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Official Organ Bartow County.
DOCTOR AND MRS. W. H. FELTON.
OCTOBER 22, 1885~
Tho Savannah Tlmos.
We wish to gay to the .Savannah Times
that tlie editorial in last week’s Courant
denouncing its statement of a coalition
lietween John E. Bryant and myself as a
lie, was written, every word of it, by my
self. W. 11. Felton.
England is in the midst of a heated
political canvass. Our sympathies are
with Gladstone in this contest. When
he dies the world is too poor in intellect
and statesmanship to fill his place.
W. 11. F.
The Editress of the Courant is still
quite .sick. She remains confined to her
room and bed, tinder the care of her
physician. She has not written an ar
ticle for tills p’aper in two weeks. '
W. 11. F.
G maxT., Scrviaand Bulgaria, as usual,
are giving trouble in Europe. It is
strange that these people cannot remem
ber they are fallen. For the last thou
sand years a man might have stood upon
"the ruins of the Parthenon and ev
claimed :
** ’Tift living Greece no more.”
Servia and Bulgaria were once enti
tled to admiration for their power and
Christian freedom. But now they are
the sport of both Turk and Christian.
W. 11. F.
Railroad Midwifery^
We clip the following news item from
the Atlanta Constitution of Tuesday last:
The construction of the Virgina and
Carolina railway from Petersburg, Va.,
to Oxford, N. C., has been practically
abandoned, and the many convicts who
have been working on the line will be
returned to the state prison at once. A
large portion of the road has been graded,
and the city of Petersburg will lose about
$200,000 fiy tho abandonment, which re
sults from rival railroad interests of the
Virginia and North Carolina.
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Tiie death of Mrs. Henry D. Capers,
of Adairsville, removes from among the
living one of the sweetest tempered and
exemplary Christian women that adorned
and made beautiful the pathway of life.
This wifna seems very poor when one
who made it so attractive to husband,
children and friends, is laid away in the
grave. Miss Mary 3L>hiis, the school
girl, gave promise of all the noble quali
ties, intellectual and• spiritual, which ri
pened and matured in her after life. She
was respected by her teachers, loved by
her classmates, and honored by all good
people for her gentle spirit, her prompt
attention to every duty, her solicitude
fertile happiness of others and her con
fidence ami trust in Christ Jesus as a
loving Savior. To the living her loss is
irreparable; but she was ready to depart
and lie with Christ. She rests from her
labors. Her works will survive her.
The tribute of tears and the benediction
of bereaved hearts attest her worth. All
who knew her will bless her memory
and the beneficiaries of her charities
will embalm her name. W. 11. F.
Tha Marietta and North Coorgia
Railroad.
One of the unpardonable acts of the
late General Assembly was the donation
of over SBO,OOO to the Marietta and North
Georgia railroad. The finance commit
tee of the House, after mature investiga
tion and full discussion, consented that
tin* interest on the debt of the road to
the State should be remitted for two
years from the first of January, 1880,
provided the road was completed to the
North Carolina line in that time. This
was regarded as a liberal compromise by
the Committee. Wo supposed it was ac
cepted by the friends and opponents of
the donation as a compromise. But, lo
and behold, by a sort of hocus-pocus to
us unexplained and unexplainable, it re
sulted in a full-fledged donation to that
road of more than eighty thousand dol
lars.
This donation is in direct violation of
the Constitution of the 'State and one
that we suppose will not stand a moment
when tested before the Supreme Court of
Georgia. It was in his effort to defeat
this outrage upon the Constitution of the
State that Judge Harrell, of Webster,
displayed his splendid capacity for legis
lation and endeared himself to every
lover of our constitutional safe-guards.
