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VOL. I,
CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, MAT 16, 1884.
NO. 26.
fclTTEB 5
tt*generation fbr Enfeebled
enfferiug from a general want of tone, and
Jfc Tssuaf concomitants, dyspepsia and
Ktrvonsncss, is seldom derivable from the
*se of a nourishing diet and stimuli of
appetite, unaided. A medicine that will
•met a removal ol the specific obstacle to
renewed health and vigor, that is a genuine
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TURNER and CHAMBERS,
CARROLLTON, GKORGIA
—Dealers in—
General Merchandise,
Are still :it their old stand on Rome
street, ready to sell yon goods as cheap
fir cheaper tliap anybody If you want
anything in their line, give them a trial
amd they think you will trade.
We would say to those owing us that
WE MUST HAVE
What is due us. We have indulged
yon as long as we can and we now want
©or money.
IF YOU ARE
GOirsra-
■WEST,
NORTHWEST,
—OR—
SOUTHWEST,
BE SURE
Your Tickets Bead via the
N, C. & St. L. R’Y
The Mackenzie Route,
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Pas. Agent, Pas. Agent,
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W. L. DANLEY,
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Nashville, Teun.
THE TARIFF.
Remarks of Mr. Hurd in Congress.
Mr. Hurd, of Ohio, took the floor
in advocacy of the bill. While the
tariff, he said, was first paid by the
importer, it was ultimately paid
by the consumer. When it was
levied for the.purposes of govern
ment, it was called a revenue tariff;
when it was levied for the purpose
of aiding individuals in business
enterprises, it was called a protec
tive tariff. To the first, when laid
fairly and without discrimination,
he had no objection but to the lat
ter was unalterably opposed. On
what groound should the govern
ment interpose to help the business
of one citizen at the expense of an
other? If a man’s business were a
profitable one, it did not need the
protection of the government; if
unprofitable, that was a reason why
he should not put his money in it,
but no reason why he should
compel his fellow citizens to pay
two prices for the article he made
in order fo make good his losses,—
If he (Hurd) were compelled by
legislation to pay $150 for what
would otherwise cost $100, then the
seller would have been armed with
the taxing power of the govern
ment to take from him $50. He de
nied the right of the government to
surrender the taxing power and al
low an individual to exercise it.—
When he earned wages they were
his own, and he had the right to ex
pend them where he pleased. If he
could make a better contract with
a Frenchman, a Canadian or an
Englishman than with an Ameri
can he had the right to do it, and the
government had no right to inter
pose in so far as the needs of its
revenue were concerned. He res
ted his whole case on this proposi
tion, that, subject to the needB of
the government, every man had
the right to sell where he could get
the best price for what lie had pro
duced and buy where he could buy
the most cheaply. This an approv
ed doctrine of political economy
and the plainest spirit of justice.—
It individualized men; it gave them
the spirit of independence; it turn
ed their eyes from the government
to themselves; it fixed a boundary
line between governmental power,
and personal right; it limited the
authority of the public adminstra-
tion; it taught men there was no
arm so strong for their support as
their own, and no business so suc
cessful U3 that which their ability
and skill had built up. It limited
the government within its proper
sphere, and left individuals free
to choose their own careers, develop
thier own resources and build up
their own fortunes. The present
American tariff was a high protec
tive one. It increased the price of
articles imported into this country
more than 43 per cent. It was per
fectly manifest that its influence on
our commerce could only be dele
terious. Trade was merely mutu
ality of exchange, and fereign trade
was the exchange of the products
of the citizens of different count ries.
Every hindrance to the importation
of foreign goods was an embarras-
ment to commerce, for the same ex
tent it prevented the exportation of
American goods. The country
could not have a larger exportation
without having a large.importation.
Every tariff' duty was a burden on
foreign commerce, and it was doub
ly so because it gave foreign nations
an excuse for keeping out Ameri
can goods, More injurious still was
this system on the carrying trade,
and it w as a question of only a little
time when under this policy the
American flag would entirely dis-
ippear from the high seas. The
tariff prohibited the importation of
foreign vessels, and American cap
ital, when it desired to engage in the
carrying trade must do so under a
foreign flag. On the ship-building
interest protection had been most
disastrous. Nothing was clearer-
to his mind than that the destruc
tion of the foreign carrying trade
was the result of the prohibition of
an American registry to foreign
b^iiit vessels and the high price of
raw material to ship-builders. The
oceans were free to all. Any per
son might sail whithersoever he
pleased, but in this free-for-all-race
where was America ? The skill of
sailors of every nation was thore,
asserting itself, except ours. For
tunes were being built fpr people
of all nations except ours, and yet
this was an ocean-bound republic.
