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THE FREE PRESS.
An Independent Democratic Journal.
C. H. C. WILLINGHAM* Km tor.
The Free Press is an Independent Democrat
ic, Journal, opposed to all Kings, Cliques and
Combinations, of whatever sort, organizedto de
feat the will of the people in all public matters
or interests in whatever shape presented.
Cartersville, Georgia, April 24, 187
IXDKPENDENT JOUR2?ALISM.
The following is from the LaGrange
Reporter, of last week, in reply to an ed
itorial of ours the week before:
NOT so.
Our friend Willingham, of the Cartersville
Fkkk Free, commends our ideas on independent
papers, as expressed two weeks since, and sug
gests that we look to the “ independent papers”
of the seventh district, as examples of true in
dependence. We must ask to be excused. Those
papers show conspicuous proofs of the most ab
solute partisanship. They consider Dr. Felton
infallible, and exalt him to the jMMiition of a
demi-god. They applaud everything he does,
and measure their principles by his actions and
utterances. They attribute to him every virtue
which man can possess, and deny the existence
of common honesty in his opponents. They are
even now persistently trying to blast forever the
reputations of good men for no other reason than
that those meu opposed Felton. They admit
nothing to the disparagement of their favorite,
and willingly—yes, eagerly—believe any scan
dal, however damaging or however improbable,
against those who opposed him in the late can
vass. They are not independent papers; they
are Felton’s partisans, and their partisanship is
devoid of the ilrst element of independence. We
regi'et that it is so; but so it is.
Some of them may be displeased at the plain
ness of our words, but they ought not to be. They
ought to consider what we say. They ought to
rid themselves of the heat of the canvass—now
that the canvass is over—and endeavor, by the
time of the next campaign, to.get into a state of
mind which will enable them to act with true
independence, which will enable them to see
that their candidate is not the essence of virtue
and patriotism, and that his opponents are not
necessarily traitors and villains, but are probably
as good as he is; which will enable them to sup
port n man for office without damning all who
oppose him.
It is very evident that the Reporter
does not understand either the spirit or
temper of the independent democratic
papers of the seventh district. There is
not one of them that regards Dr. Felton,
or any other man, as indelible. They do
know, however, that Dr. Felfon is a
sound and incorruptible democrat, and
that ids record is so clear that it was not
attacked by any speaker or newspaper
during the late campaign, one of* the
most heated known to Georgia politics.
All the means that money could employ
were used to defeat him, but none dared
to assail in any manner his congressional
record. There is no congressman from
this state more the servant of his con
stituency than our representative. He
is emphatically the friend of the toiling
masses. Every vote he has east in con
gress has been given with the view of
promoting their interest. For these rea
sons the independent democracy will
stand by him and for him as long as lie
represents them so faithfully, and will
ever applaud his actions when he aets in
the future as in the past. But the mo
*ment lie ceases to represent the people’s
interest, they will cease to sustain him.
The Reporter would have its readers
believe that the independent journals of
this district are slaves to Dr. Felton. We
say it is not so, and assertions to that ef
fect are unjust to our people, and we re
gret they should emanate from the pen
of one who is prominent in the church of
which he is a member. But we attribute
it, however, to an over-zealous devotion
to “ organized ” democracy. The charge
that we “ believe any scandal, however
damaging or however improbable, against
those who opposed him (Dr. Felton) in
the late canvass” is a gratuitous assertion
without foundation. The truth is, the
Reporter is wrong in its view concerning
the independent democracy of this dis
trict. Its conceptions are the result of
erroneous information or prejudiced
views of the real situation here. We
gave the Reporter credit for its views as
to independent journalism because w 6
thought it struck in the main the feelings
of our people. But now it comes back
upon us and says of the independent
press * that “they are not independent
papers,” but that “ they are Felton’s par
tisans, and their partisanship is devoid
of the first element of independence.”
The editor of the Reporter may lie a
Solon in such matters, but we don’t be
lieve it. The whole spirit of the article
copied above seems to have been penned
under the inspiration of a prejudice ut
terly incapable of doing justice to the
free and independent press of this dis
trict. We did not expect such an exhi
bition of unfairness from the Reporter.
