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1 > ■VOL. I. CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, MAT 9, 1884. NO. 25. ■tancntln ter EiftcbM arKcpi, Suffering from a general want of tone, and its naual concomitants, dyspepsia and nervousness, is seldom derivable from the «se of a nourishing diet and stimuli of appetite, unaided. A medicine that will effect a removal ot the specific obstacle to renewed .health and vigor, that is a genuine corrective, Is the real need. It is the pos session of this grand requirement which makes Hostetter’s Stomach Hitters so effective as an invigorant. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally. INVIGORATOR K; ISWS'KMS® FK88R?J®3 3u«iisTn«’.*iid"ferd’i*ea»e»re*titti»*fro“a, , ? e ™“*^ er torpid eonditma of thelarer; snch ssBibotiHiess, AwtirsneM, Jsnndics. Dyspepsia. Malaria^ Siefc- Meadaehe, Rhenmatism, etc. An invalnablo Fam- fij Medieine. For full mfonnation send rant adr Seas on a postal card A a k|!* K <? Jinrn&n *IJrsr and its Diseases,” to DR. SAMFORD, Sa Drst and its Diseases," rset. 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Hawtew's Iron Tonic is for Sale by all Druooists and Dealers Everywhere. (leatli V I say lot us have the rash rather than the carbuncles. This high license movement is, whether intended or not a stab at the best'familicsof America. It is a war on the drawing rooms of mer- few great carbuncles, that mean are not successful. Lotus shut up the great- masses of the foul-mouth ed, and by a high license of $10,000 let a few men do all the swearing in the community. Let us select, say a hundred,of the most impulsive men of your cities, men of the high- TALMAGE TALKS. He Denounces the Liquor License System as the Monopoly of Abomination. Buooklx, April (5.—I)r. Talmago preached in the Brooklyn Taber- j ( -jvantrs. It is an assault on thebright- j est tempers and hottest tongue and TURNER and CHAMBERS, CAllKOT.il/rON) OKORGIA —Dealers in— General Merchandise, a/ still at their old stand oh Home Street, ready to sell you goods as cheap or cheaper than anybody if you want Anything in their line, give tlwuu «trial and they think you will trade. We would say to those owing ns that WE MUST HAVE What is due. us. We have indulged you as long a ? we can and we now want our money. IF YOU ARE o-onres- WIE5S T, northwest, —OR— SOUTHWEST, IBIEj STJE/B Your Tickets Eead via the N. C. & St. L. R’Y The Mackenzie Route. The First-class and Emigrant Passengers FAVORITE! Albert B. Wm*, W. L Rogers, Pt»s. Agettt* P& s * Agent, Atlanta, Ga. T#” 1 W. L. PAN LEY, Gen. Fas. & Tkt. Agent, Xaslmlle, Tend t nacle to-day on the .subject: “High License, the Monopoly of Abomi- tion.” His text was taken from Mathew xxvii: “It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury be cause it is the price of blood.” Fol lowing is the full report of the ser mon. For fiteen dollars Judas Iscariot had sold Christ. Under thrust of conscience of regret that he had not made a more lucrative tiling out of it, Judas pitches the rattling shekels on the pavement of the temple. What shall be done with the conscience money? Some propose it be put into the treasury. Others say it has always been against the law to use for religious or govermental pur poses blood-money or revenues got ten in the sale of human life. So they decided to use the money to purchase graves for paupers. Pick ing out a rough piece of ground where the broken and refuse ware of a pottery had been cast, they set that apart as the first Potter’s field. “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury because it is the price of blood.” We are at a point in reformatory movements in this country where in one shape or another it is proposed to control or arrest the liquor busi ness by making its merchants pay a higli price, say five hundred or a thousand dollars for a license. Thi? it is said, will extirpate the tens of thousands of low drunkeries, and make it possible only here and there for a rum selling establishment to exist. The 500 or a thousand dol lars paid the government treasury will help support the poor houses into which widows and orphans are turned by the inebriation of hus bands and fathers. Dont you see ? This high tax will also help the ex penses of prisons intowhich the men are thrown for crimes committed while drunk. Dont you see? That will support the courts of Oyer and Terminer, whose judges and attor neys and constables and juries and court houses and po r /stations find their chief employnw .it in the trial, condemnation