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CAETERSVILLE AMERICAN.
VOLUME 11.
The Cartersyille American.
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DIRECTORY.
COURT C’ALENUEK-CUKKOKEE CIR
CUIT.
,7. C. Fain, .Judge. J. W. Harris, Jr., Solici
or General.
Bartow County—Second Monday in January
and July. , . _ ,
Catoosa County—Second Monday in I ebruary
and August ~ , ....
Murray County— Third Monday in rebruary
and August.
Gordon County— Fourth Monday in February
and August. .....
I ade County—Third Monday in March and
September.
Whitfield County First Monday in April
and October.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. A. Howard, Ordinary.
F. M. Durham, Clerk Superior Court.
11. w. Cobh, Treasurer.
John A. Gladden, Sheriff. A. M. Franklin
Deputy Sheriff.
Bailey A. Barton, Tax Collector.
W. W. Ginn, Tax Receiver.
A. M. Willingham, Coroner.
I. W. K. Peacock, Surveyor.
Gommissioneis —H. C. Prichard, T. C. Moore,
A. Vincent, John 11. Wikie, T. S. Hawkins.
CITY OFFICERS.
A. P. Wofford, Mayor.
James D. Wilkersou, Marshal.
Geo. S. Cobh, Clerk.
15. li. Mountcastle, Treasurer.
Aldermen —First Ward, J. C. Wofford, A. It.
Hudgins; Second Ward. G. Harwell, W. H.
Barron; Third Ward, John j . Stover, Eliliu
Hall; Fourth Ward, W. C. Edwards, Aaron
Collins,
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Street.—Collins, Hudgins. Barron.
Finance.—Stover, Edwards, Wofford.
Cemetery.—Hudgins, Collins, Edwards.
Hall.—Hall, Wofford, Barron.
Relief.—Edwards, Barron, Harwell.
Professional Cards.
W. T. MILNKK. J. W. HAKIUS, JR.
miLNEII & HARRIS,
Attorney*- A t-I^aw.
Office on West Main Street.
muy'J-tf _______ Cartcrsviile, Ga.
JOHN If. WIKEE. DOUGLAS WIKLE.
WIKIJ: A MTKI.E,
Attorneys-at-Law & Real Estate Agents
Oflico up stairs North East Corner West
Main and Erwin Streets.
inuy9-tf Cartcrsviile, Ga.
Til EO. JI. SM JLTIfI ,
Attorney-A t-JLaw.
Office with T. W. Baxter Main Street.
may9-tf CartersvillJ
GEORGE S. JOHASOA,
Attorney-at-liaw,
Office, West side Public Square,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
practice in all the Courts.
A. M. FOUTE. WALTER M. RYALS
FOUTE A RA AIjS,
Attorneys-At-Ijaw.
WILT, PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
of this state. Prompt and faithful at
tention given to all business entrusted to us.
Office, corner Main and Erwin Streets, up
stairs. Cartcrsviile, Ga.
J. M. NEEL. J. J. CONNER. W. J. NEEL.
HEEL, COHHER A HEEL,
Attorney s-At-Law.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
ol this state. Litigated cases made a
specialty. Pithedpt attention given to all bus
iness entrusted to us.
office over Stokely & Williams’ store.
Cartersville, Ga.
R,. E. CASON,
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office, over Curry’s Drug Store.
DU. J. T. MIIEFHEIiD,
Physician and Surgeon,
Office at Gurry’s Drug Store,
I)R W, R. LEAKE,
Physician susd Surgeon,
Cart ersville, Ga.
sr Office at Word's drug store.
]>R. W. H.LEAKE,
Practicing Physician,
Cartersville, Ga.
Special attention given to diseases of women
and children, and all Chronic affections.
Office up stair-way between bank and post
office. May be found at office or Word’s drug
store.
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Hotels-
H3LBURN HOUSE,
AD.IIRSVIULE, GA.
