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CARTERSVILLE AMERICAN.
VOLUME 11.
Tie Cartersiille American.
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DIRECTORY.
COL'IIT CAI-ENDAIt—CHKROKKK CIR
CUIT.
J.C. Fain, Judge. J. YV. Harris, Jr., Solicitor
Genera!.
Harlow County—Sccosid Monday in January
aid July.
Catoosa County—Second Monday in February
and August
Murray County—Thiid Monday in February
aim August.
Gordon County—Fourth Monday in February
and August.
I mle County—Third Monday in March and
Sente tuber.
Whitfield County—First Monday in April
and October.
IIARTOW COUNTY COURT.
G. S. Tuinlin. Judge. J. J. Conner, Sol. Gen.
Geo. A. Howard. Clerk. J. G. Broughton,
Bailiff,
Quarterly Term*—First Monday in March,
June, September and December.
Monthly Term—First Monday in each month.
JUSTICES COURTS.
Times for holding Justices Courts in the dif
lerent Militia Districtsol Barlow county, Ga,:
( ariersville— No. H22d Second Tue days,
Adairsville “ Softih Fourth Fridays,
tAssville *• B£Bth....second Fridays.
Kingston “ 5t52d. First Fridays,
Kuharlce “ 851st Sec’nd Satuidays,
Allajooita “ 819th.... Third Saturdays,
\Vol?Pen “ 1041st....fourth Saturdays,
stainp Creek “ 9t>3d Third Saturdays,
Sixth Distiict “ Uotiih... Fourth Saturday s
Tine Log “ 827th First Saturdays.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. A. Howard, Ordinary.
F. M. Durham, clerk Superior Court.
11. W. Cobb, Treasurer.
John A. Gladden, sheriff. A. M. Franklin,
Deputy Sheriff.
Bailey A. Bardon, Tax Collector.
VY. w". Ginn, Tax Receiver.
A. M. Willingham, Coroner.
D. W. lv. i’eacock, Surveyor.
Commissioners—S. C. Prichard, T. C. Moore,
A. Vincent, John 11. Wikie, T. S. Hawkins.
CITY OFFICERS.
A. i’. Wofford, Mayor.
James D. Wiikerson, Marshal.
Geo. S. Cobb, Clerk.
ii. U. Mountcastle, Treasurer.
Alderuiun—First Ward, J. C. Wofford, A. R.
Hudgins; Second Ward, G. Harwell, \V. H.
Barron; Third Ward, John .... Stover, Elihu
Hall; Fourth Ward, W. C. Edwards, Aaron
Collins.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Street—Collins, Hudgins. Barron.
Finance—Stover, Edwards. Wofford.
Cemetery—Hudgins. Collins, Edwards.
Public Hall—Hall, Wolford, llurron.
Relief—Edwards, Barron, Harwell.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Mki hodist,—Pastor, Rev. J. 15. Robins. Ser
vices, every Sunday util. a. in., and 7:30, p. m.
Prayer meeting, every Wednesday at 7:30, p.
in. Sabbath school, every Sunday at 9:31, a.
m.; duo. W. Akin, Sunt. Young men’s prayer
meeting, every Thursday at 7:30, p. m.
Baptist.—Pastor, Rev. F. M. Daniel. Ser
vices, every Sunday at 10:45, a. m. and 7:15, p.
m. Prayer meeting, every Wednesday at 7:16,
]•. m. Sabbath School, every Sunday at 9:30,
a in.; D. W. K. Peacock, Supt. Young men’s
prayer meeting, every Sund yt2, p. in. Ser
vice ot song, every Sunday at 8, p. m. Month
ly conlerence, third Sundry ot each iliontli at
3, p. in,
PKKSBYTEUIAN.—Pastor, Rev. T. E. Smith.
Services, every first and third Sundays at 11 p.
m. Sabbath School, every Sunday at 9, a. in ;
T \V. Milner,-Supt. Prayer meeting, every
Wednesday at 7:30, p. in.
Episcopal.—Cliurch of the Ascension. Min
ister in charge, Rev. W. R. McConnell. Ser
vices. every Sunday, except third in each
month, at li, a. m. Sabbath School, every Sun
day at 10, a. in.
Prolessional Cards.