and punishment of those who offend the law while in a date of insobriety. Don’t you see? How any many or woman in the United States in favor of the great temperance reformation can be so hallucinated as not to see that this movement is the surrender of the whole reformation for which good people have been strugglin for the last fifty years, is to me an amazement that eclipses every thing. My subject is high license, the monopoly of abomination. Do you not realize as by mathematical demonstration that the whole re sult f?f tl*is movement by which low establishments are to be shut up and splendid establishments are to supported is going to make rum selling and rum drinking respectable? Nine-tenths of these drunkeries in Brooklyn and New York are so disgusting that men fraying regard to their re putation would not be seen entering and the clerk of a store would lose his place if se,en coining out,of one. But, j).qw shut up these establish ment .ami down Dfi your great thor- ougfares you liaye buildod your splendid palaces of inebriation, masterpiece,s of painting on the walls, cut glass on silver platter, upholstery like a Turkish harem uniformed servants to help you out the carriage and uniformed serv- vauts to take your hat and cane, am? parlors with lounges on which you can recline when you are taken pivsterionsly ill after too much champagne or cognac or oldJOtard. Ail the phantasmagoria and be- est nurseries and the dearest home j the most spiteful against God and circles. It would pave with honor i decency, and add to the number and pillar with splendor and gu- the speaker of the Now Jersy legis- ard with monopolistic advantage a j lature whose addresses were so in- business which has made the grou- terlarded with oaths afew days ago ml sound hollow at every step he- that the printers, who never swear neath England and Scotland and Ireland and America with cata combs of slaughtered drunkards. Tell it, ye philanthropists, to all whom you meet in your rounds of usefulness. Tell it ye men of .the newspaper press by pen and type and telegram. Tell it that this day in the presence of Almighty God, my maker and my judge,! stamp on this Digit license movement as the monopoly of abomination. Among other charges agaigst it I have to say that it is anti-American anticommon sense,anti-demons tra- ted facts, anti-Christian. It was written by our revolutionary fath ers, first by pen and then by sword; first in black ink and then in red, that all men are equal in the sight of the law. Impartiality is the word written on the declaratfon of inde pendence, constitution of the Uni ted States and over the doors of state national capitals. How then dare you give to the man who can raise$500 or $1,000 the privilege of selling sweetened dynamite while you deny to his neighbor the priv ilege because he cannot raise more than fifty dollars or can raise noth ing? Have the small dealers in the festive liquid no rights?I plead for justice to the tens of thousands of men who are engaged in a small and prudent economical way in sel ling extract of logwood and strych nine, I say it is unequal and unjust to allow the man who has money enough to kindle a great roaring conflagration of temptation to goa- liead while you deny those poor fel- themselves, had to put blanks into every sentence to indicate where the oaths came in. Let these espec ially delegated men for high license of $10,000 per year be allowed to do all the profanity, and have full sweep while wc put down and sweep from community with besom of destruction those who swear on a small scale, and all those who have never got beyond ”By Geor ge,” ”My stars,” or ’’Darn it.” So also let murder be hindered.Present law does not avail. Murders on Long Island! Murders hi Illinois. Murders in Pennsylvania. Murders all over. The vast majority of the perpetrators escape, The defense proves an alibi or says that the deed was done under emotional in sanity. The court-room is crowded with sympathizers an when acquit ted he is followed down the street by a crowd who meditate sending him to congress. The only way you will have put an eml to murder in this country is by tt high license to a few men to manage tee whole business. This common herd of as- tassins who do their work with ear hooks or dull, knives and Paris green, must be put down and let a few experts who can do the thing without pain and by chloroform or flash of bull-dog revolver, gently putting the victim out of his earth ly misfortunes—let them have all the business. Of course that