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The Cartersville Courant-American.
VOL. VIII.
JUDGE THURMAN’S LETTER.
The Old Roman’s Brief ButPointed
Document..
U<> thi' Country’* Prosperity and Great-
Can lie Served in tlie Ke--le<*-
tion of Mr. Cleveland.
Cou mbus, Oct. 14.—The following is
judge Thurman’s letter of acceptance,
an given to the press this evening. The
first draft of tin* letter was in the .Judge’s
hand-writ ing, and the type-writer copies
showed only a few changes in punctua
tion from the original:
Colimhus, 0., Oct. 12th, 1888.—Hon.
Patrick A. Collins and others, cmnmit-
Ih‘- Gentlemen: In obedience to custom,
| send this formal acceptance of my
nomination for the office of Vice-Presi
dent of the Cnited States, made by the
national convention of the Democratic
party at St. Louis. When you did me
fhe honor to call upon trie at Columbus
and officially not ify me of my nomina
tion, I expressed to you my sense of obli
gation to the convention and that al
though I had not sought the nomina
tion, I did not. feel at liberty, under the
nrHiniNtmin-f, td decline it. I thought
then, as I still think, that whatever I
could properly do to promote the re-elec
tion of President Cleveland, I ought to
do. His administration, has been mark
ed by such integrity, good sense, manly
courage and exalted patriotism, that a
just appreciation of these high qualities
seem to call for his re-election.
WILL STItENOTIIEN FRATERNITY,
1 am also strongly impressed with lie
belief that his re-elect ion would power illy
tend to strengthen that feeling of frater
nity among the American people that is
so essential to their welfare, peace and
happiness, and to the prosperity of the
union of our free institutions.
I approve the platform of the St.
bonis convention, and I can’t too
strongly express my dissent from the
heretical teaching of monopolists that
the welfare of the people can be promo
ted by a system of exorbitant taxation
far in excess of the wants of the gov
ernment. The idea that the people can
he enriched by heavy and unnecessary
taxation, that a man's condition can be
improved by taxing him on all he wears,
on all his wife and children wear, <4ll all
his tools and implements of industry, is
an obvious absurdity.
To fill the vaults of the treasury with
idle surplus for which the govern
■nt has no legitimate use,and to there
by deprive the people of the currency
needed for their business and daily want,
and to create powerful and dangerous
stimulus to extravagance and corruption
in expenditures of the government,
seems to me to be a policy at variance
with every sound principle of govern
ment and of political economy,
THE TWO METHODS OF REDUCTION.
The necessity of reducing taxation to
prevent sw-li accumulations of surplus
revenue and its consequent depletion
of the circulating medium, is so appar
ent that no party dares to deny it; but
when we come to consider the modes by
which reduction may be made we find
wide antagonism between our party and
the monopolistic leaders of our political
opponents.
\\V stM>k to reduce taxes upon the nec
essaries of life—our opponents seek to
increase we say, give to the mass- j
es of the people ehenp and good cloth- j
ing, cheap blankets, cheap tools and
cheap lumber —the Republicans, by thefr ■
platform and their leaders in the Senate ,
by their proposed bill, say, increase
taxes on clothing and blankets and
thereby increase their cost, maintain a
high duty on the tools of the farmer
and the mechanic and upon the lumber
which they need for the construction of
their modest dwellings, shops and barns,
and thereby prevent their obtaining
t ese necessaries at reasonable prices.
ran any sensible man doubt as to
where he should stand in this contro
versy? Can any well informed man be
deceived by the false pretense that a
system so unreasonable and unjust is for
the benefit of laboring men?
reducin'<; the cost of livino.
Much is said about the competition of
American laborers with the pauper labor
of Europe, but does not every man who
looks around him see and know that an
immense majority of laborers in America
nre not engaged in what are called pro
tected industries? and to those who are
employed in such industries, it is not un
deniable that the duties proposed by the
1 democratic measure, called the Mills bill,
far exceed the difference between the
American and European wages and that,
therefore, if it were admitted that our
workingmen can be protected by tariffs
Against cheaper labor, they would be
fully protected—and more than protec
ted—by that bill? Does not every well
informed man know that the increase in
the price of home manufactures pro
duced by high tariff does not go into the
Pockets of laboringmen, but only tends
to swell the profits of others?
