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CAKTEKNVILLK, GEORGIA.
Official Orian of Bartow County.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1887.
Thr Georgia convict system as it now
exists, is doomed.
Work was commenced on a $150,000
hotel in Rome, Tuesday.
A South wkst Georgia editor has
named his baby for Bill Glenn,thevouth
ful and distinguished representative from
Whitfield.
A half dozen determined men, like
Captain Ed Cox and his son, of Atlanta,
are all the force needed in quelling a ne
gro mob like that of Decatur.
The legislature seems to be rather
chary in handling the Glenn bill. The
people of Georgia are, however, not very
chary in condemning its refusalin taking
a firm and positive hold on the bill.
The country weeklies are doing an
immense amount of fr**c advertising for
the two great state fairs. W ill the mer
chants of Atlanta and Macon respond
equally as liberal in giving out fall ad
vertisements ?
Our regular annual Indiaan war has
ju-t l**en closed, and the country has suc
cessfully captured another Indian, Mr.
Colorow, by name, who will hereafter be
found at his reservation in Colorado.
The army may now breathe easier and
proceed to draw its wages with its usual
degree of regularity.
The darkies are very unfortunate
b.-ings and easily managed in the hands
of designing men, and when once wrought
up with frenzy, are terrible. The colored
editor holds a responsible position and
should carefully weigh his words in giv
ing advice to such a dangerous element.
If let alone they make good workmen,
and as such are always appreciated.
The committee investigating the luna
tic asylum has failed as yet to find any
thing wrong with its management. Dr.
Kenan, former member of the physi
cian’s board at the asylum, and who is
the cause of the present investigation,
js charged by Mrs. E. Cox, a patient,
with unbecoming conduct. The asylum
authorities demand an open door inves
tigation, but the committee does not
grant it.
Last Friday the House of representa
tives adopted ureHOhition declaring that
the co-education of the races is contrary
to the intent of the Constitution, and
instructing the Governor not to draw
his warrant in favor of the Atlanta
University for the State's annual appro
priation of SB,OOO until satisfactory as
surance is given that it shall be applied
exclusively for the education of colored
children. This destroys the Glenn Bill,
which makes criminal the co-education
of white and colored children.
The negro editors of the south are
largely responsible for the riot at Deca
tur the other day. It is said that two of
them in Atlanta were much exercised the
other night in inciting the darkies to
mischief. Their elforts in deluding their
poor weak brothers into the belief that
this is not a white man’s country should
be discountenanced by the better class
of darkies. Some bright morning a
great, deep color line is going to be
drawn in the south, the color of which
will be black, very black, and the colored
folks will enter largely into its construc
tion. This is a white man’s country
and no mistake about it.
Chattanooga is raising a howl over
the unjust discrimination of the railroad
pool. Merchandise shipped from the
Eastern markets is laid down at Nash
ville and Memphis at much lower figures
than they are laid down in Chattanooga
although the goods pass through Chatta
nooga going several hundred miles further
The Times,always on the lookout for the
city’s interest first discovered the great
discrimination and has aroused the mer
chants und jieople to action. The inter
state commerce law is a dead letter in
the estimation of the Times, und it is
going to know the reason why the law is
not properly carried out so far us Chat
tanooga is concerned.
How They Huy Cotton in Rome.
The Rome Bulletin is still exposing
Ihe scheme of the Rome cotton buyers.
The truth is the Bulletin is aware of the
fact that Rome’s prestige as a cdtton
market is fast passing away. It knows
that the farmers ot the surrounding
country have caught onto the scheme
of fleecing them. They have found out
that the fancy figures put on a few bales
of extra good cotton is only intended as
an advertisement of that market. The
cotton buyers can very easily afford to
buy up a few bales at a premium and
then scoop in the balance of the crop at
no better figures than are offered else
where. What they allow over the actual
worth of the cotton they appropriate it
to their own use again by entering up
against the seller a long column of ware
house charges, etc.
The Bulletin of Monday thus gives
away one of the long established and
paying schemes of the buyers:
Last season the cotton exchange made
the rule that cotton buyers could not
bid less than one-eighth of a cent. Now
say Jones brings in cotton for sale. The
margin is eight and one-eighth of a cent.
The first buyer cuts the cotton and sam
ples and bids eight cents. The next
buyer cannot say a sixteenth. By this
you see that one-eighth of a cent is lost
to the farmer. He should have had eight
and one-eighth, and only receives eight
cents. The eighth of a cent on a bale of
cotton amounts to sixt.v-two and a half
cents on the bale, ten bales six dollars
and a half. This would be $(15,000 upon
100,000 bales of cotton.
Sixty-five thousand dollars actually
wrenched from the hard earnings of
farmers who are inclined to favor the
Rome market with their cotton ! Think
of it farmers, and judge for yourselves if
you can afford to neglect your own
home markets to bolster up a scheming
set of cotton buyers.
