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ESTABLISHED IN 1843.
M. DWINELL, Proprietor.
•ISO. IIIS HASS, Associate Editor
them for that purpose.
Wednesday Morning, May 9, 1877
AX OUXtEMENT.
We are authorized to announce the
name of Hon. J. W. II. Underwood as
candidate for tire Constitutional Con
vention. Election second Tuesday in
.Tune.
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AXNOUXCEMgjrr.
We are authorized to announce the
name of Hon. D. B. Hamilton as can
didate for the Constitutional Conven
tion. Election second Tuesdav in June.
A N SOUNCEMEXT.
[For the Rome Courier.
THE CONVENTION.
Suggestions on Economy and Necessary’
Reforms.
The formation of a new Constitution
offers an opportunity for laying a solid
foundation for low taxes, retrenchment of
expenditures, economy and purity of ad
ministration. This opportunity ought not
pressed by excessive taxation.
The facility with which governments,
State and Federal, county authorities and
municipal corporations may contract debt
for all sorts of purposes is the prolific
source of governmental extravagance,
profligacy and corruption on the one
hand; and of languishing industry and
general distress among the people on the
other.
Any effectual or durable reformation
must have its foundation securely and
firmly laid in the Organic Law. The
Constitution must be so framed as to
make it difficult to the verge of impossi
bility to contract debts to be paid by
taxes to be imposed upon the people. At
any rate the objects for which debts may
be contracted should be clearly defined
and the mode of contracting them dis
tinctly marked out.
All attempts at reformation or retrench'
We are authorized to announce the
name of Hon. A. R. Wright as candi
date for the Constitutional Convention.
Election second Tuesday in June. I ment which do not go to the root of the
—• ■»-*■— I evil must be futile. Extravagance and
ANNOUNCEMENT. _ •Jm 0 rrupficnjeprij|fgro^aturally and inevi-
Weare authorized to anr 0U n!Mnef* bl y in " ch governments, collecting and
name of Col. Nathan Bass as a candi
date for the Constitutional Convention.
Election second Tuesday in June.
The Russians are advancing on Xaro-
zivitschitskyruthxz—(to be continued in
our next is-ue.)
The limit of the loss of life at the hotel
fire in trt. Louis is now put by the city
papers at fifteen.
We know that Ncpokoychizky is his
surname, but is it Jim or Bill Nepokoy-
chizky—or what is his given name ?
On the 5th inst. President Hayes issued
a proclamation convening Congress in
extra session on the loth of next October.
Gen. Pryor thinks Bradley was con
scientious in his decision. If so, then
Bradley's conscience is in an awfully
o’iseased condition.
Marshal Lamon describes Ben Wade
as “too old to whip and too wicked to
lie,” and endowed, he might have
added, by nature to lie.
Mrs. Geo. Sherman, who has been
managing in this country contributions
for the Pope, to be presented in May,
on the fiftieth anniversary of his eleva
tion to the episcopate, has $230,000 in
hand.
“Poverty,” says Lord Lytton, “is only
au idea.” Then as far as this county is
concerned, the old saying “many men of
many minds” would be more correctly
descriptive changed to “many men of
many ideas.”
Politicians often learn valuable lessens
from the birds. For instance, when the
crows meet together they always have a
eaw-cus.—A tlauta Constitution.
\ es, but when politicians meet together
they generally have- a “ poor cuss’’
amongst them—in fact, the meeting is
largely composed of “poor cusses.”
“Nobody knows to this day,” says
the Brooklyn Eagle, “what a time Noah
had of it in the ark with the antedilu
vian ancestor of the present Keutucky
mule.” We rather think there are some
Louisianian’s and South Carolinian’s
who know very fully what trouble
Noah had, owing to their own compul
sory association for several years past
with the carpet-bag variety of the same
animal.
For the present war the Turks have
been largely supplied with the Martini-
Henry rifle, the same used by the Eng
lish army. The Russians use the Karl
and Gorloff rifle. The Martini-Henry
has a capacity’ of twelve shots a min
ute and a range of 1,200 yards. The
Karl riflle can deliver seven shots a
minute and has a range of 900 yards.
The Gorloff rifle delivers eight shots a
minute and its range is 1,000 yards.
Enormous profits' are reported to
have been made by New York specu
lators on the recent advance in bread-
stuffs. Among others it is said that
ex Sheriff O’Brien has made over $60,-
000. He is reported to have gone to a
prominent broker a few weeks ago
with $1,000, which he put up on a
margin for a rise in grain. This ven
ture turned him $10,000 profit, the
whole of which he immediately put up
again, with the result stated.
Mr. Howard Carroll, in his last letter
to the New York Times, says: “What
the Republicans of the South havo
suffered for their party I will never at
tempt to describe.”
We suppose, Howard, it would be
too trying to your feelings, so we’ll re
lieve and “attempt to describe” what
they’ve suffered: they’ve suffered them
selves to forget that there ever was or
ever could be an Eighth Command
ment.
The cotton gin created a revolution
in the cost and production of this im
portant fleece. Recently another in
vention has been patented which may
produce almost as marked an effect as
the cotton gin. It is the picker. It is
a wagon-like machine, which is driven
through the ripened fields, and picks
clean every scrap of cotton, nothing but
cotton, and saves the labor of one hun
dred hands. Where the price of the
staple may go with this invention in
general use is impossible to fathom.
This machine is a North Carolina affair
and is said to do good work.—Neic Or-
Ican Democrat.
Mr. Howard Carroll undertook to say
that “before the war the Whig elem en
in Louisiana, as in other Southern
States, was made up of the land ownere
—the aristocrats. ‘Sugar and protec-
tl0 “ “ade them Whigs, and they re
garded the Democrats as not quite so
good as well kept negreos.’ The New
Urieans Democrat does not “pretend to
know what H. C. was before the war
“ P re . u y cert ain that he has since
deve.oped into a fine, healthy jackass
disbursing millions wrested by every form
of excessive taxation direct and indirect
from a toiling population. Taxes on
commerce, carrying hundreds of millions
into the Treasury withou'; the observa
tion or even the knowledge of the masses,
have made the Federal Government one
of the most corrupt that has ever existed.
