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Official Organ of Bartow County.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 10,1887. j
It is about time some one was finding
the long lest Charlie Ros again. The
season is n early up, for toon the snake
liar will claim the field.
Another home-ract was ended iu
Rome last week hy a stook company.
Those wishing to it. eat their money in
‘‘Hill City” dirt shou'd do so at once.
Up to titk time of going to press the
great Etowah property is still near Car
tf rsville, the efforts of the Rome papers
to move it to the contrary notwith
standing.
Now that the boom is permanent we
may expect many now comers from the
North. When they arrive come down
off your corner lot and treat them right.
This is what keeps up a boom.
We arise to remark that the Chatta
nooga Times is gotting to look more
like a metropolitan every day. Its news
service is perfect and leads its southern
contemporaries several car lengths.
The bloody shirt howlers of the north
have desisted, for the time being, in their
abuse of President Cleveland’s administra
tion and have turned their guns on the
southern boom. This is as good sign as
one could wish that the south is really on
a substantial boom.
The Boomingham bubble is getting
shaky at last, the limit of reckless gam
bling bus been reached and by
the time the town catches up with the
present valuation of corner lots five
miles out, we will have all passed away.
This is tli*) kind of boom ihat Curteis
ville does not want.
Mauone’s term in the United States
Senate expired on last Friday. But the
guilty little Virginian says that he is not
tnrough. He proposes to return home
and begin his plans for succeeding Riddle
herger. Wc admire the little man’s spunk,
but, for old Virginia’s sake, we should
not like to see him succeed.
As a pointer for the farmers of Baitow
county we will state that in a few years
they will be put to their most strenuous
efforts in furnishing food for home con
sumption. Cotton will soon totter from
its long occupied throne, at least so far
as this immediate section is concerned,
and in its stead provisions of every
kind will hold sway. Mark it.
The Rome Courier is complaiuiug (f
the immense number of real estate t rans
actions “talked of" and the woeful scarci
ty of “actual transfers" made. The
Courier is tired of its thin booming ma
terial, and rtfusee to fight it out ou such
a lino which promises iu every way to
last over summer. The boom has left
the towu with a sad, distressingly sad,
kerplunk.
The Standard Oil company, tlie
greatest and greediest corporation of the
age has been somewhat checked in its
wild c treer iu the matter of cotton seed
oil, a monopoly of which it controls.
A uew company, with $G 000,000 capi
tal, has been chartered and will com
mence at once the eroction of mills
throughout the south, and Georgia will
get fmr. This is good news for the
farmers who will now secure better prices
for their cotton seed.
The aggregate of tLe appropriation
bills passed by the Forty-ninth Congress
is about £250,000,000. The total is ex
clusive of the sum appropriated by the
river and the harbor and deficiency ap
propriation bills which failed of enact
ment, The appropriation for the current
liscal year aggregate $204,000,000, which
amount would have been equaled by the
appropriations voted by the last Congress
hail the two bills mentioned become
laws.
The Adams Express company has ex
tended its service over the entire sys
tem of the Ooio aud Mississippi railway,
amountin g to upwards of GOO miles of
line on which there are about oue hun
dred aud twenty-five agencies. Ten
years ago the Ohio aud Mississippi begau
to carry its own express goods and sub
sequmtly outroct with the ttaltimore
and Ohio, whose contract expired last
wetk. Tne occupation of the line by
the Adams express it is said, isiu the na
ture of a mi prise.
Ex-Senator Jones, of Florida, who
became switten with a Detroit girl a
year ago, aud deserted his post iu the
senate to kneel at her shrine, promises
to make some startling developments in
vindication of his cause. A press dis
patch from Detroit says:
“It is a report apparently well authen
ticated that ex-Seuator Jones, of Florida,
for so many mouths a persistent so
journer in Detroit, will seek a re-election
by the Florida legislature. Iu doing
this, it is said he will lay before that
body the true reason of his long absence
from the national capitol, and will a tale
unfold that will not only vindicate his
own course but create a national seusa
tiou in the character of the charges that
he will make and the high s'audiug of
the statesman that he will involve.”
A NEW CRAZE.
“Society ladies iu the northern cities
are going in for the new hat called Win
nie Davis. It may be the name, or it may
he the peculiar curve in the long front
brim, which, ihading the brow, make it
becoming to fill faces. The hat was de
signed by a southern man, Mr W. 8.
Witham, who has gone into business at
635 Broadway, N. Y. Oh, the vanity of
women of fashion 1" —Ex.
