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Saturday Morning,
July 12,1879
Atlanta had a death from sun-
atroke this week, the first case ever oc
curring in the city.
The original correspondence be
tween Dr. Felton and Ferry nnd other
prominent Radicals is what the people
want, and they will not be satisfied
with copies “certified to.” They want
to know if anything, and if so, what
yras said about Dr. Felton’s competitor
being a “Confederate Brigadier.” There
is great and growing anxiety on this
branch of the subject.
On the 24th of June Dr. Felton voted
with thirty-seven others to adjourn
when the Democrats were trying to pass
a hill to prohibit political contributions
by officers and employes of the Gov
ernment. This was a dilatory motion
made by a Radical, such a one as Mr,
Hill talked so hard about in the Senate.
Perhaps Dr. Felton found it might pro'
hibit and prevent all future “assistance”
from Ferry and other prominent Rad
icals—such as he asked for last year in
his war on the Democracy of the Sev
enth District;
N. E. a. R. Bonds.
THE LEGISLATURE.
Thursday the roport of the joint com
mittee on the investigation of the mo
tives and conduct of Gov. Colquitt in
signing the Northwestern railroad bonds
was reoeived by the Senate, and noth
ing else was transacted. The report of
the committee is unanimous, clearly
exculpating Gov. Colquitt from any in
tended wrong. We publish it entire.
In the House the Agricultural Bu
reau question was up, occupying the
time of that body. This Legislature
has already wasted time enough, and
of course money enough in discussing
tho propriety of abolishing this depart
ment to have paid tho salaries of all
connected with the bureau and the cur
rent expenses of the same for the time
the Legislature has been in existence.
Why does not some man who has nerve
to act move to indefinitely postpone the
whole question and save debate?
When Mr. Stephens learns he is still
without the fold of the Democratic
party, we fear he will have another at
tack. The Rome Courier, however,
ruthlessly shoves the "little old rene
gade” out in the cold, and will not have
him in the family. This is rough on
Mr. Stephens.—Augusta News.
Wk believe that Mr. Stephens is
able to take care of himBelf, and it
seems of the Eighth District also, and
would have made no reference to the
foregoing if the News had not appa
rently made us call Mr. Stephens a
“little old renegade.” The reader of
the passage will he forced to the conclu
sion that the News is quoting from the
Courier when it uses the expression.
We wish to say that we have too much
respect for Mr. Stephens as a gentle
man to apply such words to him; and
to say further that in our rather face
tious remark welcoming Mr. Stephens
to the ranks we never said “welcome
back,” ns the News puts it. We have
never thought Mr. Stephens a Democrat
at all.
The Tribune speaks in high terms of
Senator Hill’s denunciation of the ef
forts of the Radical minority in tho
Senate to hinder and delay the passage
of measures which majorities in both
branches of Congress thought wise and
proper. In a short speech in the Sen
ate Mr. Hill talked to them in the right
strain, and the Tribune says he “enun
ciated the patriotic principle that all
such methods, adopted for the purpose
of obstructing legislation, or to defeat
the legally expressed will of the major
ity were revolutionary.”
Now every word that Mr. Hill utter
ed in denunciation of the revolutionary
action of the Radicals was a blister to
the hack of Doctor Felton, who voted
timo and again with the Radicals on
dilatory motions when the Democrats
were trying to pass wise and patriotic
measures through the House. And
every time the Tribune endorses Mr.
Hill or any one else when inveighing
againBt the filibustering of the Radicals
to defeat the will of the Democratic
majority, it condemns Dr. Felton’s
course in voting with the Radicals to
obstruct the passage of Democratic
measures in the House. And thus the
Tribune, unwittingly we suppose, helps
the Courier in its efforts to put down
“Iudependentism" in this District; and
at the same time it shows that even
out of the mouths of babes and suck
lings political error is condemned.
A police regulation provides that in
terviewers desiring to see Cox, the mur
derer, in the Tombs, will form on
■ White street, the right resting on Cen
ter-New York Star.
Unanimous Report of Committee "on Kon
tires and Conduct ot Gov, Colquitt.
To the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives—On the 7th day of Novem
ber, 1878, his excellency, the governor
of Georgia laid before the general assem
bly of the state a special message, ask
ing of the assembly a through investi
gation of his motives and conduct as the
executive of Georgia in placing the
state’s indorsement upon the bonds of
the Northeastern railroad company.
