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TOL.I-H0.48] GOV. GORDON Urges Us On to Action HID POINTS THE WAY TO OREAT SUCCESS. - He Declares that We Have More Mineral Wealth THAN ahy people be knows ANYTHING ABOUT. god Has Given Us All The Powers i of an Eagle, but will we soar ? He Thinks Our People Should Build A Furiipee, And Say* We Have Knough Ore to Run Ten, Ten-TliouHaml Years. The citizens’ meeting at the opera house last Saturday night was a memo rable occasion in the history of Carters ville. It was like the dawn of anew day —the beautiful sunlight creeping in to cheer and to warm the hearts of our peo ple for the great battle that is before them. It was the forerunner of anew era and betokens much good for the fu ture prosperity ot our God-favored and ambitious little city. The earnestness of purpose of our peo ple was plainly displayed on this occa sion. The feelings of every one were wrought up to the highest pitch and we Hy much doubt if there was a single person who left the opera house that night without a feeling of better regard ami a greater love for his town and county. They were awakened with new ideas and new ambitions, and the resolve to do something for the glory and good of our city tilled every breast. The advertised time for the beginning of the meeting was 7 o’clock. By that time the hall was comfortably tilled with people of all classes of our citizenship, including a large number of ladies. The stream of corners continued until 7:30 o'clock, when nearly every seat in the house was taken and many stood up around the door. About this time Gyv. Gordon, accompanied by a party of citi zens, arrived, and his apjiearance was the signal for a storm of cheering and applause. 1 L* following are the i‘i<ori-:i.:iuN(}s of the meeting: motion of J. A. Baker, Mr. M. R. Nans,!! was olected chairman of this nio'ting. Mr. Stansell said: Radiks and Fellow-citizens:— Wehave come together this evening for the pur ")se of listening to an address on the :lIIP ol Southern progress and develop and on the line of our own iinme 'possibilities, and General Young "* please introduce the orator of the P'casion. General Young said: Gentlemen, my Friends and -citizens: —lt has often been my /"viHiu-e to meet with you and sometimes dress you, but never before in my navel met with you on so important t!l occasion as to-night. It is an occa '"n fraught with the most important 11( l the most vital interests—most vital 11,1 porta nt to the interest of this little •lii i e know, though we cannot ’'‘C world of it on account of our ex ‘j t,ne modesty, that we live in the midst THE finest mineral interest 1 die world, and that we live in the fin ,l'. ogrieultural district and the finest * nue m the world. And I speak whereof /, ' )ow - It is the finest climate that | u ever placed nnyi in. But above all , Hs, ‘ tilings, far above them, are our oautiful and virtuous women. (Ap plause). 1 here is no spot on earth like this lit ' '•ity of (‘artersville and the grand old ‘j'R of Bartow. Within the last few ! *| } have visited most of the cities V ll villages of North Alabama and jand South Carolina. 1 have vis- Sn a cities, like mushrooms, that have jr.‘ Uu K up in a few weeks. But, fellow t| !“T’ know of none that possesses tl l,! iu I vantages and everything that goes constitute a city as oui- own little artersville. L diort time ago I visited the city of ■papoosa, a town, a few months ago, m ! “ "as only a handful of citizens and fc'n houses. To-day there aresixhun |a ‘ dwellings and two thousand inhabi ■oui- K * ,e - y a me eting about ■is tl l . UOl| ths ago, a meeting not so large Ki fii U8 ’ * le object °f which was to build raised a sum m the I b morhood of thirty thousand dollars, THE COURAHT-AMEKICAN. and that furnace to-day is being erected. And with that furnace where will they procure the iron? They will get it ALMOST WITHIN THIS SOUND OF MY VOICE, near Cartersville. The New York Herald sa\s that Tallapoosa has an iron mine almost the size of a hotel parlof. All I have to say is this: That no one is coming here voluntarily to build you a furnace, 1 know of but one instance in my experience where Northern and West ern men have come into a community and built a furnace of their own accord. You have to help them. You have to put your shoulder to the wheel, and when outsiders see that you are willing to sub scribe money, they will come in and help you. There is one gentlemen here to-night that has, within the last few weeks, be come interested in the resources of this section and this little city. That gentle man 1 need not introduce to you. llis nairie is not confined to this State or to the United States, but a man whose name has been wafted to every clime, whose name has been spoken in every language on earth, ahd in every country and