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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.