license ought to be as high as $20,000 becau se the perquisites of gold watches and money safes and plethoric pocket -hooks would soon pay the lows of the traffic the privilege of j high license and leave a handsome even lighting a lucifer match. I de- i sum f° r prophet, mand equal rights for rum sellers, j You see at a glance, all irony as- This high license plan is the prop- j ide, that if rum-selling is right we erty qualification in most offensive j all ought to have the privilege of shape. Why don’t you carry out the idea and shut up all the bake ries except those which can pay $1,000? Why not shut up all the butchers’ shops except those which can pay an extravagant tax? Why not close all the dry goods stores except those that can pay a big sum for the privilege? Well, you say, that is very different. How is it different? Well, you say, the busi ness of selling bread or meat or clothing does no damage, while the selling of whisky does a great deal of harm. There, you have sur= rendered the question. If it does great damage, then no amount of money paid can give a man the right to carry op the business. The $500 or $1,0»»() are a bribe to the gov ernment to let a few do that which the very attitude of the govern ment declares a wickedness. So also is it anti-common sense. Some one says, “It is impossible to execute a prohibitory law, and as we cannot eject the evil, let us put upon it this one brake.” The fact that you cannot execute fully a law is no reason why you should not have a law, AVljich one of your laws is rally executed? We have a law against Sabbath- breaking, yet millions offend it ev ery Sunday. We have a law against blasphemy, but sometimes the air is lurid with imprecation. We have a law against theft, but all your jails are full of burglars and high- waymen. There is a law against murder, but we have three murd erers now in Raymond street jail and scores of them in the United states prisons. Since we have not been able to stop these evils of theft aiul arson and blasphemy witchment of art thrown around and murder, why not compromise J this Herod of massacre, this Mo- I loch of consumed worshippers, this !juggernaut of crushed millions! Dante* *pvpn circles of inferno lif ted into great architecture crowned by great arches and finished with great mosaic! Iniquity glorified! j Let us put an end to these small the matte?, and ft license give certain men all the privilege of stealing and swearing and mas sacre. Get ready your excise com missioners—five or ten thousand dollars for the business of theft. The curse of the ages enthroned in sumptuositles J Ah, it is not the rookeries of alcoholism that do t be worse work. Thev are only the last stopping places on the road to death Where did that bloated, ulcerous, Wheezing, nauseating wretch that stagger.* put of some hole down by the navy yard, bf* habit start ed? At glittering restaurant, bar room of first class hotel where it was fashionable to go. Do you want to stop the mean liqour estab lishments which are only the rash plj over the body politic and gath er ttip? and puss and mat- oFthe body a scoundrels who l*avn genius enough only to steal house-mats or postage-stamps,or' chocolate and confine tfie business fs* those who having paid $10,000 fop genteel robs bery can abosend with‘$50,000 from a Newark banks or by watering the stock of a railroad company steal $200,000 at one clip. I would put a very high license on it, say |ldo, 000, for tfiey cpifid §QP?1 «lft k S it up, We are fearfully opposodto sneak thieves, and wharf-rats, and tuppenny scoundrels, but all hail to million-dollar rascals. So also let us by high license put downblasphe my, for your present laws aginst it enjoying it, and if it be wrong $5,- 000,000 paid down in hard cash as a yearly license ought not topurchase immunity. Is it common sense that one business should have the right to despoil all q|her business if it pay ti special tax ? A great northern manufacturing company recently established themselves in Georgia. When asked why they located there, their answer was ‘Because this township voted to to have no liquor sold.’ That honest manufacturer discovered wliat we all know, that the rum selling busi ness hurts every other business.