By the way, it was during the last days
of the Legislature, we learned to value
and appreciate our present State Consti
tution. It had seemed to us at an earlier
day in the session to be an incubus upon
the wise and rapid dispatch of legisla
tive business. But we confess that when
its safe-guards were seen in full exercise
—its restraints and limitations in all their
majesty and wisdom protecting the mon
ey of the tax-payers —its sovereign pow
er saying to corporations and mo
nopolies “thus far and no further,” our
objections gave peace to unfeigned ad
miration for the wisdom and patriotism
of the men who framed it. Let it re
main as a monument more lasting than
marble to the grand old Georgian who is
{Missing away and who never worshipped
but two objects on this earth—his wife
|md his native State.
W. n. F.
■An inspection of our job office will
Hmvince anybody that for convenient
Arrangement, and for the quick execu
tion of work, it cannot he beat. Every
■Liug needed is at our fingers’ end, and
be turned out so quick that it
|HMje your head swim.
Heads, Note Head-;,
and pm up in handy
Job Office.
Tho Outlook for tho Democracy.
To our imperfect vision the outlook for
the Democratic party is not as promising
aowe wish it was.
It was with the greatest difficulty that
the country succeeded in electing Grover
Cleveland to the Presidency. Only one
thing saved him and the party from an
inglorious defeat, and that was the ex
ceptionally bad nomination made by the
Republicans. Many’ honest and patri
otic Republicans becoming disgusted
with the growing corruption of their
party leaders and the seeming determi
nation of those leaders to sacrifice every
principle efgood government, that they |
might blindly support the incorporated
and organized wealth of the country, re
solved to throw off the obligation of par
ty fealty and vote for the Democratic
nominee. They did so, and elected
Cleveland to the Presidency.
The question now presents itself, have
these mugwumps, as they are facetious
ly called, been retained in the party ?
Have they been adopted into the Demo
cratic family ? Our information is, the
last one has returned to the Republican
party, and will hereafter support its
nominations for the Presidency.
lias the party been so strengthened
and enlarged that its future success is
made certain without the assistance of
dissatisfied Republicans? Have we, as
a party, made other and more permanent
conquests? Have we even solidified the
original ranks of the Democracy? Are
all “family’differences” reconciled? Are
we united? Are we as strong to-day as
when Grover Cleveland was made Pres
ident? Look at Ohio. A Democrat
ic Governor “stepping flown and oni” to
give place fo a Republican. Why ? Be
cause incorporated wealth, organized
monopolies through their agents, Hunt
ington and Gold 1, have demanded that
Allan G. Thurman, who defeated their
pet scheme of robbery and plunder, shall
remain in obscure banishment. If Judge
Thurman had been in President Cleve
land’s cabinet, or had been tendered the
Highest office in the gift of the adminis
tration, as he so richly merited, we verily
believe that Hoadley instead of Foraker
would be the Governor-elect of Ohio to
day.
But no, the Democratic party in Ohio
must be managed and manipulated in
the interest of tho Standard Oil Compa
ny and of the Pacific Railroad monopoly,
while the grandest old statesman and pa
triot of the Union is punished for his
bold advocacy of truth and honesty in
the United States Senate. Whenever
the people in doubtful States are called
upon to decide between parties equally
given to corrupt practices, and equally
pledged to the support of organized
wealth, they will generally give it to the
Republican party.
In New York the signs are not en
couraging. Men whose political and
official complications in the past make
them more or less distasteful to those
who, in casting their votes, demand
clean hands and a pure record, have
been brought forward by the Democratic
leaders and made the exponent’s of Dem
ocratic principles. We hope for success
in New York, but we fear failure awaits
the “party of the people” fh that State,
because in some measure the people have
been forgotten in a desperate effort by
the politicians to achieve a mere party
success.
In all the States divisions and feuds
are cropping out or smoldering in the
Democratic party. They differ upon the
tariff, upon silver coinage, upon civil
service reform, and upon a dozen other
minor questions of policy. There seems
to be no master hand to allay differences,
to unite and harmonize conflicting in
terests and opinions. We again ask,
what is the outlook for the Democratic
party? “Watchman, what of the night?”
Of course, we are united in Georgia, be
cause eveiyone in Georgia has learned to
obey without question the mandates of
the “governing board” of politicians
w’ho control our State.
