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“ WISDOM, JUSTICE, AND MODERATION.*'
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ROME, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 1879.
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WITH 111!* TAIL O.N THE OTHBIt
Ml OB.
nillAtp Meets up with his old Friend, Newt
Tumllu, when the Political Situation
ji Descanted upon—A Quiet Blip-
ping over to Grant*
Atlanta Constitution.
Ohio has gone, and they say New
York is going. The Grant boom grows
bigger and bigger, and ever and anon
it seetna to me I hear the thunders of
our subjugation reverberating in mourn
ful tnuttering8 from the cloud capped
pinnacles of the Rocky mountains to thb
pine clad peaks of Kennesaw. ThereB
no comfort when we look abroad and
the spark of political peace grows mor
tal dim at home. Our golden oppor
tunity is lost.
"ll.>pe fir a sea,on bade the South farewell
And freedom shrieked when Sammy Tilden fell.”
The yellin injun is on the war path,
Dennis Kearney is a tearin around,
Conkling is waiving the bloody shirt,
Cox and Kelly have bolted the track,
and there9 right smart mutiny on board
our own good ship of State.
Nevertheless notwithstanding I am
trying to be reconciled. What is to be,
sill he, whether it happens or cot.
Whom the Lord lovoth he chasteneth
I and I’m afeerd them Radicals don’t
have much chance for heaven for
they’ve got all the power and money
and office and sinecures and sine que
eons and every good thing you can
think of. We haven’t got muoh of
anything down here outoide of children
and cats and yaller dogs that’s always
hungry. Our “great expectations” have
| vanished. The prospect for a good time
a on the other side of Jordan, and if
hem Rads whip us out next year we
may hang up the fiddle and the bow,
for thercs no use hoping against hope.
I I was in Rome yesterday, and above
Mi rumbling of drays, the cracking of
"hips, the hissing of locomotives, and
the awful breathings of the cotton com
presses, I heard my friend NewtTumlin
hail me 200 yards up Btreet. He talked
I the top of his voice until he got to
| nie; and says I:
^llhai) my sweet and gentle friend I
I 'hy whispering accents remind me of
[ ™ street south wind that breathes upon
a T! olet “- Is it well with thee ?
1 sanguine and screen ?”
I,, ®y a dingnation sight, Bill Arp.
“?. a kittled individual—a dead horse
6 woods, and the buzzards are a
I „! lng ro “ n d huntin for my devoted
I (7 Cms ; °old my cotton yesterday for
I i'Ji 6nl9 ’ a , nd bete it is 10} this morning.
Lmi dm 00 hundred dollars in one day
I T? V(,r git 4 hack in the round
1. , I® now going round taking up
An «uti°n for my poor orfin
I loit 60 ' Giv ® me hen dollars. The
I ter lit a 7?.8 als i an d all come in a lit*
I“ ra hbits and I never expect to
“1 a* ero V, n > ^ or a wearin out,
*' m tt wearin out. I’m as
‘ n ‘he back as Bill Ramey—broke
1 holl J” the me8 > and my lungs are as
f ern I* a f an empty bee-gum. The in-
I amt r a9tma has attacked mveserpagus,
IS-talk above a whisper. It all
Ifotfii? m lny hellorin around laBt fail
emL °\ and Eester, and it dident do
Bill A d “ tn f bltof R°°d- Ive quit now
Yankees l* We are a11 bu,ted - These
years " ave got us Yor a hundred
I >o iin« „L° me ’^ nd ‘heres no chanoe but
|and w 4 »“: tired of totin wood
I minoiinitr V rod of these everlastin
hhen h» f' •, I ' l ? ts do like Dr. Miller said
I for a Ult 1 >e °*d Whig party, lets
Bill f ( . 5 party size. Lets iine em,
oew' l,„ y *oahe a powerful fuss over
Mmeovo!*/ 18 ' .When the old whigs
now, and that shows his political sagac
ity. Lets iine em, Bill. I wish I had a
voice to talk to you. Lord help us all.
