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A. M. FOUTE,
A t r r orney-at-law,
c A RTERSVILLE, GEORGI A.
OROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL
I business entrusted to me. Collections and
.Commercial law a specialty.
oilice, corner Main and Erwin streets, up
stairs over C. F. Godfrey’s store.
GRAHAM. W. H. GRAHAM.
GRAHAM & GRAHAM,
Attorneys, Solicitors and Connselors at
Law,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
/AFFICE IN THE COURT HOUSE. WILL
I ) practice in all the courts of Bartow county,
the superior courts of northwestern Georgia, and
eSupreme ami Federal courts at Atlanta, Ga.
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31. SEQUARD BROWNE, M. D.,
| I.ate of the firm of Drs. Browne A Ishmael, Mt.
Olivet, Ky.]
Physician, Surgeon,Obstetrician and UyncßcoiOffist,
Cassvillc, Georgia.
X, b —Special attention given to Surgery in
al its bracnes. 0ct682-tf
SHELBY ATT AWAY,
ar r QJi IST KY-A. T - L A W,
\\TILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
YV of North Georgia. „ _ ,
ofliee with Col. M. R. Stansell, Bank
Block. .
GEORGE S. JOHNSON,
ATTORNF.Y-AT-LAW ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE, West Side, Public Square.
Will practice in all the Courts.
R. W. MURPHEY,
attorney-at- la"W,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE (up-stairs) in the brick building, cor
ner of Main & Erwin streets. julylß.
J. M.NKKL. J. J. CONNER. W. J. NEEL.
NEEL, CONNER & NEEL,
A T . OKNEYS-AT-LAW
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
of this state. Litigated cases made a
pccialty. Prompt attention given to all business
entrusted to us.
Office in northeast corner of courthouse. feb9
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A r JD T OBNEY - AT ■ LA W
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
Office in the brick house next to Roberts’
.very stables. Hours from B y % a. m. to 4K p. m.
All business poomptly attended to.
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MILNER * HARRIS,
A. TORNEYS-AT-LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office on West Main Street. julylS
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WIKLE & WIKLE,
AT T O RNEY S-A r r-L. AW .
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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special attention to collections. f cl> '-^
JNO. B. E. LUMPKIN,
ATTORNEY-A T - L*A W ,
ROME, GA.
/ COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. OFFICE
V v in rear of Printup, Bros. A Co.’s Bank.
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A T TOR NEY-AT-LA W ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE : WEST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE.
Will practice in all the Courts. Business
will receive prompt attention.
TRAVELERS’ GUIDE.
IGADSDEN AYD*RED LINE STEAM
ERS—U. S. MAIL.
STEA3IER SIDNEY P. SMITH,
(Ben. 11. Elliott. Master; F. G. Smith, Clerk.)
Leove Rome every Tuesday and Friday ...8a m
Arrive Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday.6am
Leave Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday .8 a m
Arrive at Rome Thursday and Sunday 7pm
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 mid Fridays 9am
Arrive at Wednesdays and Saturdays. ...7pm
Office No. 27 Broad street, up-stairs over the
Cotton Exchange. Telephonic connection.
M. ELLIOTT, Jr., Gen. Man’gr..
Gadsden, Ala.
W. T. SMITH, Gen’l Agent,
Rome. Ga.
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
On ami after Monday, 3larch 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 am
Arrive at Rockmart 11:10am
Arrrive at Cedartown 12:05 a m
RETURNING.
Leave Cedartown 2:05 p m
Arrive at Rockmart 2:58 pm
Arrive at Taylorsville . . . . . . 3:33 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro 3:slpm
Arrive at Cartersville 4:25 pm
PASSENGER TRAIN.—EVENING.
Leave Cartersville 4:30 p m
Arrive at Stilesboro 5:04 p m
Arrive at Taylorsville 5:22 p m
Arrive at Rockmart 6:00 p m
Arrive at Cedartown 7:00 pin
RETURNING.
Leave Cedartown 6:00 am
Arrive at Rockmart 6:53 am
Arrive at Taylorsville 7:2s a m
Arrive at Stilesboro 7:46 a m
Arrive at Cartersville 8:20 a m
ROME RAILROAD.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule:
no. 1.
Leave Rome 6:10 a m
Arrive at Kingston 8:55 am
no. 2.
Leave Kingston 9:20 am
Arrive at Rome 10:25 a m
no. 3.
Leave Rome 4:15 pm
Arid ve at Kingston 5:30 pm
no. 4.
