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MR. TERRELL’S WORK
Attorney General Makes a Review of His
Office For the Year.
HE TELLS OF LEGAL MATTERS
He Recounts Decision* Made Ind Disposition
Ot Certain L> gel Matti raof
General Intfrtst.
Atlanta, Nov. 9, —The report of
the attorney general, in part, is as
follows:
“To His Excellency, William Y.
Atkinson, Governor—Sir: I beg leave
to submit the following report touch
ing matters of public interest con
nected with this oflice-during the past
year, and deemed of sufficient general
importan e for publication:
“The eases brought by me at the
instance of the railroad commission
before the interstate commerce com
mission against certain railroad com
panies op account of the refusal of
such companies to adopt the rates on
peaches suggested by the G’eorgia
railroad commission, as provided by
the act of December 18, 1896, from
Georgia points to points outside of the
state, and referred to at length in my
last report, were argued by myself
and Judge Allen Fort, of the railroad
commission, before the interstate
commerce commission in Washington
city onrthe 10th day of March, 1896.
While no- decision has as yet been
handed down in these cases, I feel
quite confident that the position taken
and rates suggested by the Georgia
railroad commission will be sustained
by the interstate commeice commis
sion.
“In February, 1896, by direction of
the railroad commission, I tiled a suit
against the Eatonfon Branch Rail
road Company for the recovery of the
penalty of $5,000 prescribed by law
for violations of the rules and regula
tions or orders of the commission on
account of the failure of the Eatonton
Branch Railroad Company to comply
with an order of the commission re
quiring it to place its track and road
bed in sueh condition as would render
travel over same safeand expeditious.
I have been lately notified by the
commission that since the filing cf this
suit the order has been fully complied
with by the Eatonton Branch Railroad
Company, and was directed to dismiss
the suit upon payment of cost by de
fendant.
“In July, 1896, at the instance of
the commission I instituted a suit for
ths recovery of the $5,000 penalty
prescribed by law against the Wrights- :
ville and Tennille Railroad Company,
returnable to the September term,
1896, x»f Johnson superior court. This
case arises from the failure of the
Wrightsville and Tennille Railroad
Company to obey Rule 33 of the rail,
road commission.
Railroad Taxes Due the State.
“During the present year the comptrol- ,
ler general has placed in my hands a gieat
many fl fas. against railroad companies
for state taxes. I have succeeded in col- |
jectiug the amounts due die state ou most
of these fl. fas., and note same in the
itemized statement of collections given
below. I have interventions pending in
several cases, ana hope to collect all that
may be due the state for taxes, except
from one or two roads, within the next
few months. In one or two instances I
See no chance of collecting the amounts '
due the state until the roads, which are
in posession of receivers, are sold under
the order of the court appointing the re
ceiver.
“In my last three reports .1 have
suggested that the law be amended
so as to allow the collections of the
state, county and municipal taxes on
property in the hands of receivers in
the same manner, that is by levy and
sale, and if the property remained in
the possession of the individual or
corporation owning the same. I most
respectfully renew the suggestion, as
I fail to see any good reason why
property in the hands of a receiver
should not be subject to the same
burdens and processes, so far as con
cerns the assessment and collection cf
taxes as if it remained in the hands of !
its owner. It is the duty’ of all citi
zens to pay’ taxes whenever the same
are due, and if a receiver fails to dis
charge this duty to the public, prop
erty placed in his keeping should be
liable to levy’ and sale in the sarfle
manner as theproperty of the estates
in the hands of administrators, exec
utors or other trusiees. It occurs to
me that it is no sufficient an
swer to say that the court
appointing the receiver will, upon
proper application, require the receiver
to pay the taxes due. In most cases sueh
an order would be granted, but the nec-
Insomnia
is often the result of some |
wearing pain, slight in itself, , |
yet sufficient to prevent
sleep. Instead of using an
opiate apply an
Allcock’s
Porous Plaster
to the aching spot; relief
will come, and with relief,
sweet, refreshing sleep.
Bcenrr of out rum*. See that yoj get
“ Allcogk’s.” Do not accept any other.
Allcock’s Corn Shields,
Allcock’s Bunion Shields,
Have no equal as a relief and cure for corn*
and bunions.
