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The Cartersville Courant-American. VOL. VIII. ABOUT GOBBLING UP CANADA. ine Question Receiving Serious Consideration by Uncle Sam to Lsir lSeiy * n Favor of A „,iex .Several Influen tial Men Think ADout it. dispatches from Washington indi rate that the proposed annexation of Canada to the United States is being seriously considered. It has, as if in a singl** day, become a great national is and bids fair to become a question for the consideration of Congress at the present session. It is not improbable that a resolution will be offered early in the session by Senator Sherman asking the President to open negotiations with the British Government and get from that country an expression of opinion upon the proposed annexation. In the event the British Government should re ceive the proposition with favor, there will fallow the appointment of a commis sion to negotiate a treaty for that pur pose. Nearly every Senator and member here, irrespective of party, express them selves with enthusiasm for annexation; and hope that the necessary steps will be taken as soon as possible. Your corres pondent talked with a few of the leaders today and obtained the following ex pressions : Senator Ingalls favors the annexation of Canada, and believes the people of Canada desire it, but it is not to be sup posed that the British Government will let so fair a colony go without a fight. “England'spolicy,” he says, “is to retain Canada just as she retains her other col onies, exclusively for her own profit and convenience. Shelias worked the Amer ican colonies for suckers a long time.' Now she is working Canada for a sucker, but she can’t do it much longer. The whole boundless continent shall be ours, and the Canadians shall be a part of our country.” Senator Sherman said that in his opin ion within ten years Canada will be either represented in our Congress or in the English Parliament. “But,” said he, “we do not want Canada if we have to use force to annex it; that is, we should not like to see the same relations between Canada and the United States as now exist between England and Ireland.” He believes the people on both sides of the line are of the same origin, the same blood, the same genius, the same aspi rations, and they will inevitably march on together to the same destiny. Representative Hitt, the leading mem ber of the foreign affairs committee, is an advocate of annexation, and believes that in time the annexation will take place. Mr. McCreary, the chairman of the foreign affairs committee, says Canada’s amalgamation with the United States is only a question of time. A Kotteu JBoroujfh. New York Times. The State of Connecticut, which casts its electoral vote for Cleveland and Thurman, and which gave the demo cratic State ticket a handsome plurality, will be furnished with a Republican Gov ernor and full set of State officers us soon as tlie legislature meets. The man ner in which this defeat of the popular will is accomplished is shown by some interesting figures which the New York Evening Post publishes relative to the system of representation by towns which was established seventy years ago in Connecticut and still prevails. By this system, the towns in existence in 1818 were allowed two representatives in the Lower House, and towns subse quently established one representative. ■There are 249 representatives in all. Of these, sixty towns, casting 11,851 votes, elect seventy-six representatives, while six cities, casting 54,(564 votes, elect only twelve. New Haven sends two rep resentatives, casting for them 17,827 votes, anddthe town of Union sends the, for whom it easts 118 votes. A similar inequality exists in the election of Sena tors, the twenty-fourth district, for instance, casting 2,253 votes, while the first district casts 11,248 and eighth 17,- "13. This is the most notorious in stance of the “rotten borough” system which the United States affords; but as it can be reformed only by the consent of those who profit by the injustice, there is little hope of change. An exchange says: “The author of n recent book on the Ethics of Marriage advocates the levying of a heavy tax u Pon men who could marry but won’t, tor the support of dependent single women who are willing to marry but can't.” The principle is a just one. bachelors may properly be classed among the superfluities of society and L should be utilized in some way. The Way proposed by our author would Dake them of practical use in the world. One of the Parisian fads is to wear cars of corn on the head. The style else where is to wear the ears on the head and the corns on the feet, —Philadelphia A ortU American. MORE EDUCATION. AnApp.nl for Public School*—Lot Georgia Io Heiter. Dooly Vindicator. To the shame