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THE COURA XT-AMERICAN.
Published weekly by
Wikiac A Willingham. Editors and Proprietors.
Office Second Poor South of Post Office.
Official Ornrao of Bartow County and the City o
Cartersville.
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Chancre of Publication Day.
The Couiiant-American will next week
change the (lay of its publication from
Friday to Thursday, as formerly.
We do this because many of our sub
scribers complain that they do not get
their papers until two or three days after
publication, and the change is made in
the hope that we will hereafter hit the
mails better.
Our correspondents will please take spe
cial notice of this and wend in their let
ters a day or two sooner than usual that
we may get them in time.
By the time the Cartersville furnace is
ready to go in blast there will be a great
boom in iron.
We have not yet heard of a Southern
furnace closing down. They are all hold
ing their own.
The free fight that will take place at
Chicago next week, for the Republican
nomination, will be very interesting but
not very strengthening.
Any one who wishes to can build the
Cartersville furnace No. 2. We’ll venture
the assertion that work on it will be com
menced before No. 1 is completed.
A Reporter for the New York World
disguised himself as a negro recently, and
applied at all the leading hotels in the
city for accommodations.’ All of them
were full. It seems that social equality
is as far from being a fact North as
South.
The people of Bartow county are satis
fied to let the whiskey question lay where
it is. The agitation of the question every
two years only stirs up strife and dis
cord, and in this day of booming we
haven’t time for that. The people have
seen the good fruits of prohibition and
do not wish any change made.
The Inter-State Fanners’ Association
will meet in Raleigh, N, C., on Tuesday,
the 21st day of August next. Good rates
will be given, and as each Congressional
district is entitled to five delegates we
hope this section will be represented. Mr.
A. T. Mclntyre, of Thomasville, Ga., is
the Vice-President for this State, and he
will no doubt be pleased to give any en
quirer all needed information on the
subject.
Editor Herrington, of the Swa.ins
boro Pine Forest, is a candidate to rep
resent Emanuel County in the next legis
lature. Mr. Herrington is a wide-awake,
progressive young man, and has done,
and is doing, much to develope and build
up the resources of his County, and would
make it a useful and valuable represen
tative. We shall be glad to see his peo
ple honor him by an election. He de
serves it at their hands.
‘‘Some arithmetician computes that it
a man received $3 a day and saved every
cent of it, 1,000 years would el apes be
fore he could be master of a million.
This is discouraging.”
So says the Washington D. C., Gazette.
A more encouraging scheme to become
a millionaire is to put away the $3 every
day until the price of a corner lot in Car
tersville is saved, and then invest and
wait until this town “takes the greatest
leap of the century,” which it " ill do
shortly.
An enumeration taken at Heading, Pa.,
on Saturday, of the furnaces in the
Schuylkill valley which have recently
gone out of blast because of the depres
sion in the iron business and the inability
to meet Southern competition, shows
that out of twenty-one first-class furnaces
in the district, which were going a month
ago, eleven have closed down and are
taking advantage of the temporary dull
ness to make repairs. In this eleven is
the Robesonia furnace, which is the lar
gest in the country, producing eight hun
dred tons per week; Mount Laurel and
Macungie furnaces, two at Birdsboro and
one in Reading.
Another Rising Town,
AuKuata 7th inst.]
Away up in the garden spot of Georgia
—nestled among hills and valleys of the
Cherokee section of the State, is the flour
ishing new city of Cartersville. It is
some fifty miles above Atlanta on the
State Road, and ha* at present one of
the very brightest outlooks of any town
in that belt of the South. There are al
ready several important manufacturing
enterprises on a paying basis and others
in course of erection. Cartersville and
Bartow county produce some of the finest
iron ore in the world, and, besides, its
agricultural surroundings are unexcelled.
It has always borne the name of the
“Garden Spot” of North Georgia, and is
just now preparing to split things wide
open, so to speak, and show to the world
that a Georgia town can grow quite as
fast and as solidly as have Birmingham,
Anniston and other places in Alabama.
Real estate is rising rapidly, and those
who invest there now will surely realize
handsome returns.
