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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-08-09
THE ICE 1IARKTT.

Tie following shows the average daily
consumption Of ice for the past few
DAYS: The Richmond Ice Company sup
plies about fifty tons daily, the Home
lee Company about fifty tons, Mrs. Jane
King about twenty tons, the James c.
Smith lee CEnpany about twenty tons,
and the Transparcnt-ice Company about
eighteen tons daily makinga total daily
consumption Of 3lG,00O pounds
These figures are about doubled on
Saturdays, when Saturdays aud Sun
days su pplies are delivered together.
The regular charges for ice are three
fourths Of a cont for small quantities,
forty cents per cwt, and 81 per ton.
Nearly all Of the ice used here, except
that Manufactured by the Transparent
Company, is gathered from the kenne-
bee nyer and shipped here from New
York
Estimating that ice on an average is
supplied Mt forty cents per hundred, the
daily expenditures for il here amount TO
Si,26l.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-08-09

The gist Of the whole matter is that
this is an effort to flank Malone. He
has the party machinery, but the mem
bers OF this committee believe that if
these district conventions are held under
plan adopted by the National Commit
tee and under calls from both Houston
and Malone the Wise-Houston men will
stand some show of getting part of'the
electors At any rate they believe that
the National Committee should settle
the matter. since Malone declined the
half-and- half proposition.
1t was believed that Captain Wise
would present paper in the shape OF al
address which had been prepared setting
forth all of the circumstances connected
with this party difference and withdraw
ing the Wise electors. This paper was
not presented. but was given by Captain
Wise to some of his friends to read. The
subject Of addressing a reply to Ma
homes letter 20 Houston was broached,
but it was decided best to proceed IN the
manner outlined in the above resolution.
COLONEL HoUsToS's RESIGNATION.
Colonel Houston called the attention
OF the committee to the fact that he had
only accepted the position of chairman
with the understanding that he would
only he required To serve until after the
Chicago Convention, and he asked 10 be
excused from further service.
While the co4nittee recoxnized the
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-08-09

fact that their chairman had served
longer than he at first consented to they
declined TO consider his proposition to
resign, and laid the matter on the table.
The committee adjourned at $50 sub
ject to the call OF the chairman, and most
OF the members left on the late trains for
brv,a
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-08-09
r T. NJ n AN is.

Anolcrlotof of KABDFL SMYRNA RCGS-ono
thousand Just oponei-innge on each
cn1. ass.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-07-19
TO THE AGRICULTURIST.

The best evidence in favor of Cobb
county, as farming country, is the
fact that the war left nothing but
the naked land. Their slaves had
been freed, horses and cattle con-
sumed and driven away and houses
and fences burned. There were
but few farm houses lett in the
county and not to exceed 100 horses
and but 90 COWS. The people were
in absolute want and but few of
them had any conception OF farming
with free labor or any idea of work
ing themselves, yet with all these
disadvantages. Cobb county can
boast to-day of large number OF
splendid farms and of many farmers
that are worth from $4,000 to 500
600 each and they have made it out
Of the soil.
One great advantage we possess is
our climate. The summers are long
and the winters very mild as it sell
dom freezes to a depth of 2 inches
and the farmers can work comfort
ably every day in the year.
The soil is red sandy and gray
ely loan with a clay sabsoil foun-
dation, and is capable of high
state of cultivation, if properly en-
riched with fertilizers and manures.
The principle crop raised here is
cotton, but anything that is grown
in the Northern states can be pro-
duced here with profit. In 1884
there were 100 farmers competing
for prizes offered, and here is the
result: Seventy-fve planted cotton
and averaged ia pounds lint cotton
to the acre. Sixteen planted corn
and made an average of 81 bushels
to the acre. The best yield of wheat
was "a bushels to the acre and of
oats 131 bushels. These are, of
course, exceptional cases, but every
farmer knows that the above could
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-07-19
MARIETTA, GA
THURSDAY MORNING. JULY 10, 1898.
MANUFACTURERS.

