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Established September 1878.
111. A. WRENCH, Editor and Proprietor.
I JULY 16, 1887.
| The Argus is arranging to print a
■ special boom edition in August, the
| entire space to be devoted to a proper
| presentation of the claims of Dalton
| and its tributary country as a place of
I judicious investment. The matter shall
g be equal to the occasion, touching ev
-1 erv phase of our moral, social, politi-
I cal, industrial and geographical condi-
I tions. The edition will be from twen-
I ty to fifty thousand copies, as the pub
fl lie spirit of our people shall justify.
J The manner of distributing this large
I edition must meet the approval of ev
ery thinking man. We shall person
ally attend to their distribution at the
Cincinnati, Louisville and Piedmont i
Expositions, and at other fairs. The
scheme will not be a money-making
one for the Argus, as we propose to
give it at cost of production, taking
credit for accomplishing what no oth
er North Georgia paper has ever at
tempted.
The Rocky Face Springs Co. has se
cured a number or associates in Chat
tanooga, representing wealth and influ
ence, to place their valuable property
under an early contract of first class
improvement. A handsome and com
modfou!*rtiodern hotel will be built, a
hygeryc eure infirmary built, and the
grounds laid off in a beautiful park,
with all the requisite devices of amuse
ment necessary to a charming resort.
,■ It is beb’ n \Td. ly>-.
tel management, its accessibility, its I
historic interest and general favorable
conditions that they will be able to
popularize it as both a winter and sum
mer sanitarium. Fifty of the five hun
dred shares of the capital stock are of
fered to Dalton people, with a hope
that they will be taken as an evidence
of endorsement and good will. Thir
ty-two of these shares have been sub
scribed. H. A. Wrench, secretary, will
furnish information, and take sub
scriptions.
The action of the stock-holders of
the Dalton Female College Boarding
Dtpai'trfient Building, Wednesday, as- i
sures its immediate completion. A |
building committee, composed of I. E.
Shumate, F. T. Hardwick and S. E.
Berry, was appointed, with instruc
tions to secure a suitableYot and pro
ceed without delay th building, so as to
■ complete it by the first of September.
It is to cost $4,000. With this improve
ment the Dalton Female College has
an assured future of usefulness and
prosperity.
One of the legislative sensations of
the present session is the bill of Repre
sentative Glenn, prohibiting the ma
triculation of white children in colored
schools. This rather startling sugges
tion originates from recent report of
th.e board of visitors to the colored nor
mal university at Atlanta, in which it
shown that the white teachers
yeie educating their children. We are
’ n ‘ lined to believe there is no cause
or such legislation in Georgia.
The Argus has faithfully endeavored
to impress upon our people the impor
tance of making a grand exhibit of the
mineral and timber resources and ag
’ioultural capabilities o*f this vicinity,
the Piedmont Exposition. Never
"as there a better opportunity to make
a finer exhibit to a greater advantage
t an that now offered. Will we meet
U like progressive people.
laU •r> ani( * l ,a( ‘k> side or chest, use Shi-
Fnru ° r ? UB Blaster. Price 25 cents. —
p t Sd J* •' Brvant, Dalton, ami
• ” b Pnggs, Tunnel Hill.
Atlanta is shaking up the wine room
ad falls and putting their keepers on
m chain gang. Recorder Anderson
Be ems to realize his duty.
Doltm Stem®.
AV hen we look back over a number
of years, considering those things only
with which we are perfectly familiar,
the wisdom of the legislature which
framed the State road lease bill be
comes more apparent. It is only weak j
in not expressing a fixed plan of final :
settlement, in which, to our mind, the
question of betterments must become
a matter of court adjustment, if the
present or succeeding legislature is in
capable of treating the matter in a
business way. Notwithstanding re
peated legislative impositions, the road
has grown in importance and in busi
ness. No private company, unaided
by its railroad connections and influ
ences could have kept it from ruin.—
Its great success has been a matter of
outside combination and practical
management. We have only to tftke
up the business careers of those men
constituting the citizen companies to
draw conclusions. We know the un
popularity of according to railroad
management a fair hearing, but when
we come to trace the champians of the
people, who ride upon the popular
hobby that somebody is trying to steal
the State railroad, every mother’s son
of them is grooming for an office. We
only need honest, straight-forward, bus
iness men in the legislature, to study
the railroad question in all its bearings,
what it was, what it is, and the necessi
ties of enlarging and improving, the
bearing which it has had, and will have
upon the future disposition of the pro
perty, together with the increased in
come and profits which it has wrought
to the company. Let us have men to
dem quest! mi
"goody-goodiness is notTof that kind
ever on the alert for fear that some fine
Italian hand is trying to work a bribe
on. him unawares, and who has sense
enough to consider the future of. the
road, and whether it is best to lease or
sell it, independent of all sentimentaii
ty and traditions. Gov. Brown’s state
ment of the case is an exceedingly ex
travagant one, and we surmise, more
to the purpose of forcing the issue than
with a hope of impressing an idea of its
justice, and we believe it would be a
matter of good policy to. meet him in
a firm but conciliatory manner—ex
acting every legal right of the state,
and according to the company such
consideration as will induce the keep- i
ing of the property up to the highest ,
state of perfection to the end of the
lease.
