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Rome, Floyd County, Ga.
The Weekly Courier is issued
EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING,
At No. 23 Broad Street.
31. Dwmell......... ....Editor and Proprietor
B. F. Sawyer Associate Editor.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG. 20
They are picking cotton at the rate
of 100 pounds per day (each hand) in
Dale county.
Governor Smith has appointed Hon.
E. H. Pottle, of Warren county, Judge
of the Superior Court of the Northern
District, to fill the vacancy occasioned
bv the death of Judge Andrews.
New Monthly.—Joel Mathews and
•T. C. McMichael propose to publish
The Monitor and Miscellany, monthly,
at Thomaston, Ga. It will be devoted
to the interests of the Primitive Baptist
Church, and miscellaneous reading.
A Wisconsin grange, which represents
portions of Dane, Rock and Greene
counties, lias declared in favor of the
re-election of Governor Cadwallader C.
Washburn.
We supposed that the grangers were
independent of, and ignored politics.
Bishop Quintard. — The Memphis
Appeal, of the 12th, states that the Rev.
Charles Todd Quintard is now unable
to attend to his duties because of ill
ness. He is at SAwanee, nntl Lis pLy
sicians say that it is necessary for him
to remain there several weeks before
resuming his ministerial work.
General James E. Slaughter, of the
late Confederate army, has purchased
from the Secretary of the United States
Treasury, through the agency of Colo
nel Alfred Chapman, of Alexandria,
the monitor Tecumseh, and one other
of Faragut’s fleet, now sunk in Mobile
Bay, which he will proceed to raise at
once.
Personal.—We were pleased to see
in our city yesterday Dr. W. A. Love,
Professor of Physiology in the Atlanta
Medical College. We have no doubt
this institution will become very popu
lar with medical students in this sec
tion, especially since Drs. Robt. Battey
and G. W. Holmes, of this city, have
accepted professorships in it. The
next session will commence on the first
Monday in November.
The Coming Man.
The Reading (Pa.) Dispatch announces
Gen. W. T. Sherman as the next Presi
dent of the United States. If this is
to be so, we believe that we would rather
Grant should hold on. It would be
like driving off the surfeited flies from
bleeding wound only to make way
for a new and hungrier set.
Gov. H. V. Johnson.—This gentle
man, in a letter to Governor Smith,
protests against the premature closing
and publication by the latter of the
recent correspondence between them
relative to the Macon bar dinner speech
of Governor Johnson, and challenges
the Governor to a renewal of the cor
respondence, promising to answer him
frankly and explicitly concerning the
matter of bad faith being exercised
by him in his appointment to the su-
prome judgeship. Perhaps there are
others than Governor Johnson who
could be induced to answer similar
questions if urged to do so.
The Wolverhampton iron trade re
port to the London Times of July 24
says:
The competition of the United States
was much discussed here to-day. Mer
chants are altogether beaten by the
Stares in the Canadian market in iron
and heavy iron goods.
Merchants have not in July been do
ing so little as now for many years
past, nor were the works before so short
of specifications at this season.
This time last year the demand was
immense. To-day no prices makers
can quote at a profit that will secure or
ders.
Death of Judge Andrews.
The Atlanta Constitution of Thursday
contains an editorial tribute from Mr.
Stephens to Hon. Garrett Andrews, who
direl at his residence in Washington, on
the night of the 18th inst.
In concluding his article, Mr. Ste
phens says:
Time will not allow a further sketch
of the life of this eminent citizen or
his public services.
Suffice it to say that as a Judge he
was able,- upright and truly just. His
integrity was admitted to be of the
highest order. As a lawyer he ranked
with Campbell, the elder Thomas Cobb,
Gilmer, Upson, Cone, Dawson, Baxter,
Sayre, Hardeman, Toombs and the late
Chief Justice Lumpkin. As a writer
he was terse, vigorous and strong.
As a man he was inflexible in pur
pose and incorruptible in principles.
As a husband and father he presented
a shining example.
Throughout life he was a conspic
uous model of probity, morality and
purity, and in his days became a faith
ful and devoted member of the Epis
copal church.
Changes in the United States Congress.
The terms of the following named
United States Senators expire on the
4th of March, 1875:
Eugene Casserly Democrat, Cal
W. A. Buckingham—Republican, Conn
T. F. Bayard , Democrat, Del
Abijah Gilbert Republican, Fla
D. D. Pratt Republican, Ind
Hannibal Hamlin Republican, Me
Charles Sumner Republican, Mass
W. T. Hamilton Democrat, Md
Z. Chandler Republican, Mich
A. Ramsay Republican, Minn
Adalbert Ames Republican, Miss
Carl Schurz Republican, Mo
T. W. Tipton Republican, Neb
W. M. Stuart Republican, Nev
J. P. Stockton Democrat, N. J
R. E. Fenton Republican, N. Y
A. G. Thurman Democrat, 0
John Scott Republican, Penn
W. Sprague Republican, R. I
W- G. Brownlow Republican, Tenn
J. W. Flanagan Republican, Tex
G. F. Edmunds Republican, Yt
A. I. Boreman Republican, W. Ya
M. H. Carpenter Republican, Wis
General Fields.
