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I s'} VOL. XXIII. NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST' 3, 1888. NO. 42. NEW HARDWARE AND SEED STORE. Single and Double Buggies, Phaetons, Carriages, Road- carts, in any style, with springs to suit purchaser. I carry a full assortment of heavy and shelf Hardware, fine Stoves, stove-pipe and vessels, stove polish and adjustable stove- backs, Razors and Scissors, of genuine English product— Smith & Wesson Pistols, 15- shot Winchester Rifles, rim ’ and central fire Cartridges, farm Bells, grass Blades, bird Cages, Wagon and Buggy Timbers, tire Iron. Grassjand Garden Seeds, German Millet, wooden Churns, Lamp and Machine Oil. NORTH GEORGIA. Wheelbarrows, stone and Several styles of Tin Water Sets and a stock of Agate Iron Ware. A. POPE. J. A. PARKS. W. G. ARNOLD. J. S. WARE. THE NEWNAN CARRIAGE AND BUGGY WORKS. We are now prepared to do all kinds of Carriage, Buggy and Wagon work, and in a style that cannot be excelled in the State, or anywhere else. Our work men are skillful and efficient; our material the best that money will buy; our equipment thorough and complete in every department. In fact, we have spar ed neither pains nor expense in preparing for the bus iness, and our facilities for doing work in this line are first-class in every respect. We have on hand the finest lot of material ever put into buggy or carriage work in this section of the State, and workmen that know exactly how to put it together. We do not get our vehicles “knocked down,” from the North, as many other manufacturing firms do, but -make them out and out. This is our strongest recommendation. We manufacture— CARRIAGES, PHAETONS, LANDEAUS, HEARSES. ROAD-CARTS, BUGGIES, SULKEYS, WAGONS ETC. I mg au ituuicwjc m/J We’arejalsolprepared to do all kinds of carriage, buggy and wagon repfir work, in the four gangs of saws, 1 best style and atjthe lowest prices. Plantation workjand horse-shoeing a specialty. j worthfrom$sTto$8 Give us your work; we guarantee satisfaction. to quality and maniw.- T S. WARE, (late with Summers & Murphy, Barnesvvle,) Superintendent now being worked is three-fourths of a " i I mile wide by four miles in length. It has been bored to a depth of one hun died feet and no bottom found. ‘How many feet can you quarry in a year?” was asked of the superinten- HABjir opened, at the old stand or A. O. I dent new, fresh, and wel) assorted | -Last year we got out 200,000 feet. This year we expect to do better. We f>icy & FAMILY GROCERIES, I ship one hundred and fifty car-loads per month. The transfer charges at ,. , Marietta are $10 per car.” 'lour, Meal, Meat, J “Where do you sell, and with whom do you come in competition V r' j- „ rr , „. i “Our sales are made principally in Gandies, Tobacco, Cigars Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, and the California hams 12c. East. As to competition, we have none. fresh cream cheese, i7%c. Fully ninety per cent of the marble we —JN fact— quarry is used in cemetery work, and Everything that is good to eat > there is ot , her <*jf«>vered that can & 6 approach it m durability. It will not Being satisfied with a small profit on rapid I polish, like the Tennessee marble, for ^i e f:. a ^„“ pen ^ *f ing ,.? ut down the I furniture slabs; yet, unlike it, will not absorb moisture, is impervious to grease A Trip Through the Richest and Most Delightful Section of the State. The most picturesque and, to the lover of nature, delightfully interesting sectiou of Georgia, is that portion lying east o f the State Road and north of the Air-Line. It is a land not only beauti ful to behold, but exceedingly rich in all that nature’s bountiful hand is ac customed to bestow on her most fa vored spots. Its hitherto inaccessible valleys, rich in strength of soil; moun tain sides, grand in their beauty and covering untold wealth of gold, iron, marble, granite, manganese, and ochre; streams, with power to turn every wheel of enterprise in the South;—all these have been doing but meagre ser vice to mankind, while some of its wilds have, until recently, scarcely been trodden by the foot of man. But it will be so no longer. The wheels of progress have been put in motion, and they will gather force and momentum as the days go by. North Georgia will be as a new addition to our State; her development will be rap id and her wealth will, be great. The building of the MARIETTA AND NORTH GEORGIA RAIL ROAD has been the