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CARTERSVILLE AMERICAN.
VOLUME 11.
The Cartersville American.
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DIRECTORY.
COURT CALENDER—CHEROKEE CIR
CUIT.
J. C. Fain, Judge. J. W. Harris, Jr., Solici
or General.
Burtow County—Second Monday in January
ar.d .July.
Catoosa County—Second Monday in February
and August
Murray County—Third Monday in February
and August.
Gordon County—Fourth Monday in February
and August. ,
Bade County—Third Monday in March and
Septem 'ler.
Whitfield Count) 1 First Monday in April
and October.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. A. Howard, Ordinary.
F. M , Durham, Clerk Superior Court.
H. W. Cobb, Treasurer.
John A. Gladden, Sheriff. A. M. Franklin
Deputy Sheriff.
Bailey A. Barton, Tax Collector.
W. W. Ginn, Tax Receiver.
A. M. Willingham, Coroner.
D. W. K. Peacock, Surveyor.
Commissioners—S. C. Prichard, T. C. Moore,
A. Vincent, John il. Wikie.T. S. Hawkins.
CITY OFFICERS.
A. P. Wofford, Mayor.
James D. Wilkerson, Marshal.
Geo. 8. Cobb, Clerk.
B. R. Mounteastle, Treasurer.
Aldermen—First Ward, J. C. W T offord, A. R.
Hudgins; Second Ward, G. Harwell, W. 11.
Barron; Third Ward, John j.. Stover, Klihu
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.
Cards.
W. T. MILNER. J. W. HARRIS, JR.
KULWER sfc HARRIS,
Attorneys- At-Law.
Office on West Main Street.
may9-tf Cartersville, Ga.
JOHN H. WIKLE. DOUGLAS WIKLE.
WIKLE V WIKLE,
Attorneys-at-Law & Real Estate Agents
Office up stairs North East Corner West
Main and Erwin Streets.
may9-if Cartersville, Ga.
TUEO< si. SMITH,
Attorney-At-lLiaw.
Office with T. W. Baxter Main Street.
may9-tf Cartersville
H. JOHNSON,
Attorney-at-Eaw,
Office, West side Public Square,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Jgf-Will practice In all the Courts.
A. M. TOUT®. WALTER M. RYALB
FOIJTE fc RIALS,
Attorneys-At-Eaw*
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
of this state. Prompt and laithlul at
tention given to all business entrusted to us.
Office, corner Main and Erwin Streets, up
stairs. Cartersville, Ga.
J. M. NEEL. J. J. CONNER. W. J. NEEL.
KEEL., CONNER A KEEL,
Atteraeys-At-Law*
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
of this state. Litigated cases made a
specialty. Prompt attention given to all bus
iness entrusted to us.
Office over Stokely & Williams’ store.
Cartersville, Ga.
R. E. CASON,
DENTIST,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office, over Curry’s Drug Store.
HR. J. T. NHEEHERI),
Physician and Surgeon,
Office at Curry’s Drug Store,
HR. W, R. LEAKE,
Physician and Surgeon,
Cart ersvllle, Ga.
Office at Word's drug store.
HR. H . 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.
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ADAIRSVILLE, GA.
W. 4. HILRERK, Prop’r.
I Nice rooms, lean beds, thorough ventilation,
tables applied with the very best
the market affords.
Igy- TERMN MODERATE. jul4-t!
Central Hotel
ROME, GEORGIA.
J. H. KIPPS, Proprietor.
Rates $2 per day. Jiaggai e handled tree. Sit
uated in the business part of the city. Free
omnibus to and lrom all trains. Recently en
arged and newly furnished.
FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL,
LOUISVILLE, KY.
CENTRALLY LOCATED
And all the appointments, including
ELEVATORS AND FIRE ESCAPE.
VERY COMPLETE.
S. M. SCOTT, Proprietor.
GRANT HOUSE.
BEST HOTEL IN ATLANTA.
New building, new furniture—everything
first-class.
Headquarters lor commercial men.
Railroads.
KENNESAW ROUTE!
WESTERN R. R.
The following time card in effect Sunday,
Dec. 30,1883:
NORTH BOUND
NO, B—WESTERN EXPRESS-Daily.
Leave Atlanta 7 31* 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 6 22
“ Chattanooga 800
NO. 11—LIMITED EXPRESS—DaiIy.