in every clime where honor, glory and statesmanship are beloved and admired his name is known and spoken. Incom parable as a soldier, his cheek has been blackened by the smoke of an hundred battles, and all in defense of his country (applause); a statesman whose voice has been heard in our behalf on every occa sion where our interests were involved— that incomparable soldier, that match less statesman, John B. Gordon. gov. Gordon’s speech. Amid great applause Gov. Gordon arose arid said: Ladies and Gentlemen, my Fellow Countrymen: —lf ever that salutation was appreciated by any man it is by him who addresses you to-night. My fellow countrymen, there is not one impulse of this heart that is not awakened to new life and struggles for a higher and a nobler utterance at the thought that l am the countryman of such a people as surround me to-night. (Applause.) When the war ended, to which my elo quent friend has been pleased to allude, I had for the Southern people two ambitions, the one political, the other material. I sighed and labored and prayed for deliverance from a bondage which fate had sealed upon .ton, but, which I felt God, in his Almighty Provi dence, would bring you. For you If it another ambition: That you should re gain not only the prestige of which the war had deprived you, but that you should outreach and stretch far beyond in tne domain of progress anything which you had either realized or of which your imagination had dreamed in the past. And I want to say to you to-night that never in the darkest hour that fol lowed that disastrous conflict did I ever despair of either. When you were bound hand and foot, when passion ran high, when hope seemed to have deserted you, when all was darkness and blackness, politically, I felt an abiding confidence in a better thought, a loftier sentiment and higher and holier impulses of my fellow countrymen at the North with whom we had differed. I felt that the day would come, and coine speedily, when that cloud which hung above us would break, when the rays of anew sunlight would re visit us, when the chains would fall from our limbs, and when we would again be recog nized as a part and parcel of this great rebulic, for which your fathers had given their treasure and their blood. /.(Ap plause.) I felt that the day would come when this southland, which had given to this republic, young and struggling for existence, its greatest heroes in the field and the forum, would again be recog nized as the co-equal in this, the best, purest and freest goverment this earth has ever known. (Ap plause.) I knew it would come, and, though hope was deferred until your heart was sick, it has come. (Applause.) Thanks to your bra ve spirits, thanks to your love of truth and of right and of liberty, thanks to your devotion, despite discouragements, and, may I say it, thanks to the few men, who, beyond our borders, saw that, with poetic justice and political justice, the interests of the republic itself demanded your recognition, not only as freemen, but as equals as well as freemen, that day has come. Thanks to them and to the god ot liberty, who had guided us, we are free men and the equals of any portion of this republic. (Applause.) That ambition has been realized. The other interest, in its inception, now full of prombe, the bloom already upon the growing stem, the fruit just beyond us, ready to be grasped, is inviting you to the harvest. My countrymen, I undertake to say for the whole southland that, never in the history of any people—search all history and see —never in the history of any peo ple has there been such recuperation, wider such discouragements, over such mountains of almost insurmountable difficulties as has been realized in your experience. Think of it. Twenty years, twenty-five years is but a span in the life of a nation. It is but a little over on<* fourth the span of a human life, and, yet, within that short space, you have arisen, not from the struggling condition of a new country, but from a country abso lutely buried NECK-DEEP IN ASHES ANI) DESOLATION, with your labor destroyed, with your currency absolutely obliterated, with not a dollar within the entire limit of your country available as a currency, you began bare and naked, without resour ces. and have built, all by your own en ergies, your own enterprise, and the help which a beneficient God has given you, a land already beautiful, already dotted all over with evidence of thrift, ofgrowth, of wealth, of comfort. You have arisen, not as anew people beginning anew life, but as a people de spoiled, desolated, With your backs bending under a burden which had never been imposed upon any people, you have arisen in your present tlp ift, your present comfort, your present peace of mind, with all this evidence of growth spread all through your