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1 ®lte iEflwe iet. E8TABLISHK.D IN .104,3. THE COURIER Ima a large nixl alcnily circu lation In Cherokee Ooorgttt, iiml-lN tho l.i'st ail- verllaliig incauiiii in this section. M. DWIRGIXi Proprietor. Tuesday Morning, : : July 15,1879 Ohio will never again hear the deep-toned voice of William Allen, which, like the fog-horn in the darkness, often warned the people of danger. As the election laws now are, allow iugthe Radical administration to ap point ns many deputy marshals as its henchmen please, it will be almost im possible to elect any but a Radical as president; (or as member of Congress In Districts where the Democrats have only small majorities;) hence the wis dom of repealing the law allowing the appoinment of these officers, whose only duty is to work against the Demo- cratic party on eUotion day. Mr. Hayes could make no political move that would please us better than to call Congress together again in extra session for the purpose of advising the passage of a bill to pay deputy marshals to be used by the Radicals at the polls. Congress passed everything that was necessary to carry on tho Government, but failing to vote pay for deputy mar shals to be used for partisan purposes, Mr. Hayes vetoed a bill that appropri ated money to pay marshals for regular services. Scott, was with him, and her husband, Dr. Scott, who was in an adjoining room, came in at his wife’s call, but Gov. Allen was dead before he reached tho room. | Thus has passed away one of Ohio’s greatest citizens, a friend of the people* a true Democrat in its broadest sense, and a man whom the people of Ohio have delighted to honor. Gov. Allen was born at Edenton, Chowan county, N. C., in 1807, and when sixteen years old went to Chilli- cothe, Ohio, where his brother-in-law, Pleasant Thurman, resided, Mrs. Thur man being the half-sister of Allen, and the mother of the present Senator Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio. Young Allen read law, being ur^ed thbreto by his sister, Mrs. Thurman; was admitted to the bar when about 21 years of age. In 1832 he was elected to Congress. In 1836 he was eleoted to the United States Senate, and was chair man of the Committee on Foreign Re lations; and was subsequently elected for a second term to the Senate. In 1848 he was spoken of as a candidate for the Presidency, but refused to enter the lists against Gen. Cass, who was de feated by Gen. Taylor. He supported Gen. Casa with all his seal, and after that disappeared from politics until 1873, when he was eleoted Governor, beating Wm. M. Noyes, who had car ried the State two years before by more than 20,000 majorily. In 1875 Rutherford B. Hayes defeated Gov. Allen by a majority of about 3,000. Alleged Treasury Frauds. . The rumor that Dr. Felton has signi fied bis intention of yielding the race as an “Independent” to a “successor” is current and gains credence. The same report was circulated in the spring of 1878, but Dr. Felton announced him self as a candidate before leaving Wash ington, thus forestalling all attempts on the part of others to get him to give place to another. There is a strong probability of the rumor being true, since Dr. Felton knows as well as any one that he has extracted all the meat from the “Independent” egg, and that his “successor” will get only the worth less empty shell. Still there are sever al “successors” anxiously awaiting an authoritative announcement that they have liberty to pop up their heads, We hopb Dr. Felton will not yield. He commenced the fight. Let him bear the disgrace of an overwhelming defeat that is sure to come upon the “Inde pendent” next year. CHOP PROSPECTS. Here are two specimen bricks from the Independent Headlight, a Felton paper published at Dalton : The Democrats of California are try ing to bamboozle the workingmen. It won’t work. The latest objection to Felton is that he voted against a $100,000 omnibus appropriation, whereas the other Geor gia members voted for it. We congrat ulate the dootor. Now, what the Democrats are doing in California we do not pretend to know; but ns to the “latest objection” to Felton we have to say that the “Inde pendent” Headlight iB trying to make capital for “the doctor” out of very slim material. What he voted against was a bill making some extraordinary appropriations, among them $100,000 to pay awards of the court of claims, and he voted alone of all tho Georgia Congressmen against it. We do not know of any body that objects to his vote, without the “loyal” claimants do. By the by, will some clever Catholic at Dalton inform us whether Dr. Felton ever secured that appropriation or claim for them? The Radicals are using the telegraph, the newspapers and every other availa ble means to make it appear that inju ry is being done to the public service by the failure of the bill to pay mar shals, deputy marshals, and others. The people should bear in mind that the