Brandreth’s Pills
first purify, then invigorate the sys
tem. facilitating healthy growth.
essary delay in every instance, and the
expense in many instances, could be saved
to the state, county or city. It sometimes
i happens that when an order is obtained
r quiring the receiver to pay the taxes
due on property in his possession he has
no funds ou hand with which to enable
him to comply with the order and courts
are slow in compelling receivers to sell a
portion of the properly for this purpose.
The granting of such an order is within
the discretion of the couit. It is not good
policy to leave the payment of public rev
enues to the discretson of any officer.
Fidelity Companies.
• ‘Some time since the comptroller gen
eral had occasion to issue an execution
against a defaulting tas collector, whose
o ily surety was a fidelity company, fi
fa was turned over to me for collection,
and after sale of all the property be
longing to the principal there was still a
balance of over $2,000 due to the state.
This balance was paid by the Fidelity
company, but as it had no property in
this state known to any levying officers
and being a foreign corporation, the
collection could only* have been forced
through litigation in the state in which
the company was chartered. I make
si efial mention of ibis matter for the
purpose of suggesting the advisability of
amending the act of 1887 authorizing
the approval of bonds in certain cases
signed by a fidelity company as surety,
so as to require tuese companies to make
sich a deposit of bonds with the state
treasurer as is required of insurance
companies.
Capital Cases at Sus reme Court.
“Since my last report I have, as re
quired by the constitution, represented
the state in twenty-seven capital cases
before the supreme court. This is an in
crease of four cases over the year ending
Octobea, 1895.
Official Opinion.
“During the past year I have furnished
your excellency and the different depart
ments of state a large number of official
opinions, both oral and written, and I
hereto attace as an appendix to this report
such of the written opinions as may be of
general interest, and involve questions
which are likely to arise in the future.
Collections for State.
Marietta and North Georgia railroad. . J 14,334 12
Macon and hirminghaui railroad..... n 883 91
Penitentiary Company No. 3- « 442 64
Penitentiary Company No. 1 6-’4» 14
Penitentiary Company No. 2 1,714 45
Port Royal and Western Carolina rail-
road 695 87
Talbotton Railro d Company 400 34
Darien and Wes ern railroad 205 07
Columbus Railroad Compony 379 87
N. Highlands Railroad Company 46 58
M F. Jonee, tax collector of 'Brooks
county, and Fidelity and Deposit
Company of Maryland 2,732 06
Total $43,995 17
“Very respectfully,
J. M. TERRELL,
Attorney-General.’’
D d You Ever
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your troubles? If not, get a bottle now
and get relief. This medicine has been
found to be peculiarly adapted to the re
lief and cure of all giving strength and
tone to the organs. If you have Loss of
Appetite, Constipation, Headache,
Fainting Spells, or are Nervous, Sleep
less, Excitable, Melancholy, or troubled
with Dizzy Spells, Electric Bitters is
the medicine you need. Health and
Strength are guaranteed by its use.
Fifty cents and SI,OOO at D. W. Curry's
Drug store.
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former says, and many agree thereto.
But blood tells, and as a blood puri
fier and liver corrector Simmons Liver
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So wrote Mr. S M. Hysell, of Middle
port, Ohio. And Dr. D. S. Russell, of
Farmville, Va., writes, “It fulfills all
you promise for it.
To Cure a Cold *n One Day.
Take Laxatioe Bromo Quinine Tablets
All druggists refund the money : f it fails
to cure. 25c.
A Witty Forlornity.
A forlorn looking man said: “I’ve
tried everything that I could turn my
hand to, but couldn't make anything
answer, and now I have decided to go
up among the hills, where they say
there’s a wonderful echo, to see if I can
make that answer. ’’ —New York Adver
tiser.
A Little Girl’s Riddle.
Several children were asking riddles
the other day, and a bright little girl
who listened got the idea of what a
riddle was. The next day she went to
her father and said, “There was a blind
and curtains ou a pole and the pole fell
and two men laughed.” The father
promptly gave it up when she said,
‘‘Don't you see the point?” Upon being
answered in the negative she puzzled
her brains for awhile, and said, “Nei
ther do I.” She is now practicing on
riddles that have some meaning in
them.
Two Headings.
“Husband, what did the doctor say
about me?”
