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THE COI'KAMT,
I>. W. CURRY, Curttetcille. Ga.
B’mnttt Ahmnjer.
DOCTOR AND MRS. W. H. FELTON.
FEBRUARY 20, 1885.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Wo are glad to auuounecto the readers
ol The Coikam that we will begin the
publication of a series of articles written
by Hon. J. W. JI. Underwood, of Koine,
Ga., headed “Reminiscencesof the Cher
okt'cs,” descriptive of the Cherokee coun
try, with illustrative anecdotes, inci
dents, etc. All rights are reserved, and
these articles will be condensed into book
form, under the law of cop}'right, when
completed. Judge Underwood needs no
introduction to our readers, and no man
in Georgia is so well qualified by nature,
cultivation and experience to do justice
to the subject. To those who desire the
benefit of these brilliant and entertaining
“Reminiscences” we would advise an
cai ly subscription, as they will be found
only in our columns. No such opportu
nity lias ever been afforded to Georgians
lor a complete history of the most inter
esting and romantic portion of our State.
When Judge Underwood shall have pass
ed away (may the Father grant him long
life and happiness), the only mind that
could grasp the subject, and at the same
time illustrate it with personal expe
rience and acquaintance, will have left
us. For the sake of future historians,
for the pleasure and enjoyment of our
citizens, we hail this literary effort with
delight. The very moderate price of our
subscription places these articles in the
reach of every household.
• - -
Did it ever occur to our good Carters
vilie people that they could pay the ex
pense of a lire company by the saving
that would accrue in the reduction of our
insurance rates. The Cor ram has had
a little experience in the insurance line,
and to cover a few days, while our press
and material were considerably exposed,
we paid fifty cents a day to insure one
half its value against lire alone. Count
up, good friends, and see how long it
would take to buy an engine and equip
it, under that pressure. We admit your
luxes arc rather steep, but in this partic
ular are you not saving at the spigot and
letting out at the bung? How uncertain
is the lire (lend! How devastating the
incendiary torch ! How painful the de
struction and liow desolating the ruin!
Like a thief jii the night it comes, sly and
stealthy. A tiny hole in a treacherous
Hue or a stray coal in the midnight hour
has turned many a good family into the
street, homeless and penniless. Suppose
von insure (and you are wise so to do),
what money ian replace the household
treasures that are so precious to your
hearts? mayhap sanctified by a mar
riage vow; or a death-bed ? kiss How
lean and lank is any home without those
relics of a storied past, and bow sad the
loss when nothing remains hut dust and
ashes —the sport ot a bitter winter wind !
You may be careful, and we hope you
arc, but how light would seem this lire
company tax if your beautiful home
should to-night be threatened with de
struction! How welcome the sound of
the engine wheels on these stony frozen
streets, and how joyously would you
greet the boys in their slick helmets and
rubber over-alls. Think about it. -Think
aborff your goods, your money, your
homes, and remember the insurance
rates you are forced to pay and then let
us hear from you !
OUR WAGOX ROADS.
The other day while old Pompey (our
horse) was stumbling down the llaney
hill, one foot continually on a boulder
ami the other constantly in a mud pud
dle, we ruminated (to use an “Arp”ism)
on the injury a bad road does to business,
and the damage it does to vehicles, and
the suffering it entails on beasts and their
owners, and the trial it is to patience,
when we overtook otic of the best citi
zens of Bartow county. Like the Arkan
sas editor, who combined business with
pleasure, as you will find in our columns,
we delicately hinted that The Pocraxt
might help his business if advertised and
gratify his reading family at the same
time when he startled us by saying, “I'm
going to move away. To haul all my
goods over these roads is too much for
me. I’m sorry to go, but these roads put
me too far from business, but I'll take
The Coiraxt.” This put us to thinking
with considerable vehemence. Wo again
attempted to drive over the Haney hill on
Monday,with its mud and boulders, when
a sudden lurch sent our editorial grip
s aek clean and clear over the dash-board
into the half-fiozen slush, and jumbled
up the camphor bottle, the spectacles,
pencils, hair-pins, editorial essays and
newspaper slips into a hopeless mass.
But one clear idea lodged in our brain—
n unely: if Providence sparer! us to get
to terra Anna again we would tell what
we knew of the road from Cartersville to
Pine Log.
It is said that one of Senator Brown’s argu
lyeui flr S(>eer": confirmation was that he would
b ‘ a good Democrat injMx months from the 4th
ii Mar< h.- Savannah Times.
Mr. Speer's defection from the
party which lias paid him so well, will
not be an astonishing thing in Georgia.
He will not be the first Federal office
holder who became a good ( ?) Democrat
in six mouths after he begun to draw
pay. If that makes him happy, lie will
not be obliged to dance bis little jig alone,
tor he has plenty of company, and we
hok for more, if office-holding is de
pending oa it.
FOR RIGS COST It A CT LA BOR.
