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J. F. JONES,"
The Regulator of Low Prices,
Inaugurates tlie Fall Season by an offering of New Goods in every Department.
The Cheapest and Prettiest Stock ever Shown in Oartersville.
DRESS GOODS.
Special attractions in everything new
All Wool Tricot*, Combination Suiting*,
Fancy Diagonals, All Wool Cash meres in
every desirable color, AH Wool Henrietta,
Ladies Cloth in all the new shades, Silk
and Velvet Novelties in every color
suitable lor trimming.
ATTR.A.CTXOXTS.
Velvets in all shades, Silk velvets in
every desirable colors, brocaded Woven
V el vets.
50 Pices brocaded and Plain Dress
Hoods —Double Width Cashmere, all
colors, at 1 He.; worth 25c.
J. P. JONES, Oartersville, - - - Georgia.
HORSEFLESH EATERS IN NEW YORK.
A Butcher Whose Customers Are the
I’ark Itirds anl HeaSts.
The man led the way through a pas
sage from the stable to the other side of
the building. The passage opened into
a large square room lighted by spacious
opt mi doors on Ixitli sides. The wood floor
was stained a dull red. This is the
slaughter room, where the horses are
killed and cut up for the animals at the
arsenal at Central park. On a couple of
hooks on one side of the room hung por
lions of a carcass like the quarters of a
lieef. At a dance one who was notan
expert in raw meat would have said this
was beef, but the horse butcher pointed
out that the meat was of a deeper color
and n closer, grain than l>eef. Horse
meat is, he said, as he could state from
personal knowledge, equally as good as
lieef w hen young raid tender. There was
a jka uliar tlavor to horse meat, lie added,
that some people liked better than lieef,
and the lions and tigers were fond of it,
but for himself lie preferred a good piece
of porterhouse steak every time.
In one corner of the room was a re
frigerator. where the meat is kept until
it is required. The skin of the last horse
who hud been killed a few days before
lay on the other side of the room. He
was a baker’s horse, the butcher ex
plained. and bis hair had lieen yellow.
Kvervthing was as neat and cleanly and
free from taint as a butcher’s shop could
be. The chopping block was washed and
as tidy as a kitchen table. The cleaver,
the saw and the small knives, shining
bright and sharp, hung in their places lie
side the butcher’s apron. About two
years ago the park authorities adopted
the plan of supplying the carnivorous
animals in the menagerie with horse
meat instead of beef. The measure was
purely an economic one. Director Conklin
found difficulty at times in obtaining
good lieef or mutton, and the prices
ranged from twelve to eighteen cents.
In Eurojie the animals in the zoological
collections are fed horse's llesli, and he
advised the commissioners to make the
trial here. President Borden became in
terested and the brick building was fitted
up as a stable and butcher shop, with a
result that has just died the outlay. From
*lO to sls are paid for horses, the butcher
is hired by the park board and the actual
c ost of the meat is now about three or
three and one-half cents a jiound.
About two horses on an average are
killed each week. They are rarely old
horses, as might be supposed, hut usually
those which have given out from some
cause. Before they are accepted a veter
inary surgeon makes a careful examina
tion of the animal to ascertain if it is free
from disease. There is no difficulty in
securing all that are needed by the city,
and usually two or three are kept in the
stalls, some of them to be fattened Lief ore
they are killed. From the ceiling near
the center of the room a rope hung down
ft ocn a heavy staple. horses are led
through the passage from the stable into
the slaughter room when they are to be
hilled.
“How do you kill them?” was asked.
The horse butcher picked up a snort
handled,heavy hammer and said: “Horses
die easy. When I bring them out here I
ties a cloth round their heads, so that it
blinds them, and they are so quiet you
can do anything with them. Then I
Listen tins rope from the ceiling around
the brute’s neck, and one iieavy blow
bum the hammer is gener’ly enough. If
>ou would like to come around to-morrow
juorning I'll show you how Ido it. It is
hooteherin’ day to-morrow and old Dob
i-iu will have to go; that’s the gray one
- °n saw in there.”
1 he reporter declined the invitation.
“Makes you kinder sick, I guess,”
audei l the butcher.
AVell. I didn’t like it myself when I
H ‘Kau, though I was used to butcherin’
‘attic, 1 )U (; horses ’jieared so different.
. u Kt't used to it, though. The worst
lr> . " 1L ‘ n some horse tiiat’s done good ser
vice gives out, and the people who bring
- lu * * lure feel so bad to give him up. Bui
SPECIAL
10 Pieces All AVool Red Flannel at 18c
yard; worth 25c. All Wool Red Twill
Flannel,. 25c. White Flannels at all
prices. Gray Flannel, 20c.; worth 25c.
Cotton Flannel at 7c. yard. Jeans, good
quality, 15c. per yard. All AVool Jeans
at a bargain.
Men’s Undershirts, all wool, from 25c
up. Ladies’ Vests from 35c. to SI.OO.
Extra fine all wool Jerseys from SI.OO
to $2.50.
