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®be gUm* KSTABLISHED IN 1S-4.3. M. DWISGLI'i Proprietor. Thursday Morning, : : : Oct. 30,1879 Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks speaks of Bill Wheeler as “that fellow, you know, who is drawing my salary.” A Bartow man, a clever gentleman and a supporter of Dr. Felton, said re cently that there was no danger of Aker- mau and Felton both running for Con gress. A recent heavy rainfall in Spain caused great destruction of life and property by the sudden rising of streams. Twelve) hundred persons or more were drowned and numberless houses destroyed. We thank Mr. HiU for writing and publishing his letter to Mr. Chittenden. We publish it in full, as it would be wrong to mar its symmetry and com pactness by giving only a part. It is truthful, trenchant and caustic. It mdy make fanatics more fanatical, but is sure to have good effect with the thoughtful. Truly, tho South has dono nothing politically of which it is ashamed, and it would be but a lie to say wo are sorry for our conduct. The South has always been more law- abiding, more conservative, and more devoted to constitutional government than its maligners. A majority of the people at the North know this to be true, and would willing ly let this sectionalism pass away if they did not know that with the death of sectionalism would come the end of the Radical party. 0, for peace between the sections, and the rule of truth and honesty. State News. Ex-Attorney General Akerman, of Georgia, would like to go to Congress says the New York Herald. He lives in Felton's district, let him go into a race with the parson.—Milledgeville Union. You need not hope for any such race as that. The only chance for the ex- Attorney General and the parson is to take it one at a time.. However, we would like to see a little rivalry grow up be'ween th*em ; it would be such a nice place for the delicate interference of Ferry and other prominent Republi- Telegraph says he is requested to state oans ’ The Legislature appropriated mon ey enough to every Confederate soldier in Georgia who lost an arm or a leg in the war to buy an artificial limb. We believe that the soldier can draw the money and do as he pleases with it. That is, the money is his after receiving it. So many claim to have rescued the lady from the burning building in Sa vannah, at the Jasper centennial, that the Georgia Press man of the Macon that during the unveiling of the Con federate monument in this city on the 29th there will be a reunion of the “res cuer of the Savannah lady.’’ Maj. J. B. Cumminq, Senator from the Augusta District, made a speech in Augusta Saturday night, by request of hiB constituents, giving his reason for voting againBt the impeachment of Treasurer Renfroe. Both the Chronicle and Nows of that city speak in high terms of the speech; and we gather from these papers that his constituents were satisfied with his course, as they ought to be. Maj. Cumming was one of the few men in the Legislature who dared to do what they thought right, regardless of public clamor, or of what "the people thought;” and we honor him for his course. We should reflect that there was less fues over the force bill, passed while Jackson was President, and providing for troops at the polls, than there has been over the present election laws.— Atlanta Constitution. We shout,n reflect a good deal before saying that the “force bill” said any thing about troops at the polls. Ac cording to our reading, the force bill was passed about 1833 to compel the payment of tariff duties in South Caro lina, that State having “nullified” the revenue laws of the United States. We do not know the purpose of the Constitution in publishing the above paragraph, nor whether it.was intended as seriousness or as a joke. “The Republican party will get all the Greenbaokers who were honest in their convictions," says the Des Moines Register, a Northwestern Radical sheet. Certainly the Republican party will get all if the purpose of the creation of the party is fulfilled. It was started as a helper of Radical Cor,. L. N. Trammel has cast his for tunes with the Greenbackers of Whit field. Detroit Fr<,e Press: The Romans thought