Gen. C. W. Fields is sojourning for the
present in our city, the honored guest of
Hon. Dunlap Scot’.
Gen. Fields has a brilliant war record.
Immediately upon his graduating at
West Point, he was assigned to duty
the famous Second Dragoons, where as
an officer he displayed so much skill in
tactics that he was detailed as instruct
or in cavalry at West Point, which flat
tering position he held at the .begin
ning of the war. With a heart loyal to
his native South he resigned his posi
tion, and took service in the Confeder
ate Army; and throughout the whole
of that bloody struggle he was in the
field, a host himself in gallant bearing
and deliberate courage.
As the successor of Gen. Hood in the
command in the famous Hood’s Divis
ion, he is more^intimately known to
many of our readers, who will be
pleased to hear of his present where
abouts. He is now the general State
agent of the Life Association of Amer
ica, and in the peaceful walks of life
displays the same noble traits of char
acter that distinguished him in the
harsher services of war.
His presence in our city is an honor
to it, and we trust will be both pleas
ant and profitable to himself.
The Radical ticket in Virginia has
no negro on it; but what is much worse,
Hughes, off wheel donkey, is a Penn
sylvania carpet-bagger, and a fourth
rate one at that.
An enterprising drummerin Alabama
presented an editor with two plues nf
tubaucu, ami eiiciiea a naif column
puff in grateful return. The tobacco
must have been exceedingly valuable,
or else the space in that paper’s columns
exceedingly worthless, to have harmon
ized the fitness of the transaction.
On the Stump Again.
Our noble President has gone to
speechmaking again. This is his last,
delivered at Kingston, New York, at a
reception given him by Gen. Sharpe.
Can he be fixing up for the next can
vass?
“ Ladies and gentlemen of Kingston:
have been in your county two days,
and I have found them most enjoyable
here and at Overlook Mountain. I am
very much fatigued, and want to retire,
I shall leave to take the early boat
for New York in the morning.”
Steamboat Disaster.
We have the account of one of the
most appalling steamboat disasters that
ever harrowed the minds of a people,
comes from the Potomac river, and
told by the telegraph as follows:
The Wawassett horror is fully con
firmed. Most of the passengers per
ished. She left Washington on
regular passenger trip for Cone river.
She burned off Chatterton landing,
where there is no wharf; passengers
and freight for that point being dis
charged by small boats. One boat
had been lowered when the flames
burst. The vessel was two hundred
and eighty yards from shore. Nothing
remains but broken shaft, and smoke
stack.
The passengers registered when she
left Washington numbered 110, but she
received and discharged passengers at
various landings, of whom there was
no record. Of 120 the loss is probably
fifty passengers and two of the crew.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
As soon as the flames were discovered,
she headed to the shore, but struck on
bar on the Virginia side.
Many ladies and children were
aboard, visiting friends sojourning at
places down the river.
Ten bodies reached the wharf—five
unknown. All accounts applaud the
gallantry of the captain and crew.
Later.—Captain John R. Woods, of
the Wawassctt, was burned around the
neck and ears slightly. His account is
substantially as follows:
The fire broke out at twenty-five
minutes past 12 o’clock, between
Thom’s Gut and Chatterton. I was in
the Pilot house at the time. A fireman
came in and told me that the boat was
on fire below.
I immediately came out and feund
the flames had reached quite to the
walking deck along the walking beam.
then saw that it was impossible to
get to the life boats which were on the
after quarter deck, to lower them, al
though they were full of passengers.
I threw water on the wheel rope so
to keep her steerage all right, and
passed buckets of water from below the
hurricane for the purpose, as I became
satisfied that there was no hope of sa
ving the vessel, and that the only
chance to save the passengers was to
keep her going, she heading to the
beach.
The boat reached the beach in about
12 or 13 minutes after the alarm was
given, and in less than five minutes
after the fire was in the rear of the pi
lot house.
The engine refused to work about a
half a minute before she struck- the
shore, and the boat run a length before
she come to a dead stop, and grounded
in less than five feet of water at the
bow.
I remained on hurricane deck until
the flames had burnt the window cur
tain in my room and the saloon windows
below were shooting forth fiery darts.
I then came down on the forward deck.
I did what I could to save the pas
sengers. A great many were afraid to
jump overboard. I assured them that
they were safe in jumping, as the water
from the bow was not over their heads,
and upon this assurance one or two
made a leap, and many others, seeing
that the water was Bhallow, followed
their example and were saved. It was
with difficulty I checked them from
jumping over in large bodies and
drowning each other during the excite
ment.
