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Summer Saunterings in the
South State.
Qreknviu.e, S. C.| July 31,1879.
Dear Coubier—Hoping that you, an
old fiiend of my boyhood, will not be
unwilling to give to your readers some
faint delineations of my impressions of
the glorious old mother of Calhoun, of
the Elliotts, and of the Hamptons, I in
dite this epistle to the Romans. I shall
confine myeelf in this letter to a de
scription of what I saw in the old sum
mer home of Carolina’s beauty and
chivalry.
I arrived here at midnight, weary,
hot and dusty, aftor a long ride over the
Air-Line railroad. My first waking im
pressions were delightful, for I was
aroused from the deep Blumber of a
way-worn traveler by the patter of rain,
a delicious music to ears so long unac
customed to the sound. Looking out
of my window, I saw at once that I was
no longor in a bran-new country. A1
most before me was the old court house,
a temple of justice before you grey-
heads were born, and now a forum
from which go forth no longer the stern
i of the law, but the voice of
; more potent than the law—
that something the printing press. Ven
erable old building 1 fortunate art thou
not to be degreed in thy honorable old
age to baser uses. To my right rose a
pile, which to my Georgia eyes seemed
venerable enough, but which I was as
sured was the new court house, built
only twenty-five years or so ago. This
is a handsome ntructure, and would do
credit to almost any county in Geor
gia.
After a breakfast, made delicious by
the sight and sound of the rain drops
plashing against the window, umbrella
in hand I set out on a tour of inspec
tion. My imagination had pictured
Greenville as an old town full of fine
summer residences gone to ruin since
•lie war, had suggested to me a few ven
erable stores where might be seen oon-
gregated antiquated gentlemen of im
pressive deportment and seedy apparel
wlmso principal topics of conversation
"ere of old time grandees—who thin
? De matt *ed; how that one kept fast
?. tse8 i and how that one gambled mag-
nificently and lost philosophically. Judge
0 my surprise, when on stepping out
II tie door of mine inn (seventy-five
1 ears old) I fouud that imagination had
-ewed me as providence has Mr. Mills
it had “gone back” on me. I waa
juuo antiquated, dead town, but in a
lvm g thing, a hustling little city of
-I" t * 1Q usand souls. New building*
. ® r 't^'t, to the left, everywhere; the
euni 0 f || 10 maaon > g trowc q an( j fjj e
U*J Mntor8 hammer never ceasing,
et * 1 lm S opera-house waa nearly
Par!! f lli,l ’/ hcrU the 6 round b eing P™
, lor tho f'mndation of a $30,000
a Jv , mid “11 this bustle of building
chp» f U ? n . C88 came now and then the
cars the bell of the street
ville r ° m t * 1 ’ 8 e *P er ’ inen t' at Greon-
No t W ° °*' ^ omo ma y leam a lesson
railw C0UQlr y needs a street
I srm!k. m ° re l * lan ii° me - Feeling this,
,„ one the stockholders of the
railroad and learned from
a the road, two miles in length
000- - ant * e( l u 'PPed at a cost of $12,
and LI?** exera P t from taxation,
fo r oi 0(V , a by a warehouse company
'Puld^n u 6r annum ; that the stock
Would n , be b° u ght, as the holders
the roa,i°„ Part with i4 - 1 inquired how
" aB Managed to secure such
rental and pay the lessees, and ascer
tained the following facts:
1. Though the passenger traffic is
good it would not alone pay a fair in
terest on the capital stook.
2. The company use flat cars, which
deliver all the freight received in the
oity from the depots at a very low rate.
One of these flats I saw loaded with
flour and went to the plaoe of delivery
and found the load to be, 116 half sacks,
100 quarter sacks and 17 sacks flour. I
was told by the warehouse-man who
leases the road that these flats carry 25
bales of cotton and 50 sacks of guano.
One result of this inter-city railway is
that no drays are to be seen. There are
side tracks leading to all warehouses,
and two express wagons carry trunks
and freight to houses offthe line of rail
way. I paid ten cents for the carriage
of myself and trunk and valise to the
depot, one mile from my hotel. Can
not we of the Hill City learn a lesson
here ? A street car line from Howard
street bridge to the mill in Forestvillo,
with branches to the warehouses, com
presses, depot, and steamboat wharfs
would succeed beyond a doubt. When
told a Greenville man that our dray
men charged from eight to ten cents for
hauling a bale of cotton three hundred
yards, he laughed at me and said that
they could afford to do the same with
twenty-flve bales for the same price.
I have taken up so much space with
my account of the street railway that
have encroaohed upon other topics
less practical perhaps but more interest
ing. I must content myself with a bare
resume of scenes wbioh filled a week
with pleasure.
