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The Cartersville Courant-American.
VOL. VIII.
THE STATE’S NEW LAWS.
The Number of Bills and Resolu
tions Signed.
The Appropriation and tli Tax 1111 l Signed
Yesterday—A Message That Weighed
Three and a Quarter Pounds.
Atlanta Constitution. t
(iovenior Gordon has signed one hun
dred and seventy bills and fourteen reso
lutions to date.
The force in the executive department
read every one of them.
Tlie great majority of these measures
were read and signed on Christmas eve
and yesterday morning.
Tfie biggest bill in point of size which
has received the Governor’s signature
was the act incorporating the town of
Jesup.
This bill actually weighed three pounds
and a quarter, and in its rolled up state
resembled a big white rabbit.
Colonel Tip Harrison said of this bill
yesterday: “It took Major Warren and
myself two hours to read it.”
The remark which Colonel Bill Harris
made about this mammoth measure
ought to be framed. He said:
“The people of Jesup need no shade
trees. They could just plant poles
around the town and stretch the bill
over them. It will serve as a canopy to
cover the entire place.”
The bills and resolutions which were
signed by Governor Gordon yesterday
will be found below.
To amend an act to Incorporate the
town of Jesup.
To change the name of the Georgia
Security Investment company to the
Atlanta Trust and Banking company.
To incorporate the Arnericus Steel
Railroad company.
To amend section 719 (f) of the code.
To incorporate the Home and Loan
Banking company of Atlanta.
To amend an act incorporating a sys
tem of public schools for the town of
Waycross,
To change and fix the time of holding
the superior court of Hall county.
To create a sinking fund to pay off and
retire the bonds of the State as .they
mature.
To amend an act to change and regu
late the school systems in the counties
of’Ware, Echols, Lowndes, Berrien, Charl
ton, Dodge and Clinch so far as it relates
to the county of Ware.
To create a county commission for
Baldwin county.
To prohibit the sale of liquor within
three miles of Washington Institute in
Hancock county.
To amend the charter of Carrollton
and acts amendatory thereof so as to
provide for the appointment of three tax
assessors.
To fix the salary of the treasurer of
Fulton county.
To grant certain privileges to build
ing and loan associations.
To incorporate the town of Sparks,
and to establish a government for the
same.
To require any corporation or person
doing business in this State to redeem in
cash any check, scrip, or other written
evidence of indebtedness for the wages
of laborers.
To incorporate the Thomasville Street
Railroad company.
To incorporate the Marietta Street
Railroad company.
To amend the charter of the Americas,
Rreston and Lumpkin Railroad com
pany.
To authorize the legal voters on the
f 4fiuth side of the Etowah river, in the
1022d district of Dawson county, to
adopt the stock law.
To amend an act to incorporate the
Die Belt Railroad company.
To provide for the registration of all
I voters in Oconee county.
To incorporate the Swainsboro bank.
To reincorporate tne West Atlanta
Street Railroad company of Fulton
county, so as to give said road power to
extend the track in various directions.
To incorporate the Milieu, Mount Ver
non and Florida Railroad company.
To amend an act to incorporate the
Central City Street Railroad company.
To repeal an act creating a county
commission for the county of Johnson,
To incorporate the Georgia Overland
Railway and Improvement company.
To incorporate the Merchants bank of
Valdosta.
To incorporate the Cleveland Railroad
company.
lo amend an act incorporating Nor
wood, in Warren county.
Io incorporate Ocean City on Tybee
island.
incorporate the Monroe Coiiuty
Exchange Warehouse and Bank
-ID£ company.
lo amend an act to extend the cor
porate limits of Rome. •
lo appropriate funds for the paper
furnishing of the new capitol building
die various departments thereof, and to
% off, fit and prepare the grounds
around said bu Iding and to provide for
the mode of exp aiding the same.
To change the time of holding the fall
termes of the superior courts of Clarke
and Gwinett comities.
To levy and tolleet a tax to finish the
payments for the new capitol.
r l o prevent tie running at large of
stock of all kinds upon the lands of
another in the jo7oth and 1002d dis
tricts of Macon county.
