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CAETERSVILLE AMERICAN. VOLUME 11. The Cartersyille American. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARTOW CO. i'l’Bl.l -irKL’ KVKUY TUESDAY MOIININti Y American Publishing Cos. CA BTERS'VILL.K, U A, OFFICEI Uj)-StiirK in the Baxter I?iliUnjr, North-east corner of West Main and .Erwin streets. All communications or letters on business should be addressed to AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO. Cmrtersville, Ga. T K It MS O F 8U BSCKJPTTO N : One Year, Cash in Advance 51 60 .six Months, ** “ 75 Three “ “ “ 60 II not paid in 4 months, $2.00 per year, Papers sent outside ol the County, 15 cents additional lor postage. RATES OF ADVERTISING: For each Square ol l inch or less, for the first insertion, $1.00; each subsequent insertion, 50 cents. Special contracts made lor larger space <*■ longer time. AH contract advertisements must he paid quarterly. Local Notices, 20 cents per line for the first insertion, and 10 cents lor each suqsequent in sertion. Special Notices ten cents per line. Tributes oi Respect and Obituaries over six lines, 10 cents per line. All personal cards in Local Columns 25 cents per lino. 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, ifg§nai& . B§m ft 1> ENT IST, 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. -THIS PAPER ISON FILE WITH T. E. HANBURY & CO., ADVERTISING AGENTS, Where advertising contracts may be made lit oiir best rates. JE\ Q. Drawer 35. 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 CABINET MAKER aM UPHOLSTERER. Furniture of all Kinds Made and Repaired. SHOP on west:main street, Cartersville. Ga- I Have your Job Printing neatly ex* j ecuted at this office,, 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. Sifted Shimmerings CULLED FROM THE and /ft V SPREAD OUT <# 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 NUMBER 41. 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,