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The Cartersville Courant-American. VOL. vm. CHEAT COMFORT IS DEFEAT. pill Arp Wants to Import North ern Republicans. jjcTliink* 11 Soutlu*vn Articl Too Source )!,• Backwoods Philosopher Tells of Advertising Schemes. Atlanta (Constitution. Northern Republicans who are iiiriiwhTintf around, talk very hopefully „l the situation. They say that General Unrrison is a gentleman and a ('hristian, jnjil Jins no prejudices against the South, , lIH I though he may have friends to re uanh he has no enemies to punish. Tijnv say that he has force of character aii'l great firmness, and will be President and run the machine. They say that Northern people will be more willing to conic South, and they will come, and by their conduct and dealing will command our respect and confidence, and break up tin* Solid South. Well, we are willing to have it broken up in that way. There is no issue in politics that is half as big as a reconcili ation between the North and South. A Northern man said to mo, “I am mak ing investments here, and I expect to move here and bring my family. lam a Republican, and have been all my life. It is the next thing to my religion. The more Republicans you get down here the better it will be for you. They will be a breakwater between .you and any op pression you may fear from General Harrison's administration. They can not harm you without harming us. It is the best solution of the.negro problem. If In' is put over you he will be put over us. We expect to have some influence with the administration, and that in fluence will be for the good of your whole people.” There is some comfort in that kind of talk. 1 don't mean any offense, but I couldn't help thinking about that wicked old fellow who dreamed he died and went to the bad place and saw the old devil and tin* infernal fires and tin* little devils shoveling in the sulphur, and he saw hundreds of his old acquaintances, and when ho waked up he was all in a sweat of perspiration and was so thankful it was a dreaui. lie told it to the boys and one said, “was the fire oncommon hot. Uncle Jake.” “Powerful hot,” said lie, “but then it wasn't so bad as it inout have been; for every white man I saw had a nigger between him and the fire.” So I reckon we had better begin to im port a good lot of our Nostheru breth ren and put them in front about next April and telJ the administration to fire away. Our Southern Republicans will do pretty well, but there are not enough of them to go around. Naboi Freeman has promised to stand in front of me, but his limited diameter would not pro tect the flanks of iny corporosity. Our Uartersville Republicans are generally thin in flesh and it will take about two to cover one Cleveland Democrat. Gov ernor Bullock would suit me mighty well but 1 understand that Governor Brown has had him engaged for three months back. Old Joe is always ahead. My friend A. L. Harris would make a splen did bulwark for a whole family and l hope he will remember me when trouble comes. A Tallapoosa Yankee said to me, “\Ye are going to build another town right away. We have got Tallapoosa estab lished and she is solid as bed rock. Town piFiperty has not shrunk a dollar. Our glass works have been rebuilt aid our furnace is nearly completed and we have lots of smaller industries and there will be hundreds of Michiganders and other ganders down there this winter. We have added four hundred and ninety thousand dollars to the taxable returns of Haralson county in two years. In two years we have built a town of nearly .*{,ooo inhabitants, and expect to double it in two years more; and now we are going to build another town at Bluffton, ten miles below (Jive Spring. Here is the plan and elevation of the hotel, which is to cost seven thousand dollars. The hotel is Fie first housethat we build, and we get a first-class man to keep it. The stomach of a rich man is the first thing to work on. Get him satisfied with hitnself—feed him well —and he will trade. When a Northern man comes down here with his pocket full of money and finds a poor, dirty hotel, and none of the com forts he left behind him, he gets disgus ted and wants to get away as quick as possible. If you Cartersville people had any gumption, you would build a twenty thousand dollar hotel the first thing, and have hot arid cold baths and gas light, and you would paint up that front block, and paint that old depot, and make the town look attractive. A\ ean ill have a bigger town at Bluffton in two years than you have got at Cartersville, and three-fourths of the people will be live yankees that mean bnsiness. You have got the best county in Georgia—l have been all over it and knoNv all about it—and your natural wealth