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Thursday Morning, : : May 8,1879
May 8—anniversary of Hie battle of
Palo Alto—1846,
The latest front Atlanta is to the
effect that the jury in the Cos case will
not agree.
The House has passed the bill regu
lating the use of the army at the polls,
and sent it to the Senate. In that body
Mr. Edmunds objeoted to immediate
action. Tho Radicals want time to
think. ^
It is to be hoped that Congress will
continue to give Mr. Hayes chances to
veto bills until he tires of it. The of-
tener a President vetoes constitutional
measures for partisan reasons the hotter
it is for the party opposing him. We
hope Congress will pay out rope until he
gets enough to hang himself.
The impression is general in Wash
ington that Mr. Ilayes will not affix
his signature to any bill doing away
with deputy marshals at elections. Of
course not. He knows too well how
much he is indebted to deputy mar
shals ever to “go hack” on them. How
without the office and pay could votes
in the cities be bought for the Radical
party at government expense? There
were eight hundred of them in Phila
delphia at oDe election who did uothing
but draw their five dollars a day—and
vote the Radical ticket.
Secretary McCrary of Hayes’ Cab
inet is the author of a text-book on the
law of elections. In that work he says
An armed force in the neighborhood
of the polls is almost of necessity a
menace to the voters and an interference
with their freedom uud independence;
and if such armed force be in the hands
of or under the control of the partisan
friends of any particular candidate or
set of candidates, the probability of im
proper interference becomes Btill strong
er.
And yet it is thought that McCrary
wrote the President’s recent veto mes
sage. ^
KULI-I'LEC.KD fanaticism.
Up in Pocaseett in the State of Massa
chusetts, cloie by the “Athens of Amer
ica,” vulgarly called Boston, there is a
set of religionists who call themselves
Adventists. They are awaiting and anx
iously expecting the end of all things
terrestrial. One of these men a lew days
ago became religiously convinced that he
was called upon to Blay some member of
his family, in order that the truth of the
doctrine he preached might be made man
ifest through the resurrection of the
dead. So, about two o’clock one night
while his little children all were sleeping,
this creature, Charles Freeman, after he
and his wife had prayed over tho matter
and asking God’s blessing upon the deed
he was to commit, went, in company with
his wife, to the bed in which two of their
little girls were asleep, and laying the
bedclothes off one about eight years old,
plunged a large sheath-knife into her
bosom. The little child thus awakened
to die, cried out, as she extended her
arras to the monster, “Oh, father.” He
took the dying child and held her in his
arms till death came.
In the long catalogue of crimes that
go to make the story of the world’
wickedness there is none that we remem
ber that excels this in cold and heartless
cruelty—not one that shows a human
heart so entirely devoid of the feelings
of humanity. And when we remember
that the man who committed the deed is
considered an average member of the
community in which he lives, and was
thought by his neighbors and friends to
be about entering upon the uuties of a
preacher of the new creed, it developes a
state of affairs in “enlightened” Massa
chusetts that causes one to ask if the
boasted “civilization" of that State is not
a failure ?
But this horrible conduct of Freeman
in breaking the law of the land and com
mitting murder by taking the life of his
own little innocent daughter, because he
had dreamed or beeu told iu a vision to
d» bo, is but the counterpart ot the ac
tion of such men as Loyd Garrison,
Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, John
Brown and thousands, yea hundreds of
thousands of other fanatics, living and
dead, who did break and are still break
ing the laws of the land to reach ends
unattainable if the laws are carried out.
These political fanatics, like Freeman
the religious fanatic, are governed by
what they term a "higher law”—one su
perior to the law of the land, and we
could commiserate the fanaticism of all
if it did not lead to horrible crimes.
Special Tolegraphic Correspondence of the Cou
rier-Journal.]
Washington, May 5.—The Republi-
t fans in Congress were demoralized to
day when the hill came in to keep the
troops from the polls. It Is so worded as
te deprive many of them of any excuse
for voting against it, unless they flatly
repudiate the record of the late debate,
when Garfield and Kelly led in the state
ment that they would vote for an inde
pendent bill which was merely to keep
the troops from the polls. Tho stalwarts
who believe in troops at the polls are to
day denouncing such as these, and angry
conversations were tho order of the day
on the Republican side of the House.