The free press of the seventh are conduc
ted by men who are true to democratic
principles and would scorn to he the mere
tools of any set of men, whether indepen
dent or members of rings, cliques or com
binations, that seek to rule the people
under the whip of so-called “ organized”
democracy.. We are democrats from
principle. We vote for the best men for
office, whether they are “ organized ”
or independent. Hence we are the slaves
of none, hut exercise the free right of the
ballot as our consciences dictate, and are
governed by no other law' of action.
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The Rome Courier is still worried about
Felton. It is a very unhappy paper be
cause Dr. Felton is one of the best of
democrats. We shall offer a resolution
of condolence at the press conventton in
behalf of the Courier. It says Felton
“relies upon the aid of radicals” “to
defeat, break down and destroy the dem
ocratic organization in this district.”
Well, didn’t the “organized” hire Holtz
olaw and a few other radical negroes in
their efforts to defeat Dr. Felton, the best
democrat in the race last fall? Does the
Courier know that its Jupiter Tonans of
of the “ organized"-’ Gen. Gordon, was
elected senator the first time by the votes
of eighteen negroes in the legislature in
1873? But for the “aid of radicals” he
would not have been senator, Aud did
not “Our George” seek the “aid of radi
cals’Mast fall with very poor results?
We shall have to put the brakes on the
Courier.
* We regret to learn that Gen. Toombs’
alight is rapidly 1 failing.
GENERAL TOOMBS FOR GOVERNOR.
Wit bin the past few weeks we have
conversed with a number of gentlemen
from various parts of the state in refer
ence to the question as to who shall be
the next governor of Georgia. If “ the
signs of- the times” are any indication;
if popular expression means anything so
far as we have heard it expressed, Gene
ral Toombs will be our next governor if
he lives, and we think lie bids very fair
to survive. There are three men we
want to see governor of this grand old
state before passing in our checks. The
first is Gen. Toombs, the next is Gen.
Wofford, and the third is Rufe Lester, of
Savannah. We propose to put them in
according to the gradation of their ages
respectively. We think we can get old
Georgia all right in six years under the
administration of three such men. That
is what we desire to aid in doing before
arriving at our three-score birthday.
That accomplished we shall wink out po
litically satisfied.
But our main object is to get General
Toombs well on the track before the Sun
day school celebration season is over and
the grangers are too well handled. We
want to mix- a few hay seed into the Gen
eral’s luxuriant locks during the fall
season to make him acceptable to “the
bone and sinew ” of this land of Georgia.
Once all these things are well understood
amongst all classes of independent voters,
there will be no trouble in making the
General our next governor. Once gov
ernor “the old inan eloquent” will wield
the sceptre of his office without reference
to retaining or any other kinds of fees.
All legislative acts proper to be signed
will get his signature without money or
price.
As we said in the outset there is a
strong sentiment in favor of making Gen.
Toombs governor. We have seen many an
eye sparkle and countenance flash bright
ly at the mention of the proposition—not
only on the part of independent demo
crats but well-meaning “organized”
democrats. Of course, this is encour
aging to all the friends of true and gen
uine democracy. A few “organized”
leaders kick up at the idea and show the
whites of their eyes in holy horror. But
that makes no difference with the inde
pendent voters of Georgia. They have
said Gen. Toombs must be the next gov
ernor. What they say is the law and
gospel.
But, badinage aside, and not to worry
the self-appointed leaders of the demo
cratic party, we say to the people in all
candor that the desire to make General
Toombs the next governor is growing in
intensity. The truth is, lie will be the
next governor in spite of himself. The
“die is set,” the pot is boiling and the
kettle is steaming to that end.
THE NEGRO EXODUS.
A few years ago sharp men “on the
make” got up a tremendous excite
ment among the negroes to immi
grate from the southern Atlantic states,
especially from Georgia, to Mississippi
and Louisiana. The negroes did not do
well out there and many of them return
ed to their old homes. Finding the poor
ignorant creatures in bad condition on the
Mississippi waters, the same men or the
same class of men have got up another
excitement to induce the poor deluded
creatures to go to Kansas, to a climate
and condition of things wholly unsuited
to their nature and training, Thousands
have gone from Mississippi and Louisi
ana to find themselves worse off in con
dition than ever. They are starving and
writing back to their old homes and
friends for relief. And all of this has
been done for them on speculation that a
few men might grow rich upon the mis
ery of the colored people.