The penitentiary question is a more
serious one than most people are will
! ingto admit. Shall we, in order to pre-
I vent their competition with honest la
bor, tax the latter to keep them up in
sheltered idleness? Many schemes
have been devised for their disposition,
which lu« been as readily found to
be impracticable. Outside of close con
finement and the present mode of car
ing for them, we doubt if any plan can
be suggested that will not meet with i
serious objections, without the State
should buy two or three farms, and
place-them under the jurisdiction of
the Commissioner of Agriculture, as
experimental stations. If under such
an arrangement they could be work
ed to such a profit as would sustain
our public charities, at the same time
developing new modes of intensive
culture, a very serious problem would
be solved, and nobody hurt.
Shiloh’s Vitalizer is what you need
for Constipation , Loss of Appetite, Diz
ziness, and all sytntomsof Dyspepsia.—
Price 10 and 75 cents per bottle. For sale
by D. C, Bryant, Dalton, and R. L.
Spriggs, Tunnel Hill.
Prohibition has come to stay. Rome
will be dry after next April. Tennes
see promises to come around in Sep
tember. Atlanta will stick. So will
Dalton.
Will you suffer with Dispepsia and
Liver Complaint? Shiloh’s Vitalizer is
guaranteed to cure you. For sale by
D. C. Brvant, Dalton, and R. L. Spriggs,
Tunnel Hill. 3-4 ly.
Uncle Simon Peter Richardson goes
for the Salvation Army in his peculiar
wav.
DALTON, GEORG JULY 16. 1887.
The utter unrellity of the Asso
ciated Press, an ranization which
absolutely controlle news service of
the daily papers olis country, and
the beastly selfishij of the manage
ment of the large ies, was forcibly
illustrated by the ul and malicious
falsehoods sent oul a set of slander
ous scavengers, i Chattanooga, on
last Friday, giving sensational ac- ;
count of “ a reign lerrorat Dalton," ;
in which a mob wt aid to have cap-I
tured the town, I ness suspended,
the stores closed, tl citizens reported
in a wild state of am, and the mili
tia called out. W1 we consider the |
utter lack of base o dor for such ex
travagance of rep , the ease with
which such reports ight have been
determined, it must ecessarily be in
ferred that newspa • .managers en
courage such a com . These exagera
ted accounts went o from the Times
office, through its porters and edi
torial force, or at lea , certain of them.
The Times took oc sion to criticise
our people editoriall Very few rep
utatable Georgia pec le would approve
the idea of guaging their morals by
the Time’s standard ret we would like
to draw its crusty ed or out: which is
the least worthy—te most extrava-
* I 1
gant act imputed to our citizens, or
the work of the mo tl assassin who (
places a community i a wrong and .
hurtful attitude, upi i mere pretext,
and then lacks the i istincts of man
hood necessary to c rrect the wrong,
when properly appriied of the fact?
Manager Ochs inferned us that he
had made no tissncia.tjr 1 uriiss reiiort of
iWBWWfr 11 i he.c qp mea-
sured by the central office, and that
while he had replied that it had been
a mere exageration, he expected to be
engaged for a month in discussing the
failue to make a report. We furnished
him with a statement of facts, which
he promised to send to the central of
fice. It has not been used. Now, here
is the position 'of the associated press.
It will quarrel a month with one of its
officers for failing to furnish a sensa- |
tional falsehood, manufactured by a
posse of lying correspondents, rather
than publish the truth to justify the
efficiency and reliability of its agents,
as against the penny falsifiers. There
is one consolation. A very large num
ber of people are reaching the point
where they are uninfluenced by what
these big dailies, and their blackmail
ing accomplice, the associated press,
have to say.
