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THE COURANT. Published. Every I’hurstla.y, t’AItTKItSVILLK, GEORGIA. Official Organ Bartow County. Courant Publishing Company, j THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1880. EDITORI ALETTES. Ludw Hi, the deposed ruler of Bavaria, in a lit ol lunacy, drowned himself. * # # Editor Mumford, ot Kansas City, was shot and slightly wounded in a street ear Monday. * * * Tiik editor of the Ac worth A fetes ctnd Farmer is still being furnished with facts and figures. He will get enough of them as time progresses. * * # The majority ot the state house ofti ecrs hail from Macon or thereabouts. We leave the reader to judge where the monstrous “ring” is located. * * * The campaign promises to warm up in old Bartow yet. The politicians are do ing the warming up while the people are holding the political fence down. # * * Congressman Harris, from Georgia, has introduced a bill to tax the incomes of all persons. This is another attack on the long-sufferingnewspaper men. * * # It is said that foreign countries have been secretly shipping their anarchists to this country. Now’ let our people promptly ship them to the land from which no traveler returns. * * * Du. Felton’s speech Saturday was an able one and was listened to with rapt attention by a goodly audience. We must say, however, that the “slices” of bacon handed out were awful scarce and appallingly thin. * * * The issue is between General Gordon and Col. Bacon in this campaign, and not the veracity of newspapers or politicians. Any attempt at dis torting the real issues will he heartily set down upon by the people. * * * For politician hash read the Bain bridge Democrat. The editors are di vided in the gubernatorial race, each man writing for his favorite, annexing his initial thereto. The “devil” in the - office is supposed to he the rcteree. -- * Will Maj. Bacon resign that SIO,OOO railroad job in the event he is elected governor, which only pays $5,000 ? The people of Georgia arc wholly unpre pared to receive such an outburst of patriotism. It is a little too much for them all at once. * * * To snow our readers some of the methods that are being used to defeat General Gordon we print the following taken from the Haralson county Fanner: “Gen. John B,Gordon failed to be pres ent when one of Bis children was horned ; hence he should be elected Governor of Georgia.” * * * James Dillasiiaw, of Hall county, has been arrested for swindling the government. He would find out, it is claimed, the names of parties entitled to pensions, and would arrange the papers and send them on to the department, when the money was sent he would forge names and return the papers. * * * Tiie hard things that have been said in the present campaign are to be de plore*] by the friends of both candidates. The Courant hoped that Bartow county at least would be exempt from the rot of personalism. However, we have an abiding confidence in the good sense the people of Bartow county and do not believe they can be drawn into this con test under existing circumstances. When it comes to an issue between Dr. Felton and the Atlanta Constitution, the people of Bartow county will stand by the former in the very last ditches. The people have, however, not forgotten the fact that the issue is the fitness of the two distinguished candidates for the chief magistracy of the commonwealth of Georgia, and not the credibility of Dr. Felton or of the Atlanta Constitution. * * * h on the past few weeks we have been trying to run a paper with as little polit ical matter as possible, and we find it a hard road to travel. We know the peo ple get a surfeit of the stuff and we are not the one to nauseate them. We give the news, state and local, which we find it a hard matter to do, as the papers of the state are brimming oyer with polities, and seem to be paying little attention to other matters. Outside of a circus a red hot campaign is the most demoralizing element extant. Dk. Felton is an able gentleman and one of our yery liest citizens, all of which has been heartily attested to by the earnest support of his county people whenever he was a candidate for office. We protest against this attempt, however, of making the present gubernatorial contest an issue between the Atlanta Constitution and our distinguished fellow citizen. They have quarrelled before and our people have never been called