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DOCTOR AND MRS. W. H. FELTON.
FEBRUARY 19, 1888.
On! The weather, the weather! This
last week Iris been something like .Solo
mon Ojnnoy’fi famous rhyme:
('yelone cloud, lightning and thunder
on Monday,
A respectable Arctic freeze on Tuesday,
A Northern blizzard on Wednesday,
Hie beaut iful snow on Thursday,
Hard-faced, frigid sriow on Friday,
A freeze, sleet and more snow on Sat
urday,
Worse and worse—Northeast storm on
Sunday.
Here we are, on a blue-nosed Monday,
Not much behind old Solomon Grundy.
Thanks, Mr. Grady, for your clever
attention! Our Senior admits his mis
take on “Waterloo,” but says he can bear
correctioirfrorn the hand which deals it
so gently.
“K iin I ness by secret sympathy is tied,
For noble souls in nature are allied!”
♦ '♦
A iuci 11 ion from our youthful fiiends
decides us to add a Roys’ and Girls’ col
umn to our paper. Now help us, young
friends, to li 11 it, with a letter once a
week. The hoys can tell tijj,pf the rabbit
hunting, etc., and the girls of the crazy
<|tiilts, etc., until' the weather opens
enough for picnic**ffiuljuch like.
HO W TO GET A GOOD DIX X Eft.
When an excursion party starts from
Philadelphia to go New Orleans, induce
them to stop over in Cartersvillo to in
spect the town and our good hotels. If
tlie party orders its dinner, let them in
vite us till in to help eat it; and after they
pay their bill and ours you will see how
they did it in Atlanta.
THE XE It’ YORE WORLD.
In till our experience, we never saw
such a “come out” as is found in tilths
paper under the new management. It is
one of the brightest, freshest, breeziest
papers in this Union. It lion. Mr. Pu
litzer makes half so good a Congjes'stnan
as lie does an editor, he will make a stir
in that body that will count; see if lie
doesn’t.
Atlanta has had some severe losses
by tiro during the last week, and the
emergency disclosed the tact that their
water-works were a failure. Has Cai
tcrsville taken suitable precautions, and
made ready to meet such a calamity?
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound
of cure. To got ready will cost much
less than to lose a tew buildings before
you are ready. We are by tires as we
are by cyclones. Wllen everybody arouiid
us is “catching it,” it is probable we may
not always escape. So get ready. That
much work won’t hurt.
II arpkk’s WKEKLy has a striking car
tom on the shooting of O’Donovan Rossa.
Uncle Sam is seen gazing intently on the
anti-dynamite resolutions in the Senate,
while the British Lion looks at tho result
with a dry sort of chuckle that betokens
his gratification. Rossa lies on his back,
a victim of his own poisoned medicine,
his fate a matter of indifference to both
nations. Rossa no more represents the
Irish character than Yseult Dudley rep
resents the English nation. If the latter
will. pronounce her name for us it will
save us some anxious moments. Is it
Isult, or Easeult, Wiseult, or Uscult?
Will not some correspondent help us?
Akk you going to the Inauguration?
Tickets are ottered as we see for $22.50
the round trip. If you conclude to go,
take along as much money as you can
spire for a frolic, for the chances are you
vviH need it before tho hotels and board
ing houses see the last of you. The skill
with which those enterprising people
can transfer your “spot cash” to their
pockets will amaze you. At such seasons
they lie in wait for the unwary—and
they goner.illy catch him. Pickpockets
and sharpers abound in every locality;
ami we have seen the policemen's clubs
tly about Petmsyly mia Avenue until it
looked like honest people had generally
stayed at home. But it will be a s#ght
worth seeing, nevertheless.
Gkx. Gordon's fate may yet bo in
doubt. Khartoum has fallen, but some
of the eleven vessels carried to that point
by Gen. Gordon are missing, and the
probabilities are said to be strong that he
sailed up the Nile. He thus declared
liituseli sometime .ago if a retreat should
be to reed upon him. The Khartoum
campaign and the dangers there encoun
tered remind us of the Arctic expedition*
the American Government undertakes
periodically—with much more of disas
ter than protit, to all concerned. We
never saw the.sense of such risks—unles*
the British and American governm*ut
are so plethoric of mouey and of men
that both can bear thinning out, like too
many plants in a seed bed. These disas
ters are God-send< to the press, however,
f >r nearly every little sheet has enliven
ed its pages with penny pictures of fa
mous warriors, which, most likely, are
not intended to be accurate, but are only
used to “till up,” like advertising cuts
ot cattle powders and Lydia Pink ham, at
a small cost to ttie vender and the pur
chaser. Such is fame!
—" 1 •-► ■■ --
lui: Jasper News, an excellent paper,
did us the honor to copy two of our edi
t'Tldo entire. Long life to it!
► V -• 'DEFORM A TORI’ SC BOOLS.
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The following Governor Ire
lanit's message to the Teoiß-egislature: ”I.ook
ingtothe b-riften ng of the number of convicts
in tbc penitentiaries. I again suggest the neces
sity of a House of Correction, in which might
be confined boys amt others, rendered harmless
by reason of age or other conditions.” Time
and again the attention of the Legislature has b ‘en
called to the impoie-y of sending youths in their
teens to the penitentiary to be associated with
the most abandoned of criminals; but nothing
has l<ccn done, amt there is little prosiMjetof any
thing !<eing done in this Legislature.—Texas
Christian Advocate.