Representative Glenn is a smart fel
low, but a few touches of the telegraph
key, last Friday, would have brought
him closer to the hearts of his people
than the publicity of his martyrdom
in the Constitution. The panic was
fictitious and nobody hurt.
Senator Brown’s letter to Col. Far
rar, touching the W. & A. Co.’s right
to betterments, drawn out by the Dal
ton people’s protest against replacing
the burned car shed with an inferior
structure, will probably prove an im
portant element in the pending discus
sion.
There seems to be an “emotion” just
I now, which has an almost holy horror
I of the hardships practiced upon peni
-1 tentiary convicts, and the injustice of
their coming in competition with hon-
I est labor. Honest labor will be very
apt to kick against paying the differ
ence to keep them in secluded idleness.
Don’t Experiment.
You cannot afford to waste time in ex
j periinenting when your lungs are in dan-
■ ger. Consumption al ways seems,at first,
■ only a cold. Do not permit any dealer
to impose upon you with some cheap
imitation of Dr. King’s New Discovery
| for Consumtion. Coughs and colds, but
be sure you get the genuine. Because
i fie can make more profit
he may tell you he has something just
ias good, or just the same. Don’t be de
j cieved.but insist upon getting Dr. King’s
New Discovery, which is guaranteed to
relief in all Throat. Lung and Chest af
fections.
Free trial bottle of this certain cure at
I R. P. Baker A Co.,Drug Store.
THE OF DALTON
MEET IX MASS MEETING AND DENOUNCE
MI SH EI’RESENTATIONS,
BOTH SIDES JOIN HANDS IN A COM-
MON CAUSE.
Dalton, Ga., July 12, 1887.
At a meeting of the representative
citizens of Dalton and Whitfield coun
' ty, to take action in the matter of news
i paper reports relative to what occured
in this city on the day fixed for theex
i ecution of Win. Holman, on motion,
Judge C. D. McCutchen was called to
| the chair, and C. B. Willingham was
elected secretary. Col. 1. E. Shumate
offered the following preamble and
resolutions.
Whereas, many false statements
have* been published in reference to
what occurred in Dalton in conse
quence of the commutation of the pun
ishment of Wm. Holman, convicted of
murder, from death to imprisonment
for life in the penitentiary, among
them : “The crowd assembled to wit
ness Holman’s execution resolved it
self into a mob and captured the town.”
, “All the stores were closed.” “The
militia were ordered out.” ’‘The mob
erected a scaffold in the public streets
' and burned an effigy of the governor
5 thereon.” The city was in a state of
- terror from 7 o’clock in the morning.”
We deem it proper to make the follow
ing truthful statement of what occur
ed : The people who thronged the ,
streets were quiet,and with slight excep
tions, orderly ; not a stoor was closed, ■
but the day was one of unusual busi
ness activity ; the militia were not or
dered out, nor was there the shadow of
necessity for it; no scaffold erected
on the streets, nor was any effigy burn
ed. publicly or otherwise; the citizens
>-rriL < av iiw’wivTri.. ui.verrUT, or'
eveti anxiety : only four policemen
were on duty, and they were amply
sufficient to preserve order; by sun
down the crowd had left and the uusal
I quiet prevailed ; all extra police offi
cers were discharged at 6 o’clock p.m.,
and but one arrest for disorderly
conduct'was made during the day.
About noon three intoxicated men
hung up on the signal service pole a
man of straw, placarded, “J. B. Gor-
■ don.” No others participated in the
I act; the bystanders made not the least
I manifestation of approval, but on the
contrary, the thoughtless act was con
demned by all classes of classes. The
effigy was quietly removed by a police
man without the slightest opposition,
or disapproval from any source. The
three men who-participated in the act
| are heartily ashamed of it, and plead
their intoxication as an excuse.
Resolved, That while there is a mark
ed difference of opinion in this commu
nity as to the propriety-of the commu
tation of Holman’s sentence, yet there
is a general concurrence in the opin
ion that the case is one upon which
honest minds in search of the truth
may reach different conclusions, and
that censure of the governor for reach
ing the conclusion he did is unjustifi
able.
Resolved, That our confidence in
the justness, fairness, firmness and
ability of the honored Chief magistrate
of Georgia remains unshaken.
Col. T. R. Jones offered gn amend
ment that the secretary of the meet
ing he requested to furnish copy of pre-
I amble and resolutions to agent of as
: sociated press with request for their
publication. Upon motion thepream
able and resoluiions, with amendment,
were unanimously adopted by a rising
1 vote.
Saved His Life.
