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THE COURIER has a large anil steady circu
lation In Cherokee Georgia, and Ik the best ad-
verllalng medium in this section.
DVTl MI E lili, Proprietor.
Tuesday Morning,
Oct. 21,1879.
If the Ohio idea cannot succeed in
Ohio where can it hope for success ?
If the Democracy will gather up its
strength for the contest of 1880 a Dem
ocratic triumph is as certain as the
coming of morning after night.
It woui.d be not only poetic, but po
litical justice, to condemn the frauds of
187G-7 by tho re-eleotion of Samuel J.
Tilden to the Presidency in 1880.
When the Democratic party suc
ceeds in getting control of the Govern
ment, it will be as the friend of the
people. All side-issues will be forgot
ten, and as the champion of human
liberty it will put to route the armies
of Radicalism, centralism and tyranny.
This week the Dalton Headlight
wraps itself in the prophet’s mantle
and unfolds the future. We long ago
learned that it was a thankless and
bootless task to fight against prophecy
We have not the facts with which to
show the prophet’s error. These wise
ones that know the future have the ad
vantage of one that knows only the
past and present, and but little of them
There is always a good deal of fun
to be found in the Atlanta Phonograph,
and its column headed "Phunnygraphs”
is a good institution, but it never bad
anything in it funnier than the two fol
lowing paragraphs when brought to
gether, both taken from the same issue
of the Phonograph, and which we put
side by side, so to speak, for the benefit
of the fun-loving:
Gov. Smith would make a first rate
Railroad Commissioner, and we hope he
will be appointed.
Gov. Colquitt made a good appoint
ment in selecting Gov. Smith for one of
the Railroad Commissioners, but we
cannot understand his motive for doing
so, as it is a well known fact that Smith
doesn’t love Colquitt as devotedly as
Damon did Pythias. Strange things do
happen these times.
The Phonograph was for Smith. Col
quitt appointed Smith, and it was a
good appointment. Still the Phono
graph cannot understand it. Isn’t that
funny ? '
The acrimonious expressions of some
of tho newspapers of the State in re
gard to the acquittal of Renfroe;. the
strangely untenable position held by
many that because one guilty man es
capes punishment another guilty man
Bhould be pardoned, taken together
with the bitter feeling exhibited by
members of the House against the Sen
ate generally, and members of tho Sen
ate individually because the articles of
impeachment against Renfroe were not
sustained in the Senate, all bear convinc
ing proof of the fact that it was less for
the good of the State and more for per
sonal or party aggrandizement- that the
delinquent Comptroller General and
Treasurer were prosecuted with so much
zeal. Surely, if the good of the State
was aimed at, and if wisdom, justice
and moderation controlled men’s minds,
the decision of a lawful tribunal of last
resort would be accepted as a finality,
and whether considered right or wrong,
would be allowed to pass away—if right,
with hearty endorsement, if wrong,
with rightful disapproval.
The Legislature enacted a railroad
law by the provisions of which a com
mission composed of three men was
created, which commission will have
supei vision and control of all the rail
roads of the State, fixing rates of freight
and establishing rules for their govern
ment under the laws of the State.
Gov. Colquitt appointed and the Sen
ate confirmed as commissioners Ex-
Gov. J. M. Smith for six years, Maj.
Campbell Wallace for four years and
Col. Samuel Barnett for two years.
The appointments appear to give gener
al satisfaction.
But the appointment of Ex-Gov.
Smith by Gov. Colquitt seems to be a
mystery to some, because of the alleged
former opposition to Colquitt on the
part of Smith. We think we can tell
tbesn mystified enquirers hor it hap
pened. When some interested parties
appealed to Ex-Governor Smith for
help in an effort to break down the pres
ent administration and consequently, as
they thought, the Democratic party, by
a personal attack on Gov. Colquitt’s
honor and integrity, James M. Smith
flatly refused to lend himself to their
purpose, expressing at the same time un
bounded confidence in Alfred H. Col
quitt’s uprightness and devotion to hon
or and truth. Gov. Colquitt was in
formed of this, and when Gov. Smith’s
name was presented to him by his
friends for appointment as one of the
commissioners, he had a chance to ap
point an efficient officer and at the
same time do a favor to a gentlemen
who had refused to join his enemies in
an open war upon him.
