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THE BAGGING TRUST BUSTED!
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The farmers of Partow] and can afford to wrap their cotton in jute bogging this year, and all the people can afford to supply themselves more comfortably than ever because of the rerribly Cut Rates at which the
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J. P. JONES, THE REGULATOR OF PRICES,
„, OQ , . t Qtrikinp- ldem f=ed Eastern market with the cash, I was enabled to make several grand successes in Dry Goods Notions, Clothings Boots, Shoes, Hats, and all goods in my line; and the people have already learned that thev •.>
TANARUS) tntft I rnv IBABG AINS. My stock is the choicest to be found in this section, and will be sold at PRICES THAT STARTLE COMPETITION ! Appreciating the liberal patronage of the public, I now propose to prove my gratitude by givi
lie , r L*-, aww n b'v* aT'TS EVEB, DRESS GOODS, Irom the cheapest grades to royal fabrics that would adorn a queen. The latest novelties in Prints, Ginghams, and standard goods Ready-made Clothing ot every gra*ie working -
No matter what you want, Ic in strike your fancy. All the latent novelties in (ienU* Furnishing Goods, Notions, &c. The boss stock of Boots, Shoes and Hats.
‘ L ' In fact we are now full up in every department. V Come and price goods, and you will be convinced that you can save money by trading with
J. 1 .J <> A ES,
The People’s Friend and. Regulator of Prices,
THE COURANT-AMERICAN.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1888.
E. CHRISTIAN, D.B FREEMAN,
Editors and Proprietors.
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Terse communications on matters of public
interest solicited.
Cartersville is solid lor advance
ment. _______ ___
“Onward and upward!’’ is the motto
of our progressive city.
It is still unsettled which of the great
parties will have a majority in the House
of Representatives.
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Tuesday night’s meeting was a notable
one. The enthusiasm and unity of our
people augers well for the future.
This week it is the Democracy’s time to
claim West Virginia. There seems to be
no doubt of the election of the Demo
cratic governor.
Shoulder to shoulder. Let our people
continue to pull together, and a great
Hit are awaits Cartersville—the coining
steel making centre ot the South.
A few first class hangings are essen
tially necessary to Atlanta’s well being.
No city can keep often bar rooms, and
preserve her respectability without fre
quent hangings.
Wealth and prosperity are knocking
at our doors. Let us hurry on the move
ments to convert our rich ores into iron
and steel, and stop shipping it to Pitts
burg, Birmingham and Anniston.
Manufacturing is the thing we want
to populate and enrich this section—
naturally the richest in the Inion. Let
us build up the manufacturing interests
and it will make a market for our pro
duce and increase the value ot our rich
farming lands.
The present session of the Georgia Leg
islature will doubtless be another lengthy
one. The new bills are already pouring
in at a lively rate. The biggest fight will
doubtless be over the disposition of the
State Road. A strong effort will be made
to place the property on the market—
which effort will be fought, if necessary,
to the last ditch.
The legislature proceeded with the
election of U. S. Senator last Tuesday.
In the House the vote was Colquitt 158,
Darnell 1. Duggar, Republican, voted
for Darnell. The Senate gave him a
unanimous vote. In several counties
there was a movement, mainly on the
part of the young Democracy, and ar
dent admirers of the" brilliant H. W.
Grady, to give him Colquitt’s seat. The
movement was highly complimentary to
our young friend, but the people oi the
State had long since settled the.question,
and the hero of Olustee succeeds himself.
The killing of Hon. .Tames Hunt, mem
ber of the Legislature, by H. S. Moore, a
mail agent, in their boarding house in
Atlanta, on last Thursday night, was a
remarkable tragedy. Moore’s act ap
pears to have been wholly unjustifiable,
and the case is in every way a very sad
one. The murdered man and his slayer
had been warm penpal friends for a
long time, and the tragedy was provoked
by boyish play in their room. Moore
left the room and went out into the hall
way, and when Hunt started out, several
minutes later, he was met and stabbed
to death. Moore tied from the city, but
was captured before morning, and is now
in jail. He is very penitent, and said,
after, his arrest, that he had killed one
of his best friends. Tl e**case looks bad
for him, from the reports printed in the
Atlanta papers.