In responce thereto the general as
sembly raised a joint committee of
thirteen to make the investigation de
manded, with instructions to “report
not only tho conclusions at whioh it
shall have arrived, but also the evidence
on which the convictions are based.”
The committee having throughly in
vestigated the whole matter, beg leave in
obedience to instructions, to submit the
accompanying evidence and to report
the following conclusions:
In reference to the evidence susmit-
ted, the committee state that, as printed,
it is as nearly correctly reported as pos
sible under the circumstances, which
were rendered embarrassing by the se
vere and continued illness of the repor
ter first employed, and rendered more
embarrassing by the fact that the repor
ter used a short-hand system not famil
iar to any other reporter whom the
committee could procure. But the com
mittee Btate that to their knowledge no
substantial statement has been omitted
from the report of said evidence.
In order to arrive at the issue in
volved, the governor was requested to
specify the charges made against him,
in connection with the indorsement of
Northeast railroald bonds (which
charges induced the sending of his
special message to the general assem
bly). To this request of the committee,
he replied as follows: "The nalUTe of
oharge is that I praticipated in a fee
which was received by Mr. John W.
Murphy, who, it is said, we employed to
procure the indorsement of the bonds.
The nature of the charge couples me with
the fee that John W. Murphy reoeived,
and that it was the motive which con
trolled me in my indorsement of the
bouds.”
Your committee, from the want of
any evidence sustaining such charges,
and from the maBS of evidence dis
proving such charges, report this con
clusion : That his Excellency deserves
at the hands of the General Assembly
complete vindication on the issues
made by him and specified above.
Your committee have unanimously
concluded that his Excellency did not
in any way, shape or form participate
in the fee received by Mr. John W.
Murphy, that no offer of any such
thing was made by ony one to his Ex
cellency, and that Baid fee did not con
trol his conduct in said indorsement,
and whether the aot of indorsement
was legal or illegal, the motives of the
Governor were pure. In dosing the
report, the committee submit this reso
lution :
Resolved, That the conclusions of this
committee be adopted as the sense of
tho General Assembly of the State of
Georgia.
J. W. Preston, chairman of the Senate
Committee; H. R. Casey, John F.
Troutman, Samuel Hawkins, Isaac P.
Tyson, Committee.
Albert H. Cox, ohairman; W. J.
Northern, Wm. H. Hammond, R. C.
Humber, H. G. Wright, John I. Hall,
Allen Fort, Arthur H. Gray, House
Committee.
Yellow Fever in Memphis.
Memphis, July 10.—The Board of
Health this morning issued the follow
ing order:
To the people of the city of Mem
phis—We would Bay quietly remove
your families to places of safety until
we can at least see whether the few
cases of yellow fever will assume an
epidemic form. To the people along
the lines of the different routes of travel
we say there can be no possible danger
of infection for many days to come.
Five new cases are reported this
morning, and one death—an infant of
Judge J. E. R. Ray, of the criminal
court, who, together with another son,
is prostrated with the disease.
A perfect stampede of the citizens is
in progress, the trains being unable to
carry away the hundreds who are ready
to leave.
Memphis, 6 o’clock.—At this, hour
there is no change in the situation. The
great desire of every one is to leave the
city before the fever spreads. The phy
sicians are hopeful as to the future, but
the stampede of the citizens has almost
assumed a panic form. There will not
be cars enough to-night to carry the
people away. Business is progressing
as usual, but to a limited extent.
To-night a more hopeful feeling ex
ists. The panic of to-day has 'gradual
ly subsided, and a thorough investiga
tion of the situation reveals the follow
ing condition of affairs: There are only
two persons in the whole oity prostrated
with the fever, Judge Ray and his son.
Two deaths havejocourred—Frank Mul-
brandon, as telegraphed last night, and
a son of Judge Ray, as telegraphed at
noon. Five new cases were reported to
the board of health, but upon examina
tion by the president, Dr. G. B. Thorn
ton, three of them were declared to he
other diseases than yellow fever. Two
of these cases, Maurice B. Tobin and
wife, residing on Bradford street, were
reported by Dr. G. B. Henning. Tobin
died to-day, hut experts say it was not
yellow fever. Neither has his wife the
fever. Dr. Henning, after giving wide
oirculation to the reported illness of hia
family, and advising everyone to leave
instanter, this afternoon himself left the
oity abandoning his patients to tho
oare of other physioians. ... The third
case thrown out was Mr. Boisonb, who
resides at the corner of Second and Keel
Btreets, in Chelsea. Mr. Boison had a
case of bilious fever, but is now so far
convalescent that his physician dis
charged him on the 9th. Yet this was
one of five cases reported to the board
of health. All the trains leaving to
night were crowded, and one hundred
will leave to-morrow. The mere fact
that two deaths have occurred is suffi
cient to force the people out of the city.
