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sr. D WINE LI.
B. P. SAWYER
.—..—Proprietor
-Associate Editor
WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE 18
Use “an Ounce ofPreventtve.”
The recent excitement in Memphis,
and in Nashville, are sufficient admo
nitions to the people throughout this
entire section, to put their houses in
order. The indications are that this
will'he a sickly season in the large
cities, and if so, whatever type the dis
ease may assume, more orleffi sickness
‘will be likely to extend to. interior
towns and the country generally. We
are glad to notice that our city council
is active in using all needful sanitary
measures to secure entire healthfulness.
While the council, as public officers,
may do much, yet the object will not
he fully attained unless all citizens
heartily eo-operate with them. Let
every man look well to his own prem
ises, remove all filth and make free use
of disaffectants wherever needed.
There should be great caution in re
gard to diet. Use no food except what
is known to be 'wholesome. And en
tirely avoid green fruit, stale berries
and vegetables. The seasonable rains
and warm weather have Caused vege
tables to grow very rapidly this year,
consequently they are full of sap, and
decay very quickly. This especially is
true of cabbage, squash, cucumbers,
green peas, &c. - :
Soldiers’ Monument.
Ever since a period soon after the
war, occasional efforts have been made
by many of the good citizens of Floyd
County—but mostly by the ladies, God
bless them !—to secure the erection of a
suitable monument to perpetuate the
.memory of those,’"from this county,
who gave their lives to the “Lost Cause.”
These efforts, prompted by the very
best feelings of our natures, have, up
to this time, been successful only to a
very limited extent, because they have
been spasmodic and sporadic, instead
of persevering, systematic and general.
It is not a small thing, in a county like
ours, to raise five thousand dollars for
a purpose that is purely sentimental,
by voluntary contributions, and • all
schemes are likely to fail that do not
embrace in a well organized .and ex
haustive plan the full support of all
whose hearts are enlisted in this sacred
work:.
*' Wffhopeto be excused for suggest
ing the' following plan, which, if effi
ciently carried.out, will probably be
successful, and, at .all events, will final
ly settle the question as to whether the
necessary means can be raised. . .
The grand object of the proposed
monument is not the honor of the
cause, the glory of Georgia, or to flatter
the pride of Floyd County, but it is to
perpetuate the memory of those who
gave their lives to a cause they consid
ered sacred. Hence, the purpose is indi
vidual and not general in it= L<>»*mgs,
and the spirit of each one of the five
hundred dead heroes makes a specific
and direct appeal to the people of Floyd
County to rescue his name from ob
livion. It is proposed to do this by
erecting a suitable monument, to be
located on Myrtle Hill, in Home, on
which shall be engraved the names of
every soldier from Floyd County who
lost his life while in the Confederate
service..
A monument that will do credit to
Floyd County,will cost about five thous
and. dollars, and there are about five
hundrednames that should be inscribed
upon it; that is, the cost for each will
be ten dollars, Now this suggests the
plan proposed. It is not to give a cer
tain amount for the general idea of a
monument, but to donate ten dollars to
have commemorated the name of, for
instance, Captain Hall, Major Harper,
Major Bale, Charles Norton, or any
one of this noble band.
In order to raise the needed amount,
a systematic,, thorough plan must be
adopted, to canvass the entire county,
and an efficient agent appointed, who
can devote his entire time for three
months, or so long as may be necessa
ry. He can go to the tax books, and
there get an alphabetical list, by dis
tricts, of all the tax-payers in the
county, and it will be his business to
make personal application to every one.
Let the soliciting agent be provided
with blanknotes of the following form:
"I promise to p»y at ’a Bank, in Roma,
for use of Soldiers' Monumental Association,
dollars, for the purpose of having
scribod upon the proposed monument the name
of , a soldier from this county; payment
to be made by 25th day of December, 1S73, or as
soon thereafter as the necessary amount has been
subscribed.
(Signed)
To all who prefer to pay the cash, let
the agent give a receipt, in which it
will be stated that the money given
will be deposited in a bank, and sub
ject to the donor’s order, after say'Feb-
ruary 1st,-1874, provided the necessary
amount is not subscribed before that
time.
The agent should be provided with
a complete list of the dead soldiers, and
keep a full record of all subscriptions,
by-whom made and for whose memory.
A subscription book should also be
kept op.en at some convenient place in
Rome, where anyone can go and sub
scribe. When this county has been
thoroughly canvassed in this way, the
enterprise will have assumed a definite
shape. . Either the necessary amount
will be subscribed, or else it will he
evident that the enterprise is a hopeless
one. -
In the mean time let the ladies, go
on and raise, by their concerts and en
tertainments, all they can, fopit will
surely be needed. It has been our
misfortune not to be able to attend, any
of the .meetings of the Soldiers’Monu
mental, Association, and not knowing
what plans have been adopted by them,
have taken the liberty of suggesting
the above:
We are assured that Mr. Thos. ; Cnyler.
—than whom none better can be found,
is willing to canvass the county.
Board of Commissioners difi Roads and
Revenue.
By the courtesy of Mr. T. J. Perry,
clerk to the Boaj£ of Commissioners
of Roads and RevOEue for Floyd County,
we are enabled to publish the following
abstract of proceedings had at the
meeting of that body held on Tuesday
lafet:
Board met pursuant to adjournment.
Present, Messrs. W. P. Whitmore, J.
H. Dent and J. Skinner. There being
a quorum, W. P. Whitmore was called
to take the chair. Reading of the min
utes of last meeting dispensed with.
• Col. Joel Branham read a petition
from H. D. Cothran, John. Jones, Mrs.
