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IN NORTH GEORGIA.
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CAPITAL PRIZE, $150,000
“We do hereby certify that we supervise the
arrangements for all the Monthly anil Nem-An
nnul lira wings of The Louisiana State Lottery
Company, and in person manage and control
1 he Drawings themselves, and that the same are
conducted with honesty, fairness, and in good
faith toward all parties, and we authorize the
Company to use this certificate, with fac-similes
of our signature attached. In its advertisements.”
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Commissioners.
We the undersigned Ranks and liankers will
pay all I’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 !
Over Half a Million Distributed.
Lonisiana State Lottery Company.
Incorporated in 1808 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.
Ry on overwhelming popular vote its franchise
was made apart of the present State Constitu
tion adopted December 2d, A. I),, 1870.
Tlie 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 SI’LKNDID GPPORTUN ITY TO
WIN A FORTUNE. TENTH GRAND
DRAWING. CLASS K. IN THE ACADEMY OF
Ml sic, NEW ORLEANS. TUESDAY. Septem
ber 13, 1887—208th Monthly Drawing.
Capital Prize $150,000.
jf<F~Notice. —Tickets are Ten
Dollars only. Halves, $5.
Fifths,,s2. Tenths, sl.
I.IST OP PHIZES.
1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF $150,000 $150,000
1 (iRA.ND PRIZE OF 50,000 50,000
1 ORAND PRIZE OF 20,(MM) 20,000
2 1, \ ROE PRIZES OF 10,000 20,000
4 LARGE PRIZES OF 5,000 20,000
20 FRIZES OF LOOO 20,000
50 “ 500 25.000
100 “ :ioo 30,000
200 “ 200 40,000
500 “ 100 50.000
APPROXIMATION PHIZES.
100 Approximation Prizes ol' S3OO $30,000
100 “ “ 200 20,000
100 •* “ 100 10,000
1 (ioo “ “ 50 50,000
2,179 Prizes, amounting to $535,000
Application for rates to clubs should be madt
only to tin* office of the Company in New Or
leans.
For further informal ion write clearly, Bivins
full address. POSTAL NOTES, Express
Money Orders, or New York Exchange in ordina
ry letter. Currency by Express (at our expense)
addressed
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or M. A. DAITFITIN,
Washington, D, C.
Address Registered Letters to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK,
New Orleans, La.
REMEMBER 2UVSLKS
lienuregard and Early’ who are in charge of the
drawings, is a guarantee of absolute fairness
and integrity, that the chances are all equal,
and that no one can possibly divine what hum
ber will daaw a Prize.
HEftt KM li I- It that the payment of all Prizes
is (iUAKANTEKD 15Y POII It NAII ON A L
HANKS of New Orleans, and the Tickets are
signed by the President of tin Institution, whose
chartered rights are reeognized in the highest
Courts: therefore, beware of any imitations or
anonymous schemes.
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WEST MAIN STREET,
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Carriagies, Buggies f Wagons,
And do all kinds of
Repairing in Wood and Iron,
Making new pieces when necesaary. lie is also
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All work WARRANTED TO GIVE SATISFAC-.
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CARTERSVILLE, GA„ THURSDAY. SEPT. 15, 1887.
THE ROMANCE OF CRIME.
Last Act of Tragedy Which Oc
curred in Hardeman County,
Tennessee, Eighteen
Years Ago.
COL. GUY SMITH LEAVES THE COUNTRY,
SUPPOSING HIMSELF A MURDERER —HIS
RETURN AN INNOCENT MAN.