Leave Kingston 5:55 pm
Arrive at Rome 6:50 p m
NO. 5.
Leave Rome . . 8:00 ain
Arrive at Kingston 9:00 am
NO. 6. -
Leave Kingston 9:20 am
Arrive at Rome 10:10 a m
Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 will run daily, except Sun
days.
Nos. 5 and 6 will rim 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..
Ya. A Ga. R. R.. for points south.
EBEN HILLY KU, President.
J. A. Smith, G. P. Agent.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule:
NIGHT PASSENGER —UP.
Leave Atlanta ... 2:40 pm
Leave Cartersville 4:30 pm
Leave Kingston 4:55 pm
Leave Dal ton . ..6:34pm
Arrive at Chattanooga 8:00 p m
NIGIIT PASSENGER—DO (VN.
Leave Chattanooga 2:55 p m
Leave Dalton 4:32 pm
Leave Kingston ......... 6:03 pm
Leave Cartersville 6:32 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 8:40 pm
DAY PASSENGER —DP.
jeave Atlanta 7:00 am
Leave Cartersville 8:55 am
Leave Kingston 9:2lam
Leave Dalton . . . . 10:55 am
Arrive at Chattanooga 12:30 am
DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 8:00 a m
Leave Dalton 9:46 am
Leave Kingston 11:15 a m
Leave Cartersville 11:42 a m
Arrive at Atlanta 1:40 pm
HOME EXPRESS
Leave Atlanta 4:30 pm
Arrive at Cartersville 6:3lpm
Arrive at Kingston 7:00 p m
Leave Kingston 8:06 am
Arrive at Cartersville 8:^. ara
Arrive at Atlanta , . . nm
Don’t Forget
That you can he suited in a clock at
J. T. Owens.
VOLUME V.
Diamond Dyes, only 10 cents per package, a
Word’s ilrug store.
Farmers 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 H. C. Wilkinson &
Cos., 105 and 197 Fulton street, New
York. dec2l-6m.
Rains, Rains, Rains.
The continuous rains this spring will greatly
retard the operations of the farmers, and 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 oilcans, with
jackets on, and brass faucets. No trouble to
1111 your lamps from them. Goto Curry’s and
get one and have it filled with Kinslo w Oil—the
best in the market.
Lumber, Lumber, Lumber.
Never in the history of Cartersville before has
there been so much lumber shipped here as is
being received now, all because the saw mill
men keep a supply of Curry’s Liver Compound
on lmod for their employes, and consequently are
enabled to run on full time, no time lost on ac£
count of sickness.
The following are 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. H. Garwood, Cassville,
A. C. Shelton, Jerusalem.
A. Y. P. Jones, “
T. F. Barrett, Ludville.
D. W. Rogers A Cos., Etowah.
Beazley A Sheffield, “
J. C. & J. D. Lanier, Stilesboro.
W. E. Puckett & Cos., “
W. W. Padgett, Euharlee.
W. B. WLeeke, “
Hogue & Cos., Rockmart.
Dr. R. T. Cochran, “
Whitehead, Jones & Cos. “
W. J. Sheffield, Huutsyille, Ga.
Wood & Cochran, “
S. R. McGregor, “
L. Richardson & Cos., Pineville.
R. C. Carter, “
Morris & Fraey, Polk county.
J. H. Wright & Cos., “
Young A 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 51 to
51.10.
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 aud 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 Lrug Store? Nothing like
them either in quality or price ever offered in
Cartersville. The prices are extremely low.
Another big 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.
Currj 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
tersville, worth from 15 cents up.
Ice cold soda water and ginger ale, drawn
from one of Tufts’ Arctic Apparatus, can be had
at Cel Word’s drug store.
Cel Word’s Ilorse and Cattle Powders give
perfect satisfaction. Try them.
BRADFIELD’S
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BRADFIELD’S
Female Regulator.
Is a special remedy for all diseases pertaining to
the Womb, and any intelligent woman can cure
herself by following the directions. It is espe
cially efficacious in cases of suppressed or pain
ful menstruation, the Whites and Partial Pro
lapsus. It affords immediate relief, aud perma
nently restores the Menstrual Functions. Asa
remedy to be used during that critical period
known as “Change of Life,” this invaluable
preparation has no rival!
HOLMES’ LINIMENT
Is an INESTIMABLE BOON to all child bear
ing Women; a real blessing to suffering females;
a true
MOTHER’S FRIEND.
