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Newspaper Page TextCARTERSYILLE AMERICAN. VOLUME 111. The Cartersyille America OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARTOW CO. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING BT American Publishing Cos. CA KTKRSVIIXS:, OA, OFFIOEI l o-Staim, North-East Corner of West Main and Erwin Streets. AH comuannications or letters on business should be addressed to AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO. Carterurtlle, Os. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year, Cash in Advance fI-60 .Six Months, • “ II not paid in 4 months, $2.00 per year. Papers sent outside ot the County, 15 cents additional for postage. RATES OF ADVERTISING: For each Square of 1 inch or less, for the first insertion, $1.00; each subsequent insertion, 60 cents. Special contracts made lor larger space or longer time. All contract advertisements must be paid quarterly. , .. m . Ixcal Notices, 20 cents per line lor the first insertion, and 10 cents for each subsequent in sertion. Special Notices ten cents per line. Tributes of Respect and Obituaries over six lines, 10 cents per line. All personal cards in Local Columns 26 cents per line. DIRECTORY. COURT OALINDAR-CHKROK.ee CIR CUIT. j.C.Fain, Judge. J. W. Harris, Jr., Solicitor U Bartow County—Second Monday in January * caioisa’County— Second Monday in February and August , . _ , Murray County—Third Monday in February and August. Gordon County—Fourth Monday in February and August. Fade County—Third Monday in March and September. Whitheld County—First Monday in April and October. BARTOW COUNTY COURT. G. S. Tuml in. Judge. J. J. Conner, Sol. Gen. Geo. A. Howard, Clerk. J. G. Broughton, Bailiff. 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.: Curtersville— No. 822d Second Tue-days, Adairsville “ 866th.... Fourth Fridays, Ca*>ville •) 828th.... Second Fridays, Kingston '* 952d First Fridays, Kuhtrlee “ 851st Sec’nd Saturdays, Allatoona “ 819th.... Third Saturdays, Wolf Pen “ 10415 t.... Fourth Saturdays, Stamp Creek “ 963d Third Saturdays, Sixth Disti ict “ 936th Fourth Saturdays Pine Log *• 827th First Saturdays. COUNTY OFFICERS. J. A. Howard, Ordinary. F. M. Durham, Clerk Superior Court. 11. W. Cobh, Treasurer. John A. Gladden, Sheriff. A. M. Franklin, Deputy Sheriff. Bailey A. Burton, Tax Collector. W. W. Ginn, Tax Receiver. A. M. Willingham, Coroner. D. W. K. Peacock. Surveyor. Commissioners S. C. Pilchard, T. C. Moore, A. Vincent, John 11. Wikus, T. S. Hawkins. CITY OFFICERS. A. P. Wofford, Mayor. James D. Wilkerson, Marshal. Geo. S. Cobb, Clerk. li. It. Mountcustle, Treasurer. Aldermen—First Ward, J..C. Wofford, A. R. Hudgins; Second Ward, G. Harwell, W. H. ■Rarron; Third Ward, John j,*. Stover, Elihu Hall; Fourth Ward, W. C. Edwards, Aaron Collins. STANDING COMMITTEES. Street—Collins, Hudgins, Barron. Finance—Stover, Edwards, Wofford. Cemetery—Hudgins, Collins, Edwards. Public Hall—Hall, Wofford, Barron. Relief—Edwards, Barron, Harwell. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Methodist.— Pastor, Rev. J. B. Robins. Ser vices, every Sunday at 11. a. in., and 7:30, p. m. Prayer meeting, every Wednesday at 7:30, p. fa. Sabbath School, every Sunday at 9:30, a. in.; Jno. W. Akin, Sunt. Young men’s prayer faceting, every Thursday at 7:30, p. m. Baptist.— Pastor, Rev. F. M. Daniel. Ser vices, every Sunday at 10:45, a. m. and 7:15, p. m. Prayer meeting, eyery Wednesday at 7:15, p. in. Sabbath School, every Sunday at 9:30, a. m,; D. W. K. Peacock, Supt. Young men’s prayer meeting, every Sunday at 2, p. m. Ser vice of song, every Sunday at 3, p. m. Month ly conference, third Sunday ol each month at 2. p. ni, £ Presbyterian.— Pastor, Rev. T. E. Smith. Services, every flrt, and third Sundays at 11, p. m. Sabbath School, every Sunday at 9, a. m.; T. W. Milner, Sunt. Prayer meeting, every Wednesday at 7:30, p. m. Episcopal.— Church of the Ascension. Min ister in charge, Rev. W. K. McConnell. Ser vices. every Sunday, except third in each mouth, at 11, a. m. Sabbath School, every Sun day at 10, a. ra. Professional Cards. T. W. MILNER. 3. W. HARRIS, JB. MILKER & HARMS, Attorney s-At-Isaw. Office over Howard’s Bank. Cartersville, Ga. JOHN H. WIKLK. DOOGLAB WIKLS. WIHLE & WIRLE, Attorneys-at-Lai & Real Estate Meats Offices at Court House and on Main Street above Erwin, Cartersville, Ga. GEORGE H. IOHISOW, Attorney-at-l*aw, Office. West Side Public GA . Will practice In all the Courts. A. M. FOUTK. WALTER M. KYALS. foute a rials, Attorney -At-L*aw • WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COOBTS of tnis state. Prompt and faithiul at tention given to all business entrusted to us. Office, corner Main and Erwin Streets, s tai rs> ' Cartersville, Ga. i. M. NEEL. J. J. CONNER. W. J. NKJEL. HEEL, CONNER A NEEL, Attorneys*-At-Eaw. 