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The Cartersville American.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1884.
The \ irginia democrats who voted
for Mahone are not likely to be deceiv
ed the second time.
The good people of Bartow Coun
ty feel grateful to the jurors of last
week, W e are all heartily rejoicing
that a few more rogues will be remov
ed from our midst.
The News thinks that Augusta
needs the Savannah river improved
far worse than she does a public
building, and very clearly shows
wherein the city would receive
greater benefits.
The number of skeptics as to elec
tro-magnetic girls is increasing in ge
ometrical progression. A few of the
advocates ot these girls still hold to
their belief like grim death.
Judge Fain and Solicitor-General
Harris, of the Cherokee Circuit, have
been doing good work in our Superior
Court. Last week they disposed of
meat stealers without tear or affection.
The Randall club, of Philadelphia,
have given him a grand boom for the
presidency. In the event Philadel
phia goes democratic in the approach
ing municipal election, Mr. Randall
will become a most prominent can
didate.
Senator Carlisle kept perfect faith
with Blackburn and gave him the sen
atorship. Ho could have obtained the
prize at any time by a simple word.
Carlisle is to-day the idol of Kentucky
and the rising man of the country.
The Cartersville American is one
of the most manly papers,to be almost
an infant,that comes to our office. It
deserves a liberal patronage from the
good people of Bartow county. There
is room for more such papers in Geor
gia.—Madisonian.
It is announced that the president
will make no appointment to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
Judge Erskine, of the southern dis
trict of Georgia, until after the Chi
cago convention. The president evi
dently wants the boys kept in a good
humor until he can know his fate
before the convention.
Dalton has fully organized a cotton
mill company, with a paid-up capital
of $55,000. Why not Cartersville do
likewise? All it will require, will
be the harmonious effort of every
citizen in town. If that can be se
cured, we will guarantee the organi
zation of such a company in less than
thirty days with ample capital to be
gin the erection of a mill. Try It.
We are glad once more to welcome
the Covington Enterprise from the
ashes of a destructive fire. This is
the second time that the Enterprise
has been destroyed by fire within the
last two years. But plucky Si Haw
kina doesn’t let her sleep long before
lie orders anew outfit and sends her
forth as bright and newsy as ever.
Hon, W. D. Tutt, who has been so
prominently spoken of for congress
in the new tenth district, has deter
mined not to make any further can
vass. The field so far is left to the
Hon. Geo. T. Barnes, of Augusta,
whose prospects are good for the
nomination, unless more formidable
opposition arises before the conven
tion assembles. We are not in the
tenth district, consequently have no
right to suggest, or even express a
preference for a candidate. But if
we were, we would unhesitatingly
declare for Hon. J. C. C. Black,
whose eminent abilities so fitly
entitle him to the place.
Congressman Hammond has intro
duced a bill in the house to regulate
the transfer of cases from state courts
to the federal courts, which reads as
follows: “A bill to amend section six
hundred and forty-three of the revis
ed statutes of the United States. Be
it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States
of America in congress assembled,
That section six hundred and forty
three of the revised statutes of the
United States be amended by insert
ing therein, after the word ‘void,’ in
the fourth sentence thereof, the fol
lowing: ‘Provided, however, that
when any criminal prosecution shall
be removed from a state court to a
United States court before a present
ment by a grand jury or indictment
shall have been made and filed against
the defendants in the state court, it
shall be lawful for the state court to
proceed in such case so far as to have
ouch presentment or indictment made
and filed in said state court; and af
ter the same is so made and filed, the
clerk of the United States court shall
issue a writ of certiorari to the state
court for like purpose and with like
effects as if the case had been so re
moved after such presentment or in
dictment was made and filed in such
state court.* ”
We would call the attention ofour customc
er and the public generally, to our slock of
Thomaa harrows lor cultivating cotton aud
grain, Corbin Disc harrows lor putting in
ffrain Tennessee wagons the best in the
world for the money, riding and walking
cultivators, reapers and mowers, engines,
SSSES and all kinds of agricultural imple
s We have on hand also a large quauti
brfor‘ '“"tssrsE*
HOWARD SHOALS BRIDGE
AM) OTH EU MATTEKS.