We have never advocated the removal
of the negroes from our midst. We want
them to stay with us because we know
them and they know the white people,
and their chances here for success in life
are far better among those amongst whom
they have been raised than among stran
gers who, from foree of education and
habit, can have no sympathy tor them.
To those of the colored race who may
read what we say, or hear it read, we
would say, stay where they are. Follow
no excitement calculated to beguile them
from friends and a genial climate to the
bleak country of the west and an unsym
pathizing people.
We believe it to be the duty of the
white people of the south to exercise a
guardian care over the negro race. They
have been our slaves and, as a rule, were
true to us during the la*te war, and we
should be true to them in the infancy of
their freedom. Their condition calls in
loud tones for Christian sympathy from
the white people ol the south.
If old Horace Greeley were alive next
year and the race for president were be
tween lie and Grant, as it was in 1872,
we should spit on one side of a shingle
and throw up “wet or dry” as to who
we should vote for. And it’s mighty
nigh the same thing with ns between
Tilden and Grant. The lash of the “or
ganized” whip made us vote for Greeley
against honest conviction—made us vote
for the leader of the radical party. It
made us vote for Tilden who secured his
nomination with his barrels of money
and then flickered in the assertion of
what he had won with his money, Our
idea is if an unacceptable man is to be
made president let the other side do the
business, and then the democratic party
cannot be held responsible for an unpop
ular president. * But we belong to the
greenback way of thinking and Tilden
don’t.
Our idea is to put Gen. Hancock on
the presidential track next year. The
rank and file of the democracy don’t
want Tilden any more, Barrels of mon
ey are not worth a cent where true prills
ciplo is involved. What the country
needs is the re-inauguration of the gov
ernment on correct principles. We want
a man for president who lias the nerve
to assert his right after being elected.
We don’t want any more Ilayes-ing in
the next contest.
Messrs. Stephens, Felton, Speer and
Persons are standing shoulder to shoulder
in congress in behalf of the toiling mil
lions.
777 if GEORGIA PRESS A SSOCIA TIOX.
The object of this association is for the
purpose of meeting in annual convention
to consult together in regard to the inter
ests of the journalism of the state, it is
the means of discussing many subjects of
vital importance to the public . interests
aiul of promoting sentiments of friend
ship among themselves. By these con
ventions tlie members of the press are
enabled to become acquainted with each
other, and by meeting at different points
in the state they become more familiar
with the resources of Georgia and thus
made acquainted with the needs and ad
vantages of each seetion.
The press is essentially a great lever
of power in the promotion of the public
weal. It constitutes sentinels upon the
watch-tower looking after every interest
of the people, informing them of all that
is transpiring and thus enabling the
masses to keep a close watch upon those
who rule them. For these reasons it is
very fit and proper that they should meet
in convention annually at different points
of the state each succeeding year and
mingle with the people.
W® are glad that the press convention
is to meet in Cartersville this year. While
here they will learn much of our country
and section about which many of them
know comparatively little. Their ideas
of us will be given expression through
millions of newspaper sheets that will go
over the country ami he read by millions
of people. In this way we shall be beard
of as we were never before. Our vast min
eral resources will be made known to an
extent that would require thousands of
dollars to publish.
Let our citizens of the town and county
all unite in extending to the Georgia
press a cordial welcome and generous
hospitality when they come. This they
will do, we know. We desire to see this
year’s convention one of the most pleas
ant yet held by the association.
This our community owes it to itself to
maintain its past reputation for generous
hospitality. That the press will find our
people all that can be expected of them
there can be no doubt.
♦ ♦ •
The state treasurer sold last .Saturday
the last one of those Garrard 4 per cent,
bonds (called the “baby bonds”) issued
by an act of the present legislature. This
he has done, we are told, without a dol
lar of expense except the engraving and
printing of them. It is also stated that
there is a great demand for more. The
whole batch, with the exception of a few
hundred dollars, were sold in the state.