land. What does it mean? What does it mean, my fellow countrymen? Could any other portion of this Union—and I put this question to thoughtful men and women in my presence here to-night—could any 1 other portion of this Union have survived, CARTERSVILLE, GA., FRIDAY,* MAY 11, 1888. much less thrived, the disasters of war. the disasters of the decade following the war, which was worse than war itself, and yet have given ttie evidences of thrift which srirround this section to-dav? (Applause.) Find the place and point to me the people. Indicate upon the map of this or any other con tinent the locality where such a possibili ty would have been in reach of human enterprise and human effort. Can you find it? IMAGINE NEW ENGLAND, stripped as was this Southern land. Im agine it with an injection into its body politic such as we had in our midst —of ignorance, whatever else might be said, of ignorance of four millious of people, untaught in the science of government that it was to build. Imagine its homes destroyed, its farms laid waste, its labor disorganized, and a wall built apparently mountain high and impassable betweeu labor and landlord, passion excited by all the suggestions of human ingenuity and of passion engendered and kept alive between landlord and laborer; currency, the last dollar in entire New JEngland gone, with nothing to pledge for it but the bare soil, where would New Fngland be to-day? Its mills gone, its farms laid waste, the implements of hus bandry destroyed, farm stock, cattle, horses, all the products of industry of years swept away in a night, would New England have recuperated ns this coun try has? Answer me the question. WITHOUT A PARALLEL. Let’s lay aside for the moment all pride in this Southern land or in thiH Southern people, and tell me, ye student of history, where, in all the records of times that have passed, is there such a spec tacle of progress? I do not know it. I have been somewhat a student of history. I have thought some upon the progress of society and the development of human agencies or human industries. But I put it to you here to-night, and I challenge all the thought and ingenuity of this land to give me an instance in all the history of this world comparable to the resurrection, theenergv, the progress, the development and the magnificent promise of a grand future that is spread before this people to-day. (Prolonged cheering.) Where is it? Can you find it? Take any other section in the world and put them in like condition with this peo ple and tell me in twenty }ears what would be their condition? My countrymen, you dr/riot appreciate these facts, I fear. Just think of a people beginning life, not, as 1 have said, anew, but a great deal worse, beginning life, not with your labor organized, but with your labor disorganized and arrayed against you, an element, nou-tributive, not only apparently useless, but abso lutely hostile to your progress. Take the Middle Spates, take any portion of this favored continent, and array tor ten long years by all the passion and power of the government, superior to all else, the laborer against the landlord. Take that simple proposition and tell me what would be the result in any other land than this? Why, my countrymen, worse tliau waste, worse than a howling wilder ness, would have become the most flavor ed land under the sun. Nowhere else on this earth could the spectacle be I) resell ted which is presented to-day, un df*r similar circumstances, bv this peo ple, and I challengecontradiction to that statement. (Applause.) A GIFT FROM GOD. Now, what is the cause of it? Why is it? Let’s analyze that for a moment. I said a while ago that 1 never despaired. I should have been in my grave, bur dened as this heart was with a feeling of longing and of uncertainty as to the future of my children and the children of my people but for my faith in an admin istration wielded by a higher power than human governments which had wrought out for this section and for this people a destiny which human agency can never defeat. (Applause). I did not despair because I knew that, despite adverse leg islation which was unjust, in spite of dis criminations against you. in spite of the misapprehensions which lodged even in honest minds on the other side of the bloody border which separated us, in spite of the destruction and waste and boundless desolation which had swept over you, in spite of the wall which pas sion had reared between the laboring classes and yourselves, in spite of it all, I felt that God had given you in your cli mate, your soil, your productions, the in tegrity of its people, the splendid devo tion of its people to duty, had given you a wealth which He himself would guaran tee in His own good time. I felt it all, and here it is. It has come. It is com ing, it is coming. Are you going to help it? Oh, my countrymen, let me again remind you to keep in the progress of this argument to-night steadily in view the contrast that this country presents at this present hour with that of twenty years ago. Think of it. Keep it before you. Keep before you the difficulties with which you had to contend, and then tell me how it is that we have been led to comparative comfort, ease and wealth. nature’s work and man’s work. Now, my countrymen. 