When applied a few weeks before couffuement it
will produce a safe and quick delivery, control
pain, and alleviate the usual dread, agouizing
suffering, beyond the power of language express
PRYOR’S OINTMENT
Is a sure and speedy cure for Blind or Bleeding
Piles, Sores, Ulcers, Tumors, Fistula, Burns
Corns, Felons, Sore Nipples, etc. Its effects ars
simply marvelous, and it is an inexpressible
blessing to all afflicted with either of the above
complaints. Try it!
For circulars, testimonials, and full particu
lars, address Sole Proprietor and Manufacturer
of these THREE GREAT REMEDIES!
J. BRADFIELD,
No. 108 South-Prvor Street, ATLANTA, GA.
#45,00 $45.00
COTTON ICLEANERS-
Daris’ Seed Cotton Cleaners
tCheapest and Best in the World.
PRICE ONLY FORTY-FIVE DOLLARS.
WARRANTED TO IMPROVE DIRTY,
trashy or poddy cotton from 55 to |2O per
bale, and perfectly white clean cotton $i per
bale, and to make one-fourteenth to one-thirti
eth more lint out of the same amount of seed cot
ton; saves saws cleans 13 to 17 bales per day;
pays for itself in y a day: one-half horse power
will run it; can be run in connection with any
horse, water, or steam power. Only two bear
ings to oil. If machine dees not do all claimed
for it, re-ship at my expense. Sent on five day’s
trial to responsible parties. Warranted to be
better than any cleaner and do more and letter
work. A 14-year-old boy can with it clean cot
ton for 80-saw gin.
Send for circulars, etc. Agents wanted m
every town m Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi
aud Texas. W. L. GOLDSMITH,
uov9-3m. Atlanta, Georgia.
ITBEAL ESTATEJI
AC ENC Y.
Towers Ac Cos.,
ROME, GEORGIA,
'pvO A GENERAL REAL ESTATE Busi
ness and look after wild lauds in any part of the
Cherokee section.
THE FREE PRESS.
INTO MEXICO.
An Interesting Letter In Regard to the
Laud of the Greasers.
To the Editor of The Free Tress:
One of the most thriving trading points
between Waco and San Antonio is a
young and growing city called San Mar
cus. It is situated upon the banks of a
river by the same name, said to be the
most beautiful stream in Texas. The
fountain head of this river is scarce a half
mile distant from the court house. One
cannot spend an hour more pleasantly
than slowly roaming up this Viver,gazing
upon the luxuriant aquatic vegetation.
There is a richness and variety here ot
water plants seldom seen in other
streams. The temperature of the water
is about 70‘degrees. It is used for drink
ing and nearly all other purposes by
most of the people. Water works are
soon to bo erected here, which will mate
rially add to the comfort and convenience
of the citizens of San Marcus. The court
house at this point is a model of beauty
and taste, costing the county about $30,-
OC3. Just along here the rain-fall has in
creased in the past few years from a
scant and insufficient quantity to an al
most regular and abundant supply.
It seems that, as farms are opened and
land put in cultivation, the rain-fall in
creases in quantity and regularity. The
farmers in this section, judging from ap
pearance, are prospering. Indeed, I was
told that scarce a farmer in all that sec
tion but was making money. At this
point Mr. J. W. Nance, the son-in-law of
of our townsman, Mr. Alfred Williams,
has established himself and is doing, as I
learn, a splendid business. I had the
pleasure of spending a day and night
with Mr. Nance and family upon my re
turn from Mexico. I found them enthu
siastic over the future of their section
and hopeful for their own future. May
their fondest hopes be realized both for
themselves and their town and county.
While pleasantly enjoying my visit, I
thought, “How nearly kin do even ac
quaintances seem when they meet in a
distant land.”
Not far from San Marcus is the Ger
man settlement of New Braunfels, a
manufacturing point of considerable im
portance. Woolen goods are mainly man
ufactured here. There is nothing Amer
ican at this point scarcely but the soil
beneath, upon which the town is built,
and the sky above. The valley of the
Gaudaloupe, near here, is one of the love
liest spots I have seen in all Texas.
Some one has said that there are more
rivers and less water in Texas than any
state in the union, and my observation
confirms the statement. The rivers in
Texas are, none of them, very broad or
deep, and, in the summer, many cf them
almost run dry. In traveling over some
parts of Texas, and especially Mexico, I
could realize what a munificent blessing
to any people is an abundant supply of
good, cool water.