We were not a Jittle amused at
brother Willingham’s editorial in last
week's Free Press headed “Howaid
Shoals Bridge,” in which he lakes
the young man of the American to
ta9k on the figures given in our table
of two week’s ago showing the re
ceipts and disbursements of Bartow
county for 1883. The editorial was a
high sounding affair, and written af
ter the most approved style of rheto
ric. It would have been indeed a
masterly production, if if had not
been for the little addeuda which was
hitched on at the bottom, and which
completely destroyed the effect of the
whole, making it entirely unnecessa
ry for the “Melicau man” to add any
thing further by way of explanation.
But in order to satisfy our able and
aged contemporary, we will under
take to explain how the mistake in
our figures occurred. At the time
we prepared the table showing the
expenses of the county, we had the
county commissioner’s book before
us, in our own office, and had gone
through it carefully and condensed
all the items of expense on each
bridge into one set of ligures. We
found that the Howard Shoals bridge
cost $10,673.75, and the Douthitt’s
ferry bridge $6,275.00. It will be re
membered that the Douthitt’s ferry
bridge was commenced in 1882, and
the money to pajr for it was raised in
that year, therefore the cost of build
ing it was not properly chargeable in
the table we gave two weeks ago,but
in filling out the blank left to show
the cost cf Howard Shoals bridge,
which was built in 1883,we inadvert
ently inserted $6,275 instead of $lO,-
673.75. The mistake was not at all
unnatural, as our fierures were made
hurriedly, and we did not have time
to revise it or go over the figures be
fore going to press. Our able and
aged brother Willingham very broad
ly intimates that we made the mis
take with malice aforethought, with
the intention of deceiving the tax
payers of the county, and covering
a fraud on the part of the county
commissioners. If this were true, it
would have been in furtherance of
our purpose to make the cost of the
bridge as large as possible in order to
overcome any suspicion that the
county officers had put the public
money into their own pockets instead
of paying it out for county purposes.
But wo have no idea that anybody,
except perhaps our aged contempora
ry of the Free Press, believes that
either the editors of the American
or the county officers would stoop to
anything so mean as to deceive or de
fraud the good people and honest tax
payers of Bartow county. We take
no offense at any such charges, com
ing as it does, from our aged and
sometimes able contemporary. We
have lived in Bartow county twenty
years for no purpose, if it becomes
uecessaiy to defend ourselves against
charges of this kind, and we shall
pass it by as unworthy of notice.
Our aged brother Willingham seems
to be disposed to find fauit with
everybody and everything. With
him the democratic party is terribly
out of joint, the state of Georgia is
“boss ridden” with Joe Brown as su
perintendent, the temperance reform
ers are wild enthusiasts and mistaken
fanatics, the affairs of Bartow county
are manipulated by a court house
ring, and last but not least the
bridges over the Etowah river cost
more money than brother Willing
ham thinks they should have cost.
We are young, very young, and
and perhaps this is our reason why
we look at things differently from
brother Willingham. We are heal
thy and good humored. We are not
disposed to grumble at anybody. We
freely forgive our aged brother for
having hinted that we were practi
cing a fraud on our readers in the
figures we made.
The grand jury, has examined the
Howard Shoals bridge, and say it is
all right and cost the county no more
than was absolutely necessary. We
have talked with Mr. F W White,
who was one of the grand jurymen
who examined and measured the
bridge, and who is a very find wood
workman. He says the bridge i s
just as good a job of work as he ever
saw made of wood, and that it could
not have been built for one dollar
less than the commissioners paid for
it. In this connection we would sug
gest to our brother of the Free Press
that the Howard Shonls bridge does
not open into the pine ridge of Pauld
ing county. Perhaps if he would
study the geography of Bartow a
little jnore closely, and drink his wa
ter straight, he would not need to be
told that the Howard Shoals bridge
is near the Dewees ferry and leads to
Altoona,
We repeat that his editorial
was amusing, and altogether a won
derful production, but what our
good brother expects to accomplish
by making war on the “Amateur
editors” of the American, and the
county commissioners of Bartow
couuty, we are at a loss to conjecture.
We don’t care what he says about
the “striplings” of the American.