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 Main and Market. Cartersville, Ga. JAMES R. COFYERS, Attorney-at-Eaw • Office Up-Stairs, Bank Block, Cartersville, Ga Will practice in all the Courts of the Chero kee and adjoining Circuits, and in the Su preme Court. Prompt attention given to all husiuess. Collections made a specialty. Hailroads. KENNESAW KOUTE! WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. R. The following time card in effect Sunday, June 16th, 1884: NORTH BOUND. NO, 3—WESTERN EXPRESS-Daily. Leave Atlanta 8 20 a. m. Arrive Marietta 9 10 Cartersville 10 12 “ Kingston lUBB “ Dalton 12(6 “ Chattanooga 130 p. m. NO. I—FAST EXPRESS—DaiIy. Leave Atlanta 2 35 p. m. Arrive Marietta. 3 27 *• Cartersville 429 “ Dalton 6 22 “ Chattanooga 800 NO. 11—LIMITED EXPRESS-Daily. Leave Atlanta 11 40 p. m. Arrive Marietta 12 39 a. m. “ Cartersville 1 48 '■ Dalton 3 44 “ Chattanooga 515 Rome Express—North—Daily, except Sunday. Leave Atlanta 3 45 p. m. Arrive Marietta.. 4 38 “ Cartersville... 5 36 “ Rome 6 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 Da1t0n......... 933 *• Kingston. 1118 “ Cartersville 1142 “ Marietta I*2 46 p. m. Arrive Atlanta 140 NO. 2—SOUTHERN EXPRESS. Leave Chattanooga 2 55 p. m. Arrive Dalton 4 30 “ Kingston 602 “ Cartersville 831 “ Marietta - 'I 47 Arrive Atlanta 8 40 NO. 12—LIMITED EXPRESS-Daily. Leave Chattanooga 1015 p. m. Arrive Dalton 1149 •* Cartersville 147a. 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, Washington, New Orleans, Louis ville to Atlanta. No. 12 carries Pullman cars from Chicago to Savannah and Louisville to Atlanta. B. W. WRENN, Gen’l. Pass. Agt. R. A. ANDERSON, Superintendent. EAST & WEST R : R. OF AUL ON and after Sunday, July 20th, 1884, trains on this road will run as follows: GOING WEST—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 38 “ McGinniss 10 55 2 51 “ Taylorsville 11 03 302 “ Deaton’s 1114 3 13 Davitte’s 1118 3 23 “ Waddell’s 1121 3 28 “ Rockmart 11 36 4 01 *' Pineville 11 42 4 18 “ Goddard’s 11 48 4 40 “ Fish Creek 11 65 4 58 “ Cedartown 12 25 p. m. “ Berry’s 12 41 “ Esom Hill 12 55 “ Rowell’s 121 “ Olay’s 1 35 “ Cross Plains 1 50 “ East A West Jun.. 2 35 “ Sulphur Spring... 3 12 “ Duke’s, 3 29 “ Hebron 3 56 “ Gray’s 4 13 “ Ohatchie 4 25 “ Francis 4 42 “ Singleton 4 55 “ Ackers 5 03 “ Ragland 5 33 “ Fairview 6 02 “ Rowland’s 613 Arrive Broken Arrow... 63G GOING EAST—Daily, Except Sunday. NO. 2. NO. 4. Leave Broken Arrow. 8 45 a.m. “ Rowland’s'........ 9 12 “ Fairview 9 23 “ ltaglanu..... 9 57 “ Ackers 10 22 “ Singleton’s 10 30 “ Francis 10 45 “ Ohatchie 11 00 “ Gray’s 1112 “ Hebron 11 39 “ Duke’s 1156 “ Sulphur Spring—l2l3 •* E. & W. June 12 55 “ Cross Plains 2 25 p. m. “ Delay’s 2 40 “ Rowell’s. 2 65 “ Esom Hill 3 22 “ Berry’s 335 “ Cedartown 4 00 5 50 a. m. “ Fish Creek 4 30 6 33 “ Goddards 4:36 6 46 “ Pineville 4 4:3 7 06 “ Rockmart 4 56 7 28 “ Waddell’s 5 09 7 48 *• Davitte’s 514 7 55 “ Deaton’s 5 18 8 CO “ Taylorsville 531 816 “ McGinniss’ 5 39 8 29 “ Stilesboro 551 842 *• 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 610a. m. 415 p. m. Arrive Kingston 8 55 5 30 no. 2. no. 4. Leave Kingston 920a. m. 555 p. m. Arrive Rome 10 25 a.m. 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 Chattanooga. . No. 2 makes connection at Rome with E. T. Va. & Ga. It. It., for points south. EDEN HIT.LYER, President. J. A. SMITH. Gen’l. Pass. Agent. EISEMAN BEOS MANUFACTURING CLOTHIERS & TAILORS 65 WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA, GEORGIA tANfTARfUM. Riverside, Cal. The dry dimalso erron Nosa, Throat, Lungs, full idea, 36 p., route, cost, free. MARRIAGE^Ef3O fiat the doubtful curious or thoughtful want to > . Cloth and guilt binding 60 eta,paper 25c, Mar-., Guide. 144 p 16c, iient sealed, moneyor stps.br , to Marriage, Consultation and Pamphlat i Just Issued, A entitled, “Fruits and how to Preserve timm.” * Write or apply at once at Curry’s drug store for a copy. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1884. The Cartersville American. Entered at the Post Office at (Cartersville, Ga., May 9 th, 1882, as second class matter. TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1884. CHAFF. Madame, at sound of Gabriel’s trump, Would give no vulgar start or jump, But slowly rise with tranquil grace, Lay al! her piuiou plumes in place, Make them secure with safety-pins, Account to Heaven for her sins, And take the Paradisic road, A charming angel ala mode. A cat’s paw—A Thomas cat. The jover sows his wild notes. Nouglity but nice—$1,000,000. A waist of time —An old maid’s. Every artist loves his sweet’art. The druggist is known by his phizz. A “broth of a boy” must be a supe rior article. A sign of good breeding—Getting the prize in a dog show. A business that is run into the ground Artesian well boring. The latest thing in pantaloons —The man up last. Simplicity and gripes are striking characteristics in green apples. Can a man who writes a poem on his hat be described as avers-a-tile. The Greely party got within 458 miles of the pole, but they didn’t see any per simmons. A Zulu belle is like the proverbial prophet. She has not much on’er in her own country. “No,” said a druggist, “there’s not such an awful profit on a glass of soda water. You see, the wear and tear on the glass amounts to something.” The democratic cats in West Virginia continue to scratch and bite, but for all that the signs for a victory in November are brighter than they were a month ago. Tilden is said to be enjoying himself like a 14 year-old boy since he flung away ambition and shook the politicians who wanted to use him as a cat’s-paw, so to speak. As two bearers were walking away from the grave in which they had depos ited a neighbor, one said to the other, “ Yell, Mr. Morse, here’s where we’ve all got to come, if we live.” “I would like to see a gold or silver plated contribution box just once,” re marked the old deacon as he poured out the small change, and continued, “It is usually copper, and at best only nickel plated.” The “Tall Sycamore of the Wabash,” Dan Voorhees, is going to make a few speeches in the state of “Old Hickory” during the campaign. The Tennesseans will appreciate his visit and do him abundant honor. Russia can never be prosperous and happy until the Czar is made to stay at home. The trouble and expense of guarding the railroad trains come to a good deal more than the object of his expeditions are worth. It seems exceedingly probable that the stock of beautiful young women will soon be exhausted, judging from the number who are taken off by murder, suicide or other accident. Then the plain girls will have a chance. Philadelphia is to have a genuine or thodox democratic newspaper at last. It is to be called the Post, and will ap pear on Friday. It is to be conducted by W. U. Heusel, chairman of the dem ocratic state central committee. The whig republicans continue harmo nious, although they have drummed up enough recruits to make out an electoral ticket for the state. They had better go slow now, as no great overgrown par ty can exist long without a split. Mr. Logan’s letter of acceptance ap pears to have brought him into promi nence as a rising American humorist. A Philadelphia paper says: “Logan may be saddest when he sings, but he cer tainly is funniest when he writes.” “Why is the republican party like burglars?” asked John Kelly of his bo som frieud, Hubert O. Thompson, as they chawed cloves in the corridor of the Chicago hotel. “Why,l don’t know,” the bay-windowed Hubert returned. “Because they are trying to get into the White House with a “Jimmy” and a “Jack.” Fame —(The Quarter of an Hour be fore Dinner). Son of the house (to the hero of the day)—“Are you any relation to the Williamson?” Gen. Sir Archibald Williamson, G. C. 8., G. C. S. 1., V. C., etc. etc. etc.—“ The Williamson?” Son of the house—“ Yes; Fred William son, you know, who jumped live feet seven and three-quarters at our sports this term. She danced with me! Ah ecstacy! What rapture thrilled my pulsing blood, As with her on the floor I stood, And daintily She danced with me. She danced with me, And certainly, She seemed the fairest, sweetest born, Until she siepped upon my corn, Ob, jimminy! She danced on me. “Soled again,” remarked the cobbler, as he repaired an old pair of boots. Small fruits are so called from the size of the boxes they come in. If a dog knows a good thin g when he sees it will he seize it when he nose it? After all, the l>ean pole Is more useful to this country than the north pole. “I do business on a large scale, said the public weigher, “but I don’t give it a weigh.” The man who called another a dog. apologized by saying he did not do it pnrp-ously. It is the careful proof-reader, proud of his punctuation, who ‘ ‘points with pride. Mexican police go barefoot. You can’t awaken a Mexican officer by tick ling his feet. A sensible shoemaker will never of fend his milkman by presenting him with a pair of pumps. Bicyclers prefer their iron horses to the living steed. They take them for