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TUE COURIER Uas u largo ami Bloody circu
lation 111 Cherokee Georgia, and la the beat ad-
vorllalug medium In thlaiieoLiun.
M. DWINGLL, Proprietor.
Thursday Morning, : : Sept. 25, 1879.
Ring politicians and nil who live
upon the hard earningB of the common
people prefer Grant to Tilden.
Democrats who favor organization
and who fight Radicalism, ore now the
only independent men in politics.
Prof. Tice predicts the hottest
weather of the year yet to come. Prof.
Caither predicted frost for th9 24th but
it did not come.
Tiie news from Ohio is cheering. The
Greenbackers are going to vote for Ew
ing, it is said. If so, he will carry the
State by forty thousand.
At.i, the Robesons, the Belknaps and
the Babcocks were out to receive his
Imperial Highness, Ulysses I, on his
nrrival at San Francisco.
The New York Herald is so excited
of General Grant’s reception at San
Francisco that it spells “General” with
a double 1. Nothing shorter would do.
Congress meets in regular session in
a few weeks, and it will then be in or
der for Mr. Speer, of the 9th, assisted
by Mr. Stophens, to save the country
again.
A labor reformer up North charges
the Republicans with being the oreator
of tramps. He Bays such a thing was
unknown before that party got into
power. _
The Nation, an independent Repub
lican journal of New York, says Tilden
was “probably elected" President. Prob
ably elected, indeed. The Nation uses
adverbs in their mildest form.
Nearly all the honest men belong
ing to the Republican paity in New
York have signed a pledge not to sup
port Cornell. There are a hundred
and thirty names to the paper.
That was certainly a notable crowd
that met Grant at San Francisco. The
Kearney men said in their speeches that
all the whisky thieves and defaulting
postmasters in America were there to
meet him.
W. A. Wright, of Augusta, has been
appointed Comptroller General, vice W
L. Goldsmith, removed. Capt. Wright
has been a clerk in the department for
some time, and his appointment gives
general satisfaction.
Those who are compelled to support
one man who fools his followers by
claiming to be “Independent,” are of all
men the most dependent. All they can
do is to vote for him alone—and he
rules them with a rod of iron.
Tiluen, qr any other Democrat, or
even any Republican who is a friend
of the people, is preferable to Grant, the
despot, and the ape, who has been two
years in the land of monarchy and op
pression, and has been the guest of those
who rule the people by the sword.
Dr. Janes, Commissioner of Agri
culture, has resigned, and Gov. Colquitt
has appointed Col. Jno. T. Henderson
of Covington, to the office vacated by
Dr. Janes. Col. Henderson was an op
ponent of Dr. JaneB for the office, and
is highly spoken of both as a gentleman
and a man of business.
Senator Hill has been studying the
Legislature, and in reply to a request of
several members of that body for
advice, gives them what they ask for,
and no doubt need. The wise Benja
min says:
"For many reasons I prefer not to
make any address to the Legislature at
this time, and I know none is needed
from any quarter. For more than six
weeks I have been studying, in a quiet
and unobtrusive way, the men, and es
pecially the younger men, composing
this Legislature. The result is, I am
inspired with now hopes for the future
of our dear old commonwealth.”
Benjamin knows that the Legislature
is composed in the main of healthy
young men who may be there in 1882,
while the old fellows will probably be
shelved. Hence the very pretty com
pliment to the young men.
We are glad to see our worthy Sena
tor so hopeful. The "new hopes” that
inspire him are but tho same old ones
that have thrilled us for years. Georgia
is bound to be a great State despite the
worst efforts of politicians, place-hunt
ers, Radicals and niggers.
Grant, the prince of deadbeats,
reached San Francisco Saturday, the
20th, about dark, and the fools that
had gathered there to welcome him
were mad because the U. S. steamer
Tokio that bore the great free hash eater
did not arrive before night, and charged
that Commodore Maury, commander,
was a Southern sympathiser, aud a rel
ative of Commodore M. F. Maury, of
Tennessee, who left tho U. S. service in
1861 to join the Confederates. This
Maury cannot claim the honor of being
related to the great Maury, now dead,
who taught the sailor how to make
slaves of the trade winds, and mapped
and made plain tho ship’s course over
all seas. No doubt he has pride and
honor enough to wish he could lay
claim to kinship with the greatest of
hydr'ographers, and would willingly
bear the evanescent hootings of a vulgar
mob for the sake of the lasting honor of
relationship to so great a man.