Bear tracks have been seen near Val
dosta in the past few week, and Charlie
l'endleton, of the Times, says no effort
has Is'en made to overhaul the monster.
It is a large one and would afford an im
mense amount of fun for a lot of hunters
and a pack of hounds.
Bud Veal, the slayer of C. 1). Horn, in
the Kimball House a few weeks ago, has
1 eeu placed under a SIO,OOO bond, and
now at his home at .Stone Mountain.
DECATUR DARKIES.
THEY ENGAGE IX A BLOODY RIOT
IN WHICH THREE ARE KILLED.
j Regular Mob on an EifursionTrain—How
the Difficulty Started—The Riot in
a Railroad Cut—lncident* of
the Affray.
Decatur, a few miles from Atlanta, was
the scene of a terrible riot Saturday
afternoon. The darkies from the sur
rounding country had assembled at the
tabernacle, the event being a Sunday
school celebration.
After dinner Bailiff Rogers of Decatur
went with some other persous to hear
the negroes sing, and sat down under an
ouk tree near the tabernacle.
Pretty soon some of the negroes came
up and said that there was a drunken
man in tabernacle, brandishing a pistol
over his head, and they wanted him ar
rested. Mr. Rogers went with the negroes
und found Marshal Tobe Hurst.
The marshal said to the negroes:
“Do you want him arrested, or just
taken out?’’
“Take him out; but arrest him if nec
essary.”
Hurst and Rogers then went into the
tabernacle and the negro, Wesley Hubert,
was pointed out to them. He had slip
ped the pistol into his pocket when they
took hold of him, one by each arm.
Rogers quickly ran his hand into the
negro's pocket and drew out the pistol.
Hubert felt for his pistol, and finding
that Rogers had taken it, went out quietly
and the officers got him as far as the
railroad, on the way to the calaboose.
By that time there was a crowd of ne
groes around them.
Elias Burdett, a negro who works at
the cemetery, had been trying to restrain
the Goldsmith negroes, who wanted to
rescue Hubert,and was a little way from
the crowd holding .lack Goldsmith, who
had two rocks. One of the rocks drop
ped on Elias' toe, and he finally succeeded
in getting the other one away from .Tack.
Henry Goldsmith said: “By G —d,
we’ll see that he don’t arrest him for
nothing.”
.Tim Butler, u Decatur negro, said:
“That’s wrong, Henry, we should pro
tect our people here. We have asked the
marshal to protect us, and we ought to
protect him.”
Some negro in the crowd said: “Oh,
by G —<l, you are afraid of the white
folks anyhow.”
The crowd was thick around the mar
shal and bailiff, and Henry Goldsmith
was pulling his hand out of his coat.
Butler said to him, “There’s no use of
this, he has been violating the law and
cursing before our women. If any man
was to behave as this man lias before
my wife, I would knock him down."
Henry suid: “Oh, yes, but you are
afraid of the white folks."
“I ain’t afraid of anybody,but I think
it is right that he should be arrested and
carried on.”
Another negro was cursing and said:
“It’s no use for the white people to come
down on our ground and try to take pos
session.”
“Carry him on, Mr. Rogers,” said But
ler, “1 think it is perfectly right that he
should be locked up; he has violated the
law and disturbed our Sunday-school
celebration.”
•Inst, then some black man with a white
derby caught hold qf Hubert to pull him
away from the officers.
“Don’t turn him loose, break his arm,’
said some one; but the officers were pow
erless against the crowd and Hubert was
torn from them.
Then Marshal Hurst sent Rogers off
to swear out a warrant.
When the bailiff returned with the war
rant, Sheriff Austin, Deputy Marshal
Tom drivers and Mr. Jack Lankford
came with him, and they, with Marshal
Hurst, followed the negro, and were at
tempting to arrest Hubert when Mr. l'at
tillo rail down and joined them. They
overtook the negroes at the far end of
the cut.
MR. PATTILLO S VERSION.
Mr. W. F. Pattillo gives the clearest
account of the tragedy. He said:
“My connection with it began almost
at the time of the tragedy. I live right
on the front of the railroad and I was
sitting on my front porch. 1 noticed the
marshal, sheriff, assistant marshal and
bailiff scuffling with three or four ne
groes. I saw that they were needing help,
und they were calling for help at the
time. 1 ran immediately down, carrying
my pistol with me. The negroes had
gotten loose from them and were going
up the railroad towards the cut. About
the time I came up the officers started in
pursuit of them again, myself with them,
and overtook them at the far end of the
cut. The bailiff had a warrant for Wes
ley Hubert, and when we overtook them
he told Hubert to surrender, because he
had a warrant for him and did not want
any trouble. He swore he “would cut
any d—d man that would put his hand
on him.” There were two negroes walk
ing by his side, and they had pistols
flourishing them and swearing that they
would shoot the first man who touched
him. Sheriff Austin went up and laid his
hand on Wesley Hubert and asked him
to put up the knife. He made a dash at
Austin with the knife. He raised his
hand to make another cut, and I raised
a walking stick and struck him on the
wrist with all my power. My intention
was to break his arm and make him drop
his knife. The stick cracked and the blow
did not seem to have any effect on his
arm. Immediately afterwards a pistol
fired a little in the rear of me, and Hook
ed over my shoulder and saw the smoke
rise from a pistol in the hands of this
yellow negro said to be named Pritchett.
