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THE GAZETTE
HIIMMKRVII.LK, GA.
John A. HicNiir, Kn. and Proprietor
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writer'* name, or they cannot be published.
THITRSOAY MORNING, JULY IR,
- The picture here xhown in *up
polled to be an ideal portrait of
Ilcnry Ward Beecher while tcll
ing ono of his funniest jokes in
the pulpit of Plymouth church on a late
Sunday morning. No wonlcr the pious
congregation roars with laughter, stamps
in thunders of applause, and cheers for
the man they worship*. The portrait, of
course, is copied from the spirit of some
editorial notices in the New York Hun.
The Atlanta weekly Constitution lias
boon much improved hy anew dress of
typo and anew make-up. Wo give it
congratulation on the lively change.
James A. Doyle k Cos. have begun an
advertising agency in Savannah, designed
to act for the pross of the Southern States.
It will doubtless prove of convenience and
practical good to the large number of
newspapers in this section, and we trust
the enterprise will lie successful. It is n
prominent sign that Savannah is a live
city, ami destined to find greater impor
tance as the ocean port of Georgia.
“We know that the great majority of
the people of Chattooga county are as
jieaoeful and law abiding us any oilmens
in the State, and as deeply deplore these
troubles as is possible for them to do so,
and we have full confidence that they will
take the necessary stops to put a stop to
these personal encounters.''
Tho above remark, made by the Rome
Courier of Thursday, is dbrrdot and truly
represents the good disposition of a largo
majority of our county citiaens. But it is
an absolute necessity that something be
done to stop tho carrying of weapons and,
the i>otty wars between neighbors. The
Gazette lias heretofore pointjd out tho
true and only way for this to be done.
Good and thoughtful men are beginning,
to realize that the evil must Is: promptly
met, and in the way which will boat restore
mutual good feoliug.
A Cabinet of Specinfem.
There is no county in tho Htate richer
than this in mineral specimens or objects
of curiosity from past %gos. Evory ridge
fciml vnlW contains more or less of* mine
ral to stock a cabinet devoted to these
things. Tho very first, stop towards call
ing attention to tho richness of our moun
tains, is to collect and show the specimens
of them. There has never been itu effort
tuailc towards a general collection, but
such would cost very little. The good it
will accomplish for tho county and section,
may be estimated from the experience of
other localities, whoso mineral value was
made known to tlic world by these means,
and men of capital saw and took hold of
the opportunities thus brought to 4igh]k
Below we give an example of one way to
get. up a <abinet for public inspection-
All that is needed is a grouping ol the
specimens which abound in Chattooga
county; then science can examine them,
and their commercial money value made
known to the men of means who are able
to develop the wealth now lying idle in
the earth
“ The South Georgia medical associa
tion, recently organised in Thomasville,
has resolved upon the establishment of a
museum, and having procured a room in
Thomasville, an - now ready to receive and
solicit from all quarters anatomical, path
ologioal and geological specimens for the
collection. A few specimens have already
been presented to the society, and a little
activity and energy will in a short time
fill the walls of a largo room with a col
lection of curiosities, capable of interest
ing the most intelligent and scientific
minds. Tho county commissioners have
tendered the use of their room, and (’apt.
Panye has the honor of donating the first
specimen in natural history.”
The above may he profitably taken by
cur own county as a suggestion. Boom
oouid easily be furnished in our court
bouse for the purpose, and a few shelves
would answer present needs. Then lot
the iact be made known that there is such
a depository, and every intelligent citizen
will take pleasure in bringing forwaid the
curious tilings he may pick up on his
Farm, or in the garden, on the ridge. Mo
matter if there be not now among us a
special scientist who can at a glance tell
the name and lineage of every specimen;
let us first bring together the minerals and
fossil remains which are so abundant to
the hand. A simple label put on each
can diseribc where it was found, when
deposited, and by whom; afterwards there
will be time and talent to ascertain all that
is derirable to know. The youths now
being educated in our county schools, can
improve their interest in geology and
kindred sciences, which will be of im
mense value when united to their other
studies.
