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The Carter&ville American.
TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1&84.
Special to the American ]
TWO FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENTS.
The Heavy Rains of Last Night Wash Away
the Track, and a Freight and a Pas
senger Train Wrecked.
April, 15.—N0. 12, the down passenger
that passed Gartersville last night at
1:47, went into a wash-out at Moon s sta
tion, between Aeworth and Big Shanty.
The engine and six cars went in and
were burned up. The engineer, lireman
and baggage master were hurt, the mail
agent killed and several passengers hurt.
No. 8, freight, ran into a wash-out
at Noonday station, between Marietta
and Aeworth. The engine and seven
teen cars were wrecked. Eugineer
McDonald and fireman killed.
Charles Reade, the English novelist,
died last week.
The late cold spell has had no effect
on the crop of candidates. Even those
that were just budding are bursting forth
with vigor and freshness. There is one
consolation to the country, the next fall
frosts will find a lot of them ready for
the shade.
Judge Btewart will not be in the race
for congress in the fifth district. The
field will be left open to Fulton county,
with Hammonds Jackson and Mynatt to
contest it. However the contest may
end, the district can rest assured that it
will be ably represented.
The Atlanta correspondent to the Sa
vannah Morning News states that an ef
fort is being made for a joint discussion
between Dr. Felton and Dr. Miller, in
Atlanta, at an early day, upon the tariff
question. The former favoring a pro
tective tariff, and the latter free trade.
In another column of lids paper will
be found a communication from Capt, D.
W. K. Peacock, on the minerals of Bar
tow county. There are few sections, if
any, that can make an equal showing in
the mineral line. They are in almost
inexhaustible quantities, and only wait
the coming of capital development there.
THE TATTLER TALKS.
Facts and Fancies Gathered Here and There
and Told by the Tattler to Tic le the
Gossips and Tnrn the Tedions
Honrs into Talk.
I heard ft pretty good joke on my
friends, Col. A. W. Fite and Mr. T. R.
Jones, of this city. Some time ago Mr.
Jones gave Col. Fite a note to collect on
a negro in this county. The note was
sued, judgment obtained, and a fi. fa.
issued, but no levy was made at the
time. Not many days ago, Mr. R. L.
Sellers, who has been buying cattle very
extensively in this section, and shipping
them to Atlanta and other points, bought
a cow from this negro against whom
Jones had the fi. fa. By some means
Col. Fite found out that Mr. Sellers had
bought the cow and had started her to
Atlanta in a drove. He posted Mr.
Jones, who got up his fi. fa., boarded
the train, went to Atlanta, secured a con
stable, had his fi. fa. properly endorsed
by aJ. P., in Atlanta, and sent the con
stable out with a description of the cow,
to meet the drove as they came in and
levy on the cow. While all this was
going on, Mr. Sellers got wind of it, and
instead of driving the cow on to Atlanta,
e, s he had intended to do, he ran her oft’
lip the liver, kept her a few days till she
got fat, killed her for beef and brought
her to Cartersville and sold her to our
butchers. Mr. Jones, as a matter of
course, did not find her in Atlanta, but
returned with his pocket book considera
bly the worse for wear. On Wednesday
morning of last week, Mr Sellers brought
in the two horns of the cow and present
ed one of them to Col. Fite and the
other to Mr. Jones, with his compli
ments. The little affair created consid
erable merriment on the streets, and
Mr. Jones Seemed to enjoy it quite as
much as Mr. Sellers. When the horn
was first presented to Col. Fite, he had
a short attack of the “dry smiles,” but
he soon recovered his equilibrium and
joined heartily in the fun, congratu
lating Mr. Sellers on his expert manage
ment of the case.
I read a little poem the other day,
written by Mr. James \V. Riley, that im
pressed me as being full of wisdom. It
•was entitled “Never Talk Back,” and is
worth pasting in your hat. If a man
loses his temper and goes to talking he
is sure to say a great many foolish
tilings. It is wiser and safer to listen
and “saw wood and say nothin’ ” while
the other fellow does the talking. The
poetry runs as follows:
“Never talk back ! Such things is reprehen
sible,
A fellow only corks hisse’f that jaws a man
that’s hot;
In a quarrel, il you’ll only keep your mouth
6het and be sensible,
The inau that does the talkiug’ll get worst
ed every 6hot!
Never talk back to a fellow that’s abusin’
you—
Just let him carry on, and rip and cuss and
swear
And when he finds his lyin’ and his daminin’
is just amusin’ you,
You’ve got him clean kerflnmixed and you
want to hold him there.