T. W. MILNER. J. W. HARKIS, JK.
iTHMEK fc HAKfUS,
AUoiTicyb-At-Lw.
Ofl.ee over Howard’s Bank.
Oartersvhle, Ga.
JOHN H. WIKI.E. DOUGLAS WIKI.K.
IVHiLE .V Wllil.lt:,
Attoneys-at-Law & Real Estate Agents
Offices at Court House and on Main Street
above Erwin, Cartersville, Ga.
OEOBGE S. |o|lN|ok,
Attoriiej-at-Law,
Office, West Side Public Square,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Will practice In all the Courts.
A. M. POUTK. WALTER M. RYAI.S.
FOUTE & KIALS,
lltoriieyis-At-liaw.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COORTS
of this state. Prompt and faithful at
tention given to all business entrusted to us.
Office, coiner Main and Erwin Streets, up
stairs, Cartersville, Ga.
J. M. NEEL. J. J. CONNER. W. J. NEEL.
SEEL, COXYEtt & SEEL,
Attorneys-At-Lw.
WILL PRACTICE IN A LL THE COURTS
of this sate. Litigated cases made a
specialty. Prompt attention given to all bus
iness entrusted to us.
Office on Erwin Street, between Main and
Market. Cartersville, Ga.
JAMES li. LOXYERS,
A < tot uey-at-Law.
Office Up-Stairs, Bank Block, Cartersville, Ga-
Witl practice in all the Courts of the
kee ami adjoining Circuits, and in the Su‘
pieme Court. Prompt attention given to al
business. Collections made a specialty.
Railroads.
KENNESAW ROUTE!
WESTERN UTLMTIC R. R.
The following time card in effect Sunday,
Dee. 30,1883:
NORTH BOUND
NO. 3-WESTERN EX PRESS—DaiIy.
Leave Atlanta 7 30 a. m.
Arrive Marietta 8 20
Cartersville 8 26
“ Kingston i.G.A...;. 952
“ Dalton.. it 23
“ Chattanooga lOJp. m.
NO. I—FAST EXPRESS—DaiIy.
Leave Atlanta 2 35 p. m.
Ariive Marietta 3 27
“• Cartersville 4 29
“ Dalton .. (J 22
Ciiattanooga 8 00
NO. 11—LIMITED EXPRESS-Daily.
Leave Atlanta 11 40 p. m.
Arrive Marietta 12 39a. m.
“ Cartersville 1 4S
*• Dalton 3 44
" Chattanooga.;. 515
Rome Ij&xpre.-s—North—Daily, except Sunday.
Leave Atlanta 4 05 p. m.
Arrive Marietta 3(4)
“ Cartersville liu.;,
“ 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.
I.eave Ciiattanooga . 8 09 a. in.
Arrive Dalton 9.33
“ Kingston 11 Iff
“ Cartersville 1142
“ Marietta 12 4p. m.
Ariive Atlanta 145
NO. 2—SOUTHERN EXPR ESS.
I.eave Chattanooga 2 55 p, m.
Arrive Dalton 130
“ Kingston ... li o*2
“ Cartersville.... <l3l
“ Marietta ; .. 7 47
Arrive Atlanta 8 40
NO. 12—LIMITED EXPRESS—DaiIy.
Loave Chattanooga .... 10 15 p. m.
Arrive Dalton ll 49
Cartersville 147 a.m.
“ Marietta 2 50
“ Atlanta..... * 340
Rome Express-South—Daily, Except Sunday.
Leave Rome... . ~ 83d a. m.
Arrive Cartersville 9 45
“ Marietta... 10 49
“ Atlanta 1145
No. 4 carries Pullmau ears from Cincinnati
to Atlanta, Washington, New Orleans, Louis
ville to Atlanta.
No. 12 carries Pullman cars from Chicago to
Savannah and Louisville to Atlanta.
B W. WRENS, Gen’l. Pass. Agt.
If. A. ANDEItsON, Superintendent.
EAST * WEST R. R. OF ALA.
ON and after Sunday, Nov. 14, 1883, trains
on this road will run as follows:
GOINg WEST—Dally, Except Sunday.
NO. 1. NO. 3.
Leave Cartersville 950a. m. 430 p. m.
