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VOLUME 111. Tiie Cartersville American. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARTOW CO, l'i; Bl.lsU K 1 * EV hit Y Tl ESDAY MORNING -Y- Ainericaii Publishing Cos. CA KTERSVI I.LF, OA, OFFICE! I j, Slurs North-East Comer of West Main ;wul Erwin Streets. All communications or letters on business Ci.mill he itihliessed to amkrk AN PUBLISHING CO. CartrftviHc, Ga. T KIIM S O K 3 U BSC RIPTIO N: one Year, Cush in Advance $1 50 H\ Months, • “ ’•5 Three# “ “ “ W It notpuUl in 4 months, $2.00 per year. |*apei> sent outride oi tile County, 15 cents a ldiiional tor <j£age. RATES OF ADVERTISING: For each Square ol 1 inch or less, for the first insertion, $1.00; each subsequent insertion, 50 cents. Special contracts made lor larger space or longer time. AU contract advertisements must he paid quarterly. Local Notices, 20 cents per line lor the first insertion, anil 10 cents lor each subsequent in sertion. Special Notices ten cents per line, i rlhutcsol Respect and obituaries over six lines, 10 cents per line. A II personal cards in Local Columns 25 cents per line. 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. IF YOU ARE GOIIS IGr West! NORTHWEST OR SOUTHWEST. BE SURE Your Tickets Read via the H., C. &, St. L. Ky. Tlie MclAenzieJEl ante The First-class and Emigrant Passengers FAVO RITE! Albert B. Wrenn, W. I. Rogers, Pas, Agent, Pas. Agent, Atlanta, Ga. Chattanooga, Tenn. W. 1.. DAN LEV, " Gen. Pas. & Tkt. Agent, Nashville, Tcun, EISEMAN BROS MANUFACTURING CLOTHIERS & TAILORS B 5 WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA, GEORGIA 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.