Courier-Journal.l
Memphis, Sept. 7. —The last act of
a tragedy begun eighteen years ago was
concluded in the Circuit Court- at Boli
var last night, when (Jus Smith was ac
quitted of the charge of murder. On
the second day of February, 1869, at
Salisbury, a little town on the Charles
ton and Memphis railroad, a younger
brother of Smith became involved in a
difficulty with two men named Bowden
and Read, well-to-do residents of the
vicinity. Young Smith was getting the
worst of tin* affray, when Buy drew u
revolver and rushed to the rescue. Iwo
pistol shots rang out, and Bowden and
Read fell to the ground, shot through
the body. Then the man who had done
the deed to save iiis brother from the in
dignity of a thrashing threw away his
smoking pistol, and boarding a train,
which was just moving out from the
depot near by, and was borne away to
Chattanooga. By that one act he had
forfeited a flourishing business and the
companionship of wife,children and friends
and became a fugitive. From Chatta
nooga he went to St. Louis and Kansas
City and then took refuge in the plains
of Montana. There he lived for several
years, anti by hard work and “taking
his own part” whenever necessary be
came a partner in a prosperous cattle
business. All this time he went by the
name of Robert Brown. He dared not
write home, and his family and friends
were left in doubt as to whether he was
alive or dead. He could not rest con
tent, even with a tortune in view, and,
finally, turned the ranch over to his
partner and wandered away to the < ity
of Mexico. There he was recognized by
several of his old comrades in !• orest s
cavalry, in which command he had risen
by gallant conduct on tho field to the
rank of Colonel. They kept his secret
and he embarked in business there, for
tune favored him once more, anti every
thing he touched turned to gold. He re
mained in the City of Mexico six or
eight years, and then, overcome by a
longing to see wife and children at all
hazards, he started home. For some
reason he did not carry out this design,
but stopped on the way at a farm lie
owned near Newport, Arkansas. There
he lived until a few weeks ago, when the
welcome news came that the two men he
had shot were not dead. They had re
covered after a long struggle against the
effects of their terrible wounds, and then
left the country. At the time of the
shooting the grand jury was in session.
It. was reported to that party that Bow
den and Read had died of their wounds,
and an indictment was at once found
against Smith, charging him with mur
der in the first degree. Through some
oversight this indictment was left stand
ing as originally drawn, and this tact
was reported to Smith. But it weighed
nothing against his yearning to see bis
family and clear his name, so as soon as
possible after hearing the news he re
turned to his old home. Fie found the
little children he had left eighteen years
before now grown to manhood and wo
manhood and the handsome young wife
a grave and middle-aged matron. His
arrival was reported to the authorities,
and in due time the trial came off a t Bol
ivar, the county seat of Hardeman
county, wherein Salisbury also is situ
ated. It resulted in tie* acquittal of the
accused, as already stated. Col. Smith
is now a wealthy man. He has enough
of wandering and intends to devote the
remainder of his life to the domestic
duties and pleasures from which he was
so long debarred.
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GREAT WALL OF CHINA.
•
A Full Attempt to Demolish it ill France.
This Frenchman, the Abbe Larrieu,
who has attempted to disprove the exis
tence of the Great Wall of China, de
serves a lofty niche in the temple of liars.
According to the summary of his pam
phlet (Paris, Leroux), published in the
London Times, this missionary has the
hardihood to declare that he has lived
for several years under what would have
been the shadow of the Great Mall had
there been one, but that no such struc
ture exists. “This huge Chinese wall,
says the Abbe Larrieu, “is a huge Chi
nese lie, - ' and accepting his statement,
millions of ingenuous youth would im
mediately lose all confidence in their
geographies. But the mendacious mis
sionary has been promptly exposed. A
gentleman writes to the editor of the
London Standard as follows: “W ill you
allow me to inform your readers that I
have siit upon the wall, and that 1 have,
moreover, a photograph of it?” And
all the standard and trustworthy. histo
ries of China, also, as well as the ac
counts of innumerable travelers, may be
called into court to refute the Abbe,
(ien. James 11. Wilson, of this city, vis
ited the wall in the year 1-880, and on
page 219 of his “China” he has this to
sav of it:
“The Chinese call it the ‘Ten-thou
sand-li-wall,’ and if it really had any
such length it would be something over
3850 miles long. * * * It is from 25
to 30 feet high, 15 to 20 feet thick, and
riveted outside and in with cut granite
masonry laid in regular courses with an
excellent mortar of lime and sand. It is
surmounted by a parapet of gray burned
brick. 18 to 20inches thick, coveied with
moss and pierced with crenelated open
ings for defenders. * * * The toy is
paved with a double layer of brick about
a foot square. The inside of the wall is
made of earth and loose stones, well
rammed in. Every 200 or 300 yards
there is a flanking turret 30 or 40 feet
high projecting beyond and overlooking
the face of the wall in both directions.
* * * The most astounding thing
about it is, however, that it climbs
straight up the steepest and most rug
ged mountain sides, courses along their
summits, descends into gorges and ra
vines, and, rising again, skirts the face
of almost inaccessible crags, crosses riv
ers. valleys and plains in endless success
ion from one end of the empire to the
other—from the s ashore on the Gulf of
Perhile to the de. ert wastes in Turkes
tan.”
