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The Cartersville Courant-American.
VOL. VIII.
looking back longingly.
Bill Arp's Letters from Old-Time
Georgians
■\Vlio Went West in the Years Gone By—
Glances at 01l Cassville —Some-
thin!; About Letters.
Miiny old men, who left North Georgia
in the years gone by, while suffering with
the “Western fever,” now read of the
upward movement of oar glorious sec
tion, and love to dwell upon the scenes
of other days—and doubtless many
long to return to their old time houses.
In last Sunday’s Constitution Bill Am
speaks as follows of some of his letters:
This is a blessed country—especially
down South where there are few beggars
and no tramps—where there is so much
atitude and longitude. If a man don’t
ike one place he can move to another.
; was ruminating over this last night
while perusing m.v daily mail. One let
;er carrie from an old irieud who was a
•estless mortal and was so full of free
lorn that he moved half a dozen times
n North Georgia and then to Alabama,
md finally to Brazil, .and now he writes
;o me to have his subscription to the
joustitution reuewed. lie and his boys
ireJrinning, and he says they plant corn
time from July to February, and
mlant cotton from August to December,
llis address is S. M. Pyles, Est, de Santa
Barbara, Prov. San Paulo, Brazil, S. A.
Ble will come back before be dies, ho says.
Everybody wants to go back borne be
fore they die. Here is another letter
Irom I). L. Butt, who left here in 1848,
find now writes from Head of Wild Horse,
I 'oimnanche reservation, Chickasaw
isation, Indian Territory. It seems that
lie got hold of a last year’s paper that
Ivas wrapped round something his
■laughter sent him, and as he read about
lid Georgia the fountain of tearful mem
fries broke loose, and all he could do
fas to seize pencil and paper and let his
Ijelings gush forth to me. He wants to
■ now all übout the old village of Cass
■ille, near the banks of Two-run creek,
fhe sweet little village where he went to
Ichool to Arthur Irwin Leet, and he
■ rites about Trippe and Hooper and
llilner and Word and Dr Miller and
• right and Shackleford and the Under
woods and Russell and Hargrove and
B>me of his sweethearts- U)* imagines
liat the old town is still there as it was,
Ind her notable people are still in the
Imd of the living, where mercy may be
fcught and pardon found.
■‘‘.Went to school,” says he, “with the
Bftiffiov.s Sam McLiun,ad little dream-
B that Sam would ever have the power
■- the inclination to swindle a president
■ these United States out of his office.
But Sam migrated to Florida, and got
B be the head of the returning board,
Bid counted Tilden out and Hayes in—
f m did it with his bow and arrow.”
■Then he asks, “But where is Lewis
Bimlin, the money king of old Cass, the
lan who never bought a lot of land
ltd he had first sold it and got the
Money. But his word was his.bond, and
Bther was good for anything he prom-
B'd. Where is old Nathan Howard who
Bayed squire for amusement. He was
Be justice of the peace and kept the
•ace by knocking down every loose man'
I saw in a fight. Where is old Paddy
loore who lived near Dr. Felton’s and
■is born tired and kept so, and always
Brat off his board cuts, because it was
Isier than chop them. Where is big
■immy Hamilton, who lived on the
lad to Bvrnt Hickory, and raised the
lest crop of children I ever saw. And
lere is Colemun Pitts, who had two
lues to his voice and could talk bass
Id treble all at once and yon, would
Ink if yon didn’t see him that he and
B wife were quarreling. Where iH that
fellow John Word, the solicitor
who convicted everv horse thief
Bd hog* thief in the circuit and who
Buhl go up to a shooting match at Car-
Bay and obliterate the bull’s-eve every
Bp and win the beef and drive it home
fl foot what a glorious actor he was in
l 1" Thespian society, where he played
1 landlord and Bob Acres. Where is
erybody, and what are they doing,
b that I could recall those happy days
id happy people.”
Bell, I expect the poor fellow would
■ e to come home, but ull he can do now
to feed on memory—memory that is
V mans capital stock, his mental
■?’ saddest, sweetest pleasure.
V here is a letter from a younger man
■ stayed away from Rome sixteen
■F a f? u > and now writes from Mon
■ where he is raising cattle. He has
Bed aud settled down, and likes the
V an< A his business. His nearest
|B° r is seven miles away, and it is
miles to his postofticeand sixty
to a railroad, and yet he is oon
making money.
world oi character and com
gSk''-' ’ 8 in letters! How soon they
& hearts
ietbir. Everybody ought to write
family letters, letters of love and
HBhip, Don’t let love grow cold.