A Constitution reporter interviewing
Judge Hopkins, counsel for Goldsmith
in the impeachment trial, suggested that
the “nameless person" whom Hopkins
had oharged in Mb “statement" for the
defense, was really the guilty party
might be Governor Colquitt, or that
such might be the opinion of others,
whereupon Judge Hopkins replied:
“Then I will say that a fouler injus
tice was never done a good man. I in
vestigated the afi’airs of the comptroller’s
office to the very bottom. There was
nothing found or suspected that directly
or indirectly bore upon the Governor, or
even suggested that he had any more
responsibility in the case than the Apos
tle Paul. He was not in the case at all.
He had no more to do with it thun the
man in the moon. And it is the foulest
injustice to attempt to implicate him in
the case in any way whatever!”
Jogging Teoumseh’s Memory.
Alluding to Bummer Sherman’s rude
refusal to attend a proposed reunion of
the soldiers of the North and South, the
New Orleans Democrat says : "Gouoral
W. T. Sherman might have replied to a
courteous invitation in a more seemly
way than he chose to adopt. It ill be
comes him of all men to exhibit so
much rancor as his letter to the com
mittee on invitations of the Salisbury,
North Carolina, reunion exhibits. There
are gentlemon in this city who remem
ber when the General of the army was
not the super-loyal zealot that he now
professes to be. Just os the late un
pleasantness was coming on he was ex
tremely [anxious for the citizens of New
Orleans to send their boys to his mili
tary school at Alexandria, Louisiana!
in order that they might be ‘trained to
whip the Yankees.’ PoBsibly the Gen
eral overlooked this little fact when he
was preparing that letter.”
The Republican party was created
by sectionalism and is sustained in
power by fraud. When a man gets so
mean thet the Democrats kick him out
of the party he joins the Radicals, and
yet Dr. Felton appealed to Ferry and
other promtnent Republicans for assist
ance in his fight against the Democratic
party in 1878.
Tilden overthew the Tweed ring in
New York city; he was and is the de
termined foe of the Tammany ring
and has fought, manfully fought, the
canal ring, one of the vilest in his State
so it is not at all strange that all who
favor rings and are indebted to rings for
place and preferment oppose Tilden—
Tilden and reform.
The Boston Herald, a Republican
paper, truthfully says:
“It is the fact to-day the malcontent
Democrats in New York are the ‘bum
mere,’ while the malcontent Republi
cans are the best and cleanest men in the
party. Robinson, Democratic candidate
fer Governor, represents good govern
ment, economical, honest administra
tion. Cornell represents the spoils sy8'
tem, the corrupt political machine sus
tained by the offices.”
And what is true of New York is
true of Georgia. The hue and cry
against the Democrats in Georgia is
raised and kept up by the “bummers,”
and a few who sigh for the return of the
days of Grant and the Robesons, the
Belknaps and Babcocks.
At the late election in California the
voters were requested to deposit ballots
in a separate box expressing their views
on the Chinese question—whether they
wanted the Chinese to stay in California
or leave. Contrary to the usual custom,
nearly every voter visited these irregular
boxes and deposited his ballot. A count
shows the majority against the Chinese
in San Francisco to be 40,488 out of a
total vote of loss than 41,000. Red
Bluff, another California town, did even
better than this, as only one man in a
voting population of 1,508 favored Chi
nese immigration. It is evident that
the popular hostility to the coolie sys
tem on the Pacific slope has not been
exaggerated, and that California is
unanimous on this point.
urer by the Governor as the constitution
provides.
A bill to define who are agents of in
surance companies not incorporated by
the laws of this State.
Tbe Senate amendments to the fol
lowing bills were agreed to :
A bill to prevent the giving or promis
ing to give the treasurer interest for the
State’s money.
Also, a bill to prescribe the manner
of letting contracts for the construction
or repair of public works.
A bill to reduce and regulate fees of
tax receivers, etc.
