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“WISDOM, JUSTICE, AND MODERATION."
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ROME, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1879.
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VOL. 18, NO. 125
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APRIL 10, 1870.
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Georgia News from Washing
ton.
S»7»nnab News.
Under the caption, “The Independent
Movement in Georgia,” the Washington
Star (Ind, Rep.) furnishes the following
interesting, if not entirely reliable, po
litical news from our State. Says the
Star:
“Although the election for Governor
and other State officers in Georgia will
not take place until next year, the In
dependents are actively oiganizing,
with a number of prominent men in
the lead. As in Mitsissippi, they pro
claim that the contest will be upon
States issues only—that on all national
questions they will maintain their alle
giance to the Democracy. Last year
the Independents carried three Congres
sional districts in Georgia, and the same
causes which led to the movement in
localities havo operated to make it gen
eral throughout the State. The Demo
crats in their plentitude of power be
came arbitrary, and the machine ruled
everything. In every county and dis
trict there were small cliques who con
trolled the party nominations absolute
ly. No matter how worthy a man
might be, he stood no chance whatever
of a nomination unless the rings order
ed it. This caused revolt against the
party, first in localities where the ma
chine was most despotic, and latterly all
| over the State. The present State ad
ministration has materially weakened
; 'he Democratic party bv its bad man
agement of publio affairs. The Inde
pendents are at work in almost every
county preparing for the canvass next
fear, and with a good set of candidates
their prospects of success are pronounc
ed first-rate. General Toombs is men
tioned as their probable candidate for
Governor, and, though his political disa
bilities, incurred by participation in the
I rebellion, have never been removed,
I would not debar him from holding
| a State office.”
it must bo admitted that there has
Wn some just complaints of ring dic
tation and convention packing in the
I past, and efforts are being made by dis-
I contented aspirants to make political
I capital in their own interest out of the
Ijtregnlarities that have been brought to
111 if 1Dsomo °f bh® State departments.
I ut for all these reasons, the true De-
I nf ac y °f the State are not ready or
■wimng a.t a time like the present—on
l».« , a f ?reat and perhaps decisive
I tional conflict between the friends of
I COD stilutional government
|nj.? ne hand and the advocates of
IJicul centralization and military des-
|f? ' sra on . the other—to break up the
Ifj ®°? ratl ° organization by which
Li'? 4 was rescued from carpet-bag
lernm P* uu fl er i and give the gov-
lof n! tDt °v . 8 State over to the chances
lth« n W ,P 0 l| tlc al combinations, in which
Itrollin 1lca e ' ement would be the con-
VrtP°J ver - Corruption in office
the 6 are not to be tolerated by
lie ue Democracy, but it is folly to
is v ?, rt ’ m ?fly worse than the dis-
• .vuher is there any need to burn
" to get rid of the rats. Mal
ms pti\,° corruption in office must
La A'!, and punished and ringsters
(hedutvnfi - mu . 9t be P ut down - In
Vshincr Jo: ■ “ringing to light and pun-
'«re is n!? Cm delinquents, the Legisla-
'he neonuV 1 *™ 8811 ? en 8 a 8 ad - 11 is for
'bled t,,, 6 ? aee t0 that they are not
®5kinr, y m ring9 nnd cliques; but in
loamA tT ar °? tbe Individuals who
between ‘ b ?y should distinguish
party wk P°htical tricksters and the
.The'Bpnr,i 08e r confidence they abuse.
feroutt of Georgia, with the dan-
afford Ui imi?'. ln their m'flst, oannot
fforlt an,i™ l a , e the example of New
r n di'o» fw 30 ve themeolves into con- i
pnity 5 n i .'° n8 \ Cm 1 safety is in the
tarty. r,! n o R r 'ty of the Democratic
Pictation domination and clique
{biwe ra 8 u°fi d l .. n0t be Bubmitted to,
tarty an ,i 8t fight these wrongs in the
n0Hn
‘^Sw^^Csept. 9 -The
-•75; The^m va “ oed bero to-day to
ho mffla are full of orders. '
Our Home Defamers.
Hayneiville, Ala., Examiner.
The press have had two tragedies late
ly, within a day or two of each other,
whioh have given them something to
talk about. One occurred at San Fran-
oisco, the other at Yazoo City; one in
the “loil” State of Californio, the other
in the “rebel" State of Mississippi.
