Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

Tlie Cartersville Courant-Ai 11 erica n. VOL. VIII. OUR DAY IN ADAIRSVILLE. One of North Georgia’s Most Prom ising Towns., \'lv;tiitaK<'* Trade, Mamifncturieß, I Market HunleniiiK, Mill ing mu] IMeaHant Homes. liartow is a great county. Si*: has advantages and attractions. She i, jW cause to be ju-oud of Adairsville—one tin 1 most delightful places for a liome , M ~11 Georgia, resting like a diamond in sotting of precious stones —with her r ich surroundings, being the headquarters jor the tamous Oothealoga valley, noted and near for its rich farming lands, splendid sto< k farms, etc. The writer spent last Friday in Adairs ilic. We had not been there in over tin.a vwurs, and was struck with the aiiui.v evidences of progress and improve niHit that met our eyes on every hand. The people are bouyed up with the gen .pjrit ot progress that prevadts our a bolt* seetion, and are more hopeful for the future of their splendid town than we have ever known them. Prominent among the improvements, we noticed two handsomenew churches— baptist and Methodist. They are both tastv, convenient and commodious structures, and with the Presbyterian church, furnish Adairsville with as good church privileges as any town of the size we know ot. # * Mr. Thos. Johnson, one of the live men o! the place, is building anew brick store house adjoining his drug store, which is one of the most attractive establishments of the kind in this section. Mr. George Yeach is building a dwelling house in the northern end of town that will hen perfect beauty when completed. Other important improvements are in contemplation. We can confidently commend Adairs ville to those in search of pleasant South ern homes. The citizens are highly in* telligent, hospitable, church-going; no saloons, no drunkards, and it is very rare to find a community so free from immoral influences. The educational advantages are supe rior. There are two good schools for the population ; the principals arecol graduates, and have able and ac complished lady assistants. This point is the center of trade for a wide scope of country. Farmers for many miles around bring their produce here for sale and shipment, for which they receive the highest market prices, and they bay their supplies and farm imple ments of these merchants, from whose large stocks they can always be abun dantly supplied. There are annually shipped from this station about 100,000 bushels ol oats, •5,000 bales of cotton, 125,000 bales of hay of lot) pounds each, 600,000 pounds of •■otton seed, 200,0*00 dozen of eggs, besides large quantities of beef, pork, poultry and butter and other farm products. flight, years ago only fifty bales of cot ton were shipped, now 8,000; then no rotton seed at all, now 600,000 pounds. Thirteen years ago the business of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, at this Nation, was from $450 to SSOO a month; imw its business is irom $2,500 to 5f4,000 monthly, notwithstanding the ■>: io s of freight and passenger rates ha ve ■ M ‘ii induced one-half. From this some ■ !'“a ot t lie growing importance of Adairs ■ illetnay be obtained. To the above ■mentioned shipments lrom this station dWMhe added the amount of flour and l y manufactured and slipped by J. M. B'‘aoli y (’o ( merchant millers of this ■ ‘are. They have one of the largest and appointed Hom ing mills in the State. W l '-leaeh established the first mill in l,S ' having a capacity of 100 barrels 1%. 1 lie flour was of such a superior •‘tv that the demand far outgrew the ■ il pacity of the null. In 1881 lie built a " mill having a capacity of 250 bar ■ (Jl ' ->O.OOO pounds, which aggregates !Ug<> amount of 15,000,000 of ■oinds of Hour a year. In addition it '"“Is about- 500 bushels of corn a week, 25,000 a year. ■ W* in svilli* is perhaps the boss butter, J. aud egg market on the line of the I " 11 n and Atlantic Railroad. a quiet, pleasant retreat in summer Southern people, and in winter for h'uni the frozen North, this city ■'especial attraction. The health f j I'hx-e is proverbial, as indicated by mild climate, the perfect surface r '-"'.mu and the pure water; withal, I ( ' ,,s t ol living here is bat little, so ■ Jurists seeking rest and quietness 1,1 busy activities of life will find M>r " well calculated to charm and Kflr - a < !l J‘>ye<l our day in Adairsvifle rery I Ik"' " il!l^‘ w ‘hh our old friends aud HBj ‘uuiiy new ones. 1 11-.I 1 -.