By 10 o’clock on the night of the 13th
of May, 300 tired excursionists were in
the cars and on their way to the Rio
Grande from San Antonio. The wish of
evey cue, as they settled themselves in
their seats, was to sleep off the dark hours
amid dreams of home aud loved ones.
At seven o’cloe next morning we
reached Laredo on the Rio Grande, a
frontier Texan town and many of us for
the first time in our lives were in sight of
a foreign land. We were forcibly re
minded of this from the fact that many
of the huckster and hackdrivers in Lare
do even could not speak English. Soon
after getting off the cars breakfast was
in order. Instead pf relying upon the
hotels, as in San Antonio, we consulted
our lunch-baskets. We found that Capt.
Pritchett, who supplied our luncli-basket,
was a success in that line and had in him
the making of a tip-top excursionist.
Ham, chicken, rolls, crackers canned
meats, &c., etc., greeted, our delighted
eyes and soon with the help of a fifteen
cent cup of Mexican coffee we made a
good meal. We waited perhaps two
hours at Laredo for our train to be made
up and all the details arranged for our
visit to our* “next door neighbor.”
Fears for a while were entertained lest
all of us could not go on for want of
transportation, but curs enough for all
were provided. Some of our party turn
ed back at this point and we entered
Mexico only about 300 strong.
About 9 o’clock we crossed the Rio
Grande and were upon Mexican soil.
Many, while crossing the river, sang:
“All hail the power of Jesus,name.” In
fact, all along the route when we neared
a town or city, some old familiar hymn
or sweet gospel song, would be sung to
announce not only our approach but our
profession. May God speed the day
when “All hail the power of Jesus,
name,” will be as familiar and loved a
song in Mexico as in Georgia. None but
those who had travelled over the road
from Laredo to Monterey were prepared
for wliat they saw. The whole distance
is an ahriost unbroken desert. Perhaps,
there is not in the distance of one hun
dred miles and seventy miles a thousand
acres of land in cultivation, along the
railroad. There were only two smal
streams between the Rio Grande and
Monterey. The only crop on the route
was corn. What little there was that
had to be irrigated. Cactus, Mesquit
and sage-brush was all that could he
seen for miles and miles. We thought
surely we would escape beyond the drea
ry, monotonous limits of the desert after
a while, but not so. It is true there were
some towns along the railroad, but; as a
rule, they were as dreary as the desert
around them. The first one was about
107 Kilometers (the French measurement
is used by the R. R.) from the Rio Grande.
It contains about 5,000 inhabitants who
support themselves by sheep raising and
smuggling.
At this point mountains begin to ap-
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 7. 1883.
pear in sight and are hailed by us all as a
relief to the dull, tiresome monotony of
a desert-landscape. They look like solid
rock and, only in a few spots, is anv
vegetation seen upon them. In the dis
tance they appear seamed and ribbed by
the winter torrents that for ages have
fallen upon and rushed down their crag
gy sides. Not far from this point west
ward, at the foot of the same mountains
in sight, a Baptish preacher and mission
ary by the name of Wertrup was mur
dered about two years ago by a band of
marauding Indians- His brother is now
pastor of the little Baptist flock at Monte
rey.;
Larnpazos is the name of the town just
alluded to. It is notin full sigh tfrom the
railroad. Here we waited oyer an hour
for a belated train. In order to pass the
waiting hour pleasantly we consulted
our lunch basket again. O. the joy and
comfort of a well-filled lunch basket, es
pecially on a trip over the Nacional
Mexieano.
While we are still let’s look around and
see the crowd. Busy fingers are travel
ing to and from many willing mouths
and all pleasantly occupied, both eating
and talking. Just before me sits Capt.
Pritchett and Mr. A. Davis. Near by
is Dr. Wells, of Red Clay, who fell in
with us in Atlanta and has been our
travelling companion all the way. He is
is a pleasant intelligent gentleman.
And now here comes along W. L. Stan
ton of Atlanta, a most efficient member
and deacon of the Central Baptist church
in that city. He is one of the few men
in this world whose interest in religious
matters seems always to be uppermost.
He loves to talk upon religion ; but he
loves to practice its blessed precepts
equally well. Davis says: “Weill am
out now and just as long as they ride us
free I am going to hold on. Capt.
Pritchett says, “Well, I have improved
every minute since I left home.” Dr.