The present ufacturing of Ma
rietta and Cobb county is confined to
the following:
Viz paper mills, with capacity
of3500 lbs of newspaper day, one of
the mills has just added paper Irvine
machine, which, we are informed. is
the second one in the United States :
3 cotton factories, 2 WOODEN mills. |
foundry, 2 chair factories, Touring
mill roller process with IA capacity of
$50 barrels daily, several water DOW
ercustom mills, 2 guano factories. |
small wagon and carriage factory, l
barrel hoop factory, and one very
large marble mill.
With the advantages we possess,
such as raw material, cheap labor,
an unequalled climate, and cheap
fuel, Marietta is especially adapted
Tor the successful prosecution of the
following named enterprises:
Viz Agricultural Implements,
Furniture,
Wagon and Carriage Works,
Hardware specialties and Tool Co.,
Iron works and all kinds of mill
machinery.
Cotton machinery,
Bridge and bolt works.
Paint works, stove works,
Glass and car works,
Canning factory and evaporating
works,
Tin ware and stamping works, OF
anything that can be made out Of
iron, wood, cotton Or wool.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-07-19

not be done in poor country or in
bad climate. AS we said before
the Georgia farmer raises but little
else than cotton and buys his corn,
meat, ETC., for which he pays high
prices. Corn is now worth 80 cents
a bushel and never sells here for
less than fifty cents.
There is no place in the United
States to-day where farmer can
make as much money and make it
with so much ease and comfort as
he can in this particular section of
Georgia by growing diversified crops
and raising stock. For all time you
can depend upon good prices for the
reason that further south general
crops cannot be grown and they are
obliged to confne themselves to
raising cotton and rice, and or the
north OF US, In the extreme north
ern part of Georgia, Tennessee and
western North Carolina, the coun-
try is a mineral one, producing coal,
iron, copper, gold, marble &C., and
is fast becoming one vast manufac-
tory.
With all the foregoing advantages
We can sell You land at very low
price as our farmers are realizing
that they are land-poor and have
got more than they can work to ad-
vantage.
Look over our list carefully and
write us for further particulars.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-07-19
STOCK RAISING AND GRASSES.

The adaptability of North Georgia
as a stock raising country has long
been known, but like other indus
tries the capabilities of the country
have not been developed. The Gull
tivated grasses flourish everywhere
with even ordinary care. Glover,
Timothy, Orchard and Herds grass
grow in great luXuiiance. The soil
throughout this section is deep
rlchI Joan, UP to the summit of the
mountains. It's not necessary to
clear the land entirely to produce
fine grasses. If the undergrowth is
removed, the trees thinned out, and
the surface stirred, and sown in
orchard grass, it fourishes luxuri-
antly, even while the forest trees are
left standing. Horses, cattle and
sheep can be raised at small cost
and market is near at hand in the
large and rapidly growing southern
cities such as Atlanta, Chattanooga,
Knoxville, Augusta, Savannah,
Birmingham, etc. 1t is an astound
ing fact, yet nevertheless true that
Notwithstanding the fact that right
here at our very doors we have the
finest stock raising country in the
Union, yet beet is brought from the
northwestern cities to supply home
consumption.
Ia the mountains of North Geor-
gia vast ranges of wild grasses grow
all the year round, ahording a
pasturage for stock both summer
and winter. These grasses grow
all over the highest mountains and
stock Of all kinds keep fat without
being fed at all. Unlike the ranges
of the West, stock never suffer in
the winter, because the ground is
rarely covered with snow and the
weather never very cold. Dairying
can also be made very profitable in
this section.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-07-19
TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS AN ACRE.