1 want you to k< ep that picture steadily before you while I submit one other proposition. There are two +hings, and only two, that are requisite in making a grand future or a grand history, politically, materially, socially, educational, religjous—in all di rections there are but two things requis ite. What are they? One is nature’s work; the other is man’s work. Nature must do her part, but that won’t suffice. You have mountains of wealth here near by you, but suppose you never hunt for it. Suppose you sit down and say, “Na ture has done all of this for us.”' What good does that do, my friends? If the wealth was not in your midst, then man would have to do it all. If you had no soil, if like the bleak shores of New Eng land—God be praised that the people even upon her rocks have been able to build fortunes and great estates and great civilization and become powers in this land of ours—if nature had done nothing for you, you must do it all. But nature alone will not accomplish the development of a community, a State or a country. Why? God Almighty does a thousand things without your help.* He arms the eagle with two" pin ions, but he does not arm you with but one. He has given you brain, with a consciousness and power to think, a power greater than eagles wings or the lion’s strength, greater than all the* ani mal kingdom or the vegi table kingdom. He has given you the power to think and act. He has armed von with that. He has armed your country with every re source of wealth. Wherever you turn, it is here, under you, above you, around you, throbbing with a life which isalrriost conscious. Pulsating within your hills is a life that almost throws itself into being and into development. Beneath you He spreads a soil rarely equalled. Is that true? May I repeat it? In this blessed couHt3 T of Bartow He has given you a soil scarcely equalled, taking all the range of products. (Applause). $ PLUME THE EAGLE. Right around you here, within a few miles: what can you do? Cotton upon one acre, equal to the belt land, clover upon the next equal to the richest prai ries of the West, iron in your hills, woods upon your ranges, transportation, water power, health, and spreading above you a sky that is matchless in its splendor. Everywhere and on every hand He has blessed you and invited you. He has plumed that eagle with one wing, but he lacks the other. What can you do with the eagle? He is a powerful bird, but if you deprive him of one wing vou pin him to the earth. You have not disabled him much. He has hs throbbing heart, his pulsating breast, his strong sinews, his bright eye as before, but he lacks just one little thing—one wing—that is all. Deprive him of it and he is a fixture on this earth. He cannot soar. He cannot mount over mountains and above the storms, but give him both and he soars away to meet the sun. Oh, my countrv men, God has given you the one pinion. He has done more than that. He has given you all the power with which He has armed the eagle. He has filled you with it. He has poured in the life,- the vitality, the blood, the power, but he has left you to supply the one wing, man's part. Are you going to do it? Are you? If yes, then you will soar. If no, then it matters not, though mill ions of pounds sterling were lying at your door, though your streets may be thumping with the pulsations of wealth that would shake the very houses that are built along it, what good would it do? What good? Not a bit. It is not worth anything. Your soil is here. Suppose you do not cultivate it? Is clover going to grow? Is wheat, cotton and other produce going to grow? Oh. no. Wee Is, briars, this tles and thorns will cumber that ground. Man, man, must do his part. It is the law of the Great God of the Uni verse, and you cannot undo it, and ought not to if you could. (Applause). You must do your part. UNEQUALLED IN WEALTH. You have wealth here.