Chittenden, Kelley and others who have
gone on record as above were busy work
ing up sentiment for a united support of
the bill, asserting that by bo doing the
Republicans could capture the glory for
which all of the Democrats have been
contending on this question, by simply
claiming that they were opposed to the
civil clause, and the fact that it was a
rider in the repeal on the army bill.
Garfield is not here, but he is clearly
committed to the bill, which has also, as
the Republicans admit, left Hayes, in
the light of his message, no ground for
opposing it. There is good reason to be
lieve that Hayes wants the Republicans
to support the hill. His Private Secre
tary and other emissaries were at the
Capitol to-day, discussing the question
with their party friends. The National
Republican here, it was stated by good
authority at one time to-day, was to favor
the passage of the bill in the issue of to
morrow morning. The stalwarts, seeing
the tendency of all these things, did what
yesterday they said never would be done,
that is, called a joint caucus. It was
held to-night, for the purpose of whip
ping the party into line. As might be
expected from the feeling in the party,
the caucus was decidedly inharmonious
as to purposes. It was made known in
the caucus that the President, being call
ed upon to-day, had expressed a wish for
the passage of the bill, aud had indicated
his intention to sign it in the shape it was
offered in the House. So divided were
the views of the Republicans that it waB
decided not to make the action of the
caucus binding, especially as some mem
bers had declared that they would not be
committed by any resolution to vote
against the bill. Therefore it was agreed
to call the caucus a conference, and free
the dissenting members from a charge of
bolting the caucus.
Th? Grant Movement.
Boston Globe.
“ It looks as though the Grant move
ment would sweep the country like a
cyclone,” said a leading Republican
politician yesterday.
We do not believe that tho country
will bo swept with the old Griml broom
because that administration left dirt
enough to bury the Republican party
Six months a so a large proportion
of the Republican party scoffed at the
idea of a third term for Grant.
The recent speech of the lordly Rob-
coe Conkling, of New York, is really
what has galvanized the Grant mov.
ment and given it apparent life.
The effects of that shock of Conkling
electricity may all be gone in six months
more, and the Grant movement become
a lost art for the arohives of Wendell
Phillips.
Grant, as a military man, w is a pro
nounced success, because he fought
shrewdly and persistently, nnd gener
ally put the right men in the right
places at the right time.
Grant, as a civil magistrate, was
dead failure, because his selections of
men in civil life were as conspicuously
bad ns his judgment of military men
was conspicuously good,
While the people respect his military
genius and success, they have passed
their verdict against his civil adminis
tration by 225,000 majority, and they
will not again elect him President.
And sentiment changes so rapidly he
may not have a ghost of a chance for
the Republican nomination when the
time comes.
A Terrible Dynamite Explosion
in Canada.
Stratford, Ont., May 5.—This morn
ing the whole town was shaken as if by
an earthquake shock. Windows were
blown in, and even the sidewalks upon
which the pooplo were walking were
shaken so as to causo pedestrians to fall.
The cause was soon made apparent. A
car loaded with dynamite had exploded
at the Grand Trunk freight yard. Tho
wreck mado by the explosion beggars
description. Underneath the dynamite
car a hole several feet deep was scooped
out. The end of tho freight shed and a
portion of its roof wore blown down and
several frame buildings were leveled to
the ground, and long lines of freight cars
lying in the yard were utterly wrecked.
The business part of the town is nearly
mile from the scene of the explosion,
but it shared in the disaster. Valuable
plate-glas9 windows were blown
frames and all. The damage done to
property is estimated at many thousaud
dollars. Two railroad employes were
working iu the yard. Frank Lemoine,
of Montreal, and Thomas Dolan, of
Stratford, were blown into fragments,
the foot of one of them being found two
hundred yards off The others were in
jured, but the whole extent of tho disaster
cannot be known for some time yet.