Breakfase Shawls from 20c. to SI.OO.
Large all wool Shawls from $1.25 to
$3.00.
A beautiful line of Cashmere Shawls in
the latest colors, from $1.25 to $3.00.
they say they would rather have the
horse killed than sell him, where he may
be starved or beaten. Sometimes a
woman comes up crying and makes me
give back the horse. Once I had a little
bay mare that the surgeon operated on
and she got well. You never saw any
body so tickled in your life as the lady
and the children were when I told them,
and they took her back again. Most of
the animals are pretty badly knocked out
when they come here. Them stone
pavements is killin’ on horses. It gives
them the ‘quitters,’ a swellin’ around
the ankles, and they ain’t good for much
after that. Now, there’s an animal in
that wagon out there, in which I’m going
to take the meat over for the lions’ din
ner. You never saw such a sliadder as
that big horse was when he was fetched
in here last spring with a bad hoof, lie
looked sick and I kept him a month,
’cause 1 thought he won*n’t be good to
feed the animals, though the doctor said
he was sound. Then his hoof began to
heal and lie picked up. Now you can
jest see that he limps a little; he s as
strong as an elephant and as healthy.”
The horse meat was piled into the,
wagon and the rescued horse proved his
good character by the gait which be took
in drawing the vehicle through the park
to the arsenal. The keepers divided up
the joints of the “baker’s yellow horse”
among the hyenas, the lions and the
tigers, who crushed tin bon as and pol
ished them with gusto. To the eagles
chunks of flesh weighing a pound or
more were thrown and were quickly
dragged away by them in their talons.
“The bones,” said the horse butcher,
pointing to several barrels, “are saved
and go to the bone man. They are pretty
well cleaned when he gets ’em. Last
month 1 had a horse that had been a
trotter, but I couldn’t git any flesh on his
bones, lie was a tough one and no dis
count. I dulled my knives cuttin him
up. Them lions chewed on him till their
jaws was tired and hung down. Air.
Conklin says to me: “Wliat kind of meat
are vou givin’ the animals?’ I says: ‘lt’s
the trotter;’ then lie didn’t say no more.”
—New York Tribune.
Austria’s Crown Princess.
The Crown Princess of Austria, during
her sojourn at Abbazia, on the Adriatic,
commanded a crew of six young and
beautiful countesses of the bluest blood of
the empire, who womaned a barge,
which the princess steered as they rowed.
They were all experts at the oars, and
called the princess “Cu*omodore. ” —New
York Sun-
Drain V anti Handicraft.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes during the
busv vears of his life, it is said, was ac
customed to rest his brains by working
with bis hands. Under the great library
table was a smaller one, which was a min
iature workshop, fitted with a turning
lathe and tools, with which the poet
made lx>xes, brackets and toys for his
friends.
The little shop moved on a tiny rail
way track in the floor, so that on the ap
proach of a visitor who could not appre
ciate “ jimcracks, ” the doctor could push
the table, tools and all, under the larger
one entirely out of sight.
The majority of brain workers have
had some pursuit, taste or handicraft
which relieved the tension on the brain
of steady .Application in one direction.
Sometimes, as in the case of Mr. trlau
stone’s tree chopping or Air. Hawthorne s
potato digging, it was severe physical ex
ertion that gave rest to the mind, but
oftener it was the employment of the fin
gers and brain in some lighter work than
the daily craft. H:uis Andersen cut pa
per figures with marvelous skill, one of
the great Russian novelists makes clay
pipes of every shape, and one of the most
eminent clergymen in this country dab
bit's in chemistry, and has nearly blown
up his family on several occasions.
Parents and teachers are often annoyed
by the persistent devotion of boys to some
pui-suit which can nev.r serve them as a
means of livelihood, a taste for drawing,
THE COURAtfT-AMERICAN.
SHOES! SHOES!
if you are in need of Shoes 1 will cmly
tell you in a few words, 1 bought every
pair in my store for (’ASH, ena
bling me to get the Lowest Inside Prices.
I am selling Stribley & Co.s’ Shoes —
EVERY PAIR WARRANTED. If they
don’t give satisfaction money will be
refunded. Ladies’ fine Kid Shoes at $3.00
per pair. My Ladies’ Shoes in Kid and
Goat Button at $2.00 are well worth
$2.50. Ladies’ Button Shoes at $1.50
others will ask you $2.00. I sell the best
$1.50 Shoe in Cartersville. In Men’s
Shoes I can show you the best and cheap
est line. A splendid pair Shoes for SI.OO.
1 am satisfied with a small profit. Don’t
buy Children's Shoes till you learn my
prices. Bargains in Men’s a.n’ii Boys,
Boots
music or animals. Keep it in its place
and you have provided a hobby which
may serve as a safety valve for an over
taxed brain or nervous system. The
young man with a. regular occupation
and a taste which gives him rest and
pleasure enters life not with one staff, but
with two.—Youth’s Companion.
SOME QUEER MARRIAGE LAWS.
