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TRAVELERS’ GUIDE.
GADSDEN AND RED LINE STEAM
ERS—U. S. MAIL.
STEAMER SIDNEY P. SMITH,
(lien. H. Elliott, Master; F. G. Smith, Clerk.)
Leove Rome every Tuesday and Friday ..Mam
Arrive Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday. 6 a m
Leave Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday. 8 a m
Arrive at Rome Thursday and Sunday 7 p m
Will go through to Greensport, Ala., every
Friday night. Returning, leave Greensport ev
ery Saturday morning.
STEAMER GADSDEN.
F. M. Coulter, Master F. A. Mills, Clerk.
Leave Rome Mondays and Thursdays 11 a m
Arrive Gadsden Tuesdays and Fridays ... 2am
Leave Gadsden Tuesdays cud Fridays— 9am
Arrive at Wednesdays ami Saturdays ... 7p in
Office No, 27 Broad street, up-stairs over the
Cotton Exchange. Telephonic connection.
J. M. ELLIOTT, Jr., Geu. Man’gr..
Gadsden, Ala.
W. T. SMITH, Gen’l Agent.
Rome, Ga.
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
On and after Monday, March 19, 1883, the trains
on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted):
PASSENGER TRAIN.—MORNING.
Leave Cartersville 9:45 am
Arrive at Stilesboro 10:17 a m
Arrive at Taylorsville 10:35 a m
Arrive at Rockmart 11:10 am
Arrrive at Ccdartown 12:05 a m
RETURNING.
Leave Cedartown 2:05 p m
Arrive rtt Rockmart . . . „ . . . 2:53 pm
Arrive at Taylorsville 3:33 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro 3:51 p 111
Arrive at Cartersville 4:25 pm
PASSENG ER TRAIN.—EVENING.
Leave Cartersville 4:30 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro 5:04 pm
Arrive at Taylorsville o:22pm
Arrive at Rockmart 6:00 p m
Arrive at Ccdartown 7:00 pm
RETURNING.
Leave Cedartown 0:00 am
Arrive at Rockmart 0:53 a in
Arrive at Taylorsville 7:2g a m
Arrive at Stilesboro 7:40 a m
Arrive at Cartersville 8:20 am
ROME RAILROAD.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule:
NO. 1.
Leave Home 6:10 a m
Arrive at Kingston 8:55 a in
NO. 2.
Leave Kingston 9:20 am
Arrive at Ilome 10:25 a m
NO. 3.
Leave Rome 4:15 pm
Arrive at Kingston 5:30 pm
no. 4.
Leave Kingston 5:55 p m
Arrive at ltome 6:50 pm
no. 5.
Leave Rome 8:00 a m
Arrive at Kingston 9:00 am
NO. 6.
Leave Kingston 9:20 am
Arrive at Home 10:10 am
Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 will run daily except Sun
days.
Nos. 5 and 6 will run Sundays only.
No. 1 will not stop at the junction. Makes
close connection at Kingston for Atlanta and
Chattanooga,
No. 2 makes connection at Rome with E. T..
Va. &, Ga. R. 11.. for points south.
EIIEN HILLYKR, President.
and. A. Smith, G. P. Agent. *
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule:
NIGHT FASBKNGER—CP.
Leave Atlanta 2:40 p m
Leave Cartersville 4:30 pm
Leave Kingston 4:55 pm
Leave Dalton 6:34 pm
Arrive at Chattanooga 8:00 p m
NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 2:55 pm
Leave Dalton 4:32 pm
Leave Kingston 6:03 pm
Leave Cartersville 6:32 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 8:40 pin
DAY PASSENGER—UP.
Atlanta . 7:00 a m
Leave Cartersville ........ 8:55 am
Leave Kingston 9:21 a m
Leave Dalton 10:55 am
Arrive at Chattanooga 12:30 ain
DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 8:00 am
Heave Dalton 9:46 am
Leave Kingston ll:15am
Leave Cartersville 11:42 am
Arrive at Atlanta 1:40 pm
ROME EXPRKBS
Leave Atlanta 4:30 p m
Arri ve at Cartersville 6:3lpm
Arrive at Kingston 7 :00 p m
Leave Kingston 8:06 am
Arrive at Cartersville 8:32 am
Arrive at Atlanta am
Don’t I'orget
Thai you can be suited in a clock at
J. T. Owens.
VOLUME V.