H. J. HlLsitß-V, Ppop r.
Nice rooms, lean beds, thorough ventilation,
tables ipplied with the very best
the market affords.
fgjrTERMS MODERATE. ju!4-tf
Cent ral Hotel
ROME, GEORGIA.
J. H. KIPPS, Proprietor.
Rates $2 per day. Baggage handled tree. Sit
uate! lin the business part of the city. Free
omnibus to and trom all trains. Recently en
arged and newly furnished.
FIFTH ft VENUE HOTEL,
LOUISVILLE, MY.
CENTRALLY LOCATED
And all the appointments, including
ELEVATORS AND FIRE ESCAPE.
VERY COMPLETE.
S. M. SCOTT, Proprietor.
CHANT HOUSE
BEST HOTEL IN ATLANTA.
New building, new furniture—everything
first-class.
Bgr*Headquarters for commercial men.
Railroads.
KENNESAW ROUTE!
WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. R.
The following time card in effect Sunday,
Dec. 30, 1883:
NORTH HOUND.
NO, 3—WESTERN EXPRESS—DaiIy.
Leave Atlanta 7 30 a. m.
Arrive Marietta 8 20
Cartersville 9 25
“ Kingston 952
“ Dalton 11 23
“ Chattanooga 100 p.m.
NO. I—FAST EXPRESS—DaiIy.
Leave Atlanta 2 35 p. m.
Arrive Marietta 3 27
“ Cartersville 4 29
“ Dalton 8 22 *
“ Chattanooga 800
NO. II—LIMITED EXPRESS—DaiIy.
Leave Atlanta 1140 p.m.
Arrive Marietta 12 39 a. ill.
“ Cartersville 148
“ Dalton 3 44
“ Chattanooga 515
Rome Express—North—Daily, except Sunday.
Leave Atlanta 4 05 p. m.
Arrive Marietta 3 00
“ Cartersville 0 03
“ Rome 7 20
No. 1 carries Pullman cars from Atlanta to
Louisville, Jacksonville U> Cincinnati, New
Orleans to Washington.
No. 11 carries Pullman cars from Savannah
to Chicago and Atlanta to Nashville,
SOUTH HOUND.
NO. 4—FAST EXPRESS.
Leave Chattanooga 8 00 a. m.
Arrive Dalton 9 33
“ Kingston 11 10
“ Cartersville ll 42
“ Marietta 12 46 p. m.
Arrive Atlanta 1 45
NO. 2—SOUTHERN EXPRESS.
Leave Chattanooga 2 55 p. m.
Arrive Dalton 4 30
“ Kingston 602
“ Cartersville 6 31
“ Marietta ..7 47
Arrive Atlanta 8 40
NO. 12—LIMITED EXPRESS—DaiIy.
Leave Chattanooga 1015 p. m.
Arrive Dalton 1149
Cartersville 1 47 a. ra.
“ Marietta 2 50
“ Atlanta 340
Rome Express—South—Daily, Except Sunday.
Leave Rome... 8 30 a.m.
Arrive Cartersville 9 45
“ Marietta 10 49
“ Atlanta 1145
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. WRKNN, Gen l. Pass. Agt.
R. A. ANDERSON, Superintendent.
EAST & WEST R. R. OF ALA.
ON and after S,inday, Nov. 14, 1883, trains
on this road will run as follows:
GOING WEST—Daily, Except Sunday.
NO. 1. NO. 3.
Leave Cartersville 950a. m. 430 p. m.
“ Stilesboro 10 02 4 42
“ Taylorsville 10 37 517
“ Rockmart 11 10 5 50
Arrive Cedartown 12 00 6 40
GOING EAST—Daily, Except Sunday.
NO. 2. no. 4.
Leave Cedartown 205 p. m. 715 a. in.
“ Rockmart..... 3 00 8 07
“ Taylorsville 3 35 8 39
“ Stilesboro ... 3 53 8 55
Arrive Cartersville........ 4 25 9 25
SUNDAY ACCOMMODATION—Going Eest.