“ Stilesboro 10 02 4 42
“ Taylorsville 10 87 5 17
“ Rockmart 11 10 5 50
Arrive Cedartown 12 00 0 40
GOING EAST —Daily, Except Sunday.
NO. 2. NO. 4.
Leave Cedartown 205 j>. ru. 715a. m.
“ Rockmart 3 00 8 97
“ Taylorsville 3 35 8 89
“ Sti esboro ... 3 53 8 55
Arrive Cartersville 4 25 9 25
SUNDAY* ACCOMMODATION—Going Eest.
Leave Cedartown 8 00 a. m.
“ Stilesboro 8 52
“ Taylorsville 924
“ Rockmart 9 40
Arrive Cartersville ..10 10
SUNDAY” ACCOMMODATION—Going West.
Leave Cartersville 2 50 p.m.
“ Stilesboro ... 321
“ 'Taylorsville 3 87
*• Rockmart...., 4 10
Arrive Cedartown 5 00
ALABAMA DIVISION.
Daily, Except Sunday.
Leave East Sc West Junction. 2 55 p. m.
Arrive Broken Arrow 8 to
I.eave Broken Arrow 9 00 a. m.
Arrive East & West Junction...., 1 15 p. m.
HOME RAILROAD.
The following is the present passenger
schedule:
no. 1. no, 3.
Leave Rome 010a. m. 415 p. m.
Arrive Kingston 8 55 5 30
no. 2. NO. 4.
Leave Kingston 920a. m. 555 p. m.
Arrive Rome 10 25 a.m. 050
NO. 5.
Leave Romo. 8 00 a. m.
Ariive Kingston 9 00
no; fi.
Leave Kingston 9 20 a.m.
Arrive Rome JO 10
Nos. l, 2,3 and 4 will run daily except Sun
days.
Nos. 5 and G will run Sundays only.
No 1 will not stop at the junction. Slakes
close connection at Kingston for Atlanta ami
Chattanooga.
No. 2 makes connection at Rome with E. T.
Va. & Ga. Ii ii.. for points south.
HUES 11 ILLY EH, President.
J. A. SMITH, Gen’l. Pass. Agent.
IF YOU ARE
GOING
'West!
NORTHWEST
on
SOUTHWEST.
BESURE
Your Tickets Bead via the
N., C. & St. L. Ey.
Tlie McKenzießoute
The First-class and Emigrant Passengers
FAVORITE!
Albert B. Wrenn, W. I. Rogers,
Pas. Agent, Pa*. Agent,
Atlanta, Ga. Chattanooga, Tenn.
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Gen. Pas £ Tkt. Agent,
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CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1884.
The Cartersville American.
Entered at the Post Office at Cartersville ,
On , May 9fA, IHS2, as second class matter.
TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1884.
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BY REV. T. DEWITT TALMAGE.
HIGH LICENSE, THE MONOPOLY OF ABOM
INATIOY.
“It is not ltwlul for to put ihem into the
treasury,because it is the price of blood.-Matt,
xxii: 0
For fifteen dollars Judas Iscariot liad
sold Christ. Under thrust of conscience
or regret that he had not made a more
lucrative thing out of it, Judas pitched
tlie rattling shekels on the pavement of
the Temple. What shall be done with
the conscience money? Some propose
to put it in the treasury. Others say it
lias always been against the law to use
for religions or governmental purposes
blood-money or revenues gotten in the
sale of human life. So they decided to
use the money to purchase graves for
paupers. Picking out a rough piece of
ground where the broken arid refused
ware of pottery had been cast they sot
that apart as the first Potter’s field. “It
ishiot law'ful to put them in the treasury,
because it is the price of blood. ”
We are at a point in reformatory move
ment in this country where, in one shape
or another, it is proposed to control or
arrest tlie liquor business by making
its merchants pay a high price, say SSOO
or SI,OOO for a license. This, it is said,
will extirpate the tens of thousands of
low drunkenes and make if possible only
here and there for a rum-selling estab
lishment to exist. The SSOO or SI,OOO
paid into the government treasury will
help support tlie poor-houses, fftto which
widows and orphans are turned by the
inebriation of husbands and fathers.