Wells smiles and seem3 to feel the same
way. Some one comes along and says :
“It is grand.” But, up to this time we
are in profound ignorance as to whether
he meant the dinner, the desert or the ex
cursion.
The Monterey train comes up and soon
we are on our way again.
R. B. 11.
A BAPTIST MINISTER TALKS.
He is Opposed to Prohibition and Gives
his Reasons far his Opp >s tl m.
To the Editor of The Free Press:
As you have thrown open the columns of
of your paper for discussion upon the
temperance or prohibition question that
is agitating the country, by your per
mission I wish to say a tew things upon
the subject; and, in dcing so, shall dif
fer from some who are engaged in this
discussion, for fear that I may be misun
derstood, I will give a concise history of
my experience and labors in the temper
ance cause, in 1853. I joined the old
Washingtonians in the town of Canton,
Cherokee county. It flourished tor a
season and like Jona’s gourd withered
and died. The next 1 united with tliePo is
of Temperance and, like the seed upon
the rock, soon withered. The next in
order was the Good Templars. I labor
ed in all these societies faithfully, num
bers flocked to them, and took upon
themselves solemn obligations, binding
their honor before their God, that they
would not drink, make, sell or buy any
intoxicating spirits; and I think that I
am safe in saying that nine out of every
ten violated their solemn obligations and,
like the sow returned to their wollowing
in the mire ; so with all my labour ar.d
anxiety in the cause. lam fully of the
opinion that I did more harm than I did
good, and I am fully of the opinion that
all the efforts and restrictions thus far
has proved a failure, and has been pro
ductive of more harm than good, and
there is now more whiskey drank and
more drunkards in our country than was
before these human societies and law re
striction? were inaugurated ; and, judging
the future from the past, we think that
as those restrictions increase, drunkenness
will keep pace with it. Solomon says
what has been will be again, and he fur
ther adds “there is nothing new under
the sun.” If all human efforts have fail
ed in the past it will be something new
under the sun, if they succeed in the fu
ture. No, gentlemen, you may throw
round It all the restrictions you can by
law or otherwise, of human invention,
and men will make it and men will
drink it, and curse the law and the men
that made it.
It is a well known fact that when ev
erybody stilled that wished to, and when
men could go to the still house and get a
gallon of pure corn whiskey for a bushel
of corn; when almost eyery body drank
it, old and young, that there was not the
tenth part of drunkenness then as there
is now, and very seldom you saw or
heard of a young man beinp- drunk. It
is almost as rare now to find a young
man that does not drink too much, and
many of them get beastley drunk.
Why this great change? There is a rea
son for it. In the times when everybody
was allowed to make it there w T as no re
striction. It set on the side-board or
some where else, and that wish
ed to do so. When a young man went to
the court ground or grocery he might
perhaps drink a dram ; he knew he had
plenty at home, and there was no neces
sity to drink to intoxication. He knew
furthermore If he did he was disgraced;
but now they have not got any at home,
and when they go where it is they don’t
know when they will get any more, and
they drink it until they get drunk, and, in
the language of the Bible,‘/‘Lie down and
spe w.”
I am ready to admit that the improper
use of ardent spirits is a great evil; but I
am not prepared to admit that it would
be the great blessing to the country’to
abolish it entirely, that some seem to
think it would be. All physicians use it
in preparing their medicines and pre
scribe it in many cases of sickness. Upon
the whole, it lias perhaps saved as many
lives as it has ever destroyed. If a few
drink to excess, it is no good reason why
those who use it properly should be de
prived of it. If it is ever abolished from
Bartow county or elsewhere, it should be
done fairly, without infringing on the
constitutional rights of any one, and by*
an untrammeld vote of the citizens
of the country. I see a resolu
tion published in Thf. Free Press, offer
ed| by Rev. R. B. Headden, and passed
upon by the meeting, to appoint a fin
ance eommitee of three to solicit money
to aid in carrying the election when it
come to a vote, “prohibition or no pro
hibition.” What does it mean? The
resolution seems to say, we want money
to buy up votes. Well, gentlemen, yon
may lay up a pile of it; y r ou will he sure
to need it. Which of the two is the
worst, the man that would sell his vote,
or the man that sells whiskey? That is a
questions easily answered. Suppose y r ou
could stop the sale of whiskey in Bartow
county or in Cartersville alone, what
good would it do. There is Rome on
one side, and Atlanta on the other, and
the trains running day and night, and
the result would be that thousands of
dollars would go to Rome and Atlanta,
to enrich others, and there would be as
much whiskey drank as there is now.
