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mn Tjn All CARTKHfIVIIAE ’ OURANT, Established 1885 J r owarkT Tl* i<r. n 1307 , / —JNU.OI J Cartersville AmKKicAk, “ 1882.1 Consolidated 1387. daylight at last. The Furnace Project an Assur ed Success. U e , sain Jonea Wakes up the People— Hill Arp Takes a Hand—An Knthu- Mastic Meeting. T!i‘ furnace enterprise is now an as sured fact. The nail that our people have been hammering* on was driven through the plank at the meeting last Tuesday night, and after the adjournment of that meet ing itwas only necessary to raise about four thousand more dollars to clinch it. As every cent of that money was then in eight it might be well to say the nail w<i clinched! Our distinguished fellow-townsman. Rev. Sam I\ Jones did it. He dnlu’t do it by planking down all the cash himself (he did his full share), but in his little talk he got every one in such a thor oughly good humor that many purse trings were unloosened, and many came 1 (iown handsomely. THE MEETING. Notwithstanding that the weather was a little inclement, a large number ot the representative business men of the city were present at the meeting. A spirit of harmony pervaded the entire audi ence, and Cartersville, for once in her history, at least, presented an unbroken front. They were united on one idea—that of securing for Carters ville a large sized furnace. The meeting was called to order by Mayor Wofford, and in the absence of Mr. Aubrey, the Secretary, Jesse Willingham was requested to fill that position. Mayor Wofford stated that the meet ing was called for the purpose of having a little family talk upon the question that was then uppermost the minds of the citizens of Cartersville. He said that there was not a man in town that didn’t want to see a boom started and at that meeting it was expected that the ball be started, lie called upon Maj. C. H. Smith to make a few remarks. REMARKS HV MAJ. SMITH. Maj. Smith stated that he had no idea of making a ta'lk when he came to the meeting. He came simply to listen to flat others had to say, as he, *Jike every other man in the town, ' was interested in what concerned Cartersville. He said that while on a recent trip he met three gentlemen from Tallapoosa who interested and instruct ed him. We have smiled and chuckled a great deal about that town and it haw been subject to no little ridicule. Every time that a man starts to Talla poosa he is discouraged by remarks de rogatory to the town by citizens of other places before he reaches his destination. Rut notwithstanding this, the town has grown, and now numbers a population of THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE. The cause of this is, the people of Tal lapoosa are united. The town started on nothing but air and water, and the projectors are satisfied with that. The People driven from the Northwest are perfectly happy when they reach Talla poosa. because, like other parts of Geor gm, the natural beauty and genial sun- R hine charms them. As to how united the people were on anything that prom ised of benefit to IRe town, the speaker cited the fact that one day a glass maker stopjied there and said that if $15,000 was raised for him he would establish a glass plant. In one night of Giat money was raised, and the other | j. 1,000 came next day. Mr. Phillips, one of the three g;entleinen referred to above, told the speaker that if he had started at i artersville, or had our many advan ?ag*'s. bin town would now have a popu- ' ut '° n of more than ten thousand people. Smith said he was going to iu 'r(Jase his subscription. He didn’t ex to make money out ot it, but lie be ‘‘ved that the furnace was to be the " e, % e that was to split the log. didn’t like big, over-grown cities, but '' did like thriving energetic towns. A ' ur £ er town would give us better advan ces. w e would have better systems of jdiools, better lawyers, doctors, etc. ’iriningham is drawing all the best citi /'eils Alabama because people will nat l!li% go where there is life and enter prise. How TALLAPOOSA ADVERTISED, buring the first month of Tallapoosa’s “Cteuce she spent $50,000 for adver bring. Every leading paper of the North a two column advertisement of ' w place, and yet Tallapoosa has not out one cent for it. How did she do || hy she swapped for Talla- W 8a stock for advertising space, and I this didn’t suit, they would swap I d, *u for it In this way every paper has made its friend because they are in its growth and pros brity. They also advestise largely pamphlets. They pattered ’bhO of these over only the lines of I leading railroads. THE CQUMN T-AMERICA!. Why, said