Democratic party in Congress passed a bill appropriating money to pay the marshals when on discharge of their lawful duties, all such duties as could reasonably be expected to arise; but because it failed to appropriate funds to pay such armies of deputy marshals os Mr. Hayes might think necessary to in sure another theft of the Presidency by the Radicals, regardless of the will of the majority, he vetoed the bill. He would rather see men fail to get pay for the discharge and performance of law ful duties than to run the risk of a pos sible failure of paying hired officials, under the name of deputy marshals, for doing the dirtiest work of a dirty party. Mr. Hayes is responsible for the fail ure to pay marshals, and not the Dem ocratic majority in Congress. This the people ought to understand. We are indebted to Dr. Thomas P, Janes, Commtssiouer of Agriculture, for a “consolidation of the reports of crops, etc., for the month of June, 1879.” This report is based upon correspond ence from all parts of the State up to July 1st. At that time the general outlook was more favorable than at the present, but even then the Comraisioner thought prudent to give the following wholesome advice to farmers : “In view of the probable failure of the corn crop in many sections of the State, the outlook is somewhat gloomy. But with proper economy in the use of present supplies by utilizing all the re sources of summer and fall orops, and sowing early and largely of small grain, the apprehended scarcity of next spring may be anticipated, and, in great meas ure, if not fully met. It is not too late to sow peas in drills for forage, and farmers should avail themselves of seasons to put in large areas for this purpose. Peavine hay, though somewhat difficult to cure prop erly, is highly nutritious. Rich lots near the farm house or lot should be sown in barley or rye in August, and will furnish large quantities of green food. We must rely chiefly on oats to sup plement the sboit corn crop next spring, and farmers are advised to sow early and fertilize well, that the crop may be secured against winter freezing and be available as early as possible next spring. If August and September shall prove seasonable, as they probably will, sow ings of cat-tail millet and German mil let may still be made for soiling pur poses. The drafts on the corn crib and fodder house should be relieved as far as practicable by pasturing and soiling the mules and horses. Where the corn has failed to produce ears the Btalks, blades and all should be cut and cured for forage. By prudent foresight and prompt action, much may be done in the way of supplementing short corn cropB, and providing against the ruinous expedient of relying on the West for supplies for our stock. Miiiouri Republican.] Tho Republican press has begun the suspicious task of attempting to belittle in advanco the forthcoming report of tho Senate committee on the treasury book-keeping, and to disparage the statements on the same subject made by Hon. John M. Glover of Missouri. It is admitted that there are discrepancies between the statements of the public debt made by the secretary and those made by the register of the treasury, but the explanation of these, say the Republican papers, is that the register makes out his statements from the issues and redemptions of bonds, while the secretary makes his from the receipts and expenditures, and this causes an apparent difference where no real differ ence exists. This explanation has been made before; but it does not explain. It makes the matter worse than it was at first. The most significant discrepan- •ies that Senator Davis has brought to notice are, not between the statements of the secretary and those of the regis ter, but between the statements of the secretary, alone. For example: In the secretary’s report for 1870, the public debt in 18G4 is put down at 81,740,690,- 690 and in hiB report for 1871, the pub lic debt in the same year, that is 1864, put is down at $1,815,784,370. So, in 1870, the secretary gave the public debt for 1869 at 82.489,002,480, and in 1871 he gave it as 82,588,452,213. In 1870 he gave the debt for that year, 1870, at 82,386,358,599, and in his next report, he gave it for that same year, 1870, at 82,480,672,427. These discrepancies run through the debt statements, clear back to the year 1864, the debt for a certain year being differently stated is the dif ferent reports of the same official. So, too, of the receipts and expenditures; the statements of them on a given year do not agree, even when made by the same official; in his report for 1870 they are stated at certain amounts for a cer tain year, while in his report for 1871 they are stated at different amounts for the same year. These strange discrep ancies have never been explained. They ought not to exist. Official statements of the same item ought to be truthful and invariable; when once made they ought to stand as history. But Senator