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M. DWINBLIfl Proprietor.
Saturday Morning,
Oct. 11,1879.
Whenever Mr. King, or any other
man, moves to take the resolution to
adjourn from the table we will publish
it, if we don’t overlook it.
A dispatch from Washington in
forms us that there will be a full eclipse
of the moon by Venus, on Monday, the
1.3th, from 10 to 11 o’clock A. M. That
fellow was certainly “up among the
stars, boys, sailing round the moon,”
when he got off that item.
The Postmaster General will not
rescind the order to postmasters to refuse
to forward mail matter addressed to
agents of lotteries. If the Conkling
wing of the Radical party succeeds in
capturing the Presidency next year,
then no agent for the sale of shot-guns
can hope for a letter from Rhode Is
land.
Some of the would-be leaders of pub'
lie sentiment, believing that both Gold
smith and Renfroo were guilty and de
serving of tlio pains and penalties of
impeachment, are crying out for a re
versal of tho .judgment in Goldsmith’s
case because Renfroe was acquitted.
That is, they demand the release of one
guilty party because another has been
wrongfully acquitted. This is about
the sort of reasoning we expect from
men whoso distorted ideas, if they have
any ideas even, lead them to try to
fasten tho sins and crimes of an indl
vidual upon a political party mado up
iu the main of honest and intelligent
voters.
collecting the lato and moagor harvest.
is probably tho general inquiry from
millors in strictly agricultural districts
that will sustain the new rise in wheat
prices, but they did not start it. The
great ports and the cargo buyers have
initiated tho change, and upon the
broad principle that all the supply that
can be foreseen is scarcely adequate for
tho certain doraand that has to bo satis
fied out of imported wheat. The move
ment, therefore must bo considered a
healthy and permanent one.
Legislative Summary'
Wednesday, October 8.
At tho hour of 10 a. m. the high court
of impoachment met, tho Chief Justice
presiding.
After the reading and approval of
yesterday’s journal, nn.of TnatiAa'
• tin
Hon. W. H. Felton came down to
see tho people of Floyd yesterday, Fri
day. The Doctor is making a thorough
cnnvaBB of the District this off-year,
with a view to making a race again in
1880. Somebody or some people, per
haps some of the “successors,” have
been endeavoring to get him on the
track for Governor, but ho seems deter
mined to stick—to hold the foit.
We learn from good authority that
Dr. Felton, with that artful insinuation
for which he is noted, was yesterday
making war upon tho Democracy of
Georgia by using the shortcomings of
officials at the State house as a conven
ient means of charging the Democracy
of the Stato with fraud.and corruption
Wo expected this of him—nothing less
and nothing more. Ilis whole course
as a politician has been of a piece with
this deception, and by it he has been
able to hold on to and control the Rad
ical and nigger vote of the District,
without which he knows, and every
sensible adherent- of his knows that suc
cess for him would bo out of the ques
tion.
When it comes to a question of hon
esty and fair dealing either in politics
or in every day affairs there are a hum
dred thousand Democrats in Georgia
equally as honest as Dr. Felton. And
there is neither fairness nor good sense
in the charge that because every officer
about the State House is corrupt (if
such could be so) therefore the Demo
cratic party by whose votes these men
were put in office is corrupt. As well
might we charge that a whole church is cor
rupt because a minister or an elder or
deacon had been guilty of corrupt prac
tices. Dr. Felton knows this to be true,
but knowing it, he still tries to work
upon the credulity and the ignorance
of some, and the innate love of honesty
that belongs to all men, to try to sour
the people against the party he has so
long fought, and with the aid of the
solid Radical and nigger vote so suc
cessfully fought in this District.
The Democrats of Georgia are not re
sponsible either for the acts of Gold
smith or Renfroe, or of any individual
Senator, but when it was shown that the
Comptroller-General and the Treasurer
had been guilty of violations of the law
of the State, we expected the Radical
press North to charge all sorts of cor
ruption upon the Democracy of Geor
gia—and, to tell the truth, we expected
Dr. Felton to join in with the Radicals
and lend them his “assistance” in try
ing to break down the only organiza
tion in Georgia that dares to speak in
favor of the righh of the people, the
rights of the S'ates, free ballots and
impartial juries.