The Lexington (Va.) Gazette, in re
ferring to the recent misstatement that
Gen. G. W. C. Lee had tendered hia re
signation as President of tho Wash
ington and Lee University says it waB
wholly unauthorized, and that on the
contrary, Gen. Lee has resumed the ac
tive duties of President of Washington
and Lee University, and he has also
taken entire charge of the school of en
gineering in the University.
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Weekly Cotton statement.
Benj. F. Hull, of this oity, reporter
or the National Cotton Exchange, fur
nishes the following statement for the
week ending Friday, July 11,1879
Stock on hand Sept. 1st
Receipts this week:
Boat via. Coosa-— 1
Boat via. Oostanaula
S., R. & D. R. R— 3
Rome R. R
Wagon 8—12
* ‘ previously 62050
Since Sept. 1st-
A Deposition by Thomas Jcffor*
son—Early Legal Business-
There is on file in our clerk’e office,
in a suit long since decided, the pa
pers of which are darkened by age, a
deposition of Thomas Jefferson, taken
bofore lie was elected President. The
deposition and certificate are in the
imlwriting of Jefferson except the sig
natures of the two magistrates before
whom it was taken. He mentions Col.
Washington, Braddock’s defeat and the
part taken by some of Washington’s
officers on that memorable occasion.
In the same office are to be found old
land patouts—one signed by P. Henry,
jr.—ami several old parohment deeds,
yellow and rusty, dated away back in
tho history of the country. The writing
in those old instruments is fresh and
beautiful; tho penmanship is in that
style and finish for which the early
writers are noted. The occupation of
the parties in these instrument are men
tioned such as “gentlemen,” “mer
chants," etc. Such affixes would now
appear strange in a deed. The style of
the composition is heavy and cumber
some, evidencing the slow, plodding
and precise manner in which the early
legal business was transacted. The hus
tle and hurry and rush of a later day
have crowded these old forms out of
business transactions. They are gone,
and as we read them we cannot fail to
think of the dapper little gentleman ar
rayed in powdered wig, Bilver shoe
buckles, gorgeous Bilken stockings, and
self-importance who attended to and
directed their execution. — Greenup,
Ky., Independent.
The Eutaw Mirror says: Judge W.
C. Oliver has been troubled a great
deal of late by burglars. One entered
his house about a week ago and stole
some corn, etc. Last Sunday night the
Judge arranged a pistol in the room
where the thief was m the habit of en
tering, with a cord fastened to the trig
ger and drawn up in front of the en
trance window, in range. All in trim,
the family retired to rest and await the
result. There was no disturbance, all
was monotonously quiet; but when the
Judge awoke yesterday morning and
entered the room, imagine his surprise
and chagrin to learn that the room had
not only been entered, but that his pis
tol had been stolen.
62062
Total 62146
Shipments this week--- 32
“ Previously—61950
“ Since Sept. 1st. 61982
Stook on hand 164
THE ROME MARKET.
Nominal.
Middling- 12
Low Middling .11}
Good Ordinary 11
STATEMENT
For corresponding week of last year:
Stock on hand Sept. 1st
Received this week 65
“ previously 47865
“ since Sept. 1st 47930
Total 47934
Shipments this week 118
“ previously.— 47618
Total since Sept. 1st 47736
198
Stook on hand
ROME MARKET.
Nominal.
Middlings 101
Low Middlings 10
Good Ordinary 9}
METEOROLOGICAL.
Barometer, Julv 4 - 29-50
“ “ 5 29-50
“ “ 6 29-45
“ “ 7 29-48
“ “ 8 29-50
“ “ 9 29-50
“ “ 10 29-46
THERMOMETER.