If the “Winnie Davis” hat is the “moat
becoming style” out this spring for ladies
and misses, it is not the vanity but the
good common sense of the lady buyers
that gives the shape such wide-spread
popularity. We are at least glad to see
that the name the hat bears ha3 not prov
en a burner in the way of its sale up
north. Miss Winnie Davis, alter whom
the hat is mim'd, is the daughter of Jef
ferson D.tyiii,
REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER
DEA D.
When a man of genius and intellectual
power dies the woild fe6lsad. When
the pa pels on last Sunday morning an
nounced that Henry Ward Beecher had
been stricken by paralysis, and that his
and at It was only a question of a few hours,
there was an instinctive feeling of sorrow
throughout the country that one of this
world’s greatest luminaries was flicker
ing and must soon go out forever.
Mr. Beecher died at niue o’clock on
Tuesday morning. He was perhaps in
comparably the greatest intellectual force
in the pulpit of his day. But he had
lived out the allotted time given mau,
and his day of usefulness had passed.
Henry Ward Beecher was born at Litch
field, Conn., June 24,1813, his brother, the
Rev. Dr. Edward Beecher, and his sisters,
the late Catherine E. Beecher and Mrs.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, being liis seniors.
Mr. Beecher was educated at Amherst
College, from which he was graduated in
1834. He then studied theology at the
Lane Seminary, near Cincinnati, of which
his father, the Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher*
was president. In 1837 he became pastor
of the Presbyterian Church at Luwrence
burg, Ind., and in 1839 at Indianapolis.
In 1847 he was called to the pastorate of
the newly organized Plymouth Church in
Brooklyn, of which he had charge during
the long and uninterrupted period of forty
years. A history of Plymouth Church
would be necessarily Mr. Beecher’s bio
graphy, and a biography of Mr. Beecher
would be in fact the history of Plymouth
Church.
But Mr. Beecher, from the beginning to
the end of his long pastorate of half a cen
tury, did much work unconnected with
Ids pastoral duties. In 183 C, before he
b'igan to preach, he was a year the editor
was of the Cincinnati Journal, and while
pastor at Indianapolis he edited an agri
cultural paper. After he came to Brook
lyn he became an editorial contributor to
the Independent, and from 1861 to 1863 lie
was its editor. Subsequently, in 1870, he
undertook the editorship of the Christian
Union, but relinquished it after a compar
atively brief period. Besides, be was for
more than a quarter of a century an active
and popular platform lecturer, journeying
thousands of miles every year during the
most inclement season to appear before
lyceum audiences in every part of the
country. But his sermons and lectures
and bis editorial labors did not absorb all
of his activity. No public man of his
time was more ready to make political
speeches, especially before and during the
war, and every important social or econo
mic movement sought and obtained his
aid as an orator. In 1863 Mr. Beecher
visited England with a view to disabuse
the English mind in reg;.rl to issues in
volved in our civil war, and last year, ac
companied by Mrs. Beecher, he made a
second visit to Great Britain. On both
occasions he made many public addresses.
GEORGIA WILL PULL THRO UGH.
The Augusta Chronicle says: “Make
the calculation of how many horses and
mules, drawn from the West, will be
sold in Georgia this year. Put down
their value iu dollars. Will not the sum
mount up to millions of dollars? Cannot
Georgia raise their own horses and
mules? Would it not pay to do sc?”
Many ideas, or rather prejudices, have
boeu exploded in the South in twenty
years. It has been shown that we can
grow our own clover and other grasses;
that our oane, pea vines, corn fodder and
millet can at no expense be kept during
the winter green, that with little
trouble we can make winter pastures;
that cotton can be made to grow at the
rate of from two to four bales per acre,
and that corn can be produced profitably
upon any farm to the extent of the heme
demand; that it pays better to keep a
good ccw and feed her than to keep
three poor ones and to let them run
abroad for a liviug. It has yet to dawn
upon the average farmer that he can
raise his own mules cheaper than he
can buy from the West, and’ that the
native mule is a safer investment.
But the people are learning fast, and
despite the theory to the contrary, the
farmers are gathering ideas suited to
their changed conditions about as rapid
ly as their town brothers. “How to
change,” is the question iu the country
now, not “Should we change?” Knowl
edge of details will come in time, We
believe the day not far distant when the
average farm iu Georgia to be self
supporting, and profitable aooordiug to
the ingenuity and industry of its owner.
These old red bills and bottoms have
supported an enormous population for
twenty-two years under conditions that
seem iucreditable, when we recall them.
They have kept towns and villages alive
and built them up on one product while
interests ranged everywhere from
twenty-five to seventy-five per cent. If
the farmers could live through these,
they can and will prosper as the country
fills up with new people and new in
dustries.”—Macon Telegraph.
SOBRIETY.