Only a few days ago we saw on the streets of
our city, the chain-gang at work. There were
i tiiat gang two little boys who did not seem to
le over ten to thirteen years of age. A few
years ago there was a l*oy convicted in the
United States Court of Georgia of a crime
against the United states. It was said that the
Judge and the jury were greatly perplexed
about the matter. The boy was too small to
send to the United States’ prison and there was
no House of Correction in Georgia. Is it not
time fer the Legislature to take this matter in
hand and provide a place where these little boys
who offend against the letter of law without any
adequate conception of the nature of the crime,
may be sent for correction and reformation,
course the officers of the law cad only treat them
as ordinary criminals, they have no option. But
the Stateought to provide for discrimination be
tween adult- guilty of crimes and children. The
Legislature is slow, however, even to a proverb.
Will not some rich man of the State honor his
mother by founding such an institution and ask
ing the State to legalize the regulations govern
ing it.—From Wesleyan Christian Advocate.
We agtee with Rev. Dr. Potter that
Legislatures have been slow, but we do
not agree with him in asking some “rich
man” to donate money to do that which
it is the bonmlen duty of the State of
Georgia to do for herself as a sovereign
State. No State can shirk such a re
sponsibility, nor can her citizens apolo
gize for omitting to repair such a mon
strous wrong by yielding to any Legis
lature’s supineness longer than it takes to
elect another with a better understand
ing of its duty. We And by reference to
the biennial report concerning convicts,
submitted to the Governor last Novem
ber, that there have been 93 youths under
the age of 17 in the penitentiary camps
of Georgia during two years ending the
20th of October, 1884. These poor crea
tures, who have no protection on earth,
biitthe greed and rapacity of the lessees,
ajJF'hained to and enclosed with older
and more hardened criminals to be cdu
catedpin villainy, so that when turned
loose on society they may become ex
perts in crime and again subject to the
law —so to continue until incarceration
for life or the halter concludes their ca
reer. We find also, that there were
thirty females in camp when this report
was made. Look on page 9G and see
what we decline to record here. Oh!
shame, where is thy blush !
The Wesleyan has made a brave fight
for the prohibition of whisky, and is un
ceasing in its appeals for the missionary
cause. Now let it add a frequent word
. against this terrible wrong, and it will find
itself working in a cause, which if left
unrebuked, not only disgraces the State
of Georgia, but the Church of Christ
itself.
Does China, or any other mission work
in foreigli lands, present a greater Held
for philanthropy than the open and
glaring neglect of these children, who
are thus incarcerated and thus debased
forever in soul and body?
Oil! Mrs. Jellaby, don’t forget the
heathen at your very door!
It is no excuse, nor is our responsi
bility relieved by the statement that the
large majority are negroes. Will the
Judge of all the earth accept such a
plea or apology ?
The State only gets $25,000 per annum
for nearly 1,400 convicts, nearly half of
which is spent on supernumerary offi
cials who claim to be keepers, etc., with
no prison to keep. Suppose the pay was
ten times as great, can the State of
Georgia afford to bank on crime ? Can
she consent to drag these youthful
offenders into a degradation so vile that a
description would stagger the pen of a
Milton, and which would bring a national
investigation if the whole truth was
known?
No, dear Wesleyan, that reform be
longs to the State, and we want no money
from “rich men” to teach us that sort of
humanity, or to relieve us of such a duty.
We are not a race of tramps or mendi
cants who beg for anything from a
church or college down to a prison-pen,
and when some George Seney is obliged
to send money to Georgia to build a re
formatory prison, we hope to be able to
emigrate and get away from such a God
forsaken land.
The “rich man” who would “honor his
mother” by donating a reformatory
prison, had better spend that money in
paying newspaper and stump-speakers
and preachers to thunder the awful truth
in tho cars of Georgia Legislators, that
such wrongs cry aloud to Heaven for re
dress and that no blessing can attend a
people who are thus willing to sub
mit to wrong, and to thus condone
injustice because of their fear of the cor
rupt money and inlluence in high
places.
77/A* XE W BONDS OE TILE STA TE.
Some days ago, a clever banker in Sa
vannah imagined he had found a “mare’s
| nest” in the act of the recent Legislature
I refunding that part of the State debt
falling due in ISSoand in ISSG.
It surprised us that one so well in
formed should make such a mistake and
charge a failure to provide a sinking fund
to meet the payment of the new bonds.
. But our very efficient State Treasurer
! has clearly and satisfactorily explained
Ibis imaginary difficulty, and there is no
; reason why the new bonds should not be
sought after by capitalists everywhere.
Backed as the}' will be by the Western
and Atlantic Railroad as collateral secu
rity, while the pledged faith of the State
is as good as any in the Union and not
doubted by those who know her lest,
these bonds should really command a
premium in the money markets of the
world.
As long as Georgia owns the Western
and Atlantic Railroad and which site can
oiler as collateral security, there will be
difficulty in her borrowing money upon I
the most favorable terms. W. H. F.
Oi k continued story was begun in our
last issue, Feb. 11, and will be iluished
next week.
Money easily made by soliciting for j
Tmk Con:axr. Write for terms to agents, j
IRON ODE.
With regret we are informed that the
business of mining and shipping iron
ore from this county i, at this time, like
all our industries, considerably depressed.
