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The Cartersville American.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1884.
A MURKY CHRISTMAS.
Again has the wheel rolled around and
dropped us into another week of holi
days. One more twelve months has
been wound the spool of remorse
less time and sent backwards, to be seen
no more forever. , The year 1884 has
glided by, with all of its happy realiza
tions and happier dreams; it has left
marks on every brow, sunshine or shadow
in every heart. As it inarched on with
stately tread, it laid its pallid hand on
many a strong man and moved him
hence; it made many bright eyes grow
dim. and many dim eyes glow the bright
er; it trod the haunts of revelry, and
left behind it in many places, the tearful
wail, where once all was light and joy;
it heralded its millions to their eternal
home; it ushered into this world its mil
lions more, who are to piay their parts
on the great stage and then pass out to
the dark beyond.
But why contemplate the past. Let
us'rather look to the future. Christmas
is at our doors again. Santa Claus is
here by a big majority. The little boys
heads are filled with the brightest of an
ticipations. The little girls are happy in
their thoughts of dolls with curly, golden
ringlets and open-and-shut eyes, of
stockings stuffed with candy and nuts
and raisins, and of jiretty books fill and
with pictures. The young men and
young ladies are getting everything
ready for an hilarious time. There are
the balls, the candy pullings, the harm
less sociables, and the Christmas trees
hanging full of pretty, useful, ornamen
tal, highly-prized gifts from the loving
hands of friendly givers. There are the
fathers and mothers, the grandfathers
and grandmothers, who are happy be
cause their children and grandchildren
are happy. •
Yes, for one week let us all have our
merry, gladsome fun. It will do no
harm, if we do not over-do the thing.
Let us kill the fatted calf, roast the
plump pig, bake the gobbler saved for
the occasion, cook the delicious (not
Washington) pie, beat the foamy sylla
bub, thump up the exhilarating egg-nog,
and have a good time generally.
The people of Cartersville and Bartow
county have patronized the American
handsomely this year, and for one, we
say gladly, joyously aud^J earnestly: We
wish you all a merry, merry, merry
Christmas, a happy New Year, and abun
dant the coming years, and
promise you for next year the best news
paper Cartersville has ever had !
’PROHIBITION VICTORIOUS*
After a “close shave” Bartow has fall
en into line a.s a “dry county,” The
contest was full of interest and excite
ment “For whisky” and “Against whis
ky” have had and equal showing before
the people, and by a majority of two, tlfe
verdict is that whisky must go. Elec
tion day was one to be remembered.
Preachers and bar keepers, beardless
boys, audyburly, broad-shouldered men,
poverty and wealth, ignorance and learn
ing all mingled in one common mass
around the polls. Like the spirited race
horses, “for whisky” and “against
whisky” took the track and made the
race amid shouts and enthusiasm. Early
in the day “against whisky” w.ts the fa
vorite and started off’ in the lead, but
about noon, when the third quarter was
reached, “for whisky” brushed up, and
down the “home stretch” they came
“neck and neck.” It was a time of al
most feverish excitement, and many a
heart beat anxiously. Just before the
sheriff sounded the signal declaring the
time up, “against whisky” surged ahead
aud came under the string two nose
length in the leap.
JI DfiE HOWARD’S REPLY 10 MR. MUR
PHY.
Messrs Editors: I le use °*
,„„r columns to make some statements
iu reply to the article ot Mr. Murphy's
in the Free Press. I will be as brief as
the circumstances will allow. Mi. A 11L *
phy heads liis article, “Is it Insanity/
My mind does not suggest at this moment
a proper heading for my reply; the falsity
of his statements might suggest several
but as Ido not know the state of his
mind when the article was brought
forth. Can’t say to what extent lie was
responsible. Some people are charitable
enough to regard him as simply a luna
tic. enjoying some lucid intervals. This
may palliate to some extent his outrage
ous perversion of the truth.
Iu his article he enumerates the duties
of the ordinary with wonderful accuracy
f r O , iC 0 f his mental calibre, but as he
proceeds with his misrepresentations
wholly regardless of the truth, we see
him in his true character, in his fitting
element.