SKXATE:
*'£i it eno tul, etc.. That, from an i alter the
passage of this act, it shall lie unlawful for anv
person, company, partnership or corporation, in
any manner whotsoever, to prepay transporta
tion, or in anyway assist or encourage importa
tion or immigration of any alien or aliens, or
foreigner or foreigners, into the I'niteil States,
its Territoriesor the District of Columbia, under
contract or agreement, parole or special, ex
press or implied, made previous to the* importa
tion or migration of such alien or alien-, for
eigner or foreigners, tojK-rform labor or service
pf any kind in the United States, its Territories
or tiie District of Columbia.”
This bill, the first section of which we
give above, has passed the Senate with
amendments, and only awaits the con
currence of the House and the Presi
dent’s approval to become a law. It
forbids the importation of laborers into
this country, provided any agreement
had been made with them to work, pre
vious to their departure from their for
eign home; and it also forbids the pre
payment of their passage money by the
employer, and lines the ship owner who
transports him to this country. One
remarkable feature of this bill is the
exceptions which it makes to this whole
sale condemnation ol honest laborers.
The bill with great particularity stipu
lates that it shall still be lawful to engage
the services of foreign theatrical troops,
actors, actresses, ballet-girls, singers,
lecturers, indeed, it is still the “proper
thing,” according to this hill, to draw
largely upon the “refined and gilded
slums” of European cities for every ad
venturer and adventuress who can amuse
the languid passions or excite and gratify
the animal instincts of those who have
money to waste.
But if the foreigner has nothing but
muscle and bodily strength, which he is
willing to exhaust in some productive in
dustry, nothing but skilled and educated
handicraft, if he proposes to be a simple
factor in the creation of real wealth, then
the man who prepays his passage to this
country is to be fined one thousand dol
lars, and the laborer himself is subject
to heavy penalties. In addition to this,
the Captain of the vessel, knowing him
to be a pre-engaged laborer, is to be fined
live hundred dollars.
It is true, the bill nominally excepts
those who are engaged to be stiietly do
mestic servants—hut who can draw the
line? Who can afford to go into court
with the attendant expense to establish
the character of the labor he seeks ? The
bill forever excludes all foreign labor
which has been contracted for before
landing in the United States.
If this is not political insanity, we are
ignorant of the meaning of the words.
Especially is the object of the bill dam
aging to the South. This section of the
Union is now struggling to develop its.
wonderful natural resources. Econo
mists tell are only three factors
in the creation of wealth, viz: “Land or
nature, capital and labor.”
The first, we have most abundantly.
Nature lias richly endowed these South
ern States, their varied treasures are in
calculable. The two last-named factors,
capital and labor, we have to a very
limited extent. We must greatly multi
ply them or our sectional inferiority is
assured. Manufactories of every de
scription must be started and worked
successfully. Our agriculture must be
improved and diversified. Our forest
timber must he utilized. Our minerals
converted into a thousand forms of the
beautiful and valuable. To accomplish
this, money and labor are essential.
Wc have asked the starving men and
women of our large Northern cities, and
of its sterile, rural districts, to come
here and work in our factories, build our
railroads, ditch and drain our farming
hinds, assist the faithful colored labor of
the South in cultivating otir field crops,
our gardens, our orchards, superintend
our dairy farms, and everywhere in con
sideration of liberal wages to create
wealth for the Southern people.
Asa class, they treat this invitation
with contempt. They prefer to starve in
New York city*, or in some Xew Eng
land manufacturing town, rather than
work in the fields and mines of the
South, with a plenty to eat, good clothes,
and now and then a dollar in their
pockets. They greatly prefer to be “on
a strike/’ or in a “labor riot,” or shout
ing in the train of some communist or
dynamlteur. If at any time they are in
duced to leave those delectable abodes of
millionaires and paupers, they move di
rectly to Dakota, lowa, Minnesota, or
some otiier ice-bound State or Territory.
Now, if in our extremity, some capi
talist here in Georgia desires to run a
cotton factory, a furnace, a farm, to
build a railroad, to work a slate or marble
quatry, or engage in any other industry
should find it to his interest and our ad
vantage to prepay the passage money of
competent laborers either from Europe,
Canada, Mexico or elsewhere, he is sub
jected to a line of a thousand dollars. If
the Irishman starts from Ireland to ditch
our swamp lands or throw up railroad
embankments in this State, if the owner
of a cotton factory in Manchester should
move ids spindles, together with his fe
male employees to the cotton fields of the j
Etowah; if a Southern farmer desires a j
German to supervise a “truck patch,” or j
a milk-maid from the island of Jersey to !
mould the “gilt-edge” butter, or any j
other labor from other lands, he must be I
severely punished.
Know-Xothingism was a triile com
pared with this folly and injustice. A
prohibitory tariff levied, not upon the
products of labor, but upon laborers.
Hie man excluded, not because he is a
foreigner, but because lie is a foreigner
seeking work.
