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THE COURANT. JPwHlished Every Thursday, CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA. IRE COURA NT i* publl*hed erery Thnrtday morning and i* delivered by carrier* in the city or mailed, pottage /rw, at fl.hO a year; eix month*, 80 cent*; three month#, 50cent*. A DVERTISI NO RA TICS depend on location in the. paper , and will be furniehed on applica tion. CORRESPONDENCE containing import t new* eolicited from all part* of the county. A DDRKSS all letter*. communication* and tel egram*, and make all draft* or check* ptwable to TilE COURANT, D. W. CURRY, Cartereville, Ga. Butine** Manager. DOCTOR AND MRS. W. H. FELTON. APRIL 9, 1885. England and Russia are still in fight ing trim, and may get down to serious work at any hour. It is said that the English money market is very feverish as a result of the excitement. This Rev. Mr. McConnell begs leave to thank the good ladies of Cartersville who so generously contributed flowers and evergreens for the decoration of As cension church on Easter day. The Courant had a pleasant call last Motiday from Rev. Mr. Griffiths, pastor of the Presbyterian church of this city. He will be heartily welcomed by the good people of the place, and we trust he may also find himself pleased in every particular. Handsomely printed cards for a recep tion, complimentary to Judge and Mrs. Emory Speer, given by Hon. D. N. Speer and lady, of Atlanta, lie before us. We are sorry engagements prevent an acceptance. Ex-Treasurer Speer has a great many friends in this part of Geor gia, and Atlanta has reason to he proud of so energetic a citizen. CENTRA L A ME RICA . The war in Central America is about to come to a close. The leader of the revolutionists, Barrios, is reported killed in a late engagement. His gold hiked sword was found on the battlefield bro ken. The country will perhaps settle down now into some sort of a Federal Republic. ♦ > . ■ ..... Wk are pained to announce the death of Col. Simpson Fouchc, of Rome, Ga. He was a sterling citizen of Bartow coun ty in the days when she called herself Cass. As an educator Col. Fouche had no superior in this section. For his many high traits of character, his fearless advocacy of what he believed to be l ight, he deserved and maintained the high ap preciation of both Floyd and Bartow counties and the entire State. Thk Woman’s Christian Temperance Union holds its annual meeting in Co lumbus, on May 2d and 3d. The Con vention will be largely attended by rep resentatives from all over the State, as well as delegates from South Carolina, Alabama and Florida. Mrs. W. C. Sibley, who is President of the State Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, calls a meeting of the Executive Com mittee on May Ist. The next days, 2d and 3d, will be devoted to the Convention exercises, which promise to be particu larly interesting to all who may attend. Every woman in Georgia is interested in the success of good morals and good government, and the field for usefulness in this direction is unsurpassed. Mrs. Sibley is one of the first ladles in Georgia, by birth, education and social standing. Her name at the head of the movement is a tower of strength, and her devotion to the work is alike hon orable to her head and heart. KIND WORDS. In a letter written to one of the edito rial stall', we find these words : “I have just read chapters Ist and 2d of Mrs. Felton’s skoteli of Col. Aker man. llow cruelly he was misjudged by our people. 1 first met him wdiile in college at Athens. 1 heard him and his opposing counsel, Linton Stephens, ar gue an important case. I then thought him a man of power and promise. He fulfilled my expectations. Mrs. Felton is doing the State a ser vice and the dead a noble vindication. This sowing of good seed will return to her a tenfold crop some day,” The author of the letter is one of the first and foremost men in Georgia. There is not a taint on his personal and political character. As an unflinching Democrat he has no superior in the State. For his kind words, we thank him. The reward has already come to us. The knowledge that simple justice has been done, always brings its compensa tion with it. To Mrs. Akerman and her seven boys, these words will be doubly sweet, and for their sakes we copy theut here. A T-SSCRSTA H r rRELIXGHCYSEX Is supposed to be even nearer death than Gen. Grant—whose condition largely en grosses the associated press. Mr. Fre linghuysen, the late premier of President Arthur’s administration, is not only at the point of death, but his wife is in but little better condition from a late stroke of paralysis. Hardly four weeks have passed since their elegant Washington household was the centre of fashion, brilliancy and gayety.