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The Cartersville Courant-American.
VOL. IX.
SOME RANDOM REFLECTIONS.
Various Topics of Interest to
Our Readers.
Dished np In the Deleetntde Style Pe
culiar to one of Our Best
Contributors.
Judge Shelby Attaway wears his newly
conferred honors. That he is pleased at
his appointment goes without saying,
yet he is modest about it, and accepts
the congratulations of his friends with
smiles and blushes. It was hardly ex
pected that the appointment of a city
judge would be made so soon, as Judge
Neel's term did not expire until October,
but I have not heard a single objection
to the appointment of Air. Attaway, and
there is no doubt of his fitness for the
office. True, he is young, and is perhaps
not as learned in the law as some mem
bers of our bar, but he is honest and
conscientious, aud fearless in the dis
charge of his duty • and he has aptness
and facility in the acquisition of knowl
edge. I have known him for ten years, a
part of the time intimately, aud it gives
me pleasure to testify to his integrity as
a man, his qualifications as a law. er, his
progressive spirit as a citizen and his
sincerity as a friend.
In the hands of Shelby Attaway the
scales of justice will be firmly and fairly
held, and every man who comes betore
his court, will be sure of a patient and
impartial hearing.
At the recent session of our superior
court, Squire John Farris, of Cassville,
was interviewing the members of the
local bar on, what was to him, a knotty
question of law. His statement of the
case was about like this: One of his
neighbors was indebted to another and
had given a mortgage on a mare to se
cure the debt. Upon failure ro pay the
money the mortgage was foreclosed and
the maie exposed for sale. But, subse
quent to the date of the mortgage and
before the sale, the mare had givsn birth
to a tine colt.
He stated his case with much serious
ness, and tbeu asked his question as if
the destiny of a nation turned on the
answer. He extracted opinions from
numerous legal lights, who showed much
learning on the subject. But when asked
how he had decided the case, the ’Squire
was reluctant to give information.
Finally, however, when interest in the
question had waxed great, and several
lawyers were pressing him for an answer,
’Squire Farris said that his judicial
opinion, os announced from the bench,
was that the colt, having been born be
tween stations, belonged to neither the
plaintiff or defendant, and that being
without an owner it reverted, under the
common law, to the king, Hut there
being no king in this country, and it
being necessary for the colt* to have an
owner, he would give effect to the law by
directing that it snouhl become the prop
erty of the person who, in this country,
came nearest to being a king, who, in his
opinion, was the justice of the peace.
“And so,” continued the 'Squire as he
backed out of the court house with a
wicked smile in his off eye, “I got the
eolt, and have given credit for its value
on my insolvent cost bill. It’s a cold
day when you beat a justice of the peace
out of his costs.”
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1 had a pleasant call from Sam Browu
the other day. He dropped in, he said,
to say “howdy” and talk a little about
crops.
I like Sam Brown. lie is a clever, in
dustrious man. lie is always hopeful
and never sees the dark side of anything.
It encourages and brightens onetospend
an hour with him.
I like him for another reason. The
sight of him always recalls the genial,
brilliant and happy-hearted A\ alter
Ryals. The readers of the old Carters
ville American all remember the “Sam
Brown” letters, and most of them know
that Walter Ryals wrote those letters.
Rut they were typical of Sam Brown and
I happen to know that Sam dictated
many of them and that Walter only put
them in shape. Those letters were widely
read, and copied into many of the state
exchanges. Indeed tney served to give
Walter Ryals a newspaper reputation,
and marked him us a graceful writer and
a mirth-provoking humorist.
In those days Walt, and I were on the
American together, and Sam Brown hu6
spent many a lazy afternoon in our
sanctum spinning yarns.
So I was glad to “howdy” with him the
other day, and swap a few compliments.
I asked him about his corn: “Billy, I
jist want to say that I’ve got the best
corn 3*o u ever sot eyes on. I mean that.
After four o’clock it’s plum dark in one
of my river fields. I had to quit work in
that field before laying-by time, because
the blades was lapped so thick in ,;he
middle that a horse couldu t push
through them. The lightnin’ bugs— ’
“Chestnuts!” .
“Oh, Billy, you may holler chestnuts,
but I’m telliu’ you the truth. You've
heerd that liglituiu’ bug story a many i.
time, but it was a lie every time yor
heerd it; bvjt I pledge you my word that
I've seed thousands of them in full bloom
in that field before sundown. Why it
actually pesters me to think about gath
erin that corn. I’d almost give a man
half of it to gather it for ine. I dou’t
need it. I aint got no place to put it.
