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THE GAZETTE
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TIUItsDAY MollNlNG, OCTOBKU '4H, '7ft
Vox Populi, -Vox Dei.
“The voice of the people, is the voice
of God,” in a l*tin adage, that lias been
rung upon the ears of the country for
scores of yuan, and still is heralded forth
as sound politico-philosophy. The peo
ple of these United States, especially,
loudly enunciate it, ns being the only sys
tem congenial with civilization, and the
enlightenment of Christianity. Hence,
in ante-bell mi days, every returning 4th
tr July anniversary occasion, tho people
were collectively jubilant over the faet of
freedom from the British yoke, and that
the people in this country had the reins
ofgovernment in tlioir own hands; or in
other words, that this was a government
run by the peopls.
Lung and loud have been our boastings
of a democratic republican government.
We have often in days past, sympathised
with the subjects of the European world,
having to live under kings, emperors,
tnonarcha, etc., ami even longed end de
sired with a great desire that they might,
be as we are, free to chose their own
rulers and moke their own laws;-,:. Ail this
looks very well on puper, untl in fhe
primitive days of the rcpublic, when tin
it* pristine purity/ fWTMjPWWuption
from bribery or therwiso, had infused
itself into the workings of the govern
mental machinery, when it stood forth in
its own native simplicity, no doubt was
lair to look upon, and was productive of
individual and national good.
lint, did it ever occur to the mind of
the reader, that, a government by the
people was much more susceptible of cor
ruption and evil, than any other form of
government on the face of the earth?
And that such a government has greater
maledictions pronounced upon it by the
Great Ruler of earth than any other?
At this we need not marvel, f;r when it
opens so widely its floodgates to evil, and
to a continuance of such evil throughout
the land, can anyone havingjust appre-i
--ations of the character and nature of that
God who claims the earth us his own, and
that proclaims I hut “ull souls are mine,”
could or would upon
n >
fti- i!■ i ■
XKr in the la t few
was llis voice?
pnuk at the corruption that has beet*
so manifest for all the long weary years
in the past, and that is now so patent
and so clearly seen and felt, thus
become a stench in the nostrils
ilization throughout the world, say yw*
this is the voice of a just and holy God?
Are the people in their officers
to fill tho of i
the nation, influenced by motives of
purity, uprightness, integrity and fitness
tn the candidate for office, and thus let
jjH&i' ballot rule “the government, or are
fib not influenced by wercenury motives,
gjgfthat money, or its equivalent becomes
4pe ruling power of the land?
ffjjo not fiwits indisputable, demonstrate
this to be so ? For why all thesa efforts
■M bondholders,
and
r Vtjfcii im
own indiviHW
stot remainJb quiet at
people ’excise their own choice unitiffil|
enoed by all mercenary motives and eon?
siderations? Why endeavor to control
the ballot by monopoly or money? To
buy a man’s vote, either directly or indi
rectly, will that be sot down as the voice
of God? Shame upon the man that
would thus manifest such irreverence, and
thus trifle with his Maker’s name and na
ture Why not assign the true source at
onoe, as being the ebullitions of that
latent and innate corruption of heart that
seeks to add yet greater stores to already
accumulated wealth and power? For
would the moneyed power of tho land
lavish so profusely their wealth to carry
the election of some favored aspirant
after office, did they not see or anticipate
a sufficiently remunerative return ofin
terest.in a reflex benefit upon themselves?
Is not this the great and only motive
prompting them in their expenditure of
money, and not connected in any way
with love of country, or the interests of
the people at large? ,
W e ask in all candor and earnestness,
do the developments of a goueinment by
the people in the United States, as at
present exhibited to the world, demon
strate that man is capable of self-govern
ment, or in anywise calculated to manage
beneficially for the best and greatest good
of the entire commonwealth? Is not the
verdict now in re 1 ere nee to this matter,
that the people are but the hewers of
wood and drawers of water for the
moneyed power of the land? Which is
but the fulfillmt nt of the anathema of the
Most High, pronounced upon a govern
ment founded upon the voice of the
people.