Don’t you see? This high tax will also
help the expenses of prisons into which
men are thrown for crimes committed
while drunk. Don’t you see? That
will also support the courts of Over and
Terminer, whose judges and attorneys
and constables and juries and court
houses and police stations find tlieh’
chief employment in the trial, 'condemna
tion and punishment of those who offend
the law while in the state of intoxication.
Don’t you see?
How any man or woman in the United
States in favor of the great temperance
reformation can be so liallucin ated as not
to see that this movement Is the surren
der of the whole reformation for which
good people have been struggling for the
last fifty years, is to me an amazement
that eclipses everything. My subject is
“high license, the monopoly of abomina
tion. ” Do vou not realize as
BY MATHEMATICAL DEMONSTRATION
that the whole result of this movement
by which low establishments are to be
shut up and splendid establishments are
to be supported, is going to make rum
selling and rum-drinking respectable.
Nine-tenths of these drudkeries in Brook
lyn and New York are so disgusting that
men having regard to their reputation
would not be seen entering one, and the
clerk of a store would lose his place if
seen coming out of one. But now shut
up these small establishments and down
on your great thoroughfares you have
builded your splendid palaces of inebri
ation, masterpieces of painting on th e
wall, cut-glass on silver platter,- uphol
stery like a Turkish harem, uniformed
servants to help you out of the carriage,
and uniformed servants to help you in,
and uniformed serv ants to take your liat
and cane, and parlors with lounges on
which you can recline when you are taken
mysteriously ill after too much cham
pagne or cognac or old Otard. All the phan
tasmagoria and bewitchment of art
thrown around this Herod of massacre,
this Moloch of consumed worshippers,
this juggernaut of crushed millions!
Dante’s seven circles of inferno lifted
into the great architecture, crowned by
great arches and finished with great
mosaic! Iniquity glorified! The curse
of the ages enthroned in sumptuosities!
Ah, it is not the rookeries of alcoholism
that do the worst work. They are only
the last stopping places on their road to
death. Where did the bloated,ulcerous,
wheezing, nauseating wretch that stag
gers out of some holt 1 down by the navy
yard get his habit started? At the glit
tering restaurant, at the bar room of a
first-class hotel, where it was fashionable
to go. Do you want to stop the mean
liquor establishments which are only the
rash all over the body politic, and gather
all the poison and pus and matteration
of the body politic into a few great car
buncles that mean death? I say let us
have the rash rather than the carbun
cles.
This high license movement is, whether
so intended or not, a stab at the best
families in America. It is a war on the
drawing-rooms erf merchants. It is an
assault on the brightest nurseries and the
dearest home circles. It would pay
with honor ,and pillow with splendor
and guarfl%itli monopolistic advantage a
business which lias made the ground
sound hollow at every step beneath.
England and Scotland and Ireland and
America with catacombs of slaughtered
drunkards. Tell it, ye philanthropists, to
all whom ye meet in your rounds of use
fulness. Tell it, ye men of the newspa-
per press, by pen and type ami telegram.
Tell it, that this day. in the presence of
the Almighty God, my maker and my
judge,l stamp on this high license move
ment as the
MONOPOLY” OF ABOMINATION.
Among other charges against it, I have
to say that it Is anti-American, anti-com
mon sense, anti-demonstrated facts, anti-
Christian. It was written bv our
Revolutionary fathers, first by pen and
and then by sword, first in black ink and
then in red,that all men are equal in the
sight of the law. Impartiality is the
word written on the Declaration of Inde
pendence, Constitution of the United
States, and over the doors of state and
of national capitols. How then dare you
give to the man who can raise SSOO or
SI,OOO the privilege of selling sweetened
dynamite, while you deny to his neigh
bor the privilege because he cannot
raise more than SSO or can raise nothing?
Have the small dealers in festive liquids
no rights? I plead for justice to the tens
of thousands of men who are engaged in
a small and prudent and economical way
in selling extracts of logwood and
strychnine. I say it unequal and un
just to allow the man who has money
enough to kindle a great, roaring con
flagration of temptation to go ahead,while
you deny those other poor fellows of the
traffic the privilege of even lighting a
lucifer match. I demand equal rights
for rum-sellers. This high license plan
is tlie property qualification in most
offensive shape. Why don’t you carry
out the idea and shut up all the bakeries
except those which can pay SI,OOO licence?