on to act as referee. To what miserable straits have Maj. Bacon’s friends been driven to in Bartow county ! They could have easily elected their delegates with out resorting to such means. The bill for an injunction issued by the Vv estern and Atlantic .Railroad against the Railroad Commission of Georgia, which was argued before Associate Jus tice Woods in Chambers, on Tuesday, has been denied upon the ground of the injunction being prematurely applied for. The Judge said that no evidence had been shown that the Commission had in any way attempted to inter fere with the right of the road, and that when it did then would be the time to ask for an injunction. A College for Cartersville. Nothing enhances the moral worth or progress of a town more than a well managed college. Wherever they exist refined people and a thrifty citizenship arc found. It is these that have made Athens, and LaOrange Is renowned for her grand institutions of learning. < Rher towns over the Syfie have be come famous foif their colleges. Nest ling in the mountains of North Georgia, in the most,beautiful country in the world, why could not Cartersville boast of like advantages. .Surely the surrounding country would heartily sus tain a female college here. These remarks are instigated by the events that have transpired in the past week in connection with our school ex aminations and concerts. Our people by their presence and plaudits have eon | vinced us that they do feel an interest in our educational affairs. They feel that we are sadly deficient in tins respect, not, however, in the matter of proper facilities. Our teachers have done all that they can do, and they have received the praise of a thankful people. On account of the lack of suitable buildings, it Is so rumored, Mrs. Brame, who has always been foremost in our educational affairs, has decided to remove from our midst. This is only a rumor and we sincerely hope that it will prove only a rumor. It will be a sad day indeed should this talented lady leave us. .Something should be done to place our lovely little city where she belongs in the ranks of educational interests. Let our people arise and speak in their might. We all know these are distressingly hard times, but something surely car* be done. m. 0 + Pro Bono Publico. The following taken from that ex cellent paper the Albany News and Ad vertiser, is so full of sound and whole some logic that wc take pleasure in transferring it to our columns and giv ing it our hearty endorsement: In every community a few public spirited men and women labor to ad vance the public interest in various di rections. They arc largely in the mi nority, and very oftc‘ll are misunder stood, and their motives frequently impugned. But lho?e things do not move them from their purpose of doing all the good possible in their chosen fields of labor. They recognize the grand truth that “no man liveth to him self,” and they put self behind them in the desire to create healthful influences for the young, or to accomplish some needed public work. More appreciation should be manifested of the- labors of such self-sacrificing lives; and in time we believe that every community will be blessed with a greater number, and that appreciation for all efforts for the public advancement will become more gen eral. Every citizen should realize that he is equally responsible for public errors and abuses with his fellow, and that it is his privilege as much as any other to enjoy the benefits accruing from judi cious improvements. To the end that a community should advance morally, intellectually and materially, all should take active ihferest in its public affairs, and contribute whatever is at their com mand to foster its enterprises. The wisest counsellors should direct public energy. Private piques should be for gotten,personal prejudices should be over come, and all labor together in harmony for the general welfare. SCOTT AND HUNTINGDON. About General Gordon’s Part in the Rail road Contest. Washington, June 12. —Editors Con stitution. —I have observed with interest the course of the gubernatorial campaign in your state. While iam familiar with his course in the senate, and have ob served with amazement the assaults that are being made on his integrity as a senator, I appreciate fully the disdain and contempt with which his friends treat these charges, i can understand why you, as a respectable newspaper, and