TIIK NORMAL SCHOOL.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Au
gusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist,
speaking of the disposition on the part
of members of the Legislature to do
away with the agricultural department,
says, “That same close fisted stinginess
of which I have just spoken, came near
defeating one of the most important
bills of the entire session. The act to
establish a State Normal School as a
part of the University contemplated a
removal to Georgia of the rich Peabody
Normal School now at Nashville. It
failed of a majority, and it was only by
the most stringent efforts of its friends
that a reconsideration was had, and the
bill passed by two votes. The appro
priation by the State is only $6,000 a
year. The trustees of the Peabody
fund contribute the same amount, and
thus the school is kept up. It is an
auxiliary to our educational resources
which the spirit of the times made nec
essary. Our teachers must not only be
trained in the ordinary curriculum but
they must be taught to teach. Instruc
tion has ceased to be a simple telling of
some things the instructor knows. It
is a science, with delicate methods and
well established ruleB. The trustees of
the Peabody fund are going before long
to spend something like a million dol
lars in the erection of a permanent nor
mal school building, and this prize will
be ours. The bill provides that any
city or town in the State may bid for
the location of the school, and the
trustees may make their own selection.
There will be a competition for such a
valuable consideration."
The purpose of this normal school is
to give a thorough education to young
ladies and gentlemen wishing to be
come teachers, and what is better, free
education to such worthy applicants as
are unable to pay their way or are most
meritorious. The trustees ot the Pea
body fund give $6,000 a year as a gra
tuity if the State will appropriate a like
amount. If knowledge is power (and
every student of the spelling-book be
lieves that), then every help, iu that di
rection should be accepted. Neverthe
less, one of Floyd county’s Representa
tives, Col. A. J. King, not only voted
against the measure, but made a speech
against it.
What Does Ohio Mean ?
Tho Republican victory in Ohio gives
greater prominence than ever to tho
nomination question in the Republican
camp. They have been busy with the
next Presidency for six months past,
they will be still busier with it from
this time. Who carried Ohio? Who is
entitled to tho honors of tho victory ?
Who is to be rewarded for it? If there
was any presidential significance in the
vote, what was it ? Whom did the Ohio
Republicans intend to indicate for the
Presidential nomination, in voting as
they did, last Tuesday—Grant, Sherman
or Blaine? Mr. Sherman's hard and
pinched visage beams with all the
brightness it is capable of, as he serene
ly claims all the honors of having done
the business, and the administration,
whose candidate for governor of Ohio
was Foster, and whose candidate for
president is Sherman, reinforces the
Shermanic assumption with it own ex
ultation over the result. But, not to
speak of Mr. Blaine, who made some
speeches in Ohio during the canvass,
there is Grant, whose friends, faithful
to their habit of claiming everything in
sight, will assert that the recent victory
is a condemnation of the administration
policy in the South, and a demand for
the restoration of the Grant policy, with
Grant in the executive chair to enforce
it.
Rejoicing Republicans are claiming
that the Ohio election settles the next
Presidential question. But we are not
so sure about that. It may be the sig
nal for an uproar in the Republican
camp. Geo.W.Curtis’avowed resolve not
to vote for Cornell for governor of New
York reminds us that the liberalism of
1876 is still active, and the cordial ha
tred with which the Grant parties re
gard Secretary Sherman suggests the
bitter Bpirit with which the struggle for
the nomination is to be conducted. Let
us wait and see.—Missouri Republican.
The Rate of Interest.
We have published the following act
previously, but owing to the fact that
the copy we published from contained
•a very seriouB error, of whioh we were
not aware at the time, we again publish
it in a corrected form :
The magnificent diamonds whioh
were presented as a bridal gift to the
daughter of Gen. Sherman by the Khe
dive of Egypt are kept in the vault of
the United States troasury and the cask
et is sealed so that tho treasurer’s clerk
may not be put to the trouble of dis
playing them to visitors. The daughter,
Mrs. Fitch, lives in St. Louis. She has
throe children, the eldest being a boy
of four years.
J. 11. BUTT & CO?
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN '
Stoves, Tinware and Honseftarnishing Goods
ALSO, MANUFACTURERS OF GALVANIZED IRON CORNICES wisnri# n.
ML”* «“» G “ Ag.nl. for
other Or,
class factories.
Wo^bujJn large lots for cash, thus eanbllag us to make lowest possible prices. C»ll
(»pr8t»i1f
for yourselves.
Amusements.
CITY HALL!
Return or the Favorites for a Short
Season Only, Commencing
Wednesday Evening, Oct. 22d.
FAMILY MATINEE SATURDAY
AFTERNOON AT 2 P. M.
Engagement of the Talented Actor,
J. H. HUNTLEY,
and tho Highly Accomplished Young Actress,
Florence Kennedy,
Supported by the Best
Dramatic Company
Traveling in America.
