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Weekly in the Interest ok Bartow
County, Devoted Mainly to Local
News, and Thinks it uas a Bight to
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Notice.
The Sunday S hool* of the Bartow County i
Sunday ft-hool Ansodiitioß. together vrith such !
Sunday Sehoola w hich may w ish to join the asao- ;
elation, v.ill assemble at Carter* ville on the
Wednesday before the first Sunday in August
next, to-wit: 3d day of August next. The mass
meeting will be held at the tabernacle, commenc
ing at 1t.% a. tn. There will be several addresses
by distinguislnsl speakers. Then will follow the
contest for the prizes in singing. Each school Is
expected to enter the contest, singing one song.
First prize, banner; 2d [prize, map of Palestine.
Let all the schools be on hand. Come with well
filled baskets and let us have a glorious day.
Thomas W. .Vlil.nek,
Chairman Ex. Cm.
West End Inst tute.
The cloning exercises of the West End
Institute, lieguu on June 29th and ended
July Ist.
Wednesday was devoted principally to
the primary and kindegurten depart
ments. The examinations evinced thor
ough and rapid advance, merit, showing
the ability and painstaking of their
teacher Mrs. Harris.
Thursday was devoted to the interme
diate and advanced classes. On Friday
the advanced classes were examined and
reflected much credit upon the teacher of
that department, Prof. Mobley. The
thorough manner in which they had
been drilled especially in the languages
was clearly shown. The proficiency and
thoroughness shown by every class was
a conspicuous feature of the exercises.
The examination were interspersed with
music, recitations and speeches. The
recitations by the girls in Mrs. Harris
department showed that no effort had
been spared by a skillful teacher. Tl.
boys in their speeches evinced an ease and
grace of movement and enunciation that
was rather remarkable considering the
short time they have been in charge of
Prof. Mobley. The music was one of
the most enjoyable features of the occa
sion, and showed that Miss Sofge richly
merited the large class she has had dur
ing the term. The kindegarten songs
under the supervision of Miss Sofge
was recipient of many compliments on
the thorough manner in which the chil
dren were trained.
Friday afternoon an entertainment
was given to a crowded house. Every
body enjoyed it. The pupils all did well
and each one deserves special mention,
but a want of space forbids. Perhaps
the most enjoyable feature of the enter
tainment was a song, “Some Sweet Day,”
rendered by Misses Annie and Lucy
Jone.
The School under the management of
E. C. Mobley, jr.. and Mrs. J. W. Harris,
sr., has been quite successful during the
last term and bids fair to open next
September with an increased attendance.
Yellow Pine Shingles.
W. W. ROBERTS,
Dealer in and Manufacturer of
YELLOW PINE SHING'ES.
I will bo glad to furnish all who desire them
first-class Shingles at reasonable prices. Orders
will receive the most prompt and personal atten
tion. I*. O. Oliiidersburg, Ala. and Cartersville,
(la. W. W. ROBERTS,
july7-3m
IMSIlii
CAPITAL PRIZE, $150,000
“We do hereby certify that we supervise the
arrangements for all the Monthly and Sem-An
mial Drawings of The Louisiana State Lottery
Company, and in person manage and control
the Drawings themselves, and that the same are
conducted with honesty, fairness, and in good
faitti toward all parties, and we authorize the
Company to use this certificate, with fac-sirniles
of our signature attached, in its advertisements.”
Commissioners.
AVethe undersigned Banks and Bankers will
pay all l’rizes drawn in The Louisiana State
Lotteries which may be presented at our coun
ters.
J. H. OGLESBY, Pres. Louisana Nat. Bk
P. LANAUX, Pres. State Nat’l Bank.
A. BALDWIN, Pres. N, O. Nat’l Bk
CARL KOHN, Pres. Union Nat. Bank.
UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION !
U Over Half a Million Distributed.
Louisiana State Lottery Company.
Incorporated in ISCB for 25 years by the Legis
lature for Educational and Charitable purposes
—with a capital of $1,000,000 —to which a reserve
fund of over $550,000 has since been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its franchise
was made a part of the present State Constitu
tion adopted December 2d, A. D„ 1870.
The only Lottery ever voted on and endorsed
by the people of any State.
It never scales or postpones.
Its Grand Single Number Drawings
take place monthly, and the Semi-
Annual Drawings regularly every six
months (June and December).
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO
WIN A FORTUNE. SEVENTH GRAND
DRAWING. CLASS G. IN THE ACADEMY OF
MUSIC, NEW ORLEANS. TUESDAY, July 12,
1887 —206th Monthly Drawing.
Capital Prize $150,000.
JpfiP*Notice. Tickets are Ten
Dollars only. Halves, $5.
Fifths, #2. Tenths, sl.
LIST OF PRIZES.
