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THE COURfINT-AMERICAN. THURSDAY, JANUARY 17. 1888. E. CHRISTIAN, D. B FREEMAN, Editors and Proprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION —IN ADVANCE. Ymr W Months U' M nths Fifteen cents for postage on all subscriptions out of Bartow County. BATES OF ADVERTISING. hpACK. I lino. | <* HUM. | tt ulus | 1 .year, One Inch, .*5 iSO #•< 00j £ 7 501$ 10 00 Two inches. (1 50j 7 At*j 10 001 15 00 Thuee inches, 5 <H*f 10 001 111 50| 20 00 Four inches, 000 12 roj 15 00| 25 00 Fourth column, | 7'o 15 00j 25 00 ! 4o 00 Half column, ] 11 00 20 00j 40 OOj 00 011 One column, | 15 00| 35 00| 60 00| 100 00 Local notices ten cents per line for first inser tion. For a 1ouk? time, lower rates. Terse communications on matters of public Interest solicited. Meat and corn are more profitable crops for thin section than cotton. According to the city directory of At lanta. just completed, the population is a little over 74,000. The Atlanta foot pads are getting hard up. They even attacked an editor the other night. Cai it ensville has no aspirant for a place in Harrison’s cabinet —but she has several who want a place in his side board. A cotton factory and a cotton seed oil mill would do more towards making the farmers of Bartow county independ ent than anything we can think of. Charleston, S. C., is said to be greatly improved in appearance since the earth quake necessitated so much rebuilding*. A little shake lip does good now and then. 1 Australia is suddenly striking out.on a very questionable line of development. Eighteen base ball clubs have been formed and many more will be formed in the near future. A leading feature of the coming car nival tit New Orleans will be a grand cotton palace, It will represent all varieties of cotton in the different stages of growth and its many forms of manu facture.* Mrs. Potter possesses, it has been claimed, rather indifferent talents as an actress, but when she appeared in gauze and t ights in New York, queens of society in their eager anxiety, were among those who couldn't find standing room as auditors. Mrs. Branham, wife of Judge Joel Branham, of Rome, died in that city Sunday evening, after a brief illness. The event caused great sorrow in her native city, where she commanded the friendship of a wide circle. The bereaved husband and children have our profound sympathy. Southern women in New Yoik seem to have developed a surprising shrewdness in money-making matters, rather lead ing their Northern sisters. The head of the richest firm of dressmakers is a Southern woman, and women of South ern birth are corning to the front in other directions. There is a good deal of population going from the North and Northeast to the South. Insect plagues, low temper ature and frequent jcrop failures are in ducing them to seek a warmer climate. To all such C'artersville offers the very greatest inducements, and invites a criti cal inspection of her advantages. The niany loving irinnds and relatives of Mrs. Bishop Pierce are very sad at her declining health. Excellent medical skill is employed, but there is no hope of her final recovery. She is patiently waiting the end. She is lovingly attended by her loving children and grandchildren, and everything is done that can possibly ameliorate her suffering. The contest between the Southern farmers and the jute bagging trust, re sulted in the latter retiring troin the ring with a black eye. Pine straw and other material can be used as well as jute. But let's not send the pine straw North to be made into bagging. The farmers have at least demonstrated the fact that they can give as well as receive blows. * Mayor Glenn, of Atlanta, delivered an inaugural address on taking his seat for the first time, that is attracting con siderable attention. He recommends many reforms, and seems to be backed up by a united public sentiment. His only mistake is in trying to “regulate” the bar rooms, instead ol abolishing them. A hundred years experience in this country has clearly demonstrated the fact that there is no such thing as regulating the whisky traffic. kl~ Sum _ The mayor and council of Marietta are warring against blind tigers. During the last week several parties, mostly colored, have been arrested for selling whisky in violation, of the prohibition law. In every case Mayor Glover has imposed a fine of $25 and costs. We know other towns that might put money in the treasury by treeing blind tigers. They are easily treed, but as old Uncle Luke said about the coon, “it takes a keen eye an’ a sarchin scent to fotch ’em to de clinchin’ pint. ONE Ol' TfIKKH —A N IMPORTANT TRUTH. The long latent mineral wealth of Bar tow county is fast becoming known, and the merely incipient moves in its devel opment now being made will soon broaden into stupendous undertakings, if thesigns of the times are not very deceptive. Our iron ores that in many places lie yet un touched in vast quantities assay out double the value of any others to be found in this section. Besides these the manganese deposits