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COURANT- AMERICAN. \ 3P , u.Tsli*2a.A. Svcry TJa.\.xa.s.3r cautebsvii.i.k, georcia. Official Organ of Bartow County. 2°M G wMGHAM. i and Peters, j 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' Of the peculiar medicinal merits of Hood’i Sarsaparilla is fully confirmed by the volun tary testimony of thousands who have tried it. Peculiar in the combination, proportion, and preparation of its ingredients, peculiar In the extreme care with which it is pu up, Hood's Sarsaparilla accomplishes cures w here other preparations entirely fail. Pecu liar in the unequalled good name it lias made at home, which is a “tower of strength abroad,” peculiar in the phenomenal sales it has attained, >3*s Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the most popular and successful medicine before the public today for purifying the blood, giving strength, creating an appetite. , “I suffered from wakefulness and low spirits, and also had eczema on the back of my head and neck, which was very annoying. 1 took one bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla, and I have received so much benefit that I am very grateful, and I am always glad to speak a good word for this medicine.” Mbs. J. S. Snyder, Pottsvillc, Penn. |p> Purifies the Blood fjj e nry Biggs, Campbell Street, Kansas City, had scrofulous sores all over his body for fifteen years. Hood's Sarsaparilla completely cured him. i Wallace Buck, of North Bloomfield, N. Y., suffered eleven years with a terrible varicose ulcer on liis leg, so bad that he had to give up business. He was cured of the ulcer, and also of catarrh, by jj } Hood’s Sarsaparilla ] Sold by all druggist*. fl;iixforf6. Prepared only fcy C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Ma*. | 100 Doses One Dollar Ji 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. @b!7-t t 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. ■ - rp JJ jg -- 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)! PATRONIZE HOME MEN This is WhatßuUds Up a Town. Our stock is as good, and our prices as low as any in the State. GIVE US A CALL! EVEZMIZENIieiEH THE! .AIDIDIR/EiSS, WIKLE & WILLINGHAM, NEXT DOOR TO POSTOFFICE, CARTERSVILLE, GA. ninwi mniw —— --n in W , imiui— mwiiihiiiiii ii ——a Justice Court Blanks, Of all kinds are to be found at TJ3S COTTfi AN r-AMERICAN OFFICE