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flu Heme ESTABLISHED I7ST 1843. lation In Cherokee Georgia, and In the best ad vertising medium in this section. M. PWlKELIo Proprietor. 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. mar8 tw wtf 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 mar2otwwtf B. CARVER & CO., China Hall, Rome, 6a 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 (aprS tw wtf 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. Unexcelled in Economy of Fuel. Unsurpassed in Construction. Unparalleled in Durability, Undisputeil in ine BROAS CLAIM ofbsiflg trie VERY BEST OPERATING, A.\I> HOST PERFECT COOKING STOVE EVES OFFEREE FOR THE PRICE. MADS ONLY BY EXCELSIOR MAN’UF’G OCX GI2, 614, 616 Si. 6!8 N. MAIN STREET, ST. LOUIS, MO. Sold by Hawkins, Butt & Co., Rome, Grn. «epl7.tw-wTy dr. e. .j. camp, Eclectic and SomcBopathic, OFFICE, BUENA VISTA HOUSE. CONSULTATION FREE AND STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. dec.1l tw wtf 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. aprittwwly 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. mar8 twlamSm 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 Newspaper advertising promotes trade, for oven in the dulloat times advertisers secute by fat the largest chare ol wbat is being done. CREAlVl BAKING JtywbefL Eminent Chemists and Physicians certify that these goods are fire! from adulteration, richer, more effective, produce better results than any others, and that they use them in their own families. 1. PRICE’S UNIQUE PERFUMES tiro tho Gems of nil Odors. TOOTH EWE. An ngi-coalilo, healthful Liquid Dentifrice. LEMON SUCAR. A substitute for Lemons. EXTRACT JAMAICA CINCER. From tho pure root. STEELE &. PRICE’S LUPULIN YEAST OEMS. The Heat. Dry Hop Yeast in the World, STEELE & PRICE, Manfrs., Chicago, St. Louis & Cincinnati. «opl7,tw-wlv James G. Dailey, UNDERTAKER’S WARE-ROOMS, (On second story) 96 Broad Street. A FIVE AND WELL SELECTED STOCK of Metallic, Walnut, Grained and Staiuod Coffin., Burial Robo. and Coffin Trimmings, al ways on hand, Neatest Iloarso. furnished for funerals All orders tillod with diBpat<-h, day or night. Rosidonco, cornor Cuuri ..nil King street.. ALSO. DEALER IN FIRST-CLASS FURNITURE OF ALL KINDS. apr22 tw t junto GEORGIA STATE GAZETTEER Business Directory, 1S79--SO. "C-NTERPRIBING CITIZENS of this Stats Aj and manufacturer, and wholesale dealorB North would do well to correspond with the publisher of this VALUABLE WOllK, -tsa, which will issuo about Juno 15, 1879. Letter, promptly answered. A. E. S1IOLEB, Publisher, . . Box 108, Atlanta, Ga. (Mention whore you saw this card.) marl1tw2m 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. mar29 tw wtf ICE! ICE 2 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, apr!5 twit SLATON t POWELL. LUMBER! LUMBER! COOSA Rll'Iill LUHliM -ANP- PLANING MILL! OFFICE AND YARD IN REAR OF YANCEY A DEAN’S NEW BUILDING, ROME, OA. HEADQUARTERS FOR LONG LEAF YELLOW PINE LUMBER. KILN DRYING. DRESSING A MATCHING A SPECIALTY, Ann at BOTTOM PRICES, Special Order, for Buildings got up on notice. J. D. FOSTER & CO. apr24 twtf - GADSDEN BROOM AND BRUSH FACTORY ALL GRADES OF Brooms and Brushes at Low Prices I SPECIAL FIGURES and TERMS GIVEN TO MERCHANTS WIIO GIVE U!> TIIE1R REGULAR PATRONAGE. WE ARE NEAR BY YOU AND A SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE—STICK TO US AND WE’LL STICK TO YOU. WE PUT UP A FANCY BROOM- ^-Market Price Paid for Broom Corn.-« McCLINTOCIC & PATJGHDRILL, apr!5 tw.lw Gadsden. Etowah Co.. Mju 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 One first-olars blacksmith, accuptomed i steel, is also wanted. Apply to J. M. HENDERSON, J*-. aprlt tw w2w GroensporL*^- 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 *