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THE DALTON ARGUS.
• nly Puper l*«iblin III*"
CATUBDAY, JAAUABY •••», !»»<•
Entered at the Poatotflee In Dalton, Ga., as
moo nd-elate matter, and issued every Saturday
by A. H. SHavbk.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY.
A. H. SHAVER,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
advertininu.
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ning any length of time or occupy!ng larger space,
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a line each insertion. Largertype inproportion.
Transient advertisements, unless by regular
large customers, are cash in advance. Obitua
ries, and tributes of respect, exceeding 200 words
in length, are to be paid for at regular local or
legal rates, according as they appear as local or
advertising matter,
NUBACRIPTIOY.
Thk Abovs, one year, |i in advance; three
months, BOc.; six months,6oc. All subscriptions
cash in advance, except where special arrange
ments are made. Where subscriptions are not
settled until after they have been running some
time, SI .25 will be charged. This Si .25 time price
goes into effect Feb. Ist, 1894, and will be ap
plied to all. It is a necessity to make the sub
scription list self-sustaining and to make up in
part for credit losses.
Gunitel Circulation, 1,200 Copies.
The Bacon boom died a-borniug!
Happy New Year!
Stanton’s show, without Stanton, is
coffee without cream or sugar.
If the cranks would threaten and kill
a few of the cranks things would move
more smoothly.
What about publishing those couh
cil proceedings in Thk Argus ? The
people are expecting it.
Congress is again in session, and the
country gasps for breath, while the wind
mills get in their work.
Thk republican editors and their co
horts are still telling lies on Cleveland,
but Grover loses no sleep on that account.
Henry Jones is again writing letters to
the Constitution, and just as the people
ne«e uupnig tuac iney uuu seen* tne last
of Heneryl
Thk “Widow’s Kiss” is the name
of a new' drink. No doubt, it is hot and
fiery, and very sweet; yet so soothing in
effect that a man can stand a heap of
them.
Mayor Maddox says “down with the
street loafers,” and The Argus heartily
seconds his motion. Run them off the
streets, if you have to run them into the
caboose.
Wk admire the backbone of Florida’s
Governor in his determination that En
glish and northern bulldogs shall not
disgrace his state by their brutal fight.
Let the north furnish the battlefield for
its own toughs.
The Ashburn Advance does not be
lieve that a girl “can stay fat on love,
unless she has plenty of cold victuals
handy.” No; nor can an editor survive
on promises, unless he has very, very
good neighbors.
“A Happy New Year” from The Ar
gus to its every reader. Mav it be to all
a prosperous year—physically, mentally,
financially, morally and spiritually. May
it embrace 365 happy days for each and
every one of you.
Thk Argus endorses Mayor Maddox’s
suggestion in regard to the council order
ing an election on the questions of the
city issuing bonds to purchase the gas
works and put in a system of sewerage.
We are a city, and should drop town
ways.
“There could be no better evidence of
the spirit which underlies the whole an
nexation scheme,” says the Pittsburg
Dispatch, “than the venom which
every supporter of it, here or in Hawaii,
has shown towards all the persons w’ho
are in any way connected with bringing
out the facts of the case.”
Thk LaGrange Graphic says: “Brother
Freeman, of Greenville, insists that if we
Baptists agree upon Evans for governor,
the Methodist must rack up for Northen
for United States senate. Such reciproc
ity seems reasonable, and I presume the
Presbyterians will not demand more, as
they have Cleveland, Gordon and Hoke
Smith.”
Thk proposed Atlanta Cotton States,
Cuban, Mexican and South American
Exposition next year is a great thing. It
will be the making of this section, and
•should receive the support of every
■southern newspaper. As an evidence of
Atlanta’s pluck and belief in advertising
it is simply immense, and Dalton and
every southern city should fall into line
and help Atlanta in her undertaking.
THE ARGUS; DALTON. GA., SATURDAY. JANUARY 6. 1894.
BUSIMEM THOUGHTS.