We will try to take care of ourselves,
but we do think it is unfair and un
just that he should so constantly and
persistently snarl at the county com
missioners and the officers of Bartow
county. We believe them to be able
and honest and conscientious men,
worthy of the confidence and support
ot the people and until our brother of
the Free Press brings more sub
stantial proofs to the contrary we
shall leud them our support and en
couragement. It’s an easy matter to
ask why the bridges were built at
certain places, and the answer is just
as easy if our aged brother will take
the time to examine the records of
the county and read the presentments
of the grand juries for the past two
years. These bridges were built and
located by the recommendation of the
grand jury, and the county commis
sioners only acted on the suggestions
of the grand jury in building the
bridge at Douthitt’s ferry and How
ards shoals. We think it would have
been better to put the Douthitt’s ferry
bridge at Rowlands ferry,but it is to
late now to raise objections. It
would have been an utter impossi
bility to build bridges to suit the
convenience of every body and as
the grand jury recommended that
this bridge be put where it is and
the commissioners have put it there
we shall not now raise objections.
Why didn’t our able brother of the
Free Press raise this hue and cry
two years ago when the matter was
first discussed? And why don’t he
fall out M’ith the grand juries row
instead of the county commissioners?
The answer is easy, “when self the
warning balance shakes it’s rarely
right adjusted.” We’Jl pursue this
subject no further. In conclusion
(for we do not propose to harangue
our readers weekly with this dis
cussion) we earnestly beg our aged
brother to join us in advancing the
interest of our county and section, to
encourage good feeling, and inspire
confidence, to build up instead of
tearing down. There is room enough
in Cartersville for two papers. We
love to read the Free Press and
wish for it and its editor good luck
and prosperity. We this morning
fling him a kiss across the way,
while our face is wreathed In smiles,
and our conscience is clear.
BARTOW’S CRIMINALS.
The session of the superior court
just closed has left an interesting and
instructive page upon the criminal
annals of Bartow county. One which
furnishes material in a distinguished
degree for the consideration of those
who feel interested in the destiny of
the “brother in black.”
The minutes of the court show that
four negro men were indicted by the
grand jury for breaking into a smoke
house and stealing meat therefrom
on the night of the 19th of January
last.
These burglaries were committed
upon the premises of W. W. Cotton
and W. B. Bohannan, two separate
plantations in the 17th Dist. Ou the
same night another negro man stole
from the premises of A. T. Dent a
week’s washing of clothes, for which
he was indicted by the same grand
jury. Ou the 21th of January, an
other negro man broke and entered
the house of Adolphus Shields (col
ored)and 9tole therefrom a watch, for
which he was indicted by the same
grand jury.
Ou the 10tli of January, another
negro man broke and entered the
room of Capt. A. Y. Sheats, at the
Bartow house in this city, and stole
from his pants pockets $lO 00 in cur
rency, for which he was indicted by
the same grand jury.
All ;these criminals were promptly
arrested (except one who made his
escape,) put upon trial and were con
victed.
The investigation of these cases was
presided over by Judge J. C. Fain,
in a dispassionate, impartial,able and
diguified manner. Thejudge assign
ing to those of them who were pecu
niarily unable to employ counsel,
able attorneys from the bar. The
jurors who passed upon these cases
were (what the law requires) up
right, honest, impartial, intelligent
citizens aDd in every instance they
proclaimed by their verdict, the
crime has been committed, and “thou
art the man.”
This it will be seen, gives only one
month of offences on the part of the
negroes of this county,and only those
offences which are denominated fel
onies by the penal code, and of
which the grand jury has taxen cog
nizance. This, to the casual observer,
may seem a sad commentary upon
the integrity of the blacks of Bartow
county. And indeed it is, but it on
ly gives an insight into their mis
deeds, and doe3 not give, even in
substance, to say nothing of the de
tails, the extent to which crime is
indulged by this race of people in
this county. Why, itisjust simply
impossible for the people in the 17th
Dist. and adjoining communities to
keep meat in their smoke houses, no
matter what precaution is taken to
male the houses burgiar-proof by
strength of construction and the use
of locks with the most modern im
provements. If the honest farmer
leaves his meat in his smoke house,
in the dead hour ot the night when
he embraces Morpheus that his phy
sical nature may be recuperated and
he fitted for the toil and fatigue of
the coming day, his smoke house is
broken, rifled of its contents and his
family left without food for break
fast.
Now we do not mean to create the
impression that all the blacks in our
midst are thieves. No! we are proud
that we can say that some of them
are honest, upright and industrious;
and that they maintain themselves
by legitimate pursuits and make
themselves of incalculable benefit to
the country. But from the facts
given, (which are unvarnished) it is
self-evident that appalling numbers
of them are thieves, and thieves died
in the blackest infamy.
