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PSOFLB’S rniHNB. 1 R uno, Ga., Saturday Feb. <B, 1873. ' Meningitis has made its appearance | in Wilkes and Dougherty counties. Tee Georgia State Agricultural Con vention meets in Augusta on the lltii inst. L isses by fire during the past week, as reported through* the press dis patches amount to $3,000,000. One hundred and eight interments in the Augusta Cemetery during the last month. - — — - Dead. —Carlotta, ex-Empress of j.lex ico. She has been crazy ever since t ie death, or rather murder of her hu.-> 1 >and, Maximillian. Mb. Atkins has introduced a negro equality bill in the House. M e guess that bill will never pass the Georgia Legislature. Installation. —The officers of Sa cred Promise Lodge, I. O. G. T., were installed on Monday evening List, by R. W. Roebuck, D. G. W. C. T. A family of some eight or ten per sons, near Calhoun, are down with the small pox. Every precaution has been taken to prevent its spread. Prof. Mason, we are informed, is permanently located in Rome, g e hope, with our neighbor, the Uninn'T cia 1 , that he will establish a Commer cial College at this ] lace. It would, in our opinion be a paying ins titution. —» » - • *- Con< ert Postponed.—Prof. Tuesk-r inforns us that the Concert lor the benefit of the Soldiers Monument i \ been postponed until Thursday tb 13th inst., owing to the ir:dr.positi.on of se\eral oi the young ladies to u i; >m leading parts have been assignee.-- Remember the day, Thursday, the 13th inst. Inviting Capital.—The City (iounc.l of Augusta have ordained tLsi-t ail manufacturing establishments built in that city by capital raised, outside tin corporate limits of the city, shall in exempt from taxation for ten years, and a bonus of three per cent, on the <• ipiiai so invests d, paid by the city to said corporators. Professor ‘J. N.,” the eloquent, paid us a visit on Tuesday evening last. We were well entertained by the pro fessor, and wish ’mm great success in eventually “lifting the veil.'’ and re storing, through tin* philosophical ideas attributed to him. the peace and happiness of his country. He is to re turn to >ur city on the 27th inst., at which time he will address the citizens of Rome at the City Hall. \\ e be.-.p< al for him a good house, as we are confi dent all will be delighted with his ad dress. Commodore Mai’kv died in Lexing ton, Vn.. Saturday last, aged sixty-sev en. One of the greatest men o* rhe nation fell, when Commodore Manry passed from time to ‘ernity. From .Sunday’s dispatches we take the fol lowing: "He was author of theletn rs on the Amazon and »»n the Atlant';- Slopes or South America. Reiati. -n betwe i Magnetism and the eirenl.di. n of rhe atmospnere, Astronomical Observa tions, Physical Geography of the Sea, etc. During tlie war lie was an officer in tin* C nfedt rate Navy, and at d < film of his death, was Prof, s.- r of Physic at tl.v Virginia Military insti tute. A Local and News Paper.- Hereafter the Duly Comau ia i.m wll; beemphaticah' a iot • s mws pq . . Our dispatelu will b. give’ r, 3 later, it is true, but they \vi’. ?. •: >e confined to tin N\ .. A.-.k \ elated Press, but vid iueh d? in.port ilispatchi ;of‘.he Western P ■. ”, The discarding u! .a .d--pa tcl.r - direct for a time, will <mu lens to give a greater variety a; m ws. and. we pro pose to make the l*.:\ Cow:, .a :..i. a fur more readable iv.per than < v •. We Will resume the ili.-patc.. ever our interests will wai. im our doing so. We regret exceedi :g’.y th • i c.-s./y of the CwmcA-t.;'’- diseardi- c f r tin I present the Press dispatch is, not so . much on account of the news conta’n- ' icd in them, as of the fa-1 that it shows a want of enterprise on the part of the i business men of our citv. It is not to bo supposed that an editor of a 1 daily paper can expend every dollar he makes to got up nows for his read ers, and to furnish merchants with the 1 markets Ac, when they refuse to sup- I port his paper. What will be the re ; suit of a failure to sustain a daily pa : per in Rome ? The building up and : sustaining a daily paper in some other ; city? Is this doing justice to l.ome? i If our merchants and business men would, they could not only foster a d lily paper, but sustain handsomely ' the other offices in the city. Some i merchants say it does no good to ad vertise. Suppose no paper was pub- i lished in Rome, what would be its condition ? How can they be published unless sustained ? Convention. — The annual conven- ! tion of the fair Association, met at the 1 Citv Hall on Monday List. The Con vention elected the following Board of i Directors: Col. Adison A. Jones, Col. William P. Whitmore, Col. Thi s. IV. Alexander, Col. C. AV. Sproull, Col. J. C. McDon ald, J. G. Gillard, M. Dwinell, Joseph J. Cohen and Franklin Pence. On motion of Col. Nathan Bass, the ' following- r< solution was adopted: ]■>'.