Sallie U. Stevens and others asking for
three road commissioners to be appoint
ed to mark out and lay off a road lead
ing from a point on the Spring Creek
road, about fifty yards east of the Sel
ma, Rome and Dalton Railroad, south
to the gin house of Mrs. Sallie U. Ste
vens or near that point, running through
the-land of- J. J. Cohen, Dr. S. P. Smith,
H. H. Watkins, W. M. Neal, J. Bran
ham, Jr., H. H. Smith, John Jones and
M. J. Wimpee, and then along the land
line between Samuel Mobley and Mrs.
Stevens, to connect with the Van Wert,
Cedartown and Cave Spring roads at
W. H. Jones’. The order for the road
commissioners was granted.
The petition of Patrick Cline, M.
Harper and others for change of road
was not granted:
The. petition of Tippen and others
was continued to the July term, for
want of witness.
Thos. H. Booze, road commissioner,
tendered his resignation, which was ac
cepted, and Martin Bobo appointed to
fill the vacancy.
' Sidney A: White, road commissioner,
tendered Ins resignation, which was ac
cepted. Jessie C. McDonald was ap
pointed toi fill the vacancy. .
J. B. Shropshire reported the alms
house farm and crop.in good condition
ahd number of paupers decreasing,
The clerk was ordered to ascertain
the cost of putting iron railing on the
rock wall and steps around the court
house, and to report to the July term
and the cost of a book case sufficiently
large to hold all the statutes and law
books belonging to the county.
The petition to the Board of Com
missioners to re-open and establish an
old county road which had been closed
up and changed by Mr. Lovcjoy with
out authority of law, and the petition
of Mr. Lovcjoy to have the new road
established as a county road, were thus
disposed of:
“The proof in this case is, that for
about five years the county mad has
been closed up by clearing and enclosing
it in a field of some ten acres, the old
road running through the middle of the
field', and JJ)e new road running around
the -field. Both the overseers ahd road
commissioners connived at this change
by neglecting to have the old road
kept open. The county was also noti
fied of-the facts, and, neglected or de
clined to either proceed against the
overseers or the road commissioners for
-failing in m^ir aucy; or me mcliviaual
who closed and changed the road, thus
acquiescing in said change. The
proof is that the new road as changed
is not as good as the old road, and that
it would be greatly to the injury of
Mr. Lovejoy to now open the old road.
The right of the petitioners and the
county in.this case was not by petition
for this order to open the county road
—this required no order; but their re
dress was against all the parties, viz
the overseer and the road commission
ers, for gross neglect of duty, and the
individual who closed up the road
and if this case had come before this
Board in its incipient stages they would
have enforced the law against them to
its fullest extent An overseer or com
missioner has no right to recognize any
change made in a county road until
they are officially notified that said
road has been established by the coun
ty ; but it is their duty to not only keep
in order the old road, (no matter if a
better road is opened by an individual,)
and permit no obstructions whatever.
Taking into consideration all the facts
in evidence in this case, that the county
and neighborhood, overseers and road
commissioners, have for five years
permitted and acquiesced in the change,
the Board do not now feel warranted
in granting the prayer of the petitioners
to re-open the county road; and it is
therefore ordered that the said road
as changed, as mentioned in the peti
tion, be established as the county road,
and that the road commissioners be
notified of the same, and that they
have worked and kept in good order
said road.”
S. C. Trout, tax collector, was ordered
to proceed at once to enforce collection
for all taxes duo for the year 1872,
The following accounts were ordered
to be paid:
Wheeler, Marshall & Bruce- -J- $39 00
Janes &Yeiser -I- 2 03
S. H. Dick... 2 50
J. H. Lumpkin — 2 50
J. M. Jenkins, jailor 126 00
M. A. Nevin & Go 1 .
W. M. Shropshire & Son
W. L. Whitely
James Browmow, bailiff-
J. M. Jenkins, jailor. —-
J. H. Lumpkin, sheriff
Thomas J. Perry, clerk
Minutes of the last, meeting being
read and approved, the Board adjourn
ed to the first Monday in July.
United States currency at the time when
the demand was made and when the
notes should have been delivered.
The court also rendered another de
cision on a question that has occupied
a great deal of public attention, and up
on which there has been much differ
ence of opinion, even among distin
guished lawyers and jurists. The case
was on an appeal from a lower court bn
the subject of responsibility of States
and municipalities for obligations in
curred in behalf of railroads. " The de
cision to which we refer establishes the
constitutionality and validity of subsi
dies to railroads, whether granted direct
by the State itselfi or by counties and
municipal corporations under State
authority. Donations of money or land
as encouragementto railroads, are shown
to constitute the same legal obligation
as subscriptions to the stock. The tax
upon the people, imposed for the pay
ment of the interest and principal of
the bonds thus issued in accordance
with the law, is decided to be constitu
tional and binding. Our friends will
therefore see at once that there is no
possibility of avoiding by repudiation
or otherwise obligations, State, county
or municipal, incurred in aid of rail
roads.—Montgomery Advertiser.
3 00
56 25
1 00
14 00
85 20
18 00
60 00
Two Important Decisions,
The Supreme Court of the United
States by a late decision has sanctioned
the practice in the courts of this State,
of making the value of Confederate
treasury notes at the time the demand
for their deliyery was made, the meas
ure of damages, &c. The case wasthat
of the Planters, Bank of Tennessee vs.
the UnionjBank of Louisiana, and the
judgment of the court below, which was
affirmed by the U. S. Supreme Court,
was that the Piasters’ Bank ought not
to be permitted to recover more than
the damages sustained by it in conse
quence of the defendant’s^ failure to
deliver Confederate notes w£ta they
were demanded, and those damages are
measured by the value of these notes in
J
Interesting Surgical Operation.