— If the millions of dollars that go ev ery year for rum were expended in healthful directions, there would come a boom of com mercial and agricultural and manu facturing prosperity 150 per cent greater than this country ever saw. The money that goes for drink and has no result except ill health and and pauperism and crime would go for clothing, books, for education, for homesteads, for horses and car riages, for farms, for life insurance, for the 10,000 comforts and luxuries of life. You who get $2 a day for wages, would get $4. You who get a salary of $1,000 a year, would get $3,000. You who receive $10,000 a year, would receive $20,000. The ruin seller this moment has his clutch on the throat of every man in America. You have to pay for his damnable work by your honest sweat and by the deprivation of your household of many advanta ges. When will the working classes rise up against this incubus and de cree to keep at home the drive lie and pothouse politicians who vote town prohibition and vote up high license. I wish the Lord in His mercy would give our rulers in these Atlautic states one hour of the swarthy and magnificent cour age of the Iowa legislature which had the moral force to pass an out and out prohibitory law, and whose governor had the grace to sign it. Lead on, O western state, in the glorious \yqrk of our country’;. emancipation ! Among the last to come will be our beloved state of New Yoik? but come she will, Af ter a few more thousands of our best homes shall have been destroy ed by the rum traffic and a few more hundreds of thousands of our best intellects and hearts shall have heel? sacrificed^ and oqr distilleries have for a few more years Insulted the heavens with their uprolling stench, the tide will turn and good men and women will together rise and laying hold upon Almighty strength hurl down into the per dition from which it smoked up, this swelling and putrefying curse of nations. People in this region talk as though high license had never been tried. It has been tried again and again, and inis been a flat failue. It was tried in Missouri under what -was called the Downing law. A promi nent paper of St. Louis, Missouri, says: “We have now in this city some 1,500 high license saloons, and if there is one man in St. Lotiis who is able to see the good results of high license which itsfriends prom ised us, we want to interview him. If there is any good in high license, if it reduces the evils of drink to a minimum, we are ready to publish it. \Ve know that many good, hon est temperance men favored the passage of the Downing law. Will they point out to us any good it has accomplished or is likely ever to accomplish, or confess that they have been disappointed ?” It was tried in Nebraska under what was called the Slocumb law, at a $1000 license. A prominent citizen, re quested to give his opinion in re gard to it says: “You ask, ‘Has high license diminished drunken ness ?” Not in the slightest degree. Drunkenness is steadily on the in crease. This vice, as all other vic es which government fosters, grows continually. High license, as far as diminishing drunkness is concerned does nothing of the kind. Mark this well. I would repeat in thunder tones if I could, it does nothing of the kind. Gambling, consequent upon high license, has fearfully increased. The saloon keeper must have, in many cases, a gambling annex in order to make his business pay a profit under the high license system. This vice is making rapid progress through the state, and much of the increase is directly traceable to high license.” One of the daily papers of Des Moines says. “Des Moines has tried a $1,000 license only to find that it has Increased the num ber-of its saloons, and the daily ex cess of dnrunkness.” In other pla ces higli license has been tried again and again, and always with the same result, and yet there are those who would have the farce enacted here. The Washington Sentinel, one of the chief organs of the liquor traffic- bursts into derisive laughter at the high license attempt in Nebras ka, and says; “The prohibitionists in Nebraska, finding that the high license of $1,000 has not decreased the sale of liquor, are now endeav oring to increase its sale by raising the license to $2,550 per annum.”