Thero is nothing that so commends a
community to the public favor as sobri
ety. It suggasts a virtuous and indus
trious citizenship, and is the fruition of
individual morality. It carries with it
an idea of peace, and the absence of
strife ami discord. The man who is
seeking a location naturally looVs to the
eharacter of the community into which
he contemplates moviug, and its repu
tation for sobriety exerts a strong iutiu
euce over his mind iu the selection of
his future home. He feels that his
lines will be cast in pleasant places if the
city enjoys that quiet aud peace that
must always attend a sober aud, conse
quently, an industrious aud ecouomieal
population.
The foregoiug wise observations by
the Dalton Citizen cannot be applied to
any town more truly and foroibly ihnn
to Cartersville. I’uder the benign in
fluence of our prohibition law, and it is
by no means perfect, there is no place
where morality aud sobriety is more
universal than in Cartersville. The
man who is seeking a home where the
influenced for his family will be best,
and where everything in nature conspires
to make a community great, let him
cime here. _______________
One of the greatest schemes and specu
lations we have heard of lately was the
fellow in Chattanooga that filled up an old
discard *d well with rock and dirt and
sold it for $375 as a corner lot. The well
had long been pronounced a nuisance, aud
its owner was compelled to keep a stout
fence around it to protect pedestrians.
FENCE OR NO FENCE.
Iu another colurnu will be found the
citation ordering an elec ion to be held
in the 823rd and 828‘h Districts, G. M.,
of Baitow county, on the question “For
Fei.ca ’or “For Stock Law," on Satur
day the 19di day of March. This elect
ion is to'be heldj it the usual.places f< r
ho’ding elections in said districts and
under the same roles and regulations as
govern elec Jons for members for the
General Assembly. Now this being be
fore the farmers < f these districts a
question cf exceeding importance to
them, aud one that should receive at
their hands the most careful consideration.
It is a qnestion that admits of argument
on both sides: bat it mast be considered
that the reasons in favor of “no fence ’
far outweigh any that can be urged
“for fence,” In this day of scarcity of
timber and destruction of forest, the
item of fencing a farm is a matter of no
sm>dl consideration. It not only entails
a heavy expense upon the part of the
landlord, but cost the tenant much time
and trouble, for it becomes his duty to
keep in repair the fences arouud the lands
to be cultivated by him. Then, there is the
ground occupied by the fence rows end
and hedges that lies as an idle waste.
It is ust less for ns to censume space,
giving the innumerable reasons why it
will be wisdom aud economy upon the
p irt of the fai mers to abolish the fence.
WHERE THE MONEY GOES.
It will be of interest to the average
citizen to know where the government
retur. g go. A statement of the footings
of the Appropriation bills passed by
Congress, for the ensuing fiscal year,
ust made by the clerks of the Senate
and House committiesou appropriations,
is as follows:
Agricultural,sl,o26,73o: army,523,724,
718; diplomatic and consular,sl,429,924:
District of C01umbia,54,265,880; Indians,
$5,226,897; legislature, $20,702,221: mil
itary academy,s4l9,936: navy, $25,753,
165: pensions, $76,25a,509; post office
$55,694,,650; sundry civil, $22,382,490;
Mexican pension deficiency $6,900,000
public printing deficiency, $107,000;
miscellaneous appropriations, estimated,
$4,500,000. Total of actual appropria
tions, $246,387,144. The river aud har
bor, which was not sigued appropriated
$9,913,609, and the deficiency which did
not pass, though if was ageeed upon iu
conference, carried an appropriation of
$4,275,023.
The fo’ lowing was written by Roscoe
Coukling lately iu aid of a hospital fair:
“Monuments, made on purpose to be
only monuments, are not apt to stand.
Time outlives the falling stone builded
into dead effigies, aud soou make havoc
where liviug hands no louger grapple
with decag. Bit memorials which shel
ter the sick and the poor do not perish,
if well founded. They grow strong, be
can3e the endless procession cares for
them as it pisses—cares selfishly aud
uuselfislily, too. So, wherever regarded
ouly practically or in more exalted
aspects, well may we strive to help
build something not to fall or to stand
idle, bnt to last and to bless those who
will thankfu'ly preserve aud to perpet
uate it.”
Rome is in the line of progress aud
will keep up with the procession. The
jealousy exhibited in some other towns is
a significant acknowledgment of our
strength.
Oh, dear, a simple glance at the above
will show that it is from the Rome Bul
letin. Yes, Rome is somewhat strength
ened from the simple fact that she is
near Cartersville. Of course, wlieu we
boom Rome will boom. See? Rest_
easily’ little one, your mama Cartels,
ville’s garments will soon reach out for
you to grasp the apron strings.
