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VOLUME 111.
Tie Cartersville American.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARTOW CO.
I‘HBMSIIKP ICV KRY TUESDAY MORNING
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All personal cards in Local Columns 25 cents
per line.
DIRECTORY.
L’Ol KT CAI. END Alt—CH KBOKRR CUR
Cl? IT.
,J.c. Fain, Judge. J. NY. Harris, .Tr., Solicitor
t.cneral.
Uartow County—Second Monday in January
ami J uly.
Catoosa County—Second Monday in February
and August
Murray County—Tliiid Monday in February
and August.
Gordon County—Fourth Monday in February
i and A agio l.
I ade County—Third Monday in March and
September.
Whitfield County —Fiist Monday in April
and October.
If VUTOW COUNTY CGHJtT.
G. S. Tumlin. J utlge. .1. J. Ci nner, Sol. Gen.
Geo. A. Howard. Clerk. J. G. Hroughton,
llailifl'. _
quarterly Terms—First Monday in March,
June, Sepiember and December.
Monthly Term —First Monday in each month.
JUSTICES COURTS.
Times for holding Justices Courts in the dif
ferent Milit in District sol Harlow county, Ga,:
(artersville- No. 8224 Second Tne days,
Adairsville “ Fourth Fridays,
I'assvitlc “ 828th....second Fridays,
Kingston “ 952d..... First Fridnis,
Full n ice “ 851st.....Sec.’ndSaturdays,
Allatoona “ Hltlili....Third Saturdays,
Wolf Ten “ 10415 t.... I’ourth Saturdays,
Stamp < reek “ ‘.Mid i i'hird Saturdays.
sixth Disti ict “ U3o:h Fourth Satunlajs
Fine Log 827 iii First Saturdays.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. A. Howard,Ordinary.
F. M. Durham, Clerk Superior Court.
11. \V. Cobb, Treasurer.
John A. Gladden, sheriff. A. M. Franklin,
Deputy Sheriff.
Bailey A. Barton, Tax Collector.
\V. \V. Ginn, Tax Receiver.
A. M. Willingham, (.5 roner.
D. W. K. Peacock, Surveyor.
Com in is.sioners—s. C. Prichard, T. C. Moore,
A. Vincent, John 11. NVikiC, T. S. Hawkins.
CITY OFFICERS.
A. I*. Wofford, Mayor.
James D. Wilkerson, Marshal.
Geo. s. Cobb, Clerk.
it. U. Monntoastie, Treasurer.
Aldermen—First Ward, J. C. Wofford, A. ft.
Hudgins; Second Ward, G. Harwell, W. 11.
Harron; Third Ward, John j.. Stover, Elilui
Hall; Fourtli Ward, W. C. Edwards, Aaron
Collins.
STANDING COUMITTKKS. ,
Street—Collins, Hudgins, Harron.
Finance—Stover, Edwards, Wofford.
Cemetery—Hudgins, Collins, Edwards.
Public Hall—Hall, Wofford, Harron.
Relief—Edwards, ltarron, Harwell.
CIIU R CII DIRECTORY.
MUTnomsT.—Pastor, Rev. .1. T 5. Robins. Ser
vici s, every Sunday at 11. a. m , and 1:80, p. m.
Fraver meeting, every Wednesday at 7:30, p.
in. Sabbath School, every Sunday at 0:3’), a.
in.; .1 no. W. Akin, Supt. Yoni g men’s prayer
meeting, every Thursday at 7:30, p. m.
Baptist.—Pastor, Rev. F. M, Daniel. Ser
vices, every Sunday at 10:15, a. in. and 7:15, p.
in. Prayer meeting, eyery Wednesday at 7:15,
p. m. Sabbath School, every Sunday at 0:30,
a. m,; D. W. K. Peanock, Supt. Young men’s
prayer meeting, every Sund y at 2, p. in. Ser
vice of song, every Sunday at 3. ]>. m. Mont li
ly conference, third Sundry ol each month at
3, p. m,
J*hksbytrkian.—Pastor, Rev. T. E. Smith.
Services, every llr-t and third Sundays at tt, p.
in. Salth.ith St bool, every Sunday at 0. a. in.;
T W. Milner, Supt. Prayer meeting, every
Wednesday at 7:30, p. m.