Some months ago this was, and is to
some extent now, a valuable industry
to some of our enterprising citizens. It
gave employment to quite a number of
laborers at remunerative wages. Per
haps a hundred tons of this ore was sent
out of our county per day, also a large
quantity of manganesse ore was shipped
North. We hope this industry will soon
revive and tiiat the pay roll which it sus
tained will soon be restored.
In the manufacture of iron and steel,
the mining of coal, the digging and
smelting of ore, more labor is employed
throughout the United States than in any
other industry except agriculture. There
is also, if we estimate the value of the
coal and ore lands, which enter into the
production of iron, more capital invested
than in any one enterprise.
Iron is now king of the commercial
and manufacturing world. This is lit
erally an “iron age.” Nearly every
thing we use is made of or affix’ted by
the use of iron. .Skill and ability to con
struct it into the useful and beautiful, is
now the measure of a country’s civiliza
tion, and we rejoice that the United
States are competing successfully with
all the world in its manufacture.
While we wish, for the sake of our
personal friends who are engaged in the
business of shipping iron ore from this
county, to sec the enterprise revived,
quickened and made remunerative, yet
we confess to a painful feeling of loss
every day when a car load ot ore. leaves
Bartow county.
Nothing is more assured than
the poverty of a county or State
which habitually and persistently ship
from their borders the “bounties ot na
ture” unconverted into the useful by
human labor.
The time vvi'l inevitably come to such
a state, when stripped of the munifi
cence and bounties of nature —its pocket
beds of ore emptied, its soil impover
ished, its foreals denuded, its rock
quarries blasted away and gone, and its
varied treasures of wealth exhausted, it
will stand a skeleton upon which the
outside world has fattened.
We repeat, to ship iron ore unfashioned
and inutilized by skilled human labor,
will finally impoverish any mineral sec
tion which is engaged in any such self
destruction.
lion ore Is more susceptible of being
increased in value by human labor than
almost any other commodity. We do not
recall any one bounty of nature which
can be so wonderfully enhanced in value
by skilled labor as iron.
Let us illustrate. Bartow county, we
will suppose, ships one hundred tons of
crude ore pm- day to some other State.
This is worth, at. the railroad Station
from which it is shipped, one hundred
and fifty dollars. Gf this amount, one
hundred and thirty has been expended in
wag*s, leaving twenty dollars as profit,
and value ol the ore—that is, fhe wealth
of Bartow county is increased twenty
dollars by the shipment.
The State to which it is shipped, by ex
pending two hundred dollars in wages
anl other expenses, converts it into fifty
tons of pig-iron worth at least six hun
dred dollars. With small additional ex
pense, it is converted into bar-iron worth
one thousand dollars; and as the “change
of form” into the beautiful and anu val
uable progresses, the material is lessened
but the value is enhanced, until finally,
maybe, in the shape of delicate watch
springs, it is worth its weight in gold.
For all this wealth, which a bountiful
Providence originally placed in charge
of the people of this county, practically
saying to its citizens, “this is yours,
make it useful and enjoy its benefits,”
we have, through lack of capital, skilled
labor, enterprise, and to some extent, by
false economic theories, received the sum
of tsventy dollars.
The poorest countries on the earth are
those which for years have been export
ing their wealth in the shape of “raw
materials,” and the richest, are those
countries which have been manufactur
ing them. W. 11. F.
OUR WAGON lIOADS.
A communication from a farmer, published
elsewhere, pronounces the new mode of work
ing the public roads in Floyd county a failure.
Not being so well acquainted with their condi
tion, or with the work that has been done under
the new system, we cannot express any positive
opinion of our own about that; but as our cor
respondent speaks positively, we will assume
that it has not answered the expectations of the
public. Admitting that, we are not convinced
of the propriety of a return to the old system,
which certainly was a failure with fifty years of
trial. The new plan has had only one year’s
trial, and its shortcomings may be remedied by
such amendments as experience suggests. It
certainly seems to have a promise of improve
ment if faithfully and energetically adminis
tered, and such an administration should be se
cured before giving up the plan as an irremedia
ble failure.
Whatever general plan may be adopted, we
are in favor of aiding it by convict labor to the
utmost available extent. We believe that this
labor alone, with proper superintendence of
course, would make many miles of good road
eveiw year, and that all but the worst of the
penitentiary convicts should be thus employed.
The Stato gets nothing of consequence from its
system, and if the convicts should be kept
in tfcoir respective counties and worked as above
suggested, they would do the Stato and the pub
j lie much more service. Judges of the criminal
| eorts could materially help the counties by
senfcmeing to the chain-gang as many convicts
as ike laws will allow. As to the work Ikm ng
| done in the vicinity of Home, that is also a mat
tor of administration that can easily be reme
! died if ft is not for the best, or for the conven
i ionise of the largest number of people of the
i county.
This is an interesting and important question,
and we trust that our ne v Commissioners’ Court
wil) give it careful consideration as one of the
most weighty shatters with which they have to
deal.
The above is an editorial from that
steiling, honest journal, the Rome Cou
rier. Not being acquainted with the law
which prevails in Floyd county in re
gard to working the roads, we have noth
ing to say about it. But there is one mat
ter which should be faithfully impressed
upon the minds ot the people of Georgia,
viz: The need of a general road law for
the State which will obliterate some of
the objectionable features which now j
prevail.