The year 1893 has gone, with all its
joys and sorrows. It was not the best
year Dalton ever saw, but it was not half
so bad as many have painted it. It was
full of blessings and the evidences of
God’s infinite mercy, and although sorely
beset with calamity howlers and hard
times liars, it ended bravely, and left a
record behind it that is not wholly bad.
Dalton stood 1893 bravely and well;
and has no cause to complain overly
much at it. AL' of her industries paid
good dividends, and if not as much as in
some former years, enough to make the
holders ofstock thankful that they held
it. Her merchants, by a more liberal use
of printers’ ink than ever before, in
creased their fall and winter’s trade, and
enter the new year in calm seas and clear
weather. They are prepared to do a big
ger year’s business in 1894 than ever,
and we believe they will do it.
All the leading financial and trade
journals predict that 1894 will be a year
of unprecedented prosperity in the south ;
of marked increase in population, and
great advance in the development of its
resources. They base their predictions
upon the calculations of experts, and a
knowledge of past and present conditions
in this and other sections. They evi
dently know whereof they speak, or at
least have good grounds for their faith.
It would lie well for Dalton to be pre
pared to get her fair share of this in
creased prosperity —if it comes; and, of
course, we all live in hopes that it will
come just as predicted. If the South
booms, Dalton must get her share of the
boom. Dalton is not in the habit of get
ting left, and she must not get left this
year. Knowing her people as we do, we
feel safe in saying she will not get left.
Her merchants and her industries are
starting the new year with a determina
tion to use more printers’ ink than ever,
to advertise more liberally and more ex
tensively than ever.
And that’s the best way to get there.
Atlanta was made by the liberal adver
tising of her merchants. They realized
that advertising would do more for At
lanta and her merchants than anything
else, and they indulged in it freely.
Look at her now —the finest advertising
object lesson on earth ; the most success
ful eitv of the Smith
Dalton’s merchants have the future
success of Dalton in their own hands
By using The Argus as they should, they
can build up Dalton, as Atlanta’s mer
chants have built up Atlanta.
The Tradesman, Chattanooga, Tenn.,
in its review of the industrial situation
in the South for the week ending January
1, reports that an increase in the number
of newly established industries indicates
that public confidence is being gradually
restored. It seems to be generally admit
ted that the manufacturing and business
interests of the South will revive at once,
as soon as a definite settlement of the
tariff question is arrived at, and that the
Southern States were never in better con
dition to take advantage of a settled con
dition of affairs. Mercantile business
continues quiet, as is to be expected at
this season. The Southern banks are in
good financial condition and able to meet
all reasonable demands.
The Argus’ circulation reaches the 1,-
300 notch this week. It has been stead
ily growing all the time and would now
be still larger than it is, but, like Uncle
Simon Peter Richardson, we “have had
the church open at both doors,” and
many papers that were going to those
who would not pay for them, have been
changed and are sent to people who are
paying for them.
The Argus returns thanks to every
patron of the paper during 1893. It ap
preciates the patronage accorded it in the
past, and trusts the results recorded will
guarantee a more liberal continuance in
the future.
Bill Glenn has got it down right. The
Atkinson yowl is simply an anti-admin
istration yelp.
WHAT THE SOUTH NEEDS.
All the south needs is to make its at
tractions known. The Sanford (N. C.)
Express thus states the above great
truth :
We have a plenty of towns in the South, but
the great difficulty is we have never advertised
them in away to attract Northern homeseekers.
North Carolina probably possesses as many ad
vantages as any other State in the Union,’ but
Northern manufacturers and capitalists are igno
rant of this fact, as these resources have scarcely
been advertised beyond the borders of the state.
To tell a North Carolinian that bis State is a half
century behind some of the other Connnon
wealths of the Union, lie would probably become
offended at it, but it is n fact just the same. We
find that North Carolina is known in many sec
tions of the North through one resort town.
Why is this the ease? Simply because that beau
tiful little health resort has been advertised
almost throughout the entire North. Northern
people are not only flocking there for their
health, but many of them have become engaged
in agricultural pursuits. They have fine grape
farms there and have been realizing good profits
from them.