I am satisfied that nearly all the
lives lost were lost in the stern of the
boat, the flames driving that way and
forcing the passengers to jump over
board or be burnt
Just before I left the boat I heard a
lady (Mrs. Taylor, of Alexandria,) cry
ing for help from the rear of the ves
sel. I saw her hanging to the middle
chains and sent a boat to her rescue.
I am satisfied that the excitement
caused undue loss of life, and that
every passenger was saved who jumped
overboard forward. A great many
lives were lost on the life boats by being
overcrowded. Before the boat had
stopped one of them were crowded
with colored passengers, and when she
was cut loose the stem bulged out and
swamped the craft.
There were about twelve small child
ren on board, and I think five or six
were lost. The fire caught in the hold,
but it is impossible to tell just where.
The boat was very dry, almost like
tinder, and the flames, when they
struck the oiled machinery, spread like
a torch. The cargo was of a miscella
neous nature, and contained nothing
inflammable except two barrels of
whiskey, which were stowed away in
the forward hold, and they were among
the last that burned; it was entirely
lost.
The passenger list and manifest of
the vessel \yas lost, it being impossible
for the clerk to reach the office to obtain
them at the time of the accident. But
xewof the passengers were asleep, and
none in the staterooms—some were
lying down on sofas.
The Georgian came along on her way
from Baltimore and brought up a few
of the passengers. Many were down
through the country, and others are
awaiting other boats to come home on.
All were well taken care of. The
steamer’s value I estimate at 840,000.
City Bonds and Railroads.
The New York World of the Stli
contains the report of a case whose
rulings are of the utmost importance
to our own citizens. It is in regard to
the liabilities of citizens of a town cor
poration for stock subscribed by such
corporations to railroads or other pri
vate works of public utility.
After disposing of a point apropos of
that particular case under considera
tion, the Judge takes up the question
as to the power of the Legislature to
enact laws to compel towns to bond for
railroads; which brings up the question
of the public or private character of
railroads—an important question in
dew of the agitation in different States
over the question of regulating the
charges on these roads.
In the first place it is held that
towns are part of the machinery of the
State Government, and it is within the
power of the Legislature to provide
that money shall be raised by towns
on bonds issued to be paid by taxation,
to construct and improve its public
highways, but it has no such authority
over the towns aiding a private corpora
tion.
As to the question whether the Leg
islature can compel towns to bond in
aid of railroads on the ground that
they are public highways. Judge Gro
ver says:
“ It is clear that they maj- hc 11 they
are public liighwnya m the same sense
as romiuon roads. It has been uni
formly held that the right of eminent
domain may be exercised so far in be
half of railroad corporations as is ne
cessary for the construction and opera
tion of the road upon the ground that
the road and its operation were for a
public purpose, and the real estate con
demned for its use was taken for public
and not private use. But it is equally
clear that the property acquired by the
corporation belongs to it exclusively,
and its ownership is as absolute as that
of any private individual of property
belonging to him.
“ It is also clear that so far as the
road is operated for the benefit of stock
holders the corporation is private. We
have then an artificial being created by
the Legislature, endowed with public
franchises, the absolute owner of prop
erty of which it cannot be deprived by
legislation except for public purposes,
carrying on business for private emolu
ment of its stockholders. The Poeple
Flagg determines that towns may
be compelled to provide forthe construc
tion and maintenance of improvement
of a public character exclusively.
“ But here we have an attempt to
compel them to aid in the construction
of a work, public in some respects but
private in others, of at least equal im
portance. It is said that municipal
corporations are creatures of the Legis
lature and subject to its control. In a
certain sense this is true. They are
created by the Legislature as instru
mentalities of the government, and so
far as legislation for governmental pur
poses is concerned are absolutely sub
ject to its control.
“ The power of legislation over indi
viduals is given to the Legislature for
all the purposes of government, subject
to such restrictions as are contained in
the Constitution, yet no one would
claim that an individual could be com
pelled by a statute to exchange his note
or bond and mortgage with a railroad
corporation for its stock, against his
will, upon such terms as were pre
scribed in the act or any other.
“ It is within the province of the
Legislature to provide for enforcing the
performance of contracts when made,
but to enforce the making of them by
individuals is entirely beyond it. We
have seen that the municipal corpora
tions may be compelled to enter into
contract for an exclusive public pur
pose, but I think they cannot be when
the purpose is private.
“ This is equally beyond the province
of legislation in the case of such corpo
ration as in these of private corporations
or individuals. Surely a town acts as a
private corporation in becoming a stock
holder in a railroad corporation, and as
such interested in the operation of the
road for the benefit of the stockholders.
“When a municipal acts as a private
corporation it acts as a private individ
ual. The test is whether the purpose
to be effected is public or private,
the former, a mandatory statute is valid.
If the latter, is not within the province
of legislation, and consequently not
within the power of the Legislature, and
the act is therefore void.