Episcopal.— Church of the Ascension. Min
ister in charge, Rev. W. R. McConnell. Ser
vices. vvery Sunday, except Hiird in each
month, at 11, a. in. Sabbath School, every Sun
day at 10, a. in.
Professional Cards.
<Jf. W. KILNS*. J. w. HARRIS, R.
MIIIEII fc HARRIS,
Alcorn ey s- A t -lift w.
Oft.cn over Howard’s Bank.
Cartersvlile, Oa.
john u. wiki.k. novalas wiki.k.
wikij: *v- wiki.k,
Attorneys-at-Law & Real Estate Agents
Offices at Court House and on Main Street !
above Jfirwin, Cartersvillo, Ga. ;
UEOIICIF. S. JOHNSON,
Attornoy-at-liaw,
Ofllce, West Side Public Square,
CAUTEKSVII.bB, GA.
Will practice In all the Courts.
A. M. EOUTIC. WALTER M. KVAI.S.
FOITTE KYAIiS,
Attorney.t-A t-Eaw.
WILT. PRACTICE IN ALL THE COO RTS
of this state. Prompt ami l'aithl'ul at
oHire, corner Mam anu ju - .Vi A,.
stair g. ’ Cartersville, Cue-
J. M. NEEL. 3. 3. CONNER. W. .1. NI'EE.
AEEE, CONNER & NEEL.
Attorm^ys-At-Eaw.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALE THE COCRTA
of Hi is state. Litigated cases made a
specialty. J'rompt attentiun given to all ms
iness entrusted to us. ...
Muvkcl. 0 " 12KSt"S.o5^
JARES R. CONYERS,
Attorney-at-I^aw*
Ofllce Up-Stairs, Bank Block, Carters! ille, t.a
Will practice in all the Courts of the Chero
kee ami adjoining Circuits, ami in the Mt
i)ierne Court. Prompt attention given to ah
business. Collections made a specialty.
Railron.cls.
KENNESAW ROUTE!
WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. R.
The following time rani in effect Sunday,
Dec. 30, JP93:
NORTH ROUND
NO, 3—W ESTERN EX PRESS—DaiIy.
l.eave Atlanta 7 3o :l m.
Arrive Marietta 820
“ Cartersville 025
“ Kingston 0 52
“ Dalton ~.„ll 25
“ Chat tanooga 100 p. m.
NO. I—FAST EXPRESS—DaiIy.
t,cave Atlanta 2 35 p.m.
Arrive Marietta 3 27
*• < artersville.. .... 4 20
“ Dalton tl 22
“ ( hattanooga 803
NO. 11—LIMITED EX I’R ESS Daily.
Leave A Cant a 11 40 p.m.
Arrive Marietta p> :;i ;.. m.
“ C trler>ville... J is
*• Dalton 3 4J
“ Chattanooga 515
Rome Express—Norta—Daily, except Sunday.
Leave Atlanta 4 05 p. in.
Arrive Marietta 3 00
“ (.'artersville .. 0 03
“ Rome ... 7 20
No. 1 carries Pullman cars from Atlanta to
Louisville, Jacksonville to Cincinnati, New
Orleans i<> Washington.
No. 11 carries Pullman cars from Savannah
tot hieago and Atlanta to Nashville.
SOUTH BOUND.
NO. 4 FAST EXPRESS.
Leave Chattanooga 8 00 a. m.
Arrive Dalton 0 33
Kingston 11 in
“ ('artersville 1142
“ Marietta ..124Up.m.
Arrive Atlanta 145
NO. 2—SOUTHERN EXPRESS.
Leave Chattanooga 2 55 p, m.
Arrive I>alton 1 30
“ Kingston 0 02
“ ( artersy ille <i :;t
“ Marietta *. 7 47
Al ii ve A ilanta 8 40
NO. 12—LIMITED EXPRESS—DaiIy.
Leave Chattanooga .... 10 15 p. m.
Arrive Dalton .. 11 41>
“ (artersville 147 a.m.
“ Marietta 2 50
“ Atlanta 340
Rome Express—South—Daily, Except Sunday.
Leave Rome... 8 30 a. in.