The report of the direoter of the mint
shows a marked iuorease in the product
ion of the precious metal for the year
1886, over that of 1885. The gold out
put iucreased from $31,000,000 to $35,
000,000, aud the silver production from
$48,000,000 to 49,000,000. The total
output of the metals is $85,000,000, or
more than five millions greater than the
production of any former year iu the
history of the c auntry.
Mind reader Brown has been startling
Atlanta aud Macon audiences. lie has
excited much wonder among the scient
ists of the eountry aud his mysterious
accomplishments cauuot be solved. A
young physician, of Atlanta, Roach by
name, has lost his reason trying to ex
plain Brown’s powers.
51 arch with her howling blasts are
upon us, aud who is it that would not
speed her hasie away?
Cartersville and Gainesville.
Dahloneosa, Ga., March 8, ’B7.
Editors Courant-American — It is a
source cf gratification to the people liv
ing in this section to learn that at last
there appears to be a prospect for a road
from your city to connect with the nar
row guage system now centering at
Gainesville. The Gainesville and Dah
lonega railroad has 16 miles already
graded going in the very direction con
templated. I believe that if measures
were adopted at once this work could be
put into the new enterprise from Carters
ville. The Athens people will soon
connect with Jefferson, and thus a nar
row guage system of GOO or 800 miles in
Northeast Geogia would soon be ac
complished, and all the important towns
of this part of the state connected by
rail.
Cannot the president of the East and
Wast road aud the president of the
Gainesvi’le aud Dahlonoga railroad get
together and push the matter through at
once—l learn that the last named road
controls a charter from Cartersville to
Rabun Gap, which answers every pur
pose, and which might be utilized at
once. A survey of this road was oi ce
made from Cartersville to Leather’s
Ford, in Lumpkin county.
Messrs. Editors, you will do a great
work if you will urge this matter upon
the attention of the proper parlies.
Etowah.
Greatly Excited.
Noi a few of the citizens of Cartersville
a’ e greatly excited over the astonishing
facts, that several of their friends who
had been pronounced by their physicians
as incurable and beyond all hope—suffer
ing with that dreadful monster Consump
ion—have been completely cured by Dr.
King's New Discovery for Consumption,
the only remedy that does positively
cure all throat and lung diseases,Coughs,
Colds, Asthma and Bronchitis. Trial
bottles at J. It. Wikle & Co.’s Drug Store,
large bottles sl.
mcS-tf.
ANNISTON ALA.
A Bouncing I>te ie of Seven Summers,
Puts on City Airs, Steps into the
Booming Arena anti Claims Re
cognition ami Importance in
North Alabama, second
only to Birmingham,
Special cones;ondence Copbaxt-American.
Eight years ago the stillness of a moun
tain forest rested over the spot where now
whir the wheels of noisy factories, and
is heard the busy hum of the energetic
and pushing industry of the little city ol
Anniston, Ala. Seven years ago this bare
naked spot—a foot hill of the surrounding
mountains through which murmured a
rippling little brooklet was christened Ar.- j
niston in honor of the beautiful and ac- j
complisbed wife of Col. A. L. Tyler. Ihe j
principal attraction of the place then was
the dark seams and huge deposits of iron
ore, that cropped out and girded her sur- j
rounding hills. Her attraction now- is her ;
huge furnaces, her factories, her machine
shops, her car factory and foundaries, that j
are gathering this crude material and
manufacturing aud shaping them into
beauty and usefulness. The first iron fur j
nace was located in the year 1872. The ,
plant of the second furnace was made in
the year 1878, then fotlowed in quick suc
ceasion the car factory, the foundry for
casting car wheels and axles, then a large
cotton factory with fifteen thousand
spindles and accompanying looms; then
an extensive sash, door and blind factory,
then the water works and a mammoth
hocel. Anniston is managed by two syn
dicates or companies, one the Woodstock
Iron Company, and the other the Anniston
City Land Company. They are both rich
companies and have adequate means of
carrying out their projected plans for the
future. The first company is proposing to
build two additional furnaces whose
capacity, together with those already in
operation, will increase the weekly out
put of pig iron to two thousand tons per
week. The City Land Company is build
ing one hundred houses, together with
one large building for the company to
cost $75,000, The lands belonging to this
company are on the market and are being
purchased by actual settlers in many in
stances. This iron boom will of course
not be lasting, or to say the least of it,
will greatly subside; \ut we are ol the
opinion that Anniston will get so far on
the road of progress tha' she will still go
forward by her own inertia. Among her
most prominent monied and business men
are the Noble Bros. (Sam, John and Wil
liam), A. L. Tyler, D. F. Barker and W
Williams, whose noble hands and hearts
are ever open to scatter benefits and to
the building up of the town, born from
the womb of their own purses.