W oik, for the first time in tlie history
of our common country is made a crime
by legislative enactment, and even the
desire on the part of a foreigner to con
tribute to the wealtli of Georgia, tor a
wage consideration, makes him a
criminal.
It will be remembered that in ftic
“Chinese craze,” which afflicts our Pa
cific States, the principal argument used
agakist these Celestials, is the demoral
izing efiect of their licentious character
upon the i>eople of those States. Their
religion, their manners, and their un- I
chaste habits, it is said, influence injn
riousiy the transient and turbulent popu
lation ot the Pacific slope. This is the
alleged reason of that ostracism and ban
ishment of a people, who are vile
heathens in California, but the tender
subjects of missionary zeal in China.
Their enemios dare not urge their will
ingness to work as an argument against
Chinese immigration.
But in this new Foreign Labor Bill,
we have a declaration of war, pure and
simple,against work. Labor is the offense
against which the august American Sen
ate pours its wrath.
We understand the pretended argu
ment in favor of this measure was, that
Foreign contract labor conflicts with the
interests of home labor. We can readily
perceive how home labor is protected by
shielding its products against the unequal
competition of commodities imported
into this country. We can see how
home labor is encouraged by giving to
the laborer cheap food, cheap clothing, a
Comfortable home and all the benefits
of our advancing civilization, hut we
cannot conceive how an embargo levied
upon muscle and dextrous fingers to be
employed upon American soil,can benefit
or dignify American labor.
Nine Senators only voted against this
measure. Eight were Southern men,
and we are glad they recorded their
names against this outrage upon progress.
We give their names: Butler and Hamp
ton, of South Carolina; Groome, of Ma
ryland; Vance, of North Carolina;
Maxey,of Texas; Morgan, of Alabama;
Saulsbury, of Deleware; and Williams,
of Kentucky. Gen. Hawley, of Con
necticut, also recorded his vote against
it. Senator Colquitt’s vote is not re
corded, which we mention in justice to
him. W. 11. F.
77/ E CR Y FOR WORK.
A New York City newspaper sent out
its reporters one of the cold days of last
week to collect news, and they returned
with the startling announcement that
75,000 men and women were idle and
begging for work, for wages, to feed and
warm themselves and their helpless ones.
Just think of if—75,000 people crying for
work. Not bread, not money; but hard
work!
In London 3,000 men collected in the
streets, formed a procession, gathered be
fore the doors of the powerful and
wealthy and filled the air with a clamor
forer doyment. “Work we want! Give
us w.'.-k to bring us food and fuel, or you
must suffer!” The police scattered the
hungry mob, but no police can quell the
burning sense of wrong and suffering
that hunger and cold will bring to human
starving souls.
[u some of the large manufacturing,
towns the Irish are being turned off by
the thousands, because an insane craving
for revenge had possessed some unwor
thy compatriots until dynamite shook
the very shelter of royalty itself. The
Savior said, “The poor ye have always
with you,” and with deep poverty there
will always he deep distress. It is sad
that the innocent must suffer with the
guilty, but salvation only comes through
suffering. Agar’s prayer should he the
inspiration of our heart’s desire: “Give
me neither poverty nor riches.” The
middle classes are the hope of this coun
try. The man who is careful of "his time
and health, laying up a little for a rainy
day, willing to live and equally willing
to let his neighbor live, neither the slave
of a monopoly or the oppressor ot the
poor and helpless; the man who deals
honestly in the fear of God with justice to
all about him, those, men are the support
on which the free institutions of this
country rest, and those hearts are the
safeguards of our liberty and our free
dom under the law.
So long as legislation was left free to
unbiased judgment and reason, so long
was honest labor within the reach of
every honest man; but tbure is some
thing wofully out of joint when our iarge
money centres become also the centres of
starvation and suffering. The centrali
zation of moneyed power may thrive
under a despotism, but in this land of
freedom it will bring on an irrepressible
conflict, never to be settled until one or
the other of these two extreme classes
gain the mastery. God defend us and
our children!
We took the time the other day to scan
the peculiar talents of our leading Geor
gia editors —we mean of the large dailies
—the big papers. Asa result we decided
that Mr. Walsh was equal to the best in
the Union for putting the subject square
ly before liis readers, while Col. Albert
Lamar could fling chain lightning around
anything he handled, as a diversion, and
when his heart and his head together
tackled his editorials he was matchless
for terseness and brilliancy. Mr. Henry
Grady is inimitable as a delineator, far
out-stripping “Gath,” who has under
taken such a mammoth contract in the
Cincinnati Enquirer that his brain seems
tired, jaded, worn out. The wit is spread
on so thinly that it is tasteless, vapid,
stale. Mr. Richardson, of the Savannah
Times, comes next, we believe, for tact
and sparkle, while Great Heart, in the
Evening Xews, slings a sledge-hammer
when he rounds a point or defends a
friend. Mr. Estill is said to be a finish
ed editor, but as be fails to exchange
with us we are unable to place him in
this list. Wiien W. 11. Ilideli sharpens
his pencils on the Rome Courier, he will
give somebody a race for the prize. Xor
will we forget the News and Advertiser,
for its talent overflows its little sheet.