From that instant the firing became so
thick and fast that it was hard to tell
who tired. We were all on the south side
of the railroad. The marshal and sher
iff and the assistant marshal were on the
east of the negroes, and they seemed to
be all firing. 1 began to fire at the yel
low negro from the north side of the
railroad. I fired four shots, and remem
bering that l had but one shot, I thought
I would save that for the final emergency.
I discovered at the same time that my
comrades had all fired out. I then fired
at the yellow negro, who had snapjied
his pistol at the sheriff after firing a num
ber of times. When I fired my last shot
he ran into the woods. My attention
was then turned to the wounded. As I
started to go to Marshal Hurst, who was
lying on the ground, 1 passed Assistant
Marshal Olivers, who told me he was
shot. I got hold of him and said,
“Tom, are you hurt much?” and pulled
oj>en his coat and saw- the blood and
said, “if you can walk, go right home. I
called to Mr. Rogers, the bailiff, and said,
“please get somebody and go home with
Mr. Olivers, and I will look after Hurst.”
Mr. Olivers said at the same time, “Look
after Tobe, he is worse hurt than I am.”
Going to Hurst I picked him up on my
atm and saw that he was in a dying con
dition. He never spoke, and died within
six or eight minutes. The negro Hubert
ran off for about one hundred and fifty
yards and fell and died. There were two
negroes with Hubert, and both of them
were filing. My attention was attracted
to the yellow negro. This black negro
had gotten into the woods. As soon as
we got the dead and wounded cared for
we went in search through the woods. 1
walked with some friends about a mile
after them, and we saw tracks where
they had been running.
Mr. Pattillo says that the officers were
quietly trying to make the arrest and
to avoid a difficulty. Though there was
some bad shooting, he says it is impossi
ble for men to exhibit morecourage than
Sheriff Austin, Tom Olivers and Marshal
Hurst, especially Hurst.
THE HHEHIKK’h PART IN THE TRAGEDY.
Sheriff Austin gives a graphic descrip
tion of a thrilling scene during the trag
edy. It was the duel between himself
and the yellow negro, supposed to be
I'ritehett. Immediately after the first
shot Mr. Austin wheeled on the desperate
murderer of Hurst. The negro had re
treated to a distance of about ten steps
and faced the sheriff. Both men were
cool and both were desperate. With des
perate aim they fired at each other, shot
answering shot, until their pistols were
empty. The negro's pistol snapped,
and the sheriff knew it was empty, and
sprang after him.
The flight oi their cool and desperate
leader dismayed t In* black crowd and
they scattered in all directions.
Pritchett’s characteristics.
If Pritchett was really the murderer he
acted very deliberately after the shoot
ing as well as during the fnsilade. It is
said that before the fight he went to the
two Goldsmith negroes, who were in the
crowd, and returned with a pistol, and
with that opened fire.
Mr. Sid Phelan, for w hom Brack Pritch
ett worked, says he would have acted in
just about the manner described, as he
is a cool-headed darkey. Saturday mor
ning he had gone to the celebration dress
ed out in his Sunday best. Saturday
evening about six o'clock, some time
after the tragedy, he returned to his
home as self-possessed as a man could lie.
He had met some one on the road with
his baby in a baby carriage and Mr.
Phelan saw him rolling the carriage
along the road with the most utmost
unconcern. He went on to his house,
changed his clothes, left for unknown
parts, and when, at ten o’clock, the offi
cers called to arrest him, he was beyond
their reach. Mr. Phelan says Pritch
ett is a negro who does not need whiskey
to nerve him up, and that if he w anted
to go into a row he would wade in as
deliberately and as coolly as lie would
go into a field to cut wheat.
Since his disappearance Saturday
night nothing has been seen of Pritch
ett. A crowd was at Mr. Phelan's farm
last night looking for him, but they went
away disapointed. Pritchett has a w ife
and two children.
description of the murderer.