of every true citizen of the Empire State of the South, it can be and is said, and borne out by facts and figures, that her people are the most ignorant of any of the people of the union. It is a truth that the great num ber of people in this State that cannot write their names will surprise any one who has never given the subject a thought. It is a shame upon our great name, a blot upon our country’s honor, something that should bring a blush upon the cheeks of our people, especially our law-makers. Are we so very poor, indigent, unenterprising, stingy, mean that we cannot educate our children to where they can have written intercourse with others of their kind? Our State is not in such an impoverished condition but that this could not be done. We have just spent thousands of dollars upon anew state capitol, of which every Georgian is proud, and yet these very dollars represent men, women and child ren who do not have any idea of what the State capitol is, nor would they know the very words even, were they to see them in print. Our people who have had the educational interests at heart have done well as they could with the mere pittance allowed them for this purpose, and still the conditions are not much improved. The advantages of securing an education are very meager for a poverty-stricken boy or girl. Our legislature is now in session; our State is able to give better advantages, and our law-makers should see that it is done; and if they do not, our people should remember this, and and when their.terms expire ask them to remain at home and let some one repre sent us who is liberal-minded to that de gree that they will not draw the strings to the money bags tighter and tighter, while they cry poverty! poverty! though there echoes in their ears the maudlin cry of the masses. Ignorance, immorality, bloodshed, strife and contentions. The Value of Manufactures to Farmers. A correspondent of the Charleston News and Courier, writing from Spartanburg, calls attention to the revolution that- is in progress in the cotton markets of that county, and says: “When the mills now building are finished they will consume more cotton than our county will fur nish. One consequence will be that buy ers for foreign markets will be ruled out. Some of the farmers think that another result will be that they will get as much for their cotton at the mills as it will bring in Wilmington or Charleston. Even now farmers are hauling their cotton away from railroad markets to the mills, and they will do this more and more, provided the price at the mills keeps up, and there is no reason why that should not be the case when competition gets strong.” The Chronicle, of Charlotte, N. C., in a discussion of the high prices which cotton is commanding in that market as com pared with Liverpool quotations, says: “Another thing that helps the price of cotton here is the presence of the cotton mills. Next year, when two more mills will be running, this chy will furnish a demand for cotton for home manufacture that will greatly benefit the farmers of the surrounding country. These facto ries, by tlie way, also create an addi tional demand for the farmers’ products, such as vegetables and meats.” Here are two papers, just about the same time, discussing the good effect on the farmers’ interests of cotton mills. Not only do the mills furnish employ ment to many hands that would other wise be idle and create a home market for the diversified products of farming, but they enhance the selling price of the farmers’ cotton by causing competition against outside buyers,, who, without the mills, would be the only bidders. A local market is the best market, and every new mill that goes up in the South demonstrates the truth of this. Southern farmers will find that the more they en co u rage the and e vel op inen tofin an u fac t u res the greater will be their own profits. The prosperity of the farmers of that section as a class depends upon the increase of diversified industries, that a home mar ket may be furnished for the widest pos sible diversification of farm productions. What a l inker’s Darn Is. “A tinker’s darn” is a wall of dough raised around a place which a plumber desires to flood with solder. An eleetro phous (an instrument for generating in duction by electricity) is thus formed. A vial previously heated, is upset upon a circular plate, with a turned-over edge. A circular dam of dough is raised around the lip, forming a wall to hold the soft solder.Thematerial of this dam canbeused only ODce, and being consequently thrown away as worthless after a very tempor ary period of usefulness, this devise has passed into the proverb, “not worth a tinker's dam,” which generally involves the addition of a profane n to the last word, and thus converts an