Never talk back, and wake up the whole com
munity,
And eall a man a liar, howsomever that’s
his fix;
Yotl cau lift and hand him furder and with
gracefuller impunity
\Y ith one good jolt of silence than a half a
dozen kicks.
There is truth as well as philosophy
fti*, lii&yeeeeu the silence game
played with great success. It is espe
cially sensible in an editor, who is con
tinually being asked why he wrote this, I
that or the other, to hold his tongue and
look wise. If you undertake to jowerand
bandy words with every man tha£ don’t
understand what you write, you will
have time for nothing else, and in all
probability be picking yourself up from
the side w 7 alk about once a week.
I have read a circular signed by Col.
J. J. Howard, John W. Akin, M. L.
Pritchett, I). W. K. Peacock and oth
ers, which has been sent out to promi
nent men in every district of Bartow
county, calling on them to meet at the
opera house n#xt Thursday, for the pur
jjose cf organizing an Immigration and
Improvement Society for Bartow coun
ty. The purpose of the organization, as
I understand it, is to bring more
prominently before the public the ad
vantages of this immediate section of
Georgia as an agricultural, mining and
manufacturing country. lam told that
the plan of this company is to carefully
prepare articles on the minerals, the
water power, the soil, and the climate of
North Georgia; have them published in
a neat pamphlet and distribute ten or
fifteen thousand copies in all parts of the
United States. This looks like business,
and I hope the plan will be earned out.
It becomes our people to encourage a
movement of this kind. The organiza
tion, aa I understand it, is to boa perma
nent one. a secretary will be appointed
to answer all communications, and a
standing committee appointed to show
strangers, who may come here prospect
ing, the natural advantages of this sec
tion. We home folks know that the de
posits of iron, and copper, and manga
nese, and ochre, and baryta, and other
valuable minerals in Bartow and adjoin
ing counties, are almost inexhaustible,
and w r e know that they could be w'orked
to great advantage if we only had the
capita]. We know, also, that the timber
and water powder advantages are very
superior. The object of this organiza
tion is to set forth their advantages to
the w’orld, and encourage immigration and
capita] to come among us and help de
velop these natural resources. The idea
is to send these pamphlets to every part
of the union, and also to Europe. They
want to distribute five thousand copies
at the New Orleans Exposition next
winter. The complexion of Carters
ville’s future bears unmistakable marks
of prosperity. I have faith in the prom
ising outlook, and believe the results
will be good.
The Conyers Solid South came to my
office last w T eelc with one whole page
full of Prof. James I. Coleman’s com
mencement exercises. They fairly load
ed the young professor down with com
pliments. I read it with as much pleas
ure as if it had been a letter from my
brother. I went to school at Dalilonega
with Jim. i was in his classes, and
knew him like a book. He is a splendid
fellow and a fine speaker. His style is
fiery and eloquent, and his flow of lan
guage easy and fluent. Coupled with
this he is as full of brains as a oyster is
of meat. Ho was raised in Pickens coun
ty, and we boys used to called liim the
“silver tongued orator of the mountains.”
Speaking of Coleman, lam reminded of
a good joke he played on the professor
at college on the first day of April. Ev
ery boy in school was required to recite
a lesson: in English, Col. Lewis, the
president, was very particular in this, as
he said it was more important to speak
English correctly than any other lan
guage. There had been some talk in
school of re-arranging the classes in
English and making some changes. On
the morning of April the first, Jim
Coleman might have been seen slipping
around to the boys and talking in a con
fidential tone. As soon as the bell
sounded the call to recitations, the boys
went to their respective class rooms, and
whe* everything was quiet, a leader,
who had been previously agreed on,
arose and told the professor that the
president of the faculty had requested
that all the boys meet at the chapel at
that hour, as there was to boa re-ar
rangement of the English classes. With
out suspecting anything they at once
permitted us to go. Wh*n we reached
the chapel, Col. Lewis was sitting in his
easy chair enjoying a quiet nap. As
class after class hied in and took their
seats with serious faces, the colonel be
gan to rub his eyes and look around.
The boys behaved nicely and kept their
faces straight. I was about the last boy
to come in, and the colonel looked up at
me and said: “Well, Will, what is the
meaning of this?” I had been previous
ly posted by Coleman, and, telling a fib
with as good a face as I could, (it wasn’t
very hard for me to do,) I told him that
was exactly what we wanted to know.