Brack Pritchett, the supposed mur
derer of Hurst, is a stout, ginger-cake
colored negro who weighs 160 or 170
pounds. He has recently shaved off his
whiskers and had his hair cut close. He
was aeustomed to wear small side whis
kers. He has a way of looking up at a
person when he talks, and has keen,
black eyes. He is very cool in his man
ner, but not a man to be run over. He
is described as a man who would have
gone through such a tragedy without
the stimulus of whiskey. He nearly al
ways carried a pistol. It was nickel
plated, and from the description must
have been a five-shot Smith & Wesson.
IS THERE ANOTHER DEAD NEGRO?
Mr. B. 11. Vaugn heard a report that
Sunday afternoon four negroes were
walking along the road near Decatur,
driving a one-horse wagon, in which
there was a negro, supposed to be dead
or badly wounded. They had him cov
ered up. It is thought that one of the
shots from Austin’s or Pacillo's pistol
may have hit its mark.
THE INQUEST.
The inquest over the body of the dead
marshal was begun Saturday night and
concluded at the court house about 12
o’clock Sunday. The testimony devel
oped the facts as given in this -account.
The jury returned a verdict that J. E.
Hurst came to his death from a pistol
fired by unknown negroes, and that
Jack Goldsmith, Henry Goldsmith, Sandy
Harris, et al., were accessory before the
fact, and that said killing was murder.
The marshals funeral occured from the
Presbyterian church at three o’clock
Sunday afternoon and was largely at
tended. The dead marshal was an ex
cellent young man, courageous, intelli
gent and courteous to everyone.
MR. UIIIVERS’ CONDITION.
Mr. Tom drivers’ wound was made by
a, ball w hich entered at the right nipple
and came out near the left. His left
lung is pierced, and he has some fever
this morning. His physicians are appre
hensive, but quietly wait development.
THE EIGHTEENTH GEORGIA.
The Survivors Have a Fine Time at
Acwortli.
The sixth annual reunion of the 18th
Ga. confederate regiment met at Ac
worth last Friday, and the day was
most pleasantly spent in speech-making
arid talking over the old times of the
troublous days of the war. Among the
many papers read before the veterans
and their friends were memorials of Gen.
Wofford and Capt. Jno. F. Hardin,
which will be published by us next week.
The people of Acwortli covered them
selves with glory and provided a dinner
that would have pleased the gods. Lieu
tenant Colonel F. M. Ford, of this place,
was elected president, while Mr. George
IV*. Maddox will continue to act as the
efficient secretary of the association.
Carters ville was selected as the next place
of meeting. The following members of
the old regiment were present :
H \V Bell, II K Miller, L Lemon, M M
Phillips, W G Rogers, W S Stanseli, H W
Gregg, C C Phillips, W J Tanner, 1* C
Priest, J G Dorsey, John Brown, Wil
liam liight, John W Garrison, Jim Mc-
Lain, John McLain, James B Stancell,
James Abnsr, George S Hull, George A
Smith, G L Graves, T J Hard age, It S
Tdompsou, Henry Hause, T J Hilton, E
J Roach, B F Thompson, W F Brown, J
A Stewart, J N Babb, Joseph McEver,
J P Durham, B It Whftfield, A J Nall.\,
A N Boring, William Byers, C W Pyron,
J B O’Neil, G S Owen, Grogan House, J
M Tanner, W M McKee, W P Stanley,
J W Almand, Sr., T A Boring, It Hol
lingsworth, A M Anchors, E T Anchors,
E A Osburn, F S Treadwell, W E Tread
well, J N Williams, FM Palson, It A
Guinn, B N Garrison, J W Headden, F M
Durham, E Harling, A L Barron, J It
Wikle, A A Dobbs, Joseph Ballard, J B
Gaines, Albert Smith, W H Barron, J C
Wofford, J J O’Neil, A Nichols, T Daw
son, F M Ford, M Z Guyton, W H Jack
son, B T Drake, William Phillips, J T
Woodall, A G Dempsey, Geo W Maddox.
The memorial of Gen. Wofford, the
company’s commander, is lengthy, but
yvhich we will publish next week. It is a
fine paper, and should be preserved.
G. M. D.
Walking down Broadway is very pleas
ant when you feel well, and T—K—never
felt better than when his friend asked
him how he got over that severe cough
of his so speedily. “Ah, my boy,” said
T—, “U. M. I), did it.” And his friend
wondered what G. M. D. meant. He
knew it did not mean a Good Many Doc
tors, for T—K—had tried a dozen in
vain. “I have it,” said he, just hitting
the nail on the head, “you mean Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, or
Gold Medal Deserved, as my friend .1—
S — always dubs it.’, Sold by druggists.
At Seney, in Polk county, last Satur
day night, Marshal Tidwell was severely
cut and shot in the hand by a man
named Bennett. Bennett was drinking
and the marshal attempted to errest him.
Becoming enraged, Bennett pulled out
his knife and made two gashes in the
officer’s head, one four inches and the
other two and a half inches. In the
souffle the marshal's pistol was fired, the
ball going through one of his hands.