«)!r< <l, That we notice with regret q the passage of a bill by the Legisla . ' ture, changing the time of holding the ' Superior Court of Floyd county from . January and July to Apiii and Octo ber, as such change will operate very iniuriously to the planting interests ot I the count}'. Maj. \>. F. Ayer then introduced ' Col. H. H. Helper, of North Carolin.i, . G eneral Agent for the Gabriel L tley ' S-.’ <>rd Cotton Press, patented Feb. I t, 1871, who exhibited a model of the same to tile Convention. I Lis 1 i Press was awarded a diploma at the last Savannah Fair. It is claimed to be a great improvement on the Gray Ctk-v Press, and to be a complete success. The Convention then adjournel. Alfred Shorter, Pres't. Tiros. J. Perry, S<-c'y /a-o /rj/L A majority of the Directors elect be- ■ I ing present, Col. Thos. W. Alexander was called to the Chair. Rud J. C. Mc- Donald requested to act as Secretary, for the purpose of organizing tbe Board, v hich resulted as follows: Col. A. A. Jones, President; Thos. J. Perry, Secretary; J. S. Panchen, ; Treasurer. J. J. C ihen then tendered the use of his office to the Board, tor the year ' free of charge, which was accepted 1 with the thanks of the Board. The , Board then adjourned until Saturday i next at 10 o'clock. A. A. Jones, Pres’t. J. C. McDonald, Acting Secy. . <*>- +>■ The National debt statement shows : " im-i-easi'<>f ha 1 fii million. Coin in I Tren -urv sixty-two and three-eighths millions; currency, seven millions. Five hundred negroes will pass up th State Road for Arkansas the pres ent wee k. Five hundred more deaths will be ri'corded in the Mississippi bottoms th<‘ present year. Tm: Savannah A< stiys a monster sea serpent, forty feet long, has been seen in the vicinity of Tybee. The monster's head resembles that of an | alligator. - S. B. Conder has been elected U. S. Senator from Florida. As he was voted for by the Democratic members, we hope he is an improvement on the ' present Senator. A rill is before the General Assem bly to reduce the members of the Sen ate to thirty-four and the House to sevi nty-tiv«‘. We favor this bill, but w )u’< prefer representation based on i population. Thu President has signed the bill ab II: :ii!g the frank >g privilege, which take - effect on the first of July. This k a he.in tbe right direction, but t i:L. :.ll oiler retreuchmcuts, it is to be met by a further increase of pay to the niemlx rs of Congress. So after ■ .'IL it amom.ts io nothing. Tee >?on of my in Cuba is •’.« •" l ■.!>-'il li g topic at the North. . Tie Cub u patriots propose to free the negi'o< s on the Iskuid if siu eessful. The I est way to terminate the matter ■ is to raise 100,000 volunteers from the ' freedmen of the South, and land them in Cuba, duly armed, and let them go for the Spaniards. The newspapers throughout the country have much to say about Sam Bard. Why not let the old reprobate alon* 9 Is magnified into somO tnmg of importance, and men arc forced to road column after column of uninteresting matter on the life and doings of a man whom every body despises. Keep his name out of the ! papers, and let Ids memory die out. The Alabama Legislature has at last : gone to work, but not until after one ’of the dirtiest tricks on record. The | contested scat of Mr. Martin, Dcmo ! crat, was reported to the Senate, the Democrats reporting 57 majority for Martii;, and the Radicals reporting in favor of Miller. It seems that one Democratic Senator and one Radical Senator had leave of absence, and were paired off, and in the event cither was present, when the case come up in the Senate, was not to vote. The Rid was on hand and by voting made it a tie, whereupon the President of the Senate voted for Miller, which gives the Radicals the Senate. If the Dem ocrat had been pressnt the result would have been different. Why a Demo crat should have left his post until the Senate was organized is a strange thing to us. Why trust a man that had already acted in bad frith?