Leave Cedartown 8 00 a. m.
“ Stilesboro 8 52
“ Taylorsville 924
“ Rockmart 9 40
Arrive Cartersville. 10 10
SCNDAY ACCOMMODATION—Going West.
Leave Cartersville 2 50 p. m.
“ Stilesboro 3 21
“ Taylorsville 3 37
“ Rockmart 4 10
Arrive Cedartown 5 00
ALABAMA DIVISION.
Daily, Except. Sunday.
Leave East & West Junction. 2 55 p. m.
Arrive Broken Arrow. 6 00
Leave Broken Arrow 9 90 a. m.
Arrive East & West Junction 115 p. in.
ROME RAILROAD.
The following is the present passenger
schedule:
NO. 1. NO. 3.
Leave Rome 610 a. in. 415 p. m.
Arrive Kingston 8 55 5 30
no. 2. no. 4.
Leave Kingston 920a. m. 555 p. m.
Arrive Rome 10 25 a. in. 650
no. 5.
Leave Rome 8 00 a. m.
Arrive Kingston 9 00
no. 6.
Leave Kingston 9 20 a. m.
Arrive Rome 10 10
Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 will run daily except Sun
days.
Nos. 5 and 6 will run Sundays only.
No I will not stop at the junction. Makes
close connection at Kingston for Atlanta and
Chattanooga.
No. 2 makes connection at Rome with E. T.
Va. & Ga. 14. It., for points south.
EItEN HILLYEU, President.
J. A. SMITH, Gen’l. Pass. Agent.
T. W. Wll I r E
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Repaired.
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CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1884.
The Cartersville American.
Entered at the Post Office at Career sunlit,
| Ga., May 9th, 188*, as second doss matter.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY. ]2, 1884.
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Before our Readers.
TiekJe the public.
Make it grin,
Before proceeding
The piblic to skin.
Little drops of water
Added to the milk
Make the milkman’s daughter
Clothe herself iu silk.
Lu tie grains of sand,
In his sugar mixed
Make the grocerynaau
Boon become well fixed.
Little acts of meanness,
Little tricks of trade,
All these pass for keenness,
Fortunes thus are made.
The speech crop iu congress is a failure.
A true woman is never homely to one who
knows her.
The wli-sky ring is in pawn and Uncle Sam
holds the collateral.
There is no danger of clashing between
Carlisle and Randall.
Sooner or later every man has his body-ser
vant —the undertaker,
Female fancy is like lunar light. It is cos
mopolitan and ever agreeable.
There are a dozen or more very light ani
mals among the presidential “dark horses.”
If wine were as delightful as woraeu, there
would not be a temperate man iu the universe.
Gen. Toombs is quoted as sayiug that this
is the severest winter he has experienced in
tifiy years.
The next presidential canvas wiil be the best
contested and closest political battle in the
country’s history.
“Blood” would be a good name for a news
paper, because it is always red, and it is natu
ral for blood to circulate.
The western freshet, to occur next spriug
in Chicago, is expected to break up and wash
away all the eastern booms.
In about two weeks the campaign, prelimi
nary to the republican party national conven
tion, will vigorously commeuce.
There is only about one half the insanity iu
Georgia that exists among the same popula
tion on an average of the whole country.
The predicted Sherman-Muhoue gale
turned out to be scarcely a breeze; but it
made up iu foul odor what it lacked iu force.
Y\ liile Che senate is in the private secretary
business, it might be well for those mem
bers, who are advocates ol commercial meth
ods, to interview Emory.
The latest allusion to the thiuness of Sarah
Bernhardt is that when recently playing the
role of Lady Macbeth, the sanguinary Scot
mistook her for the dagger in the air.
“Is it wrong to cheat a lawyer?” was recent
ly very ably discussed by the members of a
debating society. The conclusion arrived at
was, that it was not wrong, but Impossible.
