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PEOPLE’S PXIIEKD.
Rome, Ga., Saturday, Juno 28, 1873.
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REV. L. R. GWALTNEY, )
Granges.
\\ c understand that the farmers of
Chulio District will meet at their Court
Ground to-day, to take the preparato
ry steps to organize a Granges Club.
We know nothing about the merits or
demerits of the object sought to be
obtained by the organization, but we
see that it is meeting with great favor ,
throughout the South by the best men '
of the country. If our readers find |
that its objects and purposes are to
build up the farming interest of our j
country and make labor honorable and j
protect them from being imposed up
on by sharpers, at every crook and '
turn. We tender to them our pa
per as a medium of communication. 1
We are not ashamed to confess that .
we are after all dependent upon the '
farmers for what we eat and wear, and j
must rise and fall as they do, conse
quently we feel that what is their in- j
terest is our interest, and what works I
to their prejudice works to ours, hence
wo are willing to do all the scotching
for them wo can. And all we want to
know is when, where, and how to scotch.
Attention Ginners—Fire Insurance.
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You can have all your Gins and Ma- j
chinones insured without naying for
your policies in advance. We are now i
making up a company, and we want 1
all the ginners and owners of other
valuable machinery in Gwinett and
adjoining counties, who wish to be in
sured, to join us. We want a compa
ny of three or four hundred, and you
are the very men who are capable of
forming just what this country needs,
a reliable, mutual fire insurance com
pany. Tin re is scarcely a fire insur
ance company that will insure a cotton
gin for less than three or four times
the probable cost of insurance by the
plan upon which we propose to or
ganize this company.
We do not propose to call for money
in advance of losses, but each member
to pay his part of the loss within the
time agreed upon after the loss occurs.
For instance, suppose we have a com
pany of five hundred members, and A
looses an establishment worth 81,500,
and two-thirds of it was insured: then
it would cost the company, on an av
erage, two dollars apiece to pay the
loss. Whois the ginner that would
regret to pay two dollars, while he can
rest upon the pleasant assurance that
if he gets burnt out he will be proper
ly indemnified for his losses? I have
several names already on the list; and
I have not failed to get any* to whom I
have explained the object of this organ
ization.
I hope all who wish to join this com
pany will respond at once, as we wish
to have a call published through the
Gwinetl Herald (or a meeting of the
company in Lawrenceville, in the
month of August: and we want a large
company to organize with. The ob
ject of this meeting will be to adopt a
constitution and by-laws; and until
that is done nobody will be bound.
We also make a special request of i very
ginner in Gwinnett county to send us
rhe number of bales of cotton he gin
ned, of the crop of 1872, that was rais
ed in Gwinnett county, that we may
know the size of the crop from this
forward. As soon as two or three
hundred names are received, the fact
will be published in the Gwinnett r
a’d. with a call for the meeting. Sub
scrioe for the Gunnne/t Herald, if von
are not already a subscriber, so von
may know ail about what this compa
ny is doing. Three or four ginners
might sen I their mum s and amount of
cotton ginned all in one letter.
Write xour names, p »st-otnce and
county plainly.
Address. John R. Hopkins,
Norcross. Gwinnett Co.. Ga.
We clip the above from the Gwinnett
II raid and do most heartily approve
of the plan suggested, and recommend
the farmers of every county through
out the State to adopt it. The plan
will do. ami will work w ell. Wt can
not attend the Farmer's (Tub of Cave
Spring District which meets at Cave
Springs on to-day, but we take the
liberty of calling the attention of
the club to the article, and respectfully
suggest that the club give the subject
due consideration, and if approved by
the club to put the ball in motion. We
tender the club and all similar clubs the
use of our columns in the promotion
of the cause they are laboring to build
up, for we know that the farmer is the
chief corner stone of our individual
State and national prosperity. Send
I your proceedings and communications.
Letter From Decatur.
Decatur, Ga., -Tune 21, 1873.
I Mr. S. C. Robinson, G. IF. S., I. (J. G. T.,
i Rome, Ga:
Dear Sir. —ln resnose to vours of
the 10 th inst, I give you a few items
in refference to Decatur lodge, No. 5,
I I. O. G. T.
