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VOLUME 111.
Tiie Cartersville American.
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DIRECTORY.
COURT CALENDAR—CHEROKEE CIR
CUIT.
,1. C. Fa in .Judge. J- W. Harris, Jr., Solicitor
General. , „ , ,
Bartow County—Second Monday in January
ui.d July.
t .itoosa County—Second Monday in February
and August
Hurray County—Thiid Monday in February
aiui August.
Gordon County—Fourth Monday in February
and August.
l ade County—Third Monday in March and
September.
Whitfield Councy—First Monday in April
and October.
BARTOW COUNTY COURT.
G. S. Tumlin. Judge. J. J. Conner, Sol. Gen.
Geo. A. Howard. Clerk. J. G. Broughton,
Bailin’.
quarterly Terms—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
ferent Militia Districts of Bartow county,Ga,:
Cartersville— No. 822d Second Tue-days,
Adairsville “ 86tith Fourth Fridays,
Cassyille *• 828th....second Fridays,
Kingston “ 952i1.,... First Fridays,
Kuharlee “ 85tst Scc’nil Satuiilays,
Allatoona “ 819th... .Third'Saturdays,
Wolf l’en “ lt)4tst....Fourth Saturdays,
stamp i reek “ 9634 Third Saturdays,
Sixth Disti ict “ 98ttth... Fourth Saturday s
Fine Log u 827th.... First Saturdays.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
.1. A. Howard, Ordinary.
F. M. Durham, clerk Superior Court.
11. W. Cobh, Treasurer.
John A. Gladden, Sheriff. A. M. Franklin,
Deputy Sheriff.
Bailey A. Barton, Tax Collector.
VV. NV. Ginn, Tax Receiver.
A. M. Willingham, Coroner.
D. W. K. Peacock, Surveyor.
Commissioners—S. C. Prichard, T. C. Moore,
A. Vincent, John H. Wikie, T. S. Hawkins.
CITY OFFICERS.
A. P. Wofior i. Mayor.
James D. Wilkerson, Marshal.
Geo. S. Cobb, Clerk.
B. It. Mountcustle, Treasurer.
Aldermen—First Ward, J. C. Wofford, A. R.
Hudgins; Second Ward. G. Harwell, W. 11.
Barron; Third Ward, John j.. Stover, Elihu
llall; Fourth Ward, W. C. Edwards, Aaron
Collins.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Street—Collins, Hudgins. Barron.
Finance—Stover, Edwards; Wofford.
Cemetery— Hudgins, Collins, Edwards.
Public Hall—llall. Wofford, Barron.
Relief— Edwards, Barron, Harwell.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
MetUODl9T.—Pastor, Rev. J. B. Robins. Ser
vices, every Sunday at 11. a. in., and 7:30, p. m.
l'rayei meeting, every Wednesday at 7:30, p.
m. Sabbath School, every Sunday at 9:30, a.
m.; Jno. W. Akin, Sunt. Young men’s prayer
meeting, every Thursday at 7:30, p. m.
Baptist.—Pastor, ltev. F. M. Daniel. Ser
vices, every Sunday at 10:15, a. in. and 7:15, p.
in. Prayer meeting,every Wednesday at 7:15,
p. m. Sabbath School, every Sunday at 9:30,
a. in.; 1). W. K. Peacock, StipL Young men’s
prayer meeting, every Sunday at 2, p. in. Ser
vice of song, every Sunday at 3, p. m. Month
ly conference, third Sundry ot each month at
3, p. in,
I’UEsiiYTEEian.—Pastor, Rev. T. E. Smith.
Services, every tir.-t and third Sundays at 11, p.
in. Suhhuth School, every Sunday at 9, a. in.;
T. W. Milner, Snpt. Prayer meeting, every
Wednesday at 7:30, p. m.
Episcopal.—Church of the Ascension. Min
ister in charge, Rev. W. It. McConnell. Ser
vices. every Sunday, except third in each
month, at 11, a. in. Sabbath School, every Sun
day at 10. a. in.
Professional Cards.
T. W. MILNER. J. W. HARRIS, JB.
AIIMFJI & HARRIS,
Attorneys-At-Law.
Office over Howard’s Bank.
Cartersville, Ga.
