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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.