is just im mense, There is nothing like it, or equal to it that I have seen in all my travels, but your people sleep; you don't advertise; the No urn people don’t, know anything i-nnr, you; you have spent three or f aired dollars on printer’s ink am k you have done wonders. We sp> eventy-flve thous and dollars in n \ : ing the first year in Tallapoosa, y-flve thousand dollars in cash, m * got five dollars back for every or ■ ut out. Old Zaek Chandler when b. >\ernor of Michi gan got the Le. to appropriate two hundred tin ' dollars for prin ter’s ink for adv : ; the State, and the result was ~,, ease of four hun dred thousand in jpulation in four years by imrnigr and eighteen mil lions in the vabm ner property. It takes people to nr town, and if you don’t call them . m'teome. If you can get half a Jive yankees to locate in your to 1 hire them to g(* back and drum • oil, and furnish them with half a i little pamphlets with somepietir them and plenty of information a > . ’ your county, and then see the pr ■ a railroad lines and arrange forexn, rates to Carters ville and return, little old hotel couldn’t a<vonm half the people who would co; “My friend,” “you alarm me. Your picture is Yful, very beatiful, but —” “But wh; said he. “Well, I was thiii/dng," I, “that —that maybe too many i come and crowd us out. You si* are raising right smart children 0. ives and we want your clever Noi . friends to come down and mix up ; invest and all that, but we don't v a freshet. Let's sorter divide this thing about half and half. Wo haven . got any seventy-five thousand dollars -t if we knew that a thousand doll;;; < " so spent in prin ter's ink would < ■ our population and set a thousavd little wheels’ll mo tion and that yr. • people when they come would pay back what we spent in calling them to this pur • • \ I think we could raise the money, i liink they ought to pay it back, don't :? Why the Northern and We-c. people are filling up Tex s so U. that the State has quit (-. g arni some of the townships rcquLe an b migrant to bring his credent;. of g > character with him just like ■ *y require a health certificate when iim ,n 1 : -v* fever is around. In some towns •< ui has to make an applicuvoti for * • avalization papers and they v( te on it, and if lie is blackballed, lie must - travel further. They say they want to reserve the purity of their poll' ins nr ' Yr religion. But we are not that parti ••Jar here in Cartersville. We are still cm Tag and we will tote fair and divide. e had a big town meeting the her nir it and nomi nated a unanimous ticket ‘ v mayor and council and we put in five 1 1 uocrats and three Republicans. Veto >• a Scotchman and a Dutchman and mix and them up with the white men and you can hardly tell the difference, and we are all going to pull together for our town and our county. While you are up vorth work ing for Bluffton, tell those ganders to come and see us." “I will,” he said, “1 will, 5 like Carters ville, but she is slow, awful slow. Good bye.” Bill Arp. Cassviilc and Sum Sly. AVho is Sam Sly ? is a question that has agitated no liti>- the curiosity of the young bucks and squaws of old Cass ville. He is the sn Yet of much inquiry f and sonicely has a- overed up his flacks by frequently refei ring to himself and his own affairs, that all with one accord wonder if it can truly be him. He lias not fooled all, however, for Lib articles have certain ear marks that disclose his identity, though he tries .hard to cover himself up with the lion skin, his ears are a little too long, for that’part of thedon key sticks out. Aiy young comrades one and all, let me draw you a pen picture that you may know Samtnie when he brays. The animal is about 44 years old, has red main, where he is not bald, dresses nicely, is always on the go, though .married loves the girls exceedingly, and generally leaves the impression that he favors Mormonisni. He is a regular at tendant at church, Sunday school and parties, and may always be seen looking towards the right if the girls are on that side. He has a high forehead, made so by the jealousy of his wife, snatching at and pulling out the front of his main. He chews his cud as regularly as a goat, and at a distance, by the regular motion of his goatee, mav be taken ter one of the billies. He delights like a mastiff to get hold of a little ficety correspondent and shake him just to see him Nviggle. He is a good natured, funny correspon-. dent that laughs at the mystery that surrounds him, and contemplates a coup on the youngsters at an early day. So look out, ye dudies and ye dudinetf. There is no harm in the animal, however, but much fun. Sam toy Sly winks his eye W hen he goes to sleep, But when he wakes him up His eye balls ’gin to