Why not shut up all the butchers’ shops
except those which can pay an extrava
gant tax? Why not close all the dry
goods stores except those that can pay
a big sum for the privilege? “Well,”
you say, “that is very different.” How
is it different? “Well,” you say ‘ the
business of selling bread or meat or cloth
ing does no damage, while the selling of
whisky does a great deal of harm.’’There
you have surrendered the question. If it
does great damage,then no amount of
money paid can give a man the right to
carry on the business. The SSOO or
SI,OOO are a bribe to government to let a
few do that which the very attitude of
government declares a wickedness.
So, also, is it anti-common sense. Some
one says it is impossible to execute a
prohibitory law, and as we can not eject
the evil, let us put upon it this one
brake. The fact that you cannot exe
cute fully a law os uo reason why you
should not have a law. Which one of
your laws is fully executed? We have a
law against Sabbath-breaking, yet mill
ions offend it every Sunday. We have
a law against the blasphemy, but some
times the air is lurid with imprecation.
We have a law against theft, but all
your jails are full of burglars and high
waymen. There is a law against murder
but we have three murderers now in Ray
mond street jail, and a score of them in
the United States prisons. Since we
have not been able to stop these evils of
theft and arson and blasphemy and mur
der, why not compromise the matter and
for a high license give certain men ail
the privilege of stealing and sweating
and massacre. Get ready your excise
commissioners—$5,000 or SIO,OOO for the
business of theft. Let us put an end to
THESE SMALL SCOUNDRELS
who have genius enough only to steal
house-mats or postage stamps or choc
olate drops, and confine the business to
those who, having paid SIO,OOO for gen
teel robbery, can abscond with $50,000
front a Newark bank, or by watering the
stock of a railroad company steal $200,-
000 at one clip. I would put a very
high license on it, say SIO,OOO, for they
could soon make it up. We are fear
fully opposed to sueak thieves and wharf
rats and tuppeny scoundrels, but all
hail to the million dollar rascals. So also
let us by high license put down blasphe
my, for your present laws against it are
not successful. Let us shut up the
great massacre of the foul-mouthed and
by a high license of SIO,OOO let a few men
do all the swearing in the com munity.
Let ns select say a hundred > 4 the most
impulsive men of your cities, men of the
liighest tempers and hottest tongues,the
most spiteful against God and decency
and add to the number the speaker of the
New Jersey legislature, whose addresses
were so interlarded with oatli3 a few days
ago that the printers, who never swear
themselves, had to put blanks into every
sentence to indicate where the oaths came
in. Let these especially delegated men
for a high license of SIO,OOO per year be
allowed to do all the profanity and have
full sweep, while we put down and sweep
out of the community, with besom of
destruction, those who swear on a small
scale and those who have not got beyond
“by George,” “my stars,” or “darn it.”
So also let murder be hindered. Present
law does not avail. Murders on Long
Island! Murders in Illinois! Murders in
Pennsylvania! Murders all over the
land. The vast majority of the perpe
trators escape. Tlie defence proves an
alibi or says that the deed was done un
der emotional insanity. The court room
is crowded with sympathizers, and, when
acquitted, he is followed down the street
by a crowd who meditate sending him to
congress. The only way you will have
put an end to murder in this country is
by a high license to a few men to man
age the whole business. This common
herd of assassins, who do their work with
car-hooks and dull knives and Paris green
must be put down, and let a few experts,
who can do the thing without pain, and
by chloroform or flash of bull dog re
volver, gently putting the victim out of
his earthly misfortunes—let them have
all the business. Of course, that license
ought to be as liigh as $20,000, because
the perquisites of gold watches and
money safes and plethoric pocket-lxioks
would soon pay the high license and
leave a handsome sum for net profit.
