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The Cartersville American.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1884.
Blaine, Blaine, the “favorite on/*
For the White House thought he’d run;
The votee were polled and Jim got beat,
So he went roaring down the street,
“The solid south.”
What a contrast between Cleveland’s
utterances and those that emanate from
the brilliantly fertile brain of blustering
Blaine.
Head blustering Blaine’s speech to his
friends at Augusta, Maine, and then im
agine what kind of a president he would
have made. He would have considered
a revolution but a splendid affair upon
which to ride to glory.
The unanimous election of Senator Jo
seph E. Brown to be his own successor,
is a deserved compliment. The people
of Georgia through their representatives
in the legislature will do nothing better
than this any time soon. Bob Toombs
received one vote, but this was just for
fun, and nothing serious at all was meant
by it.
Conkling has got even with Blaine at
last. The ex-senator reminds us of the
boy who, on being stung by a large bum
blebee, chased the insect for half a mile,
knocked it down with his hat. and while
holding it down wifli a wisp of hay, took
a large pin from his coat, and jobbing it
through the bumblebee several times
said: “I guess you’ll believe there is a
God in Israel now.”
The friends of Dr. Felton naturally ex
pected that his ability and legislative ex
perience would command for him the
chairmanship of some one of the leading
committees in the house. They can on
ly attribute his failure to appear sis such,
to the narrow-minded prejudice of a
weakling speaker. Indeed the entire
seventh district seems to have been
unaccountably ignored in the make up of
committees.
1 ———
Billy Mahone, Johnny Logan, Jimmie
Blaiue, and Chetty Arthur should organ
ize a quartette for the purpose of sere
nading Belva Lockwood, Dr. Mary Wal
ker, and other men-women of the same
stripe. Billy would fit the high tenor
beautifully, Johnny would fill thelow-ten“
or chuck full, Jimmie would gallop around
on the soprano i t first-rate style, while
Chetty would ring out the basso-profun.
do in a grand, mug-wump, bull frog
manner. Now let the procession move.
TIIE NEW CAPITOL.
The legislature just at present seems
to feel the pressure of a most determin
ed effort to compel the use of Georgia
marbte in tiie erection of the new capitol.
Dr. Felton is to be congratulated that
his first act of service to the state in that
body was to aiTest the perpetration of
such costly folly.
The chief arguments advanced as rea
sons why the work of the capitol com
mission should be undone, the faith and
oontract of the state violated, and a still
weightier burden of taxation laid upon
the people, are state pride, and the de
velopment of local resources.
Undoubtedly every citizen of Georgia
would, as an abstract proposition, be
glad to see the capitol built wholly of
materials drawn from within her bor
ders, and point with pride to so grand
an exhibition of her varied resources.
But when the expenditure of public
mpney passes the limit of sound judg
ment and prudent economy, they in
stantly become dangerous to the safety
of the commonwealth, impoverishing the
state whose glory they falsely pretend to
exalt.
Those who are curious enough to in
vestigate will probably find that nearly
all of the marble properties in Georgia
have passed from the citizens of the
counties where they are located, and are
now owned chiefly by strangers residing
without the state. It will also be dis
covered that, by a system of misrepre
sentation and depreciation, these prop
erties were bought at prices infinitely
below their real value. The fortunes of
these sturdy Georgians have been bar
tered away for a pittance, and they can
have no further interest in the develop
ment of the marble, save as they receive
the scant wages of the laborer iu the
quarry.
Now we would like to know what ob
ligation rests upon the state to tax the
farmer of Burke, the merchant of Chat
ham, or the miller of Bartow to enrich
the non-resident stock holders of the
Perseverance Marble Company simply
because their quarries happen to he lo
cated iu Pickens county? Why not en
rich Brumby, of Marietta, by buying his
chairs at exorbitant prices, and call it
“development ?” or, compel the use of
Ladd’s lime, and call it “state pride?”
Why has not the lumberman of south
Georgia as perfect a right to insist upon
the use of his yellow pine, even though
a non-resident manufacturer offei better
lumber at a lower price. The truth is
that all this talk about state pride is the
merest sham to cover a raid upon the
state purse.