This matter is of permanent interest to
Chattooga county. Its importance in an
artistic sense is beyond the scale of dollars;
but it has, also, an importance that can
be directly measured in wealth to the
county population at a day not far dis
tant. We commend this suggestion to
the ordinary, who, in the absence of the
commissioners, has no doubt the power
to start a movement that must afford so
• much of present aud prospeeUvc'bonefit.
Editorial Notes.—The qmation of
restoring the president'a salary to what it
was formerly ($26,000), will probably be
part of the canvass next year.
Once upon a time, says tho Brooklyn
Argus, a cry arose that there was too
much taxation und too little representa
tion is this country, and, in order ostens
ibly Ut remedy the evil, the people got up
wliat. is knowiyts the Bunker Hill row.
Since then thodiistory of taxation here
has shown dial the object of shaking off
the foroigrßlundercrs was to enable the
l>eoplo to introduce a domestic plan of
plundering each other. At this little game
they have proved themselves capable of
giving their English cousins two points
and cumbering them every time.
All reflecting people will agree with the
Wilmington Star, that more harm to the
morals of this country has been done by
the trial of Henry Ward Beecher than by
forty thousand ordinary police trials with
all the flaunting accompaniments graph
jcally and gorgeously set forth in the
pictorial patters. The whole affair reek
ing in licentiousness and pdrfumed by the
upas of hypocrisy has been read and dis
cussed in all the land. The melancholy
spectacle of religion reviled ami dragged
through the mire, of woman dishonored
ami trampled under foot, of thousands
feeding on foul swill and smacking their
jaws, like swine at trough, over the bestial
repast is too horrid to lie made the sub
ject of refined or long continued comment-
A number of crates of peaches have
found their way to the New York market
from Georgia, and fruit dealers predict an
enormous crop this season, fhe present,
prices aro exorbitant, small peaches bring
from $3 to $.'1.80 per crate, and the larger
and finer ones lining held at sls.
Psulmuol Bard will hereafter bo known
as the Great Deposed. He has employed
counsel and proposes to tost in the courts
the right of the president to remove an
appointee of the government without
alleged cause.
Whatever differences of opinion may
prevail respecting the future prospects of
the rest, of tho country, there can be no
doubt that the Southern States arc now
in a more prosperous condition than they
have been at any period since the com
mencement of the w'ar. The final with
drawal of the federal authority, or rather
of the carpet-bag governments, and the
restoration of the old principle of State
control have been attended by the hap
piest results. In Arkansas and Louisiana,
which were longest deprived of the privi
lege <tf self government, bankruptcy and
civil war seemed to be imminent only a
few months ago; but now, party animosity
appears to have died out, and from both
States wo have the most encouraging re
ports. Everything is serene and pros
perous— so prosperous, indeed, that a
cotton crop of five million hales as now
regarded - ns probable,- — IT. S. Economist.
The Chattanooga Times speaks of a call
from C. W. Howard, the distinguished
writer upon agricultural ami mineral rc
wmrees of Georgia. Air. Howard informs
the editor that ho has sold his property
near Kingston, and has purchased three
thousand acres on Lookout mountain, near
Rising Fawn, where he intends to go into
sheep raising, in addition to the cultiva
tion of fruits and vegetables, lie has ten
acres iu Irish potatoes at present, from
which ho expects to raise one thousand
bushels, with no other manure than wood
ashes- Mr. Howard is also interested in
a coal mine on top of the mountain, iu
the upper carboniferous formation, from
which he hopes some day to supply Chat
tanooga, by means of a narrow gauge
railroad along the summit of the moun
tain, on a lovel to tho point, and thence
by an incline to Chattanooga.
The Chicago Tribune complains that
there is a class of foreigners in that city,
composed of those who do not speak or
read English, who have come there from
Bohemia ami Poland ami other places in
Europe, ami who have the most ignorant
and extraordinary notions of what con
stitutes freedom in a free country. Last
year these persons insisted that it was (he
duty of the government to provide for
them and their families by donations from
the city treasury! and generally main
tained that law which protected property
in the hands of one man while others had
none, were tyrannical und despotic.
The Rome Commercial, in an editorial
article on the present paper money system
of our country, speaks as follows:
“To devise and cirry out a wise and
effectual plan of reform of long standing
abuses, rerpiiros the highest ability. This
is especially true of financial reforms. If
we could find a time when there existed
no debtor class, much of the difficulty
would be removed; but unfortunately, an
inflated and depreciated currency is al
ways accompanied or speedily followed by
a vast amount of indebtedness ; and this
indebtedness creates a formidable obsta
cle to any affoctu&l plan of reformation.
