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Office: Gordon Street, near the Bridge.
SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1882.
PUBLISHER’S NOTICE.
I this week again take charge of the
Argus office, and all business matters
connected therewith must be with my
self, in the future. I shall endeavor to
merit a fair share of the local patronage,
and will gratefully appreciate all favors. j
All unpaid subscriptions must be paid
to me. H. A. Wrench.
If you are indebted to the Argus i
for subscription, lookout for your bill on
printed strip, and come up and pay. If
vol are one year overdue, arrangements
will be made to collect, and a rod mark
will denote- immediate business.
CURRENCY.
Sloan & Walker, druggists, have just
received a large stock of Fruit Cans. Go
ami see them. —Adv.
Eggs 13 cents a dozen.
Cotton lias commenced to grow.
Our saw mills find a market for all the
lumber they can rip.
Theives made a raid on the Rudd
house garden Monday night.
The produce shipping business from
Dalton has doubled the past year.
There will be no celebration of the
glorious 4th at Chattanooga this year.
Adam Pfankuche exhibits a cucumber
ten inches long and as big as your arm.
Quite a party of our Gordon county
cousins wvill commingle with the com
mencement crowd.
The Oscar Wilde’s say that Tinsley,
of Calhoun, is a better butter than he is
a batter.
Denton & Lynn have bought the inter
est of G. W. Oglesby in the Dalton flour
ing mill.
The doctors say that there is more
sickness in the country around Dalton,
than in the city.
The Cleveland young people are con
sidering a frolic for some of the Dalton
young ones.
The “tapping of a woodpecker in the
emerald shades,” is purely a Dalton im
agination.
The report of injury to fruit crop in
this county is only true of those trees
improperly cared for.
R. A. Henry and B. F. Hunt, of Trion
■Factory, are over taking in the torn
■mencements.
I Collector Holtzclaw is beginning to re
■ceive enquiries relative to the making of
■teach brandy.
Fred Cox takes 720 dozen binds of oats
Brom ten acres of land that will average
busfiel to the dozen. Ta, ta, Kansas.
I it is rather a press of good things to
■pave both commencement sermons in
morning. It looks too much like a
|Buitch game.
I Newt. Rison tells us of having roast
dwg ears ten days ago, and presents us
■with delicious peaches of the Beatrice
■ Married, at the Rudd House, on the
■th. by J. F. Trevitt, Esq.,W. L. Swaf-
to Miss Mary E. Senn, all of this
No insurance.
■ Capt. Tim Ford, who has the boss fish
B in| l of Georgia, is building another.
■<' is very enthusiastic over the proba
gßy success of his German carp.
■ The Argus learns that G. W. Oglesby,
H>hn Chester and Paul Trammell will
■fri't large wooden work factory in At-
l.ita.
■A heavy law suit, involving the claim
has been progressing in Dal-
this week, between the heirs of the
estate.
rom this on the Argus will give a
W‘"klv corrected Dalton market report,
■ also from Atlanta, Chattanaoga and
■"ne, so soon as reliable arrangements
Ibe made.
■ ring Place has had a railroad meet
and shoved Dalton onto the side
k of the Gainesville and Dalton
rt-Cut. The road has been built to
Clay—on paper.
he advertisement of the Ojinajamin
(■ompany in last weeks Argus, caused
sale of over 1,000 shares in a few day s
r, the paper being quoted in the ap
ation for the same.
■ H. Wilson, tax receiver, will wait
the merchants in Dalton, at their
■cs of business, on Wednesday the
■ inst., and hope they will be prepared
ive in their taxes on that day.
' the morning you can take in the
"ford commencement sermon at 10
°ck, and at 11 feast your eyes on the
tty listeners to the lecture at the fe-
college.
rejoices in the possession of a
yming lady dentist, tflio ex
teeth in the most artistic manner.
SB sweet smiles allures the patient into
dreams, and while under the witch
®M"f her blue eyes a’/Xpain is forgotten,
tl le llalne o f yj| C f a j r ( l en .
she is ready for
t JBfe^' ,o 'dlor gave one of his r;tre and
music feasts, in the banemeni
■pi'tist church, Wednesday evc-
of the closing
u of bis large music
<is
■ 1“ dH ■ in .4, \lered
f I ai aw fi<-^i, tb to tion
y|
>7d, willJeciaJly
/ iut’. Aopie arey
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■ ■ StVV
G. H. Gilkey, of Spartanburg, S. C.,
and Miss Lina Bivings, were married at
the residence of the latters father, J. D.