It seems to me that if the policy of the
Democratic party is plainly presented,
all must understand that we seek to
make the cost of living less, and, at the
same time, increase the share of the
laboriugman in the benefits of national
prosperity and growth. 1 am, very re
spectfully, your obedient servant.
Allen G. Thurman.
Kurly Fruit* and Vegetable*.
Daniel Dennett in N O Picayune
In the last few years the South has
proved that it can place early vegetables
and fruits in the Northern cities cheaper
than it can be done by the gardeners of
the North and West. The climate gives
the South an advantage that she can
never lose while the sun shines by day or
the moon by night.
The possibilities of the South in horti
cultural productions are and always
must be enormous.
The frequent failure of the fruit crop
in the North and West, the pear blight
and insect enemies have discouraged
many fruit-growers, and droughts and
unseasonable frosts have greatly dam
aged the truck farmers.
The South has many strong points,
but it will not do to go “solid ’on any
one of these, UH it lms been doing on cot
ton and politics. When the South has
properly developed its vast and varied
grass and forage resources, it will he
able to place hay in Western markets
and iti New York and Boston cheaper
than farmers of higher latitudes can do
it, and can place Southern grass-fed but
ter in Northern markets when Northern
fanners cannot do it at all. And fhe
South will be able to sell Southern mules
and horses in Kentucky and Missouri
and Southern beef all over the North,
cheaper than they can be produced on
Northern farms.
These advantages, which the South
will hold securely to the end of time,
must cause a large flow of immigrants
from the North and West to these States,
most of them farmers, horticulturists
and stockbreeders, who will help develop
the vast and varied resources of the
Southern States.
And the South has another advantage,
which, in time, she will employ actively.
She can make cheaper pork on cow peas
and sweet potatoes, the hogs gathering
their own food, than the West can make
on corn; the hogs are much more healthy
in the South than in the West. The
Southern States, their, swamps, marshes
and river bottoms, their forests and
farms, are the true home of the hog, and
the climate of these States in autumn is
admirably adapted to making pork rap
idly, and at a low cost.
The Western people, in time, may have
to come South for large supplies of pork,
beef, corn, hay, blitter, jute and ra-.
mie, as early vegetables and early fruits,
and cotton, sugar, tobacco and rice.
The undeveloped and possible resources
of the South in soil, forests and mines
have more intrinsic value than the
wealth of the North at the present time.
The Northern people, in striking the
chains from colored slaves, at the same
time released and relieved a white com
petitor that will yet make the South
richer than the North, and will prove
that “there’s a divinity that shapes our
ends.”
In 1793 the entire cotton crop of the
United States was 450 bales. In 1754
an American vessel that carried eight
bales of cotton to Liverpool was seized
on the grounds that so much cotton
could not be the produce of the United
States. The first bale exported from
Georgia was grown by Alexander Risset,
on St. Simons Island, and shipped from
Savannah by Thomas Miller in 1788.
The first royal governor of Georgia was
John Reynolds, who arrived in Savan
nah Oct., 1754. The first painting press
was established in 1793, and the “Geor
gia Gazette” printed on the 7th of April
of that year. On Sunday, the 7th of
March, 1736, John Wesley preached his
first sermon lnAmeiica. His text was
13th chapter, Ist Corinthians. In 1749
the first ship was loaded for England ex
ports with pitch, tar, rice and deerskins,
valued at SIO,OOO. Run these several
items up to the present and note our im
provements, which are not equaled in the
annals of history.
How Jacksonville Got the Fever.
Washington l*ost.
The proposition that all the world
loves a lover probably does not hold
good in Jacksonville now. This whole yel
low fever business is a love affair. McCor
mick, the man who brought the yellow
fever to Jacksonville, was a lover. His
sweetheart was in Tampa and Tampa
was isolated on account of yellow fever.
Rut yellow fever or no yellow fever,
McCormick wanted to see his girl; so he
managed to pass the cordon and steal
an interview with his love. Then he
came back to Jacksonville and brought
yellow fever with him. Surgeon-General
Hamilton is authority for this short his
tory of the spread of yellow fever, ft is
another confirmation of the wisdom of
the sage who once declared there was a
woman at the bottom of every mis
chief.
CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1888.
A REMARKABLE FAMILY.
Facts Unfolded by the Man Who
Runs the Elevator.
A <Jar**rsvil !** Kemtion Tliat Sixty-odd
People Will Knjoy—Solid Vitality,
Unique Nomenclature, &e.
Atlanta Constitution.
“Yes, sir” said the elevator man, ‘‘l
can say what very few people can say
in Atlanta ”
“What’s that?”
“I haven’t missed an hour out of the
elevator in three 1 years—not an hour,
and I have put in a good mauy extra
hours.”
“That so?”
“Yes, sir, its a fact Before I came
here to Chamberlin and Johnson. I was
over there in the Constitution building,
ami 1 have run that elevator over there
for forty-eight hours at a time. That
was only once, but a good many times I
have run it for twenty-four and tweutv
six hours at a time. And T haven’t
missed an hour out of the elevator in
three years.”
“You know,” he continued philosophi
cally, “it takes a mighty patient man to
run the elevator? 'Well, it does. You
can learn lots about human nature. I
get to se<‘ all sorts of folks, and learn a
little bit from every one of ’em. If I
was a young man or a young lady and
was going to marry, do you know what
I’d do?”
“No.”
“Well, sir, I'd come right here to inis
elevator to pick me a wife or,a husband.
I would for a fact.”
“How do you mean?”
“Well, I’ll tell you. These here fellows
that fly all to pieces because the eleva
tor ain’t there waitin’ for 'em —like when
I’m down there oiling my engine or up
at the top, them fellows won’t do fora
husband. And same way about young
ladies. They fight, and fuss and fume
and take on. They won’t do. No, sir.
But some of ’em just wait till the eleva
tor comes —see that young lady down
there? See how she’s stampin’ her foot
’cause fhe elevator ain’t there? Them’s
the kind 1 was talkin’ about.”
“No, sir,” repeated the elevator man,
as he started down again, “I haven’t
lost an hour in three years, but if nothin’
happens I’m going to lose a day on the
twenty-third of this month—a whole
day.”
“How’s that?”
“Well. I’ll tell you. It’s father’s and
mother’s golden wedding, and all the
children and their families are going to
have a big reunion. I’m going to lose
one day then and go with 'em to Carters
ville.”
“How many of you are there?"
“Well, I'll tell you.”
“Our family is a remarkable family.
It is for a fact. There were thirteen chil
dren in all, five boys and eight girls, and
every one of them is alive to-da.v and
have families of children. Not many
families can sav that, are there? Thir
teen children, and every one of ’em lived
to be men and women. J. W. Roberts
that’s me, is the oldest. lam 49 years
old, and the youngest is a girl. She is
25 years old. All of us are married, and
all of the son-ill-laws are living now. My
father’s family and mother's family were
both long-lived people.
Mother’s name was Elizabeth Einaline
Thompson. Her father was in the revo
lutionary war. He had a wound on his
shoulders and I have seen it myself many
a time. He died in 1856, and was 94
years old. My father was in the Florida
war and in the Confederate war. All of
the boys that was old enough to go
went to the Confederate war. George
was the youngest. He went when he was
sixteen.”
The speaker wears on his own breast
the silver triangle of the Fulton (Anility
Veteran’s association.
“There’s another remarkable tiring
about our family,” said the elevator
man.
“What’s that?”
“Three of my sisters married three
brothers —the Sheffield boys. ’Taint
often you hear of that, is it? Every one
of the sons-in-law is doing well, too.
And there’s something else, too. In all
the family, old ones and young ones,
there is not one that woiul touch a drop
of liquor—not one of ’em. That’s
strange, ain't it?
“How many did you say were going to
Cavtersville?”
“The children and over fifty grand
children. There are four families that
live in Buchanan, twenty-four in all.
Then there is a family of four at Rock
mart. Henry Sheffield at Seney lias
eleven children and that makes thirteen
in his family. Then at Burnt Hickory
Ridge where my father lives, there are
two of the Sheffields, and one Dunaway,
and one Maxwell. Then there is one
family at Rowland’s ferry, in Bartow
county, and me and the brother that
lives in Cartersville. His name is Ste
phen I). Roberts. That makes ’em all,
don’t it?”