Wo have therefore to choose between (lie
alternatives of no reformation, or refor
mation at the hazard of opposition from
the whole mass of debtors X o real frion 1
of the permanent prosperity of the conn
try will sonsent that evils, such as invari
ably attend a bloated, fluctuating and
depreciated paper currency shall remain
permanently fixed upon the country, lie
formation, then, is a necessity. Whether
it is possible to reform our currency with
out contraction so such an extent as to
occasion a serious reduction of prices is a
question to be maturely considered, Let
us hope that our financiers may be able
to devise some plan which will lead us
gradually but surely out of our difficulties
without any sudden and ruinous contrac
tion. If contraction is an indispensable
preliminary to a return to a specie cur
rency, then we must make minds
to endure contraction just as we submit
to take physic to get rid of malignant
disease.
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Northern and WtrtherjConrteiies. <
The New York Herald says.: “Nothing
could be more grateful than the treatment
bestowed upon the representatives of the
Southern army who went to Boston dur
ing the Bunker Hill celebration. They
were overwhelmed with courtesies and
honor and every evidence of kindness and
fraternal feeling. The effect of this has
not been lost upon the South. Governor
Kemper, of Virginia, has given public
expression to his feelings, and he regards
tho treatment by Boston of Virginians
‘who went with the smell of Confederate
battles on their garments’ as a ‘ step to
ward inaugurating the true work of the
centennial period, the work which is to
extinguish all sectional animosities for
ever- 1 The undervalue of these centennial
festivities, and especially of the exhibition
which is to lie held in Philadelphia next
year, is aptly expressed by Gov. Kemper.
All that we want to remember of the war
is its devotion, chivalry, and the romance
which always surrounds these tremendous
strifes. Any remembrance that implies
bitterness or anger is an act of moral
treason to the Union. The South has no
greater enemy than the statesman who
would endeavor to revive the smouldering
fires of secession, while the North
more mischievous leader than the implac
able republican who insists upon blandish
ing the fiery tresses of war and radicalism
in every political campaign.’’
Rom* News.--There was a “ speaking
bee” ut tho city hall on Thursday night.
Rev. Mr. Reese of Floyd has been in
Eensacola and returned.;
Col- Graves, who left Rome to join tho
Egyptian army, is on his way.
Prof. Townoi and family have gone to
reside in South Carolina.
The stove works will resume work at
first of next month.
A mass meeting of colored citizens was
held in the city hall on the 6th instant, to
promote the best interest of the race. It
was an orderly meeting, ar.d will result in
good influence.
Married by Esq. Hawkins on the 4th,
Henry McKenzie to Miss Patterson.
The July term of superior court is in
session, Underwood presiding.
On the 7th of August, a vote will bo
taken on the plan of compromise Idtoly
made with holders of the city bonds.
In the superior court we notice only one
citizen of this county as interested in
suite, viz: Wesley Shropshire B.
Blake. Verdict given for Shropshire,
SIOO and costs.
The Rome railroad has elected E. Hill
yer president, and C. M. Pennington
superintendent.
Yesterday a meeting was to have been
held in the city hall, called together by
hy the mayor, for the purpose of discuss
ing plans to open the Coosa river and
reach the gulf. The subject is very im
portant to Rome, and the county and city
are invited to talk it over. Navigation
through other rivers is also wanted.
The express office has been removed to
the new Commercial building.
The steam fire engine “Rainbow will
perhaps be sold to Marietta.
Au. Around.—largo fire in the busi
ness part of Dalton, partly insured.
Mrs. Pupccll of Quitman shoots all the
bogs she finds in her garden. This is a
first class receipt for the nuisance.
Middle Georgia crops flourish.
In Jones county, eighty bushels of clean
oats wore raised on one acre.
Rev-W. I’. Ilarrbon intends to publish
a Methodist paper in Atlanta.
“Tom Hardeman" is the name of a
new locomotive ou the State road.
An Augusta man says that for thirty
odd years itwhas rained on the 21st of
June, as helas observed.