Why does not Btate pride stimulate
tUe owner* 0 { these quarries to
, Georgia marble as cheaply a* she
can buy other material equally as good?
If they cannot sell at their own doors as
low us other, and perhan u
offered it, eveu “ tOUe “
rfiorgee tor tranpo ttati * 5 tre '
miles, how can they exp£A U “ ,ired “ “*
*. *-
their marble must pay the .
gee now fulling on the oolitic
One of two eonelueton, i. ?
either theee marble companies are „ u ’
Georg in exorbitant price* tor their Btoi *
or the cost of putting it upon the market
is so great that it cannot compete with
other building material. If the first be
correct, then they are endeavoring to
wrong the state and should be promptly
rebuked. If the latter be correct, the
boons they seek, if granted by the state,
will bring her no return. The capitol
will be built, the non-resident stock
holder enriched, and the quarries idle
and undeveloped still.
Therefore, as the matter now stands,
we are opposed to any interferance with
the work of the capitol commission. The
material selected is fully known, while
the enduring quality of Georgia marble
is unknown and untested, and the erec
tion of a building of such material would
be a costly experiment which might
prove disastrous. The sum appropriated
is large enough and the people can’t bear
a heavier burden now. Above all, it is no
part of the state’s duty to foster private
business at publie expense.
We conclude these hasty remarks by
again congratulating Dr. Felton upon
the act of signal service he has rendered
the tax-payers of the state. Let him
continue to repel such raids upon the
people’s treasury, and he will merit and
receive their lasting gratitude.
THE PROHIBITION BILL.
The prohibition bill has been rushed
through the house of representatives
with commendable zeal and is now in
the senate which it will pass without se
rious, if any opposition. The bill pro
vides that the question of whiskey or no
whiskey be submitted to the voters of
Bartow county on the third Wednesday
(17th day) of December, which is only
three weeks from to-morrow. It is im
portant that the friends of the move
ment make preparation to meet this im
portant question. The people of the
Stamp creek district have already taken
steps to organize a temperance club, the
object of wuich is to vote and work for
prohibition. They set an example that
should be followed by every district in
the county. With the proper organiza
tion, it will be easy to achieve the vie.
tory that has been so much talked of, but
without some earnest effort it is probable
—or at least possible—that the measure
will be defeated. We know that a large
majority of the intelligent voters and tax
payers of the county will vote to banish
whiskey, and if they will come to the
polls and put iu their ballots the victory
will be sure and sweeping. But there
is an impression in the minds of many
that the measure is so popular that their
votes will not be necessary, consequent
ly they will stay at home. This indiffer
ence must be overcome. We will need
the vote of every man to give us the
majority we want. Let us publish to the
world that this temperance movement is
not the result of a few unreasoning fanat
ics, but that it gets its origin deep down
in the hearts of the intelligent and peace
loving masses. Let us rebuke the men
who have stood up in high places and
denounced the temperance advocates as
religious hypocrites and moral fanatics.
Nothing short of a majority of five hun
dred should satisfy us. We can get it on
a full vote.
BARTOW’S FARMERS’ CLUB.
This is a comparatively recent organi
zation, but it is one of more than passing
importance. Its membership is small,
but its working power is large. The
men who compose this club are all suc
cessful and well-to-do farmers who live
in what is called the Stilesboro communi
ty. Here is a list of the members: Ar
thur Davis, Levi F. Shaw, N. B. Can
non, James L. Colbert, Joel T. Conyers,
W. J. Cunyus, H. T. Culpepper, T. S.
Hawkins, C. S. McCormick, J. R. Jolly,
J. F. Muyson, Dr. J. S. Beazley, and H.
J. McCormick.
We have the honor of knowing all
these men personally’, aud we mean ex
actly what we say when we mention the
fact that they are all sensible, successful,
practical, and progressive men. Their
idea is to create a greater social bond be
tween the different members of the club,
as well as to inaugurate a better aud
more aggressive system of farming in
Bartow county. These things they have
accomplished very ha dsomely.
