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K8TABIJ9HKD IN' 1843.
M. DWINGU, Proprtoier.
J}. F. SAW YEIt, Editor.
Saturday Morning, April 22,1876
The Chief Justice of Utah has re
signed.
The argument of Kilbourne will run
into next week.
C. K. Osgood, late postmaster at. Ka-
vauuah is dead.
Lewis David is rccoguized as the vice
consul of England at Pensacola.
Queen Victoria has gone home from
Coburg. She found a hair in her hash
and got mad about it.
A telegram from Princeton, N. J.,
says Rev. James M. McDonald, D. D.,
died there last evening.
Somebody said they had received at
four different times specie (silver) for
debt. That $20,000,000 comes along
slowly in this section.
Professor Watson reports the discov
ery, on the night of the 10th instant, in
the constellation of Virgo, of a planet
hitherto unknown.
The NextU. S Senate.
Washington News.
The greatest need of the city is cheap ,\s at present constructed this body Washington, April 20.—The resolu-
coal. Its manufacturing interests are is composed of seventy-four members, tion introduced in the House this
languishing for the want of it just as at which number it will stand at the morning to investigate tlio matter of the
Ih.indmlri.a of the connlrym.yUn. “L 11 "."!?
guish for the want of cheap food. Coal
Columbus has a nasty clerical sensa
tion, implicating the honor of C. A.
Kendricks, a young Baptist preacher.
The details are too shocking to pub
lish.
A special from Washington to the
New York Evening rout says if Wins
low is released by the British authori
ties he will return to Boston voluntari
ly and stand his trial.
The last number of the Albany A’ctw
contains the valedictory of Cary W.
Styles; who has sold out his interest in
the concern to Capt. S. R. Western,
who will conduct the paper in future.
The Neu'8 is a capitol paper.
The New York daily Star was sold to a
uew company, known as the Star printing
association. It is understood that there
will be an entire change in the manage
ment. The paper is to be enlarged and
will be in the hands of Philadelphia
capitalists.
The Purman investigation had the
postmaster at Pensacola before them, who
had a list of five registered letters, sent
to Purman, but ignorant of contents ex-
except one which he sent himself, con
taining no money. The witness never
told any one that he had paid Purman
any money for his office.
A private dispatch received from Fort
Laramie says that parties arriving there
from Custar City report the arrival of
a stage party at Custar from Yankton
who were thirty-eight days making the
trip. They left the coach in a snow bank
sixty miles from Custar, and walked and
packed with the stage horses to Cu tar
City.
Mr. Caulfield, the chairman, writes to
Mr, Bristow in relation to his demand for
investigation, concluding : As to a in.
vestigation which you demand, the com.
mittee will willingly accord to you if you
still desire it, but we consider it wholly
unnecessary, as thero are no charges
made or proven against you and your
stand before us with the fullest exonera
tion of even suspicion.
Ex-Attorney Gen. William was ex
amined by tlioHouse Committee on fi
nances in the department of justice.
He testified to the payment to John J.
Deavenport, formerly United States
commissioner in New York, out of the
secret service fund $30,000 dollars for
election purposes. Upon being pressed
Judge Williams acknowledged that
the money was paid by direct order of
the president.
The game law of Georgia provides
that from the 1st of February to the 1st
of September in each year, it shall be a
misdemeanor to kill any deer, buck
doe or fawn; and from the lstof March
to the lfith of October it shall be
misdemeanor to shoot, snare, trap
kill in any way, any wild turkey
partridge. Penalty in all cases is
fine of five dollars for the first offense
and ten dollars for the second—one
is to the manufacturer what bread is to
the family—its stall' of life. Without
it, one solitary wheel cannot run. And
when the cost of coal is extravagant, it
becomes prohibitory, and a stop is put
to its industries.
The Rolling Mill paid for freight
alone on its coal during the past season
nearly forty thousand dollars. This enor
mous tax was more than it could stand,
and as a sequence the mills stopped
and hundreds of workmen have been
thrown out of work and became as
so much dead weight upon our pros
perity.
To remedy this should be the wish
and the effort of every good citizen.