wheel or woe. The frieze the carpenters are putting on new houses just now don’t seem to cool the weather any. A young lady up tow T n has hair so long that it sweeps the floor, but the young lady is not at all like her hair. Since pantaloons have been selling for ten cents a pair Detroiters have begun to look quite dressy. Contempt of court—The small boy who hangs around the parlor and makes faces at his big sister’s beau. Asa rule the eye is no more a criterion of character than a single hair is of the strength of the butter in which it is found. Matthew Arnold hates to die because he will then have to go over to the ma jority. He would always rather be a “remnant.” The mosquito is not inclined to favor prohibition. It is -unanimously in favor of open bars, and unalterably opposed The people of Buffalo propose to build a monument to Red Jacket. It is.not likely any one will ever propose to erect a monument to the yellow jacket. Somerville, Mass.,has an “Owl Club.’ It is understood to have taken its name from the frequent inquiry of the mem bers to each other. “’Owl you have yourn?” It were a consummation devoutly to be wished that the girl of the period would come to a full stop.—But she wont; she’s inclined to comma gain. A man whose knowledge is based on actual experience says that, when calling on their sweethearts, young men should carry affection in their hearts, perfection in their manners and confection in their pockets. “Ah, don’t come a-wooing with your long, long face, and your l&nger purse behind!” sings a poetess in Harper’s Magazine. That’s it —the girls want your purse to occupy the front seat ev ery time. A hen’s egg measuring six and one half by eight and one-half inches has been laid on the table of a Georgia edi tor. He proposes to keep it and let it ripen for the next dramatic combination that comes down that way. A Case Without Hope. John R. Booker, of Macon, Ga., writes: “In 1878 I was attacked by the most ravenous sort of cancerous sore that ate great holes into my flesh and spread rapidly over my body. I received the very best medical attention; was dosed with mercury and potash until I was so crippled with mercurial rheumatism that I could scarcely hobble about; my throat and mouth were badly ulcerated; my hair began to fall out. So wrecked was my general health, that I became a phy sical ruin and my life was a burden. For a long time I was bed-ridden, and my suffering was so intense that I prayed fo death as a relief. I exhausted the whole catalogue of patent medicines, in each case following the directions religiously. Each in turn seemed to aggravate the malady, and none of them benefited me in any way. When life was apparently hopeless I commenced taking S. S. S. To this Specific I owe my life. In ten days I commenced improving, and in a short time was perfectly well. My hair has grown out thick; my health and strength have returned; the ulcers in my throat and mouth are entirely cured; my appetite has returned, and for the first time in years I enjoy my food. Every sore has disappeared from my body. I weigh as much as I ever did in my life, and am perfectly healthy in every way. The very germs of the cancerous afflic tion are destroyed. Not only is the ter rible malady that was preying on my life and which every one pronounced incura ble, entirely cured, but I am also relieved of the bad effects of the mercury and patash mixtures that I was fed on for years. Beware of Potash and Mercury mix tures, gotten up to imitate our specific, they are dangerous. Treaties on blood and skin diseases mailed free. The Swift Specific Cos., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga., 159 W. 23d St., N. Y. and 1205 Chestnut St., Phila, Advent f * ‘’Deliver.” When the last of the carpet-baggers grasped the liandle of the recepticle that held Ids plunder and struck a bee-line over the mountains, it was confidently believed that no more forever would false prophets lead the negro astray. The failue of the “forty acres and a mule” subdivision scheme, the failure of the Freedman’s Bank to pay dividends and finally the failure of the bank to return the principal itself, gave prophecy a black eye in Georgia and robbed uuindorsed promises of future benefits of half their charm. But if the New York Evening Telegram is to be credited, and it is a paper that strives to become the pink of perfection, prophecy and the promise business in this state have again been revived. The plan of the present campaign is based u}K)n the darkey’s religious fervor; it’s head-piece is “a tall and not unpleas ant looking mulatto.” This mulatto is the great