Why is all this? Is it because they
are an inferior race of people and, as
a race of people, are incapable of at
taining an elevated stand point
where they can maintain themselves
by following honest and legitimate
pursuits? Or is it the result of the
training which they have received
since freedom? Or can it be the result
of the education which they obtain
from the large sums of money for
which their white friends are anuu
ally taxed and expended iu sending
them to school?
Doubtless it can not result from the
fact that this race of people were
once slaves. For the chains of their
bondage was snapped by the procla
mation of president Lincoln more
than twenty years ago. And in
twenty years time, doubtless they
would have recoveied from any dire
ful results of slavery, if indeed being
slaves had any tendency to make
them rogues.
Whatever may be the cause, the
effect is upon us,and the only remedy
agaiust the , evil which can for the
present (at least) can be applied with
certainty of beneficial results, is the
one adopted by the court and juries
at the last session.
To these the good people of Bartow
should tender their grateful! acknow
ledgements, as well as to Solicitor
General J. W. Harris whose prosecu
tion of these criminals was tempered
with even handed justice and with
distinguished ability.
OUR PUBLIC ROADS.
The grand jury of last week recom
mended that the new road law be put
in operation in Bartow county. We
think this a very wise step. The old
system of working public roads is
imperfect and unsatisfactory. Near
ly six months every year some of the
most traveled of our public roads are
almost impassable. It is almost im
possible to keep a road iu good con
dition during very wet weather; but,
beyond question, our roads can be
kept in better condition thau they are
at present.
We know something of how the
old road system is operated. The
overseers of the several sections of
the different districts in the county,
about twice a year, call out their
hands and go over the sectious allot
ted them. Sometimes the" majority
of the hands have pressing work at
home, and some of them always have
private interests demanding their
attention. About every two years
the overseers are changed, sometimes
for the better and sometimes for the
worse. We have known some road
overseers who knew no more how a
road ought to be worked then a ten
year old child. They were good,
clever, hard working men, but they
were as destitute of the requisites of
a good road overseer as a gnat is of
brains. Asa consequence of these
facts many of our principal public
roads are poorly worked. They are
passable during the dry season, but
as soon as the winter rains set in they
become almost impassable.
Now we are not finding fault with
our county commissioners or with
onr grand juries. The fault lies in
the system and not in the working
of the system.
The new road law requires the
county commissioners to assess a tax
of fifty cents per day on every person
liable to road duty for each day that
he is required to work the road. The
number of road working days is de
termined by said commissioners, and
this number must not exceed fifteen
days during a year. Those liable
to road duty can either work out the
time assessed or pay the fifty cents
per day. A general superintendent
of the public roads iu the county is
appointed by said commissioners.
He is required to give bond for the
faithful performance of his duties.
He muse be a man thoroughly com
petent, and should his ineompetency
be evinced in any way, it is the duty
of the commissioners to remove him.
This system is much superior to
the old one, and we are heartily in
favor of giving it a fair test.
We think that our county crimi
nals ought to be put on the public
roads. Our taxpayers are the suffer
ers when a crime is committed; they
must bear the expenses of the trials
of those charged with crime, and it
is nothing but right that they should
have the benefit of the labor of these
men when they are convicted.
Pev. Sam P. Jones, the Georgia Evan
gelist.
This distinguished preacher return
ed to his home in Cartersville last
week from Memphis, where he has
been for the last month conducting a
series of meetings. We have read
with genuine pleasure the newspaper
accounts of this grand revival. Noth
ing of the kind was ever before wit
nessed in Memphis. All denomina
tions, and creeds, and nationalities
joined in the worship of the most
high God. Hundreds, we might al
most say thousands of people were
converted under the powerful preach
ing of this wonderful man. Gray
haired mon tottering on the verge of
the grave; middle-aged men in the
active business of life, young men
and maidens in the wild whirl of
pleasure and dissipation, all left their
various pursuits and came through
uiud and rain and snow and sleet and
storm to listen to his magic words,
and join in the glad shout of the
blood-washed throng. We clip the
following from the Memphis Appeal,
and gladly give it a place in our col
umns.
“A constant stream of wet or shivering hu
manity ha* poured into the Court street church
each night, and that edifice, one of the largest
in the south, has been packed to its utmost
capacity, and many could uot fiud even stand
ing room. The union of the various denom
inations prepared the public mind for harmo
nious action; but it was the powerful sermons
of the eloquent Georgia evangelist, Samuel P.