Even the millions extorted from the
population by taxes on whisky and to
bacco have done far more to corrupt the
government than to reform the habits of
the people.
The daring and wide-spread frauds
which have become prevalent at elect’ons
require effective measures for their sup
pression. Other abuses doubtless there
are requiring reformation.
To remedy the great evils above re
ferred to, let us have something like the
following provisions put into the Ccn-
stitution:
The Legislature of this State shall have
power to borrow money to provide the
means of defence in case of invasion, in
surrection or rebellion, and to defend the
State against foreign or domestic ene
mies; and all acts’for this purpose shall
be valid upon being regularly passed in
accordance with the rules for the trans
action of business in the two branches of
the General Assembly. But no debt
shall be created in any manner whatever
for any other purpose unless the act cre
ating such debt shall have passed by a
majority of two-thirds in each branch of
the General Assembly, on separate days,
and at an interval not less than fifteen
days between its passage in the two
branches of the General Assembly.
It shall not be lawful for any county
court or board, city council, town coun
cil, or other municipal corporation or
body politic, to issue any bonds or other
evidence of debt for any purpose what
ever, or to contract any debt in any other
way to be paid by taxes levied on tiie
people, unless the same shall have been
authorized by a majority of two-thirds of
all the qualified voters voting thereon, at
an election held after sixty day’s notice
thereof in every election precinct thereof;
and provided further that those voting
in favor of creating such debt'shall be
subject to pay more than half the taxes
necessary to pay such debt.
There shall be a registrar of the quali
fied voters in every county in this State,
who shall make out and deposit with
the justice of the peace in every elec
tion precinct a list alphabetically arranged
of the qualified voters resident thereto,
and also a similar list of all the voters in
the county, to be returned to the clerks of
the Superior Courts in the several coun
ties of this State, who shall record the
same in alphabetical order in a book to
be kept for the purpose, which»book shall
be at all times open to inspection. No
person shall be allowed to register or vote
at any election in this State who shall
have been convicted in any State in the
Union or in any foreign country of any
infamous crime, or sentenced to labor in
any penitentiary or chain-gang, a3 a pen
alty therefor. None but the lawfully
qualified and duly registered voters shall
be allowed to vote at any election in this
State, nor shall any person vote at any
place except that appointed for holding
elections in the precinct or election dis
trict wherein he resides and is registered.
The Ordinary, Tax Receiver, Tax Col
lector and Clerk of the Superior Court,
in the several counties of the State, shall
choose five discreet persons from differ
ent political parties, who together with
them shall constitute a Board of Re vis
ors, whose duty it shall be to examine
or revise the list of registered voters,
and strike therefrom the names of all
persons not legally entitled to vote, and
admit to registration all who may have
been unlawfully rejected. This Board
shall meet after due notice, at least ten
days before every general election—and
shall be sworn to discharge their duties
faithfully and without prejudice or bias
on account of race, party or religious
creed
Such are some of the reforms so much
needed. Without something to put an
effectual check upon the power to run
in debt, it is idle to rail against high
taxes, extravagance and corruption. It
is equally idle to prate about purity of
elections, when anybody may vote any
where at any election without qualifica
tion or question
Wbat is here said is intended merely
to be suggestive. Se.nex.
Our Walker County Letter.
Deatb of Mr. Woolen—J. F. Wardlaw Ap
pointed Deputy Revenue Collector and
Beginning Operations—Unpleasant Visi
tor-Crop News, etc., etc.
LaFayette, Ga., May 4,
To the Editor of the Courier:
Mr. Aaron Wooten, who lived near
this place, died of consumption at his
residence on the 28th ultimo. Mr.Wooten
was by occupation a farmer, and at the
time of his death about twenty-seven
years of age.
Mr. J. F. Wardlaw, one of our most
valuable citizens lias, fortunately for the
good people of this section, recently been
appointed Deputy Revenue Collector of
this District. His appointment was made
without regard to hjs political opinions,
and is one for which all the good people
of this section will thank Mr. Clark. Mr.
Wardlaw’s duties, as I understand, are
confined to the detection of fraud and
the seizure of such property as are un
lawfully used. He is an officer who will
do his whole duty, regardless of conse
quences, and the result will be, that all
illicit distilling and frauds of a like char
acter will be ended in this and adjoining
counties. Mr. Wardlaw discovered and
seized one still last Tuesday. He has
also visited several other houses where
illicit distilling had been going on re
cently, but the parties had heard of him
and had removed their stills, leaving
their beer and other materials for making
whisky, which was promptly destroyed
by Mr. Wardlaw.
During the present week “Hoary Frest”
has twice visited us. but fortunately did
very little damage.
The farmers of this section have finish
ed plantiug their crops for the present
season, and have commenced cultivating
their corn. The wheat and oat crop of
this county are growing rapidly, with a
fair prospect of au average yield. We
have in this place two Sabbath schools,
both in a prosperous condition with an
average attendance of about forty scholars
each. Oae of them, under the superin
tendance of the Methodist church at this
place, aud the other a union school. Yet
there are quite a number of grown peo
ple and children in this place not in at
tendance upon either of the schools.
Magog.
General News Items.
W. W. Newcomb, a well-known ne
gro minstrel, died at New York Wed
nesday.
When a man gets so fat that he can’t
scratch himself between the shoulder
blade she ought to be shot to prevent the
spread of profanity.
American Israelites have sent a de
putation to Mr. Hayes to plead for
their unforiunate bretheren in Rouma-
it into consideration.
Statistics show, that more elderly
marriages take place in Kentucky than
in any other State of the Uuion. Noth
ing is thought on either side of the house
of. tying the knot at three score years
and ten, and along there. Influence of
the blue grass.
The Governor received a letter a few
days since from the financial agent of
the Macon and Brunswick Road stating
that the sum of fifteen thousand dollars
was lying in bank subject to the order
of the Governor. This amount was the
surplus profits of the road passed to the
State’s credit, by order of the Directors.
We believe this is the first net cash
paid into the Treasury from that road.
—Atlanta Constitution.
Personal Jottings.