What is true of North Carolina is, iu
part, true of Georgia. Georgia and Geor
gia towns have never been properly ad
vertised. High-sounding pamphlets and
abnormal growths in exhibit care do
little or no good—often harm.
Place the regular edition of your home
paper where probable iifimigrants can see
it, and you do your town and section
some good. You let people see w bat it
is, what its daily life is, and it stands on
its own merit. And w here a town ami
section has as much merit as Dalton and
North Georgia, it al ways stands.
Try a few yearly subscriptions to Trk
Argus. It would’ pay every man in town
to send off’ ten.
A sample of the wisdom of the late
legislature can be found in the fact, that
they call the legislature together in 189 b,
just three months before it is elected
and there will be no si'ssion of the Geor
gia legislature that year. By act they
have Changed the time of holding the
sessions of the legislature, which now
convenes on the fourth Monday of Octo
ber. The bill provides that in 1895, the
date of convening the sessions shall be
■changed to the fourth Monday in July.
The time of electing legislators is not
changed by the bill and the legislators
who should attend the session in 1896
will not be elected until October, several
months after the time set for the meeting
of the legislature. However, little harm
is done; the people would not grumble if
they had no more of the last few legisla
tures for the next twenty years.
We are glad to see Mayor Maddox rec
ommending the abatement of the loafer
and vagrant nuisance. They have been
an almost unbearable nuisance to The
Argus the past few months, and if Mayor
Maddox can break up the crowds hang
ing around our corner day and night,
indulging in profane and obscene lan
guage, we will vote him the palm.
Grubb, of the Darien Gazette, perti
nently remarks: “An exchange thinks
that Mr. Atkinson has been well paid for
his services in the last campaign by being
elected speaker. There are hundreds of
good democrats in Georgia who did just
as much work and have not received
‘nary a cent’ for it.” Certainly; well
paid, indeed.
northern lynchings.
Under the above head, the Elmira (N,
Y.) Telegram nays,:
•There is no use trying to disguise the
fact that lynchings are becoming alto
gether too numerous in the Northern
states, and there is little more disposition
to punish the perpetrators of these out
rages than there is in the South.”
Now, that is something like it. That
is an honest northern confession that
must lie good for the republican soul.
And a confession proved to be honest by
the recent numerous lynchings in the
north and northwest.
This confession of the Telegram is re
refreshing after the amount of sectional
smush and flumgush we have had from
such papers as the Inter-Ocean and Mail
and Express, and such men as Albion
Tourgee and Benjamin Harrison. Those
whited sepulchers prate whole hours
about “brutal lynchings in the barbarous
south,” and never say a word about the
similar crimes at their own doors.
The fact is human nature is about the
same north and south, and it is altogether
whose ox is bored whether there is a
scream or a laugh. As long as black
brutes go around the south with uncon
trolled animal passions, just so long will
lynchings occur. And we are glad it is
so. Such performances up north will
call for similar demonstrations. Lynch
ings are human, and where human nature
is found, lynchings will always be the
reward for certain crimes.
And we are glad to see that our north
ern brethren are beginning to recognize,
and acknowledge the truth.
Chicago is now getting even on the
World’s Fair. Her big show attracted
the loafers of every section and country
to that city. The fair over, there is noth
ing for them to do, and now there are
117,000 people in that city without work,
and over 10,000 of them without food or
shelter. Many of them are starving to
death and dying from exposure, despite
the soup houses established to feed them.
The World’s Fair, it seems, made times
hard with the masses in Chicago, as well
as all over the country.
The Rome Hustler says:
a few stragglers may leave Georgia for Texas,
but what of that? These rolling stoues were not
in the moss business here in Georgia and the
most of them will be too "slick” to "gather” in
the "Lone Star” state. In silence, let them roll.
« 4 * $ i>
Lots of the boys who go to Texas would return
but for two things : They hate to be laughed at
and they need the money to pay ior a ticket back
to "God's Country.”
The Chicago girl has a big advantage
over the girls of other cities. When she
opens hvr mouth there is no danger of
her “putting her foot in it.”
The old State Capitol at Milledgeville
was destroyed by fire this week. Its
destruction is a personal loss to every
Georgian.