For Jet any man refer to this as
recorded in the Bible, i Samuel viii
chapter, and read there, that God, while
be yields to the voice of the people in
t ranting them a king, loudly protests -
against the doctrine, and tells them plain
j !y the sad result s that would ensue, which
may be very well applied to our own
country. Alter all these things, seen and
read of all men, will anyone still contend
that the voice of the people, is the voice
of God? A goveremnuit by the people
eau never be a strid government, but will
collie to naught by its own weight.
Return of the Pilgrim trident.
The following clipped froniAht: New
York Bun, |n wliH h, there is pot a
more reliubtf paper published 'the
Union, we emnlimnd tq the perusal of all
our readers, for thc main purpose of
letting them see wnut mi example the
chief magistrate of the nation sots forth,
and the evil influences growing out of
shch conduct, and after these are cm
sidcred, answer the question, was the
voice of the jieople, in electing Grrnt to
the presidency, the voice of God? ’I he
Bun puts it thus:
‘‘After a continuous absence of four
and a half months and many wanderings,
the president has at last returned to the
capital, where the law supposes him to be
constantly pre-ent, dischargingthedutios
which lie hud worn to perform. He quit
Washington for Long Branch on the 3d
of last June, and with the solitary exccp
tion of half a day on the 21st of July, he
has not appeared there since that time
until now.
“ Measured merely by dollars and cents,
this absence has cost the county pretty
dearly. The present salary is at the rate
0f5137 per duty in round numbers,or $13.70
for every liour of the ten estimated to be
a full day's work iq ordinary pursuits, or
$5.70 for every hour of the twenty four,
working, idling, of Blcuptt*!|Hc has thus
drawn from the treasury sHoh4 without
having rendered any sorviofe Whatever ex
c p' to sign official pvper%tJfimig Branch
awl to falsify the record R a pretended
TOtejiUou oftbcik.fta ‘dime at Washing
“ It nß*Kseen that for more than a
third of the whole year, Grunt bus utterly
abandoned the public trusts in order to
gratify bis personal tastes for pleasure,
and without any alleged or actual cause
whatever to justify so culpable a neglect
of duty, or to excuse so gross a defiance of
the common law of propriety. This con
duct is the more reprehensible from tlie
fact, that he is now receiving double the
pay allowed to any former president, and
that it was procured by his own impor
tunity, and in addition to other emolu
ments which exceed threefold those voted
to Mr. Lincoln.
“The effect of this example is not to he
estimated in money only, large as the
charge on the treasury is at a time of un
prcccdcnted distress, and when every dol
lar has more than its usual valir It has
demoralized the public service most seri
ously. The cabinet feltjustmed in follow
ing the footsteps of their chief, and dur
ing the whole past summer they have
beep ga/ijttydf n* lunketjug about tins
<-oii,.tXy, at horse races, weddings, chim
ha!:i , Regattas, and everywhere butjyd
the place where duty
to he. several
was not a mamber
and than two
ilfp . oiiseeutivblyl And re
cently,
•officer at all the pSpero-of the in
terior department
“Asa neete*y consequence of this
glaring abuse, the business of tho country
requiring promptMtention and the per
sonal care of those charged with the chief
by wnffi-ri'il f.iruiorethan
eau be salidy .*fos|(p*froiii the want of pre
cise data. It has.flKniyto l . - noied.that
routine XnA details, is stpp< I ‘ ime the
summer beeaWh of this absent ism. which,
beginning with the president and eabmeh
extends to all the heads of bureaus, and
includes the chiefs of divisions in every
department.
“Practically, therefore the government
has been in the hands of suboi dinates from
originated this
;. s- C? ’mu lived up i>■
: it rims' year
The tho want of
of ac-
have done
much to frauds,
and i-eculat iotfiMßHlve grown to be
enormous, in
" If ever there
chid'magistrate and his
by honorable conduct and diqri*P3sS§|
selfish considerations, have gitisti-’'aqjjH
anple worthy to be imitated and
ed, it is now, when all industrial pursuits
are prostrated, commerce is languishing,
enterprise is stricken down, and a million
and more of mechanics and laborers, will
ing and anxious to work, arc without em
ployment, and in actual want. Instead
of exhibiting the least concern for this
widespread misery, the president and the
cabinet have been feasttugand rou-tering
at the public expense, as if there was a
flush prosperity, am 1 amusement was the
first obligation of p. _‘_e servants.