I A large number of the older mom
i bers of our lodge became quite luke
' warm, and failed, for months after, to
i attend* our meeting. This, perhaps,
1 was the result of petty jealousy,though
j I regret to say it. Other valuable
members removed to a distance, too
1 far to render us any aid. One Rev.
, Wm. H. Clark, one of the most ear
• nest advocators of temperance we ever
' had, was removed form this eiythly to
' the Heavenly lodge. Finally, the at-
I tendance was so small and continued
so until the withdrawal of several of
' those who did attend with any reg-
L ularity, that we were, for a long time,
i without enough present to open the
■ lodge.
Believing that nothing more could
be then done to arouse the truant
members to a sense of their duty, it
was urged by some that the nov
elty of a new organization would ena-
I ble us to draw out our forces again,
and thereby promote the cause for
J which the I. 0. G. T. had done so much
in our midst; and would again move
■ on conquering and to conquer.
After having received the rituals,
etc., of the U. F T., and examined
the promises on which we had to op
erate, we felt that there was nothing
substantial about them, and we were
consequently sadly disappointed.
From the first of February to May
Ist we initiated but one. After hav
ing labored earnestly during the time,
and meeting with such poor success,
the members became discouraged; and,
one by one, discontinued their attend
ance, until the organization died out.
Intemperance has greatly increased
in our midst since the lodge began to
go down. There arc now two bar
rooms in our town. The owner of
one of them told me his expense was
BGB per month, or $792 a year. Os
course the other is as much, counting
his own labor and house-rent at much
less than he could got for it, which
would make $1,584 paid every year for
the privilege of selling liquor in our
little town of less than five hundred
inhabitants. A larger sum than is
paid by all three of the churches in the
place to thc r ministers.
; There has been spent in our town
(which is said to lie one of the most
moral towns in the State within the
last twelve months, over $6,000 dollars
for liquor—enough money to have
paid the expenses of all the churches
and build a fine academy, which we
are very much in need of, as we have
to rent a room to teach school in.
Feeling, as we ever have, that the
j principals of the 1. O. G. T. are calcu
lated to do lasting good, we deter
mined to reorganize our scattered
forces, unfurl our banner to the breeze
and go to battling for the glorious
cause of temperance. *
The opposition in our midst, with
which we have to contend, is greater
than at any time since the organization
of a Good Templar's lodge in this
place. This opposition is not so much
from the dram drinker, the common
' toper or the dram-seller, (for one of
the latter paid the entrance fee, and
all dues of one or two of his best cus
tomers as long as they would remain
in the lodge, I but it is from a source
from whence we should not expect it—
from the ranks of professed Christians.
Marvelous to think, yea to know, that
there is one who professes to speak in
the name and by the authority of the
Immaculate Jehovah to this sin-cursed
world, should oppenly oppose an or
ganization for the promotion of tem
perance. Upon what ground this op
position is based, I have not yet learn
ed. But behind which bulwark of
Christianity a stand is taken to do
battle against temperance organiza
tions, I cannot conceive, and before we
try further, will make an effort to learn
on what ground or grounds they as
sume to stand in opposition to a cause
so dear the heart of every lover of his
race, to every humanitarian, to thous
ands of crushed and bleeding hearts
of fathers, mothers, wives and wretch
ed widows and orphans, made such by
the fell destroyer—intemperance.
The following is a list of officers
elected and installed at the reorganiza
tion of Decatur lodge No. 5,1. O. G.
T., Friday night, June 13, 1873:
v ; . C. T., Dr. W. AV. Durham,
. V,’. V. T., Miss Jennie Clark,
W. C., RevP. A. Hughe,
W. S., Hiram J. Williams,
\\. A. S., Theodore R. Ramspeck,
W. T., John L. Durham,
W. F. S., Earnest Ward,
W. M., James C. Avery, Jr.,
W. D. M., Miss Alice Wilson,
W. I. G., Miss Ada Word,
W. O. S., George T. Pate,
AU R. H. S., Miss Emma Hughes,
AV. L. H. S., Miss Belle Tildon,
Ledge Deputy, Chas. Al. Ramspeck.