—And }'et to-day they are plunged into grief and gloom. How rapidly the wheel of life revolves! Today, sunshine—to-morrow, blackness and clouds! Their Washington home was perhaps the ne plus ultra of fashion able society during the last three years of President Arthur’s regime. In fact it was almost an annex to the White House. Its dinners—its tea drinkings—its diplo matic breakfasts—its grand receptions— were the envy and pride of the town. Mrs. John Davis, the eldest daughter of the Frelinghuysen House, was consider ed the leader of high fashion, and the family appeared to sip the very nectar of promotion and popularity. To-day the late Premier lies on his bed unconscious; the wife in a most critical condition herself, and the Angel of Death hovers over the stricken household. Query : Is so much fashion—so much i excitement—good for mind or body ? * A SERIOUS QUESTION. ‘‘llow long do you suppose Bartow farmers can stand the present system of farming with tenant labor? As they don’t make enough in one year to run the farm the next, how long do you suppose it will take to wind us all up?” These questions were asked in our presence a day or two ago, and we would like to have an answer, or a dozen an swers, suited to the situation. Speak out, friends! We know a farm, not a hundred miles from the Courant office, where a farmer and his family strive hard to make a llv •mg—that they fail, is no fault of theirs, if you c insider attention or self-denial. The owner of the land has six colored tenants with their families on the place. Not one had a mouthful of meat or a bushel of corn when they moved in early in December. They agreed to work all the time, putting the land in good order, cleaning fence corners, sprouting and repairing, until the weath er should allow for plowing and break ing the land for the crop this year. The farmer, knowing they had no credit, gave his name at the merchant’s for a stated allowance of corn and bacon per month. Now, what Is the result? In December they did not strike a lick, except to move their chattels, nor drive a mule, except to supply themselves with green wood, after they were expressly directed to cut only dead and fallen timber. The Christmas holidays were too near at hand to work. Their habits and feelings were too re spectful to the holidays to commit such a breach of good manners, or pious rev erence, as to work at that season. The eating did not stop a second, however. In January, it snowed and sleeted, and it was hard work to get them to fe*d and water stock once a day. February was ditto, and March much the same until the last week of the month, then the difficulties begun to show themselves. Having snoozed by the fire all winter, they are sleepy these Spring mornings. The least little drizzle of rain houses them for the day. If complaint is made that that sort of work will not do, they don’t work at all, or vent their spite on the much abused mules, which are half curried, half watered, and scantily fed. The poor farmer, seeing the long account at the store, which grows like Jack’s bean stalk all the time, begins to “hedge” to save himself, and the sharp tenants begin to dodge every lick of work to keep him from clearing a dollar by the crop. If he fails to grant an order for an extra pair of shoes, then perhaps nobody in the family will be well ( ?) enough to go to the field the next day. If an order for one pair is granted, it means six, as they keep an even tally with each other. If you propose to doc tor the sick one, lie thinks “a leetle grain of colfee and sugar from de store,” will bo the best medicine. Corn meal and bacon is not appetizing to Spring weath er, and a small jug is brought up for a gallon of “surrup” to help digestion. If you decline to sweeten their diet, the mule will stand in tiie stall all day, while plowliand goes about seeking “whom he may devour.” It you grant one jug order, it means six—never less. One of the six, by some means, perhaps as sur prising to him as to others, was able to kill a good-sized hog. He stood by a time or so and saw the bacon weigned out, but his resolve was quickly taken. The next deal he presented his claim. As he passed the “cook lady” he re marked, sotto voce, “I seed it agwine, I vvus jis ’tarmined to have my share.” Tobacco, is the name of the next screw they put on the poor, perplexed farmer. He is hedging to keep in sight of only work enough to pay up the store account. A dream of a profit has long ago ceased to enter his calculations. He doles it out a plug at a time, but it looks like they use tobacco for a dessert after meals, it gets away so fast. One plug means six—and six mules, sometimes ten mules, will stand until six plugs are forthcom ing. The poor, puzzled farmer scratches his head, lies awake at night—the only season under heaven when he is able by sleepto shut out the aggravations and perplexities. He longs for “laying by” time to come. In the meanwile he is “laying by” such a harvest of store accounts as to aggra vate him persistently night and day until he worries out the last pound of cotton he can possibly get picked, ginned and sold in the fall. The vexation never ceases, never stops, Sunday or Monday. He is afraid to hold on, lest it swamps him financially, and he is afraid to let go, for then he knows he will be swamped with out remedy. After “laying by” (that happy season) comes, the corn buying stops, and the corn field suffers. A leak in one place is not stopped by opening another hole, where the leak never sees a