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The Cartersville American.
CARTERSVILLE, GA., JAN. 13, 1884
Reckon Mr. Child# begins to think
General Grant is a considerable elephant
How wonld it do to apply the proceeds
of the annual charity ball in Washington
tsp the relief of General Grant?
The New Orleans Expoeition seems to
ha lagging somewhat on account of the
great surplus of waattuw, and a shortr****
of funds.
The naval bill passed the Honse Satur
day. It appropriates nearly fifteen mil
lion dollars. It is to be hoped that it
will be so applied as that our invisible
aery will begin to appear.
General Longt.tr eet claims that the
Springer Committee threw out items in
hie aooount which had been allowed to
his predecessors in office—and that’s
What’s the matter with bis finances.
The Mormon elders who are tolling off
their ignorant proselytes from Georgia
and Tennessee, should be dealt with in
such a manner as to convinee them that
this abomination will not be tolerated.
Mr. Randall is certainly displaying
great wisdom in urging the importance
at winding up the business of the present
•engross without an extra session. Ex
tra sessions have heretofore damaged the
Democracy no little.
The East Tennessee, Virginia & Geor
gia Railroad has gone into the hands of
Maj. Fink, as Receiver, and Judge Dor
sey has been appointed Receiver for that
portion of the line lying in Georgia. The
question now is, who’s boss? and the
courts will have to decide it.
An Atlanta writer has come to the de
liberate conclusion that it’s all a mistake
about Gladstone’s great statesmanship.
Since Gladstone is so old—ending his
brilliant career—it was real cruelty in
this astute Constitution writer to dispel
the world’s illusion at this late day.
Congress seems to be nearly out of a
job when it proposes to settle a question
of personal veracity between Jefferson
Davis and General Sherman. A thous
and Congressional resolutions can not
wipe out the fact that General Sherman
has made a statement which he has not,
and never can substantiate.
We have before us the prospectus of
the “Cartersville Courant,” anew jour
nalistic enterprise to be started on the
ihtth, inst., by D. W. Curry, our whole
sale druggist, and Mrs. W. H. Felton,
We welcome our, soon to be, contempo
rary to the boisterous field of journalism,
and trust that they may reoeive a kindly
consideration at the hands of the public.
The outfit to be used by the publishers
of the “Courant” is the one at present
used by the Free Press. The manager
of that journal, we understand, will at
once purchase other material. As for
the American, its patronage for the past
year is an evidence that the people of
Bartow county approve our efforts to
give them a clean, readale newspaper,
and until we do something to forfeit their
esteem and good will, we feel warranted
ia believing that they will continue to
sustain us. Again, we promise our pat
rons a much better paper than hereto
fore. Our facilities are ample for mak
ing a first-olaas weekly jonrnal.
SOITRKRN IMPOITAWCK.
The Bouth is coming into prominence
more and more each year. It was a long
time before any thought was directed to
other departments of industry than farm
ing. The southern man thought he saw
in well cultivated cotton fields, and an
abundant yield of the staple, the wealth
of the south, the building up of her com
merce, the increase cf her comforts and
a bright page in her future history. In
a great measure these hopes have all
been abandoned, and other callings,
other institutions are demanding the
time and genius of southern men and
women.
Let us look at some of those things
about which we should think and in
which we should labor. The fanning
interest of the south need not be noticed
except os this furnishes a basis upon
which to predicate the manufacture of
ootton goods. No northern company
ean begin to compete, or ought to, with
those of the south. Here, the cotton is
made, hence a saving of freights both
ways, north, to be manufactured,
south, to be worn. Nature has been lav
ish iu the distribution of water-power.
As our rivers plungo from the mountains
they more than furnish power enough to
run every spindle and loom necessary to
transform our cotton into cloth. The
movement in this direction has already
been felt by the manufacturing interest
of the north, and will be felt mere in the
future.
Here, too, are beds of iron, coal, man
ganuse and limestone, all inviting the
furnace, the forge, the railroad and
steamboat, to lift them from their hiding
places, to smelt them, to form them into
articles of usefulness, and to transmit
them to other countries, where they may
become a faotor in blessing man and civ
ilizing the raoe. To show that this is
true, we have only to oall attention to
the fact that lately pig iron may be made
in the south, transmitted north at a price
that would bankrupt northern capitalists.