the killing of a father so dread fully impossible a crime that they had no name for it. In this country it is ap parently becoming so common that it hardly needs to be distinguished from other kinds of murder. The case of Gunn, in Massachusetts is followed by that of Noller, near Cleveland, this last week. In both these cases the parricide was prompted by avarice—an inordi nate desire to possess the property of the father. A third instance happened also in Ohio, near Delaware. Smith Harriott is accused of shooting his fa ther on Thursday, by reeson of some family trouble. When to these crimes are added that of Fitch, in this State, who killed his little daughter, and of the Illinois farmer, the same week,'who also shot his child, the record of unnat ural crimes is becoming grave enough to divert attention, for a season, from the misdeeds of the Southern people. The license fee for selling whisky in Liberty county is $1,000 per year. The top crop in Southwest Georgia has been ruined by recent heavy rains. Tho farmers of Franklin report the cotton crops as or an average with past years. The steam bakery of J. II. Ruwe, in Savannah, was destroyed by (ire on Sun il ay. Loss, $20,000. Prof. Mallon, who was well known in Atlanta as Superintendent of Education, died in Huntsville, Texas, on Sunday. Mr. Ed. Warsham, a young man of Atlanta, committed suicide on Saturday. He formerly lived near Knoxville, Tenn. A train recently running into Ameri- cus passed through a herd of oatlle, kill ing and miaming eight fine beeves. The colored people of Spalding coun ty will hold their second annual fair in Griffin next month, commencing on the 5th. Conyers Examiner: Mr. C. V. San ford rasied in bis garden, the present year, 111 bushels of sweet potatoes on the 47th part of aD acre, at the rate of over 500 bushels per acre, and all fine, large potatoes. It appears from the Atlanta Dispatch that Governor Colquitt requested Milt Barlow to sing “I Want to be an An gel,” and Milt, who had forgotten the tune, rendered “Old Black Joe,” bring ing in the angels satisfactorily at the close. Seventeen deaths in Augusta last week—whites 6, oolored 11. Albany, to the 22d, had received 6,- 785 bales of cotton. Gone to Meet Wise. New York, October 27.—A special from St, Charles, Missouri, says: Will Brayton, the tcronnut, made an ascen sion yesterday. The wind was blowing very bard. Ho was dressed in tights. The balloon had no basket, having only rings to hold to. Brayton hung head downward, holding by his legs, when five hundred feet in the air. It is sup posed theballoon became qnraanageable, as it crossed tho Mississippi, going due north, and was soon ought of sight. Brayton, with no clothing but his tights, could not endure the oold long. Dr. Downey, of Louisiana, nephew of Prof. Wise, assisted Brayton. The Balimore muncipal election was held on Wednesday last. Strange to say, we received no news regarding it by tele graph, but we learn form the Baltimore papers that Hon. Fred C. Latrobe, the present mayor, and Democratic candi date for re-election, was victorious over W. J. Hooper, regular republican nomi nee, by a majority of 5,790. The day was stormy and a light vote was polled. The Gazette estimates that the majority, under the circumstances, means A ma jority in the city on the 4th of Novem ber next of at least 10,000 for the demo cratic nominee for governor, Hon. Wm, T. Hamilton. The democrats ateo elec ted twenty-seven out of thirty members in the joint branches of the common council. Who Are Working to Elect Cor nell. From the Buffalo Courier]. 1. John Kell y and his followers of Tammany h*ll. They bate Lucius Rob inson becauso they could neither coax nor bully him into subservience to their purposes in New York city. 2. The remains of the old canal ring, whose occupation has been gone ever since Tilden published his canal mess age of 1875. They have been badly hurt both in price and pocket, and, to a man, are down on Robinson. 3. Tb» insurance ring, whioh woe hit when the governor undertook to remove the corrupt superintendent of the insur ance department, Smyth. 4. Ail 'he special advocates of the thousand and one local jobs which have come to grief at the hands of the governor. 