That the different professors had sent us
all there with instructions that he want
ed to see us. He replied that it was
very strange, as he had given no such
instructions. Jim Coleman arose proud
ly, and in a ringing voice, said: “The
professors had doubtless intended to
make us the butt of a practical joke, as it
was the first day of April. ” The colonel
seemed to take to the idea at once, and
laughed heartily. Jim continued and j
asked the oolonel to retaliate by giving
us a holiday. Acting under the impulse j
of the moment, ho told us to go, and I
have all the fun we could. I never !
heard such a shout as went up from one
hundred and twenty-five exultant boys
as they rushed out on the streets. We
“fell into line” and marched down
Broad street, passing three of tho pro
fessors, who were standing on the side
walk, smiling in a sickly way at us and
wondering what was up. We scampered
“over tho hills and far away” anti i>ent
such a day only school boys can spend.
There was a meeting of the faculty that
evening when tho professors compared
notes with the president and came to the
conclusion that they came out only
second best. Next morning after pray
ers, Cob Lewis arose to his full height
and said, in a stern way, that he de
manded to know 7 who was the originator
of the scheme of the day before. There
was a solemn stillness resting on the boys,
and they looked anxiously from one to
the other. Finally some of the little
chaps called out, “Jim Coleman!”
Turning towards Jim, the colonel said,
“come up here,Mr. Coleman.” I remem
ber as distinctly how Jim looked as he
advanced to the front as if it were yes
terday. I’ll not tell how he looked, but
it was altogether a different air from the
one he wore five minutes later. Bring
ing his hand from behind liim, the colo
nel held up a volume of McCauley’s Es
says, and smilingly presented it to Mr.
Coleman for the cleverness and origi
nality of his April fool.” Another cheer
went up from the boys and Jim Coleman
was the liei’o of the day. I never hear
of Jim now, but what I tliink of April
Ist.
BARTOW COUNTY MINERALS.
Messrs. Editors: —ln complying with
my promise to give you an article on the
mineral resources of our county, I am
oppressed with a sense of my inability
to do the subject justice, feeling that it
is not in the power of any one man to
give the facts as they are, but perhaps
it is fortunate that this is the case, as
any one who may examine the mineral
resources of this section will find them
more extensive than one can tell, w 7 hich
cannot but be far more satisfactory than
that they should fall short of representa
tions.
IRON.
The principal deposits of iron ore are
found in the 4th, 21st, and 22nd dis
tricts of this county, with some good
deposits in the 16th and 17th districts.
There are two qualities of these ores,
the browTi hematite or limenite ore,
and the gray or specular ore, The
Dade Coal Company are the owners of
these iron interests which are now being
Avorked very extensively, and ha\ r e been
for seA r eral years past. These banks or
mines are being worked to the extent of
about one hundred tons daily, and have
been for several years past, and yet
there has been hardly enough taken out
to slpw the extent of the ore in them.
Col. C. M. Jones, on Bumpkin vine
creek, has opened, and is now working,
some very extensive deposits to the ex
tent of about fifty tons daily. The Bar
tow Iron Company, the Etowah Mining
<fc Manufacturing Company, the compa
ny composed of Judge James R, Brown
and Capt J. D. Thomas, are among the
largest deposits in the south, and are
simply indescribable in quantity, and
were they located in Pennsylvania, or
any other country w r here their value was
fully understood, they would sell for
millions of dollars.
The analysis of different samples of
these ores run from 55 to 60 per cent,
metallic, iron.
The gray or specular iron is also
found in large quantities, and have been
worked in past times to an extent suffi
cient to satisfy any one that they exist
in quantity, and the analysis runs from
46 to 56 metallic iron.
MANGANESE.
This valuable mineral has been for
several years worked by the Pyrolusite
Manganese Cos., an organization incorpo
rated under the laws of New York, and is
found in the Ith and 22nd districts of
this county in large quantity and of ex
cellent quality. The above company is
the only one which has operated to any
considerable extent in this section, and
they report the business as very satisfac
tory. They have shipped as high as
6,000 tons per annum. And the analysis
of ores made by Prof. N. A. Pratt, runs
from 72 to 73 binoxide.
YELLOW OCHRE.
Recently, yellow ochre of excellent
quality and large quantities have been
developed in the 4th district, and are
being anxiously sought after by parties
engaged in the paint business. But
being comparatively anew business, we
cannot tell its future developments.
GOLD.