Rain fall in inches.- 45-100
Highest temperature 99°
Lowest temperature 64°
Average temperature - 94°
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A lady was entertaining at dinner a
Stranger who had brought a letter of in
troduction to her husband, and at the
end of the meal coffee was served. The
lady had asked her guest if he took
sugar with his coffee; he replie: “Oh,
never, madam; that is to say, hardly
evor, unless the coffee is very poor.” A
few minutes later he Baid : “Will you
please give me a little sugar ?”
Ex-Sultan Murad V., who was de
posed by the Council of Ministers at
Constantinople, August 31,1876, on the
ground of “mental alienation,” is re
ported to have esoaped from the palace
where he had been confined sinoe that
date. Murad only reigned from May
30,1876, to the date of his deposition-
three months—and was—and was sue'
ceeded by Abdul Hamid, the present
Sultan, his brother. Murad’s “mental
alienation” was due to an attack of the
jim-jams, the result of excessive drink
ing. Since his imprisonment two at
tempts have been made by his friends to
rescue him and reinstate him, but they
failed, and over a hundred of his parti
sans were shot. As there iB still a Mu
rad party, it is not improbable that a
further attempt at revolution may be
initiated. Should the present Sultan
die Youssoufr Izzedin Effendi, eldest
son of the late Abdul Aziz, would suc
ceed to the throne in regular order, Mu
rad having been declared “off.” After
him comes Suleiman Effendi, and after
him Prince Mahmoud Djemil, who is
said to be an idiot.
John J. Crittenden, who spent years
in Congress in one branoh ana the other,
said, at the close of his Congressional
record, that while in the House he never
knew when he had a right to the floor
exoept to make a motion to adjourn.
When a few exoeptions, all Representa
tives are in the same ignorance of the
rules, and a motion appointing a com
mittee to codify the present rule and
praoticeof the House, which has just
passed that body, will be greatly to the
public advantage. Rules and decisions,
decisions and rules, have been accumu
lating in the House for 80 years, till
there is a precedent for every conceiv
able step, exoept the speedy transaction
of publio business. Revision and codi
fication may change this for the better.
New Advertisements.
Summary of Floyd Sheriff's
Sales.
GKOlWilA, Floyd County,
W ILL 11E SOLD BEFORE THE COURT
House door in the oitj of Roms, in Floyd
M’lBly, between the legal hours of sale, on the
Fiust Tuesday in Augubt, 1879,
the following property, to-wit:
A part of oity lot No. 81, Cothran A Chisolm
Addition to Rome. Martha Butler and 7. B.
Hargrove,
Alio, lot No, 718, 3d district end 4th section,
J, A. Barron,
Alio, lots Nos. 27, 28, 47, and the west hall ol
No, 28, 4th district and 4th eeotion. J M.
Bpullcck.
Also, house end lot in South Rome, containing
2J aores, more or leas, W. L. Thempson
Also, one-third undivided Interest in two
honeee and lota in Forrestville, known as Nos. 8
and 17. Thoa. MoKoo, agont.
Also, lot No, 232, 23d district and 3d section,
containing 160 aores, more or less. C. W.
Sproull-
Also, psrt of city lot No. 57, Oostanaula Di
vision of Rome, with improvements thereon,
Jesse Lamberth.
Also, all the interest whioh J. W. Bones, Jno.
Brown and J. B Dougherty have or had in and
to lots Nos. 118 and 119, Coosa Division of Rome,
with improvements thereon. Sold at bidder’s
risk.
Also, lot of land No. 46, 22d district and 3d
section, containing 166 a-.res, more or less. H.
J. Cook. Sold at bidder’s risk.
Also, lots Nos. 115, 118 and 117, 4th district
and 4th section, containing 486 aores, more or
lese. L. R. end S. D. Wregg.
Also, lot No. 65, Coosa Division of Rome, near
gas works. W. S Cothran.
Also, that property on Silver ereek known at
the Etzell mill property, consisting of 10 aores
of land, more or lest, off ol lots Not. 103 and
114, 2Zd district and 3d seotion, together with
the mill, machinery and all Its fixtures and 1m-
f irovemonts thereon, with all rights and priyl
eges conveyed by deed to J. W. Bradberry by
S. B. Chambers, and S. B. Chambers and W. S.
Hills, exeoutors of Dennis Hills, deceased, to
what It known as the Bradberry machine shop
and wool faotory, adjoining the property first
above described. M. R. Esssll, adm’x-
Also, city lot No. 33, Etowah Division of Rome.
Mary E. and W. H. Adkins.
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