Money for an iron furnace has just been
subscribed, and dirt will be broken in a
week or two. The Rome & Decatur Rail
road will be extended to Cartersville, and
another line from there to Gainesville will
soon be built. An iron foundry and ma
chine works are going up, and dirt for a
large variety works is to be broken
right away. Three or four companies
for other industrial purposes have been
organized, and one can readily see that
this town is bound to make a great leap
towards wealth and prosperity.
The healthfulness of the county is not
excelled in America, and the resources of
that section are wonderful to contem
plate. If the wealth that has been taken
from the soil and from the mines of Bar
tow since the Indians left in 1836 could
be put in the shape of statistics, the ex
hibit would astonish the world.
We donbt if there is a county in the
South that could show such a record.
The people of the county have, since the
war, received but little benefit from this
vast wealth. It has gone to enrich
other communities and other people. It
is a good sign, therefore, that the citi
zens of that section are fast finding out
this fact. They are learning that to
simply produce the raw material for
others to manufacture into saleable
goods is to make themselves hewers of
wood and drawers of water for the rest
of the world.
What is true of Bartow is also true of
the whole South. Nine-tenths of the
enormous cotton crop made in the South
goes to enrich other people. A great,
majority of the producers of this crop
only get out of it just what the mule that
plows it gets—“victuals and clothes”—
and no more. So it is with our mines.
The time has come when we should get
rich by making available all these re
sources that have been placed so handy
to us.
Investors, who are looking for some
thing that will pay, will do well to go to
Cartersville before they determine to lo
cate. A sharp, shrewd man with money
will require no persuasions to induce him
to buy. All that is necessary is for the
people to make profert of what they
have. Without doubt the surrounding
•country is the richest in the South in all
that contributes to th 6 health, wealth
and happiness of a people.
A Lesson For Us.
While the ashes of the recent Sanders
ville fire, which licked up over SIOO,OOO
worth of property, were still warm, and
the people were para.vlized by the fear
ful shock that they undergone,
the Courant-American made the predic
tion that one of the first things that un
fortunate town would undertake after
her recovery would be the establishment
of a system of waterworks and a fire de
partment.
The news now comes that Summerville
will have the waterworks and fire depart
ment. It took over SIOO,OOO to learn
her that these things were needed and
the success and the growth of a town de
pended in a large measure upon them.
There are other towns in Georgia that
have the good sense to see that these
things are essential without going
through Sandersville's terrible experi
ence. We will soon see nearly every town
in Georgia of three thousand people
have waterworks, public schools and
electric lights. Thomasville has just
completed her waterworks, and Amerieus,
Albany, Griffin and other towns are alive
to the subject. The pipes for the Dalton
waterworks are being laid and the peo
ple of Cedartown say that before another
year is passed they will have such a plant
under construction.
Can we afford to be behind these places
in the way of progress? We believe the
manly and progressive spirit of our peo
ple will answer '‘No’’ with-a very big N.
They cannot afford to do otherswise. >
Campaign Slander.
The campaign slanderer has com
menced to get in his work early. Some
weeks ago a creature in the shape of a
man, mantled in the sacred robe of a
minister of the gospel, gave currency to
a most villainous story concerning the do
mestic life of President Cleveland. This
his noble wife has most emphatically de
nied, and at the same time expressing the
.wish that the domestic life and
home of all her country women may be
as happy, and that all the husbands of
the laud would be as true, gentle, loyal
and devoted as her's. To those who'love
the purity and sanctity of the home, it
would scarcely need denial. Grover
Cleveland's gallantry, courage and hon
esty are too deeply enshrined in the
hearts of his countrymen for such slan
derous tales to make any impression
upon them, whatever.
We had hoped that this campaign
would be made without personal abuse
and slander. Let the Republicans nomi
nate a ticket that will present to the
country men of unblemished characters,
for there are such in their ranks, then let
the fight be made squarely upon princi
ples. The Democrats have selected as
their standard bearers, men who are
tried and true, and whose records no
American can contemplate with anything
but a feeling of pride; and they go before
the country upon a platform in which
every issue is plainly and unequivocally
drawn. If the Republicans will do as
well at the Chicago convention, the ap
proaching national campaign will be
conducted upon a high and dignified
plane, such as is becoming the people of
a great and intelligent nation. The man
ufacturer and retailer of slander, will find
no demand lor this common political
commodity.
