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PEOPLE’S PXIIEKD. Rome, Ga., Saturday, Juno 28, 1873. 5 a Yu • / ■•.'&" f V w w < -'/z- ■ • ■/ A. B. S. MOSELEY, } . • . r Associate MBS. MARGIE P. MOSELEY, z- 77, „„„ „ 1 Editors. 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. j 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 $3,000 n>t to sell to any minor or habitual drunkard, and i to pay all damages resulting from his sales. Says .an exchange: Poor Dick Yates, of Illinois, once a Semit- r from the State, was arrested at Philadelphia a few days ago, for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. So descend from high places those who succumb to strong drink. Pity it is, so, but being so, th se who feel that they are not master of strong drink should beware of it. Dick Yates is a warning that •thers like him should heed. A Farmer named Rockwell, living near Missouri Valley, lowa, took a • w drinks the other day and started i for home, but was thrown from his wagon on the way. Being too drunk to walk he laid on the ground until he froze both hands, his nose, and will lose both arms by amputation. Every drunkard that ever lived and died a miserable death was once a moderate drinker, and often said there was no danger of him being a drunk ard. Statistics show Georgia to be the leading j Souti ern Baptist State, both in respect to ( contributions and number' l , one in every eight of the population, it is said, being a Baptist RAILROAD GUIDE. LOUISVILLE & GREAT SOUTHERN k f \ T'lTyL z*. v$ i F’ ? i -ST \ Z ”” ft’’ -Z"'* k-G,'; , \ X* , ✓’''l i'Z‘ R V W (' oio 'wT* i y ( '~ ) *' >5 "Fa Ji U 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.