THE RACE FOR THE SPOILS.
When the Democrats came back, after
wandering twenty-four years in the wil
derness, says the Philadelphia Times,
they exhibited an appetite for office
was not altogether unnatural under the
circumstances. But it was nothing to
the hunger and thirst that less than four
years ot abs term nee have developed
among the Republicans.
One of the striking features of the pres
ent political situation isthe unanimity
with which the ideaof civil service reform
has been abandoned. It seems to be
agreed that all such new tangled notions
have been voted out, and there is not the
least pretense in any quarter that the
spoils do not belong entirely to the vic
tors.
It nmv be interesting, about next
March, to recall some of the observations
made four years before on the subject of
removals from office, to say nothing of
the utterances of party platforms mean
while. But this interest will be rather
historical than practical. It is now con
ceded that theotfices belong to the saints
and it must be acknowledged that the
saints are not backward in coming for
ward to claim them.
History relates that the elder Harrison
succumbed to the office-seekers in a
month, finding his only escape in death.
If the grandson prove better able to
stand the pressure it will be because he is
not without experience in the distribu
tion of patronage. And yet the pressure
ot was not a circumstance*to
that which already confronts the Presi
dent-elect.
THE PRESIDENT’S PLANS.
The president’s future plans are still
undetermined. It is believed that he will
spend one or two years traveling in
Europe, which he has never visited.
He is still in the very prime of life. He
will leave the white house at least $75,-
000 richer than when lie entered it. This,
added to his other investments, ought to
give him a comfortable fortune of up
wards of $200,000.
Moreover, Mrs. Cleveland, through the
division of the Folsom estate in Omaha,
is an heiress in her own right, and is
probably not less than half a mil
lion of doll a* Both Mr. and Mrs. Cleve
land would prefer a few years of foreign
travel as a pleasant rounding off of their
white house experience before settling
down to the quiet of everyday life, and
for this reason the European trip is re
garded as among the strong probabili
ties.
Judge Thomas W. Milner.
Griffin Sun.
We rejoice in the election of our friend
and college mate Mr. Thomas W. Milner
to the position of judgeship of the
Cherokee circuit. Mr. Milner is not only
an excellent lawyer but a man of moral
character and integrity. He is just the
kind of a man to fiill the position of
judge.
That county is in a bad condition
when its judiciary is controlled by po
litical or immoral influences. The bench
should be in the hands of upright, moral
men who know what justice is and who
have the moral courage to declare and
enforce their convictions. Such a man
is Thomas Milner. We congratulate
Cherokee circuit.
A G ood Warning.
Farmers do not forget to cancel your
mortgages. That the people may be
informed on this subject we give below
the statute bearing on this question
which was approved October 9, 1885,
and which says, “That from and after
the passage of this act, any mortgager
in this Stat£, who may have paid off his
mortgage, may present the same, to
gether with the order of the mortgagee
or transferee, directing that, the mort
gage be cancelled and record the order
across the face of the record to the
clerk of the superior court of the county
or counties in which the same is re
corded when such the clerk is thereby
required to write across the face of
such record the word “satisfied,” and
the date of such entry, and sign his
name thereto officially.” When this
statute is complied with the mortgage
no longer stands against the mortgager
as evidence that the debt still exists.
The choicest foreign and domestic fruits
always on hand at Maffett’s. tf.
THE WESTERN AND ATLANTIC
Dp. Felton Introduces a Bill to
Lease the Property.
Tlie Measure Said to Have Many Friends
—He Wants ©45,000 a Month tor it on
a Fifty Years’ Lease.
Mr. Felton, of Bartow, has introduced
in the House a bill “authorizing the
Governor to lease the Western and Atlan
tic railroad.”