They tell us that the good die young
and yet insurance statistics make it out
that clergymen live to an average of
sixty-five years.
Six year old—“Mamma, what are
twins made for?” Precocious older
brother quickly—“So that cannibals
may eat philopenas.”
Hobart Pasha, Admiral of the Tur
kish Navy, is also captain in the Brit
ish Navy, drawing j£1 a day as an offi
cer on the retired list.
Richard Ten Broeck, the noted Ken
tucky turfman, at the age of sixty has
married a Louisville widow of twenty-
four who has a million dollars.
Alexis and his terrier went to a pho
tographer’s and had their pictures ta
ken the other day. The duke is easily
distinguished from the terrier by his
princely air and standing collar.
Prof. Paul Vallean Carter is the light-
heeled gentleman who set society cir
cles astir in New York on Saturday by
performing the unparallelled feat of
waltzing for five hours without stop
ping. He won $100 by it
A poor woman went to an eminent
but eccentric surgeon to inquire what
was the proper treatment for some
bodily wound. “Put on a cataplasm,”
was the answer. “But, doctor, it’s for
a child.” “Then put on a kitten-
The Troth About Paul Morphy.
He Hu Never Been Insane—He Is Still the
Best oi Chess Players.
New Orleans, April 28.—The Sun of
the 24th inst contains a repetition of
that oft-toll lie about the insanity of
Paul Morphy—that he has not olsyed
chess for a long time, and so forth, ad
nauseam. Will you have the kindness to
publish the following, which contains
all the facts concerning Paul Morphy
with which the publ’c have anything
to do?
He is now practicing law in this city,
and has never been insane, or spoken
of in that relation by his family or
friends.
As to chess, he is unquestionably to
day the best chess player in the world,
although he does not play enough to
keep himself in thorough practice.
He gives the odds of a knight to our
strongest players, and is seldom beaten,
perhaps never when he cares to win.
His disappearance from public view
as a chess p:ayer has jusT this explana
tion—no more, no less :
The publicity and lionizing which
attached to him for a time, both in
this country and Europe, were always
distasteful to his family, and especial-
lv so to his mother.
On his return from his European tri
umphs, he entered into an engagement
with his mother never again to play
for a money or other stake; never to
play a public game, or a game in a pub
lic place and never again to encourage
or countenance any publication of any
sort whatever in connection with his
name. Very respectfully,
M.
A. H- Stephens* Views.
rua Mr. Hayes referred the delegatio
**•*«%** >r“ ted
Washington Special K. Y. Herald.]
Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia,
though for many months an invalid, is
now enjoying fair health and is able
to ride out daily, remaining in his car
riage for several hours. His attention
had been directed to the subject of i‘new
lines of departure,” and he remarked
that he was struck with the expressions
of the secretary of the navy in regard
to the old whig principles. The ques
tion being asked whether he thought
the signs of the times indicated the for
mation of a new party out of the more
conservative dements of the existing
political organizations, Mr. Stephens
replied:
“I do not see anything to warrant
the belief that a new party is likely to
be formed or that the old whig party
will be revived. The old whig party it
functus oflficio, though Us principle!
are daily being vivified in the acts cf
the new administration. Issues anl
principles make parties. A new part/
must have for its foundation a perma
nent issue. It must have time and de
velopment for its foundation, aid a
our public question stand to-day I dr
not see upon what men could unite b
form a new party. A party cannot be
manufactured to ordar any more that
a government. The Mexicans tried tie
Three Hjrars in Glory.
Wnet a tittle Girl Saw Wane In a Trance
—A Glimpse of the Savior—Falks
with Departed Relatives, Etc
The subdivision of the Mexican territo
ry into states, in imitation of our foxn
of government, everybody knows is a
failure, and this reminds me that (he
president is a Jeffersonian republiian
in his political views.”
Russian-Turkc War
Good Advice to Firmfers A bou* Cotton.
But I pass,” said a minister up town
last Sunday, in dismissing ODe theme
of his subject to take up another. “Then
I make it spades!” yelled a man from
the gallery who was dreaming the hap
py hours away in an imaginary game
of euchre.
An Ecclesiastical Trial.
France will Remain Neutral.—
The French Chambers re-assembled yes
terday, May 1st, and the Duke de Cazes,
in the Deputies, said the present compli
cations found France free from any en
gagements, and never daring the last
seven years had her relations with for
eign States been better. As to the Eas
tern question he said, “the most absolute
neutrality, guaranteed by the most scru
pulous attention, will remain the basis of
our policy.”—Savannah News.
Trenton, N. J., May 4.—On the trial
of the Rev. John Miller before the New
Brunswick Presbytery the Presbytery,
by a unanimous vote sustained, the fol
lowing specification and charges:
First, He teaches that the soul is not
immortal; that at the death of the body
it dies and becomes extinct until res
urrection.
Second, That Christ, as a child of
Adam, was personally accounted guilty
of Adam’s sin; that like other children
of Adam he inherited a corrupt nature,
and that he needed to be and was re
deemed by his own death.
Third, That he teaches that there is
but one person in the Godhead.
The charge is as follows: “We charge
Mr. Miller with publicity, denying and
assailing important doctrines of the
faith and catechism of our church.”
The following resolution was then
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That Mr. Miller be, and is
hereby, suspended from the ministry
of the Presbyterian church until such
time as he shall make manifest to the
satisfaction of the Presbytery his renun
ciation of the errors he holds and his
solemn purpose no longer to promul
gate them.
Mr. Miller said it was simply amoral
aud intellectual impossibility for him
to renounce his views, and gave notice
of an appeal to the Synod.
The Moderator then pronounced
sentence in a solemn manner, after
which prayer was offered and the Pres
bytery adjourned.
Department of Agri<ui.ture, |
Atlanta, Ga., May 7, 1877. j
To the Farmers of Georgia:
In view of the war in Europe, an-J
the probable scarcity and Ugh prices of
breadstuff's and low pric* jf cotton
which will prevail, I againreipectfully
advise that you will, by every mean3
in your power, increase theaiea planted
in provision crops. I sugjesi checking
your fields of cotton with torn in rows
fifteen to twenty feet apart, one hill at
every intersection.