Every ripple of the waters on the
sea shore was an invitation to en
joy the wealth of foreign nations,
and every storm wave that beat up
on the crags spoke in thundering
denunciation of the policy that
would lock America out of the mar
kets of the worid. [Loud applause.]
God speed the day when the divine
thought of man’s rotherhood to
to man would succeed the degrad
ing and humilia; g one of nation
al isolation and foreign exclusion.
What was the effect of this ruinous
system on the farmer ? It increas
ed the price of all articles into his
daily daily consumption, and this
increase amounted to an annual
sum of $450,008;000. For this there
was absolutely no compensation in
the protective system. The system
operated to increase the price of
grain from the West to the seaboard
and to Europe. When the grain of
the American farmer reached Liv
erpool, it came injeompetition with
the grain of every other farmer of
the world. The protective tarff of
America was unable to help him
there. Every dollar of increase of
price which the transportation oc
casioned to him diminished the pro
fits of his sales. But the protective
tariff did more injury to farmer in
the injury it occassioned to his for
eign markets.
Erect a Home Bar.
A Western Journal has the fol
lowing practical remarks for those
who cannot get along without fre
quent whiskies.
Liquor dealers pay on an average,
$2 per gallon for whisky. One gal
lon contains on an average of six
ty-five drinks, and at ten cents a
drink, the poor man pays $G,50 per
gallon for his whisky. In other
words he pays $2 for the whiskey
and $4,50 to the man for handing it
over the bar. Make your wife bar
keeper. Lend her $2 to buy a gal
lon of whisky for a beginning, and
every time you want a drink, go to
her and pay ten cents for it. By
the time you have drank a gallon
she will have $6,50, or enough mon
ey to refund the 2,00 borrowed of
you, to pay for another gallon of
whisky and a balance of $4,50. She
will be able to conduct her future
operations on her own capital, and
when you become an inebriate un
able to support yourself, shunned
and despised by all respectable peo
ple your wife will have enough
ready money to keep you until you
get ready to fill a drunkard’s grave.
This is not reprinted as a news
item, but because it is one of the
best temperance sermons we ever
read—one calculated to carry more
weight than a dozen long winded
ones put on the “high moral plane.”
This is pratical and will carry con
viction to the mind and heart
of many a man who
would not listen to an
ordinary sermon. That is the mis
sion on which we send it now, and
we earnestly hope it may have the
result d esired.
From the Hnwkinsville, Ga., Dispatch.
An Aged Catfish.
A gentleman by the name of
Clarke gave us the history of a
catfish that he knew to be twenty-
eight years old. When Mr. Clark
was a boy about ten years old he
caught in a branch a
little mud cat or “kit
ten” about two inches in length.—
He took the fish home and put it in
a well where it has remained for
twenty-eight years, and has grown
to be sixteen inches long. Mr. Rad
Browning, living ner MeVille, has
in his well a catfish that he placed
there fourteen jyears ago. Every
year when the well is cleaned out
the cat is carfully caught and put
in a tub of water where it remains
perfectly satisfied until returned to
the well.
A Rome merchant wrote the
names of his debtors on a bulletin
board in front of his store, giving
the amount they owed him, refer-
ing to them as dead-beats. The
matter will possibly go into the
courts.
The Athens Banner says: The
Atlanta Sunday Record prints a
cut of the coat of arms of the Peters
family of that city. Other Georgia
families can aave their insignia
of the blue blood made to order
at reduced prices, by addressing any
Gate City engraver. Beneath the
design this great Jersy-raising fam
ily should have had inscribed:
“Who would have thought it?
Milk and water bought it !*’
A certain legal document In some
way was lost in the Sheriff’s office
and for two months Bailiff Jones
has been on the hunt for it. He
searched all the shelves and draw*
ers in the office and failed to find
it. Monday night he dreamed that
it was among a lot of papers in a
certain drawer in the office. So im
pressed was he by the dream that
he looked over the papers dreamed
about, and the missing document
was there.
Good Advice to Mothers.
l)o, if the baby cries, warm its feet
before you dose it.
Do teach them courtesy by
example; be courteous to them.