We desire to call the attention of
our readers to the success of a North
Carolina negro named Isaac Rich
mond. This negro is now forty-two
years old. When he was freed, he
elected to stay with his old master.
and although he now owns planta-
ton of his own, he still remains
with the gentleman who formerly
owned him.
Isaac is not only subscriber to
The Constitution, but he is one of
the most noted tobacco raisers and
curers in North Carolina. For a
long time it has been the custom of
owners of large plantations in the
tobacco growing region of North
Carolina to offer prize jacket to
the most Skillful curers OF the tobacco
leaf-the success to be determined
by the price for which the tobacco
is sold.
For twenty-three years Isaac Rich
mond has worn the prize jacket in
his neighborhood, and some samples
of his raising and curing, which he
sends us, confirm the right to the
prize. His last years crop he has
just sold at the average price of
thirty-eight cents a pound, which is
at the rate OF 5000 an acre. This
is very profitable farming, indeed.
The average cotton planter is doing
very well if he makes bale to three
acres, which is aboutS15 to the acre.
In other words where the cotton
planter makes 1925 on ten acres
Isaac Richmond, the expert tobacco
grower Of North Carolina makes
$1,000.
~ gentleman who is we'll ac-
quainted with Isaac and with the
tobacco growing business, informs us
that In northern and northeastern
Georgia there are thousands of acres
OF just such land as that on which
Isaac Richmond grows This bright
Leaf tobacco. Why is not this
ground utilized?
This is question we shall not
attempt to answer. We can only
give the testimony Of an expert, who
says that Georgia can raise as fine
tobacco as North Carolina i Allan
ia Constitution.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-07-19
WORTH KNOWING
ABOUT MARIETTA AND COBB co.
CLIMATE.

Temperature rarely above ninety
in summer-hardly ever reaches
freezing point in winter.
WATER.
Pure freestone water in abundance
and many mineral springs.
RAINFALL.
The average rainfall each year
since 1877 as shown by Mr.. G. G.
Burnap's record is $3.50 inches
annually.
Sandy and gravely loan, with
clay subsoil on the uplands, while
the bottom lands are a rich dark
loan and very. productive.
TOPOGRAPHY.
The lands throughout North Geor-
gia are hilly, but all available for
agricultural purposes, with very rich
bottom lands along all the streams.
CROPS.
Everything can be grown with
profit, that is raised in the Northern
States with the addition OF cotton
and tobacco.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
All kinds of fruits except tropical,
flourish luxuriantly. Vegetables of
every description grown to periec-
ton and two crops can be raised on
the same land in one year.
MARKETS.
Both home and for northern ship
ment.
TIMBERS.
All the valuable woods used in
manufacture.
MINERALS.
See article on minerals.
MANUFACTURING
See article on the same.
ELEVATION.
1850 feet above the sea level.
1000 population.
Station on Western and Atlantic
Railroad.
Southern terminus Marietta and
North Georgia Railroad.
PRICE OF LANDS.
UnimprOved lands, SI.00 to $1,000
per acre, improved lands $1,000 to
S25. 90 per acre.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-07-19

The above cuts Of the MARIETTA
PAPER MILLS represents one of the
successful enterprises of Cobb coun-
ty. Mr.. Saxon A. Anderson, the
owner, is a young man who took
hold of this property about fifteen
years ago when the company had
but one mill and it was in a dilapi-
dated condition. He has not only
rebuilt the old mill but has built
new one with the best improved ma
chinery. He has recently added
machinery for making Paper Irvine
which is working to perfection. AS
an evidence Of the profit in manu-
featuring in this section, care per-
mitted to state that fifteen years ago
when Mr.. Anderson bought in this
property, he had less than $4,000,
and the plant now is worth over
SIS, 900, and he don't owe a cent.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-07-19
MARIETTA.
THE BEST CLIMATE In THE SOUTH.

At the meeting of the Kings
County Medical Society in Brooklyn,
N. T., November, 1888, DR.. P. R.
Courtelyou, of Marietta, Ca, an old
member of the society, was called
upon to relate his experience in re-
gard to the climate Of Georgia as a
place of residence for persons af-
fected with pulmonary and throat
troubles. After narrating to some
extent his own affection in the above
respect, and his attempts to find a
climate which would afford him re-
lief, and showing the difficulties
which he experienced at one or two
points from dampness, foggy weather,
ETC., and the inability to find eli
mate where he could obtain refresh
ing sleep at night, DR.. Cortelyou
showed that he had found at Mari
eta the point which had brought
him relief from general debility and
from the pulmonary and throat at
lection from which he suffered. He
added:
Every many think because the
winters are mild the summers are
long and hot. The summers are
really exceedingly pleasant. We
rarely have temperature above
ninety degrees in the shade; and
the nights are also very comfortable;
and l don't think there were half a
dozen nights during the past summer
when | was kept awake on account
of the heat, or when | did not need
some covering. Another advantage
OF that section-I speak especially
for Marietta, but many sections in
upper Georgia are fully as favorable
as to climate, the conditions are all
the same, but we have little more
elevation than the other sections
is, the absolute freedom from mala-
rial troubles. And further, and
this is point to which | wish to
direct your attention, we are easy
of access. think that is decided
benefit IN many cases. | hear a
good deal said about New Mexico.
When an invalid attempts to 90
there, away from his friends, he has
very tiresome and tedious journey,
and the facilities for a comfortable
living there are, in many parts of
the country, difficult to procure SO
that If one requires any special lux
uries, it is difficult to get them. At
Marietta we are situated conven-
lently to Atlanta, where we can get
anything that can be had here; and
persons located there are certainly
very easily reached by friends, if
necessary: andso they feel that they
are not entirely isolated from their
friends and families as they are
when they go to New Mexico or
even California"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-07-19