— We are making an effort here to resuscitate an old and dead failure that died its first death in Missouri, and died its second death in Ne braska. - The mightiest blow to the cause of temperance in the city is that some reformers have helped along this delusion of high license- It is a white flag of truce sent out from alcoholism to prohibition to get the battle to pause until the army of demijohns and decanters can get better organized. Get off of the 'field with that flag of truce or I wiil fire on it! Between these two ar mies there can be no lawful truce. On tluvene side are God and sobri ety, and the best interests of the world. On the other is the sworn enemy of all righteousness, and ei ther this army must go down or the church of God and free govern ment perish. Oh, this black, destroying arch angel of all diabolism, one wing reaching to the Pacific and the other to the Atlantic, its iron beak and filthy claws clutching the torn and bleeding heart-strings of the nation that cries out :”How long, O Lord, how long?” Better try to compromise with the panthers in their jungle, with the cyclone in its flight, w ith the Egyptian plague as it blotches an empire, than w ith Apollyon for whom this evil is recruiting qfficer, quarter master and commanderin-chief.My friends let us fight it out on the old line and we will get the victory as sure as right is right, and w r rong is wrong, and truth is truth, and falsehood is falsehood, and God is God. Are you so deaf that you cannot hear in the distance the rumbling of the char iot of victory ? Over 300,000 voters in Ohio at the last election for pro hibition. Kansas on the right side, low’a on the right side, Alabama and Georgia almost ready to fall inio line. Fifteen of the legislatures of the United States discussing the temperance question. The liquor trade so panic struck that it is try ing to get congress to alter the con stitution so that prohibitory laws shall be declared unconstitutional. Two hundred and forty-six towns of Massachusetts out of two hundred and fifty-six declared against licen se! Not a sign board in all the state of Maine offering rum for sale, so that the crime is there put down beside other crimes. One branch of thelegislature of our monopoly- cursed New York, a few weeks ago only three votes off from passing a law’giving to the people a choice of prohibition. East Thursday, a week, the congress of the United States, demolishing the bonded whiskey bill by a vote oflSG to S3!, although the liquor traffic had vo ted $700, 000 to buy spectacles through which our rulers might see the subject in the right light. I give fair warning to the politicians of America, the leaders of our beau tiful Republican party and the glo rious Democracy, that the temper ance men will soon hold the balance of power in America, and they will determine who shall he mayors, and governors, and congressmen, and presidents. Better get oft* the track before the morning express train comes down with temperance societies, and sons of temperance, and good templars, and the long train loaded with reformers and Christian philanthropists, and all the best interests of the world.— Clear the track! The cow-catcher will be piled up with smashed de canters and the staves of beer bar rels, and the splinters of high li cense platforms, and the broken rails of those who sat on the fences and the demolished hopes, schemes, machinations and bribes of all wiils- keydom! The time will come when the evil will be so reduced that there will he only ten wine flasks left, and they will he set up at the other end of the alley for ton pins. And one re former will take just one small round ball of prohibition and roll it till down shall go the last vestiges of the sin with the ten strike. But while the prospect looked at from the side of worldly reform is so bright, iooked at from the Christian side it is absolutely certain. God will rise up and put a hand to this wickedness. Have you any doubt about his being stronger than the devil ? Blucher came before night fall and saved the day for Welling ton. At four o,clock in the after noon it looked very badly for the English, Ponsonby and Picton fal len, sabres broken, flags surrender ed, Scotch Grays annihilated, on ly forty-two men left of the Ger- mau battalion, English lines fallen back! Napoleon laughed in tri umph and said: This little English man needs a lesson. We have ninety chances out of a hundred in our favor. Magnficent! Magifi- cent!” Messengers are sent to Pa ris with the news of the French vic tory. But Blucher came up, and before night the conqueror of Aus- terlitz was the victim of Waterloo. The man whose name made Eu rope tremble, and filled even Amer ica with apprehensions, is found muddy and hateless, and crazed with defeat, feeling in the night for the stirrups of a horse, that he may mount and resume the contest.