With fair seasons, this will very
largely increase the prodmt of corn,
without a corresponding lecrease of
the cotton.
I further suggest the plaiting of the
stubble fields in peas so oon as the
wheat and oats shall have been har
vested.
Pay special attention to he raising
eveiy pound of pork possibli Take care
of the pigs.
These suggestions are not resigned to
alarm or create a sensation. A icord to
the wise is sufficient.
“A prudent man foreseeth the evil
and hideth himself, but the sinple pass
on and are punished.”
Very respectfully,
Thomat P. J\.nes,
Commissioner of Agrialture.
Planters and the Tobacco Tax*
Deputy Collector Putney a tempted to
collect from Mr. Salter, who i a promi
nent planter of Dougherty canty, taxe3
en the tobacco that he supplid to his la
borers from time to time thragbout the
year. In other words, the dejuty collec
tor of internal revenue clainad that all
planters who furnish their hauls or crop
pers or tenants with tobacco, tre “deal
era,” who should make returs and pro
cure permits to sell tobacco.
Congressman Smith took lold of the
matter, and, in reply to a comnunication
he received from Commission? Raum
letter addressed to ex-Senatoi Norwood
by the then commissioner of inemal rev
enue, J. W. Douglas, who say):
Under the provision of law,this office
holds that every person who mkes it his
business, or any part of his bisiness, to
sell, or offer for sale, or advetise, or in
any way holds himself out as tilling and
ready to sell manufactured tolacco, etc.,
is liable to buy a special tax stmp. But
a farmer or planter, who simpy supplies
his employes with wbat maiufactured
tobacco they need for their owx personal
use, and for their special acconmodation,
and not with a view to gain, oi profit to
himself, is not regarded as engiged in the
business of selling manufacture! tobacco,
and would not be required to jay a spe
cial tax for thus supplying hi) llired la
borers with tobacco.—Atlanti Constitu
tion.
The Best Becupennt
Of failing energy, that to ihich the
fagged out man of busiress, he brain-
fatigued author, the tired advoate or the
weary artizan can resort with he great
est certainty that it will revivehis over
wrought powers, is Hostetter’sStomach
Bitten, a most genial tonic ordial, as
well as a benign remedy for dividers of
the stomach, liver, bowels ant urinary
organs, and a means of eradicating and
preventing intermittent and -eminent
fevers. It not only enriches ne blood
and creates a new fund of enegy in the
system, but it has the effect ofexpelling
impurities from the life currpt which
beget disease. The injurious influence
of abrupt transitions of tempfature, of
an unwholesome climate andinjnrions
diet, are counteracted by it, a^i it pro
motes digestion, appetite and nund re
pose. Give it a trial and be c<nvinced.
The following letter, bearing the sig
nature of a reputable person, the facts
herein narrated being also vouched for
by prominent residents of the place, was
printed in the Green County Reformer,
of Monroe, Wis., of a recent date:
At the earnest request of Nellie Black
ford and her parents, I shall endeavor to
inform the public of the strange and mi
raculous restoration of the life and health
to this little suffering girL Nellie is thir
teen years old, and never has been a ro
bust child, and eight weeks ago her
mother (who is suffering with consump
tion) became dangerously ill, and Nellie,
thinking her mo'her was dying, left 1 ei
and ran for a neighboring lady. They
started back for Mre. Blackford’s, and
Nellie was in such ahnrry that shecaught
up the three-year-old child of the neigh
bor’s while the lady was ahead with the
biby, and did not know that Nellie was
running for life with that large child.
When she did see her, she stopped and
exchanged burdens. Nellie also ran for
another neighbor, and by the time she
hid run over two miles she arrived at
home completely exhausted, and thus
commenced the dreadful suffering of Nel
lie. She has been ill for eight weeks,
suffering almost constantly.
She was attended at first by Dr. Rich
ter, and improved quite rapidly except
pain in the spine.
Feeling better, she quit taking medi
cine Still so weak that walking seemed
an impossibility; bat Nellie felt Buch a
deare to again walk unassisted that Fri
da?, March 3l, she ventured; but the
extrtion proved too much, and falling to
thi floor, she injured her spine in endeav-
orng to save herself, and went into a vio-
leit fit, taking the form of epilepsy, last
ing two hours. The next day she had
aiother, much more violent, that lasted
lulf an hour. The frail form could
siarcely be held by strong persons. Dr.
lood was called; she continued to grow
veak, but had no return of convulsions.
Ihree days after the first convulsions,
loth upper and lower extremities were
paralyzed. She continued in this help
less condition until the Sabbath. Dr.
Rood called, and said she could not
live till morning, and that no human
power could save her. Nevertheless,
she did live, and during Monday fore
noon laid in the same condition, per
fectly conscious, yet unable to articu
late, except in the gentlest whispers.
Her mind had been perfectly clear dur
ing all her illness. The least exertion,
even the taking of a spoonful of water,
would cause her to sink away till the
pulsation of the heart could not be noti
ced, nor could any pulse be discovered
in the wrist. They turned her gently
on the sheet, and that would cause the
sinking spells. She was also deaf for
days at a time. Her wish was to leave
her life of pain, die and live with God
ant) the angels, ere her dear afflicted
mother left her a helpless orphan.
On Monday afternoon the friends and
neighbors assembled to see her die.
About 2 o’clock she sank away,growing
weaker and weaker till about 3. Her
extremities became very cold and,they
thought her gently and happily passing
“over the river.” All at ones a change
passed over her features, a sweet smile
illuminating her countenance, and the
most intense delight seemed portrayed
and lingered on her face till it fairly
shone. Words fail me to express the
happiness, contentment and glory there
depicted. A continual change seemed
passing over her quiet face, all telling
of something bright and beautiful pass
ing before her enraptured eyes. All at
once to the astonishment of all, she
raised her little hands in the attitude
of listening intently, changing her po
sition continually and seeming to lis
ten with all the power of her being. She
continued in this state for nearly three
hours, seeming perfectly unconscious
of all surrounding objects and sounds.
She seemed to gently rouse from this
condition. She opened her eyes, and
seeing her mother standing near, a
sweet and heavenly smile p;issed over
her face. Her mother stooped - and
asked her if she heard sweet music.