jjeep. X. Y. Z. CARTERSVILLE. GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1888. FALL FROM A BALLOON. Tragic Death of a Daring Aero naut at Columbus. A Half-Mile in MM Air With a Bursted Galloon—Descending With a Para chute Into the Itiver. Columbus Enquirer, Nov. 2U. The balloon ascension and parachute jump, by the famous Prof. F. H. Vande grift, at the Exposition Park yesterday was set for Ip. in. A stiff gale was blow ing at the time and the professor and his partner, Mr. O. J. Brady, approached the president and some of the directors and told them that they were apprehensive that the wind was too strong. They said, however, that if the wind would settle by L o’clock, the ascent and jump would be made. They were informed that, under the cir cumstances, it was all right, and that the ascent could be made another dav. An immense concourse crowded the grounds in anticipation of seeing the astounding feat. The announcement of the probable postponement was made; but the crowds were hopeful that the breeze weald settle and that they would see one of the most daring feats ever witnessed in the world at 4 o’clock. However, when 4 o’clock came the wind was still high, but the professor determined to make the ascent and jump at all hazards. He was still very apprehensive, though. At the time named the balloon man agement commenced the work of inflating it with hot air and in a quarter of an hour 3he monster balloon stood seventy five feet high and one hundred and sixty in circumference. An indescribable thrill took possession of the immense concourse that filled the grand stand, the balconies of the main building and that lined the fencing of the quarter stretch, as the cords were cut and the big balloon grace fully ascended into the air. A parachute was attached at the base from which the trapeze was suspended. As the balloon went up the professor hung by both arms from the trapeze. Heat once commenced to perform the most daring feats, hang ing by his toes and standing on his head. The balloon mounted the airy Nvaves somewhat slower than it did last Tues day, but it took much the same direc tion, southwesterly. Deafening cheers rent the air and complete amazement seized the throng as the balloon was passing over their heads about- half a mile from the ground. But, horror of horrors! when that distance was reached, the balloon burst clear from the base to the top. The utmost, consternation seized the multitudes, immediately, and a horrible death, from being dashed to the earth, was momentarily expected. Several ladies well nigh tainted from dread and alarm. Thousands of eyes were turned away from the tragic scene. The commotion was simply dreadful. 'However, the skilled and practiced pro fessional, with great presence of mind at o ce cut loose the parachute and after a fall of a few-seconds it flew open. With a bravery all his own, he managed the pamehutosplendidly, a voiding the heavy canvass of the falling balloon. The par achute was wafted rapidly towards the river in a downward course. The crowds anxiously watched its course. All grow hopeful thatthe aeronaut wmild save his life. By the way in which he acted it seemed as if he was aiming to fall in the river. Anyhow the parachute finally fell into the Chattahoochee. Thousands of the spectators at once rail to the river bank, about one-eighth of a mile away. The bank forms part of the park boun dary. Then the following particulars of the fall and the subsequent happenings were learned from the men who attempted to save him. Two men, C. H. Hamburg and J. I). Dirken, were just after locking their boat on their return from a duck hunt, when they observed the balloon descending and heard the professor scream, “Bring the boat quick.” He was thmi about two hundred feet from the ground. The men immediately un locked the boat and started down the river. The professor again shouted, “For God sake come quick,” just before lie struck the water. After striking the water he arose and said, “save my cap.” the boat was then close to him, and Hamburg caught him by both hands. A strong effort was made to raise him into the boat, but it unfortunately almost tipped over and hall* filled with water. The professor was entangled in the trapeze cords and his body was through the hoop. The parachute was then dragged into the boat and another effort made to save the aeronaut. But the effort caused the parachute to fall again into the water. Its weight almost im mediately dragged the professor to the bottom. The dreadful scene paralyzed the crowd and everybody stood aghast. In a few seconds the professor’s partner reached the bank. He at once stripped and jnmped in and dived several times to try if he could find his brave companion. But alas! his