The great expense of courts, jails, ju- i
ries, and general criminal prosecution, j
is growing heavier year by year in the j
State. In Bartow county, for instance, !
we are heavily taxed to meet this re
quirement. 'Net one dollar returns to
the county in labor or in money. A
criminal, when convicted, is turned over
to the lessees, and the county proceeds to
tax honest labor to foot the bills. Bar
tow county has to pay her pro rata share
for salaries to Judges, solicitors and ste
nographers. (The latter expense it would
pay our grand juries to examine into,
both as to the necessity and the charges.)
It is a perpetual outgo, with no income.
In our opinion, all criminals sentenced
for a less period than life, or the halter,
and for a less crime than murder or some
thing else of equal turpitude, should be
compelled to work for the county in
which the crime is committed and where
the expense of prosecution is incurred
until the indebtedness is relieved. r l’be
courts can easily sentence all convicts
for this purpofe, if the Legislature will
authorize it. There should be some
equalization of burdens, and this method
appears to us to meet the situation
squarely.
For instance, there was anew road
cut in the vicinity of anew bridge in the
4th district of Bartow county something
more than a year ago. Every man sub
ject to road duty was called as much as
three days to do that hard work when the
weather was very disagreeable. The law
can call for fifteen days of regular work
from every lad of srxtcen years in the
county, and for all over that age until
we reach the limit. The penalty for non
compliance is fine and imprisonment.
We actually make criminals of honest
children and adults, when they fail to
appear at any time, under the fifteen days
allowed b3 r the statute, while the law
breakers, the murderers, the burglars
and etcetera are all hustled ofl to swell
the force on some man’s big cotton plan
tation, brick yard or coal mine. Let
charity begin at home, mid begin right
early.
THE SILVER DOLLAR.
Some sensational correspondents from
Washington report President-elect Cleve
land as favoring the suspension of silver
coinage for one year. We do not believe
he favors this suspension. If he does,
he deals a blow to Democratic success,
which, in our opinion, will be fatal.
The remonetization of silver and the act
authorizing its coinage, was the especial
work of the Democratic party, and it
was in obedience to the imperative de
mand of the Southern and Western States.
The silver dollar, as thus authorized,
enabled the country to resume specie
payments at a time when our Federal
treasury was iu sore need of such a
friend.
It tided our commercial interests so
quietly into safety and security that no
honest man outside of Wall street was
conscious of the agency by which he was
relieved.
It arrested, at the time, shrinkage in
values, caused by the rapid contraction of
the currency.
It stimulated and sustained labor
everywhere—particularly at the South.
It checked the clamor which existed in
some States for a “local currency,” or a
reviyal of banks of issue under State au
thority. If it had done this much only,
the wisdom of the silver act would have
been established.
The truth is, the remonetization and
coinage of silver has never had a lair
and just showing in this country. Passed
originally by a two-thirds vote over the
veto of Mr. Ilayes, condemned and
shackled by every Republican adminis
tration, from that time until the present,
despised and practically nullified by the
national banks of the United States —
hated by Wall street and the sharpers in
New England, it lias been most dili
gently tabooed by the enemies of labor
everywhere. A legal tender for all
debts, public and private, the Govern
ment has made no effort to meet its obli
gations with silver until last
week it partially paid its balance
to the New York Clearing
House in si Ivor certificates. Heretofore
these payments have been made on a
gold basis, but fortunately it was com
pelled last week by its necessities to
honor the silver law.
Now when the country had a right to
expect that a Democratic administration
would give this Democratic measure a
fair and just trial, to be told by sensa
tional news-mongers that President-elect
Cleveland had arrayed himself among
its enemies, is too bad!
For his own sake, and for the sake of
the country, we deny it.
We imagine some infatuated “gold
bug” propounded the question to him
and he replied with a “genial smile”—
which like ail his other smiles, have
been interpreted to suit the questioner.
W. 11. F.
Oxe of the best stories we have heard
j of Jay Gould is a late one concerning his
| boyhood. Somebody told him a canard
about his owing some cobbler for mend
ing his shoes In bis young days. There
! upon he related the fact that he started
; in life as a cobbler himself, and would
hardly go in debt for such work when he
was so well able to help such necessities
without money. Self-made men !tre tite
bone and sinew of this country; and
when you find one who is not ashamed
of his lo wly beginning wlien lie is prui
porous; you find there the material
which made him a man at the start.
Don’t understand us to endorse all the
demagogue’s bosh about his service be
tween the plow handles, when he only
plowed his truck patch one time, or his
work with a little steer when he was
simply steering for notoriety, or any- j
tiling else similar to it, but we mean
good, honest work, performed in a faith
ful, honest way for Lhe sake of an up
right, honest living. There is nothing
so gratifying to us as the stories of the j
olden times, with the shifts, privations j
and difficulties explained and illustrated i
by the experience of a veteran who nasi
traveled along the path himself or her
self. Shall these domestic histories per
ish vvith these noble pioneers? Does |
anybody know of a book wherein the
home life of Georgia, sixty or seventy
years ago, is detailed ? Are our children
to lose all these delightful experiences,
e&cept at secondhand? We, all of us,
•ve in such a hurry that we haven’t time
to repeat them it we took the pains to
remember them.