entering wedge that rives in sunder the lethargy of indifference, and will be the means of developing tbis magnificent section, gathering the accumulated products of the people and emptying untold riches into the lap of Georgia. It was the writer’s pleasure last week to make a trip over this road; to stop at the principal points of interest along tie route, and view with admiring eyes the uncovering of mineral wealth that had lain dormant for so many years. At Nelson, about thirty miles from Marietta, one gets the first view of the manipulation of marble, with which Pickens county abounds. But go with us sp to the next station—Tate,—and froin thence to the hospitable home of Mr: William Tate, one mile distant. The most romantic surroundings, a hone supplied with every comfort that taste could suggest and wealth supply} a family with whom it is a delight to sojourn, and where the friend Is ever welcome and the stranger gets his cheer. Mr. Tate is, as he should be, a bappv man THE GEORGIA MARBLE WORKS, whose owners have leased quarries on the Tate lands, are the largest, works of the kind in the South. They are do ing an immense work. Running fifty- the daily output is marble, which is per foot, according to quality and manipulation. The vein he advent of the railroad she, too, is awaking to a realization of her situa tion and advantages and is making rapid strides in progress. Blue Ridge, situated at the moun tain gap, in Fannin county, is probably the coming town of all that section. Its superior location/ away above the surrounding valleys, glens and coves, with the purest air and water to be found on the continent, its future is assured—especially if the junction of the Knoxville railroad with the Mari etta and North Georgia is made here, and there is strong probability of such a result. Our friend, Judge J. A. Bledsoe, of Ellijay, has been put in charge of affairs, and will be happy to answer any question relative to prop erty, etc., that may be addressed to him at Ellijay. On to Murphy, N. C., the terminus of the road, 110 miles from Marietta, the passenger is regaled with delight ful changes of view, from the swift flowing waters of Toccoa and Hiwassee to the lofty mountain peaks and val leys of ripening com. Now, as to what the road is doing. It is a narrow gauge, and was intended originally to penetrate this section and do the small carrying trade its projec tors hoped to obtain. But the earth, as it were, trembled with the approach of the steam engine; the pulse of en terprise was quickened by its shrill whistle as it echoed from hill to hill, and the possibilities of the road cannot now be foretold. It is a marvelous enter prise and ha3 already revolutionized the section through which it runs. The road from its inception has had more than it could do, and to-day Mr. J. B. Glover, the efficient superintendent, has five hundred men employed on the line, preparing to widen the gauge to the standard width. They are filling in trestles, edging up the curves, changing the grades, building bridges, and doing all in their power to give the people adequate railroad facilities. What a pity that our legislators, who were so strenuous in their endeav ors at the last session to prevent the natural and modest request of this railroad for a charter from Marietta to Atlanta, could but have seen this country and people ten years ago and T. E. FELL & CO. HARDWARE, NAILS, IRON AND STEEL CUTLERY,/ AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMK ts Lous Donegan, HOUSEIFURNISHING HARDWARE, Cooking Stoves and Tinware. COTTON GINS, CARRIAGE MATERIAL, BELTING. All kinds of Job Work in Tin .done on short notice. lowest possible point, he will promise BOTTOM PRICES on everything he sells. The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. ICE-COLD LEMONADE. JJ^-ICE furnished day or night. COAL NOTICE! New!an, Ga. S. BUCHMAN, DRY GOODS, GDODS, or water, and is unaffected by changes of temperature. We quarry the white, red, and grey marble. While the Ten nessee red marble, exposed to the at mosphere, will lose its color, ours will not; and while other marble flakes off and becomes dingy or stained, ours re tains its original color permanently. ‘Why is it that the South does not use your marble?” I will be in Newnan in a I “ We are introducing it here, but few days for the purpose of ha ™ made no special effort heretofore , OI to do so, because the markets North Orders for the celebra- j and West took