The Atlanta Journal has had remaikable
success, and seems to be gaining a foot
hold where ail other evening papers have
die*] heretofore. Success to it!
Man y thanks to the Wesleyan Advo
vocate for its offer to club with us. If
there is any editor anywhere who ever
belonged to Bartow county that stands
higher than Rev. J. W. Burke we would
like to see him. It was Casa when be so
journed with us, but we claim him ail
the same. He has built up a splendid
circulation in the Advocate and deserves
all the credit that belongs to him. He
should succeed because he merits success.
I)r. Wright, of Dalton, died in Atlan
ta. Our sympathy to his wife nd family.
ISA VGVRA TICS DA Y.
Before we go to press next week Mr.
Cleveland will have taken the oath ot
office and the people will be dressing for
the ball. T 1 e supper is to be all cooked
in New York city—except hot teas and
coffee and such other viands as will not
bear transportation and which are to be
served up hot and smoking. If the
weather is go.i l there will be a great dis
play—ln tlie streets, as oon as it is
cleverly dark, and the fireworks will be
magnificent, if they equal those we saw
when Hayes and Garfield were inau
gurated, and they p;omise to “yap the
climax”—to use an old saying.
The 4th of March, in the year 1877,
came on Sunday, and it was understood
that Mr. Hayes and Chief Justice Waite
performed a small tableau scene in the
White House about noon of that day, in
which one held the Bible and the ether
kissed it. It was a little uncertain at
that hour whether there would be a
peaceable surrender on the part of the
Democrats, and w ith a resolution horn
of fear, and perhaps cowardice, Ruther
ford B. took the oath twice. The next
day, our family of three, set oft' for the
Capitol, after an early breakfast and by
the quickest route. Members of Con
gress had control of three tickets, be
sides an “open sesame” for themselves,
so we gave away two, and contrived by
a little feminine strategy to get a front
seat in the Senate gallery about nine
o’clock a. m. It was dull waiting for a
spell, but in due time the crow and began to
push in. Soon the roar in the outside street
announced the approach of the pageant
that made its way through Pennsylvania
avenue —the crowd kept back on each
side by a solid line of police and sol
diery. About the time the air was re
sounding with cheers, drowning the
thunder of artillery at the Arsenal and
Navy Yard, Mrs. Senator Sherman
w-alked down ihe gallery steps, grace
fully pointing out a seat to a handsome
lad} , who accompanied her. Her com
panion was Mrs. Hayes, and the two
children that followed were Scott and
Fanny. A murmur ot applause ran
around the Senate chamber and the
good lady’s eyes brightened, while a love
ly rose color suffused her face at the
demonstration.
Directly the Foreign Legations began
to arrive, Sir Edward Thornton in his
official costume leading the way, and
Aristarchi Bey, the Turkish Minister,
in his brilliant fez cap, in the rear. The
Grand Duke Alexis, and his attendant,
also appeared, a lad of eighteen or twen
ty, not remarkable for beauty or grace,
although a well-built, sturdy looking
chap, whose interest never seemed to
flag to the end of the proceedings.
The officers, high in rank, <4 both
army and navy, dressed in full uniform,
stood about in the hall, Hie crowd now
becoming a literal jam.
The main door to the chamber opened,
and eight. Supreme Court Judges entered,
in full costume, long biack sWk gowns,
that hung in rich folds about corpulent
forms. One, the ninth, Judge Davis,
wore a genteel business suit, ready to
take the oath of office as a newly-elected
Senator from the State of Illinois.
As soon as the dignitaries were seated,
a hush fell on that restless throng, and
as the door opened again the Seriate ad
vanced, followed bv Senator Ferry the
acting Vice-President, and VV. A.
Wheeler, the new Vice-President, arm in
arm. Just behind them walked Gen.
Grant and Mr. Hayes, a sturdy couple,
well matched in size, but very dissimilar
in person and manner. The doors
swung to and the chaplain rose, with
outstretched hands, to pray God’s bless
ing on the old and the new, “The king
is dead 1” “Long live the king!”
Vice-President Wheeler took the oath
of office and the new Senators also,
among the number Ben Hill, of Georgia,
and M. C. Butler, of South Carolina.
These things consumed some time, but
finally the Senate adjourned to the
front of the Capitol where Mr.
Hayes was to make his littie speech and
kiss the Book in the presence of tens ot
thousands, who had packed the open
space for hours under a biting, sleet/
wind, to oatoh a glimpse of the Xation’s
new ruler,elected by one solitary electoral
vote,as so declared. A3 we had missed the
procession to see the proceedings in the
Senate chamber, we crept out quietly and
hurried with all speed to our hotel on
the Avenue to witness the return from the
Capitol. We thought the world and his
brother had gone up the hill to hear the
inaugural address, but the avenue was so
densely crowded, we were forced more
than once to rub against the walls, while
the policeman flourished his club over
some pickpocket who wa3 caught going
through the purse of a haples; visitor
who had hardly yelled “stop thief,” be
fore the club came down on the ras
cal’s head with a dull thud.