his leading supporter, would scorn to reply in detail to any charge that af reets his honor as a citizen or his integ rity as a senator, but as the facts happen to be in my possession, and as I was my self interested in the Scott-Huntingdon contest before congress, I take the liberty of sending them to you, that you may make such use of them as you please, and that a senator of the United States, WHOSE RECORD IS AS CLEAN AS ANY MAN that ever sat in that body may not suffer even in the opinion of those who do not know him. I think every man in Wash ington, certainly those wdio are ac quainted with the events of the past ten years, look with amazement upon any attempt to besmirch General Gordon’s record as a senator. No man ever served his people more unselfishly, held his place in the senate with more honor, or left it with cleaner hands. This is the universal and unbroken testimony of every man who knows General Gordon as a senator. Republicans as well as democrats. His enemies as well as his friends, in the senate he was above re proach, and his private life was one of marked a#id acknowledged purity. BUT TO THE MATTER IN HAND. General Gordon is charged in a vague sort of way with having had some sort of relations with C. I*. Huntingdon. The facts are these: Mr. Huntingdon asked nothing of congress. Mr. Thomas Scott, of tlie i'emisylvania road, was asking congress to indorse as a subsidy fifty million ofdollfU-sof his Southern Pacific bonds. These were §ix per cent bonds, and when indorsed would have been-worth about 130, which would have made che subsidy sixty-five millions of dollars. Mr. Huntingdon was then building the same road that Mr. Scott proposed to build. Huntingdon had not received onedollftr from the government on that road, ami did not ask a dollar. Scott asked for sixty-five millions of dol lars indorsement, lie stated that lie was then building thoroad for nothing; that Scott was asking sixty-five millions of dollars to build, and he asked that con gress would not give Scott sixty-rive million dollars when he was ready to do the same work for nothing. THIS WAB THE EIGHT PURE AND SIMPLE. General Gor<loii was recognized as the leader of the opposition fo Scott’s de mand for this enormous subsidy. He argued that it was a useless expenditure of the nation’s credh, because Hunting don was then actually building at the rate of a mile a day without one dollar of government money or indorsement the very road that Scott was asking $05,000,000 tb help him build. For a long time it looked as if Scott would get his subsidy through; but Gordon’s ar guments were simply unanswerable and the Scott scheme failed and was voted ! down. The sequel has justified the wisdom and patriotism of General Gordon’s course. Huntingdon has finished the road that he was then building, and it is now in operation. It filled every need that Scott’s proposed road would have filled and never cost the government one cent in money or indorsement. If Gen eral Gordon had remained silent. I think no one who is familiar with the facts will deny that THE SCOTT BILL WOULD HAVE PASSED, and that road which Huntingdon had built for nothing, would have cost the government the indorsement of $50,000,- 000 bonds, worth in the market $05,000,- 000. This is fact of Hie fight. Huntingdon asked for nothing. Scott asked for $50,- 000,000 indorsement. General Gordon fought this scheme of Scott’s, and it was finally whipped. Uet me take the im possible assumption that General Gordon was willing to barter his influence as a senator, would he not have been found on the side of Thomas Seott. the most notorious lobbyist tins country has ever seen. Of him it was said that he liter ally owned the state of Pennsylvania, and its press. He was then asking the govern ment for the most ENORMOUS INDORSEMENT that any man ever petitioned congress for within my knowledge, was not that the side on which large sums of money woidd be paid for influence ? It certainly was the side on which the strongest lobby that ever beseiged con gress was arrayed. When General Gordon opposed it he did what required great courage. Many of the best men in both houses favored Scott’s scheme, and any man who opposed it understood that has gone before the legislative body in the history of American politics. So much for the facts of the case. The next point is Jhat Huntingdon in his correspondence alluded to Gordon’s