Iron, coal and lime can be fouud in the
same neighborhood, so that the closeness
of these together makes them tributary
to the cheapness of ail. These are all
growing industries, and will increase
more. It requires no prophet to foretell
n event like this.
thing bringing the
uoation. In this respect it already in
dependent, having as good schools, •cl
imes and universities a* can be found in
our common country, so that it is a rare
thing for a young man to complete his
edu<?ation at a northern institution. No
airs are put on, but instead, we are en
joying a delightful reign of common
sense in business and duty.
The moral growth and development of
the people are another cause for bringing
the south into notice. There is to-day a
better moral sentiment existing than
ever before. Laws for the betterment
of our citizens, and for the advancement
of every moral interest, meet the appro
bation of legislatures. The prohibition
movement in Georjpa is demonstrative of
this fact. A majority of its people have
voted to exclude from individual counties
the liquor traffic. 3[f this were only what
it purports to be, “a government by the
people and tor the deople,” not a drop
of intoxicating liquors would be sold in
Georgia.
The last presidential election haa al
most made the south another country in
the estimation of our northern friends.
They are visiting the south from almost
every quarter. It now weighs something
in national politics and is worthy to be
courted by the fair and brave. Trium
phal marches, and speeches, and recep
tions are,or seem to be, the order of the
day. Mr. Randall has come, Mr. Mc-
Clure is coming, Mr. Jay Gould is com
ing and a host of others, some for one
tiling, some for another, but all on bits
in?Sß. We say to all, come, if you have
money. We do not need your brains.
Hard times, political struggles with a
race who know no more of their welfare
than so many children, wars without and
fightings within, have all contributed to
brain development. What we want low
is money to smelt our ores, to build our
factories, to tunnel our mountains, to
open our rivers, to educate our sons and
daughters.
Yes, gentlemen, come on, you cursed
us for our slavery, you pitied us in our
poverty, and now seek to fondle us in
cur independence. Honest hands have
toilet!, honest and pure minds have
thought, and* as a reward, our resources
have been increased, our power, wheth
er commercial, economical, mineral, in
tellectual, political or moral, has been
demonstrated. Capitalists feel this, and
are beginning to invest their money,
commercial men begin to realize this,
and are falling into line with the south
ern movement, politicians know this end
are courting us for our favor, and all
men who think are beginning to see that
the south iB herself again.
We need many reforms to complete
the work already accomplished. Our la
bor system, or no system, is a failare,
our penitentiary system, a disgrace, and
our school system, incomplete. In time
these will be corrected and completed.
Iu conclusion, we may say that the
prominence of the south to-day is evi
dence of a great victory. Not by aims,
for here we suffered defeat, but a victo
ry won by honesty, industry, frugality,
patienee and economy.
A Georgian.
TATTLER. TALKS.
The race between Mr. W. W. Gian and
Mr. Albert Smith for tax receiver wb very
close and exciting. Mr. Ginn was elected
by a majority of only nine votes. Mr.
Smith should feel proud of the race he
made. Ho has never run for an office in
the county before this, anil he was com
paratively unknown except in his own
district. He was a brave, true soldier and
lost a leg In the Confederate service. He
is a clever gentleman, and has made many
friends in this race by his manly conduct,
and if he sees proper to offer for the place
two years from now it will be almosP im
possible to defeat him.
It is rumored that another one of our
sweetest girls is to unite her destiny with
a “furriner,” and leave ns. This habit our
girls are falling into of marrying boys
from other places is becoming monotonous
to the home boys. It is getting to be a
weekly occurrence, and something should
be done to stop it. If it goes on much
longer we will be robbed of our very fair
est flowers and the Cartersville boy# w ill 1
be left to a life of single cussedness, or else
have to seek elsewhere for wives. Our
boys are certainly sleeping over their
rights. They seem to have gotten entirely
out of the way of marrying. This is not
as it should be, and I most earnestly and
affectionately urge upon them the impor
tance Oi protecting home industry and en
couraging home enterprise in a matrimo
nial way, to the exclusion of this flourish
ing foreign traffic. In making these sug
gestions I act under the advice of aocae of
the sweetest girls in Cartertmllc. The
fault does not lie with them, and it is more
from necessity than from choice that they
leave us for “fresh fields and pastures
new.” If I should succeed in arousing our
boys to the importance of this subject, I
will be entitled to a choice chromo.
