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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 ? 15 LBS. GRANULATED SUGAR, SI.OO. 7 LBS. ROASTED COFFEE, SI.OO. For This Week Only! Come and see us and let us convince you we can give you THE BEST BARGAINS IN TOWN. FREEMAN & HALL West Main Street. 1 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. Prf In time. Sold by druggist*. . . . ™ Baking Powder 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 ■OVAt SAKINQ POWDER CO.. 100 WILLIAM BT.. NEW YORK. 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.