S. C. Robinson, G. W. S.
The Grand Lodge of Good Tem
plars have a most excellent officer in
the person of Mr. S. C. Robinson,
(fraud Worthy Secretary. He is never
idle. The good of the order com
mands his prompt and undivided at
tention. AV ednesday night he organi
zed a new lodge at Shiloh Church, in
the Flat A\ oods, five or six miles from
the city. Twenty-five members were
initiated. Mr Robinson reports a -very
general revival of the Temperance
work all over the State.— Commercial.
A bad wind-up of the week —reeling
home on Saturday night.
The latest version—the Alodoc even
ing song, “Put me in my lava-bed.”
New reading of an old proverb—
Man proposes and woman seldom re
fuses.
A Jew gets his law from the proph
ets; an attorney gets‘his profits from
tlie law.
A young man’s friends object to his
being loose, but somehow they have
an equal objection to his being tight.
The licensed rumsellers of Bristol,
Conn., do not sell liquor to a man after
they have made him a “common drunk
ard.”
The Chicago City Council recently
“interfered” with the liquor business by
passing an ordinance requiring saloons
to close at 11 p. m.
Eighty-four members of the Cincin
nati Bar Association recently adopted
a resolution probibitinn the furnishing
of liquors at their meetings.
The State Treasurer of Minnnesota
is looking after the collection of the
special liquor tax which under the new
law, goes towards founding an Ine
briate Asylum.
Justice Downing wants SIO,OOO
from the New York Sun for saying
that lie opened court the other day,
by asking a prisoner for a ‘chaw,’ and
wound up by adjourning to the front
room to take a drink.
A certain young man of our ac
quaintance, who, when asked to drink,
1 declines and says that he never drinks
i except when alone in some retired
- spot in the woods, with some one
1 present.
Minnesota has a liquor law that
' puts the license from .s 5 tn 8300, and
I then puts tile seller under bonds of
from SI,OOO to $3,000 n>t to sell to
any minor or habitual drunkard, and
i to pay all damages resulting from his
sales.
Says .an exchange: Poor Dick
Yates, of Illinois, once a Semit- r from
the State, was arrested at Philadelphia
a few days ago, for drunkenness and
disorderly conduct. So descend from
high places those who succumb to
strong drink. Pity it is, so, but being
so, th se who feel that they are not
master of strong drink should beware
of it. Dick Yates is a warning that
•thers like him should heed.
A Farmer named Rockwell, living
near Missouri Valley, lowa, took a
• w drinks the other day and started
i for home, but was thrown from his
wagon on the way. Being too drunk
to walk he laid on the ground until he
froze both hands, his nose, and will
lose both arms by amputation.
Every drunkard that ever lived and
died a miserable death was once a
moderate drinker, and often said there
was no danger of him being a drunk
ard.
Statistics show Georgia to be the leading
j Souti ern Baptist State, both in respect to
( contributions and number' l , one in every
eight of the population, it is said, being a
Baptist
RAILROAD GUIDE.
LOUISVILLE & GREAT SOUTHERN
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Great Through Line to the North
and West.
THREE through Express Train* leave Nashville daily
on arrival of trains from the South, making close and
direct connections at Louisville, for
Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Cleveland and
Pittsburg, Detroit, Chicago, Mil
waukee, St. Paul, Omaha, Den
ver, St. Louis, Kansas City,
and all points inthe
Geat Northwest.
Pullman s Palace Sleeping Cars
attached to al! night trains which run through from
Louisville to many of the above named points
AA'itHorit (Jliaaage,
Passengers by tins line have the privilege of stopping
over to explore the wondersuf
Oawe,
and resume their journey at pleasure. Special induce
ments in low rates oilered to
Emigrant Parties
going to the Gold Fields and Arable Lands of the Far
West.
Passengers going South can take this line at Calera
for Montgomery, Eufaula, Ga., ?>fobile,
New Orleans, and all points in the South and Texas.
Through Tickets and Baggage Checks can be procur
ed at the principal ticket offices i'< Rome, and all prom
inent points in the South.
Ask for tickets going North and West via Louisville,
and going South via Cale ra and Mrmtgomerv.
W. H. KING. C. P. ATMORE,
Gen’l T’k’t Gea’l Pass.
Louisville.
June 12, ’73 b to Jan 1 ’74.
St. Louis, Memphis, Nashville &. Chat
tanooga Railroad Line.
CENTRAL SHORT ROUTE.