Even a letter from a child is worth more
than the postage. 1 received oue today
from aiittle girl in Alabama, who says
that she and her sister saw a copy of the
Constitution and wanted to take the
paper, but their father said he couldn’t
afford any more papers, and so they
got alter the hens and made them come
down to their kuittiqg and soon had
enough eggs to pay for the paper and
wrote to Aunt Susie and got it. Every
day brings a fresh variety, and most of
them give pleasuie. The begging ones
for the churches all over the South out
number all the rest, and it grieves me
that I can’t respond with help to all. It
in not my fault, but my misfortune.
I had a letter from a barber in Cham
paign, Illinois, who is mad because we
give the preference to colored barbers
down South. He says we won’t ride with
the “nigger,” nor eat with him, nor set
by him, but we will let him lather and
shave us. and dress our hair, and he
wants to know if that is consistent.
Well, that is anew phase of the negro
problem. If that barber is doing well
where he is, I reckon he had better stay
where he is.
One more letter and I’m done. The
dramatic company of Guinness and Can
non, of Marietta, Ga., writes that they
heartily approve the strictures in my
last letter upon the advertising methods
of Cora Van Tassel, but as their compa
ny plays the Hidden Hand too, they do
not want to be mixed up with Cora or
any other company. AVe'l, of course
not —of course not—this Marietta com-
Daily has too good a reputation for pro
priety both public and private to suffer
from the improperties of others. AVhat
our Southern people want is a pure,
clean, refined drama that will not make
our young people worse but better.
Bill Arp.
llHiulsome I’remiiiiiin m tlie Stale Fair.
The premium committee of the Geor
gia State Fair, at their recent session,
arranged a very attractive premium list
for encouraging farm products, Georgia
raised stock, domestic industry, and
mechanic arts.
The county displays at the next fair,
under the new arrangement will be large
and instructive. The committee con
tinued the three premiums for county
displays; one thousand dollars lor best
display; five huudred dollars for second
best and three huffdred .Innftiri’fFJ? third
best display.
The eommittte has made quite an im
provement in the manner of leaching a
satisfactory award under the following
scale of points as to merit.
Recognizing 100 points as perfect, ag
riculture will be rated at 40; garden veg
etables 15; home industry 15; fruits TO;
manufacture 5; works of art 10; Woods
3; Minerals 2.
It has been further arranged that
county displays may be made ur> of in
dividual displays, that will be rated in
awards by the same schedule of points
as are fixed for eounty displays. For the
best individual display the committee
have offered, three hundred aud fifty dol
lars; for second best individual display,
two hundred and fifty dollars; for the
third best display, one hundred and fifty
dollars and for the fourth best display,
one hundred dollars.
Special inducements have been offered
in unusually latgepremiums, for Georgia
bred horses, mules and cattle. Much the
larger part of the purses offered for trot
ting will be given to Georgia bred horses.
The premiums for home industry have
been much advanced. For the best dis
play of jellies, preserves, etc., etc., the
committee have, offered fifty dollars; for
the second best display, thirty dollars.
For the best and largest display, in
merit and variety, of female handicraft,
fifty dollars; for second best display,
twenty-five dollars.
The committee reached out into anew
field m offering a handsome premium to
the mechanic making the largest and,
best display of his workmanship.
The American Agriculturist, published
at 751 Broadway, New York, offers five
hundred dollars for the largest yield of
corn on one acre of land. This premium
is open to any State in the United States.
The State fair committee desiring to en
courage competition among Georgia
farmers for this premium, will add two
hundred and fifty dollars to the premium
offered by the Agriculturist if the pre
mium should be taken in this State. If
the Agriculturist's premium is not taken
in this State the committee will award
to the best yield, one hundred dollars.
This hist premium will not be awarded
unless the yield reaches one hundred
bushels.
The conditions forgathering, measur
ing etc., can be learned by enclosing 10
cents for copy of instructions to Ameri
can Agriculturists, 751 Broadway, New
York. The fair will open October 22nd
and continue nine days.
The premium list is now in the hands
of the printer and it will soon be ready
for distribution. Parties desiring copies
can address,
11. A. Nisbht, Secretary,
Macon, Ga.
CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 14. 1889.
MORE CAPITALISTS COMING.
To Examine the Coal and Iron Ope
District-
Of Tennessee and Georgia—Abram Hewitt
May Move llis Manufacturing Plant
from Pennsylvania to tlie South.
Messrs. John 11. Inman" and John C.
Calhoun left New York Sunday for the
South with a dist inguished party, among
which were Abram S. Hewitt and ex-
Mayor Cooper.