Mr. Chrales W. Hubner, the poet and
essayist, is now employed on the Atlanta
Evening Journal. There is no better news
paper man in Georgia is than Charles Hubner.
Atlanta should no louger be termed the
“gate city.” It is certaiuly entitled to be des
ignated by the more appropriate and roman
tic surname of “the city of the missing mai
den.”
On account of ner strong resemblence to
the late J. Brown, Esq., Mary Anderson
will be adopted by Queen Victoria. The
Prince of Wales expects to be banished to
Ireland.
Look at the list:— John Sherman, R. B.
Hayes. Stanley Matthews, Sainted Garfield,
Index Noyes, Charles Foster. Is it any won
der that BUrnark thought the American hog
had worms.
Fitz John Porter is a fraud. If the demo
cratic congressmen have nothing belter to do
in Washington than make speeches in his fa
vor they might as well pack their grip sacks
and go home.
Several Philadelphia churches offered up
special prayers for the colleges last Sunday.
It would have been more appropriate to have
prayed for policemen who have to tackle the
college students.
President Arthur’s physician has warned
him that unless he quits tight lacing he will
suffer from curvature of the spine. But the
president asserts that he is trying to prevent
his spine from telescoping.
It is said that General Grant “sworn off”
from the use of tobacco during the Christmas
holidays, and that he has not smoked a cigar
this year. If he perseveres to the end this
will be one of the General’s greatest triumphs.
Judge Tompkins, of Atlanta, who is coun
sel for ths Georgia kuklux prisoners, and who
has lately returned from Washington where
he argued the kuklux cuse before the supieme
court, is inclined to believe that ha will event
ually secure the release of his clients. He has
certainly dona all that any lawyer could do
for them.
It is stated that ex-Prcsident Davis has been
iavited to address the legislature of Mississip
pi upon the life of Sargent S. Prentis. None
of the republican outrage organs have yet dis
covered au evidence of a terrible conspiracy in
this fact.
. I—l
- Rome Baptists have already expended
$30,000 on their new church edifice, aud $lO,-
000 more will be required for its completion.
• The Methodists of the same city have just de
cided to commence the erection of anew
building without delay.
Crushed strawberry color is not now con
sidered the correct thing- The newest color
in lasbion is “the iuside of a mule’s ear bj
starlight.” The outside of a mule’s heels
will furnish the starlight ut short range wheu
the sky is cloudy.
j
When the negro thinks he has a legal and
moral right to marry the white woman and
advocates such an abominable proposition as
the best means of ending “race distinction,”
| the time seems to have arrived for forcibly
deporting him from this country,
i
Truly we are liviug iu ar. exciting and sen
sitiouai epoch. Scarcely will the echoes of
St. Valentine’s boom have gone thundering
down the ages,ere the Tom and Jerry mer
chant and the shooting gallery man will be
settiug up the pins fur Washington’s birth
day.
When au average republican editor composes
; his affidavit face and affirms that he solemnly
i believes the southern people are conspiring
! againts the constitutional rights of American
citizens, all the goody-good Btalwarts draw
their haudkerchiefs and begin to howl in uni
son.
Some of the democratic papers in the south
positively assert that the south will never
support Ben Butler as a democratic canditate
for the presidency. It is hardly worth while
to be worried over this matter, for while Beu
may flutter around some ho is not one of the
possible contingencies.
In the northern states the negro is actively
prosecuting the principal industries of his race
—murder, rape and robbery. In Washington
he has commenced to marry the white women.
Race distiction mnst be put down in the coun
try, aud Mr. Negro is trying to do it after his
own peculiar methods.
The all-absorbing question is whether Presi
dent Arthur will remove the negro Douglass
from the fat office he holds on account of the
miscegenatiou outrage of less three weeks ago.
Let the president show himself sufficiently a
white man to resent the social insult Douglass
has inflicted oh civilization and decency.