Leave Atlanta ,11 40 p. m.
Arrive Marietta 3230 ... m.
“ Cartersville 1 48
“ Dalton 3 41
“ Chattanooga 515
Rome Express—North—Daily, except Sunday.
Leave Atlanta 4 05 p. m.
Arrive Marietta 3 00
“ Cartersville 6 03
“ Rome 7 20
No. 1 carries Pullman cars from Atlanta to
Louisville, Jacksonville to Cincinnati, New
Orleans to Washington.
No. 11 carries Pullman cars from Savannah
to Chicago and Atlanta to Nashville-
SOUTH BOUND.
NO. 4—FAST EXPRESS.
Leave Chattanooga 8 00 a. m.
Arrive Dalton 9&3
“ Kingston 1116
“ Cartersville 1142
“ 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 0 31
“ Marietta 7 47
Arrive Atlanta 8 40
NO. 12— LIMITED EXPRESS-Oaily.
Leave Chattanooga 1015 p. m.
Arrive Dalton 11 49
Cartersville 1 47 a. m.
“ Marietta 2 50
“ Atlanta 340
Rome Express—South—Daily, Except Sunday.
Leave Itouae... .... 830 a.m.
Arrive Cartersville 9 45
“ Marietta 10 49
“ Atlanta 11 45
No. 4 carries Pullman cars from Cincinnati
to Atlanta, Washington, New Orleans, Louis
ville to Atlanta.
No. 12 carries Pullman cars from Chicago to
Savannah and Louisville to Atlanta.
R W. WIiENN, Gen’l. Pass. Agt.
R. A. ANDERSON, Superintendent.
EAST & WEST R. R. OF ALA.
ON and after Sunday, Nov. 14, 1883, trains
on this road will run as follows:
GOINu WEST—Daily, Except Sunday.
no. 1. no. 3.
Leave Cartersville 950 a. m. 430 p. m.
“ Stilesboro 10 02 4 42
“ Taylorsville 10 37 6 17
“ 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. m.
“ Rockmart 3 00 8 07
“ Taylorsville 3 35 8 39
“ Stiiesboro 3 53 8 55
Arrive Cartersville 4 25 9 25
SUNDAY ACCOMMODATION—Going Best.
Leave Cedartown 8 00 a.m.
“ Stilesboro . 8 52
“ Taylorsville 924
“ Rockmart 9 40
Arrive Cartersville 10 10
SUNDAY 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. in.
Arrive Broken Arrow 6 00
Leave Broken Arrow 9 00 a. m.
Arrive East & West Junction 1 15 p. m.
ROME RAILROAD.
The following is the present passenger
schedule:
no. 1. no, 3.
Leave Rome 610 a.m. 415 p.m.
Arrive Kingston 8 55 5 30
no. 2. no. 4.
Leave Kingston. 920 a.m. 555 p.m.
Arrive Rome 1025 a.m. 650
NO. 5.
Leave Rome. 8 00 a. m.
Arrive Kingston 8 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 1 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. R R., for points south.
EBEN HILLYER, President.
J. A. SMITH, Geu’l Pass. Agent.
T. W. WHIT E
CABINET MAKER ml OPEOLSTERER.
Furniture of all Kinds Made and
Repaired.
SHOP ON WEST.MAIN STREET,
Cartersville, Ga*
Have your Job Printing neatly ex>
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CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY L 9, 1884.
The Cartersville American.
Entered at the Post Offiee at Cart/nrsville,
Ga., May 9f A, 188>-, as second class matter.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY. 19, 1884.
Sifted Shimmerings
CULLED PROM
THE
any spread out
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v Before our Readers.
A gentle rain o’erspreads the main,
The streets are soft and gritty ;
Now’s just the time, ’tis very plain,
To clean our dirty city.
A little slash will now and then
Creep into certain papers,
Wh'ch makes it plain to thinking men
’Tis time to cheese such capers,
Gen. Grant is getting well.
Turn off the gas when you go to bed.
President Arthur goes fishing in July.
Winter will Huge- in the lap of Spring.
David DaVis sits down on a cat —the cat
dies.
Senator Colquttt has a good memory lor
names.
Washington City seems to be a paradise for
negro ruffians.