It seems that the lecture of Dr. Miller
in Rome last week struck the Courier
squarely in the abdominal regions, and
that paper has been suffering ever since
with a painful attack of “organized”
colic. And when the Courier gets really
bad off it keeps up a terrible whining.
Dr, Miller ought to have left an antidote
for the benefit of the Courier.
~♦ ♦ ®
A gentleman of Atlanta asked General
Toombs the other day if lie thought Til
den would he renominated for president.
The general replied that Tilden lias no
more chance than he has, and that lie
(Toombs) has no more chance than a free
negro. We trust Mr. Toombs is a prophet
in this ease, because Tilden is not the
man to be nominated.
+ ,+ +
The Rome Courier is sorely afflicted
with an “organized” disease of subservi
ent democracy-—that subserviency de
manded by the ringmasters, at the crack
of whose whip it crouches and at whose
command it moves and has its being.
Why can’t it be democratic without be
ing slavish ?
*
None of the bohemians are writing up
Gen. Toombs for governor through the
columns of the country press yet. The
general has plenty of money for all prac
tical purposes, but he does not keep it by
the barrel to be paid out for such writing
at five dollars a letter,
Since the democracy have the ascend
ancy in congress, see how Mr. Stephens
looms up as the leader of the house; and
the result is we' are about to have -some
general legislation for the benefit of the
•country and the people,
The North Georgia railroad was com
pleted to Canton last Saturday, and the
people of that town are extremely hap
py over the occasion. We congratulate
them most hpartily.
Mr. Stephens introduced a billon Mon
day to repeal the existing tax on banks
and equalizing the tax on all legally
chartered banking institutions whether
state or federal.
GEORGIA IN CONGRESS.
The unprecedented number 1385 bills
were introduced in the house on Monday
last, among them the following:
By Stephens (Georgia), repealing the
existing tax on state banks and equaliz
ing the tax on all legall}' chartered in
stitutions, whether state or federal; also
to enable importers to use metric weights
and measures; also authorizing the coin
age of new metalic gold coin for inter
national use, to be known as the “stella;”
also appropriating SIOO,OOO for the erec
tion of a public building in Augusta,
Ga.
*Ky Mr. Smith (Georgia), for relief of
banks.
By Mr. Felton (Georgia), compelling
national banks to recognize and receive
the standard silver dollar equivalent in
value lo the gold coin of the'country; aP
so, repealing duty on quinine;also, mak
ing the trade-dollar a legal tender.
General Cook (Georgia) introduced a
bill to admit free of customs duty the
monument which is to be erected at Ma
con to the memory of the confederate
dead.
In the matter of the claim of the state
of Georgia to be reimbursed $72,000 for
expenses incurred in the Creek and Sem
inole war Hon. A. G. Porter, first comp
troller of the treasury, has decided in fa
vor of the claim of the state of Georgia,
holding in conformity with an opinion
given by Hon. Hugh McCulloch, when
secretary of the treasury, in a letter to
Governor Throckmorton of Texas, when
a like question was raised by that state
that no asumption of direct taxes levied
by the general government, and still duo,
rested in the state, under an act of June
7th, 1862, and individual property, the
payment of which has not beep assumed
by a state do not constitute a debt of the
state, and cannot be applied as an offset
to a claim against the government.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Gleanings and Wtmio wings from our State
Exchanges.
Savannah lias cucumbers.
The fruit is not all killed.
The Presbytery of Macon is in session.
They talk of running an iee machine
in Washington.
The rice crop was slightly damaged by
the reeeut freeze.
The dogs killed twenty-seven sheep in
Marietta in a single night.
There is not a single bar-boom, doctor,
or lawyer in Irwin county.
Mr. Stammer offers five hundred dol
lars towards building a college in Wash
ington.
There are about seventy boys at the
orphanage in Washington, and they are
all quite small.
The corner stone of the Confederate
monument in Columbus was laid with
Masonic ceremonies on Monday the 14th.
With her archery clubs, base ball
clubs, picnics, various conventions and
meetings, also tiie legislature, Atlanta
is likely to be altogether lively this sum
mer.
Savannah will draw her water from a
point higher up the river than she now
gets it, jmd will bring it to the city in
wooden acqueducts.
More old fields, thrown out for years,
are being reclaimed this spring than any
since the war. Avery large crop will
be planted this spring, aud, if seasons
are good, the yield will be immense.