Section first provides that the Gov
ernor is authorized to 1 ase tiie Western
and Atlantic railroad, together with all
its houses, workshops, rolling stock,
depots and appurtenances of every kind
and character, to a company or corpora
tion, or to any other party or parties,
who shall give good and sufficient securi
ty, the lease to take effect upon the ex
piration of the present lease upon the
following provisions: Said lease to be
for a term not less than twenty years
and for a sum not less than $35,000 per
month; or for a term not less than
thirty years and for a sum not less than
$40,000 per month ; or for a term of not
less than fifty years and for a sum not
less than $45,000 per month ; the rental
to be paid monthly into of
the State for the use of the State.
Section second provides that the Gov
ernor shall on or before the first day of
January, 1889, advertise for two months
weekly in such newspapers in the State
as he may designate, the number not to
exceed four, and one leading newspaper
in Chicago, Cincinnati, New York and
London, definite proposals for bids for
the lease, provided said advertisements
do not exceed SI,OOO.
Section third provides that said lease
shall not interfere with the contract ex
isting between the State and the present
lessees; and the lessees, under this act.
shall receive the road, together with its
houses, workshops, rolling stock, depots,
and appurtenances in the condition and
order as the State shall accept the same
from the present lessees at the expira
tion of the present lease contract. In
case the lessees under this act fail or
refuse to pay the monthly rental agreed
upon, the leaee shall be forfeited and the
lessees forfeit to the State three months
rental as damages. It shall be the duty
of the Governor to declare the lease and
the rental forfeited and take immediate
possession of the road, and if any resis
tance is offered the sheriffs of any county
through which the road runs, with a
posse co mi tat us shall aid the Governor
to take possession. Said lessees shall,
in no case, sublet said road to other
persons or corporations so as to impair
the contract with the State, or to im
pair or modify or annul the security
given by the original obligors to the
State. It shall be the duty of the Gov
ernor to require of the lessees a bond
with ample security for the sum of one
million dollars.
Section fourth provides that the lessees
shall be worth over and above their in
debtedness at least $500,000, and there
shall be security in this State worth at
least one million dollars. The, Governor
shall see to it carefully in taking the
bond that these-requirements are fully
complied with. The Governor shall lease
to no company or coiporation who ten
der security that is even doubtful. The
bond shall bind the lessees and their se
curities for the prompt payment of the
sums agreed on at the end of each
month, and the forfeiture of the three
months rental in case the Governor de
clares a forfeiture, and for the return of
the road and its appurtenances at the
expiration of the lease in as good condi
tion as when received from the State by
the lessees.
Section five provides for the appoint
ment by the Governor of three expert
men in railroad management who shall
proceed, sixty days before the expiration
ot the present lease to examine the road
and make out and file a complete in
ventory of the road and all its appurte
nances. The lessees are made responsi
ble for the difference in value of the road
at the expiration of the lease as com
pared with its value when received by
them. The company becomes a body
corporate under the name and style of
the Western and Atlantic Railroad com
pany.
Section sixth provides that all im-
provements, betterments or ameliora
tion whatever shall be made at the ex
pense of the lessees, and no claim for
such will ever be entertained or allowed
by the State. It distinctly provides that
the road shall be always kept in good
condition. The State reserves the right
to examine the road at any time. 11 it
is found depreciated in value, the lessees
are held liable for the depreciation, and
suit against them is ordered.
Section seven subjects the lessees to ob
serve and obey all rules, orders, sched
ules of freight and passenger tariff which
are applied to and required of other
first-class roads. Said lessees shall not
discriminate against other railroads,
persons or places having business con
nections with the Western and Atlantic
railroad. The State pledges herself to
redeem all mortgage bonds on said road.
What is it makes George Edmonds so
cool and placid, and how does he do such
deep thinking? It is because he never
allows himself to be harassed with colds.
He takes Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup, he
does.
The Girls of ToDay.
Detroit Free Press.