Arrive (?artersville 0 45
“ Marietta 10 40
“ Atlanta 1145
No. i curries Pullman ears from Cincinnati
to Atlanta, Washington, New Orleans, Louis
ville to Atlanta.
No. 12 carries Pullman ears from Chicago to
Savannah and Louisville to Atlanta.
R. w. WRKXN, Gen'l. Pass. Agt.
R. A. AXDKR-ON, Superintendent.
EAST a WEST R. R. OF ALA.
ON and after Sunday, Nov. 14, 1883, trains
on this road will rim as follows:
GO INu WEST—Daily, KxceptSunday.
NO. 1. NO. 3.
Leave Cartersville 050 a. m. 420 p. m.
*• Stileshoro 10 02 4 42
“ Taylorsville 10 37 517
“ Rockmart 11 10 5 50
Arrive Cedartown 12 00 ti 40
GOING EAST—Daily, Except Sunday.
NO. 2. NO. 4.
Leave Cedartown 205 p. m , 715 a. m.
“ Rockmart 3 00 8 07
*• Taylorsville 3 35 8 30
“ Sti esboro ... 353 855
Arrive Cartersville 4 25 0 25
SUNDAY ACCOMMODATION—Going Best.
Leave Cedartown 8 00 a. m.
“ Stilesbom 8 52
“ Taylorsville 024
“ Rockmart ‘.NO
Arrive Cartersville. 10 10
SCN 1)5 Y ACCOMMODATION—Going West.
l.eave Cartersville 2 50 p.m.
*• Stilesboro • • • 3 21
“ Taylorsville 3 37
“ Rockmart 4 Id
Arrive Cedartown 5 00
ALABAMA DIVISION.
Daily, Except Sunday.
Leave East & West Junction. ....... 2 55 p. m.
Arrive Broken Arrow <U<> 4
Leave Broken Arrow 0 00 a. m.
Arrive East & West Junction 1 15 p. in.
ROME RAILROAD.
The following is the present passenger
schedule:
no. 1. no. 8.
Leave Rome.. 010a. m. 415 p. m.
Arrive Kingston 8 55 5 30
no. 2. no. 4.
Leave Kingston. 920a. m. Rssp. m.
Arrive Rome 1025 a.m. 050
NO. 6.
Leave Rome SOO a. m.
Arrive Kingston 000
NO. 0.
Leave Kingston 9 20 a. m.
Arrive Home .10 10
Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 will run daily except Sun
days.
Nos.s and 0 will run Sundays only.
No twill not stop at the junction. Makes
close connection at Kingston for Atlanta and
Chattanooga.
No. 2 makes connection at Rome with E. T.
Va. & Ga. It U., l'or points south.
Eli KN’ lit ELVER, President.
J. A. SMITH. Gen’l. Pass. Agent.
IF YOU ARE
GO I NO
NORTHWEST
on
SOUTHWEST, j
BE STJRE!
Your Tickets Bead via the
K.,C.&St. LUy.
Tlie McKonzieli oixte
The First-class and Emigrant Passengers
IrAVOBITB!
! Albert B. Wrenn, W* 1* Rogers,
Pas. Agent, p “ 5 -
Atlanta. Ga. Chattanooga, cenn.
W. Jj. DANI.KTt
Gen. Pas. & Tkt. Agent,
Nashville, Tenn,
K [SEMAK 15KOS
j\f ANU FACTE RING
CLOTHIEaS& TAILORS
55 WHITEHALL STREET,
i ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1884.
The Cartersville American.
Entered at the. J'ust Office of Cartersville ,
Ga., May 'Mh , 1882, as second class matter.
TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1881.
/BARTOW COF'iTY. •
Its Climate and Water.
To those who are acquainted with the
topography and geological formations of
the county, it is needless to sav anything
touching the climate and water. To the
stranger, looking for a home, information
of this character is of the highest interest.
The bulk of the county lies immediately
north of the last regular bench of moun
tains, or foothills, southward from the
Blue Ridge, and entirely within the thirty
fourth parallel of latitude. Numerous
ranges, of lower elevation, traverse the
county iu various directions, but mainly
parallel to the Blue ltidge. Between the
ridges charming valleys, with bright and
healthful streams of water, serve to mel
low tlx’ landscape, and give promise of
abundant harvests to the husbandman.