1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF $150,000 $150,000
1 GRAND PRIZE OF 50,000 50,000
1 GRAND PRIZE OF 20,000 20,000
2 LARGE PRIZES OF 10,000 .20,000
4 LARGE PRIZES OF 5,000 20.000
20 PRIZES OF 1,000 20,000
50 “ 500 25,000
100 “ 800 30,000
200 “ 200 40,000
500 “ 100 50,000
1,000 “ 50 50,000
APPROXIMATION' Pr.IZEB,
100 Approximation Prizes of S3OO $30,000
100 “ “ 200 20.000
100 “ 100 10,000
2,179 Prizes, amounting to $535,000
Application for rates to clubs should be made
only to the office of the Company in New Or
leans.
For furl her information w rite clearly, giving
full address. POSTAL NOTES, Express
Money Orders, or New York Exchange in ordina
ry letter. Currency by Express (at our expense)
addressed
M. A. DAUPHIN.
New Orleans, La.,
or M. A. DAUPHIN,
Washington, D. C.
Address Registered Letters to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK,
New Orleans, La.
REMEM HER JS-'Sys;
Beaure-ia <1 amt Earle, h‘* are in charge of the
,(iaw n g-, is a guarantee ot absolute mimes* aid
intrgii y that the chances are all iqual, and that
no one c n possib y divine what number will
draw a prize.
It KM MAI is FR that the payment of all
Prizes is OUA KAN it KJ> itl FOUR Nt
i urn Al. HANKS of New Orleans, and the
Tickets are signed by the President of an In
stitution, whose chartered rights are recog
nized in 'he highest' ourts; tli refore. beware
of any imitations or anonymous schemes.
If you would secure a bargain in cloth
ing now is the golden opportunity, for we
are determined to flose out this branch of
our business, and they must go within the
n“xt thirty days regardless of price.
Glenn Jones.
CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1887.
BARTOW TO THE FRONT.
AX ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING OF
HER CITIZENS WHO SAY
The Bi# Prizes are Ours.
COMMITTEE SELECTED TO MAKE A
PROPER mSFLA Y OF OUR VAST
RESOURCES AT THE PIED
MOM EXPOSITION AND
MACON STATE
FAIR.
If the meeting at the court house Tues
day is to be taken as evidence it goes
"Without saying that Rartow and her
thousands of magnificent resources will be
thoroughly exhibited at the coming Pied
mont exposition and the State fair to be
held in Macon.
A goodly assemblage of our people, of
every trade and calling, were present, all
imbued wic-h the landable spirit of pro
gressiveness—They knew the immense re
sources at our very doors, and fully real
ized the importance of taking proper
steps towards making the outside world
acquainted with them.
Speeches were inaile by several, all fiery,
short and conclusive, in every word of
which expressed undying determination.
Although no organization had been effect
ed, or plans of action agreed upon, the
meeting went directly to work to bring
order out of chaos.
Col. Thos. W. Milner was called to the
chairs and R. M. Pattillo and A. M. Wil
lingham, requested to serve as secretaries.
The meeting proceeded at once by
adopting the following resolutions.
Resolved That the following named
gentlemen be and they are hereby ap
pointed to act on the committees speci
fied and to these committees is
given full power to do all which may be
necessary to effect the purposes for which
they are appointed.
On minerals and forestry.—l). W. K.
Peacock, Robert M. Pattillo, M. G. Dob
bins, Jr., C. M. Jones, Geo. Waring, L. S.
Mumford, A. P. Silva.
On the products of the farm: Arthur
Davis, J. W. Harris, Jr., Thomas Cul
pepper, B. A. Barton, Geo. H. Aubrey,
W. L. LeConte, S. M. Roberts, A. F.
Wooley, R. I. Battle, T. J. Lumpkin,
J. G. Lowry, It. (J. Saxon, M. L. Johnson.
The following named ladies are ap
pointed and respectfully requested to
act as a committee on domestic exhibits:
Mrs. T. J. Lyon, Mrs. M. It. Akerman
Mrs. W. S. Chunn, Mrs. J. M. Yeach, Mrs.
J. It. Adair, Mrs. W. 11. Felton, Miss
Bettie Gibbons, Miss Fannie Howard;
All members of the above committees
are earnestly requested to meet at the
Opera house in Cartersville on Saturday
the 9th inst. at 12 o’clock, to organize
and proceed with their work.
After the names of the committees were
read T. Warren Akin, Esq., moved to
amend by adding the name of Dr. W. H.
Felton to the committee on products of
the farm, adopted.
The chairman announced that a few
minutes would be given to add such
gentlemen and ladies to such committees
as the meeting saw fit. Messrs. W. I.
Benham, H. ,J. McCormick, Abram
Goode, F. J. Bray, T. C. Moore, W. F.
Corbin, G. A. Fink, Peter Hammond, J.
C. Tumlin and George Veacli were added
to the committee on farm products.