Editor Cornier:—On Wednesday, the
21st instant, I observed Doctors Gordon
and Farris, of LaFayette, Ga., perform
the most remarkable operation that I
ever saw in surgery—that of ovariotomy,
extracting from the patient a tumor
weighing twenty-five or thirty pounds,
The patient was a Mrs. Burris, living
four miles above LaFayette, Ga. The
patient, I understand from the medical
gentlemen, has not had on unpleasant
symptom, and is thought now to be
almost entirely out of danger.
Give this an insertion in your widely
Circulated paper, for the benefit of the
afflicted. Observer.
Meeting of the Fair Directors.
From Tfios. J. Perry, secretary of the
Fair Association, we have received
report of the meeting held by the Direct
ors, on Wednesday morning:
There were present Messrs. A. A. Jones
President; J. J. Cohen, Vice President
Whitmore, Pence, McDonald, Alexan
der, Gilliard. Absent, Messrs. Sproull
and Gammon. The latter gentleman
was reported sick.
On motion it was ordered that the
seefietary address each of the members
of the district committee by postal card
to attend a meeting at the exhibition
rooms of this Association', on Satur
day, the 28th inst, being the time and
place of the next monthly exhibition;
and on further motion, Messrs. Cohen,
McDonald and - the secretary were ap
pointed a‘committee to attend said meet
ing.
The committee on premium list sub
mitted their report, which was taken up
by sections, amended and adopted.
It was ordered that one thousand dol
lars be appropriated for prizes to ^jpk-
et holders,
order
In order to encourage lobvr uni
faithfulness on the part of employes
to their employers, it was ordered that
a Diploma be awarded to all laborers
who will furnish the Secretary of this
Association, on or before the Sth day
of September next, with a certificate of
faithfulness in the fulfilment of contract
for the present year; the certificate to
be signed by the employer. Diploma
to be awarded on the last day of the
Fair.
All employers in CheSbkee Georgia
and Alabama are earnestly requested to
give certificates to all who are deserving
them, and none others.
The Board then adjourned.
The Coming Exhibition.
Saturday, the 28th instant, is the
time fixed for the next Monthly Exhi
bition of early and forward specimens
of farm products, fruits, vegetables and
flowers. These exhibitions are not
only interesting but profitable to all
who contribute or attend. We are
pleased to see so many of our citizens
taking such an active interest in them.
The Board of Directors is composed
of our best citizens, working arduously
to build up the Association and make
it a success. In this they are doing
a good work, one that will benefit all
classes, and all should lend their influ
ence to sustaining them. To develop
the agriculture of this highly favored
section is our first duty.
By reference to the proceedings pub
lished in another column it will be
seen that a list of premiums was
adopted, the manuscript of which will
be placed in the hands of the printers
in a few days. A large edition will be
issued. It will also be observed that a
new feature has been adopted—one
that deserves the hearty co-operation
and support of every citizen in Georgia
and Alabama. We allude to the
awarding of a diploma to every em
ploye in Cherokee Georgia and Ala
bama who furnishes the secretary of
the Association, on or before the 8th of
September next, with a certificate from
his employer of having faithfully com
pliance with his contract for the pres
ent year. If employers will take ad
vantage of this new feature, and give
certificates to all who deserve them,
and to none others, they will find it to
work well and establish a system long
needed in the South. Those receiving
will find the diplomas of great value to
them as a passport to the confidence of
those who are in need of labor. All
agricultural associations and societies
should adopt the same plan, the value
and practical character of which is
self-evident.
Modac Indian Affairs.
News from Boyle’s Camp, dated June
13th, says the Modoc Commission will
convene at Fort Klamath. Itis thought
that Bogus' Charley, Hooker Jim,
Shacknasty Jim, and Steamboat Frank,
who aided in Captain Jack’s capture,
win escape punishment as murderers.
Those not tried for murder wiU be for
warded to a fort in San Francisco har
bor. General Ross, of the Oregon Vol
unteers, denies that his men massacred
the Modocs.
Sensible Poetry.
Many persons have very
for poetry, but we most
aU our subscribers will
ing, which we clip from
and endorse. We wish
so with freedom from any
on account of conscience:
“ Should you ask us why t
Why these sad complaints a
Munnurt loud about d
Who have read the paper v
Read what they have never j
Read with pleasure and with prefit,
Read of church affairs and prosjeefy
Read of nows both home end fortuV^_
Read the essays end the poems.
Fall of wisdom end instruction^ ^
Read the table of£lie markets,;
Careftilly corrected weekly; •
Should yon ask us why this doming,
We should answer, we should tel you:
From the printer, from the t
From the kind old paper-maker^
From the landlord and the carri ,
From the men who taxes letters
With a stamp from Uncle Samuel ■*,
Uncle Sam the rowdies call him -
From them all there comes a me sage,
Message kind, but firmly spokei
“ Please to pay us what you owe is.”
Sad it is to hear such message.
When our friends are all exha
When the lust bank note has loit 1
When the gold coin all has va:
Gone to pay the paper-maker.
Gone to pay the toiling printer,
Gone to pay the landlord tribu
Gone to pay tte faithful carrier;
Gone to pay the urgent mailer,,'
Gone to pay old uncle Samuel—
Uncle Sam the rowdies call h
Gone to pay the mrvrtjpe-ma
Three and twonty hundred <
Sad it is to our ledger,—
Turn the leaves of this old ledg
Turn and see what sums are do,
Duo for volumes long* since c
Due for years of pleasant i
Dne for years of toilsome labor^
Duo despite our constant du
Duo in sums from two to two
The two principal points of interest
the road:
i first the home of Georgia’s
Alexander H. Ste
phens ; and the other the home of Paul
H. Hayne, the greatest of Southern
poets. They are both modest, almost
humble in their appearance, but for all
that they are pointed out to the eager
traveler while the prouder mansions of
the codfish aristocracy are passed by
unnoticed. So much for the true na
ture of our people.