— i lleei/// BvUctin. — Bogus Georgia Bonds.—Col. Sneed’s i rill to pay the bogus bonds issued by j Bullock, ami declared void by the < leorgia Legislature, is, in our judge ment, to say the least of it, ill-timed. If Georgia was liable for these bonds, she oug'nt to p‘ty them. To say that , those bond-holders as a general thing, were innocent purchasers, is not the bu t. Bullock and Treasurer Angier were at war all the time about the bonds, and Clews A Co. knew as well when they sold the bonds, that they , w< re not legally issued, as they do to ; day. So did every Banker and Stock : Speculator North and in Europe.— Georgia has received no benefit from these bonds, and should not pay one dollar of them - We hope the Ijpgis i lature will .sustain the honor of the State ami the rights of the people, by promptly tabling the bill.— Bidletin. Constitutional Convention. —Our Atlanta exchanges give us infornation that the bill before the General Assem bly calling a Constitutional Conven tion. is gaining friends daily in that body. We have announced in favor of the Convention, as we believe it es sential that such a convention should assemble. The main objection urged against the call oi the Convention is 1 the cost. We know it will cost not I less than a session of the Legislature, . but Me propose to meet that expense by adopting bi-annual instead of an nual sessions, ami reducing the Senate jto twenty-four members, and the House to one hundred. The cost of i the Convention, therefore, will be amply met. Let the Convention be ordered, and reforms made gencrallv. Rural Beauties and uity Belles. Country girls are not a whit b hind tlie’r metropolitan sisters in the natural elements of loveliness, but it must be conceded that the city belles best understand the art of preserving and heightening their persons) beauty. The mnu perfect features lose half their attraction unless the complexion ! is properly cared for, and if the pretty girls : of the rural distsicts wi-»h to compete with ' ‘i'aairtars of the fashionable world in ' refined attractions, they must pay due at- ! Mention tu this important po*nu They ought to know, for the fa-t is notorious that Hagans .Magnolia Balm, imparts to the skin J.ehcate, pearly appealance un prouuecable bv any other preparation un- : dcr the sun. No matter how the cuticle may i have been roughened by exposure or di>- i comred by.chesuo, the Balm will render it so. t and pliable, and removes every blemish Georgia Public Building .—Senator Norwood was before the Senate Committee : on public buildings and grounds on Tues- . day advocating the house bill appropriating f for the construction of buildings I at Atlanta. Georgia. It is probal le that wi.'i make a favorable report i on it- A. I?aioci’ for tlio Masses I AVortli its "WcigTit in Gold * I ZSotiiing liltc it in tlie World!!! Saves every reader in money ten to fifty times its cost. Every iiitelngcnt. citizen, professional, or non-professional, mechanic or laborer in the wholo country, should subscribe for tbe A'tvisar. 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They are all B7na,!;i te<!, and if any part, id' either of them should break will be repaii ed ac om < xpe uso Correspondence solicit(d from merchuu’s and dealers for our wholesale ;dices. ftt'.fehJ U. s. PIANO COMPANY, $250. It co-t* les* than s3>o to make tt- y .-fi'.-b f'isttto-o’d ti.ro ich sg-'iit*, nil ot who.n oink- |i*l p-t cei.t j r-.fit IVH have !IO ag.-iit-', but whip <lit> Ito i'amdic.- at t - to. ry price*. ' vv.; make or,>y otic -tjle, and have tilt one pr.-". Two l.tit.-lrm! .anti n m u d-d'are Utt ea,„, with no ta-t --eoiiiH to d-aa-r- no coii l ini.iri"ii» t<> i» aC'.ivi". • >br t.m her in thoroughly •<!.-' »ur • a-a, are Double Ve n.-rred wiih l(o,.-wa,ud —h;>v ■ itt.ttt round corn*.-, acrpci'lirie bottom a-ri c.ev-'*i V% e u-*- the lu.i iron pl.-.lc with avei »truna t>ra r reneb Grand Act. -n with t-tp dni,i;„'r-, and <- tr kei- am ot the i>,—t jv< -y witl. ivorv tr-.iiM. <“tir I'i-nto tia-t revet, oct v.-r—o In t 9 I ci). .- l -uj, 3ti • t I im hi- « ;<■<-, at..; wt; .-, - I ->»<•<! 9-5 p.-ut 'J". Ev- ry Fiai G tit'ly w.irr.tiilt.u for five leant. Send for illu-tratcd < i-en'ar. in which we ref-r ’o over .'MW Itanker-. V’ercltanl-. Ac., (-ruin of whom you may know) tt’ii g our Piano* in -JI .-tales and Tern’.o- U. S. I’h no Co., 565 Bi'o«dvu>-. X. Y