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CARTERSYILLE AMERICAN.
NQLLAiiIJ-L-
The Cartersville American.
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•Y
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DIRECTORY.
COURT CALENDER—CHKUOK.EE CIR
CUIT.
,T. C.Faia, Judge. J. W. Harris, Jr., Solici
or General.
Bartow county—Second Monday in January
ai.d July. „ , _ ,
Catoosa County—Second Monday in rebruarv
and August
Murray county—Thin! Monday in February
ami August.
Gordon i unty—Fourth Monday in February
and August.
I .ole ■ -inty Third Monday in March and
Sc of cm H*r
VVhU!i< M Count) First Monday in April
ami October.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
,7. A. Howard, Ordinary.
K. 'i. Duriiuin, < lerk Superior Court,
il. W. Cobb, Treasurer.
Jobn \. LUfldon, Sheriff. A. M. Franklin
Jb-pt ty Sheriff.
I >■■■ a. Barton,Tax Collector.
\Y. \V . Ginn, Tax Receiver.
.A. M. v iJinghatn, Coroner.
i>. IV ■; ■pi'ar.oefe, Surveyor.
. .ii .*.. . Prichard, T. C. Moore,
A. Va,.toltu 11. VVikiti, TANARUS, 3. ilawkins.
CITY OFFICERS.
A. J. Wo'for \ Mayor.
,;..tD. VVilKcrson, Marshal.
Geo. p. Cobb, Clerk.
J . ounieastle, Treasurer.
,\ii , i S'ii>t Ward, J. C. Wofford, A. It.
Mur. . nil W ard. G. Harwell, W. H.
Hun n; Third Ward, John .. Stover, Elihu
Hall; ■. Fourth Ward, W. C. Edwards, Aaron
Cuiilll:-. [
STANDINO COM il ITTKES.
Si i. . Collins, Hudgins. Barron.
I iniiooe —Mover, Edwards, Wolford.
C ••me -Ilifdgins, Collins, Edwards.
II ill —Hull. Wofford, Barron.
Relief.—Edwards, Barron, Harwell.
■ uoXtiHsional Cards.
W. T. -111, .rat, J. W. UAKKIS, 4U.
7HLKKR A
Aiionicysi-At-Law.
Ofl.ce on West Main Street.
ttuiy9-tf Cartersvilie, Ga.
JOHN H. WIKLE. DOUGLAS WIKLE.
H 3lt Iri: A WIKLE,
Attorneys-at-Law & Real Estate Agents
Office up stairs North East Corner West
31 am and Erwin Streets,
may!)-it Cartersville, Ga.
TIIEO. mTs UITH,
At loruey-At-Law.
Office with T. VV. Baxter Main Street.
inay9-tf Carter.villa
GEOUGE S. JOHNSON
Attorney-at*Law
Office, West side Public Square,
CARTERS VILLE, GA.
practice In all the Courts.
E. D. GKAU.AU. W. M. GRAHAM.
GItAKAM & GKill iM,
Attorneys, Nolicttors and
Counselors at Law,
Cartersville, Ga.
Office in the court house. Will practice in
all the courts of Tlartow county, the superior
courts of northwestern Georgia, and the su
preme and federal courts at Atlanta, Ga.
A. M. FOUTE. WALTF.It M. RYALS
FOUTE & RYALS,
Attorneys- At-Law,
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
of this state. Prompt and faithlul at
teiwton given to all business entrusted to us.
Office, corner Main and Erwin Streets, np
stai■... Cartersville, Ga.
J. M. NKEL. J. J. CONNER. W. J. NEEL.
AEEiU B fc SEEL,
A H erney s* At-Law.
> ATI LI. PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
ff 1 this suite. Litigated cases made a
f-i mpl Ricniu.i; given to all bus
iness entrusted to tis-.
U1..1 V, o\ - r Stokely & Williams’ store.
< Cartersville, Ga.
, CASON,
I> ENTIHT,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OiV.ee, or; r Curry’s Drug StorO.
Ml. J. T. SHEPHERD,
. .. siciuii audKurgcou,
Office at Curry's Drug Store,
: i-:% \V 9 K. LEAKE,
Fh|sician and Surgeon,
Cart ersvtUe, Ga.
fsAJ**Office at Wori's drug store.
mi. At . H.LEAKE,
I’racticing Pliyiticlaii,
Cartersville, Ga.