Nellie had spoken before of bearing
music when in'her sinking spells.
And now comes the strange and mir
aculous story of this little daughter of
affliction as related to me by herself:
“I seemed as though I was walking
through a pleasant country till I came
to a place that surely was Heaven.
There were streets all paved with gold,
and such beautiful fountains as clear
as crystal that seemed to rise up and
then fall in bright sparkling drops. I
laid down on a soft grassy bank to rest,
near a fountain, where my grandpa
who has been dead six years came to
me, and said I should go back to the
care of my little sister till she was large
enough to take care of herself. My lit
tle brother, whom I had never seen,
came to me and told me he was brother,
and he played such sweet music for me
on a golden harp. 4 crown of gold en
circled his head. He was all dressed
in gleaming white, and so was grandpa.
And he did not look so old as when
here, and his eyes were perfect, not
blind of the one he nsed to be. His
voice sounded so familiar.
Distinguished Drunkards.
A Ramble Through the Washington Poor
Hcu«e.
Correspondence of the il art fori Times ]
Washington, April 22. 1877.—Being
of a somewhat sympathetic nature, anc
making it a point to always keep on the
right side of the poor house keepers, I
visited the poor house, in the eastern
part of this city, several days ago, and
was struck with the histories that are
connected with some of its unfortunate
inmates.
One of the first men that I met upon
entering was a short, thick set man with
a Websterian head and powerful voice.
I have known him for many years as a
lawyer, and am pretty well informed of
his weakness, which is, in brief, the too
frequent indulgence in liquor. Indeed
that seems to be the trouble with all
the men who are now with him. The
man I refer to was at one time Attor
ney-General of Virginia. He stood
very high as a lawyer. One of the law
yers who appeared before the Electoral
Commisson as ‘ of counsel” for the
Democratic party studied in the office
of this man. If I mistake not, his
father was at one time Attorney-Gener
al of the United States. He has been
very wealthy in his day, and is not by
any means an old man yet.
In another branch of the institution
I found a man who was at one time
Attorney-General of the State of North
Carolina, and who had at one time—
not many years ago—a prominent legal
position in the Treasury Department.
It is the same old story. He made
many friends, and drank a great deal
of whisky. After a while he drank so
much that he neglected his profession
and everything else. He has been
about this city for about twelve years,
and, except during the time he has been
under lock and key, has never drawn a
sober breath. He is not a pauper now,
as he has a large claim before the Trea
sury Department for cotton taken dur
ing the war(he being a Union man)that
will sometime bring him in a hand
some pile. He has borrowed a great
deal on- it, and has drank it all up
The principal reason for his being put
where he now is, is that he stole a
friend’s vest and sold it for whisky.
Another little old gray-haired man has
a history which is too long lo be now
printed. He resided in New Jersey.
When Stephen A. Douglas traveled about
the country making speeches, when he
was running for the Presidency, this mao
accompanied him, and always made
speeches upon the same stand. Douglas
entrusted to him many of the details of
his canvass, having unbounded confidence
in him. He bet ail the money be had on
Douglas, and lost it. Afterwards he wist
into the horse racing business, and again
failed. He then sold off his stables and
drank the proceeds. He has been a re
ceiver of public charity for several years,
though in the summer time he goes out
and makes a living as a horse doctor.
President Davis.
An Eloquent Speech.
“Then, oh, I can hardly tell, I saw
Jesus all robed in white, a dazzling
crown upon his head. Hesat on such a
beautiful high seat that was on a raised
platforn. All seemed of gold, and there
were beautiful trees, flowers, streams
and fountains of clear water around the
throne and everywhere. Angels were
flying around, bright crowns upon their
heads and golden harps in their hands,
and they played the sweetest music
that I ever heard. I felt so sorry at first
when grandpa told me I should go back,
and take the place of my dear mother
and she should come. When I first
seemed to get to this place the sweet
word Welcome! Welcome! echoed all
around. I saw so many‘things that
words fail to tell them now. The angels
said they would cure me, that I should
take no medicine, and I shall get well.”
Since these notes were first taken
down, Nellie has improved rapidly-
has walked and been out of doors, and
seems in a fair way to get well.
Actual Condition oe the Pope.—A
letter to the New York Times, dated
Rome, April 10, says: “I shall not be
surprised to learn at any moment that
the Holy Father has passed away. From
all I know of his actual condition of
weakness, it will be more than I expect
if he lingere on to the end of the year.
In a few weeks (May 13) the Pope will
enter his eighty-sixth year. A com
pany of nearly a thousand persons paid
a visit to the Pope on Sunday last, ac
cording to an arrangement previously
made. It was composea, for the most
>art, of societies of Catholics of Rome,
t is said that the Pope bore the signs
of weakness and suffering. No one
can tell what sudden breaking down
may follow the work laid out for the
meeting of the tens of thousands of
‘pilgrims’ when the warm weather
comes en.”
“Call me not sick * the Turkman ciiei,
“Thon ailing Romanoff,
Though I’m peihape a little weak,
It’e too that’s GortechakoS.”
The Lee Association of Mobile, re
cently made an excursion to New Or
leans. The train halted at a little vil
lage on the Mobile and New Orleans
Railroad, where Hon. Jefferson Davis is
at present sojourning, ami the entire
party marched up to his huuse and
paid their respects to him. Maj. \V.
T. Walthal and Maj. Henry St. Paul,
both made short speeches, expressive of
the feelings of the assembly.
Mr. Davis made a short response of
which the following is the conclusion :
From the bottom of my heart I thank
you. Though the silver lining of the
cloud be but faintly discernible, yet be
not dismayed. But that I need notsay
to men who never feel any other fear
than that of doing wrong. The cause
for which you struggled wa3 that of
Justice and of Truth. The triumph of
these may be postponed, but in the or
dering of Providence must come at last.
Your motives must be appreciated
sooner or later for your sacrifices were
made for Constitutional Liberty; and
those who died bravely, though they
fell vainly, are not to be reckoned as
the most unfortunate; for, whether bear
ing a sabre or a musket, whether on
the battle field or upon the vessel’s
deck, the proper place for man to die is
where he dies for man.