"They may midst of all
this ruin and without sym
pathy ter the poor or a generous
emotion for that have
taken A day of reckon
ing is not tur
We are in of “ A Manual of
Sheep Georgia,’ kindly
tu by l'tioi^^HLl.inc-.
1 cr of agricultrsgJlM|ll'.icli he will accept
our grateful acknowledgments. We will
take pleasure in laying before our readers,
some interesting statistic- upon the sheep
question, which should receive the earn
est consideration of every farmer in the
State.
Borne took several premiums at the
/State fair. Flat woods "beat the whole
.State in pumpkins and potatoes.
State Neats. 4
The Atlanta police are robed in their
] new gray.
Mr. James I’itchcr, of Warren county,
is dead
They have a large'erop of chickens in
Tal bottom
A pelican was killed at Columbus the
other day. ,j.
The Governor will not remit the fine
against John Bard.
Bishop Beckwith will make Atlanta his
home for the present.
A base hall man had his leg broke in
Bhickshear the other day.
John W. -biggs has been commissioned
treasurer of IJpson county,
A Calhoun youth fell forty feet the
other day without killing himself.
It, H. Sima, of Griffin, has been stricken
with paralysis.
The building business is not very brisk
at present, in Augusta.
An Oglethorpe county man has a stalk
of corn bearing twenty-seven ears of corn.
A Taylor county negro gave fifty bush
els of corn for two bound dog*.
About 125 head of cattle have been
driven to the Atlunta market.
Several cuses of cow stealing in Sumter
county.
Bartow county has sixty five public
schools, of which seventeen are colored.
Not a drop of benzine in Ellijay tube
had, should a man get bit with a snake.
Five bales of water packed cotton were
shipped from Fort Valley.
The net earnings of the Georgia rail
road for the quarter ending, September
30, /.S7f, were $171,665.08.
Enough apples are grown in North
to build the Marietta and North Georgia
ruilroad.
Now that friend chicken has played
out, John Christian is calling for a sugar
cane chawin.
Jane Andrews, an insane colored wo
man, burned herself to death in Clayton
county recently-
John Bard, who recently cut young
Spencer in Atlanta, is said to l ave for
feited bis bail bond.
The Wilcox brothers will shortly have
a steamboat running on tho Ocmulgee
and Oconee rivers.
A year ago J. R. Brantly of Senais,
put into his fish pond thirty brean and
perch, lie thinks he has now 500,(MX).
Bartow has 2840 sheep and 1240 dogs.
Two hundred and seventy-four dogs were
killed by sheep.
Chestnut colic is raging about Kllijay
and doctors have a lively time getting rid
of their surplus pills.
Tho Georgia railroad company during
the quarter ending Get- 1, has earned
$142,225 above all expenses.
The negro who killed Sam Garner in
Murray county, was taken from the guard
and hung.
The Independent Order of Good
Templars are getting ready for a vigorous
winter campaign, throughout the State.
M > susperoeu. The causes are
iJßtyiiattcrs of conjecture. Most prob
cotton speculations.
HA AUpNegle, of Evansville, has aui
enh i.wCause, supposed insanity, pro
duced by brooding over imaginary trou
bles.
The big circus left a quantity of coun
terfeit money in its train as it passed
through the State' Leteveiybody watch
out for it.
A son of W. M. Gresham, of Torrell
county, aged eight, died the 23th ult.
from injuries received in the machinery
of a cotton gin-
Another mineral spring has been dis
covered in Wilkes county, on Dr, John
W. Heard's place. Ir >n ore is also re
ported in the same vicinity. \
Wo are afraid Elborton is a little iq
oliued to put on airs. The Gazette says
a telegraph tine to that burg is not re
garded as one of the impossibilities.
An Atlanta darkey says. ' 1 a kiss is
liko do Freedman’s bank—you put yore
money in, giitis all ober yore face, a"d —
dot's all.”
The Gainesville Eagle says that Gen.
Longstreet has bought a half interest in
a large unfinished hotel for summer
hoarders, and work on it will be resumed
it mice. '
An ear ol corn with thirty-eight full
rows, each row has forty grains, some as
fifty, making a total of 1520
graimwas grown by T. L. Rogers, of
-BuenlrJrista.