It'll be more trouble to haul up than it
was to make. It worries me—actually
worries me—to think about that field ot
corn.”
“What kind of a fanner does Mr. Con
ner make?”
“Tolaole fair. He learns very well. I
have took great pains with Mr. Conner,
and he’s jist about one of the cleverest
men in Bartow county. He didu't know
anything about farmin’ when he fust
come ont, but he is a climbin’, and I'm
proud Qf him.”
“Ho*ibout those lectures and essays
on farming he has been getting off before
the farmers’ club?”
“Why, Billy, let me tell you. Them
was my lectures. I didn’t keer, of course,
if he used ’em, but he jist repented before
the club what I'd been a tellin’ him from
time to time. He’d show me his papers
after he writ ’em, and before they was
read to the club, and I'd make Rich cor
rections as was needed, and then he’d git
’em off oti the club. Mr. Conner’s a pow
erful smart man, and I think a heap of
him. He’s a good lawyer and will make
a good farmer, but he has a good deal to
learn y it.
But I must be a goiu’. It’s four
o’clock now, and the sun has done sot
in that corn of mine. Come out in the
fall, Billy, and we’ll go’possum huntin’.”
They tell some rough jokes on a certain
Baptist preacher in one of the mountain
counties of Georgia. On one occasion ho
was preaching on the prodigal son, aud
he remarked by way of explanation that
old man Prodigal had two sons, one of
whom was a very steady-going, indus
trious sort of fellow, while the other was
a regular torn-down, devil-may-care
youngster who spent ever3*thiug he could
get his hands on.
Another time his text was, “Go to the
ant, thou sluggard, etc.” He referred to
the fact that this text was very much
neglected; that people usually went to
their fathers or mothers or uncles, but
that the scriptures taught that we
should go to our aunts, and that for one
he believed in obeying the Bible.
Again he was preaching from the text.
“And the vail of the temple was rent in
twain from the ton to the bottom,” He
rendered it, “And the vial of the temple
was wrapped in twine from the top to the
bottom.” He explained that vials in
those days were very large, and similar
to what are now called demijohns, and
that instead of using grass or withes to
wrap them, they were wrapped in twine,
which made them ver3 T strong and ser
viceable.
Again he was preaching on the unscrip
turalness of educated preachers. He
thanked the Lord that he could preach
without an education ; that the apostles
were ignorant men; that fishermen and
farmers were chosen by Christ, and that
Paul didn’t know a letter in the book.
“Why bretherin,” he exclaimed, “who
was Paul, and whar was he raised?
Why, Lord bless your souls bretherin,
Paul was one of the most ignorant men
what ever lived, and the Bible sa3 T s he
was raised at the foot of Gamel's hill,
(feet of Gamaliel) whar it was so poor it
wouldn’t sprout peas.”
These are only samples of the stories
one 11103* hear of this celebrated divine,
who runs a still during the week and
preaches on Sunday.
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Before this paper goes to press, I
will have said “good-bye” to Carters
ville and “howdy do” to Rome.
I leave old Bartow county with deep
regret. The best people I have ever
known, and the warmest friends I have
ever made are here, ami it was only after
a struggle that I got my consent to leave
them.
But I go only a little way. Floyd is
the twin sister of Bartow*, and Rome is
the ruuning mate of Cartersville. Iby
no means relax my love for, or transfer
my affections from, the people of my na
tive county. Theeircle is simply growing
larger.
After more than three years of absence
from Georgia, in which time I have seen
much of the United States, I return feel
ing that this is the best country in the
world; and it is my deliberate intention
to spend the remainder of m3* days in
North Georgia. My interests and my
affections are centered here, and my life
shall be spent bexe.
Rome is only a stone's throw from
Cartersville and I will always be in whis
tling distance of my Bartow friends.
W. J. N.
Technological School.
Applicants for scholarships in Techno
logical School will be examined on Satur
day, 31st instant, at, 10 o’clock a. m., at
court house, Cartersville.
R. C. Saxon, C, S. Com’r.
August 23, 1889.
CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1889.
THE SALE BILL SMASHED.
Bartow’s Old Man Eloquent Sits
Down On It.
Tlie Great Discussion Ended by Judge
Harrell and Hon. \\. H. Felton
—Tlie Duration Sett ed.