The 21st district of this county has
been worked for this precious metal
since the early settlement of tho coun
ty. Some portions of the district hav
ing proved exceedingly rich, many per
sons having made fortunes, but many
toyed with the fickle goddess to no pur
pose. The principal work was done in
the placer mines, but little effort having
been made to find the veins which are
believed to be the source from wliich all
placer mines are fed. The glade mine
(one of the finest veins ever struck) fur
nished ore yielding $5,000 per ton, but
the parties seem to have lost the vein
and abandoned it.
BLUE LIMESTONE.
This occurs in large quantities and
excellent quality at Rogers’, Howard’s
j and Munford’s on the line of the W. &
A. railroad, and at Ladd’s, on the East
1 & West railroad, as well as at various
other places throughout the county, but
at these places large quantities have
been mined and burned, and it is al
ways in demand, both for budding and
agricultural purposes, and perhaps there
is no lime in the south so highly prized
as the famous alabaster lime manufac
tured by A. C. Ladd.
SANDSTONE.
Elastic sandstone occurs in inexhausti
ble quantities in the 4th and 21st dis
tricts, and has been used for years as
lining for iron furnaces, and there is now
a prospect of its being utilized in the
manufacture of fire brick.
MJLIrBOCX.
In the 21st district occurs a stone
which has for years been used in the
manufacture of mill stones for grinding
com, and those of our millers who have
tried them will not have any other, and
I see no reason why, with a little capital
and enterprise, one might not build up a
profital >le business in this line.
The foregoing embrace the principal
minerals which have been developed
in this county up to this time, and until
the depression in the iron trade, was
perhaps the greatest source of revenue
to our county.
Maj. Mark A. Cooper, who I might
with propriety call the pioneer in the
iron industry of this state, forwarded to
Sheffield, England, a lot of iron which
he had converted into steel, out of
which were manufactured razors and Ara
rious articles of cutlery, some of which
he still has on hand, and winch demon
strates the fact that it is a good iron
out of w 7 hich to manufacture the finest
steel. He also forwarded to Col. Colt a
lot of iron out of which he had manu
factured several pistols, and which were
equally satisfactory.
1 might continue to write on this sub
ject indefinitely, but feel that I have
said enough for an ordinary newspaper
article. D. W. K. Peacock.
EASTER.
There are three themes upon which
the human mind has andw 7 elt since the
dawn of reason—death, love and immor
tality; these lie at the base of all religion.
About them is woven the finest thoughts
of earth; and in some form the influence
of one or more of them is seen in the his
tory of all nations, is found in all their
literature, is felt in all romance and heard
in all the songs that have issued from
human lips. The fear of death; love,
whether earthly or divine, and hopes of
immortality, in power direct or in the in
fluence of the powers they set in motion,
move us all to action, Thoiight wings
his flight from one of them and flies he
never so far and strong, on one of them
must he fold his wings at last.
There is no space here for the contem
plations of these wonderful causes that
underlie our history, although the dawn
of this day properly brings them to
mind. The place to study all is in the
Avorld’s poetry—not its mere rhymes—
where live the thoughts of those who
have viewed them from the tallest
heights. Only the briefest inspection is
permitted us at this moment.
Death has never been absolute desola
tion to the poet, even in the heathen
ages. There has ever been a better
land in the dreams of every nation.
The failure of mortal strength, secret
power in the mental construction of
every people, has been the beginning of
anew life elsewhere. Our poets have
but continued the songs of the ancients
with a more confident hope in immortali
ty. The hope ha* never died. Whether
it were the conciousness bom with a soul,
or the mere superstition of a human an
imal, it has always remained vita].
Though religion, belief, forms of Avor
siiip, nay worship itself, under the cold
reasonings of skeptism, the blank despair
of agnosticism and the bitter courage of
stoicism have at times been trampled in
the dust, borne aloft beyond the reach of
the arrow, on the wings of song, the one
hope of immortality has been preserved.
Despite the terrors of the change, the
general view of death has been as of a
deliverer, “one who opens wide her
sweet Avhite arms and whispers peace,”
a black camel who “kneeleth once at
each man’s door” for the long voyage to
Paris, a boatman waiting beside the si
lent river for the traveler, or a reaper
ready to gather in the human harvest.
It is singular how varied are the forms
of speech, how diversified the thoughts
spent upon the great transition frogi the
knoAvn into the unknown. And how ex
liaustless the theme. Imagination has
exhausted itself, we think, when in our
ears there sounds another song and we
catch the beauty of the olden themes
anew. What other ideas hayo go defied
the mould of time?