I have held the office < f ordinary for a
long while, but I claim no vested rights
or title thereto, I have been a tenant
by sufferance, the people have elected
me, and have again shown an encourag
ing disposition to want me to serve them
longer, and if they so will it, I will gladly
do so to the best of my ability.
It appears that Mr. Murphy wants to
ride into office by creating prejudice (
drawing out and magnifying the private
affairs of others, hoping thereby to
cause the public to forget and overlook
his own short comings and general in.
competency. I am not the only candi
date who, by opposing him, has incurred
his hatred aud denunciation. Mr. Mur
phy knew he was stating what was not
the truth when he asserts that I have
made any “untruthful charges and ma
licious denunciations” concerning him,
but on the other hand I have reliable in
formation of hri practicing these little
peculiarities of his on mjself and others.
He has taken great pains to elaborate
and falsify the circumstances concerning
a certain lot in Cartersville occupied by
my father iu his life time. That the
public may know what a master of that
detestable art, he is aud how reckless in
his assertions. I give the truth of that
matter, and say, that:
If Col. W. Akin ever owned a judg
ment or fifa against my father, Nathan
Howard, I never heard of it, I never saw
it. I never sneaked into his office and
purchased it, and no sale was ever made
under such a paper, as Mr. Murphy
could have very easily learned if he had
taken the pains to examine the tiles and
sale book kept by the sheriff, and had
desired to learn and publish the truth*
and ci 11 statements of Mr. Murphy in re
gard to the execution held by Col. Akin
are untrue.
In 1857 my father, Nathan Howard,
became involved and was* sold out; in
1858 he rented the Dozier farm in Pauld
ing county and lived on it. In 1859 I
rented the McCauless .'place iu Cartels"
villefor him, andjpaid the rents, in 1850
and 1801. I purclirsed the lot in Car
tersville, on which he lived, and took the
ittles to myself, and placed the family
on it to live. A few years after the sur
render, my father 'expressed the wish to
own the place and I made him a deed
and took: his note and mortgage for the
purchase money. This I held irntil 1870
when he died, he had never paid one
cent of the purchase money, and at’his
death the same owing. My step
mother continued to live on the lot with
her family until 1879, when all the
children'were of full age, and most of
them had married and settled. Her son
had gone to Kentucky to live. Upon con
sultation it was’considered best,"as the
purchase money was unpaid, that the
property should be turned over to me
iu satisfaction of the same. I having
paid the burial expenses amounting to
about $50.00, also doctor bills to Dr. T.
H. Baker for last illness amounting to
$4G,75 and numerous bills and taxes
on the property for which I hold re
ceipts. Now with this understanding
with the family, on the 3d day of Sep
tember 1879 I tiled a bill on the equity
side ot the superior court of Bartow
county to foreclose the mortgage and
perfect the titles to myself, copies of
which bill were served in person on all of
the heirs, or acknowledged by them, and
by legal publication under order of court,
and at the trial term, July term 1880,
the bill was called for trial,in its order,no
defense was filed by either of the par
ries, the evidence was submitted to a
jury composed of the following men,
to-wit:
D. W. Loudermilk, foreman, James
M. Jackson, Thomas H. Powell, J. S*
Upshaw, Wm. K. Huse, Frank Meadow,
Wm. Everid e, H. J. Wade, W. H.
Jones, Juo. P. Arnold, G. W. Chitwood
aud James W. Burge.
Wheu and ou the trial the} rendered
and returned into the court a verdict for
plaintiff amounting to $1,099.15, and a
decree was rendered bv the court for
said amount, aud condemning the prop
erty and ordering fifa to issue for the
same, which - was done, the pioperty
levied on, advertised, and sold in terms
of the statute.
No defense was filed to said suit, no
objection was made by any of the par
ties interested, the purpose of the suit
was to perfect the titles, and was under
stood by all interested, aud neither of
them has ever expressed auy objections
to me about it up to this day. All these
facts appear on the record of Bartow
superior court. Now after having provi
ded a home for my fathers family for 19
years, and until all the children became
of age, most of them married and settled.