“He said that you must giv’ up re
ligion and lake to drink. ”
“What!”
“Well, he said you must stop doing
go much church work ami take a tonic. ”
—Louisville Courier-Journal.
WHERE TO PAY
Partus indt bted to the
electric light cjinpauy
will fled their accounts
at the Merchai ts Nation
al Bank- Pleat e call and
pay same C E- W ood
ruff, Receiver.
THE LOME TRIBUNE. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1886.
Christmas Presents
Those who intend to buy should send
at once for our new
* + * + » + » + Price List
for the fall of 1896, sent free of charge
J. P. Stevens & Bro., Jewelers,
47 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga.
RUNNERS MAY READ
Fhis Colnmn of Short Paragraphs and
Personal Mention.
NEWSY NOTES FOR HASTY READERS
Brief Mention of Many Kind.
Batch of Item, of Interee*
Cut to the Core.
The word abandon originally signified
“to run away from your colors.”
The word scrupulous originally signified
to “have a stone in one’s shoe.”
’Milliners first plied their trade at Mi
lan, and mantua-makers at Mantua.
The tarantula is named from its plen
titulness in the vicinity of Taranto.
The shallot takes its name from its
plentifulness in the vicinity of Ascalon.
Coffee is thus called because it was first
exported from the Arabian port of Kaffa.
Cambric originally came from Cambray
whence its name, and calico from Calicut.
Gin takes its name from Geneva, where
it wasformerly made in large quantities.
Puss, familiar name for cat, was once
pers, the Persian name for the same ani
mal.
Termagant was once a suppositi
tious Mohammedan deity of fierce
temper and language.
The word vernacular once meant
‘‘a slave who was born in the house
of his master.”
Huzzy isja contraction of house wife,
and by early English writers is used
in that sense.
Tobacco was so called because it
was first noted by Europeans on the
small island of Tobago.
Ballot was once “a little ball.” In
many organ’zations ballots are stiil
taken with marbles.
W. T. Cheney buys notes and lend
money on any good security. Loans
placed on real estate for moderate
amounts. No delay, e.o.d.&wk Im ’
Don’t wait until cold weather to repair
or reset your grates. Dick Treadaway
will exchaage new grates for old ones.
Leave orders at H. D. Hill’s office. ts.
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New Telephones.
157 Rome Drug Co.
157 Wright, A. R. Dr., office.
163 Dougherty, A.
162 Brannon, J. L. & Co.
49 Moore & Reece.
166 Mooney & Carter.
169 Holder, E. E , Coal and Pro
du"''
17 Exchange Bank.
ASK the recovered
dyspeptics, bilious
jBKw I 8 It V sufferers victims of
1 fever and ague, the
mercurial diseased
B patient, how they re-
W covered health, cneer-
ful spirits and good
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vou by taking SlM
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Heartburn, etc. This unrivalled remedy is
warranted not to contain a single particle of
Mercury, or any mineral substance, but Is
PURELY VEGETABLE,
containing those Southern Roots and Herbs
which an all-wise. Providence has placed in
countries where Liver Diseases most prevail.
It will cure all Diseases caused by Derange
ment of the Liver and Bowels.
The SYMPTOMS of Liver Complaint are a
bitter or bad taste in the mouth; Pain in the
Back, Sides or Joints, often mistaken for Rheu
matism; Sour Stomach; Loss of Appetite;
Bowels alternately costive and lax; Headache;
Loss of Memory, with a painful sensation of
having failed to do something which ought to
have been done; Debility; Low Spirits, a thick
yellow appearance of the Skin and Eyes, a dry
Cough often mistaken for Consumption.
Sometimes many of these symptoms attend
the disease, at others very few; but the Liver
is generally the seat of the disease, and if not
Regulated in time, great suffering, wretched
ness and DEATH will ensue.
The following highly esteemed persons attest
to the virtues of Simmons Liver Regulator:
Gen. W. S. Holt, Pres. Ga. S. W. R. R. Co.; Rev
J. R. Felder. Perry, Ga.j'Col. E. K. Sparks. Al
bany, Ga.; C. Masterson, Esq.. Sheriff Bibb Co.,
Ga.;' Hon. Alexander H. Stephens.
