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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.