Seney is a small town on the East Ten
nessee road, and besides many other
attractions claimed by its citizens its a
town of lots of “liberty” und a great deal
more whiskey.
AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT
of the success of Hood's Sarsaparilla is
the fact that every purchaser receives a
fair equivalent for his money. The fa
miliar headline “100 Doses One Dollar,”
stole by imitators, is original with and
true only of Hood's Sarsaparilla. This
cun eosily be proven by any one who de
sires to test the matter. For nal econ
omy, buy only Hood's Sarsai*ai ilia. Sold
by ail dniggists.
GEORGIA’S CONVICT CAMPS.
The Report of the State Physician on the
Camp Near Chattanooga.
Chattanooga Times ]
Georgia is in a tumult of excitement
over the disclosures regarding the con
vict camp horrors. Tennessee is not
very far behind Georgia in this respect,
but the exposures made bv the Times
and the Nashville Banner some months
ago resulted in some improvement. The
convict system in Georgia is doomed.
In an interview with a St. Louis Globe
Democrat reporter, regarding the system
Governor Gordon, of Georgia, said:
“You may say in the first place that I
am entirely opposed to the whole system;
that the difficulties in getting rid of it are
numerous and by many believed to be
insurmountable for the present; but
that in my opinion the state ought to
rid itself of it, and will do so as soon as
it can he done legally, and as soon as
some other system can be devised. The
difficulties in the" way are that the con
tract was made by the state for twenty
years, and parties have vested their
rights which it seems difficult for the
state to break unless through some legal
forfeiture.”
The Governor stopped a moment, ns if
to weigh his words, and then said, with a
good deal of significance in his manner.
“I am at this time engaged in a careful
and vigorous investigation which may
lead to a forfeiture.”
ANOTHER DIFFICULTY.
“The second great difficulty,” contin
ued the Governor, “is to know what to
do with the convicts in case of forfeiture.
The old system of keeping them impris
oned within four walls with such employ
ment as could lie furnished proved very
expensive, and, with the large numbers
now on hand, it would be a very severe
tax upon the state, and upon the honest
labor of the state. So there are in the
way two very serious difficulties with
which the legislature is struggling now.”
“What is your idea, governor, of the
best substitute for the present system?”
was asked.
“The proposition to take charge of
these convicts and work them by the
state upon the public highways is a very
popular one, and might he inaugurated
possibly but for the legal difficulty first
referred to. It is not certain that work
upon the highways, which would, of
course, be expensive to the state, would
be advocated by the legislature, but the
probabilities are that some system
which would embrace the improvement
of the public roads would be devised.
Another plan which has impressed me as
worthy of a fair test is the working of
them on farms and making these farms
experimental for the purpose of testing
various systems and profits in different
lines of culture and products. Of all the
plans suggested l should prefer this
latter for at least the younger and more
delicate prisoners.”
OBSERVATIONS ON THE LEASE SYSTEM.
“You have seen considerable of the
lease system, Governor?”
“There is a fundamental objection
which 1 consider fatal to the whole sys
tem: that is this, it places cupidity in
conflict with humanity. With all the
care that the state can possibly give; all
the restraints that the law can impose;
all the watchfulness of even humane les
sees, it is impossible to prevent wrong
and cruelty.”
CAMUS NEAR CHATTANOOGA.
InthereportofDr.Westmoreland, which
created so much excitement, he refers to
the camps near Chattanooga as follows:
Of the lime-making camps at Grayes
villein Catoosa county, Dr. Westmoreland
says: “The night vessels are not at all
appropriate, and without covers. They
are so constructed that they readily turn
over with their contents, which pass
through the floor, and as the house is on
or near the ground it can not be reme
died and remains there permanently with
its odor, which was sufficiently percepti
ble during my visit. In visiting the con
victs at their place of work I found two
sick. One had organic disease of the
heart, which should deter him from ac
tive or hard labor, that is labor requir
ing any great exertion. The other was
the convict that the bosses of the camp
and Dr. Ransom, the physician in charge,
applied through me to you for his par
don, on the ground that he was unable
to do any physical labor at all. This
shows the ship-shod way of conducting
the medical department at this camp.
One week they had him at work. 1 sent
him to the hospital. Four or five days
later the doctor joins in an application
of pardon on the ground of complete
physical disability and approaching
death.”
For the Dade county camps at Senator
Brown's mines the physician had only
commendation. There he found a com
petent man in the person of Dr. Davis,
and “above all question the best conduc
ted medical service of any camp.”
Greatly Excited.
Not 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. Tr al
bottles at J. It. VVikle & Co.’s Drug Store,
large bottles sl.
mc3-tf.
Smith and the Editor.