courage and devotion were without success. Every possible effort was made to locate the body, or the par- aeh u ie. but all laiietE When several the crowd returned to the grounds and stated that the famous and brave bal loonist was lying on the bottom of the C .attahoochee, numbers doubted the statement entirely, and indulged in earn est out faint hopes that it was not trip. But unfortunately all, later on, realized the terrible fact, as hundreds returned from the awful scene confirming the dire ful news. The Exposition directorate offered a reward of SIOO for the recovery of the body. Superintendent T. J. Hunt, of the exposition, at once hirecUtwenty five men and proceeded to the river to endeavor to find the body. At 9 o’clock last night an Enquirer- Sun reporter called at the Planters’ Hotel on Broad street for the purpose of seeing Air. 0. J. Brady, partner of Prof. Vandergrft. In answer to questions, he said: “No blame whatever can be at tached to anyone. Though Ve were ap prehensive, it was our own proposition to make the ascension. The balloon was partially an old one. AYe bought it this year, but some time ago a hole was burned in the top of it. I also think it was too full of hot air. The wind had ho effect on it. Prof. Yandegrift met with several accidents before, breaking his leg five times. On one occasion a balloon burst in West A'irginia, and he fell five hundred feet. A tree broke the fall and he escaped with a broken leg. He has fallen in the Mississippi, Detroit river, Hudson river and Lake Erie. The second parachute jump lie made he broke his leg. He was born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, but his late home is in Cleveland, He was a fine swimmer amWould make nothing of swimming four or five miles. He was twenty-five years of age and unmarried. Yesterday’s jump was his forty-seventh. AYe have lieen partners for the last five years, but I have known him all his life.” Mr. Brady wept bitterly at the terrible fate of his companion. The body was recovered at 11 o’clock last night, fastened in the jetties, just be low the hospital. The cords of the para chute and trapeze were entangled round his neck, arms and wrists in the most in tricate manner. The cords were cut, and aTereonsiderablediffieulty, the body was raised on board one of the boats and brought to the bank. The neck was broken and tiie face somewhat scratched It was subsequently removed to Under taker Fletcher’s establishment, where an inquest will be held this morning. The body will then be embalmed and sent to his friends in Clinton, Aliss. The sad oc currence is deeply deplored by the entire community, and the bravery, courage, and daring of F. H. A r andegriit will ever be engraven on the annals of the Chatta hoochee Valley. Southern Pig Iron in Demand. New York Times. The demand for Southern pig iron in the Eastern markets is assuming large proportions and is growing so rapidly that it is attracting the attention of the entire iron trade. Contracts for delivery extending all through the coming year are being made at an increase of from 50c to $1 per ton over the prices of the past year. This fact is interesting as an evidence of the development of the New South. It is less than fifteen years since the first order for Southern pig iron was given for the Eastern market, and it is estimated thatthe aggregate sales of the first year did not amount to 500 tons. Since that time the demand has increased so largely and so steadily that the estimated sales for the past twelve months amount to 150,000 tons. This estimate does not include the Virginia Iron Works, but only those surround ing Chattanooga, Birmingham and Anniston as centers. These furnaces are now turning out a grade of high silicon iron that L>,y airtily sis and the greater test of use equals the best Scotch iron imported to this coun try. Moreover, the American-Scotch irons are rapidly driving the foreign Scotch irons out of. the American mar ket, because they cost from $2 to $2.50 less per ton, and are equal, it not supe rior, in quality. In the making of pul leys, car w lu'els, and in the general uses to which iron is put. except for Bessemer steel, the Southern iron is most satisfac tory, and the dealers in it confidently express the belief that* the ratio of in crease in the trade will be continued. Synod of Georgia. The Synod of Georgia met in Athens yesterday. The exercises on Wednesday consisted chiefly of a religious service con ducted by Rev. Dr. Strickler of Atlanta, after which the business of the body was transacted and officers elected. Rev, Air. Carter of Columbus, will deliver the Thanksgiving sermon today. The synod is composed of representa tives from over two-thirds of the State and has sixty-five