It is—understood that the Savannah
finance committee will report adversely
to the appropriation for the public schools
for the reason that the city is unable to
extend it, and the imposition of a special
tax is out of the question.
Among the articles placed in the cor
ner stone of the Columbus confederate
monument was a piece of the bloody
battle flag of the 12th Georgia regiment,
in carrying which seven men were killed
in the battle of Sharpsburg and several
others wounded.
“ The prospects of Columbia county,
for the future,” says the Harlem Colum
bian, “looks more encouraging than for
some time back. We have seen more
small grain planted than for many years;
have seen more new rails split, more
clearing up and cleaning up done, than
any time since the surrender. And last,
but not least, less guano used. The far
mers generally seem to have gone to
work with more spirit and energy than
usual.’’
Capt. Tete Smith, or some other patri
otic Georgia congressman who is desir
ous of preserving the public peace will
do well to arm himself with the riot
act and give it an impressive reading
under the Washington perch of Ander
son Reese of the Macon Telegraph and
Messenger. We would suggest immedi
ate action in the matter, too, for no liv
ing man Can tell how soon Mi's. Fel
ton will write another letter, — Albany
Advertiser.
Talbotton Register: “ There is a com
plaint in the western part of the county
of negroes leaving their employers. We
learn that several negro men have left
the plantation of Major R. A. Mathews,
near Talbo’tton. Big promises for work
down the country, through negro emis
saries, are what did the business. Will
the negroes never learn that a good, per
manent home and steady farm work are
better than all the wild tales of big wa
ges told them by men whose only pur
pose is to speculate on their credulity?
Tins is a good country for the negro, and
steady work here will yield as much re
turn as it will anywhere in the world.
They would do well to ponder this fact.”
Miss Mary A. Wilson is a peanut woman
of New Orleans. She has a shabby lit
tle stand on St. Charles street, for which,
with all its contents, says a New Orleans
paper, a $5 note would be an extravagant
price. “Grandma Wilson” has bent
over the same little stand nearly forty
years. Nobody would ever know, to see
her, or would hear from her own lips,
that the withered, poor old woman was
the most famous yellow fever nurse in
the south. Yet such is the fact. In
1837, forty-two years ago, she faithfully
nursed fever-stricken patients in New
Orleans. Again, in 1853, she was at her
post, caring for the sick that whole sor
rowful summer. In 1855 there was a
yellow fever epidemic at Norfolk. Grand
ma Wilson went there and nursed. An
other year she went to Savannah and re
mained ’tvhile the plague lasted, caring
for the hapless sufferers. Again she
went to Memphis, performing the same
noble duties. Cast summer, on the out-*
break of the feVer, she went to Grenada,
and for thirty-eight days and nights
stayed there, and “ those withered hands
were often the only ones to soothe burn
ing brows or close dying eyes. To her
tender care were committed their ehil
dran by dying parents.” From Grenada
she went to Memphis, and stayed there,
ministering to the sick and dying like an
angel of mercy till the frightful plague
ceased. Then, simple as she was noble,
the heroic old woman went back, without
a word, to her shabby little fruit stand in
St. Charles street. — N. O. Picayune.
The pork packing house of Figge &
Bro., Brooklyn, N. Y., was entered by
burglars early Saturday morning and the
safe blown open with gunpowder and
robbed of S6OO in notes and silver, $1,500
in bank stock and some valuable docu
ments. A family living in the building
heard the explosion, but thought it was
something that had {alien. A passer also
heard it and thought it was a boiler ex
plosion, but seeing no one went his way.
The widow Oliver has gone into anew
speculation. It is now' said that she intends
taking the field to lecture on Simon
Cameron. The widow had better let
up on Simon now and something else. If
she keeps on she will bring the old man
to a premature grave.
The hard times in Germany have given
a strong impulse to emigration. Some
families are settling in southern Russia,
and in all parts of the country large par
ties are reported to be forming for re
moval to the United States,
Gen. Beauregard says the democrats
down in Louisiana care nothing at all for
the Ohio idea. They would prefer
Bayard or Thurman to Tilden as the Pres
idential candidate, hut they will vote foi
whoever the convention may nominate.