Our time is up, much to our surprise
and annoyance—will write from New
York. Old Grizzley.
Would you lift a harden fro
Wtnld yoa drive m spectre
Would you taste a pleasant
Would you have a quiet
Would you read a paper pa
Send us money! Send us
Send ua money! Send ns mom
Sind the money that you oioc us
The Cholera In Hash:
Leading physicians in N:
now, and have been from
vided in opinion among thi
the question whether there
single case of real cholera ifiNashville
during this season. The mortality in
the city certainly increased f<9 ten days,
until four days ago, it began to decrease.
The doctors report cases of whatever
nature they may be, as entirely contrac-
table. The average numberpf deaths
are twelve to fifteen a day, and occur
among negroes.
Cholera In Memphis Jane-14.'
There were 12 interments here to
day, from all diseases, against 17 yes
terday. There were 38 deaths from
cholera during the week.
Editorial Correspondence.
Charleston, June 10,1873.
Dear Courier:—We left home for “The
City by the Sea” on the evening of the
8th. We say we, for according to the
conclusion if not the logic of Dr.
HW!mi*> z—uterfjStx*- -dr
dell), there are three of us—Old Griz
zley, the Shabby-Genteel Gentleman,
and your correspondent. Old Grizzley
you all know; the Shabby-Genteel Gen
tleman you may very .readily know by
his costume, quite a genteel linen dust
er hiding a very shabby suit of flimsy
grey jeans. Your correspondent be
longs to that impersonal doss of Bo
hemians known or rather not known as
homo incognito, of whom the less that is
known the better. There being three
of us we shall employ the “imperial
We.”
To start anew, then: we left home on
the evening of the Sth. It was not so
much an idle curiosity but an innate
disposition in our nature to-be at the
head of things that prompted us to
ride on the engine. We always ride
there when we can. One feels fhe per
sonal power and grandeur of motion
then more sensibly as he sits by to
catch each strong hearty breath of .the
engine, and thrills to the quiver of its
giant pulsations. Our friend Billy
Kemodle was at the lever, and it was a
study to watch him as he stood there,
grasping with a master’s nerve the reins
of his iron horse, a hand on each, and
shooting his quick eye ahead, ever on
the keen alert for danger.
There are few persons, as they are
dashed along with a speed that would
plunge them into eternity at one false
stroke of the engineer’s hand, who think
for one moment how much they have
placed in the charge of that one little
smoke-begrimed, keen-eyed man who
stands there at his post—an object of
high disdain to the dainty fool who
draws his soilless skirts aside to keep
from brushing him. Only let some
terrible disaster overwhelm the land in
woe, and then we hear of the engineer.
No such disaster befell the Kingston
train under the guiding hand of Wil
liam Kemodle; but we are quite as
ready to “blazon” his name as ifi like
Guild, he had died at his post.
We arrived at Kingston without in
cident. We did not ride on the engine
of the State Road train. That it an in
stitution which we have no disposition
to be at fhe head of—-it is not" Safe to
be so. Points there were to
we passed' along; but the billing and
cooing of a newly married couple on
board completely absorbed all attention.
What a pity such sentimental fools can
not stay at home until the minfllin
sweetness wears off The Indians have
a better way of doing things: when a
young ceuple marry they fake to the
woods, and hide out until they can
learn to behave themselves in public.
Not that we object to their little loving
ness—God knows it wears off afi too
soon. We would only have them to be
more sparing with it at the first.:
Atlanta was reached* in due time.
The run to Augusta the next day was
pleasant—a gratifying improvement of
farms, houses, and general app<
being observed; in every mile
were looking finely. Wheat was
harvested, and what little com present
ed itself looked welL The great inter
est appeared concentrated
which was seemingly promising,
ers complaining only of gross.
A Letter from Saint Louis.
D or C wrier .--r-Hethonght, to while
away an evening, I would give your
readers a running and rambling descrip
tion of this rapidly growing city, which
has increased its population in the last
five years more than one hundred and
fifty thousand. I could make quite a
lengthy letter by selecting some pecu
liar feature and writing about it only,
but my purpose in this is to touch
slightly upon several; and if you deem
this worth its space, it will be followed
with other letters in which I will give
copious and minute descriptions of
some of the vast business operations
and numerous other' features of this
great city.
: Persons coming to the city from the
South and East arrive at East St.
Louis, which is a growing Tillage of
10,000 inhabitants, where you get into
-large omnibusses, holding about fifty
persons each; these drive aboard the
mammoth ferry-boats; you soon find
yourself afloat upon the mighty and
great Mississippi; and by the time you
become interested in watching the ma-
neuvres of the many large and hand
some steamboats, the carriage is driven
from off the ferry-boat and goes rush
ing at a pell-mell gait up into the city
of St. Louis. The drive is really pleas
ant to those who are particularly fond
of being jolted, for the streets are all
paved with that great humbug called
“Nicholson pavement,” and having be
come worn into great holes and gutters,
it affords first rate opportunity to nudge
your fellow-passenger without seeming
imdeness. You are conveyed to any
portion of the city without extra
charge, the railroad ticket entitling you
to this privilege. The hotels are good,
and moderate in their charges, and
you receive all possible attention.
