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THE COURANT AMERICAN.
VOL- xix.
iMABLE
ARE RESULTS.
Ciea t Meeting at the Methodist
Church Closed Last Night.
HUNDREDS BROUGHT TO CHRIST
churC h Rolls Increased— Wonder
ful Scenes of Religious Fervor.
' M eetin Closed Last Night.
Tast night at the Methodist
Nttrch closed if not altogether, at
£ one of the greatest religious
matings ever held in Cartersville.
There have been, three hundred
and fifty conversions, reclamations.
The churches haye received over
a hundred accessions, proportioned
about as follows: Methodist, 60;
Baptist, 40; Presbyterian, 15
The interest and deep fervor
spoken of last week has continued,
the altars being filled at every ser
vice and much Shouting indulged
in The day services have been
particularly characterized by deep
The preachers and people of the
other denominations have worked
in beautiful harmony with the two
co-workers, Harris and Dunaway.
There has not been a particle of
levity or irreverence observed dur
ing the meeting and those assem
bled have listened respectfully and
with enchained interest to the
forceful direct sermons of Rev. Mr.
Harris, who has preached every
day and most of the time at two if
not three services.
Many sinners have been reached
who for years have withstood the
most eloquent and impressive gos
pel words.
Monday night about thirty of
the new members were received into
the Methodist church by the pas
tor, Rev. W. R. Branham, and the
scene was a solemn and impressive
one.
Sunday all the churches held
services and each church was
crowded with people.
Rev. W. A. Harris, whom Mr.
Branham brought to his assistance
is a preacher of wonderful force,
his sermons delivered with power
ful earnestness, carrying convic
tion direct to the heart.
The casual student of the work
might say the results were the out
growth of a combination of toward
forces and conditions, but Mr. Har
ris says it is the power of the Holy
Spirit, he having received a bap
tism of the Holy Ghost for service.
“The power of man is impotent; this
is no milk and cider gospel but a
gospel baptized from on high, and
it is for the high and the low, the
rich and the poor, the learned and
unlearned,” said he, and there is
certainly some unusual force as
results show.
Mr. Harris was reared in Banks
county and comes of good preach
ing stock. His father, Rev. J. H.
Harris, was a successful preacher
of the years agone. He is a grand
son of Rev. Wm. J. Parks, one of
the pioneers of Georgia Methodism
and a nephew of Rey.H. H. Parks’
another well known Methodist di
vine. He is a brother of Rev.
bundy Harris, of Young Harris
He was a local preacher
four years and on entering con
crence eight years ago offered
mnself when Bishop Haygood
called for volunteers for western
service. He went to Phoenix,
Arizona, and spent four years in
e . West - Coming back, he was
assigned by the North Georgia
onference to the Rorkmart and
V circuit,where he preacht
three years, as he says withou
ycial results, but this year, his
1 His work has been blessed
T p n v fe 1 s °* couver sions. Rev.
McCarty, of the Cedartown
rk ♦ t> held the meeting for Mr. Har
rev, , Ckmart after a wonderful
H '. a 111 His own church. Mr.
at q.u l^ en con< Eucted a meeting
suits 1 eS A b f°lf with mar velous re
claim^ 1 tlle two meetings it is
>med there were 500 conversions.
sweenHf' e Seems t 0 have been
cepmg eastward.
been Mr'u 1 ' . I)uftawa y, who has
man u Harns ’ assistant, is a lav
but L S home is at Cedartown,
in this ' vas rear ed near Linwood,
n°w Hv M CUUt /’ where his father
be was modest good boy,
meeting , m f rte d the Cedartown
steady s tr : ‘ nd • has under a
proclaim See,ns ever since to
He is a d j S R ot)< lness to others,
hoiter ol ’*derfully effective ex-
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 20i 1900.
LETTER FROM VIRGINIA.
Fine New Court House Which
Would Suit Bartow County.
Harrisburg, Va„ Sept. 14, 1900.
This is the place around which
cluster many recollections of my
early life, and where the happy
days of boyhood were spent. As
I wander among these scenes many
long forgotten occurrences come
back fresh, and for awhile I feel as
if it were but yesterday when they
took place, and I can hear the
merry peals of laughter of my child
hood companions, as we joined in
the sports of the day. As I pass
the many houses that look just as
they used to, I can almost see the
ones that occupied them then and
expect some boy chum to run out
and greet me, and I experience
once again the blissful sensation
of childhood’s first love as hand
in hand we marched along pledg
ing undying love and building air
castles for the future.