Further testimony to the existence
and appearance of the Gieat Wall may
be found in Williams’ “Middle King
dom,” where in volume 1., pages 30-31,
the construction and asie t ( f the wall
are described. Upon the may accompa*
nying Williams’ volumes also the wind
ings of the (ireat Wall are distinctly
laid down. Then' can be no doubt, of
course: that the structure exists sub
stantially as has been described for cen
turies. The attempt of the Abbe Lar
rieu to demolish by a pamphlet the
(ireat Wall, which is supposed to have
been built about 215 B. C., must lie at
tributed to one of those curious impulses#
of mendacity such as produced Georgia
Paclnmnazer’s hoax about the Island of
Formosa, and to which, in these later
times, we owe our diverting newspaper
fictions from Ottawa concerning the fish
eries dispute, and the equally fabulous
stories of famine in Labrador.—New
York Times.
Necessary Reform School Teach
ing.
I’rof. Ramsay in Rl&ckwooils’a Magazine. 1
The first condition for having the
higher subjects really well taught must
be a proper differentiation of schools.
And the second condition follows as the
natural corollary of the first —there
must be a proper differentation of
teachers. It is asbured, any contrary to
all the experience of all other countries,
to suppose that every good teacher of
elementary subjects can, if he chooses,
or if he be set to it. become a good
teacher of secondary subjects. The ac
quirements needed for the two purposes
are entirely of a different order; the
methods and aims of the two kinds of
work are essentially different; and to
some extent the training and methods
required of elementary teachers abso
lutely disqualify them for the work of
higher education. I have already in
sisted on the narrow, cramping, and ac-
tually deadening effect of the ordinary
pupil-teacher course; it is only the very
best minds that rise superior to it.
Here is a proof of it. Under the present
system a certain picked number of those
who enter the training colleges are al
lowed to attend the university, for cer
tain classes during the two years of their
course; but it is only a few of these] licked
students who really take a good place in
the university, and can* be pronounced
fit to teach the higher subjects. The
mere possession of a good Government
certificate is no proof whatever that the
holder is lit to teach in a secondary
school; and yet many members or school
boards look to no other qualification
than this, and imagine that any certifi
cated teacher can be turned on, like the
tap in a conjurer s barrel, to teach any
subject which they desire to be taught.
Even the ordinary M. A. degree is, by it
self, no sufficent test of qualification,
unless evidence be obtained that the
holder has distinguished himself in those
higher subjects which lie will have to
teach. What is wanted is a special
honor qualification, of a distinctly
higher type. The candidate should
either have obtained university honors
in some department of his M. A course,
or else a special honor grade should be
instituted in the examination of school
masters now conducted by the universi
ties. with especial reference to the stand
ard required for higher-class schools.
The University of Glasgow has lately
laid before the Scottish Education De
partment a scheme for a special school
master examination of this kind; the
other universities have offered to make
arrangements of a similar character. In
England no man has a chance of obtain
ing a mastership in a good secondary
school unless he has taken high honors
at the university; and until managers
of schools in Scotland have some tangi
ble means of distinguishing the honor
man from the passman, the teaching of
secondary subjects can never be placed
upon a satisfactory footing. The idea
that every certificated teacher can be ex
pected to have the scholarship, the cul
ture, the capacity to use the.finer and
larger methods required, for high-class
teaching, is absorb as +o suppose that a
prize Clydesdale would have a fair chance
of winning the Derby.
A Lucky New Yorker Gained Thous
ands.
Mr. Darius R. Burr, 179 Forsyth, St.,
New York city, is a happy combination
ot both the lucky and mentally well-bal
anced. On the 12th of this month, he
won $15,000 in the, regular monthly
drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery
Company, and on Saturday last the
Adams Express Company, which col
lected it at New Orleans, gave him the
full amount. He stuck to his post as as
sistant superintendent of agents of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company,
32 Park Place. —New York Daily News,
July 26.
New York Commercial Advertiser:
According to Rowell’s latest newspaper*
directory there are 15,420 newspapers
now published in the United States and
Canada, of which 11,614 are weeklies.
In New York state there are 1,591 news
papers, or, not counting the Evening
Post, 1,590. The total single issue of
all publications is estimated at 39,165,-
250, from which it would seem that al
most every person in the United States
of an age to read pereuses pretty regu
larly one or more newspapers. This is
a point which quack and crank politi
cians should bear in mind as it explains
their failure to make appreciate head
way. _
One of the newest of the German fig
ures at summer resorts is known as the
“Railroad.” This requires six railroad
tickets for the ladies, six play-cards for
the gentlemen and a whistle for the
leader. The gentlemen fasten the play
cards around their necks, while the tif k
ets are distributed among the ladies.