One of the loveliest places in the
South is the Episcopal church and
churchyard in Greenville; Here in the
shadow of the altar before whioh they
have worshipped lie sleeping the “sleep
whioh knows no waking” many of the
noble ones who have been Carolina’s
boost and pride. The grand old ehurch
casts its shadow over the graves of.
many who have sought healing and
comfort at its altar; and trees, now ven
erable, scatter their autumn leaves over
the heads of those who planted them.
The Sabbath I spent in Greenville Rev.
Wm. Cramer, once of Rome, occupied
the pulpit. The ‘ Presbyterian church
is under the pastorate of Mr. Nall,
formerly of Griffin.
The surroundings of Greenville are
exceedingly beautiful. Paris mountain
(its Mount Alto) is a lovely spot, once
the home of Gen. Waddy Thompson
Here on the summit of a mountain
,000 feet above the city, he held high
court and revelry in “the days before the
Now all art is gone, and the
Kansas a Fraud,
Letter from a Practical Farmer Deir.uuc-
lug the Glowing Pictures of the State,
Wichita, Kan., July 22,1879.
To the Editor of the Courier-Journal:
I am induced to write to you that I
may answer many letters inquiring
about this country, and take this meth
od to answer all frankly and truly. In
the first place, there is a ring that has
advertised thta State and puffed it up
on paper in order to deceive and swin
dle all the farmers they can. This State
is a fraud on a grand scale. It is a
failure in every particular in farming.
The farmers have drouth, hot winds,
heavy hail, grasshoppers and chinch
bugs. There is no certainty of a crop
until you have it gathered. It is impos
sible to grow tame grass here for stock.
We have just gone through one drouth
of about eight months without rain. It
has rained for the past two or three
weeks, but too late. The grass will
burn to-day. Wheat is a failure here.
In many places there is not enough to
live on. The people are destitute and
there is no money. The women are
half clothed, and the men are barefoot
ed on the streets. There has not been
a year that a large portion of the wheat
and corn was not lost. I have seen it
and know it to be true. You see the
advertisements are as false as hell. There
iB not more than ten per cent, of the
land worth anything. I will admit we
have some good crops, but they are few.
You are made to believe Kansas is the
Eldorado of the world. The produc
tion is great in rascality, and prostitu
tion is legal here, and the business men
tip their hats to the soiled doves on the
streets. Our hotels are open to them
and they take their places at the tables
as it suits their fancy. Taxes are very
heavy, and the farmers cannot pay
them and live. There is a class of
roughs and unprincipled men that rule
this country, get up a scheme and vote
bonds, get them legalized, sell them
and skip out. If tins country were to
be sold to-day, and everything that is
in it, it would not pay their debtB.
I claim to be one of the best farmers
in Illinois, and have lived and farmed
on the prairie for thirty years, and I
believe I know what it is. I have taken
three years to test this country,
f i
grounds, once beautiful by its aid, owe
their loveliness to nature alone. Yet it
is a spot on which an angel might linger
on its way to Paradise. From the
porches of the old mansion one looks
over wave after wave of woody summits
until the eye’s horizon is bounded by
the union of the sky and the giants of
the Aileghanies. In such a spot Hobbes
would have been poetical and Newton
romantic. Lowne’s Hill is another ro
mantic and historic spot near Green
ville. Here lived the Butlers, and hew
was born the Senator of that name who
illustrates his State in the present Con
gress. Here lived Pierce M. Butler, the
hero of the Mexican war from whom
our gallant Georgian, P. M. B. Young,
received his name.
Fearing, dear Courier, that I have
drawn out my letter to too attenuated a
thread I close here with a longing for a
sight of your familiar sheet once more,
S. C. C.
and I
advise all men who think of coming
here to stay where they are, and if they
come let them come and travel with
farmers and see for themselves, cookine
their meals with grass, corn stalks ano
straw, if they can get it. You have
seen farms advertised for sale as being
finely improved, with orchards and
barns. This is false. There is not one
farm in the State as well improved as
are the ordinary farms you have in
Kentuoky, and when a man comes here
and sees he has been bitten he falls in
and tries to sell out and beat some one
from the East. There is one other point
I wish to notice. The people vote bonds
for everything and try to encourage im
migration West to pay the taxes. The
average of wheat the State over will
not be more than five bushels per acre,
and corn the same. Fruit is but a trial,
and it may be supposed to fail. Peach
es are sunburnt and are not fit for use.
and some fruit trees will not produce
anything. All of the fine fruit we get
here comes from the East. The premi
ums awarded to Kansas on apples were
on apples grown in Eastern States, and
were selected by a fruit man in Colum
bus, Kansas, whose name I can give.