And what scene is there in human his
tory so grandly set as that which crown
ed the prophecies of the poet priests,
and fired the world’s singers anew with
an eternal promise? What day sinoe
creation has" dawned so grandly upon hu
manity as that which swept the shadows
from the hills and introduced the strong,
glad notes of certainty into the mighty
chorus which has rolled in upon us from
the darkness amid which the old masters
struck their harps ? What a day it was J
Despair had fallen on the little oircle in
wliich moved the strange, mild-eyed,
tender messenger who called himself the
Son of God. Despair ? The word
laughs when it seeks to encompass the
feelings of the men who had followed
him blindly, had waited at the foot of
the hill, had watched from afar to see
him god-like rise in his power and smite
the foes who were leading him to death.
For two days they had wandered brok
en hearted, meeting, touching hands,
and departing wrapped in the blankness
of desolation, utterly overwhelmed.
But, as through the ages had lived Hope,
so through this midnight of despair it
found a resting place. Crushed and sor
rowing, the women who loved him crept
out into the early Sabbath light, led by
it, tottering t<? the sepulohre in whioh for
them lay buried all but hope itself. And
grandly was the hope redeemed. To
woman there, woman who came last from
God’s hand, who had through the ages
lingered nearest his throne, who knelt at
his cross, who wept over his sleep of
death, who watched at his tomb- was
first made good the pledge of Life whieh
dwelt in human hearts forever—the
proof of immortality. Death in her pres
ence first lost its sting, love first crowned
her with undying joy, immortality first
took form and being before her wonder
ing eyes.
Meet is it then, that on the anniversa
ry of the eventful day she pluck nature’s
resurrected blossoms and deck the tem
ple of her Lord and Master.—Telegraph
and Messenger.
“A STRlfifcE CASE.’’
Editors American:— ln your is
sue of last week appeared an article
with the above caption, which, to
my surprise, has elicited general in
terest amongst my friends and ac
quaintances who have read it. Be
cause of the fact that the publication
alluded to is calculated to mislead
the reader, and to do me an injury
through the columns of your paper,
a reply is demanded which you will
please do me the favor to publish.
It is needless to say that I was very
unpleasantly impressed on reading
the article in question. Great stress is
laid upon what Bagwell “swore,”
aud upon the fact that Mr. Griffln
lost the case. The statement is also
made that I have had “so many
transactions of this kind that I have
no distinct recollection about this
particular one.” Had your active
local scribe called upon my attorney
in this case, who is one of the propri
etors of the American, instead of
upon the attorney for Bagwell, for
the particulars for puolication, he
could have obtained a full statement
of the facts in the case, and have
saved the annoyance of this commu
nication. There is a degree of pre
cipitation about the article in ques
tion that must be very savory read
ing indeed to Mr. Bagwell, but any
thing but complimentary to me, as
the most casual reader can see.
C. B. Bagwell, who claims to be
unable to write his own name, and
his two oldest sons, had been buying
fertilizers from me for about four
years previous to 1881. The personal
resemblance of these sons is, to me,
so striking that I could never distin
guish the one from the other. One
of these sons always, by authority of
his father, signed his father’s name
to notes for such fertilizers as the fa
ther bought of me from year to year
up to and including the year 1881,
except when charged against him on
account. The note in controversy
was as certainly sigued by one of
these sons for C. B. Bagwell, as the
local editor of the American penned
the article headed “A Strange Case.”
I am not addicted to so loose a man
ner of doing business as not to know
whom I deal with. The note calls
for $21.60, was given in March, 1881,
end fell due November 1,1881. Near
ly two years and a half have passed
away since the note fell due, and suit
is only a short time since brought
against Bagwell. Your paper states
Suit was brought when due. Mr.
Bagwell had been repeatedly notified
by me of my possession of the note,
and gave no intimation of his igno
rance of said note until after suit had
been t>roggh,t against him on an ac
count for $28.80 long past due. Even
then he was so generous as to offer
settlement by compromise, which
proposal not being authorized by the
owners of the note to accept, I de
clined, After judgment against me
by default, appeal was taken before
a jury of five who,upon this immense
swearing of Bagweli and his two eld
est sons and my inability to ideutify
which ope of the two sons made the
signature, felt that they should fol
low the example set them by the
justice, These are the facts of this
small case about which so much curi
osity was excited In the editorial
room of the American.