Maj. Smith, such as this at tracts thousands of jieople to the place. While all of them do not stay there, they get a large per cent, and man. buy property there as an investment. The raliroads furnish transportation cheap, and, therefore, everybody goes to Talla poosa. He only mentioned Tallapoosa to stim ulate our people. We’ve got a better country than they have, as they will ad mit. Asa difference in the prices of land in a manufacturing State and an agricultu ral State he said the lands of Pennsylva nia, as shown by the tax returns, aver aged $49 per acre, while those ol Georgia averaged only $4.90. The speaker said he would not further detain the meeting. Everybody came for business and he hoped the money would be gotten up for the furnace. MR. JONES’ TALK. Amid tremendous applause, Rev. Sam Jones arose to address the meeting. The celebrated evangelist seemed in the best of spirits, and his talk was one of those mixtures of humor and earnestness that has ever characterized him. At no time did he ever appear more in sympathy with his subject, and at no time did his jokes seem so funny. He began by telling of a good clever fellow who was once talking with a phy sician. He said this fellow told the doc tor that he had little patience with the profession. He gave as his reason that he once had chills and fever and the doc tor exhausted all his skill and failed to cure him. “I then commenced to doctor on my own hook,” he said, “and I cured myself.” “How did you do that?” asked the doctor. “Why, I eat a peck ol green apples and haven’t had a chill or a fever since. Can you explain that?” “Yes,” replied the doctor, “for when you eat that peck of green apples you then ceased to be a human being, and there made a hog of yourself, and hogs never have chills.” The speaker thought that a good many people in Cartersville had been cured in the same way. He thought it took a hero to stand before Cartersville and carry his point lie knew of no place that had better morals than Cartersville. He was glad that lie lived here and no inducement could make him leave. He admitted, how ever, that he wasn’t here long enough at a time to pa.rta.tke of the good easy, I’m tolerable - well - thank -you - how-are-you sort of spirit that had posession of Car tersville. Now, said Mr. Jones, if you mean any thing, il you are going to do anything, now is the time for every shoulder to be put to the wheel. It is wonderful what can be done by concentration. He here related the fable of the old man who was about to depart this life and who had gathered about him his sons to give them his parting words of .advice. He told one of his sons to go out and get a bunch of switches and when he had fetched them the old man told the boy to pull them over his knee and break them. The boy palled and tugged, but nary switch broke. The boy was then told to take one of them and pull it over his knee and immediately it snapped. Now, you can pick up any little fellow in Cartersville and snap hirn, but it you take the 2,700 people here, united, not a single one of them will snap. God never made two of us alike, and if he did the last one made is of no account. But he did put us here with com mon interests and we must make a common effort and re ceive common benefits. We must meet on some proposition that will be of bene fit to all. In regard to the furnace he said that muscle taugled up with the ore would make ten cents worth of ore bring one dollar. He thought that we had been trying too long to get rich by raising cotton. We could make a bale of cotton for ten cents a pound and find ready sale for it at eight cents. What we need here is variety—the only hope of this country. By building these industries the laboring man is benefitted as well as the owners of land. He him self had walked over these hills and earned 75 cents a day in these mines. He had made his two dollars and-a-half a day at one of these old furnaces. Asa laboring man he had been benefitted by the existence and operation of these mines and that furnace. Unite and get the eye of America on you. Do not wait for somebody else to come along and do this, for if you do you will wait in vain. Do not let the tow n go down and have only a tomb stone to mark the place where it once stood. If we must have the tombstone let us live long enough and work hard enough to write an inscription upon that tombstone. He had no taste for grave yards —didn’t want to go about them until his body was carried to forever sleep in the city of the dead. While there was life in his body he wanted to be a living man. “1 am not talking in my own interest CARTERSVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1888. jto n'ght. Eyer> man here knows that I can make in the halls and opera houses ot the country more money than your 100-ton furnace can clear. I vet's be somebody. Let’s do some thing. Thirty thousand dollars is all need, and four of our citizens have given j one thousand dollars each. Do not be j afraid to go in debt a little to rai§e money to build a furnace with. He didn’t have a piece of property in his name that he had a dollar to pay for it when he bought it. In talking with a citizen of I Rome he was informed that one of the I leading financiers of that place who was | oneof the li vest and most progressive men in the town always had a debt of fifty, j sixty, seventy-five or one hundred thous- I and dollars. He went loaded down to the guards! Lets jump in. Those who can’t swim, let ’em drown. Dump Cartersville in the river and run her on the line of the sur vival of the fittest! We now have $22,000 subscribed and it is pretty well agreed upon that the furnace must be built. There’s notone of you men sitting before me but what’s ' fully in accord with my views on this sub ject. The only thing that remains is to get up the money. Put me dowu for SSOO more. If that's not enough I will take more, an 1 if you’ll do as well in proportion we will have it certain. Let’s stand up like men—live or die, sink or swim—let s stand by Cartersville. If Cartersville goes down and you want to find Sam Jones, scratch under—and you’ll find him if he ain’t gone to dinner. Now, what are you going to do? If you are going to give anything put it down at once. To say “Oh I’m going to give something after awhile” reminds me of the fellow who said when they got enough money to build a j $50,000 church lie would give one j thousand • dollars. He knew that the money would not be raised and such people think the money for the furnace wouldn’t be gotten up. Let’s do some thing to-night or else go home and tell our wives that we didn’t have a meeting ! and get Alex Willingham to say that no meeting had been held. Let’s build a furnace to-night or let’s not get it out on us that we had a meeting. Let’s settle it one way or the other. Now, put your heads and your hearts together and let your hand reach down after your own pocketbook. Make your | own wife’s husband come to time. Every fellow that’s got your mustache or got your coat on must do the clean thing. He would tell every one to do his part and if he went under tor such reason he would take him down to the orphan's home and will take care of him the rest ot his days. A PROPOSITION FROM ABROAD. Capt. I). W. K. Peacock then read the proposition of Mr. Hugh McNeel, who offered to build and equip a 60-ton fur nace, complete and ready to put in blast, for SBO,OOO. He would require $60,000 of this in cash and the balance, SSO,O(K>, he would take in the bonds of the com pany. Capt. Peacock said it was unnecessary for hirn to say who Mr. McNeel was, as he had probably built more furnaces than any man in the United States. So far as his ability to carry out the proposition he didn’t have a single doubt. He was decidedly in favor of building the furnace and gave liis reasons at some length. The Captain said he knew the history of towns that were sustained by facto ries. They are always going up while •those that do not have them are going down. In Birmingham they are selling land by the front foot while we are sell ing by the acre. CHICAGO FIRES A GUN. “Mr. Chairman, will you allow a stran ger to say a few words?” This came from a pleasant-faced gen tleman who had been sitting in the par quet, intently listening to what had been said. There was an air of earnestness about him as he made use of the words quoted above, and every eye in the au dience was turned on the stranger. “I was at a meeting in Rome this morn ing,” began the stranger, “and I had a great desire to get up and say sotne tliiug. Coming down on the train this afternoon I struck up with Rev. Sam Jones and told him of the desire that had taken hold of me in the morning. He replied, T wish you had.’ I feel the same way now, and I don’t want to give him the opportunity of saying the same thing.” Then the stranger began to eulogize Mr. Jones, saying that what he is now and what he ever will be he owed to the evan gelist. He was down in this country on busi ness. It was the third day he had been in the South. If all the people in the South were the same as those he had already met he was going to be a Southerner. He gave some strik ing examples that show that the tide of immigration is turning this way and he let loose a pointer or two on adver tising. He said if this town was adver tised as the home of Sam Jones, built as it is on a bed of iron, people would be induced to flock here from the North. This advertising need not cost the f>eo ple of Cartersville much. The railroads would take it up if they see popular sen timent reaching this way. They would themselves scatter along their Hues thousands of circulars discriptive of Car tersville with maps showing off the place. He was going to help advertise Carters ville himself and said: “I'll promise you as soon as I get back to Chicago 1 will see that the Tribune contains a half col umn article about this city!” “Now about the furnace. Without know ing anything about it and without car ing anything about it, I will subscrilie for ten shares. I mean what I say and as j proof of my sincerity I will now pay the J first installment.” He then walked to the foot of the stage ! and handed to Maj. Smith his card, bear ing the name of “F. S. Quincy, Chicago, 111, and a crisp bank note. DOWN TO BUSINESS RIGHT. Itev. Sam Jones then advanced to the front and asked who would be the next. Mr. H. 11. Hall arose and author ized that Baker & Hall be put down for rfifty shares. Maj. Foute said he would take ten additional shares. R. W. Murphy said that G. H. Aubrey A Cos., could be put dowu for ten more shares. The names of Sam P. Jones and I). W. K. Peacock came next, they taking fifty additional shares each. John Stover then took ten shares. George Pattillo had already subscribed one thou sand dollars, but subscribed for twenty five more shares. Jerry Field took five more, as did also Cols. Crawford and Schofield five each. John Akin announced that lie had not taken any shares hereto fore, because he had a dislike to going into anything that might prove a failure. He could now see daylight for the fur nace and would subscribe for twenty-five shares. Maj. Smith comes next with an addition to his stock of ten shares. Sim Whitehead subscribed for ten shares, i “Brother Norris,” called out Mr. Jones, “the people are waiting for the preachers j to get a move on them. What are you doing?” Here followed a lively spat which resulted iu John Akin proposing to double his subscription if Mr. Norris would double hie. Down went Mr. Nor ris' name for fifty more shares, and Mr. Akin followed with a subscription for twenty-five more. Scheuer Bros, took tra more shares. Alfred Gilbert came in lor live more. Henry Milner took two more. D. G. Lee subscribed for ten. R. H. Jones & .Sons’ Manufacturing Cos., took thirty additional shares. Mr. Quincy, the enthusiastic stranger, sub scribed for ten more shares in the name of his wife. TO GET UP THE BALANCE. After the above subscriptions vere taken it was only necessary to get up four thousand more dollars to get the desired amount. Mr. Jones moved that a committee of three be appointed to raise the balance. The motion prevailed and R. M. Pattillo, A. M. Willingham and R. W. Murphey were apointed as the committee. ACCEPTING MR. MACNEEL’s PROPOSITION. Mr. Jones then moved that Mr. McNeel’s proposition be accepted. During the discussion that followed this Mr. McNeel said: “It seemsas ifsome of the people think they are giving bonuses for the establishment of the fur nace. I will say to them that if they are dissatisfied after the furnace is built I will myself agree to take the stock off their hands at par if they will take in ex change Chattanooga city and suburban property at the market values.” The motion of Mr. Jones was seconded, put to the meeting and carried. Then there was nothing farther to do but adjourn. In taking their leave it is safe to say everyone carried with him a lighter heart than he went there with, for at last a rift in the cloud could be seen, and the furnace enterprise had come out of darkness into broad open day light. The furnace is now a certainty. The Ca.toosa spring*. We call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of that celebrated and delightful resort for the heated term, Ca toosa Springs. These springs, which are by far the most celebrated for their nat ural beauty and efficacy and purity of the waters in all the Southern States, are under new management, and the present season promises to be the most brilliant ever knowL in the history of the place, including the good old days when the aristocracy and culture of this whole Southland delighted to gather there and merrily paws away the hot summer months. The present company is a strong one and have the capital and energy to make a great success of their undertaking. They have already expended a large sum in