Right glad were we to find ourselves
and our little charge safe within the hos
pitable shelter of the old Xational, and
hardly had we reached our third-story
window, when the head of the proces
sion with the forty musicians of the Ma
rine Bind, in full blast, began to file
along before us. We were just in time
to see it all. Oh! the soldiers, the ma
rines, the artillery, the flags, the bands,
the cavalry, the hundreds and frhe thou
sands of blue-coats, intermixed with
sailor boys, in full naval rig and swag
ger. Once or twice that “blue coat”
vi-ion recalled. =o much of our wartimes, j
Chat a tear would start, but when the j
President’s carriage drove slowly along :
with poor Mr. Hayes, hat in hand, and !
his weary head bowing around like the j
beat of a slow moving pendulum, we :
got over the sadness and wondered if he j
would escape the toothache that night j
after such a bare-headed spell in that I
bleak wintry, air.
Oh ! the rush, the hurry, ‘bo eiation of j
the Republicans, and the ill-concealed >
vexation of the Democrat.', the gossip I
about cabinets, and the muttered wrath
of the Tildenites who were “so near, and j
yet so far! ! ”
At tea-time, we saw a quiet, home
spun looking couple come in, take their
seats and order their supper, just as we
were about to pass on our way out.
Imagine our surprise, when introduced
to Secretary McCrary, the new Minister
of War, who had just received his port
folio from the new Executive. For a
day or two the rumors flew thiek and
fast as to who should be Postmaster-
General. It was understood to be a
Southern man and a Democrat, but if D.
M. Key was as much surprised as we were
when he was announced to the public, he
must have felt giddy from the shook.
We wonder if anybody will be in
doubt next Wednesday night as to what
department he will fall into, and in which
dwelling belonging to Uncle Sam he will
toast his shins and rest his political ambi
tion for the next four years? We expect
great things of Mr. Clevt-1 aud and wish
him hearty success.
AX OLD TRUNK.
We have in our possession a little hair
trank which has a history. In shape it
is nearly round, about two feet long and
eight inches high, 'with an iron ring on
each end to fasten on the back part of a
saddle.
The writer’s father purchased it in the
year 1813. The federal government in that
year called for a levy of Georgia troops.
Oglethorpe county furnished a company
of volunteers. The ollicers of that com
pany were: Owen, captain; John
Felton, Ist lieutenant; Elisha Strong,
2nd lieutenant; Burwell Pope, 3rd lieu
tenant. They went directly into service
and the entire Georgia force of 3,500 men
under command of Gen. John Floyd,
were ordered to rendezvous at Fort Haw
kins, near where the city of Macon is
now built.
This little trunk was thete —in the
midst of these brave young Georgians.
Capt. Owen soon sickened and died and
the owner of the trunk became captain of
the company. It next took a trip—in
the unbroken wilderness from the Oc
mulgee to the Chattahoochee, some miles
below Columbus —where Gen. Floyd’s
troops built Fort Mitchell. Gen. Floyd
ordered a detachment of sixteen hundred
men to move on an Indian town.
They camped at night, of the 26th of
January, 1814, near a small creek and
swamp called Challitbee, without breast
works, and with great pine knots bla
zing in the depths of a dense pine forest.
An hour and a half before day they
were roused by the war-whoops of 3,000
Indians—arrows, bullets, tomahawks
flew around these gallant young Geor
gians—and many of them awoke,in a few
moments to sleep again forever. The
little trunk was on hand, in the midst of
one of the bloodiest battles of the cam
paign—which tested the courage and en
durance of that brave little army of
militiamen.
The little trunk was there, when Gen.
Floyd dashed bravely to the front, his
white charger a clear target for the dusky
foe. It was near when gallant Captain
Samuel Butts fell, shot through the
heart, dead.
Jett Thomas commanded the single
cannon in the fight. Every man around
the gun was either killed or wounded,
and he had loaded and fired it himself
before help reached him—the Indians at'
that moment almost touching the mi zzle
of the gun. Daybreak witnessed the
flight of the enemy and the shouts of
the pursuers.
This little old. trunk followed these
Oglethorpe boys everywhere, messed
with them, slept with them and trav
eled with them for six months, during
Floyd’s campaign. It held in its diminu
tive space all the clothing its owner did
not wear, his razor and soap, his ink and
paper, and everything ho was obliged to
have for his personal comfort alone. It
is lined with a paper printed in New
York city, dated November 14th, 1812,
and the newspaper was called “The
War.” The print is as clear to-day as
then, and one place we find the sailing of
the Constitution and Hornet in command
of Commodore Cambridge, as a news
item. W. 11. F.