JOHN 11. WIKLB. DOCOI.AS WIKI.K.
WIKLR A WIItI.K,
Attorneys-at-Law & Real Estate Agents
Offices at Court House and on Main Street
above Erwin, Cartersville, Ga.
OMIIOE H. JO SAN SOA,
Atlorney-at-Law,
Office, West Side Public Square,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
fiSaT* Will practice in all the Courts.
A. M. FOUTE. WALTER M. RYAI.S.
VOUTE fc 11l ALS,
Attorney*-A t-Law*
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL TIIE COORTS
ol' this state. Prompt and iaithiul at
tention given to all business entrusted to us.
Office, corner Main and Erwin Streets, up
stairs. Cartersville, Ga.
J. M. NEEL. J. J. CONNER. W. J. NEEL.
AEEL,COIYEK fc SEEL,
Attorneys-A t-Law.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
of this state. Litigated cases made a
specialty. Prompt attention given to all bus
iness entrusted to us.
office on Erwin Street, between Mam and
Market. Cartersville, Ga.
JAMES R. EOYI ERS,
Attomey-at-Law.
Office Up-Stairs, Bank Block, Cartersville, Ga
Will practice in all the Courts of the Chero
kee and adjoining Circuits, and in the Su
luerne Court. Prompt attention given to all
pusiness. Collections made a specialty.
Railroads.
KENNESAW ROUTE!
WESTERN*ATLANTICR. R.
The following time card in effect Sunday,
J one 15th, 1881 :
NORTH BOUND.
NO, 3 WESTERN EXPRESS—DaiIy.
Leave Atlanta 8 20 a. m
Arrive Marietta 9 10
< artersvillc 10 12
“ Kingston lo:;s
“ Dalton.... 12 1 G
“ Chattanooga 130 p. m.
NO. 1— FAST EX PRESS-Daily.
Leave Atlanta 2 35 p. m.
Arrive Marietta 3 27
“ Cartersville I 29
“ JialtOn G 22
“ Chattanooga 800
NO. 11—LIMITED EXPRESS-Daily.
Leave Atlanta li 40 p. in.
Arrive Marietta 12 39... m.
“ Cartersville l is
“ Dalton 3 41
“ Chattanooga 515
Rome Exjireis—Nortii—Daily, except Sunday.
Leave Atlanta 3 45 p. m.
Arrive Marietta 4 3s
“ Cartersville 5 80
“ Rome ft 50
No. 1 carries Pullman cars from Atlanta to
Louisville, Jacksonville to Cincinnati, New
Orleans to Washington.
No. 11 carries Pullman cars from Savannah
to Chicago and Atlanta to Nashville.
SOUTH BOUND.
NO. 4-FAST EXPRESS.
Leave Chattanooga 8 00 a. m.
Arrive Dalton 9 33
“ Kingston .11 18
“ ('artersvillc 1142
“ Marietta 12 46 p.m.
Arrive Atlanta 1 40
NO. 2—SOUTHERN EXPRESS.
Leave Chattanooga 2 55 p, m.
Arrive Dalton 4 30
“ Kingston 602
“ Cartersville 6 31
“ Marietta 7 47
Arrive Atlanta 8 40
NO. 12—LIMITED EXPRESS—DaiIy.
Leave Chattanooga 10 15 p. m.
Arrive Dalton 11 49
Cartersville 1 47 a. m.
“ Marietta 2 50
“ Atlanta 340
Rome Express—South—Daily, Except. Sunday.
Leave Rome... 8 30 a.m.
Arrive Cartersville 9 45
“ Marietta 10 49
“ Atlanta 1145
No. 4 carries Pullman cars from Cincinnati
to Atlanta, VV ashington, New Orleans, Louis
ville to Atlanta.
No. 12 carries Pullman cars from Chicago to
Savannah and Louisville to Atlanta.
B. VV. WRENN, Gen’l. Puss. Agt.
R. A. ANDERSON, Superintendent.
EAST * WEST R. R OF ALA
ON and after Sunday, June 22d, 1884, trains
on this road will run as follows:
GOINu W EST—Daily, Except Sunday.
NO. 1. no. 3.
Leave Cartersville 10 17 a. m. 150 p. m.
