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THE GAZETTE irMNKKVIUE, OA. Clement & Son, Proprietors. JAMEH A. CLEMKNTi Editor. I*KICK OF HI'HHC’IIIPTION. For ont yrr,9l?A| For fl month*, *I.OO I’AyntiMit In Mlvanre. AdvorlUliiK raton i%r* to value •of thin paper an a rlrcnUlliiK meUliini In Cherokee aeetlon of G*or|(lA. I>lliiihU h and term* glvrn on appllcutlnn* Voluntary communication* from the read* Of* of thi* paper are iilwuy* welcomed. New* of all kind* l* preferred, eapeclally county new*. If you wiah to Improve ymir*elf In writing, prac* tiee can aid you. *' Practice make* perfect.” Communication* mu*t, be accompanied by the writer * name, or they cannot be published 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 - i-> , ,-tr 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.