Upon the signal from the leader the
chestra plays a railroad gallop and ehe
gentlemen march into a room imitating
a railroad train. At the sound f f a
whistle the train stops and the le der
calls the name of one of the str'ions
upon the playcurds, when the hry with
the corresponding ticket takes' ..er part
ner, the rest following according to their
destination.
ExVIED BY HER SEX,
Is the fate of every lady with a bright,
glowing countenance, ’which invariably
follows the use of l)r. Harter's Iron
Tonic.
The following from the New York Sun
is to the point: “If country newspapers
were to publish the names of the sub
scribers who take, read and enjoy, and
aie gratified by, yet refuse to pay for
their home papers the reputation for
not cornu.unities for moral honesty
would depreciate twenty percent. An
editor's labor is seldom esteemed or
compensated. A lawyer will give ybu
five minutes advice on a topic and charge
$5 for it. An editor wille give you ad
vice on a hundred topics and charge you
five cents a copy for his paper, arid very
often five cents given to an editor would
save f 5 given to a lawyer. In fact no
other business so universally robbed and
swindled as country newspaper pub
lishers.”
.Many fortunes are received which it
ought > be the first business of the heir
to clean up, to purge. ,A curse must rest
upqo any home where indulgence of the
love of the beautiful has been obtained
at the price of honor.
Jl harmless hilarity and a bouyant
cheerfulness are not infrequent concomi
tants of genius; and we are never more
deceived than when we mistake gravity
for greatness, solemnity for science and
pomposity for erudition.
A Worm that Eats Stool Rails.
The existence has just been discovered
of a detestable microlie which feeds upon
iron with as much gluttony as the phyl
loxera upon the vine. Some time ago
the greatest consternation existed among
the engineers employed on the railway
at Hagen by the accidents occurring at
the same place, proving that some terri
ble defect must exist either in the mate
rial or theconstruetion of the rails. The
German government directed an inquiry
to be made and a commission of surveil
lance to be formed for the purpose of
maintaining constant watch at the spot
where the accidents—one of them at
tends! with loss of life —had occurred.
It was not, however, until after six
months had clasped that the surface of
the rails appeared to be corroded, as if
by acid, to the extent of 100 yards.
The rail was taken up and broken, and
it was jierceived that it was literally
hollowed out by a thin gray worm, to
which the qualification of “railoverous"
was assigned, and by which name it is to
be classed in natural history, The worm
is said to be two centimeters m length
and of the size of the prong of a silver
fork in circumference. It is of a light
gra® color, and on the head carries two
little RpElnds filled with a corrossive se
cretion, which ejected every ten minutes
upon the iron. This liquid renders the
iron soft and spongy, and of the color of
rust, and it is then greedily devoured by
the insect. “There is no exaggeration,”
says the official report of the commis
sion, “in the assertion that the creature,
for its size, is one of the most voracious
kind, for it has devoured thirty-six kilo
grammes in a fortnight.”—Uatogne Ga
zette.
Jurors Drawn for Regular January Term
nnd November Adjourned Term.
GRAND JURORS FOR FIRST WEEK.
Aaron Knight A S Sipscomb
A Y Kheats .las U Waldrup
Win W Myers AY S Attaway
Martin Collins Jus A White
Geo S Cobb M M Cunningham
Edmond Marling E B Richardson
W F Corbin Jus P Alexander
C A Sewell R A Clayton
M L Pritchett \V L LeConte
Thos F Tomlinson .1 M Boyd
Geo M Isbell Edmund C Adcock
J I) Murchison Jonas A Keever
Geo A Fink F M Ford
TRAVERSE JURORS FOR FIRST WEEK.
James Lloyd T V Hargis
AY A Neel W II Kitchens
AY A’ Bailey Jos E Dysart
T P Trammell .1 C MeElroy
Frank P Meadows Geo M Hannah
Jos S McCoy (i N Maxwell
\V A Jackson A Greenwood
J S Richards AYm B Wallace
O H Buford Jno I) Trotter
AYm E Lee David Latham
J H Burke J C Milam
G A I’attillo J O Hubbard
J H Howard B T Honea
R F Bradford 1) P> Chitwood
S T Dodd F B Walker
A L Barron A B Stubbs
J M Jackson L B Manning
Joshua M Rudolp J AA' L Brown
TRAVERSE JURORS DRAWN FOR SECOND
WEEK.