For the honor of the comrades whose
untimely deaths you mourn, for the
respect due to the cause you loved, for
the pride you feel in your posterity, let
not your eyes revert constantly to the
sast, but, confronting the present and
ooking patriotically on to the future,
let your efforts be made to repair what
has been injured and to bnild again
higher and broader on a more solid
foundation the temple of Human Lib
erty, after the model left you by your
fathers.
You engaged in no war for sectional
agrandizement, you fought no battles
for personal advantage, you were
prompted by no malice, and your
knightly escutcheon is tarnished by no
sordid hate or desire for mean revenge.
The war left you stripped of all save
honor, and your chivalry was as incap
able of inflicting wrong as it was of
submitting to it tamely. The Past de
mands then knightly generosity and
faithful devotion to the principles you
inherited from revolutionary sires, and
which you will bless mankind by trans
mitting unchanged to your posterity,
Thrice and four times I am thankful
for the indications which the day brings
to us of the revival of the spirit in
which onr Union was founded, from
which our prosperity springe,and upon
which its perpetuity must surely de
pend.
New Advertisements. Miscellaneous
«sswa9l.
MOONLIGHT EXCURSION
— FOB THE—
Benefit of the Borne Silver Comet Band.
rpHESTBAMER MAGNOLIA WILL LEAVE
-L her wharf at 8 o’clock P M,
On Wednesday, May 23,
for ao excursion down the river, and returs at
llio’cltck.
A String Band will be in attendanco.and every
thing practicable will L>e done to make the Ex
careion enjoyable.
The (laud respectfully solicits the patronege
oi tho public on this occasion.
lUmo May 7. 1877. tw wtd
Bales.
Flcj d thz
GEORGIA, Floyd Coni,
W ILL BE SOLD BEFORE THE COURT
House door, in the city oi Rome, in aaid
county, between the legal hours of Bale, on the
First Tuesday in June, 1877,
the following property to- wit:
^ A parcel of land the lame fronting on the Chu-
lio Road, known as the J E Lloyd property and
part of lot of land 316 in the 23.1 district and
3rd section, surveyra by J W Hicks’ plen as fol
low! : Fr^nt 159 feet, back 165 feet, betwoen lot
belonging to Robert Turner and Mrs William*-'
lot Levied on to satisfy sundry fi fas issued
from a justices court 9 9 district G Vf. v.'z: Har
din 4 Colclough, Ayer Jfc McDonald, II Rossette,
L Marks, G Karlsruher, and one other, vs J E
Lloyd, as property of defendant. Le*-y made
and returned to me by Sam’l Johnson, L G.
Also, the South half of lot of land number 54
the Cothran k Chisolm addition to tho city of
Rome, according to the survey of George Ward-
worth, to satisfy a mortgage fi fa, 8 P Smith, 8on
A Bro. vs Randall Shewmake Levied on as the
properly of defendant.
Also, lots of laud 179 and 149 in the 4th district
and 3th section of said c unty, to satisfy a 8npe
perior Court fi fa W H Map and W E Kimball
vs J W Turner and J C McCord. Levied on as
the property oi J C McCord and pointed out by
plaintiffs' attorney.
Also, two acres of land and a good two story
dwelling house, and all necessary out-buildings
situated thereon, lying and being in the village
of Cave Spring, in the county oi Floyd, Ga.,
known as the Mann House. Levied on aa the
property of the defendant, Thos. J Davis, to sat
isfy a Polk County Superior Court fi. fa., Berrys
k Co. vb. John W. Watts, principal, and Thos.
J. Davis, security Pointed cut by plaintiff'* at
torney, and tenant in possession notified. May 1,
1877.
POSTPONED SALES
Also, town lot number 53, with the improve
ments thereon, in tbe Cothran and Chisolm ad
dition to the city oi Rome. Levied on aa the prop
erty of defendant,^o satisfy a Superior Court fi fa
8hrop*hire A Son vs W. n. Mathis. Pointed out
by plaintiff*' attorney.
JAMES M. JENKIN3, Sheriff.
Haralson Sheriff’s Sales.
GEORGIA, Haralson County.
W ILL BE SOLD BEFORE THE COURT
House door, in the town of Buchanan, in
•aid county, within tho legal hours of sale, on
tho
First Tuesday in June, 1877,
the following property, to-wit:
One laboratory for testing and assaying miner
alB, &et of truck car whcols, one windlass rope
150 feet, more or less; two hoisting bnekets, one
pair scales, one lot of ore tacks, 1,000 more or
lest; one barrel cement, three packages of twine,
all raised ore above gioond belonging to the Mid
die Georgia Mineral Association.
All the above property levied on as the proper
ty of the Middle Georgia Mineral Association,to
satisfy a laborer’s lien fi fa issued from the su
perior court of said county, in favor of B H King
“NEWSY, SPICY,
The Atlan'TcouM^
U nder its new managfu.
ATLANTA CONSTITUTION i Ei
itself the title -i the leadir. **
the lead in?
Sooth. Ita enterprhe, durioVth,'"-
•inn excitement, in eeLding ccit
different portions of the country
ol erecial telegrams from W.shi D ” -
electoral c, mmiasi-n waj enr.Jj
mating the fraud that placed
more in power in oar national cone?'
denree coneplenom enough to
expenao will be spared to mateT^'.
T.oa not only a leader in the a lt
matters of public conc-rn, bat alio
diatemin.lion of the latent and »
news There it no belter time ihaaa-.
scribe for u
A Fresh and Vigorous X lJt5
Albeit, there has been aqaasi
of the most difficult and dangeroui «
modern Federal politics, the diicnfi,u?
ing therefrom and tbe results n<
have lest nothing ol their abaorbin??.*^ ^'9
addition to this, the people of G***,' ^
called upon to settle
0e «gU
Hie Constitutional (lncsu ;i
import^.
and in the discussion of th.a
(in which the Constitution wiln^^
part', every Georgian in intercs'rd. f J
feedings w-li finds :
bodiment in the t'
d thia fact alone*
the paper indispensable to ever?
State. To be brief.