But how cjn it be remedied ?
By seeking other and cheaper sources
of supplies.
But have we other sources?
We have.
Where?
In the Coosa coal fields, to reach
which we must build the Memphis
Brancli road. The coal fields of Coosa
are rich both in quantity and in the
quality of the coal. They can be
reached by the Memphis Branch, and
the interests of Rome demand that they
should be.
But how can the Memphis Branch
be built?
By an earnest,honest effort of the peo
ple—not by the city ; we want no more
of that; but by the people themselves
in their individual capacity. Privi’to
enterprise is the only legitimate basis of
public prosperity, and it is private en
terprise which we would invoke in aid
of the languishing industries of our
city. We are glad to know that the
Chamber of Commctce is about to
take the matter in hand and will devise
some measure to redeem the road from
its present embarrassment and to push
it through to successful completion. We
attended a meeting of a cemmittee of
that body yesterday, when the status of
the road was discussed and a most
hopeful view of its future was present
ed. Even in its present condition the
road is paying running expenses, and
if pushed on to Coosaville would pay
handsomely in the fall and winter. The
committee will report upon the matter
at the next meeting of the Board of
Trade, when we shall revert to the
subject again.
The Allentown (Penn.; Register says :
“A man residing at Rattlesnake Hill
a few miles from Pottstown, owns a
horse that acts in an unaccountable
manner, and a noted witch doctor has
prescribed the following remedy : The
horse must he taken for three successive
Fridays beyond the jurisdiction of the
person who has bewitched it, and pow
wowed in a certain manner. The whole
proceeding must be gone through with
before daylight, and not a word must
bo spoken by its owner during tho pro
cess, or in going from the place where
the pow-wowing is done. The deluded
man actually put faith in the remedy
is striving to cure his animal by follow
ing the directions given him.”
unless a new state is admitted,
which seems unlikely. Of _ these,
twenty nine are Democrats, reckoning
one to come in from Connecticut, and
forty-five are Republicans, counting
the Louisiana vacancy which, however,
is doubtful, tho new Senator from New
Hampshire, and the four Independ
ents—Booth, Cameron of Wisconsin,
Cbristlancy anil Hamilton. Booth,
however, may be set down as doubt
ful.
With the close of Grant’s adminis
tration, end the terms oi seventeen Re
pul icun and nine Democratic Senators.
The former will be tolerable certain to
retain their hold in New Hampshire,
Rhode Island, Iowa, Massachusetts,
Maine, Michigan, Nebraska, Minnesso-
to, Wisconsin, Louisiana and South
Carolina, with a doubt as to the last
three. The other five of the seventeen
States wqich will elect new Senators
are Illinois, Mississippi, Texas, Arkan
sas and Few Jersey, all of which are
tolerably safe, if we except Illinois, to
claim for the Democrats. Tho State of
Kentucky, Delaware, Oregon, Tennes
see, Virgina, West Virginia, Alabama,
Georgia and North Carolina, in which
the terms of Democratic Senators ex
pire, will in all probability control their
successors.
Assuming that members will remain
in the next Senate as they are now,
thirty-eight will constitute a majority.
Conceding the estimate of forty-six Re
publicans and twenty-eight Democrats
to be correct, the roll-call would exhi
bit forty-one Republicans and thirty-
three Democrats. There are those who
claim Louisiana and South Carolina as
likely to send—the first named a Demo
crat and the latter an Independent; this
would make a transfer of one—show
ing thirty-eight Democrats to thirty-
six Republicans, and one doubtful.
\gain, the status of Senator Booth of
California is doubtful, unless claimed
for the Republicans, and his position
as an Indepondment may resulf in a
Democratic alliance. Lhis is bringing
the relative strength down to a fine
point.