The atmosphere is neither too dry nor
too moist, but bracing and healthful.
Looking at the facts as above set forth,
a thoughtful man will reasonably con
clude that we have here a genial, salu
brious climate. This is the truth.
Years ago, a free and rapid denudation
of the surface of timber, for purposes of
agriculture, had the effect of developing
malarial diseases in some sections of the
county, just as turning the sod of the
prairie has been thought to develop the
same class of diseases in Illinois and oth
er western states. These forces having
ceased to act, their effects have meas
urably passed away.
Throat and lung diseases are rare.
Pneumonia lias not obtained, except
sporadically, for over thirty years. Con
sumption, the scourge of more northern
climes, scarcely exists, except as import
ed. Summer diseases prevail, as every
where else, but not to the extent, nor
with the fatality, that characterizes them
in many sections of the country. Cholera
is unknown.
Now, as to the water: All the extreme
southern, the south-eastern and eastern
portions of the county are entirely free
stone; cropping out frequently in springs
—cool, refreshing, satisfying. This state
ment needs to he qualified so far as to
except the mineral springs, of which
there are several, and some justly fa
mous, viz.: the Rowland spring, now the
property of hi. G. Dobbins. The princi
pal constituents of the mineral waters are
iron, sulphur and magnesia. The forma
tions are mainly granitic. The rest of
the county, about two-thirds, is of the
limestone formation, and the waters par
take of (he nature of the rocks. There
are, however, scattered over this region,
numerous springs and wells of freestone,
or nearly freestone, water. While there
are numbers of bold blue limestone
springs, the main supply of water for do
mestic uses is obtained from wells, which
is found at from thirty to seventy-five
feet. In speaking of limestone water,
the “true blue” alone is meant, as not a
single fountain of “rotten” limestone
water exists in the county.
As germain to tlie subject in hand, the
scenic features of this magnificent domain
challenge a passing word. Nature, with
prodigal hand, has put forth every ehnrm
that can adorn a landscape, and
poured out her gifts in such royal profu
sion that, from almost every headland
and hillock, views may be had which
even the ancient and storied beauties of
Italy do not excel. In matters of hy
giene, this is a factor of no mean impor
tance. The sick man ceases to languish
and his physical frame grows strong by
having the {esthetic elements of his being
- tirred and gratified.
Again, he of the brawny arm—rugged
in every aspect of his being—delv
ing for gold as the only end and ob
ject of human pursuit, as Tie gazes day
by day upon these grand displays of na
ture’s handiwork, cannot fail to have the
asperities of his nature softened and sub
dued, be led to look beyond to something
higher and better, and finally to conclude
that after all it is impossible to satisfy
ihe soul with “sordid dust.”
W. L. Kirkpatrick.
A largo number of chronic croakers
would have been pleased if the W all street
flurry had resulted in a financial panic.
This influence, whatever it is worth, has
been used to spread distrust. .But, for
tunately, nothing of that sort could pre
vail against the solidity and soundness of
the general business condition of the
country.
While an old gentleman and his daugh
ter were prominading in Chicago, some
boys, “just to scare them,” shot the old
man in the thigh and wounded the young
fcwtv. As it was simply a little playful
pastime on the part of the boys, the po
lice declined to arrest them.
Love affects folks variously, according
to climate and country. The disappoint
ed Frenchman seeks solace in suicide;
the Mexican, whose love proves false,
goes out and shoots liis rival in a duel;
and the jilted American cosoles himself
by getting on a roaring drunk.
The Grant & Ward failure served to
prick the bubbles which Wall street
1 speculators had been blowing.
PROHIBITION.
Col. M. R, Sk'.uscll Continues his
Temperance Talk-
Editors A Mimic ax— Tn addition to
what has l>een said in your paper on the
jirfflskv question, considered morally and
socially, it may not be out of place to go
still further and notice its importance in
some other respects. The whisky traffic
certainly carries with it many subtle
evils. Springing out of it, there are
many embarrassing issues, raised by its
friends, demaudiiig serious consideration.
No sensible mu i will deny that its in
tlnenee is fearful; its support is immense,
both by money and strong brain power.