*• Ladd’s 10 29 2 10
“ Stilesboro 10 49 2 88
“ McGinniss 10 55 2 51
“ Taylorsville 11 03 3 02
“ Deaton’s 1114 313
“ Davitte’s 11 18 3 23
“ Waddell’s 1121 3 28
“ Rockmart 11 3ft 4 01
*' Pineville 11 42 4 18
“ Goddard’s 11 48 4 44
“ Fish Creek 11 55 4 58
“ Ccdartown 12 25 p. m.
“ Berry’B. 12 41
“ Esom Hill 12 55
“ Rowell’s 1 21
“ Dlay’s . t 35
Arrive Cross Plains 1 50
GOING EAST—Daily, Except Sunday.
no. 2. no. 4.
Leave Cross Plains 2 25 p, in.
“ Delay’s 2 40
“ Rowell’s 2 65
“ Esom Hill 3 22
“ Berry’s 3 35
“ Ccdartown 4 oo 5 50 a. m.
“ Fish Creek 4 30 G 33
“ Goddards 4 36 (i 46
“ Pineville 4 43 7 06
“ Rockmart 4 56 7 28
“ Waddell’s 5 09 7 48
“ Davitte’s 5 14 7 55
“ Deaton’s 5 18 8 00
“ Taylorsville 5 31 8 ift
“ McGinniss’ 5 39 8 29
“ Stilesboro ... 651 8 42
“ Ladd’s 6 09 9 35
Arrive Cartersville 6 25 9 40
ROME RAILROAD.
The following is the present passenger
schedule:
no. 1. no. 3.
Leave Rome 610 a. in. 415 p. m.
Arrive Kingston 8 55 5 30
no. 2. no. 4.
Leave Kingston 920a. m. 655 p. m.
Arrive Rome 10 25 a. m. 650
NO. 5.
Leave Rome 8 00 a. m.
Arrive Kingston 9 00
NO. 6.
Leave Kingston 9 20 a. m.
Arrive Rome 10 10
Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 will run daily except Sun
days.
Nos.s and 6 will run Sundays only.
No 1 will not stop at the junction. Makes
close connection at Kingston for Atlanta and
Ch attanooga.
No. 2 makes connection at Rome with E. T.
Ya. & Ga. It. it., for points south.
EP.EN LI ILLY Fit, President.
J. A. SMITH, Gen’l. Pass. Agent.
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Albert B. Wrenn, W. I. Rogers,
Pas, Agent, Pas. Agent,
Atlanta, Ga. Chattanooga, Tenn.
W. 1.. DAN LEV,
" Gen. Pas. & Tkt. Agent,
Nashville, Tcun,
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CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1884.
The Cartersville American.
Entered at the Post Office at Partersvilfe ,
(fa., Aluy i Uh, lfc>B2, an i,ecuud matter.
1 (JESDAY, JULY 8, 1881.
TUKTATTLKK TALKS.
A HbspitaSile People—Fine lorn—A Crowing
Aitj —A trunked R. R, — Foreign
Relies—Sell (jots.
If anything in the Tattler's writings
lias impressed you more than another, it
is doubtless the fact that I love to tolk
of Adairsyille and Adairsviile people. I
was born there and raised the re, anil am
proud of it. It has been said that a
prophet is not without honor save in his
own country' and amoung his own people,
but I believe there are exceptions o this
rule, for if I have any good friends any
where in the world they are in anil around
Adairsviile. I love them, and I love to
talk about them. They ail drop the “Mr."’
to my name up there, and call me plain
Will, Igo into the family room like one
of their own boys, the babies are brought
in for me to see and admire, the girls
show me their new dresses and the boys
tell me about their sweethearts. But
the best and most enjoyable thing of all
is, that they know I love fried chicken
better than anything, and almost inva
riably this delicacy is abundantly pre
pared for me. My old love for the place
and the people came back to me stronger
than ever during my stay up there at
the Baptist convention. I never saw a
crowd of visitors more hospitably en
tertained. Everybody wanted “dele
gates,” and nothing they had seemed to
be too good for their guests. The large
crowds who attended church on Satur
day and Sunday were supplied most
abundantly with dinner on the grounds.
Hamper after hamper was emptied, yet
it seemed the supply was inexhaustible.