“ We have seen that a railroad corpo
ration possesses some-ofthe characteris
tics of both—public as to the franchise,
private as to the ownership of its prop
erty and its relation to its stockholders.
Were it exclusively public, the act of
1S70 would be valid, but void if ex
clusively private.
“It follows that as the Legislature
supreme only as to public purposes, and
as the act in question relates in part
private, that to this extent it is void, and
as the latter is inseparably connected
with the former the entire act must he
held void.”
At the meeting of the Liverpool Cot
ton Brokers, Associations yesterday,
new form of arrival cotton contracts
was decided upon. After some discus
sions the association proposed that the
new contract should be printed, and
come into general operation on the first
of next month.
The new arrangement, while disal
lowing the cancelment of contracts,
gives the buyer the option of either tak
ing the cotton tendered, not of the
quality stipulated in the contract, or of
returning it to the seR«*^at il '~
~ ur cooon contracted for on the
day upon which the option to return
shall be declared, while the seller will
be compelled, as a penalty forthe non-
fulfilment of his contract, to allow to
the buyer not less than jd. nor more
id. per lb. upon the weight of cotton
sold.—Manchester Examiner.
State News Paragraphs.
The Augusta Constitutionalist of the
12th makes the following announce
ment :
It is our melancholy province to note
the death of Col. Wm. J. Vason, who
died of paralysis, at his home in this
city, on Sunday last, about midday,
aged sixty-tbree years. Col. Vason’s
health had been seriously impaired for
several months, and gradually grew
worse, until the disease of which he
was seized had placed ha recovery
beyond the hope of his family and
friends.
Col. Vason had been a- citizen of
Augusta about eighteen years, and was
a brother of Judge D. A. Vason, of Al
bany. He was a lawyer by profession,
preserving his membership with the
Richmond bar, but not actively en
gaged in the practice of his profession.
The same paper also reports ffie
death of Mr. Darling J. Walker, an old
and highly respected citizen of South
Carolina, who died at his residence in
Beech Island, on Sunday evening. Mr.
Walker was 63 years of age at the time
of his decease.
The Columbus Enquirer of the 12th
reports the following:
We learn from a mail agent on the
Western Road that a Mr. Wm. Clark, a
merchant at Cowles’ Station. «o tte»
Montgomery • tr quanta Railroad, was
killed 1 o’clock yesterday morning
oy a man named Edward Walker, a
farmer living a short distance from the
station.
Walker rode up on his mule, while
Clark was standing at the station, and
shot him dead with a double-barrel
shot gun, the whole charge taking effect
in the temple. No particulars, except
that the killing is the result of an old
grudge.
From the Macon Telegraph, we learn
that while Friday’s train on the Macon
& Augusta Railroad was dashing alon:
through a cut about seven, miles from
that city, the engineer discovered a
man lying upon the track only,a short
distance ahead.
He knew it was too late to take up
before reaching the man, nevertheless
he whistled down brakes and reversed
his engine. It was too late. The train
dashed on over the prostrate body,
crushing and mangling it in a most
horrible manner.
The train was stopped as quickly as
possible, and backed to the scene of the
catastrophe, to find one of the most
ghastly spectacles ever witnessed by
any one. When first seen by the en
gineer the man was lying with his face
down and his body directly across one
of the rails.
He was caught by the engine and
carried some thirty feet, and then the
whole train passed over him. His body
was cut in two just above the hips,
and the entrails had all tumbled out
upon the ground.
One of his arms was cut entirely off
and thrown a distance of fifteen or
twenty feet. One of his feet was cut
off and was lying against his face. One
of his shoes was found several feet dis
tant.
A hole had also been broken in the
top of his skull.
The body orherwise most fearfully
mangled and cut to pieces. Of course
life was totally extinct when he was
reached. The officers of the train made
arrangements for having the remains
taken care of.
There was no one on the train who
could identify the man. He was ap
parently about 55 years of age, and wore
a beard which had been dyed. He was
in his shirt sleeves. A bottle of whisky
was found near by, which told the
whole sad tale of what brought about
the poor fellow’s death. The bottle was
broken, but a small quantity of the
liquor remained. Evidently the man
was drunk and had tumbled down upon
the track to await his death. The man
had a tin pail with him containing a
piece of meat
From report it is conjectured that
the unfortunate man was named Han
cock, and that he lived pn. Mr. Wm.
Smith’s place, in Bibb county —a man
by that name, and answering the de
scription of the deceased, having
crossed the bridge, going out of-town,
Friday afternoon.
North & South Railroad—Annual Meeting
of Stockholders.
The annual meeting of stockholders
in the above railroad was held at the
company’s office in Columbus, August
13th, the meeting being organized by
calling H. C. Kimbrough of Harris to
the chair and appointment of Wm.
Redd, Jr., as secretary.
On motion of Alderman Blanchard,
a committee of three, consisting of
Squire Nabors, W. L Hudson and J. K.