Special attention given to diseases of women
and children, and all Chronic affections.
Office up stair-way between hank and post
office. May be found at office or Word’s drug
*tore.
I-Totels.
hilburn house,
ADAIRNYILLE, GA.
W. 4. IIIIiKIRA, Prop’r.
: Nice rooms, ’aan beds, thorough ventilation,
tables .pplied w ith the very best
the market affords.
|gf'TF.I!MS HOUI UATK. jtil4-tf
Central Elotel
ROME, GEORGIA.
J. H. KIPPS, Proprietor.
Rates $2 per day. e handled lree. Sit—
i uated in the business part of the city. Free
omnibus to and Iroin all trains. Recently cn
arged and newly furnished.
FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL,
LOUISVILLE, KY.
CENTRALLY LOCATED
i And all the appointments, including
ELEVATORS AND FIRE! ESCAPE.
VERY COMPLETE.
S. M. SCOTT, Proprietor.
GRANT HOUSE.
BEST HOTEL IN ATLANTA.
New r building, new furniture—everything
first-class.
Headquarters lov commercial men.
Railroads.
KEMESAW ROUTE!
WESTERN&ATUNTICR. R.
The following time card in effect Sunday,
Dec. 30,1883:
NORTH BOUND.
NO, 3—WESTERN EXPRESS—DaiIy.
Leave Atlanta 7 30 a. m.
Arrive Marietta 8 20
Cartersvilie 0 25
“ .Kingston 952
“ I'alron 1123
“ Chattanooga 100 p. m.
NO. I—FAST EXPRESS—DaiIy.
Leave A than! a 2 35 p. m.
Arrive A!a i ielta 327
“ Cartersvilie 4 29
“ Dalion 6 22
“ ( hattanoaga 8 00
NO. 11 -LIMITED EXPRESS-Daily.
Leave Atlanta 11 40 p. m.
Arrive .Marietta— 12 39 a. m.
“ Cart cr>ville 1 4S
“ Dalton 3 44
“ Chattanooga 515
Rome Expre.-s —Xortii—Daily, except Sunday.
Leave Atlanta ......... 4 05 p. m.
Arrive Marietta 3 00
“ Cartersvilie 0 03
“ Rome 7 20
No. 1 carries Pullman cars from Atlanta to
Louisville, Jacksonville to Cincinnati, New
Orleans to Washington.
No. 11 carries Pullman cars from Savannah
to Chicago and Atlanta to Nashville.
SOUTH BOUND.
NO. 4—FAST EXPRESS.
Leave Chattanooga 8 00 *. m.
Arrive Dalton 9 33
Kingston 1110
“ Cartersvilie 1142
“ Marietta ..12 46 p.m.
Arrive Atlanta 145
NO. 2—SOUTHERN EXPRESS.
Leave Chattanooga 2 55 p, m.
Arrive Dalton 4 30
“ Kingston 602
“ Cartersvilie 081
“ Marietta .. 7 47
Arrive Atlanta 8 40
NO. 12—LIMITED EXPRESS—DaiIy.
Leave Chattanooga 1015 p. m.
Arrive Dalton 11 49
“ Cartersvilie 1 47 a. m.
“ Marietta 2 50
“ Atlanta 340
Rome Express—South—Daily, Except Sunday.
Leave Rome... 8 30 a.m.
Arrive Cartersvilie 9 45
“ Marietta 10 49
“ Atlanta 11 45
No. 4 carries Pullman cars from Cincinnati
to Atlanta, Washington, New Orleans, Louis
ville to Atlanta.
No. 12 carries Pullman cars from Chicago to
Savannah and Louisville to Atlanta.
B. W. WRENN, Gen’l. Pass. Agt.
R. A. ANDERSON, Superintendent.
EAST & WEST R. R. 0F &LA~
ON and after Sunday, Nov. 14, 1883, trains
on this road will run as follows:
GOINu WEST—Daily, Except Sunday.
no. 1. no. 3.
Leave Cartersvilie 950a. m. 430 p. m.