* (Ap-plause). T do' not know anything like it within the range of mv travels. I have been North and East and West, and I have thought some. Ido not know a better country. Do you? Do you know anything better than Bartow? It, has a good name. Ah, lam glad it is Bartow. lam glad that this county here, so near the head as the heart is in the body of man, here near the head of our State, this county, central in the body, near the brain, is so enriched with all the life-giving blood, ready to send out to the remotest extremities of allthisland of ours its streams of wealth. I am glad its name is Bartow. (Ap plause). I knew Bartow. I am glad two ways. I am glad that such a county is named for such a man, and I am glad to know that no in ferior county bears the name of such a man. I knew him. I knew him well. I loved him. I saw him as he rode for the last time in the discharge of a high and holy duty, to give himself for his country. (Applause). He was no half-way man. He was not the man who sat down and said to other people, “Yon go and at tend to that and let me alone.” He was not a man who said, “This thing is right, and, therefore, will take care of itself.” Oh, no. But he said, “This conscience of mine, this brain of mine, dictates to ine that this is my duty; it is my duty to go where bayonets gleam, where shells are shivering the very timbers around me; it is my duty to go where the rninnie-balls are making music in the air, and I am going.” And he went. IS IT RIGHTLY NAMED? My countrymen, is this county well named or not? What are you going to do about it? Have you got a duty? I think so. I think so. Ido not think it is worth while for me to stand up here and tell you what that duty is. Why, you know it. It is written on every hill around this town. It is written in your red, rich soil. It is written in your mines. It speaks to you in .your water powers. Are you going to heed that voice or not? If you do not, one of these mornings—l like to have said you would wake up. I do not know about that, because if men cannot see what you are obliged to see, I do not know whether or not they will ever awake. (Applause.) If you fail to s *e it, somebody will wake up in the long future to find other people are gathering the fruits all around you. While you were asleep they were ripening. While you were sitting still others were gather ing, and, after a while, the wealth will have passed away from you, and you will find yourselves strangers in a strange land. You have an opportunity now of doing it yourselves. To recur to the figure of the wing, yon must put the wing on or somebody else will. Some men, and some time, not very far dis tant, will see that eagle mounting to the skies. Are you going to furnish that wing? Ah, my countrymen, wake ud to-night, wake up. Hear the prediction which 1 submit here in all solemnity and thoughtfulness to you: The time is at hand when here in this portion of our beloved State of Georgia will be indus tries which* shall make your very air revel and thrill and tremble. (Applause). It is coming. You can stop it for a time, but you cannot stop it forever. Why? I am ashamed to aRk the question. I will submit it to these boys. Tell me, you thoughtful boys who sit before me, why it is that Bartow county should ship iron ore to MAKE OTHER PEOPLE RICH in some other State? (Applause). Why don’t: you make it Any reason for it? Haven’t you as much sense as other people? You have got whole mountains here full of timber to make charcoal. You have a river with a power rarely equalled You have a soil that will sup port the densest population that ever lived upon any soil. You have a climate that will send the blood cowsing thro ugh the vein, and as free from poison as any climate on this earth, wherever you go. (Applause). You have a water that is invigorating, almost as much so as champagne itself. And your women’s eyes are encouragements and greater en couragements than anybody’s cham pagne. (Applause aud laughter). Now, I put to you the practical question, and, as I said before, I am ashamed to ask it to grown men and women, but 1 put it to the boys and girls: With such a coun try aw yours, why should other people come here and take your ores off and manufacture them? WHAT ONE FURNACE WOULD DO. Do you know what it would be worth to you to manufacture the iron that is going out of this country toother peo ple? Why, its costs something to ship iron ore—cars, engines, railroad tracks, conductors, all to pay—all .to pay. It comes out of your pocket, doesn't it? Why don’t you keep that iron ore here. You would save the freight. Is that all you would save? That would amount to something, it is true, but a furnace would help these struggling merchants. It would help the poor lawyer occasionally to a fee. (Laughter.) It would help you to pay the preacher and the doctor. Of course, the lawyer doesn't need it. (Laughter.) But, my friends, that is a very small part of it. What else will it do for you? Can you imagine that it will help you in any other way? Let’s see. Suppose you started one furnace—and you ought to have ten. There is iron ore enough within a range of ten miles of this town to run ten furnaces. I expect, ten thous and years—longer than a whole life at least. (Applause.) You ought to