Customs iif tlie Old Days—ln Ancient
Rome—Jewish Marriage
The Roman church alone regarded
marriage as a sacrament, but all the other
churches recognized it as a divine institu
tion, and, accordingly, every denomina
tion lias provided religious services for its
solemnization. So strong a hold did the
church in England gain upon it that for a
long time the regulation of marriage and
divorce was almost exclusively under the
church’s jurisdiction.
Among the Romans there were three
ways of obtaining a wife—by capture,
sale or gift. When a Roman bought a
wife —and this was the usual way—the
ceremony that followed was merely gone
through for the sake of having indisputa
ble evidence of the sale. The head of the
family had to give her over to the hus
band in the presence of witnesses, and it
is from this that we now have the custom
of giving away the bride. Before the
period of Rome’s greatness the parties
could dissolve the marriage by mutual
consent.
When they wished to terminate the
contract they usually went before an
altar and in the presence of witnesses
declared the marriage at an end. At and
after the time of Rome’s greatness the
marriage was indissoluble. The Roman
husband took his wife not as her husband,
but as her father. She came into his
family the same almost as an adopted
daughter.
Originally the husband had absolute
and complete control over her and her
property. Even after his death she was
subjected to any guardianship that he
might have had appointed for her during
his lifetime. But a change came in her
condition, and came as changes usually
come, from one extreme to another. The
wife was now subject to the tutelage of
guardians appointed by her own family.
This tutelage gave her a very independent
position as to her separate estate and
person.
Before this change came, and even
afterward, there was exercised among
the Romans complete tyranny by the
head of the family over his relations
which were members of bis family.
As head of the family, the eldest male
was always the head: he had power not
only over his relatives, but all persons
connected with his household and his
children’s households. While the father
lived liis son was subject to him, al
though the son might be 40 years old and
have a large family of his own. The
grandchildren were subject to the grand
father the same as their own father.
The family was then regarded much us
we now regard the individual. If a mem
ber committed a crime the whole family
was held responsible, and it was perfectly
lawful for the injured family to get re
venge or satisfaction, even if it were
necessary to exterminate the whole of
fending family. This was carried to such
an extent that whole families were de
stroyed.
The blood feud, and it was well
named, descended from father to son.
It was to *ie Roman, in effect, what the
inherited curse was to the Greek. The
feud wxis kept up not so much for the
sake of punishment as to prevent the
supposed liability of the offending family
to commit flesh offenses. AVith all their
peculiar customs in regard to the family
it must be said to their credit that they
never to any extent practiced polygamy.
If the Romans did not countenance
polygamy the Hebrews did, and they had
a more peculiar custom. There was a
law among them called the Levirate,
which means brother-in-law, and accord
ing to this law, at the death of the bus
OARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY (XT. 20. 1887.
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If you need anything in
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WATERPROOF
and thousands of other articles, don’t for
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when you come to Cartersville.
band, the next oldest unmarried brother
in-law of the widow married her if there
were no children.
In this way the wife of the eldest
brother might, in the course of time, have
been the wife of all the brothers. This
custom afterward extended to many of
the western nations, hut the marriage
took place whether there were any chil
dren or not.
There was another kind of marriage
called polygnia, and, like the Levirate, it
extended to the western countries. This,
however, did not gain much foothold
among the Hebrews. Polygnia was sim
ply polygamy reversed. According to it,
the woman was the head of the house,
and might have as many legal husbands
at one time as she pleased. Her children
bore her name, and recognized her as
head of the house.
Some of the customs attending a He
braic marriage were peculiar. The bride
groom dressed himself in the most gor
geous style he could command. He next
perfumed himself with frankincense and
myrrh. Then he went forth covered
with garlands, or, if he were rich, he
would wear a circlet of gold and ride a
gayly caparisoned horse. He was at
tended to the bride’s house by his grooms
men, musicians, singers and torch
bearers.
The marriage was always celebrated at
night, and the bridesmaids were provided
with lamps to meet the bridegroom when
he came. On his arrival, he found the
bride, bridesmaids and company awaiting
him. As soon as the actual ceremony
was over, the entire company returned to
the bridegroom’s house with great re
joicing. When they reached the house,
they partook of the wedding feast. The
festivities usually lasted during fourteen
days. The groom not only furnished the
feast but the robes of those who took part
in the ceremony.
Pioneer marriages in this country, not
a century ago, had some resemblance to
a Hebrew wedding. In those days the
marriage was the cause of great excite
ment, and the whole neighborhood was
usually invited.—Pittsburg Dispatch.
Origin of Chili’s Vineyards.
When the Spanish first began to colo
nize in Chili an Andalusian took three
gi’ape plants from Seville to Valparaiso.
These increased and multiplied, and with
the addition of the finest plants from
Bordeaux and Burgundy, Chili now ships
large quantities of wine all over Spanish
South America and to France, where it is
held in high esteem by the wine agents.
—New York Tribune.
Beau Ideal of Happiness.