Redd, was appointed to examine prox
ies and report upon stock. After a
call of the roll and examination of
proxies the committee reported 3,860
shares or a large majority of stock rep
resented.
The reports of W. A. McDougald,
president, and W. D. Chipley, superin
tendent, were read:
report of president m’dougald.
Office North & South Railroad,
Columbus, August 14,1873.
To the Stockholders,
Gentlemen,—I have the pleasure to
submit the following as my annual re
port
Owing to the full report made before
the meeting of stockholders called by
me on the 2d day of July, there now
remains but little for me to say. That
report was, no doubt, amply sufficient
to show that, though the Company had
labored under many difficulties and
discouragements during the past year,
it had still been attended by a success
exceeding our most.sar>e=me expecta
tions.
with twenty miles completed and
equipped at this end, and all except
four miles graded between LaGrange
and the present terminus of the road,
and three miles above LaGrange and
sixteen miles south of Rome, we find
the road in such condition as to admit
of being speedily pushing forward to
LaGrange on this end, and probably to
Cedartown on the other should our en
terprise meet with the encouragement
it deserves, and which, I doubt not, it
will receive.
Owing to the difficulties in realizing
the cash of our subscriptions, and the
consequent necessity of building the
road almost entirely upon a credit basis,
it has cost much more than would
otherwise have been the case.
I would call special attention to this
iact, that counties through which the
road is to pass may be induced to come
up and advance handsomely on their
subscriptions, and thereby secure the
most economical completion of the line,
which is to afford them a cheap and
easy mode of transportation, and put
them in close communication with the
different markets.
The endorsed bonds have all been
paid over to the contractors and to
parties who furnished iron, fish plates,
spikes, etc. Capt W. D. Chipley is
now in New York, and has been for
some time, endeavoring to close nego
tiations for additional iron and another
engine, which negotiations were opened
by Capt T. E. Blanchard and myself,
in March last, and would have been
consummated before this but for the
delay in obtaining State endorsement
I have had no official information
from Rome since our meeting in July,
and hope that evervthipK ism^BiKtmw-
Capt Scott, who represented her stock,
expressed himself well pleased with
the progress of the mad, and thought
the statements and explanations made
at that meeting were fair and open, and
felt assured that the Company had done
the best it could under the circumstances.
The proposition of Messrs. W. C.
Cherry & Company to lease the Rome
division, will be considered by you at
the meeting, and I hope you will be
able to decide upon some plan of action
that will insure an early completion of
that end of the road on to Cedartown,
or to a point where it will meet the
work at this end, thus giving us an un
broken line of communication with
our beautiful and enterprising sister
city.
For the financial condition of the
Company, and the operating expenses
of the road, etc., I refer you to the re
port of the treasurer.
The engineer corps have just com
pleted a survey of the Talbotton branch
road under Chief Engineer Frank Har
ris, to whose report I refer you for full
particulars in regard to their operations.
’As before stated, my official connec
tion with this road will cease with this
meeting. Reasons of a private character
have induced me to desire this.
I also herewith present letters of re
signation from two of our ablest and
most active directors, Capt. A. Griffeth
and Maj. John T. Bums. A change in
their private business arrangements has
made it necessary for them to take this
step, and to decline becoming candi
dates for re-election. I regret that the
road should lose such valuable ser
vices, and I may only hope that other
gentlemen, equally energetic and pub
lic spirited, may be selected to take
their place.
In taking my official leave of you,
gentlemen, I trust it will not be deemed
inappropriate for me to assure you
that I am still impressed with the im
portance of the North & South Rail
road to the mineral and agricultural
interests of the country, and of my
abiding faith in its final completion. I
shall therefore continue to fed, as I
have felt from its indpiency, a very
deep interest in your enterprise.
During my administration I have en
deavored, under discouragements of no
ordinary character, to do my duty,
without regard to personal advantages.
As some evidence of this, if I may be
pardoned the allusion, I have not en
forced the payment of a dollar j of my
salary, but have advanced money from
my own purse to meet expenses in
curred in the actual service of the road;
and for the purpose of securing money,
iron and other materials which could
not be purchased on the credit of the
Company.
I assumed personal liabilities to an
account which, if I had been compell
ed to meet them, would have involved
3 in pecuniary ruin. I mentioa these
facts, gentlemen, I trust, in no spirit of
egotism; but as an evidence that my
whole heart has been, as it ever will be,
with you in your noble enterprise.
To the officers and employees allow
me to return thanks for the excellent
manner in which they have done their
duty, and for courtesies extended to me
in my official capacity.
Very respectfully submitted,
W. A. McDougald, President.
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT CHIPLEY.
New York, August 7,1873.
W. A. McDougald, President,
Sm,—As you are well aware my
work here is of such a character as re
quires time to manage it properly,
have exercised the utmost diligence,
but in addition to difficulties incident
to such negotiations as I have in hand,
I have encountered unusual ones, bear
ing directly upon this enterprise.