A hundred dollars gone betwixt sunset
and sunrise. Thad Duval has jined
em, and now be comes to town every
day for a great big letter from Wash
ington city, tellin him to put two hun
dred lightnin rodB on the custom house
in Atlanta at fifty dollars a rod. That’s
ail right, and I hope he’ll git it. We
needent make a blowgun about goin
over, for the cussed editors like Dick
Harris will be pitchin into us, but just
quietly get the password from the old
Doctor and then set down and wait for
an offis. Offia an money will make
anybody respectable. Dingnation take
that cotton. Why dident somebody
tell me it was a goin up. A hundred
dollars gone and my poor children suf-
ferin for the luxuries of life. Good-bye,
Arp; if I badent lost my voice I’d talk
to you. I must swindle somebody be
fore I leave this town. Sam Morgan
thinks he played Julius Ccesar in put
ting cotton up this morning. I’ll swap
horses with him some of these days and
he’ll thtnk thunder and lightnin struck
him. He’d better see Tnad Duvall and
;it a rod put on his hat. Farewell, Bill,
urrah for Gordon and Lester. Tell
Henry Grady if he wants anything to
draw on me. I love Henry though he
was for Speer. He smell) the bottle
from afur. I tell you, William Arp,
this Democratic party is qoiog to thun-
deration. Its too dingnation unanimous
at the South. You see the Republican
patty at the North is the respectable
party, rich and smart, and high strung
and their Democracy is weighed down
with rag-tag and bob tail and every
vagabond in the country. If we could
just mix our Democracy with their re
spectable Republicans it would be all
r ght. Lets jine em and do it, and if
they dont divide out and tote fair, we’ll
bust up the concern. I am tired out a
waiten for the rewards of my patriotism.
We cant do nothin from the outside.
I’m for myself now. A hundred dol
lareisa power of money. Good-bye,
William, I wish I oould talk to you
Hurrah for Gordon and Lester.”
I like Newt Tumlin. He’s a good
shot. He can kill more game with a
scattering gun than any other man with
a rifle. The last I seen of him Jimmy
Smith was trying to hire him as a tele
thons from Rome to Kingston, but
ffewt insisted be was losing his voice
and he shouted to me in tones that
shook the depot: “Bill Arp, dont you
put me in the Constitution,” and I
wont. Yours, Biu, Arp.
P. S.—Tell Mr. “Lounger” I surren
der and wont misunderstand him any
more. As Gen. Lee said at Gettysburg,
“It was all my fault.” Tell him when
he comes to see ub just give us three
days of grace on a postal card and we
will honor his coming with “All hail to
the chief.” B. A
I “[i liliTfu to Ua ‘ke Democrats took em
I ll >e calii! P r °digal son and killed all
1 Toorobs a T nd , 8 ive Stephens and
Underw^i 1 d ® n J £lI '8 and Miller and
wiWk 1 “i 1 ‘. he best offices. That’s
I “ttv tie dm o° V Dot fl y ou 800. bow
PP«r»nii n ^ Ste P henB ana Felton and
Kr bt h - y dident fl °P clean over
K’of ,L JU ?‘ al,pped lbrou g b tbe
I fence and left their tails
I\1’A K . °Ut on oilr nido Anil Ona
W&w*°o oilr side, AndGus
I Pippin a 8b ppin and slidin along
I 1 ri " to Ann. He’s for Grant right
an order upon the tax collectors iu the
State to be made payable to the county
school commissioners for the amounts
due the counties for sohool purposes,
these orders being made receivable at
the treasurer in settlement of the ac
counts of the various tax collectors.
It appears then that at no time has
any of the Bchool fund of the State
passed through the hnnds of the commis
sioner, but that prior to the aot of 1876,
the fund was paid out on exou'.ive war
rant upon the treasurer and subsequently
by the State school coommissioner’s
order on the tax collectors fqr the
amounts due the several counties^
The money necessary to meet the cur
rent expenses of tiie office of the com
missioner is drawn upon warrant, from
such school funds as may be in the
treasury. An itemized Statement of
such expenditure from the year 1876 to
date, tbe committee submit herewith,
masked “exhibit A.” This statement
includes the entire expense of this of
fice.
In addition to the appropriation
made by the State, certain schools in
the State have received some aid from
what is known as the Peabody fund.
This fund was created foe the purpose of
aiding in introducing public schools
throughout the South. It is managed
by a board of trustees originally se
lected by Mr. Peabody himself, and so
selected os to be distributed throughout
most of the StateB of the Union. The
board meets annually to pass upon the
acts of the general agent Under a sys
tem of rules adopted by them donations
are made to various schools and for oth
er sohool purposes throughout the
States of the South. The schools that
bave complied with these requirements
and received assistance from this source,
together with the several amounts re
ceived by them, are herewith submitted
and marked “exhibit B.”