The Great Route to Boston, Now
York, Baltimore, AAMshing
ton, Philadelphia and
all Northern an d
Eastern Cities.
Through Silver Palace Cars Attachec’
TO LOUISVILLE.
Holders of Tickets are Entitled to Visit
Catoosa Springs, Mammoth Cave,
and Niagara Falls Without Ex
tra Charge, Resuming
Their Journey at
PLEASURE.
Na Change of Cars from
Chattanooga to Nashville.
Without change of Cars to Nashville, McKinzie, Union
City, fiickman, Columbus, Humboldt, Brownsville,
and Memphis.
Only One Oliaiige
To Jackson, Tenn., Paducah Ky., Little Rock, Cairo
and St. Louis.
More than 150 Miles Shorter to St.
Louis
Than by the way of Memphis or Louisville, and from
8 to 15 Hours Quicker
Than by the way of Corinth or Grand Junction.
Six Hours Quicker to Memphis by this
Route than ANY OTHER.
ASK FOR TICKETS TO
Memphis and toe Southwest via Chattanooga and Me
Kenzie.
AND TO
St. Louis and i le Northwest via Nashville and Cohim
bus—all Rai!: or Nashville and Hickman—Rail and
River
TIIELOAVEST SPECIAL RATES
For Emigrants, with more Advantages
Quicker Time, and Fewer Chang
e« of Cars than any other
Route,
Tickets for sale at tiie Principal Ticket Offices in the
South.
J. W. THOMAS, Gen’l Supt.
A. B. WRENN, Traveling Agent,
No. 4, H. I. Kimball House,
•ept. 21 ts.
Atlanta & West Point Railroad
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN-(Outward)
Leaves Atlanta at G 50 am
Arrives at West Point 11 40 a m
Day Passenger Train—(lnward.)
Leaves West Pojnt at 12 30 r m
Arrives at Ailanta 5 0C p m
Night Passenger Train—(Ovtward.)
Leave* Atlanta 7 00 p «
Arrives a: Wert Point 12 15 a m
Night Passenger Train—(lnward.j
L eave.- Wt Point
Arrives at Atlanta
Georgia Railroad Schedule.
Georgia Railroad.
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leaves Augr.sta 8.20 o’clock, a m
Atlanta 830 “ A m
Arrive at Atlanta 640 •< j. «
“ at Augusta 530 «s r x
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leaves Augusta 815 « FM
“ At.anta 815 “ j> m
Arrive* at Atlanta 645 r< am
“ Augusta g 32 « A M
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN.
Leave* At'a-ta ts f m
Stone Mountain ’45 »« A M
Arrives at Atlanta co «. A H
u at Stone Mountain oj « P M
RAILROAD GUIDE.
Central Bailroad.
NO CHANGE OF CARS BETWEEN
AUGUSTA AND COLUMBUS.
General Superintendent’s Ozfice,
Central Railroab, ,
Savannah, September 27,1372. )
ON and after Sunday the 29th inst., Ptwsenger Trains
on the Georgia Central Railroad, its Branches and
Connections, will run as follows:
UP DAY TRAIN.
Leave Savannah 8 45 a m
“ Augusta 900 a M
Arrive at Augusta 5 30 p m
“ at Milledgeville II 55 p m
“ at Etonton 1 M A M
“ at Macon 715 pm
Leave Macon for Atlanta 10 00 p M
£< Macon for Columbus 805 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 6 06 ah
s - at Columbus 400 a M
Making close connections with trains laavir Augus
ta, Atlanta and Columbus.
DOWN DAY TRAIN.
Leave .Atlanta 2 00 a m
.Arrive at Macon '/ 39 a m
Leave Macon 8 00 a M
“ Augusta 990 a m
Arrive at Augusta 5 30 pm
“ at Savannah 615 P M
This train connects at Macon with S. \-V. .Accommo
dation train leaving Columbus at. 8 20 P M, and arriving
at Macon at 4 45 4'M, and makes the same connection
at .Augu*ta as the up day train.
NIGHT TKJIIN GOING SOI TH.
Leave Savannah 7 00 p M
“ .AngiGta 815 p M
Arrive at Savannah 4 30 a M
“ at Macon 630 am
Leave Macon for .Atlanta 8 50 am
“■ Macon for Columbus 546 am
-Arrive at Columbus H 15 a m
“ at -Atlanta 318 px
Making prompt thrangh connections at both .Atlanta
and Columbus-
NIGHT TRAINS GOING N3>RTH.