1 of alligators reminds the
fcUwkinsvillo Dispatch that John Hen
pricks, aAciiiployee of Mr. Charles
county-, killed six at
one shlyß*th ■
H. M.'T'awEplt that he was
wrongfully colored
convent!, n in Augtq&xßpner is a nui
sance, and wo are sivpreMklhlkljjjblkpa
pors reported him at all. '
The negro who was tiling'
-* > m:’.} . for having outraged a;
you ml white girl, exhorted hi white and
colored friends to try to meet him iff
Heaven, where he soon would be.
Mrs. John \\ ulsh, of Savanah, was
burned to death by the explosion of a can
of kerosene oil, from which she was pour
ing oil on shavings to kindle a tire. *
the lion. Henry R. Jackson, of Savan
nah, has been elected by the trustees of
the IVabody fund paid to Georgia, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death
Graham. *'
Warrenton Clipper: “Since we pur
chase the-Clipper in June last, wo have
demonstrated two faet; first, thaj we can
publish a good paper, and second, that
we can’t do it withoup"money.”
The picker-room ,*tl' Roswell Factory,
in Oobbflounty, eaugw tni fire the other
da w and hut for the pluck and energy oJ|
those in control, thomntire concern would*
have been reduced
Tom Handy and Gjprgc
loyaii county, gJt iptiK
\ live cents, a bajpnee due Handy of ten
j cents loaned t" Cordon, after a few min
; utes quarrtdylk, 'Cio/don drew a knife
and severed thcif|gplur vein. Handy
died in a , few ‘minutes. Gordon disap
peared and is Mfiettpd'to have gone to
South < 'amlinaS
The E]pih'pp*Pmui(nt|Ma, episooty or
some other hard 1 word, seized the
‘horses of Atlanta, and the rural districts.
No serious inconvenience is apprehended
over it* presence, as it is very rarely futal
and only needs a little careful attention.
Twenty-five Georgia towns have # driven
out retail liquor deulers. This is IJce the
usury law —it doesn’t go to the bottom of
the matter. Why and m’t they drive out
the whisky-dri ikors? However, there's
no u.-c in depopulating twenty-five towns.
The Washington Gazette concludes an
article on the State University as follows:
“The present college or high school sys
tem should be abolished and the instilu
tion again made what it pretends to be,
tho University of Georgia.
Turner, the uigger preacher who was
compelled to leave Macon on account of
his blackguardism, was in the colored
convention at Augusta the other day, and
a.- full of lies a- ever. If Turner wasn’t
a coward he would be an incendiary.
Everybody iti Newnan goes to church,
Sunday school and prayer meeting. All
the citizens get up precisely the same
hour, and when one dinner bell rings they
all ring. That's some place, Newnan is.
The itev. 11. M. Turner, a negro
preacher, in Savannah, i.-. proposing a
negro exodus to Africa. He thinks it
will redound to the civilization and
Christianization of that benighted land.
May they ull go with him.
More fall oats sown in McDuffie than
ever known before.
Lieutenant Harry F. Buford, of Con
federate fame, is now in Atlanta super
vising a work entitled “The Woman in
Battle.” This is the female who went
through the late war under the above
title. Her maiden name was Velasquez.
No doubt her hook will find an enteiisive
sale.
Probabilities.
Do not dictate to an editor how to run
his paper; should you do so, however, the
probability is you will be told to attend to
your own business.
Re ad the advertisements in your paper,
and the probability is you will find the
place you want in order to purchase some
thing that you have long been in need of.
To ask an editor to insert a puff in bis
paper without pay, is like a mm asking
another to work for him for nulling, and
the probability is you will get a indignant
“ No, ” to your appeal.
If you have a friend in a printing office,
never call to see him in the boursof com
position, for he is then earning his bread
and butter. Should you do so. the prob
ability is he will wish you were —well, no
matter.
If you enter a printing office, under no
Ctrl utusiai|CctJfJisiovec, u.yjdlpwiih tic.
types, foryoWliiay make pi; should you
evade the wa Fling, howevef, the proba
bility M you wh.ild get more inward curses
than prayers. 1 a
Never borrow newspapers fouii your
neighbors. II you are in the habit of
doing sb, break right off, for if you still
continue to do so, the probability is, that
your lust hour- of life wili*Uc full of re
morse, fear an I death. cA
Never allow yourself to bcMnio a de
linquent subset ber; should yointo so and
die, the probability is that the proprietor
will inform your friends of your shortcom
ings. And ugaia, PRir chances to become a
citizen qj heaven, would be slim, a- it. is
the unpardonable sin.