What a contrast there is between the
maidens of today and those of three or
four generations ago. Where oue dies
of too much study, twenty died day be
fore yesterday, so to say, of too thin
slippers. The girls of today have es
chewed those slippers, and with them the
infantile short sleeves and low necks of
the old daily wear; their walking shoes
are as thick-soled as men’s progans; they
use them vigorously, too, for they have
learned that life and health are of more
consequence than the admiration of
chance men for a slender foot daintily
shod; they do not allow their skirts to
become draggled about the ankles, and
they would as somi think of melting
pearls in their drinking cups, if they had
them, as of sitting with wet feet. They
wear flannels, too, at whose thickness
their grandmothers and great-grand
mothers would have shuddered, and
without which they themselves, would go
shuddering. They bathe seven times,
not to say 365 times, more frequently
and thoroughly than the departed dam
sels did, and they eat what they want,
and not what some male individual, ador
ing the ethereal, tliinxs is about enough
for them to eat and remain delicate. The
dear departed ones believe that pretty
pallor and interesting peakedness and
pipe-stern belts were the chief require
ments of a persona l appearance; modern
girls believe that muscle, deep chest, free
motion and ruddy color are the correct
wear.
Wonderful Result.
Knoxville, July 2,1888.
The Swift Specific Cos., Atlanta, Ga.:
Gentlemen. —I have a daughter now
seven years of age, who, when about
three years of age, showed a severe case
of scrofula on the side of her neck, the
usual swelling and bumps appeared, and
with a view to curing her, we began
using S. S. S. The result was wonder
ful. and I and my wife now stand ready
to indorse the great curative powers of
your medicine.
S. H. Pearmoxd, Cleveland, Tenn.
Conductor on E. TANARUS., V. & Ga. R. R.
The 11. H, Jones & .Sons Manufacturing Cos.
They are well known all over the South
as the manufacturers of the best vehicles
on the market, from a handsome pleasure
carriage to the useful and practical farm
wagon, one and two-horse. They under
take to duplicate the work of any first
class manufacturers in the country in
price quality and finish. They are truly
a home enterprise—they get theiv wood
from our mountain forests at home and
the work is done by home labor, and
therefore the money is kept at home and
circulates here to the benefit of home
people, supporting and populating our
ow ucountry and developing its resources
and building up our own homes. When
we buy goods made elsewhere, we send
our money away to build up other sec
tions, This is not wise or politic. We
should by all means help every worthy
enterprise in our midst, and thereby help
ourselves and build up at home. This
house has always maintained their in
tegrity and sustained a reputation for
building the best work. They are worthy
oband entitled to the trade of this coun
try. Call and examine their work and
get their prices before buying. They are
building wagons in great quantities, and
a’-e making the best wagon on the mar
ket—the best is the cheapest. tf
A PATRIOTIC INAUGURAL.
Grand Words From Georgia’s
Gallant Governor.
Independence, I'quality and Freedom
tlie Keystone in the Arch of
Our Constitution.
In his inaugural address, Governor
Gordon said:
“If there be one principle of the Gov
ernment dearer than all others to Ameri
can freemen, it is the independence,
equality and freedom of the States.
This is the central thought of our politi
cal faith. It. is the keystone in the arch
of our constitution; and when that is
destroyed the doom of theconstitutional
freedom is sealed. AYhen independence
and equality of the States are struck
down, the republic falls. Oh, no; stran
gulation of States by Federal interven
tion will never be tolerated by the Ameri
can people. What possible excuse could
be given for the interference by the gen
eral Government in the affairs of Geor
gia that would not also justify thßinter
ference with any State in the Union.