Their intention is to visit Charleston,
Savannah and Brunswick with a view to
examining those ports as outlets for the
vast amount of new business that is to be
developed by recent railroad alliances and
the prospective growth of all material in
terests of the South.
The, party is ostensibly going on n
pleasure trip, but it is whispered on good
authority that Messrs. Hewitt and Cooper
will not be bent on pleasure solely. Mr.
Hewitt is reliably reported to have said
that, his principal purpose in making the
trip is to carefully examine some of the
coal fields and iron ore districts of
TENNESSEE AND GEORGIA,
and that if his examination confirms tlm
accounts he has had of the vast coal and
mineral resources of those states he will
probably move his entire iron manufac
turing plant,now in Pennsylvania, to the
South, and most likely locate in Tennes
see or Georgia.
A MOVE OE GREAT IMPORTANCE.
This possibly foreshadows a move of
the greatest importance to the South, as
Mr, Hewitt now employs in his Pennsyl
vania iron industries over 2,000 men,
and a change of base would involve his
carrying all those hands with their tami
lies to his new field of operations.
“Old Cassville,” Ga.
Kennesaw Gazette.
Cassville was once a beautiful and at
tractive village, situated within a little
less than three miles of the W. & A. Rail
road north of Cass Station, near the
center of Bartow county; but happening
to be directly in Sherman’s war-path, it
was shorn of its glory and laid in ashes
by the Federal torch. Various reasons
are assigned for the cruel deed. Some
said it was on account of the name of
the place being changed by our legisla
tors from Cassville to Manassas, soon
after the battle of Bull Run ; others said
it was done in revenge for tlie waving of
a black ffag at Cass Station by two
young ladies whose patriotism was
greater than their prudence. Again, it
was said that being so near the railroad,
it was a harbor for the reNri scouts.
The Federals entered Cassville on the
night of May 19th, 1804, and seemed
eager to apply the torch at once. Early
the next morning they burned one
of the hotels. Next day Col. Akin’s resi
dence was burned. On the 24th Wheeler’s
cavalry made a raid on a wagon train
near Cassville and captured a number of
prisoners, wagons, mules, etc. Orders
were repeatedly issued for the citizens to
leave, and the utter destruction of the
place was threatened; lnt the threats
were not executed until October 12th,
when the male college was burned by a
detachment of Wilder’s brigade, com
posed of parts of the 98th 111., Ist, 3d
and 4th Ohio regiments; and on the sth
of November, Col. Heith,of thesth Ohio,
curne with about three hundred cavalry
men and completed the final destruction
which left many poor women and child
ren without a shelter from the storms of
winter which were fast approaching.
The morning was bright and clear, but
in the evening the smoke arose aud formed
dark and threatening clouds, which for a
while suspended over the doomed spot
and then seemed to melt away in tears of
grief. It seemed as if nature was weep
ing over the sad fate of old Cassville.
Mrs. B. B. Qlillia.v.
Gen. Erly Reforms.
Washington Cor. Augusta News.
I hear that General Jubnl Early, who
will not tell his age, but must be quite
eighty, has exnerienced a change of
heart and may soon become a member
of the Catholic Church. The old General
has quit drinking and will not even
imbibe lemonade or soda water in a bar
room. He says the only way to swear
off effectually is to deny all importunities
of old chums and to stick to Adam's ale
exclusively. The general also aban
doned swearing, but finds .it hard to re
strain himself when reading memoirs of
Grant and Sheridan. He has an Italian
coin given to him in boyhood by his
father, and though occasional lost it
is always in very strange ways returned
to him. His mail is loaded with letters,
chiefly from women, beseeching him to
furnish the writers with lucky numbers
in the Louisiana lottery. This riles him
a bit, and he retorts that if he knew
where the prizes would fall his knowledge
would benefit himself and not others.
It is pleasant to know that in his last
daysthe veteran soldier should become a
follower of the gospel. Sooner or later
in life we find out how “earth has no
sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”
R£V. SAM P. JONES.
A California Eilltoi’s Pen Picture of the
Famous Georgia Kviiugclist.
Cartersville’s famous evangelist is now
in the far Western city of San Francisco,
the wealthy metropolis of the golden
State. The Daily • Chronicle, of that
city, gives glowing accounts of his open
ing meeting. We give the Chronicle’s pen
picture of Mr. Jones:
“Sam Jones Ims arrived,"lias* talked,
has conquered. San Francisco, modern
and ancient, good, bad and otherwise,
filled the seats in the Pavilion yesterday
afternoon until their numbers reached
400 arid when the famous revivalist
pronounced the benediction at the close
of his exhortation the magic of his voice
had woven a spell around them and they
were his. Aside from the fact that he
would be recognized anywhere as a
typical Southerner, Sam -Jones is a very
insignificant looking person, lie is a
small, slim, wiry-looking man, will! a
firm jaw, pinched face, saffoiv complex
ion, a small black mustache, coal-black
hair brushed high off a rather narrow
forehead, finely lined eyebrows, and
hands as small and delicateasa woman’s.