ledger or a half bushel. When the time of “divide” comes it would take an “army with banners” to secure a fair showing in such a deal. Nothing like their experience in a “di vide” can be imagined outside of a room where “draw poker” is the game, and “draw” is the order of the day. In the meantime every Saturday is a day of recreation. If it rains every day in the week but Saturday, it makes no difference. On Saturday nights and Sunday nights somebody else will water the mules and feed, or the mules will go i without till next day. Besides, the col ored ladies ot the family are exempt from | field labor, or any sort of labor—unless | it is a job somewhere else. The cotton may hang white and fleecy, and the land owner may either hire it picked or let it alone—nothing ever disturbs their equa nimity, or provokes them to haste. Now, the question is, what are you going to do about it/ One says, “quit.” But how are you going to pay for the guano and the supplies of the year? Another says, “dock them.” Suppose i you do, and when there is nothing left ! to pay with before the “docking” can get in, what then? The whole thing has been reduced to a system, and the loss is obliged to fall on the land-owner, if he deals as honest man should with these crafty, ignorant people, who scuffle the whole year to keep from doing anything that will honorably help themselves or fheir employer. In December, they are ready to move again. The same schedule is run the next year, with their new “dots” in the game for next year added on to the shifty tricks of this, and the ball winds and winds until the end comes, and the spectre of ruin confronts you sure and inevitably. Suppose you go to law to settle your scores. Ah, try it! One effort will suffice. Suppose you try any other plan to secure your pay, we will wager Peter’s loss will be Paul’s gain. If there is a man in the land who can pass a law to fit the case, we want him to come to the front. lie is the person we would like to see, and we will call him the “Lib erator,” when he can teach farming that will pay, under present difficulties. Al ways a year behind, always a year in debt, when will the time come that the farmer can shake off the incubus that weighs down his life, and robs him of rest and quiet of mind, for he lives poor and hard and cramped from January to December. If he goes off fof a day the aggravations that accumulate make him sorry he did not Ijang on to his trouble. If he sits at home he sees nothing, and knows nothing, but vexation and weariness of spirit. RB-A PPQINTMBNT OF PEARSON OF NE W YORK CITY. In our judgment, the re-appointment of Pearson to be postmaster in the City of New York by President Cleveland, is just and proper. Pearson is said to have made an excellent officer—acceptable to ali parties and every class of people in that great city. He was especially the fayorite of the independent republicans, who made Grover Cleveland president of the United States, The President demonstrates by this liberal policy his capacity to be a party leader. Some men are statesmen with out the ability to lead, build up and es tablish in popular favor, the political party of which they may be prominent and active members. They lack policy. This word policy means the art of gov erning men. It means prudence, skill, cunning. It is known to all men that the deficiency of the democratic party for the last twenty years has been the want of policy. It has numbered in its ranks statesmen, men of brains, of spot less integrity and of unquestionable pa triotism. But how few who, in their own persons, combined the learning and sagacity of statesmanship with the art of governing men, leading men, winning men. Unfortunately for the democracy, prejudice, passion, selfishness, political and sectional rancour, sometimes rival ling in degree that of the republican party, has been found in certain members of the democratic party, We have all felt the need of leadership. Except Mr. Sam Randall, where was there a “born leader of tnen” among the prominent members of the democratic party until President Cleveland made his debut be fore the American people ? Except Mr. Sam Randall, how few r there are in the democratic party who can rise above the prejudices and strifes of partisanship to make a seeming concession in order to build up and strengthen the party of his allegiance. President Cleveland will not only make his administration a blessing to the country by reforming the methods of every department of the government, but he will establish and make perma nent the democratic party. By this seeming concession in making Pearson postmaster in answer to the petitions of of republicans who supported him for the presidency, lie seals every mug wump of New York to the democratic party. They will very soon assume the name of “Cleveland Democrats,” and then by easy gradation they pass into full fellowship and affiliation with the regular party. How much better to build up and strengthen the ramparts of a political party than to pull down and destroy. How much better to improve and solidify than to impair and scatter. President Cleveland will shew to