You see at a glance, all irony aside,
that if rum selling is right we all ought
to have the privilege of enjoying it, and
if it be wrong, $5,000,000
RAID DOWN IN HARD CASH
as a yearfr license ought not to purchase
immunity. Is it common sense that one
business should have the right to de
spoil all other businesses if it pay a spe
cial tax? A great northern manufactur
ing company recently established them
selves in Georgia. When asked why
they located there, their answer was:
“Because this township voted to have
no liquor sold. ” That honest manufac
turer discovered what we all know, that
the rum-selling business hurts every
other business. If the millions of dol
lars that go every year for rum were ex
pended in healthful direction, there
would come a boom of commercial and
agricultural and manufacturing prosperi
ty 150 per cent, greater than this coun
try ever saw. The money that goes for
drink, and has no result except ill-health
and pauperism and crime, would go for
clothing, for books, for education, for
homesteads, for homes and carriages, for
farms, for life insurance, for the ten
thousands of comforts and adornments
and luxuries of life. You who get $1 a
day for wages would get $4, you who
get a salary of SI,OOO a year would get
$2,000, you who receive SIO,OOO a year
would receive $20,000. The nun seller
this moment has Ids clutch on the throat
of every man in America. You have to
pay for his damnable work by your hon
est sweat and by the deprivation of your
households of many advantages. When
xvill the working classes rise up against
this incubus and decree to keep at home
tlie driveling pot-house politicians of the
Albany and Harrisburg legislatures who
vote down prohibition and vote up high
license. I wish the Lord in his mercy
would give our rulers in these Atlantic
states one hour of tlie swarthy and mag
nificent courage of the lowa legislature,
which had the moral force to pass an out
and out prohibitory lav/ and whose gov
ernor had the grace to sign it. Lead
on, O, western state, in the glorious
work of our country’s emancipation!
Among the last to come will be our be
loved state of New York, but come she
will. After a few more thousands of our
best homes shall ha\*e been destroyed by
this rum traffic, and a few more hun
dreds of thousands of our best intellects
and hearts shall have been sacrificed and
our distilleries have for a f@w more years
insulted the heavens with their uprolling
stench, the tide will turn and all good men
and women will together rise and laying
hold upon almighty strength hurl down
into the perdition from which it smoked
up this swelling and
PETRIFYING CURSE OF NATIONS.
People in this region talk as though
high license Had never been tried. It
has been tried again and again, and has
always been a flat failure. It was tried
in Missouri under what was called the
Downing law. A prominent paper of
St. Louis, Mo., says: “We have now in
this city some 1,500 high-license saloons,
and if there is one man in St. Louis who
is able to see the good results of high
license, which its friends promised us,
we want to interview him. If there is
any good in high license, if it reduces
the evils of drink to a minimum, we are
ready to publish it. We know that
many good, honest temperance men fa
vored the passage of the Downing law.
Will they point out to us any good that
it has ever accomplished or is likely ever
to accomplish, or confess that they have
been disappointed ?” It was tried in
Nebraska under what was called the Slo
cum law, at a SI,OOO license.
A prominent citizen, requested to give
his opinion in regard to it, says: “You
ask, lias high license diminished drunk
enness ? Not in the slightest degree.
Drunkenness is steadily on the increase.
This vice, as all other vices which gov
ernment fosters, grows continually.
High license,as far as diminishing drunk
enness is concerned, does nothing of the
kind. Mark this well. I would repeat
in thunder tones, if I could, it does noth
ing of the kind. Gambling, •onsequent
upon high license, has fearfully increas
ed. The saloon keeper must have, in
many cases, a gambling room annexed,
in order to make his business pay a profit
under the high license system. This
vice is making rapid progress through
the state, and much of the increase is
directly traceable to high license.” lowa
tried it at a SI,OOO license. One of the
daily papers of Des Moines says: “Des
Moines has tried a SI,OOO license only to
find that it has increased the number of
its saloons and the daily excess of drunk
enness.” In other places high license
has been tried again and again, and al
ways with the same result, and yet there
are those who would have the farce en
acted here. The Washington Sentinel,
one of the chief organs of the liquor
traffic, bursts into derisive laughter at
the high license attempt in Nebraska,
and says: “The prohibitionists in Ne
braska, finding that the high license of
SI,OOO has not decreased the sale of liquor,
are now endeavoring to increase its sale
by raising the license to $2,500 per an
num. ”
We are making an effort here to re
suscitate
AN OLD AND DEAD FAILURE
that died its first death in Missouri, and
died its second death in Nebraska. Tlie
mightiest blow to the cause of temper
ance in this city is that some reformers
have helped along this delusion of high
license. It is a white flag of truce sent
out from alcoholism to prohibition to get
the battle to pause until the army of
demijohns and decanters can get better
organized. Get oft’ of the field with that
flag of truce or I will fire ou it. Between
these two armies there can be no lawful
trace. On the one side are God and
sobriety and the best interests of the
world. On the other is the sworn enemy
of righteousness, and either this army
must go down or the church of Got! and
free government perish.