This city has no real huge parks, but
any number of small ones, and in
them you can find all kinds of amuse
ments. On Sunday the parks are much
attended, and several of them have
dancing pavillions and music by bands
daring the entire day. Such are prin
cipally attended by the Germans,
which comprise near three-fifths of the
population' of 450,000 inhabitants.
Here they go, on Sundays, and take
their families and spend the day in
dancing, drinking beer, and shooting-
matches. My! how it would make the
Templar’s hearts at Rome ache to wit-
•mm i-ir-iruxii me age oi ouce to
very important element in the State,
and we have no doubt the press will
cordially support the firemen in all
needed reforms.
The following is the circular alluded
to:
Dear Sir:—-We would beg leave to
call your attention to the following res
olutions, unanimously adopted at a
meeting of the Rome Eire Department,
with us in peril
to.
If you approve the idea, and will
enter with us into this Association,
please notify us at your earliest con
venience, stating time and place you
will prefer to meet. We would sug- .
the Ite. pta of m«t.
four years, quaffing glass after glass of
beer!
The theatres, four in number, all
have Sunday evening performance
and I’ve been told that on that night
of all others they are more crowded
than during the week nights. Indeed,
I rather think as regards temperance
and morals generally, St Louis cannot
be boastful unless one is given to use
truth rather penuriously. In regard to
caste and grades in society, we can say
with truth that one here is just as much
respected as another, regardless of oc
cupation. We have quite a number of
charitable institutions and public li
braries, and if one is so disposed he
can readily and cheaply improve him
self or herself, as the facilities are good
and numerous for so doing.
Notwithstanding that vice and im
morality are so prevalent, St Louis is
not by any reasons deficient in church
es, for every imaginable denomination
is largely represented, and the .clergy
of the city war manfully against the
great tendency of the people to regard
the social evils with such apparent in
difference. Methodists and Baptists
are the leading denominations, and
they have quite a large number of mag-
nificient churches. In another letter
I may describe one or two of the fine
churches.
A large railroad bridge is under con
struction across the Mississippi and
will connect with a tunnel under the
city; which I will speak of at some
future time.
Street-car facilities are good and ex
cellently managed, and one can ride
the distance of nearly fifteen miles for
the sum of seven cents.
Upon the streets one hears the Ger
man language used almost as much as
he does the English, and if one can
speak both languages he will certainly
find it no inconvenience here.
I could go on and write page after
page of short descriptions, but will
merely make a few remarks about the
ladies. While there is a great number
of pretty ones, I do not think they can
compare favorably with our Georgia
girls in regard to beauty; but as re
gards domestic affairs, they certainly
excel and heat them badly: for here
the young ladies can cook, wash and
iron, and in the evening receive visitors
and entertain them with good music
and intelligent conversation. General
ly our home girls in Georgia are not so
well accomplished — are they, dear
Oouriert' Mechanic.
St. Lquis, June 9,1873.
Proposed State Firemen’s Association.
A copy of the following proposition,
adopted by the Eire Department of
Rome, has been sent to every known
fire company in the State. It seems
to us important that the project should
be carried out. There are mauy reas
ons why systematic and uniform
rules and regulations should be adopt
ed. More or less legislation is needed,
in which the firemen of the State
should have a voice, but which cannot
be unequivocally heard except through
systematic organization.
ThcTlire department has heconle a
ing, and September the month, leaving
it subject to the approval of a majority
of the delegates. The delegates to con
sist of the chief of the department,
and one delegate from each company.
H. A. Hills,
Chief Rome Fire Department,
Ed. F. Shropshire,
Foreman Citizen Hook & Ladder,
E. R. Smith,
Assistant Foreman Citizen H. & L.
J. C. Printup,
Citizen Hook & Ladder,
M. M. Pepper,
President Rainbow Steam Fire Co.
M. D. McOskeu,
Vice Prcs’t Rainbow Steam Fire Co.
Hamilton Yancey,
Rainbow Steam'Fire Company,
J. B. Carver,
Prcs’t Mountain City Steam Fire .Co.
Jas. Noble, Jil,
Capt Mountain City Steam Fire Co.
E. J. Allen,
Mountain City Steam Fire Company,
Committee.
the resolutions.
First. That the Rome Fire Depart
ment enter into arrangements for the
purpose of organizing a Firemens’ As
sociation, to be composed of delegates
from all the fire departments through
out the .State.
Second. That the object of this Asso
ciation shall be to advance the interest
and Mure prosperity of all fire depart
ments connected with it
Third. That this Association shall be
known as the “ Firemen’s Association
of the State of Georgia,” and shall be
composed of as many fire departments
in the State of Georgia as desire to en
ter into it, and said Association shall
hold an annual convention at such a
place and time as may hereafter be de
signated.
shall be authorized to have printed such
and send a copy to each chief of the
“The Firemens’ Association
State of Georgia.”
Pu. Department was added to the com
mittee as chairman.
OBITUARY.
FROST—Died at die residence of hie father,
in Cherokee County, Ala. (State lineS. R. A D.
Railroad), on the sixth day of June, 1873, after
ten days' intense Buffering, from pneumonia,
CoLumus E. Fbost, aged twenty-eight years,
two months and eight days:
It has been said, in regard to tho inscriptions
on tombstones and eulogies in obituary notices,
that one might be led to suppose none but the
good erer died; and so prone are the relatives
and friends to try and forgire and forget the
life-time errors ef the dead, that in some in
stances we fear it has had an unfavorable influ
ence on the living. But in this case, eulogy is
not misapplied. That he sometimes erred, the
frailty of human nature is sufficient evidence;—
but his errors were of the head, not of the heart.