This organization was created to live,
not for a few weeks, but for years. The
members all feel the keenest, iuterest in
everything that affects (he individuals as
well as the club as a whole. Nothing
but a providential hindrance can keep
these men from attending the regular
meetings. They are always on hand,
and they always transact business of im
portance, whenever they meet together
—business that benefits not only them
selves but the entire community iu which
they live.
We would hail with the liveliest pleas
ure the organization of such a club as
this one in every raalitia district iu Bar
tow county. What say our farming
friends?
Krm for Saif,
$1,350 will buy a beautiful little farm
of about 180 acres, more or less, situated’
about three-fourths of a mile west of Cass
Station, and known as the Waters place.
The land is good, about one-third timber
ed- The improvements consist of a four
room frame dwelling, stables, two good
tenant houses, with two rooms each, a
fine well of water and a good orchard.
At $1,350 this farm is a bargain; having
never been sold for less than $2,500. Ap
ply to Douglas Wik’c, att’y at law, Car
tereville, Ga.
Merchants can get Favorite Cigarettes
from David W. Curry, wholesale agent.
•\ye call the special attention of the
ladies to our elegant line of black silks
black and colored cashmeres, also a beau
tiful line of trimming, velvets, all colors
plain, woven and embossed. Don’t fail
to examine them. ,
Jones Bros. & Cos.
Long life to Grover Cleveland, and a
big trade to Scheuer Bros.
SAM _BKOWJN.
HE REVELS IN REMINISCENCES OF SAND
MOUNTAIN.
o
The Thinness of the Slock on that Hill
Strikes Him with Force—Keeping
the Goats out of the Field.
o
I went to Sand Mountain once. This
little ridge what is about one mile high,
two hundred miles long, and thirty miles
wide, and what lies mostly in Alabama,
butts up against Tennessee on the north,
and grazes down in smelling distance of
the left leg of Georgia, is a famous place
in its way. And I thought its way was
not a very nice one the night I walked
out to the middle of it from Gadsden:
distance, forty-five miles—time of transit,
four hours and a half—load carried by
me, a guano sack full of old clothes and
anew pair of boots what were three num
bers too large for me.
Yes, I wished that I was dead four
hundred and seventy-five thousand times
before I reached my destination.’ Each
time I made this wish there was a decid
ed impression made upon my mind—
therefore, I remember the exact number
distinctly.
I lived on the mountain four months
and I noticed the working of affairs and
the condition of things so closely that I
am a very competent man to write about
it. There are a great many people on it
what used to live in Bartow county: Mo
sey Quarles, for instance, and Wilkes
Milam for the second instance.
Sand Mountain is a bully place for la
zy men. There you will find plenty of
free-stone water, plenty of sweet pota
toes, sorghum syrup, and fiddling and
dancing. Every man out there can play
the fiddle capitally, and two thirds of the
women can do it more capitally than the
men. (Some of the tuues played by
overy fiddler that fiddles on Sand Moun
tain, male and female: Sugar in the
gourd, Give the fiddler a dram, Sally
Gooden, Billy in the low grounds, Arknn
saw traveller, Tiie distressed puppy,
Chickens-a-cackling, Chattanooga, Big
ball in town, Soap suds over the fence,
and many others just as nerve-thrilliug
and soul-stirring.) While treading out a
small part of my checkered and beauti
fully variegated career on that hill, I
learned how to fiddle very nicely, and
when I returned home my old woman
broke my dollar and a half fiddle with
her wash stick because I would persist in
fiddling away on good old tunes.
This busted the fiddling business with
me; it did, certain.
Sand Mountain is famed for the thin
ness of the stock that perambulate upon
its level and ashy top. (I say ashy top
because the soil on the top is just like an
ash-bank, only you can’t make lye with
the soil and water.) The cows are so
thin until their milk has no cream in it—
it is buttermilk when you first get it.
The mules and horses are so thin until a
raw’-hide saddle wont last more than
three trips. The hogs are all so thin un
til you can’t build a fence with small
enough cracks to keep them out of your
field, except you tie a knot in their tails.
Sometimes the knot comes untied, then
away goes your crop of sorghum and po
tatoes. One morning old man Milam
and myself went over to Wad Glenn’s.