The counting of the votes by Congress
last week concludes all the official action
tliat is needed to seat Mr. Cleveland in
the White House except the oath he takes
ou iuguration day. This American na
tion is a great one—witl: all its faults.
The excitement over the Hayes and Til
den canvass disclosed a rock on which
the ship of State might be stranded, and
the sight of it was not only sufficient to
avert anarchy and confusion at that
time, but to seat Mr. Cleveland quietly
and satisfactorily—although the change
from one party to another turns out more
than one hundred thousand office hold
ers, who were dead sure six months ago
that it was a life tenure to them or their
party successors. America is a great
country, and in no particular is her
greatness more fully disclosed than in
her willingness to obey a rightful ma
jority, legally expressed at the ballot box.
The bill retiring Gen. Giant failed in
the House on a two-thirds vote. It re
ceived a majority of over fifty votes,
which insures its final passage. Every
democrat, whose opinions shape party
policy and have weight with the Ameri
can public, such as Randall, Cox and
Slocum, took the floor in its advocacy,
and urged its passage. We fear that
Georgia, from its opposition, will derive
but little credit from this inevitable
measure of kindness to the idol of the
Northern people and this valuable friend
of Gen. Lee. It is going to pass over
whelmingly and why should the
South distinguish itself by unavailing
cynicism.
TAX ASSESSORS.
Messrs. Editors : It is a wise opera
tion of our laws that even the county of
ficers are the servants of the people, and
therefore their acts are subjects of criti
cism by the people. The Grand Jury for
the third week of the spring term of
court could legally pass in review upon
the action of the Grand Jury of the first
week, but there are several vulnerable
points in their “presentments,” as I will
Proceed to show. If any member of the
last Grand Jury will carefully examine
the tax books in reference to the district
iu which they live, they will readily find
much property returned upon the basis
of what it would bring if sold out by the
United States marshal (and we all know
Ijow low that is). While others have re
turned their property at its approximate
value. It is all stuff about the statutes
being sufficient to remedy the evil, for
Live most of the papers in this State, for
the past two years, have launched their
diatribes against this unjust and crying
evil —showing that the law, as it stands,
is inoperative.
Judge Simmons, in discharging the
Grand Jury for the first week, took occa
sion particularly, to compliment them
upon that clause of their presentments
which recommended the appointment of
tax assessors for each militia district, as
the only means of reaching these fraudu
lent returns, and expressed the belief
that their action in the matter would be
the entering wedge of reform that would
be soon taken up by every county in the
State. There are other flaws in their
action that I could readily point out,
but if they will thoroughly digest the
above some good will have been done.
Their action in reference to the proper
distribution of the county commissioners
throughout the county is a wonderfully
wise one, and if good, successful business
men under that recommendation are
chosen, our taxes will be perceptibly
lightened. Their recommendation for
the substitution of a city court in lieu of
the present county court, and making
the officers of the Superior Court, ex
officio, officers of the City Court, can
work nothing but good to the county
and the suggested change is a wise one.
Bartow.
LATEST NEWS.
Congress thinks it will save the coun
try the expense of an extra session. Good
news.
The Senate is now struggling with
Blaine’s Labor Bill, which means bun
combe and demagogy.
Senator Mahone’s little boj', Butler, got
on a bender and tried to kill Weleher and
destroy his restaurant.
The Land Forfeiture Bill failed to get
up in the Senate. Too many railroads
interested was the reason.
Gen Gordon is not dead yet, and we
hope he may be saved. “Khartoum will
be relieved and Egypt will be taken in
out of the cold.”
Bishop Gross, Catholic Bishop of Geor
gia, a most courteous and cultivated pre
late, has been made the Archbishop of
Oregon. lie deserves the promotion.
Messrs. Holmes, of Indiana, and
Biount, of Georgia, are set down as the
Congressmen who killed John Roach’s
subsidy bill. The lobby was beaten in
au open fight.
Frank Hurd, tl e genial and brilliant
Ohioan, has apparently killed the Blair
Educational Bill. In oratory and all in
tellectual accomplishments, Frank Hurd
is without a peer in the American Con
gress.'
The River and Harbor Bill hangs fire,
ami we don’t care whether it passes or
noi. Too many jobs in it, such as the
1 Hennepin Canal, Galveston Harbor, Mis
' stesippi River, and especially because
' river navigation is now only an adjunct
of the great railroad pool system of the
conntry.
The newspapers are flooded with dis
graceful routs in Washington, where
men and women seem to vie with each
other as to who can drink tiie most raw
whisky and disgrace themselves the
quickest and oftenest. This winter the
rapid set have been trying to wear as lit
tle body to their dresses as possible, and
when one of these bare-necked creatures
fell down in a drunk on the floor of the
White House the time had come to call a i
halt. A little more frock an 1 a little less
punch is the demand of the hour.
♦
Curry’s Cough Cure in 25et. and 75ct.
bottles, guaranteed to prove Tenefic*al.
NOT DEAD ?BT.
Atlanta papers are giving the public somecur
ions ami wonderful cases that are quite interest
ing. It sec-ms that a young lady of Atlanta had
been reported as dead, but it came to the ears of
the Atlanta Journal that she was still alive, and
being on the alert for news, a reporter was sent
to the residence to learn all the facts. Miss Belle
Dunaway, who had been pronounced dead, met
him at the door, stoutly denying that she was
dead. She said:
‘•For four years, rheumatism and neuralgia
have resisted physicians and all other treatment
My muscles seemed to dry up, my flesh shrank
away, my joints weref swollen,painful and large,
lost my appetite, was reduced to 00 pounds in
weight and for months, was expected to die. 1
commenced the use of B. B. B. and the action of
one half a bottle convinced my friends that
it would cure me. Its effects were like magic.
