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SUBSCRIPTION. The Couiivxt-American is Pouosibd Weekly in the Interest ok Bartow County, Devoted Mainly to Local News, and Thinks it uas a Bight to Expect an Undivided County Patron age. mn Cl Cabtnmvillk uoukawt, Established ISW j consolidated MS7. , I — rlU. DJ Caktkusvillk American, ** n* 3 -* DRUGS! DRUGS! j. A WiKLE & CO., (SUCCESSORS TO D. W. CURRY.) HT# now in store the best selected, most complete and varied stock of Drugs, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Glass, Potty, Perfumes, Etc. IN NORTH GEORGIA. Come to see ns, examine good* and get prices. Physicians Prescriptions filled with the greatest care day and night by a license I pharmacist. NIT STANDAUD OIL OOIVErP-LT’OT Ch.as. A. Wilslo, Manager. ehlO-ly —:CO TO:— RICHARD L. JONES FOE Fresh Groceries, An I erervtliinir trood f,>r the table. FRESH EGGS and CHICKENS, .1 Elt'EY BUTTER, < REA VI <;|| KESK,Mt,}ETABLES, GARDEN SEEDS, TENNESSEE SAUSAGES FRESH MEAL ■“^Sm’on ™ te S.y ■ afreidy k of FAMILY GROCERIES and GEN ERAL MEROR- A N DISK, I have rente Ia storage house just above raj whero I keep aiway on hand a good supply of Hay, Corn, Oats, Cotton Seed, Bran and Meal, ,ha*. I can furni h youat the LOWEST FIGURES. I deliver goods to any part of the city free ot < hurge. Soliciting your patronage and promising to treat you well, I am yours truly, RICHARD L. JONES. feh24-ly West Main Street , Cartersville, Ga. Peacock & Veal I Ist K II R NITURE (NORTH GEORGIA FURNITURE HOUSE.) THE CHEAPEST AS WELL AS THE FINEST Parlor and Bed Room Suits in this section. WE STILL CLAIM TO SELL BETTER MONEY Than Anyother House in this Section. As space forbids mentioning everything, v;e will only enumerate a few. We have in stock and to arrive FINKST PARLOR FURNITURE,, SUBSTANTIAL BED ROOM FURNITURR, ROCKING CIIAIRS, WARDROBES, BABY CARRIAGES at any Price, MATTINGS, RUGS, CAR PUTS, Etc. LADIES, SEE OUR PAPER, of which we have the latest and most unique design. We Guarantee Prices and Goods. Respectfully, PEACOCK <& VEAL, CARTERSVILLE, A. R. H. JONES & SONS’ MANUF ACTURING COMP A NY, CAKTERSVILLE. ROME AND STAMP CREEK, GA. —Manufacturers of and Dealers in— BUGGIES, CARRIAGES WAGONS & MATERIAL Geoigia ' SSaS2S2SaSHSHSHSHSHSHS2SSS2SHS2SZSHSZScLS 2SESESSSZSZSZS2SHSr!SZSi!S2S ALL WORK FULLY GUARANTEED. We can duplicate the work of any first-class manu factory in the country in Price, duality and Finish. We acknowledge no superior in the Carriage Business. €an build any style of vehicle desired; only the very best material used. McCanless’ Baling Press The cut represents the Hand-Power. Can Y>e operate 1 by three hands. Turns out J* BTO 10 BALES PER HOUR. I 1 size of hales 18x24 by 36 inches. Weight Mill of tales from 100 to 150 pounds. | lij 1 PRICE OTSTLY SSO. 1 1 \ McCanless & Cos., j Vj|i^ Tried and recommended by J. H. Gil reath, J. W. Gray, W. O. Barber and others Justice Court Blanks, Of all kinds are to be found at THE COTTRAXTT-AMERICAN OFFICE THE COUKANT-AMERICAN. 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- ADVERTISEMENTS. , The Courant-Amertcan is the only Paper Published in one of tite Best Counties in North Georgia. Its Cir culation IS SECOND TO NONE OF ITS CIAS Reasonable Rates on Applicat ion $ 1.50 Per Annum—sc. a Copy. 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 — 1 ♦ t 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.