having been taken oft' the railroad com mittee and Bogy, of Missouri, having been put on. In writing about this he alluded to General Gordon as one of “our men.” This allusion was per fectly proper and natural. General Gor don was opposing the Tom Seott scheme. He STOOD WITH HUNTINGDON in this. Huntingdon’s allusion to him as one of “our men” simply meant that he was a man who was in sympathy with his opposition to Mr. Scott’s scheme. Just as Mr. Scott would have alluded to those who favored his scheme as “our men.” In regard to the proposed trip to Cali fornia, 1 remember distinctly why that was proposed. The main point made by Scott and his friends was that Hunting don would never build the road.. They argued that he could not do on his own resources what Scott demanded an in dorsement of $50,000,000 in bonds to do, and that he was simply pretending to build a road without government help in order to break down Scott, who was trying to get government help. In order to answer this charge Huntingdon pro posed to carry at his own expense any members of congress, whether for him or against him, across the continent, and show just exactly what he was doing. He was then building bis road at the rate of a mile a day, and he was anxious to show the members of congress that he was in earnest, that the work was progressing, and that several hundred miles had already been built. I assume if Gordon or ary other senator who op posed Scott’s scheme was anxious for those who favored it to take the proposed trip with Huntingdon and get PROOF FOR THEMSELVES that he was in earnest and was at work. Now, these are the lacts in the case. Instead of being abus*.d for the opposi tion he took in this matter, General Gor don deserves a monument for having saved this government from writing its name on the back of $50,000,000 of bonds to secure a trans-continental road that he then contented would be built by Huntingdon without a dollar of indorse ment, and that has in fact already been built. Especially should the southern people appreciate the light led by Gor don again*:t the scheme of Scott. llis road while improperly called the South ern Pacific was really a northern road. Tt never entered the south this side of Missouri. Huntingdon’s road on the contrary was entirely a southern enter prise. Its eastern terminus is Newport News, and there is not a mile of it built north of the Potomac river. It was built without the cost of one dollar to the government. The Scott road if it had been built would have received the indorsement of the government on $50,- 000,000 of bonds. I think it very likely that abuse of Gor don was heard by two men from Rome about the hotels at that time. As 1 have said before, the strongest lobby that ever beseiged congress was gathered there in the interest of Tom Scott’s scheme. The hotels were full of lobbyists and they na turally DENOUNCED EVERY MAN who opposed them. The $50,000,000 of bonds when indorsed would have been worth $05,000,000. The road itself would not have cost over exceeding $40,000,000. Here was a margiD of $25,000,000 be tween the government indorsement and the cost of the road. This is surely large enough margin to have tilled the corri dors of every hotel in Washington city, with denunciations of Gordon who lead the movement that crushed this scheme and kept the hands of the lobbyist off this enormous subsidy. But the charge or insinuations that Gordon was influ enced against this terrific and unscrupu lous lobby by any motive except the pur est is known to be false to every man who was in Washington at that time. I have written this without consulta tion and without the knowledge of Gen eral Gordon. I have written it as justice to one of the ablest and purest men that ever sat in the United States senate. The feeling in Washington was intensely bit ter during this struggle. General Gordon was tireless and dauntless in demanding that the government credit should not he lent to the building of a road that wag then being built without government credit and that has been since finished WITHOUT ONE DOLLAR of government money. There were other senators equally pure who con tended that the government should lend its credit to Scott and secure the building of this road, and yet 1 can say that 1 never heard the motives of senators on their side impugned during the whole of the struggle, nor since. I do not believe it was