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SUBSCKIPTION. This Courant American is Published 'VKEKI.Y IN THE InTEUKST OF BaUTOW i'oi nty, Pkyotfd Mainly to Local ,kws, and Tiiinm it has a Rioht to [\ i’kct an Undivided County Patkon vGK. mT _Wfl Oft 1 ahtkksvii.i.E' ohrant. Established I*Bs t Iau _ i I HU ZUJ Laktkksvii.lk Amkkican, *• isms.i * owsolidatkd 188.. Rare Treat in Store for Lovers of Bargains. 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. Clothing! Clothing! A splendid stock or Clothing at very Low- Prices. If you need anything in DRY GOODS, DRESS GOODS, FLANNELS, WATERPROOF and thousands of other articles, don’t for get to call at my Store. J can’t sell you goods for less than they are worth, but I will guarantee to sell you goods at a living price. Don’t fail to call on me 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. Subscribe for The Cocrant-Amerkan. rSI M-MChNin PURELY VEGETABLE. it acts with extraordinary efficacy on the tiver, ki D n E ys, I—and Bowels. AN EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC FOR Malaria, Bowel Complaints, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Constipation, Biliousness, Kidney Aflections, Jaundice, Mental Depression, Collet BEST FAMILY MEDICINE No Honsehold Should be Without It, and, by being: kept ready for immediate use. Will save many an hour of suffering; and many a dollar in time and doctors' bills. THERE IS BUT ONE SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR See that you get the genuine with red Z” on front of Wrapper. Prepared only by J.H.ZEILIN & CO., Sole Proprietors, Philadelphia, Pa. I‘KICK. SI.OO. 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 ! Salvation Oil is the greatest cure on earth for. pain. It affords instant relief 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 Al> V EItTISKM ENTS. Thr Courant-Amkrican IS TnR 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 Afflicat ion. 51.50 Per Annum.—sc. a Copy. 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. 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