5. A few Democratic politicians who are disaffected because they failed to get favors asked or receive recognition claimed at Lucius Robinson’s hands. 6. The Republican machine, which moves and has its being solely for the advancement of the ambitions of Ros- coe Conkling. 7. All who fed at the public crib dur ing the palmy days of Grantistr. They know that the election of Mr. Cornell means a third terra—sure. These are the banded forces on which Cornell and his ticket rely for success. On the side of Lucius Robinson are the Democracy, who determined at Syr acuse that his upright administration Bhould be sustained and the insolent dictation of Tammany hall resented as deserved. And with them are the inde- lendent, disinterested masses of the lbnest people. Sherman (Texas) Courier : A verita ble cloud of negroes, all sizes, shapes and shades of color, passed through Denison Friday, eu route for Kansas, where the people live in mud houses and live on grasshopper soup. They came from Grimes county, in this State, and were filled with exultation over the glittering future spread out before them. They got as far as the Nation, but the weather wasn’t “propitious” enough. There was too muoh frost in the air. Visions of icebergs, snow three feet deep and no wood in the house be gan to loom up before them, and they switched off, turned around and sailed back. They went through on their homeward journey yesterday morning, and propose to stay in the Sunny South as long as they have a grip on life. A young lady of Augnsta who didn’t admire the custom in vogue among her sisters of writing a letter and then cross writing it to illegibility, said she would prefer her epistles “without an over skirt.” John H. James, banker of Atlanta, advertises he will continue to lend mon ey at 10 to 12 per cent., thus openly de fying the lately passed usury law which limits the rate to 8 per cent. Twenty-one deaths in Savannah last week, whites 9, blacks 12. Annual ratio per 1,000—whites, 27.0; colored, 41.0. The Gate City Guards arrived in At lanta Saturday morning on the Air Line railroad, from their trip north. They were received by the Governor’s Guards, the Dahlonega Cadets, and the band of the Thirteenth Infantry. They were immediately carried out to the fair grounds, where State Senator E. P. Howell in the absence of Gen. Gordon delivered the address of wel- A Baltimore company has found a copper bonanza in the mines at Ore Knob, Ashe county, North Carolina where 700 men are employed, and about $300,000 are annually disbursed to the inhabitants for fuel, etc. A cor respondent of the Baltimore American says six additional farnaces are to be erected, and a railroad is being built to connet the mines with Greensboro. The monthly product of pure copper is 150,- 000 pounds. A large pottery firm in Staffordshire, England, whioh does a large trade with this country, has decided to remove its seat of manufacture across the water with a view of locating in Philadelphia, Arrangement are now being made to dose up the home works, and the work men are preparing to settle in a new land. Several other owners of pot teries are considering the desirability of permanently settling in -the United States. Can any patriot tell us where the American flag has been lately? If we are to believe W. A. Wheeler, of the firm of Hayes & Wheeler, who turned up once more in New York the other day and made a speech for Cornell, we are in danger of permanently losing onr national banner. Mr. Wheeler informed his hearers that “I follow that flag wherever I see its folds, whoever may be tbe standard-bearer.” It has fought Democracy from the be ginning. Its leaders and wire-workers oppose the Democratic party. The issue on which it came into life is dead. With “resumption” an accomplished fact, its existence as a political party is a sham, As substantiating the proposition that it is an enemy of Democracy it !b only necessary to refer to the organization in Whitfield county, in this Slate, where the faction is stronger than at any other point in the State. There the leader or president of the club is ex-Representa- tive Wm. C. Richardson, an amateur preacher, by the way, who votes and works for