Davis shows that during the Grant ad ministration the statements made by secretaries long dead were changed, and made to tell a different story from what their authors intended. As to the Glover report, it is too seri ous to be disposed of by laughing at its author as crazy. Mr. Glover is not orazy. Earnest and zealous he assured ly is, but there is a method and deliber- tion in his work that command respeot, and there are charges of fraud in his report that must be either answered or taken for true. If the Republicans can dissipate the grave suspicions of sys tematic official fraud in the manage ment of the treasury under Secretaries Boutwell and Richardson during the Grant administration, they had better set about doing it. If they attempt to meet them wi*h derision and dispar agement it will be the worse for them. the equal of any publication of its class in the South, and that is hardly doing justice to its merits. Mr. J. H. Estill, of the Savannah Nows, is publisher, Calhoun Times: Mr. Reese, of Whit field, says the Dalton Citizen, shipped twenty head of fine cattle to Texas on Monday last Whitfield has as much fine stock in it as any county in the State. Early County News: No rain yet, and orops are rapidly failing. Much corn is literally ruined, and cotton is looking very sickly. Planters should make their calculations to put in a heavy oat crop this fall. The Randolph county fair was a grand success. In the tournament Col. Arthur Hood, jr., was the successful Knight Harry Hall, a boy, succeeded in climbing a greasy pole 20 feet high, and received two dollars for his agility. Mr. John Gray, a worthy farmer re siding some three miles east ot Fayette ville, had an alternation with a negro on his place last Monday, and while en gaged in the affray the negro’s wife ran up and struck him on the head with a hoe, inflicting a serious wound. A reward of five hundred dollars is offered for the arrest of one or more of the parties, with evidence to convict, who broke open the jail in Laurens county recently and released Mrs. Ann and Susan Perry. The prisoners have disappeared from the county and can not be found. Wert railroad. Referred tp committee on special legislation. lIso, to amend the charter of Chero kee Iron Company. Same reference. Saturday, July 12. The Senate having adjourned over until Monday, there was no session to- day. House. THE ROME HOTEL (Formerly Tennessee Houie) ’ broad street, near railroadd £ p* J- A. STANSBURY, - . P ^ _ Rom., Georgia. ^ “SKEWSsasaS?"' Tm” B,>ggl>g 0. h A. <1 BAINWAT^ M iR;rt YELLOW FEVEH. The latest dispatches that we have, up to S unday morning, indicate a better and more hopeful state of affairs at Memphis. It may turn out that the few cases in Memphis and other South ern cities and towns are but the re maining fruits of last year’s visitation, and that the disease will not assume either an epidemic or endemic form. We believe that it is not unusual that when a community has suffered severely from this fever, that the next season “sporadic” cases have developed without the plague necessarily spreading to any great extent. Let us hope that this may be the result in this instance. HEATH OP EX-GOVERNOR ALLEN, OF OHIO. Last Friday ex-Governor William Allen died suddenly .at his home near Chillicothe, Ohio, after a brief illness. HiB first attack was on Wednesday, when he was taken with a chill, but he had no apprehension of a serious result. About 1:30 Friday morning he got out of bed, staggered to a chair, and died without a word. His daughter, Mrs. General Butler says that the only thing he hasjasked form President Hayes was a position for a one-legged soldier. He was refused, and the place went to a man who Btayed at home during the war. General Butler adds the appoint ment was made for Senator Hoar, who remained at home also. When the Prince of Wales went be hind the scenes in London to see Mad- Bername hardt, the actress, he said, “I thinkMadame does not rememberme ?” “I never saw you Highness with your hat on.” Neat! Chi csgo Times: The government isn’t so badly starved by the Brigadiers that it cannot man the Tallapoosa and ceal her for a summer day’s excursion for the benefit of the administration. Fort Valley Mirror: On last Monday evening, during the rain storm, light ning struck a large tree in Mrs. Royal’s yard, running down the tree and skin ning the bark considerably. A piece of the bark was driven through one of the windows and struok Miss Joe Roy al, but did no injury. All the family were shocked, but no damage was done. The tree is not more than ten feet from the house. State News. The corn crops vf Clay county are reported to be greatly damaged by the drought. A boat will very shortly be placed in the Flint river to ply between Bain- bridge and Newton. Some of the press are after the Pho nograph for printing a fashion cut and calling its Mrs. Potts, the ffimale tramp. The crop prospects of Montgomery county are reported