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The Cartersville Courant-Amerkm
VOL. IX.
SID O SHIELD’S SKIPS-
Convicts Make a One Killed, ami
Two Clone.
On June 6th four convicts made a des
perate attempt to break from the camp
at Coal City. Ga.
Three of them succeeded, after a stub
born fight, in escaping. but one of them,
their leader, was ki'led.
George IV. Maughorn, from Gwinnett ;
Sidney O’Shields, from Bartow, and
George Simmons, from Cobb, all white,
had hatched the plot. Simmons, a noted
member of the safe-blowing gang, was
the leader.
It is thought that on the night of June
T>th friends of these convicts succeeded in
smuggling pistols and ammunition into
the camp. At any rate, the three con
victs were well armed with new pistols,
and had plenty of ammunition.
Suddenly, on the 6th, they made a
break for liberty, when there was only
one guard, a boy of sixteen, named Cox,
on duty. Simmons made a rush af the
guard, pistol in hand, and hailed at him,
galling out for him to drop his gun. The
Skhers also covered young Cox with
Keir weapons.
I Instead of dropping his gun, the hoy
■ipened fire, aud a fusilade of guns and
Aistols followed. The first fire brought
Himmons to the ground.
I A negro named William Armour, who
It is thought was not in the plot, when
fte saw Simmon’s pistol fall, snatched it
■p, and joined the other two convicts in
■heir attack on Cox. The guard was un
lurt, but the three convicts escaped.
■ nnour was one of the worst negroes
Bmong the convicts. He had made sev
■ral efforts to escape, and had once
■ nocked a guard down with a shovel.
Hie was considered a desperate character,
■ml the guards always kept their fingers
Bear the trigger when he was about.
I Simmons died cursing. He was one of
■lie famous gang of safe blowers from
Hlhio, and was captured in Cobb county.
Hie cursed the South and everything, and
Hied with an oath on his lips.
Hwm. 0. Reese, superintendent, of the
e. nnp at Coal City, has offered a reward
Hf #l5O each for the recapture of the con
victs.
The South’s Wonderful Future.
■ The greatest industrial revolution
Hhich the world has ever seen has began.
Hltis country has entered upon an era
■■which changes, fraught with tremen-
Hbus -consequences, are to occur. The
H>nter of industrial life is to he transfer-
Bil from New England and Pennsylva-
Bia to the South. The controlling forces
Bi all lines of manufacturing are gather-
Big in the South, and not only will this
■action dominate these interests in Amer-
Ba. but it is the South which will yet
Meet Great Britain itself in the final
Btrnggle for the mastery of the world’s
Honand cotton industries, and the South
Hill win. It has every natural advan-
Hage, or, as Mr. Frederick Taylor, the
Hew York Banker, said in his recent let-
Hr to the Manufacturers’ Record, “It
Has every advantage that God could
Hive.” It adds to these advantages the
Host indomitable pluck, a tireless euer-
Hv, a fertility of resource never surpass-
Hl, and the determination of its people
Hi at they will never rest until it stands
H the foremost manufacturing country
H the world. Is this strong? Only a
or two ago Hon. Abram S. Hewitt
Bid the English Iron and Steel Assoeia-
Bon that the South would be the center
B the world’s iron and steel trade.
I Nowhere else in all the world is there
eh a combination of advantages. Iron
id coal have made Pennsylvania enor
|usly rich. The South can duplicate
pnsylvania’s coal and iron resources
'dozen times over. Cotton manufac
re has absorbed upwards of $200,000,-
10 of capital in New England and yield
| immense profits, while old England
is found it one of the greatest of her in
istries. The South, which raises the
for both Old and New England,
II 11 sftme day spin and weave it, and
■nish employment in this for hundreds
millions of capital and hundreds of
ousands of laborers.
The Northwest has found in its timber
source of enormous wealth. The South
n duplicate its timbsr resources many
nes over. From its kindly soil, that
eds but proper treatment to yield
ost abundantly, more profit can be
ude than in any other section of the
untry, and the South alone can in
ne easily annually produce as much
pricultural wealth as the whole country
>w does. It has, moreover, many in
istrial possibilities found nowhere else,
jat least nowhere else offering such an
yiting field for investment; its cotton
ed oil industry, though comparatively
it a few years old, has $20,000,000 or
p,000,000 invested in it.yielding large
Mite; its early fruit and vegetable bus
ess will before many years draw not
ss than $100,000,000 a year South
ard; its winter travel from the North,
bich will swell to enormous propor
uns, and which even now leaves $7,000,-
>0 to $8,000,000 a year in Florida
one, will cause the building of the finest
>tels in the world all the way from Vir-
ginia to Texas, and while the Ponce de
Leon may not be duplicated, there will
be others numbered by the score costing
a half million or more each. Aud then
the mild, balmy air makes the cost of
living less than elsewhere, and thus fur
nishes a basis for the lower cost of pro
duction of agricultural products and
live stock as well as of manufactured
goods. Here is a combination of all the
1 est ad vantages of all other countries in
the world, without their disadvantages.