When I imagine who occupy
these houses I find not the ones
of boyhood’s memory, but stran
gers, and I am forcibly reminded
that the passage of forty years
makes many changes. This is a
town of some 4,000 inhabitants,
located on a beautiful site, sur
rounded by fine farms, with good
homes and large barns.
The court house is situated in
the center of the town, with wide
streets on four sides, on one side of
which are the main business houses,
most of which will compare favor
ably with any town of the same
size. The court house is one of the
prettest I have ever seen, built of
Indiana stone, with marble floors.
The first floor contains all the offi
ces, fitted up with the latest im
provements and handsomely fur
nished, also court and jury rooms.
The second floor is an auditorium,
furnished with chairs, used for pub
lic meetings, and so arranged as to
be used as an opera house. Upon
the top is a beautiful tower with a
clock. There are three entrances
to two wide halls. The lot is
square with a stonewall all around,
filled in and beautifully shaded,
There are four entrances up mass
ive stone steps and well paved
walks leading to and all around
the house. At the southwest cor
ner of the lot there is a large spring
nicely walled in and roofed over,
also at south entrance there is a
drinking fountain. This beautiful
structure has cost the good people
oue hundred and twenty thousand
dollars. What would Bartow vot
ers say to this kind of a court
house?
The town is lighted with
electric light, and has a splendid
system of water works, the supply
being drawn from a massive clear
spring on the side of a mountain,
fourteen miles away, in a Lrge
pipe, and with sufficient gravitation
to throw it into a reservoir on the
highest hill surrounding the town,
from which it is distributed over
the town and, with hose, can be
thrown over the highest building,
The overflow from the resovoir,
which is bright and clear, goes rip
pling down one of the streets, just
at the edge of the sidewalk, and
these hot days looks very cool and
refreshing. It is a perfect paradise
for wading to the small boy.
The thermometer has gone over
a hundred nearly every day since
we came here, the highest has been
one hundred and six. I tell these
people I will have to go back to
Georgia to cool off. I miss your
weekly visits.
J. C. H.
APPALLING DEATH TOTAL
Over 4.000 Identified—Over 8,000
People Have Left the City.
Houston, Tex., Sept. 17 —The
latest list of the dead in the Gal
veston disaster printed by the Post
revised to date accounts for 4,078
persons. The Post states that its
source of information is very good,
and that none of the persons whose
names are printed in the list 1 v
been heard from and that a . ea
number of names have been lur
nished by relatives of those dead.
The number of people who have
left Galveston is now stated at
relief headquarters to be over
8,000. Of these about 5.000 are
now in Houston being cared for.
Others have gone on into the in
terior of the state or to other states.
The number coming today shows
no falling off. New arrangements
made at Galveston enable people
to get out without so much red
tape and they are taking advan
tage of the opportunity to do so.
Gov. Sayers has now taken
charge of the relief work here as
well as other points and money is
being given out where needed more
than provisions and clothing.
NEGRO BOY
SNOT AND KILLED.
Victim Was After Muscadines and
Gets in a Row
WHICH TERMINATES SERIOUSLY
Sally Huggins. Too Handy With
Weapon. Now In Jail—Says it
Was Accident.
Claud Allen, a negro lad about
fourteen years old, met death from
a pistol shot last Sunday afternoon.
The boy, with three others, went
to a large muscadine vine and
climbing the tree it was on were
seen by the Huggins’, a family liv
ing 150 yards away. A Huggins
boy hailed them and told them to
leave. They jawed with the boy.
The boy’s mother came on the
scene and abusing the negro boys,
caused them finally to leave the
vine, but the quarrel was continued
on the ground. The woman and
boy went in the house and in a lit
tle while the boy appeared at the
door and yelled “Rook out.” The
next moment a shot rang out and
Claude Allen fell, a bullet piercing
his bowels. He died soon after.