When Henry Labouchere was at
Dieppe he asked a New Orleans beauty,
who is making a sensation there, what
was her beau ideal of happiness. She
said: “Swinging in a hammock ali day
and having about a dozen royal high
nesses standing around fanning me.”—
The Argonaut.
Harnessing Nature’s Forces.
One of the latest attempts to harness
the forces of nature for the service of
man is the adaptation of a windmill for
the turning of a dynamo, the electricity
thus obtained being stored in suitable bat
teries, and afterward used in lighting
beacons for the benefit of the maritime
interests. There is a station of this kind
near the month of the Seine, and consid
erable success has l>een obtained.—Chi
cago News.
Patch on h Negro’s Skin.
There is a negro in a New York hos
pital who has a patch of light colored
skin on his back. It was grafted there,
he having lost the original cuticle by fall
ing against a roller in a shoe factory.
The pieces were taken from the arms of
a young medical student. At first the
transplanted skin remained white, but it
Ls said to be slowly turning black.—Chi
cago Herald.
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CARTERSVILLE.
The Future Steel Making City of
the South.
In Oil Bartow Capital Finds Safe Invest
ment, and Farmers Delightful
Homes.
It does not take a prophet to foretell
the future of Cartersville, and the impor
tant position it must soon occupy as one
ol the principal industrial centers of the
South, and the relation it must bear to
the steel production of this country.
The casual observer of affairs needs
but to note its surroundings and loca
tion to see that it is destined to he a city
eminent for its manufacturing enter
prises.
Nestled in a beautiful valley of great
fertility, upon the banks of the mystic
Etowah, fanned by refreshing breezes
from the foot-hills of the Blue Ridge, it
stands robust and vigorous—the embryo
Pittsburg of the South. AVhile there are
a number of booming young cities and
towns throughout the mineral belt of the
South, all claiming to possess superior
advantages for the investment of capital
and a wealth of natural resources; with
out disparaging, in the least, the real
meriK- of t heir elaims. we venture the as
sertion, without fear of contradiction,
that there is not a town in the Southern
States that will at all compare toJJar
tersville in advantages of location and
natural resources. Nearly all of the
growing towns of the South are de
pending for their future development and
prosperity upon either agricultural or
mineral resources, few, if any of them,
combining the two. But with Carters
ville it is different. Were the hope for the
future based upon agriculture alone, it
would even then occupy an enviable posi
tion, for old Bartow floats the banner as
one of the richest in that line. Were its
claims resting upon her minerals, it
would still stand proudly to the front,
for her hills are full of ores of the highest
grade and in great variety Combine the
resources, with pure air and a healthful
climate, and her position is unapproach
able.
IIAIITOW COUNTY.
Situated in the north western portion of
the State, just above the 34th parallel of
latitude, this county has advantages pe
culiarly its own. It contains an area of
500 square miles, or 320,000 acres, and
rests upon a solid foundation of lime
stone, sandstone and iron ore. There are
91,325 acres of improved land, valued at
$2,102,212. The remaining 238,675
acres being covered with timber and a
large portion of it teeming with valuable
minerals, and more valuable probably in
a state of nature than the lands that
have been improved. The character of
the soil is varied as to the surface but al
most invariably the sub-soil is red or yel
low clay. Tlje red or gray ridge lands,
the mulatto uplands, the deep alluvial of
the creek and river bottoms are alike
productive and generous and respond as
readily to the skill and care of the culti
vator as any lands in the State of Geor
gia. Cotton, corn, tobacco, all the culti
vated grasses, wheat, oats, barley, rye,
sorghum, ground peas, all the products
of the temperate zone, except some varie
ties of the citrus family find in Bartow
county a soil and climhte congenial and
invigorating, and they reach as great
perfection there as anywhere in the State.
The average yield per acre of cotton for
the whole county, is about one-half hale;
the average yield per acre for the State
is about one-fifth bale. The average yield
of corn for the State is about 24,000,000
bushels Of this Bartow couty produces
about4oo,ooobushels in round numbers.
There are 138 counties in the State. The
product per acre for the county will be
found largely in excess of any other.
There are 91,325 acres of improved lands,
valued at $2,162,212, which produced in
1879 —census of 1880 —a crop valued at
$903,588; or, in other words, the land in
one year produces nearly half its value.
This needs no Commentary, but for the
sake of comparison let us take Adams
county, Illinois, where farms valued at
$17,695,477, produced the same year,
crops valued at $3,294,250, or about
one-sixth the value of the farms These
figures speak for themselves, and are sus
ceptible of proof. Bartow is peculiarly
adapted to the growtlfof all the grasses.
Clover finds in the red soil of the county
a home where it reaches perfection. From
one to two tons of hay per acre are easily
produced and the clover becomes practi
cally indigenous Although too far south
for the famous Blue grass of Kentucky,
farmers find an excellent substitute in
Bermuda, Orchard, Lespideza Striata and
the native grasses which are succuleut
and lasting. The North Georgia mule lias
a reputation second to none for staying
qualities. Running streams of purest
water rush from the hills and permeate
the valleys in all directions, and such a
state of affairs as we have lately heard of
in Texas never obtains in the county of
Bartow. Springs of both limestond and
freestone abound, and where springs are
not water is readily obtained in dug wells
at depths ranging from 25 to 30 feet.