The Inst effort to prevent the lease of
the State Roud was made by Judge Har
rell last Thursday, when a few sledge
hammer blows of Dr. Felton squelched
him, and the advocates of the sale of the
property gave up the fight.
We give a few simple points’ of the
Doctor; whose facts a.id figures, and
old time eloquence, against the lease bill
swept like acyclone amongst thecobwebs:
“If Georgia was dying, I would favor
the bill of my fri"nd from Webster. 1
would say, “sell the state’s property,
pay the state’s debt, and let the state
die easy.” But, thank God, old Georgia
is not dying. In twelve months, Mr.
Chairman she has increased $ 19,000,000
in taxable property— s2s,ooo,ooo, in
cluding railroad property. Such crops
were never heard of before. The farmers
everywhere are prosperous. Yet my
friend from Webster can see nothing but
death in alf this. lam reminded of the
poem, “I am dying, Egypt, dying.”
“I would like to ask,” said M". Davis
of Burke, “what guarantee we have that
the interests of the rtate will not suffer
in this lease as in the other?”
“Because John B. Gordon is chairman
of that commission,” was the reply, “be
cause old Nathan Barnett is Secretary of
state, because a one-legged Confederate
soldier is Comptroller-General, because
Bob Hardeman is as honest as the day
is long, aud because Clifford Anderson is
Attorney-General, and this was not so
when the road was leased by Rufus Bul
lock and his gang.”
Every sentence of the reply was broken
off by applause.
“Now,” continued Dr. Felton, “I ask
you to take your pencil and calculate
with me. Take the s+lo,ooo rental and
apply it to the payment of the public
debt annually. In twenty years you will
have canceled the last dollar of the debt,
and you will still have the railroad. If
it. rents, as it should, for s4o,oooyou will
have in addition, at the end of twenty
years. $1,500,000 in the treasury. It
has been urged that Georgia can’t com
l>eteviith private railroad corporations.
YYe can lease it to somebody that can
compete. That road, Mr. Chairman,
requires no special legislation to keep it
in the front. It has the commanding
position, and is bound to keep it. If my
friend from Webster were not so sober
and upright a citizen 1 would sa v, sir,
that he has intermitted delirium tremens,
and talks about the road only when the
spell is on him. The reptiles and creep
ing things he sees,, the death and ghosts
—none of these are real. I call your at
tention to the fact that his scheme con
templates the levying of a direct tax to
take the place of this rental. If that is
done, I predict that in twenty years there
would be no common school fund, and
you will have created another state debt
and no road to help pay it off. The gen
tleman from Webster com pufes interest at
a high rate. Georgia can borrow money
today at 8% and 4 per cent. Look at
this as business men. For twenty years
we have drawn an income from the road,
and now Judge Harrell proposes to kill
the go rise that lays the golden egg, so
anxious is he to get all this gold at once.
Tit© Caterpillars.
Mr. N. M. Adams, of Stilcsbmo, writes
Commissioner Henderson that the curse
of the cotton planter was doing its work
in that section, and the splendid crop
was materially injured.
It is ominous of great loss,” said Judge
Henderson to a Constitution reporter,
when the worms appear so early. This
year it is particularly had because the
crop is from ten du3*s to tw o weeks later
than usual, and the worms have come
earlier even than last 3*ear.”
Is Bartow the only county suffering?”
“Not b3* any means. I have had sim
ilar reports from Putnam, Troupe, Polk,
and several ot.er sections, aud they all
want to know how to rid the plants of
worms.”
“Is there 0,113* way of doing it?”
“There are several methods of killing
the pests, but I think the best one is that
adopted in Alabama and Texas.”
*‘ How do they do it?”
“They take two bags made of sheeting
or some other coarse material, and after
filling them with Paris green they tie one
to each end of a stiff pole long enough
to extend across three rows of cotton.
The pole is then placed across the back
of a mule and a boy rides it up and down
every fourth row. The inotiou of the
mule is generally sufficient to shake out
enough poison to dust well two rows on
each side of the rider. Care should be
taken to make the application while the
plant is damp, either in the early morn
ing or late in the evening. Another cau
tion which should be observed is to care
fully muzzle the mule, for should the ani-
mul nibble the leaves where the poison
had been sprinkled, it would probably bt
killed.”
“ How much poison would it take to
sprinkle an acre?”
“One pound and a half would be ull
that is.accessary for an acre, and as the
cost of Paris green is about twenty cents
a pound at wholesale, the cost would not
be very great. I feel sure this is the best
method of ridding cotton of worms that
has ever been found.”