If the people elect to office a man sup
posed to be indemnified with the people,
he soon becomes a willing servant of the
“governing board” and peace reigns in
Warsaw. W. IT. F.
Character.
Tiire is nothing more valuable than a
good character. There is nothing which
strengthens in “life’sbattles,” in adverse
or favoring fortunes like a character
which is impregnable to every shaft. It
is a fortress, a tower of defense in which
and behind which the possessor is shel
tered in every storm. What is charac
ter ? It is something we do not inherit
from our parents or even from a long
line of worthy progenitors. It is not
the product of circumstances. It is not
the outgrowth of wealth—of education
or of influential friends. These, it is
true, may be material out of which the
plastic hand of the moulder can find
much to aid and strengthen him in his
work of forming character. The finest
characters sometimes sparkle from un
der and through the most forbidding cir
cumstances —in poverty’s vale. Birth
and station can never make character. A
distinguished writer has said “a good
character is in a’l cases the fruit of per
sonal exertion. It is the result of one’s
own endeavors.” Men build character
just as they erect the palaces or hovels in
which they dwell. Carlyle says “From
the same material one man builds palaces,
another hovels, another villas; bricks
and mortar are mortar and bricks until
the architect can make them something
else.” So each and every man is the ar
chitect of his character. Nature and a
merciful Providence have placed at their
command the materials out of which lie
may construct a character which will be
his honor in life and his crown of glory
in death. Character is not made in a
day or in a year. It is the habits—prac
tices—purposes—principles of a life-time.
A man’s character t ,-day is the aggrega
tion of all the a jiital, moral and reli
gious principles '. hieh have guided and
controlled himln the past. It is the ac
cumulation—tue sum-total of individual
actions up tt the present hour. Charac
ter does ni spring up like Jonah’s
gourd in a night Vine —it grows slowly;
it hardens as it jglbvr s; it becomes like
the sturdy oak which has been growing
and hardening for many years—the
floods and the winds make no impression
upon it. Every day’s history brings its
accretions to individual character. At
night character is stronger or weaker —
more attractive or more repulsive than
when the day’s work was commenced.
Truth, honor, honesty, purity, integrity,
charity—indeed all the noble attributes
of a noble manhood have been deepened
or shallowed by each day’s history.
There are so many who seem to think
that one day’s repentance and reforma
tion can reconstruct in the estimation of
men a wasted life —can varnish and make
beautiful the cracked and disfigured pic
ture of the past. Let the young man re
member lie is building character; that one
worm-eaten piece of timber—that one
unhardened brick—that one flaw in the
decoration may spoil the symmetry and
beauty of the edifice. Let him remem
ber that his work is the work of a life
time. That it is only when “he turns
his eyes to the wall” and life is behind
him—the cap-stone of character is raised
and placed in position. Then men say
confidently “It is finished.”
W. 11. F.
The Railroads’ Threats.
In plain English, if the Railroad Commission
shall pursue the same course in the future as
has marked it in the past, the issue will become
immediately prominent in the politics of the
State. And who can doubt the result? If ono
road, belonging to the State, has controlled to a
great degree tho politics of the State lor the past
twenty years, and ha* made one man a political
autocrat, it is easily understood that the com
bined roads could hold Georgia at their mercy.
They could make and unmake laws and commis
sions, and robo and disrobe Senators. Once in
power ami they might not stop with the propo
sition of Commissioner Barnett to ego into tlie
book-keeping and tax laying and collecting
business, but they would absolutely control
Legislatures and legislation, and dictate tlie
policy of the State. The picture is not over
drawn, and it should furnish food for 'serious
thought to every Georgian. Enforce this com
mission law hut another year in the same spirit
as the last, and the issue is upon us. In view of
this fact, cold and solid, a grave responsibility
rests upon the Railroad Commission.