otherwise innocent comparsion into a phrase of quite another character. CARTERSVILLE. GA„ THURSDAY. DECEMBER , 1888. NEW SOUTHERN INDUSTRIES. While Politicians Wrangle the Solid South Booms. Millions of Kastern and Foreign Capital Pouring into the South—The Attraction of Her Great Resources. The activity in the industrial interests of the South lately reported continues unabated, and special reports to the Manufacturers’ Record show that the past week has been a very busy one. A noticeable feature of the reports this week is the number of such enter pises as electric light plants, wood-working fac tories and diversified industries generally, while of large enterprises there have been many very important ones. The most extensive is a $5,000,000 company composed of New England capitalists organized at Fort Payne, Ala., to develop 30,000 acres or more of mineral land, build two or three large furnaces, a rolling null, &c. Knoxville reports a $500,000 slate quarrying company and a $300,000 improvement company to build street railroads, fcc.; $50,000 coal and iron mining company,; Ocala, Fla., a .$500,000 general improvement com pany; Baltimore a $500,000 agricultur al implement company; El Paso a $250,- 000 irrigation company; a $500,000 company will build a manufacturing town near Ashville, N. C.; Cotton mills are projected at Gaffney City and Winns boro, S. C., and Cedartown, Ga., and at Macon, Ga., a SIO,OOO spindle mjll will be built at once; Baltimore has secured a large can factory to be put up by Wes tern men; New Orleans a $50,000 arti ficial stone company; Louisville a grain elevator, and New Birmingham. Texas, a foundry; The Atlanta glass works will double their capacity; anew coal mine will be opened in Maryland; Knoxville is promised a $500,000 hotel; Old Point, Ya., a $700,000 hotel, and Americus, Ga., one to cost SIOO,OOO. These are a few of the most extensive enterprises reported for the week as given in this week’s issue of the Manufacturers’ Rec ord, while in addition to these particu lars are given of many smaller ones, of numerous enlargements of old plants, of railroad projects and of building operations, indicating a very healthy and rapid general development of the whole South. Evidently the people of that section are determined to tui n their mind from the political matters which lately absorbed their attention to the advancement of their material pros pei ity by the building of furnaces, facto ries and mills of all kinds to utilize the magnificent resources of their country. •‘Look Out for the South.” Referring to the remarkable fact that the Richmond Exposition proved a finan cial success, the New York Herald says: Look out for the South ! When it runs a big exposition without loss it means that there is a plentiful supply of grit and enterprise down yonder, and in twenty years from now—that will do, that will do. Wait and see. “Twenty years from now,” indeed! Wait ten years, or even five years, and you will see such a revolution in the in dustrial affairs of the South in their re-, lation to the rest of the country as will surpass even the wildest dreams of the Herald. The tremendous magnitude of the development now in progress is not grasped by nine-tenths of even the well informed business men of the country. It is the greatest in the world’s history, and it is only fairly under way. Cleveland’s Trip Abroad. Washington, I). C., Nov. 30.—The peo ple who have been engaged in mapping out Mr. Cleveland’s future for him, when he shall ha ve ceased to be President, can now base their prognostications on some thing tangible. On undoubted and in disputable authority it can be stated that Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland will go abroad very shortly after they bid fare well to the White House. The pro gramme, as at present arranged, calls for the departure of the ex-President and his wife early in June. France is to be the first country visited, and then Great Britain will be explored. Mrs. Cleveland has always been very anxious to make a trip to Norway and Sweden, and it is more than probable that they will jour ney thither early in August. Italy and Spain will be the next countries in the tour, and if Mrs. Cleveland can only con vince the ex-President that Italy is a desirable land in which to spend a few months, the couple will stay through the winter at San Remo or Nice. A hog- was butchered in Charlton a few days since, and in the stomach of the swine were found some twenty-nails and a lot of glass, supposed to have been pieces of bottle. The hog was apparently healthy. The leaflets brown and scarlet Are losing all their grip; They flatter from the branches, And down the breezes slip, While the robin packs his singlet And scoqts to Missisiipp. Fun ut iiiil AvpV. The