all the world that the democratic party, under his management, is not only honest in its methods, but liberal, conservative and national. He will so order its affairs as that shall commend itself to the love and support of the American people. He will make it a fixture. W. H. F. TIIE OLD SCHOOL DA VS. As we sit at the window of the Cou raxt office and watch the crowds that go and come, the ever-busy shifting multi tude, we can frequently see one or more of the boys and girls who were our pupils in the long ago. Just after the war, when this whole country was desolated by the raids and forays of both armies, we, with others, taught a school here in Cartersville in the old Methodist church. At one time we numbered over eighty pupils, rang ing in ages from six to twenty-six, and with studies comprehending as extremes Webster’s Speller and Legendre’s Trig onometry. The boys and girls of that time are men and women to-day, and we are proud to say, are highly respected men and women in society. They were a happy, mirthful crowd, ready for fun al ways, and equally ready for their books, as a general thing Reminiscences of that happy epoch in their lives and ours would be very grate ful to us, if some of those pupils would gratify us and the readers of tfie Cou raxt by recalling them in our colums. Among “our boys,” for boys they will ever remain in our heart of hearts, we can find names that will rank high, if the promise of the present is fulfilled in the future. As lawyers, doctors, bankers, preachers, farmers, merchants, etc., they are as good as the State affords. To-day we are told by the newspapers of the wonderful revival being carried on in Knoxville, Tenn., by one of our ! school boys, Rev. Sam Jones. It is possible the pupils may forget the teacher, in their wanderings’to aqd fro, ; but the teacher, like the mother, follows the absent ones with a rejoicing heart for their prosperity and success. On a spring day like thi3, as we watch one of these pupils of long ago stroll across the square leading his own little one by the hand, the sweet memories of that happy, joyous time, when our hearts were so closely knit together, when the teacher’s love and confidence was so richly repaid by their courtesy, atten tion and chivalric loyalty, all these things come freshly before us. As one of the sweet co npensatiops of duty and service, in the teacher’s role, there are few things in life so satisfying and com forting. nON. MRS. BIGELOW. New York, April s. —There is going to be peculiar social brilliancy in the Paris establishment ot our new miuister. to France. Not since John Bigelow held the post has there been anything half so distinctive about the American represen tation there as will be the case when the Hon. Robert M. McLane takes the place. It was in the last years of pouis Napo leon that the original, unique and very independent Mrs. Bigelow kept court so ciety in a condition of astonishment, and the stories ot her exploits are stiil cur rent in the French capital. Her cos tumes were always oddly unfashionable, and she delighted, above all things, in breaking the rules of royal etiquette. On one opoasion, having had Napoleon’s box at the opera placed “ht her disposal, and ftnding'at tb.6 last moment that she could not use it personally, she sent her ser vants to sit in it. Her freaks were regard ed as fair exhibits or Americanism, and so forgiven. She now lives up the Hud son jn the neighborhood of Samuel J. Tilden’s“GreyStoneand'is as jolly and versatile as ever. Her husband is en gaged in memoirs. In the ysar 1880 we happened, by the courtesy of ex-Speaker Randall (who ap pointed visitors to West Point), to meet Mrs. Bigelow several times. Their sum mer home is convenient to the point, and, like ex-Secretary Fish, who also lives near, they are very courteous and attentive to the gentlemen and their fam ilies who are delegated by Congress to attend tlje annua! examinations of the cadets. We will never forget our first glimpse of the Hon. Mrs. Bigelow. The w'eather was cool, very cool for even that latitude. Visitors were obliged to wear thick dress es, and wraps, when they were provident enough to be in reach of them. The day before our arrival we had spent in New York City, and instead of summer weath er the clouds spat'snow, ? t nd \ye purchas ed two overcoats, a small and large one, having an unexpected need lor such warm coverings for some of our folks. Pappy opr feelings when Mrs. Bigelow came upon the pqjonade of the pofe{ at West Point, dressed in the thinnest of mull costumes, with elbow sleeves and heart-shaped . bodice —not a sign of a wrap about hpr portly shoulders, her feet decked in patent-leather siippprs, and the very reddest stockings we ever had seen on any other than baby feet, hitherto. Ifow tl* wind did flutter her thin skirts I ller manners were perfect? ly easy, kind and natural, and we sug? gested that as the weather was uncom monly disappointing, we would fetch a shawl from the up-stairs. “No, indeed, the air was charming, refreshing!” with her airiest compliments. The dress parade of the cadets was al- the afternoon, and among the crowu