We wish every citizen of Georgia
could read the above extract, from an
editorial in the Macon Telegraph, of last
Sunday. The Telegraph has been the
consistent organ of the railroads all the
time. It has opposed the Railroad Com
mission from the beginning. It is not a
little Kingsberry sheet bought with
tliirty-acven and a half cents. It is not
a recent convert full of new born zeal
like some of the great organs of the State,
It is an old-time servant of the railroad
syndicates of Georgia. If is the “elder
son” who has been at home all the time,
while tlie liitle spendthrift prodigals are
just now returning in search of Kings
berry bread. It speaks by authority. It
knows whereof it speaks.
If other writers and speakers in the
State had asserted that the people of
Georgia were “held at the mercy of the
combined roads in the State,” then they
would have been denounced as dema
gogues, as communists, as disturbers of
the public peace. If other newspapers
had made the threat that unless the Com
mission hereafter did just as the rail
roads desired them to do, then the rail
roads in this State “would make and un
make laws and Commissions and robe
and disrobe Senators,” then such news
papers would have been denounced as
“incendiary sheets,” arraying the rich
against the poor. In the above extract
we have the deliberate threat that the
Commission, that is, the people of Geor
gia, must bow servilely and unmurmur
ingiy to the autocracy of the roads or
the combined roads will “control abso
lutely Legislat ares and legislation and
dictate the policy of the State.”
We know the power of these combin
ed roads. We believed from the outset
that consolidation meant with the roads,
interference with the executive, legisla
tive and judicial departments of our
State by attempted bribery, and every
corrupting agency known to and within
the reach of immense organized wealth.
But we never expected to see the day
when the freemen of Georgia would be
publicly threatened with slavery and
serfdom unless they yielded to the auto
cratic demands of these roads. We are
the friends of railroads —wo desire their
prosperity and their multiplication. But
alas, the day! when railroad Zarisra
wields the lash over the backs of men
who were “born free.” These roads
here say to all Georgians the Commis
sion must be their slave or they will make
it and all State Legislatures their slaves
by the omnipotence of their organized
wealth. Be it so. They have challenged
the contest. They have uttered and pub
lished the threat. Labor and productive
industry on one side and gold on the
other. May God protect the weak and
defend the right! W. H. F.
Cardinal McCloskey.
Cardinal John McCloskey is dead—he
was born in New York in ISIO. He was
distinguished for learning and personal
piety*. By his own individual efforts he
ascended gradually from the lowest to
the highest position in the powerful
church of which he was a member. He
seems to have been an exception to the
old adage, “a prophet is not without
honor save in his own country.” With
in a radius of possibly two hundred miles
of the spot where he was born, John
McCloskey labored and struggled until
the “scarlet hat and purple mantle” to
gether with the title of “Eminence,”
told all the world that he was a member
of the “Sacred College,” an elector of
the Pope, and himself eligible to the pa
pal office. This was certainly sufficient
to gratify the ambition of the American
boy, who'started life with nothing hut a
splendid intellect, educated and cultur
ed, thoi'onghly consecrated to his church
and with untiring, flaming zeal, for its
prosperity. We are glad the war be
tween Protestism and Catholicism is
over. For centuries it disgraced the
world and drenched all Europe in blood.
Like all religious wars and controver
sies, it had neither sense, reason or
Christianity for its guide and counsellor.
Like infuriated beasts fresh from the
jungles of Africa they thirsted for blood.
In our disgast when reading the story of
these wars we have been unable to decide
which was the most untamed ' tiger,”
Catholic or Protestant. Of course, the
Catholics were numerically the strong
est, and for that reason, maybe the pre
ponderance of blood is on their side. But
what is it? Is it the spelling-book? Is
it the schoolhouse ? Is it the printing
press ? Is it steam ? Is it the steamship ?
Is it the locomotive ? Is it the sulky
plow ? Is it McCormick’s reaping ma
chine? Is it evolution? Or is it the
grace of God? Be it what it may! Be
it all these named factors and others un
named, God be praised, religious wars
and sectarian struggles have received
their “death blow’, In this world ! God
be praised that in this happy and free
government every man worships his
Creator according to the dictates of his
own conscience—none to molest or make
afraid! All nations have caught the
spirit of religious and political toleration
and intolerance is only the local outcrop
ping of some individual, of some neigh
borhood, or of some nation distinguished
for ignorance or illiteracy. There is no
greater enemy to tlie world’s prosperity
than the religious and sectarian bigot.