What evil exists here that does not exist
elsewhere, and which is so full of danger
that to correct it the fundamental law
must be ignored and Statehood imperil
ed. With the colored race in Georgia
represented on her tax books by the
millions of accumulated wealth, with
150,000 colored children in our public
schools against 00,000 prior to our re
covery of the State government; with
equal laws administered by impartial
courts for the protection of all, with the
ballot in colored hands and its full use
secured to them, whenever and wherever
they may choose to wield its powers; with
the race problem gradually working out
under Providence its own solution ; with
the relations of races becoming more and
more amicable, with the interest of both
races assimilating and improving
smoothlv and rapidly what justification
or possible pretext, I repeat, could be
found for plunging this commonwealth
with her sister Southern States again
into the abyss from which our people re
cently and bravely delivered them. I
cannot doubt that there are men in high
places whose misjudgmer.ts of the South
ern people, or whose sectional bias would
lead them to the very threshold of revo
tionary and destructive legislation, but
in the light of public sentiment, as illus
trated by the cordial reunion ot both
armies at Gettysburg and elsewhere, with
the cause of sectional strife dead and the
line of discord rapidly being blotted out,
with peace and prosperity brightening,
cheering alike both Southern and North
ern homes, with social intercourse multi
plying and strengthening, with Northern
products in the hands of Southern
consumers and Northern money in
Southern bonds, railroads, mills and
mines; with material interests and polit
ical liberty at stake, how can we doubt
that condemnation by the great con
servative masses of our Northern coun
trymen would causeeven the most incon
siderate of leaders to turn from the
brink of such a precipice. Take courage
then in the thought that our interest is
their interest; and our prosperity their
prosperity; our State freedom their
State freedom; and that whatever the
demands of partisan leaders, the day
has long since passed when the American
people can calmly contemplate the de
struction of this Union, by destroying
the equality of the States that compose
it. We owe it to uurselves and to our
children; we owe it to both races whose
interests are linked by the immutable
decrees to common destiny; vvp owe it to
each and all of our sister States; we owe
it to the vital principles of our free in
stitutions to renew our vows of fidelity,
and of unfaltering support of a Union of
equal and independent States,”
ORRTGAGE SAGE. WIRE jIE
sold before the court house door of Bartow
county,.Georgia., ro the highest bidder, on the
third Tuesday in December next, within the
legal hours of sale the following property, to
wit: Lots of land numbers ninety-six (96) and
ninety-seven (97), except the small portion sold
off to Meyers & Barnes, containing three hun
dred and sixteen (316) acres, more or less. Also,
parts of lots numbers one hundred and nineteen
(119) and one hundred and twenty (120). bought
by Dr. Hardy, of iie late T. H. Tupper and Win.
Latins, containing one hundred and forty-live
(145) acres, more or less, and the whole to con
tain four hundred and fifty-five (455) acres, more
or less, and said land lying and being in the sth
district and 3rd section of Bartow county, Geor
gia. Said land sold by Griffin Banking Com
pany, Griffin, Ga., to satisfy a mortgage exe
cuted by C. H. Johnson, Sr., in their favor under
date of January 26th, ism. Tt r.ns cash.
M. L. BATES, President.
Consumption Surely Cured.
To the Epitok—Please inform your
readers that I have a positive remedy for
the above named disease. By its tiinelv
use thousands of hopeless cases have
been permanently cured. I shall he glad
to send two bottles of my remedy fu Ei;
to any ot your readers who have con
sumption if they will send me their ex
press and post office address.
Bespectfullv,
T. A. Slocum, M. (Y,
111-ly 181 Pearl St., New Nork.
In delicate health, and all who suffer
from habitual constipation, will find the
pleasant California liquid fruit remedy.
Syrup of Figs, more easily taken am
more beneficial in effect than any other
remedy. It acts promptly, yet gently on
the Bowels, Kidneys, Liver, and Stom
ach, and does not sicken or debilitate.
Country merchants will find our stock
arge and prices saaie as Rome and At
ant*. Stick land & Bko.
ANNOUNCEMENTS OF CANDIDATES.
FOil COUNTY TREASURER.
At fhe solicitation of friends, I hereby announce
myself a candidate for the oifiee of County Treas
urer of Bartow county, Georgia,
John C. Martin.
FOR JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
To the voters of the .°22d district, G. M, Har
ing served as a constable of this district for
about four years, and have never been accused of
stealing anything, 1 find it doesn’t suit nr.-
talent, and by t lie solicitation of some of n
friends, and Esquire Smith having demined rui
ning, and various other reasons too tedious to
mention, I hereby announce mys as a candi
date for justice of the peace and earnestly ad
fhe support of the good voters ot this district,
if elected, to do my whole duty.
Your hum ble serva lit, F. <’. Watkins.
FOR TAX COLLECTOR.