It is proper to say that through the
commendable energy of the commis
sioner this munificent benefaction, be
stowed upon tbe school interest of the
State by the late George Peabody, have
greatly aided the purposes for wbioh
it was intended. The commissioner
impressed with the benefits to be derived |
from this source and desiring to husband ;
the scanty resources furnished by the 1
State consented to distribute tbe fund
thus tendered without compensation,
except such sum as might be necessary ;
to defray his traveling expenses while j
working in the interest of the public '
schools of the State. This arrange- ,
ment has enabled the commissioner to
fntimnClocks! Tick! Tick! Tick!
uio ui d ALLEN & mcoskEK.
HUMORS OF THE SCALP,
LOSS OF HtlB.
Lom of Hair in thousands of eases is du* en
tirely to some forte of scalp disease. Hovont?-
fivs per cent, of the number of bald bv dt m pht
be covert d with hair hy a judicious uso <1 <’u
TtrtWA. usuioteri by (VruHiRA Sap Tt is the
meet agreeable as wo-1 as the moat effective t sir
restorer ovor produced by man It is medicinal
in the true t sense of the word All ott ers are
some olesgenous mixture of poiionous djes
None butUtTiouiu possesses thespicifle medical
properties that enable it to cure nil itching and
coaly dise&ces That it ilamo and irritate the scalp
and ha^ glands aud tubes, causing premature
balduesa Medium dotes of the CttvicunA Re-
solvent will purity tbe oil and sweat glands
of the vitus of scrofulous humor of the blood
and insnre a permanent cure wh*»n taken in
connt'C'ion with the < utward appl cat on of
Ciiricimi.
SALT RHEUm'aND DANDRUFF
(nred tint several physicians had failed
lo treat «ucct»fhlly.
Messn. Weeks 4 Poltor: Gentlemen— Ihsee
hed the Salt Rheum on my head sad all through
my hair, also on my ’en, Fur tho past four years,
having euflered cxoeod-ngly wit - it. Tho dan
drulF falling from my hair was rery annoying.
I consulted iSveral dUtingulshed pbyaielana in
regard to it, and have taken their preemptions
as ordered, but did not find any core and but
little relief. I waa told by many persona, who
have the Balt Rheum, and who have been doe-
tored for yean, that there wee no euro 'or it;
that it was in tho ,blo d, and I abould always
have it, and I waa alnjost inclined to agree with
them, but a friend wanted mo try Cimooaa,
mado by your firm. I di and to my aetonlah-
ment, In fe<a than three weeka my head waa
entirely tree irom all Balt .Rhcum and Dandrufi,
and I cannot aee any appearance c f Salt Rheum
on my p raon. I think tt a wonderful remedy.
Rospootfully yours,
GEORGE A MUDGE
Portamouth, N H.’, Fhb. 8, 1878.
HUMOR oTtHE SCALP
That wni destroying the Hair eared with:
one box or CUTICUflA.
Mescre Weeka A Potter i Gentlemen—I want
to tell you what Cuticuiu haa done for me.
Alnut ten veara ageTny hair began falling ont,
caused by Humor of ihe Scalp.- I tried varieua
romediea, too numerous to mention, without
relief, nntil I begun using Outiodna, ono,box of
which baa entirely cured
beginning to grow.
807 W. Luke St„ ChicagoJriT’Nov.’l3,"im"
Wo know tho above to be true,
Maav K Towssksd, 412 W. Jackson 8t.
Mna. C. A. Guar, 341 Fulton BU
JUST RECEIVED
A Large and Beautiful As
sortment of Clocks,
INCLUDING THE
LATE8T AND M08T UNIQUE STYLES.
Prices Rangiog from $1 to $15.
CONHTAV-ri,V MEOKJVING all THE LATEST
AND MO T NOBUY STYLES OF
BRIDAL PRESPNT?, FIVE JEWELRY,
Silverware, &c.
ALL GOODS SOLD ENQRAVED FREE BY US.
septlwwtf
:ured me, and n w hair Is
Respectfully,
MRS- O, J. ROOT.
SCALD HEAD
For Nine Years cured when all other
Remedies failed,
Moears Weeka A Fotter: Gentlemen—Binoo
have been using your OotreoRa fur
and it hassured me when all modi-
_ . r l.„„ , i oines mat I have taken fur nine year* did me
as have from time to time been suggest-1 no gooi> I am now UI <ng it a. a hair draining,
ed for tbe good of the system Without ' but my head is well. It keepa the hair in very
any expenditure from the State fund, nice condition. Yo “h l * uI Raymond
We have found the records of the of- Aud;tor Port WlJDe , Jackl ' on ia.giaaw r. r.