The Daily Constitution
will endeaver, oy all the means thatifo.
of modern journalism hrs m&de $*3:
tion is called its p
liest and fullest
The Constitution, and thi
necessary to hold its place as a leaderoR
opinion and as a purveyor of the
editorials will be thoughtful, timelj lt ,
ous—calm and argumentative in their >
and thorooghlv Southern and Democrat
sentiments. Its new* wil! be fresh,
carefully digested. It will be alerts
prising, and no expenso will be sparre;
it tb© medium of the latest acd most t*
intelligence.
The Weekly C oo*titnticn.
Besides embodying everything of i ai
the Daily, The Weekly Constitutionwi’;,*
a Department of Agriculture, which *■;’
charge of Mr. Malcolm Johnson, then*!
Secretary of Ga. State Agricultural Sccic
department will be made a speciality, 4
bo thorough and complete. Thefaraeri
in it not only all the current iaformali ’
subject of agriculture,but timely sogpea
well digested advice. Subscriptioca d
. in at once.
TERMS FOR THE DAILI :
One month Z
Three months....
Six months ^
Twelve months....... .
TERMS FOR THE WEEEIlT
Six month*. Si IP; Twelve montha, $2 21
may btfvent by pos»offic« money order v r
pecae. Addr.se,
THE CONSTITUTION, A tint. >
Fala cf Memphis Branch;
road and its Pquinmcnts,
other Property Belong®
the M, B. Railroad.
vs Middle Georgia Mineral Association.
This May t, 1S77. A. J. HUNT.
Deputy Sheriff.
stray cow.
S TRAYED from Subscriber abjut the laiinsi.,
one medium sixod BrindleCow, giving milkl
Supposed to have gone back to where she wa*
brought fr m; do ret know tne name of the
ma-i from whom she wa3 pureba ed. A liberal
reward will be paid for any information that will
enable us to get her back/
Rome, May 8. M. ROSEN BURG k BRO.
tw-wlc
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
B Y VIRTUE OF AN ORDER ISSUED BY
the Honorable Clerk of Ordinary of said
county, I will sell, as the administration of J L
Alford, before the Court House djor in the city
of Rome in said county, on the
First Tuesday - in June, 1877,
Lot of land number 322 in tho 22J district and
3rd section of said county—all the real estate be
longing to said estate. Terms Cash.
May 7; 1877. A E ROSS, Administor.
Claim and General Business Agency,
Atlanta., Ga.
T he undersigned has opened an
Office in the city of Atlacu.for the collection
of claims, private and public, and the transac
tion of basine.is generally at the State Capital
and at Washington. Prompt attention will be
given to business with tho various State depart
ments. Salaries and other demands collected
and information furnished when desired.
Address P. O. Box 548. J. R SNEED,
nayl.tw w3m
IIWords of Advice/;/
•errs
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TCTT’S RE8PECTK U I. LV oif-rcl l>y If,LL8
TUTT’S It- Tl’TT. f’>r ii.mv »• 4
Tl’TT’sT** ars L>«*RimiFtra!or«r Aaat*»»thv in
‘hi- Medical Colwc.’ of ortria.' ‘ J
Thirty year-’experience in tlie p ! r *ES
practice of medicine, together with l’G,LS
TUTT b fifteen year - ,’ te<t of Tutt’s IM1K I’lLLS
TUTT’S and the thousand* of testimonials PILLS
TUTT’S Kiveu of their * (Scary, warrant me p? LL?
TUTT’S * n that they wf!t
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tu rrs
TjjlT? oromeuded for 'all thellu t hat afflict *’ 11 * ? * s
i^TT b humanity, hut lor Dvsjiepda. .lann- Pi I- LS
TUTT’fc dice.Constipation. Pife^ Skin Uis- PILI.L
TUTT’Sca.«es. Union* Colic. Ithcuti.atistu. PLLLS
TUTT’S Palpitation of the Heart. Kidney
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TUTT’S Affections. Female
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TUTT’Sproven m e fii < i'X^rftar«< a iiR > FILLS
TUTT’S TUTT’S VEGETAliUK JJVER PILLS
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TUTT’S PILLS.
The Quadroons of New Orleans.
Quadroon society is another interest
ing feature of this yery interesting city.
There are some thousands of quadroons
here, the females appearing largely to
predominate over the males in num
bers. Many of them are handsome,
and it is an undoubted fact that there
is more beauty to be found among the
quadroons than any other class. At
the quadroons balls a few octoroons
will also occasionally be seen. The
quadroons dress with as much taste as
their more favored white sisters. They
are generally of symmetrical build,
small feet and hands, regular features
and very expressive eyes. It is rare
to meet one of them that has not at
least an ordinary common school edu
cation, while some have a moderate
degree of culture and are fair musicians.
In the ballroom they appear to advan
tage, becomingly and modestly attired,
good dancers, easy in conversation, and,
so far as outward show goes, demure
enough to satisfy fashionable ideas of
propriety. Of course they are not
models of purity. But they are not
considered as belonging to the vulgar
class. The French quadroons are de
scended from the best Creole families.
The quadroons are mostly acquainted
with their parent stock, and take great
pride in mentioning that they are ajlied
;o this or that one of the first families.
The female quadroons very rarely asso
ciate with the black people of either
sex. They are devoted to the place of
their birth and lew of them ever leave
here.—New Orleans Letter.
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TCTT’S ; TUTT’S Pius : PILLS
TCTT’S = NEVER GRIPE OR NAC5K- : TILL*
TCTT’S : ATE. : TILLS
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TCTT’S : THE DEMAND FOR TCTT’S: TILLS
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TCTT’S -rood digeation, aonnd alecp.t PILLS
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TCTT’S tar* aom* of the reanlta nl tho; PILLS
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TUTT’S : PILLS
TCTTS.: AS A FAMILY MEDICINE : PILLS
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TCTT’S t BEST—PERFECTLY HABM-= PILLS
TCTT’S : LESS. : PILLS
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TO-rrs : SOLD EVEBTWHERE. : PILLS
TCTT’S ; PRICE, TWENTT-FIVE CIS.; PILLS
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HEW YORK.