- ' t| - Capers, a gentleman well I 9 '* dl| d a live citizen of our fiourrsh | lIHI IH town, has accepted the po- I (,i "ditor of our Adairsville depart- I “ respectfully ask the people of I 1 ' llO,l Cos aid him in making it in -1 cv giving- him dots of import- B A WAR SECRET REVEALED. How (irnnt Obtained Knowledge of the Movements of I’emberton’s Army. Prof. Jos. T. Derry contributes the fol lowing in reference to the battle of La ker’s (’reek, and which will probably ex plain why the Confederate army under General Pemberton was defeated: On page 545 of volume 111 of the Cen tury Company’s great book, “Battles and Leaders of the Civil War,’’ I find something which will perhaps be new to many of your readers. It is headed, “Correspondence between General Pem berton and Generals Grant and Blair.” The following is General Pemberton’s letter : “Wahrenton, Fauquikh, Co.,Ya’., Jan. 80,1874. —Ilis Excellency, F. S. Grant, President of the FnitedStat.es—Sir: A statement of some historic significance and of considerable interest to me per sonally, has lately come to my rfotice in a way that induces me to address you as the single individual competent to con firm or refute it. 1 am aware that 1 have no claim to your special considera tion ; should you, however, deem it not improper to respond to my inquiry, I shall feel myself indebted to your kind ness. The statement 1 refer to was from a general officer of the army ot the Ten nessee and was in the words following: “ ‘lt was generally understood in our army that Gen. Johnston’s courier, con veying dispatches to you previous to the battle o4' Baker’s Creek or Champion Hills, betrayed his dispatches to Gen. Grant, and also your answers to Gen. Johnston’s orders. Ido not know posi tively from Gen. Grant these facts, but the matter was spoken of by the officers of our army in such away as to leave no doubt in my mind.’ ” “Permit, me to add that this informa tion has tended to confirm my own sus picion, excited at the time by the (other wise) inexplicable delay in the receipt of Gen. Johnston’s dispatch of the 14th of May, which, as you, sir, are probably aware, was not handed to me until after 5 p. m. on the 10th, when my army was in full retreat. My inquiry is confined simply to two points : first, the truth (or reverse) of the facts discussed by the officers of the Army of the Tennessee; second, the correctness (or the reverse) of my surmises as to the dispatch of the 14th above referred to, I am, sir, most respectfully your obedient servant, J. C. Pemberton. Gen. Grant’s reply is as follows: “Executive Mansion, Washington, January 31,1874. —General J. C. Pem berton, Warrenton, Yirginia—General: Your letter of yesterday was duly re ceived this morning, and the President authorized me to sav that the statement of the officer to which you refer was cor rect, and he thinks you are also correct as to your surmises in regard to the delay in receipt of your dispatch. He says the dispatches were brought in our lines and given to General McPherson and by him immediately brought to headquarters. I have the honor to re main, sir, your obedient servant, Levi I*. Lucky, Secretary.” On the 19th of January, 1874, General Pemberton addressed a letter, substan tially to the same effect, to General Frank P. Blair, whose reply corrobo rates General Grant’s statement. \Ye give General Blair's letter also: “St. Louis, January *24, 1874. —Gen- eral J. F. Pemberton, Fauquier county, Ya.—Dear General: I take pleasure, in answer to your letter of the 19th of Jan uary, in saying that it was generally un derstood in our army that General John ston's courier, carrying dispatches to you previous to the battle of Baker’s Creek or Champion Hills, betrayed his dispatches to General Grant, and also vour answers to General Johnsons or ders, so that, in feet, General Grant had the most precise information as to your movements and those ot (jeneral J dhli st on. L do not know positively from General Grant these facts, but irlie mat ter was spoken of by the officers of our army in such a way a* ko leave no doubt in mv miud. \ ery respectfully, your obedient servant, Frank: P. Blair.’ Thinking that the correspondence here given might interest those who are not yet tired of war incidents, 1 send it to you, to make any use of you may deem proper. Joseph l. Derby, A real estate man gets off the following effusion: “Tell me not in mournful num bers that the town is full ol gloom, for the man's a crank that slumbers in these days of bustling boom. Life is real, life is earnest, and the grave is not its goal, every dollar that thou turnest, helps to make the old town roll. But enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined end or way, if you have no money, borrow— buy a cor.ner lot each day! Lives (>f great men all remind us we can win im mortal fame, let us leave these chumps behind us, we will get there just the same. In this world’s broad field of battle, in the bivouac of life, le% us make the dry boues Battle— buy a corner for your wife. Let us then be up and doing, with a heart lor any late, still achie\ing, still CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1888. THE WORLD IN AMAZEMENT. At the New South’s Phenomenal Development. Cotton .Mills Moving to Cotton Fields— Tlie (ireai iron Magnet That is I>rn wing Capital to Southern States. The average reader would be surprised to see the impression Southern pros perity is making in other sections and other countries. We do not keep count of the changes that are going on around us. They move gradually, like the growth of our children, • and like the growth of our children are never appre ciated. An editorial of last week in the Stockholder, a financial and industrial journal published in New York, contains an illustration in point. Among other things the Stockholder says: “The South is already beginning to be sought for and to be thought of as a place of investment for conservative capital. Since the war and the lamenta ble period following it, the improve ment in every way has been extraordi nary, new fields of industry have been developed, pew manufactures created. Alabama bids fair to distance Pennsyl vania as an iron manufacturing State, and the cotton mills of Georgia, with the raw material within reach of the hand of the mill manager as he stands in the mill door, begin to prove a serious me nace to the manufacturer of cotton goods in Fall River and Manchester. Horace Greely, had he been alive to-day, would have hesitated in advising the young man, and would have said “(To West or South,” both offering equal ad advantages. The tide of emigration from Europe is beginning to be directed in a measure to the South, and the rail roads of that section, which but a few years ago, in many cases, consisted of but “two streaks of rust and the right of way,” are keeping pace, and in fact are in the vanguard of the march of improve ment, which everywhere is making the South the equal of her sister of the North in every, respect to manufacturers and their allied industries, as she has always been her equal in culture.” And further on we find these encourag ing remarks: “The record of the past year shows throughout the South still expanding enterprise in all directions, increasing business, growing power and enlarging wealth, and all at accelerated rates. Witness the increase in general wealth from 1876 to 1880, $41,087,437; from 1880 to 1886, $571,899,722. In the single year 1887, $202,213,264. Asa result of laborious investigation, the ‘Manufacturer’s Record’ testifies: Dur ing that year more was accomplished for the prosperity and progress of that sec tion than ever before in the same length of time. It is not alone in the enormous industrial development and in the addi tion of millions of dollars to the manu facturing capital and thousands ot new enterprises, ranging from the small saw mill to the great iron and steel works, that 1887 will ever be memorable in the history of Southern industries —greater than these, so far as concerns the future progress of the South, is the interest that has been awakened among Northern and European capitalists in the vast mineral and timber wealth of that section, and their conversion? to the truth that the South is destined to be the richest coun try in the world.” These are encouraging words, but not more encouraging than real facts, that are materializing before us regularly as the weeks go by. The South, downtrodden .and desola ted a few years ago, now pictures the vision of the inspired prophet, “A nation built up in a day.” According to the statistics furnished the War Department at Washington, the following is the latest horse census: Russia, 21,570,000; America, 6,000,000; the Argentine Republic, 4,000,000; Aus tria, 3,500,000; Germany, 3,300,000; France, 2,000,000, and 300,4)00 mules; England, 2,790.000 horses; Spain, 080,- 000 horses and 2,300,000 mules; Italy, 2.000,100 horses; Belgium, 383,000; Denmark, 316,000; Australia, 301,000; Holland, 125,000, and Portugal, 80,- 000 horses and 50,000 mules. There are many things a woman can do that man witluill his boasted supe riority cannot do. They are too numer ous to mention just now. But a lady told us something we had not thought of before. She said a woman can go to town on the cars, buy enQugh bundles to till two or three seats, and when she gets off at her station, gather up all those bundles in her arm, lead two children and hold up her dress with the other arm until she gets to her home. > —_ Farmers’ Alliance. Each sub Alliance is requested to send three delegates to the Bartow county Alliance, which meets in Cartersville on Saturday, September Bth. __ AS OTHERS SEE US. YYha-t Col. W. A. Jeter Has to Say About Cartersville’# Outlook. Col. W. A. Jeter is back from Catters ville. “Hello Colonel,” said a Breeze reporter meeting him on the streets yesterday, “How- is Cartersville?’’ “Cartersville sir is in the toils of an immense boom. The waterworks 1 am building there is only one of numerous projects w hich are on foot.” “What else‘is going to be done?” “Well, engineers are in the field laying off the grounds of the Steel and Furnace Company, which will be graded and side tracks put in at once; the city has just closed a contract with a Boston) com pany for electric lights. A Boston syn dicate has secured a track of land there and will soon commence the erection of several handsome residences; a rolling mill company with a capital of SIOO,OOO | has been organized. An ice factory is ; assured and the air is full of rumors of other gigantic enterprises.” “Things must be lively.” I should say so, but hold on. I'm not through yet. Contracts have been closed for the erection of a 50 ton iter day pig iron furnace and a ferro manga nese furnace with an output of 20 tons per day. Strangers are coming in lively and the hotels are full.” If Col. Jeter's predictions of Carters ville are anyways as good as those he made of Brunswick four years ago, Car tersville will certainly be a great city. It will be remembered that when Col. Jeter built his gas and waterworks this city didn’t have 4,000 people, we now have over 10,000. Cartersville is lucky in having Col. Jeter interested in her. Cliair Factory. There is not a finer opening in Georgia for a chair factory than Cartersville. With her admirable railroad facilities, accessible timber scope, and general ad vantageous surroundings, an enterprise of this kind could be made a paying thing from the very start. Of the chair factory in Griffin the Sun, of that city, says: “It turns out an average of 300 chairs per day, or about 100,000 annually. These chairs are sold as fast as put upon the market in this State, Alabama and Mississippi, and that, too, with but little drumming —a thousand dozen per week is no big sale for one man to make in either of these States. “So steady and rapid lias been the growth of this branch of business that the proprietors are enlarging their plant to-double its capacity in order to meet demands. These chairs, be it remem bered, are made entirely of Georgia wood —mainly from the forests of Spalding county. We were shown a chair yester day, built from material from our own forests, containing fourteen varieties of wood. The backs were of walnut, osage orageandash. The posts of white oak, red oak, sweet gum and maple The rounds cherry, white hickory, poplar, china, beach, red hickory and gnarled pine—all varnished and making a beauti ful contrast and a most attractive and substantial piece of furniture.” Tht* Alliance and tine Trusts. The Georgia State Farmers’ Alliance, which met in Macon last week, passed the following resolutions: Whereas, The Bagging Trust which is now seeking to so wickedly oppress the farmers of the cotton States in the arti cle of bagging and other articles of con sumption. Resolved, That the Farmers’ Alliance of Georgia hold their •otton in the seed so far as practicable until the oppression sought to be put upon them is broken, and urge all cotton farmers and Alliance men of other States, and other parties that are being oppressed by this combi nation, to unite with us against these combinations and trusts that are so wickedly oppressing us. Resolved, That these resolutions be given to the press for publication. Resolved, That the thanks of this, the Georgia State Alliance be, and are hereby tendered the Hon. Breckinridge, of Ar kansas; Morgan, of Mississippi; Sim mons, of North Carolina, and others now moving in our national Congress looking to the relief of cotton planters from the oppression and wicked conduct of the Bagging Trust. Another Planing Mill and Lmafier Yard. Mr. Wills, of Broken Arrow-, Ala., was in the city last Monday. He was inves gating the advantages that Cartersville offered for the establishment of a plan ing mill. He was highly pleased with the prospects