Do remember that other people
have children as well as yourself.
Do show the children that you
love them; do not expect them to
take it on trust.
Do, as they grow older, win their
confidence; if you do not, some ono
else will.
Do sing to the little oneH; the
memory of a nursery song will cling
to them through life.
Do let the children make a noise
sometimes. Their happiness is im
portant as your nerves.
Do believe in a child’s statements
until you are sure they are incor
rect ;mistrust breeds estrangement.
Do as the boys grow up make com
panions of them; then they will not
seek companionship elsewhere.
Do dress the children sensibly;
cover up their limbs in winter, and
study health first- and apearance sec
ond.
Do allow them as they grow older
t o have opinions of their own; make
them individuals and not mere
echoes.
Do as long as is possible, kiss
them good-night after they are in
bed. They do like it so, and it keeps
them very close.
Do talk hopefully to your children
of life and its responsibilities; you
have no right to depress them be
cause you have suffered.
Do bear in mind that you are
largely responsible for your child’s
inherited character, and havo pati
ence with faults and failings.
Do attend t© them yourself; a go-
between betwixt mother and child
is like a middle man in business,
who gets the largest share of the
profits.
Do remember that without physi
cal health mental attainments are
worthless; let them lead free,happy
lives, which will strengthen both
mind and body.
Do maintain a respectful tone to
their father before them; if he is not
all you wish still make them respect
him; he is allways their father and
disrespect to him is reflection upon
yourself.
Do respect their little secrets; If
they have concealments, worrying
them will never make them tell,
and time and patience will proba
bly do their work.
Do, if you have lost a child, re
member that for the one that has
gone there is no more to do; for
those remaining, everything; hide
your griefs for their sakes.
Do teach boys and girls the actu
al facts of life as soon as they are
old enough to understand them,and
give them a sense of responsibility
without saddening them.
Do find out what their special
tastes are, and develop them, in
stead of spending time, money and
patience in forcing them into stud
ies that are repugnant to them.
The Gwinnet Herald refers to the
funny predicament of the Lawren-
ceville girls as follows: “The Me
thodist church in Lawrenceville is
in trouble about an organist. As
soon as they secure one and she is
properly installed and qualified to
lead the music, she marries and
then another has to be elected.—
The consequence is that the girls
are unwilling to take the position
for fear they may get married too.”
“May,” asked a little Burlington
girl of a compainion, “what do you
suppose is the difference between a
beau and a beau ideal?” ‘Well, I
don’t know,” was the frank re
sponse, unless they leave off the
ideal after they get married,”
Never hesitate about encouraging
ey$ry enterprise that tends towards
the upbuilding of the community.
It is a sad fact that prize fighters
are receiving toe much attention
from the newspapers and not en
ough from the police.
The stingiest man lives at War-
renton, Ga. He stops his clock
nights to keep it from wearing out.
Don’t forget, my snobbish friend,
that you have got to die just the
same as the rest of us, and you can
not bury yourself, either.
When a man does drop out of
sight in a great city, you not only
never hear from him again, but
you cannot even find the hole he
fell through.
Ithaca, the largest village in the
world, has become a chartered city.
From the Savannah News.
The Morrison Bill—Randall’s Triumph,
The Morrison bill is dead. Mr.
Randall is entitled to the credit of
killing it. He and a majority of
those who supported him for Speak
er joined the Republicans against
the bill, and they outnumbered the
tariff reform Democrats four votes.
There will be no reduction of the
tariff this session, and probably not
this Congress. What effect the
action of the House yesterday will
have on the Presidential contest
cannot be predicted with any de
gree of certainty. If the House had
acted differently the Democrats
would have made tariff reform the
leading issue in the campaign. They
may yet make that a prominent
issue, but it is clear that they cannot
present it as forcibly and effectively
as they could have done if they
had succeeded in passingabill redu
cing the revenues. They will be met
with the taunt that they cannot re
form the tariff, and that it is there
fore useless to pretend that they
can. They will be told by the Repub
lican organs and orators that, with
an overwhelming majority in the
House they could not make a re
duction in the tariff of 20 per cent
or, in fact any reduction. Revenge
for his defeat for the Speakership
may be sweet to Mr. Randall but
has he not done his party incalcu
lable harm ? The Treasury is over
flowing and the annual surplus
revenue amounts to more than
$100, 000, 000. Will the people contin
ue to pay the war taxes that make
this surplus without murmuring ?