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The new officers of Bartow county are
prudent, competent men, and the interests
of the people will be safe in their hands.
Judge Howard, as ordinary, will bring to
his office a ripe experience and well-balan
ced head. His past record as an officer is
very fine, indeed; we doubt if there is a
more competent and correct ordinary in
the state. Whatever complaints may have
been made against bis personal dealings,
as an officer of the law he has made a re
cord to be proud of. Mr. Wesley W. Rob
erts will bo our next sheriff. He is well
known in Bartow county, and stands high
as a man of social and business qualifica
tions. He received quite a complimentary
vote, which shows that the people of the
county have confidence in him. His ma
jority is the more surprising when it is re
membered that he ran against one of the
cleverest and most popular men in the
county—-Mr. A. M. Franklin. Hr. Rob
erta as ifeartf and Hr. John A. Glaridat as
acter to the responsible offices which they
fill. Mr. F. M. Durham was re-elected
clerk of the court without opposition. He
is an officer of whom Bartow .county
should be proud. I have never known
any public officer to give such universal
satisfaction. The clerk’s office is the most
responsible and laborious in the gift of the
county, and Mr. Durham has come up to
the full measure of its responsibility.
There was a spirited contest over the tre&s-
I urer’s office between Mr. H. W. Cobb and
Mr. A. G. B. Yandivere, but Mr. Cobb was
elected by a good majority, and has anoth
er two year’s lease on the office. He haa
served the county as treasurer for many
years and has proven to be a most efficient
; and careful officer. Mr. B. A. Barton and
j Mr. W. W. Ginn were both re-elected as
: tax collector and tax receiver. They both
I had a “close shave” and were elected by
! small majorities. They are the twin crip
ples of the county and our people love to
honor them. They are good officers and
know their business. Capt. D. W. K. Pea
i cock was re-elected surveyor without op
position. He haa made such a good offi
cer that the people have no desire to
change him. John Rowland wa3 elected
coroner. There were more candidates and
more electioneering for this office, perhaps,
than for any other. John is a master of
the art of electioneering. He distanced
the opposition and came in nearly three
hundred votes ahead of everything. Mr.
Rowland’s vote was very complimentary.
He is now ready, nay almost anxious, to
assume the arduous and responsible du
ties of his office. The county commission
ers are Capt. J. C. Milam, of Cartersville;
Mr. John P. Lewie, of Kingston; Mr. B. T.
Leake,of Euharlee; Col. A. A. Vincent, of
Pine Log, and Capt. J. N. Dobbs, who
lives just across the river, in the Carters
ville district. They are all practical, clear
headed men, and will watch the various
interests of the county with vigilant care.
Only one of the old hoard, Mr. Vincent,
was re-elected. Taken altogether, Bartow
county has never had a better set of offi
cers. They know what is expected of
them, and will not fail in the full discharge
of their various duties. They are to be
congratulated.
Elections are not what they should be.
There is too much electioneering—too
much pulling and hauling—too much bull
dozing and begging. I wish the day
would came when every man could go to
the polls and vote without being pulled
and button-holed a dozen times before he
can get to the voting place. "While the
electioneerers are to blame, the fault does
not lie altogether with them. The trouble
is that men do not try to inform themselves
before hand, and go to the polls with their
minds made up. If they would do this
and turn a “cold shoulder” to these fel
lows who want to tell them bow to vote,
there would not be so much confusion
around the polls. Another trouble is that
there are so many “floaters” who drift to
wards the side that offers the greatest
“inducements,” and this is the most de
plorable part of the whole business. It is
astonishing at the number of men who
can be voted with a quarter or half-dollar.
I heard a man say that he could take two
hundred dollars and vote that many ne
groes in Cartersville for any candidate he
pleased. This may or may not be true. I
verily hope it is not, but it is true that
there are many men—all of whom are not
black—who can be voted with money, and
whe demand their money when they
work for a candidate. O, for the purity
of the ballot box!