Some ten yean ago he expressed a hope in
Christ and joined the Baptist church at Mount
Moriah, Randolph County, Ala. (now Clay Coun
ty). He was at the time of his death a member
of Salem church, Cherokee County, Ala.
In the home circle of his parents, sisten and
brothers, he was a shining model of meekness,
filial affection and obedience- His parents never
knew him to murmur or refuse to comply with
a single request ever made of him by them. He
was industrious to a fault. His frail body had
net physical strength to keep pace with his will
to do. But dear son, brother and friend, yon are
now resting from your toils, in glory. May pa
rents, sisters, brothers and friends meet you
there. Amen.
“ Man’s days are shorter than a span ,-
A little point his life appears;
How frail at best if dying man I
How vain are all his hopes and fears!
" Vain his ambition, noise and show;
Vain are the cares which rack his mind;
He heaps up treasures mix’d with woe,
And dies and leaves them all behind."
Market Quotations.
Cotton seed. .per ton—$10 to —
Canned fruit, nil kinds...per do*— $2}to 53*
Flour, choice ....per barrel 410 to 12
Family and extra..... 9 to 10
Superfine . - 7 to 8
Fish, fresh... per pound 10 to —
Cod 10 to 13
Herring, in bxs.——•
Mackerel .in barrels——512 to 18
——in kits 82 to $3}
Dried apples —.—perbushel 75 to $1
’caches 31 1° H
Hay .—..——per himdrcd pounds $l}to ?2
lard m tierces .......per jjj
12 to 13
Molasses in barrels ——per gallon 35 to 40
Molasses, hlf-bbls and kegs 55 to 85
Oats, for stable .perbnshel 50 io 65
Oats for planting. . — to —
Onions..—,.. - -..per barrel — to S5
Mess pork! —to$20
$3 to 4
Pickles, in glass jars ...per dozen $7} to 9
Pickles, half-gal jars.. 34} to 6
Pickles, quar-gal...... 33Jto 4}
Pickles, eighth-gal— Slfto 2}
Rice, Carolina .per pound 10}to 12}
Louisiana rice to
Rope, Manilla .per pound — to —
Cotton rope .— .—- — to
Salt, Liverpool— per sack 52 to 2*
Virginia salt 32 to 2}
Sugar, crushed, paw’d, per pound 13}to 15}
White clarified sugar 12 to 13
Yellow clarified sugar ll}to 13
Louja’aua sugar 0 to 11
Soap, extra family..—per pound 3 to 10
No. 1 Palm soap ...... 7 to 8
No. 2 Palm soap—. 5 to 6
Starch, best quality— ..per pound 6 to 9
Sordines, quarter bxs ...per case $24 to 525
Spice, cloves. '—per pound 30 to 50
Cinnamon spice........ 75 to 81
Ginger spice, Race.... 20 to 25
Ginger spice, ground.. $2 to
Mace spice— 32 to
Nutmeg spiceSI to
Pepper, onground..... 25 to 40
Pepper, ground —per dozen $2 to
Allspice —per pound 22 to 25
Tea, Young Hyson .per pound $l}to —
Imperial tea......— 51}to —
Gunpowder tea. ‘ $l}to
Japan tea - 51 to
Tobacco, all grades. .per pound 40 to 85
Whiskey, best rectified..per gallon $1 to
Rye and Bourbon 1 to
Choice brand whiskey 5 to
Brandies—.. —.—.per gallon 3 to 12
Rqm, best qualities- 4 to
Gin, best qualities..5 to
Sherry Wine, superior— 2 to
Port Wine, best quality 2 to
Spool cotton........
Carpets, hemp.
Carpets, Dutch 1
Carpets, ingrain
Carpets, two-;
•perdezen 5.50
W ' - BOOTS AND SHOES.
Men’s kip boots, pgd—per do* 33.00*
Men’s grain boots, pegged..... 30.00,'
Men’s calf boo'.s pegged 30.00; ,
Men’s buff boots, pegged...... r
Men’s split boots, pegged...... 33.00
Boys’ kip bools, pegged - 30.00
Buys’ split boots, pegged ..... 25.00/X
Youths’ copper tips, pegged— 21.00;*®
Gents? call Congress..—.per pair 3.55. Pork:
Gents’ buff Congress pegged... 135.; wesj
Gents’ buff Balmorals pegged. l.oj! dull a
Gents’ buff brogans pegged... l.TjiflO
Gents’ calf brogans pegged..... l.ywfVg d
Men’s unbound brogans. pggd 1.4£?x. -jnj
Men’s plow shoes, pegged 1 '.v
Boys’untonnd brogans, pggd Iff
Youths’ unb’d brogans, pggd.. Iff ? 8 S'?*
Child’s copper toe lace Bal’s... ;- ON\ G
Ladies’ buff ond im. goat Bal’s lffjj been
Ladies’ fine serge lace Bal’s... l^uities,
Women’s A calf and bff Bal’s.
Misses’ A calf and buff Bal’s...
Special Notices,? *
2}
HARDWARE AND LEATHER.
Axes, Collins’...—per dozen 14.00 to 15.00
Mann’s axes. .... 14.00 to 15.50
George’s axes... 13.00 to 14.00
Anvils, Wright’s ..per pound 18 to
Eagle anvils..... 13 to
Bellow's, 28 inohes.— .....12.50 to
Thirty-inch bellowB—..—15.00 to
Thirty-two inch hollows—
.16.00 to
Thirty-four inch bellowB..
.18.00 to
Thirty-six inch bellows .20.00 to
Forty-inch bellows——.
.25.00 to
Horse shoes —per keg
8.00 to 10.00
Mule shoes
9.00 to 11.00
Hoes, planters’ per dozen
6.00 to 10.90
Warren’s hoes...
