The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-17

What the People Of North Ceor-
gia ars Doing.
THE soUTH's MINERAL sT0REHoUsE

Last summer I overheard two men talking
as they were digging away in the mines, and
one said "Jiin, they say thar is big bum VI
at Rome"
"What's that?" said jim.
"Why hits a kind Of thing whar one fellel
gifts something for nothing and another fellel
gifts nothing for something"
"Why that's a faro bank or lottery, amt
it?" said jim.
'No it amt. tell you its bum-a kind
Of o new tradin' business what swells and
shrinks and the sweller and shrinker stays
down in a cellar and works the machine. They
trade in stock"
"Horses and mules?" said Jim. ono, hits
all OH paper and nobody can see what he is
buyin'. You put your money in and wait for q
swell. If it comes you are all right, but if q
shrink comes you are busted, and you feel SC
shamed that you don't say anything about It,
and it never gets into the papers-nothing but
the sweils gifts in the papers"
Well, the booms have about subsidized in
Rome and Birmingham and Decatur, and those
thriving cities have settled down to business.
When q man buys real estate there now he
means busiuess-not speculation but business
and that;ia right and honest and healthy. A
slow ard sure growth is tho best. That - Just
what we want here in CartersYIlIe ana the
signs are good. There is not a house to rent
and many are wanted right now. But we are
building and will soon have some manutac-
lures here that viii enliven the town. 1t is
the prctticst own of its size now in the state,
except Marietta, and does more business
than any. There is one dry goods house
hero that sells more goods than any retail
house in Rome and one hardware house that
does more business than any hardware house
in Rome, and one wagon and carriage factory
that makes more vehicles and sells more than
any in the state, and a man told me he sold
twenty thousand dollars worth OF family
groceries last year and never lost but two dol
lars and forty-iiye cents. We ship man
ganese across the ocean and TO
Carnegie, in Pennsylvania We ship yellow
oclre 10 New oTk and iron ore to Tennessee.
The fact is we have enough minerals here to
keep 5000 hands busy for hundred years. /
see that Tallapoosa boomer says in an inter
view that he found more orc at Tallapoosa
than he did at CartersvllIe. Wen, | am not
going to SANDER Tallapoosa. That New York
Herald man told enough lies on her to do for
awhile, but there is more iron ore i'll
one hill in Barlow than there is within twenty
miles OF Tallapoosa. Barlow is tho great
reserve the mineral storchouse, and it is the
granary too. We mako more grain than any
county in the state, more in quantity and more
to the acre. Our taxpayers return their lands
at 4 higher rate per acre than any county IN
the state. We have more rivers aud creeks and
bridges and mills than any county. We have
most everything that anybody wants. Why,
saw four men from Rome over here yesterday
with their dogs and guns, came over here to
find game. Our doctors play backgammon
half their time, and the sexton is so poor he
can't 60 to circus. Neither epldenlics nor
contagious can live here, for il is a round,
rolling country, with drainage in every valley
and rich valleys between all the hills. There
are seven streams and five springs
and creek upon my little farm
of 200 acres. a traveller can stop and water
his horse every two or three miles, if he wants
to. We have street railroad that splits the
town in the middle, and runs from Rogers to
Stegalls and from Stegalls to Rogers, with ten
trains day-not horse car line, nor dunn
my, but sure enough steam line, with pal
ace car attachment. We can go anywhere
we wish to as cheap as we can stay at
home and do it in less time We have the
best weekly paper in the state excepting those
that arc better than it is and don't know
where they are, If any friendly man away up
among the Billiards wants to come south
either for good health or good morals, let him
send dollar to the Courant-American and he
can learn all about old Barlow and Carriers
Vile But he needn't come if he is opposed
to Mr. Lamar'S confirmation. We don't want
that sort of cattle
We are getting choice of our company now.
We don't care cent whether a man is a rcpub-
lican or not. He won't be so very long after he
gets here. 1t is astonishing how soon a north
crn man becomes q southerner after he has
lived here awhile. 1t is not put on either, for
they were tried during the war-sorely tried. |
was sorry for them and would have given them
a kind farewell if they had gone back, but they
wouldn't 90. ! was thinking about Captain
Dwiuell, who died in Rome the other day,iand
wanted them to pay tribute to his memory.
With parents and brothers, and sisters and
kindred all up iii Maine, where he was born
and reared, he was among the first to shoulder
his musket in defense of his adopted land.
For four years he served i'll the field and
rose to be the captain of his company,
the 'I;ome Light Guards" and whatever may
have been his failing he never went back ON
the south. There were thousands like him all
over the land. Indeed do not know of one
who left rs for tho other side
All we ask of our northern brethren is that
they be tolerant and considerable of our
feelings and principles and they must be
willing for the south to have a fair share of
all the Offices and spois. We believe that JEFF
fcrson Davis is just as good and as great
man as Mr.. Lamar, and Mr.. Lamar as good
and rs great MS the best man north. That is
what We believe and we don't care who knows
it. Miss Winnie Davis is just Us much
queen as Mrs. Cleveland and she may be in
the White House yet before she dies-who
knows?
But come along down here to Car
over and If You don't like uswe will let You
20 back again, One thing Is ccrtain-our
folks are not going to move up north-no not
even the uiggers-thoy know who arc their
friends.
Welave got a great big meeting horsa here
that is called a tabernacle where all denomi-
nations worship together OF course we have
separate churches, with high fences all around,
SO ,hUt the sheep OF one flock can't get over
and niN with sheep of another. but every few
months we pull down the fences and all run
together. / is like several folds sowod down
IN wheat on corn. Nou can see the low fences
that divide them until the corn or the wheat
grows up high and thon il looks like il was all
one great big field with no fences NJ all True
religion is just that way. \ man with a great
big heart who loves his Maker and his fellow
men, can't see any fences and don want any
Sam Jones lives here and his brother doe
that IS. their families debut we keep sam
ami Joe ont ON the road rs missionaries most
of the time, We send them up north and west
whore money and sinners abound, and are
moro thicker more denScr, as Cohc SAYS,
SEQ that fifty union soldiers, who are in
Mr.. l.am2r's department, passed some touch
Ing resolutions and gave him an ntiectouate
farewell. 1 like that Those things do
us all good down south, and those
boys can come down south and
get anything we have got. We want kind
words and good will. With these, and these
only, thu north can break up the solid south
IL is their internal, uever-endng hate that
II As Lam, ola,