Later.—The damage done by the ex
The pretense that, because HayeB is
of one political party and the majority
in Congress are of another, he is the
United States, and they, by the exercise
of their legitimate powers, are denying
something to the United States,
most offensive and unwarrantable
sumption that ought not to pass without
severe rebuke. This opinion, emanat
ing from so independent and conserva
tive an authority as the New York
Journal of Commerce, deserves more
than passing attention.
Since the passage of the arrearages of
pensions bill there has been a very re
markable increase of pension claimants,
tho grater portion of whom are undoubt
edly frauds. Thousands of fraudulent
pensioners have been on the books for
years, and there is no doubt that the
country pays several million dollars to
positive frauds. About 53,000 people
have rushed in applications since the
arrears bill passed, all claiming to be
suffering in some way from the effects
of exposure during the war.
It is reported that the largest diamond
in the world has recently been discov
ered at Parteall, India. Its weight is
said to be 400 karate, which is thirty-
three karats larger them the Rajah of
Mattau’s celebrated diamond, and
nearly 300 karate larger than the'Regent’
stone, for which the Ducd’Orleans paid
8650,000.
Congress will give the President a
chance to sign the repeal of the bayonet
law as a separate measure. Tho Dem
ocracy of the entire country demand
that the Democrats in Congress shall
stand firm and not he shaken by the
Republican bulldozers. The monstrous
claim of the President in his veto mes
sage is, that he may use the troops to
enforce his own interpretation of the
rights conferred by tho Constitution,
without any warrant or anykind of ju
dicial process, and in defiance of the ob
jection of *he State authorities. If that
is not the meaning of tho veto messago
it has no meaning whatever.—Courier
Journal.
Memphis, May 5.—A special telegram
to the Ledger from Starkville, Miss.,
states that Johnson, Spencer and Newton
Porter, the barn burneis and attempted
assassins of Jordan Moore a few days
since, were taken from thejail by a body
of armed men Saturday night, white and
black, and hanged.
Montgomery, Ala., May 6.— The
Democrats in the city election to-day
were successful by 400 majority for
mayor and clerk. They elected every
alderman. The United States Court
has confirmed the sale of the Montgom
ery arid Eufaula Railroad to Wadley.
New Temple to be Dedicated.
Nashville, Tenn., May 6.—The na
j tional colored conference met to-day,
I and was called to order by Gov. Pinch-
plosion is much greater than was expect- J back, and presided over by John B
ed. The houses around tho freight shed ^ob, of Mississippi. . The business
... , , ‘today is not materially important,
were nearly oil wooden buildings and ___ - ^
into splinters, and as many more were ;
damaged. Mr. Flynn, the checker, is i
among the badly injured. A fragment
of iron, weighing over a pound, was j
driven through a window of the Crown
hotel, half a mile distant. Tho shock
was felt in all the surrounding towns and
it was supposed to he an earthquake.
The car upon which the explosion oc
curred was freighted at Montreal for
Amherstburg and contained thirty pack
ages which were entered as blasting pow
der. They were shipped on account of
Vanderbilt to be used in blasting at the
Detroit tunnel. When the explosion oc
curred the cars were being switched in
the yard. The damago will exceed 825,-
000. George Hawkins, a car dealer, had
both bis eyes pul out by splinters, and is
not expected to live. James Humphrey
is badly cut about the head and face but
may recover. Alfred Lamb was badly
injured.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
10,000 POUNDS WHITE LEAD,
300 GALLONS ENGLISH LINSEED OIL,
By R. T. Hoyt, Druggist.
T he LARGEST AND CHEAPEST STOCK OF LEADS AND OILS EVER
thifl markot. Whito Load at wholesale at Seven Conte and upwards.
ALSO, FULL LINE OF WINDOW GLASS, DRUGS, MEDICINES
&C»f Cij &C. 1
SEND EOlt 1'ltlCE El STS.
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NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS'
.TTJST RECEIVED!
A LARGE . ASSORTMENT OF PORCELAIN CHAMBER SETS, BEAUTIFTrr.T v
rated, and very Cheap. "ECO.
Tinware Sots, in asBortod colors and styles, lowor than over.