ever done, except by some misera ble lobbyist, whose fee depended upon the success of the scheme in which he was engaged. Certainly no such charge was ever made against Gordon, and his colleagues of that day, and his successors in the senate and the members of the house and all who are aequanted with the national legislation of the last ten years will join in testifying without a single exception, in my opinion, that the south never sent a man to Washington who bore himself more honorably or il lustrated his people better than John B. Gordon. If there was ever a whisper against his perfect official integrity or his purity in private life it was uttered and died in the circles that were below reput able notice or recognition. lie lived here as most of the southern senators have lived, in poverty, that was honorable when we consider that it was endured in the midst of such temptations as have never assailed legislators before or since. Virginia, THE RACE Itetwoen General Gordon and Major Bacon. The following table, which we shall keep standing and corrected until the meeting of the State Convention, will show the number of delegates eaoh coun ty is entitled to, who the delegates are instructed for, if instructed, and those which are uninstructed, with the total number of delegates each candidate has secured to date. We think our readers will find it interesting to watch this table each week: x I os 9 £ o p 2 3 • ft 3 g 9: § § 3. n 3 2 (JOUXTIFS. ® g. , : ft -- 06 ; : : : : Appling...., • 2 Raker ...... 2 Baldwin 2 Banks 2 ” Bartow. j * Berrien * — a Bibb I £ * , ♦ Brooks 1 * Bryan * "“Pi Bullock. I 2 •• 1 I Burke | ® Betts. • > i Calhoun 2 A Camden • * Campbell * 4 Carroll . | i Catoosa * • Charlton f. Chatham ” ” Chatteloochec.. * •'* Chattooga.. 5 Cherokee * k Clarke S 2 ”* Clay . j, 2. Clayton. * k Clinch Ii i Cobb j \\ j Coflee. . Z j Colquitt 1 ~ j k Columbia. J i *’* Coweta. 2 Crawford. Dade .. .... Dawson f . .. Decatur * DcKalb * V Dodge i 2 Dooly , Daugherty f A Douglas “ “' ' Early. ’ A Echols... • 2 ■ Eilingham • “ Elbert \ ” Emanuel ~ Fannin 2 •• ’'A Fayette. * • Floyd. ® .> Forsyth - * 2 • ” Franklin - A"• Fulton ® * ’ Gilmer.. 5 Glasscock - j Glvnn * j * • A Gordon * ' x Greene * ; •• Gwinett | * I • • •• ... Habersham - Hall I * Hancock 1 * I Haralson.. 2 I Harris * Hart * Heard 2 * Henry 2 Houston * Irwin “ ■ Jackson * Jasper 2 Jeffe; jou * Johnson... • 2 Jones. * Laurens 2 •••• Lee 2 .... ...2 Liberty. f Lincoln * * Lowndes * Lumpkin. 2 2 .... McDuffie.. 2 2 ..... Mclntosh.. 2 ... 2 Macon 2 j .. .2 Madison 2 Marion.. 2 Meriwether * • •••■ i Miller | 2 ; Mitchell - 2 i Monroe * ; Montgomery. : 2 2 i Morgan.. \ j* ■ Murray. | * *• Muscogee i * Newton ) Oconee. . • i 7 a Oglethorpe.. j * 2 Paulding. j 2 • Pierce ! 2 • • P'ke ! 4 .. . .. Polk ■ 2 Pulaski f : ...... Putnam | * 4 Quitman.. 2. Rabun Randolph 2 •• Richmond.. ” '* Rockdale 2 . ... Schley \ Screven. f 2 Spalding. 2 2. .. .. Stewart 2 Sumter 4 4 - Talbot | 2 Talliafcrro. ... 2 Tatnall | 2 Taylor ! 2 ... ...... Telfair 2 Terrell 2 Thomas... . 4 Towns 2 Troupe 4 Twiggs 2 Union 2 2 Upson ... 2 ...... Walker 2 Walton. 4 Ware. 2 2 VV arron 2 Washington 4 Wayne 2 2 Webster 2 ... White. 2 2 Whittield 2 .... Wilcox 2 W’ilkes. 4 ....! Wilkinson.. 2 Worth 2 ..... Totals 850 40 58 2 Burke countyhas instructed her 6 delegates for Jones, and Charleton’s 2 were instructed for Simmons. THE MAN ON THE 12th OF MAY. An Accurate and Exact Account of the In cident at Spottsylvanla Courthouse. Atlanta Constitution. | A correspondent asks us to give the exact facts of the occurrence of the twelfth of May, and asks if General Lee ever endorsed the account of that heroic action. Our correspondent states that the Bacon men in his neighborhood say that General Lee denied that such thing ever took place. We present a full his tory of the occurrence as taken from the history of General Lee by Rev. J. Wm. Jones, D. D.: On the 10th of May, 18G4, the confed erate lines were broken near Spottsyl va nia courthouse; the federal troops poured into the opening, and a terrible disaster seemed imminent. As Early’s old di~ yision, now commanded by General John B. Gordon, was being rapidly formed to recapture tiie works, General Lee rode to the front and took his position just in ad vance of the colors of the Forty-ninth regiment. He uttered not a word —he was not the man for theatrical display— but as he quietly