making improvements and fixing up the place in magnificent style. Those who intend visiting springs this summer can do no better than to go to Catoosa. Delicate dseases of either sex radically cured. Send 10 cents in stamps for book. Address, World’s Dispensy Medical Asso ciation, Buffalo, N. Y. CAPITALISTS COMING. Chicago to Send a Delegation to Visit Cartersville. The Speeches of Gov. Gordon and Capt. Howell Doing Good Work—Our Ore# Attracting Attention. Chicago, 111., May 27th, 1888. Mayor J. C. Wofford, Cartertville, Ga. —Dear Sir: lam in receipt of three copies of a pamphlet issued relative to Bartow eounty and its resources. The issuing of this pamphlet is a great move in the right direction, and with an unceasing effort on the part of all who are interested, there is no reason why great results should not follow. As an agent of the AY. & A. Railroad I have not been idle regarding this great move on the part of your citizens to bring to the notice of capitalists the un equalled advantages of Bartow county. Ever since the publication of an article in the Atlanta Constitution some time ago, written by our G. F. A., Mr. Jos. M. Brown, I have lost no time in bringing this matter to the attention of the hu gest capitalists here, who, I am certain, feel some interest in what has been said of the great merit of iron and manga nese ores abounding in inexhaustible supply and unequalled quality in vour county. In fact, this matter with them receives more attention than anv of your good citizens imagine; so much so, that I expect to drop down in your city not very far distant with a private car con taining some of the best representative capitalists here. I do not think it is policy for me to mention just now who the party is. However, Mr. Brown, G. F. A., knows to whom I refer from the fact of my correspondence with him on the subject, besides he having sent me a barrel of iron and manganese ores to ex hibit to them. In addition, they have one of the pamphlets and also Governor Gordon’s and Hon. E. P. Howell’s speeches, delivered in your city, which very much interested them. Now, before the publication of Mr. Brown’s article, the issuing of the pamphlet. Gov. Gor don sand Hon. E. P. Howell’s speeches, I was aware of thefact that Chattanooga, Tmn., Birmingham, Ala., Pittsburg, Pa., and other points were drawing this ore from Cartersville. Why? Because it is to-day superior to tiny that can be had to make first-class merchantable goods to meet the demands ol the markets. I have no doubt but that the citizens of Cartersville before a great while will see the most healthy and steady progress within their midst of any Southern city south of the Ohio and Potornac rivers, and let me say to you right here that there are other cities on the line of the W. & A. R. R., whose merit will bring them to the front. Now, that the proper move has been initiated in solemn earnestness regarding Bartow county resources, please send me more copies of the pamphlet mentioned above and any other matter referring to same that I may place it where it may do good. Would it not be well to have printed in circular form the speeches of Gov. Gor don and the Hon. E. P. Howell for dis' tributiou? Yours, truly, Thos. McGill. Skinner Street. This thoroughfare is beginning to put on airs quite city-like. Chairman Collins, of the street committee, has been at work several days ordering the sidewalks, the property owners cheerfully consenting thereto, and now it looks really hand some. Sain Galloway has just finished a neat cottage, William Montgomery has about finished his, and work has com menced on Mr. Bolt’s new house, adjoin ing, and the prospects are two more new houses will be built in the near future. Verily the street is on a boom, and justly so, for there are not better localities mthe whole town for residences than in this neighborhood. The scenery is simply magnificent, which fact alone would make the location most desirable, not to say anything of all the other advantages sur rounding. — He —“Tell me, do you prefer men of great reputation, or do you rather like the commonplace fellows?” She—“To speak frankly, I like the common place men best particularly at a party like this; but you must not think I said so just for the saying something complimentary to you!” Principal deacon—“ Now, BrudderJohn siug, does yo’ be’lieve in open or close communyun, sah?” Candidate (diplo matically, not knowing the deacon’s views) —“Well, some likes it open, and some closed; but fo’ me, I says, I say, leave it ajar. The Budget is the name of a new society weekly published at Macon. Mr. George L. Mason, a