“ Stilesboro 10 02 4 42
“ Taylorsville 10 37 517
“ Rock mart 11 10 5 50
Arrive Cedurtowu 12 00 0 40
GOING EAST—Daily, Except Sunday.
NO. 2. NO. 4.
Leave Ccdartown 205 p. m. 715 a. m.
“ Roc km art 3 00 8 07
“ Taylorsville 3 35 8 39
“ Stilesboro 3 53 855
Arrive Cartersvilie 4 25 1125
SUNDAY ACCOMMODATION—Going Eest.
Leave Cedartown 8 00 a. m.
“ Stilesboro 8 52
“ Taylorsville : 9 2t
“ Rock mart 9 40
Arrive Cartersvilie ..10 10
SUNDAY ACCOMMODATION—Going \Yest.
Leave Cartersvilie 2 50 p.m.
“ Stilesboro 3 21
“ Taylorsville 3 37
“ Rockmart 4 Id
Arrive Cedartown 5 00
ALABAMA DIVISION.
Daily, Except Sunday.
Leave East .A West Junction 2 55 p. m.
Arrive Broken Arrow 0 00
Leave Broken Arrow— 9 00 a. m.
Arrive East & W est Junction 1 15 p, m.
ROME RAILROAD,
The following is the present passenger
schedule:
NO. 1. NO, 3.
Leave Koine... 010 a.m. 415 p.m.
Arrive Kingston 8 55 5 30
NO. 2. NO. 4.
Leave Kingston. .... ... 9SOa. m. 555 p.m.
Arrive Rome 10 25 a. m. 650
no. 5.
Leave Rome. 8 00 a. m.
Arrive Kingston 900
no. 6.
Leave Kingston. 9 20 a. in.
Arrive Rome 10 10
Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 will run daily except Sun
days.
Nos.s and 6 will run Sundays only.
No 1 will not stop at the junction. Makes
close connection at Kingston for Atlanta and
Ch ictunoogn.
No. 2 m i kes connection at Rome w ith E. T.
Va. X Ga. Jt it., for points south.
EdEN HILLYEII, President.
J. A. SMITH. Gen’l Pass. Agent.
r r. W. WHIT 12
CABINET MAKER aM UPHOLSTERER.
Furniture of all Kinds Made and
Repaired.
SHOP ON WESTIMAIN STREET,
Cartersville, Ga-
Have your Job Printing neatly ex
ecuted at this office.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1884.
The Cartersvilie American.
1 Entered at the Post Office at Carfer.nnllc,
Ga., May 9f/t, 18$*, as second class matter.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY. 5, ISB4.
Sifted Stammerings
CULLED FROM
THE
A2W
SPREAD OUT
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N Before our Readers.
John Sherman fora fly-blister! Eh ?
How to catch a husband: Grab him by the
hair.
The insanguine undergarment has again
been buug out iu the United States senate.
It is said that the peculiar sunsets are caus
ed by the nn trying to Bet by the new stand
ard time.
It now appears as if the polar wave was
caused by the coolness between Jay Gould
and Grant.
Learn a trade, young man. Then in after
life should you happen out of business you
can trade horses.
Columbia, Ala., near Columbus, Ga., had a
SIO,OOO Are a few days ago. Nearly the whole
town vras destroyed.
Georgia pine is now being shipped to South
America. A Pensacola firm has closed a con
tract for 10,000,000 feet.
Chicago has a disease called winter cholera.
It is doubtless caused Dy the drinking of too
much Chicago rectified high wius.
It is said that Senator Colquitt, of Georgia
aud Congressman Miliken, of Maiue, are as
. much alike as two peas iu one pod.
Twenty-nine amendments to the constitu
tion of the Uaited States have been offered
during the present session of congress.
Congress has not yet decided to investigate
the charge that the negroes of ihe south are
accused of playing on the “old banjo. 5 ’
A Kansas jury gave the following verdict
where a man died in a state of intoxication.
Death by hanging—’round a rum shop.
“My son,” said a father to his youug son,
“always mix iu bright society.” And the son.
taking his advice, began going with red-head
ed girls.
It is stated that Springfield, Conn., is going
to buy a thousand cows for co-operative milk
distribution. This seems to be something
new under the sun.