Donn Platt charges that President
Grant is drinking very hard. In the
last issue of the Capitol he Bays: “It
is well known about Washington that
Gen. Grant, vexed and worried over the
lato developments, has resorted *o his
old remedy for relief. In other words,
he has been so under the influence of
intoxicating liquors as to bo at times
incapable of seeing visitors or transact
ing business. Upon last Sunday we
drove by the Asylum for Lunatics
the moment when Gen. Grant came
out at the gate nnd started to walk to
the city. There was no mistaking the
flushed and bloated face and unsteady
gait.” _
The Grillin News says “there seems
to be a general impression that there
are parties in high places who are afraid
that Blodgett may make damaging dis
closures. Let us have light.” We
fear the News will not he gratified. So
long as the slaves of the Box hasten to
do his bidding, Mr. Blodgett will not
relinquish his power over them by dis
closing his secrets. The Griffin News
half to the informer and the other to inft .Y rest satisfied that Blodgett will
the county. Every bird or deer killed
in the time specified will constitute a
seperato offense and be punished accor
dingly.
The Athens 1 Vatchman is also opposed
to'.sending Congressmen as delegates to
the St. Louis Convention. It says:
“ This seems to be the voice of the
State, as far as it has given utterance
to an opion on the subject. We will go
go a step further, and say let neither
member of Congress nor any man sent
|to become one, be sent as a delegate to
St. Louis. In view of this, let us have
r no such delegates from Georgia in the
coming Convention; but let the people
send men of known integrity, in whose
iudgment and patriotism they can con
fide, and who are in no way connected
with office, rings or cliques.”
never be tried or punished' He is as
safe behind his Box as a Christian
guarded by four aces.— Chronicle ntul
Sentinel.
“ Tom” Beecher, in the latest number
of the Elmira (N.Y.) Gazette, advances
the original and startling proposition
that the election bribeiy laws be re
pealed, and that votes be sold in an
open market. He asserts that “ while
the world stands votes will be bought
and sold in a democracy;” that “ vast
numbers of voters cannot possibly use
their vote wisely;” that “ it is better for
capital to get out the vote by cash than
for party men to get it out by bribes
and lies ;” that “ to vote a proxy is no
innovation, no disgrace to stockholders,”
nor in itself immoral, and that “ bri
bery laws onc6 repealed, honest, wealthy
and patriotic men could bid in open
market for the yotes which are now , a __
sold to the knavish and corrupt only.”' is muter arrest,
The Pursuit of Knowledge Un
der Difficulties.
Nothing better evidences the frightened
condition of nearly all the Republican
officials nnd officers under investigation
than tho wny in which they are replying
to the requests of the committees for in
formation. It is almost impossible for
the committees to get the exact informa
tion which they want. They can always
get a valuable man sent down to the com
mittee room with a carpet-sack full of pa
pers with everything in it except the pa
pers they want. This is usually wanting.
The committee most lately troubled in
this way is that on Expenditures in the
Department of Justice. The have received
a good deal of information in relation to
the bogus claim passed and paid by the
Treasury Department underRichnrasou’s
regime, and the parties to which arc now
under indictment here. They heurd that
the claim was passed upon a written rec
ommendation of the President. So they
summoned the counsel, jurors and Treas
ury clerks, who ought to have known all
about it, and they found that each and all
remember to have heard in some way
about such a paper, but no one remembers
to having seen it, nnd tho paper cannot
be found. The same < ommittce are hard
at work trying to find out why all
the claim cases which were appealed dur
ing William's administration of justice
were dismissed by him.— Washington
Special to the New York World.
Of Ulattp’s Government printing abuse
the Washington Capital says: “ Our
trouble is that, in the removal and pun
ishment of this corrupt official, we leave
ourselves burdened with the real abuse.
This the printing-house itself. It seems
impossible for our Government to engage
in any work other than that planned by
the fathers, without opening great sluice
ways to extravagance and fraud. This
printing house is an illustration. Talk
of abuse; the use at best is an infamous
burden. The printers, binders and other
people employed are not skilled work
men—they are office-holders; and the
whole place is but a hospital hacks these
Congressmen fetch to Washington as a
reward for sei vices about corner groceries.
The result is that the Government has to
pay from twenty to fifty p.r cenl. more
for its work than private individuals.
We want the entire concern put under
the hammer and sold out. Until this is
done we shall have a succession of Clapps
and an army of thieving contractors.