Jones, that attracted such large and interested
assemblages of the people. He is certainly the
most popular minister that ever addressed a
Memphis congregation. The crowd increased
as his reputation spread over the city, and if
he should continue his labors, it would require
the exposition building to hold the people
anxious to hear him. His power over an au
dience is a mystery. Peculiarity is said to be
the primary of greatuess; that the properties
which a man possesses iu common with oth
er men will never attract the world, and that
to be distinguished one must exhibit some
rare peculiarities. The Rev. Mr. Joucs cer
taiuly has remarkable characteristics, but it is
difficult to define them. He is nosky-6crapor;
wholly devoid of fustian aud rant; never stands
on tip-toe, with hands stretched aloft as if he
would pluck down the stars. His language
is transparent in its simplicity, but all his in
tellectual powers, 60 admirably balanced aud
blended, are brought into requisition in every
sermon, and their action is delightfully bar.
monious. There is neither too much or too
little of any giveu quantity. The Judgment
and the imagination hold each other iu per
fect equipoise. As he speaks his soul seems
to be a fountain of living waters, Much of
his success aud popularity consists in under
standing human nature, the emotions of the
heart, aud in saying what his hearers have of
ten thought but never before heard defined.
It is this gift which enables him to reach and
move the multitude. The Rev. Mr. Jones has
a vivid imagination, a faucy bright and beau
tiful; but his illustrations and metaphors are
simple, pointed and applied with a directness
aud pungency which the mo6t obtuse can un
derstand. The faucy and imagination which
tbis eminent minister develops in his die.
courses shows that if he were ambitious for
fame as a popular orator he could go flaming
through the land distributing meteors and
rainbowsjwhile stridiug from cloud to cloud,
mountain to mountain and star to star. But
his eloquence is cot of the ad captandem
style. It is simple aud pathetic in its beauty,
and reaches every avenue of feeling and sym
pathy. The eloquent bubbles that float and
dazzle have no longer life than the cadence of
but the chords which the Rev. S<
P. Jones strikes continue to vibrate upou the
soul. We understand that he will remain an*
other week. When ho takes his departure he
will carry with him the prayers and good
wishes of the entire community, for all are
impressed with the belief that he is a mau of
deep evangelical piety and that his heart is in
the work for which he has accomplished so
much good here in Memphis. His eloquence
is uot of that studied, artificial, elaborate kind
which has distinguished so many pulpit ora
tors. It is the unwritten eloquence of the
heart. Every sentence seems instinct with
the inspiration of feeling. His manner is ear
nest without vehemence; his pronunciation
distinct, without anything finical; and his
voice full, clear aud musical. He has made a
profound impi coaiou iu Memphis, and he will
ever be remembered by our people with love
and admiration.
Adairsville Axioms.
We notice some cotton still com
ing into market.
Our schools are lively and pros
perous and well attended, notwith
standing the bad weather.
Our town constantly, though slow
ly, improves. Mr. Kendall has
purchased Mr. Branch’s gin house
and converted it into a custom mill,
a thing wanted, and much needed
by the surrounding community.
We now have two dressmaking
establishments, and one dressmaking
and millinery combined, in our vil
lage.
We have five female clerks, and
we believe they can equal any of
the boys, if not excel them.
A littledwelling.near Mr. Branch’s
blacksmith shop, known as the
“Adairsville Kimball.” was burned
down last Wednesday night. It had
lately been vacated, and was the
property of Mr. J. P. Dyar. It
caught between the hours of twelve
and one o’clock, and was supposed to
be the work of an incendiary.
Mr. Wobley, a gentleman connect
ed with Col. J. W. Gray’s cotton
factory, died last Tnursday morning,
after only a few days of sickness with
pneumonia. His remains were car
ried to Newnan.
Farmers are making themselves
scarce about town. Suppose they
are making extensive preparations
for the crops of ’B4. We hope they
will let their motto be: “A little
more hog and hominy, and less
cotton and guano.”
We are glad to learn that our
worthy old citizen, VV. M. Clore, is
improving after a severe attack of
cold, which confined him to his room
for several days.
Mr. Baylis Lewis jr., is sojourning
in the “land of flowers.”