gathered on the plateau we were introduced to the distinguished husband, Hon. John Bigelow, who must have made a model minister abroad, if his handsome appearance and courtly dignity were in request, He, it seemed, had been to the city (New York) and had stopped off at the Point that day to wit ness the display and festivities. Once, as Mrs. Bigelow passed the group where we were seated, the husband remarked : “Shall you be long? I am getting anx ious for my dinner, as I. failed to get lunch in the city.” The sun was then declining and the air growing continually colder as the night advanced, but warm-hearted, so ciable Mrs. Bigelow had many to see and chat with, before she could “go.” More than once afterwards the hungry statesman gaye signs of a willingness to start, but when we left, wrapping a heavy shawl close about us, the shades of evening falling fast on the scene, the mull dress, with its diaphanous drapery and red stockings were yet on duty. At what hour the Bigelow household finally seated itself at the long deferred dinner table we cannot state, but there seemed to be nothing uncommon in the whole aliair, as Mrs. Bigelow w r as out early the next afternoon without a trace of a bad cold, and her costume as airy and gauzy as ever. Her stockings were equally as gay as the day before, and she was so pleased with her foot gar niture that she nonchalantly remarked : “A city friend sent me three pairs yes terday, and I know they cost ten dollars, anil I am very proud of my stockings.” We can imagine she could keep even Paris in a state of astonishment and ex pectancy, but tor all that, she is a leader of society, and much respected for her kind heart and courtesy to strangers. GENERAL LA W TON'S WITH DR A WAL. There is considerable comment all over the Union as to why the Senate should have hesitated to confirm Gen. Lawton, after it had passed on Gen. Henry R. Jackson’s appointment to Mexico. Some understand the President’s in tention in withdrawing Gen. Lawton’s name to be a desire to prevent the Sen ate from having an opportunity to reject his name—others think the objection was so great as to oblige a tejection, if it had been pressed, and the President being aware of its condition, resolved to allow him to go to Russia in the interim and to take his chances in December before the Senate, for vonfirmation. The latter hypothesis we take to be in correct. Gen. Lawton will not desire to go abroad on such an uncertainty, anu if the objection is a legal one and can be sus tained, then it will be sustained in De cember also. We suppose there will be a n°w ap pointment, but we are sorry that Gen. Lawton should have been thus annoyed. He is one of Georgia’s ablest men. Our Senators were both deceived, we are sure, as to the difficulty, for neither would have advised such a contretemps if they had been aware of the trouble. Gen. Lawton's standing at home is in now ise impaired, and he is not a loser ex cept in the annoyance of appearing anx ious to seek what it is understood he did not seek at all. We wish him success in any and all events. Gen. G kaxt is worse, according to the latest dispatches—suffering with hemor rhages from the throat. They create alarm, but we suppose Geu. Grant’s life is in no immediate danger. He will die before many days or weeks, in all proba bility, but his strength is still great enough to prolong his life, unless the cancer develops anew phase suddenly. For TaE Cock ant. GEXERAL GRAXT. And must the mighty hero die? The nation on its knees will plead, With universal prayer on high, That Qod in mercy intercede; And while all hearts before Him bow, Lord, answer prayer and save him now pv One Thai Prays. From shades of Lee the voices come. With sorrow’s wail from all the dead. Draped is the heart, si is the home; A tear for all the nation’s dead. The Blue and Gray together weep, To mark the graves ,vl;ere heroes sleep. TANARUS, A. Rooney. NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS. ROME. The a:3G train on the B. T. Va. & Ga. R- brought from about Calera, Ala., the other morning a couple, who, from the uneasiness of their demeanor, attract ed the attention of their traveling com panions. They left the train at East Rome depot and went straight to the New Rome Hotel and requested the ob liging clerk to send for Ordinary John son, who at time was enjoying the shank er.d of his morning nap, and also for the Rev. J. W. Lee, who was likewise en gaged. leaving procured the lioense and parson about half-past six they were made one in law. After “doing the preacher proud” and shaking olf some of'the em barrassment incident to such occasions, the newly m,ade family started out to “uo the town.” They had not gone many blocks when they met Chief of Police Magruder, who, from the oneness look and strong similarity to a badly broken yoke of cattle, recognised them as the couple whom lie had been telegraphed to arrest. He politely stopped them and asked their names, which the stronger half of the household gave. lie then said: “1 have a telegram for your ar rest.” “Oh,” says the husband, “it is too late now.” The colonel was not unkind enough