Each of these crimes was caused by a
quarrel growing out of politicos, and
there was no essential difference in any
respect as to the origin of these twin
tragedies. One difference of faot is
that the “loil” man shot his foe in the
baok, whereas the “rebel” met face to
face one who had threatened his life.
Another marked difference is that the
“loil” tragedy came near drenching the
streets oi a large city with blood, and
destroying whole acres of its buildings;
the entire police and militia of the
State being called on to protect the
guilty man from mob violence, and
even the Federal Government comply
ing with a requisition for arms to main
tain the peace; whereas in Mississippi
no violence or disorder came in the
train of the murder in that State, whioh
is a fact showing the superior degree of
law and tranquility which prevails at
the South. Whatever difference there
is in the two cases is wholly in favor of
the killing at Yazoo. The provocation
whioh caused DeYoung to shoot Kal-
looh was words abusive of his mother
by the latter; and the provocation of
Barksdale was the threat of Dixon to
kill Barksdale. Kalloch was a preach
er, whose offenses never went farther
than words; Dixon was a fierce man
who had killed more than one man be
fore. Kalloch was attacked when he
was without weapons; Dixon was known
to bo a desperado who always went
armed.
These faots; so parallel in all their
main outlines, are before the public.
The blood which was spilt at San Fran
cisco, and which raised a storm in that
State that may yet lead to the direst
results, was treated as a mere item of
news by all parties—North and South,
Radioal and Democrat—and unless
there is another outbreak will soon be
forgotten. Not so with the Yazoo af
fair. That dood chanced to be done in
the South, and by a “rebel," as the pa
triots of a Lost Cause ore falsely called by
the gushing camp followers and dead
beats of the brave Union armies. And
because Dixon chanced to be killed in
the South there is not only a howl from
the Radioal Stalwarts, who take every
occasion to slander and villify the
Southern people, but the cry is taken
up by the thoughtless and weak in the
South, who hope by fouling their own
nest to avert the wrath of their loil
masters of the North. It is a shame
that should mantle the cheeks of these
home defamers with the stain of re
proach forever that they should so for
truckle to base and mean “loil” arro
gance and taunts as to denounce their
own people for an incident which, how
ever lamentable, ie likely to happen in
any part of this country under the in
fluence of partisan feeling. Southerners
who thus turn on their people are not
traitors, they are not recreant, they are
not even timid; but they are thoughtless
and foolish and time-serving without
perhaps being aware of their unfortun
ate attitude. If the Northern people
were our masters they could not expect
us to be more humble and suppliant
than these Southerners who are always
apologizing to them make us appear to
be. Somo of the Northern press have
even had the audacity to ask Mr. La
mar, of Mississippi, to come out and ex
plain the Yazoo tragedy, and if Mr. L.
wishes to prove himself of the noble
people he assumes to represent he will
give them a crack on the knuckles for
their insolence which they will never
forget. Even Judge Harris, of Missis
sippi, in an article we print this week,
speaks of “the misapprehension of this
whole affair which exists in the minds
of the Northern people,” as if the North
ern people had anything to do with it.
It is this sort of sentiment that forges fet
ters forfree men! If Mr. Barksdale is guil
ty of murder, without, provocation, he
should be hung for killing Dixon just
as he should be hung for killing any
human being; but the question of his
violent conduot is one that the grand
S of hie county should deal with,
which the local sentiment of the
region adjacent to Yazoo, and familiar
with all the facts, should investigate.
But for Southern men and papers to be
denouncing the deed, in answer to loil
impertinence and arrogance, is an ex
hibition of weakness and folly that we
are shocked and pained to witness.
Locomotive Longevity.
The iron horse does not last much
longer than the horse of flesh and bones.
The ordinary life of a locomotive ie
thirty years. Some of the smaller
Darts require renewal every six months,
the boiler tubes last five years and the
crank axles six years; tires, boilers and
fire-boxes from six to seven years;the
side frames, axles and other parts thir
ty. An important advantage is that a
broken part can be, repaired and does
not condemn the whole locomotive to
the junk-shop, while, when a horse
breaks a leg, the whole animal is only
SShitote, “5 «&.
Amount to a very email sum m this
country, where horse flesh does not fin
its way to the butchers’shamblea. •
The peanut business is at a stand
The OauBos of Agricultural De
pression in England.