All just such frauds have gone to the
press and been scattered over the coun
try to induco men to go West, where no
man can ever live comfortably. There
is no State in the Union that has so
much poor land as Kansas. Men come
here, look over the country, and to them
it seems to be rich, when it is very poor.
I was raised near Louisville and know
how this country is. I have lived here
ever three years and wish to deceive no
man, as I am a farmer and feel it my
duty to state what I believe to be facts
for the benefit of the people,
A. W. Grisman.
The Clifton (Tenn.) Bulletin of Tues
day says .* “We had the pleasure of
meeting Mr. Robert Williams, an old
Confederate soldier, a member of the
Eighth Mississippi Regiment, who was
with General Lee at the fight at Get
tysburg, and, with his brother, was
severely wounded. After the surrender
he went to Brazil, in company with
Southern people, arid he informs us
thnt all who went have returned that
could possibly do so and that there are
some who never will be able to get oack.
His description of the people, country
and his trials were very interesting.
His brother and uncle both died in Rio
Janeiro, last fall, of yellow-fever, and
he had a siege of it but pulled through.
He came from there to Matamoras on
a coffee brig. On landing on United
States soil ho gave three oheers in ex
pression of his happiness in being able
to say he was in a ‘white man s country
once more.’ He also informed us that
ho was a native of Tennises, born at
Nashville, and had traveled all the way
from Matamoras on foot, and was ex
pecting to meet a brothor who lives near
Nashville.” .
Rome Railroad—Change of Sohedule
O N AND AFTER WEDNESDAY, MAY 28th,
1872, Ihs train* on tho Roma Railroad will
run a* follow*:
HORNING TRAIN.
L*ava* Roma dally at... 6.30 A. M
Return to Rome at. 10.00 A. M
SATURDAY AGCOHHODATION.
Leave* Rome (Saturday only) fat 0.00 F. M
Return to Rome at 8.00 P. M
Morning train makes oonneotion with trala on
W. A A. Railroad at Kingston, for the West and
South. O. M. PENNINGTON, Oen'J Supt.
JNO. E. STILLWELL. Ticket Agent.
United Statos Mail Line—The Ooosa
River Steamers I
O N AND AFTER NOVEMBER 6th, 1878,
Steamer* od the Ooosa River will run a*
ier sohedule a* follow*, supplying all the Post
IfSoes on Mail Route No. 6180:
Leave Rome every Tuesday and Friday
at 7 A. M.
Arrive at Gadsden every Wednesday
and Saturday at 7 A. M.
Leave Gadsden every Wednesday and
Saturday at 8 A.M.
Arriva at Rome every Thursday and
Sunday at 7 P. M.
J. M. ELLIOTT, Gen'l Supt
OLDEST AND BEST
DR. J. BRADFORD’S
Liver & Dyspeptic Medicine
This is a Prompt and Certain Cure for all Diseases of the Liver,
Such as Dyspepsia, Headache, Chills and Fever, &c,
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED IN EVERY CASE, OR MONEY RETURNED.
FOR SALE BY DRUCCISTS GENERALLY.
J. Gk YBISER,
Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Garden Seeds, &c.,
Sole Proprietor, Rome, Ga.
R. T. Hoyt, Wholesale and Retail Agent for Rome, Ga.
febt tw wly
Selma, Rome and Dalton Bailroad-
Ohange of Sohedule.
BLUE MOUNTAIN ROUTE.
1879, trains will run as follows
QOINQ NORTH.
No. 3.
Dally.
(Sunday exeepled.)
Loaves Selma 4.00 P M
Leaves Randolph......... 7.16 P M
Leaves Oalora 10.00 P M
Leaves Talladega 1.60 A M
Leaves Oxford _ 3.20 AM
Leaves Anniston 3.60 AM
Leaves Jacksonville.... 6.00 A M
Leaves Patona 6.60 A M
Leaves Tecumseh 7.06 A M
Loaves Prior"*.. 7.35 A M
Leares Oavo Spring S.10 A M
Leaves Romo..— 9.66 AM
Leaves Plainville 10.66 A M
Arrives Dalton 12.60 P M
GOING SOUTH.
No. 4.
Daily.
(Sunday excepted.)