How the world’s progress has been re
tarded ! How Christianity has been
darkened and its glorious pathway bar
ricaded by bigotry! But the “Star of
Bethlehem” is moving towards its ze
nith and it then must shine upon a com
mon brotherhood of humanity.
W. H. F.
THE MARIETTA AND NORTH GEOR
GIA RAILROAD.
Atlanta, October 17. —The amount of
litigation and legislation in which the
Marietta and North Georgia railroad has
figured prominently indicate that it has
been an elephant—a kind of Jumbo to
the State. Jumbo finally yielded up the
ghost, but this elephant is still on hand.
The State has in tho past done much for
this road but the late Legislature in its
eagerness and haste to aid tlie Northern
capitalists who are now building it flank
ed and violated the constitution, in the
opinon of sound lawyers, and ignored the
well settled policy of the State in order
to make a donation of over SSS,OOO to the
enterprise. While much of the work of
the Legislature is open to severe critic
ism and is deserving of condemnation,
this piece of legislation seems to have de
liberately gone beyond all bounds and
ought not to he allowed to stand. The
attention of tlie burdened tax payers of
Georgia is invited to this piece of busi
ness transacted by a body which has
hardly a parallel in the history ot our
legislation. lam informed that the at
tention of the Supreme Court will be
called to it at the proper time. In the
infancy of the enterprise the State loaned
the company a large sum of money—
about $50,000, and SIO,OOO worth of iron
rails. The company secured the State
by issuing mortgage bonds covering the
amount, and tlie State generously agreed
that if the road should be completed by
January Ist, 18SG, no interest should be
exacted. Subsequently, to further aid
the company, the State loaned them the
use of 250 convicts free of all charge for
the term of three years. Penitentiary
companies No. 2 ant* 3 after considerable
litigation secured them. It was asserted
that tlie railroad company had the ser
vice of the convicts as granted them by
the State, but they set up a claim against
the State nevertheless for their loss.
They appealed to the last Legislature to
extend in which the road was to
be completed, asked to be released not
only from the interest, but from the
principal of the bonds as well. Asa busi
ness proposition the Legislature might
well have entertained the proposition to
extend the time for the completion of the
road and release them from the payment
at accrued interest, and would no doubt
have been gratefully accepted by the
company as generous treatment at the
hands of the State. But the proposition
to cancel the bonds outright and relieve
the company from all obligation was
rather astounding. It is more astound
ing that it should have received the in
dorsement of the Legislature and the ap
proval of the Governor.
The resolution as adopted provides
that if the company shall complete the
road from Ellijay to the North Carolina
line in twenty months from January Ist,
188 G, building an average of one and half
miles per month, and shall file with the
Secretary of State an agreement to release
the State from all claims equitable and
otherwise against the State, then the
State shall credit the company on its
bonds at the rate of $2,000 for each one
and a half miles completed and when the
road is so finished shall cancel the bonds
and discharge the mortgage.
It was strongly urged against this pro
ceeding that the Marietta and North
Georgia railroad had no claim against
the State and that it had already had the
service of the convicts for the full time
stipulated as adjudged by the Supreme
Court in the ease of Penitentiary Com
panies 2 and 3 vs. John W. Nelms, prin
cipal keeper, and their rights fully in
vestigated and adjudicated.—(7l Ga. R.,
p. 352.) Further, that the only claim the
road could have would be for the time in
which it was deprived of the convicts.