“Another strange thing about that
family is this: Two of the grandchildren
are married, and yet there is not a sin
gle gray hair in my mother’s head— - m>t
out —and my father is just as spry 1 igbt.
now as any son he’s got. 'Tuin’t often
you set* that, is it? How many did I tell
you was at Buchanan —twenty-four?
Well, I was wrong about that. They
ain’t but twenty-three of ’em. But the
strangest thing of all is this. You know
1 told you there was eight girls.”
“Well, sir, you wouldn’t Relieve it, but
every one of them girls has an ‘Ann’ in
her name—every one of ’em.”
“Do you remember their names?”
“Well, I'll sorter have to think. The
first one is Julia Ann Matilda. The
next one is Mary Ann Malissa, then Mal
tha Ann Mahala, then Amanda Ann
Elizabeth Jane, then Nan6y Ann Louisa,
then Margaret Ann Lucinda, then Sarah
Ann Safina, and Eva Ann Marenie
Carolina.”
“It ain't often you see that, is it?”
SAM JONES AT NASHVILLE.
A S* ]'<"• !'v) of Some of Hi** Hard Hits and
Pithy Sayings.
Nashville Banner.
Broad Street. Amusement hall was
packed again last night to hear Sam
.Tom'S. Every seat was taken an hour
before tin* speaking began, and at 7
o’clock it look' and an though not another
person could enter. The hour from G:80
to 7:30 was given to a service of song,
opened with “There is a fountain filled
with blood,” Miss Maiy Owen presided
at the piano, and Miss Lillian Gordon at
the organ. Promptly at 7 o’clock Sam
Jones asked the congregation to stand and
join Rev. Dr, Lofton, of the Central Bap
tist church in prayer, After another song
by the congregation and “The feast of
Belshazzar’’ by Mr, Excell, Mr. Jones
announced as his text Jer, xxxii. 38 41
from which, he preached a sermon from
which the following- paragraphs are ta
ken :
I would want no better text than this
from which to preach a sermon on Chris
tian unity, but I shall take a different and
possibly a more practical view- of the text,
God teaches us he will give us one heart.
What kind of a heart will it be ?
About the hardest undertaking in this
world for a man is to be good when’he has a
bad heart.
Many a i..an tries to clean up his life just
like the man who was trying to clear up
the spring branch to get a drink. He was
told to drive the hog out of the spring
above him and the water would get clear,
The man who loves leeks and onions
don’t care much for grapes and figs,
About the best evidence of a man’s con
version is his anxiety to have others con
verted, I want to see the same anxiety
for the salvation of souls that I saw three
years ago.
1 believe a preacher can backslide
right in the midst ef a revival, If you
don’t believe it you don’t know us very
well, You go and talk with his wife.
We preachers in Georgia backslide,
The meanest people in the world is
that church that packs its pastor in an
ice-box and then cusses him all the year
because he don’t sweat,
These little spelling-book critics are
like these little red ants that sometimes
get after you —they don’t hurt, but they
just make you itch.
God-says, “I will give my people one
way,’’and his people here in Nashville
have struck out forty or fifty different
ways to glory. Some go by way of the
theatre, some the ball room, some the race
course, some the base-ball, and that s not
a respectable way to he’ll.
The difference between the barrooms
and fiabrooms is this: 'The barrooms are
after our boys and the ballrooms are after
our girls.
If I was an averege of the dancing
young men —and I think I was —no pure
young girl can afford togo on the floor of
the ballroom, Now, some of you peripa
tetic dudes back there pretend that you
are outraged by that, and that I have re
flected upon your honor. You have no
more honor than the devil, There is not
a pure girl in Nashville whose virtue
would be safe in your care if you were
not afraid of a double-barreled shotgun,
Show me a pious man that belongs to
the Hermitage eiub and I’ll eat the whole
business, brick and all. < lab life is in
compatible with the Christian life.
If Jones is not a liar or a maniac there
are some leading men here of the church
in Nashville who had better call a halt.
I never ask a man if lie agrees with me.
1 only ask him if lie understands me. If
he understands what 1 say that's enough
for me. •
If playing cards don't make you a bet
ter Christian let us say down with the
cards and up with the Bible.