15.00 to
Warren’s hoes...at retail
1.50 to
Hames -per dozen
4.50 to
9.00
Iron, refined bar...per pound
5} to
8}
Small bar iron...
6} to
7
Flow slabs
8 to
9
Swedes iron -—
8 to
10
steel, cast in bars_per pound
22 to
28
Steel plow slabs..
12 to
14
Steel plow wings
12 to
16
Flows, Red Eagle..one horse
8.00 to 10.00
Bed Eagle—...—two horse
10.00 to 12.90
Solid sweeps .per pound
20 to
Wing sweeps.....
25 to
30
Wedges, fluted..... per pound
15 to
Nails, 10d to 60d—per keg
6.00 to
Nails, 8d.
6.25 to
Nails, 6d
6.50 to
Nails, 4d.
6.75 to
Fots and skillets —per pound
6 to
8
Leather, white oak.per pound
42 to
45
Hemlock leather
40 to
Medium leather..
35 to
‘Common leather.
33 to
Country leather-
25 to
35
French calf
50.00 to 86.00
Powder, DuP. rifle..per keg
7.25 to
DuPont’s blast—'
4.75 to
Caps, perc., G. D—per thousand 45 to
50
Caps, E. B.........
90 to 1.00
Rope, grass—...—per pound
22 to
24
Jnte rope
16 to
20
Cotton rope
30 to
40
Cotton cards .—per dozen
5.00 to 6.00
Chains, trace........per pair
85 to
1.25
Breast chains
75 to
Stay chains
1.00 to
Log chains .per ponnd
18 to
20
Saws, cross eat per foot
75 to 1.09
The quotations below ore carefully made
far each issue of the Courier, by the most
responsible wholesale merchants of Borne,
and may be relied upon as correct.
MONEY AND BONDS.
Gold— .buying 14 .selling 18
108 112
— 127
New York exchange ..premium f
New Orleans exchange .premium
Mobile exchange .premium
Alabama Treasury warrants
- 85
Br’n drills, Hassabesie..—.
....per yard 15
Georgia eight per cent coupons
..100
Graniteville
13}
Seven per oent coupons
.. 95
Columbus
13}
City of Rome bonds- — ..
.. 75
Domes, ginghams, Union..
12}
City of Savannah bonds
..84’
Lancaster ...1 —.
14
City of Atlanta bonds..—
.. 80
Glasgow....—
14
City of Macon bonds
.75
Glazed cambrics —.
9}
Central Railroad of Georgia
. 94
Paper cambrics
10
Montgomery and West Point Railroad.
. 85
Checks, park
18 to 23
Western Railroad of Alabama......
Mobile and Girard Railroad
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad
78
GROCERIES AND PRODUCE.
Bacon, clear rib sides., .per pound 11 to 11}
Shoulders 9 to 9}
Dry salt clear rib— 10 to 10}
Dry salt shoulders, — to —
Butter, Goshen.. .per pound 45 to 50
Western 32}to 35
Tennessee ............... —- to ——
Country..,...,,. 20 to 25
Bran...—^per hundred pounds.—„?1 to $1}
Beans - per bushel—...$3 to $4}
Candles .....per pound 21 to 25
.....perpannd 17}to 25
....per pound 22}to 25
30 to 35
24 to 28
.... — to —
....perbushel 85 to 95
80 to 85
.—perbarrel $7 to 9
.... 36 to 8
Candy......
Coffee, Rio,...—...
Java
Laguayra
Com Meal
Com in sacks ..
Grits........ .M,*
Hominy.
DRY GOODS MARKET, t
Brown sheetings and shirtings.
Augusta 4-4. .—.....— .per yard
Lawrence 4-4
Trion 4-4
Princeton 4-4
Peqnot 4-4
Nashua B, 4-4——
Massachusetts B B, 44
Eagle k Phoenix J
Columbus |
Ba’timore ——
Androscoggin 1041
Monadnock 104—. —
Stripes, osnaburgs
Plaid...—... .-.
Bleached sheetings and shirtings.
Pequot 104 — .per yard
Lowell 10-4...................
Wamsutta 54 :
Fruit of the Loom 54 —.
Lonsdale 44....;
Wamsutta 44
New York Mills 44.—...—
11 to
GOto
Lanark checks
Worsted braids, all colon.....
Needles, sewing „pr M 1.25-L75
Pins, assorted — -„pr pk 50 to 75
Gloves, buokakin —.—per dos 5.00 to 6.00
Cloth gloves — 1,75 to 3.50
Balmorals.——per dozen’8.00 to 12.00
Bhmtota, gray..—........per pair 2.25 to 4.50
White blankets..——..— 3.25 to 10.00
Lotus ...-per yard 11 to 18
Poplins—.——.
Black Alpacas
Merinos —
White flannels 34
White flannels 7-8
White flannols 4-4
35
85 to 1.00
30 to 50
45 to 65
65 to 90
..per yard 30 to 40
Red flannels 34..
Bed flannels 1*8
Bed flannels, twilled
Opera flannols, Gilbert’s.
Opera flannels, Keystone...