Gold neck chains at Tapp, the Jeweler.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S Gov’t R
IWIS
ABSOWTECf PURE
THE EDITOR’S EABY CHUK,
—A contemporary preaches this strong
sermon to his hard cases : “Wagons can
not run without wheels, boats without
steam, bullfrogs jump without legs, or
newspapers carried be on everlastingly
without money, any more than a dog can
wag his tail when he has none. Our
subscribers are all good, but what good
does a man’s good do him when it don’t
do any good? He thinks, no doubt,
that every one has paid except him, and
as lie is a clever fellow ami this is a little
matter, it will make no difference.”
—The Wesleyan Christian Advocate
got out a haqdsome Xmas edition. We
are rejoiced to note the solid prosperity
of this able and thorough church paper.
—Mary a spindle-shanked dude hung
up his stockings Xmas, in hopes that old
Santa would put a pair of able-bodied
legs in them.
—Montgomery Folsom wrote a twenty •
seven-verse “Ode to Santa Claus.” If
Folsom owed everybody else as much as
he ode Santa Claus, he would be in a
bad fix.
—Mclntosh, of the Albany Herald,
tells this gospel truth :
Oh! they are wise
Who advertise
In winter, spring
And fall;
But wiser
Are they, you bet,
Who never let up
At all.
—A brother rises to remark: “Most
men get all the credit they need.” True ;
and more from the newspaper than they
need—more than the average editor rel
ishes.
—The Christmas number of the Col
umbus Sunday Herald was a james*
dandy.
—A South Georgia editor exclaims:
We didn’t have to refuse a single invi
tation to a Christmas dinner. Ain’t we
lucky ? Yes ;an editor is lucky in not
being invited out to dine when he has
no good clothes.
—Edward N. Wood is doing some very
fine work on the Atlanta Constitution .
Wood seems to be one of the brightest
of them all.
—The best advertised person on the
globe is Santa Claus, and what a log
rolling business he does!
—Rev. Smith thinks “no man fully re
alizes the power of the press till he gets
his fingers caught in the cog wheels.”
Or gets knocked in the head with the
“fly.”
—An exchange interprets the name of
the “Brobdingnagian Yahoo,” of Cal
houn, to mean “the gigantic mud
slinger.” Our Calhoun brother certainly
has selected a not very complimentary
name for his bright sheet, as Gulliver
makes a Brobdingnagian a fortv-feet
high giant, and “Yahoo” a dirty,
filthy brute, with the form and vices of
man. We hope our Calhoun brother’s
name will prove a misnomer.
—The Madisonian got out a very hand
some Xmas number, to celebrate the
fact that it had reached the age of 22.
Brother Candler is a live newspaper
man.
—Phil Byrd, of Rome’s Hustler, save
we are not a “religious editor.” As Phil
is an acknowledged religious authority,
we will have to accept h» verdict.
—And now the Macon Evening News
is iu the hands of a receiver. We sym
pathize with our brother; but we fear
the newspaper graveyard will be filled to
overflowing before many moons wax and
wane.
—The Atlanta Journal boys continue
to credit our thunder to the defunct Cit
izen. The Journal boys may be ex
pected to wake up very early in the
spring.
—Two days after Christmas, the editor
of the Newberry Observer remarks:
“Our town sidewalks need widening.”
Our brother should try the middle of the
country roads when he goes “Christmas
jollifying.”
—The Argus regrets* to learn of the se
vere illness of that bright genius, Wal
lace P. Reed, of the Atlanta Constitution
£taff. It trusts he may soon be himself
again.
—Editor Shaver never goes to sleep in
his “Easy Chair” on The Dalton Argus.
—Augusta Chronicle.
How could we ? It has no back and
only three legs. As soon, however, as
some stiff-necked delinquent drops a dol
lar, we will get a new chair and take a
few much-needed naps.
lhe Ashburn Advance grows
brighter and brighter. Rev. Smith is
one of Georgia’s coming young journal
ists.