A beautiful brick academy with all the
modern appliances has been lately built
at the cost of ten thousand dollars, and
presented to the city to be used as a female
high school, by Col. Sam Noble. We un
derstand that a larger bui ding will soon
be constructed and presented to the city
by the Noble Bro3. to be used as a male
high school. These big-hearted men,
noble by name and noble by nature and
practice, are building to themselves im
perishable monuments that will keep
them in remembrance long after they shall
have died. Anniston has now three rail
roads: the Eist Tennessee and Georgia,
the Georgia Pacific and the Anniston and
Atlantic, narrow guage. Two others are
assured in the near future —the Anniston
and Gadsden and the East Alabama and
Cinciun ti railroad. Her railroad facil
ities will be very good indeed when these
railroads are all completed. Lying south
of Anniston and on the outskirts is the
little straggling village of Oxnnna, which,
in the not lar future, will be incorporated,
and will likely enjoy much of the benefits
of the boom that is crazing many of the
towns of North Alabama. Qxannq, has a
large fine hotel known as the Oxanna
Hotel, kept by John Shellnut, “ mine
clever host ” that knows so well how to
cater to the appetites and adminster to the
pleasures and convenience of his guests
This hotel is situated between and contig
uous to the East Tennessee and Georgia
and the Georgia Pacific railroads, which
traverse side by side this lovely valley,
It is the home of the traveling drummers,
as from this pleasant wayside inn the
street car line carries them either to Ox
ford or Anniston every half hour during
the day. Mr. Shellnut is a Georgian of
nerve and grit, and will make the Oxanna
Hotel one of the most famous stopping
places on these two important railroad
thoroughfares. TheJClardy Bro3. are the
builders and contractors for much of the
work of improvement done in Anniston,
Oxanna and Oxford. They are on the
high road to competence and wealth, and
we rejoice in it, as they are Bartow boys.
They have a contract to build a large
factory for manufacturing stoves, and are
preparing to make two million of brick to
meet the demands that are upon them. I
wish I had space to talk to you of the little
village of Oxford, which is the brighest
gem of them all. She sits quietly and
majestically in her rural retreat two mile3
from Anniston, unboomed and unboom
able. Her people are moral, social and
religious, appa'ently satisfied with them
selves aud indifferent to the opinions of
the world. Happy peoDle! enjoy your
quiet and rest; for the day is coming, not
far in the future, when you will lose
your own name and individuality and
will be swallowed up by the aggression of
a live and progressive city.
W. A. C.
Scarlet Fever aatl Diptberia
are spread by contagion, by the transfer of
living matter from the sktu, the membra
nous fining of the mouth, nose and throat,
ond from the intestines and urinary or
gans. Disinfect promptly and thoroughly
with Darby’s Prophylatic Fluid, the great
germ destroyer. Prof. 11. T. Lupton, of
the Vanderbilt University, Tenn., says:
“Asa disinfectant and detergent Darby’s
Prophylactic Fluid is superior to any pre
paration with which I am acquainted.”
mch. 10 Ira
Let tlie Good Work Extend iu this Direc
tion.
lowa State Register.]
The railway managers of the country
are proving to be the most efficient, be
cause the most practical of temperance
reformers. Many of them have pro
hibited the employment of men for train
service or in other responsible positions
who use liquor iu any form. Now they
are beginning to prohibit the sale of
liquor oa grounds owned by their rail
roads. President Robert Harris, of the
Northern Pacific, has lately issued an
order prohibiting the sale of liquor on
any property controlled by that compauy.
He is Now Learning: to Refine Sugar,
In a pleasant chat with Mr. Adolph L.
Beltran, son of R. Beltran, Esq., commis
sion merchant on Dec itur street, the for
tunate holder of one fifth of Ticket No.
94,552, winning $75,000 in the November
drawing f The Louisiana State Lottery,
stated that he is a native of New Orleans,
and is in the Laboratory of the Planters’
Sugar refinery, learning the busines, and
that the sudden acoumu ation of wealth
will in no way affect his resolution to
master his adopted profession. —New Or
leans (La.) Picayune, Nov. 18th.
Some heavy suits for damages have
been entered for the next, term of Cobb
Superior Court. Rev. Robert Baker, who
waft thrown from a L.oving train at Mari
etta and knocked senseless and other
wise hurt, has sued the Western and At
lantic Railroad for $20,000. Mr. W. L.
Cooper, who in crossing the railroad, was
struck by the pilot of an engine and had
his leg broken, sues tlie Western and At
lantic Railroad for $20,000. Mr. F. W.
Danlortb, w'hose tram backed his wagon
off of Green and Pope’s bridge spanning
the Chattahoochee river, drowning Mrs.