Dwelling af 11. M. Walton, in Wilkes
county, was burned by an incendiary.
Tho Scofield rolling mills in Atlanta are
to be started again.
There are faint prospects that the North
A South railroad will, one of these days,
be completed through to Atlanta.
Mr. Matt Briscoe of Ogtethrope has a
violin 104 years old.
(’lark of the Atlanta Constitution, and
Alston of the Herald, were to have duelled
in Alabama, but Alston was arrested at
West Point.
Sardis church in Columbia county was
burned by unknown persons.
Full opened cotton bolls arc already
shown in Thomas county.
Elijah Martin, a farmer of Coweta
county, has not bought a pound of meat
or a grain of corn in fifty years.
A gentleman gives the Elbcrton Gazette
a remedy for snake bites which he has
never known to fail. Immediately upon
being bitten, or as soon as possible apply
a piece of moistened copperas to the
wound, and keep it there until the effects
of the poison disappears. The copperas
can be applied with a bandage, or a large
lump placed ou tho wound, to which it.
will adhere as the mad-stone is said to do.
When the lump drops off it should be
replaced by another piece, moistened as
the first, and this kept up until the ad
hering ceases.
Columbus factories paid out $12,000
for wages last Saturday night week.
Crops in Muscogee county arc tolerable;
in Stewart and Chattahooche fair; in
Talbjt and Meriwether favorable; and in
Harris there is a prospect',of an average
yield.
Prof. Bernard Mallon has been again
re-elected superintendent of the Atlanta
public schools.
Atlanta now claims to be the fourth in
the list of inland towns in the matter of
cotton receipts. She has received several
thousand more bales this year than ever
before, and in the last twelve months has
passed Macon, Columbus and Nashville.
; Her receipts for the present current year
I will probably approbate 70,00 bales..- Au
igusia, Memphis and Selma are ikiw the
only inland towns that get more cotton
than the Gate City. It is probable that
she will lead Sekna next year, and thus
be the third on the list This place she
must bold for a long time, for it will re
quire a tremendous step to pass Augusta’s
175,000. bales, and the 250,000 that pour
into M<wnphis every year. If the North
k South road were completed to Atlanta
her cotton receipts might be increased
thereby.
A venomous alligator attacked Louis
Thomas, in Wayne county, reofently.
The Times complains that the Thomas
county jail has been ootikertcd into a
lunaticary.
Bishop Beckwith and family passed
through Atlanta on their way North.
Farmers <]tf Oglethrope are oomplaning
of dent ration caused to their lands by
beavers.
A cypres* tree was out down in Ran
dolph county which contained a colony
each of sap-suckers and bats and two
hundred pounds of nice honey-
The cotton factories of Columbus and
Tallassee have taken 1089 bales of cotton
more than they did last season.
Hon. T. M. Norwood proposes to invest
in a ihccp and stock farm in Ware county.
Banks county comes forward with a
centennial water-moccasin. He has two
heads and foifA . -
Mr.'W®- Hsrri son is in jail at Jesup,
charged with murdering his wife.
Everybody in southern Georgia planted
out potato vines on the fourth.
The Valdosta Times says that at least
$75,000 are annually taken from that
section to purchase mules, and it wants
to know why the money cannot be retain
ed in the State. It believes that the
hardy animals can’bc profitably r ' ed in
Southern Georgia, whore oats and ber
muda grass can be grown in unlimited
quantities.
Dr. A. Matthisof Washington county
sold ono hundred and fifteen tons of his
fertilizer this year.
The comptroller general decides that
cotton held on the first day of April iH
taxable, and must be returned to the re
ceiver, as other personal property, in the
county where tho owner resides. The
fact of its being stored in another county
does not rolieve the owner returning
it and paying the tax on it. _
A protracted meeting in TalbottOn.
Janies Tankersly of Albany is dead.
The State lunatic asylum is so crowded
that no more patterns can be accom
modated „ *
On the first day of last month tm twelve
national banks in Georgia
üblo for $2,197,271
they held $1,020,240 in reserve, o?a little
over forty-six per cent. The average rltio
of reserve throughout Lke country was
onl&thirty-three per cent.* Of specie the
Georgia hanks held $35|534 ( a mrioflCflj
tenders $493,668. Thriir ft’* '■ |gr cent re
iVmi.tmn f%* ..'J
While fifteen un WC
running a threshing machine/near Alpha
retta three of them were k illed hy a stroke
of lightning.