Diamond Dyes, only 10 cents par package, a
Word’s drug store.
L aimers and others desiring a genteel
lucrative agency business, by which $5
to S2O a day can be earned, send address
at once, on postal, to 11. C. Wilkinson &
Cos., 195 and 197 Fulton street, New
dec2l-6m.
Kulns, Bains. Rains.
The continuous rains tiiis spring will greatly
retard the operations of the farmers, ami every
fair day of the season will be golden moments
for them, therefore ’tis of the greatest impor
tance that neither they nor their farm hands
loose any time on account of sickness. To avoid
which and save doctor’s bills take Curry’s Liver
Compound.
Splendid lot of 5 and 10 gallon oil cans, with
jackets on, and brass faucets. No trouble to
till your lamps from them. Goto Curry’s and
get one and have it filled with Kinslow Oil—the
best in the market.
Lumber, Lumber, Lumber.
Never in the history of Cartersville before has
there been so much lumber shipped hero as is
being received now, all because the saw mill
men keep a supply of Curry’s Liver Compound
on liaod for their employes, and consequently are
enabled to run on full time, no time lost on ac*
count of sickness.
The following arc the names of some of the
merchants who keep Curry’s Liver Compound
for sale, and they are authorized to guarantee it
absolutely inferior to no other liver medicine
sold, and to give entire satisfaction to their
patrons:
W: T. Gordon, Pine Log, Ga.
.J. B. Britton & Cos., Pine Log.
R. 11. Garwood, Cassville,
A. C. Shelton, Jerusalem.
A. V. P. Jones, “
T. F. Barrett, Ludville.
I>. W. Rogers & Cos., Etowah.
Bcazley & Sheffield, “
J. C. & J. I). Lanier, Stilesboro.
W. E. Puckett & Cos., “
W. W. Padgett, Euharlce.
W. B. W Leeke, “
Hogue & Cos., Rockmart.
Dr. It. T. Cochran, “
Whitehead, Jones & Cos. “
W. J. Sheffield, Huutsyille, Ga.
*Wood & Cochran, “
S. It. McGregor, “
L. Richardson & Cos., Pineville.
It. C. Carter, “
Morris A Fraey, Polk county.
J. H. Wright & Cos., “
Young & Son, “
That was a good joke on the farmer who
bought a box of Curry’s Worm Candy and ate
half a lozenger just to show his children that
they were not unpleasant to the taste, and made
the discovery soon after that he needed worm
candy as much as his children.
Lamps, beautiful, elegant lamps, sold every
where at $1.50 to .$1.75 are sold by Curry at $1 to
*l.lO.
The people cannot agree as to the location of
the new iron bridges soon to be built across the
Etowah river, but they all agree that the Iron
Elixir, prepared and sold by D. W. Curry, is the
very best in the market.
Ladies
Have you seen that beautiful line of lamps
displayed at Curry’s Drug Store? Nothing like
them either in quality or price ever offered in
Cartersville. The prices arc extremely low.
Anotherbig lot of Wizard Oil just opened at
Curry’s, and everybody is going to “try another
bottle or two” and all it costs is four shillings.
Curry sells more cigars and better cigars than
any man in Cartersville.
Just received at Curry’s the largest lot of paint
and whitewash brushes ever before seen in Car
tcrsville, worth from 15 cents up.
Ice cold soda water aud ginger ale, drawn
from one of Tufts’ Arctic Apparatus, can be had
at Cel Word’s drug store.
Cel Word’s Horse and Cattle Powders give
perfect satisfaction. Try them.
PROHIBITION.
*‘H. J. Me.” Replies to William Satter
field Again.
When Mr. S. heard that good temper
ance speech from that minister, and de
clares that it has not swerved him from
his original position, he sounds the key
note of every anti-prohibitionist, for all
such dealers are not open to conviction
and we know how hard it is to convince
a man against his will. A whisky dealer
may know something ol the wants, but
be, least of all others,’knows nothing of
the needs of the sick in case of sudden
emergency. Do whisky dealers know
of the condition of the sick? Why no.
The doctor knows about that. Why ring
in the poor only? We think we know
why. It is because it is an indirect ap
peal to the prejudices of a large, or per
haps the largest, class of the dealer’s cus
tomers, whom he expects to vote against
prohibition. This- dodge of arraying the
poor against the rich has ever been one
of the greatest arguments of liquor deal
ers, for the poor east more votes than the
rich, because there are more poor than
rich.