social event of last week was the reception given at the inviting home of Maj. C. bf. Smith last Thursday evening, in honor Sf the twenty-first birthday of their son Kalpbe. Thanks to the thought fulness of the big-hearted Major, the Cou kant-American representative found himself among the happy company who gathered to celebrate the occasion. The Smith mansion occupies a com manding position on a considerable ele vation in the Northwest portion of the city, and is surrounded by extensive and beautiful grounds—a fitting place for a pleasant gathering. The clever host and amiable hostess were charmingly assisted by their inter esting daughter, Miss Marion, and they happily succeeded in royally entertaining their guests. The feature of the evening was some excellent music rendered by Misses Julia Hall and Annie Laurie Jones. Cards and dancing were also in order. At a late hour supper was served. The supper table, ornamented with fragrant flowers and dainty viands, most lovely ’picture. The pleasant party departed for their homes at 1 a. in., having spent one the happiest evenings of their lives. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pratt, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Nisbet, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Freeman, Rev. J. S. Hill house, Prolessor Stewart, Cleveland, Tenn.; Miss Annie Stansell wjth J. Hugh Young, Miss Lila Calhoun, Dr. C. A. White, Miss Julia Hall, Frank Wallace, .Miss Mary Hall, Evans Mays, Miss Kate Graham, I). C. Dobbins, Miss Annie M. Jones, Calhoun Marshall, Miss Annie Waddell, M. G. Dobbins, MissLalla Bass, Ben Aker man, Miss Elise Owen, Sayre Calhoun, Miss Lula White, Henry Milner, Miss Annie L. Jones, Alex Akerinan, A. Strickland, Charley Wikle, Mr. Nisbet, George Waring, Max Seheuer, Luther Polhill, S. T. Martin and Howard Smith. Time to Advertise the South. Augusta News. The violence and suddenness with which winter lias already set in at the North, as reported from Canada and elsewhere, seein to promise severe weather for the early part of the season. Last winter the worst of the cold as realized in the North was in the last part of the season, the extraordinary snow swept over the country having occurred in March. This year a damaging frost in August precipitated a famine in a large district of Dakota, and the severe weather that has since appear ed at frequent intervals seems to prom ise extreme temperatures in the near future. These things will make thousands of the residents in the region of the snow and the blizzard think of the balmy and delightful South. Now is the time to talk to those people of the charms of winter life in Georgia—and particularly in Augusta. New Sleeping; Car Company. It is announced that the Pullman has now a formidable rival in the new Union Palace Car Cos., which is a consolidation of the Mann Boudoir and Woodruff and the system of the Chicago, Kansas City & Sb. Paul road. Besides the cars now in use by the consolidated system, the new company have thirty-four cars now building at their shops in Wilmington, Delaware, which are nearly .completed. These cars, it is claimed, will be the most magnificent in all respects of any sleep ers in the world. The Union Sleeping- Car Cos. will operate all the sleeping car service of the Richmond Terminal, in cluding the Piedmont Air Line, East Tennessee, Virginia &* Georgia, the Cen tral of Georgia and their branches. It will also operate the Queen Crescent system, the Reading road, and all the Corbin Line of roads, as well as the Chi cago, Kansas City & St. Paul. The ar rangement will go into effect in January next, when the company u ill have 13,000 miles of territory and 225 sleeping cars under its control. A man named Bayles, a tenant on the farm of Col. S. C. Dunlap, near Gaines ville, unearthed a year or two ago about $1,200 in gold coin which was supposed to have been buried many years ago by the late Joseph Dunnegan, the former owner of the land. The hei’-s of Dunne- B HH9BH H T;' gan brought an action of trover for the money. The case was tried about a year ago and resulted in a mistrial. It was tried again during this adjourned term of the court, and a verdict was' rendered in favor of the plaintiffs. While it is gen erally believed that Dunnegan hid the money where Bayles found it, there was no positive proof of the fact, and many still believe that the finder was entitled to the treasure trove. What further action, if any may be taken, is hot yet known. An exchange says: “How women can manage to sit bolt upright and not change a position, looking neither to the right or left during a sermon in church, passes the understanding. A man will sit on a picket fence all the afternoon to see a ball ma + ch, but put him in a church pew for three quarters of an