PROF. WILLIAM LAYTON’S
Silver Cornet Band and Oporatio Orahestra
will make the music a special foaturo.
Announcement Extraordinary
Wednesday Evening, October 22d, brat time in
this city of Bartloy Campbell's
Now Society Comedy
PERIL
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On the Beach at Long Branch!
Change ot Programme each evening. Doors
open at 7; overture at 7:50; curtains rise at
8. Silver Cornet Band Serenade at 7.
Popular prices. Rsserved Seats at C. J. Var
ner's without extra charge.
SOUTH AND EAST ROHE SCHOOL,
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
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THE NEXT SESSION, COM
prising eight scholastic months, wil’
opon at the “ Gabo Wright House,’
South Rome, on fourth Monday, 27th
Ootober, 1879. Brief vacation during
the Christmas holidays. Rates of tuition psr
seholsr per month:
In Primary English Department $1 50
In Intermediate English Department 2 00
In Advanced English Department 2 50
In Latin and Groek Classics 3 50
Incidentals 10 conts per scholar per month.
Tuition payable monthly. Reduction made
only in ease of protracted sickness.
P. H, LAREY, Teacher.
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AT HORN A M’GHEES’ OLD STAND, ROME COURIER BUILDING,
Hereby announce to the public that they have
rented one of the Stores in the new Oper a
House, which they will occupy when
completed, and in order to save the
expense or removal, they oiler their
ENTIRE STOCK AT REDUCED PR1CESI
The Stock Consists of
DRY, FANCY AND MILLINERY GOODS,
Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes.
N FACT, EVERYTHING A MAN, WOMAN OR CHIU) WEARS.
*®* Call Early and Secure Bargains.-®,
COHE32ST & CO.,
Horn & McGhees’ Old Stand, in the Borne Courier Building,
Hallo there, you fellows once
claiming to be Democrats that jumped
on the fence when the Dutch took Hol
land, or in other words, when the Rad
icals carried Ohio, don’t sit on that
sharp rail till after the New York elec
tion, but go ahead at once into the Rad
ical camp where you properly belong.
The Democratic party will be purer,
better and stronger without you.
The political sentiments of Borne
half dozen “eminent" Georgia office
holders are contingent on the result in
New York. For the sake of the coun
try’s good, we hope the Democrats will
carry that State. But if we should lose
it, the loss will not be unmixed with
gain, for then we would lose this half
dozen eminent intriguers, which would
be a gain to ’rue Democracy.
We are not downcast by the defeat
of Ewing' in Ohio. Ohio is a Radical
State on a full vote, and defeat there
may, and we believe will, teach the
Democracy a, salutary lesson. The loss
of Thurman as a Senator is to be de
plored, but it may be counter balanced
by triumph in another quarter.
Missouri Republican: Messrs. Har
per <fe Brothers publish a personal card
in the Weekly of Ootober 25, in which
they fully sustain the editorial position
taken by George William Curtis in re
gard to the pending State canvass and
place their paper squarely in opposi
tion to the Conkling ticket. The. posi
tive and outspoken tenor of the card
which is wri'ten in reply to a complaint
from some “Southern Republican,’’ is
sufficiently indicated by the following
extracts:
“The nomination of Mr. Cornell was
made with the knowledge that it would
be offensive to the most intelligent por
tion of the party. It was the worst pos
sible nomination, and was a defiant
challenge to tho assertion of personal
independence on the part of its out
raged opponents.
“We accept the challenge. We have
also the courage of our opinions and a
just pride in the position which our
Weekly has always taken, against
whatever opposition, in the advocacy
of right principles against party wrongs,
whether wrongs into which the party
has drifted or wrongs which have been
imposed upon it by the dictation of its
leaders.”
Americus Recorder: We are sorry for
the Agricultural Department. Its whole
estate was administered upon by the
Legislature, sold out and then put back
intact after a debate of about twenty-
five days, at a cost of over $30,000.
The enemies of Dr. Janes had the sat
isfaction of witnessing his return borne,
in Green county, but this was all. The
cost of the debate would have support
ed the Department for three years.
Does Hon. A. H. Stephens still stick
to it that the financial issue is the pre
dominant one?—Augusta Chronicle &
Constitutionalist.
An act to regulate and restrict the rate
of interest in this State and for other
purposes.
Section 1. The general assembly do
enact, that from and after the passage of
this act it shall not be lawful for any
person, company or corporation to re
serve, charge, or take for any loan or
advance of money or forbearance to en
force the collection of any sum of money,
any rate of interest greater than eight
ier centum, either directly or indirectly
ly way of commission for advances,
discount, exchange, or by any contract
or contrivance or device whatever.