The report of the conference commit
tee on the amendment to this bill was
read and adopted.
On motion of Mr. Redwine the House
took up a Senate resolution, to appoint
joint committee to look to an early
ijournment. The resolution was
agreed to.
A bill to provide for fee of $5 for
clerks of superior courts in administer
ing oaths and issuing certificates to com
mercial notaries public.
Mr. Fort gave some reasons why the
bill should pass. It prevents extortion
in a case where the law fixes no fee.
On motion of Mr. King 85 was stick-
en out.
Mr. Hall moved to fill tho blank with
Withdrawn.
Mr. King moved to fill the blank
with $2. Agreed to.
The bill as amended passed.
The judiciary committee submitted
the articles of impeachment against the
treasurer.
The articles are lengthy, and cover
the matters referred to in the minority
report of the committee which investi
gated the condition of the treasury.
They were read by Mr. Hardin, the as-
sistant clerk.
The time of the session was extended.
Mr. Turner, of Brooks, offered a res
olution that the articles be adopted, and
that the chosen managers of the im
peachment proceed at once- to exhibit
the same at the bar of the Senate.
Adopted.
Amusements.
No lawfully elected President of the
United States, says the Washington
Post, ever put himBelf on record as
speaking slanderously of his competitor
for that high office. But the man who
fills the position to which Mr. Tilden
was elected gossips to reporters about
the private character of the gentleman
whose stolen place he holds. It is a
humiliating spectacle for the American
people to witness such degradation of
the Presidential office. It is of a piece
with Mr. Hayes sending 8500 out of the
White House to buy the silence of a ti
tle thief. _ _
Some English engineers have projected
a gigantio tunnel under Gibraltar Strait,
from Sapin to Africa. The length of
the tunnel would be nine miles, and
deepest point about three-quarters of a
mile under the surface of water,
seems that the engineers undertook to
realize tho dream of an Englishman
who wanted to go by land not only to
Franco but even to Africa. Hence the
projects of two tunnels, one under the
English Channel, the other under the
Gibraltar Strait.
The great question of liberty in
volved in the issues of troops at the
polls and hired marshals in the slums,
will demand the attention of Congress
at its session in December. The man
who dallies or proves recreant to the
rights of the people will and should bo
forever branded as a traitor.
Grant has returned. Now lookout
for the Robesons, the Belknaps and the
Babcocks.
New Haven Register: The New York
city newspapers are in a terribly demor
alized condition politically. The New
York Times, Republican, is defending
Tilden, a Democrat. The World, spas
medically Democrat, is bitterly assailing
him. The Star and Express, formerly
Democratic, are heaping abuse on the
Democratic candidate for Governor.
The Evening Post, Republican, is at'
tacking Cornell, the Republican candi
date for. Governor. The Herald and
Telegram take, very characteristically,
different sides every other day, and Jay
Gould’s Okolona Sentinel is chanting
Bourbon ballads, inspired by the gin
mill in the basement of the tall tower,
and making love to Boss Kelly with all
its maudlin enthusiasm. Somebody
seems to have "mixed up” these political
babies. We suspect that the “Little
Buttercup” is none other than the sly
Mr. Tilden. How ever could you do it ?
The Detroit Free Press ridicules the
moral assumption of the Republican
patty thns: “The profligate Senator of
one great State (Conkling) carries tbe
party vote of that State in his pocket:
another Senator (Chandler), whose
drunken habits are the daily subject of
jeering comment all over the land, is
the chosen and accepted Btandard-bear
er of his party ia his State and the
choice of himself for higher honors.
And still another, whose record as a
stock-jobber (Blaine) would have cov
ered a man in humble position with
infamy, is a prominent candidate for a
Presidential nomination.”
The London Enquirer says: “The
fastest trains now run are as follows
Great Western, 53} miles the hours
Great Northern, 51; London and
Brighton and London and Northwest,
47); Midland, 46 miles.
Secretary Sherman has shut down on
assessments in his department to help
elect Cornell in York State, and the
employees wish that he had taken the
same stand before the Maine election
Legislative Summary.
Monday, September 22.
The following bills of the House
were passed to-wit:
To repeal an not creating a board of
roads and revenue for the county of
Paulding.