Felton and fights the Demo cratic party. Its "organ” iB the Inde pendent Headlight, called Independent by courtesy, we suppose, and as a sort of standing acknowledgment of Dr. Fel ton’s Independentism, which is depen dent, as all know, on the willingness of the Radicals and niggers to support him- This paper has always supported Fel ton and fought the Democratic nominee for Congress. We suppose that a few of these Greenbackers have been lucky enough to get into office by fooling the people with the idea thnt they will make mon ey—greenbacks—plentiful. It would be well for tbe voter to find out whether these men who profess bo much love for the people and who wish to be thought fully competent to change the laws of trade and commerce and turn streams of golden, or greenback, prosperity into some favored neighbor hood, have not an axe to grind—are not simply trying to deceive the people into voting for them. The Boston Post, organ of the Democ racy of Massachusetts, sounds the party bugle for an assault upon the “Penn sylvania idea”—protection. It says “the whole country is clamoring for tariff re form," and denounces the policy of pro tection as a “discouragement to com merce, and a blight upon our indus tries that it “destroys honest compe tition, arbitrarily discriminates against some industries and in favor of others, and virtually gives the lobby and the longest purse supreme power over the business interests of the country.” Other Democratic papers will be heard from to tbe same effect soon, and tho probabilities are that the question of tariff revision will largely occupy the attention of Congress this winter. The South is eolid, says the Mobile Register, because we of the South are the peculiar victims of Republican pol icy—a policy which actually subjected for six mortal years and which would subject again property to pauperism, in telligence to ignorance, honesty to theft and peace to anarchy. The North is not solid and cannot become so, since the theory of government which the Republican party would apply to the South strikes at the liberties of the North and South alike. The Forsyth Advertiser will hereafter be published by Cary A. King and H, Cabaniss. Mr. George A King, former ly one of the proprietors, has engaged in business in Charleston, 8. C. The Covington Enterprise says that Newton county has a negro man 92 years old that will make six bales oi cotton, forty bushels of corn and forage enough to feed his horse. The horse is about as old as the darkey. Columbus Times: The late rains have seriously damaged the crops in many sections of the country. In our immediate section the damage sustained has been very heavy. Farmers from the upper part of the county and from.Har ris, told us yesterday that the corn and peas were sprouting in the fields, and that the pea crop would be almost an entire failure. Much of the ootton was blown out and is sprouting on the ground. According to tbe international postal law, the following articles are prohibited from transmission in tbe common mails: Tobaoco to England; salt, daggers,sword- canes, and pistole of small size to Italy; oopper coin and copper, silver and golden articles to Holland; cigars in lesser amount than 3,000, also alco- hal, liquors, and beer to the United States and Canada. G. W. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger is a modest man, but he does not hesitate to say that he has carried the United States around in his pocket fourteen years past. “There is nothing in the gift of the people, there was nothing in the gift of Gen. Grant os President, at home or abroad that was not at my disposal if I had cared to ask for it.” As a proof of the economy practiced by the new government of Egypt, the Aus trian journal Boinbe gives tho following illustration: Criminals of a certain grade are entitled to one hundred lashes with the bamboo cane; but a superior court has reduced the number to fifty, on tbe grouud that the government is obliged to spend too much for bamboo canes, when the lashes are too lavishly administered. The Irish Citizen of Cincinnati heads its editorial columns as follows : “The ticket to win in 1881—For President of the United States, Samuel J. Tilden, of