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THE COU It A NT-A M E 111 CA N.
Published weekly by
Wikle A Willingham, Editor* and Proprietors.
Office Second Door South of Poet Office.
Offlela.l Oriran of Bartow County and the City cJ
Carters vllle.
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Cartersville, Georgia.
Cartersville whips ore to Sheffield.
Cai iterhville ships ore to Anniston.
Cartersville ships ore to Birmingham.
Cartersville ships ore to Knoxville.
Cartersville ships ore to Chatta
noogp.
Cartersville ships ore to South Pitts
burg. Ten n.
Cartersville ships manganese to
Pittsburg, Pa.
Cartessville ships manganese to
Liverpool, Eng.
Cartersville is simply the mining
district for these great iron centers.
It is expected of every man in Carte? s
ville to do his full duty at this the crisis
of the town’s future.
Immagine three or four hundred houses
being erected at the same time in old
Cartersville. What a hammering will be
going on!
The gallant, chjvalric Gordon knows a
good thing when he sees it, and it was
but natural that he should sound the
praise of old Bartow.
There is no use.holding land for good
valuation unless something is done to
make it valuable. Every man in Car
tersville believes this and they are going
to work.
Every day that a 100-ton furnace
is run in Cartersville the town will be
twelve hundred dollars better off not to
say anything of the hundred and one en
terprises that will follow in its trail.
Birmingham is determined to make
steel out of her phosphorus iron, and a
Georgia man is going to help her do it.
Georgiaisfurnishinglielp to agood many
interests outside her limits nowadays.
Cartersville never had a brighter
prospect if our people will only do their
duty in the next few days. We do not
believe that any town in North Alabama
or Georgia has brighter prospects if this
is done.
Never before have our people been so
enthusiastic in regard to their material
prosperity. Let their enthusiasm ma
terialize into solid cash and the great
problem that now confronts ns will be
solved.
The correspondents are figuring on
Fuller’s wealth. Some of them say he is
worth $250,000, while others place his
possessions at $1,000,000. Perhaps it
is the old story—the Fuller he is the more
lie is worth.
• T ANARUS" 1 ' ' 1 •
Henry Grady remarked the other day
in conversation with a Cocrant-Ameri
can man: “Old 'Bartow is the richest
county in the State by all odds.” Henry
will enthuse his hearers Saturday night
as they never were enthused before.
The Courant-American is unalterably,
opposed to the sale of the Western & At
lantic railroad, and wants to see a legis
lature elected this fall that holds firmly
to the same views. It favors a release,
and would prefer to see the company
leasing it headed by Joseph M. Brown,
the present able and enterprising gen
eral freight and passenger agent. He
has developed into one of the foremost
of the younger railroad managers of the
South, and the road could not fall into
more capable hands, and none that would
do more to develop and build up the ter
ritory through which it passes. He has
already done a great work in this lint,
but the work is scarcely beguu. We
would like to see him continue in a posi
tion where he ca’u carry it forward. The
Western & Atlantic railroad traverses
the richest section of Georgia, and the
people cannot afford to have it fall into
hands that are the least, hostile to its
development, or that will not lend their
influence to its upbuilding.
Gen. Gordon’s Speech and Cartersville.
We wish that every man, woman and
child in Bartow county could have been
present at the opera house on last Satui
day night and henrd Gen. Gordon as he
discussed so grandly, so eloquently, so
forcibly, so practically, and withal, so
truthfully, the magnificent recources
that surround us and the great opportu
nities that are within our grasp. It
would have inspired them with a deeper
love and stronger attachment for their
home county, which it has pleased dame
Nature to so wonderfully bless, and in
fused into them anew zeal, energy and
enterprise, that would have material
ized into a united and harmonious effort
upon the part of all to develop these
rich resources and thereby advance their
own interest.
We publish a full stenographic report
of Gov. Gordon’s speech this week, and
do not think that we could have occu.
pied the space with more valuable or
wholesome reading. We commend it to
all those who were not so fortunate as to
hear it; and to those who had the pleas
ure of listening to its delivery and were
stirred by the bewitchory of the speaker’s
eloquence and charmed by the magnet
ism of his matchless presence, we would
say, read it again; it is full of meat for
thought and truths that deserve to be
studied and appreciated.
When our people come to understand
the true situation, and to fully appre
ciate the advantages that they possess,
and the oppartunities which, at present,
environ them, we believe that they will
awaken to their real interest and be
moved to an action that will be wonder
ful in its results. The accomplishment
of this end was the spirit and purpose of
Gen. Gordon's speech.
The time is ripe for Cartersville to leap
to the forefront in the march of progress
and occupy a place side by side with the
leading industrial cities of the South.