of the town and the general conditions he found favoring his enter prise, and we learn has about made up his mind to locate here at once a planing mill and extensive lumber yard. He is one of a firm now operating a large saw mill at Broken Arrow, and they now have great quantities of fine lumber stacked up on their mill yards awaiting a favorable market. Mr. \kills ai*i asso elates will find a good opening here for vent m i; WHAT ABOUT THE FI’RSACE ? The Programme Calls for a Run About Christmas. The Work Moving- On Steadily—Tlie Roll ing Mill and Other Important Enter prises—The Visit of Capitalists. “What about the furnace?” This was the question put to Mr. Mar tin by a Coukant-Amehican reporter yesterday on entering tlie office of the Cartersville Steel and Furnace Cos., and it was answered in a confident, enthusi astic manner. “Dr. Pratt says he will make a run by Christmas, provided there is no provi dential hindrance. Everything is in slftipe. Each man is looking after his part of the work, and the way is all open to a reasonably speedy consumma tion of this and other large enterprises as well.” Fpon inquiry we find that tin* com pany finds no difficulty in placing all the stock they wish to, and if they desire conhl enlist a great many more capi talists in tlie enterprise. I)r. Pratt is hard at work oil the plans and specifications, and has an immense amount of work that cannot be divided with others, and consequently requires some time. Young Mr. Pratt is off examining quarries, with a view- to the supply of rock necessary. The truth is, tlie work is going forward rapidly. The more the managers see of Carters ville and her surroundings the better sat isfied they are that a better location for this important plant could not have been found. We were shown the stock certificates of the company, which is a splendid piece of work. The most prominent feature on the face is a fine representa tion of the furnace buildings as they will appear when completed. The furnace is a fixed fact. The introduction of the Pratt process of steel making here w ill carry the name of Cartersville all over the world. It is difficult for us to comprehend the magni tude of this enterprise. It will also do more than anything else could in the way of attracting the attention of the iron world to our im mense stores of unequaled ores. THE ROLLING MILL may also be put down as a certainty. The interested parties will be here next week to locate a site and inaugurate the work on that enterprise. Again we congratulate our people upon the bright and brightening prospect of our highly fovored city. m A well-known society woman, speak ing of the attacks made upon her sex for their methods of handling their skirts or bustles when sitting down, carrying their parasols and other habits, says: “l think three-quarters of such talk is non sense. lam perfectly sure that men have just as many marked habits as women. What can be more absurd, I’d like to know, tha'ft to see a man every time he sits down fling his coat tails wide apart as though something fright ful would happen if he forgot to part them. Then, again, that everlasting twitching at the legs of his trousers so as to pull them up infolds above the knees and exposing generally Ihe not al ways attractive top of a pair of shoes with strings tied in a by no means pic turesqme knot. To me one of the repul sive habits is the refolding up of a hand kerchief before replacing it in the pocket, which is quite common to men. I always wonder if the user is afraid of getting them mussed or only wants the outside fresh and clean. As regards the perpet ual movement of the hand to the head or face, pulling down cuffs so they will show beneath the sleeve, and similar tricks. Are they not everyday sights? Fpon my word I’m really sick of the whole subject, and when I walk along the streets par ticularly and observe the habits of the male pedestrians and their utter disre gard of the rights of others, I think the less they say about the ‘weaker sex' the better. The watermelon crop of Georgia is a big tiling. This year 7,800,000 have been shipped. The average price of a melon when retailed is 20 cents. The #1 mil total valuation of Georgia's crop of watermelons is over $1,500,000. The farmers probably receive at least three cents clear on each melon, giving them $200,000. The railroad companies probably get SBOO,OOO as freight, and {he commission men divide the -balance* V)f $470,000. The railroads get the big gest share, of course, but they have done much towards opening up new markets for the Georgia