Visit different portions of the State and j July last I h
to discuss before the people such changes j 8 , c *‘ d Head,«
1 r t,^ oinea that I
School Commissioner Orr.
Report of the Hpeclal legislative Commit
tee.
The special committee appointed Uy
the house of Representatives to investi
gate the office and accounts of the State
school commissioner submit the follow
ing report. ,, ,
The constitution of 1808 provided
that the poll tax, together with any edu-
catibnnl fund then belonging to tbe State,
except the endowments and debts due
to the State university or that might be
hereafter obtained in any way, a special
tax on shows and exhibitions and on
the sale of spirituous and malt liquors
and the proceeds for cotnmutation for
military servioe, were to be set apart
and devoted to the support of common
schools. It was father porvided that if,
at any time, the amounts thus set apart
should prove insufficient, the general as
sembly should have power to levy such
eneral tax upon the property of the
jtate, as would be necessary for the sup
port of said school systen. An act of
the general assembly, approved August
23d, 1872, addnd to thiB fund, one-ha f
the rent of the Western and Atlantio rail
road, making an aggregate annual ap
propriation of about three hundred
thousand dollare. The constitution of
1877 embodied the act of August 23,
1872, in its provision for school pur
poses, and added to the fund provided
for the constitution of 1868, all taxes that
may be assessed on such domestic ani
mals as, from their nature and habits,
are distructive to other property.
The general assemble has not seen fit,
as yet, to impose such additional.M,
and there has been nothing added to tne
general sohool fund by these provisions
We find that the fund ariBing from these
differrent sources hue been equitably dis
tributed by the apportionment ol tne
commissioner, among the various coun
ties of the State. Formerly this distri
bution was made by executive warrant
upon the treasury, based upon the com
missioner’s apportionment, which ap
portionment was computed upon an
enumeration mode by the county school
commissioners, giving tb ® . lhe
children of school age entitled to me
benefits of of the fund This p^n of
S3H2HSS
trwmurT u .P° n
warranto and. returned to Ae various
localities from which they had been ro
° e Upon tho rcoomendation of the corn
miXer, the general assemb y ,n 187o
to relieve this expense, pa»®d »
authorizing the commissioner to draw
fice correctly kept, and the system
adopted renders all questions of busi
ness connected with the office a matter
of easy reference.
Here follow exhibits A and B.
In conclusion the committee beg to
commend in warm terms of approval
the efforts of the commissioner to dis
charge the duties of his office and the
untiring zeal with which he has labored
for the educational interests of the
State. We do not hesitate to pro-
nouuce him a faithful and efficient offi
cer.
[Signed] Wm. T. Dickin, Chairman;
B. F. Carr,
C. G. Janes,
W. J. Northern,
H. M. Burch,
John Bell,
D. Cran Oliyeu.
Jackaon, Mich., Pac, 10, 1878.
The Cuticura RauiOiRB arc prepared by
Weeka A Potter, Chemlata and Druggists, 300
Washington Street, Boston, and are 7" 'ate by-
all Druggists. Prloe of Cuticura, small boxes.
50 esets; Urge boxes, containing two and one-
tlmea tbe quantity o( small, $1 Resolvent
Soar, 25 cents; by
cents.
half tlmea the quentity at e
$1 per bottle. Cuticura
mail, SO oentai 3 cakes, 75
CQLLINfii Instantly thay banish
pllp and Weakness, reuse
VOLTAIC BSEUCIHO the dormant Muscles Into
P/ActcRS ‘if*, .timulato tbe
STLiver and Kidneys, ours
Dyspepsia, lodigsatlon, Billons Colfo, Cramps
and Pains, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Bolatiea,
Weak Spine, Week and Bore t.uega. Coughs and
Colds, weak Bask, Ague and Liver Pains.
oot7 twwlm
PLENTY
Piece Goods, Hats, Caps,
Furnishing Goods,
SHIRTS, UMBRELLAS, ETC.,
i.qtAr-
CALL, AND SEE THEM.
.• sep25 twwtf I- JlW
R, T, HOYT.