The powder is dry and the fuse to its
place, but our own people must strike
the match. We cannot hope for out
siders to do what we will not begin. But
they realize this and we are sure are alive
to their duty. It seem* now that the
old town had passed the night of her in
activity, and that the horizon was
streaked with the gray dawn of a more
prosperous era that needs but the united
determined effort of her citizens to be
made to blaze into a noonday splendor.
We must give a,hearty eneourgement and
support to every legitimate industry
that is inaugurated.
The one enterprise that is now agita-
Cartersville is the building of a fur
nace. The plans upon which it is to be
established will be presented to the citi
zens during the present week and at the
meeting on next Satunlay night. The
successor this enterprise depends upon
the manner in Much our people take
hold of it. The shares are to be im*le so
that every clerk, mechanic or laborer
can, if he so desires, take one or more of
them, and the assessment to be levied in
such amounts, and in such times, as will
be least inconvenient to meet. Let
everybody become interested in the en
terprise, for upon its success w ill largely
depend Cartersville’s future. We cannot
afford to let the opportunity slip.
Had No Fire Protection.
Last Friday night the business portion
of Sandersville, Ga., was laid a smoul
dering mass of ruins. The fire caught
in a small grocery store and the fliinn s
spread t(*adjoining buildings and blocks
until SIOO,OOO worth of property was
made a blackened heap. It almost
needless to say that Sandersville has no
system of water w orks nor has she any
organized plan for the purpose of saving
property from the fury of the fiery flames.
The jieople of that unfortunate town
have our profoundest sympathy. We
hope the brave spirits of the place will
go to work with renewed energy to build
up a bigger and a greater city. They
have learned at a terrible cost one valu
able lesson that will be of great benefit
to the new Sandersville, and that is no
town should try to get along without
ample protection against fire. We haz
ard nothing in giving the opinion that
Sandersville will no longer try so to do.
The fate of Sandersville should also be
a lesson to Cartersville and other towns
that are trying to get along uj>on the
same plan as did that place. The warn
ing should be heeded for we are liable to
at any moment meet with the same mis
fortunes. Should a fire break out in cer
tain portions of this city we would be
just as helpless in staying the thirsting
Haines as were the people of Sandersville.
Business men could only stand by and
see the accumulations of a life time swept
away.
But we are afraid that many of our
people are deluded with the feeling of
fancied security on account of their ow n
carefulness. Many argue to themselves
that inasmuch as the town has never
had a disastrous fire she never will have
one. So did the people of Sandersville
argue and so have the jteople of many
other places that have met with similar
misfortunes argued to themselves.
Let not our people learn the lesson at
such a terrible cost. Instead of having
SIOO,OOO worth of property destroyed,
which could, with our present utter help
lessness in case of fire, easily occur, let’s
put about one-fourth that amount in a
system of waterworks that will have a
natural pressure sufficient to successfully
combat this terrible element.
This is a question that our people will
have to meet at do distant day. Let
every mail of them be w arned b.v San
dersville’s fate so that each ami every
one will be ready to do his duty.
The Western and Atlantic Railroad.
The paramount question to be consid
ered by the i>eople of Georgia, in the ap
proaching fall election, of members to the
next legislature, is, “What disposition
shall we make of the Western Jfc Atlantic
Railroad at the expiration of the present
lease?” There was a bill introduced in the
last Senate providing for the sale of the
road at a stipulated minimum price. It
had some warm and enthusiastic sup
porters, but not enough to give it life
and strength, and it met a deservedly
early death. Its fate is the same that
the people demand shall be meted out to
all such bills that mean the sale of this
valuable property.
In an interview in last Saturday’s At
lanta Journal, Dr. Felton, in discussing
the disposition of the road, and in which
he strongly favors a re-lease, furnishes
the following figures:
“The rental value of the Western & At
lantic Railroad increases with the price
or money value of the road. It can al
waj's be leased for four per cent, on the
amount of money it would sell for. Hence
if the road could sell for $20,000,000 —
seemingly an extravagant value,J would
not consent to take it, for if the railroad
corporations considered it worth that
price they would cheerfully pay sßoo,i *OO
annually for its lease, and at that rental
value, in a little over twenty years, the
road would pay the State the $20,000,-
000 and the State would continue to own
the road. The truth is, the road should
rent now for the amount of money Gov.