Queenswaro, China and Glassware in Beta of ovorv description and by tho 6iuylo tun
Silver and Plated Ware, Knivoa and Forks, and goneml Houoelurniahiog Goods. P ° C *’
These Good® have all boen bought sloco tho late heavy decline, and will be sold
Bottom” Prices. Rock
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The
Army Bill Passes the
Houbc-
HAWKINS, BUTT & CO.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
Stoves, Tinware and Housefurnishing Goods.
A lso, manufacturers of galvanized iron cornices, window cats
t Plumbing, Steam and Gaa Filling n speciality. Agents for Romo Stovei end othir*^
data factories.
We buy in lnrgo lots for cash, thus enabling
for yourselves.
to mako lowest possiblo pricea. Call , n j , et
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Washington, May 6.—The morning
hour was consumed in the introduction
and reference of bills. The House con
curred in the Senate amendments pro
viding for certain expenses of the pres
ent session.
Mr. lvuott, chairman of the Judiciary
Committee, reported back, without
amendment, the bill introduced yester
day to prohibit military interference at
elections.
Mr. Robeson offered a substitute
making it unlawful to bring to or em
ploy at any place where a general or
special election is being held in tho
State, any part of the army or navy, un
less such employment shall be necessa
ry to carry out the provisions of the
Constitution, or overcome forcible ob
struction to the execution of the laws
made in pursuance thereof, and making
any violation of this act a penal offense.
The substitute is entitled a bill to fur
ther protect the fredom of elections.
Mr. Robeson’s substitute bill was de
feated by a vote of yeas 03, nays 121,
after which tho original bill to prohibit
military interference at elections was
passed by a strict party vote.
All the greenbackers voting voted in
the affirmative with the Democrats on
the bill for prohibiting military inter
ference at elections. Messrs. Barlow
and Russell, of North Carolina, did not
vote.
Baltimore Gazette: General R. C.
Schenok, who was scratched by a pistol
ball in the hand during the war, yes
terday drew his douceur under the ar
rears of pensions act. It amounts to
84,625. As the General escaped un
hurt in the railroad assault on Vienna
and was not wounded in any of the
great battles in Baltimore, we are rather
anxious to know when and where he
met with his fortunate mishap.
The publication of the navy list for
1879 shows that out of 1,668 officers
less than one-half are at sea. Of the
rest 523 are doing land service of one
kind and another, and about one man
in eight is doing nothing. Of those do
ing “sea service” a large share spend
their time on vessels securely anchored
in some pleasant harbor in the Medi
terranean, where their craft is usually
undergoing repairs.
Constitution: The supposition that
his veto message would create wild con
sternation among the Demoorats had so
firmly seized hold of Mr. Hayes's pow
erful administration that Mr. Rogers
had composed a conciliatory, but
trenohant card calculated to relieve the
publio mind. It is to be feared that we
shall never have the privilege of laying
this valuable document before our rea
ders.
The following will be the order of exorcises:
Wednesday evening, May 21s , at 8 o'clock,
Cherokee Lodgo will bo opened for social re
union, at whicn time cno or more short addresses
will be delivered on Masonic topics.
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock the Grand
Lodge will ass- mble in the JIall of tho Knights
of Honor, and procoed thence to the Masonic
Temple, where tho dedication coreraonios will
tako place in public.
Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock the fraternity
will assemble at tho Temple, where a procession
will bo formed and a pilgrimago mado to the
grave of our deceased Brother, Thos.M Perry,
in Myrtle Hill Cemetery, whoro an address will
bo delivered by Brothor T. W. Alexander com
memorative of his distinguished Masonic ser-
vicei.
Thursday evening, 8 o’clock, Ooatanaula Lodge
will be opened and the work in theTnird Dcgreo
exemplified.
The Western and Atlantic Railroad, tho Romo
Railroad and tho Goorgia aad Alabama Steam
boat Company will sell “ balf faro” tickets. The
Georgia Railroad will sell round trip tickets,
good lor ten days, at ft conts per mile. The
Selina, Romo an 1 Dalton Railroad will poll
round trip tioWots for one faro.