DR. TUTT’S
EXPECTORANT.
This unrivaled preparation has.per
formed some of the most astonishing
cures that are recorded in the annals of
history. Patients suffering for years from
the various diseases of the Lungs, after
trying different remedies, spending thou*
sands of dollars in traveling and doctor
ing, have, by the use of a few bottles,
entirely recovered their health. ^
“WON'T 00 TO FLORIDA."
WewYork.August30,187a
D R. TUTT:
De»rg|g?—'Ufl—a in Aiken. 1—t winter. I wd you*
XxpeotorSat for my cough, and realized mare benefit
from it than anythin* Z ever took Zjuneowen that
I will not so to Florida next winter aa Z intended.
Send me one dosen bottle*, by expreee. for some
friends. ALFRED CUSHING.
123 West Thirty-firm! Street.
Boston. January H, 1874.
This certifies l-.wt I have reoommended thenseof
Or. Tutt*s Expectorant for disessss at the ltmgs
for the peat two years, and to my knowledge many
bottles have been need by my patients with ths hap
piest results. In two eases where'it waa thonght oon-
firmed ooosampUeo had taken place the Expectorant
affected a <rarm. B.H. SPRAGUE, MJh
“We can not mp -x too highly at Dr* Tutt*s Ex
pectorant, and tor the make of suffering humanity
hope it may beoome more generally known
mx Advocate.
8oM bv JDrusncists. Price 91.00
mhllwly*
U NDER AND IN PURSUANCE OF *
der issued from the Executive Dept
of the State of Georgia, on the 16th dr
1877, as follows, after certain recitation/
Ordered. That all tho property of u
pany seized ts alorieaid, now in tne pow-.^ r ;
of. Robert T. Fouche', egent of tha Stis -
said order, be told to the highest biidert •-
outcry in tho city of Roo.e, betwten tb
of 10 o’clock A M and 4 o’clock
on the first Tuesday in June nen
sale will bo m»de for cash, for bond* »
State, or the first moitgage bends of m
pany indorsed in bebalt of tbe Statear
authority of ‘che act approved October £
will be s^ld to the higbost bidder, at pub .
cry. at the depot of the Rome Railroad e
in Rdme,
Fiest Teusday in June, 1877 ’*
between the hrm's of 10 o’cloek Ail
o'clock P M, the lollcwing property, Um
Memphis Branch Railroad, ita eqolpm*:
all other property belonging to-said L
Company, to-vrit:
The said Railroad commencing at Rc:
and running in the direction Oi Decat::
17 miles graded with the superstruefc.
iron laid on five miles and a little on
from tbe city of Rome, including said r " l3
structure, iron, rights of way, bridges,
ings, lands for depot and other mrs, tht^Tjg
chise of said company, and a!l other pr
attached or pertaining to said Railroadi
tnres. One narrow guage engine or locc. ^
new asd in good order; four new 1st eia
cars; 1 transit and level and box of t
instruments, and all othei personal prope -r
said ccmpaDy. Said railroad is (3) teettv — -
Said Railroad, «quipmeuU and propert;
be sold for cash or bonds of this St&U,
first mortgage bonds of said company,e
by the Stato under the authority of j
approved October 22.1S70.
ROBERT T. F0UCE:
Agent for the:
Rome, Ga., April 30th, 1S77.
w Ewa *- j
Sorgo or Sugar
Cane Mills and Evaporate: -
Cotton Ciin aud Thresher
EN GT 2STES*‘
Absolutely Sale from Fire by
The ouly Engine Safe and suitable fbrru*
Cotton Gins, Grain Threshers, ttf
We can furnish at low prices the best* 1 -
Cultivators, Threshers, Fan Mills, "V
or any other kind of Improved Ic'
ments, Machinery or Field Seed;.
“German” or "Golden” K
Pure mid Genuine.
Send stamp for Price List and Circultrs.
Addreis, -
mv2.wly
r. II. JOSES*! 11 -
Nashvilk.^ 5
Libel for Divorce.
Mary J. Golden vs. Nathan L.
Libel for Divorce in Paulding Superior 1 -
February Term, 1877. f -
T APPEARING TO THE COURT K :
_ return of the Sheriff-that the delellto-
not reside in this county, acd it ^
appearing that he does
•- this State, it is on motion of counsel |
that said defendant appear and answtfj^ ^
next term of this Court, else that the t
onsidered in default and the plaintiff be
to proceed. And it is further ordered
rule be published in some public gazette
8tate once a mouth lor fuur months.
T. W. UNDERWOOD, J. S.
I certify tho above w a true extract fi* 11 *
utes of Court, February Term, I s77 ;
mch£4,w4'n
J. S. GREENE, C.*, J
NOTICE. ,
N otice is hebeby given that -
Advertising pertaining to the
iff of Haralson county will be done m
Cockier during my *erm of office, unie* -
is published to the contrery. , a ,.j
EC WILSON, Sbs*
Buchanan, March 29, 1877.
N otice is hereby given 1-^,,
Advertising pertaining to the office
i.ary of Haralson county will ** , ,p
Rome Courier during my term of offi •
notice is given to the contrary.
B N DAVENPORT, 0r<h“
Haialsou Canty, March 28,1S77. _—
• J
ISOT’ICE.
LaFatxttx, Ga., FebnuiJ*‘‘^2=
T he advertising of the
axles of Wmlker count, will b* «“ ^ -> j
term of *-l j
Roms Cocbibb during
notice i. given lo ‘^^“^nESB, »«*
tw wtf
notice. „
rpHE ADVERTISING PERTAIN‘D^
1 Ordinary’, office of Walker count,
after be dons in the Ross Cou*®*
present term of ofiiee, unless
the contrary. MILTOb
*r. is 77 *
2s the safest sod tl
— ' icesthc mc_-
a the skin, e
myj.twly
Homestead.
GEORGIA. Floyd County. ^ 34
TACOB O'MULL ha. *PP 1 1 ‘ < ^me«t<* 1 ’!y ,
penonalty and T *‘“S°,V^doelt A**°° | 4
will pan upon the ““‘“V j isTT.
M inst, .t my offleg 0rH*«$