A soap-stone pipe of the post-plioccnc
era has been ploughed up in Gwinnett
county.
Dogs are slaying sheep in Gwinnett.
Columbus has a shirt factory in wliieh
thirty-live females give a practical rendi
tion of Hood's oelebrated song. She is to
have a clothes factory in which seventy
five more females will find bread-
With a population of 20,000, Augusta
can boast of twenty-five prosperous man
ufacturing establishments, the largest of
which gives constaut work to 700 hands.
Who in turn spread their money among
the merchants, giving an air of business
and prosperity to the whole community.
Tho Southern Cross factory, of Augusta
has been leased for ten years by Amos
K. Clark, who is now North getting new
machinery.
The organization of a company in Co
lumbus, for manufacturing ready-made
clothing out of Georgia-made goods, is a
very important step toward commercial
independence.
Watermelons from Florida are being
sold in Dalton at fancy prices.
W. B. Steele, of Jefferson, is dead.
An infant child of Mr, R. C. Itallard
of Dirtsellor was very ill on Tuesday.
Gustavus Johnson of Chattoogaville is
said to have g.mc to Cartersville, where
his wounded bribers Alnla and Jeff had
proceeded after the late shooting. It is
said that Abda's wounds have assumed a
dangerous character, owing to his long
ride and want of medical aid in time, lie
was shot In three places, the severest be
in the head md thigh.
We find it difficult to get particulars of
the late trouble. The undeniable fact is
that quietly disposed citizens find it safer
to take no sides, and say nothing. This
condition of things may be expected to go
on until a general indignation takes hold
of the matter and commands peace. If
the time should come when every citizen
feels that he kits an interest in these an
noying “pyivatc feuds,” that interest be
ing inseparably connected with his family
peace and public prosperity, then the law
can be trusted to take care of all differ
ences, and shotguns be laid aside.
It is .-outed that the bailiff of Seminole
district (JTu. H. Ragland) has resigned.
There serins to have been a gross impro
priety attending the late effort to arrest
the Johnson*. Persons were members of
the posse or following it, (whether they
were summoned or not we do not know,)
who had no right to be there, and who
were notoriously at enmity with the men
intended to be arrested. One of them is
reported 1 to have said that he was with
the bushwhacking party which fired upon
th retreating Johnsons, and asserts that
“they shot to kill.” If this be so, it in
dieateft a neglect of official duty
not hhln to restore good order. *
AFFAIRS IN TOWN AND COUNTY
If you livs *ii opinion on any nubjoct that
interest* the general community, write it down
and send it to The Oaaettc. You may be always
confident of a fair hearing through it* columns.
In all case* send your name to the Editor.
Mr. H. cfToilreath came up from Car
tersville on Tuesday.
Templar*4iari a thin meeting on Tues
day night, owing to the rain.
Mr. Richard C. Vernon has returned
from Atalla, Ala., and is nßw in Dirttown.
Mr. Thos. B. High of Dirttown visited
Cave Spring last week.
Grangers near Coosaville are to have a
grand picnic on Saturday.
Alpine grange has sent to Louisville for
a large shipment of salt.
Rev. Mr. Lovejoy preachen on Satur
day and Sunday at Macedonia.
Miss Maggie E. Rosser reopened her
school near LaFayette on Monday. She
left here on the Saturday preceding.
Rev. Mr. Milner filled his regular ap
pointment in the Presbyterian church
here on Sunday last.
The communication signed 11 Spectator”
is very good, but the name of the author
is not given.
Since the plentiful rains, “General
Green" has camped his army in this
county. _
The exhibition at Mrs. Knox's school
at Alpine, on Wednesday evening of last
week, was enjoyed by a large assembly of
patrons and friends.
Mr. James M. Bellah of Summerville
has been invited to address the Templars
at their picnic at Alpine on Saturday, and
will probably do so.
The stand formerly occupied by Ray
Allen has been fitted up by order of Wm.
M. Johnson, and will soon be opened as a
saloon.