The Argentine confederation hasceeded
the city and district of Willia Occidental
to Paraguay in accordance with the
award of President Hayes.
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Favors a sufficient amount of national currency
to succecsfully carry on the business of the coun
try. It is opposed to national banks and bond
holders, opposes fraud, humbugs and corrup
tion, and takes especial delight in showing up
everything which tends to injure tjie masses.
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Keeps on hand all kinds of staple
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All of which he proposes to sell at the lowest
cash prices. He myites the patronage of his
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Dalton, Ga.
THE BEST and CHEAPEST HOTEL
On the Kennesaw Route.
BREAKFAST AND SUPPER HOUSE FOR
PASSENGERS.
Special Attention Given to the Comfort and Con
venience of Lady Passengers and guests.
Reading and Sample Rooms for Commercial
Travelers.
Board per day, $2.00; Meals, 50 cts.
Railroaders, County and Stock men, half
fare.
NEW SHEET MUSIC.
The undersigned have on hand, received direct
from publishers, the best stock of music,
BOTH VOCAL AND IFSTRUMENTAL,
In town. They are also offering their old stock
of music at 40 per cent, discount from publisher’s
prices.
Write or call for catalogue.
11. M. MOUNTCASTLE & CO.,
Cartersville, Ga.
West Main street, (Clayton’s old stand.)
DEMOREST’S PATTERNS
For Sprimg and Summer.
WJE BEG LEAVE TO ANNOUNCE TO OUR
V y friends and customers that we have just
received our spring and summer supply of Pat
terns, and a large lot of What to Wear, Port-Fo
lioof Fashions, Journals of Fash ions, Catalogues,
Cards, etc.
H. M. MOUNTCASTLE & CO.,
(Clayton’s old stand,)
West Main street, : : : Cartersville, Ga.
Pattillo’s New Coffee Pot.
THIS COFFE POT
IS anew invention. It thoroughly extracts
the essence of the coffee free of grounds, and
will save half the expence of old style of pots.
Jt is neat, convenient and economical. Call and
see one at the tinshop of
G. F. PATTILLO, Cartersville, Ga.
Refer to the editor of The Free Press, J. C.
Maddox and T. J. Lyon. fel>2o
H. M. MOUNTCASTLE & CO.,
—DEALERS IN—
Books, Music aml Stationery,
West Main St., Cartersville, Ga.
TOBACCO AND CIGARS.
The best brands of Smoking and Chewing To
bocco and Cigars: also Pipes and snuff at the
bookstore of H. M. MOUNTCASTLE & 00.
Great Bargains.
,J. A. ERWIN SON
ARE OFFERING AN ENTIRE NEW STOCK OF
FALL AND WINTER GOODS,
FALL AND WINTER GQODS,
CONSISTING OF
Dry Goods, Clothing,
Dry Goods, Clothing,
Boots and Shoes,
Boots and Shoes,
Crockery, &c., &c.,
Crockery, &.C., &c.,
AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICES
AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICKS
TO SUIT THE TIMES.
TO SUIT THE TIMES.
Call and Examine their Goods and Prices
Before Buying.
J. A. ERWIN & SON.
Cartersville, Ga., Sept. 19th, 1878.
U. O. ROBERTSON, M. D.,
Hygienic Physician and Electro-
Therapeutist,
Begs leave to announce to the
citizens of Bartow, Gordon, Cobb, Cherokee,
and other counties of North Georgia, that for the
sake of rendering his mode of treatment more
universal and available, and the Health Institute
equally easy of access to patients in all parts of
the state, has removed from Rowland Springs to
Atlanta where he has permanently established a
Health Institute.
The -A.tlan.ta Health. Institute
is the only institute south superintended by reg
ularly qualified Hygienic Phyeieians, and the
only place where all kinds of curable diseases
are scientifically treated without a particle of
medical drug in any form, and with success un
paralelled by any other known process of treat
ing diseases.
Parties who are, because of continued dosing
and drugging, considered incurable, are re
spectfully requested to visit or correspond with
us. Thousands of chronic invalids, after having
patiently tried the “deadly virtues of the (drug
ophatic)* healing art” and with no other change
than that of growing continually worse and
worse, have under the Hygienic system of medi
cation, been speedily and permanedtly restored
to health.