Miss Fannie Lewis is visiting rel
atives and friend in Quitman, Ga,
Miss Minnie Bray, of Gordon
county, is visiting Miss Lizzie Alex
ander in this village.
We were glad to see our old friend
and former citizen, Mr. J. L. Neel,
in town a few days since. He never
makes people glad twice —don’t stay
long enough.
Our esteemed citizen, Mr. T. N.
Hopkins, has recently returned from
Augusta, his former home, where
he has been to attend to the sale of
his farm.
Mr. Frank Bibb has purchased the
house, lot and livery stable, owned I
by Mr. P. N. Martin.
Why don’t the Polyhimuian so- |
ciety resume their meetings? Where
is the use of waiting till April?
The Try club will meet on the first
Tuesday night in March.
We heard a girl say the other day
that she always said her prayers
when she started down hill riding.
Now what we want to know: Are
we not in as much danger going up
hill as down? Then hadn’t we
better pray going up and down
hill?
Somebody says ’tie the style now
for girls to send their mail correspon
dents stamps for reply. Is it because
it’s leap year?
Who said the other night, rather
reluctantly: W-e-1-1 I guess you
had better go? Ask Jim.
Puei.la.
Kingston Kindlings.
So much rain that the grape vine
telegraph line has been submerged
and madarn rumor hasfailed to come
in with her usual reports,so it places
me in a poor condition to make a re
port. I fear it wilt only do to put in
to fill up the column.
P. S. Pope and Col. E. V. John
son have swapped residences. Bob
is now on the hill and says that the
sun rises just at day break in the
valley.
J. J. Oglesby, of Smyrna, is with
us, and speaks of going to Texas.
Howell Cloud, with his smiling
countenance, is on a pop call at the
Cloud house.
Sorry to report that one of Mr.
D. L. Perry’s children is not expected
to live.
Our town is generally healthy.
Wheat is looking finely. Oats
scattering.
The American is popular. Our
people say success to the young men
that are conducting it. Peace and
good will to every body. With the
hope that we may have some news
for next week, we close. Jackie.
HOMELESS PEOPLE.
Our noon dispatches tell of ten
thousand people rendered homeless
by the floods in Wheeling, West
Virginia, One must naturally feel a
sympathy for the sufferings of these
people, but if they do not exercise
ordinary prudence and intelligence,
they will be again homeless in an
other year.
Cincinnati, Louisville and other
points suffered a year since from
flooded river*. They are now re
peating this experience. And so
long as people will build houses and
live in places subject to overflow, we
shall hear of homeless and suffering
men, women and children. Floods
are likely to come after heavy rain
falls. Rivers will rise to the points
they have before reached, under fav
oraole conditions. J t is safe to ex
pect in the future more damaging
floods than those we have had in the
past. The clearing of the lands makes
a greater area of water shed, and
the filling up of the channels of riv
ers, creeks and branches renders it
certain that points not heretofore
reached by rising waters, will be over
flowed after heavy and long contin
ued rainfalls.
In this section of Georgia we may
still be considered as affected by a
drouth. Comparatively little rain
has fallen during the winter months.
It is safe to expect a supply during
the spring, and prudent people in
order to save themselves from the
fate of the homeless inhabitants of
Wheeling and other points, should
be prepared to move to high land
when the rainfall indicates a coming
flood. —Teleqraph and Messenger .
Scientists now boldly declar# that
this earth was peopled 50,000,000
years before Adaru was born. We are
not prepared to dispute the assertion
in the least. We have always won
dered how mankind could learn so
much deviltry in only 6,000 years.
NEW
INSTITUTION FOR
BOYS & YOUNG MEN.
The undesigned will continue to devote him
self to the thorough preparation of a limited
number ol boys and young men who may de
sire to enter college or the university, or who
may wish to receive a practical business edu
cation. Busines and tuition, with improved
iacilities for acquiring knowledge, will be fur
nished at low rates. For further particulars
apply to HENRY D. CAPERS, A. M.,
Principal, Adairsvile, liartow Cos„ Ga.
Refers by dennission to: Gen. E. Kirby
Smith, chancellor Suwanee univerc.ity; Rev.
Dr. Mell, chancellor University of Georgia;
Rev. Geo. W. Stone, A. M., prolessor of mathe
matics Emory college, Ga.; Rev. Dr. Garland,
chancellor Vanderbilt university; Senator J.
