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CARTERSVILLE AMERICAN. VOLUME 11. Tie Cartersiille American. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARTOW CO. PUBLISH HP EVERY TUESDAY MORNING IT American Publishing Cos. CAKTKUSVILLE, OA, OFPICEJ l T i)-Stair, North-East Corner of West Main unU Erwin Streets. All communications or letters on business should be addressed to AMKRIt AN PUBLISHING CO. Cnrteraville, Gs. nr:—ii —~ t'.' ..—-Jsl.l ——— T BUMS OF 8U BSC RIPTIO N : <jne Year, Cash in Advance 51 six Months, •* “ ‘fj Three •* “ “ 60 If not panl in 4 months, 52.(W per year. Papers sent outside ol the County, 15 cents additional for postage. RATES OF ADVERTISING: For each Square ol 1 inch or less, for the first insertion, fl.uO; each subsequent insertion, 50 rents. Special contracts made lor larger space or longer time. All contract advertisements must be pant quarterly. . Coral Notices, 20 cents per line tor the first insertion, and 10 cents for each subsequent in sertlon. ~ Special Notices icn cents per line. Tributes of Respect and Obituaries over six lines, 10 cents per line. All personal curds in Local Columns 25 cents per line. * 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. W. L. DANIJ'Y, Gen. Pas £ Tkt. Agent, Naslivilie. lenn, EIBEMAN lAROS M AN U F A CT l ” RING CLOTHIERS&TAILORS 55 WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. 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 NUMBER 51. 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.