members. The session will last the remainder of the week and possibly longer. Full attendance is ex pected. Do you suffer with catarrh ? You can lie cured if you fake Hood's Sarsapa rilla, the great blood purifier. Sold by all druggists. A FEW IMPORTANI LINES. Gen. Harrison’s Reply to a South ern Enquirer. He Hints That There Would he No South ern Question if the Protectiouisrs Would Join His Party. Greenville, S. C., Nov. 27. —The Green ville Daily News today prints a letter re cently received by its editors from Gen. Harrison, and published by his permis sion. It was written in reply to a letter urging that Southern commercial inter ests would be relieved from the obstruc tion caused by doubts and fears regard ing the Southern policy of the coming administration if Gen. Harrison would make some general assurances of his pur poses to follow a conservative course to ward the South. It is adressed to A. B. AA’illiarns of the Daily News and is as follows : “Your letter of November 10 has been received. lam not ready to make any public utterances upon any public ques tion. Every day I am solicited by special correspondents of the press to speak up on this subject or that, but I have inva riably declined, and to your appeal for some expression upon the question that interests you I must, for the present, make the answer. “I understand that you have yourself been satisfied with the expiessions made by me in my public utterances to visiting delegations during the campaign, and when the surprise and disappointment which some of your people have felt over the result have passed away, and they give some calm thought to the situation, I think they will be as much surprised as I am that they should, in thought or speech, impute to me unfriendliness to ward the South. “The policies on legislation advised by the Republican party I believe are whole some for the whole country, and if those who in their hearts believe with us upon these questions would act with us, some Other questions that give you local con cern would settle themselves.” Death of Mr. Knsley Stegall. There was a great gloom cast over Emerson and neighborhood, and Bartow county, when the news was current that Mr, Emsley Stegall (Uncle Enisley) as he was better known by his neighbors and closer friends, was dead. He was one of the county's best known citizens and had many friends. His death occurred at his home near Emerson on last Sunday morning, the 25th inst., the cause being Bl ight’s dis ease together with old age. He had been stricken several weeks, and his relatives and friends attracted to Ids bedside, did all they could in the hope that he would rally and be spared several more years of life. He was born in Greenville district, South Carolina, on January 7th, 1816, and was consequently in his 73d year. He moved to Bartow county in 1839, where he resided up to the time of his death. He joined the Mel hodist church, placing his membership at Stegall’s elm pel in 1857, and proved a consistent mem ber of the same tor thirty-one years, up to his death. Stegall’s Station was named for him, and, it is said, he was rather displeased when the name was changed to' Emerson. Mr. Stegall was noted for his great physical powers, his firmness m whatever he believed to lie right, his loyalty to his friends, and his benevolent nature. Alany are the persons that can testify feelingly to his charitable deeds and the help ren dered in many ways to the needy. He leaves considerable property, the accumulations of honest industry. A sorrowing wife and two sons, Messrs. John P. and Robert Stegall, survive him. These and his several grandchildren were about his bedside, and watched affection ately during his last hours. His funeral took place from the church at Emerson on Monday, the exercises being conducted by Rev. H. J. Adams from the 15th verse of the 49ih Psalm : “But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave; for He shall receive me.” The attendance was among the largest ever seen at a funeral in Bartow county, many friends from different, points Lieing present. A Tribute to Georgia. Memphis Avalanche. Air. Henry Grady’s Georgia is a fruitful field. It has all the elements of true greatness. Every mail brings anew in stance. All the meteoric stones which fall in the Union of late are found on Georgia soil. It grows all the prize pump kins, its wildcats are the fiercest, and its deer leap highest. Unheard-of scores are made by its marksmen, marvelous fish captured in its streams. All the electric girls and magic statesmen come from Georgia, audits evangelists are the mos* noted in the world,. In no other State is imagination, especially among journal ists, as vivid, and as a consequence Geor gia is the best advertised State