have had their im portance fully made known to those alone who have handled the ores in and for an active market. As the chief expo nent of the great mineral, as well as the other advantages of Bartow county, the Courant-Amekican takes great {aide and pleasure in presenting the fact just furn ished to a journal ranking high as an au thori ty on inining matters by a miueral ogist conversant with all things pertain ing to devefopments of the recent past, that Crimora (Virginia), Cartersville (Georgia), and Batesville (Arkansas), furnish practically all the manganese ores mined in the United States. While there has been a constant and persistent search for new deposits of manganese during the past year, no new development of any importance has been reported. Indeed, some localities re garded as quite promising a year or two ago, have proved to be of little value, and the chief production is still confined to the localities that have been noted as manganese producers for many years. The extensions of the iron ore regions in the Lake Superior district, in which it was hoped deposits of manganese ores might be found, have so far produced only insignificant quantities of an ore with more than 44% per cent, of metallic manganese, the ehiet product being a manganiferous iron ore containing from 4to 10 per cent. There are somewhat encouraging prospects of, the discovery of manganese ore in North Carolina, and also in Western Arkansas. Yet the fact is still true, as above stated that three points furnish the manganese of the country, and one of these is Cartersville. The Engineering and Mining Journal, of New York, in reviewing the movements in iron markets for the year past, gives the cheering information that the sellers of Southern irons have made tmn-h progress in the introdin-tion of their foundry irons to Northern and Eastern consumers. Prejudice and the opposi tion of Northern makers had to be over come. and an exact system of grading had to be tstabhshed. But it is now freely admitted that Southern irons are an important factor in the market, and that only well situated and well managed modern furnaces in the North can hold their own against the competition of the new Southern furnaces with their advan tage of proximity to all raw materials. The new Southern furnaces are practi cally all in blast, and sixteen have been put into blast, or are nearly completed during* the year. In Washington it is common belief that Presidential postmasters whose Repub lican predecessors were allowed to serve out their terms will not be disturbed by the coming Administration. And it is also common belief that Presidential postmasters whose Republican predeces sors were bounced will Suffer a like fate. There is nothing authoritative on which to base this belief, but it seems to be recognized as in accord with the fitness of thing’s by the Democratic leaders there, who are anxious to keep their friends in office as long as possible* The old soldiers and their friends should thank Major Foute for the work he is doing toward the passage of the “soldier’s bill.” It is a shame that the Empire State has done so little for our disabled veterans. The general govern ment takes care of the Federal veterans, and the Southern States should at least see that our Confederate veterans do not suffer. A more self-sacrificing, braver army never fought for any cause, and now to allow those who are disabled to suffer because we failed is downright meanness. Frank Leslie’s Sunday Magazine for February. contains several exceedingly interesting and finely illustrated articles which are bound to attract attention. In these days of Shakespeare controversy, Mr. Acher’s “What is Known About Shake speare,” with its faithful pictures, will prove especially valuable. Walter Edgar McCann writes a readable article about Annapolis, Md., calling it “A Finished City.” Here too, the illustra tions are of actual scenes in the quaint old city. Emma Raymond Pitman’s “Palestine; its Social Condition and Missionary Aspects,” continues the record of missionary work, and the article and pictures on “Summer Resorts in Aus tralia” draw a striking contrast between the snow and ice of our climate and the sunshine and flowers of the Australians at the same time of the year. “The Home of Jeanne d'Arc” revives the memory of that heroic girl, and “Two Famous Scotch Abbeys” will send readers to their Scott’s novels to refresh their memeries. Besides these, there are the usual installments of stories, and several beautiful poems, together with a number of copies of famous paintings, which are always to be found in this magazine. All the keys of Windsor Castle were recently stolen, but even this does not interfere with the rapid sale of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup. TID BITS OF THIS AND THAT. Divers Doings Discerned and Duly Depicted. Out of th*? May Odds and Fnds-Obser vations Through Omnifarious Optics by “Observer.” What occurs to me to have been the most forcible bit of advice to those who attempt to write that 1 ever read was this: “Shoot the preface.’’ Although aiming at brevity of style and the acquir ingofthe art of condensation have been persistently urged upon all who would ply the quill, there is, nevertheless, much of the writing of the present day that is mushy. I have noticed the writings of some so-called genuises, who now and then brought forth a gem sparkling* in merit, that you might weigh up at times and not find an impressive thought in a ton’s weight, so to speak, of the volumi nous stuff. Then, like the oration that by the thrills it produces among lis teners, because of some entrancing senti ment, precludes in what might have been critical minds the recognition of some glaringgrammatical blunder or woful dis tortion of a sentence, I have known the writings of a very slouch, as he might be termed by his awkward ties j in composition, in the very interest they evoked, appear without a blemish, al most, to the better as well as the poorer learned. Now, grammar or no gram mar, wealth of sentiment or barrenness of the same, much depends upon mood, and though Boswell said: “A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it,” the one who attempts to till a given space with regularity will now and then iind the task '‘doggedly” hard, Boswell k ‘to the contrary,” etc., ii need be, and this I expect to realize. But, lest I appear in the light ot inconsis tency, posing as a builder of prefaces which somebody will want to shoot, I will risk some further haplmzzard pen shots, not venturing even to proclaim as did a certain editor, “it you like our writing, say so, ami if you don’t, say so,” for he received the unwelcome de claration from a too critical contempo rary, “to tie* latter, we say, emphati cally, ‘so!’ ” The firearm that is heavily charged, when it goes off rebounds; so after every swell of exciting experience comes a re aetion. in the midst of thereactory calm following the lively scenes of the holi days come up to my mind forcibly the remarks of Prof. Stewart on Thanks giving’s evening. Said he, in the course of his beautiful sermon, “In all our joys we ought to think of God the giver,” and proceeded to a criticism none too severe of the modes of celebrating the several holidays that ought to be observed in a way beautifully and reverentially typi cal of the events their annual coming commemorates. “Our thanksgiving day,” said he, “is celebrated with the common tendency to a general course of jollity. We meet with a few of our friends at a diuner of turkey and pass the day in lively conversation and often revel, not thinking of God, whose finger guid ing the revolution brought the event on which the day was instituted. Our Easter observance consists of a meal of boiled eggs for the children, and little else. Fourth of July is witnessed a few flags, a few yells are heard, some big heads from drunks are experienced and the day is duly signalized. Our Christ mas is passed with the sipping of egg nogg, the burning ot fire works and hunting and general sport.” If we in truth live in a progressive age, some re forms right along here might be started during this year of grace. Sitting in Capt. Calhoun’s office re cently while he hunted for some railroad paper, I noticed that an old looking bit of card board he had suddenly espied in his search claimed his attention. Find ing a small pile of them together, he threw one of them to me. I found it to be schedule No., 1 of the Cherokee Rail road. While the present schedule of the road (now the East and West) is in the form of a book of eight pages, not in cluding the board backs, and gives the times of arrivals and departures of six trains at twenty-seven stations, this little schedule shows only four trains and nine stations. Two of .Jhe trains — freights—ran only between Taylorsville and Cedartown. At that time, January Ist, 1880, the track was broad gauge from Cartersyille to Taylorsville, and narrow gauge from the latter place to Cedartown, and a trip from one to the other terminus necessitated a change of cars, and the time required for the journey was four hours, speed being nine miles an hour. I remember that the lit tle old rickety red caboose called a pas senger coach that was used then on the narrow gauge part of the road the first time I saw it impressed me as being the most woe-begone looking excuse for a car that I had ever beheld. The seats ran the long way of the concern at the sides, the whole thing inwardly and out wardly exhibited a signal need of fresh paint. It tottered along a way that caused a continual fear in the mind of the passenger that it would actually fall to pieces. When it had fully served its day it was pushed on to a switch close to the creek at Cedartown, where it stood in a process of decay for several years, and was finally swept away by a freshet. The road has vastly improved since 1880 and I hope that in ten years more it will make a stride forward equaling that of the past ten years. Observer. WECAT IS SCROFULA It is that impurity in the blood, which, ac cumulating in the glands of the neck, pro duces