“We have tested its virtues, personally, and
know that for Dyspepsia, Biliousness and
Throbbing Headache it is the best medicine the
world ever saw. We tried forty other remedies
before Simmons Liver Regulator, but none gave
u« more than temporary relief; but the Regu
lator not only relieved, but cured us.”—ED.
VKL.EGRAPH AND MESSENGER, Macon, Ga.
MANUFACTURED ONLY BY
J. M. ZEILIN A CO., Philadelphia, Pa.
New Meat Market!
41 2 Broad Street
In store of John Miller.
I have just opened a first class Meat
Maraet al 412 Broad street, where I will
keep all kinds of Fresh Meats of young
cattle, Game of all kinds, Chickens,
Turkeys, Fish, Oysters, &c, My pr ees
will be found correct. All orders will
receive prompt attention. Give me a
trial. Respectfully,
J. H. COOPER,
412 Broad Street. 8 eodlw
Mammoth Slaughtering Sale!
ufVT THE
CUT PRICE HOUSE OF
W. H. Coker & Co,
A WORD TO THE WISE.
The cold wave is ccming and we are prepared to make
everybody comfsrtable. We are offeiing for the month of
November our entire stock of
CLOTHING, OVERCOATS
And Cents’ Furnishing Goods
at the very lowest prices at which they can bought at
the factory. We have one of the most complete lines of
Cents 1 Underwear ever shown in this town, which we pro
pose to sell at prices never before heard of in the history
of this town. Now if you aie in need of anything in our
line of Gents’ Furnishings it will pay you big to call on
us and get our prices
Dress Go ods!Dress Goods!
We have one of the nobbiest lines of Woolen Dress
Goods that hat been opened in this market this season, all
of which will go at the very lowest cash prices. All we
want is for you to call and examine,
LADIES’ HATS.
We have just received today by express several dozen
Ladies’ Hats. Sailors in all styles and colors, Trimmed
Hats just as nobby as can be, new and up-to-date styles.
Our line of Notions is complete in every respect, and
if you aie in need of anything in the small Notion line we
would be glad to show and price you our goods.
A WORD ABOUT OUR
Slioe Stock!
Our stock can’t be surpassed. We sell more Shoes
than any two houses in Rome, and if you wi'.l call you can
find it so. Our working man’s Shoe for SI.OO beats the
world.
Trunks, Trunk?, Valises, Telescopes Umbrel
las, Rubber Coats, Leggins, Caps, Over
shoes and Boots—All go at the
Lowest Cash Prices.
W. H. COKER & CO.
THE MAMMOTH CUT PRICE HOUSE,
19 and 21 Broad Street,
ROME. - - GEORGIA.
A. Bargain, -
Sale of Valuable laim
Will be sold in Summerville, Chat
tooga county, TUESDAY, NOVEM
BER 3rd next, between Ha m. and
1 p. m. o’clock, to highest bidder
one of the best farms in North
Georgia. Farm is known as Upper
Cheney plantation, located in Dirt
Town Valley, Chattooga county, six
(6) miles from C.. R & C. R. R. and
eight miles from Summerville.
Contains 564 acres, over 200
good fence and in high state of cul
tivation. Almost entire farm is
level land, or nearly so, does not
wash or overflow, is free of rocks
and stumps and is very productive.
No worn out land on farm.
The woodland is in original forest,
and is heavily timbered with oak,
ash, poplar, pine, etc. A large part
of wood'and is rich level bottom.
Has several large never failing
springs, a nd also two (2) acre fish
ponds well stocked.
Tne improvements consist of one
comfortable six (6) room dwelling
situated in large grove, three (3) ten
ant houses, two (2) barns, one c;
which is 50x70 feet, new and(|i 1
venient. All buildings and ten< |f,
which is plank and wire, are almos‘
new, and well built.
If you want a beautiful home or a
good investment don’t fail to exam
ine this property. Sale absolute.
Terms, S 2,000.00 cash, balance
one (I )and two (2) years at eight
[8) per cent.
For any information call on or
address
D. D. CHENEY,
Tidings, Ga.
r W. T. Cheney. Agent,
R me, Ga
SCHEDULE OF
somm RAILWAY
In Effect Nov. 8, I 896.
ARRIVALS.