Bivings, near this city, Monday even
ing. Miss Lina was one of our most
popular and fascinating young ladies
and will be greatly missed by her large
circle of friends.
The Oscar Wilde base ball club, of
Cleveland, attended by some thirty’ or
fortg ladies and gentleman came down
last Saturday’ to play’ the Sunflowers a
I game. The game excited considerable
interest, was witnessed by a large crowd,
and won by the Cleveland club 30 to 14
scores. There was some very fine play
ing-
Silas Stevens assassinated Lee Jack
son, near Red Clay, Wednesday morn
ing, by shooting him through a crack in
his cabin. Both were colored laborers I
on the railroad and had had a fight the
previous day. Stevens escaped, but is
being looked for.
If the Dalton people will make Cleve
-1 land a visit and remain a few days they
1 will learn how to treat strangers gentle
manly.—Cleveland Herald.
When Dalton concludes to do so, those I
will be selected who are capable of ap- !
predating such treatment, as well as !
deserving it.
Cutting a Gordian if not.
A perplexing case was brought to the
notice of the governor yesterday, from
Whitfield county. One A. P. Smith, it
appears, was arrested and convicted on
a charge of gambling, ami was sentenced
to the chain gang five months and a half.
There being also an indictment for rob
bery’ against him he was kept in jail six
months to await trial, at which he was
acquitted. It was then claimed that he
had served his punishment for gambling;
but the judge had sentenced him to the
chain gang instead of to jail, which he
did yesterday by’ pardoning Smith, who
had been sent to the chain gang to serve
out the sentence of the judge. —Post-Ap-
peal, 10th.
The Week at Rome.
Remarkably’ dull.
Rome street tax is $-5 a year.
Six inmates in Floyd county jail.
New wheat is selling at §1.25 a bushel.
Mrs. Simon Reynolds, of DeSota, is
dead.
Floyd county democratic convention
July’ 4th.
i An artificial stone pavement is being
I laid in Rome.
Will Phinizy has been very low with
typhoid fever.
Mosquitos are billing the town for a
summer concert.
Floyd county republicans called to
meet on the 24th.
Shorter college commencement last
Sunday to Thursday.
Rome’s cotton factory is being pushed
right along; also a cotton seed oil mill.
A reception at the twenty-fifth annual
commencement of Rome female college
was an occasion of last week.
Murray County, via the Tinies.
Corn meal famine.
Croaking ’count of cotton.
Wheat harvest is abont over.
E. W. Bond reports corn tassling.
Jimmie, son of R. E. Wilson, is se
riously ill.
Murray announces four months free
school this year.
Spring Place is credited with an au
thoress of sheet music.
Elijah 'Wiliams, ten acres of cotton a
foot high, and squaring.
Joe Morris, reports rye 7}-s feet high,
and 100 grains to the head.
The widow of James McCamy, a good
old mother of Sumach creek, critically
ill.
There was a railroad meeting at Spring
Place, last week, in the interest of the
Gainesville and Dalton Short-Cut, at
which considerable enthusiasm was
manifested, the right of way offered, as
well to contribute all in their power of
of money and influence to the aid and
encouragement of the enterprise. Com
mittees were appointed for future de
tails.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Arthur Gray’ says he will not contend
for a return to the legislature.
The yield of wheat in Catoosa county
will be the best in ten years.
A Jersey’ bull was sold in Atlanta the
other day for §1,200.
Polk county’ has thirty saw mills em
ploying 1,050 hands.
Liquor license in Baker county has
been fixed at §I,OOO a year.
The oat crop of Hancock county this
year is estimated at one million bush
els.
A Clarke county lady was married be
fore she was thirteen years of age, was
a mother at fourteen years and a widow
at fifteen years.
On the authority of Mr. C. J. Wads
worth, of Rome, there is a mulberry tree
growing in Floyd county, which six men
cannot reach around, and the fruit of
this tree alone fattened twenty-five hogs
last season.
A colored woman in Macon on Mon
day carried her baby to Baum’s picture
gallery to have its picture taken. When
she went to take it out of the carriage
the horrified mother found the child
dead, it haying died on the way.
Tracklaying on the Rome end of the
I Cincinnati and Georgia railroad is pro- ,
I greasing rapidly. It is Maj. McCracken’s |
. intention to have trains running through ■
' from Atlanta to Rome early in August .
while the road between Atlanta and Ma- j
con will be opened a month earlier.
Gainesville Southron: “Our gold l
fields need no more puffing by newspa- I
pers or the pioneer miners. The fifty I
j stamp mills ami the millions of capital >
J in the hands of enterprising men are do- i
' ingthe work for us. Each week brings I
in new men of intelligence, with capital ;
I to work out our brightening destiny.’'