Brow n said some years ago it would earn
in clean net cash if properly managed,
namely, SOOO,OO0 annually—for its value
and its business now’ surpass anything
known in its previous history. The road
can never be destroyed by other roads or
any competing lines which may hereafter
be built. The East Tennessee has not
injured it, for it ih doing more freight
and passenger traffic than it did before
the East Tennessee railroad was con
structed. Suppose we could lease it for
$35,000 per month, or $420,000 per
annum, according to the bill which pass
ed the last House of Representatives, and
which bill the Senate of Georgia ignored
and permitted to perish upon its table.
If this road is leased at this sum of money,
it will, if the rental is devoted to the pay
ment of the public debt, reduce the public
interest annually SIO,BOO, and in 20
years, paying annually $420,000, it will
cancel the last dollar of our state indebt
edness, and every dollarof public interest
the State now’ pays, and at the termina
tion of the twenty years w e will have the
road splendidly equipped to continue its
beneficent work in educating the poor
children of the State, in relieving the tax
payers of the State, and also as a break
water between the people aud the rail
road syndicates for one hundred years
to come. Suppose we lease it at $30,000
per month, or $360,000 per annum. The
same result is accomplished in a fraction
over twenty-three Vbars, and the State
continues to own the road. Even at the
unreasonably low prices at which it is
now rented, namely, $25,000 per month,
or $300,000 per annum, the same re
sult is accomplished in a fraction over
twenty-eight j’ears. That is, it will dis
charge the last dollar of Georgia’s public
indebtedness and blot out the last dollar
of interest that Georgia now* pays upon
her public indebtedness.”
We repeat, the great question the peo
ple must consider in the selection of
their representatives this fall, is the dis
position of this road. And as the State
cannot afford to part with the road; men
must be elected who will stand by, pro
tect and preserve the State’s ownership.
We believe when the people properly un
derstand the situation and their relation
to the road, they will not suffer it to be
sold, and will demand as the one
tial plank in the platform of every can
didate who offers for election, that he
pledge himself as “unalterably opposed
to the sale.” Let these pledges
come from men of integrity
and character, and who are known to be
fin purchasable.
Rev. Sam Jones will open his meeting
in Rome on the 24th inst. It was at the
opening of his last meetingthere that the
Rev. Sam Small announced that Rome
was “within half a mile of hell.” A rec
ollection of this statement, and the
desire to further remove the place from
the infernal region, perhaps, leads the
Tribune to say: “A hearty welcome
aw aits him, and there's lota of work for
the great revivalist to do.”
Blaine says he is in the hands of his
friends. Th is means that the same old pres
idential bee to buzz again,
and, that is in the race. This is no doubt
cold news to Mr. Sherman, who has been
congratulating himself that the plumed
knight was entirely out of the field. In
the meantime your Uncle Grover smiles
complacently, for he had just as soon, or
a little rather, carry the Maine states
man again than any other horse the Re
publicans could trot out.
The Station's >*iue Chang'd.
The following circular explains itself.
We give it for the information of our
readers:
Western & Atlantic R. R. Cos. \
• Atlanta, Ga., April 3d, 1888./
Notice to Agents and Connecting Roads.
The name of the Post Office of Ste
galls having been changed from Stegalls
to Emerson, and the citizens having pe
titioned this company to change the
name of the station to Emerson, also, it
is hereby so ordered; and in future the
station will be called Emerson.
R. A. Anderson, Sup’t.
JUST OPENED!
NEW STORE! NEW STOOE!
A. N D
m r r 'W 3L, JE %;
PRICES TO SUIT ALL!
R. H. GARWOOD,
West Main Street, Cartersville, Cn,
GET THE MOST: YOUR MONEY!
Quality amounts to little unless the price be fair,
Low prices are not Bargains unless quality is there.
We combine them—rejoice to buy perfection in s f yle and assortment. Satisfaction
in quality and prices. These are yours if you make selections from our new spring
stock of
ME H FANCY DRY GOODS MB GROOERIES!
Our Millinery Department is now complete. Fancy Clothing a specialty.
Geo. W. Satterfield & Son,
feb!7-ly East Main Street.
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FRESH LOT
O IF 1
Sugar Cured Delicious HAIS
JUST RECEIVED.
All Goods Delivered Free of Charge.
S.L&W. J. VANDIVERE
BAMTg: block:.
THAT QUESTION IS SETTLED!
Rob’t F. Bradford & Cos.
ABB
North Georgia Headquarters for
Farm and Family Supplies.
The goods in stoek, as well as heavy Invoices on tne road have all been bought at spot cash prices
and we are able to defy competition!. All country Produce bought at the highest market prices. A
careful inspection of our stock is cordially invited.
ROB’T F. BRADFORD & CO.