The Tattler loves to tell of things of this
kind on his old home people. It is
gratifying to know they so richly deserve
this feeble tribute to their cleverness
and hospitality, I expect to talk for my
native town and defend its people where
ever and whenever I have an opportu
nity.
I went to see a young farmer friend of
mine last week and spent the night with
him. His farm is one of the most fertile
and productive in the beautiful and far
famed valley of Ootlicaloga. He has
everything around him to make a young
man happy—a good farm, anew house,
a pretty wife and a sweet baby. It made
me feel old to hear his little boy call him
papa. I used to go to school with this
young fanner, sit at the same desk,
study from the same book, sometimes,*
and recite in the-same classes with him.
Fortune has smiled on him in many
ways, and I honestly rejoice at his pros
perity. I was never more hospitably
treated than while I was with him. Af
ter we had cooled off and had some fresh
water from a bold clear spring in a few
yards of the house, he suggested that we
walk over the farm. With pardonable
and commendible pride lie said he had a
“patch” of corn flint I must look at. It
was a twenty-five acre, “new ground”
field, of the very finest land in Georgia,
I think, in all my rural experience, I
have never seen such a field of corn. It
will average about six feet high all over,
and looks like a cane brake. I tell you
it was a grand sight to stand there as
the slanting rays of the sun kissed it,
and the evening zephyrs came from the
west, making it sway and ripple like a
great green sea. These stalks of corn
seemed almost to speak and tell, in a
grand way, what Georgia soil will do. I
felt like getting on Mart King’s ten-rail
fence and offering three round, hearty
cheers for King Corn and the young far
mers of North Georgia. God bless the
farmers ! This young fellow lifts a for
tune before him. If his farm were mine
I wouldn’t give it for any lawyer’s libra
ry in Georgia. If the seasons] continue
favorable he will gather nearly two
thousand bushels of corn from that t wen
ty-five acres. You may think this is un
reasonable, but I tell you that field is a
show. You can hear the corn pop and
crack it grows so fast. It excited me to
look at it and I’m excited yet, When I
went back to the house and sat down to
a supper of fried chicken and biscuit that
fairly melted in my mouth, and ice cold
butter milk, and pickles and preserves
and cake, I felt like I wanted to be a
farmer. Again I say, God bless the farm
ers and the farmers wives, and the farmers
daughters too—especially the latter.
In 1880,1 was a resident of Chatta
nooga. Since I left there at that time I
have never visited the place until last
week, Four years lias worked the most
wonderful clianges. If any one had told
me of the improvements made in the
last four years, I should have felt disposed
to doubt the truth of it, but I am com
pelled to believe what I see with my own
eyes. Four years ago there was nothing
but a miserable shed for a geneneral pas
senger depot. Now it is one of the most
comfortably arranged and commodious
depots in the south. The reception
rooms are large and air}" and the oflices
are clean and conveniently arranged.
Four years ago the Northern Methodists
held their meetings in a little wooden
church in an out of the way part of the
city, now they have, on Georgia Avenue,
one of the handsoment hewn ruck
churches in the South. Four years ago
Eighth street had notliiugou it but a be* f
market and a peanut stand, now it boasts
of a solid row of elegant brick business
houses, filled with progressive business
men. Four years ago the street car line
extended only to the Stanton House,
now it runs to the foot of Lookout moun
tain. Four years ago the streets were
irregular and and the sidewalks rough,
now they boast of good si reels and smooth
sidewalks. Four years ago their Couri
house was a smokev,dingy,tumbled -down
affair, now it is one *4 the most magnifi
cent structures in all of the south, and
located in the most elegant and accessi
ble part of the city. F air years ago the
Presbyterian church was stuck down on
Market street, right in the midst of the
rush of business and rattle of drays, now
it has been rebuilt on th comer of Me-
Culla and Georgia avenues, out of the
hubbub of the city, and hi ear the resi
dence part of tlie place, while the lot
formerly occupied on Market street has
been cover'd by a four story brick busi
ness 1 dock. This is only introductory to
what might bo said of Chattanooga's im
provement in the last four yours. It is a
city full of thrift, energy and push. That
dirty, smoky, appearance is beginning to
wear off, and the town really looks city
like. The two days spent there last week
gave me a much better opinion of Chat
tanooga than I entertained when I left
there four years ago.