If an agent for a newspaper culls on
you, and asks 1' How do you feel” about
subscribing fori the periodical, tell him
you feel “so-si|” and will do so. accom
panying the remark with the cash. The
probability is Ijewill leave you his tlunrks
and retire ura cheerful frame of mind.—
Houx/rs liepoittr.
Old beliefs rid superstition die hard in
England. It jlnot so very long ago since
an ignorant YiVkshire yokel would offer
up, along with-his ordinary prayer, the
following petition : “From witches and
wixzards, and long-tailed buzzards, and
creeping thing- that run in hedge-bottoms
good Lord delifer us.'' A coroner's jury
have returned k verdict of willful murder
against onelJMvood, a laborer, of Little
'Warwickshire, who, a
few days agn~j Stacked an old woman,
aged eighty, nlfted; Ann Tennant, and
stuck a two-pi*ngea Fork into her because
as he told the tiiurt", she “was the prop
erest witch l exo knowed.” The aged
portion of tbeflpialc population of Little
Compton havePvery reason to congratu
late thetuselvemou Mr. Haywood's tew
poraTy removaWto a more circumscribed
theatre ot*aetiili* for he confided to the
IStoner that “-|acjo were sixteen more m
H| UM*|k who would also be done away
t halt here
TOfaifeKWtiySnflu oiti "land intelligent
as HPMlfcWiai.’d his sotuewhal
on the subject.—
Exchange. .
Why is it, and notions of
witchcraft, fleerotua'ncy and all such fo. l
ishness, cling w th such tenacity to the
human mind? All ranks and conditions
of society from the most intelligent down
to the most are more or less
imbued with it We shou'd like
the one in any phere in life, that iWn
tirely |Mtefrota every taint of the infec
tionsjfiwKfjL,|4 (From time immemorial
they tagjtfMn'i' bone upom
prolpbgjnirar Sc a* long as'iuuuuii society
exist' _
feffhe jiritjenv-rs, who went
mftexA|^^^L K .j of the confederacy.
wiKHK’ that count! v then home.
ntcd in their hopes.
■ " th. •• ■ iatJ -
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General News.
An old man eighty years old was recent
| ly hung in Texas for murder, and his sor,
had his head shot off in an attempt to
convey him a vial of laudanum.
The British and Russian domini ms ex
tend over half the earth's surface. Upon
the British soil the sun never sets.
More than 5000 dead babes are annually
found in the city of New York, thrown
into the streets, rivers and
places.
A man, Hoyt by name, in Lewtdftm,
Maine, imagines he has discovered the
principle of perpetual motion arid self
creating power. He says his wife’s sew
ing machine has been run b> it for the last
eight months.
There have been'49,94o street lamps
broken in Boston during the last six years.
A man having been arrested in Chicago
‘‘or insulting women on the streets, plead
that the current female fashions had
driven him crazy.
Efforts are being made in the Black
belt, Florida, to incite the negroes to riot
and insurrestion.
Under the pressure of the great powers,
Turkey is diminishing her concentration
of troops on the Servian frotier and Servia
is demobilizing her forces.
Bismarck is unwell and will not. there
fore, accompany the emperor on his visit
to Italy.
The American Philological Association
have appointed a committee of 6 linguists
to consided and report upon the question
of a reform in the spelling of the English
language. It isirne to have some com
mon sense about spelling words in our
language.
A woman in Minneapolis started a
balky horse by thrusting a handful of dust
and sand into his mouth. And go he did
without showing any signs sf stubbornneas
or excitement.
The debt of Pittsburgh is $13,533,5N
—ten millions more than it was five
year ago.
It is computed 18,000,(XX) hogs will go
into the *polk barrels by the first of
January.
Ada county, Idaho, rejoiceth over the
discovery within its bounds of an immense
ledge of isinglass about thirty feet wide.