In excavating at Kennesaw Noun
tain a natural writing ink was dis
covered. BY adding one ingredient,
it makes beautiful and unfading
black ink. The Ordinary of Cobb
county has kept his records with this
ink for years A good opening for
an ink bottling factory.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-07-19
READ THIS COLUMN CAREFULLY.


Land is sold cheap in this section
because the people have more than
they can cultivae to advantage.
All the land We advertise is con.
venient to both schools and church
es. While the free school system of
Georgia is not so perfect as in the
Northern states, yet it is being i'm
proved each year aud all sections are
we'll supplied with frst-class pri-
vate schools.
Cobb county in particular, and
northern Georgia generally is we'll
supplied with water. 1t is impos-
sible to find a farm but what has one
or more living streams and plenty
of springs while water can be OBJ.
tanned any where by sinking wells
to short distance. In addition to
the abundant supply of pure free
stone water, we have a large num-
Der of mineral springs, all of which
possess certain medicinal qualities.
The farms of this county have a
dwelling house for the owners fami-
ly and the farm hands OF laborers
are furnished tenant houses con-
sisting of two, three or four rooms.
These tenant houses are very
comfortable and with some additions
would make good farm houses.
A cotton gin to the South is
what q threshing machine is to the
North. An outfit consists of a
steam engine, ginning saws or cyl
lnder for separating the seed from
the lint cotton, ''just as a thresher
separates the wheat from the chaff,"
and a compress, which puts the lint
cotton in bales of about 500 lbs
each.
North Georgia contains SO kinds
of mineral and II distinct varieties
of wood.
The farmers of this section are
a mighty clever and hospitable
people, but they call harness gear,
and drive oxen with lines.
We guarantee a perfect title to
all the land we sell.
You must not think that the
heat during the summer in this
particular section is to be compar-
ed to that of the extreme South.
There is not a day during the sum-
mer but what Il farmer can work in
his fields with as much comfort as he
could do in the States of Ohio and
Pennsylvania, and the nights are in
variably cool.
At the State Agricultural Expo
sltion Cobb county captured a $1,000
prize as the banner county of Geor-
gia in producing general crops.
One of the National cemeteries is
located here and contains 10000
graves; 5000 of which are marked
unknown" The government has
just appropriated $4,000 for the pur-
pose of identifying the drive from
our public park to the cemetery
gate.
The man who proposes to move
and don't come to Georgia before
he locates, will have cause to re-
greet it the balance of his life.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-07-19
MANGANESE.

Throughout Cobb Co., and North
Georgia Manganese is found in
abundance, of fine quality, and
such close proximity to Railroad that
it furnishes very inviting field for
the investment of capital
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-07-19
MINERALS.

The capitalist, miner or Spectator
can find no better field of operation
where his money will bring him in
such handsome profits as North
Georgia.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-07-19

Copper, lead, silver, gold, mica
plumbago, stealite, chrome sand,
schist, baryta, gypsum, asbestos,
unakite, feldspar, brown hematite
iron, kayanite, garnets, copper
pyrites, hornblende, cinnamon stone,
soap stone, decomposed granite,
chest, kaolin, building stone, Slate
and many other minerals, and in fact
no end of marketable natural pro.
ducts, which invite capital and ener-
getic action only to bring large and
profitable returns to the investor.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-07-19