Hon. L. A. Dean, state senator from this
district, was present and the meeting
called on him for a speech to which the
able gentleman replied in some well
chosen remarks touching the matter in
hand. He was anxious that Northwest
Georgia should do her level best to pre
sent in a most favorable sight her many
diversified interests and natural advan
tages. He knew that aniost satisfactory
result could be attained if the proper
efforts were made. We have got the
richest section in the whole south, a fact
that we all know, but what we want to
do now is to attract capital here, which
can be done by proper advertising which
cannot better be done than by making
an exhibit of her resources at the Pied
mont exposition to be held in Atlanta
next October. His county was heartily at
work, so was Polk, Chattooga, and
other counties. Bartow county should
by all means exert herself for she had
almost everything known to the mineral
world. Mr. Dean's remarks were highly
enteresting and were listened to with
decided interest. Mr. Dean prophesied
with such a spirit as was presented at
the meeting, that grand old Bartow
county was going to make an extra
ordinary- effort.
The following resolution was read and
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, Recognizing that there is no
conflict between the Piedmont Exposi
tion and the Georgia state fair. We cor
dially endorse and pledge our sympathy
and support to both fairs.
Capt. Tom Lyon was present and made
several terse and pithy remarks as to the
manner the committees should proceed.
It will be remembered that the Captain
is one of the vice presidents of the State
fair as also traveling in the interest of
of the Piedmont exposition, which latter
position, he said, he would not accept
until satisfied that it would not be an
tagonistic to the State fair. The Pied
mont authorities had promised him that
their energies would be lent in pushing
the State fair. It would be safe to pre
sume that nearly all the exhibits at the
Piedmont exposition will tie carried on
down to Macon. Capt. Lyon is now
traveling over this section, awakening
an interest in both fairs that was never
felt before in like institutions. He said
that northwest Georgia will have the
grandest display ever seen in the south.
On motion Hon. L. A. Dean was recog
nized as chairman of the central com
mittee for this section and Mr. R. M.
l’attillo as the member of that commit
tee from Bartow county.
Considerable time was taken up by
speeches, all full of life and displayed
much enthusiasm. The meeting was a
decided success and its inaugurative
steps will result in bringing about the
most desirable results.
NOTES,
The committees request the farmers of
the county to save from their crops of
wheat and oats now being gathered,
samples, select good bundles of oats and
wheat to be put into the county’s col
lection.
Let our agricultural clubs go to work.
They know how to work and it is ex
jiected of them.
members of the various commit
tee appointed at the meeting held
in Cartersville, July 5, will please meet
at court house next Saturday at 12
o’clock a. in. The purpose will lie to
more perfectly organize so as to begin
the work at once.
Big tales have been told about Bar
tow's great resources, and now the
world exjiects us to furnish the proof;
therefore let us make the small effort
required.
Mack Johnson has the finest brood
mare and colt that has seen in this part
of the country lately which will probably
walk off with the S3O prize at the Pied
mont.
Mr. Kirby, who farms on Col. How
ard's place, has a very fine fourteen
month-old Morgan colt which will prob
ably be entered at the Piedmont expo
sition.
AKIN TO FELTON.
Messrs. Editors: While writing a com
munication for y-our paper a week since
it occurred to me that it was strange
that Dr. Felton, our representative, a
farmer, and an honorary- vice president
of the Piedemont Exposition, should
manifest no interest and take no steps
towards arousing the ioople of the coun
ty- to the importance of making an ex
hibit of our resources at that fair, with
which his name is so prominently con
nected. I saw the citizens of a neighbor
ing county making intelligent and thor
ough preparation for an exhibition
which is to be composed in part of Bar
tow's resources, and it seemed a matter
of regret that we should fold our hands
while Floyd wins the credit which proj*er
ly belongs to Bartow.
With this thought upon my mind I
gave expression to the opinion that it
would be a bigger business for Dr. Felton
to engage in—to aid in exhibiting and il
lustrating Bartow's exhaustless and il
limitable resources to the world, than to
deprive the wives and children of our
jurors of the calico dress and striped
candy the juror was enabled to buy for
them out of his little two dollars per day.
To that opinon I still adhere.
I did not say that Dr. Felton would
“cheat” anybody; I used the word “de
prive.” Nor di J I question his motive,
nor do I care to discuss it now. It is my
habit to concede to others the sincerity I
claim for myself. It is not my habit to
assail the character and motives of those
whose only offense is the expression of an
opinon which differs from iny own. When
my neighbors and fellow-citizens differ
upon any question of public policy, while
insisting upon my right to hold and ex
press my own opinion, 1 as strongly con
tend that my differing friends are equally
honest, sincere and patriotic in their own
views. We alike desire the best result ;
we only differ as to the best means to
secure that result. Friends in and out
the jury box think there should be a re
duction of the juror’s per diem. Friends
in and out think there should be none.