hour and he will wabble all over the seat.” THE OLD REBEL YELL. The Argument of Mr. Twiggs Before a Southern Judge. Houston Post. A singular dramatic incident occurred in the superior court room at Waynes boro during the trial of the Symses, father and son. The killing occurred at Mcßeau’s station in October last. Emin nent counsel had been engaged by the prosecution and defence, for both parties are prominent and wealthy. The evi dence closed and the speaking began Fri day morning, continuing all through the day. When the court assembled after tea the seats and the aisles within the bar were crowded with ladies, while without a dense throng of men filled up the audi torium. It was before this assembly that Mr. Twiggs began his argument. Twiggs is an eloquent speaker, practiced in and noted for his oratorial graces. In the course of his three hours’ address he at one time referred in the most feeling man ner to the courage and devotion of wo men. The hour, the occasion, the dim light from which the rapt faces were bent upon him all combined to form a surrounding well calculated to inspire the orator to his greatest effort. He closed his address upon the women as follows: “At the battle of Gettysburg- General Pickett was ordered to begin the charge which was to make him famous. As he went into the terrible battle his young bride on horseback followed him. When the hail of death was beating down men on all sides, and the plunging shot and shell mingled their fierce screams with the moans and cries of the mangled. Pickett suddenly found himself in the presence oi his wife. In an agony of fear for her safety he cried out to her as she sat cool and collected as a veteran: ‘Go back! Go back! For God’s sake, go back to the rear!’ ‘No,’ replied the de voted woman, ‘in the hour of danger the wife’s place is by her husband's side.’” At this moinemt through the courtroom there rang out the wild, thrilling cry, which nearly lifted the excited throng to its feet. It was the old rebel yell, heard upon a hundred battle fields and never to be forgotten. A deep silence followed. All eyes were turned towards the outer circle. Then Judge Roney’s cold voice was heard bidding the sheriff to arrest the offender. A man was seen dodging through the crowd, and the judge con tinued, “the man who is leaving is pro bably the one wanted.” “No, judge,” exclaimed a voice slow ly; “I am the man.” The speaker stood in the aisle with fold ed arms, quietly contemplating the bench. “I shall have to fine you $lO, then, for disturbing the court.” “Very well, your honor, I shall pay the money,” said the man; “but I meant no disrespect. I was a confederate soldier at Gettys burg, and just could not help from hol lering.” The ladies present sprang to their feet, aud in an ipstant the money vvas made up and paid to the clerk. The involuntary yell of the old soldier was an irresistible tribute to womanhood. The Baltimore American does not be lieve much in bribery in politics, for it says: The fact is, t.Js bribery business in a presidential campaign is more of a bugaboo than a reality. It serves to stir up indignation in the popular mind, and to deceive innocent party journals willing—nay, anxious—to believe that every one but themselves is dishonest, and, in this way, it becomes an effective weapon. But voters are not so easily purchased as these precious innocents imagine. Very few men will sell their votes at all, and fewer still at a price which a poltiieian can afford to pay for them; and those who are purchasable are so well known and so closely watched in an exciting contest that the aggregate of the money spent on them would scarcely furnish one of their number with a respectable funeral. Bribery at elections is not nearly so common as it has been in the past, and is growing less just in proportion to the diffusion of education among the people. Wherever ignorance is densest, there will the bribery of voters be found to flourish most lux uriantly. If the Democrats can derive any conclusion from this, they are wel come to it. In front of a shoe store in Columbus stands a stuffed bear skin. A Meriwether visitor was passing eating pecans. While he was opening the nuts and devouring their contents he became oblivious to his surroundings. Raising his eyes in front of the store he found himself, as lie sup posed, confronted by an angry living bear, and p’ying his knife vigorously, he cut the stuffing from the imaginary wild beast in astyle that would have delighted the heart of a Rocky Mountain hunter. The bear is dead and the young man has almost wished he was too many times since, when being teased by his fun-loving companions. The following is the experience of a Baltimore Butcher: —I have suffered with bad headaches for years aud have tried many remedies without obtaining relief. 