It is stated by competent authorities
that the avorage cost of growing wheat
in England is 47s 6d to 48s per quarter,
and that American wheat can be deliv
ered at Liverpool with a margin of 6s
for profit for 35s per quarter. Also,
that the American farmer can supply
the Liverpool meat market without lose
at something under 5 Id a pound, while
the English farmer cannot do as muoh
at less than 71d a pound. Against such
competition the English farmers are
fighting with the pluok which charac
terizes the race, out the edds are so
great that orushing defeat seems inev
itable., It is for this reason that repre
sentatives of the Parliamentary Com
mission appointed to consider the ag
ricultural depression in England have
come to this country to learn its agri
cultural resources and methods. On
Saturday Clare Sewel Read and Albert
Pell, members of the House of Com
mons, the commissioners who are to
study American farming, landed at
New York. Both of these gentlemen
are tenant farmers, and thus belong to
the class in England from whioh the
burden of thejcomplaints come. They
are to glean facts in this country and
report them to the Royal Commission,
in order to aid that body in reaching
an intellgent and comprehensive con
clusion. Their purpose is to study ag
riculture on the farm, or, in the words
of one of the commissioners as reported
by a New York journal, “to trace a bush
el of seed corn from the farmer’s hands
to the time it reaches the English
mouths.”
The commission comprises a number
of large landowners, at least eight hun
dred thousand acres being represented
by owners. Among its numbers are
the Duke of Bocoleugh, the Duke of
Richmond and Gordon, Earl Spencer,
Mr. Gosrhen and Bonamy Price. It is
hardly thought the commission will be
ready to report until two years have
gone by. One of the commissioners is
reported as saying that Amerioan fruit
and fresh vegetables are beginning to
find their way to the English markets,
and that a very large trade is to spring
up in this direction. The report of
these gentlemen, as well as that of the
main commission, cannot fail to be of
exceeding interest to the United States,
If, says the Philadelphia Record, the
continuance of American competition
means the overthrow of the British
landed gentry, the outlook oannot but
be regarded with trepidation by the. en
tire English speaking race. It will be
a social revolution, from which a class
that have done so much for civil liber
ty as the English landowners Bhould be
spared. It is earnestly hoped that
measures may be found for averting
such a catastrophe.
The Way Vanderbilt Succeeded
When Commodore Vanderbilt was
running steamboats he beat all rivalry
by crowding on steam to the utmost,
and even running down his enemy if
necessary to accomplish a triumph.
When he went to railroading he adopt
ed a much uhrewder and more success
ful way, by uniting vast lines and their
tributaries under his own management,
thus capturing all rivals by sharing
with them the immense pool of profits
that were made-by his skillful manipu
lation. Messrs. Lawrence & Co., bank
ers, N. Y., accomplish a much greater
success in stock operations by their new
combination method of dealing. By
this system the orders of thousands of
customers are pooled into one vast sum
and co-operated under the most, expe
rienced management, thup giving to
each shareholder all the benefits of
large capital and best skill. Profits di
vided monthly. Any amount from 85
to $25,000 can be used with great suc
cess. $15 will make $75 profit; $80
would return $720 or 9 per cent on the
stock during the month, according to
the market. The new oircular, mailed
free, has two unerring rules for success
and full explanations, so that any one
can operate profitably. Stocks and
bonds wanted. Government bonds sup
plied. Apply to Lawrence & Co., bank
ers, 57 Exchange Place, New York
City. ^ ^
A flourishing Parisian art threatens
to take root in London. It is an old,
trick in Paris for extravagant ycung
women to take their lovers into jewelers’
shops, and to induce these lovers to
purchase for them, at an immense
price articles of jewelry made of paste,
the ladies and jewelers sharing the
profits between them. I now hear of a
dressmaker having in her pay certaio
elegant females, who get men to order
handsome dresses from her which are'
never sent home. This will probably
be accepted as the newest development
of the co-operating system.
Russia is moving forward rapidly.
It has now the largest national debt—
if we include therein the paper money
in circulation—of any country in the
world, owing no Jess an amount than
$4,383,572,562, almost all of whioh sum
bears interest. Five sixths of this debt
is held abroad, the greater portion of it,
strange to say, in France, ana the re
mainder in England and Holland.
(uticura
REMEDIES
Infallibly Cure all Skin ami Scalp Dis
eases, Scaly Eruptions, Itchlugs,
and Irritations.