good. Very little damage, if any, has been occasioned by the drought. The new iron bridge of the Western and Atlantic railroad over the Etowah river is being pushed forward as rapid' ly as possible. The fruit crop in Monroe county seems to be a failure. There is not much of it, and what little there is for the most part is unsound. The Berrien County News states that a little colored boy named Jones, while playing with a ball of potash recently, swallowed a portion of it and died from the effects. Daily trains are now run on the Brunswick and Albany road. The mail and express, however, still run every other day. This is a step of progress for Albany. Cuthbert Appeal: A Brooks county widow, who has buried two husbands, has her pioture placed between theirs on the wall, and underneath is written “The Lord will provide.’’ ► Oglethorp Echo: We see that the court house committee has a notice stuck up on trees around town. This is the kind of enterprise that cripples or breaks down county papers. The letter trom a negro girl to her dusky swain, published in the Ogle thorp Eobo, was copied into the Chica go Inter-Ooean as an illustration of the intelligence of Southern white girls. The Southern Farmer’s Monthly is Mr. Hammond, from the committee on special and local bills, reported back certain bills that they find cannot be consolidated with others, and recom mend that they he put upon their firBt passage and referred to appropriate committees. A resolution was adopted looking to the adoption of a rule to facilitate the reading of local and special bills. A message from the Governor in formed the House that he had approved the act to amend section 4411 of the code with relation to larceny from the person. Mr. Shannon—To provide for the building of a State House in the city of Atlanta. Referred to committee on publio property. Mr. Reece, of Floyd—To amend sec tion 787 of the code. Referred to com mittee on corporations. Also, to prevent the multiplication of new trials in cases against corporations. Also, to prohibit the payment of em ployes in tickets, checks, scrip, etc. Re erred to committee on agriculture. Also, to appropriate $6,000 for repairs at the deaf and dumb asylum. Referred to committee on deaf and dumb asylum. Also, to abolish the county court of Floyd county. Referred to committee on special legislation. Also, to release certain parties from liability on a criminal bona. Referred to the committee on special legislation. Also, to incorporate the town of South Rome. Referred to committee on spe cial legislation. Also, a resolution with reference to the revision of the code. Referred to committee on judiciary. In the House a great number of bills was introduced of a local nature. We give above those introduced by Mr, Reece, and some other matters of gener al importance. WHITELEY’S OLD RELIABLE LIVERY STABLE» W.L.WHITELEY,Prop RIETOb H&' uKu —Excollont Vehicles H °» ? 1,1 A terrible explosion of a powder magazine ocoured at Bodie, California, on the 10th, near the old Incline Works, whioh were blown to atoms. Quite number of persons were killed. The list of wounded is also large. A woman and her child were buried in the ruins of her house, and one woman was covered with the debrieB of her hut. The scene in the vicinity was heartrend ing. Women and child were orying and searching among the ruins for the remains of loved ones. It is supposed that the bodies of some of the employes were blown into the air and their re mains scattered broadcast. The Press in New York, particularly the two papers which give most space to European subjects, the World and Herald, are emphatic in their declara tion that our Government is bound to assert its claims to primary recognition in the organization of M. de Lessps’ canal company, and these utterances are echoed by many journals over the country. The Howard association of New Or leans held its semi-annual meeting on Monday evening last and re-elected the following board of officers to serve for another year ; J. M. Vandergriff; presi dent F. N. Ogden, vice-president; F. R, Southmayd, seceretary, and S. B. New man, treasurer. Legislative Summary. Friday, July 11. The Senate met at 10 o’clock; called to order by President Lester, prayer by Rev. John W. Heidt. Roll called ana a quorum found present. Journal read and approved. HILLS ON FIRST READING. By Mr. Boyd—To regulate appraise ment of property by claimants on fi. fa Referred to committee onj udioiary. Mr. Clements, of the 44th—A bill to y rovide for compensation of jurors in ustices’ courts. Referred to commit tee on judiciary. By Mr. Horton—A bill to amend section 4159 in relation to the trial of claim cases in Justices’ courts. Referred to committee on judiciary. By Mr. Hudson—A bill to change the estray laws where the value of the estray shall not exceed $20. Referred to committee on judiciary. By Mr. Slaten—to require owners of property to give it in in the county where it is located. BILLS