Senator Hale, of Maine, who voted against
Speer, is said to have made alliance with some
of the Democrats to secure the passage of meas
ures, and that he was willing to sacrifice Mr.
Speer to make sure of the votes he needed.—
Augusta Chronicle.
We are afraid the Chronicle gave its
case away. What can be charged so
openly of Senator Hale can be easily
charged on another Senator. Mr. Hale’s
party did not vote unanimously—four
Republicans declining to vote for Mr.
Speer—while the Democracy gave a
solid vote one way. People who live in
glass houses should look before they
throw stones. Eh! Chronicle! Mr.
Hale will find less trouble with bis
vote than some other people will with
theirs, and we are inclined to think the
Chronicle felt inclined to go outside and
pinch itself when It saw the above in
cold type. That gun “kicked,” no mis
take !
The dedication cf the Washington
monument marks a great era in our his
tory. It is the highest structure in the
world built by human hands, being 550
feet high. Gen. Washington deserves the
monument —for he is the prominent fig
ure, that filled the whole civilized earth
when his prowess and patriotism made
America the “Crown Diamond” in the
coronet of nations. The day of dedica
tion was vert' cold, and froze out senti
ment—for the speeches fell rather flat on
the listeners, it seems. The inaugura
tion will lx? a bigger thing than the dedi
cation although the latter will live longer
in history.
When America Closes her gates on the
poor people in foreign lands, who are
willing to come here and make “waste
places to rejoice,” then will her glory
have departed. She will lx> no longer
the shelter of those whose kindred set
tled at Plymouth Rock and Jamestown.
Xo wonder the South is poor! Oh! im
pudence where is thy limit?
We arc sorry that our subscribers have
to write so often that their Cocrants fail
to go. There lias been much confusion
in railway schedules during the hard
weather. We hope it will soon he all
right. Meantime let us know when
your Coukant does not reach you and
wc will send another.
THE GRANT TENSION.
Thk Cori:axt never had any favors
from Gen. Grant, therefore its advoeacy
is neither gratitude or the hope ot per
sonal favor. Had we opposed his pen
sion when he had given our family, lor
years together, a fat office, common grat
itude would have kept our mouths shut.
The general is wearing away with cancer
of the tongue —likely to die with that
slow torture*at any time. The North and
West are going to honor him with a pen
sion for the few days or weeks lie has to
live. In the midst of his failing health
how sadly must lie remember that sharp
er than a serpent’s tooth is ingratitude.
The Southern soldiers respect Gen Grant
and it is not that class which is now hig
gling over a brief pension to the idol of
the Federal Army, and his pension has
no more to do with depriving Southern
soldiers of a pension than with the pass
age of a bill to any other foreign subject.
Southern soldiers with one leg and
arm will never forget that Gen. Grant,
after the war, declared that his limbs
shoul be torn from him one at a time be
fore Southern soldiers like Gen. Fee
should be tried and hung as traitors.
THE WEATffER
Is perfectly awful. Tuesday morning a
northeast gale was blowing heavily.
Soon it began to spit fine sleet, and be
fore noon the land was transformed into
an arctic display. The wand of a ma
gician had touched the dull, black shiubs,
weeds and sodden grass, and lo: the
world was a fairy scene of pearls and the
fences were chains of jewels rare. A
drive of three miles, under the pelting
sleet, took all the romance out of our na
ture.' and we were glad to see the old
farm house with its cheery fire. Is this
the Sunny South ?
W. B. Lockett, who was ousted from
the control of his father’s convicts by
order of Gov. McDaniel for cruelty, has
been elected president of penitentiary
No. 2, instead of his father. One way to
circumvert a dismissal, by a promotion.
Tiie first number of Judge Under
wood’s “Reminiscences of the Chero
kees,” will appear in our next issue.
Little Freddie Turner, of Cedartown,
died a few days ago. May heaven com
fort the dear parents!
David Dickson, Georgia’s most cele
brated farmer, died suddenly last week.
Dr. Fox, of Atlanta, stricken with
paralysis. Getting better.
An Open Letter.
IN WHICH
ALL LADIES
DEEPLY INTERESTED.
READ IT,
Belair, Ga., Nov. G, 1884.
Ge/ntlp ,ren:
I have been using your wonderful remedy,
“Dr. Bradfleld’s Female Regulator,” in my fam
ily for a long time, and 1 want to say to the suf
fering ones of my sex that there never was any
thing to equal it. Would to God that every afllict
ed woman in our lahd knew ol its wonderful
virtues aud curative powers aa I do. 1 have
used a great deal of it since the hirth of my last
child, about a year and half ago, and I do think
had it not been for this valuable medicine, I
would have been
IIIS ID-It 133 ID Til 3NT WOK lalß’lS !