Even if they had been deprived of the
whole number of convicts for the term of
three years, the estimated hire would not
exceed SIO,OOO. The resolution gives
them nearly SBO,OOO in excess of that
sum. This appropriation, as it is in the
nature of an appropriation, must there
fore be considered a donation to the rail
road and is a direct violation of article 7,
section IG, paragraph 1, of the constitu
tion, which says: “The General As
sembly shall not by vote, resolution, or
order, grant any donation or gratuity in
favor of any person, corporation of asso
ciation.” That is the law and the high
est we have and whatever may be the
individual views of members as to the
propriety or policy of granting State aid
to railroads, they must be bound by the
constitutional provisions.
The very last bill introduced in the
House, No. 993, by Mr. Harrell, of Web
ster, showed that there was still left a
sense of the wrong put upon the tax
payers aud disposition to wipe it
from the records. It was “a bill to be
entitled an act to repeal, annul and de
clare null and void and of no effect a re-
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solution passed by the General Assem
bly and approved October, 18S5, entitled
a resolution to authorize the Governor to
settle claims between the State and the
Marietta and North Georgia Railroad
Company.” This bill of course was led
at once to the slaughter.
If such legislation as this is allowed to
stand what may we not expect from fu
ture legislatures?
beauty in duty.
“I slept, and dreamed that life is beauty;
I woke to find that life is duty.”
I said, I cannot work to day,
I’m tired of homely duty;
O, had I wings to flee away
To realms of ease and beauty!
So, letting go the task I wrought
At eve no sheaves I homeward brought.
$
’Tis one unceasing round of work
From early morn till night;
My part I’ve half a mind to shrink.
And seek for true delight.
The reapers sang and hound their sheaves,
I vainly grasped for withered leaves.
Next morn again I said, I’ll try
To flee from common duty;
Still higher yet the uplands lie
Where dwelleth ease and beauty.
But each returning eve 1 found
I farther trod forbidden ground.
O, give once more my task to me,
Dear Master! then I cried;
By lowly service, now I see,
Thou would’st be glorified.
Transfigured now before my eyes
Beauty I see in duty’s S^-_ Kate M> rrayne
the whisky haw as it stands in
BARTOW COUNTY.
An Act to amend an act entitled An
Act to submit to the qualified voters of
the county of Bartow the question of the
sale and furnishing of intoxicating, alco
holic, spirituous, vinous or malt liqours
in said county and to prohibit the same
from being sold or furnished after said
election, if a majority of those voting
shall so determine, and to provide penal
ties for such sale and furnishing, and for
other purposes, approved the 2nd day of
December, 1884, by adding at the end of
the 4th section of said act the following:
Provided further, that said wines shall
not be sold or furnished at any place of
business in quantities less than one quart,
nor sold in tippling houses in any quant
ity.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gener
al Assembly of Georgia, that the above
recited act be and is hereby amended by
adding at the 4th section of said act the
following: Provided further, that said
wines shall not be sold or furnished at any
place of business in quantities less than
oue quart, nor sold in tippling houses in
any quantity, so that when amended said
4th section of said act shall read as fol
lows: Be it further enacted, that on and
after the first day of January next, after
said election, if a majority of the votes
cast shall he against whiskey, it shall not
be lawful for any person or persons to
sell either directly or indirectly or furn
ish at any place of business or any other
public place by any device whatever,
any intoxicating, alcoholic, spirituous,
vinous or malt liquors within the limits
of said county. Provided, that nothing
in this act shall be construed to prevent
the sale or furnishing by the maker of
any domestic wine, beer or cider made
in said county or the sale of furnishing
of wine for sacramental purposes, nor
shall anything herein prevent licensed
druggists from selling or furnishing pure
alcohol for medicinal, art, scientific and
mechanical purposes. Provided further,
that said wines shad not be sold or furn
ished at any place of business in quanti
ties less than one quart, nor sold in tip
pling houses in any quantity.
Section 2. Be it further enacted, that
all laws and parts of laws in conflict with
this act be and the same are hereby re- j
pealed.
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timely use of Shriner’s Indian Vermi
fuge, the popular remedy. Only 25 cents
a bottle.
An Enterprising,Reliable House.