The Augusta Exposition.
Augusta is pushing forward with her
great national exposition in a most sat
isfactory manner. The enterprising peo
ple of this, the most beautiful and
wealthiest of Georgia’s cities, have sub
scribed more money than has ever before
been raised by any Southern city for an
exposition, and they propose to eclipse
anything in the way of an exposition
ever held in the South, by making
a display national in its character, South
ern in its effects. Augusta has planned
to do what no other one of her sisters
has done, and that is to make her expo
sition a comprehensive illustration of all
that the South has accomplished since
it entered upon its present career of de
velopment and prosperity. The city has
asked for no outside help, but has brave
ly put up all the money, needed to carry
its plan into execution, and already the
prospects of its pet scheme crown it with
success. All that skill, experience
and ingenuity could do to adapt the site
and the buildings upon it to the grand
purpose in view has been done. No
money will be spared, and no labor be
too great in the estimation of the man
agement, to make this the greatest Amer
can exposition of the year.
Every section of Georgia should be
represented at this great exposition. No
better opportunity has been offered to
display and advertise the wonderful and
varied resources of the State. The expo
sition will be largely attended by people
from all parts of the United States, with
a view to studying the attractions, ad
vantages and resources ol the South.
The section that is properly mirrored
there will make a great step in the march
of progress. Bartow, the banner bounty
of the South, must not let this opportu
nity pass to bring to the eyes of the
world her boundless resources. Let our
people begin at once to arrange for a
creditable display. The commissioner
for this county will call upon the people
to interest themselves in this matter,-and
we trust that they will respond with a
liberal hand.
The Marietta Journal, which has al
ways been a good paper, will, the comim?
month, enlarge to an eight-page quarto,
48 columns, the same size of the
Cox; rant- A me rican , and will also put in
anew press with steam fixtures. We ob
serve this evidence of enterprise on the
part of our esteemed friends with pleas
ure. Messrs. Neel & Massey have kept
down competition by making the people
satisfied with their paper and therefore
not desirous of having another, which
always results, wherever tried, in having
two mighty poor newspapers. We wish
tne Journal continued success.
The Forsyth, Ga., Advertiser, says
that tovfn does not need startling dis
coveries of minerals to make her boom.
She has pure air and good water and
these are sufficient for such a purpose.
We have no objection to this lovely Mid
dle Georgia town booming on air and
water if she can, but we would advise her
not to bank too heavily upon them. Car
tersville has the finest climate and water
in the world, but she didn't show any
signs of taking on a boom until her peo
ple went to work upon the material re
sources of the county surrounding her.
It is said aspirants for Senatorial
honors from the other counties are
watching Bartow county with a jealous
eye. Nothing would suit them better
than for this county to get up a split or
a squabble that they may have a chance
to walk in.
,T. C. Flood, the San Francisco million
aire, may safely be said to have the most
dazzling country place in America. The
estate is at Menlo Park, Cal., and covers
1,000 acres, and is under the constant
care of a landscapegardner and 120 assi
stants. The drives, which areseverl miles
in length are made on white gravel, the
house white , with gold trimmings, both
inside and out, and gold and white are
the decorations of the stables and all the
buildings on the place.
♦
Mikado Cologne and Ivory Tooth Polish
at Wikle’s drug store. jls-tf
A supply of Curry’s Diarrhoea and Dys
entery Specific in stock at Wikle’s drug
store. jls-tf
Amerieus has tried to build a hotel w ith
talk. She has failed, and now proposes
to try another plan, money.
JUST OPENED!
NEW STORE! NEW STOCE!
A 3ST X>
PRICES TO SUIT ALL!
R. H. GARWOOD,
West Main Street, Cartersville, Ca.
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A DELIGHTFUL RESORT.
A Correspondent Writes About the Sera
toga of the South.
Correspondence Cour ant-American]
Catoosa Springs, Ga., Junell, 1888.
Your correspondent, by especial invi
tation of R. M. Francisco, the genial and
efficient advertising agent of the Catoosa
Springs Company, has been spending a
few days at this charming place. Catoosa
is certainly the garden spot of the South,
nature having dealt with a lavish hand
in bestowing beauties upon her. 1 nder
the management of the present company
she will soon assume her proper place in
the line of watering places and will most
assuredly stand second to none when
art has added to her natural beauties.
