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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 eon-retire, is the real need. It is the pos session of this grand requirement which make;- Hostetler's stomach Bitters so edf ctire an iuvigorant. For sale by all Dr'.eyists r.nd Dealers generally. * torpid aondition of the Liver; eueh aaBilionsnem, featir.coM, Jaundice, Dyspepsia, Malaria, Sick- Haadaahe, Rheumatism, etc. An invalnablo r am- ffy Hadieine. For full information send your adr freas ea a postal card for ICO page book on tha * Liver sad its Diseases, to Dll. SALFORD, 34 Biisfl Street, New York. ilt OKCGOISI IflU, TELL YOU ITS BEPCTAT10S. FACTS RECARDINC Br. Saxier’s Srcn Tonic. It will purify and enrich the BLOOD* regulate it LIVER and KIDNEYS, and Restoiik the [SALTS and VIGOR of YOUTH! In all those Iseases requiring a certain and effleien 1 ON IC, specially Dyspepsia, Want of Appetite.Imliges- len. Lack of Strength, etc., its use is marked rlth immediate ana wonderful results. Hones, auseles and nerves receive new force. Enlivens tia mind and supplies Brain Power. I m suffering from ail complaints Ul tO peculiar to their sexwill find in >R. HARTER’S IRON TONIC a safe and speedy are. It gives a clear and healthy complexion. The strongest testimony to the value of Du. lARTEtt’s lnox Tonic 1s that frequent attempts I aounterfcitlughave only added to tliepopnlar- ty of the original. If you earnestly desire health e not experiment—get the ORIGINAL AND Best. ( Send your address to The Dr. Harter Mod.Co. Si. Louis, Mo., for our “DREAM BOOK.” ■ Full of strange and useful information, free.^ )m. Harter's Iron Tonic is for Sale by all Druggists and Dealers Everywhere. 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, J'he First-class and Emigrant Passengers FAVORITE! Albert B. Wrenn, W. i. Rogers, Pas. Agent, Pas. Agent, Atlanta,Ga. Chattanooga, Temi W. L. DANLEY, Geu. Pas. & Tkt. Agent, 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 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One copy one year, 81.26 One copy six months, 66 One copy three months, 48 Cl.VIt KATES; Ten copies one year, £10.00 Twenty copies one year, £20.00 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.