to interrupt their happi ness. There was a very interesting case be fore our court last Saturday. Mr. Welch, a mechanic of very respectable standing, had been trading with Mr. T. B. Yeasey, grocer, for some months. This winter Welch got behind in the settlement of his account with Yeasey, there being a balance of eight or nine dollars that sev eral duns did not bring from Mr. Welch’s exchequer. Veasey concluded that Welsh didn’t intend paying him, so he posted Welsh as a “dead-beat” on his bulletin board in front of his store. Welch sued Yeasey for $5,000 damages, retaining Wright, Meyerhardt & Wright, and Ruse Sc Denny. Yeasey was rep resented by Dabney & Fouche and Har vey Sc Son. The speeches were said to have been yery masterly, and the Court House was well filled with citizens until the verdict was returned, which was 11:45 p. m. They found $250 for Welch. Recently the dead body of a new-born infant was found in the city garbage heap. A jury was summoned to hold an inquest. After examining many wit nesses the jury was unable to find a ver dict, and adjourned over to Friday eve ning, when, after a long session, they again adjourned over till Monday morn ing, having held a short session they again adjourned without finding a ver dict The child had been dead some two or three weeks and was so mutilated as to make it impossible to tell whether it was of white or colored parentage. Judge Branham, in charging the grand jury, told them that they should find true-bills against all of the illegal voters In the last election; that the law should be enforced. We hear that there will be a long list presented to his honor, in cluding the names of some-of the leading citizens of the county. Dr. Gvvaltney and twenty-seven Shorter College girls went to the New Orleans Exposition recently. Business is good with the grocery mer chants who are furnishing farmers. The boats go down the river loaded every trip; and since the rain there is a perfect stream of country wagons going out loaded with supplies and guano. ROCKMART. CORRECTION, Rockmart, April 2, 1885. — Dear Cou rant —I write to correct a batch of false hoods contained in your issue of to-day relative to a row among the hands of Messrs. Sciple Sons. There is just one truth in the whole of it, and that is, that Mitch Russell died, and he died of pneu monia after a sickness of about three weeks. As to the row spoken of, that is a falsehood every word of it, nor has Messrs. Sciple Sons paid off in two weeks. In vindication of their men, I can say that they are an uncommon quiet, peaceable, sober set of men. There is considerable indignation among the men on account of the statement in your paper and you will confer a favor on this, an injured community, by correcting the same and giving the name of your au thor. If any one wants to know the au thor of this, you are at liberty to use my name. Respectfully yours, W\ A. J. Whitehead. fWe take great pleasure in publishing the above as a correction of what was pub lished in the Courant last week. The rumor was rife in Cartersville that Rock mart had a large-sized row. We called on Capt. J. D. Wilkerson, our city marshal, and he gave us what he thought to be the truth of the matter. He had learned thes** false reports from negroes who pro fessed tn know with certainty all about the rum -red difficulty.[— City Fditor. Col. Scab Jones is back from a visit to Florida to see his brother, Robt. Jones. Col says that Bob said in reply to his ask ing him “where was his good land?” that the land there was like Mr. Clayton said about the whisky, only the reverse, “The whisky was better and best; the land was poorer and poorest.” lie gays he enjoyed His trip finely. Mr. Geo. W. Morgan, sr., of this neighborhood, aged 75 years, died at his residence on last Sunday and was buried ou Monday. He had been sick for a long time. He leaves a very large family con nection to mourn his loss. Mr. J. B. Lovelace has moved into his newly finished house, which has been nicely finished up by Judge Barber, his father-in-law. Jim is fixed up all right now, and we hope this make him a per manent citizen of Bockmart, PINE LOO. Xo complaint this way about the Cou rant. It comes regularly every week to gladden our hearts. We are perfectly delighted with the paper so far, and wish it much success. Miss Stella Yinoent U visiting her tircjther gnd sister on Talking Rock. Her absence is.causing sad hearts on Pine Log, The young folks had a splendid sing ing at the Academy last Sunday even ing. T. B. Gordon, Esq-., will move to Rome shortly where he will enter busi ness. Mr. A. C. S. will occupy his old stand at Possum Trot. We wish them success. Mrs. A. E. Vincent was in your city last Monday. Two more things and Possum Trot will be complete—a city council and a fire company. Pine Log is much more quiet than be fore the prohibition election. I}. R. GEN. LAWTON INTERVIEWED. Savannah News.) The news that the nomination of Gen. A. R. Lawton as minister to Russia had been withdrawn from the Senate because it was claimed by some of the Senators that his political disabilities had not been removed was the occasion of