I have admitted that drunkenness is a
great evil, but the question is. Is there
no remedy*? I have shown, I think, to
every reasonable man that all human in
terference has been a failure; the ques
tion is, Is there “no balm in Gilead?”
Yes, there is, and a physician there to
administer it. By your permission I will
give the remedy, in my next.
R. B. Brooks.
COLOR FOR CLOTHES.
The Question is Asked, Why Do Men
Continue to Wear Black, the Cold
est in Winter and the Hot
test In Summer?
To the Editor of The Free Press:
The belief in black being the warmest
color for clothing and white the coolest,
has, up to a late period, passed as an un
disputed fact. Now, I challenge and pro
nounce it erroneous, one of those lurking
errors that, from earliest times, have es
caped the detection of science.
The question came up in connection
with some observations made at the snow
bleaching of certain birds and quadru
peds; also to queries thereon by the nat
uralist, Edwards.
I would ask, why do polar bears and
foxes, that are slate-blue in summer,
turn snow-white in winter ? Nature ef
fects the change, but, with wliat object,
and for what purpose ?
The usual mode of accounting for it, in
speaking of the hare, is, that this de
fenseless creature, by becoming white, is
assimilated to the color of the snow, and
so escapes the danger of being sighted by
predatory animals. But the fox also as
sumes a white dress precisely at the same
period of time; and, as lie is one of the
predatory animals, his altered hue ena
bles him the more easily to approach this
very prey r . So that, were that the design
of the transformation, we would have
nature making a fool of herself, which
nature never does.
I am acquainted with the usual test of
color temperature—the two pieces of
cloth, white and black, spread upon
snow. When this proverbial problem
comes to be more thoroughly investigat
ed, it will go the way of the flat earth
and the spherical bullet.
A certain traveler, while campaigning
in a tropical country under the hottest of
suns, became aware that a black coat was
cooler than a white one, both being of
the same weight, texture and thickness,
exactly alike, save the color. This trav
eler was led to reflection, to correlatives
of other facts and circumstances observed
at the same time, as, on other occasions,
he could see that his negro servant,along
side, enveloped in a coal-black skin, did
not suffer from the fervid rays of the sun
half so much as he did under his tripe
colored epidermis (outer covering of the
skin). What could this he but a provis
ion of nature, merciful nature, made for
him, whose home was to be in the torrid
zone ? And the longer he remained in
this tropical climate, the more he ac
knowledged the kindness of nature in
tanning his cheeks, and so making him
less sensitive to the scorching rays of the
sun. Now, from the coat upon his back
and the color-of his skin, thought wan
dered to the black bears of the tropical
countries, always coal-black, to the
brown species of temperate climes, and
on to the Arctic ice, where “Ursa” (the
bear) is robed in white. Then, there is
night and day, shadow and sunlight, the
dark, baked ground and the same covered
with snow, all in their opposed tempera
tures, in conformity w r ith the belief as
stated above. Attention has been asked,
more than once, for the undoubted effect
of color on the radiating power of cloth
ing. Certain light colored substances
approaching to white do not part with
their heat so rapidly as dark. The bear
of the polar regions is, for this reason,
provided with white fur, while his
brother ot warmer climates has a dark
colored integument.
It therefore seems desirable to prefc
light to somber hues, and, if this choice
were made, the result would he an air of
additional cheerfulness in the public
streets. The matter may seem of small
moment, but the life we live is made up
of small considerations and little affairs.
Now this matter may not be of such
small moment, but one having serious
consequences, in a sanitary sense, and so
deserving further investigation.
PUBLICUS.
PROHIBITION.
Mr. W. F. Corbin Writes to us Again
but Gives us no Argument.
To the Editor of .the Free Press:
Your issue of May 17th certainly put
on its Sunday clothes. It was a whole
team against prohibition whith old
friend Wm. Satterfield working in the
lead with his kind and generous heart,
dealing out this precious medicine to the
afflicted poor, with or without the mon
ey; and I believe him when he says that
he knows the wants of those poor unfort
unate creatures for no doubt many of
them contracted their disease at the bar.
and as a matter of course he is honorably
bound to sympathise with them in their
distress so well understood by himself.