Mrs. R. B. Hayes enjoys the distinction of
owning the largest poultry yards west, of the
Alleghanie#. Her husband’s chickens must be
coming home to roost.
Sherman, Edmunds & Cos., will soon be
wanting to pension the veteran liars that
have furnishod the raw material for the re
publican slander mill.
An exchange says that Noah was the first
pitcher on record. He “pitched the ark with
in aud without.” The game was finally called
on account of the rain.
It is estimated that the United States senate j
is the wealthiest deliberative body in the !
world, the seventy-six members of that body
representing $180,000,000.
There is no prospect of a decrease in the
population of Georgia. It is said that just
58,920 babies were born in the state last year, j
and the present year starts out fairly.
It is said that Congressman Springer is after
that ruffle-shirted. antiquated dandy, Attor
ney-General Brewster, with a sharp stick. He
is going to try to have him impeached.
Fifty-four members of the present congress
were in the confederate army aud sixty-five
were in the lederai army. It seems that both
sides are determined to stay iu the field.
The traveling showmen are exhibiting three
skeletons of Guiteau—his skeleton when he
was a boy, his skeleton before he shot Gar
field, and his skeleton after he was hanged.
Ex-President Hayes has “given it out” that ■
he does not intend to be interviewed duriug i
the coming campaign. Something like the
doctor who advertised lor a limited practice, j
Up to date, nearly three thousand bills I
have been introduced in congress. This is
about the number that will be presented to
some of the members before eongrsss ad
journs.
All bachelors would like to shake hands
with the man named Morse, who recently got
married, and four weeks later applied to par- j
iiament to have his name changed to Re
morse.
The young man who tampers with alcohol
is inviting a blight to settle upon his name
and oliaracter, aud a curse more bitter than
death to take possession of his fond hopes
and bright prospects.
A Chicago man shot at his wife, but her cor
set caused the ball to glance and save her life
Aud yet men whose names are enrolled high
up on the scroll of fame, assert that corsets
are injurious to health.
It is thought that Vanderbilt will try his
baud on another graud iop as soon as the
gastronomic architects can get up the spe
cifications and plans of a blowout that will
eclipse that of Mrs. Astor,
The country is informed that Gen. Sherman
calls letters by which the postage is uot fully
prepaid “tramp letters,” aud refuses to take
them out of the po6t office. Those who wish
to Bend him valentiues weighing over half an
ounce had best stick on the stamps accord
ingly.
The Ilfs of a Kentuckian has been shortened
by tobacco. A hog-shesd o.* the weed fell on
him and crushed him out of symmetrical pro.
j portions. It cannot be denied that tobacco
[ in large qualities is injurious.
Twen*y-five German carp were frozen stark
1 and st'ffin a pond at Baird, Texas, during the
! late cold snap, but revived as soon as tney
were thawed out, without any apparent dam
age to their health and spirits.
A yonng man by the name of Webster Gil
lette, of New York, has invented an improve
-1 rnent in telephones, by Which ho expects a
I conversation can be successfully carried on
between New York and London.
Congressmen will hereafter be compelled to
step across the street to the nearest saloon
when they wish tc wet their whistles. The
sale of spirituous liquors has been prohibited
in the capitol buildiug at Washington.
Matthew Arnold is depressed to see so
many youug men in America flocking to the
large cities. We notice that Matthew in his
lectuie tours also “flocks? to the large cities,
aud for the same objeetjKo make money.
Wheu it is remembered that twenty-five
state? begin the new year with democratic
Governors, while the republicans have only
i thirteen, the prospects io? electing a demo
i cratic president this not look so bad.
Scientists have dissolved that a man’s Gn
i ger nails grow much rafcre rapidly than his
toe nails. This startling piece of information
j clears the human mind of a darkened mist and
1 the tariff question can nqw receive due atten
tion.
The Chattanooga Democrat says that Lula
Hurst’s wonderful powers are nothing more
than extraordinary muscular power. If this
is true, it is a death blow to Miss Lula’s mat
rimonial prospects. That much muscular
power is not needed by a wile.
Married men cannot be too careful. A
Philadelphia woman is going to apply for a
divorce because she found a hairpin in his
pocket, and yet he is willing to 6wear that he
only used it instead of a shingle nail tempora
rily to replace a suspender button.