Upon a certain occasion, as the Edi
tor of the Weekly Jabwock set in his
Sanctum, a young man by the name of
John Smith Rushed up stairs and de
manded that his Honor be cleared of a
Vivid Stain. The Jalnvock had an
nounced that some John Smith wanted
it known that he wasn't the John Smith,
or he would bring a Great Big Over
grown Liberal Suit.
‘Certainly—with pleasure,’ Replied the
Editor of The Jabwock. And he wrote
that the John Smith, of Pumpkin Pie
avenue, was not the John Smith who
Pounded his Aged Mother; nor the
Smith who stole a harness; nor the
Smith arrested for Bigamy; nor the
Smith who had a Prize Fight; nor the
Smith who set the Saw Mill on Fire. In
fact, he cleared him of all the Crimes and
Offenses on the Calendar, and the result
was that Smith Stopped his paper,
Withdrew his Advertising, Ambushed
and Licked theeditor, and was the means
of Bankrupting the paper.
MORAL:
There is such a thing as Being Too
All-Fired Anxious to please Subscribers.
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It is not “the onlyood,
BUT IT IS {
THE BEST FOOD, w K-i
THE CHEAPEST FOOD,'
* THE HEALTH CIVINC FOOD?
For young Infants, it will prove a safe
substitute for mother's tnilk: tor the Jnva
lid, or Dyspeptic it is of great value. Hun*
dreds who have used it recommend it as
THE MOST PALATABLE FOOD,'
THE MOST NUTRITIOUS FOOD,
THE MOST DICESTIBLE FOOD.
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A Tribute of Respect.
Leaves have their time to fall
And flowers to wither at the north wind’s
breath
And stars to set, but all
Tliou hast all seasons for thine own, 0,
Death !
Mrs. Catherine Shaw is no more! As
she had a wide acquaintance and many
friends, and was loved by all who knew
her, her death demands more than a
mere notice, and we feel satisfied that no
cue who knew her will fail to read and
appreciate anything that may be said in
honor of her.
Mrs. Shaw was born in Lawrence coun
ty, S. C., Junethe 20th, 1824, and moved
to Georgia with her father’s family while
a mere infant. On the 3d of February,
1843, she married Mr. John G. Shaw, of
Bartow county, Ga. From this union
were born eleven children, six of whom
preceded her to the other world, the
husband and six children still living.
Her death, though expected, has fallen
like a pall over the entire community.
Among her many other good principles
was the profound sympathy she had for
suffering humanity; when any of her
neighbors were sick, her presence seemed
to do great good. In 1849 she obtained
a hope in Christ, soon thereafter attach
ing herself to the Baptist church, of
which she remained a member till her
death, which occurred Wednesday, Aug.
10th, 1887.
Asa mother and wife, she was kind
and-thoughtful; as an ighbor, she was
courteous, charitable and popular; as a
friend, she was true and faithful; as a
Christian, she was gentle, pious and pure.
While we submit to the decision of Him
Who knoweth what is best, yet we feel
that we have sustained a great loss in
the removal of a kind friend, a faithful
nurse and a devoted Christian —but we
are solaced by the thought that what is
our loss is her eternal gain. We tender
our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved
family, pointing them to the same source
of consolation which was the refuge of
the departed.
Thy victory now is won.
Thou at thy ease sitt’st down,
Thy arduous work all is done,
For thou hast gained thy crown.
W. M. W.
LUCKY BOSTON.
At the last drawing of the Louisiana
State Lottery held in New Orleans June
14, New England was especially favored
by the blind goddess, as parts of both
the second grand grand prize of $400,-
000 and of the fourth prize of $25,000,
as well as a great number of smaller
prizes, were drawn by tickets held in
Maine and Massachusetts. Mr. A. B.
Clark and Mr. It. J. Tuftiu, of this city,
each held a portion of the ticket that
drew the fourth grand prize, and each
are correspondingly elated. —Boston
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Thu St. Louis Globe-Democrat sa.ys
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Cartersville Vest End Institute
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MONDAY, AUGUST 29,1887,
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Intermediate 2 (Ml
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French or German, each 1 50
Music 4 00
Practice—on Piano or Organ 1 (Mi
Incidentals 15
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Painting and Crayon, each 4 00
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ladies can be under the constant cure of the
teachers. .
A* Latin, Greek, French, German and Kinder
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Daniel (1. Lee, A. M. Principal,
Mrs. S. J. Ware, Teacher of Music.
Session begins Aug. 29tb, 1887.
Thorough instruction iu a regular Academical
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BARTOW SHERIFF’S SALES.