New York; for Vice-President of the United States, Richard M. Bishop, of Ohio. Early County News: We think some of our exchanges put the case unfairly when they say Renfroe pleaded guilty. He merely acknowledged that he had done the things charged, but claimed that in this there was no guilt, Montenegro is a unique country regard to its postal business. Until re cently the mails were not sent to any of the cities or villages, but every citizen had to go for his letters to the capital, Centtinje. There has now been estab lished a postal department, and the mail is now sent ff-Vm Centtinje to four other cities. The mail carriers travel to these four cities on foot three times weekly. There are loud outbursts of Republi can gratitude to Ben Hill for that apis tie.—New York Tribune. We don’t believe it; It is a known fact that Republicans don’t generally hanker after political truth, Besides, if they did the Tribune would not have refused to print Mr. Hill’s open letter in reply to its correspondent.—Savannah News. A manufacturer in Sheffield, Eng land, lately showed a number of his workmen an assortment of American goods and, holding up a pair of tailors' shears offered to give the trades union the men belonged to $250 if any of them, within a month, would produce a pair equal to them. The challenge was not accepted. Tne trousseau of the young Queen of Spain, designate, is described by Paris papers as exquisite. It includes a num berof dresses devised from the fashions of the time of Louis XIII. A$ the wed ding mass she will wear a dress of cloth of silver, wilh garlands brilliant with myrtle, orange flowers and lilies. Ex-Governor Chfttpbprlain ( of Maine, now President of Rowdoin College, says somo people think "the real way to save the country is tQ keep certain politicians in office, antj that servile following of them is the only test of loyalty to the Union.” “I am indignant,” he contin ues, “at this insult.” That ja sound sense, but it’s rough on Rlaine. The Philadelphia Times fears that should the cabinet all rush back to Washington at the game time it will throw the continent off its balance, un less judiciously managed. The directors of t^e City of Glasgow Bank, who have just been released from prison, were kept busy at brush and mat making daring the term of their confinement. SISn, BLINDS, BOOBS, ET(. MANTLES, BALU8TER8, 4c. Q3 * 8TAI H A fall line of thei* goods will h* notice. 4 ® ° f Tell0W plne ’ ° r 558 ask an examination of’ourgoods Robt. A. Johnson’. machine*.™", •Tone.’ .tore, No. 117 Broad .treat, Rome 4 Q.' A ' A- A. JONKB, aug28tw2m R T ' A ' J0HNs 0N. Amusements. MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA (AUGUSTA.) Medical Department of the Uni- versity of Georgia, TU,r t rF,«N^\S H N0^ a,r' ‘ n,i ° nd th - Faculty Lowis D. Ford, Joseph A. Eve t . Duga., Geo. W. Rains, H. F. Oamifiif nl. *• Ford, Edward Geddinge, Robt. C. Eve ’ D,? ‘ UI ' Apply for oircular to D.SAUJSURE FORD, ^ocllljwlm Dean, Auimta q,. w HITELEY’S OtD RELIABLE LIVERY STABLE! W. L. WHITELEY, Proprietor. CONSTANTLY 08 hand to hire, Good Horta. ..j Excellent Vehicles. BnUnitij Meommodfttionfc for Drover* end oihwt. OKrUga., and Baggie, alwey. on b«d tl .atl.faotion guaranteed to all w i 0 pntroni— n»- , CITY HALL! Friday, October 31. ONE NIGHT ONLY! FORD’S (IRIGiAL JUVBMLB PINAFORE! Selected Chiefly Feoh Church Chow. Endorsed by the Leading New York Journals aa the beat Singer, and Actors of Pinafore when at Wallaok’x Theatre last Spring. FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 314t, Author Sullinan’s Comic Opera, II. M. S. PINAFORE. Norn.