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It was a noticeable fact that everybody
was sober on last Wednesday. Heretofore
on almost every election day the town has
been infested by men who were more or
less under the influence of whisky. Wo
prohibition people claim that this favora
ble change is due to the fact that whisky
has been voted out. I verily believe that
the absence of whisky on election days
will do much towards purifying the ballot
box and giving dignity and respectability
to our elections. So mote it be.
In his charge to the grand jury on yes
terday morning, Judge Simmons said
that he had learned with pleasure that
Bartow county had recently voted whisky
out of its borders. He said, “I urge upon
you gentlemen to see to it that this law’ is
respected and enforced. If you will sup
port it by a hearty public sentiment, and
help to punish those who violate it, you
will soon have very little use for grand
juries and criminal courts iu your county.
I have presided as judge in almost every
section of Qeorgio, and I find that viola
tions of the criminal law are nearly three
fourths as great in those counties where
whisky is retailed as in the counties where
prohibition is enforced and respected. The
kind of whisky now used seems to give
men a homicidal mania. When under
its influence they are not satisfied with
fist and skull fighting, but use iinplo
me*ta likely, to produce death. Men
etiil continue to buy whisky and
drink it, in spite of your prohibitory law.
They will no doubt send to Atlanta and
get it by the jug full, but it is better that
it should come only by the jug full, than
by the barrel and hogshead. The evil
influencea of bar rooms and bar room as
sociations are also avoided. When men
buy whisky by the jug full and carry it
to their homes and drink it in tho pres
ence of their wives and children, they
are not so likely to drink to excess, nor
do they so frequently commit crime
while under its influence when away from
the evil influences that always follow and
surround retail liquor shops. I have no
tioed, gentlemen, that the dry counties
in the Maoon circuit have comparatively
no criminal business, and that grand ju
ries have an easy time. It is your duty
to look carefully to the enforcement of
this law, and see that any violations of it
are speedily punished.” The jury gave
close attention to these words cf the
learned judge, and they will doubtless
profit by bis valuable charge.
If instead of a gem, or even a dower,
we could oast the gift of a lovely thought
into the heart oi a friend, that would be
Of THE TTI! mis out THE MS
That during the remainder of this season we will make the dry
goods trade fairly hum.
ie———— —jawpawib imimuM'im n rr
The Christmas Tide is here, and we art awake to the fact that
now is the time to sell our very large stock of
LADIES’ DRESS SCODS, & MBIT’S & ROYS’ CLOTHIYG.
We cannot afford to sit down and weep and wail and gnash our
teeth and complain of hard times,
That’s Ifot the Kind of Men We Are!
We are compelled to take tip arms against a sea of business,
and by grappling with it, make ourselves masters of the situation.
Let the news be passed from man to man, and from house to
house, that we are, beyond doubt, or even suspicion
HEMPIDTERS FOB DRY GOODS!
Come right along and satisfy yourselves that we tell nothing
but the clean, unadulterated truth,
, V
COMB ALONG EVERYBODY!
SCHEUER BROS.,
MAIN STREET, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
mi m ©AH IS BY .BBVnW CHMIBS OF
MAYS & PRITCHETT.
We Lave the goods and mean to sell them. We have the fin st, best m£ide and best fi tin/ clothing in Carte’sville, an
inspection will convince you of this fact. We can please anybody in a Cvecoart, at the lowest price imaginable. Our Shoe Stock
is complete and at Prices to suit everybody.
■KNEW GOODS RECEIVED THIS DAYaaaaa.
Consisting of Corsets, Neck Wear, Ladies' and Men’s Underwear, Dress Goods in great variety, White and Tied all wool
Flannels at 15c pqy yard, Blankets and Comforts at Rock Bottom Prices, Jeans that can’t be beat in America for the price,
jeans from 16c per yard and upwards. No trouble to show goods as we are here and bound to do it, whether >ou buy or not.
M L YS <V PRITCHETT.
Cartersville, Georgia, Dec. I—tf.
V. L. WILLIAMS & CO.
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§Sgjjgfjta& Stoves, Tinware, Ckinaware, I amps aid Window Glass, Sari., Boors, Blinds.
*5-=jytl§§Ji'|§||l MANUFACTURERS OF
>Mffi§g| 'TIN HKD SHEET IRON WARES. ROGFISG AID GUTTERING A SPECIALTY.
V THE MAEEET TEICE PAID ICE COT IOE, BEESWAX, TALLOW, ET3.