Statesmanship and holding office are nearly
synonymoustisms.
Joe Blackburn will not go thirty days un -
heard in the senate.
It is announced that Queen Victoria rides a
tricycle. What next ?
So-called independentism in Georgia has
grown stark and stiff.
President Arthur, the grand master dude,
spends $5,000 a year for flowers.
A fat wallet maketh a merry heart, but a
light purse maketh a heart heavy.
Great floods in the west. Thousand* of
people homeless. It will be our turn next.
The moon and the stars see more evil in a
single hour, than the sun in his whole day’6
circuit.
The once tarnnas operatic gem, 11 We won’t
go Home till Morning,” is rarely sung now
except in station house cells.
Divinity clearly had nothing to do with
shaping the eads of Folger and Brewster.
Divinity never touches garbage.
Rome will edopt the electric fire alarm sys
tem as soon as she his $3,500 in her treasury.
This will probably oe about July.
The perspicuity of advertising literature
gleams in its brilliant refulgeuce like a retired
oyster can flashing in the moonshine.
The republican press is engaged in a fusil
ade on the Morrison tariff bill. They forget
that they are drilling holes through their own
plank.
A lady iu Lowndes county, Georgia, has
made and sold 900 pounds of butter in one
year, nor did she milk Jerseys—common piney
woods cows. * r
The reason why so many temperance lead
ers go into the milk business is, that they
want to put water in aa attractive form before
ram drinkers.
The question remains unanswered —will the
president remove Fred Douglass from the of
fice on the ground that he has outraged eivili
zatiou and decency.
The floods iu the west are worse than they
have ever been known before. The Ohio river
at Cincinnati is one hundred and seventy feet
above low water mark.
The American hog—Vanderbilt—went to
the Montreal carnival on a special train. There
will be nothing more independent on Cana
dian ice than that hog,
Two of Brigham Young’s boos have died
drunkards, two of his daughters have the
same husband, and one of his son’s sons
writes poetry. Mormouism must go.
Speaker Carlisle might nave been United
States senator from Kentucky bad he desired
to be. He possesses a first class prospect ol
securing the democratic nomination for presi
dent.
Don’t take long walks on an empty stomach.
If you want to walk on a stomach at all, try
and find a full one, as it is softer traveling. A
stomach is not a good place for a long walk
anyway.
A gang of young Washington burglars have
been sent to the reformatory. They called
themselves “Sons of Re6t.” They have chan
ged the name now by adding an “ar” before
the “rest.”
Don’t forget to take a drink of pure water
before breakfast. It settles things after the
last night’s seance, reduces the size ot the
head, and, besides, makes one appear like u
temperance advocate.
An exchange says "a crazy quilt is one that
is too short at both ends.” While it is ad
mitted that this is true, still the craziest quilt
is the one that persists iu crawling off the bed
onto the floor on a stinging cold night.
A dead congressman is very dear to the
country. It cost 6, ou an average, about three
thousand dollars to get one sttrted toward
Heaven by the underground line; but when
the accompaying delegation and the other
weeperi assuage their sorrow from the flow
ing bowl, the bill is a thousand or two more.
If the time speDt In telling what “I am go
ing to do,” and in what “ should like to do,”
was spent in endeavoring to do, instead of
talking, much more would be accomplished
and fewer men would look upon their lives as
unsucceeful.
An exchange reports the case of an Ohio
school girl who was strung np by the wrists
because 6he refused to sit with the boys. The
effect of this immoral discipline is likely to be
shown later on in life, if the girl is not trans
cendemally moral.
A Florida knight of the qnill has discovered
that his friend, jolly Dick Saunders, is the
happy father oi the largest baby born in the
town oi Jimplecute “since the war.” How
can the war be consistently mixed np in this
kind ol business ?
Judging from the style of alleged writing
that comes to this office, the ghost of Horace
Greely is not only abroad in the land, but is
engaged in writing. No man ever made the
marks he did wheu he wanted to express his
thoughts on paper.
Joe Blackburn is elected to the United
Stales senate. If any ancient fossii in that
body attempt to suppress Joseph by sitting
down npon him, he will think the base ot his
braiu has secured the deepest regard of a large
size and very sharp darning needle.