A gigantic hotel is about to he built in
London, with Americat capital, by an
American architect, with American speed,
after an American plan, and to be man
aged on the American system. It will
have 1000 beds and require 400 servants
to carry on the duties of the house.
1 here is a dog in Indianapolis, Indiana,
that has a chill regularly every morning
at 10 o’clock.
A farmer in Maryland raised 132 bushels
of I' ultz wheat on three acres of land - 44
bushels to the acre.
Gov. Ames, it is said, did a good deal
of adulterated lying about the late Miss
issippi riots. Strange if he did not.
The citizens of Cherokee county, Ala ,
has held a mass meeting and ratified the
wttrn cf tiie tats eonstitnUoual conven
tion, and pledge themselves to support
the proposed constitution the 16th of
November.
Some people in Texa have a queer
ways of doing hu-iness. One John 11
Logan runs away with Woodard’s wife.
Woodard follows after a- far as Atlanta,
but not finding them, returns to Texas,
and runs away with Logan's
parts unknown.
The radicals of Alabama huv Lilly de
cided to oppose the ratification offlie new
conststution. *
Gen, Grant is determined, in the interest
of civil service to cut down superfluities.
He has begun his apprenticc-hip by dock
ing his horses tails.
The New YoiTllerald says, "The ilea
of a Baptist preacher stealing 750 feet of
lightning rod. What in thunder did he
want to do that foi2?”
Lyman Tremaiireloes not know whether
to he an inflationist or a contractionist.
So he parts his hair in the mifrale and
calls it an even thing.
(.’art Schurz and Wendell Phillips arc
i playing tag with each other on the finan
! eial question.
The Hebrew Bible was first printed at
i Saucinto, in 148S. The New Testiment,
at Basel, in 1516, by Erasmus.
It is said that 20,000 pairs of kid gloves !
were sold in Saratoga during the race and
regatta weeks.
A frightful suicide of a lo v e sick chap 1
: in Baltimore is said to have occurcd in
that city not long tinee. He ascended
I the Washington monument and made a
j fearful leap of 164 feet and fell upon the
j stone pavement below. The following ;
t note written in lead pencil was found upon j
his person:
“Now, Miss Cobb, I leave thee in these
words, hoping to hear from you. Fare ]
thee well, still ferever, still forever fare
the well. Even though unforgiven, never
agrinst thee shall my heart rebel. ”
We have ever thought it a very foolish
and sinful act in either man or woman to
resort to suicide in eases of disappointed
love, or a failure t) produce a reciprocal
feeling between parties of this te.nderTpas-x
sion. In forming the marital ration
there should always be something of unify
ol feeling, and siqAiltaneous drawing of
the affections each.- to the other. And
unless this kimlijjd feeling, between the
two, reciprocated, the parties
j should agree to disagree, and let the
| affair pleasantly pass away; and fade from
j memory 's page, aid not resort to anything
I rash and unbecoming, ever remembering
: the old and common adage, “ there is just
as good fish in the sea as ever were caught
out of the young manor woman
bear in uurnjpt'the one you think you
love, cannot be induced to reciprocate
your love, don't turn into
despondency or kill yoursglf. but bait your
hook and try again at some other point,
j the fish will bite after awhile. But never
i make a fool of yourself.
AFFAIRS IN TOWN AND COUNTY
If you have* an opinion on an j subject that
iutertiNt* the general community, writ# It down
and se-nd It to The Gazette. You may be alway*
confident of a fair hearing through it* column*.
In all caae* send your name to the Editor.
The entire cotton is expected to
be gathered by the middle of November.
Sweet potatoes are selling at fifty cents
Mer bushel.
r The siA throughout the county, so far
as heard are convalescing
The autumnal fight* have set in, but in
the mild ffirtn of a few facial scratches.
The junior proprietor of this paper, is
inquiring, if there is any fellow that wants
to hire out as local editor?
We call attention to the advertisement
of tho Star Spangled Banner, published
in another column, to-day.
The merchants arc busy running round
and out, trying to gather up the fragments
that nothing he lost.
Married, in Broomtown valley, October
21st ult., by I’eterT. Carrell, Esq., .'lr.
William J. Green to Miss Rebecca Davis-
Col. J 11. Gamble boasts of having the
best fish-pond in the State, wh ; eh he is
aiming to stock with the best quality of
fillies.