The English Breadstuff Market 1
London Miller, 8opL 12.
A new phase of trade has to be re
corded this week, the lifting of a long
depression that has weighed upon the
markets, which under a feeling of free
dom have become active. Hesitation in
buying has been succeeded by eagerness,
which a sharp rise in prices hri not
checked. We have given unmistakable
hints during the past month that value
might be expected to advance, but we
scarcely expected the decided move
ment that has taken place, whilst the
weather, too, has been mainly fair for
>y
do, to issue a fi. fa. or il. fas. against said
J. tV. Renfroe and his securities on his
bond for 1876 and 1877, for the sum or
sums of money ao received by them or
either of them, togethor with tho penal
ties for which said J. W. Renfroe is lia
ble, as provided by law for said use of
tho public funds, and to use all other
legal remedies which may bo found
necessary for the speedy collection of
all funds due the State by said Renfroe
for any violation of the laws prescrib-
ig his duties as treasurer.
Mr. Hanks moved to strike out all
the preamble which declared Renfroe
guilty of corrupt praotices. The mo
tion was lost.
The resolutions were agreed to and
ordered transmitted at ones to the Sen
ate.
the Chief Justice
announced the following order:
Tho Houso of Representatives of the
State of Georgia, in the name of them
selves, and in tho name and behalf
of all the people thereof, vs. John W.
Renfroe, Treasurer of the State of
Georgia, impeachment.
Whereas, It appears from the record
of the trial had in the above stated case,
that the defendant was found not guilty
of the charges contained in the several
articles of impeachment preferred
against him by the Houso of Represent
atives. Whereupon, it is considered
and adjudged by the high court of im-
joachment of the State of Georgia, now
lere, that the said John W. Renfroe,
Treasurer of the State of Georgia, be,
and he is hereby acquitted of (he sever-
eral charges contained in the aforesaid
articles of impeachment, and that he go
hence without a day.
[Signed] Hiram Warner,
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
Georgia,
Mr. Bower offered the following,
which waB adopted
The journal of the proceedings of the
last day of the high court of impeach
ment having been read and approved,
it is ordered that the high court of ira-
peachmont of tho S'-ite of Georgia be
now dissolved.
The Chief Justice affixed his signa
ture to the journals of the cmirt, in ap-
>roval of the same, and niter returning
lie thanks appropriately and briefly to
the Senato for the courtesy shown him
during the trial, declared the court of
impeachment to be dissolved, and re
tired from the chair.
The following House bills were pass
ed by the Senate to-day :
To regulalo the rates and manner of
legal advertising in this State and pro
hibit sheriffs, coroners, clerks, marshals
or other officers from receiving or col
lecting, either from plaintiffs or de
fendnn*s, other or greater foes than
herein provided and making a disre
gard of the requirements of this act, ex
tortion, and prescribing the punishment
therefor.
Mr. Head, who has been looking very
closely after this subject of official feus,
offered a substitute to let the official
advertising of several counties to the
lowest bidders.
The substitute we i rejected by yeas
19, nays 19. The original bill was then
amended and passed.
On motion of Mr. Lumpkin tho bill
was ordered to be transmitted to the
House without delay.
To amend section 24 of an act estab
lishing a public school system of this
State. Approved August 23,1878.
To amend seotton 4045 of the code so
as to authorize the commissioners to
assign dower, to procure the aid of the
county surveyor or any other compe
tent surveyor, and to prescribe the time
and manner of filing objections to the
application of the widow ami for hear
ing and trying said objections.
Thursday, Oct. 9.