On the Democratic House rests the
responsibility of getting rid of the
surplus. They have not yet shown
themselves equal to this respons
ibility. Randall and his followers
perhaps, will advise that the sur
plus be got rid of by wiping out all
internrl revenue taxes. Will that
advice be satisfactry to the people ?
Do they want free whisky and
tobacco while they pay a tax of 40
per cent, on the necessaries of life?
Mr. Randall’s plan doubtless would
be satisfactory to the manufactur
ers, but it would not meet the ap
proval of the masses. The people
want cheap necessaries, not cheap
whisky. Mr. Randall says that he
doesn’t want the business interest
of the country disturbed by changes
in the tariff. Must the people pay
$100,000,000 a year iu order to insure
tranquility to certain classes of
business. It is only a question of a
very short time when it will not be
possible to resist the demand for
tariff reduction. The Democratic
party would have strengthened
itself by making the reduction at
once. Its failure to do so is the first
mistake of the Presidential cam
paign and it wili prove to be the
greatest.
Five Cents a Day.
The cumulative power of money
is a fact very generally known, but
not generally appreciated. There
are few men living at the age of 75,
hanging on to existence by some
slender employment, or pensioners,
it may be, on the bounty of kindred
or friends, but might, by exercising
the smallest particle of thrift, rigid
ly adhered to in the past, have set
aside a respeetible sum which would
materially help them to maintain
their independence in their old age.
Lotus take the small and insignifi
cant sum of 5 cents, which we daily
pay to have our boots blackened to
ride the distance we are able to
walk, or to procure a bad cigar we
are better without, and see what
its value is in the course of years.
We will suppose a boy of 15, by
blackening his own boots, or saving
his car-fare, or going without his
cherished cigarette, puts by 5 cents
a day; in one year he saves $18.25>
which being banked bears interest
at the rate of per 5 cent, per annum,
compounded bi-yearly. On this ba
sis, when onr thrifty youth reaches
the age of 65, having set his 5
cents per day regligiously aside
during 50 years, the result is surpris
ing. He has accumulated no less
a sum than $4,803,17. A scrutiny of
the process of this resuit is interes
ting. At the age of 30 our hero had
$395; at 40, $877; at 56, $1,667; at G0 >
$2,862. After 15 years saving, his
annual interest more than equals
his original; in 25 years it is more
than double; in 35 years it is four
times as much; in 45 years it is eight
times as much, and the last year’s
interest is $86, or ten and a half
times as much as the annual amount
he puts by. The actual cash
amount saved in 50 years is $912.50,
the difference between that and the
grand total of $3,893.17—viz., $2,980.-
67, is accumulated interest. What
a magnificent premium for the min
imum of thrift that can be well rep
resented in figures!
The man that reads his home pa
per or any other for years and years
without paying for the privilege,
can’t convince many people that
he is in favor of reform and good
government. There are just such
men in Georgia and they are not
ashamed to walk about in the day
time.—Telegraph & Messenger.
Well, the editor should not allow
a man to do that—he should cut his
name off of the subscription books
and sue the account.
Health Alphabet.
As soon as you are up shake blan
ket and sheets.
Better be without shoes than sit
with wet feet.
Children healthy, are active, not
siill.
Damp clothes and damp beds will
both make you ill.
Eat slowly and always chew your
food well.
Freshen the air in the house
where you dwell.
Garments must never be made
tight.
Homes should be healthy airy and
tight.
If you wish to be well, as you do,
I’ve no doubt.
Just open the windows before you
out.
Keep the room always tidy and
clean.
Let no dust on furniture ever be
seen.
Much is caused by the want of
pure air.
Now to open your windows be
ever your care.
Old rags and rubbish should nev
er be kept.
People should see ahat their floors
are well swept.
Quick movements in children are
healthy and right.
Remember the young can not
thrive without light.
See that the cistern is clear to the
brim.
That your dress is all tidy and
trim.
Use your nose to find if there be
a bad drain.
Very sad are the fevers that come
in its train.
Walk as much as you can wiihout
getting fatigued.
Xerxes could walk full.many a
league.
Your health is wealth, which
your wisdsm must keep.
Zeal will help a good cause, and
the good you will reap.—Progress.