SAM JONES IN TENNESSEE.
Wonderful Meeting at Tienton. The City
Crowded—A Great Work.
The Trenton Democrat devotes much
of its space to Cartersville’s great evan
gelist. We quote from that paper:
The Rev. Sam .Jones is here. The an
ticipated crowd is here, God is here and
the three combined go to make the big
gest thing that ever struck the town.
Everybody has heard him and every
body likes him. Prejudices have given
away to truth aud he stands boldly and
fearlessly before a multitude of people as
the most powerful evangelist in the
world. He fears no one and loves every
one.
He began in his original way by talk
ing to the people in his unmistakable
plain language, and ere he had completed
his first sermon he had completely capti
vated his audience.
The congregation has been steadily in
creasing until now the large covering
with a seating capacity of 0,000 people
is jammed full at each service. Two
houvs before the time for the meeting to
begin the people commence pouring in,
and continue in almost one solid mass
until the services begin. Aftertheelo.se
of each service it seems only a short re
cess after the crowd has dispersed that
the seats under the huge covering are
again filling up with people, that they
ma.v hear,every word that falls from the
lips of the great preacher.'
Men who have not attended church for
years and never in their lives attended
regularly, can be seen at every service,
and people who so willingly disapproved
of such a meeting, are among the most
eager to gain a good seat and attend
the meeting regularly,
Every train which arrives is loaded
down with people who come to hear the
great revivalist, and from every country
road vehicles can be seen coming from
early in the morning in what seems like
one continuous string.
Campers have sti etched their tents in
various portions of the city, every resi
dence nearly is affording a place for the
accommodation of visitors, the hotels
and hoarding houses are receiving new
guests every day and the restaurants in
the city and on the camp grounds are
busy feeding those who come to spend
the day.
The number of visitors who have ar
rived in the city up to last night, is esti
mated at from 5,000 to 6,000 and still
they are pouring in from every direction.
It is thought that Sunday 10,000 visi
tors will be in Trenton, and some have
estimated that the number will exceed
12,000.
To undertake to give <lll3* kind of a
83’nopsis of the man' good things the
great evangelist s;>.' s, would he to fill
many sheets like (his. He says some
thing good every time he opens his
mouth. Some -of iiis sa3’ings sound
]1 re tty rough to people who are not ac
customed to him, but he su3*s the way he
says thiifgs is the only thing he has a
patent, on. His patent is a good one
nnd we have no desire to rob him of it.
He speaks to the point, fearlessly and
earnestly. Those who have heard him,
and have heretofore been led by reports
of various newspapers in the country to
almost despise his name, now uphold
him in his good w*ork and are among the
first to praise him. All stand in praise
for the grand, glorious and eminent di
vine, Sam Jones, and the grand meet
ings he is now* conducting will be the
means of saving thousands of souls, and
cause many a cold and hardened heart
to turn to the ways of God and believe
in His Ilol3* word.
c* utM for Cot loti.
This is what the Georgia Alliance has
decided to ask for this years crop, accord
ing to a resolution passed at the late
Macon meeting.
The resolution provides that a com
mittee of five from theStuteAlliance con
fer with similar committees from other
alliances in the cotton States, to secure
theco-operatlon of all. If thisisobtuined
the price will at once be placed at 12*4
cents a pound. If there is 0113* obstacle
to securing this end the present season,
then the alliances will work for the same
purpose next year. It is thought that
the desiied co-operation of all the cotton
States can be secured in time to establish
the price at 15)4 this season.
The state of Georgia will have to levy
a special tux to raise nearly SIOO,OOO to
cover the appropriations made by the
summer session of the legislature.
PflljlEß k YAHGHAN.
Our B UYER,
Is Now in New York. Look Cut for a Select and complete Line
IN EVERY DEPARTMENT.
New Goods will conn er.ce coming in this week. Cehbrat and
Edwin Clapp Gents’ Shoes
Now on the Road—expecting thtm Tomorrow. Also a
Nice Line of Neckwear.
OUR LARGE FALL STOCK
Summer Goods to be closed out immediately at your own pr'ee.
Received this week a beautiful line of
SICILIAN CLOTH.
Something new in Dress Goods for early Fall wear. See them
before buying your Tabernacle dresses.
PORTER & VAUGHAN.
A BRILLIANT AFFAIR
The Home of Major Smith the Sen© of
a Memorable Occasion.