As Mr. S. is a good-hearted clever fel
low that all persons like who know him,
you seem to work him in the
lead. Then, you hitch in your Cincin
nati man who has arraigned whisky in
all of its pomp and splendor, claiming it
to be the great king who shall rule over
all nations and bids defiance to opposi
tion and endeavors to show that it was a
decree of high heaven to build up and
carry on wicked enfluences that the peo
ple might have a chance to choose be
tween good and evil, and that it is wick
ed and presumptous in the people to ob
ject to this great king of kings ruling
over them.
Then you, Mr. Editor, pop the whip
and say go along; that is all right really
more to my nation than I could have
done myself. Now, my old friend, I
want to say to you that I have one verj T
great objection to this king. His sub
jects when once brought under his con
trol, scarcely ever yet liberated from him.
And when you do find one of his subjects
that has made his escape you invariably
find one that is bitterly opposed to his
kingdom and would do all in his power to
tear it down that others may not get into
his clutches.
We need not be uneasy but that there
will be evil enough for those who may
prefer evil to good, to make a choice
even if the sale of whisky is abolished.
Evil is not so scarce as all that, neither
are the people so disenclined to evii that
you need to hold out inducements to
them; but, contrary wise, they are in
clined to do evil and no inducement
should be ottered ; hence, l favor piohi
bition. Very respectfully,
W. F. Corbin.
HAYNE’S HOME.
In a letter to the Augusta Chronicle
the poet, Hayne, corrects a popular mis
take as follows:
Editors Chronicle: Since mj return
from Charleston I have seen in the Chron
icle and in many other journals the state
ment that “Copse Hill” was presented to
me by ex-Governor Colquitt. This state
ment is erroneous. My cottage, sur
rounded by eighteen acres (and not fifty,
as the papers affirm), was built by con
tract for me and the expenses defrayed
by mj'self. Paul H. Hayne.
Copse Him., May 25, 1883.
Mr. Hayne has relieved a great many
of his admirers of a load of mortification
by the publication of the above letter.
We did not believe it, for we knew Col
quitt was not likely to unbelt to anybody
that could not serve him, and it was
highly improbable that Mr. Hayne could
know anything about the inside of the
Brunswick road sale, the senatorial dick
er, the Blodgett claim or the pardon bro
kerage during the senatorial campaign.
It is pleasant to know that Mr, llajme
sleeps under a roof not reared by funds
accumulated during an official tenure. —
Telegraph and Messenger.
RAILROAD SUNDAY TRAFFIC.
Some of the railway managers favor
the discontinuance of Sunday traffic, but
the majority are of an opposite way of
thinking. A compromise is suggested
in the partial removal of trains. Mr.
Rowland, of the Louisville and Nash
ville, does not think it practicable. It is
impossible for the fruit and vegetable
trains. He rather cynically says:
“Railroads are penetrating south as
well as west. Zone is bound to zone,
and a vessel in mid-ocean might as well
be expected to “heaye to” on Sunday as
to expect through trains to stop. It is
practicable to reduce the work some
what, if all roads would agree. In Eng
land the partial trial of it does not seem
to have had much effect upon vice.
There is a good deal of sentimentality
about this Sunday business, a sort of des
ire to box up things on this certain day,
to hide everything gross and make nice
show to pious eyes, and the railroads
must of course be made the butt to fire
at, as if they were worse than the
slums. For a road that has not much to
lose by it, it might be a nice advertising
stroke to publish its conversion to Sun
day observance and secure the good will
of its advocates.”
According to Mr. Jefferson, in “The
Real Lord Byron,” the poet, who never
reached heighth of five feet eight, had on
his nineteenth birthday a face swollen to
unsightliness with fatty tissue, and
weighed 202 pounds. By exercise,
physic, hot bathing and abstinence he
reduced himself in three months to the
delicate lines of his portraits. But this
regimen, says the biographer, not only
gave him beauty of feature, it quickened
his mental powers and turned the man
of intellect into the man of genius. Be
that as it may, Byron kept it up, with
occasional lapses, to the end of his life.
His abstemiousness applied to drink as
well as meat. Though he ascribes the
wit of Don Juan to gin and water, its
real source, so far as it was physical in
origin, was Epsom salts, which affected
him like light champagne.
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NUMBER 46
GEORGIA NEWS.
Perambulating: PioinUcuously Among:
Pungent Paragrapliers.
Griffin’s altitude is said to be 900 feet
above the sea.
A large rolling mill is one of Atlanta’s
castles in the air.
Cow stealing is disturbing the citizens
of Hancock county.
Five million brick have just been sold
at Anniston for immediate delivery.
John Ryan’s summer residence, near
Tallulah, was destroyed by fire a few
nights ago.