When we got in about a mile of his
house, the air began reverberating and
echoing with a noise what sounded like
a thousand hods of brick bats tumbling
down an old dry scaffold. Upon nearing
the scene of action, we discovered what
caused the noise: Wad had his dog, an
old yellow hound, wlxat was too thin to
trot, iu a wheel-barrow, rolling it around
his potato patch, so that the dog by bark
ing could frighten out the hogs what had
pulled the knots out of their tails and
slipped through the cracks.
A great many people on Sand Moun
tain raise goats, and these goats are as
brave as lions and are as much inclined to
butt everything that moves as a lump of
platinum is to sink in water. Wad Glenn
had a flock of the worst butting goats in
tte world. The leader of this flock was
a butter sure enough. He was a large
“billy” with a prominent forehead and a
quick moving eye. He would butt any
thing in the wrorld. He tried to butt me
one day, but I jumped behind a large
piue stump, and the stump took the butt
ing. I didn’t, for I was running so fast
until I was half flying. The goat was too
busy knocking the stump to splinters to
see me. This narrow escape put me to
studyiug. At last I hit on a plan wlxat I
proceeded to unfold to Wild the next time
I saw him. We got us a rock what
weighed 487 pounds. We swung the
rock up with a hickory withe light in the
gap of the potato patch w here the fierce
“billy” was accustomed to come iu every
night about two a. m. The next morn_
iug we went down at 7 o’clock to see
which got the better of the slugging
match, the goat or the rock. When we
reached the scene of action we made the
following discovery: The rock was cov
ered on one side with blood and hair;
billy had butted himself all to pieces ex
cept his tail what was still jumping
against the rock. It took the tail two
days aud a half to wear itself out against
that rock; it did certain. Wad said he
wrould bet that was the best butter for a
goat butter that ever made a butt. I
told him to consider himself shook.
Bam Brown.
Be sure and buy some of our 35c jeans,
it is going very fast.
Jonkb Bros. & Cos.
FOB SALE,
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SCHEUER BROTHERS.
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PUT DOWN THE PRICE! PUSH UP THE TRADE!!
We are now offering the most complete and varied assortment of
mwmm m - mm
it has ever yet been our pleasure to show.
EVERY DEPARTMENT IN OUR HOUSE
is replete with the rarest and choicest goods to be found in North Ga.
can be had this moment, if you will only go to Scheuer Bros. Store.
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Everybody invited to come and see the dazzling display and learn
at what low prices they can get the best of goods. Our corps
of salesmen are the most attentive and polite to be
found in any house and they will give customers
every attention, whether they wish to purchase
or not. No one shall leave disappointed.
SCIEIIER BROS.,
MAIN STREET, CARTERBHLLE, (GEORGIA.
Fall and Winter Goods.
Mew broods!
MAYS & PRITCHETT
Have on hand the largest and best stock of goods that will be brought to this market this season, and they propose to sell
this stock as CHEAP AS THE CHEAPEST. These goods were bought by an experienced and carelul buyer in the best
markets in the United States and will be sold at as low figures as you can buy them anywhere. Our stock of ready made
GENTS’ AND BOYS CLOTHCNG is large and well assorted. Our line of LADIES’ DRESS GOODS has been selected with
an eye to the useful as well as to the tasteful and ornamental* Our lady friends are irvited to call and inspect them before
J purchasing elsewhere.
T. [MILES & SONS SHOES
are the most reliable and tasty shoe on the market.
We wish to deceive no one, being desirous of deserving the patronage of the people, we are
determined to sell you goods at the very lowest possible prices, thereby giving the very best of
goods at the verylowest prices.
We will leave nothing undone to deserve the good will ofthe public.
MA YS cY P RITCHETT\
Cartersville, Georgia, Oct. 7—tf.
V. L. WILLIAMS & CO.
DKALERN IN
Stoves, Tinware, Chinaware, Lamps and Window Glass, . Sash, Doors, Blinds.
fiftAlp v - MANUFACTURERS OF
TIN AND SHEET IRON WARES. ROOFING AND GUTTERING A SPECIALTY.
the market price paid for cotton, beeswax, tallow, etc.
MAIIV ST., CA.R.TBR.SVILLB, GA.