I am. to be charged with fraud and vil
liany by Mr. Murphy because I collected
a debt and obtained this property by a
decree of the superior court after due
and legal notice to all concerned aud
without a single objection; the public
have he facts let them judge.
As to the homestead cf my step-moth
er spoken of by Mr. Murphy, ail I have
to say is that being a relative w thin the
prohibited degrees, an provided by stat
ute, I declined to act upon the same, the
application was carried to the Superior
court, either by appeal or mandamus,
and Judge Parrott disposed of the case.
The setting apart of a homestead has no
bar to the collection of a debt for pur
chase money, as any lawyer should
know.
This distinguished purifier of official
atmospheres, this paragon of all that is
bo desirable in a candidate for ordinary
feasts his peculiar appetite by publishing
a sworn copy < f an alleged marriage li
cense, and writiug thereon, the original
of which I am informed lie obtained by
very questionable means. He attempts
to excuse this publication by stating he
does it to expose my official character,
etc. The fact is, and I believe he knew
it, there is nothing official about that
document, there is not an authorized or
official signature to it (unless it be that
of Rev. K. B. Headden.) The paper is
not a marriage license, it is not signed
by me, or anyone authorized to sign it.
That instrument purports to bear date
December. ‘23rd 1881.' I had no deputy
on that date. On the 22ad day of De
cember, 1881, I passed the following or
ffipr, and the same was entered on the
minutes, and Geo. A. Howard had full
notice thereof to-wit:
ORDER.
Court of Ordinary, Bartow county, at
chambers, Dec. 22nd 1881. Ordered
that George A. Howard be and he is
hereby discharged and dismissed, as dep
uty clerk, Court of Ordinary, of said
county, to take effect from this date.
J. A. Howard, Ord’y.
Minutes G. page 184.
No application was ever made to me
to issue license in this case and to have
recorded it would have violated my oath
of office. As to the writing on the face
and back I have to say, that wheu I came
across the I was laboring under
great excitement, grief and disappoint
ment, for the time overcame me, and iu
a moment of passion the writing was
done, and I confess that had I taken
time to reflect, it would not have been
done, in as heated language as was used.
In regard to a conversation Mr. Mur
phy states he had with me as to my can
didacy, I say that it is a fabrication of
his. The only conversation I ever had
with Mr. Murphy on this subject was in
last July at the steps to the depot plat
form near Main street. He asked me if
I was going to be a candidate for ordina
ry again. I told him I would and that
my name would appear in the next issue
of the American. He said “all right, I
will vote and do all I cfm for you. ” This
is the only conversation I over had with
him on the subject.
The animus of Mr. Murphy in the
matter is too plain to need comment.
My private and family troubles have
been hard to bear, and no man who has
not felt the sad disappointments that I
have and who has not seen his cherished
designs for his loved ones defeated and
fall crushed at his feet, can realize the
keen heart pangs and mental anguish
that I have suffered and that have
brought rorrow to my declining years.
The public, I daresay, feel no real in
terest in these private matters, but if my
qualifications for office are to be tried by
this standard I must submit to the will
of a good people who have honored me
greatly in the past and for whom I shall
always entertain the greatest respect.
My official character and acts are open
to the world aud I defy any man to show
any act of mine not in keeping with offi
cial duty. I may have made mistakes, I
am but a man, my official record is made
up for the people to pass upou. To their
verdict I will bow.
The public have the facts in regard to
the matters that have troubled Mr. Mur
phy’s dreams. His statements and mine
are before the public. Mine sustained
by the records and the truth, his by
Mr. Murphy’s statements.
J. A. Howard.
REF. YES’ STATION.
This place rapidly grows in population.
Three families consisting of thirty-two iu
number have moved here from Frankliu
county.
The R. R. company have made ar
rangements to have the depot repaired,
and have appointed Mr. Morrison depot
agent. Now we need a ticket, an ex
press, and a telegraph office.
Mr. Isham Dalton makes it pay ship
ping rafts of logs to Rome, down the
Oostauaula river.