"Flossie,'' said her mama, "why
do you keep up such a constant
chatter, chatter, all the time ?'
Clause I've COTS lots to say"
explained Flossie.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-11-10

easily understand. While the bosses real
lied that the reduction proposed could In.
jure them only In their trust mbinations,
the working people, though convinced
enough that high tariff brought them no
increase of wages, could not be made to
see how reduction could bring them an
increase. All therefore voted as they had
always voted before. But of the 1900.
900 of workers In this country, who make
their living by the sweat Of the brow, l2, =
900. 900 are agricultural, and upon the
shoulders Of them, almost entirely, rests
the burden Of the s5OO,OOO,OOO of annual
taxation to which the country through
tariff taxation is subjected During the
discussions of the campaign our tariff
system was aptly compared to a great COW,
stretching from Maine 70 the Rocky noun.
tsins. While she feeds of the fields of
the west, the east milks her tor all She Is
worth. The Illustration is no less forcible
than It Is moral demonstrsbly true.
Yet the strange and unaccountable
thing Is that the same stolid, stubborn
immobiity on the tariff question that pre-
vailed at the manufacturing centers
should equally dominate the agricultural
people, To the latter, at least, demonstra
bly, and lndisputably, tariff reform and re
dGction meant release from enormous bur,
dens. Among them, at least, there ought
20 have been tremendous slide" ~ favor
Of reform and the removal of unnecessary
and therefore unjust taxation. But they
stood as stolid and Indifferent 10 the Issue
as the poems Of Mexico. Il Is all well
enough 10 say that though the farmers are
proyerbially conservative and slow 10 move,
there is no question Of their honesty. But
the agricultural classes OF all the nations
OF the earth except in these blessed Uni
ted States are serl-, aud while that same
stolid conservatism has brought them TO
that condition elsewhere, may not It's iuhu~
ence tend in the same direction here
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-11-10

The vote on congressman In this district
bears out the prediction staaem ent that L..
W. Brewer was making a magnificent can
vass as candidate for congress. The
character of his work is shown by the
returns-in every county running ahead of
his ticket except in the county of La Sale
where special still hunt was made against
him, and where he himself did little or no
active work. In Grundy he was 2S2
ahead of his ticket; in Wilt, 314; In Ken
dali, 81 in Du Page, 279. Trading in La
Sale ran him behind his ticket little.
Mr.. Brewer has the satisfaction, then, that
he did great work, and that had he had
half chance ne could have won. He was
beaten by about 1900. Plumb had over
5000 majority two years ago.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-11-10
LA SALE COUNTY DEMOCRACY.

There Is little satisfaction 10 the democ-
racy of La Sale county In the result of
Tuesdays election, II must be confessed.
The republicans were undoubtedly much
better organized than the democrats; they
hsd their canvass better In hand; they
ought to have achieved better results /;
nevertheless, in spite of their splendid or.
gsnization, the county Is solidly democratic
on a question of state or national issue.
That Is a satisfaction.
But this satisfaction is fully offset in
looking at the returns on the county ticket.
The defeat of that ticket is wholly bad
inexcusable. 1t Is not the result of super,
Ior management of the republicans; but
of the selfishness and disloyalty of demo>
crsts Democrats themselves defeated
their own ticket, and 1t was done largely
In the city of Ottawa. II shows
that democrats are willing TO sacrifice
political supremacy and triumph Of their
principles to satisfy personal animosities.
Straight, fair voting by the democrats
would have elected every man on the tick.
ct, from head to foot. Such success would
have strengthened the party and placed 1t
In position to wage an offensive battle In
1890 and 1899.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-11-10

Out of the general wreck here and there,
comes a CLEAN of satisfaction, and not the
least is the defeat of Jehu Baker in the old
Morrison district in this State. The de.
feat of Morrison, two years ago, was &C.
complished solely by scandalous use of
money furnished by the monopolistic high
tax beneficiaries of Pennsylvania. Baker
has proved their tool, 1t is true, but he has
also proved to be man of 90 small ability
that he has never been heard of and has
been necessarily of little use to them or to
any one else. So on Tuesday, in fair,
square, stand up fight, he has been glor-
iously knocked out" and Formau, demo =
Graf elected In his stead. But the pity oftit
is the great Morrison should have been
beaten In the first instance, and that he re-
fused TO run this year