II. D. COTIIRAN
HOYT & COTHKAN,
BOMB, GEORGIA,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD OF
GRASS AND FIELD SEEDS,
INCLUDING CLOVER, TIMOTHY; HERDS’, BLUE AND ORCHARD
(JRAS9, BARLEY AND RYE, (and Oats ti arrive.)
Which they Offer to the Trade at Lowest Possible Figures.
. ishwfttf .aitno'lifi
COMMON SENSE VIEWS
The New York Sun fires the following
shots at the fellow who so hastily re
tired from ex-Senator Sprague’s Can-
onchet residence:
“w e are sorry to learn that the, elo
quent and renowned Republican leader
and orator, the Hon, Roscoe Conkling,
is laid low with malarial fever.
“We never heard before that the fe
ver prevailed at Canonchet, although
we have heard of persons being sudden
ly seized with the shakes there.
“Perhaps the diagnosis has not been
thorough aud correct; and it copy be
some other ailment.
“Mr. Conkling must have a strong
desire to speak for Mr. Cornell, eveu if
he has no heart for anything else.
There can be doubt about that; and no
man in this country is better qualified
than the eloquent Senator to portray the
horrors of the ‘shot-gun policy ’ ”
The San Francisco Chronicle says
that dairying in the Northern coast
counties pf California is mainly carried
on by Swiss, who make a good imita
tion of SwIbs cheese, which sells readily
at remunerative prices. Some of the
most prosperous dairymen of the State
came to it poor ten years ago, but now
own good farms, well stocked, and have
built comfortable houses and barnB,
The Swiss are neat, economical in their
expendituree, and, above all, industri
ous.
Greatness and usefulness in this
world, little man, do. not depend on eue,
The smallest thing about a man’s trous-
Crsie the suspender button. But just
let it snap off while he is paying bis re-
apecto to his hostess at an evening party-
An ulster that would fit Gohoh wouldnj
cover his confusion-—Burlington Hawk;-
eye.
A son of the late Major-General
George C. Meade, to now employed in
the machine shops at Renovo, on the
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad.
FOREIGN LANDS.
BY M. DWINELL.
T his volume, of four hundred
Page*, now ready lot sal*, is well printed
on good paper and noaUy bound to mbilln.
It embraeos a series of Letters written from
tho most interesting cities of Soqtbern Europe;
fiom Alexandria, Cairo and tbe Pyramids, in
Egypt; from Jaffa, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Beth
eny, Mount of Olives, Jericho, River Jordan,
Dead Sea, Ae ', la Palestine ( Smyrna and An
cient Ephesus, in Syria; from Constantinople,
Vienna, Switaerland, Ac., in Europe. Aleo,
series from the Westers part of America, from
Omaba to San Franciicn and Including a visit id
the famous Yoeemite Falla
This Volume will be sent by meil, fre* of
pottage, on roceiptof $1 60, Addrete CouRise
Offlco, Rome, Go., or it can be bought at tba
Book Rtoree.
1879. FALL & WINTER TRADE. 1879.
New Goods. Fine Goods.
MRS. T. BrWlLLlAMS,
5 Ax I Ej Ej INK n,
No. 61 Broad Street* Rome, Ga.
'T'HANKINO MY MANY CUSTOMERS FOR TME LIBERAL PATRONAGE GIVEN ME
1 in the poet, I am proud to cay that I am bottir prepared to attend to their wanta than ever
person in .tbe Northern markoU. My.Gootis are in the Latest Strles, end I hove my Trimming
done with gpqd material by experience milliners. Call and.examine my goods and get my price!
before purchasing elsewhere, (ooti7 tw wtf
James G. Dailey,
UNDERTAKER'S WARE-ROOMS,
(On sse-ind story)
96 BrQad Street.
IW coiinecliop with
our Immenreitrak, trs
have added a Milline
ry Department, wh-te
Winter Styles, em
bracing Trimmed and
Untrimmed In
Strao end Jolt-Hole.
8 o our Hew Stylo
Pattern HaU. This
Miss ABBiE WEBB,
ossified by
Mm- E. BURNETT,
who will be pleased
to see all •of' ibeir
friends Wdl, qon-
Btantly receive all of
tbe Late.i Novelties
ea they appear.
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; line of Gloves lofore
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est line of Thiee.
Button Kid Gloves in
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Wear, Ties, Bows,
Silk and Lace Fis-
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Cnflb, Linen and
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Hembuigs, Ribbons,
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