most accomplished newspa per man, is the editor, and under his guidance it is bound to win popular favor. $ 1.50 Per Annumsc. a Copy HOLCOMBE’S HUNT. After His Sixteen Year Old Slater Who Had Run Away With a Man by the Name of Smith. Last week a young man from Cobb county, who says his home is five miles from Marietta, arrived in Cartersville. The young man gave his name as Hol combe and said he was in search of his sister, a young girl about sixteen years of age, who had run away from home with a man by the name of Smith. This man Smith, Holcombe said, had already two wives. ' Young Holcombe engaged Bill Puck j ett to go with him to continue the I search. They went from here to Canton | where they learned that the couple had l been. At Wolf Pen it was learned that the runaways had gone to Rock Run, | Ala. The brother here gave up the search, and, in disgust, returned to his I home. Don’t be a Clam. When you are asked to subserbe to an 1 enterprise that would benefit you and 1 the town do not regard it a request for a gift. Manufacturing enterprises, as a rule, pay better than the same amount of money invested in a stock of dry goods or groceries. The money in vested in them is just as safe against loss. j Then why should people hesitate or think they are doing an act of benevo lence when they subscribe a few dollars 1 towards such an enterprise? Such ac | tions on the part of anyone is a practi ; cal illustrations of how silly some human , beings are. Commencement West JEnd Institute. The commencement exercises of West I End Institute will take place from June 3d to June Bth, inclusive. Commence ment sermon at Methodist church June 3d. Public examinations Tuesday and Wednesday, June sth and 6th. Concerts at opera house Thursday and Friday evenings, June 7th and Bth. programme—June 7th, 8 p, m. 1. Duet, Con *ert Waltz.. Misses Munford and Smith 2. Cadets Picnic , Operetta 3. Peak Sisters Burlesque 4. Duet, Swallows Farewell Misses McDade 5. Victory, Song and Chorus Vocal class Friday, June Bth. 1. Duet Misses Walker and Sofge 2. Umbrella Case, ( Burlesque lawsuit > By Boy* 3. Dress Rehearsal Operetta 4. Milkmaid’s Song Misses Alta Rowan and Lela Durham 5. Tambourine Drill Calisthenics eta 6. Rouud the Walls of Jericho. (Comic Song) By Boys A Board of Trade, The merchants and business men of this city should orgauize themselves into a board of trade. Such an organization would be of great benefit to the com munity and the interchange* of ideas that would result from the meetings would do much to bring about a spirit of progressiveness. The merchants would be vastly benefitted in more ways than one. By all means let’s have a board of trade. To Manufacture H aril ware. The following we clip from the Manu facturers’ Record: New Britain, Conn., May 18, 3 888. Editor Manufacturers’ Record —I am here for the purpose of getting my ma chinery and household goods together for shipment to Cartersville, Ga., where I intend to establish myself in the manu facture of hardware specialties, new arti cles of my own inventions. Geo. Geer. Skipped His Bond. Sheriff John Johnson, of Pickens county, passed through the city yester day, having in charge Wm. Beck, of that county, who was wanted for assault and battery. Beck was out on bond, but be coming uneasy skipped out. He was ar rested in Cedartown. The three-year-old was in trouble again, and mamma planted him in a chair with a thud that astonished his infantile ideas of inertia. Now you sit there and don’t you take your eyes off that clock until the big hand gets to 3. I find some way to punish you.” He sat as motionless as the business man who doesn’t advertise until the minute hand had covered a quarter lap. The inama with a self-satis fied smile, went to release the penitent. “Say, ina,” he said, “can’t I sit here and watch it some more?” Mr. Williamson, of the Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus railroad, refuses to ship 200 tons of iron ore daily lor Mr DuPoyster of Cedartown, because he will have to make an extra stop, and it is thought to get revenge for refusing to give to the road the right of way. Mr. Williamson demands that the money paid out by the road shall be refunded before he will receiveffreight of them. It had been established by human ex perience in Shakespeare's day that “cor ruption wins not more than honesty,” and the history of individual members of society since emphasizes its truth. Young man, take this lesson with you it teaches what Franklin expressed differ ently , “Honesty is the best policy.” Gold paint for ornamental and decora tive purposes at Wikles Drug Store. a 6-tf