When built to LaGrange this Compa
ny will own a self-sustaining, paying
road, which, in time, will complete
itself over the best unoccupied-line in
the South; but until then the Compa
ny’s transactions are necessarily based
upon Georgia credit, which interested
parties here are bearing down terribly.
I also had great trouble resulting
from the vexatious interruptions of
previous negotiations, which grew out
of the unavoidable delay in receiving
the State endorsement upon the first
section. But I am glad to assure you
that these difficulties have not proven
unsurmountable. I have purchased
and shipped additional stock required.
In rogonl to iron srjnkes and fastenings.
I am confident of getting more.
To the stockholders I have nothing
new to report in my department, since
their meeting on the 3d ult. You may
congratulate the Company upon the
prospect of seeing its trains at La
Grange before the end of the next fiscal
year. W. D. Chipley,
Sec. and Treas., and Acting Supt.
F. H. Harris, engineer on the Talbot
ton Branch Road, submitted a report,
stating' that he had completed the duty
assigned him, having surveyed two
routes from Kingsboro’ to Talbotton;
the first, known as the Waverly Hall
route, 201 miles in length; and the sec
ond, known as the Ellerslie route, 22}
miles in length.
He thought the first the shortest,
most practicable and most economical
route. He estimates that the grading
on the linn (exclusive of superstructure
and ditch work) can be done for about
852,000. The whole report is interest
ing, but we have not the space for it at
this time.
Judge Cox, of LaGrange, offered a
resolution of thanks to President Mc
Dougald and the retiring irectors,
Griffeth and Bums, of Rome. Unani
mously adopted.
By Alderman Blanchard:
Resolved, That the Board of Direc
tors to be chosen to-day be authorized
and empowered to fill any vacancy
which may occur during the year.
Adopted.
Col. S. B. Cleghom moved that the
convention now proceed to the election
of directors, which was agreed to.
Alderman Mehaffey offered the fol
lowing ticket for directors: W. D.
Chipley, W. A. McDougald. T. E. Blan
chard, Peter Preer, C. C. McGhee, F. A.
Frost, of LaGrantre. Tcmneo McGuire,
or iturne.
W. I. Hudson thought that Harris
county should be represented in the
board, and to that end recommended
the name of H. C. Kimbrough.
The election was then proceeded
with, and resulted in the selection of
the ticket nominated by Alderman
Mehaffey, by a large majority.
W. I. Hudson offered a resolution
that the Board of Directors be author
ized to consolidate the offices of presi
dent and superintendent, and secretary
and treasurer, provided, in their dis
cretion they shell deem such a measure
conducive to the welfare of the road,
This was discussed and finally laid on
the table.
Alderman Blanchard called atten
tion to the request of Superintendent
Chipley, that the stockholders provide
for the raising of $15,000 within the
next thirty days, and urged upon those
in attendance to go to work to that end
immediately.
The stockholders’ meeting was a very
respectable one in numbers and influ
ence, and their deliberations were en
couraging as to the future of this im
portant enterprise.
The convention then adjourned.
DIRECTORS’ MEETING.
At a subsequent meeting of direct
ors, Mr. T. E. Blanchard was elected
president; W. D. Chipley, superin
tendent; Wm. Redd, Jr., secretary and
treasurer.
The different fire companies of the
city tendered their services, one or
more days, in making a display on the
grounds during the Fair.
On motion, the committee on Fair
Grounds was instructed to confer with
the Chief of the Fire Department and
the representatives of each company
and arrange with them for the display.
On motion, the thanks of this Asso
ciation were tendered to Heniy A. Hills,
Chief of the Fire Department, and to
the different companies for their gener
ous proposition to make the display,
and the interest they and their chief
manifest in the success of the exhibi
tion.
On motion,
Resolved, That the premiui list, de
partment III, class III, be so amended
as to embrace canned fruits and vegeta
bles, unintentionally omitted; and that
a premium of one dollar be awarded for
the best specimen of each; and that
the Secretary give proper notice of this
amendment.
The disposition of the Triumph bee
hive was referred to a committee con
sisting of Col. Sproull and McDonald,
On motion, fifteen dollars be and
hereby offered for the best display in
the Floral Department.
On motion, CoL Alexander was ap
pointed a committee of one to confer
with his Honor Judge C. D. McCutch-
en, in reference to the postponement
of Bartow Superior Court from the sec
ond to the third week in September.
The following chairmen of commit
tees of judges were appointed:
Department 1st — Field crops; Col.
R. J. M. Perkins.
Department 2d —Garden products
Green Cunningham.
Department 3d — Home industry
R. S. Norton.
Department 4th — Household fab
rics ; Dr. William West.
Department 5th—Georgia and Ala
bama fabrics; 1 class, W. T. McWil
liams; 2 classes, J. B. Sullivan.