Miss Emma Wilson, of Rome, broke
her arm Monday giving ii a twist while
throwing an apple.
Alfred Smith, a Jonesboro colored
man, fell into a well while asleep, but
was rescued by his wife.
Richard 11. Parks, of Augusta, died
Monday after having been married but
nineteen days.
A meeting is to be held soon to take
action on the proposed railroad from
Tennille to Union Point.
The Atlanta Phonograph understands
that the law practice of Gen. L. J. Gar
trell. of that city, amounts to $25,000 a
year.
A train from Stone Mountains to
Atlanta is credited with running several
consecutive miles a day or two ago, at
the rate of a mile a minute.
The steamer, S. P. Smith, of Rome, has
been sold to Captain J. 31. Elliott and as
sociates, thus merging the Red Line
Steamboat Company into the Gadsden
Steamboat Company,
Millie Brown, an Atlanta colored wo
man, has been arrested, charged with
murdering a babe which her eighteen -
year-old daughter mothered out of wed
lock, The grandmother, after strangling
the infant, buried it six inches below the
surface.
A colored man, named John Martin,
died in Forsyth Thurday night. A mes
sage was sent to Goggansville to his wife,
giving information of Ills death, when
word was returned that she had died on
Sunday. Tney left a little child only a
few months old.
Mrs. Mary Hanson, widow of Jesse
Hanson, of Carroll county, who was a
soldier in the war of 1812, filed a claim
for pension several years ago. The pen
sion commissioner wants to know her
whereabouts, and whether she is living
or dead. If living she is entitled to a
pension of $8 per month.
“At a picnic in Double Branches,”
says the Americus Recorder , “several
persons are supposed to have been pois
oned by poison sumach, a shrub that
grows in the woods. In one of the cases
a gentleman has a swollen face, and in
another case a lady who was in the
party is supposed to be poisoned, as
her hand is breaking out in sores.
A reunion of the Fifth Georgia regi
ment of volunteers is suggested by some
of the surviving members. Americus is
the place and October the date proposed.
The following companies formed the reg
ment: Clinch Riiles, of Angusta, Griffin
Light Guards, Dawson Volunteers,
Schley Guards, Irish Volunteers, of Au
gusta, Hardee Rifles, of Bainbridge, and
the McDuffie Rifles, of Warrenton.
Two factories are being built near
Clarksville—one a wool • factory, at Er
win’s mills, one and a fourth miles from
the village, and the other a cotton facto
ry at what is known as the Old Furnace
Place, three miles from Clarksville.
Both are located on fine water powers.
A number of houses for operatives at the
wool factory have already been built and
the work of manufacturing will soon
commence. Work at the Old Furnace is
actively going on, preparatory to the
erection of the cotton mills.
The Governor’s Guards, of Atlanta,
have sent measures to New York for G 5
uniforms. The regular membership of
the company is about 75, but there are,
besides these, over 100 members, who alt
join with the stipulation that they shall
have the privilege of turning out when
they please. Many of these will order
uniforms when the company comes out
in its handsome new attire. A grand
tournament and ball will be given regu
lar every six months by the company,
the first to occur a few weeks hence.
Julia 11. Grady, a haudsome and rich
ly dressed woman, who claims to be
teacher in a San Francisco public school,
is the talk of Atlanta. On Monday she
left iier hotel, to take a drive, and while
out stopped at several restaurants and
drank champagne, which eventually
mastered her. After visiting several re
sorts of questionable repute she finally
brought up at the police station and re
ported the loss of a valuable solitaire
diamond ring and quite a sum of money.
Some think that the woman is less inno
cent than she professes to.be. The police
will make an eftort to recover the alleged
lost property.
Andy Oaks, of Conyers, had a desper
ate fight for life last week with a mad
dog. He was at work in the field with
some negroes a little distance from the
house. His dog, which had previously
shown symptoms of hydrophopia, became
mad and furiously made at them. The
negroes fled and left Andy to brave
ly meet his fate. He had, by mere acci
dent, carried his gun to the field with
him. The thought occurred to him, if he
could reach his gun before he was bitten,
lie might probably save his untimely
death. He made desperate strides for it,
the dog in hot pursuit after him. He
reached it just in time to fire before he
was bitten. He shot him through, but
the rabid animal made but little halt. He
then began beating him with his gun,
striking him over the head until he brdke
his gun stock and barrel, but finally suc
ceeded in killing him.
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