On nearly all hands we hear report* of
a good season, and farmers look forward
with bright hopes of a plentiful crop
gathering. ,
It is said to be a fact that some of the
mutes in the Cave Spring asylum are
being taught to speak, and in time will be
enabled to converse freely.
A little son of Mr. It. F. Roberson ot
Summerville, two yoars old, died on Sun
day night after a long and serious illness.
The funeral took place on Monday.
Mr. J. J. P. Henry of Summerville his
a very fine collection of hogs, that are not
mreelled nathe county. One of them died
m week frmn effidera.
▼alley, in Cherokee county, has been re
moved from Holcombe’s store to theresi
donee of Dr. ShamhHn.
Mr. Miles R. Hammons carried the
southern mail to Centre on the Monday
trip, instead of the regular driver. Mr.
Hammons wished to perfect the mail ar
rangements below.
At the sheriff’s sale in Rome on Tues
day week, only one piece of property was
disposed of- It was 86(1 acres near Floyd
Springs, and brought $1000; sold to Col.
Phillips of Atlanta.
Mr. Morton, whose death we chronicled
last week, was aged fifty-one years and
three days, ilis death is reported to
have been quiet, and in the full hope of
a better world beyond the grave.
Pleasant call on Monday week from Dr.
J. W. Bryant, formerly of this county but
now located at Crawfish Springs in Walker
county. He returned home on the same
day from a visit to Coldwator district.
During the absence of Rev. Mr. Love
joy in Tennessee, lately, some persons
entered his premises and took,therefrom
a quantity of provisions, principally meats
and sugars.
Mrs. M. A. Powell of Summerville left
on Tuesday morning to visit Fort Payne,
Alabama. Her son, Mr. J. S. Powell,
resides at Fort Payne, and came to ac
company Mrs. P. They traveled by buggy
overland.
Those execut >r, administrators and
guardians who have not yet made their
annual returns, will find an important
notice from the ordinary, under head of
‘ ‘ legal advertisements.' ’ The duty must
be performed.
The “Cardwell” thresher belonging to
Messrs. Moore, Kilgo and Owens in Dirt
town, is a very fine machine although not
new. It runs with ease by six horses, and
has frequently threshed three hundred
bushels a day of wheat.
From seeing the picture of the steamer
Magnolia, which is every week published
in the Centre Advertiser with an adver
tisement. one would think that the Coosa
river had already been opened, and that
full-rigged ships were sent up from the
Gulf to navigate the river.
The southern mail hence to Centre now
departs on Mondays and Fridays, and
arrives Tuesdays and Saturdays. This
arrangement will a great convenience to
south county residents, as it will ensure a
connection with the eastern mails arriving
here on Thursday evening.
For some cause not understood, the
mail route between Centre and Cross
Plains, which is a continuation of the line
from here to Centre, was not let by the
postoffice department* The Cherokee
Advertiser compfams of this, and asks
that it be at once attended to.
A negro named Lee Vann, a lunatic,
stabbed two other negroes who were en
gaged with him at a threshing machine
an John Berryhill’s place about seven
miles from Rome. This occurred about
two weeks ago, on the Alabama road near
Coosaville. The crazy man was captured
and carried to the jail in Rome.
Mr. E. F. Floyd sent to this office on
monday a specimen pod of the California
black pea which is planted among his
corn. The pods of this pea are about
two feet long, and contained each from
thirty to fifty berries. It is easily culti
vated, and very good for table use or as
feed for stock.
Floyd county expenses for the last six
months were $11,924.30, divided as fol
lows: On old debt $5079 80; for jury
service $1035; court house $423.82 ; jail
$822.67; poor house $1284.71; and gen
eral expenses $3278.30. Mr. Thomas J.
Perry is clerk to the board of commis
sioners, and a very efficient officer.
Acknowledge a very pleasant call on
Saturday from Mr. J. A. Rheudy, who is
on a visit to his old home. Mr. Rheudy
is now located at Carrollton in Carroll
county, and came overland from that
place, accompanied by his family, and
intends to return during this week. His
mother, Mrs. S. E. Bailey, is a resident
of Summerville.
In this hot summer season, it will be
wise in housekeepers to sprinkle some
lime about their domestic preeincts, to
disinfect the miasma which hot weather
causes to rise. Carbolic acid is also an
excellent article to use. Those who pre
fer lime can obtain it from DeJournette
k Son in Rome, who are agents for the
Shelby lime works of^labama.