A special from Brownsville, Texas,
says General Lnbnira has received the
following:
Rio Giianoe City, April IS, 1S70
The success of the government in
suppressing the revolutionists isassured.
General Guiroga, with fifteen hundred
soldiers, are in pursuit of Frevino.
General Pedro Martinese is expected
in the morning with 500 cavulry. Gen
erals Itemittas and Pclacio are cn route
for the frotier with their brigades. Gen
eral Conda arrived at Monkery Satur
day with 400 infantry and four pieces
of artifery. It is reported that Naran-
go and Frcvvino are making for the
frontier. It is their last resort.
New York, April 20.—Tho exchang
ing of silver for fractional currency,
under the act of Congress, was com
menced at the sub-Treasury this morn
ing. A crowd of about three hundred
persons are assembled at the sub-
Trcasury, most of the applicants for
coin being the keepers of liquor saloons
and restaurants. Thus far, the silver
paymens amount to about seven thous
and dollars.
Augusta, Ga., April 20.—Captain
Jones J. Gregg, a prominent citizen and
capitalist, was shot to-day »f Granitville,
South Carolina, by a man named Mc-
Evoy. He was hit three times, and the
wounds are considered mortal. He was
brought to this city to-night. McEvoy
Mary Meritt, is another attempt to
smyrch Secretary Bristow—it being al
leged that he acted as counsel, and was
pecuniarily interested in the release of
the vessel, which was detained at Mil
waukee, Wis., for alleged violation of
tho internal revenue law.
The Senate confirmed *he following
nomination: Henry 1‘. Farrow, United
Stales Attorney for the Northern and
Southern Districts of Georgia.
Nettleship, one of the parties aecent-
ly indicted for tho safe burglary con
spiracy, lms given bnil, nnd was to-day
before the grand jury as a witness.
The Committee of Ways and Means
this morning considered Mr. Hewit’s
resolution referred to them. A sub
committee, consisting of Messrs. Kelly,
Hill and Hancock, were appointed to
wait on the Secretary of the Treasury,
and suggest that he either withdraw or
amend his eirculur relative to the sale
of bonds to meet the awards of tho Ala
bama Claims Commission in accordance
with the provisions of Mr. Hewit’s res
olution.
The Committee waited on the Seen*
tary ai the Treasury Department to-day,
and after expressing the purpose of
their visit there, he informed them that
the circular had been issued after ma
ture deliberation, and he did not pro
pose either to withdraw or modify it in
any manner whatever, consequently
there will bo no change in the proposed
sale of bonds.
A Texas Incident
The Waco (Texas) Examiner, of the
4th inst, has a paragraph headed
“ Neatly Done,” which reads: “ A
young man living some ten or fifteen
miles above the city was awakened
recenty by the suspicious barking of a
dog in the yard. Rising lightly from
his bed, he peeped through a window
pane, and there sure enough, he discov
ered the cause of the disturbance.
Dimly outlined in the moonlight stood
the form of a man. With one hand he
was evidently untying tho gentleman’s
lino horse, which stood haltered for
the night, while with the other he held
a six-shooter pointing directly at the
frontdoor. Taking in the situation at
a glance, our young friend gently reached
for his shot-gun, and, passing out at the
back door and round the corner, opened
the attack from an unexpected and
wholly unguarded quarter. Under this
skillful generalship the enemy came
down while just in the act of mount
ing, and without even so much as re
sponding to the first fire. The deceased
was buried without the honors of either
peace or war.”
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Cincinnati, April 20.—State School
Commissioner Smith lias called a meet
ing for to-morrow of the general and
Bub-coni mittees of teachers engaged in
preparing matter in relation to the
■schools of Ohio for exhibition at Phil
adelphia. All the manuscript except
tho general historical volutnn is in such
a state of preparation that Mr. Smith
expects to forward the last box on
Monday. The historical work is in the
hands of some twelve or more leading
educators, and will be ready for the
press as fust aa it can be printed, each
writer having assigned to him a special
department of the history of public
instruction in the State.