Thanking the people of Bartow county tor
their support and help in the past, 1 respectfully
ask them to give me their support once more in
n.y candidacy for the office of Tax Collector I
This is a class of work that I can do, notwiti-B
standing my physical condition, and I need ni l
office. My experience in this line of work just I
ties me in promising efficiency if elected.
VV, W. GINN. ■
FOR TAX COLLECTOR. .
I hereby announce myself as candidate fori
Tax Collector of Bartow county at the ensuitul
January election, and respectfully ask my friend-1
for the same, as I need the office, promising tod I
my whole duty if elected. JOSEPH SHAW. I
FOR ORDINARY.
We are authorized to announce the name of Xfl
A. HOWARD as a candidate for re-election a-B
Ordinary for Bartow county. Election firsß
Wednesday in January, 188!).
FOR ORDINARY.
To the people of Bartow county : 1 hereby mB
nounce myself a candidate for Ordinary of lhuß
tow county, and respectfully a k your snpportß
and influence. Election first Wednesday in Janus K
ry next. This August 27th, ISSN.
G. W. HENDRICKS. ■
FOR TAX RECEIVER.
I respectfully announce myself as a Candida - ®
for Tax Receiver of Bartow county at tin eii--®
ing January election, and ask the support of niß
fellow-citizens, with a promise to do my fnlldu *■
if elected. Albert Smith. ■
FOR TAX RECEIVER.
The name of Thomas P. Wofford is here!;#
presented by many friends as a candidate for
office of Tax Receiver o’ Bartow county at ' ; ■
ensuing January election. The support of IB
fellow-citizens is respectfully solicited, with t .m
assurance of faithful and efficient service in tb™
capacity jelected.
FOR TAX RECEIVER.
I hereby announce myself as candidate for r tafl
Receiver at the coming election in January ’"B
and ask the support of the voters of
county for the same. B. L. DURHAM. J
FOR SHERIFF.
To the voters of Bartow county: At the "'B
tation of many of my Mends 1 have c< nee B
to make the race for Sheriff of this county 1
election in January next. -Mr. John W. Cone i
will run as my deputy. If elected I pledge t (,: B
people of Bartow county an honest,
faithful and impartial discharge of the dut\#_-
the office. Very truly,
John T. Layton i
FOR COUNTY TREASURER.
We are authorized to announce the natnM
Mr. H. W. Cobb as a candidate for re elect: J
Treasurer of Bartow county. Election to *
place on the first Wednesday in January.
FOR CLERK.
We are authorized to announce the
F. M. Durham as a candidate for re-electi-
Clerk of the Superior court for Bartow oo’JO-1
Election first Wednesday in January l*s:i.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
To the voters of Bartow connty : I
nounce myself a candidate for Sheriff "* '■
county, with A. M. Franklin and James H ■
Hants as Deputies. I respectfully solicit
votes, and if elected I promise a faithful an H
partial discharge of the duties of the office.
11th July, 1888. J. W. WilliiwJß
FOR SHERIFF.
We are authorized to announce the
of Mr. Wesley W. Roberts as a candidate 1
Sheriff of Bartow county, with Mr. H. K ‘" i:
Maxwell, of Pine Log district, as his deputy 1
the ensuing January election. •
FOR TAX COLLECTOR.
I hereby announce myself as a candidat*’®
Tax Collector of Bartow county at the en s ■
election, and respectfully ask my friends an>
people generally to give me their support®
need the office and can and will faithfully t
elected. F. M. Delli> ,s^B
FOR TAX COLLECTOR.
We are authorized to announce the nanif®
L. MILHOLLIN as a candidate for Tax !
tor of Bartow county. The election to oeC
the first Wednesday in January next.
FOR TAX COLLECTOR,
We are authorized to announce the naiuc ®
F. LINN as a candidate for re-election ■
office of Tax Collector of Bartow County,
FOR TAX RECEIVER.
We are authorized to announce the n > : ■
NAT DUNNAHOO as a candidate for re-et ■
to the office of Receiver of Tax Returns for I
tow County, Ga.