have one furnace anyhow. You would save the wages of the men that make it. It would be spent here. You would bring population to your midst. HEAL/ ESTATE WILL RISE. What is population worth? It is wealth. Your corner lot that is now worth five hundred or a thousand dollars would be worth two thousand or live thousand dollars after a little. Why? More people want it. Population. What is population? It is wealth—wealth! People must live. They must have places on which to build a home, and the furnace you build will erect a greac many homes, and will multify your profits a great many times. Is somebody else going to do it for you? Oh, no. Others may come in and help, but my, countrymen, if you do not show .vour faith in your own development, in your own wealth, b> putting your own money in these enterprises, the outside world will be very slow to do it, but they will go up here somewhere else and start their own town and furnaces. INQUIRING ABOUT BARTOW. Mark what I tell you. This county is not going to sleep much longer. * Its wealth is being known all over the coun try. As Governor of this State—by the kind partiality of deluded friends, I’m afraid—(laughter) a great many of my Northern friends write to inquire about Bartow. “What sort of a place is Bar tow?’’ “Is there iron ore there?” Is there manganese and marble and graphite?” and last, but not least, “rich chocolate soil.” (Applause). If so, why is it that there is nothing being done? not a furnace about Cartersville. lam told that the mountains literally groan with wealth in sight of the town, almost within the very streets of the town, with all this wealth lying around you, and yet no furnace. How is this? Is the iron ore useless, valueless? Has it within it some enemy that prevents it from being smelted into shapes that would bring commerce, wealth and money? Oh, no, that is not so, because other people are shipping it to outside furnaces. Then, WHAT IS THE MATTER? Is Bartow a sickly county? Is it a place where men cannot labor? Are the lands so poor that provisions cannot be had to supply the labor? Oh, no. Then, what is the matter? My countrymen, instruct me to-night, what I am to say for you. How is it? No furnace, close to the coal fields in two directions, two lines competing and ready to lay down coal and coke and all the needed fuel at almost the same price as to those people to whom your ores are shipped hundreds of miles away. Is there a man in this audience that will ted me what answer I can make to that? Why, my country men, there is but one way to answer it, and that is to say that you either do not appreciate this wealth around you, or that you are totally incapacitated to take hold of it and develop it. Why, I know that neither of those things are true. (Applause). MONEY AND DRAINS SUFFICIENT. You have the brain. You know that this wealth is here. You have got money enough to do it right here in this county, and if you start one furnace others will follow. Other industries will follow, and there is not one enterprise of any description, no profession, no school house or church or counter or shop that will not be vastly benefitted by such a development as is before us. Now, are you going to do it? My countrymen, that is the question I press upon you. to-night. While 1 am governor of Georgia, I con fess to one ambition. I expect—well, I ought to have said first of all an ambi tion to live in the hearts of my people. Ido want that. Whether I de serve it or not is another question, but I want it. But, my countrymen, what I really want while I am blessed with your confidence and your ‘partiality as the chief executive of this State, is to see you bettered in your financial condition, to se this country thrive and to see this buried wealth resurrected, to see this gi gantic and Herculean power that has been asleep tor these centuries in your moun tains awakened from its slumber and harnessed to your car of progress. (Ap- $1.50 Per Annnm.—sc. a Copy | planse). Will you do it? I will l**g ! other people to help if you will, j I have talked a great deal longer than j I expected, but I want to ask this ques tion: I)o you want it? How much do ; you want it? Now, Ido not live in Car tersville. I wish I had enough liveH to live here as well as some other place, j (Applause). Your opportunities here | are the very best, your climate is deli- I cious, your views from your hill tops are entrancing, your wealth that lies around under your feet is matchless. I again put the inquiry to you : What are von going to do? How much do you want it? I repeat. Ido not live here, but my laith is such that 1 am going TO TAKE SOME STOCK in this sort of development for one. (Applause). lam not going to risk any thing, but I am going to invest some thing. (Applause.) There is not a tiling to risk about