Wheat, sues the owners of the bridge, D.
W. Pope, John Pope, C. C. Green and W.
W. King, for $15,0C0.
iThe Oft Told Story'
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In the extreme care with which it is pu
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w here other preparations entirely fail. Pecu
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abroad,” peculiar in the phenomenal sales
it has attained, >3*s
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
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, “I suffered from wakefulness and low
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1 took one bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla, and
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|p> Purifies the Blood
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i Wallace Buck, of North Bloomfield, N. Y.,
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STORIES OF THE SUI’ERNATUfiAL.
William S. Martin, an old citizen of
Pittsburg, who died a week ago, predicted
the exact hour of his doith.
Three residents of Kinder hook, 111.,
say that they met the ghost of a deceased
neighbor in a lonely road near the village
one night recently, and had a long and
entertaining chat with it.
A tall, thin gho3t has been alarming the
people living on the outskirts of West
York, Penn , and several parties of young
men have been organized to go in search
of it. One person says that he fired a
heavy charge of buckshot into the myste
rious visitor at short range, but without
effect.
A mysterious phantom walks the streets
of Seattle between the hours of ten in the
night and four in the morning, and terri
fies belated pedestrains. It wa9 supposed
to be a man dressed in a light suit of
clothing, but one night it pursued and
struck a citizen,and in the struggle which
ensued it was found to be intangible.
Shots innumerable have been fired at it
since, but it still walks the streets un
harmed and unimpeded.
More than thirty years ago a young girl
was in the act of placing a pitcher on a
post which stands near the South Carolina
Railway, five miles from Aiken, when she
was struck dead by lightning. Ever since
this tragic occurrence the pitcher has re
mained on the post safe by superstition
fr*m the touch of negroes, who believe
that the arm which touches it will be par
alyzed. Storms and cyclones and earth
quakes have uot displaced it, although
the post which holds it is last crumbling
with decay.
Harry Edwards, a young man of
Wilkesbarre, Penn., surprised his friends
a year ago by dropping all liis bad habits
and beginning a regular attendance at
church and prayer-meetings. Recently,
however, he fell from grace and returned
to his old way of living. Last week he
attended a meeting ot the Salvation Army
and was scoffing at the services, when he
suddenly became tota ly blind. He was
taken home and physicians were sum
moned, but they were powerless to render
aid
The Baptist church at Indian Creek,
near Carnesville, Ga., has been haunted
for years by supernatural visitors. Strange
noises have been beard near the pulpit
during divine service, and by night
ghostly forms have been observed to flit
in and out the door. A short time ago
Mr. N. C. Gordon, a reputable citizen of
Carnesville, was passing the church with
his wife when they beheld a strange being
sitting on the door steps. He was dressed
in snow-white garments from head to
foot, excepting the blood-red gloves which
covered his hands, while his face had a
ghastly yellow tinge. Mr. Gordon droye
up to the church to investigate, but his
horse sheered violently through fright,
and inj in instant the spectre was gone.
Our Wealthy Men.
Much has been said in newspapers of
men who have made large fortunes in
comparatively a tew years in various bus
iness industries. Many of these articles
are written bv correspondents of promi
nent newspapers, and copied into others
of lesser note. Correspondents generally
are seldom men of business qualifications
and wrongfully picture these men and
their business as a thing of accident: this
is not the case with those we have met.
We find that where men have made large
fortunes by their own business talent and
industry they chose with sagacity and
forethought such business as would lead
to success when handled with business
judgment. No man has been brought
before the public as an example of suc
cess, both in wealth and magnitude of his
business (outside of stock and railroad
men) more prominent'y than Dr. G. G.
Green of Woodbury N. J. He is at the
head of many large business industries,
and yet comparatively a young man.
When the fact that August Flower, for
dyspepsia and liver complaint and Bos
chae’s German Syrup, for coighs and
lung troubles, Las grown to a wonderful
sale in all parts of the world, it proves
that it was not an accident or spontaneous
strike at wealth, llis medicines are recog
nized as valuable and established reme
dies and the business has grown gradual
ly and permanently during the last eigh
teen years on account not alone of ©r
Green’s abilities as a business man or his
“good luck,” but on the actual merits of
the two preparations.—Copied from the
N. Y. Weekly Sun, of Dec. 22,1886
How Profits on I.ots aro Made.