For particulars, call at ATLANTA HEALTH
INSTITUTE, No. 178 W. Peters street, or address
DR. U. O. ROBERTSON,
feb2o Atlanta, Ga.
Cheapest anti Best.
HOWARD HYDRAULIC CEMENT.
MANUFACTURED NEAR KINGSTON, BARTOW COUN
TY, GEORGIA.
EQUAL to the best imported Portland Ce
ment. Send for circular. Try this before
buying elsewhere.
Refers by permission to Mr. A. J. West, Presi
dent Cherokee Iron Company, Cedartown, Ga.,
who has built a splendid dam, (cost $7,000,) using
this cement and pronouncing it the best he ever
used. Also refer to Gen. Wm. Mcßae, Superin
tendent W. & A. Railroad Company, who has
been using it for piers of bridges and culverts on
his railroad, for two years; also to Capt. John
Postell, C. E. Also to John Stone, Superinten
dent of Bartow Iron Company, Bartow, Ga., who
has built several large reservoirs with it, which
are perfect; to Messrs. Smith, Son & Bro., of
Rome, who have made a splendid pavement
with it! to Capt. M. B. Grant, or Mr. Gilbert
Butler, of Savannah, who have used it with
great success in stucco work, or Major Bryan,
of Savannah, Mr. J. J. Cohen, of Rome, to
Messrs. Grant, Jacksonville, Ala., who have
used it for fountains, pavemeuts, fish ponds, cel
lar floors, etc - T. C. Douglass, Superintendent
East River Bridge, New York, who pronounces
it equal to the best Imported Portland Cement,
Address G. 11. WARING, Kingston, Ga.
sepl2-ly.
LECTURE TO YOUNG MEN.
Just published in a sealed envelope. Price six
cents. A lecture on the nature, treatment and
radical cure of seminal weakness, or spermator
rhoea, induced by self-abuse involuntary emis
sions, impotency, nervous debility, and impedi
ments to marriage generally: consumption, epi
lepsy and fits; mental and physical incapacity,
&c.—By ROBERT J. CULVERWELL, M. !>.,
author of the “Green Book,” &c.
The world-renowned author, in this admirable
lecture, clearly proves from his own experience
that the awful consequences of self-abuse mav
be effectually removed without medicine, and
without dangerous surgical operations, bougies,
instruments, rings or cordials; pointing out a
mode of cure at once certain and effectual, by
which every sufferer, no matter what his condi
tion may be, may cure himself cheaply, private
ly and radically.
fi®“This lecture will prove a boon to thous
ands aqd thousands.
Sent, under seal, in a plain envelope, to any
address, on receipt of six cents, or two postage
stamps. Address the Publishers.
THE CULVERWELL MEDICAL CO.,
41 Ann Street, New York Citv.
Post Office Box 4586. juiylß.
J. C. & S. F. MI L AM,
Commission Merchants,
COTTON BUYERS,
Healers in Standard Guanos,
AGENTS FOR
Metropolitan Works, Richmond, Va.
CAN FURNISH ANY KIND OF AN EX
gine from four-horse power to one hundred
and fifty.
SAW AND GRIST MILLS, THRESHERS,
And in fact any kind of machinery.
Please see us before purchasing. Office
at T. A. Foote’s store, West Main street, Car
tersville, Ga. fel>27
PILES AND FISTULA CURED
DR. J. S. BEAZLEY,
At Stilesboro, Bartow county, Ga., and
DR. A. G. BEAZLEY,
At Crawfordville, Ga.,
Make a specialty of diseases of
the Rectum. They will treat Fistula, Ulcer
ation, Prolapsus, etc., of the bowels and will
guarantee a perfect cure in a short while in ev
ery case of piles without the use of the knife and
very little pain. Will point to cases cured or
give the best of reference if desired. All cler
gymen treated gratis. mch27
THOMPSON’S
Restaurant and Ladies* Cafe,
(4 Whitehall St., James Block)
ATLANTA, : : : : GEORGIA.
Great Reduction in Prices.
Meals at all Hours of the Day at 35 cts.