The fact is, if u is allowed to be manu
factured and sold like other articles, the
magnitude of tl\£ question can hardly be
overestimated. its proper solution is
perhaps the nmy difficult question with
which the government has to contend.
Politicians are ‘braid of it,
Who has f.alf 1 to observe the manner
in which the statesman is tangled when
he considers it, as it presents to him its
ten thousand phases, apologies and
threats, demanding his protection ? Who
has failed to notice how it worries the
judiciary, baffles justice, hobbles ad
vancement and squanders the finances of
the country, public as well as private?
These inharmonious troubles will always
be felt and seen, when the control of this
great question is not intended to be
actual and complete.
As long as the purpose shall be, on the
part of those who make the laws, to co
quette with antagonistic principles, to do
a little for prohibition and a little for
whisky, so as to make friends on both
sides, just so long this great evil will con
tinue firmly rooted in our country, even
if it overrides everything else, and car
ries down all that is good.
The great trouble is, that those who
have put themselves in front of the peo
ple, and assumed control, seem to be in
favor of prohibition before the election,
when the plausible side of the face is
turned; but, afterwards, when the other
side is revealed, fear cometli, and they
do nothing which tends to have such an
effect. 80, the people, who are interest
ed and anxious about the final issue, are
left just here. They are in the hands of
the politicians, who, after being trusted
and getting into power, dodge the ques
tion. They are afraid to move for their
own people against whisky, because that
power may be used against them in the
next election; and whisky becomes
alarmed also, because the politician may
chance to cast a thoroughly dry vote
now; and, the c-o. sequence is, the people
are forgotten, and politics and whisky,
half friends and half enemies, shake
hands over and discuss a compromise line
of their own, the purpose of each being
to buy out the influence of the other for
the future. This thing of being neither
cold nor hot, on the most vital question
known to men, has been endured by the
people long enough. They have the
voice of the gods and the power of Sam
son. They have the right to be heard
and felt, and before long they will shake
up the saloons in this state like an earth
quake,. and declare iu tones unmistakable
as heaven’s thunder, that the sale of
whisky shall be prohibited. Whenever
the politicians, or anybody else, under
take to hedge in whisky just a little even
at one or two points away out on the
skirmish line, its sensitiveness is offend
ed, and we may all expect to hear a loud
clamor from whisky—that this is the
work of fanaticism, and that liberty is
about to be overthrown.
Tills is sufficient to change the coun
tenance of a common size politician. It
addles his brain, bewilders his intellect
and confuses his action. And right
there he makes up his mind to walk the
fence and to “coon” it. He resolves
not to advance far enough against whisky
to be wounded as one of its enemies, nor
to retreat far enough towards prohibi
tion to be captured as a torv, and the
result is, that lie spends his official term,
if he has any, trying to regulate the
manner and hours of sale. He piddles
oil the screens, and the opening and
closing of bar room doors, just where
he knows the good is largely qualified
and the evil only partially hemmed in.
All of this looks like temporizing. It is
worse than milk and cider; it advertises
a half a friend on both sides. Weariness
begins here with the people. It is time
to re-let the contract, and it is going to
be done. Better work is desired. The
conflict is irrepressible. Prohibition, or
the saloons, one or the other, must give
way. The wet and the dry elements in
this country can never be harmonious,
and such politicians as are astraddle of
the fence, holding out a hand for help
on both sides, had as well undertake to
convert the devil, or to add an eighth
star to the seven, as to make whisky,
temperance, morality, good order, and
economy in finances all run harmoniously
in the same channel.
If whisky is bad enough for it to be
surrounded' by legal safeguards, fettered
| by bands, walled in by oaths and pressed
; down by special taxation, it is bad enough
! for the law to stop its sale altogether.