The Birmingham boom is being exam
ined by a clear treaded correspondent of
the New York Times, and while he finds
there all the elements of prosperity, he
call3 the ruling real estate prices exceed
ingly unsubstantial. Speculators buy
land with personal notes mainly, and
when purchasers begin to look more
sharply at their investments and these
notes begin to come due, there will be a
serious panic. The mining interests, upon
which the growth of Birmingham is based,
can not be said to be in a like peil. It is
the city real estate speculators w T ho are
building up a house of cards. Says the
correspondent:
It would be an overestimate, indeed, to
cl Jin that as much as ten per cent is paid,
on the average. Against the land that
originally cost SIOO,OOO, the Ely ton Land
Company to day hold $5,000,000 of mort
gages. Notes pay for land. Men with no
substantial collateral whatever give their
notes and have them accepted here for
fabulous sums. John buys a lot with a
SIOO cash and his note for S9OO. He sells
to Joe for S2OO cash and notes for $1,300,
scoops in the SIOO cash profit, and figures
out that his real profit is SSOO. Andrew
comes along, takes the property, pays in
the same way, and so the merry go-round
makes everybody happy and rich. But,
ah, what a future there is here for the
lawyer, Birmingham’s real estate trans
actions could stop right here and there
would be litigation enough ahead to last a
cen ury through, so t ingled are titles here
already. Cash value is a myth. Only
the greenhorn pays out dollars when be
knows the market value of the prom:s
sory note. The whirlwind cometh sue;
we wont have to wait long for it: mark
that prediction. Men luy anl tell land
of whose locution and ippeavince thoy
1 ave not th r famteat idea.
Your County Paper.
Take it. Do not be without it. What
ever other papers may be to the world it
is the paper for you. No other can take
its place. It advertises your business
it is to your interest to support it. It ad
vertises* your home-it is your duty o
sustain it. It knows you, and jou cm
not ignore it. Neither you or it can be
independent of each other. As well try
to be independent of your neighbor—yuui
interests are almost identical. Heme
the citizen who is careless of his own wel
fare is blind to the worth of Ins county
paper, and rarely succeeds at any umfer
taking.—Exchange.
Coolness, Who Is It?
Savannah Sews.
A fearful rumor comes from n North
Georgia county. It is said that the
inem! er of the General Assembly for
that county has twenty-five bills which
he will introduce at the summer session.
Is there no way to prevent this session ?
UPH
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
This powder never varies. A marvel of pu
rity, strength and wholesome ness. More eco
nomical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot
be sold in competition with the multitude Ol
lowest, short weight alum or phosphate pow
der. Sold onlv in cans.
Koval Baking Powder Cos..
108 Wall St. N. Y.
GEORGIA,,—Bartow County:
Whereas W. W. Jolley, Administra
tor of Mattie C. Clark r<pr. sen's
to the Court in hia petition duly file } and
entered on record, tint he has fully adminis'or
ed Mutile C. Cook’s estate. This is therefore to
eite all p rsous concerned, kindred and creditors,
to ►how cause if any they can, wiiy said Admin
i-trator ►liould not he discharged fr m ids said
al a n s‘rnt on, and roc-,ive 'o teis of di.mission
on tlie fit a- Monday in July 1857.
J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary.
This 7th March 188 T.
GEORGIA, Bartow Connty :
W h -reas. W. W. Jo le/ Administrator of L
F. Joliav repr. sents to the Court in nis peti ion.
duly fl'ed and entered ou reiord, that he has
l'utiv admikisterc I L, F, Jollej’s, es'ate. This
is ihrre'ore to ci e all p “rons concerned, kin
dred and er. ditora, to show cause, it any they
cm, why said Administrator should not 1 e dis
charged fioui his administration, and lecciv#
letters of dismisiou on the first Monday in
July 1.887. J. A. H >WARD. Ordinary.
This 7th. March 1887.
GEORGIA, Butiw County :
■Whereas, A. M. Foute and S. V. Stewai t, Ad
mini-drab ru o James M. Scott decease 1 rep
resent to the Court in ttoir petition, dulr lied
and entered oa record, that they h.ve lul'y ad
min’s.eie l James M. Scott’s estate. This is
theietorc to cue all persons concerned, kii died
slide eliiors. to show can e. if any they cm,
why said Administrators -hould not be discharg
ed from their admin isi rat on, and receive letters
of di, mis, ion on ih<* first Mon 'ay in July 1887.
J A. HoWaRD, Ordinary.
This Mai ell 7th 1887.
Limited Partnership.
STATE OF GEORGIA—Ba-tow County.
J. M. Anderson an 1 Gaines & Lewis, all ol
Kingston, ia said county, have formed a limited
partnership uuder the privisiras of the Code
of Geo'gia, for the tr msaetion of a general mer
cantile business nt Kingston, Ga., in the partner
ship name ol J. M. Anderson, who is to lie the
general partner, and Guinea if Lewis are special
partners, aud who have actually paid in, in cash,
the sum oi one thousand dollars, the amount
agned on a> their contribution to the common
stock, and have ddivert’d to the general partner
for the use of the partneiship, fiee of rent, a
store house and dwelling house in Kingston,
Ga. The general partner and the special part
ners are to slime equally the net profits of the
b.n-ii.ess, which i to continue lor the term <f
three years from the 21-t day of Febiuary, 1887.