Thos. I’enley, R. S’ Taff,
J. AA'. Rich, AY. A. Skinner,
J. P. Johnson, Jas. E. Lewis,
Jas. AY. Adams, AY. H. Best,
S. F. Milam, T. J. Rogers,
AY. J. Adams, 1). AY. Loudermilk,
T. AV. Leake, Samuel H. Law,
Robert S. Amos, AYm. AV. Jolley,
J. AV. 11. Burns, AY. M. King,
J. S. Adcock, J. H. Cole,
C. P. Anthony, J. T. Jolley,
A. E. Vincent, S. C. Goode,
Abe Cox, Jno. 1). Thomas,
W. \V. Morris, W. 1). Pittard,
Y. M. Tomlin, Thos. IT. Powell,
F. M. Thompson, (’. M. Howard,
F. .J. Cray, W. J. McMeekin,
J. H. Johnsey, E. E. Gaines.
TRAVERSE JURORS FOR THIRD WEEK.
•1 M Anderson Thos E Smith
/ T Brooks L 1* Brisendine
Engine Munford das Urin
(’has T Jones •! J Murphey
\V If Armstrong Elbert M Upshaw
W \V Ay cock Warren A Dodd
J C Powell J Benson Smith
Joe C Bell G R Casey
Jno N Maxwell F M Walker
N 11 Adams Geo T Smith
C M Floyd Jas S Goodwin
Sno C Dunaway P I* Stone
Henry Dunahoo ('has M Milam
J A Mc('unless Thos T 5 Maxwell
S H I) McCormick Jas M Hall
Jno W Callahan A J Layton
Aaron Collins W S Hunt
Robt M Collins SamT T Dvsart
TRAVERSE JURORS FOR FOURTH WEEK.
Jas F Shelton J A Bradley
Thos J Hendricks Larkin C Franks
C W Floyd Osborn L Shaw
W H Wi'kle SamT B Jones
W V Smith W H Baker
R L Besheans H T Wade
L D Munford Headden Elrod
J R Kinney J B C Rollins
C M Quillian W T Sexton
Levi T Shaw Hugh Tomlinson
L Y Burch S C Smith
Jas C Hedgcock Jas F Alexander
Geo H Waring Geo S Davis
W O Littlefield J W Brinsfield
TV B Woodall John Banton
J H Willians T R Hammond
A B Cunvus J J Kennedy
R W Milam N C Anderson
TRAVERSE JURORS FOR SECOND WEEK, NO
VEMBER ADJOURNED TERM.
.T P Tomlinson F M Martin
I) W Holland A F Manning
W W King Jno N McKelvey
Simson Couch W M Turner
Dan’l Lowry W M Smith
Jas M Mahan * Jas E Barron
R W Smith Dewitt Carter
Henry P Ford A M Puckett
M C Nelson A I) Gilbert
S D Waldrup W R Shockley
tV 11 Linn Leroy Jenkins
T J Taylor R M Pattillo
A K Forester .las F Hargis
tV A .Tollev G B Foster
Jeff M Hall F M Page
Robert Phillips Jno M Dobbs
•T G Vernon A W Hufi'stetler
J V Alexander II J Penley
TRAVERSE JURORS FOR THIRD WEEK, NO
VEMBER ADJOURNED TERM.
•Tas T Gaston A O Maffltt
Jno F Kay W S Bradford
A R Kerr L C Ginn
.T A Crawfosd J W Williams
J K Rowan A I) Vandivere
Jno F Bobo S McGuire
Henry B Scott W B Lowe
Bardv L Abernathuy J VV Morris
Geo B Elrod J L Turner
C A Moon T A Davidson
E B Elrod J W Sproull
tV B tV Leake C tV Whitworth
V M Alexander Jas T Moore
J H Young E Strickland
Lonnie Gilbert Jno 1) Goode
.T II Anderson J F Sipseomb
Thos S Kitchens B J Davis
J B Gardner Robt H Renfroe.
A Sranoer in a Strange Land.
A. Black, Jr., writes from Andalusia,
Alabama, that he was taken with dysen
tery of the bloodiest type. Doctors
were called on to no effect. A stranger
suggested Dr. Riggers' Huckleberry Cor-*
dial, and to its use he owes his life.
The effect of warm days of nights.