On theTitowah property, near
where the old railroad trestle cross
es the Corbin road, in a rude hut
jutting almost right against the
road, lives in squalor, with her two
children, a boy and girl, q. woman
named Sally Huggins. They eke
out a miserable existence by beg
ging. All kinds of propositions
have been made to the woman,
among them that of taking one or
both the children to work and live
as far as possible like folks, and
that of moving the whole wretched
“push” to the poor house, but with
bitter scorn she spurns them all and
prefers to exist as she does, saying
she would die before she would go
to the house of alms. They are
imbeciles almost and the family
group presented a wretched picture
as they sat in Judge Cobb’s court
arraigned on the charge of murder.
The woman was bound over and
sent to jail, the children turned
loose.
The woman claims she flourished
the pistol to scare the boys and it
went off accidentally.
Jurors for Adjourned Term-
The following is a list of jurors
which will serve at the adjourned
term of Bartow superior court,
which convenes on Monday, Sep
tember 24th:
E. W. Smith, M. H. Maxwell,
T. C. Galloway, W. M. Trippe,
Daniel Lowrv, W. T. Pittard,
S. J. Carlisle. G. H. Hall,
J. G. Broughton, M. Stoner,
J. O. Hubbard, W. W. Donald,
David Fountain, T. R. Turner,
C. J. Booker, L. C. Franks,
W. C. Clements, G. W. Waldrup,
C. B. Whitworth, W. A. Foster,
J. W. McCasson, G. T. Venable,
O. Y. Layton, M. H. Hornbuckle,
Henry Mayhew, William Brown,
G. A. Fink, J. M. Hammond,
T. D. Watkins, A. R. Kerr,
W. R. McMillan, Van W. Davis,
Jesse Harris, L. N. Gilreath,
W. D. Rowland, C. W. Sproull.
Hows’ This ?
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7 LBS. ROASTED COFFEE, SI.OO.
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BAPTISM SERVICES-
Held at the First Baptist Church
Last Sunday Night.
There was an unusually large
congregation at the Baptist church
at the evening service on Sunday
night last. The services were
conducted by the pastor, Rev. A.
W. Bealer, who preached from the
text. “The Lord looseth the pris
oners” —Psalm 146, verse 7. The
sermon was very interesting ?nd
instructive and delivered in a very
forceful manner. At the conclu
sion of the sermon the ordinance of
baptism was administered to the
following named persons who had
joined the church upon a relation
of their Christian experience.
Misses Isabel and Mamie Ray
and Mr. Clayton Ray, Misses
Ophelia and Fannie Hill, Caldwell
Griffin, Jamie Corley, Tom, Miles
and Sam Galloway, James Baker
Misses Jessie Burton, Ida May
Matthews and Lucy Hilturn. The
administration of this ordinance
of baptism, was a solemn and
beautiful sight, showing forth to
the world the burial and resurrect
ion of the Lord Jesus Christ, and
the preacher seemed to be specially
delighted with the privilege of
leading these young converts into
the baptismal waters to bury them
with our Christ in Baptism, as the
Baptists understand the scriptures
to teach that this sacred ordinance
should be administered. His quo
tations were apt and pointed during
these services. The ordinance of
of baptism will be administered on.
next Sunday evening to a number
of pthers who have already joined
as well as to all others who may
join at that service and are prepar
ed to be baptised. May the good
Lord continue brother Bealer and
his family and give him many souls
for his hire.
“Observer.”
Birmingham, Alabama & Georgia-
Manufacitiers Record.
The Birmingham, Alabama &
Georgia Railroad Cos., which was
recently incorporated in, Alabama,
contains a number of large share
holders of the East & West Rail
road, which was projected to ter
minate at Birmingham, Ala. It
has been rumored for some time
past that arrangements were being
made to build the extension, which
would be about twenty miles in
length, between Pell City, Ala.,
and Birmingham. It is announced
in connection with the incorpora
tion of the new company that work
is to begin immediately, and that
contracts have been let to the Man
hattan Construction Cos. It is in
ferred from the statement that the
Birmingham, Alabama & Georgia
is practically a reorganizaiton of
the East & West road, with the in
tention of completing it to Birming
ham at once. Such an extension
would give Birmingham another
railroad outlet to the east and add
greatly to its importance as a trans
portation center. The new com
pany is capitalized at $20,000,000.
C. H. Hudson is president:Edward
Kelley and E. P. Miller, vice-presi
dents; J. C. Beatty, secretary.
President Hudson was formerly
chief engineer of the Southern
Railway.
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t
Economy
The manufacturers of Royal
Baking Powder have always declined
to produce a cheap baking powder
at the sacrifice of quality.