took off his hat, and sat on his war-horse the very personification of the genius of battle, it was evident to all that lie meant to lead the charge, and a murmur of disapprobation ran down the line. Just then the gallant Gordon spurred to his side, seized the reins of his horse, and exclaimed with deep anx iety. ‘‘General Lee, this is no place for you. Do go to the rear. These are Vir ginians and Georgians, sir—men who have never failed, and they will not fail now—will you, boys? Is it necessary* for General Lee to lead this charge?” Loud cries of “No, no!” “General Lee to the rear!” “General Lee to the rear!” “We always try to do just what General Gordon tells us, and we will drive them hack if General Lee will only go to the rear!” burst forth from the ranks. While two soldiers led General Lee’s horse to the rear, Gordon put himself in front of his division, and his clear voice rang out above the roar of the battle: “Forward! Charge! and remember your promise to General Lee!” Not Napoleon’s magic words to his Old Guard, “The eyes of your emperor are upon you !” produced a happier ef fect; and these brave fellows swept grandly forward, stemmed the tide, drove back five times their own numbers, re- Chamberlin, Johnson & Cos., IMPORTERS AXI) DEALERS IX DRY GOODS, MILLINERY, CARPETS, SHOES, And Dress Making. Making the Largest Retail Business in the Southern States. 7 : ——*' ...ai. is „ lu, t* i_ ~'i Space forbids naming more than a few articles of our enormous Sfbck. We import direct, which places our facilities far ahead of any other Southern house, and we defy competition in aIL the meaning of the word where quality is considered. With many thanks for your trade, we are, Respectfully, CHAMBERLIN* JOHNSON & C® , Atlanta, Ga. Agents Butterick’s Patterns. took the works, re-established the con federate line, and converted a threatened disaster into a brilliant victory. Hon. John Thomson Mason wrote to General Lee asking him to write out his story of the above incident. The follow ing w r as General Lee’s reply : Lexington, Va., December 7. 18G5. My Dear Sir: l regret that my occupa tions are such as to prevent me from writing at present a narrative of the event which you request it' your letn r Qf the 9 instant. The account you give is substantially correct. General Gordon was the officer. It occurred in the battles around Spott sylvanla Courthouse. With great respect, your friend and servant, It. K. Lke. lion. John Thomson Mason. “A ROWLI) SOGER BOV.” Ono of the Macon Volunteers an<l Ilis Ability as a Drummer. :#■ SAMUEL DUNLAP, OF ATLANTA, GA. The excellent picture we present at the head of this column, is of a man who is as amt favorably known in his capacity as a traveling man or “drummer” as any one man in the United States. Mr. Dunlap said in conversation recently: “About four years ago 1 had a severe attack of rheumatism, which completely disalfled me for a time,and which developed into what is com monly called ‘chronic,’ attacking me when least expected, and laying me up entirely; in capacitating me for any kind of business, and causing me as much suffering in a day as should be crowded in a life time. After one of my most severe attacks, and when I had just got able to hobble around, I met J. M. Hunnicutt. an old friend, and he said he could make a remedy that would cure me, and, by gracious, he did. I took two Ijottlea of his stuff, piepared from roots and herbs, and I have never had a twinge of rheumatism since. The medicine was not prepared for sale at that time, but was manu factured by Mr. Hunnicutt for his friends. About six months ago it was determined to place it ui>on the market, and a firm was organ ized for that purpose. Two weeks ago, in the midst of my suffering, I noted in one of their advertisements that it was good for kidney troubles also. I knew it Would cure rheuma tism, and I bought a half a dozen bottles at once and determined to Rive it a fair show at a kidney disease of long standing. It may seem extrava gant, but the first day’s use gave me relief, and before I had completed taking one bottle my disagreeable symptons hart entirely disap peared. I have used two bottles up to this time, and I have not felt a trace of my disease fora week.” J. M. Hunnicutt A Cos., the manufacturers of Hnnmcutt’s Rheumatic C'uie, Atlanta, Ga„ as sure us that their medicine is on sale at the low price of SI.OO a bottle, at all reputable druggists and can lie procured at wholesale from jobbing druggists everywhere. St. Lons, June 14.