David W. Curry can always be relied upon,
not only to carry in 9tock the best of everything,
but to secure the Agency for such articles as
have well-known merit, and are popular with
the people, thereby sustaining the reputation of
being always enterprising, and ever reliable.
Having secured the Agency for the celebrated
Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, will
sell it on a positive guarantee, It will surely
cure any and every affection of Throat, Lungs,
and Chest, and to show our confidence, we invite
you to call and get a Trial Bottle Free.
CAKE BASKETS,
BUTTER DISHES,
BERRY' BOWLf,
JELLY
CARD RECEIVERS,
TETE A. TETE SXSXS,
NAPKIN RINGS.
CASTORS, C TTPS, ETC.
S^TS.
Majolica Cuspidores.
TOBACCOS, PIPES, SPwSQKER’S SUPPLIES.
KNIVES, SPOONS AND BITTER KNIVES.
Finest Stock of Lamps on the W. & A, R. R.
IKSt* Largest Stock of Drugs ever been here,
and the very best assortment.
Farmers and Mechanics.
SaVe money and doctor bills. Relieve
your mothers, wives and sisters by a
timelv purchase of Dr. Bosanko’s Cough
and Lung Syrup, best known remedy
for Coughs, Colds, Croup and Bronchial
effections. Relieves children of croup in
one night, may save you hundreds of
dollars. Price 50 cts. and SI.OO. Sold
by D. W. Curry.
PEMBERTON’S FRENCH WINE COCA.
The Great Nerve Regtorer.
Life itself depends upon a healthy nervous sys
tem. When the nerves are impaired we only
enjoy partial life. Pemberton’s French Wine
Coca is a specific for the nerves, and will restore
them to a condition of perfect health. Thou
sands have tried it and are cured of their mala
dies. This great restorer and tonic acts with
wonderful effect in eradicating the diseases of
humanity. It drives away depression, and res
tores energy and health to the entire system.
Try a bottle, and confirm the praises which oth
ers are giving it. There is joy and happiness to
the afflicted in every bottle. To laborious think
ers it is the “Lntellectural Beverage.”
For sale by D. W. Curry.
gPUI
11 ™
W /(royal mas 1*
mmm
Absolutely Pure,
Tliis powdernever varies. Amarvelofpurity,
strength and wholesomeness. More economical
than the ordinary kinds, and cannot he sold in
competition with the multitude of low test, short
weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only
in cans. ROYAL BAKING POWDER ( 0.,
june 4-ly 106 Wall St. N. Y.
City Exchange Restaurant.
I will be prepared to open, on Monday, Sep
tember 7th. a first-class restaurant, in Bank
Block, two doors below the bank. Keep oysters,
fish, and all articles that are usually kept for the
public. Your patronage solicited. Reasonable
rates and good attention. My coffee, I am sure,
my patrons will commend.
Pomp Johnson.
September 3d, 1885. 4m.
Tax Collector’s Notice.
I WILL BE AT THE FOLLOWING PLACES
on the days stated below for the purpose of
collecting the State and County Taxes for the
year 1885.
Tlie Rate irer Cent, is 88.70 on tlie 81,000.
Cartcrsville District, Oct. 19, Nov. 3, 14, Dec. 1.
2,3.
Allatoona District, Oct. 21, Nov. 2, 19.
Stamp Creek “ Oct. 22, Nov, 4. 18.
Wolf Pen “ Oct. 23, Nov. 5, 17.
Pine Log “ Oct. 24, Nov. (5. 16.
Sixth “ Oct. 28, Nov. 9, 23.
Adairsville “ Oct. 27, Nov. 10, 24.
Kingston “ Oct. 28, Nov. 12, 25.
Cassville “ Oct. 29, Nov. 13, 21.
Euharlee “ Oct. 20, 30, Nov. 20.
Stilesboro. Nov. 28.
Taylorsville, Nov. 27.
Ligon’s Chapel, Nov. 20.
Hall’s Mill, Nov. 11.
McCanless’ Mill, Nov. 7.