ICE CREAMS • AND ALL THE DELICACIES
OF THE SEASON.
The ladies’ cafe is elegantly fitted up and is
one of the popular resorts for'the ladies.
aprl7 R. G. THOMPSON.
COUCH HOUSE,
(Kingston, Georgia.)
This large and comfortable
House is now kept by W. W. Rainey. The
traveling public will find good, plain accommo
dations. Parties wishing board through the
summer will find Kingston one of the healthiest
and quietest localities in Upper Georgia. Three
or four families can get comfortable rooms in
view of trains. Terms very reasonable.
jlv2s. W. W. RAINEY.
ST. JAMES HOTEL,
(Cartersville, Georgia.)
The undersigned has recently
taken charge of this elegant new hotel. It
has been newly furnished and shall be first-class
in all respects.
sample room for commercial travelers.
Favorable terms to traveling theatrical com
panies, [janlfi] L. C. HOSS, Propjetor.
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE
THE “CENTRAL HOTEL,” ADAIRSVILLE,
Georgia—a three-storv brick building; large
yards, garden and orchard attached.
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Spring and Summer Coocis
READ AND BE CONVINCED.
Undoubtedly the Cheapest Bargains Ep,.
Received Here Before.
FINEST DISPLAY OF GOODS EVER
MADE IN CARTERSVILLE.
J TAKE PLEASURE IN INFORMING TH)
A citizens of Cartersville and surrourniin
country, that I have received an immense <toct
of Spring and Summer Goods, such as teverhv
been received here before, in regard to cheaiim-.
and quality. To give you an idea what I am
doing, I will offer the following great bargain-:
250 pieces CALICOES at 5c and upwards.
PECAILE, 7c and upwards.
PIQUE, 6q and upwards.
GRASS CLOTHS, 6c and upwards.
4-4 SEA ISLAND, 6c and upwards.
4-4 BLEACHING, soft finished, at 6), and uj -
wards.
CASSIMERES, for boys and gents’ wear 20c, 25c,
and 35c—fully worth 50c.
DRESS LINENS, 18c and upwards.
11-4 wide SPREADS, 75c and upwards.
Favor me by pricing all our QUlLTS—they are
fully 50 per cent, cheaper than elsewhere.
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TABLE LINEN, BARGAIN
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BARGAINS TrkIA# _,AMASK, jj AKGAIN>
BARGAINS TOWELS, BARGAIN
BARGAINS DOYLES. BARGAINS
BARGAINS PQC|MC<; BARGAIN
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BARGAINS Embroidermgs, bargains
BARGAINS INSERTINCS, BARGAIN
BARGAINS HOSIFPY BARGAIN"
BARGAIGS nwa,tl{T , BARGAIN*
BARGAINSI CLOVES, BARGAIN"
PARASOLS, BARGAINS j
BARGAINS staiuc BARGAIN
BARGAINS bargain
bargains NOTIONS, ETC. bargain-
The Cheapest and Finest Milli
nery Goods, Trimmed ami
Untriin in ed Hats Ever
Brought to Cartersville.
ASTONISHING TO BEHOLD!
50c FLOWERS for 25c.
50c Untrimmed Hats for 25c.
Trimmed Hats for 50c —fully worth sl.
Biggest Bargains in Ribbons, Hats
and Trimmings, to make room
for another Shipment at 25
per cent. Cheaper than
Elsewhere.
CLOTHING.
I would call especial attention to my fine stock
of Clothing, which I have in abundance AT ALL
PRICES. Will sell cheaperthau the cheapest.
White Li den Duck Vests at 85e and upwards-
Cents’ Furnishing Goods.
My stock of Gents’ Furnishing Goods is com
plete in every particular. I would invite even*
body that are in need of anything in that line to
look at them before purchasing elsewhere.
Big Stock of Shoes, Boots, Hats,
Caps, Trunks, Vajises, Cheaper
than Anybody in Town.
In eonclvsisn, I would say, that having bought
my entire stock for cash, I am able to sell goods
cheaper than ever before and at prices to suit
the times. Thanking you for past favors extend
ed to me during the past, I hope by fair und lib
eral dealing to merit a continuance of tW
same.
CHARLES AUERBACH,
Proprietor New York Store.