This February 28d, 1887.
J. M. ANDERSON,
GAINES & r-KWIS.
Certificate an l articles of partnership recorded
Fel ruaiy 2i I. 1.887. F. M. DURH AM,
leb?4-B.v |8 28 llerkX.C.
Real Estate
FOB SALE.
CITY OF CARTERSVILLE.
llou=e and six a*res land, all improvements.
House and I.ot, close to transfer yard;
One an l a half a-res on Emin street, near
■'.Val'aoe place,
ltesiaenee and Seven Acres of L tnd on Market
street.
Fine Itesideoo3 on Gilmer street.
Illack Marble Quarry.
House and Lot, and Vacant Lot onTennes ec
street.
House and Lot on Erwin s'reet.
Brick Warehouse, 100 xOO, with Large Lot.
Two Vacant Lots on Cassvilie street. 3,‘i and 1
acres.
Three Store Houses on Main s'reet, good busi
ness stands.
Fourand a Half Acre Lot on Railroad street.
And others.
—: ALSO:—
G,OoO Acres Mineral Lands, Bartow County.
Gr. H. AUBREY.
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Trespass lice.
All persons are here
by warned not to
trespass in any way
upon the lands or oth
er property belonging
to the Etowah Iron and
Manganese Cos., under
penalty of the law.
R. M. PATTILLO,
For the E. I. and M. Cos.
Cartersvlle.Gn.
CHARLES T. JONES,
(SUCCESSOR TO R. M. PATTI LLO.)
O
The undersigned respectfulty informs the people of rartersville, Bartow eouhty ar „in
urrounding' country that he has opened up at the stand lately occupied by R £
where he proposes to sell
che apzh™2:c he apes r
Staple Dry Goods,
Sate, Boots, Sh.oes and Family Groceries,
GRAIN, HAY and FEED STUFFS.
He respectfully solicits your patronage, assuring you that he will treat you exactly ri-ht
Goods delivered in any part of the city free of charge.
OUnL A.S. T. JONES
CARTERSVILLE, GA. mrt ly
THE HOWARD BANK, ~
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
Dots a Ceneial Banking Business. Deposits received, subject to check. Exchange boughfanJ
Bjld. Collections made in all parts of the Unit'd Sta'es. Discounts desirable paper. All ace m
moduli' ns consistent With saieiy extended to its customers.
febl7-ly
riri r ,
JOHN T. NORRIS,
Real Estate and Fire Insurance,
(UPSTAIRS.)
First Door South, of Howard’s Bank.
leblO-ty
NOW IS THE TIME TO
IMPROVE YOUR STOCK
BLOOD WILL TELL.
DON’T RAIS hi SCRUBS, IT WON’T PAY
IN THIS PROGRESSIVE AGE.
This Thoroughbred Western Horse
JOHN T=
Will make the present season at CRAWFORD & FIELD’S
Stable, Cartersvillo, Ga.
JOHN T. Isa dark hay or brown, sold in color, 1C hands high, was foaled JuneSCth, 1879 is of
excee limr beauty and styie, has splendid ac ion, heavy muscle, large sol.d ti .tboae, temper perfectly
kind, and very gen le, r.u i constitution unsurpassed.
JOHN T. was shod by Plato, and deeplv inbred in Morg in blood, and his Sire by old Smuggler
whose ie ord is w< 11-kn wn throughout the United States as being the fastest Dotting Stallion on.
lecord up to time of going in to stud. Standing record 2:15. JOHN T’s dam was sired by O’d Se o,
in imp rie l ruiuih g horse; sGcoi-d duiu Gipsev by A1 mac, etc , etc., etc A critical examination of
the iibo.e pedicr. e will prove that John I' combines the blooi ol tha fas'e-t as well as the most lasting
hoi su on the English or American turfs. All possible care taken, but not re-ponsible for accidents
r . MI „ BEN AKERMAH.
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COURANT - AMERICAN OFFICE
IS .A
HOME INSTITUTION.
The workmen spend their money here, and
its editors labor in and out of season in en
deavoring to build up this section.
TO STOCKMEN:
You should see our elegant Chromatic Bills
before having your spring work done. Horses
of every breed, Jacks, Bulls, etc. This is a New
Venture, and is meeting with a hearty recep
tion with stockmen.
1 Nil Sol ii fit 111)!
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