To the untrue man the whole universe
is false—it shrinks to nothing in his
grasp; and he himself, in as far as he
shows himself in a false light, becomes a
shadow, or indeed ceases to exist.
CARTGRSVILLE-TALLADEGA,
The East ami West Makes Its
New Connections and a New
Schedule Inaugurated.
A Pleasant Trip Among Lively Peo
ple—The Boundless Resources of
the East and West Railroad.
COAL, IKON AND MANOANKSK.
Last Thursday being the inauguration
of the first through schedule of the East
and West Railroad of Alabama over
their new extension from Broken Arrow
to Pell City, there to connect with the
Georgia Pacific and the Talladega and
Coosa Valley Railroad, Capt. Pestoll.
vice-president and general manager of
the East and West, tendered a free ride
to a few friends over the line.
The Cartersville party was composed of
Capt. Pestoll, 'Maj. C. H. Smith (“Bill
Arp"), Capt. I>. W. K. Peacock, Mr. W.
C. Raker and a Coukaxt-Ameiucax repre
sentative, Messrs. Perry M.DeLeon,pres
ident of the St. Clair Coal Company, and
Mr. Nutting, of Atlanta, joining them
At Cedartown and Broken Arrow
additions were made to the pleasant par
ty until the crowd was of goodly size, but
not at all large.
Leaving here on schedule time in a com
fortable special coach, the party was
swiftly drawn down tin* beautiful valley
of the Etowah, teeming with its acres of
magnificent crops of corn and cotton*
now and then were given a glance at some
stately old mansion that figured largely
in the prosperous ante-bellum times, pass
ing along the finest timbered lands in ex
istence. Verily the East and Westcaunot
complain of the immense resources
through which its steel rails are laid.
Leaving the justly renowned lime works
of Mr. A. C. Lada, two miles from town,
whose output is immense, and the quality
of the product is unsurpassed, the road
stretches along one continuous field of
productiveness for miles. In the interim
are also any amount of valuable ores and
the finest marbles, yet to receive the first
developing touch of the capitalist and
prospector. At Shelinan's one of the fin
est quarries of black marble in the coun
try exist, a test of which has awakened
tlie interest of a few capitalists, who will
probably develop it in the near future.
Marble abounds in profusion in that
neighborhood, while ore beds are in close
proximity.
We soon arrive at Stilesboro, the live
little burg that is comprised of persever
ing merchants and stirring and competi
tive cotton buyers. Stilesboro handles
considerable stuff, such as lumber, cot
tofi, etc., and proves quite an important
station on the East and West. Passing
through a wide stretch of the “piney
woods” we reach Taylorsville, and on
each side of the track for considerable dis
tance can be seen piles upon piles ol the
finest lumber and shingles awaiting ship
ment. Taylorsville lias probably ship
ped more lumber than any other depot-in
IThrfow Countypind the snrw mill busi
ness is flourishing and steadily increas
ing. Considerable trading is also done
here and quite an amount of cotton is
shipped.
Rockmart is soon reached, the town
whose reputation as a slate producing
community is so well known. Its repu
tation as headquarters for slate is not
limited to the narrow bounds of our own
State, but spreads over the whole coun
try. Rockmart is a lively, progressive
little city, whose merchants do an im
mense trade in the immediate section,
drawing upon Haralson county also for
considerable trade. The shipping of slate
is the most important factor in the
growth of the town and development of
that section, although there is a great
amount of fine iron ores and manganese
in the vicinity that will some day prove
the impetus to the growth of a place of
considerable importance. From the ear
window the passenger could gaze upon
piles of slate and lumber that are wait-
ing for shipment. Again, passing along
side and over ore beds and through ex
tensive pine forests we reach Cedurtown,
the plucky little city where neighbor
Freeman and his Advertiser lives. Mr.
F. joined the party here and reported
himself in good order for a large sized
time. He was accompanied by Messrs.
Boaz and Adams, two clever and enter
taining gentlemen. Cedartown is a good
feeder also for the East and West, to
which the town is much indebted for its
prosperity and growth. Here are situ
ated the ponderous iron works of the
Cherokee Iron Company. Here lives the
indomitable Maj. Amos G. West, whose
progressive and developing pow
ers are the marvels of this section.
Cedartown is one of the coming towns of
North Georgia, and has a bright future
before it. Inhabited by a live citizen
ship, with boundless resources, both as
to mineral and agriculture, it cannot fail
in making a town of considerable im
portance.