American “Deliver” or prophet who shall make his grand entree upon “a great white horse,” possibly borrowed from Elijah’s celebrated chariot team, and “all the world shall bow in submis sion. ” He is at present near Gainesville, and it must be admitted that the negroes who have the movement in charge have displayed great wisdom, both in the con struction of their prophet and his tem porary location. No white man will ever consent to bow down to an African deliver, and since the republicans have made the caucasion complexion unpopu lar, no real African black can be prevailed upon to accept a white deliver. In this dilemma a compromise in shades which brings about a mulatto rescuer of the world seems a happy stroke of policy. At Gainesville, which is something of a summer resort, he will be enabled to get his hand in as a mortal purifier while ex perimenting upon the varied and milder forms of moral turpitude presented, mov ing into new fields as practice perfects. This also would seem to indicate wisdom of a superior nature, for it is easily un derstood that if he had gone at once into some sin centre, say Atlanta, for instance, with no experience and without methods, there might have been a snowed-uuder deliver among the missing, and the world would have gone to pieces for want of a rescuer. If we may trust the reports, the de liverer is thriving. He has a large fol lowing who “fall down and worship him,” and whose homage he receives compla cently, as though accustomed to it. He “lives in the midst of gloomy forests and in caves illuminated by the fitful glare of pitchpiue knots blazing in the hands of stalwart blacks at intervals among the audience.” He tells the mixed and ex cited crowd that they are “down-trod" den,” “under the heel,’’ that the hour of deliverance is near at hand. “More over he inspires his hearers with glowing and fanciful pictures of the land flowing with “milk and honey,” abounding in the “sports of the Indians happy hunt ing ground,” and reeking with the “sump tuous sensual joys of the Mohammedan paradise.” And here is the weak spot in the prophet’s campaign. Milk and honey to the day has no charm beside hog and hominy. The Indian’s happy hunting ground, with its violent exercise, is gloomy beside the sport cf the ebony fisherman, who angles from the bateau for the sluggish mudcat. The Moham medan paradise is no paradise is no paradise for a man who “loves to dance and sing at night and play the old banjo,” and strike for the dinner table when “Dinah blows the horn. ” This will not do. It smacks of the “town nigger;” it smells of the public school and free library. The prophet can never lead his forces to the promised land on such a shedule. He must insert in his platform planks guranteeing no work and all play; 100 per cent, horizontal reduction in the shade of midday; possum and potatoes; hog and hominy ad infinitum; the banjo, yellow girl and the break-down, music, drums, ribbons, flying banners and all the pomp and pageantry of modern Con- go chivalry. These, and a little fire water. Upon this platform the mulatto prophet can carry all of African Georgia by storm and catch some of the white vote. “The Sons and Daughters of Jacob” will get out their ladders to scale Zion’s walls. The “King Doves” will coo in council and prepare to migrate. The “Devoted Sisters” will cease their devotions and form in column. The “Armstrong Society” wall demonstrate its strength and far-reaching silent influence. “The United Sisters of Blue Jerusalem” will lift their voices in song, as they strike for their happy homes. The first result of this movement will be a scarcity of boiled shii’ts and cold dinners. Danger threatens. But per haps all this can be paralyzed by ener getic action on the part of the white men who, as yet, are not ready to be rescued from the world. Let them catch the prophet and inquire into his politics. It may be that in place of a fatiguing cam paign as a deliver, he will compromise on a mail carrier’s position or consent to yield his leadership for a deputy deputy’s clerkship and the flesh pots of Egypt.