Mr. C. W. Tucker, of Campbell county,
had the misfortune of losing his thresh
ing machine by fire hear Parker’s Mill on
Tuesday lust.' The men engaged in
threshing wheat had gone to dinner, and
on their return found the machine in
['-viies, which was totally destroyed, j
:r. ; about fiitv bushels of wheat.
I mSb
ROB RANDOM.
Offhand Impressions of Persons and
Things in General.
I was out to see the base ball match
i the other day, and while the boys were
squabbling over some point of vantage,
and getting their blood hotter than a
quorum of congressmen on a party ques
tion, I got to meditating a little, and
from that to calculating, then to a con
clusion There were at least fifty able
bodied men who had squandered a day
of usefulness, without gaining so much
as a day of pleasure or recreation. Half
of these were vaporing with the fumes of
evil producing whisky and their mouths
were like a volcano of foulness. I calcu
late that the legitimate cost of this game
was about §3OO. There was nothing so
cial about it. It was exhaustion in
stead of development of splendid mus
j cle and athletism, and, all that a group
of gamblers should realize, as I learn,
five or six hundred dollars by betting.
I admire a perfectly developed manhood
1 and sinewy muscles, and knightly ri
valry, but excuse me from the tendency
| of such games as that of last Saturday.
***
j There is another game going on in this
| state just now that reminds me, in some
I of its features, of Saturday’s base ball.
The analogy may not be striking to the
casual reader, but there’ll not be enough
of mystery left about my view of
the matter as to entirely obscure it from
those who will. There is a professional
nine in Georgia politics, and some of
them are good catchers, pitchers, bat
ters and fielders, and they’ve got the
rules of the game down so close, Mat
they manage to make every inning count
and they very seldom allow the second
nine a score, who are gradually becom
ing disgusted with the game under the
rules, and like the autumn roses, one by
one, they fall—out of line. Now, the
game that attracts my notice is the man
ner in which Henry Grady is picking up
a third nine, to take the places of those
who are falling out. He is giving the
boys all the taffy that a healthy mind
can take on, and so nice’y that one sel
dom, if ever, imagines the sweetly pa
tronizing smile of the beguiler. I will
not say that Grady is selfish in this, but
he is the boss racket of the big gun of
the democratic artilery, and he is too
fresh from the companionship not to
know and sympathize with the ambi
tions of these young men, and from the
otherside he too well knows that there
are at least t wenty years of promises out
ahead of them, but he also knows that
in politics, as in war, it is the bold, dash
ing cavalier, impulsive enough to make
his chance, that wears the crown of suc
cess.
***
Passing from these things to the flut
ter of female fascination —Prof. Smith’s
college commencement, and one won
ders why there is so much of the pro
siac practical in this life. This week the
girls are reviewing and rehearsing for
the coming week, and they are as full of
rythm as the poetry of a day dream
in an orange bower, bright, beau
tiful and frolicsome as a metoric tourna
ment, ready and positive as a tax gath
erer. Tn every conceivable way they
exhibit the painstaking of the teacher
and the various aptness of the pupil.
Ah ! if this was the beginning of the life
before them; but it’s not, and I can’t
help but wonder how many of them are
being prepared for the hereafter into
which youthful impulse and sympathy
will as naturally lead them as the water
follows down its gravitated channel;
how many of them are learning the ety
molgical process of a cup of tea, the pre
fixes and suffixes of a pot of coffee; the
problem of a batch of dough, the science
of a pan of biscuit, or the philosophy of
a good dinner.
***
There is no problem of God’s great
work that perplexes my mind so much
as the certain fatality of age. I often
wonder if Eve had not listened to the se
ductive whisperings of that little devil
of a trouble breeder, whether or not peo
ple would have given evidence of decay
in growing old, jvhether the young life
would ever have left them, or whether
we all would have been visible only as
butterflies or some such gauzy winged
creatures, ever enjoying the sippings
from a perpetual blooming garden, with
no bad hoys to throw stones at us, and
no girfs to parade our images on new
spring hats I can’t figure it out.