I ossutns arc plenty. One gentleman
reports have caught forty this season.
But nary ’possum has found its way to
this office.
The Rev. Mr. Milner, pastor of the
Presbyterian church, having purchased
the residence of Messrs. C. D. and J. B.
Hill, will non remove to town.
All who wish to purchase cheap shoes,
when in Rome, should call onGovan, the
boot and shoe dealer, whose advertise
ment will be found in another column.
The cotton inarkat stands thus in
Rome: Middlings 12j to 12|; low mid
dlings 121; strict good ordinary 12; good
ordinary 111.
The time has Arrived,
When all those who are indebted to us,
will please emue forward and setrle their
' accounts. Rra.nneu & Btto.
Summerville, October 28, 1875.
Wc tender our condolence to Mr. K.
11. Clemmons and family, in the loss they
have sustained in the death of his aged
j mother, an account of which will be
found in another column.
The weather is so delightful and pro
! pitieus, the farmers are taking advantage
of the situation, and gathering their cot
| ton as fast as possible. One farmer, wc
| understand, has hired fifty hands.
The scientific discussion being held
upon tlie sidev, ,Ik, whether a fi ll weigh
! ing twenty pounds put into a tub of water
will and anything to tbcaggregate weight,
, not yet decided.
Persons who wish to obtain bargain •
should read our advertising coluinn>i
To-day we publish a list of articles for
-ale at this office, which can be had cheap
cash. See advertismi^m^^^H
Sheriff Kellett has frutm
Coal City, Dado county, hS|
I gone to carry Sam MoCluney aud TobP
Knox, freedmeu, who were sentenced at
the last term of the superior court to
twelve men,, in the chain gang
—;
We arc authorized to state there will
be a public debate at the next meeting
I of the grangers, the third Saturday in
November, at this place. Question: arc
the farmers of Chattooga county respon
| sible for the present condition ot agricul
ture in the county ?
: Ho! all ye sick and weary, look at
Holmes & Gordon’s notice in to-day’s is
sue, and see something of which you arc
in need. They have a large and well a
sorted stock of everything appertaining
to their line of trade, and will seli upon
as reasonable terms, all drugs as can be
purchased anywhere" Do not go io
Rome and pass them by, without giving
them a call.
Died, at his residence in this county,
on Tuesday, the 19th inst., Mr. James
Franklin Taliaferro, in the 83d year of his
age. The deceased was born in Amherst
county, Virginia, where he resided until
1863, when he moved to this county,
where he has resided ever since, except a
short time during the war, when he
refugeed from his home. For many years
he has suffered with disease and the in
firmities of age. He had been for a long
I time a member of the Methodist Episco
pal Church, South- His bereaved rela
tives and friends have every assurance
that he has exchanged a life of suffering,
for one of eternal felicity. A beloved
wtfl; and eight grown children have gone
v.*'Vh irn lathe spirit land. May it be
united faintly "nr Heaven.
| We were shown the other day the only
legacy that our townsman. Mr. G. J.
Moyers, received of his father’s estate,
Which was bequeathed him before his
father died. I: was'a very small instru
ment similar to an awl, with a short
■ handle with a head cut upon it to hold
between the fingers, and used by tanners
to sharpen their currying knife. Mr. M.
stated to us that his father had used it
; lor forty years, and he hud done the same
for seven years. On account of a little
flaw in it, it is placed away upon the su
perannuated list. When given to him,
his father remarked, “if you cannot make
money with this, you cannot make it at
all. It is now retained as a precious faw
-1 ily relic.
Removal! Removal!
HOLMES Sl GORDON,
Wholesale and Retail Drnrglsti,
So. 10 Sliortrr Block, Broad St.
■totin , Georgia.
W# hare removed our Htock of Drug*, Medl*
(‘iacit. Paiut*, Oil*, GlaAs, etc., to No. IV Shorter
Block, <Next door to Goran's shoe store.) We
have a full and fine aaeortment of all goods to be
found In a tirst class drug more.
HOLM EH A GOK DON.
Money! Money!!
All persons indebted to us are earnestly
requested to call and pay us. We need
and must have money. Our business
must be closed up. We will take good
cotton at Rome and Trion prices.
Cleohobn, Bass & Cos.