The civil liberty and constitutional
rights of this question are rights belong
ing to the people, conferred by the peo
ple, and the people have the right to de
mand them back whenever those con
ferred rights are abused. Those Alabam
ians do not. set a good example ot good
citizenship, and they may lie great drunk
ards, and great evil may result. If so,
would Mr. S. feel free of conscience
on account of being the remote cause of
it ? Fix the law so they cannot buy, and
much of this great evil will stop.
We know chat a beneficent God per
mits men to choose whether they will be
drunkards or not, hut, if men get drunk,
God declares that it is sin, and that every
one, directly or indirectly connected
with that drunkenness, must answer for
it before the judgment bar. We do not
champion New England for her mean
ness, hut for whatever is good. Mr. S.’s
cry against New England is the old cry,
“Can any good thing come out of Naza
reth?” Boil corn into what you please,
but do not put the result of the boiling
into anyone’s mouth to steal away his
brains. Who congregates about the whis
key bars ? Is it the best or worst of our
citizens? Mr. S. can answer.
With this we close our part of this dis
cusssion, thanking Mr. S. for his cour
teous manuer in it. Our sole object has
been to get men .to retleet on this sub
ject, and it is out of no unkßul feeling to
Mr. S., or to any other whisky dealer.
H. J. Me.
THE FREE PRESS.
INTO MEXICO.
An Interesting Letter In Regard to the
Land of the Greaser*.
Through the courtesy of Dr. O. C.
Pope the Jay Gould system of railways,
running from Waco, Texas, into Mexico,
gave the delegates to the southern Baptist
convention a free excursion to Monterey.
At 6 o’clock sharp, Monday morning, 4th
instant, we left Waco, passing through a
rich, well cultivated section of country.
We saw.cattle upon a thousand hills and
a thousand cattle upon one hill. Many
horses roam over the prairies and are held
at a small valuation. To steal a horse is
a serious offense, but to steal cattle is an
unpardonable offense In Texas. The
w hole section, from Waco to San Anto
nio, is, perhaps, under as good cultivation
as any part of Texas. A-t Taylor, a town
of two or three thousand inhabitants,
some sixty or eighty miles from Waco,
the members of the Baptist church, and
those who sympathised with them, pre
pared us a dinner, excellent in quantity
and quality—a superb dinner, in fact—
and the delegates, one and all, did justice
to the feast and made glad the hearts of
the ladies, if eating much can please
them. As is usual on such occasions, a
speech of thanks had to be made. Dr.
Hatcher, of Virginia, was selected to re
turn the thanks of 334 excursionists for a
magnificent dinner. In a few choice and
humorous words he made the erow’d and
citizens quite a happy speech. He told
the young ladies of the city that there
were a large number of young, unmarried
preachers along, and he was anxious to
draw them up in a line and let the girls
take their choice for a husband. At this
remark some ecstatic shouts went up,
whereupon the speaker remarked the
shouts are from the widowers, and he
proposed to carry them behind an engine
(our dinner was served in the round
house) and let the widows take the whole
lot.
While we were on the train betw r een
Waco and Austin, a purse was made up
amdng the delegates to purchase Dr.
Pope and Mr. McCullough, the superin
tendent of the railroad from Waco to La
redo. the Mexican frontier on the Rio
Gj’ancle, some suitable presents as a token
of our appreciation of the great courtesy
offered and ample provision made for our
excursion. A large-sized and beautiful
gold-headed eane was presented to Mr.
McCullough by Dr. Eaton, of Louisville,
Ky. 'fhe doctor made the usual remarks
about caning a man who would treat a
crowd as the courteous superintendent
was doing the delegates; whereupon the
colonel blushed and seemed too full for
utterance. He called on Dr. Pope to rep
resent him. Then Dr. Nelson, of North
Carolina, in a few appropriate remarks,
presented Dr. Pope with a magnificent
silver set. You see, we wanted to make
the thing pleasant all around.