Ami Methodist church near Alpine has
an interesting Sabbath school, of which
Mr. W. F. Horton is superintendent, ami
G. T. Horton secretary. On Sunday last,
by request, Dr. King made a short address
to the school. About sixty pupils are
enrolled, and the average attendant* is
good. A number of children come from
the mountain.
There was a lively fistieuff between a
white man and a mulatto on Thursday
last in Broomtown. Bill Green, the party
of the first part, lives at the old Gilreath
place; and Badger Hawkins, the colored
party, belongs at MelVhorters. Both
were engaged at a threshing of wheat,
and varied the labor by trying to thresh
each other. White blood proved the
winner.
Croquet is the ever-attractive game.
It is skillful, elegant, and affords amuse
ment to almost any number of people
whether young or old. A set of croquet
can be had at Ombergs bookstore in
Rome for any price from $3 to $8 acenrd
>inAn quality; and for the sum expended,
we know of nothing more enticing in the
way of home sports. Go to Omberg s
and see these things.
From arrangements now being made,
we can predict a complete and enjoyable
picnic to be given by the Templars at
Alpine on Saturday. Some of the most
energetic citizens are at work, and there
can be no doubt that all who go there will
have a part in one of the best celebrations
ever known in this county.
The Gazette returns thanks for an in
vitation from the committee, and regrets
that its representative will not have time
to attend.
There is no advantage in buying a poor
quality of kerosene oil, merely on the
excuse that it is “cheap.’’ Remember
that as a rule the best is the cheapest.
Poor oils are greasy, smoky, and danger
ous to use. A house burned up, or a
child injured for life, would more than
offset all the money you could save in a
hundred years by purchasing inferior ker
osene. Go to Turnley's drug store, in
Rome, and get his “Aladdin” oil—it is
the best, it is absolutely safe, and it gives
a beautiful light that will not injure the
eyes. Be sure and give him a call.
Cherokee Alabama News. —Centre
has a school for colored youths. Efforts
are making to raise funds for support of
an academic school for whites, and to
employ Mr. Patterson as principal.
Corn sells at $1.25 per bushel.
A. L. Morgan at Anabersonville makes
and sells anew musical instrument called
the “harmonium."
The examination of Gaylesville high
school begins to-day.
Died near Centre, on Sunday the 4th
instant, Mrs. Martha Sharpton.
The editor of the Centre Advertiser
speaks of anew farm implement which
was shown in Broomtown valley of Cher
okee. He saw in operation the Roden
cultivator (a plow) lately invented and
patented by a Mr. Roden of DeKalb
county, Ala. The stock is adjustable and
any kind of point can be used on it, thus
saving the cost of several stocks. Thos.
Holcombe, of Broomtown in Cherokee,
has the right for Cherokee, Chattooga,
Walker and part of Floyd county. He
will sell either farm rights or sell the
plows ready put up.
We have seldom read such an astonish
ing strong puff as the following sample,
which an Alabama exchange’ bestows on
one of the speakers at a late masonic cele
bration in Centre: Col. S is certified
to be “an orator of nature’s rarest con
stitution. His eloquence is of the Roman
east which grasps the attention of thous
ands in the clutch of a single word and
holds them helpless upon his lips. Bold
in debate, liberal in argument, sound in
politics, he is the first to attack error, the
last to shield impolicy, and always found
at the right place when the work is to be
performed.
At the election in Alpine district on
Saturday, Mr. Hiram A. Brownfield was
chosen justice of the peace, vice James
E. Burns resigned. There were thirty
one votes cast, of which Mr. B. received
all but one. Some friend of Mr. A. J.
Strickland nominated him, but he did not
consent to serve. The returns were de
livered at the court house on Monday
morning by Esq. P. T. Carrell.
Rome Cotton Statement.—The fol
lowing shows the figures in cotton for the
week ending on Friday:
Stock on hand Sept, 1, 1874 133
Receipts this week 20
Received previously 26,467-26,487
Total 26,620
Shipped this week 64
Shipped previously 26,233-26,297
Number of bales on hand 323
Quotation* —Dull and quiet; middlings
13f cents ; low middlings 131 cents; good
ordinary 12J cents.