Dr. McDaniel has opened anew drug
store at this place.
While Mr. Lanier was moving hist
week, the horses became frightened aud
ran away, hurting him, but not seriously.
Rev. Henry Darnell has returned from
a visit to his father’s in Griffin, Ga.,
greatly improved in health.
Rev. John Bradley, candidate for tax
collectoi was here last week.
A school is being made up for Prof.
Fulton, at Mt. Zion
Miss Nora Neel, of Cartersville, is vis
iting friends and relatives iii Gordon
county.
CAN BeTaD FOR THE' MONEY.
14 pounds granulated sugar SI.OO
8 “ Coffee “
35 “ Grits “
16 “ Soda “
16 “ Starch “
13Ji “ • Rice “
6% “ Cheese “
11 “ Soda Crackers “
18 “ Oat Meal “
BVff “ Candy “
10 “ Lard “
7ha “ Breakfast Bacon “
18h£ “ Bulk Meat
9K “ Shoulder “
6% “ Hum “
25 Bars Soap “
12 Cans 2 lb. Tomatoes “
9 Cans Oysters “
6 “ Salmon “
13 “ Sardines “
2,tjj Gallons Syrup “
3]-£ “ Vinegar “
5X “ Oil “
5 Bushels Coal “
40 Bunches Bine “
Vcaches highest patent flour $3.00 for one
hundred li>s. Good family flour $1.90 “ “
“ “ Meal 5 bush, lots 60c a bushel.
Many other things not mentioned at
J. L. SMITH’S, West Main Street, Car
tersville, Georgia.
TICILET FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
J. P. Lewis,
W. A. Churn,
Bryant 8. Leak,
J. N. Dobbs,
J. C. Milam.
m TEE mil HUB I® 081 IP MS
That during Ilie remainder of* this season we will make the dry
goods trade fairly hum.
The Christmas Fide is here, and we are awake to the fact that
now is the time to sell our very large stock of
LADIES’ DUESS GOODS, & MEN’S & DOYS’ CLOTHING.
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We cannot afford to sit down and weep and wail and gnash our
teeth and complain of hard times,
That’s Not the Kind of Men We Are!
We are compelled to take up arms against a sea of business,
and by grappling with it, make ourselves masters ot the situation.
Let the news be passed from man to man, and from house to
house, that we are, beyond doubt, or even suspicion
HEADQ-UARTERS FOD DRY GOODS!
0
Conte right along and satisfy yourselves that we tell nothing
but the clean, unadulterated truth.
COME ALONG EVERYBODY!
SCHEUER EROS.,
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MAIJV STREET, CARTERSVIELE, GEORGIA.
Money Smd is Money Made !!
THIS ¥oi] CAM BO BY BOTH® ®OOBi OF.
MAYS <fc PRITCHETT.
We have the .roods and mean to sell them. We have the finest, best made and best fitting clothing in Cartersville an
inspection will convince you ot this fact. We can please anybody in a Ovecoart, at the lowest price imaginable. Ou. Shoe .took
is complete and at Prices to suit everybody.
IH'NEW GOODS RECEIVED THIS DAY®^=
Consisting of Corsets Neck Wear, Ladies’ and Men’s Underwear, Dress Goods in great variety, White and Red allwool
Flannels at 15c per yard, Blankets and Comforts at Rock Bottom Prices, Jeans that can t be beat m f ’
jeans from 16c per .yard and upwards. No trouble to show goods as we are here and bound to do it, whether you du,
MA YS tS’ PRITCHETT.
Cartersville, Georgia, Dec. I—tf.
YT 'wILLIAMS & CO.
DF.AI.ERS I >
T*" sr*l jPfT Stoves, Tinware, Chinaware, Lamps and Window Glass, (Sash, Boors, Blinds.
JHpi manufacturers oe
TIN AND SHEET IRON WARES. ROOFING AND GUTTERING A SPECIALTY.
THE MARKET PRICE PAID FOR COTTON, BEESWAX, TALLOW, ETC.
3V£-A.I3Sr ST., CARTBRSVILUE’, GrA -