We were a happy crowd, and were
made still happier by the announcement,
made about 4 o’clock in the afternoon by
Dr. Pope, that the mayor of San Antonio
offered us the hospitality of the city, and
that we would proceed immediately to
the various hotels of the city, according to
assignment, and take supper at the ex
pense of the city. Alas! language is ca
pable of more than one construction,
and What our kind manager, Dr. Pope,
thought was an invitation from the mayor
of San Antonio to sup at the expense of
the city was, mere!}’ on the mayor’s part,
an announcement that the hotels in the
city were able to furnish us supper. The
hotels then thought they saw a chance,
which the average western man in the
hotel business never ruins, to make an
extra sum out of a large crowd of
hungry delegates, and so prices of meals
were run up, in some instances, an hun
dred per cent. Nearly all the delegates,
prudent men as they are, .carried a lunch
from Waco to meet their wants by the
way, but thej were all beguiled by the
pleasant hut deceptive announcement
made.
We filled omnibuses, carriages, 9treet
cars; etc., and went to the various hotels
with tickets in our pockets that we
thought were good for a square meal at
any of them, and, when we found our
selves at our hotels, wc registered, as a
matter of courtesy to the city, but, when
we had made, many of us, a very poor
meal, at the suggestion of the landlord, as
a matter of debt to him, we paid fifty
cents, and, in some instances, a dollar
apiece for supper. We enjoyed the joke
and regretted only that we did not have
the opportunity of choosing our own
stopping places.
After supper we had four hours nearly
before our train started, and, with com
mon consent, the delegates visited the
Alamo. It is a low, stone structure of
two stories, now almost in the heart of
the city. It has been private property for
a number of years and used as a ware
house, but on the day of our visit the
state of Texas closed a trade for the prop
erty, .paying twenty thousand dollars for
it. It will be now preserved as one of
che most Interesting of all the memorials
of the bloody struggle for Texan inde
pendence. We had the sfiot pointed out
to us where the celebrated David Croek
ett fell. The defense of the Alamo was,
perhaps, one of the most heroic struggles
against great odds that brave men ever
made. A dungeon-like room was pointed
out, where the brave Bowie breathed his
last. There are many conflicting stories
in reference to the last days and hours of
the brave heroes of the Alamo, and, per
haps, we will never know’ the truth. The
only survivor w r as a female infant, who is
said to be still alive, but, of course, could
tell none of the particulars of that dread
ful scene.
Sail Antonio is, perhaps, the largest
city in Texas. Its public buddings are,
some of them, very fine, and I saw some
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 31. 1883.
elegant storerooms and fine stocks of
goods.
In the summer the people live a great
deal out of doors, and in every Mexican
town there are more or less open spaces
or squares, calletkplazas, where the Mex
ican cooks and eats and sets up a restau
rant, buys and sells, and many times,
sleeps. Some of our delegates, for the
sake of variety, took a meal at one of these
open-air restaurants, and were pleased
only with the novelty of the thing.
At San Antonio of course your readers
know that they depend on irrigation to
water their crops. The line of rain-fall is
some distance from San Antonio in the
direction of Austin. More anon.
R. B. H.
OUR ROAD LAWS.
The Discussion of Very Important
Subject of General Interest to
the People.
To the Editor of the Free Press:
r i'ire general assembly at its last session
passed a joint resolution appointing a
joint committee from both houses ot the
legislature for the purpose of amending
alterting, changing, making uniform and
improviding the road laws of the state.
The resolution was introduced into the
senate by Dr. B iker, and you will per
mit me to say there will be no more im
portant matter before the July session of
the legislature to the whole people and
the state than the report of that commit
tee. The committee was instructed as a
recess com’mittee and is to report to the
July session of the legislature. Dr. Baker
is tiie chairman! of the committee,' and
the committe is composed of able ; and
practical men from different parts of the
state, and consists ot three senators and
five members of the house. And there
is no doubt hut the committee will do their
duty. We understand Dr. Baker will
call the committee together in Atlanta
about the middle of June, and that the
committee has been consulting the laws
of many of the states of the union and
many *f their officials as to their road
laws preparatory to making a report.
Many prominent citizens of different
parts of the state desire to go before the
committee. The press of the state, par
ticularly the ruial press, in the lower
part of the state, including also the At
lanta Constitution, is taking much inter
est in the action and meeting of that
committee, and it is quite natural* and
proper that they should, because to the
people and state there are few if ally
more important matters before them at
this time, than the subject of good roads.