Section 2. Be it further enacted, that
any person company or corporation, vio
lating the provisions of the foregoing
section of this act, shall forfeit the in
terest and excess of interest so charged
or taken or contracted to be reserved,
charged or taken.
Section 3. Be it further enacted, That
the legal rate of interest shall remain
seven per centum per annum, where the
rate per cent is not named in the con
tract, and any higher rate must be spec
ified in writing; but in no event to exceed
8 per cent per annum.
Section 4. Be it further enacted, That
in all suits hereafter brought iu any of
the courts of this S‘ate upon any ac
count, note, bond, bill, draft or other
evidence of indebtedness, hearing date
after the passage of this act, wherein a
greater rate of interest is claimed than
7 per cent., it shall be incumbent on
the plaintiff in such suit or action to
show affirmatively by proof that no
greater or higher rate of interest than
that specified in the contract so sued
upon has been taken, received, retained
or in any way or manner secured so as
to be thereafter had or taken by any
device whatever.
Section 5. Be it further enacted, That
all laws and parts of laws in conflict
with this act be and the samo are here
by repealed.
New York Nation: A stalwart, de
nunciatory, exultant North, reveling in
the memoriee of the war, comparing
every election to Gettysburg, and
searching every corner of the South
with tho fierce light of newspaper criti
cism and report, for the purpose of
turning all crimes, outrages and disor
ders to political account, and indicating
by every speech and article and vote
its desire to see the Southern States’
governments in the hands of its own
friends, without regard to their charac
ter or intelligence, cannot hut keep the
race question uppermost in the South
ern mind, and prevent a division of the
whites on any other subjeot—for all
subjects are in their eyes trivial com
pared to this.
New York Sun: The real issue iu
Massachusetts this year is sixty-one
years old, weighs something like 200
pounds, has a defect in one eye, is sup
posed to be worth several millions of
dollars, expects to be the next Governor
of Massachusetts, and to that end is at
present making speeches which even the
hostile Boston critics admit to be mod
els of tact and adroitness.
The rich Englishman, Thomas Hol
loway, is erecting at his own expense
an institution for the higher education
of girls. The building alone, which has
been begun, is to cost $1,385,000. It is
four hundred and ten feet in length.
LATEST STYLES
FALL AND WINTER MILLINERY
-BY-
MISS SALLIE WILKERSON
Hats and Bunneta, prices from Fifty Cent!
to Tan Dollars; a large and very beautiful atook
of Flowers, Foathors and Birds; a beautiful ai.
aortmont of Ornaments, Ribbona, Combs, Ac,
Will be pleased to show my goods and prieea.
SALLIE WILKERSON.
oct!8 tw2m w2t
SKATING RINK!
T here will be skating on Monday,
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday afternoons
from 4 to 6 o'clock, and every evening from 7;30
to 10 o’olock, commencing Friday nignt, Ootober
14th, until further notio *.
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings at
10 o'clock the Hall will he open for Ladies only
to loam and practise. (octl5twlm
HR. E. J. CAMP,
Eclectic and Homoeopathic
OFFICE, BUENA VISTA HOUSE.
CONSULTATION FREE AND STRICTLY
CONFIDENTIAL.
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Summary of Floyd Sheriff’
Sales.
GEORGIA, Floyd County,
W ILL BE SOLD BEFORE THE COURT
Houee door in tbe city of Rome, in Flo;
county, between tbe legal hours of sale, on l
First Tuesday in November, 1879,
the following property, to-wit:
00 bottles Angelica wine, ft bottles Catawba
wine, 5 bottles mineral water, 4$ pounds smoking
tobacco, 8 five-gallon demijohns, 3 boxes flasks
and one broken box, 1 show-caso, 1 iron safe,
46 gallons Scupanong wine, more or lest, 37
empty barrels, 51 empty beer boxes, 1 whisky
pump, 1 bung fioger, 1 small lot mo&suros, 1
stove and coal scuttle, 2 pine tables, 1 whisky
case, 1 small lot corks, 1 wood backet, 1 bill file,
1 desk with pigoon holes, 1 cigar lamp, 1 barrol
puro blackborry wine, about 28 gallons. 73 gal
Ions cherry brandy, 2} gallons wine, 1J gallon!
Catawba wine, 13 gallons grape brandy, U gal
Ions sacramental wine, 3 quarts red Scupanong
wine, 6 bottles blackberry brandy, 9 doaon empty
bar bottles, 83 gallons Boupanong wine, 1 counter
seal© 1 lemon squoexor, 2 benches and 3 wood
faucets. J. L. Hawkins.