The new extension of the East A West
railroad from Ccdartown to Cross Plains
must be extremely crooked, judging from
a conversation I overheard at Stilesboro
last week. One country fellow was talk
ing to another about having gone on an
excursion down there a few-Bundays *ago.
He said the track along near Terrapin
creek was so crooked that it crossed itself
several times in crawling (around those
mountains. “Why,” said he, getting
somewhat enthusiastic, “I was standing
on the rear platform of the last car, and
as we were going around one of those
quick curves I saw a mud turtle on a log
in the creek, and leaned over and got a
lump of coal out of the tender and threw
at it. There was a newspaper man named
Byals standing by me with a pencil in
his hand. He accidentally dropped his
pencil while we were “doubling around”
one of those curves, and he just reached
over to the engine and borrowed North -
cutt’s pencil and kept writing. You
may talk about crooked roads, but this
is the crookedest one that I ever saw—
‘it is certain.’” The felley didn’t know
I was hearing him. Hh was talking in
dead earnest and as a matter of course
must have been telling the truth.
I heard one of our society chaps talk
iug last evening about the young ladies
who have visited and who are visiting
Cartersville this season. His opinion is
they are the joiliest and prettiest lot of
girls who have ever favored us with their
presence. He advanced an idea about
“foreign belles” of which I had not
thought before. “Whenever they
leave home,” said he, “they start out
with the intention of having a good time.
They expect to be courted, and prepare
themselves to listen to all sorts of sweet
talk. They read up on poetry and study
the languages >f flowers. They train their
‘bangs’ into the most bewitching ‘beau
catchers. ’ They come into the parlor
when you call with the most irresistible
little smiles. They learn to use their
eyes to the very best effect, and they are
so plentiful and beautiful this summer
that lam really getting alarmed for the
safety of our boys.” He went on to say
“I met one the other night who was so
fair, whose eyes were so soft, whose
smiles so gentle, whose laugh so musical,
whose form so queenly and who was witli
all so sensible and cultivated that I am
hopelessly in love.” His looks verified
what he said. He passed down the street
humming “Italia is too fair.” Let the
foreign belles who chance to read this
decide among themselvss who it is that
has wrought such sad havoc with Cnr
tersville’s pet beau.
A communication was handed to me
the other day by a citizen of Cartersville
wlio signed himself “Sufferer” and who
really looked like he had been “bled.”
I did not promise to publish his com
plaint or any part of it, but in reading it
over the second time I am impressed
with the earnestness of his appeal and
have concluded to make some short ex
tracts from the paper and publish them.
The writer is commenting on the average
school of the day and while the Tattler
heartily disagrees with “Sufferer” in
many points, yet there are thqstf who
have had something of the same experi
ence as my complaining correspondent.
Here he goes: “There are a class of
home schools that ought to be unproved
or broken up entirely. I will give you
their programme for the coming session:
Here is a poor laboring man who gets
about 75 cents a day for his work. He
is doing his best to make an honest living
and at the same time educate his children.
He starts Susie to school to Miss Know
it-all, who says she has the best school in
town. Susie starts to school Monday
morning dressed in a neat calico dress,
a sun bonnet and a strong pair of
shoes. She carries the books that her
older sister used a year ago, and for
which her father spent money enough to
pay five months house rent. To her as
tonishment Miss Know-it-all tells her
these books have gone out of use and she
must buy some new ones. With digni
fied self-importance the teacher sits down
and makes out a bill for Ixvoks, amount
ing to several dollars laid sends it to the
father. He goes to the book store and
spends the few dollars lie and the children
were saving to buy the sickly mother and
wife anew whiter dress, in buying new
Tangled books, the names of which he
had never heard before. Before the ses
sion is half over it begins to be w hispered
around that Miss Know-it-all is going to
giv e a concert at the end of the session
which i- {>> lie the grandest tiling of the
season. The father observes that instead
of studying lier books at night, as here
tofore, Susie is memorizing some little
foolishness aUmt the “Laud of Nod” or
“Golden Hair,” or “May Pole.” Text
books seem to be entirely forgotten, and
lamed over to baby as play things. At
nil hours Susie can be seen before the
ittle looking glass reciting sentimental
poetry, canting her head and striking
stage atntutes. A ■week or two before
the grand concert the teacher sends word
home that Susie must have a uniform like
the other little girls before she can go on
the stage. And this is the bill that is
presented t) the •astonished and over
worked father: 7 yards white lawn,
15 cents per yard, $1.05; Hamburg
trimming and insertion, $2.85; 1?. yards
of satin ribbon for belt, 50 cents;
1 pair sky blue hose, 50 cents; 1 pair op
era slippers, $1.50; one silk banner, $2.