ON THIRD READING. To amend section 2042-43 of the code relative to laying off homestead and objections to same. Passed. Yeas 29, ays 0. To ai amend 4161 of the code of 1873 in relation to practice in garnishment Justices’ courts. Passed; yeas 26, nays 0, In the House a large number of bills was introduced, mostly local. We no tice the following, introduced by mem' bers from our vicinity: Mr. Luffman, of Murray—To carry into effect certain provisions of the Con stitution with referenoe to the public debt. Referred to committee on finance, To abolish oounty school commis sioners and substitute oounty treasurers in lieu there of. Referred to committee on education. Mr. Janes, of Polk—To amend an aet to incorporate the Cartersville and Van The Health of New Orleans New Orleans, July 12.—TheAuxil liary Sanitary Association makes the following statement in an official form After thorough investigation by the offi cers and members of the association, supported by the testimony of the Board of Health and the New Orleans Medical Association, we hereby declare that this city is now in a perfectly healthy condition and that there has not been a single cose ot yellow fever here during the present summer. The city is in a better sanitary condition than for many years, and the absence of the fevers which usually precede yel low fever, inspires the belief that we shall escape serious sickness. The country will be officially notified should yellow fever appear. New Advertisements. °. W. ^N.W.JT.T; W. LJNGWORTIIY & C0„ 90 Masonio Temple, Rome.Ga, MUSICAL AGENCY. DEALER! WILCOX & WHITE Olong-li & Warren AND OTHER ORGANS. VOSE & SONS, KRANIGH A BACH, RAVEN &C0„ AND OTHER PIANoi. Pianos & OrganB for Exohonge or Rent SHEET MUSIC, MUSIC BOOKS, STATION ERY, BOOKS, PERIODICALS, Sc. -Orders by mall promptly filled may!5 tw wtf GOFFEE. flavored and Pure RIO COFFEE, ask roar Grocer for MOORE, JENKINS A CO.’i (Kit York) ROASTED “ARICA.” It cannot be excelled. Sold by IIARPEU * POUT, jun24 tw wlm Rome, Ga. RARE CHANCE! A HALF INTEREST IN A FINE Flouring Mill and Family Grocery, In the city of Borne, is offered for tale for Cash, and, alio, Two Good Farms near the city. Address jul 15 tw2t wit W. T. ROBINSON, Rome, Goorgia. LARAM0RE & CO., WHOLESALE COMMISSION MERCHANTS AND DEALERS IN Provisions, Produce, Tobacco, Cigars, &o., &c., &c., Masonic Temple, : apr24 tw.'im Rome, Ga. ROBERTSON, TAYLOR & CO., SUCCESSORS TO GEO. W. WILLIAMS & CO., COTTON FACTORS, WHOLESALE GROCERS, — AND - general COMMISSION MERCHANTS, l&3HayneSt,, Charleston, S.O., WILL GIVE ALL BUSINESS THEIR MOST CAREFUL ATTENTION. Consignments or Cotton Solicited. Julio tw3m Rome Female College. -A MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE OF SOHOL- . . ARB'WORK wee awarded this Institution Institution at the Paris Exposition. Board and Tuition at ft* J*}5 ? f ttOO-OO per term of JO weeks, payn- ble half In advanoe and half in the middle of the (Onion Next term oommenoee on the first Monday or Septembor. J. M. M. OAtiDWELTi, Proeident. jul 1 tw wSm Stockholders’ Meeting. Rone, Ga., June 25, IStl. A T THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDERS of a majority of the stock of the Empn Iron Company of Rome, Ga., a called meetitj of the stockholders of the oompany, for ibe elec tion of officere and other business, will be held at the ofilee of Hargrove A Willlame, benken. In Remo, Ga., on Tuesday, the 22th dayot July, at 12 o’clock. R. T. HARGROVE, jun28twlm President Auction Sale of Bonds. W ILL BE SOLD BEFORE THE CCDBT House door, in tho city of Rome, OeorgU, on the First Tuesday in August, 1879, j betweon the legal hours of sale, the following property, the same having been depoiited »iu ue as collateral to secure payment of a sole amounting to about >250, principal and inleieit: Bond No. 35, of the Bartow Iron Co., for,..$l,J0[ „ „ 3O' ,< .. >< « <i 1,101 together with paat due coupons tmoooUgg!» 4337.50 on each bond, and attached to the sent. Theee bonds are secured by mortgage on the Vulcan Coil Mines, situated in Merlon oounty, Tenneeeeo, boar 10 por oent. internet, and ere due 15th February, 1880. ' HARGROVE, HARDY A WILLIAMS. | Rome, Ga., July 2, 1879.— twtd _ ! James Gs Dailey, UDERTIKER’S WARE (On second story) 96 Broad Street, A FINE AND WELL SELECTED BT0« A of Metallic, Walnut, Qrahted «1- Coffins, Burial Roboe and Coffin Trl®")^ (oI Neatest Hoarse! few*” ways on hand, Neateat Hearaeo ‘ day funerals. All ordors filled with dup ^ RitJ or night. Residence, corner Cour “roots. ALS0> dealeb in FIRST-CLASS FURNITURE OF ALL KINO ■ ful 5 twtmarlo — PORTABLE & _ v stationary engines and BOILERS’ Saw-Mill & Grist-Mill Matt ery, Shafting & PJU JJ 1 her & Leather Belting a Lowest Possible Prlce ’' s - B- j>n!8 twwBm ' THE CHOICE HOTEL. CORNER BROAD AND BRH>G E BTB J. C. Rawllne. *»roprl«* or - tflltuated in the Business perl of tb* 0 1 Rome, Georgia ^V-Paiaengere taken to and fw» g * 01e.»' free of charge. |#| gf* AW I j