Shall I imitate Dr. Felton and denounce
either party as being “robbers?” Nav!
nay! Rather let us put such uncharit
ableness aside and differ as friends and
neighbors each alike anxious and zealous
to secure and maintain the best interests
of the whole people.
Again: I said that Dr. Felton, in effect,
advertises Bartow county as a place
where no prudent or sensible man would
settle. I repeat it. Had I any warrant
for such a charge? Let us see. The lay
ing of taxes, including the fixing of the
jurors’ pay, is vested by law in the grand
juries of Bartow county. The taxes thus
laid are collected by the tax collector, an
honored and respected officer. When col
lected it is placed in the hands of the
treasurer, another officer, grown old and
venerable in the people’s service. There
that money remains until it is paid out
by order of the county commissioners.
Are they not honest and upright and
honorable men?
So it appears that the laying of the
tax money, its collection, preservation,
and expenditure is vested by law in the
hands of honorable and respected citi
zens of Bartow county, every one of
whom is under oath, and not one of them
a lawyer, tet 1 find Dr. Felton in his
communication of the 16th of June sav
ing: “Yet the fact remains that three
fourths of our tax money, by hook or
nv crook, by fair means or by foul,
means, is absorbed directly or indirectly
by the courts of the county,” etc. In
other words Dr. Felton makes proclama
tion to the world that these officers
whom I have named are so corrupt that
when fair means fail, foul mean s' are re
ported to to divert the tax money of the
people from its proper and lawful pur
poses. Who would care to settle in a
county whose officers are so corrupt?
Who would invest his money in a county
whose officers use foul means? What pru
dent man would locate in Barlow if he
believed so serious a charge? Therefore
I repeat that when Dr. Felton made this
statement in the columns of the Courant-
American he made an advertisement of
Bartow county as injurious and damag
ing to the county, among those who do
not know him, as it is unjust to the hon
ored citizens against whom it is directed.
Does not my charge stand proven ? Let
the people answer.
I neither wrote nor inspired the article
signed “Farmer on Strike.'’ Nor did I
know that such an article was to be
written; nor that it had been written un
til 1 saw it in print. Farmer simply ex
presses the views I have heard many ut
ter.
In regard to the jury box I have
only this to say, neither I nor any other
attorney has put a man |in nor kept a
man out. If any man is unjustly exclud
ed let him be put in; if any one is im
properly included let him be put out. If
any abuses exist in this matter let Dr.
Felton complain to the authorities who
have power to correct them; I havenone,
and he knows it.
Dr. Felton complains that I express
my opinion about the jurors’ pay and
says I have no right to open my mouth,
because 1 only pay a poll tax, as he is in
formed. Now suppose we don’t count
my castles in Spain. Put me down as
poor as the good doctor would like.
Now what is his argument to me
and every man as poor? It is this:
This government was formed to protect
my wealth, my fine farm, my broad acres.
I pay taxes; you pay none. Therefore, sir,
you have no right to oi>en your mouth
about who shall make the juries who may
try you for your life and liberty, nor say
one word about the jurors’ pay. If you
do I'll brand you robber! We property
holders will settle these questions to suit
ourselves. Go tie your cow to the corn
er of your cabin and let her rot. Keep her
out the woods; keep her off these eternal
unfenced hills, and shut your mouth.
That is his argument. That is the ar
gument of the man who stands upon his
inherited broad acres, and mocks and
jeers the poor.
Dr. Felton wants to know what bailiff
would quit his subordinate position and
take “pot luck" on the farm. 1 wish
to know what bailiff it is who doesn’t
labor on the farm? These worthy bailiffs
come up to the court house from differ
ent parts of the county. They are kept
on their feet all day; they are at the beck
and call of the court, sheriffs, officers and
attorneys. They are often up all night
in charge of juries. They ride night time
and day time, in summer’s heats and
winter's snows and cold. Such service
as this may seem subordinate and of no
account to Dr. Felton, but to me it seems
that these men who do their work faith
ully and well ought to be paid enough
to keep some one at work on their little
farms during their absence. Nay more:
such work as these men do is worth more
than a bare living. These men are poor,
it is true, but Dr. Felton has no right,
and no man has a right to grind the
faces of the poor.
Dr. Felton says that there is a move
ment on foot among the lawyers to place
men over sixty in the jury box, that
these old men may become interested in,
and advocates of a two dollar per diem
jury compensation. So it seems that
Dr. Felton means to tell the world that
the old men of Bartow county, the
friends of his manhood, the gray haired
pioneers, the venerable patriots of earlier
days—men before whom the young men
of to-day should stand uncovered, and
from whose lips they can well learu the
lessons of exjierience and wisdom—a re so
corrupt that for two dollars per day they
would advocate what they knew to be
wrong—for seventy-five cents a day more
than Dr. Felton proposes to pay them
they would join in robbing the county.