One goes half way to the desired point,
I the other the whole route. It is said
that this is purely a moral question, to
be controlled by persuasion alone. This
I deny. If if were so, then our laws up
on the subject are all wrong, and have
been for years. Repeal everything on
the whisky subject, and then look at it;
where will we le? Let the bar rooms
be opened on Sunday; let whisky be -old
without license or taxation—to minors
and to drunken men, at camp grounds,
at churches, and on the days of elections;
i who then can tell what would be our
condition? Such a state of things would
bo bad enough to claim the pity of the
Choctaw nation, Is there a man in the
state who is in favor of turning every
thing loose and taking all this salutary
legislation back, simply because it is the
act of the law, and not the result of per
suasion? Now, if we can go beyond
moral suasion for the purpose of pre
j venting by law the sale of whisky with
out license, or on the Sabbath, or to mi
| nors, or to drunken men, or on election
i days, at camp grounds, churches, schools
; and colleges, will any man sustain these
| laws, and then show why wo may not go
| one step further, and stop the sale of
whisky at all times and places, ami make
a great work complete, which everybody
joined in, and which is now just about
half done? NT. R. Btanskbl.
ANSWER TO COL. M. R. STANSRLL.
Glf.n Hobby, Ga., May 17, 1881.
Editors American —T see that you are
still working for prohibition. I had
hoped that it was dropped, or had gone
where Judge Dooly sent the “roasted
pig”—“loose on its own recognizance. ”
But the correspondent on Erwin street
insists that “roasted pig,” swimming in
grease, shall come on the table daily.
The distinguished gentleman came
from Putnam, that good old county
which fifty years ago we thought it pa
triotic to organize on the good old state’s
rights, now democratic, creed.
If your correspondent did not come
from Putnam, I think his better half did;
and if her father were alive, he could tes
tify that in that organization he was one
of our first leaders. That during the
canvass, we were required to meet not
only the charge of total abstinence, but
of legislative prohibition. We admitted
the former, but denied the latter. In
this denial we grounded ourselves on the
fundamental rule of democratic faith.
With the help of able leaders, the rank
and file in solid column sustained us.
Bo firm was the tread, that to this day
old Putnam is where she was, true to
“strict construction, limited and defined
powers. ”
Now, as to ardent spirits and its use.
It is one of the best, most useful articles
in medicine, but as a beverage it is ruin
ous and destructive. Its moral results
are unequalled by anything known on
earth. As to its effects on the human
family, physically, its destructiveness
is unequalled by any article except to
bacco. If any one desires health, long
life, a cool head, a steady. hand and
a green old him avoid both, es
pecially tobacco.
If these facts exist, why then not we
prohibit the sale by law ?
We answer:
First. It cannot be done.
Second. It ought not to be done.
The legislature has a little more right
to pass such a law than congress has the
right to pass a law to distribute public
money to the states for educating the
children.
It ought not to he clone; however, when
done, every advocate of temperance then
washes his hands of it, and leaves it in
the hands of the law, consoling himself
that his conscience is at ease and, folding
his arms, he ceases all effort.
This is the age of progress, in which
nothing can he done without associated
effort. We cannot advocate the temper
ance cause, without the church, or a so
ciety with banners, and failing there
none need a law with penalties. This
admits the impotence of religion and the
power of unrestrained appetite. It de
stroys the power of individuality, and
the force of precept and example. This
is all wrong. Wliat then?
1 say, let every man or woman, hoy or
girl, resolve himself or herself into a tem
perance organization, and stand by the
resolve. Each individual will then he
felt and seen. Together they will he
unrecognized by each other.
Let the drunkard drink and go mad
and rave. Those who cannot he re
strained will go into pandemonium where
they belong, or into the grave which is
open to receive them.
Respectfully, Mark A. Cooper.
There is something really pathetic in
the innocence with which General Grant
and his sons allowed Ferdinand Ward to
fleece them out of their fortunes. This
very innocence is evidence of their own
honest motives in the business which
ended so disastrously.
A Pittsburg druggist administered mor
phia to a child instead of calomel. The
child died and the druggist fainted. It
is a pity that the order of dying and
fainting could not have been reversed.
The undertakers, who had become dis
consolate at the unusual good health pre
vailing this spring, are now more cheerful.
The early cucumber and the watermelon
have come to their rescue.
Alabama has just given birth to a mule
with five legs. We hope the fifth leg is
well located for’ard. If it isn’t the ani
mal should be executed before he has a
chance to settle down to his business in
life,
JOHN Pi LI.IV, OF TAYLORSVILLE, 0\
SAM BROWN.