Also, one fifteon horse power Eclipse engine
and boilei, on sills, made by Fiick & Co., with
pumps and all the fixtures. W. B. W. Leake.
Also, 1 brown maro, 1 claybank mare. 1 small
dark mare mulo, 1 large bay borso mule
Bklnuer.
Also, 1 gray mule. J. W. Marshall.
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ROME, GEORGIA.
In .connection with
our Immense atook, we
have added a Milline
ry Department, where
will always bo found
a lull line ol Fall and
Winter Styles, em
bracing Trimmed end
Untrimmod Shapes in
Straw and Felt Hats.
See our New Style
Pattern Hats. This
department will be
under the control of
Misb ABBIE WEBB,
assisted by
Mrs. E. BURNETT,
who will be pleased
see all of their
friends. Will con
stantly receive all of
the Latest Novelties
as they appo&r.
GREAT OPENING
— OF THE —
CRYSTAL PALACE,
13 Shorter Block.
NEW STORE! NEW GOODS!
NEW STYLES IN
DRESS GOODS, CASH-
MERES, ALPACAS, LARGE
VARIETY CHEAP DRESS GOODS,
IMMENSE ASSORTMENT SHAWLS,
CLOAKS, REPELLANTS, LADIES'
UNDERWEAR, FLANNELS,
CANTONS AND DO
MESTICS, JEANS,
CA8BIMERES, BLANKETS, COMFORTABLES
Separate departments for Clothing, Boots,
Shoos and Hats. Complete stock Gent’s Fur
nishing Goods.
• DAVIS & CO.
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Call and see
line of Gloves Isfew
buying. Tbe cbetp-
eit line of Tb.es
Button Kid Glovei in
the city, that we war
rant. Ladies’ Neck
Wear, Ties, Bowi,
Bilk end Lacs Fii-
ebus, Collars and
Cuffs, Linen and
Bilk Handkerchiefs,
Hsmbo.gs, Ribbon.,
Hosiery end Ladies’
Linen. Lacen ol oil
kinds, Corosto, Dreu
Trimmings, and st-
orytblng usually kept
in a first elsss Dry
Goods House.
At One Dollar and Fifty Cents
i3\r ja.aD-WAi.3NroE5!
YOXJ YOU K NO W IT!
The Weekly Courier
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NEWSPAPER
IIV THE
Cherokee Country
A Coosa River Farm at Admin
istrator’s Sale.
B y virtue of a decree of tue
Superior Court of Floyd county, I will coll
beforo tho court house door in Rome, witnin the
legal hours of sale, on the
First Tuesday in November, 1879,
the farm on Coosa river, six milos bolow Romo,
known is the B. F. Hoopor place, containing
about 710 acres, consisting ol lot No. 310 and
part of lot No. 311, in .he 4th district of the 4th
soction, and lots Nos. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 42, 43, 44,
45 and 10S, in the 3d diatriol of the 4th section.
About 300 acres open land, of which about one-
half is river bottom. Comfortable dwelling and
out houses; a good gin houie, gin and packing
screw. Tho place woll waterod This is a rare
opportunity to secure one of the most desireble
plaoes in the county.
Terms of sale. Ono third cash, tho balance
in equal instalments at one and two years, with
interest at 10 por cont., secured by mortgago on
tho plaoo, A. E. ROSS,
|ul29 w3m Adm’r B. F, Hooper.
Letters of Administration.
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
T O ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. Asa
Trammell haviDg in proper form applied to
me lor permanent loiters ot administration on the
estate ol V. B. Trammell, late of said county,
this Is to eite all and singular the creditors end
next of kin of V. B. Trammell to bo and appear
at my oSloa within the timo allowed by law,
and show cause, if any they ean, why permanent
administration should not be granted to Asa
Trammell, on V. B. Trammell’s estate.
Witness my hand and offioial signature, this
Sept. 26, 1879. H. J. JOHNSON,
sep27 30d- pd Ordinary.
The
$1.50 IN ADVANCE!
Courier has been Published 23 Years
by the present Proprietor.
March 27, 3857, the Southern Statesman, published at Cnlh° uD '
was consolidated with the Courier.
January 27,1858, the Georgia Patriot, of Cedar town,
idated with it,
January 1, 1874, the Chattooga Advertiser was cons'
with it.
April 12, 1870, the Rome Commercial—daily and week)
consolidated with it.
CSc’The above facts are interesting to advertisers.
M. DWINELL, Proprietor-