On motion of Mr. Preston the bill of
the House lost yesterday by one vote,
and which proposes to so amend the
law prohibiting the carrying of conceal
ed weapons on the peoson at public
places, so as to permit sheriffs aud oth
ers in performance of official duties of
arresting officers, to carry weapons on
their persons, etc, tho bill was taken up
and passed.
The bill of the Houso providing for
the regulation of freights and passenger
tariffs on the railroads of this State, and
to prevent extortion and unjust dircrim-
ination thereby, whioh was the special
order for tho morning, was taken up.
The committee on railroads reported a
substitute for the original bill of the
House.
On motion of Mr. Hudson tho substi
tute was taken up by sections and
amended as follows : The salary of the
commissioners was fixed at 83,500; that
of their clerk at 81,200 per annum.
That nothing in this act shall abridge
or control the rates for freight coming
into or going beyond the limits of this
State.
That schedules when made or re
vised shall be published for four suc
cessive weeks iu some paper in the cities
of Atlanta, Augusta, Savannah, Macon,
Albany, Columbus and Rome, tho orig
inal bill only requiring publication in
Atlanta.
By striking out from seotion 7 the
provision giving to the commissioners
“full power and authority to oall for
and the full control of the books and
papers” of all railroads.
By making it the duty of the Judge
presiding instead of the jury trying the
case to fix the penalty, not loss than
one nor more than five thousand dol
lars, for the violation of the rules which
may be prescribed by the commission
ers. (This not as damages to any per
son injured, but ns a penalty to the
State.)
By providing that all suits for wrongs
or injuries under this act shall be
brought within twelve months from the
date of said wrong or injury.
By requiring' the commissioners to
make semi-annual reports to be Gov
ernor.
By providing that witnesses shall be
paid two dollars per day for attending
tho meetings of the commissioners on
subpama eo ordering them, and five
cents per mile for going to and return
ing from said meetings; the same to be
ordered paid by the Governor on pre
sentation of subpoena, sworn to by the
witness as to number of days and miles,
before the clerk of the commissioners
who is authorized to administer oaths,
The substitute, as amended, was
adopted in lieu of the original bill, and
B aased as amended, and on motion of
lr. Lumpkin ordered to be transmitted
at once to tho House.
The Renfroe resolution from the
Houbo “requesting the Governor to issue
certain fi. fas,” was read the first time
and made the special order for to-mor
row morning.
was a squandering of tho people’s
money to appropriate it to such pur
pose.
Mr. Livingston roplied -in a lively
strain. He said tho gentleman from
Cobb was noted for his strong express
ions and did not always stick to facta.
He denounced os untrue the statement
that the agricultural society was a po
litical association. Said be, “I defy any
man to give one instance to justify this
charge, and if any man makes it I
hurl it in his teeth as false!” Tho gen
tleman from Cobb speaks of practical
farmers. What right has ho to speak
of practical farmers ?
Mr. Phillips—I have a right to repre
sent my people who send me here and
instruct me.
Mr. Livingston—Certainly, you have.
Mr. Livingston spoke in rather severe
terms of the position assumed by Mr.
Phillips. Mr. Phillips had charged that
Dr. Janes had made the ordinary of
Cobb county crop reporter. Mr. Livings
ton said the gentleman from Cobb waB
in part responsible for this appoint
ment.
Mr, Cannon moved that the commit
tee rise and report the bill back with the
recommendation that it do pms by sub
stitute.
Mr. Northern offered a substitute that
the bill bo reported back with the re
commendation that it do not pass.
Mr. Cannon withdraw his substitute.
Tho committee refused to recommend
the passage of the substitute by the
committee.
The substitute offered by Mr. Gar
rard was then considered.
Mr. Yancey said ho thought the sub
stitute fixed too small an amount. He
thanked Mr. Phillips for tho compli
ment he had paid him as to his admin
istration of the affairs of the State
agricultural society, and said that he
had been faithful to that high trust and
never had used it for personal advance
ment.
Mr. Luffman offered an amendment
to Mr. Garrard’s substitute which was
not agreed to,
Mr. Garrard’s substitute was adopted.