But thanks to a kind Providence, I was directed
to its use, and my life and health have been
spared me 1 If my means would admit of it, I
would never be without it in my house,
1 recommended it to a number of my friends
and without exception they have all been won
derfully relieved and cured. I give tills indorse
ment without solicitation and freely, for the
benefit of the suffering ones of my sex.
Very Respectfully
Mrs. Anna Ramp.
Send for our Treaties on Female Diseases,
mailed freo, Address,
The Bradfxeld Regulator Cos.,
fob?fi-liu Box 28, Atlanta Ga.
t’oiinly C’ourl Sale**.
Will be sold before the court house door, in
the city otCartersville, between thelegftl hours
of Side, on the first Tuesday in March, 1885,
the following property, to-wit:
One doubt e-door iron safe, lies ring’s r-itent
Chamwion make, combination lock, in store
house ot .Jones Brother A Cos. Let ied on and
will be sold as the property of Toombs it. Jones
and James IJ.1 J . Jones, under fieri lacias from
Bartow County Court, in favor ot Ornstein A
Rice, vs. Jones Bros. & Cos. Property pointed
out by John W. A kin, plaintiff’s attorney.
JAMES G. BROUGHTON,
Feb. 2.td County Court Bailiff.
WOTICJE. ,
GEORGIA—Bartow County.
Whereas, Geo. 11. Waring and E. E Howard
have applied to the Court of Ordinary to have
Julia Pamela MoMann, 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 m ruy office (it any they
have) on or by*thc first Monday in March next,
else said orphan will be bound out, as provid
ed by Statute. February 2,1885,
2.61 41* J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary.
GEORGIA—Bartow County.
WHEREAS, Austin Foster lias applied for
I.etters of Guardianship of the person
and property oi Clem Foster, a minor resi lent
of said county. Therefore all persons con
cerned, are hereby notified to file their objec
tion, if any they have, in my otlice within the
time prescribed by law, else Leters will be
granted applicant on the first Monday in
April next. February 19th, 1 s>s.
J. A. HOW ARO, Ordinary.
RULE 10 PERFECT SERVICE,
Emma Guyton, j
James A. Guyton. $ Libel for Divorce.
It appearing to the Court that an order was
taken at the last term of this court to perfect
service upon the defendant in the above stated
case, and it being now represented that the
service then provided for by said order was
not made; it is now ordered by the Court that
service be perfected on the defendant by the
publication Cf this order once a month lor
four months before the uext term of this court
iu the Cartersvtlle American, a newspaper
published m Bartow county, Georgia. c
Granted in open court, January (16th) term
18*5. T. J. SIMMONS, J. S. C.
A. M. Foute, petitioner’s attorney,
A true extract from the minutes.
F. M. Durham, Clerk S. C.
SHELBY ATTAWAY,
A. T O R N F, Y -AT - LA W,
Cabteksville, Geoboia.
First stairway below Postoftiee, Bank Block,
febia tf
“Housekeeping In the Sunny South.”
This is the title of anew cook book
gotten up by Mrs. E. R Tennent, of
Marietta, Ga., and published byJas, F.
Harrison & Cos., of Atlanta. No pains
or expenses have been spared to make it
the most perfect book of its class ever
published. The recipe for making F. M.
Jack’s famous bread is published for the
first time. It is alone worth the price of
the book. The great fault with most
cook books on the market are their ex
travagant demands, which r uder them
valueless to the masses. This will suit
the plainest and most economical as well
as the millionaire, who can a fiord the
costliest luxuries. The best housekeep
ers, bakers and confectioners not only of
the South, but of every section, have
contsrbuted their tried and valued recipes.
The list is indeed a brilliant one. The
book contains four hundred pages, is ele
gantly printed on the finest cream timed
paper, and boundin eloth. it will ap
pear Febraruy Ist. Price Two Dollars.""
Send your orders now to Mrs. E, R.
Tennent. feb 12 If
Administrator's Notice.
will be made to the Court o
Ordinary, ol Bartow County, Georgia, at the
first regular term after the expiration ol four
weeks from this notice, for leave to tell pay
of the lands belougir.g to estate of John
Posey, deceased,JPf the benefit #f (he cred
itors of said deceased.
R. F. Posey, Administrator.
nc3B -It.
GEORGI A—B i rtow Connt y.
WHERE AS, Richard B. Carnes has applied
lor Letters of Guardianship of the nel -
son and property of Oscar Cook, a minor res i •
dent of said county, under 14 rears of age
Therefore, all per>ons eoneerned are .herd y
notified to tile their objections, it any they
have, in mv office within the time pre.vribod
bv law, else letters will be granted applicant
on first Monday in April next. TUG February
20th, 1885. J. A. HOWARD,
Ordinary.
THK REASON WHY?
• General Science.
—Why should we seek knowledge? Because i(
assists us to comprehend the goodness and p over
of God.
—Why should we use Curry’s Cough Cure?
Because it alleviates the distressing soreness
and difficult breathing of all spasmodic bron
chial irritations.
—Why do we breathe air? Because the air
contains oxygen, which is necessary to life.