The western neck-tie soc ial system is work
ing its way east. A lynching parly was held
in Ohio last week, and a murderer was sent
to a higher court lor trial. If this tbing gets
to be general, the insanity dodge won’t save a
murderer’s neck in any stale iu the union.
“No sparking after ten o’clock,” says Dr.
Graham. “No dancing unless he and she are
in separate rooms,” say- Dr. E iton. Some
body else will presently say “N • kissing until
after marriage,” and the fool killer will spit
on his hands and get in some good work.
The manufacture of presidential broomlets
is on the increase in Washington. The style
of the firm for the present is Arthur, Logan,
Sherman, Blaine and Edmunds. The broom
lets ure steeped in lye to keep them fresh un
til they can be packed and seut to Chicago for
sale.
.The suppression of crime in the south is
again under serious discussion in northern
papers. Why southern more thau any other
crime should be suppn ssed, is not set forth
iu the indictment. To the man of broad
guage ideas, it would seem that all crime
should be suppressed.
Don’t be so vulgar and slangey in conversa
tion as to ask your girl to go roller-skating.
It isn’t proper. You should 6av: “Will you
kindly join me in zampilarotation this even
ing ? ” Then if she wants to enjoy the exer
cise, she will reply: “I will zamp, you can
wager your existence.”
Texas journalism is in a most flattering
stage of prosperity. Twenty-three editors iu
that state have each been presented with a
boy baby since New Year’s day. But Carters
ville can beat that, for, with hardly one-mill
ionth of the territory of Texas, we have had
in our little city, in the way of babies during
the past thirty days, an increase of population
of twelve.
Chicago is not happy. It has been discov
ered that a Georgia woman has four feet ou
two extremities. Her shoes have to be made
in the shape of a cross. She has four heels
and twenty toes. It is all well enough for
Georgia to be ambitious and endeavor to ex
cel Chicago, but no one will ever hanker after
such feet except some dime museum manager
No indeed, a woman with four heels and
twenty toes will never replace the old-fashion
ed kind.
The papers are telling how a certain Geor
gia man, now worth fifty thousand dollars,
never wore a pair of shoes until he was tweu
ty-one years of age, Ol course the iotent of
the paragraph is to injure the boot and shoe
trade by insinuating that a man will become
rich if he will go barefoot until he is twenty
one years of age. But the scheme would not
have worked a few weeks ago. Too much
chillblaiu weather.
About as sad a spectacle as oue can wish to
see, and one that arouses all the sympathetic
nature in a human being, is to see a woman
with the mumps. Forced to keep her jaw
still she is unable to express an opiniou to her
husband for remaining at the lodge until mid
night or to give her views on the latest sensa
tioual development in her neighborhood.
Being iu this condition her neighbors lose all
interest in her, and she, poor thing, is obliged
to be a martyr alone, with nothing but the
mumps to keep her company. It is awful.
An experimentalist in stenches the other
evening went to a densely-attended negro ball,
and, when the odor d’Afri Was at its ze
nith, threw a Limburger cheese on the floor.
The light between these awful smells Was so
terrific that the ball room was left to itself
The experimentalist is an enemy of England,
and the inventor of the Limburger bomb. He
will sail for London soon, and experts, with
his new combination odor, to take the breath
of the English race away in less than a month
after arriving there.
Montana is putting on' “civilized airs." A
preacher in that territory * 8 trial f° r having
indulged bis taste for driving fast horses, roll
er Bka'iug, consorting with sinners, etc. This
roller skating busiuess is one of the greate t
temptations ever held out to a Christian, and
it is not one in a hundred, no matter how
firm they may be in the faith, not even a
preacher, can put on a pair of roller skates
and not fall from grace. It will bring them
down every time. No Christian should mon
key with roller skatee unless he knows what
he is doing.
There are respectable, intelligent, educated
men in the District of Columbia who strenu
ously maintain that it is an inherent right of
all citizens of the United States to marry
whom they please, regardless of color or any
thing else. No citizen of the United States
possesses au inherent or other right to do any
thing that will injuriously affect public moral
ity or tend to bring into centempt a legal so
cial institution. Inter marriage of whites and
blacks would speedily debauch public moral
ity, and bring into contempt tbe institution of
marriage. Other conditions of great strength
might be presented against this particular
‘ inherent rigut” theory, bat “the game is not
worth the caudle.”