Mr. Pope moved that the committee
rise and report the bill back with the
rooomendation that it do pass by sub
stitute. Agreed to.
Mr. Tatum made the report, Speaker
Bacon having resumed the ohair.
The yeaB and nays were called on the
passage of the bill. The time was ex
tended for the purpose of taking the
vote.
The substitute makes the followign
appropriations:
Salary of Commissioner 82,000
Salary of clerk 1,000
Printing fund 1,000
Incidental expenses 1,000
citizens of Rome and vicinity to the import
fact that on SATURDAY, OCTOBER j
wo will have our First Opening of Fall Mill-’
nery and Fancy G oods, and a large and v **
ried stock, comprising fall lines in other d'l
partments, which we respectfully invite all t *
attend. °
ootQ ti D A.VIS & CO., No. 13 Shorter Block,
House,
The finauoe committee submitted a
report on the resolution offered by Mr.
Rankin requiring the Governor to issue
at once an execution against John W.
Renfroe and his sureties for money il
legally, wrongfully and corruptly taken
by him.
The committee reported a substitute
for the resolution, which was as follows:
Whereas, by the report of the special
committee of the House of Representa
tives on the investigation of the State
treasurer it is shown that J. W. Renfroe
and John W. Murphy, V. R. Tommey
and B. J. Wilson, three of the securities
on his official bond, have received and
appropriated to their own private use
and benefit the sum of 812,293.65 from
the use of the State funds as treasurer,
whioh fao(9 were confessed by the said
J. W. Renfroe, and established by evi
dence both before said special commit
tee and on the articles* of impeachment
against the said Renfroe of high misde
meanors in office; and
Whereas, the conduot of sajd John
W. Renfroe, receiving himself and al
lowing others to appropriate said sums
of money from the use of the public
funds, is illegal, corrupt, and in direct
violation of the plain provisions of the
constitution, and
Whereas, said J. W. Renfroe, in vio
lation of the high trust reposed in him
and to the manifest injury of the treas
ury, did fail to make with the banks
such contracts for the use of the public
funds as would be beneficial to the
State, did, the contrary; unfaithfully
and corruptly allow his said securities to
make contracts in reference thereto for
their own and his own private gain and
benefit, and
Whereas, all interest or profits arising
from the use of' said funds rightfully
belong to the State; and
Whereas, for each use of said funds
by himself or his said securities, by his
consent, said treasurer became liable
to the State for the sum of 8500 as pen
alties, which said penalties, together
with the sums so received by said Ren
froe and his securities should be paid
into the treasury; the general assembly
does therefore,
Resolve, That his excellency the
Governor be and is hereby requested, as
House.
more investigation.
Mr. Phillips also offered a resolution
to instruct the comptroller and treasurer
to institute a thorough investigation
to the offices of comptroller, under
Madison Bell, and of treasurer, under
N. L. Angier, and report the same to
the next assembly. Agreed to,
A bill to abolish the county court of
Dodge county. Passed.
Mr. King, chairman of the special
committee on the investigation of the
lunatic asylum, made a report, statin
that the committee had made a visit an<
thorough inspection of the asylum be
cause of certain complaint. They
found the general oonaition of the
asylum good, and creditable to the man
agers. They made no recommendation,
however, but referred the matter to the
committee on the penitentiary.
A bill to appropriate 810,000 per an
num for the support of the department
of agriculture, exclusive of the salary of
the commissioner and assistants, was
taken up and considered in oommittee
of the whole, with Mr. Tatum, of Dade
in the chair.
Mr. Garrard offered a substitute for
the original bill.
Mr. Luffman offered an amendment
to make the expenses of the office 85,000
instead of 810,000 as the bill provided.
Mr. Northern said the object of tho
bill was to destroy the department of
agriculture. The cutting down of ex
penses to such a low point would abso
lutely ruin the department. The agri
cultural bureau has done a good work
for tho State and ought to be continued.