Who believes it of our old men? Who be
sides Dr. Felton will raise a hand to
blacken their hoary heads? I protest
against it! 1 protest against it with all
my heart. Long may these venerable
fathers abide with us. Long may God
spare them to the community, the county
and the state.
But why does Dr. Felton make
so much noise about a bill to re
duce the pay of the jurors of Bartow
county when he knows that he cannot
have such an act passed. He knows the
legislature has no more power to make
such a law, thau to pass a bill dividing
his farm among the lawyers. I say he
knows it, for L will not presume him to
be ignorant of the constitution of
his own state. The constitution de
clares “It shall be the duty of the
General Assembly, by general laws, to
prescribe the manner of fixing the com
pensation of jurors in all counties of this
state.” This the Idgislature has already
done by vesting the power to fixthecom
pensation in the grand juries of the sev
eral counties. This law is a general law.
The constitution of our state (of which
I still insist that Dr. Felton is not ig
norant) further provides that “no spec
ial law shall be enacted in any case for
which provision has been made by an ex
isting general law.” So it is plain that
inasmuch as the compensation of the ju
rors have been provided for by an exist
ing general law, Dr. Felton’s proposed
act is clearly unconstitutional, and if he
introduces it it will not and cannot be
passed. We will, therefore, have to look
to grand juries of the county in the fu
ture as in the past, to do right and ex
ecute justice. I for one am not afraid to
trust them.
Now I will not bedrawn into an unkind
personal discussion with Dr. Felton. It
is nothing to me that he took $5,000
per annum after solemnly declaring by
his vote that in his opinion he was not
entitled to so much. Nor is it of any
consequence that he urges as an excuse
that he simply took it because the bal
ance of the boys (the lawyers), voted to
do it, and took it too. It is also of no
consequence how he got his free pass
about which he seems so sensitive. I
certainly appreciate the feeling sympa
thy which impels him to condole with
me about being “drapped.” You see
the good doctor knows how it feels. Tra
dition has it that a certain little Baptist
mountain mule colt once got the “drap”
on the Doctor. Is it true? And is it true
that the good Doctor then swore that,
by hallelujah, he’d wean that colt “that
day come two years?” And is it true
that that same little Baptist mule colt
“drapped” him 1,600 feet further when
weaning day came? If these reports be
true, then I can understand why thegood
Doctor rubs me on the back and says
“lets cuss a railroad— did you get drap
ped?” Rub your own back, Doctor, if
you please. I haven't been “drapped”
for l hold that pass still. It isn’t exact
ly free, but if it makes you feel comfort
able to call it so, and foam at the mouth
like old Brer Babbit chewing calamus
root, why foam away, old friend. Hide on
that free pass of yours just as much as
you please. Bless your amiable old soul,
uobody’s mad with you about it. Go up
and down the line and see your friends
and spread your sweetness, you old hur
rah darling, you.
1 am sure that no one has made “a
fling” at your private affairs. Did any
one ever receive any gratitude, or help, or
money, by aiding you in anything?
Tire mistake you make, my old friend,
iies here: Justus soon as any one men
tions your name and expresses a differ
ence of opinion you lose that sweet Chris
tian temper of you is. You are like a
mad bull charging at a two inch square
piece of red cloth. And you’ve really
grown so that it is not safe to pull out
a red handkerchief in your neighborhood.
The people have learned this little pe
culiarity of yours very thoroughly by
this time, and I suspect some waggish
young farmer waved his little red hand
kerchief j ust to see you charge the law
yers. Like most farmer boys he was
doubtless ah full of agility as fun, and
he is now up a neighboring simmon
tree laughing his little fool self half to
death as he watches you paw with the
left foot and bellow “robbery” and lift
high the dust in old Tennessee road with
your right, and hone-and hone-and hone.
Look here old man, its about time of life
for you to quit such foolishness. Home
day you’ll “drap” yourself into a ditch
“under the fence” from which you will
never be pulled out; aiul how sad ’twill
make me feel to have to write between
your horns—“ Died of too much charging
the little boys’ red flags.”
Now in regard to your private business
I have only to say that I hope it is pros
perous. I pray God to give you an
amiable, Christian spirit; a charitable
heart; a mind to conceive not ill, but
good of your neighbors and friends; a
tongue to say something well of them—
before they die; an eye to see something
worth a patriot’s praise and pride in
grand old Bartow. Nor shall I forget
that it is my duty to pray for you.
Let your thoughts no longer brood up
on the past, Perhaps it was a dispensa
tion of an all good and wise Providence
which deprived you of your congression
al salary (Mark, I say “ deprived” not
“cheated.”) Doubtless God meant to
bring you home that you might s{>end
your remaining years in inculcating the
doctrine of peace, and good will, and
charity mong the scenes of your earlier
manhood.
Yield cheerfully, gracefully, and rever
ontly to ths will of the people and of God.