Leave Colnmbus 4 10 p m
“ -Atlanta 400 pm
-Arrive at Macon for Columbus 9 35 p M
“ at Macon for -Atlanta 925 pm
Leave Macon 9 50 pm
“ Savannah 11 00 p m
•Arrive ai Milledgeville 11 55 pm
“ at Eatonton 150 am
“ at -Augusta 620 a m
“ at Savannah 739 a m
Making perfect connections with trains leaving -Au
gusts.
Passengers going over the Milledgeville and Eatonton
Branch will take night train from Columbus, -Atlanta
and Mason, day train from -Augusta and Savannah,
which connect daily at Gordon (Sundays excepted) with
he Milledgeville asd Eatonton trains..
An JSlega»t Sleeping Car all Niglit
Trains.
Through Tickets to all points can be had at Centra,
Railroad Ticket office, at Pulaski House corner Bui
and Bryan streets. Office open from 8 am, to 7p nv
and from 3to 6 p 111, Tickets can also he had at Depo.
Office. WILLI AV ROGERS, -j
General Superlntenden
‘ THE KENNESAW ROUTE,” >
VIA
WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. R.
AND CONNECTIONS.
Schedule in Effect March ls£ 1873.
NO RTHWAR 1> Tit Al N
Arrive at Cartersville,. “
“ Kingston, 8.43 “
“ Dalton,. - 10.30 “
“ Chattannooga,..
no 3.
Leaves Atlanta, 8.30 a. m
Arrives at Cartersville 11.06 “
“ Kingston 11.45 “
“ Dalton, 2.01 P. M.
“ Chattanooga 4.28 “
NO 1
Leave Atlanta 10 00 p. m.
Arrive at Cartersville 12.30 “
“ Kingston 1.03 “
“ Dalton 3.00 a. m.
“ Chattanooga 5.00 “
SOUTHWARD TRAIN, NO. 2.
Arrives at Atlanta,. 10.45 A.M.
“ Cartersville 8.16 “
“ Kingston 744 “
“ Dalton 5.35
Leaves Chattanooga 3.45 P-M.
no. 4.
Arrives at Atlanta 1.45 m.
“ Cartersville 16.51 A; M
Kingston 10-12 “
“ Dalton 8.00 “
Leaves Chattanooga 5.45 “
Home It. It. Company
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
O N ,,- A . N > D AFTEB BUND AY, OCTOBER 20th,
Sorow-s- 2 the trans the Ro " ,e w ‘» ‘•UH “8
MORNING TRAIN.
Morning Train leaves Rome at : • R.np . „
Arrive at Rome j'-qq p ;
NIGHT TRAIN.
Night Train leaves Rome at : ; • r.nn „..
Arrive at Rome at : ; . 'Zo p.' m
Night train makes close connection at Kingston tor
New \ ork and all points Non!.. Also make close con
nection at Lome with Mail train on Selma, Rome and
Dalton Rail Road for all poinls South. Morning trail
makes close connection for Chattanooga, Nashvlll anni
PorAtanta Mt ' lri “-connections
w - 8- COTHRAN, President.
Macon and Western R. R.
Atlanta 525 pm 610 pm
Atld,,U 200 am 148 p M
1 10 p m 10 50 p m
French’s New Hotel,
Cor Cortlandt New Chnrch Streets;
JVEW YORK.
On the European Plan.
RICHARD P. FRENCH,
Son of the late Col. RICHARD FRENCH, of French’s
Hotel, has taken this Hotel, newly fitted up and entirely
locaUd
_ w. b din,no k oo ™ Attachbd -
GEN. LEE LYINGIINTfATE. '
AMNE of a beautiful young lady,
decorating the casket of the old warrior with
wreaths and cresses of flowe’s. It is without a rival
the sweetest and most touchingly beautiful engraving
before the pub'ic, agents waated i.i every county In the
South to sell this and other Engravings, &c. A sarnnle
co ? y of this fine Picture, with \..rmsV, Jgents, w" Um
sent by mail on receipt of six postage stamps.
Address J. c. W. M. BURROW,
2<W Main St., Bristol, Tenn.