It gave me an appetite—gave me strength, re
lieved all pains and aches, added flesh to my
bones, and when live bottles had been used I had
gained 50 pounds of flesh, and I am to-day sound
and well.”
IS IT A LIE?
Some one said that Potash was poison: Who
makes the assertion except those who desire to
mi-load and humbug you? lie who- denounces
other remidies as Fa u na, is quietly offering a
vile compound of his own—beware of all such.
A-'k your physician or your druggist if Potash
produces all the horrors claimed for it by those
who ure compelled to traduce other preparations
n order to appear respectable themselves.
We claim that Potash properly combined with
other remedies makes the grandest blood remedy
ever known to man, and We claim that B, I>. B.
i
s that remedy,
IX afflicted with any form of blood poison,Srcof
ula, Rheumatism,Catarrh, Old Ulcers an 1 Sores
Kidney Complaints, Female Diseases, etc., the
B. B, B. will cure you at once. Send to Blood
Balm Cos., Atlanta, Ga., for a copy of their book
FRKK. fehlS-lm
A • W . FITE,
febl9 Cartersville, Georgia.
11. 10. CASON,
Resident Demist.
Office over Curry’s drug store, Cartersville,
f’)s
Bartow Sheriff’s Sales
FOR BIAKCH, 1885.
Will be sold before the court house door in
the city of Cartersville, Georgia, on the first
Tuesday in March, 1885, between the legal
hours of sale, the following property to-wit:
Twenty acres, more oi less, ol lot of land
number 901 in the 4th district and 3d section
of Bartow county, Ga., the same being that
fractional part of said lot on the south-west
side ol the Western & Atlantic. Railroad, it
being the same side Ol said railroad that the
buildings of the Baitow Iron Coinuany ate
located; said twenty acres levied on as the
property of the Bartow Iron Company; the
interest of said com puny in said land levied on
being the aforesaid twenty acres, more or less,
including improvements and buildings on
same, except the following interests, rights
and privileges to wit: All the sand rock or
sand stone on said part of lot as above des
cribed, with the privilege of ingress and
egress over said lot, or whatever privilege may
be necessary in working pr getting ont said
sand stone, and getting same to market, with
further privilege of road and water necessary
in operating said stone quarry; said reserva
tion being same made by H. J. Bates to him
self in a certain deed from him to said Bartow
Iron Company, dated September 6th, 1873, and
recorded in Book “and” page 104, of Deeds in the
Clerk’s office ot Bartow Superior Court. Said
twenty acres hereby levied on described as
lollows: commencing on the line of the right
of way of the Western & Atlantic Railroad,
near the sand quarry, running in a southerly
direction to the original southwest corner,
thence in an easterly direction following the
original 1 hie to the district line, thence along
said line to the right of way of said railroad,
thence along said >-ight of way to the starting
point.
Also, lour acres of lot ol land number 958 in
the 2lst district and 2d section of Bartow
county, Ga., said four acres bounded as fol
lows: commencing at a poplar tree on the line
of the right of way of said railroad, near the
spring, and running east along said \line of
the right of way of said railroad, 139 % yards,
thence in a westerly direction 139> 3 yards,
thence in a northerly direction running par
allel with said l ight ot way 139 X yards, thence
in an easterly direction 139>£ yards to the start
ing point. All of said property levied on and
will be sold as the property of the said Bartow
Iron Company to satisfy one Justices Court ii
fa issued trom Justice’s Court, 822d District,
G. M., in favor of VV. O. Bowler (proceeding in
favor ol Emsly Stegall trailsferree) vs. said
Bartow Iron Company. C. M. Jones, tenant
in possession of said land. Levy made and re
turned to me oy F. 11. Franklin, L. C.
Also, at the same time and place, the south
haliof lot of land Noi 124, in the sth District
and 3d Section ot Bartow County, Ga., con
taining 80 acres more or less. Levied on and
will be sold as the property of John it. Walker
to satisly one Bartow Superior Court ii fa in
favor of J. A. Miller and Harriet Johnson vs.
John If. Walker. Property in possession of
defendant, John H. Walker.
Also, at same time and place, lot ol land No.
234 in thelOth District and 3d Section ol Bar
tow County, Ga. Levied on and will be sold
as the property of Mrs. E. M.Branson to sat
isfy three Bartow Superior Court Ii fa’s in fa
vor ol Thomas Fahy vs. sat 1 Mrs. E. M. Bran
son. Property in possession of defendant, and
pointed out by plaintiff’s attorney.
Also, at same time and place, the south half
of lots of land Nos. 551, 552 and 553. so as to run
with the line between Wade il. Bailey and J.
W. Jlanie, located in the 17th District and 3d
section of Bartow County, Ga., all of said
parts of lots containing 60 acres more or less.
Levied on and will be sold as the property of
Wade H. Bailey to satisly one Bartow Supe
rior Court attachment fi fa in favor of G. M.
Isbell vs. Wade H. Bailey. Levy made Sept.
3d, 1879, by James Kennedy, former sheriff.