Ho shall this cross of disappointed ambi
tion which I fear is now embittering your
heart, become the weight, which, though
it bruises, shall yet press out the perfume
of sweetness, and love, and peace and
good will to all mankind.
I begged you to come out to the meet
ing last Tuesday and help do something
for old Bartow. You stayed away. I
hoped you would come and shed some
of your eloquence and fifty dollars for
her glory. Instead you have freely shed
fifty gallons of the Courant-American's
ink abusing your friends.
Now come out to the tabernacle meet
ing in Heptember. Of our twenty odd
lawyers nearly all are members of the
church. Our venerable sheriff and his
worthy deputy are also members; our
jury commissioners who select the jurors;
our grand jurors who lay the taxes; our
county commissioners who direct how
the money shall be paid out; our old men
over sixty whom you think would advo
cate a wrong if they were paid to do so;
our young jurors who make the verdicts
in these days, which you say are unjust—
are nearly all, 1 am happy to say, worthy
and acceptable members of some branch
of the Church of Christ.
We will all lie there. Come out and
dwell awhile where the spirit of love and
Christian charity abides, tome out, I
think it will do you good.
The rancorous temper in which you
write is most unworthy your office
of minister of the gospel of peace
and love. But I forbear to chide
you. The character of each of us is
known by all men, and justice will be done
here and hereafter. I do not chide, nay
I even forgive you. I go farther and
largly excuse you, knowing that natural
feeling of anger which you experience at
any disappointment. But you must
fight your own nature on this point.
Buckle on the whole armor. I, your old
pupil, remind you of the quotation, as
he heard you make it to a fellow scholar
years ago. “Better is he who ruleth him
self than he who taketh acity.” It pains
me that now, after so many years, the
pupil must remind the venerable pre
ceptor that “better is he who ruleth him
self thau he who taketh Washington
City.
Come to the tabernacle meeting and
let us, Dr. Felton, commissioners, jurors,
sheriffs, bailiffs, lawyers, and all. with
hearts tilled with gratitude to God, and
love for each other cry aloud. “Glory to
God in the highest. I‘eaceon Earth, good
will to men.'” Doctor will you come?
Ta! ta! T. Warren Akin.
July 4th,1887.
l)r. Felton and the Lawyers.
Editors Courant-Ame rican : Dr. Fel
ton has given notice of a local bill to
reduce the pay of jurors in Bartow coun
ty. This notice bus excited discussion
and Dr. Felton in his reply last week
fiercely assails the lawyers, jury commis
sioners, jurors, sheriff's and bailiff's and
indeed all who for several years have
been engaged in any duty in connection
with the courts. The question of the
compensation of jurors is trifling in view
of his wholesale indictment against so
many people. In fact, the pay of jurors
is beyond the reach of local legislation.
The people by the Constitution have
directed the legislature, not lix it, but to
provide by general law for fixing it in all
the counties. The legislature has done
so, and Dr. Felton will have to proceed
by general bill to change the law or carry
his local complaint before the grand
jury of Bartow county. Ho the Doctor's
local bill, devised in ignorance of the
constitution drops out of sight and
leaves nothing at issue except his fierce
and sweeping arraignment of the officers,
jurors and lawyers of Bartow county.
Did the Doctor in his anger at Mr.
Akin for presuming to criticise his un
constitutional local bill overlook the
purport of his attack? The code makes
it the duty of the first grand jury at the
fall term to fix the compensation of
jurors for the next year. The next sec
tion requires the judge to give them this
duty in charge.
They take an oath “diligently to in
quire and true presentment make of all
such matters and things as shall be
given them in charge.” Different grand
juries have annually for a number of
years under this oath “presentment
muds that the compensation of jurors
for the next year be fixed at $2,00 per
day. The Doctor’s charge is that all
the grand jurors have been gu,i,lty of
“virtual robbery” of “poor women and
children ■ “to grant $2,00 per day to a
favored few” and thereby impoverished
18,000 inhabitants of Bartow county,
“that a swarm of lawyers may keep a
small standing army around the court
house watching and waiting the law’s
delay. ’ That is his charge. Lcd him
make it good against the grand inquest
of the county he represents mm that has
delighted to honor him.
Men over 60 years of age are not only
exempt from jury duty but incompetent
as the law stands. Mr. Foute proposes
to make them competent leaving them
still exempt, but allow them to serve if
able and willing. The Doctor charges
this to be a movement by the attorneys
to subserve the old men by interesting
them in the $2,00 per day and making
them its advocates. If these old patiarehs
are so venal as to be thus corrupted, the
lawyers have not susjiected it, and it re
mained for one of their own member to
first cast this reproach upon their gray
hairs.
The Doctor says that when the juries
served without compensation “right and
justice prevailed and the county was not
overrun by pettyfogging shysters.”
What can be mean except to assert that
right and justice does not now prevail
and the county is now overrun by petty
fogging shysters?”