Gerald Griffin,
WUISKY AND PISTOLS.
A few more advertisements of so
called “Cartorsville riots” will cause
immigration to flow with a rush—
We mean to flow by the town.—
Free Press.
People who are afraid to stop in a
town or city because riots are con
demned by the citizens, or newspa
pers, are welcome to pass Carters
ville. We are of the opinion that a
few more papers published in Car
tersviile, which are always on the
side of disorder and lawlessness, will
assist very materially in keeping off
good citizens and in running off a
large majority of such as are here.
Do your duty, Mr. American, as
an independent journalist; rebuke
sin, condemn riotousness and lawless
ness of all kinds without regard to
standing, color, or previous condi
tion, and the good people of Bartow,
and the country at large will support
you and call you blessed. Citizen,
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ple, he llatters himself that this stock will
E lease the most fastidious. The goods having
een bought at a discount for cash by an ex
perienced buyer, in the best markets in the
world, we propose to give our patrons tho
benefit of it. This
SUPERB STOCK
EMBRACES
AN ELEGANT VARIETY
OP
[Fancy and Staple
Dll 6DOI
Notions, Etc.
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A SUPERB LINE OF
LADIES’ DRESS GOODS,
IN ALL VARIETIES.
CLOTHING,
(reals 1 FaraisMai Gosds,
BOOTS AND SHOES.
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In lact any and all articles usually found in a
first-class* dry goods establishment. We do
not deal in shoddy calicoes and other worthless
trash to decoy the unsuspecting, but prefer to
give our customers a genuine article that
will be worth the money and do them substan
tial service; hoping thereby to make our busi
ness a permanent one, that will be mutually
beneficial to our patrons and ourselves.
It is our intemion to sell goods as cheap or
cheaper than any firm in north Georgia can
afford to sell a similar article for cash, or to
prompt paying customers on time. We hope
by fair and square dealing to merit and re
ceive a liberal share of patronage from our
lriends and acquaintances, ana the public
generally. Come and 6ee us. All we ask is a
trial. Very respectfully,
aprls-Gm MAYS & PRITCHETT,
THE WORLD’S
Industrial and Cotton
CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION.
A PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR.
Whereas, It appears to be the general desire
ol the people of Georgia that opportunity be
given to exhibit at the World’s Industrial and
Cotton (Centennial Exposition, which will bo
opeaed in the city of New Orleans in Decem
ber, 18S4, the varied resources of the State, I
have thought proper, therefore, to make known
that the following gentlemen have been ap
pointed Auxiliary Commissioners from the
several Congressional Districts (who, in con
junction with Messrs. D. C. Bacon and Charles
H. Smith, Commissioi ers for the State at
Large, will arrange lor the collection, trans
portation and display of articles intended tor
exhibition), to-wit:
First Col gressional District—JamesfM. Cou
pe r.
Second Congressional District—William A.
Harris.
Third Congressional District—John A. Cobb.
Fourth Congressional District—Henry R.
Harris.
Filth Congressional District—Leonidas F.
Livingston.
Sixth Congressional District—George W.
Adams.
Seventh Congressional District—Samuel W.
Leland.
Eighth Congressional District—Thomas P.
Janes.
Ninth Congressional District—Tyler M.
Peeples.
Tenth Congressional District—John S. Da
vidson.
Asa nucleus for county organization, the
above named gentlemen will appoint a Com
missioner in each county in their respective
Districts, who will give to the people all
necessary aid and instruction as to the manner
of making contributions to the Exposition.
No State in the Union presents a more in
viting field for enterprise than Georgia, or
holds out a more liberal reward to agricultural,
manufacturing or mechanical industry.
It is urgently recommended to the good peo
ple of Georgia to make these contributions so
ample and so select as to prove worthy ol a
Commonwealth that enjoys such a reputation
as ours in the opinion of the world, and as will
adequately represent the wonderful resources
of our beloved State.
HENRY D. MoDANIEL, Governor.
By the Governor;
J. W. WARREN, Sec. Ex. Dep’t.
tv, A. SKINNER. c. A, SHAW.
SKINNER & SHAW.
Haviug leased the shop in the rear of R. M
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to do all kinds of
Carriage,Buggy & Wagon
REriIKIIO,
Both in wood and iron. All kinds of Farm
Work and
HORSE SHOEING,
Will be given prompt attention. Using none
but the best material, we guarantee satisfac
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the mare is in foal, or parted with. Care taken
to prevent accidents,out not responsible should
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