— Telegraph & Messenger. to the screen law. When the frantic leader of an open air orchestra is fighting mosquitos with his baton, the trifling public thinks that is his way of beating time. Canpaigß \otes. A quarter of a century is long enough for one party. The books in Washing ton should be overhauled by new men. Turn the rascals out. The Whig party was beaten in 1844 under the candidacy of the magnetic Henry Clay. History repeats itself about once in forty years. Mr. Blaine’s prohibition record will probably play a large part in this cam paign. The Germans sometimes make sad havoc of a prohibition candidate. The independent republicans represent a conscience vote. They are honest and in dead earnest. Their support is a very high compliment to Gov. Cleveland. The republican party is the party of the workingmen. Those horny-handed sous of toil, W. H. Vanderbilt, lay Gould and Cyrus W. Field, all hurrah for Blaiue. We cannot keep track of all the prom inent republicans who are know break ing into the democratic party. But they are welcome all the same. Each one is a man and a brother. The most threatening cloud upon the horizon of the republican party at this date is the attitude of the German voters in the imperial state of Ohio. It will be remembered that Ohio votes in October. The republican newspapers have got their mud machines all ready to play on Cleveland, but they don’t seem to make much headway iu throwing dirt. The great reform governor of New York seems to be invulnerable. The republican party has always claimed the credit for good prices, good crops and good times. Being such au omnipotent all-pervading party, it will probably have to assume the responsi bility for the hard times this year. The democrats will fight this year not only for the doubtful states, but for Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin, and other states which have formerly been consid ered reliably republican. The indica tions are that this will be a great year for the democrats. The surface signs indicate that the Republican revolt against Blaine in New York will be as large this year as the revolt against Folger in 1882. If it should be—but we will not harrow the feelings of the republicans by unpleas ant speculations. Ihe Penalty of Greatness. When one man rises either by merit or accident above his fellows, especially when he aspires to a high dignity in the gift of the people, he may expect that all of his past life will be subjected to the white light of the most searching scrutiny. It is one of the penalties of greatness to invite slander and vitupera tion, and Mr. Cleveland just now is suf fering the fate that has been common to many who have preceded him. Poli tics is at best a dirty trade, and prom inent among its wares are detraction and defamtion. Among the brute creation the one that is wounded is instantly set upon by the others aud hounded to death. This is better than to die by slow torture. A sensitive man might eagerly welcome a death blow in preference to that slow torture which follows the entering of the iron into the soul. It is not expected that political meth ods can be reformed. They are the same now that they have always been and are likely to continue to remain un changed. But it is always right and timely to enter a protest against such as are unworthy and indefensible. The man who aspires to political greatness must be prepared to suffer the penalty whieh will surely follow. Just now political malignity is assail ing the private character of Mr. Cleve land. One of his defenders observes that the fact that he was elected mayor of Buffalo is the best and most sufficient answer. Not so. The best answer is a denial that cannot be successfully refu ted. If political malignity has invented a lie to impair his success, the lie will surely recoil with the force of a boom erang upon the heads of its inventors. Men of great powers, with favorable op portunities, have reached exalted sta tions in all the departments of life, not withstanding their characters, but they have not carried with them the respect, confidence and affection of good and honest people. A True Incident. A little girl came from Sunday School in a high state of indignation because her Sunday School teacher had told her that Jesus was a Jew. “Was he a Jew, mother?” said she, in great excitement. “Why, yes, my dear,” said the moth er, a little doubtfully, as if unwilling to concede the objectionable fact, but un able to deny it, “Suppose he was a Jew?” “But I thought he was the son of God?” “So he is, my dear.” “I don’t see how, then, he can be a Jew, responded the young sectarian, for God is a Presbyterian. Otis. Cartersville, July 30, 1884, NUMBER 14. The Tribane oa Loraa's Laagaage. On the 15tli of January, 1875, the N. Y. Tribune, the paper that the best peo ple delight to read, published a descrip tion of a speech, made in the United States Senate be one Senator Logan, in which, among other things, it said: And then he went for his mother tongue. He smote it right aud left, hip and thigh, and showed no mercy. Swing ing the great broad-axe of his logic high in the air, he turned it