unsightly lumps or swellings; which causes painful running sores on the arms, legs, or feet; which developes ulcers in the eyes, ears, or nose, often causing blindness or deafness; which is the origin of pimples, can cerous growths, or the many other manifesta tions usually ascribed to “humors;” which, fastening upon the lungs, causes consumption and death. Being the most ancient, it is the most general of all diseases or affections, for very few-persons are entirely free from it. TbT cured By taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, which, by the remarkable cures it has accomplished, often when other medicines have failed, has proven itself to be a potent and peculiar medicine for this disease. Some of these cures are really wonderful. If you suffer from scrofula, be sure to try Hood’s Sarsaparilla. “ My daughter Mary was afflicted with scrof ulous sore neck from the time she was 22 months old till she became six years of age. Lumps formed in her neck, and one of them after growing to the size of a pigeon’s egg, became a running sore for over three years. We gave her Hood’s Sarsaparilla, when the lump and all indications of scrofula entirely dis appeared, and now she seems to be a healthy child.” J. S. Carlile, Nauright, N. J. N. B. Be sure to get only Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggist3. gl; six for £5. Preparedonly by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One DoSlar A feature of unusual importance to every one in the South contemplating the purchase of aay kind of Machinery or machine tools, metal roofing, &c., whether for saw mills, hour mills, cotton mills, furnaces, ice factory, electric works, water works, shops foundries, rolling mills, mines, or any other enter prise, has been added to tin? Manu facturers’ Record, of Baltimore, the South’s great industrial exponent. The editor of that paper invites any one, whether a subscriber or not, who desires to purchase any kind of machinery, whether for anew enterprise or an old one, to send him on a postal card or in a letter the particulars as to the char acter of machinery. If anew enterprise is to bs started, mention its character and state whether any of the machinery needed has been bought or not. It mat ters not what the enterprise may be, Whether a broom factory or a rolling mill, an electric plant or a saw mill, or anything else, it is only necessary to mention what it is and name the Kind of machinery. The Manufacturer’s Record will makes these wants known to the leading machinery manufacturers of the country, free of any cost, thus securing from them full information as to price, Ac. This wido publicity and the competitive bids that it secures, will enable every one wanting machinery to purchase it to the very best advantage, getting the best at the lowest cost. Information as to any new enterprise to be stated, whether manufacturing, min ing or railroad, or the enlargement of any now in existence, is desired by the Manufacturers’ Record. Address editor Manufacturers’ Record, Balti more. Lynching in ISinninghaup George Meadows, a negro, was lynched at the Pratt mines, near Birrninghan, Ala., on the morning of the 15th inst. The brute had outraged a Mrs. Kellnm, wife of an engineer, and killed her little son who accompanied her at the time. A number of negroes were arrested and carried before the lady, and she readily said “not the man,’’ until the above was brought before her, when he was prompt ly identified. He was then carried out and swung up to a limb. The colored people wanted to lynch him, because they said he had outraged a colored girl. Sheriff Smith said that no warrant for the arrest of George Meadows, the negro lynched this morning, had ever been placed in his hands. He says if a war rant for the negro had been given him, he would have brought the negro to the city and protected him if it required all tlie military in the city to do it. Mr. Smith says that he thinks the mob has lynehsd the wrong man. He says he has a negro in jail now who he believes is the right man. “The Globe.” We find upon our table “The Globe,” a weekly review of all countries. This paper, which is a neat, well printed twen ty-page journal, gives all the interesting news of the day, political, social, statis tical, commercial and financial, domestic and foreign. All persons can have sam ple numbers by sending to the publishers, at 57 Broadway, New York City. What “Peculiar” Means. Applied to Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the word Peculiar is of great importance. It means that Hood’s Sarsaparilla is different from other preparations in many vital points, which make it a thoroughly honest and reliable medicine. It is Peculiar, in a strictly medicinal sense; first, in the combination of reme dial agents used ; second, in the propor tion in which they are prepared; third, in the process by which the active cura tive properties of the medicines are secured. Study these points well. They mean volumes. They make Hood’s Sar saparilla Peculiar in its curative powers, as it accomplishes