John VV. Jlanie was then in possession and no
tified of this levy. Property pointed out in
said fi fa.
Also, at same time ami place, lotof land No.
234 in the 10th District 3d Section or Bartow
County, Ga. Levied on and will be sold as the
property ol Mrs. E. M. Branson to satisfy three
Bartow Superior Court li la’s in favor of
Thomas Fahy vs. said Mis. E. M. Branson.
Property in possession ot defendant, and
pointed out by plaintiff’s attorneys.
Also, at same time and place, one one-horse
wagon, second-hand and considerably worn,
branded ’‘Jones wagon,” also part ol set of
old single harness, old wagon seat with one
spring broken. All levied on and will be sold
as the property of W. T. Wofford to satisfy one
fl la from Court of Ordinary ol Bartow county,
in favor of M. L. Johnson vs. W. T. Wajyord.
W. W. ROBERTS, Sheriff.
I’ouuty Court Sale*.
Will be sold before the court house door, in
thecity olCartersville, between the legal hours
of sale, on the first Tuesday in March, ISBS,
the following property, to-wit:
One double-door iron safe. Herring’s Patent
Champion make, combination lock, in storc
house’of Jones Brother & Cos. Levied on and
will be sold as the property ol Toombs It. Jones
anil James P. Jones, under fieri lacias from
Bartow County Court, in favor of Ornstein A
Rice, vs. Jones Bros .& Cos. Property pointed
out by John W. A kin, plaintiff’s attorney.
JAMES G. BROUGHTON,
Feb. 2-M County Court Bailiff.
XOTIiK.
GEORGIA —Bartow County.
Whereas, Geo. 11. Waring and E. L Howard
have applied to the Court ot Ordinary to have
Julia Pamela MeMann, an orphan, aged elev
en years, bound as apprentice, to be taught
the duties of house service; Therefore, the
next of kin of said orphan are hereby cited to
file their objection in my office (if any they
have) on or by the first Monday in March next,
else said orphan will be bound out, as provid
ed by Statute. February 2, 1*35.
2.61 4t* J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS & CREDITORS.
STATE OF GEORGIA—Bartow County.
Notice is hereby given to all persons having
demands against William fleadden, late of
said county, deceased, to present them to rue,
properly made out, within the time prescribed
by law, so as to show their character and
amount; and all persons indebted to the said
deceased are hereby required to make imme
diate payment to me. Fcb’y 3d, 188.5.
GEORGE 11. iiEADUEN,
fublO.Ct* Administrator.
Kennesaw Bout©.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC RAILROAD.
IWIL FOLLOWING TIMECARD IN EFFECT
Sunday, January 18tli, 1880.
Northbound.
KO. 3 EXPRESS—DAILY.
Leave Atlanta f ™
Leave Cartersville ilvT-!
Leave Kingston .*4
Leave Dalton ’ ,
Arrive at Chattanooga I* 111
Steps at all important stations.
NO. 1 EXPRESS—DAILY.
Leave Atlanta
Leave Cartersville t'nn o m
Leave Kingston (T-'n i
Leave Dalton ,1
Arrive at Chattanooga P 1,1
NO. 14. RONE EPI’RESS Daily except Panda's.
Leave Atlanta ci-rTII!
Arrive at Cartersville P >->
Arrive at Kingston L’; P“J
Arrive at Rome • • ; • ‘•'•* P m
Stops at nil wav stations and by signals.
NO. 11, EXPRESS— DAILY.
Leave Atlanta T !!!
Leave Cartorsville ....... \JJ a |
Arrive at Chattanooga ..... •’•mam
NO. 19. KESNESAW EXPRESS—DAILY.
Leaves Atlanta . * 5:00 pm
Arrive at Chattanooga i*m
stops at all important stations when signalled.
THROUGH CAR ARRANGEMENTS.
Ns. 1 has Pullman Palace cars from Atlanta
to Nashville and Pullman ears Jacksonville to
Cincinnati, and Pullman Drawing Room Sleeper
Atlanta to New York without change.
No. U runs solid to Rome.
No%l has Pullman ear Jacksonville. Fla., t>
St. Loins without change.
No. 19 has Full man Palace cars New Orica,
to Washington, and through first-class eqael.es
Atlanta to Little lto< k without change, via Me
Kenzic. . .
Sc***thj>Dund.
NO. 4 -DAILY.
Leave Chattanooga . • \ 8:00 an*
Leave Dalton a r
Leave Kingston J J HUI
Leave Cartersville 1 > :2s a m
Arrive at Atlanta -. . . 1:25 pm
Stops at all important way stations.
NO. 2 EXPRESS—DAILY.
Leave Ohatianooga 2:45 pm
Leave Dalton 4:12 p m
Leave Kingston 5:42 pin
Leave Cartersville 6:09 pm
Arrive at Atlanta S:o7pm
NO. 12, EXPRESS—DAILY.
Leaves Chattanooga 10:25 pm
Lcrvc Cartersville 1:41 am
Arrive at Atlanta ........ 3:40 am
Stops at all important way stations.
no. .14, home express—Daily except Sunday.
Leaves Rome 8:00 am
Leave Kingston . 8:46 am
Arrive at Cartersville 9:15 am
Arrive at Atlanta . . ... il:lsani
Stops at all way stations and liv signals.
THROUGH CAR ACCOMMODATIONS.