A cross is not something for a Christ
ian to take around with him all the time.
A cross is for a sinner to die on.
God never gave a commandment that
he did not know would be for the good of
his children.
I am glad every day that God has
made me so many promises, and thank
God that every time He makes me a
liist-ciase promise He stgvrt something
about my children.
The exhortation with which thesermon
was closed brought tears to nearly all
eyes and there were evidences that many
a good resolution was formed. And
when the proposition made that all
who would try by the grace of God to
lead a better life was made almost the
entire congregation arose and stood
while Rev. 11. F. Haynes asked the bless
ings of God upon the vows made.
The sermons during the remainder of
the meeting will be especially to the un
converted. Mr. Jones will preach twice
every day till next Monday.
Unrtersville, Ga., and the Territory Trib
utary to it.
To the Editor of the Keunesavv Gazette:
The great mineral belt ‘which passes
through our county—Bartow—for a dis
tance of 25 miles, has a general direction
from southwest to northeast, and is
about two and one-half miles wide, which
would give about square miles.
This belt carries brown iron ore, gray
specular ore and manganese ore. Then
wc have as much more territory carrying
gold, lime, marble, sandstone, ochre,
black lead, etc.; and beside these we have
numbers of good iron and manganese
mines which are disconnected from the
lead spoken of above.
Our county, composed ot an area cov
ering 500 square miles, is interspersed
with rich valley and timber lands, about
in the proportion of, say, one-t hird min
eral and two-thirds farming and timber
lands; and while this covers our own
county, yet there is a large portion of
territory outside of this county which is
tributary to it, to-wit:
The East and AVest Railroad of Ala
bama, running 117 miles to Pell City,
and the entire line of that road is rich in
iron, manganese,slate, marble, lime, tim
ber and coal, all of which is tributary to
Cartersville and the Western & Atlantic
Railroad.
Again, the railroad to he constructed
from Cartersville to Gainesville, Ga.,
opens up a country exceptionally rich in
iron, marble, manganese, lime, ochre,
black lead, gold, etc., and in addition to
this it will open up original forests'
of hardwood, almost uucqualed in auy
. t*'
country.
In addition to the foregoing, it is a well
known fact that the line of the Western
& Atlantic Railroad, from Atlanta to
Chattanooga, abounds in rich minerals,
and opens up the entire coal fields of
north Georgia and Tennessee, to all
points through which it passes, south of
Chattanooga.
With our genial climate, our pure water
and our health-giving atmosphere, Car
tersville and north Georgia offers to visi
tors and health-seekers all which heart
could desire, and all we ask for the out
side world is to come and see us and let
us show them what we have and we will
be content with their verdict.
I). W. K. Peacock,
Wliy ‘ Joe” I.eft Georgia.
A lady relative in our family had a
letter the other day from the mountains.
She had lived in Fannin and the letter
was from that county. She said to me:
“Cousin Joe's going - to Texas.” “For
what?” said 1. “Schools. Say’s he’s
too poor to educate his children. Texas
has good free schools and Georgia has
not.”
That settles it with Joe. Who blames
him? I doubt not Georgia loses thous
ands of her stalwart sons every year,
just as she loses Cousin Joe this winter.
We can’t build the state into an “em
pire” with “three months” public schools.
We are very much behind the ago and
very wasteful of our school money. We
spend just enough to spoil private
schools, but not enough to make good
public schools. Your narrow, ignorant,
conceited, one-horse legislature calls it
“economy,” barks in the role of watch
dog of the treasury in order to secure
more office from an ignorant constitu
ency.
But who can blame him for opposing a
thorough-going public school system ?
When his constituents become fairly well
educated he will return to the legislature
no more And ignorant as he is, he has
sense enough to know that his people
must be kept in ignorance.
Good luck to “Cousin Joe,” Texas will
give his children good public schools
through the whole school year. Georgia
gives poor ones for three months.
A. G. Haygood.
Decatur, Ga., October 9, 1888.