The old cows are being heard from. Ac
cording to the Solid South, an old negro near
Conye 6, owns an old one-horned cow that,
gave milk for Wheeler’s cavalry during the
war. She has now a young calf and is giving
over two gallons of rich milk daily.
The republicans squirm under Springer’s in
vestigation of the department of justice. They
say that Springer is heing used to “grind
axes.” Well, if the axes chop off the heads of
all the rogues in that misscalled department,
they cannot be ground to too sharp an edge-
A seeker after information wants to know
“when two young men call on a young lady
which should be the first to go?” We have
seen the time when we aud the other fellow
could hevo gone away together aud the girl
wouldn’t have cared which one got out of the j
door first.
The boy who spemds his evenings in reading
newspapers, the local news of his own county
and the general news of the day, will, cer
tainly, make a better man than the boy who
spends his evenings on tno 6treet or loafing
at places where the town gossip is dished ou t
in the most obscene and vulgar manner.
Immortal is the fame of those who do a
needed work timely and well. Nancy Mc-
Comb, a very aged colored woman, haviug
died a few weeks since in Milledgeville, Geor
gia, Harper’s Bazar embalms her memory by
recording that she “was the cook who pre
pared Gen. LaFayette’s dinner when he was
in that city.
The latest iu regard to Oscar Wilde is, that
be is hesitative as to which of three things he
will do, get married, enter parliament, or
write for the stage. The best thing that Oscar
Wilde can do, is to tel his hair grow, and put
himself on exhibition at some dime museum,
for if he is uot a freak of nature, there never
was one.
Senator Payne’s friends call him the “Ohio j
child of destiny.” Let’s see. He is seventy- |
four years of age, and has a mouth full of
store teeth. Ohio’s “child of destiny” must
be iu his second childhood or thereabouts.
Benat*r Payne should put a muzzle, on his
sentimental frieuds or they will ruin his fu
ture prospects.
Mahone’s bloody shirt speech on the senate j
last week appears to have been his answer to ,
the Virginia resolution asking him to resign.
He is uot apt to give up a position in which
he can patriotically serve the country at $5,-
000 a year, aud at the same lime have an op
portuuity to give the people of Virginia an
occasional stab.
James G. Blaine, Jr., of Washington, pro
poses to lead the fashion of that city this
wiuter by wearing knee-breeches with his ,
dress suit. Tke dress suit ii bad enough i
already without trying to make it any more |
ridiculous, and as James G. Blaine, Jr., is on- ;
ly eighteen years of age, his worthy papa j
ought to take him across his knee and give i
him a dressing more suited to bis age.
An enterprising Arkansas editor having in j
vain made numerous gifts to increase the i
circulation of his paper, finally offered the I
following inducement. “The publisher of
this paper, having recognized the demands of
the community, has decided to offer a quart
bottle of whisky with each yearly subscrip
tion.” It is said that the editor has rented a j
warehouse iu which to Btore his subscription 1
books.
A New York man seeks a divorce on the j
strong ground that his wife’s breath is so bad
he cauuot kiss her. But suppose women
should begin to ask divorees for similar rea
sons, what a prolonged howl would go up
from many lips stained with tobacco juice aud
breath poisoned with beer, sour mash and old
cheese! A man of sense who has smelled the
multitudes of men would never raise the
question of “bad breath.”
The sad and the gay are straugely ming ed
in this world. A funeral here and a bridal
yonder, the outbursts of mirth aud the sounds
of woe, the sorrowing and rejoicing, cross and
recross and jostle each other as, by separate
ways, men journey on to the great and silent
hereafter. The poor and the sorrowing, the
rich and the rejoicing, have need to be mind
ful of e-ieh other; for the divergent wavs will
■ converge at the last, and one common lot will
crowd upon them. all.
It is declared that reading paragraphs In
jures the memory. The frolicsome Skipping
from one.subject to another is not likely to
strengthen the memory or broaden the under
stand! ig, but there are many people who de
elan. ! heir lack of time to read long articles.
The true paragraph, not the pun, embodies
a column, and is, written itself a thought*
Paragraphs that are worth reading at all are
worth reading closely, for the writer, to pro
duce them, is suppo.ed to have done much
reading.