He is the last person in the world one
would suspect ot being a religious ex
horter. He appears to be the sort of
man who would make an accomplished
second in a duel, and people meeting
him at a country fair could hardly be
blamed if they waited in expectation of
seeing him produce three cards and
start a monte game. His clothes, while
not religious in their cut, are of plain
black doth, aud tlieonl.vgold observable
on his person is a simple watch chain.
Helms the slow, drawling accent of
the Georgian. He is not an elocution
ist, nml makes no effort to be dramatic.
There is pathos in his voice, however,
and there is a natural charm about his
manner of delivery that soothes the
nerves, delights the ear, and carries with
it the sympathies of his listeners. He
says: “I reckon” and'“They ain’t no
heaven, eh?” He seldom sounds the
final "g,’’ but throughout .his discourse
he is so perfectly cool and collected and
says so much in so few words and with
such little apparent effort that the con
gregation, while delighted with the
speaker, wonder what on earth there is
to be delighted at. He possesses the
quaint htriiior of the South aud is full of
homely anecdotes, which he uses to illus
trate his meaning, and relates them so
naturally that his discourse is brightened
by them and his congregation is half the
time convulsed with merriment. He
does not get excited enough to gesticulate
much, but he understands the art of
property using his hands and arms, and
lie does it on the Delsarte rules with
good effect.
Sam Jones never wearies his listeners.
He is always saying something original
and saying it. well, and large congrega
tions are already assured as long as he
elects to stay here.”
Back From Flori<l.
Maj. A. M. Fonte and daughter re
turned home from their Florida trip the
first of tin, week. The Major was de
lighted with the trip, and thinks his
daughter was permanently benefitted by
their stay in the land of- flowers.
Maj. Foute considers the outlook for
that State bright, indeed, end invest
ments in orange groves, are of the best
in the country, The section which he
visited is very healthy.
He spoke of one m m who nine years
ago olanted two/ end a half acres in
trees. They were two to three years old
when put out, and the increase in their
bearings now from 25 to 100 per cent,
per annum. This year the grove netted
him S9OO, and the owner would not sell
it for SIO,OOO.
The oldest trees are the best, and the
yield increases indefinitely—some now
bear from 2,000 to 7,000 oranges. He
thinks the very best investment a young
man can make is in an orange grove.
Travel being light this season, and
values a little off, he thinks now is the
time to buy.
Maj. Fonte visited the ancient city of
St. Augustine, and says it is worth any
man’s time to visit that city—there is so
much there interesting to be seen
We have for sale a splendid place at
De Land, one of the ni eHt little cities in
the State, and would exchange it for
North (Jeorgia property.
The Major saw Rev. 11. J. Adams, and
says he is looking a great deal better.
Warner’s Log Cabin Remedies—old
fashioned, siinplecompounds, used in the
days of our hardy forefathers, are “old
timers” but “old reliable.” They com
ptise
Warner's Log Cabin Sarsaparilla,
“Hops and Buchu Remedy,” “Cough and
Consumption Remedy,” ‘ Hair Tonic,”
“Extract,” for External and Internal
Use, “Plasters,” “Rose Cream,” for Ca
tarrh, and “Liver Pills.” They are put
up by H. 11. Warner Cos., proprietors
of Warner's Safe Remedies, and promise
to equal the standard value of those
great, preparations. All druggists keep
them.
POBTEB VADGHAHS"
hmolliMofMSprif Goods
WILL BEGIN TO ARRIVE THIS WEEK,
Our buyer liaß just returned from the Eastern markets. We can assure the
trading public that our new stock will comprise the most
STYLISH I® ATTRACTIVE GOODS
ever before shown in Cartersville.
Every department in our house will be full of the choicest goods.
Don’t forget that our entire stock is fresh and new. No old goods in our house
left over from last season to bring out and sell lor new goods. All our stock the
latest styles,
Remember we handle strictly first-class goods. One price only at
Porter & Vaughan’s!
OUR SHOE DEPARTMENT
Has truly been a irrand success. Positively the best stock of Shoes in the city. Wo
have all styles and handle the most celebrated goods made. AVlien you want Shoes
don’t fail to see our stock. Every pair guaranteed. We are sole agents for
Clement & Bail’s Celebrated Fine Shoes for Ladies.
J, F. Swain & Co.’s Fine Shoes for Boys, Misses J Children.