CARRIAGES, BUGGIES
W AGON81
I FEEL JUSTLY PROUD OF TIIE REPU-
tation awarded mo by an appreciative peo
ple, For ovor twonty-five years I have been
engaged manufacturing in Cartorsvillo Wagons,
Buggies, Carriages, Ac. I have a fino stock <n
hand. Am making all th« time
ALL WORK MADE IS FULLY WAR
RANTED, NOT FOR A YEAR
ONLY, BUT FOR ANY REA
SONABLE TIME.
I do a square, honest business as near .as I
know how, and endeavor to give every one tho
worth of his money.
No pains or cost is spared to buy beat material
and employ best of mechanics. 1 say it, and
defy contradiction, there in
NO BETTER WORK MADE IN AMERICA
THAN I AM BUILDING.
I have a Repository in Rome, in charge of
Mr. W. L. Whitely, in old Odd Fellows’ buildirg,
corner above new Masonic Temple.
Wagons, Buggies, Ac., kept by him are just
what they a*e represented to bo. All sold under
warrantee.
Call on him or write to mo for pa^tic ultra.
I also have a Shop in Rome, at tho old stand
of D. Lind"oy A Co., where Now Work and all
kinds of Repairing will bo dono at prioos to suit
the times.
Give us your trade.
R. H. JONES,
ianllltwwly Cartersville, Ga.
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GI2, 614, 616 Si. 6!8 N. MAIN STREET, ST. LOUIS, MO.
Sold by Hawkins, Butt & Co., Rome, Grn.
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dr. e. .j. camp,
Eclectic and SomcBopathic,
OFFICE, BUENA VISTA HOUSE.
CONSULTATION FREE AND STRICTLY
CONFIDENTIAL.
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Dr. J. Alexander,
Late or Misstsstrri,
H aving removed to this city, otier.
hi. profoisional Borvice.s to tho citizens of
Romo and vicinity. Offico under Roiuo Hotel.
Residence next to that of Rev. 8. E. Asoon.
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tXotice.
Roue, Ga., March 7, 1S79.
A S REQUIRED BY SECTION 1496 OF THE
Code of Georgia, notice is hereby given that
on tho JOth of Fobru.ry Uot all of my .took in
the Bank of Rome, oon.iitiog of one thousand
■haree, was transferred to Me.ari. Frost, Samuel
A Co. A. THEW. II. BROWER.
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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN,
N otice is hereby given, as pro-
vided by section 1196 of the Code of Georgia,
that I have this day transferred aft my stock in
the Bank of Rome to A. Thaw H. Brower.
IBAAC C. OGDEN, Jr.
Romo, Ga., Feb. 1, 1879 —4 iwlumSra
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Business Directory,
1S79--SO.
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Aj and manufacturer, and wholesale dealorB
North would do well to correspond with the
publisher of this
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. . Box 108, Atlanta, Ga.
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Mill Machinery for Sale.
T he mill machinery now in the
DeBoto Mill is for salo. It consists of throo
pair of 3J ft. French Burr Mill-atones, droised.
facod and furrowed complete; ono No 2 Eureka
Bmutter. 5 reels, bolts completo Will be sold
low. Enoulre of J. J. COHEN’S SONS.
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W B HAVE A SUPPLY OF TURE LAKE
I®0 for sale by the block at One C.nt per
pound, and in small quantities at One sad a
Half Cents, for oash. Respectfully,
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SPECIAL FIGURES and TERMS GIVEN
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Laborers Wanted
170R COOSA RIVER IMPROVEMENT, AT
I Ten Island Shoals, below Oreensphrt.
Common labor 76 cents and $1-0° P er
with board and lodging. ,. wor ]i
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New Styles Millinery.
M R8.H. JONAS HAS RETURNED
New York, where oho po | jk» , ®“ * Bhe
gant stock of latest stylos ol Millinery. .
will quit business about the first of . >b.t
is determined to sell her entire stock bef
time- Ladles from the country ?. OI hl.
the cheapest and hast plane to buy pU r.
goods, notions, neck-ties and buttons at
?hue«’ prices. »F 5 tr,nl *