To repeal the several acts creating
commissioners of roads and revenues
for theoounties of Jones, Chattahoooheo,
Douglas, Floyd, Bullooh and Heard, re
spectively.
This bill was so amended as to strike
out the county of Floyd, and add the
county of Lumpkin.
To provide for the creation of boards
of commissioners of roads and revenues
for the counties of Cobb, Dooly, Henry
Telfair and Washington in this State!
The county of Washington was striokon
from the bill on motion of Mr. DuBose.
A resolution that a committee of two
on the part of the Senate to meet
committee of three from the House for
the purpose of examining and reporting
iiest period at which the gen-
gen
can adjourn, was offered
ussell and unanimously
the eari
eral assembly
by Mr. R
agreed to.
The President appointed Messrs. Rus
sell and Grimes as the committee on the
part of the Senate under the foregoing
resolution.
The bill of the Senate ‘‘to punish
cruelty to children,” was put upon its
passage. An amendment guarding the
helpless little ones from all imagina
ble cruelties and outrages from parents
orothers, was engrafted on the bill at
the instance of the President, Mr. Les
ter.
Tbe bill was passed as amended.
Mr. Clarke, from the committee on
rules of procedure for the trial of tho
impeachment case against the State
treasurer, made a report which was read
and adopted.
NEW BUSINESS.
Mr. Brintle, of Paulding—A bill to
change the time of holding superior
courts in the Rome circuit, Referred to
the judiciary committee.
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
A bill to carry into effect the provis'
ions of the constitution relative to the
removal of oounty sites.
A bill to provide for the removal or
suspension of the comptroller or treas-
C XT Y HALL!
OPENING OF THE SEASON!
TWO NIGHTS ONLY,
Sept. 39th and 30th.
STEWART
English Opera Co.
Under managomont ot Mr. Juuus Scvit.
CIROFLE-CIROFLA.
K. M. S. PINAFORE
-AND-
TRIAL BY JURY.
Tickets for Sale at Warner’s. Reserved
Seats 81.00; General Admission 75c.
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New Advertisements.
JOHN W. MADDOX,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SUMMERVILLE, CEORCIA.
■ep2fitw3m*
James G. Dailey,
UNDERTAKER’S WARE-ROOMS,
(On second story)
96 Broad Street,
Tuesday, Sept. 23.
At 10 o'clock a. m. a message was re
ceived from the House communicating
the rcadinesB of that body to prefer
foamal articles of impeachment against
John W. Renfroe, treasurer.
The President, under the rules, di
rected the secretary to inform the House
that the Senate was ready to receive
managers of the House for the purpose
indicated.
The members of the House of Repre
sentatives, preceded by the Speaker,
were received b y the Senate.
The managers, through their chair
man, Mr. Cox, of Troup, having signi
fied their readiness to prefer the formal
articles, the President instructed the
doorkeeper to make proclamatic
accordance with the rules. This being
done, the managers proceeded to read,
seriatim, the several articles and speci
fications.
The President responded ; “The State
will take due order in this impeach
ment, of which the House shall have
notice,” and the speaker, members and
managers retired.
A resolution was then offered by Mr.
McDaniel and adopted, instructing the
secretary to inform the House of Repre
sentatives and the Hon. Hiram War
ner, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of the State, that the Senate will be
ready to proceed with the impeachment
trial of the treasurer at 10 a. m. Thurs
day, the 25th instant, and that he place
in the hands of the messenger, to be
served by him on the defendant, at least
one day before the time appointed for
the trial, an original and copy sum'
mons.
The following bills of the House were
read the second time and passed to a
third reading :
A bill to repeal the several acts ere'
ating county courts for the oounties of
Dooly, Campbell, Floyd, Rockdale and
Clarke, and dispose of the business
pending in the same.
A bill to authorize the commission
ers of Bibb county to purchase proper'
ty sold for State or county taxes in said
countv.
A bill to amend an act of February
24,1874, amendatory of section 31 of
tbe code cf Georgia, relative to illegal
hunting with dogs and firearms, etc.,
on inclosed lands; and
A bill to amend section 281 of the
code.