The line of improvement* that are
mapped out will soon be put in opera
ation. The first and most important is
the building of a magnificent hotel with
all the modern improvements for the ac
commodation of summer visitors and will
be built with the especial arrangements
for the entertainment of Northern guests
who may come South to spend the win
ter. The grounds are to be put in perfect
order, the walks to be laid with asphalt,
fountains to be erected and the grounds
beautified in the most artistic manner.
In fact, everything that can be done to
add to the comfort and enjoyment of the
visitors will be most elaborately carried
out. The company have now a complete
system of waterworks. They have placed
upon the ground an eighteen horse power
engine which forces the water to a reser
voir sixty-five feet above the level of the
hotel. This will give ample supply for
the hotel and for the fountains. The
springs, fifty-two in number, have been
put in thorough condition and they pre
sent quite an attractive feature to the
beauty of the place and are becoming
widely known through the untiring en
ergy of R. M. Francisco, who has been
traveling for the past three or four
months, visiting all the prominent cities
of the South. £
Catoosa is bound to become a favorite
watering place, and when we state that
it is now under the management of Col.
J. C. Derby and his charming wife that
will be sufficient guarantee that its guests
will receive the very best treatment pos
sible and will be served with the best that
the country can afford or money buy.
Mr. J.H. Warner, the president, of the
company, never does anything by halves
and the public can rest assured that Ca
toosa Springs will become famous under
his management and will take on such
artificial beauty in connection with her
natural grandeur that she will become
the pride of the South.
Respectfully,
W. M. Bearden.
Fruit jars at Wikle’3 drug store, jls tf
That sticky fly paper at Wikle’s drug
store. Catches a million flies a minute
and only cost a nickel. Try it. jls tf
Picture cards for the children at Wikle’s
drug store. jls~tf
Hanging is truly played out in New
YYirk. The governor has signed the bill
abolishing the gallons and substituting
death by electricity in capital cases.
Absolutely Pure.
This powder never varies. A marvel of purity,
strength and wholesorneness. More economical
than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in
competition with the multitude of lowest short
weight alum or phosphate powder. Sold only in
cans,
Royal Baking Powder Cos.,
june9-llm 106 Wall St., Y. Y.
Notice.
In re Peiino Brown, Surviving: Trustee, &e., et
al, vs. William H. Howard, ' dininistrator of E.
P, Cook, deceased, et al, equity in Bartow Supe
rior Court, No. 55, July term, 1882, and referred
to James B. Conyers, as special master.—All of
the parties, their attorneys and witnesses in the
above stated case are hereby notified that the
special master will commence the hearing: of said
case at the Court House in Cartersville, Georgia,
at ten o’clock, a, m., on Tuesday, June 2th, 1888.
Let all parties be ready to proceed with the hear
ing of said case at the appointed time.
JAMES B. CONYERS, Special Master.
WEST END INSTITUTE
The fall session will open on
Monday, August 6th, 1888.
Associate Principals.
Mrs. J. W. Harris, Sr. Prof. L B. Robeson.
L. B. Robeson, A. M.
Professor of Latin, Greek, Higher Mathematics
and Book-Keeping.
Mrs. J. W. Harris, Sr.
Teacher of Academic and Preparatory Depart
ment.
Miss Mary Sokue.
Instrumental and Vocal Music, German and
Calisthenics.
Rates of Tuition :
Primary and preparatory, per month - #1 50
Intermediate, * “ - 2 00
Collegiate and high school, “ “ - - - 300
Incidental fee, “ “ - - - 15
Board, (including fuel, lights and washing)
per month, - - - - - - 12 50
Music, per month, - - - - 4 00
Use of piano, lor practice, per month, - 1 00
Art—Oil painting or crayon, per month, - 400
French and German, each, “ “ - 150
Bargains!
For a fey days can oiler special bar
gains in 320 acres Desota county, Flori
da, lauds. Price $355.
It G. H. Aubrey & Cos.,
Try Hygeia chewing tobacco. It is not
a humbug, but will cure heart burn and
indigestion. jls-tf
A Jasper special to the Constitution
says that Fletcher Garwood was killed
at Tate station Sunday morning by
Oscar Cassidy. The coroner’s verdict
was wilful murder. Cassidy is in jail.