The liviug skeleton, who attempted tore
gain his bride by writ of habeas corpus in
Philadelphia the other day, is said to be losing
flesh rapidly on account of his misery over the
fickleness of females. He is said to be getting
60 thin that even his shadow has became
ashamed of him, aud has eloped with a Dutch
bean pole.
This is an important year in the history of
our leading religious denominations. The
Methodists of Georgia, in common with the
Methodists ofthe continent are celebrating the
one hundredth year of their existence In Amer
ica. The Baptists of Georgia are celebrating
the one hundredth year of the organization of
the first association in the state.
It is only about four mouths to the meeting
of the republican presidential convention at
Chicago, and yet there are no indications of
auy very great boom in favor of any candi
date. The party of great morpl ideas is not
over sanguine of success, and every step it
takes is fraught with fear and trepidation.
It has evidently lost much of its wonted en
thusiasm and eclat.
There died a few days since,in Wilmington
Del., a lady named Elizabeth Richards, who
had been continuously engaged in teaching
there for the past fifty-four years. Previous
to her removal thither she had taught for
twenty five years in Philadelphia, Her life
secret was her age, which she never told any
one, always avoiding any rcfejence to it. Very
aged persons who had been her pupils assert
that she was 105 years old.
Joseph Cook says he would rather be an
American to-day, tnan a Roman under Caesar.
There were many kinds of Romans under Cae
sar. There was one who, speaking of his
neighbor, was led to remark that he would
“rather be a dog and bay the moon, than
such a Roman,” and then there was the neigh
bor who replied that for bis part he’d sooner
be “a toad and live upon the vapors of a dun
geon.” But all the Romans are dead, and in
the theological opinion of Josoph Cook, gone
to “the bad place ” This last fact will, per
haps, explain why he prefers t be what he is
than a Roman under Caesar.
We have heard that Gen. Toombs said that
Mr. J, C. C. Black would represent Georgia in
the Uuited States senate before many years.
He may do so, and we wiil be glad to see him
there, but in the meantime the tenth district
intends to send him to the lower house of
congress. Mr. Black represents the best type
of statesmen tbnt we have, and in congress he
will illustrate his people with an ability and
a loftiness of character which few indeed can
command. His excellency, our Governor, the
Hon, Henry D. McDaniel, is auother man of
the same stamp and occnpies the same polit
cal platform with Mr. Black. When Georgia
overlooks such men as these and the princi
ples which they represent then will its hand
forget its conning. -
Representative Hammond’s bill, introduced
Monday to amend the constitution as to the
offices and duties of the president and vice
president of the Uuited States provides for the
election of a president and three vice-presi
dents, each chosen for the same number of
years. The vice-president shall be president
of the senate, and the second or third vice
president shall occupy that position in case
of the removal from office of the president of
the United States. In case of the removal of
the President the office is to be held by the
first, second or third vice-president in order,
and when only a vice-president of the United
States shall exercise the office of president,
the senate shall elect a president pro tempore,
and congress may by law provide for a suc
cessor of the third vice-presideut when re
moved from the presidential chair.
THE TATTLER TALKS.
Fads and Fancies Gathered Here and There
and Told by the Tattler to Tickle the
Gossips and Torn the Tedioas
Hours into Talk.
Did you ever see a “crazy quilt?”
Of course you have, but the reason
we ask is because we never saw one
until last week, and we can’t quit
thinking about it. Much has been
said of late about these crazy quilts.
The paragrapher, tho funny man,
the female correapondent and even
the heavy editor, have all had their
Bay on this subject; and from all we
have heard and read we were dis*
posed to have a poor opinion of these
lunatic bed covers. But we doh’t
think so now. Tho one we saw was
a perfect beauty. It was made up of
silk and velvet and satin and piush
of all sizes and shapes, so beautifully,
and harmoniously blended as to make
a perfect whole. Flowers and vines
and fruits and trees and birds were
scattered over the quilt in rich de
sign and most delightful confusion.