Lindseys per yard 15 to 25
Prints, different brands. 7 to II
45 to 65
CO to
G5 to 75
45 to 55
Kentucky jeans, a]] makes. II
Time tests the Merits of £«• 1
1840—For oyer Thirty Years-
j®-PEBBY DAVIS’ PAIN KlL?: fi
Has been tested in every variety C ;'r
and by almost every nation known to A
It Is the constant companion and ®
friend of the missionary and the traTe'^dlaW Y
•ea or land, and no one should trarel.ty. ^
lakes or rivers, without it ‘
Since the Pain-Killer was first introc
met with such extensive sale, many l
reliefs, panaceas, and other remedies l
offered to the public, but not one c
attuned the truly enviable standing of iu -, ve j
Killer. Why Is this so f Itis bec^Jr ”
Pain-Killer is what it claims to be, a E*”®®
Pain. Its merits are unsurpassed. Ij-nd cD
suffering from internal pain, twenty at of e
drops in a little water will almwt bQexi -\yi
cure yon. There is nothing to equal it Li
Cramps, Spasms, Heart-born, DitrrhsiJ
teay,Flux, Wind in the Bowels, Socr * ec
Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Ac.
In sections of the country whore Feq
Ague prevails, there is no remedy •
greater esteem. Persons traveling shi
it by them. A few drops, in water,*21-
sickness or bowel troubles from change: SYTCCt
From foreign countries the calls frwell €
Killer are great. * It is found to rare
when all other remedies fail. ^ (jj
When used externally as a liniment,:
gives quicker ease in Borns,Cots,Bn
Stings from Insects, and Scalds. It n
fire, and the wound heals like ordiss**"
Those suffering with Rheumatism, Goat:
r&lgi&, if not a positive core, they find i?
Killer gives them relief when no other e ton
will. It gives instant relief from -A-cLl-v
‘Every housa-keepor should keep
and apply it on the first attack of any
wBl&ve satisfactory relief; and save hos.-h 0 lorec
faring. -•
Do not trifle with yonrselves by I
tried remedies. Be sure you call for ari*
genuine Pain-Killer, as many worthies^
are attempted to be seld on the great!
of this valuable medicine.
Directions accompany each ^
Price 25 cts., 50 cts., and $1 per 3ies in
JunMlJulU . ew ell'
Clergymen and Banker our 03
Book-keepers, Editors, and all others ti*' g
sendentary lives will find much relief te recei
quant Headaches, Nervousness, and Coiqpper S
engendered from want of exercise, kmariln
Simmons’ Liver Regulator. It is tq
vegetable compound; it can do no iiijr J* S’
numbers who have tried it will assert tie Boai
the remedy that can he used. meets
Jnnl7«Jun24 |
Medicinal Poisons on the IF® -
The patriarchs took no mercury, no 1
no iodine, no bromide of potassium, m G
oria, no quinine. Happy old gentlecc-p
did not even know of the existence ofthsjUHB
rifles,” and yet they lived until it Beer.- r<0
Death had forgotten them. Their E0 desti
were herbs and roots. They have lefl W
on record, and the world seems to be cot ■* __ j
note of it and returning to the first prir: .
medication. Hostetler's Stomach C
purest and most efficacious vegetable rsfafa nn
of the day, is also the most popular. Ti _______
of persons who only a few years ago bell!,
pliritiy in all the poisons which fign^ 31 ?®® ^
pharmaccepia, now pronounce this pKy to 0
tonic nd alterative an all-sufficient JX 0 n
dyspepsia, nervous debility,constipatioi ?
complaints, headache, intermittent feTe^jflHS^
all the ordinary disturbances of the ''Pi®
the liver, the discharging organs and tbr^rousl’
The time is not far distant when moss rn^ii
powerful and venomous drugs now bo rr 0
administered by practitioners of the ^their
school, in cases that might easily be ctf*thc “n
by milder treatment, will be utterly ^ jg «Jj
by all philosophical physicians. As:* . . ,
thinking public, who are generally £T a * n
the professionals, have already put the 1 StLtid:
ous preparations aside and adopted E-iibscaifc
Bitters in their stead *as a safe and
household medicine, adapted to aimos -
ailment except the organic and deadly c£ tliat <
diseases. For more than twenty years 2T Rev.
mous restorative and preventive has b«c e
ally strengthening its hold upon the pni- . —j. „
fidenoe. end it now takes the lead of -
vertised medicine manufactured in thisrCT CaSC
JunlsJull IdeT ty
Magic of the Teeth. 3ta ^ a P e<
Odoriferous SOZODONT render* I
enchanting. Composed of rare, antiie.
it imparts whiteness to ’the teeth, •
uoma to tho breath, and preserves r
youth to age, tho teeth, x
Junl7*Jun24 of
aimers 1
Kill the Flies. r wheat
How? By using Morse’s Patent FljJ
minator, the only sure and effectusl 1
yet discovered for destroying Flies, ’■
Ac. Sale to use and sure to kflL Onofui> ;
last a season and hoop any store or dweliq,
from flies. Put up in secure p&cksge* w‘_
dross on receipt of fifty cents, with fo*' 7
tions lor use.. Satisfaction guarantee A
refunded. Address
. 6 - J - GB ool-i
Company Slropa, Alamanoe County.™
Jun3sOct3
Rivers of Impure Bl<
Flow and vibrato through the system
tainted with Scrofula, Salt Rheum, Has*
Syphilis, Eruptions or Pimples on
Roughness orjledness of the ekiu.
Compound Extract of StOlingia eh
drives out all impurities and effects si
and permanent cure.
If yon wish a complexion fresh an,
use Dr. Pemberton’s Compound Extrsef
lingia which will soon render the wh*k
and complexion as free from poison snl
as a cloudless sky.
For sale by all Druggists. The gent
ly prepared by
J. B. PEMBERTON A CO.,
Atlu>t»:
My31nAu31.
es,
Printed Legal Blanh^
We direct the attention of County*® ^
officer3, Sheriff j, Ordinaries, Clerks. ^
the Peace, and all Lawyers, to the
^ ^ hand a" 13
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prepaid to fill all cas/i orders at $L5» P;'
and wo give “long cosnt”-thnt is *** *
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quire.
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