iamiers, and state that their rates are as low as possible. Much of this sum is spent directly for the neces sary labor ia this State, and so it may be safely said that the watermelon crop DEATH OF REV. SAMUEL HALL- Tli** Rector of V elision Cliurcli TSud denly—A Congregation Mourns. Ilev. Samuei Mail, who had recently as sumed the charge of the Cartersville and Cedartown Episcopal churches, died sud denly, u%Mrs. Shockley's, wiiei*e he was hoarding, on Tuesday evening last. He had been indisposed tor two or three weeks, but was thought to be improving; and during Tuesday was m buoyant spirits. He told Mr. Henry Hall to have services announced tor Sunday,and men tioned the subject upon which he wished to preach. At tea Mr. Hall did not complain, but it was noticed that he looked quite pale on leaving the table: and soon after en tering his room he fell upon the floor. Members of the family hurried to him, when he was found lying upon his back, in an unconscious condition, and but faintly breathing. Dr. Baker was sent lor and soon reached the seem*, but it was evident that the beloved pastor was already beyond human skill, and he soon after ceased to breathe. I)r. Hall is supposed to have had heart disease, and a recent contracted cold, producing acute 1 neuralgia of that organ, hurried his end. For many years the deceased had been rector of a flourishing parish at Morris town, X. J.; but on the advice of his phy sician resigned it to try a milder climate. He went first to Atchison, Kansas, where he assumed a charge; but finding that the climate did rrot agree with him, came South, and though he had been here but a short time, had won the warm love of his church, and the cofidence and esteem of our community. He was a man of deep learning!, with a tender, gentle, fatherly spirit, and a hap py disposition that quickly won tlm heart of anew acquaintance. His death is sadly lamented by our community, and thesympathy of all is deeper because of the fact that he is so far away from those most dear to him by kindred ties. As we go to press, telegraphic corre spondence is being had with his relatives, as to the disposition of his remains. —— - - - | Pine Tog t3ami>meetnig. The annual campmeeting was held at Pine Log, commencing August 15th, and continuing ten days. The attendance is said to have been larger than ever before, and the meeting unusually successful in every way. The splendid order maintained throughout was a subject of remark. The ill bred roughs who sometimes disturb decent people at similar meetings were not there. The people of Pine Log. noted for their hospitality, did all in their power to make it pleasant for everybody in at tendance. The preaching was plain, earnest, spiritual, resulting in the awakening of many, their conversion, and the addi tion of quite a number to the church. The eartnestness with which the people went into the work was most refreshing and helpful to the ministry. The “boy singer" did good service, and, though only twelve years old, his voice could be heard above all the singers. His name is Neal. He will at tend the tabernacle meeting at Carters ville in September. Before the meeting closed a collection was taken to raise money to build a tabernacle at Pine Log, and the sum of $ H)0 was raised ; a very liberal contribu tion for the improvement of the camp ground. Our friend, Starling Roberts, of the hrm of Roberts & Collins, brought in a bale of new cotton last Saturday, 25th, which is unusually-early for this section. It was raised by this firm on the Gen. Young plantation in this county. The bale weighed 589 pounds; it was bought by J. J. Howard, at 10 cents, and classed strict low middling. Mr. A. Snedaker also brought in a bale of new cotton the same day, arriv ing with it only a few minutes after Mr Roberts’ bale was received. It was a close race between two live farmers. Revising ime uui-j a.,.- % . The commissioners appointed at the last Superior Court to revise the jury box of Bartow county, are now in ses sion in this city, and will devote most of the week to that work. The following gentlemen compose fhe commission: J. M. Yeacli, R. H. Dodd, B. 0. Crawford, das. A. Miiiite, dais. M. Smith, H. 11. Hall. They are devoting themselves with m eat care to the work, and will conscientiously perform their duty. Texas and Ohio are the tw largest wool growing States. The agricultural department for this year reports Te*a4 Jiaving 4,523,739 sheep, producing 21,- pounds of washed and unwashed wool, and 10,856,974 scoured wool. It reports Ohio as having 4.106,622 sbeep, NO. 12.