**.
Ami yet when we see the mimic fool
ishness of youth exhibit itself in the
bubblings from a fount of maturity, it
suggests an humor of absurdity. The
other day I was following close behind a
Dalton man, who ordinarily looks solid
as an owl, anda s if the weighty affairs
of life were tugging at his coat tail like
j forty loaded cars to a mogul on an up
I grade, and he was with a woman, young
and pretty, and they seemed as if they
I were in terrible earnest, or were playing
1 a match game of “mash” for the cham-
■ pionship. It was not my business to
heed their muttering, but could you ex-
: pect irffi to clamp the brakes to m.y ears
: when he let off a lot of Lake Como gush
■ about the sighing of the evening winds
1 through his sadly lonely window blinds,
and the wasting perfumes from the trail
ing vines that clung to the mossy walls
of the ancestral castle, and how the
shimmering of the morning sun lost its
i gleaming, and all because there was a va
cancy about the he»rths*t*»« nf *' s
heart. And th* ~ !r! s "
little things, and popped her faceup un
der his hat just like she was going to
take a proposal off of the bat, as the base
ball lingo has it. I felt just like what
in the mischief is the reason this sort
of thing can’t just keep on always till a
fellow gets tired and unrolls his mortal
coil in disgust.
Rob Random.
BASE BALL.
The Esthetic Game of Saturday Creates I
New Interest in the Play.
No small excitement was created last
Saturday upon the occasion of a match
gnnigof base ball, played by the Oscar
Wilde club, of Cleveland, and the Sun
flowers, late of this city. The former
was considerably victorious. Since the
demise of the Sunflowers, two other
clubs have sprung into existence in this
vicinity, and are yclept “The Dalton
Ground-swellers,” and “The Dug Gap
Tidal-wavers.”
A match game will be played between
these clubs upon the same field where
the Sunflowers wilted, on the 4th of July
next. We regret to say that a large
amount has been staked on the issue, for
we are loth to encourage the vague un
certainty of chance. Seats will be provi
ded for ladies and feeble young men.
Both clubs are in excellent training,
and an afternoon of quiet enjoyment may
be ant'eipated upon the occasion.
The members of the Ground-swellers
are : Amos Sutherland, pitcher ; Jesse A
Glenn, catcher; John Keller, Ist base;
H. K. Main, 2d; Warren Sitton, 3d;
John Worthy, short stop; Will Tibbs,
right fielder; W. 11. Pruden, left; J. C.
Riley, centre. Bob Springfield, scorer;
and Lank Barrett, umpire.
The Dug Gap Tidal-wavers are: J. D.
Collins, pitcher; J. H. Hyer, catcher; J.
D. Bivings, Ist base; Win. Eskew, “2d;
Henry Schoeller, 3d; J. A. Holtzclaw,
short stop; Robert Cox, right fielder;
Tim Ford, left; J. W. Longley, centre.
Andy Calhoun, scorer; and John Tibbs, i
umpire.
All the preliminaries are arranged.
The Ground-swellers will be furnished
refreshments by R. P. O’Neil and Morris
Otyson, while the Tidal-wavers will be
served bj - Bob Hill and Woody Turner.
Dr. Echols, assisted by Dr. Stephens,
will be on hand in case of accidents.
The Mackerel brigade will be led by J.
Q. A. Lewis, supported in the grand cho
rus by Walter Alexander. As there will
be no necessity, whatever, for the city
marshals on the ground, they will be
there in full force.
The ladies are specially requested not
to throw boquets to their favorites dur
ing the game, and the Mackerels are sol
emnly enjoined to take their cue from
their leader.
If the pang of separation will not be
too heart-rending, it is hoped visitors
will leave their dogs at home. It will be
the duty of the scorers to see that the
diamond is kept clear of hogs and law
yers during the progress of the excite
ment.
No Mackerel will be allowed to give
an independent yell, tho’ it disembowel
him to refrain, but must swell the or
ganized chorus ‘con anima.’ As several
of the players are hfghly excitable and
nervous, it is requested that there be no
smoking on the grounds.
Lemonade will be furnished for pecu
niary consideration —terms cash, or a
wavering note.
It is earnestly desired that small boys
not fully’ recovered from the effects of
vermifuge, will absent themselves.
Positively no spirits sold on the
grounds, but a hack will run to the city
every half hour. Fare, round trip, 50c.
or four trips for $2.
All questions of law will be promptly
adjudicated upon the spot by the pre
vailing justices of the peace.
Wanted, Agents by the National Mat
rimonial Alliance and Chattanooga Mu
tual Aid Association. For terms, apply
at once, 8. B. Sherrill, secretary, 183J4
Church st., Nashville, Tenn., or M. M.
Bright, Chattanooga, Tenn. B. C. Biv
ings, -Local Agent, Dalton, Ga. Im*
Market—Groceries, Produce, Itc.
EGGS—Per dozen, 13.