Alter leaving the beautiful little city ot
Cedar Valley we are again rushed with
lightning speed through long stretches
of pine lands, until Cross Plains, the city
that certainly is justified in the selection
of its name, is reached. The lands here
are flat and very productive. The town
does considerable shipping over the East
and West, and as it is constantly grow
ing, the traffic will enlarge.
For seven miles below Cross Plains the
East and West runs alongside of the
E. TANARUS., V. A Ga. through a Hat, barren
country as to timber, but there are many
evidences of mineral deposits.
Leaving the East Tennessee, our train
soon reaches the beautiful Hebron Valley,
through the centre of which the road
passes. For three miles the road has a
track as straight as an arrow, the land
being very productive on both sides, and
the valley is about two miles wide, com
pletely walled in by huge mountains on
both sides, making a beautiful picture
that would adorn the easel of the artist.
From this valley to Ragland the road
passes through mountain passes, seem
ingly impenetrable. How one at first
glance could ever hope building a rail
i mil through this section is preposterous.
One consolation, there can hardly be
more than one passage through it, and
that is occupied by the East and West.
The engineer that picked his way through
such a wild looking, mountainous coun
try must have possessed an unlimited
amount of perseverence, skill and pa
tience. Strange to say, the road was
laid out without much trouble, but
when the rails of the East and West were
laid through this section it forever barred
the possibility of another road going
through. There is but one path and the
East and West holds that. A path that
leads into the vast wilderness of pine
lands and coal fields of the Broken Ar
row district. For miles the road passes
over onecontinuous bed of the finest coal.
In cutting the roa 1 through this section
the pick of the railroad hands struck
several veins of the black diamonds, it
can be seen very plainly from the car
widow cropping out from the embank
ments. The party stopped at Broken
\rrow a few minutes and were joined by
Mr. James Schley, the genial and always
happy contractor who has just finished
the six and three-quarter miles extension
ADEYKTISEMENTS.
The Courant-Amebican is the only
Paper Published in one of the Best
Counties in North Georgia. Its Cir
culation is second to none of its Class.
Reasonable Kates on Applicat iox,
$1.50 Per Annum—sc. a Copy.
to Pell City. The road-bad, though
! new. rides smoothly and without any
| jar. It is a fine piece of engineering skiil
i ami workmanship. Mr. Henderson, the
1 civil engineer, is a smart young fellow,
well up iii his business. His employers
are exulting over the little ontla y neces
sary to build the extension, the rwult of
the skill and the manner in which the
line was laid out.
pell city.
At Pell City the party was met by the
mayor and a large committee from Talla
dega, and Messrs. Morgan and 1). W.
Rogers, the owners of the Talladega and
U'oosa \ alley railroad. Pell City, though
*'et only a flattened waste, will some day
make its record. A prettier {dace to build
a Iteautiful town does not exist any
where. The ground is as level as a par
lor floor and the place is surrounded by
a huge mountain. The town is located
in a fine agricultural section, at a point
most favorable to catch the investor l>e
tween Anniston and Birmingham; the
water is excellent, and at a depth of ten
feet any amount is to be had—good fm*-
stone water, with a light touch of lime.
The mineral backing alone is plenty suffi
cient to build a town here of much im
portance. Coal, iron and manganese
is at its very doors, and those that do
not care to invest 7” per cent, of Heir
money in Birmingham or Anniston dirt
and the balance in a plant, can go to Pell
City—where land is cheap and where rail
road facilities will be just as good as
either of these booming towns. The Pell
City Land and Improvement Company,
composed of Capt. Posted, Judge Inzer,
Mr. Levy— a capitalist of New York—and
a few others, will soon throw' the lots at
Pell City on the market and invite the
manufacturer and capitalist. A big sale
is to i>c had and a boom from the start
is to be anticipated. It goes without
saying that it will prove a success for the
enterprise is not lacking in grit or green
backs. The town will enjoy splendid rail
road facilities, and will soon loom up as
one of the booming centres of this sv
tiou.
OX TO TALLADEGA.
Leaving Pell City at nearly dusk, the
party was carried over the Talladega and
Loose Valley road to the lovely little city
of Talladega, the home of “Betsy Hamil
ton," and where a good healthy boom
has all along existed and liable to remain
for some time to come. The party was
conducted to the hotel, where they were
amply, and as “Bill Arp” says, “dum
foundedly fed,” after which the party
was conducted to a large and elegant
room in the rear of Skagg’s Bank, tpiite
a nice little crowd of energetic and good
looking Talladegans had preceded iih,
and speech-making was in order. Mayor
Skaggs, in the name of Talladega, bade
the Georgians welcome, and called uopn
Maj. Smith (“Bill Arp") for an oration.