When the juries served without pay
appeals to special juries were allowed, the
qualifications for jurors were the same
required of members of the legislature
to-wit, citizenship and residence, and the
burdens of jury duty were equalized by
requiring the service of all. Now the
people have raised the standard of eligi
bility to a seat in the jury box far above
that required for a seat in the legislature,
and declared that none but the upright
and intelligent shall pass upon their
rights in court. The introduction of
this constitutional provision was a wise
and long step in the direction of cer
tainty in judicial inquiry. Our govern
ment is not a theocracy and we have no
“priest to stand up with Urim and Thur
mine,” and give infallible judgment, and
all we can do is to require that those who
do give judgment shall have uprightness
and intelligence.
The private virtues and judicial at
tainments of Amos T. Akermun made
him illustrious and won the admiration of
his political opponents. 1f he was, as is un
derstood, the author of this provision, it
should immortalize him.
A part only being thus required to do
all the jury duty the people have directed
the burden to be equalized by providing
for their compensation. It could be done
no other way, and it would seem that the
high qualities the constitution requires
for this ervice ought to command at
least half as much as is paid legislators
for less onerous labors.
According to the doctor however this
great improvement in the jury system
has proved futile, the people find no pro
tection in the uprightness and intelligence
of the jurors against the arts of the shys
ters, justice no longer prevails
juries under their oaths do not
“Well and truly try each cause submitted
and a true verdict give to the best of their
skill and knowledge” but are “overrun by
pettyfoging shysters.” Ifthis betrue we
hove indeed fallen upon evil times!
And the only remedy the doctor's skill can
suggest amid this epidemic of corruption
for the cure of ahishonestjuror is to take
away 75 cents of hisperdiein. This he pre
scribes to restore wealth to the farmers
and virtue to the juries sufficient to resist
and escape the arts of the shysters! Wheth
er this is a honuepathio dose of alopathic
medicine or the reverse, it- ought to be
patented and the trade mark should bo
“Rough on Hhysters”
The doctor also assails the jury com
missioners because lie says he is informed
that 540 out of 2,500 are in the box.
The Constitution requires the legislature
to provide by law for the selection of up
right and intelligent juries.
The legislature lias dirceeted thejudgeto
appoint six discreet persons to discharge
this duty. Neither the Constitution nor
the law requires that all intelligent and
upright persons should be put in the box
or any particular number or portion of
them. It does require that all who nre
put in shall be. upright and intelligent.
The questions they decide is not, “Have
we gotten all who are competent?” The
question is, are all that we have “gotten
competent?”
The Constitution requiresthat positive
character for uprightness and intelligence
shall be known to the commissioners, all
of them. If unknown are only negatively
known he is not to be put in. D guess
work is to be indulged in this provision
of the constitution is worthless.
The defendent about to be put on
trial for his life has no interest m the
question as to how many or whether nil
competent persons Eire in the box 01 not.
His interest, the highest anv one can
have all centers in the question as to
whether or not the men about to pass be
tween him and the State are all upright
and intelligent. If the jury cominissiou-
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ers have put no others upon him and
: have provided a sufficient number of
! jurors for the service of the court
i their duty is discharged, and no
i one has any more right to complain that
he is not in the jury box than he has to
complain that he lias not been elected to
office or selected for other public trusts.
Other provisions of law are made to
protect the party on trial against known
bias or prejudice, and in the sujierior
court in addition to this premptory chal
lengers are allowed to guard the fairness
of the trial against unknown but sus
pected influences which sometimes secret
ly jierhapt unconsciously warp the
judgment of jurors.
This wise provision it is now proposed
to extend to the city court by increasing
the number intpaunelled to 18 so that
like protection may there, but the
doctor calls it a “gouge" at the pockets
of taxpayers and farmers made by shys
ters, when some poor farmers case is as
likely to be on trial as another's.
1 admit the poverty of farmers, the
scarcity of money and the decliine of ag
ricultural interests, but saddle the blame
on something probable or plausible; the
financial system of the county, the public
debt, tariff, revenue, simulation in trade
centers monopolies or bunks and railroads
it you will not wait on the jury system
which comes to us from the time of
Alfred the great hoary wit h age, having
an authentic history ofa thousand years,
us the great and chief bulwark of English
and American liberty. Especially do
not ask us to believe that six jury com
missioners all but one perhaps are farmers
have selected 540 ciflxeng mostly farmers
also as upright and intelligent jhtsous
and put them upon us who are not to lie
trusted on their oaths but under the in
fluence and control of “pettyfogging
shysters" are guilty of “virtual robbery”
and still further tax our credulity with
the virtues of the remedy proposed. But
the art of advertising patent medicines,
consists in magnifying the horrors of the
disease in order to enhance the alleged vir
tues of the remedy.
