayings gave an old time flavor to
he performance—John Lowlow,
he veteran jester, was a pleasing
figure to all eyes, showing that he
is still a southern favorite. His
age sits lightly on him, and like
Jefferson, lie looks like he might
be good for several years yet. He
said he had read his obituary more
than any man in America —at least
thirty times —but he thanked God
he was still alive. There was
among the half dozen clowns one
Ezra, the silly, who made a world
of amusement for the crowd as he
tried to find his “pa” and showed
his anxiety lor his brother Bill,
who he was afraid would fall and
“bust his self.”
The spect ic'e of Solomon and
the Queen of Sheba was an innova
tion well appreciated here.
The crowd in attendance at the
day performance is said to have
numbered eight thousand, at the
night entertainment a fourth as
many. There were ten thousand
people in town, it is estimated, the
day of the visit of the show. The
best of order was noticed in the
town ,in the tents and on the grounds
with perhaps an exception or two.
The people generally were pleas
ed with the show.
DONE WITH COTTON.
Mr. Joshua Kinnett Tells His Ex
perience With It.
Mr. Joshua Kinnett, who former
ly lived in Cartersville and who is
well known to our people, came
over from his home in Cherokee
county, last week, and spent a few
days with his friends.
Mr. Kinnett has long been a sub
scribe! to the Courant American
and dropped in to pay his respects.
When asked about his crops he
stated that he made some wheat,
his corn was fine, two pigs were
fattening in the pen which would
furnish him and his wife meat for
another year, and he had plenty of
potatoes, etc.
“How about ycur cotton?” he
was ask^d.
“I don’t raise cotton,” he said.
“A few years ago I made three
bales of cotton. It took one bale
to pick it, one went for rent and
the other for guano. There is no
one at home now except me and
the old lady, and it don’t take much
to do 11s. I work in the field and
she attends to the other things.
We have the woods full of chick
ens, and vyhen we need a little
money, we sell some chickens, but
ter and eggs, but I will neyer plant
another seed of cotton.”
WILL BUILD PASTORIUM.
Some of Material Now Ready and
Work Will Soon Begin.
The Baptists of Cartersville are
now congratulating themselves
and justly, on the fine progress
made in their effort for a pastor
ium. All the funds necessary for
the building of the structure, it is
said, have been subscribed, and
material is now being placed on
the ground. The work will soon
be begun on the building. The
site selected is that part of the
church lot lying between the church
and Mr. Mose Scheuer’s lot.
The structure will be an eight
room house and of modern and at
tractive design.
How hard a mother has to coax before
she can get her child to take its first step.
It is just 'about "35 hard to induce a
confirmed invalid, especially one suffer
ing with weakness of the lungs, to take
the first step to health. There is a lack
of confidence, and perhaps a crushing
experience of a former failure which
depresses and discourages the sufferer.
In spite of doubts and fears you will
take the first step to health when you
take the first dose of Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. It never fails to
help. In ninety-eight cases out of one
hundred it never fails to cure. Never
mind about the symptoms. Obstinate
cough, bleeding of The lungs, spitting of
blood, emaciation, night-sweats, condi
tions which if neglected or unskillfully
treated terminate ki consumption, have
all been perfectly and permanently cured
by “Golden Medical’Discovery.”
Sick persons are invited to consult Dr.
R. V. Pierce by letter, absolutely without
fee or charge. Every letter is regarded
as sacredly confidential. Each answer is
mailed in a plain envelope. Address Dr.
R. V. Pierce, Invalids’ Hotel and Surgi
cal Institute, Buffalo, N. Y.
“My wife was taken sick in August, 1897.”
writes Wm. Huelbig, Esq., of Henton, Franklin
Cos., Ills. "The doctors and neighbors pro
nounced her trouble consumption. I had two
physicians but th.y did not do much good. She
coughed night and day; coulTl not lie down
for coughing and she got down very low. I
thought she never could be curad. Then I got
four bottles of Dr. Pieree's Golden Medical I>is
covery and she took aU of it, and is all right
now. She is stouter titan before wt were mar
ried. She is taking care of the babv and does
all the housework including the washing."