Summerville, Oct. 19th, 1375.
The horse epizootic which visited this
section three years ago, is again affecting
the horses and mules in this county. An
Atlunta exchange mentions that every
animal in the streets is coughing. It
behooves our people to give extra atten
tion to their animals during its prevalence.
Died, on the 18th inst., Mrs. Wilson
Thompson, aged about sixty years. Hers
was a singular death. Taken with a pain
in the arm about the elbow, it gradually
iuo> ed up into her shoulder, thence into
the region of the heart, and in one hour
from the time Bhe was first taken, she
was dead.
For all tliat is neat and beautiful, com
mend us to the elegant bookstore of Om
berg in Rome. Tho caller at that store is
amazed at the wealth of literature dis
played on every hand. Books —books —
books ; and not books alone, but all things
needed for schools and academies, besides
a display of toys and fancy articles that is
not excelled in the whole State.
Summerville Gr-nge, No. 213, Patrons
! of Husbandry’ will meet regularly from
October until April at 10 o’clock, A. M.,
; on the fourth Saturday in each month at
; Templars’ Hall.
AH members are requ sted to be present
! at the next regular meeting, as interesting
speeches will be made on the subject ol
I agriculture-
All members, who are in arrears with
dues are requested to pay up before tho
expiration of the present quarter, or they
will be expell and from the order.
D. M. White, Secretary.
October 28, 1875.
Died, at 5 o'clock, on the morning of
Tm '.lay, the P.uh, Mrs. Rebecca Clem
mons, mother of our esteemed fellow
townsman, G. VV. Clemmons, Ksq. The
deceased had nearly completed her 08 1 h
year, and. with her husband, had been i,
membcroftlic Methodist church for forty-1
five or fifty years. She attended churelJ
last Saturday morning, and was strickml
with paralysis at half past three ojdofl
iii the afternoon, having been engagedS
sevinc within five minutes of the stroll
She leaves a husband and six children
mourn for her. Not only this community®
but the good people of Summerville,
county, where she resided be
to share
funeral sermon was
preached
church, on Tuesday by Uov.
Dr. S. 1‘ Downs,
Ro.mk NKW9.-TH'eMt oTTabcrnaclet®
was observe 1 part of last week by the
Israelites. m*
The NoveiuW
The si 11 -rior nd
several criiuinabJhTte to
pay the
The charge of Judge Underwood to thc #
grand jury is very highly spoken cf.
A well boring machine, driven by a
steam engine, is an exciting topic at this
time. It can bore a well fifty or sixty
feet deep in a day. It is used also for
testing mines.
Six burglars were brought to town in a
wagon, captured by Bailiff Tally of Floyd
Springs.
Mrs. Seaborn White and seven dans' 1
ters went some sixteen miles, arid hr
out by the day to pick cotton leaving
the old man at home to take care ot home
affairs, and get along the be-i ht could.
The Mary Carter was enthu-ia-tically
welcomed back to her wharf by men, wo
men and children.
Harriet Price, colored, has lost in three
weeks four of her family by death.
The American Bible Society has fur
nished the Rome Hotel with bibles which
Capt. Stansbury lias placed in every room
in his house.
Rome buys cotton from Atlanta.
If Rome does not thrive, it will not be
for any want want of energy and perse
verance of the editor of the Courier.
The editor of the Courier does not
think union and harmony prevail sufficient
ly in Rome for its material prosperity.
• Appeals arc being made by Rev. J. M.
M. Caldwell, for the relief of indigent
Southern Presbyterian clergymen-
Messrs D. W. Proctor and J. W.
Mitchell have been admitted to the bar.
We mean into the legal profession.
A lot of Afric’s sons have been tried
at the superior court, for burglary, lar
ceny, cheating, swindling and assault with
intent to murder; most of them have
been convicted and sentenced to pay the
penalty of the law.
Property owners can t see it otherwise,
than that there is a carelessness on the
part of the city clerk and treasurer, in
not knowiftg to what series -oftonds the
coupons belong whicn they pay.
Hr. R. V. Mitchell, H. M. Hood and
R. W. Roebuck have gone to Macon to
attend the Grand Hodge of Masonry.
Plenty of money to pay for all the cot
ton brought to the city. That’s good
news.