all our railroad could ted “Montevallo Grate Coal” I handle. With increased railroad facil- for August delivery. Wait ities our output will be greater.” for me and get your winter’s Just t ! dnk of il 1 0ne “fflion dollars’ curkrtltr i . income from a spot heretofore produc- pply of first-class coal at sum- ing afew bushels of com or wheat! And mer pnces. C. L. WORD, yet this is only one company among Agt. Montevallo Coal. I 1113X1 ^ Others that-might be organized. Address, West Point Ga. Four 1111168 farther on > down Long ’ 1 Swamp Creek, stand the works of the Southern Marble Company, superin tended by our quondam friend, Prof. Ben Hall. On our visit to the quarry we were shown the tiling for the State Capitol at Atlanta, the contract for see them now. Wo wore told that reduction of 20 per cent in freight rates could be saved to shippers in the event an Atlanta terminus could be ob tained. Why let the State road stand as a perpetual menace to this' great private enterprise, and a continual dis couragement to the progress of our fellow-citizens of Northeast Georgia ? The competition from Marietta to At lanta is only fancied—the practical ben efits resulting would be real and lasting. And there is another consideration why the road should come to Atlanta. Chattanooga has on foot, and will doubtless complete at an early date, road to Murphy, which will be a com petitor with the Marietta road. If the latter cannot offer the transportation facilities that the former can, the im mense traffic that is sure to be built up in this section will be diverted from Georgia to Tennessee—from Atlanta to Chattanooga and Knoxville; and in the course of a very few years our great State, when too late, may discover that injustice is suicidal; that she had bet ter give away her State Road, if need be, rather than throttle every private railroad enterprise that chances to come in competition with it. We were assured by citizens all along the line of the Marietta and North Georgia that the road is doing all in its power to foster the infant industries along its line; that it lends encourage ment to every worthy enterprise. Let Georgia now deal jusfly with her citi zens, and soon she will have ample cause to be proud of the record they will make. The question of this extension will be up before the next Legislature, and we hope and trust that the action of the last Legislature will be reconsidered, and with new light on the subject and new evidence of the justness of the claim made by the people of North Georgia, Atlanta will soon be enabled to welcome the advent of this new road, the youngest, but greatest and most generous of all her numerous feeders. s. w. m. COAL! 0RING. I will sell Several varieties j furnishing which having been awarded of first-class COAL, as cheap to this company, as any dealer. Prices furnish ' r *’“ J ed on application. M. B. PINSON. Newnan, Ga., July 13. Of Interest to Ladies. w««niMd • fMl yMinjrtar — —• The outlook for Pickens county is glorious. She has enough marble in her mountains and valleys to supply the American continent for a thousand years. Further on we come to Ellijay, nestled in a valley at the confluence of the Ellijay and Cartecay rivers. Ellijay is tESESfiZ&i&Ssnt {undignified *5^ in its repose. But with Communicated. The Agricultural Department. I don’t care anything about what the Widow Bedott said, for I guess she never heard of just such a thing as the Agricultural Bureau of Georgia. Then, again, there is nothing real in what a novel writer says; they never deal in facts but fiction. ‘Tanner” says: “I cannot under stand the opposition of ‘Ripples’ and others to the Agricultural Bureau, un less they want something to complain of. They want to be dissatisfied about something.” The truth is, we want to get rid of something that is already burdensome, and something that is un just, unprofitable, and downright rob bery-extorting an unjust tax from the farming classes of Georgia to support a class of office seekers who want to make their living by sucking the public pap. If the Agricultural Department In* ever been of any benefit to the Stair of Georgia, or to the farmers generally. I have never seen the results of snob benefits. Corn don’t grow any better now than before the establishment «T the Bureau, but there is less raised; fewer hogs, cows and stock of all kindst do more wheat and oats raised new than before the establishment of tin' Agricultural Bureau. It is true the Commissioner sends out his month ly reports, but they cost the people more than they profit them. Let look at some of the printers’ bills and see what the printing of those quar terly reports cost: Quarter ending December 31. 