To establish a system of public schools
in the town of Quitman.
To amend an act to submit to the
voters of Whitfield county or of any
district therein whether liquor shall be
sold in said county.
To prevent the running at large of all
kinds ot stock i® the county of Stewart.
To incorporate the Bank of Madison.
To incorporate the Thomasville Ex
change and Banking company.
To incorporate the Fairmount and
Augusta Railroad company.
To incorporate the Macon and Bir
mingham Railroad company.
To amend the charter of the city of
Nevvnan.
To incorporate the Mountain Valley
Railroad company.
To prohibit the sale of liquor within
three miles of Horeb Baptist church,
Jewel is Baptist church and Rock Mills
Methodist church, in Hancock county.
To amend an act incorporating Sha
ron, in Taleaferro county.
To incorporate the bank of Quitman.
To prohibit the sale of liquor within
three miles of Sardis church in Buckhead
district iff Fulton county.
To establish a system of public schools
in Tallapoosa and to provide for the
support of the same.
To incorporate the Home Loan and
Banking company.
To repeal an act to incorporate Talla
poosa and to reinco r porate the town.
To incorporate the Atlanta Mutual
Insurance company.
To incorporate the Nachoochee Valley
Railroad company.
To make appropriations for the ordi
nary expenses of the executive, legisla
tive and judicial departments of the gov
ernment, payment of the public debt and
the interest thereon, and for the support
of til# public institutions and education
al interests of the State for each of the
fiscal years 1889 and 1890, and for
other purposes.
To amend the charter of the Chatta
nooga, Rome and Columbus Railroad
company.
To provide for the registration of
voters in Wilcox county.
To require the tax collector in Han
cock county to make a permanent regis
ter in a book to be kept for that purpose
of the names of all the male citizens of
that county who paid their taxes for the
year preceding said registry, and to file
the same in the clerk’s office of the
superior court of said county for public
inspection.
To incorporate the town of Moreland
in Coweta county.
To levy and collect a tax for the sup
port of th£ State government and public
institutions for educational purposes in
instructing in the elementary branches of
an English education only, to pay the
public debt, to pay maimed Confederate
soldiers such amounts as are allowed
them by law for each of the fiscal years,
1889 and 1890, and to peescribe what
persons, professions and property are
liable to taxation—to prescribe the
methods of receiving and collecting said
taxes; to prescribe the method of ascer
taining the property of this State sub
ject to taxation ; to prescribe additional
questions to be propounded to taxpay
ers, and to provide penalties and forfei
tures for non-payment of taxes and for
other purposes.
RESOLUTIONS.
The Governor has approved the follow
ing resolutions:
For the relief of W. F. Woodruff, for
mer tax collector of Taliaferro county.
For the appointment of a joint com
mittee of two from the Senate finance
committee and three from the House ap
propriation committee, to examine into
the accounts and Aoucheis of the State
Treasurer and Comptroller-General.
Providing for a recess of thejGeneral
Assembly from the 22nd of December,
1888 until the first Wednesday in July,
1889.
Tlie South’s in tlie
Baltimore, Jan. I.—Special reports
to the Manufacturers' Record show that
the total production of pig iron in the
South last year was 1,065,000 net tons.
Of this Alabama made 341,000 tons,
Tennessee 278,000 tons, and Virginia
217,000 tons. This is an increase of
136 000 tons over 1887, while m the rest
of the country the production of pig iron
was 500,000 tons less than in 1887.
Omitting Texas the South built 2,712
miles of road in 1888, against 1,915 in
1 887 an increase of 257 miles, while the
total'coDStruetion for the whole country
was 6 000 miles less than in 188 1. In
I*BBB the South built 20 per cent, of the
total new road mileage of that year. In
1887 it built 25 per cent, and in 1888 it
had 35 per cent.
CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1889.
CHRISTMAS AT BILL ARP'S.
The Philosopher at a Christmas
Tree
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He Grtu a Wooly Sheep—The Gentleman
With Bed Hair Gets a Jumping-Jack —
New Y’ear’s Gifts
! Atlanta Constitution.