It is a marvellous thing, and no one can
study these matte! s without being amaz
ed at the wonderful future upon which
the South lias entered.
Colt ‘it Ma'iuf Coming Southward.
In referring to the activity in cotton
mill building in the South, nnd the re
moval of several Northern mills to the
Southern States, as lately reported in
our columns, a Philadelphia correspond
ent of Wade’s Fibre and Fabric, a Bos
ton textile paper, takes a rather gloomy
view of the future of cotton manufac
turing in the North. “The fact,” he says,
“that the New England and Middle
States are not considered auy longer as
profitable manufacturing locations, in
spires me to accept this opportunity to
place before your readers a practical ex
planation of the reasons for it,” and
this he thinks he is the better able to do,
because for some years he was employed
in cotton mills in the South. Onestrong
point in favor of the new mills in the
South is that they are “stocked with all
the latest improved "‘machinery, which
gives them a great advantage in compe
tition and production over our Northern
and Eastern mills, with old plants in
many cases, and out of-datemachinery.”
Moreover, living is cheap, labor is abun
dant and the mills make good time the
year round. “But aside from the erreat
advantage of cheap help, and cheaper
living, with all the latest improved ma
chinery, and good working systems
thrown in, to guarantee quality and
quantity of work produced, they posoess
a still greater advantage, and one which
alarms many of our Eastern manufac
turers, and that is their geographical
superiority.” This is an advantage that
nothing can overcome. It is the advan
tage of ha ving the mills where fhecotton
is raised, instead of shipping it hundreds
and thousands of miles to distant mills.
“Summed up,” he continues, “in as few
words ns possible, the South offers the
best field for cotton, iron and steel man
ufacturing, and the West and Southwest
for woollen manufacturing, as long as
the present condition of affairs prevails.
What are we going to do ? Some of
our manufacturers, more enterprising
and wide-awake than others, are about
to act or have acted in the matter, others
will never awaken to the full realization
of the geographical conditions, which in
the near fu tu re, if no t no w wi 11 oppose t bei r
successful operation in the East, and the
remainder are acting like a man who is
always waiting for something to turn up,
not knowing what to do in the matter,
aud waiting for some one else to show
them. I have outlined as closely as pos
sible the actual surroundings of the case,
and leave it to the best judgment of your
many readers, whether our manufactur
ers who are going or have gone South or
West, were right in doing so, or not. We
can never beat the South in cotton or
iron manufacturing.” Southward all
industrial development tends, but as yet
we have only seen the beginning of the
South’s manufacturing growth.—The
Manufacturers’ Record.
VIEWS OF THE TRADESMAN.
In speakingof thegrowth of the South
ern cotton mill industry, the Tradesman
sa.vs:
“We believe with many conservative
students of the situation, that the great
field for the manufacture of all lines of
heavier cotton fabrics will be located in
the South, side by side with the cotton
fields, before many years. The Southern
mills now make a very large per cent, of
the brown goods produced in the coun
try. Their textiles have an established
reputation of excellence. They export at
least one-third of all they make and have
a monopoly of some lines, especially in
heavy sheetings, in theNorthwesteru sec
tion of the Union. Nearly all this has
been built tip since 3 8(58. The growth
has been steady, profitable, healthy.
There are no more prosperous mills in ■
the world than some of those in Georgia,
South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama
and Tennessee. The great mills at Co
lumbus, Ga., and those at Augusta, are
among the monuments to Southern en
terprise, intelligence, adaptiveness and
skill in manipulating tand financing. The
progress of this industry since 1880 has
been phenomenal, and the steady devel
opment of its foreign trade has com
pletely exploded the postulate of free
trade that our mills cannot export at a
profit under a protective regime. The
cotton mills of New and Old England
will stay where they are, for they are
enormously profitable and will continue
to prosper. No matter how many are
built in the South. Our mills must de
pend on increased consumption for the
growth of the markets, not on the decay
elsewhere.
CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 13. 1889.