— Now the rum traffic is imperial and a conqueror, and many good peo ple say that the night is coming, the night of the national overthrow, but before sundown the conqueror of earth and heaven will ride on the white horse, and the rum traffic, which has had it Austerlitz of tri umph shall have its Waterloo of de feat; and the crown fallen from the brow of Alcoholism the filthy and staggering breaker of human hearts, crazed with his disasters, shall feel in vain for a stirrup by which to re mount. CARROLL FREE PRESS. PUBLISHED EYEEY PEIDAY. EDWIN It. SHARPE, Pnti.isirr.K. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One copy one year, One copy six months, One copy three months, CUT. IIATKS: fen copies one year, Twenty copies one year, $1.25 65 40 810.00 820.00 PROFESSIONAL & BUSINESS CARDS IDE,. I. 3ST. CIPIElSrZE^r Would inform his friends anil the public general It that he is still in the practice of medicine. Special attention given to chronic diseases. Office Carrollton Ho tel. lOSEI’H I- COBB. FELIX X. COBB. COBB & COBB, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law. (’Alt KOI.I.TON, a KORG l A. Prompt attention given to ail bus iness intrusted tous. Collections a spe- jialtv. Office in court house. Dk. J. W. HALLUM, CARROLLTON - - - - GRORGIA. Has his office, in number 2, Mande- ville brick building. lie makes a specialty of OSTETR1CS and DISEASES OF WOMEN and CHILDREN. Call on him. ( onsultation free. XDK,. J. F. COLE, CARROLLTON*, GA. Is devoting most of his time and atten tion to surgery and surgical diseases, and is prepared for most any operation. His charges are reasonable. The Harnett House, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. Is conceded to he the most comforta ble and by far the best conducted hotel in Savannah. JQr” Rates : 82,00 Pei: Day. M. L. HARNETT. Land for Sale. One lot of land, number 200, seventh district, Carroll county, joining several plantations, very heavily timbered, well watered, lays well, public road rnnuing through it, and some good land upon it. If any one wishes to correspond with own- j er they will direct to Post Office, Box i 173, Griitin. Ga. February ISth, 1884. In the Senate gallery the otherday a nice old lady asked the gen tleman who sat beside her to point out Senator Butler, of South Caro lina. ’I want to see the man who killed so many colored people at Hamburg,’ she said. The gentleman happened to be a Southern man, and with bitter irony he pointed out the venerable Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts. The old lady looked seriously at him for a moment, and then - remarked: I might have known it there’s murder in every lineament of his face.’ Judge Roney says a vote is illegal when the tax is paid for the voter by the office seeker, Hard law on some people but a just one.—Louis ville News and Farmer. It seems to us that the act of the office-seeker is worse than that of the voter. Paying a man’s tax in such a case seems to come within the definition of ‘bribery.’—Macon Telegraph. it. Every ladder has a top round to Gur characters we make, our re- putations are Often made for us. JOHN B. STEWART Wishes to sat* to the public that he is -till prepared to do all kinds of PHOTOGEAHTHG and PEEE0TYPDTG in the latest style and at reasonable pri zes. Also keeps on ha nil a fair stock of Frames, Cases, Albums, Etc, Copying and enlarging a specialty— can tnake all sizes from loelftt to 8x10 inches. Remember that two dollars will buy a tine, large picture framed ready for your parlor, at my gallery, New nan street, Carrollton. Ga. Satisfaction Guaranteed. MRS. E. A. HENDON’S Perfect Fitting Chart. M iss Fannie Fullilove, of Athens, Georgia,who is temporarily'sojonm- ingin Carrollton, announces to the ladies of Carrollton, that she is prepared to give lessons in cutting and fitting Ladies and Misses dresses, and to furnish Mrs. Hen don's Perfect Fitting Chart, with instruc tions how to use it. This (’hart together with the lessons given, will enable any one to be their own mantua-maker. Per-- feet satisfaction guaranteed. Apply.at the residence of Rev. J. A. Perdue, Ce dar street, Carrollton, Georgia. BROWN <Se BROWN, WHITESBURG, GA. Drs. J. C. &. W T. Brown having formed a copartnership for the purpose of practicing medicine and surgery, offer their services to the public. We are thankful for past patronage and hope to merit a con tinuance of the same. Wliitesburg, Ca., Jan. :50th, 1884. SJF Dr. J. C. Brown can be found at Banning and Dr. W. T, Brown at Wliitesburg. FOE/ SALE. A second hand top buggy. Abouble barrel breech loading shot gun. An iron revolving book case. Big giant com mill—grinds corn and cob all together. A good pump Will sell cheap for eash or will ax- change for cattle. Apply to EDWIN SHARPE,