I never grit a thing—not a tiling. Old
Santa pranced all around my household
and left me out at last. But I did re
ceive my share of fun and happiness.
They let me look at and handle all their
presents and kissed my face until it was
right clean. A whole barrel of apples
came from Rome, and I don't know who
sent them, but they let me eat some be
cause I paid the freight. These children
and grand children have got an idea
that I am Santa Claus and don't want
anything. I sent some pocket-knives to
the little boys at Rome and one little
chap who can hardly walk, is mad be
cause he didn’t get a knife, and says he
will never speak to grandpa again. His
grandma-sent him a beautiful picture
book, but the little rascal has got away
ahead of pictures and wants a gun and a
bowie knife, I reckon. When I was ten
years old I got a barlow for a Christmas
gift and I was proud and happy, but a
thee-year-old is too much of a man for a
barlow now. I don’t know what to do
with the generation. One of, our grand
daughter’s told me shedidn’t have but
seven dolls. She wants ten, I reckon,
and will soon be putting out their wash
ing by the week.
We had a Sunday school Christmas
tree last Friday night and it was a
pretty sight. The children were all
dressed in their best apparel, and were
seated in rojvs according to age. The
beautiful tree reached nearly to theceil
ing, and was illuminated and loaded
down with story books and dolls, and
toys and oranges, and pretty things, and
the little chaps behaved beautiiully. As
the gifts were taken from the tree, it was
splendid fun to watch the eager expectant
faces as they waited tor the name to be
read out. There was a lovely doll on the
top of the tree, a doll with angel wings,
and q.JrnOHt aS largo on a. owe etiotipli
baby. Every little girl wondered who
that doll was for, and every one had
hope until the good preacher said:
“Children, you may look at that doll,
but you must not wish for it. That doll
is for the sweet little girl who has been
sick so long and is still sick. You know
that her good father died the other day,
and she is an orphan now, and I am sure
you will all bo glad for her to liave that
doll.” And they were glad. I could tell
it by their faces, for they all loved her
and pitied her. After awhile there was a
little wooly sheep cut from the tree. It
was mounted on a stick, and would bleat
when it was shaken. When the name
was called I had to advance forward and
take it, and the children laughed and
cheered so I feltright sheepish and wanted
to bleat too. I offered it to a little girl,
and she said she didn’t need it. Just
then I saw a preacher coming in. and so
I had his name put on the card and called
out again, and so the sheep kept travel
ing and bleating, and made lots of fun.
A red jumping-jack was given to the
leader of our choir. He is a tall, stately
gentleman, with red hair and long red
whiskers, and is everybody’s friend, and
when he was called up his genial face
turned as red as his beard, and the whole
concern liked to have took fire as the
children laughed and clapped their hands,
i like red hair and red-haired people. I
think the rich auburn hair of the Scotch
is the prettiest hair in the world. I wish
I had some on the top of my head, but I
would be willing to compromise on gray
or green, or any other, color. Well, we
had lots of good fun and it was all in
nocent. If anybody had their tender
feelings lacerated we don't know it —
though there are some feelings that stick
out on purpose to be lacerated. It was
the biggest Sunday school we ever had,
but I’m afraid it will not last. Now the
next thing we want for our little church
is an organ. We want a hundred dollar
organ for half the money, and some
organ man had better embrace the op
portunity to lay up some treasures in
heaven and get in the papers on earth.
We could get one from Mr. Cleveland or
General Harrison, tor they are both good
Presbyterians, but we don’t want to
bother them about a lit tie thing like that.
The Methodists and Baptists can run a
State Government right well, but when
it comes to running a big thing like the
nation, we are just obliged to have a
Presbyterian. I see by the papers that
Mr. Cleveland is going to prance around
with Mrs. Harrison and General Plarri
son is going to dance with Airs. Cleve
land at the inaugural ball, but that is
just a little Presbyterian dance that our
folks call tvvistification.
It is considered orthodox even by
Sam Jones, and does not imply falling
from grace. In fact, It is the only dance
that Grover can perform with alacrity
and it suits the occasion, as he is going
to twist out and Benjamin is going to
twist in about that time. lam awfully
sorry for General Harrison. If the hun
gry Republicans from all theother states
are besieging him like ours from Georgia.