To lUo Doctors.
Department of the Interior,
Census Office,
Washington, 1). C., May 1,1889.
To the Medical Profession: The vari
ous medical associations and the medi
cal profession will be glad to learn that
Dr. John S. Billings,Surgeon U. S. Army,
has consented to take charge of the
Report on the Mortality and Vital Sta
tistics of the United States as returned
by the Eleventh Census.
As the United States lias no system of
vital statistics, such as is relied upon by
other civilized nations for the purpose
of ascertaining the actual movement of
population, our census affords the onLy
opportunity of obtaining near an ap
proximate estimate of the birth and
death rates of much the larger part of
the country, which is entirely unprovided
with any satisfactory system of State
and municipal registration.
In view of this, the Census Office, dur
ing the month of May this year, will
issue to the medical profession through
out the country “Physician's Registers."
for the purpose of obtaining more accur
ate returns of death than it is possible
for the enumerators to make. Tt is earn
estly hoped that physicians in every pa rt
of the country will co-operate with the
Census Office in tin’s important work.
The record should b kept, from June 1,
1.889. to May 31, 1890. Nearly 26,000
of these registration books were filled up
and returned to the office in 1880. and
nearly all of them used tor statistical
purposes. It is hoped that double this
number will be obtained for the Eleventh
Census.
Physicians not receiving Registers can
obtain them by sending their names and
addresses to the Census Office, and. with
the Register, an official envelope which
requires no stamp will be provided for
their return to Washington.
If all medical and surgical practition
ers throughout the country will lend
their aid, the mortality and vital statis
tics of the Eleventh Census will be more
comprehensive and complete than they
haveever been. Every physician should
take a personal pride in having this re
port as fill! and accurate as it is possible
to make it.
It is hereby promised that all informa
tion obtained through this source shall
be held strictly confidential.
Robert G. Porter,
Superintendent of Census.
The W. & A.
The falling off in the passenger receipts
of the Western and Atlantic Railroad,
was dne to the absence of an exposition
last year and not to the reduction of the
fares.
This is shown by Mr. .T. M. Brown’s in
terview below, and he proves by a com
parison of the first five months of this
year with the same period of Inst, that
the reduced fare is profitable to the road
That means that low fares have come to
stay.
Mr. Brown was asked :
“How do you account for somethin}?
over $16,000 reduction in the passenger
receipts of the Western and Atlantic road
during the past year?”
“There was in the gross receipts of the
Western and Atlantic Railroad an ab
solute loss of $16,000 during the year
1888 as compared with 1887, but you
must bear in mind that during October
1887, we had the Piedmont exposition,
and the Western and Atlantic Railroad
earnings on exposition tickets amounted
to $18,200. During the past fall and
winter there was, by reason of the yellow
fever in Florida, a very heavy reduction
in the number of people who went to
Florida, and consequently in the reve
nues of our line, as well as in those of
others. Our Florida business from Sep
tember until December 31st, 1888,
amounted to over $13,080 less than for
the same period in 1887. Therefore, you
see that the loss on Florida business and
by reason of having no Piedmont expo
sition amounted to over $26,000, where
as the total loss of gross receipts was
only $16,000. Our reports for the year
show that on our own sales there was an
increase of SB,BOO for the year 1888
over the year 1887. consequently the
showing is conclusive to the minds of the
directors and stockholders that the re
daction on the local passenger fares was
a decided success.”
“How do your earnings show for. the
first five months of this year as com
| pared with those of last year?”
“They have shown an increase every
month—the mouth just passed, for in
stance, showing over $1,600 increase.”
A terrible storm passed over Arkansas
City, Arkansas, Saturday night. The
Methodist and the Baptist churches and
several residences were wrecked, while
the roof of the Arkansas elevator, in
which is located the Missouri Pacific de
pot, was blown across the tracks, demol
ishing a number of loaded freight cars.
The only lives lost were those of Kate
Walton, aged fifteen, Tudev Walton,
aged nine. Mrs. Walton, the mother,
was badly injured, and another daugh
ter, Lizzie Walton, had her hip disloca
ted. All are colored.
TrauKinuUkliou ol Cotton ■<!.
Banker’s Monthly.