The splendid home of Maj. Charles H.
Smith (Bill Arp) was the scene of one of
those brilliant occasions, for which it has
become renowned among Cartersville so
ciety, on Friday evening last. It, was a
joint gathering of the S. L. 1). and the B.
B. clubs. The former was entertained by
Miss Marion aud Mr. Ralph Smith, and
the latter by Miss Jessie and Master Carl
Smith. The grace and ease with which
they took the parts of host aud hostess
was remarked upon by those present.
The beautiful five acre lawn, with its ma
jestic oaks, presented a grn*;d sight illu
mined by hundreds of Jap . it so lanterns
nnd bonfires. The young people glided
hither and thither in couples and
groups, rendering the scene as one from
Fairyland, while within the walls of the
grand old mansion a merry crowd were
tripping lightly to the strains of inspir
ing music. In the course of the evening
it was announced that ut least fifty
mammoth watermelons had been sliced
and placed on a capacious table on the
law n, and were awaiting the pleasure of
the guests. An agreeably conspicuous
feature of the occasion was the anti
quated game of “Many, Many Stars,” in
which most of those present heartily par
ticipated. It was regretted by all w hen
the hour for departure arrived.
The following is a list of those present:
Misses Para Lou Rrothertou and Nena
Mitchell, Atlanta; Misuses Florence
Fouclie and Bessie Sproull, Rome; .Miss
Willie Jones, La Grange; Misses liutlie
and Ella Wavne, Chattanooga; Miss
Kit fie Boggs, Augusta : Miss Labia Hard
en-die, Nashville; Misses Minnie Ed-J
wards, Fannie l!<>t .limes, Grace Ste
phens, Hut tie Peacock. Lila CaUioun,
Lillie Crosby, Loutila Jones, Marie Sad-’
ler, Mrs. Charles Milam aud Mrs. Geo. H.
Aubrey; Messrs. Sproull Fouehe, Rome;
Alex Akerman, Max bcheuer, “Sandy”
Wikle, George Hall, Walter Akerman,
Frank Wallace, “Dock” Cun3*us, Ralph
Smith, J. L. Boardman, John AY. Jones,
Ben Akerman, Charles Wikle, John J.
Skinner, Bob Stover and I)r.C. H. White.
Misses Estelle Calhoun, Ida Lou Milam,
Annie Wallace, Edwina Crosby, Funuie
Freeman, Muntord, Sallie May
Akin; Messrs. Tom Wallace, Ossie Rob
eson, John Norris, Felton Jones, Joe
Akerman, Willie Christian and AValt
i’ner. M
The F.towah Property.
As was announced by the Corn ant-
A merican three weeks ago, the details of
the trade were then ul l tinnllv ag eed
upon, aud in a satisfactory munm i to
all concerned.
In pursuance of that agreement .f25,-
000 of the money has already been paid,
nnd the remainder will be paid in a few
days.
Gen. Granger’s company will take hold
of the property at once and begin active
developments. Large quantities of the
various ores <tn the property will be
shipped to the works at Bethlehem, Pa.,
yvhere it will be worked long enough to
decide upon the class of machinery best
spited to working it, when the necessary
machinery will be put to work near the
mines.
r l lie fact that experienced and success
ful iron makers have invested nearly
$200,000 in Bartow mining property is
the biggest thing for Cartersville that
has yet happened. It meqns that our
vast mineral wealth is at last attracting
attention in the right direction.
When such men as Senator Joseph E.
Brown, Senator Butler, Gen. Granger,
and his Bethlehem crowd are putting
down so many thousands for Bartow
mineral lauds, it w ill embolden others to
make like investments.
All we need is a start, and CartersviiJe
will soon be the great steel making cen
tre of the iron producing section of the
South—and in time the South is bound
to control the iron markets of the conti
nent.
As before remarked, it will be well to
keep your eye on the ideal city of the
Etowah.
Koil on tiie i;ll.
The Gouhant-Amekicax is gratified to
wee that its long effort to arouse our
graud old county to the importance of
making a display at the Piedmont expo
sition has not been in rain. We find our
leading farmers in different sections of
the county right in for it.
But we are not happy yet.
We want Bartow to take that first
premium.
She can do it and not half try. No
time is to be lost.
Such a displa3* of minerals and agricul
tural products as this county could make
would be of inestimable value to us all.
We hope our coui.ty and sub-alliances
aud farmers’ clubs will take the matter
in hand and begin to shape it up at once.
NO. 11.