Do You Need Dry Goods ?
Do You Need Clothing ?
Do You Need Shoes ?
Do You Need Mattings ?
Or any other article carried in our large and variedjde
partments ? If so, you will probably do yourself an in
justice, if you do not first stop here and investigate.
NEW ARRIVALS
AND OPENINGS.-^
Every day of our great fall purchases. We state vv h
emphasis that we propose to stand at the head ft r
quality, style and prices. You have never seen dis
played in Cartersville an assortment equal to the show
we are making.
We deserve no credit for our artistic gathering, but
demand your trade on the merit of what we offer you.
Your money can always be had when you in tße least
feel dissatisfied.
Be honest with yourself and courteous to us in care
fully examining in detail our great display.
Wo Want Your Trade.
Wo Sav<- You
J. W. VAUGHAN & CO.
CARTERSVILLE, CA.
FRANK PATTERSON DEAD-
Succumbed to a Complication of
Maladies Tuesday.
The many friends of Mr, Frank
Patterson throughout the county
will be pained to learn of his death
which occurred at his home at
Stilesboro, on Tuesday afternoon
at 5 o’clock. His final sickness
was very brief, and was due to a
cjmbination of physical troubles.
Mr. Patterson has for many years
held the office of coroner of the
county, and possessed a genial na
ture, and was liked by eveiybody.
He was a brother of Messrs.
Charles and Robert Patterson and
Mrs. Colbert. He married about a
year ago a widow lady in Ala
bama. She survives him, as also
one step-child.
The funeral occurred yesterday
afternoon at 3 o’clock. The re
mains were interred at the old
Thurman graveyard Stilesboro.
Softliif
NEW
IN
miNERY.
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ELEGANT AND
Up to Date.
Come and See It.
|ALL \ GREENE
CIRCUSDAY RACKET-
Two Negroes Try to Steal tntc
Show and Meet Trouble.
About the fbne the circus per
formance was O ood started, 011 Sat
urday afternoon, the immensr
throng of people came near being
thrown into a big commc tion bp
the report of two, and then soon
number of shots heard on the out
side oi the tent. As it was a num
ber from the crowd nearest to the
scene ius led wildly from the ten).
It was remarkable the good co
trol the crowd exercised over itseß
un ’.er the txciting circu astaiKes,
tor the popping soundeu veritably
like a young war for awhile.
It seems that two negroes, Sam
Mcßeynolds and Bill Davis, en
deavored to steal under the tent o
the side next to Jhe railroad. They
were interrupted by negro watch
ers belonging to the circus and &
scuffle ensued in which the tow*
darkies got the worst of it. Me
Reynolds went apvay and entering
the house of a negro woman near
by, seized a double-barrel shr#
gun and returned to the scene. A
white man from the circus saw
him coming and pulled down on
him with a Winchester, firing tws.
shots. Mcßeynolds took his stand
behind a tree and tried to shoot
several times but his gun wouldn’i
fire. He was pointing toward the
tent and a shot might have beei
very disastrous among the crow&
inside. Officers came on the scent
and joined in the firing a; the ne
gro. He found it so warm he took
to his heels and as he ran neae
Mr. Hartness, who was on his en
gine on the E. & W. road, thal
gentleman jumped down from his
box and with a long pistol demand
ed of the negro to surrender,whick
he did.
Mcßeynolds was tried before.
Mayor Puckett, and for disorderly
conduct and other cases made
against him, was given forty-five
days on the streets. He was alse
bound over to the superior court ob
a charge of carrying fire arms to
public place.
Deeos art* Fruits,
Words are but leaves.” It is not when
we sv, bat what Hood’s Sarsaparilla
floes that tells the storv. The in--uy
wonderful turn s effected by th's medi
cine a: " the fruits by which it should be
. udged. Thes rove it to be the great,
une [ualed remedy Tor rivsgepsi 1 heu
inutKuu, scrofula, t rheum, catu rit
and all other ailments due to impure er
mpoyerlshed blood.
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