—A special from Chattanooga to the Post-Dispatch says that Captain William Davis, for many years superintendent of the Western and Atlantic railroad, committed suicide on a Great Southern south-bound train by taking pans green. He leaves a large family, who can assign no cause for the deed. In 18S0 Mr. Stephens said of John Kelly : “I have stood by John Kelly in his entire struggle, and have often said, and now repeat, that I regard him as the ablest, purest and truest statesman that I have ever met from Xew York.” TIRED OUT! At this season nearly every one needs to nse some sort of tonic. I HON enters into almost every phy sician’s prescription for those who neod building up (rngwadl twp w&BjL li-T BESTTONICI For Wenknen, Lassitude. Lack o t Energy, etc., it HAS NO EQUAL, and to the only Iron medioine that is not Hijuriotie. It Kn rich cm the Blood. Invigorate** the System, Restores Appetite, Aids IMgestloji It does not blacken or injure the teeth, cause head - ache or produce constipation —other Iron medicines do Dk O. H. Binkley, u leading physician of Spring field, Ohio says: “ Brown’s Iron Bitters is a thoroughly good medi cine. I use it in my practice, and find Its action ex cels all other forms of iron. In weakness, or alow con dition of the system. Brown’s Iron Bitters is usually a positive necessity. It is all that is claimed for it. Db. W. N. Watebb, 1219 Thirty-seoond Street, Georgetown, D. 0., says: “ Brown’s’ Iron Bitters is the Tonic of the age. Nothing better. It creates appetite, gives strength and improves digestion.” Genuine has above Trade Mark and crossed red lines on wrapper. Take no otbr. Made only by „ BUUVtN VUJJUVAj. VQ., UALTJJft¥££, it 4, industrial progress of the SOUTH FOR TWO WEEKS. From Baltimore Manufacturers’ Record. June 12,1896. | • The growth of the industrial interests of the South is really surprising. Week after week shows a list of new enter prises covering almost everv line of manufueturing and lining that gives some indication of the great industrial development now in progress throughout the Southern States. This growth is not confined to any one State, though of course more noticeable in some than In others, but extends through the whole South. All illustrating this industrial development, the following summary of new enterprises reported in our Con struction Department for the last two weeks only will prove of general in terest : In Alabama, Mr. Samuel Thom as and his associates arc preparing to build a large furnace, SOOO,OOO in cash having been put up against $400,000 in mineral property, making the capital of the company sl,ooo,OfiO, although the land is said to be well worth $800,000; at Sheffield, in the same State, the contract lias been awarded for a 100-ton furnactu $40,000 has been raised to build a cottoft compress at Anniston; $40,000 are being sppnt to enlarge gas and electric light works at Birmingham; work on anew foundry and machine shop has been commenced at the same city, a site has been purchased for a bolt and nut fac tory, and a jug factory has been started, while several saw, planing and grist mills are reported. In Arkansas, PuJjS Bluff is to have SIOO,OOO railroad m:P? chine shops; Tattle Kook lias organized a SIOO,OOO woolen and cotton manufac turing company; mining machinery is being erected near Hot Springs; a saw mill and furniture factory combined wiH go up at Arkansas City ; a large saw and planing mill at Arkadelphia; a stave factory at Harrisburg, and other wood working enterprises in ot her parts of the State. Florida shows up with a $500,- 000 company to do a general contracting and wood-working business, a $.‘50,000 electric light company, brick yard, saw mills, etc. In Georgia there have been a SIOO,OOO granite quarrying company, a $150,000 marble company, a manganese mining enterprise, foundry and machine shop,.large plaining mill, basket factory and an ice manufacturing company. Maryland has anew $1,000,000 .licet metaTcompany, a slate quarry, grist and Hour mill, Ac. in Mississippi a $50,000 spoke manufacturing company has been organized, an ice factory, cheese factory, several creameries, new machinery for a cotton mill and brick ■works. Xo.it h Carolina lias anew fur niture factory, a $40,000 gas and electric light company, stave and shuttle block factory, arid