In the centre, worked in large silk
letters, were the words “Now I lay
me down to sleep.” O, it was a
beauty we assure you! Just think of
laying yourself “down to sleep” un
der its soft, silkan folds! We’ve
dreamed about crazy quilts every
night for a week. We’ve imagined
ourselves sleeping under one, and
the birds on it seemed to sing the
sweetest songs, the flowers seemed to
give forth the most delicate peifume,
the fruits were red, ripe, purple and
golden, the trees were waving with
the softest breezes, and we were list
ening to the most heavenly music,
“in an ecstasy of joy that heaven may
yield again but never on earth.”
Was’nt it delightful though? If we
can ODly get a “crazy quilt” for our
batclielor quarters we can then draw
the drapery of our couch about us and
rest in peace.
The cat hung itself—eominitted
suicide. We are very sorry. It was
a quiet good natnred cat and we all
loved it very much. Strange that it
should have stuck its head in a large
knot hole in the side of the smoke
house and swung off into eternity.
But it did. We have no idea how it
got up to the hole and got its head
in, but when we found it the poor
thing was hanging there with its
head through, and its little body
hanging limp and lifeless on the in
side wall of the smoke house. It
must have grieved for the home of its
kittenhood until its little heart was
broken and life became a burden.
It had been a gentle quiet cat, and
the children were devoted to it. It
would sometimes come around after
supper and look up into our faces,
and quietly cry as if to say “I won
der where my mother is,” bnt the
children would soothe its sorrows,
and stroke its little ruffled back un
til it would purr itself to sleep on the
rug; but even in its sleep it would
give an occasional start and utter a
half cry as if it were troubled in ' its
dreams. It was not a pretty kitten
in fact it was ugly. Its hair was
long and mangy looking, and it had
a way of staying poor all the time,
and ita gentleness and helplessoess
had won all our hearts and when it
was found dead we all grieved for it.
When it was brought and laid out
before the kitchen fire the little girl
cried like her heart would break and
the little boys stood around in mute
astonishment. We buried it in the
garden where the sunshine will
creep down and brighten the spot,
and where the flowers will bloom
when spring times comes; It is now
free from its troubles and has
doubtless gone to meet its mother.
May its bones never be disturbed
and its ashes rest in peace. Poor
kitty, poor kitty!
The American's Kingston corre
spondent struck a happy thought
last week in suggesting a confederate
soldier’s reunion for the comingsum
mer- We hope the suggestion will
be followed up and carried into exe
cution, and the Tattler suggests Car
tersville as the place of meeting.
Let these veterans of the “Lost Cause”
who are scattered over North Geor
gia, come together again and renew
friendships that were made around
the camp fire and on the battle fiell,
renew memories that were once sad,
but are now sweetened and softened
and mellowed by time, and recount
how fields were lost and fields were
won! We want them to come to
gether, and we want them to come
to CarteVsvilie. No matter whether
they were in the Virginia army or
the army of the west, —no matter
whether they followed Lee orJackson
or Johnson or Longstreet or Hood,
or our own brave daring Wofford or
gallant dashing Young, let them
come. The name of “Georgian” was
only another name fur a true man
and brave soldier. They were faith
ful on the march, true in the trench
es and grand on the charge. And
now that the war clouds are passed
they are even grander in peace. We
love these true men, We love their
scars and empty s!eeves, but above
this we love their devotion to prin
ciple. We want them to come to
gether in our city, and we want a few
representatives of tho most rabid
bloody shirt shriekers of the north to
come also and mingle with them and
learn to Ik? ashamed that they have
ever traduced and slandered the men
who fought for principle, but who
are to-uay the truest citizens of the
Lmion.