We have been shown some very hand
some pen-and-ink sketches made by Mr.
Jules V. Wheeler, that indicate his skill
in the art. They are a testimony to his
thorough training iu the department of
penmanship; and we would be glad if he
will, as he intends, get up a school of
instruction in this locality. The knowing
how to write is as necessary as knowing
how to read, while a higher proficiency
with the pen is of the greatest practical
value to every one who expects to do
business in the world. Mr. Wheeler has
our best wishes for success, and the public
will, we are sure, give him a liberal pat
ronage. He teaches the “Spencerian
system,'' which is known to be tbe best
now practiced.
It is said that a mans nature is only
“a bundle of habits.” And it is generally
found more comfortable to follow a well
defined path than be dodging out of it too
often. Nevertheless, a wise man keeps
his eyes open to all chances, and promptly
goes where his interest calls. There are
many of this County who have for yfhrs ,
traded at Brenner's, always to the mutffil
satisfaction of dealer and customer, and it
is noticed that they generally keep it up,
without much change. Others there are,
who have their attention attracted by the
enterprise of the store we mention, and
come to test its advantages. In such
eases, comparison does not result in a split
like in the case of Beecher's trial in New
York, but always unanimous for Brenner.
Tiuon News. Tuesday. Weather
warm, with rain nearly every day. Had
two heavy rains to-day.
Farmers report their corn aud cotton
crops as being very promising, generally
in the section contiguous to Trion. The
prospect for a good crop is quite flattering
at this time.
Work on the factory is progressing very
rapidly—although it rains and the work
is retarded a few hours almost every day.
Are done moulding brick, and will be
ready to burn in a day or two.
Mr E. W. Marsh, of the firm of Moore,
Marsh & Cos. of Atlanta, accompanied by
Mrs. Marsh and two of his childrin, are
visiting iu this aud Walker county.
“Tiuon.”
We published some time since an
count of the mysterious disappearance of
revenue officer Leatherwood near Gads
den, Ala.; how his horse was found with
blood upon his saddle, leaving the in
\ ference that Leatherwood had been assas
sinated. A few days since, the body of a
dead man was found floating down Coosa
river near Childersburg, and supposed to
la; that of the missing man.
There is something about the matter
yet to be accounted for, as will be seen by
the following taken from the Montgomery
(Ala.) Advertiser: “Mr Jas. R. Crowe,
of Pulaski, Tennessee, who has recently
returned from a trip to Texas, wrote to
the probate judge of Limestone county a
few days age that he saw leatherwood in
Waco, Texas. If Mr. Crowe was not
mistaken, (and he is a very accurate and
reliable person,) the body found floating
in the Coosa was not that of Leather
wood. We should be glad to hear from
our old friend Crowe on this important
matter.”
The regular printed report has been
sent to us from the State department of
agriculture at Atlanta. It comprises re
ports received up to 15th of June. The
condition of crops in Chattooga is put
down as follows, the figures 100 being
taken as an average: Corn 85; sorghum
70; fall oats 90; spring oats 47 —injured
10 per cent by rust; wheat 105; clover
yield 80; cotton 90. The acreage in peas
is 90 per cent. Sheep loss by dogs is 5
per cent, and by disease 10 per cent.
Honey stands at 105, and an average of
40 pounds to each colony.
Throughout the State, the condition of
crops is as follows: Corn 98 suffered
from drouth in South Georgia; cotton
100, late but thriving; rice 95; melons 90 ;
sorghum 109; fall oats 106, spring 80—
both better than last year, but spring oats
| are rusted; wheat 90, and good yield at
harvest; clover 90; corn forage 99, and
large acreage; field peas 100; wool clip
101; honey 103, average to colony 28
pounds.
On the subject of cats, the commis
sioner says: “It is well proved that fall
j sown oats are most successful. It is also
known that a good stand may be secured
by sowing in cotton about the Ist of Sep
tember, without plowing in. Farmers are
advised to try this in the fall on at least
part of their crop.”
The commissioner sent out questions
asking what is the main obstacle to rais
! ing sheep n this State. In almost every
instance the reply was “dogs.” And
such will always be the obstacle until a
good dog law is made in Georgia.