wonderful cures hitherto unknown, and which give to Hood’s Sarsaparilla a clear right to the title of “The greatest blood purifier ever discovered.” til feb 14 There is no longer any need to go to Atlanta to get fine photographs made when you can have them made at home. Come and see my samples. Respectfully, tf. L. E. Menkee. TO FARMERS! Valuable Book Free! • ■ Intelligent Farming Pays. tt—■— “Peel’s Orchard, Farm Garden." In order to more rapidly increase the already large circulation of the Courant- American, we make the following special to members of the Farmers’ Alliance and farmers generally : For each club of five cash subscribers at SI.OO a year, we will give as a premi um, one copy of the popular book entitled : a nicely bound volume, full of valuable information about everything connected wit the orchard, farms and gardens, all based upon the actual experiments of the author It tells you when and how to plant everything, the kind of fertilizers adopted to different kinds of lands, the proper care of stock, vineyards, fruit trees, bee-culm:v etc, No farmer should be without it —and you can get it by securing five new sub scribers to this paper. Make up your clubs at once, GOODS At Cost. imi, r > k W, Mrfii & h Will Now Sell Ail ]jri(jjootlsl(|lot|iiig At Cost, For Cash, To Make Room for Their LARGE SPRING STOCK. Now is Your Time to Secure BARGAINS. The New Southern Boom. Atlanta Constitution. The “boom” towns of the South are thrilling with new life, and the chances are that the present year will see the beginning of one of those dizzy climb ings in which mortal things get out of mortal reach! AYe welcome the coming of the boom! AYc are not'of those who despise these mercurial visitors. They waste some fortunes and build up others. Perhaps they wreck as many private fortunes as they establish. But they attract capital, excite tremendous activity, and when iheir swift waves recede they disclose enormous improvements that hold fast and are not swept back to sea! Of the coming boom two things may be noted. Its area will be widened. What a half dozen Alabama towns monopolized a few years ago a score of towns will now share. The area of ac tivity will shift; over to Georgia and in clude at least Rome, Cartereville, the Polk county toyvns, and the Marietta and North Georgia region upward to Tennessee, and include several new and old towns. The Piedmont region, run ning clear up to West Virginia, will take part in the new movement. The quick ening effects will of course be indirectly felt by the entire South, and such cities as Atlanta, which, like New York, is too big for a boom, will be helped thereby. Not only will the area be widened, but the resources of the new boom will be wider. Formerly it was iron and coal. To these must now be added marble, pine and the hard woods, copper and gold. Formerly it was simply iron furnaces. Now it will be factories, mills, shops. Where there was one dependence there will now be a score. The best sign of prosperity is the new cities, instead of shipping out their pig iron at $lO a ton, are converting it into products worth from SSO to SI,OOO a ton. When it was announced that Annistou’s shops and mills would consume the entire output of her furnaces we felt that her greatness was assured. Birmingham and the other cities are now working up to the same basis. The next “boom" will be a bigger and more enduring one than we have ever seen! In the meantime we invite attention to the reports from the Alabama “boom” centers which we print elsewhere in the Constitution. They are hopeful and full of promise and activity. One Fact Is worth a column of rhetoric, said an American statesman. It is a fact, estab lished by the testimony of thousands of people, that Hood's Sarsaparilla does cure scrofula, salt rheum, and other diseases or affections arising from im pure state or low condition of the blood. It also overcomes that tired feeling, creates a good appetite, and gives strength to every part of the system. Try it. APPLICATION FOR CHARTER- Yv GEORGIA—Bartow Cointy—To the Supi*. rior Court of said county : The petition of Sam P. Jones, O. I). Hammond, J. D, Rogers, J. T Norris. R. L. Jones and John T. Stocks, shows that they desire tor themselves and for such other persons as may be associated with them t<> be incorporated under the name and style of “The Etowah Ice Manufacturing Company." The object of said corporation is pecuniary pro fit and gain to its members. The particular bus iness said corporation proposes to carry or, is the manufacture and sale of ice, vinegar, cider, non-alcoholic beverages, to provide cold storage warerooms for rent, to establish and maintain yards for the sale of coal, wood and other fuel, to purchase ami sell produce, and such merchan dise and commodities >as they may deem expe dient and profitable to said corporation. That the capital stock of said corporation shall be ten thousand dollars, to be paid in in such man ner and in such installments as the stockholders may determine, with the privilege of increasing said