EALE SICKLYE
s= LOOKING CHILDREN
■abject to SPASMS are most likely troubled vrltl
■fftflUQ The best remedy for this is the celebrate<
WUHMO.b. A. FAHNESTOCK'S VERMIFUGE
Been 60 years in use and neveir fails. Observe particu
laxly that the initials are B. A. thus avoiding imitation
The I-ile of a Child
Mr W. L. Fain, a Urge commission
merchant, says he owes the life of his
child to Dr Biggers’ Huckleberry Cordial.
It always gradually checks the bowels
and doos not constipate, as many do.
Use Dr. Pierce’s “Pellets” for all biliou
att ic'.cs
A beautiful line of zephyrs, toil du
nords, novelty cords, chambray, ging
hams, etc., etc., just in at
Montgomery’s.
The best Lantern ever sold for 75c. at
Wikle’s Drug Store. tf.
The wonderful Hvgea tobacco will curs
heartburn and keep off malaria. At
Wikle’s Drug Store. aO-tf
If you smoke don’t fail to try Wikle &
Co.’s fine cigars. apl27-3t
My stock of hats has never been as
complete as now, and prices nevermore
satisfactory. Yours,
J. G. M. Montgomery.
G. H. AUK KEY . ' CHAS. McEWKX
Aubrey <& McEwon,
Dealers in
Coal and Insurance Agents.
The public patronage respectfully solicited
Money to Loan ou desirable security.
June 10, ’S7,
BARTOW HOUSE.
Mrs. S. C. MAJORS, Prop.
Terms, #lPerDay.
MEALS AT ALL HOURS.
The house is desirably located being
convenient to the railroad and business
of the town. £
Special rates to regular boarders.
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Pemberton’s Lemon and Orange
- ELIXIR,.
Is the greatest Liver Medicine in the World.
Combining the Medicinal Properties of the Fruits
and Egyptian Tamarind Flower.
This wonderful preparation requires no ph&nxp
of diet, being pleasant tr take, and leaves the
system in perfect order. Use no more strong
cathartic and liver pills, purging the system and
deranging the digestive organs ; but use this
Pleasant Vegetable Preparation
and you will never use any other. Every bottle
is sold under a guarantee to do what is claimed
for it. It is a sure ajid perfect cure for all dis
eases arising from torpid liver, such as
Constipation, Chills, Fever, Headache, Dizziness.
Biliousness, Indigestion, Bad
Breath. Ac., Ac.
Sold by all Druggists at 50 cents per bottle.
MANUFACTURKD BY
PEMBERTON MEDICINE CO.,
Atlanta, Ga.
For sale at wholesale and retail by
M. F. WORD, Druggist, Cartersville, Ga,
STILESBORO J_THE FRONT!
W. E Packet, Dealer in Gen
eral Merchandise,
Wishes to announce to his many friends and
customers that he will be in the field for I*BB with
increased facilities for handling a big business.
COTTON AND COUNTRY PRODUCE,
He handles nothing but the best goods at the
cheapest prices and gives nothing but the best
prices for cotton a nd all kinds of country produce.
Guanos and Fertilizers.
I will handle the best grades of Guanos and
will be enabled to give the farmers ol this section
the very best terms.
Thanking the people for their past patronage
and hoping for a continuance of the sa me, I am,
Yours to command,
W. E. PUCKETT,
Merchant and Cotto'i Buyer of Stilesboro.
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99 9 n Ci OENTLBMEN.
The only tine calf §3 Seamle>s Shoe in the
world made without tackN nr nail*. As styl
ish and durable as those costing $5 and #6. nd
having no tacks or nails to wear the stocking or
hurt, the feet, makes them as comfortable ant!
well-fitting as a hand sewed shoe. Buy the best.
None genuine unless stamped on bottom “W. L-
Douglas $3 Shoe, warranted.”
W L,. DOUGI.As !*•! SHOE, the original
and only hand sewed welt $4 shoe, which equals
custom-made shoes costingfrom st> to #9.
W. L DOUGLAS Si. 50 sHOK is unexcell
ed for heavy wear.
W. L. DOUGLAS $2 SHOE is worn by a* l
Boys, and is the best school shoe in the world.
All the above goods are madeiu Congress. But
ton and Lace, and if not sold by your dealer,
write \V. L. I'OUGLAS, Brockton, Mass.
J P. JONES, Agent
Cartersville, Ga.
English Spavin Liniment removes nil hard,
soft, or callous lumps and blemishes from horse,',
blood spavin, curbs, splints, sweeney, ring-bone,
stifles, sprains, all swollen throats, coughs, et
Save SSO by use of one bottle. Warranted. So ni
by M. F, Word, Druggist, Carters ville Ga. 5-4
Mild,soothing, and healing is l>r. Sage3
Catarrh Remedy.