1 was advised to give Salvation Oil a trial and it has entirely cured me. Ei>. Baltz, LaFayette Market, Baltimore, Md. Death of Mrs. W. Harris, Jr. No event of recent occurrence has cast such a gloom over our community as the death of the amiable and lovely wife of our friend, Hon. J. \V. Harris, Jr., which sad event occurred on Saturday night last, after a painful illness of several days. During hei last illness the anxious inquiry was whispered from house to house and along the streets of the city, until the last hour came, when, mellowed with the tears of love and friendship the answet was given, “she is dead!” On Monday morning, at ten o'clock, the Episcopal church was crowded to its utmost capacity, and many could not find room inside to witness and partici pate in the last sad service of loving* devotion to the departed. The solemn, and yet beautTul funeral ceremony of that church was conducted by Bishop Beckwith, whose tender heart was greatly moved as he officiated in this last service over one whom lie had before met as the beautiful young biide, and by liis own words pronounced a wife. The bishop was assisted in the service by Rev. Byron Holly, rector of St. Philips church, Atlanta. Then a large con course followed tlie remains to their last resting place. Though devoted to her home and in teresting little family, and much of the time necessarily closely confined, the sweet disposition and amiable qualities of Mrs. Harris drew to her a large circle of devoted friends. She was a consis tent and devoted member of the Episco pal church, and the little church here had been the object of her care and atten tion. Four bright Tittle children are left motherless by this sad dispensation of Providence, a devoted husband is heart broken over his terrible loss, and the fond, tender parents turn to Heaven for consolation in this dark hour. All hearts go out in sympathy to warm-hearted, friendly Wat Harris and the tender bird lings of his once bright, happy home, and many a sincere prayer ascends for comfort in his great trial, and the keeping of ihe little ones in the hollow of the Lord’s hand. The Methodist Church. Last Sunday was a day of peculiar interest ttie Methodist church in this city. It was the last Sunday of the con ference year. The usual hour for the morning service was devoted to a gen eral review of the year's work. Rev. H. J. Adams, the pastor, made an elaborate report, showing the general work of the church. There have been added during the year, by letter and otherwise, about fifty members. Ihe amounts assessed on this church for the variouseonfereuce collections had all been raised. Col. J. W. Akin, chairman of the board of stewards, reported a deficiency in the pastor’s salary. But this will be raised easily. I lie church was shown to be in capital working order every way. Talking with Mr. Adams the other day, lie remarked that it was the best board of stewards he had ever dealt with, audit was re iieshing to witness the business-like man ner in which their duties are attended to. The service closed with the administra tion of the sacrament of the Lord’s supper. The matter of inviting the conference to hold its next session in this city, was brought before the church, and when the question was put, the vote iu favor of it was unanimously adopted. Uev. 11. J. Adams. This faithful and efficient minister left last Monday to attend conference at Milledgeville, after serving the Carters ville Methodist church most acceptably for the past year, lie is generally con ceded to be the best pastor belonging to the body; and not only looks after tlie membership closely, but carefully guards every interest of the church. \\ hile Mr, Adams is a thorough Meth odist in every sense of the word, he is a libel al-ininded, large-hearted Christian gentleman, and always wins the iove and respect of the entire community, regard less of name distinctions. A / niore thor oughly consecrated man, or a more un selfish worker in the Master's vineyard, we never knew. The universal desire of Cartersvilie is to have Bro, Adams returned, but he is known as a “one-year man, and, as a rule never stays the second year on the same work. It is to be hoped the rule will be broken this time—if not, Carters ville will part with this good man with deep regret, and the prayers of her pray ing people will attend him wherever he goes. Grover Cleveland is a Presbyterian, and so, also, is President-elect Harrison, but the latter is a communicant and elder of the church, while fhe former merely attends its- services. The Rev. [)r\ Talmage says that Gen. Harrison has daily family prayers at his home, and that few laymen can deliver more devout or impressive prayers in house hold worship than he does. NO. 2(5.