I don’t blame him for having his life in
sured. His good old grandfather was
tormented in his day, and actually died
from the augers and gimlets that office
seekers bored into him, and Pin afraid
the grandson will surrender and his last
sigh be,
“Oh, where whall rest tie found ;
“Rest lor the weary soul.
Aft hy don’t he take the advice that
Jethro gave to Moses and shove off all
this little business upon his seerrtary or
some other man.
But the new year brought us a box
from the boys who are far away, and I
got a lovely blanket for my couch, some
thing to cover me in my evening naps.
1 can now’ wrap the drapery of my couch
about me and lie down to pleasant
dreams. They sent their mother a beau
tiful shawl and she can wrap its drapery
around her alabaster shoulders. They
sent the boys some lovely cravats and
they can wrap their silken drapery
around their necks and strut around like
young peacocks among the girls. And
th&y sent their sisters a lot of beautiful
handkerchiefs and they too, can wrap
their drapery around their noses and in
hale the sweet odors that came with
them. So we were all surprised with un
expected happiness and in return have
sent the bovs our photograps, which
they long have wanted. But it was
awful hard work to get Mrs. Arp to set
in front of that large camera. We have
been trying for years but she wouldn’t
go. We have some pictures that were
taken when she was young and rivaled
Pocahuntas in her beauty and balanced
the scales at a hundred pounds, and we
have her portrait that was painted over
thirty years ago—and so she didn't want
her matronly face and form to go down
to posterity in pictures. She is not sat
isfied now’ and she del ares the artist is no
account, but we all tell her the photos
are splendid. You see there is no trouble
about photographs, especially cabinet
size. If the nose is quite prominent and
slightly elevated, it appears still more so
in the picture, for it strikes out a little
nearer to the camera than the rest of
the face, and is a trifle magnified. A
small nose takes well in a picture, for it
becomes enlarged and drawn out, but a
large one becomes larger. I am not
alluding to any nose in particular, but
just mention this as a scientific fact that
I have diagnosed. Large noses are a
good thing to have, for they indicate
force of character and will-power, but a
man had better be cautious about mat
ing with a woman whose nose is larger
than his own. Sometimes I wish that
my nose was a trifle larger, just a trifle.
Bill Arp.
A Touching Scene.
Last Sunday was a day long to be re
membered by all those who attended the
morning service at the Methodistchureh.
the advice of his physicians,
Rev. H. J. Adams, the beloved and faith
ful pastor, attended to say a farewell
word to his people before leaving for
Florida to test the effects of a milder
climate, with the hope that ft may re
store his health sufficiently toenable him
to preach again.
With a feeble voice and a step so slow
in comparison with Ins wonted activity
as to attract the attention of all, lie
participated in the communion service;
and w hen he talked of his devotion to
his work, his love for this people, and
with streaming eyes thanked them for
so many evidences of love for him, the
only sound beside nis own low voice was
the suppressed sighs of his hearers. We
do not believe there was a dry eye in the
house when the servicecloseci.
Mr. Adams and his devoted daughter,
Miss Nettie, left for Eastman Wednesday,
where they will probably remain a few
weeks. The prayers and good wishes of
our people go with them.
It is probable that Rev. Mr. Hudson,
of Augusta, will be appointed to take
Mr. Adams’place until he is able to re
turn to work.
No man ever won a warmer place in
the hearts of Cartersville’s people in the
same length of time than H. J. Adams.
He had just completed a splendid year’s
work, and so well pleased were his con
gregation that two hundred dollars had
been added to his salary for the ensuing
year.
A Bridal Party.
Rome Tribune.
At LaFayette, Ga., on last Thursday
night occurred a happy marriage.
At the residence of the bride’s parents
in LaFayette, Ed. Jackson, of Carters
ville, was married to Miss Stella Thur
man. The bride is the eldest daughter
of Representative B. F. Thurman, of
YV alker county, and is an accomplished
and loveable young lady. The groom is
a most excellent young man and repre
sentative citizen of Bartow county.