Mr Editor: —lt has been a long time
since I wrote a letter for a newspaper,
though I reeou I enjoy reading a gotxl
paper like yours about as much as any
body you most ever seed. When I was
a young fellow just about old enough to
begin to fly around the girls, 1 thought
it would suit me exactly to be an editor
of some paper, because they always had
free rides on the railroads, invitations to
all the weddings, big dinners, dances,
candy puffins and the like, they do
shore's you’r liorn. But as the editors
are always the last people who get paid
for their labor, f recon its all for the best
that I am not an editor.
Them letters that you publish in your
paper written by Bam Brown, just gets
spang away with me, Why lordy Mercy
I use to know that fellow when he was
just a lad of a lroy, and 1 .always thought
he was the audaciowsest chap I most
ever seed, but he dident mean any harm
by it, it was pure devilment.
Why 1 remember one time Barn's Pa
gave him a little bit of a pig and told
Bam if he would feed and fatten that
pig on acorns he might have it, and
bless my life don’t you think that boy
tied a plowline around that pigs neck,
tried to puff it up in a tree to eat acorns
and choked that pig slap to death, he did
shores you’r horn. But notwithstanding
all of Bams develment he seemed to he
quite a favorite of all the girls, and if
there ever was one who dident like him
I never heard tell of her. There was
one great big fat gal lived not far from
us who seemed to be Barn’s favorite, and
I couldent blame Bam for loving her
because she did have the prettiest rosy
cheeks and curly hair of any gal you
most ever seed, and she was just so fat
I dont believe to my soul she could set
cross-legged. Sam was always a great
fellow to use big words while in compa
ny with the gals, and it was useless -to
try to prevent him from it Shore’s you’r
bom it was*
I remember on one occasion there was
a lawyer who took dinner with a near
neighbor of mine and it happened Sam
and myself were there at the time, and
when the lawyer had gotten through
eating, Sam, to be polite, asked him to
have something more, when the lawyer
replied no I thank you sir I have eaten
superfluity. Well as soon as we got up
from the table Bam lowed he was going
to use that big word the very next time
he went to see his gal, Bo shore enough
the very next Sunday morning soon, Bam
he come over to get me to go with him
and spend the day at his gals house,
Well as soon as I could get on mymeetin
house clothes, Bam and 1 pn t out, and
we dident go far until Bam asked me
if I knowed what - tint big word was
what that man said at the •hßlc, and
lordy mercy I couldn’t think to save
my soul. After awhile Bam, lowed he
node it was something like flippity and
he could study up the rest by the time
dinner was ready. We hadent been
there but a short time until the bell
rang for dinner, and as I stept in the first
thing I diskivered on the table was a
great big dish of collards you know what
grows in the garden. Well me and Bam
was both mighty hungry but Bam lowed
it would not do for him to eat too much
for fear they wouldent ask him to have
any more and then lie wouldn’t have
any chance to say that big word. The
old man soon helped our plates bounti
fully, and put a great big pile of them
collards on Sam’s plate, and it wasent
long till I felt Sam sorter chug me in the
ribs with his elbow and point at his col
lards with his fork, and T soon diskivered
a great big old collard worm all doubled
up in Sams greens what he had on his
plate, Then Sam ho commenced looking
round first at the gal, den at the old
man and woman, and it tickled me
nearly to death to see Sam keep kivering
up that worm to keep it from being such
a mortification to the family. After
awhile Sam had eaten up all the collards
but just one little pile and dat worm he
was under dat pile. Shores you’r born he
was. Just about that time Sam began
to look like be was in a heap of trouble
bout something or other, and all at once
while no body was looking at him he
picked up dat little pile of collards wliar
dat worm was hid and swallowed de col
lards worm and all, he did shore’s you’r
born.
Then Sam he crossed Ids knife & fork,
and got ready to say dat big word, bout
dat time the old man said, Mr Brown
have something more, den Sam he lent
back In his chair and said no I thank
you I have eaten flippity floppitv.
When we had left the table I asked
Sam what made him eat dat worm, and he
said he would eat 50 more like it before
he would leave it on his plate and cause
his gal such mortification as that.