capital stock to any sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars. One thousand dol lars to be actually paid in before exercising tin* privilege of this charter. The principal office and place of business shall he in Uartersville, Bartow county, Georgia, with the privilege of establishing such branch offices and places of business in said State as their business may require. That no stockholder of said corpora tion shall be bound in his private capacity for the debts thereof, beyond the amount of his un paid subscription to the capital stock of said corporation. That they desire to be incorpo rated as aforesaid for the term of twenty years, with the privilege of renewal at the expiration of said term; with the power to ca. on the busi ness hereinbefore set forth; to furihase, lease, have or own lands buildings, mm ..mer.v. steam engines, live stock, carts an 1 other vehicles, cor poration stock and other property, real or per sonal, to sell the same and reinvest the proceeds thereof at their pleasure, to borrow money and issue obligations or bonds therclbr, and to secure the same by deed, mortgage or otherwise, with the same rights and powers therein as individ uals have in like matters; to enter into contracts and to employ agents and servants; to have and use a corporate seal; to make by-laws not incon sistent with the laws of the iand, and to alter or repeal the same at pleasure; to sue and he sued in their corporate name, ami generally to have and enjoy and exercise the corporate powers and privileges incident to private corporations for business purposes, as prescribed by the laws of said State. Wherefore, petitioners pra.v that after this application has been filed, recorded and published in accordance with the laws of said State, that this court will grant the neces sary order of incorporation, for the purpose aforesaid, for the term ami with the powers oforesaid. JOHN H. WIKLE, Attorney for Petitioners. Filed in office, this 10th day of January, Iks!), and recorded same day in book “H” of minutes. Bartow Superior Court; pages —ffi'so arid 337. F. M. DURHAM, Clerk Superior Court, Bartow Cos., (!a. The Walesca Normal School OPENS Monday, Jan. 7tli, ’8!). {RATES. } Primary $ I.oollntermediate •? 1. D Music, instrumental, S4.()>) —Vocal lessons free. Collegiate, $3.00. This is the only first-class School in this coun try with second-class rates of tuition. Now is the time to embrace these great opportunities. Our school will be chartered this spring. Board from $6.00 to SBOO per month A boarding house is in the course of erection for the accommodation of the pupils. A great number of the boys and girls have been renting rooms, doing their own house work and attend ing the school, at remarkably low figures. Help will be given b.y friends of the Institution to poor people who may be unable to secure educa tional advantages. Every one shall have an op portunity. The building, three stories high, with its white form and belfry crown, may be seen for miles resting amid a cluster of oaks. The house will be fitted up in first-class style. The surroundings—the mineral water, health ful climate, intelligent citizens, moral influences, pleasant associations, -mountain scenery, pro jected railways, and everything—mark this lo cality as adapted to an Institution of learning. Our methods will be up with the times. We make it a business to see that each pupil learns; and to keep our school free from immoral in fluences and immoral students. The teachers employed in each department will be the finest talent that Georgia can afford. For further information address H. M. SMITH, Principal, WALESCA, GA. Betore the use ot Prickly Ash Bitters became general throughout the South and West, it was a fearful dose of “Bine Mass,” and daily doses of quinnine, that was forced down the throats of sufferers from all malarial troubles. In place of such obnoxious, harrowing curatives, Prickly Ash Bitters, with its mild, sooth ing action now holds supreme sway, and after one trial, its use when necessary, is forever established. You who havesick headaches, sour stomachs, diseased liver or kidneys,can do no better than to give it a trial. til feb Probably the oldest married couple in Warren county is Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Heath, living in the upper part of the county, who are each 88years old. They were both born in the year 1800, were married in 1820, and have lived together ever since, having raised a large family of children. Sixty-eight years of married life is something granted to few couples, and, in fact, seldom heard of. A great mistake perhaps was made wHen Dr. Sherman named his great rem edy Prickly ash Bitters; but it is pre sumed that at that time all remedies for the blood, etc.,Jwerecalled Bitters. Had he called it Prickly Ash “Regulator, ‘Cura tive,'’ or almost anything but Bitters, it undoubtedly would have superseded all other preparations of similar character, The name Bitters is misleading; it 1S purely a medicine, and cannot be used as a beverage. til feb