considerable surprise yesterday. Noona had doubted but Gen. Lawton's nomination would be promptly confirmed, and as the people of Savannah have so long looked upon the war as a thing of the remote past, nobody had thought about the question of polit ical disabilities, A News reporter called on the general last night to obtain his views on the un looked-for turn his nomination bad taken, and found him quietly enjoying himself at his home on Perry street. He said the first intimation he had that the question would or could be raised in the Senate when his nomination the Pres ident came up tor confirmation was a tel gram from Senators Brown and Colquitt on Wednesday evening. The telegram stated that it had been claimed that his political disabilities had not been remov ed, and that he could not, therefore, hold the office. “Is it true that your political disabili ties then have never been removed?” inquired the reporter. The general replied that they had been. He said, in substance, that in February, 1867, he received a full and uncondition al pardon from President Johnson. Af ter this pardon had been granted the fourteenth amendment to the Constitu tion of the United States was passed, which provides that political disabilities must be romoved by a two-thirds vote of Congress. It is now claimed that the fourteenth amendment annulled that pardon, and that as his disabilities have never been removed by act of Congress, the general is not now eligible to the office for which he has been nominated, he having held State and National offices before the war. After receiving the telegram from the Georgia Senators, stating that the ques tion had been raised, Re received another from Senator Brown stating that a ma jority of the Republican Senators and some Democratic Senators thought he was not eligible. He appeared to regard this as a strange proposition of law, but said he would not express a legal opinion on the subject because- he is personally interested. He showed the reporter sev eral dispatches he had received from leading members of the bar in Washing ton and elsewhere, who are his personal friends, all of them expressing the opin ion that his pardon, being granted before the fourteenth amendment was. passed, covered the ground, and that no act of Congress is necessary in his case. They all hold that it has long been settled that the President has full and complete pow er to pardon, and that Gen. Lawton’s pardon could not be affected by a consti tutional amendment passed after the par don was granted. The general said that other nomina tions that have been confirmed are in the same condition, and he appeared to think it strange that his case should be singled out when others had passed without ob jection. He said he would have been satisfied to have had his case brought to a vote in the Senate and decided this session, but he did not want to do any thing to embarass the President. He did not know what action would now be taken, and would leave the matter in the hands of the President and Secretary of State. As the Senate has adjourned, nothing can now be done until next De cember. His name can then be sent in again if the President desires to do so. General Lawton does not contemplate going to Washington at present, but when next there on business will call on the President and Secretary Bayard and thank them personally for the honor they conferred on him. W. E. Miller, Curry’s prescription clerk, has had fifteen years experience and he is careful and accurate. Prescriptions carefully and accurately fllledat Curry’s by W. E. Miller. ♦ ♦ ♦ . Baking department of Vandivere & Waldrup is first-class. Their trade is steadily increasing. Fancy groceries at bottom prices at Vandivere & Waldiup’s. GEORGIA BUNDS. Five FerCent.—Thirty Years. Exkcvtivk Office, ) Atlanta, Ga., March 10, 1885.) Under authority of an act, approved Dec. 23, 1884, authorizing the Governor to issue Bonds for payment of principal of bonds maturing in ISSS and 1886, sealed proposals will be received at the office of the Treasurer of Georgia up to twelve o’clock m. on April 15, 1885, for three million, four hundred and fifty-live thousand dollars ($3,455,000) Five per cent thirty year coupon bonds as herein after set forth, bearing date July 1, 1885. Principal and Interest payable in the city of New York, at the fiscal agency of Georgia; and at the office of the Treas urer of Georgia in the city of Atlanta. Interest payable semi-annually on Jan uary 1 and July 1 respectively. Bids will be received for two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) of the amount to be delivered on July 1, 1885. And tor two hundred and twenty-five thousand, dollars ($225,000) to be delivered January 1, 1886, the accrued interest being with held by the State. And for the remain der of the amount of three million four hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars ($3,455,000), (or so much thereof as may bo necessary for the purpose aforesaid), on June 1, ISB6, the accrued interest withheld as aforesaid. As to last de livery, however, successful bidders will have the option of tendering any Geor gia