Dr. Talmage has a happy faculty of
making apt coinoarisons. In illustrat
ing a point in his sermon Sunday lie used
these words, the truth of which will be
shown by four more years of Democratic
government: “After the politicians who
have made all the noise go home hoarse
from angry discussion on the evening of
the first Monday in November, the next
day the people with the silent ballots
will settle everything, and settle it right,
a million of the white slips of paper they
drop making about as much noise as the
lall of an apple blossom.”
A NEW MAN AT THE HELM.
Capt. C. P Ball Appointed Receiver
of the E. & W. R.R.
A Hi.ch Compliment to Cnpinin P.su*ll—
Tin* Nen Kecpivpr to Take Ho!<l
Next Month.
For sometime it has been expected
that a change would be made in the
management of the E. &. \V. Railroad—
Capt. Pos toll's appointment being only
a temporary one —and day before yester
day's dispatches brought the news of the
change.
In March, 1887, Capt. John Postell
was appointed receiver of the East and
West railroad, under a bill tiled by
James Schley, who; had a judgement
against the corporation for about 81‘C
-000. The appointment was on its face
provisional and subject to change by the
court. Captain Postell was a- stockhol
der of the corporation and a bondholder,
but though interested was put in charge
upon the consent of all concerned. Hie
administration had been very successful
at 1 and satisfactorv.
Bui meanwhile the interest on tee cor
poration's bon is has not been paid, and
the American Trust Company o' New
York, which held them for the benefit of
file owners, was required to foreclose the
mortgage to secure the bonds. The
trust company filled its bill against the
railroad company and others, for
foreclosure of the mortgage for a perma-
nent receiver.
The million and a half bonds have fal
len into many hands, among; whom two
factions have.arisen and which are at war
with each other.
The trust company and the Eugene
Kelly party wishes to retain Captain
Postell and associate with him Major
Byrne of New York and allow them as
joint receivers to issue receivers certifi
cates and repair the road pending tlTis
litigation. But the other party, Ed
wards and others, of New York, would
consent to keeping Captain Postell, but
would not consent to Byrne’s appoint
ment.
Tuesday at New Orleans Judge Pardee,
after hearing the situation, said he would
be happy to keep Captain Postell on as
permanent receiver notwithstanding his
interest and associate another with him
but could not do so without the consent
of all parties. The Schley case was in
default or at least Schley’s attorneys did
not appear to object and it was consoli
dated with the American Trust Compa
ny’s case and by that fact the receiver
ship under Schley’s bill fell.
Judge Pardee appointed Charles P.
Ball, of Montgomery, receiver to take
charge next month. From the bench
Judge Pardee spoke in most complimen
tary terms of Captain Postell, saying iie
had given him the least trouble of any
receivership over which he had had con
trol and by all it was conceded that
nothing but his interest in the subject
matter in litigation prevented his con
tinuance in office.
Capt. Ball, the new receiver, is known
to some of the men composing C lpt.
Postell\s present corps of officials, and
while they regret to part with Capt.
Postell, they speak in high terms of his
success, who is a splendid business man,
and has extensive experience in railroad
management.
We are not posted as to whether any
changes in the force are probable, but
first-class men fill every position, and
they are familiar with the run of things,
and they will likely remain.
Capt. Postell lias made a host of
friends in Cartersville, and his removal
from the city would cause general regret.
Capt. Ball will receive a hearty welcome
by our people, and we congratulate our
city upon securing such a gentleman tor
a citizen.
Banking at the South.
Under the above caption the New
York Financier says:
More banking capital at the South, that
is one of the pressing needs of the times.
The business of that section, as is known
to everyone who has watched its power
ful progress, has far outgrown its old
time banking facilities, and there is a
general demand for more banks. \Ye
see that trust companies are being or
ganized at the south, something unheard
of until recently, because there is no de
mand for them. The south unquestion
ably has great advantages in the manu
facturing field, but these will be largely
neutralized if not at times entirely offset
if it has to pay high rates for monyv. As
the case now stands merchants and man
ufacturers are often obliged to pay rates
for funds which excite general complaint.
The harvest of opportunity is there but
the bank harvesters are few. Capital is
constantly seeking investment iu the
south. Let some of it be turned to
banking. It will pay. Manufacturers
have secured a pretty good start, but is
the hurry of such enterprise banking has
been forgotten.
Mr. Mills will stump New York and
New Jersey.
NO. 19.