Good roads have a great deal to do with
one’s nearness to market. They are of
very great economy both in saving of
time in going to market, and in the
amount of weight can ned to and from
market; besides, there is great saving in
the wear and tear of wagons, harness and
teams. Good roads in Georgia would in
crease the taxable value of property
thousands of dollars. Take a farm 15 or
20 miles from market with good roads, and
you can make a trip and hack in a day,
and carry with a team from 40 to 50
bushels of corn or wheat; that farm
would perhaps be worth $5,000 or SIO,OOO.
Take the same farm and put it the same
distance from the market with a bad road,
and it will take two days to go to end
from market, and you can only haul with
a team 15 to 25 busels of corn or wheat;
that farm is only worth SI,OOO to $2,000,
all growing out of loss of time going to
and from market and the extra wear and
tear to wagons, harness and team, all
from bad roads. By good roads you not
only benefit the private citizens and the
traveling public, but you lessen every
citizen’s tax of Georgia in increasing the
value of property and making a greater
amount of property upon which to levy
a tax and, therefore, reducing’ 1 the per
cent, of tax to he collected.
Well lias it been said that a good way
to estimate the extent of civilization and
culture of a people or country is by the
condition of their public roads or thor
oughfares. We do not know what tiie
report of that committee will he, wheth
er they will recommend the levy and col
lection of a tax on the ad valorqn proper
ty ot the state, or tiie levy and collection
of a road or poll tax on all male subjects
in the state now, subject to road duty un
der the laws of the state. Much of the
press of the stale recommend the levy of a
tax for road purposes. We understand
some of the members of the committee
think the roads should he let out in.
each county- by contract, the contractor
giving bond and security to keep up the
roads as may be required by law and con
tract, and that a tax should be levied and
collected for this purpose. We write this
article for the purpose of, in a crude and
hasty way, calling your attention, and
, the press generally, and the people, to
this important subject, and let the matter
be discussed by the press and the people,
that the committee may get the benefit of
all the information and experience, as
well as tiie desire, of the public to aid
them in the discharge of this important
duty and trust.
That good roads facilitate the locomo
tion and rapid transit of the people, and
their social and political intercourse, and
thus work a better state of society and a
more intelligent and sounder political
sentiment, no one doubts. They bring
people more easily and readily together
at their churches and schools, as well as
work material benefit to them in their
marketing, and their egress and ingress
to mills and manufactories. Nothing,
more potently and cogently, argues tiie
political soundness and integrity of a
people, or their individual and private
prosperity, and the fixedness and intelli
gence of tiieir institutions, and the ma
ture and high social standing at which
they have arrived, than good roads;
hence tiie magnitude and importance of
the subject. Mountaineer.
WHAT IS PROHIBITION?
An article assuming to finally dispose
of the whole discussion of the question of
prohibition, written by one of the editors
of the Cincinnati Gazette, is published “by
request” in the Free Press of Mav 17th.
In commenting on the article, Mr. Edi
tor, yuu say, “It is so complete and logi
cal an answer to the impulsive rhetoric
of prohibition zealots, that * * * we
give it in lien of anything we might write
ourselyes.” That article, then, is to be
taken as your creed on the
subject of prohibition, as well as of those
at whose request it was published, and it
will not be unfair to so construe it against
anti-prohibitionists generally. If it is
“complete and logical,” it is unanswera
ble. But whatever its weight is, it can
easily be shown to be both incomplete
and illogical. The editor of the Cincin
nati Gazette may be a man of learning
and ability, but his calibre and ammuni-
tion are hardly sufficient to silence every
gun of the prohibitionists. He tries to
shift his own responsibility to the ‘‘vir
tue of logic,” as If science were chargea
ble with the errors of those who, without
understanding, affect to use her to estab
lish themselves in an inherently weak
and false position. Prohibition is either
right or wrong. Tf fhe editor of the Ga
zette thinks it wrong, that is his opinion.
In regard to a question of such magni
tude and vital importance as
one ought to “venture” an opinion.
There are many >vlse .philosophers, who
so little tolerate opinions, that they will
not admit that there can he so many,as
two. There may, indeed, be many de
grees of knowledge apd many degrees of
attention; but, with due knowledge and
due attention, there*can he blit one con
clusion, which is the right one, and the
pnly one, that logic will lead the editorof
(Jazette or any other man to. As for those
who have not due knowledge of the mat
ter, or have not given due attention to it,
they have no right to he heard at all upon
it, and it is not true that they are entitled
to their opinion. All they are entitled
to is compassion and instruction. You
will say that this silenpes well nigh
everybody. Of course it does, and have
not you, Mr. Editor, lias not the editorof
the Gazette, yet discovered that that is
nearly every man’s true vocation?