About sundown we got ready to start
for home, but the rain began to fall in
torrents and Sam lowed we had better
spend the night as it always made him
sick to get wet, and after a little persua
sion I agreed to spend the night there
The house in which the family lived
only had two rooms to it, one a bed room
the other the cook room. Well we sat
up late that night roasting potatoes, pop
ping corn, and telling Rig yarns general
ly, we did shore’s you’r born. We slept
that night on the best feather bed you
most ever saw, it was in the cook room,
and as we had set up much later that
NUMBER 4.
night than we had been accustomed to
doing and of course we slept late the
next morning. I guess the sun mn t
have been at least two hours high when
I first opened my eves, and the very
first thing T saw was the old lady and
the gal in there a fixing to cook break
fast, and when T looked in another di
rection I saw a little bit of an old fiste
dog with Barn’s ooperass breeches iu
tils month running around, the yard theu
back through the room by the bed on
which we were sleeping. I called Bam
and told him what that fetched fiste was
doing, then Sam opened his eyes like
he w a sent sleepy abit, and every time
that fiste would come sailing by the bed
with Sam’s ooperass breeches Sam he
would make a grab for them and that
made the fiste think Sam was playing
with him, well that fiste lie just keep
running and Sam he just kept grabbing
for his breeches, till at last, Sam he matte
a long stretching grab and landed, away
out in the floor on the top of his cra
uinm, but Sam dident mean any liana
by it, and the fiste dident either shore’s
yon’r 1 >orn. It is useless to add that
Bam wasent hungry enough to stay for
breakfast but left for parts unknown.
Now Mr. Editor, if you want to set
down to one of the very best meals you
ever did sit down to just go to Sam
Browns house some day and take dinner
with him, and my word for it you will
be compelled, to unbutton the waistband
of your pants before you get up, Sam
always would have a plenty of something
good to eat at his house, and a better
cook than his good wife can nowhere be
found, I use to visit Sam just after the
war when times were hard and often
asked him why it was lie could always
have more good things to eat than any
one else, and he would reply by saying
when ho got out of meal the old woman
would make mush and when out of corn
they would make hominy, So taking
Sam up one side and down the other he
is hard to beat, and my word for it even
if that old man Wall Street of New
york should breake its no sign Satn
Brown ever will.
Yours till death.
John Pulun.
Good growing weather for the grass.
The greatest boom is the boom of veg
etation.
Speculators have been relegated to
the rear.
Values have struck bottom, and now
comes the rebound.
Riding clubs are fashionable. A light
whip, however, is much better than a
dub,
Amid the wreck of fortunes and the
crush of capitalists Jay Gould looked on
and smiled serenely.
Speculative schemes are bursting all
around, but legitimate business is on a
sufficiently solid basis.
Governor Foster makes the astonish
ing prediction that the Chicago conven
tion will be either a long one or a short
one.
This country is broad, and prosperous
and rich. The failure of a few New
York brokers cannot create a panic
among us.
Beu Butler comes right, out like a lit
tle man and says anybody votes
for him for will appreciate
the compliment.
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Reports of exorbitant charges for ac
commodation at Chicago during the con
vention, show that hotel keepers up there
have not reformed.
“Yes,” said the schoolmaster, as he
jumped wildly from his chair. “I have
always been in favor of tax on raw mate
rial, but bless me if T like raw 7 material
on tacks !”
A Chicago woman attempted suicide
because her pet poodle was killed. Woman
can endure many sacrifices without break
ing her heart strings, but she draws the
line at her poodle.
At last a woman has been found who
absolutely refuses to talk. She is a wit
' ness in a New 7 York will case, and says
| she will stay in jail until resurrection day
I before she will testify.
A New York paper used a “G” instead
; of a “C” and printed it the “New York
i Gab Company.” It is said that the
members of the Borosis feel very ranch
hurt about it, and will boycott the paper.
Foreign trade as regards exports is
very slack, owing to the ruinous opera
tions of speculative cliques at Chicago
and in the east. Railroad earnings and
general business have been and will be
affected to some extent. The present
tendency, however, is in the direction of
improvement. A panic among grain
gamblers ' would be a blessing to the
country.
Mr. Blaine’s friends now announce that
I they will nominate him on the third bal
lot at Chicago, preferring rather to
achieve their triumph gradually than to
route the enemy by a precipitate move
ment at the outset. They are exceeding
ly kind and considerate. It dwells in
vague memory that the same programme
was announced for the convention of
1880.