From the North and East.
Train No 8 from Chattanooga and ;
Knoxville 3 25 3 m
Train No 10 fro-n Chattanooga, Cin '
cinnati and Knoxville... 10 35 a m
Train No 14. from Cincinnati, Bris-
tol and Chattanooga. 83) pm
From Florida, Georgia and the
Cai ollnaa.
Train No 13, Horn Atlanta and the
South and Ea-t 700 am
Train No 7, from Atlanta and the
South and East 10 33 a in
Train No O.Troni Atlanta and the
Scuthand East 431 pm
From New <lrkar»»nd lh! South
Ind ts eat.
Train No 16 from Selma & Anniston 420 p m
Train so 18from Anniston and Bir-
mingham 12 30 pm
From Atta la and Gadsden.
Train No *6 from Gadsden and At-
talla (except Sunday) 10 15 a m
Train No 10 from Gadsden and At
talla (Sunday only) tots am
DEPARTURES
For Chattanooga and the North 1
and East.
Train No 13 for Chattanooga and
Cincinnati 700 am
Train No 7 for Chattanooga and Nash-
ville 1035 am
Train No 9 for Chattanooga, Norfolk
and Cincinnati 4 31 p m
For Atlanta, Florida and the Ets:
Train No 8, for Atlanta and the
Southeast 835 am
Train No 10 for Atlanta and the
Southeast 1035 am
Train No 14 lor Atlanta and Florlia 835 pnt
For the South and West.
Train No 15 for Selma and New Or-
leana 1045 am
Tram No 17, accommodation for An
niston and Birmingham 400 pm
For Gadsden and Attalla
Train No 15 for Gadsden and Attalla I
(except Sunday) ' 200 pm
Train No 9 for Gadsden and Attalla ;
(Sunday only) I 450 pm
For sleeping car snaee and other information
call at City Ticket Office, No 14 Armstrong Block
or East Rome,
W H GREENE, Gen Supt
Washington, D C
W A TURK, GPA.,
Washington, DC,
C A BENSCOTER, A G P A
< hattanooga, Tenn,
T C SMITH, Paua T A
Uome.Ga
Sale of Collateral.
Ther? will be sold tn the highest bidder for
cash, between the hours of 10 a. m. and 4 o’clock
p ni., at tli3 court house do<»r of Floyd countv.
<>n the lOtu day of Dec? über, 189* (BAid sale
beginning at '0 o’clock a. m., or as early after
th *t hour as practicab e) a lease of the plant of
the Rome Rolling Mill, eituitecf in Flovd
cj'intr, Georgia,, made by Harper Hamilton’to
8. M. Bill on May 27, 189 f» for the of one
jear with the option to said S. M. Bill of ex
tending said lease a f ter one year rom May 27,
1896, as therein recited. Baid lea«*e was de
livered to Langston & Woodson by said S. M.
Ball as collateral security for the faithful per
formance of certain contracts between said
Langston & Woodson and Geo. C Ball & Co.,
of whiclt latter fir n S. M Ball was then and is
now a member, *nd as collateral security for
certain sums of money advanc dby Langeton &
Woo ison to aaid jeo. U. Bah & Co., said con
tracts for the faithful performance of which
said le-.s* was oledged as collateral security
have nat b’?en perform-d bv s.id (ho. C. Bali
& Go. and sai’i eums of tnonev so advanced by
'sain Langston *fc oodson have not Ie n repaid
as said <• *.o c. Bui Air Co. agreed t > lepay the
same. Said sunn oz money are pa’t due and
ibis sab* is nude forth® purpose of re lizine on
said collateral and applying the proceeds of the
sale thereof to the payment of said past due
indebte iness. L kNGSTuN & WOODSON.
11-11 lr.w 5w Atlanta. Ga.
sRATESi $2.50 TO $3.00 PER DAY.*
HOTEL MARION
O. W. Hollingsworth, Mgr.
ATLANTA, GA.
Commercial men given every atten
tion. Two blocks from depot. Free
bus to and from all trains. Baths on
ench floor. Rooms en-suite with bath.
Steam heat, electric light, elevator. All
modern conveniences.
Everybody coming to Fahy’s
this week to see his capes
jackets and reefers elegant
styles from SI.CO up.