The Etowah river runs through the coun
ty from northwest to southeast, and
affords unlimited water power at numer
ous shoals and rapids. There are in ad
dition creeks, such as Enharlee, Bumpkin
Vine, Allatoonu and Two Run, that in
many instances would be dignified with
the names of rivers. Altogether, Bartow
may Is* considered an extraordinarily
well watered county, and at the same
time then* is but little loss by freshet
or overthrow.
CLIMATE
Is mild. The variations of the thermom
eter are not excessive. In winter for the
months of December, January and Feb
ruary, the mean tenqierature is 44.8°; for
June, July and August, 78°; for the year,
61.9°. Rainfall for the year 47.2 inches;
for the months of June, July and August,
10.18 inches. The above figures are com
piled from observations made from 1874
to 1884 under the direction of the Com
missioner of Agriculture, and are no
doubt correct and reliable averages. The
healthfulness of the county is unques
tionable, local or epidemic diseases are
unknown, and the death rate is as low as
in any community in the world.
(“A UTE KS Vllfl.E
Is the county seat, with a population of
2,500, situated at the junction of the W.
& A. R. R. with the E. & \Y. R. R. of Ala
bama, the latter road giving a through
line to the great manufacturing town of
Birmingham and its adjacent coal fields,
distant 151 miles. Below the town
stretches out the broad and fertile valley
of the Etowah river, with its fields of
rich alluvial soil, on the east and north
east rise the mineral bearing mountains
of the Allatoona range, easy to access
and daily discharging a little of their
wealth, through the streets of the town.
North and west, are the valleys of Petitt’s,
Two Run and Pine Log cn*eks, the pro
ducts of which find their markets in the
town.
Prettily situated on a series of gentle
elevations, the town Ls well laid oil. thor
oughly drained, well built, with many
pretty residences, its streets shaded, its
many gardens, prolific and beautiful to
the eye, its citizens full of just pride in
their town, believe it a good place to
live. Forty-eight miles from the city of
Atlanta, and ninety miles from Chatta
nooga. A short ride over the \V. &A. R.
it. places the merchant in a good mar
ket for sale or purchase. When the con
templated extension of the E. & W. R. R.
to Gainesville, on the Richmond and Dan
ville system is finished, Cartersville will
have three competing lines to the east,
and the shortest route from New York to
New Orleans, will be over the E. & W.,
through Cartersville. A tempting field
for the manufacturer—Cartersville offers
every inducement to proposed plants.
With boundless iron and manganese ore,
coke near at hand, charcoal cheap and
plentiful, timber in every variety, and
especially the hard woods and pine, lands
and taxes cheap, a populationanxibus to
welcome new blood, the day cannot be
far distant when Cartersville will be a
very hive of industry.
The ochre works of A. P. Silva, the
planing mill of Messrs Galloway & Uren
and the long established carriage and
wagon factory of R. 11. Jones & Son, are
ample evidences that success follows a
well conducted manufacturing enterprise.
A manufacturer seeking a site for his
plant, cannot do better than to investi
gate the claims of Cartersville. He will
find ample encouragement and substan
tial inducements offered. The people are
in earnest ami desire nothing more than
the influx of new capital, new blood, new
enterprise, and to such they extend a
heartp invitation.
The four principal religious denomina
tions are represented in substantially
built churches and the great “Union
Tabernacle,” with a seating capacity of
4,000, is the scene of an annual ten days’
meeting, where the services tire conducted
by some of the most eraminent divines of
the land.
The climate is healthful and pleasant,
cool nights in summer, and in winter the
thermometer rarely finds itself as low as
10° above zero. The elevation is about
800 feet above the sea level. The sur
rounding country is beautiful, and many
pleasant drives over good roads invite
the lovers of out door file. The city has
no debts, taxes are low, and by popular
vote in 1884, prohibition rules the
county.
MINE HALS.
Upon our river and within view of the
W. & A. R. It. flows a water power of
over 7,000 horse, at low water mark.
The site of war destroyed works prove
its capacity and mutely invites the touch
of development. A hundred streams in
the county waste their impatient force,
waiting the curbing and directing hand
of intelligent application.
But it is to our mineral deposits to
which we call especial attention. We are
only seventy miles from the coal fields of
Alabama, with direct railroad communi
cation, by way of the East and West
Railroad of Alabama; and the Western
and Atlantic Railroad furnishes a fine to
the competing mines of Tennessee. In
other words, we draw from the near coal
fields of both Alabama and Tennessee,
while both these States must depend upon
its own production for supply.