The following sound suggestion
is applicable to a great many more
counties than Terrell. Dawson
Journal says: “Whoever goes to
the next Legislature from Terrell
let him be man of backbone and
grit. Let him be a man that would
rather sacrifice personal popularity
than to sacrifice right. In fact,
the man who has the courage of
of his convictions, will, in the end,
always triumph. He may for a
little while incur the frowns of
some of his constituents, but at last
he will be indorsed and receive his
just need of praise.
“Will you have a small piece of
the light meat ?” asked Rob’s un
cle, as he carved the turkey. “I’ll
take a large piece of both,” said Bob.
“Here, waiter, take away these
fried oysters, they are bad.” I
know it sir, but we have given you
two more oysters than you called
for to make up for it.”
A minister suddenly stopped
in his sermon and
sang a hymn. “If the
members of the choir are to do the
talking,” he explained, “they cer
tainly will permit me to do the
singing,” and then things in the
neighborhood of the organ became
more quiet.
The boy who is most afraid of
the girls is the first to be corralled
in matrimony.
The Hartwell Sun thinks there
ought to be more farmers and few
er merchants.
Aman of a great deal of character
cannot hide it. He will betray it
even when he sneezes.
Chicago dailies are driving out St.
Louis papers in Southern Illinois.
Kansas City packed 55,000 more
hogs than Cincinnati the past win
ter.
Greek Wines are now introduced
into France for admixture with the
native wines.
CARROLL FREE PRESS.
~ PUBLISHED EVEP.Y FRIDAY.
EDWIN R. SIIARPE, Pi bmsiiejl
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PROFESSIONAL & BUSINESS CARDS
33R. I. 1ST. CHE3MET
Would inform his friends and the public
generally that lie is still in the practice
of medicine. Special attention given t©
chronic diseases. Olliee Carrollton Ho
tel.
TOSEril L. COBB. FELIX X. COBB.
COBB & COBB,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law.
C'ARROLLTOX, GEORGIA,
gggp- Prompt attention given to all bus
iness intrusted to us. Collections a sp©-
jialty. Office in court house.
Dr. J. W. HALLUM,
CARROLLTON - - - - GEORGIA,
Has his office, in number 2, Mande-
ville brick building, lie makes a specialty
of OSTETRICS and DISEASES OF
WOMEN and CHILDREN. Call ©n
him. Consultation free.
DR. J. IF- COLE,
CARROLLTON, GA.
Is devoting most of his time and atten
tion to surgery and surgical diseases, and
is prepared for most any operation. HD
charges are. reasonable.
The Harnett House,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
Is conceded to he the most comforta
ble and by far the best conducted hotel
iu Savannah.
Rates : 82,00 Per Day.
M. L. HARNETT.
Land for Sale.
One lot of land, number 290, seventh
district, Carroll county, joining several
plantations, very heavily timbered, well
watered, lays well, public road running
through it, and some good land upon it.
If aiij - one wishes to correspond with own
er thej" will direct to Post Office, Box
173, Griffin, Ga. February 18th, 1884.
JOHN B. STEWART
Wishes to say to the public that he is
still prepared to do all kinds of
PH0T0GEAHING and PEBBOTYPUfG
in the latest style and at reasonable pri
ces. Also keeps on hand a fair stock of
Frames, Cases, Albums, Etc.
Copying and enlarging a specialty—
can make all sizes from locket to 8x10
inches. Remember that two dollars will
buy a fine, large picture framed ready
for your parlor, at my gallery, Newnan
street, Carrollton, Ga.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
MRS. E. A. HENDON’S
Perfect Fitting Chart.
M iss Fannie Fullilove, of Athens,
Georgia,who is tetnporarily'sojoum-
ing in 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 Chart together
with the lessons given, will enable any
one, to be their own mantua-maker. Per
fect satisfaction guaranteed. Apply at
the residence of Rev. J. A. Perdue, Ce
dar street, Carrollton, Georgia.
BROWN Sc 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.
Whitesburg, Ga., Jan. 30tb, 1884.
BjM Dr. J. C. Brown can be
found at Banning and Dr. W, T.
Brown at Whitesburg.
The Prince of Wales last year re
ceived from the Duchy of Cornwall
the net income of $325,000.
The State tax of Florida this
year is but 3 mills.
FOR SALE.
A second hand top buggy.
Abouble barrel breech loading shot
gun.
An ironTevolving book case.
Big giant com mill—grinds com and
cob all together.
A good pump
Will sell cheap for eash or will ex
change for cattle.
Apply to EDWIN B. SHARPE.