Fred Douglass’ marriage was a surprise
even to his own family. Yesterday morning
he went into the register’s office, and, after a
few moments whispered conversation, the
register took down his big book and filled
out a blank. Mr. Douglass paid his fee and
went away, after urging the register to make
no announcement of what had transpired,—
Washington Special to iV T . Y. Sun. Asham
ed of it yourself, eh? Sweet Helen, of Troy,
will wish herself it had never transpired,
•‘when, in June, she shall realize the aromat
ic fact that her Scipio Africanus hath “perspir
ed.”
7IIE TATTLER TALKS.
Faets and Fancies Gathered Here and There
andTeld by the Tattler to Tickle the
Gossips and Torn the Tedions
Honrs into Talk.
The Tattler suggests to the young
men of Cartersvilie that they invite
Mtijor Mark A. Cooper to deliver a
lecture in the opera house on the
history of Georgia. We do not know
Major Cooper would consent to do
this, but we believe he would. There
is no man living w hose life has been
more intimately connected with our
sia:o than his, and no man whose
utterances would be more instruct
ive or entertaining. He stands to
day, at the age-of nearly 90, a grand,
true, noble, pure-hearted old man.
His life and his fortune has been
given to Georgia, and although his
property is gone, and his life is near
ly spent, he has that which is more
lasting than wealth, and moie dura
ble than time, that is the love and
ret.pect of his people. His mind is
rich in memories of the past, and
lie loves to dwell on the events that
go to make up Georgia’s history.
His life has been spent in Georgia,
his energy and his inteleet have
been given to her development, and
he is as familial with her history as
a child is with its mother’s voice, A
lecture from him would be a rare
treat to our people, and we hope an
effort will be made to have him
speat on this subject.
Mr. S. G. Brown, a tenant on the
farm of Col. J, G. Ityals, about four
miles west of Cartersville, made last
year six hundred bushels of corn on
less than twelve acres of land, being
an average of nearly sixty bushels to
the acre, and .last year was a sorry
corn year at that. Mr. Brown is one
of the hardest workers and best
farmers in Bartow county, and never
fails to make good crops. It does
the Tattler good to tell such tales as
this. Our pencil could run on for
hours telling to the world what can
be done, and is beiug done here in
old Bartow. It is a pardonable, and,
we believe, a commendable pride
that prompts us to tell these things.
We home folks know that Bartow is
the finest agricultural county in the
state, and we want others to find it
out. We want, also, to advance the
agricultural interest of the county,
and get up if possible a spirit of
rivalry among cur farmers. If Mr.
Brown can make sixty bushels of
com to the acre on Col. ityals’ farm,
the same thing can be done on Char
lie Parrott’s farm, or Ham Harris’
farm, or Henry Tumi in’s farm, or
Capt. Lyon’s farm or any other farm
along the Etowah. There are thou
sands of acres of land in Bartow
county that would make from thirty
to fifty bushels of corn if property
tilled, on which bumble-beeeotton is
now raised that don’t much more
than pay for the guauo that is put
under it. If a few men like Mr.
Sam Brown would turn their atten
tion to raising corn, there would
be lewer long, lank, lean, hungry
lookiug mules, andslab-sided, sharp- !
nosed, razor-backed hogs, and
sad-eyed, hollow-horned, dry cows
in Barlow county than there are at
present. How many farmers will
undertake to duplicate Mr. Brown’s
corn crop in 1884?
Much has been said one way and
another by our citizens of the Lula
Hurst performance at the opera
house last week. Most everybody
concedes to her some extraordinary
power which no one quite under
stands, or attempts to explain. There
are a few, however, who are alto
gather skeptical and refuse to accept
her demonstrations as anything but
a iruud. Among the most sceptical
is Mr. W, C. Edwards, our Main
street merchant. Iu conversation
with the Tattler the other day,
he said he could duplicate any trick
she did that night on the stage, and
he so firmly believes this, that he
says he would not be afraid, if he
were a betting man, to risk every
thing he has that he can do anything
that Miss Hurst can do, except to
gull the people and get their money.