This bill takes the money that had been
put aside during the summer to buy the
winter coal. The concert breaks up, and
Susie goes home at twelve o’clock at
night, tired mid sick, w ith a cold and head
ache. The next day Miss Know-it-all pre
sents her tuition bill of $lO, and about
the only thing Susie knowß that she
didn’t know before is three verses of silly
poetry and two or three sentimental
songs. (), yes, she has been wonderfully
advanced, and is beginning to study
Latin, but she could not write a dozen
words without misspelling one, or parse
a single sentence correctly, if she had to
be hung. Miss Know-it-all pockets the
SOO taken in at the door, and says it is to
pay expenses, but I always notice that
Susie’s father pays Susie’s expenses. I
want to see the time when teachers will
teach sense instead of nonsense to the
children. Such performances may do for
rich people, but poor folks can’t stand it.
We “po’ white trash” can get along with
fewer concerts and calisthenics and dress
parades. Give us good books and solid
information that will last a lifetime.
Teach our little girls text books, and let
this poisonous, sentimental, theatrical
trash go to the dogs. It makes our chil
dren senseless, silly and disobedient.”
Now, while the Tattler feels very much
like writing a defense to this outburt of
complaining, yet I am compelled to ad
mit it is not altogether without founda
tion, though in a very modified form to
that in which “Sufferer” presents it.
However, I print it more as a matter of
curiositv than as a matter of fact.
WAYSIDE GATHERINGS.
President Arthur is said to be of a re
tiring nature.
The hot weather poet is abroad in the
land. Now is the time to get up clubs.
Field and Flower would be a blooming
ticket. It would look mighty fresh.
If Arthur can’t have a second term,
still he can go fishing. That’s a great
comfort.
The nail factories are begiuning to be
very busy. Campaign lies are plentiful,
and they have to be nailed.
Usually the Titans are to be found by
the sea, but during convention time the
tight-uns can be found at Chicago.
What has become of the old-fashioned
barbecues? Those were the gatherings
to wake enthusiasm in a political cam
paign.
An exchange says: “The republicans
are lying low. ” I'here is always lots of
low lying in a presidential campaign.
’Tisbut a little faded Flower,
Y’et, oil, bow lost in gloom;
lie tried to gel with gold in power,
flat busted is his boom.
A number of democratic papers and
some of the conventions refuse to accept
Tilden’s letter as a final answer. The
old ticket may be dug up yet. Hen
dricks “is willin’.”
Dan Rice was recently advertised to
deliver a temperance lecture, and, as he
undertook to supply the “terrible exam
ple” himself, the literary part of the per
formance was indefinitely postponed.
The last democrat elected to the presi
dency, Buchanan, was a bachelor. Tif
den, who got on the edge of the chair,
was a bachelor. Cleveland is a bachelor.
Now let the prophets make the most of it.
Full many a barrel that’s tapped with hope
serene,
In dark, unfathomed pockets finds a place;
Full many a Flower is born to blush uuseeu,
And waste bis dollars on a losing race.
It is a question whether the New York
democratic convention swallowed John
Kelly, or whether John Kelly swallowed
the convention. Which was Jonah and
which the whale will be found out at
Chicago this week.
General Butler doubts the propriety of
putting up Cleveland against Blaine.
Modesty forbids him naming the proper
candidate, but he will admit that he can
point to a strong candidate with brains
and ability, when he stands before a look
ing-glass.
THK TERPLRAXfE NOVKMKXT
bul the StrittHres of a (urreqiotwhul Upon
Hue.. Mark A. CeoprPs tirws
cn the Same.
Editors American: As an admirer of
onr good and great fellow-citizen, Hon.