Glen, of the Cleveland Progress, says
“Christmas was in the air,” over in his
parts. A sort of a sky rocket, eh ?
—Candler had a good time last week,
but he didn’t take a week’s loaf. He
says; “The editor, the devil and the
printers have all been h»vi„ ..
share of Christmas, and we ask our X I
ers to look over any shortcomings b i >
paper this week.” Hush (’, 7 >
there are no shortcomings ’ .r
Madisonian ; all its comings are Ion", e
—Josiah Carter has accepted a position
with the New York Morning Adverti
and goes to his new field accompanied i ’
!„ he <Sgi» wW,ra °‘ every
—The Southwestsrn Presbyterian <| e .
Clares: “A dollar paper worth reading
must have an immense circulation and I
large advertising list to save its n r(l ;
ters from bankruptcy.” Pretty near the
truth. At best, there is barely a livi !
in asl paper. And its living'must come
from its advertisers.
NOBLE LADY GONE.
Mrs. John‘DeJournette, Passes ui. u
Her Reward.
Sunday, Mr. Claude E. DeJournette
was summoned to the deathbed of his
mother, in Rome. Os her death
funeral, Monday evening’s R* B
Hustler says:
“Yesterday forenoon at apont 8:30
o’clock, Mrs. John DeJournette, who
resides at 413 East First street, was
suddenly smitten down by the angel
of death.
“For about two weeks Mrs. De-
Journette has not been as well as
usual, but no one dreamed that the
end of her long and useful life was to
come suddenly.
“She was stricken with paralysis of
the brain, and through Dr. Griffin
was hastily summoned, her spirit had
passed beyond the reach of medical
skill. Within an hour the motherly
soul had forsaken the aged tabernacle
and entered the beautiful beyond,
and was welcomed to the Choirs of
that God whom she had served so
faithfully.
“Mrs. DeJournette was one of the
best women Rome ever knew, and
was in her 73d year when sheO*j)
swered the summons of the
and went up higher. She leaves a
large family of noble sons and daugh
ters, and an entire city to mourn her
departure.
“Three of her sons, viz: James R.
DeJournette and Wm. DeJournette of
Murphy, N. C., and Claude DeJoue
nette, of Dalton, and three daughters,
Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Sam Knox and
Miss Florence DeJournette, all of
Rome, were the chief mourners at the
funeral this forenoon.
“Three other sons, Rob’t DeJour
nette, of St. Louis, Mo.; Holmes De-
Journette, of Louisville, Ky., and
John DeJournette, of Blue Ridge,
Ga. ; also two daughters, Mrs. Veal of
Stone Mountain and Mrs. Gibson, of
Tuunel Hill, were notified by tele
gram, but could not arrive in time lot
the funeral. ; aH
“The funeral exersises occurtgf
from the First Methodist Church this
afternoon at 2 :30, when a large num
ber of Romans met to pay their last
respects to the sainted dead.”
“The cerenlony was conducted by
Rev. Dr. Duvall, assisted bv Dr. Gib
son, after which the beloved clay was
born to its last resting place io
Myrtle Hill.
“For about sixty years hardly a
sabbath has passed when Mrs. De-
Journette was not with her class io
Sunday School or in the First Meth
odist Church. Her place in Rome
will never be filled.”
All Dalton sympathizes with the be
reaved family and friends. Her chib
dren have lost the best friend they
ever had—may God in his mercy be
their consolation.
Beet Stoves.
Big lot of heating and cook
all kinds and sizes, just recehjj
Call and examine before buying.
T. A. & S. E. Berry.
Lot half-dred beef on hand Davis 4
Sons.
Get your drugs pure from Bryant 4
Fncber.
For Rent
One 5-room cottage on South Depot
street. Apply to L. Buchho'z, next door
to Argus office. The house formerly oc
cupied by Rev. W. T. Dale.
Get your blank Fifas, SummODSi
Mortgage Notes at Argus office.
Surgical Plasters.
Finest lot of surgical plasters of
kinds ever brought to Dalton*
Wholesale and retail prices on
goods. See tljem; they
every kind of medicated plaster. I
Bryant & FINQH2**