it. I submit this sober, business proposi tion how much do you want it? Let these people show their faith here to-night. Will you do if? [A voice: “We will!] Now, my countrymen, for your own interest and for your chil dren’s and for tin* iove you have for this county and this country set the example to those outside of this charm ing region by your own course to the ex tent of your ability. I bid you, as 1 love you and love this country, go for ward to-night; go forward to-night; go forward in the cause of development in Bartow county. [Prolonged applause.] NOT READY TO TAKE SUBSCRIPTIONS. At the finish of the great speech of Gov. Gordon loud calls were made for the sub scription book to be opened. The earn est desire to help swell the subscription seemed to have taken possession of every one, and it was therefore with much re gret that the announcement of Hon. T. W. Milner that the progenitors of the movement were not ready to then open the subscription was heard. The an nouncement was also made that ANOTHER MEETING will be held at the opera house next Sat urday night and that Hons. Henry W. Grady and Evan P. Howell had con sented to address our people on this all important subject. After these speeches the Subscription book will be opened and every one will be expected to subscribe as much as he can afford. No one should absent himself from the meeting and no one should fail to do his duty. The ladies are cordially invited to be present. “Betny Hamilton,” Mrs. Idora W. Plowman, now of At lanta, well known as “Betsy Hamilton,” and a regular contributor to the Atlanta Constitution, appeal ed at the courthouse Friday night, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Childrens’ Aid Society, in recitations of some of her original sketch es of Cracker and negro dialect. Mrs. Plowman was introduced to the audience by Col. B M. Huey, an old acquaintance ot the family. The house was filled with a large and refined audience, who were drawn there by the well won reputation this distinguished lady has of being the best writer in the country of the above dialects. The selections recited were all true to life, and gave perfect satisfaction to her hearers, a.s was maiiiJested in the hearty applause. Mrs. Plowman’s nat ural manner of reciting her selections adds a great deal to her entertain ments.” The above is from a Marion, Ala., pa per. The many admirers of this lady will be delighted to see and hear her at the opera house this evening. Her enter tainment is for the benefit of Calhoun sufferers. Strawberries and Flowers. Yesterday morning a tray of fine, lus cious, red-ripe strawberries, encircled by a wreath of white flowers, entwined w 1 1 green, made its way to the Courant American office. Accompanying tus precious load of beauty and sweetness was a bit of white paper containing the following words: “Compliments of little Rosebud Edwards to theCouRANT Amer ican.” To our little girl friend who has thus honored us we extend our sincere thanks, and assure her that her gift is more ap preciated than > would • be whole barrels of money. May this little Rosebud, the loveliest in al? the garden of loses, bloom into a full grown flower, ladening the air with its delightful perfume, and causing happiness to all. Tle Baptist Folks. T. he Baptist folks of this community have a way of their own of “doing things up brown, so to speak. Thev put a handsome purse into the hands of their beloved pastor, Rev. W. H. Cooper, and hied him away Wednesday to attend tl e Southern Baptist Convention that meets at Richmond, \ a., to-day, continuing on to Monday night. Tuesday morning the Northern Anniversaries, correspond ing to the Southern Conventions, will be held at \\ ashington city, continuing four (lavs. This makes a very pleasant trip for Mr. Cooper and to say he appreciated the magnanimous and liberal action of his church would be but half expressing it. Supetiui Court Adjourned. It is ordered that the Superior Court of Bartow County, whch adjourns this day, take a recess until Saturday, the 12th of May, 1888, for the purpose of signing some orders and, rendering judgment in any matter subject thereto. It is further ordered that this court convene on Mon day, the 21st day of May, in adjourned term, for the purpose of hearing motions and transacting any other business that may be transacted without a iurv. This May sth, 1888. *T. C. Fain, J. S. C. C. A true extract from the minutes. F. M. Dunham, Clerk S. C. Death of a Faithful Servant. Maria Brown (colored) raised by Mr. and Mrs. Edwards, and a member of their family for nearly fifteen years, died at Cartersville April 27th, i.BBB, after a painful illness of nearly four months. She was a faithful, worthy and perfectly honest servant, and we feel that her place can never be filled. Bhe was a Christian. ' ***