E. Brown; Mr. J. M. Veacli, Adairsville; Dr.
Jno. W. Bowdoin, Adairsville, Ga., and to the
young men who have entered the above named
institutions, or passed with my certificate into
the active duties of life.
ToD Pidntlns
Of all kinds done at the
American ofß.ce,
INSURF
Your Life And Property
—W ITH—
THEO. E. SMITH i SON,
—THEY REPRESENT THE—
MUTUAL LIFE OF NEW YORK
-AND SEVERAL FIRST CLASS
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES.
iPgEPttjj
Bitters
Though shaken tn every joint and fiber with
fev.-r and ague, or bilious remittent, the
system may yet be freed from the malig
nant virus with Hostetter’s Stomneh Bit
ters. Protect the system against it with
this beneficent anti-spasmodic, which is
futhermore a supreme remedy for liver
complaint, constipation, dyspepsia, debili
ity, rheumatism, kidney trouble* and
other ailments.
For sale by all Druggist* and Dealers
jcenerallt,
TEWKSBURY i C 80. EL F i r ;ijt
Gf.a’l Sonttern Ag’ts, 44 Marietta St,
A TLANTA, - G-A
RICHARD HENDERSON
GENERALBLACKSMITH
Horse Shoeing, Buggy and Wawon Trimming,
Eugine work, Hammer making, Farmers’ Tools,
and repairing of all kinds of Machinery. All work
warranted. chop on Erwin Street, near R. H. Jones
Carriage shop, Lartersville, Ga. janls-ly
TESTED WS TIME.
STRONG’S
PECTORAL PILLS
IN SUCCESSFUL USE FOB
HALF A CENTURY.
The best Remedy for Cong-hs, Cold., Dyipep.
■lit and RlieaitmtiMin. Insuro Healthy Appetite,
Good Digestion. Regularity of tho Bowels. A pre
cious boon to delicate females, soothing and
bracing the nervous system, and giving vigor and
health to every fibre of the body. Sold by DruggvaU.
For Pamphlets, elc.-addreas C. £. liIILL Ss CO*
18 Cedar Nt., K. a. Otty.
VALENTINES
COMIC AND SENTIMENTAL,
IN ENDLESS VARIETY,
AT
WIKLE & CO.’S
Next door to Post Office,
CARTERSVILLE.
IT ST&HDS &T THE HE^dT
THE LIGHT RUNNING
“DOMESTIC”
BECAUSE IT IS
The simplest machine made, having few
parts, no complication, and requires little
skill in management.
The lightest running machine, hence pro
duces less fatigue in operating, and on that
account is especially recommended by the
medical faculty.
Adapted to the greatest range of work-will
do the finest as well as the heaviest, and is
suited to the use of all appliances that lacili
tate the ordinary, fancy, or difficult work,
Always ready for use, and requires no spe
cial adjustment when the work is changed.
The most durable machine ever made. Its
construction is in accordance w th the most
advanced and approved mechanical principles
and all the parts are case hardened, working
on adjustable conical bearings.
It has the most beautiiul wood work.
It has the best set of attachments ever fur
nished with a sewing machine.
FOR SALE BY
WIKLE & CO.,
CARTERSVIIiLE, GA,
lebstf
GOLD & STEEL PENS,
INK, PENCILS, ENVELOPES
AND PAPER,
WIKLE & CO.,
CiRTERSVIUE, GA.
EVERY FAMILY
Wishes nice groceries—fresh and cheap—a
full dollars worth for a dollar—goods that are
the best and at reasonable figures.
TRY IT ONCE,
Send to Dohme & Duffv, Atlanta, Ga., for
your weeks’ or months’ supplies and you win
be surprised at the amount of goods returned
for the price.
A T ,T_i OPL33E3H.S
Will be filled the hour they are received. Try
us and yon will be pleased and become our
permanent patrons. We want to extend our
trade all over Georgia.
Dollars worth of goods delivered
n ee to any part of Georgia.
Dohme & Duffy,
ATLANTA, GA.
j m T. Owen Jeweler,
West Main st., Cartersville, Ga.
Keeps constantly on hand a large assortmen
ot watches, clocks, and jewelry and plate ,
ware. Spectacles a specialty. Twenty-live
years experience enables him to do all kiudi
of repairing at reasonable rates and g' arantee
satisfaction to his patrons.
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