FINE AND WELL SELECTED STOCK
of M.t&Uio, W.lnut, Grained and Stained
Coffins, Burial Robes and Coffin Trimmings, al
ways on hand. Neatest Hearses furnished for
funerals. All orders filled with dispatch, day
or night. Residence, corner Court And King
streets.
ALSO, DEALER IN
FIRST-CLASS FURNITURE OF ALL KINDS
julfitwtmarlfi
BILLS ON THIRD RAPING
were taken up. The following were
A bill to amend section 1832 of the
code relative to guardians powers-
A bill to repeal the act requiring judg
ment creditors to have their judgments
recorded iu the county of the defend
ant's residence.
THE IMPEACHMENT
Mr. Turner, of Brooks, moved that
the House proceed at once to the Senate,
there to prefer articles of impeachment
against John W. Renfroe, treasurer.
Tbe Senate had notified the House that
it was ready to proceed to this business,
Mr. Turner's motion was agreed to.
The House resolved itself into a commit
tee of the whole and proceeded to the
Senate, headed by the seven chosen man
agers of the impeachment.
The House returned from the Senate
and Mr. Turner made a report of its
aotion, The regular business was re
sumed and the following bills considered
on third reading.
A message from the governor
nounced that he approved and signed a
bill to relieve the Macon and Augusta
railroad from over taxation. Also a
bill to carry into effect paragraph 1, sec
tion 1, article 7 of the constitution.
A bill to amend an act providing for
the payment of the fees of the solicitor-
general of the southern cirouit. Pas
A bill to amend section 837 of the
code. Passed,
A bill to prohibit the carrying on of
any agenoy of any lottery in this State or
any other method of hazarding money.
Paspod,
H. HARPOLD
IB NOW LOCATED AT
No. 55 Yancey Block,
IN ONE OF THE BEST ARRANGED STORP
HOUSES IN ROME.
HE IS NOW OFFERING THE
LARGEST AND FINEST STOCK
— OF-
Dry Goods, Notions
-AND-
FANCY GOODS
HE EVER BROUGHT TO THIS MARKET.
HIS ST03K OF BLACK AND COLORED
SILKS, BLACK AND COLORED
CASHMERES, FOREIQN AND
STAPLE DRESS GOODS,
TRIMMINGS, &c„ IS SURPASS-
ED BY NONE IN THIS CITY
IN QUALITY, STYLE AND PRICE.
HIS STOCK OF CASSIMERS, JEANS, FLAN.
NEL3, LINSEY, AND DOMESTIC
GOODS OF ALL KINDS, IS COM-
PLETE, AND PRICES AS LOW AS
ANY HOUSE IN THE CITY OF ROME.
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Rome Female College.
AKS’ WORK- was awarded this Institution
at the Paris Exposition. Board and Tuition at
the rate of $100.00 per torm of 20 weeks, paya
ble half in advance and half in the middle of
the session Next term commenoes on the first
Monday of September.
J. M. M. CALDWELL, President,
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SASH, BLINDS, DOORS, BTC
T HE UNDERSIGNED HAVE ASSOCIATED
themselves together lor the purpose of sup
plying tho demand for BASH, DOORS, BLINDS,
GLAZED WINDOWS, MOULDINGS, 8TAIR8,
MANTLES, BALUSTERS, Ao.
A foil line ol those goods will ho kept on hand
in white or yellow piue, or furnished at short
notice.
We are fully proparod, and aro willing to meet
competition from any quarter, and rospeotfully
ask an examination of our goods and prices, at
Robt. A. Johnson’s machine shops or at A. A,
Jones’ store, No. 117 Broad street, Rome, Qa.
A. A. JONES,
RORT. A. JOHNSON
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WHITELEY’S
OLD RBLIIBLK
LIVERY STABLE
W. L. 1VHITELEY, Proprietor.
KEETS CONSTANTLY ON
hand to hire, Good Hones and
Exeellont Vehicles. Splendid
accommodation*, for Droyere and others, florses,
Carriages, # and Buggies always on hand fer
sale# Entire satisfaction guaranteed to all who
patronlia ns. febU.twly
ELLIS DAVIS & CO.,
Slate Manufacturers
and Roofers,
H ave always on hand an excel-
lont stock of SLATE, aud aro prepared to
do Roofing at short notice in any part of the
South. Price about a third above ehinglos.