To take up his arguments seriatim, and
show the sophistry of their premises, and
expose the fallacy of their conclusions by
the “virtue of logic,” which he outrages,
would occupy too much of your space in
one issue, and besides, would, in a man
ner, admit that they are of some weight.
They are the same (only in a more plaus
ible shape than usually appears in the lo
cal discussion here) that have been used
against prohibition ever since its oppo
nents began to fear, from its rapid spread,
that it would sweep everything bofoio it,
which reasonable fear threw them at
once on the defensive. His whole idea is
based upon the inherent injustice of any
law that is or may be enacted to prevent
tiie sale of intoxicating drinks. This is to
object to the distinction that the law itself
makes in wrongs, which is that one class
is wrong, in itself, malum inse ; the other
is wrong for the very reason that the law
makes it. so, malum prohibitum ; and no
sound moralist will deny that it is both
immoral and illegal to violate the laws
against crimes of either class. Now, if
tiie law, which is nothing more nor less
than the will of the people, enacted by
their representatives, makes the liquor
trade unlawful, malum prohibitum, then
we conclude that it is both immoral and
illegal; for, whatever may be predicated
of a class, may he predicated of anything
belonging to that class. So all his subor
dinate propositions might he overthrown,
for they are flimsier than the groundwork
of the article. But the purpose of this is
only to show that tiie productions of the
editor of the Cincinnati Gazette are not
indisputable authority, though brought
out in our public prints with a flourish
and by request.
Theo. M. Smith.
Items from the Seventeenth.
Picnic season become again, and ma
ny !ii*e anticipating a splendid time.
There is a great deal of sickness around,
and with but little hopes of its abating
soon.
Crops are looking a little discouraging,
on account of the cool nights.
The wheat crop of this section is not
altogether as good as it was last year.
The fruit trees seem to be shedding,
their fruit, but we hope we will have
some nice fruit to send to the editor of
The Free Press.
Two young ladies of this community
were taking a wood lawn stroll one after
noon not long since, and hearing a ter
rible noise, hastened on to see what it
was, and to their surprise it was one of
the farming brotherhood having an aw
ful row with his obstinate beast, and the
young ladies to their amusement walked
off unobseived.
The seventeenth is singing with mirth
and gayety for Miss Lillie Alley, one of
Carterville’s finest looking and most hand
some young ladies is visiting relatives
and friends here.
The closing exercise of Prof. Ethe
ridge’s school comes off next week, the
exhibition will be on the night of the 1(5
June.
Rev. G. S. Tumlin preached an inter
esting sermon at Euharlee on last Sun
day week.
The Methodist and Baptist Sabbath
schools are in a flourishing condition.
Miss Lula Owens is visiting relative
at Cartersville.
We would like to inform our Kingston
correspondent who we are, but, as we are
writing for mutual improvement:, we
wish only to be known as
Two Girls.
l’rof. Luther’s Exhibition.
Ou the evening of May 11th, I witness
ed the dosing exercises of W. C. Luther’s
school, the third he lias taught in Chat
tooga Cos., a few miles from LaFayette,
Georgia.
Several hundred people assembled to
witness the exercises, and I have never
seen a better behaved audience. Never
have I seen an audience better pleased.
not one dissenting
voice heard. But I was going to tell of
the exhibition and I’d better begin.
Between sun down and dark the inarch
ing took place. First came David
G. in his character of ‘Fhunny phellovv.’
Then in couples ihe other gentlemen,
next, the young bulies, and then the
children. The lines divided and faced
each other when the first ones reached
the stage, then the little ones marched
between the lines and ou the stage, the
others follow ing in order. The girls were
all dressed in white, and my opinion is
that they were lovely.
The stage was large, neatly carpeted
and beautifully The first
scene was, “The coronation of the Queen
of May.” The rising of the curtain
showed her enthroned and around hoi*
35, of her little subjects were grouped.
Each of them made a short and appro
priate speech, before presenting their
ottering to their, well chosen queen,
Miss Carrie Lumpkin. Next came,
“Inquiring Friends,” acted by 19 little
girls and boys, who in true, child fashion,
asked each other unanswerable things.