Long before the late war there were
five furnaces in operation in Bartow, pro
ducing, by crude methods, and unskilled
labor, the finest quality of charcoal
iron. The business paid. But it is only
of late that the enormous quantity of
iron and manganffhe ores lying in our
hills have been revealed. We have scarce
ly scratched the surface, yet from only
two mines we ship annually over 27000
tons of iron, and nowhere have excava
tions 1 si-n made fifty feet below the sur
face. It is estimated that in one acre
there is deposited nearly 500,000 tons of
brown hematite within easy and profita
ble reach We are now shipping our iron
ores to both Tennessee and Birmingham.
Alabama tells us she needs our ores, and
Tennessee has been buying for years.
Our brown hematite ore carries over 60
per cent, of pure iron, and the gray spec
ular ore over 64 per cent. The compre
hensive mind of .Joseph E. Brown long
ago realized the situation, and the Dade
Coal company has invested in largely, is
operating with fine profits, and contin
ues to buy. The Etowah Iron and Man
ganese Company, owning nearly 12,000
acres in the mineral belt, has received
offers of lease for less than 300 acres, the
secured profits on which, to the company,
would pay them over tea per cent, annu
ally upon the purchase price paid for the
entire 12,000 acres, let this three hun
dred acres hardly contains the 100th
part of their mineral deposits.
It lies within the knowledge of the
writer that a mine owner is now receiving
nearly fifty per cent, per annum in profits
from a single mine, and the deposit is
barely toueheC. These instances are
mentioned that the reader may see that
there is money in it.
Statistics rank Bartow county as third
in the quantity of manganese shipped;
yet the writer ventures the opinion that
nowhere is mining for this vsluable
metal carried on as crudely. The pocket
drifts on the surface are rifled, while the
main stores remain untouched. This orr
is worth delivered at the depots about
$6, while iron ore is worth only $1.50.
Bear in mind that competent authority
has pronounced the manganese deposits
in Bartow to be superior to any which
have yet been discovered. A furnanee
for the conversion of this ore from the
crude manganese, worth $6 per ton, into
Speigel, worth $25 per ton and upwards,
is one of the many investments which
we think would pay our Atlanta friends.
RESOURCES.
Cartersville is the center and legitimate
market of the richest mineral and agri
cultural sections of the South. It is the
capital of the banner county of the Em
pire State of the South—a county unsur
passed in natural wealth, and a topogra
phy of unapproachable lienuty. There
is, perhaps. no spot upon the American
continent combining such wonderful
natural resources; such a variety of pro
ductive soil: such h delightful and in
vigorating climate; such pure water and
streams of incalculable motive power, as
is to be found in old Bartow. Within her
borders wlisat, oats. corn, cotton and
the grasses all grow luxuriantly and yield
good returns to the industrious and ener
getic husbandman. Her hills abound in
nearly all of the more valuable minerals,
such as iron, manganese, ochre, baryta,
lead, silver, gold, graphite, copper,
pyrites of iron, asbestos and nitre —all in
great quantities. The is also found in
large beds,the liest of fire-clay, lime
stone, saml-stone, mill-rock, building
stone and marble of the best quality.
Her variety of forest timlier is wonder
ful. Where is there to be found the same
area, more blessed by benignant Provi
dence, made so independent and capable
of producing nearly everything necessary
to the support of a people? There is
scarcely a necessity of life that cannot be
produced within that limit.
(’artersville's rich fiield, vvfth all of its
possibilities, stands open to the brains,
energy, enterprise and capital of the
world. A sturdy, independent, generous
and noble-hearted people, the most salu
broius of climates and the balmiest of
skies, bids them come.
Why shouldn't we boom !
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and speedy cure to all sufferers from
rheumatism, neuralgia headache, sore
throat, pain in the back, side and limbs,
cuts, bruises, &c. Price twenty-five cents
a bottle.
SEA 1110H1 NOTHE BUSTLES.
A Woman's lliscripiion of the Work of
the Inspectresses on the Wharves.
Indignant woman is not a pleasant
[ter son to run against, and usually peo
ple give her a wide berth; but wait on the
docks of New York for a European steam
er and you find her, not in the singular,
but in the plural number. In former
years it was an easy matter to rush
through afew(?) presents, fifty or so.
Now, with the advent of woman on the
docks as inspectresses, a sad change has
come o’er the spirit of the fair traveler’s
dream. These insjiectresses are twenty
three in number, under the charge of Mrs.
Mary E. Williams, chief of the bureau.
They range in age from 10 years to that
point where women stop having birth
days. Their hours at the Barge Office
on the Battery are from 9 and 7 a. m
on alternate weeks, to op. m. At this
season they are rushed, Sunday being
the busiest day. A competitive civil ser
vice examination, such .as any pupil in
the upper grammar grades could puss,
secures a position and a salary of S9B a
month. When a vessel is sighted off
Eire Island its arrival is wired to the
Barge Office. At the Narrows the Cus
tom House officials board the great
steamer, and others, with inspectresses,
prepare to meet her when safely tied to
her landing. At one end ofthe gorgeous
ly fitted u] saloon, the men in brass
buttons and whitecaps with gilt insignia,
seat themselves, and in Indian file the
passengers come up to the impromptu
desks
“Your name?” asks the officer.