VC ILL BK SO LI)B CFO RE THE CO 1 IIT 11 o; V|;
Yt door iu CartersYille, Bartow County, Geor
gia, on the
FIRST TUESDAY IN OCTOBER,
183 i ,
between the legal hours of sale, to the highest
bidder, the following described property, to-wit:
Lot of land No. 5:1, lying and being in 16th dis
trict and third section of Bartow county,
levied on and will be sold as tile property of \V
S. Roberts to satisfy one State and eounty tux
ti fa for the year of 18S6. Said lot containing on,,
hundred and sixty acres, more or less, n. \\
K. Peacock, transferee. Levy made by 1 i
Watkins. L. C. and returned to me. #2.31.'
Also at the same time and place the undivided
one-half int erest in all that tract or parcel of land
situated, lying and being in the 17th distriet ami
third section of Bartow eount.v, Georgia, and
consisting of whole lots Nos. ISS, Ist;, .>47 and 2<n,
each containing forty acres, more or less: also,
southeast half of lot No. 244. twenty acres, more
or less, dividing line running northeast and
southwest; The east half of lot No. 315, 20 acres
more or lees: twenty-three acres, more or less, of
lot No. 240, being all that portion of said lot ly
ing north of the Etowah river; thirty acres,
more or less, of lot No. 245, being all of said lot
north of said river; ten acres, more or less, of lot
No. 260, all north and west of said river; thirty
acres, more or less, of lot No. 310, being all of
said lot north and west of said river: five
acres, more or less, of lot number 333, all
north and west of said river; thirteen
acres, more or less, of lot No. 334, the same being
the north part of the east half of said lot. Said
lots and parts of lots containing in the aggre
gate 311 acres, more or less. Levied on and w ill
be sold as the property of the defendants Pauline
C, Dent and Stephen T. Dent to satisfy one Bar
tow Superior Court mortgage ft fa In favor of
Gaines A Lewis vs. Pauline C. Dent and Stephen
T. Deut. Properly pointed out and described in
said ti fa and in possession of defendants. Said
ti fa proceeding for use of lUehmoud City .Mills,
transferred. #9 3'.
Also, at the same time and place, eleven (11)
acres, more or less, of lot of land No. 702, reserv
ing one-fourth of one acre for burying ground in
the fourth district and third section of Bartow
county, Georgia, being the property occupied by
Mrs. Sarah j. Keys at the time of her death.
Levied on and will be sold as the property of Mrs.
Sarah J. Keys, deceased, in the hands of K. M.
Shaw, administrator, to be administered. Prop
erty in possession of Mrs. Richards. Property
pointed out by plaintitTs attorney. #2.85.
A. M. FRANKLIN, Sheriff,
J. W. WILLIAMS, Deputy Sheriff.
Rule Nisi to Foreclose Mortgage
BARTOW SUPERIOR COURT —July Term. lvs;.
it appearing to the court by the petition of It.
P. Frierson, us administrator of Albert Frierson,
deceased, that Albert Eakin and Laura Dayton
Eakin on August Ist, 1883, executed and deliver
ed said albert Frierson, then in life, a mortgage
on one house and lot In the town of Taylors
ville, in Bartow county, Ga., and known iu the
plau o said town as lot No. 21, containing one
half ait acre, more or less, and then Occupied by
one Dick So.ver, being the same lot or pan-el of
land which was conveyed by Thomas M.
Ausley to Joel G. Green by deed dated January
ISth, i!S7:. and by the said Green to Albert Eakin
by deed dated August Ist, lss2, which latter deed
Is recorded in the Clerk's office of the Superior
Court of said county in hook X of deeds, page
275, which mortgage w as made for the purpose id'
ecu ring the payment of a certain debt described
in said mortgage by which the said Albert
Eakin and Laura Dayton Eakin agreed to pay
to Albert Frierson or bearer, twelve months
after date of said mortgage the sum of two hun
dred and fifty dollars with interest from date at
the rate of seven per cent, per annum and also
agreed to pay all costs and expenses, if any,
which might be necessarily incurred in collecting
said debt among which expenses said petitioner
claims ten per cent, of the amount ot principal
and interest due on said debt for his attorney's
fee iu prosecuting this proceeding, which said debt
and expenses adn said Albert Eakin and Laura
Dayton Eakin refused to pay. It is therefore or
dained that the said Albert Eakin and Laura
Da.vtou Eakin pay into this court on or before
the nexe term thereof, the rriucipnl and interest
due ou said debt, together with the costs and ex
penses ot this prota ediug including ten percent,
on the amount of said debt for attorneys’ fees,
or in default thereof the court will proceed as to
jtstice shall appertain.
And it is further ordered that this rule be pub
lished in the Coitbant-Amkrican, a newspaper
published iu said county of Bartow, once a month
for four mouths, or served on the said Albert
Eakin and Laura Dayton Eakin, or their special
agent or attorney three months previous to the
next term of this court.