Mr. Garrard said no man had been
more consistently in favor of the depart
ment than he, hut he favored a reduc
tion of expenses. He thought It enough
to appropriate to it the same sum that
is given to the excutive department.
Mr. Livingston said the proposed re
duction would be fatal to the depart
ment and to the best interest of the
State.
Mr. Luffman favored the amendment
he had offored.
Mr. Phillips, of Cobb, made a fiery
speeoh, in which he declared that the
Georgia State agricultural society had
been a political organization. Ho said
the department was a fraud, and that it
Special Announcement
— OP THE —
CRYSTAL PALACE !
Wo beg - leave to call tlie attention
°f* the
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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
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A lso, manufacturers of galvanized iron cornices, window
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Wa buy in largo Iota for caah, thua onabling ua to make lownat possible prlcei. Call ln j
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for yourselves.
Announcement Extraordinary
Total appropriations 85,000
Tho appropriation has hitherto been
810,000 per annum besides salaries,
making a total of $13,600 per annum.
On the passage of the bill the yeas
were 101 and the nays 23; so the bill
Amusements.
AT HORN & M’GHEES’ OLD STAND, ROME COURIER BUILDING,
Hereby announce to the public that they have
rented one of the Stores in the new Opera
House, which they -will occupy when
completed, and in order to save the
expense of removal, they oiler their
ENTIRE STOCK AT REDUCED PRICES!
The Stoclc Consists of
DRY, FANCY AND MILLINERY GOODS,
Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes.
IN FACT, EVERYTHING A MAN, WOMAN OR CHILD
CITY HA.LL!
THE EVENT OTTHE SEASON!
GRAU’S
Grand English Opera Company
50 ARTISTS 50
Ou their triumphant tour through tho South,
will perform V
Two Nights Only
lu thii city, giviug
Monday, October 13th,
tho latest musical and spoctaculnr buccois,
FATINITZA!
— and —
Tuesday, October 14th,
the popular musical goni,
PINAFORE!
with tho original oast, at porformail at tho Fifth
Avenue Theatre, Now York.
Notwithstanding the extraordinary oxponso at-
anding the performances of thia largo
combination, tho
PRICES HAVE BEEN REDUCED
To TS Ceuta general Admission and SI.OO
Reserved Seats.
EXTRA ACCOMMODATION will be mado for
thoao who wish choice seat).
New Advertisements.
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA
(AUGUSTA.)
Medical Department of the Uni
versity of Georgia.
begin tho FIRST MONDAY in NOVEM
BER, 1879, and ond tho FIRST of MARCH
following.
Faoulty—Lowie D. Ford, Joseph A. Eve, L. A.
Dugas, Geo. W. Raina, H. F. C&mpboll, DoSaui
Ford, Edward Geddinga, Robt. C. Eve.
Apply for oircular to
DxSAUSSURE FORD,
ootll twlm Dean, Auguata, Oa.
TAX NOTICE.
F or the purpose of collecting
State and County Taxea for tho proaont
year. I will attend at the following tiiuei and
placea:
North Carolina, Monday, October 13th.
Llringiton, Tueaday, October 14th.
Gave Spring, Wodnoaday, Ootobor mb.
Chulio, Thuraday, October Kth.
Prompt payment! will be thankfully rooeivod,
expected and required. Short aettlemonla make
long and fact trfenda with Tax Onlleotora. Tax
haring boon redueed from $1.20 to 85 oenta on
tho hundrod dollars makoa it eaaier to pay. Oo
tobor and Novombor are the montha to nettle.
One round mere will be made to tho Diatrlola,
OfHce at Harper A Fort’a atorr.
„ JOHN J. BLACK,
oct3tw w2w Ta x CnUaotor,
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mblished at Calhoun,
consol*
March 27, 1857, the Southern Statesman, p
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idated with it.
January 1, 1874, tho Chattooga Advertiser was cons'
with it.
April 12, 1870, the Rome Commercial—daily and weekly
consolidated with it.
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