Why do mothers keep constantly on hand Gur
ry’s Cough Cure? Because they can go to bed
with the assurance that if their little ones arc
seized with croup, they have within their reach
a sovereign remedy.
—Why is oxygen necessary to life? Because
it combines with the carbon of the blood and
forms carbonic acid gas.
—Why is Curry’s Liver Compound placed be
fore the people as a blood purifier? Because it
contains the very elements that attack impure
and effete matter in the blood, aud eliminates
or drives them from the system.
Why is this combination (C. L. C.) necessary?
Because we are so created that the substances
of our bodies are constantly undergoing change,
and thus revolving pure for impure matter by its
direct alterative efiect, is the end necessary.
—Why do we see blocks of ice wrapped in
blankets or flannel in summer time? Because
flannel, being a non conductor, prevents the ex
ternal heat from dissolving the tee.
—Why does D. W. Curry guarantee to refund
the money to dissatisfied purcliacers of Curry’s
Liver Compound? Because he well knows the
ingredients will not disappoint him and that
time has established a record upon which ho
can stand.
Why do people with torpid livers yield So
the depressing influences of excessive cold or
heat? Because there is that in the blood winch
is in direct conflict with Jiealtliful combustion in
the system—those poisonous enervating clcirents
are entirely removed by Curry’s Liver ( ouiU
pound. ,
—Why are hot rolls sent out by the bad
In flannel? Because the flannel being a bad
conductor does not carry off the heat of the rolls.
—Why should we use Curry’s Liver Compound
in hot weather! Because it relieves the system,
of torpidity and infuses new hfo info our being.
—Why are seeds generally enveloped in lmr l
cases? Because the coming of tlio seed, like tha
shell ol’ an egg, is designed to preserve the g. nn.
—Why does everybody expect such good, re
sults from vegetable seeds obtained from David
W. Curry? Because ho handles only the purest
aud freshest, buys only from growers who use
the best measures to preserve their seed from
atmospheric and other hurtful influences. All
the seed sold by 1). W. Curry are guaranteed
, true to name, and the best obtainable. Almost
all the Jeading varieties, especially those used
by most people, of tins section of the country are
kept.
Why is it proper to have beds raised about two
feet from the ground? Because at night, the
bed-room being closed, the lirealh'of the sleeper
impregnates the air of the room with carbonic
acid gas, which, descending, lies in its greatest
density near to the floor,
—Why is Curry’s Liver Compound the best
remedy for cold hands and feet? Because it re
stores to the blood vessels .their lost tone and
stimulates active aud equal circulation through
out the body.
—Why do people feel drowsy in crowded
rooms? Because the largo amount of carbonic
acid gas given off with the breaths of the people
makes the air poisonous and oppressive.
—Why, therefore, should every family use Cur
ry’s Liver Compound?
Because the excessive impurities thrown off
in breathing is rendered sweet and inoeuous be
fore leaving the lungs.
—Why do some articles of clothing feel cold
and others warm? Because some are had con
ductors of heat and do not draw off' much of the
warmth of our bodies; while others are better
conductors and take up .a large portion of our
warmth.
—Wiiy do a great many remedies occasionally
loom up with a great deal of fu-s, Only to .soon
pass altogether out of notice, and to virtue en
tirely lost? Because they possess little or no
merit, sometimes giving relief for awhile, yet
doing no permanent or lasting good. cutr.
Livdr Compound owes its continued success to
the lasting and efficient action in eradicating
disease.
—Why is Curry’s Cough Cure put up in smafl
and large sizes? Because a small hot He i , in
tended to cure a single individual, while fami
lies prefer to keep large bottles on hand,
—Why does it frequently feel warmer after a
frost has set in? Because, in tiie act of cong'-l-t
--tion a great deal of heat is given out, and taken
up by the air.
—Why do those who have tested Curry’s
Cough Cure, recommend it as the best remedy of
its kind? Because it is perfectly natural to
“praise the bridge that carries us safely over.” *
—Why is it frequently cold when a thaw takes
place? Because, in the process of thawing,a
aiertaiu amount of heat is withdrawn from the
air, and enters the thawed ice.
—Why does D. W. Curry claim that Curry's
Liver Compound and Curry’s Cougip.Cure are
the in comparable remedies for meases for
which they are recommended? IV ause a crit
ical public has tested their virtues and unites
tatingly pfonounce them the best.
—Why do we see the sua before sunri.se and
after sunset? Because of the refractive effects
of the atmosphere.
Why do physicians recommend Curry’s liver
Compound? Because D. W. Curry gives any
regular physician his formula, and they do not
fear to use it—it meets all the indications for
which it is prepared.
—Curry’s Liver Compound and Curry VCotigh
Cure is sold by druggist, an l merchants
generally throughout the Southern stay s.
U. JE. O A !>4<
Resident Dentist,
Office over Curry’s drug store, Cartofsvliie,
fabs