Satisfaction guarsntesd. Ordors promptly at
tended to.
Offices:
Box 367.
Rockmsrt, Ga., and Atlanta, G*
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THE ROME HOTEL,
(Formerly Tenneseee Houso)
BROAD BTREET, NEAR RAILROAD DEPOT
J. A. 3TANSBURY, - - Proprietor
Rome, Georgia.
M THIB HOTEL IS SITUATED WITHIN
twonty stops of the railroad platform, and
con veniant to the business portion of t own.
Servants polite and attentive to thoir duties.
All Baggage handled Free of Charge.
febSA G. A. RAINWATER. Olerx.
For Sale or Rent.
M y dwelling, one and one-fourth
miles from Rome, on the Alabama road.
The house has six rooms and four fire-places.
There is a good well and all necessary out
houses. There are eloven acres of land, four
aores oleared and woll fenced. The place is
suitable for a market garden. Come and see it.
Possession given by 1st November.
sep!8tw2w C. H. STILLWELL.
JSTtt'W
Wholesale and Retail,
39 Broad Street, Rome, Ga,
WE HAVE NOW IN STORE AND ARRIVINO
DAILY
A LARGE, NEW AND WELL
SELECTED STOCK OF
BUILDERS’ HARDWARE,
CABINET-MAKERS’ HARDWARE,
BLACKSMITHS’ HARDWARE,
CARPENTERS’ TOOLS,
IRON, STEEL, NAILS, CASTINGS,
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS,
LEATHER AND RUBBER BELTING,
GRANITE AND C C. WARE, itv Cmn
Only,
WHICH WILL BE SOLD AS LOW AS THE
LOWEST!
9- An .nomination cf our Good. «nd Frieei
respectfully solicited.
SULLIVAN, WEST & GO,
J. B. SULLIVAN,
E. H. WEST,
W. S. COTHRAN.
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O. W. LjtHuwonTur. G. B. Likowostit.
L. M. LiROWORtnr.
. W. LANGWORTHY & CO..
90 Masonic Temple, Rome, Ga,,
MUSICAL AGENOY.
DEALERS IN
WILCOX & WHITE
Clough. & Warren
AND OTHER ORGANS.
V0SE&S0NS, KRANICH&BACH, RAVEN
A CO., AND OTHER PIANOS.
Pianos & Organs for Exchange or Rent
8HEET MUSIC, MUSIC BOOKS, ® T » c TI()S '
KEY, BOOKS, PERIODICALS,
pc*- Ordors by mail promptly filled. - ^
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Mill Machinery for Sale.
T he mill machinery now in the
u®Soto Mill Is for sale. It consists of three
pair of 34 ft. Frenoh Burr Milestones, dressed,
faced and furrowed complete; one No. 3 Eureka
Bmutter, 6 reels, bolts oomplete. Will be sold
low. Enauire of j. j. COHEN'S SONS.
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MOUNT DE SALES ACADEMY
FOR YOUNG LADIES,
Terms Pei Session, Board and Tuition 878.
Next Session oommonoei September 25. For
Cirouier and particulars adddreea
DIRECTRESS OF ACADEMY,
aulB ti’oolstwtw Maeon, Ga.
., N V ,, J? a P er ad ™ tl,in * >■ * permanent addi
tion to the reputation of the good! advertised,
beoause it lea permanent influence always at
work In their interaet.
advertising promotes trade, for
even in the dulleet times advertisers teenre by
far the largest share ol what is being done.
Order of Business, Floyd Supe
rior Court.
SEPTEMBER TERM, 1879, BEGINS*”
Q No. 1, January Term, 1871, Claim
1. Claim.
2. Common Law.
3. Equity.
4. Issue and Illegality.
Criminal Doeket wlU bo Uk.n up JjjJiLi.
the seoond week of Court, September «>»’
J. W.H. UNDERWOOD, J. 8.
A. E. ROSS, Clerk.
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THE CHOICE HOTEL.
CORNER BROAD AND BRIDGE flTBS
J. C. Ratvllnx, Proprietor.
(Situated in the BufineH part olti* 0I V
Borne, Georgia. (
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lanlU
freo of ohargo.