The Royal is made from the
most highly refined and wholesome
ingredients, and is the embodiment
of all the excellence possible to be
attained in the highest class baking
powder.
Royal Baking Powder costs only
a fair price, and is cheaper at its
price than any similar article*
Samples and mixtures made In kalUtif!* <4 h&kint
powders, but containing alum, are frequently dis
tributed from door to door, or given away m
grocery stores. Such mixtures are dangerous
to use in food, and in many cities their sale is
prohibited by law. Alum is a corrosive poison, and
all physicians condemn baking powders containing it
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MEET IN CARTERSVILLE.
Bartow County Baptist Union Meet
Here Sept. 28th.
The twenty-fourth meeting of
Bartow County Baptist Union will
be held with first Baptist church,
of Cartersville, Ga., Friday before
the fifth Sunday in September.
Baptist churches of the county are
inyited to send representatives.
The following is the programme:
Friday 10:30 a. m. Prayer ser
vice.
Friday 11 a. m. Introductory
sermon, subject, “Saved to serve.”
Text, John 17, 18. Rev. L. E.
Roberts. Alternate, Rev. A. H.
Rice.
Friday p. m. Usual discussion
of subject of morning sermon.
1. Was Jesus Christ a foreign
missionary? Rev. W. M. Dyer,
Rev. E. M. Dyer, R. L. Rogers, W.
H. Howard.
Saturday morning. Are the
words of Jesus in John 13, 34, 35,
as referred to by John 3, 23, 24.
binding upon Christians of today?
Rev. W. J. King, Rev. W. M. Dyer,
A. M. Foute, L. P. Gaines, H. M.
Dunalioo.
Saturday afternoon. Is it right
for a church member when chang
ing his residence from one locality
to another to leave bis church let
ter behind him? Rev. J. E. Hud
son, G. M, Isbell, Rev. A. J. Bu
ford, T. N, Pittard, J. H. Gilreath.
Why do so few chuich members
take an active interest in church
work? J. J. Conner, Rev. T. R.
Morgan, W. E. Cason, H. J. Mc-
Cormick.
Sabbath morning. Sunday
school mass meeting. Speakers,
Rev. E. M. Dyer, W. H. Lump
kin, A. Y. Sheats.
R. A. Clayton,
Chm’n of Ex. Com.
Adairsville Banner please copy.
Attention! Veterans-
A meeting of P. M. B. Young
Camp, No 820, U C. V., will be
held at the court house Saturday,
October 6th, at 10:30 o’clock.
Delegates to the Augusta reunion
will be chosen. A full attendance
urged. A. M. Foute,
Commander.
D. B. Freeman,
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETS
Candidates Assessed for Println*
Tickets, &c.
The Democratic Executive com
mittee met at the court house o
Saturday the 15th inst., and or
ganized by electing John S. Leake,
chairman, aud Dr. F. V. Turk,
secretary.
The committee ordered the
the printing of a sufficient number
of tickets for the October election,
and all of the candidates assessed to
meet the expenses of the tickets
and such other incidental expenses
as may be necessary.
It was ordered that the ticket
contain the names of the regular
democratic nominees, but a candi
date failing to make for the pay'
ment of the same will not be en
titled to have his name printed on
the tickets.
Each candidate was assessed
$2.30, except county commission
ers, coioner and surveyor, who are
assessed $1.56 each. These sums
should be paid to J, H. Wikle at
once.
The meeting adjourned subject
to the call of the chairman.
Insane Officer Attacks His Men-
Washington, sept, 16. —The war
department today received infor
mation from General Mae Arthur
of the tragic death in the Philip
pines of Captain Charles McQuis
ton of the Fourth regiment of
United States iufan ry, the result
of a wound by a private soldier.
Gen. MacArthur’s dispatch is as
follows:
“Manila, Adjutant General
Washington: Charles McQuistoa
(captain) Fourth U. S. infantry,
died yesterday at Mangonone, Ba
coor, Cavite province at 8:30 even
ing resulting from gun shot wound
caused by a private soldier. Cap
tain McQuiston in a fit of tempor
ary insanity attacked men of his
company. Shot one or more and
was shot himself in self-defense.
Further particulars when received."
Fall time is the best
season to paint—Good
PAINTS and cheap
Paints.
Word, The Druggist.
NO. 49.