Oh, this black, destroying archangel
of all diabolism, one wing reaching to
the Pacific and the other to the Atlantic,
its iron beak and filthy claws clutching
the torn and bleeding heart strings of
the nation that cries out: “How long, O,
Lord, how long?” Better try to com
promise with the panthers in their jun
gles, with the cyclone in its flight,
with the Egyptian plague as it blotches
an empire, than with Apollyon, for whom
this evil is rooruiting officer, quarter
master and commander-in-chief. My
friends, let us fight it out on tlie old
line, and we will get the victory as sure
as right is right and wrong is wrong, and
truth is truth and falsehoed is falsehood,
and God is God. Are you so deaf that
you cannot hear in the distance the
rumbling of the chariot of victory’?
Over 300,000 voters in Ohio at the last
election for prohibition; Kansas on the
right side; Alabama and Georgia almost
ready to fall in line; fifteen of the legis
latures of the United States discussing
the temperance question; the liquor
trade so panic struck that it is trying to
get congress to alter the constitution so
that prohibitory laws shall be declared
unconstitutional. Two hundred and
foriy-six towns of Massachusetts out of
two hundred and fifty-six declared
against license! Not a sign-board in all
the state of Maine offering rum for sale,
so that the crime is there put down be
side other crimes. One branch of the
legislature of our monopoly cursed New
York a few weeks ago only three votes
off from passing a law giving to the peo
ple a choice of prohibition! Last Thurs
day a week the congress of the United
States demolishing the bonded whisky
bill by a vote of 186 to 83, although the
liquor traffic had voted $700,000 to buy
spectacles through which our rulers
might see the sublect in the right light!
I give fair warning to the politicians of
America, the leaders of our beautiful
republican party, and to the glorious
democracy, that tlie temperance men
will soon hold the balance of power in
America and they will determine who
shall be mayors and governors and con
gressmen and presidents. Better get off
the track before the morning express
train comes down with temperance so
cieties and Sons of Temperance and
Good Templars and the long train loaded
with reformers and Christian philanthro
pists and ail the best
INTERESTS IN THE WORLD.
Clear the track! The cow-catcher will
be piled up with smashed decanters and
the staves of beer barrels and the splin
ters of high license platforms and the
broken rails of those who sat on the
fences and the demolished hopes,schemes,
machinations and bribes of all whisky
dom.
The time will come when the evil will
be so reduced that there will be only
ten wine flasks left and they will be set
up at the other end of the alley for ten
pins. And one reformer will take just
one small round ball of prohibition and
roll it till down shall go the last vestiges
of the sin with the ten-strike. But
while the prospect looked at from the
side of worldly reform is so bright,
looked at from the Christian side
it is absolutely certain. God will
rise up and put a hand to this wicked
ness. Have you any doubt about his
being stronger than the devil ? Blucher
came up before nightfall and saved the
day for Wellington. At 4 o’clock in the
afternoon it looked very badly for the
English, Generals Ponsonby and Picton
fallen, sabres broken, flags sunendered,
Scotch Grays annihilated, only 42 men
left of the German batallion. English
lines falling back ! Napoleon laughed
in triumph and said: This little English
man needs a lesson. We ha\*e ninety
chances out of a hundred in our favor.
Magnificent ! Magnificent! Messengers
are sent to Paris with the news of the
French victory. But Blucher came up,
and before night the conqueror of Aus
terlitz was the victim of Waterloo. The
man whose name made Europe tremble
and filled even America with apprehen
sion is found, muddy and hatless, and
crazed with defeat, feeling in the night
for the stirrups of a horse that he may
mount and resume the contest. Now
the rum traffic is imperial and a conquer
er, and many good people say that the
night is coming—the night of the nation
al overthrow. But before sundown the
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conqueror of earth atul heaven will ride
in on the white horse, and the rum
triumph, which has had its Ansterlitz of
triumph, shall have its Waterloo of de
feat, and, the crown fallen from the
brow of alcoholism, the filthy and stag
gering breaker of human hearts, crazed
with his disasters, shall fael in vain for a
stirrup by which to remount.