Leaves Dalton 3.10 P M
Loaves Plainville 5.00 P M
Leaves Rome 0.85 P M
Loaves Gave Spring...,. 7.46 P M
Leaves Prior's 8.16 PM
Leaves Teoumssh......... 8.40 P M
Loaves Patona 9.55 P M
Loaves Jacksonville.....10.40 P M
Leaves Anniston 11.60 F M
Loaves Oxford 12.20 A M
Leaves Talladega 1.60 A M
Leaves Oalora 0.00 A M
Loaves Randolph 8.20 A M
Arrives Selma U-25 A M
No. 1.
Dally.
fi.00 A M
8.16 A M
9.35 A M
11.46 AM
12.41 P M
12.65 PM
1.28 P M
2.02 P M
2.44 PM
3.12 P M
3.31 P M
4.30 P M
6.00 P U
0.16 P M
No. 3.
Daily.
8.00 A M
9.10 AM
9.55 A M
10.39 A M
10.68 A M
11.00 A M
11.55 A M
12,23 P M
12.56 P M
1.03 P M
1.57 P M
4.85 P M
6.60 P M
8.00 P M
“P. O. P.”
“Pill of Perfection.” It in a hard "Pill” for the
Old-Time Serving Machine Companies to take, but
when ihe WHITE MACHINE comes in direct Com
petition with them they are obliged to haul in their
old Machines. They don’t find any second hand,
made over* White Machines, neither can you buy. a
White on two or three years time. They are sold for
Cash, or on short time, at lowest possible price. They
arc so constructed that the Lost Motion in all the
wearing parts caused from long and constant use can
betaken up by the.slmple turning of a severe, there
fore they are obliged to outlast any other Machine
not provided with this necessary device,
Statements of Agents of other Maohines to the Contrary Notwithstanding.
They have more space under tlic arm, and are the lightest running
Machine made. Therefore pay no attention to what others say, but try
them yourself and buy the White If you want the best. For sale by
No. 1. Oonneols closely at Dalton with E. T.
Va. Sc Ga. R. R. for all Tennosseo and Virginia
mineral springs, and for all Eastern oltlos. Also
with the W. tc A. R. R. for Chattanooga and all
Western oltles.
No. 2. Connecting with $. T. Va. A Ga. and
W. Sc A. railroads at Dalton, makes close eon.
neotion at Oalera far Montgomery, Mobile and
New Orleans.
No. S. Connects at Calera with through mail
train of L. tc N. A Gt. So. R. R. for Eastern and
Western olties.
No. 4. Leaving Dalton at S.10 p. k., oonneots
at Calera with L. A N. A Gt. So. R. R. for Mont
gomery, Mobile and New Orleans.
NORMAN WEBB, Gen. Supl.
RAY KNIGHT. G. P. A.
W. B. CRANE, Agent, Rome,Ga.
HOYT & COTHRAN,
Wholesale Druggists,
ROME, GEORGIA,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED A LARGE CONSIGNMENT OF.
Green and Black Teas,
WHICH THEY OFFER TO THE TRADE AT
NEW YORK WHOLESALE PRICES
FREE OF FREIGHT.
•ullOtwwtf
Spring and Summer Sohedule of the
Steamer Sidney P. Smith.
( »N AND AFTER MONDAY, APRIL 21st,
U 1379, tho stoamer Sidney P. Smith will run
as follows:
Leave Romo Monday at 11 A. w
Arrive at Gadsden Tuesday at.. 8 a. u
Arrive at Greensport Tuesday at 12 u.
Leave Greensport Tuesday at lr.»
Arrive at Gadsden Tuesday at Sr.K
Arrive at Rome Thursday at 6r.s
8. P. SMITH, President.
Says the Lynchburg (Va.) News: “In
a few years we will hoar of many sheep
ranches in Georgia, and many woolen
mills and cotton factories. Georgia is,
through her agriculturists and her capi
talists, showing more sense than all the
Southern States together. She is push
ing the manufacture of all her raw ma
terial—of the ‘forest, field and mine.’
She is investing every dollar of local
oapital in these, and she is becoming
independent and prosperous.”
From the Nashvillo American: The
Grant people are greatly elated over the
honors he received in China. They say
when he can receive such honors in a so
utterly foreign country it i6 time abuse
of him should cease at home. But
then it is precisely in that country that
they know him least. It is only here,
where we know him, that he is abused.
One of the points made by Buford’s
lawyers in the attempt to prove him
hereditarily insane was that his father
had married an own cousin; the father
and mother looked so muoh alike that
they were frequently mistaken for broth
er and sister. One of Buford’s brothers
and a sister died insane.
A North Carolina widower has been
arrested while attempting to sell a set
of false teeth belonging to his doceased
W. & A. R. R. and its Connections.
••KENNESAW ROUTE1"
Tho following sohedule takes effect May 21,1876
NORTHWARD.