Both men were about 20 years of age.
W. A. Kirkpatrick. R. c. Pknti.and
KIRKPATRICK & PENTLAND,
Real Estate Agents,
CARTERSVTLLE, GEORGIA.
$ %
Parties wishing to buy or sell Real Estate in
Cartersville or neighborhood will find it to their
interest to call on or correspond with us.
Our personal attention is also given to the
renting of property.
Street Tax.
Books will be open for the collection ol
street tax on Monday, 2nd day of April,
and will remain open until 15th of May.
The street tax for 1888 is two dollars.
J. D. WILKERSON.
Marshal and city tax collector. Office
at Council Chamber. inch 16-tf
My stock of hats has never been as
complete as now, and prices never more
satisfactory. Yours,
J. G. M Montgomery.
An elegant line of fine toilet soaps just
opened at Wikle’s drug store. m25-tl
If you smoke don’t fail to try Wikle &
Co.’s fine cigars. ap!2 7-3
Children will freely take Dr. J. H.
McLean’s Tar Wine Lung Balm; unlike
cough syrups, it contains no opium, will
soothe and heal any disease of the throat
or lungs quicker than any other remedy.
6-8-3 m
English Spavin Liniment removes till hard,
•oft, or callous lumps and blemishes from horses,
blood spavin, curbs, splints, sweeney, ring-bone,
stifles, sprains, all swollen throats, coughs, etc.
Save #SO by use of one bottle. Warranted. Sold
by M. F, Word, Druggist, Cartersville (la. 5-4 lm
We have got the largest stock of Shoes
we have ever had, and we are prepared to
sell you solid goods as cheap as they can
be bought in North Georgia.
.T. G. M. Montgomery.
Smoke Yarra Filler “Virginia Seal
Cigar.” At Stover’s 6-8 lm
A beautiful line.of satines of all shades
just in, and at a price you can pay, at
Montgomery’s.
Don’t you forget us when you want
shoes, for we can sell them to you at
prices that will please you, and give you
goods that will wear.
5-25tf Montgomery.
“Triumphant Songs” and other song
books at Wikle A Co.’s book store. a27-3
Fine Cigars and Tobaccoes at Wikle’s
drug Store. tf
The cheapest line ot white goods in
North Georgia, and some of the prettiest
satteens, can be found at
5 25 tf Montgomery’s.
When nature falters and requires help,
recruit her enfeebled energies with Dr. J.
H, McLean ’s Strengthening Cordial and
Blood Purifier. SI.OO per bottle. 6-8-3 m
Sick headache, wind on the’ stomach,
biliousness, nausea, are promptly and
agreeably banished by I)r. J. H. McLean’s
Little Liver and Kidney Pillets. 25c. a
vial. ' 6-8-3 m
“Say, John, where did you get that
cigar?” At Stover’s, and it’s ‘The Vir
ginia Seal,’ the best cigar I ever saw.
6-8 lm
The b°st smoke in the world—“ The
Virginia Seal.” # 6-8 lm
Physicians prescribe Dr. J. H. McLean’s
Tar \\ ine Lung Balm ; in it they find no
trace of opium or morphia, while its effi
cacy in curing all throat or lung diseases
is wonderful. 6-8-3 m
Far better than the harsh treatment
of medicines which horribly gripe the
patient and destroy the coating of the
stomach. Dr. .J. H. McLean’s Chills and
Fever Cure, by mild yet effective action
will cure. Sold at 50c. a bott’e. 6-8-3 m
A lot of the best made jeans pants in
the State, pants that you can’t rip at all
at the cash store of
m 25 tf J. G. M. Montgomery’s.
A large line of the celebrated Padan
Bros, shoes just in, all sizes and qualities.
Admitted by every wearer to be the best
shoe sold in the state for the price.
J. G. M. Montgomery.
A large lot of straw goods still on hand
and must be sold at once at
m25-tf Montgomery’s.
G. XX. Aubrey <Sc Cos,
Headquarters for
Mineral and Farming Lands
and City Property. Agents for Land SHparfcmeut
Florida Southern Railway. 3,000,000 acres Flor
ida Lands from $1.25 to $3.00 per acre.