ere it fell and with the hammer-side struck the lan guage of sixty millions of people fairly in the face aud mashed it beyond recog nition. Under his stroke the floor of the American senate was spattered with the remnants of a once proud vocabula ry, and messengers, doorkeepers, and pages were covered from head to foot with the spray. In the fearful two hours which followed the first roar of his oration all the parts of speech were routed and put to flight. There were orphaned adjectives and widowed nouns; bachelor verbs driven to polygamy and polygamous verl>s left lonely; conjunc tions dissevered; prepositions scattered; ; dverbs disheveled and distorted, and syntax flung into wild disorder. It was a great day for Logan. Magnetic Girls The Georgia girl who in a New York theatre is turning umbrellas inside out, forcing strong men to their knees, push ing them about the room with billiard cues, .and dislodging them from chairs as fast as they seat themselves, is spoken of as “the wonder.” This implies that she is an extraordinary phenomenon, a nov elty, a strange being. But is she? When we compare her accomplish ments noth those of other women, she is not so very remarkable after all. Not a day passes that one may not see in nearly every State in the Union little women removing big men from their seats—in the street cars. These women do not even touch the seats as the “Georgia wonder” does the chair. Their magne tism is so great—if they are young and pretty—that they need only to enter a car or a ferry boat in order to set half a dozen men springing to their feet as if the seats were made of sheet iron and a fire had suddenly been started under them. It is noticed, however, that as women grow old aud homely this magne tism diminishes in force; and the best it can do is to lift some middle aged man very slowly and hesitatingly from his seat. It is claimed for another Georgia girl that she can easily raise a person weigh ing 350 pounds. But it happens, not as often as it used to, that some woman, in no way extraordinary for size or strength, will raise a family of twelve or fifteen children with apparently the great est ease, some of whom, before she gets done raising them, are bigger and strong er than she is. Women at church fairs and festivals for the poor have surpassed the Georgia woman’s greatest feats. With two or three flowers wrapped with tin-foil, or two oysters in a dish and a slice of cake they have raised out of silly old million aires and wealthy dudes twenty times the amount that they would have given vol untarily to the same charity. In these days, men do not very often go down on their knees to wome n—ex cept in plays and stories—but time has beeu when very small women have, like the Georgia girl, brought very big men prostrate before them and kept them in that position for some time. The histo rian Gibbon went on his knees to the lady afterwards known as Madame de Stael, and on account of his corpulency couldn’t get up again until a servant came and helped him. So that even in this respect the Georgia wonder is not so ori ginal after all. Then there was the famous Helen of Troy, who drew a whole Grecian fleet and army several hundred miles from home, and Cleopatra, who was so “mag netic” that she drew Caesar- and Marc Anthony with their men and ships from Rome to Alexandria. Then, too, there are any quantity of magnetic girls whose feats are so com mon that they never get their names into the papers. The Georgia girl, who is exhibiting her power in a New York theater, whirls men round and round on the stage until their heads swim and their hair stand out straight, but she can’t keep them going more than a miaute or two. the oxdinary magnetic girl of commerce will whirl men around half the night not showing the slightest sign of fatigue, and then send them off into another room for beef tea, quail, ice cream and all the luxuries of the season. At other times they will make them hold the sofa down until “the old man” at the top of the stairs asks if breakfast is nearly ready, and after they are married “sit down hard” on these same men, for staying out not one-half as late as they used to when, as girls, they exerted their magnetic in fluence over them. If, therefore, the Georgia wonder ex pects to keep up this excitement about her very long, she must do something more than ten thousands of women have done and still do without provoking any unusual attention. —Detroit Free Frees.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Cartersville American. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1882-1886, August 05, 1884, Image 1