All the little ones acted well their parts
and their perfect training speak for their
teachers. •
Then was a tableau scene, “Comforts
of Bachelor life.” Alone in his glory,
was he, enjoying a blissful pipe, he
imagined, ot peace. Then came, “Dis
comforts of Bachelor life.” AH alone,
again, was he—doing a little mending.
(I imagine the hearts of some one or -two
of the bacheler spectators were there in
sympathy with him.) Then came,
“Comforts of married life. He, was not
doing the mending but was what yon
might “A Looker on in Venice.”
Another tablean, “Faith and Hope,”
was one of the grandest ever witnessed.
Then came; “The society for the ;sup
pression ot Gossip,” in which S young
ladies represented such societies as they
really are. Then came speeches by little
boys, and then some short sweet speeches
from little girls nearly as short and quite
as sweet.
“No cure, no pay,” was well acted,
characters 4 in number.
“In the wro.ig house,” was very com
ical, and highly appreciated.
Then came well read compositions by
4 young ladies, who were reading for a
prize.
‘'Country justice,” represented by 14
characters was quite amuo!#. Tho.
argument about a borrowed “sugar
kettle,” the defeuse, by the lawyers, of
their respective clients, as well as the,
very remarkable verdict.
Another interesting feature was a
speech by Mr. Win. Brannon.
Another tableau was called, “Offerings
to peace.” represented by 14 young ladies.
There was a, “Temperance story.”
A pantomime in five parts, “Borrowing
trouble,” was a well acted and wonder
ful drama.
“The Mischievous Nigger,” was simp
ly perfection, as to acting. His blunders,
that sometime drove liis master to the
verge of distraction, his unhesitating,
falsehoods whenever opportunity offered,
will never be surpassed. But the climax
came when the nurse w cut to talk to
“Jimmie,” her mistress having gone to a
ball, and left the mischief maker, in
charge of the twin’s. His trials then and
his fr/mtic, efforts to keep them quiet
were ludicrous in the extreme.
Then came his dismissal from service
and when his master refused him a re
commendation he turned and inquired of
the audience, “Won’t some of you give
me a recommendation?” Many, were,
cries, of “Yes! Yes we will!”
Is Mr. C. Sitton too modest to have me
tell, that he, was the one who played
that part ?
Just here I must speak a word for the
band. As musicians they excel and the
members should be congratuated upon
their success. ‘Their handsome leader,
Mr. Thomas McWhorter, merits especial
praise.
Mr. John W. Close, after a short ad
dress, handed to the happy winners their
prizes.
The prize in, attendance was awarded
to Miss l'inie Slow.
In Dcpo rtment, Miss Mary Ford.
Ist in Orthography, Miss Molly Gil
reath.
2nd. Miss Rosa G. Ford.
In reading, Ist.' class, Miss Lelia
Greenwood. 2nd. class, Miss Jane
Smith. 3rd. class, Mr. John Smith. 4th.
class, Miss Agnes Knox.
In Geography, Miss Carrie Lumpkin.
First in Grammar, Miss Carrie Lump
kin. Second, Miss Leila Greenwood.
Ist in Mathematic, Miss Emma Lump
kin. 2nd, Miss Ellen Tapp.
In Elocution, little boys, prizes were
awarded to both John and Milton Smith,
as no decision could be made between
them.
Elocution, little girls, the prize was
awarded to Miss Rosa G. Ford.
Prizes were awarded to Miss Carrie
Lumpkin and Miss Elmira Evans, two of
the four young ladies who read compo
sition. Another tie. E. F.
■' - —■ —-
An Unnsaal Case.
Richmond, Ark., Aug. 8, 1881. —
11. H. Warner ACo. —Sirs: lwascured
of chronic diarrhoea by your Safe Kidney
and Liver Cure.
John D. Frekmorr.
I Dick Jones cau sell you' the best
j Roasted Coffee in Cartersville
r R. H. Jones.
NUMBER 45.
Well, money is flowing in, but nor a>
fast as I wanbilike to see rt. With tHb
iron and coal i:i ohr State and in Alaba
ma, there ought to be no fear of-splendid
returns to the invester. Southern out
rages are a thing of the past, the most
cordial feeling toward the north exists
everywhere, white and black are work
ing harl and are honestly deVftius of
meeting all their and men
with money in the north may h&ye, and
ought to have, as much confidferfce in the
south as in -any other section of the
country.”