1885.... Quarter ending March 31,1R86 HTX7 Quarter ending June 30. 1886 BIC Quarter ending September 30,1886 ... Quarter ending December 81,1888 975*r Quarter ending March 31, 1887 1162s Quarter ending June 30, 1887 MtS» Quarter ending September 30,1887.... SIB 12 Total coat, twe years $4,IMS. The printing of those reports cost the State for one year $2,054 27 or thevo- about. This is but a small item in the mare’s nest. I think “Farmer” and myself are about even on the IWfe items.' “Farmer” thinks the subject of abol ishing the Agricultural Bureau ismti agitated in any other county in the State. If not so, how comes the State Alliance to be against it all over the State? I have been in several countiqa and conversed with farmers who are in favor of abolishing the concern in ioto. I learn that there were about fifty-foar farmers in the last Legislature and tliey were at first opposed to investigating the records of the Agricultural Bureau., but when they found out what crooked ness there was going on they all chang ed their minds and voted to have the matter thoroughly investigated. , As to my being called the ‘ieil wether,” I care nothing for that kind of sheep talk. As to “Farmer’s” flatter? in calling me the “leading correspond ent,” rebuking candidates for stealing my thunder, and suggesting that ! should go to the Legislature, I will nay that none of that sort of talk makes me vain enough to want to go tp the Leg islature; but, if I ever should bo aona- fortunate as to become a member ot the Legislature, I doa’t think I would. ?w “Farmer” says, drink ice water 0 the expense of the people-at least, J would not give orders for it as -hi* friend Henderson does. I guess bt knows how be did while in the legis lature, and judges others by himself. I don’t see why “Farmer'’ should -feel serious or melancholy because a corres pondent and a few candidates differ with him. We are as much entitled tn our opinions as Mr. ‘Tanner,” and w* don’t propose to alter the plan of sal vation, or secede from the Union. JT the Agricultural Department has ever benefited any one outside of the officer* of the department, I don’t know who it is. Perhaps “Farmer” makes better crops than he did before its establirii- ment, and don’t have to buy ration* and supplies; and instead of farming on the extensive system he farms on the intensive plan. Greeks Almanar tells more about the weather and when to plant and how to prepare the than all the Agricultural Department put together, and is of more sendee to the State and the world at large, thwq, two such concerns as the Agricultural Department of Georgia. Farmer” says “if any of the candi dates get to the Legislature that they would do the very thing they are censur ing the Commissioner for: they will use water and ice and make the State pa? for them.” I have never yet seen a mem-' her of the Georgia Legislature that ever bought a drink of water while in the Legislature, (“farmer” may have done it,) nor have have I ever seen one thai made the State pay for his newspapers while in the Legislature. They are not hirelings, but the representatives of tlm people—they are the people them selves. The candidates can answer for themselves what they will do when they get there; I think, though, they will vote to abolish the Agricultural Bureau. Bippees. .... Powelvllle. Mr. Editor:—It is my sad duty to chronicle the death of Miss Nettie Halfacre, of whose sickness I made mention in my last letter. Miss acre came from Mississippi here left December, on a visit to her sister, tf*» George Powell, and had been here siner that time. She was taken sick on 8th day of July, with typhoid fever. On Friday, the 20th, she was calfari away from her many relatives ***«! friends which she had made here, to meet the friends and loved ones in the home above. She died away from home, yet she was loved by all who knew her. She was a kind, Cliristian young lady. The remains were sent to BrookviBe. Miss., where they were interred «b Sunday afternoon, 22d ult. A 1—y number of her friends were presents] the funeral. I would say to her relatives met friends, weep not, for she died m> Christ, and we have every reason b believe that she is a happy angel dar. A ~ Au* 1-* Lug. 1st warn