The fair bride and happy groom passed
through Rome yesterday on the C. R. &
C. railroad on their bridal trip to the
Land of Flowers.
REACHING Ol;T IRON ARMS.
The East and West Will Spread
Herself.
Ami Adl Greatly to the Importance of
Cartel sville as a Commercial ami
a Kallroad Center.
The East & West Railroad is destined
to be one of the rnoset important lines in
this section, and w hen broadened to a
standard gauge, connection will be
sought with it by all the trunk lines. It
is only a question of time when the Car
tersville & Gainsville road will be built,
and the East & AYest extended to Birm
ingham. Then will be opened up the
shortest line yet from the Eastern busi
ness centers to the west.
Speaking of this matter in a recent in
terview, Capt. J. J. Calhoun, for a long
time connected with the East & West
had this to say.
*“I believe that the road will be put in
firstciass shape just as soon as it can be
done. All the work now being done on
the road is done with a view to broaden
ing the gauge. Standard gauge ties and
trestle timbers are put in where repairs
are made, and gradually the roadbed is
being put in a condition such as that
when the proper time comes the gauge
may be broadened in a few hours. I be
lieve, too, that it will be extended east
ward to Gainsville, and westward to
Birmingham. The Gainsville extension
will tap the mineral country, pre-emi
nently of Georgia. The western exten
sion if built, to Birmingham, will give us a
long straight haul that will be of vast
benefit to shippers and profitable to our
selves. As matters now stand we take a
car of ore or limestone and haul it, say,
eighty miles. Then we transfer to the
Georgia Pacific, which hauls it thirty
five miles and charges almost as much as
we do for our haul. The short connect
ing link between our line and the Geor-
gia Pacific runs nearly at right angles a
distance of seven miles. This seven
miles, if built in the direction of Birming
ham, would cover over half the distance
from Broken Arrow to that point. This
illustrates what we would gain by build
ing through. Whab it costs to tvrwwferr
now 7 would carry the freight into Birm
ingham. There is hardly five miles of
the entire length ot the rorirl that has
not a valuable deposit ot mineral, slate
or stone, and this is being developed to a
remarkable degree. The business in this
line has increased fully two hundred per
cent during the present year. The de
mands on our shipping facilities are
growing to such a remarkable extent
tha t we are compelled to do something.
I have just received propositions from
three firms to load fifty cars per day
each, and I can readily swell the bill to
two hundred cars per day so soon as
we can furnish the rolling stock.
For this as well as the various other
reasons, lam convinced that the road
will soon be put on an equal footing
with other roads, and will become a
paying enterprise among the long list of
prosperous southern lines.”
to California.
Rev. Sam Jones and family (except
Misses Mary and Annie, who are in
college) left for California last Wednes
day. Mr. Jones has several appoint
ments in that State, made some time ago,
and expects to remain until about the
first of April. They go first to Los
Angeles, where they will remain about
four weeks, and then to Sacramento
City for about the same length of time.
Mr. Jones considers this one of the
most serious undertakings of his life,
and in a little talk at the church a few
days ago earnestly urged all praying
people to make special prayer for the
success of the gospel in that far off field.
He said that Mr. Moody and other great
evangelists had visited that section
without making any apparent'impres
sion.
The warm, loving heart of his dear
old town goes with him and his loved
ones on their journey, and prayers will
ascend daily for their safety and success.
On Tuesday night there was a surprise
reception at Mr. Jones’ house. A large
number of triends gathered to bid them
good-bye, and as the people thronged
there to give them the partinghand, and
a word of cheer for the trip, the piercing
black eyes of the evangelist were alter
nately flashing with humor and dimmed
with tears, and if possible his love for
his home people was made stronger than
ever.
Mrs. Duquesne—l suppose you sing or
play?
Miss Newcomer—Oh, no. lam not at
all musical.
Mrs. Dnquesne—You recite, probably?
Miss Newcomer —Oh, no, indeed!
Mrs. Duquense—Well, then, I suppose
you paint plaques?
Miss Newcomer—Me paint! I couldn’t
paint a fence.
Mrs. Duquesne (eagerly)—Oh, you dear
girl, how lovely. You must promise to
come to every one of my receptions.