“J. Helene .Tones.” So much is honest.
“Alone or with an escort?”
Hfire comes the rub If unattended,
her ladyship must submit to the hundred
eyes of the female Argus detailed to in
spect the luggage of ladies traveling
alone. If with a gentleman this is avoid
ed, and although she has tramped all
over the continent, and bought from
every shop in London and Paris without
any aid, the result, just being pulled up
from the hold of the ship, at the present
moment she finds male protection a
most desirable tiling. Her answer,
truthfully or no, goes down, and the
next interrogation is regarding the num
of trunks, boxes, parcels and packages.
They must all enumerated “big box,
bandbox and bundle.”
“Dutiable or non-dutiable?” she is
asked. Nine cases out often she smiling
ly says she has nothing at all upon
which duty can be charged—in her judg
ment. Subsequent events prove that
differences of opinion still exist in this
cold, cruel world, where an unfeeling
Government persists in levying a tax on
female frijierie. Mademoiselle is then
passed to the man opposite and signs
lier name to this paper. She lias thus
sworn to possessing no dutiable articles.
If sqeamish she may reply that she has a
few trifles and is asked to name them and
place upon these a valuation. Seldom is
the true cost given, and often sales bills
are produced (kindly arranged by parties
across), substantiating her statements.
The questioning closes with a number
handed her on a check, corresponding to
that on her sworn deposition. With it
goes a printed circular informing one
bribery is punishable. The steamer
reaches her pier.
Mile. Jones, in anew seal jacket and
Parisian bonnet, brings down number
less small parcels, her steward, gracious
under a final tip, in the rear with port
manteau, rugs and umbrellas. She em
braces waiting admirers, announces she
“had a perfectly lovely time; actually
gained 16 pounds!” this last fact cor
roborated by an apparent increase in
volume and weight. Somehow her dress
improver has swelled, but she accounts
for this as the very latest from Regent
street fashion models. But keys are
called for. She is most voluble, too
much so for the cool miss in ulster now
controling all belongings. To the hand
bag first dives the woman official. Noth
ing there. Her steamer trunk. Also
empty, void of anything suspicious, al
though a night-dress case is poked into,
toilet bag and boxes ditto. Still nihil.
Rugs, fur cloaks and umbrellas are
opened. Miss Jones started with none,
she now carries four of a recent make.
They pass. A second key opens a huge
Saratoga and each tray comes under in
spection. There is much head gear, sus
piciously new, but it goes as personal be
longings. Lingerie comes under inspec
tion, but also passes. Dresses of late
make are tossed aside and into each
corner go the quick hands. Ah! Some
thing hard is struck! A box. Out it
comes in a jiffy. Cover torn off and
through the packing comes a pair of
lovely vases. These are quietly laid
aside. During this the owner is all the
time giving information, historical, of
the origin and cause of each article. But
Miss Inspectress is cooler than the tradi
tional cucumber.
Another trunk is unstrapped and un
locked. Deesses, dresses everywhere,
some but quarter made and one of di
mensions twice Mile. J. Helene’s size. The
keen eye of the examiner observes this
and the garment goes on top of the box,
followed by a gentleman's mackintosh,
and later a lamp in royal Worcester, the
vase ofthe lamp stuffed with lace. Gloves
are plenty, but give way to a silk skirt.
On the principle of set a thief to catch a
thief, put a woman to fathom a woman’s
ways and you need not be surprised to
see the inspectress hold up the skirt to
the light, rip open one of the gores and
show round after round of heavy jet
stitched inside. The pile is now of goodly
size, its owner tearfully exclaiming: It s
a shame; they re only presents from
friends in England!” But the inspec
tress heeds her not but goes for the ap
praisement with the deposition, which
she har all the time held in her hand.
Mile. Jones begins to breathe easy. Po
litely she is asked to place u value upon
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the goods and she does so. Just as she
j is shaking hands with herself and won
dering if she will have enough left in
| her portemonnnle to nut up at the
i Brunswick or the Fifth Avenue, she is in
vited into a room on the dock. Farewell
to sweet delusive hope! Pandora never
left it in the box to be so cruelly crushed.
A personal examination shows silk pet
ticoats with braid ami buillon, and fare
ornamentation. Her pockets, jewelry by
the yard, and in her back hair, when un
bound. are found two shining diamonds.
The anatomy of the bustle should he
reeds or springs with a tiny cushion of
hair. But hers is a piece of velvet which
she could not duplicate in the States, and
a scissors thrust in the cushion stabs
three meerschaum pipes! Behold her
shorn and in floods of tears. She calls
a cab, or some one does for her, pays the
duty on her little pile, amounting to
about three-fourths of their reul worth,
and loses what has been taken from her
tfiersoii. The next day she writes to some
New York [wiper anathematizing the
Government, a protective tariff, und
thinks she has none nothing at at illegal.