I have no space to defend lawyers, I
deal only with this terrible attack on the
integrity of the juries. 1 want us to ap
preciate that under the constitution a
place in the jury boy is now an office of
public trust requiring high qualifications
for the discharge of solemn duties, and
not a mere privilege for distribution by
the jury commissioners among the jieople.
This will leave us our faith in the up
rightness and intelligence of the juries
mid we can safely trust them to protect
us from the shysters.
It is not quite dear from the doctor’s
letter whether lje intended to get in Ihh
“halelnjah lick" on Holomon or Heho
boam. If on the fornier I agree wjth him
that “Holomon in all his glory
was not arrayed like one of these,” o l ' ag
for that mutter any of them.
if you please this much-married orient'd
king receiving t he queen ofHheba in Htans
sell s old caved-in hut, Graham’s thread
bare coat and the lieeless hose and but
tonless shirt of some bachelor shvster-
Well might the queen exclaim ‘ Behohl the
half was not told me.’ As for Behobonm,
if the old men of Israel who stood up
with his father could be made interested
advocates of “virtual robbery” for $2 pel*
day, ltehoboam ought to havediustised
them with scorpions.
XXX
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For Sale,
a tew bushels of seed wheat that harvested
thirty-two bushel.* to lie* ikt. eituout cominer*
ial fertill zers. Chas. H, Smith.
•>t.
Fine Mule for sale,
apply to R. M. Pattillo,
Small Items Corralled.
H. J. McCormick,
County Survej'or,
P. O. Stilesboro, Ga.
It. E. Cason, resident dentist, office over
Bible's Drug .Store, Carters ville, Ga.
A big lot of new /roods will arrive to-niorrow
at the Ten Cent Store. Go and si* them by all
means.
Pomp Johnson has employed William Johnson,
an expert barber, to take char /re of his shop.
The best and most polite attention and satis
factory work is guaranteed. Give him a trial.
The city council met Tuesday afternoon and
the regular routine of business was carried out.
The marshall reported being collected for
dog tax. and the tax receiver instructed to close
his books promptly on the loth inst, and enter
up double tax on those that fail ta give in their
property. This is final.
The St. James Hotel has gone Into the hands of
the well known hotel man, Maj. L. C. Hoss, who
will run it for all it’s worth. His former record
was a good one, and no doubt he will eclipse it.
When we went to press last week we failed to
make the announcement that The Uocbant-
Amebican would come out a half-sheet this week.
It is an old established custom that the 4th of
July and Christmas are to be celebrated by the
country press.
A valise was taken from the depot sitting
room, for the return of which a liberal reward
will l.e paid by its owner, Mr. Bob Bradford.
Miss Estelle Shepherd came up from Atlanta
last Saturday to spend the summer with rela
fttives here.
Miss Nena Mitchell, of Atlanta, will si>end
several weeks In Cartcrsville, to the delight of her
many friends here.
Mr. H. C. Ramsaur and family, are in town,
and will probably spend the summer here. Their
many friends here always have a warm welcome
for them.
Miss Agnes M a re-returned from Selma yester
day, to the gratification other numerous frieuds.
Mrs. J. A. Baker has been quite sick for several
da,\ s, but it it will lie a source of much pleasure
to her many friends to know that she is now
convalescent.
Cartersville will have more visitors this sum
mer than for several seasons past.
Charlie Moon Meets With a Serious
Accident.
Charlie Moon happened to a sad accident, near
Attalla, Ain., last Monday morning. He rep
resents the clothing house of Edwin Bates & Cos.,
and a few days a/co commenced to drum his ter
ritory for the fall trade when the accident oocured.
He was on his way from Attalla to Guntersville.
He had engaged a conveyance and driver to car
ry himself und baggage to the latter point.
They had only gone about two miles when the
team became unmanugable, going down a hill,
and ran away. Mr. Moon was thrown from the
wagon, the fall breaking the femoral or thigh
bone, of his left leg, the driver escaping unhurt.
Assistance was soon summoned, a physician sent
for,and the broken limb set. He was then carried
to Attalla, where his sufferings were_administered
to by kind and gentle hands, tmtii in the after
noon, when he was placed upon the train on the
A. G. S. R. R., in the care of two clever men, who
brought him to Chattanooga. There he was met
by his brother Joe M. Moon and Dr. J. T. Shep
herd, whom he had telegraphed, and a couple of
friends, who transferred him to the Western A
Atlantic train, and reached home about twelve
o’clock that night. He was met at the train by
a number of friends who conveyed him to his
residence, where he was made as comfortable as
possible, until next morning, when Drs. Baker
and Hamiter re-set the broken limb.
Though Mr. Moon’s sufferings have been intense,
he has born them heorically. He is now resting
more comfortably, und doing as well as could be
expected, and his physicians say his recovery
will be as rapid as possible under the circum
stances.
We have still a large line of Padan
Bro.’s Celebrated Shoes. Come and try
them, ladies, and you will want no others,
at Montgomery’s.