Mr. Edwards says he watched her
closely, and he is quite sure she pos
sesses no extraordinary potver,except
she is an unusually strong girl phys
ically, and has practiced so much
that she can very adroitly manipu
late a chair. The boys speak of
challenging Mr. Edwards to meet
Miss Hurston the stage and let him
prove his ability to duplicate her
tricks. But all those gentlemen who
went on the stage, give testimony
to Miss Hurst’s powers and say that it
is nolraud. We were skeptical, too,
until we tried it and come out
very much convinced that shecould,
without apparent effort, makea chair
wiggle powerfully, and make a boy
perspire freely in trying to hold it.
She is the first woman w’e ever struck
who could flip u3 around like a cat
plays with a ball- Anybody can
experiment who feels like it, but we
beg to be excused in the future.
The Tattler must talk, and will
talk, but he can’t talk to suit every
body, and without intending it he
sometimes gives offense. It will be
remembered that an article appeared
in last week’s paper,, passing some
wild strictures on the famous Dr.
Slade, the great New York spiritual
ist, in connection with the somewhat
mysterious departure from our town
of Mrs. Lepareand Miss Trescott.two
very admirable, but, as we - thought,
very much deluded ladies, who left a
few weeks ago for St. Louis. The
article was written from information
picked up from those whom we con
sider reliable, and was given only as
hearsay. It was common talk on
the streets, and as everybody knows,
things of this kind generally get
mixed. We met Mr. C. W. Chase a
day or two after the article appeared
and he complained that we had done
Dr. Blade, and Mrs. Legare and Miss
Trescott great injustice in the little
article referred to. We told him such
was not our intention, and if we had
misstated any facts, we were willing
and anxious to correct them, He
said that the ladies had sold their
property before Dr. Slade ever came
here, and had spoken of going to St.
Louis as long ago as last spring. That
Dr. Slade had never been in Carters
ville but one time and that was just
a few days before Christmas. We
then asked Mr. Chase (who, by the
way, is a devout believer in spiritual
ism) if it were true that they had a
communication from their dead
mother through Dr. Slade in the
nature of a written communication
on a slate. “Oh, yes. They received
a message from their mother in her
own hand-wrtiting, giving them
good advice, and telling them that
they would do well in St. Louis, and
promisihg them that she would be
with them and assist them.”
The Tattler had quite a conversation
with Mr. Chase, and many things
like the above were recited. We
asked him if it were true that Dr.
Slade had been ‘’bounced” from a
western city. He denied that the
Slade who had been run out of ome
town in lowa was the genuine Dr.
Slade. “Owing to the success of Dr.
Slade, many men have started out
under his name pretending to be
mediums, and it was one of these
counterfeiters who met such a warm
reception in the w r est.” Mr. Chase
told us many wonderful things of
Dr. Slade’s power, which we have
not space to report, all of which failed
to convert us to his way of believing
and left us as skeptical as ever. Mr.
Chase said if he had met the Tattler
when he first read the article,some
body would have gotten a whipping.
How very fortunate it was we didn’t
meet. Now in conclusion, we repeat
that in these tattling talks we do not
intend to give anybody offense, but
we expect to speak freely and fear
lessly whenever we think the occa
sion demands it, and risk the conse
quences. Wo have taken occasion to
make some further inquiry into the
real cause of those two unprotected
old ladies golner to St. Louis, and we
leei quite sure that they made a grave
mistake, whether wilfully oracling
under the advice of some of these so
called spiritualists,we do not under
take to say. We leel a sympathy for
them, and hope they will prosper in
their new home. They are harmless,
and their character is unimpeach
able. They are connected with the
very best families of the south, and
were before the war very rich. But
their property is now gone and they
are set adrift. We look on spiritual
ism as a fraud and a humbug, but
we do not fall out with anybody for
believing it, and we will always try
to do everybody justice in our com
ments. Dr. Slade will perhaps be in
Cartersville again soon, and Mr.
Chase has promised us an interview
with him if possible.
Tattler.
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“No one knows more of' the ups
and downs of this life than I do.”
says our elevator man.
NUMBER 40.
PROHIBITION ANI> TRABE.