Several children, while playing on a
pile of locust logs last evening, knocked
over a prop and the logs rolled down,
crushing to deatli John Kelloyne nnd
badly injuring another child.
We hope now that the papers have
quite douo with Air. Geo. II. Pendleton
and his railway fees. The seusatiou has
been so effectually spoiled that even
Beast Butler and the Chicago Inter-Ocean
no longer consider it available political
capital. Mr. Elliott II. Pendleton, a
brother of the Ohio Statesman, gave the
corpse of the scaudalous story a Inst kick
in his testimony Tuesday. He exhibited
all the checks and drafts connected with
the fee. and proved that not a dollar of
the money had been applied to improper
uses. Mr. Pendletons vindication has
been full and complete, nnd the authors
of the story are the only sufferers by the
sensation.—Augusta Chronicle awl Sen
tinel.
J udge Poland was tho chairman of
the Credit Mobilier Committee. That
accounts for the failure to give atten
tion to the letter of Mr. Harrison. The
judge is not remarkable quick in bis
perceptions, and possibly did not care
to look in the direction to which bis
attention was called.—Cincinnati Com
mercial.
Hudson, N. Y., April 20.—The fast
mail train is about three hours behind
time this morning. The cause of the de
lay is stated to be the binning of the de-
f ot at the New York Central road at
'ishkill, and a bridge of the Dutchess
and Columbia Road, crossing the track of
the New York Central.
SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO I
ri'HIS OLD HBI.IAHLK I'KKTIU/.EIl IS AGAIN PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC F0K
JL the anason of 13711, improved luily 10 pe, cent, from what it has ever been herMotore, ant
warranted to bo fully up to tha Analysis, as shown in our ciroulaia and advertiiemeets for 1M.
Every salt's of it has been prepared under the supervision ot a skillful chemist and
Warranted to be as Repre
sented.
Wo claim the following points for PACIFIC over other Guano Companies :
1. Thut it is one uf tho oldest Companies no it in existence.
‘J- That it makes and sells more than twice as much Guano as any othor Company in tho United
States.
;j. That it give* more universal satisfaction than any other Fertilizer sold in the United Sister,
4. That Cotton fertilized with Pacific Guano stands a drouth better than any other.
5 That it matures Cotton two weeks earlier than any other Commercial Fertilizer sold in tbii
market.
C. That it ib the only Company that did not refute to give the Cotton Planter the option to p»j
in cotton at 15 cents per pound at tho bogimiing of 1870, and that all other Companioa no« oflVrioj
a cotton option of 15 ceuPs have been driven to it by the action of the
SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO,
Wh i never did, like her neighbors, demand a cash note.
TERMS:
per ton. delivered at Rome, Ga., with the option to pav in Middling Cotton at 15 cenU
perpouod, lstof November, or
#52.50 Cash.
Pacific Compound Acid Phosphate of Lime for Composting
Per ton, $47.50, payable in Middling Cotton at 15 cents per po ind 1st of Novomber, or
#37.50 Cash.
For further particulars apply to
A. J. LITTLE, Agent,
At HORN & McGHEES, No. 23 Shorter Block, ROME, GA.
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Belgrade, April 20.—A quantity of
ammunition was sent to the frontier yes
terday. Priuco Milan with the national
cavalry, will shortly proceed to headquar
ters at Paracsin.
Ballou manufacturing company, a large
corporation whose mills are at Woon
socket, made an assignment.
Rochester, April 20.—A man was
arrested for firing the evening cxptpss
and other building.
J. HENLY H0SKINS0N,
Attorney at Law & Collector of Claims
ROME, CEORCIA.
(With Albxandur A Wright, Empir
i Uloox.)
M.
W ILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS ot
tha State aud in the 0. S. District and Cir
cuit Courts at Atlanta, Georgia. Frompt atten
tion given to all business entrusted to bis care.
References—Win. L. Mitchell, Professor Law
School, University of Georgia; Hon. Robt.
Toombs, Washington, Ga.; Hon. Bon. H. Hill,
Atlanti,Ga.; Alexander A Wright, Rome, Ga.
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