Department 6th — Experts; Colonel
N. Bass.
Department 7th—Miscellaneous dis
play; Gen. Eugene LeHardy.
Department 8th—Poultry; Col.
G. Samuel.
Department 9th —Swine; Col-
Shorter.
Department lOtli — Horses, mules,
etc.; Maj. W. F. Ayer.
Special premiums referred to Board
of Directors.
On motion,
Resolved, That at the Fair a private
room be provided for the cooking con
test, and that the same be under the
control of the cook for the day, and that
one servant, table, table furniture, water
vessels and fuel be furnished by the
Association. The dinner to be ready
by 2 o’clock, P. M.
Ordered, that the milking contest be
had on Wednesday, the 10th, at 8 A. M.
and 5 P. M. Cows may be entered for
the contest up to Tuesday evening, and
taken away at any time after the con
test
On motion, the Secretary was instruct
ed to furnish the faculty and students of
the deaf and dumb asylums at Talla
dega and Cave Spring with compliment-
The Fair Association.
At Fair Grounds near Home,
August 16,1873.
Pursuant to adjournment, the Board
of Directors met here this morning.
Present—Col. A. A. Jones, President;
J. J. Cohen, Vice President-, and Direct
ors Whitmore, Alexander, Sproull and
Pence. Absent,— Gammon, McDon
ald and GaiUard.
Minutes of the last meeting were read
and approved.
The committee on Fair Grounds re
ported progress.
Committee on amusements reported
progress.
The following communication was re
ceived, read and referred to the com
mittee on Fair Grounds:
Rome, Ga., Aug. 15,1873.
2b the Directors of the Cherokee Agri
cultural Fair Association.
Gentlemen—I have receivec^letters
from several firms, wishing to introduce
the Chemical Fire Engines into this
section of country, and I have favored
an exhibition of the same at or near
this place, and thinking it might add
to the Fair both funds and interest, I
have suggested to the parties that they
be present, and give an exhibition at
the Fair in September; and if agreeable
to your body, I would recommend a
committee be appointed to make suit
able arrangements for said exhibition.
Hoping you will favor the recom
mendation, I remain,
H. A. Hills,
Chief Rome Fire Department.
ary tickets- . _ .
Resolved, ’Hmt ms Excellency Qfcv.
James M. Smith, of Georgia, be invited
to attend the the exhibition and deliver
an address some day during the Fair;
and that the President extend this in
vitation and request his acceptance.
The Board then adjourned to meet
on Saturday morning next, at the Ex
hibition Rooms, at 9 o’clock.
A. A. Jones, President.
T. J. Perry, Secretary.
Market Quotations.
The quotations below are carefully made
for each issue of the Courier, hy the most
responsible wholesale merchants of Rome,
and may he relied upon as correct.
MONEY AND BONDS.
Gold buying 13 selling 17
Silver 107 Ill
Sterling 127
New York exchange premium}
New Orleans exchange premium
Mobile exchange premium
Alabama Treasury warrants 83
Georgia eight per cent .100
Seven per cent _ 95
City of Rome bonds..! T -„ 75
City of Savannah bonds -84
City of Atlanta bonds 80
City of Macon bonds 75
Central Railroad of Georgia 90
Montgomery and West Point Railroad... 85
Western Railroad of Alabama 85
Mobile and Girard Railroad 90
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad 78
GROCERIES AND PRODUCE.
Bacon, clear sides per pound 12 to 13
Shoulders 10}to 11}
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 30 to 35
Bran per hundred pounds......?1 to $1}
Beans per bushel .$3 to $4}
Soap, extra family
No. 1 Palm soap""’"^
Starch, best quality.’"”
Sardines, quarter
Spice, cloves "'to a
Cinnamon spice " ^
Ginger spice, R^j""
Ginger spice, ground
Mace spice
Nutmeg spice
Pepper, nnground .""
Pepper, ground...
Allspice
Tea, Young Hyson....,?!'*'
Imperial tea
Gunpowder tea....
Euglieh breatiast^...!
Japan tea
Tobacco, all grades...
Whiskey, best rectifed^?
Rye and Bourbon Bi
Choice brand whiskey
Brandies
Rum, best qualities
Gin, best qualities
Sherry Wine, superior...
Port Wine, best quality
DRY GOODS J
Brown sheetings and shir-;'!
Augus'a 4 4
Lawrence 4-4
Trion4 4
Princeton 4-4 '
Pcq*:ot4-4
Nashua R, 44
Massachusetts B B,44 I
Eagle & Phoenix £ 1
Columbus |
Roswell 7-8,10} ; R^"y|
Baltimore 1
Androscoggin 10-4....
Monadnock 10-1
Stripes, osnaburgs.
Plaid
Roswell yarn, per bunch _
Bleached sheetings and shirtiu
Pequot 104
Lowell 10-4
Wamsntta 54
Fruit of the Loom 5-1.....