in the Union. Nothing is chronicled of any other part of the world, civilized or bar baric, that Georgia cannot surpass. Jiltio in tlte .South. N. 0. Picayune. • The most noticeable feature of tlio in dustrial development that lias been going on in the South during the past few years is unquestionably the increase in the manufacture of cotton goods. This is the more interesting and important, as cotton is the principal product of the Southern States ; heneeit seems the most natural thing in the world that the cot ton mill should flourish in near proximity to the cotton plant. At a recent public meeting in Boston the statement was made that- the manu facture of cotton was increasing much faster at. the South than in New England. More mills have been built in Georgia alone since the war than are now in op eration in New Hampshire. In 1879 the number of cotton factories in the South was lot; in 1887 the number had in creased to 219, while now there are 2.1.7 mills in operation, 17 new ones almost ready to begin work, and 40 more build ing. Cormnentingon this, Bradstreet’s Jour nal, a well known trade paper, says: ‘‘The inference to be drawn from these facts is, of course, that the cotton man ufacturing industry has better prospects for growth at the South than at the North, so that the New England concerns are being crowded to the wall.” While freely admitting the force of the first part of i f s own commentary, that the cotton industry has better prospects for growth at the South than at the North, Bradsireet vigorously combats the latter part, that the New England concerns are being crowded to the wall. We enti.nly agree with BradstreeCs view of the matter, as the cousn mpi ion ofcotton goods both a t home and abroad is increasing much more rapidly than the milling industry is developing in the South, he nee theie is still more than enough profitable employment, fornill the factories of the country. But granting this, it is nevertheless true that tin* star of empire in the cotton trade is drifting South. Could there be anything nug-e logical than that cotton should be manufactured into cloth in the neighborhood ot the fields in which it is grown, especially as considerable expense is thereby avoided? Labor is cheap and plentiful all over the South; transportation facilities are daily improving, and Southern.mills find cus tomers for a large portion of their output at their verv door. As the South must look to manufactur ing as the road to future greatness, the progress shown in the erection of cotton mills is gratifying in the extreme. A Tribe of 14e<l Men. The order known as the Improved Order of lied Men now have a tribe in this city. Mr. Jacob Emmel, the Great Chief of Records of Georgia,* came up Wednesday, accompanied by twenty-two men from Comanche, Cherokee and Mo hawk Tribes, of Atlanta, and at night instituted the tribe here. There were twenty-five of the charter members, ar.d they number some of the very best men of the city. The following was installed as the first corps of officials: G. A. Pattillo, Sachem. W. A. Williams. Senior Sagamore. A. Strickland, Junior Sagamore. L. M. Holland, Prophet. G. M. Montgomery, Chief of Records. M. Scheuer, Keeper of Wampum. The tribe wy.s christened “Etowah Tribe, No. 27.” The order starts under bright auspices and promises to be a popular and last ing institution in our midst. S;i<l Death of a Young Lady. Miss Emma E, Stocks, eighteen years of age, a daughter of Mr. W. 11. Stocks, died on Monday, tlie 1 Otli inst., at her father’s horn.e in this city, 01 consump tion, from which she had been for some time a sufferer. Her funeral took place from the Baptist church, of which she was a member, on Tuesday, the 20th, Rev. W. H. Cooper, in some feeling re marks portraying the beauty of her ('hristian character, and dwelling impress ively upon the fitness for eternal life of those who accept the Lord and sacrific inglv serve and trust Him. Her sad death casts a deep gloom over relatives and a large circle of friends. A Pretty Clean Sweep Coming. Baltimore Sun. Undoubtedly there will be tremendous pressure upon him to make rapid and sweeping changes in office, but those who Best know the bent of his mind think there will be no undue haste in this mat ter, although there is no doubt Repub licans will be substituted in all cases for Democrats as soon as deemed practica ble. A Republican member lrom New York said tonight he was for throwing civil service reform to the winds, and as soon as the Fifty-first Congress met he should bring in a bill to repeal the civil service law. Customer—Give me a dose of whisky? IJfhggiflt—What’s the matter with you? Customer—Ague. Druggist—O, you shake for the drinks, do you?—Washington Critic. NO. 25.