1* EXCELLENT MATCH-MARKS.
Men do not, as a rule, figure conspic
uously as match-makers; but the judg
ment and policy exhibited in this con
nection by a gentleman of our acquaint
ance could hardly be surpassed by the
most accomplished tactician of either sex.
“Brown,” said a neighbor, “I don’t see
how it is that your girls all marry off as
soon as they get old enough, while none
of mine can marry.”
“Oh ! that’s simple enough,” he re
plied; “I marry my girls off on the buck
wheat straw principle. ”
“But what principle is that? Never
hoard of it before.”
“Well, I used to raise a good deal of
buckwheat, and it puzzled me to know
how to get rid of the straw. Nothing
would eat it, and it was a great bother
to me. At hist I thought of a plan. I
stacked my buckwheat straw nicely, and
built a high rail fence around it. My
cattle, of course, concluded that it was
something good, and at once tore down
the fence and began to eat the straw. I
drove them away, and put up the fence
a few times; but the more I hunted them
off, the more anxious they became to eat
the straw; and eat it they did, every bit
of it. As I said, 1 marry my girls on the
same principle. When a young man
that I don’t like begins to oall on my
girls, I encourage him every way I can.
I tell him to come often, and stay as
late as he pleases; and I take pains to
hint to the girls that I think they’d bet
ter set their caps fo* him. It works first
rate. He don’t make many calls, for the
girls treat him as coolly as they can. But
when a young fellow that I like comes
around, a man that I think would suit
me for a son-in-law, I don’t let him
make many calls before I give him Ut
understand that he isn’t wanted about
my house. I tell the girls, too, that they
shall not have anything to do with him,
and give them orders never to speak to
him again. The plan always works ex
actly as I wish. The young folks begin
to pity and sympathize with each other;
and the next thing I know is that they
are engaged to be married. When I
see that they are determined to many,
I of course give in, and pretend to make
the best of it. That’s the way I manage
it.”
Young man, try to cultivate a hunted
look. Then people will thiuk you’ve
been hounded to death by leap year pro
posala.
There is no policy like politeness; and
a good manner is the best thing in the
world, either to get a good name or sup
ply the want of it.
Fame, as a river, is narrowed where it
is broad, and broadest afar off, so exem
plary writers depend not upon the grati
tude of the world.
It is reported that Grant is fully into
the race. His friends say that this was
necessary in order to check the current
that is so strong in Blaine’s favor.
It is all very well to talk of and write
long Articles about the Mormons. Mor
mon ism allows many wives at once. Di
vorce simply allows them in succession.
No. man, for any considerable period,
can wear one face to himself and another
to the multitude without finally getting
bewildered as to which may be the
truer.
A savings bank cashier in Wisconsin
has just died from the bite of a mad cat.
Friends of the cat ask for a suspension
of public opinion until the bank’s ac
counts can be investigated.
The convention to nominate a gover
nor and state house officers for Georgia,
and to select the democratic candidates
for presidential electors will meet in At
lanta on the 13tli of August.
Who is great when he falls, is great in
his prostration, and is no more an object
of contempt than when men tread on the
ruins of sacred buildings, w hich men of
piety venerate no less than if they stood.
Bartow county will be entitled to send
four delegates to the convention which
meets in Atlanta on June Bth to elect
delegates to the national democratic con
vention at Chicago on the Bth day of July.
Fame confers a rank above that of
gentleman and kinds. As soon as she
issues her patent pf nobility, it matters
not a straw whether the recipient be the
son of a Bourbon or of a tallow'chandler.
There is a man over in Rome who
wants the legislature to pass an act for
bidding merchants to sell goods at cost.
W T e advise him to come over to Carters
ville where merchants do a legitimate
businees.
Our life experiences, whether sad or
joyful, should be fertilizers to a larger
and stronger growth of character, as the
dead leaves of trees stimulate them from
year to year to higher and nobler pro
portions.