Bonds maturing as aforesaid, at their par value, in payment therefor, at any time after July 1, 1885, and receiving new bonds. Bids must specify amount of bonds de sired in multiples of one thousand dol lars ($1,000) accompanied by certified check, or certificates of deposit of som e solvent bank for five per cent, of the amount of such bid, payable to the order of the Treasurer of Georgia, or by a de posit of honds of the State of Georgia, i • Bids will be opened and declared by the Governor and Treasurer, the State reserving the right to reject any one or all of the bids. The State will issue registered bonds in lieu of any of the above named five per cent, bonds as provided in said Act at any time on demand of the owner. Copies of the Act of the Legislature, and information touching the proposed issue of bonds, will be furnished on ap plication to the Treasurer. By the Governor. Henry D. McDaniel, MOTHER’S This invaluable preparation is truly a triumph of scien tific skill, and no more ines timable benefit was ever be stowed on the mothers of the world. It not only shortens the time of labor and lessens the intensity of pain, but, better than all, it greatly di iminishes the danger to life to both mother and child, and leaves the mother in a condition highly favorable to speedy recovery, and far less liable to flooding, convul sions, and other alarming symptoms incident to linger ing and painful labor. Its truly wonderful efficacy in this respect entitles the Mother’s Friend to be ranked as one of the life saving appliances given to the world by the discoveries of modem science. From the nature of the case, it will of course he un derstood that we cannot publish certificates concern ing this Remedy without wounding the delicacy of the writers. Yet we have hun dreds of such testimonials on file, and no mother who hes once used it will ever again he without It in her time of trouble. No More Terror ! No More Pain ! No More Danger ! —to- Mother or Child' THE DREAD OF Motherhood Transformed to HOPE AND JOY! Safety and Ease TO Suffering Woman. A prominent physician lately remarked to the proprietor that, if it were admissable to make public the letters wereceive, the Mother’s Friend would outsell anything on the market. I most earnestly entreat every female expect ing to be confined to use Mother’s Friend. Coupled with this entreaty I will add that during a long obstetrical practice (forty-four years) I have never known it to fail to produce a safe and quick delivery. 11. J. HOLMES, M, D., Atlanta, Ga. Send for o r Treaties on Female Diseases, mailed freo, * Address, The Bradfield Regulator Cos., febi6-lm Box 28, Atlanta Ga. FASHIONABLE MILLINERY The Ladies of Cartersville and Bartow County are cordially invited to call and examine my NEW SPRING STYLES! Of HATS, BONNETS, TRIMMINGS, DRESSES, and everything else that is kept in a first-class millinery establishment. Work done to order and on the shortest notice. MISS JL. SHOCKLEY, (First door above Mays & Pritchett’s), CARTERSVILLE, : : : GEORGIA. apr9 Bartow Sheriff’s Sales FOR MAY, 1885. WILL BE SOI-D BEFORE THE COURT house door in Cartersville, Bartow county, Georgia, between the legal sale hours, On the First Tuesday in May, 1885, The following property, to-wit: Lot of land No. 175 in the 16tn district and 3d section of Bartow.county, Ga. Levied on and will he sold as the property of William C. Smith, to satisfy one Bartow Superior Court I. fa. in favor of McGhee & Cos. vs. William C. Smith. Propertv pointed out by plaintiffs and in posses sion of W. C. Smith. Also at the same time and place, lot of land No. 265 in the sth district and 3rd section of Bar tow county, Ga., containing 107 acres more or less. Levied on and will be sold as the property of estate of W. P. Smith to satisfy one State and county tax fi. fa. for 1834 vs. J. V. Guyton. Levy returned to me by F. C. Watkins. L. C. Also at the same time and place, one lot in the city of Cartersville, Bartow county, Ga., con taining one and one-half acres more or less; bounded south by Main street, east by F. M. Durham’s lot, west by a street. Levied on and will be sold as the property of E. D. Graham, to satisfy one State and county tax fi. fa. vs E. D. Graham, and in his possession. Pointed out by defendant. Levy made and returned to me by F. C. Watkins, L. C. Also at the same time and place, 6 acres more or less of land being part of lot of land No. 288, in the 23rd district and 2d section of Bartow county, Ga., bounded on the South by Canton road, east by little Pine Log creek, north bv lot of land No. 255. Levied on and will be sold as the property of Mrs. Virginia McDaniel to satis fy one State and county tax fl. fa. for I*B4 vs. said Virginia McDaniel. Levy made and re turned to me by J. F. Brawner, L. C. Also at the same time and place, lot of land No. 223 in the 23rd district aud 2ud section of Bartow county, Ga. Levied on and will he sold as the property of T. D. Strickland to satisfy one State and county tax fl. fa. for 1884 vs. T. D. Strickland. Levy returned to me by J. F. Braw ner, L. C. W r . W. ROBERTS, Sheriff. J. A. GLADDEN, Dep’y. Sh’ff, FRIEND!