Lonsdale 44
Wamsutta 4-4..
New York Mills 44
Brin drills, Massabesic
Graniteville.
Columbus.
Domes, ginghams, Union
Lancaster
Glasgow...........
Glazed cambrics....
•—
Paper cambrics
Checks, park
Lanark checks — «.
Worsted Dfaids, all colors......
Needles, sewing....
Pins, assorted
?|
Gloves, buckskin ...
Cloth gloves
-...per dot
Balmorals
Blankets, gray ..
White blankets...
.per dozes
.....per pair
Lawns
^ J
Alpacas
Poplins
Black Alpacas....
Merinos
White flannels 34 ...... |
White flannels 7-8
White flannels 44
Red flannels 3 4 ...pern
Red flannels 1-8
Red flannels, twilled
Opera flannels, Gilbert's......
Opera flannels, Keystone.—
Lindseys . -pern
Prints, different brands
Kentucky jeans, all makes-.
Spool cotton .peri
Carpets, hemp ............prp
Carpets. Dutch hemp...
Carpets, ingrain
Carpets, two-ply and hevfy I
Carpet*, heavy three-'ply 1
Osnaburgs ..
Tickings, all makes'...... ......
Stripes, different styles
Denims
Hats, all kinds per dfizen 1
Cfindy
per pound 16|to 25
Coffee, Rio. ...
.per pound 23 to 28
Java
30 to 35
Laguayra...
24 to 28
Mocha
— to —
Corn Meal
per bushel 75 to 80
Com loose...
G5 to 80
Grits
.per barrel 87 to 9
Hominy
86 to 8
Wheat
....perbushel .$125 to 1.5G
Cotton seed.....
per ton $10 to —
CaDned fruit, all kinds...per dot... $2}to 83}
Floor, choice..
Family and extra 9 to 10
Superfine....
.... 6 to 7
Fish, fresh
Cod
10 to 13
Herring, in bxs to 40
Mackerel ...
in barrels JSI2 to 18
Mackerel....
.....min kits. $2 to 83}
Dried apples...
.perbushel 75 to $1
Peaches
81 to 1}
Hay -per hundred pounds $l}to $2
Lard in tierces per ponnd 10 to 12
Lard in half-barrels... 10 to 11}
Lard in kegs. 12 to 13
Molasses in barrels .per gallon 35 to 40
Molasses, hlf-bbls and kegs 55 to 85
Oats, for stable .....perbushel 40 to .50
Oats for planting. — to —
Onions per bushel $1.50 to $2.00
Mess pork......... — to$20
Potatoes, Irish 50 to $1
HARDWARE
Axes, Collins’ per dozen h|
Mann’s axes
George’s axes...
Anvils, Wright’s..per ponnd
Eagle anvils
Bellows, 28 inches.,
Thirty-inch bellows
Thirty-two inch bellows...
Thirty-four inch bellows.,
Thirty-six inch bellows....
Forty-inch bellows
Horse shoes per keg
Male shoos
Hoes, planters’ per dozen
Warren’s hoes...
Warren’s hoes...at retail
Hames per dozen
Iron, refined bar...per pound
Small bar iron...
Plow slabs
Swedes iron
Stool, cast in bars..per pound
Steel plow slabs..
Steel plow wings
Plows, Red Eag’.e..one horse
Red Eagle two horse I
Solid sweeps per pounl
Wing sweeps
Wedges, fluted per pound
Nails, lOd to 60d...per keg
Nails, 8d
Nails, 6d
Nails, id.
Pots and skillets ...per ponnd
Powder, DuP. rifle..pcr keg
DuPont’s blast...
Caps, perc., G. D...per tlaueanl
Caps, E. B
Rope, Manilla
Cotton rope -
Rope, grass per pound
Jute rope
Cotton rope .
Cotton cards per dozen
Chains, trace per P“ r
Breast chains
Stay chains
Log chains pen P 1
Saws, cross cut per f°°*
BOOTS AND
Men’s kip boots, pgd-—P er
Men’s grain boots, pegged—
Men’s cnlf boots, pegged ^
Men’s buff boots, pegged ^
Men’s split boots, pegged---^
Boys’ kip boots, pegged gj
Boys’ split hoots, pegged-- ^
Youths' copper tips, pegged- jj
Gents’ call Congress....-P*Jr ^
Gents’ buff Congress peg?”) g
Gents’ buff Balmorals pegS^
Gents’ buff brogans peg??If
Gents’ calfbroganspegg“< it
Men’s unbound brogans, fS»
Men’s plow shoes, pegg*^ W
Boys’ unbound brogses^. w
Youths’ unb’d brogans,1=^ W
Ladies’ fine serge lace $•* «
Chad’s copper toe lace W
LEATHER
Leather, white oak.per pc® 1 —
Hemlock leather
Medium leather..
Coznmon leather.
Country leather.. J)l|
French calf
pound