Tax-Payers are earnestly requested to make
payments before the time expires, as the law is
very strict and will lie rigidly enforced on me
if I do not comply with its request.
11. A.. 11AJZTON,
Tax Collector Bartow county, Georgia.
FOR SALE.
One of tie Best Improiefi Farms la
North Georgia.
16 MILES FROM W. & A. R. R.
Fine Agricultural and Mineral lands. Good
Houses, Orchards, Willow Spring (free )
For further information call on Cocrant
managemefit or address the subscriber,
jly23 J. G. B. Erwin, Fairmount, Ga.
Proper Treatment forCooghs.
That the reader may fully understand
what constitutes a good Cough and Lung
Syrup, we will say that tar and Wild
Cherry is the basis of the best remedies
yet discovered. These ingredients with
several others equally as efficacious, en
ter largely into Dr. Bosanko’s Cough and
Lung Syrup, thus making it one of the
most reliable now on the market. Price
50 cts. and SI.OO. Sold by D. W. Curry.
jKMiS -
Swift’s Specific
la Nature’s own remedy, made from roots gath
ered from the forests of Georgia. The method
by which it is made was obtained by a half
breed from the Creek Indians, who inhabited a
certain portion of Georgia, which was commit,
nicatcd to one of the early settlers, and thus the
formula has been handed down to the present
day. The above cut represents the method of
manufacture twenty years ago, by Mr. O. T.
Swift, one of the present proprietors. Uhe de
mand has been gradually increasing until a
SIOO,OOO laboratory is now necessary to supply
the trade. A foreign demand has been created,
and enlarged facilities will he necessary to meet,
it. This great
VEGETABLE BLOOD PURIFIER,
CU RES
Cancer, Catarrh, Scrofula, Eczema
Ulcers, Rheumatism, Blood
Taint,
hereditary or otherwise, without the utve of Mer
cury or Potash.
Books on “Contagious Blood Poison” and on
“Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free.
For sale by all druggists.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,
Drawer 3, Atlanta. Ga.
New York, 157 W. 23d street.
MOTHER’S
FRIEND!
i 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.
ffs-yy** It not only shortens
the time of labor and lessens
the intensity of pain, but,
I better than nil, it greatly di
l minislies the danger to life
to both mother and child,
and leaves the mother in a
condition highly favorable to
speedy recovery, and far less
j liable to Hooding, convul
sions, and other alarming
!symptoms incident to linger
ing and painful labor. Its
j truly wonderful efficacy in
phis respect entires tlie
Mother's Friend to bo
ranked as one of the life
saving appliances given to
the world by the discoveries
of modern science.
From the nature of the
case, it will of course be 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.
lies once used it will ever
again lie without it in her
time of trouble.
No More Terror !
No More Pain !
No More Danger !
to
Hotter or Chili
THE DREAD OF
Motherhood
Transformed to
HOPE
AND
JOY I
Safety and Ease
TO
Sufiering Woman.
A prominent physician lately remarl. ■
proprietor that, if it were admissable to makci
public the letters we receive, the Mother’s Friend
would outsell anything on tlie market.
I most earnestly entreat every female expect
ing to be confined to use Mother's Friend.
Coupled with this entreaty I will add thatduring
along obstetrical practice (forty-four years) I
have never known it to fail to produce a safe
and quick delivery. 11. J. HOLMES, M, I>.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Send for our Treaties on Female Diseases
mailed freo. Address,
T/ie Bradfield Regulator Cos.,
feb26-lm Box 28. Atlanta, Ga.
rT M 7 CLINKSCALES”
Resident Tailor,
Has rooms above mays a parten'--
ETT’S STORE, and is prepa .ed to do all
kinds of Tailoring work at reasonable rates.
Parties who wish cutting done without the
making can be attended to promptly.
Cleaning, Repairing and Mending
can also bo done in Quick
Time and Cood Order.
Cartcrsville, Geo., Tulyietb—ly
R>. E. CASO2T,
Resident Dentist.
Office over Curry’s drug store, Cartcrsville,
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