Mark A. Cooper, I regret exceedingly to
sec him (unintentionally, of course.) plac
ing himself in line with the whiskey iu
tcrests, and against the great movement
that is doing so much for the peace and
happiness *4 our land.
Major Cooper says the argument was
exhausted in Putnam county fifty years
ago. Now, iliis may be true, for, in the
days *4 the writer, I have never beeu
able to discover an intelligent, well
founded argument in favor of the traffic
in intoxicating liquors. But the truth
remains that Putnam county was bound
in the chains of the liquor demon until
two years ago, when, after a wonderful
revival of religion had swept over the
County, there was a general uprising of
the people, and the yoke was shaken off,
not by moral suasion alone, but by the
strong arm of the law. Taking advantage
of the law* they had, the license* was
plifbed at $2,000. One man went into
the business at that high rate, but, be
fore the expiration of one year, was glad
to compromise, and get out of it.
Since the bar-rooms have been closed,
many drunkards, who were considered
hopeless cases, have been reclaimed, and
are good and prosperous citizens, while
comparatively few young men are ac
quiring the habit which would prepare
them to keep up the regular supply of
drunkards.
Maj. Cooper says lieVas a member of the
first temperance society in .Georgia, but
never attended one of its meetings, and it
soon died out. And yet this is one of the
means by which he would have the evil
of intemperance driven from the land.
He has seen hundreds cf men dragged
from high position in the church to the
lowest depths of degradation by the dev
il-traps licensed to decoy men into the
pathway to ruin. He has known of
wives and children suffering hunger,
while husbands and fathers were squan-.
dering their hard earnings at the bar
rooms. He has seen gray-haired fathers
and mothers going in sorrow to their
graves because of noble sons led into the
snares of intemperance by the bar-rooms
—fathers and mothers who were mem
bers of the church and praying men and
women. And yet he would depend on
the church to restrain men from engaging
in the nefarious traffic.
The major mistakes the situation en
tirely, when he says “legislators are call
ed on to make laws with penal sanctions
to enforce temperance and keep men
from getting drunk.” It is the traffic—
the bar-rooms which make drunkards—
that the good people of Georgia want the
strong arm of the law to protect men
against, just as the lottery and the gam
bling den is prohibited, because they
make gamblers, ruin men, and are de
moralizing in their effects.
Major Cooper’s remedy, “personal, in
dividual manifestation of the propriety,
virtue, utility and necessity of temper
ance,” has been tested for more than a
hundred years, aud has proven a failure.
The body politic gets sicker and sorer
under this treatment as the years go by.
True, major ''ivory argument should
be spiced with human sympathy;” but,
is it better to sympathize with the small
number who prosecute the traffic for
money, fattening and gloating on hulnan
misery, or the thousands of poor victims,
who are ending their lives in terror and
despair, the thousands of breaking hearts
of mothers and daughters made misera
ble because of the traffic? I prefer the
argument spiced with this kind of hu
man sympathy.
The idea that the poor drunkard will
get liquor regardless of the prohibitory
laws, is the weakest one ever produced.
Because a man persists in a course that
is mining him is no reason why we should
make no effort to save him.
I would disabuse the good major’s
mind of the idea that prohibitory laws
are aimed at the poor victims of the liq
uor traffic. The aim of the law is to de
stroy the traffic—the great fountain from
which flows intemperance, with all its
couutless train of evils.
In conclusion, allow me to ask Major
Cooper a few questions: Are you opposed
to the laws prohibiting lotteries, faro
banks, houses of ill-fame, or the carrying
of concealed weapons? If not, how can
you consistently oppose the prohibition
of liquor traffic? Acwokth.
A newly patented coffin is called “life
saving,” as it prevents people from being
buried alive. If Mr. Tildeu had used oue
of this kind, history might have a differ
ent story to tell.
David Davis will not oeept the presi
dential nomination on the democratic
ticket. He is afraid the platform will
break through with him and tear his
Sunday pants.
A report comes from Augusta that Mr.
Blaine is receiving ‘ ‘a great many letters
suggesting topics to be considered in his
letter of acceptance.” But Mr. Blaine
will no doubt confine himself to topics
suggested in the platform. They are nu
merous and of living interest.