You will be such a sensation. —Pittsburg
Bulletin.
A TALK WITH DR. FELTON.
He is Strongly Urged t** Stand for Different
Offices.
Seeing our venerable fellow-citizen, Dr.
W. H. Felton, climbing into bin buggy in
front of our office Tuesday, we stepped
out for a hand-shuke.
“Doctor, the papers have already got
you “on the carpet’’ for Congress and
Governor both, two years hence. Which
will you stand for?”
“Oh, that is a question often asked me,
but it seems to me a premature discus
sion,” said the genial doctor smilingly.
“Two years is a long time, and we don’t
know what they may bring forth. 1
am not a candidate for anything, I want
to serve Georgia the best lean for the
balance of the Legislative term, and as
to my personal connection with Sta+e
politics for the future, I have nodefinite
plans or intentions.”
Here we read a paragraph in the Macon
News, to the effect that the boys were
trying to push I)r. Felton on the track
for Congress to get him out of the way
in the gubernatorial race —but that
the people preferred to have him Gover
nor.
Laughing, again t]ie doctor said, “yes,
I am receiving letters constantly from
different parts of our district, and some
from other sections, urging me to shape
my affairs with a view to the race for
Congress. lam receiving more, though,
and from nearly all parts of the State,
saying thasthe people arc* wanting ine
to make the race for Governor. lint, as
I said, these things arc so far off that
they receive very little thought from me
now. A year from now will be soon
enough to consider these things.”
“What would be your position, if in
the next State campaign, as to the or
ganized Democracy?” we asked.
“I meant all I said in my published
statement long ago, that I would act in
all matters with the organized Democ
racy. I am more and more convinced,
as time demonstrates the true situation,
that thorough party organization is
essential to the preservation of our true
interests. And with the advent of
another Republican administration it is
more important than ever, for the rea
son that the race question will loom up
more prominently than ever.”
“Then you are in for nominations all
around?” we asked.
“Certainly, certainly,” replied Dr. F.,
very emphatically. “We should have
nominations for every office from Gov
ernor down to bailiff.”
At this point the conversation was
interrupted. Ir. Felton is enjoying
good health, and his mind is as clear and
active as it was twenty years ago.
Southern Dovelopment.
The Enquirer-Sun has often pointed
with pride to the many circumstances
which indicate that the South is just en
tering upon a period of prosperity much
greater than she has ever experienced in
the past. In the course of an editorial
upon this subject, the New York Star
says:
‘‘The South is the richest undeveloped
part of this contiinnt. Its resources
have always been underestimated. The
energies of its people have been too long
misdirected toward agriculture almost
exclusively. Rich in coal and iron de
posits, its mines are few, its furnaces
scarce. Its forests areas rich in valuable
woods as its fields in various staples.
Yet manufactures there have uefer
flourished as in the North and West solely
because enterprise was directed in another
course. Northern capitalists prefer in
vestment in manufacturing rattier than
in agricultural enterprises. r l lie likeli
hood, therefore, is that the future devel
opment of the Southern States will be
largely in manufactures. That means a
large addition of skilled laborers to her
population. Theselaborerswill naturally
come very largely from the Northern
States; and there will follow,as a matter
of course, a closer affiliation of Southern
and Northern men than has ever existed
before. A better knowledge of each other
will follow this association. Prejudices
that have existed fur years to divide
them will disappear. A community of
interests will tend to closer union, and
antagonisms will quickly disappear, 8 and
sectionalism will cease to distract and
retard the South. The great fortunes to
be made in the next quarter of a century
will be found in the South. Her railway
system will be greatly augmented by the
industrial development already fore
shadowed.”
There is no denying the fact that the
South is surely forging her way to tl:o
front.
•
“Allow me to congratulate you on
your engagemrnt. Tell me how it came
about. I thought you intended remain
ing single.”
“Yes, certainly, but I met the other
day at a ball a young and pretty girl,
with whom 1 got into conversation, and,
only think, she confessed that she, too,
had decided to remain single. Impossi
ble to imagine greater harmony of dis
position, and so we got engaged.
Deutsche Wespen,
NO. 31.