The testimonials of permanent ouree of Skin
and Scalp Dlaoasea, which hare been tho torture
of a lifetime, by tho Cutleura Itemedtee, ero
more wonderful than any evor before performed
by any methode or remodiei known to the med
ical profesaion.
Cutleura Resolvont, a powerful Blood Purifier,
ie the only purifying agent whioh finds Us way
into the circulating fluid and thence through
tho oil and sweat glands to the surfaoo of tho
akin, thus destroying the poisonous elements
with which these vessels have been dally
ohsrged.
Cutleura, Tho Great Skin Cure, applied exter
nally, arrests all unnatural or morbid growths
which cover the surface of tho diseased glands
and tubes with Scaly, Itohing and Irritating
Humors, speedily It removes them, leaving the
S ores opsn, healthy and free from diseased par
oles of matter.
Thus Internally and externally do these great
remedies aot In conjunction, performing oures
that have astonished the most noted phyeiciani
of the day.
SALT RHEUmToR 30 YEARS
On the Head, Face and Greater Part of
tho Body, Cured.
Meiers. Weeks & Potter: Gontlomon—I have
boon a great eufferor with Salt Rheum for 80
years, commencing In my head and faoe and
extending over the greater part of my body. I
have taken gallons of medioines for the blood of
different kindi and tried good phyelelans, all ef
which did me no good, and I eame to the eonclu-
aton that I could not be enrod. Bnt a friend
oalled my attention to an article in the Union
on skin diseaees, and I got a box of Cutioura.
The first application was a great relief, and tho
third took the aoales all off, and I felt like a
new man. I have used three 60-cent boxes and
my skin Is smooth, and I ooniider myself en
tirely ourod. Hoping that this may be seen by
some one ifflieted as I have been (If there is
any) Is my earnest wish. And I cheerfully reo-
' it to all persons afflicted with like dis-
ommend
eases.
II P
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ours trulyi
B. WILSON LORD.
Agawam, Mail., Sept. 9,1878.
The Outioura Soap ahculd be uaad for oleans-
ing all diseased surfaces, aa most aoaps aro in
jurious to the skin. .
LEPROSY.
A Modern Miracle. Astonishing Results
from the Use of CUT1CURA.
Messrs. Weeks A Potter t Gentlemen —We
have a ease of Leprosy in our poorhouio whioh
Is being oured by your Cutioura remedies. The
county had employed all of our doctors and
had sent to Hew York for ad vice, but to no avail.
The patient commenced using the Cutioura
and Immediately began getting better.
He had been confined to his bed for two and
one-half years. Had not had hta olothos on
doting this timo. Last week he dressed for the
firet time.
Whon he walked there would at least ono
quart of soales como off of him.
This happened every day.
We think it la a wonderful euro.
We do not say he Is oured, but ho is In a fair
way to be oured, to say the least.
Yours truly, DUNHING BROTHERS,
Druggists and Bookiellers.
Allegan, Mich., Feb. 11, 1870.
Hon.—Messrs. Dunning Brothers are thor
oughly reliable gentlemen, and were unknown
to ua prior to the receipt of this letter. We
firmly believe this Cutioura will permanently
cure this very severe ease of Leprosy, as it hss
dono many others.
Propared by Weeks A Potter, Chemists and
Druggista, 360 Washington Street, Boston, Maes.,
and for aale by all Druggists and Dealers. Price
of Coiionni, small boxes, 60 cents; Urge boxes
containing two and one-half times the quantity
of small, $1. RasoLvxiiT, $1 per bottle. Coti-
cura Soap, 26 cants per eake; by mail, 80 eents;
3 c&kss, 76 eenta.
f'OLUNei Rheumatism, Heuralgia,
Wo » k “ d Bor# Lun « , >
VOLTAIC Boom Coughs and Colds, Weak
Baok. Stomach aud Bowels,
**nSTEVva Dyspasia, Shooting Pains
through the Loins and Back, Spasma or Pita,
and Nervous, Muscular and Spinal Affections,
rollovcd and cured when evory other plaster,
liniment, lotion and eleotrleal appliance rails.
■epOtwwlm
“P. O. P.”
“Fill of PerfectionIt in a hard “Pill” for the
Old-Time Setvlng Machine Companies to take, bnt
When the 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 jirlce. They
are so constructed that Ihc Lost Motion in all the
wearing parts caused from long and constant use can
be taken up by the single turning of. a screw, there
fore they are obliged to outlast any olliet' Machine
not provided with this necessary device,
Statements of Agents of other Maohines to the Contrary Notwithstanding.