We have heard several old soldiers
speak of this idea of a reunion, and
we believe it will meet with unanim
ous approval. Major A. M. Foute,
than whom a braver soldier or better
citizen never lived, expressed to us
his pleasure that the subject was be
ing agitated, and hoped it would be
pushed, lie said, “It is eminently
proper that we should have the re
union. It will help to preserve the
history of the past. It would revive
pleasant memories that are fading
away and it may be the means of
helping some old soldiers who are
dependent aud needy. The strong
est and sweetest friendships of my
life were formed during the war. I
have a brotherly feeling for any man
with an empty sleeve, and whether I
ever saw him before or not, I feel
disposed to grasp his remaining hand
and talk of the past. I sincerely
hope we can have tho reunion, and
that Cartersville will be selected as
theplace. No matter what company,
or regiment, or battallion, or divi
sion they belonged to, let them come
and for one day live over the past.”
And so say we. What a grand sight
it would be to see these gray haired
men assemble, and what music it
would be to hear the click of their
crutches, and the flap of their empty
sleeves.
“Sam Jones Is the greatest revival
ist the south has ever produced. I
never saw his equal. There is some
thing very wonderful about the man.
He can jump on a dry goods box on
the public square and commence
preaching, and in five minutes every
bar-keeper and street loafer in town
will be listening. He can go to the
darkest corner of Pickens county and
the most ignorant man in the congre
gation will understand and appreci
ate his sermon. He can stand up in
the fiuest city church before the most
intelligent audience and hold them
spellbound by his eloquence. He
can appear before a mixed audience
in a theater, and silence the hissing
tongues and the loud laugh by the
simple story of the cross. I have
known him since he was a wild,
rude, dissipated boy on the streets of
Cartersville, Before he professed re
ligion and commenced to preach, he
was as common as any boy I know.
He has Joorned into prominence as
an evangelist and revivalist, until he
now stands second only to Talmage
or Moody. He is a common looking,
pale-faced, spare built, dark skinned
fellow, and would not attract the
second glance from the casual obser
ver. But when he speaks, he catch
es the ear of everybody, and touches
the heart of every listener. He is
strikingly original, his imagination
is rich and fertile, his illustrations
are forcible and pointed, his language
is terse and strong, his appeals are
touching ahd pathetic, and his pow
ers of endurance beyond anything I
ever saw.” So talked a gentleman
in the presence of the Tattler the other
day. Mr. Jones is a wonderful preach
er. His recent visit to Memphis was
attended with the most gracious re
sults. Everywhere he met with a
perfect religious ovation. We have
read with much pleasure the press
accounts of his preaching. We are
proud of Sam Jones, not only because
he is a Cartersville man, but because
he is a true man, an earnest preacher
and a friend to humanity. His mis
sion on earth is a grand one and
grandly does he fill it.
We’ll bet there are people right
here in Cartersville, wh@ would be
utterly surprised if they knew the
amount of business that is done in
our city. Because things move quiet
ly, there seems to be an impression
that Cartersville is a dull town. This
i3 all a mistake. We are not behind
the procession. We do not belong to
that class who have to keep under
the monkey’s cage when the ele
phant starts around. We’ve got one
ot the most complete wholesale drug
stores in the state. David W. Curry
will duplicate Atlanta prices on any
thing in the drug line. We’ve got
the finest carriage shop in Georgia.
Col. R. H. Jones turns out work that
can’t be excelled in quality and prices
anywhere in the south. Baker <fc
Hall do a hardware business that is
immense, and carry a large and more
complete assortment of goods in their
line than any other house north of
Atlanta. We might continue this
enumeration, but space forbids. We
mention in this connection only one
other establishment, and that is the
furniture house of James H.Gilreath.