BUTTER—Per pound, 15@25.
POULTRY—Hens, 20@25; chickens, W#ls.
BEESAX—Per pound,
POTATOES —Sweet, per bushel. 11.00; Irish '
$1.75.
ONION’S—Per bushel. $2.00.
WHEAT— Red, $1.20; white, $1.25.
CORN—Per bushel, sl.lO.
MEAL—Per bushel, sl.lO. I
HAY—Per cwt. SI.OO.
OATS—Per bushel, 80c.
WHEAT BRAN—Per cwt.. $1.85.
DRIED ERUlT—Apples, peeled, 6; unpecled, (
5@3c.; peaches, 7(nC5,
HlDES—Green, per lb.«ssc.; salted, 6c t ; dry
salted, 11c.
TALLOW—Per lb. s@Kc.
MOLASSES—Per gal. 55(4’0.
SYRUP—New Orleans,
FLOUR—Per cwt. $3.60@54.20. | (
COFFEE—Per lb. 12(416c.
SUGA^ —Standard A, 11; extra C, 10; yel- 1
low. 9c.
LARD—Tierce, 14c.; per lb. 15.
THIS WEEK.
2300 Humliolm New Crop «
IRISH POTATOES. .
BRING THEM IN EARLY!
DeJOURNETTE & CO. ’
/Also, will arrange with parties having fine |
PEACH crops for the handling of same.
We are prepared to furulsh Peach and
loujato Crates for shippers at Factory ,
itiJO ts /
prices. ' r ,
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<>uU r **• .war c
JOHN W .
[Successor to BOGLE & HENDERSONJ
DALTON, CA m
Manufacturer and Wholesalt! rtnd Retail Dealer in all kind.
TINWARE, TINWARE, TINWARE.
teCPS e ° nßtaßtly on hand ’ lMfce Tarl «‘y of
& HEATIN6 STOVES|
H0,,0w ’ Ware »Woodenware
•fl - Baskets, Brooms, and House-furnishing
WMa. n,,sort ’’’®nto(
!><)( KERN and GLASSWARE.
W Tin- s heet Iron, Zine and Copper Work done:
"proofing, house spouting.and repaitingdoni
by best workmen, and at the lowest prices
WM. A. MILLER. C. T, CARGILL.
MILLER & CARGILL,
WHOLESALE QUEENSWARE
No. 184 Market Street,
TKISTIT..
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Refined Petroleum and Lubricating Oils*
|sep3 Gm |
W. F. Fischer <fc Bro.
215 MARKET STREET,
OmLTTJLZSTOOG-JL, TZEJSTLtT.,
Have ou hand the largest and best sele.:ted stock of
JEWELR.Y, JEWELRY, JEWELRY,
In the city; in part as follows:
DIAMONDS :
Diamond Rings, Diamond Pins,
Diamond Ear Drops, Diamond Studs.
WATCHES :
Gent’s Gold Stem and Key Winders,
Gent’s Silver Stem and Key Winders,
Ladies’ Gold Stem and Key Winders/
Ladies and Gent’s Gold Chains,
Ladies’ Gold Necklaces and Lockets,
Ladies’ Fine Gold and Stone Sets,
F> ne Gold Set Rings,
IS kt. Plain Gold Engagement
an I Wedding Rings,
Solid Silver and
Silver-Plated Ware,
Clocks, Spectacles, &c., Ac
We are Sole Agents of the Celebrated
“DIAMOND” I
THE BEST IN THE WORLD.
BY MAIL SOLICITED.
<3s-. 'W- HAIVrU-aTOBT,
DEALER IN
STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES,
TEAS,
Tobacco and Cig;ars
SOLE AGENT FOR
A. MILLER BRO’S., WASHINGTON CO., TENN.,
F 1 LOU IFt,
The Best and Cheapest in the Market.
DJLUTOJSr, G-A..
ONFECTIONERIES, CANNED GOODS, DOMESTIC and FOREIGN FRUIT.® r
The moat Complete Stock and Lowest Prices of any firm in the city.
iW-G-OCLDS DELIVERED
I ,ie2s Iy.
LEWIS SEASONGOOD. ELIAS MOCK. ALFRED SEASONGOOD. CHAS. SEASONGOOIX
W. L. BUTLER, Representing the South.
J. Ac 1,. CO.,
Importers and Dealers in Foreign and Domestic
__ WOOIjENS,
AND MNUF ACTURERSOF
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S, w. Cor. Third and Vine Streets. CINCINNATI.
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H. DIETZ & CO.
PORK AND BEEF PACKERS,
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