Lent is gone. That’s generally the case
with anything that’s lent,
NUMBER 10.
cum.
Mary hU a little
It was a Beastly butter,
Aral everywhere that Mary went,
It kept her In a flutter.
It followed her to church one day,
"Which was not so tuuch desired,
Acd when he entered at the door,
The preacher had him fired.
Then tammy’s angry passions rose,
And when the crowd eameoul,
The rascal ducked his little nose,
And bumped them all about.
Ihit then, he strrek an agent hard,
Upon, his mountain cheek,
Ami broke Iris little skull in two,
And now he’s monstrous meek.
General Logan will stump the country.
Can slugging- lx* considered a kuocku
pation?
A goAd editor must always be in his
write mind.
The Indiana Republicans threaten to
chant Gray’s elegy in the fall.
A man who will get drunk will drink.
We have this on the word of a chap who
knows.
The harmony at Columbus was of
much the same sort as the harmony at
Saratoga.
Mr. Blaine's “old pastors” are running
a little campaign all by themselves in the
newspapers.
The Russian bear ambles along the
borders of India, showing all the symp
toms of a keen appetite.
The spring style of hand-organs lias
but one stop—it begins in the morning
and does not stop till night.
One week it was “Cash on Wall street”
and the next it was “Crash on Wall
street.” There r a difference.
The new style of batkiug suit for this
summer has a red serge skirt. It will
probably-have wavy trimmings.
A good many republican congressmen
appear to be willing to retire. The demo
crats evidently watch them too closely.
A cholera epidemic in any civilized na
tion creates alarm in all other nations, so
closely is the world bound by commercial
ties.
The bump on a poet’s head does not
always indicate intellect. It sometimes
indicates the size of the club and the
strength of the editor’s arm.
There is a postofiice in Washington
county, Tennessee, called Damphool.
We protest against Frank Hatton naming
every postoffice after himself.
A man uud his frow should avoid hot
voids. It vas a circular single'llmshdance
dot hot vords vill produce a coolness in
der domes tick circles.
If congress desires to prevent any kind
of immigration to America, why does it
not stop the flow of Mormon recruits,
who are comiug over by the ship load?
If the democratic party has fallen into
the hands of Butler, Kelly & Co.—as
that bunko firm seems to think—it is
certain to be fleeced and then tumbled
into the gutter.
Delegates to the Chicago convention
should avoid meat pies. A paper of that
city says all the dead dogs are utilized by
the piemen.
With all the humane societies that
have been organized in the country there
is not one for the amelioration of the con
dition of beef steak.
“George Washington had no plume,”
says a republican exchange. No! Neither
did George hire a substitute nor show the
ftliite feather.
Republican newspapers are beginning
to allude to the revolt of the independ
ents as “revolting.” It looks very much
that way to the party that is about to get
left.
If Jones can’t get up the funds neces
sary for the republican campaign fast
enough, the bosses might employ Keely
to float a loan on bonds of the Blaine ad
ministration.
The- New York Evening Post calls An
niston, Ala., a wonderful Georgia city.
The Post appears to be drifting away
from its geographical as well as its politi
cal moorings.
The city of Aspinwall, Central Ameri
ca, offers a splendid opening for some
young insurance company to advertise it
self liberally. Nightly attempts are made
to burn the town.
No doubt the cable will soon report
Mary Anderson engaged to an Italian
count:. No account of her divorce from
her art has been received yet, though,
and she does not believe in polandry.
Dry rot, following a stroke of paralysis,
puts Wall street iu a bad way. The gam
blers are thoroughly discouraged. If the
country could have its wish fulfilled, they
would remain so permanently.
One murderer and two burglars iu
Louisville escaped while the police were
arresting a small boy for stealing a ride
on the cars. The coroner and undertaker
expressed eonsiderable indignation ■with
the officers.
The Medical Record says lemon juice
in water without sugar taken on going to
bed and getting up is better than any
drug for a bilious system. Too many
persons make a mistake and use stagger
juice instead of lemon juice iu the water.
Thirty-five soldiers at Fort Meade de
serted because they were notified that
they would be required to cut their own
firewood. No doubt they were originally
professional tramps, and constitutionally
opposed to doing anything that looked
like work.