DEWIN CLAPP’S FINE HAND-31 ADE SHOES FOR CENTS !
We extend a cordial invitation to all to visit our store.
PORTER & VAUGHAN,
Dry Goods, Fancy Goods, Shoes and Hats.
More Furnaces for the outh
There are probably few men in the
South better posted in all that is going
on, and ay to the inside history of all
leading iron concerns there, than Mr. S.
B. Lowe, of Chattanooga, who for
twenty years or more has been closely
identified with tlie iron trade. His state
ments therefore carry great weight, and in
connection with the article in the current
issue of the Manufacturers’ Record on
the rapid movement of the iron center
of the country from the North to the
South, a letter from him in the Iron Age
is worthy of especial attention. Refer
ring to the pig iron storage warrant
scheme, and to the general condition of
the iron trade, Mr. Lowe writes:
“A careful inquiry among a number of
furnace owners developed about the
same condition of feeling. Upon the
subject of storage and warrant enter
prise there is still a difference of opinion
among producers as to its effects upon
prices. The fact is that most of them
are looking upon it with a feeling of in
difference, and there is not the interest
being taken in it t hat its promoters an
ticipated. The writer has yet to meet
any producer who intends putting u.p a
ton of their production and availing
themselves of the warrants to raise
money; rtill, if the project should mate
rialize successfully there will probably be
occasionally round lots placed and war
rants issued for the purpose of raising
money, but, the project is creating no
particular enthusiasm. There is another
feeling among the Southern produce;s
which so far has had but little mention,
and that is they are averse to prices ad
vancing more than $1 to $2 per ton.
The points that they make in their argu
ments are not worth while to mention,
but. nevertheless, they exist, and from
their standpoint are apparently well
taken. There are very few producers in
the South but wlmt are enthusiastic as
to the future of the Southern pig iron
business, and as one of the best eviden
ces of their convictions, three of the lar-
gest und most successful concerns are
now making arrangements to add two
stacks to each of their plants, while the
Eureka, at Oxmoor, has already com
menced the erection of two more stacks
to their present plant of two furnaces.
Under the present conditions of the pig
iron business, of the prosjiects of over
production and present low prices, it
may seem premature to state that dur
ing the next five to seven years there will
be not less than 2~> additional furnaces
erected in Hie Southern iron-producing
districts, and they will be of the very
largest capacity and better equipped, if
it be possible, than any yet built. Dur
ing the past year the improvement of
the better class of furnaces has been very
great in economy of working as well as
quality and quantity of their output,
i which has been very encouraging to their
owners.”
When if is remembered that the most
active builders of new furnaces in the
South are the men who for years have
been operating Southern furnaces, these
facts are of world wide value. While the
North blows out furnaces on account of
the impossibility of running them aud
paying expenses, the South pushes its
furnaces to their utmost production and
steadily goes on building new ones. We
repeat the following sentence from an
editorial in the Manufacturers’ Record
of January 5, because it meaus agrander
future for the South than many huve yet
dreamed of: “That nation, or that sec
tion ot any nation, which possesses su
premacy in the production of iron and
steel and in their conversion to final
forms for use, will dominate ami control
the commerce of the world.” In that
statement is concentrated the future of
the South.
Tim Growing south.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
The New York Press is alarmed about
the rapid growth of the South. The
cause of this alarm is that the decade
ending 1880 was thirty-five nor cent,
which gaveher fourteen Congressmen and
twenty-eight more electoral votes than
she had the previous decade. The Press
is afraid that the next census will show
another remarkably large increase in tlie
population of the Southern States, which
will add to her political strength.
1 lie Press pretends to be puzzled to
know how the South managed to make
such a splendid showing in the census of
1880. It figures the total immigration
for the decade ending iBBO and credits a
large portion of it, as going to the Wes
tern Status and Territories, which is true
enough. Rut it is no secret where the
main increase in the population of the
South comes from. It comes from the
North, the East and the West, and is
mainly composed of native born Ameri
cans or naturalized citizens of this eouu
t'.v, who have found out the advantages
and attractions of the South. The ab
sence of any considerable foreign elements
in the South is conspicuously noticable
in her political, social and other institu
tions. Our increast#of population, while
it has been enormous, has been, in the
main, particularly desirable. The rapid
growth of her manufacturing and indus
trial institutions and the explorations of
her wonderful resources have drawn im
mense capital as well us population from
other sections.
The census of 1890, which the Press
looks forward to with so much dread,
will make another magnificent showing
for the South.
John L. Adams, the Macon forger,
died Wednesday night, after fasting
twenty seven days.
NO. 40.