Tlioy have more space under the arm, and aro tho lightest running
Machine made. Therefore pay no attention to what others say hut try
them yourself aud huy the White if you want the best. For sale by
jui2i twwti E. C. HOUGH, Borne, 6a.
1879. SPRING & SUMMER TRADE. 1879.
New Goods. Fine Goods.
MRS. T. 13 WILLIAMS,
M ILLUVER,
No. 61 Broad Street, Rome, Ga.
T HAHKIHG MY MAHY CUSTOMERS FOR THE LIBERAL PATROHAGE GIVEN ME
in the past, I am proud to say that I am hotter prepared to attend to their wants than evsr
before. I have now ln store and to arrive Bonnets, Hats, Flowers, Plumes, Silkr, Velvots, Plushes,
Ribbons, Ornaments, Hair Goods, ” ‘ ‘ “ *
S arson in the northern markets.
dono with good material by oxporlencod mllllnors
before purchasing elaewhoro.
Zephyrs, Combs, Notions, etc'., etc., which 1 hare selected iti
My Goods are in tho Latest Stylos, and I havo my Trimming
Call and examine my goods and gel my prices
(ootl7 tw wtf
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VHOLESALE HARDWARE DEALERS,
BROAD STREET, ROME, GA.
WE CARRY IH STOCK
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RUBBER PACKING, 1-8, 3-16 and 1-4 inches.
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HEMP PACKING—MANILLA ROPE—LACE LEATHER—CUT LACINGS—
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OUR PRICES ARE ALWAYS RIGHT.
COMMON SENSE VIEWS
FOREIGN LANDS.
BY M. DWINELL.
T .. „ ... .
Pages, now ready for sals, if well printed
on good paper and noatty bound In muslin.
It embraces a series of Letters writlon from
the moat Interesting oltlea of Southern Europe;
from Alexandria, Cairo and the Pyramids, In
Egypt; from Jaffa, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Beth
any, Mount of Olivos, Jericho, River Jordan,
Dead Baa, Ae, In Palestine; Smyrna and An-
oient Ephesus, In Syria; from Constantinople,
Vienna, Switsorland, Ae., in Europe. Also, a
series from the Western part of America, from
Omaha to San Franeiaeo and including a vl.it to
the famous Yosemite Falls.
This Volume vrill bo sent by mall, (roe of
postage, on receipt of $1 50. Address CouRisa
OfSco, Rome, Ga., or it nan bo brught at tho
Book Stores.
OLDEST AND BEST
DR. J. BRADFORD’S
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This is a Prompt and Certain Cure for all Diseases of the Liver
Such as Dyspepsia, Headache, Chills and Fever, &c.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED IN EVERY CASE, OR MONEY RETURNED.
FOR SALE BY DRUCCISTS GENERALLY.
J. a. YEISER,
Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Garden Seeds, &c.,
Sole Proprietor, Home, Ga.
R. T. Hoyt, Wholesale and Retail Agent for Rome, Go.
febttwwly
It. T. HOYT.
II. D, COTflRAN
New York, Sept. 12.-Ex-Gov. John
T. Hoffman has resigned the office of
Sachem of the Tammany Society an'
says he will support the Robinson Stai
ticket.
ROBERTSON, TAYLOR k CO.,
SUCCESSORS TO
QE0. W. WILLIAMS & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
— AND -
GENERAL
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
1 & 3 HavneSt., Charleston, S. 0.,
WILL GIVE ALL BtfBINESB TIlElB MO$T
CAREFUL ATTENTIOH.
onuints or Cotton Solicited.
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HOYT & COTHRAN,
Wholesale Druggists,
ROME, GEORGIA,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD OF
GRASS AND FIELD SEEDS,
INCLUDING CLOVER, TIMOTHY, HERDS’, BLUE AND ORCHARD
GRASS, BARLEY AND RYE, (and Oats to arrive.)
Which they Offer to the Trade at Lowest Possible Figures.
jullOtwwtf
ALBIN OMBERG,
Bookseller, Stationer&Printer
TVo. 33 Broad Street*
Has just received a Large Stock
CROQUET SETS, BASE BALLS, ETC.
A LARGE STOCK WALL PAPER.
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