7HE TATTLER TALKS.
Farts and Fancies Gathered Here and There
aad Teld by the Tattler U Tickle the
Gossips and Toni the Tediois
Honrs into Talk.
The Tattler was standing at the
j depot a few evenings ago, when Mr.
S. T. Cantrell,the popular road master
: of the Cherokee railroad, motioned
us to enter the car where we were
i shown an elegant gold headed walk
ing cane. It was indeed a beauty,
and was finely finished. On the
head of the cane was the following
inscription: “Presented to Capt. J.
Postell by employees of tbe Chero
kee railroad.” Mr. Cantrell and
Mr. J. E. Good were then on their
way to Cedartown to formally pre
sent the cane in behalf of themselves,
and the following named gentlemen
who are all employees of the road
and who contributed to its purchase,
John H. Cobb. S. L. Vandivere,
C 'V. Gearheardi, WiM Hudgins,
R. H. Wells, H. F. Lester, J*ek
Edwards, Henry Harris, J. M. Dor
sey and others. Capt. Postell was
much surprised when these gentle
men entered his elegant residence,
and Mr. Good,in a neat and appro
priate speech, presented the caue.
The Captain gave expressions to the
appreciation of this unexpected mark
of favor in his generous off-hand
way. The occasion was very pleas
ant, and Capt Postell furnished
elegant refreshments during the
evening. We like to tee these to
kens of friendship and expressions of
kind feelings passing between em
ployers and employees. It shows
that the working class know how to
appreciate those who hold positions
over them, when they are kindly
and justly treated. Capt, Postell is
one of the rising railroad men of the
south, and justly popular with the
men of the Cheroaee road. He
proves his fitness for the position he
occupies by his wisdom in seiecting
such men as Torn Cantrell, John
Cobb, Will Hudgins, Sanford Van
divere, Frank Lester,and the other
gentlemen named to assist him in
managing the affairs of his company.
The Cherokee is now one of the most
popular and best paying roads in the
state.
During the last term of our court
the Tattler was one night sitting
around the fi r e at the Tennessee
house in company with four or five
grand jurymen from different par*/
of the county. Among that number
was the foreman of the jury who
lives in of our neighboring
towns which has voted whisky from
its limits. We asked him if there
was any force in the argument used
by the anti-prohibition men that the
prohibition of the sale of whisky in
jured the general trade and business
of a town. Said he: “I am a strong
prohibition man. lam opposed to
the use of whisky in any form. I do
not believe that its use accomplishes
any good, but on the contrary lam
sure it is the greatest curse with
which our county has to contend. I
am now over fifty years of age and
I have never yet seen any good that
whisky has accomplished. I have
seen our most promising young men
ruined by its use;l have seen women
walk barefoot and ragged ou our
streets because their husbands spent
their earnings for whisky. I have
seen our town in a perfect uproar
and riot because of intemperate use
and I have seen men cut each other
to pieces and shoot each other down
because they were wild under the
terrible influence of this enemy ol
mankind. In answer to your ques
tion I say that our town has been
made infinitely better by the prohi
bition of whisky. I know that trade
is as good as it was when whisky
sold there, and better than this I
know that our boys are saler and our
citizens happier, A lady can walk
our streets now without Tear of being
offended and insulted by staggering,
swearing, half crazed men. The
negroes at our last election, after we
had tried prohibition for one year,
voted very largely to sustain it. I
know negroes in our town who had
hogs to kill last fall, who were never
known to do such a thing before,
Negroes who used to lie around
town waiting for ten c< nt
jobs that they might get a drink of
whisky, now do regular work and
provide for the wants of their fami
lies. No, sir, we do not want any
more whisky sold in our town. I am
a merchant, and I know that it does
not injure U 9 in a business point of
view. lam very sure our town is
better and more prosperous, and I
shall hail the day with a glad heart
that banishes whisky from Georgia.”
We were impressed with the earn
estness of this honest, intelligent
man’s talk, and we are sure there is
a growing sentiment on tbe part of
the more thoughtful aud intelligent
of our people to save their boys and
young men from the terrible temp
tation of bai rooms. This will be a
live issue before the people of Bartow
before the year is over, and one of
graver importance will rarely be pre
sented.