Was there ever such a history as that
of the cotton seed? For seventy
years despised as a nuisance, and burn
ed or dumped os garbage; then discov
ered to be the very food for which the
soil was hungering, and reluctantly ad
mitted to the rank of utilities; shortly
afterward found to be nutritious food
for beast as well as for soil, and there
upon treated with something like re
spect. Once admitted to the circle of
farm industries, itis found to hold thirty
five gallons of pure oil to the ton, wort h
in it- 1 crude statef 14 to the ton, or #40,-
000,000 for the whole crop of seed. But
then a system was devised for refining
the oil up to a value of #1 a gallon, and
the frugal Italians placed a cask of it at
the root of every olive tree and then de
fied the Bureau breath of the Alps. And
then experience showed that the ton of
cotton seedwas a better fertilizer and a
better stock when robbed of its thirty
fivdfaHons of oil than before; and that
the hulls of the sisal made tlie best of
fuel for feeding the oil mil! engine; and
that the ashes of the hulls scooped from
tin! engine’s draft had the highest com
mercial value as potash ; and that the
“refuse” of the whole made the best and
purest soap stock, to carry to the toilet
rhe perfumes of Lubirt or Colgate.
API PHsit nt A ft’* ir.
A more pleasant day for the few couples
who picnicked at Howland Springs, Tues
day last, was never spent.
The following composed theciowd who
left town aoout nine o'clock in a two
horse wagon: Miss Estell Cal lion n with
Alex Akerman; Miss Lila Calhoun with
Evans Mays; Miss Minnie Edwards with
Henry Milner; Miss Grace Stephens with
Frank Wallace. Those in the carriage
were, Mrs. John P. Anderson, Miss Ma
tilda Padgett, Miss Gertie Powell and
little Lollie Anderson, who was joined
on the grounds shortly after her arrival
by Susie Freeman. Promptly at twelve
o'clock the well-filled baskets were taken
from the wagon and a nicer dinner was
never spread before a more hungry
crowd. Chicken fried and baked, hum
prepared In almost every style, cakes of
every description, pies, pickles, apples—
and, in fact,everything thatis calculated
to make one hungry to think of. The
least that could be said is. that all who
went never spent a more pleasant day.
Ice cold soda water, all’ flavors, at
Akerman’s.
THE CARTERSVILLE
Improvement, Gas and Water Company
BOSTON DIRECTORS. CARTERSVILLE DIRECTORS. OFFICEKS.
Hiham Blaisdell. r ev Sam P, Jones. President— Hiram Blaisdell.
Elisha T ha vsa, John T. Nobris, Secretary— Geo. H. Drew.
Petek V\ . French, •*
Geo. W. Leahnard, ( ol - ' has. P. Ball, Assistant Secretary— John H. Wi^le,
Edward li. Mas in, John H. Wikle, Vice President— Elisha Thayeu.
Geo. H Drew. R. M. Pattillo. Treasurer —Peter W. French.
Would respectfully announce to the citizens of Cartersville that it is
PREPARED TO FURNISH GAS
To citizens along the lines of its pipes. It has opened at its works on Cook Street, a
General Plumbing and Gas Fitting Shop
For all departments of such labor and is prepared to pipe houses for both gas and w.ter on short notice. At the Cummin vs’
office, on Main Street, a large suDply of ’ * i
GAS FIXTURES AND CHANDELIERS
.
ARE ALWAYS ON HAND.
The Piping will be Furnished at Cost, to Introduce the Gas,
until July 15th.
All piping done for gas must be apnrovedby the Gas Company and superintendent and man are provided with passes for
prot etion to citizens, and no personsetaiming to be in the company’s employ should be admitted to residences without a pass
Leave all orders at office on Main street, over Satterfield’s building, or at the works. *
HIRAM BLAISDELL, Pres’t. THOS. M. GRIFEIN, Sup t.
PORTER & VAUGHAN
OFOER FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS
* ' •
The • Grandest • Bargains
EVER BEFORE SHOWN THE TRADING PUBLIC
PORTER & VAUGHAN,
H ive determined to reduce their sStock of Summer Fabrics.
CUT PRICES! CUT PRICES!
Remember, we advertise nothing but facts. Grand drives in
WHITE GOODS.
Muslins, Satins, Laces and Embroidery,
Only a lew Fans and Parasols left. You can have them at your own price; they
will ge for a song.
PORTER & VAUGHAN
Handle strictly first class goods. Every article SOLD UNDER A POSITIVE GUAR
ANTEE. The grandest
STOCK OF SHOES
In North Georgia, at Porter & Vaughan’s.
All stales an l grades of Shyest every pair positively gu!us,r.teed. W;;, arc t e
ters for fine chocs, medium shoes and cheap shoes.
PORTER & VAUGHAN.
Leaders of First-Class Goods and Lowest Prices.
NO. 2.