The Major complied in his happiest vein,
and was followed by others of the party.
The reception, though impromtu, was de
lightful, and the Georgians could not help
but forever hold a good opinion of their
clever neighbors on the other end of the
line. The next morning the Georgians
were driven in handsome turnouts over
the beautiful city and shown
its many signs of a progres
sive citizenship. Surprise after sur
prise greeted the Georgians as they
were carried from one point of interest to
another. The water works—the hand
somest in this section —its supply of the
purest water drawn from an immense
spring, capable of supplying wiLo' for a
town ton times the size of Talladega.
The gas works are near by, and it and t he
water works are run under one manage
ment—a private corporation. The pub
lic school building, costing $12,000 lie
sales the grounds, is an honor to the
town and her people. Signs of progress
iveness are seen on every hand. The peo
ple move along the streets as if they had
an object in going. New and elegant res
idences vie with each other in attracting
the eyes of the stranger, and wide and
well shaded streets all go towards mak
ing Talladega what she is is now, the per
petual abiding place for a good healthy
boom.
In Mayor Skaggs Talladega has a
wonderful genius to preside over her des
tiny. His career is remarkable. Starting
out as a poor, struggling youth, here lie
is at the age of twenty-five or six at the
head of a large banking house and
Mayor of one of the liveliest towns in
Alabama. He is the main-stay of the
town, one in whom all place the most
implicit confidence, it was he who inau
gurated the healthy and growing boom.
It is he that is always to the front when
anything is to be done for the town. No
wonder the Talladegians are proud of
their youthful Mayor.
Mr. Jno. C. Williams, editor and pro
prietor of the Mountain Home, is a tal
ented young gentleman, devoted to his
work of building up his town. The well
filled columns of his paper of home ad
vertisements attest the esteem In-which
he and his able paper is held by his
people.
By eleven o'clock the party had seen
the town and began preparing for the re
turn home, all feeling happy over their
pleasant visit and courteous manner in
which they were treated. Talladega,
with her great public improvements and
hospitable j*eop!e, will long t>e remem
bered by the whole party. Returning the
party stopped an hour at Renfroe and
inspected the
GREAT ROGERS MILE.
Such a mill! What a well handled
army of workmen ! This immense mill
is owned by Messrs. I). W. and Morgan
Rogers, two gentlemen who secured their
first start in old Bartow. Their success
in Alabama is phenomenal. ’Seventy
five hands are employed in saw
ing up immense logs into lumber,
shingles and lathes. Every man and boy
moves ns one solid piece of machinery, so
well have they been drilled for their re
spective labors. Forty thousand feet of
lumber is ripped up by the saw every day;
50,000 shingles are made and bundled up
ready for the market, 40,000 lathes are
also made and bound up for the market
every day, employing the army of hands
and keeping the young railroad busy
in supplying it with logs. Every piece of
machinery is on the improved order and
most expensive. A perfect system of wa
ter works adorn the plant, while its ten
plugs are scattered in convenient points
in case of fire. Everything is worked to
a fine point; the system is perfect and
disorder and chaos is never known. The
Rogers boys are truly fair specimens of
not arc's noblemen, whose accumulation
of wealth is begrudged by no one. They
deserve all they have and can get. It
was amusing to watch “Bill Arp. He
had been shown around the mill when his
eyes caught the “steam nigger.” The
“steam nigger” takes the place of four
men in handling heavy logs and placing
them in position on the carriage ready
for the saw. The Major w itched the
“steam nigger” intently and philosophic
ally solved the labor question. Every
time the “steam nigger” hustled anew
log into position the Major would give
vent to his feelings with a loud laugh and
exclaim with all his might, “Good-bye,
Mr. Nigger.” He said that the “steam
nigger” was the only “nigger” he ever
loved.
The immense milling plant and the
twenty-seven miles of railroad arc under
one management, the head and centre of
which is 1). W. and Morgan Rogers.
DOWN IN A COAL MINE.
At Broken Arrow the party was invit
ed to explore the grimy depths of the
Eureka coal mines, where the company
operating it lately struck a five foot and
a half vein of the finestcoal. The Eureka
company is anew one, and as yet only
CONTINUED ON SECOND RAGE.