—The firat Ohnreh Choir Singer who sang i Pinafore enywhere did eo under Manager Ford. The first Juvenile Opera Company with church choir vocalists was organised by theaame management. Manager Ford alo.yi has the right to do Pinafore. HE only has paid its eu" and owners for that right. Admission It cents,- Secured Beets $1 00 The sale of Besured Beats will commence on Wednesday morning, Ost 80, at O. J. Warner’*. oc38tw3t, ... THE ROME HOTEL, (Formerly Tennessee House) BROAD STREET, NEAR RAILROAD DIP0T J. A. 3TANSBURY, - - Propr IST0B Rome, Georgia. * THIB HOTEL IB BITUATKD WITHIN 1UL twenty step* of the railroad platform, end convenient to the builn.is portion of 1 rwn. Servant* pollteand attentive to tbiir duties. •■All Baggage handled Free of Uhtrta eaUs- G.j A. RAINWATER, &.n. THE CHOICE HOTELS CORNER BROAD AND BBIDQE STRUT! J. C. Rawlins, Proprietor. Situated In the Balinese pert of lb. Oily,) Rome, Georgia. *•-Passengers taken to end trom the Dttol free of oharge H. RAWLINS, Clerk. Good Property for Sale in Rome A nyone desiring first rate prop KRTY, near the railroad and known a* the Rome Stove Works, and aultablo for warehouse and commission business, apply to M. DWINELL, Or J J. SEAY, at the Works oct>8tw-wlm SKATING RINK! rpHERE WILL BE SKATING ON MONDAY, A Wednesday, Friday and Saturday afternoons from 4 to 6 o’elock, and every ovening from 7 30 to 10 e’olock, commencing Friday night, October 14th, until farther notlc-, Tuesday, Thursday end Saturday mornings at 10 o’clock the Hall will be open for Ladies only to learn and practise. (ootlS twlm Mill Machinery for Sale. T he mill machinery now in the DeSoto Mill Is for sale. It consists of three pair of 3|ft. Frenoh Burr Mill stones, dreeled, faced and furrowed complete; one No. 2 Eureka Smutter, i reels, bolte complete. Will be sold low. Enoulre or J. J. COHEN’S SONS. mar29 tw wtf ELLIS DAVIS & GO., Slate Manufacturers and. Roofers, H ave always on hand an excel- lent stock of SLATE, and nre prepared to do Roofing at short notice in any part of the South. Price about a third above shingles. Satisfaction guaranteed. Orders promptly at tended to. Offices: Rookmsyt, Ga., and Atlanta, Ga. Box 387. (sep23 twfim LATEST STYLES FALL AND WINTER MILLINERY -BY- MISS S4-LLJE WILKERSON. M Y NEW SUPPLIES INCLUDE SO Detail Hate ana Bonnets, prices from Fifty Cents to Ten Dollars; e large and very beautiful stook of flowers, Feathers aod Birds; a beautiful as sortment «f Ornaments, Ribbons, Combs, Ac, Will bs pleased to show my gopds and prices, 8ALLIE WILIfERSON. octlS tw2m w2t O. W. Likowobtbv. C. B. Linwoitit. L. M. Laxawonnv. C. W. lANCIOItTM S CO., 90 Masonic Temple, Rome, Ga., MUSICAL AGENCY. DEALERS IN WILCOX Sc WHITE Clough & Warren AND OTHER ORGANS. VOSE & SONS, KRANICH ABACH, RAVEN & CO., AND OTHER PIANOS. Pianos & Organs for Exchange or Rent. SHEET MUSIC, MUSIC SOOKS. BWTIftH- ERY, BOOKS. PERJODJOAW, Apr Orders by mall promptly filled-’** mavli tw wlf ■ . - .— JOHN W. MADDOX, ATTORNEY AT LAW, SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA. e*p28 tw3m' HEARN MALE SCHOOL, ' At CAVE SPRING, GEORGIA. W. T. TROUr, . - . . Treasurer. T. W.ABBURY, ,- - - . Secretary, Rev. D. B. HAMILTON, Pres, Board Trustees. Fall Term opons Sept 1—Closes Deo. 19, 1879. Spring Term opens Jan. 12—Closes June 25, Tuitlop for th* year $10, $20, and $40 Tuition free to twenty worthy indigent pupils. Inci dental expenses for tbe year, $1. Board with Prinolpal at $10 per month. Address the Prineipal, PAL - augt2twltw.3m Lemon j. king, a. m. Administrators’ sale. GEORGIA, Floyd County. O N THE FIRST TUESDAY IN NOVEMBER next, will ba sold at the court house door in Rome, in said county, within the lawful hours Peru o( lota of lend Nos. 323, 324,314 end 32#, in the third district end 4th seotlon of said county, oontuluing 99 40-100 acres, more or len. 8old as the property of Fielding Right, deceased. Terms cash. This Got. 0,1879. JOHN F. A C. A. EIGHT, octf *l>! Adm'rs F. Illght, deo’d. J. T. CAHILL, MANUFACTURER of IRON ANO BRASS WHS, HOLLOWWARE, GRATES, Mill Castings, renting, U Architectural Work — AND — Building C&t&S 8 A SPECIALITY’ Offioe-Railroad Avenue, between 7th and 8th Streets, Chattanooga, Tenfl* <■ junlOtwh? A Coosa River Farm at Admin istrator’s Sale. B y virtue of a decree °J m J Superior Court of Lupir. th$ before the court house door Ip R°»*l w ' w legal hours of sale, on tbe ,07 a First Tuesday in November, 1 ^ the farm on Coosa river, six jj*. oonUlsl*} known e. the B. F. # about 710 acres, eonsutai wo( tbs# part of lot No. 811, i"41l j j, tMkjj 1 ■eotioa, aod} oU N01.28,29,3^ ^ ***»»“• 45 and 108, Ip tbe Jd dletr p ,bogt e*^ About 290 acre* open S-bl" half is river bottom- Comfort*®'*, » 4 pW tW out houses; ,* good gut / Thi* I* ■orew. TW- pltoa well w»t«e{| 4 dM jrsW opportunity 4b seonre 1