We took a run up to Adairsville a
few days ago, and w saw a great
many things that were pleasant to
look upon. We saw a clean, thriv
ing, prosperous town of about 600 in
habitants. We saw a cotton factory
in which spindles were running and
looms were thumping. (We will
have more to say of this in another
article.) We saw the largest mer
chant flouring mill in north Georgia.
We saw the beautiful valley of Ooth
caioga which surrounds the town,than
which there is not a more fertile or
productive body of land in the south.
We saw field after field of sprouting
wheat just tinting the brown land
with green. We saw barn after barn
full to overflowing with clover hay.
In fact we saw a thriving town and a
prosperous country. We love to go
to Adairsville, perhaps that is very
natural, as there are a great many
inducements there to us. But we
love to go more particularly because
it is the place of our nativity and the
home of our childhood. The old
house where we were born still
stauds there, to remind us, when we
return, of happy days. We love to
go and sit there for an hour or two,
under the old oak tree by the well,
and live over the past. The sun
shine seems to be warmer there than
any where else, and the blue moun
tains that stretch away towards the
east seem to be more beautiful. There
is a sacredness about the old place
that renders every oojeet dear to us.
Even the old peach tree from the
branches of which we have received
many lasting impressions, has grown
now to be an object of leader re
gard Then there is the old fence
row, along the panels of which
we have so many times called
up from their little rounded holes
in the ground those old time doodles.
We can even now remember, and
almost hear that low, tnonotonous
call as it came up from the fence
corner in pleading tones, “Doodle!
doodle! doodle!” and we can see the
little red-headed, freckle-face boy as
became tenderly along down the
dusty lace, with one suspender down
and one breeches leg roiled up to his
knee and a triumphant look in his
eye, with a handful of doodles. We
could almost wish sometimes to be
that boy again. But we are making
an unpardonable digression. We
intend to say more of Adairsville,its
Industries, and its prospects, but we
row defer this for another time.
You don’t wonder that we love
Adairsville, do you? “Home, home,
sweet, sweet home!”
The Tattler was reading a book
the other night—Campbell’s poems
we believe—and our eye fell on the
following verses:
I bad a heart that doted once on passion’s
boundless pain,
And though the tyrant 1 abjnred I could not
break his chain;
Bat now that Fancy’s Are is quenched and
cannot burn anew,
I’ve bid to lore for all my life, Adien, Adieu,
Adieu!
I’ve known, if ever moital knew, the spells
of Beauty’s thrall.
And if my song has told them not my sonl
has felt them them all.
But passion robs my peace no more, and beau
ties witching sway
Is now to me a star that’s fallen —a dream
that’s passed awsy.
Hail! welcome tide o( life where no tumnl
tuous billows roll!
How wondrous to myself appears this halcy
on calm of aoul!
Tbe wearied bird blown o’er the deep would
sooner quit its shore.
Than I won Id cross tbe gnlf again that time
has brought me o’er.
Why say they Angels feel the flame? Oh spir
its of tbe skies!
Can love like ours that dotes on dust iu heav
enly bosoms rise?
Ah, no! the hearts that best have felt its pow
er, the best can tell
That peace on Earth itself begine when love
has bid farewell.
We have an idea that the fellow
who wrote this had been desperately
in love but his girl had “kicked”
him, and he was trying te “brace up
Simmy”and cnnviocehimselfthat he
didn’t care. We may be mistaken
in this. Joe Moon says il is a favorite
poem of his,an reflects his sentiments
exactly, and nobody would suspect
for a moment that Joe hud ever been
‘•left” in the love business. It’s very
fine poetry, but we shall not paste it
in our hats for reference. We’ll bet
the fellow who wrote it and who
was trying to convince himself that
he was very happy, looked like “Pa
tience on a monument smiling at
Grief.” We don’t want any such
philosophy in ours. Give us the
warm hearted boy that believes In
jove, that has a sweetheart aud is
proud of her, that looks forward
with a bounding heart and glowing
cheeks to the time when she will be
the light and life of his home and
the joy of his heart. Oh, no, we
don’t believe “that peace on earth
itself begins where love has bid
farewell.” We may be mistaken but
“ignorance is bliss” with us, and we
don’t care to be made any wiser.
Tattle*.
NUMBER 42.
PROGRESS IN THE SOUTH.