No. 4 has Pullman Palace cars Cincinnati to
Jacksonville, and Washington to New Orleans.
No. 12 lias Pullman car St. Louis to Jackson
ville without change, and New York to At lant.i
without change. aOS. M. BROWN,
Gen’l Pass, and Ticket Agent.
ALTON ANGIE it,
Assistant Gen’L Pass, and Ticket Agent.
R. A. ANDERSON,
General Superintendent. __
IS S S 5
I k .* 1
The Supreme Bench.
From experience,.l think S. S. S. a very valua
ble reined) lor cutaneous diseases at the same
time ail invigorating tonic.
.Tames Jackson, Chief Justice of Ga.
Atlanta, Sept. 23, 1884.
AN AGED BAPTIST MINISTER.
Two More Important Cases.
Your agent being in Columbus, Ga., a few days
ago and meeting the venerable brother J. il.
Campbell, wo asked him for the news. His reply
was, "1 have two more important cures effected
by Swift’s Soecific to report.” This venerable
man i§ known far and wide for bis univmtting
labors of love in the behalf of the peer of Colum
bus. It will be remembered that the Swift spe
cific Cos. has donated quite an amount of their
famous medicine, to be distributed,^ y Mr. Camp
bell among the poor of the city; hence liis remark,
lie said:
“1 have just seen a lady who has boon greatly
annoyed by a tetter iu one of her hands. It had gi v
en her much trouble and pain. She said she had
been treated by several physieiaus during the past
three or four years with the old remedies, but
without giving any relief. I suggested Swifts Spe
cific and she took four bottles and is now appa
rently perfectly well. Her hand is smooth, and
not a single sign of the disease is left. It is
marvelous how this medicine renovates the sys
tem.”
“Wliat about the other ease?”
“Well,"that was a lady also. She had been
badly affected with eczema for four years. Her
face, hands and arms, as well as her body, were
covered with sores and scabs. It was one of the
worst cases <>r this terrible disease that I have
ever seen. The suffering of this poor creature
was beypud expression. She tried every remedy
at liana; including mercury and iodide of potash
hut she only grew worse. She was in this condi
tion when 1 first saw the case. I soon had her
taking Swift’s Specific, and she has now only
only taken two bottles, but every mark of Hie
disease has almost entirely disappeared. Her
general health has greatly improved. It is oue
of the most remarkable cures that has come un
der my notice, and in a ministry of sixty' years
I have mingled with every class of society and
observed closely the variety of diseases which
affeetd humanity. Blood diseases are the mosi
numerous and most difficult to remove. To over
come thoße diseases, il is my deliberate judge
ment (hat Swift’s Specific is the grandest blood
purifier ever discovered. Its effects are won
derful, and i consider them almost niiraelous.
There is no medicine comparable to it.”
Treaties on B! ood and Skin ! tiseases mailed free
The Swift Specific Cos., Drawer 3 Alania,
Ga. feb 12-1 m
iudijeles.
Compiled for the Fireside of Every llomo
—Eaugli amt be Happy.
. Which newspapers are like delicate children?
Ail those that are weekly (weakly), it is the re
sult of weak lungs. Have them take Taylor’s
Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein,
the great croup preventive and cough cure.
.. What General causes more diseases, is more
prevalent and spreads more dismay? Genera
Want. If it was from the want of sound lung
Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and
Mullein would out-general it.
.. What port is sought by every living creature?
Support. You cannot well make it if your lungs
are notsouni. Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of
Sweet Gum and Mullein will make them so and
cure your cough.
. .Why are the tallest people the laziest? They
are always longer in bed than others, and if
they neglect their coughs and colds they will be
there still longer. Use Taylor’s Cherokee Rem
edy of Sweet Gum and Mullein.
. Why is sympathy like Jblind man’s buff? It
is feeling for our fellow-creatures. And we
should advise all who have the hacking cough to
use Remedy of Sweet Gum
and Mullein,
. .Why is the Prince of Wales like a cloudy
day? He is likely to reign. Taylor’s Cherokee
Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein is now the
king of all cough medicines and is’ a croup pre-
ventive.
.. What are the best trees to protect us from
I colds? Firs (furs). What is the best plant- to
j cure colds? Mullein. Taylor’s Cherokee Reme
j dy of Sweet Gum and Mullein is the great cough
and cold cure.
.. What is it that occurs once in a minute, twice
in a moment, aud not once in a thousand years?
The letter M. Which is always in Sweet Gum
and Mullein. Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of
Sweet Gum and Mullein will euro coughs, colds
and consumption.
. .How does a sailor know there is a man in
the mooif? Because he has been to see (sea) and
states that whenever he has a cough or cold he
takes Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum
and Mullein.
.. Why are dances like mushrooms? ;y
! spring up at night. And the night air often in
! duce coughs aud colds. Do not neglect them,
| but take Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet
I Gum and Mullein in time.
I ..Why is a newly born baby like a gale o
wind? Because it begins wiih a squall. Cold
gales induce coughs and croup. Taylor’s Cher
okee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein wil
euro it.
—What senilis most m a ding store? Your
nose. But when you have a cold, nothing. So'
restore the sense by taking Taylor’s Cherokee
Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein.
..Why is cold weather productive of benefi
cence? It makes people put their hands in their
pockets. It also produces coughs, colds and
croup. Take Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy ol'
Sweet Gum and Mullein.