The goods taken Sunday last from a
Boston dressmaker on the LaGaseogne
from Paris, when spread out at the
Luight street public stores, made a dis
play dazzling to the eyes. They were
packed most adroftly, and the whole evi
dently a previously arranged plan with
the gentleman actingas temporary friend
iu time of need. The value placed upon
those declared dutable was 3000 francs,
or SIOOO, when the correct estimate is
#1.0,000. It was the largest seizure for
years, and oddly enough, made by the
male officers. A few days before a sec
ond-class passenger was discovered with
two suifs of men’s garments under the
skirts which lielonged to her sex! A
clergyman and wife had a whole ship's
cargo of household effects, which they
tried to enter free, certifying that they
were in use a year previous. This last
[termits entrance without taxation. On
looking at the goods not a vestige of
wear could lie seen, some of the furniture
and carjiets in the first luster of varnish
and newness. Further inquiry showed
that the clergyman only went over four
months previous. People who would
scorn to appropriate a farthing have the
greatest effrontery, and it is comical to
hear the expostulations at their failures
to get the earth and the fullness thereof,
But on the other hand, as if to show
their value, the inspectresses tax trifles,
and on but a few towels and a couple of
silver spoons I saw a poor intermediate
passenger pay |7.87. The male insju-c
--tor would have been charitable, for they
had not the appearance of new goods,
and they were the only things outside
clothing and necessities.
Vigor and Vitality
Are quickly given to every part of the
body by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. That tired
feeling is entirely overcome. The blood
is puried, enriched, and vitalized, and
carries health instead of disease to every
organ. The stomach is toned and
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THE I It HEADS BURNED OFF.
Two Negro Children Ferinli iu a liui-uing
Cabin—Heads nml Limb* Consumed
Monroe News.]
Between ten and eleven o’clock Wednes
day night Mr. John R. Thompson, living
about eight miles from this place, dis
covered a tenant house on his place
burning. The alarm of fire was raised,
and on arriving at the house, shrieks
and cries of children were heard within,
and the door found locked. Mr. Tom
Malcom broke the door from its hinges
with the door steps, but at the same
time the whole roof fell in and the Haines
rushed out at the door so that no one
could enter. As soon as it was possible
the bodies of the two children were drawn
out ofthe flames, having their heads and
limbs burned off and charred beyond
recognition. The house was occupied by
John Hester, colored, his wife and two
children aged four and six. The mot her
had gone to meeting, leaving the father
with the children, who, as they were
asleep, locked the door and went off
’possum hunting. When the mother ar
rived at the scene she was almost crazed
with grief, and had she not been restrain
ed, would have rushed madly into the
flames saying she was going to die with
them.
The cause of the fire is unknown. The
dwelling, kitchen and smoke house were
all discovered and tell in about the same
time. • Incendiarism is suspected.
A Presidential Trip Fifty Years Ago.
When President Van Buren went out
West, nearly fifty years ago, his palace
car consisted of an old Concord coach
that had to be pried out of the mud
every few miles. Going to St. Louis iu
those days was about, as tough a jour
ney as the trip across the plains to Pike’s
Peak some twenty-five years later. The
national road from Cumberland, Md., to
St. Louis was a terror to all travelers,
yet it was considered a great achieve
ment for those times, and, according to
a pleasing fiction, was looked upon as
the grand connecting link between the
Mississippi and the seaboard. Contrast
the modes of travel then and the stinted
accommodations by the way with'the
rapid transit and palatial hostel ries of
the present day, and the changes of half
a century seem phenomenal—enough to
make the bones of the Sage of Kinder
liook rattle in their coffin. —Washington
Critic.
A Sound Miml in a Sound Body.
Science and philosophy have exhausted
themselves in profound treatises to de
termine the just relation between mind
and matter, between body and soul, how
to preserve the equilibrium between the
two, and how to restore it when it is lost
ly sickness of the body. This great
problem has successfully been solved by
a gentleman in North Carolina, by expe
rience on himself, proving that an ounce
of practical experience is worth several
pounds of scientific or philosophical
. theorizing Mr. Hamlin is one of the best
known insurance men in Winston, N. C.
Gentlemen—Ever since I was seven
years of age I have had what the doctors
call hip disease, and which I call white
swelling. My hip was drawn out of
place. There was a swelling at the knee
joint, where there is a profuse running,
which has been there for years. Of course
this has greatly depleted my system, to
gether with a surgical operation on the
leg bone. I tried every known blood
purifier to build up my system, but none
did me good until I took S. S. S. I use it
every spring. It always builds me up,
giving me appetite and digestion, and
enables me to stand the long, trying,
everlasting, hot summer days. To me
there is no such medicine for purifying
the blood and building up the wasted
system as S. S. S. On using it I soon be
came strong of body and easy of mind.
My color changes from a pale, worn look
to a healthy, robust complexion.
Yours, very truly, M. S. Hamlin.
Winston, N. C., April 12, 1887.
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