“Is there any break in the color line in
your state?”
“The colored people in Georgia are of
a very intelligent class, stud are both
wise and cunning. They maintain an
outward semblance of adherence to the
republican organization for the sake of
getting a federal office or two, but on
election day they vote the democratic tick
et. Take the last election. The colored
people of Georgia number 65,000, and the
republican vote was 25,000, of which
about half were polled by white voters.
That shows that at least 50,000 of the
Georgia colored citizens have cut loose
from the party of freedmen’s bureaus
and similar institutions, which were sup
posed to have been founded in their in
terest.”
“How does the south like Ben Butler,
in his new role of a democratic gover
nor?”
“They simply regard It as a role and
deem him capable of playing any part
which may first happen to suit his pur
pose. If Governor Butlewhas any presi
dential hopes, I do not believe that he
will find much encouragement down our
way.”
“Who Would they prefer as the candi
date on the democratic national ticket?”
“Some new man who has not hereto
fore been prominent before the public,
though Mr. Tilden is more favorably
spoken of than any one other of the poli
tical leaders.”
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Adalrsrllle.
George Veach left last week for Flori
da to return with his uhcle, Dr. Veach,
who has been in declining health. We
learn that he found his unde better and
will return with his family to Adairsvilie
next Thursday. Their many
will be glad to see the doctor and his
good wife.
Miss Minnie Mitchell, a dashiug bloude
belle of Bonn', who has becq visiting the
family of Mr. J. C. Martin, has returned
home, carrying with her the hearts of
some of the “b'hoya.”
Mrs. Dearing, late of Bavanuah, arriv
ed a few days ago at Adairsvilie, with
her Paul’and May, and have
taken quarters at their summer home.
Mis 6 Fauuie Echols, lady who
has endeared herself in the hearts tf all
who knew her, left last Friday to spend a
vacation with relatives. We regret to
say Miss Fannie will not return here
next session, but will go to Winchester
in September.
The closing exercises of Prof. Bassett’s
singing class took place Thursday night
and we noticed a decided Improvement in
our young people’s singing, especially In
the way of keeping time. The Prof,
has not given up Adairsvilie, however,
and will shortly give a concert here.
, OOTHCALOGA.
LONGSTREKT PENCILED.
The Ex-Confederate General <Joe*ttoued
While in New York.
New* York, May, 22.—General Long
street, of Georgia, is at present the guest
of General Newton, in |Brooklyrt. A
reporter of the World visited him and
had a brief interview as to the present
political and industrial condition of the
South.
“We have put aside politics in Geor
gia,” said the veteran, “now tlflt our
new governor is installed. Wb a'we are
bending all our energies to is to itfraet
northern Capital to develop our great in
dustrial and*mineral resmiroes.’W
“And how are you succeeding?”
The Missing Undershirt.
The morning was warm, and be im
prudently made a change in his under
clothing. Our climate is deceptive.
Before evening there came up a chilly
storm. An attack of sickness followed
of course. But Perry Davis’s Pain
Killer was used for relief, with the hap
piest effect. In these summer months of
suddenly varying temperature, every
body ought to keep a flotue oi mis valua
ble remedy within reach.
Think of $5148,000 paid per annum for
a single column of the New York Herald ,
and ail by uumey-loving Yankees, as we
are pleased to call them. Some southern
men grumble if they are charged an in
finitesimal sum, proportionately consid
ered, for advertising. All the leading
business men north have advertised, some
to hundreds of thousands of dollars; but,
better still, they have been generous
enough to heartily acknowledge the value
of printer’s ink. No wonder the north
goes ahead so grandly in colossal enter
prises, when it is so free to invest in bus
iness enterpries of all sorts and in push
ing business.'
If you cannot procure our famous
“Seven Springs Iron aud Alum Mass”
in your town, send direct to us, will send
to any address tree of ch irge on receipt
of price. Manufactured only by Land
rum & Litchfield, Abingdon, Va., and
and for sale by all druggists. Its efiici*
ency in he treatment of diseases is con
ceded by physicians generally. For
Dyspepsia and Indigestion its value is
estimable, all will* admit. Price SI.OO,
small size 30 cents.
Five thousand dollars will be spent in
fireworks at the celebration of the open
ing of the Brooklyn bridge.