Mr. I). I. Wilcoxson, of HorseOave,
Ky., says he was, for many years, badly
■ afflicted with phthisic, also Diabetes ;
■ the pains were almost unendurable and
I would sometime almost throw him into
| convulsions. He tried Electric Bitters
' an<l got relief from first bottle and after !
i taking six bottles, was entirely cured
’ and had gained in flesh eighteen pounoS.
I Says he positively believes he would
, have died, had it notbeen for the re
| lief afforded by Electric Bitters. Only
fifty cents a bottle at R. P. Baker & Co.
The street committee should take a ■
walk some of these dark nights, out of |
, the electric light limits, on East Depot j
street, and fall into one of those gulch- I
es running acrooss the sidewalk, be
( tween Crawford and Waugh streets.
> |
Croup, Whooping Cough and Bron
i chitis immediately ielieved by Shiloh’s
Cure. For sale by D. C. Bryant. Dal-
I ton, amt I*. 1.. Spriggs,‘Tunnel Hill.
One Dollar a Year
Gov. Gordon urges the appointment
of a commission by the legislature be
fore whom all questions of pardons
and commutations of criminals must
be referred, a bill to effect which has
been introduced. He also urges that,
some law looking to abetter condition
of common jails should be enacted,
and a prescribed plan for those hereaf
ter to be built.
In a history sketch of the First
Methodist Church, of Atlanta, the
Wesleyan Advocate gives illustrations
of the old Wesleyan Chapel and also
of the magnificent new edifice. There
is a wonderful contrast, but all the im
posing grandeur of the new would be
an insignificant compensation as
against the privilege of one Holy Sab
bath, with its associations and sur
roundings, as enjoyed there 25 or 30
years ago.
Mr. Editor:—l ask space in your
columns to extend my heartfelt thanks
to the friends who have manifested to
i me their kindness in my late misfor
i tune, in the loss of my stock of goods,
by fire. 1 may never be able to repay
them, but I wish to assure them, each
and all, that I shall always hold in
, grateful remembrance, the evidence
they have given of their good will to
me. Chas. F. Townley.
A Lucky Man.
Dr. W. H. Murdock, and his three
brothersand three sistershave 100 acres
of land within one mile of the Court
House, of Ashvillle, N. C., and on the
4th of this month they cut up nine
acres into 15 lots and sold them at
public outcry for $11,570 cash. They
expect to continue the sale until the
100 acre's have been sdßl7“»hd expect
' to realize from the sale of the entire
I property, at least $200,000. —Catoosa
Courier.
A new musical organization, entitled
the American Chorus Choir Advocate
Association, has just been organized to
promote the cultivation of the class of
music its name denotes. A statement
of its object can be obtained, gratis, by
addressing the Music Teacher, a peri
odical, published in Dalton, Ga.,
A keen observer can let his eye run
over a rosebud garden of girls and se
lect therefrom the one who permits
concealment like a worm in the bud
to feed on her damask cheek, and an
experienced mother knows just when
a dose of White’s Cream Vermifuge is
needed to expel the worms that feed on
the life of her child.
Sinton’s Cough and Consumption
Cure is sold by us on a guarantee. It
cures Consumption. Sold by D. C.
Bryant, Dalton, and R. L. Spriggs, Tun
nel Hill.
The wicked newspapers have done
an awful sight of lying about Dalton
the past week-
—I.
That Hacking Cough can he so quick
ly cured by Shiloh’s Cure. We guaran
tee it. For sale by D. C. Bryant, Dal
ton, and R. L. Spriggs, Tunnel Hill.
The penitentiary lease question is
hatching out a lot of exceedingly loud
mouthed demagogues just now.
The so-called mob last Friday bought
over a thousand school books between
! the reported paroxysms.
Sleepless Nights, made miserable by
that terrible cough. Shiloh’s cure is the
remedy for you. For sale by D. C.
Brvant, Dalton, and R. L. Spriggs, Tnu
nel Hill.
Catoosa county is getting ready for
the Piedmont Exposition, having had
a public meeting at which a committee
was appointed to get up a proper ex
hibit.
Catarrh Cured, heatlh and a sweet
breath secured, by Shiloh’s Catarrh
Remedy. Price 50 cts. Nasal Injector
free. For sale by D. G Bryant. Dalton,
and R. L. Springgs, Tunnel Hill.
The whole of North Georgia is about
to bust with the fullness of her prom
ised crops.
A magic trick and slight of hand
performance held the boards at the
Opera House three nights last week,
and one night at Trpvitt’s Hall this
J week.