To those of our readers who are in
terested in the future welfare of our
dear old southland, the following ed
itorial from the Manufacturers Reo
ord, a weekly journal published in
Baltimore, Md # , and devoted to the
manufacturing interest of the country
at Urge, will be highly enooaraging.
Let those who are skeptical in regard
to southern progress divest them
selves of their incredulity, for the at
mosphere is literally filled with straws
—in fact with sapplings—indicating
the direotion of the winds.
“The rapid development of the
south, aud the progress of new enter
prises in that section at a time when
bu&iness is so quiet in other parts of
the country, is well calculated to at
tract the attention of thinking men
throughout the world. That an in
dustrial revolution of vast extent is
in progress cannot be questioned, and
we believe that its force will be tar
greater than the business men of the
country have any couception of. In
fact the people of the south have not
yet realised the ningnifioent future to
which tbwir country is so rapidly has
tening
“That the industrial interests of the
north are to be destroyed we do not
believe, nor would ouch a national lose
be of hem fit to the south. But the
most rapid progress tvi.l hereafter be
found not in the north nor iu the west,
but in the south, and much of the cap
ital and enterprise now invested in
t hose sections will soon he found diift
ing to the southern states. In fact,
this is already in progress, and the
signs of the times ail point to the in
vestment of enormous amounts of out
side capital in southern industries
within the next few years. Uuder the
heading “Construction Department*'
we give every week In the Manufac
turers’ Record a fall list of ell new in
dustiial enterprises of every kind to
be started in the south, giving the
location aud the names of the pro
jectors.
“This list is of remarkable interest,
as it gives each week an important
chapter in the history of southern
progress. It te Is exactly what is being
dooe in tbst section, and, as closely as
we have watched the development of
the south, we confess that we are sur
prised week after week at the number
and magnitude of the enterprises es
tablished there.
“Within the last few weeks we
have reported the organization of new
cotton milla, woolen mills, saw mills,
cotton-seed oil milla. machine shops,
mining companies, >ads, and in
fact almost every kiSti of industrial
enterprises, the construction and op
eration of which will require many
millions and teus of millions of dollars.
The most enthusiastic friend of the
south could hardly ask for a grander
and more glorious future than to
which the southern states are so rap
idly hastening.”
INJUSTICE TO JEFF DAVIS.
The people of the south have a pro*
found respect and affection for Mr.
Davis, but it sometimes crops out in
the wrong direction. The legislature
of Mississippi has invited him to ds
liver an address oo Sargent S. Pren
tiss. Of course Mr. Davis cannot
comply. He is old and broken down
by disease, disappointment and per*
secution. Whenever he is invited to
make an address, it is the signal for
a portion of the northern press to
open upon him their batteries of bil
ltngrgate. He should not be expos
ed to this ordeal. Sargent S. Pren
tiss has been dead these many years.
Two biographies of him have been
published. In the Mississippi valley
there are men who have preserved
the traditions of his every act and
speech. The legislature of Mississip
pi ha;, sought to impose a task upon
Mr. Davis to which he is uneqnsl.
He is test decending the declivity of
life. The last twenty-five years have
been a grievous burden to him. He
has written his defense of himself
and his people, and has given it to
the world, and now seeks and re*
quires a dignified retirement. Hit
last days ought not to be embittered
by dragging him tinder the fire of
his relentless foes.
We trust that the memorial socie
ties will fail to attempt to make hiin
the orator of the coming decoration
day. The people of the south can
do Mr. Davis no greater kindness
now than to add to the rest, the
quiet, the peace of th e close of an il
lustrious life. —Telegraph <k Meum
ger.
*‘l wath much surpwithedre
marked an English dude, “to hear an
American lady use the expwession,
'yank the bun.’ ” “It’s a very com
mon slang phrase in our country,”
exclaimed the fair Chicago girl at hi>
side. “You don’t tell me, now; I sup
pose that's the reason Americans am
called Yankees.”
A St. Louis doctor says that bon*
boos, sweetmeats, ice cream, etc.,
cause indigestion, headache congtn*
tion ot the liver, and is a great sou rat
of boils and pimples. Cut this oat
and show it to your girl,-[Philad si
pbia Call.] And get turneid ont for
hinting at such a falsehood as that she
is so afflicted? Not much.