We went through his large store the
other day and were perfectly wonder
struck at the richness, variety and
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cheapness of his goods. It made us
feel very much like getting a hoine
of our own and furnishing it, to look
at the elegant room sets, the elabor
ately carved arm chairc, the velvet
cushioned sofas, the noiseless base
rocEing baby cribs, aud the large,
easy, upholstered, adjustable chairs,
scattered through his store in such
rich profusion. If we were only rich
like we expect to be when our ship
comes over the sea, or some of our
rieh relatives die and leaves us a hun
dred thousand, we could arrange thu
the most luxuriant apartments imag
inable. Mr. Gilreath does a very
large, and a constantly increasing
business. His cellar is packed full of
furniture, his store room is piled up
with furniture, and his second fioor
is firmly growing under its load of
furniture. He has chairs from fifty
cents to twenty-live dollars, and bed
steads from one dollar and fifty cents
to forty dollars. Mr. Gilreath buys
from first bands for cash, and pro
poses to duplicate anybody’s prices
to the trade. We are not puffing our
merchants for pay, we are simply
talking ab#ut them because we are
proud of them. It’s our business to
build up Cartersville and advance Its
interests. We want to make this the
trading centre of north Georgia for
furniture, and hardware, and gro
ceries, and drugs, and dry goods, and
farming supplies. When that is done
our town will prosper, our popula
tion increase, the newspaper business
will grow, and w r e will have more
pocket change. Boom! Boom! Boom!
Tattler.
DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIES FOR
THE SOUTH.
The advantage which the South
now has in making pig iron at a lower
cost than it can be produced in other
sections, is almost and in some oases
wholly counterbalanced by the heavy
freights that southern iron producers
must pay to get their iron to consum
ing markets, while pig-iron makers in
other sections have a market almost
at their doors for the product of their
furnaces. Hence while northern iron
makers have to pay, on an average,
probably not more than from forty to
a dollar Ireight per ton, their south
ern competitors labor under a burden
of from three to four dollars all the
way up to double these figures, some
Birmingham iron having lately been
shipped to this market at a cost of be
tween six and seven dollars a, ton for
Ireight. Laboring under this heavy
burden, iron making at the south, al
though developing very vapidly, can
not possibly make as great advance as
if it was on a par in the matter of
freights with this industry e sewhere.
There is only one way in which
this disadvantage can be removed, and
that is by building up diversified in
dustries in the south, that the iron may
be consumed where produced. If this
were done, pig-iron makers would
save a part of their present heavy
freights, while manufacturers using
pig iron as a raw material could obtain
it at a much lower cost than in other
sections. Moreover the other necessi
ties *er profitable manufacturing are
also remarkably favorable; coal for fu
el is cheap and abundant, while in
many places water power, almost in
exhaustible, can be had for less than
in the north or west; timber of almost
all kinds is found in seemingly inex
haustible quantities, so that with
cheap iron, cheap timber, cheap mo
tive power, cheap labor, and a mild
and pleasant climate, it would seem
that all the conditions were favorable
for manufacturing very cheaply; and
then another consideration of almost
equal importance is that there would
be a home market for almost every
line of goods that could be manufac
tured.
For (he next ten years the building
of new railroads, factories and mills of
all kinds, and the mining of ceal, iron,
and the precious metals, will bo far in
advance of any thing seen even during
the last three years of remarkable
progress. These developments will re
quire an amount and variety of ma
chinery that will be surprisingly large.
The railroads will need rails, locomo
tives, cars, and other supplies, and
some idea of what the railroad build
ing in the south is going to be can be
formed from our “Construction De
partment,” in which is given each
week the name of every new road and
every mill or factory of whatever kind
organized in the south. The number
of these proposed roads chronicled
since Jan. Ist is truly surprising, and
many of them will be of great extent.
To furnish the needed supplies for the
railroads of the south would give steady
employment to many locomotive
works and car shops and many thous
and of hands.
The new mills, factories and mines,
as well as the old ones, will require
many tens of millions of dollars w T orth
of engines, boilers, cotton, woolen, to
bacco, fertilizer and mining machin
ery and supplies generally. The in
crease of new industries at the south
is not confined to any one place, but
is general from Virginia to Texas, so
that in whatever part of that seoticn a
new machinery house is established it
will soon have a home market for its
good*.
The establishment of such industries
as require pig iron as a raw material
is row one of the greatest needs of
the south, and a development in this
direction would be a vast benefit to
every business interest in the south as
well as to the pig-iron making indus
try.—Manufacturers Record,