a number of saw-mills, while "in gold mining operations there is considerable activity. In Tennessee, two iron furnaces are to be erected, a SOO,OOO woolen mill is to he built at once, a foundry is going up, several Hour mills, saw-mills, and other small enter prises are to he started. Texas reports a $50,000 ice and electric light company, a wagon and carriage factory, a $30,000 water company, an ice factory, a SOO,- 000 compress company, and three or four large Hour mills. Virginia has two SIOO,OOO coal mining companies, an iron foundry, a machine and boiler com pany and a large Hour mill under con tract. In West Virginia 20,000 acres of timber land have been purchased for de velopment, a SIOO,OOO steel and iron company and a natural gas and oil com pany organized. As this summary cov ers only the reports of two weeks and omits quite a number of smaller enter prises, our readers can readily see that the South is vigorously forging ahead in the industrial line. Curry’s Liver Compound relievescon stipation. The Buckeye force Pumps and Iron Turbine Wind Mills, the best in the mar ket, lor sale by V. L. Williams & Cos. - The Home Rule hill was voted down on its second reading in Parliament Tuesday night. The vote stood 311 fior, to 311 against the measure, which was therefore lost by a majority of only 30 votes in a total of G 52. ' Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel of purdv, strength and wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of low test,short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold ou'.v in cans. KOVAL BAKING POWDERCO., junc 4-ly lots Wall St., N. Y. E,VANWINKLE & CU. 9 patented 1878. Improved 1881. Patented 1532: Prices reduced to one-li&if former prices. No. 1 Mach. SBO,OO j No. 3 Marta. SIO.OO Best Cleaner for Seed Cotton lr the market. No ©lnner can afford to be without one. £. VAN WINKLE fc CO., Manufacturers, Atlanta, tin. E. VAN I|fNKLE & GO. COTTON GINS and PRESSES, Cotton Seed Oil Mills, Cotton Need ©inters, Cane Mills, Saw Mills, Shafting, Pulleys. Hangers, Wind Mills and Castings, Pumps and Tanks. E. VAN WINKLE & CO , Atlanta, Ca, J. C. MILAM, Agent, CARTERS VILLE. may27-8m "YW I. II oyw a f tl, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Office near corner Main and Erwin SU I Mate a Specialty of Mercantile Law. Fashionable Millinery, [ would respectfully caM the attention of tlie people of Cartersvillerand Bartow county to my new stock of Spring and Sommer Millinery, Consisting of HATS, 13 O IV IV £ X Trimmings, iDressos, Etc. Come and sec the latest new styles iu Head gear. Work done on the shortest rotice and guaranteed to give satisfaction. MISS LEO SHOCKLEY, First door abowe Mays A Pritchet, Cartersville, Ga, LOST POWER And Sexual Weaknesses, however induced, not only relieved but PERMA NENTLY CUIUS!) without medicine. IT COSTS NOTHING to send for particulars, which wc will forward free in scaled envelope on ap|riicatioii. Douft miss this opportunity. Addro&s M, E. A. Cos., 12G7 Broadway, ' May 27-ly, N °"’ _ H. E. CASOXT, r Resident Dentist. Olllcc over Curry’s drug store, Cartersville, CEHTHAL HOTEL, ROME, GEORGIA, £• O. HOSS, Proprietor. A mplc Accommodations for Commercial Trav ers ami Theatrical Companies. In centre business locality and street cars rim front of tlie door. augl3 STANDING COMMITTEES. Council Cn amber, ) Cartersville, Ga., Dec. 22, l>s. i It is ordered that the following shall constitute j the standing committees of the Hoard of Aider men for the year lxsfl: Streets— A. M. Franklin, John I*. Anderson and W. A. Bradley. Finance— a. U/ Hudgins, Gerald Griffin and George 11. Gilreath. URimNAN’CES—Gerald Griftin, A. M. Puckett anil .r: It. Iludgins. Cemetery— George If. Gilreath, A. M. Frank *kn and E. lb Puckett. Relief—w. A. Bradley, A. Tt. Hndgins anti | A. M. Puckett. . l’rnuc Buildings— E. D. Puckett, W. A. ‘ Bradley and John P. Anderson. It. is-further ordered that this order be entered on the minutes and Clerk furnish each Alderman with a copy hereof. (Signed) Jno. 11. Wikle, Mayor Attest: Sam’i. F. Milam, Clerk. 4>l HA A YEAR. The COURANT,the best locat cpl’Uw paper in the State. A few nights since I gave my son one dose of , Worm Oil, and the next day ho passed sixteen large worms. At the same time I gave one dose to my little girl four years old, and shu passed eighty-six worms, from fourto fifteen inceslong mehlß W. F. PHILLIPS, Athens, Ga.