Rev. J. W. Lee, who was pastor
of the Methodist church at Dalton
for three years, and who is now sta
tioned at Rome, wrote a letter some
time since to the Wesleyan Advocate
of Macon, on the subject ©f prohibi
tion, which we copy below. We
think that Mr. Lee’s argument# are
unanswerable. He presents the sub
ject in its true light, shows that
he is thoroughly posted as to the evil
effects of ardent spirits. He states
one fact about the effect ef prohibi
tion at Dalton, which should attract
the attention of every one. That city
has abolished the traffic in whisky,
and will have in its stead a large
cotton factory. The company select
ed that location because there was no
whLky sold there. But it seems
that a great many towns in Georgia,
ours amongst them, prefer free whis
ky to a cottou factory. There Is
enough money thrown, away in this
town, and all others of similar popu
lation, to baild a good sized cotton
factory every year. Mr. Leo is said
to be one the most learned and ac
complished preachers in the North
Georgia Conference. But to the let
ter. He says:
“A favorite argument of the whisky
dealers against prohibition is, that it
interferes with trade. On the sth of
last June the sale of whisky was pro
hibited in Daltou. The keepers and
a few other wise men, began at once
to ring the changes on the immediate
prospect of dull times. Last weeks
company of capitalists purchased in
the town grounds upon which to build
a cotton factory. The president of
the company stated that Dalton waa
selected on account of the fact that
no whisky was sold in the place.
“A man who takes the position that
prohibition hinders trade, must be too
ignorant to comprehend an argument.
Trade is exchange of wagons, plow
stocks, calico, corn, meat, money
houses, etc., These elements of trade
consist iu so much raw material, mix
ed with brains. A wagon consists
of hickory and iron,mixed with hrains.
A piano consists of wood from the for
est and brass from the mountains, mik
ed with brains. A bolt of calico is
so much cotton, mixed with brains.
There is nothing in the whole realm
of commence, that is made, exported,
imported, or transported, without the
help of brains. Liquor has affinity
lor the brain, as mercury has for the
salivary glands. It directly affects
the brain, hardens it, cooks it, as whis
ky does an egg. If any man can
drink whisky without being injured
and ruined by it, it is because he has
no brains.
“Many animals are said to be proof
against opium, arsenic, and henbane,
but not one above the oyster has been
found, that whisky will not intoxicate.
The liquor traffic, then, instead of pro
moting trade, absolutely destroys the
cerebral tools with which all element*
of legitimate trade are formed. It is
beyond question, that by every thous
and dollars worth of whisky sold in %
town, there are a thousand dollars
worth less of wagons, homespun,flour,
books, and sausage grinders sold. A
good lively liquor traffic in city or vil
lage, uses up a great deal of capital
and labor. It actually uses it up, with
out making any return whatever to
the health, happiness, education, or
moral welfare of our people. Like
the water that leaks from the race, it
is wasted, spilt. It grinds no wheat,
gins no cotton, makes no nail It
simply fallß on the ground to generate
malaria to poison the atmosphere
When this capital and labor are not
permitted to express themselves in
the whisky business, they are drawn
off into other lines of trade, which sub
serve the higher wants of men, and
society. They are put into scfiool, the
church, the the health, the
culture.
“That many of our cities and towns
make no real progress, is not at all
wonderful. Think of a city of ten
thousand inhabitants spending one
hundred thousand dollars in fertilizing
the appetites and passions of the peo
ple, while perhaps the very same place
spends about ten thousand in building
up and quickening the conscience, the
judgment, the re tson, and the relig
ious faculties. Our people will never
gro w as they ought until they begin to
spend more money upon the upper
realms of themselves than upon the
lower”
The Macon Telegraph say 9: “It I#
a rare thing to find a Georgia weekly
tnat belongs to the *wig-wag’ bri
gade. The editors of that class of
papers, as a rule, are independent
and outspoken. They dare to have
opinions of their own and to give ex
pression to them, even when the fact
involves oppositions to the great
‘commercial’ statesman, Senator
Brown. This is more than can be
truthfully said of some of the dailies
that have six times as much oppor
tunity to show their independence,
and about six times less of it to
show.”
That was a bright girl who said to
her bashful lover: “I propose, my dear,
that you offer yourself to me, and don’t
be atraid that I will not accept you.
He didn’t wait for another hint.
Sometimes shrouded in a mist-ery;
A ship’s riggiug.