No. 1 No. 3 No. II
Leave Atlanta... 2 00 pm... 0 20 am... 6 06pm
ArrOarteriville. 0 36 pm... 8 42 am... 8 60 pm
Arr Kingston 7 04 pm... 911am... 924 pm
Arr Dalton 8 41 pm...l0 64 am...11 46 pm
ArrOhattanoogn.1016 pm...1242 pm.
SOU’lHWARD.
No. * No. 4 No. 12
Lve Chattanooga 4 00 p m.fl 615 a m ..
Arrive Dalton 6 41pm... 7 01am... 100am
Arr Kingston..... 738 pm... 9 07 am... 419am
Arr Oartersville.. 812pm... 942 am... 618am
Arr Altanta 1010 p m...ll 65am... 0 60 am
Pullman Palace Oars run on No*. 1 and 2
betweon New Orleane and Baltimore:
Pullman Palace Oars run on Nos. 1 ana 4
botwoon Atlanta and Nashville.
Pullman Palaco Cars run on Nos. 8 and
betweon LouieviUo and Atlanta,
pm- No ohange of oars between New Orleans
Mobile, Montgomery, Atlante and Baltimore, and
only ono ohange to New York.
Passengers leaving Atlanta at 4.20 P. M
riva In New York the teeond afternoon thereaf
ter at 4,00 P. M.
Excursion Tiokot* to the Virginia Springs and
rarious Rummer Resorts will be on sale In New
Orleane, Mobile, Montgomery, Oolumbas, Macon,
Savannah, Augusta and Atlanta, at greatly
reduoed rates 1st of Juhe.
Partis* desiring a whole car through to the
/irglnla Springe or to Baltimore, should ad-
lress the undersigned.
Partlos contemplating traveling ehould tend
for a oopy of Kimnesate Houle Gas die, eosialn
ing sohedules, ete.
JST-Ask lor tlokots via '* Konnoiew Routs.
B. W. WRENN,
Gen'l Passenger end Ticket Agt, Atlanta Ga.
Qeoreia R, B., Augusta to Atlantai
D ay passenger trains on Georgia
Railroad, Atlanta to Augusta, ran aa below:
Leaves Augusta at 8.00 a.
Leaves Atlanta at.. ..7.00 a.
Arrives Augusta at. *•*“ r.
Arrives at Atlanta at. 4.00 6.
Night Passenger Trains as (ollown
Leaves Augusta at.. ••}•*» »•
Leavos Atlanta at... -10.40 r.
Arrives at Augusta ~*-®* *•
Arrives at Atlanta at.... ..,..*.20 a.
Accommodation Train as follows t
6 00 P.
DU A. m
16 A. M
Arrive* Covington ..
.,,.7 50 P. M j aprVjtw-wly
jul24 twwtt
E. C. HOUGH, Rome, Ga.
, T. HOYT.
II. D. COTHRAN
ALLEN & McOSKEJR
ARE NOW RECEIVING A LARGE & SPLENDID
STOOK OF THE
LATEST STYLES OF JEWELRY,
BRIDAL PRESENTS,
Engagement Rings,
Solid Silver & Plated Ware.
AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED PERFECTED SPECTACLES.
tSy*'PerBonal attention paid to Repairing Watchos, Clocks, Chronometers and. Jewelry.
All kinds of Jowelry made to order. (apr20,tw-wtf •
1879. SPRING & SUMMER TRADE. 1879.
New Goods! Fine Goods!
MRS. T. B WILLIAMS,
RAIXeljIINrEifl,
No. 61 Broad Street, Rome? Gra.
T hanking my many customers for the liberal patronage oiven me
in the paat, I am proud to say that I am bettor prepared to attend to thair .wauls thou ever
beforo. I have now In (tore and to arrive Bonnots, Hate, Flowers, Plumes, Silks, Velvets, Plushes,
Ribbons, Ornaments, Hair Goods, Zephyrs, Combs, Notions, eta., eta., whinh I have solootodiin
icrson in the Northern
one with good materiel 1.
beforo purchasing elsowhero.
lair Hoods, zephyrs, combs, notions, etc., oto., whioh I have leloctodiin
i markets. My Goods are in tho Latest Stylos, end I have my Trimming
I by experlenood milliners. Call and examlno my goods and got my prices
hero. (oot!7 tw wtf
ALBIN OMBERG,
Bookseller, Stationer&Printer
No. 33 Broad Street,
Has just received a Large Stock
CROQUET SETS, BASE BALLS, ETC.
A LARGE STOCK WALL PAPER.
i®* WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES.-©*