Done in o- -n court this August Ist, INS 7,
A. M, Fo t , plaintiffs att irney. *
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A true extract from the minutes of BnrtowSu
perior Court. F. Duuham, Clerk.
Receiver’s bale.
STATE OF GEORGIA—Babtow Pointy :
By virtue of an order from the Superior court
of said county, 1 will sell, as receiver of t he estate
of It. (*. Roberts, deceased, between tin* legal sale
hours, on the first Tuesday in Oeto-.er next, the
following described property, to-wit ;
All that tract or parcel of land, consisting of
one hundred and fifty one and one-half (151 U.)
acres, of lot of land No. twenty (20), and one
hundred and forty-two (142) acres of lot No.
twenty-one (21), and fifty-one (51) acres of lot
No eleven (11); all being In the Kith distriet and
3d section of Bartow county. State of Georgia,
containing, in all, three hundred and forty-three
and one-half (313V6) acres, more or less, with all
the members and appurtenances to said property
in anywise belonging. This farm is situated two
miles'from the city of Adairsville, on the head
waters of Oothcaloga creek, and in the Oothea
loga valley, which is famous for its rich farming
lands. There are about 175 acres cleared, the
balance well timbered. The entire place is well
watered, and most admirably located for a fine
stock and dairy farm. The land is ail suscepti
ble of a high state of cultivation, and well adapt
ed to growing fine clover, grasses, mid all the ce
reals. On oneof the uncleared lots is to lie found
fine indications of iron ore and manganese. This
lot is not exceeding one half-mile from the W. Sc
A. B. R. Improvements consist of a two-story
frame dwelling and all neeessary out-buildings, in
fine repair. There is on the place a large, cold,
freestone spring, and a good brick spring house.
The same will be sold for cash, payable on the
confirmation of the sale by the Superior court.
Douglas VYiklk,
#0.99 liec’r of the estate of B. ('. Roberts, dec’d.
Letters of Administration.
GEORGIA —Bartow County.
To all whom it may coueern: Mrs. Mary F.
Hardin has in due form applied to tile under
signed for permanent letters of administration
on the estate of John F. Hardin, iate of said
county deceased, and 1 will pass upon said appli
cation on the first Monday iu October. 1887.
This 31st August, 1887. J. A. HOWARD,
$2 151 Ordinary.
Leave to Sell Land.
GEORGIA—B.uitow County :
To all whom it may concern : G. H. Hendden,
adm'r of William Headden, late of said county,
deceased, has, in due form applied to the under
signed for leave to sell all the lands belonging to
the estate of said deceased, and said application
will be heard on the first Monday in October
next. This 2!Hh August, 1887.
$2.2(5. J. A. HOWARD, Ordinaay.
Leave to Sell Land.
GEORGIA Babtow County :
To all whom it may concern : John 11. Walker,
adm'r of John H. Walker, Sr., deceased, has, in
due form, applied to the undersigned for leave to
sell the lauds belonging to the estate of said de
ceased, and said application will he heard ou the
first Monday in October next. This Jfclt-li August,
1887. J. A. HOWARD,
$2.26. Ordinary.
Leave to Sell Land.
GEORGIA—Babtow County :
To all whom it may concern : Mrs. Marie T.
Gillam, executrix of estate of William A. Gillam,
deceased, has, iu due toriu, applied to the under
signed for leave to sell a part of thelands belong
ing to the estate of said deceased, and said ap
plication will be heard on the first Monday in
October next. This 2!lth August, 1887.
$2.26 J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary.
Leave to Sell Laud.
GEORGIA —Babtow County :
To all whom it may concern : Joel T. Con
yers, administrator of Thomas K. Sprouli. de
ceased, has applied to the undersigned for leave
to sell the lands belonging to the est ate of said
deceased, and said application will be heard on
the first Monday iu Oetober next. This 2'.(th
August, 1887. J. A. HOWARD,
$2.5U. Ordinary.
Letters of Guardianship.
GEORGIA—Babtow County :
To all whom it may concern : L. IV Gaines,
having in due fofin applied to the undersigned
for the guard! tush ip of the persons aud property
of Mary Benson and Mattie Benson, minor chil
dren of John H. Benson, late of said county, de
ceased, notice is hereby given that his applica
tion will be heard at my office ou the first Mon
day in October next. Given under my hand and
official signature this -filth August, 18*7.
$2.64 J A HOWARD, Ordinary.
GEORGIA —llarto .v Couaty.
To all whom it may concern: The commis
sioners appointed to set apart a twelve months
support to Vlarie T. Giiiam, widow of W. A. Gil
lam, deceased, and her five minor children having
made their report, and the same is now on tile in
my office. All persons are hereby notified that it
no good cause lie shown to the contrary, same
will be allowed and made the judgment of the
Court on the first Monday iu October. 1887.
This 11th August, ’B7. J. A. HOWARD.
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